Okay, so I've got a money back guarantee here on this talk, and this is the point where my lawyer friends remind me that this is a free event, so there's no money back. You're not getting anything back from me. I know. So you can leave. It's fine. We're going to talk about ET. We're going to go there. We're going to talk about aliens. This is my preview of the whole talk here, my little pictographic representation we're going to talk about.  The idea here, we want to get people interested in this problem. In this case, you are people, and so I want to get you interested in this problem because we need support, and in grown-up land, support means money, right? This is what grown-ups reference to be support. If we have people and we have support, then we will be able to use fancy computers and algorithms to use telescopes to search for signals that might originate from aliens. That's where we're going. Before we go there, I want to reflect for a minute. It seems like a good moment to reflect standing up here. Two and a half years ago, exactly, I was standing right here and in this picture. I had shorter hair. I gave a talk at Astronomy on TAP. It's been a while. I gave a talk about misinformation in science, trust in science, trust in media, BS on Twitter. I tried to end that talk on a hopeful note. You don't want to bum people out while they're drinking beer. I tried to end this talk on a hopeful note saying if we pitch it in together, we can restore trust. We can get rid of this spam that populates Twitter. We can get people to trust vaccines and trust the weathermen. I was wrong. If anything, the last two and a half years have shown me is this is a much larger problem than we speculated together here at Astronomy on TAP. I love this emoji. This is a weary face. I use it more often than I thought I would. This is my bad. I thought we had this under control. Obviously, we did not. Sorry about that.  That seems like a safe bet. We're going to talk about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. This is not a topic that a lot of astronomers like to talk about. It's a topic that the internet really likes and that the history channel really likes with people who say aliens. So thank you for roasting me there, Tyler. This is known as SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. You're all smart. SETI, SETI. We're going to talk about SETI. And I'm going to make a bold prediction to you here. That's not that bold. I'm going to make a bold prediction that in the next 10 years, we're going to do more SETI, more searching for aliens than we've done ever. Certainly in the last 60 years, which we would call the modern astronomy era, we're going to do more in the next 10 than anybody has ever done in all of history. We're going to make the first serious attempt at this. This is my bold prediction because I'm trying to will this to happen. I'm trying to sell this to you so that you'll support us. SETI is not the search for little green men. Not the search for Martians. I mean it kind of is or else we wouldn't be talking about it. But it's not. SETI is a search for life. SETI is looking up and wondering. SETI is what my inner 8-year-old reminds me of when I do this job. It is a search for life. Now astronomy loves the search for life. NASA loves the search for life. Totally sellable. Congress will fund it. It's great. We launched JDBS T. It's all about it. It's great because they have this great branding. They have this great branding of this thing called biosignatures. The whole field of astrobiology is looking for biosignatures. Signatures of life, of biology. This is like looking for cow farts in nearby planet atmospheres. Methane, things like that. If you find methane or phosphine or whatever, there must be biology going on. And thus life. And thus, because of cow farts, we're not alone. It's great branding. SETI has a branding problem, I think, mainly. I'm not the only one thinking this. And about 10 years ago, we got a little better at this. And we invented our own term called technosignatures. And I love this term. We've already seen it. We've seen it today in the trivia. Technosignatures. Signatures of life that originate from technology. Now, a UFO landing in the middle of downtown would be a really strong technosignature. We would obviously be like, well, that's something. We would get that. But there's a lot of other things as the trivia alluded to. The night sky glow from city lights, cow farts are not one of them. But if you could see the cows, if you could see the ranches from space, lights from cities, radio emissions from airports, these are all technosignatures. Here's the bummer part. SETI is almost totally unsupported in the United States. And whoo, whoo, cheer for that. Get out of here. Almost totally unsupported. In terms of topics that we, again, support for grown-ups means money. Topics that the US government, the taxpayers are willing to fund, SETI ranks very low. Fair enough, it doesn't solve a lot of real world problems. But it shouldn't be at the bottom. It shouldn't be zero. And so let's spend a minute to talk a little about history. This guy, Bill Proxmire, is a complicated figure in our history. He was the longest-serving Democrat from the great state of Wisconsin. He had a very white guy thing he liked to do, which is he liked to hand out awards that he invented and given to people and trophies. It's a very self-aggrandizing thing to do. And he handed out these awards he called the Golden Fleece. And the Golden Fleece Awards were things that he thought were fleecing the US taxpayer and we should get rid of. And this became like, you did not want to gold it. Military generals did not like Bill Proxmire's Golden Fleece Award. You did not want one of these because you're funding, but go to zero. And he, in the late 80s, NASA was getting ready to fund a big mission, a big radio survey that was going to be dedicated towards SETI. Like we had done a bunch of work in the 60s and people said, this is a good idea. There's good ideas, there's good science. We can test this. We can do this grand thing and look for a science of life. And Bill Proxmire said, let's not do that. He said, goal and goose for you. This is all gonna go towards this quote here. He says that this is the best argument for chopping NASA's funding to the bone, which is a major bummer. If you're sitting here, there's better than even odds. You like space. Zero NASA funding, not so great. Not a penny for this nutty fantasy, he says. This is not great. Now, again, he's a complicated guy. He voted for the Civil Rights Act. I'm pro-civil rights act, that's great. Carl Sagan got a meeting with him after this and managed to talk him off the proverbial cliff about this and chilled him out. And he said, okay, okay, we'll relent. You can have some of that funding back. And NASA was able to move forward. I just broke their mouth, that's classic. There we go. This is the guy who watches Neil Armstrong, Man on the Moon and says like, ah, that's a bit expensive, right? Like, and then takes a big glass of like warm milk. This is Bill Proxmire. But he chills out. Carl Sagan does his thing, wears his turtleneck, kind of sways him. Yeah, shout out to turtlenecks. Shout out to Carl Sagan too. So about 10 years later in the early 90s, NASA's like, great, okay, we've got some money. We're gonna do this setty thing. We're gonna do it, we're gonna look. We're gonna use radio telescopes. It's gonna be great. And then, Dick Bryan from Nevada says no and puts the big kibosh on it. Layed in the game and kills this Bill and says, this hopefully is the end of Martian hunting season at the taxpayer's expense.  Like this effectively not only kills this specific project, but this starts 20 years of NASA and the NSF and all the government agencies not funding SETI. This ruins SETI funding for a generation. And this is a major bummer. From the dude who represents the state that gambles as their number one export. Like, rolling dice is what they do, but this is too high a risk. We can't look up and wonder. This bums me out. And so as a result, it's not entirely true, but as a result, SETI has almost entirely survived on private funding and private initiative. A lot of astronomers with professional funding, i.e. NASA or NSF money, do it on the side. Maybe one paper every year gets published here and there. There have been something like five PhDs ever in like the last 50 years. Five PhDs on SETI as a result. And maybe six this year, because there's no funding. This is a bummer. So I've bummed everybody out. Great, take a drink. Because there's a little bit of hope. There's a little bit of hope on the funding, on the support end. And that is that there have started to be, well, richer private funding people, people who have more money than just, we can pass the hat around. And if you wanna give me 20 bucks to look for aliens, that's great. But that's not gonna go that far. But people with a little bit deeper pockets have been getting interested in the game. And NASA and NSF have actually relented a little bit. And people have talked a little sense into them, saying this is a real thing. We're trying to actually ask real science questions. And so we can measure that success by the number of logos that are showing up across the field. Yeah, it's clearly a major success. So NASA has done Astrobiology Institute. This is not just technosignatures, this is also biosignatures, it's mostly biosignatures, because it has bio in the name. But the fact that NASA's making studying life, it's like number one thing going forward. That's awesome. Biosignatures in NASA, this is good. This gives us a window to look for life through technology. Penn State, a fine institution, has an entire institute now, devoted to this. Berkeley, just down the coast, has an institute related to SETI. The SETI Institute, which evolved from private funding, continues to be a thing. And NASA itself held a technosignature workshop in 2018. Like this is huge. The workshop was sort of thrown together quickly. And actually there's a wonderful paper that came out of it that's super dry and boring. And that's what you want. You want the business of astronomy to be done. You want a good boring report to come out so that we can all think about it. This is good. The number of logos is increasing. As Meredith talked about, a new era of astronomy is here. Here's a really cheesy logo from clip art. The era of computer, you've heard of, and internet, you've probably heard of. These are a new era in astronomy. We just heard in the last talk this amazing survey that's going to map the night sky, all this work in the radio that's going on, and all this being distributed by the internet. This is amazing. And here, I think, is a genuine opportunity. And this is what I'm working on with some students, and this is what I'm here to sell to you today. So here's a review for the last product. The Legacy Survey of Spacing Time, a 10-year mission on the Vera Rubin Observatory. This telescope is eight and a half meters in diameter. Almost 30 feet in diameter. This telescope would fill this tent, just the telescope. And then it's in a giant dome on top of a mountain. This is an amazing, enormous facility. This is a humongous telescope. This puts it in the top five or so telescopes in the whole world, maybe the top eight telescopes in the whole world. It's a massive piece of glass moving around, robotic mapping the sky. Okay, you've got six colors. Astronomers are black and white, interesting, fun fact. And so we've got six colors. We've got basically ultraviolet, blue, green, yellowish, reddish, and near-infrared, something like that. We've got six colors across the most invisible spectrum. It's a 10-year mission, 17 billion stars, mostly in the southern part of the sky. Here's our sky map. And 20 terabytes a night, right? So Meredith and her team are creating this fire hose that we're trying to sip out of that's gonna give us this incredible wealth of data from the Rubin Observatory. I am thrilled about this for every strong reason possible. Specifically, one area that really excites me is the so-called alerts that Rubin will publish. So one of the design specs for Rubin is within 60 seconds of every image being taken. So they've got this camera. I don't know if you appreciated this in that last talk. The camera, the size of the camera is like as tall as I am. Like, it's an massive camera. It is like three feet across. It's humongous camera, the biggest camera in the world. Every, within 60 seconds of the shutter closing on that camera, that image is downloaded, is processed, is compared to an archival reference and anything that has moved or changed or in any way different than that archival image is then cataloged, compared to that catalog and then published to the internet within 60 seconds. This is nuts. This is a true fire hose. 10, one to 10 million of these things going bump in the night every night. This is wild, right? And this is real time, open to essentially everyone. You can drink from the fire hose yourself. I like this image. I like the, this is from a workshop in Tucson a few years ago. I like this rainbow of data coming in and then beaming out to all the other telescopes. The broadcasting out, it reminds me of the rainbow bridge in Thor, which I think is really cute. And I just saw the new trailer for the Thor movie, so that looks cool. So the alert pipeline in particular. Fascinating data set. And so I go back to my prediction. Talk about this massive data set. SETI needs to learn how to use this. SETI traditionally has been radio telescopes for lots of reasons. We have a fire hose that's gonna be broadcasting data every night. We need to learn how to drink from this because this is where the action's happening. The computers are here, the data's here. We need to learn how to use it. We're gonna do more SETI with this data in the next 10 years and it's been done in the past 60. Okay, so what are we looking for? How does SETI work in a modern astronomy context? We're looking for outliers. We're looking for things that are unexplainable. So the boring description is that anything that can't be explained by natural astronomy, this is things that stars do, or natural physics processes. And as a professional astronomer, let me tell you something about stars. They're super duper annoying. Stars do all kinds of noxious things. This is super duper hard. We're looking for lighthouses, right? It's easy to imagine we're looking for a spaceship landing in the middle of the city. That's easy to picture, but that's probably not what's going to happen. But think about a lighthouse. Think about if you were a bird and you saw a lighthouse, you would be like, what is this thing that's blinking at me? I have no context for why it's blinking at me, and yet it's blinking. If you were a sailor, if you just bought a boat today and when sailing and didn't know what a lighthouse was, you'd be like, oh cool, somebody put a strobe light out, and then you would crash into the rocks because you didn't have any frame of reference. But you'd probably be able to intuit that like a person put it out there. If you had a similar level of intelligence technology as the people who built the lighthouse. Think about lighthouses, think about runway landing strips, other things that we do that broadcast lights and information. A lighthouse does not contain an awful lot of information, right? It's not like your phone, it's not Morris code, right?  That's all a lighthouse does. It's very simple. If you didn't know what a lighthouse does, that's all it does, it just blinks at you. It's not a incredibly information dense signal. You have to know what you're thinking when you're broadcasting, like, huh, why are they blinking a light at me? Do they want me to come towards them? No, the answer is no. You need to go away from lighthouses. Okay. We're thinking about lighthouses that people might build around stars. Pros and cons here. There's a lot of stars, 17 billion stars is a lot. This is a lot to draw from, I like this. This is job security, lots of stars to search. Good. Again, stars kind of screw balls. Stars change their brightness. Stars blink at us. Stars have other stars that go around them to make them do funny things. Stars age, stars explode, stars have dust.  They're very pesky, they're very obnoxious and they can fool us into thinking of the tricky things that are happening. So it's a pro and a con. We got a lot of them, but they're really obnoxious. We're looking for a needle in a haystack. This is another analogy, right? But it's not a needle in a haystack, right? It's a needle in a haystack made of needles being dumped out of a truck on the highway and you're trying to search for the needle, right? Like, it is a multi-dimensional changing problem with time. It's a very difficult problem.  We don't know how often we need to look at the space to see the light blink. We don't know how much space we need to look to find the lighthouse. We don't know how faint the lighthouse is or how far away it is or what color the lighthouse bulb is. Is it blue? Is it red? Is it infrared? Is it radio? We don't know. And there's all kinds of other things. There's something like eight or nine dimensions to this haystack that we're searching and we don't know what we're looking for. Jill Tarder is the most famous and impactful study astronomer in the last 50 years. Carl Sagan, good to. Jill Tarder, she likened this problem to studying the Earth's oceans by sampling a cup of water.  That's how much we have searched so far. This is how much of the haystack we have searched of this whole volume. This is an incredible volume to try to infer something from 12 ounces. This is a hard problem. Now, we've gotten better. That was 2000, so 20 years later. We're doing a little better. We have bigger radio telescopes. There's some more private money coming in. NASA's putting a little bit of money into this. We have gotten to something like a hot tub compared to the Earth's oceans. Hot tub good, hot tub good. Like you could catch a fish in a hot tub and like, oh, there's actually life in this thing. Yeah, yeah, I mean you could learn a lot about the oceans with one hot tub's worth of ocean. If you were trying to study whales, you'd be in trouble, right? And so again, what I'm selling here is this idea that we're gonna do an incredible amount of work. We're gonna revolutionize this by studying a swimming pool's worth. This is the revolution we're trying to build. You could actually catch a whale in a swimming pool. I think this is the selling point. With new surveys, with new technology, with software, we think we can get to something like the volume of a swimming pool as compared to the volume of the Earth's ocean. This is still a bleak reality, right? This is a huge haystack we gotta search. And we only have a swimming pool or two's worth of water. That's tough. But it's something, it's the right direction. So we could either be very lucky, right? We could be lucky. Our spaceship could show up and steal a cow in the middle of the city and that could happen on the live stream and people could like it and the algorithm would promote it and then you would see it and maybe believe it. We could, like we have to accept, we could get lucky. Maybe the Vulcans show up. It could happen. But I don't know about you, I'm not feeling especially lucky the last couple of years. So instead, my prediction is this is gonna be really, really hard. And that's okay. We're not afraid of hard problems, right? The search for life, the search for cow farts around nearby stars, that's a hard problem. But we like hard problems. That's what science is about. That's why we look up, right? This is a hard problem. And it might take us a thousand years to do it. But someday we could do it. Okay. So in the last act here, what are we looking for? I'm gonna give you three examples. These are not comprehensive examples. These are three examples that I'm interested in because of the things that I'm working on. There are many ways to search this haystack. Many, many hot tubs worth of water we could imagine sifting through. Three real examples that we're working on. The first I love, because it's so simple and I like simple things, it's looking for disappearing stars. So the idea, as we saw in the trivia, would be aliens build a dyson sphere or some kind of structure of solar panels or something around their star and thus the star appears to disappear. It blinks out of existence. This is good. I mean, I don't know if this is good for the star. But this is good for us because it's an easy signal to search for. It might be a preposterous scenario. I don't know, I'm not an alien. But I can search for this. I can write software to go look at this image from 50 years ago and this image from 10 years ago and say, are all those fuzzy circles in the old image also in the new image? We're good at these kinds of problems. We have algorithms that can tell if there's a cat in this image and in this image. So this is a solvable problem. We can do this in the cloud. I love this because it's so simple and there are some candidates. This is one of the candidates in this paper by BHSVRLA and this star is not in this image. And probably a very mundane thing, right?  There's a lot of reasons why you might find something like this. But it's easy to look for and I like that. We can write an algorithm that does this work for us and we can search through a century's worth of images. This is a cool project. All right, the second one. It's a little more subtle, but it's one that I've been enjoying because I've got a student the last year working on this, so it's really fun. The idea is using a coordinating event to synchronize your lighthouse. So if somebody dropped a glass over here, don't drop a glass, that'd be rude. If you dropped a glass, everybody would look, right? It would get your attention and you'd all look. This is like the game Marco Polo. I could yell Marco and you would yell Polo and I would know where you are and then we would laugh and forget about the colonialism and it would be fine. It's pretty cool. The idea is there's some noteworthy event that happens in the sky. Somebody drops a glass and gets our attention. We're astronomers, we're out here looking. That signal, that information propagates out into space. And other astronomers, aliens, other astronomers also notice this and say, whoa. And they yell Polo or whatever. And they say, hey, maybe I'll see that. And they send their own broadcast out. Meanwhile, this broadcast continues to radiate out and we see it. Eventually we see this event and then eventually we see the transmission from the other star, from the other civilization and we say, whoa. We say, whoa. What I like about this is it forms a triangle, right? There's a simple triangle where the only thing at work here, all these signals travel at the speed of light. Thank you, nature, for the speed of light. It's the same number, no matter which way you go. So this is the speed of light times the distance. This is the speed of light. The distance is all that matters here. And we know how to measure the distance to stars. Because we're astronomers, see, that's what we do. And so we know, if we see a noteworthy event, we can take this triangle and figure out which stars could possibly have seen it and transmitted a response. This gives us a prediction of which stars of those 17 billion to look at and when. So at any given time, there's only a few hundred stars you need to monitor, maybe a few thousand, depending on how far you go. This gives you a prediction of which stars and when. And so even if the signal, even if the lighthouse is really faint and really subtle, you know when the lighthouse is gonna blink because it's in coordination with this big coordinating signaling event. It's kind of a convoluted model, but again, it's good because we can write code to do this. I don't have to go out there and measure a triangle. I don't remember how to measure triangles. Code does this. This is what we invented computers for. So here's one real example. Supernova 1987A. This is the closest supernova that happened in the last 400 years. Big deal happened in 1987 from our vantage point. The information that supernova reached us in 1987 when I was just a little kid. And here is a two-dimensional map, a real map. This is the only real map I've got in this talk. This is the position of 300,000 of the nearest stars. It's in units of parsecs, don't stress about that. You know the units of parsecs? The Kessel run did it in 2012. It's fine. Parsecs just distance, it's like 300 light years. This is a little ball of stars 300 light years away. The blue stars are ones that have seen supernova 1987A. The supernova happened this direction. Like I'm the supernova and the supernova happened this direction. So you can see this curvature here as the light in the supernova is reaching the stars. Something like 52% of the stars, this doesn't add up to one. Somebody did the math wrong. It was me. It's like 48, not 41. This should be 48. So something like half the stars in our neighborhood have seen the supernova, half have not. There's still a lot of stars that haven't even seen this event, right? It was 35 years ago. That's nothing for a star. Our galaxy is over 100,000 light years across. Something happened 35 years ago in our neighborhood is nothing. We gotta wait a little while. We gotta be patient. It's not fair to say we've looked, we didn't see anything. It's not, the news hasn't reached these people yet. And if you draw the cone of people who could have sent a transmission, that's only 7%. That number is correct. This yellow cone here, these are the stars that could have seen the supernova and we could have received their signal. And so we can only eliminate of this 300,000 just near us. We can only eliminate 7% of them. The rest of these stars are fair game and we need to watch them. We need to be monitoring them. Thank goodness we're building an all-sky survey that monitors the whole night sky for other reasons but also for this. There's a lot to search and a lot of opportunities face here. The third example which I think is so rad. In 2017, we discovered the first rock. We called it a comet at the time. It's unclear. It might be a rock. It might be a fragment of a planet. This rock, which was named Oumuamua, came from another star. This is not from our solar system. We call this the first interstellar visitor. The first interstellar asteroid. It came in on this hyperbolic orbit coming down from the plane of the solar system and then pivoted out. We actually saw it here as it was leaving. This is a really rad object. And some people have speculated it could be a spaceship. I don't think it is a spaceship. But some people think it's a spaceship. I don't think it's a spaceship. But it is the kind of thing that came from another star. If there was a spaceship coming, it might take a trajectory like this. And one way to search, well, we know how gravity works. We have that down. We figured that out a while ago. So we know if this thing is just falling towards the sun, if it's just falling and gravity's at work, we know it'll fall towards the sun and then it'll bounce out and it'll head out on its merry way. If the comet is going along following the path that gravity would take it, and then it turns by 90 degrees, that is a really interesting red flag. And one of the things that Meredith talked about, one of the reasons we're stressed about satellites is we want to find comets. We would like an asteroid to not run into Earth preferably, and so we'd like to find them. I don't know what we would do about it, but we'd like to find them to know. And we're watching. We're modeling these orbits. We're watching them. If one of them takes a right turn, that's a huge technostructure. That's a huge sign that something might be happening. This is a cool opportunity and something that's really good for big computers to work on. And so for the last time, I'll say, SETI in the next 10 years, just these three ideas, are mapping parameter space that have never been tried. We've never tried anything like this. We've never had the technology or the computational power or the resources to do anything like this. We're building telescopes for all the other reasons we build telescopes, and we can do this, too. We have strategies that can use the so-called big data, these strategies of changing stars, of coordinated signals, of moving things that these telescopes are going to get us for free. And we just need to go out there and look. And so the search is just beginning. Technost signatures are coming, I hope. The search for them is definitely coming. Thank you.


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My name is Michael and I'm a photographer and videographer from Melbourne, Australia. Here is Michael's channel behind me. He's been a freedom partner for many years and he submitted his tip video on how to help you grow by emailing support.freedom.tm that you can do as well if you want to share your best practices with the freedom family. Now Michael, the show is yours. Roll it! I consider myself pretty lucky in the way that photography and videography is my job but it's also my hobby which I really, really love doing and also have a YouTube channel that I do on the side where I provide reviews, vlogs, tutorials and things like that mainly to do with photography and videography but I pretty much share a lot of things in my life that I enjoy like cars and things like that so yeah I absolutely love having a YouTube channel it's fun to share things with the world I absolutely love it. Now what I'm going to do is just share a few little tips that I've learned through my YouTube journey that will really help your channel to grow a little bit further. So number one is having good audio. I find that people are quite happy to watch something if it's a little bit grainy and the video is not the best but when it comes to audio I know that people tune out when the audio is really really bad or they just can't continue to watch the video I'm not saying to go out and buy the best audio equipment you can just do whatever you can to get the best audio possible. I'm guilty of not always having the best audio if I'm running, gutting and just vlogging with my Sony RX100 or my small camera when I'm out and about there's wind noise and things like that but they're just vlogs they're not too important when it comes to my reviews and tutorials and things like that I really try and get the best audio I possibly can. So the second tip would be to shoot lots of b-roll and for those who don't know b-roll is just like secondary footage you'd see so if I'm talking right now you might see some footage of something else like for instance if I'm doing a review on a camera lens I might have some b-roll footage of the lens you know me circling the lens like that or extending the lens or something like that while I'm talking about the lens. It just makes the video a lot more interesting if you're doing a review on things like that it's just a lot more interesting and a lot more engaging for people to watch when there's some really really nice b-roll to go with the review tutorial whatever it is. I try and shoot b-roll no matter what video I'm doing even vlogs I try to include a bit of b-roll in those and b-roll in a vlog might be a drone flyover or something like that and yeah I think b-roll is really important it keeps the viewers engaged and a lot of people seem to like it. Now my third biggest tip would be to engage with all your viewers so people who comment and things like that I always like to try and reply if I can. I always like to say in my video if you've got any more questions let me know in the comments below and things like that and a lot of the time it helps build some rapport with some of your viewers and then they'll end up subscribing and if they're not if they're already subscribed you know they'll continue to watch your videos and things like that and yeah I really really like to reply to comments and just involve the people who are viewing my videos in my videos if that makes sense by the replying taking their suggestions on board and things like that so I think that's a really really good tip helps you to grow helps you to stay close with your viewers that may get hard when you get a lot of subscribers to keep up with all that stuff but while you can I suggest you try and be as engaging as possible with your viewers so that's about all hope you enjoyed these few little tips and I'll see you guys soon thanks very much for watching. 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Good morning, Hickets Tuesday. This video is an open letter to professional YouTubers, but it's also for anyone who wants to understand the challenges of the fraught career of professional influencing. Hi, I'm John Green. I write books, and I've been making YouTube videos for more than 12 years. Now, also, I'm somewhat repulsed by the word influencer. It makes me feel like one of the baddies in a dystopian novel, which, to be fair, maybe I am. But the nice thing about influencer is that it's accurate. If you have an audience, you help shape their worldview, both when it comes to, like, which goods and services to purchase, and when it comes to what to believe and value. That's a weird job, and today I want to share with you some things I've learned about it.  It's more like being a professional athlete. Online careers are unpredictable, and they're often short. Which isn't necessarily bad news, by the way. Like, it can be wonderful to do many things in your professional life. But I do think it's worth trying to learn about stuff while you are a professional influencer that can help you down the road when you are professionally something else, whether that's social media marketing or post-production or, as in my case, writing. Secondly, many of us get absolutely no financial education in school, and professional influencers tend to be young and inexperienced with money, which, one, can make it difficult to figure out how to prioritize financial stuff, and two, leaves people vulnerable to exploitation. Even if, like me, you're aggressively bad at math, I really recommend trying to learn more about personal finance by reading books like Gabby Dunn's Bad at Money, listening to podcasts like Planet Money, and watching YouTube shows like Two Cents in the Financial Diet. As for the people who make you money, agents and managers can be wonderful advocates, but remember, they have no lifelong investment in you. If you cease to be a lucrative relationship for them, they can find a different you, a younger and hipper and more influential influencer.  And ultimately, that means you have to be the person to balance short-term interest and long-term interest when it comes to issues like when to turn down unsafe sponsorships. Speaking of which, third, when it comes to money opportunities, Hank always asks me two questions. Is this in line with our goals for our community and are we adding more value than we're capturing? We've made lots of mistakes along the way, but from what kind of shirts to sell to whether to promote loot boxes, I do think we benefit a lot from asking those questions. Okay, fourth, this did not happen because you work harder than anyone else or because you are more talented. You are talented and you do work hard, but you have also been fortunate. You're fortunate to have high-speed internet and access to editing software and you've also gotten lucky along the way in innumerable ways. Luck does not nullify hard work, but hard work also does not nullify luck.  Those who love your work will naturally be inclined to think of you as more than a person, which can be intoxicating.   We don't talk about this much because it can seem like in gratitude, but receiving online hate can be really scary and painful and I'm sorry if you have to live with it. In my experience, it's really important to find places where you can be a person, whether that's an anonymous Reddit account or God forbid offline, because otherwise you can start to believe both those who think you're more than a person and those who think you're less than one. Lastly, as my brother likes to say, diversify your identity.  Your friends and family can be involved in your job. When you take a walk, you're doing your job. If you Instagram it, your life and work can become so completely intertwined that you stop thinking of yourself as, for instance, John Green person, husband, father, AFC Wimbledon sponsor, a valid Hufflepuff, etc., and begin to think of yourself as just John Green YouTuber. No career can healthfully carry all your identity, let alone one as weird and unpredictable as this. And so, dear influencer, I wish you the algorithm's wind in your sales and a flood of new followers, but most of all, I wish you a long and varied life of making helpful things with nice people. Hank, I'll see you on Friday.


What is up? A welcome back to this month's live.  I don't feel so well. Like I slept all day yesterday, like all day. Yes, Garrett slept yesterday. Well, 24 hours straight. Yeah, 24 hours straight. Let's see. Last, what was it yesterday? It's a Friday night. He wasn't feeling well and said, I think I'm getting sick. And then pretty much didn't get up yesterday. I got up this morning. Yeah, so I guess like 36 hours. I slept for 36 hours. It was rough. And then I woke up and I thought I was good to go this morning, but I've been cranky all day. Yes, cranky. Yes, the kids have been joking. Sarah said, if I sneeze wrong, he's gonna yell at me. I said, yeah, just steer clear, steer clear today. He's so cranky. He wouldn't even go put his shirt on. So you guys pretty much have me for the live today because I'm cranked. I will just insult everybody. I'll yell at everybody. I think everybody will cheer you up. This is exactly what you need today. The kids, they're not so much. They've been here. We've been at the shop all day today. And they have been the tiniest bit of help. Yeah. Yeah, the tiniest, the smallest amount they could. Are we getting some feedback? Yes. Candice is here. Candice. Hey, Candice. Always here. Thank you, Candice. Vicki's here from Alabama. Minnesota Makers from Minnesota finally made it on time for the live. What's up, Minnesota Makers? Sandra's in here. Finally made it on time. Russell. What's up, Russell? Here in Alabama. South. Alma. I don't know. I'm horrible with screen names. Oh, Russell just woke up too. Scott. Hello, stranger. Halloween Queen. Who was the Halloween Queen, Cynthia?  Clicker AK from Alaska. Oh, that's right. Alaska. Geez. Kids, stay long. Have all their plans. We'll want to drop in and say hi. Thank you, Clicker AK. Thanks for joining us. Yep. You're not missing anything except my crankiness. He'll be all right. You guys know he'll be all right. He rarely gets cranky. I do. But what I do, it's bad. Yeah. What he does, it's bad.  Maybe that's all you need to do. Teddy from Texas. Halloween Queen. Say hello again. Patty from Napa, California. Oh, nice. That's right. I need to visit. Do you guys do anything fun today? Who did something fun today? We attempted to go to the Irish Festival today. So the Churchill Irish Festival is usually the week after St. Patrick's Day. So we were planning to go. We have farmers market on Saturday. It's a Saturday Sunday event. So we were planning to go today and we did get up there and go today. But we just drove around. We couldn't find parking. And then my crankiness. And a crankster over here was like. I started with that. I don't even feel good. I don't even know why we're here. Look, you can see we very much intended to go. He's got his green shirt on. All greened out. I had mine on. My green shoes on. Kids had their green on. Had my green top hat on. It was all good intentions. We just never made it. We just drove around it. We drove around the outside. We saw them I complained while I drove around it for a while. I complained. I was like, I don't even know why I'm here. I'm sick. I don't even know why I'm out of the house. Okay. Really? Because this morning I said, are you sure you're feeling better? No, I'm good. I'm good. But she asked me like five minutes after I woke up. And I was feeling good then. For about 10 minutes. I could have ran downstairs then. All right. Anything fun going on there? Anybody do anything fun? No, but Cynthia stayed in her PJ's and made brownies. That's a good day. That's a good day. Yeah, that's what I wanted to do. Like a PJ day. Sugar Baker and Louisiana. Oh, tell them what you're doing. I'll catch up on these. But let's give them a quick over up to you. So this is a brand new kit we put in our store. Like today. Like just a little few minutes ago. And I have yet to paint it. So here's what we're doing. Hopefully you guys can see there's quite a glare. That's a little waving bunny right up there. He's so cute. He's saying happy Easter. And he's adorable. So we're going to attempt our first paint on this one today together. Hopefully, I don't know. Can you see that on your screen? Yeah. Let's see. All right. It's a little bit. It's a little bit of a glare. We've got a lot of sun coming in this way, which is great for video, but not so great for you guys to see. So we have him all cut out. He's a little reminiscent. I need some cheese for my wine. Yes, I do. Oh, Russell, you could cut this out on the Glowforge. It'll totally go through the Glowforge Pro with the pastor with the 18 inch. Otherwise, you can break it up. And I do have a file to cut out the 18 inch in two pieces of the basic. I was trying to show you guys, but it isn't working so well. Anyway, this bunny up here at the top, he is very detailed. He is a little reminiscent of that. What was it? The Grinch that we did over Christmas at the backpack and all the million pieces. This bunny has a lot of pieces. So again, we might tweak this file. If we do and you buy the SVG, you will always receive the updated SVG. So we're just going to paint it today, see how it goes. And maybe there'll be maybe there'll be some changes, but so far it looks like it's doable. There's just a lot of pieces. So we might be here a minute working on this one. Alright, so I'm going to go ahead. If you can see over here, I already have my tape face up here. So I'm going to put my little pieces on the tape here so that we can quickly roll them. I just kind of group them by color. Man colds are the worst. Yes. They are way worse than any female cold. They're the worst for the rest of us. I know. For the rest of us, I swear. All right, this is some tiny, tiny pieces. Pearls in South Carolina, Anita's from Florida. This is Monique's in Washington state. Oh, what's up Monique? Tyra? Yes, sorry. Sorry, I'm sick. Me too. Thank you. Oh, did I say Catherine's in Alaska? That's another one. We got a couple of friends in Alaska. We do. We got a good visit. Is a Glowforge still my preferred laser? It depends. Yeah, it's going to say the same thing. Depends. I like the X tool for engraving. It engraves great. And like it's just different. It just depends. What are you going to do with it? What are you going to do with your laser? And I'll tell you which one we think is best for you. Is a Glowforge still my go-to though? Probably. Anything that gets tested. It was tested in the Glowforge. Because it's just easy. If you're going to do a lot of engraving and you're going to do it on maybe even big things, that D1, the X tool is great because you can move it around and set it on. Like somebody was asking about whiskey burl tops. Good, they set it on a whiskey burl top and I was like, yeah, you can. Yeah, you can. You can set it on all types of, all kinds of things. I have big plans to set it on some things. I wanted to redo this piece of furniture that Kim picked up and then put it on there to engrave the top, something cool on the top. I haven't sold Kim on that idea yet. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know about that yet. This might be the first you're hearing of it. I don't know about that yet. All right, you're going to have to keep talking because I just have to separate this a little bit. Oh, Michael Russell dropped in from South Carolina. South Kakalaki. Sick talking. All right, he's got some little white paws. And you think you have everything ready to go for a show and you find things you put somewhere, right? We forgot like all of our hooks one time when we went to one of the shows and I had to run across the street to CVS. Oh yeah, you did. Yeah, Scott was saying, I guess he thought he had everything ready for a show and then forgot he put some stuff somewhere. How did the farmer's market go? Halloween Queen wants to know. Farmer's market went pretty good this week. It was better two weeks ago. I slept through it. Yeah, he, so yesterday I said he slept, what'd you say, 36 hours? Yeah, 36 hours. Yes, but he did come here with me. So I took one of the teen girls because only two of us could pack everything in the truck and then two could sit up front. So I grabbed one of the teens and myself and we were heading on to the farmer's market and then I was just letting the car warm up. Garrett was still in bed and then just as I was about to put the car in gear, the back door opens. Excuse me. The back door opens and Garrett's guy's backpack on and he's dressed and ready to go. And I was like, what are you doing? You were literally sleeping three minutes ago. He was like, no, I'm going. I'm going. And then when we got here, he came into the office. There's like a little futon sofa. Let's go lay down for a minute. Yeah, lay down in there. And so he pretty much came straight in there. And when I got back at one o'clock, he was still laying right there.  He slept the whole way home, got right back in the bed and slept the rest of the night. So it was very useful. Didn't even eat. I didn't eat or drink. I haven't eaten or drank anything. No, I still haven't eaten much of anything. Yeah.  What's up, Don? Lisa and Scott from Peach Bottom PA. Peach Bottom. That's pretty cool. I like I wouldn't mind living in Peach Bottom. Just because of the name? Yeah, just because of the name. If you Halloween Queen, I keep hitting my mic says if I rub Vicks on my feet, not too much, put socks on over it, somehow the Vicks gets into your system and helps with the cold. Man, I'm gonna have to try that. He's willing to try anything I think right now. It only takes a guy one half minutes to get ready. That is true. Yeah. When I woke up, I realized she wasn't there. I called for and then I noticed what time it was and I was like, oh, no, I'm late.  I think I was still doing my belt when I was walking out the door. I was like, what are you doing here? Why are you even here? I'm part of the team. Alright, I don't even know what this piece is. Alright, you guys, you're just gonna have to be patient with me. That's a Paul. That was at the inside of this thing. So it should be pink. Maybe it's one of these little pink things. Yeah, I think it's a pink thing. Oh my goodness, Garrett. What? You chose this one. I was trying to do a baseball one. Yeah, so we do know what we're doing next. Next month, so we can, if you guys want to paint along with us next month, we're finally got it together a little bit. And we'll be able to show you what we're doing ahead of time. So Garrett's going to get it. I did not get it painted. But I do know what it's going to be. Yeah, look at that. Yeah, tilt it just a little bit. It's a little bit crooked. But anyway, you can see it. Welcome home. Look how cute that is. I'm excited about that one. I really I was planning to do that today. But what is this more Paul? I don't know. There's a lot of Paul. Very policy. I got to pay attention. And this would be dark gray. Maybe we'll see. I don't think you got to cut all these pieces. I think these are supposed to be scored. Tanner cut them. Tanner. And this is dark gray. Alright, that's okay. That's what this is for. We're supposed to figure out what we need to what and if we need to change anything.  Alright, I don't know what this is. I think it might be something. So I'll save it. And I'll save this one too. Save those little teeny guys. Okay. So now I have my round, my little backer here. And I'm going to go ahead and then we're gonna do like a there's lots of different color schemes, obviously for all of these. But for this one, we're gonna mix it up a little. Do you see how I'm he's got it with a light blue and a teal center. And then the gray bunny. I'm going to try this color scheme because I think it's kind of cute and a little bit different. So that's what we're going to start with today. But yeah, Scott made the baseball one the other day. I saw it. Oh, that's right. That's right. I saw that on our Facebook group. This guy is on it. He's got stuff cut before. We do half the time. That guy's a mover and a shaker. We got a busy week coming up this week. Oh my god, our week is so busy. And then Garrett wants to be sick. Of course you do. Wait, is that file on a patron SVG downloads? I think so. Yeah, the the rabbit I think I put it up last week. Yeah, everything I do, I just throw up on Patreon. So if it's in our store, it should be on Patreon. And if it's not in your patron, let me know. Yeah, you guys are really great about I'm looking for this one. We miss it. We're happy to put it up there. Is there more than 15 pieces? Who asked? Pearl said is there more than 15 pieces? Pearl, yes. I think we're at like 15 pieces. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29. He's really counting on you guys. Pearl, he's gonna tell you the exact number of pieces. 36, 37, 38. 38, 38 pieces. And not even all of them. You can back it down by a couple because see those. Yeah, this should have been engraved or scored not cut. So if we take out one, two, three, four, five, five pieces, we're still down to like 32 pieces. It's not too bad. I mean, it's not as bad as the Grinch. No, no, no, no. The Grinch was crazy. That was like a I made a jigsaw puzzle out of that jam right there. But you know who? What was her name? Karen? Karen came who asked us to please go ahead and put that please make that available as a file to purchase. And we did and she made it. And then she came to the farmers market. She lives about four hours from here. And she has a friend that lives in Virginia and Richmond here or like near Richmond. Anyway, she came for a visit and specifically came to the farmers market to see us and tell us about her glow forge and and tell us that she was the one who asked for the Grinch and she made it. Did she cut it out? I don't remember if she cut it out or if she bought it. No, you got me questioning. I'm not sure. But I do know she made it and I do know that it turned out great. And she was pretty proud of it. It did look cool when it was done. But boy, was that something to do? Oh, is there a discount code for the country sheet paint? Yes, I think it's make 10 make 10 not make it. That one was stolen. Somebody stole it and put it on the internet. Yeah, one of the coupon sites got a hold of it and they don't like that. So. Oh, Heather says she's late and but we just got started, Heather. Yeah, look at us. Welcome. Had a cheaty chat at first. Uh, the kids are back there. I don't know what just fell. The kids are behind us in the warehouse and there was a big drop. Something dropped. Something fell. Oh, Irene would like us to explain the patron. She's in Georgia. So Patreon is like your chair is too squeaky. Yeah, it's very squeaky. I could hear it and I'm sure everybody else could. Patrons like, uh, I don't know how you'd explain it. It's like a little place support site for creators and then we provide extra content. So something outside of our YouTube channel. We will provide, um, well, all files after show out takes too fast. Hold on. So creators provide additional content, um, for a monthly subscription and then they usually offer multiple tiers. So we offer a five dollar, uh, ten dollar three, three, five and twenty. Oh, three, five and twenty. So the twenty dollar tier, uh, gets you everything. It gets you all SVGs. A t-shirt. Uh, t-shirt when you first join one of our Kim and Garrett make a t-shirt. Um, all the SVGs. Uh, a monthly. Yeah. Oh, monthly zoom call. A monthly zoom call. Oh, we just had one this last Wednesday. Yes. I think that's how I got sick. From the zoom call? From the zoom call. Somebody on the zoom call gave you a sick. Yes. Who on the zoom call got me sick? There's a little something.  Yes. I'm trying to pick it up and it just keeps rolling. Darn it. You got sidetracked, I think. I did. What are you still talking about? The patron. Uh, the patron. So it's a monthly subscription. Uh, and then if you're at the three dollar tier, you get the, um, after, um, the patron after show video that we do every week. Uh, a little bit. It's just basic. Some outtakes. Yes. Yeah. Sometimes it's an outtake video. It's just, uh, we share with you a little bit about what's going on, a little bit about what's happening with this project or what happened to prepare for this project. What else do we, we give? So, I, I wish Courtney was here with us. She got all the stuff for our, our, um, $20 tier. And then for the three and the five, like I said, with the they get the outtakes that they have. The five dollar tier gets one SVG. Yeah. A month or something like that. And then the three dollar tier gets the, um, patron after show. And the outtakes and the videos and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. But the, uh, $20 just get everything I put in the store I put up there too. Oh, I even put the ones up there that, uh, like we do for projects, weekly projects. I'll put those cut files up like the cut files for the leather stuff. I put those up. Speaking of the leather project, would you guys think of that, uh, leather project? That was a collaboration with, um, real leather? Well, silver. Yes. Silver lake leather. Silver creek. Silver creek. I knew it was water. They provide, they supply the leather to some companies like real leather, which real leather is the most, the one you would see most often because it's in all the craft stores. So, um, real, real leather shared our video. And, um, and then the guy we worked with, Michael, he's so funny. And he, he said he enjoyed the video. So, well, I was excited about that. Yeah. And he made a little joke about Garrett. You know, if you guys, I don't know if you guys watched the video, but Garrett could say, and he wanted to make chaps, but we didn't get enough leather for chaps. And so Michael wrote back and said, yes, chaps are an option. Can you see Garrett walking around with his chaps? Just chaps. Oh my goodness, that would be hilarious. So, Russell Weaver said he installed the poles for Topgolf here in Richmond. We were at Topgolf, like January. No, we weren't at Topgolf. We went to the other one. We wanted to go to Topgolf. Oh, the other one. Yeah, reservation for us. So busy. Oh, yeah, but Kim enjoys golf. I do. She loves golf. I do. Do I ever get to golf? I don't. No. Never get to golf. I told you we need to. Scott said he's, he didn't get me sick. He wasn't, Scott. All right. Verlin from Winslow, Arizona. She's getting a Glowforge. Thanks for the advice. Yes, I hope you really enjoy your Glowforge. I love my Glowforge. I know you will. I know you will. Well, and you know what? I hope a lot of people commented and replied to the advance news that Glowforge was going to go up on their prices. So, yeah, we had quite a few people take advantage of that offer to buy now before prices went up $1,000. $1,000. Congratulations to you guys that got it. Well, that's the same price we got it for. Yeah. At today's price. Well, today's price. No. Yesterday. It's like $1,000 more. Yeah, Friday. Yeah, what was it? Friday? Friday. Two days ago. Oh, Russell said he did Drive Shack too. Yeah, that is the other way. Drive Shack. Yeah. Very good. We had fun at the Drive Shack. The poles. Those are, those are pretty tall. That's no easy job. Can you put that home plate file up on Patreon? I like to make it for my show Saturday. Yes, I'll put that. I thought it was up there. I'll put it up there. It has to be. That's how Scott got it, right? No, that was Scott. Maybe I would just put the other one up. I thought I put both up there. I did the other one, I guess. Oh. I'll put that up tonight, Scott. I promise. Do you? Because as soon as we leave here, this is like high energy right now. He's gonna crash when we're done. This is me on cold medicine. I'm all cold medicine up for the show. So, it might be in the morning if I don't fall asleep. Joining late. Garrett has a code. A cold. Oh, a cold. Yes, that's what we've been talking about is how much he's been whining. Oh, saline, nasal spray, a couple of showers a day.   I can't, I can't eat honey. It grosses me out.  It's like bee spit. That's what he says. It's bee spit.  Alright, keep it going. Keep going. High energy. I'm trying to do this quickly tonight so that he can be done. Shannon, you just got a big laser like the OM Tech. Like what size? What size did you get? She says it's there in town just waiting for it to be delivered. Exciting. Oh, you want a Snoopy one? I might be able to do a Snoopy sign. Oh, a Snoopy sign. I don't know. Copyright will get me. I was gonna say, can you do a Snoopy sign? I could do it for the for my friends and fam. Oh, the home plate is on Patreon. Alright, cool. Hope you feel better soon. Thanks Beverly. A man cold is the worst. So, I hear he's way worse than any female cold. I'm telling you. Yeah, well, what's interesting is, like I said, Garrett is always high energy. So, for him to literally lay in bed for that long, I was getting a little nervous last night. I think, are you okay? I kept taking his fever. I mean, his temperature to see if he had a fever. He didn't even have a fever. So, I don't know. I run a little low anyway.  Oh, Shannon's getting a 24 by 36 inch laser. Oh, nice one. Yeah, you cut all kinds of stuff. Did you try out the nesting software? No, I did not. I have not tried it yet. I had planned to try it. What nesting software do you use? I was trying this like nest IO stuff and then this other one wanted like 500 bucks for the software. Yes, drink a hottie-tottie. I will totally drink a hottie-tottie. He never drinks. Yeah, but I will now because I know how those things are. They'll help me sleep as I'm saying. All right, what you got going? I'm gonna stand up to date. She says, sorry for the caps, but hottie-tottie deserved caps. A hot hottie, hottie-tottie. It's a hottie-tottie. You know what it is. Uh, what else do you want to tell them about our busy week? You started to. Man, yeah, totally forgot. We have a crazy busy week. So, this is the perfect week for me to be sick. Got distracted with that one. Tell them. Uh, we have a, well, hey, you guys want to see something? You guys want to see something cool? I don't know if there's much to look at right now. It's still kind of a mess. It's like halfway there. You guys want to see how the workshop's coming? Because he loves taking you guys on a field trip in the middle of our lives. I'll take you guys on a field trip. You guys want to hold on. First, let's make sure this camera's working. We'll go side view. Side cam. Nope, it's not working. Well, it was working because that's literally our table. It's just your table about 20 minutes ago. All right, ready? Let's try it now. I'm ready. Nope, it's dead. All right, sorry guys. Oh, now he just teased you. I did. Oh, that's because my battery's dying. Apparently, this hasn't been charging. Okay, so I'll figure out how to give you guys a tour of it. A peek, but we have a soft open of Kim and Garrett workshops. I don't know. What's the name of it now? Have we well, it was just Kim and Garrett make it workshops, but now you're we're wavering a little bit. Kim and Garrett's K&G studios. Yeah, that's what it is. It's called K&G studios. I'm wavering, but we have our soft open on Friday, so we have to finish up the workshop. We have a live on Tuesday. We have a craft show to prepare for. A craft show Saturday and Sunday. So busy week, crazy busy week. Like, I don't even know how we're pulling this week off. We're gonna have to work a few extra hours, I think. We have to come up with like 120 signs by Saturday. We already have a lot of signs, so. And then, uh, don't freak out. We have to have, well, good thing that our workshop is just friends and family. It's like, I wanted to be a safe environment for our first one. It's a soft open. But, uh, I still have to make the the tables that's on my to-do list for tomorrow. I have to make the tables. I have to finish hanging the shelves. Um. You will. And by making tables. I have to do the big logo in the back.  We don't even have those yet. And we don't have stools yet. They're coming along. That is stressing me out as well. We'll be able to grab, get stools by Friday. Yeah, we can get stools by Friday. He's checking to make sure, he's checking to see if his camera's charging so that he could take you and show you, show you our front room, which is right here, right beside us. Um, right, there's a glass door to my left. And it's right on the other side of that door. Yeah, let's see. Oh, it's still dead. I don't get it. Hmm. I don't get it either because I can see that's literally this table like what we were working on right before the, we went live. So maybe you have to do something else. Thanks, Candice. KNG studio creations. That's what, uh, Russell Weaver said. That's what he wants to make it. He wants to make it KNG studios. Yeah. All right. Um, come along with my bunny here. I think we're getting pretty close. Make sure I'm doing it right. All right. The phone is charging. I can't really grab the other camera and walk around with it. Yeah. Can you use the, the red one? No, it's not hooked up over there. But by the time we're done today, I will show you guys a, a shot of the, what we got going in the workshop. So you guys can kind of see here, um, this is my plan right here. And I have the, the backer is done. The banner is done. The Easter egg overlay is done next year to at the bottom of my backer. Can you see it? I don't know if you can see it. I get close to Ken. There are score marks for the Easter eggs. So I'm going to paint the Easter eggs right on the board. And then I'm going to lay the overlay over top of it. So, um, I want to do that. Well, actually, I think I'm going to put another coat on this right here because this white is dry and it needs a second coat. So let me do that. Hi, Lisa. Thanks for joining us. Her first live, Marcia. Hello from New Hampshire. And Russell says his craft show is in October, November. He has plenty of time. I'm jealous. We have for the first time, this will be our first time having, going to real craft shows rather than the farmers markets. And, um, this year and we have one booked every month. So this will be the first one. We thought January was going to be it, but, um, there was an ice storm. Yeah, there was an ice storm. So nobody came. So I really don't know yet what kind of inventory to bring. I need to ask Scott. Scott, you said you, when you went to your craft show, how many items did you bring? I am, we're thinking we're going to bring 100 signs. I was thinking 120. Well, Jenny from Tennessee. Jenny from 10. I was thinking to do 120. I was going to say, I don't even know if I have room to store 120 signs. All right. I think everything's got a good coat of paint on it. I'm going to go ahead and start on my eggs. Oh, this piece was to be white. Not according to this. Doesn't look like it's the same color as the backer. You think it should be white? You can always change it. I can change it. Yep.  Oh, the pinks. I almost forgot them. Thanks for reminding me. I'll get your pinks. I'm on it with the pinks. This is also pink. These little guys. So now I need a little squirt of pink because I'm going to paint the inside of this. Okay. No, thank you. You're making a mess. They slide into the frame. You can't even tell. All right. I got you. Okay. You say hello. Hello. Check the chat. I mean, what else is going on? You guys talk to me. Sherry from Kentucky saying hi. Oh, somebody asked a question, but oh, how do you find a schedule for the craft shows? How far do you drive for your craft shows? What is it? Festival.net? Oh, is that what you guys did? Yeah. Does it cost anything to go on festivals.net? No. I mean, you can get more information if you join, but we didn't join. Oh, yeah. Here you go. Scott, he said we took about 125 to 130 with porch signs, rounds and other items we make next Saturday will be taken about the same, but May show he's bringing 300. Oh, wow. Really? 300 items. I guess May is going to be a big one. Yeah. See, I'm a little nervous. I don't know if I have enough or not. Russell wants to know if you purchase our SVGs. Are they available for commercial use? Yeah. Here's a live figure. If you purchase my SVGs or whatever, it's yours. You can do whatever you want with it. I just ask you don't resell the SVGs is your creation. Otherwise, I don't care. Go ahead. Like it doesn't hurt my feelings if people steal from me. I'm like, look at that. Well, if they buy it, that's not stealing. That's the whole point of it so that you can make it and sell it. Oh, yeah. I guess it. Yeah. I'm just saying. Oh, Irene just joined patron. Thanks, Irene. Yeah, she is. Welcome. Trinkels garden and home Alice. I think that's what it says. Teresa from Ohio. Hey, y'all. What's up, Teresa from Ohio? Where do you put your rollers? Oh, why do you put your rollers into bags? Good question. So we can reuse them. We use these rollers like every day. Every day. Every day. So we try to put each roller in a bag and kind of put it near the paint that it came from. So I think we did start with actually labeling the bags they went into too. But we've gotten good with the colors. So I don't need to bother you with the colors. It just kind of saves your roller gives about a week's life. Yeah, it depends on. Yes. So if we're using the white paint, which we use tons of every day, then that roller will last about a week before it gets too gunked up with paint. And you could probably wash it. But um, I have boys helping me paint right now. And there's no way I would get them to wash a roller. Yeah. So. Oh, Karen said she's in Ohio and got 3.5 inches of snow today. Today, really? Shoo. It is two eight in a year. Well, that's funny. I saw somebody I know on Facebook saying that same thing. They were they were saying what is happening. And it was like a snow ice sleets kind of thing. And I was thinking to myself, where are you guys because they're actually they live here in Virginia. So they must be visiting somewhere. And they're I was gonna say, I'm never getting snow and ice here. No, not here. That's what I'm saying. I don't know where they were. My hair is on my face. Hold on. Sorry. All right, what other color needs to go down here, you think? Do you think I should add a yellow or doesn't need a yellow? Just keep going with the the dark blue light blue teal. Yeah, just kind of the same kind of other yellows. So I would avoid yellow. Okay. One of you guys will come up with a better color scheme. Candice is saying she got Candice here in Blacksburg. Candice is saying they got sleet and snow this morning or yesterday morning. Really? Yeah. Really? Are you guys that far into the mountains? I think it got down to 48 degrees here yesterday. I know that it did because it was pretty chilly at the farmer's market Saturday morning. I mean, we were okay, but I don't know. I didn't feel like it was that cold laying in here on the couch. I was gonna say weren't you asleep the whole time? I was. It was like a it was like a balmy 74 while I was asleep. All right, wait, what Minnesota makes saying they're supposed to get 12 to 18 inches of snow this week? No, thanks. Miserable. Yeah. Winter is over. Yeah. I've already packed all that away. I am done. I don't want to you. I mentally packed it away. Well, it looks like Indiana got some snow. This is where I get my weather from. Yeah, where have we been? Yeah. Well, you've been asleep. Well, I've been working. Yeah. So the wind was crazy. No, thanks. 48 degrees sounds great to me. Yeah, 48. 18 inches of snow. 48 degrees sounds like a vacation. Man, it is too late in the year for that much snow. It's not freaking you out. Yeah. Makes me want to move further south. You do want to move further south. I'm creeping my way south. I started in Michigan, Alaska, Pennsylvania, New Jersey. Now I'm in Virginia. I've been making my way south. What else do I need? One more. What color do we want to make it? I guess it's going to be light. Yeah, Tyra said, sleep and snow Friday night into Saturday morning. Mother nature has forgotten her meds. Yes. Yes. All right. So I just sloppily painted all of these eggs at the bottom. Again, the overlay is going to go over top of that. So you don't even have to be neat about it. Yeah. Better for me. You'd make me be neat. I see how it goes.  I am. I'm going to let my rollers sit there too long. Been over here chitchatting with you guys too long. Going slow. Oh, thanks. I'm just going to put another quick coat on the top here just to make sure that looks nice and smooth. Even it out. Yeah. Normally, I wouldn't even paint this whole backer because it was going to be covered up by the middle and bottom sections. I did that because I was chitchatting. I wouldn't waste all that paint on them. Teddy Joe says it's 79 in South Texas. Just rubbing it in. Just rubbing it in. A little salt in the wound. I like it. I like it. Gloria Sunshine Blue Sky is 68 degrees today in the UK. Oh, wow. All right. I got to hit you all of these again. But while you're looking at it, do you want me to hit this with a white or do you like the light blue? Let me kind of show you guys. Yeah. I don't know. I'm thinking. See the light blue at the bottom. He's thinking this should be this overlay at the bottom. Over these eggs should be white. Do you guys have a vote? Do you think white? I mean, I can hit it with white real quick and see, but there's no going back. We'll have time to do it again. Oh, Denise is saying how she had a show yesterday at a high school. It was a good show. I didn't sell as many rounds as I thought I would. But my gnome stuff sold. I know. Isn't it funny how, you know, it just depends on the show and the day. Like we have that. I don't know if you guys have seen the welcome pineapple. And I have been, I had made these last fall. They didn't sell last fall. Everybody's voting white on the bottom. Oh, good. All right. Well, good because I just hit it with white. So yeah, everybody, everybody said white. What are you saying? Is everybody saying something else? No, everybody's saying white. I'll trust him when he starts everybody. All right. You can really see that blue through it. All right. Let me give that a moment for to do a second coat on that. And I see here the eggs need a second coat. So let me hit these one more time while we're talking. Anyway, yeah, all of a sudden everybody wanted welcome pine apples out of the clear blue. And I was like, so funny. Oh, Lisa wants to know how we come up with her designs. Lisa is not an easy process. We get stressed out sometimes. So Kim smocks, sketches some stuff up. She smocks it up. I take it in an illustrator. I turn it into something a little less smoky. She crinkles her nose at it about 20 times until we come up with something that we both agree on and then make it a cup file. He's had to stop being offended by it. I'm like, no, I don't know. No. And then the funny thing was the other night, last week, Tanner was, you asked me, what do you think? And Tanner happened to be sitting in the room. He's our oldest, our only son, oldest. He's one of the oldest of the kids. Anyway, he was sitting in the room. He was like, dad, Kim, let me do it. Let me be Kim. No, no, this is, he was, he did everything and he said pretty much everything I would have said. I was like, see there? Even Tanner knows. He goes, I just know what you were going to say. She hates any font I pick out. Yeah, Garrett seems to, he, I'm like font blind. Well, it just, the fonts are masculine that he picks out. I don't even know if that's a thing, but somehow he seems to pick out a mask. He likes to pick masculine fonts, which I get it, but you know, you've been doing this a while, except for then he gets go-tos, like things that I like that he tries to keep using them. I'm like, I get that I said yes to that font one time, but that can't be like one of the font, we can't use it every time. That's the only font.  And then, yeah, we just have to, every, every season you got to start looking, kind of, I look online, I see what's happening on Pinterest, I see what's happening on Etsy, what seems to be popular right now. And then we try and create our version of it. Yeah, just our version of whatever we see out there.  Now, how do I incorporate those into a door sign that you haven't seen before? This past spring, I actually googled spring items. I googled spring flowers. There's a lot of googling. A lot of googling in my designing. Oh, I don't know. Do we have a, is Lois on here? I bet she's not on. I haven't heard her. So Lois really wanted cowboy boots. I'm going to show them our new cowboy boot one. So Garrett struggled. He went back and forth on this one. And it actually turned out way better. There were some fights. It turned out way better than we, than I had expected it to turn out. You guys see it? Look at that. Is that cute? So I know what you're thinking. I know all of you are thinking right now, what are we going to do with this empty spot down there? Well, we've got an idea. So the reason why you haven't seen this yet, because it's still in, it's still in process here.  And it's going to go right here and kind of fill up this space a little bit. And it's going to make it perfect. It's pretty thick of flowers here. I don't know if you can turn this thing to the side. Yeah. I'm going to thin those out somehow. He's got like four or five layers of flowers there. But that's what makes it one, easy to paint. And two, you know, it gives it that dimension. It makes it look so cool. There you go. Sorry.  Give it back. All right. Now I'm going to clean up my edges. If you guys have followed us for a while, you know, I'll use this Sharpie paint marker. What is it? Paint pen to clean up the edges of some of these words and letters where it kind of goes over. Just I don't have to get every line. Look, and I'm pretty good. When the boys paint, they make a mess. All I have to do is just like tweak it and hit it. Yeah. Kathy says she hates choosing fonts too. Sometimes it is the longest part of the whole design process because you download all these fonts.  Like thousands of fonts. I do have thousands of fonts. And then you got to flip through them all. I changed them a hundred times before I go back to the first one I started with. Yes, Kathy like every time. Every time. Oh, Karen says it's so therapeutic watching campaign. Oh, thanks. Oh, I'm doing it. I don't get to do it very often. We are always filming or working on the next project or whatever. And so I don't get to come out here and do this as often as I would like. Right now, we always have different people out here helping us paint, getting ready for the farmers markets. Right now, Tanner helps paint and Jonathan paints. So two boys out here painting. They watch a lot of TV. Yeah, we have a TV right here. This is like, what is it? Yeah, they can't see it. Like 65 inch. Yeah, it's a massive TV. It's huge. And they're, they're, they're watching hot ones there. What do we see there? The wrestling documentary. Yeah, some wrestling documentary they're watching. What else? I don't know. They're always watching crazy stuff out here. But then what you do is you come out, I'll come out our offices right here.  Completely stopped and they're watching TV. They're both holding a roller too. Yeah. Yeah. Roll it, roll it. There you go. Yeah, both of them. Yeah, that's how it goes. I was like, what are you doing? What you working on? How many have you gotten done? That's what I tell them. Yeah, give them a pull it up. Give them a pull it up for the day. I'll get my 10 signs in. I'll get my 10 signs in. That's how I am. I mean you guys, I mean, all right, you like that with the white? I do. I like that with the white. Okay. All right. I'm gonna try this again. Hold on. Uh-oh. Let's see. Side cam. Man, what's up? Yeah, can't you go click it and see if, uh, yeah, go figure out why that maybe that scene isn't working? All right, well, he does that. Let me finish. Got a little bit more cleanup to do here. Let's see. I missed something. I think I can start gluing. Oh, I got it working now. Oh good. Well then, while I start gluing, maybe Garrett can take you guys on a field trip. Hold on. I gotta find out which side is up. Here, screen cam. Oh yeah, there you go. Look at that. First we'll give you an up close. Let me clean the lens. Yeah, looks a little blurry. All right, there you go. There's an up close. Yeah, you want to show like everything I've been doing because I can't see all of that. Here's our paint stuff. All little pieces and parts. Still a little blurry. There's a phone. Yeah, we'll switch back to main and I'll clean the lens again. Make sure people are still out there. You guys still out there? Yes, still out there. Come on back now. Have we told you guys that yet? Yeah, we told you about Tanner. I know. We told our patrons during our Zoom call that Tanner is planning to go get his commercial driver's license. He's going to get a CDL license. So it's been nonstop trucker lingo for like two weeks. Yeah, it's been all trucker lingo all the time. Come on back now. You don't know how many smokies have been knocking at my back door. I mean, every time I turn around, there's a smoky knocking at my back door. Oh my goodness. Yes, Tanner's got brown hair, but his beard seems to grow in red. So he's been big red. Would you tell him?   Come on back now. All right, you guys want a tour of the workshop so far? Don't get excited. There's not much there yet. It all come together before Friday. We're going in. I'll walk slow. We got the walls done. See, we got some German smear going. We got some whitewashed paneling up. We did all the painting. There's a big piece of German smear back here. We're all smeared up. We got to see the smeared. But we got the walls done. We have the floor done. We have the shelves done. We really just need like those shelves over there. The logo goes on the back over here, some big logo. And then I have to make four big tables this week. Then we're ready. I think we're ready. You have your mic on? They can hear you, right? Yeah, I think so. And we're back. Hope you guys were able to see all that. I was watching on the camera. I could see you. And you're back. Yep, I see you. And we're back. Roger Dodger 10-4, almost from Russell. What color is Kim cleaning the edges with black? Yeah, just using black. You can clean them with paint. So sometimes when they get extra messy, we'll use one of these little tiny paint brushes with a real flat square tip to it. I know you can't really see that. But we'll use that and I'll grab a piece and show you. And just kind of clean it up like this. That's another way to do it with the same paint and you can't really tell because of the burnt edges.  Keep them crisp. Keep them crisp. All right, here we go. Moment of truth.  Probably, probably. Probably so. We should go to overhead for that. Yes, there we go. For the great glue down. You guys can see all that. All right, I have a brand new thing of glue here. So it's got a real nice clean tip. And I don't know, maybe I should, which way should I do it? Yeah, I would put it on there. On here? Yeah, I wouldn't even try doing it on the frame. I feel like that was just going to get all over your fingers.  I got to sleep here. Not like that hasn't happened before. But your fingers got stuck together? No. Yes. Hey, look at that. Hold on. Wait for it. Wait for it? It's hard to remember the real names. Yeah, we could have started writing those down. Well, I know they're like screen names. I don't want to get it wrong. So I'm going back. You're better at that than I am at remembering those two. Fold for it? Okay, maybe I don't see it. What you looking for? Trinkle's Garden in Home Life. I forgot their real name. I saw it up top. I want to say it's Lisa. Anyway, she's from a truck driving family. There's nothing like being on the road. God bless the truckers. Tanner cannot wait to get on the road. Like, he's got big plans for truck driving. Well, the interesting thing is, so, you know, he's decided he wants to do this, but a few years ago, he went on a little bit of a walkabout. Yeah. That's what we call it. He just one day he up and left, left his apartment, left his roommate, left his car, left everything. Just one day he just decided he was going to start hitchhiking Southwest. I think he had a little nervous breakdown. I don't know. He says that's what happened. So for three months he just disappeared and went hitchhiking. He took some clothes and his guitar. He did. That was it. He hitchhiked his way all the way to Tennessee. Yeah, all the way to... No, I think it was like the other side of Tennessee. It was the other side of Tennessee, Kentucky. I don't remember now. And then he was like, oh, I'm over this. Time to go back home. He hitchhiked back home and he was like, all right, I'm ready to start over. He literally had to start over because he walked down on his lease, his car, just everything. He's just done, just left it all behind. Crazy. Crazy. Oh, yeah, yeah. Scott was going to email the, his daughter's shirt size. Oh, that's right, yeah. Of course, waiting. Get in there. Ooh, tight fit. Get in there. Yeah, yeah.  You guys are going to love this little bunny here. Irene. I'll use this at the craft show this weekend. I'm going to knock you out if these are whole specific. No, they shouldn't be. I think I made them all the same size so you could just slide them all back in. I'm thinking ahead now. You got to go straight up and down now.  Let me help you out. Me and my bougie nails. You're going to get them in here. I don't even know how you're doing it with those nails.  I feel like I am. Go ahead. Go ahead. What's happening? Yeah. Yeah. You got to keep talking, babe. Teddy Joe's husband rode a Honda 125 from South California to Nebraska when he was 16. Wow. That has got to be a hard ride. I have had a 125. Yes. Candace said he had to restart. He had to find himself. That's exactly what he said. He had to go find himself. Well, he broke up with his girlfriend. And then he seemed okay. And then one day he just disappeared. I couldn't find him anymore. I had a Google search out for his name. Yeah, it was a little bit scary. Yeah, I was waiting. He just disappears like that. I'm about to knock him out. I was like, don't do that again. Drop the cell phone and everything. Is your sign cut on the Glowforge or X-Tool? This one's on the Glowforge, but you could cut it out on the X-Tool. Probably just that I like. Eighth inch birch or something. It's not going to be quick. I just got the air assist in. Hold on. Let me show you. Oh my goodness. It's so cute. The air assist for the X-Tool just came in this last week, like Friday. So I'm going to hook it up and see if it'll cut something like this whole door around. It'll probably take a little bit longer though because it's only 10 watts. Oops. Pain of these wrong color. Whereas the Glowforge is like 45 watts. Oh, those are the eyeball pieces. We repaint these real quick. Done. Cowboy boots on turned out so cute. Eighth inch MDF would help the thickness of the flowers. Yeah, I think we probably should try those out of eighth inch MDF. The flowers on the cowboy boots, it would really cut it down. It would knock the whole thing down in half. That is a great idea. Thanks, Amanda. That was a good idea from Amanda. We could probably just go like eighth inch birch. Yeah, I'm going to try to cut it again. He did want to join. Scott said Tanner wanted to join the hippie movement. He did. He was all ahead. He still wants to be a hippie. He still does. Yeah, he's definitely a little free spirit. Yeah, if he could follow the dead around, I think he would. Oh, Scott will be cutting and painting the home plate sign tomorrow. Be on the lookout. So there is a middle piece to the home plate sign that I made optional. It's a... Yeah, I think you don't need it. I don't think you need it. Tanner said is it needed it. So I left it in, but it's like a... I don't have the overhead. P-I-P. So there's a second home plate that comes with it. I don't think you need it, but Tanner says it needs it to give it that pop. Let me know. Paint it. Lay it out. Let me know what you think. I put it in a cut file just in case. Just in case you wanted it. Same with the rabbit. I added some random pieces like this nose that's got whiskers on it. I don't know if it works or not. I'm going to add them. But it's available. I don't know if you need that because I'm going to put the whiskers there. Oh, okay. Yeah, almost score marks got cut. So I just painted this real quick with this marker because it's just a tiny little piece. Tanner says your whole family is my kind of peeps. We have a pretty eclectic family. They're all their own people. They are all their own people. I'm not sure that you would know that they're siblings if you met them all separately or just met them as a group. I don't know if you'd know that they're siblings. They're all so different. And to me it's crazy because they're all raised in the same house, but they're all so, so different. Yeah. I think that's interesting too. You know, everybody's raised the same, but everybody ends up their own person. Yeah. Although they all, all of them are tattooed. I know that's why I couldn't do it. He's looking a little, all right, guys. And before I glue either of these down, I'm going to show you, show it to you. So let me put Easter on and then I'm going to show you what we're looking at here. That looks so crazy. He's looking a little crazy. Looks like Bob's Burgers. Yeah, he does. Yeah, he does. Bobby. I'll show you guys. Oh, yeah, here. Get up close. Yeah, here I'll go over top. Do you see him? He's got a little... This is so happening here. Does it go up here? Does it go up there? Yeah, it goes up there. Is that better? Right at the top of the thing. I don't know. I didn't like it. That's why I gave him just a regular nose. I couldn't look. Here's his regular nose. I feel like it looks more like a mustache. Little groucho marks. Let's see if somebody gives a vote. I want to hear what... All right, stash or no stash? It's not a stash. Stash or nose. Hold up.  Let me show the nose. All right, stash or nose? Nose. Look how cute he looks with no stash. All right, now put a whiskers on. Or... Whoa. Whoa, I don't even need to card him. He is definitely old enough for a liquor. Sorry, sir. I don't know how to card him. Oh, wait, I don't step on the knife. Oh, I was going to step on his nose. Let's see. Give him a few minutes. Let's see if I can do this. Jody called him Guido. He definitely looks like he's growing a stash, right? He's totally got a stash. Charlie Chaplinis fish. What can I do with him? No stash. Nose. No stash. No stash. No stash. I feel like it's unanimous. No stash. Nose only. Nose only. No stash. Nose only. LOL crying. Oh, this is happening. Poor little guy. Oh, wow. When this lady, Teddy Joe, says when he was 12, he and his brother could back a 45-foot trailer between two park trailers. I can't even back my car into a parking space. No kidding. You should have seen me with our little trailer for the craft fairs. Oh, man, it was horrible. I had to relearn how to back up a trailer. I mean, believe it or not, I actually did it trailer and kind of look at that guy. That is adorable. Sometimes you just can't tell what they're going to look like till you get them all done and you paint them. Is that cute? Yeah, he came out good. Even without his stash. He is so cute. I think the stash looked cute. Heck, how that door, you can see it from the street. Right. And when people would come up to go knock on the door, they'd be, oh, excuse me, sir. Excuse me. You're going to say something like that. Excuse me, sir, is the madam of the house home? Kind of look like Maria. Oh my goodness. All right. Well, shall I whip out a bow real quick? How much time do we have left? Oh, it's 7.15. It's adorable. It's really cute. That turn out awesome. Adorbs. He has adorbs. Now, because he's not going stash, do you want to give him puffy cheeks? You think you should have another layer of cheek? Let me see. Can you even tell? My grandma was a truck driver, as well as Irene from Georgia. The only problem I have with being a truck driver is I feel like I get bored just driving a truck, although I would like to see a lot of stuff. So that's like a great way to see a lot of stuff. I just feel like after like a week of driving a truck, I'd be like, all right, what's next? Moving on. Tanner thinks he's going to bring his bike with him and hit skate parks all around the country. All right. So if you guys can see what I'm doing here, Garrett did two layers of his little cheeks. Yep. And so I'm putting the second layer on. They're voting for puffy cheeks. Yes. Love the puffy cheeks. You can't even tell it's got puffy cheeks. No stash, puffy cheeks. I'm going to show you from the side and you see there he's got puffy cheeks now, although it still looks the same. I don't want to tilt it too high because I literally just blew it. Just blew it on there. Glued it. Glued it. Glued it. There he goes. Oh my goodness, so adorable. I definitely plan to bring this one to the craft show. Yep. That one turned out great. Even without the stash. Yeah. It doesn't, it doesn't need it. I mean, I wanted to give him whiskers, but I might have to go back to the drawing board on that one. Yep. They say puffy cheeks look great. Nose, no stash. Yes. Love the puffy cheeks. Hi everyone. Hey London times. I just ordered. Hope you like dog circle. I can't wait to get it. Oh cool. Yeah. Those dog rounds are so popular. We have like four of them. Dog rounds go every time. Yeah. Especially that farmer's market that we're at right now. It's big. It's a big like bring your pets kind of place. It's, I mean, I would say, I don't know, 85% of the people have a dog with them. So those dog rounds go quick. London times almost missed it because she was teaching her sweet teenager how to use power tools. Oh, awesome. Let me see if I can get this looking like that. Wait, damn. I guess I'll watch the beginning later. Yeah. Well, you got the good part. Yeah, you got the good part. That's what the finish line is. Although you didn't get to vote on stash or no stash. He's still missing a little. You're missing an eye bubble. Yeah. No one saw that. No one saw that, but you. Can't even tell. Can't even tell. Can't even tell. He's missing a tiniest little eyeball right there. I didn't have it to start with. Yep. Russell says you only have 298 left to make. By Saturday. Yep. All right. Better get cracking. I won't be bringing too many of these. I mean, well, usually we cut like four at a time and we're painting the same four at the same time. Yes. We do paint multiples at the same time, but this guy, you see all those little pieces? It's adorable, but it is not a quick sign. I'll be doing some more of those flip flops from last year. Those are quick. We could pump those out. Yeah, flip flops from last year. Patricia wants to know if the baseball one is available on your site for purchase. It will be right after this. We took the pictures and everything, but we changed our mind and went with the Easter. So I dropped everything I was doing. Yep. Beverly says looks great, guys. Tara says looks great. Thank you guys. At home with Jenny says I love it. He needs a little bow, but I'll give him a bow in a little bit. And we'll be doing a live on Tuesday again, right? We're back to the Tuesday lives. Yeah. Now we got to come up with something Tuesday. I mixed them, but we're bringing them back, bringing them back to Tuesday lives. Yeah. So on our patron zoom call, everybody was like, hey, what happened to the lives? And I told them and then they were like, no, you got to bring them back. And then after that, somebody else, what was it like the next day? Oh, yeah, the next day. Somebody else said something. Somebody emailed us. Oh yeah. So I was like, okay, you can see people do work to do the lives on Tuesdays. I didn't think they were like in the lives, but some people were. So bring them on back. The problem was we are losing... Roll it, roll it, roll it. I thought you meant roll it in there or get it nice and damp before I put it away. Well, that's not bad, but... Like, you guys get to watch us do cleanup now. Why don't we say bye so they don't have to watch us do cleanup? We will clean up later. So we are about out of time. So we will see you on Tuesday, where we'll do this whole thing again, like this, but maybe we'll do like the baseball one or something. No, we're going to save that for next Sunday. I mean, next month's live. So what are we doing? What are we doing this Tuesday? I don't know. I'll come up with something. Should I balance it? Make sure it's closed out. Should I balance them by his ear? No, no, no. I think it would be cooler if I balanced them by his single ear. Please do not. Just like, like this way. Oh my goodness. All right. All right, guys, we will see you on Tuesday. Have a great weekend. Have a great Sunday. And I'll see you on Tuesday. And if not, we'll see you on Friday. I'm waiting 30 seconds. You guys rock. Hope you feel better. We love, love.