Hello Floatplane. I'm Nick. I'm the COO and these days that means I run the
merch team. Whoa, hopefully you enjoyed the gone fishing t-shirt. That was a fun
life. I've been with the team like nine years, something like that. It's been a
long time. I'm feeling pretty old these days, not gonna lie. Yeah, it's been a fun ride.
So Nick, what are you here to do today? I actually don't remember what I'm here to
do today. So this is a complete surprise to me. So we're gonna be reacting to your
first appearance on camera. Oh God. On the main channel. This is gonna be mega cringe.
Giga cringe. It was actually a little bit difficult to find where you first started.
Okay. Just because you're an OG. Whoa, May 15th. This was literally like two weeks after I
started before we implemented the like don't show people in the first 90 days thing.
That's hilarious, actually. I didn't even realize that. Alright, whenever you're ready, we can begin.
Sure.
Baby Linus. And it's okay. Why can't he fix his tag on the back of his neck? Why Linus? Why
are you the only person that has this problem? Why is the tag on the back of your neck always
pointing up? Do you not feel it against the back of your neck? Like, what is wrong with you? Sorry.
It just annoys me. Every time I see it, I'm like, fix your tag, bro. What are you doing? Sorry. Sorry.
I'll continue. I don't know, man. Not sure what to say. And then this is where most of the
Okay, hold on. What is around his neck? Just suits from that be quiet! commercial. Is that like a mic?
Or is that? Oh yeah, it must be like, okay, never mind. I was like, you're wearing like a bro.
And then this is the most of the real work. So our team members in order of
Oh, God, wow, I'm a child. Edzel Yago, Brandon Lee, Taryn Van Himert. And then finally, someone
you've never met before, Mr. Nick Light. Wow, my hair was thinning back then. Look at that. Holy
appearance. Our Edzel Yago, Brandon Lee, Taryn Van Himert. And then finally, someone you've never
met before. Look at the top of his head. Holy bro. I'm really glad I grew up and decided to shape
my head because that's that's a yikes. Okay, anyway, Mr. Nick Light. So he is the one who is
affordable for that recent past as possible that had what's like their first thought. Just like
looking at yourself. Man, I don't even know what a I like how we didn't blur my email at all. Man,
we were like running rough shot back then. Holy mackerel. Yeah, I dropped out of school. See the
UBC now gene on my desk. Now it would have been lttstore.com water bottle. Luke was like, yo,
Linus is doing sponsorship stuff. And he's taking too much time with it. He needs to focus on
content. We need a business person. I was like, I know accounting. So I'm the perfect person to
talk to brands about YouTube. But I joined and sort of worked out a little bit. And here we are
nine years later, bro. Look, this is this is what happens to you when you work with Linus Sebastian
for a decade. This is our thumbs up advertising coordinator, as Taryn does some script writing,
some producing, some video editing. Oh, Taryn. See, Taryn, this is why you should live life like
Taryn, not like Nick light, because Taryn doesn't look a day older these days. Then he looks back
in this video and even some on screen hosting. Brandon, you guys and Ed's Lee, you guys are
probably mostly familiar with, but they specialize in filming. Oh my god, baby Ed editing. Ed actually
doesn't do much filming. Remember how to use a camera, but he does most of our color.
Sound and post production work and all that good stuff. And then I Nick and Linus just have not
held up over the years, you know, the years are showing more on us than on us. I'm not sure what
I do here. This is the old gear closet, which has now because Nick's desk is in the way of it has
been turned into kind of long. He's hated me since day one, I swear. It's a mutual. We love each
other and we hate each other. We love to hate each other, you know, term storage. So boxes for
things that we might need to return at some point if it's, you know, broken or whatever. My monitor
that I really want to switch back to this is that LG 21 by nine monitor when ultra wide was new.
That's how long I've worked here. Ultra wide was new. Bruh. It's on my desk. So I need to like
deal with that. Actually here, I guess I might as well show you guys my desk while I'm at it. So
pretty crazy to see like this was the entire company in this room. And like we didn't have air
conditioning, whole room water cooling wasn't even a thing yet. We're just like operating out of a
house. It was super cool. It was a lot of fun. Sometimes most of the time it was fun. A lot of
a lot of good fun memories from back then. But like, looking at how different things are now is,
it's pretty incredible. I was actually just saying to my team, we on the merge team are going to
have as many people in like two-ish months as the entirety of LMG had almost three years ago.
That's crazy to consider. Yeah. So in the beginning of the pandemic, we had like 25 people,
something like that in the beginning of like the COVID times. And the merge team is going to be
25 people in like maybe three months. The pandemic isn't even like that long ago in hindsight.
Three years. Three years. Three years. It's been a crazy three years.
Office with a window, you know. I share a window. Man, the house was good times. I understand why
people miss it. My computer. It was like a very different environment, but it was a lot of fun.
Definitely like fun early days. We have a lot of fun these days in different ways,
like we get to do such cool stuff and just like build incredible shit.
But it was it was a different kind of fun back then for sure. A very, very start-up-y,
young company feel just different. Well, as some people observed in a picture I took a little
while ago. This is a BenQ 32-inch 2560 by 1440 monitor. This is my water bottle.
This is kind of funny. Or that might not have been the way so that might have been an aperture.
And KenGig Ethernet or not Ethernet LAN card that I've had on my desk. Damn.
Really know what to do with for a while. That's a journey back in the memory banks for sure.
Oh, no.
They've had more hit Christmas songs than any other tech YouTube channel in history.
Legendary Linus Media Group choir.
Oh my god. Just look at Linus' hair, man. The beard was a good choice, I will say.
What is my sweater? Oh, oh dude. Horrible. Horrible.
Now, LMG Music presents Dennis. Good old Dennis.
The Linus Tech Tips Christmas Special.
Look at Colton's beard, bro. Look at that. Look at that. Holy.
Can I zoom? No, I don't think I can. Dude. That is. That is something else.
That is something else. A special collection of holiday hits.
Everyone looks so happy. Oh, dude. The close-up. Oh, no. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry, Colton.
That beard was not the way. Trimmed is better, for sure.
Great album. Still.
Everyone's like, yo, I have emails to do. I have to be editing the video that comes out
tonight at midnight. Can we, like, finish this? Linus is probably, like, off to shoot the video
that comes out that day right after this. Like, oh my god.
From Christmas classics to the latest tech hits, it's the geek.
I don't know how many of you remember this backdrop that only lasted, like,
a couple of months, maybe, because everyone was upset that we didn't have a kitchen. So
we decided to build a kitchen in a warehouse so that we could upgrade to a warehouse
to then make it like a house again so that we could make videos in a house. It was,
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
like to. We'll be happy for a year. The 1-800-555 Christmas, just three dollars for all our greatest
hits. The LNG Christmas album, available on our forum and maybe iTunes. Check description to find out more.
KeoBox 90210. Man. How's the nostalgia vibe? Just, like, coursing through all these videos?
Can you believe this was a main channel release back in the day?
Okay. Thank you to the Floatplane community. You guys and gals are the best. All y'all folks
are the best. And, uh, yeah. All right. Bye.
Hi Floatplane. I'm Colton. Not fired. Look at that. Look at that. And now I was selling the,
I was selling Floatplane. I love the title.