{"video_id":"fp_64T36FtXUf","title":"Riley Week: We Asked Riley Your Burning Questions!","channel":"FP Exclusives","show":"FP Exclusives","published_at":"2024-09-30T18:00:00.078Z","duration_s":1457,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":0.934,"text":"Sammy: Talk to them, yeah. 2 00:00:00.967 --> 00:00:01.601 Riley: Not to you? 3 00:00:01.634 --> 00:00:02.202 Sammy: Not to me. 4 00:00:03.703 --> 00:00:04.871 Riley: Hey Sammy, ummm- 5 00:00:04.871 --> 00:00:05.939 Sammy: Hahaha. 6 00:00:06.039 --> 00:00:10.377 Riley: Hi, I'm Riley; this is Floatplane Riley Week. 7 00:00:10.443 --> 00:00:13.880 Riley Week on Floatplane? It's all about me. 8 00:00:13.947 --> 00:00:15.281 Riley: Hahaha. 9 00:00:15.315 --> 00:00:19.586 This video is meant for me to answer questions that you guys sent in; 10 00:00:19.986 --> 00:00:23.656 but I'm gonna try to stay focused on that, but my mind wanders. 11 00:00:23.690 --> 00:00:30.497 First thing, for example; Kodo Kestis, I hope that's a reference to Cal Kestis, 12 00:00:30.530 --> 00:00:32.565 or it's just your name, I'm sorry. 13 00:00:32.599 --> 00:00:36.770 \"Why is Riley?\" And I've been wondering about that my whole life. 14 00:00:37.037 --> 00:00:39.706 This is a deep- We have to think about these things. 15 00:00:39.706 --> 00:00:42.142 Why is Linus? Why is anything? 16 00:00:42.208 --> 00:00:44.477 Riley is, because... 17 00:00:44.477 --> 00:00:45.612 It's fun, you know? 18 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:47.247 No. 19 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:53.486 Linus Media Group needed a host and a writer, and a random Swiss army knife type person, 20 00:00:53.486 --> 00:00:59.092 to do a bunch of random things at the company, primarily write TechLinked; so here I am. 21 00:00:59.092 --> 00:01:00.493 Riley:I was spawned from the pits. 22 00:01:00.527 --> 00:01:02.629 Sammy: I forgot, you had to start with saying Central Pahk. 23 00:01:02.695 --> 00:01:05.365 Riley: Eh, it's been a long time. 24 00:01:05.398 --> 00:01:06.066 Sammy: Bust it up. 25 00:01:06.099 --> 00:01:08.234 Riley: Eh, Central Pahk. 26 00:01:08.301 --> 00:01:11.337 You see, it's not very iconic. 27 00:01:11.404 --> 00:01:14.107 People glommed onto it; the reason they glommed onto it is 28 00:01:14.107 --> 00:01:16.943 because I very much tried to make it a thing when I was at NCIX. 29 00:01:17.110 --> 00:01:24.751 For context for anyone, Central Park is a phrase that me and my friend used to say because 30 00:01:24.884 --> 00:01:29.255 in reference to Flight of the Conchords, when they book a gig, 31 00:01:29.289 --> 00:01:32.292 and think they're booking a gig at Central Park in New York; 32 00:01:32.358 --> 00:01:35.261 but they're not booking a gig at Central Park in New York, 33 00:01:35.295 --> 00:01:39.299 they're booking a gig at a centrally located park in Newark, 34 00:01:39.299 --> 00:01:44.370 which is not the same thing at all; and so they get there and there's a whole thing. 35 00:01:44.471 --> 00:01:48.441 It's funny, look it up, there's probably a clip; I don't have it. 36 00:01:48.975 --> 00:01:49.542 Central Park. 37 00:01:50.276 --> 00:01:52.846 And so we said it to kind of- As a general comment, 38 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:55.215 Like, how are you doing today? \"Central Park\". 39 00:01:55.248 --> 00:01:57.784 Oh, you want to go hang out at the thing? \"Central Park\". 40 00:01:58.017 --> 00:01:59.119 That's how we used it. 41 00:01:59.352 --> 00:01:59.953 Riley: Hehe. 42 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:02.856 You want me to hold it up like this, like I'm playing it like a flute? 43 00:02:02.889 --> 00:02:03.790 Sammy: No, it can be lower 44 00:02:03.790 --> 00:02:05.692 Riley: *imitates flute with whistle* 45 00:02:06.459 --> 00:02:07.660 Riley: *does the same notes again but in falsetto* 46 00:02:07.794 --> 00:02:08.828 Riley: *turkey noises* 47 00:02:08.862 --> 00:02:10.897 I really want you to keep a lot of this in. 48 00:02:10.930 --> 00:02:16.069 ValKyrOG says, I hope it's not late but, Riley, comma, 49 00:02:16.102 --> 00:02:20.440 what has been your most interesting or favorite news to come out of TechLinked? 50 00:02:20.507 --> 00:02:21.574 Oh my gosh. 51 00:02:21.641 --> 00:02:24.177 I have an answer, but it's sort of like a love-hate thing. 52 00:02:24.177 --> 00:02:29.549 I think it was the whole like Elon Musk wanting to buy Twitter and then backing out, 53 00:02:29.582 --> 00:02:34.187 and then Twitter like making him, and he ended up doing it and then ruined it. 54 00:02:34.187 --> 00:02:37.524 I mean, he didn't ruin it; community notes is great, but he kind of ruined it. 55 00:02:37.857 --> 00:02:41.794 We ended up talking a lot about Elon Musk, more than I ever wanted to; 56 00:02:42.028 --> 00:02:44.964 but it just made tech news a little more interesting, it was spicy, you know? 57 00:02:44.964 --> 00:02:49.502 Everything else is just kind of like routine; like, oh Apple released a new chip. 58 00:02:49.569 --> 00:02:50.403 I was like, okay. 59 00:02:50.436 --> 00:02:53.439 Il-Gi-orge? I don't know. 60 00:02:53.473 --> 00:02:56.843 What's the easiest part of the job, and what's the most difficult? 61 00:02:56.876 --> 00:03:02.182 And I think that the easiest part of the job is honestly this kind of thing, like hosting. 62 00:03:02.248 --> 00:03:05.852 Some people find hosting very stressful, I've been doing it for 10 years now; 63 00:03:05.885 --> 00:03:10.690 so it's like, if I could just go host all the time, just random things, 64 00:03:10.690 --> 00:03:17.830 then that would be very easy as pie; but the most difficult part is fricking titles and thumbnails. 65 00:03:17.897 --> 00:03:22.268 Going through all of the sources for like the news sources for the day, 66 00:03:22.335 --> 00:03:25.505 trying to figure out what the heck is going on out there; 67 00:03:25.505 --> 00:03:30.710 and then picking the thing that we think is going to be like the most interesting, 68 00:03:30.743 --> 00:03:33.346 the most clickable story. 69 00:03:33.780 --> 00:03:36.149 Sometimes that's really easy; sometimes, you know, 70 00:03:36.149 --> 00:03:40.086 Apple releases something and it's the biggest thing and everyone is- 71 00:03:40.086 --> 00:03:43.056 Like Vision Pro, everyone's talking about Vision Pro? All right, that's easy. 72 00:03:43.089 --> 00:03:45.725 When there's not a story like that, it's very, very difficult. 73 00:03:45.792 --> 00:03:48.194 Predicting what you will like, I don't know what you like. 74 00:03:48.761 --> 00:03:49.529 Come on! 75 00:03:49.562 --> 00:03:55.001 Oh, I have to say that? \"ad-89-fh-76-asdfh\". 76 00:03:55.034 --> 00:03:58.871 \"I think it's awesome that you do voice acting and you seem to be really good at it\". 77 00:03:58.871 --> 00:03:59.606 Thank you very much. 78 00:03:59.672 --> 00:04:02.976 Do you plan to pursue more voice acting projects in the future? 79 00:04:03.042 --> 00:04:08.648 Yeah, eventually; haven't had nearly as much time recently as I used to have to do that kind of stuff, 80 00:04:08.681 --> 00:04:11.851 but I'd love to get back into it at some point. 81 00:04:11.884 --> 00:04:14.320 What's your favorite character that you voiced? 82 00:04:14.487 --> 00:04:20.693 I think it has to be the character named RILEE in Startenders VR game, 83 00:04:20.693 --> 00:04:27.600 that I got recruited to do by Chris Youles, the Yogscast people made a game; 84 00:04:27.634 --> 00:04:33.673 because they wanted to have a character that was actually based on me in the VR game, Startenders. 85 00:04:33.706 --> 00:04:36.442 It was actually very flattering and exciting. 86 00:04:36.442 --> 00:04:41.281 I basically played like kind of an exaggerated version of myself, and that was really fun. 87 00:04:41.281 --> 00:04:42.048 Sammy: Hashtag ad. 88 00:04:42.115 --> 00:04:43.583 Riley: \"Hashtag sponsored\". 89 00:04:43.583 --> 00:04:45.718 Sammy: *Laughs*. Riley: Oh no, this is Floatplane, they hate ads! 90 00:04:45.918 --> 00:04:48.154 Riley: Ah, I've been waiting for this one. 91 00:04:48.154 --> 00:04:52.659 Riley: benrose says, what does being a minimalist actually mean? 92 00:04:52.692 --> 00:04:55.161 Thank you Ben, for the opportunity to clarify this; 93 00:04:55.161 --> 00:04:59.198 because I feel like ever since my Intel upgrade went up. 94 00:04:59.198 --> 00:05:03.169 I was kind of memeing about minimalism in that video; it's like half real, half meme. 95 00:05:03.336 --> 00:05:08.207 I'm not like a minimalist in the sense that like, I don't know what people mean when they say minimalist. 96 00:05:08.608 --> 00:05:12.645 I think a lot of people say the word minimalist and they think, oh this person has one fork; 97 00:05:13.212 --> 00:05:18.751 or like, they got rid of the legs on their couch or something, and we don't need those. 98 00:05:19.085 --> 00:05:25.291 I think generally the word minimalist means somebody who tries to not have excess things. 99 00:05:25.658 --> 00:05:27.894 There are people in the world who take it like 100 00:05:27.927 --> 00:05:31.931 so, so, so intensely and they will have like nothing in their apartment. 101 00:05:32.298 --> 00:05:34.967 And they're sitting on the floor, like a hardwood floor. 102 00:05:36.069 --> 00:05:40.740 For me, it's been minimalism is just kind of like trying to remind myself 103 00:05:40.740 --> 00:05:45.878 to be okay with throwing stuff away if I don't need it, or if I'm not going to use it. 104 00:05:45.912 --> 00:05:47.547 I come from a family of hoarders. 105 00:05:48.781 --> 00:05:52.185 You go to my parents' house, don't go to my parent's house! But if you did, 106 00:05:52.185 --> 00:05:54.921 it would be a little scary how much stuff is there 107 00:05:54.954 --> 00:06:00.560 from like four boys who have all grown up, and now it's just like piled high. 108 00:06:00.593 --> 00:06:04.997 Honestly, rude of us to leave our parent's house in that condition, but 109 00:06:05.031 --> 00:06:07.934 yeah, I saw that and I'm like, I don't want to do that, so. 110 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:15.775 Resist the urge to keep something; because you're like, maybe I'll use it at some point. 111 00:06:15.808 --> 00:06:18.244 Like be actually realistic about whether you're going to use it or not. 112 00:06:18.277 --> 00:06:19.812 If you are, if it is actually like, like I have a tech box full of like random dongles and stuff; 113 00:06:19.812 --> 00:06:22.515 If you are, if it is actually like, like I have a tech box full of like random dongles and stuff; 114 00:06:22.515 --> 00:06:25.318 because I'm like, if I do troubleshooting on tech, I need those dongles. 115 00:06:25.318 --> 00:06:28.621 I need those dongles! Those are my dongles! 116 00:06:29.155 --> 00:06:34.360 Therin, Thiryn? says, do you have an unending list of funny openings for 117 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:38.498 TechLinked or GameLinked and an intro to Quick Bits? This is always impressing me. 118 00:06:38.765 --> 00:06:41.367 That was the goal, so thank you for saying that. 119 00:06:41.401 --> 00:06:42.769 We don't have an unending list. 120 00:06:42.835 --> 00:06:47.540 We have occasionally come up with an intro for TechLinked or GameLinked and we're like, 121 00:06:47.573 --> 00:06:52.779 we can't use that today, but we think it's funny; and so we throw it into this Trello card. 122 00:06:52.779 --> 00:06:58.084 And the rest of the time, we just try to remember what we've done before and not do the same thing. 123 00:06:58.117 --> 00:07:02.288 We have occasionally accidentally done like the same intro or a very similar intro; 124 00:07:02.388 --> 00:07:05.958 and I've been called out, I remember being called out on it once. 125 00:07:05.992 --> 00:07:08.561 But not very often, which honestly is surprising to me as well. 126 00:07:08.594 --> 00:07:11.864 \"Ja-maan\" (Jamon), I'm definitely not saying a lot of these names right, 127 00:07:11.898 --> 00:07:13.466 but they're handles, what do you want? 128 00:07:13.466 --> 00:07:16.936 As you were previously a voice actor, if you still don't do that, 129 00:07:17.103 --> 00:07:21.040 if you were to return, what would be your dream role to have and why? 130 00:07:21.073 --> 00:07:21.607 Okay. 131 00:07:21.641 --> 00:07:26.012 Previously to the last few years? I feel like I would have said something in Star Wars? 132 00:07:26.379 --> 00:07:30.783 Yeah, or some like epic operatic adventure type thing. 133 00:07:31.083 --> 00:07:34.520 I feel like I love, I love Lord of the Rings, I love Star Wars pre-Disney. 134 00:07:35.288 --> 00:07:36.355 Riley and Sammy: *Laughs* 135 00:07:36.823 --> 00:07:40.827 Sammy: I think someone mentioned like, would you voice a character in Rick and Morty as well? 136 00:07:40.860 --> 00:07:41.661 Sammy: And like who would you voice? Riley: Yeah I mean, 137 00:07:41.961 --> 00:07:43.596 Riley: yeah, Rick and Morty would be amazing. 138 00:07:43.663 --> 00:07:49.802 I haven't had the opportunity to have like a straight like comedic role like that. 139 00:07:49.802 --> 00:07:54.974 The two main roles that I've gotten where I was like a series regular, they're both like dark princes. 140 00:07:55.041 --> 00:07:59.745 Like they're both like, I grew up with privilege, but now I'm dark and edgy. 141 00:07:59.779 --> 00:08:04.317 Like it was just that voice, two times; so I would like to do something different than that. 142 00:08:04.417 --> 00:08:06.252 Maybe I could play Tim Cook in something. 143 00:08:06.285 --> 00:08:09.455 ToxicSans, has a toxic question. 144 00:08:10.223 --> 00:08:13.292 Thoughts on Star Wars: Outlaws or Star Wars in general? 145 00:08:13.292 --> 00:08:13.659 Sammy: Oh wait this is a question- 146 00:08:13.693 --> 00:08:16.529 Riley: Did you just put this in to tease my Star Wars rant? 147 00:08:16.629 --> 00:08:23.469 TLDR, for Star Wars: Outlaws, it seems like I've seen some encouraging things that says that it's like 148 00:08:23.469 --> 00:08:27.773 not as Ubisoft-esque as previous Ubisoft games? 149 00:08:27.874 --> 00:08:31.811 I think most of the stuff that I've seen about Star Wars: Outlaws seemed pretty cool? 150 00:08:31.911 --> 00:08:41.020 Except that it has all of this like AAA stupid stuff, season pass, unlock the skins early, et cetera. 151 00:08:41.020 --> 00:08:42.088 I hate all that. 152 00:08:42.154 --> 00:08:46.993 Hotnet911 says, what would you be doing if you weren't working for LMG? 153 00:08:47.026 --> 00:08:50.062 Now that's a question, I have no idea. 154 00:08:50.162 --> 00:08:55.101 Sammy: I want to extend it to LMG / NCIX; so like, if you never got hired for NCIX. 155 00:08:55.134 --> 00:08:58.070 Riley: Well, I'll tell you what I was doing before I started at NCIX; 156 00:08:58.070 --> 00:09:03.009 I was working as a lifeguard and getting my psychology degree. 157 00:09:03.509 --> 00:09:11.484 I think I was kind of like considering going into psychology, maybe going into like counseling or something? 158 00:09:12.018 --> 00:09:16.389 I feel like in an alternate universe, I could maybe be like a counselor; 159 00:09:16.822 --> 00:09:20.459 but also everyone's real messed up, so I don't know. 160 00:09:20.493 --> 00:09:23.029 Like me, I'm talking about me there. 161 00:09:23.062 --> 00:09:31.237 I have this thing where I don't believe that the thing that I most would want to do is realistic; 162 00:09:31.270 --> 00:09:38.344 so then I like come up with a different idea for like a settling, like something that I would settle for? 163 00:09:38.477 --> 00:09:41.681 Like I remember I have a distinct memory, we're getting into it. 164 00:09:41.881 --> 00:09:48.187 I have a distinct memory of my dad asking me in the car, what kind of career do you want to have? 165 00:09:48.287 --> 00:09:49.355 Like, what do you want to do for work? 166 00:09:49.422 --> 00:09:52.258 And I was like, I don't know, be in a band? 167 00:09:52.358 --> 00:09:53.859 *Laughs* 168 00:09:54.327 --> 00:09:58.364 And it was like, my dream at that point was to do something creative, 169 00:09:58.598 --> 00:10:01.033 but I was like, I'm not going to be able to do anything creative; 170 00:10:02.034 --> 00:10:06.238 and so then I just kind of like went in, I went to university, I took a bunch of courses. 171 00:10:06.272 --> 00:10:11.243 I thought I would need it to go into something like more professional and more academic, I don't know. 172 00:10:11.243 --> 00:10:17.483 It pulled me in, I had no, I didn't even, Ester, we're getting so deep. 173 00:10:17.516 --> 00:10:18.217 Sammy: Hahahaha. 174 00:10:18.217 --> 00:10:22.355 Riley: Esther mentioned this in her video where she was building a PC with Linus, but 175 00:10:22.388 --> 00:10:27.560 she offered me the job to be an intern at NCIX; and I initially said, 176 00:10:27.593 --> 00:10:29.528 oh, you don't, I wouldn't be good for that. 177 00:10:29.595 --> 00:10:32.932 I don't have the skills like you need; I'm not good at editing or whatever. 178 00:10:32.965 --> 00:10:36.736 And then Lauren, who was my girlfriend at the time, bless her heart; 179 00:10:36.769 --> 00:10:42.808 she was like, hey idiot, what are you doing? Say yes. 180 00:10:42.842 --> 00:10:47.346 And I was like, oh... oh okay, and so then I said yes, and that's why I got that job. 181 00:10:47.380 --> 00:10:50.650 \"Rjinswand\", hahaha. 182 00:10:50.650 --> 00:10:53.285 Can you expand a little bit more about your voice acting experience? 183 00:10:53.352 --> 00:10:55.888 Was it a viable career? Did you enjoy it? 184 00:10:55.921 --> 00:10:56.656 Hell yes. 185 00:10:56.822 --> 00:10:58.190 How did the change come about? 186 00:10:58.224 --> 00:11:01.460 Voice acting is broken, is OP. 187 00:11:01.494 --> 00:11:06.365 Voice acting is you go into a booth for a few hours 188 00:11:06.499 --> 00:11:09.502 and you get paid an unreasonable amount of money; 189 00:11:10.002 --> 00:11:12.238 like good, unreasonable in a good way. 190 00:11:12.838 --> 00:11:16.342 As long as I've been doing voice acting, I've been doing another job. 191 00:11:16.842 --> 00:11:22.281 And so I never really took the plunge that a lot of people do where they quit their job, 192 00:11:22.281 --> 00:11:27.019 and they make a real go of it to try and build a career just doing voice acting 193 00:11:27.019 --> 00:11:29.321 and I guess whatever other projects they want. 194 00:11:29.355 --> 00:11:35.127 If you do that, and you get enough work voice acting, it's OP. 195 00:11:35.528 --> 00:11:39.098 That said, it's viable in the sense that if you get enough work, 196 00:11:39.231 --> 00:11:42.234 yeah, you'll be making money and you'll have lots of free time. 197 00:11:42.635 --> 00:11:46.372 Is it a viable career? Not really for most people; 198 00:11:46.405 --> 00:11:49.008 because it's like making it in Hollywood, you know? 199 00:11:49.008 --> 00:11:54.246 It's like, oh I'm gonna move to LA and try to hit it big; that's what voice acting is. 200 00:11:54.346 --> 00:11:57.249 So I think, a lot of times people have asked me, how do I get into voice acting? 201 00:11:57.316 --> 00:12:01.053 And I'm like, be really lucky, you know? It's- 202 00:12:01.053 --> 00:12:03.856 If you really, really, really, really wanna do it, 203 00:12:03.856 --> 00:12:11.130 the only way to make it work as a full-time career is to drop everything else and just try to do that. 204 00:12:11.163 --> 00:12:13.199 I was fortunate, my dad's a voice actor. 205 00:12:13.232 --> 00:12:15.601 So I was fortunate to kind of get a foot in the door early, 206 00:12:15.668 --> 00:12:18.504 he got me working on some things when I was a kid, 207 00:12:18.504 --> 00:12:21.574 and I got on with his agency and so kind of things went from there. 208 00:12:21.640 --> 00:12:24.043 I'm a priv- I'm a Nepo baby, what do you want from me? 209 00:12:24.410 --> 00:12:27.513 But like I said, I'm too busy to do it now. 210 00:12:27.580 --> 00:12:28.981 I'm doing something very similar instead, 211 00:12:28.981 --> 00:12:31.984 and the voice acting comes out in the Tim Cook impressions, as you've seen. 212 00:12:31.984 --> 00:12:35.888 Oh speaking of which, NicksCrumpets says, how is your Tim Cook impression so good? 213 00:12:35.988 --> 00:12:37.389 I don't knooow. (in Tim Cook impression) 214 00:12:37.490 --> 00:12:40.426 Riley: He never struck me as someone who you would do an impression of; 215 00:12:40.426 --> 00:12:43.095 because he just seemed kind of like normal? 216 00:12:43.329 --> 00:12:47.566 But then after seeing so many of the Apple keynotes, I'm like, wait a second. 217 00:12:47.867 --> 00:12:53.172 This guy sounds like a very, like he's smiling all the time, he has to smile. 218 00:12:53.339 --> 00:12:56.876 But it's, you gotta be careful because it could easily go into a Bill Clinton, 219 00:12:56.909 --> 00:12:59.044 like a huhuhu, Bill. 220 00:12:59.078 --> 00:13:03.048 If you do too much of the eh in the back of your throat; so you have to keep it up here, 221 00:13:03.048 --> 00:13:04.450 you have to keep a nasal. 222 00:13:04.483 --> 00:13:06.118 The new iPhone. 223 00:13:06.152 --> 00:13:07.787 How is it so good? 224 00:13:08.387 --> 00:13:09.588 I think it's just okay. 225 00:13:09.588 --> 00:13:14.126 Udimion says, as someone who occasionally has to record marketing videos for other companies 226 00:13:14.160 --> 00:13:18.197 I find it hard to do more than three to four minutes in a single take without a mistake. 227 00:13:18.230 --> 00:13:22.501 How many takes do you need for an average TechLinked? And do you have any tips for reading an autocue? 228 00:13:22.535 --> 00:13:26.705 This is a great question for me, so good job, Udimion. 229 00:13:27.072 --> 00:13:31.877 This is kind of the only thing that I view as being like my actual specialty, 230 00:13:32.511 --> 00:13:38.350 is like reading a teleprompter in a somewhat natural sounding way. 231 00:13:38.384 --> 00:13:41.654 And even then it's like, it verges into like news anchor, 232 00:13:41.687 --> 00:13:43.756 \"in other news\" like blah, blah, blah. 233 00:13:43.756 --> 00:13:46.859 How many takes do we need? We don't really do takes. 234 00:13:46.892 --> 00:13:48.694 We go from the top of the script to the bottom of the script; 235 00:13:48.727 --> 00:13:52.264 and if we make a mistake, we just kind of go back a sentence and just keep going. 236 00:13:52.298 --> 00:13:57.036 I might have to pause like 10 times in a video or something? 237 00:13:57.436 --> 00:14:01.774 Mostly just to, I do a read and I'm like, oh, I don't actually like that read; so then I do it again. 238 00:14:01.807 --> 00:14:07.012 Any tips though for reading an- By autocue I'm assuming you mean like a teleprompter, 239 00:14:07.012 --> 00:14:08.447 umm, with personality. 240 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:12.151 This is my number one tip for reading a teleprompter. 241 00:14:12.184 --> 00:14:18.190 Pretend that the teleprompter is your buddy and you're just telling them about the stuff. 242 00:14:18.190 --> 00:14:23.262 Instead of reading, \"as someone who occasionally has to record marketing videos for other companies\", 243 00:14:23.262 --> 00:14:29.001 I would be like, oh, this is my buddy inside the laptop so like, 244 00:14:29.001 --> 00:14:35.174 as someone who, occasionally has to record marketing videos for other companies, I find it hard! 245 00:14:35.207 --> 00:14:36.408 You have to break it up. 246 00:14:36.442 --> 00:14:39.778 You have to add normal, you have to add natural pauses. 247 00:14:39.812 --> 00:14:44.617 People don't talk as if they have all their words laid out; as you've seen, 248 00:14:44.617 --> 00:14:49.054 I feel like I'm the worst at this, which is why I like teleprompters. 249 00:14:49.054 --> 00:14:52.157 People have to think about words, you have to search for a word. 250 00:14:52.191 --> 00:14:54.727 Sometimes you, like the sentence is there. 251 00:14:54.760 --> 00:14:56.495 \"How many takes do you need for an average TechLinked?\" 252 00:14:56.495 --> 00:14:58.898 And you wanna say like, How many takes do you need for... 253 00:14:59.465 --> 00:15:01.567 an average TechLinked? You know? 254 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:06.038 And so I like, I add in that pause as if I'm searching for the word, but I'm not. 255 00:15:06.071 --> 00:15:08.207 I have the word already, gotcha. 256 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:13.312 Martinspire says, hi Riley TechLinked has talked about weird news a lot. 257 00:15:13.345 --> 00:15:17.116 What's the weirdest news or headline you've ever seen for TechLinked? 258 00:15:17.116 --> 00:15:20.352 I'm thinking of one where we reported on a laptop with no ports. 259 00:15:20.352 --> 00:15:23.956 There was like a prototype device where it was like a laptop and there's zero ports, 260 00:15:23.989 --> 00:15:25.324 and it would charge magnetically. 261 00:15:25.324 --> 00:15:26.859 I don't think it ever became a product; 262 00:15:26.859 --> 00:15:30.696 but it was just so wonderfully strange, that it's sticking out of my mind. 263 00:15:31.030 --> 00:15:36.268 deadrawkstar says, name a few movies you wish you would have had time for on \"They're Just Movies\". 264 00:15:36.735 --> 00:15:43.509 I just looked up the top movies of 2023; because I think we ended the podcast at the end of 2022. 265 00:15:43.575 --> 00:15:45.377 Barbie... yes! 266 00:15:45.477 --> 00:15:48.080 Oppenheimer, I still haven't seen Oppenheimer. 267 00:15:48.113 --> 00:15:48.814 I've seen Barbie. 268 00:15:48.881 --> 00:15:52.651 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse came out in 2023; I would have loved to do that. 269 00:15:52.818 --> 00:15:55.020 I finally watched it, it took me a long time. 270 00:15:55.354 --> 00:15:59.158 The biggest thing to adjust to after ending \"They're Just Movies\", 271 00:15:59.158 --> 00:16:02.761 was not having an excuse to go watch movies; 272 00:16:03.095 --> 00:16:05.497 so then I just didn't see movies for like six months, 273 00:16:05.497 --> 00:16:09.301 because the way I was watching a lot of these movies, these new movies was like, 274 00:16:09.501 --> 00:16:14.640 oh, I don't have time to see it; so I book a ticket for like Sunday night at 10 p.m. 275 00:16:14.640 --> 00:16:17.509 And then I like put my kid to bed and go to the movies, 276 00:16:17.509 --> 00:16:20.145 and I bring my laptop in and there's no one there because it's late; 277 00:16:20.145 --> 00:16:22.614 so I'm like writing my notes on my laptop in the back of the theater. 278 00:16:22.681 --> 00:16:24.316 It was actually, it was a vibe. 279 00:16:24.450 --> 00:16:25.951 Riley: Hahaha. Sammy: Haha. 280 00:16:26.018 --> 00:16:30.723 Riley: disbreez says, what voice do you find yourself doing most often? 281 00:16:31.457 --> 00:16:35.260 Which voice can you do that if someone caught you doing it at the wrong time would be most embarrassing? 282 00:16:35.294 --> 00:16:37.363 Well, I'm not gonna do that voice, obviously; 283 00:16:38.197 --> 00:16:40.032 because that would be embarrassing. 284 00:16:40.666 --> 00:16:45.637 I grew up with a voice actor for a dad, so instead of learning like normal ways to speak 285 00:16:45.671 --> 00:16:49.141 and like normal ways to accentuate the things that you're saying 286 00:16:49.174 --> 00:16:53.879 he would just drop into some accent to highlight something. 287 00:16:53.912 --> 00:16:57.583 So if he was like, we're gonna be late, we need to like hurry up and get in the car; 288 00:16:57.616 --> 00:17:02.955 he'll be like, he's like, \"come on guys, we're gonna be late, it's ZE RULES, GEZT INTO THE CAR NAOW!\" 289 00:17:02.988 --> 00:17:05.090 He would like do, like a crazy German thing. 290 00:17:05.557 --> 00:17:08.794 I feel like I lapse into like a British voice, sometimes; 291 00:17:08.794 --> 00:17:13.899 if I want something to be, sound more classy, I'll do that. 292 00:17:13.932 --> 00:17:16.235 I don't wanna do, don't make me do voices. 293 00:17:16.268 --> 00:17:17.102 I'm not your monkey. 294 00:17:17.136 --> 00:17:18.237 Sammy: Hahahaha. 295 00:17:18.237 --> 00:17:19.605 Sammy: Do Tim Cook! do Tim Cook! 296 00:17:19.605 --> 00:17:21.073 Riley: Hahahaha. 297 00:17:21.340 --> 00:17:23.675 Riley: Leave me the hell alone! (In Tim Cook impression) 298 00:17:23.909 --> 00:17:27.379 Riley: Houseman says, what do you do to your hair to make it look so good? 299 00:17:27.413 --> 00:17:30.215 Just a lot of this; you've seen me do it a bunch probably in this video. 300 00:17:30.349 --> 00:17:33.218 I have a very specific hair routine, I've tweeted it before. 301 00:17:33.352 --> 00:17:39.992 I stick my head in the shower or I have a shower, I get it all wet, I dry it with a towel, 302 00:17:39.992 --> 00:17:45.464 I flip it around; and then I see where the part lies, because like my hair is very thick; 303 00:17:45.798 --> 00:17:49.768 so it stands up when it's kind of like wet, 304 00:17:49.768 --> 00:17:52.671 or I mean, I dry it and then I wet it, and then it's standing up. 305 00:17:52.671 --> 00:17:55.707 I put my hat on, and I kind of shape it how I want it to be. 306 00:17:55.707 --> 00:18:00.446 I put my hat on, and then I leave my hat on for the first few hours of the morning. 307 00:18:00.746 --> 00:18:05.150 And then by the time I have to host something, I take my hat off and I put product in 308 00:18:05.184 --> 00:18:07.820 and it's like, it actually does what I want it to do at that point. 309 00:18:07.853 --> 00:18:12.825 Because my hair is perfectly straight, if I don't do this routine, it's not anything; 310 00:18:12.858 --> 00:18:16.595 it's just, it's like a, it looks like a sea urchin. 311 00:18:16.662 --> 00:18:21.133 dts1845 says, how do you decide when to do a TechLonger? 312 00:18:21.967 --> 00:18:24.636 Oh, that hits me right here. 313 00:18:24.636 --> 00:18:26.538 Yeah, I wanna do TechLongers. 314 00:18:27.806 --> 00:18:31.443 There's lots of reasons why it hasn't happened yet. 315 00:18:31.477 --> 00:18:34.513 We're figuring out our processes and stuff like that. 316 00:18:34.546 --> 00:18:36.782 But yeah, I wanna do them. 317 00:18:36.815 --> 00:18:40.352 Kip Hakes, Ki phakes? Kip Ha-kis? 318 00:18:40.385 --> 00:18:42.354 What is your favorite film of all time? 319 00:18:42.354 --> 00:18:48.427 Oh man, I can't say my favorite film specifically, but my favorite films are The Lord of the Rings trilogy. 320 00:18:48.494 --> 00:18:51.930 Maybe it's cringe, maybe it's cheesy, whatever. 321 00:18:51.964 --> 00:18:57.136 They're objectively amazing films, and I feel like they are something that is so special 322 00:18:57.136 --> 00:19:06.211 that nothing else has really occurred to give a classic book adaptation with that level of fidelity. 323 00:19:06.245 --> 00:19:12.117 I said Dune kind of like was on the same level of Lord of the Rings as being like, 324 00:19:12.151 --> 00:19:14.453 it's a very faithful adaptation and it's really good; 325 00:19:14.486 --> 00:19:17.389 we did, we covered this on There Just Movies. 326 00:19:17.422 --> 00:19:18.957 Callam GC says, 327 00:19:18.991 --> 00:19:22.361 how has becoming a dad changed the way you approach your workload? 328 00:19:22.394 --> 00:19:33.105 Uh, it has definitely changed it, in that I now have even more of a reason to not overwork myself; 329 00:19:33.105 --> 00:19:37.409 because I have to go home and I have to be a father to my child. 330 00:19:37.442 --> 00:19:41.013 I mean, anyone who has kids has experienced this, 331 00:19:41.013 --> 00:19:47.886 is just kind of like, for me in particular, I tend to keep working until something's done, 332 00:19:48.220 --> 00:19:52.191 especially with the job that I've had for the last 10 years, it's been like 333 00:19:52.191 --> 00:19:55.727 making videos that I kind of identify with or kind of feel like my baby. 334 00:19:55.961 --> 00:20:01.600 When I leave work to go home, it kind of feels like I'm abandoning one of my children 335 00:20:01.600 --> 00:20:03.602 to go attend to my other children. 336 00:20:03.602 --> 00:20:09.208 Becoming a dad of an actual child has changed the way I approach my workload in the sense that 337 00:20:09.208 --> 00:20:13.445 it's an excuse for me to force myself to not overwork myself. 338 00:20:14.580 --> 00:20:16.048 But I still overwork myself. 339 00:20:16.081 --> 00:20:16.648 Sammy: Haha. 340 00:20:16.682 --> 00:20:20.719 Riley: UNDRMSK says, why do you never change your beard style? 341 00:20:21.086 --> 00:20:24.122 I don't know, I think I always liked the idea of a mustache? 342 00:20:24.423 --> 00:20:30.062 I grew some gross mustaches when I was younger and it was like very fun, very silly. 343 00:20:30.429 --> 00:20:34.700 I think at that point, mustaches were not fully cool in the mainstream yet and so like, 344 00:20:34.733 --> 00:20:37.569 you know, hipsters were starting to do it because it was like ooh look at, 345 00:20:37.569 --> 00:20:41.773 isn't this funny? Isn't this funny that people had mustaches back in the 70s or whatever? 346 00:20:42.007 --> 00:20:47.379 I started growing mustaches for the Christmas specials here on TechLinked. 347 00:20:47.546 --> 00:20:51.883 I would like grow a mustache throughout December, and then by the time the Christmas special was published, 348 00:20:52.050 --> 00:20:56.521 I'd host it in my bathrobe with my mug of hot cocoa and a mustache. 349 00:20:56.555 --> 00:21:00.692 It just seemed like, you know, old 90s style Christmas movies. 350 00:21:00.692 --> 00:21:03.161 I think I look better with a mustache. 351 00:21:03.795 --> 00:21:05.864 My wife thinks I look better with a mustache, 352 00:21:06.365 --> 00:21:08.667 and at this point, I'm like why would I ever shave it? 353 00:21:09.167 --> 00:21:11.703 if I think I look better with a mustache than without? 354 00:21:12.170 --> 00:21:16.041 I see myself without a mustache in like older videos and I'm like, 355 00:21:16.642 --> 00:21:19.611 like, it's just like, it looks weird to me. 356 00:21:19.711 --> 00:21:21.546 And the reason I don't like grow a beard-beard, 357 00:21:21.546 --> 00:21:24.182 is because as I said previously, my hair is perfectly straight; 358 00:21:24.349 --> 00:21:27.152 so my hair, when I grow a beard, it just goes out. 359 00:21:27.452 --> 00:21:31.723 It just goes out, and out, and out, and out, and then eventually starts curling one way. 360 00:21:32.224 --> 00:21:36.461 It looked okay for like a month, and then it was like, no; 361 00:21:36.461 --> 00:21:40.132 but I kept going with it, why did I do that? It was so bad. 362 00:21:40.132 --> 00:21:47.472 KasperXplore asks, hey Riley, how come you're not featured on main LTT channel content as much anymore? 363 00:21:47.472 --> 00:21:51.076 I'm very busy now; I run TechLinked and GameLinked and LMG Clips, 364 00:21:51.076 --> 00:21:53.979 as well as doing various other things at the company. 365 00:21:54.046 --> 00:21:59.785 And I'm not on main LTT channel as much anymore, because I don't write LTT videos. 366 00:22:00.786 --> 00:22:09.961 In 2021, I think? I stopped writing main LTT videos; because I wanted to do TechLonger. 367 00:22:09.995 --> 00:22:13.432 Linus was very gracious, he let me take months 368 00:22:13.432 --> 00:22:19.271 to produce these super long video essays, which I am passionate about and I want to do more of. 369 00:22:19.338 --> 00:22:22.140 KasperXplore also says, is your computer still in the closet? 370 00:22:22.841 --> 00:22:25.010 No, it's come out now. 371 00:22:25.043 --> 00:22:25.610 Riley: Hahahaha. 372 00:22:25.644 --> 00:22:26.445 Sammy: Hahaha! 373 00:22:26.745 --> 00:22:30.682 Riley: It's actually still in a closet, it's not- It's in a different closet; 374 00:22:30.716 --> 00:22:35.387 so, there's some other secret that it will be revealed at some other time, I guess. 375 00:22:35.420 --> 00:22:39.825 Mysteryman321 says; Bing Bong, how is Riley's mom? 376 00:22:45.564 --> 00:22:51.036 Riley: You keep my mom's name out your F***ING MOUTH!... 377 00:22:51.503 --> 00:22:52.037 ...She's great. 378 00:22:52.070 --> 00:22:56.007 FLT420 says, can we see Riley having a meltdown? 379 00:22:56.308 --> 00:22:58.009 I don't think I've ever had, I- Okay, wait. 380 00:22:59.177 --> 00:23:00.979 I have had a meltdown in my life, 381 00:23:01.012 --> 00:23:04.516 but mostly when I was trapped on a boat with my brothers and they were driving me insane; 382 00:23:05.050 --> 00:23:09.254 but at work, I don't think anyone could tell you that I had a meltdown at any point. 383 00:23:09.988 --> 00:23:12.124 Sammy: *Laughs* Riley: Show that to the camera. 384 00:23:12.124 --> 00:23:13.458 Sammy: I’ll add it in post 385 00:23:13.458 --> 00:23:15.861 Riley: That is like the equivalent of me having a meltdown; I keep it inside. 386 00:23:15.861 --> 00:23:17.062 Riley: That is like the equivalent of me having a meltdown; I keep it inside. 387 00:23:17.696 --> 00:23:22.033 spammeplz says, what's the first piece of tech you remember purchasing? 388 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:25.971 My first piece of tech that I remember purchasing is a GameBoy Color, 389 00:23:26.004 --> 00:23:29.908 Atomic Purple. GameBoy Color, with Pokemon Yellow. 390 00:23:30.342 --> 00:23:33.178 I never bought any other games for it, just that one; 391 00:23:33.879 --> 00:23:35.380 but I played the heck out of that game. 392 00:23:35.514 --> 00:23:38.483 Ravensettle asks, why won't you answer this question? 393 00:23:55.467 --> 00:23:57.602 Riley: Sammy is a goddamn national treasure! 394 00:23:57.602 --> 00:23:58.370 Sammy: Hahaha. 395 00:23:58.403 --> 00:24:01.773 Riley: And I want to protect him at all costs, okay? 396 00:24:01.807 --> 00:24:02.808 Thanks for watching. 397 00:24:03.442 --> 00:24:05.377 Hey, leave a like if you like this kind of content. 398 00:24:05.377 --> 00:24:08.713 Stay tuned for some more videos coming as part of Riley Week, 399 00:24:08.747 --> 00:24:09.548 yay! Haha. 400 00:24:09.815 --> 00:24:13.518 And yeah, love ya, appreciate ya. 401 00:24:14.686 --> 00:24:17.189 Is there any other empty platitudes I can say?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"Sammy: Talk to them, yeah. 2 00:00:00.967 --> 00:00:01.601 Riley: Not to you? 3 00:00:01.634 --> 00:00:02.202 Sammy: Not to me. 4 00:00:03.703 --> 00:00:04.871 Riley: Hey Sammy, ummm- 5 00:00:04.871 --> 00:00:05.939 Sammy: Hahaha. 6 00:00:06.039 --> 00:00:10.377 Riley: Hi, I'm Riley; this is Floatplane Riley Week. 7 00:00:10.443 --> 00:00:13.880 Riley Week on Floatplane? It's all about me. 8 00:00:13.947 --> 00:00:15.281 Riley: Hahaha. 9 00:00:15.315 --> 00:00:19.586 This video is meant for me to answer questions that you guys sent in; 10 00:00:19.986 --> 00:00:23.656 but I'm gonna try to stay focused on that, but my mind wanders. 11 00:00:23.690 --> 00:00:30.497 First thing, for example; Kodo Kestis, I hope that's a reference to Cal Kestis, 12 00:00:30.530 --> 00:00:32.565 or it's just your name, I'm sorry. 13 00:00:32.599 --> 00:00:36.770 \"Why is Riley?\" And I've been wondering about that my whole life. 14 00:00:37.037 --> 00:00:39.706 This is a deep- We have to think about these things. 15 00:00:39.706 --> 00:00:42.142 Why is Linus? Why is anything? 16 00:00:42.208 --> 00:00:44.477 Riley is, because... 17 00:00:44.477 --> 00:00:45.612 It's fun, you know? 18 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:47.247 No. 19 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:53.486 Linus Media Group needed a host and a writer, and a random Swiss army knife type person, 20 00:00:53.486 --> 00:00:59.092 to do a bunch of random things at the company, primarily write TechLinked; so here I am. 21 00:00:59.092 --> 00:01:00.493 Riley:I was spawned from the pits. 22 00:01:00.527 --> 00:01:02.629 Sammy: I forgot, you had to start with saying Central Pahk. 23 00:01:02.695 --> 00:01:05.365 Riley: Eh, it's been a long time. 24 00:01:05.398 --> 00:01:06.066 Sammy: Bust it up. 25 00:01:06.099 --> 00:01:08.234 Riley: Eh, Central Pahk. 26 00:01:08.301 --> 00:01:11.337 You see, it's not very iconic. 27 00:01:11.404 --> 00:01:14.107 People glommed onto it; the reason they glommed onto it is 28 00:01:14.107 --> 00:01:16.943 because I very much tried to make it a thing when I was at NCIX. 29 00:01:17.110 --> 00:01:24.751 For context for anyone, Central Park is a phrase that me and my friend used to say because 30 00:01:24.884 --> 00:01:29.255 in reference to Flight of the Conchords, when they book a gig, 31 00:01:29.289 --> 00:01:32.292 and think they're booking a gig at Central Park in New York; 32 00:01:32.358 --> 00:01:35.261 but they're not booking a gig at Central Park in New York, 33 00:01:35.295 --> 00:01:39.299 they're booking a gig at a centrally located park in Newark, 34 00:01:39.299 --> 00:01:44.370 which is not the same thing at all; and so they get there and there's a whole thing. 35 00:01:44.471 --> 00:01:48.441 It's funny, look it up, there's probably a clip; I don't have it. 36 00:01:48.975 --> 00:01:49.542 Central Park. 37 00:01:50.276 --> 00:01:52.846 And so we said it to kind of- As a general comment, 38 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:55.215 Like, how are you doing today? \"Central Park\". 39 00:01:55.248 --> 00:01:57.784 Oh, you want to go hang out at the thing? \"Central Park\". 40 00:01:58.017 --> 00:01:59.119 That's how we used it. 41 00:01:59.352 --> 00:01:59.953 Riley: Hehe. 42 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:02.856 You want me to hold it up like this, like I'm playing it like a flute? 43 00:02:02.889 --> 00:02:03.790 Sammy: No, it can be lower 44 00:02:03.790 --> 00:02:05.692 Riley: *imitates flute with whistle* 45 00:02:06.459 --> 00:02:07.660 Riley: *does the same notes again but in falsetto* 46 00:02:07.794 --> 00:02:08.828 Riley: *turkey noises* 47 00:02:08.862 --> 00:02:10.897 I really want you to keep a lot of this in. 48 00:02:10.930 --> 00:02:16.069 ValKyrOG says, I hope it's not late but, Riley, comma, 49 00:02:16.102 --> 00:02:20.440 what has been your most interesting or favorite news to come out of TechLinked? 50 00:02:20.507 --> 00:02:21.574 Oh my gosh. 51 00:02:21.641 --> 00:02:24.177 I have an answer, but it's sort of like a love-hate thing. 52 00:02:24.177 --> 00:02:29.549 I think it was the whole like Elon Musk wanting to buy Twitter and then backing out, 53 00:02:29.582 --> 00:02:34.187 and then Twitter like making him, and he ended up doing it and then ruined it. 54 00:02:34.187 --> 00:02:37.524 I mean, he didn't ruin it; community notes is great, but he kind of ruined it. 55 00:02:37.857 --> 00:02:41.794 We ended up talking a lot about Elon Musk, more than I ever wanted to; 56 00:02:42.028 --> 00:02:44.964 but it just made tech news a little more interesting, it was spicy, you know? 57 00:02:44.964 --> 00:02:49.502 Everything else is just kind of like routine; like, oh Apple released a new chip. 58 00:02:49.569 --> 00:02:50.403 I was like, okay. 59 00:02:50.436 --> 00:02:53.439 Il-Gi-orge? I don't know. 60 00:02:53.473 --> 00:02:56.843 What's the easiest part of the job, and what's the most difficult? 61 00:02:56.876 --> 00:03:02.182 And I think that the easiest part of the job is honestly this kind of thing, like hosting. 62 00:03:02.248 --> 00:03:05.852 Some people find hosting very stressful, I've been doing it for 10 years now; 63 00:03:05.885 --> 00:03:10.690 so it's like, if I could just go host all the time, just random things, 64 00:03:10.690 --> 00:03:17.830 then that would be very easy as pie; but the most difficult part is fricking titles and thumbnails. 65 00:03:17.897 --> 00:03:22.268 Going through all of the sources for like the news sources for the day, 66 00:03:22.335 --> 00:03:25.505 trying to figure out what the heck is going on out there; 67 00:03:25.505 --> 00:03:30.710 and then picking the thing that we think is going to be like the most interesting, 68 00:03:30.743 --> 00:03:33.346 the most clickable story. 69 00:03:33.780 --> 00:03:36.149 Sometimes that's really easy; sometimes, you know, 70 00:03:36.149 --> 00:03:40.086 Apple releases something and it's the biggest thing and everyone is- 71 00:03:40.086 --> 00:03:43.056 Like Vision Pro, everyone's talking about Vision Pro? All right, that's easy. 72 00:03:43.089 --> 00:03:45.725 When there's not a story like that, it's very, very difficult. 73 00:03:45.792 --> 00:03:48.194 Predicting what you will like, I don't know what you like. 74 00:03:48.761 --> 00:03:49.529 Come on! 75 00:03:49.562 --> 00:03:55.001 Oh, I have to say that? \"ad-89-fh-76-asdfh\". 76 00:03:55.034 --> 00:03:58.871 \"I think it's awesome that you do voice acting and you seem to be really good at it\". 77 00:03:58.871 --> 00:03:59.606 Thank you very much. 78 00:03:59.672 --> 00:04:02.976 Do you plan to pursue more voice acting projects in the future? 79 00:04:03.042 --> 00:04:08.648 Yeah, eventually; haven't had nearly as much time recently as I used to have to do that kind of stuff, 80 00:04:08.681 --> 00:04:11.851 but I'd love to get back into it at some point. 81 00:04:11.884 --> 00:04:14.320 What's your favorite character that you voiced? 82 00:04:14.487 --> 00:04:20.693 I think it has to be the character named RILEE in Startenders VR game, 83 00:04:20.693 --> 00:04:27.600 that I got recruited to do by Chris Youles, the Yogscast people made a game; 84 00:04:27.634 --> 00:04:33.673 because they wanted to have a character that was actually based on me in the VR game, Startenders. 85 00:04:33.706 --> 00:04:36.442 It was actually very flattering and exciting. 86 00:04:36.442 --> 00:04:41.281 I basically played like kind of an exaggerated version of myself, and that was really fun. 87 00:04:41.281 --> 00:04:42.048 Sammy: Hashtag ad. 88 00:04:42.115 --> 00:04:43.583 Riley: \"Hashtag sponsored\". 89 00:04:43.583 --> 00:04:45.718 Sammy: *Laughs*. Riley: Oh no, this is Floatplane, they hate ads! 90 00:04:45.918 --> 00:04:48.154 Riley: Ah, I've been waiting for this one. 91 00:04:48.154 --> 00:04:52.659 Riley: benrose says, what does being a minimalist actually mean? 92 00:04:52.692 --> 00:04:55.161 Thank you Ben, for the opportunity to clarify this; 93 00:04:55.161 --> 00:04:59.198 because I feel like ever since my Intel upgrade went up. 94 00:04:59.198 --> 00:05:03.169 I was kind of memeing about minimalism in that video; it's like half real, half meme. 95 00:05:03.336 --> 00:05:08.207 I'm not like a minimalist in the sense that like, I don't know what people mean when they say minimalist. 96 00:05:08.608 --> 00:05:12.645 I think a lot of people say the word minimalist and they think, oh this person has one fork; 97 00:05:13.212 --> 00:05:18.751 or like, they got rid of the legs on their couch or something, and we don't need those. 98 00:05:19.085 --> 00:05:25.291 I think generally the word minimalist means somebody who tries to not have excess things. 99 00:05:25.658 --> 00:05:27.894 There are people in the world who take it like 100 00:05:27.927 --> 00:05:31.931 so, so, so intensely and they will have like nothing in their apartment. 101 00:05:32.298 --> 00:05:34.967 And they're sitting on the floor, like a hardwood floor. 102 00:05:36.069 --> 00:05:40.740 For me, it's been minimalism is just kind of like trying to remind myself 103 00:05:40.740 --> 00:05:45.878 to be okay with throwing stuff away if I don't need it, or if I'm not going to use it. 104 00:05:45.912 --> 00:05:47.547 I come from a family of hoarders. 105 00:05:48.781 --> 00:05:52.185 You go to my parents' house, don't go to my parent's house! But if you did, 106 00:05:52.185 --> 00:05:54.921 it would be a little scary how much stuff is there 107 00:05:54.954 --> 00:06:00.560 from like four boys who have all grown up, and now it's just like piled high. 108 00:06:00.593 --> 00:06:04.997 Honestly, rude of us to leave our parent's house in that condition, but 109 00:06:05.031 --> 00:06:07.934 yeah, I saw that and I'm like, I don't want to do that, so. 110 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:15.775 Resist the urge to keep something; because you're like, maybe I'll use it at some point. 111 00:06:15.808 --> 00:06:18.244 Like be actually realistic about whether you're going to use it or not. 112 00:06:18.277 --> 00:06:19.812 If you are, if it is actually like, like I have a tech box full of like random dongles and stuff; 113 00:06:19.812 --> 00:06:22.515 If you are, if it is actually like, like I have a tech box full of like random dongles and stuff; 114 00:06:22.515 --> 00:06:25.318 because I'm like, if I do troubleshooting on tech, I need those dongles. 115 00:06:25.318 --> 00:06:28.621 I need those dongles! Those are my dongles! 116 00:06:29.155 --> 00:06:34.360 Therin, Thiryn? says, do you have an unending list of funny openings for 117 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:38.498 TechLinked or GameLinked and an intro to Quick Bits? This is always impressing me. 118 00:06:38.765 --> 00:06:41.367 That was the goal, so thank you for saying that. 119 00:06:41.401 --> 00:06:42.769 We don't have an unending list. 120 00:06:42.835 --> 00:06:47.540 We have occasionally come up with an intro for TechLinked or GameLinked and we're like, 121 00:06:47.573 --> 00:06:52.779 we can't use that today, but we think it's funny; and so we throw it into this Trello card. 122 00:06:52.779 --> 00:06:58.084 And the rest of the time, we just try to remember what we've done before and not do the same thing. 123 00:06:58.117 --> 00:07:02.288 We have occasionally accidentally done like the same intro or a very similar intro; 124 00:07:02.388 --> 00:07:05.958 and I've been called out, I remember being called out on it once. 125 00:07:05.992 --> 00:07:08.561 But not very often, which honestly is surprising to me as well. 126 00:07:08.594 --> 00:07:11.864 \"Ja-maan\" (Jamon), I'm definitely not saying a lot of these names right, 127 00:07:11.898 --> 00:07:13.466 but they're handles, what do you want? 128 00:07:13.466 --> 00:07:16.936 As you were previously a voice actor, if you still don't do that, 129 00:07:17.103 --> 00:07:21.040 if you were to return, what would be your dream role to have and why? 130 00:07:21.073 --> 00:07:21.607 Okay. 131 00:07:21.641 --> 00:07:26.012 Previously to the last few years? I feel like I would have said something in Star Wars? 132 00:07:26.379 --> 00:07:30.783 Yeah, or some like epic operatic adventure type thing. 133 00:07:31.083 --> 00:07:34.520 I feel like I love, I love Lord of the Rings, I love Star Wars pre-Disney. 134 00:07:35.288 --> 00:07:36.355 Riley and Sammy: *Laughs* 135 00:07:36.823 --> 00:07:40.827 Sammy: I think someone mentioned like, would you voice a character in Rick and Morty as well? 136 00:07:40.860 --> 00:07:41.661 Sammy: And like who would you voice? Riley: Yeah I mean, 137 00:07:41.961 --> 00:07:43.596 Riley: yeah, Rick and Morty would be amazing. 138 00:07:43.663 --> 00:07:49.802 I haven't had the opportunity to have like a straight like comedic role like that. 139 00:07:49.802 --> 00:07:54.974 The two main roles that I've gotten where I was like a series regular, they're both like dark princes. 140 00:07:55.041 --> 00:07:59.745 Like they're both like, I grew up with privilege, but now I'm dark and edgy. 141 00:07:59.779 --> 00:08:04.317 Like it was just that voice, two times; so I would like to do something different than that. 142 00:08:04.417 --> 00:08:06.252 Maybe I could play Tim Cook in something. 143 00:08:06.285 --> 00:08:09.455 ToxicSans, has a toxic question. 144 00:08:10.223 --> 00:08:13.292 Thoughts on Star Wars: Outlaws or Star Wars in general? 145 00:08:13.292 --> 00:08:13.659 Sammy: Oh wait this is a question- 146 00:08:13.693 --> 00:08:16.529 Riley: Did you just put this in to tease my Star Wars rant? 147 00:08:16.629 --> 00:08:23.469 TLDR, for Star Wars: Outlaws, it seems like I've seen some encouraging things that says that it's like 148 00:08:23.469 --> 00:08:27.773 not as Ubisoft-esque as previous Ubisoft games? 149 00:08:27.874 --> 00:08:31.811 I think most of the stuff that I've seen about Star Wars: Outlaws seemed pretty cool? 150 00:08:31.911 --> 00:08:41.020 Except that it has all of this like AAA stupid stuff, season pass, unlock the skins early, et cetera. 151 00:08:41.020 --> 00:08:42.088 I hate all that. 152 00:08:42.154 --> 00:08:46.993 Hotnet911 says, what would you be doing if you weren't working for LMG? 153 00:08:47.026 --> 00:08:50.062 Now that's a question, I have no idea. 154 00:08:50.162 --> 00:08:55.101 Sammy: I want to extend it to LMG / NCIX; so like, if you never got hired for NCIX. 155 00:08:55.134 --> 00:08:58.070 Riley: Well, I'll tell you what I was doing before I started at NCIX; 156 00:08:58.070 --> 00:09:03.009 I was working as a lifeguard and getting my psychology degree. 157 00:09:03.509 --> 00:09:11.484 I think I was kind of like considering going into psychology, maybe going into like counseling or something? 158 00:09:12.018 --> 00:09:16.389 I feel like in an alternate universe, I could maybe be like a counselor; 159 00:09:16.822 --> 00:09:20.459 but also everyone's real messed up, so I don't know. 160 00:09:20.493 --> 00:09:23.029 Like me, I'm talking about me there. 161 00:09:23.062 --> 00:09:31.237 I have this thing where I don't believe that the thing that I most would want to do is realistic; 162 00:09:31.270 --> 00:09:38.344 so then I like come up with a different idea for like a settling, like something that I would settle for? 163 00:09:38.477 --> 00:09:41.681 Like I remember I have a distinct memory, we're getting into it. 164 00:09:41.881 --> 00:09:48.187 I have a distinct memory of my dad asking me in the car, what kind of career do you want to have? 165 00:09:48.287 --> 00:09:49.355 Like, what do you want to do for work? 166 00:09:49.422 --> 00:09:52.258 And I was like, I don't know, be in a band? 167 00:09:52.358 --> 00:09:53.859 *Laughs* 168 00:09:54.327 --> 00:09:58.364 And it was like, my dream at that point was to do something creative, 169 00:09:58.598 --> 00:10:01.033 but I was like, I'm not going to be able to do anything creative; 170 00:10:02.034 --> 00:10:06.238 and so then I just kind of like went in, I went to university, I took a bunch of courses. 171 00:10:06.272 --> 00:10:11.243 I thought I would need it to go into something like more professional and more academic, I don't know. 172 00:10:11.243 --> 00:10:17.483 It pulled me in, I had no, I didn't even, Ester, we're getting so deep. 173 00:10:17.516 --> 00:10:18.217 Sammy: Hahahaha. 174 00:10:18.217 --> 00:10:22.355 Riley: Esther mentioned this in her video where she was building a PC with Linus, but 175 00:10:22.388 --> 00:10:27.560 she offered me the job to be an intern at NCIX; and I initially said, 176 00:10:27.593 --> 00:10:29.528 oh, you don't, I wouldn't be good for that. 177 00:10:29.595 --> 00:10:32.932 I don't have the skills like you need; I'm not good at editing or whatever. 178 00:10:32.965 --> 00:10:36.736 And then Lauren, who was my girlfriend at the time, bless her heart; 179 00:10:36.769 --> 00:10:42.808 she was like, hey idiot, what are you doing? Say yes. 180 00:10:42.842 --> 00:10:47.346 And I was like, oh... oh okay, and so then I said yes, and that's why I got that job. 181 00:10:47.380 --> 00:10:50.650 \"Rjinswand\", hahaha. 182 00:10:50.650 --> 00:10:53.285 Can you expand a little bit more about your voice acting experience? 183 00:10:53.352 --> 00:10:55.888 Was it a viable career? Did you enjoy it? 184 00:10:55.921 --> 00:10:56.656 Hell yes. 185 00:10:56.822 --> 00:10:58.190 How did the change come about? 186 00:10:58.224 --> 00:11:01.460 Voice acting is broken, is OP. 187 00:11:01.494 --> 00:11:06.365 Voice acting is you go into a booth for a few hours 188 00:11:06.499 --> 00:11:09.502 and you get paid an unreasonable amount of money; 189 00:11:10.002 --> 00:11:12.238 like good, unreasonable in a good way. 190 00:11:12.838 --> 00:11:16.342 As long as I've been doing voice acting, I've been doing another job. 191 00:11:16.842 --> 00:11:22.281 And so I never really took the plunge that a lot of people do where they quit their job, 192 00:11:22.281 --> 00:11:27.019 and they make a real go of it to try and build a career just doing voice acting 193 00:11:27.019 --> 00:11:29.321 and I guess whatever other projects they want. 194 00:11:29.355 --> 00:11:35.127 If you do that, and you get enough work voice acting, it's OP. 195 00:11:35.528 --> 00:11:39.098 That said, it's viable in the sense that if you get enough work, 196 00:11:39.231 --> 00:11:42.234 yeah, you'll be making money and you'll have lots of free time. 197 00:11:42.635 --> 00:11:46.372 Is it a viable career? Not really for most people; 198 00:11:46.405 --> 00:11:49.008 because it's like making it in Hollywood, you know? 199 00:11:49.008 --> 00:11:54.246 It's like, oh I'm gonna move to LA and try to hit it big; that's what voice acting is. 200 00:11:54.346 --> 00:11:57.249 So I think, a lot of times people have asked me, how do I get into voice acting? 201 00:11:57.316 --> 00:12:01.053 And I'm like, be really lucky, you know? It's- 202 00:12:01.053 --> 00:12:03.856 If you really, really, really, really wanna do it, 203 00:12:03.856 --> 00:12:11.130 the only way to make it work as a full-time career is to drop everything else and just try to do that. 204 00:12:11.163 --> 00:12:13.199 I was fortunate, my dad's a voice actor. 205 00:12:13.232 --> 00:12:15.601 So I was fortunate to kind of get a foot in the door early, 206 00:12:15.668 --> 00:12:18.504 he got me working on some things when I was a kid, 207 00:12:18.504 --> 00:12:21.574 and I got on with his agency and so kind of things went from there. 208 00:12:21.640 --> 00:12:24.043 I'm a priv- I'm a Nepo baby, what do you want from me? 209 00:12:24.410 --> 00:12:27.513 But like I said, I'm too busy to do it now. 210 00:12:27.580 --> 00:12:28.981 I'm doing something very similar instead, 211 00:12:28.981 --> 00:12:31.984 and the voice acting comes out in the Tim Cook impressions, as you've seen. 212 00:12:31.984 --> 00:12:35.888 Oh speaking of which, NicksCrumpets says, how is your Tim Cook impression so good? 213 00:12:35.988 --> 00:12:37.389 I don't knooow. (in Tim Cook impression) 214 00:12:37.490 --> 00:12:40.426 Riley: He never struck me as someone who you would do an impression of; 215 00:12:40.426 --> 00:12:43.095 because he just seemed kind of like normal? 216 00:12:43.329 --> 00:12:47.566 But then after seeing so many of the Apple keynotes, I'm like, wait a second. 217 00:12:47.867 --> 00:12:53.172 This guy sounds like a very, like he's smiling all the time, he has to smile. 218 00:12:53.339 --> 00:12:56.876 But it's, you gotta be careful because it could easily go into a Bill Clinton, 219 00:12:56.909 --> 00:12:59.044 like a huhuhu, Bill. 220 00:12:59.078 --> 00:13:03.048 If you do too much of the eh in the back of your throat; so you have to keep it up here, 221 00:13:03.048 --> 00:13:04.450 you have to keep a nasal. 222 00:13:04.483 --> 00:13:06.118 The new iPhone. 223 00:13:06.152 --> 00:13:07.787 How is it so good? 224 00:13:08.387 --> 00:13:09.588 I think it's just okay. 225 00:13:09.588 --> 00:13:14.126 Udimion says, as someone who occasionally has to record marketing videos for other companies 226 00:13:14.160 --> 00:13:18.197 I find it hard to do more than three to four minutes in a single take without a mistake. 227 00:13:18.230 --> 00:13:22.501 How many takes do you need for an average TechLinked? And do you have any tips for reading an autocue? 228 00:13:22.535 --> 00:13:26.705 This is a great question for me, so good job, Udimion. 229 00:13:27.072 --> 00:13:31.877 This is kind of the only thing that I view as being like my actual specialty, 230 00:13:32.511 --> 00:13:38.350 is like reading a teleprompter in a somewhat natural sounding way. 231 00:13:38.384 --> 00:13:41.654 And even then it's like, it verges into like news anchor, 232 00:13:41.687 --> 00:13:43.756 \"in other news\" like blah, blah, blah. 233 00:13:43.756 --> 00:13:46.859 How many takes do we need? We don't really do takes. 234 00:13:46.892 --> 00:13:48.694 We go from the top of the script to the bottom of the script; 235 00:13:48.727 --> 00:13:52.264 and if we make a mistake, we just kind of go back a sentence and just keep going. 236 00:13:52.298 --> 00:13:57.036 I might have to pause like 10 times in a video or something? 237 00:13:57.436 --> 00:14:01.774 Mostly just to, I do a read and I'm like, oh, I don't actually like that read; so then I do it again. 238 00:14:01.807 --> 00:14:07.012 Any tips though for reading an- By autocue I'm assuming you mean like a teleprompter, 239 00:14:07.012 --> 00:14:08.447 umm, with personality. 240 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:12.151 This is my number one tip for reading a teleprompter. 241 00:14:12.184 --> 00:14:18.190 Pretend that the teleprompter is your buddy and you're just telling them about the stuff. 242 00:14:18.190 --> 00:14:23.262 Instead of reading, \"as someone who occasionally has to record marketing videos for other companies\", 243 00:14:23.262 --> 00:14:29.001 I would be like, oh, this is my buddy inside the laptop so like, 244 00:14:29.001 --> 00:14:35.174 as someone who, occasionally has to record marketing videos for other companies, I find it hard! 245 00:14:35.207 --> 00:14:36.408 You have to break it up. 246 00:14:36.442 --> 00:14:39.778 You have to add normal, you have to add natural pauses. 247 00:14:39.812 --> 00:14:44.617 People don't talk as if they have all their words laid out; as you've seen, 248 00:14:44.617 --> 00:14:49.054 I feel like I'm the worst at this, which is why I like teleprompters. 249 00:14:49.054 --> 00:14:52.157 People have to think about words, you have to search for a word. 250 00:14:52.191 --> 00:14:54.727 Sometimes you, like the sentence is there. 251 00:14:54.760 --> 00:14:56.495 \"How many takes do you need for an average TechLinked?\" 252 00:14:56.495 --> 00:14:58.898 And you wanna say like, How many takes do you need for... 253 00:14:59.465 --> 00:15:01.567 an average TechLinked? You know? 254 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:06.038 And so I like, I add in that pause as if I'm searching for the word, but I'm not. 255 00:15:06.071 --> 00:15:08.207 I have the word already, gotcha. 256 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:13.312 Martinspire says, hi Riley TechLinked has talked about weird news a lot. 257 00:15:13.345 --> 00:15:17.116 What's the weirdest news or headline you've ever seen for TechLinked? 258 00:15:17.116 --> 00:15:20.352 I'm thinking of one where we reported on a laptop with no ports. 259 00:15:20.352 --> 00:15:23.956 There was like a prototype device where it was like a laptop and there's zero ports, 260 00:15:23.989 --> 00:15:25.324 and it would charge magnetically. 261 00:15:25.324 --> 00:15:26.859 I don't think it ever became a product; 262 00:15:26.859 --> 00:15:30.696 but it was just so wonderfully strange, that it's sticking out of my mind. 263 00:15:31.030 --> 00:15:36.268 deadrawkstar says, name a few movies you wish you would have had time for on \"They're Just Movies\". 264 00:15:36.735 --> 00:15:43.509 I just looked up the top movies of 2023; because I think we ended the podcast at the end of 2022. 265 00:15:43.575 --> 00:15:45.377 Barbie... yes! 266 00:15:45.477 --> 00:15:48.080 Oppenheimer, I still haven't seen Oppenheimer. 267 00:15:48.113 --> 00:15:48.814 I've seen Barbie. 268 00:15:48.881 --> 00:15:52.651 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse came out in 2023; I would have loved to do that. 269 00:15:52.818 --> 00:15:55.020 I finally watched it, it took me a long time. 270 00:15:55.354 --> 00:15:59.158 The biggest thing to adjust to after ending \"They're Just Movies\", 271 00:15:59.158 --> 00:16:02.761 was not having an excuse to go watch movies; 272 00:16:03.095 --> 00:16:05.497 so then I just didn't see movies for like six months, 273 00:16:05.497 --> 00:16:09.301 because the way I was watching a lot of these movies, these new movies was like, 274 00:16:09.501 --> 00:16:14.640 oh, I don't have time to see it; so I book a ticket for like Sunday night at 10 p.m. 275 00:16:14.640 --> 00:16:17.509 And then I like put my kid to bed and go to the movies, 276 00:16:17.509 --> 00:16:20.145 and I bring my laptop in and there's no one there because it's late; 277 00:16:20.145 --> 00:16:22.614 so I'm like writing my notes on my laptop in the back of the theater. 278 00:16:22.681 --> 00:16:24.316 It was actually, it was a vibe. 279 00:16:24.450 --> 00:16:25.951 Riley: Hahaha. Sammy: Haha. 280 00:16:26.018 --> 00:16:30.723 Riley: disbreez says, what voice do you find yourself doing most often? 281 00:16:31.457 --> 00:16:35.260 Which voice can you do that if someone caught you doing it at the wrong time would be most embarrassing? 282 00:16:35.294 --> 00:16:37.363 Well, I'm not gonna do that voice, obviously; 283 00:16:38.197 --> 00:16:40.032 because that would be embarrassing. 284 00:16:40.666 --> 00:16:45.637 I grew up with a voice actor for a dad, so instead of learning like normal ways to speak 285 00:16:45.671 --> 00:16:49.141 and like normal ways to accentuate the things that you're saying 286 00:16:49.174 --> 00:16:53.879 he would just drop into some accent to highlight something. 287 00:16:53.912 --> 00:16:57.583 So if he was like, we're gonna be late, we need to like hurry up and get in the car; 288 00:16:57.616 --> 00:17:02.955 he'll be like, he's like, \"come on guys, we're gonna be late, it's ZE RULES, GEZT INTO THE CAR NAOW!\" 289 00:17:02.988 --> 00:17:05.090 He would like do, like a crazy German thing. 290 00:17:05.557 --> 00:17:08.794 I feel like I lapse into like a British voice, sometimes; 291 00:17:08.794 --> 00:17:13.899 if I want something to be, sound more classy, I'll do that. 292 00:17:13.932 --> 00:17:16.235 I don't wanna do, don't make me do voices. 293 00:17:16.268 --> 00:17:17.102 I'm not your monkey. 294 00:17:17.136 --> 00:17:18.237 Sammy: Hahahaha. 295 00:17:18.237 --> 00:17:19.605 Sammy: Do Tim Cook! do Tim Cook! 296 00:17:19.605 --> 00:17:21.073 Riley: Hahahaha. 297 00:17:21.340 --> 00:17:23.675 Riley: Leave me the hell alone! (In Tim Cook impression) 298 00:17:23.909 --> 00:17:27.379 Riley: Houseman says, what do you do to your hair to make it look so good? 299 00:17:27.413 --> 00:17:30.215 Just a lot of this; you've seen me do it a bunch probably in this video. 300 00:17:30.349 --> 00:17:33.218 I have a very specific hair routine, I've tweeted it before. 301 00:17:33.352 --> 00:17:39.992 I stick my head in the shower or I have a shower, I get it all wet, I dry it with a towel, 302 00:17:39.992 --> 00:17:45.464 I flip it around; and then I see where the part lies, because like my hair is very thick; 303 00:17:45.798 --> 00:17:49.768 so it stands up when it's kind of like wet, 304 00:17:49.768 --> 00:17:52.671 or I mean, I dry it and then I wet it, and then it's standing up. 305 00:17:52.671 --> 00:17:55.707 I put my hat on, and I kind of shape it how I want it to be. 306 00:17:55.707 --> 00:18:00.446 I put my hat on, and then I leave my hat on for the first few hours of the morning. 307 00:18:00.746 --> 00:18:05.150 And then by the time I have to host something, I take my hat off and I put product in 308 00:18:05.184 --> 00:18:07.820 and it's like, it actually does what I want it to do at that point. 309 00:18:07.853 --> 00:18:12.825 Because my hair is perfectly straight, if I don't do this routine, it's not anything; 310 00:18:12.858 --> 00:18:16.595 it's just, it's like a, it looks like a sea urchin. 311 00:18:16.662 --> 00:18:21.133 dts1845 says, how do you decide when to do a TechLonger? 312 00:18:21.967 --> 00:18:24.636 Oh, that hits me right here. 313 00:18:24.636 --> 00:18:26.538 Yeah, I wanna do TechLongers. 314 00:18:27.806 --> 00:18:31.443 There's lots of reasons why it hasn't happened yet. 315 00:18:31.477 --> 00:18:34.513 We're figuring out our processes and stuff like that. 316 00:18:34.546 --> 00:18:36.782 But yeah, I wanna do them. 317 00:18:36.815 --> 00:18:40.352 Kip Hakes, Ki phakes? Kip Ha-kis? 318 00:18:40.385 --> 00:18:42.354 What is your favorite film of all time? 319 00:18:42.354 --> 00:18:48.427 Oh man, I can't say my favorite film specifically, but my favorite films are The Lord of the Rings trilogy. 320 00:18:48.494 --> 00:18:51.930 Maybe it's cringe, maybe it's cheesy, whatever. 321 00:18:51.964 --> 00:18:57.136 They're objectively amazing films, and I feel like they are something that is so special 322 00:18:57.136 --> 00:19:06.211 that nothing else has really occurred to give a classic book adaptation with that level of fidelity. 323 00:19:06.245 --> 00:19:12.117 I said Dune kind of like was on the same level of Lord of the Rings as being like, 324 00:19:12.151 --> 00:19:14.453 it's a very faithful adaptation and it's really good; 325 00:19:14.486 --> 00:19:17.389 we did, we covered this on There Just Movies. 326 00:19:17.422 --> 00:19:18.957 Callam GC says, 327 00:19:18.991 --> 00:19:22.361 how has becoming a dad changed the way you approach your workload? 328 00:19:22.394 --> 00:19:33.105 Uh, it has definitely changed it, in that I now have even more of a reason to not overwork myself; 329 00:19:33.105 --> 00:19:37.409 because I have to go home and I have to be a father to my child. 330 00:19:37.442 --> 00:19:41.013 I mean, anyone who has kids has experienced this, 331 00:19:41.013 --> 00:19:47.886 is just kind of like, for me in particular, I tend to keep working until something's done, 332 00:19:48.220 --> 00:19:52.191 especially with the job that I've had for the last 10 years, it's been like 333 00:19:52.191 --> 00:19:55.727 making videos that I kind of identify with or kind of feel like my baby. 334 00:19:55.961 --> 00:20:01.600 When I leave work to go home, it kind of feels like I'm abandoning one of my children 335 00:20:01.600 --> 00:20:03.602 to go attend to my other children. 336 00:20:03.602 --> 00:20:09.208 Becoming a dad of an actual child has changed the way I approach my workload in the sense that 337 00:20:09.208 --> 00:20:13.445 it's an excuse for me to force myself to not overwork myself. 338 00:20:14.580 --> 00:20:16.048 But I still overwork myself. 339 00:20:16.081 --> 00:20:16.648 Sammy: Haha. 340 00:20:16.682 --> 00:20:20.719 Riley: UNDRMSK says, why do you never change your beard style? 341 00:20:21.086 --> 00:20:24.122 I don't know, I think I always liked the idea of a mustache? 342 00:20:24.423 --> 00:20:30.062 I grew some gross mustaches when I was younger and it was like very fun, very silly. 343 00:20:30.429 --> 00:20:34.700 I think at that point, mustaches were not fully cool in the mainstream yet and so like, 344 00:20:34.733 --> 00:20:37.569 you know, hipsters were starting to do it because it was like ooh look at, 345 00:20:37.569 --> 00:20:41.773 isn't this funny? Isn't this funny that people had mustaches back in the 70s or whatever? 346 00:20:42.007 --> 00:20:47.379 I started growing mustaches for the Christmas specials here on TechLinked. 347 00:20:47.546 --> 00:20:51.883 I would like grow a mustache throughout December, and then by the time the Christmas special was published, 348 00:20:52.050 --> 00:20:56.521 I'd host it in my bathrobe with my mug of hot cocoa and a mustache. 349 00:20:56.555 --> 00:21:00.692 It just seemed like, you know, old 90s style Christmas movies. 350 00:21:00.692 --> 00:21:03.161 I think I look better with a mustache. 351 00:21:03.795 --> 00:21:05.864 My wife thinks I look better with a mustache, 352 00:21:06.365 --> 00:21:08.667 and at this point, I'm like why would I ever shave it? 353 00:21:09.167 --> 00:21:11.703 if I think I look better with a mustache than without? 354 00:21:12.170 --> 00:21:16.041 I see myself without a mustache in like older videos and I'm like, 355 00:21:16.642 --> 00:21:19.611 like, it's just like, it looks weird to me. 356 00:21:19.711 --> 00:21:21.546 And the reason I don't like grow a beard-beard, 357 00:21:21.546 --> 00:21:24.182 is because as I said previously, my hair is perfectly straight; 358 00:21:24.349 --> 00:21:27.152 so my hair, when I grow a beard, it just goes out. 359 00:21:27.452 --> 00:21:31.723 It just goes out, and out, and out, and out, and then eventually starts curling one way. 360 00:21:32.224 --> 00:21:36.461 It looked okay for like a month, and then it was like, no; 361 00:21:36.461 --> 00:21:40.132 but I kept going with it, why did I do that? It was so bad. 362 00:21:40.132 --> 00:21:47.472 KasperXplore asks, hey Riley, how come you're not featured on main LTT channel content as much anymore? 363 00:21:47.472 --> 00:21:51.076 I'm very busy now; I run TechLinked and GameLinked and LMG Clips, 364 00:21:51.076 --> 00:21:53.979 as well as doing various other things at the company. 365 00:21:54.046 --> 00:21:59.785 And I'm not on main LTT channel as much anymore, because I don't write LTT videos. 366 00:22:00.786 --> 00:22:09.961 In 2021, I think? I stopped writing main LTT videos; because I wanted to do TechLonger. 367 00:22:09.995 --> 00:22:13.432 Linus was very gracious, he let me take months 368 00:22:13.432 --> 00:22:19.271 to produce these super long video essays, which I am passionate about and I want to do more of. 369 00:22:19.338 --> 00:22:22.140 KasperXplore also says, is your computer still in the closet? 370 00:22:22.841 --> 00:22:25.010 No, it's come out now. 371 00:22:25.043 --> 00:22:25.610 Riley: Hahahaha. 372 00:22:25.644 --> 00:22:26.445 Sammy: Hahaha! 373 00:22:26.745 --> 00:22:30.682 Riley: It's actually still in a closet, it's not- It's in a different closet; 374 00:22:30.716 --> 00:22:35.387 so, there's some other secret that it will be revealed at some other time, I guess. 375 00:22:35.420 --> 00:22:39.825 Mysteryman321 says; Bing Bong, how is Riley's mom? 376 00:22:45.564 --> 00:22:51.036 Riley: You keep my mom's name out your F***ING MOUTH!... 377 00:22:51.503 --> 00:22:52.037 ...She's great. 378 00:22:52.070 --> 00:22:56.007 FLT420 says, can we see Riley having a meltdown? 379 00:22:56.308 --> 00:22:58.009 I don't think I've ever had, I- Okay, wait. 380 00:22:59.177 --> 00:23:00.979 I have had a meltdown in my life, 381 00:23:01.012 --> 00:23:04.516 but mostly when I was trapped on a boat with my brothers and they were driving me insane; 382 00:23:05.050 --> 00:23:09.254 but at work, I don't think anyone could tell you that I had a meltdown at any point. 383 00:23:09.988 --> 00:23:12.124 Sammy: *Laughs* Riley: Show that to the camera. 384 00:23:12.124 --> 00:23:13.458 Sammy: I’ll add it in post 385 00:23:13.458 --> 00:23:15.861 Riley: That is like the equivalent of me having a meltdown; I keep it inside. 386 00:23:15.861 --> 00:23:17.062 Riley: That is like the equivalent of me having a meltdown; I keep it inside. 387 00:23:17.696 --> 00:23:22.033 spammeplz says, what's the first piece of tech you remember purchasing? 388 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:25.971 My first piece of tech that I remember purchasing is a GameBoy Color, 389 00:23:26.004 --> 00:23:29.908 Atomic Purple. GameBoy Color, with Pokemon Yellow. 390 00:23:30.342 --> 00:23:33.178 I never bought any other games for it, just that one; 391 00:23:33.879 --> 00:23:35.380 but I played the heck out of that game. 392 00:23:35.514 --> 00:23:38.483 Ravensettle asks, why won't you answer this question? 393 00:23:55.467 --> 00:23:57.602 Riley: Sammy is a goddamn national treasure! 394 00:23:57.602 --> 00:23:58.370 Sammy: Hahaha. 395 00:23:58.403 --> 00:24:01.773 Riley: And I want to protect him at all costs, okay? 396 00:24:01.807 --> 00:24:02.808 Thanks for watching. 397 00:24:03.442 --> 00:24:05.377 Hey, leave a like if you like this kind of content. 398 00:24:05.377 --> 00:24:08.713 Stay tuned for some more videos coming as part of Riley Week, 399 00:24:08.747 --> 00:24:09.548 yay! Haha. 400 00:24:09.815 --> 00:24:13.518 And yeah, love ya, appreciate ya. 401 00:24:14.686 --> 00:24:17.189 Is there any other empty platitudes I can say?"}