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00:00:00 ◼   ► so I have to warn you that you are [TS]

00:00:01 ◼   ► stepping into a podcast with a person [TS]

00:00:04 ◼   ► who hasn't slept very much in five days [TS]

00:00:06 ◼   ► and has not prepared at all and is [TS]

00:00:09 ◼   ► already at the worn thin edge of all of [TS]

00:00:14 ◼   ► his nerve so good luck to you with this [TS]

00:00:16 ◼   ► one Mike alright so as we're recording [TS]

00:00:18 ◼   ► in case you hadn't already guessed grey [TS]

00:00:21 ◼   ► is in an animation coma [TS]

00:00:24 ◼   ► I think coma coma would be sweet relief [TS]

00:00:28 ◼   ► it'sit's all the activity that's the [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► problem like I'm trying to think of what [TS]

00:00:33 ◼   ► the term would be right because when [TS]

00:00:34 ◼   ► you're in a coma your kind of like stuck [TS]

00:00:36 ◼   ► right is nothing you can do your kind of [TS]

00:00:39 ◼   ► imprisoned within yourself i guess in a [TS]

00:00:40 ◼   ► way right and i'm trying to think what [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► the animation is doing to you like [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► animation j or something that what how [TS]

00:00:47 ◼   ► would you describe this euro I've [TS]

00:00:49 ◼   ► basically giving you sweet relief from [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► animation for an hour or so [TS]

00:00:53 ◼   ► the only reason i am talking to you [TS]

00:00:56 ◼   ► right now is because I physically need [TS]

00:01:00 ◼   ► to take a break and so you are my quote [TS]

00:01:04 ◼   ► break at the moment but yes what was the [TS]

00:01:08 ◼   ► proper analogy [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► let's see let's try not to not try not [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► to overblow it I animations sweatshop [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► maybe that's a good one [TS]

00:01:15 ◼   ► yeah because that's what it feels like [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► just to clarify in case there are any [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► legal representatives listening it's [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► only great in this sweatshop which is [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► something we'll talk about later on [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► actually but right now the sweatshop [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► consists of only you there are no other [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► people [TS]

00:01:31 ◼   ► yeah that you're forcing to do the look [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► yeah it's just it's just me i am talking [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► to you from the room in which i have [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► been sitting not looking at my watch now [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► or four days straight of animation so [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► yeah I'm going a little crazy so [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► basically the video the the encryption [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► video that you made it will be out by [TS]

00:01:55 ◼   ► the time the show comes out this is what [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► you're currently in the midst of [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► creating yes that's correct that's [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► correct but you say you've been there [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► for four days straight [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► like what is that like you sleeping in [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► that room you what how many hours are [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► you sleeping like I'm just interested in [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► understanding that the [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► crunch what is happening here so what [TS]

00:02:16 ◼   ► happens here is this little routine that [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► I've talked about before is that it's [TS]

00:02:20 ◼   ► for various reasons i have always just [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► found that the way that I work is just [TS]

00:02:25 ◼   ► by doing all of the animation in one big [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► go that this is just the way it works [TS]

00:02:30 ◼   ► for me this is what sort of takes less [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► time than trying to spread it out [TS]

00:02:36 ◼   ► although there are other reasons why I [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► tend not to spread it out but what i [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► have done is that I get up I'm getting [TS]

00:02:44 ◼   ► up usually around six or so and i live [TS]

00:02:49 ◼   ► by timers for the time that I'm [TS]

00:02:53 ◼   ► animating so I have a little loop that I [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► just repeat until I fall asleep and so [TS]

00:02:58 ◼   ► the timer's go 40 minutes 7 minutes 40 [TS]

00:03:02 ◼   ► minutes 20 minutes [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► repeat and so this is what I do so it's [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► a 40 minute bursts of work a quick seven [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► minute break another 40 minutes of work [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► and then a longer 20-minute break where [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► I'm trying to stand up and maybe get [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► something to eat or take a walk around [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► the block or whatever it is and so I [TS]

00:03:22 ◼   ► just repeat that until i go to sleep in [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► the end so i have been tracking my time [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► and and it's just yeah it's a huge it's [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► a huge number of minutes that are poured [TS]

00:03:35 ◼   ► into animation over the in the entirety [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► of the day this is a horrible way to [TS]

00:03:41 ◼   ► look but it's only for a short time or [TS]

00:03:46 ◼   ► at least the what hat what happens what [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► happens is i always think like others [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► will just be two days but i have been [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► realizing that particularly with the [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► last couple things that were working on [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► them and slightly bigger slightly more [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► complicated projects and I originally [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► anticipated and so while it's like I'll [TS]

00:04:03 ◼   ► do this just for two days [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► this is now turned into like a four days [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► probably it'll be finished up in in five [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► actual days and then it will be done but [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► yeah I don't like it but this is this is [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► how the sausage gets made right but [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► there's a problem [TS]

00:04:22 ◼   ► if there is a significant problem which [TS]

00:04:25 ◼   ► is clear to me and I'm sure to you that [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► is manifesting itself because of these [TS]

00:04:30 ◼   ► crunch Sprint's that you do and that's [TS]

00:04:34 ◼   ► RSI you tweeted a couple of weeks ago [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► that you were really struggling with [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► some RSI stuff and I know from [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► conversations that we've had that it's [TS]

00:04:45 ◼   ► been particularly bad recently who [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► so what is going on here with your RSI [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► is it any different to before and what [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► are you doing about it [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► yeah sorry sighs the thing that we've [TS]

00:04:59 ◼   ► touched upon before in this show and [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► different ways to try to to manage it [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► and to deal with this one is one of [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► these problems like it's an ongoing [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► thing like if you start to get it you're [TS]

00:05:13 ◼   ► going to have to manage it over over the [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► long term [TS]

00:05:16 ◼   ► now what happened to me recently the [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► thing that I tweeted about was when I [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► was animating the previous video which [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► was the the Q&A video that i put up i [TS]

00:05:26 ◼   ► don't know like two weeks ago an hour at [TS]

00:05:28 ◼   ► the time we were recording because that [TS]

00:05:30 ◼   ► video is just very long and because i [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► did have a bit of an advertising [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► deadline but I needed to hit like I was [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► busy and a meeting that thing as much as [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► I possibly could and I think they no [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► small part because of the thing that we [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► might touch upon later as well like i [TS]

00:05:51 ◼   ► have been sitting at my computer much [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► less than the normal over the past many [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► months like this is the thing that has [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► really escalated and so now it's a funny [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► situation that when I sit down at my [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► computer it's a it's a place where I [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► don't normally sit and so I think my [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► body is finding itself in this position [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► of like oh we don't do this a little bit [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► every day it's now changed to a thing [TS]

00:06:15 ◼   ► where it's like we don't normally do [TS]

00:06:16 ◼   ► this hardly ever and then suddenly we do [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► this for several days in a row it's [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► probably like a shock to your system [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► I think that's what it is like i have [TS]

00:06:27 ◼   ► been finding the last animation and this [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► animation much more physically difficult [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► to do than previous ones and i really [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► think it's a sign [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► effective just not being at the computer [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► very much at all [TS]

00:06:39 ◼   ► so your pain is is in the wrist right so [TS]

00:06:43 ◼   ► i have here [TS]

00:06:45 ◼   ► welcome to the old man complaining about [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► problems bodka you know that it's not [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► all right because I mean I've had this [TS]

00:06:50 ◼   ► problem and I'm but a spring chicken you [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► are Mike you weren't funny spring [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► chicken affects us all the things i have [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► to have two problems [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► neither of which are our fun the one [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► that I I worry much more about is that [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► my right hand in particular because this [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► is the hand amusing to do the vast [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► majority of my animation that hasn't [TS]

00:07:19 ◼   ► just a a kind of stereotypical RSI [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► problem that after a while no matter how [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► much i'm switching between the pen [TS]

00:07:26 ◼   ► tablet and between a mouse in between a [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► trackball like eventually my three [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► primary fingers like my index middle and [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► and thumb and the the hand itself like [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► can run into pain just losing them see [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► my the pain that I've had in the past [TS]

00:07:42 ◼   ► was completely localized to my wrist [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► mm it was like burning yeah like just [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► not like not good stuff [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► yeah it can be bad and this is this this [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► plugs into y like I'm I'm so intense [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► about using the Apple pencil like why [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► one of the reasons why i like using that [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► so much of my iPads is because one of [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► the ways of the pain can manifest itself [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► is just physically touching things like [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► so if I'm touching things with the tips [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► of my fingers that can aggravate the RSI [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► a little bit if it's particularly bad so [TS]

00:08:18 ◼   ► being able to indirectly touch something [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► by like holding a pen and then tapping a [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► touch target like that is that is way [TS]

00:08:24 ◼   ► better [TS]

00:08:24 ◼   ► mhm but the thing that really caught me [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► out last time which was a little problem [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► that i have had and that i have tried to [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► manage but that suddenly became a really [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► terrible problem was that I in on my [TS]

00:08:39 ◼   ► right arm on my shoulder blade around [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► there i guess i have a kind of muscular [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► problem that has developed i think from [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► sitting in chair [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► there's for a long time basically but I [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► got it I got a big I got a big scare for [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► the last video because i think i have [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► been animating for something like three [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► days and then I woke up in the morning [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► and the great six o'clock like to have [TS]

00:09:04 ◼   ► to go to work and when I stood up like I [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► just had like this horrific pain kind of [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► rip through my right shoulder blade and [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► it was this muscular problem and i just [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► had to not do anything for the whole day [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► like I just lost a day of work because [TS]

00:09:19 ◼   ► like man I am having a hard time moving [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► around my apartment let alone like [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► sitting at a desk and working all day I [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► so that was a thing like before it had [TS]

00:09:31 ◼   ► been like oh I have a small muscular [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► problem in my back that aggravates me [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► sometimes and then it kind of exploded [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► into the like no no you're going to be [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► lying down all day you're going to be [TS]

00:09:40 ◼   ► doing nothing like I hope you I hope you [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► enjoy finishing off this season of [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► standalone complex but like you can do [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► nothing else all day you can't work [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► you're not going to be able to [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► manipulate anything with your right arm [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► so RSI it's been it's been on my mind [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► then that's but not great so the way [TS]

00:09:58 ◼   ► that you've rehabilitated but from this [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► injury is why i like one week later [TS]

00:10:02 ◼   ► getting back into the animation chair [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► okay well first of all it's like two and [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► a half weeks later that i'm working on [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► another video all that's okay [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► yeah it'sit's forever it's probably why [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► please let me retract my statement [TS]

00:10:17 ◼   ► yeah but now it in between those two [TS]

00:10:20 ◼   ► times I have seen like a massage like a [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► physical therapist person here in London [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► is extremely I've been seeing her for [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► maybe about a year to try to help deal [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► with this one problem in my back and she [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► was clearly really annoyed with me last [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► time [TS]

00:10:37 ◼   ► mm when I showed up she was like poking [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► my back is like what did you do [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► occasionally it's all hard back here [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► like this is not this is not how arms [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► are supposed to be so you're also having [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► back pains [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► yeah it'sit's really this like muscular [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► problem around my shoulder blade is what [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► it is like that's that's that's what it [TS]

00:10:54 ◼   ► is and then I go to this person who [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► bends my arm around in funny ways and [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► pokes and process [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► make me feel like a chicken like you're [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► never more aware of like the internal [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► muscular and bone structure of your meat [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► sack body then when someone else is like [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► pushing it around and you might break it [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► like I got it so physically [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► uncomfortable [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► why do I have to be reminded that i am [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► made of meat in this way and they do [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► those things to you which makes it feel [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► like your heads going to blow up ya [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► advice [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► it's horrible it's really horrible i had [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► had this had this one experience where [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► it's like hard to describe she's bending [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► my arm but I need to keep laying down [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► flat but the way she's bending my arm [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► like the natural implication is to like [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► sit up right you want to kind of sit up [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► and move with emotion but like that's [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► not what you're supposed to do so she's [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► like now lay down flat so she bends the [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► arm and I kind of sit up and she just [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► like pops me on the nose she's like down [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► like you have to go to get out right [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► down boy [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► whatever the thing was there was just [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► like such a physically startling moment [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► which is a real no-nonsense person like [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► what I need to fix your broken dumb arm [TS]

00:12:02 ◼   ► right and you're not helping you can [TS]

00:12:03 ◼   ► compute them [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► eggs-actly what do you do all day like I [TS]

00:12:07 ◼   ► wasted all day [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► no that is not good for you it's [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► effective for you so yes I i have been [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► have been seeking professional help but [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► i do think that not working on my [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► computer combined with the last couple [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► projects being bigger and further apart [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► like this is this is becoming a problem [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► that I i I'm needing to manage in a in a [TS]

00:12:34 ◼   ► different way that I need to work around [TS]

00:12:36 ◼   ► to some extent and in the future like I [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► have a few ideas about that which we may [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► get to but it's definitely a it's a [TS]

00:12:44 ◼   ► thing that I worry about now being an [TS]

00:12:46 ◼   ► old man i am both concerned and [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► frustrated at you [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► oh yeah in regards to this so I worried [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► about you but I'm also kind of annoyed a [TS]

00:12:57 ◼   ► year because you're putting yourself in [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► this situation by the weird ways that [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► you work when you could actually just [TS]

00:13:05 ◼   ► not do this someone could do this for [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► you and it's very interesting to me that [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► we're in the year of less but you're [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► still doing this [TS]

00:13:16 ◼   ► well the year of less has many parts to [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► it and I talked about the year of less a [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► while back and even in the beginning of [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► the year like the animation was [TS]

00:13:32 ◼   ► something that was on my mind that falls [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► into the theme of the year of less right [TS]

00:13:37 ◼   ► and I sort of kind of did that with the [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► star trek video of having someone else [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► generate all the artwork although that [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► was as we discussed at the time of [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► project that i discovered like oh [TS]

00:13:46 ◼   ► actually this doesn't really save me the [TS]

00:13:49 ◼   ► time that I thought animating I just [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► sort of shifts the work in this around [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► in a slightly different way [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► there are a number of things that are [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► connected to this year of less and i [TS]

00:14:00 ◼   ► feel like i have made progress on a few [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► of them so far but the and the animation [TS]

00:14:05 ◼   ► is on my mind it but it is definitely [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► the thorniest most important and biggest [TS]

00:14:12 ◼   ► and hardest one to two work around but i [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► think that the my recent RSI and health [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► problems are like accelerating the [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► importance of this in the list of things [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► that I am attempting to do under the [TS]

00:14:27 ◼   ► banner of the year of less precious [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► about the animation [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► what do you mean by that so the star [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► trek video is not a good reason for why [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► getting an animator it's difficult like [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► the time and effort that it took to put [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► that video together I don't think [TS]

00:14:48 ◼   ► equates to the reason that having [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► somebody to animation for you is tricky [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► because the animation and the [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► illustration style was far more complex [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► than what you usually do [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► whoo-hoo so I don't really think that [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► it's like candy you can say i look how [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► much harder longer this took how much [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► more expensive maybe it was to produce [TS]

00:15:11 ◼   ► because you would go in for something [TS]

00:15:15 ◼   ► completely different [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► will like I i love your animation style [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► but it's not complicated [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► well for something to do [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► and I think that like you you could find [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► a skill animator who could replicate [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► what you do quite easily you know like [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► there's one person that draws the [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► simpsons you know that they're skilled [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► animators are able to replicate a style [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► and I don't think it would be very [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► difficult or would take too much work to [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► kind of mold somebody into to wanting to [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► work the way that you do like somebody [TS]

00:15:52 ◼   ► could understand how to do the stuff [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► that you do i think quite simply and [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► then it would be a case of you working [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► with that person to establish systems [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► for how you would then be directing the [TS]

00:16:03 ◼   ► videos who like it's a new type of work [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► which i think is probably what's making [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► you hesitant of it but I think in the [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► long run I don't think it would be [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► incredibly difficult to do that like [TS]

00:16:15 ◼   ► let's use occurs because that in a [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► nutshell as an example like that is way [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► more complicated animation style [TS]

00:16:23 ◼   ► don't be i think more difficult to [TS]

00:16:25 ◼   ► replicate right like they have a their [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► visual style is as iconic as yours I [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► think it's way more complex than fair to [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► say oh yeah oh yeah if you look at any [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► of the any other slides on on one of [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► their videos the number of the number of [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► elements is enormous [TS]

00:16:41 ◼   ► so beautiful right oh yeah it's a great [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► style it's absolutely great style and [TS]

00:16:45 ◼   ► your style is equally great but is [TS]

00:16:47 ◼   ► simpler so I think it would be easier [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► for somebody to pick it up so I'm just [TS]

00:16:55 ◼   ► feeling like one of the main reasons you [TS]

00:16:59 ◼   ► haven't done this yet because you don't [TS]

00:17:01 ◼   ► enjoy it right like you don't enjoy this [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► part of that is how you don't enjoy the [TS]

00:17:06 ◼   ► animation [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► oh yeah the animation has always been [TS]

00:17:09 ◼   ► the part that feels like a real slog to [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► me like that's not a that's not a secret [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► to go along with what you're talking [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► about here like a couple points first [TS]

00:17:20 ◼   ► was first was doing the star trek video [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► made it much clearer to me this idea [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► that like oh there might actually be two [TS]

00:17:28 ◼   ► separate roles here there is a set an [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► artwork generation and that there is [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► animation and as dumb as it sounds in my [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► mind because I [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► I'm the person who does everything I [TS]

00:17:40 ◼   ► didn't actually realize that there are [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► two distinct roles like oh I can get [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► someone who does artwork and then there [TS]

00:17:50 ◼   ► could be someone else who does the [TS]

00:17:52 ◼   ► animation that these don't have to be [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► the same person and in some ways it's [TS]

00:17:56 ◼   ► like that makes things much easier to [TS]

00:17:58 ◼   ► understand like oh I'm not looking for a [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► magic person who does everything i could [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► actually have to freelancers filling [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► these two separate roles and then what [TS]

00:18:08 ◼   ► is my role like maybe I am coordinating [TS]

00:18:10 ◼   ► the actions of these two people i think [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► we've fallen into the trap of cooling [TS]

00:18:15 ◼   ► animation everything [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► yes so like I was a little illustration [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► and the work in Final Cut that they are [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► two different things but we think of [TS]

00:18:25 ◼   ► them as the same thing [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► yeah it in my mind I I never separated [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► those two things never really occurred [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► to me but of course we talked about like [TS]

00:18:35 ◼   ► a creativity ink if you episodes ago [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► like well there are people who work in [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► digital animation and their only job is [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► textures like they don't do anything [TS]

00:18:43 ◼   ► except just textures it is there's no [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► one who's drawing the entirety of like [TS]

00:18:51 ◼   ► Sully in monsters inc right someone's [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► just working on the first someone's just [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► working on the eyes so these these [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► things are definitely broken down but it [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► in in my mind from my own work it was [TS]

00:19:02 ◼   ► all just mixed together in this ball of [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► like here's how a video gets made and I [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► do all of these things and would really [TS]

00:19:10 ◼   ► didn't help clarifying that is the [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► process that I'm going through right now [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► is that I am mixing these things like i [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► generate some assets and artwork and [TS]

00:19:23 ◼   ► then I animate them and see how it looks [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► and then I go back and generate new [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► assets and artwork and add them to find [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► out like I keep going back and forth [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► between my two programs escape to draw [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► and final cut to animate and so that [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► further blurs things in my own mind and [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► that's why I think like the star trek [TS]

00:19:39 ◼   ► video was really quite a useful thing to [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► do and to make it just much clearer like [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► okay I have a better sense of what I [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► might actually be looking for even when [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► I [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► you need to bring on help now the second [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► point that I wanted to bring up that [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► which is when you talk about being [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► precious about the animation the one [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► thing that i have always been aware of [TS]

00:20:04 ◼   ► is like when I'm writing the script I [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► have an idea of what I want on the [TS]

00:20:09 ◼   ► screen at the time and I think that [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► really helps make the videos this [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► consistent entity and then I'm also [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► aware that when i'm working through [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► actually animating it there's just a ton [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► of stuff that I think to add while i am [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► in the video creation process and this [TS]

00:20:26 ◼   ► is part of the reason why it always ends [TS]

00:20:28 ◼   ► up taking longer than I anticipated it's [TS]

00:20:30 ◼   ► going to be because i'm i'm putting [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► something together like oh this would be [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► a great little visual reference to put [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► in this scene or oh you know what i want [TS]

00:20:36 ◼   ► to do this this way I keep wanting to [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► like add all of these things and i do [TS]

00:20:41 ◼   ► think that a lot of the stuff that I [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► come up with while i am in the process [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► of animating adds to the final product [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► like things that it didn't occur to me [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► to do until I'm just kind of playing [TS]

00:20:53 ◼   ► around with art and animation seeing how [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► does this work together who what can I [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► do with this [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► but but one of the things that that i'm [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► thinking a lot about is how to get the [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► entirety of my job done without having [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► to touch my computer and I'm i keep [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► coming to this idea like well I may need [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► to have videos take a much longer time [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► from start to finish because maybe there [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► is a role for me as the like constant [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► director and refiner of animation work [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► that is happening and i think that it [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► didn't quite occur to me that maybe lots [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► of these things that I come up with [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► while I am animating instead i can come [TS]

00:21:51 ◼   ► up with [TS]

00:21:51 ◼   ► while i am reviewing the work of what an [TS]

00:21:54 ◼   ► illustrator or an animator is doing and [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► just accepting the fact like you know [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► what is going to be a ton of going back [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► and forth between [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► animators and illustrators with like [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► let's add this like can we do this can [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► this thing go over here like maybe [TS]

00:22:10 ◼   ► that's the way forward but it will mean [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► that like you know let's let's say it [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► takes four weeks to do a script from [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► start to finish [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► I got very used to this idea of like oh [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► I script is done and then within a week [TS]

00:22:25 ◼   ► at most i have the video up and isn't [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► that great like well you know what maybe [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► what's really going to have to happen is [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► that the production cycle is something [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► more like eight weeks right that there's [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► four weeks of writing for weeks of [TS]

00:22:37 ◼   ► back-and-forth with people working on [TS]

00:22:39 ◼   ► the video but during that people working [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► back and forth on the video i can be [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► writing the next video because that's [TS]

00:22:48 ◼   ► the other thing that has been on my mind [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► is like I can't keep blasting a hole in [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► my schedule like knocking out a week [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► every once in a while where it's just [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► total animation time like an everything [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► else in the world falls by the wayside [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► so I know you've been bugging me about [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► this mike and i know that my body is [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► certainly more than bugging me about it [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► so it's like something something has to [TS]

00:23:12 ◼   ► change and i'll just say I took a big [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► gum on one of my breaks I took a big [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► walk around a particular area in London [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► that I like and I was just trying to [TS]

00:23:20 ◼   ► think about ok how how is it sensible to [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► try to go about maybe bringing on some [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► help and I have come up with an idea [TS]

00:23:28 ◼   ► that I think will work about how to try [TS]

00:23:30 ◼   ► to get this process started [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► so there's something on my mind which [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► might might come out soon about like how [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► can I try to make this snowball get [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► started rolling downhill good [TS]

00:23:45 ◼   ► because if you don't fix it [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► there are many more videos yeah well [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► that's that that's the other thing right [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► is this like okay I've had two videos in [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► a row now where the the production has [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► been physically difficult and I'd like I [TS]

00:23:59 ◼   ► don't anticipate that is going to change [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► and so yeah if I don't change something [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► I could just wake up one morning was [TS]

00:24:05 ◼   ► like oh now you have a permanent health [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► problem right now is to light the case [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► you didn't put anything in place [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► yeah that's exactly it i feel like well [TS]

00:24:13 ◼   ► I am I am trying to get this in motion [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► before it's a real emergency and this is [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► people people like people are like oh [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► boy wouldn't it be amazing to be [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► self-employed right and it's like well [TS]

00:24:27 ◼   ► it depends a lot on your personality if [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► it would be amazing to be self-employed [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► and one of this scariest things about [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► being self-employed is exactly this kind [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► of moment of like you know what you [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► could wake up one morning and it's just [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► all over right you can wake up one [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► morning and you just have a physical [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► problem and you can't do this thing [TS]

00:24:48 ◼   ► anymore like the business world changes [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► outrun you feel like you're always [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► standing on this precarious cliff you're [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► like wow this view is magnificent but [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► like there's danger inches away [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► that's that's kind of what it's like to [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► be self-employed and this is this is me [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► quite recently coming up against one of [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► these little moments of like man you [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► gotta be real careful here because it [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► could be a could be in a really bad [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► situation if i don't if I don't pay [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► attention so last year of less me there [TS]

00:25:18 ◼   ► are going to be people that will now [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► want to be our animator yeah maybe i'm [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► going to get a bunch of CVS then [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► basically which I look forward to [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► receiving it thanks [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► it's now time to break the bodies of [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► young humans that's that's effectively [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► what we're going to do now i'm going to [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► stop breaking my body and breaking other [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► people's well actually it's an [TS]

00:25:40 ◼   ► interesting thing because I'm when you [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► mention that because I've been talking [TS]

00:25:45 ◼   ► to some people who get animation work [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► done like I've been I've been kind of [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► behind-the-scenes sending out feelers [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► about like how do you work how do you [TS]

00:25:52 ◼   ► work like how to all of these things go [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► and one of the things i just realized [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► like mad [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► when people would give me estimates [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► about how many seconds per day of [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► animation their team's producer like [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► what you can expect from people [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► producing animation all of these numbers [TS]

00:26:10 ◼   ► i realize like holy god i am doing what [TS]

00:26:15 ◼   ► is regarded as an insane amount of [TS]

00:26:18 ◼   ► animation work per day [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► ah so you're actually working at the [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► level of a team because of the insane [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► hours that you put yourself in [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► yeah thats basically what i realize is [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► like okay I am doing somewhere between [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► two to four times more animation work [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► than anybody expects out of an animation [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► employee per day was like okay this is [TS]

00:26:44 ◼   ► this is an interesting thing here like I [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► could it was just it was interesting to [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► consistently get numbers across the [TS]

00:26:50 ◼   ► board that were like these are these are [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► insane unsustainable levels of animation [TS]

00:26:55 ◼   ► production so it's like okay right [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► that's part of why i was thinking about [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► how I know the animation is going to [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► have to take longer because i cannot [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► possibly expect that anybody is going to [TS]

00:27:07 ◼   ► be doing the same amount of work that [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► I'm doing like it i would be the world's [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► worst boss was like okay I expect you to [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► get up at six and you're going to go to [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► bed between 10 and 11 and you're going [TS]

00:27:18 ◼   ► to animate the entire time and you're [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► going to do that for 45 days in a row [TS]

00:27:22 ◼   ► that would just be monstrous like it's [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► just it's wildly wildly undoable and so [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► that's why it's like well other people [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► can work more sustainably and other [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► people won't also have the problem that [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► i have like well I don't sit at this [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► chair accept all of a sudden for huge [TS]

00:27:40 ◼   ► amounts of time so i do not think that [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► it is breaking the bodies of younger [TS]

00:27:45 ◼   ► people i think it is asking other people [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► to like work in a sustainable way that I [TS]

00:27:50 ◼   ► am obviously not mentally capable of [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► working at i'm very pleased that you're [TS]

00:27:58 ◼   ► being shown proof now of why the way [TS]

00:28:02 ◼   ► that you do this stuff shouldn't [TS]

00:28:04 ◼   ► continue who this makes me feel happy [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► them some worried about you [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► in the same way that when I was [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► exhibiting RSI problems you were going [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► crazy at me [TS]

00:28:15 ◼   ► yeah I was going crazy at you but it's [TS]

00:28:17 ◼   ► also because you make your business [TS]

00:28:19 ◼   ► owner I like you someone here though [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► yeah it's just three right it's like all [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► mixed together what it's just me right [TS]

00:28:27 ◼   ► like it's one person can sit down to [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► read the email revisited and write a [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► whole org chart from my company because [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► there's only one person even though I [TS]

00:28:34 ◼   ► totally can I totally should [TS]

00:28:36 ◼   ► and I bet you already have not only have [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► yeah that's true haha but pictures of [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► myself everywhere I did so yeah it's [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► it's just one of these cases like being [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► a self-employed person it all gets [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► muddled up together and and this is a [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► moment that is causing me to be much [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► more much more clear about separating [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► things out and as longtime listeners of [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► the show will know like well this is not [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► really surprised any surprise that I'm [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► here now he's like well there's a reason [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► i want to talk about e-myth revisited [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► recently and there's a reason that this [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► is the year of last like this is a thing [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► that has been on my mind for a while and [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► making motions towards making more of a [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► of a real thing this episode of cortex [TS]

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00:30:55 ◼   ► continued support of this show and relay [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► FM have been drinking a lot of coffee [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► today [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► yeah I had I had an unusual amount of [TS]

00:31:05 ◼   ► coffee today [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► oh yeah why for you i went to the bars [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► today LOL for your beard straightening [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► and my haircut yeah so I more I more [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► pristine but I got coffee before I went [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► in and then a coffee when I left and [TS]

00:31:20 ◼   ► we're talking like the strong hipster [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► coffee right so I'm gonna come on a real [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► high right now [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► no that's just wrong coffee that's the [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► idea before six thirty in the morning [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► you go to prep that you know that [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► nothing now I know this this morning of [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► mom it's all it's all homegrown filter [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► coffee today for the past several days [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► actually i'm home grown from Amsterdam [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► yeah i would totally love to see like a [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► blood toxicology report my Kathy levels [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► right now it's all good man [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► yeah I won't worry about it oh I'm not [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► worried i know you know today like I was [TS]

00:31:57 ◼   ► an interest like it's really [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► entertaining that sometimes when i drink [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► coffee I i have the feeling like I could [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► run the world like I could just [TS]

00:32:06 ◼   ► completely rule the world and everything [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► would be fine do you ever get that [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► feeling like I'm just like I could do [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► anything right now like I'm unstoppable [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► no well I think it's because you drink [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► more coffee than me [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► yeah yeah so that's why you don't get [TS]

00:32:21 ◼   ► the rule the world feeling that i [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► sometimes get yeah I don't get [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► I don't get make a little Megan I can't [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► say no metal mania Magdalene min idol [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► make them make the look of Michael yeah [TS]

00:32:34 ◼   ► yeah I don't get that when i drink [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► coffee [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► ok just not good that's gonna all gray i [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► did i did i did a thing i did a real [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► thing last week I bought an ipad but [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► another one so your fault really [TS]

00:32:52 ◼   ► yeah yeah I know I know it's my fault i [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► know it's my fault it's my fault for [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► being so reasonable [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► mhm about why multiple iPads multiple [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► iPads pros are thing that's totally [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► useful i recorded with you on friday i [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► went to the apple store on Tuesday only [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► because i was busy on monday and i [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► bought a gold ipad pro 9.7 oh and I want [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► I want to give my my personal reasoning [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► for this so I'm very much on board of a [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► lot of the stuff you were talking about [TS]

00:33:30 ◼   ► last time about setting up devices for [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► different kind of mindsets and and [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► different ways of working and I am [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► completely on board with the multiple [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► screens as like pieces of paper idea [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► like I'm sold on that completely but the [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► thing that kind of tip me over the edge [TS]

00:33:49 ◼   ► when thinking about multiple iPads is [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► thinking about how over the last few [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► years i have used and how it's been [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► completely acceptable for people to do [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► this to have multiple max I've had a [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► laptop and a desktop for years because i [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► use them in different ways i'm operating [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► them in different ways and doing [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► different things with them and I figure [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► why wouldn't i have multiple iPads for [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► that same reason especially when in the [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► ipad pro line those two devices on the [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► face of it seems similar but when you [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► actually use them you realize they're [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► very different devices [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► oh how because of how iOS operates on [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► those devices [TS]

00:34:37 ◼   ► the the 12.9 inch iPad pro gives a far [TS]

00:34:41 ◼   ► superior multitasking of you who so it [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► really does to me feel like a computer [TS]

00:34:47 ◼   ► use the different things so my current [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► kind of arrangement is the 9.7 inch iPad [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► pro is being used for the consumption of [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► things so Twitter reading taking very [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► basic notes on stuff for shows watching [TS]

00:35:03 ◼   ► videos and things like that while I'm [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► around the house or in the morning or in [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► the evening and then the larger iPad pro [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► 12.9 that's where the works getting done [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► that's where i'm filling out spreadsheet [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► and stats are i'm doing invoices you [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► know that that's where i'm communicating [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► with multiple people and coordinate and [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► stuff and doing my email and writing [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► scripts for ads like that's all [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► happening there [TS]

00:35:27 ◼   ► hmm i love it's the best is one of the [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► best things that's ever happened to be [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► i'm so happy people think i'm crazy i'm [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► trying so hard to convince people [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► basically every show I produce right now [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► is me trying to talk about why I think [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► this is fantastic [TS]

00:35:45 ◼   ► Oh Mike I know I know because since i [TS]

00:35:49 ◼   ► have been animating I've been listening [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► to a lot of podcasts and I feel like you [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► are my little Thomas Henry Huxley going [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► out into the world bulldogging this idea [TS]

00:35:59 ◼   ► about multiple iPads bro like a good [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► hearing you like singing the sweet [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► gospel like every show that record about [TS]

00:36:08 ◼   ► this is you know what it is i funny to [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► me is nobody says that you're being [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► crazy they just call me crazy because [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► people just like great deals what grade [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► does right like we can't understand him [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► and just goes and does his thing the [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► thing that's really funny about this to [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► me is is like we had that we had the [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► conversation of i am i am using three [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► ipads the framing of that was there has [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► been an ipad consolidation for me [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► exactly going to freaky is like a [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► smaller number that I used to have when [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► we first talked about ipads a while back [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► I'm totally wear that it's it does seem [TS]

00:36:46 ◼   ► as this funny kind of like who knows [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► what that guy is doing things like but [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► you Mike you are relatable and therefore [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► you see more crazy somehow in the minds [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► of others I think it's yeah yeah you [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► know what that's probably it like I'm [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► more of the everyman right you know like [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► a man of the people right and now that's [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► exactly right now it's like I'm turning [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► into cyborgs right as I'm moving more [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► towards robot gray you know like I'm in [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► that transition period but there have [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► also been people that have been tweeting [TS]

00:37:19 ◼   ► us who have gone this way to MH and and [TS]

00:37:24 ◼   ► can understand the superiority of having [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► multiple hats [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► oh yeah oh yeah i mean one of the things [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► out we sort of lost for the show notes [TS]

00:37:32 ◼   ► so i apologize to whoever this was but [TS]

00:37:34 ◼   ► someone sent us a while back on on [TS]

00:37:36 ◼   ► Twitter this picture of their daughter [TS]

00:37:39 ◼   ► doing her homework and it was this girl [TS]

00:37:41 ◼   ► on her bed just like surrounded by iPads [TS]

00:37:44 ◼   ► right she's working on a whole bunch of [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► stuff like she had her phone and a [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► couple of ipads on the bed and I guess [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► this is this is obviously a great way to [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► work in certain circumstances when [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► you're doing stuff like its it is just [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► clearly so nice to be able to do that [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► one of the things that I'm finding [TS]

00:38:02 ◼   ► interesting is the management of the [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► devices that's something that I'm really [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► trying to wrap my head around because [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► I'm not doing this in the same way that [TS]

00:38:09 ◼   ► you are like i'm setting the devices up [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► differently but not like purposely [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► differently i'm not like locking them [TS]

00:38:15 ◼   ► down in the way that you do you know [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► like you only have certain apps and [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► certain devices and pretty much [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► replicating them but trying to work out [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► what the best way is to manage that is [TS]

00:38:26 ◼   ► an interesting is an interesting dilemma [TS]

00:38:29 ◼   ► that I'm going through but i really i [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► really love it like it's just just [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► superb [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► yeah if you're trying to keep 2 i've had [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► in perfect sync with each other you you [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► need to go to some higher-level solution [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► like what you know what the various [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► Apple device management solutions like [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► that's just what you need to do [TS]

00:38:47 ◼   ► whereas if you're using the grey method [TS]

00:38:50 ◼   ► clearly superior method which is [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► limiting iPads for purpose then you [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► don't have any of these problems right [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► what it's like [TS]

00:38:57 ◼   ► this is these are opposite philosophies [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► like I want a device for particular [TS]

00:39:01 ◼   ► purpose and it is setup explicitly for [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► that purpose and then that negates an [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► enormous number of the managing devices [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► trying to keep them all in sync [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► headaches and and problems that can [TS]

00:39:13 ◼   ► occur but i think it's the you know it's [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► the better path [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► you shouldn't have all the same apps and [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► all the same devices it's not exactly [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► the same but it's pretty much the same [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► and I just need to see how it's going to [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► go for me over time because I like being [TS]

00:39:29 ◼   ► able to like if I'm using the small ipad [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► and I need to do something in a certain [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► app i like that i can just grab it and [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► do it i'm not really as far down that [TS]

00:39:39 ◼   ► route as you are i mean i think what you [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► can tell the listener over the course of [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► the show is i'm slowly transitioning or [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► being brainwashed to work like you so [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► who knows what's gonna happen is that if [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► you know and yeah there's no [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► brainwashing you yourself said that last [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► time but the things i'm doing they might [TS]

00:39:59 ◼   ► sound ridiculous but if I if I have a [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► chance to explain them they're actually [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► quite reasonable [TS]

00:40:04 ◼   ► that's what makes it so frustrating is [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► that everything seems like just madness [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► but then you break it down and I seem to [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► be able to understand it [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► yeah I'm very reasonable very reasonable [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► guy there was something that I wanted to [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► put in the showers because it made me [TS]

00:40:20 ◼   ► laugh so much and it was a guy Cody on [TS]

00:40:23 ◼   ► Twitter created a breaking news image of [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► the two of us [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► oh yeah it's so I just I just want to [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► put this in here because it's so [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► perfectly encapsulates mean you [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► yeah that this was at an excellent piece [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► of cortex related artwork mind Cody [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► Williams and I just absolutely love it I [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► love it because of the coloring so what [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► they did was they took the the version [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► of me from the star trek animated one [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► the ultimate gray right to get gray ok [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► gray alright and then they took you [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► posted this like Powerpuff version of [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► yourself huh on the internet and they [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► combine the two of these like [TS]

00:41:10 ◼   ► you looking like a powerpuff girl with a [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► pink star and all of these colors are on [TS]

00:41:16 ◼   ► the projection screen that i normally [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► use when i'm talking about stuff but [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► everything in my universe is just great [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► there's no there's no color at all and [TS]

00:41:26 ◼   ► even just the way the things look like [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► of course my animated version of myself [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► has no mouth or anything but like you [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► have these huge eyes and like big smile [TS]

00:41:34 ◼   ► and it's just that the contrast of these [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► two images i think is hilarious like [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► this is this is a great great piece of [TS]

00:41:41 ◼   ► show artwork and the news headline is [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► like a breaking news thing like you did [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► news anchor and this is breaking news [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► bitman pies to ipad pros doubles [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► productivity [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► yeah perfect it's good it's just so good [TS]

00:41:54 ◼   ► ten out of ten that that's the award for [TS]

00:41:56 ◼   ► that one it's really good i also noticed [TS]

00:42:00 ◼   ► was to an ipad productivity you posted a [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► little blog post kind of going into [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► detail a little bit more on the [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► precariously created transformer [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► workstation oh oh yeah so credit i [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► forget the timeline of like when have i [TS]

00:42:16 ◼   ► posted things I have no idea but i guess [TS]

00:42:18 ◼   ► this came up after the last last show [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► but yeah i'm looking at these pictures [TS]

00:42:21 ◼   ► and those tables that one of the legs [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► isn't like completely us just so [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► dangerous looking to me make it like [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► just that front left leg on the top [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► table is not like completely on the [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► table that is resting on [TS]

00:42:36 ◼   ► I know it's you I know what you think [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► you're seeing but they're way more [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► stable in person than they look [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► those those legs have a weird at like [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► sheath that goes around the outside of [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► them so it makes them look more [TS]

00:42:47 ◼   ► off-center than they actually are but [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► trust me the contact point is entirely [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► is entirely on the table so don't worry [TS]

00:42:52 ◼   ► about my crazy double table standing [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► desk there it's working just fine it [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► doesn't move an inch and i actually use [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► it but yes for listeners of cortex i did [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► put a very brief article up on my [TS]

00:43:04 ◼   ► website where i was just detailing a [TS]

00:43:07 ◼   ► little bit the details of of how I set [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► up what I'm thinking it was my you know [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► writing monastery here where the place [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► that I just go to write and it was just [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► a couple of things about how you can [TS]

00:43:20 ◼   ► actually hook up a mechanical keyboard [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► to an ipad [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► which I wasn't 100% sure if i could get [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► that to work because i was using some [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► older Apple technology that's like [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► lightning camera adapter thing like [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► maybe this has a USB port maybe i can [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► plug my keyboard into this and plug it [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► into the ipad and it totally works and i [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► have to say this is gotta be like my [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► favorite way of writing ever is having [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► the ipad as the screen and especially [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► that the big pro like that gigantic [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► screen and then having a mechanical [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► keyboard connected to it is just writing [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► bliss like I totally totally love this [TS]

00:44:05 ◼   ► setup it is it is just fantastic [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► it's absolutely fantastic also talking [TS]

00:44:10 ◼   ► about things that make me feel [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► uncomfortable [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► the stand that you're using em the fact [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► that it doesn't I really grip the ipad [TS]

00:44:19 ◼   ► properly [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► I don't like that that's terrifying me [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► it's fine it grips that mostly gonna [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► mostly suppose he's fine and everything [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► on it cost a thousand dollars mostly [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► gripping it whilst sitting atop two [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► tables is no problem you know it's hard [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► but I couldn't find any better ipad [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► stands at the time and it's it's fine i [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► think it's more secure than it looks [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► yeah I was I've been looking for stands [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► and it doesn't really seem to be much in [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► the way of like being able to hold [TS]

00:44:47 ◼   ► something up in front of your face [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► yeah because that's the key thing like I [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► want that to be vertical and at eye [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► level like that that's what I'm looking [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► for and that's what I've accomplished [TS]

00:44:56 ◼   ► with this with this setup but it is [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► glorious glorious Mike mechanical typing [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► on an ipad pro its living the dream [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► that's what it is there's something in [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► this image the I've noticed and there [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► are two docs in this image what looks [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► like a phone dock any watch doc on that [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► table which makes me wonder make an [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► assumption that when you write you take [TS]

00:45:22 ◼   ► your watch off and your phone you put [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► them there so they don't distract you [TS]

00:45:25 ◼   ► part of this is that like to have the [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► ability to charge whatever wherever I am [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► so I just want to have it like a never [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► want to have the inconvenience of not [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► being able to charge something [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► mhm [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► I do two things that are happening here [TS]

00:45:39 ◼   ► one of which is that I do sleep with the [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► Apple watch and so Apple Apple watch [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► gets charged a little bit in the evening [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► and a little bit in the morning but [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► sometimes like depending on how long [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► it's been charging in the evening or in [TS]

00:45:59 ◼   ► the morning the apple watch charge can [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► be a little low and so I wanted an Apple [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► watch charger in this office space [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► because when i was running into [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► sometimes like okay if my Apple watch [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► charge is slightly low and then it is [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► also a day where i'm going to the gym [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► and i'm using the explicit Jim tracking [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► exercise tracking stuff in the Apple [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► watch which drains the battery a lot [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► like I was occasionally not getting [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► through a full day with the Apple watch [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► is kind of annoying so I have a little [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► charger here so that if the battery [TS]

00:46:30 ◼   ► happens to be low i can just pop it on [TS]

00:46:33 ◼   ► while I do a bit of writing and then [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► it's totally fine for the rest of the [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► day so I don't actually take the Apple [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► watch off entirely for distraction [TS]

00:46:42 ◼   ► purposes like I'm not a crazy person [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► like right like we all have we all have [TS]

00:46:46 ◼   ► our limits right so if I just do it if [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► it means to be charged that that's the [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► only thing the phone however uh my [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► gigantic iphone six-plus yes I do take [TS]

00:46:58 ◼   ► it out of my pocket and I put it on the [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► charger there because I don't when I'm [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► pacing back and forth somehow the [TS]

00:47:04 ◼   ► bigness of it is more physically [TS]

00:47:07 ◼   ► noticeable in my pocket like when I'm [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► taking three steps forward like turning [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► around and walking three steps back [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► I don't know something about it then [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► just really does bother me so I do put [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► the phone on that dock while I'm pacing [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► back and forth so that's that's what [TS]

00:47:18 ◼   ► those things are therefore so you wrote [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► a little bit about your peculiar set up [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► and i were a little bit about mine [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► oh yeah I've basically on on my my blog [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► I just detailed out the modifications [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► that I've made to the Apple pencil [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► because people mention this to me quite [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► a bit or they asked me questions so the [TS]

00:47:40 ◼   ► main modifications that I've made is [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► adding a pen clip to stop the pencil [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► from rolling [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► I've added a pen loop to my ipad so I [TS]

00:47:49 ◼   ► have somewhere to put the pencil or time [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► so it's always attached to my iPad and [TS]

00:47:54 ◼   ► then of course the Apple pencil skin by [TS]

00:47:56 ◼   ► D brand so I just wanted to kind of put [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► the links to those in a specific place [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► where I could people could find the more [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► i could send them and also talk about [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► why I do the things that i do with some [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► of my devices and a lot of it is about [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► customization for me when I truly love [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► something like global product or love [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► some device something I have always [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► found that I customize it to make it [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► feel more like my own which is why i put [TS]

00:48:22 ◼   ► stickers on the devices i love because [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► for me it's like I'm making this mine [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► mm which is why that the skin is on the [TS]

00:48:30 ◼   ► pencil like it does add additional grip [TS]

00:48:32 ◼   ► but I'm like no this is more fun this [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► feels more like it's part of my [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► personality than just this white stick [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► so that's why that that's there but you [TS]

00:48:41 ◼   ► know I think the other things especially [TS]

00:48:43 ◼   ► the pen loop the pen loop is easily the [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► best thing i've done here because my [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► pencil is always attached to my iPad and [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► i love that [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► why don't you keep it in your pocket no [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► because it doesn't make any sense one [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► time at home you have a pocket in my [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► pocket army doesn't work just always [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► attached to the ipad we mean it doesn't [TS]

00:49:04 ◼   ► work I don't understand what you're [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► saying [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► what did you walk around the home in [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► your home in your pajamas and a pencil [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► in your pocket the Apple pencil I feel [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► like it is always either in my hand or [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► in my pocket but but like your pajamas [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► if I'm like sitting on the couch in my [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► pajamas and a pencil in my hand probably [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► on the ipad right and I see look [TS]

00:49:22 ◼   ► my thing is I don't want to ever have to [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► remember to pick this thing up like five [TS]

00:49:27 ◼   ► got my ipad my pencils with it it's not [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► something else I have to remember to [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► pack it's not i never lose it i know a [TS]

00:49:37 ◼   ► lot of people that lose them or [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► misplaced and this never happens because [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► we're not using it it's in that pen loop [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► which is attached to my ipad ya again [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► for listeners who were just hearing this [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► mike has this like velcro e sticker [TS]

00:49:50 ◼   ► thing that's that's on the side of his [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► ipad that has a little loop you can [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► stick the pencil through ya little ass [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► the group i'm not sold on this it looks [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► like you would make the ipad rock on [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► surface maybe it has it is possible but [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► I don't ever have the back of the ipad [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► just touching the surface because i have [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► the smart keyboard on all the time so [TS]

00:50:08 ◼   ► the ipads laying flat the small [TS]

00:50:10 ◼   ► keyboards on and just rock on this [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► monkey balls on it maybe the worst enemy [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► i think is a good addition for people i [TS]

00:50:19 ◼   ► definitely think a clip as well as good [TS]

00:50:22 ◼   ► yeah much much more sold on your this [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► the clip like I keep thinking about I [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► need to order a couple of those and try [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► to try to attach them to a pencil and [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► see how it works like because they can't [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► get in my pockets right so I would liked [TS]

00:50:34 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► put the clip on the edge of my pocket [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► right when im have it in my pants but [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► yeah this is this is a tricky things [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► like I say in the post like the clip I [TS]

00:50:44 ◼   ► don't necessarily recommend for like [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► heavy-duty clipping on to things because [TS]

00:50:49 ◼   ► the clip will slide off unless you try [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► and tighten it so you know using a pair [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► of pliers to kind of shrink the space at [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► the thing and then kind of force on a [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► pencil and walk it will work but i don't [TS]

00:51:01 ◼   ► recommend done I i mainly use the clip [TS]

00:51:05 ◼   ► just stop the thing rolling [TS]

00:51:07 ◼   ► unless you glued it on I can glue it on [TS]

00:51:10 ◼   ► I could live with that that would be the [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► other thing is if you glue it on there [TS]

00:51:13 ◼   ► and then you but you be good to rock and [TS]

00:51:15 ◼   ► roll [TS]

00:51:15 ◼   ► yeah like a look at this episode of [TS]

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00:53:26 ◼   ► and relay FM when we had lunch the other [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► day you mentioned to me that you wanted [TS]

00:53:32 ◼   ► for ipads ok now if we were just we were [TS]

00:53:35 ◼   ► just know you said this and then I said [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► I'm putting it in the document and I [TS]

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00:53:42 ◼   ► i added it into our document because you [TS]

00:53:45 ◼   ► said for okay so you were you know [TS]

00:53:49 ◼   ► you've been saying on the show that you [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► consolidated but now you're expanding [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► again [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► ok so let's just briefly briefly what [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► we're looping back here to using [TS]

00:53:57 ◼   ► multiple iPads uh-huh and i will say [TS]

00:54:00 ◼   ► that that when we first talked i had [TS]

00:54:03 ◼   ► just barely been using the two ipads pro [TS]

00:54:07 ◼   ► and and the ipad mini yeah and the iPad [TS]

00:54:11 ◼   ► Mini which is functioning as a kindle [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► that's I i still say that barely counts [TS]

00:54:15 ◼   ► i just mentioned because people get [TS]

00:54:16 ◼   ► angry if you don't but so one of the [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► things that I was originally thinking [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► and we discussed lat [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► episode was when i'm working out ok what [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► is every device four and i have to say [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► now having I done this for awhile longer [TS]

00:54:34 ◼   ► than then at the time we spoke I am [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► absolutely totally loving the completely [TS]

00:54:40 ◼   ► pared-down phone right that the the [TS]

00:54:42 ◼   ► phone I'm just constantly stripping as [TS]

00:54:45 ◼   ► much off of there as I possibly can and [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► I can tell that that guess this is the [TS]

00:54:49 ◼   ► correct decision like I really do like [TS]

00:54:50 ◼   ► this [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► I'm much happier about this that as much [TS]

00:54:54 ◼   ► as I cannot have the phone do I want [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► that to be the case and so moving [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► activities to the ipads instead and so [TS]

00:55:05 ◼   ► my baby pro is acting in this is dual [TS]

00:55:10 ◼   ► role of it is both the ipad that if I'm [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► just sitting on the couch and watching [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► TV late at night they'll relax with like [TS]

00:55:16 ◼   ► I'll play a game on it you know i [TS]

00:55:18 ◼   ► mentioned last time [TS]

00:55:18 ◼   ► XCOM with the pencil is super fun on the [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► baby pro I gets a great example of a [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► game that just works better if you have [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► a precision pointing device but i'm also [TS]

00:55:27 ◼   ► using that pro as my notification center [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► so as much as possible I'm funneling all [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► work notifications through that and this [TS]

00:55:38 ◼   ► means lots of instant messages lots of [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► slack VIP email notifications and thread [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► notifications these are the kinds of [TS]

00:55:47 ◼   ► things that I'm saying like which device [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► in the house is going to be the device [TS]

00:55:51 ◼   ► that displays notifications it's this [TS]

00:55:53 ◼   ► one and I have filtered it so that the [TS]

00:55:58 ◼   ► device itself doesn't really beep or [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► make any noises but i've set it up so [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► that all of these things appear in [TS]

00:56:05 ◼   ► Notification Center when I pull it down [TS]

00:56:07 ◼   ► and so this is my way of of trying to [TS]

00:56:10 ◼   ► say like okay I have this device that I [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► can use to relax but that if I flip into [TS]

00:56:16 ◼   ► a specific mode if I pull down [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► Notification Center I can see like all [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► of the stuff that's that's there waiting [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► for me and when we spoke and i made this [TS]

00:56:26 ◼   ► remark about having for ipads I was [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► originally thinking maybe I need to [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► split this one into to that there's like [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► an administration work machine here [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► and there's also a personal device like [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► is it better to have these separated and [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► having worked with it so far like I'm [TS]

00:56:42 ◼   ► not actually sure that it is i think it [TS]

00:56:45 ◼   ► has actually been quite good for me to [TS]

00:56:49 ◼   ► be able to see like when people on [TS]

00:56:52 ◼   ► work-related stuff sent me messages on [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► slack even when i'm just sitting on the [TS]

00:56:57 ◼   ► couch like I actually kind of like [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► having these two devices be the same [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► thing so i'm not actually like dying to [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► go to run out and buy like yet another [TS]

00:57:06 ◼   ► ipad pro I think it's actually been [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► working out really well for me to have [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► these these two things be in a single [TS]

00:57:15 ◼   ► device and I think people that I work [TS]

00:57:17 ◼   ► with have noticed and commented on that [TS]

00:57:19 ◼   ► it like the turnaround times between [TS]

00:57:22 ◼   ► sending me stuff and getting replies has [TS]

00:57:24 ◼   ► definitely gone down like i have been [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► more responsive to people with this [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► setup so i'm actually on actually quite [TS]

00:57:32 ◼   ► liking it so far though I am I have [TS]

00:57:33 ◼   ► using the baby pro in this somewhat [TS]

00:57:37 ◼   ► hilarious way in that i am using the big [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► pro keyboard with the baby pro all the [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► time because now that my big bro is [TS]

00:57:46 ◼   ► mounted as a display in my writing [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► monastery it's like I have this keyboard [TS]

00:57:50 ◼   ► that I don't need to use all right but [TS]

00:57:52 ◼   ► the smart connector it works on both of [TS]

00:57:54 ◼   ► these devices like like I totally love [TS]

00:57:57 ◼   ► using the giant keyboard with baby pro [TS]

00:57:59 ◼   ► like sitting on the couch and using that [TS]

00:58:03 ◼   ► keyboard with with the baby pro it's [TS]

00:58:06 ◼   ► super stable it's really easy to type on [TS]

00:58:09 ◼   ► it's very light like I really I'm really [TS]

00:58:11 ◼   ► quite enjoying this as a little [TS]

00:58:13 ◼   ► workstation even though it looks quite [TS]

00:58:15 ◼   ► dorky to actually use it that way you [TS]

00:58:17 ◼   ► know I loved one of the lucky few that [TS]

00:58:19 ◼   ► was able to get one of the little [TS]

00:58:20 ◼   ► keyboards [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► yeah I have to say whoever is on the [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► ipad pro keyboard design team like those [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► people deserve like the biggest a plus [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► ever because i think they have such [TS]

00:58:34 ◼   ► incredible design constraints and they [TS]

00:58:36 ◼   ► have pulled off like an amazingly usable [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► keyboard given what they have to work [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► with and when i first ordered my baby [TS]

00:58:44 ◼   ► bro I didn't even bother getting the [TS]

00:58:46 ◼   ► keyboard cover because I thought [TS]

00:58:47 ◼   ► I've never used a constrained little [TS]

00:58:49 ◼   ► keyboard that was usable at all but i [TS]

00:58:53 ◼   ► did want to just try it out in the apple [TS]

00:58:54 ◼   ► store like just out of interest to see [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► how did it work i was amazed like oh I [TS]

00:58:57 ◼   ► can type on this thing better than I've [TS]

00:59:00 ◼   ► ever been able to type on any tiny [TS]

00:59:01 ◼   ► keyboard yeah what I what I did in the [TS]

00:59:04 ◼   ► apples door haha has like okay let me [TS]

00:59:06 ◼   ► see how this works [TS]

00:59:07 ◼   ► I took the the the tiny keyboard off and [TS]

00:59:11 ◼   ► physically held it over one of the [TS]

00:59:13 ◼   ► larger keyboard and then it was like [TS]

00:59:15 ◼   ► okay I can see what you've done your [TS]

00:59:16 ◼   ► Apple you have just barely barely [TS]

00:59:21 ◼   ► squished together the typing keys like [TS]

00:59:24 ◼   ► the minimum amount that you possibly [TS]

00:59:26 ◼   ► could [TS]

00:59:27 ◼   ► by sacrificing all of the side keys like [TS]

00:59:31 ◼   ► the tab and the shift in the carriage [TS]

00:59:32 ◼   ► return all this stuff their old super [TS]

00:59:34 ◼   ► tiny those ones [TS]

00:59:35 ◼   ► yeah they are really tiny but the end [TS]

00:59:38 ◼   ► result is like oh this is actually a [TS]

00:59:40 ◼   ► surprisingly impressive little keyboard [TS]

00:59:44 ◼   ► so I maybe i'll use that in the future [TS]

00:59:46 ◼   ► maybe i won't i I don't know but I [TS]

00:59:49 ◼   ► behind their way like a plus double [TS]

00:59:52 ◼   ► thumbs-up work [TS]

00:59:53 ◼   ► Apple foldable keyboard team like you've [TS]

00:59:56 ◼   ► done an amazing job with these things [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► had a little bit of a tweet [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► had a little bit of a tweet [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► storm the other day about like my vision [TS]

01:00:02 ◼   ► of of the ipad future and I went to I [TS]

01:00:06 ◼   ► went to find the image of you know like [TS]

01:00:07 ◼   ► a star trek captain somewhere using a [TS]

01:00:10 ◼   ► bunch of ipads yeah I found this image [TS]

01:00:12 ◼   ► of the card using having like a whole [TS]

01:00:15 ◼   ► big pile of ipads on his desk again so [TS]

01:00:17 ◼   ► that immediately reads to the audience [TS]

01:00:18 ◼   ► of like that man was getting a lot of [TS]

01:00:20 ◼   ► work done this [TS]

01:00:21 ◼   ► thats everywhere but what I didn't [TS]

01:00:23 ◼   ► realize until i went to find that image [TS]

01:00:24 ◼   ► is that they're called pads in Star Trek [TS]

01:00:27 ◼   ► like I never knew there was a name for [TS]

01:00:29 ◼   ► those things that it's like badd i [TS]

01:00:32 ◼   ► forget you know it's personal something [TS]

01:00:34 ◼   ► digital device lookout okay well i'm [TS]

01:00:37 ◼   ► even more sold now right-click out how [TS]

01:00:39 ◼   ► close could this possibly be like Star [TS]

01:00:41 ◼   ► Trek always always predicting the future [TS]

01:00:42 ◼   ► or even called pads captain's use a [TS]

01:00:44 ◼   ► whole bunch of them [TS]

01:00:45 ◼   ► this is just the way it's going ready [TS]

01:00:47 ◼   ► for trucks you want to talk about trucks [TS]

01:00:50 ◼   ► like yeah I feel like a weight we should [TS]

01:00:53 ◼   ► have spoken about trucks weeks ago we [TS]

01:00:55 ◼   ► should have spoken about trucks week [TS]

01:00:56 ◼   ► weeks ago but we've been so busy we have [TS]

01:01:00 ◼   ► been so busy and poor you talking to me [TS]

01:01:03 ◼   ► today I I maybe only mentally capable of [TS]

01:01:07 ◼   ► talking about trucks at this point so [TS]

01:01:10 ◼   ► American Truck Simulator it came out if [TS]

01:01:13 ◼   ► he boy did it boy did its and it's so [TS]

01:01:19 ◼   ► good so good i've played a bunch i [TS]

01:01:23 ◼   ► haven't been playing recently because [TS]

01:01:25 ◼   ► I've I haven't had the situation so it [TS]

01:01:28 ◼   ► gives i tend to play it when I'm editing [TS]

01:01:29 ◼   ► something or i'm just sitting at the [TS]

01:01:31 ◼   ► computer for a long period of time and I [TS]

01:01:33 ◼   ► haven't really had that stuff recently I [TS]

01:01:35 ◼   ► just want you to a bunch of travel [TS]

01:01:36 ◼   ► things but I hooked up a playstation [TS]

01:01:39 ◼   ► controller to my mac and it's perfect [TS]

01:01:43 ◼   ► for me because that was my problem when [TS]

01:01:45 ◼   ► I was trying to play euro truck is I [TS]

01:01:47 ◼   ► just couldn't enjoy it with the keyboard [TS]

01:01:49 ◼   ► and being a console peasant as I am Who [TS]

01:01:54 ◼   ► I i decided to try out the playstation [TS]

01:01:59 ◼   ► controller and wanting to do is plug it [TS]

01:02:01 ◼   ► in with the mini USB into my mac you can [TS]

01:02:03 ◼   ► use bluetooth to but its most products [TS]

01:02:05 ◼   ► and doesn't let accidentally time my [TS]

01:02:06 ◼   ► playstation and I'm able to just drive [TS]

01:02:09 ◼   ► everything around a customized the bunch [TS]

01:02:11 ◼   ► of buttons [TS]

01:02:12 ◼   ► so it does all the things that i need [TS]

01:02:13 ◼   ► and i am driving back and forth from Las [TS]

01:02:17 ◼   ► Vegas man and I am just having the very [TS]

01:02:20 ◼   ► best time just the very best time [TS]

01:02:23 ◼   ► yeah we've been overdue on a little bit [TS]

01:02:25 ◼   ► of video game talk on this show I i know [TS]

01:02:28 ◼   ► i know people might find it weird that [TS]

01:02:30 ◼   ► on a on a podcast which largely focuses [TS]

01:02:32 ◼   ► on are working world that we also like [TS]

01:02:34 ◼   ► tack on video game talk at the end but I [TS]

01:02:37 ◼   ► really do feel that for me like the [TS]

01:02:41 ◼   ► video games are a part of the cycle of [TS]

01:02:43 ◼   ► work and so I forget when American Truck [TS]

01:02:46 ◼   ► Simulator came out exactly but it was [TS]

01:02:48 ◼   ► just slightly before my last push the [TS]

01:02:52 ◼   ► videos i think it was i think it was the [TS]

01:02:53 ◼   ► star trek what I can't remember [TS]

01:02:55 ◼   ► no I think it was America box we have [TS]

01:02:58 ◼   ► course of course that's right it was [TS]

01:02:59 ◼   ► America box part 2 that's what it was [TS]

01:03:01 ◼   ► of course I was like it's something in [TS]

01:03:04 ◼   ► my brain that it's not hard because it [TS]

01:03:05 ◼   ► was some huge thing I was working on so [TS]

01:03:07 ◼   ► yeah it was America box but i totally [TS]

01:03:10 ◼   ► view this as part of like the working [TS]

01:03:13 ◼   ► the cycle and after getting a video up [TS]

01:03:18 ◼   ► and after having that big push to get it [TS]

01:03:19 ◼   ► up and and like the kind of relief of [TS]

01:03:24 ◼   ► having something up especially for [TS]

01:03:26 ◼   ► producer like me who like with the [TS]

01:03:27 ◼   ► videos there's not a huge number of them [TS]

01:03:30 ◼   ► it's not like podcast that come out all [TS]

01:03:31 ◼   ► the time so there's less fanfare with [TS]

01:03:32 ◼   ► them [TS]

01:03:33 ◼   ► the videos are just these big stressful [TS]

01:03:35 ◼   ► huge events in my working calendar and [TS]

01:03:38 ◼   ► so I always just deeply feel the need to [TS]

01:03:43 ◼   ► decompress after one of those and the [TS]

01:03:46 ◼   ► harder work has been the the more I feel [TS]

01:03:50 ◼   ► this need to compare decompress and yeah [TS]

01:03:52 ◼   ► that America box video I remember when [TS]

01:03:54 ◼   ► that was out I was just so mentally [TS]

01:03:59 ◼   ► exhausted that America truck simulator [TS]

01:04:02 ◼   ► was like a gift from heaven to me at [TS]

01:04:06 ◼   ► that point I just played it i think for [TS]

01:04:11 ◼   ► two days straight and i did an unusual [TS]

01:04:13 ◼   ► thing which is normally if i play a game [TS]

01:04:15 ◼   ► like that I'll be listening to something [TS]

01:04:16 ◼   ► like an audiobook or podcast or whatever [TS]

01:04:18 ◼   ► like they just go together so well but i [TS]

01:04:20 ◼   ► wasn't even mentally capable of doing [TS]

01:04:23 ◼   ► that I was just playing [TS]

01:04:24 ◼   ► just silence right just the engine noise [TS]

01:04:27 ◼   ► companies just sitting there [TS]

01:04:29 ◼   ► that's how I actually tend to play the [TS]

01:04:31 ◼   ► game I don't know how you do that [TS]

01:04:32 ◼   ► normally that's crazy i like listening [TS]

01:04:34 ◼   ► to the sounds the cause and yes it is [TS]

01:04:38 ◼   ► nice but yeah this is not my normal [TS]

01:04:39 ◼   ► experience but I i just did that for two [TS]

01:04:41 ◼   ► days because it's like it it is almost [TS]

01:04:45 ◼   ► meditative it is one of the very few [TS]

01:04:47 ◼   ► ways in which I can just kind of call my [TS]

01:04:49 ◼   ► brain and don't think about work and [TS]

01:04:51 ◼   ► just do this thing that is quite [TS]

01:04:53 ◼   ► possibly the best way to describe this [TS]

01:04:55 ◼   ► game when I play American Truck [TS]

01:04:58 ◼   ► Simulator i am in like another world em [TS]

01:05:01 ◼   ► like because i don't think i played a [TS]

01:05:03 ◼   ► Les unless high-stakes game in this [TS]

01:05:06 ◼   ► however now I'm there are no snakes in a [TS]

01:05:09 ◼   ► minute truck simulator like if you crash [TS]

01:05:11 ◼   ► into someone that's fine [TS]

01:05:13 ◼   ► yeah like nobody dies no cause explode [TS]

01:05:15 ◼   ► like you know you might just lose a [TS]

01:05:17 ◼   ► hundred dollars like just things [TS]

01:05:18 ◼   ► whatever it's like this fine you can [TS]

01:05:20 ◼   ► just just side like just sideswipe [TS]

01:05:23 ◼   ► something [TS]

01:05:24 ◼   ► no problem yeah it's fine which is you [TS]

01:05:27 ◼   ► know you get a ticket but if you know if [TS]

01:05:29 ◼   ► you have a couple of employees working [TS]

01:05:30 ◼   ► for you whatever it doesn't matter [TS]