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Hello Floatplane. I'm Nick. I'm the COO and these days that means I run the

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merch team. Whoa, hopefully you enjoyed the gone fishing t-shirt. That was a fun

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life. I've been with the team like nine years, something like that. It's been a

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long time. I'm feeling pretty old these days, not gonna lie. Yeah, it's been a fun ride.

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So Nick, what are you here to do today? I actually don't remember what I'm here to

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do today. So this is a complete surprise to me. So we're gonna be reacting to your

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first appearance on camera. Oh God. On the main channel. This is gonna be mega cringe.

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Giga cringe. It was actually a little bit difficult to find where you first started.

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Okay. Just because you're an OG. Whoa, May 15th. This was literally like two weeks after I

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started before we implemented the like don't show people in the first 90 days thing.

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That's hilarious, actually. I didn't even realize that. Alright, whenever you're ready, we can begin.

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Sure.

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Baby Linus. And it's okay. Why can't he fix his tag on the back of his neck? Why Linus? Why

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are you the only person that has this problem? Why is the tag on the back of your neck always

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pointing up? Do you not feel it against the back of your neck? Like, what is wrong with you? Sorry.

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It just annoys me. Every time I see it, I'm like, fix your tag, bro. What are you doing? Sorry. Sorry.

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I'll continue. I don't know, man. Not sure what to say. And then this is where most of the

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Okay, hold on. What is around his neck? Just suits from that be quiet! commercial. Is that like a mic?

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Or is that? Oh yeah, it must be like, okay, never mind. I was like, you're wearing like a bro.

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And then this is the most of the real work. So our team members in order of

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Oh, God, wow, I'm a child. Edzel Yago, Brandon Lee, Taryn Van Himert. And then finally, someone

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you've never met before, Mr. Nick Light. Wow, my hair was thinning back then. Look at that. Holy

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appearance. Our Edzel Yago, Brandon Lee, Taryn Van Himert. And then finally, someone you've never

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met before. Look at the top of his head. Holy bro. I'm really glad I grew up and decided to shape

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my head because that's that's a yikes. Okay, anyway, Mr. Nick Light. So he is the one who is

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affordable for that recent past as possible that had what's like their first thought. Just like

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looking at yourself. Man, I don't even know what a I like how we didn't blur my email at all. Man,

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we were like running rough shot back then. Holy mackerel. Yeah, I dropped out of school. See the

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UBC now gene on my desk. Now it would have been lttstore.com water bottle. Luke was like, yo,

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Linus is doing sponsorship stuff. And he's taking too much time with it. He needs to focus on

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content. We need a business person. I was like, I know accounting. So I'm the perfect person to

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talk to brands about YouTube. But I joined and sort of worked out a little bit. And here we are

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nine years later, bro. Look, this is this is what happens to you when you work with Linus Sebastian

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for a decade. This is our thumbs up advertising coordinator, as Taryn does some script writing,

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some producing, some video editing. Oh, Taryn. See, Taryn, this is why you should live life like

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Taryn, not like Nick light, because Taryn doesn't look a day older these days. Then he looks back

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in this video and even some on screen hosting. Brandon, you guys and Ed's Lee, you guys are

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probably mostly familiar with, but they specialize in filming. Oh my god, baby Ed editing. Ed actually

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doesn't do much filming. Remember how to use a camera, but he does most of our color.

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Sound and post production work and all that good stuff. And then I Nick and Linus just have not

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held up over the years, you know, the years are showing more on us than on us. I'm not sure what

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I do here. This is the old gear closet, which has now because Nick's desk is in the way of it has

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been turned into kind of long. He's hated me since day one, I swear. It's a mutual. We love each

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other and we hate each other. We love to hate each other, you know, term storage. So boxes for

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things that we might need to return at some point if it's, you know, broken or whatever. My monitor

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that I really want to switch back to this is that LG 21 by nine monitor when ultra wide was new.

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That's how long I've worked here. Ultra wide was new. Bruh. It's on my desk. So I need to like

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deal with that. Actually here, I guess I might as well show you guys my desk while I'm at it. So

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pretty crazy to see like this was the entire company in this room. And like we didn't have air

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conditioning, whole room water cooling wasn't even a thing yet. We're just like operating out of a

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house. It was super cool. It was a lot of fun. Sometimes most of the time it was fun. A lot of

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a lot of good fun memories from back then. But like, looking at how different things are now is,

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it's pretty incredible. I was actually just saying to my team, we on the merge team are going to

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have as many people in like two-ish months as the entirety of LMG had almost three years ago.

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That's crazy to consider. Yeah. So in the beginning of the pandemic, we had like 25 people,

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something like that in the beginning of like the COVID times. And the merge team is going to be

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25 people in like maybe three months. The pandemic isn't even like that long ago in hindsight.

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Three years. Three years. Three years. It's been a crazy three years.

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Office with a window, you know. I share a window. Man, the house was good times. I understand why

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people miss it. My computer. It was like a very different environment, but it was a lot of fun.

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Definitely like fun early days. We have a lot of fun these days in different ways,

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like we get to do such cool stuff and just like build incredible shit.

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But it was it was a different kind of fun back then for sure. A very, very start-up-y,

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young company feel just different. Well, as some people observed in a picture I took a little

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while ago. This is a BenQ 32-inch 2560 by 1440 monitor. This is my water bottle.

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This is kind of funny. Or that might not have been the way so that might have been an aperture.

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And KenGig Ethernet or not Ethernet LAN card that I've had on my desk. Damn.

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Really know what to do with for a while. That's a journey back in the memory banks for sure.

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Oh, no.

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They've had more hit Christmas songs than any other tech YouTube channel in history.

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Legendary Linus Media Group choir.

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Oh my god. Just look at Linus' hair, man. The beard was a good choice, I will say.

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What is my sweater? Oh, oh dude. Horrible. Horrible.

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Now, LMG Music presents Dennis. Good old Dennis.

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The Linus Tech Tips Christmas Special.

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Look at Colton's beard, bro. Look at that. Look at that. Holy.

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Can I zoom? No, I don't think I can. Dude. That is. That is something else.

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That is something else. A special collection of holiday hits.

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Everyone looks so happy. Oh, dude. The close-up. Oh, no. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry, Colton.

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That beard was not the way. Trimmed is better, for sure.

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Great album. Still.

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Everyone's like, yo, I have emails to do. I have to be editing the video that comes out

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tonight at midnight. Can we, like, finish this? Linus is probably, like, off to shoot the video

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that comes out that day right after this. Like, oh my god.

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From Christmas classics to the latest tech hits, it's the geek.

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I don't know how many of you remember this backdrop that only lasted, like,

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a couple of months, maybe, because everyone was upset that we didn't have a kitchen. So

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we decided to build a kitchen in a warehouse so that we could upgrade to a warehouse

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to then make it like a house again so that we could make videos in a house. It was,

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man, the early days. A different time. The easiest Christmas album ever made, but it's not sold in store. You can actually buy it if you'd

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like to. We'll be happy for a year. The 1-800-555 Christmas, just three dollars for all our greatest

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hits. The LNG Christmas album, available on our forum and maybe iTunes. Check description to find out more.

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KeoBox 90210. Man. How's the nostalgia vibe? Just, like, coursing through all these videos?

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Can you believe this was a main channel release back in the day?

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Okay. Thank you to the Floatplane community. You guys and gals are the best. All y'all folks

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are the best. And, uh, yeah. All right. Bye.

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Hi Floatplane. I'm Colton. Not fired. Look at that. Look at that. And now I was selling the,

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I was selling Floatplane. I love the title.