- [Hallease] So my dad and I are still working hard
to restore Jedidiah, my 1987 Jeep Grand Wagoneer.
- I guess we need to put that ground on there
and then see if it works, huh?
- [Hallease] I put the ground on there.
- You put the ground?
- [Hallease] I put the ground into the bottom.
- No, no, no. I'm talking about on the bearing.
- [Hallease] Oh, yeah.
Old Jed has now officially been moved to my house
so that way my dad doesn't get in trouble
with the homeowners association.
Something about maintaining a certain
aesthetic in the neighborhood.
Whatever.
Jedidiah though, just FYI, now reliably runs.
Today we needed to finish up wiring the windows
while we wait for the new windshield wiper
wiring harnesses to arrive. Which will be
enough for Jed to pass inspection.
- I'm happy.
- [Hallease] Why, what is it working?
- All of them work.
- [Hallease] Oh.
- Okay, here we go again.
- [Hallease] Alright.
Okay, which one are you doing now?
- That one won't go up though.
Okay, you've gotta issue with that one.
- [Helise] That one won't go up?
- That one won't go up.
Well that works.
- [Hallease] Wait, you just controlled it from there?
- Yeah.
- [Hallease] And it worked? Really?
- Tape is still on it.
- [Hallease] Once he passes inspection we can legally
drive him on the road, and get the speedometer checked
and calibrated and make sure everything else
is really shifting like it's supposed to.
Messed something up.
- Something wrong with the switch here, or something.
- [Hallease] There's something making it go down, huh?
- Yeah.
- [Hallease] Well so ... okay.
- Is it moving?
- [Hallease] One.
- You ain't got no ground.
- [Hallease] Oh.
- Something's wrong with your ground love.
- [Hallease] It's hooked up down there.
- Well where's your ground wire then?
Where's your ground wire?
- [Hallease] It's on the corner.
- This one right here?
This last one?
- [Hallease] No, it's right,
it's that one.
No, it's that one.
Oh wait, where'd it go?
- [Father] It ain't there.
- [Hallease] Oh it got pulled out! (laughter)
- Okay, alright.
- [Hallease] Alright, well
that explains all of that.
(lighthearted, cheerful violin music)
- [Hallease VO] After my dad left,
I cleaned up and welcomed my friends
Diego and Tiffany down from Austin.
They were our neighbors in the duplex we used to
rent. And when we realized we were moving away
here to San Antonio, they were a couple that
Mr. Hallease and I agreed to make long distance
friendship work with.
So we invite them down every now and then
to drink, play video games, and grill.
- [Diego] I feel like I have to like, hold it
such so that you can get a better angle.
- [Hallease] Just live your best life Diego
don't even worry about it.
- [Diego] Well, living my best life
involves helping my friends.
- [Mr. Hallease] Frangelico?
(laughter)
- [Hallease] Actually, I need to get your consent.
Do you mind being in the YouTube video?
- [Diego] Of course not, it's exciting.
- Would you like to try some?
- [Tiffany] Watermelon margarita.
- Watermelon mango orange margaritas,
sorbets.
(laughter)
- [Tiffany] Sorbet.
- This is very alcoholic.
- [Tiffany] Is it? I was afraid it wasn't
alcoholic enough.
- This is alcoholic
I mean,-
- [Tiffany] I only put-
- [Hallease] I'm still eating it so it's not-
- [Tiffany] I only put one shot.
- [Hallease] Did you really?
- [Tiffany] Or, whatever this is.
This is a shot, right?
This is a normal shot?
No? It's not a normal shot?
- I feel like that's a shot and a half.
- [Mr.Hallease] That's a shot and a half.
- So it's a shot and a half.
- I mean, okay. Well we don't have that much
watermelon anyways, so.
- [Hallease] Diego took my camera for a little while
to try out being a videographer.
And I must say, I liked the style,
this Michel Gondry-esque style he's got going.
It makes me want to attempt to do a vlog
in a nonstop, continuous shot.
But production value will definitely need
to be upped for anything like that to happen.
Nevertheless, thanks for the creative inspiration Diego.
- Um,
broccoli?
Polenta, well we have polenta too.
- [Hallease] Polenta?
- Polenta. Get that cornbread out of
my face.
- [Diego] I feel like I'm casing your house
for anybody who's interested.
(laughter)
- You know what I'd like to try?
A liquor melon.
- [Helise] A liquor melon?
- [Tiffany] Wanna soak this-
- Yeah.
- [Tiffany] In vodka?
- [Hallease] Yeah, he's helping you out.
- The next uh, the next cookout.
- Coming buddy?
- Oh, can you grab the tongs? I'm sorry.
- Yeah, I can.
(lighthearted, cheerful violin music)
- Alright, you ready?
- [Hallease] Yeah.
- I'm going to try watermelon mango orange
margarita sorbet.
Probably need a shorter name for it.
Mhm.
- [Hallease] Let it meditate, swirl it.
- Hold on, I just need another bite-
- [Hallease] Okay.
- I need another bite, hold on.
Mhm,
yeah.
The complexity-
- [Hallease] Mhm.
- Of the flavors
really helps mellow out the tequila.
(laughter)
- [Hallease] This is Fesik, their awesome dog
with an awesome underbite.
Tiffany is a chemical engineer, so it's
really fun and interesting to see what
she is experimenting on in the desserts category.
Currently, she's been trying out different types
of artisan jello concoctions.
- So this is like, fancy jello.
Should I just dig into it?
- [Hallease] Go for it.
Live your best jello life, that's what I say.
- [Tiffany] Here, we'll start out small
in case it's weird.
Gonna grab some more of that coconut
from the bottom.
- [Diego] You could kind of place those little tiny
bits on the top and it would look like a-
- [Tiffany] Okay.
- [Diego] There you go.
- [Hallease] Yeah? (laughter)
- [Tiffany] That didn't really work.
- [Hallease] There you go.
- And then this is lime and basil?
- [Tiffany] Mhm. Oh, lime and coconut.
- Mm.
- [Diego] I like the coconut and I could
appreciate it a lot more by itself.
- Mm.
- But then it gets overpowered by the lime.
- Yeah, so this one has more coconut cream in it
and then the lime one is just coconut water.
- [Hallease] Tiffany and Diego are those people
that you have a rare chance to meet that
instantly bring you joy.
And it's not just you, it's something about
who they are at their core.
They just have joy built into them.
I'm always happy to see them,
they're always more than welcome to stay as long
as they like, and they're just really easy to be around.
The older I get, the more I cherish those
types of people.
Diego is in the process of designing a video game
that's actually really fun.
When he gets closer to wrapping it up,
I'll try to get him back on here so he can
talk to y'all about it because it's
really cool. We've been playing it.
After they left, I spent most of the day
editing and getting ready to push out
content on this platform.
Hey everyone, it's me Helise and I'm back
with a hair update.
Hey everyone, it's me Helise.
So something I want to start doing
is like, commentary on some of the films,
videos that I produce on this channel.
Hey everyone, it's me Helise back with another
video. So-
All three of these pieces are now live on my channel.
Go check them out if the spirit moves you.
So after my father and I figured out our
grounding issue, he had to take off back home.
But he left everything at my house
so I could finish wiring up the doors on my own.
I actually really like wiring because
it's a very basic concept; complete the circuit.
Now there's multiple ways you can choose to do this,
and you can get creative, but at the end of the
day everything needs power and ground.
That's it. It's a puzzle that you can make as
complex or simplistic as you want.
Hardly any brute strength is required and because
of the simple nature of what you're doing,
it's also easy to troubleshoot.
My father always wanted me to be an engineer
growing up. He said I had a knack for this stuff,
a chip off the old block, and things like such as.
So you can imagine his devastation when I changed
my engineering major in college to film.
Thank God him and my mother didn't cut my funding
after that.
I see film as a form of engineering.
I'm building a story with the pieces that I have,
just like I would wiring a car.
Most stories have a basic three act structure.
The question mark, what's gone wrong, exposition.
Where are we trying to get to?
The exclamation point. What's the conflict?
How have we raised the stakes?
And finally, the period. The end of the story.
How you get through each of these is up to you.
And there's a million different ways to find
each of them and exploit them,
but the overall steps are the same.
The question mark, the exclamation point,
the period.
Anyway, this feels like a good place to end the
vlog. So if the spirit moves you,
like, share, subscribe.
(lighthearted, cheerful violin music)