{"video_id":"fp_Yiq7ukwX5Q","title":"FP Exclusive: Working for LMG Full Interviews (Pt. 1)","channel":"FP Exclusives","show":"FP Exclusives","published_at":"2023-04-15T00:08:00.062Z","duration_s":2134,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":3.84,"text":"My name is Jake Belvance, but I'm more commonly known as Belle, because there's just so many","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.84,"end_s":10.0,"text":"jakes here, and I am a channel manager slash a producer for ShortCircuit, and I guess I'm a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":10.0,"end_s":15.6,"text":"host now too. I've been working here for just over two years now, which is wild. It feels like","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.6,"end_s":19.6,"text":"it's been way longer. It's going to sound cheesy, but my favorite part about working here is the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.6,"end_s":25.76,"text":"people I know, blah, blah, blah. 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It just shows that if you're really willing to put in the work, you will be rewarded, but","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":424.24,"end_s":430.88,"text":"it's a lot of work and you need to put in your time to get those opportunities.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":431.52,"end_s":435.68,"text":"The first time I met Linus, I was actually at a grocery store in Vancouver and I was just shopping","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":435.68,"end_s":438.96,"text":"around. I was like, that's Linus Tech Tips. Like even not as a fan, you know I'm from the memes and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":438.96,"end_s":443.28,"text":"such. And I saw him and I was like, hey man, I'm a big fan. I don't want to be rude and ask for a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":443.28,"end_s":448.08,"text":"photo or anything. He said, oh, be rude like you're being now. And I was like, huh? And he said,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":448.08,"end_s":451.36,"text":"huh, huh, huh? And he started snapping his hand in front of my face and I was like,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":452.72,"end_s":456.64,"text":"okay, and I left. And as I was leaving, he chuckled and I was like, that's weird.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":456.64,"end_s":463.92,"text":"So anyways, I finished up my shopping and everything and I was kind of thrown by it, but as I was leaving, I saw he had like 15 milky ways in his hands as he was trying to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":463.92,"end_s":467.44,"text":"leave the grocery store. And the woman was like really, the employee was really nice and she's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":467.44,"end_s":470.96,"text":"like, hey, sir, you had to buy that. 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And I don't even, I don't even think electrical in veterans is a word.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":494.56,"end_s":500.56,"text":"But anyways, he just then threw cash at her and left and it was just a really odd experience. But","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":502.88,"end_s":505.44,"text":"hey, that's an influencer life.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"My name is Jake Belvance, but I'm more commonly known as Belle, because there's just so many jakes here, and I am a channel manager slash a producer for ShortCircuit, and I guess I'm a host now too. I've been working here for just over two years now, which is wild. It feels like it's been way longer. It's going to sound cheesy, but my favorite part about working here is the people I know, blah, blah, blah. It should be something better, but genuinely some of my closest friends are people who work here, who I've met through here. I even lived with Jeff and Chase at one point, and you don't do that with people you don't like, and yet here we are going to concerts, doing stuff together, and living our best lives. Other than the comment section, man, I don't know if there's anything that's truly that bad about working here, other than the fact that we just released a lot of content. I'm responsible for posting all the Short Circuits videos and making sure they get shot, so it can be quite a bit of a workload, but even then I don't think it's a bad thing. It's just something to be aware of is that we work hard and we play hard, but we work hard. I mean, at first it's very scary. He's the CEO. I wasn't even a huge fan of LTT when I started working here, but still knowing that this is the guy. This is the lioness of lioness tech tips. It can be a little daunting, but once you get comfortable in a position and he starts to get to know you, he's a great guy. When he's outside of his persona of on and getting ready to be on camera, he's super generous, super nice, and usually intense a little bit when he's filming, but I think in the way of wanting to be constructive and get things running the best they can do, he farts a lot just constantly. I used to be the WAN Show producer and always farting. ShortCircuit, always farting. And he knows it's true. Otherwise, it's just that passion for the craft can sometimes seem blunt, but again, once you realize that it's because he wants to grow and things to be better the next time and it's not actually directed at you, it is more frustrating about the situation, you realize that it's not that bad, but the guess is that bad. I was employee number 50 and now we've doubled that. It's crazy. We have a different building. I've gone from working on the business team, writing the ad spots and selling those spots to now directing and managing a channel and working with Labs to launch a new channel. And it seems like there's just big push to just do bigger and better, which is great. And I cannot wait to see what we're able to do next because I think this is only the beginning of the changes. And yeah, there's a lot coming. I think what people get wrong about working here is that, you know, it is loud and rambunctious and that we're kind of crazy influencer stuff all the time. But a lot of time it is just like quiet people with their headphones on writing, people quiet with their headphones on editing, things like that. Though we like to have fun in our off time and enjoy the lounge and go and do stuff, there's also an awareness of like, we are a business trying to make 17 plus videos a week, which means a lot of time we're just grinding, which I mean is like any workplace and people probably just don't realize that how much goes into making these videos that you're watching for free, or if you're my best friend or watching on Floatplane. I would say that we need more ShortCircuit merch. I think there's not enough appreciation for it. But more realistically, I think just adding more people and personalities and getting to show more vloggy stuff. And that can be hard with something like Linus Tech Tips, the channel itself, because a lot of it is about Linus or about tech tips. And I think having an opportunity to show off some of the great people here that the camera, the audience doesn't get to meet that are really awesome people that we we needed a chance to showcase them more. And that's what was really great about the Intel upgrades and hopefully the AMD upgrades if it continues going on. So we could see these people, but I think we should continue to raise up the new or next generation of hosts and personalities. I started working at LTT because I used to watch the WAN Show and tackling those are the only two LMG things I ever watched. It's because I just like wanted an update on the news. And I was watching the WAN Show working an accounting job from home. And they were like, we're hiring a salesperson. And I thought YOLO being a YouTuber sounds fun and started working here and happened to get the job and work under Colton. And it's been an absolute blast. And I think my lucky stars every day that happened to be watching the WAN Show and that they announced it because I did not want to be sitting in my dark dank room during the heat of COVID, just crunching number numbers all day when I could be instead doing what I love, which is entertaining people and working hard and writing and changing processes. And it's a lot of fun here. I worked as a bookkeeper for a accounting startup. So they used AI to track all of the business's expenses so that your bookkeeping would just be done automatically as you use your card. So I was a guy checking to make sure everything was correct. And then I helped them launch their banking division where they actually had their own debit card. So I was on the team launching that, which is very different from selling ad spots, writing, and then directing and producing content for YouTube. But luckily I watch a lot of YouTube, which is my greatest skill set here. I just watch so much YouTube. It's a sickness. The weirdest thing I've had to do here, there's a few. There's the ASMR build guide in parentheses that everybody hated. The most offensive video title, that was my first video. Then a couple of channel super funds. There was one that never aired, but it was the tester for the ice block challenge one where they had to find the keys to unlock brief cases to get a prize. We did one at what was lab one originally before we had HQ2, where we had to get keys and unlock stuff and we filmed it all, but it never aired. And I got covered in gold paint. I painted a Mona Lisa, which has been on the ShortCircuit set and other places that were in the office. It's a good time. There's a lot of weird B roll shots. You'll just see me in shouting China joy in the background pretending to be businessman. You never know what you're going to do any given week. I think that if you want to work here, it's really important to know again that we work hard. Content is fun. A lot of these ideas are a lot of fun and executing them is a lot of fun, but there's the pre-planning stage. There's the writing stage. There's the getting sponsors. There's the calendar planning. There's the meeting with people to make sure this idea works. There's a lot of things that go into a fun idea that you're not really aware of until you're in it. Even this video would have a ton of meetings going through a lot of back and forth to make sure this works perfectly that you just don't really imagine. You just kind of think, oh, I want to build a fun PC. I'm going to build one. But no, it goes through a group of people. It goes through a writing stage and a review stage and revisions to then editing and guidance. There is a lot of stuff that goes through it, but if you put in the work, you will be rewarded. And I think I luckily get to be a poster child of that from starting a business with no experience on YouTube, to showing a passion for creating and changing processes, to then being the WAN Show producer, to ShortCircuit producer, to now working with Labs for things that will be coming soon. It just shows that if you're really willing to put in the work, you will be rewarded, but it's a lot of work and you need to put in your time to get those opportunities. The first time I met Linus, I was actually at a grocery store in Vancouver and I was just shopping around. I was like, that's Linus Tech Tips. Like even not as a fan, you know I'm from the memes and such. And I saw him and I was like, hey man, I'm a big fan. I don't want to be rude and ask for a photo or anything. He said, oh, be rude like you're being now. And I was like, huh? And he said, huh, huh, huh? And he started snapping his hand in front of my face and I was like, okay, and I left. And as I was leaving, he chuckled and I was like, that's weird. So anyways, I finished up my shopping and everything and I was kind of thrown by it, but as I was leaving, I saw he had like 15 milky ways in his hands as he was trying to leave the grocery store. And the woman was like really, the employee was really nice and she's like, hey, sir, you had to buy that. And he pretended to like be tired and didn't hear as he had like all these milky ways. He was like juggling and dropping. But eventually he went back and started scanning them. And she kept trying to like ask, like, you know, she tried to scan them all in. And he said, whoa, whoa, whoa, don't scan one multiple times. Like I want you to scan each individual Milky Way bar. I don't want any electronic in veterans. And then he like turned around and he winked at me. And I don't even, I don't even think electrical in veterans is a word. But anyways, he just then threw cash at her and left and it was just a really odd experience. But hey, that's an influencer life."}