 Well, good morning! I feel like I haven't made a video since last year. Get it? It's July 1st or January 1st today. We are with Wanderboom and we are trying to figure out how to make this little disaster a very pretty thing to look at. So what are we thinking? I know we talked just a second ago, but for the viewers, what are we thinking right now to make this accidental RV window, which used to be a push-out window, to make it nice and pretty? Well, we are going to use a three-quarter sheet of plywood and custom cut it so that it comes out right to where we need it here. It will be kind of a nice clean cut for right around where the window is so it will be a lot easier to paint and trim and finish out and make it look pretty like the rest of the bus is going to look. Awesome! Let me show you guys what we are thinking. These little pieces here are three-quarter. Those are going to hide the windows like that and we kind of scratched our head just a moment ago. We didn't really know what to do. We weren't sure if it was going to be a quarter inch or three-quarter inch. But we realized, oh wait, we are going to use this thickness so why don't we use the same thing right there. So, that's right. Good morning from the desert. Happy New Year everybody! And the bus is coming along rather quickly. So thanks again to all the guys for getting me out here. I told them no at first, but I did get out here and took them up on their offer. And this has been one of the most incredible Christmas gifts I've ever had is all this help here. So thank you to the whole team, the whole crew, all my friends, and can't wait to get this thing back on the road. Question here. So he's using the skill saw which has a little curvature to the circular blade. So once you get close to the edge here, I said, do you flip this thing over? And he replied, Nope, I just used my handy-dandy Japanese saw, which only works on the pole. I saw two, but this I get a lot nicer control with it. If the shoe fits, wear it. Eric and his tools. That's a perfect name for this guy because he's got them. That's for sure. So this is what is going to frame out the passenger side window above the couch, previously known as the, what was that, goal wing window. So we are just framing that out. And then I'll get on there and edge band it, put the wood on the side, and then paint it, prime it, and then install it. Badge, I feel like I haven't seen you since last year. Oh, you've seen me a lot. I just saw it on everybody else's channel. That's all. No, because it was New Year's. Now it's 2019. I haven't seen you since 2018. I was thinking about that the other day, you know, those people get a kick out of this one. I was thinking about that the other day and all these people are going on about how many views they had and all that. And I ended up, and I'm just about up there with you, on views. I think so too. And you know, everybody, where I go, everybody says hi and you're looking at it like, who the hell is that guy? I don't know, but there's a lot of people I know now. And it's kind of funny because Jackson, Michael said that, you know, you're more famous than we are. And that is true, you know, but it's kind of fun. For good reason too. Yeah, for good reason. But anyway, here we are, we're back here. And as you probably know, we taking over the bus and it's just, we're just doing the right thing. Yeah. That's all we're doing. We're just helping him out, getting it done, and get him back on the road and do the stuff that he does. Alright, so. And the bus is not one of them. So let's ask the source. Did I ask you for help after Christmas, or did you call me and demand me to get out of here? Okay, this is how it went down. Me, Steve Punk, Steve, and Neil were at the van bill. And we seen Jackson's all by himself and Wonderboom was helping him and Steve would help him. And not a lot of people were helping because everybody was so busy. And I also, I said, guys, don't help me because I said there's other people. You never asked for one ounce of help, believe me. Yeah, actually I said don't help me because I want people at the van bill to get help who don't are friends with everybody. That's exactly how it went down. So then after the van bill, we seen that, you know, Jackson took off in the bus because he was, he wanted to break. And so me and Neil and Steve got together and we said, let's get them back down there because we've got three months to burn here. So let's get them back down there and Bergen will finish the van bus. So of course we, I did it once. I sent him a message and said, okay, bring the bus there and Bergen will finish. No, no, no, I'll do it. And then I told Steve and so Steve sent him a message. No, no, no, I'll do it. And remember what it told Steve? Neil sent a message. No, no, no, I'll do it. So in the meantime, me and L and Bob, our BOB went back to Canada and we're talking. I says, okay, this is it. This is the last straw. I get on the phone because you know me, I don't text anybody. I get them right on the phone and talk to them. And I said, okay, Jackson's the deal. He bring the bus down to the airport. We got the Magnificent Seven, which you already know is Neil, Steve, me, Dean, Wonderboom, Eric, and a couple others. But anyway, I says, we got a crew of seven guys that are going to jump in this bus. Now you got to remember you guys being the viewers, you don't watch all these channels. So what we got is we got seven of the best guys in the van business doing this. The only one that's not here is Michael. And I talked to Michael and if he had the money, he'd be here in a heartbeat because this is just like, I got well over 300 hours into this thing. And Michael's got close to 200, 300 hours into it. So when it just goes into a stall, you just have to get out of the rut and get over and get it done. And that's what we're doing. Basically, that's what we're doing. Well, Neil didn't know Jax from nothing and he's here fixing it up. That is true. And Steve, he helped them in Denver and Wonderboom. He used to see these goddamn counters. Yeah, I know. These are amazing. Yeah. I just want to say it takes. Wonderboom's doing the wood and it's just totally amazing. And it's not charity by any means because we don't have to do this. And, you know, being an old miserable guy from Canada like I am, I don't have to do this. And it's just that we have to do it as a group to, you know, just, it's just something you have to do. And that's all this group is, this whole RV, Nomad, whatever you want to call it, that's the way they are. And not one of these guys, and I mentioned it to them when I was bringing up this idea, not one of them said one word against it. They all said yes. Well, I just want to thank you and make sure everybody, all the viewers know how much I appreciate you. Everything you've done for me as well as Neil jumping in. I didn't really know Neil, met him once before last year. He's in here. He's helped me out. And he never even blinked an eye. Even Wonderboom was way the hell over in California. I said, okay, we're bringing Jax's bus. We're hijacking his bus and bringing it back to Ehrenburg and finish it. Yep. Tell me when you want me there. Hi Jax. Hi. We're taking your bus. But this is guys, this is real life right here. These are the amazing people who just donated their time, lending a hand, helping a fellow traveler get back on the road here. So I wanted to try and finish the rest of my own. I said, you know what? I think I learned so much. I could probably pull this off. But you know what? It'll take you three days to figure out what we did. True. But also when it's as nice as it is to give a gift. If you deny someone the opportunity to give a gift, you're doing them a disservice. So I just want to say thank you guys. And I realize the special gift that you guys have given me. Welcome. Let me just say this is repayment for me because when I first decided I was going to come out west and bring my little teardrop and come out here, there was a set of channels that I watched to see how they lived life, where they did, where they went, what they did. And Jax was one of them. Jax was an inspiration for me. Exactly. If a guy from California that all he knows how to do is surf and pour drinks, can get out of here and do this, obviously I can. That's right. This is repayment because I watched Jax in bus number one do lots of great things and I got lots of great ideas from what he was doing. So this is repayment to get Jax back on the road doing what he does best, which is showing you guys great stuff. Jax is not the DIY guy. Well thank you. But Jax shows great content when he's not constantly at the bus. This is my screw going into some wood. This is me repaying him for all the videos I watched when I was sitting and couldn't walk on my legs and I had nothing better to do. I was living vicariously through what Jax and other people out here were doing. That's why I'm helping, man. Well thank you. That means a lot to me. I appreciate your kind words. And I even had freaking coffee at this point. Let's get the man a coffee! So anyways, I didn't know it was going to turn into this kind of a video so far. But this is real life out here. This is how we all kind of ended up. This is how I showed up here. And like I said, I'm grateful to each and every one of these guys out here. It's an amazing bunch of people. And I guarantee you if you jump out of the hamster wheel and get into this lifestyle you'll meet people. Merry Christmas, Jax! Thank you. Thank you. By the way, where's Steve? He needs to dress up like Santa. After that nice sappy heart to heart we have this to deal with. I'm finally putting the speaker wires away which means I kind of taped them up to those who don't have too much slack. I'm going to take this piece off, run the speaker wires around. These are for the deck speakers. And that thing will be installed for the last time. Kind of. I say kind of because the LEDs are going to go on that side and that side. And what I did is I ordered basically like an LED three light extension cord. So we'll just connect them. Loosen this thing up and just kind of jam them in there afterwards. I think that'll work. And then I can finally get the front and back installed for the very last time. Eric is working on the wire chase similar to what I did on the last bus. I think I showed you either earlier in this video or in the previous video. But yeah, I'm going to give him a hand and clean up this whole thing and edge band it, paint it, prime it, all that fun stuff. And then for a lot of people who are like, oh, you should have foamed in the wires and all this other stuff. Well, this is why I didn't because I knew I was going to do this anyways. And it's easy access if you ever need to fix something or add something. Because that just hides in there. That'll be covered by a flat piece of wood. And then right here is where the LED lights will sit. And yeah, it's a pretty cool little system. Like I said, did on my last one by myself with minimal building skills. But I think this is a pretty good way to go. I don't know, Eric, what do you think about this system? I think it's really nice. Yeah, it gives you quite a bit of room to work with. There's additional space if you need to run an extra wire or two in there. I mean, that's quite a bit of room to work with. Yeah, it can fit almost like a 2x2 inside there. And then having the piece stick up past and creates a real nice for the light to sit up in there. Nice indirect lighting. Yeah, because we weren't able to dim these. I maybe ordered the wrong ones. I'm not really sure. I thought I ordered dimmable lights. But yeah, so I'll have a dimmable situation here. I'm just going to check in on Steampunk Steve here. He's putting in a GFCI. As you can see, he's doing it the correct way. Testing it. Yep. Those are always fun, those wires. So we have that. We have an on-off switch for the pump just to water pump just to make sure everything works. These knuckle heads are back here. Working on a 12 volt. Let me show you what the big knuckle head is working on. We got this back in here. Ran these wires. That's for the deck speakers. These are individual speakers here. I got the speakers finally out of the box. These are some Polk Audio. I don't know if anybody wants a... I don't know. That's what it is right there. It seemed like a pretty good price. Pretty decent speakers. And so I'm just going to put these things in. Positive negative. Positive negative. It's really easy. Even I can do it. This is what it looks like when you have a speaker installed. And I'm pretty proud of myself because I've never done one of these things before. Well, I take that back. This one, well, previous to the bus world, the bus life. I've never done this before. So I did one on the last bus. And then I did one on this bus. The previous bus is already wired. So this one took a little bit more... I don't know. Work, I guess we could say. Yes? May I help you, Santa? Done! Shouldn't you be back at the North Pole? On vacation! Santa vacation's in the desert, by the way. So anyways, we got all the wires ran down here. We kind of taped up this side, me and Steve. And it's already looking a million times better. Eric came up with this genius way to secure or actually have a nailer for the other piece of wood guy. Had some crazy ass idea where I was going to go like this and like this and like that. That was bad. So I'm glad to have some professional help here. Water room. You want to explain what you're doing quickly? Yeah. You could probably say it more eloquently than I could. Okay. Well, I'm basically weight washing the cedar panels that we're going to be putting up on the wall and on the various locations throughout the bus. Same material as you used on the ceiling. And same paint as the cabinets. And same paint as the cabinets. But I basically watered it down. Basically one to one water to paint. Okay. And mixed it up real good. For those mathematicians, 50% water, 50% paint. Correctamundo. And brushing it on there. And as it soaks in, as you can see, you can still see the knots through it. You can still kind of get the grain effects and everything. But it's similar color to the cabinetry. But not totally painted over dark. Right. Completely with paint. Cool. All right. So we deviated a little bit from the original design. Things are evolving. The same thing will happen if you are building a bus or just in life in general. So, you know, I mean, I could have done a carbon copy of Mike's bus. That's not really all that exciting to me to have an exact same thing. So we are deviating a little bit. We might even go dark on the ceiling to have that dark, light, dark, light, dark theme going on. That's so popular. What's it like? Shabby cheek or something? Yeah. So anyways, that's what's going on in here. Thank you for doing that. I was uploading a video finally doing what I should be doing. And me and Dean are going to go back up on the roof and we're going to play with some solar. We're going to get that hooked up. I want to tell you about what I have here. What do you have? This is master flame class A flame retardant. But you can't put out anything this flaming. Steve, where did you get that shirt? This crazy dude in Denver was like handing these things out to anybody who was around. Luckily, he only had one shirt and I was there. That's right. Some of you guys were like, oh, you should buy him dinner. Or you should buy him, you know, thank you. How do you thank him? I got him the shirt. I bought him dinner. And that's just my token of appreciation right there. I bought him dinner. He bought me dinner. I bought him dinner. It was a thing. So have you ever hooked up? Ever hooked up all of your plumbing except for the faucet? And you turned the water on to check for leaks. And all of a sudden you go, whoosh. I washed the inside of my bus today. I had something interesting or funny to say, but these guys are interesting and funny enough. I can't feel my toes. You know, why are we bringing so many other people here? I can't. See what I'm saying? He deserves to be here. And he also has carpentry skills. Oh my God. We have yet another person showing up to help finish the bus here. I'm going to go get a crimper and then I'll be back. Do you need my credit card? Oh my God. The Squatterville sign is back, guys. That's with Squatterville candidates, now Squatterville, Arizona.