Extreme Tech Office Makeover - LMG Decorates Linus' Office Pt. 1
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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2,385 words · ~11 min read
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Everyone's done a pretty good job of making their own office their unique
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style and fancing it up a little bit. We've got Lionus, the head of it all,
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who has not done a single thing with his office. Since Lionus is kind of an old
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dude with lots of new ideas, we thought we'd take some old hardware and bring
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some new ideas to life. So, with the help of Corsair and FreeGeek, we've got
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ourselves a bunch of old computer hardware pieces that we're going to try
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and shape into beautiful art on his walls. So, come along for the ride.
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Let's see. And there's nothing on the walls. Oh god. Oh god. They're not coming out.
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Is that what it's supposed to look like? This looks terrible. Whose idea was
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this?
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Hey Lionus, you can't use your octis anymore. You just told me that.
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Hey, Lance, you can't use your office anymore. I'm not doing an alternate take of this.
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You have to use that one.
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What? No, I'm not saying anything. Camera's rolling.
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I don't understand. I don't film stuff. Can you just like spell it out, please?
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Okay. So, apparently this is why we don't reenact things cuz it doesn't
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work. That's a lie. We do that all the time.
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Well, L just told me to say that. So,
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there we go. Anyway, the reason he can't use his office this morning is because
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we're actually having it painted. Um,
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so she's helping us out. I'm sorry. I totally agree. Your name.
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Kaylin. Kayyn. Right. Thank you. Um, and she's
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painting it orange. So, these two walls are going to be orange to match that one. And then we're just going to have
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the one white wall here that we're going to use for the motherboards. And
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hopefully when Jake gets in today, we'll get started. So, what I'm going to do is
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I'm going to mask the window and the door so that lightest can't see in to
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see what we're doing anymore.
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It is really orange. Color was it before? Is it wet?
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Yeah. Don't touch it. Okay. So, what are we doing? Where all
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the motherboards going here? This whole wall.
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And then where is the logo going? Are we still doing that?
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I think up there we're going with above the Windows. And we're making that out
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of RAM. Yeah. White and black. What?
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Okay. And then what other stuff? There's like so much stuff. Oh, it's just more
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motherboards. I thought this was just other stuff.
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But it's just more motherboards. There's lots of projects. We got lots of CDs. There's like an aquarium. We're
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having shrimp people. What? Shrimp
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in the aquarium? Yeah. Like real shrimp?
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Yeah, real shrimp. All right.
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What happened here? Well, you'll be pleased to know the tank
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passed the leak test. Unfortunately,
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water still got everywhere because that thing can hold way more than I thought
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it could. So, cleaning up the kitchen.
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I say without your ongoing support, it would have been a lot. So, here's what we have. We have these
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fabulously fancy little miniature shrimp
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with some uh with some I guess that's moss or something. Uh got those. We've
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got some moss balls for them to play in.
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Some some fuzzy green balls. I don't know how much you guys like those. This one looks like mech from that old
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Nickelodeon show. So, we've got that shrimp food. Neutrofin cycle biological
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aquarium supplement. Hey, so just so you guys know, I wasn't hired to be an on
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camera personality. Just keep that in mind when leaving comments. Thanks.
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I accidentally filled the picture with hot water, but fortunately, I caught
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myself since we don't want to have a Louisiana shrimp boil. We actually want
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these guys to live. So, cold water. My god. Um Oh my gosh. Oh my god. Okay. Um,
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we've got the pump turned on and we've got some pretty sick bubbling action.
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It's like a jacuzzi for these shrimp. It's going to be fantastic. So, there
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you have it. Let's see. Okay.
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Um, maybe don't give them a seizure their first night anyway. Oh god, that's not mood lighting. That's
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the opposite of mood lighting. Oh my god.
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Why is it not? Okay, hold on. Wait. um mode. Moment of
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truth. You do not want to spill the shrimp.
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Okay. Oh, there's two bags there. Yeah, there's an outer bag and
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there's an inner bag. So,
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Oh god. Oh god, they're not coming out. Oh god. Wait.
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Go in. I really don't want to suffocate them. So, like I'm just kind of putting
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the bag inside. That's probably much better than having
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them be out of the water for too long. Just trying to get cuz the Yeah, there
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we go. Yeah, they were caught in the um in the algae.
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I think you still have you still have one in there. I don't think so, but we'll check right
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now. Okay, so our shrimp aquarium is
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basically complete. Um the shrimp, they're all kind of clustered in one
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corner. They're kind of trolling around the bottom because I guess that's what shrimp do. Um, they've got some food
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sticks down there, so they should be fine for a while. Uh, so yeah, that
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pretty much does it. We've got a whole bunch of CDs and we're gluing them
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together. The shiny side up for a
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badass CD lamp. Is that what we're calling it?
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That's what we're going to call it. It's going to be sweet when it's done. Uh, so I'm working on a DIY LED lamp for
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Lionus's office. drill the hole so that we can run this awesome LED
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through it. So, I just have to do this through here. And then we're going to
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run it all the way along the ready rod
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to the very top. And then once we're done that, Avon has already preglued CDs
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for me. So, one side you can't see the
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bottom of this and both sides are shiny. So, this is the completed DIY lamp, but
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we ran into a big bit of a snag where the LEDs didn't actually fit. Yeah, we
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had to jumble all of these to make sure that there's actually space for the LED
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to fit through. I think as a like kind of cool like art thing, this will make
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the office look pretty awesome. So, even though it's not the brightest thing in
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darkness, if Lionus ever has his lights completely off, which I'm sure he will
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at some point, it's actually not that bad. So, uh, we didn't think the IO on
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the motherboards look too great for the wall. So, we're going to take it off.
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All right. So, you might be wondering what we're doing with all these cases here with the front cut off of them. Uh,
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what we're actually making is shelving out of an old case. So, we've got these
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cases from Corsair. Uh we're cutting out this whole section here and then we're
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going to have some wood going in it so that we can anchor some gosh darn
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drawers right into it. So yeah, we got to cut this part off otherwise the
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drawers aren't going to fit. I did a bad job of that.
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That they slide in, they slide out.
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Wonderful. So now what we got to do is put this on the front. So, it still
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looks like PC, but we got some stuff in
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the way of these drawers. So, I think I
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think I have to get rid of all these tabs.
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Now that those are out of the way. There we go. Look at that. And then
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it'll slide in and out with the drawers.
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So, I'll put glue on it. And that's it. I'm Colt Colt Colt. And today we're
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going to be taking three of these frames. And we're going to be gluing
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all of these quite a few of these key caps onto the border here. And then Edel
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is going to get us a beautiful picture to put inside. This thing isn't even
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straight. Not exactly, but like it's it's fine.
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Hi, I have Ethernet cables and I'm going
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to do a thing.
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All right. So then you have go like this.
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Take the key out. And I'm going to put my name there. A
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little signature. And then I think I put Linus sucks somewhere, but I don't know
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where that one is.
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So I zip tied a bunch of floppy discs
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together. We're actually going to make a w a welcome and a do not disturb sign
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for Lionus. So this side's going to say do not disturb. And that side we're
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going to write welcome. And we're going to hang it on his door right there so he
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can flip to whatever side he wants. Home.
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And final update on the motherboard
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wall. It is now completely done. It looks freaking awesome. I really like
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how the paint job and layout uh turned out. And we're just putting the very
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last piece in right as we speak.
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And this is just a little gap fill in right there.
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Well, that doesn't really fit.
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Does that look thin enough? They just
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It's a lot darker in there now.
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Don't worry, it's just a little bit of glue on the carpet. Just a just a
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little. Just a little bit. I'm sure I can get that off. I am apparently
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cutting these to make a mouse clock.
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What's a mouse clock? It is a clock for your mouse so that you
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know when to click things. What
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is each mouse thingy going to be like one two three? How do you know which
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mouse is the four? The position.
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Okay. So, they're not marked. No, they're not going to be marked. So,
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I just have to guess based on where it
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would normally be. Okay. Is that what it's supposed to look like?
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This looks terrible. Whose idea was this? Okay. So, I just tested one of these
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mice and they work. We are just wrecking working mice. So, as techie is your
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thing, what do you think of the techie poster?
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I really like how you put in the brain fissures. You know, brain fissurers
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increase the brain surface area. that allows our brains to like learn
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more stuff than say like a lizard or something.
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Your brain must be really wrinkly. Thank you, Wzel. That's the best
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compliment anyone's given to me all year. And I mean, and sadly, I'm
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completely serious. I think this one's my favorite.
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Nobody told me what to do with it, so I just put things in there. I think it
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turned out great. Comic Sands. You can't go wrong when you use Comic
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Sands. looks straight enough. Maybe.
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Maybe. I don't think the spacing's right, but I
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can fix that. Yeah, the spacing is off.
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That's fine. I can fix that. Let's just make sure this one's straight.
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Cool. Looking up some. Yeah, I'm going to make I'm putting in secret words in this.
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I'll disclose them later. Cable mod, your wide beams are killing
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me here, dude. Maybe turn that off. Okay, I'm sorry. Oh, looks like Christmas. Look at that.
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That looks terrible. You look good. Not going to lie, like recording me
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doing this probably super boring. Well, yeah, but it's all it's going to
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get cut down. I just want to make sure that there's a go.
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Go away. It says minus kid go there. Not mine. Get out of here.
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Not here. What are you doing? But the sign is there. Not here.
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Yeah. Well, we're going to put one there now. It says stop. Did you put away your filming equipment?
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So, what are we going to do for the reveal? Like, who's going to explain what? I think Ed should go first cuz he did
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the posters. I actually worked on it. Yeah.
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Okay. So, do I finally get my office back? So, you leave.
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We're not We're not done yet. We need to waste more time.
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We don't know how to explain it. Like, I was writing, so like I'll just
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stand here, I guess. Okay. 5 minutes max. Maybe 10. Okay.
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Yeah. If you do your bit first, cuz that's the first part you kind of see when you walk in anyway, right?