WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:07.040 so this is a q a do we have actual questions yep oh where did we get them 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:10.080 uh i tweeted and i put a youtube community post 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:14.880 got like actually a ton of response oh thanks guys i have a 00:00:12.719 --> 00:00:18.240 question why does youtube keep costing down the gold play button yeah how am i 00:00:16.720 --> 00:00:23.359 supposed to put this on display next to my other ones when it's like i mean look you're not 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:26.960 gonna like this but i kind of like this one what's wrong with this i love this 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:31.599 i'm not saying it's not nice it's tasteful it's just cost down it's 00:00:28.880 --> 00:00:35.840 cheaper i like cheap things so do you i do okay guys let's uh let's start off 00:00:34.239 --> 00:00:38.960 these questions well before before that i just want to say we you know obviously 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:43.680 we're doing this because we hit a million subscribers on techlinked and 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:47.600 that's awesome we asked you uh for your questions so we're going to uh we're 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:51.760 going off a twitter rightly see how flustered he is i'm having so much fun 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:56.800 right now just how we talk i'm co-hosting i'm hosting in front of you 00:00:55.440 --> 00:01:01.760 it's like it's like it's like hosting in front of my dad so what do we have here 00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:06.240 let's start off with a what is it that would say you do here well so many 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:11.439 people think that dennis is just like like a quirky on-camera personality and 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:14.159 what else do i do like they're like they don't know that he 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:17.200 actually edits the videos yeah like a lot of them i mean 00:01:16.080 --> 00:01:24.080 he could be a lot of people maybe we could just hire people just to be quirky on camera 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:24.080 that's all i do that's me 00:01:24.799 --> 00:01:31.600 question number one mark facebook berg on twitter says what made you think this 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:36.000 quick news sector of content was a viable option which is a great decision 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:40.400 i must say and how long has this channel idea been in the works before the first 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:45.759 video on TechLinked so going back to the original netlink 00:01:43.360 --> 00:01:50.240 i was just looking for a cheap fast easy way to hit my video quota right and 00:01:48.240 --> 00:01:56.240 covering current events was a way that with as little effort as possible i 00:01:52.880 --> 00:01:58.399 could crap out a video that you know 00:01:56.240 --> 00:02:02.000 was very low risk you know there was no motherboard that could die while i was 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:05.759 in the middle of filming that would make it so that all the effort up until that 00:02:03.520 --> 00:02:12.720 point was wasted and it was also an excuse to cover current events at ncix 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:14.400 which was our way of disguising um like 00:02:12.720 --> 00:02:18.480 product announcements and new store grand openings as news but really they 00:02:16.720 --> 00:02:23.280 were marketing and you're talking about netlinked weekly 00:02:20.720 --> 00:02:27.840 way back which is the first kind of iteration of this thing yeah it was a 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:33.680 weekly tech news show not a daily one yes and then when i came on at ncix 00:02:31.760 --> 00:02:38.879 we started doing it daily and called it nettling daily instead of weekly episode 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:42.319 11 was uploaded in september 2012 so yeah so it was only around for like a 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:45.599 year yeah so nettling weekly nailing daily and then 00:02:44.160 --> 00:02:48.840 after the fall of ncix 00:02:47.440 --> 00:02:54.720 in 2017 i don't even remember anything it 00:02:51.440 --> 00:02:57.440 was 2017. yeah after ncix declared 00:02:54.720 --> 00:03:01.920 bankruptcy i saw an opportunity to take content that the tech community loved 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:06.400 which was netlink daily and just bring it under the LMG umbrella 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:12.480 um i mean who else was going to have a chance to go and negotiate the ncix 00:03:09.040 --> 00:03:14.080 channel away from the ncix management 00:03:12.480 --> 00:03:18.720 unfortunately it wasn't a matter of convincing the ncis management we 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:23.280 actually got that far it was a matter of the creditors 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:28.239 that were after ncix's assets maybe having a reasonable claim to the ncix 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:31.200 youtube channel that made it so that it made no sense for me to go through all 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:37.040 the legal red tape that would be involved in acquiring it so so my goal 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:40.000 had been to get the band back together 00:03:37.040 --> 00:03:43.840 and just take over the nci xcom channel and rebrand it yeah that was what i 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:47.120 really wanted to do and then alternate universe 00:03:44.959 --> 00:03:51.440 failing that i settled for just starting a new channel and bringing you in to 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:56.159 start that from scratch now as for weather still not scratch scratch 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:59.439 scratch is the opportunity that anyone on the internet had just just do the 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:04.000 same kind of thing okay yeah we have the host so we have a similar name yeah 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:09.439 scratch with a gigantic kick in the ass out the door from Linus tech tips yeah 00:04:07.040 --> 00:04:13.439 okay so then uh leading on from that we got jan plushburger 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:17.440 those are my favorite kinds of burgers yeah 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:22.160 uh who asks who and how did you guys come up with the name tag linked oh oh 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:26.479 my god i had so many names that i liked more than tech length yeah 00:04:24.400 --> 00:04:30.000 so we both won right i remember you guys gave us a couple options are you looking 00:04:28.080 --> 00:04:35.120 in your email yeah i want i actually want to see them all clinked pronounced 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:37.840 clinked so we leave off the t and e but it would be like an abbreviated tech 00:04:36.880 --> 00:04:42.880 linked what tech brief what is it clint yeah 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:42.880 that 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:55.919 best and latest in tech or blt uh quickie news 00:04:53.120 --> 00:05:00.800 uh and then he spends the next emails arguing with me about TechLinked 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:00.800 because i said i like that one 00:05:00.880 --> 00:05:07.360 i think that oh no go ahead embarrass me you had ShortCircuit and patch notes 00:05:05.440 --> 00:05:11.520 yeah oh patch notes yeah i like that one too memory leak 00:05:08.960 --> 00:05:17.840 tech synced tech refresh input source the daily upload quick tips 00:05:14.880 --> 00:05:21.680 so here's riley's short list as of march 5th 2018. 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:28.560 techsync the daily download slash the download the patch dot dot dot dot 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:34.000 maybe TechLinked it sounds nerdy as hell but i figure i could make some good 00:05:30.960 --> 00:05:36.000 uber nerd jokes with it oh wow 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:39.919 again i'm in no big rush to get started but do let me know if there's an update 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:43.600 to the channel situation i'm in no big rush so that was when we 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:47.840 were trying to figure out how to get the ncix tech tips channel still riley's 00:05:45.840 --> 00:05:51.759 just sitting there in like employment limbo well i was 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:55.919 that wasn't a real job i was doing a food show 00:05:53.360 --> 00:06:00.800 because i love food that was a sarcastic um proof that riley 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:05.039 is an incredible actor is him pretending to care about food on that show yeah i 00:06:02.880 --> 00:06:09.440 know right oh yeah yeah link i actually kind of like tech links 00:06:06.880 --> 00:06:13.440 was like it makes the most sense it's like it's TechLinked it's nat 00:06:11.280 --> 00:06:16.800 links it's the spiritual successor i don't even rhyme okay we got a bit of a 00:06:15.039 --> 00:06:21.199 logistical question now how does the research process go for a video uh also 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:25.520 does it happen that you have too many stories for a single video so i guess 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:29.199 out of us here i'm the only person who who oh and john 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:34.400 and well yeah john john writes he's in this i read over a new person's work once or 00:06:32.080 --> 00:06:37.440 twice when you were gone right so general i mean okay so i'll just answer 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:40.960 real quickly like the research process is basically like i go through a set 00:06:39.520 --> 00:06:45.120 list of like sites that i have and i just go and open 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:48.319 all the tabs that i think are going to be interesting stories and then i go 00:06:47.039 --> 00:06:52.800 through those stories and kind of like whittle it down until i feel like i have 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:56.479 like eight three main stories five quick bits but the time you're missing the 00:06:54.160 --> 00:07:00.560 time component you see that takes many that well i don't know when these 00:06:58.080 --> 00:07:04.800 stories are from they're from the day of that's right so i mean if if 00:07:02.880 --> 00:07:09.199 you guys don't know techlink is fully produced all in one day i come in in the 00:07:06.639 --> 00:07:12.960 morning and we start it and then we finish it by the end of the day and 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:17.520 we're out of there so i don't think that there's tons of other 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:22.000 content videos on the internet that kind of do a similar sort of thing 00:07:20.080 --> 00:07:25.759 i find that the bigger you get the harder it is to make that part of your 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:29.360 workflow i mean we have to make a lot of scheduling changes in order to 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:34.479 accommodate techlink's rigid upload schedule riley often comes in on holiday 00:07:32.080 --> 00:07:38.080 mondays and fridays and then trades that for a different day and the same for 00:07:35.919 --> 00:07:41.440 dennis and that's just to make sure that you guys know when to expect heckling 00:07:39.919 --> 00:07:44.479 because the thing is like for a global audience around the world not everybody 00:07:43.520 --> 00:07:50.319 has bc day yeah yes um and this they should 00:07:49.039 --> 00:07:57.199 celebrate us so how do you choose the stories though yeah i guess that's kind of like a 00:07:54.720 --> 00:08:02.479 it's an interesting question about what we prioritize because obviously tech 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:04.000 news is huge yeah it's a massive 00:08:02.479 --> 00:08:08.000 uh sphere of stuff everything from 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:12.479 computers to phones to like material science is effectively tech right so 00:08:09.919 --> 00:08:17.680 like kfc doing some wacky app for a faraday cage or something yeah or elon 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:18.960 musk drive a type of truck in l.a yeah 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:22.800 knocking over a thailand yeah yeah i mean that's a 00:08:21.280 --> 00:08:28.160 great example of something that's like okay it's not really tech but it's tech 00:08:25.039 --> 00:08:30.319 related and it's funny so i want to make 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:34.560 a joke about that in TechLinked so then i'll include it it's almost more about 00:08:31.840 --> 00:08:38.399 the persona or who we think our listener is and who we are 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:42.080 right i like this little bell like this indeed i'd say a lot of the time it's a 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:45.839 balancing act like we'll pick something that's funny and then we'll pick 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:50.720 something kind of serious and then we'll lighten the mood with something funny again after that just to keep it just 00:08:48.880 --> 00:08:54.880 keep it flowing and also make sure that we're 00:08:53.360 --> 00:09:00.160 keeping people up to date like i've seen so many comments on tech link from people that are like yep 00:08:58.160 --> 00:09:05.120 this is how i keep up with tech it's like it's like 15 minutes a week 00:09:02.959 --> 00:09:09.279 very digestible and i find that if there's something that i see that really 00:09:06.800 --> 00:09:12.880 grabs my attention i can go dig into it further you got all the original 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:19.279 articles linked under the video and i can do that at my own pace i prioritize 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:22.000 um big kind of announcements from like 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:26.320 big companies like samsung or NVIDIA or AMD or valve or apple or whatever any of 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:32.480 these big companies if they're announcing something major that will probably be a main story under 00:09:30.640 --> 00:09:37.680 that i kind of have like you know pc hardware related stuff and 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:41.360 then mobile related stuff and like game consoles game consoles 00:09:39.839 --> 00:09:45.600 and then if there's a game launch 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:48.640 i might include it if it's like really interesting this is kind of a question 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:53.279 for all of us from johann carlson 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:58.320 how do you master the line between cringe and funny 00:09:57.120 --> 00:10:03.440 dennis um why dennis how about last year yeah 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:06.240 you guys i've answered lots of questions i want to hear how you stay between 00:10:04.959 --> 00:10:09.760 cringe and funny yeah how do you determine when actually i cut out a lot 00:10:08.160 --> 00:10:13.760 of things that you guys don't see so the mine line is very cringy 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:18.000 cringe and maybe a little bit funny so like 00:10:15.760 --> 00:10:21.760 very cringy parts all gone yeah yeah and i will make cringe part like kind of 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:26.800 funny yeah because funny it's like very funny i think we all just aim at funny 00:10:24.560 --> 00:10:29.760 and some of us idea of funny is just cringe 00:10:27.760 --> 00:10:33.040 and then dennis just does his best with the crap we give him yeah 00:10:31.680 --> 00:10:37.360 that's one of the things i actually like so much about the way we do things as a 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:40.880 company in general having multiple chefs in the kitchen in some ways you can end 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:43.760 up with a really bland product but i think around here you actually end up 00:10:42.640 --> 00:10:49.360 with just the right amounts of cringiness but 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:54.240 all these different flavors um like james is a regular writer on LTT and 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:58.240 riley does it from time to time and then i will review the script for it and then 00:10:56.720 --> 00:11:03.200 for techlink actually that review process generally takes place while i'm 00:11:00.560 --> 00:11:06.640 hosting it yeah um or it doesn't happen yeah but i'll but i'll review it and 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:12.160 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 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:15.519 line then we actually film it and in a lot of cases the camera person will see 00:11:13.920 --> 00:11:19.360 something and they'll go that was terrible do it over right right 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:23.440 yeah and then finally it goes to our editor who applies yet another filter to 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:27.680 it so i think if we had to answer how do we tow that line 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:31.839 well it's by having you know anywhere from three to four to five sets of 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:35.440 eyeballs looking at it right because after the fact uh someone like nick 00:11:34.079 --> 00:11:39.440 might end up reviewing the video before it actually gets uploaded but it's not 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:43.200 all red tape and things getting removed because the other part of that equation 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:46.399 is respect for the people that you work with yeah so there's a lot of times 00:11:44.720 --> 00:11:50.240 where you're watching you're like that was dumb he can keep it 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:54.480 not my favorite but someone will laugh at that yeah so a lot of the time i feel 00:11:52.959 --> 00:11:59.920 really corporate when i talk about stuff like this but we call the um the 00:11:57.360 --> 00:12:05.600 annotations that we put in a script for what visuals go with which lines 00:12:02.640 --> 00:12:13.279 guidance and the specific reason that we use the word guidance instead of visuals 00:12:08.880 --> 00:12:15.920 is that it's guidance it's not a law so 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:19.519 if the editor sees guidance and goes that's dumb 00:12:17.120 --> 00:12:23.600 they have room to interpret it and do something that they think is better so 00:12:21.040 --> 00:12:27.040 what you're saying is dennis is the real boss of the situation he's the actual 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:32.480 gatekeeper so TechLinked we don't actually don't 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:32.480 have guidance i did not know that 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:40.079 all the stock footage all the stuff for this stuff uh yeah 00:12:37.839 --> 00:12:43.279 like oh i'll just go there and choose it that's all there's no time yeah yeah 00:12:41.839 --> 00:12:47.040 right exactly so fix it in post yeah like you know 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:51.440 kindness might actually take you longer and without guidance you have you can 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:54.880 create more freely and like do whatever you want like i would look somehow look 00:12:53.040 --> 00:12:58.320 up some memes like say a cyber chalk i just said what's your name yeah maybe 00:12:56.639 --> 00:13:01.360 something that can relate to the joke that you guys are talking about 00:13:00.079 --> 00:13:05.600 anything to make what you're saying makes sense in some way what i give them 00:13:03.839 --> 00:13:10.079 what i give them is just a list of news stories so i try to have multiple 00:13:07.839 --> 00:13:13.839 sources and like who writes the cute little uh captions right the writer does 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:18.720 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 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:23.440 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 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:27.519 broadcasts but ours are just kind of like they're over there like it's like a 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:32.000 parody of an actual dude right right right yeah 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:37.600 basically the the worst pun you can come up with is like good uh it's a good 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:40.160 candidate yeah anch sony uh says how 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:44.720 much is improv and how much is scripted so like Linus is a great example of uh 00:13:42.959 --> 00:13:48.839 taking a script and just kind of like saying whatever he wants oh 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:56.240 your food should be like 30 longer than theirs you're just like 00:13:53.680 --> 00:14:00.000 off to something else i'm having fun tackling is when i like cut back you 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:05.199 know it's cut loose you know i'm just like yeah whatever it's like a tertiary 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:08.320 channel anyway who gives a sh thank you okay 00:14:06.959 --> 00:14:12.000 seriously the gold play button just starts melting 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:16.800 okay okay but seriously though i think that's a lot of where techlink gets it's 00:14:14.160 --> 00:14:23.920 irreverent take on the news was irreverence right unintentionally so um 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:25.920 i started hosting uh net linked net 00:14:23.920 --> 00:14:33.040 linked daily when i would go into the ncix studio on fridays and fridays i was 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:36.079 very time constrained because um at the 00:14:33.040 --> 00:14:37.120 time it was riley chris and was jack 00:14:36.079 --> 00:14:40.800 there yet and jack they would all prepare the 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:44.560 episodes this was before they really started hosting so they would be also 00:14:42.720 --> 00:14:47.519 calvin calvin and barrett yeah i'm gonna say them too later though later i think 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:53.440 yeah that was like so the idea was that ncix was paying me 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:58.000 to host their content but not paying me very much 00:14:54.560 --> 00:15:01.040 so i allocated them about five hours of 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:03.920 my time a week so generous i would show 00:15:01.040 --> 00:15:08.000 up in the morning on friday usually late and they would have all the scripts 00:15:05.760 --> 00:15:11.519 ready to go and i would read them off the prompter and then it would be up to 00:15:09.760 --> 00:15:15.279 them to go figure out all the b-roll and visuals and stuff later i was just 00:15:13.040 --> 00:15:20.800 literally a talking head and then i would usually do the friday episode of 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:25.279 uh netlinked and by that time it was pretty much time for me to like get in 00:15:22.959 --> 00:15:27.519 my car and head back to my studio for a WAN Show 00:15:26.560 --> 00:15:32.800 so it was like one take policy if you guys 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:36.959 like screw screwed it up or whatever i was just gonna 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:41.120 trash your joke on camera because they did write in jokes they did write in 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:44.560 jokes but like and like intros and stuff and i would just be like that's a 00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:49.360 terrible intro okay new intro um yeah and then i because the reality 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:53.680 of it was i just didn't care but i was so checked out of my job yeah and you 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:57.279 get these multiple layers to it too so it started with me criticizing riley's 00:15:56.160 --> 00:16:01.920 scripts on camera because part of my deal with ncix was i 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:06.160 was supposed to be like training these guys to run the channel in my absence 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:12.399 yeah so i'm like literally training them on camera you didn't train me and then 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:16.320 riley starts realizing well he's gonna do this no matter what i do and he 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:21.360 starts writing in bait so then i start taking it then i realize 00:16:18.880 --> 00:16:24.800 he's doing it and then i'm like no i'm not taking your bait i'm gonna read this 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:28.320 stupid thing that you wrote and i'm crediting you with it you know oh my 00:16:26.880 --> 00:16:33.759 gosh and that is still that's still probably my favorite thing to do when you host anything is to well okay mostly 00:16:31.759 --> 00:16:38.240 tech like not so much LTT videos but like writing in something that i know 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:41.600 that you are not gonna read like verbatim i just kind of like put in it's 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:45.040 like a little seed and then i'm like i'm gonna see what Linus does with this 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:50.480 and sometimes you just read it out and i'm like dang it but sometimes you just like take it and 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:54.800 like go off with it and i'm like yes so this being a Linus media group video we 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:58.880 have a sponsor the sponsor is pebble host the premium web hosting solution 00:16:57.199 --> 00:17:03.199 with affordable pricing you want to host a server for minecraft or arc survival 00:17:01.440 --> 00:17:06.799 evolved get your rocks off with pebble heads 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:10.799 hey i didn't even think about that or just a regular old website pebble 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:15.919 host is your 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you want 00:17:55.520 --> 00:18:01.440 to get to the apex of your jump first and then commit 100 to the flip bring 00:18:00.320 --> 00:18:06.080 your knees towards your head and back over once you get the knees like over the uh 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:09.600 like center line basically your weight will just flip you back over wow did you 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:14.559 do that on camera so i don't know how to do a back flip but i used to be able to 00:18:11.280 --> 00:18:16.400 do a back handspring and even for those 00:18:14.559 --> 00:18:20.080 uh the trick is don't throw yourself back too much the last time i attempted 00:18:18.320 --> 00:18:25.440 one i threw myself back onto my head like right onto my head and 00:18:23.520 --> 00:18:29.360 then i never did one again because i tried to do another one and i was just i 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:33.760 was too afraid and if you don't commit like james said you won't make it wow 00:18:31.360 --> 00:18:35.919 that was way more informative than i expected 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:41.039 that question to me okay zane drew asks who would win in a 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:45.440 fight Linus versus dennis oh me for sure wait i'm black though too 00:18:43.600 --> 00:18:49.120 no you're not i'm taekwondo blah blah you're a bailey i'm actually are you 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:53.440 really yes i am can you show us a kick okay no no you do a kick okay you do right 00:18:51.600 --> 00:18:56.640 here do it i'll do a kick i'll do it if you do it don't put him on the spot well 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:59.600 let's see come on yeah let's get this get this oh my gosh 00:19:00.320 --> 00:19:06.960 to be clear that no kick starts like that last time it was like 15 years ago 00:19:05.840 --> 00:19:10.400 you should have had things okay you haven't done a kick for 15 years 00:19:09.280 --> 00:19:14.160 okay stand up let me kick your face 00:19:14.320 --> 00:19:20.080 you should stand oh my god oh my god 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:25.000 but don't actually kick him oh 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:31.679 Linus knows karate too i think okay i think he will he he will 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:36.720 win he's still doing the martial arts no and 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:41.440 sims no it's been 15 years for me too i think that i could in a in about with 00:19:39.120 --> 00:19:44.640 rules and structure i could beat Linus in a fight but i think if we actually 00:19:43.039 --> 00:19:49.120 fought to the death Linus would win i think what the internet really wants to 00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:53.280 see though is me versus austin boxing match oh you heard it here first no 00:19:51.919 --> 00:19:57.280 actually we've talked about it before i'll turn into a real video and i'm 00:19:55.280 --> 00:19:59.919 gonna be the one prettiest thing that i know it 00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:04.480 i don't think i could hit austin he's too nice it would be impossible oh he'll 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:08.559 just have to talk enough smack okay i've heard him try to talk smack it's 00:20:05.919 --> 00:20:12.960 pathetic he's he's too nice he you know he doesn't mean any of it 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:17.760 you're just like get get in here hug you to death yeah we got a ton of 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:22.160 questions about people asking and it's it's fair because TechLinked was a 00:20:19.520 --> 00:20:26.320 relatively new channel it started in april 00:20:23.120 --> 00:20:27.919 27th 2018 yeah last year why that was 00:20:26.320 --> 00:20:31.840 last year so then a lot of people are asking oh what about that other channel 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:36.480 that you know is is languishing in the dirt the one 00:20:34.080 --> 00:20:41.600 that's more fun than just fun yeah super fun way more fun not quite ultra fun 00:20:40.159 --> 00:20:46.159 next year when's the next when's the next challenge so we actually talked 00:20:43.520 --> 00:20:52.080 about this a lot um we're gonna start doing working on it after ces right now 00:20:49.360 --> 00:20:56.320 have christmas and cs is gonna be a lot of work after that we're gonna start 00:20:54.320 --> 00:21:01.039 doing pre-production and starting like fresh we rebrand entire channel 00:20:59.039 --> 00:21:05.679 with different people yeah it still has like goatee and shave his head 00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:10.799 is he really no it's gonna be Channel Super Fun the dark 00:21:08.960 --> 00:21:14.640 and gritty reboot i think he might look pretty good 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:18.640 um another topic that like a million people asked about was 00:21:16.559 --> 00:21:22.720 talk linked because we haven't really done a talk linked in a while just give 00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:26.880 a taste yeah why haven't we done a talk linked in a while riley well 00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:30.559 that's a good question i honestly don't know when's the last one we did it's 00:21:28.640 --> 00:21:33.919 probably been at least three or four months it was like a tesla 00:21:32.080 --> 00:21:37.600 autopilot one or something yeah it was a ryzen launch so talk linked was like a 00:21:35.919 --> 00:21:41.280 really cool opportunity to kind of have more content like this where we are 00:21:40.080 --> 00:21:47.919 talking about okay we're not really talking about tech news now but like talking about tech content in kind of a 00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:52.400 more uh laid-back setting but not quite to the point where it's like wancho 00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:57.120 why what's wrong with lan show uh because nothing quantum is great great i love 00:21:55.679 --> 00:22:02.240 wet show there's a good chance of seeing more talking to than your free stuff yeah because 00:21:59.520 --> 00:22:06.400 uh you learned that if you say in a meeting and a writer's meeting on monday 00:22:03.919 --> 00:22:09.440 hey i'm not doing an LTT video this week i wanted you to talk like that 00:22:07.600 --> 00:22:14.320 apparently lana said that apparently that yeah and secondly we've just been 00:22:12.080 --> 00:22:18.240 uh running more smoothly on LTT lately where the bottleneck isn't the number of 00:22:16.240 --> 00:22:21.760 scripts we have ready for a few weeks running now right it's usually just 00:22:19.520 --> 00:22:25.280 Linus's time so i would love to do more TechLinked and 00:22:23.520 --> 00:22:28.400 a lot of people have asked as well about having other people from the company on 00:22:27.200 --> 00:22:34.480 and like people have asked about having guest hosts host TechLinked so like maybe we 00:22:32.880 --> 00:22:38.480 can do that it's gonna be super cool i don't know how guests are we talking 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:41.840 like outside the company um well there's a few different questions 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:46.240 there i think people were primarily talking about like youtubers like if if we have other youtubers here i didn't 00:22:44.640 --> 00:22:50.080 even think about that but like yeah we had austin do a Techquickie once that 00:22:48.400 --> 00:22:54.240 was cool this is more back to kind of logistics does riley or the other 00:22:51.600 --> 00:22:57.600 writers ever experience burnout when writing TechLinked episodes well first 00:22:56.240 --> 00:23:02.080 i should ask you if you experienced burnout no because it's usually pretty 00:22:59.600 --> 00:23:05.840 short that's a lie like burnt 00:23:03.600 --> 00:23:05.840 i mean 00:23:07.520 --> 00:23:12.720 a foreign people subscribed we need to be we owe them honesty okay burn out buy 00:23:11.280 --> 00:23:16.799 your jokes yes but like but not by my jokes i feel like 00:23:14.720 --> 00:23:20.720 editing technique is really fun i don't really get burnt out you're not always 00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:24.720 the editor sometimes sometimes will be marked sometimes be a prime somehow be 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:27.440 what determines that well i'm too busy you're busy yeah okay 00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:33.120 right yeah um i'm fine okay don't worry about 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:35.039 me ask me tomorrow okay yeah when we do tech like 00:23:34.159 --> 00:23:39.200 this yeah um for me i don't uh i don't feel like i 00:23:37.919 --> 00:23:44.559 experience burnout from writing techlinked but sometimes there are like 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:48.320 just not very many tech news topics going on you know and i kind of have to 00:23:46.400 --> 00:23:51.039 scrounge a little bit i'm like oh maybe that's something i can make a joke about 00:23:49.840 --> 00:23:55.120 where it's like a commitment to the channel where you like we said you have to come in on holiday fridays or mondays 00:23:54.080 --> 00:24:01.760 when other people are having a long weekend that's never really bothered me because i 00:23:58.880 --> 00:24:07.840 traditionally haven't had very many jobs where i got the stat holidays so 00:24:05.919 --> 00:24:11.679 so it's like i'm used to kind of working uh stats anyways and usually i kind of 00:24:09.760 --> 00:24:14.679 like make up for it by like lttstore.com 00:24:14.880 --> 00:24:19.679 the most drawn out 00:24:18.320 --> 00:24:26.080 sometimes i make up for it by like taking a day off another day or something but i i i definitely don't i 00:24:23.520 --> 00:24:29.360 don't feel like i'm like uh tackling them so because part of the format is 00:24:28.320 --> 00:24:32.799 that you're talking about something different everyone was new yeah yeah 00:24:31.440 --> 00:24:35.360 it's like oh what and it's kind of exciting because like it's right in the 00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:40.320 name news it's new tech do you find your selection 00:24:38.960 --> 00:24:45.760 of topics has a lot to do with what you're interested in like let's say you see that there's a big 00:24:43.360 --> 00:24:49.039 cyber security thing or like a big crypto heist or something then you don't 00:24:47.919 --> 00:24:53.840 really care much about it but you see there's just pages and pages on forums 00:24:51.279 --> 00:24:58.400 about it so the world is interested yeah you find that you just cover those just 00:24:56.640 --> 00:25:02.240 as readily or try to avoid them no definitely and i see that from like john 00:25:00.320 --> 00:25:04.880 too when he writes and uh i noticed it when the other some other people were 00:25:03.600 --> 00:25:10.320 writing is like uh we definitely just kind of a lot of time we include what we care about 00:25:07.679 --> 00:25:14.559 because that's what you can talk about like i'm not gonna conclude 00:25:12.880 --> 00:25:19.200 i'm not going to talk about this one company like publishing or launching a 00:25:17.279 --> 00:25:22.480 network switch because i don't really care about that but to someone else they 00:25:20.960 --> 00:25:27.520 might be like whoa the network switch has that many 00:25:24.320 --> 00:25:28.799 things Ethernet ports 00:25:27.520 --> 00:25:33.360 wow yeah so it definitely depends Linus this 00:25:31.600 --> 00:25:39.600 is mostly a question for you uh what is the five-year plan looking 00:25:35.600 --> 00:25:41.360 like for Linus cat tips 00:25:39.600 --> 00:25:44.720 and could we have the cats do tech reviews from time to time you have five 00:25:43.279 --> 00:25:48.480 years to get these tats you really have to snap on tech yeah 00:25:46.480 --> 00:25:51.760 new talent ouch 00:25:51.760 --> 00:25:59.120 i think the best five-year plan i could give for it is if for whatever reason 00:25:56.000 --> 00:26:00.720 Linus media group went completely 00:25:59.120 --> 00:26:06.240 down the tubes just like collapsed in front of me 00:26:03.679 --> 00:26:10.320 Linus cat tips is technically the intellectual property is owned by me 00:26:07.919 --> 00:26:13.120 personally so that could be the channel where i still upload like 00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:20.000 you know videos about how perhaps uh 00:26:16.240 --> 00:26:21.679 it's day 426 of not having a job because 00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:25.520 i show up at interviews and people are like what are you doing applying here 00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:29.679 weren't you famous and uh so yeah i'm you know i'm eating i'm eating raw 00:26:27.600 --> 00:26:32.480 macaroni now because we don't have power to heat up the water 00:26:31.120 --> 00:26:38.880 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 00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:43.360 now what if TechLinked overtakes LTT and subs 00:26:41.600 --> 00:26:47.760 somebody asked that chuck chalkboard history wants to know that'd be great 00:26:45.039 --> 00:26:52.960 actually what's the plan so we went we made it to a million so what happened 00:26:49.760 --> 00:26:56.559 when Linus tech tips overtook ncix tech 00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:58.640 tips and subs was there was a mutiny and 00:26:56.559 --> 00:27:02.559 the staff of Linus tech tips took off and started their own company with 00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:07.200 blackjack and hookers and then some yahoos were brought in to 00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:11.520 run the ncix tech tips channel and the Linus tech tips crew was brought in to 00:27:09.120 --> 00:27:15.520 train them and then eventually ncix tech tips went away and those guys hired 00:27:13.039 --> 00:27:20.400 those guys so conceivably you could be running TechLinked media inc 00:27:17.840 --> 00:27:23.760 if that ever happens and and i'd be bankrupt i was thinking you would be the 00:27:22.159 --> 00:27:27.200 one who would go and start a new channel and we'd all be stuck here with Linus 00:27:25.279 --> 00:27:32.159 tech tips no no no no i was i was talking through what happened 00:27:30.320 --> 00:27:36.159 yeah yeah where was the blog sorry sorry it was before you started 00:27:34.320 --> 00:27:41.279 eliot roberts asked do you ever miss ncix tech tips what would i miss about 00:27:38.559 --> 00:27:46.799 it oh dang i have everything that i ever had there but like better no 00:27:43.840 --> 00:27:51.760 bigger better crew with like more tech and more channels and fewer 00:27:49.760 --> 00:27:54.320 restrictions like i can do whatever i want here 00:27:52.960 --> 00:27:58.159 honestly i feel the same way i feel like i have nostalgia for nci detectives 00:27:56.799 --> 00:28:03.840 because you like you look back and be like oh man that was i remember that room yeah that room certain people there 00:28:02.159 --> 00:28:08.960 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 00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:12.960 moved over to the other one and uh yeah it was fun but like 00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:18.080 uh do i wish i was working there instead of here uh 00:28:14.840 --> 00:28:18.960 no this is like an actual 00:28:18.080 --> 00:28:25.200 uh company where people are legit and aren't uh shady or you can uh have true 00:28:22.880 --> 00:28:28.960 friends um yeah 100 uh martin ross asks how long does 00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:31.840 riley's hair take to do in the morning funny story i don't actually do my hair 00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:35.679 in the morning i put my head in the shower in the morning because it's very 00:28:34.159 --> 00:28:40.799 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 00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:44.640 shoe in the shower get it wet and then put a hat on i mean i dry it and then i 00:28:43.200 --> 00:28:50.799 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 00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:55.120 i i can kind of see actually i can kind of see there's a bit of a hat line 00:28:52.399 --> 00:29:00.480 that's that's the downside uh supreme joe asks make dennis host in mandarin 00:28:58.399 --> 00:29:03.600 no no one's gonna watch that actually 00:29:01.600 --> 00:29:07.440 i think i saw like at least five or six people asking for that specifically 00:29:05.200 --> 00:29:10.720 really yeah oh i don't think that's i don't think that's a very good idea 00:29:09.120 --> 00:29:15.760 like well we'd have english subtitles oh you know how hard to subtitle stuff but 00:29:13.679 --> 00:29:18.399 my video yeah it would take actually it would take a while i don't think that's 00:29:16.880 --> 00:29:22.960 a good idea because i've been told that apparently he's just as hard to understand in chinese as he is in 00:29:21.279 --> 00:29:28.799 english really no no what do you mean yes andy says yes 00:29:27.039 --> 00:29:32.480 oh that's hilarious you say that you're at that horrible in between where your 00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:36.720 chinese is fading and your english isn't perfect yet so you're just like he 00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:39.840 speaks no language who am i 00:29:37.760 --> 00:29:43.039 colin shofild asks you said the nice thing about tackling was that anyone can 00:29:41.360 --> 00:29:46.320 do it so can you guys have janice from accounting 00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:50.399 do one i don't know you'd have to ask her i thought i sure 00:29:48.399 --> 00:29:55.520 let's ask janice anyone can do it well basically anyone 00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:58.640 can i think our audience is pretty tolerant though like if they know it's 00:29:57.120 --> 00:30:01.840 someone's first try i think they're a lot more forgiving 00:30:00.399 --> 00:30:06.720 you can have people host where they think that they're not going to do well and then they actually turned out to 00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:10.640 like be awesome like Yvonne was like so scared the first time 00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:16.159 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 00:30:13.520 --> 00:30:20.559 she's petrified of everything yeah yeah she's like she's like 00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:24.080 the her biggest flaw is that she just like 00:30:21.840 --> 00:30:27.120 is afraid to do anything she's afraid that she'll like suck at it 00:30:25.679 --> 00:30:31.360 it's like and then turns out she's like it's is that an asian parents thing 00:30:29.520 --> 00:30:34.960 no no i think i think she's just being 00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:40.320 humble is it about being a parent no it's not humility when you're like oh i 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. 00:30:42.320 --> 00:30:47.279 that's not humility that's just like obsession 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 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 00:30:53.840 --> 00:30:59.440 like you are literally my wife 00:30:57.440 --> 00:31:03.679 all you have to do is stand there and say my penis is small 00:31:02.080 --> 00:31:10.240 and you'll get a standing ovation and she did and she did and it happened 00:31:07.360 --> 00:31:14.799 okay guys it's about time uh we'll end off with uh one from userbotted 00:31:13.039 --> 00:31:19.039 and he asks when will it be time for quick bits now it's time for the quick 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 00:31:20.720 --> 00:31:26.559 question that we haven't got to previously why don't you say quick bits 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 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 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 00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:41.039 an episode somewhere people will have to go look for it 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 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 00:31:49.279 --> 00:31:54.960 significant and just as long as the other ones yeah so i was like what is 00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:58.880 this arbitrary distinction between buttquakes and maine's topics they're a 00:31:57.360 --> 00:32:02.559 little bit buck but quacks i think initially it was 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 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 00:32:09.360 --> 00:32:15.760 to say i'm gonna not quick i'm gonna confess 00:32:13.039 --> 00:32:20.720 the joke meant so little to me that when we first started doing tech 00:32:17.600 --> 00:32:22.240 linked yeah and you were like all 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 00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:30.000 about no and the audience was all like talking 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 00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:38.720 it i only started doing it again because you reminded me wait what do you think 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 00:32:40.799 --> 00:32:46.480 they're just like huh what the hell i definitely have thought about that a few 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 00:32:48.720 --> 00:32:54.480 before but on the other hand that's kind of the show already all the indian 00:32:52.399 --> 00:32:57.600 trolls doesn't make sense yeah yeah people click on this video and i'm like 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 00:33:00.320 --> 00:33:05.679 all right well i don't know what else to say that was 00:33:03.840 --> 00:33:09.600 fun it was that was the information let's do it again whoa 2 million 2 00:33:07.679 --> 00:33:12.399 million there's no plaque for that yeah can they send you 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 00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:21.279 that might be so stay tuned guys 00:33:18.559 --> 00:33:25.120 as soon as youtube revises the design of the gold play button we're gonna get 00:33:23.360 --> 00:33:29.840 Channel Super Fun resurrected for you guys and uh we're gonna earn another one 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 00:33:32.559 --> 00:33:37.360 pewdiepie got and the brofist or whatever for 100 million 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 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 00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:48.480 thanks so much for watching