17 videos is a lot of videos that's seven ltts awan show clips from the
previous week's win show three tech links three short circuits two tech
quickies and a carpool critics so last week we didn't shoot seven videos for
LTT we shot six yes and you said on friday that you're gonna come in on
monday which you don't normally do and shoot the seventh video but my kids are
on spring break no Linus isn't in on mondays he spends mondays with his kids
but we can still do some work here at the office to chip away at this number
so now if you want to go on vacation next week yes we need to shoot more than
seven ltds this week and it's already tuesday dear lord how am i gonna get a
personal rig update for luke this week the writers meeting didn't happen on
monday and we can't actually do it on tuesday morning because we have a guest
coming in for an LTT video which is luke yeah luke's build could take a while
depending on if like his case fits a radiator or not and stuff like that okay
and eo just gotta do a pick up for gold controller and then uh sponsored vizio
ShortCircuit not sure we'll do all those things today sarah secret shopper
build okay we haven't had writer's meeting yet and only after writer's medium i'm gonna know for sure that that
sarah secret shopper video can happen on wednesday oh my god the ultimate camper
van thing is that happening now he's gonna bring the van right outside and we
can just shoot here so it shouldn't be too bad how is water cooled ps5 still
might not make it oh my god because alex is not here maybe the water cool ps5 can
make it i don't know yet but alex is in delta today and tomorrow that gives him
thursday friday to water cool playstation 5. like he's not there all
day today tomorrow
so Intel home upgrade for david we could
possibly do on friday oh let's do that but they take like a whole day
it's only if we kick ass leading up to friday that we can have room for that
otherwise we'll have to do some shorter easier videos or something uh-huh can
you guys shoot videos while i'm gone it depends what they are they're all vlogs
that's harder for our people to do than for you to do so if we have scripted
stuff then like it's like 10 15 in the morning on tuesday i
already have a splitting headache well let's get you shooting luke's video
and then we will look at this in greater detail after the writer's meeting after
lunch and if i'm feeling bad i can always caress my gold controller
oh yeah hopefully Linus and luke are done shooting by
eleven let's just have a look here okay
well that can go right there easy peasy it is now one o'clock and
they're still shooting are we calling it good enough um i mean we can keep going but
it almost doesn't matter i still haven't had writer's meeting it's gonna be cool
regardless she's so foolish this is not a good start to the week
should i make sure this is doable before i set you at it um
i can see your screen yeah i see your screen your face is way low
sorry it's because i'm eating install webcam at dinner table at home please
only fans the writers meeting is where leads come in either from the writers
themselves or from the business team for sponsored projects we evaluate them and
then we assign each writer a project to work on for that week and it all gets
put into monday so that anyone in the organization can see it and follow along
as we finish going to people's sections feel free to
sign out and get back to work because i think we're a little tight this week i
mean this is work but like um
so who does not
have something they're turning in this week unlisted so far as Anthony and alex okay
Anthony's busy alex do you need an easy
one to bang out here uh i am also quite busy
the hardest part of working here is when something goes wrong and then you
suddenly just have to pull a video straight out of your butt is the
playstation happening it can or we can do the silicon shortage one either way i
need to turn in a video because we have seven uploads to do per
week so i guess do you want silicon shortage or do you want water cooled ps5
ps5 would be more Linus time most likely
let's just do a scripted voice over as much as we can cool jack free ultimate
campervan pollen is the jackery van shoot in the morning or afternoon let's
let's just book it for morning uh secret shopper sarah is really busy this week
it's possible that we could film part of it because it would be a pretty long
shoot the entire street requires uh the entire shoot doesn't require a line it's
just the first part of it to my understanding well she's gonna need some
kind of lifeline so as long as she has someone else then that'll work vlogs are
more difficult to edit than something that's scripted already it takes a
mental strain where you have to just go home and well i just watch youtube or
something and just zone out yeah we need to find a way to de-vlogify some of what
we're doing here because it is killing me scripts guys fully scripted videos i
think we're doing more scripted content these days i could be wrong am i wrong
like i i've been here for almost two years
now it feels like we're doing a lot like vlog compared to city hero okay jackery
ultimate so this is five seven eight theoretically but a lot of
these are question marks holy sh
okay so in the writers meeting we found out that jessie's a secret shopper video
with sarah maybe not able to finish this week because sarah won't have time
but i have a plan
sarah am i allowed to touch these yeah uh are
you free tomorrow morning to do that i am like first thing like 9 00 9 30.
and i've been told that you're super busy so you just want to do like maybe
part of it and then next week do another part of it yeah you basically won't
interact with Linus during the shoot at all sure although i don't think it's gonna save us this week unless you do
kind of finish the whole video tomorrow yeah which is probably just not going to
happen my plan sucks
so ed's not here today normally i don't need to directly talk to the shooters
that's i talk to ed ed talks to shooters but he's not here so let's go talk to
brandon ed and james have to figure out how everything's going to go together
and how it's going to get uploaded it's the one that has to like tell the editor
like hey you get to work late have fun and stuff like that
hey brandon hello are you aware of jesse's secret shopper shoot with sarah
so my question to you is where can we shoot this tomorrow morning
like 9 30 to lunch we're pretty short on set yes it's a
little bit crazy to do that that amount of like video in one day for example if
we're doing three blocks we only have like kitchen set and the build corner
most primarily for locks the two parts are different enough that they can use
two sets so it's not like you're gonna have to set one up one chunk there and
then another trunk somewhere else if we're setting those two sets up we don't
usually take it over for you know other
shoot we have the set left there until
we finish the video which is kind of awful we just you know fighting you know
to grab the set to use yeah and yeah no hot set kind of leave it set up kind of
deal i think we should put in the study nook okay and maybe we'll just reuse
that for plus video we'll see whatever we can with her that
day and then when lions need to see if he can cool all right cool
are thanks any individuals who are more demanding than others
if i had to pick the most demanding individual it would definitely be Linus
because he often skirts the system he'll just kind of run in and take whatever he
needs so it's wednesday morning and so far we've shot
one LTT wednesday is the day that lance has his weekly merch meetings which are
scheduled from 9 30 to 11 a good chunk of the day but today i got a message
from lana saying i'm going to be late i have an impromptu meeting with this
construction company at 9 30. that's going to push back the merch meeting and
he has a call at like 10 30 with the city
i don't know what we're gonna do man okay he's pulling in half an hour behind
schedule hopefully the merch meeting is satisfied
with that because we have if we have to do another meeting tomorrow then we'll really be screwed so uh back to the
um the mock-up then so basically it'll be like have gold printing on here it's
like there's like the the plushie from like jono had it's pretty bulky yeah
it's pretty bulky okay so it's quarter to noon and lions
is finally sitting down to do the first script review of the week script review
is what happens when the writer is finished writing a script but before we
shoot it they sit down with Linus and go through the whole script looking for
factual accuracy flow
is an exciting video does it have a good intro that's going to hook you guys all
that kind of stuff once it's done we switch the status of that uh item to
script reviewed and that triggers an action for our friend jeff to go in add
sponsors to the script and then when he's done that put it onto the
teleprompter so we can shoot
once the script is reviewed has sponsors on it and is on the teleprompter the
writer will come downstairs and work with the shooters to complete this the
ready to shoot checklist this thing exists because Linus was sick of coming
down to shoot and finding out they weren't actually ready for him we have a
process of how to set up aero there's no
big difference between setting up like for example LTT aero versus the
um techwiki aero that's pretty like
structuralized is that the world once that's done and
only then you can send a notification to Linus saying that the video is actually
ready to shoot and he or whatever host there is will come to the set and do the
talkie talkie
okay i just got a notification saying that the script review is done and liz
is out of the bathroom now so we can attack him so uh buddy how bad do you
want to eat lunch today i mean i'm pretty hungry you've lost your lunch
privileges all right fine
have your lunch i haven't seen this yet this is awesome now everybody knows LTT
is famous for its sponsor segways we don't always get to do the sponsor
read in the video naturally but when that happens we film them like this
210314 pre-roll key site
didn't i shoot this we call it sponsor pickups that's what lions is gonna do
right now it's an annoying thing that's in his schedule that doesn't help me
fulfill my goals this is gonna be interesting i have
never taught myself how to build a pc before MSI
looks good but it's also red and i don't want a red graphics card
how long did that take um
two hours an hour and a half worth of footage maybe like five ten minutes
cool second question um when will you have time to do the second segment next
week i have a lot of big projects that i'm working on right now so so
definitely not tomorrow morning yeah i don't know
okay
see you later all right
you're being very proactive it's like 9 30 Linus just got here and you're
already script reviewing that's exactly what we need to succeed today because we
need to shoot three videos today so colin
is there going to be time after this meeting between being ready to shoot is
going to be a little window of time there there will be a small window i will allow you okay i'm going to use
that time to have a meeting with Linus and then after that hopefully we can do
some script reviews alice wants the script to be this afternoon i actually don't know Anthony's readiness level yet
but ideally we can shoot all three of these today so that we have the full day tomorrow to do
david's Intel home upgrade okay can i actually script review now
bye-bye okay another thing to think about is how all
those videos we're gonna make in a week are distributed throughout that week
because we can't make 17 or 18 videos in one day so a gantt
chart is a good tool for that obviously there's videos that never move tech
linked is always monday wednesday friday but things like the ltts it's way better
to spread them out we can't really do more than two in a day reliably it's
actually a good thing to shoot a bunch of videos all at once like try to shoot
three or four videos in a day and then allow for Linus to like go do something
else it doesn't actually cause problems for the editing department because then
we just have a bunch of videos and they can be divvied out to individual people
this week i've got a stack of three on thursday even though we try to avoid
this a lot of the time a writer kind of starts a project on monday and is ready
to shoot it on thursday or friday so it's pretty typical to see a stack on
thursday it's actually preferable to have like a sort of a mound of videos
that you can just chip off and do one at a time uh selectively rather than having
them slowly come in one at a time and somebody has to do them because there's
nothing else to do i think this is manageable but um you
know if you can shoot two on monday the rest of the week is so much easier
so today Linus is doing a thing that he does once a week which is called float
plane lunch so here i have on the phone luke luke what is Floatplane lunch we
have a call usually around lunchtime we talk about Floatplane he's the ceo of
Floatplane but he doesn't really see the day-to-day interactions of how it works
if if he has any input he can throw it on us at that time throw in some last
minute changes which you just know developers love uh and just make sure
that he's abreast of what's actually going on at the company i know he likes
brass yeah perfect
all right bye
you're just getting poked into this there's a lot of clicks to end the meeting
all right it's 3 45. you're not in your office you did two script reviews yes
they're going to be quick shoes yes yes yes they don't have any like
vloggy bits uh there's a confetti cannon involved in alex's
i think we're pretty good okay okay and then colin's ready for you outside oh he
said that'll only take like 20 minutes okay so i think we could shoot three
before the day is done here what do you want to do with the rest of your day when you're done shooting at like um i
want to sit and wallow in a pool of anxiety can i join
you um before we had like management involved
it was it was just chaos um
our ability to communicate is so much better now back in the old days we just
used excel to track all our projects which was great when there was like
three of us but nobody knew what anybody was doing nobody knew what was finished
like oh no we need pickup shots on this video did anybody get them i don't know
do you know i don't know talk to this person they're out of the office but
with monday.com it doesn't matter if you're on your parents computer or
pulled over on the side of the road using your phone things have actually been going like pretty smoothly all
things considered like when something's kind of like gone bad it's been way less
bad everyone's updating their projects you know all in one place
we got three today so we got Anthony's seated a-roll
there's a couple little clean up items but they can shoot them without me so we
should be good to do david's extreme tech upgrade tomorrow what is your
confidence level going into that that you're gonna finish in any kind of reasonable time
how late do you think it's gonna be it can't be late because i have to go
see a house at six you have to drive at rush hour on a friday afternoon
from vancouver well uh the good news is david will not
be a camera operator this time he'll be actually helping me and david's
reasonably competent when it comes to like pcs so
oh seriously okay we only have to build two water
cooled pcs tomorrow wait they're both water cooled oh yeah are they aios no no
no no it's finally happening oh god
is there like a bunch of furniture for yours too no like this is this actually
like water cooling there's actually only one computer to build the other one's
already built we just have to add a radiator to the loop okay we got this all right hold on hold on i gotta do
and that was thursday folks
and camera rolling uh is tesco brony yes
yep we're in the home stretch now it's friday and as you know Linus is at
david's house in vancouver doing his Intel extreme home upgrade but we do
have a couple issues today the fact that the Intel home extreme upgrade is
happening for david who's a shooter means that we only have one shooter left
over because we only have andy brandon and david and then brandon is actually
off-site doing the b-roll for that van upgrade video they're out in the woods
like setting up solar panels and stuff so we don't have any shooters here that
are our normal shooters so not a lot is going to get shot here today
uh it's kind of a challenge so what are the writers doing instead well it's
friday which means it's WAN Show day and the hosts of the WAN Show don't just go
off the top of their heads they have notes in the wan doc so every friday at
about 10 a.m a notification comes up automatically from monday.com that says
hey it's swansgrum and that tells every writer to go and contribute one or two
stories and then i go and look over it and i reorder the stories from most
interesting the least interesting and then when the hosts get there at
hopefully 4 30 and not like an hour and a half late it's an easy smooth show but
i have a feeling it's going to be late today this is going to be tough i've got
five hours to fix this water cooling and build a completely separate water cooled
system the bar is going to be pretty low here okay so i haven't heard from Linus or
david or andy all day even though i messaged them it's currently 4 30 which
is when the ranch was supposed to start my guess is that they're scrambling to
finish and he hasn't even left vancouver so i'm gonna call him hopefully someone
over there answers
i'm still here i'm leaving soon okay
okay bye did you hear the despair in his voice
and so then the question becomes do we just push rancho to be super super late
or get someone else to co-host luanne show which alex actually volunteered to
do so he walked down here with his stuff and then he turned around and came back
and said apparently it's gonna be like a 7 30
three hours late wag show so we'll see if people want to watch that
hey how are you all doing ladies and gentlemen i hope you're having a
wonderful friday night or well it could be saturday morning by
this point we're a little late but i assure you it was for a very good reason
we had the one and only david gautier
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