WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.380 Hello Floatplane. I'm Nick. I'm the COO and these days that means I run the 00:00:07.380 --> 00:00:12.600 merch team. Whoa, hopefully you enjoyed the gone fishing t-shirt. That was a fun 00:00:12.600 --> 00:00:17.960 life. I've been with the team like nine years, something like that. It's been a 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:24.720 long time. I'm feeling pretty old these days, not gonna lie. Yeah, it's been a fun ride. 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:31.080 So Nick, what are you here to do today? I actually don't remember what I'm here to 00:00:31.080 --> 00:00:37.880 do today. So this is a complete surprise to me. So we're gonna be reacting to your 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:43.020 first appearance on camera. Oh God. On the main channel. This is gonna be mega cringe. 00:00:43.020 --> 00:00:50.400 Giga cringe. It was actually a little bit difficult to find where you first started. 00:00:50.400 --> 00:00:57.080 Okay. Just because you're an OG. Whoa, May 15th. This was literally like two weeks after I 00:00:57.080 --> 00:01:01.680 started before we implemented the like don't show people in the first 90 days thing. 00:01:01.680 --> 00:01:08.480 That's hilarious, actually. I didn't even realize that. Alright, whenever you're ready, we can begin. 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:08.880 Sure. 00:01:14.880 --> 00:01:24.360 Baby Linus. And it's okay. Why can't he fix his tag on the back of his neck? Why Linus? Why 00:01:24.360 --> 00:01:28.480 are you the only person that has this problem? Why is the tag on the back of your neck always 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:33.800 pointing up? Do you not feel it against the back of your neck? Like, what is wrong with you? Sorry. 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:39.680 It just annoys me. Every time I see it, I'm like, fix your tag, bro. What are you doing? Sorry. Sorry. 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:45.920 I'll continue. I don't know, man. Not sure what to say. And then this is where most of the 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:53.680 Okay, hold on. What is around his neck? Just suits from that be quiet! commercial. Is that like a mic? 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:59.480 Or is that? Oh yeah, it must be like, okay, never mind. I was like, you're wearing like a bro. 00:02:00.160 --> 00:02:06.440 And then this is the most of the real work. So our team members in order of 00:02:06.440 --> 00:02:15.120 Oh, God, wow, I'm a child. Edzel Yago, Brandon Lee, Taryn Van Himert. And then finally, someone 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:21.720 you've never met before, Mr. Nick Light. Wow, my hair was thinning back then. Look at that. Holy 00:02:21.720 --> 00:02:30.600 appearance. Our Edzel Yago, Brandon Lee, Taryn Van Himert. And then finally, someone you've never 00:02:30.600 --> 00:02:39.360 met before. Look at the top of his head. Holy bro. I'm really glad I grew up and decided to shape 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:45.960 my head because that's that's a yikes. Okay, anyway, Mr. Nick Light. So he is the one who is 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:51.360 affordable for that recent past as possible that had what's like their first thought. Just like 00:02:51.400 --> 00:03:00.040 looking at yourself. Man, I don't even know what a I like how we didn't blur my email at all. Man, 00:03:00.040 --> 00:03:07.880 we were like running rough shot back then. Holy mackerel. Yeah, I dropped out of school. See the 00:03:07.880 --> 00:03:14.320 UBC now gene on my desk. Now it would have been lttstore.com water bottle. Luke was like, yo, 00:03:14.320 --> 00:03:19.240 Linus is doing sponsorship stuff. And he's taking too much time with it. He needs to focus on 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:24.760 content. We need a business person. I was like, I know accounting. So I'm the perfect person to 00:03:24.760 --> 00:03:30.760 talk to brands about YouTube. But I joined and sort of worked out a little bit. And here we are 00:03:30.760 --> 00:03:36.280 nine years later, bro. Look, this is this is what happens to you when you work with Linus Sebastian 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:44.080 for a decade. This is our thumbs up advertising coordinator, as Taryn does some script writing, 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:52.440 some producing, some video editing. Oh, Taryn. See, Taryn, this is why you should live life like 00:03:52.440 --> 00:03:57.200 Taryn, not like Nick light, because Taryn doesn't look a day older these days. Then he looks back 00:03:57.200 --> 00:04:02.240 in this video and even some on screen hosting. Brandon, you guys and Ed's Lee, you guys are 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:08.360 probably mostly familiar with, but they specialize in filming. Oh my god, baby Ed editing. Ed actually 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:13.760 doesn't do much filming. Remember how to use a camera, but he does most of our color. 00:04:14.200 --> 00:04:20.360 Sound and post production work and all that good stuff. And then I Nick and Linus just have not 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:26.120 held up over the years, you know, the years are showing more on us than on us. I'm not sure what 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:33.840 I do here. This is the old gear closet, which has now because Nick's desk is in the way of it has 00:04:33.840 --> 00:04:39.360 been turned into kind of long. He's hated me since day one, I swear. It's a mutual. We love each 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:43.680 other and we hate each other. We love to hate each other, you know, term storage. So boxes for 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:48.640 things that we might need to return at some point if it's, you know, broken or whatever. My monitor 00:04:48.640 --> 00:04:54.120 that I really want to switch back to this is that LG 21 by nine monitor when ultra wide was new. 00:04:54.120 --> 00:05:02.520 That's how long I've worked here. Ultra wide was new. Bruh. It's on my desk. So I need to like 00:05:02.520 --> 00:05:08.000 deal with that. Actually here, I guess I might as well show you guys my desk while I'm at it. So 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:15.040 pretty crazy to see like this was the entire company in this room. And like we didn't have air 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:19.120 conditioning, whole room water cooling wasn't even a thing yet. We're just like operating out of a 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:26.800 house. It was super cool. It was a lot of fun. Sometimes most of the time it was fun. A lot of 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:32.400 a lot of good fun memories from back then. But like, looking at how different things are now is, 00:05:32.880 --> 00:05:38.560 it's pretty incredible. I was actually just saying to my team, we on the merge team are going to 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:48.240 have as many people in like two-ish months as the entirety of LMG had almost three years ago. 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:54.640 That's crazy to consider. Yeah. So in the beginning of the pandemic, we had like 25 people, 00:05:55.440 --> 00:06:01.680 something like that in the beginning of like the COVID times. And the merge team is going to be 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:11.440 25 people in like maybe three months. The pandemic isn't even like that long ago in hindsight. 00:06:11.440 --> 00:06:15.760 Three years. Three years. Three years. It's been a crazy three years. 00:06:16.880 --> 00:06:24.080 Office with a window, you know. I share a window. Man, the house was good times. I understand why 00:06:24.080 --> 00:06:29.360 people miss it. My computer. It was like a very different environment, but it was a lot of fun. 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:33.600 Definitely like fun early days. We have a lot of fun these days in different ways, 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:37.120 like we get to do such cool stuff and just like build incredible shit. 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:44.880 But it was it was a different kind of fun back then for sure. A very, very start-up-y, 00:06:44.880 --> 00:06:49.680 young company feel just different. Well, as some people observed in a picture I took a little 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:57.440 while ago. This is a BenQ 32-inch 2560 by 1440 monitor. This is my water bottle. 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:01.520 This is kind of funny. Or that might not have been the way so that might have been an aperture. 00:07:01.520 --> 00:07:06.480 And KenGig Ethernet or not Ethernet LAN card that I've had on my desk. Damn. 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:11.760 Really know what to do with for a while. That's a journey back in the memory banks for sure. 00:07:13.280 --> 00:07:13.920 Oh, no. 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:23.280 They've had more hit Christmas songs than any other tech YouTube channel in history. 00:07:27.760 --> 00:07:30.640 Legendary Linus Media Group choir. 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:39.840 Oh my god. Just look at Linus' hair, man. The beard was a good choice, I will say. 00:07:39.840 --> 00:07:47.040 What is my sweater? Oh, oh dude. Horrible. Horrible. 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:55.760 Now, LMG Music presents Dennis. Good old Dennis. 00:07:55.760 --> 00:07:58.320 The Linus Tech Tips Christmas Special. 00:08:00.880 --> 00:08:06.480 Look at Colton's beard, bro. Look at that. Look at that. Holy. 00:08:08.400 --> 00:08:14.720 Can I zoom? No, I don't think I can. Dude. That is. That is something else. 00:08:16.320 --> 00:08:19.520 That is something else. A special collection of holiday hits. 00:08:19.840 --> 00:08:37.440 Everyone looks so happy. Oh, dude. The close-up. Oh, no. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry, Colton. 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:42.720 That beard was not the way. Trimmed is better, for sure. 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:46.320 Great album. Still. 00:08:51.040 --> 00:08:56.240 Everyone's like, yo, I have emails to do. I have to be editing the video that comes out 00:08:56.240 --> 00:09:03.280 tonight at midnight. Can we, like, finish this? Linus is probably, like, off to shoot the video 00:09:03.280 --> 00:09:06.080 that comes out that day right after this. Like, oh my god. 00:09:08.400 --> 00:09:12.880 From Christmas classics to the latest tech hits, it's the geek. 00:09:12.880 --> 00:09:16.480 I don't know how many of you remember this backdrop that only lasted, like, 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:22.720 a couple of months, maybe, because everyone was upset that we didn't have a kitchen. So 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:27.280 we decided to build a kitchen in a warehouse so that we could upgrade to a warehouse 00:09:27.280 --> 00:09:31.520 to then make it like a house again so that we could make videos in a house. It was, 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:40.880 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 00:09:40.880 --> 00:09:45.840 like to. We'll be happy for a year. The 1-800-555 Christmas, just three dollars for all our greatest 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:50.320 hits. The LNG Christmas album, available on our forum and maybe iTunes. Check description to find out more. 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:56.880 KeoBox 90210. Man. How's the nostalgia vibe? Just, like, coursing through all these videos? 00:09:56.880 --> 00:10:00.160 Can you believe this was a main channel release back in the day? 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:08.400 Okay. Thank you to the Floatplane community. You guys and gals are the best. All y'all folks 00:10:08.400 --> 00:10:12.640 are the best. And, uh, yeah. All right. Bye. 00:10:14.800 --> 00:10:22.000 Hi Floatplane. I'm Colton. Not fired. Look at that. Look at that. And now I was selling the, 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:23.840 I was selling Floatplane. I love the title.