1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,000 My name is Riley Murdoch. I run Techlinked and LMG clips and the pre-production part of the WAN Show. 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 And I've been here since April 2018. That was part-time though. 3 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:21,000 My favorite part of working at LMG has to be the fact that I get to kind of give news while making jokes about the news. 4 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:25,000 It's kind of like a late-night monologue thing, so that's what I love most about Techlinked. 5 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:31,000 And then I'm also just a curious cat, so I get to like do a lot of research and see what's going on in there. 6 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Out there, rather. And there's free snacks here, so I'm... 7 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:39,000 And Cooffee. I need my Cooffee. 8 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:48,000 More broadly, for me, one of the best parts of working at LMG is the fact that it feels as if something kind of exciting is going on all the time. 9 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:53,000 Even if, for my workload, we're kind of doing something that is more routine. 10 00:00:53,000 --> 00:01:03,000 You see people running around and they're doing cool projects and we're running nine gaming workstations off of one CPU or something silly like that, you know? 11 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:10,000 And there's multiple channels all doing something cool and you have opportunities to be involved in all those things. 12 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:21,000 So that's exciting. The first part of working here is also related to Techlinked, which is the fact that it is a one-day shoot. 13 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:31,000 So we have to find the sources, write the script, shoot the script, have it edited, review it, publish it with the thumbnail and everything all in one day. 14 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:37,000 And that can be kind of stressful, especially when there's not many stories out there or whatever. 15 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:43,000 On the other hand, I've been doing this more or less nonstop since 2013, so I'm kind of used to it by now. 16 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,000 And we've hired on other writers, so we're spreading the load. 17 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:50,000 So things aren't as bad as they used to be, for sure. 18 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:55,000 It's my own, it's my special curse, generational, you could say. 19 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:59,000 Friends of my family. My son will be afflicted by the same curse. 20 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:04,000 He'll have a daily deadline for a show. I'm sure, I'm sure of it. It'll happen. 21 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:14,000 The worst part of working at LMG is sort of related to what I said about the best part, which is that sometimes there's so much going on, it can be a little bit overwhelming. 22 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Where, you know, maybe I am trying to, like, get something for Techlinked done or something for, like, my channels, and I'm coming up against other things that are happening in the company. 23 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:40,000 And, you know, there's push and pull there, but it can be a little frustrating sometimes when I want to make something and I have to kind of, like, wait for the gap in the content schedule to kind of fit that in. 24 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Like, Techlonger. I want to make more Techlongers. 25 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:50,000 But I can't even complain about that because Linus gave me the chance to, like, take eight months to make a video. 26 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:54,000 So it's like, at the same time, there's pros and cons, you know. 27 00:02:54,000 --> 00:03:04,000 What the f*** with Linus? Linus is hard to describe because he's not like other people. 28 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:13,000 How do you... It takes a special kind of person to A, be a YouTuber. 29 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:19,000 B, decide to upload YouTube videos every single day. 30 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:27,000 See, hire, what, a hundred people now to help you make more than one YouTube video every single day? 31 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Linus has some qualities that make him able to do that. 32 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:38,000 He has incredible drive. He has incredible expertise in certain areas. 33 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:44,000 Like, describe him psychologically. 34 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:50,000 I have a psychology degree. I could talk about Linus for decades. 35 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,000 How has the LTT changed since you've started? 36 00:03:53,000 --> 00:04:01,000 I mean, LMG has been changing drastically ever since I started at a near constant pace. 37 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:09,000 I mean, when I started, there were, like, 30 people and even that was kind of crazy compared to where they were, you know, a few years before that. 38 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Now we're at a hundred people and it's just a completely different situation. 39 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:21,000 I mean, like, we're in multiple buildings, multiple different departments, managers. 40 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:32,000 I mean, even just the standard hierarchy that you have of, like, a department and a manager reporting to the CEO is, like, fairly new. 41 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:44,000 And so, yeah, it's been a ride to kind of, like, riding LMG up as they get more into real company territory. 42 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,000 Like it or not, I guess we're a real company now. 43 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:58,000 I do miss the old days of, you know, just kind of, like, a couple people trying to, like, scrap out a YouTube video real quick, you know? 44 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:02,000 And I think that you would, you would miss that because it's fun, you know? 45 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:10,000 It's like there's not really a hierarchy. There's not really, like, an overall structure that's like, you have to do things this way. 46 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:14,000 You're just kind of trying to get it out the door. And to a certain extent, we still do that. 47 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:22,000 But the old days where it was like, you know, there was one time when I was working at NCIX with Tackling Daily, 48 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:36,000 I would write, set up the camera myself, put a lamp there so I could focus on the lamp and lock that in, go stand in place, film it, 49 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:41,000 ingest the footage, edit it. You know, I was, like, I was doing the whole thing myself. 50 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:46,000 And now it's just like, like, there's a single person for every one of those steps. 51 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:52,000 And so it's scrappy and it's hard, but it's rewarding and fun. 52 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,000 And so obviously you're going to be a bit nostalgic for the old days. 53 00:05:55,000 --> 00:06:02,000 But as I get older, particularly, it's nice to not have to do all that stuff yourself. 54 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:08,000 Because doing the hard stuff is fun for a while. 55 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,000 And then you kind of get sick of it. And now you want help. 56 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:15,000 So that's where we are. So listen, I'm not a business person, okay? 57 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:22,000 I don't have the sense of what is going to make LMG successful as much as some other people here. 58 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:28,000 So the things that I would change are probably things that would just hurt us overall. 59 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:36,000 I'd be like, let's not have deadlines. Let's publish less videos, you know? 60 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:43,000 Let's have basically a flat hierarchy where everyone's at the same level and no one's, anyone else's boss. 61 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:47,000 And I say that as someone who's supervising other people, you know? 62 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:52,000 The thing is that when you get to a certain level, those things are impractical. 63 00:06:52,000 --> 00:07:01,000 But I still have this idealistic center in me, even though I know that we probably shouldn't do those things. 64 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:07,000 The number one thing you need to know before you work at LMG is computers. 65 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:12,000 You need to know them front and back. I'm just kidding. 66 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:19,000 You need to know your ports, your processors, your disks, towers, cases. 67 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:24,000 Definitely HDMI cords. 68 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:29,000 USB 3.5. USB 3.5? 69 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:34,000 And you're fired. If you... 70 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,000 If on your first day, you can't point to... 71 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Oh, wait. If on your first day, you can't differentiate between a 3.5-inch SATA drive and an M.2 SSD... 72 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,000 You're on the curb. You're done. 73 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:57,000 If you want to work at LMG, you should know that a lot of people apply. 74 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:02,000 We tend to hire people who are really good at their jobs. 75 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:10,000 We have up to 100 people now, but each one of those people have been selected from a lot of applicants. 76 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:16,000 And so because we have a fast production schedule and we need to put things out... 77 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:21,000 Oh, this sounds weird. I don't like this. 78 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,000 You know what I'm getting at, though, right? 79 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Other people have already said this, but in a better way. 80 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:32,000 You don't want to tell me? 81 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:37,000 You can give me a gist, though, can't you? 82 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:42,000 What you're saying is fine. You're thinking too much about it. I am thinking too much about it. 83 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:47,000 I know that other people are already going to say stuff like that, so I want to say something different. 84 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:54,000 For the content. One of the weirdest things I did while working at LMG for sure was one of the first things I did, 85 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:59,000 which was pretend like I had been living in a dumpster for a year and a half, 86 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:03,000 so Linus could find me and recruit me to start Techlinked. 87 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:08,000 And the reason that was weird is because, well, to be honest, I hadn't been living in a dumpster. 88 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,000 I haven't even done that many weird things here. 89 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:15,000 It's hard for me to think of an example of the weirdest thing I've done at LMG 90 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:20,000 because most of the time when something truly weird is going on, I'm just kind of like, 91 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:26,000 I don't want to jump into a pit of whipped cream or something. 92 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:30,000 I want to stay clean. 93 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,000 Let Linus do all the crazy stuff. 94 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:36,000 I just want to talk about tech news. 95 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:40,000 I think the biggest mistake that I've made while being part of LMG 96 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:47,000 was allowing them to take away Lucky, the red dragon, from the background of the Techlink set. 97 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,000 I miss him. I wish he was back. 98 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:57,000 He gave warm hugs and he always knew the right thing to say. 99 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,000 No! 100 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:06,000 No, I know, but that's not... It was a life-size lucky. 101 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:11,000 Ah, I would put the Christmas hat on him for the Christmas specials. 102 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,000 I love Lucky. I miss Lucky. 103 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:18,000 Okay, now a real one. 104 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:24,000 One of the big regrets I have from working here is taking so frickin' long to make the techlongers. 105 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:28,000 The first one took me four months. The second one took me eight months. 106 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,000 I was doing other things in that time, 107 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:39,000 but if I could have kind of got my budding gear and maybe took one month to make a single video, 108 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:44,000 that probably would have been better. But, you know, stuff happens. 109 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,000 Go watch Techlonger.