- Today we are going to talk all about Jacob.
We do these little milestones
sort of yearly checkups on the kids as much as we can.
We're trying to do every single kid this year.
I think we're gonna do it.
And one of the things that's helping us do it
is Jessica created a list of questions
and we plan on asking these questions every year
to the kids from here on out.
The kids can fill them out or we can ask them
and we can look back and see how their answers have changed,
how they have changed as people?
It's a really cool little thing.
We love going back and rewatching these videos.
So, if you wanna do something like this,
we have a link in the description of this video
where you can download the same list that we're using
and maybe do this with someone
in your family or with yourself,
and see how you have changed over the years.
So, pretty fun.
- Yep. - It's a fun activity.
- Yeah.
- You're ready to do it ? - Yeah.
- Jacob is a teenager.
He's 13 years old.
He has a lot of really cool interests and talents
and so I'm excited, to see where this all goes.
What we learn about for this year?
What is your current, favorite television show?
- I like "The Imagineering"
TV show. - Okay!
- It's documentary series on Disney Plus
that kinda goes through how they made the theme parks
- and - Okay.
- The Disney theme parks and stuff like that.
I really enjoy that series.
I just saw "Wednesday" and that was really good.
I like "The Mandalorian".
- What is your current favorite movie?
- Um, I like a lot of "Star Wars" movies.
- Okay. - A lot.
And I like the Marvel movies too,
like Ironman and some of the Avengers movies.
- So, those two franchises.
- Yeah.
- What is your favorite book at the moment?
- Percy Jackson.
- Like the whole series?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- Or the fourth book, if you really...
- The fourth book is your favorite
out of the series. - Yeah. Yeah.
- And have you read the whole series or?
- Yes.
- Wow!
What do you wanna be when you grow up?
- Director, film director.
- You just went straight for it,
huh? - Yeah.
- That's it? That's-
- Maybe film director.
- That's the thing?
- Yeah.
- Alright, I have a book in the garage
that a director friend gave to me
that I'm gonna let you read.
- Okay.
- All right!
Cause' you are a sort of
choosing between a whole bunch of different things,
like especially even in the last year,
and today you're just
very like defined, - I don't know.
- that you know. - I knew for a while.
- But like today specifically
when I asked you the question. - Yeah.
- You didn't waive at all.
You weren't like, "I shall give you a few."
You were like "Director."
- Yeah.
- And action.
- Yeah.
- What are your hobbies?
- I edit videos a lot.
I 3-D print a lot, and I do school.
And I, um, 3-D model.
- You drum a lot too,
right? - Yeah, I do.
Pretty fun to just kinda sketch out something,
and then you can take it into 3-D, and 3-D model,
like something that you drew.
And it's really cool to look around the drawings, in 3-D.
I think it's really cool.
I 3-D printed this Ironman helmet,
- And this was the first print that you did
with your new printer, right?
- Yeah, kind of second.
- Oh, you did like a test.
- Yeah
- Test one, okay.
- But I'm really proud of this.
And yeah, so, doesn't fit.
- Well that's part of the process
of 3-D printing, right? - So, I'm gonna
print another one.
But, (laughs)
But yeah, it's pretty cool.
It's two parts and yeah,
I'm hoping on maybe making a video on my channel,
talking about it a little bit more.
- And wasn't one of your plans
you've got Arduino and LEDs right?
So, and Arduino is like the mechanisms
to make that front piece do what?
So, he's got plans for it to mechanically
(mask creaking) - Look! (laughs)
- slide open on its own.
And for the eyes to light up.
So, (mask slams)
this is a pretty advanced project.
- Yeah.
- I don't think I would've been able to tackle that at 13.
Is cosplay something you want to like continue with?
Is that like something that you enjoy enough
that you wanna like, keep going down this road
and see where it takes you?
- Well, I do wanna do stuff like this
on my YouTube channel.
I might just make little bits of a costume
like Thor's hammer, stuff like that.
Like maybe Han Solo's blaster, things like that,
not like a whole costume.
- Having this background and this kind of stuff is
if you do wanna be a director is gonna help you
be able to talk to the people that make the things
- Yeah.
- that you'll need.
And I guess that's a good follow up question
that I should have asked earlier.
What kind of things do you want to direct?
Like television or movies? - Movies.
- Okay, movies.
- Yeah.
- And then what genre of movie?
- I like "Star Wars" kind of, so it's like sci-fi.
- Sci-fi? - Sci-fi fantasy.
- Okay.
- I like that a lot.
- What's your favorite musical?
- I think Hamilton, I really like Hamilton.
- How was it seeing it live?
I didn't get to go. - It was really cool.
At first, it was really cool at first,
and then like, when they did they like
one apart where they're all like lining up
and then they sing that one part
where they're all like in harmony.
It's like, really loud and stuff, and it's really cool.
- What is one thing you love about yourself?
- Um!
- I feel like that's the toughest question on here. (laughs)
And it would be for me at least.
- My ears.
(Both laughing) Just kidding.
I really like that I can draw.
- Yeah, That's cool.
That is really cool.
- I like that I can draw.
It really makes me feel good, drawing.
- What would you do if you got a million dollars?
- I would probably go to Disneyland.
- Disneyland?
- I mean, yeah.
Maybe go to the couple hotels.
Not a couple, just like a hotel, Disneyland hotel.
- The Disneyland hotel?
- No, wait.
- Or a Disney resort. - A cruise.
- The Disney Cruise.
- You go on a Disney cruise?
What are your goals for 2023?
What are your goals for this year?
- Um, so, I really wanna get my YouTube channel
going in a good path because basically I'd be like,
I'm doing it, and then I stop.
And I'm like, "This is it. This is the time."
And then I stop.
- So you want more consistency?
- Yeah. - Okay.
- I wanna keep moving forward.
- You've done a really good job.
I've been really impressed with what you put out,
especially during Christmas time.
You were putting out a lot of content.
- Thank you. - Yeah, it's really good-
- Yeah, I've kind of slowed down since school started,
but I'm hopefully gonna post a few videos coming up.
At least I'm editing one, right now
as we're doing this video.
Not like, don't have the computer in front of me,
but I'm in the middle of editing it.
- Yeah.
What's your favorite color?
- I like blue and green.
- What's your favorite ice cream flavor?
- Rocky Road.
- Rocky Road?
I wasn't expecting that.
- Okay, maybe just chocolate.
- No, don't let me talk you out.
- Okay! - I think you can like
- Rocky Road. - I like Rocky Road.
I love Rocky Road.
- I just wasn't expecting it.
- Wait, what were you expecting?
I'm curious.
- You know, I didn't have any expectations
though I wasn't expecting you to say Rocky Road
cause' I don't...
I feel like we haven't had
a whole lot of Rocky Road at our house.
- Well actually I like fish food better, so.
- Fish food? - Yeah.
Have you had fish food?
- Me? Yes, I-
- No. No you. - It's my favorite.
It's my personal favorite.
- Have you had fish food?
- I can't hear them.
What did they say? - I can't either.
- Okay, what is your biggest pet peeve?
- Noise.
- Just any noise? (both laughs)
- I don't like it when there's loud noises.
- So if someone's being loud
- Yes.
- that bothers you.
- Yes.
If they're consistently being loud.
So if they're doing, they're just like saying the same thing
or just doing something to make chaos, loud chaos.
You know what I mean?
- Sure.
- That I don't like.
- What is your favorite subject in school?
- I like the Science.
Science and Math.
Math is fun.
- Where would you like to travel to?
- Um, Shanghai.
- Shanghai?
- Shanghai.
- What's in Shanghai
that you are attracted to? - Shanghai Disney.
- Okay. - And street food.
- Street food? - Yes.
- You specifically wanna go eat Shanghai Street food?
- Yeah.
- What's one thing that you do really well?
- Uh, Draw.
- What would you say is your biggest strength
in your drawing style?
- Shading or perspective?
- Do you prefer to draw digitally or on paper?
- Um, on paper.
- So you actually prefer
- Well. - paper than-
- It really depends because I like to start off on paper,
and then I like to take a picture,
then trace it, and then do the coloring in digital.
- What is your favorite animal?
- Giraffe and Beaver.
- What's your favorite place?
- Favorite place as in country?
Or favorite place as in the country?
- Favorite place.
- Like it could be like that Noko cause',
that Noko I was in that one time.
Like it could be that. - Yeah.
It can be anything that when you're there,
you go, "This is my favorite place."
- Uh, I really like being in Hawaii.
Well, it's just really peaceful, so, yeah.
- Especially the water slides.
- Yeah.
- Very peaceful.
- Yeah, I was really mainly talking about
(laughs) the hammocks and stuff.
But yeah, the water slides too, I guess.
And I liked in Paris.
Living in like a room,
and then like living in a...
We lived in like a-
- It's like a flat.
- Yeah, like a flat, and then we'd just walk,
and we'd have breakfast, right there.
And it would always be like croissants,
and orange juice and eggs.
And it was really good.
- What is your favorite holiday?
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- Christmas and Thanksgiving.
- Ooh! Go for a two holiday answer.
- Thanksgiving because of food and people.
There's that.
And then I like Christmas because it's really fun,
and you get to see like a whole bunch of family.
And it's really nice to kinda hang out and eat again.
- I guess those are the two holidays here
in America where people get together
- and eat.
- What is your favorite quote?
- Um, "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya."
- That's a good one.
- "You killed my father. Prepare to die."
- That's a good one.- - That one
got a little dark at the end, but.
- Yeah, but it's a good one.
- Yeah. - It's a good movie.
- Yeah.
- You didn't list it as one of your favorite movies, but.
- I'm listing it now!
- Whoa! You're amending your original answer?
- Well, I don't know if it's like my favorite movie,
but it's a good one.
- What's your favorite board game?
- Um, Scythe.
(Scythe swooshes)
- Scythe? Okay.
- Scythe and Catan.
(glass crunches)
I like those a lot.
- Those are sort of world building games?
- Yeah.
Oh, and also Clank. (glass crunches)
- Well those are the questions that I had.
I do wanna add on to this a couple little things
about Jacob that I noticed as his Dad
over the past 13 years.
And one is that Jacob is very kind, very thoughtful,
and I can always depend on Jacob to help.
He's just a helpful person.
Jacob's always there with a willing heart,
and it's really really cool.
And I see him do that for everybody.
It's not just me.
Jacob has a dyslexic mind
which I think is a superpower of his.
He is able to see things like
in three dimension and like turn them around in his head
when he is designing them.
And I think it's really really cool.
- I'm pretty proud that I got this far with reading.
It was really difficult for me at first.
I'm able to read now, so-
- Well you've been able to read for a long time.
I'm just saying that it's like...
- I'm able to read more gooder.
- More gooder, right.
- So, I went to the center
for people who can't read good and want to learn
to do other things good too.
- Yeah. (screen swooshes)
Is there anything else that you wanna say about yourself
in this last year that you think you would wanna remember?
- I'm proud of the fact that I've gone
this far into my YouTube channel.
I'm proud of that because I've been doing it
for a couple of months.
Like not a couple of months, like almost half a year.
I think more than half a year actually.
And it's really sometimes challenging at some points,
and I think that's really cool
that I've been able to get through that so.
- This has been really fun.
- Yeah.
- Thanks for answering all these little questions here,
and I look forward to watching this when you're older
and seeing how you've grown.
And thank you for watching.
And we'll see you next time.
- Bye.
(baby laughing)
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