You know what I really like
the Internet
I'm announcing something today, by the way with so many of us stuck at home right now
The Internet has turned into just such a fun and creative place
Inspiring and really amazing to see how many people have started creating videos how many people have jumped onto tik-tok
just how many people are
creating. By the way huge
Thank you to all the frontline workers who are out there who have to be out there and can't be at home
like the rest of us
Huge thanks.
It's interesting to see the impact that limitations can have on creativity like the other day. I took this GoPro
360 camera here just stuck it right on this put it in the middle of the room and just..
Borderline, if not completely pointless, I know but it was fun
It was a lot of fun. If imposing limits creates a breeding ground for creativity
this opens up an entirely new challenge because as I said
You can reframe this as many times and in as many ways as you want
And it is officially time for breakfast so welcome to a new section I call "Cooking with Norm"
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Well, good morning everybody and welcome to the inaugural episode
Of cooking with norm. I don't own a tablecloth. So we're gonna be using a moving blanket today. That's okay
They're basically the same thing and today's dish is one that goes by many names.
I was raised in a tiny little country called
Canada and my family called this dish froggie in the hole in order to make this dish you are going to need a frying pan
some form of heating element one egg and
Some bread
Step one of the process. It's pretty simple. You need to gather your ingredients
If you're a regular viewer of this channel, you'll know that I keep almost everything that I need in these pouches right here
I also think that I've got some bread. Yep
Got some bread right there
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna lay these out right like this now step one
you want to take a mug just like this one here and
Pump a little bit of a hole into your bread next you are going to want to pre-heat your frying pan
Usually you want to butter the bread but as I've gained a little weight lately
We aren't going to skip buttering the bread and we are we're just gonna add the butter right to the pan
next we want to place our
Bread on the pan and give it a little time to Brown if you have a toaster
You can also do this section with a toaster
I do not. Once that smell comes out. You know that it's just about time to flip the bread
So you're gonna flip it on over to the other side now
At this point you want to bring the temperature of the frying pan down a bit and you want to crack your egg
Open right into the middle just like that
I personally like to cover up the pan at this point. I actually use garlic butter for this
so my entire office smells like garlic right now, this is
It's nice
So we are gonna slide this over take that off and there we go
beautifully done
Froggie in the hole. Next you wanna grab your spatula and your plate. Scoop that right..
Onto there
Just like that. At this point you can use your piece of bread to break into the yolk for dipping
And we got yourself a nice breakfast. Thank you for joining us for this episode of "Cooking with Norm"
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I am clearly having way too much fun being home like.. way too much.
Now, I did promise you guys that I was going to share something with you today, but I.. looking at all of this
I just realized that it has been some time since
I trimmed up all of this and so we're gonna rectify that first
I also love how basically the entire world is just learning to cut their own hair right now
Welcome to the team.
That is much better.
But it wouldn't really be a day at home with me if we didn't play at least a little shamisen
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I often get a lot of questions about whether or not my
Neighbors are bothered by me playing the shamisen and no. For the most part of this place is fairly soundproof
And I usually only practice during the daytime anyway. Actually, I've been thinking about doing an entire shamisen
Q&A, so if you if you have questions, let me know
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Timing
We got something.
I didn't even order these
Hopefully whatever it is didn't just get cut
Explorer plus
Looks like this is a package from Moment. The Gravel Explorer plus Dopp Kit
Like a nifty little travel bag it's got all these extra pockets and whatnot in it. Oh this is really.. so, okay
Let me show you. So each one of these pouches right here is pre-packed. Basically for travel that one's empty right now
I actually have a ton of these
Let me show you this entire drawer right here is all unopened travel kits from different
Flights and whatnot. I've also got an entire box of these somewhere
But this right here, this is the box I'm looking forward to
I recently was fortunate enough to partner up with a company called black magic
These guys right here and
They have sent me out
this thing right here called the ATEM mini, which is for
Streaming because I've been trying to get back into doing more live streams actually
I've been sneaking in a couple live streams at like midnight once a week over on you know the other
platform since partnering with them
I've actually been using their Blackmagic 6k right here as my studio camera
This this is an amazing cinema camera
When the world turned itself upside down
Literally every single shamisen job that I had for the entire year is..
puff of smoke just gone
Every performance in Canada, Japan, the US. Everywhere
So maybe we'd be able to do something along those lines in a live stream at the very least
I think it's a great platform for us to do Q&A sessions. If you have questions whether they be shamisen related or other
Drop them down below and we can do like a nice fun
Multi camera Q&A. It's just gonna be a good time
But that being said before I get completely carried away with the day
There's a major project that I'm working on today that I want to share with you guys. This one's big
So first I decided to use a lot of this time to kind of fix things up add some things do some
Renovations just make some changes. For example this entire box here is filled with bricks
brick veneer, I was gonna take an entire wall the house and just maybe better know I
Don't know where maybe here seems like a good spot. Just do it all out in brick, but
Then I got another idea and it started
with these two things
Right here
I sat down one day to record an episode of the Tokyo Lin's podcast and that's when it hit me. All the creators are home
all of us
So I started making some phone calls and before I knew it a project was born like so far
we're at somewhere between six and eight hours of podcast content half a dozen creators or more a
small part of me hopes that it stops growing so much because it just keeps getting bigger and
Bigger it but it is so much fun to do all the interviews put together all the content
Obviously the podcast itself will be linked down below so you can jump in there nice and early. It's all gonna be up fairly soon.
I want to say it's gonna be a lot of fun, but honestly it's already been a lot of fun
I just need to get it edited and out there so it can be fun for you as well
The goal behind it is just to give a series of content something long-form something that you can enjoy something that has a next episode
To look forward to. Each of the episodes
Right now is at least 30 to 45 minutes the range of topics that we cover is out of this world
We cover everything from traveling Japan, learning Japanese, getting a place in Japan. We talk about animal crossing and other video. We just
Everybody basically has something different to talk about and I.. I was still wearing this. This by the way
When you're playing shamisen, this enables your arm to slide along the shamisen for those asking. But again, leave all your questions
Down below like all of them. Just go nuts. Wow, this is a mess
but I'm gonna do what I can to make all of this much more bearable and hopefully.. hopefully a lot more fun and
If you're interested in the idea of a shamisen livestream or just any kind of livestream
Let me know. There's no excuses now. We have all the tools. We can do it
Clean up does happen. It's it's a part of the process
Also, thank you guys for all the love on that Raman documentary if you haven't seen it yet I'll toss it up there that
That was a different. It was definitely a different piece of work for me
I really enjoyed doing it in that style. And now that we are working with Blackmagic
I'm just looking for every opportunity I can to make similar style content more documentaries kinda..
I like those, they're fun little mini movies if you will so
And more live streams, you know where to find them. I think there may have been a couple bloopers in this episode
Butter the bread but I've gained a little bit of butter. I
Once your bread is nice and toasted it's time to prep our egg. *Pain* I did not think this through
Turns out my fly was down
I need to take a picture of this setup just because this setup is so
Unreasonably ridiculous that I just..
It has taken me 20 minutes to set up for all this. This is just it's not even remotely serious
Sit down at breakfast now