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hey guys welcome back to harbor unboxed today I'll be revealing those of a good detail hey Matt yeah everyone Matt's here today we're not doing Vega details today instead we finally have Matt here to explain what's going on and what his plans are for the channel and I think life in general as you can see his knees mostly better now he's getting around not as quick as he once was but he's getting ready so anyway metal handed over to you and hey guys one important matter to get out of the way today is the official retirement of the blue shirt evolution and it's a new chapter yeah times are changing a hammer unboxed so we'll be hanging this one in the rafters yeah so what's been happening with me well I got my knee surgery and honestly I'm doing good like pretty much a week afterwards I was off crutches and stuff walking around and now I'm pretty much walking around like it never happened can't run or do any sort of exercise or anything on it but yeah that's the status of that with the channel I guess it's kind of related more than my personal life I have owned a gym for the last couple of years and I've been trying to sell it for the best part of 7 months it's been a bit of a nightmare but during that time most of that time I was able to spend you know a lot of my time and hardware I'm boxed now it should finally be going through on Monday the sale that is but it also means that that income stream will be disappearing basically so I've been trying to start a new business it's going pretty well but that's really been taking up all of my time so I've had a lot less time to dedicate to the channel and yet Steve's kind of stepped in and it's been doing a really goddamn good job no thanks yeah so as I sort of suggested I think it was video just last week I will be continuing off the channel keeping it alive and kicking indefinitely and hopefully at some stage we can have Matt return but there's no definite plans yet because as matt said he's got a lot of things to work out and the channel takes up a massive truly massive amount of time and at this point with the size of the channel is it doesn't really make money especially if the money that Matt and I have both spent on camera equipment lighting even Hardware for testing we don't get all of that for free so yeah it's been a costly endeavor but we both do it because we love it and I love all the benchmarking about so that's why you will continue to see all that sort of stuff so as matt said you know back when the channel started I think it was probably about a year and a half ago near April okay yeah yeah so back then when Matt started the channel sort of like Matt and I sort of started see it together that's probably a bit more Matt it was Matt was definitely the driving force and motivation behind however unboxed because I was already testing you know and doing written reviews on products Matt was really came to do some sort of video thing and we've been friends for a long time and Matt's into the tech stuff more the gadgets and peripherals and laptops all that kind of stuff and definitely gaming Matt wanted to do video reviews and I just had no interest whatsoever in doing video reviews I can't really tell you why I just yeah the motivation wasn't there so I don't like doing things I'm not motivated to do and Matt hounded me for weeks and weeks on end about to start this YouTube channel I said now and are not interested and then I said to Matt well if you want to do it I'll help you I'll you know I've got the camera we can film some videos and that and Matt was you sort of enjoyed unboxing type videos like a little bit and I was actually initially inspired to do this channel hearing Liu from unbox therapy on the Joe Rogan experience I was like that's my goal so yeah it's sort of the name Hardware unboxed so it was sort of to be an unboxing PC hardware stuff so motherboards grabbers cards and also your gadgets and phones than that and yeah which didn't really interest me but that's that was sort of the idea and I help with the filming and stuff to get Matt started and I think you know we did a couple of videos and you were just like yeah yeah this is uninspiring - unboxing yeah it's like this is just junk onto Hardware unboxed I'm your host Matt and today we're gonna be taking a look at the Cougar 500k gaming keyboard as it is a gaming keyboard it does have five programmable keys down the left side and the six programmable key is actually split spacebar the keyboard also has onboard memory it was just the same repetitive thing over and over again and yeah just unboxing PC hardware I don't think there was enough diversity there for it to be interesting so yeah Matt sort of said you know how about we do some more in-depth benchmarks sort of stuff and you know I'll help you with the benchmark so it doesn't take tapes of your time and that's sort of how the channels become what it is today yeah so even though Steve seems knew is in there yeah I've been there running benchmark after benchmarks and recording results and yeah help him out with his scripts and yeah and then when Matt went to his knee surgery the plan was never for me to jump in front of the camera as I said I wasn't really interested but as powerbox developed and grew over the last year and a half or whatever it's been I started to really fall in love with it get sucked into the movie or the video rather content creation stuff just really enjoyed that all the editing process the filming creating the b-roll was all really cool and then when Matt went further it was supposed to be we sort of budgeted six weeks off and then Matt's gym stuff all happened while he was having knee surgery which was terrible timing for Matt and it looked like the channel was sort of gonna fall apart a bit and I didn't really want that to happen with all the time that we've both put into it so I just said to Matt well I'm gonna have to I think was there gtx 1050 release wasn't it slightly just before that I think the GTX 1050 news we were we were given the news under embargo and Matt wasn't available Tom so I said well I'm gonna give it a go see how we go did that went quite well and then we ended up with the 1050 and the 1050 TR and I think you took on the 1050 yeah I did the TI and since then I've just been making videos so anyway wrapping it up like I said the channel will go on we want to keep growing the channel you know making it the content as good as possible so we'll keep putting tons of time and effort into that we don't be slacking off there but going forward in well I suppose them the meantime it'll be me creating the videos and then Maps aim is to get back to the channel it's just we don't know when so it could be a month it could be a year well it's probably gonna be a couple of months at the earliest by the sounds but at some stage you know Matt will come back in a more full time role we hope but if not I'm sure I can snag you now and then for the odd video and for sure we're gonna do an unboxing video next that's the series Matt started and I've taken over and there's a sort of like as I always say it's the real hardware box fans that enjoy that series yes I will be giving you a duo unboxings that should be interesting yeah got a couple of boxes to do so yeah anything else you want to say um not really I suppose yeah no exactly short the future will hold but one way or another they'll be awesome content here so stay tuned cool as always Matt Davis now so you guys like that who do the Sony's look cool or hang around skies may or Matt they really suit me I think they're a bit small for my head they III must have a big head I thought I'd be good so I'd benchmarking knowledge