WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.040 Riley, welcome to Reacting to your first appearance at LMG. 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:06.640 Thank you, happy to be here. 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:11.680 I know you see the screen in front of you and I've shortlisted some videos but 00:00:11.680 --> 00:00:21.520 did you remember your first appearance on LMG? My first appearance at LMG was in the TechLinked announcement video where Linus made everyone 00:00:21.520 --> 00:00:28.880 think I was living in a dumpster prior to that point which fun fact I wasn't but it was a good bit. 00:00:28.880 --> 00:00:35.440 That was a very Riley bit wouldn't you say? I think I made it a Riley bit. I think it was Linus' idea to put me in the dumpster 00:00:35.440 --> 00:00:41.440 but I was like that is a funny joke let's go with that. I came up with the idea that I would be like uh incomprehensible. 00:00:41.440 --> 00:00:46.400 I was just like I just want to do a quick bit. It was only funny to people who knew who I was already. 00:00:46.400 --> 00:00:51.440 To everyone else they're just like why? Why is this dude crawling out of a dumpster? 00:00:51.440 --> 00:00:59.440 But you knew Linus before LMG did you not? Yeah I worked with him at NCIX but by that point he had left as an employee and was working 00:00:59.440 --> 00:01:06.000 as a contractor but then I was the employee and my team was writing scripts for Linus to come in 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:12.720 and and host which is partially why the whole kind of heckling thing like the person from off 00:01:12.720 --> 00:01:17.120 camera like speaking when someone's hosting that's kind of where that came from because 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:20.960 he would be hosting stuff and then he would like call something out in the script that was 00:01:20.960 --> 00:01:25.040 inaccurate and then we'd respond and then they'd be back and forth and then he'd carry on with 00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:30.000 the script and then we just kind of kept doing that. You didn't ask but I gave it to you anyway. 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:33.360 Let's take a look at your first netlink to weekly. 00:01:33.360 --> 00:01:41.360 Oh geez. Let's see how much you remember. I told you to go and find this one but I regret it now before I've even clicked on it. 00:01:41.360 --> 00:01:50.640 This is a horrible idea. So for context this is episode 49 of the weekly show that Linus would make on NCIX 00:01:50.720 --> 00:01:56.000 Tech Tips. It would usually start out with him talking about sales going on at NCIX. 00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:01.040 After he talked about the sales and like the deals at NCIX that week then they would start 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:04.640 talking about news at some point but I guess he brings me in here at some. 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:08.000 Okay so I all right where should I play from I'll play from here. 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:12.160 Oh man this is you know this is what the YouTube audience craved back then. 00:02:13.440 --> 00:02:20.400 They just Linus felt the need to demonstrate that if you buy this monitor you get the 3D 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:25.520 vision goggles and he did this to show that that's what goggles look like. 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:31.520 When you put goggles on your face it looks as if you have frames around your your eyes. 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:36.640 So that's what he's doing there. Special correspondent agent keys. 00:02:40.160 --> 00:02:44.400 Over to you. Thank you Linus if you go into an NCIX store. 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:49.760 I'm very very thin but I think that the green screen key is also like 00:02:50.720 --> 00:02:56.160 that it was so strong that it's like subtracting another like half inch from my body on both sides. 00:02:56.160 --> 00:02:59.920 Back to you Linus. Oh wasn't even a green screen green screen. 00:02:59.920 --> 00:03:06.480 Well yeah so like that's why all of these old NCIX videos the back wall is blue 00:03:06.480 --> 00:03:09.760 because they're like we can use it for regular hosting and then if we need a blue screen we 00:03:09.760 --> 00:03:14.160 can use it for a blue screen but like we hardly ever used it as a blue screen. 00:03:14.160 --> 00:03:18.000 Wait tell us a little bit about why why why you're referred to as keys. 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:21.440 Okay so all right all right here's the whole context here. 00:03:21.440 --> 00:03:24.880 So I mean Linus has told the story about NCIX and how he started the channel or 00:03:24.880 --> 00:03:28.240 whatever million times but he was he was running NCIX tech tips. 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:35.040 Esther his sister-in-law was hired to I forget exactly what she did. 00:03:35.040 --> 00:03:38.400 I think she did social media some marketing stuff. 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:42.880 I think she did some other things I don't remember but anyways I went to high school at 00:03:42.880 --> 00:03:48.800 Esther so then I was hired on as an intern for Esther to also make video content 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:52.560 because Linus was moving to something else. At this point I'm an employee I believe. 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:58.880 What time is it what month is this July? Oh no I'm not even an employee at this point I'm still an unpaid intern. 00:03:58.880 --> 00:04:02.560 Oh boy at NCIX. I'm not sure if that was legal at that point. 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:05.600 I think it was but I'm not sure BC law. 00:04:05.600 --> 00:04:08.720 At some point they were like Linus is going to transition away from this 00:04:08.720 --> 00:04:14.560 and we need to bring in our own personalities to try and like keep the channel alive so this 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:20.880 was the way to introduce me to the NCIX tech tips audience as sort of a guest correspondent 00:04:20.880 --> 00:04:27.520 on netlink weekly. The reason I had the nickname keys is because Linus's crew at that time consisted of Linus, 00:04:27.520 --> 00:04:34.720 Luke who was known as slick because of his mineral oil PC I think and Edzel who was known as diesel. 00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:38.720 I'm not sure if anyone else was on board at this time. We had to have nicknames too. 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:45.200 It was decided by somebody at some point I don't know so I came up with keys because I play piano. 00:04:45.200 --> 00:04:54.720 So when did people stop calling you keys? Closer to the end of my run at NCIX tech tips I started just referring to myself as Riley and 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:59.520 having other people refer to me as Riley even though I think my lower third when I was hosting 00:04:59.520 --> 00:05:05.600 still said keys right up until the end. We started using real names at some point because we're kind of like we don't really 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:12.800 need the nicknames. I don't know. So you seem pretty confident in this netlink weekly like on camera. 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:17.920 I think I was confident there because I had an outline of things to say but now I'm going to 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:21.360 come in and join Linus and it is about to be super awkward. 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:25.840 These aren't even microphones. These are pens. This is awkward. So I said it's awkward. 00:05:25.840 --> 00:05:31.680 I even said it. We're holding Sharpie like this is a electronics retailer. 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:36.720 Like this is a real company and we're putting out videos that look so amateur. 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:43.760 It's insane. How did they pay us to do this? I mean I wasn't paid at this point so that explains that but Linus was paid. 00:05:43.760 --> 00:05:51.760 I mean maybe it wasn't amateur for the time right? Even today I feel like it's weird for companies to have like fully hosted YouTube videos with 00:05:51.760 --> 00:05:56.240 like personalities and whatever but like you know they do exist now. 00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:02.960 It was less common back then. Man they just like grabbed whoever wanted to make videos and just like threw them in there. 00:06:02.960 --> 00:06:06.240 It was very strange. Chromecast yes. 00:06:07.280 --> 00:06:10.640 There we go. Oh exciting. This is the news. 00:06:10.640 --> 00:06:15.600 The Chrome the first Chromecast was announced. Google it's $35. 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:21.200 $35 Chromecast. That gives everyone an indication of Riley's age. 00:06:21.200 --> 00:06:24.240 Full disclosure I am currently 34. 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:27.280 So 10 years ago in 2013 I was 24. 00:06:27.280 --> 00:06:30.480 This is a 24 year old Riley. Really kind of fantastic. 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:35.040 I mean they're they're... Look at that smile. You look so young like you're 18 or... 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:38.640 Would you say I look 24 now? No comment. 00:06:38.640 --> 00:06:41.040 Let's move on to um... Say it. 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:46.800 I feel like if I shaved all this I could pass as a little baby. 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:52.560 Take my word for it. See now you'll notice that I'm doing just a lot of smiling and closed mouth nodding and whatnot 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:57.760 because I don't have an outline to say. This is the first time that like Linus is a big figure in my mind. 00:06:57.760 --> 00:07:02.800 I know that he's you know the personality on this channel. I'm some schmo showing up. 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:06.400 I'm like what am I going to do? Like interrupt him? Talk over him? 00:07:06.400 --> 00:07:09.840 It's hard to have banter in that situation because this is really the first time I've done this. 00:07:09.840 --> 00:07:12.800 Like however even TVs that don't have a powered HDMI 00:07:13.520 --> 00:07:17.840 some of them do have a random USB port for power on the back of my mind does. 00:07:17.840 --> 00:07:23.360 Waiting for an opportunity. You can actually power it that way as well rather than just having a dedicated plug running into your power bar for this. 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:27.680 And also I don't have any idea most of what he's saying. 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:30.960 Like I was not a technical person. 00:07:30.960 --> 00:07:37.360 I feel like I was pretty technical among my friend group. I would kind of like you know hack my MacBook a little bit 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:40.640 to get Windows apps running on like a MacBook. 00:07:40.640 --> 00:07:46.080 I mean he's not saying that's that much of a technical like level type stuff here 00:07:46.080 --> 00:07:49.680 but he's just going. He has all this background knowledge and he can just talk 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:52.720 which he can still do remains one of his greatest strengths. 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:56.160 They found a piece of code in the source code for Android. 00:07:56.160 --> 00:08:02.880 They found a piece of phone. I made a mistake and now Linus is making fun of the fact that I stumbled over my words. 00:08:02.880 --> 00:08:07.760 This is the other thing to note about this is that there's no like editing in so far 00:08:07.760 --> 00:08:12.000 as we're showing visuals but they're not cutting anything. 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:15.360 Yeah this is uncut. It's it's live basically. 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:19.280 So like nowadays we would probably cut something like that. I think that's good enough. 00:08:19.280 --> 00:08:24.160 Yeah that's good. Let's move on to your first netlink daily. 00:08:24.960 --> 00:08:30.240 So do you want to give us some context about what this is? So that first video we were watching was in July 2013. 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:35.280 This is now September 11th and at this point I believe in August. 00:08:35.280 --> 00:08:38.800 I think at that point he was like I'm doing full-time Linus tech tips. 00:08:38.800 --> 00:08:42.080 At this point now I'm unemployed. They're paying me at this point. 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:47.760 I'm coming into work full-time and we started we decided to transition netlinked 00:08:47.760 --> 00:08:53.680 weekly into netlink daily instead of doing one video a week uncut one of these episodes 00:08:53.680 --> 00:08:58.400 every single day. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and we're only doing three stories. 00:08:58.400 --> 00:09:02.240 At that point I believe that there were some other shows that were doing something similar. 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:08.000 The Verge had there like the Verge in 90 seconds. Polygon had one I think that was like also 90 seconds. 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:12.240 There were some other like sort of like daily news shows and we're like let's do that. 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:17.120 So there's a minute 30 seconds this video. It's the very first oh this actually isn't the very first one. 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:21.520 Jack hosted the very first one. This is the second one of netlink daily. 00:09:21.520 --> 00:09:25.680 Hey guys welcome to netlink daily today tiny tiny pc. 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:32.000 The audio. This intro was made by Chris Lim. 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:35.200 Chris Lim aka NCIX Wheels. 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:41.200 Because he was into cars? I think so. Right. And then NCIX Jack his real name was just Jack. 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:44.320 He didn't I think he was like Jack is already a nickname so I don't know. 00:09:44.400 --> 00:09:48.400 That can fit in your hand. It's called the Bricks 2 about 4.5. 00:09:48.400 --> 00:09:53.120 The slide in. Is comparable to a g-force cheat. 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:57.120 And this is always the cheat. This is always the cheat when you are making a youtube video. 00:09:57.120 --> 00:10:02.240 You can make it look better by grabbing one of these you know product announcement videos 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:06.960 off of the official Intel channel and throw that on there. And now look at look at those cool graphics. 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:10.000 We didn't even give a credit or anything like we do today. 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:13.600 The vanilla version of the Bricks 2 comes with HDMI mini display. 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:20.080 To that same blue background. Yeah. That image isn't even fully aligned with the screen there was like a blue bar. 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:24.000 Yeah there's blue bars yeah. Think Chris was editing these. 00:10:24.640 --> 00:10:29.680 I think we switched off editing but I think at this point he was doing most of the editing. 00:10:29.680 --> 00:10:34.080 You'll have to get your own memory a 2.5 inch hard drive and an operating system. 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:37.920 Like why did I cut? It's so clearly amateur. 00:10:37.920 --> 00:10:41.360 Like I don't want to be too harsh on it obviously because it's like we it's just 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:45.760 still crazy to me that a company like a retailer paid us to do this. 00:10:45.760 --> 00:10:50.480 We had no idea what we were doing. I mean we sort of know we knew how to set up the camera and edit and whatnot but like 00:10:51.040 --> 00:10:56.480 I'll I want to ask you my hosting style like what do you think? 00:10:56.480 --> 00:11:02.160 Oh like I think there's much worse out there. You're charismatic on screen so it comes off like well. 00:11:02.160 --> 00:11:06.560 I think that the main thing I notice is that I'm just like moving my face less. 00:11:06.560 --> 00:11:14.000 Yes you're like stiff but your hands are very. You can get a Gigabyte bricks module with extra RAM and I'm like I'm keeping my face 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:17.840 like it's not really moving a lot instead of being like Gigabyte announced and brand new 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:21.760 PC that is going to change everything you know like I'm using all these expressions. 00:11:21.760 --> 00:11:27.200 Yeah. Hey we all have to start somewhere right? I watch these and I cringe but I'm like why am I cringing? 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:32.160 What is cringe? So this is your first official appearance. 00:11:33.040 --> 00:11:37.440 Love manual labor. We are all we need now. 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:41.360 Oh is someone who's got time to host it? 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:44.480 Yeah all we need now is a host so then he goes through the the 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:50.640 office asking various people if they want to host and then he gets to the dumpster outside. 00:11:50.640 --> 00:11:52.560 Yeah Riley is that you? 00:11:56.880 --> 00:12:01.680 Hallelujah! That's it how did he pitch this to you? 00:12:02.400 --> 00:12:03.520 How did he pitch this to you? 00:12:08.400 --> 00:12:12.640 It's not level it's not level it's not how did this happen? 00:12:12.640 --> 00:12:16.800 It wasn't doing this before. Is it doing this? I don't know if we weren't touching it. 00:12:16.800 --> 00:12:20.000 Well he didn't really pitch it to me per se. 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:23.680 We were having a meeting talking about how we're going to announce the channel and then we kind of 00:12:23.680 --> 00:12:29.360 like over the course of an hour or two or whatever we kind of came up with the concept of okay we're 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:33.360 going to say we're going to do a new channel where like we got to find a host and I think he 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:37.200 thought the dumpster thing was funny because NCIX went bankrupt. 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:42.080 And I left just before it went bankrupt because I took all their money with me. 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:52.400 I'm just kidding. In the intervening year and a year and a half I made a food show for a company that is now called 00:12:52.400 --> 00:12:59.360 Tattle but at that time was called Secret Informant and yeah they went around hosting this food show 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:06.720 which they asked me to do and I was like why not but I think Linus approached me after a while and 00:13:06.720 --> 00:13:10.960 was like do you want to come work here and I'm like I guess so. 00:13:11.920 --> 00:13:17.600 The way that he tells it he like he he subtly hinted many many times that I should come work 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:21.680 for him and I didn't get the hints so then I didn't I could have been working there earlier here 00:13:21.680 --> 00:13:30.000 earlier but I didn't I'm not smart like that. So then he was like okay you haven't been making tech videos and hardly anybody has seen this food 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:33.600 show so as far as they're concerned you have been living in a dumpster and I'm like fair enough 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:38.400 it's a funny bit although now I'm watching it it's awkward it's very very awkward 00:13:38.400 --> 00:13:42.720 maybe not so awkward maybe I'm being harsh on myself anyways that's the story oh here we go 00:13:43.520 --> 00:13:47.360 Central Park this might be offensive to you Arjun because you're from Australia 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:56.560 did I explain to you the Central Park Central Park? It's a New Zealand accent there's a Flight of the Concords episode where they get that Murray tells them 00:13:56.560 --> 00:14:01.280 Gochiko has a gig at Central Park and they're like Central Park and then they go to the gig 00:14:01.280 --> 00:14:04.800 it's not Central Park in New York they're like this isn't Central Park and he's like 00:14:04.800 --> 00:14:10.320 well it's I Central Park like it's Central it's a park that's centrally located and my friend and I 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:14.640 thought this was hilarious so we just started saying Central Park to each other constantly 00:14:14.640 --> 00:14:19.600 and then I was saying it on NCIX tech tips and it kind of like caught on as a meme a little bit 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:24.960 yeah let's take a look at your first ever TechLinked appearance I believe it was episode two 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:28.240 this was again the second episode of this because Linus hosted the first one 00:14:28.880 --> 00:14:34.480 and yeah I started out facing the opposite way I mean I guess people did people people were aware 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:42.160 of who I was because I'd been hosting at NCIX I hosted there from 2013 to 2017 wait 2017 oh yeah 00:14:42.160 --> 00:14:45.520 I did the food show for a year and a half but at this point I was actually only starting 00:14:45.520 --> 00:14:50.560 part-time at LMG I was working here Monday Wednesday Friday which is the days that we 00:14:50.560 --> 00:14:54.720 were doing TechLinked and on the Tuesday and Thursday I was going back and working for Secret 00:14:54.720 --> 00:15:04.160 to form it Central Park okay there it is it's funny I feel like I can really notice a difference 00:15:04.160 --> 00:15:11.520 in my hosting style between now and then but I imagine that other people probably can't unless 00:15:11.520 --> 00:15:17.040 they are I don't know paying attention to me as much as I pay attention to myself no I think 00:15:17.040 --> 00:15:24.160 there is like a different vibe to like today's tech link that you would host I can't pinpoint 00:15:24.160 --> 00:15:30.160 what that vibe is but it's definitely a different kind of Riley one thing I don't 00:15:30.160 --> 00:15:35.120 think we have music here what do you think doc I just want to know what the animal rights activists 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:44.000 are going to think of this because pay to flops I get it kill me um that's a joke we would make 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:50.240 today I guess um yeah there's no music I guess we added music at some point we did not have music on 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:54.560 netlink daily so that makes sense maybe we're just like it's literally just gonna be netlink 00:15:54.560 --> 00:16:00.240 daily although one thing that if you're you might have noticed in the first netlink daily episode 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:06.720 it's a minute 30 three stories only at some point we were like this kind of 90 second format is 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:11.840 getting a bit old we want to add some more meat to it so then we added five shorter stories that 00:16:12.400 --> 00:16:17.760 on my episodes I would call them quick bits on the episodes where my barrett or my barrett 00:16:17.760 --> 00:16:24.800 my brother barrett hosted because we hired on barrett to also write and host netlink daily at 00:16:24.800 --> 00:16:29.840 ncix he called them for shorter stories told more quickly than the others instead of quick bits he 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:34.960 would never call them quick bits julia called them snippy snippets we're getting deep here were you 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:41.040 nervous at all coming into TechLinked on one hand I was nervous because you know I was going from 00:16:41.040 --> 00:16:47.760 like doing this janky low production value videos although we got better by the end of it but 00:16:47.760 --> 00:16:54.080 you know amateur style videos for ncix the electronics retailer coming in here to the 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:58.880 you know Linus media group the company that's running multiple youtube channels professional 00:16:58.880 --> 00:17:03.360 lighting setups professional cameras you have people actually properly trained to do all these 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:09.600 things instead of like a one-stop shop by the end when jack and julia and barrett had all left ncix 00:17:09.600 --> 00:17:16.400 and it was just me by myself I was and at times before that as well I would I would write shoot 00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:23.520 host edit publish do the whole pipeline myself and then I was coming here and now you know a bunch 00:17:23.520 --> 00:17:27.440 of that stuff is taken care of by other people who know what they're doing better than I do so 00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:33.600 that was nice it was like an anxiety reliever in some sense but just the pressure of like knowing 00:17:33.600 --> 00:17:38.560 that I was going to be in front of a much larger audience yeah I was I was kind of stressed nervous 00:17:38.560 --> 00:17:46.320 but not too bad I guess how much do you think uh TechLinked has evolved today the core structure 00:17:46.320 --> 00:17:54.240 of netlinked is still very much the same we have three main stories five quick bits a mix of of 00:17:54.240 --> 00:18:01.120 informational details and uh jokes for the sake of entertainment there have been some subtleties 00:18:01.120 --> 00:18:06.480 introduced where like I put try to put some more meat in certain stories you know instead of just 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:10.240 kind of like reading the headline and making some jokes and like maybe a couple details or whatever 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:15.440 I'll try to like take a main story and then find other stories that are happening that are like 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:20.720 related to that story and then link them all together in a paragraph that also has jokes in it 00:18:20.720 --> 00:18:25.200 so that that has changed where it's like my instincts have got tried to I feel like I've veered 00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:31.520 towards trying to be a bit more journalistic than youtubery at the end of the day you know it is it 00:18:31.520 --> 00:18:36.080 is a quick and dirty youtube video that we're we're pumping out in a single day of production so 00:18:37.120 --> 00:18:42.320 yeah the the core spirit of the channel has as remained unchanged I'm being very serious 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:49.760 I just realized you want me to do some funny accents go ahead let's do it no let's do it let's do it 00:18:49.760 --> 00:18:55.760 no no what do you mean a joke I don't actually what I do other than my other than my non-descript 00:18:55.760 --> 00:19:01.280 European accent where it's like he's not from North America but he's from somewhere interesting 00:19:01.280 --> 00:19:08.240 give us one more no one more no what for float for float plate the only one I want to do 00:19:09.040 --> 00:19:15.760 is Australian no over and over again until I go back to the mother country I don't know what 00:19:15.760 --> 00:19:23.040 you guys call it there to Australia straya straya sorry we're watching a lot of bluey great show 00:19:24.320 --> 00:19:30.480 before you we just filmed uh reacting to the first time thing with uh Yvonne yes she was talking 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:36.240 about how she wouldn't mind uh hosting a tech link to game oh my gosh I would love to have Yvonne 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:44.480 host TechLinked anytime it's been hard to get other people hosting TechLinked as like operations 00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:49.920 of the company have expanded Yvonne has gone from like having a couple people under her in the 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:56.880 accounting team to like having many more people uh and same with me I have Jacob and Jessica are the 00:19:56.880 --> 00:20:04.720 writers on the news team who I manage so uh it's been harder to get other people hosting uh because 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:10.560 everyone is has has schedules that are much expanded from when you know the years ago what I've been 00:20:10.560 --> 00:20:17.520 meaning to do is like get some sort of like pre a pre scheduled uh schedule of hosts and if I do 00:20:17.520 --> 00:20:22.800 that then people are you generally available but I think that uh that's uh that's not me to get that 00:20:22.800 --> 00:20:27.600 together so I'm sorry Yvonne I'll give you advance notice come back please please come back 00:20:27.600 --> 00:20:32.880 anything for our fun people the lesson that I've learned from looking at my first appearances on 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:36.480 YouTube which I haven't really done in like a condensed form like this for quite some time 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:45.040 is that I don't think you can ever make stuff that you won't look back at and cringe to some degree 00:20:46.080 --> 00:20:51.920 years later if you are ever making videos or if you're ever in a public uh presentation sort of 00:20:51.920 --> 00:20:57.680 situation or even just for anything that you're working on don't worry too much about whether 00:20:57.680 --> 00:21:02.080 it's going to be cool or whether it's going to come across in a certain way just do your best 00:21:02.080 --> 00:21:09.840 put it out there and uh have a cringe party watching it later because you will cringe this 00:21:09.840 --> 00:21:15.760 isn't too bad but man those first videos who it's hard to watch it also has struck me that I've been 00:21:15.760 --> 00:21:24.960 doing this now for 10 years which is uh I'm gonna die soon cut