You get the nice chair and sorry I get the other chair. Sorry I can't have the nice chair.
No, no, no. As a boss, you need the nice chair.
We're on budget cuts here. I'll wait till you're ready. Oh yeah, you also wear the crown.
Sorry, Fred mentioned that. Wow, that's wonderful.
Well, you have to know who the boss is. Finally.
And then you have to wear it for the rest of the day. Oh my god.
In all your meetings. This is a dunce cap.
Bonus question. You know what today is? You shop Wednesday.
This guy's got failed. It's James' birthday today. It's today?
Guess you don't know your loss. Don't cut, cut, cut, cut. I'm Nick.
I do operations.
I do LTT Store things.
My name is Jake Bellavance, or Bell, and I am the ShortCircuit producer.
And who do you report to? And I report to this fellow right here.
You're not that short. I'm James. I'm head of writing.
See what I did there? I report to Taren. Taren, Tom.
I'll be on another future episode. I actually don't know this game.
It's a newlywed game. Yeah, so I'll explain it once we do the introduction.
How come he doesn't get a good chair? Because we haven't know who the boss is.
Hey, my name's Dan. I'm the infrastructure and technical specialist.
And my direct report is Mr. Luke here.
I'm Sarah. I'm the graphic designer, plus many other roles here
at LMG and Creator Warehouse. And yeah.
This is How Well Do You Know Your Boss, a variation of the newlywed game where,
instead of answering questions about each other, we're only asking questions about the boss
with two traditional newlywed style questions. Without looking at each other,
what is a color of Nick's eyes?
Oh no. I knew I was not going to do well at this.
And I watched the prior two videos, but I didn't explore.
Oh, you watched the prior two. Excellent. These are new questions, actually. Oh.
What am I? I don't know. Whatever you write is right.
Don't worry. I'm right. One. Yay!
Got it right! Excellent, excellent. I don't know.
Do people still say hazel for eyes? Hazel brown.
Oh! I just went fancy. They're like a yellowy brown.
No, that's what Nick said too. It's like, does anyone call it hazel anymore?
I haven't even called it brown. He's the head of writing for a reason. He's going fancy.
I'm way ahead of writing. Still without looking at each other. Does James have any tattoos or piercings?
And bonus points if you can name amount of piercings or tattoos.
Interesting. Why are you pondering?
Just trying to think about what counts.
I'm allowed to tell them with that. I don't know. Shut up.
You just write something yet. I don't have none. None.
It's weird. I feel like you should. Like you'd have a weird tattoo. I usually could.
I actually have. I have my son's name on my butt. I just have a bee on either butt cheek.
It's just sharpie though. Once a week sharpie though.
What'd you say? None but you. Oh wow! Let's go.
I still have a little hole there and I had earrings.
Oh my god. When I was a teenager. I showed Sarah a picture that one of my oldest friends
sent me a few weeks ago, right? Of me as a teenager with the chicken emo hair
and the fuzzy army jacket.
Oh my god. And Colton. With the lip piercing. Oh yeah and Colton.
Colton looked like a baby. He had like, when his hair grows,
it's like the fuzzy poofy 70's hair.
It's so good. Well now these are a lot of questions. Okay.
So what is Nick's most memorable work memory?
Oh good question. This must have been interesting. You've never been here before and I filled this in for you?
No. Cause you're gonna answer now. Oh yeah right. Is that the Jordan's stool that's creaky?
Yeah it's all right. I don't think Mike will pick up on it. What?
Do you even know the answer to this? What is this? Is it hard? Okay.
Man I don't even know the answer to this. I'm just picking something that's big for LMG
and we'll hope that that's the right answer. Okay I feel like when you started at LMG
up until like the point where I was hired.
I feel like there were so many things that went on. Like work occasion or something, LTX,
but like those LTX were so much smaller and less formal.
Can I, can I, okay. I feel like for some of these I'm gonna have to give
like a hint because like there's just,
there's too much, there's too much stuff. Yeah. There's just way too much.
It's within the time you were here. Okay.
And you were involved. Oh. I only have one thing in mind for some reason.
There was like something specific. Was it like an event phase thing or was it like,
stop asking for more hints. You're ruining the work occasion in Mexico.
Oh, I wasn't even at that one. I knew it. I was trying to think of something big
that I was like, you've been here five years. That must have been the last work occasion. No, no, no, no.
That, the Mexico one was like in 20. In Banff?
I did go to that when it was good, but that wasn't the last one either. We did Banff and then we did like a staycation.
Christmas shopping. Oh, like for last year. Yeah. Yeah, that was pretty awesome.
Yeah.
Excellent, excellent. Let's go. I don't want to describe it for the people who don't know about it.
Everybody got like five to spend and you got five more if you spent it all.
You got reimbursed the amount that you spent. So you were, you were incentivized to go on a,
on a, screw it, shopping. Yeah. We took a flight and stuff like that.
Like we flew around Vancouver. We like bought out all these best buys.
It was crazy. I bought expensive headphones. I thought I was going to do horrible at this.
No, you're in rings. Three for three. Heck yeah.
Like that was just like the culmination of like three years.
Yeah. So it's, that's very memorable.
And it was really positive. And like everybody was super stoked. There was like 500 people that showed up
and they were like, we're just happy to be here. And like it was super cool.
And yeah, it just, that was, that was a very special moment
for Creator Warehouse because it was the first time we had shown like, okay, we can launch something
that's going to sell 150,000 units or whatever.
You know what I mean? So it was like a very make or break investment for our team.
What is James's greatest fear?
James's greatest fear.
Man, honestly, what is it?
Man, you're just putting me on blast in front of the entire.
Greatest fear. This is too personal, you know?
See, I'm trying to find a way to just not make it like sad.
I know all the things I'm thinking too are like, I don't even know if I want to know
what your greatest fear is. I like, I, I'm gonna be real, I'm not that deep.
Like, I don't, I don't ponder those types of questions.
He's not. It's just like sharks or something randomly. Oh my God.
Bugs under skin.
Heights without a floor? I said sickness. Sickness, oh yeah.
No, okay, I can't handle like, you know, like,
what is the thing? Is it like elevator? Oh, I hate those rides.
I hate those so much. Like if my feet are planted, I'm good.
Yeah. But if my feet are like dangling and I'm up high,
so I don't like chair lifts, like, I don't even like,
okay, this is a little different, but I don't even like gondolas. Cause like, that shit's like waving all over the place.
I'm sitting here like, is it gonna pop off the cable at any given second?
Bugs under skin sounds pretty awful. I think for many people when you like,
when you're having a rough day or, you know, you get into a situation, you end up acting like
your parents, like the worst part of your parents. You're like, oh no, I'm doing that thing
that my dad does or something like that. Yeah. Every time I get angry, I leave for a jug of milk
and I never come home. Oh, what kind of person would James be
if he wasn't a tech slash gaming person? Oh, well first of all, he's not a gamer.
Let me tell you that.
Why do you look fun to James? Well,
I was like gamer for like 25 years, just not present at all.
Back in my day.
Sure. Sure.
How can we possibly write the same thing? We'll figure out.
How old do you know your boss, you know? I'm like really standardizing this answer too.
It's like very broad, but. As long as this is somewhat right, I'll give you the point.
Yeah, I'll take a half point. I put.
I liked your right of way though. Metalhead. Metalhead?
James used to have a mohawk.
A musician? I just said a business person. I don't know what that means.
Fair. So music was like a big part of my life
when I was like a kid. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
My dad's a musician. I played tenor sax, bassoon, violin, guitar, drums.
I sang a lot. I never put in the effort.
I was always good enough to get by. Interesting.
Or I said, or worst accountant ever. We're a business person.
You're a Metallica kind of guy? I don't know that much Metallica.
I'm not like a Metallica discovery guy. He's downplaying. I've seen him live.
Look at your most recent ShortCircuit. What song are you listening to? Oh yeah, I don't know.
Oh, Master of Puppets? Yeah. It's a great song.
I know my boss. I know there's gatekeepers out there and I don't want to say I'm a Metallica guy.
Are you kidding? Pilots are so cool. That's what I call the float planers.
All right, let's go. What is Nick's most non-living prized possession?
Non-living possession. My most prized non-living possession.
I'm like not sentimental about stuff.
We have a ring. Yeah.
I got the most boring, basic goal. My name symbolizes something.
Sure. I literally already wrote down my answer.
I think you guys are the fastest group I've ever done. I'm like, we're like halfway there.
We're a business. That's why we get along so well. I want to preface this by saying
it's prized for its function, not for what it is.
People are gonna destroy me. Commenters, I know, you hate me and that's okay.
They're called passengers this week. Passengers. Passengers? Yeah, that's what Jacob said.
Jacob's like, you should call them passengers. Oh, hey, passengers. Wait, what? I thought they were pilots.
Pilots? Every week they're changing. They're changing every week. Every week it's different.
Float planers. Give him a little walk anyway. Passengers.
His house. Oh, I've got my headphones. Oh, what?
My dad, Clark. You're a new homeowner and it's super nice.
You're doing all this work, your home theater, headphones?
I didn't think of a house. Airpods.
I said your house or your formula. My house or my formula. Yeah, I guess house is a good one.
To me, day to day, like airpods, I have them in like probably eight to 10 hours a day.
Just because I'm either like trying to focus at work
or doing stuff at home that I don't really want to be doing like laundry or cleaning or whatever else,
taking out the garbage. And so just having stuff in my head
is very helpful for me. Oh, you know what?
We both f***ed up. The sauna. The sauna. The sauna.
Yeah, he hand-built a sauna. Yeah, it's great. I love the sauna.
What's the hardest thing about reporting to James? So James would write what Bell thinks
is the hardest thing to report. That makes sense, right? The question didn't, but the explanation doesn't.
I could write an essay. Look how hard she's struggling.
I don't know. He's too perfect.
He's too busy. Oh, yeah. Head of writing, it turns out that's a big job.
That's crazy. That's a charitable answer you've given me.
Could have been like communication sucks. No, it's fine. It's just not often enough.
He's a busy guy. Slow reply. You're busy.
It's similar. If you ask easy questions, I'm easy to get a reply from.
I think as long as you would reply within the hour as a supervisor or manager,
it's like, I consider that pretty like on pace. That's fair.
We started out, we scheduled for two, I think was it three o'clock? Three thirty?
Got pushed to now four thirty. Yeah, we're an hour late. He's a busy guy.
So now we're gonna do a little quick bit here. We're gonna do a traditional-
Quirk burr. Quirk burr. Quirk burr.
Quirk burr. Quirk burr? No, sorry. I mean, just for you, I'll rename it to Quirk burr.
It's just traditional newly wed soft questions. So you guys both get to try the answer.
As long as you guys are both right, the same thing. Yeah, I like moving down.
All right. So between the two of you, who spends the most on food?
Between the two of you. Do you mean on a per capita basis?
You know, like- Just in general. What James spends on James' food
and what Bell spends on Bell food? Cause he has a whole family. Oh no, just like on James' food, yeah.
Okay, cause I have a family of five. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I'm not counting that yet.
Yeah, probably. Wow. I think that's fair. I spend so much money on food.
Yeah, me. I have more time to go out, probably.
You guys are restaurants. He drinks multiple Moscow mules out of the keg, you know.
We're at the keg, yeah, just yesterday. I noticed this month alone,
I've spent, how much was it, $200 on Starbucks?
I've had a pumpkin spice latte every single day. Sometimes two per day, but I looked at my finances
and I said, I can't do this anymore. So I skipped the weekend, this weekend and broke my street.
Yeah. And then it's your day. Yeah, sure did.
Oh, that's so much money. Yeah, let's just not think about it.
No, that's okay. How much do you spend roughly in like a month?
I mean, this month probably, I take my girlfriend out,
but just for my portion, probably $600.
I thought, don't want to see him like that. Yeah.
I couldn't tell you because my wife does my finances. I don't even.
His wife does my finances too, so. I don't even know the password. And between the two of you, who is the best dresser?
I mean... The biggest drip.
The biggest drip. We're talking about size.
No, no, no, no, no. Not the easy answer, very, very easy answer.
Let's see who the biggest dresser is. Biggest, best dresser, oh my God.
Oh my God. It's three, sorry. It's Monday.
It's Monday. LTTstore.com.
I mean, he's wearing LTT's right now, so. I like it's both from the same time, that's cute.
It depends on the day. By far, oh by far, yeah.
I'm like jeans and T-shirt guy. Yeah, but like you've got your wardrobe figured out.
Sure. I feel like some days I'm like sweatpants or leggings
and other days I'm like, I'll wear dressy pants.
No, no, my first start at ASU would have dressed nice like every day.
Yeah. And I was like, who cares? I was doing the first shirt and the first pants
I could come and I was like, all right, cool. I mean, you got lots of style though.
Well, you wear LTT Store merch. You got like cool plaid pants and stuff and like.
Yeah, yeah. I try sometimes. Yeah, you're stylish.
Going back to the rate of questions now. The best memory that you two shared.
Oh, I know. I got it.
There's been so many things. Oh, it's hard.
There's too many good memories. Or there's none. No, I'm talking to you.
This is, I'm actually, I cherish this. You cherish the memory. Oh no, I'm going to get it wrong.
All right, did you write? I wrote the cutiola trip. Oh.
What did you pick? Oh, that was a good answer. I picked the Toronto trip.
Oh, that was good. I think the Toronto trip was like our first one.
That was just you and I versus this bad guy. And we bonded at that airport bar.
Yeah, it was good. Talked about not work stuff for like the first time.
Yeah, that was a lot of fun. That was fun though. We went and got Mexican food. Yeah, we had the big picture of whatever it was,
but it was a really good time. I was going to tell what you did. Oh, that's cute.
I feel like it has led to all of the wonderful
future experiences that we've had. I like that.
But yeah, that was also really fun and I enjoyed that a lot.
We all just went out, had like a nice dinner downtown. The whole team worked on the screwdriver.
That was super fun. Yeah.
Next time maybe you contribute to the screwdriver. Yeah, I remember when we went to Olive Garden
and like the guy called me cheap. No, you know what it was?
It was Red Lobster. Cause you and Emily wanted to go and I'm like, well, I'm allergic to seafood.
And you're like, yeah, well, I really want to go. They probably have stuff that wasn't seafood.
They literally had one menu item and it was a burger
and it was the worst burger I've ever eaten. And then he called you cheap before we paid the bill
like several times. No, no, no, no, no. What happened was when we were ordering,
I said something like, can we order booze on the per diem or something like that?
Or like, oh, we can't order booze on the per diem or something like that. And the guy was like, cheap.
Yeah. Like, holy. And it works when you tip more, I'm sure.
Yeah. Well, that was on a dilemma. Do I, do I prove them right?
That was a good times. But yeah, I don't recommend Red Lobster if you're allergic to shellfish.
How do you think Belle would describe herself?
So I wait and I'm, I answer what I think I would call myself.
Or what, or what she thinks I think. Yeah. She would call me.
These questions are so deep. It's a little complicated. You're in a brain zone over there.
What do you think that he thinks that you think that he thinks that you think?
I don't want it to seem like I think that Sarah thinks a certain type of way.
Because I, why are you breaking my brain?
Yeah, right? I'd be Monday. I wrote an honest answer, but it's not what he wrote.
He wrote something else. Am I?
Every time I would ask questions, there's a different like 20 minutes trying to think of an answer.
I'm just gonna put what I hope Sarah thinks of herself.
Whatever you write is the right answer. It doesn't matter what Sarah writes. All right, all right, all right.
What I actually think of myself is like, gee, gee, you don't really say that stuff.
True. So I have to like think. Color it.
What do I want people to think about me?
Yeah, what you think other people think about you.
Specifically me. Friendly.
Friendly, that's good. Oh, that's so nice. Smart, funny, talented, hardworking, mature.
Sure, I'll take it. Cause you started here when you were just a baby.
I was saying he wasn't honest. Smart, loyal, grateful.
I appreciate it. I said it humbly. Oh, you know.
I was very humbly. Turns out, what is that from something?
DJ Khaled. What?
You smart, you loyal, you're grateful.
I appreciate that. Go buy your mama a house.
Go buy your whole family houses. What is James' biggest pet peeve?
This will be good to know.
I feel like you have several. Nick's just a happy guy.
He doesn't have any issues with the world. No, no.
That's definitely not true. But I don't think that's true for anyone.
No. Like I hate it when people are late.
Oh yeah. Personal stuff, like work stuff is fine cause I'm always like flexing.
I hate when you go to pick someone up and they're not waiting for you. When you want to wait outside in your car, like bro.
When someone's coming to pick me up, I'm like waiting, I'm like looking at the blinds.
You tell me you come at 4.30, I'm outside at 4.25. Like I don't mind if it's like a few minutes late
or whatever, like a half an hour or an hour. That's like, you're hitting my time kind of thing.
So I'm very annoying to you. No, no, you're actually, no, no, no.
Yeah, respect someone's time, you know, exactly. Reacting to teams messages or off topic comments.
I guess somebody messaged it or like, just a reminder, don't react to messages.
It's distracting. No, it is distracting. Also, mouth noises.
Wait, what do you mean mouth noises? You know, like you forgot, I've had a time
where I was at like a restaurant and someone was eating noodles at the next table.
I had to move to another table. Okay, I think it's a culture thing, that's why.
Cause it's actually a genetic thing. If you go on 23 and me, it'll tell you,
are you annoyed by mouth noises? Really? Yeah, and I have it.
He's built different. No, in like Asian culture, if you eat loudly, that means you're really enjoying the meal.
Well, I wasn't going to bring that into this. No, I'm just saying, that's why,
that's probably the reason why they're doing loudly. Oh, I said stupidity.
I don't know, I personally have a hard time dealing
with stupid people, but that also is a spectrum.
Yeah, and to be clear, I don't think we have any stupid people here. No, no, no, no, no, absolutely.
No, exactly. Like in this room or like, at the company.
I think everybody's pretty damn pretty. What's one thing James wants to do at the company, but can't?
He wants to do with the company, but he can't. It's such a long list.
Now, Sarah is having the hard part of the hard part.
What's one thing you want to do with a company you can't?
I can do anything. What's Nick's greatest vision that he cannot produce?
I don't know. Oh, I mean, I didn't take it that serious.
Wait, what? Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. This is a serious show.
Yeah, this is a serious show. The point's a matter here.
All right, let's see what it is. Become CEO.
Yeah, give it time. Fire gold.
One leads to the other. I don't know.
Oh my god. I was going to write, like, nap time, something stupid like that.
I thought it was going to be something crazy like launch this product.
I shut up. I shut up. I mean, I can basically make that happen.
Like if I wanted to, you know what I mean? Nap time? No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No, as Sammy was saying, like, oh, I wish we could launch this product. If there was a product that I had in mind
that we weren't working on, like, we would just work on it. Yeah. Really?
Yeah. Yeah, that kind of pulled. Yeah?
I didn't have that kind of pull. Yeah, excuse me, Claire, it's not just a me thing.
It's like if somebody's really passionate about a product, we're going to work on it and at least see what happens.
Oh, OK. That's cool. Like dinosaurs. Yeah, like Sarah's going to make more dino merch.
Yeah. OTTstore.com. Yeah. That's actually a tough question. Like, do you have anything that you feel like you can't?
Like, I don't know. The things I can't. You know, the executives, you pitch things,
the consensus. Right more, host more, I don't know.
Bring back their just movies. I ended their just movies.
We're at the final question here. And we are going to do a little shilling for a company here.
So what is James' favorite LTT merch?
Nice. I will say I thought about this when I had initially
watched one of the other videos just because you use the backpack
every single day. Exactly. And it is really useful.
It is nice. Yeah. But I actually use the backpack more. The Stubby screwdriver, when you find a use for it.
Oh. I actually wrote t-shirts. The t-shirts are so comfy.
I sleep in them every night. They're just so good. The Stubby, I found a genuine use for it yesterday.
It felt so good. It was awesome. But I prefer the normal screwdriver.
Like, if I could choose one. You mean the large screwdriver? Yeah. The Stubby is really the average screwdriver.
The long one. Yeah, man. Obviously, we've had some challenges
with the carabiners and stuff, which is so close to being resolved.
Hopefully, they'll be shipping before the end of the year, not 100%, but at least the first batches.
But yeah, I mean, it's a labor of love, man. We love to make that stuff.
We love to see people appreciate it. We love to see people interact with it and engage with it.
I mean, considering we've only hung out outside of work like once. Really?
OK. I thought that was more than just that.
Non-work trips? Just work the other times.
How well do you think Sara did? Sara gets an A plus. Yay!
But Sara, do you think you did better? Because I know you're nervous, but.
I thought I did better than I had initially come in here
guessing, so. Which to be clear is not Sara's fault. Yeah.
I'm not the most. I think he's pushing it a little harder. He's pushing it a little harder.
It was fun, though. I really enjoyed this. I feel like you could give, to your probably,
be my passport guarantor. Yeah, we were close. I feel like if it was a top three,
most of my answers were probably at least close to that. There was some tough.
As far as work relationships go, I give them like an A minus.
A minus? I'm guessing you do better.
So I was doing for improvement. You know Willis Pommier, but.
Shadow Willis Pommier. Shadow Willis. I don't know what that is.
Give me a call. 6-0-4-3. Previous life.