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No recaps on Friday, but AJ is back! He’s in town to graduate with some nerdy shit so we dragged him in to the studio at 6am!

STEAM Box and Arise youth sit down with "Tacos," a passionate STEM educator and former contestant on LEGO Masters Season 3. Tacos shares her journey from studying architecture to utilizing LEGO and other hands-on materials to teach structural integrity and problem-solving to students. She opens up about the realities of being a woman in highly competitive STEM fields, offering vital advice to young women on remaining tenacious and assertive. The conversation also dives deep into navigating imposter syndrome on national television, managing the intense pressure of reality TV, and maintaining mental wellness. Tacos even reveals how a LEGO building technique known as "greebling" helps soothe her anxiety. Plus, expect plenty of fun-filled banter about favorite LEGO sets, video games, and what it's really like to hang out with Will Arnett on set.#STEMEducation #WomenInSTEAM #LEGOMasters #MentalWellness #SteamboxPodcast #HandsOnLearning #EngineeringCareers #ImposterSyndrome #JoyfulRebellion #GirlsInSTEAM

For a limited time, Latent Spacenauts can skip the waitline to join Dreamer and also compete for a $10,000 cash prize for most useful tools for Dreamer! Thanks @dps!In 2024, David Singleton left Stripe and joined forces with Hugo Barra for a buzzy stealth startup named /dev/agents. This month they emerged out as Dreamer, a consumer-first platform to discover, build, and use AI agents and agentic apps, centered on a personal “Sidekick” that helps users customize experiences via natural language. Sidekick is nothing less than an “agent that builds agents”, with all the complexity that that entails:You've seen many many website builder, app builder, and even agent builder startups by now, but our favorite detail is the sheer amount of work that has gone into the “full stack” nature of the platform, including shipping their own SDK, logging, database, prompt management, serverless functions, and so on. Most platforms restrict the tech stack you can use just to get off the ground — Dreamer does it “right” by letting you push whatever arbitrary code you want to their VMs.Paying the BuildersOf course former leaders of Stripe and Android would not stop at just building the tools, but also building the ecosystem. Dreamer is deeply aware of the 4 sided network effect it has going on and is ready to fund all of it - from hiring Builders in Residence to awarding $10,000 cash prizes to the best tool builders for the Dreamer ecosystem.It's time to Dream!Full Video Episodeon youtube.Transcript[00:00:00] Meet Dreamer Purple[00:00:00] swyx: Okay, we're here in the studio with David Singleton. Welcome.[00:00:08] David Singleton: Hey, Wix. It's great to be here.[00:00:09] swyx: It's great to have you. Uh, we have very sympa that your company color is the same as Lean Spaces color.[00:00:15] David Singleton: That's right. Dreamer Purple.[00:00:17] swyx: It used to be Devrel agents, which I thought was very cool. It's like you call back to Devrel Payments.[00:00:22] David Singleton: Yeah.[00:00:22] swyx: And you were obviously CTO Stripe. And talk to me about just the origin or thinking process behind Dreamer. Yeah. And maybe, maybe start with like, what, what is Dreamer?[00:00:31] David Singleton: Yeah.[00:00:31] What Is Dreamer[00:00:31] David Singleton: So Dreamer is a new product, uh, which everyone can come and play with today. Um, it's a place where everyone, literally, everyone can discover, build, and enjoy and use AI agents and agenda apps.[00:00:45] And we really did design it for consumers, for folks who are not necessarily. Uh, have any kind of technical background. It's really aimed at everyone. I think often of my sister, she's very smart. She's not in the slightest bit technical. She has lots of problems in her life that [00:01:00] she would like to be able to have great software and intelligent software to solve.[00:01:04] But you know, even with the rise of tools like Cloud Code and so forth, she's got no way to get started. And Dreamer is a place where she can come in, grab some intelligent apps that other people in the community have built, start using them right away, and solve real problems in her life.[00:01:19] Sidekick And Waitlist[00:01:19] David Singleton: And at the core, we have a personal agent called the Sidekick.[00:01:24] Um, you can give your sidekick a name, you can give it its own personality, and it really helps you across your entire day, your life. It helps you use all of the agents on the platform, and it also helps you build anything you want. And we've been working in this for a little while. We recently launched in beta.[00:01:41] So anyone can go to dreamer.com, join the wait list. Um, and we have many, many, many people in the community now who are building really fun, really powerful, really useful. Agents and the agentic apps for themselves.[00:01:54] swyx: I think we're gonna go right into a demo. Yeah. I just wanna make an observation that, uh, you, you, [00:02:00] you put discover first before build.[00:02:02] Mm-hmm. But actually, at least for the engineers in the audience. ‘cause we are primarily engineers and you're primarily targeting consumers, right?[00:02:08] David Singleton: Yeah.[00:02:08] swyx: For engineers. Like, there's a huge full stack of stuff, which we're gonna dive into. Let's write. It's so impressive. I'm like, holy s**t, this, this is what I've always wanted.[00:02:16] Cool. Uh, so, so I think that's really good and I've, in some ways, I think given your background given, uh, Hugo's, is it Hugo? Hugo.[00:02:24] David Singleton: Hugo. Hugo Bar. Yeah.[00:02:25] swyx: Hugo, it's not surprising that you can basically kind of build an app store Yeah. For agents.[00:02:30] David Singleton: Yeah. So Hugo was my co-founder. Yeah. Um, Hugo and I met with our other co-founder Nicholas Checkoff in the very early days of Android at Google, where we were building Google's first mobile apps.[00:02:41] Uh, we then contributed to very core pieces of Android itself. And you're right, we were really excited about building two things. One, solving a bunch of problems. That this breakthrough technology here I'm talking about mobile needed to have solved in order to make it work for real people at scale. And then secondly, building this ecosystem, um, [00:03:00] of third party developers using the Play Store, um, and able to deliver way more value on the platform than we could have delivered on our own.[00:03:08] And we think about Dreamer in exactly the same way. So I was working at Stripe, as you mentioned, and we had the opportunity to put some of the very first AI agent systems in the world into production. And from the moment we did the first of those, I was just struck with a strong sense of conviction that this is breakthrough technology that's gonna change how all of us work with computers and phones and so forth, all of the, the technology in our lives, but.[00:03:34] There's a lot of problems to be solved, for real people to be able to make this approachable. Um, and it really is kind of a direct analog for what we were solving back in the early days of mobile apps at Google and, and Android. So it's, it's been fun to bring that to life.[00:03:47] swyx: Yeah. Uh, let's look at it.[00:03:48] David Singleton: Yeah, let's take a look.[00:03:49] Dashboard And Daily Briefing[00:03:49] David Singleton: So, uh, dreamer.com, this is our homepage. This is where you can come and, uh, watch some videos about what is here and sign up for the wait list. Once[00:03:57] swyx: you, I, I just wanna say for those listening, ‘cause we have a lot, you [00:04:00] know, switch to YouTube, look at the animations. So much care.[00:04:03] David Singleton: We, we really care about, uh, this product being fun.[00:04:07] Uh, and, and interesting to use. Obviously a lot of people are using it to do real important stuff. You can do real work, uh, here, uh, but also you can build fun things too. Once you get off of our wait list, you'll come into the product. The first thing that happens is you'll have a conversation with your side cake, which is this little friendly, uh, character here.[00:04:27] And psychic will seek to get to know you and understand you. What do you care about? And will help you discover and build your first AI agents or agentic apps. After that, you're, you're gonna have a dashboard. This is my dashboard. Everyone's is different. Um, you can see I have a few things here. I have a feed.[00:04:42] So a lot of our agents do things in the background when you're not looking and the feed is how they let you know what they've been up to. I have, uh, some widgets, uh, from apps that I have built. Uh, this one is called Calendar Hero. Uh, this is something that I installed from the gallery. Uh, so built by someone in our community.[00:04:59] It's a [00:05:00] really powerful calendar app because for each of my meetings, if it's with someone I don't already know, well it'll actually go off and research it, um, and give me both a history of my interactions with those people and also a bunch of, you know, public useful information to, to get started. One of the things I love about this particular app is that every day it generates a podcast, um, a daily briefing.[00:05:24] And one of the things that we've done with the platform is we've made it possible for all the things that agents do to show up in places that you care about. So if you look over here, this is the screen in my phone, and if I go ahead and open my Apple Podcasts, you can see right here. Your Daily briefing podcast is ready.[00:05:39] This was produced by an agent running in my Dreamer account, and it was very easy by scanning a QR code to connect it to my Apple podcast. That's what I listened to in the car now every morning. Yeah. On my way to work.[00:05:50] swyx: It, it[00:05:50] David Singleton: preps me for, for my day.[00:05:52] swyx: So one additional bit of context. I asked you immediately after seeing this was like, what, what about, I wanna talk back to my agent and you said you actually started with voice and then you went to [00:06:00] podcasts.[00:06:00] ‘cause it's nice to have it pre downloaded[00:06:02] David Singleton: that, right? That's right. Um, yeah, we, you, you can talk to your sidekick. So, you know, on mobile we have, uh, a dreamer app and you can talk to the sidekick right here. Um, but we've actually found that making things, uh, show up in the other apps that you already use in your life is incredibly powerful.[00:06:19] So let's take a look at what's kind of under the hood here.[00:06:21] Gallery Tools And Payouts[00:06:21] David Singleton: So I already mentioned that we have a gallery, so this is where you'll find a lot of agents from our community. Uh, there's. Many at this point, hundreds. And they are solving all kinds of, uh, use cases. I'd say the the top use cases are on personal productivity, but also a lot of information management that can range from personal information like docs and so forth, managing your emails.[00:06:42] It also ranges out to public information that you might be interested in, but you need something to help manage the, the kind of fire hose of stuff that's coming at you. For instance, I have, um, an agent which looks at all the AI news, um, all the time. There's a lot of it and it finds the stuff that I would actually be [00:07:00] interested in, um, and I find it incredibly useful.[00:07:03] So these are agents that you can install that other people have built. Anything that you install on Dreamer, you can actually just say, I wanna start making some changes, and we'll look at that in a second. But in natural language, with the sidekicks help, you can change any of these experiences to work just the way you want them.[00:07:18] But the base layer of the system are tools. So you know, as well as anyone swyx, that any AI system is only as good as the quality of data that it can pull in and the quality of action it can take. So before we launched our beta, we worked very hard to make sure that we seeded our tools with a bunch of very high quality and powerful integrations.[00:07:39] So, you know, for instance, this is real Google search, this is actual Gmail. Um, and you can do very useful things with those. But also this is a platform for everyone. And as we got started talking to people in our alpha community, a whole bunch of sports use cases popped out and we realized if you want to build something cool for sports with ai, you need really high quality live data.[00:07:58] So look at these [00:08:00] Formula one M-L-B-N-F-L, uh, these are tools, uh, that we've built. We've done a, these are not data scraped off the web. This is a, a direct data feed integration. And because it's live and ‘cause it's high quality, you can build really powerful stuff. But tools is not something that we are just going to kind of control ourselves.[00:08:19] The platform is open for tool Builders to contribute tools that anyone on Dreamer can use. So, um, this is actually the place in the platform where I think software engineers, um, well number one, would love for you to come and play with it. Uh, but software engineers are really gonna build, um, a lot of powerful stuff into the system.[00:08:38] And we are actually sharing something for the first time on this podcast, which there is, uh, tool builders on Dreamer get paid. So if you publish a tool to the platform and a lot of agents use it, you'll actually get paid, uh, in proportion to their usage. And we'd love for folks to come and give this a try.[00:08:54] We've got good docs that help you get started and you can build things that, you know, scratch your own itch. For instance, someone built this [00:09:00] Ski Bum tool, which provides live snow conditions for a bunch of, uh, ski resorts. I'd love to show you how I've used that in a second. And also we have some tools, partners where the tools themselves are paper use.[00:09:12] So for instance, parallel web systems is a premium tool. Uh, you can do really cool stuff with it. Um, it's a a, an agentic web research tool. And that one, because it's expensive to operate, is paid on a, on a per usage basis. But if you're coming in to build agents on the platform, even the premium tools, you get a free trial.[00:09:29] So you get a chance to actually try them out, make sure that the use case is good for you before you decide to, to to sign up. So that's tools. So we have the gallery, we have tools, and then the sidekick helps us put all of this together to build agents. We do that in the agents studio. You can also do this on your phone, but if I open up Agent Studio here on Desktop psychic's, just gonna start a conversation about what you want to build together.[00:09:51] I'd love to show you one that I made recently.[00:09:53] swyx: Let's do[00:09:53] David Singleton: it.[00:09:53] Building A Conference App[00:09:53] David Singleton: Um, let's look at something that hopefully is kind of near and dear to your heart. So one of the things I love about Dreamer and this kind of moment in technology is that if you think about it. There are all these things in your life where, have you ever gone to a conference?[00:10:09] I know you have. Right? And, uh, big conferences have apps. Um, and these apps are usually built by agencies and they're, they're usually actually quite expensive to build. I've been involved in running some of these myself. And how many conferences have you been to where the app was good? Zero. Honestly.[00:10:23] swyx: Exactly. Zero,[00:10:24] David Singleton: maybe one. I, I've, I've been to one conference. That was pretty good. Wait, wait session sessions. Um, but, but the point is, they're rarely great pieces of software. Right. And they're also expensive to build, but they're, they're interesting ‘cause they're episodic, they last for this one thing. Um, and then they're, they're not relevant anymore.[00:10:43] Um,[00:10:43] swyx: and so it's the worst feeling to invest in them because, you know, it's like, it's got a limited. Date?[00:10:48] David Singleton: Absolutely. So I decided to build, uh, a conference app for your AI engineer conference. Amazing. Uh, on Dreamer. One of the things that Swix has done, uh, which I [00:11:00] thought was very forward-looking, is actually put a whole bunch of data about the conference on the webpage in an LLM readable way.[00:11:06] There's an LLMs txt file, there's a feed of all of the sessions in js, ON. So I used the data from your conference last year and built this intelligent app, uh, just by talking to our sidekick, uh, in Dreamer. So just to give you a quick tour, this is my Dream Conference app. What I always wanna do for conferences is I wanna be able to search for speakers.[00:11:28] I'm usually there because, uh, there, uh, is a speaker I care about. So, you know, SWIX, you're the speaker I care about. I can actually see here who you're on stage with. So here's, here's Greg Brockman. You've read even ai, uh, and this is his session. And look Greg and Swix for the speaker. So let's add that to my schedule.[00:11:45] Great. And then maybe there's a couple others I might see here. Like on day two, I remember there were some keynotes. So, uh, building the open agenda web, that sounds fun. So I add that to my schedule.[00:11:55] swyx: She's now CEO of Xbox.[00:11:56] David Singleton: Awesome.[00:11:57] swyx: Which is interesting. So cool. So,[00:11:59] David Singleton: so I've [00:12:00] gone through and picked out a couple of sessions that I cared about.[00:12:03] That's as far as I usually get with any conference app. But of course you've got the whole of the rest of the conference to figure out what to do. So here is where the native intelligence of, of these things you build on Dreamer can come in. So I'm gonna click guide me. So Dreamers sidekick actually parsed out the whole schedule and figured out what some of the themes are and I can choose what I'm interested in here.[00:12:23] I'm definitely interested in agents. Uh, I'm definitely interested in code generation and also reasoning in rl. So now I'm gonna say build my schedule. So what this is doing is. It's going across every time slot for the conference. And it's choosing among the things I could go to, which one it thinks is best for me based on my interests.[00:12:41] It also uses its own memory of me that's part of Dreamer, uh, to understand what I might like best. And you know, there's an LLM prompt running for each one of these time slots. So this is, it's not super fast, but it'll be done in about 30 or 40 seconds. And I'm gonna have a special custom schedule for the conference.[00:12:57] This, like I said, is my [00:13:00] dream conference app is exactly what I've always wanted and I was able to build this yesterday morning. Um, I did it between some meetings. I think I spent a total of 25 minutes of wall clock time on it. I did it over the course of a couple of hours. And, uh, here is my schedule for the conference.[00:13:15] I can see it in a calendar view. This is what I should do on Tuesday, this is what I should do on Wednesday. Oof, no conflicts, but, you know, I may not go to every single thing. And there you have it built in, you know, dreamer. So let's take a look at what the building experience actually looks like. So this is the, the actual account that I made it on.[00:13:32] Oh, of course I should say anything you build on Dreamer also works on your phone. So, uh, here is my AI engineer conference app right here on my phone. Got all the same functionality, and of course this is the best place to jump into my schedule.[00:13:46] swyx: Yeah.[00:13:46] David Singleton: Um,[00:13:46] swyx: so you could generate a podcast about it just completely multimodal, absolute thing, right?[00:13:51] To me, I mean, this is why I outsource, I mean, well, I, I posted the L-M-T-X-T, the JSON because you cannot run an engineer conference in 2025 [00:14:00] and not let engineers. Do whatever they want.[00:14:02] David Singleton: Yeah.[00:14:03] swyx: And since all conference apps suck, I'm just gonna put up a ba minimum viable app and just let people do whatever they want.[00:14:09] David Singleton: Totally. And the cool thing about this on Bremer is I published this to the gallery and you can use it so you've got one that's built to my taste of conference apps. I think it's pretty cool. But you might want something different. Yeah. In which case you just start telling the sidekick how to change it.[00:14:23] So let's just very quickly look[00:14:24] swyx: at our, what sports grid is also, you can fork it, right? That I can publish. That's right. I can publish your one and go, this is the base starter. It's, it's got good defaults, but go customize, whatever.[00:14:32] David Singleton: That's right. That's right.[00:14:33] swyx: Yeah.[00:14:33] Agent Studio Under The Hood[00:14:33] David Singleton: So let's take a look at how I actually built this.[00:14:34] This is real. So I'm gonna say make changes. This experience we're looking at now is our, uh, agent development studio. Um, like I said, you can do this on your phone as well. And in fact, this one I started out on desktop. Let's look at my actual prompts. I said, let's make an agent called AI Engineer Schedule Planner should be a custom schedule planner for the AI engineer conference.[00:14:53] I'm not gonna read this all up. You get, you get the point and it told it where to get the data from. So that was the first prompt. And actually after I gave it that [00:15:00] prompt, I actually had a simple version of this app working, um, after the sidekick took one turn. So the Sidekick is a, like a professional software engineer, and we've worked very hard to make this work and build functional apps for folks that might not have any engineering experience whatsoever.[00:15:14] So, you know, done here we have build logs that are technical, but you can hide those away. And sidekick, as it is building, will actually translate everything that is coming out of, uh, of the, the harness into English that you can actually read. And by the way, this English is in the personality of your sidekick, which is fun.[00:15:32] Um. And the way that we build agents and agent apps, it's a little different to what you might have seen in some other platforms for a couple of reasons. One, just the build process. The very first thing that Sidekick does, it understands all the agents you've got set up. It understands all the tools and it will come up with a plan for how to realize your goal, how to make sure it actually has the data and the capabilities to complete it.[00:15:54] It will occasionally refuse. If it can't do what you're asking, it will tell you I can't do that. It needs another tool. And that's a good [00:16:00] jumping off point for any of the tool builders out there to build a new tool. So it'll fi first figure out how, then it will build it, and then it will actually test it.[00:16:07] So it will actually make sure that the thing that it has generated is realizing your goal. And you probably know as well as anybody that anytime you can get any. Modern state-of-the-art coding model into a loop where it can make changes and perceive its own output and then fix bugs. Magic happens. So these builds, the first build will often take 10 to 15 minutes on Dreamer, which is a little bit longer than you might've seen on some other platforms.[00:16:31] But the first thing that it creates will work most of the time. And then of course, as you start making smaller changes, you can like ask it to tweak the UI in any way that you like. Those are much faster. And just to give you a sense, uh, for this one, here's something I asked. Put a logo, I gave it a logo file in static files.[00:16:48] Use that as the title. So for folks that actually really want to dig, uh, into a bit more detail, we've provided a powerful IDE here. So I can actually see here's the code that was generated and some pieces of the [00:17:00] code are more accessible than others, like the prompts. So this is the prompt that's used by a powerful LLM in order to do that schedule picking.[00:17:08] And I can actually read it here directly. I can edit it without having to ask the sidekick if I want to do that.[00:17:12] swyx: So this is very nice.[00:17:13] David Singleton: This is for the more, the more, uh, sophisticated users.[00:17:16] swyx: Yeah. This is other people's entire startup is prop management.[00:17:21] David Singleton: This is true. The other thing that is different about Dreamer is once you've built something here, it's ready to go.[00:17:28] We host it. So you don't have to worry about getting a database from a database provider signing up, getting API keys. You don't have to worry about your LLM provider tokens. All of that is hosted on the platform. And you can use it yourself. You can share it to the gallery for other people to, to riff on it.[00:17:46] You can also share it with your friends and coworkers to use your instance of the agent or agentic app. And we're seeing that happen a lot in our community. We've seen a whole bunch of folks who built little applications for their personal life [00:18:00] and shared them with their significant other. We've seen people who are building little productivity apps for their team at work and sharing it, uh, among them.[00:18:07] And we actually do this a lot inside of the company. So at this point we, we pretty much run the company on Dreamer agents for all kinds of important things. Uh, maybe a good example of that is, um, our wait list. People are signing up every time someone signs up for our wait list. A dreamer agent will actually research, uh, that person.[00:18:25] And we're looking for folks who are builders, not super technical to build agents and come in, uh, and give us a lot of feedback and we're prioritized bringing those people off of the wait list First,[00:18:35] swyx: just a quick question on that one is there's, it may not come up again. Do you find enrichment APIs to be useful like the ZoomInfo?[00:18:42] Uh, clear bit[00:18:43] David Singleton: enrichment is a very, uh, common use case. Um, on dreamer. Any application on Dreamer can kick off a sub-agent to do a particular task. Um, so this actually is a powerful agentic harness that runs inside of its own [00:19:00] vm. Uh, we call them sidekick tasks ‘cause they actually run in the context of the sidekick.[00:19:04] I'll talk more about Sidekick in a second and. Enrichment is a very common use case. And the cool thing about a sidekick task is that it has access to all the tools on the platform, but also public data as well. And so very frequently enrichment on our platform happens using public data that it can be found in the web.[00:19:24] There are some tools for getting people data, uh, from, uh, from various bespoke systems. And so that works pretty well. But actually, you'd be surprised. I mean, we would love if someone out there would like to build a ZoomInfo tool, we don't have one today. We'd love to see that on the platform, and I'm sure it'll be very powerful.[00:19:39] But we're also seeing that this powerful agent harness can pull a lot of data in on that note of tools that make experiences better, we're constantly adding more tools because people in the community are building them and publishing them. We review the tools carefully and then they go live for everybody.[00:19:54] Yesterday we added granola. And that was pretty cool. So I was talking to actually, uh, Sarah on my team was [00:20:00] talking to, uh, someone building on the platform this morning and they actually, they have an agentic app that they built, which is a kind of magic to-do list. So they put stuff on their to-do list and for each thing it kicks off one of these, uh, sidekick tasks to figure out how to move the ball forward thing.[00:20:14] Sometimes it'll complete it[00:20:15] swyx: entirely. Yeah.[00:20:16] David Singleton: Often by calling another agent on the platform and sometimes it just kind of researches it and helps ‘em take the first step.[00:20:21] swyx: Yeah. Do you know, this is Sam Altman's number one, ask for an AI app. It's the self-completing to-do list.[00:20:26] David Singleton: Yeah. The self-completing to-do list is something that a lot of people have built on Dreamer and are getting a lot of use out of.[00:20:32] Yeah. And, and finding it actually genuinely I shouldn't, I should, I should try that. Mm-hmm. Please do. And you'll even find some in the gallery that you can remix. So he was saying this morning that he's, he built this self completing to-do list, uh, on Dreamer already. But he connected the granola tool yesterday and now something really magical happens, which is when he says in meetings that he's gonna do a thing, it magically shows up on his to-do list and then it can magically get completed.[00:20:56] And then, as I mentioned, all the agents, all the [00:21:00] apps on Dreamer can actually work together. So our coding agent, as it builds them, does something very special where it exposes the internals of each of the experiences to the system. And then Sidekick can manipulate those to get stuff done. So he has built another agent, which he uses for recruiting.[00:21:18] It kind of keeps track of candidates and also it's got a kinda mini CRM function, so he's able to introduce candidates to each other. He told us this morning that something he'd committed to do in a meeting that was recorded on granola yesterday showed up in his magic to-do list and his magic to-do list.[00:21:34] It was like introduce a person for recruiting, used his recruiting agent to get it done.[00:21:39] swyx: Ah,[00:21:39] David Singleton: um, and this is, this is the dream. This is why we started the company. It really is the case that you can build and use these very powerful, bespoke experiences that can automate your life by working together. And I'd love to talk a little bit about how they work together.[00:21:55] Ecosystem Trust And Monetization[00:21:55] David Singleton: So obviously it's really cool to have [00:22:00] software that will work on your behalf, but it's only useful if you can trust it, right? So privacy and security is very important to us making these things accessible and. While also being trustworthy is hard. So the model that we have, which is working very well, is that the sidekick is at the core of everything here.[00:22:22] So it is both your companion, your helper, but it's also the traffic cup in the system. So when, when one agent wants to work with another agent and dreamer, it doesn't do it directly, it does it via the sidekick, well ask the sidekick to do the thing. And the sidekick understands both everything, all the expectations that have been set with me as a user about what agents can do, which tools I've given them permission to use.[00:22:45] And it will make sure that whatever is is going on is actually aligned with my own interests. And you know, that's part of the background that I bring to this problem domain. I've. Worked for years, uh, keeping very important information, safe and secure. And [00:23:00] so as we started to think about this problem, we realized that we actually had to build something that's a bit like an operating system.[00:23:06] You know, the sidekicks, like the kernel, the agents and apps are like users. Yeah. Different rings. Exactly. Because if you try to pick off just one piece of this, you can't actually make it work for people at scale. Uh, because you could build little vibe coded apps, but they're gonna grab all your data willy-nilly.[00:23:23] They won't be able to work together. You actually have to invest in the fundamental core in order to make it work well for people. And that's what we've been doing and it's, uh, it's been a lot of fun. One other thing I wanted to mention is, um, I've obviously talked about two things, tools and agentic apps.[00:23:42] We really designed Dreamer to be an ecosystem and a platform, and one of my favorite quotes about platforms, I think it's from Bill Gates, is that you can only be a platform. If you create more value for the folks participating and using the platform than, than the platform itself creates. [00:24:00] And that's our goal here.[00:24:01] So we at every step have been thinking about how do we make sure that other people are deriving even more value from Dreamer than we are? So in that vein, I already mentioned tool builders get paid and people can build agents that solve their needs and share them with others, and we are already thinking about ways that they can actually monetize those as well.[00:24:24] Against that backdrop, one of the things that we are launching today is our Builders in Residence program. So there are tons of people building really cool stuff and contributing it to the gallery already, but we've been really inspired by programs we've seen at other companies where artists might be in residence, people that are very creative.[00:24:43] And might have ideas outside of what the, the folks at the company or in the ecosystem already have. And so we are looking for creative people who have fun ideas and, you know, want to really figure out how to apply their creativity at the cutting edge [00:25:00] of technology today to come and work with us. So, uh, if you go to dreamer.com/latent space, you'll find, ooh, well, we love Latent space.[00:25:09] Uh, you'll find a link both to, uh, our tool Builder information and our builder in residence program. And for builders and residents, we'll let you in off the wait list quickly, build an agent, and then for a small number of, of the most creative folks, we're going to pay you to build agents. Uh, you can work directly with our team.[00:25:29] You know, this is like building Legos. So, you know, we've got some of the basic blocks together already, but if you need a Ron steering wheel and we don't have one already, like we'll build it for you. Yeah. Um, we really want to be inspired by, by these, uh, these builders in residence.[00:25:43] swyx: This Legos thing is pretty common as an analogy.[00:25:46] And there's a, there's a thing I call the master builder. Uh, we, the actual Lego company has master builders that they employ Yeah. To inspire people and post on socials.[00:25:56] David Singleton: That is exactly what inspired us as well. Honestly, we talked about the Lego Master [00:26:00] Builder program, so that's our builder in residence program.[00:26:02] swyx: Yeah.[00:26:03] David Singleton: Um, and then, uh, finally back on, on tools. Like I said, anyone can come in and build tools today. If you follow the latent space link dreamer.com/latent space, again, we'll get you off. Directly off the wait list. So you can build right away, you can monetize by publishing onto the platform. That's for everyone, the very best tool that gets added to the platform by mid-April.[00:26:23] Uh, we have a $10,000 prize that we want to give out really, because we just want to seed the creativity of everyone out there. So we're excited to do that.[00:26:31] swyx: Yeah. And you know, uh, this is completely a flywheel, right? Like the more tools, the more builders, the more the third thing agents, you know, it just feeds into each other.[00:26:39] David Singleton: That's right.[00:26:39] swyx: Yeah. Just on the payments thing, because we probably won't touch on that again, but I have to ask the former CTO Stripe on payments as presumably you're using Stripe Connect.[00:26:48] David Singleton: Yeah.[00:26:48] swyx: Um. Any pain points that you're, people are very interested in agent commerce and micropayment and all these things.[00:26:55] Presumably stable coins get into a conversation at some point, but maybe not now.[00:26:58] David Singleton: Yeah, we are [00:27:00] really, really excited about e agent commerce. The first step we are taking is help people in the world who have never been able to build these kind of experiences and software before to build stuff that meets their passions, share it with the world and get paid.[00:27:14] So that's all commerce that happens on our platform, and so we don't need anything new to facilitate that. Stripe Connect has existed for quite a while and is the perfect solution for this kind of stuff, so, um, we we're excited about that. First and foremost, however. A lot of the things that people are already doing on Dreamer, we just talked about a self-completing to-do list.[00:27:34] A lot of the ways that you want to complete to-dos is by actually closing the loop in the real world, and that's going to involve the exchange of value. So we have some folks that are building tools already that actually do have money move in order to, to complete that, that loop. So far, we just want to be open and agnostic to all the protocols out there.[00:27:54] I honestly think this moment in time is a little bit like the early web. So I personally started coding as a kid [00:28:00] and I think I got access to the internet in about 19 95, 19 96. And back then, uh, the web existed, you know, HTTP was a protocol, but there were also other protocols I was using all the time, like Gopher and UUCP and uh, various others.[00:28:15] So the point is like the web, HTTP and HTML. Was just one among many protocols. And of course it became the winner and it's awesome. Yeah. Um, but the others were also kind of interesting and viable at the time as well. And I think the world of agentic commerce is like this right now. Also,[00:28:30] swyx: acp.[00:28:31] David Singleton: Acp, exactly.[00:28:32] All the, all the cps, you know, on Dreamer. We hope that folks will build tools that kinda make use of all of these things, but I'm sure that at a certain point. One or two will emerge as the winners, and then we'll be able to build like really deep support in,[00:28:44] swyx: yeah. This is like maybe a complete tangent, but I do think about how a lot of these companies in AI companies in particular have to switch from c based to usage based because of course, but then, then they end up, end up having to sort of [00:29:00] obscure the margins a little bit and then they inventing end up inventing their equivalent of rob robots.[00:29:04] David Singleton: Mm-hmm.[00:29:04] swyx: Uh, where they're like, well, okay, well every company should have their own currency. And it's, it's like very short lead to a token.[00:29:11] David Singleton: Yeah.[00:29:11] swyx: Or, and I'm like, okay, well where does this end? I can't really play out the next step as to like, is this chaos? Is this,[00:29:18] David Singleton: yeah.[00:29:18] swyx: Okay.[00:29:18] David Singleton: Well, I think it is kind of like the wild west.[00:29:21] I don't mean that in a completely, it's all completely disorganized way, but there's just so many things that could happen from here. The Overton window is very wide, right? Not far how this might land. And I'm just very excited to be building a platform that can take advantage of all of those opportunities and we're just gonna be there.[00:29:36] Uh, working for our users to make sure that things that emerge work,[00:29:39] swyx: you're gonna own the consumers, you're gonna be up the OS for the app store for everything.[00:29:43] David Singleton: So one of the ways to think about this is, um, dreamer actually uses all of the state-of-the-art models as a user. You don't have to think about should I be using, you know, Opus four six, or should I be using the five four model from [00:30:00] OpenAI?[00:30:00] We are continually doing evals and so forth to make sure that the best things are there for you. You can just build on the platform and know that as the world ships around, you're gonna get the right stuff for you. Um, and I think that's something that is needed to actually have folks take advantage of this technology at scale.[00:30:19] I'd love to show you another example of something I built.[00:30:21] swyx: Let's do it.[00:30:22] David Singleton: This is another example of software that just lasts for a certain moment in time. So recently I went on a ski trip with a bunch of friends,[00:30:31] ski[00:30:31] David Singleton: Bum. Uh, so it uses ski bum. Yes. I went on a ski trip to Big Sky. I'd never been there before.[00:30:38] And I made this little intelligent app for us. And you can see it says it's loading big sky conditions. So it's actually calling the Ski Bum tool that I just showed you, which is, uh, published in our, uh, in our gallery. So what is this? This is a little app that was just for our weekend trip. It shows the current status of all the lifts of Big Sky.[00:30:54] Using that tool from the ecosystem, it shows the forecast for the upcoming weekend. It shows our [00:31:00] accommodation. This is just like where my group was staying. This is just for us and also a bunch of dining information that one of our friends, uh, put together who, who's an expert on Big Sky. So I was able to take this app, share the link with my friends.[00:31:12] They weren't on Dreamer yet, just send it to them on iMessage and they get a version they can use on their phone. And of course, here's the real kicker. So I've been on ski trips before and other weekend adventures with my friends. Yeah, people pay for different things and at the end of the weekend it's always a pain to figure out who needs to pay, who to settle up.[00:31:29] So we use this during the weekend. We added all of our expenses in here. Uh, too close are it's drill data. It's only too closely. And then at the end of the trip, we press split. And we're, we settled up and we're done. So there's another dreamer. This was all through dreamer. So the, the actual payment? No, no.[00:31:47] We, it happened because, because we paid for stuff in the real world, it was like, okay, this person needs to pay that person 20 bucks. Right? Right. This person already paid in that. Right. So it just helped us all settle up. We didn't move the money on Dreamer. You could do that. And in fact, if you're a tool builder [00:32:00] thinking about this and getting excited, like come build a tool to do that stuff.[00:32:02] We really think of our tool builders as design partners.[00:32:05] swyx: Yeah. I got, I got the tool. Uh, what, like, I hate, I use Bank of America. I hate bank, I hate the app. Mm-hmm. I hate the web. All banking websites just horrible.[00:32:13] David Singleton: Yeah.[00:32:13] swyx: So just build me, like build a thing on top of Plaid.[00:32:15] David Singleton: Yeah. Right. And then just So[00:32:17] swyx: five code by banking app,[00:32:18] David Singleton: there's already a tool for that.[00:32:20] Oh. So, um, attain Finance is a tool, a builder in our community built. Okay. Um, and it uses a secure system like Plaid. To access your, uh, financial data and you can build powerful personal finance agents on Dreamer today using this tool. And like I said, we review tools carefully. So when bringing Attain Finance onto the platform, we did actually quite a detailed security review with that company to make sure that if folks build stuff with it, it's, it's gonna work well.[00:32:49] So yeah, check that out. I think, uh, I'm, I'm pretty certain it connects to Bank of America. So you'll be able to build the, the app that you wanted already?[00:32:55] swyx: Yeah. There's a couple of points I wanted to sort of dive in on, maybe highlight to folks, [00:33:00] because I, obviously, I spent more time with Dreamers. So we're making a point where you choose on behalf of your users because they're meant to be consumers.[00:33:07] So maybe less technical,[00:33:08] David Singleton: right?[00:33:08] swyx: But obviously people can, how users can override. If you read that's, but it's not just lms, it is also the, the transcription. It, it's like all, like there's, there's a first party curated set of here's the house opinion. That's right. On what?[00:33:21] David Singleton: That's[00:33:21] swyx: right. The thing is, that's right.[00:33:22] Is what's the list? Is there like,[00:33:24] David Singleton: yeah, so actually if you look in the tool gallery, the first party kind of curated set are all the ones that have these grayscale icons. So we have a built in tool for image understanding, for image generation, for RSS, exploration, text to speech and so forth.[00:33:38] swyx: Recipes.[00:33:39] David Singleton: Uh, we actually do have a built in recipes tool.[00:33:41] It turns out that a lot of people in our alpha wanted to do stuff for cooking. Yeah. Um, and you know, you can scrape the web to get good recipes, but we were able to quite quickly find a good repository of recipes. It works great here. Yeah.[00:33:55] Stable Tool Interfaces[00:33:55] David Singleton: So the point behind these though is that we'll keep the interfaces stable, so they'll always work.[00:34:00] But you know, the best translation model and, you know, there are people using this translation tool to translate Chinese podcasts into English. It's, it's pretty powerful. It can deal with very long text, but the best translation tool today might be different from the best translation tool sometime next year.[00:34:15] And we're just gonna make sure that that translation tool is always pretty close to state of the art. So you can build something and you know it's gonna continue to work well. Of course, some of our tools are branded. You may actually have a preferred way of buying groceries, like maybe you prefer Instacart and that's great.[00:34:29] You can use the Instacart tool specifically.[00:34:31] swyx: Yeah.[00:34:32] Partnerships And Ecosystem[00:34:32] swyx: Your partnerships, uh, I mean, I don't know if you ever hit of partnerships, but this is gonna be a bonanza for anyone on to do deals.[00:34:38] David Singleton: We have an amazing person who, uh, works on all of our partnerships. Um, and it's part of what you have to do to build a platform like this that's gonna work for people.[00:34:46] Like, we've gone and done that. Schlep has a lot of work, one talks lots of different companies, um, in order to make sure that you've got good tools at the core.[00:34:54] swyx: Yeah.[00:34:54] David Singleton: And then of course, because we're open to tool builders contributing to the platform, this is only gonna get better and better and [00:35:00] better.[00:35:00] swyx: Yeah.[00:35:01] Agent Lab Routing Layer[00:35:01] swyx: One observation I have this, this is gonna master a thesis I've been pursuing, which is, uh, what I've been calling an agent lab[00:35:05] David Singleton: mm-hmm.[00:35:06] swyx: Where you sort of different than a model lab in, in, in the sense that you never train your own models, but you are the router evaluation layer, ex subject domain expert for choosing between, uh, models.[00:35:18] David Singleton: Yeah.[00:35:18] swyx: And you're explicitly doing these things. And so like in my sort of construction, every agent lab does some version of this where like, here's the image understanding endpoint and we will route for you and don't worry about it. Yeah. Sally, I think it's kind of cool.[00:35:32] David Singleton: I, I think it makes total sense. Um, and again, to make this work for folks that don't follow the AI news every day, it's an actually, it's a, it's a really important thing to do.[00:35:42] Yeah. And it, it's been, it's been a real pleasure. I mean, I'm a, I'm personally a total geek for this stuff. I love it. And being able to go and dive into all those details in order to make it work well for other people. It's a true pleasure. I cannot imagine working at anything else right now. It's just so much fun.[00:35:56] swyx: The tricky part is multimodality when some of these things do [00:36:00] merge.[00:36:00] David Singleton: Mm-hmm.[00:36:01] swyx: And you are, you're sort of, this is your imposing structure on things that fundamentally don't want to be structured. And so sometimes that might work against you, but for 99% of these cases, this is fine.[00:36:10] David Singleton: Yeah. I mean, I think it's gonna be very interesting to see how the, the, the world matures because a lot of the power of dreamer is the ability to kick off these subagents, so these powerful agent harnesses, which can actually change how they work based on the data.[00:36:25] I actually think that we will be able to. Kind of keep up with and stay at the forefront of the changing landscape of how tools and systems work together. And that's, that's new. You know, software didn't used to work like this and now it does. Um, so even, even just figuring out how to design the right pri to make that possible has itself be a lot of fun.[00:36:44] Builders Can Publish Tools[00:36:44] swyx: This is, is a sort of maybe two part question that why can't streamer make its own tools? And then why don't you let you builders maybe stand up their own routing group? I call this a routing group, right? Like where it's like collect Yeah. Things.[00:36:58] David Singleton: So two things, to [00:37:00] some extent, dreamer does make its own tools in that agents appear to the system as tools.[00:37:05] So they can be, they can be used to accomplish things. So you can build an agent that is essentially a tool. Yeah. Um, and it it,[00:37:12] swyx: which is to me very useful for reuse.[00:37:14] David Singleton: Right.[00:37:14] swyx: Right. Exactly. ‘cause I, I like, this is the way I like it. Now my next five apps, I don't want to do this whole series of back and forth again.[00:37:20] David Singleton: Right.[00:37:21] swyx: Yeah.[00:37:21] David Singleton: Um. Then at the tool layer of the system, it's open to anyone. So it's actually quite powerful and flexible. So if you wanted to add a tool, which was, uh, imagine that you were training your own foundation model, Swyx. That might be fun. And imagine you wanted people to be able to play with, I don't know, maybe you make like, you know, nano chat or whatever and you want to Yeah.[00:37:42] Let people play with your own nano chat and see how I change themselves.[00:37:44] swyx: Now.[00:37:45] David Singleton: You could, you could publish a tool that is Nano Chat and it nano image generation behind a tool, and it could be your own writer if you wanted to. I see. And honestly, if that's the kind of thing that gets you excited as a builder, please come and do it.[00:37:57] Like we, we really are [00:38:00] believers in this idea that we aren't going to figure out every single detail ourselves. We're gonna make sure it's a safe and fun place to build this stuff, but we're really open to these ideas coming from other people. Um, and so I'd like nothing more than you come in and build a tool that does some of that cool stuff that you, that you have in mind.[00:38:15] swyx: Yeah. Awesome.[00:38:16] David Singleton: And just as a reminder, if you'd like to do that, the way to find the links is dreamer.com/latent space. Um, and for a limited time on that page, um, anyone who's listening to this podcast will also get directly off of our wait list. Uh, it's quite long right now. We are working hard to bring Zika.[00:38:32] Wait, so skip the wait list.[00:38:33] swyx: You know, I think, I think that's fantastic. I, I think it's, it is really sort of probuild way to do it. I wanted to jump back to the, the bar. Yeah. You know, you know, I get excited about this.[00:38:41] David Singleton: Yes. Okay. Let's set it back in there.[00:38:43] swyx: Like, let's, you know, this is the engineer podcast that's get[00:38:46] David Singleton: Yeah.[00:38:46] swyx: As technical as you can.[00:38:47] David Singleton: Yeah.[00:38:47] swyx: On everything you've built, like have a show off.[00:38:50] David Singleton: Yeah. Okay.[00:38:51] Under The Hood Debugging[00:38:51] David Singleton: So let's go wild in the aisles in the Asian studio. So as you can see, over on the left here is a conversation with the sidekick where you ask it what to do and it will explain in English that anyone can understand what's going on.[00:39:03] But, um, if you want to pull back the covers and look under the hood, um, if you're, uh, an engineer like me, then we have this, uh, this kind of debug drawer at the bottom. So you can see the full build logs here, but you can actually also dig in and see the files and prompts that have been generated. Uh, you can upload files from your computer in static files.[00:39:24] Um,[00:39:24] swyx: very important,[00:39:25] David Singleton: uh, indeed. You can actually read the prompts that have been generated for you. We intentionally put an example in here just that you can see what the format looks like. And then, you know, we already looked at this one that was generated for this particular, um, app, but if you actually want to bring the code out of Dreamer and work on your own local machine, you can.[00:39:45] So at the core of everything here is an SDK with a powerful command line interface and we built that first. It's actually possible to build agents on Dreamer without talking to the sidekick. You can write code with your fingers on a keyboard if you want to. I know that's very [00:40:00] antiquated, not, but actually this can be a lot of fun.[00:40:02] So if you wanna pull it out onto your laptop, you can use our, our CLI and, uh, you can edit it in cursor or in cloud code. You know, you don't have to use our sidekick. And the CLI actually has full access to the rest of the platform with you as the user. So, you know, obviously it is, uh, secure and privacy sensitive, and this is a way that, um, some of our most technical builders do build stuff on the platform.[00:40:24] The really cool thing is the side cake. When it's in coding mode, it uses exactly the same CLI. So the way it. Build stuff on Dreamer is using the same tools that you might as an engineer. Um, and that's actually a very powerful abstraction because it turns out that the right way to give a lot of context to agents to use CLIs is to write great documentation.[00:40:46] Make sure that all of the things that you could do are actually possible. And guess what? That makes it a delightful developer experience for real heroes as well.[00:40:53] swyx: Yeah. So that's pretty cool. We've been telling developers to do this and they ignore this until now they have to for content.[00:40:58] David Singleton: I, I've been saying this for a [00:41:00] long time.[00:41:00] Uh, we actually Stripe docs.[00:41:02] swyx: I mean, come on. Absolutely. Come on.[00:41:03] David Singleton: Absolutely. But actually, I was chatting with folks at Stripe last week and saying, Hey, you gotta make the Stripe CLI actually tell agents what they can do on Stripe because that way they're gonna use more stuff on Stripe. I think this is a real trend for the entire industry.[00:41:16] swyx: Yeah.[00:41:16] David Singleton: So we, we've been doing that.[00:41:17] swyx: To me, this, this download and, uh, GI push mm-hmm. Everything is complete confidence in that you're not hacking it. Right. Because there's other, let's call them AI builder platforms that impose their stack on you and if you, if you, and so therefore they don't allow you to do this because they cannot.[00:41:34] Right. ‘cause they, they impose some degrees of freedom, uh, restrictions so that they can get it to work. Yours is a fully general like VM running the full code. Correct. Do whatever you want. Correct. Any language you want. Correct. Yeah.[00:41:46] David Singleton: Correct. Well, in terms of language, if you use the SDK, you could build stuff in other languages.[00:41:51] We've actually found that TypeScript is the best language for building these experiences. Yes. Because it's strongly tight. So you find out at compile time if you've made mistakes [00:42:00] and there's nothing better than getting in. A coding agent in a loop where it can see its mistakes and ask them. So TypeScript is the language that everything gets built in by default here.[00:42:08] swyx: Did And did you see that TypeScript overtook Python? I did. I did. Yeah.[00:42:12] David Singleton: And for what it's worth, when we started the company, we started writing stuff in Python, and I love Python. Um, if I do, uh, a vendor code, I always write it in Python. It's my favorite language as a developer with my fingers on the keyboard.[00:42:23] Um, but TypeScript is an amazing language for AI because there's tons of training data in the models, um, and it's strongly tight. And actually at the company we built most of the stack in TypeScript, and we have this amazing property, which is, we have type safety all the way from the database to the front end.[00:42:40] And there's nothing better for working with coding agents than being able to have them check their correctness, compile time. So the same ideas behind building the company's code base, we've put into the agent SDK here as well.[00:42:51] swyx: Yeah. Do you know if you'd use one of those tools, like Prisma or whatever, or is it Tool Lab for you?[00:42:55] David Singleton: We, we actually have crafted most of our own tools. Um. For [00:43:00] instance, we had LLM Driven Code Review, uh, before the thing that got published from philanthropic this week. You know, we, we've been doing this stuff, uh, on our own bat[00:43:07] swyx: email, we'll pay $25 per review.[00:43:09] David Singleton: We, we pay a lot less than that. However, I hear that those reviews are excellent and possibly worth $25.[00:43:14] swyx: Yeah. You know, it's an option. Right. It's good, good to have it.[00:43:17] David Singleton: Just to give you a tour of some other stuff here. So, um, I can also see all the versions. Yeah. Um, this is not gi, this is not gi, this is built into dreamer. I can see all the versions that have been pushed before. Why is it[00:43:27] swyx: not gi?[00:43:28] David Singleton: It's not gi because we can make it work more efficiently than Git.[00:43:32] And we actually, we do some work behind the scenes to kind of understand what's in each of these versions. Yeah. Um,[00:43:37] swyx: so one of the things I'm pursuing, and I have a lot of thesis, right? Mm-hmm. One of the thesis is like, does GI go away? Does GitHub go away? And like, what, what is the active reinvent[00:43:46] David Singleton: you for, for what it's worth to some extent.[00:43:48] And anything you build, there's a lot of path dependency. If we started over, we might make this gi There's, uh, you know, within the company we use, uh. For our, you know, platform source code. And we like it and it [00:44:00] works well with coding agents as well. The very first versions of this, we wanted to be able to make it possible for the sidekick to manipulate it easily.[00:44:06] Um, and this, this was an expedient way to do it.[00:44:08] swyx: Yeah.[00:44:08] Workflows Logs And Databases[00:44:08] David Singleton: Um, you can also see all the activity that has happened in the workflows that you build. A lot of agents, you'll build on Dreamer, do things in the background, so they run on triggers. These are stimuli from the outside to kick them off, and this is a nice way to see all of the things that might have kicked off your agent.[00:44:24] You know, you can have an agent that kicks off on a webhook, so you can plug it into external systems. You can have an agent that runs when you receive certain emails that match filters, including LLM filters. And so here you can see, oh, when did it run? What did it do? You know, if I open up one of these guide me prompts or guide me, uh, events.[00:44:41] Oh my can see God. Well, I told you it was calling an LLM for every one of those time slots. Here's all of the LLM calls, here's the actual prompts.[00:44:49] swyx: And you don't mind exposing all of this, right?[00:44:51] David Singleton: No. We want builders to see what's going on under the hood. It's haiku to,[00:44:53] swyx: okay. Yeah. So,[00:44:54] David Singleton: okay. Right now that one was haiku.[00:44:56] Like I said, we work with all the models and sidekick will actually pick the best one [00:45:00] for the job. And you saw that was pretty high quality and pretty fast. So Haiku four five is the one that it picked for that job. Exactly. Uh, we also have logs, as I mentioned, there's a database spun up on demand for every, uh, agent.[00:45:12] You don't have to go and figure out how to do your own hosting. This is a SQL Light. This is a SQL Light database. Yeah. Um, it's a multi-user SQL light database. And then, uh, but, but each one is you, you get a database that is unique to this agent. But then if you share the agent with multiple people, we take care of like who are the owners in each row?[00:45:31] And all of that stuff is just there outta the box. Um,[00:45:34] swyx: and again, in-house?[00:45:35] David Singleton: In-house.[00:45:36] swyx: Oh my God.[00:45:37] David Singleton: Yeah. Um, well we do work with a bunch of infrastructure providers, but the technology for how to manipulate this is in-house. Fun fact. We actually did a lot of our own infrastructure development early on at the company and realized we need to spend our energy in the stuff that we're uniquely doing in the world.[00:45:53] So we're very delighted to partner with a bunch of great designer and some of this stuff. And then finally, um, I mentioned that agentic apps agents [00:46:00] expose all of their internals to the system so the psychic can manipulate them and use them just like a user can. So you can see how it's decided to break this problem up into functions.[00:46:09] Some of the functions, the ones with the little I here are exported. That means that there's probably the visible from outside. Exactly. And others are internal. And if you want to, you can dig right in here and call individual functions and see what happens. But mostly. You don't need to think about that at all.[00:46:24] Yeah. Uh, you can keep that little drawer closed and you can talk to your sidekick and build really powerful and enchanting experiences.[00:46:30] swyx: Yeah. I mean, to me, like showing this gives the engineer a complete mental model of what you've done and what you can do with it. Yeah. For example, the first thing I, I, I look for.[00:46:39] A mental checklist of things, right? Like is off in the database, off looks like it's not right. So that's a separate layer. That's probably me means it's hard to do multi-user apps on the same app, right?[00:46:50] David Singleton: So you actually, we've solved that. So, um, see, yes, the platform builds in off, so you as a user sign into the platform, if you're using an [00:47:00] agent that was published by someone else, then your identity is, is kind of taken care of by the system.[00:47:05] And when you query the database, you're gonna get the stuff that is for you. Unless the builder specifically said, this is public data that everyone should see. So they, they actually get a chance to think about that. And again, sidekick can guide you through building, uh, agents and apps that work that way.[00:47:19] So you're right, that's another thing that people have to think about when they're trying to figure out how to build software experiences on Dreamer. You, it's built in. You talk to the sidekick as if it were a human being about what you want and that's what you get. So, you know, my, my Big Sky app that I just showed you that was designed for multiple people to use it.[00:47:38] And of course the things that we were putting in as expenses were supposed to be visible to everybody, and I just told the sidekick that's the way I wanted it. Uh, but by default, if I built an app like that, the data from each user would not been visible to the others.[00:47:49] swyx: Yeah. Yeah. Uh, this is, I presume this is a mood question, but basically you've had to build your own coding agent, right?[00:47:55] Which is sidekick slash whatever is in Inside Psychic. Obviously there's a lot of [00:48:00] people with a lot of desire for cloud code and Code X and attachment to it. Mm-hmm. I know under the hood data basically reduced to a loop, but like, would you let people use cloud coding and Code X or is the harness too specialized?[00:48:12] David Singleton: Yeah. If you, if you want to use, um, cloud code and Code X, then you go down here. Yeah. Hit get the S St K. And we even say this right here, edits your heart's content Z cursor code.[00:48:22] swyx: Like people want to use it inside of Ick, right? Yeah. They want to switch the engine.[00:48:26] David Singleton: Yeah.[00:48:26] swyx: That's the coding engine.[00:48:27] David Singleton: Yeah. We are not doing that right now.[00:48:29] Um, you know, again, the goal really is abstract the complexity. Yeah. Um, because the real target for. Building agentic apps is folks who can't do this already today. I can't tell you how many users in our community I've spoken to who are like Dreamer has changed my life because I used to have all these ideas.[00:48:50] If only I could find an engineer to help me implement them, I'd be able to get them done. They're free, and now I can talk to my sidekick and, and get it built. I think that's like really how we think [00:49:00] about the people that should get a ton of value and fun, um, out of the platform. And so they're not asking to be able to plug in their their own, you know, coding agent.[00:49:11] And for those folks, the opportunity is massive. If you've never been able to do stuff in code, now you can build stuff for you, for your friends, for your family, for your coworkers. And also there's a huge opportunity for folks who do build stuff in code to actually contribute to this ecosystem. So that's how we think about it.[00:49:28] swyx: Yeah. Amazing.[00:49:28] Personalization And Memory[00:49:28] swyx: That's most of what I wanted to cover Dreamer wise. I think personalization and memory yeah. Is probably like the single most important job of, uh, of the os. Maybe we could talk about that and then I'll, I wanted to zoom out on company building stuff.[00:49:40] David Singleton: Yeah, yeah. Sounds good.[00:49:41] swyx: Yeah. So how do you handle memory?[00:49:43] What, yeah, what have you found? What have you tried and failed?[00:49:45] David Singleton: Yeah. Okay. So, uh, first of all, at the core of dreamer is the sidekick. The sidekick gets to know you and it builds up a memory about you over time, and that turns out to be very important. So Dreamer, that's

PS: We recommend WATCHING this episode! In this episode of Paddock 43, we're joined by LEGO Master and Ambassador Andrew to talk all things LEGO x FormulaWe chat about how LEGO's partnership with F1 came to life, what it's like being involved in such an iconic crossover, and we get hands-on building mini F1 cars during the episode (chaos included). Andrew also takes us inside one of LEGO's most iconic collector pieces, the Ferrari F2004, celebrating Michael Schumacher and one of the most dominant cars in F1 history. We also did a cheeky little competition, any guesses who won?As always, we couldn't resist a little paddock gossip, touching on the Kim Kardashian and Lewis Hamilton rumours and touching on the Cadillac livery and more guesses about the 2026 season.A fun, creative and slightly chaotic episode that blends F1, pop culture and LEGO magic.

When Lego artist Nathan Sawaya fell in love with the bricks as a kid, he never imagined it could lead to a successful career. Yet here he is, building massive and complex Lego sculptures for a living. The traveling exhibit featuring his works, which include a giant T. Rex, is coming to Schenectady in August. On this episode of “The Eagle,” Sawaya joins Arts & Entertainment Editor Rick Marshall to talk about the show, and some of the surreal experiences his work with Lego has made possible. Also on this episode, reporter Kelsey Brown talks about the major concerns New York farmers have about immigration crackdowns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's episode of “Da” Podcast, Steve is joined by Lego Master champion Corey Samuels as they talk all about Lego, recording Lego Masters on Fox, video games, wrestling, working with children and so much more! If you're looking for “Da” Podcast merchandise, and want to support the show directly, please visit http://tee.pub/lic/KrIMP441400 We have tees, hoodies, onesies, phone cases, pillows, mugs and more! If you're into wrestling collectables, autographs, comic books, action figures, sports cards and more, make sure to visit www.firstrow.ca and use promo code: DAPODCAST20 to receive 20% off! Looking for something new to read and also into video games? Please visit www.bossfightbooks.com for great books on classic video games! You can follow Steve on Instagram & Twitter @fingastylz and “Da” Podcast on Twitter @dapodcastdap Send your questions and comments to dapodcastdap@gmail.com Make sure to subscribe, rate, like, follow or review on ApplePodcasts, TuneIn, SoundCloud, Spotify and iHeartRadio! “Da” Podcast, bringing you the best conversations about the world of pro wrestling, comedy & nerd culture!

Lego Master contestant and professional Lego builder Randall Wilson joins Steed and Jrad as the first guest of season 2 of Chubstep to discuss everyone's favorite plastic building block. The guys discuss Randall's first build, replicating the Chicago Theatre, the karaoke to lego connection, the worst Lego brick out there, Will Arnett's voice, trying to build on TV vs on your own, Steed's resemblance to Pootietang, and the business of Lego Building. Steed and Jrad continue with the worst environmental toy disaster in history, Ben Affleck's connection to Lego, the most expensive Lego piece, and wild Lego facts

Get ready to explore the amazing world of LEGO and STEM with our guest, the one and only Jennifer Swanson - the Dean of all things STEM and STEAM! In this fun-filled episode, Jennifer shares the scoop on her new book, "LEGO Amazing Earth," which lets kids design their own ecosystems using everyone's favorite building blocks. We also hear from Sasha Gooray, the driving force behind the Joyful Learning Center. Sasha shares her passion for helping K-8 learners turn challenges into joyful success through personalized tutoring and a focus on developing life skills. She discusses the importance of making learning fun and engaging, and how her own experience homeschooling her daughter inspired her mission. Later, we welcome back author - illustrator Nic Yulo to discuss her new picture book, "Out of the Blue." Nic explains how the story of a quiet, overlooked girl who finds a connection with a bioluminescent octopus aims to spark curiosity about the wonders of the ocean. Whether you're a LEGO lover, a science enthusiast, or just want to ignite your child's imagination, this episode is packed with inspiration and insights. So grab your bricks, get ready to read, and let the learning and creativity flow! Reading with your kids has never been this much fun. Click here to visit our website – www.ReadingWithYourKids.com Follow Us On Social Media Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/readingwithyourkids Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/readingwithyourkids/ X - https://x.com/jedliemagic LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/reading-with-your-kids-podcast/ Please consider leaving a review of this episode and the podcast on whatever app you are listening on, it really helps!

Brad Bergman comes to Bellingham from the tv show Lego Masters for a night Lego and libations! He tells us all about the November 21st event!

Hey everybody! It's our show's finale and we're talking about a job that Mike wishes he knew about earlier: master builder at LEGOLAND. Do you ever wonder how they build those cityscapes or dinosaurs? Or what kind of test you have to take to get such a fun gig? They go through millions of bricks and we're taking a tour of the workshop! Thanks for listening over all these weeks!

Ryan ‘Brickman' McNaught is one of the world's leading LEGO® brick artists. He is one of only twenty-one LEGO® certified professionals globally. Like a Jedi Knight of all things brick related!He is known to many this side of the world as judge of Channel Four's LEGO® Masters AustraliaThe exhibition is inspired by his bestselling book ‘The Bricktionary: The Ultimate LEGO® A-Z', and the exhibition.The immersive exhibition developed by Ryan and The Brickman team features over 150 models, made from over 1,000,000 LEGO® bricksThe exhibition also includes brick models from the imaginations of The Brickman team, ranging from anime to life-size animals animals, fashion to fantasy and tabletop games to TV shows,It has taken more than 6,500 hours to build the complete exhibition, all built by hand by Ryan and his team.He told Alison Curtis on Weekend Breakfast all about it from his LEGO den in Melbourne, Australia!:

When you look at Legos today, it's hard to not be a little envious that kids today have such incredible options versus when many of us were kids. But did you know that Legos can actually have a beneficial impact on your life as an adult and business owner? Listen in as my guest Tim Croll and I discuss how the imagery of building on Lego helps in shifting belief systems and encourages action, the influence of the subconscious and conscious mind in determining success, and the significance of visual learning in the process. Tim Croll is a Business Strategy and Leadership Trainer, Lego Master, and Director of Serious Play who empowers growth with master building. GUEST RESOURCES https://narrative.live https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcrollhttps://timcroll.comhttps://www.facebook.com/tim.croll As a service based professional, you want to be out there attracting more people to your business, making more money and helping more people. But how are you supposed to get out there when you're stuck inside the daily grind of your business already out of hours in the day and days in the week? Good news. The solution is not about doing more work. It's about combining the superpower of an authentic personal brand out in front of a scalable self managing business.

Talk about a “dream job.”  Kari McBride, who has worked behind the scenes in show business for such big companies as Disney, was gifted her first ever Lego set during the COVID-19 pandemic.  She finished building a 7000 piece model of the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars in just four days.  From then on she was obsessed.  Now she shares her story about how the obsession led to her ascension as a Lego Master!

WBZ's Jordan Rich says this LEGO's Mini Master Model Builder is a Boston favorite.

Für den Ninjago Reboot "Dragons Rising" haben Max und ich uns Expertenwissen, in persona des LEGO Masters Gewinner Justin, dazu geholt.

Concerned mother and uncoverer of secrets and nefarious plots against humanity Shelly Abernathy reveals a shocking TRUTH about the television competition program Lego Masters and its connection to the evil ghost of ex-President Gerald Ford.Ms. Abernathy was played by the very funny comedian Meghan Nyeste. Go to Meghan's Instagram @meghanmelaugh to find out when she's performing next! Affirmations is a real place too and does a lot of great stuff for the community. Thomas Luge was played by Alex Bozinovic. Check out Alex's other podcasts The Burt Selleck Podcast and Lunchpilled Podcast.Harry Hamilton Hamilton was played by Tim Den Otter.Lil Dickie was played by Mike Bobbitt. You can listen to his other podcast You Made Me Watch .Check out TRUTHCAST Youtube site for great Truthcast Bunkercast videos produced by Tim Den Otter, as well as animated shorts from the podcast produced by Mike Bobbitt. www.youtube.com/thetruthcastHere's the central hub for all your TRUTH needs: http://truheroism.com/Art by Mark Rudolph: http://markrudolph.com/This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacyPodcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

In this episode, Ben & Jeff welcome Dominic Forte, a former contestant who was on the show, "Lego Masters''. This is where contestants compete for a chance to win $100,000 and be named the next “Lego Master”. Dominic has had a passion for Legos ever since he received his first lego set at 6 years old and it has now evolved into something amazing that brings creativity and skill together. They'll talk about his experience and what Dominic gained/learned from this opportunity. 

Welcome to TalkBricks Masters - A LEGO Masters Weekly Recap Podcast! This week Michael (from the LEGO YouTube channel TalkBricks) is joined by Season 3 LEGO Masters contestants Brendan & Greg for a post-season deep-dive!! We talk through everything from the infamous PK family organization to how understanding pythagorean triples will make you a true LEGO Master!! Check out our social media to send along questions for our future guests - @TalkBricks on all social media platforms!

Guest Host Chelsea Bird chats with Stacey Roy, winner of season three of LEGO Masters

It has been a beautiful, winding road for Erin Laundry on a path paved by unique talent and boundless creativity. From her earliest days as a gifted musician bound for the Berklee College of Music, quickly swapping classical piano for guitar, majoring in songwriting and eventually, effortlessly, teaching herself the bass guitar, while, at one point, playing in five different bands at once - Erin has shown an ability to master new challenges. So, it's no surprise really that when she became a Mom and found a new family passion for LEGO, she would take it to new heights. Today, viewers around the world are following her as a top contestant on LEGO Masters, as she has successfully moved on to episode 5 of the Fox series. It's a powerful validation for Erin who looks forward to reopening her business, Bottomless Bricks, in her hometown of Pittsfield. In our conversation we dive deep into the time and investment she has made in truly mastering many elements of the LEGO universe. In this episode we also cover: The very beginning of Erin's LEGO fandom finding deals at tag sales and picking up LEGO bricks in bulk, LEGO'ers who follow the directions for new builds and those who build from scratch, LEGO sorting date nights, the evolution of the Bottomless Bricks business model from birthday parties to brick and mortar, the lingo of LEGO building and the names of pieces, it's LEGO not "Legos," minifigure trading, the Cloud City Boba Fett minifigure, why Erin named her son after a Star Wars character, "Brick and Brew" adult LEGO building events, succulent LEGO sets, the "Ladies LEGO Lounge" FB Group, gatekeeping and sometimes toxicity in traditional fan groups, the camaraderie among contestants on LEGO Masters, the grueling schedule of recorded episodes in March, Erin's musical background including punk bands and meeting her future husband at the former Siberian Cafe in the Howard Building, scoping out a new location for Bottomless Bricks, the pandemic halting the business in 2020, brainstorming a LEGO public art project in downtown Pittsfield (LEGOtacular?), Pittsfield's better than average connection to LEGO with Erin and Elizabeth Banks, voice of Wyldstyle in The LEGO Movie, LEGO knock-offs, the LEGO "system" and "clutch power," the deer behind the fence near the old GE Plastic House, the LEGO House in Copenhagen, following PR protocols for media interviews and the NDA for LEGO Masters and much more. I hope you'll enjoy my conversation with Erin Laundry. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-krol/support

Liana Boraas and Marisa Connors sit down with two of the judges from Lego Masters season 3, Amy Corbett and Jamie Berard as they discuss what it takes to be a Lego Master and their judging criteria! The post Lego Masters | Brick Masters Amy Corbett & Jamie Berard Interview appeared first on RobHasAwebsite.com.

The boys are back to review S2 E9 of Rebels "Stealth Strike" Also in this episode Adam pays Cedar Cliff Guy a visit and he drops a legendary line, Tom is high, Tom is a Lego Master and Old Bear loves his honey. Please share the show with anyone you think would dig the pod! Downloads were slow this week and each download is one validation star given to our psyche. Reach out to us at clonecastpod@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram/twitter/TikTok @clonecastpod Leave a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts or your podcast platform of choice! Join us on the Discord! DM us on Twitter for an invite Check out our Podcast network @podawans on twitter You have your mission, CloneCastanovas!

On this episode of the Construction Record Podcast, digital media editor Warren Frey speaks with LEGO Master Builder Graeme Dymond, who has built a replica of The Post, a heritage landmark that will soon also be Amazon's Vancouver headquarters. Dymond explained how he was able to capture the essence of the new project which uses the historical Canada Post processing facility based in downtown Vancouver as its base while also sporting translucent glass towers and several open-air areas…all using LEGO bricks. He added he collaborated with both Amazon and designers MCMP architects and development company QuadReal to make the model as realistic as possible given the abstract nature of the materials he works with. You can listen to The Construction Record on the Daily Commercial News and Journal of Commerce websites as well as on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music's podcast, and you can hear our previous podcast featuring Blue Branch CEO Todd Clyde about “supercommuting” here. Thanks for listening. DCN-JOC News Services

Some artists use paint or clay to create, but award-winning artist Nathan Sawaya uses LEGO® bricks. Nathan began his career as a corporate lawyer on Wall Street. However, his desire to do something more creative led to a new career - one that includes clients like Lady Gaga and Tony Hawk. In this episode of Flip Your Script with Kristi Piehl, Nathan shares how he gained the courage to take a leap, leave his life as a lawyer behind and create a profitable career out of his favorite hobby.

A Christchurch Lego Master is making a scale model of Christchurch pub Dux De Lux.The premier city venue has been closed since the 2011 earthquake. Centuri Chan has so far spent about 150 hours creating the model, which will be part of this weekend's Christchurch Brick Show.He told Andrew Dickens it's about a metre by metre - and he's working to include architectural details to make it as close to the original as possible.Chan says it's an icon of Christchurch and he's passionate about the city and architecture.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on the show we travel to the house of Producer Scot and we are Trent-less. We will talk about Mega-Construx if we want to and Mr Lego Master can't stop us! There's lots more in here though with new Ultimates, Turtles from a trio of different companies, Todd seemingly NOT touting his latest figure, Mattel shooting themselves in the foot, a LEGO creation we didn't know we needed, and is this the most successful HasLabs of all time?  Support the show: http://patreon.com/toypowerpodcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robbo & Becci caught up with Lego Masters contestant, Caleb, after he and Alex gained the 'titanium brick' in last night's episode... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In episode eight, our crew chief Chris Carrier talks tire troubles in Atlanta, Hendrick Motorsports already exerting its dominance, Atlanta-Dega and he previews COTA. Race winner William Byron stops by to talk about winning Atlanta, Hendricks quick start in the Next Gen Car, and being a Lego Master. Plus my final thoughts on the COTA.

Episode 25 gets you yak fish informed inside the time it takes to cast a swimbait!YakAttack Pro Staffer Mike Case shares his Lego Master  kayak rigging thoughts. Mike chats the Pro Staff role, the YakAttack products he recommends in different kayak fishing scenario's, and how for him rigging a kayak forms part of the joy of the sport.  He even details a time when his kayak rigging efforts went adrift! Mikes Instagram can be found here:https://www.instagram.com/bass_medic/YakAttack can be accessed here:https://www.yakattack.us/https://www.facebook.com/YakAttackLLC/Bonafide Kayaks here:https://bonafidekayaks.com/https://www.facebook.com/bonafidekayaks/Rigging the Dream  here:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1603423603223584Here's hoping you drill the holes in all the right places!Mr-S1gn kayak wraps can be found here:https://www.mr-s1gn.com/

Lego Master Builder Sean Martin and Annie's Obsessed Bachelor Recap

We announced the Lego Walk Of Pain fundraiser yesterday to help Annie reach her goal to run the Boston Marathon and this morning we brought on Lego Master Builder Sean Martin to pick his brain on how to make it as painful as possible!

Sure, we use devices and software, but are they also using us? Join hosts Christopher Riddell and Jackson Sensat and guest Randall Wilson as they discuss the hidden world of finding out how customers interact with interface, the psychology behind user design experience, and the creative minds that are behind “making things work.” Randall Wilson II is the Co-Founder of the HUE Design Summit and a LEGO Master. He has additional experience as a Creative Director, Design Lead, and Freelance Graphic Designer. He currently lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Eric Hunter is a legit LEGO master. Starting with his work for the LEGO company and creating many buildings for LEGO Lands around the world, Eric now freelances, creating LEGO sculptures and artwork for people and companies around the world.For more info and to see some of Eric's amazing work, check out his website, The Art of LeGogh.

Daar zijn ze dan: De nieuwe Coronaregels van de Rijksoverheid. Het was weer een spannende persconferentie met Mark Rutte en Hugo de Jonge in de hoofdrol. Wat gaat er allemaal veranderen? En wat heeft dat voor gevolgen? Wie is de échte LEGO Master? Jaap, Chantal en Frank strijden tegen elkaar om het mooiste LEGO bouwwerk te maken. Ton Deuse, zelf meesterbouwer, jureert en zorgt dat de wedstrijd eerlijk verloopt. Wie wordt vandaag de nieuwe master builder? Al drie jaar geeft Jaap Kornuit zijn visie op actuele zaken. Abonneer je nu op de beste Nederlandse podcast van 2021 en mis nooit meer een aflevering van 'Kornuit Legt Uit'. Met Jaap Kornuit, Chantal Duval en Frank Groot. Volg ons op Social Media: linktr.ee/kornuitlegtuit

Where are all the Lego fans at?  Did you know that our fellow Swinburne student @miller.keys was a contestant on Australian all-time favourite show Lego Master 2019 and his team came third?!! Listen to this episode to hear all about his passion for Lego, behind-the-scenes stories from the show and his life now as an Industrial Design student.   Transcript below:  Caroline Ma Hello everyone, it's Caroline here and I'm excited to be back with another In Conversation podcast episode hobbies are such important part of our life and being able to turn a hobby into career would be a dream and our amazing guests today is on the way to achieving their dream. Caroline Ma And they're hoping that will cover. Today is 1 very special and dear to our childhoods, which is Lego and today I'm joined by Miller Keys or Swinburne Student, who was also a contestant on Australia's all time favorite show Lego Masters from season one. It's so great to have you here today and I'm super excited to get to know you more and chat about Lego. MILLER KEYS Thank you so much. It's really nice to be here. I can't wait to. Yeah, let's talk about it.   Caroline Ma Great, so let's start off with some introductions. Miller, can you tell us a little bit about yourself and what you study? It's been burned. MILLER KEYS Yes, so I am Miller. MILLER KEYS My name is Miller, I'm yeah. I'm studying industrial design at Swinburne. I'm in my third year at the moment. I started off doing engineering, but I decided that I didn't like it and move to design and I'm absolutely loving it and I was on Lego Masters. Caroline Ma Yep. Caroline Ma Yeah, awesome, So what led you to choose industrial design at Swinburne to study? MILLER KEYS I think. MILLER KEYS Really, the biggest thing for me was that it was coming out of doing engineering and I realized that engineering just wasn't where I wanted to be. I started I. I did engineer like I started engineering at Swinburne and I knew that I wanted to be at Swinburne because I'd be into like the open days and and all that sort of stuff and I I thought it was a really cool atmosphere. Caroline Ma Uh-huh MILLER KEYS But then when I got here and I started doing engineering, I realized that engineering wasn't really for me. But I really still enjoyed being on campus and all that sort of stuff. MILLER KEYS And and I guess what I was missing from engineering was like the hands on sort of stuff which I realized I would be getting in industrial design so. MILLER KEYS Yeah, it was never really a question of whether or not I'd do it at Swinburne because I really enjoyed being at Swinburne. It was more just about what I'd be doing, and I started off. Caroline Ma uh-huh MILLER KEYS I started off with a certificate in design certificate for in design and I I really liked that. I've really liked our hands on. It was and I guess it gave me a taste of what I could expect. Caroline Ma uh-huh MILLER KEYS Uhm? MILLER KEYS Rather than especially with engineering I I guess I didn't really know what to expect. Caroline Ma yeah for sure, so I guess you mentioned like you like the hands on part of it and the part of being on campus at Swinburne. How's that sort of panned out this year? Have you still been able to get the experiences that you wanted out of the course? Now to Swinburne or?   MILLER KEYS Yeah, it's been. It's been a bit rough, obviously for everybody not being on campus has definitely. Caroline Ma Uh-huh   MILLER KEYS Uhm impacted like my studies for sure. I really, really do enjoy being on campus. I love being around people as well. It's not just about the hands on stuff, it's about, you know, being in the environment when I'm at home, I'm always distracted by things and I'm just not in the head space that I need to be in. When I'm, you know, doing Union work.   Caroline Ma Yep.   MILLER KEYS So when I go into uni you know you get that headspace and you get to be social. You gets talked to people, you get to make things and do cool things.   MILLER KEYS Uhm, and so yeah, it's definitely. It's definitely being impacted by being in lockdown and all that sort of stuff. Last semester was really cool though. 'cause I did get to go on campus for the majority of last semester.   Caroline Ma Uh-huh MILLER KEYS Come specially for furniture design, which was one of the units that I took in that was really hands on and I just absolutely loved that and I loved being in the workshop and just yeah, making things. And I guess. Ah, last year not being on campus I was kind of making up for it. That like the last semester.   MILLER KEYS Up by just being being on campus. Kind of like everyday even the days that I didn't have class it was yeah. Caroline Ma yeah yeah yeah awesome. Well I'm glad you got to have some sort of time last last semester 'cause that would have been a shame with such a yeah kinesthetic sort of course I guess. So what's your goal? Or like your dream job after graduation based on that? MILLER KEYS I, I mean, I definitely chose a industrial design for the sake of being, uh, like working at Lego. One day, I wanted to be a Lego designer when I was a kid and I switched. Caroline Ma Yeah. MILLER KEYS Pause for a little while and late high school, and I realized after leaving engineering that I was like, well, why don't I just do what I what I really wanna do like even if it's just a you know it's a toy and it's childish and stuff somebody got to do it. Caroline Ma Uh-huh MILLER KEYS I mean, why can't it be me? So yeah, that's what that's that's my goal for sure, as I'd love to go and move to Denmark and and build Lego 4 Lego one day.   Caroline Ma yeah.   Caroline Ma Yeah, awesome, that sounds incredible. So yeah, I guess that's a good foray into Lego. And you did mention being on Lego Masters, so can you tell us a little bit about sort of your achievements and sort of how you started out with Lego and what really drew you to wanting to do it throughout your adolescence and into adulthood. 00:05:09.340 --> 00:05:09.790 MILLER KEYS Yeah. 00:05:26.400 --> 00:05:34.060 MILLER KEYS That's a really good question. Where did I start was essentially just as a kid. I, you know, I enjoyed it just like anybody else. 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:50.020 MILLER KEYS Uh, I was one of the kids that always liked to pull apart my Lego sets and then build my own thing with them. And it's funny because it's it's a bit of a A give and take because you know, I think. 00:05:50.650 --> 00:06:04.050 MILLER KEYS If I didn't do that, I wouldn't have learned a lot of things that I could have used to get on to. Something like Lego Masters, but at the same time, there's so many sets that I wish I didn't pull apart now. 00:06:04.670 --> 00:06:07.420 MILLER KEYS Uhm, and I I like, I had friends who. 00:06:07.470 --> 00:06:18.780 MILLER KEYS Uh, who you know had Lego when they were kids and they weren't the sort of people to pull apart their sets and they still have them all like on display. It's not like, oh God, I wish I wish I still had mine. 00:06:15.010 --> 00:06:15.740 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:06:19.210 --> 00:06:24.620 Caroline Ma When you say pull apart like can you? What do you? What do you specifically mean by that, like? 00:06:24.370 --> 00:06:30.110 MILLER KEYS I mean like dismantle the sets you know so you you buy a Lego set and some people like to display it on the shelf. 00:06:30.150 --> 00:06:31.200 Caroline Ma Yeah, yeah. 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:32.670 MILLER KEYS I liked to dismantle it. 00:06:33.310 --> 00:06:33.880 Caroline Ma And making it. 00:06:33.330 --> 00:06:37.470 MILLER KEYS Put it into a big tub full of other Lego sets that I've dismantled. 00:06:35.710 --> 00:06:36.200 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:06:38.080 --> 00:06:40.570 MILLER KEYS Ah, never to be built again, but. 00:06:41.170 --> 00:06:43.350 MILLER KEYS Sign in to somebody something else instead. 00:06:41.330 --> 00:06:41.770 Caroline Ma Yep. 00:06:43.990 --> 00:06:45.140 Caroline Ma Fair enough, yeah? 00:06:44.420 --> 00:06:45.070 MILLER KEYS Uhm? 00:06:45.770 --> 00:06:54.010 MILLER KEYS Yeah, so I guess yeah, that was what I really enjoyed doing when I was a kid and when I moved into probably. 00:06:55.160 --> 00:07:13.010 MILLER KEYS High school, maybe a couple of years into high school. I stopped building Lego for awhile and it was obviously one of those things where people you know you're sort of. Just go. Oh, that's not cool anymore. You know I don't wanna. I'm not a kid anymore. You know Legos for kids and I'm not a kid so. 00:07:09.390 --> 00:07:09.740 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:07:13.460 --> 00:07:13.940 Caroline Ma uh-huh 00:07:14.200 --> 00:07:15.300 MILLER KEYS I don't want to be doing that. 00:07:16.280 --> 00:07:17.230 MILLER KEYS But UM. 00:07:17.950 --> 00:07:30.370 MILLER KEYS Then the Lego movie came out and that was like that was such a cool movie and I I didn't watch it when it first came out. I watched it probably a year after it came out and I was. It was just on TV and I was like, yeah, I'll watch it. 00:07:31.190 --> 00:07:39.370 MILLER KEYS And I finish watching it. I was like, Oh my God, I gotta get out of my leg. I just happen to have a play with it and and I I haven't put it down since. 00:07:39.630 --> 00:07:47.380 Caroline Ma right? OK, that's fairly racing though. Isn't it? That came out maybe in the last six or so years. Is that right or is that? 00:07:41.100 --> 00:07:41.800 MILLER KEYS Yeah. 00:07:46.950 --> 00:07:53.600 MILLER KEYS Uhm, I it. It did come out when I was in high school, so probably yeah, probably. 00:07:55.440 --> 00:07:57.210 MILLER KEYS 2015 or something like that. 00:07:56.810 --> 00:07:57.180 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:07:57.880 --> 00:07:59.380 Caroline Ma yeah OK excellent. 00:07:58.060 --> 00:07:58.520 MILLER KEYS Yeah. 00:07:59.710 --> 00:08:05.140 Caroline Ma Uh oh, that's like a pretty short turn around from Lego Movie 2 Lego Masters, though, isn't it? 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:15.130 MILLER KEYS Yeah, I suppose, but like I still had a lot of that practice from you know, when I was a kid and it wasn't that long really that I'd been away figure. 00:08:09.950 --> 00:08:10.420 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:08:11.460 --> 00:08:11.840 Caroline Ma Yep. 00:08:15.860 --> 00:08:16.630 MILLER KEYS Uhm? 00:08:18.090 --> 00:08:21.390 MILLER KEYS But yeah, I guess the the main thing is like. 00:08:22.130 --> 00:08:28.020 MILLER KEYS The time since the Lego movie came out I was kind of just obsessed with like go from there now. 00:08:28.320 --> 00:08:28.790 Caroline Ma Sure. 00:08:28.650 --> 00:08:29.240 MILLER KEYS Uhm? 00:08:30.290 --> 00:08:30.850 MILLER KEYS Yeah. 00:08:31.980 --> 00:08:32.750 Caroline Ma Yeah, that's awesome. 00:08:32.020 --> 00:08:32.370 MILLER KEYS Yeah. 00:08:34.230 --> 00:08:42.650 Caroline Ma So do you consider yourself like a professional Lego like is a is a call like a master builder or like a logo black? What do you? What's your? 00:08:42.420 --> 00:08:46.230 MILLER KEYS Uhm, no, I wouldn't say I'm any of them. 00:08:46.850 --> 00:08:55.420 MILLER KEYS As I said, you know I I'm. I love building Lego and I do it very often and I did build it professionally for a little while. 00:08:55.470 --> 00:09:02.640 MILLER KEYS I'll, uh, I was working for the Judge Brickman after Lego Masters. 00:08:55.970 --> 00:08:56.440 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:09:02.750 --> 00:09:03.240 Caroline Ma uh-huh 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:03.940 MILLER KEYS Uhm? 00:09:04.750 --> 00:09:18.400 MILLER KEYS And so that was really cool. We built a life sized Honda Civic which was crazy. Yeah, so at that point I guess I was a professional Lego builder, but these days it's just as a hobby. But it's still. 00:09:10.660 --> 00:09:11.030 Caroline Ma yeah. 00:09:14.670 --> 00:09:15.030 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:09:17.930 --> 00:09:18.400 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:09:19.990 --> 00:09:24.850 MILLER KEYS Yeah, I wouldn't consider myself a a master boat or or anything like that. It's just something that I am doing. 00:09:22.810 --> 00:09:23.510 Caroline Ma sure. 00:09:25.140 --> 00:09:56.000 Caroline Ma Yeah OK, fair enough, so can you tell us I have to confess that I haven't actually watched Lego Masters, but I know that a lot of my colleagues are big fans of the show and I watched the eight minute condensed version of you and Jordan on the show prior to this. So I guess my exposure to it is quite minimal, but can you just sort of explain the process to be able to audition or whatever the process is to get on the show and then sort of a little bit about what it was like while you were on the show? 00:09:56.460 --> 00:10:00.140 MILLER KEYS Yeah, so uhm, it was crazy really I was. 00:10:00.940 --> 00:10:04.800 MILLER KEYS Uhm, I never had really any intention of, you know. 00:10:06.930 --> 00:10:25.780 MILLER KEYS Well, I guess I never really knew that there was a possibility to build Lego on TV, but one day I was just scrolling on Instagram and there was an add on there that said, do you want to build Lego on TV? And I was like wow, that would be really cool, but this is obviously just a scam or something. 'cause it was a really like. 00:10:26.370 --> 00:10:35.120 MILLER KEYS Really dodgy looking? Add like it wasn't it wasn't anything you know done. It was done in Microsoft publisher or something like that. 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:29.570 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:10:34.300 --> 00:10:37.570 Caroline Ma Yeah, the algorithm just trying to get you going. 00:10:36.830 --> 00:10:43.720 MILLER KEYS Yeah, yeah, I know it's crazy, but so I originally I actually scrolled past it and I was like no. But what if it's? What if it's real? 00:10:44.330 --> 00:10:52.440 MILLER KEYS Uhm, you know I don't wanna miss out on something like that. So I applied and I called up my friend Geordie, and. 00:10:53.610 --> 00:10:55.150 MILLER KEYS He was like hell yeah dude. 00:10:56.770 --> 00:11:10.150 MILLER KEYS And so yeah, that was kind of it. But then it took like a long while to actually get onto the show. It was there was quite a lengthy application process. We started off with. 00:11:10.850 --> 00:11:16.200 MILLER KEYS Uhm, you know doing a written application, we had to submit like a build. 00:11:16.850 --> 00:11:20.160 MILLER KEYS And then there was a video interview. 00:11:20.800 --> 00:11:27.210 MILLER KEYS Ah, with like a producer. And then there was a man. 00:11:28.230 --> 00:11:33.340 MILLER KEYS An audition after that, which was like a a 3 hour build. 00:11:30.460 --> 00:11:30.790 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:11:34.670 --> 00:11:38.350 MILLER KEYS They gave us and they gave us like a prompt and we had to build something with it. 00:11:38.920 --> 00:11:55.330 MILLER KEYS Uh, and then after that was another audition with like the executive producers and that was really interesting that audition day, because I remember there were some amazing like builders in the room and I remember like. 00:11:52.870 --> 00:11:53.420 Caroline Ma uh-huh 00:11:56.070 --> 00:12:17.020 MILLER KEYS Uh, Jordy was like I was just talking the whole time. Come to Jordan. He was like dude. Shut up and build Knowles like no way there's no way I'm going to be silent while I'm building. Because you know, if people if we're going to get on TV, you know they want to see like people who talk and all that sort of stuff. And there were some really, really amazing builders. 00:12:07.510 --> 00:12:08.080 Caroline Ma yeah. 00:12:12.970 --> 00:12:13.790 Caroline Ma Yes. 00:12:17.840 --> 00:12:23.130 MILLER KEYS In that audition, but they were. They just weren't talking to each other. They just kind of knew what they were doing and like it was. 00:12:21.580 --> 00:12:22.000 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:12:23.990 --> 00:12:54.630 MILLER KEYS That was amazing what they did, but they weren't talking and I was like, OK, if we're gonna set ourselves apart from these people, we need to be like really extroverted and sort of crazy and all that sort of stuff. And so and so we we were and that got us an interview with the producers. And, you know, we were just as crazy then and then it was kind of we. We talked to people. We had like psych evaluations. It was it was quite awhile. 00:12:32.420 --> 00:12:32.830 Caroline Ma yeah. 00:12:52.980 --> 00:12:53.670 Caroline Ma Oh 00:12:54.680 --> 00:12:59.930 MILLER KEYS Up until we got onto the show, but then yeah, we eventually got on there and it was. It was. 00:13:00.600 --> 00:13:02.080 MILLER KEYS Awesome from then on. 00:13:02.690 --> 00:13:06.260 Caroline Ma yeah, cycle valuations. That's quite interesting. 00:13:05.140 --> 00:13:11.180 MILLER KEYS Yeah, I don't know if I were trying to figure out whether that we were normal or crazy. You know? Which would be better for TV? 00:13:11.950 --> 00:13:32.940 Caroline Ma Yeah, fair enough. Yeah, it does play. I'd like based on the video I watch it seems till I play a lot on like the relationships between the teams and so yeah, that's really awesome and a great strategy to show your friendship was Jordan. Slack was his relationship with logo similar to yours and that like you just really enjoyed it as kids and he sort of just picked it up again recently or. 00:13:32.890 --> 00:13:35.600 MILLER KEYS Yeah, yeah he was more of a UM. 00:13:36.670 --> 00:13:40.490 MILLER KEYS He was more of like a. He didn't build necessarily like. 00:13:41.080 --> 00:14:09.670 MILLER KEYS Uhm, his own creations and all that sort of stuff and he wasn't as sort of into it as I was, but he still used it a lot in his daily life like he would. He would use Lego to build things that would be useful to him rather than like as I guess like a medium of like creative expression or something like that he would like. For example, if he needed a phone stand or something like that. It built it out of Lego and all that, so he always had Lego around him, but he wasn't. 00:13:50.650 --> 00:13:51.100 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:14:00.520 --> 00:14:01.720 Caroline Ma Right, yeah? 00:14:06.740 --> 00:14:07.960 Caroline Ma Ah, OK. 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:09.890 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:14:10.770 --> 00:14:13.470 MILLER KEYS Building it as often as I was, I suppose. 00:14:13.730 --> 00:14:14.200 Caroline Ma uh-huh 00:14:13.980 --> 00:14:14.670 MILLER KEYS Uhm? 00:14:15.430 --> 00:14:16.210 MILLER KEYS Yeah, yeah. 00:14:16.630 --> 00:14:28.860 Caroline Ma yeah OK, yeah that sounds awesome so you ended up coming. Third Ryan, there was the inaugural season. Yeah, pretty cool. Yeah, I know if anyone hasn't caught up in the last few years I'm like oh masters, that's their result. 00:14:21.220 --> 00:14:23.350 MILLER KEYS Yes yes spoiler alert. 00:14:26.610 --> 00:14:27.870 MILLER KEYS Yeah, it's been awhile. 00:14:29.920 --> 00:14:42.920 Caroline Ma Well, just as from a personal perspective, I'm a big fan of black at Hamish Blake. Did you find like interacting with him? Was it what you expected or is he like different off screen? I don't know how much you can disclose it at that, but I'm like interested in that aspect of it. 00:14:41.270 --> 00:14:56.830 MILLER KEYS Yeah, no, he was. He was really cool. He was awesome. Uhm there was there was kind of an like an inside joke around all the contestants that I had a big crush on him and there's these photos of me just wear these like heart eyes looking at Hamish. 00:14:44.420 --> 00:14:44.870 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:14:57.040 --> 00:14:57.460 Caroline Ma uh-huh 00:14:57.460 --> 00:14:58.100 MILLER KEYS Uhm? 00:14:58.790 --> 00:15:00.650 MILLER KEYS Behind the scenes and stuff. 00:15:01.230 --> 00:15:01.940 MILLER KEYS Uhm? 00:15:01.980 --> 00:15:03.270 Caroline Ma we can blame you honestly. 00:15:02.990 --> 00:15:33.810 MILLER KEYS Yeah yeah, I remember the day that we the day that we found out he was the host was the day before we started filming and it was just like what it was just it was so crazy and it's kind of hard to imagine because like everybody knows that he is the host of the show. You know it's all like hindsight but like us going in there. We had no idea what the show was gonna be because we all season one. We had no idea about anything about the show. We were just like going in completely. 00:15:32.420 --> 00:15:32.870 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:15:34.100 --> 00:15:34.310 MILLER KEYS And. 00:15:34.910 --> 00:15:43.590 MILLER KEYS And so we found out that you know they were like, oh, we've got a really cool host and it really called judge and we're like, oh, who's it gonna be? You know? And Hamish was like. 00:15:45.170 --> 00:15:52.970 MILLER KEYS I just never expected him to be him to be on there, but and he was and it was just yeah we. We lost our minds that day. 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:46.270 Caroline Ma top tier. 00:15:47.330 --> 00:15:47.850 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:15:53.940 --> 00:16:08.280 MILLER KEYS But he was. He was really, really nice and he was so incredibly funny like he's what you see on TV is what you get with Hamish like he's the real. He's the real deal and he's he's so tall. 00:16:04.730 --> 00:16:05.200 Caroline Ma Right? 00:16:08.590 --> 00:16:11.270 MILLER KEYS Like these crazy talk? 00:16:10.410 --> 00:16:11.260 Caroline Ma Yeah, I mean like yeah. 00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:13.170 Caroline Ma It's time to gush a little bit here again. 00:16:13.220 --> 00:16:14.640 Caroline Ma Don't have love that. 00:16:13.610 --> 00:16:27.300 MILLER KEYS I know, I know, I actually this is a funny. This is a. This is a a funny story and it's pretty embarrassing, but the very first day that we were filming we were going through like the the big roller door when we're walking into the studio. 00:16:28.630 --> 00:16:34.780 MILLER KEYS And you know, hey, mission Brick man was standing there and we're all like wow, this is crazy. 00:16:35.450 --> 00:16:44.000 MILLER KEYS Uh, and I remember he made a joke and like I laughed, but it was like a snort laugh. 00:16:44.690 --> 00:16:47.540 MILLER KEYS And I blew my nose by accident. 00:16:47.590 --> 00:16:48.440 MILLER KEYS That's what. 00:16:49.400 --> 00:16:54.240 MILLER KEYS Snow and hanging out of my nose like flecked the first hike. I was like cut. 00:16:55.060 --> 00:17:02.710 MILLER KEYS But I would say I've read 'cause I was like Oh my God. I just laughed at Hamish is joke and just completely blew that take. 00:17:02.290 --> 00:17:09.480 Caroline Ma Not in itself. That's incredible love that let's you know, those are the stories you can tell forever. That's it's a great great memory. 00:17:08.030 --> 00:17:08.550 MILLER KEYS Yeah. 00:17:09.730 --> 00:17:10.200 MILLER KEYS Yep. 00:17:10.470 --> 00:17:21.560 Caroline Ma So I guess like from the show did you feel like you experienced any semblance of fame, or do you have people recognizing your? Did you get many like opportunities as a result of being on the show? 00:17:22.070 --> 00:17:30.280 MILLER KEYS Yeah, well look I I wouldn't say that like we were famous or anything like that, but we would definitely more recognized. 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:31.820 MILLER KEYS You know? 00:17:33.150 --> 00:17:43.910 MILLER KEYS By Australia I suppose like we all of us were recognized on the street and all that sort of stuff and I was working at a board game shop which is. 00:17:35.030 --> 00:17:35.320 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:17:44.510 --> 00:17:46.170 MILLER KEYS Mind games which has come. 00:17:45.850 --> 00:17:46.190 Caroline Ma OK. 00:17:46.790 --> 00:17:58.980 MILLER KEYS Just up the road from Swinburne and you know we sell Lego there and so people would come in buying Lego because of Lego Masters and they'd be like, Oh my God, you are the one on the show and I'd be like, yeah. 00:17:48.810 --> 00:17:49.200 Caroline Ma Yep. 00:17:59.040 --> 00:18:00.820 MILLER KEYS As a man. 00:18:01.650 --> 00:18:04.400 MILLER KEYS And it was, yeah, it was cool for a while. It was very, very cool. 00:18:05.770 --> 00:18:22.480 MILLER KEYS You know, obviously it faded and all that sort of stuff. But yeah, I apparently some other people got recognized like in their cars. Like Jordy said that he was driving and he was at a red light once in the car next to him. The guys are like hey, that's you. 00:18:09.890 --> 00:18:10.260 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:18:14.460 --> 00:18:15.110 Caroline Ma right? 00:18:22.550 --> 00:18:25.080 MILLER KEYS He was like he was going along with it. 00:18:26.810 --> 00:18:33.320 MILLER KEYS Yeah, so it was pretty cool, but I guess the the opportunities that I got from the show where sort of. 00:18:26.980 --> 00:18:27.640 Caroline Ma That's awesome. 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:34.690 MILLER KEYS Uhm? 00:18:36.550 --> 00:18:43.400 MILLER KEYS Like more career orientated like for example I worked for Brick Man for a while that was really cool. 00:18:38.820 --> 00:18:39.200 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:18:43.720 --> 00:18:44.190 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:18:44.150 --> 00:18:44.910 MILLER KEYS Uhm? 00:18:45.530 --> 00:18:52.300 MILLER KEYS And yeah, there's like I've just started a new job, which has a lot to do with Lego as well and come. 00:18:52.980 --> 00:18:57.190 MILLER KEYS Yeah, I met people who work at Lego from the show so. 00:18:56.050 --> 00:18:56.560 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:18:58.090 --> 00:18:58.470 Caroline Ma yeah. 00:18:58.620 --> 00:19:02.270 MILLER KEYS Yeah, it was really really good in terms of opportunities. 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:08.130 Caroline Ma That's incredible. Yeah, I'm sure it doesn't hurt on your resume going to Denmark eventually. 00:19:07.650 --> 00:19:09.420 MILLER KEYS Yeah, yeah, hopefully. 00:19:09.790 --> 00:19:22.020 Caroline Ma Yeah, awesome. So I guess what was your? What was your all time favorite masterpiece that you made on the show or in general in life? If there's something you've made better outside of that? MILLER KEYS Uhm, that's a that's a really tricky one. Actually, come. MILLER KEYS I think on the show. MILLER KEYS So my favorite. MILLER KEYS Build that we did was. 00:19:39.550 --> 00:19:53.110 MILLER KEYS Probably the finale build, which was the spaceships saying. That's just because like Jordy and I both love spaceships and science fiction and Star Wars and all that sort of stuff. So it really just wanted to lean into that in our final build. 00:19:50.410 --> 00:19:50.920 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:19:53.810 --> 00:19:59.210 MILLER KEYS And so that was probably my favorite. The one I was most proud of, UM. 00:20:01.410 --> 00:20:06.380 MILLER KEYS Outside of the show, there's been a couple of things that I've really enjoyed building up. 00:20:09.100 --> 00:20:11.390 MILLER KEYS But I can't think of anything that was like. MILLER KEYS Really outstandingly better than the show. Caroline Ma Yeah. Caroline Ma That's fair enough. 00:20:17.220 --> 00:20:21.700 MILLER KEYS Yeah, 'cause I mean like you've got all of these bricks on the show. You know you got. 00:20:21.060 --> 00:20:21.460 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:20:22.130 --> 00:20:46.160 MILLER KEYS Uhm, 2,000,000 Lego bricks and the brick pit. You don't have that in the real world, so that like it's I wish I wish I had that and if I did maybe I would have built something as cool, but maybe I'd I don't know. It's it's also it's crazy because when you're with all these people you get inspired by those people like we were we were up against like. Caroline Ma Yeah. Caroline Ma Yeah. Caroline Ma Uh-huh MILLER KEYS Like some of the other competitors. For example Henry incad. They like they won another spoiler MILLER KEYS But they they will, just they were incredible. And so being around them, I felt like it was. It was rubbing off on arson like their their skill set and you know we lifted our game because of that and being in that environment made us better builders. And so I think like leaving that that environment again is probably another reason why I haven't built anything quite as amazing sense. 00:21:10.010 --> 00:21:10.400 Caroline Ma Yep. 00:21:20.510 --> 00:21:22.450 Caroline Ma Yeah, totally. That definitely makes sense. 00:21:21.380 --> 00:21:24.750 MILLER KEYS Does Bing. Yeah, there's been some really cool stuff though. 00:21:26.530 --> 00:21:41.370 MILLER KEYS Like my girlfriend and I came and we built a Lego display for brick invention, which is like Melbourne's Lego Convention every year and that was probably. 00:21:36.860 --> 00:21:37.270 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:21:42.560 --> 00:21:44.470 MILLER KEYS What came the closest to being? 00:21:45.800 --> 00:21:47.070 MILLER KEYS Like as good as the show. 00:21:48.140 --> 00:21:52.570 Caroline Ma yeah awesome. So you have your girlfriend enjoys Legos? Well, that's that's handy. 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:56.830 MILLER KEYS Yeah, well, we actually met on the show. She was another contestant, yeah? 00:21:55.060 --> 00:21:56.190 Caroline Ma Ah. 00:21:57.210 --> 00:21:59.600 Caroline Ma It's not so good story as well. Love that. 00:21:58.850 --> 00:21:59.200 MILLER KEYS I know. 00:22:01.990 --> 00:22:16.870 Caroline Ma I was yeah, I was thinking like when you were mentioning like having all the Lego it, I can't imagine that it would be the the cheapest hobby either right? Like you trying to acquire sets and bricks and stuff would be considerable investment I guess. 00:22:13.180 --> 00:22:13.830 MILLER KEYS Yeah. 00:22:16.960 --> 00:22:20.310 MILLER KEYS It's very expensive and it it's like an addiction. It's like. 00:22:21.610 --> 00:22:29.610 MILLER KEYS Because like you, it's a funny balance as well, because when you come when you build Lego as a hobby, you kind of. 00:22:30.260 --> 00:22:49.930 MILLER KEYS Uhm, you either build sets like you. Just collect the sets that Lego producers and you build a menu, display them or you build mocks which stands for my own creation and and those are like obviously your own creations. And in that case your bill you're buying like actual bricks. 00:22:38.230 --> 00:22:38.550 Caroline Ma OK. 00:22:50.620 --> 00:22:58.930 MILLER KEYS Uhm, and then there's also doing both. I'm one of the people that does both and so I have to sort of balance like ah. 00:22:59.580 --> 00:23:00.660 MILLER KEYS Buying 00:23:01.440 --> 00:23:12.240 MILLER KEYS sets and buying the Lego pieces for what I want to build, and so it's it's crazy because it's like every time I want to build something new I need to buy more pieces for it. 00:23:11.900 --> 00:23:13.740 Caroline Ma Yeah yeah, yeah. 00:23:13.470 --> 00:23:26.100 MILLER KEYS Because I always find all I. Yeah no, I I should probably need more of that piece and I need more of that piece and then. But at the same time, Lego is releasing new sets every like month, you know, and so it's like. 00:23:25.080 --> 00:23:25.550 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:23:27.870 --> 00:23:53.000 MILLER KEYS I don't have the money and I don't have the space. No, I don't know how anybody has the space for all of this stuff. And yeah, that's actually the space is the biggest. The biggest issue, I think like my apartment is tiny and it's literally just Lego everywhere. I've got it under the bed sometimes I've got it on the bed 'cause I need to move it from the floor to the bed to the chair depending on where I'm going around my apartment. It's crazy. 00:23:28.060 --> 00:23:28.950 Caroline Ma You gotta have it. 00:23:30.190 --> 00:23:30.650 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:23:33.540 --> 00:23:33.990 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:23:38.140 --> 00:23:38.540 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:23:53.420 --> 00:23:57.930 Caroline Ma Yeah, fair enough, have you considered starting a Lego club at Swinburne? 00:23:58.910 --> 00:24:01.130 MILLER KEYS No way. I hadn't really come. 00:24:01.040 --> 00:24:01.470 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:24:01.940 --> 00:24:05.620 MILLER KEYS I never really thought that. 00:24:07.420 --> 00:24:16.930 MILLER KEYS I guess I never thought that people would be that interested in it, and I I guess I don't really know how many Lego fans there are. It's when burnt. I have met a few. 00:24:17.750 --> 00:24:18.310 Caroline Ma uh-huh 00:24:17.790 --> 00:24:18.530 MILLER KEYS Uhm? 00:24:19.670 --> 00:24:25.190 MILLER KEYS But yeah, it's a. It's probably a really cool idea because. 00:24:25.990 --> 00:24:28.070 MILLER KEYS There's a lot of things, obviously clubs. 00:24:28.950 --> 00:24:32.190 MILLER KEYS I also had so many cool opportunities to do. 00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:40.710 MILLER KEYS Uhm, really cool things in clubs and I can imagine all of the different things that you could do in a Lego club at Swinburne like. 00:24:42.040 --> 00:24:44.790 MILLER KEYS You know, like group builds and all that sort of stuff, but. 00:24:44.650 --> 00:24:45.040 Caroline Ma uh-huh 00:24:46.350 --> 00:24:50.570 MILLER KEYS Yeah, it never really crossed my mind, but it it's probably a really, really cool idea. 00:24:50.790 --> 00:24:56.920 Caroline Ma yeah not a bad cold and maybe you could get that sort of like creativity by proximity that you were talking about that you got on the show. 00:24:56.900 --> 00:24:58.090 MILLER KEYS Very good point. 00:24:59.080 --> 00:25:08.580 Caroline Ma Yeah, well, it's failing to consider for the future 'cause we would probably love to have a Lego club specially led by someone as famous as yourself at the moment. 00:25:01.020 --> 00:25:01.540 MILLER KEYS Yeah. 00:25:10.450 --> 00:25:22.580 Caroline Ma Alright, so we are going to move on and we're going to get into a lightning round now so I'm going to ask you some questions and it's a bit of a game so I want you to answer as quickly as you can. Whatever comes to mind. 00:25:15.870 --> 00:25:16.360 MILLER KEYS OK. 00:25:22.310 --> 00:25:28.060 MILLER KEYS God, I don't have that in my. I'm not a fast thinker so I'm gonna I'm gonna struggle here. But yeah, let's do it. 00:25:26.780 --> 00:25:27.350 Caroline Ma It's OK. 00:25:28.720 --> 00:25:33.570 Caroline Ma There are there Lego themed questions, so OK ready. 00:25:31.290 --> 00:25:31.820 MILLER KEYS OK. 00:25:34.560 --> 00:25:38.720 Caroline Ma Question one, would you rather step on a Lego minifigure or a Lego brick? 00:25:39.490 --> 00:25:41.020 MILLER KEYS Like how many figure could fill? 00:25:41.310 --> 00:25:44.800 Caroline Ma Would you rather live in a Lego Castle or a normal mansion? 00:25:47.330 --> 00:25:49.160 MILLER KEYS Or can I ask a question back? 00:25:49.370 --> 00:25:51.120 Caroline Ma Yeah OK, I'll allow one question, yeah? 00:25:50.920 --> 00:26:01.380 MILLER KEYS Alright alright is the Lego castle? Is it a life sized castle built out of Lego or is it like like I've been shrunk down into a Lego sized Lego cars? 00:26:00.940 --> 00:26:07.450 Caroline Ma No, I think I think it's a. I think it's a real life sized castle made of Lego. Is is my interpretation of the question. 00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:09.820 MILLER KEYS I think I'd still go mansion. 00:26:09.880 --> 00:26:15.220 Caroline Ma Yeah, would you rather own all the Lego Marvel sets or or the Lego DC sets? 00:26:15.410 --> 00:26:15.960 MILLER KEYS Marvel. 00:26:16.660 --> 00:26:21.420 Caroline Ma Would you rather or your completed sets fall apart or not be able to get any new ones again? 00:26:22.510 --> 00:26:23.520 MILLER KEYS Fall apart. 00:26:25.120 --> 00:26:29.160 Caroline Ma Would you rather look like a Duplo figure or a mini doll for the rest of your life? 00:26:32.140 --> 00:26:32.870 MILLER KEYS Uhm? 00:26:33.500 --> 00:26:34.690 MILLER KEYS I'm gonna give you the mini doll. 00:26:35.230 --> 00:26:36.640 Caroline Ma I don't know what a mini doll is. 00:26:36.870 --> 00:26:43.670 MILLER KEYS They're like they're like the Lego friends versions of mini figures, they're like, oh, I don't know that they're different to mini figures. 00:26:43.700 --> 00:26:49.970 Caroline Ma OK sure sure sure, would you rather buy your favorite theme or by everything except your favorite? 00:26:54.080 --> 00:26:55.890 MILLER KEYS I'm going to do everything except. 00:26:56.600 --> 00:27:01.250 Caroline Ma Would your fame be space in this situation, or like spaceships or F Star Wars? 00:27:00.580 --> 00:27:07.380 MILLER KEYS Why no injuries were minor. Change your mind. I want to be able to buy my favorite thing 'cause my favorite thing Star Wars and I couldn't. I couldn't go without like a Star Wars. 00:27:02.610 --> 00:27:03.080 Caroline Ma So. 00:27:06.230 --> 00:27:06.770 Caroline Ma Right? 00:27:07.770 --> 00:27:14.410 Caroline Ma Yeah yeah, sure, would you rather be a millionaire but never get to play Lego again or just have a normal life and still play with Lego? 00:27:15.190 --> 00:27:17.130 MILLER KEYS I think I've already answered that for myself. 00:27:18.450 --> 00:27:23.330 MILLER KEYS I think I'll be a millionaire because I have all this damn like, oh sorry. 00:27:21.900 --> 00:27:22.480 Caroline Ma Yes. 00:27:24.040 --> 00:27:26.360 Caroline Ma How many Lego pieces do you own now, roughly? 00:27:26.840 --> 00:27:29.100 MILLER KEYS Ohh, I'd say. 00:27:31.260 --> 00:27:32.380 MILLER KEYS 50,000. 00:27:33.090 --> 00:27:33.930 MILLER KEYS Something like that. 00:27:33.170 --> 00:27:38.040 Caroline Ma Oh my God. OK, cool UM, what's something you're really excited about right now? 00:27:39.850 --> 00:27:41.010 MILLER KEYS Apart from Lego. 00:27:41.460 --> 00:27:42.890 Caroline Ma Yeah, just anything, yeah? 00:27:43.980 --> 00:27:49.550 MILLER KEYS A Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild. I just started planning that and I'm so obsessed with it. 00:27:49.900 --> 00:27:54.190 Caroline Ma Yeah, my housemate played. I watched him play. It's a beautiful game. It looks great. 00:27:53.540 --> 00:27:54.120 MILLER KEYS Yeah. 00:27:54.900 --> 00:27:58.140 Caroline Ma Uhm, OK, what's something you're deeply grateful for? 00:28:01.450 --> 00:28:08.820 MILLER KEYS I'm really grateful for my friends and family that are really supportive and. 00:28:10.030 --> 00:28:13.860 MILLER KEYS Especially in a time like this, you know, being locked down. 00:28:11.840 --> 00:28:12.230 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:28:14.660 --> 00:28:24.920 MILLER KEYS Ah, you know. Like I have family that calls me and you know, I talked to my friends on like discord every night and they get to go and see Caitlin. So yeah, I'm very grateful for that. 00:28:23.910 --> 00:28:24.340 Caroline Ma uh-huh 00:28:25.980 --> 00:28:32.510 Caroline Ma yeah, perfect answer and what will swinburn be like in the year 3021? 00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:35.390 MILLER KEYS 3021 00:28:36.050 --> 00:28:39.470 MILLER KEYS what's that? That's 1000 years from now that's not even 100 years. 00:28:38.190 --> 00:28:38.820 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:28:39.670 --> 00:28:40.230 Caroline Ma Correct? 00:28:43.840 --> 00:28:45.570 MILLER KEYS I I think. 00:28:46.360 --> 00:28:51.160 MILLER KEYS I think Swinburne will not be on Earth. 00:28:51.740 --> 00:28:52.240 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:28:52.610 --> 00:29:07.340 MILLER KEYS I think if if humanity lives to to for another 1000 years, we won't be on that. I think will move to space stations and all that sort of stuff. So maybe Swinburne's moved to a space station or even even to another planet. 00:28:57.700 --> 00:28:58.150 Caroline Ma uh-huh 00:29:08.220 --> 00:29:10.840 Caroline Ma great love that UM, didn't do that. 00:29:10.150 --> 00:29:14.520 MILLER KEYS Sorry, hold on campus I love you but yeah he doesn't have time. I don't know. 00:29:12.110 --> 00:29:14.330 Caroline Ma See ya later Glenferrie Rd no more. 00:29:15.590 --> 00:29:22.350 Caroline Ma Yeah, thanks so much for that. So that wasn't as lightning as I think other hosts would do it, but I wanted to hear answers so. 00:29:22.580 --> 00:29:29.650 MILLER KEYS Yeah, sorry I I was probably an answering with such long answers just because I needed time for my brain to think. 00:29:26.210 --> 00:29:26.700 Caroline Ma No. 00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:35.200 Caroline Ma No, I was also curious about what some of the terminology was, so that's awesome. 00:29:34.340 --> 00:29:36.200 MILLER KEYS There was some really cool questions in there. 00:29:36.350 --> 00:30:06.910 Caroline Ma Yeah, well you know shout out to our producers for that so well, that's all for today's in conversation episode. Thanks so much for listening and a huge thanks to our special guest Miller Keys. Thank you for joining me today and chatting about your amazing experiences. And I think I might go and check out all the legamaster seasons. Or at least y'all one. Maybe I'll go back and see how it goes. Yeah, and maybe you've inspired me to pick up some Lego as well, but I hope I listeners out there. Enjoy today's conversation and feel inspired about how you started turning your hobby into a future career. 00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:37.380 MILLER KEYS Yeah. 00:29:55.230 --> 00:29:58.360 MILLER KEYS Yeah, mine's a best, obviously no, I'm thinking black. 00:30:07.230 --> 00:30:13.680 Caroline Ma Stay tuned for next month episode and make sure you subscribe to the late razalan podcasts on iTunes and Spotify so you never miss an episode. 00:30:14.530 --> 00:30:15.120 Caroline Ma Bye. 00:30:15.520 --> 00:30:16.160 MILLER KEYS Thank you. 00:30:17.170 --> 00:30:24.720 Caroline Ma Awesome so I will cut and then will re record the intro but there was also your your great yes thank you so much for that. 00:30:24.840 --> 00:30:26.410 MILLER KEYS Awesome, thank you for having me. 00:30:26.890 --> 00:30:37.340  

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Nathan Sawaya was a corporate lawyer for five years and spent his evenings working with clay, paints, and other materials to release his creativity.  Eventually, Nathan picked up LEGO®-brand bricks and created an apple, then other items in his apartment and finally a sculpture.   Nathan’s talent with these bricks led Nathan to create a website to display his artwork. After his website, Brick Artist, crashed from too many visits, Nathan stopped practicing law to become an artist full time. Nathan Sawaya’s sculptures have been displayed in many art museums, Nathan has created LEGO Oscars®  statues for the 2015 Academy Awards, Nathan is a consulting producer on the LEGO Master show, and Nathan has founded The Art Revolution Foundation.  Nathan has been commissioned numerous times to create unique and incredible art from LEGO-brand bricks. While many people are familiar with LEGO-brand bricks, Nathan Sawaya has a partnership with LEGO that allows the company to send him bricks in specific hues and designs.  In his California studio, Nathan keeps at least 10 million LEGO-brand bricks available to him.  Nathan credits his law degree for preparing him to negotiate with large toy manufacturers and agents for his commissioned art.  Nathan Sawaya was licensed in New York.  Connect with Nathan at www.brickartist.com.Follow the You Are A Lawyer podcast on Twitter @YouAreA_Lawyer, Instagram @youarealawyer and on LinkedIn.  Follow the podcast host, Kyla Denanyoh, on Instagram @kjd796. This episode is sponsored by Attornneed (www.attornneed.com).

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Today on the Toy Power Podcast, there is news to be had and we are HERE for it! But the biggest news comes from our fave Canadian and his insanely successfully Kickstarter. Faking Filmation is gonna be ma$$ive… Super7 come to the party with more Ultimates from the Disney-verse as well as very tempting re-release of our favourite mutants. And what sort of dinosaur foot inspires the boys to break out into song? PowerCon show off some goodies but the pricing has us asking questions. Marvel Legends tick off some missing gaps as the Infinity Saga rolls on. There’s trailer news involving breakfast foods and we talk to our fave LEGO Master and his return to our screens! Then we roll out some our fave Modern Toys that are Damn Near Perfect. As it turns out, we are all about the villains this time! A classic DC monster, a robot ninja, a despot and a superior robot. There’s a shoutout to our newest Patreon and Frank can finally take the packaging off his new show all about the Aussie cartoon Bluey : The Hammerbarn Project!  Support the show: http://patreon.com/toypowerpodcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Bricking News comin' in HOT!  It's been a super hectic week in my own personal life but LEGO decided that it would be a news filled week too!  From the review of the LEGO Master season 2 contestants (which a few are former guest on the podcast!) to VIDIYO sets running out the gauntlet it a full week!  Check out the list below to see what we chit chat about!LEGO Masters Season 2 castVIDIYO summer setsnew plate that's been 60 years in the making!LEGO House contest wraps uphouse overrun with LEGO trains (link)HYPE slashes Ninjago clothing pricesGive your feedback to the VIP programPossible force ghost Star Wars figures...VIDIYO figure = batman villain BrickUniverse heading to MississippiBlack Parade approved!Adidas ZX 8000s officially revealedbaseplates retiring?!NASA Shuttle designed in a day!May the 4th be with you weekend begins!!!!Designer interviews posted every Monday!Bricking News posted every Friday!Question: What do I say A LOT of on the podcast? and it's not "Umm" lol message me and whoever get's it first wins a fun prize!Have a question? Want to be a guest? Send me a message!Instagram.com/back2brick2Check my pages out!Back 2 Brick Links!Back 2 Brick Podcast is not an affiliate nor endorsed by the LEGO Group.LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Minifigure, and the Brick and Knob configurations are trademarks of the LEGO Group of Companies. ©2020 The LEGO Group.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/legostud)

Adam (Bilsborough) Bilsy is a man of many hidden talents. Two years after undergoing bariatric surgery and successfully losing a massive 65kg, he finally gained the confidence and physical fitness to be able to pursue bigger ambitions in life;  including going on the popular LEGO Masters Australia TV show and planning his dream wedding in New York. In this interview, he shared how his life has changed dramatically and for the better since his Gastric Sleeve surgery. Adam is proud of his weight loss transformation and continues to inspire others on his journey in the most unfiltered way. For full episode details, go to www.felicitycohen.com/ Show Notes: 2:39 - Adam is 2 years post-bariatric surgery, losing a total of 65kg. With outstanding results, Adam started to feel healthier, more confident and happier, with many doors starting to open up for him, like starring on the TV show Lego Masters. He has bought a house, had a baby girl and is getting married. 4:46 - Will a gruelling film schedule on Lego Masters, Adam confesses that he would not have lasted if he hadn't had bariatric surgery. From his exposure from being on the show, Adam is proud to share his backstory in order to inspire others to lose weight. With the support of mainstream media, focusing more on his weight loss journey rather than his new celebrity status by featuring in magazines like TV News Week. 7:36 - Adam talks about his newfound celebrity status after appearing on Lego Masters. With more confidence than ever, Adam desires to be on television more with a dream of becoming a children's TV presenter.  9:09 - On a personal note, Adam shares the disadvantages of being obese for him, like the inability to go on rides at theme parks and being "that" big guy people didn't want to sit next to on flights. 11:53 - From day one, Adam wanted to be open and transparent, so he started his own Youtube channel, “Loser Bench AU” to document his weight loss journey. Since launching he has inspired many to lose weight and has been able to educate those on bariatric surgery from a personal perspective. 14:12 - As a leading advocate for weight loss surgery, Adam lets us know about the common fears people have, like judgment from friends and family, to as extreme as complications from surgery. He shares why he has no regrets and how the benefits outweigh the odds from several points of view, from medical to social.

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In today's episode I chat with Alec, the master builder at LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Arizona! We talk about his journey on becoming a master builder, his role in LDC Arizona and how social media has helped the attraction "build" a brand new audience of LEGO lovers!

*This is a Kids Pod Rewind episode where we listen to a past interview from the Kids Pod archives.* Welcome to Kids Pod, a podcast where kids get to ask adults the questions they really want to know. Nothing is too rude to ask. You send in the questions and our adults will give kids the answers they want to hear. How much LEGO should a LEGO master have? Henry Pinto should know. He was the first ever winner of LEGO Masters Australia in 2019 and we are excited to have him answering your questions today. Kids Pod was created by Aimee Chan. Intro by Niki Strauss. Cover art by Glen Strauss. Narration by Mabelle Strauss. Special thanks to Henry Pinto, Abbey, Ethan, Ted and Harry. To send us your questions for future episodes, contact us at aimeechan.com. We also ask that you please subscribe so you don't miss any future episodes of Kids Pod. And to help other people to find us and spread the word, we would love it if you would give Kids Pod a 5 star rating and share our link with your friends. Thanks for listening. *If you would like to support Kids Pod to allow us to make even more episodes, you can make a one-off donation for as low as $5 at ko-fi.com/kidspod. There's no obligation and Kids Pod will continue to remain free for all. We want to keep Kids Pod going strong well into the future, so we really appreciate any support you can give. From all of us at Kids Pod, thank you.* *Did you know that Kids Pod is now on YouTube? We are looking for partners to work with us on Kids Pod TV episodes right now, so get in touch. Search for Kids Pod TV on YouTube or click here to watch.*

Salut les troiloupiens (toujours pas validé par l’Académie des Surnoms de Merde) c’est la 33ème émission de votre radio préférée, Le Troisième Lieu…Et parce que l’intro de l’émission est déjà un peu longue, je vous laisse tout de suite avec le sommaire de l’émission : Hugo ouvre une nouvelle fois le bal avec l’actualité de la semaine : – Mort de Hubert Faure avant-dernier membre des Commandos Kiefer – Mort de l’ancien ministre délégué à la ville de Jacques Chirac, Eric Raoult – Politique : l’union de la gauche française plus improbable que jamais après une réunion – USA : le procès de Derek Chauvin entre dans sa dernière phase, l’accusé garde le silence – USA : la banlieue de Minneapolis gronde après la mort d’un afro-américain de 20 ans tué par une policière – Russie : les proches et les médecins d’Alexeï Navalny craignent pour son état de santé et pressent le Kremlin d’autoriser les visites – USA / Russie : tensions diplomatiques entre Moscou et Washington – Chine : le PCC fait condamner plusieurs militants prodémocratie de Hong-Kong – Sport / politique : Les JO de Tokyo menacés par l’impopularité – Sports mécaniques : les résultats des GP moto et F1 – Les résultats de la 33ème journée de Ligue 1 – Masters 1000 (tennis) de Monte-Carlo : le sacre de Stefanos Tsitsipas sur le rocherSam vous parlera du film La môme, réalisé par Olivier Dahan en 2007. Et tenez vous bien, Sam vous a enfin mis une bande annonce, si c’est pas merveilleuxCapucine fait sa grande entrée dans l’émission et dans cette L3L avec une chronique sur le conflit Iran/USA. On attend confirmation que Capucine est bel et bien suisse, ce qui ferait déjà 2 personnes suisses avec Thomas. On espère au moins en retirer un partenariat avec Milka. Cédric vous offre une fois de plus une soirée détente avec son flixitarien. Cette semaine il vous parlera des cahiers d’Esther, The toys that made us, Lapin Crétin Gumball et Lego Master.On termine avec Thomas, votre expert en politique qui vous a fait une chronique sur le vote aux US (oui c’est le Thomas suisse dont je vous parlais plus haut). On espère que cette émission vous plaira et n’hésitez pas à aller écouter nos anciennes émissions sur ce site, Spotify, Deezer et iTunes ; les émissions Flixitarien dont la dernière est… censurable ; Jeu, Set et Match, émission mensuelle sur le sport et les revues d’actualités d’Hugo, toutes les semaines dans les podcazines ou en article. Portez vous bien, et parce qu’on ne sait plus quoi consommer sur les plateformes du net, c’est… attend ça me dit un truc, il me semble que cette réplique a déjà été utilisée mais je serais incapable de me rappeler où. Une série peut-être… un documentaire… nan je crois pas. Bref ça me reviendra. Et si vous trouvez dites le nous. À la semaine prochaine !

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Today I chat with fellow LEGO Educator, Corey! We talk about the power of LEGO as a learning tool, where his company began, online workshops and his experience on LEGO Masters US.

You ever wanna head down under?  Well they have LEGO sets there too!  Discovery some great designs and ideas that come out of the LEGO Discovery Center Melbournes Master Builder Kieran Jiwa!  Not only does he describe what it's like to be a Master Builder but also how you can be one too!  Get a peek inside how designers are made for the LEGO Discovery Centers and how you can design just like a Master Builder!  You don't need 1 million parts to be one, just have a good idea and 10 bricks! Let's educate the world on being more creative!Check out his pages!Instagramkieranjiwa.comDiscovery Center Melbourne, AustraliaHave a question? Want to be a guest? Send me a message! @back2brick2InstagramCheck my pages out!Back 2 Brick Links!Back 2 Brick Podcast is not an affiliate nor endorsed by the LEGO Group.LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Minifigure, and the Brick and Knob configurations are trademarks of the LEGO Group of Companies. ©2020 The LEGO Group.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/legostud)

Connected - der LEGO® Fan-Podcast Wenn du wissen möchtest was es Neues in der Welt von LEGO®, den offiziellen Fangruppen und bei den Steinchenbrüdern gibt, dann bist du hier genau richtig. Connected - der LEGO®FanPodcast verschafft dir ganz unkompliziert einen Überblick. In der 43. Ausgabe schauen wir zurück auf die KW 06. In dieser Woche haben wir einen kleinen Ausblick auf die Monkie Kid-Neuheiten, stellen Dir das neue Gewinnspiel von Schwabenstein 2x4 e.V. vor, berichten über die neue LEGO® Masters-Staffel und statten London einen Besuch ab. Das sind unsere Themen: - Monkie Kid - neue Sets für das asiatische Affenkind - LEGO® Masters - die TV-Show geht in die dritte Runde - Bestätigt - Stuttgart bekommt seinen LEGO® Store - LEGO® Stores (inter)national - Flagship Store London - Schwabenstein 2x4 e.V. - frühlingshaftes Gewinnspiel Links: - LEGO® Monika Kid-Neuheiten - LEGO® Masters-Anmeldung - LEGO® Stuttgart sucht Personal - Signing Event im LEGO® Flagship-Store London 2019 I - Signing Event im LEGO® Flagship-Store London 2019 II - Schwabenstein 2x4 e.V.-Gewinnspiel Produktion des Podcasts: Steinchenbrüder: http://www.Steinchenbrueder.de LUG-Connected: http://www.LUG-Connected.de thetravelingfotographer (Patrick): https://www.instagram.com/thetravelingfotographer/ https://www.facebook.com/thetravelingfotographer/ Impressum: Alexander Kratzsch & Tim Kratzsch GbR Steinchenbrüder Davenstedter Strasse 39, 30449 Hannover Deutschland Geschäftsführer: Alexander Kratzsch & Tim Kratzsch Standort der Gerichtsbarkeit: Hannover, Deutschland Tel: +49 (0)511 85066815 Mail: podcast{at}steinchenbrueder.de Wir übernehmen keine Haftung für die Inhalte der geteilten Links.

First I wanted to thank Game of Bricks for sponsoring this episode!  Ever want to give your LEGO set the lighting it needs? Head over to gameofbricks.eu to purchase a lighting kit for your latest LEGO set purchase!LEGO is of course about building LEGO sets and creating unique designs, but it's also about building communities.  LEGO is a great way to find friends and keep creating as a community. We had the honor of talking with Nannan Zhang an epic LEGO builder in the AFOL community.  He's been all over displaying his work and work he has done with  Tyler Clites, a LEGO Master contestant. Nannan is an amazing and person and creator has really taking his impact in the AFOL and LEGO community to another level.Not only has he created some amazing LEGO creations, but he has also built a charity that gives back.  Creations Charity is based around the sole purpose of giving the gift of creation through LEGO to kids in need.  This year Back 2 Brick will be taking this as our holiday charity!  Take the time to stop over at the site and give the give of LEGO to a kid in need!Check out all of Nannan's Pages!InstagramFlickrCreations CharityHave a question? Want to be a guest? Send me a message!InstagramCheck my pages out!InstagramTwitterFacebookIf you're looking for a LEGO Commission reach out to me on my Fiverr!:FiverrBack 2 Brick Podcast is not an affiliate nor endorsed by the LEGO Group.LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Minifigure, and the Brick and Knob configurations are trademarks of the LEGO Group of Companies. ©2020 The LEGO Group.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/legostud)

Eine echte Premiere bei den Serial Dads: Wir haben unsere erste Folge mit Gast aufgezeichnet und zwar mit Marco Krahl. Er ist Redaktionsleiter des Vätermagazins Men Health Dad und einer der beiden Macher des "Echte Papas"-Podcasts. Außerdem hat er zwei Kinder mitten in der Pubertät. Mit ihm sprechen wir über die Serien seiner Kindheit, die Sehgewohnheiten der eigenen Kindern und dem Titel als "Lego Master".

In het nieuwe normaal spreekt Gijs Groenteman zijn gasten over hoe het ze daarin vergaat. Deze keer brengt hij een bezoekje aan Lola Nouwens. Zij won samen met haar ex-vriend het programma LEGO Masters. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Heute, die 1 Million-Euro-Frage: Wie gelingt der Brückenschlag Kinder-Familie-Cornona? Um das Geheimnis zu lüften, haben Arndt und Uli einen Experten mit Praxiserfahrung geladen: den amtierenden LEGO-Master Deutschlands, im Nebenberuf Chef des Magazins DAD und Familienvater, Marco Krahl. Arndt und Uli wollen ihm den goldenen Info-Nugget für ein friedvolles häusliches Zusammenleben entlocken. Dafür greifen sie auf die sonst so effektive entweder-oder-Fragetaktik zurück. Nur, so einfach lässt sich der erfahrene Podcast-Hase ("Echte Papas") Krahl nicht stellen. Mit findigen Antworten auf Fragen (Arnd: "Lego oder Playmobil?" - Krahl: "Le Mobil!") hält der LEGO-Master die beiden Neu-Podcaster zunächst auf Distanz. Doch schon zum Ende des Warm-Ups zeigt er, worauf es beim Zusammenleben ankommt, nämlich kreatives Engagement auch an trüben Tagen: "Meine Frau war heute außerhäuslich, deshalb habe ich für mich und die Kinder Fischstäbchen gekocht". Danach: Die Magie von Gurkensalat und Videospielen, 7 Gerichte mit Fischstäbchen, die häufigsten Probleme für Eltern, Multi-Tasking, Home-Schooling, eine Rückkehr in die 1950er?, der Übergang von On- zu Offline, neue Umgangsformen und alte Kartenspiele in Corona-Zeiten, horizontal parenting, und: das aktuelle DAD-Heft.

The First Drop boys sit down with Bendigo Cricket expert, Gary Piggott. Gary, a self-confessed cricket tragic, recounts some of his favourite stories and memories from his involvement in the great game. Gary also finds a moment to mention the time Glenn Maxwell popped over for a pot of tea and is also reminded by his wife of the time he met a famous Prime Minister. 

Welcome to Kids Pod, a podcast where kids get to ask adults the questions they really want to know. Nothing is too rude to ask. You send in the questions and our adults will give kids the answers they want to hear. How much LEGO should a LEGO master have? Henry Pinto should know. He was the first ever winner of LEGO Masters Australia in 2019 and we are excited to have him answering your questions today. Kids Pod was created by Aimee Chan. Intro by Niki Strauss. Cover art by Glen Strauss. Narration by Mabelle Strauss. Special thanks to Henry Pinto, Abbey, Ethan, Ted and Harry. To send us your questions for future episodes, contact us at aimeechan.com. We also ask that you please subscribe so you don't miss any future episodes of Kids Pod. And to help other people to find us and spread the word, we would love it if you would give Kids Pod a 5 star rating and share our link with your friends. Thanks for listening.

Jake is joined by Lego master Boone Langston and they discuss the appeal of the brick, what it's like to be on a Lego reality tv show and what it takes to go from being a Lego builder to a true Lego master.Follow @BooneBuilds to see his Lego projects!

Maxx Davidson from Ashland, Ohio won the competition to be the latest Lego Master Builder. He shares his lifelong dream story with Daveman.

Robbie McCarthy was a Lego Maser Builder at Legoland, where he designed and built large-scale Lego sculptures. Here, he explains how and why.