Tim Draws Things

so here's what we're going to do you see the agenda here um i want to do um how i normally work which is that i alternate work with procrastination um and so we're just going to do that together today um and okay no one's complaining about echo this is this is hey we're here um now i'm going to bring the agenda over here to the uh to the other screen here so let's go let's go to our main screen All right, this is going to be our main screen. And we're going to have Illustrator open in a second. I want to start actually by just orienting you a little bit here to what the hell I'm doing. So here we have a book. Actually, I'm going to hold on. Just hold on. Just be patient here. We're not going to look at that yet. Because I want to just explain the whole situation first. So for anyone who's not... privy to what I'm working on. It's a book, it might be called Everything, Story of Everything, haven't really decided yet. But it is, it has a wide scope. It's a lot of fun. It's a little daunting. Here's the table of contents. So you can see, ignore the page numbers, that's just the manuscript. Although it will probably be about that long, maybe even a tad longer. But You can see the scope, right? We go start at the Big Bang. We do a lot of astronomy and various things there. And the origin of Earth and geology and plate tectonics. And how did the air get here? And how did the water get here? And, you know, how does the Earth work? Then chapter two, we have the origin of life and we go. all the way through evolution to the moment when humans and chimps diverged. So that's kind of like the animal story, but now we get to, we focus in on the human story. In chapter three, we go from the moment chimps and animals diverged all the way to kind of the agriculture revolution. So it's like, how did humans become humans? Because the moment chimps and animals diverged, those ancestors, like they're kind of gnarly. you know those aren't like um you know we don't we don't want to really spend too much time with them but then they become us slowly so we talk about that then we go from agriculture revolution in chapter four all the way to like um you know we're in the first cities in writing and stuff like that so like how did we go from hunter-gatherers to like civilization and cities like what the hell um in chapter five we go through basically 2500 bc all the way to 1500 a.d just like tons of history chapter six we talk about the modernity the last 500 years then we talk about today then we go into the future then we talk about the future is this huge chapter based on interviews i did with hundreds of people and scientists and tech people um and then we talk about super intelligence and then we go to the far future so that's just an orientation a little bit about what um What the book is about. Now, there are a lot of drawings for the book. Oops. Okay. There's a lot of drawings for the book. And I've done about half of them. And I'm in the middle of doing more. Okay. Still no one complaining about any tech difficulties. Amazing. Okay. And so these days are funny because they're kind of fun. why not just draw with a bunch of people but also i end up getting more done because i just have longer work days and the procrastination breaks are actually less long than they would be normally so it's also it's a productive productivity hack um and so i want to start with okay let's start with um should we start drawing yet i mean we've done the problem is we've kind of eaten into a little bit of our procrastination let's do a little bit of procrastination okay I'm going to do one of my favorite activities, which is, which is, let's move this over here. Okay. I don't know why we're in Tucson. Okay. So get it, get out of here. I don't care about Tucson. Okay. Tucson. Why are we still highlighting Tucson? Get out of here. Okay. All right. So what we're going to do is we're going to pick somewhere in the world. um this is like i can't believe that this activity is available just available to us um and we don't really do it we don't like it's like insane so we're gonna just street view somewhere right so like where should we go like um so where's the little guy get out of here okay here's the little guy um let's like see what's okay so i'm always been what the hell is going on here right i don't think there's many people here um what's this called like the taklam what's it called uh that's something that's not on here um it's not the the gobi is like i think a bigger region but this is a taklamakin something now let's just see if there's anyone there all right okay uh no there's no one there um okay let's see how about we'll just like go over here what the hell is going on right here okay oh hey yeah I think these people were on a long drive and this is like their rest stop. Yeah. Okay. And these are like prayer flags. I saw a lot of those in Bhutan recently. Okay. That was kind of a dud. Let's find somewhere else. Okay. What's going on in South Sudan? Okay. What's happening here? Okay. We got a road, a headless man, footless. It's a real impediment. So my question is, who took this picture? And how is it 3D? Sorry, how is it 360? And then how did it get on YouTube? I just am always perplexed about this. How did this end up here? But it did. And there's just amazing 360 views everywhere. Okay, we're going to do one more. Normally, I will do... Other times, I'm going to do eight of these. but um right now i think we should get to work you know it's like been it's been it's been a rough beginning here okay what's going on here on this road okay now we're in madagascar jesus all right and this looks nice looks like it's pleasant weather very pretty um yeah madagascar So, and then, so not only can you just go anywhere in the world, you can then like go down the street, you know, and check it out. So yeah. All right. Okay. I'm going to get to work, you know, I'm going to get to work and then we're going to come back and do more of this. I have a lot of activities, a lot of procrastination activities that are things I normally do that we're just going to do together. But I think it's, I think we should probably. Close this. Okay. So let's move on to the first drawing session here. All right. So I use Adobe Illustrator, which is new. I never did that before. I always use Pixelmator. So let me just quickly explain the difference here. So here's Illustrator. And I think I want to make it like not fully full screen so you can still see the agenda and me. But there. And let me just... take a look at how that looks here okay let me go live there we go okay so it looks like it looks like i'm a little bit over the edge here so i'm just going to move this here um now does it delay basically you have the option to do no delay but it like is probably a little bit worse quality and so we decided to like do the middle ground delay quality okay now um So draw. Okay. So I used to use Pixelmator, which is, it's totally different. It's like equivalent of using Photoshop or Microsoft Paint back in the day. And what you're doing is you're basically, it is like paint. You're like painting pixels. And each pixel has its own color and stuff. And then it's very hard to do anything with it. It can be much easier in a way than Illustrator, which uses vectors. So vectors, like you can make them big, small. It's always perfectly sharp. it's like they're objects instead of like painting on a canvas so it's much easier to work with them and manipulate them but it is if you're used to using like the very intuitive paint programs like pixel mater or photoshop it is the craziest learning curve it just doesn't make any sense at first and it's maddening and i wanted to like throw my computer a bunch of times but it starts to make sense and then once it does it's like oh wow this is way better so that's how i feel i'm now a big pro illustrator even though it's still i'm still not very good at it and you're gonna see if someone who if someone is good at illustrator here watching this you're going to be frustrated because i'm i do lots of hacks that make no sense i'm sure i'm doing things inefficiently and please point them out help me but um i've gotten at least better at it and i think it's just like already way better so this is our like template doc you can see there's like a blue line here that's like i can't go out out there because there's that's like too close to the margin And the red is like where the actual page ends. So if I wanted to have like a color that bleeds all the way to the edge of the page, then you'd want to make it go all the way out here. But otherwise you want to stay within the blue line. And I'm trying to be cognizant of page count. So I don't want to have an 800 page book, right? You're just going to sell fewer copies. People are going to be daunted. I don't like when someone gives me an 800 page book unless it's like, you know, some legendary book like Shogun or whatever. Now this is not going to be short. It's going to be, it's the story of everything, right? We've got, we cover so much. There's 100, over 100 topics in the book. So trying to find that middle ground where it's like, you know, like, I don't know, Sapiens long or like, you know, where it's like, it's definitely a meaty book, but it's not like the crazy long book. So my goal there is under 600 pages. So in the fives. And if you check out all the drawings, I want the drawings to only add 100 pages or less. So the writing should be like 470 or something. And the drawings will make it like 560, 580, somewhere around there. That's the goal. Endnotes, which would normally add 100 pages, we're putting them online using like a QR code at the end of the book. I don't love that. You know, it's nice to have, we're going to have these really thorough endnotes. We're going to have like the most thorough fat checking team. It's going to be like unbelievably well sourced. And I feel like, you know, people can't see that as easily, which is just nice for, make you realize how well checked the book is if you see a lot of endnotes. It's okay. It's worth it to not have an extra 100 pages. So that's the plan. And so therefore, I'm rarely doing a drawing that takes up this whole page. This is a page of the book. So my goal is always like, can I get it as a 20% of the page or 30%? Or can I even better get it as like an aside that will actually have text wrapped around it? So these are all the things I'm thinking. Now, the first book. Someone says, I'd like to read a hundred page book about you. And that's very nice. And I know that a lot of people who really like Wait But Why will read a long book by me and be happy about that. But, you know, then you give it to your friend who doesn't know Wait But Why and they're like, what? I'm not reading this, you know? And so that's why I'm trying to not shoot the book in the foot by making it like crazy, crazy long. Okay. So I'm just going to pull up. We're going to do it the first drawing here. Oh, and then for my hardware. I use this guy, Intuos Pro. It's a Wacom tablet. As far as I know, Wacom is the, they're the goat with tablets. I actually have one that I used in the last live streams that has a screen and then actually you can look down and see it. It is a computer screen that mirrors your screen. And I just found that I was never really using that. I was still looking at the screen and this is just so much smaller, more nimble and it's wireless. The other one had all these cords and I can just throw this in my bag and like do it on the plane. so yeah um and let's just see what we're doing first here okay so the first thing i want to do so also the the because the book is all over the place the drawings are all over the place like we're going to do stuff on geology and uh you know like ancient history and the future weird future things with biotech We have a lot of interest. We have linguistics. You're going to learn about English if you stay here long enough. Today we're going to start in ancient Egypt with a little friend that I call Khufu. Okay, so here's what we're doing here. I'm trying to explain the pyramids and we talk about the pyramids. I'm not going to, I'm mentioning in a footnote like some of the, there's a lot of like weird controversial footnote pyramid stuff, right? Like are they really much older like are they alien or whatever the aliens make them i'm mentioning like i'm like acknowledging these without um without fully um talking about it because i don't think there's that much credence to these things uh so we're gonna make a so so i'm just explaining it kind of normally like what happened and why why they started the pyramids and and i want to show what it was like for the people right so We've got, so Khufu is the pharaoh that made the first big pyramid. It was like his idea to go super big. And so I was like, how do I draw Khufu? So let's just pull open some things here. Don't keep going there. Get out of here. Okay. So here's Khufu. I'm gonna have to draw this guy. And I was like, okay. so is he wearing like that little helmet or is he wearing a cone hat or is he a cone head so then i found this one is a kind of the more prominent thing you see when you see kufu um and then i was like okay so now he's he's got this hat i feel like i can draw this hat better this like little this little cap i don't know what the hell i just like you know so but then i then i was like well what color is that and i found this and i was like first of all i don't know is this the hell drew this today i know what they're talking about but i did like that it was the same shape as this i was like okay it's red i don't know about drawing that snake you know let's keep it simple but like i don't definitely don't know about his little chin strap um but did they wear these things it looks just like it would get really uncomfortable throughout the day and what is it like a little like homage to a beard it's very strange um and then but then what is this is this the cone head So do I draw that part? Does it go up? So when I decided, here's what's great about having fact checkers. Fact checkers are awful people. I love mine as people, but they're awful people. Like there's nothing I can do than have fun in the book that they won't be like, no. And they'll just like, they just immediately, they're just like, it's like anything really fun. They're like, that's not what happened. Like that's not, or like there's no evidence for it. So it's just like, I'm just going to, but they're also amazing in that I can just. do this i can make the cone i can send it to them and they'll go and research it for a million years and come back and tell me if there was actually a cone or not so we're going to draw it with the cone and put these over here i don't need this one i don't think we're not going to draw this guy so i need i need these two for reference okay now um i'm here actually you know what we can do i mean this is what i normally would do is um i could like if i really wanted to be here's what's cool about illustrators it's just very um like so i can just screenshot this and i can paste it here and i can make it smaller and then i can do the same with this guy all right um all right so now we zoom in a little bit i can just reference these guys as i need to all right so we're going to do this brush i'm going to start with the one stroke is that too thin That's okay. Maybe I'll do like 1.2. So here's another thing I love about Illustrator. I could just like do this, right? And I can be like, okay, here's a head circle. That's a really bad head circle. Here's a head circle. Okay. It smooths out a little bit. I reduced it. I like a little smoothing because I would usually in Pixelmator, if I did something, if I did a line that was too jagged, I'll just go in painstakingly like erase and try to fix it. Here it does a little smoothie, but I don't want full smoothing, obviously. I don't want perfect circles because then it has no... style or anything and it doesn't look like it's a wave of eye drawing but anyway if i'm just like in pixelmator if i'm like i want to make this bigger it's like oh i i'm just like screwed because it's going to start getting low res here i can just be like and then i can also be like actually i want it to be or i can be like actually i want it to be thicker so like thicker thinner yeah i don't know what's doing that but it's like you know so very like you can just work with it you know it's not like you make these things and then you can manipulate them and it's not like this you did a painting now here's your eraser and here's a paintbrush and those are the two tools you can like erase and paint um you can like actually it's like physical objects and you can like mold them and work with them so it's really nice i don't have to like get it right on the first try i can just take a crack at the thickness and then so that does seem a little thin um let's just move him to like 1.2 okay now i'm gonna draw i'm gonna draw kufu over here I think. There's a dialogue here that they're going to have. This is, so the scene here is, he's, like, they had pyramids, they had tombs, they had big tombs. It was already a big thing in Egypt. But then Khufu, like, went crazy with it. Khufu was like, he just did something really weird, which is to build the first big pyramid. And he didn't build it, of course, like, the people built it, so. we're gonna just kind of get to that here we go okay so what do we have here he's oh head circles get used to me just having head circles are always so hard for me don't love it don't love it no i think i think it's too i think we're i think we're too thin i think that's the issue 1.5 in a little bit okay i know i just want to get this right once here can i work with that can i work with okay so here's what's cool about illustrator at least i can like now go fix it So I can go here and I can just drag these. Okay. And I can go like this. Oh man. And then Khufu's head. All right. Move this up a little. All right. Yeah, something like that. I don't, I don't, why is it so pointy down there? So that's kind of a head. Okay. Now I want to tilt it a little bit because he's looking down right now. The head should be a little oval, you know. Okay, so there's Khufu, and we'll see about thickness later. All right, now, this might be a tad bigger. Okay, now let's draw his body and his little legs. A little too small. Okay, so that's Khufu, and he's very regal. Let's draw his little arms, but he's going to be saying something. He's going to be saying something so. So he's going to be like, if you're saying something, you know, a stick figure is saying something, he wants to be like, You know, and then like that. Okay. A little bit more down. All right. Okay. So even like this, if I want to be perfectionist, I don't want that little extra. It's because I had, you see, there's two anchors there. So I can just go minus sign and get rid of it. Very nice. All right. There's a little one here, but that's kind of like his hand maybe. I think I'll delete that. All right. Okay. We'll see how that looks at the end. So now he's talking. This is one area where pixel mater is better. It's just like really annoying to like delete You can't just like erase you can but it's not like So I'm gonna cut I have to cut a piece out here And what's his expression gonna be like I need to know that before I know how big a piece of mouth they cut I see smiling kind of or is he like No, he's not smiling. Okay, so he's gonna go like we're gonna cut here and we're gonna cut here Then we're going to delete that. And now we're going to... I want to make the mouth line a little thinner. In general, mouth lines should be a little thinner with my things. And eyes should be a little thicker. The eye dot. That's too smiley. That's fine. It's like an appropriate amount of like alpha, alpha, kind of alpha energy of not really giving a shit. okay now we want an eye which is just going to be a probably a perfect circle and i'm going to make it a little bigger so i'm going to make that 1.8 and we'll see oh see that made that 1.8 because i okay now go here 1.8 um i'm at 1.3 for 1.5 for his uh the rest of him and then 1.3 for the mouth 1.8 for the eye and then i think he's going to be looking um at these three guys here we're gonna have three more guys Okay, I can work with that for now. We can always go, you know, once we would look at it at the end. Now the hard part is his hat. I'm just going to do a separate object here and I'm going to, I have it in my thing, but it's not, it's not, that's actually not useful. I'm going to just use this drawing here and move it over. Okay. Um, this guy, that's, yeah, this guy's got some real mojo over here. All right. So over here, delete. Okay. Now I'm going to, Do I want a black outline? I don't think so. I think I'm going to want to do it in red, but let's just start here with now. So I'm going to go up here like this. All right. Boom. Boom. Is that two out? I think that's like two out, right? It's more like vertical. All right. Now let's just fix this. Now we have one more line here, and that's... it goes like this kind of oh that was a nice first crack there i can't okay it's a little short but hold on see i can drag this this is you can't do this in pixel meter you can't like move things around sorry i feel like i'm trashing pixel meter which was good to me for years but it's just now that i realize there's a such a better way i had to by the way the reason i i didn't want to i resisted using illustrator but that but random house who's publishing the book you know for print you just don't you want things to be super high res and be able to be scaled on the page during page design and they're just like very anti me using anything other than illustrator so it forced me it's a little higher right we got like that all right i don't know if that okay i think that's kind of now oops and then uh let's just let's let's let's join these four guys first of all um philip detmer of kurt's cassette very close friend He makes the best YouTube channel, Kurzgesagt. Best animated YouTube channel. So he was watching me doing Illustrator and he told me that the way I was highlighting like four things by click, click, click and stuff was just dragging. He said it was like when your mom has her finger over the shutter when she's trying to take a picture. So that hurt. That hurt. But he was helpful. Okay. So how are we liking this? Is he looks like a chef's hat too much? I think it's a little high on his head. Or maybe a little wider. I don't want him to wear a chef's hat, but maybe the red will help. All right. And then maybe this should be more of a straight angle here. All right. So click first. Okay. And then something like that. Something like that. Okay. Khufu. It's definitely not what Khufu looked like, but we're going to assume no one really knows what Khufu looked like. So now here's what's cool about this. What did I do? Yeah. Now, if I want to get this exact color, i just go over here and i can go i and i can like pick some of the brighter part there now i can go over here oh didn't mean to do that now i can go over here and and i can make it red and then i think i'll make the background that the thing like a darker red i think black a black outline doesn't make sense there oh why am i an rbg oh no okay i'll deal with that part later i should not be an rbg i don't know why i'm an rbg I should be in CYMK, which is a different color palette that we use for print. And I don't know why the setting wasn't correct there. I think it's, yeah. Needless to say, this is now pissing me off thoroughly. Okay. I just want here. There we go. Okay. And let's make that a little thinner. Seven instead of one. Okay. So here we go. These corners are a little pissing me off a little bit. Come up here a little bit. oh i see there's two things there because i joined path so we can go like that and then i can drag yeah just a little a little bit too much all right so here's khufu oh now we're gonna do the cone too weren't we let's see if let's see if we have any thoughts here from the chat i've been ignoring you because i've been trying to focus because everything's so hard for me tim rig helpfully noted the reference image is hidden under the video oh yeah it's hiding the video of me so you can't see me toil miserably and be so sad. You can't see how sad I am. Okay, as I try to figure out how to draw. Document is in CYMK. Okay, see? I love this. Everyone's helping me. He's definitely a chef, not a cook. Yeah. Oh, it's coming on past midnight. Hey, by the way, I, as someone who has a deep love for, I listen to so many great things to fall asleep. It has to be very specific. It has to be kind of interesting. and mundane in the perfect combo like it has to be mundane general it has to be like uh it has to be mundane and interesting it's hard to describe like the radio show in our time the british radio show in our time really good sometimes they have a cough though they don't like edit it and a cough can wake me up so it has to be also very level very monotone i don't want other voices i don't want like anything extreme and i feel and i just got some confirmation that this video might be a good interesting but mundane video to fall asleep to and i just i'm paying it forward because i have such i'm so grateful to the people who put me to sleep oh my god history of english podcast kevin stroud the that man has put me to sleep like hundreds of nights um stephen fry mythos it can get a little animated which can wake me up but it's so good and it's such good bedtime stories and stephen fry is just who else do you want like singing you to sleep so I'm very honored if someone can fall asleep to this video. Now, I think the cone will be, let's just add the cones. I don't even know what the full cone looks like because, you see, it's just this and then the other guy is just like a cone head. But I'm just gonna do it and see if, it might just look cool, you know? And maybe there's a chance that we don't really know. Sometimes the fact checkers are like, no one knows what he looked like. Oh, hi. It's my little daughter is here. And you, I just don't think I want you on YouTube. So as cute as you are. I'm going to hand you off. It's a shame because I really, really would have liked to have her as part of this. She is very funny. Um, but I don't know how much I want her on YouTube, you know? Okay. So, um, reminds me of that incredible video of the guy doing like the serious news thing and his kids come in the room and the mom likes dragging them out. This is great. That was much higher stakes than this. Okay. So what are we doing? We're doing black here or are we, I think I'm going to do like an eggshell type thing. So let's just start with black. And what did that guy look like again? Is that thing coming out from the... Okay, it's like kind of smaller. Okay, no, that's awful. It's more of like a cone. Let's just go under here and go like this. See, make an object. Now I can put that behind it. Put this behind it and I can make it whatever color I want. I actually am so confused why this is showing me the RGB palette, not my normal swatches, but it's probably just some setting I have to. Uh-huh. There we go. There's your answer. Okay. Swatches. Let's go. I'm just picturing kind of like a lightish yellow thing. So let's just start with yellow here. And then let's go here and make it like very light yellow. But not fully yellow, right? Maybe add a little of this in. Not green. A little red in, maybe? And it's a little orange. I don't know. How do you do eggshell? I think it's just like very almost white. So I'm just going to try this. And then I'm going to make this the same color. And then I'm going to make it a little bit even lighter. I don't know. What are we doing here? This looks absurd. You know what? It looks terrible. I'm going to just go like this. I think it should just be more of an outline. Let's go here, and then let's just get rid of that. What does that look like? I don't, you know what? The cone is not working at all. I've never seen something work less well than this cone. Is it the size is the issue? I just, this is sorry, Khufu. Sorry, Khufu. No cone for you. We're taking it out. This is good enough. I think it signals that he's more important than the other people. He's the pharaoh. Okay, now we're going to do the other guys, which have nothing on them at all. Do you have any thoughts here on Kufu with just a thin black outline? Yeah, it just didn't work. Yeah. Okay, so here we go. Now I want to make him a little lower. Make them all a little lower because there's dialogue above them. Now we need three guys. Let's just not make this take forever. So what did I do for him? We want the same thickness. I did 1.5. So here we go to 1.5 here. I just, you know, I picked some later. I had keyboard shortcuts to get me to like the bigger size and I just like don't know how to do that here yet. So first I'm just going to draw the Mexican so I can make it pretty similar. It can be a little smaller maybe. In the old paintings, that's good enough. These guys are less central than Khufu. I don't love the, I don't love this. Nope, that didn't work. But. In the old paintings, if you look at the standard of Ur, Ur is from an old Mesopotamian city where there's this famous painting that kind of shows both the war and the peace side. It depicts them. And what they do, and what they do in so many things, is they make the important people much bigger and the servants are tiny. They're like miniature people. So we can do a tiny bit of that here. Do I hear something? Oh. okay okay alicia says can't help but feel like you're ignoring slack yeah good point alicia sorry i was supposed to be looking at slack you're done that's so funny alicia's been saying all the same things that i've been hearing here sorry alicia i'll uh yeah i've been ignoring her as well as you now this isn't 1.5 so let's make it 1.5 and then let's make it a little bigger um for the record by the way alicia and i tried to do our due diligence we yesterday tested the shit out of the system we were like let's not let's just not have a huge technical difficulty to start like we always do and then we did all right body now is it let me know if the mic is still too quiet by the way um and the music has stopped for me i i still don't know whether you could hear it before or not um i thought you couldn't but in case you can turn it back on I think it's just kind of nice to have the vibe, which is like the similar vibe that I would be writing to normally. Okay. Someone says RGB, not RBGF. That's embarrassing. All right. So I turned the music on. I hope you can hear it. By the way, I'm going to be here fucking all day. So I hope some of you stay or come back later. Because I need to get a huge drawing day in today. And we have a lot to talk about. Okay. now i hear now i hear very something something just went off with my my headphones just turned off it's 18 it's yeah okay anyway i hope you hear the music and if not alicia will figure it out eventually um it's like i i'm i think i could be decent at like it stuff but alicia is so good at it that it's made me really really like incompetent because I just have no need to get good at these things. Why is this so hard right now? Hold on. I think I'm just too zoomed in. Okay. Let's just draw these dudes. Come on, these guys are not that important. Now we're down to the wrong size, but at least I like that. So let's just do this. We're almost done because once we just do this once, the second pane is just copying these guys over. There's nothing to change. So this will be finished soon. But anyway, these pyramids... each stone in the pyramid weighs like multiple tons, like more than a car. And there's 2.3 million stones. And it's just wild that ancient people did that. And what it really emphasizes to me is A, they had a lot of ingenuity, but B, labor was cheap, you know? They just had a lot of people who could all just be told you're doing this for the king. um for the pharaoh and that's that's kind of they actually didn't call them pharaohs in khufus time that started like around seven i think 1700 bc or something um okay um i think we'll leave him a little imperfect here but all right i don't mind his little foot all right so that's that guy he's just going to be going like they're just like you know haplessly some hapless arms here just Okay, now I want to go to 1.3. I'll do all the mouths at the end together. All right. So that's one guy. Let's see, maybe he's like here. And then we have another guy. That'll do. It's worse. I'm making this worse. I just made the whole thing worse. That's fine. That's good enough. Okay. Now. um i'm sorry if this is painful to watch someone who is so not good at something do something um but that's what you're watching today you know that is the activity like this i think he's tall enough this i don't like when it does see if there's anything new from the music is now super quiet okay you can hear music yeah we are rocking here this is everything is working i can't believe it um i'm gonna try to make it tad louder if i can the music uh-huh yeah music is working wow let me know if it's too loud but um i'm pleased okay so here we go come on these stick figures are taking a long time and what's annoying is that when people see my stick figures they think that took seven seconds and it doesn't take me seven seconds it takes me a long time um now we go like this this guy's also hapless arms and we have one more he's gonna be up there but let's start let's just draw him here so we're not crowded all right can i work with that no the question is always like is it more time to fix this thing or just draw just just just draw a better one okay there we go love when i nail it all right let's just fix this part all right um i'm sure there's like some some very useful like smoothing tool in illustrator that i could be using that would make this way less we're just going to overlap it's not my head it's his problem okay um and then let's just turn him a little um okay and now let's draw one more body slanted but we can fix that and he's a little short but we'll fix that too delete some notes sometime tim yeah I know, but you know what? When I delete nodes, then the line becomes uncurvy and I have to figure out how to fix that. I know if I just watch some YouTube tutorials or just mess with it for a while once, I can probably figure out a lot, but it's getting the job done, even if it's inefficient. Okay. Now, one of these guys is saying something. So do we want him having an arm that's in a different place? Maybe I'll have this guy's arm like a little, like that. Okay. Now, so if he's going to be the one saying something, maybe he should maybe be the one in the middle guy. Okay, so I'm going to move this guy here. This guy can be here. And we can have our talking guy here. But I want them more like in a semicircle around him. We'll try this. Try that there, and then this guy can go down a little since I need room for his dialogue. Okay. Now, he's going to be saying... What did I write here? So, I'm going to use some WipoWi font here. So, I've decided I want my tomb to be, like, hilariously big. This is definitely too big font. Let's just make this smaller. We're a little crunched here. Maybe these guys should just move a little back off a little. Give them some space. Let's start there. And also these can just be a little more square, I think. You know, vertical space is what's sort of premium in the book. Either, if you're going to be in a side, so then you want to be less than half the width. And then that's great if you can cut that much horizontal out. Like if it was just one frame and the text can wrap around it. Because the point is, you don't want to increase page count. You want to... reduce page count and what is page count if you just pulled out all the pages and put them stack them it's just vertical it's a big vertical scroll so the every vertical when i just chose to make this more square i am also choosing to cut you know add three four lines to the book right so i just added a tenth of a page to the book or whatever And you're trying to avoid that. So I'm always thinking about vertical space. Horizontal, once you're not going aside, you might as well go the whole width, right? Horizontal space means nothing. Okay, but anyway, so he's going to say it. So I don't want to be like hilariously big. And this guy's going to say, how hilarious your majesty. Okay. And now we need faces. I'm going to just copy. these three dudes over before i do that because i might i'm gonna have a different one talking in the next pane um try to get in a similar place and then he can just he's basically gonna i think just have the same i think i can just have the same expression or something pretty similar so we're good there but now i want to go and make this guy say something so we're just gonna give him an open mouth so we're gonna go Very neutral expressions here. You don't want to have the expressions be respectful, neutral. So now we do B.3. And we can go like this. You know, his hand is just very, like, earnestly asking. I like that. And now I need expressions on these guys. Also should be neutral, facing him a little bit more. So this one can be facing a little bit this way. No smile, no frown. so that's see that's a smile doesn't work too frowny no um that works and then down here this guy is looking more a little bit more yeah this guy's looking a little bit more up at him i just did command s because sometimes illustrator crashes and it's devastating and imagine if this crashed right now and i had to just draw these guys again you can just see why that would suck so much and that happens to me so gotta be command s all the time i think that works They were a little unhappy, but that's okay because they wouldn't be here. So now we're going to go up to 1.8 and draw some eyes. Okay. And we'll draw the lines, the lines that go to the text at the end all together. So now I think actually, yeah, that's fine. Whatever. Okay. So I'm going to just do the eyes here while we're here. I have this pen up. Boom. And now I'm going to. go down to point three and he's now not saying anything but also neutral and who's who's the one talking here probably the top guy so neutral you don't want any frown because that kind of kills the joke the joke is in the dialogue here sometimes the joke is in the facial expression and i want him to now be saying something so we're gonna go boom point three neutral is that the right expression for him i don't think i think it's too similar to the other guy well let's first just show you what he's saying here so then he's going he's going to say oops he's going to say it's going to be long so we'll just figure out how to fit it let's say 480 feet high by the way i'm doing feet for the american version of this book and then the european and other versions that will have metric i love that they can do that using 2.3 million stones that each way uh would i would he it's two to 15 tons but would it be like way between it's a little wordy here and 15 i don't want to write out 15 i think i'm just going to see if we can get away with this is that clear each way maybe i'll just write the numbers between i don't like writing numbers above 10 it feels really weird i certainly don't like writing one number and then writing out one number and then not the other next to it that really looks dumb okay so let's see if this can fit it's a little big i think i mean i can go down so you can go down to six point font i'm going to make all of these just one font smaller um let's see on the page once i zoom out to see how big it'll be on the page and it's like yeah you can still read that that the page is going to be about six by nine a little bit bit tad bigger That's a little more compact anyway here. So now let me see if we can get this under four lines. Yeah, I think that works. And then this guy says, fuck. Okay, now, put that behind him a little bit. Now, what should his facial expression be? I like this guy's. I think his arms are still down. I think that's funny if he's not, oh, I need to get this guy's arms down. he's not talking anymore but i think that's funny if that guy's arms it could you know you could go both ways that guy's could be like holding his arm out and saying it but i think it's better if his arm is just still down um i think down arms are funny all right so let's first just go here oh that's 1.5 that's correct so i'm just gonna go um okay and also i want to take like a quick poll here do you want me so you're gonna see maybe i don't know 7 to 15 drawings depending on how fast i go That's too much of an expression. I mean, it's almost too much. My question is, do you want to... So those are, you know, when you get... The book is not coming out till the end of 2027. Random House takes a full year after I hand my shit in. Let's just pause for a second here because I want to also pull this out. Okay, so here's the book timeline. All right. So I should have done this at the beginning, but we start... Started right after... recently once our problem came out it took a couple months of return me leave and then i got rolling first draft took two years um and it was definitely the hardest part um it was you know you're every day looking at a blank microsoft word page that's the hardest thing you can be doing it's just like i have to make words and i had to research every single thing and you know, structure. I'm not just going to say this happened, then this happened, then this happened, right? It has to be a story. It has to be multiple stories that weave together, right? So that's just a lot of work. But I also knew I had a fact checker. So I didn't have to, I could research, I could read a few book chapters, get the idea, write it, and know that they're going to go and say, does this actually completely to the word match the latest research that's out there? Also, a lot of fact checking isn't just saying this is like the wrong number. I mean, I wish it were. It's often saying that like, you presented theory A as if it was the only theory, but actually theory B and C are also still debated. Okay, so now I have to change the wording. I can say one prominent theory, you know, it's still up for debate. One prominent theory says, and then do theory A. So I can just change how I'm presenting it, or I need to bring in theory B and C. a lot of a lot of what i did for getting from b1 to b2 is trying to change the wording to express the correct level of certainty based on what the scientific community knows so i would say um what we think probably happened or like um um it you know what what you know uh humans you know migrated here which may have been caused by as opposed to which you know because of this because of a drought the long drought they migrated or which may have been caused by a long trial. So right there, it's just like, if I'm saying, that's very carefully chosen in the book. When I say it may have been, that's because that's the level of scientific understanding right now. That's where we are. So there's that. And the second draft also was, first draft was like 800 pages of writing. My goal was like, as I said, like 480. Second draft, I got it down to 600 pages of writing, cut out about 20, 25%. So that was a beast too. Over 10,000 comments from fact checkers. Some of them saying verified, but a lot of them saying, Part verified, not verified, misleading, whatever. Now we're in drawings. It's the right time to do it because I didn't want to do it before the first big round of cutting because I just cut whole sections. I don't want to do all the drawings and then cut them. But also to do the final draft, I need to know where the drawings are. I need to have a sense of where all the drawings are. So then now the next stage will be, okay, let's take this 600 pages of writing. drawings and cut it down to 480 and improve any you know remaining but just polish it up another round of fact checking make sure everything is every page should either be like gripping or funny that's my goal you want i won't succeed at fully but my goal is that like every page is fun either because it's really interesting or it's or it's amusing um um so okay so now The reason I brought this up is because this is not coming out now for another year after this, right? Full year, 2027. And you will have it, it'll be a spoiler to have some of these drawings, but also it's not a fiction book, right? Like seeing this and then seeing it again in a year and a half isn't a big deal. But my question to you, the reason I brought all this up, would you like to throughout today see some of the drawings I've already done? Or is that just, would you rather just save them for the book and not see any today um knowing that it's about a year and a half from coming out so just let me know what you think about that because i can show you some other things i've done as part of this okay um tim during first draft did you still take notes for yourself on potential drawings yeah so what i do is when i do the first draft and the second draft whatever before i do drawings i have a bold in brackets description of every drawing that's i have i know where the drawings are because for example a drawing often in this case it's just in it like a little like comedic embellishment but a lot of the drawings are explanatory and so i'm not going to do a paragraph of explanation because the drawing's going to do it i need to know if i'm going to so sometimes i say i'm just going to do this the next this rest of this explanation is going to be the drawing's going to do most of the work so i can just move on plus i just want to have a sense of you know, I don't know, just where they, it's very important to know where the drawings are. So yes, I have a description of them as I go. Okay, people want to see the drawings. Okay, so I'll show you after this another drawing. And let's see. Okay, so now let's keep going. Let's finish this guy. We're almost done. He needs to be, I need the right expression though for this. He's kind of the punchline here. And sometimes it's not like I have an idea of what I want. I do it until I'm like, oh, there it is. But no, it's just like not saying it. So I can also just go like, you can go totally different, right? But that's, I feel like that kills the joke. The point is that he's like saying it with a neutral expression on. Almost a smile could be funny. No, let me try like a full. That's kind of weird. No, that's super weird. All right. I think I just go like, I think that's good. That's a very neutral expression. Now, do I want the fireworks expression changing at all? I think I'll do another mouth, even though I want a similar vibe. I don't think I want to just photocopy the mouth. That's a little weird. No, smiling. No smile. That works. It's pretty similar to the other one, but let's just get this guy up here. All right. Greetings from Ukraine. Hey! I love the internet. I love, I love how many people, like how wide ranging geographically people who read WePoI are and it just is delightful. It's just crazy. People are like, you can just write something and people, you can reach people anywhere. That's new. That's like crazy. I don't know. Internet is amazing. Now the expressions look a little different. Like he's like, more upset i i think unfortunately but maybe i can manipulate this a little rather than redraw it um okay i think that that works that works okay now i need talk lines this eye is a little let's go a little bit all right now let's do talk lines hotline should be very thin let's go down to one let's see if that's thin enough I feel like Illustrator does more of this than Pixelmator did where I like just get a little hook that I don't want there and I like can't help it I feel like it's too sensitive to like the the lifting your hand up aspect of this and that's like something that I feel like really good software would like account for a little curved too for my liking Like a Pixelmator I rarely had to like manipulate these these were like Easy. And here, I feel like I'm always dealing with this. All right. And then, see? Got a little hook to delete that. There we go. All right. Okay, let's save. Okay, now. Is it done? His hat looks stupid, but it gets the point across. He's the important guy. Let's see. Bulgaria! Romania! You guys should hang out. You're, like, right next to each other. Germany, Hong Kong, Netherlands. iran oh man hope you guys are doing okay over there i'm really really rooting for you um my wife's family is from iran um so i just have heard a lot about this for 15 years now and just feel extra uh kind of yeah all right luxembourg man i don't know anything about luxembourg i picture it being kind of like it's always like the highest per capita and like wealth and stuff but i think that's just because it's really small it's just like if you take any if you took any like fairly wealthy province of switzerland or germany and you made it its own country it probably would be like that too but i don't know about what's like that i don't know like the luxembourg culture and how it differs from its its surroundings um is it like switzerland where like the close the when you're the the part that's near germany is swiss german it's much more german the part that's near france is much more french and italy etc is it like that or it's kind of like yeah all right cool um new mexico okay why not czechia so are we calling it czechia now not the czech republic i feel like that's that that's something i've been seeing recently um i feel like they just kind of subtly did that uh india what would you say to someone who's recently explored your work um you know i don't know if you like it there's a big well of stuff to dig into there uh or if you like it but you want other things um you know check out xkcd check out astral codex 10 check out hyperbole and a half you know there's a lot of other people doing work that i think probably the same people would like um all right i think we're done okay i think we're done i'm satisfied for now so i'm going to save and now what i'm going to do is because we're going to want to put it into docs for people to get feedback on i'm going to i can hide these guys now i'm going to make the artboard smaller um to just even though this is how it will be on like a page we'll look at that in a second but um and now i'm gonna save two here kufu um i want to tiff um Now I'm gonna go back here because I want I want it to stay so you see this takes up about How much about a quarter of the page so you can see here the page? This is exactly the size of our real page in the so our page is nine about nine and a half Nine and a half long which is again. That's the key metric is length and the drawing is about two and Half about two and a half so you know It's between a third and a quarter, you know, 30% of a page. And that's something that we then have. We have a big spreadsheet where we have an estimate for how much of a page each drawing takes up. And the total we wanted to add to less than 100. And we got it down to like 80 something. So we're planning ahead there so that we don't do extra drawings and then be like, oh, we have to cut so many of these. There's too many. We don't want to get it right the first time. Okay, so that's the finished drawing. I'm going to... Run to the bathroom while I let you resume looking at, hold on, back at 1219, or I guess it's 119 Eastern. Look at land names. Okay, be right back. Are we back? Are we back? And is everything working? Right? This is the question. Did something break in those two minutes? Because that's the kind of typical shit that would happen. Let's see. I don't hear music, for one. Why is that? Hey, we're back. Okay, so someone sees that. Now, why is the music stopped? Okay, it started. Okay. And we can hear the music, and it is the right volume. I think the music should start now, in like a few seconds. Let me know if it does. Um, now here's what I was going to do. Um, what I was going to do is I'm going to add, I guess that's kind of show and tell. So I'm going to just switch show and tell with story time. Well, no, it's not show and tell. Just everyone calm down. Okay. Um, hello and it's back. What's it between a cape and a gulf? Oh, I don't know. That's a good question. I think a cape, isn't a cape the, the land? let's just look for a second so a cape yeah the cape is the land i think the i think the cape is like the like a like a cape cod right it's like a little like kind of like a hook land it's like a very sharp peninsula maybe and the gulf is the the is water is the water like inside of a region that's my guess okay um now what i was gonna show you is let me pull it up here i was gonna show you i was gonna say if you thought that drawing took a long time, given how small and simple it is. I want you to just imagine for me how long you think this shit took me. Just imagine how long you think this shit took me. You know what the hardest part was? So, okay, just what this is, is this is the invention of writing. Okay, so this is an epic poem. you know one of these epic poems from ancient mesopotamia and it depicts what the mesopotamians believe is the origin of writing um and um and so it's like you know the king is saying go travel here to get this and the guy's like no and the joke is that it's taking three months each time and he keeps saying no and then he goes back and whatever and then on the the the middle to bottom pane there's that long You don't have to read it, but that's actually, other than the first and last line, that's the real quote. That's the real translation of the actual epic poem of what he said. King Enmerkar of Uruk in 3200 BC. And the guy was like, the messenger was like, I literally can't remember that, obviously. And so he made, he tried to, he basically came up with a hack and he etched symbols on clay and was like, here. like here's how you know use these to remember what i said and that was the invention of writing now it's probably not actually what happened that's the mesopotamian legend about what happened but i was depicting it and the point is this took me for ever because the just the throne i'm not good at drawing things like that i had to mess around so many times to get that throne looking anything like a throne um it's intentionally shorter than his head by the way because our pedantic fact checkers have determined that mesopotamian thrones didn't go up like that high the back um and yeah took a long time that's all and then just like getting the angle right for the guys and their beard took me forever anyway um so maybe i'll show you some old drawings i've done many many drawings already and maybe we'll look at some of those throughout the day um now the question is should i do one more drawing before we procrastinate um okay i guess it says story time next so i'm just gonna do that here's the story it's not a good story so expectations should be down here's what happened it's a story time about something that happened last night i was getting ready for this i'm a little tired today because i was obviously getting ready for it kind of late i wanted to like make sure all the tech was in place so that we didn't have technical issues uh and just picking out you know what drawings am i going to do today Is there like a lot of research that has to happen for the drawings that I can do now so I don't have to sit there and do research and bore everyone for 10 minutes or 15 minutes while they're waiting? I can just jump in. And as I'm doing that, I notice there's a cockroach on the ceiling. Now, first of all, I obviously can't just go back to work because he might fall on me. He's not over me at that moment, but is he walking? So it's a huge distraction. Now I could leave the room with my laptop and go and work in the other room. But then I come to the office the next day. Where is he? He's somewhere. And I have to live in paranoia. So I was like, I can't. I have to deal with this. So I got a broom. This is hard for me to talk about. I got a broom and I got a really heavy book. And I reached up and I knocked him down. And he scampered under something. My heart's going like 400. I'm not, I'm not, this is not one of my like manly qualities is how I interact with insects. Goes like scampers under something. I lift that thing up and he scampers. He's going so fast. And I drop the book on him. And the book is really heavy. And that was definitely enough. But just the thought that I might open it and he starts running. I stepped on the book. And I even did a little like dance. back stomped on it a few times and then i lifted the book up and it was like a liquid mess this is a bad story i told you there's nothing good about this story um and i had to go wash off the book and it was both harrowing and gross but he's gone but like just like i thought when i left new york i was like okay there won't be cockroaches where we're going it's like why are they everywhere how what did we how do they get here um So anyway, I miss the winter. Winter in Austin has good weather, and also there's no bugs. And they're back. It's March. The crane flies are back. I guess the cockroaches are here. So that's all. No, the book was not What's Our Problem. Very good question, though, because that is a big-ass book. It's a big-ass book. But no, it was not What's Our Problem. It was this book here. It's a big book. I wasn't going to risk. This is a book my wife got me for, I think, my birthday. It's like the ultimate guide to rebuilding civilizations. Good match for my nerd references. But no, this book weighs like 15 pounds. It needed to be a book that big. You can't take any chances with this kind of thing. So that's the first. I have more stories. Better stories for the future, but that one just it's on my mind and I had to get it off my chest Okay, so I guess we're supposed to draw again and then we'll procrastinate then we're gonna do like a nice good long procrastination Break and by the way, this might extend past 10. I just didn't get a board Writing those agenda without anything happening yet Okay I Capture my bugs with a cup and then escort them outside. That's very nice Marie LaPage mariel page sorry has anyone ever called you marie le page before sorry mariel page um that's nice for you i root i hope you do that and i'm glad for the bugs i was not going to try to catch this guy with a cup it was so fast um imagine trying to do that he runs up the cup on your hand um or gets into like a crack and you can't get him no no chances taken here um uh yeah okay Plenty of meetup in Austin? Yeah, we probably will. Basically, everything's on hold while this book is being done. And there was the last book. So everything's just been on hold for like a decade with Way But Why because I'm a silly person. So things like Way But High Part 2 or like just meetups or writing regular blog posts or, I don't know, starting a podcast or something. I don't know. We have a lot of ideas. All of those are just on hold until this damn thing is done because I just want to get it out. But so, yes, maybe after this is done. All right. Yeah, it's a good book. All right. So let's do a drawing. I think for drawing number two, I think let's just move to a totally different kind of drawing on a totally different kind of topic. The next one we're going to do is about the observable universe and the affectable universe. Now, I don't know if you know what. these are um but we're gonna talk about it let me just get my notes open for this all right i don't want yeah okay i have a lot of notes for this unfortunately okay so this is i wrote this and this is this is a passage from my book that i pulled out that explains what it is so i can refresh myself with it basically what i wrote is Even though the Big Bang was 13.8 billion years ago, so you'd imagine the farthest thing away you could see is 13.8 billion years because that's how far light has traveled since the Big Bang. That's not true because space itself expands. So the farthest things we can see, the light left them maybe 13 billion years ago when they were 13 billion light years away from us. But now space has expanded, so those same galaxies we're seeing as babies are now grown-ups that are 45 billion years away from us, or as far as 45 billion years away from us, because space has expanded. So we'll never see what they look like today. That'll never happen. It's not possible. But the observable universe is officially 93 billion years across. It's like a sphere 93 billion years across right now. and that is that actually that size is growing every year because the farthest away galaxies are getting farther and farther away but we can still see them as babies so it's a little it's like i don't know it's it's a little to me to say that it's 93 billion years across because yes that's what you're you are seeing things that are now 93 billion years away from each other on either side but like things you're the snapshot you're seeing is not 93 billion years away so i don't know how i feel about it but anyway this is what we call the observable universe it's an incredibly i reference it a million times in the book um and it is uh it's just a very uh because you can't say the universe right because the universe is um let me just make sure i have nothing new here not getting any new okay nothing new there um So you can't just say the universe because we don't know, is the observable universe a large part of the total universe? Or is it like, you know, who was it? Some book I read, I cited in the book, but some book I read said that it could be, I think might've been Max Tegmark's book. But if the observable universe, if the universe is, the full universe is the earth, the observable universe is one grain of sand. Like maybe. We don't know. And that's crazy. But anyway, since we don't know, what we can talk about that is something we do understand is the observable universe, which is plenty big. We have plenty of bigness there to, you know. Now, in this chapter, I also do talk about the full universe. And I also do talk about the multiverse. And I also do talk about the many worlds theory and other crazy things. But this is kind of an intro to all of that. And I'm just talking about the more normal stuff. Now. Toby Ord, great thinker, great guy. He wrote an amazing book called The Precipice. And I interviewed him as one of the many people I talked to for this book. And I asked him about, you know, what he calls the affectable universe. And what this is, is because space is continuing to expand, if you left like Earth at nearly the speed of light today, you could, things that were within 16... point five billion years from us you could one day get to anything farther away is moving away from us because the universe nothing can move the faster than the speed of light in the unit within the universe but the universe itself can expand it faster than the speed of light so things that are farther than that because the farther things are away the faster they're expanding away from us because physics is weird so anything farther than 16.5 billion years light years from us is moving away from us faster than the speed of light which means there's nothing we could ever do to not only not reach them as ourselves but even if we've shown a laser right towards them they will never see it even if that laser was the most powerful laser it never lost any kind of strength and it just went straight at the speed of light towards something that's 17 billion light years away it's past that horizon so they will never see it the light will never catch up to them and so i want to illustrate this as part of a much larger discussion now by the way 94 of the galaxies that we see in those hubble deep field you know that the ones that we can see in the observable universe are outside of our affectable bubble so again we can see them they can see an old version of the milky way a very young version of milky but there's nothing we can ever do to never meet each other we can never send a signal to each other nothing that we can never ever um communicate it's out of our affectable zone we can never affect them ever um and each year that goes by the observable universe grows older and you know bigger but the affectable universe just keeps getting smaller because more things are receding out of it um so this should be a very easy drawing sometimes i say that and it ends up being not easy but i think this one should be easy um so let's open our template let's save as let me go to live stream I'm just gonna put this I'm just gonna put this thing Put the template in there, so it just automatically saves to there next time Okay, so we're gonna call this Let's just call it a observe leading over here Effectable so this I think we're just gonna use clean spheres. I don't see any benefit to like me drawing a imperfect sphere, which often is what you do want. But I think the point here is to be like, it's not a comic. It's just explanatory. So we're just going to go L. We're going to go like this. Now let's just think, what are we doing? I think, so here's the thing. If you were going to do a big one, you really don't want to do a big circle because look, it takes up two thirds of a page, right? It's a circle is not a friendly shape for this book. Because we're trying not to take a vertical space. We like things that are wider than they are skinny. And circle is by definition, of course, not wider than they are high. So what I would do instead is if possible, I would make it small and make it in the side. So then that's fine because now I can go here and it can kind of be this box and text can go around it. That's a good way to do it. What you don't want is a circle in the middle where it's now, this is empty space. So. um you know you want to use all the space now if it had to be detailed and it had to be big then you have two choices you can just say look this is a room one of the few you know there's a few there's a dozen books there's a dozen drawings that are going to get like a half page maybe four or five they get a full page in the whole book they better it better be worth it it better be really detailed like a really special thing almost something you could sell as a poster something that you know you put it on x and it would just kind of take off because it's such an interesting drawing it has to be that good it can't just be at any other drawing to take up more than the a third of the height um and this is certainly not one of them this is simple so this can be small so the other option if i had to make a detail is can i can i instead just do like i don't know a cone that shows the edge of the circle and what's happening there like one drawing i'm doing is showing that like the surface of the earth and how far how how little the space is between like airplanes and the mariana trench at the bottom of the ocean compared to like the full earth and how it's just like this tiny little film on top and below the surface which is the deepest and highest that we ever go. So that's an example of something. I want to show that with some detail, but I don't want to do this whole earth. So I'm going to do a cone, right? And it's going to be a little cone where you can just show it in detail and it doesn't take up that much space. So I'm always thinking about that. This is only because I'm doing a book. With a blog, I don't have to think about any of this. Vertical space is free. It's so cheap. It's free. I could just use a comic and just go, you look at some of my comics. It's just like big square. down it goes down doesn't even go across it's just like i would only do that on a blog of course now i'm always trying to do a condensed that um that other drawing i just showed you of the invention of writing that one would be on way of a while like this long thing here i had to cut out some of the like funnier pains i i there's some funny pains i like where they're just staring at each other can't do that they always have to the dialogue has to be crunched into each pane here and you have to fit it on one page but that's a full page that i'm using um and i can't make it more than one so anyway so the observable universe how big do we want this i want it to be enough to small enough to be in a side so but i think that's a good that's that things can go around this um now here's how we're going to do this if the diameter of this um let's change the ruler to points um that's a pretty nice earth round no this is not earth um okay so this is If we change this to points, we can see, let's just get this more on an exact line for now. Here's how we're going to do this. So 240 to 4 looks like those 436. Okay, so it's so close, but it's not quite 200. So it's 196. Okay, 196. So now what we want to do is we get our calculator and we go, because it's the affectable universe. Remember, things that are 16.5 billion light years away. So the diameter is 33. So what we want is 33 divided by 93. That's the percentage of the observable universe diameter. the affectable universe diameters now we're going to multiply that by what i just said what did i say 196 and so we get 69 okay so now what i'm going to do is i'm going to copy and we're going to try to get this to be about between 69 and 70. so what's that start at 280 okay so 283. we want this to be at 353. why really pissing me off okay there we go which oh i can just do that with 69 and a half there we go okay so there we go now now the question is um i could should i put a little earth in there no um because i want to make you know it's the i think it's just do you want to show diameter do you want to show um i have one i have this thing called library where i put like tim you can do calculations in the scale field illustrator might be easier to get exact percentages i should absolutely do that. I've been doing so much like calculator, inane calculator math. Scale field. Okay. I'm going to remember that and I'm going to do it. I'm going to do that because I do so much of this. Okay. Sorry. This has been lagging here. Hold on. Let's just get, let's just get rolling here. I've got my library. Where the hell is my library? Here it is. Library. I've just got some shit that I use again. Here's an animal eye. Here's stars if I need them. Here's just not the 256 but just like if I want to do a measurement here's like a bracket, you know things I use a lot so I'm just gonna pull This is a smaller drawing so I'll hold a small arrow and Scale field I need to remember this and get good at it Now do I actually want an arrow cuz I cook it so this here's what I could do I could do I could do I could do a little stick guy in the middle maybe the symbol eyes like you but And then I'm not gonna do circles. I think I'm gonna do like solid objects, but first let's just um okay now because the thing is in the text i'm saying 16.5 is the number i'm using which is radius so if i then jump to diameter i think it might confuse people a little bit who are like wait what what is that i thought you just said 16.5 so let's let's do radius i don't think we um i think we do some curved lines here for that name and then um i think i do a little stick guy in the middle and then i could rather okay because it's like yeah i could uh okay i think what i'll do is i'm going to say um affectable horizon well first let's just start something i know i'm going to do which is this um let me make a copy make it bigger and i'm just going to write on this oh i see why i see the problem okay now i'm going to do type on a curve type on a path tool and i'm going to say affectable universe Now let's make that way smaller. Now let's, okay, where's that? There we go. This is, I'm getting, this is, yeah, okay. Okay, affectable universe. Is that like centered-ish? Okay. Now I'm going to do the same thing up here and we're going to say observable universe. So that's going to get some of, that's going to like relieve some of the burden of having to say that later. now the text feels a little small this one could be a little bigger because it is bigger um and this one could be one notch bigger probably just for clarity okay now i have to go i should have centered it but okay like that back there um all right and now we're gonna go here now if i want to be i can just go like this and see where the midline is i i think it's like sometimes i just try to eyeball it like this is the midline of this and it matches up with the midline of that and this is the midline of this and it matches up with the midline of that's how you can kind of test at the midpoint here when you click on this matches up with the midpoint there just to make sure you're you're centered i mean again you can eyeball it if it looks centered and then that that accomplishes what you need to in fact this looks a little not centered to me the observable universe does not look centered to me i don't know what's going on um too much in the other direction now in fact this could even be bigger Just because I have to remember that if it's in the side, this is going to be pretty small. Okay. I think that's good for now. We can tweak later. Okay. So now we've got that. Now, what are we doing here? I think I'm going to make this not a solid thing. I think I'm going to make it like, what color would the observable universe be? Like maybe gray? Or maybe like a dark blue? Should we go dark? or like yeah let's just try it dark and see what that looks like highlighted this obviously would have to be white and then this could become like a lighter blue do we like that um picture this on the side of the page it's a little dark but like the universe is dark you know i don't black wouldn't be you don't want like some giant black circle on the side of a page i think but like i don't know kind of like this let's see anyone have any gradient to black yeah gradient the problem is it's i want i want sharp lines here i want like i'm showing like it's just two discrete distances so i don't want a gradient here um um big fan from iraq wow man i went to erbil are you from herbal or like the the southern part um okay so yeah gradient i don't i think we want a gradient here just because i'm showing i'm showing like two discrete things okay so let's just move this over a little now this here getting this centered is actually you know i mean again this is the kind of thing i'm sure there's some really really easy way to do this and i'm just not doing it correctly but um okay so now what are we doing here um i could say 60 i could say 16.5 billion years just at the distance i could do 33 across Maybe, maybe diameters. I think I'm just going to do, okay, no arrow. I'm just going to do a line and see how this looks. Let's make it white. Where's the center there? Okay. Selecting both objects and right-clicking might make it reveal an align. There is a line option over here. I do a lot of this. I probably could do that. I probably could have done that there. Let's just try it. So if I go like this and I click, maybe it is aligned and that's why. Let's see what happens if I do it up here and I click this and then I click align. No, I don't know. That's not working there, but I do that a lot. I do use those align tools a lot. Okay, now we're off kilter here. This needs to go a little farther to the left. All right, a little more. And do I want, oh man, why is this over here now? I think I might've just, when I clicked align, I might've just messed something up. Okay. All right, so now I'll be writing like just my labeling. three point five probably just b bly light years it's gonna be too small if i this is there's no way to make this even if i made it the smallest possible font um this is not gonna work that way unless i mean yeah i mean i could do this i don't like this though it's just too big and prominent i think i don't light years look stupid it should be two words anyway i'm just gonna say and help people understand that it's like b b l y is that bly how do we like that can people know what this means i just said it above i just said in the text 16.5 billion light years i think that's gonna work let's make it white also um um okay now i don't know if you want a little stick guy in the middle or not yet okay now um i think to be clear let's not have this because i could just do like i think i'm just gonna have this like you know something like that i have it straight down i think it's like a nice diagonal here do the job and let's make it a different color yellow sometimes it's like you also just don't want a whole different color here it's like it's blue and white and that's nice and like do we want to bring yellow into this and then it really highlights that as like a thing it makes it like so like or i could do you know gray and white on the outside for the line long line and the observable and then it's like light blue and dark blue for the two lines in the middle you know it's trying to always think a little bit about aesthetics even though wait but why has uh quite silly aesthetics usually um i think that yellow well let's just see what it looks like so here i would say there are 45 billion light years but maybe here i could spell it out and then people would get the point above but then it's not consistent you know these are all the little things to think about all the time okay uh and then you can make this a little bigger uh this can be even a hair bigger um i think i don't like what's happening right now i don't love i don't love what's happening i do want it to it's important that the words extend past this boundary because otherwise if it just say just say the words were just here um it would look like i might be saying that this distance is 45 billion light years even though you know you need to that would be a you can't have that so i don't think the yellow is working for me here it's highlighting that as if it's like the important thing when it's not it's just one of the things so we're going to go back to white and see what that looks like um and you can't do black because the outer thing is too dark i could do black here could do that um but you know I like to do different things when it has to be for clarity, but it's clear what each of these are referring to. Now, the next question is, is it too weird to have B-L-Y and then billion light years written out, even though there's obvious reasons for it? It's just inconsistent. This is the kind of thing Alicia will yell at me about later. She'll be like, I feel like it should be the same. So I'm just trying to pre-get yelled at in my head so I can fix it now. Maybe we compromise. Let me do like 45B light years. Let me make the whole thing a little bigger. So this is the kind of thing I would just kind of like leave and we'll evaluate it later. Let's see if you all have any thoughts. Definitely be consistent, yeah. L-Y-R-S, yeah. Maybe remove the B-L-Y and let people infer that from the second label. I don't know. I kind of feel like I'm going to... Something's wrong with this. Something is wrong with this. But maybe the text size being different is just kind of weird, actually. Let's make this eight if we can. Is it too big? I think that can fit. And then this can be eight. And then I don't want to just say 16.5B here because it's like, I don't know. People will get it, but I just think it looks weird. But yes, LY is stupid. I think we can all agree that LY is stupid. i mean would it be better like lowercase i don't think so and then the next question is would this be better lowercase no no definitely not i'm gonna leave it like this for now i think this is good enough this is an easy drawing we shouldn't spend too much time on it we'll come back later but so it's like and by the way this could probably then be even smaller like small is good if we can do something well small so once you just need to make the text bigger and then the whole thing can get smaller let's just see how that would look like this Can you still read this? Probably not. Now the text is probably too small. The text is 5.62. It's a little small. It could go like that, make it 6, and drag it down a little bit. All right. And then this can be bigger for sure. You know, it is what it will be at this time. One little thing I've learned is to see this unsatisfying kind of like... I can fix that by going here to stroke and then going rounded. Yeah, see? Let's see what other people think. At least be consistent in capital letters or not. Yeah, fine. It just feels like the light years now are going to be like screaming in your face. You see? It's like light years, but I think that is better. Maybe I should just do BLY there too, whatever. This is the kind of shit I sit there and think about. And it doesn't feel like great use of time when I'm doing this kind of thing, but I'll just obsess over this for a while. Does the B maybe look like an eight? You know, it does. Okay, let me just, here's just to get crazy for a second. No, it's gonna be too small. The font will be too small. What I was gonna say is what if I did and then just made like a hair smaller? No, right? No, now it's so wordy, so unnecessarily wordy. Let's not do this. We all agree this is an ideal. But I think it's the kind of thing... Now, sometimes you have to step back. It's like, should I even be labeling the radius? Is it better to label the diameter? That would certainly help the problem. But it's not really how I talked about it in the text. And then you can be like, well, should I change the text to make the drawing work? And then also, you know, here's where I could also just... choose to go deeper and put some galaxies in and actually have an arrow to one and be like past the effectable horizon like no ability to affect this and then put the milky way in the middle and like that but i think this is a simple drawing especially because i'm incentivized to make it simple because it's a circle and adding more will make it bigger which takes a vertical space and then it becomes hard to make it in the side and i'm always just yeah so i think i'm gonna leave this one simple for now um it does look like an eight but having a space and just like a What is out of the observable universe? More universe. It's just we can't see it. And maybe like a lot more universe. Again, like if the observable universe is a grain of sand, the whole universe might be the Earth. Observable universe top. Oh, in light years. It's interesting. Do you think I can remove all instances of light years? Then you're just saying like 45 billion. 45 billion, what? I don't like not having units. But I am just saying above that in the text, okay, you know, like this is a, how about 60.5 over the beam, 45 under the beam, in between the beams. Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, that's creative. Getting rid of light years would solve all kinds of problems. If it just says 45 billion, yeah. I could take light years out of this one, right? out billion in both and then keep l y here no i'm gonna leave this i'm not gonna do this because this is i don't this isn't this isn't this might not even be the final thing um and it's supposed to be just like a little like embellishment to the paragraph it's like as you're reading you can like it's like an aside is very different also and then it's like as you're reading it's like there's a little bit of extra info over here versus if it's if it's a if it's a center drawing which most of them are then it's much more like text like stop now look at this now we keep going as opposed to like as you're reading you can glance over and see this so i think it's also an aside i want kind of a side energy for this which is just not that involved um but yes we'll have to think about the solution for the other thing okay let's let's save this for now 45 space b then it's just a b i don't like that floating b i don't like that floating b one bit no Light years curving along the bottom left. Yeah. But then it's just like, what is that? Like light years, it's like, it's the unit for these lines. It's not just like, it's not part of the circle. It's not a unit for the circle. Yeah. That's interesting. Arrow pointing inward and outward is kind of interesting. But no, I think for now, because the text does a lot of work here explaining what I'm actually talking about. I appreciate all the feedback though. So we're going to just shrink this down so that the actual, this is just for, I'm shrinking it now so that we can put it into documents that like, you know, editors and other people will read. If you're one of the Patreon people who volunteered to read, thank you. You're awesome. Okay. It reads a lot, like four, five, eight. You know what? It does. It does. And it makes me sad. And it makes me sad. Because you're saying it and it's not untrue. And it looks like 458. And it does. God damn it. Well, what if we just did this? What if we do that? And then that'll help people see that this is a B. Now I'm sad that you're sad. Well, it is saddening when you're just trying to do this. I think Patreon volunteering is full. But if you are a patron, just go. I think it's a few Friday posts down. or email alicia at waypointwide.com because she's managing that and i don't know if there's still room but there might be um i'd love to have you if there is still room um okay this is better people like it more i think it does look better i think it does look better and now people now that helps this travesty up here be at least clearer because it's like i see what he's doing there's a build there's a b there um okay all right see that was a little improvement there um It's not a great drawing. Like it doesn't do, I don't like drawings that don't actually add much that the text isn't already saying. You know, I think it like, I think there should be something, something else should happen with this. I want it to, I don't want a drawing to be like, yeah, you just said that. And here it is like two simple circles. I mean, it does help to just see it's inside, see how much smaller it is. Like it's way smaller. But if it's in the side, I also just have lower standards for it. I'm like, it's okay. If it's just like, a little bit like oh there it is that's how big it is like that's okay if it's in the side if it's a main drawing especially a bigger one it had i've it has to prove itself it has to earn that spot much more than this does okay let's move on now i think we can procrastinate um i think we can procrastinate so i wrote down a bunch of potential procrastination activities here um one of them is let's play worldl Not wordle. Worldle. Okay. Now this could be embarrassing if I don't know it. Okay. So you have to guess the country. And if you guess it wrong, it'll tell you how far away you are. Now this one, I know. This is an easy one. This is Germany. But just to show you what would happen if I got it wrong. Let's say it's Afghanistan. And it's going to tell you. It's going to say, no, idiot. Afghanistan. You want to go. 4900 kilometers west right so that would be your hint and then you'd be like oh it's germany okay that's that's actually too that was too easy play next round okay oh what's this neighbors i don't want to do that i just want to do a country all right i guess that's it for you have like one a day all right can you guess these nine neighbors of germany all right that looks a lot like switzerland to me okay i think i got it right now That is... I want to see them. I want to see all of them. Hold on. Let's just see. Let's just do the ones I know. This is France. Okay. Then we can narrow it down. This is Denmark. Okay. This is... I do recognize this. And it touches Germany. This is either... This is like the Czech Republic. Or is it Austria? I think it's Austria. I think both touch Germany. I think that looks more like the Czech Republic. I'm going to try Austria here. Well, hold on. Let's just hold on. I want to... Now, what the hell is this? I'm just going to say Austria here. That looks really Austrian to me. Yes. Okay. Now, what surrounds Germany? Oh, there's Luxembourg. I don't want to upset our Luxembourg friend, but I don't know the shape of Luxembourg. I really don't. I don't think it's this because I don't think it has like an archipelago, but what else surrounds Germany? Poland. Is this Poland? This big guy? Probably, right? Poland touches Germany, right? Yes. Okay. So far, so good. Now, what else touches Germany? How about down below? There's Switzerland, but then there's also, does like Slovenia touch? No, it's on the other side of Austria. Czech Republic, I think, does, right? So this looks more like the Czech Republic than other places. But I think we're supposed to call it Czechia. Let's try that. Oops. Yeah. Say Czechia. When did you guys do that and why? I guess it's better. when you're like the united states of america that's not a real country name that's just a description right and czech republic like why can't you just have a real name so i like czechia yes okay we're doing well but now now we have hard times oh you know what fucking lichtenstein touches germany doesn't it lichtenstein and luxembourg are gonna kill me here but what's the other one before i start guessing those uh what's like okay so you go east from germany you get to poland czech south does it does it touch something else in the south as it doesn't touch i don't think so what's to like the france um dead mark i'm gonna now i'm gonna get things wrong i'm gonna try lichtenstein for this guy let's just try it okay i'm glad they spelled it for me oh damn it okay well give me more guesses is this lichtenstein no So what the hell? So is this Liechtenstein? It can't be. There's like islands. You've already guessed Liechtenstein. I know. Not for that one. Wait, does Liechtenstein not touch Germany? I swear it was, you know what? It might not touch Germany. It might touch Switzerland and Austria. It's between Switzerland and Austria. Oh, what a mistake. Okay, let's try Luxembourg then. Which one is Luxembourg? I guess I'll try this one for Luxembourg. Okay. Now. this isn't this is on the coast now does germany touch the netherlands france there's like france right and then you've got oh yeah of course wait wait a second because germany would always go through belgium to get to so it must be belgium because germany would always go through belgium to get to france every time france was like we did it we secured our border as long as they don't think to go through belgium and then germany goes through belgium And they're like, ah, how did we? So it's got to be, right? It touches Belgium. So this is Belgium. Yes. Okay, I don't know why I didn't think of that. That was obvious. Now, wait, I thought this was Belgium. Huh? So wait, I guess that wasn't Belgium. Now I'm confused. This doesn't look like, this looks like, okay. I'm officially in the Netherlands. It must be, it must touch the Netherlands also. All right. I think I did pretty well. The Liechtenstein thing threw me off. And then I should have thought of Netherlands and Belgium. I was just thinking those. kind of nestled within France, but they're not. They're between France and Germany. Okay. Do we like that? Now, you don't have to zoom. You can guess any of the nine I see, but I wanted to guess them right. Okay. Okay. Well, let's just, I'm not going to probably do more, but let's just see what the next round is. Capital city. Well, that's easy. Now, well, now let's, can you guess where Berlin is? It's right here. Duh. Okay. Can you guess the flag for Germany? Duh. This is easy because it's Germany. I mean, if they did, you know, Mozambique, I'd be having a harder time. Which of these facts is true about Germany? Top 20 in chocolate consumption per capita. Well, that seems for sure. Observes daylight savings time. Who knows? I think they do. Is it dependency territory? No. Is part of the USSR? No. So, I mean... Hmm, I guess the reason is I do video calls with my friend and I feel like it's always my German friend Philip And I feel like it's always the same time away. I feel like it's always it's never like oh My clocks change and his didn't but top 20 in chocolate consumption I mean, it's one of the main chocolate countries, right? It's like right next to Switzerland. I'm just gonna say that no damn it. Oh Wait, no, I didn't click that was unfair. I didn't see that I didn't see that I didn't even see what that was of the famous that there's famously no general speed limit i i knew it i knew that because again philip drives at an insane speed limit on the wait sorry what was this history the unification of germany as an empire in 1871 was formally proclaimed in the hall of mirrors at the palace of i don't know this i don't know this i don't i don't know this i don't know why it would be i mean versailles is a palace is that the thing that's the only palace here but why would it be in versailles exactly maybe france was like you did it you're a country let's just try it yay okay um and next round can you guess which landmark is in germany oh clearly this this these castles like that the cinderella castle in disney world is based on german castles so it's got to be this guy yes okay wow we're getting Deep on Germany here. It wasn't really what I was planning. I thought we were going to just guess country border shapes. But can you guess what the above landmark in Germany is called? Okay, now we're getting boring. Who cares? Let's just call it this. Yes, because it's a castle. I'm kind of upset with them. Like, how many more do I add these? This is not becoming interesting. You know what? I'm going to quit. This is not interesting. Let's go do actually, let's go do Wordle instead. And then we're going to get back to work. Then we're going to get back to work. Play. Okay, I always start with stare. I just don't see why I would want to test anything other than those obviously most five important letters. Plus you get that consonant, S and T at the beginning, which is where they would normally be. You get the E at the end. A is the other vowel you want to test. Why would you want to test vowels other than A and E? Slate you could do, but like stare to me is the way to go. Okay, let's sit. Okay, so here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do. Here's what I'm... wordle wordle exactly good good catch there now when you have an s right and then the a is well it's actually a little weird because normally i would be like well how about i test an h for example because it could be sh but then you would have the next thing would be a vowel and it can't be an a so it's like shoal essay no that's with it it's like sh oa you know or s s p s l i'd want to test a bunch of things that could go after the s like consonant like sp sl sh sc right so i would test something like chimp sm but again here the a is throwing me off because it seems like it would be sa or something with you know it's like it's uh so like it could be salad for example you know i might just test salad because i'll test two other continents constant consonants and i will also just get a feel for i'll know where the a is It's not the best guess. I could do better. I could probably lay up more and test more letters because it's not going to get it right. So why am I wasting a letter on the S? But let's just do this for now. Okay. Okay. You see, we learned something here. So now we've got S-L. It's got to be a vowel. So S-L-O-A or S-L-I-A or the L is at the end. So it's like sumat? No. What would even be? Okay. What would even this be here? Sloan is not a word, right? It's a name. I don't think there's anything here. So I don't think that's what it is. In which case, and I don't think it's I-A, S-L-I-A. So it's got to be the L at the end. That's my guess. So we know there's not an A. It's the second letter, right? So we're honing in here. Is this how you spell shoal? I want to try it. A. Okay. I'm pleased. So a three is a birdie. Two, you have to get lucky. there's nothing you get skill points for getting a two i mean uh but three if you get if you consistently i want to get more threes than fours is my goal or at least even i want my average to be like 3.7 something like that very into or i just played every day okay we're gonna stop i want to do more oh did other yeah other people were saying shul um okay let's go back to work you see this is what sucks that's what sucks is you have to go back to work all the time i um often i don't want to go back to work you know and then i but then i have to but that's okay you're here which makes it less less bad than it normally is all right we've done two drawings in if you include all the technical difficulties three hours that's not not a great pace but it's you know let's try to move along here so um i'll close my observable universe doc all right chart okay let's see what do we want to do next here um we can do more stick drawings let's do an easy one that's just words all right so um okay so i have a bunch of fun facts for you here too so let's just talk about the names why is it it is march 10th 2026 but why why is it march 10th 2026 by the way the music stopped didn't it okay um let me just see. All right. So why is it March 10th, 2026? So let's, first of all, let's start with the months. Here's the months. March used to be the first month of the year. Let's close this. We don't need this. Well, we'll keep it open if you want to admire our work later or fix it. All right. I'm going to just go here and open this. I'm going to save this as months. So the Romans named the months about, you know, the length of a moon. So that's why months are about 30 days, 20, 29, 30, 31 days. Because that's how long a lunar cycle is. And they had 10, even though we have 12, right? This moon cycle happens about 12 times a year, which is why we have 12 months. Why did they only have 10? and the answer is that they needed months the labeling months isn't like necessary why do we even have to label the months we don't label the weeks right we don't call week 32 like you know some name for a week um so it's a little weird if you think about it we don't we also don't label the years although the romans did they named them after the consult but like we just do numbers for years so why do we why do we have names for the months and it's just because they um found it important for agriculture and guess what in the winter during what we call january and february there really wasn't much agriculture it was kind of the time off it was like in between that that it was like you know after the last season ended before the next one begins and then they start with march so this is why if you look here um this is what i wrote in the book oops um god damn it all right oh okay double click pissing me off all right april's really making this whole thing ugly isn't it now let's just get it in wait but why font and let's make i think we want this to be man that april is killing the vibe here because we also could without april we could almost go we could almost just be like anyway we'll figure out the details later but i want to tell you about it first so march is named after the god mars Why did the music stop again? I'm just, why do things, why must things be this way? I think, oh, I think, okay. I think I was like out of a playlist and it was just playing one song and stopping when it ended. Okay. All right. So Mars is named after, March is named after Mars. April's annoying because they don't know when. So first of all, it might be Aphrodite, which would just make it easy, but AP, you know, APR, Aphrodite, April. But they also might be after the Latin, which means to open. Because that's when flowers open, right? So May was named after Maya, whoever that was. June was named after Juno. That's like Hera in the Greek myths. Quintilis was just the fifth. Sextilis was just the sixth month. So that was what we call July and August was Quintilis and Sextilis. And then September, October, November, December. we're the same now october oct octagon eight right october eight sept sept is always seven nove right is always nine dec like decade right um we have uh it means 10 so that's that all makes sense the first through the 10th month then um julius caesar was like wait actually january and february deserve months too sorry the others the winter deserves months too And they were like, hold on, I have the details here. Oh, no, sorry, it wasn't Caesar at all. It was in early Roman history, like legend says in 7th century BC, the Roman ruler Numa Pompilius was like, you know, let's just round it out here. And so he added Januarius, which was named after the god Janus, and Februarius, which was named after the Roman purification festival, Februa. okay and so we ended up with those months and then they um i guess they decided to make those the first two months of the year instead of the last which was too bad because if it was last then september october november december would still correspond to the right things but instead it bumped everyone down two months so you end up with this this the month that sounds like seven that's supposed to mean seven is the ninth month october is the tenth month etc so that's what happened to the months then caesar was like also let's just like get it on track here and he like made the Julian calendar and then later like the I think a monk Gregorius was like actually let's make it even more correct and have like leap years correct and stuff and he did that Gregorian calendar but anyway the main months were in place way back like 7th century BC Romans now why is it 2026 and it's because it actually you know the year one like there was some night this always kind of bugs me out there was always some night there was some night when people went to bed in what we call bc and at midnight it became ad and they woke up in the morning and it was ad it was what the year was one what january 1st 1 ad that date if you went back did happen it was at one point one one one but no one there called it one one one they thought it didn't think of it as anything special at all it was just the year of their console you know whatever month they were calling it it wasn't until 5 25 years later uh in 525 a.d that the christian monk dionysus exodus um he was like wait actually why are we calling why are we naming because i think for a while they were naming that they had the year count going off of um one of the later um diocletian one of the later emperors but he was super anti-christianity he was like the last emperor that really persecuted christians before Constantine was like, actually, Christianity is the way to go. And then everything was fine for them. So he was like, why are we going off of this asshole? Why don't we go off of Jesus? His birth should be the beginning of the new. It should be before Christ and anno domini, after our Lord, whatever. So he tried to do that, and he did his best estimation. And he thought, okay, Jesus was born 525 years ago. So right now it's 525 AD is what we're calling this. And everything before Jesus is going to be BC. And it turns out he was wrong. Jesus was born like between four and six BC, probably. We don't know for sure, but he wasn't born then. So he actually got it wrong. It really should be like, right now it should be like 2031, 2032, 2030, something like that. And then even then it didn't really catch on for a while. um it was the anglo-saxon historian bd helped popularize the ad system in 731 when he used it in his ecclesiastical history of the english people which became a huge viral hit and a few days like a few decades later charlemagne further helped the cause by using it as the official system of his empire and like the rest is history um then as eight as christianity spread the world this name this uh this numbering system for the year spreading now all around the world it is 2026 ad so good job dionysus exegis um and then the last question i have is so why is why is january 1st on that day why not like on jesus's birthday december 25th and it turns out that um january 1st just relates to like the months the lunar cycle that whatever december 25th is when we celebrate christmas but it wasn't actually jesus's birthday we don't know what jesus's birthday was it's it coincided with a popular pagan festival at the time so the christians were like we're also going to celebrate when during your big celebration we're going to do our own celebration for jesus's birthday even though it wasn't then and and that and the 25th was mistakenly it was it was supposed to be the solstice the winter solstice which is why the pagans were doing it then but the pagans had it wrong and so then the christians had it wrong because that's not the winter solstice it's more like december 21st These are all the things I've learned that are all in the book. But what I wanted to do is I'm making the only illustration here. Everything else is in text. I just have this list. If I'm going to do a big list of months like this, why not just make it visual? It's going to take up that space anyway in the book. Might as well. And use some color. So I guess what we're going to do here is we want the numbers. I think so. Yeah, we want the numbers because it's kind of part of the story. But I don't know if you want those parentheses. One dot. Yeah. And I think the parentheses works well there. OK, so now the question is, we'll do color at the end. But like, what am I doing with April? Am I just accepting that it is hideous? Or can we do better here? Maybe I can just uncertain origin. star and then the bottom and finer text put that i don't love that either but um let's just get these others in order and we can take a look at it i'm so annoyed at april um so here we are it's kind of tedious i do a lot of you're out living your life i'm here doing like this all the time okay um there we go also is annoying that december is not aligned now because of the 10 but that's okay you see i mean i could literally like um put this line like go like this and then literally like move this yeah i could literally go like this and put it oh my god that's so slow and i could do this wait let me first put the space here uh and i could go like this and then keep december a line but now it's also not a line because something's weird with it i guess because there's a space there um i guess i would have to just do yeah well i can deal with that tiny thing later but i kind of feel like that's the way to go to keep them all aligned why is this not aligned now you see why do things like this have to happen uh i think it's just because maybe the 10 is not like is you know go like this and do it yet another one of these things and go like that and get it aligned um anyway it's kind of cool when you say december november september you're you're literally saying latin words like those were the same that's what That's what like the Roman senators in 400 BC were like. December, it's November. It's kind of crazy. Oh, by the way, Quintilus and Sextilus, we didn't talk about those. What the hell happened there? Literally after Julius Caesar named all the things, like, sorry, changed the calendar, like got it right. And there was a Julian calendar. I think they, I think people were like, let's just like throw him a bone and we'll name Quintilus. july instead or julius is what it was called then and then augustus was in power next and he was like well i feel that if caesar gets to have a name come a month named after him i should too and everyone's like fine you can have sextillus and it became augustus or august that's why those happen and i don't know i bet the next emperor was like okay so september is now going to be in there like now we're done that's it we're keeping the other things as they are anyway um all right so now uncertain origin i could say i could just accept this i could accept the ugliness maybe color will help a little um so let's say let's do this maybe with the one in um green blue a little light i don't know we could also just get weird you know and be like you know orange and clash a little here that's a little too that's a little too flamboyant right for this boring chart like what um um i think i'm gonna i think i prefer the blue but a darker blue okay um okay i'm down with that i think um okay now we don't need any more blue i guess we should have july but it's not those are supposed to be like not just what the month is i think i think it's supposed to be like junius which means june i think i'm because i'm explaining july right after so i'm going to leave that these quotes all look wrong by the way these quotation marks don't look like the correct font which is something that alicia will usually go ahead and fix at some point but um for anyone who's newer to way but why alicia is the web wise manager of lots of things that's her title i forgot that i made this different um and she basically like does everything that I don't specifically have to be the one to do everything from like being the primary book editor to like managing the fact-checking process to managing like the new site we're building to admin to she managed like she hired interns and wait but hi which was our big in-person event I want this highlight in 2016 that was like you know she did that whole thing and she also helps like keep me on track and like keep my schedule like keep me honest with my schedule and often i'll share my screen with her so she can see me work to see that i'm not procrastinating so she also is kind of uh my babysitter very important person around here um um definitely the chief i.t support and like i'll call with like an illustrator question because she's really gonna illustrate it why won't this turn green there okay now now that i feel like those four blue things look a little weird it feels like it should be like all of them or not none of them i mean i guess yeah i'm gonna leave yeah i think the blue is not working for me i think this should just be green also no because i only want the number i think it's fine i'm gonna leave it for now um named after the god mars uncertain orange so i guess i could just leave me the color makes it a little better it's just ugly it just could be look how nice look how nice life could be um have to go up obviously um i should have just made that a group okay group this with the 10 right now so they don't oh i can't yeah i'll group it with the whole thing um anyway you see how nice life could be this could be nice and also it's too big it doesn't need to be nearly this big it could be like uh i could just say after the god mars after and get you take away even more space and it could just be this nice little aside um but you know and then i could put april's info below but it's not just uncertain they have a pretty good idea it's one of those things so i can't really get away with it unfortunately um i think i have to keep it i think i have to keep it it's really sad um for now um yeah i'm gonna leave it for now it's not it's not we don't love it you know but um pop a tad this and this and this together so they don't split up anymore um yeah yeah april's a dick that's all i can say that's that's there's no uh there's nothing else to say about it we don't like it um but i'm gonna leave it for now we'll see how it looks on the page we'll see how we're doing for space in the chapter you know i could easily make it a tiny little small print footnote i could even put the footnote in here but you know now april's taking up almost more space it's like what's this footnote oh we're like you know it's it's taking up more a lot too much air in the room and there's nine other months here and april's inserting itself front and center so that was that okay let's move on um let's let's make a little tiff here okay now what should we do next let's do another drawing we're not we're not we just you know all right so we did that one i could do another stick drawing it's harder but you know let's get back to it let's get back to it and then i have some weird interesting drawings that are not with my hand drawing so they'll go quicker let's do one hard one now Okay, this is another little aside flourish. I don't even know if it'll make the book, frankly. But I think it's worth doing in case I decide it needs to be in there. So now we're going to a totally different part of history. Going to a totally different part of history to the Olmex. Do you know about the Olmex? I don't really know about the Olmex, to be honest. I didn't put a big section on the Olmex, which is when I really have to learn about something. But I read a little bit about it. And I wanted to mention them because they're a major civilization a long, long time ago. Let me remind myself how far along ago. 1500 to 400 BC. That's like, you know, when they begin, Lomax began in the Bronze Age. And they basically are, basically in Iron Age. They coincide with like the Assyrians, the Neo-Babylonians. At the end of their reign, the Persians Empire. But like... they started back with like with like the hittites um you know like homer and and other the oldest greek you know at the oldest traces of like western civilization um was already like middle of the olmec empire and they were in modern day mexico near like vera cruz and tabasco um and what are they known for well that's what we're gonna do they're known for their giant stone heads and i just felt like this comic wrote itself as soon as i learned that they did these huge stone heads i just knew what i i had to do i knew what i had to do so let's first um that's one of them those are big stone heads made out of sandstone um now this is apparently what they looked like but i don't know if i'm going to I don't think I'm going to get them clothes, right? We don't want to go down that rabbit hole. I think I'll just have naked dudes. I could put one of those feather things on their heads. I could. I don't want to. I don't want to. Maybe I should. We can decide that later. Okay. So we're just going to put these aside for now. Well, this one. No, this one. This one very much is coming with us. This one is going to need to be traced. I do not want to. So I don't. like tracing is i would i don't normally want to trace because the what no get out of here here because the imperfections you know the the bad me bad drawing that is kind of like the the style that people now recognize and like why would i want to trace something to make it look exactly like it unless i'm trying to make something that i don't know how to draw that i do want to like i want to actually show what the stone head looked like but i need to it's part of a drawing so i can't just do a photo we're not really doing photos in the book you know everything should be drawn or not in there I think maybe there's one or two, like the standard of error. I think we're putting in a couple of things, but... Why is it doing that? Oh, I see. Okay, so how big is this stone head? Well, what's going on here? I think we're doing one of these. All right, so we're going to have a three-pane comic. So I can go like this, and then I can go, like, add another. There we go. This is a great illustrator feature that did not exist. in pixel made or at least not that i knew of where you can just make this i used to have to draw like each i would put each rectangle up to like line them up um do i want how high do i want it um i guess we need some vertical space so let's just try that all right now we make the black okay all right so this guy's gonna be here like there kind of want it to be on the ground but i guess that should be a little bit above if it's not going to be you could do a little shadow or something below and we'll figure that out okay we'll put that there um now let's let's just do the hard thing first so i'm gonna do this i'm gonna trace this guy oh pat so here's what we're gonna do we're gonna drag one here so i can see that i can see it for reference but i'm gonna make this one very transparent so i can trace over it and then i'm going to lock that layer so it can't move when i'm trying to it doesn't it won't bother me now i'm going to i think just i don't think it should be black i don't think it should but i'll start i'll just start with black here to do color in a minute all right yeah these are like the heads of easter ireland although easter island was way later easter island was like during the middle ages when they were making those heads like during the european medieval times this was during the bronze age and the iron agent in europe like way longer ago two thousand years before for three thousand years before um what are we doing why are we doing that okay so let's just try to not do this retardedly see i'm gonna fix the little imperfections later that's that's really bad there let's just cut this there going down here this is bad really bad line not even worth not even worth it that was so bad all right let's just start up here so bad dude all right see And I know there's ways to do this, but I just feel like I don't want to have it done automatically for me. I want to draw everything that's in the book myself. And you see, it still will be, obviously, I'm not going to make it this imperfect, but it won't be totally perfect. That was so bad. Sorry. The question is always, is it going to take more time to fix that or to redraw it? Sometimes I'm like, I'll just fix it. Then I fix it for 10 minutes. And I'm like, I should have just redrawn that. All right. So that part was good. Now, can I just come up here normally, please? okay okay that's so wavy here i think it's just the angle okay it unwaved it for me a little let's just let's just go with it okay so now we have to get in there um let's put this guy let's un let's unmute him and then put him unlock him i mean and then put him here and we'll relock him okay so we can see him a little better now now we want to get it you know roughly correct here so i'm just gonna this is like the part of the video if you're watching if i were doing like a tutorial this would like be suddenly really sped up to like 10x and unfortunately you guys are here in real time you are in real time on 1s watching this riveting part of the show um all right so we get this we get you know we get them out here i think a little waviness is kind of like fine a little funny if it's a little bit like cartoony where is this thing is there okay You know what I'm also going to do? I want to make him a little brighter because I need to be able to see him better. So now we can see him a little better. I don't need to be perfect lined up, but you know, I want to be somewhat true to the real heads that they made. So this would be in a little bit, in a little bit. Where does that end there? Okay, it's also kind of just... This is like as hard as making the head itself. Not that. The next procrastination I think should be a crossword puzzle. we did those last in the last live stream in 2022 those live streams and i think that was fun and i want to get to more google maps because i feel like we didn't find any really fun ones this morning um now this is where i started to get dicier here okay almost done save the amount of times i've just like just lost like 10 minutes of tedious work and it's just somehow something is so painful about doing it a second time Now, so this is going to be chapter five of the book, by the way. This isn't chapter five. Chapter five is like, we get into all the history of 2500 BC, which is the first empire, Sargon the Great, the first emperor in the world. It's called Empires, the chapter, and it goes all the way until 1500 AD. So all the way through to the end of the Middle Ages. And... i don't tell every story even though it's the story of everything you can't tell every story obviously especially with history i mean i could you could write you could write a million pages about that those 4 000 years and i wanted to write more like 30 40. so i do stuff like meanwhile in mexico and we talk about the olmex for three paragraphs that's what this is part of that's why i'm not sure i'll even make the book because it's a it's already an aside you know if you're putting an image in an aside it starts to defeat the purpose of making it a little shorter but I have meanwhile in places sometimes because I'm like, this is important. They were there too doing something really relevant. I don't want to ignore them, but I can't write about every single thing. So some people get thrown into a blue box, into an aside blue box. Okay. And the Olmecs were one of them. But then I just heard about the stone heads and I was like, this comic has to at least be tried. All right. so i think we've done that now now we get to the part that i will for sure mangle but i'm going to try my best i don't know how to do this are we doing the the under eye bags here maybe a light one they really like went for it but this face is they're quite detailed go like this let me make that lighter um i'm gonna have to do a big brow here i don't know what's going on his forehead I don't really want to be part of it or his cheeks over here. Like, I don't know if this is intentional or not, but I feel like I guess I could do some jowls here. He doesn't really have one on the other side, but I could pretend he does. Kind of do a little line. Do a line here. And then we could do a line there. I don't like that forehead because I'm not going to be able to look good. Now, I'm not going to make all these so thick and they're not going to be black. So we got to now go first. Just get the shapes right. the general shapes right and then like this these these hooks these get rid of those um um a little bit away oops maybe draw half and mirror it no i'm not drawing with a mouse even though it looks like i am drawing with this tablet and this pen um if you can believe that um it's been three hours yo i know oh i'm going i'm going like this is just i'm going i'm going all day dude i gotta i gotta get through these drawings or i'm never gonna get this book out so you know i think we're getting there what's one of these bumps here you see got some bumps what's that that's this thing uh the tedium sometimes tad there we go okay now now now now um do we like this i did this knows correctly look at it's getting there oh there's always something else all right here this thing all right Is that it? No, there's a hook on his brow. And Laura knows you couldn't publish a book when there's a hook on his brow. All right, so we've got the guy. Now we have to start seeing what we're going to do here. I think let's color his face first of all. So we'll use that color. It feels like it'll be a little dark maybe. Try a few. All right, now let's get rid of him. And... let's start by first i have to hook all these together join okay now i'm gonna color it this color yeah i like that which one's better um the lighter one and then now these lines on his face this is a mess okay now i feel that these that i'm gonna i'm gonna lock this layer for a second it's also a mess i'm going to lock this layer well for i think this should be this his outline should be a darker gray come back to that now i'm going to lock this layer here so i can just highlight this guy these guys and try to well first of all i want to make some of these lighter this is going to be some of these are just accent lines versus like harder lines and you can see that in his face very clearly um accent accent accent um so let's make those why is it why is it all right 0.5 i could even if i want to get fancy i could now well first of all let's make them dark gray but if i want to get fancy i could add i could like blur them i don't know if that'll look good or bad i don't i never want to be in like uncanny valley of like this is a stick drawing but why is suddenly like some of it like looks like a real graphic person did it or like it like looks like it's trying to do that You know, but sometimes just these lines are not what it's intended. Let me try to go really blurry and see what happens. Let me see. It's like a hint of stuff. But again, it's like now the rest of it doesn't have that kind of vibe. So what are we doing here? I'm going to group all these together and that can make that decision later. Now I'm going to highlight the rest of these. And I thought maybe just this upper lip maybe could be a tad less thick. Okay. Now, yeah, I don't love the blurred thing. I don't think that's the way to go. Let me just do this first. All right, so now we're going to... My wife just asked if I could refill her water bottle in the chat, and the answer is no. All right, I'm gonna go... All right, I think these should be not black. But now it looks really weird. No, I don't like how this is going at all. No, this is not good, guys. This is really bad. I mean, is it? Or is the problem the blur? Let's just unblur these guys here. Just X out this guy. So now I feel like if you're going to do lines like that, you want more. You want like lots of lines, not just like these kind of sporadic lines. Maybe the lines, maybe the lines is the problem. Maybe they'll should just be thicker. Let's see. Look less like. I think that's better. You know, I'm not sure the Olmex would be so... super proud of this piece of work here but to here like it is in the real thing here oh these different colors now no that's not gonna do um no these need to be the same color maybe there should be some forehead lines maybe there should be some forehead lines let's try it so let's bring our friend back here let's draw some forehead lines and see how that goes too thick i'll fix that in a second so one of the most annoying illustrator glitches is it'll be on 0.75 thickness and then I start drawing and it changes it to one as the second I start and I have to go highlight it and move it back and then it stays at that. I don't know about these. I think I have to just do more of these forehead lines and kind of like, you know, try to like make it like it's like kind of wrinkly up here. Let's see how that looks. I suspect it will not look correct, but we're going to try it. Now let me, you know, maybe that's going to work actually. Let me just highlight these. looks less bad than i thought it would it makes it look more like stone um you know what i might be okay with this it's you know it's not good it's not good but wondering if it maybe needs a little bit more like you know i should be using the blob brush for this but i'm not um accentuate some of the things that they that are accentuated in the image a little more like Make him a little junkier down here. All right. Yeah, it doesn't have any texture. But I, you know, as I said, it's a slippery slope. You start doing texture and before you know it, now it's like, well, now it really looks bad because now it should have, I don't know if I like what I just did. I don't, well, it looks a little messier, which is maybe good, but maybe not in a good way. Oh man, you see this is why I should have used the blob brush. You end up with a mess here. maybe if i just clean it up a little bit see this is this is a blob brush activity this is the kind of thing that's easier in pixel meter this like how you see this is just a mess now i'm just like pulling these lines in weird ways oops um all right and it's a little lopsided and wonky but maybe that's good in a way i think that thicker brow made it is distracting i think it's not i think it's not good but i just did i'm gonna delete it and leave we can leave that middle part um it's lacking a lot guys it's not you don't don't it's like not just detail and relief it's lacking like everything that it could should i color the eyes but the eyes aren't colored so that's not really correct um some subtle drop shadow on the brow eyes and lips to replace a top light source yeah i hear ya let's see stop it so i would do some drop shadow how do i do that again i go to um stylize drop shadow see multiply what the hell does that mean um opacity offset what are we doing here oh wow i see it's way over there okay blur the blur is too much oh jesus see again it's in the wrong place so we want to move this x offset there and then we want to can't it just preview it without having to disappear when i do this and i have to so is this what you were talking about maybe you see the problem is we start to get to no man's land where it's like well what was this a real drawing because if this once it's like if it's a if it's a clearly like bad stick drawing then it's like forgiving but like once it's a real drawing then it's like well this is a bad real drawing it's like at least i think it's just too much uh it's just too much it does make it more 3d It just, it needs then like, this is step one of like 70 that would have to go make it like 3D, you see? Yeah. Multiply is multiplying the base color value by the top color value. Base by top. Top is the shadow. Or is it the line and the background? That's probably what it is. Maybe this is just too much. Maybe just a little more subtle. Because the person did say subtle and this is not subtle. also it probably shouldn't be on that this lip here so let me get rid of that drop shadow and then the rest of this i can't highlight this it's killing me okay okay let's blur this more is that the issue and then i just like to stay here don't when i click don't i have to open the dialogue box again you see this is the kind of shit that annoys me about this reader um maybe it has to be even more subtle that's a little better It's a little weird, but it does add... I don't know why I didn't seem to have done it for this. Why can't I click this? Why? Why can't I click this? You see what makes you want to kill myself? Okay. And then this guy, the shadow got too big for his britches here. We're going to finish the drawing, and then we'll come back and see if this is stupid looking. Yeah. Now I need to get rid of this here. Why can't I select this? This is making me, did I, did I like, did I, oh, I think the shadow is over it. Wow, that's so annoying. Yeah, it's like the inefficiency of a thousand suns. This is like, this is a real low point. It's me trying to find this thing. Okay, I'm gonna do, I'm gonna move it. Yeah, okay, it's that thing. I got it, got it. It's this thing, it's connected to this thing. Okay. Now I'm going to try to cut this here. If it will let me. Oh my god. Now what happened? Now what happened? You know what? Fuck it. I don't care. I just don't. I just don't care. I don't care enough. I just think it looks stupid when it's the shadow and the thick line. Just please let me cut there. Why would this happen then? Do you see how bad things are? I can't. I can't with this thing. I can't. I can't. I'm done. I give up. I give up. It is what it is. Either we'll remove all the shadow or not, but this like weird line, which is not how it's supposed to do, is unfixable. It won't let me change it without being so annoying. Maybe I can go like this. No, now it's just getting worse. Okay. You know what? I'm going to leave it. It's a little weird. It's a little weird. I think the shadow probably has to go, but we'll leave it for now. Because I think if you're doing shadow there, then like, you know, you should shadow the edges and the bottom. I think I got it. I do like the idea. I like it, but I'm going to get rid of it. You know what I'll do since like sometimes you change your mind is I'm just going to highlight this whole thing. And I'm going to bring it over here. Oh, wow. Because I forgot that I had. Yeah. Now I'm going to highlight the whole thing. I'm just going to drag it there. And I can always come back to this one if I need it. But for now, I'm going to get rid of the. unreal dude i think the shadow is like making these objects bigger so i can't like highlight the things underneath them very easily anymore which is insane but i think that is what's happening here get rid of the shadow there it was definitely some extremely easy way to do what i'm trying to do all right how about we do one thing at a time get rid of that okay let me go like this get rid of that okay okay you see yeah hard to know hard to know what the right answer is here but we have the shadow one over there should we change our mind um i just don't like no man's land and i can get there very easily where i start kind of making things better and then i realize i made it too much better and now it doesn't look like a way but why drawing anymore it looks like instead of looking like a charmingly bad way but why drawing it starts to look like a like an actually bad attempt at a good drawing and i never want to go there unless i can make it good which is rare Told you this was a hard one. I knew this was going to give me hell. All right. I think I should shade the eyes just ever so slightly. Ever so slightly these objects should be. Just feel like... What if I just went like this? No, it's way too dark. Just a hair. Does that look weird? Is he wearing sunglasses now? I think he's like... Do we like anything different here? Like that. I think that looks a little better. Looks a little more like a real thing. I don't know. Okay. We got an Olmec head. We got an Olmec head. I think this should go to the edge. Why are these... Oh, I made these a little different color. Okay. I wonder if the outline is sneakily part of the problem here. Should this be... What if this were black? Let's just see. Okay, that's clearly not good. What if it were thinner? Is that better? No, I think that's better this way. All right. Maybe this thing is just what it is. You see? Here we are. This is going to be a published book in the airport. You're going to see a book and it's going to look all shiny. One of the things in it is going to be this. I don't know what it is. I don't even know what to call this drawing. I just did. But this is going to be one of the things that's in the book. Yeah. Luckily, it'll be small. If it's in a side, it's going to be really small. Yeah, I don't know. I don't even know. I don't know. Let's just draw the guys. Okay, so now there's two guys, and then we have to decide if we're doing their hats or not. Okay, two guys. They have to be taller than this thing. All right, that's one guy. Let's thicken him a little bit here. And let's give him a body. I think it actually needs to be a little bit bigger because I need him to reach to the ground. Um, without being, without being weird. Sorry, it's a little, he's a little bit, a little tall. Um, why can't I do this? Why can't I do this? There we go. Um, let's, yeah. All right. Okay. Um, he's a little slanty for my liking. Now, let's make him less slanty. God, why? Why does Illustrator do stuff like this? A stick figure. What's the scene here? Okay. All right. We now have a guy. And what's he going to be saying? I think he's straight-handed. And I think, okay, this is going to be easy once I've done these guys. Now, I want to make the leg just a little... All right. We're going to have a straight-arm guy. and his friend um you know what fuck it i'm i'm sick of stick figures i'm gonna keep the body and change i'll do the everyone deserves their own head a little closer i don't want to do the hats but sometimes it's like if it's not gonna be i'll just maybe i'll mush him around a little bit i don't usually do this but i am just these are taking a long time like this and then i'll just go like that and i'll turn it this way in pixel meter i couldn't do this this is a new capability to be able to kind of like cheat a little um you know i'll do the uh you know i'll do separate arms i just want to draw that stupid stump again the the uh the stem okay and let's just make it a little different here all right okay so now we have these two guys and they're both talking and again i think they're fairly deadpan that works neutral but not like unhappy Basically these guys are gonna trying to figure out what to do with their time And so they're both like just kind of neutral, but like fine, you know, nothing nothing. That's too happy. It's a little weird That works Okay Now I want to make the mouths a little skinnier. I don't like the mouth to be the same as the head so make these 1.3 and now Okay now I'm going to go to 1.8 and we're going to do eyes. His mouth's a little too open for my liking. I'm just going to redraw it. I think the problem is that this is a little high for me. What the hell is going on here? What the hell is that dot? What is going on here? I don't understand Illustrator. I don't understand how it did that. I mean, I guess I don't understand Illustrator. I don't want to mess. I liked. Yeah, what is going on? When I cut, sometimes I feel like it cuts more than I want it to cut, you know? Like I try to cut and then it randomly, it randomly like makes a bunch of, it like snips, like it makes like eight snips when I try to just do one. This is bad stuff right now. Okay. All right. No, that's okay. It's a little goofy, but like they're different people. which is nice. They don't look too similar. Okay. And let's just make this 1.3. All right. Jeez. Here they are. Now they're going to go. Oh, I messed up so bad, dude. Okay. Hold on. Okay. Just copy that. Now I need to go like this. I made a huge mistake. Okay. Now before I, I should have done this before. Now let's get rid of these guys and paste. Now we're never okay. So we got them now here this guy is Standing here and this guy Standing here. They did it. I called I said it was I said this the rocks it was made of sandstone. It's made out of basalt Carbon dated to 800 BC. Do you know how long ago that was again? Homer This is this is what Homer were supposedly alive and writing if he was even a real person way before ancient greece that we know of as the famous classical greece like really a long time ago you know like um europe was like not even a thing rome hadn't even begun just a little little small village basically rome at the time when this thing was made um you know the uh i think the biggest the most kind of like advanced part of the world is probably mesopotamia Although even they, even the famous Assyrians hadn't really gotten rolling yet. The Neo-Assyrians or the Neo-Babylonians. This is before them. They made this thing. This is real. It's a real picture. Crazy. Anyway. Okay, so those guys are staring at each other. And now I think it's funny for them to be identical over here. Identical is always like a choice. It's very obvious. You're not fooling anyone. But I think you do it when it adds to the humor for them to be identical. I think we want everything a little lower here because I need space for, oops, I need space for dialogue. So I'm going to highlight all of these guys. Why would it highlight everything except for this one thing? Okay. Now here, they're just staring at each other. I guess they're looking down at the thing. I think they're looking down at the thing. Okay, so I want 1.3 for mouth. A neutral. Neutral. That's smiling. This guy looks a little satisfied, but I think that's okay. And then, oh, that's one. I want 1.3. See, I hate this illustrator right there. I set it to 1.3. I touch the thing, start drawing, and it jumps to one. And then I have to go change it back. That, and I looked it up. That's not like me. That's just a glitch. It's just a well-known glitch. And it's like, come on, guys. What I feel like it's not hard to fix is that literally they're just not that staffed, and it's kind of disorganized over there, and it's on some list. and like just knowing it'll just happen like a year and a half later than it could to fix that um oh 1.8 i want here see now here it doesn't happen i do 1.8 and i tap it and it stays 1.8 like it should you're looking down okay okay just about done now now let's put the dialogue in um what capital what should we do now actually make this what should we do And then let's make this way smaller. Let's make a stone head. I don't want that period there, though. I don't really want a period after the stone head either. I think that's okay. Now, this is definitely to... We don't have enough space up there, so I think I have to shrink everyone. It's going to be hard because I don't want to shrink the head. I guess I just have to make this a tad bigger, which, again, we don't like doing, but... Okay, so what should we do now? Let's make a stone head. and then there they did it oh and then this is going to say two months later and then they're going to basically say the same thing over here so what should we do now oops all right this is how i imagine that these stone heads came about with conversations like these so we have to do one of these here where it goes up and then it goes up but not like that okay and then we do that over here it's funny looking at the chat it's just funny if someone comes here now for the first time and they're like the hell is this all right i feel like that's distractingly like curvy but i want it to be below this so the order is correct maybe just move this closer to the middle maybe like that now all right all right i think we've had enough of this old mac head drawing wouldn't you say so now we can this is there for if we ever want to revisit but for now these can all be hidden and here we are basically I explained the Olmecs for like a second and then I say like they're known for their giant stone heads and then this comic pops up I don't know if it's gonna work because the Olmecs is currently in the side I think what will have to happen is it won't be able to be a side on the side of the page it can be a blue box in the middle of the page and because this this is this is obviously a uh i probably should make the head smaller the guy's shorter and this ah i should just do that let's just see if i can do it quickly okay so let's see if we can make get some vertical space back quickly so this has to stay in the same proportions but it could be smaller in fact smaller is better when you're drawing sucks because then it's just like farther away you know people can't quite see the horrors of it as easily okay now we take these guys We get rid of this guy. And we get rid of this. Is that highlighted? No. We get rid of this. And we get rid of that. Now, let's just shorten everyone. It's changing the shape of their head. That's not working. Now I have to do this. And sometimes I have to go here and just change scale strokes and effects. So that doesn't... If I'm making them small, I don't want to keep the thickness of the line or else the lines get too thick relative to them. So we're just going to go like this. They can still see over the top, right? That's maybe a little, I don't have to go, that's this small. Okay, like that. And then this can go a little bigger again. And then, I mean, we also could condense horizontally here a little now, but it's just no need. It won't do anything because we can't use that space anyway. You have to use like less than half of the horizontal space if you want to actually make it in a side. Otherwise, you might as well just use the whole thing. Now we take all this top stuff. Let me just move it down And then this guy over I can look down. Oh This is all messed up now. This guy's over here. You see this is also just the kind of thing like I can just do this Kind of thing for like way too long You know and sometimes at the end of all this I'm like did I even make something better just now or did I just like spend an extra 20 minutes at the end of a finished drawing doing Inane tweaks i guess that has to be high anyway okay let's go there and now this see we just that's one two vertical lines not a big deal but it adds up if you do that for 100 drawings um if there's 300 drawings and i can do that from for 200 of them with a little bit of discipline that's 400 vertical lines that i've removed and there's like 30 in a page so 12 pages shorter book for for no no loss here right um two months later should that be down here no i think like centered more i had it right the first time okay all right i'm moving on olmex okay getting comics out of the way today is good because however annoying it is to do hard drawings it's less annoying on live stream because there's like some novelty to this activity as opposed to just me here drawing this olmec head alone and like thinking about like my mortality while i'm drawing this all my cat it's like nice to be doing something making a little mixing it up so i should do the hard ones like this today right what am i doing there we go all right and then tweaks good bad name good band name okay i would make the two guys in the middle proportional to the head um the only reason i want i kind of want them looking like down at it where they can still see each other although oh you know what shit shit i think i wanted i forgot I think I wanted this. This is an easy fix. Oh, Jesus. What just happened? No, no, no. Okay, I think I wanted this over here, too. Like, why would the head have disappeared for a minute? Oh, my God. I guess they don't need to move over that much. Let's just first do this guy. Put this there. I think everyone just needs to shift just a tad. Get out of this dude's way. Yeah. And then this guy needs to crowd him less. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. You see? When this thing snips, I could just group these guys and make them one object. If I were going to work with these guys a lot right now, I would just group it and make it one object. Problem there is if you want to tweak something, it's just like more annoying. If it's within a group, you have to kind of go into the group or double click on it. So I don't like to group unless I'm, if I'm working with them a lot though, I can just, I could just make this head one object and move it anywhere without having to deal with like highlighting. But I'm just doing so little of that right now. I'm not too worried about. Okay, this to be, I guess now, oh man. Okay, well, I could probably shrink this down a little. The main tweaks. This at least has a reason. Sometimes I'm just tweaking, like when I was doing the shadow there, that kind of thing could just be like a huge rabbit hole for me. Like messing with the aesthetics of something and it just not making it any better. And it'll just, then my perfectionism kicks in where I'm like, I just have to keep going until I find something that's better. And then it's just a huge waste of time. This at least has a purpose. if this makes it into the book this needs to happen at some point this key every everything has to be minimized vertically every drawing so okay i feel i feel it's still it's a little crowded at top now but you know it's fun people are going to get that the book has to be crowded um okay so that now it's done that of course there had to be a head there um now i'm gonna crop this one last time i also often just do this save it and then i end up going back and doing this again and then again and again because i always think i'm done at this stage and i look at it and i fix something and it's just all right restart comp get out of here no i'm not gonna restart a comp okay all right we just did two more drawings and i think i have some like quick quick like fun ones after the next break i'm gonna run to the bathroom um i'm going to go like this back at let's say 306 406 et look at landing should i give something else to look at what else could i have you all looking at that's interesting um let's see wait hold on that means the animation huh there's something i want to find that's really interesting here gestation animation i think you guys are lucky because what i was going to show you is kind of upsetting um How about week by week? This is not upsetting. This is an interesting thing. Where is everything here? GIF. There, this. Yeah, that's what I wanted to show you. Okay. No, no, no. See, it's not going to move here. It's inane. This over here. I find this really interesting. I guess I don't know how to make it bigger right now without getting into a rabbit hole I don't want to be in. Can I open? image in new tab let's try that yeah there we go okay look at land names and pregnancy i guess it's not really that's the woman it's like and um fetal development okay you look at that and let's make this a little smaller i don't want to miss anything see now i could have been back already this is the funny part okay there we go there we go okay um Now it's 4.06. So we say 4.09. Okay. All right. I was just talking to myself. Talking to myself. Let's start over. I think you can hear me now. So let's just confirm you can hear me before I talk to myself again. Can I be heard? Yes. Okay. What I was going to say is I'm going to look at the chat a little bit. And I read this chat that said... The fact that Tim is consistently an hour off initially when citing the time he'll be back, is there a clock in his room that's still not updated to daylight savings time? The answer is no, I'm in Austin. I'm on central time. And I feel like if you're on central or mountain time and you're announcing a time for general Americans, you kind of have to do PT or ET. Because if I say we're starting at 1030 CT, a lot of... east coast people will probably just log on at 10 30 and then realize i said ct so i'm just generally usually uh using et when i talk to people that aren't in central time that's the answer um tim 10 years ago only two guys made stick figure illustrations and created awesome content you and sam onella i don't know who that is gotta check him out first of all that's not true There were others. There were lots of lots of good people doing it. Now there are a hundred channels on YouTube copying the same style. Most are AI. Some good. Your thoughts? Well, that's a stressful thing. Takshakdada. But what I'll say is it's a good question and I'm not sure what I think yet. I think that I think that there is going to be a lot more great content it's you know when i started it was hard to make good content there was just no shortcut and that's why there was a lot of bad content out there like you know not to be a hater but like buzzfeed type articles you know where the business model was mediocre content quickly super targeted and lots of it just flood it flood the internet and that's fine they did their thing and i was like well i'm not gonna out buzzfeed buzzfeed let me spend 60 hours on one article instead of like you know up two hours and There won't be many of them, but they'll stand out when I do them. And my thought now is, I mean, first of all, just to move out of my own life here for a second, if the internet is flooded with great content, that's a good thing, right? Like the industrial revolution definitely like made it worse for people who made like really nice frying pans because now there were just really good frying pans that were cheap, that were made, you know, by machines. And that was overall a good thing. that's the first is you know i'm i'm i'm happy for the world that there's more good content out there right now there's a lot of ai slot right it's not really good yet most of most of the stuff um like no one has yet sent me an article in my style or in anyone else's style that i like as much as i like the blogs i like or the other the other writers or whatever the other comic people i think that will change right it will get there And I think that's okay. Now, I think about starting up now, it would be more stressful because I'd be like, oh, how am I going to get an audience when there's already so much good stuff? I think I'm fortunate in that I have an audience who knows who I am and likes my stuff and I think will like to read my stuff even when there is a lot of good AI stuff out there. Maybe there'll be, maybe it'll go less, maybe things will go less viral because it's like the internet's just flooded with good content now and it's less notable that there's this really good article on this thing. That's okay. I think the answer is to just... because you know but it's fun for me to make stuff i'm proud of and if that gets read by x amount or 3x people like yeah sure more is better but like um i feel currently personally fine about it i think uh we'll see um also i think it's good to just be adaptable and if it's like you know what there's just too much written content out there no one wants articles anymore no one no one needs your articles okay then i'll let's do something else Let's find something else that's not out there and do a good job at that. Sometimes these things are a blessing if that happens, where it's like it forces you to do a different medium, kicks you out of your comfort zone, and you end up finding something else you really like to do, whether it's, I don't know, audio, music, fiction, I don't know, something totally different. So I feel it's cool. Like this book I'm doing right now, I'm just having so much fun. I mean, you see, I'm not having fun. i hate writing and i hate drawing as you can see today but you but you know in a backup i'm having a generally macro having macro fun um uh because i'm learning so much about so many things it's just really fun to make a book i'm really proud of and that i'm excited that exists and i don't think we'll see 2027 comes out it's an eternity with ai at the moment i don't think ai can make a book like this we'll see in a year maybe it will but that's that's where i stand i guess i don't really know what to think also it's kind of hard to it's like um there's like part of me that i'm like oh no ai is going to be doing all the writing and then i'm like ai also might like extinct us all so like that's like the least of our problems i guess a little bit um it also might like cure cancer in all of our problems so like i don't know it's just the topic of ai is so much bigger than anything to do with my career that i'm like i guess it's just not like a top of mind um um yeah that's how i feel what else here we see when the book is out would you ever consider making videos on youtube your blogs converted into stick figure videos there's a scope to reach yes totally i would love to do that um i think it's time to do that to try something where um i want to do it creative you know i don't want to just make youtube videos that are like oh another guy making youtube videos like that i would want to do something where it's like you know my you know i don't know animated something with a Really well written narrative. It would be like BuzzFeed where it's like I don't want to do just like Quantity over quality. It's like I'd rather I'd rather just spend a long time make like really excellent YouTube videos that are original and different when they come out and so we'll see if we can figure out what that would be But yes, I think YouTube is a medium I should be exploring more like For like what's our problem, right? I think there's so many good concepts in that book I think they're so applicable to today and really any society probably anytime, but especially right now But, you know, they're buried in a huge book right now. And some people are going to read that whole book and some people aren't. But I think what I should be doing more of is pulling out concepts and either writing short blog posts on individual things within that book or making YouTube videos. I could do a YouTube series, you know, a 12-part YouTube series of like 12 concepts in that book. I think I should do more stuff like that. I've done the hard work already of coming up with these concepts and illustrating them and learning how to articulate them that now I feel like I should. that's been done already so why just like leave it in one medium like spread it through mediums um so i plan to do more stuff like that uh yeah um yeah well if all stick figure vittles are responsible for causing lots of negative unresolved negative externalities like the industrial revolution that's true it's it's um okay yes to shorty blog post youtube series yeah you know because it's like like i appreciate that my readers the kind of people i've collected as readers like long in-depth things but it's a big world out there and there's a lot of people who would like the contest but they're not going to read long articles they're not going to read long books um so but i want those people to uh i want to spread i want to spread the ideas to those people too are you actually going to get back to blogging that that actually in all caps is so deserved i deserve a really big caps with that actually i've been following me for why for 10 plus years and i kind of feel like you've been getting back to blogging for this this one is oh wow that is that that is just it's just such an on-point criticism and it's just so fair and correct yeah no i would feel the same way i know i said it i feel like uh it doesn't feel good to consistently say something to readers who want to trust things i say and then not do it so what happened was i i signed a book deal for this book that i'm doing now in 2017 while i was finishing this blog post on what's going on with our society then the blog post got longer turned into a series then my editor actually at random house it was his idea to say let's make this a book that's a book you're doing right now then we'll do the other book and i said sure i've already done it let's just publish it once i went into book zone i said well this isn't good enough it's too long it's not concise enough let's shorten it and the whole last part took forever many more years. Meanwhile, then I still had this other book I was on the hook for. So that's one problem. There was two books. That's two huge things in between WIPOI 1.0 and WIPOI 2.0 that we're waiting to start. The second problem is that I have a mental illness where I underestimate how long things take. And especially for the first book. I will say the second book is going to be done in about three and a half years. it's on pace to be about half the time as the first book. So I think I am getting better at, I think I learned how to do a book and it's going quicker, but yes, it has taken forever. And I don't want to start blog posts. I've thought about doing blog posts while doing the book, but it's a disaster. I'll just won't make progress in the book or the blog post won't be that good. Cause I'll, I'll be using all my mental energy on the book. So yes, I am going to get back to blogging. Not only that. Alicia has been working with people at WordPress to build a really good Waypoint Y 3.0. So the site right now is actually Waypoint Y 2.0. The really OG people remember 2013, the first half of the first year I was blogging, when it was like this really basic site that I made in WordPress. I made it as the coder. That's how basic it was. Then I got a guy. He made a better site. That's Waypoint Y 2.0. But it's a mess. It's outdated. There's things that are broken in it. And it needs a big refresh. So we have this great new site. It's basically done. It's going to launch when I start writing blog posts again. It looks amazing. And it's way easier to like find articles. It's not just like a popular posts and then the most recent. It's just, it's great. I'm super excited about it. So there's going to be a new site. I have a big list of posts to write that have been building up for 10 years. So yes, I will be getting back to blogging. I'm not going to do what I normally do and be like in three months, in six months, soon. I am, you know, remember this timeline. Second draft of this book is finished. Drawings are halfway done. You know, we are getting there with this book, so. But that, again, I deserve all the shit I should get about this. Yeah. I'm working on another book afterward when it was a secret till yesterday. No, it hasn't been a secret. I've been very open about this book on, like, Patreon. I haven't, like, talked about it much on X or, like, other public places, but patrons know all about this book. I've been publishing little excerpts from it or thoughts. as i write every friday for patrons so i'm you know it's not a secret it's just i have i've been kind of head down trying to do this so i haven't been as soon as i'm done i'll start talking about the book a lot i'll be publishing excerpts from it and stuff from it and while i'm doing blog posts on totally unrelated things while waiting for random house to do their part so the book can finally come out and this book will be a paper book in addition to audio and ebook on day one um can you help remember how the hell i found your old blog in the early 10s the old blog that is no there's like multis there's the og kind of person who is here you know back before like the ai post you know 2014 2013 they were reading like the fermi paradox post and like the procrastination post when those first came out that's like those are like the really old readers then there's the really really og people who are reading my old blog it was called underneath the turbine it's still up somewhere I took out all the curses because I started dating my now wife and her mom is super anti curses. And I was like, oh, she's going to hate me if she finds this. And I went through and I took all the curses. So the whole thing is a little less funny, a little less edge than it used to. I shouldn't have done that. I regret that now. It was a weird time. But that blog was like my, I wrote in that from 2005 to 2011, six years, 300 posts, short, not like big in-depth posts like today. They were more like thoughts about my day stories. lists um and that's where i kind of developed a writing voice and realized i liked writing and realized that this was like something i could do full time um so i i yeah i have a lot of affection for underneath the turban readers um all right let's move will you do another weight but high in the future does this qualify as procrastinating yeah it does but you know also i plan to do this but the bad procrastination is when it's like this wasn't supposed to be happening I expected to do some Q&A, some discussion with the thread. That's part of why we're doing this, is to catch up with each other and hang out. Secret turtle links on WAPOI 3.0, got you covered. Yeah, all right. Let's move on. Let's move on. Now, where were we? What are we doing here? Should we do a couple? Well, okay, I have a couple things I want to do for this procrastination round. First, okay, let's just get things in order here. Okay, so first, I would like to... Let's look at a few more places and then I want to do something else. Me and my wife read the marriage decision sometime before finalizing. Good. That is what it was for. By the way, I wrote that post when I was not yet engaged to my now wife. And if you can believe it, she was kind of a collaborator because we were like, I think we should get married. But like, is there any chance we're like doing the wrong thing? Would you be like friends in five years and be like, oh my God, imagine if we had gotten married. We play like that scenario. We're like, oh shit. How do we know if this is right? It seems right, but there's also things that aren't a good match, obviously. What's more important? And it was kind of a mindfuck. And so I was like, I'm going to write about it. And she kind of collaborated. We kind of did it together. But we are married now, and I think that was a good thing to do. All right. I do have a lot more relationship posts up my sleeve that I've been thinking about developing thoughts on for years that I just haven't had the chance to do them. But it's going to be a lot more thoughts on marriage, relationships, you know. Okay, Sri Lanka. So I don't want to go, well, okay, I don't want to go, let's just, let's go to somewhere really random in Sri Lanka. I've never been to Sri Lanka. I would love to go to Sri Lanka, but like what's going on over here in this like end of this road here? Okay, not much as you might have guessed. Not much. I would love to be in a little car driving down this road though, you know? I love when I get a car in a foreign country and just drive around and you can like stop. People, rural people are always really friendly. You just can stop and... chat and then you they'll invite you in and give you some tea and you hang out with them um okay how about what's going on here i always wondered what the hell this is oh shit didn't mean to do that no sorry um this strip it might just be like beachy and people moving but what the hell is happening here you know is it just a road okay it's just a road it's just like a so who's this cow this cow understand where this cow is living this cow is living on the thin strip of land between india and sri lanka and there's trash um one cow i feel like there's usually multiple cows so like is this a milk maybe a milk cow for this family it doesn't seem like it's a farm it seems like it's this family's particular cow um he has a friend here a cow friend but they they're but there's barbed wires so they can't hang out um okay all right look at this little tuk-tuk you see I just didn't, I would like, look at this. This is, was this for a well? Yeah, that's for a well. So we're going to talk about a well later today because I'm going to do a post, I'm going to do a drawing about where all the water is in the world. And there's so much groundwater, so much more groundwater than there is all the water in all the rivers and lakes in the world. And it's just these giant underground aquifers and like underground lakes. And a well is just digging down and tapping into this endless supply of water underground. let's see what this guy's up to oh it's a kid hey kid wait where'd you go this kid is like huh there's like a google car going by he's wearing a little hat flip-flops he looks cozy in those clothes you see so this kid lives on this look where he lives on the thin strip of land in between the two countries like this is really on the strip of land now yeah so you see Yeah, you can't really I guess can you walk across a little bit? I don't know So these people are having a nice time again. I ask as I always do who the hell took this 360 picture This guy I guess Where did he get a 360 camera? I don't know anyone who has one and like why did he take one here? And then how did it end up on Google? Or is it just like geo tagged and he he has it in his like Google photos And they put it up without asking him for permission or something. I don't know. Okay, let's go somewhere else Let's go. Let's go like somewhere really, really, really out there. I don't think there's any Google Maps over here. This is the place I want to go most in the world is this eastern province of Russia. Because I once was like, my goal is to I want to drive from New York to Mumbai. Here's Mumbai. Here's New York. And I was like, I'm going to drive up here. I'm going to drive up to this part. I'm going to take a ferry. And I'm going to drive all the way down here. And then I looked into it. And that is hilariously not something you can do. Because first of all, roads in Alaska go like, Not here. This here, which is where I would need to go, there are no roads here. There's an airport, but you can't have your car there. Now, there's also no one here. And so here's Russia. In fact, this is Russia, this island, and this is the U.S. Isn't that cute of them? But no one lives there, I don't think. But basically, even if you could somehow get a car here, which you cannot, to take... there's no ferry why would there be a ferry there's nothing there's nothing and and you can't you know i was like oh can maybe forget the car can i get someone to like paddle me across and the answer is really probably not because this is the choke point of the entire pacific you see and so it's ridiculously unpredictable rough waters and it's a great way to die now third so first of all you can't get a car there second you can't get across even if you don't have a car and third you get here and you will instantly be deported by russia because you need not just a normal russia visa you need a special permit to go to this province this is the like secretive land and it is very like soviet still and and and russia is very secretive about it you can't visit there so i'm friends with this guy drew binsky who has an amazing youtube channel he's been to every country on earth i'm a little like threatened by him. He is the cooler version of what I wish I was. But anyway, I was like, if anyone can figure it out, it's Drew. So I told Drew I want to go here with him, and he has to figure out how to get us here to this part. So anyway, you get deported, and there's probably no roads here either. So the idea of driving my car there is not going to happen. But anyway, let's see if Google, I doubt Google's even allowed here, but maybe there's some like, okay, you see, look, here's something. What's going on here? All right, look. See, I could be here. I could, look at these. I feel like they made the depressing Soviet stone buildings, but they like painted them pastel colors to like pretend that it's not depressing. Now what's happening here is a statue. Colorful crane. Why? It's like the crane. It's like these normally look at this. It's like we're in like Disney World. It's like cranes that are normally just cranes. Everything here is so cute. They like got really cute about everything. The houses. It's like Rainbowland. So anyway, I don't know what's happening here. Again, I don't know why someone took a pic here with a 360 camera. Let's see if there's one more spot I saw here. Okay, what the hell's going on here? All right, someone had a nice time. Okay, maybe it was the guy driving this truck. And he was like, you know what? I'm going to take a quick walk with my 360 camera and take a pic and put it on Google Maps. Wow, that is icy. That is icy. That is tundra. All right. I would not want to be like having to survive outside here in the wilderness. This would be a bad place to have to figure out how to survive. Okay, let's go somewhere else. Let's go like down. Well, I mean, I assume there's nothing in Antarctica, but of course. By the way, I am going to go. Oh my God, there is. I'm going to go to the North Pole and write about it. Mark your calendars. Oh my God. See, this is the kind of shit I love. This is in Antarctica. Apple? You can buy Apple products and Android? This is like a normal thing. Not just in Antarctica. You saw where this was. This was in the middle of Antarctica. Why are they saying? Who even has phones in Antarctica? I love this. Who's in this pick? That must be the people that... I don't think there are any year... Is this crazy? This could be anywhere right now. I cannot believe this car and this fence are in Antarctica. Can we just appreciate where I just put that was here in the middle? It wasn't even on the edge That was one of the strangest places I've ever dropped a thing This is what I picture. Okay, this is what I picture in Antarctica tourists or scientists doing shit like this So what the hell was that other place? That's very confusing Very confusing. Okay, now I'm gonna stop even though I'm having fun Because I want to do one more thing and then we have to get back to work you and I Okay, quick stop in DRC. Just one. Just one stop in DRC. Here. All right. This room is in the Dominican, is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It's a buffet. It's pleasant. Nice little table. Okay. See? So there you go. Okay, now I want to go to another thing, which is called Wiki Roulette. So this just takes you to a random Wikipedia page. List of storms named Terry. Okay, now you know. Been four storms named Terry. That is random. Okay, next. Polly Gillespie is a New Zealand former radio presenter. She co-hosted the Polly and Grant show on Saturday mornings. Is she still alive? Her spouse is not, sadly. This is her spouse. Oh, Polly and Grant show. Okay, so that's Grant. Oh, that's... Man, the listeners of this must have been devastated. Okay, she's since left broadcasting industry and retained and retrained to become a counselor and therapist. Okay, good for Polly. Bob Mark, an amateur tennis player from Australia. Okay, let's move on from Bob Mark. I think we can do better than Bob Mark. Scopula adictaria is a moth. of the family Geometry Day. It was described by Francis Walker in 1861 as from Sri Lanka. You see? It's all coming full circle. All right. Let's do a couple more. Damon Glanton is an American former professional football defensive back who played at Arena Football League. He had bigger dreams, Damon. He wanted to play in the NFL. Ah, man. So close, but so far away, you know? He's probably 98% as good as the NFL players, but like that last 2% is a killer. College football, Mississippi State. Yeah, well, I hope he had fun at least. Fund derivative is a financial structured product related to a fund normally using the underlying fund to determine the payoff. Okay, well, we know what a derivative is, but like, you're boring me. Sergey Maslow, football. Enough athletes. Let's just move on. We've done so many of these. Michaela Schmidt. an austrian politician of the social democratic party serving as state secretary in the ministry for housing arts culture media and sport in the stocker government it's the stocker government okay it's a it's a it's a a party in austria she was born in 83 she's two years younger than me helder morum is a portuguese professional football you know what i feel like it's not doing a good job of being random because it usually is really random but this is all a bunch of obscure athletes McKenzie Secondary School is a public high school in McKenzie, British Columbia. Okay. Shingdara is a village in Kwahan Badakhshan province in northeastern Afghanistan. I think we should go there. I think we should go there. Shingdara. Okay, let's go to Shingdara. Shingdara. What's that? Shingdara. Yeah, Afghanistan. All right, here's Shingdara. Let's see much of it. They call it a village? A village? Doesn't say the population. Where are the people? This is not much of a village. What's this? That looks man-made there. But I am not seeing a... Oh! Is this the village? Like these things here? Jeez. That is remote. You know what? I'm going to take a big guess that there's no Google Street View here. Yeah. All right. Shingdare. All right. Well, now you know about that. Now you know about that. All right. I think on that note, we should get back to work. Have I heard of Carl Buschby? He walked across the Bering Strait and has been trying to walk around the world for 27 years. Oh, I have heard of him. He's that guy that's going to London, right? He's super cool. But didn't he have some random problem at the Caspian Sea of all places? Look, I bet you're gonna see this. Look at this. Caspian Sea gave him shit. In August 2024, he started to swim across the Caspian Sea, planning to finish in Azerbaijan to avoid going through Iran or Russia as both countries are too dangerous. Enter the British passport. He was accompanied by a coast swim or whatever, but he had problems, I think. Oh, wait. No, he did do it. Wow, that guy is committed to the mission. To swim across the Caspian Sea? Oh, I think they like... had a boat and then he would sleep in the boat at night and then swim okay that's fair i mean he's sleeping probably in indoors on his walk so why not on his swim that is committed in 2025 he was reported to be in slovakia okay cool dude yeah it's like him like drabinski i'm like these are the people that i could have been if i were like a cooler person is you know so here's what he's done he started there i don't know what this whole thing is but he started there he went up the coast across the bering strait is badass now i can confirm this is where he's gonna go but right now it said he's in slovakia so he's close it's great it's gonna be a party when he finishes all right we're gonna work now he did in fact not go back to work yes i did shut up okay here we are now oh we were gonna question whether i should add i think this is this has taken enough of our time this drawing given that it might not even end up in the book i will say the head's growing on me i've done worse let me just say that i've done worse i've done worse than this head i do think it's it's it's accomplishing its job of being what a way but why stick figure comic would have for that head so i think the darkening of the eyes helped a little bit but anyway i was going to give them like funny hats but i think i'm not going to because first of all that'll crush my vertical space and secondly like um i don't know it just it it distracts from the like the the joke a little bit because now it's like this other things going on let's confirm this book this this ends up in the book before we spend more time on it okay all right what should we do next so we did draw okay we we did what we actually did here was we did another procrastination and i'll have to do show and tell next and then we'll do draw and then we'll do procrastination all right so we're here now we're at step nine so What's a good one to do next? We did all next. We did months. I picked out good ones for you. Okay, should we do a big one? I think we should do two family trees that are totally different kind. One is the old school kind, and then we'll do the futuristic kind. Okay, so first we're going to do... Now the challenge here is going to be, how do I fit this and not make it too big? There's already a drawing on We Put Why that is very similar to this. but it's not in vector and it's probably, you know, it probably can be better because that was, you know, done more hastily as a blog post probably. That was back in the post every Tuesday day, so I was probably doing that Tuesday morning, like on no sleep. I think we can hopefully improve upon it, but this is a family tree drawing. By the way, if I go back to every week, which I might because it kicks my ass to do post every week, I think I'm going to go for Fridays, not Tuesdays. And Alicia is going to make me get it to her by the end of Wednesday workday. We'll say famous last words, but that's the plan and then she can spend Thursday getting it formatted getting you know proofreading it Getting it up on the site ready to go and we'll go up like early Friday morning and then I can take the weekend off And try to just do posts that can be done in three days. That's the goal because it's the limitation is good You won't get the really long posts But that's those happen when the limitation went away, which then you know it gets out of control So I think I would try to knock out a handful of short posts on fridays that's that's the loose plan but you know all right so now we're gonna do stick figures and i really want to get it right because it's going to be repeated a billion times this stick figure and i don't think this is one you don't want to do drawn because you don't want any imperfections at all when you're when you're repeating something if any imperfection shows up in the big zoomed out view you can just see it like and it doesn't look good Now the question is what size should these be? What thickness? There's some decisions to make here, but let's just start by a very basic state figure. This. Now what we're doing here is a big ass family tree that goes back 12 generations. Now, I think it should be thin lines. I think it should be thinner lines than this. You know what I haven't done in like a year is check slack and see if Alicia's been yelling at me to change something that I'm messing up here. Is there a lawn mowing hat? Lawn mower? I don't know why I'm still talking to you, lol. Because she knows I'm ignoring her. Sorry, Alicia. Let's close this window. I'll tell you why I opened the windows. It's because of this thing. My friend Igor made me get a CO2 monitor. 891 is fine, by the way. You want it to be in the sixes or sevens, but like 891 is fine. What I don't want to see is like 1100. You know, if I'm just off gassing in this room and it's a small room, it's going to collect CO2. And apparently... apparently could be an old wives tale but i think there is data that people perform like significantly worse on tests in high co2 environments in experiments so you're actually cognitively disabling yourself um so anyway i'll open the window to try to mitigate that but then you hear sounds from outside okay so let's make this 0.5 that might be a little too thin 0.6 Now, I might want to fill in the head. Let's just do the whole thing for a second. Okay, so we go one. I'm just going to copy that and do this. I think we want rounded corners. And then we can just copy these up. So this is part of a chapter that is going to be talking about the amazingness that you're even here. And how much had to happen for you to be here. And this is... one of we're built we build up to it through many stages this is just the last stage this is just for humans to be here was a complete miracle first for so many different reasons through cosmology evolution but um i need everything to be perfectly aligned here because god damn it hi something this is quite annoying see i want this over just a tad see i'm so small here that i can't just use my arrows after drag like oh my god um what see i'm clicking i'm clicking here i think this is just glitchy sometimes like how many times do i have to how many times do i have to click this like what the hell man this is really really quite annoying when it does this i'll drag okay that's what philip would want me to do i want this see i don't want that no sorry this is painful and this is if you think it's painful for you i'm dealing with this all the time Okay, I'm going to group it, even though I don't want to group it, just so I can get it in the right place. At least now I can just highlight one of them. Okay, there we go. Let's just get this guy down here. You just have to do this once, and then everything else is just photocopying this guy. His head's obviously too big. We'll fix that in a second. Just want to make sure he's perfectly level and even. He's pretty good. Okay, I'm satisfied with that now. Let me just make his head smaller. Oh, but see, it's not. See, I turned off scale to lines. That's funny. Okay. So now I can go back here and I can go have him. Now I want to keep the same thickness. I wish there was a keyboard shortcut for that because I toggle that on and off all the time. I think that guy's pretty good. That's a stick figure. Does he look normal? Something looks a little off actually. I think his arms are just too high. I think that's a good stick figure. Now, let's make him blue. Not that blue. There's a blue I want that's just not in my palette that I think I need to make because this is too past This is like too bright for me, but all the other blues are too like faded and dark So that's just pure cyan is what that is And then here we add a bunch of magenta in and add a little black and lower the cyan So what is it that I want? Maybe I just want that I want more like rich color, but maybe sometimes it's nice to not have such dark such rich color when you're doing so many of something maybe i lower the magenta a little i want more like a royal blue i think but i just don't know how to i don't know okay i guess i would add a little dark okay maybe that's our blue for now the reason i'm trying to get this right is because this is quite annoying to fix if i don't get it right once it's done it's not one of those that i can say we'll figure this out a little bit later like that these legs are a tad long for my liking all right now head's a little big now now i could do this and just have i think that looks weird i don't like that i don't like that okay i want his okay now is this perfectly centered i think so all right um so if that's our guy i think that works i think that's that so it's gonna be it's gonna be real tiny once we're in the higher stages here so i want it to be visible still now let's make our our lady so i'm going to group this okay now she i think the lady is red right it's a little is that a little bright hold that look really far away yeah it looks pretty good it's a little bright but like maybe bright is helpful once we get real far away let's see how i can make it one notch less like neon in your face i could add some dark to it that might help just mute it just a little um magenta is all the way up science all the way down in yellow Why is yellow so high? I feel like that's orange. Oh, I see. That's what's weird about CYMK. It's like there is no red. It's yellow plus magenta is red. So I could go more purple here. That's a little more like, it's a little more like typical color, but maybe I don't want that. Maybe just like somewhere in the middle. Yeah, I don't want to be like orangish. So like maybe like that. Okay. All right, let's go with it. So now what's happening is And then we have one that's purple and that's the that's the only one that's purple and that's the Or maybe that's just black. Let's just start there that this we can change later Okay, so this is supposed to be like you you're the you're the stick figure here and It's like Center this ish on the page Okay, now it's not gonna be so small at the bottom. Okay, so let's make all these bigger because this is like the bottom level here Oh, see, now I need to, I don't want to, I don't think I want to do that. Do I want to do that a little bit? Make it a little bit more? And then they get crunched as you get bigger? Hmm, that's a tough one. I think I do want to do that a little bit. Make it a little thinner at the bottom. Right, so now what happens is, now this looks a little green to me, to BH. I could go a little bluer here. So how do I do that? Yellow is the, it's not green at all, right? Because we have no yellow. So why does it look green to me? I see. I just have to add more magenta. It's very interesting. You had more magenta to make this bluer, but yeah. All right. So now, let's just start placing these and we can get the exact order later. I think you want to, yeah, move out a little bit. Now, one thing, a nice thing about Illustrator is I can, I don't have to worry about these. If these are exactly level, I can just highlight them and click this and they go perfectly level. I think these could actually, I want to go. I wanna keep the version I had there and now, okay. I just don't wanna lose my weightings, my line weightings for the small guys. Okay, now I think we actually could probably go even a little. Yeah, let's just try this. Okay, so now, now we need these two again and again and again and again and again. They're gonna go here. I think these could probably be farther apart since we're gonna really need to branch out here. Now these two could be closer together maybe. and a little smaller i am always at risk with something like this i haven't done a drawing like this in forever of doing something for a long time and then realizing i messed something up and it's not something that can be fixed without redoing the whole thing we are prepare yourselves in danger of that situation here shrink it a little bit a little big i think we need to move all of these out a bit like these to make sure it's even all right It's not even all right now Don't forget to be colorblind friendly. Hmm. I thought that was red green This is Alicia is the colorblind Nazi. She always will make sure I am colorblind friendly After this is done I'm gonna see if she's yelling at me currently about this She's not she probably has checked out frankly, but we'll see Okay By the way, I write about colorblindness in the book because I write about the origin of color vision and then what colorblindness is, and it's really quite interesting. So you get your parents, your grandparents, your great-grandparents. I think we're not. Well, let's just try this. We can adjust. Okay, now I think we're on to the small guys, I think. I think this whole thing is a little small, probably, given how much is about to happen. We're going 12 up, 12 layers up. We've only done three so far. and it's gonna get real hectic when i get higher now i can align all these later i can just go like this this is this is a very good illustrator quality is to be able to do that um we're gonna put lines in later i guess i should do that now i guess i should do that now because i'm just gonna end up deleting this whole thing anyway okay so let's just do that now can everyone hear the music i think so right yeah you know we should vibe in here a little All right. I'm scared of this drawing. I'm scared of having to go redo everything. I'm going to go there. Now this needs to be much shorter. Oh, okay. At some point, the line should get, I think the lines should start to get smaller. Oops. Let's make this 0.5 now. Now you see why I wasted time already because this is all going to go. I'm just going to copy this guy over. This is not the right height. so this gets copied over and then this gets copied over okay it's looking triangular probably these should be farther apart see we go one two three one two three make this longer this over one two three okay ready for our next layer here great great grandparents yeah see the problem is you're actually limiting yourself you see the issue is now it's like the next layer is basically the same width as this layer but just like a tad more and it's just too thin too thin the whole thing is way too thin we have so much more growth to do um yep okay there we go to redo all this and we're gonna make this way wider let's go let's make it let's do this here i'm sure i could just like do this mathematically and get it correct should this be even wider no no i think that's okay so now we're going to take this guy over here put this over here now same thing needs to happen here alicia says i am still here haha but i'm also mostly relying on random house to do all our coloring our color yelling now but since you asked here is one red green filter on oh jesus so let me just show you what alicia just sent me can you see this it looks exactly the same You know what? I think that's okay. I think colorblind people are going to be okay, and I'll tell you why. The reason why is that if just say these were all black, it's fine. It gets the point across, right? What you don't want is red, green, colorblind people or whatever can't understand the drawing because the color is critical. to understanding it um and that's not the case here you get the point either way the red and the colors are um the colors are just like a nice embellishment that are not in fact you know this book we i hate patrons know because i i ranted to them about this um we toiled about whether this book should be color or black and white there's a lot of pros and cons so um If you make the book color, so color adds a ton, right? You can just see how much I use color. I want to show you a drawing I did here. It's time to do another, another little, let's just show you another drawing. I just did this. It's a Mesopotamian timeline. Now I think this is nice. If I were reading a, stop it, stop it. Okay. If I were reading a book and I saw this, I would stare at it. I'd be very satisfied, right? I just think that. it really gets the point across about how many different civilizations have occupied the land between those two rivers the tigris and euphrates in modern day iraq what we call iraq is the latest name for this area that has been popular has been populated for since since since things were populated um and they were first at cities they were first at writing they were first at farming um They were the first empire, Akkadians here. Neo-Sumerians, still almost no empires in the world. They're already on their third or second, you know, major empire. And this was like a little bit chiller here. You have Hammurabi, old Babylonians. And then you've got, this is Bronze Age collapse. So the Middle Assyrians were just trying to like get their shit together again. But then the Nero-Syrians was one of the, it was the biggest empire in the history of the world at that time. Neo-Babylonian, another major empire. The Persians. Then was the next biggest empire of all time. It was the the biggest empire of all time at that point They occupied a lot more than mesopotamia, but they were in charge for this whole period Then you had alexander the great conquering it and then you have his general So this is hellenistic then you have iranians conquering at the parthians and the sassanians Then you have the muslims conquering it and you have the the two caliphates and these words, you know Again, the center of the baghdad was the center of the the muslim golden age Then the Mongols conquered it. At that point, it never rose back to full glory again. And really until here, it was the center of the civilized world. It was ahead of everyone else. And then after the Mongols, the Ottomans were a major empire, but it was one of many at that point. And now Iraq, obviously, is a struggling country. But the point is, color does so much here. Now picture the same exact thing with instead of color, you've got no fill-in. You've just got black lines and maybe different shades of gray. so much worse. And there's a lot of drawings like that where color adds a lot. Now, the drawback of which there are many. One, it takes like the book comes out like three or four months later because color printing has to happen overseas and it just takes longer. Second, the pages have to be thicker so color doesn't bleed through. So you can't have those thin tan pages that are in, you know, a typical book. So 500 page book here feels, you know, much thicker than a 500 page text. normal textbook put book with just text in it or just with black and white drawings third the the more expensive pages the thicker book uh the the the more expensive printing makes the book cost more so the hardcover instead of being you know 32 bucks is 48 or something um lots of drawbacks and ultimately i decided it's the same thing that early wait but why it was like look WAPOI is not going to out-quantity things. It's not going to... The point of it is to be the highest quality possible book ever. Like the writing, the research, the drawings. And so color fits with that. And so we decided to go with color. But anyway, I was very prepared to just make this a black and white book, in which case this drawing would have been fine. It could have just had black stick figures, maybe with two different shades of gray for the mom and dad, but basically just black stick figures. Would have been totally fine, but just less good. And so that's part of why in this case, sometimes color is, there's times when color is critical to the point, in which case you're going to have to make sure colorblind people don't get screwed there. But in the times when it's just like a nice embellishment, then you can't, I don't think you have to worry too much about it. That's how I feel. I think one in 12 men are colorblind or something insane. I think that's the crazy number. Women way, way less often. because the X chromosome is where some of the color cones live on. And so when one isn't working, another X chromosome can compensate in a woman. But with a man, when the X chromosome gets messed up, when the color cone there, there's no compensation, so they become colorblind. Same reason men get muscular dystrophy, and women don't really, because muscular dystrophy is a mutation on the X chromosome. So women have one to compensate when one goes wrong, but they can still pass that one on to their sons. or their daughters but it has can be devastating in their sons um anyway back to the drawing okay so um yeah thanks brad as i like the mesopotamian anthro crescent timeline too um okay all right here we are see now it's too wide you see that so now we have to either make the bottom part wider or this part thinner because these are too close together i want them to be like quadrants And we're going to keep going out from here. So I do think that, okay, okay. We went too far. You went too far. Just with this top part. I think maybe the other things, I think it's just this line here. No, no. There we go. Now these are a little close together. I think that's okay. No, it's not okay. These have to get smaller too. God damn. You see, I knew this was going to give me hell, this drawing. I know I should just be, I should have just done some math here. And I think that would have, okay. This over here. This is just kind of the bottom row is important because these bottom rows because it's kind of the basis of the whole structure. And once you're constrained down here, you're constrained for the whole thing. Okay. Alicia says the gum chewing is tough. Sorry about that. The problem is, you know, what happens is the morning we've got caffeine time, right? Morning is coffee. Afternoon is nicotine gum time. I want my upper, but I don't want the half-life of caffeine keeping me up at night, but nicotine gum is a nice little... You know, I've never been a smoker. I just like it as a little, same thing people like caffeine for, but it just has a shorter half-life. And I usually have an Olipop in the morning as well, or in the afternoon as well. The first line should be half the width of the page. Center everything in the second half that length. Yeah, I'm not sure I need it to be. I see your point. At some point I'm going to, I guess I could just do that. let's just see what this looks like yeah am i being a little like inane here low caffeine tea yeah that would be probably a more grown-up decision i just enjoy my nicotine gum but yes it's probably quite habit-forming in fact i am in a habit of having it every day um yeah so i keep doing this trial and error thing and maybe maybe media player 7237 is right let's just pause here and consider do i do i care do i care if these guys are evenly spaced i think i might i think i might i think i might yeah i think i think the outer edge is the thing i should care about i think i want this one in the middle and this to be halfway out like three quarters seven eighths fifteen sixteenths to the edge i think that is what i need to have happen but um wait why is this not showing up I should have a rectangle here that's telling me how far I can go to the edge. Like this guy, this rectangle. Let's just copy that one over. That'll help. I think I should just go mathematical here and spare you all from like, why is this not pasting? Why can't I highlight it? I don't know. I don't know why. I can't do that. I don't know where it went. I don't know why it's not there. But I can figure that out. Okay. So let's just think about this. Do I actually care about having it be? I think I do. I think I want them evenly spaced. Okay. We haven't gone that far yet. I love spending time with you here too. This is way better than working alone. Let me just tell you. All right. So let's make sure this one's centered. Let's just do it. We're still early here in the process. So it's just a half an inch. Okay. So it's exactly six inches is what I have to work with here. From half inch. to six inches so now i want this let's just start off i want this guy exactly at three why can't i drag this okay god damn why is it snapping to the grid do i have a snap to grid thing on i think i have a snap to grid thing on i must have pressed something by accident see here's when we go to this is this is i do a lot of this illustrator snap to grid keyboard shortcut command Apostrophe I must have pressed that when I was trying to do something else I said command apostrophe Okay, and now I Don't get it. I don't want to see no control plus grid is that command plus good is Shift control. That's what it is So shift control this there we go. Now. It shouldn't do that anymore. Yay. Okay, see That's one thing nice thing about using a very popular program is like just Google the answer and a hundred people are talking about the same problem Okay, so six inches So now we want to go an inch we want to go an inch and a half out so we want this guy to be At one and a half. Well, that's all the way out there. Is that really what I want? No No, is it three? Oh, okay. It's two a half Right. So I don't want this at three. That's also a mistake I made. Okay. I want this at three and a half. And I actually think maybe points are going to be better here. Eh, let's just start here. Okay. So now, from three and a half, I want to go down to two. So this one has to go all the way out here. Oh yeah, baby crying, yeah. That's a regular soundtrack in this house. This is tedious. It is. It is. Okay, two. And... Five. Now, I bet I could be doing something very helpful here. Let's try something. I'm going to hide all these. Well, what if I went like this? Like this? Oh, yeah. Okay. That's what I want to do. Okay. This is going to be a huge time saver. Now, I want to get this whole guy. I want to bring it up here and here. Wait. I'm lost. I'm lost as a person. Okay. So now those are at one and a half off. I want three quarters inches off now. I want five and three quarters. The stick guys are a little small. Sorry, I'm just trying to figure out why. Oh, oh, ah, okay. I messed up again. So three and a half is not, this is not six inches. It's five and a half inches. You know what? No, I'm not living like this. I'm doing points. 36 to 432 Let's call it a nice clean. Okay. No, let's just call it what it is 396. Let's write this down 396 Okay, so the first guy is it I'm gonna call it 400 and you can always shrink the whole thing 400. Okay, so So the first guy is at 234, okay Then the next two are at 234, and then we're going from 36, we're going from 35 to 135, right? That's what I decided. Sorry, 35, 34 to 434. 34 to, so we're just going to add 34. So, so that's why it's 234 instead of 200. Then we're going to, then we're just going to do 100. So now it's going to be 335, 334, yeah. Then we're going to be at 334 and 134. Then it's going to be 50, right? We're going to be at 84, and we're going to be at 384. Then we're going to be, just to do that to the left one here, then we're going to subtract 25, so we're going to be at 59. Then we're subtracting 12.5, so we're So we're going to be at 41.25. And then I think we can start to eyeball it. 3.125, we're going to be at 38.125. You see, and we're approaching the borders without ever hitting them. All right, this is how we have to live. This is how we have to live. Okay, these guys are way too small, so that method isn't going to work. Okay, so this guy should be at, let's start here. This guy should be at... 234. Okay. Now, this guy should be at 334. This guy should be at 134. We'll do the lines in a minute. Now, we just said this one is at 84, and this one is at 384. This is crazy. This is terrible. Okay. 59. 84. So, I subtracted 25. So... 409. 409 for the next guy. All right. This is going to look nice and satisfying when it's done. 47 and a half. We'll get lined up later horizontally. Okay. So 12 and a half. So we're at 396 and a half. Wait. No. I already added 25 there to 409. Let me just add this here. 409. Right. I added 25 and a half. So I'm going to 409. 21.5 and i'm going to 427.75 then i'm going to 430.875 this is stupid this is really stupid but it's correct this is crazy so right here we're at the one that's at 47 and a half so now we're at 41.25 427 it's at 430 something is Something is incorrect. So this, that looks right. This guy's in the wrong place. The 409 guy went too far. Yeah. This guy should be at 421.5. This guy should be at 427.75. And then the final guy should be at 430. Okay. 430.875, so basically there. Okay. And this one should be at 38.125. The last guy here. All right, so this is a starting place. Now we can start to get horizontal things set, and then we can figure out where the other guys go. This is wild. I'm trying to think if there's some efficient way to do this. This is... Okay. All right. I think I can use the lines to help after that. All right, so let's just get these guys where they're supposed to go. Okay, now let's shrink each... What are you doing here? You get out of here. Okay, and let's just shrink each layer down a little bit. Oh, no, no, no. I need you to stay where you are. Damn it. Okay. I think I need this thing. Okay, so we're going to make this guy's height 11.2. This is bad stuff, guys. Bad stuff. Bad, bad stuff this is. Okay, now, that was 11.2. Let's make this one 9.94, 9.95. No one's going to know. All right. This one then should be 7.96. And then this one then should be 6.88. Yeah. Okay. And this one should then be... Yeah. Okay. It probably should be thinner at that point. They're getting a little fat. No, it's okay. I kind of like it. Damn it. I forgot what this one was. Oh, wait. Oh, this is the top guy. i think he's fine right there 5.43 okay so this is gonna be the basis and then we're gonna structure all the rest to just match these guys 5.43 now now everyone now we can get them vertically where they're supposed to be so first let's just get them in the same line and how much vertical space do we need here here we had two and a little bit so let's just make that two i think that's fine This row is gonna be if that's two and this one can be like yeah like one in a bit I This is an example of someone I was like this will be easy. I'm not doing any real drawing and it's just not and then this guy Whatever just happened there this Okay, now this can be lined up and this can be just like one of them. Yeah, there it's fine as is Now I need some space here, so. And then from there, we're probably just going to have to stop with the lines and just get really small and have them all next to each other and just shrink, continually shrink the line. So I think we have to structure only these guys. Okay, now. Oh, media player, what do you want about now? Copy and shift left, right, entire groups. Then remove overlapping duplicates. I see. i don't really know what you're talking i kind of do and i kind of don't so okay now now what now i need to evenly space two more of these four more of the you know or whatever seven six more of those okay so now i think the lines can help so i just need to place one guy here so that's i don't care about that centered i need that Okay, so this was the one that was 84. So we're going to 184. Okay. Now, now this can be copied. You see? Start to gain some efficiencies here. I don't care about that. Okay. I think later I can highlight entire... Now I'm going to go like this, and I'm going to make sure these are all even. All right. That's a row. Now let's do the same thing over here. So... that was 84 and 184 then this is 59 and 109 yeah all right now we can go like this and we've got our uh-huh why is that not why is that not oh because this is not even there we go something feels wrong there 109 59 this is at 85 because it's not exactly at 84 that's the issue it's got to be close enough though right i guess we can just shift this whole thing here it's pretty close okay but then these two need to get shifted back sorry this is this is wild this is even for me this is like crazy what's happening here okay so now we've got our unit there now we can just start making now this this part now it gets easier because now i can go like this boom and boom now i can start to even do multiple copy multiple things so i go here and this one is at 47 and a half so this one should be at 71 and a half this is why kids just still do math in school by the way it's just useful to be able to do math in your head so often in life um you know now these are going to get shorter okay is that nicely lined up or is that not quite lined up It's not quite lined up there. 47 and a half and 71 and a half. So it must be that this one is not quite right here. Should be right at 59. Yeah, it's just like a tad to the, it's just a tad to the, so this whole thing can go just a little. All right, good enough. Now, now this can go here, but then we can copy all of it. Let's see, it's gonna start getting a little chiller here. That can go there. Now, all of this can get copied. this person here for these two and then all of this except for this guy can get copied over here see we're getting there yeah I've got some issues going on here I think it's these guys are the problem now why is this not quite right this guy is it this guy's at 409 right okay and so this one is supposed to be yeah this one's a little i don't know why this ended up off a little there we go all right you see now okay a family tree is being developed okay let's let's do two more of these rows and then we're going to start then i think we'll just start getting rid of the lines and things will get a little bit a little bit chilly where are we here we have one two three four five six this would be the first six it'll be the first 128 stick figures and i think we have to start doing something different okay so if this one the second to the top is at 41.25, right? Then we want this one to be at 53.75, which is right where it is. Okay, so now we go like this, and we go like that. All right, now, now we have our unit, our first unit, and we go boom, now we have this unit. This is it, guys. This is the content you're all here for, is this. Okay, now we take all of these guys all over here. We take all of these guys except the last guy and we bring them over here. Oh no, that didn't work out. What the hell? I don't understand why it sometimes does this. It's obviously that thing was contained within it. So why would it not highlight? Okay, it's like on top of all my own incompetence, I don't need glitchiness, you know? okay let's get that lined up it's not going to be like perfectly level like these guys are too high here maybe i can just do one little line these guys up there we go and why are we offline at the end here i don't like that something's wrong at the end but you know sometimes in life i'm just going to fix that in a second go like this good to capture their heads get rid of this guy get rid of this guy and i'm going to level them out and then this something we have things we have things wrong here what's going on here guys okay we've got 390 we have 420 oh 421 and a half he's supposed to be at so how did this end up so wrong okay okay 421 and a half um and so this one is supposed to be at 398 and a half no wait 421 and a half This one's supposed to be at 396.5. Yeah, okay, so we just have this. Okay, and then these two can, I don't know what's going on here. This is a little disturbing, actually, because 396.5 to 321.5. Does that work? See, that's too much. I did something wrong. I'm messing something up. 409. 409 to 421.5. That is correct. 409 to 396.5. that is also correct and why are these guys which are all the same distance whatever i'm not gonna i'm not gonna stress about it they're gonna do this and if it looks weird we'll cry um okay all right one more one more thank you media player you you did make it better all right i think it would have eventually gotten there and it would have just been later and it would have been sadder so now three to 38.125 so we're doing 44 and a half. So, level these guys out while we're here. We can make these lines thinner now. Probably should have done that a little while ago, but that's okay. Actually, I can do that pretty quickly. I'm going to go like this. I'm going to highlight all of this. Then I'm going to highlight just the top in here. I'm going to make it 0.5. There we go. Let's add their lines in. I'm going to make it a little thinner still. Like this. And let's make that a little thinner, 0.4. All right, that's our unit. Oh, the other family tree is much easier. Actually, I promise. It's way easier than this. Now, the point here, the reason this should be starting to begin to be mind-blowing for you is that every one of these is one of your ancestors. So here we're, you know, if a generation is 30 years, You know, we go back 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, 180. So that takes us to like 1840. Like James Polk was the U.S. president. You know, it's a long time ago. Pre-Civil War in the U.S. And now we're at 128 people on this row, right? I think that's right. 2, 4, 8, 16. 32, 64. No, why did I say 128? Not at all. 32. 64. Okay. Fine. Fine. Still. 64 people were. Yeah. Yeah. 64 people in the 1840s were walking around. You know, I'm sure different ages that wasn't quite aligned. Plus, maybe some of them married cousins, so there's not quite 64. Maybe there's like 55. Either way. There's dozens of people walking around, probably different parts of the earth. Probably some of them were royalty and others were peasants, almost certainly. Some of them were probably slaves. And they all contributed to your DNA. And if any of them didn't exist or any of these marriages, or maybe they were out of wedlock, any of these romantic encounters did not happen at the exact moment it did. you would not be here isn't that kind of crazy okay so this let's just get these in line this could stand to be at that higher and this and these two could be a little lower um yeah so that's that's what i'm gonna try to so the reader gets to just look at this they're reading they look at this they're like wow that's a lot of people and they move on you have to suffer through the make the sausage being made and it's not pretty It's not a nice thing. Media player, you saved my ass. This is like so much, it's just like everything is where it should be now. They're all evenly spaced. It's very satisfying. I don't like what I see here. Why is this not lined up? Why are these not lined up? Did I move the hole? I don't like that because it means like there's a problem. I mean, it's pretty slight. It's pretty slight, but we have some drift going on here. You know, I don't like it. I don't like that. Okay. Those all look good. All there's the same drift here, naturally. I don't know whether it's the row below is the problem or this row, but it's close enough. We're doing good. I'm pleased with this. Okay. Now, finally, I can do the last one here, which is highlighting all of these, getting rid of this guy, and bringing these here. Got to copy it. All right. This is, by the way, like when my computer would crash. and i wouldn't have saved since like i started doing this and i would be back when it was like five messy guys below that's happened to me so many times and it's just it's just so so heartbreaking it like is it's like i consider just like ending it all i'm like if i end it all i don't have to you know looking good looking good looking good now awful this is just i don't know what happened with this guy i must have messed something up some point and i just don't know but you know what I'm just going to move it. And if it looks bad, we can adjust it later. I just, I can't, I can't deal with whatever the problem is here. It's always a problem here. All right. Which something's wrong over here, clearly, but all right. So now we're two from here. Now I think we'd stop with the lines. I think we stop with the lines and I think we just make a row of stick figures. Okay. So this one is at If this one here is at 38.125, now we're doing like 1.5, just a tad more than 1.5. So 38.125, we should go down to 36.5 something. So let's just move this over. Here we go. All right, so that guy goes up there, and we're going to shrink him 3.82. And he just needs to be a little bit above the head. All right, now we need to add 1.5. so 39.65 it's not exactly something's not quite right but um i guess the point here is to just have it even yeah i mean this guy's a little too far over and that's the problem the guy below but that's okay okay i want to get this even here um i saw something that bothered me and it was i saw a missing line or did i yes here all right all right so now we've got these guys here and i'm going to copy them and i want to make sure they're evenly spaced this guy looks pretty good i like that i think it looks pretty good i think they're even so now we'll worry about vertical later let's just get the horizontal correct okay now we're at 128 so now we're like 1810 1815 you know um i think napoleon was doing his thing or is that done he was like around so now we're in napoleon's time and there's 128 people around now this is disturbing me a little bit why is this shouldn't these be even i don't know this i guess that's going to happen in each of these that's okay i actually i don't mind that it's like a little discrete unit of the family um i can handle that hey i'm glad you did your taxes oh the music stopped if we're gonna be here you know suffering through this we should have We should have some, we should have our laid back lo-fi on. All right. I feel that we're making good progress here. I'm like, all right, now do we have four yet? No, we need one more. All right. I should have just done it after two, but that's okay. All right. So now we've got this here. Now we can highlight all of these, even them out. All right. So that's good. Now let's go look at the delinquent part of the family over here, which undoubtedly is a mess, of course, as always. You know what I could do? You know what I could do? Just kill this whole side of the family and we'll see who's the problem. That's what happens, guys. You don't do what I say and now... Okay. Now everyone looks nice. All right. Hey, it's a family tree. It's developing. You know what I like about this? What I like about it is that it is wide and not high, which is what we want in this book. This should not take up a whole page. I do think... There could be a tad more vertical space here. So now the question is, what do we do now? I could basically have them side by side and do another row. Okay, so we go one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. I want to do five more rows. Well, obviously that's not going to happen. So the question is, when do I start stacking? And let me just look at the text here. Do we need... Do I need to go 12 rows? Because it would be pretty sweet to not have to go 12 rows. Although it's satisfying too. Let's just do one more row first before we figure this out. I think I could do a smaller row and there's still like a gap in between and then I could do one where they're all touching. And so I think we could get up to nine rows before I have to start stacking. All right, so let me see if I can do this without, if I can just do some like... Broad shrinking. Save. Okay. Is this just gonna be too small? I'm gonna work. This works. Let's see. Obviously this needs to be. This thickness needs to go down. These guys are unnecessarily small, I would say. Although maybe that's what it takes at this level. Maybe we need to be really small. And then I could just do the whole row in one swoop here. Is that too silly? Is that going to be so small when we zoom all the way out in the page? I mean, it is, but you can see them. I think this is the way to go. I think this is the page. It's going to be like... So it's kind of the smallest where you can still see that there's individualistic figures. But I think that's kind of what it's going to take. Now, what if I don't make them so short? Actually, I want to keep those guys. Imagine there'll be almost dots once printed. Yeah, but I think the printing, as long as you can literally just see that there's, let me try something else here. What if I just make it smaller vertically like that and a little bit smaller horizontally, but it's the first four. So what if I go like this and then it'll go so short. I think that's better, right? Okay. So in that case, I'm going to delete all of these. I'm going to go make the whole row. I keep compulsively saving because it's like I can't even think about. So let's try this. I didn't mean to, I don't want to say shift. I just want to do this. Yeah. So first we do that. Then we make it smaller thickness. Then we shrink them down here. What would happen if I made it 0.3 versus 0.4? i think point three looks better what if it even goes smaller i think you get to point two it starts to be just too small to see how fine that is like that i could go really small like that but now they're like it's almost better and they're a little thicker i think that's the sweet spot okay let's just try that so now let's lower this and then what i might be able to do for the next row okay wait hold on i guess we want some vertical distance here so we can just see what's happening um at that point you don't even yeah it's like people get the point you need to have everything lined up perfectly although let's just see here so each one of these has parents over them successfully now here we have a problem here i see we just got to shift some of these over and we're gonna have this gap is gonna get bigger which i think is okay it shows like units that's where it should be yeah i just have to move all these the right side over then i could just do this once correctly Now one more and then now I'm gonna go like this crazy what's happening here All right, and does this okay, you know what it all ended up where it should Now I'm gonna highlight all of them and make sure it's vertically lined up This is quite small these guys I will say but you know Should I make them taller? Would that be better? Let's just do one and compare it Is that easier to see? Now they're kind of a weird shape. They don't look like a stick figure. And then what if I made it thicker? What's easier to read? I think thinner is better. All right, well, let's go with this. We can always like now affect whole lines. We don't need any of this anymore. Now, okay. Now, here's what I was thinking. It's a little crazy. I can't do that again or it will just like, someone said it will just blend. Reduce opacity the higher you go. it's interesting reduce the line size yeah i mean i kind of did that um upside down tree okay yes hello from belarus um yeah we're still going i told you i'm going all day this is i got to do this book i got to finish it so i can get on with my life and so it can get into your hands we can all be happy all right so now what i thought i would do because you see it might just be too crazy but i was maybe like what if i went like this And then, well, I guess I could go like this. Here's what I would have to do. I'd have to go all blue, all red. And then what if I went like this? Is this just insanity? And the next row is smaller versions of this. This is madness. But what if I shrunk that, got this down to two? I mean, kind of works. How would this look big? It just looks more dense. I mean, at that point, it is just going to look like a bar of text. So I don't think that works. So here's the question. I could do that, but you see, it doesn't, it's not going to look like much on the page. It'll look like a, like a gray bar. Okay. So we don't want that. If you need to see a space between them or it doesn't look like anything. Okay. Forget it. I mean, I could always go like shorter and how to do that. I'd have to make them all thinner and then spread and then give them some space in between, like, you know, Like I could do this. It's quite tiny. I think it's too tiny to see. Too bad because it's just delightful if you really can do it. Because it's so fun. And once you start doubling up the rows, it's just less like cool looking. But anyway, here's what I could do if I don't want to do that. So wait, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. We have four more to do. All right. I was going to go see if I needed to do all these. And that maybe if we're okay with just eight. Eight's pretty cool, dude. That's 200. 256 256 ancestors back in the late 1700s it's getting the point across so i'm just trying to remember what i wrote here and why i thought i needed to um i said let's take a look at the last tale 12 generations of your family tree if you just went back in time 300 years or so there were thousands of people walking around the planet who were all your direct ancestors go back another few centuries and that number jumps into the millions Millions of people combining their genes in just the right way to make the unique genome that is you. Millions of courtings and wooings and seductions and, unfortunately, rapes. And all the backstories behind each one. Let me go into more and more. I talk about how they were in every segment of society. Pluck just one of them out of your family tree and there's no you today, like I said. I don't think we need 12. Because I could just say... So here we're going back eight. And eight, you know, go back and just say go back 200 and go back a couple centuries rather than saying go back 300 years or so there were thousands. Go back a couple centuries and there were hundreds. Because this is hundreds. 256 is hundreds. You can't say that about 128. Let's just see how it would look if I did this. I kind of think I might just stop here. And I think it's kind of crazy. I think it's kind of cool as it is. 256 you know um each one of these little bars is 32 people like full humans each one of them lived their full life where what mattered to most of them was their own little life it's just it's just really crazy okay so so we could go like this and i could group that and then i could go like this so the next what i would do next is i would go like i would probably give a little more space and then i would go like this you know that would be the next the next row So that's now nine generations back. Ten would be, that's ten generations back. Now this gap is kind of, I don't love the gap now in this format, but so now we're at 12, right? What did I say? There were eight. Yeah, this would be 12. I have to get the spacing right, but you know, you get the point. So what do we think of this? Do we like this? Should I go up? The spacing is kind of killing me. I mean, what I could do is I could, on this lower row here, I could just spread them so that there's no spacing. And then it would look better up here. Because now it's just this weird, what's this like, what are these vertical lines, you know? So I'd have to fix that. But I could, that wouldn't be a big fix. Let's see. Yeah. Dots looks like dots. Yeah, it does look like dots on the page. The page is going to be like, I mean, you can't see on your computer, but the page for me is like this big. I mean, really, this is the last row where you'll be able to see there, you know, oh, wow. And here, if you look really closely, you'll be able to maybe see, but it will just kind of look like a... But the point is kind of to be like, it just melts into this impossibly. The alternative is I do, I start stacking down here with this row, and they never get smaller than this. Or I do that thing I was going to do. What if I want like this? Let's just move this whole thing up a little bit. Actually, I don't want to do this. I'm going to move the whole... I'm going to just do this. I'm going to copy the whole thing. Try not to crash my computer. Okay. So, here's an alternative. Sometimes you have to audition multiple methods here and see which one... The other thing is I'm not actually, well, I'm pretty close to using all the vertical space. Actually, I'm using about exactly as much as I have here. I could go, I could make the whole thing slightly wider. So what if we deleted all these guys? And then I just tried that thing I was going to do, but with this. And I put them all next to each other. And I leave it at that. Like this. And I make those all red. And I copy it. I make those all blue. And go like this. And then I make all of these thinner. Still probably better to give them a little space, but maybe I just try to do... These got really small, like too small. So maybe I don't actually make them. I was going to shorten them a little bit too. I'm going to try that to do one long row where it doesn't have these breaks. And see if we can get to that last row. That's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Nine's pretty good, but it's like then nine is a bit weird. You'd say ten generations normally, wouldn't you? You know, nine is a little random. Ten, you could say 300 years, you know. Yes, that's true. The more you'd have pedigree collapse, people appearing multiple times because of incest. okay i'm gonna try this i'm gonna try this idea here you might be done soon if i don't go that much higher i thought it was gonna like really go nuts with this all right um let's just move this guy i also think these guys could stand to be one notch thinner maybe better that way um so these are one notch thinner still i mean you have to not have to do this manually um 296. or maybe the answer isn't to go that much smaller just a tad 361 would that alone do the trick if i just did okay i think it's they're just a little wide still i kind of think that's making give a little space these gaps are now still like a little i don't want gaps here but then it's going to look like some people don't have parents or some people have too many parents but i also think it kind of it's kind of plenty okay so that is 16 so i need 16 of those that's one 16 32 we're so close we're so close 16 32 okay now we're at 64. okay all right now if i get rid of the gaps like i just did i can i can make them a little wider let's even them out i'm gonna stretch them out and i think i think we can call it a day let's see even them can stretch this out yeah i mean it's super tiny but you can vaguely make out individual stick figures and it gets the point across either way and it's really different than what was there before i mean i guess they're they're bigger and closer together is that better or worse probably a little bit better um it's quite small they're quite small but And then what I'm going to do is I'm going to group this and hide it. But now just because it's an option, just for decisions later, I'm going to go like this. And I'm going to say that's nine layers. So we can do 10. Give it a little more space here. 11. It's not, you know, it gets, it is, it does show like a fuck ton of people, which is kind of what I'm trying to do. But it just looks less like a family tree and more like groups of people. But I guess. That's the only option at this point. There's no other way to do this unless you had a giant... It would be fun to make a poster board where you could go like way bigger and I could do 12 generations where you could easily see each sticker. That would be a good poster. Maybe one day. No, no, no, no. Too high. You know? Something like that. And we can give a little more breathing room to the bottom layer here. Maybe a little more breathing room also to the... Yeah, a fold-out, a fold-out page in the book to make it longer. Yeah, I do. I have thought about that. It's just like, it can't just be for this because it's so random. There's so many different topics. This is just one of a hundred. So like, why does this one get the fold-out page? It would have to be like the big timeline that I'm extending every chapter till it gets to the full length. They kind of, it's the backbone image of the whole book. That's the one that would make sense to do the fold-out page for. Unless it was something regular feature where lots of pages folded up. But I feel like that like... kind of a messy book so i don't know it's interesting though to do something like that um okay well now we have 12 generations if i want to use it it's very easy to delete the top three of the top four um what do we think you like it and then i would do you are you i feel like you should be a little thicker wait these guys should be also see now it's just like you can just do touch-ups for a million years but it's a little big But you know what? The success here is that it was not a huge vertical drawing. There we go. You. And then maybe I'll add some labels, like parents, grandparents, great, but I, you know. Oh, I fucked up. Wait, this needs another doubling. Yeah, there we go. So this would say I could maybe even just write across this in like white font. why that's diagonal um you know your um great that certainly doesn't work well it's not going to work over that but i could you know or i could just say it in the text um all right well the backbone of this is done now it's like the final labels the final presentation can be decided but the hard thank you for getting me through the hard long part here i do feel like unfortunately this should be what they should the gap shouldn't be here it's okay if they're like here there it's like each of these should just be a little wider but like just like a hair then it like doesn't you know it doesn't look right over on the left a little bit but where there's no gaps it's just one long row would be more satisfying but i'm not gonna do that right now because there's also it there's an argument that it is good because you can just see the discrete groupings of 16 but i don't think so i don't see why those groupings are important um yeah and what's crazy is each one of these people like this person right here you are their great to the to the ninth power grandchild but their ancestor cone looks the same way if they had multiple kids especially but even if they didn't if one of their descendants had a few kids before you know it 10 generations 12 generations later they are they have this many descendants and you probably know a bunch of so this person here whoever this is she'll never know you you'll never know her she doesn't care about you you don't care about her but she is your ancestor but she has hundreds of other ancestors walking around And you probably know a bunch of them. And you're, you know, that makes you, you know, 10th cousins or something. And it's just total strangers, irrelevant. And, you know, you definitely share up on this big group. You share people with probably everyone you know has someone in common up on that top row. It's quite strange. Okay, I'll be back in a minute. Did this shut off? Let's get the music going. Okay. let's just do the usual can you hear me can you hear the music i need some confirmation yes yay okay so here's what i'm thinking we are now in our eighth hour and i'm i'm doing fine if you're doing fine i'm doing fine not the music not the music you can hear me but not the music hold on why wouldn't you be able to hear the music oh we hear music okay Okay, good. There's music. Should the music be louder? I mean, I don't want to make it annoying for people who don't want it, but you can hear the music. Okay. If Fresh Wind Bright Sky can hear the music, that's good enough for me. I made it a little louder. We're vibing. We're having a good time. Okay. So I, you know, I'm like one of these people where I will not, I'll have a non-work day. or i'll have like a huge work day this is a huge work day let's just i'm just gonna keep going i hope you're here as well with me um still uh still got some people here you know what i'm gonna do a little uh let's do a little let's let's uh we don't need that right now let's do let's do a little blast let's do a little blast out to x and just uh you know what should we all use this one here because it's kind of rad right this is like a good like oh look what you're missing um hold on but let's um let's screenshot let's i'm just gonna okay hold on so we got our send this over i'm gonna do a little blast here this is the kind of post that x doesn't usually you know it's not the kind of post that gets a lot of traffic but we're gonna post it anyway here we go paste okay all right i think we should do one more drawing before we procrastinate and then we'll take a nice nice old i'll do some show and tell we'll do some procrastination we have some i have further activities um all right let's close that you don't need that anymore right we don't need that anymore um okay as promised see little tiny things There. All right. Now save again. I can't save this too many times. I'm going to just take the artboard and I'm going to go like this. Oh shit. I'm still on my template. Okay. So let's just save as we're going to save as family tree and then the template's all fucked. I'll have to fix that. Okay. I do that a lot. I just do it into the template by accident. Sorry. How many have we done today? It hasn't been like a ton, but they've been hard. We've done two comics. The observable universe and months were easy. And this one was hard. I think we've done three hard and two easy. That would normally already be a very, you know, that's a solid day. But that would be a very good day for me. Normally. If I do five drawings, usually it's only because they're easy ones. If I do hard ones, it's usually like two or three. Maybe. two hard drawings. So we're doing well. And I, as I said, we're here. So I don't see why we shouldn't just, just, just, just go huge today. I'm going to give a huge shout out to anyone who's ends up, who's here the whole time. I don't know how many of you that is, but all right. So that's that. Now I'm going to go over to, I'm going to make, I'm going to open the, should we, should we review? Sometimes I just do this to just review my progress to be satisfied. Let me start with Khufu. Okay, we did this. I think that that was fine. I liked it. Then we did Observable Universe. You know, as I said, I'm not going to win the Pulitzer for this one, but we did some months. This one is going to need something here. I can't handle April. Sorry, I really can't. I can't. I can't handle something so ugly. Okay, what if I... See, this is what happens. I shouldn't have come in here. Let's just try it. I've had this idea. and we we've avoided doing this but i just as a period at the end it's just so ugly okay now we i'll have to move that up um we do a star and then down here we do uh nope everything's wrong like this and we do a star and then we make this font smaller um this ends up there oh this is still in the group so let's just ungroup this like this And then we double click this. And then we can go like that. And then I can make it smaller and centered. Make it a little eight. It's not, you know. It's not great. It's not great. This isn't great either. But we're basically, we have two bad options. We have two bad options. Maybe even smaller. I don't like it at all. But I really didn't like it before. Either way, April's taking up a lot of space. We've established that. And we don't love that. But you know what I could do? Rather than uncertain origin, my fact checkers might yell at me about this. But I might, I could just say, like named after the god Mars. Named after Aphrodite. And then I could say maybe like, yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I'll leave this for now. not not pleased about it um okay i'm gonna leave this for now like this it's yeah it's just a bummer now it's too small this text this is just what we call a bummer i don't think this is better i think it was better before i'm gonna just i'm just gonna leave it like this because leave the tiff before i i think this is now really stupid it's like what are we doing but you see my issue before right here's what we do in this situation what we do in this situation is we do this and we put both here and we decide later this is when it's helpful to have like alicia an editor and just others to just be like what do you think and often they will think it's just just clearly one's better or one's worse it'll have a different idea um but i like to at least put out the options okay and then we have our olmex with the head um Now I'm looking here and I'm wondering if maybe I should make maybe the issue. What if the issue is this? What if what needs to happen is we need to lower the opacity of all these lines to like 80? That just makes it lighter gray, I guess. What if I lowered it to like 50? You know, I feel like that actually might be better. might make it look more like like a carving in stone but now no i think what what would be better would be like just oh no you're supposed to be locked what might be better is just like this these guys these guys the ones i was making thinner before if those if that opacity is lower like you know what do we think of that oh then this obviously needs to jump in there So does that. So does that. What if this has been the problem all along? Now we have some issues down there, but what do we like better? Which is more of the stone head. That brow is not working for me either. You know, I think it's better the other way. Because the other one kind of looks like an Olmec head, but this one here, yeah, I don't know. um drawing tablet yes i've got this guy here hey tim dumb question if this is just text why can't you use a text editor so you don't have to reinvent some wheels is it a quality of image issue i think i think you were talking probably about the april one um and the answer there is you know if you're just trying to do aesthetics and move things around and get things lined up and get the color just right like illustrator is better that's text things are not the hard part texts are easy what's hard is um see i'm seeing things here that i want to change um uh yeah i'm gonna here's what i'm gonna do i'm gonna do the same thing i've done before here i'm gonna copy this well first i have to i have to make that available again i'm gonna move it down you see copy it and then i'm gonna undo everything i just did move this back over where it was where i moved it and then i'm gonna put this down there as an as an option so we can assess later. All right, moving on, and then we have this guy. Now, I promised, I made a promise, the space between the two stone heads and the frame are not equal. I don't like to hear that. What are we talking about? The space between the two stone heads and the frame. I see, I see. These guys need to all move to this way. Yep, good note. Who was that? Thank you, Elias Dat. That was a good note. All right. Yeah, it is what it is. Now I made a promise, which was I was going to do two family trees. The first was this, which is the old school kind of family tree. That's your family tree. The second is these guys are going to haunt me. These breaks here are going to haunt me until I fix it, but I'm not going to fix it right now. I don't know why it says it on everything. It must be in the template. And that's the issue. I don't know how the template's fucked to hell. So now that's an easy fix. I just go here and delete everything. And delete everything. Oh, it's because it's invisible here. But we've got another problem here, which is my rectangle isn't showing. And it's really bothering me. The rectangle's showing here. But for some reason, I can't highlight it. This is something Alicia would fix in a second. And I just, she's not here. I think she's probably signed off. So I'll have to ask her tomorrow. Or what I could do is save this as the new template. Let's try that. SOE template. And then get rid of that. Okay, and then now I would, so I still should have observable universe here somewhere. Yeah. That still is fine. So now this I can delete everything. And I have my line. All right. You know, you hack it together if you need to sometimes. All right. Now we've got our template. Now I can save this as let's call it polycule siblings. So we're going to need our family tree here for this. And we're going to need the row that has 16 people. This could all get a little bigger. All right. So welcome to a commune of the future. the future part of this book has um i do think these should be a little bigger these guys if they're gonna be only 16. oh man it's gonna it all up isn't it maybe i'll do it later um so in the book i go through the past from the big bang till today that takes six seven chapters or that takes about 70% of the pages, the words. The last 30 is all about the future. And I alternate between fiction and nonfiction in that part only. Because I don't just want to explain what might happen and explain how this future tech, how the current cutting edge tech works and what the predictions are for the future and what could be some, you know, why people, some people think it's going to turn out well versus turn out badly. Yes, that is the frame printout of my life in weeks. This is a histo map above, and it's kind of hard to see, but this is a US map. There's another histo map over there. There's a north, you know what? I'm just going to set, I'm just going to, I'll show you a picture. Now this really should be part of show and tell, but I'm going to show you now instead. Okay, so here's a video of what's behind me because you can't really see it at all here. We've got here, notice, note the Tabasco jug. I tweeted about how Tabasco's, like, I'm a big hot sauce person. I have 40 hot sauces in my fridge. And I was like, you know, I love all kinds of hot sauces. I have this one for this thing, this one for this kind of thing, this one when I'm in the mood for this. But in the end, you know, the OG hot sauce. The goat, in my opinion. Tabasco. It's basic, but it's like, if I can only have one for the rest of my life, Tabasco. So I tweeted that, and the Tabasco people, I guess, got wind of it, and they sent me this gallon jug of Tabasco. So it's a prized possession. Below that, it's a little hard to see. This is my Curta calculator. And I should do a full video on this at some point, but this was made by... a guy from lichtenstein he was in the holocaust and the germans spared him because they loved what he they wanted him to make one of these he was working on this as his um his kind of his project which is a mechanical calculator before they had electronic calculators and this was super useful and you could do multiplication really quick with it and you spin the thing and it has all these things and then so they spared him because they wanted him to have We have another intrusion of a very cute little person who shouldn't be on YouTube. I'm going to move you out. It's so sad. I think this is the worst thing I've ever done. The live stream has been a huge success, but I've had to like brutally reject my three-year-old who loves to toddle into the office. And you know, that's a fun part of the day. And that twice now I've had to be like, nope, out you go. It's very sad. Yeah, I just think, you know. it's youtube so where were we um so anyway the kurda calculator they spared him because they wanted him to have they had one of these on hitler's desk at the end of the war and they um and then they lost the war he was free it turns out he was very close to finishing but he didn't want the germans to have it so he just finished it right away and they made a limited they've made a limited uh run for this basically in the 50s And then electronic calculators came out and they went out of style. So now there's a limited number of these. So I bought one on eBay and I'm obsessed. So that's what's down there at the bottom. Now over here, what looks like a gray square is actually a million black dots with one red dot. I sell this. This is a Wait But Why product. It's the Million Dot Poster. And when you're up close, you can see all the little dots and it's a challenge to try to find the red one. And when you do, you realize how unbelievable someone being one in a million. at something is or how hopeless it is to play a one in a million lottery ticket or whatever because it would be like throwing a dart at that thing and the dart has to land precisely in the middle of that red dot and it's just that's just no way that's going to happen up here is my north korea propaganda poster i got that in north korea uh histo map number one uh my grandfather made this it's like i think it's some painting uh norman rockwell or something and then he used he would get like seven copies Cut out and make 3D and so like the foreground things would have like seven layers on them and other ones would have fewer layers on them He made a lot of those This is like the best US map ever. It's a really great like really like detailed US map Over here is the histo map behind me another different kind Histo map is just something that shows all of history visually shows like the rise and fall of empires visually We're making one for the book that I'm trying to make Really good. It's gonna take forever uh life calendar yes that's the life calendar from uh wait but why to give me an existential crisis this is the kurda calculator broken down it's a poster of the 600 parts of the kurda calculator um um and then we've got this map which is my daughter's favorite thing ever it was made by some guy during covid with colored pencils and he spent two years making it and it's just this really high quality thing um it's called i think the wild world by anton thomas And the U.S. map is made by Imus Geographic's American Geography. I recommend both of those. But anyway, this is animals and where they live in the world. This over here is a cartoon. One of my favorite comics is Brooklyn Cartoons. After I finished my SpaceX post, the guy... made this and sent it to me so that was awesome so that's what's behind me you see um now uh what's the name or creator of the u.s map yeah i think it's yeah just look up american geography i am u.s imus geographics u.s map and you'll find it um and yeah so that's just on my wall that was kind of some show and tell so maybe we'll do something else after this instead but i have more more to show you Okay. So anyway, I alternate nonfiction and fiction rather than just explain all the things. I was like, I want to like paint a picture of what life could be like with all these technologies in the world. So we make stops in 2039, 2065, 2112, and 2275 before shooting off into the far, far, far future. When, you know, we leave humans behind at that point and just talk about how the universe is going to evolve. But, you know, but I got those, I asked everyone I interviewed, you know, what do you think, you know, your particular expertise, your technology, what do you think, you know, what are the chances, where will it be in 2039 or 2065? So those years are based on, you know, I got not real data, it's just predictions, but at least it's the best we can do today, I think. to figure out what those years might be like. If things go well, then I also talk about if things don't go so well. It's much quicker and not good. But things could go well and it would be awesome. Anyway, when I say well, I don't necessarily mean everyone's happy or that it will even sound good to everyone. It'll sound dystopian to some people, the super tech future. But we're here and we've conquered all of our disease and poverty and other things. So it's pretty good in a lot of ways, even if, you know. People might say, oh, how are we going to find meaning or purpose or that, you know, we're so removed from nature or whatever. Maybe that's true. But I'll take it over the alternative. And I'll take it over today, too. I don't think people in a world where we don't have disease and aging and any kind of scarcity anymore. I don't think any of those people will want to come back here, regardless of whether they all need some therapy about trying to find meaning. in that in in i think it's 2065 the fiction part is a um a a futuristic kind of family that could be around based on some of the amazing things going on in embryology right now so right now we can um right now we can you know we can do ivf right that's that's new really magical technology You can increasingly screen embryos for issues and getting more and more info out of embryos. I went to a company that's working on trying to be able to create an egg or sperm cell. They're starting with an egg cell from any cell. So a man could go in. This company is founded by two gay men who want to be able to have children with their partners, biological children without an egg donor. And to do that, they need to be able to produce an egg cell from one of them. So you would be able to go get some skin cell off your arm, and they would be able to, from that, turn it into get a real human egg cell. And that's pretty crazy. Or like a woman who's past the reproductive age, she would be able to produce an egg cell very easily and have children or people who are infertile today. So I'm putting a lot of these together and I'm like, okay, well, I started asking questions using my imagination here. I was like, well, what about, what, you know, could two couples decide to rather than have, you know, we're going to have a child and this other couple is going to have a child. What if the four of them said, let's just have a four-way child. How would you do this? Well, the two couples would each produce an embryo. And then in the lab, they would extract an egg cell from one. embryo and a sperm cell from the other embryo and they would they would mate those embryos into a grandchild embryo that would be their full grandchild and they would have that child be the one that they bring to uh turn into a baby um with an artificial wound by that time probably and so now that those two couples could live together and have three or four children but they're really grandchildren Each child is equally related to each of the four parents. And, you know, what's not for everyone. Many people will say, no, thanks. I'll stick with, you know, monogamy or to, you know, the normal way. But otherwise, we'll say, I want to do that. And then you can take it a step further. Well, what if eight people or 16 people live together? And they, again... this is what we're going to illustrate now they basically produce a bunch a crop of you know 12 children for the for their commune so there's 16 adults and 12 children and each child is equally relate you know is is an equal descendant of all 16 of the the adults through what we're going to show here um and that's what that's part of one of the fiction stories is a commune that is like that um and all of those Kids can be biological siblings, full siblings, with the same two embryonic parents. So let's look at how that works. So first, this is bothering me, as often is. Something is bothering me here. I'm going to just move that up a notch. It's just a little shallow. We don't need to be so shallow now, you know? We don't have as much going on. Let's give a little more space here. It's just a little too scrunched for what we're doing. And I wish those stick guys were just a tad bigger on the top level, but we can address that later. So I'm going to highlight everything down here. And I'm going to highlight everything over here. And now I'm going to extend these lines a tad. There we go. That looks better to me. Yeah, it does sound scary AF. A lot of this stuff does. You know, the problem is it's like I might think that, ooh, I don't know about that future. And then I think about what if like... we collapse our civilization. We're all like hunting and gathering. And then I'm like, you know what? It sounds fine. That's how I feel. Um, okay. So there is no more you and none of these people are here anymore. Well, actually these people are here. Okay. Hold on. We're going to leave that person there. Yeah. See, I'm going to need, I'm going to, we have a problem here. I'm just going to have to deal with this, I think. Okay. Well, Because there are no people in the middle and I don't want the people at the top to be so small because there's only two sets of characters here. There's the people at the bottom and the people at the top. And the people at the top right now are quite small given that they're... I know there's some way to do what I want to do here without doing this so manually, but... Delete these. It's really like the whole thing can just be more condensed right now. it doesn't need to be so wide anymore and you know what we can do that because crunching the people doesn't matter because there are no more people down than these these ones here um okay now i can go here like that go here like that i'm going with big crunch ending big ripper heat death all three along with vacuum collapse if you're going to talk at the end of the universe you know let's talk about all the possibilities i go most in depth into heat death and man man is it far away if you look at like if that happens the amount of time till we get there is i like it gives me nightmares all right get rid of this a couple of these guys down all right so now what we're doing is let's make these a little smaller because they're children let's like have them hanging out a little bit more now i need to draw an embryo the hell does an embryo look like is it just like a circle with a smaller circle in it kind of i think so but the big i want like a one day old embryo no this is too advanced yeah i want like this thing um one day old embryo kind of just a circle right i think i can just do a circle here and not get cute like this guy here um now i need to do something here uh these are just gonna be too wide now damn it All right. Probably go a little bit more. Embryos are a little bit like, you know, they're a little bit less dark blue than that. Go a little. Stop. That's so annoying. All right. I guess I just have to fucking do this manually. A little darker than I want, but Illustrator's annoying. All right. So now this isn't quite. Now I can just replace these with that. All these end up angled. Oh, man. All right, so one else a little low. Okay, there we are. That's it, much easier than the last one. So here's the idea, is that each couple produces, they go in, they each, you know, each couple, or not even couple, they just pair. I mean, these can just be 16 people. I don't know if they sleep together or not, or whatever, or they're friends or some, you know. It doesn't matter in this case for what they're trying to do, which is that they go get, they get each pair. doesn't even matter who you're paired with it's going to be irrelevant in the end goes off and gets an embryo they get four female embryos four male embryos not that you even need to do that you can get a male or female gamete from any embryo but um and then so really these don't even need colors the embryos but you know for clarity and then they then make get a from those four pairs they get two female and two male embryos they pair those up get the the final female and male who are the mother and father of all the children but they're still embryos and that's when you end up with 12 kids all siblings from the same mother and father embryo but their parents don't exist neither do their grandparents or great-grandparents they're all in a petri dish all that exists are there 16 great-great-grandparents. And those people are only 20 or 30 years older than they are. So they're just like the normal age of parent and their kids. You see a bunch of 35-year-olds and a bunch of five-year-olds, essentially. Or I'm sure they would stagger the ages of the kids, but either way. And those are all their great-grandparents. And that's kind of weird. And I talk about that in the... story so i wanted to show it and here we are and that's that and it's done and that was easy i like when things are easy um all right so that's six drawings pretty good i'd like to go for more wrap this one up all right let's see where we are here you know while we are okay i have an idea i have one more that involves stick figures like this just like nondescript stick figures and so i'm gonna do that one um and then Then we'll take a break. And then I have two that are about the English language that are mostly word-based. There's one drawing I have to do of a tree. But otherwise, and that would get us quickly from six to nine. That would be pretty sweet. So let's, what was I going to do for this one? Let's just remind myself here. Yeah, I don't think we need text here. We'll see. I think the text explains this. I don't need to say something like. The extreme concept that a butterfly could flap its wings somewhere in West Africa, and that causes a little tiny gust to hit another gust to just the right way, that it creates a little current, which then bumps into another current, and suddenly there's just like a little bit more of a gust, and it hits another gust that was ramming against it. And before you know it, it is extending out into the ocean as a big wind, and it ends up as a massive hurricane devastating the Caribbean. And it's the butterfly effect where the small, tiny actions or changes can have massive results, massive ripple effects later. So I think that each of us is an example of the butterfly effect. Like if you get in line at a pharmacy and someone else ends up behind you. And so that person is five minutes behind. or three minutes behind where they were going to be in their day they get home three minutes later if you hadn't gone to the pharmacy they would have been next in line instead they had to wait for you to go and then they went so you delayed their day by three minutes and they get home and they haven't seen their spouse in a while and they just go at it and they have sex and they conceive a child and if you hadn't gone into the grocery line they would have been home sooner they still would have had sex they still might have conceived a child but it would be a different child right it would just be the the same exact sperm would not have intersected with the egg um and maybe they wouldn't have conceived that day it wouldn't have worked out because whatever difference is but either way there's a hundred million sperm i mean the tiniest you know quantum differences in anything would affect which sperm gets there so three minute difference you know totally different situation different sperm come out first i mean to get graphic about it so then that's a different child that gets born. And that child ends up affecting people throughout their whole life, their whole life. And then they have their own kids and those kids are different. And it just goes on and on. And the whole world ends up different in 50 years because you got in line. I think there's a lot of examples like that. That's one example. But think about how many people you affect in your life, let alone if you have children yourself. uh those children are only alive because of you and then all the things they do but now you don't even need to have children just the people you talk to you affect either even if it's just delaying their day by three minutes or changing their whole career path because of something you said to them they never forgot or you encourage someone to break up with someone they were going to get married to i mean throughout your life you have impact and everything you do affects the future and the farther you go in the future the more different the future is because you were there so 2200 is a different 2200 probably all around the world because you exist versus if you just plucked you as a baby out of existence. I think 2200 is different in lots of ways. And I think that goes for all of us. And one of the most extreme examples is if you get married, how that changes everything. And I'm going to do a diagram that explains what I'm talking about. Just thinking of the characters I need here. So let's just copy these people over. to another probably just save this as i don't know what sliding doors is in this case um okay so we've got brian we've got laura we've got noah we got leah we got danny we got chloe and we got ryan so we're gonna keep this smaller yeah yeah basically it's that it's a lot of things like that it's about how much everyone affects everyone else this is all you know this is all about this is all what i'm talking about how unlikely it is that you're born in the first place i'm like the humans are here this is like in the today chapter where we're reflecting on the whole past before we move into the future um so we got these two let's make them all different colors so we're gonna make this one's green no this one's orange yellow i like that yellow yellow is a tough one because you can't just do full yellow it's too hard to see but I need the colors. I need all these colors, you know? Okay, we got, let's say, a purple. Let's make that clear. Purple. That either. And what color is this person? I'll do the light blue for this person. All right. Close enough. Oh, music. It just loves to, like, shut off, you know? And then we're not vibing at all. Oh, see you, Braddus. Thanks for coming. Now I need some arrows. So you go to my library. Actually, I have an arrow here already that I had from an earlier version of this in the family tree. Way too thick. Is this too small? Is this going to be too small on the page? It's a little too small, I think. A little unnecessarily small. I'll just make everyone bigger. But in this case, I want the arms getting tired. Okay. So now we're going to go like this. So now we've got... See, this could be in the side, so I don't want to go too horizontal. Might be a tad small, the whole thing. And so what we've got here is who I'm calling Brian. And I think you probably see where I'm going with this, which is... I wish I had a keyboard shortcut. Toggle this on and off. I do it so much. All right. So there's a guy named Brian. He's married to this girl, Laura. And Noah is married to Leah. And Danny is married to Chloe. Okay. And that's what happens. But when you pluck Brian out of the world, he never existed. Well, Laura ends up married to someone else. In this case, she marries this guy, Danny. I mean, this guy, Noah. Noah was in Brian world going to marry. I should just label this. Now we have to decide if I'm going vertical or horizontal here. But if I am going to go horizontal, I can just do. brian world um so the person who was going to marry brian now is married to this guy he was going to be married to the orange lady he's currently married to the orange lady but if you plucked brian out well he ends up marrying she ends up marrying him so the orange lady is not married to him anymore and she ends up marrying this yellow guy who and brian who currently is married to the purple lady but now he's without brian he ends up marrying this lady and the purple lady then ends up in non-brian world marrying this guy who in brian world who knows he would have been married to someone else and you can see this can go on for hundreds of couples pluck one person out and it can if that person gets married you know you pluck them out and it can it can affect hundreds of marriages which can affect thousands of thousands of kids are born or hundreds and hundreds of kids are born none of whom were born in non-brian world instead there's hundreds of other people now how does the first group of children end up growing up and affecting the world in a different way than the second group of children you see the point and then i make the point afterwards that it doesn't even this is you know marriage is obviously a huge impact on the world who you marry and whether they would have married someone else changes everything but even if you just go to the pharmacy is my point i bring that in after that pharmacy example you get in line at the store and that changes the world so that's all i don't think i need to label all the names the colors does the job there um so yeah i think that's all we need yeah if you don't believe in destiny i don't believe in destiny either well i mean you can believe in destiny all you want right but if you if brian is destined to marry the red lady and you went back in a time machine and you plucked him as a baby Kind of his destiny to marry the Red Lady is just not going to happen. So now is she not going to marry anyone because her destiny was to marry Brian? You know, I don't think it works like that. So yes, I guess if someone really believes in destiny, they would just say it's all written. Brian had to exist. Okay, sure. But that's not the point I'm making. I can't argue with that. But yeah. Can't both Butterfly and Destiny be valid two sides of the same coin like Laws of Physics God? Yeah, I mean, yeah. I think... I think that the destiny argument seems fine until you consider plucking someone out as a baby in a time machine, in which case it kind of falls apart a little bit because all this stuff that was supposedly destined doesn't happen anymore. So how could certain destined things happen when you take someone out who would have been part of all those destinies? I don't know. But anyway, that's what I hope people read the book and then have thoughts like that and have arguments like that with their friends. And that sounds great. Base this out a little better. All right. I think we've earned... some procrastination. And I have two more, and then we'll see how we're doing. I want to at least do those two more. If I just was this productive every day, drawings could be done in, could have been done in a month and a half instead of three plus four months. But you know, I'm neglecting my family massively today. And I don't think it's realistic. But that's what like a psycho workaholic does, right? They just do this every day. Now, granted, this is an easier thing to do. A long writing day, then a long, sorry, a long drawing day, then a long writing day. Long drawing day, you know, I don't need to be awake to do this. It becomes harder and less pleasant to do drawings when I'm tired, but like the drawing will come out the same. If I'm tired and burnt out, the writing is not good. I can't pick out the words I want. There's no life to the drawings. um into the writing see i'm i'm you know you can see i'm i'm i'm waning but it doesn't matter for drawings you can power through the one thing in the old way but why days i would be pulling on all night before basically every post and i felt tired but adrenaline of being like this is going up tomorrow the adrenaline can can override exhaustion and make good writing and there are occasional times when exhaustion turns into great creative writing you know if i wake up in the middle you know i don't know wake up four in the morning i can't fall back asleep and i'm three and a half hours of sleep and i pick up the laptop sometimes something really good would come out because i'm in some weird raw zone sure but like that's the exception not the norm um and also early morning exhaustion to me is different than late night exhaustion now sometimes you can get into a late night flow and write great stuff late at night but when if i'm feeling like weary and exhausted and it's late it's hard to do anything good maybe younger tip could have but I don't have the same kind of, now again, adrenaline changes that. If this was all going published tomorrow, I would just be like, I can't even, you can't fake it. I can't feel that right now without it actually being true because you have to have some fear, some panic, some excitement about that. Some like this adrenaline overrides everything, but yeah. But that's the thing with a blog post, you can do that. You can write on adrenaline with a book. You can't because there is no adrenaline. When I'm getting the writing from 31% done, no, the first draft of the writing from 31% done to 32% done. It's like, oh, adrenaline to get it 32 and a half percent done and have a huge day. There's just no, adrenaline doesn't wake up for that kind of thing. Okay. I like this. 73 people still here. Sick. It's been a nice steady crowd today. Very pleased. All right. I think I'm going to set a goal of at least 10 today. So that's the two I want to do and at least one more. 10 would be set. 10 is like, that's a big day. I think a five is a big day. I think a five to six is a big day. Three to four is a medium day. One to two is a bad day. Unless it's a really hard drawing. Then I'm like, well, I had to do a really hard comic all day. Okay, that's because that's kind of like, okay, I'll show you one more drawing. A little spoiler. I'll show you a drawing that took me. A long time. Okay. You want to see something that took me a long time? So first let me just tell you what it was and you can think about how you might do it. I wanted to illustrate the transition from fish that's totally in the water and is just a fish to lizard walking on land. And it happened over steps. And we were pretty, we now have found enough fossils. We actually know what those steps were and we know what those animals looked like. and we know almost you know we know to the million year mark like you know within a million years like when they lived um but i was like i want to illustrate that this is just a stack of animals is it fish you know that lizard but that's pretty vertical we don't like vertical don't forget and i was like i think we can do better because i can also involve i can i can have more information in one drawing i can how can i make it horizontal and include information about just how much each transitionary animal was in the water versus really was out plus what they looked like but also let's make it horizontal so i thought about that for a while came up with an idea and here's where it ended up so i was very pleased with my format here so you see the animals you see that they're emerging from water you see how they look i can put some little details in about each one and i can show when they lived this took me more than a day because Now, a good artist can just sit there and say, I'm going to draw a lizard, and they can just kind of do it, and it's done in 10 minutes. No, each of those animals took me over an hour. Plus, I had to research, what are the animals? Okay, now I see 12 different options. Well, I want to pick four or maybe five. Which should those be? What are the good representative moments? Okay, now I need to find what they look like. There's lots of different skeletons. There's some artist renditions. We don't really know exactly what they look like. And I want to make them look like Way But Why drawings, but also look real enough that you can actually get a feel of what they look like. Here's where we ended up. This took a long time. I'll show you another. That is the other counterpoint to this. I was like, well, later I was like, now I'm going to do a stack of animals that's going to show how a whale evolved from kind of like almost like a canine looking, like wolf looking thing. And I thought, well, I already, now I don't have to at least come up with the format because I'm just going to do this in reverse. And I did. And where is it? Here. Same thing. Opposite direction. This took me a long fucking time. I think you can see now, having watched me, you know why this kind of thing would take me a long time. Because you know, can you imagine after having watched me how long those animals took me to draw? lot of work uh and that was i'm yeah so anyway these are some drawings that took me a long time um and they're but they're nicely horizontal they're gonna take up like a third of a page each so i was pleased with that especially because you know um man how about this one ignore that thing above oh nope don't do that nope nope Don't mess that up. This thing can go away. But I wanted to show the difference, you know, evolution of color. You know, these are slow. Yes, I'll save that. Here, I'll show you one more. Those are all from chapter two, which is about evolution and life. I wanted to show that photosynthesis is just reverse combustion. combustion is just photosynthesis backwards um and again i wanted to make it horizontal which actually reminds me i'm about to draw a tree and maybe i can just reuse the tree because it's is there any benefit to the reader of having a new tree versus this is what the tree looks like in this book and i don't know if there is maybe i'll i'll extend it a little bit because i want to write words into it but i think i might steal the tree see this was a good thing to open right now Okay, we'll come back to this once I'm done procrastinating. So we did a little show and tell, but I'll just do one more thing. Where was that thing I wanted to show you? This is a productivity hack. It is a chest timer. So I'll start the day, just say it is, I like to do four hours of deep focus on my book every day. And so on the left, we've got work time. So just say it's 10 a.m. I sit down, I want to stop for the day at 6 p.m. So I'll set. four and four now if it's 10 30 i'll just put three and a half hours on the non-work side so the work side is always four but the non-work side is four hours plus whatever it takes to get to 5 30 or 6 or whatever time i'm trying to stop that day and so then i start and i'm like okay um i am checking emails i am having lunch i uh whatever and i'm it's the non-work side is ticking down and now i'm like okay now it's time to work And so I will, I will hit this and I'll start deep focus work, whether it's drawing or writing or research or whatever. And then I get up to go to the bathroom. There's no cheating. The four hours has to be work, all of it. So go to the bathroom. I'll just hit this and I'll head to the bathroom, come back, be on my phone for a minute. Then if I'm being a good boy, I will quickly get back to work. I know I'm being good if this side ticks down with a good amount of time still left here. Because that's what I should do. I should work when I have the most energy in the morning. I should get my work done by the four hours done by three or four. And then have a couple hours to do the less important work or just take a walk or hang out with my kids, whatever. Often, if I'm being a bad boy, this side ticks down to basically... zero or close to it with still a bunch of time here and then i have to kind of like then i have to just deep focus and finish to just hit the deadline now i combine this this is a good tool i recommend it it's like 20 bucks on amazon um i combine that with um external pressure where my friend philip detmer i've mentioned him a couple times he's german he is the creator and script writer an original animator of the YouTube channel, KurtzGassett. And he now has a giant team of animators. They make the best science videos ever made, in my opinion, on YouTube. K-U-R-Z-G-E-S-A-G-T. I'm sure most of you have seen his videos. He's also one of my best friends. And we have been on a journey together since he started KurtzGassett right around when I started Waypoint Y. And we've watched each other's things grow. And we give each other feedback. He read a whole draft of my last book. I read some of his scripts, you know. And one of the things we do, along with another friend, if you've seen the channel, CGP Grey. Highly recommend it. CGP and then GREY Grey. If you haven't seen his videos, they're unbelievable. It's a huge gift if you haven't seen either of these videos to just go and just watch them. I've seen most of them twice, at least, on both of their channels. But... He's also good friends with Phillip. We do a weekly call. We check in about our work. We all help support each other. So one of the things that Phillip and I are doing right now is we'll just each tell each other our thing. What's my plan? What's his? My plan right now is I have to do my four deep focus hours by 5.30 every day, every weekday. And if 5.30 hits and I've done, I think actually we moved it to 5 p.m. because I'm like, there's no excuse to still, I should just be getting this done earlier, right? I don't want to go past five with work. If five o'clock hits and I've only done three hours and 42 minutes. Okay, I'm short of one hour, right? I'm short of the four hour mark. So I owe him 200 bucks and I PayPal him that moment. If five o'clock hits and I've only done two hours and 12 minutes, now I'm below two of the hour marks, I owe him $400. You can see it can get up to 800 total. Not good. Now I've paid him a few times. I think I paid him four 200 marks, never more than 200. And then he came up with another thing because I was being a bad boy and not texting him when I was done, even when I did finish on time because I was just forgetting. And he said, I think we have to put a law down here. You need to text me. And if you don't text me when you're done, you owe me 50 bucks. So now I've also sent him 50 a few times. And again, these are good because I want these things to happen so that I love paying him, to be honest, because paying him is like, yeah, that hurts. it the next day i'm better that's the point and i feel like the pressure i'm like it's like 12 20 and i have three hours left to do i better get going like i i'm running out of buffer time you know and sometimes unexpected buffer happens a friend walks in i chat with them or someone calls me and needs me for something or my kid walks in again you saw me today reject my daughter twice usually i never ever ever do that like if she walks in that doesn't matter what's happening i almost always just will give her attention and when you waste too much time early and you have all the deep focus left you lose that buffer it becomes really stressful so i like that now he had this much more strict thing which is i have to do this like i think his thing's two hours he changes it each week he tells me on sunday what his thing for there i'd have to do two hours today and if i don't i owe you a thousand dollars so i was i was going in the red and the red and the red and the red i was paying him more and more and then bang he had to pay me a thousand one day and i made it all back Now we're about even with each other. So anyway, it's a great system. If you're doing solo work or just kind of work that doesn't have an external deadline, work where you don't, you can't, you know, no one's going to force you to do it on the outside and you want to get it done. It's kind of that important but not urgent work especially. And you're having, you're struggling. to be productive which is really common most of us you know we're supposed to kind of be working in workspaces i think at jobs where we have to do stuff and i think more and more people are working from home or working as freelancers or independent people or artists or whatever it is entrepreneurs and there's no one making you do it um we you shouldn't feel bad about needing systems you have to make the systems because work provide you know a job with a boss provides this there's the system you know have the report for me on you know, Tuesday on my desk. Okay. That's the system. It's going to make you do it. But if you don't have that, you build a system. So I recommend, you know, things like the chest timer, things like accountability with a friend. It has to be super honor code where it's like under no circumstances would you ever lie about what you did. You have to pay if you didn't do it because that's how, otherwise it doesn't work. So anyway, that's my system right now. That's, that's, that's, that's the show and tell item. Okay, one more item. I have hundreds of fidget toys. Hundreds. I have fidget toys. I have shelves of fidget toys. I have buckets of them. I have trays of them. Here's a tray of fidget toys. Instagram ads. They're all fidget toys because I'm a chump and it knows that. And I will just buy a $32 fidget toy if it comes out. Anyway, this isn't supposed to be a fidget toy. This is a metal... like chain mail sheet. You can just on Amazon look up like chain mail dish scrubber. It's supposed to be for scrubbing dishes. But my friend Igor, he lives two doors down from me, very close friend. He likes fidget toys too. And he gave me a hot tip. He said that this is this chain mail that's supposed to be for dish scrubbing, great fidget toy. And it is, you know, it was just endless kind of, it's, you know, it's as good as heavy, satisfying. If you're a fidget toy person. You know, you don't always go for the things that's the obvious toy. You can get something that's not supposed to be a fidget toy, and it can be great. This is another thing. This is from the company Spex, S-P-E-K-S. I have lost thousands of dollars to this company. I should really have them sponsor Ripple Y, because I just evangelize them anyway. These are like silicon magnet things. All of these are Spex. spec magnets here this is an example of something that's not a fidget toy normally that's caught up in my magnets now but you know these chains these like little ball chains those are those are good fidget toys anyway lots of fidget toys um what's great is now i have kids and it turns out that my now three-year-old has the exact same taste in things that i do i am on that's my level so her i She and I overlap perfectly with toys. So she comes in here and my office, instead of being like daddy's boring office, it's like a fun store. It's a toy store. She always wants to come in and I give her a toy to play with. And so she likes these and it's great. It works great. It doubles up now. So I feel less bad about the thousands of dollars I've spent because now my office is a fun place for her. So I'm not done procrastinating yet. I'm not ready to get back to work yet. Yes. Learned about voting from CGP. You'd be shocked how many things you can learn on his channel, CGP Grey. I mean, every video is just so good. And I know, so the reason I, the two of the three of us get along, Philip Grey and I, is that we all do the same thing. We all spend way too long on single projects to try to do like an A plus job on it. And it takes forever. And it's like every single project is like a massive undertaking. But like, I know for a fact, Grey will put in a hundred hours on one video, one five minute video, five minute video, a hundred hours. Phillip's team with all the animation, I'm sure it's a thousand hours on a video, like a thousand hours on one video. That's like a half a year of, you know, full-time work for one person on a single eight minute video. You can just pop on and watch. So the internet's cool like that, you know, you can make something forever that someone watches in eight minutes, but there's enough people to watch it that it all works out. All right. So what are we going to do now? I think... Save. I didn't change anything. Oh, actually, I wanted to keep that open because I want that tree. So we'll come back to that later. I can't even look at this one. Let's go back to the... No, I can't look at this one either with the head. I can't look at this one with April. Okay, this is safe. Let's just stay here. Oh, yeah. I find other people's jobs super interesting. uh i always find it crazy what other people are doing with their day like my friend is a pulmonary surgeon like a throat thoracic sorry thoracic surgeon he does a lot of lung stuff too but like i'm sitting here trying to draw a stick figure ahead and that's my struggle and he's in the ship he's in there um transplanting a lung and this person's gonna live or die depending on how he does and it's like at the same time so i'm sitting here doing this split screen to what he's doing and i'm like it's just crazy to me what some other people are doing i mean any medical person um is just their job is so much more intense i mean the only thing more intense than being a medical person is being like a military person in war i mean that that that's the the peak but that medical is basically you're in these situations that are basically like war i mean there's a lot of medics that are in the in the war um and they're basically doing that and the person this life or death it doesn't matter if it's a war or in a hospital like you it is life or death no no one's gonna die if my if my stick figure head is not perfectly circular i might i might kill myself at some point trying to draw something and getting so frustrated but no one else is gonna no one else's life is at stake um but yeah very interesting i mean really anyone's job that's not mine is inherently interesting to me um okay Some Olipop. This is number two. I usually just have one, but you know, this is a special day. All right. What were you going to procrastinate on? Let's see. I have some other ideas. 11 drawings are easy. How easy was this one? That was so easy. Not only did it take 10 minutes, but it just was nothing to think about. It was just so easy. Love it. So I wrote down Google Maps. We did that. I wrote down GeoGuessr. Should we do GeoGuessr? okay let's do a couple things i want to do global so we already did worldl it's a terrible name worldl if you missed it you have to see a shape of a country let me see if they have a new one up or if it's just it might just be one a day in which case we can't i love that game though worldl nope not wordle worldl is it worldl.com nope how did i get to it before worldl yeah all right Oh no, yeah, I think we just won a day. That's too bad because I would have liked to do more of this. But okay, here's a different one. Global. Basically when Wordle came out, all these people were like, I want to make money. And they jumped and created other games that sound the same, but they're great. These are really good ones. So here's how this works. You can see this, that you pick a country anywhere in the world each day. So there's one country today that is the country. We don't know what it is. And you have to guess and then it will color code to show you how far away the country, the real country is. So I'm going to start with Vietnam. Okay, Vietnam is the closest border. It's 8,000 kilometers away. So it's really far. But you know, it can be light, lighter orange or even white. And then it's really, really far. This is pretty far. Let's like triangulate here and do Spain. I usually start with those two. And then from there, it's okay. So. You see, it's closer to Spain than Vietnam. So we know it's not like over here, you know. That rules out east, so we know it's west of Vietnam. It could be north, but if it's north, it's over here, you know. So now it's either going to be, again, if we look at this, we basically can say it's three quarters of the way or two thirds of the way from Vietnam to Spain, which means it could be any of these countries here. So we have to see, let's see if it's north or south first. I guess I can do like, let's do Tunisia. Okay, that might have been a little too close, but okay, but see that was closer. So now it's not gonna be over here. It's not gonna be Algeria or Morocco, because that would be too close to Spain, right? So we know it's farther over here, but it can't be too far, because then it starts getting too close to Vietnam. So maybe it's south, maybe it's like, it's not right, it would be darker red if it was right next to it, so it's also not Libya. Egypt, but Egypt I think is... I think, I don't think Egypt, I think it's going to be south. So what goes down here? Is it Chad? What the hell is like, right? Here's Chad. There's Molly over here. What's in between? I'm just going to try Chad. Hey, it's Chad. Pretty good. A four is pretty good, guys. A four is pretty good. I'm pleased with that one. Okay, so that's worldl. Worldl for you. And now, what do we have next? We've got, um, uh, no, sorry, that's global. Not world though. Oh, GeoGuessr. Should we do a GeoGuessr? No, it's just an R. Okay. Let's just log in over here so everyone doesn't see my shit. Hold on, how do I do this? All right. Log in. All right. Here we are. I've only played this twice. Once with friends, very competitive friends who play this all the time and I just got crushed. And then once on the last live stream in 2022. um which was someone's idea in the chat i had never heard of it expedition explore the globe and earn medals with official maps explore the world geoguessert challenge rivals i just want to play a thing expedition chapter one level one i don't know they're being a little like two okay this is that's plenty guys i don't know what all this is wow look at this dude that i do like this guy here a lot i want to meet whoever came up but someone was like i need to do a fun thing and this was their idea and like good good good job you know like that's very funny okay i don't either gamified it so much just give me a just give me a place okay play now europe say i don't tell i don't like i don't like how this game has evolved well the music just got really loud for me hold on oh that's not that's this music i don't want this music we already are vibing get out of here okay um Okay, I didn't want to know I was in Europe, but okay, I guess I know I'm in Europe. Havefruin. That is very German sounding. But I guess it could be Germanic, right? It could also maybe be a Scandinavian country. A lot of blonde people. But they're not like that blonde. Scandinavian people are really blonde. So what do I do now? I guess I can walk around and look. Okay, wait, hold on. What did that say there? Affald. West off all the waste. Hmm. Bad T-tret. It could be like Swiss German. Hotel Bethel. I mean, seeing word seems like it's kind of cheating, but Taylor Swift errors torture. That doesn't help. Nyhaven Crowen. This seems so German, but the question just, is it another Germanic country? You know, is it Denmark? Like, could this be Copenhagen? I don't know. i'm gonna so far my i'm going with germany but let's just see some more stuff here i mean how german can you be like what is this waffle bargain oh that that flag that's not germany that's scandinavia right is that denmark oh we're totally in denmark aren't we um mick joy's cheese choice oh i thought it was cheese i got excited um okay someone is saying netherlands I guess it could be Netherlands. I guess Dutch is a Germanic language, right? Is that, is that, that, that, that flag? I kind of thought that was like a Scandinavian flag. I just feel like you shouldn't be able to, they should gray out. They should blur out words. Why is this same car behind? I guess it's because it's behind the thing. Yeah. Okay, well now I don't want to be on this street here. Oh God, 30 seconds left. I didn't realize that was time. Shit. Okay, what do we do here? How do I do this? Ah, so far I'm going with, uh, I'm going with Denmark. 8, 17 seconds. Okay, I'm panicky. So now what do I do? I click it here. Can I zoom in? Okay. Let's say we're in Copenhagen. Oh, oh, oh. Eight seconds. Where's Copenhagen? Ah, okay. Where the hell is Copenhagen? Okay, I need to pick... Oh, no! I ran out of time. I'm so upset. Where is this? I'm going to be so sad if it's Copenhagen and that was right. It's Copenhagen. That sucked. You knew. You saw. You saw that I got it. I got it. I didn't know the exact place, but you saw. I didn't know I was timed either until the very end. Damn, where the hell is Copenhagen? I guess it's up there, huh? I was looking down here. All right. Well, I got the city, so I'm pretty happy about that. Now, don't tell me the continent, but okay. This is a new place. Okay. We've got a pride flag side crosswalk, but that could be anywhere in Europe. Oh, well, that's Ireland. So there you go. It's Ireland. Now it looks like it's a big city. I don't know how many cities that are this city-ish they have. So I'm going to say Dublin. And I don't know where, I don't know Dublin well to know where and I don't really care. What I wanted is somewhere where I don't know where I am in the world. I'm sure there's a way to do this. I'm just going to put in somewhere. I'm going to put in Dublin. This is not what I wanted. I wanted to know, I'm just going to click into I don't care to find out where I am in Dublin. It's too boring. Guess. Hey! Okay, wow. That was lucky, but I got that within. You could walk from where I got that to where it was. I don't want to do next. No, I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this. I don't want to do... Can I get out of here? Single player expedition? Whatever. What's next? No, I don't want to do this. How do I get out of here? You can't even get back to the homepage without... I guess I press back. That was stupid. I feel like this has gotten so like, what if I just want to be somewhere in the world? Daily mission? I'm disappointed with GeoGuessr. I want to just be somewhere in the world and I don't know where I am. Classic maps, maybe that's what it is. World. Okay. That's what I want. Let's do that. It can be somewhere on the planet Earth. This is what I want. Okay. Now this is hard. Okay, cactus. Cactus. So obviously this could be Arizona. This could absolutely be Arizona. Now, how the fuck am I supposed to know whether it's Arizona? Okay, here's a hint maybe. What direction am I facing? I'm facing the sun. Okay, so if I face directly east, if I face directly east, the sun is a little in the south, which means I'm in the northern hemisphere. The sun is to my right, which means I'm in the northern hemisphere, right? If I face directly in the sun, but I'm not that high. I'm, like, low in the northern hemisphere. So, like, I don't know where else has, like, these old school cactuses like this. You know? Like, I don't think, like, the Arabian Peninsula has these kinds of cactuses. Do they? I'm just going to guess Arizona because there's no way I'm going to know a better guess than that. So, and it's in the middle of fucking nowhere. And I should probably, okay, I should probably just, let me just do a little more due diligence here. Okay, there's a street sign like I can get more info here again. I think street signs kind of cheating, but okay Yeah, this is Mocking Boulevard Lane. That is that is definitely This is the US I guess it could be New Mexico. I mean Arizona just to me is so Cactus II now how the hell am I supposed to know if this is Arizona or New Mexico? Okay, what's this little city? Yeah, I'm not gonna get anything here am i okay what's this indian show i think that still could be arizona right i mean i guess this could be utah or new mexico there's palm trees like i don't think this is wyoming it's too like it's too desert i think it's too like hot uh this could really be anywhere though i mean i guess this could be new mexico just as much as it could be arizona wow okay I'm going to go ahead and guess. I don't know if we're going to get anything more interesting here out of this. So I'm just going to guess we're in the middle of nowhere on the road outside of Phoenix. There we go. Hey, fantastic guess. Hey, it was Arizona. Okay, it was Tucson. That's like much more in the city than I thought, but it's not. If I kept going, I'm going to see more buildings and guests in the city. But okay, let's do one or two more. All right, 95 miles away. All right, now we are not. And we are not in an obvious place. I don't think. What does that say? It's like Google. Oh, Google Street View. It's just bouncing off the car. Okay. Well, good for Google, man. Just like, you know, people complain about the big companies, but like, it's so cool that they did this. All right. That's either. So French cafe could be in a lot of places, but. It seems like we're in Europe. Pizza, it's English. Things are in English. Vente a importer. Okay, vente a importer. That is Spanish, right? Or is it Italian? Vorte pizza original aparte. Vauban. Someone would definitely know from that, but I don't. There should be a lot of clues here. Sims Joyar. Joyar PlayStation. joy year that doesn't seem that maybe it is french actually maybe i was assuming it was spanish and it was french i took spanish in high school and i can like get around but i'm really bad i'm just bad at languages in general bienvenue okay that is french we're in we're in france right um are we in paris this seems pretty pretty urban this seems Okay, we're for sure in, we're in France. Now, again, I don't want to dig in and try to figure out where I am in Paris, but let's just take a, let's just try and get lucky. And I guess there are big cities that are not Paris in France, but, you know, let's just take our chances here. I don't see any, like, I'm just gonna go there. Wow. Hey, three miles away. You know, a little luck, never hurts. That was good. All right. Okay, now where are we? okay that architecture seems like something that does not seem like an american car this does not seem like the us those those zigzag lines are not american open 24 hours are we in england this is addictive i can see why people like this also the thing i played was like with it was like on zoom with you know four other people and we all had the same two minutes and then you play a bunch of rounds and like you know it's the total miles added together the smallest number wins and it was just extremely stressful um okay this this this sign can be helpful well where did the sign go okay can't really read that can't really read that i need some some words okay bridgewater hall manchester central convention complex okay so are we in manchester england sure seems like it unless there's something else called and it doesn't you know it's like Well, actually, I can even get more info. I mean, Manchester Center Convention Hall. Patrol. I don't know what Patrol is. I think it's Petrol in England. Are we not in England? Holy shit. Patrol. Mancunian Way. Weekend Closure. I mean, this has got to be. Greater Manchester. Okay. We're in Manchester. So now, again, I don't want to, like, try to guess where we are in Manchester, but I'm very pleased. I mean, I shouldn't be pleased. It's not impressive to know we're in Manchester when the sign says Greater Manchester. Like, I don't like the ones where you see the sign, but I'll take it, whatever. Now, the good people now would be like, of course, we all know we're in Manchester, but now I know where we are in Manchester, and I don't, so I'm going to just put this somewhere. It's three miles, though. I mean, that's not that impressive. Manchester's like, it's just, I got the city, right? Okay, I'm a little addicted. I do want to keep doing this. Okay, what does that say? Condominio. via Palladius. Hmm. Okay. Okay. Well, there's an Italian flag. So I'm going to go ahead and say we're in Italy. But where? Again, I'll just say it's also Google map the whole earth and you can just try. It's just like, it's a minor version of traveling. You could just go anywhere on Google Earth, click anywhere in the globe. Not quite anywhere, but like most places now. And you can just, not just see, like spin around, but you can just like literally take a walk down the street. It's just, we're so used to it. This is not normal. This is incredible. Okay, so how am I going to figure out where we are in Italy? Let's see. Piano Realza con Spazia. We're so in Italy, but where? I don't know area codes in Italy. Napoli. Oh my goodness. Oh, what a find. Okay, let's just go with that. We are in Naples. Damn. Where was that when I was doing this with friends and getting crushed? Like, that wasn't that obvious. I had to search around to find that. All right, we're in kind of a central-ish area, maybe? Let's just go there. Eight miles away. So I got very, I said it was not that central, but still. Again, I give myself limited credits given that. the word was right there okay this and one more because i have to stop at some point now where the is this this could be a lot of places by the way this so i one of the things i did when i was trying to understand so one of the chapters is on human evolution and um and we're trying to like you know we think that our ancestors like our ancient human ancestors were on the savannah but they weren't on the savannah Or no, it's like, no, really ancient people. Like the earliest humans. And like our like ape ancestors, you know, once, you know, and it's like, oh, we left the, what I always thought is like we left the trees and started to walk and went to the savannah. And it's not, it's not really what happened. Our ancestors were bipedal for a long time before they had to be in savannah. And they were in places like this, because actually our fact checker, got a hold of a lot of like landscapes that looks like this like this dense woodland this is the kind of place forget the road this is where like four million years ago you would find people and there's like dense woodlands that looked a lot like this um you know it went from dense forests like where orangutans still live oh what's that that was helpful cemetery okay that is information it's an english word um thomas tce I don't know about that. That's not very American. Let's get to this. Let's go down this main. It's kind of a main road. It looks like. It's funny there's a street sign here randomly. Wait, am I not allowed to go there? They're not letting me go down there. All right. What's this? This is not easy. This is one where I might be like 4,000 miles off. Okay. Trash. Solar panels. How do you have solar panels but also trashes everywhere? I feel like it's one or the other. It's like you've... You know, I feel like those things don't usually go together. What's this little windmill? Oh, man. I mean, this doesn't seem, either this is the most rural American thing ever, or we're not in America at all. And we're in like somewhere really, really far from America. I'm going to say we are not in the U.S. But that cemetery street sign looked a little like the sign itself. Wow, I'm not, I can't even go farther. Oh, man. This is rough, dude. I'm going to say this is not the U.S. I'm going to say this is... Where the hell are we? We're somewhere extremely rural. Okay, I give up. Can I read that on there? Man, maybe we're just in really rural U.S. Maybe we're just in a really rural U.S. What are these animals? Let's see what the chat thinks. Oh, Australia. Oh, Australia. Australia to Outback. I like that answer. Because the TCE thing seemed very not American. And this seems very Australian Outback. That's a good choice. I'm going to go with that. We're totally in Australia, aren't we? Okay, let's see. Now where the fuck in Australia could we be? I mean, the actual Outback is probably not very well mapped by Google. I mean, it probably is, but like, I'm just going to assume we're in a more standard region, but just in the middle of nowhere. So let's just say we're fucking, it's too green here. Let's just, I'm just going to go right there. Oh my God. Hey, I don't take any credit for that. That is all Gabriel Albiero. Nice job. We were totally in Australia. All right. Good job, everyone. Your results. I don't know if that's good or bad, but hey, you know what? We didn't have any really bad guesses. It's really demoralizing when you're like, I know it. We're in Spain and it's like Brazil. Okay. See, this is what I'm not good at. It's like if I'm a little weary and I can keep going, I can get on a roll and like just do drawing after drawing. But if I stop and procrastinate, right now if I were alone, I'm probably just going to play more of that. But I'm not alone. I'm not alone. And so I'm going to keep working. Let's just acknowledge what happened there, which is more procrastination. and now we're going to draw all right on to three more drawings i know i can do it and i know you can do it i'm gonna i'm gonna brief bathroom break let me give you something better to look at here um what's interesting um like uh i'm i'm really hooking you guys up here with this i am hooking you guys up with this uh open image and new tab okay i think we've seen enough of the land things today Look at how big stars are back at 930 ET. Enjoy. Oh, good night, Gabriel, and thank you for your help. That was clutch by you there. We trudge on, don't we? So let's just discuss this for a second here. I'm going to assume you can all hear me unless I hear otherwise. So... i wanted to illustrate i mean this is crazy by the way this is old this isn't even the vy conis majoris is not even the biggest star anymore um we've discovered stevenson 215 stevenson 215 i think that's what it's called um stevenson something and the bigness is hard to it says slow mode is on i don't know what that means i don't know um Can I be heard and seen? I'm paranoid because that one time when I started talking for a million years and then I was told that I couldn't be heard. Yes. All right. We got a yes. All right. So the bigness, the bigness of the sun is impossible to wrap your head around. Like these little cells on the sun, these little like you see over here, this is the sun. These like little things. like each one of those little dots is like the size of like Texas I mean even honestly smaller like the earth it's kind of the size of like one of these this is the earth right here the whole earth and that's just nothing like Sirius is way bigger than the Sun and then look at Sirius here imagine how big this guy is and these and then this one goes down to that down here It's all quite crazy. So I did one drawings obviously I'm not gonna write this book and not talk about this and Stevenson Here's how I'm trying. I'm still in them. This is still like a work in progress here, but Okay, so if the Sun Yeah, I'm saying redraw if the Sun is I'm like this isn't done yet that I need to these need to be drawn but like I think it was like if the Sun is a blueberry then then then this is stevenson so i i don't know if that's really getting it across maybe you don't even need a statue of liberty i need to make sure you can see the sun in the book but like look that's the sun look up like that's the sun the huge massive sun and now it's like just look at the ark that's the sun look at this so yeah i'm still trying i'm still working on this one i need to figure out how to i don't think the statue of liberty is helping here but um plus i don't want to draw that um What would happen if we fit VY Canis Majoris in the solar system? It would be bigger than the orbit of Saturn. The Earth would be in like the middle of it, in the core. Yeah, orbit of Jupiter would be well inside of it. The orbit of Saturn would be inside of it. So yeah, it's big. How many suns would fit in VY? Well, let's find that. Let's do Stevenson. Yeah, 218, not 215. Ten billion. Ten billion suns. Imagine how daunting that is. Ten suns. Imagine ten suns. Ten billion suns can fit inside of that star. It's stupid. By the way, a little plug. The thing I'm most proud of that I've ever done is with Kurzgesagt, the YouTube channel. I've talked about them a lot today. We collaborated and did... an app called universe in a nutshell um it's a i don't know why we chose that name since it's already a book by stephen hawking a very famous book but we did this so you just it's like if if all these objects are on a wall and you're just zooming out and you're just going backwards from the wall and looking at how big everything is so that's where you can see stevenson and in relation to all these things it's basically just comparing the size of everything um all the way from the biggest things, all the way down to the smallest things. You can go all the way down to, you go down to quarks and down all the way to the plank length. Highly recommend. They did the illustration, the visuals, obviously. You can see they're way fancier than mine, but I did the writing. So if you click on any visual, you'll see a description of what it is. turned out to be 30 000 words of writing which is like a hundred page book i wrote within the app um so yeah all right um that's why i like making things that i want you know um like that's the most fun thing to make something where that's what i'm trying to do with this book i'm like what book would i be most happy to be given as a gift and i'm like well i think it would be like this this book and like what would be in it i'm like well it would talk about this and this and it's like okay i'm just gonna make that book and put all those things in it because it's it's the the part of me that would want to read that book is the same part of me that likes to write it that likes to i get to learn i want to read that book because i want to learn about all the things that are in the book and so i get to learn about all those things much more deeply now it's much less pleasant than reading the book um it's much harder but It's obviously, but you learn all the things. So that's, I'm trying to do that exclusively. You know, life is short. Like I want to write, I want to make only things that I'm like, that's something I'd be excited to exist. So that's what we did with this app. Philip and I were like, we talked about this app and we were like, let's just make it because we wish we had it. So, all right, three more drawings and know we can do it. Okay. So, where are we here? Let's open my little list. Okay. I don't think I can stomach drawing another stick figure right now. So we're not going to do that. We don't need to because there's so many drawings that don't involve that. Okay, here's what we're going to do. The next two we're going to do have to do with the English language. The first one is kind of easy, which is part of why I want to do it right now. All right. so we're gonna open i don't like when they ask me to save when i haven't done anything because now i'm like well did i accidentally do something in which case i don't want to save but if i don't save like did i do something and i forgot that i did it and now i don't save and i just lost it um what's this like box around here hell why did why do things have to be like this like what is this box okay whatever um now this is the most the 50 most common words in the english language Now, why are we talking about English language in this book? And the answer is, when you're doing like a chronological story, right, you don't want to just say this happened and then this happened and then this happened, right? That's not interesting. So you need to think of good structures. What are good mechanisms that you can use to tell a story through which all the things you want to explain come out, but it doesn't feel like you're... Now let's learn this now. Let's learn this now then this happened, right? You need you want to like feel like I'm learning a good story by the end Oh, I also fill in all these gaps in that historical time. So The the big history chapter has three parts That there's really, you know, there's there's modern history, which is a huge chapter of its own but there's the history before that which is There's basically the first third of the book is all science The second third of the book is mostly history, but also, you know, some engineering, some science and stuff like that. And then the last part of the book is the future, which involves some science, a lot of tech. And the history part, the medias history chapter, which is like 2500 BC to 1580, it's chapter five of the book called Empires. And there's three parts. The first part is like early empires. And we go through, you know, the Akkadian Empire, it's the first empire and... The Assyrian, Neo-Assyrian Empire, the Persian Empire. Then you get to ancient history. So then, of course, there's so much to talk about there. The Hebrew Bible and the birth of Christianity. There's obviously, you know, there's Rome. There's the Han Empire in China. The Parthian Empire. And yeah, there's just a lot going on there. And then we get to like... 500 A.D. And so now it's the Middle Ages, the last part. And the Middle Ages, I tell in two parts. The first part is like, you know, I think it called it from Muhammad to Genghis Khan. And it's just going through a story that I think all goes together. You know, you have the Arabs conquer a big part of the world. And then you've got that intersects with the, you know, with. the Muslim Golden Age, and then that gets obliterated by the Mongols. So a lot of history can be wrapped into that story. But then I want to talk about all the European history that goes on in the Middle Ages. And I decided that the mechanism, the vehicle I'd use to do that would be the history of English language, which is 100%. My interest in that was stoked by this great podcast, The History of English, which I talked about 40 hours ago when we started this stream. uh with kevin strout great podcast i listened to on episode like 93 out of like 180 something and it's just a great podcast but anyway it's gotten me really interested you know the history of english is so you know the english language is like this melting pot and so many other stories are baked into it so i get into both the history of english and then also all the history around that story you know how how it came to be there there's the indo-europeans i'm not going to get into the whole story now but There's the Anglo-Saxons and the Germanic language, then kind of the Indo-European, you know, earliest, like, Proto-Indo-European language, you know, branched off. It had descendants. One of those was the Germanic languages, Old German, which Anglo-Saxon was part of that. And that alone became Old English. Old English is essentially Old German. It's not English. You would not understand it at all. Unless you speak German and even then you probably won't understand much of it because it's like really old. Meanwhile, another descendant of the same root language was Latin. And Latin itself branched off into, you know, Spanish, old Spanish, old French, things like that. And old French with the Norman invasion of England, then basically it's like a cousin. It's a distant cousin of Anglo-Saxon. and those two merged um into kind of like the the core of the english language we know today and then more things happen to make it the actual language you know today but um i'm trying to in this drawing and then in the next one we're going to do i'm trying to explain you know because i always thought that i always kind of thought that english was kind of a romance language right it sounds a lot like as a lot of cognates with spanish and i took spanish in high school and i was like it's just clearly very um similar but it's not a romance language but it's basically a mating of romance language with germanic language but i was like it's a word that germanic words and it turns out they're everywhere um and but most of all they are you know it's like when when language evolves and changes the words that are least likely to evolve and change are the most common ones those are the ones that really stick around And so I want to show that while a lot of our flowery words in English come from French, the most basic core words, the most common words, almost all come from Old German. They're Germanic. So here is the most common 50 words in the English language that we're going to have to... First, let's just get this into the right font. How am I going to do this? Okay. I think, again, in the spirit of conserving vertical space, let's try five rows of ten, five columns of ten. So if we went like this. Now, obviously, these numbers are too far away, but that should work. Damn, these numbers are annoying me. This is going to be one of those manual things. I'm just going to have to go and do this. I don't think I don't see any way to do this. Not like this. And if this seems tedious, recall the family tree we did. This is nothing. This is nothing. That family tree almost broke me. I'm also just so broken down by tedium that I don't even notice it anymore. It's just like something like this, and I'm just like, all right, there goes my life, and I'll just do this. Now, in this way, I'm sure someone who really knows what they're doing could figure it out, but this doesn't seem like something where there's an easy fix. I mean, I'm sure I could, yeah. i don't know i probably could screenshot from the original list just the words and then and then just paste those and then i could probably like create a numbered list really easily but like whatever the things that are bad is when it's like and i'm realizing that i i fucked up because i should have while i was here i want the numbers to be different color than the letters i'm gonna have to go i'm gonna have to go and do all this again i could have just done this in one in one go couldn't i have Man, is that, is that true? It is true, isn't it? But you know, like I almost did a black and white book as I discussed earlier, and then this would be that, but it's just, now that I'm going to pay the price of color in having the book cost more, having it be slower, having it be thicker and heavier. I want it to be, here's the problem now is if I do this, I don't like the color. I have to go do this for each one. Oh my God. Holy shit. Can you just hold alt shift on max to vertically highlight? Okay, let's see. That would be interesting. Alt shift. No, what the hell? What did you just do to me? Oh God. Oh no. Oh my God. What happened? Okay, hold on. I have a doc. I have a doc that I made and it has all the shortcuts for illustrator. And I know this is one of them. Illustrator notes. Artboard. Make artboard straight. Shift Command 1. There we go. Alt. I don't think whatever it is. I don't think there's a way to do this. That's funny. My issue is not that I have to go do this. It's that I won't be able to change the color without doing it again. So I want to get it right on the first crack. What should the color be here? Also, it's not just about what color looks good here. It's like, what have I used in the last drawing, you know? I don't I want to like mix it up, but I think a nice green maybe is that similar to what we did here for months I did do green there, but I think it's This isn't the month is in the ancient history. So it is before this We could do something different. I guess let's just see I mean greens just nice, but you do blue you could do Like a warm red should we do that? It feels a little like drastic to do red but straight-up orange is just kind of stupid like this and Once you get more yellowy, it's nice, but it's like you can't see it. So that doesn't work a Dark blue looks too similar to it's a nice color, but it looks too similar to up to black I think It's hard to know how this is the look on the printed page, but that's just too similar, right? It doesn't pop at all. So I think it's down to I'm between this this this we'll see what the chat thinks let's have some let's have some chiming in here green okay we have one vote for green I like the B color blue okay Google says you can group command plus G okay I'm I'm all for it if I can I don't really know what that means oh command G agree yeah that doesn't help me that groups that groups the If I have like three, you know, if I have the stick figure and I have the arms or separate objects and the face or stuff, I can just highlight a long group and then it acts like is one object so I can move it around together. I say the third one. Okay, this is not good, guys. We've got one vote for green, one vote for blue, and one vote for the orangey. You guys are not, this is not good. Okay, we have another vote for blue. Orangey. Okay, two blue, two orange, one green. Alicia claims I can do a poll. Okay, there's a poll. I will abide by the results of the poll. All the words will be in one color. The numbers will be in black, but three words are going to be in a different color. But that's not important because I can just make it contrast with whatever we choose. I know I should have put the numbers in words and separate columns, but I copied this from the internet. And then I didn't. This is a close one. Wow, this is brutally close. 12 votes and 13 and it's like almost a complete deadlock this is this is awful guys okay orange is taking a slight lead okay okay looks like uh unless something crazy changes in the next 10 seconds i'm gonna go with orange 44 that's seven out of 16 votes for orange oh no now we're down someone else voted for blue oh no oh no this is disastrous Blue is now tied. Well, green's out. You know what I'm going to do? I think a bunch of blue with a couple orange is going to look better than a big wall of orange with a bunch of blue. So I'm going to make the call here. Thank you for your help. But man, that was tough. Okay. Thank you, though. See, at least I have you here because normally it's just me and my decision fatigue. To me, I think if you're going to do a lot of color, it is nice to have it be a fairly mild color. I guess then the last question is, is it the right blue? But I think it is. I think the bright blue is nice for this. I don't like it when it's a solid thing in this bright of a blue, but I think this looks nice and juicy. That was tight, though. Now here, I'm sure I could do something where I do a keyboard shortcut that just switches it to blue, each one. I don't know how to do that. I had gotten really good at Pixelmator. um i had gotten really after 10 years of using it i had really nailed it but um um and now i'm new and i don't know there's just a lot of tricks i don't have because there's two things you learn when you use software a lot one is like the normal keyboard shortcuts the normal way to use it you can work your way with it you can work with it um then the second is the hacks so there's always stuff that like you want to do that like isn't easy to do there or it is but you never learn that way but you just pack it together you find like you wait to find a way to use two of the tools in conjunction to do something you want and i really had my hacks down with pixelmator but as i said it was much worse in retrospect much much worse lower res and just harder to if you mess something up it's really hard to fix it um i always thought illustrator was for just like you know you know perfect circles which is you know i want my flawed stick figures and i thought it was for like graphic designers and it is for those things it's great for those things but really it's also a great program for me i've become a big illustrator proponent after the last if you asked me the first two weeks the first week using this i was i tried i was on the edge of quitting so many times saying nope not doing it um i'm not dealing with this shit this is impossible to use and now i want you to see if you can figure out why i'm doing orange for a couple of them command plus y redo now because it's like redoing something you've un right i think yeah that's redoing something you've undone it's not repeat something you've done it's like if i do undo and then i'm like wait i didn't want to undo that i want to redo you you undo the undo anyway we're almost done so Yes, but it will also just redo the thing you just did if you didn't undo something. Is that true? I want to see if that's true. I will be blown away if that's true. And I'm upset with myself. Nope. What? No. What did you just do? Oh, no. Wait. See? Oh, no. What happened? Ah! Okay, wait. Okay. Hold on. Everyone chill out. What did I just do? Command Y Illustrator. Toggles between preview mode and outline mode. I see. okay that's not a problem i can just go back you almost me there but you are trying to help and i appreciate that that's not it didn't it's not correct in this case so outline mode is actually i actually now i'm remembering i didn't know that like um like for example here if you go here and add a command y it's just going to show me all the lines it's all the strokes themselves it's actually i should use this more it's useful so you can see the strokes It switches between preview mode and outline mode. Okay. All right. No, this is what I'm saying, Braidus. Illustrator is not normal. It doesn't like to do things like all the other apps. It just is its own thing. It's such a strong learning curve that you have to learn everything. That didn't work at all. Oh, because I have spaces, don't I? I have spaces on the other ones. There we go. All right. So now, I mean, you know what's interesting is this is so narrow these these columns that this could actually probably be in the side which is great we love in sides the sides only take up half the vertical space that the full length drawings let's see if i can do that it can't be too crunched but yeah i don't think so i mean i guess i can make the font smaller let's try it i think this could work i mean i could also do it's not even but i could do four rows of 12 2 of 13 and make it narrower but i don't want to do that do i but i could pretty easily um you know i could i think maybe we can do an aside like this anyway okay so now the answer as to why some of these are orange is that the blue words these are the 50 most common words in the english language and the blue words There's a distribute evenly bunny bunny Is that tired am there's a distribute evenly button next to the lentils that could have been helpful during the oh my god that could have been so helpful During the family tree wait that I need to know if that's true or not Why is this in its own world here? What what is this big big rectangle? Huh? I don't know what's going on. I don't know what's going on. Anyway Let's try this let's just go back here for a second one two four five oh my god holy now this would be useful it looks here see it looks like it says here zero point like you can choose how space to make them but this is a revelation this is a revelation that is what i could have used oh man oh wait let's try something let's go back to our family tree And now I can't believe we're back here either, but because I want to get rid of these things that I said, these breaks and this one here are killing me. These, they don't look so bad because there's enough other shit going on. But what if I could go here and go, oh my God. Oh my God. Jackie, I want to distribute objects. That's basically Jackie. I, oh my God. I owe you a beer, Jackie. I, oh. You don't understand the extent to which you just made me happy. Oh, that is so much better looking. Wow. You want to use the distribute objects, not spacing. So what are we talking about here? So distribute space. Oh, distribute objects. Oh my God. Although in this case, it worked beautifully. Wow. That is glorious. And the fact that it's not like, you know, this one here is a little off. No one cares. And I'm fine. I don't need to fix the rest. That is glorious. I'm so pleased with you. Thank you. Fuck yeah, Jackie Eye. That is so big. That is so big. Because there's other times that I've needed that. Okay, so if I just undo this, and I... So that's one way, but how does this distribute objects? Hmm. I see. I see. I think I did, in that case, want distribute spacing. But I guess this would have done the same thing, wouldn't it? Now, oh, then, okay, so what if I, now how would I make that spacing smaller? Like, here's what I want, is this button with, you know, with a thing, with the ability to change the spacing. Like, I can just, it says it right here at a zero point. I should be able to, like, go down, down, down, and then get closer and closer. But in any case, that was fucking great. Delete that now. Now I can even, get out of here. Now I can even try it here and make sure I'm fully distributed. See, I wasn't. See, I wasn't, and now I am. And I see, so I can align all the left so they're the same. I can align the center so they're the same, and I can align the right so they're the same. I don't actually like any of those changes. I think what I do want is distribute spacing because once I do this, oh, I guess it's just not including the left one for some reason. I don't know why the left one isn't moving, but That's what I want right there. Beautiful. Yes, kefeg101, I am still at it. I am still at it. I sure am. So the answer is, these are the top 50 words of the English language. All the blue ones come from Anglo-Saxon, Old English. The orange ones come from Old Norse, which is also a Germanic language. If Old English is... cousin with old french old english is a sibling of old norse like they're even closer because they both emerged from a more recent common ancestor which is all i guess old german both old norse and old english are descendants of old german and old german itself along with old french are both descendants of or old german and latin are descendants of uh of you know like proto-indo-european so proto-indo-european split into latin and old german and by the way also farsi and i think turkish and hindi and like so many other languages it's wild um but but then latin then you know if latin is then the parent is one kid and old german you know germanic old german is another kid they each had kids French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian for Latin and for Old German, you know, Old Norse, whatever the more recent German is, and Old English. And then Old English and Old French had an incestuous first cousin marriage and produced Middle English, which then evolved into Modern English. But the point is, is that So many of our words come from Latin via French. But, and also Latin itself brought a lot of words in via the church because the old monasteries all did all their business in Latin. So there was a lot of Latin in England at that time. But the most common words are not French. They are all the core. Old English is the core of the language. And I'm highlighting, so 47 of the 50 top words are Old English and three of the... the other three are all old norse which again is a germanic language so all of these are germanic not from latin and that's what i want to show here now while we're here i was while i was looking up these words i came across something else that i thought we should look at because this is isn't that interesting because like they're all like connector words right these aren't actual like real words they're like of course they're common words right they're connected words i thought what was interesting was also um this is the top 50 the top 25 nouns in english verbs and adjectives and this just kind of surprised me like some of these let's make this bigger time okay sure it seems like okay that's a pretty big spot for time but sure person okay year why is year there i don't really get why year is there way makes more sense like no way or you're in my way or is there a way to do this okay that's very common day makes sense thing makes sense i would think thing was like first you know Man, world, life. Those all make us a year. I don't understand. Now, adjectives, those all kind of make sense. Good, new, first, last, long, great, whatever. By the way, 20 for noun is government? The hell? Super surprising. But none of these were company. None of these are that common anymore because nouns are just more evenly distributed. There's thousands of nouns and they're all, you know, not that common but all kind of common. And government, I guess, is the 20th most common noun in the English language. Government. Anyway, you know, maybe there's a chance that this is like taking from all documents and a lot of these are government documents. Maybe that's why. But anyhow, here's what's also interesting is that all the oldest words, again, the most common words, sorry, the most common are also the oldest because common words don't change very much. They don't evolve very much. So you'll know something. You'll notice something is that most verbs, the past tense. it just says ed right walk i walked um you know i uh uh whatever i'm really exact i'm extremely exhausted but most obviously ed is the common way to make a verb past tense except for the really common ones because ed is a more recent invention and so a lot of the words that are less common got shifted got you know switched and and lost their inflections and just became simple ed it kind of simplified the language and a lot of the more complex things convoluted things from earlier got standardized but the really common words are just too common to standardize no one wanted to you know people are so used to saying them they never in history do people want to change those so if you conjugate if you do the past tense of the most common verbs you'll see they're all the weird ones be went what the hell is that have had do did say said get got Make, made, right? None of those are. You don't say maked. You don't say getted. You don't say goad. You say went. You don't say node. You say new. So all of these have weird conjugations. Same with Spanish. When you're learning like to be, ser, it's like, you know, it's soy and eres and nosotros somos, you know? It's been a while. And so anyway, these are the weird conjugations because they are really old and the reason they stayed is because they're really common. Even if you go down this list, you start to get to use, used, want, wanted, look, looked, right? Ask, asked, work, worked, right? Try, tried, call, called. So you start to see the ED start to creep in and as you get less and less common, you're going to see ED almost all the time as the past tense. But the really common verbs have weird conjugations. only because they all used to have word conjugations, and those are the ones that were too common to change. Yes, exactly. Common words are old, therefore inertia as the language has evolved. Yes. Which is also why, even though French came in and kind of conquered a lot of English language, it couldn't get to these because this was just too common, too much inertia, which is why all these words are old English. So I'm going to show it here. Now the next thing I'm going to do... This is the next drawing, so we're done here. That's eight. Two more to go before I can rest. So the next thing I want to do is a visual that goes along with this. I think we should steal the tree and decide later if that's okay. I just don't think there's anything wrong with saying this is the tree for this book rather than do another tree for some reason. Oh, the music stopped. Okay. We don't need that C. It's carbon. So in the History of English podcast, he uses a nice metaphor that I think is worth, needs to make it much smaller, where he says, how did this get disconnected here? Where he says that, I think I want to make this a little longer, this trunk, or not. It's just a nice metaphor. And another way to put it is, you know, when kids study for the SAT and they memorize all these big vocab words, those are almost all from Old French. But the words that a two-year-old can say are going to be almost entirely Old English. The first words we learn as native English speakers are Germanic for obvious reasons, right? It's the small common words. So I'm going to just use that. I'm going to visualize it here. This should be an aside, if you ask me. And the question is to remake this just a little longer here, this part. I'm not even sure we need it here, but. Syncretism? No. A religion that blends older systems into itself, i.e. Christians blending. No, I didn't, but I think I've seen that pattern a ton in history. In fact, almost everything is a blend of older things, right? Is anything just from scratch? isn't all art kind of a blend of other of older art forms or you know even someone being really original and doing something new it's it's usually influenced by stuff um culture isn't every culture kind of um a blend of older cultures that fed into it but yeah i like that it's interesting i should put that term in the book okay so what i'm gonna do now is let's bring these into this And also, I think some other common Germanic words. Let's see if there's others that aren't just these. No, this isn't what I want. This is more what I want, but this is also a nightmare. Like water, I know is one, for example. I bet that's in here. Yeah, water. Actually, is water not in here? Water's not in here, but it is a Germanic word. Father. Let's just make sure. You can see the etymology of any word by going in the dictionary and scrolling down. Yeah, Old English, Germanic origin. So I think we can add some that aren't just the things we just saw. Look at white, mother. Any others that are just really, I can just go to our list here and that'll be fine. Yeah, we'll just stick with these. Zigzag, all right. Now I'm going to, let's make our tree. So we can lock a layer. If I don't want to, if I try to highlight this now, it's going to highlight all the tree things. So I want to lock this. so now it's in place and now i can go and highlight these without it bothering me these around a little oh let's use let's use our new trip that's just amazing what a what a i love a new thing you know usually it's like the guy doing the thing and the live stream is like the expert and he's like doing a tutorial and this is the opposite where it's like the commenters are teaching me how to use my software all right um um all right Now, the harder thing here is picking out the right French words to put in the tree. No, you cannot change your vote. And also we're not, this isn't going to appear here. This isn't going to go, unless we do, I could decide to put these next to each other actually, but. And anyway, it wouldn't want to match the tree because the tree is, it's the trunk that is the Germanic word. So if these were green, it would be confusing because it would look like they match with the tree, which is the opposite point. So some of these now. What else do we have here? Parliament. Village. Pretty good mix. All right. We have room for one more. Satisfied. I think that's what I wanted to accomplish there. This can go. Now, just before I send it away, I could do this. We'll see. This is an option for later, but I could do this and make it all one thing, but I think I won't. But I'll leave it for now. All right. For now, I'm just going to do this. All right. A nine. I'm going to go back here for one more minute, and I'll be back to do the last one. We are back. We are back for the final drawing. And I'm torn. I'm torn about whether to do an easy one, take the easy way out. This is a very quick, easy one. Or to do, like, a medium hard one. And I kind of think we should just, you know, we should just go for it. Don't you think? Fuck it. Let's do it. So this is, this is, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to visualize where all the earth's water is. That's what we're going to do. And how do I want to do this? Earth's water. Okay. I painstakingly already collected all the data for this. You know, it's different sources say different things. So I had to, yeah, I think you want three, three squares. I can use my new trick here. Do we want, this might be, is this how I want to do it? Cause if I need to label small segments of things, I might need. Well, let's, let's, let's, let's start and let's just try something. Um, I think we can, I think we can do it. Okay. So, got some data here. 97% of the water in the world is saline, of which 97 and a half, of which 96 and a half is ocean. But I want to do like... Cubes or layers? Okay, let's see two and a half percent is So let's just zoom in here. What do we have here going on? Let's at least get this level Let's get it to a hundred here There we go. Okay a hundred and it's going down to some hideous non-even number So I should make this a little smaller anyway, I guess this is not going to be very even either way Now, am I going to need space in between to label things? Because there's no space here. Maybe I want to make these a little smaller. Not too much smaller. I find this very interesting. Because it's just shocking how little of the water in the world is the stuff we think of as being a lot, like lakes. All right. Now, how are we doing this? So, the easy way is just to go... like stack stack it right so how would that look um i probably would do a deep blue for ocean so um i would do like a little two let's move that behind let's move these to the get out of here all right we're gonna go like this we're gonna go to the front i want those to be like that there we go so if this were so this is now uh it starts It should start at exactly 100. It doesn't. At least make our lives easier in this regard. Here we go. Now, this is one of those places where I'm sure there are better ways to do this. Oh, let's also make these a little thinner, I think. Do I even want a border there? Yes, I think so. All right, so now, this is now, so it's It's right at 100 there. No, it is not. No, it is not. Let's get it right at 100. Let's get this accurate here. This one's harder just because I don't really know. So 100 there and this goes down to 222. So 122. So 0.965 times 122. So let's go up about 118. From where are we here? 222? So we're at 104. Pad lower. That's ocean. Of all the earth's water, that is ocean. Now the thing I'm trying to decide is, do I do like a thin strip and it's like fresh water? And then we expand that down? Or do I make like a cube? You know, it's fresh water here. And then I expand that cube down to this cube. I kind of think that's more, it's just harder to do. But so look, this is, is this at least a square, please? 18, how is it not a square? All right, 122. Yeah, it's a square. So 122 squared. And now I want times 0.025. Now I want the square root of that. And that will be the height and width of the freshwater square. So let's just see what that looks like. Freshwater will make like, you know, really it's even more like icy. I feel like freshwater is like a problem. You can't really do like the kind of color I would want here in CYMK. CYMK is the, that's kind of what I want, I think. All right, fine. So now what did I say? I said 19. you know but really this should really be this size and this should actually be bigger oh it doesn't matter whatever i was going to try to say that the the border shouldn't count but it's like it's so small so on one hand i could say this is fresh water um the rest of it's like sailing lakes but that in some ways looks like i mean it looks bigger than it like it's deceptively it looks more than two and a half percent i think i think it looks like it's like less cool that it's like wow that's all the fresh water then just like a little strip at the top but it also is correct and it's kind of cool and i have to do cubes for everything i think and that doesn't sound like such a great idea i don't like i don't love it um i don't love it having to do cubes for all of them but maybe yeah because there's like it is just two things if it's just like the big thing and the small thing then the cube is cool but there's also saline which is one percent so where the hell does that go you see see the ish where does that go it's easier to see this though i mean i i could just say because it's not all oceans you know the caspian sea is a saline lake that is included in the other one percent 96 and a half one and two and a half is what we're dealing with here let's try it let's just try it for a second So 1%, 122 squared. Okay, well, that's 189. That's 149. 100 and the square root of that, 12.2. So this would be, so that would be like a little bit less blue, but still really blue. 12. I don't know why these are not perfect squares. That's annoying me, but it's pissing me off. Okay, 12.2. All right, and then the rest of this would just be... just i don't have to label as much i can like put more things in here now i don't know if i love the black outline though yeah i think it's actually better without the outline in which case we need to make sure this is in fact 122 by 122. that is going to be close enough and then that's going to be close enough now now i put this over here let's get it right there now this is one where i'm sure there's a way to do it faster than i'm doing it but okay so we would say something like oh that's the smallest i can go it's still not gonna work i don't think you want to go that small anyway i mean i could i could barely but i could just like cubes and this will be better black what if i made it like five point a little crunched a little small yeah i thought about a glass of water um yeah liquid pouring over others over of the recipients you see the issue for the love of god use a table i don't know what we're talking about here um now here i just need a label like sailing lakes it's like it's like the great salt lake the dead sea the caspian sea i think i'm just gonna say sailing lakes we don't need to say inland seas also but that obviously cannot fit there so that's gonna have to be something like it's a little unsatisfying i was annoyed that it wasn't just ocean and fresh water i could say sailing but like who wants to see saline instead of ocean I could do like an arrow, you know, here. Where's my arrow? Here's an arrow. So we're adding vertical here, but I guess I'm going to have to do that later anyway. And then I would do one of these guys. A dotted line. Oh man, trying to get it on the thing. All right. Where'd it go? Where did it go? Here it is. All right. That's thick. All right. Well, this would be way thinner anyway. this inside here in white and then say i don't like it it's really annoying me that i can't just have these two things here really is like ugling everything up for me but that's okay uh let me do that only because then i can say all surface water the problem i wish i could say all of the earth's water but my fact checkers they didn't had a problem with that because apparently only 5.7 percent of this all of this is only 5.7 percent of the actual water because 94.3 percent of the water is inside earth deep inside earth's mantle and core and that's exactly the kind of i'm talking about with my fact checkers annoying me um all right now i can say