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- 17 videos is a lot of videos.
That's seven LTTs, a WAN Show,
clips from the previous week's WAN Show,
three TechLinks, three ShortCircuits, two Techquickies
and a Carpool Critics.
So last week we didn't shoot seven videos for LTT,
we shot six and you said on Friday,
that you're gonna come in on Monday,
which you don't normally do and shoot the seventh video.
- But my kids are on spring break.
- Now, Linus isn't in on Mondays.
He spends Mondays with his kids,
but we can still do some work here at the office
to chip away at this number.
So now if you want to go on vacation next week.
- Yes?
- We need to shoot more than seven LTTs this week
and it's already Tuesday.
- Dear Lord, how am I gonna get a
personal rig update for Luke?
- This week the writer's meeting didn't happen on Monday
and we can't actually do it on Tuesday morning,
'cause we have a guest coming in for an LTT video,
which is Luke.
- Yeah, Luke's build could take a while depending on
if his case fits a radiator or not and stuff like that.
- [James] Okay.
- (indistinct), just gonna do a pickup for gold controller
and then a sponsored Vizio ShortCircuit.
- Not sure we'll do all of those things today.
- Sarah's Secret Shopper build.
- Okay, we haven't had a writer's meeting yet
and only after writer's meeting am I gonna know for sure,
that that Sarah Secret Shopper video
can happen on Wednesday.
- Oh my God, The Ultimate Camper Van thing,
is that happening now?
- He's gonna bring the van right outside
and we're gonna shoot here, so it shouldn't be too bad.
- How is water-cooled PS5 still might not make it,
oh my God, because Alex isn't even here.
- [James] Maybe the water-cooled PS5 can make it,
I don't know yet.
- But Alex is in Delta today and tomorrow.
That gives him Thursday, Friday
to water-cool a PlayStation five, like...
- He's not there all day today anymore.
(breathing heavily)
- [James] So, Intel Home Upgrade for David,
we could possibly do on Friday.
- [Linus] Oh let's do that.
- But they take a whole day.
It's only if we kick ass leading up to Friday
that we can have room for that, otherwise we'll have to
do some shorter easier videos or something.
- Uh-huh, can you guys shoot videos while I'm gone?
- It depends what they are.
If they're all vlogs, that's harder for our people to do
than for you to do, so if we have scripted stuff, then...
- It's 10:15 in the morning on Tuesday
and I already have a splitting headache.
- Well, let's get you shooting Luke's video and then
we'll look at this in greater detail
after the writer's meeting, after lunch.
- And if I'm feeling bad,
I can always caress my gold controller.
Oh, yeah.
- Hopefully Linus and Luke are done shooting by, 11?
- Let's just have a look here, okay?
Well that can go right there, easy peasy.
- It is now one o'clock and they're still shooting.
- Are we (indistinct) good enough?
I mean, we can keep going, but it almost doesn't matter.
- We still haven't had writer's meeting.
- It's gonna be cool regardless.
- He's so foolish, (beep).
- This is not a good start to the week.
- Should I make sure this is doable before I set you at it?
- Um...
- [Jono] I can see your screen.
- [James] Yeah, I see your screen.
Your face is way low.
- Sorry, it's 'cause I'm eating.
- [James] Install webcam at dinner table
at home, please.
- [Jono] Onlyfans.
- The writer's meeting is where leads come in,
either from the writers themselves
or from the business team for sponsor projects.
We evaluate them and then we assign each writer,
a project to work on for that week
and it all gets put into Monday, so that
anyone in the organization can see it and follow along.
- [Linus] As we finish going through people's sections,
feel free to sign out and get back to work,
'cause I think we're a little tight this week.
I mean, this is work, but like...
So...
Who does not have something they're turning in this week?
- [James] I'm listed so far with Anthony and Alex.
- [Linus] Okay, Anthony's busy.
Alex, do you need an easy one to bang out here?
- Uh, I am also quite busy.
(beeping)
The hardest part of working here is when
something goes wrong and then you suddenly just have to
pull a video straight out of your butt.
- [James] There's no PlayStation happening?
- It can or we can do the silicon shortage one.
Either way, I need to turn in a video
because we have seven uploads to do, per week.
So I guess, do you want silicon shortage
or do you want water-cooled PS5?
PS5 would be more, Linus time, most likely.
- [Linus] Let's just do a scripted voiceover
as much as we can.
- [Alex] Cool.
- [Linus] Jackery Ultimate Camper Van.
- [James] Colin, is The Jackery Van shooting
the morning or afternoon?
- [Colin] Let's just look at the morning.
- [Linus] Secret Shopper?
- [Jessie] Sarah is really busy this week.
It's possible that we could film part of it,
'cause it would be a pretty long shoot.
- [James] The entire shoot requires Linus?
- [Jessie] The entire shoot doesn't require Linus,
just the first part of it, to my understanding.
- Well she's gonna need some kind of lifeline,
so as long as she has someone else, then that'll work.
- Vlogs are more difficult to edit
than something that's scripted already.
It takes a mental strain,
where you have to just go home and--
Well, I just watch YouTube or something and just zone out.
- Yeah, we need to find a way to devlogify
some of what we're doing here, 'cause it is killing me.
- [James] Scraps guys, fully scripted videos.
- I think we're doing more scripted content these days,
I could be wrong, am I wrong?
- Okay, Jackery Ultimate, so this is five,
seven, eight, theoretically, but
a lot of these are question marks.
Holy (beep).
- Okay, so in the writer's meeting, we found out that
Jessie's a Secret Shopper video with Sarah,
may be not able to finish this week,
because Sarah won't have time, but...
Sarah.
Am I allowed to touch these?
- Are you free tomorrow morning to do that?
First thing, 9/9:30?
- And I've been told that you're super busy,
so just want to do maybe part of it
and then next week do another part of it.
- You basically won't interact with Linus
during the shoot at all.
- Although I don't think it's gonna save us this week unless
you do kind of finish the whole video tomorrow.
Yeah, which is probably just not gonna happen.
- My plan sucks!
(grunting)
So Ed's not here today.
Normally, I don't need to directly talk to the shooters.
I talk to Ed and talks to shooters, but he's not here.
So, let's go talk to Brandon.
- Ed and James have to figure out
how everything's going to go together
and how it's going to get uploaded.
Ed's the one that has to tell the editor,
hey, you get to work late, have fun and stuff like that.
- Hey Brandon.
- Are you aware of Jessie's Secret Shopper shoot with Sarah?
- So my question to you is,
where can we shoot this tomorrow morning,
like 9:30 to lunch?
- The two parts are different enough that they use two sets,
so it's not like you're gonna have to set one up--
- Yeah, no hot set, leave it set up kind of deal.
- I think we should put in the study nook
and maybe we'll just reuse that for (indistinct)'s video.
- All right cool, thanks.
(sighs)
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- If I had to pick the most demanding individual.
it would definitely be Linus because
he often scripts the system,
he'll just run in and take whatever he needs.
- So it's Wednesday morning and so far we've shot one LTT.
Wednesday is the day that
Linus has his Weekly Merch Meetings,
which are scheduled from 9:30-11, a good chunk of the day,
but today, I got a message from Linus saying,
I'm gonna be late, I have an impromptu
meeting with this construction company at 9:30.
That's gonna push back the Merch Meeting
and he has a call at 10:30 with the city.
(metal clank)
I don't know what we're gonna do, man.
Okay, he's pulling in, half an hour behind schedule.
Hopefully the Merch Meeting is satisfied with that,
because if we have to do another meeting tomorrow,
then we'll really be screwed.
- So back to the mock-up then.
So basically, it'll have gold printing on here.
- Yeah, it's pretty bulky.
- Okay, so it's quarter to noon
and Linus is finally sitting down
to do the first Script Review of the week.
Script Review is what happens
when the writer is finished writing a script,
but before we shoot it, they sit down with Linus
and go through the whole script looking for
factual accuracy, flow.
Is it an exciting video,
does it have a good intro that's gonna hook you guys?
All that kind of stuff.
Once it's done, we switch the status of that item to,
Script Reviewed and that triggers an action
for our friend, Geoff, to go in, add sponsors to the script.
And then when he's done that,
put it onto the teleprompter so we can shoot.
(door latch closes)
Once a script is reviewed, has sponsors on it
and is on the teleprompter.
The writer will come downstairs and work with the shooters
to complete this, the Ready-to-shoot Checklist.
This thing exists because Linus was sick of
coming down to shoot and finding out
they weren't actually ready for him.
- Once that's done and only then,
you can send a notification to Linus
saying that, the video is actually ready to shoot
and he or whatever host there is,
will come to the set and do the talky talky.
Okay, I just got a notification saying that,
the Script Review is done
and Linus is out of the bathroom now,
so we can attack him.
So buddy, how bad do you wanna eat lunch today?
- You've lost your lunch privileges.
(laughing)
All right, fine, have your lunch.
- Now everybody knows LTT is famous for its sponsor, Segues.
We don't always get to do the sponsor read
in the video naturally, but when that happens,
we film them like this 210314 Pre-roll keysight.
(film slate clapping)
(plastic thud)
Didn't I shoot this?
- We call it sponsor pickups
and that's what Linus is gonna do right now.
It's an annoying thing, that's in his schedule,
that doesn't help me fulfill my goals.
- This is gonna be interesting.
I have never taught myself how to build a PC before.
MSI looks good, but it's also red.
(laughing)
And I don't want to read graphics.
- How long did that take?
- Cool, second question.
When will you have time to do the second segment?
- So definitely not tomorrow morning.
- Okay...
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- See you later.
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You're being very proactive, it's 9:30,
Linus has just got here and you're already Script Reviewing.
That is exactly what we need to succeed today,
'cause we need to shoot three videos today.
So Colin, is there gonna be a time after this meeting,
between being ready to shoot,
is there gonna be a little window of time there?
- Okay, I'm gonna use that time
to have a meeting with Linus and then after that,
hopefully we can do some Script Reviews,
Alice wants a Script Review this afternoon.
I actually don't know Anthony's readiness level yet.
Well, ideally, we can shoot all three of these today,
so that we have a full day tomorrow to do
David's Intel Home Upgrade.
- Bye-bye.
- Another thing to think about
is how all those videos we're gonna make in a week,
are distributed throughout that week,
because we can't make 17 or 18 videos in one day.
So a Gantt chart is a good tool for that.
Obviously, there's videos that never move,
TechLinked is always Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
but things like the LTTs,
it's way better to spread them out,
we can't really do more than two in a day, reliably.
- It's actually a good thing to shoot
a bunch of videos all at once,
try to shoot three or four videos in a day
and then allow for Linus to go do something else.
It doesn't actually cause
problems for the editing department,
because then we just have a bunch of videos
and they can be divvied out to individual people.
- This week, I've got a stack of three on Thursday,
even though we try to avoid this, a lot of the time
a writer starts a project on Monday
and is ready to shoot it on Thursday or Friday.
So it's pretty typical to see a stack on Thursday.
- It's actually preferable to have a mound of videos,
that you can just chip off and do one at a time,
selectively, rather than having them slowly come in
one at a time and somebody has to do them,
because there's nothing else to do.
- I think this is manageable, but
if you can shoot two on Monday,
the rest of the week is so much easier.
So today Linus is doing a thing that he does once a week,
which is called, Floatplane lunch,
so here I have on the phone, Luke.
Luke, what is Floatplane lunch?
- We have a call usually around lunchtime.
We talk about Floatplane.
He's the CEO of Floatplane, but he doesn't really see
the day-to-day interactions of how it works.
If he has any input, he can throw it on us at that time.
Throw in some last minute changes,
which you just know developers love
and just make sure that he's
abreast of what's actually going on at the company.
- I know he likes breasts.
(laughing)
- Yeah, perfect.
(laughing)
- All right.
- Bye. - Bye.
(laughing)
- I gave you a lot of clicks to end the meeting.
- Before we had management involved, it was just chaos.
(laughing)
- Our ability to communicate is so much better now.
Back in the old days we just used Excel
to track all our projects,
which was great when there was three us, but...
- Nobody knew what anybody was doing.
Nobody knew what was finished.
Like, oh no, we need pickup shots on this video,
did anybody get them?
I don't know, do you know?
I don't know, just talk to this person.
They're out of the office.
- But, with monday.com,
it doesn't matter if you're on your parents' computer
or pulled over on the side of the road using your phone.
- Things have actually been going pretty smoothly,
all things considered.
Like when something's gone bad, it's been way less bad.
- Everyone's updating their projects, all at one place.
(laughing)
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- [Director] Camera rolling, is test camera rolling?
- Yes. - [Cameraman] Yep.
- We're in the home stretch now, it's Friday
and as you know, Linus is at David's house in Vancouver
doing his Intel Extreme Home Upgrade,
but we do have a couple issues today.
The fact that the Intel Home Extreme Upgrade
is happening for David, who's a shooter.
It means that we only have one shooter left over,
'cause we only have Andy, Brandon and David
and then Brandon is actually offsite,
doing the B-roll for that van upgrade video.
They're out in the woods setting up solar panels and stuff,
so we don't have any shooters here
that are our normal shooters.
So not a lot is gonna get shot here today, it's a challenge.
So what are the writers doing instead?
Well, it's Friday, which means it's WAN Show day
and the host of the WAN Show
don't just go off the top of their heads,
they have notes in the WAN doc.
So, every Friday at about 10 a.m.,
a notification comes up automatically from monday.com,
that says, hey, it's WAN SCRUM
and that tells every writer to go and
contribute one or two stories and then I go and look over it
and I reorder the stories for most interesting,
to least interesting.
And then when the hosts get there at hopefully, 4:30
and not an hour and a half late, it's an easy, smooth show,
but I have a feeling it's gonna be late today.
- This is gonna be tough,
I've got five hours to fix this water-cooling
and build a completely separate water-cooled system.
The bar is gonna be pretty low here.
- Okay, so I haven't heard from Linus or David or Andy
all day, even though I've messaged them.
It's currently 4:30,
which is when the WAN Show supposed to start.
My guess is that they're scrambling to finish
and he hasn't even left Vancouver, so I'm gonna call 'em.
Hopefully, someone over there answers.
- Okay, bye.
Did you hear the despair in his voice?
(laughing maniacally)
(beep) Arg!
And so then the question becomes,
do we just push WAN Show to be super, super late
or get someone else to co-host the WAN Show?
Which Alex actually volunteered to do,
so he walked down here with his stuff
and then he turned around and came back and said,
apparently it's gonna be a 7:30, three hours late WAN Show.
So we'll see if people want to watch that.
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