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Hey James, welcome to reacting to your first time on an LMG video.

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Do you think you remember what your first time was?

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Ah, my first time on an LMG video. I would...

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It's weird because there's definitely your your first time appearing is usually for a back then

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was silent. I was I'm sure I was in a lot of b-roll shots before I was ever in a speaking

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kind of role. I know I ended up having a semi regular appearance on the WAN Show

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for a while but there's no way that was like my earliest. I honestly don't know. It took me a

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very long time before I hosted an LTT. I've still only done that like three or four times I think.

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Less than ten for sure and even co-hosting LTTs. Back when I was writing I rarely did a vlog

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and the vlogs were the things that were co-hosted so tricky. Not sure what my first video was.

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As you can see in front of your screen we have one video shortlisted which is

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what's it like to work for Linus? Honest Answers part four would seem to be the most

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notable first appearance on camera. Aside from b-roll and all that. Okay let's take a look at the

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video and see how much you remember. Honest Answers part four and look at that set.

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Who thought that was a good tech set? So it looks like a travel...

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It looks like a travel channel set but if you want the real answer.

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And then there's like no beard Linus is always weird to see too. Oh yeah. Oh these guys these are

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good guys. We made a deal. I'm guessing it was around Christmas time because of how Christmasy

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the set is. Oh the hmm I have no idea. I remember where this was shot. Oh this old intro.

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First guy out of the ad spot. This guy is so quirky. First guy out of the sponsor spot.

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Psychotic. Petite. Autiler. Hyperactive insanity. Nick with hair. Yeah somewhat like insane. This is

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crazy. Insane like that much. Insane. I mean we're not we're not dead in the water yet. This is a

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memory lane. Cole hasn't aged a day. And my first thoughts are holy crap. This guy is so intense

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that I'm a minute late for my interview. He locks up shop leaves doesn't even consider me.

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He's coming at you with all this energy. Back when John worked in the office. He's gonna have to

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match that. Like has no semblance of personal time and... This shot of Linus with those sunglasses on.

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He knows he looks like a douche with the mask. He thinks sunglasses always make you look like a

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douche. Inspiring drastic action. What was it like I guess being on camera for the first time? Were

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you nervous? Were you... I don't specifically remember what it was like to be in this video but

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I really wanted to be on camera back then a lot and I even shot I had my own YouTube channel

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kind of like a few uploads and I managed to get Linus to allow me to write and shoot a video on

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the green screen here. The video was about how like Tesla cameras are worked on the cars but

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and it was a lot like a tech wiki. But I was doing that just for practice because I wanted to get

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better at the job and better at hosting and practice hosting and I think that's showing that initiative

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perhaps help. At the same time I was so self-promoting it was a bit of a worry that I just wanted to

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like self-aggrandize and get the heck out of here. So there's some caution there. Oh my gosh look at

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Alex and his little t-bomb. That's cute. So I've never used a reciprocating saw

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and it's plugged in. I get kind of weird demands from Linus. Like I said not working with him much

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I get demands like can you paint my face? Can you find this? Can you do that? So as a leader

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I'd say he's very random and interesting. So I never heard one of my bosses like fart audibly

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from across the office before. So this you see my teeth there this is pre-invisalign James.

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My teeth were messed up my whole childhood. I wouldn't really like smile with my teeth

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in school photos or anything like that. But by the time I was in my late 20s I was fine with it.

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If I didn't have a job where I worked on camera I would have I love Max. I would have never fixed

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my teeth but one time I was walking by an editor's desk and a thumbnail of me was like full screen

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and I was smiling a big smile with this crooked bent teeth and I was like okay I gotta do something

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about this. Don't work at that at all. Wasn't that onerous to have invisalign?

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Berkel only actually overlapped with Berkel for like eight months or something like that didn't

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get to work at them. I only specifically remember him doing the V-roll for a keyboard roundup that

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I wrote in the early days. And he I remember he he hit the the spacebar with his index finger instead

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of a thumb. Bizarre. Okay. And once he gets to a certain boiling point you can just you can feel it.

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The kind of mad where he gets really high-pitched and goes

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and then about a week later. It's crazy to see how young people look at this video. It's like

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we look like just a whole company of children. Bizarre. Hey there's a jump cut there.

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I've had some terrible terrible bosses. Sometimes you know I've been able to get one either like

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Tyler was like the most interesting person who worked here. I love talking to him.

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He read like he read like three books during rotation. Max was so fun. We had so much fun

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doing V-rolls and we just dancing and stuff. That was awesome. How big was LMG when you at this

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point? Yeah. So when I got hired at LMG I was with Alex and Emily and we were employees 14,

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15, 16. We were the first people hired as writers. Jake eventually joined the writing team and he

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worked a year earlier than us but at that when he was hired. I was like the 25th person to get

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interviewed. By the time he got to me and I was last I think he had a real strict regiment of what

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he wanted to get through. Oh yeah. He didn't have any time or energy to waste on any bullshit.

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In my interview he said nothing. It was Luke and Yvonne who interviewed me and he just typed

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the whole time. I thought that was so weird. He sat there just typing. Now I get it. He basically

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tries to make transcripts of all of the like entire meetings or he did for a while. Now we have

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transcript NEIs and stuff like that but I just thought it was so weird that the person I'd be

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working directly with didn't like ask me anything. I wonder if this is a story I want to tell. I

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don't know if it's in this video so I guess we'll just keep watching. Oh yeah. I was saying

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Jake was hired before me, worked here a year longer than me but he was actually a warehouse

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person at first. Like the first warehouse person I think. Excuse me? He's like yeah you heard me.

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I'm like uh no. The first interaction I had with Linus actually on the phone was my first interview.

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It was at an Indian restaurant with his children. It was kind of like a first date

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but someone brought along a baby. I remember my the baby phase meant when Linus's third kid was

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born I was sitting right beside Yvonne's desk and Yvonne didn't do a lot of mat leave. The kid,

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she was bringing the kid like daily to the office. I was, it was a shocking to me.

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Great kid. Catches him off guard or whatever but he seems to be pretty on top. I can't imagine

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that happening you know. It's just not very well prepared for everything that comes. Imagine

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everyone bringing their kid. I would love if we had some kind of daycare program here when enough

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people get kids. Heck even like a not homeschool but like a private teacher there's enough kids

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here. That'd be dope. On the car ride to or from somewhere is when we can actually talk about

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whatever. So that's when you actually. It's interesting to notice how much more heavily these

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other hosts are featured in this video. Like Taryn, Colton, the Channel Super Fun Guys are

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getting way more screen time than the likes of me the first timer which totally makes sense.

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The audience, the audience loves people they know right so that makes sense.

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This video is six years old and it already is using old footage and some of this old footage

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we still use. It's just not it's like the when you're smashing that keyboard it's crazy to see

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how old that footage really is. There's intense meetings and there's deep statistical analysis.

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All this kind of stuff which doesn't make it feel as like fun. It's actually really refreshing to

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have a. Luke already talked about how the business has changed at this point when they have like 20

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employees. I actually spoke to a past editor recently. He worked there like a year before me

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and he thought well I represent the echelon of employees. I represent the corporate era the

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changing of this business from being a tight-knit group of youngsters to like a big corporate

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company. He's like employee like 12 or something like that. You have no idea.

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Bye. $60,000. I don't know. I mean he says he's not going to watch it. That's bulls***.

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Everyone knows that Linus is going to watch this and then he's going to come around and be like

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so um. I heard you think I say it's fine all the time when I'm mad.

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I don't think Linus ever watched this still. He felt that a leader should ride a horse and

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I've never seen him on horseback so I guess if I were going to say one thing that Linus

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could do to improve himself as a leader in my eyes is I'd like to see him on a horse more.

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Just it would make me feel a lot more at ease.

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Man I was in here for like none of it.

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Was it weird for you that your first appearance was a video talking about what it's like to work?

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Was it weird for me at the time? Yeah like because I guess it's kind of a big thing right?

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Or did you feel that way? I honestly can't remember how I felt so long ago.

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Trying to remember how I felt it was so long ago and you also have to remember tech quicky

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didn't exist. Excuse me. You also have to remember TechLinked didn't exist and ShortCircuit didn't

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exist so your opportunities for being on camera were really as did we even do alternate hosts on

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tech quicky? At that time it was all Linus and occasionally John

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and Luke. Luke was the original kind of co-host. Luke by this time was already kind of stepping back

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from hosting. Channel Superfund was like a gateway. Did I peer on this on Channel Superfund? I wasn't

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heavily used by Channel Superfund either and then Berkel left and there was kind of a hiatus there.

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I was interested in producing and writing it but

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but the hosts of that show have their own chemistry already so

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really happy tech links came along. That's a that's a good fit for me and they're just movies

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obviously that was that was my baby too. How did um so you hosting you being a host on TechLinked

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how did that come around was that something you volunteered for just naturally happened that way?

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I don't remember how I got involved with TechLinked I think I was suited for it by then I

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probably had a lot more hosting experience with Wancho at least if not maybe I was doing tech

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quicky. Don't remember. It's all a blur man. No you're good. It was crazy. You're good. I think

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with tech I think with TechLinked we kind of knew that show already had an established multi

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host format and it's a large volume of videos to do three per week and and I know rather to this

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day likes to switch it up so maybe he was advocating for other hosts to get in on that

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maybe it was my comedy affinities but I honestly don't remember it. I wonder if there's an email

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where I'm or I like formally asked to be on TechLinked I'm not sure. I know you know you're

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you're currently a writing writing supervisor so that's a correct title. Head of writing.

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Head of writing. Jake's the writing supervisor. Do you think we'll ever see you writing another

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LTT video like from scratch like your video? Will you ever see me write another LTT from scratch?

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It could happen at a show like for example I traveled for the Nanosys tour and wrote that video

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that was one of my later videos but that was before Labs and I was sent there because I was the

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display person but it's something like that where I'm just the one there could it could happen

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there actually was an ergonomic keyboard that we saw that Linus was like yeah you should write this

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I want to watch the James review this so it could happen but there's just so much stuff to do man

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there's so much stuff to do even Jake is making too many videos there's just so much to manage

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we need to just be managing yeah and every time we're we're doing out that other kind of front

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line stuff other stuff gets gets neglected that's fair that's fair to wrap things up what has been

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your favorite part of working at OMG in all these years if you had to pick one thing this is a

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great place to work Linus is a great boss there's lots of great perks and benefits and compensation

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is good it's just a great business and it's an exciting place to work because we've been growing

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and we're working on exciting things with exciting people it's just a good old job