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can you genuinely start something like in 2024 like is that a real thing you've
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probably thought about this question a lot but I've firmly believe that if you
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have a story to tell and you have something that you want to share you'll find an audience are you in general
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mostly on the long form stuff all the time is it a conscious decision to avoid the short form um I haven't been making
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a lot of social content which maybe isn't the best move how did you make the Super Cuts so damn fast I'm really
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competitive like really competitive love that instead of thinking about the algorithm thinking about the person that
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logs in when they see your video what do you want them to see the thing that he said that stuck with me is he's like you
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know you have a show and you're a a character on that show and if you're consistently that character and you
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consistently make someone feel a certain way they're going to keep watching the show yo what's up people of the internet
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welcome back to a bonus episode of the way forast podcast I'm Marquez David
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also host with me on this episode and we have a guest Becca farsace you might
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know her as one of the video hosts on the verge's YouTube channel but now an independent Video Creator with her own
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YouTube channel David and I didn't get to ask like a elevator pitch type question like how she would describe her
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channel so I'll do my best now which is she does a whole little bit of everything a little bit of camera videos
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a little bit of headphone videos she's someone who's been in the tech World who's done everything from go to film
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school to actually get in the weeds with all the gear and video editing so we could talk about all of that for a while
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so that's exactly what we did enjoy the [Music]
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episode all right Becca welcome to the Pod thanks for having me really good to have you stoked to be here you were just
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telling us to use YouTube music to listen to podcasts I'm very curious about this is this your main podcast
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player or is this just for certain podcasts no it is the main one and when a podcast isn't on it I'm mad that feels
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like it would happen a lot it happens a lot it happens a lot I have to go to Spotify is it only YouTube podcasts that
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are on kind of I guess yeah Google play music yeah wow they got rid of Google
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podcasts they did which was sad for me I I really enjoyed that app it was nice and clean it was a dedicated okay I'm
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going to do podcast stuff dang well this bot is uh it is pretty visual obviously
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so it feels like it belongs in YouTube podcast land uh but it's great to have you here cuz we wanted to talk about
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YouTube stuff and obviously a bunch of other video gear stuff I wanted to open with a pretty hard-hitting question just
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like just jumping right into it and look there's no wrong answers there is a wrong answer but there's there's no
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wrong answers in this room um 24 or 30 FPS real quick just off the top of your
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head okay I really I'm excited to talk about this and I'm glad that you brought it up because I'm currently by the time
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this goes out the video will be out but I am shooting my iPhone 16 pro video in
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30 of course of course you are I'm not happy about it who are you doing it so
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that you can show the 30fps iPhone footage easier like what are you do for just yeah it's just easier like all of
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these phones default to 30 um and like I'm like you know what why don't I just
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try mhm and so I'm trying it I know it doesn't maybe actually look different
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but it feels different and I'm struggling with that I am a 24 girly so
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I'm I know you shot a lot of 24 this why I brought this up but I I because
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because I shoot everything 30 when I see 24 I notice it yes and so I'm curious if you shoot everything 24 and when you see
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30 you notice it I notice it you do okay it feels like a soap opera it's like just a little too smooth made for TV yes
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I agree with you I originally started shooting 30 I'm sorry marz but look I you know if I'm like just shooting
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around you know like I'll just take out my phone take a video but if I know I want to watch that video later 4K 24 on
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the iPhone is a special setting and then also like when you show your friends
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that don't think about this stuff at all 100% of the time they're like whoa why does that video looks
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so 30 cinematic no 24 24 cuz they're so used to 30 I think that's what they're
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commenting on 100% it is nice knowing you is it is it because we went to art
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school is there something there maybe maybe I think we spent we spend a lot of time looking at footage and that might
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be it I think the the bigger variable for regular people looking at footage is depth of field for some reason that hits
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first for everyone like when they see the NFL broadcast with like the f1.8
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aperture down on the field they're like this looks amazing and you're like it's wide open that's why that new Panasonic
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point and shoot camera has like a it's like a blurry mode for something and it
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literally just opens the aperture Sony does the same thing on their CV line yeah yeah yeah you hit that button and
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yeah so how's the 30 experiment going could you could you possibly be swayed
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to do more 30 the video is not done yet I I can't my my experiment is not done
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uh but I don't feel good right now it should feel great you could mix no don't do that never mind no no no no I'm sorry
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I said that I yeah I started shooting 30 because I had a really bad tripod with a
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really bad video head and I couldn't do a smooth enough pan and in 24 it was way
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more noticeable that the pan wasn't smooth than doing it in 30 FPS yeah 30 exposes you I mean I don't shoot 60 for
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that reason that's not the reason but that's one of many reasons what is the reason 60 60 actually looks like too
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smooth to me yeah it looks like phone video yeah there's yeah so many things
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yeah yeah so many rants we could go on right now yeah we could we could go deep yeah can I can I conclude this with a
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hilarious thing that's been happening to me I you know my iPhone 12 mini biting the bullet or biting the dust it's
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really dying now and one of the weird things it started doing is defaulting to slow-mo every single time I open the
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camera whoops trying to choke the storage out put me out I forget to check
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all the time and just start like take a video and then don't realize till after I took a slow-mo video so so many of the
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videos in my phone are at 240 FPS and are just like playing at 720p 240 it's
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uh it's been it's been fun this might be why your friends are like this doesn't look good no that's a separate thing
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that's and all my videos are also the shakiest thing in the world because it's a 240fps video and like yeah anyway dang
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well I was excited to talk to you about gear though cuz I think we we have a lot in common of of how much we love cameras and how much different gear we get to
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use and play with yeah uh the question I want to lob at you is if you were building your ideal solo shooter camera
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where would you take parts from cuz I my answer which is remarkably close to a camera that already exists I would have
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the original c100 love with just a better sensor in it just that camera with the handle
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ergonomics were great it had mic inputs it had all the buttons in the right places the handle was great and then the
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memory was fine the battery life was amazing autofocus was fast and I would just put a better I would put a 4K I put
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it obviously it was 1080 but I would have like a 4K sensor in there with red color or something and that would be like it for me the screen on that one I
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liked the screen on the Mark I I think it was that flipped out M um that one just flipped like the mark one funky but
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I agree with you about buttons um handle amazing and I love that you could like you know ratchet that handle back and
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forth um great camera autofocus was loud though I didn't so that's the thing
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about the way I grew up with cameras is I stopped using autofocus like years ago
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probably because I fell in love with shad Depp the field and I would like shoot F14 in my little bedroom with like
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the 5D across the room on the 50 mil and I would just like not move and that was it so that's why you're so good at being
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focused on the podcast exactly cuz I just don't move forward or backwards so I don't use autofocus as much but I
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found that when I needed it the c00 could do it but where would you what else would you do W that's actually a
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good tip because I do move back and forth a lot and I've no F4 that's what I always like that's always been mine I
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was like I can't predict if I'm going to do this so F4 is like stable and it's not going to drift mhm but with like
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Sony's autofocus you can move a lot and the new lenses don't breathe like oh
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yeah you know I can be anywhere but I recently started using a Nikon and I'm still trying to dial in its autofocus
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settings because it definitely does not catch me um I'm using the Z6 3 okay cuz
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it's not a red yeah Nikon B it is a red that's a whole thing yeah it is a red yeah when are they just going to put
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that badge on there have you tried using the the let for it yet no you should yeah well this is another I don't know
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if I want to expose myself in this way but I usually just shoot stock color like standard yeah yeah which that's
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great yeah yeah yeah cuz if I have to download a lot and just time that's time no it's a commitment yeah yeah it is a
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commitment it's a commitment and sometimes I commit to it you and it's fun because you get to play with color and like you know have more versatility
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but I think the red color is amazing cuz the default L just automattic if you expose it well it looks perfect right
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out of the gate every time yeah yeah well what's what is perfect for you like perfect oh right right the whites are
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really the whites are very white skin tones are incredible yeah uh I know a
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lot of people like Ari skin tones I've seen Ari footage and I like it also but red color to me just across the board
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from highlights to the mid tones to especially my skin tone I've shot a lot of other cameras and they can get other
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skin tones right but my skin tone for whatever reason red color does really well yeah so I've just been happy with
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that yeah so it's a feeling too like I feel like sometimes like color just feels good mhm yeah um yeah yeah that's
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like hustle blood color to me oh my God the blues are just so don't we started
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so good the only thing I don't like hassa blood color on is skin tones I know you said this to me yeah when we
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shot our uh we did some like a photo shoot for our merch and I feel like the
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color of the textiles and the texture and like everything was amazing but the skin tones were just like not great and
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we had to slide them around a lot but interesting yeah yeah yeah products it does well with products yeah definitely
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yeah put the Blues in the water oh the sky we can ner out about color science
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forever I do have a question just in general though about like video making so you've done basically every part of the video making process there's the
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coloring but there's the editing there's all sorts of other pieces of it yeah what do you find is your favorite like
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aspect of bringing something from an idea to a final video do you enjoy the editing the most do you enjoy the the
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camera the shooting part the most yeah has that changed over the years cuz you've gone from working on Productions
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where you have direction to now directing your own stuff yeah just tell me about that yeah five years ago it was
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the shooting for sure I just loved like getting into a studio getting some nice lights up and just like being on a
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slider for you know 5 hours for sure um loved it that kind of got old um and I
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don't have as much of that in my videos anymore and I've also gotten Messier with my process like it used to be very
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much like write the script shoot the video edit the video and now that it's just me I got real messy um and I like
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start to shoot it and then I start to edit it and then I start to write it and I'm just kind of in this like crazy your
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brain it's all up here yeah and it's just me like I don't have to explain anything to anyone and a lot of
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times so much of what I'm saying I want to show but I don't know how I want to
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show it until I say it and then I'm like oh that's how I'm going to show it um so it's really messy but I would say my
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favorite part is when I first get footage into the timeline and I'm just playing and I'm not like beh holding to
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any script MH and that's like I'll start getting music in there and like it really starts to flow that's where it
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builds I I do feel like what you're describing where you're sort of building in your head before it's actually being
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edited I've always described that as shoot for the editor right for the editor everything that I'm
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doing is for the editor version of me to have the easiest time possible and as
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soon as there are other steps involved you kind of have to remember okay I need to make sure this works for the editor
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later when he gets this footage he needs to know what that means yeah and so yeah having it all in your head organized is
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key to that I'm not as good at that part but I try to be well I'm assuming that
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when you started you did all parts now you hopefully don't do all parts it
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depends on the video okay depends on the video so there's some videos that you're still owning top to bottom right okay
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what do you like better um well so again it will depend on what video that I
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think works best as me owning from top to bottom versus delegating parts of it how do you know so I'll know based on
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how personal this topic or this style is so if there's a style of video that's
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particularly unique or it's let me try something with this video then I will own it from top to bottom if it's
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something that's not templatized as much but just a little bit more standard than
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we know that there are people who are exceptional at that who can own parts of that and make that way easier y so a
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review or a explainer or something like along those lines very much like
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delegatable because I can offload that part of my brain yeah um so that's the way I think about it but yeah there
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there might be a video where it's like halfway through I'm like actually Mariah and I are both going to edit parts of
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this video and bring them together at the end yeah that's happened too yeah so the podcast he makes the podcast every
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week so I don't they but yeah exactly um but is
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there something recently that you've tried like cuz I watch your videos and they seem like they're so the style is
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like set um but can you name something recently that like you tried something new and you did it I would love to I
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would love to do that cuz I think you're right about the style being very set and the shoot style makes it feel like it's all very consistent yeah but I'm yeah
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but like what are you working on yeah okay so the last one was a review the one before that
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so the I'm taking a break video which was just a Q&A but where I didn't know
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by the end which answers I would keep and which ones I wouldn't that one was decided in the edit where I I just did
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that entire video oh really yeah you answered tons of questions I answered like 50% more than I actually included
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in the video cuz that ends up that's an 18 minute video yeah and I have like six more questions in the clip bin and I'm
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like my answers AR aren't like interesting enough to keep this video flowing I'm not keeping that um that
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stuff happens mid edit stuff like that uh the FBI Declassified story stuff just
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like a little bit outside of the typical I think that feels more like let me just figure this one out and that video did
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feel different in a in a really cool way yeah like a personal storytelling Thing versus like a I'm delivering a service
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in a way yeah even the way you delivered it felt a little like the story yeah
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yeah story time is fun I think I want to do more Story Time videos in general because it's shocking how many stories
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that we have that would actually just make a fun piece to just share with people yes do you have things like that
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you want to do more now because as we've intro you were making videos with the Verge for a while and we all watch those
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and love those but those also have a sort of I don't know if agenda is the right word but you're reviewing things there's events you keep up with now you
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get to choose each and every video from the beginning what are some things that you think you want to do more of now
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you're picking everything yeah the big difference is just you're going to see more of like me in my life and get a
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little bit more of my ethos and I was already kind of doing that at The Verge but it's tough when you're uploading all
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of your raw footage to a server that's owned by a huge Media Company it's tough to put like for example my uh video I
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did on my personal Channel um about the iPod Nano there's like footage of me as a baby and yes some of that is now on
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YouTube but like that's an hourong video of me as a child and if I made that video at the Verge like that footage is
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going to end up on their server unless I like tailor it and maybe I would have if I was there but now knowing that it's
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not going to go there changes the way I feel about making videos and I just feel like it's really all mine and it's going
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to stay mine yeah um and that feels really good so I think folks are going to see more of that um yeah and so far
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the reaction's been good people are are interested in people which is cool 100% And this this is one of the questions
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that gets brought up a lot when you're sort of talking about YouTube in 2024 is
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can you genuinely start something like in 2024 like is that a real thing you've
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probably thought about this question a lot what how do you feel about this question now well I don't feel like I truly started in 2024 um that's where
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I've landed um it is hard to start something in 2024 it's so saturated
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there there are so many people on YouTube but I firmly believe that if you
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have a story to tell and you have something that you want to share you'll find an audience but you need to be able
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to like be authentic and I think that's the toughest part and keep doing it is
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also the toughest part definitely consistency do you think you could start in 2024 the same way you started then no
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I don't well I don't think I could okay and I think it's very specific to what I do which is Tech which is uh there's
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this entire now like staircase of like access that you have to to climb or at
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the beginning like I started with I I got a laptop that anybody could have gotten and I made a video with a you
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know screen recording software and I had a little like webcam that I shot a couple videos with like kind of anybody could have done that yeah but because
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there was a little bit of a story to follow people jumped on and that was the beginning of the snowball I think if I
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did that exact same same thing now it would have been harder to find and it
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wouldn't have been as intriguing or unique of a story because so many other people have already also done that
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because you did it potentially sure but yeah I think that's why I feel like I have the worst idea of how to start now
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interest what is what would you do if I were to cuz listen I want to make Tech videos so I would be trying to
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figure out how to make Tech videos and I think what I would end up being is actually probably somewhere in the
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commentary genre uh we see so many like video essays and commentary YouTube
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channels about topics where people can sit down Ander a unique take on a story or a
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device or a trend just straight to camera you don't need the gadget you don't need anything like that I think that's probably what I would do cool and
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have some sort of perspective that's valuable are there folks you're watching in that space I'm watching well I watch
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a lot of YouTube and I was going to talk to you but okay perfect cuz I watch a lot of commentary channels and I watch a lot of tech channels uh and I do feel
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like I like drawing from both and it can be risky because if you spend too much
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time in the the forest you end up just making another tree that looks like every other tree but what do you watch on YouTube oh my God everything I love
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YouTube I really do um it's like the service I subscribe to um it is what I
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watch at night when I turn the TV on um it is tv YouTube watch yeah I'm a big TV
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YouTube watch one the rare tv YouTube Watchers they're getting less and less R that's what I've heard as a fraction of
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the total it's still small but I was just at the YouTube Creator Summit and they were like yeah living room big Focus this year on really every time
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someone tweets at us and says like Friday night with waveform it's always like them with like a bowl of cereal
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watching YouTube on their TV fascinating yeah I I also do a lot of like ambient
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like youtubing on my TV like I just put it on and like people do used to do with Netflix but the thing with YouTube is
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there's consistent content constantly every single day whereas Netflix only gets new shows like every couple months
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yeah and I think that YouTube still feels I mean the algorithm is obviously
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there but it feels like little random like I can find Fringe things on YouTube that like I struggle to find on Netflix
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yeah you know it really puts you in a lane feels like Wikipedia plus entertainment in one because you can use
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it curate it right yeah well you can use it for like information development and like learning and you can also use it
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for like just commentary and listening to things and watching political videos or late night TV or yeah it's like I
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guess kind of like Tik Tok what's on your like your homepage like if you log in and go to YouTube homepage today because it will be different tomorrow if
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you watch one video Yeah might as well I mean my homepage is I'm scared it's always a mix of like car V
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like right now I have six videos on my homepage uh a phone review a car review
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an ultimate frisbee game footage video uh I got hacked video uh another car
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video and mkbhd's app sucks video so that's my that's my homepage that
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actually is exactly what I would think for you yeah no surprises yeah so a solid variety and if I refresh it it'll
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be six new random which one would you click right now yeah so the I would
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click the ultimate frisbee video because we played this team at regionals a couple weeks ago that was like surprisingly good they're a Canadian
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team and it's a footage of them playing a Boston team at that tournament now I kind of want to watch that oh so you're
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trying to figure out how they play yeah that's awesome yeah but they didn't make nationalist so we won't play them again so I'll probably be wasting my time
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anyway yeah but you're still curious yeah what's what's what kind of stuff shows on your home page let's see I got
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like an iPhone 16 Pro I got two iPhone 16 Pro videos because right now I'm working on mine so that makes sense um
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oh no a little bit exposing myself here but I'm on a real Billy eyelish
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kick one of those videos um I got a video about a zoon SI
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wait I have a billy ish video on my homepage which one and I don't even listen to her uh birds of a feather
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music video oh 5 days ago so maybe that's why it's pushing it you should watch it is that what your it's on yours too uh mine is also birds of a feather
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but look what else is on my homepage a Becca video is on your home page that's crazy that's crazy well when I ask you
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what you're going to click which one would you click I mean that one yeah hell yeah cuz this is research that I'm doing for the podcast this is you this
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is The Verge cast Fair Becca are you going to the New York show next week or
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the MSG show in two weeks I'm I'm a little broke right now so I won't be going to any shows for a while um but
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yeah are you are you on this be right now with me of course oh my God just incredible I watched I watched a Tik Tok
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yeah last night that it might be the longest Tik Tok I've ever watched but it was just Billy Irish sitting on a stage
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layering her vocals live in front of the Crowd Oh really kind of sick I watched it for like two minutes straight yeah
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which is a long time for me to watch TiK ToK by the way a long time just saying um yeah no YouTube's very much just uh
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it kind of follows you around understands you a little bit serves you videos when your tastes change it can
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serve you new things totally flip it upside down which that's that's kind of what we like about it I think my big
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rule too when I open YouTube is I usually click the video with the least amount of views like if if a video has
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under a thousand views I am there that's a niche of YouTube and I went
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through a thing where it would start serving me videos with like 60 views and I was like where did you how why does
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this keep happening and they'd be solid videos but it would always be one video in the corner like 44 views and like
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okay this YouTube decided that this is what I need to see right now yeah so I will I will go through kicks of that but
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sometimes it's just like uh you're just watching car videos this week marus like that's all that's all I'm going to serve you yeah is fair you know those are good
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too um I'm not a big shorts Watcher interesting okay I scroll right by it
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are you in general mostly on the long form stuff all the time is it a conscious decision to avoid the short
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form shorts are everywhere they're everywhere and I just just I'm really
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trying to get out of that like add mindset or like that like what's a
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better way to put that like that quick dopamine yeah I'm really trying cuz I'm finding that it's really affecting how I
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work like I am in this tab and in this page and in this program and I need to I
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need to like train my brain again to like go slow and I've been finding like I haven't been watching a lot of Tik Tok
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um I haven't been making a lot of social content which maybe isn't the best move um but yeah I just I need to slow down
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yeah speaking of the way you work yeah do you I this is a question because
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David Pierce as you know is very deeply into all the productivity app stuff Marquez is into task apps Adam's into
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task apps I for some reason have never been able to figure them out do you use
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anything or do you just let your brain kind of like messily collect everything that's what I do uh the the office is a
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mess but I know where everything is let's go yeah oh okay so you so if you were to
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have a video idea tonight yeah at talk me through how you uh bring it
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to life because I imagine not a lot is getting written down you're sort of bringing or maybe I'm wrong maybe you
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have things scattered and you're sort of ideally writing some of it now how does that work what truthfully I live in
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Google Docs yes okay so I have a doc I usually when I think of an idea it's a title idea so I just have a running list
00:26:02
of title ideas um or like if I do think of a video idea I think of like three titles um and so that's like that's my
00:26:09
ideas list um but it's like that and like notes and my notes are a mess and
00:26:15
it's worse and worse Notes app let's go hey Google Docs and Apple notes is like
00:26:23
the elite combo agree me
00:26:28
no it's great no it's it sinks across things yeah sometimes um sometimes no
00:26:36
that's fun so you think of titles first do you also think of thumbnails like packaging the whole video before you make the video I'm bad I'm really bad at
00:26:42
thumbnails and I try to now cuz I know that I need to um but usually thumbnails
00:26:47
are like well I'm exporting the video I better make the thumbnail now that's usually what happens that's where we live I me we try to be better at it as
00:26:53
well I mean I've gotten unless advice to flip it on its head like we'd make the whole video and and then as it's
00:26:59
uploading we're like yeah we should have a title for this probably and also a thumbnail huh and then that gets made at
00:27:04
the last second now we try to go through the whole writing process in a way where
00:27:10
we can appropriately package the video on our brain first and then make the video that satisfies the packaging yeah
00:27:15
which is I think good advice it's just hard to do it it's hard to do yeah yeah it is good advice considering uh 95% of
00:27:23
whether or not someone's going to watch a video is the thing that they see on the homepage 100% it's the thing that matter matters the most yeah yeah yeah
00:27:29
it's rough um I do challenge myself to make at least two or three thumbnails always like I always make one and even
00:27:35
if I love it I you know hide it and make another one and hide it and make another
00:27:41
one have you started using the AB testing feature already I don't think I have it yet doesn't everyone have it now
00:27:46
I think it's still rolling out it's definitely still rolling out what are you do it in your brain yeah a testing your brain yeah and I haven't changed a
00:27:53
lot of thumbnails yet but I did recently change a thumbnail and it got such better click through that I was like
00:27:58
really yeah I was like dang okay this really is you got to optimize it was it unfortunately the lower common
00:28:05
denominator like the thumbnail that you was not as artistic and you didn't like as much but was just sort of like it's
00:28:12
going to be clicker yeah I hate all thumbnails I don't know I like yeah yeah I should I need to have more of a
00:28:18
feeling towards them is really what is but this is one of those things where I wasn't making thumbnails at The Verge
00:28:24
yeah um we had someone that did that and he was very good at it shout out to Alex super good um and so it was one of the
00:28:31
scariest things when I was leaving not one of the scariest but it was up there of like shoot I'm G to have to make my
00:28:36
own thumbnails now this is going to be rough so yeah and it is yeah yeah I think my my only if I could offer advice
00:28:44
is like you you have an eye for composition and like and making good images there is a huge difference
00:28:50
between a good image and a good thumbnail yeah and and this is something I had to learn because obviously we have
00:28:55
Tim now and he does graphic design and now that he's way more talented at that than me like this is the advice I get
00:29:01
all the time which is like simple simple simple I'll think of an image with like what if we had a little thing in the background here and this little extra oh
00:29:07
little B about lens flare up in the corner here and it's like it makes a nice image and it's nice to look at but
00:29:13
it actually makes for a worse thumbnail yeah yeah because the eye sort of moves across the screen in a very specific way
00:29:20
and if you just have a single or maybe two bold eye-catching things then that is dramatically more effective yeah so
00:29:27
you can feel away about the image but yeah it's it's different from being a good thumbnail that's my learnings No
00:29:34
that's good advice yeah he also learned to not make thumbnails in Final Cut yeah
00:29:40
wait don't you still do that though when you make your videos I still make thumbnails and Final Cut see look yeah this is how I feel about Google Docs and
00:29:46
Apple notes that's touche exactly wait I really can't believe that though that's
00:29:52
incredible that I made him in Final Cut yeah I mean I will edit photos in uh Premiere but yeah know that wrong yeah
00:30:00
no look I know it's wrong I get it but that's the tool that I know best yeah I feel you I can manipulate it exactly the
00:30:06
way I need to color tools overlays everything yeah yep it's great yeah I feel you will'll be back with more from
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Becca after the break whoa that's an alliteration
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00:30:28
all right let's jump right back into the conversation actually I want to ask about a very specific workflow thing and
00:30:34
you can expose as many Secrets or as few as you want we're really different people is what I'm learning so I I just
00:30:40
like the nuts and Bs of it how did you make the Super Cuts so damn fast because
00:30:48
I remember maybe some of the early days of these Super Cuts I'd be watching uh an event Apple event Google event
00:30:55
whatever's happening I'd finish the live stream and or maybe I'd be there on the ground or something and then I'd click
00:31:01
out and then not more than 15 minutes later I would Open YouTube and there
00:31:07
would already be a 20 minute super cut less than 20 minutes after it uploaded
00:31:13
and my brain's like the math ain't math and I something is not right here for those that don't know uh The Verge
00:31:19
famously does the Super Cuts of tech events where it's like Google's pixel event in 15 minutes and Becca was the
00:31:26
one that was editing those and like Marquez said they were always out within minutes of the event being over which is
00:31:32
crazy I think uh something about me is that I'll leave it all on the field but
00:31:37
I'm really competitive like really competitive love that yeah and um and
00:31:43
with Super Cuts like there's other outlets that are doing them um and also there was like people on my team that
00:31:49
were cutting other things during the event I had to be first like I had to be first this is the the peak of like
00:31:56
bringing value and being first yeah like summ quick summary cuz nobody wants to watch the 45 minute video again
00:32:03
the keynote over I just missed it what do I need to see bam just watch the super cut yep so this is useful yeah
00:32:09
yeah it's useful um but it also in being super competitive and wanting to be first made me such a fast editor like I
00:32:17
am insanely quick at editing now um and I just now I know these events very well too you know I know when Apple's going
00:32:24
to give me a bogus line I know when they're going to cut to an ad um and so I know I can like catch up at those
00:32:29
parts so you're editing as the event is happening yeah oh let me explain work yeah so um so basically we have like you
00:32:36
know one laptop that's just viewing the event HDMI out through a little Blackmagic um like a box yeah it's a box
00:32:43
I don't know what the hell it's actually called does stuff inside of it yeah a little box um and then it goes into this
00:32:49
program called movie recorder plus um that will both like record and allow you
00:32:55
edit access at the same time what yeah that's magic it's awesome and there's a couple of different ways to do
00:33:01
it that's just the way we did it um and so then I'm in Premiere and like just pulling out the clip as the event going
00:33:08
like in Premiere you can see it expanding you have to like pull it out manually but like the little arrow that
00:33:14
shows you that you're at the end of the clip will like disappear and that's when you know you can like pull it out that is crazy and it's like every 30 seconds
00:33:20
you get like 30 seconds way so okay so you're you're actively getting the footage as it's streaming in yep and
00:33:28
then you can kind of decide in the moment this is a line that will be in the Super cut timeline this is a line
00:33:35
that won't be in the Supercut continue to watch oh my gosh yeah Ripple delete baby like Ripple yes qw right R I just
00:33:42
put it right on R oh got it okay yeah um so so yeah and I'm watching it at like two times speed so usually like I won't
00:33:48
really start like I'll get the hi welcome from like Tim or whatever good morning next next don't need that don't
00:33:54
eat it and I but I know like the next five minutes is just going to be a summary of what they're going to go over I don't need any of that so I'm like
00:34:01
drinking water looking at their end whatever and then I pull it out and it's like Go Time so then I'm like cutting
00:34:07
watching at two times speed cutting out like pauses or whatever it is wow um and
00:34:13
then I add like the ads when they show the ads are great because I know I can like go back and clean everything up oh
00:34:19
while they're doing the ad yeah cuz sometimes there's like a jump cut where they go from like a tight to a wide and
00:34:24
I even would like try to like Smooth those over or I would like move things around cuz sometimes they give the price
00:34:29
for three products but they like I want the price right after the product right I don't know if this is making sense I'm
00:34:36
watching the super cut in my head as you're talking yeah and then and then like sometimes when they do the ads it's nice because you'll get like a good um
00:34:43
b-roll bit so like separating the audio pulling that on top disabling it so that
00:34:49
if I need to cover something I have it and then sometimes funny things happen that like maybe I'll put at the end for
00:34:54
the end card um so I'll put that into another timeline that's just like extras
00:34:59
um but but yeah it's just like I just lock in and I love it and I come out and
00:35:05
I feel like God I don't know like I just feel crazy yeah I love that that's like
00:35:11
I mean I've sort of decided that I can't be first when I'm making my videos so I've I've decided okay at the expense of
00:35:19
probably being almost last I will try to make this video as valuable as possible yeah but in the like that moment where
00:35:26
the keynote ends and there's a Hands-On area and you see people Sprint over like that is an entirely different race and I
00:35:33
respect that so much cuz I can't do that anymore but I do think that that the super cut of like delivering the value
00:35:40
basically instantly yeah that was like a I kind of want to see if I can pull some learnings from that because that's super
00:35:46
interesting yeah I learned a lot about just editing and and also just about people speaking and how they speak and
00:35:52
what to cut out but but yeah there's people that do it faster than me now though really yeah and and I would love
00:35:58
to know how they do it bless them but I also I'm done with that yeah yeah speaking of that I had a I had a
00:36:04
question about this so yeah we clearly know that you're very into cameras you like camera content oh man secrets out
00:36:10
you did a lot of camera content on the verge uh you already have quite a bit of camera content on your channel yeah are
00:36:17
you trying to stick in a lane because I feel like in modern YouTube the way
00:36:23
modern YouTube works yeah you kind of have the opportunity to be more than just one thing because it's about the
00:36:30
personality one and two subscriptions are so de important like not as
00:36:36
important anymore that that's a weird yeah deprioritize deprioritize thank you
00:36:41
um that the algorithm will just serve them content that they're into in the moment so like do you feel a little bit
00:36:48
trapped in a lane or are you expecting to like go outside of that lane I don't feel trapped and maybe I like should but
00:36:55
I I really don't and I it makes exced to go outside of that lane the tough part for me is that in my editing style I use
00:37:03
so much footage from devices right and so I am going to depart the lane but I'm already worried about like what am I
00:37:09
going to show people for this part cuz like this is where like it's so easy to like get my personality via a camera on
00:37:16
a device and I and I use that a lot um like recording off of the device yeah
00:37:22
yeah like you'll you'll notice in a lot of my videos I'll be like I don't really like this wide angle lens and then it's
00:37:29
like cut to me using it and having a reaction to it via the product right um I use that all the time um and so like I
00:37:37
have a lot of like headphone stuff coming up and I used to make a lot of headphone videos but I'm like God what
00:37:42
am I going now OG's remember yes they know but the buds know
00:37:49
oh yeah the buds know um but uh so yeah I I I'm excited to get outside of that
00:37:54
lane is is the answer I don't know how I'm going to do it yet but I I want to do it soon so people know that do you
00:37:59
have an idea for the wildest outside of your lane thing like something that's not even related to anything you've ever
00:38:05
done before I'm really interested in the exoskeletons like the arteric has one oh
00:38:12
yeah we talked about that on the thought a few weeks ago yeah and I'm just at first I was like no one needs this but
00:38:18
then in in their marketing they did a very good job um because they explained that like what about folks who used to
00:38:24
go outside a lot and no longer can do like the big hikes that they used to this might give them a way to do that
00:38:30
and I was like you know actually like accessibility is dope that's cool um and I'm really excited to try that but like
00:38:35
that's something I don't know a lot about that world and I'm like ready to learn I'm excited to learn I'm excited
00:38:40
to tell people and teach other folks too but it does feel like a big departure well a lot of people don't even know
00:38:46
that you're like a really big outdoorsy hiker person yeah yeah yeah for those that don't know I'm a big Outdoors hi
00:38:53
person if you couldn't tell by the Plaid why don't you like take no no I'm I'm just gay sorry why don't you like take
00:39:00
Tech outside or something yeah I thought about that yeah that was like M should I tagline my whole channel that yeah I'm
00:39:06
still thinking about it yeah but I think the thing about like feeling like you're in a lane is sometimes you just want to
00:39:12
make the same stuff like I feel like I've not trapped myself but I've been
00:39:17
making some of the same types of videos for a while in a way that it can feel like that's all I can make but that's
00:39:25
mostly what I want to make it's cool that like you're exploring things like F1 and like things that you know you
00:39:32
could make the argument that it's Tech but just like our episode last week what isn't kind has some sort of tech in it
00:39:38
but it also comes from like other hobbies that you're actually passionate about so like the car stuff comes from things that I'm getting really into cars
00:39:43
and they have Tech in them so it's a natural loop it's natural thing we also make videos about so like if you have this like uh outdoor passion or hiking
00:39:50
passion or or gear passion or whatever that can easily be looped in like that's if people want to see Becca they want to
00:39:56
see Becca no matter what she's passionate about well that's what I hope that's that's something I just don't know if it's true yet I'll find out so
00:40:03
what I so here's I'll bring another like piece of like what I got from this Creator Summit there's such I get like
00:40:09
Little Snips from it but you know Renee yeah um and he works for YouTube now and something that he said that was very it
00:40:15
struck me about YouTube was people always ask about the algorithm how does the video find the person how does it
00:40:21
push it to certain people and he said to think of it as not that the video is being pushed by the algor orm it's that
00:40:29
videos are being pulled by users so when a user logs in it's up to YouTube to
00:40:35
find videos for that user it knows what it likes it knows what that person's watched before what it's interacted with
00:40:42
and so it's going to pull what it thinks they'll find whether it's subscribed or not so this is why the subscriber metric
00:40:49
feels like more and more of just a kind of a vanity thing it is because it's really about what you make
00:40:58
when it's presented to people that theoretically should be interested are they actually engaging with it yeah and
00:41:05
so if you're passionate about something and you make a video where it's very clear that you're passionate about something others who care about that
00:41:11
thing sooner or later whether they watch instantly because they're a subscriber or they don't but they find it later
00:41:16
they'll find it yeah and then they'll find the rest of the things that you talk about yeah so it's just to think about uh instead of thinking about the
00:41:23
algorithm thinking about the person that logs in when they see your video what do
00:41:28
you want them to see yeah yeah I I talked to Renee uh a few months ago when I was like really transitioning um and
00:41:38
the thing that he said that stuck with me is he's like you know you have a show and you're a a character on that show
00:41:44
and if you're consistently that character and you consistently make someone feel a certain way they're going to keep watching the show and so that's
00:41:51
how I've been thinking about it as well but it's you know a similar idea of like shared interest and shared feelings and
00:41:57
yeah yeah yeah I remember like in 2017 when I think it was like strange Parts uh that YouTube channel he his first
00:42:04
video got a million views and I think everyone was like going a curse yeah definit definitely um but I think that
00:42:11
that was sort of an like the beginning of the algorithm just not caring about
00:42:16
subscribers that much yeah and just like really pushing just good content yeah
00:42:21
and now it seems like you can just sort of as long as you're good at what you do like the people will find you which is
00:42:26
kind of amazing it is amazing yeah Marquez are there videos that you wish you could make that you don't feel like
00:42:33
you can because you're make Tech videos no I think I'm very lucky to be able to
00:42:39
say no I think a lot of people find that they have a channel that's all the same style and they want to make this other
00:42:45
video but they don't think they can because their audience won't like it their subscribers won't respond to it it'll it'll tank whatever it is I really
00:42:52
genuinely feel that we've expanded our style enough and I've set expectations to a place where literally any video I
00:42:59
genuinely want to make I think we can make it yeah which is not everyone can say it but I'm excited that I can say
00:43:04
that that's true yeah that's awesome yeah yeah I'm like testing that right now because I'm just making videos about
00:43:10
things I like perfect um and so far it's working but but you know what's interesting is like what if you made
00:43:15
like a hiking video you know those like silent in the woods hiking videos this is what I mean like Could you actually
00:43:20
makeig Adams far out like Could you actually make a video that is you know maybe it's not a review but it's like
00:43:27
something totally different do you feel anxious about doing that kind of thing here's the the weird thing about that is
00:43:33
that hiking's kind of this like sacred thing for me it's like where I don't interact with tech it's where I don't
00:43:38
interact with people I really like to hike alone and for like long spans of time um and so the thought of bringing a
00:43:46
camera on a hike to like film that sort of video isn't appealing right to me
00:43:51
yeah I mean more in the sense of like a video that is so different from a review
00:43:56
yeah right yeah I mean I should just try it yeah why not I mean it's just gonna
00:44:02
end up being a review about something end up talking about tech CU that's what I do but yeah no I should definitely try
00:44:09
it and I think the winter will be interesting when things like slow down like you know January February I'm like
00:44:15
already what am I going to what am I going to do what am I going to talk about what am I going to make are you a big uh analytics
00:44:22
person uh the studio app is definitely my most visited
00:44:27
app you're I'm in there do I love it no
00:44:33
but yeah are you yeah yeah okay yeah I'm a well yeah I'm a big math numbers
00:44:39
person yeah um and that like part of that previous conversation was like when subscribers are vity metric they're also
00:44:45
really good for like a quick sample size for like trying an idea yeah so if you try something new you just have a whole
00:44:52
bunch of people waiting to watch whatever you put out and that's great and then some fraction of them will be like I I hate this and leave and that'll
00:44:58
be very informative to the algorithm for the who should they should serve it to later yeah which is cool um but there's
00:45:04
all sorts of other really interesting analytics in general to what's your favorite what's my favorite analytic
00:45:10
yeah oh no one's ever asked me that before what's your favorite analytic what's my favorite analytic my favorite
00:45:16
analytic right now this such a Marquez question it's changes over the years cuz there are certain things that obviously
00:45:22
YouTube has shown to be a priority like average VI iteration is very important sometimes click through eight that sort
00:45:28
of stuff is obvious but I think right now my favorite is percentage of viewers
00:45:33
on a video that are subscribed versus not subscribed yeah because that's a good signal for not Channel growth but
00:45:39
just video reach yeah and whether or not people are actually sharing watching the
00:45:45
video outside of the normal circles like did this video Hit with just your audience or people other than the people
00:45:50
who always watch you I think that might be my favorite metric to keep an eye on do you
00:45:56
have numbers that you like to see there so I typically see like 7030 is subscribed and I want to see more that
00:46:02
are not subscribed yeah um but you have a lot of subscribers that's the thing
00:46:08
which is like it's it's very helpful to have a lot of subscribers and you might find the thing about having a lot of subscribers is many many of them are not
00:46:15
active recently so there are people who might not typically watch videos for like years and then they get resurfaced
00:46:22
in the algorithm and they're like I didn't even know I was subscrib to this channel that happens too yep um what is
00:46:28
your male female percent viewership oh God do you know it yeah I do and I
00:46:34
really it's it's rough I so this is the thing about tech which is I've never
00:46:40
seen I've seen one Tech Channel get to the Double Digit female percent viewership and is yours double digits no
00:46:47
no okay so I I I don't know if there's a way to actively influence this number
00:46:55
cuz I want to see more women in Tech want more wom in stem in engineering and I went to an engineering school where
00:47:00
they were super proud of getting the ratio from like 30 to 50% like yeah this is a constant thing that people are
00:47:05
thinking about yeah and I don't know if there's an answer but like is there a way to Target or make videos more
00:47:12
appealing to certain audiences or is that even something you think about I think about it a lot I I'll I mean the
00:47:18
funny thing about like my analytics right now is that I just started so they're really wonky because like the
00:47:24
why I left the Verge video Hit you know a unique audience that maybe isn't my
00:47:29
audience right um so everything is kind of in a weird place but like it's like 2% female maybe even like 1% wow really
00:47:38
yeah wow um and I also just want to say that uh you know a split like male
00:47:44
female gender binary is a little uh not true to the entire population but but
00:47:51
yeah it is it's like I I don't know how to reach that audience yeah see I do I noticed the
00:47:58
number fluctuate between videos so the average for my channel might be 9% or so
00:48:04
female so 919 and I think that's pretty good among Tech channels and among large channels
00:48:10
because then you start to see like YouTube in general Skuse mail or Tech in general Skuse mail but I might notice on
00:48:17
certain videos it'll be like 964 and on another video would be like 9010 i' be like oh what happened here
00:48:23
yeah uh I have never been able to pinpoint any other variable whether it's the type of video or is it a device or
00:48:30
an unboxing like it's never consistent and I think is it YouTube yeah who knows
00:48:36
is it just that day what people are doing online yeah it it it is sometimes that day because one time I got randomly
00:48:43
98% female 5,000 views in one day in one day and I think it just all came from
00:48:49
like a certain that sounds like aned yeah like traffic from somewhere that has a female demographic that'll Happ but the overall
00:48:56
of that video is 2% female so clearly something happened yeah there was a
00:49:01
glitch the mat that was not I think I think Jonathan Morrison is the only Tech YouTuber I've seen with a double- digit
00:49:08
female David kogan 23% whoa I need to talk to that guy I gotta talk to he has
00:49:14
really good hair does he ever I'll talk to him later yeah cuz he you never I
00:49:19
thought I had pretty good hair you do I thought I had good hair you guys both have good hair so you know what that you
00:49:25
see the numbers you see the numbers correct um that's funny though that's yeah but it's tough that one actually
00:49:30
hurts me like that's just like a a personal mission really I think his is
00:49:35
like exploring different parts of like New York City but with a device so I think people like you get a little bit
00:49:42
out of the tech Niche that way because in a way it's like exploring a new area and the devices brings in the tech
00:49:48
people so yeah yeah that is the thing that's true yeah about being in the tech
00:49:53
world if you're making a tech video this is something I've said before it's
00:49:59
no longer just a tech video you have to find some angle to make it worth watching to people is what I've found
00:50:04
yeah so back in 2009 it was enough to just be one of the iPhone videos yep now
00:50:10
it's okay there's a thousand iPhone videos but this is the iPhone camera video or this is the iPhone battery test
00:50:17
video it's a specific reason to watch it now in 20124 you have to be like this is
00:50:23
the why you shouldn't buy the iPhone video or you have to be like even more specific to get people to actually watch
00:50:29
it and I think that's that's where you find like all these super niches of like people diving really deep into something
00:50:34
that hasn't quite been taken or covered yet using the studio quality mics on the iPhone 16 Pro for music production super
00:50:41
you might you might find a really intense audience for that and might be super into that so I think that's you
00:50:47
you know your numbers will fluctuate all kinds of stuff especially as you start exploring like different styles and
00:50:53
things like that but yeah you'll I think there'll be a lot of a lot of success as you'll find yeah it well and that's like
00:50:58
like I was saying though the channel is so new that like I can't really trust any metrics at this time because I'm
00:51:04
still like really rapidly growing and changing and yeah but but I think finding the angle is actually the fun
00:51:11
part like for me when I get a product in I just get using it for like a week or
00:51:16
two weeks or as long as I can really and then it starts to tell me something and that's like the fun part you know okay
00:51:23
so you watch a lot of YouTube and I I wonder if you're if you're think about making a review for a device will you
00:51:28
actively watch other videos about the same thing before you make yours yeah I'm a big like I like to watch
00:51:34
everybody's coverage it feels like research to me yes it is research there's a part of me that's like I can't I need to remember what my original
00:51:41
opinions are before I go into this so that I don't find that I'm being skewed 100% yeah because I know that there's a
00:51:46
niche of YouTube which is let me evaluate everyone else's opinions and then take the other opinion so that I stand out that's a thing that people
00:51:53
will do of course and so I I'm I'm cautious of like am I watching one of those videos right now or is this
00:51:58
actually something that I find valid yeah but yeah that's it's just like a I have to think about that as I'm watching
00:52:04
videos about other things that I'm going to make a video about 100% hard to not have your opinion swayed about very
00:52:09
small things and then you just don't notice it happening I definitely like way back when I was reviewing Android
00:52:15
phones like fulltime just complet I just did not engage in any disc be yeah yeah
00:52:21
because I was just scared like I think there was a like a review that I made where I was like did I get my entire
00:52:26
opinion from deer like am I just copying his video and so I just like I'm cutting
00:52:32
myself off I can't do this yeah I I agree with that I think I'm lucky in the way that you won't hear a lot of specs
00:52:39
in my videos and and it's very much like personal lived experience which can only
00:52:45
be mine um but you're right there comes a point where you have to cut yourself off yeah yeah cuz there's so much of it
00:52:50
too so much coverage so much what you said earlier about having a hobby that you specifically have like outside of
00:52:57
cameras and Tech and internet stuff I think is super valuable and important yeah and I'm curious if you ever use
00:53:06
parts of that to then bring back in I'll give you an example I play a sport and I have one yeah ultimate for it's weird
00:53:13
sport lot of people have heard of it w no never heard of it perfect but that's good because it
00:53:20
lives it lives in this separate bubble in my brain that is like it's like a
00:53:26
like a flipped switch I don't want to bring Tech or cameras or anything around it it is sort of precious in that way
00:53:33
yep but also as a result it's a team sport and I feel like that moment where
00:53:39
the teammate asks like oh I saw there was like an event today about the new phone what what is there and the moment
00:53:45
where I have to formulate two sentences about what they should care about yeah and they react to that that actually
00:53:52
instructs me a lot about the way regular people outside of the tech world are thinking about things yes yes do you
00:54:00
have that connection to like quote normies is what we call them do you have that in your life Norm cor I mean all of
00:54:07
my friends perfect are normies oh that's great yeah but most importantly my partner Hannah who I think we'll be
00:54:13
making her way into more of my videos is like anti-tech perfect like really
00:54:18
that's the niche that's not covered yet is people who don't care about tech being handed brand new tech someone's
00:54:24
got to make that yeah well the problem is she just craps on it and I'm like no that's great that's what happens usually it's good but I'm like okay can you find
00:54:31
something to say other than the sucks yeah but her her big thing that I love and I find very funny is she has a real
00:54:38
like disdain for AI anything made with ai ai in the title she's like it's
00:54:44
cursed um and so I really like mid Journey like just for fun I prompt a lot
00:54:50
um and anything that's been prompted is cursed and there was one thing that came up and I was like that would be a really cool tattoo and she's like if you get
00:54:56
that tattooed on your body you're cursed we'll take another quick break we'll be back with more with
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00:55:12
Becca all right let's chat more YouTube with Becca and and so she really keeps me like grounded and it's very fun and
00:55:19
funny um but yeah for you it's your Frisbee team yeah and it it kind of it it it bleeds into the way I think about
00:55:26
the audience for the videos which is like okay this is a big channel it's a lot of uh more mainstream you could say
00:55:33
like people thinking about tech yep so I can talk specs all day I can do benchmarks all day and we can do extremely fine-tuned like really really
00:55:40
specific things that are new about a phone but like the camera control button on the iPhone for example I found myself
00:55:45
thinking like I could go so in depth about this button right now you're saying this and I'm like I let's talk
00:55:51
about it we could get real In The Weeds about that button yes but
00:55:57
but 90 something per of the people who watch this video which is people like my teammates out on on rand's island or new
00:56:04
relle or wherever are not ever going to think that deeply about that button and they
00:56:10
want the one sentence that summarizes it they really want that the elevator pitch and so there's this balance of trying to
00:56:17
speak to both yeah and I kind of end up I landed where I thought was like maybe
00:56:23
if this was a spectrum of how you can get into the weeds or not I thought I landed like right here like 75% towards
00:56:29
not care like it's honestly it's just a shutter button for most people you're not really going to think about it too hard and then I would hand the phone to
00:56:36
someone and they're like this is actually terrible like I'm never using this as a shutter button this makes my videos blurrier this is like harder to
00:56:42
use and they G they were outside of the spectrum that I thought would exist about this button so it's good I think it's good to have both of those right
00:56:48
when the iOS 18 beta came out and they added the RCs stuff I started trying to
00:56:54
get I I was like we were reviewing the pixels so I was trying to get my iPhone friends to update to the iOS 18 beta so
00:57:01
that I could text them on RCS on their phones and most of them like friends
00:57:07
well you know they're the ones that bully me about being a green bubble so they can deal with it you know but
00:57:13
anyway uh some of them updated some of them refused to because they were just being stubborn and then they updated
00:57:20
when it actually came out because it like updated overnight or whatever Y and the things that they sent me about the
00:57:26
things that actually excited them about the update made me realize the things that people are cuz the two things that
00:57:31
I heard like five times it was the calculator now has history because of a number of my
00:57:38
friends are like Baristas or or bartenders yeah and they'll be like telling things up and then they forget
00:57:44
what they just tallied up now it has a history so you can like see what you had previously typed and the results for it
00:57:51
they love that wait it didn't have that before no
00:57:56
literally yeah it's horrible yeah it was that and then the schedule send text messages I had multiple people tell me
00:58:03
interesting um none of them cared about their which is funny cuz they were mad at me for the green bubbles but they
00:58:09
didn't seem to care that it got better anyway um it's cuz it was just a color yeah I guess to them it's just a color
00:58:16
but yeah it's like the the simple things that were like oh yeah it's slightly updated it's like oh that is actually
00:58:23
the thing that people really care about and that kind of like reminds me and grounds me in that like people just want
00:58:29
quality of life improvements especially at this point in technology but they're probably not going to care that the
00:58:35
button is actually a real button that also has a for sensor when you half press that emulates a real button nobody
00:58:42
cares about that yeah how do you feel tell us how you feel about I'm sorry we have to talk about it we have to mean by
00:58:50
the time this comes out it's like are we going to be like bored of talking we got bring the butt I'm never bored of the
00:58:55
button yeah I'm always on button it's the one thing that's let's be honest I'm making sound
00:59:02
yeah um I actually just wrote this like yesterday I spent hours writing and
00:59:07
rewriting my section on this button um damn we are alike yeah we we are not
00:59:12
alike but we are alike in that my we both have done that it still is haunting me cuz it's what I'm going to finish
00:59:18
this afternoon and I'm like I thought about it all last night I thought about it all this morning like I am locked in to this damn button um I want to like it
00:59:26
so bad I really like I love buttons I love tactile things I even like the feel
00:59:32
of it like I think it's like just mushy enough well except when you have to do the double tap thing it's yeah cuz like
00:59:37
it's kind of a push is too slow yeah the time and like the scrolling is like way like I can
00:59:45
never get it where I want it and it's so frustrating that I'm not using it and I
00:59:50
hate that cuz I want to love it yeah I've been using it just to open the camera that's it and then I use the
00:59:57
[ __ ] yes same same yeah it is the double tap like on Android the double
01:00:03
tap it's just that yeah which I'm happy to have um but yeah I'm just I'm sad the
01:00:09
button makes me sad is what I've C I think they over complicated it yes yeah cuz I think that regular people and me
01:00:17
everybody really doesn't want to have to deal with the half press thing all the time like you theoretically don't have
01:00:24
to this is why I landed on like just a shutter button trust me just use it to take the picture that's like 100% but
01:00:29
yeah yeah they tried to do too much they did a lot I think that they thought sorry you go ahead no I I so I'm there I
01:00:36
found a setting the other day of like how to preserve the memory of the of the tone switch so if you change camera uh
01:00:43
what is it called the photographic Styles if you change settings then it will preserve the memory of it and so
01:00:48
now I always have tone at minus5 and that's great and but it doesn't like map to anything now so I don't use it anymore I just take the shutter and
01:00:55
that's it yeah so it's fine it's very capable and it can do a lot of things I just don't use that yeah which is true
01:01:02
about a lot of tech there's a lot of things that you don't realize how capable it is and it's designed for someone who will use that a lot you
01:01:09
would think it's for us like people who are really into camera stuff but 100 yeah I'm just not using it it takes just so much longer to change the settings
01:01:15
cuz it's like it's like doing the freaking like Sega like hack key
01:01:21
keyboard presses thing on controller it's it doesn't do anything that you can't do with the screen I know yep and
01:01:27
the screen's great we got R of the key the physical keyboard cuz you can do it on the screen and now we added another
01:01:35
thing that you can do on the screen in get rid of all the buttons I said get rid of every single that's what we thought they were going to do get rid of
01:01:41
all the ports all the speakers all the buttons just turning into a regular just make it a smooth Rock from the screen
01:01:48
just make it a sare phone no I do like the buttons I just think that I think
01:01:54
that the force haptic thing too much I think they literally could have done a single button yeah but they couldn't
01:02:01
they can just yeah but they could have done like if you hold its video if you double tap it it does one thing if you triple tap it it does another I feel
01:02:07
like that's a thing people know yeah D they could put it at the bottom of the phone and make it a circle
01:02:13
with like a little square in the middle and go home if you press it every time that's a great idea like you you
01:02:21
hold it to go to Ser Tim make that happen let's go backwards wait while we're talking about going backwards
01:02:26
do this is a great segment where do this go yeah I I did a retro Tech Series where I like revealed to the world that
01:02:32
I don't have any feelings of nostalgia for any Tech but I might as well check that anyway yeah that was really yeah
01:02:37
yeah um loved it but I was born in just the right time and I was I was raised in just a strict
01:02:44
enough way where like Sega Genesis means nothing to me what that makes you unique
01:02:49
I it's true maybe a little uh where do you do you have any uh old Tech
01:02:54
Nostalgia feelings do you are you a record collector do you like using wired headphones over wired is there some some
01:03:01
line that you draw in the sand with new tech yeah well I was listening to the last special episode of this podcast and
01:03:06
I was thinking about like what our ordinary objects yeah what ordinary object do I love which kind I guess that
01:03:11
doesn't really relate to that but maybe it no that could be uh wait I have to think for a second I really have to
01:03:17
think about this I do have records um which I I really enjoy putting on
01:03:22
because I enjoy the experience of an album I love I love love when an artist tailor an album to be listened to top to
01:03:28
bottom and like I just love that I love going on the journey um I have a lot of
01:03:33
old cameras as you can imagine do you should you shoot with them for fun and like make things with them I do um yeah
01:03:41
I'll like bring them on vacation or just like go out with them for a day and then they usually break at some point and I
01:03:48
don't know how you do this that's crazy what actually use them or break break them I'm a little reckless with my
01:03:55
things because they're tools to me and they break and then I'm sad for a day and
01:04:01
then I just go to the next old camera and you know at some point I'll have the money and like know the person to fix
01:04:07
them and I'm looking forward to that they're all in the midwest I know Minnesota there's always one person yeah
01:04:14
it's whole us it's Bob yeah and his website hasn't changed since like 2002 yeah I love him I can't wait to
01:04:21
send him my money um and my camera but for now so yeah he's lot of old cameras
01:04:27
um that's that's kind of I drive a really old car mhm yeah I do you have a so do
01:04:34
you have an an everyday object that you think would be would qualify as not Tech
01:04:40
yes it's a lot of pressure I thought about this a lot a hard question for all of us and this is going to sound weird
01:04:45
I'm ready where did you land I the extra soft toothbrushes they're new valid they did
01:04:53
not exist a couple years ago extra soft extra extra soft they're literally like it almost feels like you're brushing
01:04:58
your teeth with a cotton ball but I have but it works I think it's I mean my
01:05:03
dentist it yeah that's what I was going to say like doesn't it need to be bristly it has bristles but I also have
01:05:09
receding gums now you know a little bit more about me oh wow um and so I have no other choice but to use a really soft
01:05:16
brush um and I love it that qualifies keeps my teeth clean my dentist says so
01:05:22
andn no Tech yeah do the cotton balls get they're not actually cotton balls
01:05:28
metaphorical cotton balls uh I think so I'm a big flosser I'm also a big like I
01:05:33
have like a whole mechanism that is like fit thing it's like a water pick but it
01:05:38
has individual jets for every very Tech that's like a medieval device no this is
01:05:46
Hightech this is Hightech this is Hightech this I had to go get my mouth like 3D scanned you know what yeah I
01:05:54
actually this company I met them at CES and they were like we'll send it to you and I was like uh and it's kind of
01:06:00
expensive so I feel bad sometimes when people send me stuff but I like I'm like how am I going to make a video about this and I actually love it um yeah it
01:06:08
really my mouth feel every day yeah I use it every day wow yeah and you like fill up a t it fast yeah it's like 5
01:06:14
seconds and it shoots like a crap ton of water David is going to buy this immediately yeah these are the questions and he's like and where can I get one
01:06:21
and how much is it yeah yeah I think they're like 800 bucks if I can take care of myself and it takes less than
01:06:26
like 10 seconds yeah and if you have counter space and you're it it's like it looks
01:06:32
nice really yeah and the packaging's nice like they really nailed it um you
01:06:37
have a real you have a real like Tech and not Tech combined in the in that
01:06:43
exact place in your life medieval mouth Jets and uh medieval mouth Jets and cotton
01:06:49
swabs we got the name of this episode I don't know is there like
01:06:54
personal Tech that you guys use that you love uh that's like not in videos yeah
01:06:59
that like you probably wouldn't make a video about oh there's tons of wouldn't yeah yeah like this thing is going to be
01:07:04
I I do want to tell people about this cuz I genuinely love it but I'm like God I'm going to have to show people me
01:07:10
putting this medieval thing into my mouth go so fast yeah I probably would
01:07:16
yeah so is there anything like that for you that you wouldn't make a video about yeah maybe you wouldn't um or you would
01:07:23
have to I use a regular analog toothbrush analog Toth I use an analog toothbrush as well late stage so I
01:07:30
believe the term is acoustic toothbrush I am fully acoustic uh with
01:07:36
the toothbrush uh no I don't I don't think I think the thing about tech is like I I keep it pretty minimal at home
01:07:42
I did just install for no good reason I needed a project I installed the new
01:07:49
Nest thermostats at my house you did yeah I bought them I got them all installed and I fully broke my furnace
01:07:56
and then I got called an electrician and I was like I installed them it was working and then an hour later they both
01:08:02
said they're not getting power and I need help I know and they I turns out I had this problem last time I installed
01:08:09
the original Nest thermostats from the original thermostats in the house which is uh it trips when you like hit the
01:08:16
breaker switch this is way too much information no I I love this when you hit the breaker switch to turn them off
01:08:22
which is what they say you're supposed to do when you're like doing the rewiring and you turn it back on also have to go to the furnace and open it
01:08:27
and find a reset switch and hit that and then it turns back on before it gets power again so I had done all the
01:08:32
turning off breaker switch things i' turn them all back on and then it said it was getting power but the furnace
01:08:37
wasn't on so it didn't like see the furnace yep and then I had to like call the electrician he's like he literally
01:08:43
was like I'm sorry it's not actually broken I just had to reset it and you're good I was like sorry I'm an idiot I
01:08:49
appreciate you and I I paid him cuz it was a Sunday but that is that is what I
01:08:55
did at home is uh I got a little bit of te I'm pretty minimal with the text so I got I got a that was a big deal for me having the thermost yeah I'm actually
01:09:01
pretty minimal even though I just described this crazy machine that I use every night um yeah same same keep it
01:09:08
clean um but he must get that problem a lot I I don't know he seemed like
01:09:13
apologetic that he didn't have anything to fix like he was ready to fix something and then he was just like you literally just hit this button but would
01:09:19
you not make a video on the nest thermostats because you made a video on the of solar roof I made a video on the solar roof because that was a massive
01:09:26
investment that has this payback period and this dilemma that a lot of people are in and I had been on solar roof
01:09:31
YouTube for long enough that I was like I I should contribute my information that I've gathered from having this and
01:09:38
I think to the community yeah the new Nest thermostats do they don't actually do anything better than the previous gen
01:09:45
other than fully being integrated in the Google home App instead of Nest cuz the old ones are like half in the nest app
01:09:50
and half in the Google home app and I'm it's just so tiring having to they have someu
01:09:55
but yeah yeah they have the like they'll only heat your home a certain amount if they know it's going to be hotter outside that kind do the old one not do
01:10:02
that I don't think so I mean I don't use any of the new features other than Like Home and Away on my phone I had that already it's literally just like can I
01:10:09
set the schedule and just delete the nest app for my phone and I can actually finally delete the nest app for my phone
01:10:15
interesting so that's why I did it yeah the home stuff is hard cuz you're going to have it for a long time yep and
01:10:22
people are going to change companies are going to change hands like yeah yeah I'm going to watch all the reviews before I buy the next thing that's where I'm at
01:10:29
it's so hard thinking of like a thing that you like that you wouldn't make a video about because like if I like a
01:10:34
thing I I I want to tell people about it yeah the only the only thing I can think of right now is I have this like I have
01:10:41
this like careful you're going to make a video about it yeah show tell I have this like emulator Game Boy Advance SP
01:10:48
oh my God that has micro SD card slots and HDMI out and
01:10:53
USBC um Al with no games on it no right legally no games on it um yeah it's
01:11:01
thicker it has yeah it's great the screen is amazing the battery life's pretty good the only problem is that the
01:11:07
USB port is not officially USB certified so you have to use a five watt brick because otherwise it explodes um a
01:11:15
problem but it's like the best thing I've used in a really long time it's just that I'm not like a gaming person
01:11:22
like I I really enjoy if I if I'm like sitting at the doctor's office like
01:11:27
playing some Zelda yep right qualifies that's been amazing and it's better than it's better than like swipe uh just like
01:11:35
Doom scrolling right yeah but I'm not so much of a gaming person that I feel qualified or excited enough to like make
01:11:43
a video about it well in the gaming space is unique too because it often feels like if you're not good you're
01:11:50
just going to get crapped on yeah yeah like I love fortnite I love fortnite I'm
01:11:56
really bad if you could control YouTube rwind what would you do oh my
01:12:03
God uh thoughts we don't have to go there um no don't do that no but that's
01:12:11
that's interesting I am pretty bad at most of the video games I play yeah are you a Forza player do I remember you
01:12:18
playing that I'll mess around with some Forza or some Gran Turismo or like any or dirt driving games are fun for me
01:12:24
yeah and then I'll play sports games okay I'll play 2K I'll play there's a golf 2K game there's the NBA 2K game
01:12:31
I'll play those and I'm not that good if I ever go online I get merked I'm not anywhere near as good as those people
01:12:37
but it's fun so you know I don't like streaming or anything I think people are like really entertaining humans or they're really good at the game and if
01:12:43
they can do one of those things they'll they'll get an audience I would be horrible at it cuz I'm not entertaining live and I'm bad at the game so oh well
01:12:51
hey man people have been asking for wa for live for a very long time yeah I think they are just nice they're just
01:12:57
they're asking nice and then they get it and they're like oh this is they're it's boring yeah um yeah we were considering
01:13:05
doing a live like podcast at some point and they were like but what about all the things considering it uh some of us
01:13:10
we were thinking about doing like a like a live event we still do we can still do it but the amount of things that we
01:13:16
normally cut that would just be out there I could be careful but but I also like what is the
01:13:22
reason you're cutting them because if it's like for time like people who are at a live event will sit for a long time
01:13:28
we uh I have a whole folder of things that I'll send you separately yeah we go
01:13:35
way off the deep end blurt things out sometimes we say things that we didn't
01:13:40
mean to be weird and then it's weird you know comb sometimes David says things
01:13:47
hey maybe 80% but there's some other it's never intentional anyway anyway we
01:13:54
don't want to like take things the wrong way 100% yeah you got to control the image you know yeah sparkly could be fun
01:14:01
though you could just lock everyone's phones up that's I I like the shows that do that though yeah it makes a better
01:14:06
environment honestly it does yeah all right lightning round I have
01:14:12
liting yeah exactly this is uh a couple quick questions I'll give you up to 10
01:14:17
seconds with each one so it's like truly like whatever you're feeling okay I already asked one of them which is 2430
01:14:23
so we'll just knock that one to the side yeah all right wired or wireless headphones wireless wireless okay what
01:14:30
phone is in your pocket right now I don't have one of my pocket right now really well I do you normally okay wait
01:14:37
let me take it back what phone do you have right now I'm reviewing the iPhone 16 Pro okay that's in my pocket um but
01:14:42
also the pixel 9 Pro is still in my pocket is so good I really love it I'm I think I'm going back I picked it up
01:14:48
again last week um and it's just it feels higher it feels more premium than
01:14:54
the iPhone which is wild I is my outake so by the time this comes out
01:15:00
that'll probably be in my pocket but I unfortunately have the XL version and uh it's a big fun the small one is Elite
01:15:06
yeah the small one uh best Android phone camera you've
01:15:12
used oh no oh no oh my God I'm freaking
01:15:19
out whoa okay I want to say it's got to be
01:15:24
like one of like the xiaomi yep it's got to be like a xiaomi something or other
01:15:29
um which is why I'm excited to hopefully be able to review some stuff from them even though it doesn't come to the US
01:15:36
yeah it's amazing I know it's unreal it's unreal it's an RX100 like that's what it reminds me of like the look The
01:15:43
feel yeah I'm they're really doing stuff they really are I was very impressed by like the they have some crazy camera
01:15:50
bumps but like I remember the xiaomi 11 Ultra and then the xiaomi 14 Ultra yeah crazy phones they have stuff that is if
01:15:56
you're like a photographer and video person you're like really respect it but then we do our uh blind camera test and
01:16:02
everyone doesn't vote for it yeah that's fair it's for the art people out there yeah but sometimes like a phone's camera
01:16:08
is really about like how it makes me feel like the final image is going to look pretty much like everything else or
01:16:13
you can make it look like everything else so it's like how does it feel in my hand that's big for me like put that on a shirt and frame that that's it's facts
01:16:21
I'm trying it's just facts um most over op ated camera oh man it not just on a
01:16:28
phone any camera any camera yeah oh she's gonna say you can say it this a
01:16:35
safe space you can say it I don't know this doesn't feel safe all of a sudden Do It um I I actually I just want to say
01:16:44
I haven't tested every last camera in this earth um I know I'm trying I'm
01:16:49
trying but they keep coming out with more M um I think the most overrated though
01:16:59
I just think Reds are really expensive um that's I thought you were going to say dang we can go there no they are
01:17:06
they are over they are so overpriced expensive dramatically overpriced and I think if you're in the ecosystem and you
01:17:12
use them forever they're amazing but if you're going to enter that ecosystem I think that they're kind of like a steep
01:17:18
thing to like learn it's expensive to buy the the files are insane um they
01:17:24
don't dude a normal video for me is a terabyte
01:17:29
uh I will say I will say have no words my favorite comment online is of course
01:17:35
the videos look good they're shot on red no that means nothing yeah there is so
01:17:41
much other work that goes into making a video look good yeah and and I have seen videos that look great that AR shot on
01:17:47
5D markv is I've seen bad shot on red all the lighting 100% but but that being
01:17:54
said I also just don't think I've spent enough time with Reds so yeah so there
01:18:00
it is Becca said nikons are overrated come on here we go um hogy
01:18:09
hero or sub oh man I want to I want to go hogy but I've never been like hi can I have a
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hogy right it just sounds right right I say sub I feel like yeah I say sub too yeah I just say like I usually get
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things on a roll so true I'm a roll person folding phone or flipping phone
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folding folding no no no sorry flipping flipping dog small babes yeah uh
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hamburger hamburger wait yeah they're both hot dogs oh you're saying the like aspect ratio HG the bread aspect ratio
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of the bread got it yeah okay but I still like you said flipping and folding I I still have to like think oh yeah I
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still have to like consciously be like samung Z flip USP they did yeah and thank God but when
01:18:59
the trifold comes out what do we call it trifold it's an accordion oh and bag pipe it will be the
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best thing that's ever been created you think so I think so we'll have it soon watching videos in Elite
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16x9 esque aspect ratio instead of having a square that CRS giant amounts
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yeah yeah seees I just think that the folding phone right now like while I
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like that they're generally normal-ish size when you open them it's like what am I going to do with one by one like
01:19:32
Google Maps is not Emil scroll Twitter at the same time obviously I'm not that good at it's not about one by one you
01:19:38
know it's about two by yeah exactly okay winning an Emmy overrated or underrated
01:19:46
oh my God underrated the best so fun amazing I want everybody to have the
01:19:51
night that I had when I won an Emmy yeah it was the coolest most wonderful thing and it's not even
01:19:57
about having the trophy it's just about having a dedicated day to celebrate with
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the people you love something that you've made and I just wish that we could all figure out a way to do that more for ourselves it was amazing we
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going have a pizza party if we ever yes yes I can commit to
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that right now can it be today in like an hour
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keyboard shortcuts or Mouse uh shortcuts keyboard shortcuts are you like all
01:20:25
fully like mostly keyboard shortcuts editing no I'm I'm a 50/50 so that's like a tough one but um but I love my
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keyboard shortcuts and like even if I'm working on someone else's laptop I'll go through and remap the entire keyboard
01:20:37
for me before I start working okay that's enough to yeah that's I have a
01:20:42
slightly psycho setup and I know that it's a psycho setup but it's my psycho setup then it's not psycho later on me
01:20:48
it just works for me which is mouse on the right keyboard in the middle trackpad on the left trackpad is only
01:20:54
four side scrolling the timeline nothing else I have that ability with the wheel on the mouse I never use it it's sides
01:21:00
scrolling and then I everything else is keyboard shortcuts and mouse and then moving I command plus and minus to zoom
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as well so you have the track so I'm just two finger cuz the the trackpad I like have to have my cursor over the
01:21:13
timeline to do the pinch Zoom yep so if my cursor is anywhere else and I pinch it won't work so if you oh but as long
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as my playhead and active area in the editor is on the timeline I can command plus anywhere and then move the mouse
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good know so I can just throw the mouse around command plus and like move in and do stuff on the keyboard and then like scroll that is actually a little psycho
01:21:32
I might be converted over that's just even the Motions you're making right now of like your hands are dancing I'm here
01:21:39
great Marquez also edits like this not all the time sometimes wait how are your knees well
01:21:45
because we have standing I have a sit desk yeah it's not all the time but it's Al it's just funny when I look over and his desk is still raised but he's
01:21:52
sitting in his chair and he just is working my leg is tired I don't want to commit to sitting it's funny but I have
01:21:58
a what what percentage do you stand it's a good question 60 okay I
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think so it's worth it I don't know I think it's like 60 and then that 40% of the time you're sitting but your desk is
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still r no that's like five okay and then I'll sit and like bring it all but that's what I've like I'm tired I'm
01:22:18
committing to sitting down now I like lower the desk and sit down but sometimes let me just get like a two
01:22:24
second break and I'll just like sit down and then stand back up yeah yeah it's 5% of the time but it's 100% of the
01:22:31
pictures that I take it's fair that's beautiful um sound design in YouTube
01:22:36
videos yeah over or underrated I think people overdo it yeah
01:22:42
but it's underrated that's a really good answer so who's overdoing it no names
01:22:48
dude this is such a thing because there was a period of time where people started actually caring about the sound
01:22:53
design and it was what differentiated the good YouTube videos and then people
01:22:58
overcorrected including myself yeah like I put way too many whooshes in my videos it's easy to go hard yeah yeah and then
01:23:05
it's hard to scale it back because you stop hearing it really like you're editing it yeah if something swooshes into the screen why can't I also hear it
01:23:12
swoosh into the screen I I'm tempted to add something every time something happens yeah yeah yeah I've been there
01:23:18
yeah yeah I try I stay away from swooshes because I just feel like they're so hard to get right and when
01:23:23
you get them right great and when you get them wrong it's really bad I use I like slow them down to 25% so it's
01:23:30
like oh yeah can you clip that out for me yeah just that's
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[Music] good last question how fast can you type
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the alphabet uh not that fast like how fast like exact like how fast exactly to
01:23:47
the second Like A through Z am I supposed to know this oh you don't you don't have a number off the top we didn't give you we didn't give her the
01:23:53
pre- sheeet she was supposed to come in with this with this time shoot oh well
01:23:59
instead we can just time it like now like live so what we're going to have you do is if you could start a screen
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recording for us okay and go to type the alphabet. apppp okay okay okay also we
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have a mechanical keyboard or an apple chicklet keyboard if or do you want to use your laptop keyboard whichever one
01:24:16
you want to do do you have a magic keyboard we do yes yeah I want magic keyboard type the alphabet.com type the
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alphabet. apppp doapp the way your eyes lit up at the magic keyboard I can tell this is going to be fast let's go no I'm
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not that fast I'm really I'm only competitive with things that I'm actually good
01:24:34
at so yeah I'm only about if I have a chance that I could win you could find
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out that you're good at this right now um we give everybody three choices or sorry three chances and are you on the
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side right now yes let me start screen recording and let me put it into a different window let me let me get this
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nice I'm nervous I'm getting nervous um that's good that's like Peak heart
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rate your heart rate should be up a little bit you know have the blood flowing through your hands that's like good typing speed stuff oh God I barely
01:25:04
beat Brandon I recently learned what the fastest animals heart rates are in the animal kingdom and the slowest hum humd
01:25:10
hummingbird is one of the fastest do you know how many beats per minute a hummingbird heart 220 that's their
01:25:15
resting heart rate yeah when they're active and they're flying around try 1,50
01:25:24
that's crazy wait now ask me the slowest Turtle blue whale oh that makes sense
01:25:30
turt so hibernating reptiles I I didn't count cuz they'll beat like once every
01:25:36
10 minutes which is just not fair 10 minutes which means that you had like
01:25:41
rules in your head while you were going over this but like active just like living their life blue whale okay 2
01:25:47
BPM every 30 seconds and their heart's the size of this table which is kind of
01:25:53
yeah I thought it was bigger a sofa was how they referenced it but I would say like yeah like seven feet okay
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anyway are you all set up yeah I'm nervous I'm scared the only rules are if
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you want to give it a test run sample run as you're typing if you miss a letter it will not continue until you
01:26:11
hit that letter so if you go a b d e f g blah blah blah blah blah if you never hit C the timer keeps running you have
01:26:17
to hit every letter see why this is bad for me is that I'm very dyslexic so you know and I know I should know the
01:26:23
alphabet um but I feel like I'm going to be like it's one of those Niche skills where like maybe you're good at it maybe
01:26:29
you're not doesn't really matter to real life the other tip don't hit enter at the end cuz that resets the timer that
01:26:35
is a good tip cuz naturally exactly Lo A through Z and it gets locked in and you get three shots at your at your leisure
01:26:41
I might mic up your keyboard right now how you guys so fast so slow with okay I'm scared okay
01:26:48
so when I start it starts yep okay someone count me down three two
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one okay okay how did you feel about that I just sang the
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song Oh yeah but that was your first try you get two more tries okay I might get faster I feel like this was really slow
01:27:18
people tend to get faster and they're always surprised by where they are on the leaderboard so I'll let you go two more times okay am I going to be
01:27:24
surprised cuz I'm last uh do I have to how do I oh reset yeah reset oh hit
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enter yeah all right here we go three two
01:27:38
one like you need to make that slightly
01:27:45
louder okay it's about the same one more yeah let me do one more what was that uh
01:27:50
it was 10319 okay yeah I feel like this is SL maybe I should try my other
01:27:56
keyboard up to you oh my God let me just mix it up I got the same results twice and you know two is enough for me to be
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like H let me try something else yeah all right okay here we go three two
01:28:18
one oh no oh no oh no
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you can feel yeah it's it actually it tells you which letters you took the
01:28:30
longest on somebody whoever built this website was very specific about it do you recall your fastest time I love this
01:28:36
I think it was like 1013 or something like that I can look I can look because I can stop the
01:28:41
recording oh true either way it doesn't actually change your position on the leaderboard oh no am I last I wouldn't
01:28:49
put it that way I'd say you were uh you did take the longest time but you were
01:28:56
right behind Brandon and David Blaine yeah oh okay that's good so yeah David
01:29:01
Blaine uh noted fast typist 8.8 seconds 8 through Z and Brandon had a 9.44 who's
01:29:09
the fastest so the fastest was we have our top three Tom Scott stepped up here
01:29:15
and said I will win this and he did and he had 3.55 seconds oh my God I know what the
01:29:23
shocking us all what yeah uh no one's ever been even close Cleo Abram got 4.2
01:29:28
and Quinn Quinn snazzy Labs got 4.4 no one's gone under 4 seconds other than Tom Scott wow I've never taken pride in
01:29:36
my typing speed okay I literally did it for fun and I got 3.8 that's weird okay
01:29:42
but I have like that's insulting that is so mean I shouldn't I just failed and that's what
01:29:48
you're going to say to me I I didn't even realize wow I didn't even realize I'm so good at this oh wow I feel like
01:29:54
typing the alphabet is so much harder than like one of those than typ racer where you're typing words yes like like
01:30:00
words per minute people who just type in home row and just like Andrew types some like 100 words per minute or something
01:30:06
like that yeah but on this this 5.24 somewhere in the middle yeah I also was
01:30:11
looking at my keyboard and I wonder if looking at the letters would have been better yeah I don't know where I'm
01:30:20
looking looking at the letters I think I'm looking at the screen yeah yeah either way you just learned something
01:30:26
new about yourself so next time someone asks how fast you type the alphabet you'll have an answer like I've never
01:30:31
tried that you'll have an exact I'll give it a go an exact number I'm going to practice watch out I next time I see
01:30:38
you if we can bring you back and have you like smash your old score that would be incredible I mean I'd hope I smash it
01:30:44
so low that you know I think there's no question only up from here actually that's like where I like to start things
01:30:50
so I feel good set the bar and then just keep Lea frogging it put it on the floor bury it underground and then you'll
01:30:56
always get over it right over the top easy Becca thanks for joining us on the Pod we appreciate you you're welcome
01:31:02
back anytime and of course we'll be uh we'll be watching if people want to find you online obviously your YouTube channel where can people find you uh I
01:31:08
would say I'm a big YouTube first and foremost uh Instagram next my stories is
01:31:13
just a little Look Into My Life um launching patreon that'll be launched by the time this comes out so you can join
01:31:19
me on patreon um we're going do a lot more behind the scenes kind of you know how everything gets made there um yeah
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so that's that's my main spot Instagram Pat on YouTube awesome Becca Versace links below it's like Versace but far
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away farace farsace oh nice how many times have you had to say that endless
01:31:38
that's great I need a cool way to explain pronounce like spelling my name and it's nowhere near as cool as it's
01:31:44
like Versace but far away that's that's a bar what is Versace Versace theand
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