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so this is my third question and answer video the last one is about a year ago so it's high time for another one I asked on Twitter a couple days ago what questions you guys have for me and today I'm gonna answer some of them here on camera the first one is from my buddy super staff and he says do you even lift bro I actually do enjoy going to the gym I go pretty much every single day since I'm self-employed doing this whole YouTube thing it's kind of like my only social interaction throughout the day and so it's kind of important more than lifting though I like running I've done two marathons I've done quite a few Spartan races I think like eight or nine and then a ton of Ragnar races as well it's kind of like a relay race where you have 12 people and you run for like you know a day and a half straight but yet answer your question I think the gym and exercising is a very important part of a well-rounded life and I try to have a well-rounded life and as many areas as possible the next question is from Candice Navarro and it says is it true that Apple took the headphone jack off because they ran out of screws over the years they've been screwing people I think you and I would get along very well speaking of Apple philosophies we have deke asking will you ever start buying phones without a headphone jack is it really a must-have for you to ask that question I would say that everything I have in my life is useful in one way or another I you I picked the most useful things for me one example would be that I've carried a pocket knife with me every day fight the last ten years give or take and is this pocket knife right here and I choose that this one's the most useful for me because it has swappable razor blades so when one gets stole I can just swap it out really easily pop it back in my knife and it's good to go and so for me personally this knife is the most useful it's cheap efficient and effective and in my daily driver like my vehicle my truck I have a toolbox in the back that is constantly prepared with a bunch of different tools that I could use in any kind of situation now a cell phone is the exact same way I want my cell phone to be equipped with all the tools that I might need even if I don't actually need to use them that same day like I personally own a ton of wireless Bluetooth headphones and I love them like running on a treadmill with a cable attached to your ears is kind of dangerous I've seen people whack that cable and their cell phone goes flying across the room I've even done that a couple time's so wireless headphones are a must at the gym but I have left my headphones at home a couple times and I'm not gonna buy a brand new 70 $100 pair of headphones at the gym I would much rather buy a $10 corded pair of headphones that I can leave in my truck or leave in a car leaving your backpack just to have whenever you might forget your more expensive pair of headphones a headphone jack is also useful when you're driving around in someone's car and they have an aux cable that you can just plug into your phone to listen to music don't have a headphone jack can't plug your phone in or if you're an entrepreneur in you one of those square readers to plug in I can take credit cards with your phone you need a headphone jack for that or if you're on a long flight 10 or 15 hours and your battery dies and your wireless headphones it's nice to have a cable to plug into your phone and use so for me personally right now while they're still phones out there with the headphone jack installed like the LGV 30 or the samsung galaxy note or the Galaxy s8 I'm gonna pick one of those phones because it's useful more often than not my daily driver is gonna have a headphone jack because I like useful things all right we have another question from Zach good name by the way if it wasn't for YouTube what would you be doing I would say if it wasn't for YouTube right now I would probably still be fixing stuff and working on things when I first started my youtube channel I was actually working on jeeps like my first 50 or so videos was me doing you know CV axle swaps I did an engine swap and a Grand Cherokee working on big tangible objects I mean don't get me wrong cell phones are great but they're really small and I would prefer to work on something bigger so if it wasn't for YouTube I was probably either doing construction somewhere or being you know an auto mechanic but still focusing on the business aspect of it and not just being a technician I'd probably own my own little shop somewhere and also I probably wouldn't be that big into social media and my phone would probably be 2 or 3 years old and broken several times over not sure how to say this one cava jus says do you put D brand skins on your phone or do they come pre-installed because they are pretty hard to install so actually my job right before I started YouTube was working at a cell phone sales rep for one of the major carriers here in the United States and so I've put on over thousands and thousands of screen protectors on customers phones so putting on a D brand skin is actually pretty easy for me and I've installed all the ones you've seen on my channel myself but it does take a little bit of practice and patience to get it right one trick if you're installing a screen protector and you get like a little piece of dust or something underneath lift it up I know a razor place probably not the tool of choice for most everybody but lift it up with something sharp like a toothpick or a needle or something like that and then you can stick a piece of clear scotch tape underneath grab that dust back pull it out and let the screen protector fold back down it's over the screen again a little trick of the trade Eliot Cardwell asks how frequently you change your daily driver and what's been your most used phone ever switching my daily driver I hate switching my phone actually even though I have a lot of phones available to me that have all been damaged slightly I don't switch my phone that often I use my test at galaxy s7 edge for about a full year before I switch to the galaxy s 8 plus and that's the phone I'm using right now the galaxy s 8 plus I do have the note but I haven't switched to that I don't feel like there's that much of a benefit from me switching from this phone which is about the same size all the way to the note I would like that second camera having that telephoto lens on there would be pretty cool it's not worth the effort for me to switch over to that phone for just that one small increment of improvement so I'm gonna stick with the Galaxy S a for a while if I wasn't a youtuber though like I mentioned before I would probably keep my phone for two or three years before switching but to answer your question I switch about once a year so there was actually a couple of these questions Diamond guy asks do you have a car if yes what type is it let me show you so I Drive a 1998 Toyota Tacoma this thing has two hundred and forty two thousand miles on it it's held together with a little bit of duct tape over here on this light I hit a fence a couple years ago in this light I've never been able to get back in the right spot so I just have some tape holding it in place scratched a little bit of the back side right there added the light bar a couple years ago so one of the bad things with Toyota's is that they never die this thing has two hundred and forty two thousand miles on it I replaced the muffler actually a couple days ago because it was wearing a hole through the center of my bed so you can actually see down into the ground below my truck as that toolbox I was talking about there's actually a hole right there in the bed as well and this has worked out really well for me for a really long time I'll probably get a new one here in the future probably another tacoma I've had good luck with in the past but this one's doing just fine the next question is from run stairs and he says why is your Tacoma so old and beat up I'm sure your YouTube money could buy you a new one I think she's beautiful what was your favorite video on your channel so far so I had to think about this one for a second I have over 500 videos on my channel and I enjoyed every single one of them but if I had to pick my favorite videos they would be my drone history series I only have four of them right now but I would choose them because one I get to travel to I get to learn something which is kind of like the whole point of life and three I get to show something from a unique perspective that hasn't been seen before from an aerial shot of a drone I've done Hitler's anti-aircraft tower in Germany I've done an illegal stairway to heaven hike in Hawaii which is pretty intense as well denne another castle in Germany and I've done the world's largest waterfall in Africa I've done another one that doesn't quite count it's an underwater drone that didn't Cancun at the underwater museum a bunch of statues that are buried underwater to help facilitate the plant and animal life below the ocean so it's not quite like an aerial drone review but it's still pretty sweet only got five of those videos down in the video description of this video if you want to check those out they're my favorite alan porter says what is the most common rookie mistake people make when trying to fix a phone I would say so I get a lot of comments on my videos a lot of people who have been successful with repairs and some who have not and I would say the consistent factor in those people who haven't been successful with their repair is that they weren't gentle enough they use too much force or they put their screws back in the wrong hole so go slow and be gentle and make sure you put your screws back where you found them remember that these phones are incredibly fragile and expensive and if it's your first time repairing a phone it's a pretty difficult project the good thing though is that once you've repaired one phone that same skill set applies to all the phones and it gets easier as you go along Dennis says what's the best tip you could give for someone just starting out with YouTube videos doing tech reviews or similar I would say the biggest tip I could give is to just get started that seems to be the biggest hurdle with everyone I've talked to and I've talked to hundreds of people I think most people are surprised at how much work it is after uploading one to videos but the biggest thing is just people not starting you don't need to wait for the perfect moment that'll never arrive and you don't need to wait till you have expensive camera or tools or setup I think my first hundred or so videos were all shot with the cell phone and this was back five years ago when cell phones weren't even shooting in 1080p I think 720 was some of my first videos that was the maximum resolution that phones could shoot at and cell phones nowadays are pretty incredible so it's important not to let your dreams just be dreams and actually do something about I'll do a new set up tour here in a couple weeks I am in a new space so my set up tour from 2016 is incredibly outdated I'll make sure to have that up before the end of the year for sure and the last question is do you have a website and yes I do actually I have a website it talks about some of the conference's that I've spoken at it also has a little bit more about meme and I also sell some of these shirts mo is my bro I can pretty much guarantee that no one who doesn't watch this channel is gonna know what this shirt even means so it's kind of fun to wear it around I'll have these shirts and everything else I talked about in this video linked in the video description and I'll be hanging around in the comment section for about an hour after this video has been posted so if you have any more questions let me know and I'll answer them down there for you once again thank you so much for watching I could not do this channel without you I really do appreciate it every time you come back and watch something else that I've made thanks ton for watching and I'll see you around