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so this is a q a do we have actual questions yep oh where did we get them

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supposed to put this on display next to my other ones when it's like i mean look you're not

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i'm not saying it's not nice it's tasteful it's just cost down it's

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cheaper i like cheap things so do you i do okay guys let's uh let's start off

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these questions well before before that i just want to say we you know obviously

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that's awesome we asked you uh for your questions so we're going to uh we're

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going off a twitter rightly see how flustered he is i'm having so much fun

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right now just how we talk i'm co-hosting i'm hosting in front of you

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it's like it's like it's like hosting in front of my dad so what do we have here

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let's start off with a what is it that would say you do here well so many

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people think that dennis is just like like a quirky on-camera personality and

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what else do i do like they're like they don't know that he

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he could be a lot of people maybe we could just hire people just to be quirky on camera

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quick news sector of content was a viable option which is a great decision

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i must say and how long has this channel idea been in the works before the first

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i was just looking for a cheap fast easy way to hit my video quota right and

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covering current events was a way that with as little effort as possible i

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product announcements and new store grand openings as news but really they

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way back which is the first kind of iteration of this thing yeah it was a

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weekly tech news show not a daily one yes and then when i came on at ncix

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youtube channel that made it so that it made no sense for me to go through all

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and just take over the nci xcom channel and rebrand it yeah that was what i

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really wanted to do and then alternate universe

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failing that i settled for just starting a new channel and bringing you in to

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start that from scratch now as for weather still not scratch scratch

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scratch is the opportunity that anyone on the internet had just just do the

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same kind of thing okay yeah we have the host so we have a similar name yeah

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scratch with a gigantic kick in the ass out the door from linus tech tips yeah

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okay so then uh leading on from that we got jan plushburger

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uh who asks who and how did you guys come up with the name tag linked oh oh

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my god i had so many names that i liked more than tech length yeah

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so we both won right i remember you guys gave us a couple options are you looking

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in your email yeah i want i actually want to see them all clinked pronounced

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clinked so we leave off the t and e but it would be like an abbreviated tech

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i think that oh no go ahead embarrass me you had short circuit and patch notes

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techsync the daily download slash the download the patch dot dot dot dot

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maybe tech linked it sounds nerdy as hell but i figure i could make some good

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was like it makes the most sense it's like it's tech linked it's nat

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links it's the spiritual successor i don't even rhyme okay we got a bit of a

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logistical question now how does the research process go for a video uh also

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twice when you were gone right so general i mean okay so i'll just answer

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time component you see that takes many that well i don't know when these

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mondays and fridays and then trades that for a different day and the same for

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dennis and that's just to make sure that you guys know when to expect heckling

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celebrate us so how do you choose the stories though yeah i guess that's kind of like a

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like kfc doing some wacky app for a faraday cage or something yeah or elon

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knocking over a thailand yeah yeah i mean that's a

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great example of something that's like okay it's not really tech but it's tech

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a joke about that in tech linked so then i'll include it it's almost more about

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the persona or who we think our listener is and who we are

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keeping people up to date like i've seen so many comments on tech link from people that are like yep

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very digestible and i find that if there's something that i see that really

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grabs my attention i can go dig into it further you got all the original

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articles linked under the video and i can do that at my own pace i prioritize

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for all of us from johann carlson

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you guys i've answered lots of questions i want to hear how you stay between

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cringe and funny yeah how do you determine when actually i cut out a lot

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of things that you guys don't see so the mine line is very cringy

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cringe and maybe a little bit funny so like

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very cringy parts all gone yeah yeah and i will make cringe part like kind of

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that's one of the things i actually like so much about the way we do things as a

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company in general having multiple chefs in the kitchen in some ways you can end

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all these different flavors um like james is a regular writer on ltt and

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hosting it yeah um or it doesn't happen yeah but i'll but i'll review it and

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then i'll say okay again this was too much and then i might add something and james will go oh that's way over the

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yeah and then finally it goes to our editor who applies yet another filter to

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all red tape and things getting removed because the other part of that equation

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is respect for the people that you work with yeah so there's a lot of times

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not my favorite but someone will laugh at that yeah so a lot of the time i feel

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really corporate when i talk about stuff like this but we call the um the

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annotations that we put in a script for what visuals go with which lines

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gatekeeper so tech linked we don't actually don't

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like oh i'll just go there and choose it that's all there's no time yeah yeah

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right exactly so fix it in post yeah like you know

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create more freely and like do whatever you want like i would look somehow look

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up some memes like say a cyber chalk i just said what's your name yeah maybe

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anything to make what you're saying makes sense in some way what i give them

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what i give them is just a list of news stories so i try to have multiple

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sources and like who writes the cute little uh captions right the writer does

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okay because a lot of the time they're very clever they're like actually one of my favorite parts of the episode it's

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like what are they go what are they gonna put in there this time you see you see that kind of thing in other news

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broadcasts but ours are just kind of like they're over there like it's like a

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parody of an actual dude right right right yeah

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basically the the worst pun you can come up with is like good uh it's a good

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candidate yeah anch sony uh says how

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know it's cut loose you know i'm just like yeah whatever it's like a tertiary

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seriously the gold play button just starts melting

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irreverent take on the news was irreverence right unintentionally so um

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like screw screwed it up or whatever i was just gonna

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trash your joke on camera because they did write in jokes they did write in

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jokes but like and like intros and stuff and i would just be like that's a

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terrible intro okay new intro um yeah and then i because the reality

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of it was i just didn't care but i was so checked out of my job yeah and you

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get these multiple layers to it too so it started with me criticizing riley's

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scripts on camera because part of my deal with ncix was i

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was supposed to be like training these guys to run the channel in my absence

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yeah so i'm like literally training them on camera you didn't train me and then

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riley starts realizing well he's gonna do this no matter what i do and he

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starts writing in bait so then i start taking it then i realize

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he's doing it and then i'm like no i'm not taking your bait i'm gonna read this

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stupid thing that you wrote and i'm crediting you with it you know oh my

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gosh and that is still that's still probably my favorite thing to do when you host anything is to well okay mostly

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tech like not so much ltt videos but like writing in something that i know

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that you are not gonna read like verbatim i just kind of like put in it's

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like a little seed and then i'm like i'm gonna see what linus does with this

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and sometimes you just read it out and i'm like dang it but sometimes you just like take it and

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like go off with it and i'm like yes so this being a linus media group video we

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can you tell he's a writer here he's got so many

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content like that is christopher chan asks how do you do a backflip

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wow okay the trick is to jump straight up in the air instead of back you want

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to get to the apex of your jump first and then commit 100 to the flip bring

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your knees towards your head and back over once you get the knees like over the uh

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like center line basically your weight will just flip you back over wow did you

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do that on camera so i don't know how to do a back flip but i used to be able to

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do a back handspring and even for those

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uh the trick is don't throw yourself back too much the last time i attempted

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one i threw myself back onto my head like right onto my head and

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then i never did one again because i tried to do another one and i was just i

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was too afraid and if you don't commit like james said you won't make it wow

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that was way more informative than i expected

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that question to me okay zane drew asks who would win in a

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fight linus versus dennis oh me for sure wait i'm black though too

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no you're not i'm taekwondo blah blah you're a bailey i'm actually are you

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really yes i am can you show us a kick okay no no you do a kick okay you do right

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here do it i'll do a kick i'll do it if you do it don't put him on the spot well

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let's see come on yeah let's get this get this oh my gosh

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to be clear that no kick starts like that last time it was like 15 years ago

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you should have had things okay you haven't done a kick for 15 years

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okay stand up let me kick your face

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you should stand oh my god oh my god

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but don't actually kick him oh

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linus knows karate too i think okay i think he will he he will

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win he's still doing the martial arts no and

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sims no it's been 15 years for me too i think that i could in a in about with

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rules and structure i could beat linus in a fight but i think if we actually

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fought to the death linus would win i think what the internet really wants to

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see though is me versus austin boxing match oh you heard it here first no

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actually we've talked about it before i'll turn into a real video and i'm

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gonna be the one prettiest thing that i know it

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i don't think i could hit austin he's too nice it would be impossible oh he'll

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just have to talk enough smack okay i've heard him try to talk smack it's

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pathetic he's he's too nice he you know he doesn't mean any of it

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you're just like get get in here hug you to death yeah we got a ton of

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questions about people asking and it's it's fair because tech linked was a

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relatively new channel it started in april

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27th 2018 yeah last year why that was

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last year so then a lot of people are asking oh what about that other channel

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that you know is is languishing in the dirt the one

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that's more fun than just fun yeah super fun way more fun not quite ultra fun

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next year when's the next when's the next challenge so we actually talked

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about this a lot um we're gonna start doing working on it after ces right now

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have christmas and cs is gonna be a lot of work after that we're gonna start

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doing pre-production and starting like fresh we rebrand entire channel

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with different people yeah it still has like goatee and shave his head

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is he really no it's gonna be channel super fun the dark

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and gritty reboot i think he might look pretty good

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um another topic that like a million people asked about was

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talk linked because we haven't really done a talk linked in a while just give

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a taste yeah why haven't we done a talk linked in a while riley well

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that's a good question i honestly don't know when's the last one we did it's

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probably been at least three or four months it was like a tesla

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autopilot one or something yeah it was a ryzen launch so talk linked was like a

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really cool opportunity to kind of have more content like this where we are

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talking about okay we're not really talking about tech news now but like talking about tech content in kind of a

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more uh laid-back setting but not quite to the point where it's like wancho

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why what's wrong with lan show uh because nothing quantum is great great i love

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wet show there's a good chance of seeing more talking to than your free stuff yeah because

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uh you learned that if you say in a meeting and a writer's meeting on monday

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hey i'm not doing an ltt video this week i wanted you to talk like that

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apparently lana said that apparently that yeah and secondly we've just been

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uh running more smoothly on ltt lately where the bottleneck isn't the number of

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scripts we have ready for a few weeks running now right it's usually just

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linus's time so i would love to do more tech linked and

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a lot of people have asked as well about having other people from the company on

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and like people have asked about having guest hosts host tech linked so like maybe we

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can do that it's gonna be super cool i don't know how guests are we talking

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like outside the company um well there's a few different questions

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there i think people were primarily talking about like youtubers like if if we have other youtubers here i didn't

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even think about that but like yeah we had austin do a tech quickie once that

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was cool this is more back to kind of logistics does riley or the other

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writers ever experience burnout when writing tech linked episodes well first

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i should ask you if you experienced burnout no because it's usually pretty

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short that's a lie like burnt

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a foreign people subscribed we need to be we owe them honesty okay burn out buy

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your jokes yes but like but not by my jokes i feel like

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editing technique is really fun i don't really get burnt out you're not always

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the editor sometimes sometimes will be marked sometimes be a prime somehow be

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what determines that well i'm too busy you're busy yeah okay

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right yeah um i'm fine okay don't worry about

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me ask me tomorrow okay yeah when we do tech like

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this yeah um for me i don't uh i don't feel like i

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experience burnout from writing techlinked but sometimes there are like

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just not very many tech news topics going on you know and i kind of have to

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scrounge a little bit i'm like oh maybe that's something i can make a joke about

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where it's like a commitment to the channel where you like we said you have to come in on holiday fridays or mondays

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when other people are having a long weekend that's never really bothered me because i

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traditionally haven't had very many jobs where i got the stat holidays so

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so it's like i'm used to kind of working uh stats anyways and usually i kind of

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like make up for it by like lttstore.com

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the most drawn out

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sometimes i make up for it by like taking a day off another day or something but i i i definitely don't i

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don't feel like i'm like uh tackling them so because part of the format is

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that you're talking about something different everyone was new yeah yeah

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it's like oh what and it's kind of exciting because like it's right in the

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name news it's new tech do you find your selection

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of topics has a lot to do with what you're interested in like let's say you see that there's a big

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cyber security thing or like a big crypto heist or something then you don't

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really care much about it but you see there's just pages and pages on forums

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about it so the world is interested yeah you find that you just cover those just

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as readily or try to avoid them no definitely and i see that from like john

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too when he writes and uh i noticed it when the other some other people were

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writing is like uh we definitely just kind of a lot of time we include what we care about

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because that's what you can talk about like i'm not gonna conclude

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i'm not going to talk about this one company like publishing or launching a

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network switch because i don't really care about that but to someone else they

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might be like whoa the network switch has that many

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things ethernet ports

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wow yeah so it definitely depends linus this

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is mostly a question for you uh what is the five-year plan looking

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like for linus cat tips

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and could we have the cats do tech reviews from time to time you have five

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years to get these tats you really have to snap on tech yeah

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new talent ouch

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i think the best five-year plan i could give for it is if for whatever reason

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linus media group went completely

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down the tubes just like collapsed in front of me

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linus cat tips is technically the intellectual property is owned by me

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personally so that could be the channel where i still upload like

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you know videos about how perhaps uh

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it's day 426 of not having a job because

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i show up at interviews and people are like what are you doing applying here

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weren't you famous and uh so yeah i'm you know i'm eating i'm eating raw

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macaroni now because we don't have power to heat up the water

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you know like i figured that's what i could use for that you have to sell your cats yeah yeah i had to sell the cats

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now what if tech linked overtakes ltt and subs

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somebody asked that chuck chalkboard history wants to know that'd be great

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actually what's the plan so we went we made it to a million so what happened

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when linus tech tips overtook ncix tech

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tips and subs was there was a mutiny and

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the staff of linus tech tips took off and started their own company with

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blackjack and hookers and then some yahoos were brought in to

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run the ncix tech tips channel and the linus tech tips crew was brought in to

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train them and then eventually ncix tech tips went away and those guys hired

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those guys so conceivably you could be running tech linked media inc

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if that ever happens and and i'd be bankrupt i was thinking you would be the

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one who would go and start a new channel and we'd all be stuck here with linus

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tech tips no no no no i was i was talking through what happened

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yeah yeah where was the blog sorry sorry it was before you started

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eliot roberts asked do you ever miss ncix tech tips what would i miss about

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it oh dang i have everything that i ever had there but like better no

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bigger better crew with like more tech and more channels and fewer

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restrictions like i can do whatever i want here

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honestly i feel the same way i feel like i have nostalgia for nci detectives

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because you like you look back and be like oh man that was i remember that room yeah that room certain people there

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was a lot of there was a lot of space in that that cool that was like kind of like a modern studio we had when we

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moved over to the other one and uh yeah it was fun but like

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uh do i wish i was working there instead of here uh

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no this is like an actual

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uh company where people are legit and aren't uh shady or you can uh have true

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friends um yeah 100 uh martin ross asks how long does

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riley's hair take to do in the morning funny story i don't actually do my hair

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in the morning i put my head in the shower in the morning because it's very

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thick and straight and if i don't do anything with it it'll just be floppy all over the place put the head in the

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shoe in the shower get it wet and then put a hat on i mean i dry it and then i

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put a hat on and then i come to work and then i do it because then it's already kind of in the shape

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i i can kind of see actually i can kind of see there's a bit of a hat line

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that's that's the downside uh supreme joe asks make dennis host in mandarin

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no no one's gonna watch that actually

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i think i saw like at least five or six people asking for that specifically

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really yeah oh i don't think that's i don't think that's a very good idea

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like well we'd have english subtitles oh you know how hard to subtitle stuff but

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my video yeah it would take actually it would take a while i don't think that's

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a good idea because i've been told that apparently he's just as hard to understand in chinese as he is in

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english really no no what do you mean yes andy says yes

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oh that's hilarious you say that you're at that horrible in between where your

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chinese is fading and your english isn't perfect yet so you're just like he

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speaks no language who am i

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colin shofild asks you said the nice thing about tackling was that anyone can

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do it so can you guys have janice from accounting

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do one i don't know you'd have to ask her i thought i sure

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let's ask janice anyone can do it well basically anyone

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can i think our audience is pretty tolerant though like if they know it's

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someone's first try i think they're a lot more forgiving

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you can have people host where they think that they're not going to do well and then they actually turned out to

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like be awesome like yvonne was like so scared the first time

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she hosted and i'm like you'll be fine don't worry about it and then she like had she was she like blew through it

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she's petrified of everything yeah yeah she's like she's like

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the her biggest flaw is that she just like

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is afraid to do anything she's afraid that she'll like suck at it

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it's like and then turns out she's like it's is that an asian parents thing

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no no i think i think she's just being

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humble is it about being a parent no it's not humility when you're like oh i

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00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:44,799
did so bad on the test and it's like 98 and a half out of 100.

440
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:47,279
that's not humility that's just like obsession

441
00:30:45,919 --> 00:30:51,919
she thought she was gonna do poorly on the roast as well i know oh yeah god

442
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:57,440
yeah she tried to back out of it she was like i'm not gonna have any material i'm

443
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:59,440
like you are literally my wife

444
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:03,679
all you have to do is stand there and say my penis is small

445
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:10,240
and you'll get a standing ovation and she did and she did and it happened

446
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:14,799
okay guys it's about time uh we'll end off with uh one from userbotted

447
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and he asks when will it be time for quick bits now it's time for the quick

448
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:22,240
bits there's no quick bits in this video but i actually do want to ask you a

449
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:26,559
question that we haven't got to previously why don't you say quick bits

450
00:31:24,399 --> 00:31:30,559
i said it once you did it because i made you say it no i said it by accident like

451
00:31:29,039 --> 00:31:34,880
yeah that's what i mean a while ago i just i totally was based on it yeah but

452
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:38,559
you really recorded it you didn't keep it in you wouldn't no no no i i it's in

453
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:41,039
an episode somewhere people will have to go look for it

454
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:47,200
what's the story though because i actually forget why you don't say quick bits oh because it's like i think going

455
00:31:44,559 --> 00:31:51,120
back i thought it was stupid because the stories are a lot of the time just as

456
00:31:49,279 --> 00:31:54,960
significant and just as long as the other ones yeah so i was like what is

457
00:31:52,559 --> 00:31:58,880
this arbitrary distinction between buttquakes and maine's topics they're a

458
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:02,559
little bit buck but quacks i think initially it was

459
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:06,399
something that you like didn't want to say kind of as a joke and then maybe and

460
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:10,320
then now it's kind of turned into a thing where it's like i have to come up with something for you

461
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:15,760
to say i'm gonna not quick i'm gonna confess

462
00:32:13,039 --> 00:32:20,720
the joke meant so little to me that when we first started doing tech

463
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:22,240
linked yeah and you were like all

464
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:25,840
is he gonna say it is he not gonna say it i had no idea what you were talking

465
00:32:24,559 --> 00:32:30,000
about no and the audience was all like talking

466
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:34,559
about it in the comments i was like was this even a thing i didn't even remember

467
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:38,720
it i only started doing it again because you reminded me wait what do you think

468
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:43,120
that means for new viewers like they're watching them he's like time for the box

469
00:32:40,799 --> 00:32:46,480
they're just like huh what the hell i definitely have thought about that a few

470
00:32:44,559 --> 00:32:50,720
times i'm like this is going to make no sense to anyone who hasn't seen the show

471
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:54,480
before but on the other hand that's kind of the show already all the indian

472
00:32:52,399 --> 00:32:57,600
trolls doesn't make sense yeah yeah people click on this video and i'm like

473
00:32:56,159 --> 00:33:02,480
talking about how i just caught them with their pants down or something and they're like wait what

474
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:05,679
all right well i don't know what else to say that was

475
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:09,600
fun it was that was the information let's do it again whoa 2 million 2

476
00:33:07,679 --> 00:33:12,399
million there's no plaque for that yeah can they send you

477
00:33:11,279 --> 00:33:16,960
another one we'll just put this plaque there again and like write two on it yeah yeah yeah

478
00:33:15,279 --> 00:33:21,279
that might be so stay tuned guys

479
00:33:18,559 --> 00:33:25,120
as soon as youtube revises the design of the gold play button we're gonna get

480
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:29,840
channel super fun resurrected for you guys and uh we're gonna earn another one

481
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:34,240
that's my life's goal now i'm not real focused on ruby play buttons or whatever

482
00:33:32,559 --> 00:33:37,360
pewdiepie got and the brofist or whatever for 100 million

483
00:33:36,159 --> 00:33:41,919
i can't remember it doesn't matter the point is i'm i'm never gonna get there

484
00:33:39,679 --> 00:33:47,710
so i'm just gonna i'm just gonna collect all the gold ones well that's it guys

485
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thanks so much for watching