- This hat right here, this is the original owl hat.
Everyone asks me,
why don't you sell the original owl hat
because I sell the ones without the mesh back.
So you'll be happy to know,
soon the original owl hat is coming.
But I reversed the patch,
so it's black instead of white here,
and it's reversed. I'm excited about that.
Welcome to the vlog!
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My friend Jeff is coming today.
He's building me a Nerf armory.
The day is finally happening! That day is today.
Also, on top of the Nerf armory,
he's finally fixing this wall,
which I'm super excited about because
we're putting our podcast, well,
maybe I shouldn't talk about that just yet.
But look at this wall.
This wall right here.
Ever since we moved in, I've hated this window.
I don't know why it's here.
I don't know what it's for.
I don't know what it does.
You can't see through it, but on this side,
it's just like it's, I don't get it.
This wall. Putting barn board on it.
All the way over the window. Peace, see you later.
To about like a foot above it.
And this corner is going to be for, well, I mean.
I guess, yeah, I guess you kinda, self explanatory.
But that's happening today.
We're also putting barn board
in this corner right here.
And we're making this from a garbage can,
stupid nothing spot,
into a Nerf gun armory.
Oh, it's gonna be amazing!
Got some Nerf rounds here.
Oh, it's gonna be a good day.
Also, pro tip, let me just show you guys this.
If you're ever recording from behind the camera.
You guys noticed this in one of my last vlogs.
Turn the mic around. Just turn it around.
Instead of having it face forward,
just flip it and put it the other way,
and then you have nice, crispy audio
from behind the directional mic
instead of in front of it.
So, that's just,
just makes sense.
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(door lock snaps and handle squeaks)
- (laughs)
- [Host] You ready?
- (laughs) I'm ready. - [Host] (laughs)
Oh, it's happening.
- [Host] Dude, you literally got to do it right here.
(saw squeals and grinds)
- OK, since we're blocking the street,
Jeff has to cut all the boards
in the back of his trailer.
And then we have to bring them up the stairs.
Which is very difficult. (laughs) For Jeff.
- [Host] Look at this! They barely fit.
Almost like the whole length,
and then you've got to, like, finagle it
all the way up these terrible stairs. (frustrated groan)
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(saw squeals and grinds)
- I couldn't even turn the saw on that fast.
What'd you just cut? How many boards?
- I don't know like thirty. Thirty, forty boards.
- Forty boards in, like, forty seconds. Yes, please!
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- (sighs) Like twenty more to go.
(upbeat dance music)
- (breathing heavily)
I don't care anymore about this project.
(laughs)
(coughs)
I finished, I brought, like, forty boards up.
It was no fun at all.
Look at this. So many boards!
(chair rolling across floor)
Okay, I think when it comes to, like,
setting up a space to film in.
And this goes for if you're film at home,
if you're filming in your bedroom,
if you're filming at an office.
I think it's important to know,
number one, it doesn't happen overnight.
That was kind of my, my downfall with everything.
It's like I want it now, I want it tomorrow,
I want it tonight. I just, like,
I don't have a lot of patience for waiting
for something that I'm, like, super excited about.
And one of the reasons
I don't film here very often,
'cause I see a lot the comments, people saying, like,
"Pete, why aren't you using your new office space?"
Like, "Why are you still using your home office?"
And, one, because the home office has become
kind of like, iconic, with the channel.
And people know and are comfortable with that background.
So, when I came here, it's pretty empty.
Like, the echo was bad. There was just,
there was nothing on the walls.
It didn't have any of my own stuff here.
It just didn't feel like me.
And that kind of thing doesn't happen overnight.
You need to slowly build up a space
so that it has pieces of you in it.
And it has a little bit of your personality in it.
And, those things things can't just be bought either.
You can't just go to, like, Home Sense or
Home Depot or, like,
some kind of home furnishing store. Whatever.
Pick a bunch of items off the shelf,
throw them behind you, and be like, "It's me!"
To some degree maybe, yeah, those items
might represent who you are.
But my home office space was created over time.
Over years.
I've lived there for a while, right?
So, your style ends up bleeding into the room
that you're in, or the space that you're in,
and then it just feels right.
And this office just didn't feel right.
Probably because I didn't give it a chance.
It had been, I don't know, like a month.
And I was shooting here.
And the comments would say, like,
"Hey! Why aren't you at your old space?
It sounds like garbage there."
And I would, I would read those comments
and think, "Oh, man! Why? What am I doing?
This sucks!"
So, it's been like an ongoing process.
To try to get this space not necessarily
up to standards, but to try and make it feel like me.
Especially when you're sharing it
with another YouTuber,
and you've got other people working here.
It's a very small space and the mission is, like,
how do we make if feel like home.
How do we make it feel like a set?
So if people were to come and visit, it would be like,
"Wow! I'm here." Like, "This is cool!"
'Cause that's what I get at my home office.
People come over, and they walk into my office,
and they're like, "(gasp) This is that YouTube room!"
Like, "This is where, this is so cool!"
But we don't get that here. And I've been trying
to figure to figure that out for ages.
So, anyway, that's the plan.
I'm excited 'cause a little more of me
is being put into this place today.
And that's, that's what I want to share with you.
- Okay, I've been waiting for this moment.
Covered the window.
We're going to take the framing off,
because it's just garbage.
So just, just have at it.
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(hammer banging) - [Pete] Yeah!
Goodbye!
(hammer banging)
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- [Pete] It's actually completely useless.
(suspenseful music)
- Get it, Jeff, get it!
(hammer banging)
- [Pete] No longer framed.
I mean, we're not fully getting rid of, like,
we're just burying it. (laughs)
We're burying it behind the barn, the barn board.
Because it's garbage. But, oh, it's so exciting
not to have to look at it every day.
(hammer banging)
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- Okay! That's it, guys!
That is the office renovation episode for now.
Got the barn board installed. Looks amazing!
Got the table back in place.
Things are, things are shaping up.
And, don't you just love it, after you've
made a mess making things,
and you move everything back into
where it's supposed to be,
and it just looks so good and feels so great?!
So that is the, that's that station. Looking great!
And then, right here. Nerf armory!
When the guys come in on Monday,
they're gonna be so excited to see this.
There, you just look at it!
I got a remote for the lights.
Ooh!
I love it.
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All right, so that's it! That is the episode.
I just wanted to explain why I don't
shoot here all the time.
And, sometimes, if a vlog doesn't happen here,
then, obviously you don't see it.
And if I want to get a tutorial done,
and my setup's already at home, ready to go,
I can just get stuff done faster at home.
So, I guess the answer to the question is
you'll see a good mixture of both.
(groans) Oh!
Okay! That's it for me. I love you guys.
I'll see you in the next video.
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