- Of course it's messy, it's all Darth Vader
all the time here.
(man laughs)
It is, did you want me to, like,
pretend like this office is not messy?
Okay guys.
(laid-back music)
Good morning, it is Monday, the air conditioning
is right over us, that's probably
not super helpful right now.
I'm, like, late, super late, but I just thought
I would just, like, start chatting with you
because I think today is gonna be kind of a fun day
to bring you with me and so that's what I'm gonna do.
As you can tell...
This is the next step in our process.
Today I need to get my hair done so that I can
film a couple of things.
One of them is a video later this afternoon
but this morning, I'm actually going
into my company's office, Aftermarq, and essentially
film a web video.
Obviously.
But it's specifically for the front page
of my new website, so...
It's gonna be a little different and weird
and I'm not gonna talk at all,
which is actually a nice change of pace.
Anyway, I'm late, Uber's picking me up
to go get my hair done so we have to do that now.
Let's go!
(laid-back music)
(hair dryer blowing)
(laid-back electronic music)
It's before London?
- [Man] No, it's not.
It's a week before, it's four days before we go
to Craneware for a week...
- Oh really. - [Man] Down in Florida.
- I like this tripod, Blake.
- [Man] It's the one we just bought.
- Where'd you get it from?
What is it?
- [Man] It's um...punks?
- It looks really...
Do you travel with it, oh.
- [Man] We just bought a three-legged thing,
that's the name of it.
- [Other Man] Oh, that's what a three-legged...
- I kinda want it.
- [Man] It's from the UK, it's made in the UK.
- Nice, I'm all about the UK, that's not surprising.
Those are my people, you know, I am a little bit English.
I am, Rich, I am a little bit English.
- [Man] It's not messy.
- Of course it's messy, it's all Darth Vader
all the time, here.
It is, did you want me to, like, pretend
like this office is not messy.
Okay guys, I'm at Aftermarq Studios where
it is spotless, spotlessly clean.
We just got done shooting something.
I'm all dressed, ready to go.
I just made Blake work like crazy--
Oh gosh, wow, that office is really clean.
(Amy laughs)
- [Blake] We just got done shooting.
- Listen...
- [Amy] Oh my god, no, I'm kidding,
you guys worked all weekend...
What'd you do this weekend?
- Filmed with Braxton Miller and...
- [Amy] O-H?
- I-O.
- [Amy] Okay so they set up a white background
for me because, obviously,
and it took a lot of work cause, you know, you gotta
get the light right to make it look bright and white.
But we nailed it.
These are the pictures that I wouldn't
let Vin bring home.
- Yeah, thanks a lot.
- [Amy] (laughs) What are they?
Tell people what they are.
- This is Khaleesi riding one of her dragons
with the Dothraki horde... - [Amy] Khaleesi your dog?
- [Vin] No, Khaleesi from Game of Thrones.
- [Amy] Oh of course, that show you like.
- And that's the Dothraki horde that she's leading.
She's the Khaleesi of.
- [Amy] Fascinating.
- [Vin] It's pretty gnarly, isn't it?
- [Amy] Yeah... - [Vin] It's actually
an original HBO print.
- [Amy] Really, that one too?
- [Vin] That one is also Game of Thrones,
that is one of the dragons after they
burned a
rival
horde.
- [Amy] Do you have any idea what that picture is
or are you just making this up?
- [Vin] No, I'm dead serious.
- [Amy] Okay. (laughs)
Did you see these episodes?
- [Vin] I've seen every episode.
- [Amy] Of course.
- [Vin] That it James Dean riding a Porsche.
- [Amy] Riding...
- Smoking a cig, nice.
- [Vin] It's a Porsche... - [Amy] He's drivin'!
- He's ridin'. - [Vin] He's riding
through LA. - [Amy] He's ridin' dirty.
- [Vin] Riding, so actually, really cool
what that one is.
He's riding a Porsche 356 through LA
that was actually taking, taken in LA
by photographer Sanford Roth,
which is really, really interesting.
- [Amy] How do you know that?
- [Vin] Because the folks at Classic Stills
told me about it.
It's also super authentic and I have all the...
- [Amy] Oh you have authentication for all this stuff?
- [Vin] Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's actually numbered.
- [Amy] Wow. - [Vin] There's only
150 prints.
- [Amy] Of that?
- [Vin] Made of that, yeah.
- [Amy] And you got one?
- [Vin] Yeah. - It's number 60.
- [Amy] Well, that one you can bring home, then.
Ha, Blake, uh, uh, uh.
- [Vin] So the James Dean estate actually owns
that entire run. - [Amy] Really?
- [Vin] Yeah, it's fully licensed by them
so they've actually allowed that to be printed.
- [Amy] Oh my gosh, cool.
- [Vin] Pretty cool, right?
- [Amy] Cool, so where'd you get them?
- [Vin] Classic Stills.
- [Amy] Did you buy them?
- Classic Stills sent those over to me.
- [Amy] Oh my god, that's so nice.
- And they said, "why don't you make
your podcast studio look legit?"
- [Amy] Yeah why don't we dress it up a little, guys?
- Yeah.
- [Amy] Were they underwhelmed?
You do have this amazingness back here.
- [Vin] Oh, we have the ivy!
- [Amy] Yeah, ivy. - It's nothin' like
having James Dean behind Blake, it's very...
- [Amy] No it really, really sets a tone here.
- And of course Game of Thrones, like, there's nothing
like Khaleesi and a dragon behind me.
- [Amy] I could not feel more differently.
- I could totally have Khaleesi near me all the time.
- [Amy] You literally tell me that every day.
- My dog. - [Amy] To guilt trip me
that you don't live with your dog.
- And Khaleesi!
- [Amy] So already there's two Khaleesis
that are higher up on the totem pole than me.
- Correct. - [Amy] That's amazing.
- And Lucy. - [Amy] What are the odds
of that in anyone's lifetime?
- Lucy. - [Amy] And Lucy, of course.
- Well, if you guys wanna see more of this backdrop,
you have to tune in to BRAINWORK.
- Yes... - [Amy] How's BRAINWORK going?
- BRAINWORK podcast. - [Amy] That's why they have
all these microphones. - Is a little on hiatus
at this moment.
- [Amy] I was on the show once.
- It's on a little bit of a hiatus at the moment.
- [Amy] Why?
- Be back in the fall, cause we're traveling too much
and we don't have time to get people in the studio.
- [Blake] Fall, winter, probably...
- [Amy] You guys should really watch a video
about calendar blocking and batching your work.
I hear there's this YouTube channel...
- There is, there's a great YouTube,
there's a great YouTube channel that allows us to do that.
- [Amy] Alright, and no photo love for Rich.
You don't have a classic still up here?
- But I have an accent wall.
- [Amy] But you do have an accent wall.
- I've got the accent wall.
- [Amy] Silver lining, I love it.
Alright, thanks for filming it today, Blake,
I appreciate it.
And Vin made me laugh, as per usue.
- You wanna bring some of these prints home?
- [Amy] No, it sounds like Blake would be super sad
and cry himself to sleep.
- I gotta smoke a James Dean, what you want me to do?
- [Amy] (laughs) And these are definitely
not coming home. - [Vin] Why?
(everyone laughs) - [Amy] You can have
this fetish here all to yourself.
(everyone laughs) - [Vin] Whatever.
You know what you can do, too,
you could take the H1 in and go out
and into the camera.
- Why would I do that?
- [Vin] So that you have one file,
instead of have to match it.
- Oh, oh yeah, it's no big deal.
Yeah.
- [Vin] (imitating Amy) Hi my name is Amy,
and my favorite color is clear
and I like to subscribe for good vibes.
- Did you hear that, he's making fun--
- My name is Amt and my favorite color is clear
and I'm tested by V.
Rode NTG 2
with the zoom H1
and a Cannon 70D
with a Sigma 30 millimiter 1.4 art lens.
Yes, I know all the gear, all the time
because my name is Vincenzo Gearguy!
(Amy chuckles)
- Cute.
So much filming happening today.
I
didn't get my new mic in time so I had
to film earlier with my old mic
but I'm getting this new guy set up and Vin is helping me.
I know it's so backlit right now but, like...
It's a Rode, if you coulda guessed.
- [Vin] It is the Rode NTG2.
- Anyway.
My announcer friend here, he's helping me
get it set up so that it doesn't sound crappy
because it was sounding crappy before.
But I'm excited, I think it's gonna be...
- [Vin] (imitating Amy) My name's Amy, my favorite color
is clear.
- He's listening to it back now.
- [Vin] And I like to subscribe for good vibes.
- There was just a little bit of ambient noise
I didn't like...
But anyway, I'm excited because my other mic
has been really good to me.
- [Vin] Yeah, at 80, oh.
- It's okay.
My other mic has been good to me,
but it's not really, it's not really amazing for...
I wave my hands around a lot and I was hitting
the mic a lot, so...
- [Vin] That's at input level 80.
- That's good. - [Vin] Yeah.
- Yeah I can still hear my chair creaking
cause that's how you know it works
cause my chair creaks. - [Vin] Could probably
go down a little bit lower, too.
I bet you're doing 75 if you wanna reduce
some more of the hiss.
- I think it's good! - [Vin] Okay.
- As long as it's not peaking.
No it sounds good, it sounds...
It might sound like a little bit bigger of a room
than it did before
but not by much
and I usually prefer that a little bit
cause I don't like to lose my,
I don't like to lose my tone of voice
in a really small area of audio.
It's gross, I don't like it.
What are you doin'?
- [Vin] Is this video...
- What are you doing?
So it's been a couple of days.
I've just been, like, working all day today
but my team is on set so.
I'm dressed in all black cause I'm gonna
go stop in and make sure they're doing okay.
Turns out they need a steamer, wardrobe, wardrobe,
you know I've got wardrobe, just call me in,
I can help you with the wardrobe stuff.
(laughs) Anyway, so I have to run
cause there's any Uber picking me up
and I'm gonna run out to Hilliard and see
how the shoot's going so I wanted to bring you
with me since this is been sort of a theme vlog
of filming and I think it's gonna be cool.
So let's go.
(warehouse noise)
Oh my god, these are mine!
I literally, those are the ones I wear.
Only in my left eye, cause they're toric
and I just placed an order, so that's probably my box
literally that's probably my box (laughs).
(warehouse noise)
- [Jessie] Boom!
(everyone laughs)
(unheard audio)
- [Amy] That's a wrap.
- That's a wrap, boy!
- [Amy] Nice job, Blake!
- Get that good light.
- [Amy] Rocked it, yeah get that light while we can, right?
Nice job, Jessie.
- Whoo-hoo!
- Good job, team, good job, good work.
(clapperboard snaps) Way to get the lights.
Way to get the lights.
- I don't wanna take these down.
- I know, can we bring this home.
- [Vin] I got numerous pictures on there.
- Need that in my life.
Oh yeah.
Gotta get back home, gotta post a really
fun video today I'm excited about,
but I'm gonna end the vlog here because I think
that's all the filming I'm gonna share with you for now.
Vin's leaving tomorrow for Calgary, a couple days later,
I'm going to Dallas, he's meeting me in Dallas, so...
A lot of fun, going to the NSA Influence Event.
I'm doing a panel on the main stage so
that should be super awesome and a lot of other stuff
after that, I'll tell you later, it'll be great.
That's all for today, thanks so much for tuning in.
I appreciate it as always, make sure you subscribe
for good vibes--
I'm in the middle of, like, a industrial park,
just, like, closing out my video, it's not weird.
(laughs) Remember to continue to go
after the life you want.
Cheers, gotta go!
♪ Out for the thrill of it ♪
Ugh, black leather, in the summer, not my favorite.
(Amy sighs)
♪ We can love with no regret ♪
♪ We make out for the thrill of it ♪
♪ Mess around ♪