The Big Move - Meetup Day & Touring the New Office
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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3,698 words · ~18 min read
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all right it is what happened meet-up day
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so uh we did a straw poll trying to find out
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exactly how many people are gonna be here today
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and uh apparently like 500 people replied we were a little bit worried
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about that although we did get sort of more people than i
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was necessarily hoping for you guys are all awesome thank you for being here
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so for those of you who did not see the signs on the front of the building luke
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and i are doing tours at the new office over there this is the garage sale
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lineup and uh someone brought krispy kremes that's super awesome we have a
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keep on digging t-shirt for you yeah we're gonna we're gonna get the tour
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started the bay is going to be open in a second and thank you all for coming we'll be kind of coming out in and kind
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of hanging out and all that kind of stuff and uh yes sorry we wish we were more organized
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but you guys knew this coming into this i hope um oh yeah there's going to be a
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couple cool things today i'm gonna try and do one right away we're gonna be
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doing two live unboxings neither of which i know what is inside the box so
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one of them is a mystery item from Intel one of them is a mystery ultra wide
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heroes thing from lg and a special thank you to everyone who drove or flow to be
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here you guys are unbelievable the ones who walked
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whatever whatever okay so we're gonna go get tour started
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thanks guys
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6600k processors check the link in the video description to learn more
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that's going in i want some music
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wow there's more of you to be expected taryn do you want a name tag sure so so
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these people showed up for the tour and the garage sale has a lot bigger of
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a line all this feeling is just sitting here
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oh you're right can you sign my um thing sure what is it
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it's my computer this is the shortest line this is the
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shortest line with the smartest line this guy's cool
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lions i'm gonna film this tour so everyone can have the experience of a
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tour hello hey all right okay everyone come on in come on i apologize for the
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pink smell this uh gray was literally painted this morning um so yeah this
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this was done this morning this is kind of what we want people to see when they
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first walk in the rest of it kind of looks more normal come on in on the
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right are our storage closet and the Linus sanity closet the sanity closet
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contains anything Linus never ever wants to see
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so if you guys have ever seen our previous video tour you guys will know
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that our old office was not very organized and extraordinarily messy and
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there was like just way too much stuff everywhere
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i spent about three hours finding this do you want to know what's special about
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it it will fit high profile RAM
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extended atx motherboard wow
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this one does standard with RAM installed but it was like 60 bucks i was like well
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you're gonna be kidding me you know what the problem is it's a school supply item
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so they just expect it's a bunch of government funding these are the cards
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these are for anything that is being worked on right now
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so the solution to graphics card storage
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ended up being a shoe rack everyone's workstation is using an updesk so what's
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great about these is it's better for ergonomics like we couldn't afford this
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kind of stuff in the early days of last media group like straight up they have a
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smoother action finer control and they have presets so
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we we absolutely love these these are objects so yeah we also upgraded all of
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our chairs so everyone this was actually provided by max nomik and updesk these
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guys are awesome so they gave us one super comfy racing chair for everyone in
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the company so they're definitely cool dudes uh come on out into the warehouse
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guys this is gonna be the workshop so
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this will be anything like hey we're doing like a weird mod or we're building
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a pc or we're competing to see who can like mod the best pc they built to some
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variation of the screen wars pcs yes exactly scrap yard wars
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grab yard wars so we are going to actually equip it
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with actual tools um cover our pegboard get you know drill
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presses and stuff like that that's my idea by the way remember thank you taryn
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yes glad he's here i wanted to be able to work on actual stuff at work over
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here is going to be the lanchow so i believe these metal sheets are going to
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be part of the painstakingly crafted
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reclaimed wood backdrop here so these pallets were all hand disassembled with
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the nails hand removed by none other than justin who is here somewhere um
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they were slapped up onto the wall by our carpenter and this is going to be
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the lanchow from now on this is our new green screen
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so i don't know how many of you are like film guys or camera guys or anything
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like that but uh are any of you filmer camera guys i
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am so someone tell me what's important for
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getting a good key on a green screen yes
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yes it has to be flat both in terms of its
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flat myth and in terms of the finish of the surface so we're going to be using
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rosco green screen paint which actually
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manages the bounced light and scatters it in a very predictable way what else
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is important this is distance
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that's the big one yeah our old green screen setup was
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was about how much distance we had between the shooter and cameras in front
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of you mind you the subject and the screen very difficult to get the third
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important thing about a green screen even illumination so you want to light
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it evenly you want to have a flat surface and you want to have distance
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between your subject and the green screen because what happens
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yeah you're gonna get that view yes you know that that godly halo that i have
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around me in all of our fastest possible videos
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it's not on purpose it's we don't want that it's from the green light bouncing
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off of the screen onto the edges of me from behind
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so the way we'll be shooting on this is i'm going to be standing away the crap
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out here we're going to have a camera set up about at that rack next to harry
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potter's closet under the stairs we are going to be able to do full body height
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green screening because we have this fancy pants curve built into the bottom
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here that was my idea and we're going to paint the face as well thank you taryn
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um so we will be able to do anything with our fancy new green screen
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this will be the Linus technician and the reason it's so big is for a couple
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of reasons number one it is constructed of modular panels um it's just in a in a
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space like this who knows we might want to completely
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you know reconfigure what it looks like uh the other reason it's huge is because
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this gives us a few different looks depending on what kind of product it is
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so let's say it's a more consumer electronics product maybe i have like a
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couch and a tv in the background we shoot this way maybe it's something else and you this way whoa ideas so brandon
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has been begging for a way to uh cart
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around well this is an empty one so it's less of a good example but to cart
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around his c-stands which hold things like light reflectors and all that crap
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that he makes me spend way too much money on i mean what light diffusers
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wasted light is what i call it uh and this is the flag part this is
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funny we have two c-stand carts because our carpenter accidentally built two of
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these instead of one of those so now we have an extra we're still not
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sure if we're paying for it or not there you go uh this is
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brandon's special place
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yeah so he has been asking me for a dedicated place to shoot b-roll of
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products since he started two years ago um originally my solution was
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luke's workbench back in the garage days and then our second solution was
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uh room with like the shells in the wall and it just never limits there was no
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space this is big enough that we'll be able to take big items like computer
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cases or 3d printers and we'll be able to install a jib uh the filming guys
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probably know what that is but basically it's a big long ARM with a camera at the
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end of it you can be like
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simply like crazy shots with it so brandon actually has his new jib ordered
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it is here and he is ready to start playing around with it as soon as
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yeah yeah give them the box there you go check out the box all right
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uh okay so i'm actually gonna switch sides on you guys we're not quite done
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yet this is the super fun shelf so pretty much everything you've seen on
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Channel Super Fun is here there's also some just kind of sentimental value
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relics uh this keyboard reminds me of
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the time that i was more angry at brandon than any other time in the
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history of our wow almost three year relationship now
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i told him for this shoot i needed a metal reinforced keyboard i gave him
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weeks to come up with a solution the night before our shoot at about 8 p.m he
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brings me a spray painted keyboard i say
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where's the metal reinforcement you have the metal reinforcement right he goes no
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it's painted like metallic silver i go are you kidding me the script
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specifically calls it's been approved by the client it calls for a metal
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reinforced keyboard and we don't have one i gave you weeks weeks to do this so i
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went to princess auto i obtained i forget what it was i don't
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even know what this is and so i used my angle grinder to score
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it bent it and we had our metal reinforced keyboard but i don't remember where i'm
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going with the story there's some sentimental value stuff here so there's
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our Channel Super Fun 100 000 subscriber uh plaque from youtube we've actually
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got all three of the silver plaques here okay so this over here is gonna be
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Linus's special corner
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the one million subscriber plaque so they're really big it turns out i did
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not know that i don't know where youtube expects people to put these things on
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the wall yeah yeah on the wall that's i'm just going to show you we got we got
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a joker on the tour this time we got a smart guy ah yes we'll put it
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on the wall so yeah this is where i'm gonna work on stuff whenever it doesn't
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fit in my office which may happen from time to time so this is
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the server room uh so up here this is a forty thousand dollar piece of equipment
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from telus we don't pay for that it's just leased to us so that's for our
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dedicated fiber line uh this is our router for aforementioned
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fiber line although we're going to be upgrading this on
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sometime early next week these are our switches gigabit
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10 gig for all the editing workstations uh this is our surveillance server and
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dedicated switch for that ups for that
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this is our 24 bay SSD storage server
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for video editing it can do about 10 gigabytes per second of sequential reads
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and sequential rights okay so this is where
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legitimately pretty much all of the magic happens this is the editing den um
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so all these workstations are pretty much state of the art 4960x six core 32
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gigs of RAM except eddie especially gets 64 gigs for some reason we ended up
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actually using the capabilities of the titan x by accident so our new editing
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workflow has us converting everything to us a codec called cineform before
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editing so what that enables people to do is when they're scrubbing through the
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video editing timeline it's near instantaneous really cool it
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turns out that it's GPU accelerated so everyone's got more up desks everyone's
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got new peripherals everyone's got a microphone on their station now for
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doing things like you know goofy voice over while they're editing and stuff like that 4k monitors courtesy of lg
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can't say enough about these guys they actually provided 12 of them ah so the
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last thing is upstairs this is our old janky green screen this is what we've
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been using in the meantime while we set up that so basically we got evicted from
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our old place i don't know if any of you have been following on social media but that's how it went down we were
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operating a business out of a residential property and the city our
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township of langley booted us the crap out so we actually had to move into this
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place before our final inspection was done and before all the construction was
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done so behind the curtains um if you guys care this is what makes the whole
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place tick actually so this is where our sales team sits uh
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none of this happens without the the hard work and dedication of you know
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people who want to get on the phone with squarespace or dollar shave club or
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whoever else and make sure that all of
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this actually gets paid for all the salaries of the people who work very
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hard here get paid so this is where nick sits and this is actually our newest
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member of the team Colton something really cool happened
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quite some time ago a lot of people don't understand like
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how time-consuming and how expensive it is i'll come out there for this um how
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time-consuming and how expensive it is to make videos
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um well quality videos how time-consuming and expensive it is
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to start a team around you to make video
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so get a look at this but the important thing to notice on this graph is this is
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views per day okay so i'll show everyone is
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that there's a trend here this is your classic hockey stick actually this this
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so what happened was i hired nick light that day um it allowed me to spend my
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time making better videos it allowed me to work more closely with
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the video making team to help us grow
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the actual viewership and then that allowed me to not think
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about money so that's that's why
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we have so many sponsorship spots and why we do what we do it's not because i
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just want to you know sit and relax all day because there's a lot of one-man
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shows on youtube that that do great it's just because for me to do what i do best
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i need fewer distractions and i didn't want to think about money anymore so
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this is the conference room it's got bench seating so the table goes kind of
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here also taking storage
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come on guys you got to give me the reaction
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um okay my office is to the left and then that pretty much completes the tour
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right now it's full of random fuel stuff like i said this is all very temporary
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there's our main camera in there sony fs700 now i say cameras aren't expensive
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i meant in the context of running a business i didn't mean they're not expensive uh that puppy is worth about
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12 grand with all the accessories attached to it that's i think the single
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most expensive piece of equipment we've ever bought and was the first thing that
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i bought as a new company we it has been upgraded either through firmware or
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through third-party accessories to shoot 4k 60fps and it can do sustained 1080p
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slow-mo at 240 frames per second so that camera has actually grown in
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capability as we have grown as a company it's a huge workhorse i really enjoy
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that camera we we heart that camera so very much
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a lot of other things sony does not a big fan
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glad we invested in shining Linus endorsements
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something that the building inspector insisted that we have instead of a fire
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pole okay the good news about it is that if we were to slice off
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all of these guards we could probably repurpose it as a fire poles okay so i'm
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going to take my group through oh wow the tours are oh my goodness
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bananas okay i know the lineup for tours is bananas right now so as a consolation
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prize we are going to be doing a live unboxing here in the parking lot
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you're not used to being filmed are you actually when you're doing the filming
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lots of videos no yeah i've seen me in there yeah i've seen it i like your hair
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why thank you for watching my hair is pretty cool
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give me five minutes in five minutes i will return to this spot okay so guys
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let's just kind of be here it's hard being the boss
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all right
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what am i doing right now right unboxing yes
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almost everybody
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figuratively and literally because it's very sunny outside and as
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you can see we've emptied out quite a bit of our stuff and i am hot
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here did i write your big fight on there that
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dick butt nope that's not something i would do put it right next uh if you can
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drive well it should go ahead and i just use hashtag
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you got to put your faces in the top of the frame yeah like that see there you go yeah
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that's how you take pictures of people yeah and then take multiple pictures and
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that way you get the best that works cool dude
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thanks for coming man yeah i came from iowa really yeah holy crap nice shirt i
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have the same one um okay i need the actual item i'm unboxing oh sure
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what like i can barely even figure out how elena's plugged all these things in
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oh get out of here you know what's interesting about this
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i think that pretty much wraps it up if you guys are looking for something else to watch you're done doing all that
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stuff we've got a couple more moving vlogs that are pretty freaking awesome
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that's come out recently so you can check those out and until then i'll see
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you next time
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come on come on