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so I've actually been asked this a lot of times over the years and I don't know I guess no shoot just tripped over uh just tripped over a monitor there actually I'm really excited I finally upgraded the monitor in my office today so hopefully there's nothing incriminating on the screen ah yes the new 49 inch ultra wide 1440p resolution anyway that's not the point of today's video I've been asked a lot of times over the years you guys just make youtube videos why do you have so many people on staff because with our new wave of hiring we are going actually to be up to I think it's 26 does anyone know like how many people are gonna be here soon 22 plus seven is that no it can't be it can't be 29 okay anyway the point is with the new wave of hiring we're gonna be up to over 25 people here at Linus Media Group and that doesn't even count flow plane so I've had a lot of people say well you just make youtube videos well what else do you do and in response to that question I've never I don't think I've ever actually answered that question publicly cuz I just didn't really I didn't really see the point but that is that is all we do yes we're not a system integrator we're not a retailer we are just just a youtube channel but actually multiple YouTube channels so we do I think more work than I think some of you realize so aside from Linus tech tips which does six normal uploads per week and by normal uploads I would say like our Monday to Thursday and then Saturday Sunday content plus when show so that's seven videos plus any extra releases so we define an extra release as something that's not part of our regular one video everyday programming where we're doing like a sponsored showcase or something like that that we just didn't think was a standalone release so we'll do that as an extra slot on Friday or sometimes as an extra spot on midnight on a weekday or something along those lines or we'll do it in the standard slot and then we'll move what would have been that day's video to midnight or whatever the case may be so so we do seven videos a week plus sending extra sponsored stuff on - tech tips we do three videos a week over on tech linked which Riley is actually kind of the point man for that channel so that's we're up to ten now then we do another two to three on tech quickie so that's 12 to 13 videos a week and then plus we do have some although I don't I'm I'm hesitant to even count it because it's very little we do have some video production work that we do so if you work in retail at Best Buy for example you might have seen this lovely face or Luke's actually on the the boost which is like an educational thing for retail associates so we've done that for Intel we have some stuff coming for Sabourin for like their product pages and stuff I think I'm allowed to talk about that anyway so here's what I'm gonna do right so we do like almost 15 videos a week which is actually a lot of work believe it or not like go make a video so you know that's basically we only have like one point three people per video that we make a week that seems pretty reasonable right rather oh yeah yeah so we're gonna go through one by one I'm gonna try and keep an eye on the questions that you guys post here in the chat so if you guys have some like great questions for people but I basically want everyone to tell me three things that they do like why why do we need you to make videos oh man ok so I write tech linked I write every tech linked episode except for Mondays which usually John writes I host tech linked and some Alliance tech tips now as well and oh that seems like more than three and I write and I write Linus tech tip videos there you go so that's what Riley does cool good job Riley Anthony three things you do so Anthony is on our writing staff I sit here okay that's one yes you do do that I write things yep and I benchmark yes Anthony also does some of our server and network admin he also does some of our live streaming overseeing so he and Jake are the ones that know how the live streaming cart works and all that kind of thing he's he's under selling his importance a little bit but that's sort of Anthony's way he's kind of an understated kind of guy if we want the polar opposite of that why don't we talk to James Wow Jimmy make our videos watchable Wow okay what do you want yeah there's three things three things you do here I write I sometimes appear on camera for tech length wine shows maybe tech quickie increasing the LTTE and another random project like sponsor stuff and events like the roast yeah yeah right the roast roast is a big deal so James has actually been instrumental in making that thing happened we haven't actually given you guys a ton of details about the roast but it's next Friday if you're in the Vancouver area by the way we're gonna talk about this online show but we will actually have tickets for sale I believe they're super cheap do you know what the ticket prices are I think it's like 10 bucks or something basically we're only charging for it to make sure that we don't get a bunch of people committing to be there and then they don't show up we just want to we just want to fill seats with enthusiastic butts actually it's a really good time to subscribe to floatplane if you haven't already James just reminded me that we were planning to livestream the roast to flow plane and if there's anything too controversial that will get cut from the YouTube release I personally guarantee it so if you want to see the uncut version you're gonna want to be subscribed to flow play oh yeah it'll be like way later way later for the cut down version Alex what's three things that you do here hi I I drink coffee I have some Tim's right here thank you I spend lots of money on tools if we've got a set of Kaulitz here that I'm trying to decide on what the best course of action is there but uh we all know more a much more expensive thing that's uh we only you only have one course of action press by now like did that wait maybe make sure it's right first yeah it's but that's not necessarily what we want cuz I don't think that we want like these call us we want the ones that you can change it more easier bit pricier but what else do you have even spend money um I rake videos one such generic answers I should just answer for everyone yeah what do I do - okay so Alex as he never actually completed his program but as an engineering major at some point in another life is our go-to guy when ever we need to create something from scratch so he's really been the driving force behind our sleeper builds behind anything that's been created sort of ground up from scratch materials he's our CNC wizard and that that's I'd say really his sort of unique value add he also does the vast majority of our laptop and system reviews yeah that's on all right like the ar-15 here just reviewed it it's pretty good yeah actually that should be that should be a good video if I also got this is gonna be cool so Mac Mini versus PC Mini coming so Mac Mini quad core processor PC mini a core Mac Mini does this even is this onboard graphics yep onboard graphics KC Mini 1080 it's gonna be a little one-sided I think Jake's not at his are they about the same price yeah yikes how much Jake's not at his desk but Jake is sort of our second in command maker and then he also had a little man what does he do he he takes up a ton of space he works on like kind of our weird projects he does something kind of specialty builds like the copper build that he somehow talked me into letting him keep as a workstation you three different slots of dick but he 3d prints a lot of crap including this laptop stand over here which I was like on work time he's like yep I'm like okay so even though he's technically not a millennial I'd say he's the most millennial person on our staff that's that's he's not here to defend himself so I guess that's uh I get I get the last word Lloyd is gonna accompany us back to his desk and he's gonna explain what the devil it is that he does are actually launching one of his creations today yeah I can bring your thing okay you're not gonna bring it okay okay too excited to show off your latest latest insanity now I'm sure I'm gonna leak something that Nick's gonna be mad at me for but um there's not much we can do pretty much everything in Lloyds area is like strictly confidential but this isn't so there's four different designs in different colors and it's gonna be it's gonna be sold as a 4-pack I can give you more detail on that later but the purpose of this dream is to justify every person who works here so everyone I'm going around and I'm asking for three things that you do why do we need 25 people here I know why do we yeah I just I do much is a really awesome yeah okay he does other things too so he coordinates communication with Chinese suppliers actually other overseas suppliers local suppliers yeah we do we do work with some local suppliers he does design work aside from merch so can we show a teaser of the bins um we'd love to show it to you of the pins yeah let's show these are the pins do can you bring my five yeah the face ones okay okay make sure that your passport thing there is not on your screen when I come around that would be really super bad but we have a really really cool unique item that we're gonna be doing at LTX this year we are printing a very limited quantity of these because we figure most people probably wouldn't want it that's and it's gonna be super expensive because they're not cheap to produce but okay are we good clear yeah here this so there's gonna be a pack and it's gonna come in like a special box and it's gonna have the faces of every member of the LTTE team at least at the time that we created them we're gonna have new people by then but there's nothing we can really do about that and you're gonna get the whole the whole pack of them they're gonna be about this big all right they're gonna be about this big and I mean they won't they'll be kind of heavy like they're metal they're not gonna be super wearable I don't think but they'll be decorate things with a bowl so it's gonna be pretty sweet oh yeah actually so Lloyd also arranged our lanyards for LTX I'm just I hate crappy lanyards because I'm one of those freaks that actually wow that's a big bulge that's because I'm actually one of those freaks that actually wears a lanyard so I was like look I want the LTX ones to be really really nice so they're all metal on the ends not gonna break and then the clasp itself is actually metal too so it should be a little more robust than your typical tradeshow lanyard which I'm which I'm excited about okay Nick three things that you do here at Linus Media Group I make sure that Lloyd designs merchandise I'll make sure that Johnno sells things I make sure that Linus doesn't forget to do things ok so everyone's making me do a summary for them okay so Nick is kind of like the doer of things you know if there's something that you need it's like it's weird if there's something that I don't have time for but that I can't pawn off to a subordinate like I need a management level decision and I need management level oversight on it then it's Nick so like making sure that not just like he doesn't help blade design things in that he fires up whatever software Lloyd uses to design things and and and does it himself it's not like that he's just working with Lloyd on the roll out of our store to make sure that the business side of it is going smoothly and the same goes for working with the sales team so Colton and Jon Oh Nick also covers my butt on all kinds of stuff so if like a security call in the middle of the night it actually goes to his phone rather than mine so I get to sleep and look beautiful for all of you people that is the thing you do he also he also pimps the merch like nobody else oh wait I wasn't supposed to show that you gave me you gave me hell wanting to show them that okay that's coming so like he'll post videos if I'm not around to do it Evon pure nepotism higher right what three things you do here I do HR I do well so HR is hiring too and dealing with problems around the office between people I do counting no we would never have any of those would we you cause most of them I'm just kidding anyway um I do accounting and I do all the random projects so if somebody's like hey I want to do a roast can you plan the event or hey design a set or hey build the office like or hey actually we're in an office that I decorated for Linus so that you then took over then I'm well okay I didn't assign myself as office you gave it to me so the reason Yvonne's in this office is because it's the biggest one and Yvonne is actually two people so Janice who's not here today she usually works off-site sometimes comes in and needs a desk as well so there's two people in it that's why Yvonne got it I'm like so salty though I missed this office so much my new one sucks it only has one Ethernet port and it does have bigger windows which is nice but my TV my TV is gone yeah we can do that wait wait when when Matthew comes in can I get another run to my office yeah so to be clear James and Yvonne both took credit for coordinating the roast but it's different aspects of it so Yvonne is overseeing sort of the the team which includes Stephanie watching it's James which includes Lloyd so she's kind of overseeing I'm Brandon Brandon's hugely involved in like the live production aspect of it and then James he's coordinating the talent the actual stage so without James there's no show but without Yvonne there's nowhere for there to be a show so that's kind of the structure there cold cold we love we love to mean that like what does Colton even do here no no but I'm asking everyone why do we need so many people on staff right so what's three reasons why you should definitely be on staff we're gonna just find my job how are you who would wear that shirt that was stolen from work high-end steal a dude okay first off guys I'm really I'm really important okay let me tell you let me tell you why I should be here there's gotta be one reason just today I don't know I helped coordinate and manage a lot of the business relationships I helped coordinate different business ventures like right now we're actually working with one of our partners to create a commercial like a full-blown like actual commercial which Linus is starring in in a couple weeks so that's gonna be really cool and you know some other stuff and then I'm like really stressed out about that it should be to be good yeah all right they're not watching whoops now we've got a plan we'll be okay um yeah I don't know and then where else do I do here well you do some on camera yeah a little bit on camera project coordination the other project coordination I mean the business part is like the biggest part right so me John oh and Nick kind of do a lot of stuff oh there's Nick now the key LTX pimp yeah actually right now we're hiring a event coordinator for events are we doing that already yeah lysimeter group calm oh wow okay there we go I don't know we had announced that because I posted excited that yesterday yeah it's already up back quick people we're asking or not know the hats are not fitted I'm sorry that was gonna be just brutal I'll just be too much inventory to myself an inventory we had to make we had to make decisions like we're not okay so we have some purchasing power like the water bottles that we have upcoming we bought what like 5,000 of them only two mm yes those are gonna go quick I think we should do another few thousand of them well with the amount of time it's taken them to produce the first few thousand we should maybe find someone else okay all right well anyway so so like we can buy a few thousand something out of time but the thing is when you've got something like a hat where there's variations all of a sudden you you know you only you might only have a couple hundred of each variation and then you've you know run out of a certain thing and so you're 2,000 units or whatever it's easy to run out of one thing versus another so we had to make decisions like do we want multiple colors or do we want multiple sizes like if we're if we're gonna go down that path of having a bunch of SKUs so we went with multiple colors instead of multiple sizes to keep our SKU count under control so there will be something kind of like this I'm not gonna let you look too closely at it because that's actually an early sample and then there's gonna be a black on black one as well that looks great I've got a bunch of people claiming that this is prerecorded no I just really really suck at reading super shots so Marco says LTT LMG cases and hardware solutions when honestly it's not really our focus you know we think there's a lot of guys out there doing a great job of computer hardware and we're kind of leaving it to them Joey says finally caught a stream and watching since the ncx days thanks so much no thank you Joey all right so we've made it downstairs the camera den is empty I'll probably find Brandon and David out there somewhere though okay ah here we go let's find the macro King whoa so today's stream is why does a simple youtube channel need so many people working at it so I'm asking everyone to kind of say three things that they do that make them important here mom I mean who else would eat this trail mix without time but this is how I live gives the seven thousand 2050 calories in a single bag I forgot my lunch which ended today have this I don't know I edit videos iqc most of the videos and I complain a lot those are the three things that I do well turns complaints are mostly about like how we can improve processes and our workflow and stuff so it's not entirely horrible good job here um all right why don't we move on to add one of our one of our og members so the stream today is why do we need so many people to run a YouTube channel you don't even it anymore it which is hello well you say that but I just play okay when was the last time you had edited a video though what today yesterday before that oh okay so what do you do not much you kind of got me I'll pack up my things together okay it's gonna be another one that's gonna make me do it yeah okay so what I do is I tell what why I tell - what to do I tell what I tell other people what to do as a result of line is following me what to do does that make sense so Ed's kind of our he's our editor supervisor slash kind of production manager he also has kind of taken on like a total like schedule planning type role I don't know it sort of it's sort of loosely defined i also hire people yeah Oh actually he was involved in the hiring process for two new editors is that right editors so basically spending all the money okay cool so yeah I'd used to edit like our heaviest projects things like scrapyard wars but I think the plan is to have someone else I don't scratch our boards this time around isn't it uh yeah Dennis no I just I just wasn't experiment to tech LinkedIn PAC wiki ice didn't think that you would reassume you to scrapyard worse that's all so for real though what oh one of these two people right there okay probably Alex P or better known as a prime or Pella so yeah Ed's and sort of like he also coordinates the shooters to so anytime anyone in this room or the room on the other side of this wall needs to know what to do and is supposed to be the go-between for writing and pre-production and production so since since we're on the subject of Dennis Dennis oh look at that three things you do aside from just one watching videos at work yeah I'm watching you I know you are approaching okay so what do you want what do you want we don't have three things you do here that make you a critical member of the team oh I'm taking personal calls at work hi this is Dennis's personal assistant okay do you things I do this shouldn't be that hard I can think of like five games I'll be serious okay I do tackling look I'm everything right now I'm actually working we'll just do in two awesome half and I do two quickie I do OTT and sometimes I hope not sometimes it's never happening the Charles will find somebody tad but after trying we would be saying I'm trying well I still get a go for it yes oh so I'm gonna roast you next Friday and this is my outfit oh wow that is that is some badass and print there that is some leopard Pringles beautiful look at that you Dennis also okay Dennis also coordinates our Chinese translation efforts and he actually helps us source things from China that we just don't have the language skills to source like you know like tile power or whatever I do what other things that people people don't know yeah and yeah yeah like contracting me to paint his wall for yes I pay you know you didn't pay me Pepe yeah you gave me a pad thai that's less than minimum wage everywhere and she I you taste them I did eat most of it though Pella doesn't come on camera much so it's not really his thing but I'm gonna ask him anyway Pella what's your what's your three things that you do here okay yeah Pella mostly edits videos but he also has kind of like an eye for detail so he has done some just sort of random workflow improvement type things over the years here that are a little bit deeper than just I edit videos and edit videos Pella has created templates for a bunch of our sponsor placements I think I've been watching the updates in the editing chat on those fellows are actually working on are you still working on a new intro yes do you want it do you want it do you want to see a draft do you want to show them a draft you can see what people think yeah this is gonna be wow this is gonna be your first real feedback on this you're gonna have to put away your troll your troll streams here I'm just gonna move away from the chat real briefly here wow yeah new intro finally is what the chats got to say about that we know over over dude the thing is like when you're replacing the longer you leave it the more like iconic it becomes and the harder it is to replace it without causing endless screaming so we're trying we still want to do it in-house just because we really like to okay here it is so I'm just hold on let me frame this a little better that down here we go all right hit it it's just me oh there it is hmm so there's no box so I haven't actually seen so appears that my guidelines may not have been followed that's the box okay well we'll go through this later we'll see we'll see if that ever sees the light of day okay there is a box I will give you that I'll have to here with music I'll have to hear it with music what do you guys think we've got oh we've got that looks great we've got old one is better we've got boring we've got pretty cool we've got I like it slow the logo down a little we've got a bunch of people timed out by nightbot old one better fire him old one better nice I like it simple gets the message across pretty cool it's I eat that intro does look cool so seems some you know what I'd say 50 50s about all you really asked for with a large change like that then we've got Alex P better known as a prime or me Lord yeah kind of three things you do here I had videos I make snarky comments every time and blow up his face I guess so it's two of those were meme Lloyd things yeah that's because that's what I do so Alex actually has many different talents he actually was the writer for one of our drone reviews a while back I've been I had actually intended to utilize his skills there more but then drones as a category just like kind of died and we can't fly anywhere here anymore so that was sort of a buffer yeah yeah Alex actually has done a little bit of shooting as well but mostly mostly yeah mostly mostly editing and meme Laurie so if you see a particularly dank meme on the Twitter a lot of the time he was involved or Jake right Oh David okay three reasons why do we need like two camera operators if all we do is make youtube videos because we make a lot of videos and then we can kind of alternate all set up one well Brendan shooting one and then he'll set up one well I'm shooting that the one that we just set up so will you actually have some more traditional production experience right yes yeah we the question we're answering in this stream is why do you need so many people just to make youtube videos and from a professional production standpoint how would you say our staff to output ratio looks our staff to help her she was pretty excellent I'd say like most production companies that are doing videos like ours are having like triple maybe quadruple this staff so would you say you're overworked oh yes yes that's some days yes yeah other days there's like kind of not a lot to do I guess that's kind of the nature of the beast though you know we're in the tech space where if there's no news sometimes well actually when there's no news it's like more work because then you have to just like create news you have to be like oh we took this weird thing that wasn't intended to do this and we did something different with it haha I'll take that establishment um let's see if there's anyone in the lounge not right now we are so close to rolling out the finished one so this is our AMD finished system versus an Intel test bench stay tuned do not miss the latest Lounge update it's gonna be latest the newest which is coming we shot it earlier this week don't miss it don't miss it it's gonna be awesome Who am I missing John John Wright's Tech linked on Mondays and fast as possible for our tech quickie all the other days so he's a full time writer he's off-site though so I can't really show him to you Jake hey we found we caught up with Jake I kind of explained what you do but the purpose of this stream is three reasons that you should be employed here like we're justifying why we have so many people on staff I make sure when show works every week we have it is late sometimes still but normally it works I do most of the networking video so if without me who was gonna do that right Anthony okay well damn it hmm really struggling here and I he does things he does things eating on you that's like verbally okay that's fine I already explained what you do anyway I did it way better than you Batum and then there's Brandon oh no it's perfect that Brandon's gonna be kind of like oh no never mind it's it's kind of compensating for the kind of dramatic lighting yeah but it's yes okay so Brandon we're trying to we're trying to justify in this livestream why we have so many staff just to make youtube videos so I asked David this already but I'd love to hear your answer you also have some more traditional production experience yeah how would you say our output to staff ratio looks to you output to Stafford it's a it's excellent I mean I like we-we-well we produce how many videos a week and then we do other projects that no one knows about until they see them like there's so many things that we do that people don't know about cuz we're doing them not talking about them do you know mean mm-hmm so like like the roasts we only just yeah yeah a few days ago and there's a couple other large projects that no one's talked about Colton actually tease the this will be a pause way coming up and I've been working on that for like over a month and no one knows about it but it's been a lot of work and it's all the with the biggest project we've taken on ever for a production standpoint and like we still you don't notice that cuz all the videos yep and like there's little things that I think a lot of people wouldn't necessarily appreciate like Brandon and one of his production industry friends actually coordinated the redesign of the bedroom set we've gotten a lot of really great feedback on how good it looks especially with the LED lighting that's built into all these shelves you wanna turn on some brightness who there experience people an entire day to just put in the shelves and then they had to do the lighting so they're all floating they're all like really strong like we can actually put heavy things on them but check this out so the bookshelf now has lighting and the shelves check that out also have lighting so Brandon coordinated that also the creation of these like gorgeous resin tables scratch-built resin tables like natural wood so it's like little things that no one's gonna be like oh you know wow that table looks so great but it adds some it adds some real production value to the videos that otherwise just wouldn't be there well a lot of great a lot of great feedback on the resin tables thanks Brandon I think I'm getting pretty close to you know close to the end actually Oh Tyler so we reached a point where my level of disorganization just got too high and we hired Tyler to take on my disorganization what do you do here Tyler I take on your disorganization mm-hmm-hmm and cover for my boneheaded mistakes yeah and now he actually also has a helper so Tyler is we're not using his name we're not showing him on camera yet because he's still on probation but yeah so Tyler has a helper so Tyler makes sure that when we have an event like LTX all the pallets of stuff are where they're supposed to be when they're supposed to be there when we have new items arriving he makes sure that the right people know about them when we're shipping things out other than merch we have a third party shipping logistics contractor for our merch items but other than merch Tyler ships out things like prizes for giveaways stuff like that Tyler coordinates like weird random things like we need a trailer hitch on the work truck who will do this this guy that's how enthusiastic he usually looks about it too but actually no I'm serious Tyler seriously has a has a great attitude which you definitely need to deal with sort of between my nonsense Brandon's nonsense and Yvonne's nonsense you gotta have real you gotta you got to be real positive you know I think that's it I'm gonna so bad if I missed someone I mentioned Janice but she's not here today I got Tyler I think I think we're good yeah yeah I mentioned John hello John John oh oh he wasn't at his desk I'll go see I'll go see if John OHS back John was a relatively new member of the team but basically we work with you know Colton or Nick would probably know this but we work with literally dozens of brands I mean we've got to support this entire staff somehow we work with literally dozens of brands so Colton was just not able to keep up with all of it by himself anymore so we added shadow what do you do here John I handle sponsorships outreach brands and tell which kind of sponsor showcases reach with you mm-hmm pretty much yeah so he takes sort of my no we're not gonna do that that's stupid and he turns it into something that's far less abrasive for like an agency or brand to take back to the client and then when the client says actually he will then that comes back to John oh and Jonah says - I would it would really be great if maybe we could do this so he's kind of like a translator between you know one diva and then another diva it's so there you go that's everyone who works here for now at least everyone who was in the office today and that's what they do now I need to actually help there you go looks like David's all set up and we're gonna shoot a video on this we're thing so it's like it's like a memory to s SD adapter thing pretty pretty weird so I'm gonna do a video on that and then when show which will hopefully be on time but that seems kind of unlikely at this point oh yeah I actually have most of my script written for this to the Nubia Alpha really weird SmartWatch with a flexible display I've got people asking about Ivan Ivan is no longer with us so he's not here anymore but thank you for remembering him Luke's not here he's sick he's actually sick today I would have shown the floatplane peeps but they generally don't come in on Fridays and Luke who would normally be in at the end of the day on a Friday is off site because he's not feeling well all right thanks guys buh buh bye oh hold on hello this is great someone's like they have scripts yes we definitely have scripts hold on I'm gonna make sure I don't show anything confidential on my screen here Wow my password just one second Oh all right uh yeah I don't think there's anything confidential here yeah so here you go this is what one of our scripts look like anyone who applied for one of the writing positions will have seen something like this already we sent out some sample ones but there you go so this is what I wrote up for this video so we'll throw that on throw that on the prompter and that's how it works bye