1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,520 Testing, one, two, three, testing. This is like my camera voice, I guess you could say. 2 00:00:07,580 --> 00:00:10,960 Mark, how's it going? I'm good, I'm good. 3 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:14,680 Did you run out of people or something? Whoa, what do you mean? 4 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:20,240 Like, who else are you gonna, there should be some other staff you can interview. 5 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:24,120 I mean, there's a lot of people in this company now. Yeah. There's a lot of people we gotta interview, 6 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:27,640 but I feel like this one's a long time coming. Yeah, I guess so. 7 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:34,720 So tell me a little bit about what you do here. I am an editor at Linus Media Group. 8 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,880 Well, I'd hope it's here. Yeah, well, yeah. 9 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:45,120 How long have you been here and how'd you get the role? I've been here for almost five years now 10 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:49,200 and I applied and got the role around the same time as Andy. 11 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:53,800 Actually, the exact same time, we were hired on the same day. What got you interested in the role? 12 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:58,800 Oh, so I've been a video editor for a number of years, 13 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:02,480 actually, since 2009 professionally. 14 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:06,040 And I was working freelance for a long time 15 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:09,200 and realized it really wasn't for me anymore. 16 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:14,920 It's just such a high pace and I wanted something a little bit more consistent. 17 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:17,920 Normal hours, I didn't want to work 24-7. 18 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:24,260 So yeah, I applied for the job here. Initially, I applied in 2018 when David got hired. 19 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:30,880 He got that role. Which is more shooter focused anyway, so it worked out. 20 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:34,960 I applied a year later and yeah, I'm here. How was freelancing for you? 21 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:38,720 Sucked. I mean, it was great. 22 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:42,440 It was good money, got to meet a lot of people, 23 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:46,520 got a lot of really odd jobs. You're completely in control of your schedule 24 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:49,840 but then you have about 18 hours worth of work to do a day 25 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:53,320 and I didn't know how to regulate myself, 26 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:58,640 especially because there's always that fear that you're never gonna get your next job. 27 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:02,640 So I would always push myself a little bit too much. 28 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:06,440 Were you taking on multiple jobs at once? Oh yeah, yeah. 29 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:10,600 I mean, I would limit myself in that sense 30 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:13,680 but yeah, I would be working mainly editing 31 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:16,680 because you can shoot on separate days. 32 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:21,680 Can't shoot multiple jobs on one day unless you hire other people or subcontract. 33 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:26,200 But I would go shoot two weddings, for example, 34 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,680 in one weekend and then I would have to edit it 35 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:33,000 throughout the rest of the month simultaneously 36 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,720 to make deadlines, yeah. Wow, while still doing other shoots. 37 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:43,040 While doing other shoots. Summer was very busy because I did weddings but then fall and spring would be more 38 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:47,720 just random jobs here and there, yeah. What's the craziest job you've ever done? 39 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:51,520 I did a pregnancy shoot. Oh, interesting. 40 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:55,360 It was the C-section. Oh, yeah. 41 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:58,480 Oh wow, okay, so I thought it was like taking pictures 42 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,600 of maybe the mother with the big bump or anything. 43 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:07,480 Oh no, pregnancy, like birth, birth. A birth, sorry, birth video, yeah. 44 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:10,480 Okay, that's very different. That was a weird one. 45 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:15,840 How do you even do that, don't you? You have so many hoops you have to jump through 46 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:21,520 at the hospital to even come into the room and you're basically locked down on a tripod. 47 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:24,840 But it was a sentimental moment for the parents 48 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:30,280 because they really tried for a child and really needed the cash. 49 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaking of weird jobs, I mean, you work here. How has that been so far for you? 50 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:40,320 As good as it can be. There's been moments for the most part, things are good. 51 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:45,120 What's the weirdest job you've done here? You're gonna have to make me think. 52 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:48,840 That's what these are all about. I don't know, anytime I'm shooting Linus, 53 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:53,600 it gets a little weird. Like when I'm shooting and you know, on location, 54 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:59,600 hey Mark, you and Luke, get in the car. I'm gonna use the go-kart to get to where I'm going. 55 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:05,240 There was one time Linus was testing the parental controls on a phone 56 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:08,240 and he went to pu-hub, didn't work. 57 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:12,720 Sorry. Is that one of the Noctua chocolates? Yeah, those are delicious. 58 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:15,960 They're really good. I love Christmas here. Especially all the German brands, 59 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,040 they send us like the best chocolate, Noctua. 60 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:22,600 Noctua is not German. Or they're Austrian, sorry. Close. 61 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:27,600 Culturally German. Germanic, all right, I don't wanna offend anyone. 62 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,800 But my last name is Rathgeber, so I think I have a little bit of... 63 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:33,320 What's the hardest part about your job? Editing. 64 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:42,000 No, I mean, the hardest part of the job really is figuring out what the writer wants sometimes. 65 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:45,800 Everybody's a little different. I'd say that's the hardest part. 66 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:49,080 Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, how much input do you have with the writers? 67 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:52,280 Do editors work directly with the writers often? 68 00:04:52,280 --> 00:04:58,960 Yeah, I mean, we review with the writers and we regularly converse back and forth. 69 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:02,960 There's dialogue between us. It's a very collaborative process, 70 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,520 or at least it should be. And the longer you work here, 71 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:11,640 the more comfortable you become with that, really, that back and forth and saying, 72 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:16,520 hey, maybe we should do this shot differently. 73 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:20,560 Maybe this would be easier to do as B-roll 74 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:24,760 instead of animating. You also mentioned that you've done shooting 75 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:27,960 in the past as well. How does that kind of work with your role? 76 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:32,200 Are you primarily an editor and from time to time you'll go and shoot? 77 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:35,920 When do they call you to film a video? Used to be more regular. 78 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:41,120 We hired a lot more people. Pretty much everybody here is editor hybrid, 79 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:45,360 to a degree. So as shooters become less available, 80 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:49,400 maybe there's something going on, multiple videos being shot at once, 81 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,520 I can be called in to set up or do a shoot. 82 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:59,080 I'm relatively familiar with everything, so that does come up from time to time. 83 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:04,480 But mainly when people are sick. I've shot Mac Address. Yeah, I remember seeing you with Jonathan 84 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:08,280 cooking something up a bunch of times. Yeah, he shot me for Mac Address ones. 85 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:12,480 Digitizing Linus' family videos is kind of weird. 86 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:15,760 Yeah, how was that? How much footage did you end up going through? 87 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:22,680 There was a full tape. There was two tapes. One was just recordings of The Simpsons and Friends. 88 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:27,240 And then the other one was his childhood. And I got to see Linus speaking French 89 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:31,560 for a couple hours. For that video where you were digitizing VHSs, 90 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:35,040 how was that processed? Because you don't usually have a role 91 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:38,600 in the actual content of the videos, is that correct? Yes and no. 92 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,960 I shouldn't, but I often do. 93 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:45,720 Linus kind of had a vision of how he thought it should play out. 94 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:49,040 And then I was just explaining how the whole process works 95 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:53,720 to him. And yeah, it was scripted. And of course, I'm not on camera very often. 96 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:58,120 So when I helped out with that, having that kind of writer 97 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:01,800 review with Linus is great. Would you like to be on camera more often? 98 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:05,760 I wouldn't mind. Not too often, though. 99 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:08,840 It's a lot of pressure. I guess getting into your freelance work 100 00:07:08,840 --> 00:07:14,400 and the stuff you did before, how did you get into that? And how did you learn how to operate cameras and edit videos? 101 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:19,400 Oh, yeah. So out of high school, I went to Capilano College. 102 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:23,280 Now it's a university. In their film program, graduated film school. 103 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:26,480 It was 2008. And there was the recession. 104 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:31,120 There was the 2007 writer strike. And there was absolutely no work in film. 105 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:34,240 So I made work for myself by becoming a freelancer 106 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:37,280 and connected with different people. 107 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:41,760 Eventually got into weddings as a niche. For anybody who's trying to explore freelancing or anything, 108 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:46,040 do you have any tips on how you got connected or how you found that niche? 109 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:51,360 Meet like-minded people. Meet like-minded people and also just have to meet people. 110 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:57,320 That's really it. Sending an email online probably isn't the best tactic. 111 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:02,080 But yeah, just reaching out to different people. Practice and create. 112 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:06,040 You're probably going to have to develop your own style. 113 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:10,480 And that takes time. How do you develop your style? Because feeling that's something that I'm even 114 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:14,000 trying to do myself? Definitely repetition. 115 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:19,040 That's just practicing any craft. You do it over and over and over again. 116 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:24,920 And you watch media. Media that is relevant to what you do, 117 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:28,560 as well as media that's completely irrelevant to what you do. 118 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:32,040 You went to film school. You've always been into film? Yeah. What? 119 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:35,200 Is your favorite era of film? 120 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:39,120 That changes, man. That constantly changes. 121 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:43,080 70s special effects were just on another level. 122 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:48,520 You had a whole bunch of filmmakers in the 70s who were just really proving themselves. 123 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:52,360 The era that Steven Spielberg, Lucas, and all these people 124 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:58,920 who grew up watching a lot of foreign films and bringing those styles into Hollywood. 125 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:05,040 So yeah, I guess that era. I also do a lot of 80s and 90s Japanese movies. 126 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:09,080 There's a lot. There's a lot to unpack. I don't know if you're going to put that in the video. 127 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:13,800 Do you have a favorite movie from that era? Yeah, OK. 128 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:16,920 That's what I was worried about. Come with a hard question. 129 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:20,200 Yeah, man, Ron was really good. 130 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:24,640 Kurosawa, you know? From the 70s, you had movies like Close Encounters, 131 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:29,000 even Star Wars, very popular fantasy sci-fi movies. 132 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:32,360 But just set the stage a bit. How about some of your other hobbies? 133 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:36,520 Every so often, I'll see a post in off-top vacay and bring a cup of coffee. 134 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:39,920 How do you brew the perfect cup of coffee in Mark's world? 135 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:44,640 Well, I prefer pour over. It's a very obvious answer. 136 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:48,840 But coffee's not the only thing that you're into. I know speaking to you over the years. 137 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:53,640 I know you're into a couple of other things. Food, restaurants, that's a big thing for you, right? 138 00:09:53,640 --> 00:10:00,480 Oh, yeah. I mean, aren't we all into eating? Some people, like I'm speaking mostly over on the other side. 139 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:03,920 Yeah, I like food. I like cooking. 140 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:07,320 Part of it, I used to be a butcher. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. 141 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:11,680 I just cut four kilograms of chicken thighs last night. 142 00:10:11,680 --> 00:10:15,600 Why four kilograms? You go Costco? Meal prep, yeah. You've been meal prepping recently? 143 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,760 Oh, yeah. I know you've lost a little bit of weight recently. 144 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:22,280 A little bit. I mean, then I got married and it came back. 145 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:27,680 Because who cares anymore? But you've been running and stuff. Oh, yeah, yeah, I do running pretty regular. 146 00:10:27,680 --> 00:10:32,360 Used to be more. The winter has slowed me down a bit, just too busy. 147 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:35,760 But yeah, I like running. Hoping to do a marathon next year, maybe. 148 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:38,960 Oh, wow. Yeah, we'll see. Which marathon are you aiming for? 149 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:43,480 Maybe either the Sun Run or BMO. I mean, something local. I've never done a marathon before. 150 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:49,280 So this is all new to me. Right, like a marathon marathon. Because BMO is a marathon, Sun Run and One, I think is a tenkei. 151 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:52,800 Yeah, so that's the thing is I'm kind of nervous about doing 152 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:57,280 I might have to do a half marathon. Because it's a lot. 153 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:02,240 And the most I've been able to run consecutively 154 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:06,680 has been 8.3K. But that's an under an hour. 155 00:11:06,680 --> 00:11:12,400 Yeah, that's really good. So yeah, I've been told. But then the thing is, is after that I 156 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:17,640 need to recover for like three days straight. I need to train my body more, I've realized. 157 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:21,680 It's fair. Yeah. So you do mostly kind of just like light runs and stuff 158 00:11:21,680 --> 00:11:25,680 like that then? Yeah, treadmill. OK. I go to the gym, treadmill. 159 00:11:25,680 --> 00:11:29,000 Yeah. You're a big history buff too, is that correct? 160 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:33,200 I guess a little bit, yeah. What got you into that? I think that was just when I was working freelance. 161 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:39,600 There was nothing else to watch. So I kind of got into it. And I've always kind of been curious about like certain points 162 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,640 in the history of mankind. 163 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:47,600 What is the most interesting era of mankind? 16th century, 17th century. 164 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:51,320 It was like basically firearms were coming to Europe, 165 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:54,320 smaller firearms. And in Europe, they're trying to figure out 166 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:58,880 how to incorporate firearms into these old formations, 167 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:02,680 like medieval formations that are no longer relevant. 168 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:05,680 Yeah. It's really cool. Even the clothing they wear. 169 00:12:05,680 --> 00:12:12,200 You'd have plate armor and helmets. And then they're just holding a really giant, large musket. 170 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:15,400 And you'd have pikemen too. And it was just, it was wild. 171 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:18,520 Am I missing anything else? I don't know, I'm a pretty big Apple fanboy. 172 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:23,360 What do you think of the state of Apple right now? Oh man, it's all over the place. 173 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:27,840 I guess the book marked this all off. Do you have any last words for the Floatplane peeps? 174 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:32,480 Floatplane pilots? I forget what we call you guys. I think Sammy's been changing it every single video. 175 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:36,440 Oh really? Yeah. I just call them Floatplane subscribers. 176 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:41,040 We're going to call you float planeers. How about that? Float planeers, the passengers. 177 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:44,560 The Floatplane passengers? No, just passengers. We're on a Floatplane. 178 00:12:44,560 --> 00:12:50,360 I like that. They're the passengers. We're the pilots. Are we in economy, first class, business? 179 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:53,880 I mean, big plane, you know. Any last words, sir? 180 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:00,040 You know, good luck. Good luck with what? 181 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:03,080 Everything. Keep doing what you're doing. 182 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:06,240 Stay healthy. Eat lots of legumes. 183 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:09,320 And you know, make sure you have all your micronutrients. 184 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:14,240 You can continue subscribing to Floatplane. 185 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:18,120 Subscribing to Floatplane. Exactly. 186 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:22,280 That's why you need one of the prerequisites 187 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:26,560 for subscribing to Floatplane. We're filming this around Christmas, 188 00:13:26,560 --> 00:13:31,560 but you guys are probably going to see this late January. Have a great February. 189 00:13:31,560 --> 00:13:36,440 We could be in February, too. Great rest of your February. 190 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:40,000 If this comes out in March, already. 191 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:44,920 We have a lot of float planes, all right? All right, thanks, guys.