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Hey guys welcome back to another episode of Dan week. I think this is the last one and today

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I'm going to talk to you about my fucking stupid desk and I'm building another one and I shoehorned

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that nice man over there to uh to help me make a new one. I wanted a custom desk for the longest

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time. My office is weird shaped. It's really long. It's really wide. I have weird gangly legs that

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hit on you know table legs and things like that and I wanted a new one. I ended up coming across

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this deal of a giant recording console which is super cool and super nice and makes me look like

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a neat professional. I'll throw in some b-roll here. There you go. There's some b-roll of what my

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desk looks like currently. You can see the office is pretty giant and it's got this nice mixing

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console in it. There's outboard gear. I got my keyboards and my printers and everything like

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that. Unfortunately the desktop is set back and then there's a giant piece of wood like right here

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so I have to sit at it kind of like this. Like my knees don't fit under the desk. It's kind of

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important for a desk to be able to be sat under and then because of that strip along the front

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I have about that much room for a mouse and keyboard. So my mouse pad is currently taped to

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a clipboard and I use that as a mouse pad. So I want to get rid of it as cool as it is and as

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cool as it makes me look. I don't really care about that. I'd like something functional.

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So I made a new one and we'll have a look at it on the computer. Me being who I am I just modeled

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my entire rooms that I could make it perfectly fit to the quarter inch. I think this is accurate too

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including all of my stuff. So you can see that it now wraps around everywhere. So I've lost the

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giant console there and we're going with a completely uninterrupted span including under here.

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There's like no legs or anything like that at all. I'm going to move all of the equipment

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into this like 42U like rack thing which will be pretty okay. It'll kind of keep everything exposed.

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But I've got like a 52 inch LG C2 is my main monitor mostly because I have to sit so far away

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from it to like sit at the desk. So that's now going to be my main monitor and I replace these

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two super ultra wides with that. So now I can have those back and I figured doing them maybe vertical

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would be kind of cool. My giant goddamn NS1 no HS8s make everything a little bit difficult

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because they need to be in a proper triangle to like actually function. So I don't know. The C24 is

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over here. That's that giant 24 track recording mixer. I got my little fatty computer sub 3D

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printer and then I just put the printer on the floor because I mean it's a printer who cares.

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I did some of the calculations for how many cable runs I need and it's like 70 which is a little bit

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of a lot which is one of the reasons why my cable management is one of the worst in the company.

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The desk I also can't move. It weighs like 300 pounds with all the gear in it.

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So I can't really get behind it to like fix anything. It's terrible. It's cool but it has to go.

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So this should be a lot better. There's no legs up front to bang my knees on. So yeah let's go

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over there and we'll have a look at some of the wood. Wood. Wood. Wood. Say it properly. Wood.

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Here's the basic drawings. So this one 8 by 4 sheet only it gets cut in half down the middle

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and then that's two desks. You know two 8 foot spans. This one's exactly 8 foot. It's designed for

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8 by 4 and the other one that's split on that right hand side is another one of these just cut

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in two right. So there's a banana for scale. I don't know man. I don't know. I'm sorry.

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Yeah so you can see how kind of giant this is going to be. And the middle span here is 81 inches

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wide and I think it's 38 inches deep. I like really deep desks and it's difficult to find

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actual desks that I want. So the only thing to do is custom. The nice thing is that wood like this

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in 8 by 4 is not super expensive. This piece was maybe 120 bucks Canadian. So it's like 45

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US or a hamburger and there's another piece out there. So like 200 bucks for a like 13 foot wide

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desk with two 8 foot long sides on it. It's pretty fine. The steel that we're going to be using is

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this one inch by one inch tube. It's an eighth of an inch thick and this stuff is super common

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and super cheap because it's like a normal nominal size. And so we're going to have two of these.

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We'll inset them in about a half inch from the side and then I think they're about two inches

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next to each other. And again that's that fits the bigger one of these and those will just like

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stand over there right. So our cables can come in this way and they'll all be contained which

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will be quite nice. And then the other thing is if we want to come outside of the tube we can come

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up this way and then put another one there. Keep everything super neat. And then if we were feeling

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kind of spicy what we could do is drill holes in the middle of that and then we could come directly

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up to the top side of the table with like very neatly managed cables but I don't want to be that

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destructive. These will be mounted to the table with screw in like tapped inserty things and then

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these will get holes drilled in them. We're going to do a big hole on top and a small hole on the

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bottom sort of like that and then that will captivately trap the nut inside and keep everything

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kind of smooth. Nice and flush. Nice and flush yeah nice and flush and should be easy to do.

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Seb had a great idea to set up a jig inside the Tormach. Is it already in there ready to go? No

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I haven't done anything. But I was looking at the metal pieces and I couldn't remember which ones

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did what. The neat thing about the Tormach which Seb knew that I didn't know is both of the side

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Windows can open so we can pass the metal directly through the inside. That's actually a modification

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that I did. Yeah. So our doors now just slide so you can just lift them up and they stay up.

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And then what we'll do is we'll set the vise there probably like in the center somewhere.

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There we go. We need to pass the tube in and then clamp it down in the same position. They'll

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probably be like a locating pin so that each of the holes can be spaced equally apart. We don't

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have to do any measuring or anything like that and then all we've got to do is just kind of run the

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same drill cycle over and over and over again and we can do the entire tubes in like no time at all

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with no thought because thinking is dumb and that is irritating. There's a lot of tube to cut.

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A lot of it is going to be supported by squares on the underside but I mean that's an eight foot

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long piece of wood with barely no like it doesn't have any legs in the middle. So what we're going

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to do on the routing table today the CNC router is we're going to run this C-channel or U-channel

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or U-channel through the center and what that should do is give it a bit of strength in the

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flexi thing and those will also tie into the squares that will support the outside. So this

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will get inlaid. It will come down about a quarter inch or something like that and then we'll do a

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roughing pass on the top. Yeah so this will get inlaid into the surface and should be nice and

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flush and then the one inch by one inch will lay on top of that like that and these will all get

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screwed together at the corners right and then these will get screwed down to something like that.

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We haven't fully figured it out. We'll figure it out later I think and what Seb's doing now

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is he's setting up for the drilling operation so let's pop back over here. The plan is we're

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going to drill a hole here and then once we've drilled the hole we'll slide it over to be lined

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up with this post here and it will line up exactly with the hole we'll clamp it again

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we'll drill another hole it will just keep on lining up like that and we'll have equal spacing

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all the way down and we don't have to do multiple programs we just move it press go go to the next

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one. Yeah we don't even have to measure which is nice and then I guess we transfer the holes into

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the table after we weld it together and kind of do everything and then it'll be fine hands are already

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black. That carbon steel is yeah I've never seen metal this gungee. If you buy it in 24 foot lengths

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which is how it comes out of the factory you don't have to pay for any cutting and then it just kind

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of arrives and so they don't I think even bother to clean it or do anything with it it's never really

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been touched ever. Seb is currently setting up for the routing program. The nice thing about

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doing it like this is if you design something for ease of making it things can be a lot simpler

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like all of the tube bends and things like that are designed to be

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similar lengths and allow for insane tolerances so that we don't have to like do anything perfectly

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nothing needs to be aligned correctly something like these tabletops are designed specifically

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around eight by four sheets which we cut down into easy shapes even with a c-channel routing

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it's the same location on both panels so all we need to do is the same operation and then change

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out the panel and then run the same program so it makes it really easy doing it that way

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it's kind of a more complicated operation but it can still be done with the same bit

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it's two channels down the side and then we're routing out the center to a specific depth so

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not too hard and then that gets repeated twice and then on the same table we can also cut out

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the panels automatically too yeah basically we're going to cut like this then again and then it will

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go yeah it'll be fun it'll be fun it's it's really really awesome having these tools here

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to be able to like play with them when we want to the laser cutter is amazing to have the fact

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that we have tig is also incredible I really like having the sanding booth as well that's kind of

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I might want to buy a CNC router for home but like actually justifying a sanding booth is a little

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bit harder the Tormach is also fantastic it's such a useful machine to have I mean we even have a

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painting station sick it's so cool it's like I don't know it's a maker's play pen thing

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except when we're getting a ball pit I want a ball pit that would be pretty fun that would be fun

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yeah I do I do woodwork occasionally I don't do too much most of my stuff these days is 3d printing

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rather than being made of wood but you want to drill the other hole and then you can swap it over

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I'm trying to get over there and I don't know how over go over over over the tube or just move the

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tube it's stretched pretty tight ergonomics this is where long legs are useful leggy for steppy

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do you also have very very long legs and no torso I don't know it's kind of weird everywhere I have no

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no torso I only am legs baby got only back no no baby got no back no back no back yeah only

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only back of the legs yeah sure I'm changing this bit that's really big to this bit these bits are

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actually awesome they're called compression bits it makes it so that there's no splinters

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because the top of the bit is cutting down and the bottom is cutting up so it kind of just

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squishes the wood and then you don't have stuff that flies up I guess this kind of leads into

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studio furniture in general none of it seems particularly ergonomic I don't think I've ever

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had a studio desk in any studio I've been in that has been comfortable to sit under which is very

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strange because you're often sitting there for like 12 15 hours a day and they're just kind of

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not ergonomic I think they may harken back to the good old days when really you were just sitting

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there at only a console and the console was the desk and now we have like mouse and keyboard and

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monitors and things like that I'm sure there's some brands out there that make good ones but

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the most common type is like Argosy and stuff like that and a lot of them are supported in a

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strange way that aren't very comfy to sit at it's a piece of work tooling less so like

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I guess a comfortable place to be and for me like I'm not doing as much professional work anymore

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I really probably shouldn't have bought this desk in the first place if the price was right it came

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with a bunch of free gear now I understand why because they're like a huge white elephant type of

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furniture I guess I just want to be comfy I just want to be comfy and have lots of monitors

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and I mean even even like audio controllers in general they're basically just big mice

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so you don't need one let's look at it go who designed this nice I did extracting thing it has

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issues it needs to be remained don't we all it almost works very well but it doesn't it's better

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than what we had before but it could be better Kyle actually went over this in his video yeah I

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wouldn't watch that it's like 15 hours long isn't it two hours okay we're trying to get this snappy

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table uh big table bad sebb table good I don't know float play do this in 16 by 9 hey float talk

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did you know that big table bad and small table good followed for more cryptocurrency advice

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so sebb has honed the cnc router now and we're about ready to cut this is pretty exciting

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hope he programmed it right don't jinx us like this if you see the dust that it leaves behind

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it shows how it mostly works but it leaves a lot so there's not any dust in the air but it doesn't

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pick up everything so

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it doesn't fit right now basically just just the tiniest amount more so just gonna edit the

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program a bit and run it again and it should work fine

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all right it looks like our first couple passes are done we maybe have one more to go but it fits

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now it's really nice there's not absolutely no play along the side which is awesome it just needs

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to go a little bit deeper to be perfectly flush but it's like it's very very close and so one bar

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will go all the way along there and it'll get screwed in and it'll be super sturdy and nice so

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that's very exciting hopefully it doesn't rust and destroy my knees i think that's probably about it

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sebb and i will be back here on saturday to continue if we recorded some b-roll it will be here

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we'll put it over here this time the completed table i hope it was completed on saturday if not

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we'll continue in the week and i guess we'll throw it in there too if you want to watch the other two

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i think they're up before this one this will be the last one i'm sorry goodbye uh yeah i don't know

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