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Colin: Hi, my name is Colin; I'm the production assistant at LMG, 2 00:00:02.469 --> 00:00:06.473 and my job basically entails coordinating all the shoots, 3 00:00:06.473 --> 00:00:09.993 setting up for sets, communicating with all the members of the team, 4 00:00:10.010 --> 00:00:13.763 making sure everything's going smooth, and wrangling Linus. 5 00:00:13.797 --> 00:00:15.715 Sammy: Okay, and how long have you been at the company for? 6 00:00:15.765 --> 00:00:18.835 Colin: I've been here since March of last year, so it's about a year and a half right? 7 00:00:18.835 --> 00:00:20.620 Sammy: So what made you interested in this role? 8 00:00:20.620 --> 00:00:24.024 Colin: So when I applied, I actually applied for the camera op position, 9 00:00:24.024 --> 00:00:29.012 because that's more of my background; and then I noticed the other listing was for this job. 10 00:00:29.095 --> 00:00:33.416 And I think kind of what happened was is with all my freelance work, 11 00:00:33.483 --> 00:00:36.553 it actually aligned with this position more. 12 00:00:36.553 --> 00:00:42.292 I actually have a company back in Ontario, so I would plan shoots, talk to clients, 13 00:00:42.292 --> 00:00:44.961 do the shoot, edit; I would kind of do everything 14 00:00:44.961 --> 00:00:47.080 from pre-production to post-production myself. 15 00:00:47.080 --> 00:00:54.354 This job kind of aligned I think more with that, as opposed to just specializing in camera operation. 16 00:00:54.354 --> 00:00:59.692 I'm not an Elijah level fan, but I was definitely a fan of the content; 17 00:00:59.692 --> 00:01:03.963 specifically LTT and Mac Address as well. 18 00:01:03.963 --> 00:01:07.817 Colin: To be honest, I was actually kind of a fan of Mac Address a bit more just because 19 00:01:07.817 --> 00:01:13.857 the content had a lot more variety to it in terms of location and like, I'm an Apple guy myself; 20 00:01:13.907 --> 00:01:20.246 and I like seeing somebody's perspective that loves Apple, but is also very critical of them. 21 00:01:20.263 --> 00:01:27.320 And sort of how they feel on their decisions when it comes to new products, announcements, stuff like that. 22 00:01:27.387 --> 00:01:32.142 I think Horst is a very, very, very talented host; 23 00:01:32.242 --> 00:01:34.461 Colin: and writer as well, I think. 24 00:01:34.544 --> 00:01:35.095 Sammy: And editor. 25 00:01:35.245 --> 00:01:36.212 Colin: And editor, yeah, yeah. 26 00:01:36.212 --> 00:01:41.000 Colin: Yeah, so it's just, you can tell that it's kind of like LTT's sort of like a big budget movie, 27 00:01:41.017 --> 00:01:45.738 where Mac Address is sort of like an indie movie, where he has other people around him to help; 28 00:01:45.738 --> 00:01:47.907 but he sort of is like the sole guy, 29 00:01:47.907 --> 00:01:54.581 where LTT, there's so many pieces in place, and every department has to get involved 30 00:01:54.581 --> 00:02:02.522 in one way or another, where Mac Address definitely is Jonathan's baby, which I see. 31 00:02:02.555 --> 00:02:06.025 Sammy: You said that you owned a company before joining LMG. 32 00:02:06.092 --> 00:02:08.228 Is that your company you founded or is it something like-? 33 00:02:08.228 --> 00:02:14.734 So I went to film school and we had an assignment to make your own company, do a logo; 34 00:02:14.734 --> 00:02:17.837 and just sort of make like a portfolio and sort of pitch it. 35 00:02:17.904 --> 00:02:21.107 I ended up liking mine so much that I just kind of ran with it; 36 00:02:21.241 --> 00:02:24.677 and I actually paid a friend to make me a logo, so I really liked the logo. 37 00:02:24.944 --> 00:02:31.184 Shortly after school, I was just reaching out to a lot of people and then getting contracted for work; 38 00:02:31.184 --> 00:02:35.054 and I needed something to put on an invoice rather than just my name. 39 00:02:35.922 --> 00:02:39.526 So I kind of, I was like, well I already kind of have this thing already going; 40 00:02:39.559 --> 00:02:42.128 so I'll just run with that for a little while. 41 00:02:42.128 --> 00:02:48.067 So yeah, it just helps in terms of like invoicing and looking like a legit sort of person; 42 00:02:48.101 --> 00:02:49.669 as opposed to be like, here's my Instagram. 43 00:02:49.702 --> 00:02:54.607 Colin: It's like that helps, but it's not for the type of clients especially I was working with. 44 00:02:55.308 --> 00:03:01.214 They want to see like, are you responsible enough to like run a company? And like, you know- 45 00:03:01.748 --> 00:03:04.651 Sammy: How long did you run your company for, and is it still active? 46 00:03:04.784 --> 00:03:12.725 Colin: It's not active because I'm not there, and I ran it for, I want to say three years? 47 00:03:12.825 --> 00:03:13.193 Sammy: Oh, wow... 48 00:03:13.193 --> 00:03:14.360 Colin: Three years, yeah. 49 00:03:14.427 --> 00:03:18.331 So it was kind of nice; so like the summers was a lot of weddings, 50 00:03:18.464 --> 00:03:20.900 just because they pay really well and it's- 51 00:03:21.134 --> 00:03:25.071 It can be, weddings can be fun; weddings also are a nightmare to deal with sometimes. 52 00:03:25.104 --> 00:03:26.072 Sammy: Yeah, yeah that’s what I've heard. 53 00:03:26.139 --> 00:03:28.841 Colin: Yeah, but I was also working a full-time job then too. 54 00:03:29.075 --> 00:03:31.044 I needed to find a job that was like very flexible, 55 00:03:31.044 --> 00:03:33.346 because I'd be like, hey I need to like bounce for a week; 56 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:37.750 and go to like, and go up like three hours north because I'm going to be shooting something. 57 00:03:37.750 --> 00:03:40.787 So yeah, I kind of had to find the balance there. 58 00:03:41.154 --> 00:03:45.358 My favorite work to actually do, was I would shoot landscape videos; 59 00:03:45.358 --> 00:03:49.329 so I would work with a company who provided all like the building materials. 60 00:03:49.662 --> 00:03:54.634 So I would go there before they even started to get like a before footage; 61 00:03:54.801 --> 00:03:57.470 so a lot of that was, is a drone footage. 62 00:03:57.537 --> 00:04:02.175 So you're just kind of seeing everything, and then you go midway through where everything's a disaster. 63 00:04:02.375 --> 00:04:06.412 There's no grass on the ground, there's just dirt piles everywhere; 64 00:04:06.579 --> 00:04:12.552 and then you get to the after and then it's like beautiful looking because they kind of just finished it. 65 00:04:12.685 --> 00:04:18.391 And then I would also interview the architect, and sometimes the property owner as well; 66 00:04:18.524 --> 00:04:22.362 just to kind of see what they wanted, and sort of what their vision was, 67 00:04:22.362 --> 00:04:28.034 and if this process was good for like, if it, if it was like beneficial to them. 68 00:04:28.101 --> 00:04:34.574 And then the company who, who contracted me would also want footage of all their product, 69 00:04:34.607 --> 00:04:37.410 Colin: which... it's blocks, so you kind of, 70 00:04:37.410 --> 00:04:38.244 Sammy: Hahahaha. 71 00:04:38.278 --> 00:04:42.215 Colin: you know, you can only do so much, but it's- Mainly, it's just how it's incorporated in; 72 00:04:42.315 --> 00:04:46.252 but especially when, when you do interiors, those are really nice as well; 73 00:04:46.452 --> 00:04:51.224 because like you get people that want sort of like a whole different design of their house. 74 00:04:51.391 --> 00:04:54.093 And then it's just how they incorporate that into it. 75 00:04:54.260 --> 00:04:56.462 Sammy: So like, what would you say it's like your favorite type of work, 76 00:04:56.462 --> 00:04:57.830 like of all the work you've done? 77 00:04:57.864 --> 00:04:59.799 Colin: You get to a point with weddings where they're just easy; 78 00:04:59.966 --> 00:05:03.970 and once you're able to sort of understand how weddings work, 79 00:05:04.003 --> 00:05:07.373 and you come to grips with that, this is not going to go to schedule; 80 00:05:07.874 --> 00:05:10.243 then it becomes a bit more relaxing. 81 00:05:10.443 --> 00:05:15.248 My favorite work was those landscape videos, just because you get to be outside all day; 82 00:05:15.281 --> 00:05:20.787 and it's a lot of like, you get to shoot with your drone, you get to shoot closeups of everything, 83 00:05:20.853 --> 00:05:22.255 you get to interview people. 84 00:05:22.288 --> 00:05:26.826 So in terms of the post side, that's when you can like create like an actual story. 85 00:05:26.893 --> 00:05:28.728 Colin: I did like a couple of music videos 86 00:05:28.728 --> 00:05:32.598 Colin: So I went to school at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. 87 00:05:32.632 --> 00:05:38.137 We sort of have one of the more popular music programs there, 88 00:05:38.805 --> 00:05:41.107 which is originally what I was actually going to take; 89 00:05:42.141 --> 00:05:46.913 but making money in music is, you don't need school for it; you just got to be clever. 90 00:05:47.013 --> 00:05:52.185 But so what I did, which I don't recommend to people but I kind of do 91 00:05:52.218 --> 00:05:55.088 is that we were supposed to do like a final project. 92 00:05:55.254 --> 00:05:59.359 I was like, well, I've reached out to about five bands in this program; 93 00:05:59.559 --> 00:06:05.932 and because I was at school during COVID, we would do like a live event at like a- 94 00:06:06.332 --> 00:06:07.200 It was just like a music hall. 95 00:06:07.333 --> 00:06:11.404 They couldn't do that because of COVID, so it was basically just a big live stream. 96 00:06:11.604 --> 00:06:18.044 So every artist who would have performed on stage actually needed a music video done. 97 00:06:18.111 --> 00:06:22.548 So I kind of put my hand out and I was like, I'll shoot anybody's video. 98 00:06:22.582 --> 00:06:27.220 Like I'll just do it, so I ended up meeting just like a ton of people from there as well. 99 00:06:27.286 --> 00:06:30.256 After school, I just kind of stayed connected with them; 100 00:06:30.323 --> 00:06:33.559 and then I would do a photography as well for them, 101 00:06:33.593 --> 00:06:39.732 and just pretty much when you want to do music stuff, you just kind of have to be around, and be present. 102 00:06:39.966 --> 00:06:43.236 So I would just go to the shows, take photos and stuff like that. 103 00:06:43.736 --> 00:06:47.340 Sammy: Kind of going back to when you were applying for the company here. 104 00:06:47.507 --> 00:06:51.444 You're also an editor, right? So you theoretically you could have applied for any of the three. 105 00:06:51.444 --> 00:06:54.714 Colin: When I came in, I kind of gravitated towards the studio, 106 00:06:54.747 --> 00:06:59.552 just because I can talk to the shooters and the editors in a much more comfortable way; 107 00:06:59.552 --> 00:07:04.657 as opposed to the writers, which are- They're very like technically inclined. 108 00:07:04.824 --> 00:07:08.494 I do have some technical ability, but that's like their life. 109 00:07:08.861 --> 00:07:15.168 That's, you know, my life was much more revolved around cameras and audio, editing; 110 00:07:15.268 --> 00:07:17.069 which you'll see in my AMD upgrade. 111 00:07:17.136 --> 00:07:19.939 So I actually did apply to all of them, it's just I think 112 00:07:19.972 --> 00:07:26.512 my experience with coordinating, but also seeing the proof of it 113 00:07:26.546 --> 00:07:31.484 with everything I made, it was more beneficial; 114 00:07:31.517 --> 00:07:34.921 and I think in the long term as well, it has been more beneficial, 115 00:07:35.087 --> 00:07:37.156 as opposed to just having another shooter around. 116 00:07:37.190 --> 00:07:42.662 It's sort of somebody who's, I'm sort of like the middleman between the writers, and the shooters, and editors. 117 00:07:42.695 --> 00:07:46.299 Sammy: Do you have any like weird stories working at the company here? 118 00:07:47.033 --> 00:07:47.633 Colin: Haha. 119 00:07:47.934 --> 00:07:52.672 Colin: The one I actually thought about it yesterday was when I had to buy the French maid costume for Linus. 120 00:07:52.672 --> 00:07:53.039 Sammy: Oh. 121 00:07:53.139 --> 00:07:54.106 Sammy and Colin: *Laughs* 122 00:07:54.106 --> 00:07:57.477 Colin: So basically I came in and James is like, hey, like we need a costume. 123 00:07:57.477 --> 00:08:02.181 I was like, okay, no problem; so on party city I see there's one there, so I go to get it, not there. 124 00:08:02.248 --> 00:08:06.686 I go somewhere else, not there; and I was like, you know there will be one at a sex shop. 125 00:08:06.786 --> 00:08:10.423 So I had to go to the sex shop and there was one woman working there. 126 00:08:10.456 --> 00:08:12.058 She was probably 65 years old. 127 00:08:12.692 --> 00:08:16.095 So I, and she's like, she's like, "oh like who's this for?". 128 00:08:16.128 --> 00:08:17.797 I was like, it's for my boss. 129 00:08:17.830 --> 00:08:18.331 Sammy: Oh nooo! 130 00:08:18.364 --> 00:08:19.665 Colin: Oh, she's like, "oh what do you guys do?" 131 00:08:19.732 --> 00:08:23.336 Colin: I'm like, we make videos for the internet; and I was like, I got to stop talking. 132 00:08:23.369 --> 00:08:24.871 Colin: Hahahahaha. Sammy: Nooooo, Colin! 133 00:08:24.937 --> 00:08:26.272 Colin: She's like, looks at me and she's like 134 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:29.475 "okay, that sounds fun"; and I was like, yeah, it's fun. 135 00:08:29.509 --> 00:08:33.646 And then so I bought it, it was like $70 too; it was way over budget, 136 00:08:33.980 --> 00:08:35.648 but we needed it so- 137 00:08:35.982 --> 00:08:37.650 And then I remember coming to set. 138 00:08:37.817 --> 00:08:40.987 I swear this was either three weeks to a month of working here. 139 00:08:41.487 --> 00:08:44.390 Linus is changing, right in front of me too; So I was kind of just like, 140 00:08:44.457 --> 00:08:46.292 okay, this is how this goes down. 141 00:08:46.526 --> 00:08:48.261 And he looks at me, he's like... 142 00:08:48.694 --> 00:08:50.696 Linus: How long have you been with this company, Colin? 143 00:08:50.997 --> 00:08:51.831 Colin: Uh, two month. 144 00:08:51.898 --> 00:08:52.398 Linus: Okay. 145 00:08:54.400 --> 00:08:55.301 Colin: So that was a weird day. 146 00:08:55.368 --> 00:08:57.036 Sammy: Oh noo. 147 00:08:57.069 --> 00:09:00.606 Colin: But I think the one, it wasn't really weird, but it was really fun, 148 00:09:00.640 --> 00:09:04.477 was the April Fool's video we did for the potato farmer. 149 00:09:04.510 --> 00:09:07.580 So that one, I was actually more involved helping Riley sort of find location; 150 00:09:07.647 --> 00:09:13.553 so I think it was the first one that I found, the one where they're like grinding the meat, 151 00:09:13.619 --> 00:09:18.357 but that was my first one of like, okay, we're all out of office. 152 00:09:18.624 --> 00:09:20.593 We need people to be coming and going. 153 00:09:20.760 --> 00:09:23.996 We're shooting, you know, a bunch of different scenes. 154 00:09:23.996 --> 00:09:29.502 So that one kind of felt the most, I would say, almost making like a short film. 155 00:09:29.902 --> 00:09:37.009 And then we usually were late and we go overtime on shoots, but for that shoot we did not; 156 00:09:37.043 --> 00:09:40.846 we were over at exactly 5:30, we were like done. 157 00:09:41.013 --> 00:09:43.683 So that shoot went like perfect as well. 158 00:09:43.916 --> 00:09:46.018 Yeah, the French maid one was pretty weird though. 159 00:09:46.018 --> 00:09:46.452 Heh. 160 00:09:46.485 --> 00:09:48.120 Sammy: What do you think is the hardest part of your job then? 161 00:09:48.354 --> 00:09:50.690 Colin: One of the toughest things that if Linus is in a meeting, 162 00:09:50.690 --> 00:09:56.329 and the meeting goes over 20 minutes; that just screws us because now we've lost 20 minutes. 163 00:09:56.495 --> 00:10:00.866 So that means that everything in the schedule has to shift. 164 00:10:01.400 --> 00:10:05.771 And then, yeah, it's just a lot of like, you know, 165 00:10:05.805 --> 00:10:07.807 I'm not going to be ready. 166 00:10:07.873 --> 00:10:10.610 I'm not going to be, you know, like available. 167 00:10:10.643 --> 00:10:13.312 Linus might leave for lunch and be gone for an hour. 168 00:10:13.346 --> 00:10:17.450 Things just happen; so it's challenging to sort of 169 00:10:17.483 --> 00:10:21.420 make sure that we have things ready, but also, you know, 170 00:10:21.487 --> 00:10:23.956 if we can't do this, what can we do instead? 171 00:10:23.990 --> 00:10:29.729 Can we go have them host TechLinked, GameLinked, a TechQuickie? 172 00:10:29.895 --> 00:10:31.998 Do we have something ready for him to do? 173 00:10:31.998 --> 00:10:35.101 Because, him being late to set is one thing; 174 00:10:35.134 --> 00:10:39.538 but him not having anything to do while he's here is like a different story. 175 00:10:39.605 --> 00:10:41.240 That's that just like can't happen. 176 00:10:41.307 --> 00:10:45.144 I think sort of for me personally, like what's stressful is after the shoot; 177 00:10:45.177 --> 00:10:49.181 just because for something like the Cutest PC, that's a lot of stuff. 178 00:10:49.215 --> 00:10:52.418 So it's like we have to break down the set, we have to repaint the wall. 179 00:10:52.485 --> 00:10:54.086 We have to make sure everything goes back in the box. 180 00:10:54.120 --> 00:10:56.288 We have to make sure everything's going back to logistics properly. 181 00:10:56.489 --> 00:11:02.728 So yeah, it's definitely scheduling, coordinating, and I guess clean up. 182 00:11:02.828 --> 00:11:04.196 Sammy and Colin: Hahahahaha. 183 00:11:04.230 --> 00:11:07.266 Sammy: So how did you get into your, quote on quote skills? 184 00:11:07.433 --> 00:11:09.735 Colin: I got into it pretty late, to be honest; 185 00:11:09.769 --> 00:11:13.072 I was, I think 26 when I went back to school because I- 186 00:11:13.406 --> 00:11:17.710 So the program I went to at school didn't actually exist and I was in, 187 00:11:17.943 --> 00:11:21.580 yeah, it was either the second year, or the second semester of the first year. 188 00:11:21.747 --> 00:11:25.518 So that, so the programs, TV and film production. 189 00:11:25.918 --> 00:11:30.156 So basically the way my school worked was you had to do a program; 190 00:11:30.156 --> 00:11:34.593 so you would do like general arts and science, and then you would get a degree 191 00:11:34.593 --> 00:11:37.296 and then you can apply to advanced filmmaking. 192 00:11:37.863 --> 00:11:40.900 The program I took, took a lot of advanced filmmaking and just said, 193 00:11:40.900 --> 00:11:42.301 like you can just apply to this. 194 00:11:42.435 --> 00:11:46.138 Advanced filmmaking also suggests that you're only going to be doing film; 195 00:11:46.338 --> 00:11:50.042 so for me, I was able to learn a lot of broadcasting stuff as well. 196 00:11:50.409 --> 00:11:54.980 So that was really interesting, seeing both worlds and then- 197 00:11:54.980 --> 00:12:01.087 So for the first year you would do film and TV, and the second year you would pick one; so I picked film. 198 00:12:01.253 --> 00:12:04.356 Yeah, I was into it pretty late; because I was always a fan of movies, 199 00:12:04.757 --> 00:12:10.429 but during those courses that I took beforehand, we would do like film studying. 200 00:12:10.796 --> 00:12:13.232 And I, because I always kind of thought movies were movies, 201 00:12:13.232 --> 00:12:16.202 and people just like wrote it and just made it. 202 00:12:16.202 --> 00:12:18.704 Like I didn't think there was any like thought put into it; 203 00:12:18.704 --> 00:12:22.575 and I think my film knowledge was pretty basic. 204 00:12:22.608 --> 00:12:28.147 Just I kind of liked, you know, Spielberg movies, action movies, like Lord of the Rings; 205 00:12:28.214 --> 00:12:29.949 like, like stuff like that. 206 00:12:29.949 --> 00:12:35.221 But once you like, once you go to film class and you actually have to study and write about movies. 207 00:12:35.221 --> 00:12:41.427 I was so like interested in how they were being made, that I was like, 208 00:12:41.494 --> 00:12:43.062 okay, I think I want to like do this; 209 00:12:43.062 --> 00:12:46.832 but there just wasn't really like an avenue that was like accessible. 210 00:12:46.832 --> 00:12:49.835 So when this program opened, I remember like my mom coming to my room. 211 00:12:49.835 --> 00:12:51.237 She's like, you should sign up for this. 212 00:12:51.303 --> 00:12:52.805 I was like, okay, like I'll sign up it for like right now. 213 00:12:53.139 --> 00:12:56.609 So it was, it was, it was fairly quick because I was doing 214 00:12:57.610 --> 00:13:02.448 like computer science stuff and I just, I just couldn't vibe with it. 215 00:13:02.515 --> 00:13:07.486 And I realized too, I was like, you are not the type of person to be sitting at a desk all day. 216 00:13:07.887 --> 00:13:13.392 That's not, that's not how I roll; like I am pretty like on the go at all times. 217 00:13:13.726 --> 00:13:16.829 Sammy: So I was going to ask you more about your prior jobs to LMG, 218 00:13:16.829 --> 00:13:19.565 but I think we talked extensively about your freelancing. 219 00:13:19.799 --> 00:13:22.601 Colin: Yeah, I can talk about the music one. 220 00:13:22.668 --> 00:13:23.302 Sammy: Yeah, sure. 221 00:13:23.869 --> 00:13:31.210 Colin: So the prior job I had to this was, I was the marketing manager at a music store back in Ontario. 222 00:13:31.277 --> 00:13:33.913 They didn't really have like a social media presence. 223 00:13:33.979 --> 00:13:36.081 They didn't have emails, like they didn't- 224 00:13:36.081 --> 00:13:41.420 They were very, it was, you know, it's like a nine person mom and pop shop music store. 225 00:13:41.554 --> 00:13:46.959 When I came in, I was like, okay like you can't post generic photos of things, and have people buy them; 226 00:13:46.992 --> 00:13:50.196 so it was like, okay, you're going to go to the guitar section, 227 00:13:50.196 --> 00:13:51.997 you're gonna take photos of everything that we have; 228 00:13:51.997 --> 00:13:54.433 and those are going to be the photos that people see. 229 00:13:54.433 --> 00:13:57.736 when you work in such a small business, especially with music stuff, 230 00:13:57.736 --> 00:14:00.406 because it's kind of a bunch of giants with a little, 231 00:14:01.040 --> 00:14:04.009 with like sprinklings of like small businesses around. 232 00:14:04.009 --> 00:14:07.112 You've gotta have clever stuff to sort of get around that. 233 00:14:07.246 --> 00:14:09.548 I think with me as well, it was you know, 234 00:14:09.849 --> 00:14:12.685 because I've been playing music basically my whole life. 235 00:14:13.018 --> 00:14:18.023 I was like here's the dream things that I see, that like you guys should implement in; 236 00:14:18.023 --> 00:14:22.695 and I also don't recommend this, but I called their website really ugly. 237 00:14:22.895 --> 00:14:25.998 During my interview, he's like, okay like find this page. 238 00:14:26.198 --> 00:14:28.868 I was like, dude I can't this website sucks; like- 239 00:14:28.868 --> 00:14:31.403 And he's like, oh okay; so like, he's like, what would you recommend? 240 00:14:31.537 --> 00:14:35.374 And I gave him like two things cause like you don't want to, you know, show your whole hand. 241 00:14:36.709 --> 00:14:46.185 So yeah, so I would do like all the photo, the video, the email marketing, the Google ads, analytics, 242 00:14:46.252 --> 00:14:48.854 stuff like that; everything's sort of like behind the scenes. 243 00:14:49.221 --> 00:14:54.260 I also opened our reverb page as well; so for the people who don't know what reverb is, 244 00:14:54.426 --> 00:14:55.961 it's basically an online marketplace. 245 00:14:56.061 --> 00:14:58.530 Our like bread and butter was like used gear, 246 00:14:58.864 --> 00:15:03.469 dozens of people every day just wanting to trade or like sell their instruments or whatever to us. 247 00:15:03.969 --> 00:15:09.608 So we can kind of control margin on that, as opposed to new products where you don't get that control at all. 248 00:15:09.742 --> 00:15:15.314 What was actually really fun about that job is that the owner's dad owned, 249 00:15:15.314 --> 00:15:18.918 it was like a production business, but it was for like concerts; 250 00:15:19.318 --> 00:15:25.624 so I was actually allowed to go to, it was like- It was actually quite a lot of concerts that 251 00:15:25.624 --> 00:15:28.694 I didn't have to have to pay a ticket for, but I was also the photographer. 252 00:15:28.928 --> 00:15:32.298 So they're like, we need, cause they saw like my photography and they're like, 253 00:15:32.364 --> 00:15:34.333 do you mind just going to this show? 254 00:15:34.533 --> 00:15:36.402 So like the one I remember doing was, 255 00:15:37.469 --> 00:15:45.044 it was like Ja Rule, TLC, Aqua, and there was a few other people there too. 256 00:15:45.311 --> 00:15:47.646 And yeah, so I remember kind of just like- 257 00:15:47.813 --> 00:15:51.850 You're like on stage with them and like, Ja Rule just like literally like walks right by you; 258 00:15:51.850 --> 00:15:52.718 which is pretty cool. 259 00:15:53.552 --> 00:15:58.290 So yeah, I was able to kind of be more involved with like the local music scene; 260 00:15:58.290 --> 00:16:03.395 and then also like a lot of like the bigger shows that that company would book. 261 00:16:03.796 --> 00:16:06.298 Sammy: Do you have anything else you want to mention before we wrap it up today? 262 00:16:06.498 --> 00:16:07.866 Colin: Sammy makes my life miserable. 263 00:16:07.900 --> 00:16:08.400 Sammy: What!? 264 00:16:08.467 --> 00:16:09.835 Colin and Sammy: *Laughing* 265 00:16:09.902 --> 00:16:11.136 Colin: Thank you guys for watching. 266 00:16:11.370 --> 00:16:12.738 Leave a like if you enjoyed this video; 267 00:16:13.038 --> 00:16:17.609 and check out my AMD upgrade that was just posted, and the extras, 268 00:16:17.676 --> 00:16:20.245 which I imagine are hilarious. 269 00:16:20.612 --> 00:16:21.313 Sammy: They're funny! 270 00:16:21.680 --> 00:16:22.047 Colin: Eeeh. 271 00:16:22.181 --> 00:16:23.082 Colin and Sammy: Hahahaha!