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Everyone had ample warning that we were doing this today. So, you're going to see two things. Why a YouTuber could

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possibly need nearly a hundred people on staff and some Oscar worthy performances

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in the category of looking busy while my boss is standing over me watching. Why

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don't we start with James? What's up, boss? Wow, you're doing a great job

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entering that pin. You almost found the number pad. James, what would you say

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you do here? Enable the other writers to do their best. Wow. And that after all

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the rehearsal you obviously did. You see how concise that is? Pretty good. That

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was good writing. It's good writing. In all seriousness though, I'm going to

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need you to explain what you do because I can't even remember it anymore. I know you manage the writing team, which is

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like a dozen people now. I help unblock them. I review some scripts cuz

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remember, it's not just LT, it's also Mac Address and Channel Super Fun. I

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make sure that their shoots happen on time. And when they do, I get ice cream

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sandwiches for everyone. And when they don't,

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uh, Ah, man. Is everyone else here on Are you on probation still? No. No,

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you're not. What do you mean? Like 6 months? Yeah. in November. You've been

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here that long? Yeah, like 10 months ago. Okay. Uh, what would you say you

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do, Adam? Uh, I'm a writer and I make videos.

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Wow, that's fantastic. Computer. Well,

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this one's coming along great. You just wait. He's actually the one organizing

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this very video. So, he had to leap over here in his LT shorts. Nice, by the way.

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Love him. And pretend to write. Where the hell is everybody? We've got a

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probationary employee. Alex isn't at his desk. Anony's not at his desk. Jake's

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not even here. We're going to have to find some of these guys at some point. But in total, we have eight writers for

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LT, 12 writers total, and we do a total of how many videos a week? Like 15. 15?

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I don't think that's right. We do six LTS. One WAN Show, that's seven. Two

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techies, that's nine. Three short circuits, that's 12. A Mac Address

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theoretically a Channel Super Fun theoretically. And don't forget about

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Techlink, that's another three a week. And don't forget about They're just

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Move. and dad the the Just Movies podcast. Plof, what do you focus on? Uh,

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I write things. No. My god. But what? Uh, display stuff and other things that

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we cover. I do all the random stuff.

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Would you believe he hosts too? Oh yeah, sometimes. Yeah, I do. The SC is fun.

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You're writing about a water block right now. I can see. I was going to do other

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things on screen for a j for a joke, but I think Yeah, maybe something you

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actually did cuz I wrote most of that. Keep up the good work. You're going to

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walk right past me. Okay, where are we going now? This is completely off the

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rails at this point. Go talk to horse or something. Fine.

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Go find someow. No, we're

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the flow. Okay, well my work. Wait, did I Oh my god, Dennis, don't leave. What

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are you I want to lick my face. What are you doing? Okay, we've got our channel

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managers for Mac Address as well as Channel Super Fun. Dennis used to be an

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editor, but now he's like, "Why are you always so close to me?

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Don't you just I can't hold it. He's like being put on the spot. Yeah, that's

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closer than I was holding it. I'll hold it. Okay. I don't Why are you moving

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away? Why are you so close? Just you can push Jonathan. Yeah. So, you do MAC

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address? I do Mac Address. Hello. Yes, I can do this if you prefer. I like to

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think of myself as someone who tries to show everyone here why Apple does the

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things they do. Right now, I haven't actually watched it yet, but I love the

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title of the most recent video. I am going to watch it soon. Am I becoming a

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hater? Do you think that being around all of us has made you see Apple in a

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different light? I've always been a hater. I've always been cynical. All

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right, that's fair enough. Now, Dennis, you used to be an editor here and now

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I spend a lot of time at your house and watch you naked three times total.

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I wouldn't describe it as super fun, but is it at least a little fun? It's not.

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It's not fun. It's not fun. So, Arthur,

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what do you do here? Uh, I make memes. I mean, that is an actual position that we

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actually have. But in all seriousness, these guys have been absolutely crushing

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it. We've got Floatplane exclusives that have been just off the freaking

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rails awesome lately. whether it's cutting room floor or original content.

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that really is like a big part of it among us. If you want to learn more

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about some of the people that we have here you can check out the meet the team

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series over where are you going? I'm going downstairs.

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over on Floatplane is awesome. and their exclusive kind of behind the scenes content that Arthur and his

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helper put together. Where am I supposed to go next? Supposed to be up in the

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lab. You're supposed to go to business. I think you're supposed to go to business. I'm informed that I'm supposed

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to talk to the business team next. We'll start with the one and only Colton

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Potter, who surprisingly has not actually been fired yet. Yeah, for I'm

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head of business development. I do business. What are you doing with this? Why are you holding it like that? Hey,

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I'm going to let you finish, but just I do business stuff. Marketing, sales,

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events. We're doing an event right now. Yeah. Land party. It's going to be

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awesome. By the time you see this, it'll be over. So, don't try and sign up.

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Yeah. Cool. That's it. That's it. Well, you said you were going to ask me something. Yeah. I don't want to ask

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this in cam. Now, for the rest of the business team, where the hell is

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everyone? Uh, vacation helping blur.

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Okay. Well, fine. Go. All right. Hey,

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Sean, sales supervisor here. Uh, oversee our accounts team. Essentially, we work

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with all of our different partners from like the Intels, the AMDs, the

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Samsung's. Now, how many customers would you say that each of our sales people

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works with? Oh, I'd say at any given time, probably 30 to 40.

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We're not going to get any applications anymore ever because that's a lot of

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clients to have to work with. The business team also handles procurement,

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but neither of those guys appear to be here either. Oh, they've moved. We used

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to manage the relationship with all the brands ourselves, but now we have Matt

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what is it that you would say you do? I would say that we talk to all the brands

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ahead of time so that we know what's coming out next, when it's coming out,

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whether or not he can get his hands on it, and whether or not it's drop proof.

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That's always pretty critical. Oh my god, enough.

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Thanks, Matt. Over here, we've got the accounting department, some of which is

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still on probation. It used to be just my wife and now it's my wife is gone.

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Okay, she's gone and Jake's gone. What is going on here? Oh, this is This

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office is probably full of confidential stuff. Blur everything. Also in this

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office is other and then another

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probationary employee. Wow. Other has some really cool Lego flowers. Are these

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cool or what? All right. Once we've procured the stuff. Yeah. Where does it

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go? It goes to your mama. No. Okay.

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Logistics. Logistics. Let's go. Welcome to the hold. This is the logistics

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department where Serge, Jamie, Nicholas,

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Dan, Alex, Dick, all do their Oh my god,

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it is a mess in here. Dan. No, it's not. Give Dan the mic.

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Are you kidding me right now? No. Hi.

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These guys do everything from inventorying and stickering things that

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come in to rearranging sets to right now

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building up the computers for our whale ticket holders at the whale land. That's

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right. How does it feel to be working on something so pointless given that four

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out of the five whale ticket holders told us they already have better computers anyway? It's a good use of my

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time. Better than sweeping up uh you know HQ2 in this heat. Yeah. Yeah,

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that's fair. Is that where everyone else is? Yeah. Oh, you should show the other cool thing you did recently with the

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mockup with the thing with the panels. Oh, yeah, sure. Here is your mockup.

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Check this out. That's the theater room at my house. And those are the exact

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dimensions of our LTT acoustic panel

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frames that we're working on. So, we are going to absolutely deck this room out

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with them. How many uh did you say I would need of the of the little modular

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connectors? So, yeah, it looks like we need 1,700.

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Cool. Yeah. All right, let me tell you something I

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know about Serge. All right, fire away. When something needs to be picked up at

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my house, Serge is the guy. Oh, is that

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all you think I do around here? No, but darn it, you are so fast at it. Well, if

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you're wondering what else I do, I also handle your crossber stuff that comes

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across. So, Commamino server, you name it. Like the EMC thing, testing chamber.

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I was dealing with that as well. Little import things. Yeah, things I also deal with customs and brokerage and I look

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read all the trade laws. so you don't have to. That's actually pretty

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critical. Um, Nicholas, I would say, is our specialist when it comes to cooling,

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component repair, stuff like that, like super geeky stuff. Uh, 3D printing, that

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kind of thing. Uh, Alex D is the manager

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of the team here. So, he coordinates, I

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mean, really the higher level things that logistics does. So, kitting out a

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new building, for example, is going to fall on mostly Alex and Dan. And then

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the rest of them are going to make sure that it actually happens. And then they do a lot of the making sure it actually

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happens. We have five people in logistics now. I mean, if you look

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around though, there is a lot to keep organized. So, here's incoming items to

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be inventoried. Here's things to be returned to inventory. I brought this

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back from my house by the way. Um, so that Yeah, that was me. I just dropped

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it there this morning. Picking up after me is a lot of work and not everything

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they do is logistic stuff. the set design and actually the production setup

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over here, particularly the audio was handled by the logistics department.

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Everything from design to fabrication to building out the set to actually running

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all of these cables and making sure that the WAN Show and and they're just movies

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podcast sound and look awesome. Where is

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everybody? I'm here. I know I know you're there,

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but like Andy's not here and David's not here. I'm kidding, David. I'm kidding.

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I'm kidding. Brandon, I think many of our viewers probably aren't familiar

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with you. So, yeah, I've never I haven't worked here for very long. Yeah, not very long. Definitely fresh meat. What

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do I do here? Yeah. Well, if it has anything to do with lighting or pointing

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a camera at something and it's on one of our channels, I'm one of the shooters.

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So, one of the people who is doing exactly what's happening to me right

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now. Very good. In all seriousness though, massive shout out to those of

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you who actually notice and care about what these guys do. I actually forwarded

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you guys some comments and some emails that I got recently where people are

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just like, "Yeah, you know, I don't really notice the production values on LT until I go to other channels."

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Honestly speaking, I'd say that is the highest praise that you can give to a

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team like this where they just make it look kind of effortless. Um, really?

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Yeah, I promise you it's not effortless.

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all of our camera guys have in common is like they're not stick things. They

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actually have to like move stuff a lot. Uh Andy here is our sort of supervisor

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for the camera department. So uh what do you do that's different from just

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operating a camera? Merge photo and uh I sometime like help writing feedback for

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new shooters. I do a little bit like Chinese thing procurement. Oh that's

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right. Yeah. Andy's our guy. If there's some like super weird thing we need from

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China, this guy has connections. Yeah, it's kind of weird actually. Naturally,

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once we shoot the videos, somebody's got to edit them. Let's see if my production

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manager is here. Ah, yes. One of the

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original gangsters, Edel Yago. Does this

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actually work? Like, is that Yeah,

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Ed manages our editing team, which is now a total of Holy crap. Do you have

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like 15 people? Did you count yourself? 12 13. Did you count the camera, guys?

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15. Technically, you overseas. Who said 15? Me. Okay. Yeah, you're right. Are

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you going to tell them what you do or do you want me to tell them what you do? Ed's camera shy. You should see his

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first video that he hosted way back in the day. We tried him out as an on

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camera host and he was he was so sweaty.

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I had to run back and forth between the camera and prompter.

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Uh, what do I do here? That's really good question. Really good question. And

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I am going to pack my things because I knew this was going to come. Ed does

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scheduling. He also does hiring for the editing department. And lately he's

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actually been doing a ton of R&D including coordinating with YouTube as

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well as Adobe on HDR content. Name Deleted here is finally a dedicated

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thumbnail artist. We should have had one freaking ages ago. There are YouTube

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channels literally a tenth our size that have a dedicated thumbnail artist. Uh

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she also does a ton of the merch photos now, including both the photography and

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the photoshopping of them. The delightful one with the dog pulling down

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my pants. Uh that was her work. And then we've also got Scott. What a dick.

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That's Scott. Sorry. Uh what would you say you do here? Um I document Linus,

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drop tips. Everything you drop, I I got to show the public. Thank you. That was

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bound to happen. All right. We've also got Emily, who is an editor plus. Plus,

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yes, I help out a little bit. Yeah, when Ed and Nicole are not here, then I make

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sure that these guys do their job. Good job, Emily. And she even knows that she

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does it, which is excellent. Also in here, we've got the one and only, the

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meme kingiest, Alex Puffin. Hi.

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You're going to give me nothing? No.

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When he edits this video, he's going to make it so that his segment is like the

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balmst segment out of the whole video. And he's going to do it purely in

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editing. That's really his superpower.

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Oh wow. The whole microphone was a lie. This is just a road wireless goto. Oh

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yeah. What's up? What's up? You're relatively

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new. I forget your name. I'm sorry. Andrew. See, you don't have a name like Scott where I can just be like, "That's

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Scott. What a dick." Yeah. Well, I'm happy about that. Yeah, it worked out

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great. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What do I do? I edit and I shoot some stuff as well. All

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right. Fantastic. We have a lot to shoot and a lot to edit. Robert. Hello. I'm

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Robert. I'm one of the editors. And you know you're Robert. You're standing in the editing. You know you're an editor.

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Come on, man. Help me out here. Basically, my job is I make him look good. That's a tough job. Hi, Nicole.

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Hi. Hi. Everybody knew I was coming. Come

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on, people. Um, I help schedule videos.

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well. I assign people to videos and I heard that Alex is now assigned to this

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video. Oh, hi Mark. Hi. How are you? I mean, uh, I did not hit her.

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That was That's That's a line. Okay. Mark's one of our editors, resident

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hoarder, resident Mac user. Why is this

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still here? Do you know how many times I've tried to give this thing away? This

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weird NZXT helmet. I took it. It was great. I can see that. But you know the

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problem that you have is not going to get any better by taking more random

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crap. It's not data. What? Oh, no. You've seen Oh, you're talking about my

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call. Yeah, I'm talking about your other hoarding problem. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I have Okay. Yeah. Uh, fair enough. Throw

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it away. But it's at work. It's not. It's not supposed to be at work. I'll

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throw it away. Thank you. Hi, Marcus. What are you working on? I'm working on

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Techquickie, so I just stare at whoever

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is hosting eight hours a day. Okay, cool. Uh James knows he has a little

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something right in the crotch area there, right? Yeah, I should I should uh

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crop it out there. Thanks. That's a lot better. Yeah, that's everyone down here.

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Y that's good. Probably. Yeah, except your uh coc chief.

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Cool. I think we all know what David does. David operates the camera and also

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is on the There's Movies podcast and also contributes to some of our retro

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gaming content because he's turned into something of an enthusiast lately. This

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is the thing. This whole work from home trend. You want to make a video, you

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want to take a group picture or something, everybody's freaking at home,

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man. I was talking to another YouTuber who was commiserating with me about like

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business overhead and they gave me the number for their monthly payroll, and

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they were like, "Yeah, man. It's like," and I was like, "Let me tell you." We

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had customer care agents like Adam and Nolan who take care of all of the

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incoming tickets for our ow. Dang it.

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Merch sales. We've got everything from pillows to t-shirts to to plushies to

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the upcoming backpack. We did a video recently showing off a lot of the stuff

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that's coming down the line. At that time, h this is unfortunate. At least

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some of these guys were in office. But

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today, I don't see Bridget. I don't see Matthew. I don't see Alama Day. But the

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engineering department is here.

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Da da. You're not live, right? No. No, we're not live. Act like we are, though.

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No. So, be nice. Am I not nice? No. No. Otherwise, why

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would I say that? That hurts. Kyle's the engineering manager here. He's been

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tasked with a multitude of projects. Uh, most importantly, our d LT screwdriver,

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but he's also worked on like a battery bank, like RGB accessory of some sort.

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He helps the other guys out when they run into roadblocks and has actually

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helped us out a lot when it comes to just general procurement best practices

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because he actually has experience in it unlike us. Um, I also did some of the

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initial hiring for the Labs and kicking that off the ground before Gary came

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along and he has great taste in cars.

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hire came on staff and drove the exact same car as me. I was like, "Now that is

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a practical car. Stop timing." Oh, hi.

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How it goes. Is there anything you can actually talk about or is everything top

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secret? I mean, I guess I kind of almost everything. So, yeah. No, I don't have

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anything new. Tiny is our resident

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physical, you know, therapy guru. You

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can you can see that he's the king when it comes to balance boards. And that's

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not all of the things. That's two of the many things. Look how many things there

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are. I actually designed this thing and own a patent on it. Really? Really?

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Really? So, this is a patented balance board. And I won't die if I try to use

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it. I would not say that. Hold on. No, no, no. I'm good. I'm good. I got this.

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I got this. All right, Jacob. What's up?

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Hello. How's it going? This is exciting.

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Jacob, can we show the power bar holder?

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I gave all of my prototypes to Are you freaking kidding me? He's filming a

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video. It is coming. Spoiler. How about the power brick one? Wait, no, I showed

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that one in the last one. The power bar one. You don't have a single power bar

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holder? How about an early prototype? Uh, show me a crappy power bar holder.

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working on some stuff that involves magnetism and also uh high volume

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production. So, I'll work on quality control and like uh validating suppliers

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and things like that. Yeah. So, I went ahead and ran off with every single

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common power bar I could find and ordered more online and stuff. The goal

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here was I wanted to have something that interfaces with as many of these keyhole

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slots as we could and then make it as I

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suppose easy to use as possible and not finicky. This is an older prototype.

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there, if you have a metal strip on the bottom of your desk or a metal surface,

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there goes your power bar. And most of them are going to have two of them on

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them obviously, so it'll totally hold it in place. And this is also much weaker

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compared to the final one. We have final ones that are so strong due to magnetic

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simulation stuff that you can actually unplug things without it pulling off the

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the power bar. And you can see even this one, the early one holds as long as it's

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right above the magnet. Lloyd designs delightful t-shirts like this one. Got

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some new plushies coming. All that kind of good stuff. You have no idea what

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these are, but they're cute. Sarah does more graphic design as well as product

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design for things like our notebooks, which you can find on LT. Oh, wait. This

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isn't ours. Our notebooks that we sell on ltstore.com, as well as our toques or

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beanies. And in here, we've got the business folks from Creator Warehouse.

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So, Bridget and Kyle manage their respective departments. And then Nick is

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in charge of the whole shebang. He used to be our business development manager

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for LTT, but then moved on to bigger and better things to be replaced temporarily

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by Colton until we find a suitable, you know, long-term fit for the job. Then

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this is Natalie. She works on just like logistics basically, but not like what

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our logistics department does, like like the logistics of like containers of

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things coming in.

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Crap. Serge, you were saying you like drive

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things. I do. Yes. Okay. Can you drive us to where? Yeah, we need to go to lab

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2. Sure. Let's go. Okay. After a short ride, we've arrived at Lab 2. I mean,

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most of you only see the videos. But if it wasn't for the large team that we

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have behind the scenes, there would be no way for me to lose money on a scale

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like this. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Floor space. Floor space. Marketing floor

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space. New marketing guy. What does the marketing guy do? We've hired a lot of

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people lately. Everyone we've blurred or covered up started in the last three

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months. It's been insane. Uh the marketing guy does marketing for Float

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Plane, LMG's channels, LTX, and that's

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it. LT Store. You probably haven't noticed it yet because he just started.

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And also like Colton's been guiding him. So, can only expect so much. Yeah. He's

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got to be a self starter. You know what I'm saying? What's up, Jake? Okay. Hi.

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Hi. This is the Jake Show. Hello. What's going on? Okay, you're taking us way

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over to the probationary employee again. Hey, probation. Come on. You can't do

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making extra work for the editor. So, Lionus, what what do you do here? Well,

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I roll in anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes

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late. I I get dragged around by James um

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to wherever it is that I'm supposed to be or Jake. Jake's actually been doing

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more of like a supervisory role for the writing department. James was on Patly

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for a bit. Screw that guy. Jake had to Jake had to cover for him. Um I look

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pretty. for the camera. Is that a Dennis Leo

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exclusive? Yeah. Thank you. This has been This has been wonderful. The

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cooling alone for this 150 attendee land

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party is apparently costing $13,000.

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Chase, get over here and explain. No, you can't point there. Did Colton

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approve this? $13,000 for cooling? Uh,

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yeah, but you also approved a land party in the summer, so Oh, so it's my fault.

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Chase is our events coordinator. He does like lounge night. He does this. He does

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kind of large weird sponsored shoots like that PC or no PC thing. Yeah, he

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was hired to run LTX and then boom, pandemic lol jokes. Um, thanks for that.

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Great job on LTX. We found them, folks.

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Alex D, manager of the logistics department, who takes my dreams and

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makes them close to reality. Yeah, sometimes they don't turn out the right

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color. Yeah, the walls in there are supposed to be gray. Uh, can you explain

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the dusty brown? Um, yeah, it's kind of like a uh um Jamie put it the right way.

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It's like a uh um a beverage holder.

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Well, anyway, uh this was coordinated at

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the last minute. So, this was a collaborative effort between logistics

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and event planning. Uh this is the $13,000

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air conditioner that because it was so last minute, we couldn't just buy our

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own air conditioner and put it up on the roof. We're just blowing away money. See

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you later money. So that's pretty cool. Good work. Yeah. Well, I mean, if you

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want to put AC on there, it's at least 150,000. Are you serious? Yeah, that's

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the lowest quote I got. You know, we're doing that though, right? Oh, yeah. I know. It won't happen till next year,

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though, unfortunately. Holy. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Flow plane. Where the hell's Flow

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Plane? I know two of our Floatplane people are attending the land, but

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they're mostly like scattered around the globe. They build our own like uh

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inventory management system on top of maintaining our video streaming platform

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which now has over 27,000 paying subscribers. Shout out you guys.

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Flowplane. Oh yeah, they do a ton of the dev work for ltstore.com. Did we miss

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anyone? God, there's so many people who work here. Oh yeah, John, one of our

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writers. He's based in North Carolina. And I think I think that's everybody

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from my checklist. Okay, that's a lot of people, Lionus. Yeah. And aren't we

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hiring more? linusmedi.com/job

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I think or something like that is where you can find the latest listings. We got

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to like chill out though. You know we're headed for like a global recession, right? You wouldn't know it walking

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around here. See you later. If you guys enjoyed this video, maybe go check out

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the creator warehouse specific tour where we talked a little bit more in

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detail about what the people there do with the obsession exception of Nick who

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runs the whole thing which was really funny. Uh he doesn't think it's funny. He's going to be mad when he sees this.