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00:00:00 ◼   ► so i might have to get a new office Mike [TS]

00:00:02 ◼   ► I haven't found you [TS]

00:00:05 ◼   ► that's not the reason know that you know [TS]

00:00:07 ◼   ► of this script writing sanctuary that I [TS]

00:00:13 ◼   ► have essentially created for myself it's [TS]

00:00:16 ◼   ► being violated by a neighbor all know [TS]

00:00:20 ◼   ► even when I was much younger person I [TS]

00:00:23 ◼   ► always knew that I wanted to try to [TS]

00:00:26 ◼   ► avoid an office job like this was this [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► was a thing that I was just always aware [TS]

00:00:33 ◼   ► of and all of the work that i have ever [TS]

00:00:36 ◼   ► done [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► none of it has ever been in a real [TS]

00:00:40 ◼   ► office like I've worked in a library [TS]

00:00:42 ◼   ► I've done a bunch of work in like [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► science labs and universities and of [TS]

00:00:47 ◼   ► course I worked in schools and like I've [TS]

00:00:49 ◼   ► done tutoring and I've done all this [TS]

00:00:50 ◼   ► kind of stuff but it's always like I [TS]

00:00:52 ◼   ► have 12 absolutely avoid an office as [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► much as possible and so it's sort of [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► funny to me to realize that now is this [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► adult person i have intentionally rented [TS]

00:01:05 ◼   ► office in a place and of course now I i [TS]

00:01:10 ◼   ► do have to face some of the problems of [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► an office and one of those things as [TS]

00:01:15 ◼   ► neighbors and so when I first rented [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► this little writing space everything was [TS]

00:01:23 ◼   ► perfect because I didn't have any real [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► neighbors on either side of me and I [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► work really early in the morning and i [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► work really late at night and there's [TS]

00:01:31 ◼   ► usually nobody around [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► so everything was fantastic i would i [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► would walk in I would do my writing I [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► would usually be walking out of the [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► building just as all of the other office [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► monkeys were arriving which is a [TS]

00:01:43 ◼   ► fantastic feeling right and heading out [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► and then doing the reverse at the end of [TS]

00:01:47 ◼   ► the day is everybody's leaving the [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► building like I'm heading back in and [TS]

00:01:50 ◼   ► these are the best times for me to write [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► but since coming back from the summer [TS]

00:01:54 ◼   ► the office next door to me has been [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► rented and it has been rented to someone [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► who has my exact schedule as far as i [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► can tell at seven in the morning maybe [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► 630 in the morning there is nobody else [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► in this entire bill [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► thing except two guys in adjacent [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► offices one of which who wants to be [TS]

00:02:20 ◼   ► talking out loud [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► the crazy thing this things that he is [TS]

00:02:23 ◼   ► writing and the other one who wants to [TS]

00:02:26 ◼   ► be talking to China on the phone about [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► douche-baggy sounding business things in [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► a really loud voice and I just I can't [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► work under these circumstances Mike [TS]

00:02:36 ◼   ► every morning he's there every evening [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► he's there i think i need to find [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► another another place to work [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► I'm very sad have you ever communicated [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► with this person in any fashion now of [TS]

00:02:50 ◼   ► course not never [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► now he's just there I think he's trying [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► to avoid me and I'm trying to avoid him [TS]

00:02:56 ◼   ► why don't you go for noise canceling or [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► something [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► what do you mean like a noise cancelling [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► headphones so you don't have to hear [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► China cools [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► well the problem is that i want to hear [TS]

00:03:07 ◼   ► myself speak out loud so if I'm wearing [TS]

00:03:09 ◼   ► noise-canceling headphones it doesn't [TS]

00:03:11 ◼   ► really work but there's also the problem [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► that I quite frankly don't want someone [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► who can just overhear everything that [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► I'm saying is I'm trying to work out [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► sentences like a crazy person saying the [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► same thing over and over again but you [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► don't know this person [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► it doesn't matter if I know the person i [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► know they're there and because this [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► office as far as i can tell this floor [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► of this building like with everywhere [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► else in this building was intended to be [TS]

00:03:35 ◼   ► an open-plan office they just happened [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► to enclose it in these little cubicles [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► which as far as i can tell are our i [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► just have plaster between all of the [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► wall so you can hear absolutely [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► everything that everybody else is doing [TS]

00:03:46 ◼   ► I don't want somebody else hearing me [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► working out my scripts so i think i [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► think i have to move Mike I think this [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► is this is the end result of this time [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► to pack up all of your electronics into [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► a little napkin and we have hired him [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► over a stair can mosey on down to the [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► next office space that's exactly right [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► that's what i think is gonna have to [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► happen [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► you gonna like seriously look for a new [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► place now do you think this is some kind [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► of joke [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► none oh do I sound like I'm joking you [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► you do not now I just you know I [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► remember how hard it was last time why [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► don't you just try and force him out [TS]

00:04:22 ◼   ► you're very macchiavelli and Mike this [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► would not have occurred to me [TS]

00:04:25 ◼   ► well I'm just trying to help you you [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► think I should be playing the fight song [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► at my speaker the whole morning long as [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► you're trying to make business calls yet [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► that songs back in my head again seen in [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► six months you'll never forget yesterday [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► it was very hard to find this office I [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► have have done some preliminary scouting [TS]

00:04:46 ◼   ► which I'm sure must look super [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► suspicious on the security cameras [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► walking all around the office and trying [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► to see if there's any empty places that [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► don't have neighbors I may have found [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► one office within the same floor to move [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► at and have made some preliminary [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► inquiries and there may be some offices [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► available in a building that is directly [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► across the street so I'm checking things [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► out but it's not a joke i really have to [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► move all right intolerable to have a [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► neighbor who's there at the same time [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► that I want to work I really just want [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► the entire floor of an office building [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► all to myself to work in and I don't [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► think that's really too much to ask [TS]

00:05:22 ◼   ► well I mean it's not too much to ask [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► right it's just way too much to achieve [TS]

00:05:28 ◼   ► but so yes I'm definitely going to have [TS]

00:05:32 ◼   ► to move but I do find it funny that [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► every time I walk in to the office and I [TS]

00:05:39 ◼   ► see the little light on next door to my [TS]

00:05:40 ◼   ► office think what is this guy doing here [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► right before he's like don't you have [TS]

00:05:46 ◼   ► someplace to be buddy right don't you [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► have some family to look after we don't [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► just want to go home [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► it's always just a funny thought to have [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► when I am also the person who was [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► standing there thinking it [TS]

00:05:56 ◼   ► yeah but this is like what are you doing [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► here at this time [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► says the person who is standing here at [TS]

00:06:04 ◼   ► this time and nobody should be here but [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► of course i am there it sounds like from [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► your description of his work that he [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► actually has more of a reason to be [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► there than you [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► yes far as i can tell he definitely does [TS]

00:06:16 ◼   ► he's always making calls to different [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► time zones so he actually has a like you [TS]

00:06:21 ◼   ► needs to be in the office it sounds like [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► those particular times i just prefer to [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► work at those particular times I don't [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► think I want this guy's job [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► no you don't think you want to be making [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► calls to China at six in the morning [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► no I don't think I want to do that no it [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► doesn't sound like fun I did peek in his [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► office though because of course [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► I can't help let's buy a little bit like [TS]

00:06:41 ◼   ► what does this guy do and it was the [TS]

00:06:43 ◼   ► most hilarious stereotypical business [TS]

00:06:45 ◼   ► office on the inside because he had a [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► bunch of sticky notes up on the wall but [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► also just also had a whiteboard with [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► just words written on it [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► words like impact swiftness responses [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► when it's like randomly all like yeah in [TS]

00:06:59 ◼   ► sentences now just like big big words [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► just written out you know just like this [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► looks like the inside of a business book [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► right sweetness is important [TS]

00:07:10 ◼   ► okay great how do you do that can you [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► not remember that like this you have to [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► write it down like I would understand it [TS]

00:07:17 ◼   ► being there if it was written by a boss [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► in a bigger office right right but if [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► it's just him on his own [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► just don't eat those reminders i don't [TS]

00:07:26 ◼   ► know i think when he's making the calls [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► you look at the whiteboard with those [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► words written on it it's like an [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► operation for impact says something to [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► him [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► it speaks to him about what he does [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► mikey sounds like a like a hard-working [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► guy you know minutes ago you wanted me [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► to harass them out of the office which [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► was not my plan my plan was to simply [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► relocate like a civilized person I never [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► said you should i just wanted if you had [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► now I had not okay i had that chase them [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► out of town itself isn't big enough for [TS]

00:07:59 ◼   ► the both of us buddy [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► yeah but it isn't then that's the [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► problem that really isn't you should [TS]

00:08:05 ◼   ► sneak in and write things on his [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► whiteboard know these doors have locks [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► i'm not i'm not picking a lock and [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► breaking into somebody's office so how [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► did you peek in with like a window [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► yeah just just as with every office [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► building ever it seems like now that the [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► fashionable thing is to have doors that [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► are glass that are partially frosted but [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► not entirely frosted so that everybody [TS]

00:08:28 ◼   ► can just look in if you convert heels up [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► no Mike I have not covered my not mainly [TS]

00:08:32 ◼   ► because it's a real pain about to try to [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► cover up the glass door and you know [TS]

00:08:36 ◼   ► what I really don't need to draw any [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► more attention to myself like I already [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► taped over some of the lights in the [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► ceiling because the way they were [TS]

00:08:45 ◼   ► glaring off of my ipad was really [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► annoying and again ups I'm absolutely [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► sure that somebody noticed [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► that half the lights have taped off and [TS]

00:08:53 ◼   ► just like last thing I need is to put a [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► flag over the door i think i think that [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► would pretty much guarantee that they [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► that when I request to move to a [TS]

00:09:00 ◼   ► different office they would probably [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► just say no they might do anyway because [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► it's just gonna be like he done [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► something in there that you can talk [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► about now he just wants out what it is [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► yeah there's something hidden under the [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► floorboards yeah like when they found me [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► the first day digging them up [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► oh ya doing with all the wiring down [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► there is preparing the space we have [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► never you mind [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► nothing nothing I need a new office now [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► why I just can't be in that one anymore [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► yeah that will literally be my reason [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► the other one is no good can i please [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► switch I've been workin in the lobby of [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► my main office to get away from the guy [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► next door to me I'll but it has been a [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► joy for everybody with high mechanical [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► keyboard white second wait just pretty [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► sure has not made anybody happy [TS]

00:09:48 ◼   ► so to escape the one person who talks on [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► the phone [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► you've moved to the lobby where people [TS]

00:09:55 ◼   ► are I'm sure going in and out all day [TS]

00:09:58 ◼   ► how is this better I guess I do need to [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► explain a few things here the building [TS]

00:10:02 ◼   ► that i'm working in made this very very [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► strange maneuver and that they used to [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► have a nice open lobby with nothing in [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► it and then they turned it into another [TS]

00:10:13 ◼   ► openoffice that they could rent out to [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► many other people which every time I see [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► it I think must be the worst openoffice [TS]

00:10:20 ◼   ► anywhere in the world because the lobby [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► is all open air and every echo from [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► anywhere in the building everyone in the [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► lobby can hear the elevators talking [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► about opening and closing their doors [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► all day long [TS]

00:10:35 ◼   ► it bounces off the building it's [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► absolutely terrible space for anybody to [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► work but i'm presuming that is [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► profitable for the building owner to [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► rent out so they turned it into an open [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► office but it does also mean that [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► there's a bunch of places for random [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► people like me just to sit down and work [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► if they want to and this is the key [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► thing as you may remember my actual [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► writing space has nowhere to sit [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► because i asked them to take the chair [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► away it only has the standing desk and [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► so [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► if I'm standing up what i want to do and [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► what I am most effective at is pacing [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► around talking out loud and writing but [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► if I can't do that because somebody else [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► is in the office next door to me talking [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► on the phone then i have to go sit down [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► and write silently like I used to do in [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► cafes bunch so then i have to relocate [TS]

00:11:23 ◼   ► to somewhere there's a chair and the [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► only place that there is a chair is the [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► big open-air lobby downstairs and then I [TS]

00:11:30 ◼   ► bring my noise-canceling headphones and [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► my very loud mechanical keyboard and [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► just work away on a script down there [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► that's what i've been doing but it is it [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► is non-ideal mechanical keyboard is [TS]

00:11:41 ◼   ► almost like bullying I don't think it's [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► like bullying look if if everything I [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► brought this into like a library or [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► something i would agree with you like [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► yes this is this is totally [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► inappropriate but it is already the [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► worst openoffice anywhere in the world [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► that is the loudest with the most echoes [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► with elevator sounds with everything [TS]

00:12:02 ◼   ► that there could possibly be so I feel [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► like maybe bring a mechanical keyboard [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► down their work and to type on it can't [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► be making it more than one percent more [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► uncomfortable than it was before [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► why don't you just get a chair in the [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► office I don't want to share in the [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► office if I have a chair in the office [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► that I need to also have a desk that I [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► consider with the chair [TS]

00:12:22 ◼   ► this is no good you have them into [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► stacked on top of each other right but [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► the the lower desk is not an appropriate [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► sitting height [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► look it's just easier to go down into [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► the lobby with my keyboard and I don't [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► understand what's so hard to understand [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► about this like I just grabbed it and I [TS]

00:12:36 ◼   ► go downstairs and this is easier i don't [TS]

00:12:38 ◼   ► want to chair in my little office it'll [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► get in the way when I'm pacing around [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► that would be no good [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► ok I've ever sent you a picture of this [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► openoffice don't think i have their this [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► is this is a picture of it [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► that's disgusting yeah isn't it awful i [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► will just say however that like while I [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► will have to work downstairs and it is [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► non-ideal in the theme of open offices [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► allow spying the most interesting thing [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► is that it does seem like the people [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► working in that open office downstairs [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► are some kind of startup accelerator but [TS]

00:13:08 ◼   ► it looks like they're hamsters to be [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► honest [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► in some kind of experiment that's what [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► it looks like yeah yeah the physical [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► setup is is not ideal but it's [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► interesting to spy essentially and to [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► listen in on them practicing their [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► starting pitches for venture capitalists [TS]

00:13:29 ◼   ► so if i'm not writing sometimes I'll [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► take off my headphones and spy but I [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► feel like it's not spying you're workin [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► in the lobby and talking out loud I'm [TS]

00:13:37 ◼   ► just you know just happen to be [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► overhearing the interesting things that [TS]

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00:13:57 ◼   ► a habit of Miss placing things at home [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► I was merely the other day trying to [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► look for something technology-related [TS]

00:14:05 ◼   ► for the project that i'm working on and [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► I could not find it in my house and it [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► took way longer than I wanted it to and [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► considering i'm looking at moving soon [TS]

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00:15:20 ◼   ► by bluetooth LE so the battery lasts for [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► up to a year a protip what I've been [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► doing my trackers I [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► put them in my suitcases so I can track [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► them and make sure that they're in the [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► airport when i land so i don't have that [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► anxiety of waiting the baggage claim the [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► track up you'll never lose your [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► possessions again so you want to go to [TS]

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00:15:58 ◼   ► up for their support of this show and we [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► laugh and all right like are you going [TS]

00:16:03 ◼   ► to talk about this project that you've [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► been sharing with me for the past couple [TS]

00:16:08 ◼   ► of weeks sending me the links things to [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► look at [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► obviously a project that is on your mind [TS]

00:16:15 ◼   ► a lot but that yet seem reluctant to [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► talk about are we gonna talk about this [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► today I think we should talk about this [TS]

00:16:23 ◼   ► today we're only talking about this [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► today because you're forcing me to talk [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► about this [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► I'm not forcing you to talk about this i [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► think you want to talk about this [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► oh I do hard to do it is difficult [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► because i'm working on a new thing which [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► is full of risks and I feel like I'm not [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► ready but you're telling me now and it's [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► now or never [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► basically that i have to talk about this [TS]

00:16:45 ◼   ► but I think we need to talk about this [TS]

00:16:47 ◼   ► because you've been sending me links [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► stuff to look at [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► and I think you are falling for the kind [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► of thing that many people embarking on [TS]

00:16:57 ◼   ► new projects fall for which is this idea [TS]

00:16:59 ◼   ► that you need some kind of perfect plan [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► and everything absolutely ready in place [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► before you can go ahead so I disagree [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► with your point but there's no point in [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► arguing it until we talk about it and [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► then we can come back to that about the [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► idea of the perfect plan right but i [TS]

00:17:18 ◼   ► think from what I've seen and I think we [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► should just we should just go from here [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► even if you don't feel like you're ready [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► because you never actually will be more [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► ready [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► so what are you working on my can tell [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► the people a youtube channel [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► who [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► what are you gonna do on your YouTube [TS]

00:17:33 ◼   ► channel mike i am working on a vlogging [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► project now that anybody who doesn't [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► know what blogging is that the style of [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► which i am going to be working on is [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► basically just showing things happening [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► in my life and talking about things that [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► I'm interested in [TS]

00:17:54 ◼   ► so it's basically just going to be me [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► and the camera and the viewer just maybe [TS]

00:18:01 ◼   ► going around London or I'm home and I [TS]

00:18:04 ◼   ► got things to show and I got things to [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► talk about [TS]

00:18:06 ◼   ► that's effectively what I'm doing so I [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► have many influences for this i have [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► recently become obsessed with casey nice [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► nap [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► whoo and I've been thinking about doing [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► something like this for awhile because [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► i've been coming more and more [TS]

00:18:21 ◼   ► interested in blogging and we spoken [TS]

00:18:23 ◼   ► about some of the channel 2 i've been [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► watching on this show and now I just [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► feel compelled to do this in a way that [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► reminds me of how it felt when I was [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► compelled to begin podcasting I just [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► feel like I have a thing in my brain [TS]

00:18:42 ◼   ► that I want to get out and I feel like I [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► have ideas of how i would do something [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► like this and instead of just sitting [TS]

00:18:54 ◼   ► and watching other people's work and [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► being like I would do it differently who [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► I feel like I need to show how I would [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► do it [TS]

00:19:01 ◼   ► so this where the project came from i [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► think but i have more reasons than that [TS]

00:19:06 ◼   ► i felt that i was i was just going to [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► say that as with many projects that [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► people eventually embark on this is this [TS]

00:19:17 ◼   ► is something that when we meet up on [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► occasion in person I feel like you have [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► had this clearly on the back of your [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► mind is something you've been circling [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► around or I don't know maybe six months [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► four months like this is clearly been [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► something that has been mentioned you're [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► talking about bloggers and talking about [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► how vlogs are put together what makes [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► vlogs interesting what you could do in a [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► blog like this is [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► clearly something that has been growing [TS]

00:19:48 ◼   ► in your mind overtime and so whenever it [TS]

00:19:51 ◼   ► was maybe a week ago when you finally [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► sent me the first link to take a look at [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► the first thing that you have put [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► together i was happy i thought I here we [TS]

00:20:00 ◼   ► go [TS]

00:20:00 ◼   ► Mike's finally getting this out of his [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► head and he's making something happen [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► with this [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► yeah so I don't you yet fully have a [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► real plan for what this is going to [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► result in being who which is why I don't [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► feel like I'm ready but there are a few [TS]

00:20:23 ◼   ► things that I do know who I know it [TS]

00:20:26 ◼   ► won't be daily oh yeah another thing you [TS]

00:20:28 ◼   ► have time for your schedule [TS]

00:20:30 ◼   ► not right now it may turn into that in [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► the future but right now it's not and i [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► am taking a page from your book and I [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► don't have a shared room which i will be [TS]

00:20:39 ◼   ► uploading videos because as it turns out [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► right now in my life I don't have [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► something to put together in video form [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► every day because there may be multiple [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► days where it's just me at home i don't [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► know if i can make of a lot of [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► interesting stuff out that every single [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► day [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► whoo-hoo so I'm kind of playing around [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► with it and seeing what comes out [TS]

00:21:02 ◼   ► however in the last week I've made three [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► videos so I've been bitten by the bug he [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► definitely have been you definitely have [TS]

00:21:10 ◼   ► been bitten by the bug and yes i think i [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► think it's excellent to not necessarily [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► commit yourself to schedule starting [TS]

00:21:17 ◼   ► this off even though that is the [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► contrary advice to the standard YouTube [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► advice like oh you should definitely [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► have a schedule [TS]

00:21:24 ◼   ► obviously i don't agree with that and I [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► think that you should do exactly what [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► you're doing here which is when you can [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► put something together put something [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► together but to commit yourself to a [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► schedule when you are running this whole [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► lot of their podcasting empire on the [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► side and may have many days in a row [TS]

00:21:45 ◼   ► where your day is sitting in front of a [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► microphone like you just you can't [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► necessarily commit to a particular [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► schedule with that not so I think this [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► is this is totally totally the right way [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► to go [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► because this is 100-percent a side [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► project and i have my own business to [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► run as you say so and I can't jeopardize [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► my real business which puts food on my [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► table for another little idea that I [TS]

00:22:10 ◼   ► have which might be fun [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► Lou so i need to be realistic about it [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► in that way but I also feel like at [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► least the listeners of the show you know [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► we know that people like to know what [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► happens in the life of someone who is [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► self-employed and i think i can bring [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► some of that into these videos as well [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► you know to kind of show what my life is [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► like get a bit behind the scenes in the [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► type of thing that I do and maybe also [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► just talk about some of the things and [TS]

00:22:37 ◼   ► some of the challenges that I go through [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► in trying to run my business I can see [TS]

00:22:41 ◼   ► it as a kind of just a companion to [TS]

00:22:43 ◼   ► everything that I do which I guess is [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► what of log is right well as log is what [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► you make it [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► I like 44 many bloggers the vlog is the [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► main thing right that this is like the [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► central point of their life but I think [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► it's also very clear that four tons of [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► loggers like including Casey nice tat [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► that the the vlog is like an additional [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► thing to the prime thing that they do in [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► their life right that and and and i [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► think that that actually ends up almost [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► almost always tending to be the much [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► more interesting blogs because you know [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► when that when the vlog is the central [TS]

00:23:28 ◼   ► thing in and of itself it's a no it just [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► has a different feeling to me then this [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► person has an interesting life outside [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► of this vlog and the end the vlog is [TS]

00:23:40 ◼   ► simply showing you a little bit of what [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► is it like to be this person and at [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► least for me personally I don't find it [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► super interesting when it's like what is [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► it like to be this person [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► well this what it's like to be this [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► person is a person who's always showing [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► you what it's like to be them right like [TS]

00:23:59 ◼   ► if the vlog is the main thing so I can [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► totally see this as something working [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► for you as a compendium [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► to what it is that you're doing and all [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► kinds of other areas so I i think this [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► is like this is an interesting project [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► for you to have on the side like I'm [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► kind of curious to see where this is [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► going to end up going but I'm i would [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► like to know that what you said you got [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► bitten by the the bug as this is like a [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► thing that you want to do but like why [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► do you think that happened to you like [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► why do you think this was a project that [TS]

00:24:38 ◼   ► you became attracted to overtime [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► let me just take this brief aside to say [TS]

00:24:45 ◼   ► that my channel is youtube.com slash my [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► curly that's that is that in case you [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► want to go watch the videos that i put [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► together right now oh so you're going to [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► the ones that you have shown me you're [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► definitely going to put them up i think [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► so [TS]

00:24:58 ◼   ► a good good you definitely should ok [TS]

00:25:00 ◼   ► other this is this was for the listener [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► there's a little bit of uncertainty here [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► where Mike was sending my videos and [TS]

00:25:05 ◼   ► he's like Oh what do you think about [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► this maybe i'll put up maybe I don't and [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► I think you should totally put up those [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► three videos and have them available for [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► people so yes put them up you're all [TS]

00:25:13 ◼   ► locked in now [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► great Mike's first three videos will be [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► up at youtube.com slash my curly so you [TS]

00:25:21 ◼   ► asked y like y videos you know what why [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► is this a thing that has caught your [TS]

00:25:27 ◼   ► attention to the point at which it's [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► gotten over the barriers of like is this [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► a project that you should work on like [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► why is it attracted your attention why [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► is it a thing that you want to work on I [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► learned something about myself about [TS]

00:25:40 ◼   ► five or six years ago that writing is [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► not my thing [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► even I can do it I'm competent at it i [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► can put out some interesting stuff if I [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► try art but I don't enjoy it and around [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► that time what I realized was I've [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► really loved podcasts listening to [TS]

00:26:01 ◼   ► podcasts and it became a real source of [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► entertainment for me and then I thought [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► to myself I could do this so i did it [TS]

00:26:10 ◼   ► and I've now with a lot of hard work and [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► some walkthrough and I've made it into a [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► business [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► recently maybe in the last year I have [TS]

00:26:21 ◼   ► become more interested in YouTube as a [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► medium of entertainment previously [TS]

00:26:25 ◼   ► youtube for me was just follow the link [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► from somewhere else and watch this video [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► that people are talking about but now I [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► think really since i got an apple TV [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► it's become more of a thing in my life [TS]

00:26:38 ◼   ► because I take breaks in my day and one [TS]

00:26:41 ◼   ► of the ways i take breaks in my day now [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► is to turn on the appletv open the [TS]

00:26:44 ◼   ► YouTube app and see what the algorithm [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► is giving me when I'm been finding some [TS]

00:26:50 ◼   ► channels along the way and I've been [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► watching them and I finding myself [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► gravitating more towards watching people [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► in their lives and I think part of the [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► reason for that is since i started my [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► business I spend a lot more time [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► secluded then I used to which is fine i [TS]

00:27:11 ◼   ► not complaining i love my life as it is [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► but I've noticed that and I think part [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► of it is I'm looking for just to see [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► what other people are doing and there's [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► like a little bit of an escape that I [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► can take by watching somebody take a [TS]

00:27:26 ◼   ► flight to Dubai and spend a day there [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► who so I think my brain is kind of [TS]

00:27:32 ◼   ► gravitated to that so whilst that's been [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► happening to me [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► I've becoming more and more interested [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► in YouTube as a medium and video as a [TS]

00:27:42 ◼   ► medium so I've just been paying more [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► attention to it and while side [TS]

00:27:47 ◼   ► previously been very hesitant of video I [TS]

00:27:50 ◼   ► started to see a way that i thought i [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► could put things together without your [TS]

00:27:58 ◼   ► sort of time investment who write [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► because that was always my thinking was [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► like if I made something would it be [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► something animated because I don't [TS]

00:28:08 ◼   ► really want to be on camera and then [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► thinking all how I have to learn this [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► stuff and it would take me a long time [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► to do but I had some thoughts in my mind [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► where I thought to myself I could [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► combine some of the skills that I've [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► learned in crafting audio and editing [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► audio to allow me to create video so [TS]

00:28:27 ◼   ► that was kind of the thesis is can I [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► take these skills to help me create [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► something that I'm happy with with the [TS]

00:28:34 ◼   ► minimum amount of time invested so this [TS]

00:28:37 ◼   ► is just the thing that was like bouncing [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► around in my brain like can I get a good [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► quality video without having to make it [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► all i do in my life right so the more [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► and more of this stuff that I watched [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► the more and more I felt like I had an [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► idea of what was going on like how these [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► things were being put together like I [TS]

00:28:59 ◼   ► couldn't stop seeing the seams right so [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► when you're watching when you're [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► watching the vlogs part of your brain is [TS]

00:29:08 ◼   ► constantly thinking about how all of the [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► shots are constructed yep what what is [TS]

00:29:15 ◼   ► this person doing in this scene [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► how is this shot arranged how is this [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► section flowing into this section like [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► that's that's what your brain is kind of [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► running in the background while you're [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► watching blogs [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► yep and then I couldn't stop thinking [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► about it right and then I thought to [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► myself maybe I should try this and then [TS]

00:29:35 ◼   ► the thing happened to me that I no means [TS]

00:29:40 ◼   ► i have to do something now so in the [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► last few years all the projects that [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► I've really kind of felt like I needed [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► to try and go out my conference on a [TS]

00:29:49 ◼   ► little bit and try they all kept me up [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► at night [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► who and this kept me up at night [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► thinking about this like I would lay in [TS]

00:29:58 ◼   ► bed i would turn everything off i put my [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► head on the pillow and I wouldn't sleep [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► like two hours because I couldn't stop [TS]

00:30:04 ◼   ► thinking about doing this [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► who so I've decided to do it one of the [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► big things in podcasting that we talk [TS]

00:30:13 ◼   ► about all the time is discovery right [TS]

00:30:17 ◼   ► discovery tools that there's no way for [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► people to find podcasts it's very very [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► hard if you like and listen to one [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► podcast to find other podcast that you [TS]

00:30:31 ◼   ► you want to listen to and that that cut [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► that comes out of the thing which i [TS]

00:30:36 ◼   ► think you and i quite liked about the [TS]

00:30:38 ◼   ► casting world which is that there is no [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► central authority [TS]

00:30:41 ◼   ► it's just the wild wild west but a flip [TS]

00:30:45 ◼   ► side of that is since all of the [TS]

00:30:47 ◼   ► individual podcasters are kind of doing [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► their own thing and every podcast [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► listener is mostly just an aggregate of [TS]

00:30:56 ◼   ► all of those individuals there is no [TS]

00:30:59 ◼   ► central authority to do the correlation [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► and the number-crunching to try to [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► figure out if you listen to this [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► you might also want to listen to this [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► and I think podcasting will almost [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► always be facing that kind of discovery [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► problem [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► yeah I've basically like over the last [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► year have realized that the only way to [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► fix this is a way that I'm unhappy with [TS]

00:31:25 ◼   ► with my medium which is to give away all [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► my control [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► right right so what I've just why I've [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► realized is YouTube already fix this [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► problem with their algorithm and by [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► never letting anyone ever have the [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► control right so it's time for me to [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► give in to the algorithm but that's all [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► I'm going to youtube ahead and if [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► there's anything I have learned over my [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► youtube career it is [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► don't try to fight the algorithm for had [TS]

00:31:57 ◼   ► just just accepted as a thing that [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► exists in the world and don't try don't [TS]

00:32:03 ◼   ► try to fight that algorithm I don't [TS]

00:32:05 ◼   ► think podcasting really needs the [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► algorithm [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► I mean that that's kind of that the [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► conclusion that I've drawn here is like [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► that can live on its own and continue [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► doing its thing in my opinion it's fine [TS]

00:32:18 ◼   ► as it is but I want to see what the [TS]

00:32:21 ◼   ► algorithm can do I want to see what [TS]

00:32:23 ◼   ► YouTube algorithm is capable of [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► yeah because I know I find more and more [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► interesting things to watch every single [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► day because i'm feeding the algorithm so [TS]

00:32:32 ◼   ► now i want to be a part of the algorithm [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► right i think that there's not [TS]

00:32:39 ◼   ► unreasonable thing to do and and [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► obviously we've discussed the YouTube [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► algorithm many times and and of course [TS]

00:32:46 ◼   ► everybody's individual experiences is [TS]

00:32:48 ◼   ► different but i agree with you that I am [TS]

00:32:50 ◼   ► as far as all of the the universe of [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► things that try to recommend you stuff [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► you know like Amazon tries to figure out [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► what you want to buy right on netflix [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► tries to figure out what you want to [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► watch next [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► i'm probably going to rank the YouTube [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► algorithm is as the best of all of the [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► recommendation engines out there it's [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► the most effective at being correct yeah [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► how successful is it at picking the next [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► video that i want to watch it's pretty [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► successful if I'm if I'm just on youtube [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► and I'm and I'm looking at some stuff [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► and you know what part of that is [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► actually this is like don't you know [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► don't fight the algorithm and this [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► notion of YouTube discovery is it is [TS]

00:33:35 ◼   ► part of the reason why i put the [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► podcasts up on youtube like I think it's [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► you know what like throw it into the [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► YouTube algorithm right and and have it [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► be available for YouTube 22 using this [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► gigantic stew of things people might [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► like [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► now obviously youtube is not designed [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► for podcast but I feel like can't hurt [TS]

00:33:59 ◼   ► can't hurt to have that stuff up there [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► can't hurt to have cortex in podcast [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► form up on youtube just throw it in [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► there as part of the algorithm but i [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► think what you're doing by doing the [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► vlog and looking at this algorithm is [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► very interesting because unlike unlike [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► the podcasting which is not native [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► you're trying to play the native game [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► and to see to see how many people will [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► find you or find your stuff interesting [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► to watch [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► so like here's the the perfect scenario [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► here right for me [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► like what is the the thing I am [TS]

00:34:37 ◼   ► genuinely aiming for which is to be in [TS]

00:34:41 ◼   ► the algorithm and to build a presence on [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► youtube to feed the podcasts buzo the [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► podcasts are out of the algorithm and I [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► don't think there's ever going to be a [TS]

00:34:51 ◼   ► big benefit for the algorithm like to [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► take those in because they're so long [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► it's completely on ideal right and and [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► hello cortex you described as you're [TS]

00:35:02 ◼   ► amazing [TS]

00:35:02 ◼   ► right but I could never do what you're [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► doing [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► yeah I always find it confusing that as [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► many people listen to podcasts on [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► youtube as there are there are there are [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► actually a surprising number of podcast [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► upload to youtube but I i agree with you [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► that that's almost certainly a tiny tiny [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► number of people who find a thing that [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► they like that they didn't know about [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► already like I'll take them [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► that's great welcome idea it's not is [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► not working within what YouTube really [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► wants which is video content that's [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► actual engaging video content for people [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► to watch so it's like that's the [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► business angle for me like is building [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► up an audience from other areas and then [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► letting them know that I have all these [TS]

00:35:45 ◼   ► pumpkins something can listen to as well [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► as a while a way to try and get those [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► out there a little bit more to new [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► people [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► right right so this is this is discovery [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► in a double sense [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► yeah that that by by extending a [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► pseudopod out into the YouTube world you [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► can have people discover who you are who [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► might not even be aware of podcast as a [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► thing that exists or just mine [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► the airport is yours and then bring them [TS]

00:36:17 ◼   ► into the fold like oh I like this my [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► curly guy he makes interesting videos [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► and then of course obviously because [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► you're making videos about what you do [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► it will be obvious that you run a [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► podcasting company that this is a thing [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► that you do and also the things i'll be [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► making videos about the things that I [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► enjoy and I've podcast about everything [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► i enjoy roof so it's all going to be you [TS]

00:36:39 ◼   ► know I think it's just a good way to [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► kind of build up but the other part of [TS]

00:36:43 ◼   ► it and the real part of like the real [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► reason I'm doing this is because i like [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► to do new things i find doing new things [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► fun and this is a new skill to learn who [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► and I also kind of need this stuff i [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► need to find new things to keep myself [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► interested in my creative work and [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► taking risks and going in new directions [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► helps keep me engaged and active and [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► stuff because i don't have a side [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► project anymore really love and I know [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► from my history that side projects [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► I enjoy them so this can now be a kind [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► of a side project for me [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► yeah i think all creative people do need [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► side projects because I tried doing like [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► side-project podcasts who but that [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► didn't fulfill that part of me right [TS]

00:37:36 ◼   ► it's still just felt like the same thing [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► you're doing now you're doing the same [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► thing again in a bit you know different [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► topic but it's still the same thing [TS]

00:37:44 ◼   ► because the production is the same right [TS]

00:37:48 ◼   ► so like the the talking part is fun in [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► different ways because it's about [TS]

00:37:53 ◼   ► different things but then it's always [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► the same production and the production [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► for video is very very different and i [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► have been surprised how much of my [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► skills are transferable from audio [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► editing to video editing many more than [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► i expected to be honest who and also [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► final cut pro is like an oasis in a [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► desert compared to logic which is just [TS]

00:38:17 ◼   ► analyst and forever like Final Cut Pro [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► the new on Final Cut Pro 10 is super [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► easy to pick up i found if you've used [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► any kind of editing tool of any kind in [TS]

00:38:29 ◼   ► the past like there are tools in there [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► that I'm really getting used to and I'm [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► learning how to do things and I'm doing [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► silly things like things that I know [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► it's silly but they're working and I'm [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► kind of enjoying playing around like I [TS]

00:38:41 ◼   ► have been spending many hours in Final [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► Cut Pro and they have been just flying [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► by the truth i think this is an [TS]

00:38:50 ◼   ► interesting to point out for side [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► projects as well that are going on or [TS]

00:38:54 ◼   ► that have a higher likelihood of being [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► successful is that people I see who have [TS]

00:39:01 ◼   ► successful side projects a very common [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► theme is that those side projects are [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► not out of left field from everything [TS]

00:39:12 ◼   ► else they they remind me of I think it's [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► thinks it's steven johnson came up with [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► this term for technology which is called [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► the adjacent possible of when you think [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► about technological progress there are [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► there are technologies that are adjacent [TS]

00:39:29 ◼   ► Lee possible to [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► whatever your current level of [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► technology is now and I think that [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► there's there's an adjacent possible for [TS]

00:39:37 ◼   ► side projects with regards to skills [TS]

00:39:41 ◼   ► that is wallets in some sense maybe on [TS]

00:39:45 ◼   ► the surface it looks like doing a vlog [TS]

00:39:47 ◼   ► is not really related to doing a podcast [TS]

00:39:51 ◼   ► but you actually do have a lot of skills [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► that are transferable from one to [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► another tech stuff is new [TS]

00:39:59 ◼   ► there's enough that's new and there's [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► enough that's different but everything [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► that you have learned in the past [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► several years about how to cut a podcast [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► that stuff helps you were thinking about [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► how to cut a vlog and even just like you [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► said just their learning how to use [TS]

00:40:17 ◼   ► logic the fact that you already know how [TS]

00:40:20 ◼   ► to use logic to edit podcasts makes it [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► way easier to pick up something like [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► Final Cut I get it makes that adjacent [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► possible much more easy so I think like [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► this this is a good sign for a side [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► project when it is it's new but it is [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► also not just totally out of the the [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► realm of skills that you already have [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► you can you can take skills that you [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► have apply them to this and gain new [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► skills that may feed back into your main [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► project over time [TS]

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00:41:47 ◼   ► a third of your life to it now that [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► mattress i spoke about it is [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► award-winning developed by Casper has a [TS]

00:41:54 ◼   ► sleek design and it is sent to you in an [TS]

00:41:56 ◼   ► impossibly small box so you can easily [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► get it up the stairs in addition to the [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► mattress caspar now also offers an [TS]

00:42:02 ◼   ► adaptive pillow and soft breathable [TS]

00:42:04 ◼   ► sheets as well their matches provides [TS]

00:42:06 ◼   ► spring latex and supportive memory foam [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► to create a mattress that has you know [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► this just the right sink and just the [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► right balance and it keeps your [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► temperature regulated through tonight as [TS]

00:42:16 ◼   ► well [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► mattresses cost well over fifteen [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► hundred dollars usually but casper [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► mattresses cause 514 signs 640 XL 754 [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► full-size 854 queen and 954 king and [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► they're made in America you can get [TS]

00:42:30 ◼   ► fifty dollars towards any mattress [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► purchase but going to casbah calm / [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► cortex and using the code cortex at [TS]

00:42:36 ◼   ► checkout terms and conditions apply [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► thank you so much a Casper for their [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► support of this very sure the thing that [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► I found the weirdest and the thing that [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► I knew was going to be the hardest is [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► being on camera [TS]

00:42:47 ◼   ► yeah they're really comfortable to point [TS]

00:42:49 ◼   ► your phone i guess or whatever you're [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► using that yourself and talk so I'm [TS]

00:42:53 ◼   ► using my fun right now I'm going to [TS]

00:42:55 ◼   ► continue using my iphone for the time [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► being [TS]

00:42:58 ◼   ► who is the camera on the iphone is is [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► really good I've been shooting in 4k [TS]

00:43:01 ◼   ► i'll upload a good like 1080p like this [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► note point right now I'm not loading [TS]

00:43:08 ◼   ► these things in 4k by have 4k video [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► there are a couple of issues with that [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► that the camera can be a little shaky at [TS]

00:43:17 ◼   ► points and the audio isn't the best but [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► I'm trying to add small pieces of [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► equipment to deal with those things [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► who so I'll let you know what i end up [TS]

00:43:27 ◼   ► going with their but i'm i'm tinkering [TS]

00:43:29 ◼   ► around for a few things I did consider [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► buying a point-and-shoot camera for this [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► but decided against it just a few people [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► just who know me well enough said to me [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► that like you will stop doing this if [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► you have to have equipment that you need [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► to take out into the world like you have [TS]

00:43:46 ◼   ► this big philly camera that you need to [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► deal with like that's gonna put you off [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► yeah it's going to be a barrier to [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► putting something together so I'm going [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► of just iphone for the time being I [TS]

00:43:55 ◼   ► think it's a good decision and as we [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► discussed on [TS]

00:43:58 ◼   ► your shows I think people it is easy to [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► overvalue production quality exactly [TS]

00:44:05 ◼   ► right it's like you know what hear your [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► 4k video on your iPhone it's probably [TS]

00:44:10 ◼   ► good enough right like it it probably [TS]

00:44:13 ◼   ► looks good enough [TS]

00:44:14 ◼   ► the thing that was hurting me the most [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► is the audio because that's what I do [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► m-audio in the YouTube world is seems to [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► be nowhere near as important because I [TS]

00:44:25 ◼   ► hear some truly terrible things [TS]

00:44:27 ◼   ► sometimes you know so I'm working out [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► how to do that and I'm seeing what kind [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► of microphone solutions i can use for my [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► iphone to try and make it a little bit [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► better but I'm also seeing what I can do [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► it yet for it but being on camera is [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► awkward and I am a British person so [TS]

00:44:47 ◼   ► awkwardness is is embedded deep within [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► me and I have been trying to record [TS]

00:44:56 ◼   ► myself in the street who talking to my [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► phone right and i'm trying to get over [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► that because it's weird [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► well from the video that you sent me the [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► first time the very first one where [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► you're talking into your phone you're [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► walking down the street looking like a [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► real vlogger mike yet that's vlog 000 at [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► this is very exciting to see you doing [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► that like okay here's here's like being [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► a real blogger without what I wondered [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► though was with this the first take over [TS]

00:45:29 ◼   ► there are many tries of trying to walk [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► around talking into the phone before you [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► got something that was actually usable [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► it was the first take the LA it was [TS]

00:45:39 ◼   ► after many attempts at pressing the [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► record button which I kept bailing on [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► right so I was walking down the street [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► and I think I got three-quarters of the [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► way to my destination before I was [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► actually able to film anything like [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► always too many people around so I'm [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► just trying to get used to that and I [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► feel that it's just something that I [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► will eventually get over who but like [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► even just talking into the camera at [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► home is weird like I never know where to [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► look [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► mmm [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► I'm trying to look at the lens but you [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► have to look at the lens that's what you [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► have to do every now and then just look [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► somewhere else for reasons I don't [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► understand because it's like keeping [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► like contact with somebody who which I'm [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► not the best at so I'm trying to like [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► work these things out of myself who but [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► as with most things that I've ever done [TS]

00:46:30 ◼   ► I feel like it is kind of best to work [TS]

00:46:33 ◼   ► these things out in public which is why [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► i am going to be publishing all the test [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► videos i made great great i'm i'm very [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► happy to hear that because that was my [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► thought as well as they look you made [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► these three videos i think they're good [TS]

00:46:46 ◼   ► enough to put up right it's not like Oh [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► Mike Mike you've done something terrible [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► i know i think you've made three [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► interesting videos right as as like [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► first blogs and at this point that you [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► are well past the proof-of-concept can [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► you film edit put together something [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► that could be a vlog on youtube like the [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► answer to that is totally yes and so at [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► this stage the only way you're going to [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► make any real progress on like what is [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► this going to be is to just make it live [TS]

00:47:18 ◼   ► and to start that feedback loop of [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► people are looking at a thing you know [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► as and as you know as soon as it goes [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► live it's going to be totally different [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► in your mind from how you're thinking [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► about it now is we're having a [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► conversation right one still private [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► it's like it's a theoretical thing and I [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► guarantee you when you press the button [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► to make it public something internal [TS]

00:47:41 ◼   ► about you will feel very differently [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► about those videos right now I'm proud [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► of them [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► as you should be Mike so actually let's [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► talk about comments [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► ok because i think this leads very [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► nicely into that ok i have had a real [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► internal struggle with the comments what [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► do you mean there's no comments you have [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► any videos up while the comments that [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► will exist [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► oh ok like as to whether to deal with [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► that whatever to even have them turned [TS]

00:48:12 ◼   ► on [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► I have I have kind of gone back and [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► forth about it because do i want i mean [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► no i don't but do I want people leaving [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► comments about my appearance because [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► that's definitely going to happen at [TS]

00:48:26 ◼   ► some point and I need to work out if i'm [TS]

00:48:32 ◼   ► able to have I have to work out how I [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► deal with that because that's going to [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► be very new for me this is a whole new [TS]

00:48:43 ◼   ► world of things to get used to [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► yeah you know I'm pretty used to the [TS]

00:48:47 ◼   ► criticism constructive and not content [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► unconstructive that gets thrown my way [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► throughout my daily life because i've [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► done a thing for a long period of time [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► but this is a new thing to to deal with [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► and I'm the decision I've come to is [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► that I need to embrace the medium so i [TS]

00:49:08 ◼   ► will be leaving all the comments on [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► no thank god ok right but i need to work [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► out how i do it was that looks like as [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► you were talking I was trying to [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► mentally build up the arguments to try [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► to be like Mike you really need to have [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► that his comments on I know the problem [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► with leaving them off is inviting their [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► to be worse than there ever could be but [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► it's about that they're getting over the [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► the mental barrier of allowing the world [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► to comment on me in and and basically an [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► inviting criticism [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► yeah but that's just something i'm just [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► going to have to take in my stride [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► because I the whole point of this [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► project is to understand youtube at a [TS]

00:49:50 ◼   ► deeper level who so i need to give [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► myself into the platform who and part of [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► the platform historically is comments [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► it's a big part of what helps people [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► make their videos and it creates [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► community around someone and so i figure [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► i need to let it fly and deal with it [TS]

00:50:17 ◼   ► accordingly [TS]

00:50:19 ◼   ► yeah i think that there's the only way [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► to do it especially especially if you're [TS]

00:50:24 ◼   ► doing a vlog yeah but if you if you [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► started [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► log and you turned comments off it's a [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► mistake [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► not only is it a Miss take i think it is [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► almost an aggressive maneuver right [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► that's that's how i would perceive it [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► like here's my life [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► yeah just accept it right but I i have [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► filmed a thing and i have put it out [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► into the world and i will receive no [TS]

00:50:49 ◼   ► commentary on it [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► yes that's Lacey's for you two million [TS]

00:50:53 ◼   ► joy right as I could you know who to [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► know who puts out youtube videos and [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► turns off the comments with the very [TS]

00:51:01 ◼   ► attitude of we have made a thing for you [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► to merely accept and enjoy apple right [TS]

00:51:07 ◼   ► no comments on Apple's videos yeah but I [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► feel like they are the height of that [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► example of like and apple have come down [TS]

00:51:15 ◼   ► from the mount with air pods right [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► they've made a video about air pods they [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► gonna put it up on YouTube and there's [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► no comments like Apple is not interested [TS]

00:51:25 ◼   ► in your YouTube comments fairly on to [TS]

00:51:27 ◼   ► the right and apple can get away with it [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► but its lucky if it's still always [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► annoys me that there's like there's no [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► comments on Apple videos even though of [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► course like what would they add nothing [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► we're going to have absolutely bad thing [TS]

00:51:40 ◼   ► quality but I always have [TS]

00:51:42 ◼   ► I'm just always aware that they don't [TS]

00:51:44 ◼   ► have comments because they made the [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► choice right like the default is [TS]

00:51:47 ◼   ► comments on and they decided to turn [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► them off right [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► yes and I also think if I was the CEO of [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► Apple i would probably say like you know [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► what let's just turn those comments [TS]

00:51:54 ◼   ► offer we have nothing to gain and all it [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► does is almost certainly snarkily [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► undermine whatever the messages we want [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► to get across these videos because the [TS]

00:52:03 ◼   ► only people that are going to comment on [TS]

00:52:04 ◼   ► them are people that have an extra grand [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► exactly but so that is the the to me [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► like the pure embodiment of what I think [TS]

00:52:12 ◼   ► turning off the comments largely is is [TS]

00:52:14 ◼   ► like I have made a thing and you are to [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► just accept it an apple can get away [TS]

00:52:20 ◼   ► with that but i think is especially if [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► anyone out there like I want to start a [TS]

00:52:25 ◼   ► blog what I don't want comments like [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► don't don't bother [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► yeah because i think it it sends the [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► totally wrong message [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► this is the thing like if if I knew the [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► comments were going to be like Twitter I [TS]

00:52:39 ◼   ► would have no problem leaving [TS]

00:52:40 ◼   ► one because the vast majority of [TS]

00:52:43 ◼   ► feedback that I received on twitter is [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► positive and in a lot of times it's [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► people who enjoy what I do telling me [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► that which is a little right who I hope [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► youtube comments will be like that for [TS]

00:52:57 ◼   ► me but I don't know that so and again [TS]

00:53:02 ◼   ► it's just like the criticism that could [TS]

00:53:04 ◼   ► be levied my way could be very different [TS]

00:53:06 ◼   ► than what I'm used to so I'm just [TS]

00:53:10 ◼   ► wondering how I will deal with that [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► without making a video about the [TS]

00:53:14 ◼   ► comments right yeah i mean look at in in [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► general when you're starting something [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► like this [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► the people who are watching in the [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► beginning are the people who like you [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► like this is how they have found it in [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► the first place [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► hello cortex business yeah exactly like [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► I can't imagine there are very many [TS]

00:53:30 ◼   ► cortex listeners who are hate listening [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► to the show [TS]

00:53:35 ◼   ► I mean you know the people who like to [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► hand wash the dishes maybe they hate [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► listen to the show but as you know they [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► just like a tiny one influential [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► unimportant segment of the audience [TS]

00:53:46 ◼   ► right they probably won't leave any [TS]

00:53:47 ◼   ► comments at all but but like the vast [TS]

00:53:49 ◼   ► majority of people who are watching the [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► thing like they will have found it [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► because they listen to the show they're [TS]

00:53:54 ◼   ► interested in the work that you do [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► they're going to click the link in the [TS]

00:53:57 ◼   ► show notes they want to see what it's [TS]

00:53:58 ◼   ► like and if they don't like it they [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► probably just won't say anything at all [TS]

00:54:03 ◼   ► and if they do like it they'll probably [TS]

00:54:05 ◼   ► leave a nice comment like that that's [TS]

00:54:07 ◼   ► how things start in the beginning I [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► think a lot of the stuff that people [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► complain about with the YouTube comments [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► like that that will happen if and when [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► the channel starts to grow right if and [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► if and when your idea of the algorithm [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► picking up on your channel as a vlog to [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► maybe recommend other other viewers like [TS]

00:54:29 ◼   ► that's when that whole world starts [TS]

00:54:32 ◼   ► starting where you get comments from [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► people like drive-by comments people who [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► don't really know fully who you are we [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► have just seen a thing and they click on [TS]

00:54:40 ◼   ► a video and you know and they don't like [TS]

00:54:42 ◼   ► the look of you and then they say so [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► right but that's just but that that [TS]

00:54:45 ◼   ► comes later [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► I don't think that that happens right in [TS]

00:54:50 ◼   ► in the start of it and [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► i was when i was going to credit Hank [TS]

00:54:55 ◼   ► green years ago at one of the [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► conference's when I was talking to him [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► made it made an interesting point about [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► a shift that happens in the comments to [TS]

00:55:05 ◼   ► notice and it's it's the it's the shift [TS]

00:55:08 ◼   ► when people stop talking to you in the [TS]

00:55:13 ◼   ► comments and they start talking about [TS]

00:55:16 ◼   ► you in the comments i can and that that [TS]

00:55:21 ◼   ► is when the tone of comments can really [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► change because like that's when that [TS]

00:55:27 ◼   ► like a channel has grown and then people [TS]

00:55:29 ◼   ► you don't have like your core group of [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► supporters so much right it is people [TS]

00:55:34 ◼   ► they're discussing you as also part of [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► the video right but in but in the [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► beginning people leaving comments will [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► be knowing like oh you're there you're [TS]

00:55:44 ◼   ► reading the comments and they will leave [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► comments to you which has a very [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► different character than people talking [TS]

00:55:53 ◼   ► about you know especially when you're [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► starting like I wouldn't seriously [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► worried about people commenting on your [TS]

00:56:00 ◼   ► beard or whatever like a time I don't [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► think that's a concern be nice out there [TS]

00:56:05 ◼   ► I've been wondering about branding this [TS]

00:56:08 ◼   ► channel as well and I've been thinking [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► about what that looks like and how to go [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► about that this is the marketing manager [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► coming out from inside of you [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► also the person who's you know built a [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► career and that career involves a lot of [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► branding right there's lots and lots of [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► things that I've had a hand in branding [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► now [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► good or bad but it's just something that [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► I think about now whenever a new project [TS]

00:56:37 ◼   ► has begun [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► what is the name of the project what [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► does it look like so I've decided to go [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► with Mike early as the youtube channel [TS]

00:56:46 ◼   ► name who because I wanted to be my name [TS]

00:56:49 ◼   ► i don't i don't want to give it a name I [TS]

00:56:52 ◼   ► don't know what it would be like which [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► is like to come up with a name something [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► like smarter every day right like that [TS]

00:56:57 ◼   ► sucker brand of it is on it's not about [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► the person who makes it [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► but I want it to be about the videos are [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► about me so I figure they should have my [TS]

00:57:06 ◼   ► name and I wanted to go with my curly [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► even though it's not the name that I [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► used in other places just because i [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► think it fits for this channel a little [TS]

00:57:14 ◼   ► bit more little so that's what I'm going [TS]

00:57:17 ◼   ► with [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► and then I was wondering and I wanted to [TS]

00:57:20 ◼   ► get your opinion on this about the [TS]

00:57:22 ◼   ► Avatar i use shall I use my photo that i [TS]

00:57:25 ◼   ► use in places online like my typical [TS]

00:57:28 ◼   ► avatar do you mean as opposed to [TS]

00:57:32 ◼   ► creating some kind of little like a logo [TS]

00:57:34 ◼   ► or five my curly yeah I mean I have like [TS]

00:57:38 ◼   ► a cartoon character version of myself [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► that was made for some stickers all [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► right that one yeah i know that one [TS]

00:57:44 ◼   ► which I could also use like I what I [TS]

00:57:46 ◼   ► don't know where to go with with that [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► part because yeah I'm just natural you [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► might be the wrong person to ask you [TS]

00:57:58 ◼   ► have I might be the entirely wrong [TS]

00:58:00 ◼   ► person to ask about this i think i would [TS]

00:58:03 ◼   ► actually go with that little cartoon [TS]

00:58:05 ◼   ► logo fide sticker version of you [TS]

00:58:08 ◼   ► yeah I think that's fun right i think it [TS]

00:58:09 ◼   ► could be just a fun little thing that [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► wouldn't have to change so much [TS]

00:58:14 ◼   ► yeah I can feel like a photo of me would [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► change more often [TS]

00:58:18 ◼   ► yeah it'sit's it can last forever [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► I think it's relatively fun and frankly [TS]

00:58:24 ◼   ► I think it looks more professional from [TS]

00:58:26 ◼   ► the start to have a little logo as [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► opposed to just having your face so I [TS]

00:58:31 ◼   ► feel like I without you I wouldn't go [TS]

00:58:33 ◼   ► with the picture of you i would go with [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► the logo fide version of you that i [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► would do now i have to try and work out [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► how you change such a thing on YouTube [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► it's very simple Mike if you want to [TS]

00:58:47 ◼   ► change your profile picture you go to [TS]

00:58:50 ◼   ► Google Plus you have to change your [TS]

00:58:52 ◼   ► profile picture on the Google+ page [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► right you have associated with your [TS]

00:58:57 ◼   ► youtube account and when you change that [TS]

00:59:00 ◼   ► nothing will happen on youtube for quite [TS]

00:59:03 ◼   ► awhile until mysteriously hours later [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► when the caching updates or whatever [TS]

00:59:07 ◼   ► then your YouTube local will change all [TS]

00:59:10 ◼   ► right it's just the obvious thing that [TS]

00:59:11 ◼   ► you would expect go over to this google+ [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► pages you [TS]

00:59:15 ◼   ► is for nothing else except changing the [TS]

00:59:17 ◼   ► logo of your YouTube channel that's how [TS]

00:59:19 ◼   ► that works well that seems easy Google+ [TS]

00:59:22 ◼   ► integration [TS]

00:59:22 ◼   ► yeah he loves it the best ok so I know [TS]

00:59:26 ◼   ► this might be a it might be kind of a [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► funny thing to ask you Mike since at the [TS]

00:59:31 ◼   ► time of recording this isn't even up yet [TS]

00:59:35 ◼   ► but this isn't even public but like what [TS]

00:59:41 ◼   ► are you what do you view as the [TS]

00:59:45 ◼   ► potential end game or or outcome of this [TS]

00:59:50 ◼   ► project like what what is what does this [TS]

00:59:53 ◼   ► being a successful side-project look [TS]

00:59:56 ◼   ► like for you [TS]

00:59:57 ◼   ► the problem is [TS]

00:59:57 ◼   ► the problem is [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► is I have no real understanding of [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► YouTube from an audience size [TS]

01:00:06 ◼   ► perspective who I mean six-figure [TS]

01:00:12 ◼   ► viewcount sound nice but that feels [TS]

01:00:15 ◼   ► almost impossible to get without a lot [TS]

01:00:18 ◼   ► of work [TS]

01:00:19 ◼   ► mm so my my feeling is if I can reach [TS]

01:00:24 ◼   ► five figures we live in a time where I [TS]

01:00:30 ◼   ► don't feel like I'm burning out who [TS]

01:00:33 ◼   ► they'll be happy because that will allow [TS]

01:00:35 ◼   ► me to continue going but that's kind of [TS]

01:00:38 ◼   ► what i have i don't really have a [TS]

01:00:40 ◼   ► measurement of success yet i think i [TS]

01:00:43 ◼   ► will get that once I start I need to see [TS]

01:00:45 ◼   ► what the real nurse of it is because [TS]

01:00:48 ◼   ► even then like I'm not saying like I [TS]

01:00:50 ◼   ► think i can get that I have no idea [TS]

01:00:53 ◼   ► what's gonna happen but i am very aware [TS]

01:00:58 ◼   ► that like I'm starting at a good place [TS]

01:01:01 ◼   ► because i have another thing that I can [TS]

01:01:04 ◼   ► say to people hey go check out this [TS]

01:01:06 ◼   ► thing right so i have a way to try and [TS]

01:01:08 ◼   ► get people in so I think if I can't [TS]

01:01:10 ◼   ► achieve 10,000 views on a video within [TS]

01:01:14 ◼   ► six months who then i will know at that [TS]

01:01:18 ◼   ► point that maybe i need to redress my [TS]

01:01:20 ◼   ► efforts right button there's a lot of [TS]

01:01:24 ◼   ► not truly understanding what this is [TS]

01:01:27 ◼   ► gonna look like from a work perspective [TS]

01:01:30 ◼   ► right now a lot of that is just going to [TS]

01:01:33 ◼   ► happen as I work through all of this so [TS]

01:01:36 ◼   ► i have no idea how many videos I'm going [TS]

01:01:39 ◼   ► to put up in a week or in a month [TS]

01:01:42 ◼   ► I have no idea right now what it will [TS]

01:01:45 ◼   ► take to keep me to do this who have no [TS]

01:01:49 ◼   ► idea how much time it's going to take me [TS]

01:01:50 ◼   ► to do this because right now all I'm [TS]

01:01:53 ◼   ► doing is making the videos but there's [TS]

01:01:55 ◼   ► more than that you've gotta manage it [TS]

01:01:57 ◼   ► all right [TS]

01:01:59 ◼   ► like I don't know so one thing that I do [TS]

01:02:03 ◼   ► want to do though is to address all of [TS]

01:02:05 ◼   ► this stuff honestly on this show and [TS]

01:02:10 ◼   ► talk about what it's like [TS]

01:02:13 ◼   ► to start and try and run this side [TS]

01:02:16 ◼   ► project and make it something meaningful [TS]

01:02:18 ◼   ► who so i think i could be interesting [TS]

01:02:20 ◼   ► since it i'm very open ended on this [TS]

01:02:22 ◼   ► because i have no real understanding of [TS]

01:02:26 ◼   ► what is involved until I actually go out [TS]

01:02:29 ◼   ► and do it so like until then I can't [TS]

01:02:32 ◼   ► really make up any goals but i will come [TS]

01:02:35 ◼   ► back to this show at some point in the [TS]

01:02:38 ◼   ► near future with some more hard and fast [TS]

01:02:40 ◼   ► goals based on my experience yeah it's [TS]

01:02:43 ◼   ► interesting it's interesting to hear you [TS]

01:02:45 ◼   ► sort of throwout it like a rough number [TS]

01:02:47 ◼   ► and a and a rough time frame I really [TS]

01:02:51 ◼   ► kind of wish I never said that number [TS]

01:02:52 ◼   ► right but he's like here's here's the [TS]

01:02:54 ◼   ► thing that i want to i like what i want [TS]

01:02:56 ◼   ► to make so clear is again to to the [TS]

01:03:01 ◼   ► listeners it's very easy to to hear [TS]

01:03:03 ◼   ► something like that and think like oh [TS]

01:03:05 ◼   ► there's a particular goal and cut off [TS]

01:03:07 ◼   ► but I like I cannot I cannot emphasize [TS]

01:03:10 ◼   ► any more strongly how how different a [TS]

01:03:16 ◼   ► thing is once it's really out in the [TS]

01:03:19 ◼   ► world versus once you're thinking about [TS]

01:03:21 ◼   ► it before it even started [TS]

01:03:24 ◼   ► that's why it's like I'm just kind of [TS]

01:03:25 ◼   ► interested to see like are you even [TS]

01:03:26 ◼   ► going to throw out a number because it's [TS]

01:03:28 ◼   ► just all incredibly unreal [TS]

01:03:32 ◼   ► before you begin it doesn't exist right [TS]

01:03:35 ◼   ► it [TS]

01:03:36 ◼   ► yeah just it's just talking about clouds [TS]

01:03:37 ◼   ► in the sky right and and that they all [TS]

01:03:40 ◼   ► of the various factors [TS]

01:03:42 ◼   ► you can't know you can't know three [TS]

01:03:46 ◼   ► months from now [TS]

01:03:47 ◼   ► how long is it how long does it take you [TS]

01:03:49 ◼   ► to make a vlog right maybe three months [TS]

01:03:51 ◼   ► from now you become a machine and you [TS]

01:03:53 ◼   ► can turn out vlogs really really fast [TS]

01:03:55 ◼   ► because there's something I did one of [TS]

01:03:57 ◼   ► them in two-and-a-half house right i [TS]

01:03:59 ◼   ► have recorded it i ended it and I put it [TS]

01:04:02 ◼   ► on youtube because i had have had them [TS]

01:04:04 ◼   ► as unlisted videos and I did that in [TS]

01:04:07 ◼   ► two-and-a-half house right you you've [TS]

01:04:09 ◼   ► made a thing and you put it out in the [TS]

01:04:11 ◼   ► world right and so like it's it's there [TS]

01:04:15 ◼   ► and all I'm saying is like future Mike [TS]

01:04:18 ◼   ► doesn't know really how much work is [TS]

01:04:22 ◼   ► this going to be [TS]

01:04:24 ◼   ► future Mike doesn't know how successful [TS]

01:04:26 ◼   ► it's going to be and I think most [TS]

01:04:28 ◼   ► importantly future Mike doesn't know how [TS]

01:04:32 ◼   ► much he is going to like the thing [TS]

01:04:36 ◼   ► look why is why does that elicits a [TS]

01:04:40 ◼   ► laugh because it's true and yeah but [TS]

01:04:42 ◼   ► it's fine i might end up hating this in [TS]

01:04:45 ◼   ► a month [TS]

01:04:45 ◼   ► exactly it's very easy to imagine a [TS]

01:04:48 ◼   ► scenario where you feel like I just I I [TS]

01:04:50 ◼   ► don't want to do this right here like [TS]

01:04:53 ◼   ► you've made videos even if they're [TS]

01:04:55 ◼   ► getting views you just feel like it's [TS]

01:04:57 ◼   ► not a thing that you want to do [TS]

01:04:58 ◼   ► really this is this is one of the [TS]

01:04:59 ◼   ► reasons why I i have never had any [TS]

01:05:03 ◼   ► interest in doing a vlog like aside from [TS]

01:05:06 ◼   ► my own desires to kind of live at a [TS]

01:05:08 ◼   ► normal relatively private life [TS]

01:05:10 ◼   ► I just know that the the rare occasions [TS]

01:05:13 ◼   ► when I've even thought about doing a [TS]

01:05:15 ◼   ► vlog even if I was gonna do something [TS]

01:05:18 ◼   ► where I'm not appearing in it I just [TS]

01:05:20 ◼   ► personally don't like separating a [TS]

01:05:24 ◼   ► moment where it's like I'm living in [TS]

01:05:26 ◼   ► doing an interesting thing from i am [TS]