What is up a welcome back? You like to do a building to make it. So do we we have a new video each week and today is test cut Tuesday And you think we'd be doing another Christmas, but we're not Well, we talked about last time. Yeah, I guess that's We were about done, but we do have a new year's one now Ignore this white band. It's gonna be gold, but I couldn't do it in my design But anyway, here it is. It's gonna be like a little top hat. I think that'll be fun And I'm doing a special request Navy United States Navy. Yes. I know you guys know we've been working on all the branches But somebody really wants the Navy one. So he finally yes for he they guilted him into it So he finally finished it up, but I think it came out.   Tyra Jason what's up, Jason? I see you got your can't wait till all branches are in available. I know Scott We're getting there. We're getting there now that craft show season Air Force Nope, no You got army marines I have the Navy and I need Air Force one. Yeah, I think I'm just down here Chain my chain pieces. Yeah, I don't think you need them All right, do you need my help with that? No, I Don't believe so We will see Well, you can you can comment here. It's got a lot of work to do so Don't toss them out there like you're not gonna use them Music chick art. Hello jewel to shirash Yes, army and marines is what Scott has now you have Navy and our will and I'm just missing Air Force Air Force, I think Unless you're gonna do a space force one Maybe More like the show though So I'll tell you something about mine. These are sitting right in my way. I Designed this little top hat. I feel like I'm breathing something in Design this top hat and then they and tana cut it for me and brought me all this stuff And then he was like, what are we gonna do? About the back are you keeping that piece in? I was like, I don't know. I don't really think about that piece So I think this good thing is a test cap. We're gonna do another like just an oval piece That's gonna go straight across here that will hold this Hat banner hats band into the frame for today, though If you see me, I'm just gonna use this little I don't know tana brought this to me It's just a broken piece of MDF and I'm gonna put it back there to kind of hold it together But we'll replace it with With a nice piece that looks like it should go there. Yeah, I'm gonna say we can figure something out This is white and that's gonna be real hard to cover up. Oh snap. It is white, isn't it? This is where your little Your little I don't know guides that you made you made some so what he did for the Marine Corps ones is he made Painting good. So basically just a round piece That you could paint over, you know that we painted over Like a stencil kind of and it just had different layers exposed that he could just kind of paint over and through Yeah, I think I'm gonna have to do that again Yeah, I think you're gonna have to Dry that really well so that you could put a couple coats of weight on there You got one quarter of an inch Yeah, that's the only thing about this file is that for There's a yellow. So this is a rope a yellow rope. I think I'm gonna make that another layer You go set it up and make it a second layer. Yeah Paint up to the edge That's not good thing. It's not fun. I think I'll make a rope layer and the back layer like he said So he's having to under this so there's yellow The rope is an open piece and you're supposed to paint yellow behind it, but the yellow Then it's just part of the actual backer So he has to paint up the yellow up to the blue line and then the blue section up to the white section They're not different pieces. So they will be I am not doing this again And I won't be giving this one to the guy. This was a test cut. Yep So and I don't think I'm gonna be able to cover the blue really well. Nope We'll be doing another one. I'm gonna fix the file So the rope sits up one more level and then I don't have to worry about painting it Yeah, look, but see can you guys see the detail in there? It's gonna it's really cool looking I'm not saying this isn't gonna look cool. It just won't look super neat How thick is the cut material these this is still all quarter inch And get Scott says he's waiting for you to get a plasma cutting CNC. I was just talking about that this afternoon Thinking about things that I could do with it But if I got a plasma cutting CNC machine, I would then have to learn how to weld. Can I get? Yeah, how much are you doing with welding Scott? And the green tape. Sorry. I guess I could System we did get you guys remember on a test cut Tuesday. I think it was on a test cut Tuesday somebody shared with us during our discussions on Our discussions on a 3d printer that they had one still in a box that they would send us and they did And so we have it and that's gonna be one of our videos coming up in January But you wouldn't believe the number of pieces It's gonna be quite an adventure to put that thing together If you guys know anything about an X car Then think X car That's how it's gonna be putting this thing together Yes, careful the US Marine name is trademark Good points. That's crazy Our trademark my name Garrett Yeah, we don't sell that file on our website or anything Alright look at here is able to reuse this tape That is an antique white which I don't think you won't like I guess we don't do this much It's probably been a while spin used he's like a light super light tan. It's like his under feathers. Oh, well, they go get nearly brown That's gonna be his next level That's since he doesn't weld anything if I make a two layer sign I use scotch ultra grip mounting tape to put them together Luckily my son and dad can weld if need be Oh, cool. Well, I would have to take it to the next level and The weld stuff. Oh Jules says Marines is the only branch The trademarks, that's interesting Figures beans All good things. All good things Things although I wasn't a Marine. I was in another branch Yeah, you've been scared of doing that eagle. It's a lot to it, but we just didn't want to sure how to conquer it I wanted it to be cool But I wasn't sure how to conquer it, but we just had to do yeah that squadron one which gave me ideas Yeah, that was that was you and I negotiating over that thing It's like no not no not that he's like then what? I All right, I think I'm gonna do this in black and gold silver white You need some glitter on that thing Oh Like gold glitter on the happy. Yeah, wonder if I have time to go out and do that. That would be great. I think so We got a hard stop at five. Is that what you say? Yes, yes, that's why I'm on it. I'm getting on it. I do appreciate that Well, you know, you're gonna have to remake this one. So you don't have any Super particular about it. I guess I just said I can get sloppy.  Yeah, leave it silver like I have it Okay, we'll glitter fine Glitter bomb. Yeah, this thing is gonna look great if I can put that much glitter on it Same thing I actually have to use it as a ruler, but I guess I do So what are you guys doing for a New Year's Eve? Yeah, what are you doing for New Year's Eve? We're trying to get a murder mystery thing going Yeah, have it though Here at the shop, I want to have it here at the shop. Yeah, I think it'd be fun It's like it's closer to the adult kids Otherwise they'd have to come all the way out to where we live. But if we have it at home, then Nobody has to drive afterwards Have to drive afterwards here. I think it's sleep on the futon You got a futon and two very comfortable business chairs Take your pick first come first serve Where's the path out gets comfortable place to sleep. Yeah, do you have this um? It's Kathy Pardon my rap moves Yeah, you can see that really got to him do not think there we got a comment this week Something about they were an adult and I'm very childish with my rap moves My audience is not 10 years old Well, I'm so my audience is 10 years old. I know that for a fact Thank you So going gold hey Helen a Tyra. Oh Is it out a trial and call tomorrow? Is it wow? I'm flies Feel like we just had one not that I mind But sneak up on me every time I Thought it was last week But you guys want to talk about on the patron zoom call this week That's tomorrow, isn't it? Hey Jeff Run a little late not a problem. We're not doing anything exciting Isn't the zoom third Wednesday? Wednesday is this Hey, when's the zoom call? Wednesday, right, but what's this Wednesday this Wednesday for third Wednesday? Actually, is it like someone else Scott's daughter is 10. See some of my audience is 10 No, it's actually it's supposed to be next Wednesday the 21st. Oh, okay next Wednesday, Jason Yeah, tomorrow's the second Wednesday, okay Hey, Helen Yes, the fun has arrived. I know just you were missing But I mean I get it Promise you got all the things to do than hang out on my Human care make it live. Well, she just said she plans for eyelash appointments Around the zoom calls for dating life. Do you get the the string? string treatment He still doesn't know he doesn't he doesn't know anything That's you mean that's really good eyebrows on eyelash. It's like adding eyelashes. I knew that can you Like that, I don't know that was pretty good Oh Jeff says hello running late today. He's also running late. Everybody's running late. It's that season season where everybody's late Christie says have you guys done an Air Force door hanger? No, that's my last one. She said as a patreon member. Can I request one? Yes, I love our patrons I Don't mind helping them out. I Was worrying Worry if you're on Did that piece of file work? I tried to match your Dimensions Charlie's be a role is to keep on stroll and go ahead and rap if you want that was lowest I Didn't even make any rap references in that video Jennifer's waiting to see your jazz moves Do a little selfie with the I know Lois you tell me every time I don't know why I don't have to get some Vaseline for the shop Why what's It won't get stuck And she told me before she has told me before Is that real white is that pure white?  Oh We're updating to Reminds me about past life Jason Trollers. Oh, that's what she's saying. Trollers be a role in so keep on stroll and That's it. I like it. I'm gonna use it Anybody have a spare 100 watt co2 power supply laying around Check the ebay's I Love the ebay's picked up a water chiller for a hundred bucks It was the CW 5200 Hundred bucks hundred for shipping. No, not water chiller. No, you're just saying that's what you got.  He's an ebay master ebay king Well, my little searches set up Mainly for bike parts. I have put way too much paint in this That's way too much paint if I have steam and I would Oh, hey, you know on our cruise we should do a murder mystery We still murder mystery cruise like the whole time like knives out That'd be good. I go to that. I buy that for a dollar Perfectly doing next Well, I will pieces on this guy. All right, so if you guys just joined like Helen and Jeff we're doing a happy new year hangar and We're doing had to get mine away This is gone for the moment, but he's doing the Navy door hanger. Somebody really wants it for a Christmas gift So he is gonna make it happen. One of our sales reps Like looked me in the eye and said Can I have this do I get this for a Christmas gift? Yeah Yeah Don't I have something to do right now? Yes, I will All right, I'm about to get started y'all yoke chips really work on me Saying I'm a sucker for a puppy dog guys Yes, he is Fine, I'll give you a ride three hours out of my way But I do it all begrudgingly should I do this with the yellow that looks too dark Yeah, do it with the yellow and now hit it with the cold spray paint Making a glimmer and shimmer and shine You guys can't even see it on film. I did this is got gold on it, but it's yeah It is not giving me that pop that I envisioned I think I should do all the gold pieces with at least one for the list to make it consistent Yes, yeah, but all my pieces on there I'm gonna do United And it feels so good Okay, it's not all the way fixed. It's okay. I'm gonna redo it anyway Well, yeah, well this for film. I mean, I'm gonna redo it for that guy. Oh that works. That's most of it Yes, thank you We'll do thank you. I'll try not to need anything. Yeah, don't you need anything? Well, they're actually doing They're they're gonna be doing headshots They're LinkedIn profiles One of them is looking for a new job. So They're gonna all do it her and some of the friends they're all gonna Are they gonna do sassy ones Yeah, maybe it's gonna be a whole photo shoot. I'm not sure And on LinkedIn He would be employer would be like whoa This gal looks sassy apparently he's 1940 Now he's Cruisin the Internet of 1940 built those hybrids through indeed oops and What are you doing I have silver glitter spray paint to I have silver and gold there you go Don't even done so paint light gray and yellow and then I'll hit it with the Glitterizing the glitterizing ray I Spent like half my time Two workshops ago out in the warehouse glitter glitter fine everybody's everybody's sign They did half of the painting. I did I did half of the pain Like half of everybody's signs. I mean they look good. I'll take full credit for all of them I Would ask out in the warehouse Do you have that give a white plate? I should give that to go fish Thanks, I'm not gonna have that fall of white feet to your right the pure white. Thank you All right, so I'm missing over here Scott says wait until you guys see my next Gensher What you up to so somebody didn't ask I'm not good on surprises What's up your sleeve next Powder coating. Yeah. Oh, yes got to you with that Mm-hmm. I've been looking at powder coat machines and ovens. I am ready to go in the powder coating But that's for metal though, right? I mean, we don't have any metal You just yeah, I just want it I've always wanted to do it. So I wanted to powder coat bike parts. Oh Yeah, we could powder coat bike parts. I suggested we bring back the wheel of DIY Yes, he has been after me Also, so for beginner laser You think then you polar Instead of cheap price so glow forge versus polar laser Good questions. Yeah, good question. I would go polar over basic or plus But I would go glow for pro I don't know. It's a steep price these days, but I would go glow for it's pro because it has a pass through Now I forgot to show you guys that polar laser does have a pass through But it's only 14 and a 14 and a half inches wide And I couldn't get a whole piece or a piece of quarter-inch MDF through the little slot So it's not as wide But I totally tried a piece of eighth-inch birch doing a pass-through cut and that that work So kind of depends on what you do for but you know what I do like for under 3,000 it comes with the tumbler accessory And it looks like a real tumbler with tumbler attachment Well, yeah, it looks pretty beefy and we're excited with the 50 watts what it can do how fast they can do like tumblers and I want to try to do pool balls. I think that'll be cool. All right. I need Rehable gray It's supposed to be a chain Yeah Yes, we can do it with Krypton and that way we can battle Superman with it I missed some stuff up here With Helen says Jason because Jason said what he was doing with the computer adding RAM a couple of SSDs and A couple of SSDs and some applications that they need upgraded after upgrading to Windows servers Solid-state drive. I mean, I know what SSD is No now, I know I didn't know if you started to forget No, no, but why would you have two solid-state drives in one laptop? Oh, one's probably a backup. I have two solid-state drive. Well, it's a server So maybe there's something up with that. That's because anyway It can pull from a solid-state drive and swap in and out of memory faster than reading from a disk It works more like one of those little sd cards, okay And then Helen said great we can go now we know who to go to if we have technical issues Yeah, there you go Jason and Jason said Yes, I remember I've been at my job I hope that's before you just hired two people on the senior trainer and I'm a senior trainer now I'm like, y'all know I'm still faking it here Look use a lot of big both words Try to throw in the word synergy a couple of times She said her special special skills is customer service not really knowing what tech does My special skills to my rap moves. Oh Scott said he's gonna be using a home oven for his power coding and he bought for 50 bucks. Oh, yeah, an oven just a regular oven Yeah Like it in there everything will fit in there through I Want a bigger oven. I want to be able to put a bike frame in there. That's it. I'm making bike parts for Yeah, he would Wouldn't be surprised if you want to add that Hi, Miriam.  Yes, almost done. No problem. Ellen's trying to get some conversation going Hilarious, okay. Did anybody ever tell me what they were doing for New Year's Eve? I don't think so I Want to do like a murder mystery. I Want that turned into murder mysteries Well, I saw all that the local Mojianos is having a murder mystery party for New Year's Eve Karen I did that once not for New Year's Eve. It was just a murder mystery thing They were having at the moment. We ended up being at the table with the the murder the murderer. Yeah, we had fun We always have fun. Yeah, we always have fun Me people make friends we always make friends that's what makes that's why it's fun I'll take that So why we have fun at the crap shows Jason is always telling me to go and get he must tell me each lie for some reason now. I've got to go and get news About the server I am upgrading a server the SSD is basically quicker for reading writing This makes user response quicker for RDP, etc Roos Elizabeth's in on the cruise Kelly's gonna have a few people over But I work New Year's Day Oh, that's you Scott's going into the mountains to get away from the city going to his dad The mountains for me. Oh, are you gonna howl at the nude for New Year's Eve? That sounds fun Jason's coming over to Kimmingeer's house to play rap music and breakdance in the street.  They happen Not proud of it But it happens happens to everybody Your pressure Amy saying hopefully we'll be moving into our new house. Oh nice. Yeah That is a hell of a heck of a New Year's Day That's a new house new year New life All right, should I go should I go spray paint? No Broke my sign It's with three chairs It's hard to stay on the chair Is that hot in here? Oh my goodness. It is hot in here There goes another cast There's one of the breakdance I went straight down for the window You guys aren't able to see it. It was below the table of you. Oh my goodness. Goodness. So funny They're metal stools, they're really hard to stay on Nope, that's yellow. Oh, you're trying to do that as your base coat. Yeah You want to do this? I'll spray those Yeah, you're gonna sabotage it. I mean it's already looking pretty Rough. Yeah I mean, could I sabotage? Can I even sabotage it now? You guys it's even funnier when you're sitting right next to them and watching the stuff all out of that chair I was a little faster pulled the last time so Yeah, last time was in like slow motion This time I was holding my sign I think it went blind. I'm gonna have to watch it back It's so funny. Oh, hi I swear more bloopers happened during the live than during filming, right? Yeah Crash bandit strikes again Girl, this is almost beating my pants You'd have some Velcro in those chairs, right? I could have to give you a safety furnace Well today, it's my breakdance pants.  Tires does my side to I just wish you guys could see it like I could see him go all the way down to the ground You guys are missing all the good stuff So funny Look who knew that I would actually grow up to be what I thought I was gonna be at four What's that a stunt? Oh, that's your stuntman moves. Yeah, it was my stuntman moves I love your patience with this And well, I can't believe He's taking the sponge the makeup sponge and he's dabbing all the way around the outside here move your this Yeah So you can see what he's doing. You're kind of off camera. Come this way. That's a little bit Yeah, you can see he's dabbing around the outside edges Slowly methodically going all the way around. I can't believe he has that much patience to do that Good job, babe. Well, it's gotta look semi-presentable This can be one you can hang on the wall in here Yeah, he's decided we need a wall of shame when you mess up a sign You gotta hang it. You gotta hang it up there and sign it. You gotta sign it and hang it You better not have a bunch of them up there, right? You lost it I did it lost it Did I hit my head? Jason says he's still trying to get his coasters perfect. Yeah, I saw that they're looking pretty good His OCD kicks in he said I keep meaning to make a little something to show you how to do engravings and opposite engravings and illustrator Well, I don't keep forgetting. I'm trying to find time. Yeah, I was gonna say I don't know that So I see you working on it And I know what's next so I'm gonna try to show you how to get there took me a minute to figure it out Hi margarita. She says hello Did you try engraving them out of focus? Christine scouts helping probably shoot Jason's coasters, I think yeah, he was saying to engrave it like purposely set it to out of focus Oh out of focus. Yeah, I don't think I saw that conversation It was on The patreon yeah the patreon the top tier patreon group All right, you guys I'm gonna have to walk away Garrett. Oh here you want to paint this yellow You got it. Yeah, I could do it. You got to keep talking Or I'll keep talking if you go. Yeah, you yeah, I'll keep talking here. Give me these I'll leave But I'm gonna keep talking you keep talking. So the other day I came across crazy Get that out of the way And then Yeah, so anybody watching this that wasn't here for the first part of this conversation He's gonna fix this. We're definitely a test cut here He's gonna fix this so that we do not have to paint the outside edges Like we're doing them right now this is Super tedious and nobody wants to sit here and do this for an hour So he's gonna make it so it's multi layered Oh, so Courtney's Roommate is here with us today and she brought her dog. So Do you see a dog come through? That's Tucker Oh Kelly said the same thing. Yeah, I don't know Anything about that engraving out of focus Hard to carry the conversation by myself. Come on you guys make a comment out there so I could talk to you What else do we have going on? I'll tell you what our craft shows Are done. We did our last one at the neighborhood It's called the mistletoe market and I was really going to that one in an effort to Pass out some brochures and get some folks in here for workshops thinking I wouldn't sell anything And we ended up doing like 800 dollars Um, which is way more than I really expected this neighborhood Clubhouse thing. So we did great last Friday Related to bomb. I don't know if you guys can even see Also Oh, yeah, make a shimmer. Yeah, you can't really see that. I could be shining from here I did the I'm almost done with this It's kind of fast All right, thank you Gotta go. This is a guy to deliver metal sheets. All right. See it's got that's got have fun I hope you don't have to lift those metal sheets. Oh, yeah, why should you metal sheets play? How'd you find all the craft shows? go to That's the most festival dot net. It's like festivals net dot net or something like that Go there. It's net festivals dot net net at net No, don't miss the gear There's lots. They have lots of things there. There's a lot of nets. A lot of nets happen She'll wash hands wash hands Wash hands I don't miss that one. I mean you should see my hands Over 50 washing smash that thumbs up show the love. Thank you, Lois Yeah, hit that like button. Give us a thumbs up if you're new here. Go ahead and hit that subscribe button Because we do this every week Although I might cut it down to one. It's hard being this creative twice a week What do you mean one sign every week? Yeah, one something I'm not even sure if it's a sign. I got some adventurous ideas. I want to test that Tuesday. Yep 2023 I want to bring back the wheel of diy that will spin on Tuesdays and determine what we'll be building I want to do I want to do some like kids games. I got a lot of cool ideas for like making kids games I got some. I know Eric and Christina asked for that a while ago So I've been working on it You gotta make the money first Gotta hit that bread and butter I gotta get my rat news And the application. Yeah, that's a good one, Amy What one? It's application It's like zap or something. That's a program. We submit our applications through them. All right They use that as they're like they manage the Applying for the craft shows and stuff Oh patricia roush unfinished kid friendly kids available yet christmas break is starting soon in my order for the grandkids. That's why that's my We want to do that forge The last week in december we want to make sure we have some workshops with some kids crafts in it And that's one of them the kids games. Yep kids games kids stuff some room names I'll be working on that. That's my focus This weekend as soon as i'm done editing this week's video Are you done? Yeah, you want to start to assemble yours? Yeah Yes, here's my top hat Oh Putting on the rits We're missing something. You gotta You're down something something something something something You want to hit that? Sorry That's sitting over there out of the way hiding On your way back. Sorry guys. I'm coming right back. I know both of us are out of strength I can't glue without my glue bucket Now let's see this thing come together Oh, Helen, I'll show you the one we did you're gonna laugh I mean not Helen Lois. Um, Lois wants to see the second factor we did Oh, I can go get in a minute You really want to show it I am I don't really want to show it no Do you ever see the movie twin? This one I hear is Arnold Schwarzenegger And the other one is Danny DeVito If that helps you guys The other nutcracker. Yeah He was uh, it's an Arnold Schwarzenegger Whatever And the other one's Danny DeVito. Well, that's why we sometimes do the project twice Live and learn Make it better It was improvements. Yes Super duper Nicole says We're in the middle of a snowstorm. Oh, I heard Great day for crafting. Yeah, where are you? I heard some of the parts some parts of the the us are getting hammered like Maybe not the midwest. Where is it? Like somebody got 12 inches of snow in like two hours or something Oh, damn Pardon me. Easy. I need to pick it to a real quick Drop this guy in the wrong hole Tape to our glue. I painted all my pieces together All right, now to have to do some cleaning up. Oh, you want to go overhead Back to overhead so they can kind of watch what we're doing. Oh, yeah Because they're looking at the top of both of our heads Working. Oh, jeez. Louise. Oh, what's happening over there? I set it down and slid Oh They have drama like a bull in a craft shop. I think I got it faced Lois loves the silver look in my hair. Thank you, Lois Actually, we are in the process of I actually started coloring it today Courtney does it for me And we ran out of time. So I think after this We've got somewhere to be at seven tonight and I'm hoping we can squeeze in New pink before 7 p.m. Let's see if it happens Always gets quiet during good time. I know that's why I said a moment ago even doing the workshops Focus time. All right. Let's check on my evil. Wow. Hold that thing up. Yeah, look at that Looking pretty cool almost looks real. I feel like you're gonna pick my eyes out. Where does this big star get? Oh Man putting on the ritz is stuck in my head. You did that to yourself. I don't even know the words. That's the worst part I just know the super duper part. Oh a peanut these wrong Super duper That's the only part I'm singing. We're gonna fix it. So Nicole answered you she is in South Dakota The bench and a half of ice and snow Now getting eight to 12 inches of snow praying the power doesn't go out Yeah, no, thanks You should move to Virginia We have all four seasons and a short amount about a time you are done complaining about them. The season is over Um, who was talking to you about the snow jerry Yes, she kept posting things where it was like negative four That is a negative Negatory for me. She's in Alaska. She's like it's negative for here People's blood freeze inside their bodies in just seven minutes I don't know if that's really what she said. That's what I heard. Did she say that? Did she tell you that? No But that's what I heard. Oh, I forgot his other wing But every time she would post that picture of the temperature. That's what I thought well That's the temperature that I would die in It's either that or electricity. It's gonna get me. It's here. Okay. I totally forgot a part of his wing Now he even he's even cooler now. Scott would enjoy the wings It's 27 lowest. It was like 27 here this morning too. It was like 28. I'm missing some pieces here You guys might have to see this thing half done although I could see in the camera. I was looking cool Half baked Kim. She's a little half baked Do you see another? I'm gonna think this is a big star. Do you? I don't hear babe Do you see a star? Like for real do you see a star? No, go fish. How big is it? Big. What's this one? I said big. Oh, that was that size Oh, I forgot his feet and where are these stars? I'm missing some things Yes, and things missing. I do I see this star. I don't even know where this star goes It doesn't go there Super duper I can't believe I songbound myself It's that top hat that did it. All right. There's a big star that goes right here. I don't know if you guys can see it, but Is it still in there? Oh, he's I think it was still in there Something, something, something. I think I can do it in white Yeah, let's just say this one won't be my show pony This was not my show version Point of test cuts, huh? Yep. That's why they call it test cut Tuesday Hey Those other people. Yeah, that's why those people there and I found my star. I can't believe that's still moving And the fish in this blue is No, I should have done it Some crazy blue and I'm doing Yeah, it is Saw that You guys will get the gist So it was a haphazard Tuesday. Yeah, we learned a lot And they're still I'm still missing a couple of stars Okay, I totally messed up the backer and I will be doing something so I don't have to paint All right, don't touch me. It's 502. Let's make this happen snap. I'm sorry I'm on it. Are you done? Yes I'm waiting until I can lift this up with your haphazard Well, I'm missing three stars. So there's three stars that go at the end of these little Bling That done. Let's go with you I'm missing some stars. Do you happen to see this laying around? Yeah, the glitter really made this whole song Ah Yes, everything was in frame you said they were in a frame Yeah frame was right here. It might be in the frame still. Nope. That's right On the ground Yep, that's my thing somewhere on the ground. I want to show you guys what this I guess Let me move this stuff here And then I'll help Garrett Sandra said Garrett that is badass. I wish my husband's grandfather was still alive He was a world world tube gunner for the navy. He would have totally totally appreciated the navy sign Yes, that's why he was like I've got to Get this done. It does. I mean we did the others And it is an awesome Christmas cake or somebody I was putting this one off because this is my branch I wanted to be good you can kind of see one of those glue sets up Like I don't even know why this one's still moving around so much. No, Amy.  I have that tick tock song stuck in my head. My money don't jiggle jiggle It folds. Yes. She was singing that this morning She was singing it at me. Lois says we both knocked these two signs out of the park. Thank you I know look at this. Do you have how cute is that? That looks totally looks like it's a 3d. I mean looks like the brim is sticking out That was kim's kim did that one all on her own made the cut file design because I said, hey, we gotta do a New Year's Eve sign and then he basically just sat there With zero length. Yeah, he had he had no idea. So I was like here. I'll just go make one All right work day is done. The thunder is now rolling trying the coasters with the above suggestions. Nice jason Asher is checking in. How you doing asher? Asher is waiting patiently on a review on the new toy aka the polar Well, that was last week's video and we're looking to do another We're really debating on what this week's video is going to be. I want to do something else We need to be able to DIY Kim Yeah, yeah I want to do something else with the polar, but I don't know what to do with it I don't know what what to make I want to do something a little bit different. Anyway, here we are Tuesday And I don't even know what this week's project is going to be yet I will have to figure that out asap kind of typical Nathan loves the signs. Yeah, I'm trying not to have him Editing on fridays. We're trying to get our video out on time. We haven't had a video out on time and three or four weeks Three or four weeks more than that probably I've been doing a lot of editing from the car Yeah Yes, he has Kind of excited to have a little A little bit of downtime. I still want money, but I love the downtime Can I get both please? My money don't jiggle jiggle. It runs away Finally at a point where I could stand it up, but we're still overhead cameras. We can't think of it anyway I'll wait Can I help you if you got this? I mean the backer looks pretty junky Do you score your sign and know where the letters go? Yes. Yes He is plopping them on the air right in the score marks. That's what makes this look. I mean, there's no way Could you imagine how long it would take him to make those perfect? Same with this one I score everything Only for placement though. I hate trying to paint inside score lines Both jute tyra and jason both say they want the ai course It's coming Jeff says it looks awesome. It does look awesome. Well It looks awesome from there and it will be awesome when he tweaks it a little bit Yeah, the paint job is shoddy at that So But from there hopefully from the camera view You guys will get the gist of how cool this thing will look when it's done and done, right? It's good. Oh, I thought it looked like something was missing up there. I guess that's what it is I know jason. I know they've been busy. We sure have been those craft shows painting You know 100 signs in a week Pick my butt. Yeah, thanks for your time. Plus Garrett's constantly designing Filming editing You're a busy man. I am Sleep when I'm dead That's funny. That's what karen just told um portney and holly It'll be time for sleep when you're dead. Yeah, I got too much to do in this life Help at all. I don't know. I think two hands in here one Once that a hands might be a sabotage Don't get chase and started again Here you can break those apart. We all got painted together Yeah, they're excited. I think it looks great. Yeah, because it's really starting to come together This would I just like the eagle. I think I might just take him off and do a big eagle. Oops Oops, maybe you could do something cool with that for You know 4th of july or memorial day or something like that Reprises roll, but this time as a 4th of july eagle I have more glue on my finger than Yeah, that looks good. That looks good Jessica says we do an amazing job. Thanks. Jessica. Jessica. Yeah, we're important Thank you, Tyra. I don't know that we feel important. Just feel busy Although I love having all my friends Yes, I know you guys that come back every Tuesday make it so fun Like Helen, we knew you weren't here immediately. It's awfully quiet without you. Yeah, one kandace ain't here Yes, we're missing kandace. Tyra ain't here She's becoming a regular staple. Yep Jerry Jerry Just Scott Jason. There's a whole many so many. I don't want to keep naming names. We'll miss somebody Garrett Kim Penelope Yeah, you guys almost got tanner today like I thought I was gonna be in the middle of So this is just like the blonde root section and now she's gonna add the pink when we get done here Tanner was ready to yeah tanner was gonna come in and step in for me for painting. He was gonna paint the top half That's when he started uh scrutinizing your design Oh, yeah, yeah Because he knew he was gonna have to paint it That's all right. All right. There we go. Mixable. It's flexible Jesse Yeah All right Might be a little premature, but I'm lifting it. I'm lifting her Yeah, let me let me give you a moment Just give me my moment in the spotlight again. Yeah, that looks like it belongs in a presidential office. It does I'm not even kidding. I think it's serious business. If anybody at the presidential office wants to give me a call Just google this you'll find me And then, you know, Justin's important. Here's my happy new year top hat The old top hat That also looks presidential. Yeah, looks like it should be in the presidential office It's the rat president right there. Oh, that's awesome. I appreciate that I'd love to paint each branch of the military to hang in our local vfw post. Oh, yeah, all I got left is the air force One more All right. Yeah, let's go overhead. Let's see that Gotta check out this. Yeah, I mean so much of working. Is that thing? Show you what I got. Show you what I'm working with Now I did have a second layer On the chain Kim voted no and threw a little chain pieces out No, it doesn't even just I think it would look cool And I think it will especially if I'm gonna set the words up one more level Yeah, maybe Something or the rope because then they'll meet the level of the rope and bounce it out All right, all right I really wish I did that work is keeping me from chatting waiting for paying job at k&g studios. Yes. Yep. We're waiting for that too It's coming producer We're working it and we're working on that cruise one day. Don't want to get your hopes up Too quick All right, you want to wrap it up one day. I got big plans. I want to be in michaels michaels if you're watching I want to be in you that sounded weird. That did sound weird. Yeah, I take it all back. All right. We're about out of time Oh, wait, you want to show Helen your your other can you get the others?  He only went to the painting room. I mean the filming studio Here he comes Oh And Jason wants to see some I mean Jeff wants to see some dance moves for the haters Here you go This guy's got a long face Your long neck See, I'm gonna you know, you can't really tell from there. Yeah, they look similar from there You can see that if they're on the opposite side of the door if we did this part On this one, I think it would look fine.  Yeah, can you see? Yeah, I don't know. It's hard to really tell It's like an inch lower and we did the the Low shoulder pads. Yeah shoulder pads here. These are a color yellow. This is a bright yellow. This is a darker yellow Save up here This is all the darker yellow all of them have gold glitter on it, but And then the drug their second half is the same. They did a good job. Everything here didn't change It was really just the spacing of his face So there they are Yep, Helen said you just need to paint the collar on the well on the left He needs his collar up here It's lowest did I say Did I say Helen again? Darn it She's got Helen on the screen. I guess I do What are you doing? Oh No, he's not Jeff You better still be there You know, this is gonna stay on youtube I was wondering why I got the shout out See all right Aren't you gonna do the worm? No, I did not do the worm That can't happen That's so funny.  Thank you Now I'm winded. Oh, I bet you are Shoo, that was like p90x All right Little jazz hands try the worm see I tried I tried Oh No, you gotta put the cake in the way but I gotta change the cake Yeah, you can't That's for another day That's like hard push-ups. That's three months. Yeah, that's six months of training I'm not 12 anymore Jeff That was Kristine who said it too Oh, yeah Oh my god and the crying laughing emoji It happens. It's my rap moves Marty, those are rap moves Marty left me a comment about how he didn't appreciate my rap moves I'll tell you I don't normally he could take comments, but this one must have got him. Well, I didn't understand this one I didn't understand my rap moves So that that was really wrapping it up.  Oh my god, Becky Look at the size of her nutcracker If you gotta go we had a hard stop at five and it's really turned into a really mushy stop Yeah, so we will see you on friday. Well, we still don't know what we're doing We will do it build it or make something. Yeah Yeah, all right, everybody Have a great night. Have a great week. We will see you on friday and I can't wait to talk to you guys next week on our zoom call


Awesome. Okay, let's get started. So we're talking about today growing our businesses or doing better work, being more productive even while you're busy with other stuff. This talk is called Taming the Whirlwind. My name is Nathan Ingram. I'm from Birmingham, Alabama, where I am one of the organizers of WordCamp Birmingham, which is coming the second weekend of August. So come down to Birmingham. It's a great place to visit. We have the greatest hashtag of all, WP Yall. It's great. Oldest WordCamp in the Southeast. I'm the host at iThemes Training, which we do two or three live webinars a week on all sorts of WordPress stuff, business stuff, most everything we do is free. So you can check us out at iThemes.com, click the training link. I'm also an ambassador for LiquidWeb. iThemes is a LiquidWeb company, and I do a lot of WordCamps talking about how awesome LiquidWeb is. I've been using them personally in my own business for, oh gosh, seven years now, I guess. Best web host I've ever had. I've personally been a web business owner since 1995. Yes, there was a web back then. There wasn't much of it, but that's when I built and sold my first website way back in 1995. And I've been a business coach for WordPress Freelancers since back in 2014. That's one of my favorite things I do is help WordPress business owners blow up the obstacles that are in their way of growth and help them to grow their businesses. One of the most important features or topics that we deal with is what we're talking about today, which is productivity. I wrote a book earlier this year called Dealing of Problem Clients. I actually gave that talk here at WordCamp Asheville back in 2016, last time I was here. So I turned that talk into a book. It's a lot of fun. It's on Amazon out there. Let's see. So when it comes to this subject, I'm an expert by the definition of Dr. Niels Bohr, who says an expert is a person who is found out by his own painful experiences all of the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field. That is me. Everything I share with you today is simply I wasn't born with it. I made all the mistakes, and so my job today is to help you avoid the mistakes that I made and give you a workable system to grow your business even if you're busy. Now, I like to start these kind of talks with a slide that's something like this. You are not alone. You come to an event like this. By the way, how many of you are freelancers? You own a business. You work with clients. OK, awesome. You're my tribe. It's easy to come to an event like this mixing with and rubbing shoulders with people who do what we do and feel like everybody else in the room, but me, has it together. How many of you have it all together? Joey has it together. All right, talk to him afterwards. He's going to speak next, informally, in the hall. OK, it's easy to think you're the only one who has struggles. But here's what I've learned over hundreds. Listen, hundreds of conversations at word camps, in coaching situations, in face-to-face conversations. I've learned that many people in the WordPress space are one more bad client away from calling it quits. They are one more bad month away from throwing in the towel. And it's a shame, because most of those frustrations and problems are solvable with great systems and processes. And one of the most common things that leads to that feeling of angst is what we're going to talk about today, which is overwhelm. How many of you are currently overwhelmed? Yeah, how many of you have been there in the last 12 months? Yeah, OK. By the way, listen, if you are struggling in this area or in any other area of your business, I drove from Birmingham to Asheville to talk to you. And I'm not saying that tritely. I'm here for you. Now, Liquid Web and iThemes paid the money for me to be here. They're letting me come. They cover the expenses and all that. But I made this trip. I'm taking my time for you, because one of the ways I give back to WordPress is by helping people who are doing WordPress with clients do it better, OK? So I'm dead serious when I say, if I'm walking around the hall, grab me. Let's talk. I'm seriously, I'm here for you. And iThemes and Liquid Web are making that possible. So here is an overview of what we're going to talk about today. The common struggle we all face with overwhelm. Second of all, understanding that problem and getting some terminology around it, because when we name our problems, they become less abstract and scary. And we can actually start to put some solutions around them. Then we're going to develop a strategy that's going to help us become more productive and make it actually work. And then some final suggestions from my own practical experience on how to do this well, OK? Now, by the way, let me be totally honest and transparent. So as that definition of expert I showed earlier makes a lot of sense, and that is this. It's really funny because I've given this talk a few times already this year at different WordCamps. I've given it online in the Freelance Leapier Group that I'm doing right now with a bunch of freelancers from across the world.  And I've actually had to make some significant changes in my agency to bring some people in to deal with this issue of overwhelm. So it doesn't matter if you don't know anything about productivity or if you've given this talk at WordCamps a dozen times like I have. This is a constant issue that keeps coming up. But the strategy I'm going to give you is one that does work when you work it. So by the way, if you are a picture taker or one that likes to grab the slides right there, that link, NathanIngram.com slash WCAVL. This is the slide to take a picture of because it's going to give you the download link for all the slides. It is also the place that you want to go to to get the tool that I'm going to give you to help to manage your productivity better. It's a goal planner that I've created and you can download it free here at this link. It's actually part of my productivity course. I'm giving it away free today. And also one more thing I'll just mention is that Liquid Web is awesome in that. They will give you two free coaching sessions with me if you sign up as a partner. Being a partner is free. Just talk to him at the table out there. And we can talk about productivity or anything else you want to talk about in those two sessions. All right, let's talk about the common struggle. Strategy versus execution. Execution is what we do. Strategy is why we do it. Now we're going to spend our time today talking about these issues. And I'm going to put some terminology to this struggle that I think we all face. Every freelancer faces it. Every business owner, every web developer, every blogger, everybody, everybody faces this. This is not a technical issue. This is a human nature issue. We struggle with this issue. Execution versus strategy. Now we need proficiency in our space. We need proficiency on the execution. A lot of the talks here at WordCamp are about the execution. We got to know WordPress. We got to know plugins. We got to know security. We got to know CSS and PHP and JavaScript and jQuery and typography and design and themes and plugins and all that stuff to do the stuff that gives us our work that we do. We need to know the stuff. That's the execution. It's the what we do. The strategy, though, is a little more complicated. The why we do it. We also need proficiency in that area. This is the internal documents and processes. The marketing of what we do. The creation of new services. Personal productivity. All of the why and how that we do things. Both of these are critical. Now here's what I've learned along the way. Most people get into the WordPress space working with clients because they love the execution. We get in there and we nerd out and geek out all over the neat technology and the greatest theme and the page builders and things you can do. You put the semicolon in the right place and the PHP works all of a sudden and everything magical happens on the web. It's wonderful. It is inevitable that somebody in that situation gets a year, 18 months into working with clients and boom, they hit the same walls. All the same walls. And it's all about the strategy. You gotta have the why, not just the what. So we're gonna talk a little bit about that today. You cannot eliminate it. Now here's the challenge. We all understand the need for strategy. We get it.  You understand the need for strategy. We understand that if we organize our businesses or our lives in such a way that we can become more efficient, more effective, more productive, more profitable, we get that. If you manage your time well, you got more time, you could do more stuff. This is not hard to understand. The problem is the doing of the strategy gets really complicated, doesn't it? I mean, how many of you understand that yes, I need to organize my life to be more productive? How many of us do that well? Right? Okay. This is a challenge. How's your strategy today? Are you steadily improving in your business? Are you steadily improving in your productivity? Or does it look a little more like that? You're kind of up and down, backwards and forwards.  For many of us, we're kind of down in this arrow in the bottom. And by the way, this has to do with what are the internal processes of your business look like? You know, the difference between owning your job and owning a business are the internal systems and processes in your business.  Does your business run on process or heroics? Where you just step in and make things happen? Or is there a process behind it? If you're running your business on heroics and not process, if you're running it on intuition and not intention, nothing necessarily wrong with that, but you own your job, you are self-employed, you don't have a business. And at some point, you may wanna do something different. And if you've taken the time to build a business and not just own your job, you have something sellable at the end of your work. Does that make sense? Now, here's the challenge. How in the world do I do that when I'm just doing all I can to keep my head above water, just doing work for clients? That's the hard part and that's what we're gonna talk about today. Why is it so hard to keep this kind of strategy in focus? We're at a word camp this weekend. Word camps are fantastic. I did 1980s last year, I'll do somewhere around that many this year. I love word camps. I've been to word camps across the country in Canada. I'm going to Costa Rica in September. I love word camps. I'm always learning something new. The WordPress community is fantastic.  All these ideas, all these thoughts, all these things. And a lot of times we spend time reading blog posts. We attend webinars. I'm doing two or three live webinars a week. We're reading books, we're doing all these things. We've got all these amazing things that we need to know. You've got a list of changes that you know you need to make in your world, but it never seems to get shorter. That sound familiar? Lots of stuff is added to that list but nothing seems to get accomplished.  What happens when you get home? You might have a bunch of great ideas that never get implemented. And it's not that you didn't have good intentions. It's that life got in the way, right? I mean, how many of you've been to word camps before? You've listened to webinars, read books, read blog posts, done all these things. And you've got all these things, nothing ever seems, your list never seems to get shorter. It's just customer demands came up, right? Family issues needed your attention. And three months later, no change, no ideas implemented. So I wanna put a word to this idea that's gonna help us to work to a solution and that word is whirlwind, whirlwind. What is this thing? Let's spend a little time understanding what we're up against so we can know our enemy and then develop a strategy to deal with it. The whirlwind is the energy and attention that is needed to run your business or do your job or whatever it is. The energy and attention that is needed to run your business. The whirlwind is the 14 emails from clients waiting on you in the morning with demands, all the things that have to be done by noon. The whirlwind is that customer call that happens right as you are about to start working on your own website for a change. That sounds familiar? The whirlwind is that one hour meeting with a client that stretches into three. You come to your desk in the morning with the best of intentions. It's gonna be a day where I finally get to do my stuff for a change, and then you make the mistake of opening your email. And that idea lasts about 10 minutes and the rest of the day you're spent putting out fires, chasing the whirlwind. Listen, I've spent hours and hours of my life in seminars and webinars. I've read books all full of excellent information that could really help my business and I never implemented anything at all.  This is the whirlwind, or like somebody mentioned as we were talking at the beginning here, sometimes the whirlwind is me getting captivated by some new piece of technology that came along. And I end up spending an afternoon on something that doesn't really move the yardsticks in my business at all and I've wasted four or five hours doing it. I'm sure none of you have that problem, just saying, for me, sometimes this can happen. All right, so the whirlwind is the urgent. Things that have to be done now. Here's the problem with the whirlwind. Goals and strategy are important, we got that. We understand they're important, we know we need to do them, but the whirlwind is urgent. Franklin Covey Company says, when urgency and importance clash, look at it. Urgency wins every time and it does, doesn't it? Think about it, our practical experience bears that out. Urgency wins every time. We know we ought to be rebuilding our own website, we know we ought to be really kind of brushing off our contract and doing better with that, we know we ought to be doing lots of different things, but urgency wins every time. Those things are important, the whirlwind is the urgent. So what do we say? We'll do it tomorrow. We'll do it next week. We'll do it next quarter. Problem is delaying strategy doesn't work because the whirlwind never goes away. It never goes away. The lesson we never seem to learn is when I say, I'll do this tomorrow, I'll do it next week, I'll do it after I launch this project, we forget one very important thing. Guess what's going to be waiting for us tomorrow, next week, next quarter, after the next website launches. What's waiting for us? The whirlwind, it's still there. If it's not there, we got a problem. By the way, because the whirlwind isn't bad, it just is what it is. The whirlwind is your business, it's your work. If there was no whirlwind, there'd be no paycheck. Are you with me? So the whirlwind isn't bad, don't disparage the whirlwind, you just got to deal with it. The whirlwind isn't bad, it just is what it is. Accept it for what it is. It's a fact of life, of business. So we have to accept it and consider the whirlwind, and then still try to figure out how do we move our businesses forward? How do we do better and grow personally with the reality of the whirlwind in our life? Does that make sense? You with me? You asleep yet? Okay. So here's how we're gonna deal with it. Taming the whirlwind, how do we get the whirlwind? How do we get it in perspective? You gotta have a plan. You need a plan.


The signal oil program The whistler Whistle is your signal for the signal oil program The whistler I'm the whistler and I know many things where I walk by night I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak. Yes friends It's time for the signal oil program the whistler Rated tops in popularity for a longer period of time than any other West Coast program in radio history and Signal gasoline is tops to tops in quality It takes extra quality, you know to give you extra mileage and signal is the famous go farther gasoline So look for the signal circle sign in yellow and black that identifies friendly dealer owned signal stations from Canada to Mexico And now the whistler strange story Meeting on 10th Street on February 25th The final edition of the Daily Bulletin was a sellout ten minutes after it hit the street Across the top of the page headlines screamed that the district attorney's office had at last won its long fight against the city's organized crime But the real drama was below Neatly centered on the page in an article by Steven North the Bulletin star reporter an article titled retraction In 25 years in the newspaper game this reporter has never before been forced to print a retraction Today I break that record Last week I called a man a weakling in a coward. I vilified him told him he'd failed me I said these things not knowing he had already made up his mind to tackle a tremendous task I said them not knowing that Gerald Wright an ordinary citizen of this city intended to challenge Gangdom's most vicious killers alone Now I want to correct the injustice The story of Gerald Wright is one that every reader of this newspaper every taxpayer of this city Yes, the story of Gerald Wright was all there a neat black type Worded in the dramatic style of a famous reporter. It was all there But the truth Actually, the true story had begun late on a Friday evening more than a week before When a man entered a drugstore on 10th Street a reporter like this guy north I'd lay off this murder incorporated ring They're too tough. Would you hear what happened? No, they shot north put him in the hospital this afternoon couple of slugs in his leg I'll tell you if that guy doesn't like oh Yes, sir. What can I do for you? Bottle of soda pop pop sir right back this way We got cream strawberry flavor doesn't matter. Huh? I said the flavor doesn't matter just anything. I Want to take with me? Oh Okay I'll be 15 nickel deposit on a bottle. There you are. Oh, yeah My doctor has given me some medicine. I'm supposed to take it with water This will work the same one. Oh sure, but it's your first time Another thing there's a movie house around here somewhere, isn't it movie? Yeah, one three blocks down a couple more of Ron Park Street Punk pictures though. Now if I was you I'd go back just the same, but the picture doesn't matter either funny one That comes in here Wait a minute Sam. Yeah, what's the matter that guy? Do you see which way he went? What do you mean? He just went out the door like something wrong. I don't know we come in here asking for soda pop flavor didn't matter Did he had some medicine to take with it? Well, I don't like it Sam look out the door and see if you can see which way he went I got an idea that guy's going to commit suicide With the prologue of meeting on 10th Street the signal oil company is bringing you another strange story by the Whistler But now friends just for a moment Let's suppose this were a quiz show and you were asked what gasoline is known as the go farther gasoline What would your answer be? Well, if you've lived out west any length of time, you know that from Canada to Mexico signal is known as the go farther gasoline Now naturally we're mighty proud of signals good mileage But even more so we're proud of what makes such mileage possible the extra efficiency today's signal gasoline gets from your motor Because when your motor runs more efficiently, you also enjoy quicker starting faster pickup and smoother knock-free power The things that make driving more fun That's why folks who want superior performance as well as those who insist on mileage are both switching to signal They've discovered that to get the tops in gasoline quality. There are just two things to remember one in gasoline it takes extra quality to go farther and two Signal is the famous go farther gasoline And now back to the question Yes, Gerald when it was all over the Daily Bulletin had your whole story in a special article by Stephen North on page one The whole story that is except for a few rather important details There was nothing about that first Friday night. What's there Gerald? Nothing about the bottle of soda pop the square box of medicine from your doctor and most ironic of all There was only a passing mention of Denise Beautiful dark-eyed Denise the cause of it all the girl for whom you'd live or die You were thinking of Denise of course as you stood at the box office of the all-night theater Remembering the way you met the way she laughed Even remembering how sorry she looked when she sent your world toppling with her promise to marry Bob You were thinking of the nightmare that followed the three days and nights of self-torture That ended with your decision to take your own life Yes, Gerald as you settle back into the darkness of the back row of the theater your decision is made Denise is lost to you and there's no point left in living You hadn't intended to pay any attention to the picture of course But as you become aware of the movements of the actors listen to the words coming from the screen you find yourself Fascinated outside She heard about it.  There was all of them. I found them three miles out of town in a ditch Solid, huh? No slips. Go slay. Don't make no slips. That's why he cost you five grand And I guess that does it Yeah That does it You must love her well Putting out five grand like that to get the number one boy out of the way. You think so. That's a good jazz I'm not paying you to guess Beat it Mike You feel a strange excitement watching the hero a two-fisted good-looking young man carry the story forward He had a rival to Gerald just like you but he found another way of solving the problem You watch the screen listen more avidly as the story progressed Suddenly you're seeing yourself up there on the screen in place of the hero and the girl becomes Denny's yes, I'm sorry But these things happen darling just got mixed up in the wrong company, don't you see Denise the police say it was a gangsta murder I I still can't believe I'm going to stand by you darling. Please remember that. Oh, thank heaven Thank heaven for you You sit there fascinated for the rest of the picture Seeing yourself as the hero fighting back winning Denise in the only way open to you with a hired murder And that's when you suddenly recall something else Gerald the news item You heard the clerk discussing back at the drugstore the headline the news boy was shouting outside the theater as you came in Excuse me, please. I'm sorry. I want to get out Steven North Author of a series of articles published by this paper exposing activities of an alleged murder Incorporated ring in this city was injured in a shooting fray this afternoon on 18th Avenue from his bed at st. Michael's Hospital North asserted it was an attempt on his life by the ring. He was exposing writer incorporated Steven North Wonder if he really knows who these people are these men who murder for hire Taxi taxi St. Michael's Hospital Me for saying I was a friend of yours mr. North the nurse wouldn't have left all right What's on your mind mr. Right? I've been reading your articles mr. Noi. I think you've done a magnificent thing and Well, that's that's what I wanted to tell you Not all you want. Yes, I just think the average citizen simply doesn't believe that there are people who commit murder for money That's why it's so important these things come out in the open Why until I read about what happened to you this afternoon I couldn't believe it myself And you just came here to tell me I was doing a good job. That's right. I thought if you knew people like me were behind you Yeah As I said most of us just can't believe it could happen why if anyone told me I could go to someone and Pay to have a man killed Why it's possible all right They got an organization mr. Right just like a factory that makes shoes or bottle tops Only they manufacture Murders now come on. Why don't you tell me where you really came here? Well?  North I Want to help you want it. I knew you think it was crazy mr. North It just seemed to me if these people are as highly organized as you say that the best way to get evidence against Them would be for someone someone they couldn't suspect like me for instance To go to them and and buy a murder Well Yes, that's it. So you're offering to help me Tell me right what's your business? What do you do? I work in a bookstore the eages bookshop Yeah, how did you I know I'd seen you before I couldn't remember where wait you can check on me mr. North That is if you if I have any sense Yeah Only at this point. I'm wondering what there is to lose What do you mean? Well, I've been careful up to now and all it got me was a couple of slugs in the leg Maybe I do need some help mr. Right.   I'll take the chance if you'll just tell me where to go Who to see Anyone see you come here tonight. No good You don't come back here understand if you want to contact me use the phone. Did you let me help you? You're asking for it I'm giving it to you Now here's what you do Tomorrow you go into the elite barber shop. I think that's the front here the barber in the back chair's name is ralston Be sure you get that chair Say tommy roy sent you but open up gradually. You know there's a guy you hate If you don't mind my saying so mr. Right, this seems kind of silly I don't understand. I just cut your hair yesterday afternoon. Of course. I can use the business. I know it looks funny I I just wanted to talk to you some more talk About what? That's all I told you about yesterday The guy that's been bothering you. Yes Why are you telling me I Thought you might be able to Do something about it So a fella's been getting in your hair so you naturally figure the place to come to is a barber shop It's not bad at all. Well, then forget it. I mean, Roy sent me Roy said out of town It's october before he left myself Look if you want to check on I didn't after you left yesterday Your name is general right One two seven. Oh, it landed place You work at the hedges bookstore The purest bookshop in st. Louis before that Came here in 43 That's an all I I just said I checked you Well, are you satisfied? Maybe There's a pawn shop, mr. Right 28 walled off By the side of town Why don't you drop in that one of these days? Yeah Fella that runs its specializes in and cheap guns Tell them you're a collector That you're after a rare one A dueling pistol called the Bronco Luigi remember that the bronco Luigi You know what you mean I think maybe he can give me just what you want The Luigi dueling pistol you say No, no, I don't believe we can help him. Oh, well Well, just forget about it then a friend told me to try this place. He's Never mind Yes This friend What was his name his name? I don't know. He runs a barbershop, but really it's look. It's all right That is you can at least leave an order for a bronco Luigi I can But they come high, you know How high One thousand dollars down that is with your order Another thousand on delivery And when could you deliver At the date we never give out my friend so many uncertainties Uh Who gets the package? I'll let you know later Shall I bring the money here? Well, that won't be necessary This is an outside transaction not entered on my books Just mail the money to a post office box 228 box 228 I'm going across town to see a friend I'll stop at the bank on the way very good And I'm sure you'll be satisfied with our, uh services I hope you don't mind my dropping in like this Denise certainly not Gerald a good friend is always welcome friend Please Denise won't you reconsider now before I Before you what? Denise Denise, you know, I do anything to make you happy Gerald We've been all through that. I've told you I'm in love with bob and don't spoil what's left You don't know what you're doing Denise. I'm sorry Really Gerald Bob's arriving in town wednesday. We'll be married next weekend. I see Oh Almost forgot. Could I use the phone? Of course, you know where it is front hall Which time this is the customer who asked about the bronchal Luigi pistol I'm sending him money The name of the man who's to receive The order Is sin claire bob sin claire. He'll be in town wednesday visiting a miss Denise evans That's 119 allison street. What about a picture a picture? I haven't got Wait, what about a picture of the girl? He'll be with her Denise yes, Gerald Oh forget something. No, I I was just wondering if it isn't asking too much Denise Could I have your picture my picture? Oh Oh, I certainly Gerald. I'd like you to have it. I'll get one for you right away. Thank you Having it will Make such a difference 20 minutes later you drop the picture and the money into a mailbox and hurry on to the hospital to see Stephen north you aren't prepared for his burst of anger when you tell him you're quitting What do you mean? You can't go through with it. Was that just a song and dance you gave me about wanting to help I'm afraid my enthusiasm sort of carry me enthusiasm You're like all the rest Cowards nine out of ten in this town are just like you. I know how you feel mr. North, but I never mind the words Oh, I know what happened. You tried it. It got too tough. You got scared. Oh, that isn't it at all Well, what is it then? I I don't think you'd understand Yeah, I think I do Run along right? You're not the first volunteer assistant to check out on me From now on I carry the ball alone I'm sorry, mr. Norris. Oh my And don't worry about being yellow You got plenty of company the line forms on the right And it's a long one Can I write?  And certain that steven north will forget all about you The waiting for bob's accident isn't pleasant, but there isn't much that can be done about it And then one evening the telephone in your apartment rings Yes, Gerald Denise what is it? What's the matter? I'm shot Now please dear get hold of yourself. I'll grab a cab and get right over No, but I can pick you up. What do you think you'd better dear? I'm all right. I'll be there in 10 minutes All right dear and Denise I I know there isn't much I can do at a time like this But you know, I'll always be around Wanting to help you the whistler will return in just a moment with the strange ending to tonight's story Meantime an important question for drivers Are you missing anything? Well, you're missing something very important if you haven't gotten that free checkup of your fan belt and radiator hose Which signal dealers are now offering Perhaps you didn't even know that these items need periodic checking because most service station operators never mention them But then signal dealers aren't like most operators You see each signal dealer owns his own business and has a personal interest in keeping both you and your car happy He realizes that fan belts and radiator hoses being made of rubber Can either wear out or deteriorate from age and possibly cause serious trouble Which explains why almost 2 000 signal dealers throughout the pacific coast states are now offering this valuable service without cost or obligation Moreover, if your fan belt or radiator hose has worn to the danger point signal dealers can in most cases replace them while you wait So for safer driving and your own peace of mind Plan now to stop at your neighborhood signal service station for this free checkup There's no better way to see for yourself the more thorough more conscientious service Cars get at signal service stations And now back to the whistler Well, Gerald now, you know what steven north has been writing about The incredible efficiency of the ring of hired killers known as murder incorporated Bob Sinclair is dead and as denise stops by your apartment to pick you up You know that in time she'll be yours again And then as she drives away toward the edge of town, you remember the envelope with the other thousand dollars in it addressed to box 228 The final payment for murder Denise Yes, would you mind stopping at the next letter box? I have to get this off. Oh, of course Well, here's one right in the corner Just take a second Why are you turning down here? Wait a minute I thought so What's matter that that car in back of us it's made every turn we have that's why I just swung on the 10th street to check Are you imagining things Denise? I don't like to keep repeating it, but You just can't let this upset you so much. I know you're right I just can't get it out of my mind. It was so crazy so unnecessary Bob knew about guns. He's hunted all his life He hunted What do you mean?  I had the shot Denise Well jowd, what's Denise turn off drive back to a town that car and back it is following us. They think I'm bob Bob why please Denise don't ask any questions. Just do as I say. What do you mean? They think you're bob.  What are you talking about?  I paid them. I paid them to do it paid who they think I'm bob.  Gerald you you don't slow down They're catching up to me Denise please you You were going to have bob killed. That's it isn't it Gerald? Yes Yes, anything only don't stop me. Please please speed up Denise it's all right Denise please don't you wanted to take his place didn't you Gerald well you can Denise they call me yes Well, I will let them kill me. Well, let me out I gotta get away There were two stories of Gerald Wright in the meeting on 10th street The real one that Gerald himself could never tell And the other one that appeared on the front page of the daily bulletin under the byline of steven north And so it was through the self-sacrifice of Gerald Wright that the police were finally able to bring the entire murder incorporated ring into custody What prompted this courageous man to step out of the role of ordinary citizen and undertake the hazardous task that cost him his life We will probably never know But one thing is certain the people of this city will always revere the memory of Gerald Wright hero Let that whistle be your signal for the signal oil program the whistler Each wednesday night at this same time Brought to you by the signal oil company marketers of signal gasoline and motor oil and fine quality automotive accessories Signal has asked me to remind you To get the most driving pleasure drive at sensible speeds be courteous and obey traffic regulations It may save a life Possibly your own featured in tonight's story were elliot lewis and k brinker The whistler was produced by george w allen with story by joe malone and herald swanson and music by wilbur hatch And was transmitted to our troops overseas by the armed forces radio service Next wednesday for a full hour of mystery over most of these stations tune in a half hour earlier Enjoy the saint as well as the whistler This is marvin miller speaking This is cbs where 99 million people gather every week the columbia broadcasting system


T F N N headline news update Good morning everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien coming to you live from T F and N headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida 10 a.m. Eastern Time Thursday morning 30 minutes into the trading day and we got markets in record territory with a little trade Optimism to kick things off right now. Dow Jones off up 217 points trading 27,710 S&P's up 17 points trading 3,094 we might get a 3100 print very shortly Nasdaq up 56 points trading 84 67 Russell 2000 up more than a solid percent of 16 points at 16 0 5 and the VIX as you'd expect pulling back a bit trading 1252 right now. We'll start things off We're gonna start it off with the news of the day driving some action and that would be trade Optimism as China says it is agreed with the US to roll back tariffs If they get a phase one deal, there's a little bit of contingency on there as in they're looking for a similar rollback Simultaneous we'll see if that happens But nonetheless you have the Chinese Gao fang a ministry spokesperson for China's Commerce Ministry saying that both sides had had agreed to Simultaneously cancel some existing tariffs on one another's goods according to the country's state broadcaster We'll jump over to the charts You will see on the charts where that news breaks we'll start it off with the Dow and there it is at about 215 a.m. Eastern Time the Dow is trading at about 27,430 we're now up more than 200 Dow points from that level 27,658 Nasdaq 100 you see the acceleration overnight pretty much right at we where we were overnight on the highs at 8254 there's your S&P 500 just climbed above that level reaching a high on the futures of 3094 currently trading 3091 crude oil contract trading higher as well $57 and 32 cents There's your gold contract actually inverse to the market pulled back on that news you had gold above 1492 gold now trading 1485 and the euro US dollar train at one ten 60 terms of other news you have happening out there Roku shares trading lower after the streaming device maker breaks earnings win streak We'll jump over to that chart in a moment and speaking of earnings. We'll start it off with Roku R. Okay you There's your chart now down 16.8% and after the bell Disney earnings on the forefront of that up about six tenths percent Stay tuned folks come back at 10 o'clock with Tom fast market at 11 fast little Chapman Steve Rhodes Dave White Tom O'Brien all this afternoon. We'll be right back