Oh, hi there, it's me, Riley Murdoch, and welcome to my crib.
Let's show you what's going on. So we're doing this day in the life thing, is that right?
That is correct. Why would you want to know what I do? Why not?
People want to know? It's tech news. It's just all tech news all the time.
We want to see the tech news. See how it works, how you get the tech news.
Internet. This way. Today's not a tech week day, I'll say that.
On a tech week day, I come in, I sit down, I see what the tech news is, I write tech
like we make tech like, that's kind of boring, but today's a non-tech week day, so I'll come
in, I'll see what's going on, I'll insult Ethan, and then I'll say hi to Dennis and
say sorry for tech link being so late every day, and then I'll check what is on my schedule.
I should have cleaned my desk probably before we did this.
I'll blur it all out. You didn't tell me to do that. It's the day in life, it's what happens.
Things on my docket today is having a meeting with James about how horrible I've been doing.
Just kidding, we're hiring people, I think. Is that disclosed?
I think it is, probably. It's fine.
Just having a meeting, so I'm going to see if he's available for the meeting, and if
he's not, then maybe I'll just talk to you some more.
On tech link days particularly, I raise my desk up.
I think I'm the only person in this room with a standing desk, and some people aren't happy
about that. I think you're the only person in this office that uses a standing desk to stand.
It's good, it's a hack, because if I, it helps me work, I'm like okay, I can't sit down
until I'm done tech link, and I've had to do that because I've gotten slower and slower.
So you've feet ever hurt? No, I have this nice, I take my shoes off.
Very unprofessional, but you guys are Floatplane, you can know about this stuff.
Love you. What's up next Riley?
Next, I just told you, James can do the meeting.
Excuse me. You're excused. Thank you.
Sorry. You're welcome. I'm having a meeting with James, yeah, this is actually day in the life.
I used to be a meme that I was the nicest person in the office, I would come in every
day and say good morning to everybody, and now everyone just hates me, and I'm the worst
and making the building worse, exactly. Even worse than Colton.
Hi everybody. Woof! Wow.
Exhibit A. James is in that. Is he not here?
He's over yonder. What are you doing? Is that your mask?
No. Are you diagnosed with something? No.
Hi James. Hi Riley. I brought you my lunch.
Excellent. Just kidding, I forgot I brought this over because I'm too busy. I'm not busy.
I'm not busy. I'm not busy. I'm not busy.
I'm not busy. I'm not busy. Sorry, but I brought this over because I have to put it in the fridge.
Oh. The biggest part of my day is coming over here to put my lunch in the fridge.
It's very, very exciting.
Oh, is that?
12, 12. So I'm going to, I'm going to Jake get out of the way, so I'm going to go in the meeting
room and wait for him. Check in with you later.
Gross. It's a little better than the regular...
Just go on your laptop, I'm out of shit.
Wow, what a great meeting. So productive.
I feel energized and I have a good plan for the day.
So, do I tell you what that was?
I'm sure, if it wasn't really confidential.
If it wasn't what? If it was like confidential, yeah. Oh no, it wasn't.
We're hiring someone for TechLinked.
You can see stuff about this soon on the internet,
where we post all of our stuff. Check it out.
Yeah, so basically in that meeting we figured out
what it is that we want to prioritize and what this plan is.
So now I have some things to execute, including posting about it,
putting it in a TechLinked script.
I like being this high above you.
You're a tall person, and so might be you're taller than me,
so this makes me feel superior. How does it make you feel?
Not great.
I don't like standing and talking in front of everybody like this.
No, Riley, it's great. We know that you're the one that pees on the floor.
No.
Hot tip. Hot tip, sit down to pee.
It's relaxing. Why would I stand up when I can sit?
That's the gigachat move. This doesn't matter what anyone else says.
I had a mustache of a person who pees on the floor.
What? What is that?
What? Wait, what? I had a mustache of someone who pees on the floor.
Yeah, well, that's my disguise.
Yeah, so now time for more computer work.
That's what it sounds like. See you later.
Listen, I just realized I said, why would I stand when I can sit,
and then I came back to my standing desk,
where I choose to stand instead of sit,
but it's different. How so?
It just is. Stop it.
It's lunchtime.
I'm gonna make a coffee, Dan. A little coffee? I'm addicted.
How many coffees do you drink a day? Two.
Are you gonna come with me? Sure.
Walk and talk. Yep. This is my whole day just going back and forth in this hallway.
Getting a pay to walk around?
Yeah, I am addicted to coffee.
What's your favorite coffee place?
Coffee place? Like fast food coffee type of situation.
I didn't know this would have like interview elements.
This is fun. It used to be blend coffee, which is a Canadian thing,
and in Japan. It's just in Canada and Japan.
And they make great stuff. They use Belgian chocolate in the hot chocolates,
and generally way better coffee than Starbucks.
But now it's Wave's coffee, which is another Canadian thing,
because there's no blends really close to where I live.
Wave's filled that voice. What do you think about like Tim Horton's at McDonald's?
They're fine. Do you ever go on the soylent diet again?
Not soylent diet. Everybody, do you know about this?
I remember you mentioned this. Everyone thinks that soylent is supposed to be like a meal replacement,
and you're only supposed to have soylent. But it's actually just meant to be like,
oh, instead of going to McDonald's or something,
you just have a soylent. Like a meal replacement? It's more, it's like a meal replacement,
but it's actually like good for you, instead of just like being a bunch of sugar and carbs and stuff.
It's made from algae.
I don't have any soylent on me, and I haven't had soylent in a while,
but I miss it. Just do a soylent taste test for when exclusive?
Yeah. I'd be down for that.
I'd probably do the best. I'd wean myself off coffee at one time.
Hands are wet.
Yeah. What did you do before? Why'd you do that?
Well, I was tired of being addicted. Fair enough. It's really annoying having to have two coffee.
Look at this. This is such a process. It sucks.
And what am I going to do? Have caffeine pills?
No, thank you. How about energy drinks? We have all the Red Bulls.
No, no, that's horrible for you. Do you drink energy drinks?
I drink like two a day. It was really bad. You were?
Well, till they run out. Oh, I see.
I'm standing next to the Red Bull thing.
That's empty. No one should have energy drinks.
It's really bad. Energy drinks are a tool to be used in emergencies.
I have this captive audience. I can say anything to you right now.
You have to listen. Anyways, I weaned myself off coffee for a bit there.
But then we had CES.
And I could just not function without coffee at CES.
And then I had a child. And it was like, OK, I'm locked in.
I'm locked in again, I guess, until he goes to school.
Until he goes away. Oh, and my lunch.
I forgot about it. What do you have for lunch today?
I have two-day-old leftover Vietnamese food.
Ooh. Fried rice. Chicken fried rice.
That sounds good. That's the situation.
This is supposed to be microwavable. But it feels weird to put it in there like this.
That might as well.
But it's sealed. It's closed. I can just imagine all the comments being like, what are you doing?
What is this video? Look at this. What do you think of that?
Riley food tips. Who needs Alex?
I'm an engineer. There you go, genius.
Alex is on vacation right now, so I can say that.
Let's do, I'm scared of it getting too dry.
Oh, man, I'm just imagining all the comments saying, though,
like, this is not how you warm up fried rice or something.
Should we put some water in there? Yeah, I was going to say a little water.
If you want to.
Some people like their rice a little bit drier. Not too much.
Ooh. That's fine.
And now we wait.
Coffee and fried rice. Everyone's favorite.
The best combination. I feel like this would be so much better, so much of a better video
if I was like crazy wacky Riley. Can you show?
I think you need a red bull.
No. Oh, wait.
So is there going to be, you know, I have to visit just a day in the life thing.
All right. I'm going to hit the bus. What the?
Oh, everyone's just... Well, we can just censor you.
Censor everything you say.
I'll just get you in there. Why don't you win?
You know what?
I was going to say, normally I actually don't sit at this table at lunch.
I've been playing video games on my life. I've seen.
You weren't even done your...
Hey, how's it going?
Mark's just announcing his presence to everyone in the room.
That's how we do it. Hey, everybody.
I'm playing the single at our... Oh, my goodness.
Why does this keep happening? Nicole was doing this earlier.
She did it like four times.
That's why we're asking people to do that in order to play.
You have to? I don't know why.
People are trying to work in the building and then, meanwhile, it's rumbling.
It's a toxic working environment. It's a party.
It's a party. Okay.
Well, I don't know what to... You can go play some video games at your desk. I'm going to play video games at my desk.
I'm playing Disco Elysium right now.
Elysium? Elysium? The game sounds familiar.
What kind of game is that? It's like point and click, like...
RPG type of? Yeah. Okay.
It's really confusing. I'll tell you what I think after I eat my lunch.
Okay. All right. Bye-bye.
How was your lunch?
It was really great. Yeah? I was a little concerned because the food was two days old.
Did the water help? It did. Okay, that's good.
There was some moisture there. Nice. Not too much?
No, it just wasn't dry. It was perfect. Arthur, what words would I use to describe food that is not too dry?
Rich. Rich? Wait.
No, it's not. It's not rich? I thought you were serious for a second, and I was so happy.
It's moist. Don't say that. Why not?
Gross. I'm just describing the food. I think I said moist earlier.
Oh, is that it? It's okay. Okay.
The food was great. The gaming was top tier.
I think I'm going to Nationals. Nice.
Esports game right here. But it's crazy.
It's all about just dialogue, and you pick dialogue options, and you walk around and click
on things. I haven't really played many games like it. It's like I choose your own adventure type of thing.
Can you like change the ending based on your choices?
I think there are many, many endings. Okay.
It's like way more complex than any RPG I played that has branching dialogue options.
Very complex. It's very philosophically and politically dense.
Sometimes I can't do it, and I just want to play some Rocket League, but I love it.
Did you start on a Mac, though? No.
I don't use Mac. You don't like Mac? Yeah, no.
I can't. It's just something.
I use an iPhone, though. Did someone say Apple products?
Finally. We didn't knock on your Mac Address today, Horst.
Stay in your lane. What?
There's nothing to knock against. It's absolute proof. Like a knock on your Mac, a knock on your address.
Like we didn't knock on the door of your house that's located at the...
You're still debating with Horst. Well, there's a dilemma.
I have a dilemma where I like being around people and talking to them, but at the same time,
I can never get anything done if I do it, which is why we're still talking to them.
I don't believe talking is productive, which I think is a horrible way to live.
Is this productive right now? What are we doing? Yeah, you're making...
We're creating flow playing content. I'm working?
Yeah. Does this count as working? Yes.
Wow. Nice. Flow playing.
Thanks, flow playing. We also might be making people mad if their job involves something a little harder than
sitting around pretending to work and thinking that that's work.
So let us know. Okay, I actually feel a little guilty though, so what's next on my docket?
Tell me. Just kidding, I'll tell you.
I'm still polishing off this job posting for the TechLinked slash GameLinked writer
position. And once I've done that, I'll let James know and we'll post it, I guess.
And then after that, I'm supposed to shoot a short and I might try to do a tech link short,
but I am notoriously horrible at doing...
Well, at executing tech link shorts.
I don't get TikTok, I don't get reels.
Why didn't you invite me? You were here.
You were here. This morning? I was here this morning.
You were in this space. I was having a meeting with James.
That's awesome. There was another meeting I could have been having too?
We need to clone you. We need to have two rivals.
You, wait, Mac Address guy, Channel Super Fun guy and social guy had a meeting about
shorts. Yes. And I'm here also trying to do shorts and I didn't know about it.
Do you want to be included in that? Include me in your discussions about shorts.
It was very important because Ethan, I've just spotted Ethan watching one of my shorts
and I felt very... Is Linus? Dennis will be Linus.
Yeah, but I've been trying to do shorts all by myself and I can't do it.
Then talk to me. I'm literally right here. Fantastic. Also, wait, we should do like a video where I'm like, oh, I'm coming over to film.
Hey Riley. Wait. You son of a bitch.
I said you'd be good. Hey Riley.
Huh? I'm doing important work. You got to do a short right now.
A YouTube short? Yes, sir. Oh yeah.
So this is apparently we're doing thermal paste testing.
Is that what you said? That is correct.
We're going to be testing out a bunch of these things.
There's glue. It's already here. Wow.
Wow. Because guess what? I already, I filmed a whole video about this with Alex that you haven't seen.
That's right. Neither of you and no one's seen apparently. It's a great video.
Check it out. Alex went insane on that video and I had to try and control him.
Show a clip. Dangerous. Why?
You're a monster, Alex. No, don't watch.
This is, this is landscape.
The kids hate that. What? Yeah, they hate landscape.
They don't like landscape. But it's better. They want portrait.
They love portrait. You're such a boomer right now. They love the short form content.
Ew, is that landscape? Ew. Ew.
Is that landscape? Gross. Doesn't there a whole age of like, wow, why are they filming portrait?
They're garbage. They don't, they know how to rotate the camera.
Yeah. Something like that. Yeah.
We lived through that. We lived through the age of like, they're just okay with it now.
Portrait is the default for, for like online video now.
It really is. But it's bad. The first thing we did was read it.
Ploof, I've already done all this. What? I did a video about it.
You don't need to explain anything to me. Okay, cool. What you're going to do is look at the numbers.
Wait, that was a joke. Wait.
It's been so long. I forget. Look at the maximum.
Normally if this was real science, we would do the averages.
Sure. Yeah. So we're doing a dry test right now.
There's no thermal paste. Okay. Wow.
And it's only hitting 81C. We're using a 9600KF or a 9700KF. 99.
No, it's not. Are you sure? Yes.
99er. KFs. Yeah.
It's a 9700KF. Okay. But whatever.
It's hitting 80 degrees on a, on a camera. Okay.
Okay. Okay. Okay.
Okay. Okay. It's hitting 80 degrees on a, on a dry 81 without thermal paste.
99 KFs and a paste ain't one.
Except it's a 9700KF.
Okay. Whatever. I was waiting.
It's a 9700KF. Doing what I did on my video.
Yeah. Turning, running it, looking at the max, writing down the max.
Yeah. I'll do it right now. To prove it to you.
81. Dry. This is my, this is my movie podcast.
No. I think Alex did call it multiple times when we were filming the video.
He was like calling it bear back all the time.
Let's not. Raw dog. Raw dog.
Raw dog. Um, raw dog, raw dog.
Like we would film the short and after the short, we cut in between and do like the in
between parts for Floatplane, like right now, right now is an in between part and we're
filming this for Floatplane. I'm so confused.
Like, you know, okay, I'm just saying because, okay, so the short, okay, so he's going to
film the short, yeah, me, yes, and then I'm going to be like, okay, there's a short bit,
and then he's going to be like, all right, stop. And then he's going to switch it to horizontal and film Floatplane exclusive.
I'd be like, so what we just did is this, why didn't he just, it's always mad.
Talk with like, you don't have thermal paste.
That's how I started my video.
We're just going to. You should put a lineup of the products and then you should do something like we tried different
thermal paste to see how well they work, except they're not thermal paste.
We've only tried to use these as thermal paste because we're crazy.
You can't say crazy is almost canceled now, right? What is it actually?
I heard Linus saying something about it. That's crazy.
We should just do it. Okay. Yeah.
Just no question that you're putting thermal paste on the thing.
This is why it's so hard, man. It's so hard to like think about like, I think I can get there, but it's just like, I've been
such, I've been so in this like YouTube mentality for so long that the thought of like,
like everyone, we go to shoot a video. It's like, how do you start it?
Yeah. Yeah. Right. But like with Tik Tok, it's just, you don't ask how do you start it?
You just start. Yeah. That's a good thing. I'm starting to feel like I'm actually getting out of it.
It's because you're hanging around with like 24 over 30s.
I'm starting to get there. Wait till you're over 30.
But how old are you? I'm like 32. You're like 32?
I just didn't like too much from growing up in my 90s. Yeah. So I'm going to die first.
Yeah. That's not how it works.
Pretend to be Tik Tok's speech to text.
We tried to put thermal paste on a ZBU. That's funny.
I hate to text this speech so much.
I hate that voice. It's in every video. Which one will be the best?
Which one will be the best? Yeah. And it's so positive. Which one will be good at playing video games?
Toothpaste is good on the computer.
All right. Give me that toothpaste.
There you go. Aquafresh. Aquafresh.
Aquafresh. Aguafresh.
I see. Fourth circle. Okay. Ready?
No. I say this is not thermal paste. And then are you going to go down there?
What? Where is it? Well, I'm going to put that on there.
Yeah. And then say, this is not thermal paste.
And then you're going to, like, I was thinking you would show all of them sitting there.
Or do you not want to say, this is what we're trying?
Like, this is not thermal paste. And then you go down there. I'm like, and neither are those.
Or are they? I tested whether these things would,
we tested whether these things, oh, Hoffman. Hoffman wants me to review a ShortCircuit.
Oh, no. But I can probably do that.
Or I mean employee. It's 16 minutes.
It's 16 minutes. Yeah.
Do you want to do tomorrow or something?
When it's supposed to, when is it supposed to go up?
The carts is higher priority, but not higher priority.
That was like yesterday.
What is it? I'll be honest. We could at this point, I don't know.
We could be like it at all. It's already five, five, oh five.
Let's find out. Don't tell me let's find out.
They say, what's the best thermal paste? That's not thermal paste.
Go. And then we'll cut right to the 10th
and then we'll just make it snappy. We'll make every like, every shot like three, four seconds.
You can do that? Yes. You can edit it? It's called editing.
Can you do that guys? Do you want to edit this short first?
You want me to show you how to edit? I know how to edit, Mark. You son of a bitch.
Not as good as you. Not as good as you.
What is it? What is the best thermal paste?
That's not a thermal paste. Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah.
I'll be putting it on. We only got one shot for this shot.
Well, we can wipe it off.
Are you looking, can you, you can't see me, right? But now you can.
Oh my God, this is going to be tough because I have to get the shotgun. You gotta say action.
Well, I can get the shotgun for you. What's up, Joe?
But it has to be attached to the boat. That's okay.
Okay, this is a practice. Ready? Three, two, one.
What's the best thermal paste? That's not even thermal paste.
That was good. Okay, let's go. Nice.
Ready? Okay, wait, I got to make sure I got it with the shotgun pointing at you.
What's the best thermal paste? Okay, that's, fuck, I fucked that one up.
Okay. You'll hear me. It's not like it's going to be like,
oh, I couldn't hear what you said. That's not even thermal paste.
Okay, but the thing is when I zoom out, I get the shotgun.
So. Oh, you don't want to see the shotgun? No, of course we don't.
Well, you just, didn't you have it like mounted to this? Yeah, but. Well, you just do that.
You're going to hear me. Well, I'm pointing it down here. You think it doesn't matter?
It's a freaking, that thing's not like super, super, super directional.
It's a directional. What do you guys think? If it's pointing here and I'm tough.
I think time is tight. Let's get the laugh. Just, just mount it.
So we just go, let's get a laugh. Let's get a laugh. Oh my god. No, we don't have time, we don't have time.
We don't have time. What are you doing? My time is slowly right here. Those little shotgun mics are like wide area.
They're not like only what's. We caught the laugh.
Okay. Do you guys see how much effort going into these shorts?
It's crazy. I'm going to fall asleep before.
The lab's already set up. Here you go, sir.
This looks so ugly. What do you want me to do it? Just hold it.
I can hold it. You can put it on your shirt. No, I'm going to hold it. That looks better.
What? I like, it's like a little microphone.
Do you want the microphone? Attention, everyone. I can.
No, this is good. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It looks better with the microphone.
That sounds better. And it sounds better. You're right.
Hoffman will get that review. Don't worry.
Why would I, this is funny. This is like a funny little mic.
It's like, hey guys. Yeah. I'm sure you can do this.
You do whatever you want. What's on this? You attach it to that.
What? Yeah. So you can hold it. Oh wow, that's cool.
And then you put this guy on. No, this is too, it's too official.
It's too official. This is, we're putting this on your shirt. It's funny that it looks official
because we're doing such an unofficial thing.
This is officially an unofficial thing. What looks funnier?
I think that is funnier. And I'm like, what's the best thermal paste?
Yeah. Don't hold it that close to your mouth. Really? Yeah. But then it'll distort and that's funny.
I'm getting tongue-tied. We can distort versus deep-fried crispy memes here.
It's not even thermal paste. I'm getting tongue-tied bobs here.
But you don't want my spittle on it. Two, one. What's the best thermal paste?
That's not even thermal paste. How do I move the mic?
He did. One more time. One more time. That's right there. Okay, I can suck it up.
Ready? Okay. Roll him.
One, two, three, two. What's the best thermal paste?
That's not even thermal paste.
Come on. No, you can use that one.
Okay, one more. One more, one more, one more. Ready? Roll him.
What's the best thermal paste? That's not even thermal paste.
Let's go. That was good, that was good. Okay, now you can. Wow, what a journey.
And we learned so much. Isn't that right? We learned absolutely nothing.
We learned that you should still use thermal paste
at the end of the day, which is the same thing we found when I did my line of technology.
So, hey, but now you know, now you know what's the best thermal compound
to use if you don't got thermal paste. And now you know if you don't know neighbor.
That's a full play exclusive. You can do that. Hey, so now I need to go home
because it's the end of the day. I thought you lived here.
Nope. That's incredible. I live in the dumpster just across the street
or in the parking lot. Okay.
Hey, full plane. Thanks for coming with me on my special day
and seeing what I do on a regular day at Linus Tech Tips.
So I'll see you on the next one. I'm going home now.
Bye bye.
I think that's good. That's good. I was like, why am I spinning?