Hey guys, it's Monica. I am going to share with you a couple of thoughts on my retina use in the summertime. So this is actually a highly requested video by many of you and I haven't done a retina in a while and I'm gonna hopefully keep this really brief because you know, I haven't had any changes, you know I haven't really switched up my routine much at all although I will tell you that you have to use common sense in the summertime if You're gonna be out and about and you're not gonna use say sunblock or really protect yourself from the damaging sun rays You can undo everything You've done by using retina. So if you're curious as to what four years of retina has been like for me And what I do in the summertime to kind of still stay on my retina regimen. Stay tuned I still use my retina I use one percent retina one percent I alternate I do have a tube of five of 0.05 percent and A tube of the zero point one percent I also have the weakest which is the zero point zero two five percent Then I use typically I go down my neck with that into my decolletage along with rose hips seed oil That stayed the same but on my face. I use one percent retina typically probably I would say at least perhaps Four maybe five times a week and even though it's summertime. I still stick to that regimen So what I do and everyone asks is After I wash my face at night if I need to do Any kind of exfoliation? It's usually in the morning. I tend to not really do it at night But I'll do a double or a triple wash up and using an oil based cleanser from open formula I've talked about that before but it doesn't really matter what you use to wash your face It's gonna be up to you and I am all about affordability on products. So I try to wash my face with something I feel is really good gets my skin clean and You know obviously is affordable. So after I've done that sometimes they have to tone You know all depends on how my skin feels, but then usually I will stick I will put my retinae on I am very generous with my retinae. I This is a tube of the zero point five I have a tube of the the lesser amount and I have the one percent of the bathroom and I'm very generous with it.  I don't go into the little crevice on my nose or onto my lips There have been times that I've gone too close and I've paid the penalty for it So I try to really avoid that and I cover my lip now That said there are some days that I will use my retinae After I put on a oil and some days I use the oil after my retinae lately probably More consistently the last few months. I have been putting on My oil my face oil and my face oil has been CVD oil I've been using I've used a couple of different brands of CVD oil. I bought one recently when we were on vacation I've been trying that but my go-to CVD oil is the Maku. I really like it when they have their sales It's super affordable. It's just a really good good oil and for me It really works. You could use any kind of oil or no oil It all depends on your skin, but that's what I have been doing and my retinae I still buy my retinae from reliable Rx. I have it linked below. I am an affiliate member with them now So if you use my link, I make some pennies Thank you for doing that Anyways reliable Rx is a company based out of India and The retinae that I use this actually manufactured by Johnson and Johnson that or that's the name brand Johnson and Johnson But I buy it from India and what I normally do is I will buy Some for my sister some for my girlfriends I'll buy a larger order of it because the shipping tends to be a bit more expensive and It tends to take a while to arrive. So I place an order a larger order and We kind of you know joint venture between a few friends and we split the cost of shipping But the price of my retinae is so even if I didn't have friends to buy it with what a matter It is so incredibly reasonable to do it that way. I pay by e-check That's my comfort zone. I've mentioned before that I have a separate checking account that I just use for e-funds and And that's what I do. I really really Think that part of my success with retinae is that I can afford it I would not be able to afford it if I had to go into the pharmacies here because when I first got my first Subscription prescription for it. I was pricing it out and it was like 289 325 One time there was a special for 89 for a little tiny tube, but when I can get a tube like this under $10 It's a no-brainer to me It's a no-brainer. So for those of you that keep asking the question about this even with COVID-19 I'm okay Personally the decision I made I'm okay to place that order. I feel totally comfortable placing that order It doesn't mean that you're gonna feel comfortable and that that's okay It has to be a decision that you that you all make, you know But for me it was affordable. So I still use yes Reliable RX even in COVID-19 the shipping might be a little bit slower, but I've had exceptional service from them I have never had a product that was questionable. I've never had an excessive delay in my shipping They've never overcharged me. They've never undercharged me. They've been actually Really nice to work with I really really have enjoyed Buying and getting my retin A products from them now There's a few other products that I bought off of them Hydroquinone I have that if you look at their website, there's many different other products and there's some prescriptions that You know that are very expensive here that some people buy But anyways, that's where I get my tretinoi and that's where I get my retin A and I am using it Roughly four to five times a week even though it's in the summertime now I recently bought myself some straw hats when I buy hats I have I have like a few hats. I really like but the straw hats I bought recently are Really super because Jay and I gonna go we're gonna be going to Bar Harbor and I have a you know One of those outdoor recliner chairs when you're outside by your campsite and I want to read I want to do things. I'm gonna put my head back and So I wanted to get a straw hat that didn't have a brim all the way around and I wanted it to have an SPF factor So I got these two straw hats. They're absolutely adorable and they're a 50 SPF So I protect. Oh, I protect my skin in the sun and I use some really good sunblock I mean a lot of sunblock. I do I've tried I've been fortunate enough to have Dramatology that was sent to me a little bit ago. I kind of showed that right before we went to with Bay Harbor I really like that that plays really nice with my makeup I use the Australian gold by Tynical the 50 SPF that's tinted Sometimes I have to make sure that really dries but overall that plays really nice with any kind of foundation And I've also been falling in love with the boots number seven They have a high SPF foundation that I've been using and for the summer you can't beat it. So skin sun protection when using Retinate is so Important it is it is the most important thing and then I Exfoliate but I exfoliate very gently. I look at my skin in a 50 I'm not 50. I think sunblock, but like the the 20 times magnified or 10 times whatever it is Magnified it is it's it's horrific. It's scary to look at your skin like that But that's really how I've been monitoring my skin And I know that the texture of my skin is better Have I reversed no I haven't reversed the aging process and I don't plan I don't think that'll ever happen But my texture my skin is better the overall look of my skin is better and healthier my wrinkles seem to be Better than they were but they're still there, you know, they're definitely still there and The only thing I can contribute that to is the three things that I have used to Specifically this year Well one that I added this year, but there are three products that I have can actually four products that I have consistently used and That I think has really contributed to it since 2016. I've been taking a collagen supplement powder collagen supplement I take two tablespoons every morning in my coffee. I take two tablespoons at night Collagen I drink it down. It works on the inside out It has made a huge difference in and I have very dry skin huge difference in the dryness of my skin That my retina my tretinoin absolutely hands down And then I think it's been at least the last eight months or so My CVD oil those are my three tried and true and none of that None of that would make a hill of difference if I didn't use sunblock So number four for me is a sunblock a good high-quality It doesn't have to be expensive, but when I say high-quality you want you want both the UV You know you want the total protection you want the total package to make sure and you want to reapply it so that's That's what I'm doing guys. It's it is there's no difference in my routine. Yes, I do You know I use the Olay on my eyes I mean there's different things that I that I use the rose hip seed oil but the core basic elements collagen Retin a CVD oil and my sunblock those are the four things that I have to have Every day in my life every day in my life So I hope that answers some of the questions that many of you seem to have about retin a about using it in the summertime You just have to be super smart and also those of you that have questions about buying it You know when someone says to me I can't afford retin a well, you know, even when you pay shipping You're still paying a tenth of what at least I was paying a tenth of what I'd be paying up here in New Hampshire With out with health insurance that doesn't cover it. You know what it means? So it's like It can be very affordable. So anyways, I just wanted to share that with you I'm sure this is super long and I don't want it to be that way But I did want to share that with you and thank you all so much for watching if you have any questions Leave leave them for me. I'll definitely answer them and you know I will when I get a number of the same questions over and over again, you know Especially I sometimes get them on my Instagram channel. I'll do a video talking about it So that's my retin a sort of a mini update for years in August started in 2016 prior to that nothing much, but that's my update. Thank you so much for joining me on the journey and Keep smiling guys. Thank you all so much


Our next caller is Clark from Tennessee. Hey, Clark, how can we help you? Hey, so first off, a huge fan. I really love you guys' podcasts and everything you guys do. And thank you for taking my question. So I recently finished MAP Strong. I had a lot of really good strength gains with it. I had to take a month off of lifting for a non-injury procedure. And now I'm back at it. And I want to start MAPs Aesthetic. But in order to gain some muscle and some strength to help boost my metabolism, as you guys preach on the show. But I'm also training for a triathlon at the end of July and the end of August. And I wanted to know how you guys would recommend pairing MAPs Aesthetics with triathlon training in order to still gain some muscle and some strength. OK, so I wouldn't. Conflicting goals right here, brother. Here's what'll happen. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Here's what'll happen if you do MAPs Aesthetic while training for a triathlon. You'll lose muscle, over-train, probably injure yourself. OK, so I've trained quite a few triathletes. And I know the type of training that is involved with being a triathlete and being successful at it. It's a lot of, obviously, a lot of running, biking, and swimming. And so the strength training that you're going to do to supplement that is actually quite minimal. OK, we don't want to do a lot. Most of the time you should spend training should be on those three things that you do and maybe correctional exercise to prevent injury. If you do strength training, which I think you should, I would limit it to one day a week and you would do maybe four exercises. Four exercises, a few sets each just to build overall strength. Focus on compound lifts, your general lifts. And that's pretty much it. Any more than that, if you add that to your current training, it's just going to be too much. And the closer you get to your race, the less of the resistance training you're going to do because your training for the triathlon is going to ramp up the closer you get to the competition. As that ramps up, you've got to scale back the resistance training. And at that point, and what I would do with my clients about four weeks before the event is we would stop lifting weights and only do correctional exercise. I would only do mobility work with them just to prevent injury and keep them mobile leading up to the event. Now I have a question because the only way I'd have different advice is if you answer this question different is how the triathlon, are you very serious and competitive about it or is it like something that you and your buddy just want to do for fun? It's just for fun, just more of an achievement. So something I'd be able to complete and do.  I like that idea. And I would like to continue to down that path. So, I got, I got to count, I got to counter that.  That is serious. That is serious.  So that's a lot of training just to get ready for, so here's another, I'm going to add one more question to what Adam said. What does your typical week look like getting ready for a triathlon? That'll give us more information. That'll give us the right information, I guess. Yeah, so getting ready for a triathlon. I mean, I'm able to pair maybe two exercises like a swim and a run and a day to get it down to four to five days of training a week. The training plan that I have triathlon wise recommends six days of training a week in order to get ready. Yeah, how many miles? How many miles are you running, biking and swimming throughout the week on average? So on average, probably running at least six to seven miles a week, biking, you know, range on average probably 20 miles and then swimming, you know, close to 3,000 meters a week. Yeah, I'm going to stick to what I said. Yeah, Sal's a lot. Okay, so if you're going to follow that, Sal's 100% right. The reason why I asked the question I asked is because, and by the way, I didn't do a triathlon. I did like a muddy buddy race, which is like 10K, right? 10K, but I did it with the same type of intention that it sounds like you kind of have.  They're calling me out because like, it was this big muscle bound guy that I wouldn't be able to race him and beat him.  I didn't want to change that, but I knew that if I threw in a little bit of cardio in my training, deleting up to that, I had the, I had enough to be able to hopefully win, which I did, but I didn't lose a lot of muscle, but I also didn't do a lot of cardio.  And I had enough grit in me to push through and do okay. I didn't buy any means, finish first or in the top 10 of anybody that was finishing there. So I do think that if you're like, hey, I just want to say I completed a triathlon. And so I swim one day, I bike one day, I run one day for an hour of training. I absolutely think that you can compliment that with strength training and still kind of hang on to some muscle mass and look all right. But with the regimen that you're running, the amount that you are running and biking and swimming, that is already so high that anything more than probably one day a week of strength training is going to be over. I probably wouldn't do more than one. And I would definitely focus on highlighting the posterior chain in that strength training regimen to be able to support all this anterior driven type of movement and repetitive stress.  Yeah, here's some great exercises. Your barbell squats gonna be good. The closer you get to your race, do split stance. So stop barbell squatting, do things like lunges or Bulgarian split stance squats or single leg exercises, single leg toe touches are a good exercise. Overhead carries are gonna be really good to help you with your core and your posture. Overhead presses are gonna be really good. Bench presses are fine, not a big deal. You don't need to do a ton of them, but bench presses are fine. I like rows. I like rows a lot for triathletes because it helps again with countering that forward posture that you get from running and from cycling. About pullovers, pullover, dumbbell pullovers, barbell pullovers, great exercises for the swimming portion to also help strengthen that kind of shoulder mobility at the top. So there's some exercises you can focus on. Are you doing a standard distance, like Olympic distance triathlon? Are you doing the sprint or? Yeah, so I've done a sprint before and so I'm trying to accomplish the Olympic this year. So yeah, which is quite a bit of distance. Yes, bro. That's a lot, bro. It's a little bit of a challenge. It ain't no big deal. Yeah, take it easy on yourself. One massive goal at a time. That's almost one mile swim. That was a 25 mile bike ride and then a six mile over six mile run in all one race. All right, well hey, good luck. Once a week resistance training, do correctional exercise, that's it. Don't do any more than that, okay? Don't do maps aesthetic while training forward triathlon. Do it later. All right, perfect. Sounds good. Thank you guys so much. No problem. Yeah, when you're training for an event, train for the event. This is the number one question that we get and I don't think we want your kick and eat it too. You don't even want all the things. It does. Everybody wants to be like a triathlete and look jacked and they're just conflicting goals. I went through this, when I was doing jiu-jitsu, I went through this. I trained in jiu-jitsu, loved lifting weights, didn't want to give up either one or whatever and I just over trained. Yeah, but I didn't get better until I've scaled my resistance train down to twice a week. That actually takes away from your training. That was it. You know whose fault this is? This is the media's fault. I'm gonna blame the media on this one because this is what we do. We always, we highlight the anomaly. We highlight that one runner who looks freakish or that crossfitter who looks jacked in it. Herschel Walker. Yeah, exactly. We highlight these bodies that are absolute anomalies. Dude, they're one in a million that look sick and they also train in a sport that totally conflicts with their body type. It's just you rarely ever see it and so we get these people that always have these athletic endeavors or sport-like goals that they wanna achieve while also building an incredible bodybuilding type of physique. No, it's not gonna happen. When I trained triathletes, they would train with me once or twice a week and if they came twice a week, one day a week was slow, traditional resistance training at a moderate intensity. I wasn't even going high intensity. And the other day a week was literally all mobility, stretching, massage, yeah, that kind of stuff. That was it. You put your body in a meat grinder with that pursuit. But I wanted to make sure too though because I've been there before where we, like I said, messed around and did like a muddy buddy type of race. It's 10K, you know, and it wasn't like, and I could've, like, if I really cared about winning that and that's all I cared about, I could've, I would've put my training aside and dedicated all to being one of the best racers out there. But I was like, nah, I just wanna be able to complete it. I just wanna be able to beat my friend, you know what I'm saying? I just wanna be able to beat my buddy but I still wanna be jacked.  You can't casually do a trance. No, you can't do it. Swim one mile, just do the first part. Just swim one mile. You'll drown, dude. See what happens.


JPE and it's time for John Park's workshop. Here we are in the workshop just like the sign there says right inside of the revolving larses. And I am happy to have you here today and excited to get to it and do some fun stuff in the workshop. First thing I'm going to do is actually fix, I think I put a typo in the coupon code for today. Whoops, so let me go fix this right now because today's coupon code is lemons, not lemon. Let me fix that real quick. All right, that's what it really is right there. Will this one be fixed too? No, let me fix it here too. I made two of them and I made them both wrong. If you have a problem with that try the singular version but I'm pretty sure that's right. I'm pretty sure today's coupon code is lemons. What's all this talk about a coupon code anyway? Well, if you want to get some stuff in the Adafruit store and you want to get 10% off on your way out then go ahead and head on over to Adafruit.com, head to the products section, load your card up with good stuff and by stuff I mean things, not gift certificates and subscriptions and software, those won't work, but actual things. 10% off through till midnight east coast time tonight I think is what it's set for and I am 90% sure it's lemons and not lemon. That is related to nothing other than the fact that we have a Meyer lemon tree that has a whole lot of lemons on it that I need to pick after the show and I didn't want to forget. That's a note to me. That's a note to myself. That's my to-do list. My today's to-do list is the coupon code. It won't always be that way but today it is. So what else is new? What else is happening? We don't have any rain today which is nice. We've had a couple of dry days. I think the rain is supposed to start up again soon though. So I only have one leak here in the workshop. It's over there and right now it's dry but I got to put a bucket under there and then figure out where that leak is coming from. That's a lot of fun. What else? Oh did you know we have a job board? It's right here at jobs.adafruit.com. If you head on over to jobs.adafruit.com you can look for work. You can go ahead and post a position if you're looking to hire someone and you can see here we have some position A position for someone at Adafruit. You don't see that on here but right now we have Adafruit position open for an employee resources assistant in benefits and payroll. It's full-time and I think as Phil and Amor were saying it might be okay for it to be partly remote or remote but it does have to be in New York state. I believe that's what they said but double check that. You can click on that link and find out more. It might even say let me look and see. Does this anything about partial remote work will be considered once training period has been completed but it is an on-site position so partial remote is the idea there and that's at jobs.adafruit.com so if you're looking for some work head on over there and check it out. Well let's see what else is happening. The chat if you're wondering who I'm talking to what I keep looking at over here these are the chats we have YouTube chat so hello to anyone who stops by there Dave Odessa I see is over there right now and appreciate you stopping by. The other main chat is oh gosh Todd is posting photoshoppery or he uses preview actually but it's not always that silly yeah actually kind of mostly is but here's the chat and it's at adafruit.it slash discord that'll get you the instant link it's easiest way to get on over to discord find our server there and then you can look for the live broadcast chat channel but we also have things like this right here is the general chat channel we have project help channels we have help with circuit python channels all kinds of different things to go and check out there but during the show you can head over to this one I'm going to hide that now thanks Todd and ask questions you can ask me questions you can answer other people's questions in there you can do things entirely unrelated to questions just chat that's the chat over on discord what else I've got a bunch of new guides over in learn so if you head on over to learn.adafruit.com this is it right here and if you scroll down you can always find out what new guides there are just by looking for this new guides section and click on view all and that'll take you through all the latest guides I think these are within the last 90 days is this list so you can you can check out what's been going on for for a few months here I can see lots of new boards as well as projects that have been going up up in here and my 16 step drum sequencer project is published now so you can go check that out if you want to build your own find out how that was made this will tell you tell you how I also have a show on Tuesdays which is the product pick show and on that I like to pick something new in the store or something interesting that isn't necessarily new give you a big discount on it this week is a 50% off discount and it was this one right here ESP32C3 cutie pie here's a little one minute version of that check it out the cutie pie ESP32C3 this one has both wi-fi and ble capabilities not only can you code this in arduino and in micro python but you can also use whipper snapper it is connected to my network over wi-fi I've connected up one of our little step switches here this led to turn on when I press the button on the cutie pie it's going to send a command over adafruit IO saying that I've done something now you'll see an update in my dashboard you'll also see I just got a text message and that happened really quick like within a couple seconds actually it is the cutie pie ESP32C3 uh by the way I'm getting a little error message from youtube saying it's not receiving enough uh video data to maintain smooth streaming let me know if it gets really choppy to the point where it's unwatchable and I will try to kick the server there a little bit kick the stream uh what else is going on hey uh next up why don't we why don't we uh I'll pause a moment and see uh if the stream is uh is good enough to continue without or we'll restart uh and then if it is I'll do a circuit python parsec um in very minor gear news I got two remote controls for old TVs in the mail today uh the hidden cost of finding free TVs on the side of the road is you almost always have to go and spend between usually I don't know five and ten sometimes fifteen dollars on ebay to find a proper remote control but I'm excited because one of these for this giant 32 inch panasonic has picture in picture um and you can't access that without the remote but that means I can do picture in picture which is exciting whatever happened to picture in picture seldom see that on modern flat panels why what happened to it uh hey thanks foamy guy foamy guy said that it looks like the uh the stream may be improving a little bit I don't know what's uh what's your deal there actually I think I'll blame the rain and the internet uh so let's do it let's do a circuit python parsec all right uh I pull that out of there hey there we go for the circuit python parsec today I wanted to show you how to double click a button so this is related to the same debouncer button library that we looked at last weekend inside of the debouncer library's button functionality uh not only can you look for short and long presses but you can also look for multiple short presses so what I'll do right here is when I press this button it will beep and that's if I do a single click so I got a beep I have a little pattern that's going to play if I do however a double click you'll see that it's changing the colors of the neopixels so single whoops there we go single double double single single so how you do this in code let me grab my code window there uh main thing that's happening here that's important is I'm importing the Adafruit debouncer uh button from within the aided let me say that again from the Adafruit debouncer library I'm importing button uh then I set up the button pretty much as normal it's a using digital IO uh it's a pull down resistor input input for the pin uh and then when I set this up I say button uh on this button pin I have long duration in there I'm actually not using it this time but it doesn't hurt uh and value when pressed is true which is just the direction that the button uh is going to pull or or uh up or down when it's pressed and then the key thing here is in my main loop I check for button updates as you normally do with debouncer or button if it's a button dot short count of one that means I've just pressed at a single time and when I do that I'm playing a tone uh and then I'm uh yeah I'm setting the current tone and then I'm playing that tone when it has a button dot short count that's greater than one then it's going to consider it essentially a multi-click or a double click and you can see here when I do that in my output it says okay that was a multi-click of two I'm actually counting there we go I did three six so depending on how uh granular you want to get with your interface which can be pretty tricky uh you can set up single clicks double clicks and even triple clicks sometimes those are a little hard to pull off uh and you can set different outcomes depending on the number of that shortcut uh rather that short count value and so that is how you can use multi-clicks inside of circuit python and that is your circuit python parsec all right uh I do think I see some buffering going on so getting better on youtube than twitch okay all right let me do uh let me see if I can kick this thing real quick all right we might be back up and running again uh let me know if anyone's having uh good performance on either any of the streaming uh services there and I'd be curious was the circuit python parsec part uh watchable or not because I'd love to edit that section and repost it later so let me know if it was you know I don't always sometimes I'll set this up to record to disk uh so the whole live stream is recorded to disk also which means I'll have a clean copy I don't always do that however and then I sometimes regret that I probably should always do that um if that was bad I'll even redo it oh parsec was okay so c grover okay great thank you so much uh yeah that's a pretty pretty cool feature so the fact that inside of debouncer button you can do the short click the long click and the multi-click uh you can't do multi long clicks and I believe a a long press will count as part of your short click count if you do one last one at the end because I think it it counts the press not the release but you can find all that out by the way heading over to you know here's a little bonus thing let me let me jump into a chrome window here browser window I'll show you sometimes it might not always be clear how to find out some of these little details about a library so what I'll often do is head on over to github and I think I can go to github.com slash ate a fruit uh and then from within here there's a find a repository once you're don't don't use I know sometimes there's a search up at the top that's kind of useless but once you're in a in a individual or organizations github you can use this little find a repository fairly well so I'll do I know this is part of debouncer so this will show up ate a fruit circuit python debouncer so I'll click on there uh code is here um examples are usually here and in the read me there will usually be a link to the read the docs api documentation so if the answer I'm looking for isn't just inside of the um one second this thing over here if the info I'm looking for isn't in the examples it's often where I'll look sometimes I'll look at the the library code itself but a really good idea is to head over to the read the docs so once you click that now you'll see on the left here's the api reference for debouncer and it's two sections what are these called functions the sub sub functions of them help someone tell me pho me yeah you must know so debouncer has a thingy called button and a thingy called debouncer so if I click on the button thingy section this will give you all of the api documentation and in here we have info about the parameters it'll accept so the pin short duration milliseconds if you want to define the length thank you classes these are the classes so button class of the debouncer library has a pin short duration long duration and value impressed as the inputs to it and then you can use long press to find out if you've done a long press if it's pressed if it's released and then this integer of short count that's it returns the number of short presses so you can ask for this and that's what I'm doing when I'm running that little check in my code to say hey tell me short count number if it's zero then I'll just consider it a single click if it's greater than one I'll consider it to be a multi-click and then you could make that more granular depending on what you need or doodads yeah Andy Callaway and pho me guy I think you're both right classes or doodads so the debouncer doodad called button very very helpful you can of course do all the sort of stuff with like the keypad library which is really great for a lot of things it doesn't have this functionality built in but you can as I mentioned last week you can roll your own functionality in other libraries this button's just convenient because it has it built right in all right and that is that and thanks uh thanks for the help Andy and for me I appreciate it uh hey over in the youtube chat Daniel Mitchell says hello greetings from Switzerland hello thanks for joining us from Switzerland appreciate it um DJ Devon three welcome just got in I'm gonna watch the whole thing again tonight all right so what's next um I wanted to follow up on the Pico NES uh Nintendo same attainment system emulator thing I built last week that is this um and I've got a couple updates on this one is I got a lot of wires here so I've got a controller an HDMI and a power but I just wanted to put this actually in in the down shooter I ordered a little dongle really neat little dongle version of the on the go cable whoops that controller just fell don't dangle these from a USB cable it doesn't work well well uh so let's see do I have the old one here so this is the I think it might be called a power injection on the go cable so it means that it allows you to inject power over that so that power is going into your micro controller in this case the Pico and it allows you to use a sort of client device so I can use the Pico as a host and plug in a peripheral USB peripheral in this case the controller so these are pretty cool and in some cases they may be exactly what you want but I want it to be a little smaller and so I got this do Hickey here which is pretty neat and you can get these I got two of them for like eight bucks on Amazon so this is the same exact thing just in very compact form factor so it passes power through top there to the micro controller and I believe it's also routing that power to the USB plug for the controller in this case the PlayStation controller I plugged in so kind of neat these are the two main kinds I've seen there may be others but these are pretty cool so that was one update neat little dongle these come in left hand and right hand direction ones so depending on the rest of your setup you may need it to go one way or another but I like having both now so these are convenient for certain things but that's pretty pretty nice and compact and then I got all this stuff back here I got inspired after putting that together last week to build a little design a little PCB for this thing so as you may know there is a Pimeroni PCB that does pretty much exactly what you need it just I didn't have one and it has more on it than I needed and I kind of wanted to build my own so that I could then make some changes to it so this is the setup that I have so it's really Pico pins going to the DVI breakout for the video HDMI video I added something here that I haven't tested yet but it's just a switch for the enable pin or the run pin which should allow me to turn this thing on and off just from a switch there and then the micro SD card there which allows you to have your games your your ROMs that you're going to be running so here's the schematic for this this is fritzing by the way that's what I use for the for the documentation of projects on learn guides here is the schematic of it and then this is the PCB that I designed so I'm using when you get I have a guide that I put out I think it was maybe more than a year ago which was the Pico little macro keyboard for I had it set up doing MIDI stuff but it was it goes into the details of building a PCB in fritzing including some of these parts the Pico part in particular there are two variations of this Pico part in fritzing at least when I looked at which is a while ago now so it might be more but there was a through-hole version a through-hole version and an SMD version so I'm using the SMD version here which means that it's going to be a little slimmer a little faster to solder this you don't have to solder header pins and then put it in means it's not detachable but a Pico is four dollars so I don't care and you just solder those cast-related pads right to right to the pads that'll be on the board the benefit also is a little bit easier routing you can run stuff underneath without running into holes which is where where those through holes would be and I've just put the SD card off to the the side here I have the HDMI DPI output up here it's my Pico so the USB will be off to the side hopefully I actually did this before I bought that little on-the-go dongle thing hopefully it'll still fit here without blocking the micro SD card if it if it does block it I'll switch to the other one because I have the right right angled instead of left angled one and then I put my little switch here so that I can show let's see I thought I could show the bottom layer I just make it all go away didn't like that at all oh just kind of went off to the side maybe I misclicked so this is the top view of just the top layer here's the bottom view of the bottom layer so you can see what's going on there this is mostly just a big copper ground plane so all the grounds go to it I did mention in the guide that I did for the Pico macro keyboard 21 key keyboard that there is seemingly a bug in fritzing or at least the version I'm using where it will never resolve the rat's nest lines for ground when you are using a ground plane copper fill ground plane so you can ignore those those they look like oh no you've you've forgotten to route something it's that's not the case those are routed and then I put put some mounting holes here for the PCB to go into some kind of an enclosure and then there are also some holes that just come in the footprints for our micro SD card and HDMI DVI output I put the URL on the bottom there of the project that I'm using so I remember and anyone else who wants to use this I'll post it if it works I haven't tested it yet but the exciting thing is that I think I made this on last Friday and I have five PCBs arriving sometime today for the cost of two dollars plus maybe eighteen dollars shipping so I think for twenty bucks I'll have five PCBs of this which is pretty great so I was hoping it would come in time for today's show but it didn't so I'll have a chance to put one together test it all out see what's up with it the other update is that since this project as it currently is uses USB game controllers and the USB game pad stuff is pretty finicky and specific so this was designed to accept three particular controllers one is a really hard to find iBuffalo brand USB nest slash Famicon style controller you might find one on ebay for maybe 50 bucks or more they're really hard to find the other two are a PlayStation 4 the DualSense 4 which if you happen to have awesome I do I have four of these things that's perfect so it's essentially free to me or the PlayStation 5 what they call it the dual touch controller which is probably not going to work with a clone so these are literally that one specific got to be from Sony and that's I don't know like a seventy dollar controller right so what I'm hoping is to see what it would take to uh use a separate potentially either a separate microcontroller that can be spoofed to speak the proper USB to look like say a DualSense or DualShock 4 but have a shift register input for real NES controller so I'd love to put a mount an NES controller plug on here and either another microcontroller or get the Pico if there's enough pins and memory get the Pico itself to just read the shift register of the of the controller so it'd be really nice to have this be plug and play with with a real controller oh no we're getting buffering again I hate buffering what's going on let me see if this bit rate is lower than recommended it says it doesn't look terribly lower so maybe that's better now than it was the second I go I'll let this let this hang out for a second uh so those are my plans there's a lot of owls over here today what's going on with all the owls many owls looks okay here yeah so that's the that's the board should be in sometime today according to DHL and I will probably show this next week if I get it up and running my other thought is that this may work well with some of the HDMI graphics code that jepler and paint your dragon philber just have been working on they've been testing their stuff using the pimeroni board and I may just pick one of those up too but I don't have it so if this works for that then yay I know there's more on that board than than I have here and I just don't know what of it what of it is necessary so we'll see all right so that's my update on that and I'll wait a moment to see see how uh our buffering situation is going before I move on to my next project here so give me a shout in a second here uh I'll bring up the discord in the meantime so let's see what are the what are the thoughts where did the owls come from over the ground otg ah yeah I don't know what's up with Lars back there honestly all right how is it now no buffering on on the twitter post oh hi dz thanks for watching on twitter we do broadcast there I didn't I didn't know if people were watching over there okay good well at least at least seems like we're working in some places so what I wanted to do then is talk about this um this next project so I had a project idea about making a sort of a soundboard uh using capacitive touch and I was inspired a little bit about the idea of like a speaking spell or a see and say if you remember those they look like this and fisher price has this version of it out that looks a lot like the old one it's it's a graphic design is throw back to sort of the 60s illustration style of the original uses a pull cord and when you release that it's spins the little uh spinner there and what you do is you you put that on an animal you want to hear the sound of so let's put it on duck and then when we pull this so it said there is a duck and then wherever it lands that's what the next sound is going to be so you can either just let it play roulette for you or you can place it on a specific uh animal and and pull it so uh lemor said that they have one of these and theirs is kind of super loud there's no volume control on it hard to hear though because they said the audio sounds kind of clipped um and why don't I try to take one of these apart and see if we can uh replace some of its innards and take over how it works uh which will be um I think a lot of fun so what I did is I actually got two of these uh let me jump over to the workbench there and uh I'll show you it so this other one that I got is I think it's going to end up being this the same fundamental um guts most of the mechanism and the electronics I think are going to end up being the same uh so I started with this one uh so this one I've taken apart try not to lose any parts uh it looks like this it allows you again to select your animal and then there's a lever instead of the pull cord that does I think the same thing when this reaches the bottom of its turn it presses a button and and that button that it presses is based on the location of this I'll show you how that works this one has an added feature of there's a little micro switch that allows it to have an additional 10 sounds when this gets turned and clicked into place you get another another 10 sounds um I don't think I'll need that feature for the for the vintage style one though so here's mainly what I removed which is this uh oh you don't let me see if I can bump up my exposure here hold on is that going to work nope um so when this gets pulled this spring which I detached is connected to this piece of gearing mechanism and when that reaches the base is when it triggers the sound and then the spring pulls this back up and that little uh governor and and uh and mechanism causes this to spin it's got a little weighted flywheel kind of thing on there uh but the part we care the most about is how does it actually trigger a sound so I've taken this apart enough to start tapping into the button mechanism so I won't be able to run it fully right now but essentially this is the electronics that do everything it's got two double a batteries for power it has a little speaker down here the micro controller on here power management stuff these are little copper traces that are the switches which get pressed just like a pretty much like any video game controller or rubber dome keyboard which is one of these rubber domes with the carbon pill uh down at the bottom let me zoom in a bit closer and focus on this piece here uh so these things press one of these 10 buttons um so normally this is in here and then the PCB is on top of it uh so what happens is when this lever gets depressed you'll see one of these if I'm if I'm applying pressure which is how it would normally be that board is holding in place you'll see just that let me put it at an angle just that one pill there is getting pressed it's actually that right there now the choice of which one is getting pressed is based on this piece of plastic which is tied to the position of the arrow so if we point the arrow at the duck or whatever that's the button that gets pressed and then this thing spins and goes about its way so it gets out of the way so it just presses the button once and then it goes and spins um so that means pressing these will cause the circuit to uh to make a sound so what I did was I first tested that out so I just pulled it apart and I and I just shorted those actually with a piece of metal that works as do these little carbon pills here on the on the silicone button pad this really conveniently see is that the closest I can get yeah really conveniently has test points right next to each of the little copper what are these called I'm going to call them do that too these copper traces that are bridged by the the rubber domes so I call those the switches basically so these copper switches each have a test point next to them and then there's a an inner common here so half of those teeth are on the common side that run to vcc and so this vcc then normally goes into the rest of the circuit does uh lets the microcontroller in there under that epoxy blob know which one has been pressed so what I did was I couldn't use those while vcc was connected into this circuit which it's connected in two places into the circuit so I cut a trace and it's it's I'll I'll write this up in a guide but essentially you'll see that inner row there has a little cut cut mark that I put in right here because that's where it at this sort of t-junction that whole inner row of vcc runs left up this side of the board and right up this side of the board initially I tried just cutting it here didn't realize oh yeah it's going two places so so now it's out of that circuit means that we have essentially infinite resistance when there's no continuity when when no buttons are being pressed when they get pressed it's it's the copper pill is maybe like 60 ohms of resistance or something like that so that's easy to detect with a microcontroller so what I've done is you can see I soldered some thin bodge wire to some of these test points so I have test point five here which is this first button and I have that running into pin three on this metro I have another one actually my code doesn't check it yet so I'll actually detach that for clarity then the other one is the vcc so the the vcc line there is essentially my common I have that running to three volts on my metro and then I can use I think I'm using the bouncer to check and see if one of those gets pressed so let me grab a proper usb cable and plug this in over here and show you it working and then we can take a look at the code and some ideas of further plans with it and I am gonna go ahead and check discord on my phone just so I can see if we have any streaming issues since I was having some before let's see okay good right so let me know if there's any issues so let's see I think something's up because this should be showing me there we go I just had to reset it so I have this displaying a red on the onboard neopixel I just have it displaying red under normal conditions when nothing has been pressed and then if I take just one of these little carbon pills here and I'll I'll sort of refit this into place a little bit I won't put it down perfectly so now you should see when I press this first button the microcontroller can register that so essentially at this point the guts of the c and say are severed from this nice little button pad and so I should be able to just read all 10 of those and like I'll use a microcontroller that has enough GPIO that I can keep that simple I should work with maybe a cutie pie more likely since I want to do other stuff although it might be over I squared C might not I'll probably put a feather in here or a kb2040 or something like that so what I want to do is I want to be able to read these button presses which is all that this will do again there's no motor in here so spinning that's nothing I have to worry about that's all just the spring loaded mechanism with the flywheel to govern the speed and when I move that arrow it'll it'll tell which button to press I'll be able to read that on a microcontroller and then I will try to just reuse this speaker that came with it which has a nice sort of soundboard arrangement it presses into this slot here and then it has a under tension of this plastic this is screwed into here and it's pressing it down really nice and hard which means it uses the whole cavity as a soundboard to to vibrate and essentially amplify the sound it sounds really tinny when you take it out sounds nice when it's when it's in nicer so I'll probably just desolder that speaker from here and run that through a little i2s amplifier so my microcontroller will need to do i2s so so maybe a feather maybe not might feather might be overkill Lamar asked me to check and see if I can get away with maybe using a boost converter and powering it off of these two double a's which would be great that means the you could put this together and it would look like nothing has changed about it but I'll be able to play my own wave files so I'll use circuit python and audio io to play back wave files and might mix it up a little bit might not be the same cow and duck and pig that we're used to so wait and see but this right here I kind of think this was the hardest part was just figuring out all right wake up metro figuring out how to how to tap into this with minimal invasion so I didn't need to add tax switches or read the position of it with some other kind of sensor like a hall effect sensor nothing fancy necessary I'm so thankful this is actually a really easy to use reuse actually this little guy here also absolutely useless coincidence but kind of fun anyway the spacing of these 10 buttons happens to be a really nearly perfect match for circuit playground express for the leds so if you look at where the neopixels are on a circuit playground express and you look at where these little pills are they happen to line up there's nothing I can do with that but I thought that was just kind of funny I looked at it I was like wow that's a really familiar pattern of 10 where it was probably closer to a perfect 12 with the 12 o'clock and 6 o'clock pulled out which is pretty much what our pattern is there so I'll try I'll see that might make a cute diffuser of some kind if you remove the the black carbon pills of that you get a kind of nice little silicon diffuser could be fun so that's that so that's what I'll be doing with it this is the the one I'm gonna do it to though once I get it proved out with the other one will cow will be saying new things by the time we're done might be fun to sample the the farmer there who does all the talking or whoever that is and have him have him introduce other sounds yeah you may have also by the way I think there may have been versions of this in maybe the 90s that were circuit bendable I feel like I've heard circuit bent versions of C speaking spells at least not sure about these there's also a sound garden song that has like a massively slowed down terrifying version of of that I'm one of the early albums but this one yeah nothing to and actually I'll say I haven't looked at the history of the sea and say but I wonder if the earliest ones were like some other pole toys that had essentially a kind of a sound disc like a record that they were playing I think some some early pole string toys were actually playing a form of a tiny phonograph like thing I'm not sure if the sea and say did or not all right so let's see what else is going on discord and and YouTube stream was stalling but now it was back thank you thanks Dave Odessa for for answering that when I was asking let's see touch button might be a name of it regardless of it being capacitive or not that might be called touch buttons or touch sensor there's ducks all right DJ Devon I love to be able to use HDMI or circuit Python not sure if that's an unrealistic expectation or if custom you have twos are able to do that kind of on the dune though oh actually yeah that is that is actually working it's in it's in works it's not released yet although if you scroll back in the feed here look for just search for Jepler his messages last night or look at the show and tell he has code that will allow you to run Adafruit graphics I think I'm one Pico using circuit Python talking to another one to feed it display I O stuff and then the second Pico is sending DVI so I think we're we're inching towards maybe it's faster than inching towards being able to run DVI or HDMI out of a circuit Python device which is fantastic really cool all right there's nothing else I'll thank you all so much for stopping by I will remind you that this may be today's coupon code I'm nearly certain that it's not just lemon I think it was lemons and that'll get 10% off in the stores ahead on over to Adafruit.com throw some stuff in your cart and on the way I'll look for the coupon code field type in lemons it yells at you and that doesn't work make it lemon pretty sure it's lemons and I am now reminded to go pick some of our Meyer lemons off the tree when I finish up here today thanks everyone I will see you on Tuesday with another product pick of the weeks to so tune in tomorrow there should be a deep dive with foamy guy and possibly other stuff stay tuned on our blogs or type in question mark show times in discord to see what's planned generally speaking thanks everyone for Adafruit Industries I'm John Park this has been John Park's workshop bye bye


Soft dudes with attitudes Kinda prove it They've been in mellow Welcome everybody to another web show It is a very 90s-tastic web show today Meg is ready You may remember a show from the 90s called California Dreams And today I am lucky enough to be speaking to Jay Anthony Franke who played the very hardcore and very tough but very soft and vulnerable Jake Summers The show was brilliant, Jake Summers was brilliant, the music was brilliant Yes, you can buy the CD So I won't dilly-dally too much Ladies and gentlemen, Jay Anthony Franke Jay Anthony, thank you so much for chatting today I'm so excited to have you on the web show California Dreams was one of the biggest shows of the 90s And it's loved by so many today What was it like? Is it like to be part of something so iconic? Well, first of all, just the fact that we still have fans 30 years on We still have people saying, hey, I love what you did Or hey, you made my life better Or hey, you know, and I'm like, I made your what? I did what? How? What thing did happen?  Had you given yourself a time frame to achieve certain goals Or were you not putting too much pressure on yourself? Yeah, I feel like you're giving me way too much credit For the age I was at And I had plans and I wanted to accomplish things But I don't think I was capable of making long-term goals In fact, I'm certain I was incapable of making long-term goals I tended to view things as, hey, this is just kind of what's happening right now And this is what I'm doing and we'll see where I'm at tomorrow So I kind of had no goals per se Other than I don't want to do a regular job Which I'm doing now And I was right back then Yeah, just before I got this Before I got the iconic role of Jake Summers on the iconic California Dreams I had also gotten the role, I won't say which role But a role on a movie with John Waters was directing I called my manager and he said, I've got two calls in And you've got a job on this movie and you've got a job on this show So the problem is you have to pick one In retrospect, I would have liked to have argued for doing both But I was just kind of like, oh, I got to pick one, okay And we were talking about it and it was just like, okay The path I want to take is the one where I'm working next year And this is a series And who knows what's going to happen with this movie You just don't know, so this is a series It's possible this could go 10 years It's possible it could end next year But it's more than likely it'll go at least another four or five years Which I'm lucky for The path after the show was more of a self-preservation path I had to actually just kind of step away Just for my own sanity and health It kind of seems these days to be famous is a career goal Of its own for kids and teenagers And you developed this level of fame so quickly And so young What was that really like? What was it like to be that famous seemingly overnight?  I don't know So what was it like when you found out that you could start going shopping again And go to Disneyland again? Was it sad in a way? Or was it a bit of a relief? It was both It was like, oh, this is nice And at the same time you're like, aww Aw, and then, you know, it's funny Somebody had remarked It was actually a couple years ago We had gone to a restaurant or something And a young woman who was the hostess at the restaurant Or something was extremely rude to me And somebody jokingly said Oh, they only knew that she was You know, who she was talking to back in the day Or if this had been back in the day She'd be, and I kind of thought about it I was like, ugh It's such a weird thing, fame There's a sadness when it goes There's a, oh wow, this is awesome when it's there Honestly, if I was to decide to get back into the business now I would like some sort of like Assemblance of, in between Just, you know, I'm doing my job And oh, hey, yeah, I'm having dinner Thank you, all right For me, one of the reasons California Dreams stood out from other shows At the time was the actual musical talents of the cast And you were, and still are, an amazing guitar player Did you have a chance to talk about your character, Jake Before filming to try and incorporate those talents Into the character at all? Well, the character was originally supposed to play guitar I remember the original script that I was auditioning with said Oh, I can't sing, I sound like a screech owl Or something like that And then I sang for the producer, Peter Engel And I think it was my second audition And he went, oh, he can sing, so all right We'll make it so Jake can sing I had already gotten the part But then I went into the studio They wanted to see what my voice sounded like And basically I just don't think I sounded poppy enough But if you listen to Leather and Loose He's singing and playing live I do remember that Ron Solomon Who wrote the Leather and Loose song Came up to me at the end of it Because he had just showed me how to do it real quick and took off And he came up to me at the end of filming And he said, oh, that was awesome I didn't think you had it in you But then the other stuff is The incredibly talented Barry Coffing Doing Jake's voice You can definitely tell There's a different dude singing Between some of the other songs and that And there's other times I've sang too Brentley also sang on the show live A few times as well But yeah, they talked about it It was implemented I did play guitar here and there Did sing once, twice, three times I think The cast of California Dreams Famously reunited on the Jimmy Fallon show In 2012 It's a great video What was that like and how did that all happen Come out to Australia Had been living here two years And then I got a call saying Hey, do you want to do a Jimmy Fallon He's doing a California Dreams reunion Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the cast Of California Dreams I think I jokingly said what They couldn't get saved by the bell and it turned out that was the case They even brought Mr. Belding Played by Dennis Haskins on To be part of the bit Dennis, you weren't In California Dreams Don't you remember my catchphrase Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, what is going on here And that was fun, it was good to see everybody Got to see some family while I was there as well Just flew into New York First thing I did was I got off the plane Got a huge New York pizza Because pizza here in Australia is different And then yeah, we filmed the bit And it was a great time Jimmy Fallon was awesome It was really good to see everybody And now you came from Australia I came out from Australia, yeah, very cool My pleasure, I moved to Australia Married my sweetheart Tracy and Just finished filming a pilot That I created and we'll see where that goes I think I saw Kelly's youngest daughter when she was That big And she had just had her So I had witnessed her as a young child Yeah, it was a good time and good to see everybody Have you seen many of the cast Since that reunion and could we Possibly look forward to a 2023 reunion They did do a I should say we but I wasn't there Did do a pop-up Sharkies Concert slash meet and greet I couldn't make it I think it was just the beginning of Covid Or something I talked to Jenny Kwan Probably most, she's still very lovely And awesome Michael and Brent Lee and William here and there And Aaron, but yeah, no, I'm in Australia So California dreams has been Such an important part of so many Childhoods in teen years Myself included, of course But what did you watch growing up What is your California dreams Wow, Kung Fu with David Carradine Every time he walked into place And they would start like, hey boy What are you doing, we're gonna kick your ass He'd just be like, I wish to harm no one I will stand for you And then he'd just be whooping everybody's ass It was like as a kid, this is great I think there was MB3 With Richard Blade Which was basically MTV before MTV And it was like an hour of Music television that you'd race Home from school to get to see And it was just the first music video With Erica 100, you know, the video killed the radius The whole deal Silver Spoons was a big deal That was with that Rick Schroeder Well, I'm sorry, Ricky Schroeder And Erin Gray Used to have a crush on her when I was a kid She's still looking great Wow, that's so long ago I'm a huge fan of Mash Even as a kid, I loved it, I love it as an adult If it's on, I don't care if it's five minutes left I'll watch it, 30 seconds left I'll watch it, so yeah, Mash was definitely The big one Definitely one of my favorite shows of all times Taxi Especially Andy Kaufman's stuff As Laka Gravis And Jim Magnatowski who got the I think it's the longest, still the longest Laugh ever in a sitcom Doing the The DMV skit, I don't know if you've seen that Lloyd is playing a Reverend Jim And he's in the DMV taking his driver's test And he has to get it because he's a taxi driver So he has to pass this test And they're all there to help him And he's cheating, he's like What do you do? Oh no, he says what does a yellow light mean?  Slow down Okay Light D Slow down Okay Whoa One of the things I really like about your Instagram Is that you were clearly a dog lover Meg had to come and join and say hello And you are an advocate for Adopting rescue dogs Why is that important to you? Dogs can speak For themselves if you listen Or if you feel it Too many people don't and can't Or won't or whatever it is So Because they, so many people will not hear them Or Or even care, I just feel like it's important to I think part of it is not Just Dogs, I think it's like All animals They all need a voice, like You just look around the world and we're just If there's a hell For animals Here And we're at stewards We are the stewards Of hell, we are the caretakers Of hell for most animals on this planet We treat them like absolute shit Dogs It just so happens Look to us for much more than just Food So I don't know I just feel like I have to Say something, I have to speak up somehow And It's weird, like sometimes I'm like I really want to be putting all this It's depressing stuff It is depressing and I really want to Put this on my Instagram Talk to my wife about it and she's like Yeah, yeah, I do And at the same time, I don't want to depress people But at the same time, I have a voice It's not as loud as it used to be Or I'm sorry, it doesn't come across To as many people as it used to be But it still comes across a bit So I use it when I can and how I can How many dogs do you have? This is Shirley, by the way Say hi, she holds We have the two But that's also because most councils in Australia Especially in the suburbs Don't allow you to have any more than two Without special permission So we have two, if we could We'd have more We do plan on at some point Moving a little more rurally And then according to the wife We're going to have cows and chickens and pigs And 50 dogs and All kinds of crap So we'll see how that goes So what has your life been like Since California Dreams ended? Are you enjoying Australia? I walked away from the business On purpose I actually just said I got to go for a bit I was young I partied a lot Like a rock star, basically It was fun, but at the same time I was getting to a point where I was Not stopping I wasn't finding a balance between The party life and the regular life I walked away and then I started working In tech Working for video game development And publishing companies Did that for a very long time Then met Tracy and moved to Australia In 2008, there's actually An entire day of my life Lost, moving here The 28th Of October 2008 Didn't Does not exist for me at all I got it back when I went back for Jimmy Fallon And then I lost again When I came back And then I went back in 2016 To visit friends and family And do a little like six week Or eight week or whatever tour around the states And got it back And then came back and lost it again Unless I moved back That day will forever be lost to me As long as I keep coming back here Anyway, so yeah, got here And then I got A job working in video games Here again And now I'm not in video games anymore And I'm working for another tech company Doing some other stuff It's been good Australia is A very nice place I like I do, yep It's definitely an acquired taste For some people, I get it, but I like Guinness So it makes sense That I would like something like Vegemite Oh, I also like Scotch So yeah These things, yeah I like the good shit, so I can understand why The Bud Light drinkers wouldn't like something like Vegemite And then what else? There's really cool flora and fauna here One of the things I noticed When I moved to Australia was The Flora, it was just Even in places where Shit's been torn down And they replanted stuff, like 20, 30 years ago It still looks pretty primeval And it looks pretty old It's just a very different feeling here But how are you with Australian spiders? I don't have a problem with spiders I like them, actually I'm actually, because My wife is vegan I trap and Remove Dangerous spiders, other spiders You can be my roommate, I don't care So most spiders just get to live If I see them, you're fine But if it's something that's viciously venomous How am I, alright You get to move outside The wife used to want to kill spiders But now she's like, oh, okay, we gotta Yeah, she's gotten to A point where She's like that, and then also Snail-like snakes, too, so this is a great place If you could go back And give your pre- Jake Summers Self one piece of advice Knowing what you know now, what would That piece of advice be? Set a career path, like we talked about Earlier, set a career path Save your money Set clearly defined Goals Stick to them Stop partying so frickin' much All kinds of things Like, I'm Basically everything that happens Is just a journey to become who you are now And that's great Cause I do like who I am now At the same time, I would like myself Just as much if I had A lot of money now, too Or If I had allowed my career To pan out in a different way And I allowed it to Instead of going in Nuts like I did So, yeah, I would I don't know that I would listen to the advice I was giving myself Cause I was pretty stupid Back then, but But, yeah, that'd be the advice I would give Whether I would listen to it or not, I have no idea Have you managed to master the Australian accent yet?  I'm like First of all, you guys make sounds Nobody else in the world makes Second of all, every one of you Sounds different Than the guy next to you And it's so different, and you live in the same city And you were born and raised in the same city But you men sound extremely different In their accents than women They have different inflections For things they do Oh, what is it? Home and no Oh, nay I'm getting hanged I like, nay, I like There's just such weird shit Like it's so hard at the same time Like it's a great accent, love y'all Sorry, I'm not insulting anybody It's a very difficult accent to master So no, I have not Here, I'll tell you a quick story When I first moved here I went to a party And The C word is pretty much thrown around here As both a Projorative And a term of Endearment And I went to this party and after a while These two blokes cooked their arms And they were drunk as shit And they were like, ah, John, you're a mad gun And I was like Thanks And then I could see that they were like, oh, this is a good thing So You can beat that out or whatever I don't know, but anyway I still like, when I say it, I'm like I've actually coined the word twint Just so I can say Something close without And mix it together And it doesn't sound as bad in my American Friends' sensibilities are not so wrecked When I say something, anyway So They said that to me And so I was like, okay, it's a term of Endearment, I guess So then I went to the store And I was driving, I was pulling into A parking lot And I'd say she was about middle aged Younger than I am now I'd say she was about 35, 40 She wasn't even near the crosswalk She was just getting close, getting to it And I'm starting to go through it And she yells out, yeah And I just was like, thanks And drove on And I was like, oh no, she didn't mean, oh, okay Yeah, all right, that was the bad one So what is next for you? Are we gonna see you on our screens again? I've been kind of talking to some people And kind of looking at some stuff And It's a possibility That That May happen I'm kind of doing some small Auditions here and there for some stuff Whether that happens or not We'll see I did do a Potential pilot Where I played Chief Anderson Which is basically like the What's his freaking name? Who is the boss In X-Files? I haven't seen it since the 90s But I think it was Walter Skinner And he's Yeah, so I was playing, I played that part For this thing, hopefully they can Shop that around, get it picked up by Netflix or something Something, some Company that's not fucking around with accounts And passwords and all that And get us Making the show, at the same time If it does get picked up Just because I was in That thing doesn't mean that they'd want Me for Another thing that they buy and produce They might be like, hey, that's great Let's get it with everybody, but that dude That's a possibility as well We'll see, I don't know Looking at it, haven't really Delved back into it yet But it's a possibility Jay Anthony, thank you so much for taking the time It's been an absolute pleasure And I really do hope we get a 2023 California Dreams reunion Maybe something we can cover on the web show You never know, Meg's excited Please everyone follow, like, subscribe, comment All of those fun things Because we have some more web shows coming up soon So stay tuned But in the meantime See you later