WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.240 Hey James, welcome to reacting to your first time on an LMG video. 00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:09.520 Do you think you remember what your first time was? 00:00:09.520 --> 00:00:12.240 Ah, my first time on an LMG video. I would... 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:18.400 It's weird because there's definitely your your first time appearing is usually for a back then 00:00:18.400 --> 00:00:22.800 was silent. I was I'm sure I was in a lot of b-roll shots before I was ever in a speaking 00:00:23.520 --> 00:00:29.360 kind of role. I know I ended up having a semi regular appearance on the WAN Show 00:00:29.360 --> 00:00:34.720 for a while but there's no way that was like my earliest. I honestly don't know. It took me a 00:00:34.720 --> 00:00:38.800 very long time before I hosted an LTT. I've still only done that like three or four times I think. 00:00:39.760 --> 00:00:46.480 Less than ten for sure and even co-hosting LTTs. Back when I was writing I rarely did a vlog 00:00:46.480 --> 00:00:52.160 and the vlogs were the things that were co-hosted so tricky. Not sure what my first video was. 00:00:52.160 --> 00:00:55.920 As you can see in front of your screen we have one video shortlisted which is 00:00:56.640 --> 00:01:03.440 what's it like to work for Linus? Honest Answers part four would seem to be the most 00:01:03.440 --> 00:01:10.560 notable first appearance on camera. Aside from b-roll and all that. Okay let's take a look at the 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:16.800 video and see how much you remember. Honest Answers part four and look at that set. 00:01:18.320 --> 00:01:22.240 Who thought that was a good tech set? So it looks like a travel... 00:01:22.800 --> 00:01:26.720 It looks like a travel channel set but if you want the real answer. 00:01:26.720 --> 00:01:32.000 And then there's like no beard Linus is always weird to see too. Oh yeah. Oh these guys these are 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:36.400 good guys. We made a deal. I'm guessing it was around Christmas time because of how Christmasy 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:45.280 the set is. Oh the hmm I have no idea. I remember where this was shot. Oh this old intro. 00:01:46.240 --> 00:01:51.200 First guy out of the ad spot. This guy is so quirky. First guy out of the sponsor spot. 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:57.120 Psychotic. Petite. Autiler. Hyperactive insanity. Nick with hair. Yeah somewhat like insane. This is 00:01:57.120 --> 00:02:02.320 crazy. Insane like that much. Insane. I mean we're not we're not dead in the water yet. This is a 00:02:02.320 --> 00:02:08.880 memory lane. Cole hasn't aged a day. And my first thoughts are holy crap. This guy is so intense 00:02:08.880 --> 00:02:13.120 that I'm a minute late for my interview. He locks up shop leaves doesn't even consider me. 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:17.360 He's coming at you with all this energy. Back when John worked in the office. He's gonna have to 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:25.680 match that. Like has no semblance of personal time and... This shot of Linus with those sunglasses on. 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:29.760 He knows he looks like a douche with the mask. He thinks sunglasses always make you look like a 00:02:29.760 --> 00:02:36.240 douche. Inspiring drastic action. What was it like I guess being on camera for the first time? Were 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:41.440 you nervous? Were you... I don't specifically remember what it was like to be in this video but 00:02:41.440 --> 00:02:48.400 I really wanted to be on camera back then a lot and I even shot I had my own YouTube channel 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:56.320 kind of like a few uploads and I managed to get Linus to allow me to write and shoot a video on 00:02:56.320 --> 00:03:01.280 the green screen here. The video was about how like Tesla cameras are worked on the cars but 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:08.720 and it was a lot like a tech wiki. But I was doing that just for practice because I wanted to get 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:14.400 better at the job and better at hosting and practice hosting and I think that's showing that initiative 00:03:15.600 --> 00:03:20.720 perhaps help. At the same time I was so self-promoting it was a bit of a worry that I just wanted to 00:03:20.720 --> 00:03:29.760 like self-aggrandize and get the heck out of here. So there's some caution there. Oh my gosh look at 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:36.480 Alex and his little t-bomb. That's cute. So I've never used a reciprocating saw 00:03:38.160 --> 00:03:44.000 and it's plugged in. I get kind of weird demands from Linus. Like I said not working with him much 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:48.400 I get demands like can you paint my face? Can you find this? Can you do that? So as a leader 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:54.720 I'd say he's very random and interesting. So I never heard one of my bosses like fart audibly 00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:59.920 from across the office before. So this you see my teeth there this is pre-invisalign James. 00:04:01.600 --> 00:04:05.760 My teeth were messed up my whole childhood. I wouldn't really like smile with my teeth 00:04:05.760 --> 00:04:12.080 in school photos or anything like that. But by the time I was in my late 20s I was fine with it. 00:04:12.720 --> 00:04:18.720 If I didn't have a job where I worked on camera I would have I love Max. I would have never fixed 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:24.080 my teeth but one time I was walking by an editor's desk and a thumbnail of me was like full screen 00:04:24.080 --> 00:04:29.280 and I was smiling a big smile with this crooked bent teeth and I was like okay I gotta do something 00:04:29.280 --> 00:04:34.160 about this. Don't work at that at all. Wasn't that onerous to have invisalign? 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:42.000 Berkel only actually overlapped with Berkel for like eight months or something like that didn't 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:50.080 get to work at them. I only specifically remember him doing the V-roll for a keyboard roundup that 00:04:50.080 --> 00:04:57.760 I wrote in the early days. And he I remember he he hit the the spacebar with his index finger instead 00:04:57.760 --> 00:05:04.640 of a thumb. Bizarre. Okay. And once he gets to a certain boiling point you can just you can feel it. 00:05:04.640 --> 00:05:07.280 The kind of mad where he gets really high-pitched and goes 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:17.920 and then about a week later. It's crazy to see how young people look at this video. It's like 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:23.360 we look like just a whole company of children. Bizarre. Hey there's a jump cut there. 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:30.000 I've had some terrible terrible bosses. Sometimes you know I've been able to get one either like 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:32.960 Tyler was like the most interesting person who worked here. I love talking to him. 00:05:37.520 --> 00:05:44.080 He read like he read like three books during rotation. Max was so fun. We had so much fun 00:05:44.080 --> 00:05:50.160 doing V-rolls and we just dancing and stuff. That was awesome. How big was LMG when you at this 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:56.560 point? Yeah. So when I got hired at LMG I was with Alex and Emily and we were employees 14, 00:05:56.560 --> 00:06:05.200 15, 16. We were the first people hired as writers. Jake eventually joined the writing team and he 00:06:05.200 --> 00:06:10.000 worked a year earlier than us but at that when he was hired. I was like the 25th person to get 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:14.640 interviewed. By the time he got to me and I was last I think he had a real strict regiment of what 00:06:14.640 --> 00:06:20.160 he wanted to get through. Oh yeah. He didn't have any time or energy to waste on any bullshit. 00:06:21.280 --> 00:06:26.880 In my interview he said nothing. It was Luke and Yvonne who interviewed me and he just typed 00:06:26.880 --> 00:06:32.880 the whole time. I thought that was so weird. He sat there just typing. Now I get it. He basically 00:06:32.880 --> 00:06:36.640 tries to make transcripts of all of the like entire meetings or he did for a while. Now we have 00:06:36.640 --> 00:06:40.080 transcript NEIs and stuff like that but I just thought it was so weird that the person I'd be 00:06:40.080 --> 00:06:44.800 working directly with didn't like ask me anything. I wonder if this is a story I want to tell. I 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:47.840 don't know if it's in this video so I guess we'll just keep watching. Oh yeah. I was saying 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:52.560 Jake was hired before me, worked here a year longer than me but he was actually a warehouse 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:57.760 person at first. Like the first warehouse person I think. Excuse me? He's like yeah you heard me. 00:06:57.760 --> 00:07:04.720 I'm like uh no. The first interaction I had with Linus actually on the phone was my first interview. 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:09.440 It was at an Indian restaurant with his children. It was kind of like a first date 00:07:10.320 --> 00:07:19.040 but someone brought along a baby. I remember my the baby phase meant when Linus's third kid was 00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:26.400 born I was sitting right beside Yvonne's desk and Yvonne didn't do a lot of mat leave. The kid, 00:07:26.400 --> 00:07:31.680 she was bringing the kid like daily to the office. I was, it was a shocking to me. 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:41.120 Great kid. Catches him off guard or whatever but he seems to be pretty on top. I can't imagine 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:45.040 that happening you know. It's just not very well prepared for everything that comes. Imagine 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:49.440 everyone bringing their kid. I would love if we had some kind of daycare program here when enough 00:07:49.440 --> 00:07:54.400 people get kids. Heck even like a not homeschool but like a private teacher there's enough kids 00:07:54.400 --> 00:08:01.600 here. That'd be dope. On the car ride to or from somewhere is when we can actually talk about 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:06.720 whatever. So that's when you actually. It's interesting to notice how much more heavily these 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:12.720 other hosts are featured in this video. Like Taryn, Colton, the Channel Super Fun Guys are 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:17.040 getting way more screen time than the likes of me the first timer which totally makes sense. 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:24.000 The audience, the audience loves people they know right so that makes sense. 00:08:26.320 --> 00:08:31.200 This video is six years old and it already is using old footage and some of this old footage 00:08:31.200 --> 00:08:36.960 we still use. It's just not it's like the when you're smashing that keyboard it's crazy to see 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:44.160 how old that footage really is. There's intense meetings and there's deep statistical analysis. 00:08:44.160 --> 00:08:52.560 All this kind of stuff which doesn't make it feel as like fun. It's actually really refreshing to 00:08:52.560 --> 00:08:57.600 have a. Luke already talked about how the business has changed at this point when they have like 20 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:03.680 employees. I actually spoke to a past editor recently. He worked there like a year before me 00:09:03.680 --> 00:09:09.360 and he thought well I represent the echelon of employees. I represent the corporate era the 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:14.160 changing of this business from being a tight-knit group of youngsters to like a big corporate 00:09:14.160 --> 00:09:20.000 company. He's like employee like 12 or something like that. You have no idea. 00:09:20.880 --> 00:09:28.480 Bye. $60,000. I don't know. I mean he says he's not going to watch it. That's bulls***. 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:31.520 Everyone knows that Linus is going to watch this and then he's going to come around and be like 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:36.320 so um. I heard you think I say it's fine all the time when I'm mad. 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:42.720 I don't think Linus ever watched this still. He felt that a leader should ride a horse and 00:09:43.760 --> 00:09:49.840 I've never seen him on horseback so I guess if I were going to say one thing that Linus 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:54.880 could do to improve himself as a leader in my eyes is I'd like to see him on a horse more. 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:58.240 Just it would make me feel a lot more at ease. 00:10:06.880 --> 00:10:08.560 Man I was in here for like none of it. 00:10:13.680 --> 00:10:19.040 Was it weird for you that your first appearance was a video talking about what it's like to work? 00:10:19.680 --> 00:10:24.400 Was it weird for me at the time? Yeah like because I guess it's kind of a big thing right? 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:31.120 Or did you feel that way? I honestly can't remember how I felt so long ago. 00:10:33.280 --> 00:10:36.960 Trying to remember how I felt it was so long ago and you also have to remember tech quicky 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:42.880 didn't exist. Excuse me. You also have to remember TechLinked didn't exist and ShortCircuit didn't 00:10:42.880 --> 00:10:52.320 exist so your opportunities for being on camera were really as did we even do alternate hosts on 00:10:53.360 --> 00:10:56.160 tech quicky? At that time it was all Linus and occasionally John 00:10:58.640 --> 00:11:04.160 and Luke. Luke was the original kind of co-host. Luke by this time was already kind of stepping back 00:11:04.880 --> 00:11:15.200 from hosting. Channel Superfund was like a gateway. Did I peer on this on Channel Superfund? I wasn't 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:20.480 heavily used by Channel Superfund either and then Berkel left and there was kind of a hiatus there. 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:24.000 I was interested in producing and writing it but 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:31.520 but the hosts of that show have their own chemistry already so 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:37.360 really happy tech links came along. That's a that's a good fit for me and they're just movies 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:45.120 obviously that was that was my baby too. How did um so you hosting you being a host on TechLinked 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:51.120 how did that come around was that something you volunteered for just naturally happened that way? 00:11:52.640 --> 00:11:56.800 I don't remember how I got involved with TechLinked I think I was suited for it by then I 00:11:56.800 --> 00:12:03.600 probably had a lot more hosting experience with Wancho at least if not maybe I was doing tech 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:10.960 quicky. Don't remember. It's all a blur man. No you're good. It was crazy. You're good. I think 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:17.200 with tech I think with TechLinked we kind of knew that show already had an established multi 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:22.880 host format and it's a large volume of videos to do three per week and and I know rather to this 00:12:22.880 --> 00:12:27.920 day likes to switch it up so maybe he was advocating for other hosts to get in on that 00:12:29.040 --> 00:12:36.080 maybe it was my comedy affinities but I honestly don't remember it. I wonder if there's an email 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:42.400 where I'm or I like formally asked to be on TechLinked I'm not sure. I know you know you're 00:12:42.400 --> 00:12:46.560 you're currently a writing writing supervisor so that's a correct title. Head of writing. 00:12:46.560 --> 00:12:54.000 Head of writing. Jake's the writing supervisor. Do you think we'll ever see you writing another 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:59.600 LTT video like from scratch like your video? Will you ever see me write another LTT from scratch? 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:06.080 It could happen at a show like for example I traveled for the Nanosys tour and wrote that video 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:12.000 that was one of my later videos but that was before Labs and I was sent there because I was the 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:18.240 display person but it's something like that where I'm just the one there could it could happen 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:23.680 there actually was an ergonomic keyboard that we saw that Linus was like yeah you should write this 00:13:23.680 --> 00:13:31.120 I want to watch the James review this so it could happen but there's just so much stuff to do man 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:36.480 there's so much stuff to do even Jake is making too many videos there's just so much to manage 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:41.280 we need to just be managing yeah and every time we're we're doing out that other kind of front 00:13:41.280 --> 00:13:49.840 line stuff other stuff gets gets neglected that's fair that's fair to wrap things up what has been 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:57.120 your favorite part of working at OMG in all these years if you had to pick one thing this is a 00:13:57.120 --> 00:14:02.480 great place to work Linus is a great boss there's lots of great perks and benefits and compensation 00:14:02.560 --> 00:14:07.440 is good it's just a great business and it's an exciting place to work because we've been growing 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:14.160 and we're working on exciting things with exciting people it's just a good old job