 I feel like I'm making more progress with the hello everyone. I'm making more progress with my hand. We're trying to make gingerbread man cookies today. I'm trying to spread mine out with a knife with my finger. Habiba has opted for the more manual tactile approach. Because I wasn't making any progress. This is, at least, this is going somewhere. Hi everybody. This is a spontaneous live stream. Because why not? Yeah, but we're trying to do some decorating. So we're curious if you are doing any decorating at home as well. Probably people did their, made their cookies a few days ago. We are not. We're definitely always late. We'll say mine's starting to get a little bit smoother and flatter. It's starting to look good. Someone is sending me messages. Wow, that looks a lot better. Oh, you're using the knife. It's just like making a bagel or a muffin. A muffin or apparently a gingerbread mini van camper van. So they're camper van ones. Oh, I gotta watch out. I got my finger on the, so I made the wheel on my side and I'm working on the facade facade. What would you call it facade? Who else is anybody else making cookies? I guess is the real question. And if you're not making gingerbread cookies, what type of cookies are you making? And I will be honest with you and tell you that we bought these gingerbread cookies. We did not make them on our own. Hey, look, not bad. There you go. I saw there was like a little thing on, you're used to the pre-second cut. Hey, do we need whites? Give me, give me a little bit of my, my thing. Yeah, there you go. This good. I had to cut the thing, the little like hole in the, what do they call the icing things? The icing bags? Yeah. If I had to cut the hole a little bit wider and I think Habiba wasn't quite ready for that. Yeah, it just starts to squeeze in full power. And an icing armor get in, in sued. Oh, anyway, hello Nancy. Hello, how? I think people are sleeping already. Ah, I have no idea how to use a knife here to like get all the way up to the edges. But I'm happy that it's looking pretty smooth. So the door, the door on their one was not painted at all. The door was the only NCC that wasn't. Yeah, they did put a little circle of icing on it though. We have these little baggy baggies of like, I don't know, they're like candy little, they look like tic-tacs and they also kind of look like sprinkles. But they're supposed to no doubt be some of the more Christmassy sort of decorations. Do we still need more lights? Should I say more lighter? Is it? I'd say having a small amount of leftover for touch up and we obviously still need to glue it to the base at some point as well and glue the pieces together. Oh my god, this looks awful. Black is hiding here. Oh, you still need the white for the wheel. If I was going to go that route, I figured if we have enough white left over, I will certainly do that. I guess we're trying to not whitewash our tires, but we're going to put a little hub cap on. So we're going to make black tires and then put white hub caps on them as our plan. And by that I mean that's the pictures plan. So hello, Hal. Hello, Nepal. Nepal trekking Everest. Oh boy. I have questions for you. So do I. Anyway, I'm working on my gingerbread cookie little mini van here or camper van. How far did you go with the wheel? I pretty much went like just most of it. Oh, you're going for the finger, finger painting approach. There you go. The wheel is starting to look like that bald spot in the back of my head. I don't have a bald spot. The whole thing's gone. Um, so we got red now, right? Did we cut this one open? No, hold on. I'm going to do the, I'm trying to use like a new knife for each color. So I don't mix colors. Can you? Oh, okay. Hello. And there's a wet paper towel there for you to wrap the tip in so that when it's down that they don't crust up too quick or at least that's kind of the guidance I was given by the pamphlet. But anyway, I'm certainly not a craftsperson. But so yeah, we're just trying to make our little gingerbread camper van here. We can put it next to your gingerbread, uh, your camper van, uh, flat upon some point here. But we've never made gingerbread anything before. So I do want like this. The only thing I was thinking is if you wanted to put a like a circle of glue down, it seemed like they stuck these on to the like a circle of glue or icing there. And then I'm guessing eventually at the end, we can run a nice globby, globby line across the middle. You can put these tic-tacs down on them. So this is the box that has what we're aspiring to do. I will let you know that it is not going to look like that. Okay, so okay, I need the black or oh, so this, they made it red. I need to go get another little wet paper towel covering so that I can keep the stuff from getting all crusty. Ah, I got crap all over my hands. Or icing. It looks like motor oil or like topper. This looks not bad actually. So I had read though that it's smart when you actually are using your icing things to get a wet paper towel and wrap it around the tip to keep it from getting all crusty and hard at the end. I've gathered that's kind of the same thing you're used to seeing when you, um, use like caulk, right, or other things inside of your house for some house stuff. I'm gonna open this. Sure, sure. You're welcome. It's a Merry Christmas to everybody. Happy holidays and we're curious. Like I said, if anybody else is making cookies, and if you're making cookies, what type of cookies you are making, we always used to make snicker doodles back in the day. And I always like some store-bought things like Milano cookies. And you like the chestnut, right? Those are the ones that you like by the same people. I like chestnut. Pretty much anything that goes well with a hot beverage. You're welcome in this house. How do you like decorate the little teeny tiny edges? Do we have red? Oh yeah, there's red for days. Where? Right here. Oh, good. Can you please give me the scissors from there? Those look like garden shears. I guess are those really like the turkey ones that you bought for Halloween? Or not for Halloween, for Halloween. For Thanksgiving? Which one? Those shears that you're using. Were those the turkey trimming ones for cutting the meat? Your scissors that you're looking for? Oh, I don't know. I didn't buy them. He stole them, apparently. Do I have a filter on that gives me beautiful eyelashes? I said beautiful eyelashes. All right, that's some good news. I was getting a little self-conscious about my eyelashes. I'm not very good at this. So here's my progress so far on the bottom. Hey, it's not bad. It's looking... I'm about to get Hibibu's hair in it. I'm getting there. It looks like I don't know how to finger paint. I'm trying to paint Florida right now. It's really what it looks like. It's happening. Hello, Andrew? Andrew was my manager when I worked at Tommy Bahama in Chicago. Hibibu tells me about that all the time actually. Oh my god. She loves your candles. He's the nicest person. Of course he's Canadian. I'm having a hard time getting to like these little like nooks and corners and such all the time. I feel like because I'm using the knife effectively is my way. I'm going with the butter spreading method. Hey, Alex, look, mine is coming. Holy cow. Yeah, it's got some character. It's amazing in the beginning. It's just a glob of goofy icing. And then after you start putting enough of it together, oh, you got a hubcap. You got a whole hubcap and everything already. Oh my god. This is pretty. Okay. So where's the red? The I think right there for you. Forgive my choice. Okay, so apparently, apparently, apparently, my, my auto care's men decided to paint the tire red a little bit. Gonna have to have a talk with my insurance. Got that bumper to bumper. Oh, I'm trying to also not use both sides of the knife because I don't want to waste icing. I've gathered I think it's a valuable resource. Andrew said you are very artistic. You are very artistic. Show me where you're starting with. Hibibu's got a lot more icing than I do. Don't let the appearances fool you. This is this is like a hot mess. All I got to know is our camper van as it drives down the road. It's gonna be driving with a little bit of swagger. I believe they're they see me rolling. They hate it. It's gonna be an appropriate song. All right. So I think I'm done with the bottom here. Can I do the hubcap? Actually, that's like the end of all things that we need in the white palette, right? You get these little like Huma jiggers. Let's see if I don't squirt it all over the place here. And all right. Oh, no, I look like red and white. Where's the red knife? The red knife's right here on top of the cardboard. Okay. So I just got myself a little globidy gloop of hubcap. I believe I'm going to screw this up. I don't know. It's kind of like dealing with glue. But at the same time, it's kind of like dealing with well, not actually glue is the only thing I have. Like what else do you it's like trying to like hair gel? No experience with hair gel. Hey, I'm done. I think I got it. Huh? Hey, jackpot. I'm using my fingers and I'm using the knife and I'm not getting anywhere. I'm going to use the sprinkles here. You see, we got these like tic-tac sprinkle looking things. And again, this is a box kit that we bought just like on a win at fries. And we like camper vans and Habiba has a camper van down here. And Habiba has a camper van flower pot. And we're like camper van. Let's do that. Hey, I'm gonna do like doing a puzzle now. We're trying to copy it. Oh, I actually still need white eyes. Do you still need white? I was going to do a big old globity glib glob of icing across the, uh, I see what you're doing. You're just like filling in the cracks there. Oh no. Oh, main down coach, main down. It's weird to like film this on a little camera here. I feel like we're low on space. I did find it to be beneficial though to cut the icing thing like the nose at a bit of an angle. So that the stuff would come out a bit cleaner. I got myself a nice flat line now across the center. I'm going to blackberry bamalam. Oh, blackberry. Some little sprinkly, sprinklies down on this bad boy. I got to figure out how to not make them look like I placed them all like equally spaced and such. My God, Alex, I'm running out of clean fingers. Well, I have a, I can solve that problem for you if you'd like. Let me see, which, which finger is the dirtiest? Go away. Go away. We're going to have to, we're going to have to cover the video feed here for a brief moment. So I'm starting to get some little dooma jiggies down here. I'll show you guys in a moment for those of you that have decided to endure our ad hoc impromptu decoration scheme here. Oh my God, it's looking really nice for you. Thank you. It's looking like a hot mess for me. Habiba is peeping in my heels. So I got a couple of them across the middle line here now. I got to get, there's a couple of little red dots I think that I wanted to sneak in. No, I think it's stuck. And this is not like dropping screws. I can't use my magnet screwdriver trip to tip to just like patrol the ground. Well, my objective now is to just not do that again. So there are these like little, they look like poi or like fish egg things. I have no idea. Like surely they're also just other pieces of icing. It's like that marble game. You guys ever play that marble game back in the day? We have to like spin the knobs and navigate the marble through the marble maze. Make sure you leave some for me too. Yes, baby. Huh? Hey, you got a bit of a camper van going now. Yeah. Yeah, on this side. Do you have more black? Yes. What did you do with the swoop de swoop dees? I don't want the other sides of our minivan here to be, the camper van to be asymmetric. There may be asymmetric. Do you have, is there a lot of red left? Oh, that's, that's the bag. I'm confused for a moment. Yeah. So our hope though is to do this and then we discovered a pretty good YouTube channel the other day. And then we're going to sit down and watch a couple of those things. We got to get, we got to give these things a couple hours to cure, dry. Yeah, whatever. Can I have the magnet sexy? Oh yeah. I saw you peeping my watch, a Garmin Instinct Solar. It charges with the sun, provided that you're in the sun. Can you share the name of the YouTube channel? Oh yeah. So the YouTube channel that have even I started watching just recently, we came across it last night with some little video about Anchorage. It's called Real Life Lore. And this guy was talking about how Anchorage was the most overpowered city in the entire world. And then he went on to defend his justification with statements as to how the airport in Anchorage provides as a reasonable layover for many countries on their way into and out of the United States. He talks about how that was more of a big deal back when the USSR had closed airspace, but obviously that's not the case anymore. He does talk about since passengers don't take it so much though, but a lot of freight still comes through Anchorage because the airlines are happier to overload their aircrafts, fill them up with a lot of gas, and then have to make a stop or fill them up with a lot of cargo. So they're really heavy and they use a lot of gas and then they'll stop all the time in Anchorage. And then beyond that as well, he talked about how in the future here, as the polar ice caps start to melt and such, the navigation passages around the northern part of the globe for shipping will start to open up. And areas like the Northwest Passage and the northern part of Russia and such, not only will they have access to the waters for the sake of maritime navigation, but also that it'll, as the ice melts and such, it'll start to reveal a lot of pockets of natural gas and other things that will be very valuable. And he was saying that this was, you know, some of the reason why perhaps the Trump administration had offered to purchase Greenland at some point, so that the United States could attempt to control the exit of the Northwest Passage at some point. Which I didn't appreciate, actually. I didn't know about this before. So it was really eye-opening. But at the same time, apparently the Canadian waters that Northwest Passage goes through are constantly claimed as being domestic waters of Canada, which means Canada could close it down whenever they wanted to and effectively put the kibosh on that. And I think that it sounded like he was saying that with Alaska, one end, specifically the Bering Strait, and then perhaps being able to have influence in Greenland and such would have given us at least a negotiation or a PowerPoint. Yeah, but anyway, so that's interesting. It's a very, very, very interesting YouTube channel. And we kind of just spend in these hauling days or these days where we're spending more time at home to kind of watch and learn a little bit more about what's happening in the world and such. Okay, I like mine. So let me see if... Do you have a... I want to see... Yeah, yeah, I don't have a wreath yet. Do you want to do the wreath on the door or do you want to do the wreath on the window? On the door, for sure. Okay. Do you want to... What color do you want to use for the wreath? Because the window, I literally just... Oh, you would fill it in red? I feel... This is more icing for us. It's funny because this is what they did for the window, but mine is nothing close to that. I'm getting... I got this much going on right now. It's starting to get there. I think I'm gonna... You can see there's like still these little like smiley face Amazon smile creases here where I haven't quite filled them in. I think I'm gonna try to use white icing to, you know, seal them shut there. So whenever you're done with that white, you're gonna make your wreath, is that what you're about to do? Yeah. Yeah. So hopefully it comes as a circle. There we go. Boom chocolate. Not bad. All right, so... This is fun. I've never done this before. It is certainly... I feel like I'm back in kindergarten again. Like decorating with arts and crafts and being absolutely crap at it, but at the same time, like not really having any sort of aspirations to be the best artist even. So it just kind of comes out clunky, but you're just amazingly proud of it. Yes. Okay, so what did they do with the wreath? It's just green, green. Yeah, they just sprinkled sprinklers all over. And then red sprinklers. I really could have done that a little better. Please. Please, please, please. I think my phone is gonna die, so I will most likely... It will eventually die because my charger is not here. So... No, it's okay. If we just disappear, just know that we will be probably sharing a little photo to our stories. Yeah, we wish you all a Merry Christmas. Hey, Salman, I don't know how to say the name. So we were struggling with your name the other day because I think we saw Salman and we were trying to say Salman or Salman at the time and Habiba was telling me today that there was a D at the end of your name. Hello, Salman D. Outdoors. This is our new friend from the live stream yesterday. I'm gonna say it's S. Almond. Salmond? It's like an almond. Salmon. Oh my god, I'm so bad with names. I wish you would tell us how we pronounce just like the fish. Salmon. Oh, that's awesome. That's a lot easy to remember. Yeah, so we're making gingerbread, but it's a campervan. Yeah, not a campervan, really. It's like... It's a campervan. Yeah, so this is what we're trying to get to. We've never done anything like this before. I mean, at least for me, no, not Alex. I haven't done anything like this before. So this is where I'm at so far. Let me snag this really quick. Sorry, go ahead. It's a hot mess, but the colors make it a little bit better. Yeah, it's really cool. I mean, I don't care for making cookies and stuff like that, but when we saw the campervan, it's like, oh my god, we're doing this. It's our spirit cookie. We love little campervans like this. Thank you. But also, I have no idea how to like spread or manipulate icing. So I keep on putting it on here, and it's like really, really thick, but it's kind of like hair gel mixed with glue is the way I'm trying to calm down. But I don't know how to really spread it onto the cookie so much. It's not like just putting butter on a muffin. Let's see how many metaphors I can sneak into the sentence. But today was a... I didn't even finish my sentence. I just ran out of steam. It rained almost the whole day here in Phoenix, the whole day. It was raining like crazy, which was nice. We talked about going for a hike later in the day, but that didn't happen because we're very close to the Superstition Mountains and some waterfalls are seasonal. So you can only see the waterfalls during winter. What happened? Nothing happened. Crazy. So yeah, so maybe, maybe we will go to one of the waterfalls tomorrow if we're motivated enough. Yeah, because there's enough rain here that seasonally there are waterfalls that you can find in the winter months. The more the merrier. So Salmon, where are you in Canada? I think I saw... I don't remember. Ontario. Yeah, yeah. I remember now. I was saying the other day they actually should have had like, we should have either told people that you had to input into the comments the height of Kilimanjaro with meters or feet. And Habib and I tried this the other day naming all of the provinces of Canada. Oh yeah. So I was like, okay. And so if we had them, so... Oh my goodness. I'm not... I remember back in the day I used to always watch... Okay, let me stay on the on track here. So I put a little window around now. I think I'm pretty much at the end of mine now. But we have a little bit left and we have to glue together our individual things at some point. And we have these little connector cookies that we're going to like stick between them to glue them. Anyway, I used to always watch... Whose line is it anyway? Back in the day with Colin Mockery and Ryan Stiles. And he had some skimmers like when I was a young boy growing up in the ghettos of Saskatchewan. That's always how I knew Saskatchewan was one. Okay. And then British Columbia, right? And then... Quebec. Quebec, sure. And then Manitoba. That's four so far, right? Newfoundland, five. I didn't say the most. Ottawa is the city. So you said British Columbia is all the way at the left or at the west. And then Alberta. Is that the one I missed? I missed. I didn't say Alberta yet, right? No, you didn't say Alberta. I think it's British Columbia, then it's Alberta, then it's Saskatchewan, then it's Quebec. We said Quebec. Yeah. And I'm just trying to put them in order to see which one I'm missing. And the Newfoundland, I think there's seven. Is there like a popular song to memorize them? You're a mnemonic. Yeah. I'm doing great. A song. Oh man. You're saying I've put a good show on so far, I've certainly missed one. Manitoba, Newfoundland, Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia. You say Quebec. It's Quebec. It's Quebec. Quebec. Quebec. No. In this time, not in this time zone. All right. What am I missing? Hey, we just have to pull them out. Is it, is it Northwest Territory? Is it like, is it just everything up top? Maybe, yeah, something further up north. Okay, so you're done? I believe I'm done. So, all right, let's, let's, it's fun to see, like, it's clear that, you know, Ford Motors made my half of it and Chevrolet made her half of the camper van because, oh boy. Hey, mine is a lot better though. There's Columbia, Alvarez, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, then Quebec. One, two, three, four, five, six, but that's, that's easy. I feel like I thought there was seven. I thought I thought it was seven. Hey, look, so who, who, who's one do you guys like the most? Who wore it better? Who wore it better? The camper van obviously. And keep, keep in mind obviously that her side is the side with the door. No, no, no. It's not that. I just, I am an artist. No, she's a soul, she just glammed on all that tasty, tasty icing earlier. See how smooth mine is? Nice and smooth. Never mind all. You don't have, you don't have a, look, I have a wrist. Move closer. Let them see the texture. Look at all that, look at all that globby, globby, globby. That's, that's the filter. Oh man. Okay. I like how you gave it a doorknob though. Do we have a little black for, for a doorknob? No, no black, no black. Okay. Just white. Okay. So we need to keep enough icing around there because we need to glue them together here as well. So I think what we should do, do you want to start putting them on the cardboard now? And we'll start. The new Brashwick Pia, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland. None of it. Oh man. They like mine. Oh, they're liking hers. Man. All right. It is next. You're not getting an autograph. Oh my God. That's a good wreath though. I got to say, I think you did well with the wreath. Bilkhair, Bilkhair is from Algeria. He is a very talented artist. He plays Ud. Ud? Yeah. Yeah. What artist were we listening to earlier from Algeria? I'm on the spot. I think low, low battery. No, no low battery. We were listening to Khalid, Shab Khalid. Oh, Shab Khalid. Oh yeah. Okay. I don't think I would have known the name, but yeah, I definitely knew the guy. But anyway, so Bilkhair is a, he plays Ud. That's awesome. I've never played the Ud. Prince Edward Island. There are so many more. You know, I should educate myself more about Canada. We watched the TV show alone and they did like some of it in the Great Slave Lake up north there and I was like, all right. Wow. I've never been to Canada, but my friend, I have a friend in Quebec and she always asked me to come visit. Do you want to try to put these together while we're chatting here? Yeah. So I'm thinking we put a lot of gunk on the sides here and then we stick them together. So which one, which icing do we have the most excess of? White. White. So my vote is, if you want to, you're going to do the tops, get a lot of icing, smudge it on them. Like, yeah, glob it, glob it. And then I'm going to flip them over and you're going to do the other sides. We did this the way they don't recommend. They recommend like putting together the van first and then decorating it and we've decorated them and now we got to make sure we. So what do we do now? I guess we could just wait and then let these dry. Yeah, let them dry. But we got to make sure that the icing doesn't dry out. So the icing, hold on. So this one, this piece is going to, this one is going to go like this. Exactly. Yep. And then this one will go here. And then they're going to. And then we will put my side of the camper van like this over here. So this will just be like a piece in the middle. It just kind of braces the sides. And it's interesting. It's kind of like buying a trash bag at the grocery store where you put the trash bag in the grocery bag and then you go home and then you put the grocery bag back in the trash bag. We're going to put it together and then we're going to immediately take it apart and eat it. They're going to be, oh, but 35 seconds where this thing is together. We will take a photo and then we will demolish it. Do you want to put some gunk on my sides? Good night. Take care. Alone is a cool show. Yeah. Oh, you got to do both sides. Okay. Put in the other side. Do you want me to do? Hold this. Hold this. Hold this. I've got the whole world in my hands. I got the whole world in my hands. Deep sleep and globing. Glug, deep glug, banana. Volkswagen Ikea. Googly glugging. Make sure it's parallel and is it good? It's good for me. Don't push too much. Yes, baby. I think we kind of got to clamp them together somehow. Wait, wait. Want to do this one as well? No, just hold this. Hold this like that. Hold this. But don't put pressure though. Sleep glugging. Have you guys seen the movie Rocket Man? Hey, what are you singing? Are you singing? That's what he sings when he's singing in the Disney extended version of Rocket Man, not the Elton John Rocket Man, like the one with, oh, what's his name? Harold. Deutschland, Deutschland. Oh, what's the guy's name? Alles. I know his name. I know the real, whatever. So the computer scientist has to replace a NASA astronaut to go into space. It's a total Disney comedy. And he ends up looking at the world out the window of the space shuttle after he gets up there and he tries describing to the president what it looks like. I think he put the smooth side out. Yeah. And he said it looks like a little blueberry. And then he's like, I got, it's like the world is so small. It's like I, I got the whole world in my hands. He just started singing the song and then he started singing it in various languages. Okay. And I let go. No, no, you have to prevent your braces falling down. Oh my God. Do we have like a little brace that we can put underneath it to keep the braces up? I think my phone is going to die. Like, okay, this is good. Actually, should I just let go? Try it. Let's go slowly. No, it's good. We just needs to dry up. And then we just let go. Just let go. Let's just see if you can. No, no, no, it's not ready. Can you push it here? It's going to fall apart. Can we get, can you go find like, you know, you just want to find things. No, it's good. You know, hold this. And then I'm going to just like apply some pressure. And I also, I want to slide it. All right. Ready? It's the Futurama episode. Okay, let's go. This one is definitely not making contact on the bottom yet sliding down. Oh, oh, oh, oh, they're coming apart. Take this hand off. All right, you hold this. I'm going to go get a pin to hold this up. Oh, no, it fell apart. Oh, no, really? Okay, come help this. I gotta find something to hold it up. I got the brain. Does the brain fit underneath one of them? You got a little boop brain and I need something else to fit up. Binky, binky. Binky, binky. What's another thing? We got to do this pretty quick, I think, too, because the icing is going to dry. Holy cow. I can't find anything. Well, well, well, well, well, well sheet. Did it just die? What? No, the fun is still on, but the can prevent is falling apart. Okay, so we got some petroleum jelly. No doubt from my Hyken-cementalloleum. I think the petroleum jelly is probably a good one. Okay, so try to put this one down. All righty. Is that good enough? If you need more icing, we have… I can glob some down there. Want me to glob this one? But let's put this one first. Want to get the brain underneath him? Grab it from the top. Grab it. No, grab the cookie from the top. Get the brain underneath. And then tell me when you're good. And that should be probably where the braces live then, because we can at least keep them there. It's not even touching. Here, let me get some poop down here. Watch your hair getting in there. Ready? But this one is not even touching. Okay, well... Okay, this is better. Just want to let that be? Or here? But this one is not touching the... I think the brain is too big. That's a shame because we now have a lot of better things and the icing is going to cure in a moment here. It's fine, it's doing the thing. I think that other one is just going to end up... I think you should put the brain back in. No, this is fine. It's sliding down. It's not even connected on the side. Hey, you're putting... You're going to damage the front. I say we just leave... Okay, I pushed him. I think we're good. Okay, just let it let it be? Yep. Help me. Help me. I feel it. Yes, don't touch. You're good. All right, guys. My phone is about to die, so... We'll show you the best side. And I'm going to share some photos to the stories. Hey, why are you showing your side? Show my side. I won the battle. If you turn it, it's going to die. Yeah, it might just fall apart. But... That's it. Again, perfect. So sweet. All right. Love it. Bye, guys. Take care, everybody.