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Let's leak some projects. Nick's going to get so mad. It's been so many years

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since we've done a formal tour of the Linus Tech TTips office and studio that

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I can't even really call it the Linus TechTips office and studio anymore.

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We've got so many channels and so much has changed that you're barely going to

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recognize this place. Even our access control doesn't work anymore. Look at

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this. Cuz we got a shiny new one from Ubiquiti. And this video is brought to

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you by Anker. They got us equipped with their Power Comp Bluetooth speakerphones

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as well as their C300 webcams so that we can remote work in style. With that

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said, most people are in the office today. So, let's go see them.

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Starting in the reception room, we get the first look at the

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renovation/makeover that has been mostly spearheaded by

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Ivonne and Janice, but also helped in no small part by Matias and the rest of the

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logistics team because they wouldn't have been able to make it over if it

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hadn't been significantly tidied up first. So, we got rid of our old logo

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and the textured checkerboard feature wall and replaced it with, well, an

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up-to-date logo for the company, which was wrong for a long time, as well as

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the thumbnails of our top 12 videos.

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Some of these, it makes a ton of sense that they're here. Some of them, I

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wasn't even sure if they were content, but for whatever reason, people watch it. We made some small changes to the

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kitchen. So, we've got kind of a graffiti aesthetic going on in the

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editing den down here that I think looks super cool in an edgy like 90s early

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2000s kind of way. And then our kitchen actually sees very little use because

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again, thanks co we're not allowed to have coffee machines. So, they're like

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taped over and stuff like that. Which brings us into Teran's office.

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No, but seriously, he doesn't actually get his own office forever. You can see

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that while we used to have the headphone wall and some decorations and couches

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and play buttons in here, now we've got four more desks for future editors once

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we can cram them in and once we actually need them. And this is intended to be

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kind of like a quieter editing room.

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Karen, can you just run us through how many keyboards do you have now?

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Well, there's three. Three, but okay. So, you don't count the Stream Decks as a keyboard even though

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they have like four. They have 32 keys each. Yeah,

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that's why we call him the macro king. Moving into the main editing den, which

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is now much larger than it used to be. WE'VE GOT WO, WHAT IS THIS? There's an

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office. We added a window to this thing so it wouldn't feel like a a dungeon.

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And then he goes and turns the light off almost literally all the time. Sup, Ed.

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Now that he is our formally like manager of the editors and not just like head

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editor or whatever, he needs an office so that he can like have meetings with

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people or whatever. You can't tell cuz a lot of them are work from home, but this

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is Mark. Oh, hi Mark. We've got probationary employee number four or

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whatever. There's so many new hires lately. This is Dennis's desk. Here's

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Hoffman. We've got Nicole over there. And finally, we've got probation

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employee number G. And then these are

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really cool. There's certain things that are better done in an editing booth.

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These aren't quite done, but the purpose of this room specifically is color

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grading. So, we're going to add bias lighting for the monitor, add blackout

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blinds for the door. We're going to come up with a better system for covering the

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sensor on this. So, you can basically darken this thing, have all the tools

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that you need for proper color grading for HDR, and we're going to start

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uploading at least our mainline Linus Tech Tips videos in HDR on YouTube,

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which is something that's really exciting. Next door, we have a second

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booth that's going to be all about that acoustic foam and all about that sound

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isolation. So, we've got some more foam that we're going to be loading up into

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the ceiling to help prevent sound from bleeding over the walls. We're going to

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add studio monitors because really that is supposed to be how you edit the sound

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for your videos. And we're going to equip this with all the equipment that

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we need for proper sound mixing. And at

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every one of these desks, we have freaking badass workstations. I

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handbuilt every single one of these myself. They are 24 core Threadripper

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processors with 128 gigs of RAM. Most of them have RTX3090s or Quadros with more

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than 24 gigs of VRAM. So, we can handle that stupid bug with the Ursa Mini 12K

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footage. And they've all got 25 GB

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networking so that editing on your timeline is as fast off of our server as

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it is if you just had the files locally on a high-speed drive. Oh, and of

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course, every one of these stations has two pairs of headphones. Why? Well, for

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in the non-COVID times, the writer sits next to the editor and reviews the video

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together. It's so collaborative. Also, the penguin needs one. Now, it's time to

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visit the workshop. Although, we call this the PC build corner now that we

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have a proper workshop. So, the main changes here are aesthetic. Matias

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redesigned it with new wraps on the countertops. Much better storage for

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tools, water cooling fittings, all the cables that we need for building

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computers and testing them, and this handy dandy rack so we don't constantly

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have to go bother them when we need a monitor for a test station or whatever

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the case may be. Also, here is the Techlink set. Uh, if you'll excuse me

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though, I have to host Techlink for a second. Thanks for watching Techlink.

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We'll see you again on Friday. All right, now you guys have my full and

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undivided attention. Over here is our green screen. This used to be used

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primarily for Techquickie, but actually now that we've moved Techquiki to more

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of like a seated sort of host type of style, we don't really use it that much

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other than to mount seamless paper, which we store on the back of the green

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screen wall, and then use colored lights to turn that into sort of whatever color

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backdrop we want. And then you dress that up with like a desk, a little bit

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of furniture, and you can create pretty much any look you want. Which brings us

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to the set you guys are probably most familiar with. This is the apartment,

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which has been renovated a couple of times, but not structurally. We've just

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done new paint, new decorations, that kind of thing. The main purpose of

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changing over from having just the old orange walls set to this more homey

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feeling one was that we wanted the videos to feel less like they're being

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shot in a studio and more like they're being shot in a home and in particular

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in a part of a home that is relevant to the type of product that we're talking

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about. They shoot everything from A-roll to B-roll to even audio pickups here

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because it's one of the areas of the building that has the best acoustics

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thanks to the open ceiling and of course acoustic foam that we have sprayed on

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the walls and rafters. Oh, this is something that's actually kind of uh new

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since our last tour. So, I kept giving Brandon a hard time about just moving

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the same damn lights over here and then

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over here and then back over here and back over here and back over here. And I

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was like, "Look, we need something that looks pretty decent, but just is one

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click to set up." And he's like, "How much you want to spend?" And we ended up

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with that. Of course, a big part of keeping the sets uncluttered is having

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somewhere to store your equipment. And we actually just very recently retoled

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this entire area. Here's our charger for

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our Titan tubes. These things are so much fun because they are RGB AF and you

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can set up all kinds of cool patterns on them and stuff. And because they're

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battery powered, it saves so much work

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in rigging. We used to have all of our cameras in a lock box, but now we're

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going to move to a system where they're all going to be in a cage here because

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it got to the point where it was just like half an hour at the end of the day

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and half an hour in the morning just rigging up and then unrigging these

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cameras and usually in exactly the same way. Yet another COVID thing is that we

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have to have a lot of distance between our camera guys at their desks. Now,

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they do more than just operate cameras. David, for example, is on the Carpool

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Critics podcast. Make sure you guys are subscribed to that if you're a movie

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buff or even if you're not and you just like David's beautiful face because it's

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also a video podcast on YouTube. And then that's Brandon's desk where

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occasionally he will do things like color work for some of our more

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complicated projects like say for example those recent car videos on the

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Chevy Volt and Tesla Model Y. And then over here, we have repurposed our old

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laptop charging cart, which we found was actually kind of inconvenient once we

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got down to it, into an all batteries charging cart. So, it's just an all-

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metal enclosure. So, in the event we have an unexpected fire or anything like

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that, it will all be contained within this metal cart. Yay. As part of our

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upgrade to 25 GB fiber optic networking, we didn't just upgrade the editing

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stations, we also upgraded our ingest

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stations. So nowadays with a combination of Red Meg readers as well as USB type-C

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SSDs like we use on the Ursa Mini 12Ks, we can actually do what like up to 500

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megabytes a second? 800 about 800 megabytes a second of each of

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these concurrently. Andy insisted I show you guys the tape wall. So this is where

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they keep gaff tape and stuff. Um and

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then here are their tools for rigging up and tearing down cameras. But I think

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it's actually more interesting to talk about this table. So some cameras get

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used the same way day in day out. Say for example for ShortCircuit, but other

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ones need to be reconfigured and very differently often. So you can see the

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battery has been set up to be kind of like a stock that you can support on

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your shoulder. The top here has this nice handy small rig rail thing so that

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you can attach it to an easy rig that comes over your head and supports most

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of the weight of the camera. You hold here where your record button is. You

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got your screen right in front of your face like this. And then you would actually put a follow focus on this rail

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right here. And you can use that to adjust both your focus and zoom on your

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lens. Following the fresh yellow lines on the floor, this is the no zone. So

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you're not allowed to store anything in these walking paths. We've got our

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forest of light stands and tripods, as well as our custom seaand holders that

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apparently we are finally getting rid of for a commercial solution. We've got our

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bin of light stands as well as our flags. This right here is the short

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circuit set. This has been under construction for a few weeks now and I

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think looks absolutely fantastic. Shooting ShortCircuit is supposed to be

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as simple as grab the product, grab the host, get the impressions at the table

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and you are done. This is the A cam that the host typically talks into. This is

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the Bcam which is actually operated by our camera operator who is monitoring

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all three cameras. And then this is our overhead camera. Every single one of

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them is already set up, already ready to go, and we don't even need to bring any

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media to the set and install it in the individual cameras. And they're all

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powered off the wall, so there's no batteries. It's just freaking ready to

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rock. ShortCircuit will also have its own kind of homey and unique-l

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lookinging space separate from Linus Tech Tips. Oh, hey, the director has

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taken his chair over there. Jonno does most of the ShortCircuit channel

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coordination in addition to his business duties. This won't be anything new for

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camera people, but for the rest of you, the follow focus that I alluded to

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before is basically a separate knob that controls a motor at the other end of a

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unit. So that's the way that one camera operator can just have all the focus and

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zoom dials in one spot. At least they will in the future. Right now we've only

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got the one hooked up and they can just kind of like monitor everything. It's

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pretty cool. Now we're heading into what I call the red light district. This is

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where we keep all our sexy costumes and props and all that kind of stuff.

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of it. And we've got Andy's desk. Poor Andy.

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I'm a problem. Yeah, co safe. He's got to be way over here. Don't worry, we'll get you over

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there with the other shooters soon enough. Behind the sets, where it just

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used to be a ton of clutter, we now have our DMX control modules for our RGB

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lighting. that's over in the bedroom set, as well as our giant diffusion

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flags and our ladder for getting up into the grid and stuff like that. It's way

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more organized. And we've got these nice motion sensing lights back here so you

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can actually see what the heck you're doing. Bringing us into the bedroom set,

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which is likely to be the resting place of our Mac channel that we're working

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on. I'm just going to hit this light so we can actually SEE WHAT WE'RE AH,

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basically it used to be a bed and kind

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of like a bedroom setup in here, which is why we call it the bedroom set, but

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all that's left of the bedroomness is a mattress in the corner. And we're just

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going to make it more of just like a homey cool hangout. A super cool thing

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about the bedroom set is that you can actually close it in so that you can

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shoot in any of the four directions in here. There we go. And not have any

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doorways in the way. Well, except this one anyway. This is our super tidy thank

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you Jake networking setup for the set. So all of the ports thanks to this

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microtick switch are 10 GB. So even if

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we're doing something really more testbenchy and less shooty on set, we

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can get full speed networking and benchmark to our heart's content.

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Left or right? Left. Okay. Now we're in what used to be

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one of the only office spaces in this building, but it has been significantly

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redecorated. So what used to be the writing den out here is now the

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accounting department. We got special agent Janice, who was of course

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responsible for a lot of what we did except this. Janice was not responsible

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for that network port over there not working and us needing to hook up to

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this one. And this used to be my office. It is now Ivonne's office and she shares

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it with two more members of the accounting department. Can we all take a

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moment to appreciate, by the way, how hilarious the name of the accounting

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department is? Accounting corridors. Get it? Cuz they're accounting corridors.

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And this is our boardroom. We have significantly remodeled this thing.

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We've kept the original table and built-in bench. But now when we're

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having meetings, we get to look at that wall and be inspired. and look at this

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one and also be inspired. All of our chairs grew legs when we hired a bunch

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of new people, so there's actually no chairs in here, but we recently added

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the Anker Power Confest 3, which they sent over as part of the sponsorship for

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this video. It's got a really nice clear sounding speaker that everyone in the

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room can hear, and more importantly, it's got six microphones built in, so

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you can actually see them all around it so that the person at the other end of

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the call can hear everyone in the room clearly. It is a huge benefit. And

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because we've got uh there it is, this handy dandy USB equipped power thing

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there. We just leave it right there. We have a really short USB that we plug in

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when it needs to be charged and we're good to go. Coming out of the conference

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room, we've got Clarence, who I think has probably the second most badass

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workstation in the building. Look at this. He even went to the lengths of

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putting gaff tape in between the monitors so that he wouldn't get, you

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know, little slits of light distracting him from his Excel superpowers. Um, this

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is inconvenient. I was going to say that Nick's office is no longer Nick's

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office, but now Nick is sitting in it because he wants to confuse everybody. I

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guess this is now a call/meating room. And for some reason, Nick is talking to

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someone who doesn't work here anymore. So, that's a little that's a little

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strange. Yeah, it's an awkward way to find out. Colton, sorry about that. But,

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uh, okay. See you later, buddy. Nick has now moved over to Creator Warehouse, and

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we will go there, but not yet. First, I'd like to show you guys Colton's

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office. Colton's work from home because it's an awful long drive for him and

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also I think about a third of the space in his office is now storage. We took

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away the business team shelves. Hopefully they will uh turn them over a

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little bit faster. Coming out of Colton's office, we've got the team that

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he pretty much exclusively manages now. We saw Jonno downstairs. Chase, I don't

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know what Chase is doing today, but he does event coordination for us. And then

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we've got probationary employee number six or whatever it is we're on here as

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well as Jeff and Matt. So Jeff's in sales and then Matt does procurement.

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And if you guys aren't disoriented yet, you will be now. This is the stairwell

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down to the main entrance that used to only go one way but now goes two ways.

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the lounge upstairs, and it has been completely remodeled. We now have more

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than enough room for our ping pong table, more than enough room for our

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games table once we're finally able to do staff events after hours. We've got

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our Dbrand provided current generation consoles. Thank you

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very much for that, Dbrand. and our sick Klitchch/LG

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OLED home theater setup that's not really a home theater I guess cuz it's

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more like a work theater. We're actually going to be upgrading this soon with an

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incredible Sony laser projector. So stay tuned for

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that video. You are going to want to be subscribed. All the computers have been

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moved upstairs now as well. So we're almost ready to get some sick Worms

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Armageddon action going. And check this

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out. The logo has returned, but now with

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its very own feature wall. Not only does it still have RGB. Oh yeah. But this

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thing looks absolutely incredible as an absolute work of art. So, Special Agent

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Janice and Ivonne mixed their own blue

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and bluey green paint colors. Did the entire wall with this sick pattern that

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we all thought was great already. Then they covered the whole thing in masking

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tape, painted it black, and then ripped it off. So, we have this like sick

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circuit boardy style pattern to go along with our illuminated logo. On the

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subject of painstakingly difficult projects, uh, this one wall is

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responsible for how many hours of work fun? Oh, that's

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And then we ruined the whole thing with a comic sandslttore.com at the top.

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Perfect. And lucky creator warehouse. They get to be right next to the lounge and this

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basketball hoop. Sarah, hey, thanks. We don't have a basketball. We lost it. But

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we do have these Linus plushies that are soon to be available on ltstore.com.

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Wow, that was really terrible. Anyway, the point is this is where our engineer

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Kyle sits. We've actually got two more engineers that are starting so we can

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work on all kinds of projects that involve injection molding, PCB design,

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all that kind of stuff for ltttore.com. In the middle, we've got customer

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service, as well as Bridget and Hannah,

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our fashion designer, and uh I guess

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pattern maker would be probably the best way to describe Hannah's job. So, for

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that reason, a lot of the new projects like Wan Hoodie V2, which is finally

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coming soon, are going to be up. Oh, you know what? Let's leak some projects.

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Nick's going to get so mad. Where's the uh WAN V2? Okay. Oh, here's the original

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one. So, it's the original WAN hoodie. See, we still have some brand new ones,

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actually. And uh that's not Nick coming

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over, is it? I don't want to get in trouble. The best way to not get in

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trouble is to have him not see me doing things that get me in trouble. So, this

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is new hoodie. Still got like all the like waterproof pockets and stuff.

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There's matching sweatpants. Oh, yeah. Sarah, do you recall how much

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this stupid fit mannequin cost? Way too much. Yeah, it's like hundreds of dollars. And

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and according to Bridget and Hannah, this isn't even like one of the really good ones. So, see if he's wearing

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the future. The one and only Sarah Butt with her army of dinosaurs protecting

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her workspace from intruders. It's excellent, Sarah. And then this is

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Lloyd's desk where he has made his own sunlight blocking thing to protect his

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screen. and Sarah's eyes or whatever from the sun. You know, we put them in

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the one part of the office that has natural light. The one freaking part of

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the office that has natural light. They complain. Shall we make our way down into the hole? Logistics here does so

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much more than just a typical warehouse

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type of role. Like for example, they still do have to receive inventory,

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which sometimes is small and easy to deal with, and other times is extremely

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large and on the back of a truck and fragile. But in addition to that, they

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also have to do things like diagnose sometimes, you know, very arcane pieces

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of hardware or stuff that they might not have a ton of familiarity with, like say

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for example, this maybe sort of not

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working, you know, boom ARM for a microphone. They've got to do all of it

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while looking extremely pretty, which is a challenge in a department like this

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because there's so much hardware coming in and out of this place that it can be

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difficult to keep it all organized. There's Matias right there. I got to

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keep my 2 meters from him cuz I'm not wearing my mask. And then we've got Nicholas as well as Serge who is hiding

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over by the jackets cuz he's so shy. Go get Serge, Andy. See Serge, this went

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from zero to absolute freaking hero.

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Look at this. This might as well be an electronic store. We've got our cooling.

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We've got our water cooling. We've got our motherboards. They are sorted by

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chipset. We have magnetic labels so we can move them around. We got our power

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supplies. All right, ladies and gentlemen, they're sorted by wattage.

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Freaking love it. The point of this is that when we have multiple projects on

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the go, which happens often, I will show you that area soon. It's nice if

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multiple people can have a 2080 Super or whatever it is that they Look, even we

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like we don't have a huge surplus of 3000 series. These are 3090s, but these

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are actually for our editing stations when we water cool them in the very near

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future. This is the old CPU/

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RAM storage rack. Yeah. And of course, now that M.2 is a thing, we've got our

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SSDs here as well. This is probably the sickest shelf in the entire office. if

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you guys are into like I don't know computers or whatever.

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Down here is our podcast/live

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streaming setup. And why is it here? Because this is going to be the new set

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for ideally both Carpool Critics and the

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WAN Show. That is once we've put in some

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acoustic panels and some big thick carpet and stuff like that. This is

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something I'm pretty proud of. This is the graveyard system. So, it used to be

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that if we had a case that went back without some accessory and then we found

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a spare accessory, but we didn't know what case it went with, the accessory

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got thrown away, and then the case didn't have it the next time we opened it, and then it was useless. But now,

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we've got graveyards. So, if you find a thing that you know looks important, but

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you're not sure what it goes with, you just put it in one of the graveyards,

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and then hopefully they will become reunited with the thing that they came

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from, and everything will be hunky dory.

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Left or right? Left. Okay.

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Now, let's see what would have happened if we had turned right instead of left.

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Haha, I get it. We would have ended up in the writer's block.

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Get it? Get it?

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Over here, we've got Madison, our social media coordinator, with her excellent

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goggly eyes on the back of her chair. And then over on this side, you're going

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to find a lot of familiar faces. The one and only Jake, who set up that ubiquity

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access control along with our new security cameras, along with my videos, along with my

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network infrastructure. You guys know what you've done. Don't worry about the Minecraft Discord server on the side.

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James, who has actually, I think, been promoted since the last time I like

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formally did a tour and talked about people. So, he is my my right hand, you

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know, and I'm right-handed, so that's a good thing. So, he helps me manage the

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rest of the writing team as well as continuing to produce videos on his own.

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He also does a lot of the hosting these days on Techlink, Techquiki. Um, we've

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got the one and only Riley. See, I'll

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take the place of Riley today. This is Riley's desk. He writes Techlink, as you

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guys probably know. the one and only the legendary Anthony who has been of course

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writing LT um helping out with the Mac guys uh

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providing technical support for the technical support and then he's been

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doing quite a bit of Linus tech tips hosting lately. Massive high five to

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Anthony. Good job. Thank you. Now we're not actually allowed to touch. Uh over

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here we've got someone on probation so you can't see them. And then now we're

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in sort of like the NG corner. So Colin's desk is right here. He's off

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today. And then Alex's two desks. Oh,

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you put this here for this, didn't you? Oh, yeah. I know you did. This is our absolute

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one-of-a-kind 10 million subscriber diamond play

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button RGB lit gaming PC. I'm calling it

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a GL gaming PC. We've got these cool little shelves and like wall mount

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things where we can put all the different knickknacks we need like little compressed air thingabooers for

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cleaning stuff out, alcohol for cleaning off CPUs, I fix it kits, all those

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little materials that we need so we can keep our workspaces a little tidier.

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These are the scripts of some of our top videos including all the little

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annotations that we do to help the editor with their visualizations. So

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that's kind of one of the collaborative things that the writers and the editors

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work together on. This has been where we've hosted the podcast, the Carpal

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Critics podcast, but soon it won't be. This is going to be the call/meating

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room for the writing team once all of this podcast crap is out of here. And

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then this is my office. Colin is still working on my upgraded desk PC. So

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hopefully I'll have a video on that for you guys soon. So this is still the OG

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one. And of course, this is actually a perfect opportunity to show off my Anker

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C300 webcams. They do 1080p 60fps with a

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115 degree field of view. Not necessary

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for me since I end up sitting so far from my webcam. But what does help when

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I'm so far from my webcam is the microphone is excellent. I get

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absolutely no complaints whatsoever about my audio quality. And I really

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like that they use a USB type-C connection because if I do want to take it with me on the go, you can just kind

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of fold it up, grab your cable, and you

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don't have to worry about like which way it goes in when you're hooking it up to your laptop. This is my workbench where

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I've got a UPS just in case the power goes out while I'm flashing a BIOS or

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whatever the case may be. Everyone has UPS's on their workstations and on their

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test benches. I cannot overstate the importance of a good UPS. This is where

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I put all my awards like uh you know. Oh, do I have any that I lost here? No.

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No. Here's one though. I'm going to put this up in it in place of honor here

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next to my uh my dead Threadripper. There you go. 404. Success not found.

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Scrapyard War 7. Here are the chairs people sit in when I'm having meetings

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with them. Oh, if you guys haven't seen this video, by the way, make sure you go

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watch it. My chair is pretty special. It's actually got uh sub ambient chilled

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water cooling built into it for those hot days. Oh, these are the LTT sticker

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packs that you get with current orders on ltstore.com. And I guess that's

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pretty much it for this room. It does have some cool decor that Ivonne and

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Janice worked on, but it wasn't part of this makeover, like my Apple clock and

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my Apple themed corkboard that the adhesive kind of came off a little bit.

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Minor minor issues. Just outside my office, we've got the writing team for

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the upcoming Mac channel as well as another on probation LT writer. All of

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them have these same anchor webcams. Uh the reason for that is we have to

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conduct all of our meetings over like Microsoft Teams now because thank you co

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but hey at least it helps to have nice fast autofocus. That's another one of

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the sort of key points about these. Bringing us finally to the workshop

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which doesn't have an inside doorway into the rest of the office because it's

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a concrete supporting wall for the building that we're in. This place is

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basically unrecognizable from the last time I showed it to you guys. It used to

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just be that bathroom boxed in and then

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an open freaking empty concrete warehouse. And I got to say, they have

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done a pretty bang up job of it. We've

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got our vertical and horizontal belt sanders. I had only ever seen this. And

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now that I've seen this, it absolutely changed my life. Got our bench grinder.

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Got our sand blaster that I think we It is pristine in here. We've yet to

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actually use this one. I use it once. Did you use it once? All right. We've

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got a way better band saw than we used to have. Drill press. All the fittings

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that we could want. Well, I could still want more fittings, but that's a lot of

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fittings. Pretty much all the tools we could want. This is going to be a paint

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booth at some point in the future. Oh, wow. They've actually made progress on

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this since the last time I looked at it. So, the idea is that it's supposed to

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suck air in through these filters and

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then that's an air replacement from outside so that we don't end up with

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negative pressure in here. This is Kyle

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who has a toaster oven. So, that's our

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workstation for like soldering or electronics work. Here's our Speedy 400

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Flex uh laser. Let's call it a cutter. We use it for engraving, too, though.

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These are the discs for the reservoir for my new desk PC that Colin is working

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on. In fact,

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ow. After I made fun of Ivonne so much for dropping her phone on her face and

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cutting her face, here's our sink/ eyewash station that

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cost an absolute fortune to get installed. We had to cut out and like

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dig into the foundation of the building in order to get the plumbing over here.

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Ivonne made it work. Thank you, Ivonne. Here's our lathe that I have now been

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informed sucks. And we're getting a better one. We're getting like a CNC one

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now or something like that. Here's where we put all of our devices that need to

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be charged like our, you know, impact and heat gun and all that kind of stuff.

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The uh mill is definitely going. This is getting replaced by one from

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Tormach. Tormach. That's right. That thing is going to be

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tool changing sick. You can actually have the machine automatically change

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out those bits for you in the middle of the job. So you don't have to be constantly watching over it and like

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hand changing things which is pretty sick. And then of course there's our CNC

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router which we've had to use for both router and mill duty all this time but

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now we'll be just pulling router duty so we won't have to cut out stuff like this

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on it and we can more use it for like you know plexi and wood and that sort of

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thing. If you want to find the details for any of these tools, we'll have some

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of the key ones like the Speedy 400 Flex, which you can learn more about at

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the link in the video description. Also linked in the video description, we will

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have Anker, who is featuring their power comp as well as their C300 webcam. And

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thank you to them for sponsoring this video. I hope I managed to hit where the

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cut is on my eyebrow. You did and I hope you guys enjoyed this tour of

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the Lionus Tech Tips, well, Linus Media Group studio. I haven't even talked

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about some of the really cool stuff like that uh compressor outside means we have

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compressed air like everywhere in this room like all the hookups and

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Everything.