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Aputure's B7C lights are so cool.

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Their cinema grade LEDs produce extremely- God, we got some noise.

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Uh, okay, take it again from the top. Aputure's B7C lights are so cool.

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Their cinema grade LEDs produce extremely

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natural skin tones. Damn it.

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It's been like this ever since we moved to the temporary ShortCircuit set.

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Oh God, it was two years ago, wasn't it? We gotta do something about this.

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What are they doing up here?

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What the hell?

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Elijah!

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Elijah! Forget it.

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Guess we'll just have to wait till they're done. One minute.

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Which is perfect, because it gives us time to segue. To our sponsor.

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It really is true.

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There is no solution that's more permanent than a temporary solution.

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Which is why our ShortCircuit channel has been using this cramped temporary set in what used to be

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our logistics department for almost three years.

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It has some real challenges.

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It's right next to the main receiving door.

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Quiet on set! And it's directly underneath both the staff lounge

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and the tech link set, which as far as I can tell are populated by elephants!

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We've made it work. Still, ShortCircuit clearly needs a permanent home.

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And while I've been out of the office traveling, the team has been hard at work.

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They even tore down this very set while I was away.

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You know, I noticed there was an awful lot of green in here.

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And we're on the wrong floor. Can't sneak anything past you, boss.

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So let's go take a look at the new temporary home of ShortCircuit.

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Temporary? Yeah, well, I want it to last a long time.

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And, you know, there is no solution that's more permanent

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than a temporary solution. Wow, this is awesome!

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Why is it that LMG cannot resist building kitchens?

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Great question. And I'm glad you asked. It's not really related to your question, though.

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No, it's really not. Our team has done a ton of work,

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but we also need to give a big shout out to our friends at Aputure for supplying the amazing lighting package.

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We'll take a closer look at that in a couple minutes, though.

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It looks like we've actually kind of got three sets here, rather than just one.

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Three in one, even. You know, I wanted a more lived-in feeling space.

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You know, they're kind of like LTT has in their main sets in the studio.

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I wanted something with more variety in the backgrounds for a more, you know, natural living space.

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Also, it should be better for thumbnails than just like putting a big piece of styrofoam

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behind the host every time. Barely better.

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Why don't we take a look around? First up, we've got kind of a home office den kind of thing.

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Yeah, I think phase two will look a little different with this being a more living room kind of area

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with an office desk as well as a place for TVs and projectors.

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Cool. What are we going to call it? We've got to decide. People have been nagging me saying,

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what are we calling these sets? What are we calling these sets? And I say, Linus, he's a very particular man.

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I'm not the one who gets to name the sets. Oh, perfect. We'll name it Frank.

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If I was allowed to name the sets, we wouldn't have three sets called ShortCircuit set,

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and we wouldn't have two sets called apartment set,

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and we wouldn't have two sets called workshop. It's so confusing.

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So you don't like ShortCircuit apartment.

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Office. Whatever we end up calling it, this set's mainly going to be for the big items.

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Monitors, desks, full PCs, that kind of thing.

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In fact, this sick doom theme set up from Main Gear

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is going to be the first unboxing shot on this set,

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and it's over live on ShortCircuit right now. There's a couple of really cool little features

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that are going to help us keep it fresh over the probably years

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that we'll be using it if our current sets are anything to go by.

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This canvas is a really neat one. With this light, this Storm ADC up here,

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we can project basically anything we want on it,

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as long as it doesn't melt. You can see there's a little ShortCircuit logo on it right now,

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but I don't know. It's not doing anything. Turns out you're supposed to put those at the back.

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We'll figure it out. These are also cool.

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An IRL RGB ShortCircuit logo.

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Great woodworking. Oh, God, Rhys.

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Just because we're upgrading the sets doesn't mean we're completely changing the channel, though.

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Anything, I think we want to go a little bit more back to basics.

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ShortCircuit is supposed to be unboxings. It's not supposed to be over complicated.

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So the idea is that when the host and the camera operator walk on to set,

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everything is pretty much good to go.

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No tweaking the lights, no playing around with the camera angles. We just slate and go.

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So what's involved in that? No media, so FTP ingestion,

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as well as one operator for all three cameras with a clear view of what they all see.

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So I can make sure everything's going well and they can see everything going on all at once.

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We are looking at maybe upgrading that setup in the future, by the way,

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with an editor also being on set, doing a live cut straight to the server

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that would then get refined into the final cut. But I don't know if it's going to work out

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because I'm going to let you guys in on a little secret. That is a more than decade old idea for Linus Media Group,

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and every time we've tried it, it's just kind of crashed and burned.

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If you actually look back at this ancient power supply unboxing,

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pay close attention to the cuts because that was done live to tape

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exactly the way that you guys are coming up with here.

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I wish us luck with it, though. It really is super efficient in theory.

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Hey, we're on the second set, though. Why don't we talk about this one?

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This is the main set used for most items, anything that doesn't need a specialty set.

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And it's key feature. It's got to be the glow wall made by Justin and Jordan.

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It's got this frosted look. It is reminiscent of the TV on the old set.

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We also upgraded our top-down setup.

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So now we can drag our top-down across the various sets,

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using this little rail right here, and we throw our old Fujinon lens on it

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so we can zoom way, way closer in

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onto smaller items that are being unboxed. It's going to be a really nice little upgrade.

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Oh, not nearly as nice as the lighting, though.

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Behind our frosted glass panel doors

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are four of Aputure's Infinibars.

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So these are basically RGBWW lights

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that are connectable into pretty much any shape you want

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with more than a dozen connector and mounting options.

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We've got two two-foot ones and two four-foot ones

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that combined with this bounce here can give us any number of really cool-looking effects.

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And also, what a great little place to hide when I don't feel like doing work.

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Ah! It's even great for wardrobe changes.

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lttstore.com On the other sides of the set, we've got more lighting.

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In this case, NovaSoft panels. We've got a P300C and a P600C here.

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Each of these is adjustable from 2K to 10K for color temperature

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and they have full RGB lighting.

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This one is 600 watts and this one is 300 watts.

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It is worth noting that a new Nova2 line has come out

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while we've been working on this, which is even more better.

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It's brighter and has a few more bells and whistles, but realistically, we're not pushing these lights anywhere near their limits

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so we didn't really need them. Here's what they look like in action.

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Although they are getting a little bit of help. I mentioned the Storm ADC before.

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That's a point source light, but we actually have one of those on each of the sets

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acting as a hairlight. These support anywhere from 1.8K to 20,000K for color temperature

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and also support RGB and they output at 80 watts,

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making them actually great for running both on AC power

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as well as on battery as just a very convenient point source.

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And they're flicker-free unlike consumer LED bulbs.

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It matters a lot in production because if you start getting out-of-phase flickering from all your various lights on set,

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it's a nightmare. Oh, speaking of getting everything in phase,

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Belle's playing around with it right now, moving all the different sliders around,

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but this is our Cytus 4 and this thing is super cool.

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It's kind of like signal RGB for your computer system,

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but for sets, it allows you to take various ecosystems like DMX, CRMX,

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as well as even Bluetooth-managed lights

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and then sync them all up through this convenient app.

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Mwah. It deserves a kiss. And oh, it can even be battery-powered.

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So convenient. Oh, I guess we're on the third set.

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Want to tell us about it? This is the bar. We already have a kitchen, so...

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Yeah, are you telling me or asking me? Uh, both?

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There's also no sink, but don't look too closely. This is for our medium-sized item,

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so unboxing a PC or monitor starts here before moving to the office.

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Oh, we did borrow one thing from the kitchen set, though.

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Very cool idea. This desk, which is disguised as a kitchen island,

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was sent over by MotionGrey and is a sit-stand desk,

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which allows us to kind of unbox something small

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or, you know, spread out what we're doing and then go, oh, okay,

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but I want to be able to really manipulate this item and lift it up a little bit.

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Super convenient. And I can tell, we were way smarter about it than that other one.

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You can actually lower the desk all the way without breaking the side skirts.

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Hopefully. What else we got going on here?

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Well, let me tell you, we got a lot going on here, starting with the Hisense Canvas TV.

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We wanted a window, you know, some movement, some life, some beautiful here in this bar.

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Right, we wanted another idea stolen from LTT eight or nine years ago.

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Improved. The idea is that we'll have some window footage here

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that we've taken, or maybe you've submitted. Don't talk to yourself.

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We also have these nice statues provided by Teenage Engineering.

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Oh, yeah. We needed some set deck, they sent over some speakers,

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the mic. Oh, yeah, cool. These little guys?

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So cute. Yeah. Please tell me we didn't pay retail for them.

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Moving on. How much are these worth? Hold on, I'm going to guess.

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I'm going to guess. That's real wood. Yeah.

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Okay, hold on, hold on. Let me think, let me think. Okay, so Bluetooth speaker, that's got to be worth 20 bucks.

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Teenage Engineering, 200. Actual retail price?

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Oh, a little too low. Otherwise, just some fun set deck.

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We have doos and doos and kitchen clock, Ikea donuts.

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Did we actually go shopping for cookware?

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And these aren't cheap. Yes, they are. Yeah, they are, they are.

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But the piece de resistance, what, ties it all together?

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Whoa, whoa, that's a glass. We got to be careful. We got to be careful.

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We got to be careful in a little place. We paid a lot for those. Oh, what?

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That is the most expensive thing. What? Why?

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I said I needed it. What? When I got budget, Jakey gets what Jakey wants.

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How much should we spend on this?

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That's a countings problem. I know that this was a you initiative.

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Yes. A Peccari Sweat mini fridge. My girlfriend made it for me.

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Oh, so it's just a mini fridge with a Peccari Sweat sticker on it.

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Yes, and she made the sticker. And of course, we got to have Linus on set all the time.

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Tertiary Linus. If you want any more behind the scenes on the development of the set, by the way,

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LMG.GG slash Flow Plane. Alfred and Jordan sat down with Sammy to kind of talk through the process.

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According to Jordan, we missed something. Ah, okay, that's a lot less exciting than we made it seem, Jordan.

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He said there's a computer in the closet. I didn't say it was exciting.

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Well, okay, that's fair. Is this from Scrapyard Wars?

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Maybe. I think it is. This is from 2015.

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All it does is put footage of Windows on the TV.

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It doesn't have to be fancy. We talking about that picture or no? What's special about...

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Oh, oh, it's e-ink. That took me a second.

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This is the Inkjoy picture frame. It sure is.

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That's pretty cool. I made this.

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No, you didn't. She's right. Anything else we missed, Jordan?

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I think we're pretty good. I can think of something we missed. What's that?

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I've missed having an employee lounge. Where did it go?

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For now, a bunch of the pieces are in the corner where we shoved them to make room for the set.

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But the rest is apparently going to come down here where there used to be an item receiving desk,

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which is just simply not here anymore. And then we're also going to tear out the old ShortCircuit set,

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which, hey, we totally could have shot that intro on the set.

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Like it clearly hasn't actually been torn down yet. It's totally still here.

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Movie magic. Basically, it doesn't really matter what's here in the future,

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because the only production that an employee lounge or whatever else could possibly interfere with

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is the WAN Show, which is in this corner over here. And that only shoots once a week for three to five hours.

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So if we're being realistic, this will probably end up being a mixed use space,

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which leaves just one more thing. A big thank you to the build crew.

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More than 20 LMG staff worked on this in some capacity.

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And also a big thank you to our sponsor. If you guys enjoyed this video, go watch ShortCircuit.

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Their first videos on the new set should be up now.

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And I mean literally up. Like right there. Like right above me.