this is Chih-chou. Welcome back to my channel and welcome back to our little discussion we're having regarding personal finance. And what we're gonna do, we're sort of gonna continue on where we left off in the previous videos. If you recall, I loaded up a video telling you my history with cryptocurrencies with Bitcoin specifically and telling you my opinion about cryptocurrencies. And from that video, we sort of kicked that off into a couple of videos where we define the term money and currency which are two extremely important concepts that we have to really appreciate. And from there we sort of took a look at a few different places where we could have invested our money in, right? Where we started off in the 1900s and we took a look at what the CPI has done, what the US dollars has done, gold, land, wages, salary. We took a look at the S&P. We took a look at certain asset classes that you could have invested in, one of them being properties of course and the other one being art, right? And specifically we took a look at what the rate of return for action, comics number one has been. And we also took a look at a fund in the on Wall Street that has given astronomical returns. And we also looked at cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin specifically, right? And that's where I want to continue off from, right? Because as I mentioned, my experience with cryptocurrencies or my experience with Bitcoin specifically, because that's when it really, you know, the thing that really hit my radar back in 2009, 2010 where I minded a little and continued this progression up to this point, right? I've sort of followed the news coming out trying to understand how this, not cryptocurrencies, but the blockchain technology, the protocol that cryptocurrencies is built on, right? With this disruptive innovation, because this is one of the greatest disruptive innovations that has come about for our society and its influence is going to continue to grow, right? So over time, I've sort of tried to, for myself, right, try to appreciate what the changes in our society are going to be, because one of the things you have to do with personal finance is sort of be aware of the different types of investments, different types of technologies, different types of innovations that are coming about within our society that are specifically going to affect the economy, right? And blockchain technology is definitely one of those things specifically focused on finance, right? So as you can guess, you know, when I got involved or when Bitcoin hit my radar, my understanding of Bitcoin was very rudimentary, right? It's evolved to this point where it is right now. And at the beginning, I would, you know, when I would talk to people about Bitcoin, about cryptocurrencies, a lot of people would ask me what, you know, first of all, what this thing is, why it's needed, right? How it works. But all of those questions of the whys and the hows and stuff, all of them basically came down to people wanting to know how they could incorporate that information, incorporate this technology into their lives, right? And my description of what cryptocurrencies are capable of has sort of evolved to the point that we're going to discuss right now, sort of create a visual. So hopefully, if you want to have a better appreciation of what cryptocurrencies are capable of and where they're leading us, this visual is going to help you out. And again, I'm going to mention this again that I mentioned at the first personal finance video that we put out. This is not financial advice. Okay, please don't take this as financial advice because everybody's financial needs are different. My financial needs are different than yours. So I cannot give you financial advice. This is just information that I'm sharing, sort of a perspective I have regarding cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology that I think is going to play out within our society, right? And I'm, you know, I mentioned this, when I told you my history with cryptocurrencies in the previous three videos, that I am, you know, I'm not holding any cryptocurrencies right now, right? So I wanted to be understood that I'm not here to promote cryptocurrencies, right? And on the other hand, I'm not here to trash cryptocurrencies, right? As Bill Hicks would say, I'm not, I'm not promoting it, but I'm not denying it. This is information about a certain type of technology, disruptive innovation that has come into play, that is going to affect everybody's, everybody's life. Okay. Now that that's added away. The thing we have to appreciate about cryptocurrencies is that they have come into play because of computing power, because of the internet, because of P2P interaction, peer to peer interaction, right? Because of a decentralized communication platform, right? That's the core essence of what the blockchain technology is about, right? It's about computing power, it's about the internet, and it's about peer to peer communication. Okay, peer to peer, meaning all the information is not going through just one hub, where a certain, all this information coming here, if it's going through this hub right here, where that could be cut off, and the information no longer will go through. peer to peer means that if there are 10 different routes, nine of them could be severed, and all the information will still flow, right? And there aren't just 10 different routes that information is taking. There are I don't know how many people are on the millions of routes, right? This information, once people start sharing a peer to peer, once it becomes decentralized, the information is available to everyone, right? That is the essence of the internet. Okay. So now that we know, cryptocurrencies are basically because of computing power, because of the internet, because of peer to peer interaction, let's create a little space for them, right? Let's assume this is the internet. Now on the internet, you got everything available, right? Right now in our society, maybe politics, maybe entertainment, maybe news, maybe social network, maybe banking, commerce, finance, right? Maybe trade, maybe gaming, everything exists within the internet. And everything that is outside the internet, almost everything that is outside of the internet, has a connection to the internet, right? So there's a lot of things, this is a different color. It's called different systems that play within the internet, because this sort of really connects up what we're about to talk about really connects up with what we've been building for the language of mathematics when it comes to understanding units and ratios where we put a video together where I called it I guess the Rosetta stone of mathematics which is units and ratios where we have two different systems communicating and all you need to have for one system to communicate to another system is a link is some kind of communication that something here is equivalent to something here, right? So this stuff really connects up to the language of mathematics because again, computing power internet peer to peer interaction, right? So there's a lot of different things taking place online, right? May they be gaming, may they be banking, maybe be entertainment, may they be anything. Okay, now a lot of these things, right? They're communicating together, right? Many things are connected. This is what it means when it's peer to peer. But if you're thinking about P2P, these would be individuals communicating, no centralized system, right? Everything connects up. Everything connects up, right? All of these are different nodes connecting up to I don't know what the numbers are, but now it's for lack of a better word, we call it infinite number of connections, right? Cryptocurrencies are form of technology that exists online. They're decentralized. There's a ledger system where let's say a person here wanted to buy something from this person, right? And the way they can do that trade the way that transfer of information because all trade that happens online is just transfer of information, right? So same with our banking system, right? Same with almost everything, majority of things that we do is about transfer of information, right? So let's assume this person wanted to transfer certain type of information here and this person wanted to transfer certain type of information here for some kind of barter system for some kind of exchange, right? If you want to go tangible, let's say someone here had something that they wanted to sell to this person and this person wanted to buy from this person, right? Now before cryptocurrencies existed, they could meet in person exchange cash, right? Or this person could send check, money order, some kind of transfer of funds to this person, right? Or assets, right? To this person and this person could transfer the funds over there as long as it was trust between them, then that trade could occur without an intermediary, right? If there is, you know, these people don't know each other and the worth of the objects is significant enough that they need to get someone involved to make sure that whatever this person is giving this person and whatever this person is selling in return should be authenticated, should be legitimate, right? So everybody's happy. That's one thing that eBay does, right? There are people selling on eBay and there are people buying on eBay. You can leave feedbacks and there's arbitration involved. You know, there's PayPal in the middle there collecting their fees and transferring the funds and stuff, right? So you can think about it that way outside of cryptocurrencies. Then if you need intermediary, then what you could do is the person could send the funds here, the person could send the assets here, right? And then once everything's legitimate, they send the assets this way and the funds that way and everybody's happy, right? Now, before blockchain technology, before cryptocurrencies, this trade could have taken place in any type of currency of any country, right? Or it could have been could take place between people who are involved in different types of systems online that have their own modern monetary systems. There's a lot of gaming that has occurred online where they've had their own form of currency, they've had their own form of assets, right? You could play the game and acquire trinkets, powers and sell those for other powers, trade those for other powers, other trinkets within a game or outright sell them for fiat currencies for currencies of nations, right? US dollars, euros, rubies or whatever. Okay. So the internet doesn't exist independently outside or not connected to the outside world. The internet exists as part of the real world because a lot of one thing that people have, you know, less and less now but when the internet came to be back in the 90s and early 2000s and stuff before even video streaming, one thing that people used to say, you know, you should spend more time in the real world. The internet is the real world. Okay. It's not separate from the material world, right? Digital and material, they're real world. We use both of them, right? But for visual, let's call anything that it's outside of the internet, these guys. Okay. Now, these are different systems that exist outside of the internet. They could be individuals, me, you, they could be corporations, right? They could be nations, they could be regions, Euro, North American Union, or North America, South America, Latin America, Asia, Asia Minor, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, right? Different regions. Okay. So everything that's here before the internet had to communicate physically, right? Things have to be transferred by plane, right? That to be driven, right? Money checks. What are those things called? We used to go, not checks, but money, money orders, right? Yeah, back in the 80s and 90s, people did a lot of money orders, right? Guaranteed funds to be transferred. You still have to wait until it cleared everything, right? When checks were sent to people, things that, you know, it took I don't know how many steps it takes for a check to clear, right? Right now, we can, through the internet, we can send money almost instantly, right? But before the internet, all of these nodes communicated so-called in a physical world and the real world, right? There were certain institutions that, you know, were able to communicate within themselves. Finance was one of them, banking was one of them before the internet really took off in the 90s, right? But now that we have the internet, almost everybody goes through this, okay? Remember, social networks, entertainment, education, right? Trade, finance, health, right? You could go get your own personal physical trainer online, right? You could go get your own personal math tutor online, right? Okay, so everybody here, let's do this in red, let's be consistent. Everybody here has a connection to the internet. Everybody. Okay? Do we like red? Should we do black as well? Red is good. Now, what is cryptocurrencies? What is their function? If we could do all of this trade without cryptocurrencies, what's the purpose of cryptocurrencies? Why do we need cryptocurrencies, right? Because if I'm here, right? If I want to trade with you here, okay, then if I'm going to buy something from you, let's say you have a copy of Amazing Spider-Man number one at a grade of four, right? I don't know what that's going for right now, but let's assume it's going for like $6,000, right? So if I want to buy Amazing Spider-Man number one from you, grade it 4.0, right? For $6,000, I could meet you in person, right? We could go outside at the internet. The odds are you probably listed it online for me to find it, but let's assume we live near each other and we're familiar with each other's collection, right? And you've got it graded and I agree with your grade or it's been slapped, right? Third party has graded it, right? Given their authentication. So we could, you know, if we don't want to go through the internet, right? All those eliminated. I want to buy this from you. I could meet you in person, give you $6,000 and you give me your Amazing Spider-Man number one, grade it at four, and we both go our separate ways and we're both happy. That really doesn't occur very often anymore, okay? Because anybody selling anything, they want to get the most out of whatever they're selling and anybody that's buying, they want to find the best deal. And the best way to do that is not really, in general, to go between one other person or to do it within your locality. The best way to do it is to go online and check, you know, put out an inquiry online to find out how many Amazing Spider-Man number ones there are, right? How much they're worth. Is there any going for auction that maybe you can, you know, get it on the cheap? Or they all buy it now? Can you find a good deal? Is there someone else that's desperate to sell their Amazing Spider-Man that won't, number one, they need to liquidate, right? So everybody goes online to do this now, right? It's the best thing to do, really. Okay, so if cryptocurrencies don't exist, then if you've listed this thing, Amazing Spider-Man number one online, I find it online. If I buy it online, then I'm going to transfer those funds to you online, right? You could still be near me. I could still transfer the cash to you, give you cash, right? And you send it to me or you hand it to me. But that still has to be, you know, there's got to be some kind of record online that has been sold because as soon as we list it online, certain websites, they need to take their cut, right? And there is, and if they don't, you know, if you're going through certain websites where it's not eBay or you're not transferring funds through PayPal, there is some kind of record of that transaction or that offer of transaction, right? So once we go online, let's assume we're not doing anything in cash, right? And that unfortunately may be the way that certain countries go because there are certain countries right now that are trying to eliminate cash from their society. I think Scandinavian countries are heading that way very rapidly and other countries want to hit that way very rapidly, right? And if you take away cash from a society, just a side note, if you take away cash from a society, you take away privacy, right? Because there's a record of everything that you have bought and as soon as you take away privacy, you take away liberty, you take away freedom, right? This is a huge aspect of what's going on online and some of the concerns that everybody has online, specifically people who were involved with it from the get-go, right? Because the internet, the, you know, aside from where it came from, right? The people who created the internet, the pioneers of the internet, they wanted this to be a free open internet with P2P communication, right? With sharing of free information, without censorship and without any surveillance, right? No tracking. That is not what's going on right now, especially through social networks, banking and finance and stuff like this, right? So if I'm going to buy your amazing Spider-Man number one for $6,000 and you're going to sell it to me, then there's a record of this taking place, right? And the record points to you to points to you to selling that book to me and the record points to me for buying that book, right? And if we're doing that record system, making sure that there's a track record of it all, right? Then the odds are, I was transferring money from my bank account, right? And the money was going through PayPal or direct transfer I can do as well, right? But if we're going through eBay, let's say because we do a lot of purchases on eBay, if we're going through eBay, that money's going, the information is going through eBay, transactions being made through PayPal, transaction PayPal going here and the odds are this person's depositing in their bank account, right? So there's a lot of notes here, keeping a pretty tight record of what's taking place, the time involved and there's notes pointing to everything that took place, right? Even if we've traded emails, even that, those emails, information in those emails is linked up with this trade, right? Keep in mind also that along the way, almost at every node someone's taking a cut, right? So the $6,000 is going directly from here to there to you. The odds are I'm paying a little to have money transfer from my bank account to PayPal, okay? Me paying you is free through PayPal, okay? But you getting the money, you pay PayPal, PayPal takes their cut and eBay takes their cut and you probably transferring your money from PayPal to your bank account, the bank takes a cut, right? So this $6,000 transaction is no longer $6,000 between me and you. There's a whole bunch of parties involved where everybody's taking cuts, so they're trimming a little bit from the top, right? So I might have given up $6,000 but you didn't receive $6,000, right? That's really important to keep in mind because what cryptocurrencies allow you to do, right? Is to do this transaction without anybody taking a cut like this, not even close, right? If we did this interaction through cryptocurrencies then I would still pay you $6,000 and you would have probably gotten back. I don't know what the what the commission is that certain places are charging for transferring funds between one person and another person when it comes to cryptocurrencies but you would have probably gotten gotten $5,999, right? The cut was probably $1, if not less, maybe a little bit more, $5, I don't know, right? But the cut that these so-called non-virtual currency exchange, well they are virtual because most of the currency in the world for most nations is all digital, it's not cash, right? It's not paper money. The cut here would have been a lot more if the cut was done online through cryptocurrencies, right? So that's one reason cryptocurrencies are the rage, really, because people are saving money and transferring funds from one location to another location, as we talked about, is secure, okay? It occurs fairly rapidly, is decentralized, and it's anonymous. There's no track record of that exchange taking place. So just imagine if we were doing this but we both had cryptocurrencies, we both accepted cryptocurrencies and used cryptocurrencies, then all we would do, we would have a presence online, both me and you, right? We would have for lack of a word that we can all relate to. We had online bank accounts that didn't have any direct link to us, our location, or how much was in those accounts to a certain degree, or how much we had, right? We could do this trade without any ledger system, external ledger system, knowing what me and you traded. Me and you would be the only people who would know why this trade took place, right? And you would just transfer or send me the amazing Spider-Man number one. If we trusted each other, if we lived in the same proximity, I knew you as a collector, I would just transfer this to you and you would hand it to me, right? I could meet you somewhere and with my phone I would say, what's your, you know, whichever cryptocurrency you would like, right? What's your cryptocurrency account number? And I would just go click, transfer it to you and you would hand me my amazing Spider-Man number one. So the cryptocurrency sort of would take you back to a completely anonymous type of trade interaction, exchange of information, right? Of assets, as if there wasn't no internet. Now we met in person, right? And instead of me handing you paper fiat currencies that in general, almost all, as far as I know, all fiat currencies, currencies of countries devalue over time. We looked at that in the previous video, the CPI, what the worth of US dollars, what the value of US dollars in real terms have done over time over the last 100 years, right? A hundred dollars, a hundred years ago is worth like three dollars and fifty cents now, right? That's its buying power, that's its purchasing power, right? So instead of me buying amazing Spider-Man number one from you for six thousand dollars and a fiat currency that will lose its value over time, right? Because you would have to think about where you're going to invest that money or do another purchase. You don't want to sit on cash, right? Instead of me giving you six thousand dollars paper currency and you giving me amazing Spider-Man number one, I would meet you in person and through my phone, through my computer, I would do the same thing, but it would be a digital transaction, digital currency going to you, to your account. And this would be your bank account that you have where you can do whatever you want with, right? Just the way you would your money, your denominations of whatever currency you're involved in from whatever nation, right? So any bank account, this is your bank account and that's my bank account, theoretically speaking, we should be allowed to do whatever we want with that money. We're not really, right? In Canada, if you go to a bank and to try to deposit, I believe, five thousand dollars cash, you have to fill out a form explaining where this money came from. Through digital currency, you don't have to explain to someone where you required your money from, right? Wherever you may be, whatever country, I'm pretty sure they also have some kind of criteria where you have to explain yourself to them, right? And whenever you're doing interactions with your bank, whenever I'm doing interactions with my bank, there's a ton of fees involved, right? Monthly fees, checking fees, transaction fees, withdrawal fees, right? There's a whole bunch of fees that banks that deal with fiat currencies, currencies of nations, charge people. I pay them myself. I've paid them throughout my life. Everybody pays them. Certain banks have been fined for overcharging their customers with fees, scamming them. With digital currencies, you don't have to worry about that, right? There are other problems with digital currencies, but that's not one of them. You're not going to be paying fees up to Yang Yang, right? So that would have been, if we did this transaction three months ago when Bitcoin was trading at, let's say, three thousand dollars, right? I would have given you two bitcoins, right? You would have given me amazing Spider-Man number one, graded at 4.0 for six thousand dollars, right? That would have been a great transaction for you because each Bitcoin right now is worth 6,500 dollars. So that would have been equivalent to amazing Spider-Man number one, graded at 4.0, increasing in price to 13,000 dollars, which it hasn't, right? Amazing Spider-Man number one hasn't gone up, doubled in price in three months. So that is one other reason people are dealing with cryptocurrencies, okay? And this comes into play with huge organizations as well, right? This link that we have to banking systems could be severed by any nation, right? We do not really have privacy when it comes to our own finances, right? Especially if everything goes digital, if nations eliminate cash from their societies, right? If they eliminate cash from your society, then you have no way of storing cash on the side for a rainy day possibly, right? What happens if you're stuck somewhere where there is, you know, we've had the weather events happening where all of a sudden powers lost within huge regions for months at a time and if we don't have access to our bank account, then we can't buy anything. Right now, some of those places where hurricanes have hit and they haven't had power, the only thing you could use to buy something was paper currency, right? That was the only thing you could use to buy other than trading other goods, right? Goods and services, of course, okay? So that's important to keep in mind as well because this connection with your bank, the money that we believe we have in our bank accounts could be severed at any time, right? There's been laws that have been passed where banks now have the right to take over your account. We saw that happen in Cyprus and similar laws have been passed in the United States, I know and I believe in Canada as well, okay? And certain other nations, right? So the currency, the money that we have in our in the banking system that only uses government fiat currencies is not necessarily secure, right? And we've seen this take place, we've seen this take place in society, in the world, right? One of the places that happened that actually has a link to cryptocurrencies, huge length and it shows us the power of what cryptocurrencies are capable of and the folly of nations and the financial sector of the industry that is trying to prevent this technology, disruptive innovation from doing what it is going to do, right? You cannot prevent technology from filtering into society and this is technology, right? Disruptive innovation but one place we've seen this play out is WikiLeaks, right? A few years ago when the U.S. government prevented funds, donations being given to WikiLeaks, right? So they had their link to their bank account severed. Paypal went no longer, well this would be the same link I guess, right? Paypal, you couldn't donate money to WikiLeaks through Paypal anymore, you couldn't donate money direct transfer to WikiLeaks anymore, right? So basically trying to, you know, the U.S. government and certain governments trying to kill off WikiLeaks, what they did, they severed all of its funding, all of its ability to raise money, to raise funds. So what happened was people started donating to WikiLeaks, right? With cryptocurrencies, right? If this is WikiLeaks, this is their account, money started flooding in from everywhere. One of the things that said online is the Streisand Effect and I've looked up the history of Streisand Effect before and it's funny I think, but one of the things that should be known to anyone now as a Streisand Effect when you try to prevent people from doing something, they'll do it more, they'll be more intense about it, right? And that's exactly what happened. So for the last few years, people have been donating Bitcoins to WikiLeaks and that has allowed WikiLeaks to have a store value of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and other types of cryptocurrencies, Litecoin, Lithium and there's like 700,000 cryptocurrencies out there now, right? Very few when WikiLeaks was around when this took place, right? It was only Litecoin, Dogcoin I think was in there too and Bitcoin and a few of the other, I think it was five or six different types of coins that were at play at that time, right? So people started donating to WikiLeaks and they started building up store of value, right? In their cryptocurrencies and for them to get things done, if they wanted to hire someone, anybody that worked for WikiLeaks or anybody that works online and a big way, maybe coders or anything that's involved in the ground floor of the internet of computing technology has a cryptocurrency account, so all that we do to hire someone to get something done is transfer their cryptocurrencies, a certain amount, back to them, right? So all of a sudden, within, you know, since the inception of Bitcoin, since you could buy, we talked about this, you know, people could buy the first bitcoins became available, there was a link connection, an exchange rate for one Bitcoin to a US dollar, which was I think was six cents or something, you could buy one Bitcoin for six cents or three cents or something like this, right? Since that time, Bitcoin has become and other cryptocurrencies have become a legitimate form of currency online, right? So there are people actively doing business, doing trade, hiring people, buying things, through cryptocurrencies online and they're trading it just like a bank account, right? And one thing that happened, I think three weeks ago or so, when I think Bitcoin cracked $5,000 or so, Julian Assange sent out a little tweet showing the graph of Bitcoin, right? And thanking the US government from severing these links that they had to the banking system to PayPal, to online transactions that have records through nations, right? That everything could be tracked severing that link because that forced everyone to not donate to wicked leaks with US dollars or euros or anything else, they donated in cryptocurrencies and Wicked Leaks graph, Julian Assange, the graph that he shared, he said thank you very much for severing these links because the money that they received at that time has gone up 50,000% I believe or is it 500,000? No, it would be 50,000%. Just imagine making an investment where your investment has gone up 50,000% and I think this this happened in 2013-14, like in five years, 50,000% increase in your wealth that I don't know anything else that does that, right? Not even amazing Spider-Man number one, right? So that is the way, you know, a visual that we can use to think about cryptocurrencies, what they are, why they're in play and don't, you know, this cannot be under understated. This disruptive innovation, this blockchain technology came about because of the corruption within our current financial system. May it be Wall Street, may it be banking, right? One of the things that, you know, people talk negatively about cryptocurrencies is there's a lot of, you know, illegal activity taking place here. That's like saying there's a lot of illegal activity taking place in the real world because this is the real world and anybody that says that they fail to realize that the illegal activity taking place through cryptocurrencies right now is dwarfed by the illegal activity that is taking place within Wall Street, the banking system, right? Money laundering. Money laundering here is a drop in the bucket compared to the money laundering that has taken place through the banking system through Wall Street and there is, this isn't hearsay or speculation. Banks have paid governments billions of dollars of fines for the corrupt practices. May it be Bank of America doing robosigning for mortgages. May it be HSBC paying fines for money laundering, drug and weapons money laundering, right? Through their subsidiary in Mexico where nobody went to jail and the fine they had to pay was equivalent to one day or two days worth of profits for that bank. Just imagine if you could launcher millions of dollars personally and if you got caught and the government said oh you're a bad for doing that and they find you two days salary, right? So the corruption occurring here outside of the cryptocurrency market gave birth to this disruptive innovation that is in the documentation that was released at the beginning of we really don't know who released this document saying the reason that they came up with this was because they were sick and tired of the corruption that's taking place within finance, within economics, within our current economic system, right? Because it is completely completely flawed, right? Where institutions, banks, everybody has some kind of bank system, right? Or used to. Some people might not anymore, some people might but have reduced the number of bank accounts they have because now they have perfectly anonymous, private, secure bank accounts online that they can do almost well not almost anything but in the future they will be able to do almost anything online with that bank account that they won't have to go through these systems, right? And this is going to be rolled out in many many many different ways, right? That's one of the reasons data for governments and corporations is so important right now because they want to keep track of what's taking place and disruptive innovation is coming into play with blockchain technology saying no we can still continue to keep our privacy, to keep our anonymity and do what we need to do as long as we're functioning citizens within a society and contributing to that society we should not be penalized for not being part of the elite where you can get loans at zero percent interest where you can commit horrendous horrendous crimes either by money laundering or or criminal activity and not be fine and get away with what you're doing if you're an executive of some of these organizations like equal equal facts where they and corruption is insane but where they get away with crimes and no one's held liable, right? That really the the political turmoil the lack of accountability within finance and wall street and banking all of the news that was released in the last 15 20 years 30 years really gave birth to blockchain technology in the first place this blockchain technology is being implemented as cryptocurrencies there there is unlimited potential for this technology for example if we go back to me buying amazing spider-man number one grade at 4.0 from you for $6,000 right right now if we're going to do it back then three months ago i would have had to transfer two bitcoins to you but if we're going to do it now then i just have to transfer one bitcoin to you right but let's assume i don't know you and you don't know me let's assume we want to make sure that this interaction this trade takes place and we're both happy about it then what we can do is get an intermediary this person here to be the in-between person right so instead of having this person the bank taking a cut ebay taking a paypal then your bank taking a cut this person may take a small cut you ship amazing spider-man number one there i ship transfer over one bitcoin over there or i just transfer over to you with some kind of code authenticating that i transferred this to you this person agrees that the bitcoin or whatever cryptocurrency has been transferred and transfers amazing spider-man number one to me and this type of interaction this type of contract contract tool right trade is actually being enabled through blockchain technology so blockchain technology is not just a ledger system authenticating that the money the cryptocurrency has gone from here to there dandio crypto blockchain technology is being used to write contracts where certain triggers have to be hit for all funds to be transferred and all assets to be transferred or services rendered and funds transferred right so that is where we're going that is the power of cryptocurrencies that is the power of blockchain technology and this is about to rock this and it is rocking that it's it's got finance concerned it's got wall street concern it's got certain governments concerned right which is one reason that a lot of banks a lot of finance right now is working towards creating their own cryptocurrencies right will it be p2p right and going back to p2p this is the crucial thing the only way to stop these transactions is to shut down the internet right because the information is flowing everywhere through billions of notes if these banks decide to come up with their own cryptocurrencies will will it be p2p how many people online will be willing to give a processing power to authenticate those ledgers or will these banks have hubs set up hubs right now are set up as well by certain private corporations authenticating these cryptocurrency transfers and there's blockchain technology come about making that processing speed less and less so there's a lot of things at play right but will people be willing to adopt right will be willing to use the cryptocurrencies that wall street finance the banking sector brings about right there are theories that cryptocurrencies want to do specifically for that to take us into a cashless society right still you have to be decided which direction we're going to head there right but are we will people be willing to incorporate centralized cryptocurrency transfers i don't know not not personally i'm not right but we see where it goes right things could be shut down who knows maybe they will be right but that's the power of the of cryptocurrencies blocks blockchain technology in general and i'll mention one other thing that i mentioned previously is that the key right now like we're going on personal finance level on economics level there's a lot of things taking place right so the name of the game right now is be diversified if you're only involved with the banking system with a certain type of currency from a certain nation this is not personal financial advice but i would be diversifying if you're only involved your only assets you have on cryptocurrencies i would be diversifying if your only form of generating an income is selling one type of product to someone either in your locality or across the globe i would be diversifying right now the name of the game is to diversify one of the reasons is because we are we're in major currency fiat currency depreciation period we're in a major inflationary period in my opinion right asset inflation so there's a lot of bubbles everywhere and currency of nations doesn't get you what it used to right and some of that is because of what's taking taking place online a lot of it has to do with money being flooded into nations right into all nations really right which is devaluing your currency but it's also creating huge inequality because there are certain organizations which are getting unlimited funds at zero interest and they're flipping that and charging people interest and buying assets which is one reason we're seeing huge asset asset bubbles appearing everywhere right and all bubbles have to pop at certain times and some of the cryptocurrencies you know might get a little flak on this but we are in bubble territory with some of that stuff so as long as you don't depend on a lot of things that have appreciated a lot for your day-to-day life to pay your bills to feed your family to keep yourself healthy because health is the number one thing you should be invested in i would be diversifying okay i hope that clears up what it is that you know cryptocurrencies are the way we can use them and all of this has come about because of computing power because of the internet because of p2p interaction which is the essence of the internet right and previously to that we talked a little about this which is disruptive innovation and automation is kicking into gear for a lot of this stuff right now okay we'll leave it there for now and i think the next time we talk about cryptocurrencies what we'll do is talk about some of the pitfalls with cryptocurrency some of the things we should be concerned about may they be real imagined fear-based or not okay that's it for now i'll see you guys in the next video


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One is up everybody, welcome to Hot Makes, the show where we get hot guests on to talk about hot things that everybody made. My name is Caleb. Nerdy J is actually not here tonight. He texted me like three minutes before the show or so and was like, hey dude, something's going on. I have no idea what's going on. He said his family is okay. Nobody worry about that. But I don't want to get too much into that because I don't know what's going on. But he had a last minute thing and he can't make it. I've already said too much. Anyway, so that being said, it has nothing to do with the guest. It has everything to do with the fact that as you guys know, as we've shown on the show before, when Jim's not here, I get real awkward. I'm used to being behind the scenes. I've been hanging out on the stream more recently, but Jim being the ex DJ himself and great announcer and what's it called at the events, the MC at the events. He tripod three minutes. Yeah, more time than usual. But Jim being kind of the entertainer already, he usually carries the show and I just kind of like, I'm just here. I'm used to doing things in the background and then I'm just here. So I'm also running on three hours of sleep. So we're going to power through this and probably be done on the early tonight. Okay, so board the plate stuff. There's a link in the description below of the, well, there's a link in the description of this video for all the things we talk about today's show. If you enjoy the show, consider donating to the show's Oreo fund. It's just the donation fund. There's a link to that in the description as well. If you include the text hot makes in that donation in some way, shape, or form, we can attribute it to the show. Brian loves awkward Caleb, I appreciate that. Also, normally I pop comments up because Jim will be talking and I'll just like this and I'll be able to, but I'm sorry guys if I can't keep track of everything on my own. We also have enough subscribers now. We've got super chats. If you wanted to donate in that way, just keep in mind that PayPal is better because YouTube takes a ton of the cut on the super chats. But there's a zombie hedgehog. Thank you for the banana. Hang on, I will show that one. I have to, I have to. It says banana, super sticker. Thank you, man. Appreciate it. We're actually, I'm gonna talk about you here in a little while when we get our guests on. Everybody knows who the guest is. Yeah, Ed is correct. I have not been in the background for a while. Anyway, also make sure you're watching and subscribed over on the actual Hot Makes channel, and Nightbot should be throwing that in the chat, but yeah, I'd like to drive as much traffic there. We're currently simulcasting on the Hot Makes channel and the Edutek channel for the sake of getting more people watching, but yeah, I like to get as many people on the Hot Makes channel as well. This is awkward. What's everybody doing? What are you guys drinking? I'm drinking water because it's the best way to try to keep myself awake, I guess. I feel like coffee would be better. Kieran wants to know what a Fixum Dude is. All right, so as you guys know, our guest tonight is the one and only Fixum Dude. Fixum Dude, Mr. Fixum, first name Fixum, last name Dude. Everybody's familiar with him. Everybody loves him. Everybody talks. I talk too much. I'm having a hard time breathing. You are correct, because I'm just trying to be not awkward, but I'm being awkward. Invite someone to help with the call-outs. Maybe we might just open this up a little bit. Maybe, maybe not. Brian Vines, Fixum Dude. All right, I'm just gonna bring him in because I'm being weird. Everybody, without further ado, Mr. Fixum, last name Dude himself. How are you doing, man? Hey. How awkward was that? Was that awkward enough? Not bad at all. So I actually, I reached out to you to see if you wanted to be on the show and you actually had a little bit of a background story of the fact that you've wanted to be on the show for a while, which surprised me because everybody in the community talks about you. Everybody in the community loves you. Everybody loves your work.   I would say your goal to be a positive voice in the community has been met. And exceeded. So I'm really surprised that you haven't been on the show yet. I'm surprised that I, that reaching out was the first time. Oh, that's, I've just been a huge fan since I started 3D printing. So I can't remember even when I started watching but just kind of when we got into the whole, you know, 3D printing nerd and, yeah, you know, makers news, all those channels. And we started watching hot makes and I love checking out everybody's cool stuff. Gives me a lot of inspiration and sometimes jealousy, but some really good makers out there. Well, you've also, you've posted quite a few things that have been tagged, you know, and shown on the show as well. And a lot of them, I don't know. It's just, it blows my mind how you can continue to kind of not just build off of other people's ideas, but also come up with some of your own, look quite a few of your own. And your designs are solid. Like you just kind of throw them at your printer and they just go, which is amazing. But yeah, and you, it's weird hearing somebody say that they're a fan of the show, but is appreciated. Tripod says he's not a maker, just a fixer where you can't fix something without breaking it. So true. I have broken a lot of stuff over the years. So fixed a few things. Pesley says you have a list. You never stop and you have a list. Oh yeah.  It's, yeah, it's probably, with all the lists combined, probably a couple of hundred things in different areas, but what if you're printing? Is this all designing, like model designing wise? Some of it, maybe like a hundred things, but I mean, none of it, they don't all come to fruition. It's just, you know, get an idea or see someone else's, you know, hot make and that'll spark something just like, I'm sure a lot of the modelers and artists out there, you just, you build on the shoulder of giants.  And I just was showing everybody my list where I had the Wally kit card on the list to do and then someone else did it in the kit card contest on printables and it's like kicking butt. So I was like, oh, wow. Move on to the next one. Maybe next time. Yeah, I, it's weird to me in a good way. I say weird in a good way, that you see things on this show that inspire you to do more things that end up being shown on the show and that you can, and that you describe yourself as a fan of the show, but like I would think of us and a lot of people in the community as a fan of yours. So it's this, I feel like it's this like self-feeding cycle, which is super cool. But it's neat. I think it's really, that's why I enjoy the show so much. Cause it just seeing as someone who works in the industry I work in, I'm not exposed to a ton of like creative stuff all the time. So it really is nice to be able to have a show like yours where you get to see like all the incredible modelers and makers, like I can make a model, but just some of the models are the way that people finish models and it's just phenomenal to me and it just blows my mind. So just seeing all this amazing creativity just really helps spark more creativity. It does help feed the cycle, I guess. And I love seeing like when you do the, like the, you've done some of the birthday designs and I love seeing how different people will just kind of everybody in the community will just kind of flood in and take that same design and print it in different materials or finish it in different ways. And that's kind of, you know, speaking of what you're talking about having that ability to kind of see even when it's the same thing across multiple people seeing their own spin on and their own take on that their own creative take on that. So that's cool. Yeah. That's really fun for me. So that's part of the reason I do it like all the models are free but I really enjoy just seeing the filaments and the colors and like I said the finishing that people do. And so I enjoy it when people post their makes and that's what makes it fun for me is to see that hopefully people are enjoying the models and having fun printing them. And that's the whole reason I do this is just for fun, kind of an outlet to get away from the world, so to speak. So have you, I'm sorry, I just noticed the MakerDuck posters, those are sweet. Oh, thank you. So have you had, and if anybody has any questions for Fix On Dude while we're here go ahead and drop them in the comments and I'll do my best to keep track of them on my own tonight. But so do you have a history in, you don't have to get too personal if you don't want to but do you have a history in like engineering or design or is this just entirely a hobby that's just kind of grown into, like when you design things they're solid. That's what I'm getting at. And I know that takes practice. Yeah, it's kind of all of the above really. So in high school I wasn't sure what I was gonna be. I did always enjoy art from like as a little child all the way up through college. And so I started off, but I knew I wanted to make a lot of money. Weren't a real advantage as a kid. So, and I did, I love computers. I've always loved computers. It's the first time I saw my friends, Vic 20 back in the 80s at his house, I've been hooked. Yeah. So anyway, I started off in computer engineering actually and then went, did that for a couple of years and I still took art classes on the side just for fun. And then I realized once I got like past calculus, I'm like, this is way too hard. Why am I killing myself with this really hard math? And then a girl I was dating at the time was like, well, you don't have to do it. Why don't you switch? And I was like, oh yeah, I guess I could. And there's no law. But transfer school is something much cheaper and switched to advertising art and then ended up getting a fine arts degree. So I've got a little engineering background and then some art background. And then that kind of helped me. The place I work actually got the job from my roommate when I was in computer engineering and he's went on to become an actual engineer. And so they needed a sticker for a product he invented. So he called me up and said, hey, can you make a sticker in a brochure? And I was like, I don't know, but we'll give it a try. And so I was in college. I hadn't even finished yet. I've been working with him for over 30 years now at that same company. So anyway, it helps me to have the engineering background to speak. We have a lot of engineers in our company. So I have to translate engineer into English for our... Yeah, it's an entirely different language. Yeah. It helps a lot to understand what's going on under the hood a little bit. Not nearly a real engineer, but so anyway, that fed into 3D printing where it started watching the shows and realized how much fun it could be and we could use it for work. So we kind of did a... On the down low built the 3D printer at the office and we called it a solution in search of a problem. But we started making templates and things to make things quicker and easier at the office. And then... But at first, when we first got the printer, you print a few models from someone else's and then you're like, well, I gotta figure out how to solve my own problem. Got into Tinkercad and then Fusion 360 and started learning how to make the templates and things like that. And it evolved into where we are today. So how much of that did I just spoil for your, by asking that question, how much is your print? You actually brought a presentation which not a whole lot of people do. I feel like you only had one guest in the past who's actually brought some materials to kind of tell a backstory. Is that still applicable? Cause I really wanted to see. No, I couldn't run through it real quick. I won't take two. It was just one I had, Pesla's and I worked on it together to kind of for our interview. So I just had ready kind of as a reminder for me to... I would love to see this. A highlight. Okay. Let me switch over. Also, is there a way... Let me see if there's a better way for me to... Oh, what if I do that? There we go. Yeah. Nice. So yeah, this is the fix of the origin story. Is that an actual wood clock on the right? That is the amazing clock that Tom Lama sent me. Of course. Out of nowhere, along with my little fix-em-dude kit card that Mugman made for my birthday last year. That's right. Anyway, this clock sits right over my desk at work and I look at it all day long. So that was blown away. It's an incredible gift. Out of nowhere, he sent me a hot makes clock and a Geary clock. Oh, wow. I don't know why he would have sent me a Geary clock. I don't know who Geary was, but it's still very awesome to have. And I actually, I contacted him and asked him to send me one that was cut, but not in any kind of fancy, expensive wood or finished at all because I had some ideas. So I was gonna set it on fire and do something fun with it. Oh, nice. But I have not done that and it's all in storage right now still. So... Yeah, he does amazing work. So I was thrilled when I got that in the mail. That was... That's so cool. I love that. One of the, just one of the examples of just the amazing generosity of the whole maker community. Yeah. Yep. So, okay. Title screen. All right. You ready? I'm ready. All right, so... I don't know if I'm ready. I'm gonna have to strap in. Like I said, ever since I was little, I've loved to draw and paint and I remember my parents had me like paint a little Mickey Mouse on my sister's crib when I was like seven years old and I was nervous I was gonna ruin the crib. So, anyway, I've like I said, always been interested in art and painting and just making. I used to make my own toys and stuff. That's cool. So I wish I had a 3D printer back then.  This is just a few things. Like I won a couple of contests in high school and... That's awesome. I got the cover of our little lupus. It was called the little full of art and poetry and writing, that kind of thing. There's a little cabin I drew in middle school that, you know, got to go to state and I didn't go in state, but... And then there's my real, my true one claim to fame was that I won these slime in. Well, they've got like third place in these slime in sweepstakes from Nickelodeon. So... Awesome. Like, I still have that back. Oh, that's awesome. That's cool. My one true prize possession.  I went off to college like I mentioned, I went in engineering. These are... Actually, my first woodworking project were these massive overkill speakers. That's cool, yeah. And then... I love the size of the speakers compared to the size of the TV. Yeah, they were like four feet tall and there's any real engineers in the audience. I had all four of these drivers wired in parallel, which drops the resistance I found out to next to nothing, which is not good for your amplifier at all, so. And then while it was at Southern Methodist University, they had to try out for Wind Loser Draw, which we played Pictionary constantly, so I love that game.  I feel like having an artist playing Pictionary with you is almost cheating. It's almost unfair. I do love it, but yeah. We played at work for Christmas parties and stuff and I have to MC, I'm not allowed to play, but here's just a few pieces from college and package design and I started off working at Walmart in the electronics department, so. And then, yeah, it's my good luck poster in Hollywood when I took off to go play. We got second place, so those of it... That's awesome. Those are actually on the Fixum Dude YouTube channel with anybody. Mitch just mentioned that, that's awesome. See one of my cringiest moments of my life. Yeah, so VP of E says, be sure to ask him about your time on that show and also dancing on that show. Is that what you're talking about with the cringe, the dancing? Yes, and the talking and the last day, like we were going super fast all week. It was a week-long tournament, but we'd shot it all in one day. And so by the end, we were going so fast that we're trying to slow the show down. And so Bert Tomby's like, so Mike, tell me about yourself in computer engineering and I'm like, what? So that was not my finest moment, but it's out there if anyone wants to see it. And that was my roommate in college that got me my job, the one who asked that question. Oh, that's cool. So is this all furniture that you've made? Yeah, this is before 3D printing, I got into woodworking. So this is like a bed that I made early on. We use that for about 15 years. The nightstand made a little entertainment center to hold our giant tube television and put the shelf to separate our... I can hear that thing turning on, just looking at it. Yes, exactly. A little table. I think this was the first thing I ever made. And it was terrible, but it was our dining table for a while. And then this is the little dresser that's like right behind me that stores all of my, some of my filament. Anyway, just a few things that I've done. And then this was when we were... I'm an actual deck maker. It just gets bigger. From a maker deck, but I have actually made a deck. Sorry, I didn't make that connection at first. That's awesome. And then also like retro computing, gaming, like I said, been into computers since the VIC-20. So here's a Craigslist haul I found. And our first console was the Atari 2600. We used to sell boards we made at work with a guy I used to work with that would help you refurbish your track ball or your little spinner for, you know, break out that kind of game. And here's the cabinet that's right behind me that's still on. Here's when it was in the early stages, but we've had a lot of fun over the years with that. Yeah, I wanted to... I saw this on your website and I feel like I saw it when it was released, but tell me more about this guy right here. Yeah, this is my 3D printing adventure game. Just tried to crank it out in like a weekend over Christmas break and then it took like a month. But I was trying to learn this adventure game construction set thing or adventure game studio, I think it's called AGS. And then there's tons of amazing games out there that people have made. If you know what you're doing, you can go through the whole thing in less than 20 minutes. But I think, yeah, you guys around here, that's how long I've been trying to... It's like a little bulletin board in my office in the game. Oh, that's cool. And that's got like a lot of the stickers I could find from people I was watching and enjoying at the time. And you said we're on there? Pardon? You said the Hotmakes is on there? Not Hotmakes, but Edge of Jack. Edge of Jack, yeah, okay, okay. I don't know if I could find a Hotmakes logo at that time, but... I don't know where to find a Hotmakes logo today. But... But yeah, this is out there on... I think there's a link to it on my website, but if you're into old school Sierra style, adventure games and 3D printing, then there's little Easter eggs in there when you click on different things in the game that might 3D printing people might get a chuckle out of. Who is that? Who's that in the picture back there? Is it Chuck? Maybe, you have to click on it and see. But of course it's Windows only, so... Okay. A lot of Mac people are mad at me for not, but that's just a limitation of the adventure game studio software. Yeah. That's awesome. That was a lot of fun to make, and I have a sequel planned someday if I ever get time to make it. Might take a little bit longer than just a weekend. Yeah, definitely. There's just other random stuff I've made. This is, most of this is before I even got into 3D printing, just like a pool of ball clock for my dad and... That's awesome. Bought this old truck we got out of the mud and we fixed it up a little bit. I thought those were two different trucks. No, it's the same one. That's cool. This bed was actually white when we got it and put it on there. There's like a mural I painted at Walmart when I worked there in the back. Here's Grugalopoly was a game I made for my family for Christmas. All the properties are places where we've lived. Oh, that's awesome. The utilities are places my dad had worked. Is that you in that costume? No, that's my oldest son. Okay. He's fixed some kid and that's all right. Costume we made out of scraps from work and I really wish we had been into 3D printing then. We could have taken that up several notches. Oh, I love that it doesn't have anything. Yeah, it's all... That just adds a lot of anticipate. And there's a few pumpkins we've done over the years and some painting for our game room. Yeah, a little bit of everything. The future Mrs. Fixum dude right there. We're dating. Okay, that's cool. So you made one of those... What are you doing with the light? What did you do for the lights in there? The lights here or in here. In the stove top and stuff. Oh yeah, this is just a little play kitchen that we bought and then really jazzed up for my niece. So we took that eel wire. That's what I was gonna do. That's awesome. Connected it to a little switch on the top so you can turn the oven on or turn the it's run all through the burner. So it looks like a heating element. That's cool. And then we got the little lights in the fridge with just a magnetic switch. And then the best part, my favorite was the microwave where we got a little keypad and an Arduino back there and I got a really noisy fan that runs when you turn on the microwave. And a light comes on inside the microwave and it counts down. That's cool. See, this is the kind of stuff that when I have a kid, it's that they're gonna have stuff like this and the other parents are gonna be like, where did you buy that? Where did that come from? Like I made it. Yeah, the fun stuff is doing that. And this is a project that did for a pediatric dentist in our town. Like we have a sign guy we work with and he came to me and said, a dentist wants this little light mixer. He saw it at a children's museum. Can you do that? And I was like, that's cool. I don't know, we'll find out. So the sliders like percentage of what each color is. Yeah, and they have good ones that shine on the suit of armor and change the color. I just had cheap, like separate RG and B, but they have the good ones that actually mix the color. And as the kids slide these up and down, it's built into the wall in the waiting room. So we have Fixum Dude, we had Fixum Kid. We also have Fixum Offspring, Fixum Spawn. We showed a picture of Fixum Gal earlier. And now we have, oh, I was just about to make another joke when you were talking about that and I just totally lost it. Oh, now we have Mixum Dude. Oh, Mixum Dude. Mixum Dude, there you go. Let's see, oh, here's a few, a couple more projects, like electronic projects. We made a light up spike ball for that. Oh, that's cool. That was in the robot costume for college with his roommates. And then I was a big fan of the eight of boxes where you get a little project every few months and in a box. And one of them had this little display with the Python microcontroller. So we did a little COVID counter plus the calendar and weather. We just rotate through the screens on our TV kind of shows. That's a COVID counter. Yeah, how many new cases there were in Texas and how many total there were. We had our county on there too. It's weird to think, well, I don't want to go down the doom and gloom path, but it feels, at this point, it already feels relatively disconnected. I can't, everything was so weird in 2022. But anyway. It was strange time. Yeah, 2021, 2021, yeah. That's cool. Christmas party game, like I told you, sometimes we do a Pictionary or when lose or draw. This is one we called Fleet Watch Food, which Fleet Watch is a product that our company makes. Anyway, this is running on a little PC and then I use node.js so I could control it with a little tablet so I could see the answers and I can pull up strikes and flip over the answers and give them points and stuff. And then these are little buzzers, so you buzz in and the lights light up for whichever side was first. That's cool. It makes a little buzzer noise. That was a lot of fun. That's so, like it looks simple, but there's a lot that goes into the back end of that. Yeah, that took a while. And I'm sure it was a lot of fun. Like actually having that physical standing there button that you can smack. Had to just add so much to that experience. Yeah, and that came from my arcade experience, but I knew where to get some really good buttons you can hammer on without worrying about breaking them. And these are fun because the buttons light up too, so you can kind of see who won. I had to learn like node.js and all that stuff to do this. So that was an educational time. Oh, and here's during COVID, we couldn't, I love escape rooms and trivia and stuff. So logic, we couldn't go to escape rooms anymore as a family. I was going to make a joke on that upper left hand photo that it was that a picture of you diffusing a bomb. Apparently you've done that too, but I guess that's not too far off. That's exactly what that is. That's awesome.    Of course we had a cryptic that you had to find the word and open up to find all these covers and you lay them over this one at a time and it gives you another code. And you eventually it tells you which wire to cut and then the code to get into this box and then you cut the wire and it'll either say, boom, you're lost or yeah, you won. That was a- Is that a new printed box too? No, that's actually, well, the inside is, that's the top part is and this is like a Pelican box we got somewhere like super cheap. So I just had them laying around.  And so I did buy the book face and the tackle box and some of the stuff. That's cool. The UV pens and anyway, that was a blast. Did you come up with the whole kind of like story and throughput like pathway of those escape rooms on your own too? Yeah, that was another big challenge was trying to figure out how to tie those. You have a puzzle, like how do I turn this into a piece of the story? That's cool. That was kind of fun. I don't know how good it is because just our family played it but I've always wanted to take it to work or somewhere and have someone else try it and see how quickly it's not like a super hard puzzle that it was a lot of fun. That's cool. See, then we get like the 2015 I started that's when we started buying the random parts for the 3D printer. And then I noticed in October of 2016 is when I gave up trying to figure out how they all go together and bought this super cheap rep wrap guru kit which is like, I think $350 or something. At the time, that was super cheap. Now you can get so many amazing printers for less than that. Anyway, the most important piece of this was the instruction book that it came with.  I was like, oh, okay. So then I took all these parts and took them home and made this monstrosity here, but it worked. You can see it printing a, that's the first Benchy. I'm team Benchy, but yeah, here's our, some of the first prints off of this printer were just a mess, but we figured it out. I didn't know anything and started off with an ABS on this terrible open frame plastic printer and you know, nowadays I would not try that, but I didn't know any better at the time. So then like we talked about the... Still love the Flexi Burger. Yeah, that was one of the first ones. That was all in Tinkercad. You can, Tinkercad is like even more amazing now than when I started in it. It's some of the stuff you can do. And here are like a couple templates for work. We use them to drill boxes and things without having to measure. Anyway, that led into like a video I saw on Flexi Anything. Yeah. I was like, I bet I could do that. So we did that in Tinkercad. You can see the little cutters here. So I think the, I think the gorilla or the frog was one of my first ones. And then that led to Flexi Monkey and Burger.  So we switched. I talked them into getting a subscription to Fusion.  So she can talk it out and, you know, just for fun. More templates that we designed to help at work. I'm still stuck in Tinkercad. I haven't taken any, I just haven't dedicated the time to learn Fusion 360 or anything like that. Yeah, that's, I mean, that's pretty much all it is, is I'm not that good, but I'm willing to just hammer and beat on a design until it gets to kind of where I want it to be. So it's not, you know, talent. It's just your will that makes these things come into existence. We now have Flexum Dude now. Yeah. I've got to make a bigger business card. But here's the, well, I hung out on Reddit. I was never a Twitter guy. So this was my second kick card. Was that Ty Interceptor? Yeah. Posted it on Reddit. And then I got a message that said, you know, I want to showcase this in an upcoming video. And I had no clue who that was. And I was like, yeah, sure. You know, don't mind it all. And then- Was that Joel? I started looking at his history and stuff. And I go to the back and I'm like, guys, I think that's the 3D printing nerd. Yeah. So it was like this huge, long, like painful wait until to see if the video was actually going to come out. So- That's cool. But yeah, he eventually, and a lot of you, if you know me, it's Fixum Dude. Yeah. It's probably from- This video. So that was fun. I was sweating bullets, whether the things were going to go together in the video or not. So my tolerances were not the best at the time. But yeah, and then I reached out to Joel on Patreon and he eventually sent me the tie fighter and signed it. That's cool. So that was a really nice thing for him to do. And he's this amazing guy, one of my 3D printing idols too. I love those, I love those kit cards. Oh, they're fun. So that was another thing just like, see if you can do it. Yeah, I've never done one before. And we printed the Nakazin. He's got a kit card near the top of the contest on printables now too. But he was kind of the OG for me anyway. We printed his X-Wing and several of his other Star Wars kit cards. And a guy in the back is like, what we need is a Millennium Falcon to go with it.  And so I was like, okay, let's see what we can do. So just like everything else, like I don't know how to do it, but we'll figure it out. So that turned into the 3D printing nerd, which once that video came out, everyone's like, dude, you got to get on Twitter. So I made fix some dude on Twitter. The rest is history kind of. And then, yeah, from Twitter I found, or Chris Barillo found the TIE fighter. Yeah.  And so started hanging out and they invited me to be a moderator. That's where I kind of got to know Krusty and Pezlin and a lot of the other people and- So many good people. Yeah, it's a great community. But yeah, we, that turned into the Maker Deck, which, you know, it turned into what it is today. I don't know what's Maker Deck. Zombie asked that too. He's like, what's that? As soon as you show the Maker Deck stuff. And then this is a, like you've seen some of the stuff. We just, just for fun, we're just messing around. So good. We did the, took the pooch rock and made him play the guitar. And then there's the Oreos in water. That one was- I still love that. That one I had in my brain for a long time. And then finally you had a chance to get it out and send it up there and just- That is one of my favorite things ever. It's just so well done. Thank you. It was fun to make. But yeah, we just, I like to have fun. So here's like the, my bad design for Krusty's birthday model last year. And the Bugman put this horrible sketch and turned it into this amazing model. It was awesome. Oh, here's the clock. And then Tom Lama turned the Fixum Dude that Bugman made into a Fixum Dude. That's great. That's still on my desk at work too. I haven't seen these Repcord thermals though. What's going on here? Yeah, the pooch was joking about thermal underwear. And so we made an ad for the Repcord thermals and then the special LM edition. Oh man, that's fantastic. Yeah, our Bugman glasses and the Milk Dudes and just, you know, we just like to have fun and play around. I love, I just, this is what I mean by like, you've got so many people that absolutely love you in this community. And I'm so surprised that I haven't asked you to come on already, or that you haven't been on already. I guess I just kind of, because I've always known of your name, I just kind of assumed, I guess, that you had been on the show before I showed up or there was just a time that, you know, I just kind of got lost in my memory of guests that you had been on recently. I'm just still like confused about that.  So I was like, oh, I just never thought I would be on the show. I just enjoyed watching it. So like I said, this is a dream come true to actually be on Hot Makes. And now the people at work won't be able to live with me even more. So what was your association with the truck printer? Cause Mitch said he loves the transformers printer. Oh, this is what we call my Craigslist problem. So if there's a 30 printer, like under $100 within like 20 miles of my house, I kind of feel the need to go rescue it. And this one was actually in my town. Like very few people, like two printers I've gotten from the town I live in, but this was one of them. Some lady had it on Craigslist. I guess she bought it for her son and they messed with it a little bit and you know, couldn't really get the hang of it. So it was like- More of a learning curve than expected. And I was like 50 bucks. It's a good thing under a hundred. I'm like, it's worth the parts to go get it. Yeah. Anyway, it's still in the box. I took it out and looked at it and then put it back, but I still have it. You're creating a new habit. Why are you telling me all of this? Oh yeah. It's fun. But yeah, there's some deals if you're patient and cheap like I am. Here's a Prusa Mark 3S that a guy destroyed two hot ends. You can see it's missing, but on this box are the manuals and the remnants of two destroyed hot ends. But I got all that for like 200 bucks and so that was good. There's some mono price minis that I used to love picking these up and fixing them up and getting them running again. I have several under three pros that people have re-homed several of those. So do you keep these or do you end up reselling them more? Most of them I just give away, or I sell them for what I've got in them just to get them out of my building and make some gal happy. But yeah, that's an addiction of mine. That and stickers, so you may have. Yes. I love me some stickers too. So yeah, we got make or deck stickers and blast giving these away at Murph. So do you make? Fix and dude stickers. That's cool. I have a sticker problem as well. I actually have a whole organizing drawer full of stickers that I just haven't done anything with yet. I don't know what to stick them on. And then I realized recently I've got a giant, just white monolith of a computer case that I'm probably gonna start just blasting with stickers because I collect them just like you do.  I like Chris Riley's idea of like putting them on his guitar case and he's got that. Yeah. Well, that's what I did. I started putting some on my guitar case, but the guitar case texture, the stickers wouldn't stick to it and I ended up with a few of them peeling and falling off. Speaking of Chris Riley. Oh. I wish him a happy birthday. Yes, happy birthday. Little guitar. And also Bugman. Happy birthday. Bugman. Yeah, I should have mentioned those or added them to the list. I saw that going around Twitter today and I didn't mention that. So yes, happy birthday guys. All right. Well, we said it was gonna be a short show, but well, first of all, thank you for sharing all of that. I'll be back to the early days. It's awesome. Practical practice says Nerdy J is fired. Why do I have the full-time job? I don't know that I can keep this up. Jim is replaced by Fixum Dude. There we go. Oh, okay. All right, so would you like to go look at some of the hot makes today? Which is gonna be interesting. My favorite part. Not that I don't have all the guests, but. Okay, let's check out some of this week's hot makes. And of course, naturally, the first one on the list is one of yours. I don't know if this was tagged or if Jim just pulled it. So quick peek behind the curtain. Jim pulls the hot makes before we do the show. And usually within a half an hour to an hour of when we're supposed to go live. So I don't usually have enough time to see what they are before we start. And I kind of like going in blind anyway. So we're gonna go through these hot makes that Jim put on the list and I have no idea what we're about to see. So this is gonna be a first for everybody. Nice. But yeah, so how did you kind of, these print and place models are based off of clock spring designs, right?  But we did the print and place wheels, but they were afraid that they would break off too easily for small children and be a liability. So changing that to a fixed wheel that didn't turn. You know, I had those kind of in my background. And then when clock spring came out with that amazing flippy ladder fire truck. Yeah. Oh yeah. I remembered how much fun it was doing the vehicles. And so I remixed the fire truck into an ambulance and a police car, like using his wheels and the bottom of his. And then I was like, okay. Well, I wanted to enclose the bottom and make a few tweaks. So I kind of redesigned the wheels and the bottom of the model and just did it new from the ground up. It's definitely inspired by his, you know, fire truck kind of got me thinking along those lines again. And you've got a whole like series of these too, don't you? Yes, there's, I think like 10 now, but. And I love that you called them fix and dude motors, the FDM. No, that was just perfect. Four times. I don't know if he pulled, he may have pulled this for something else, but I just got to look at this real quick too. I really want to print one of these. This is so cool. Some of your like a kit card model can only be so like accurate when it comes to the shapes of what you're creating. This looks like a specifically designed and printed model just to be a little BD one model, but it was a kit card. Like you, but it looks. It doesn't look like a kit card model. That is so cool. I got to print me one of those. OK, but the reason I came over here was to look at, you've got a bunch of collections. Yeah, there's a right. Ah, there we go. Yeah, you've got all sorts of stuff. Yeah, it's got thank you Kevin's great remixes of the little big rig and the big, big rig. It's so cool garbage truck. I'm sure Jim's Jim's kid probably loves that. That was the most popular to like release the Jeep and that thing shot up to like Jeep did almost 500 downloads. That's Jeep people are are crazy. I love what you did here with swapping the filament to make the racing stripe. Oh, yeah. That's cool. Well, I love the little stock sign that pops out. That's very well done. All right, let's see what's. Yeah, the discover more is going to be a bunch of the cool birthday cool birthday prints. All right, let's see what's next. We got killer prints. Love this one, another excellent Hugh Forge creation. We're going to get need more polymaker filaments at this rate. That is so cool. Those are amazing. I don't. Wow, I bought the software, but I have not had time to play with it to figure out how to use it. But I haven't mess with it either yet blown away at some of the, you know, models that people have produced with that. You've got to really zoom in and to see the layer lines. And you can really only see them in the black there because of the lighting. But this is. That's incredible detail. Oh, Lama just joined a wild Lama has joined the chat. Yay. Oh, you too. He says, Jeep people are not crazy, you crazy. I know I'm going to get canceled by the Jeep people now. I love Jeep. This is gorgeous. Well done. Are we following me? No, but we're going to fix that. There we go. What? I don't know why that wasn't a thing. OK, let's see what else is going on. Full pooch engaged. Oh, pooch got engaged. What? Oh, with the French cleats, him and the French cleats. Pooch is great. He's fantastic. I miss having him on the show. He and Jim had a really good back and forth. He seems like he's having a good time right now, though. I miss the sushi rolling. I miss the ranch. Dennis Crawford said he's afraid to start messing with you forage. It's a little intimidating. At least it was for me, but I need to watch some videos. But we had him on the show recently and he took us through a really nice little demo of how it works just before it was released. So go a few episodes back and that would be a. Sorry, I had to do a little bit of self plug there. All right, let's see what else is going on here. Dennis Crawford. Oh, that's funny. I just mentioned him. Let's see what's going on. He's on Instagram. Oh, wow. Can I make this bigger? I don't know that I can make it bigger. What is going on here? It's it reminds me of. It reminds me of the those cool metal like automaton sculpture remote control things that that one guy makes the Danny guy. That's cool. Wow. And I'm assuming that's probably tied together with, you know, the wheels as they move, but I wonder what's in the shifter. What would that be? I don't know. That's very, very cool. Also, I totally forgot. Typically, what I do is I like and retweet things and go through it. So I'll have to do that after show. All right, let's see what else is going on. Local maker Michigan. Uh, we have a taco cat, a taco cat. Fantastic. Oh, there's a new taco cat coming out soon. So it's actually says taco cat. Taco cat. That's awesome. What is that? What's that phrase called? There's a term for that when I want to like race car where the word can be reversed. A palindrome. Palindrome. Yep. I feel like the word for that should be able to be reversed. Very true. Yep. OK. Very cool. OK, so false deities, we're going to have him on the show here soon. I'll go over that in a little while when we're on when we're at the end of the show. But he actually sent this to us on the Hot Makes account. He was working with a group called Gotham FX Studio where he was capturing headscans, which I thought was really cool. He does a lot of scanning. We'll talk to him. He's not going to be on the show. I think he's going to be on the show next week. We'll we'll check that again. But he's a really nice guy, a really cool guy. I don't remember who exactly it was that recommended him to us. Let me double check because I want to make sure that I give people. Oh, geez, I want to make sure I give people credit for things. I don't know. There it is. I believe it was there it is. Andrew Sink. It was Andrew Sink's suggestion to get a hold of him. And I've talked to him very briefly behind the scenes. We got him scheduled and he's a very, very cool guy. So I'm excited to have him on the show. And I'm sure he'll give us a little bit more insight on that when he's here. And oh, here's this guy again. Nothing else out there. So wow, wow. Half the time, no, half the time it's a little slow. But I'm glad that we've got a couple of your things on here. So this is really cool. You did you design this from scratch? Yeah, we're I just like I said, I've been a big fan of Chris's since before I built the first printer. And I finally got a chance to go to Murph and meet him. And he's just even more awesome in person, just a great guy. He and his wife are just amazing people. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I've always I wanted to do, you know, something this year just for fun to to celebrate his birthday. So I was like, well, some way we can combine guitars and benches. So I love that we came up with that such a cool design. It kind of makes me want to make a full size playable one. Like how cool would that be? With the Benchy top as well. Just all you got to do is spend a little bit of time and take that file and put it in a put on a CNC and cut those pieces out of wood and just buy some hardware and I'm sure to play. That would be neat. Yeah, Sir Will mentioned doing the 3D print bunny, who's also amazing to doing her like string art with the strings on the guitar. Yeah, that was a good idea. That would be really cool. This is awesome. Well done. Thank you. I love that design and I kind of want to make a full size one now. We might might be asking you for some for some help with some files there. And Steven Poole has tagged us in. OK, like hard fun together. E3D is having some sort. Is this oh, is this what you're talking about earlier? No, I think that's a contest where you can have them rate your print. If you tag it, you know, this is cool. But yes, even very clean, amazing models, like the way he does his plain printing is incredible. No painting. It doesn't look like there's any painting. That is very clean. Very well done. Yeah, I love it. And thanks for tagging the show. Appreciate that. Makes our jobs a little bit easier. All right, Jim pulled some interesting ones this week.  He's OK. He should be OK. I hope so. I'm going to check on him. So real quick, before we start wrapping up, I should have done this before we jumped in the hot makes. But we did have a couple of questions that people asked earlier in the chat. One of them is from my sweetheart, Sarah. She asked what your biggest inspiration for designs is. That's hard to say. It just comes from everywhere. Probably the biggest is just seeing other people's stuff like the kit cards and then seeing, you know, how you can put your own span on it or, you know, making your making your own version of of that that kind of scratches your itch. And so that's a lot of it just comes from ideas from other people. It just comes from everywhere, really driving down the road. It's hard to pin it down to one main thing. See, I love hearing that because at its core, that's the whole reason we do this show and the reason why I put so much time in it. Even though it feels like there's always more to do. There's still a lot of effort that goes into putting the show on and what keeps me going is knowing that we can kind of collect things and show them off and provide commentary. We can bring cool guests in to provide commentary so that we can hopefully be a source of that. Just that, you know, being able to show people things that people are working on and then help add to that inspiration pool. And like we were saying, add that keep feeding that continuous creative cycle. Creative cycle is my new band name, by the way.  Oh, there you go. So Higgwerks asked question for Fixman, dude, how did you get started into 3D modeling? I feel like you kind of touched that earlier. Yeah, trying to to do our own stuff for work was the very first, you know, inspiration for trying to figure out how to 3D model. So just trying to help out, make things easier at work. And like I said, solution in search of a problem. So you're looking around for ways to make it useful. So but we learned pretty early on that to to do that, you have to figure out how to make your own models to do, you know, useful things with the 3D printer. So that was the main inspiration. I was just trying to figure out how to turn it into a useful tool. What is the I feel like I should know what this is, but what is the necessity is the mother of invention, mother invention? Yeah. Yeah, that's pretty much it. And then earlier, Mitch asked the most important question that I'm surprised. I haven't asked yet. Is there a fix some dog or fix some cat? There is a fix some dog. She's in there somewhere. Probably someone's lap.  Yeah. Yeah. We when I worked at CMC and C back in the day, Steve, the owner of the company and his wife had a couple of Basha. You you probably pronounce it properly. We always call it Basha. I doubt it. But and they were sweet little dogs. They were real cute. Yeah, she never barks. She doesn't shed to tell you when she wants to go out. Yeah, I appreciate the not shedding part. Yes, both of our sons had allergies. So that was a major factor in getting her that they're good with kids and good hyperallergenic and aren't very loud and not aggressive. She's been great. Well, I I'm about ready to wrap this up because I'm I'm surprised I haven't hit a brick wall yet. You made it to the end. Yeah, I thought it was going to be a shorter episode. I'm surprised I haven't like fallen apart. You know what? I took a 10 minute nap, a whole whopping 10 minutes before the show started. So maybe that's where we came from. Yeah. OK, so I apologize. If anybody sent in donations, I can't check them because they go to Jim and then we use the hot. You know, if you put the text hot makes in the PayPal donations, then we can attribute it to the show, but I don't have access to Jim's PayPal, obviously. At some point soon, I'm probably going to switch that over because we're kind of trying to do what we can to kind of keep things in their own columns in their own categories. But to anybody who donated tonight, appreciated I will see what I can try to remember to to give you some shout outs next week.  We have a couple cool guests coming up for upcoming shows. One of them is the false deities that we talked about a few minutes ago. He does, you know, he's a 3D artist and modeler. He does a 3D scanning is worked with VFX. One of the things that I really want to ask him about is that mischief, that weird mischief. I don't even know if you want to call it a company, but I really want to ask him about that. And then that's going to be next week on July 27th. He's going to July 17th. He's going to join us. And then on July 31st, we're going to be joined by digital Jimmy. And I am talking to a few other people I've got Mars Gizmo and IR chatting and Photos Mint and IR chatting and a couple of other people as well. But nothing is really set in stone yet. I just know that we're planning on having them on at some point. So we'll get the schedule out in future episodes as we continue to kind of solidify in. I didn't do this when we started. Jim usually does this. I forgot to ask you, but before we close, one last time for people who don't necessarily know, they know now, but who are you? What do you do and where can people find you? Oh, okay. I'm Mike, but you probably know me as Fixum Dude. And I'm just regular guy, a father, husband. I'm also an artist, maker, woodworker, graphic designer, 3D modeler. And you can find me on printables under Fixum Dude or I have a fixumdude.com that doesn't get updated very often, but has links to all the model sites and social media things where I'm present. So that's me. I love that you described yourself as just a regular guy, but then listed like five or six things that are like very specific trades that take a lot of effort that you're good at. Anybody can do them with enough practice. I'm proof of that. Well, something that Sarah taught me early on in the relationship that still tracks with me to this day is she used to correct me when I said I couldn't do something. She would tell me, it's not that you can't do it. It's that you don't know how yet. Right, exactly. I love that. And you are an example of, it's not that you can't do it. You just gotta have the perseverance. You've gotta have the right problem to solve, you know? Yep. And the right inspiration. So, well dude, I really appreciate, I really appreciate you joining tonight. I'm sorry that Jim couldn't make it. I'm sorry it was kind of a off night without having him here. I hope you still had a good time though. I definitely appreciated having you on. And I appreciate it. He's the last without him here bugging us. History. Oh, can't wait for him to hear that. Just kidding. We can cut out the just kidding part. No, we'll just, I'll snip the part where we said, no, I'm kidding. All right, man, I appreciate it. Everybody have a good night. We're gonna wrap this up and we will see you next week at 6 p.m. Central on Hot Nakes. Later. Bye everybody.