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good morning good afternoon good evening everyone and welcome to episode 6 of the pocket now VIP the interview series where the technology itself takes a backseat so that we can get to know the people who report on it I'm Michael Fisher editorial director at pocket now and today I'm joined by a mainstay of the YouTube technology circuit a discerning reviewer of Technology and one of the youngest looking people I've ever talked about what's really low that's low low it's a compliment where a youth-obsessed culture okay the redoubtable Austin Evans welcome to the show sir henry begun yesterday thanks for having me looking forward to talking all kinds of VIP stuff let's Jeff this is the first VIP thing anyone's ever called me before so to the front and you've been you've been labeled a VIP yeah yeah true you and I have been to many Samsung events together we're always VIPs of those things that's a good point yeah it's usually like a kick to add VIP things though not brought into them so right and that's true just as a reminder to first-time viewers of the VIP this is our chance to get to know Austin both at work and and hopefully outside of the confines of his studio so if you if you have questions for Austin I believe we have successfully enabled the the Q&A panel along the side just submit them and we'll do our best to get to as many as we can later on you're open to you've got about 45 minutes for us there Austin oh absolutely yeah sweet yeah I'm very much looking forward to this let's uh let's let's do some background I've had a bunch of people on the show before and I usually like to go over how we met if we've met in person and that's not always something that's happened but you and I met the same way I met marques which was do you remember yeah so is that the galaxy s3 was the US launch I guess it was I think it was yeah because I had already spent some time with the international one and then they invited us there and that it's weird because I think that was one of my first excursions ever but I was surrounded by people who had done this a whole lot longer than i had and even at the time i was struck by it was like austin looks like I mean Austin looks like he's like like 16 how old were you awake point I was 20 i think 19 or 20 something like that yeah Wow and at that point so we were we were there with Marquez we were with Lamarr Wilson and Ryan Bates and a number of other people we had a really nice time talking to everybody who's kind of behind the gs3 launch we had a wonderful experience there but I remember having a talk with you and you showed me your Twitter feed at some point and I had was just starting at pocket now and yeah I was like hey what do you guys like eleven thousand followers oh man I have 300 so well that's different oh yeah yeah that was like what was that almost two years ago this would have been it was the summer of of 2012 yeah yeah wow you've grown like a whole lot since then I want to kind of get to your specs here in a second but first I have a question that I've sort of been dying to know since that summer and I've never here we go yeah now can you predict it because i don't know uh Austin not Duncan okay let's do it okay look how many times have you been asked this I'm 1,700 about about yeah okay so Austin not Duncan is technically you're isn't your YouTube handle it's your it's your twitter handle it's all of it my Twitter my Instagram handle it's kind of what I'm yeah most of my social stuff but youtube is Austin Evans but yeah austin not Duncan is kind of everywhere where I couldn't get Austin Evans okay and so I mean is this a reaction to a long period in your life where people inexplicably called you Duncan for no reason you wanted to make it clear well there's definitely a reason because that was my name for pause the first four years or so of being on YouTube or may not quite four years but for the huge chunk of my first start on YouTube everyone knew me as Duncan 3630 three and the funny thing was especially back you know two thousand nine or so when I first got started there was no way to change your username at all nowadays not taking advantage of this but I'm you can use like google plus you link up with your google+ account you can change your name but a beginning there was no changing and I had had Duncan as like an old internet user name for practically no reasons just I just had it there because I was I want to be anonymous on the internet and I use my real name that worked out well for me so it was a completely random choice I mean justjust Duncan you kind of picked it out of the air and then my friend picked it out when we were like I'm probably like 10 years older so we were first both getting on the air and add would like are gonna be cool super secret less let's go up with fake names and yeah is kind of kind of holla when it just kind of stuck but um it is a lot of people got trapped in that in that same area like I have a different youtube channel that has a completely inexplicable brand name because I chose it like a decade ago on the internet and then jon rettinger picked John for lakers and that's what technobuffalo was for the longest time so yeah word that's a that's a common story I understand that so you decided to rectify at one point though when ya which brands yeah I was about I don't know middle of last year so I was like I was talking with companies getting sponsor all this kind of stuff and it looks really bad like I think the moment I really realized it I was signing a contract and on top of it said Duncan presa 303 Mike okay no this is this has gotta stop I've gotta fix this yeah so then you've elected though to preserve some semblance of it when you when you you chose Austin not Duncan because you couldn't as Austin Evans is not the most uncommon name so a lot of people were some people were squatting yeah oh yeah yeah so I was able to get austin Evans on google+ because i was one of the first people because they eat only they only opened up like where you could get your own name or your own custom URL not too long ago so they will jump on that one but a facebook just flat-out shut me down so it's still Duncan over there I couldn't change even it to austins or anything at all yeah someone already had yes someone sorry squatting the Twitter luckily someone from YouTube someone had registered the Austin Evans but they gave it to me because they had used it in oil and yeah so I was able to get it a couple places at least that's excellent yeah we have a similar Facebook problem we're still pocketnow.com on facebook we look like a look at 2002 you know an auction house or something we want to get the dot-com off there but we can't change it so yeah it's pretty rough you have in the space that you play in and we'll talk about this in a second you've got you know your colleagues you've got mark watson is soldierknowsbest you've got marques brownlee is mkbhd what made you just decide that you to bran defy your name I mean did you ever consider doing a name of making the channel you know giving it its own brand or did you always want to make the name in the brand one so the thing that you gotta understand about my channel is I went into it with absolutely zero plan like the the channel name itself is back from 2007 I just created the youtube channel just so I can subscribe to people because I was coming back you know has first kind of discovering YouTube all the way back in two thousand seven like really having a good time I kept like wanting to come back to people's channel so i just i just made a channel he's my standard internet user name that i had used for years and it was fine and great but back in two thousand nine i was working with a friend of mine and we had been well he was creating a site and i was kind of doing some work for him he convinced me to do some video stuff so I was like okay well I have a channel upload to it didn't really think twice about it a bell I know maybe two or three squeaks and after I had actually had like a few videos there a few of them had actually done well I was like no this Duncan a nice try to get rid of that like hmm now I've got like 120 subscribers I'm never gonna get more than that they deserve some consistency that's a lot of people yeah yeah so I mean I didn't have any plan for it so I just you know stuck with the name I have a few times i kind of consider changing it but I mean especially once I got any kind of you know reasonable mass subscribers the only way to change the name was really to just kill the channel and go and try everyone to move over to a new one which would have been flying my head and 20 subscribers but you know a year or two it when I had a thousand two thousand five thousand that was it was like two years at work out and watch throw away so yeah about last year I decided okay you know I need to get rid of this pretty much the only kind of idea cuz i'm usually not really not that great with names it's like okay well let's see if I just get Austin Evans and just go with it and luckily I was able to get on YouTube in a couple places and it's worked it has work it's worked quite well because i mean the the search part of the autofill when your type in austin e and it will auto complete with evans and then there's a whole bunch of numbers after after your name and points his lost and Evans 200 300 600 and get to that in a second but while we're talking about numbers you have considerably more than 5,000 subscribers now you're at 440,000 subscribers more than 60 mm views total across 500 plus videos how did we get here uh it was there a moment at which you saw was there a particular video that gave you astronomical growth and and launched you into the partner program or was this just kind of a steady slow build over over the years that is definitely the steady thing I mean I think my first viral video was actually was a the galaxy s3 i did a galaxy s3 vs. iPhone 5 like speed test and I got picked up by mashable got like five hundred thousand views the first date but that was after I've been doing YouTube for over four years so it was definitely not one of those big like you know I post like a video with like a giant iphone phone bill and I have a million subscribers raising like that it was definitely one of those you know long slow burns I mean I think it took me about a year before I got partner back when getting partners actually a big deal I think I like this how you subscribers you had to qualify but yeah either did know a lot of you poops to be a partner back in the day yeah they turn me down actually the first time I applied my videos were really really bad you know at the beginning but yeah i got i guess straight up turned down and finally when i got around to doing it a second time after about a year they were like okay well this guy's got a million views so i guess we should maybe let him in it's so that's not the the first time I've heard that I think it was Marquez heard a similar story and I've heard it from others too and Google if you've spent if you've been on YouTube a long time you know that it used to be this no compromise thing like if you got kicked out of whatever programmer you got denied admittance there was no reapplying it was just like no whatever we're gonna ignore you forever now but no i mean it's it's really great to see that that's matured along with YouTube as a whole and now it's like no ill will reconsider it you know some of the later on and look what happened to you I mean now you've got to a very very successful place as a result of their change in policy so I think that's really cool yeah definitely i remember it was such a exciting time I got the email because especially like when I first signed up for partner just like two months for them to just to finally go through my application and then they turned it down and you know three or four months later I tried again like a month or so later I got the email like you've been accepted I remember that was probably like the happiest day because like 17 something like that I was like on the ceiling like I can't believe I'm just gonna make money off of this and that that it was it was crazy but yeah that was definitely that ranks up there with one of those top days of you know of my life and kind of weird to think that a lot of the people who are starting on YouTube now they'll never really quite get that moment because it's just like okay partner everyone I mean YouTube partners not even really a term anymore so kind of weird to think about that it is it's very strange i do you remember getting your first like check in the mail but I remember like the the journey from partner to to getting the check for me was like my father always gave me this really nice advice he's like yeah it's good to get excited about stuff but wait until you can catch the yeah yeah oh yeah I definitely remember that I got my first check and i bought a nintendo dsi with it i remember i was so excited was barely enough to get the the dsi got like I think the pokemon game or something with it I was so excited and yeah it was it was pretty crazy yeah it's it's amazing it's it's a very very cool thing and I love hearing like the moment now but question you got the check you were able to buy ad yes okay cool but I doubt at that point you you realize that you could make a serious living off of this right i mean or did you did you immediately start thinking like how do i grow this as quickly as possible and and make it as successful as possible was it still a hobby at that point yeah well i mean the thing is YouTube came in a really good time in my life because it was near right around 16 17 where I normally would be getting a job but because i had this and I you know I've been pretty much working on like a job you know since i first started those constantly cranking videos out even what I wasn't getting paid but when I did get partner pretty much me I was able to get about what I would be getting at a part-time job soon as i got partner after a year or so so I was like 17 like oh wow thousand dollars a month oh yeah let's do this I'm good yeah yeah actually exactly yeah I was I was super excited about it so it worked but um no I mean I I always kind of knew even when i first started kind of like in the back of my head that yeah you can't make money off of this and it'd be cool but it was never something I was like okay you know and two years I need to be making xpad dollars i want to you know you'll make a full time job it was never anything like that it was just kind of like oh that'll be nice if maybe I could make that happen someday but it wasn't like some kind of concrete plan right thing is that what what is it has become I mean is this your your full time gig now making Austin Evans videos oh yeah yeah so I mean it's funny because nothing has really changed I mean I still spend the same amount of time working on videos as I did you know five years ago but uh yeah it's enough for me to live my own place and buy all the kinds of tech gear that you have to and uh yeah well that's awesome congratulations on that by the way and it's very nice where you was was that your situation even when I when I met you two years ago I mean how long have you has it been your principal source of income uh yeah pretty much the entire time because you know at the time I was living with my parents so it was it was pretty much like free money I didn't have to go pay rent or anything but yeah uh yeah it's been premature my full-time job the whole time the only difference is I just moved out you know bought a car and all I kind of fun adult kind of stuff crazy adults yeah yeah the fun grown-up living exactly what dumb let's talk about your channel a little bit because you have a variety of focuses you go from from like PC builds to gaming reviews to mobile and not that this is necessarily a unique cocktail you know they all they all kind of interlock and we see a lot of channels maintaining that that kind of diverse focus but do you have a sector that you prefer to cover is their site is there a particular type of video that when you're filming or like this is my favorite thing to do I like it better than either of the others yeah I actually kind of like the new kind of thing I'm moving into which is kind of more mainstream stuff so I've been doing actually for about a year zone out top 5 videos which I'll you know round up like top five worst phones ever it's my most popular video on my channel like a milli and a half use it could be like top five coolest things at CES which is what I did last month I mean that's those are the kind of videos to get me say right now but the thing about my channel is that changes pretty much every like six months I mean when I first started out on youtube i was doing iphone app reviews i was doing iphone jailbreaking stuff back when that was you know a big deal sure but one of the things yeah it was awesome back that yeah but one of the things I've always tried to do with my channel is I never ever ever want to get locked into one particular segment now something is working at the time like some sample gaming pcs like I doing that more than you know maybe two years ago but right now something that really enjoy doing something that the audience really enjoys watching so I'm absolutely going to do it but I don't want to consider myself to be a gaming PC channel or a gaming pc guy I want to be you know doing whatever works and you know as kind of you know trends kind of go up and down I don't want to be locked into something so I'm always ready to go oh I'm going to do some more kind of mainstream stuff like top fives people like that I like that okay and start focusing on that people want to see one gaming stuff okay I'll focus on that you want some mobile stuff so I've always tried to kind of just keep it kind of fluid and work on whatever people are most interested in and I'm most interested in that makes a lot of sense i was going to be a challenge for branding though I mean unfortunately you did not choose a particular brand name that confines you to one thing like you didn't you know four years ago decide to be like you know smartphone tech review become calm you know thank you that yeah exactly yeah I mean it's pretty much I mean my audience has been great i mean they pretty much support I mean they're done I don't I get me don't get me wrong like if my audience doesn't like a video I'm not going to continue making that series like usually I'll start out with a couple and they always give me great feedback if it's good y'all continue making it they don't like it I'll stop so I mean I don't want to try to say like I'm forcing my audience around or anything I mean they've been very very helpful in supportive but it's pretty much been just like whatever is it I kind of impatient about kind of tends to kind of come across the screen and people who you might not have actually cured while gaming pcs they started watching my channel they see me start doing videos and talking about it and you know see me being excited and kind of showing it off and maybe they might get an interest in gaming PCs and kind of come over to the fold and every time can switch to channel around a little bit a lot of times people just come right along and just happy to see whatever kind of new tech I'm talking about see now that surprises me because I i think that there's a stigma around the YouTube audience that it is a fickle mean-spirited bunch and I don't think that's I think that's not true at all but certainly it was true at one point and I think that reputation is stuck with it but I would not have expected you to say even today that you you're able to change your channel around and change the focus you know every half year or so and have people come along with you i would think that no matter how compelling a host you were that people would just kind of be like now whatever i don't really care about this i'm leaving but that's not the case well I mean definitely is the case to extend you know roughly about ten percent of my subscribers every month like you know they kind of roll over so you know people are definitely leaving but I think the thing that's made it work for me is that I've never tried to sell myself as you know a gaming channel or a you know a mobile channel or whatever it's always just been a tech channel and pretty much everything I do even I'm switching around from this to that it's still tech and people really don't necessarily maybe even pay attention or even really care that oh I'm not doing quite some unit these videos I'm starting to do more of these it's all kind of just interesting tech content so I've never tried to frame it in a way where hey subscribe because I'm gonna do gaming PC builds every day or anything like that it's always just been subscribe for more tech stuff you want some more tech stuff tech stuff so that's the kind of the way that it's works for me at least that makes a lot of sense I understand that well that's that's good i mean it's congratulations on that prescient decision to make your branding you know a little bit broader i have a question about the top five list specifically and then I'll kind of get out of this but we are seeing something of the beginnings I think of a backlash against lists thanks to the the BuzzFeed saturation of facebook you know we're you know 17 ways you can make your paper clips but live more like ours you know it's like that kind of yes but people still eat up lists but have you seen any kind of degradation in in your in your audience on the list stuffer is the quality of that of the commentary on those lists a little bit more aggressive because because it draws in more people or what is just how's the top 5 thing affected your your channel other than driving traffic yeah so definitely one of the big things is top fives or at least the way I do them are very difficult to make like I mean I've actually been working off the last two days I'm hoping to you know kind of finish it up today but they're definitely the videos well game pc videos also take a lot of the build stuff but there were definitely the kind of the the kind of the halo kind of brand thing where i spent all the time trying to polish and make it really good i think the thing is people really just like to see like if i start especially in a video form i say ok top five you know best video game consoles of all time people gotta start watching along the way they go oh i used to have one of those oh I knew that and kind of keep them interested in into the and because every wants no well what's the number one even if they disagree with you that's fine but they're guys stick around they're going to be interested and the way that the YouTube algorithms are set up if you can kind of keep someone watching a video for a longer time it helps get more views because YouTube obviously wants people to watch videos for longer so it kind of is just a self-perpetuating loop where you get more views YouTube likes you you do and just kind of work your way up so I know there's definitely i've seen this fish in the last couple months some of that starting to dip down just a little bit because a lot of people are doing top fives and top tens and all that kind of stuff but uh for the foreseeable future I still think it's something that totally viable for my channel sweet I want to ask you we've had of you know your channel has experienced almost no interruption in in traffic but that is not because you've not had a big life event yeah yeah so I know that you've talked a lot about this recently and I know that a lot of people know about it but I was finding if we were doing the podcast yesterday the pocket net weekly and I was surprised to find that not everyone had heard this yet so just to cover our bases can you can you describe your your house burned down right yeah pretty much pretty much yeah it was uh about actually three weeks ago since kind of that yeah I was uh it was crazy I mean it was i was living in an apartment and was I don't get whole story I'm sure a lot of people have heard it but I was on I was in an apartment on the top floor and someone couple floors below me they had something like a heat or something caught on fire the whole building went up completely lost the entire way through I was able to get out with you like bits is like paperwork and a laptop and my phone so yeah it's been a it's been an interesting couple weeks it has and what what made that most interesting to me was because I showed up in my subscription feed as you often do but the thumbnail was not the usual you know cooling fan with neon accents or or smartphone casing it was the side of a building on fire and I was like wow for real and then I watched your summation and I you know of course everybody was blown away by this none more than you but I think your audience certainly certainly was was more than sympathetic but then even more interestingly would when did you go back was it the next day yeah it was the next day so i was there i filmed like cuz I'm you know me youtuber to me now I watch my house burned down of course I got to record it a little bit but uh but yeah I went back the next day after they put the fire out and so you know me and some other of my neighbors were trying to walk around and see if we can find anything and so yeah I was like because actually the what it happened was because I was such a crazy day with you know talking to fire department and this and that trying to work everything out and I finally got home that night and checked Twitter and just you know my Twitter just unbelievably like I said in the video you guys had actually broken my Twitter just from everyone tweeting me and everybody would another fresh right he wouldn't yeah I wouldn't go all the way down I said to go grab my laptop search on twitter at Austin that Duncan to actually scroll and the page was like freezing up every time I load another one it was like a couple thousand tweets at least but uh but a couple of the people who had actually we're tweeting me is like hey I'm sorry that happened but you should totally go over tomorrow and record you trying to find stuff I read them like that's a great idea I should totally do that because I knew I had to do some kind of video because I knew as you know as much as I wanted to I had I had an iphone and a laptop I was not going to be able to go back to nearby full tech videos for a little while so I had to do some kind of idiots plain people hey this happened you know many little time to catch up but uh I was just a great idea a couple people had tweeted me I was like okay I gotta do it and so I went over there and kind of dug around a little bit but I shouldn't say we'll find a couple cool things but nothing your head that was still functioning at a bird in water that had been burned but it still worked you had a computer casing that you were able to find because they'd already bulldozed it right so that the fire damage had been compounded by structural damage from the from the bulldozer right exactly yes I think what it happen was that I guess the firefighters have been there all night and they kept seeing little bits of hot spots to kind of popping up so they're tired of fry from that hose them down so they just got ya bulldoze are just kind of often all over which I should kind of sucked because after the fire was pretty well knocked down I saw a lot of my stuff because I was on the top floor so a lot of this might kind of stuff was sitting on top so I saw like my computer or so like my dining room table a few things yeah those bulldozers came through that night and he was pretty much all just kind of her married yeah her i was never able to find any of it again well but any what you did you found bits of recognizable things in the wreckage but all this stuff ok cool I can I can sort of get with this a yeah i can predict that a youtube personality goes back to his burned down apartment building and and and makes a video all right that's not a surprise what it was so striking to me was watching this freaking video I swear to god you broke my heart because I'm like you were not necessarily jovial but you were as good-natured as any human being could ever be in that circumstance like you're uncovering bits of your life that have been burned doused in water and then bulldozed and yours you're basically just you're clearly not happy but I you made it such an enjoyable experience and I hate saying that but watching this video like it was this kind of weird testament to human resilience I I guess it was just like Jesus Austin I mean to just can use anything does anything bother him you know I did you get the same feeling watching the video like you were like wow I can't believe that I'm such an easygoing guy I I don't know about that I mean I think it really helps because the way the whole fire kind of thing went down because I was asleep I heard yelling so I saw some smoke over my window so I immediately threw up and threw my clothes on grabbed my phone and my my glasses I ran outside house I like some serious kind of black smoke coming out and I think it really helped because i was still i mean i was awake by just woken up there from that point on I pretty much immediate was able to write everything off of like okay i'ma grab a couple things and I'm done and so I think it definitely helped it I knew what was going on and yeah I from here the entire time I walked down I saw the fire I ran down I saw the fire I saw everything happened so does every point was like oh no is this gonna happen oh and Fire Department get here as soon as I saw that amount of black smoke of like okay I'm done and I didn't didn't even think about it so I know it was it's kind of weird how it happened but it really wasn't like a like especially I was looking through everything I wasn't going like I wonder if I can find something I kind of hoped but I knew the amount of you know the fire and it was completely leveled it was just kind of like huh what if I can find some cool souvenirs but pretty much that was my thought process there you had already come to terms with it when you were watching it destroyed the first time you were like yeah that's yeah I you know it's it's something I don't think a lot of people wouldn't necessarily expect because you are the entire focus of your professional life is things right yeah so but on the other hand I mean you look at like what we do like there's new phones coming out all the time new computers there's new stuff coming out all the time so yeah I mean the tech it definitely hurts but I mean I know that that's going to be a year from now there'll be all kinds of new stuff and you know whatever I mean the pretty much the only thing that really kind of you know sucks is like my data because I had it backed up but it was in my apartment so that was gone a lot of like the step Franklin as a kid I used to do was really big into writing all that stuff gone so that was pretty much the only thing that kind of upset me but you know it's just stuff it's it's just stuff ultimately it is just yeah yeah you survived and we're all glad about that I want to get back to the writing thing in a second but before we do you uh you got a surprise a couple of weeks back yes I did so I was a staying at my parents place yeah I'm gonna tell the story so I was thinking of a parent's place and you know I spent about a week or two trying to figure out kind of I didn't know if I was going to move because I had considered actually moving out to California some stuff had happened and I after I signed my lease I you know big opportunity came for me to go move out to California and I came really close to doing it and I decided not to so when I remember I was staying at washington place / down like huh guess I'm out of my lease now yeah well I wanted ass gape at RIT was there was these weird thoughts but yeah so I spent a couple weeks kind of considering whether I wanted to do it or not or you know what I was going to do and one day I just sitting out there on the couch and I just can't play on my new 3ds the first thing I replaced and my dad walks in he's like hey there's a UPS package for you you guys sign for it I looked at on like no it's like you got it any adult consigned for UPS package but I knew that new eps they're not going to sit around forever so I ran out grabbed a jacket I walk outside and there's a brand new Mac Pro sitting in front of the door and my mind just locked I could not understand what was going on there was a white car out in front of the and further driveway so I saw that and I saw the mac pro but touitou just did not go together in fact they reported me just have the most dumbfounded look on my face I'm trying to understand what's going on and then two of my friends Lou from unbox therapy as well as jonathan from tldtoday they pop around the corner and the recording it is a giant surprise they had done with the tech community to kind of replace the mac pro and try to give me back on my feet and they flew all the way down from California and from Canada to come and surprise me and my mind was just blown I think everyone's mind was blimey everyone was there was a very very very heartwarming video and & Event I'm that would have broken my my heart and in the best way if I were if I were you I must be felt great to have that kind of support you know from ya friends right it was amazing I mean it wasn't even I mean and I've said this before it wasn't so much about the mac pro which was amazing but as the fact that everyone thought enough to pitch in to come down to try to replace it that meant a lot more than what they had actually done the fact that everyone would actually do something like that because I mean if I thing is like I started watching a lot of these guys like you know John for lakers so Joe's best so are some of the guys who I looked up to i was very first starting the night bit like it's I've come far enough that they actually Nellie like can you can recognize me but they actually go out of the way to help me is just kind of like whoo yeah yeah no it's it must have been profound and I remember I was very because I was surprised along with most other people and I saw it I saw it hit the feet i'm awake whole that way they did this that this is awesome so that was my first indications great i do what did you all end up doing did you did you move where are you were you sitting right now i'm still in missouri i'm still missouri i decided i'll wait another year because it's kind of a big deal to move out there because you have some family and friends around here so you know I had another those long kind of conversations with myself which sounds really weird say it but I yeah I just did not gonna on a lake you have a thoughtful evening on the beach yeah exactly though I think the big thing was I just didn't want to make a rash decision because like pretty much like as I was sitting there like watching the place burned down I pretty much it decided my head like yeah okay I'm moving now but I have to think about a little more like you know I had a plan I don't want to just throw the whole plan away just because this and I think one of the big things that was kind of uh you know trying to meet you the ideas like hey moving is gonna be so easy now I can throw this in the my trunk in the car and just put GPS and just try like I liked the idea of the freedom because I could just go do whatever whenever bells like yeah but I don't know that's that bat kind of seems like a decision I would regret later if I just just take a pack up and just disappear somewhere and go have some fun absolutely no it can be really alluring for a very short period of time and I think you have to go right then like if you're having that moment you really want to go I think if it's right then that's when you go but fortunately you devoted a little bit more time to it and stuff can I ask the obvious question even though I don't think you'll answer you don't have to answer can you talk about the opportunity in California or is that a secret ah you can't really talk about it Oh problem don't worry about this is not 60 minutes i'm not going to do it here silently while you get uncomfortable but i would like to hear about it some type that if it is something that is meant to be i hope that it happens yeah hopefully mm-hmm i want to i want to sort of move on to to the QA a little bit and i actually had one question before we started the QA but it seems that someone has already beaten me to it so are you cool to start taking some questions from from the viewers here yeah let's do it sweet let's do it let's start with this question from Alex uh the vole chick biffle sick I'm doing the best I can there Austin what is your daily driver for a phone right now again wait wait before you before you answer can I guess yeah go for cheating because I think you've told me this but is it is it the Moto X actually it's the iphone 5s ah so i thought i thought i had it well i think is mmm i did use the Moto X for a little while um you know the funny thing is I used to like really love like iphones and ipod touches like i was really big into that I mean that's how I started my channel but uh i think around the galaxy s3 i just couldn't deal with just I OS anymore just so tired is just so bland it just not changed and i was looking at android nicole its giant screen LTE is amazing yeah um but when the iphone 5s came out I because I I got the vibe I did review i immediately sold it I was not remotely interested in keeping it just like okay yeah but but the 5s came out i really like i had the same thought like okay you probably can get rid of it but then we turned into two weeks and a month and now it's been analyst in September so four or five months now I think it's partially big as the camera because I'm a big guy really really love good phone cameras because I know I'm that huge an Instagram or anything but I just really love like a good camera on a phone because I don't like to carry around like yes large and all this kind of stuff cause it's just big and bulky and it really I feel like it makes me be more creative when i'm working with like a little bit more of a limited kind of camera we've got it yeah i've got actually i got a zoom with my feet and try to you know line things up and everything so the camera this is just awesome but uh I'm starting to kind of a little bit regret this small screen size because it's like okay I had the the note 3 little while ago I was like oh yeah this is this is one of the big bones like but I yeah I got news in the 5s sweet all right well that's I think you're certainly not alone in that I I don't have a 5s I'm actually staring at a bunch of phones lined up right here and i have a bunch more in the other room and then in the other office and I'm like I don't have a 5s all I have on the iOS side is a 5c and it's very frustrating especially we do comparisons and people like you should have compared that with a 5s Mike I know I don't have what I'm sorry yeah Alex thank you for the thank you thank you thank you um we have another one here actually and I actually want to another word from Alec so we're going to close on but there was one that I that is not a question it's a statement and its really really cool I don't know if you've seen this or not it I don't this is from turbocharged films I don't know if you can recognize me but I'm the kid whose life you changed the one with the dingy emotional video glad what what's the story there uh yeah so he actually he made this amazing video and you know i wish i had the link to it right now but he just made this amazing video just kind of talking about how he had watched some of my videos and just kind of that I don't be like be automatic but he it kind of turned his life around that was i wish i had the link to that video right now but dude thank you so much for that video I know I said it before on Twitter but that was probably one of the best videos i've ever seen just show me the shoe me the link after we're done and I'll put it in the post at pocket yeah yeah I will find out had it saved somewhere but I don't have it on this computer i don't think but yeah that was that was that was a pretty pretty amazing video well good I'm glad that turbocharged films got a chance to to mention it again and I'm looking forward to seeing it your predictions about MW MVC mwc depending on where you hail from this is from Fabian who is a full name I will not try to pronounce cuz i was a bit predictions for mwc this year we were talking about this a little bit before the show started you've not yet you've never attended at Mobile World Congress correct no no and it's if anyone is unfamiliar it's basically the CES of its CES x 5 and it's all mobile it's in barcelona so that is terrifying it's so awesome no you know it is funny though because when you scale up CES it's basically the same thing it's the same tiny amount of worthwhile stuff at the core surrounded by four hundred thousand acres of iphone cases that are crappy you know yeah that's not that but um do you have the predictions is a really broad question and I never I don't like answering it myself so is there something you're particularly looking forward to from mwc I'm definitely looking forward to see with the new HTC one looks like although that is actually that's supposed to be a separate event right the HTC One yeah that's gonna be March 25th in at a double event in London in New York City I believe yeah well I think that's the most excited thing hmm about right now you know I guess it's technically not mwc HTC one is actually still one of my favorite phones like I've ever used the only reason I actually switched away from mine was because the storage was starting to go bad and something like horrible read and write speeds really yeah after about like three or four months I was getting like I just like unbelievable slow speeds like lagging all kinds of stuff which is I never really had with the phone before but oh I've never that's interesting yeah I have a widespread problem is it did you heard it on fluoride heels yeah I haven't heard of anybody else i'm sure i'm fighting a search for maybe a few people on some forums had that but no I mean I had another HTC it was a sprint review or something and that one never really created but yeah I had a developer edition and it just after like three or four months of using it the storage got slower slower and slower to the point where it was like physically lagging like a couple seconds to open stuff everything I've like I had to finally give it up and you know switch over to the iphone actually around that time but uh yeah double look important sing with the new HTC the new one looks like whatever they're gonna call it so yes the all new HTC One the an ahall course yes Oh what do we what do we think about this we talked about this a lot in the weekly yesterday and that this is from GG froley what do you think about the new HTC m8 and the specifically and this is my question to the double camera around back because that looked like some BS to me when I first saw the this weeks and then but it's real it's what do you think man I do not understand that's actually one of the big things for like a lot of it's been leaked but I still have not seen a really solid concrete answer to what that is about because it was like quiet 3d because usually a 3d camera you know they're very close together and you know they're like this one almost seems like it's slightly offset to the top looks like it's a different module I mean the only thing I can maybe think of is it has something to do with the Google announcement yesterday on that uh what's the the project you don't talk about the advanced part i have the motorola the project the project ara the modular thing no no no the one where they had the 3d camera and they're gonna like allow you to like walk around with the the phone it's kind of kind of map things oh yeah you know what i'm talking about i'm totally went blank on the name me too i know it's me yeah well that's been part of the speculation and then also people have been saying it it might be this kind of light row thing where it allows you to determine focus after the shot I've no idea i think that's interesting so HTC has been completely unable or may be unwilling to keep the lid on the physical specifications but we still have no idea what this mystery module laptop does yeah so I I don't know I mean it could be something really interesting like that or it could just be something boring like oh it just lets you take a selfie or something I I have no idea but uh before that I mean I will say one thing though I'm kind of a little this point they left little HTC thing on the bottom where they got rid of the physical buttons but then there's still a giant strip there what's I I don't know it's like that I don't know now if we talked about this a lot this week and a lot of people are really been out of shape about this now I don't really mind the HTC branding but sorry you embezzled guy because if that seems to be all that anyone want to talk about these days I want to see they want to see the most minimum bezels left and right top and bottom I frankly don't get it i mean if the phone looks good then I I it can have as much bezel as it once long as it looks good now is that do you object to the logo or do you object to the wasted space I definitely wasted space I mean I got it like before because you know hey you had your two buttons you HTC logo that's fine even though HTC One had a huge amount of bezel but you know had the boomsound speakers that was fine but now it's like okay well they've got rid of the button so now they're taking up space on the screen and you still have that down below it's almost like the screen is in a way getting smaller which just seems very bizarre to me that they couldn't just maybe put that HTC logo on the back or do something and kind of maybe extend the screen out maybe you know just a slight bit but yeah I mean it's that big deal something that a deal breaker but just seems a little bit bizarre that the screen in ways almost getting smaller on this new one I don't know that's a good question yeah I forgot what the speck said but I we might be looking for a are we looking at a 4.7 again I've heard 4.75 I don't know but it's gonna be around the same neighborhood just with on-screen buttons I guess yeah well say I add certainly we're gonna get our questions answered but I'm surprised we have so much time to wait now I think you know the one was announced in january or februari of last year and now just this extra weight time is going to be interesting with um yeah I want to ask your help this is from Emil RK arc perhaps what is your main source for trends in tech and what is your latest tech trend you currently use I don't know I think this is a two-part question but like tech trendy I don't know how about that second part but I suppose this is a question about your news source or a we're just how you pick up on what what the latest is that's happening besides press releases I guess because boring answering oh I i keep my browser locked pocket now at all times well of course yes yes thank you thank you taylor Martin AKA needle arc no this is not a plan thank you that was very nice i'm gonna use that in a promo there you go i i i i endorse pocket now i know actually the thing is I've never like I know a lot of my friends he's like RSS readers and just like load up like tons of sites I forget all of my news from Twitter I'm a huge Twitter fan for a long time I just follow a lot of like tech accounts people like you people like you know like you know various companies and you're just different people in the tech industry and that's pretty much where you get all of my information so I'd like to just pick like one particular source besides pocket now but uh yeah right well that's yeah that's a that's a solid answer and I'm the same way I don't people were going crazy when Google what was a google reader that got canceled and and then an RSS feeds and stuff I don't I don't do any less time I get all my stuff from Twitter and but whatever you know you people can get their news however they want do you have any information which will all right so here we go do you have information which will samsung galaxy s5 well the samsung galaxy s5 will well yes for that out there I'm actually kind of i mean i've gotta say i'm actually really impressed with samsung the fact that they seem like they're the only company who are actually able to not have phones leak have you noticed that like iphone leaks I mean everything leaks but since on does a good job of keeping that stuff under wrap which for me even though it's nice to know to see leaks and be able to talk about it and do you know content on it but on the other hand like me as a consumer I kind of like that that was kind of the thing that I really used to like about Apple like remember like the hype around like the like the ipad launch I know knew what it was about like that was a huge deal and I'm like a lotta that's kind of diminished when you oh it's just going to be another one of these okay oh I've seen it six months ago it's kind of like it's like like especially Apple Vince nowadays is like okay so it's confirming all the rumors cool even in the face of like Tim Cook saying things like we're doubling down on on secrecy and stuff and it's like no you can't apparently there's there's massive holes in your insta tuition and we're going to talk to Evan bless and on the other progress i really want to ask some of these questions because it's interesting to see how that whole model works but i agree with you i I really like the surprise I you know leaks leaks are so important we run stories on other people's leaks all the time and fine but I hate it personally I am with you I'm like I just want to be at the event I want to see what you've got and if I'm going to be impressed or depressed then I want that to happen at the event I don't want to see it for months in advance and be bored with it on already on release day no that's yeah exactly yeah so I mean I guess that's a roundabout way of saying that I really don't know what to expect with the galaxy s5 I mean we've heard a lot of rumors and speculation I mean I some of like the core specs seem to be pretty well set in stone like me like a 5.2 inch screen and maybe 1080 maybe qhd you know and there's some of the basic kind of stuff but that's kind of that's it you could have guessed just by looking at okay well what would a flagship phone and you know launching right now be okay well we'll be this this this so as far as like the actual like interesting information me I think the biggest thing was like they're talking about they might be like waterproof or something and some of like the carriers what I'm talking about like that's the biggest leak and that's like an official announcement almost it's kind of yeah well I think those leaks are starting to like bleed together like they did with the node stuff because the galaxy s5 active is pretty much everywhere we're very very confident about that or at least some of us are so I think maybe some of that is bleeding into the official galaxy s5 leaks and who knows but you're right samsung deserves some kudos for being able to keep a lid on this and well we'll find out monday you know it's not I don't have that that much longer to wait I particularly like this question which has disappeared because the because the feed has moved I remember the question itself where did it go thank you for your question by the way about the galaxy s5 that was that was awesome the question is well I'll select it when I can find it but the question is what is the most commonly used app on your phone and I I've never been asked this question but this from Albert Johnson could you do you have a ready answer that's a hard one i mean i would probably say twitter but i don't say twitter too so let's let's take twitter out of the cut out of the other thing because we both say twitter right yeah and but then i also say like a lot like this built-in apps like you know the web browser camera that kind of stuff now say the dialer for fun can we just go oh ok that would that would be like probably like that maybe the top 20 yeah maybe I'm like my bottom five actually uh um you know I think I kind of shame to MIT probably my top like used at that's not like built-in whatever would probably be alien blue because I spent a lot of time on reddit unfortunately so explain this I don't know what this is I'm out of a society yeah it's just a it's just a reddit client it's really good on iOS cool yeah yeah so I spend a significant amount of time on that app every day so just go just throwing that out there you ever think of doing and ask me anything on Reddit uh I don't think anyone would care I mean whatever no they would they totally would guy didn't give it another year and I think I think everyone would would flocked here to here ask me anything i guess i'd do that show up for it do it now i'll show up it'll be fun all right just just me and you just talking back and forth the incredibly interesting that's true it lets just retitle this the ask me that's what kind of what we're doing right now I good yeah all right cool uh let's we're gonna start whining now because we're reaching the arrow point this one is from Thank You Albert Johnson for your question this one is from Kelly the legend oh that's right hey look do you buy most of the stuff you review with your own YouTube money or do you get sponsors and how do you get sponsors do you just ask Sony hey can I review a unit is it that easy I want to say you don't have to enter any personal questions about your finances or anything that's like um it's definitely a mix I mean before like my channel is much smaller I just didn't have money to buy things so it was either a company would send it or I would just talk about I wouldn't actually have it now my channel to the point where you know typically if I would like to you know to review something I can just you know sent an email to you know like somebody from a you know whatever I'm looking at and just say hey this is who I am this is what I do would you mind sitting out a review unit you know may I take the conversation from there but to be totally honest I actually buy most of the stuff that I review partially because I don't like to have to be on like company's deadline because usually when they send you a review unit as you well know it's like okay you have it for a week or two weeks or you know whatever he can I have a finite amount of time with it whereas I by myself I can do a video on in a month or two months or not do a video on at all which actually happened you know fairly often if its product i just i don't i don't care about i don't think anyone else would care about i just wouldn't do a video on it um do i do it is mostly as I just turn and sell the products afterward so some things like the iphone this is something I use so you know I would have bought it for myself anyway so it just makes sense to do videos on it but uh all the times for some other products I'll buy it i'll do some videos on it sometimes if it's going to be useful like a lot of times phones are useful for like future comparisons and stuff I'll hold on to it a lot of times it's just like okay I'll do the video on it turn around and sell it make most of my money back and pretty much done deal it makes sense yeah I always think it's it's nice and it's special when for me when I've reviewed a unit and then I send the review unit back where we send it to another team member to do something with and I miss it so much and i miss most devices so i have this this column that i write about when I have to send a piece back and I'm sad but if I really miss it a lot I think it's so special when I'm like I'm sorry screw it i'm gonna go buy it that's when I think those are the devices I end up loving the most is like wow I can't live without this I had it once and that's been taken away now I have to go buy it and you know that that's a fun fun moment when you're like oh wow now no I can own it again and that's something unique about like what we do is we get to have the privilege of taking a look at all kinds of crazy phones and all this kind of awesome new technology it's really easy to kind of just come be jaded just like oh ok cool its just oh it's only 1080p screen when I lab yes it's really easy to kind of get yourself into that mindset when you look at everything you try everything sometimes it's nice just guys take a step back and go actually you know that's really good not necessarily because of the specs are this is that but now that build quality is really nice or that really like that you know the cool feature this little thing and those are kind of phones that kind of kind of come back to you go yeah you know what that's actually better than you originally said or whatever you kind of you kind of want to talk about it more go actually I've been using this for here and it's way better than really but it's just that's kind of weird things like the little things that you Caillou notice you I keep keep talking about keep using that kind of can't keep me going back it's true and then then you get the added bonus of liking something so much that everyone starts accusing you of being paid by yeah i mean i am an apple fanboy i'm paid by Microsoft and Sony sometimes pays me and so does AMD and telling everyone everyone clearly pay me did I never said whole closet in my apartment that is nothing but checks from people who I have a cache adjust I open it up and I'm buried and money it's great yeah exactly i don't know what to do it all besides buy more products yeah man well I I want to do I want to do two more questions and okay one of them actually three more but one of them I just have to answer because it's popular this one though is very fascinating to me this is from oh I'm sorry this from a meal again it might be more a michael question i don't think so because i want to know your take on this which mobile OEM currently not big in the US for example huawei sony zo me I still don't know how to pronounce since I owe me you're doing a move in so which which brand that we don't currently have here do you think as the best chance of actually making an impact here I want to ask you this question ossining I think I have my answer but would sang lenovo be cheating because I can't feel like buying motorola yes of course that would totally be cheating get out okay yeah I think hallway I mean every time I go and premature see their phones once your CES I look and go wow that's getting better wow that's getting better i mean i would probably sell say wha wait blows sony I mean Sony does have a lot of brand recognition here I mean they do cell phones not you know maybe in huge volumes or you know massive success but when they do cell phones um I know I'm I probably say Sony but I really know what Sony can do to kind of change up and really kind of kind of move up to the kind of the Samsung and you know these giant massive levels I don't really know what they can do because they're doing a lot of stuff right it's just not quite resonating well I know what they can do they can message you know that there's no marketing here sony for sony mobile products whatsoever and sony's my answer actually uh i have no confidence that frankly that huawei will ever pull anything out that's going to blow us blows apart they seem content to say here's this thing that you totally expected isn't it amazing and then it's like no it's not but but i would like to see that change don't get me wrong i don't want to just hate on them but that has not been their track record whereas sony is like wow you have really compelling stuff and we actually go out of our way to get it because we don't have the greatest the tightest PR relationship with Sonny so it's like we usually have to buy the stuff for a borrowed from clover integrity or something like that and when I do it's like this is amazing why do you only have a partnership with tmobile in the States here like why is why are you with the smallest carrier so I think if Sony if Sony an AT&T you have a meeting because you know how aggressive AT&T is at capturing like exclusives and stuff if AT&T is able to weasel weasel some of those exclusives away from t-mobile I think Sony if Sony would just pour the marketing dollars in and be on AT&T and maybe verizon if they build some cdma phones ever uh it would be did they would be a force to be reckoned with because their stuff I think tell me if you agree with me on the hardware side I think their stuff just blows away most other contenders in the smartphone space it's good although I feel like mu e phones I try usually have at least one kind of flaw that kind of annoys me like I know a lot of them like like the water from flaps that drives me insane like it i don't care if my phone's waterproof I don't have to deal with no chick opening up flap or like sometimes the screen like I know the Xperia Z I remember I was a CES a last year and I remember looking at it and I was with a friend and we're like so is there something on these screens and they're like no no it's got great contrast like no I like you see this like I know what you're talking about I get it and then like you change it a little bit like our screens uh-oh exactly yeah I know most of the Saudi phones i tried i had tried some of the most recent ones but what's the time when i try i should always like oh you know what it doesn't quite fit in hander of the flapper this was always just like one like small or maybe kind of major issue but there's always something there's like yeah probably wouldn't use that but i mean their clothes I i I've got to give him credit they are definitely close on a lot of these phones like oh they would just change that one thing would be awesome but yeah there's a thank you a meal for that question there's one from which i will just answer very quickly this is this is a question for Austin interestingly Austin what is it about mkbhd and cheerios from alex robertson Alec we answered this question on Marquez is fuggin a VIP appearance please go back and watch that it's a wonderful episode and we have a great time with it we have one more major question to ask and there's just another one I have to get other way because it's been uploaded so crazy mr. from William Kidd Mike someone may go what's at redbox behind you I've always wondered there's a lot of people think this is a pokedex it does look like one that's what I always thought doesn't know this is a this is a wall intercom panel from the original Star Trek series in the 60s like Captain Kirk you know because you didn't have the badges like that you'd have to walk up to a comm panel be like rich said red alerts and things football wasn't really that color I was it was this exact color yeah except it was painted plywood in the 60s you know this is plastic so yeah and this is a this is a radiation warning from a cell site that was on top of a theater that I worked at and I was at intermission I was doing a show and I dare mention I was like I like this i know but what were you not thinking all the radiation that you were not allowing people don't know about I think ya know III don't think yeah I have memory problems ever since then and I don't have good why I was like well I totally would have left him but I seen that fine yeah every when I was just hanging out like smoking by the south side like what what these things are all about no there were like 12 radiation signs and this one had actually already fallen off it was like on the ground it was like must be a sign I'll take it must be a sign oh I can talk all day but we we both have we both have work to do right yeah let's wrap this up with with one that I love ending on and I always build it into the rundown but I never need to because someone will always answer it ask it rather and I'm sorry that we couldn't get to everybody's questions these are all really great questions guys we just can't be here for any longer but Evans and Fisher around a lastname basis yeah do you have any suggestions for starting youtubers I love this question this is always a question I put to people you must have a canned response by now or or just some some quick pocket tips for people who want to start from scratch and do what what we do yeah I mean the thing is I can only tell you what's worked for me and what's worked for me is make a video make another video that's better than that one I can I the video that's better than that one give it a few years and see where you are I know that not everyone literally wants to dedicate like everyone always I mean just in culture no one wants to take the hard road and if there's an easy road and I mean if you are insanely lucky you know get some kind of viral video and you can use it as a launching pad good great for you but that's not going to really happen I mean just just throw that out there like if it happens that's great but don't bank on that like oh just got make one more video with a million views and you know I'll make it you've really got to be able to be dedicated and consistent and you really have to be passionate about something I mean I gotta say I mean doing this almost five years if I wasn't passionate about it there have been about 50 different times where I would have quit I mean because they're I mean they're going to be times where a video doesn't do well or something goes wrong or just things happen and if you don't have that passion and that dedication to push you through those kind of rough times this is probably not thing for you I know a lot of like a lot of people especially some of the younger people they look and they see what we do and they go oh they'll be so great with all the phones all this and that and it's like all this must be the greatest thing ever and don't they wrong it is the greatest thing ever night that I'm not gonna try to say this is all I hate going to work or bare skin Oh God so true which tech but I mean there's definitely not isn't just not all happy and fun you know there's deadlines there's no problems as you can have like you know in your house burns down there's all kinds of hardships that you can go through and sometimes the biggest one is just okay no one's watching my stuff and that's that for me that was a really tough one especially when I was you know it's much much smaller I mean like I said it took me over a year to get thousand subscribers so I mean that's you know that was that was a lot of work for you know getting like two comments I spent all day on a video but you got to be able to have that passion that dedication to push through and constantly make your stuff better absolutely constantly make it better if you're making the same thing run over and over again you're not going to go anywhere but if you're constantly making it better and better and better and better and better well it's just kind of just get better and better and bigger and all kinds of awesome fun adjectives will be an adjective city before you know let me hop on at one point that you made it which is all that I agree with consistency hard work don't think it's a it's a it's all rainbows and unicorns but also the passion thing is is crucial and I feel like when people say that it in increasingly in conversation people passion it's so important that uses look back it we're not talking about manufacturing passion for something you actually don't care about like make videos or were written pieces if you like or any any kind of expression about things that you love and that eliminates so much of the hard work because you don't have to focus resources on caring because you already care and because you care about something you have something to say I think that's the important thing you know I'll occasionally turn out a video and I'll publish it now kind of sit back I'm like what's wrong you know I did it's cut right it's it looks pretty the music is fine I mean whatever but why don't I like it oh right it's because I didn't say anything I didn't have anything to say so I think it's really crucial to remember that you're making a video or a written piece to try and communicate a message and in our field it's often this sucks here's why it sucks or this is amazing and here's why it's amazing or how do these things suck and anime is relative to each other and if you can't keep an eye on what you are trying to communicate that bit then you just kind of have this like wishy-washy PR commercial and it's okay so you'll see through that people will see through that in a heartbeat exact try if you try to be fake you try to put it on I mean obviously to an extent like you know you have to have you know bring your energy up level up a little bit kind of talk and certainly I mean it's not like you're just like hey so okay it's a possible videos I did I forgot a smile like cuz I've come in from an acting background and I'm just like this isn't totally different but you have Brandon like duh my second videos like remember to smile because because you're so dour and this is this is Michael visual bag and i'ma bring you something something about this device this is a fun tablet is here we go yeah yeah but I mean as long as you have that passion and that enthusiasm for something it doesn't have to be tagged as long as you have that and you have the willingness to really you know put the you know the hours and the dedication and to make it happen a little it'll happen it might take a few years but it'll happen agreed Austin uh this has been this has been awesome thank you for for coming on the show I always love hanging with you and are you going to be in new york city next week or are you covering a remotely I'm yeah I'm probably gonna be covering it from here yeah okay well darn it because I wanted to see you again I hope to see what you are you considering a new york city trip for March ah probably well we'll see we'll see let me know if you do that I want to hang out and I will stay for a little longer and we'll catch up and personal it'll be a lot of fun yeah definitely definitely good what before we go thank you for for being with us first of all tell everybody where they can find you on the internet besides the URL and you're in your lower thirds there hey sure thanks for having me I'm so you guys can find me over at twitter at austin not Duncan that's Princeton made one I'm on facebook and google+ as well um but I pretty much been like we talked about earlier about ninety percent of my day with Twitter window open somewhere some guys everyone have any questions or just want to just say hey twitter.com / Austin that Duncan obviously you can see down there somewhere my YouTube which is where i upload lots of videos on the fun tech stuff the fun tech stuff exactly i actually that's gonna be my news this can be my new tagline awesome evans for the fun text of fun tech stuff looking forward to seeing more of it as always brother and everyone you can check out our earlier pocketnow VIP episodes featuring among others mkbhd jon rettinger erica griffin right here on our youtube channel page at pocketnow.com as well you can also follow pocket out all usual haunts i am at captain two phones on twitter and thank you very much for watching one last time I'll said Evans thank you for joining us everyone will see you next time