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00:00:00 ◼   ► so in the current trend of great productivity you put outlook another [TS]

00:00:04 ◼   ► video like 10 week and now we can't start here [TS]

00:00:07 ◼   ► ok can start in like we have to start with how ungodly hot it is right now so [TS]

00:00:13 ◼   ► the people that people understand what we're doing for them [TS]

00:00:17 ◼   ► ok put this into context of people because you wanted to start out the [TS]

00:00:24 ◼   ► natio but all I can think about is how uncomfortable and sweaty I am right now [TS]

00:00:29 ◼   ► yeah pretty bad right I don't I don't think the people understand how much [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► hard casting work is hot sweaty work under the best of circumstances usually [TS]

00:00:46 ◼   ► you're recording in a room and you're trying to isolate that room from sound [TS]

00:00:50 ◼   ► insulated it becomes very warm anyway they under normal circumstances I know [TS]

00:00:57 ◼   ► he's take a shower after I finished podcasting because I just feel gross and [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► exhausted and sweaty but today is it's a record high in London temperature my my [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► watch says it's 92 degrees right now where I am and where you well I'm at 93 [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► which is when I don't usually deal in that temperatures so it's like 33 [TS]

00:01:23 ◼   ► degrees Celsius but it sounds more impressive when he says 93 [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► yes this is one of the very many reasons why the Fahrenheit scale is obviously [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► superior but yes it is way too hot it is way too hot and we are recording the [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► podcast anyway for the people but it might be shorter than normal because I [TS]

00:01:47 ◼   ► don't know how long we're going we're going to last you at least have air [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► conditioning I'm saying here in the room of all the windows closed the doors [TS]

00:01:55 ◼   ► closed [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► have no fan or air conditioning so if there is any point I start to [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► hallucinate during the episode I just need you to just bring me back from that [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► I do however we just want to say that when Americans will hear air [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► conditioning they will imagine a nice scenario but that is not all that is not [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► at all what I have right now I have one of those wheels around truly portable [TS]

00:02:23 ◼   ► air conditioners that I have put in the main room of my house and that is [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► attempting to cool down the the house but it really hasn't I was trying to [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► find a thermometer but I'm willing to bet that even with the air conditioner [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► its it has to be 85 degrees or warmer in the house which is just not not good if [TS]

00:02:44 ◼   ► not good at all [TS]

00:02:45 ◼   ► English English homes are just not built to deal with with warm temperatures [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► innocence because they said we hasn't been this hot here in like eight years [TS]

00:02:58 ◼   ► was the last time we had this English people always talk about how it doesn't [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► make any sense but it does make sense because the summers are always awful [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► every year but everywhere everywhere in England's does Lego will just get right [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► we'll just get right through this and and pretend like each summer is some [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► unique experience but it's always like this is great know now I was my my house [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► set up a little bit more because high temperatures are particularly thing that [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► just i i cant stand my house set up I live on the top floor and where my [TS]

00:03:35 ◼   ► office is the ceiling is slanted and it has nice big slanted windows that the [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► Sun or is numerically into my office and my bedroom are on the same side of the [TS]

00:03:49 ◼   ► house so even on mildly sunny days the one half of my house is just way hotter [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► than it can possibly be my apartment that is divided into those those two [TS]

00:04:02 ◼   ► rooms on one side and in the main room is like down a little hallway on the [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► other side I just feel like I have abandoned that section of the house [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► where there's just a lost cause they're not going in there I just brought [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► everything that I need into the mean [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► my house I have my podcasting here here I have my laptop here everything [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► everything that I thought all that I could possibly need from the bedroom [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► from the office I brought it out in the morning we're just leaving that that's [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► just gone is just it's a it's a lost cause if I can make if I can make a [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► really nerdy analogy my office is as Julia which has fallen to the enemy of [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► heat and I have retreated 2 minutes Jarrett and my main room and barricaded [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► everything against the door to just try to keep the heat out but it is it is not [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► working [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► that's where I am right now I came upstairs I've been working downstairs [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► it's been fine as an even into any windows open for some reason the [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► downstairs of my house is always the perfect temperature it's perfectly warm [TS]

00:05:05 ◼   ► in the winter and perfectly cool in the summer I never never understand why my [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► front room is the way that it is but it's perfect I came upstairs to record [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► thinking it'd be okay I closed the window here cause I don't want to come [TS]

00:05:18 ◼   ► in and sat down and within five minutes I have been reduced to a big polymerase [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► I don't I don't really know why my house is built but waited it is but there is [TS]

00:05:30 ◼   ► some extreme temperature issue so that's so that's where we are now now that [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► we've complained about the heat now we can try to pretend like it the normal [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► show a normal they'll probably much shorter than normal show can we talk [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► about then the last YouTube video you'll ever make because the end so you did put [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► a video another one out like you know we were talking about you posting videos [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► and then you ended up just posting another video [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► the day of the episode came out last week that happened to work out quite [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► nicely that are our last episode ended up being called posting day in which I [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► talked about what I do when I post a video and I had a video to post on that [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► day it was entirely coincidental that was not planned just worked out that way [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► but it was kind of nice so you wouldn't do in my view all I'm gonna BC crypts [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► areas no no we [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► we recorded on Wednesday or not yes and that video was a shockingly fast [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► turnaround because I didn't started until Thursday night so I didn't even [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► know when we were recording our podcast that I was going to have a video but [TS]

00:06:43 ◼   ► that's that's what ended up happening and this one has now taken the record [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► for the fastest I have ever made a video [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► displacing the previous record holder which was the net neutrality video which [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► think I did from start to finish it was two and a half days maybe three days I [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► think maybe I started on a on a Friday evening and had it up on a Monday that [TS]

00:07:07 ◼   ► was my previous record did this one feels like like six weeks of work in two [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► days or was it relatively easy to produce compared to other stuff to do I [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► don't know how to say what I'm about to say without sounding kind of like an [TS]

00:07:19 ◼   ► idiot for more like an airy fairy person but I'm not an airy fairy person let's [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► look at that [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► let's get that straight I wouldn't have much doubt about you but my of my [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► preface to now possibly sounding like I believe in magic [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► I if if you talk to anybody who makes their living in a creative field and I [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► mean created in the broadest of all possible waves that you are making a [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► thing that hasn't been made before and you're going to share it with an [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► audience very often people in creative fields particularly writing will talk [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► about being visited by the Muse where it feels like there is an additional thing [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► that is just helping you along to make this thing that you're making now [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► obviously there isn't any actual additional force that's helping you with [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► the video but it is a useful way to think about it on occasion and this was [TS]

00:08:24 ◼   ► one of those cases where I started writing the video on Thursday night and [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► it was it was a total being visited by the Muse moment where the rioting just [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► went [TS]

00:08:36 ◼   ► extraordinarily well the first time and then on the when I went over it you know [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► an hour later I was able to edit it really well and then pull it all [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► together and there were a couple of little places where the story was [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► working out very nicely all of this just fell into place and why that happens [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► sometimes and other times is this is this [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► unknowable thing but when it works it really feels like oh wow there's a [TS]

00:09:06 ◼   ► little creative muse on my shoulder which is just whispering into my ear all [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► of these great things to do it so that that is entirely the reason why I was [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► able to turn that around so quickly adjust everything went extraordinarily [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► smoothly which is normally the case I understand that like Sarah times where [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► I'm working on something and all black dress for some reason I have received [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► this flash of inspiration I can't quite explain it was different to normal yet [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► even necessarily inspiration there is a friend of mine who also works in the [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► writing the old who have spoken to about this and he writes short passages in the [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► in the same way that I do and he said the same thing that I do that that you [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► can spend two or three weeks writing and rewriting something but thats it is is [TS]

00:10:05 ◼   ► very strange house some writing sessions are just golden and you can have an hour [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► or two hours that is clearly worth two or three work weeks of abnormal work [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► that is that it's just worth this multiple what you normally do and you [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► want every time you sit down to write to be like that but for whatever reason it [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► just that does not that does not always happen because I'm interested in being [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► who you fishing with my writing boy I would love to have that be every single [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► time [TS]

00:10:41 ◼   ► but I've never been able to figure out why that happens with this when I just [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► got extraordinarily lucky and over the years I've gotten a little bit better [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► about knowing how to she with the animation if I'm really in a hurry to [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► make it look to make you look ok bye even by doing way less than I normally [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► would and so was those two things combined allowed me to get out so fast [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► little tricks you've learned yeah it's it's just from from paying attention to [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► feedback that people have about the videos and seeing what things people [TS]

00:11:20 ◼   ► notice or learning ways to make it to squeeze some animation out of similar [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► stuff I don't always do it but when I'm in a rush [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► there's some shortcuts that I can tape where I think I would animate this more [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► if I had more time but I can get it looking fine pretty fast if if I [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► absolutely need to but it but again this is also the case of sometimes I run into [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► a real problem with the animations and that can derail stuff and so this is I [TS]

00:11:47 ◼   ► just lucked out that I didn't run into any of those kinds of problems there was [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► one of the little things I knew that I wanted in the video is at the very end [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► there's a scene where the the Confederacy surrenders and the flag [TS]

00:12:00 ◼   ► falls to pieces and it just leaves the white surrender flag on the screen and [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► that was the only part I was a little bit worried about how to try to make [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► that look ok make that look good but it worked out just fine and so very quickly [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► as the end of that story my favorite pause the video is when you're showing [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► the part about the nation of Florida or something over the Republic of West [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► Florida that's it and then he say like that but the us- put an end to that the [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► stick figure just like I just players respond [TS]

00:12:38 ◼   ► the that was one of the other things when I'm doing these projects I [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► sometimes I i'm looking for facts that let me make a video and the Republic of [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► West Florida was one of those details I found very quick [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► early on Thursday nights that really felt like yes this is an excellent thing [TS]

00:12:59 ◼   ► to have in a video without the Republic of West Florida this is a much less [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► interesting video so I just had those things all came up in the in the right [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► way so when I came across this great I have this I know the animation that I [TS]

00:13:14 ◼   ► want at the end with the surrender flag I was able to work in this little [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► pattern of 78 days later and then thirty six days later saw the beginning and the [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► end are somewhat similar is able to allude to the surrender in the middle [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► that happens if the answer is everything just went really great and normally that [TS]

00:13:32 ◼   ► takes weeks and weeks and weeks for me to make something that that i think is [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► is that good so it's quite happy with this video actually I'm very pleased [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► with the way came out let's let's address some follow-up from the shift [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► from last week's episode the great perspective zoom debate I think has [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► maybe been put to sleep now I think we have the result after basically for the [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► entire week receiving contrasting feedback from people you know some [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► people would say something [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► another thing I just wanna interject Mike before you have the correct answer [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► I want to thank the audience for sending all of this feedback to you yet because [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► they didn't send it to me and I really appreciated that I asked on the last [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► episode please don't send me on Twitter all of your screen shot that looked [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► nearly identical it all went to might add is great [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► a lot of real details to look into screens so thank you audience I [TS]

00:14:27 ◼   ► appreciate that I also appreciate it [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► there we go I like to hear from from the cortex people but a friend of the show [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► underscore David Smith is a great guy is very smart guys a developer and he [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► looked into this for me and he basically posted in the red what I consider to be [TS]

00:14:43 ◼   ► the categoric proof of how this stuff works and he even made this like diagram [TS]

00:14:48 ◼   ► of some description I don't fully understand but it looks complicated [TS]

00:14:52 ◼   ► enough that it makes sense [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► basically he said on it as this rain if you have reduced motion [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► off things will move around no matter what you do a perspective so basically [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► the only way to stop things from moving is to have reduce motion on and but [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► their perspective zoom it doesn't even matter perspectives in does nothing to [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► reduce motion on wall paper doesn't move icons won't move you can align perfectly [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► but if you have reduced motion turned off no matter what you do stuff around [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► wherever the wallpaper move on the icon to move something will move to the only [TS]

00:15:32 ◼   ► way you can stop everything from moving despite earning which is so what you're [TS]

00:15:37 ◼   ► saying is I was right that's the sound like because I had I had reduced motion [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► on and I was convinced that my icons are not moving is that that were just saying [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► here I thought you said you had it off now I had it on I think it did I don't [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► know I don't remember when you when you open apps and close folders they zoom [TS]

00:15:59 ◼   ► away or is this white screen no you're right you're right it does it does the [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► animations which means reduced motion ease off that right [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► yeah okay so I was right they were moving you just can't see them moving as [TS]

00:16:15 ◼   ► you have a black background or dog background allure leather but they are [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► moving around there okay so then the problem is really with my eyes that's [TS]

00:16:23 ◼   ► what you're saying my eyes are not sharp enough to register the motion but the [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► motion is happening to me or I as the register motion your kind of like the [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► t-rex in jurassic park like at the t-rex only sees me yeah that makes that algae [TS]

00:16:36 ◼   ► makes no sense that I should only see the icons when they do moves [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► ok you like the opposite of this is going very well it's really hot here at [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► a time so I can see underscore David Smith's comment on the reddit which goes [TS]

00:16:55 ◼   ► through all the options of what's going to happen he is a very knowledgeable guy [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► and he has a thousand apps so I will I will trust him here so many apps [TS]

00:17:04 ◼   ► actually I even used one of his apps in one of my videos just without even [TS]

00:17:08 ◼   ► knowing it was his resi- took a screenshot of the weather app when I was [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► in las vegas intending to use it [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► Las Vegas Video and I didn't even know that that was an underscore David Smith [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► who knows I could have 20 apps on my phone that are underscored david smith [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► said he makes so many anyway thanks underscore David Smith averaged Batman [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► along with many people on the reddit question to you in regards to your [TS]

00:17:30 ◼   ► clothing requirements as to why don't you just go to a tailor like his era [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► many tailors in London like an Savile Row and you can just get a custom made [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► and then you could just get a bunch more made if you wanted [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► why don't you go ahead and do something like that have you thought you thought [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► of doing that to go to a tailor and tell them your requirements and have them [TS]

00:17:50 ◼   ► make it rather than trying to build an entire industrial factory yeah so this [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► never occurred to me as a solution to think of 0 taylor's they exist I think I [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► think in my mind I imagine taylor's as an eighteenth-century thing of before we [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► had factories we used to have to have people and making the clothes in every [TS]

00:18:15 ◼   ► major city in the world and you would you would go to them to make the clothes [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► and that's where the clothes came from just it did not occur to me that Taylor [TS]

00:18:25 ◼   ► is worth something that really existed but when they pointed out that this is [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► on Savile Row I also realize that I have walked down that street many a time and [TS]

00:18:35 ◼   ► looked right at the tailors and I think it's like my brain was photoshopping it [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► all away so this they can't be really making clothes in there they're just [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► clothing stores that are trying to give the impression that their old-fashioned [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► Diaz as a branding maneuver I think I think that's what my brain was thinking [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► so I thought this was this was an interesting suggestion I've never been [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► to a teller I have no idea how much it would cost but I bet it would probably [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► cost less than trying to build a factory yes yes how how much it costs will be [TS]

00:19:12 ◼   ► cheaper than building a factory buying machinery and employing people to make [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► that is I feel like that would not sit very well in the gray spreadsheet system [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► that would be terrible are so maybe I will try this thing is I have also [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► received very many links from people who have sent me various t-shirts are [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► various color church that seemed to match the description I gave last time [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► I've collected all of those links in a newt and I'm going to go through them at [TS]

00:19:48 ◼   ► some point and see what those shirts look like and possibly place some orders [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► but if that doesn't work [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► taylor's they are an excellent excellent option maybe so [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► be back in the future my quest to find an acceptable black collared shirt thank [TS]

00:20:04 ◼   ► you everyone maybe we can do it in conjunction with London Fashion Week [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► London have a Fashion Week yes of course it does why of course because it's one [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► of the fashion centers of the world are fashioned way I don't know I don't know [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► anything about this is Fashion Week a thing is the thing that happens in [TS]

00:20:23 ◼   ► cities yes big thing is not big enough [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► haven't heard of this other than trying to start your own branded and think [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► you're very cute into the fashion world in general people say oh it's very big [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► is it I don't know what this thing is that's all I'm saying is there a New [TS]

00:20:43 ◼   ► York Fashion Week yes they're Hong Kong Fashion Week yeah I think so yes what is [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► there [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► Dayton Ohio Fashion Week probably but nobody knows about it unless they live [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► in Dayton Ohio Daniel via Twitter also sent in a link to this website i think [TS]

00:21:02 ◼   ► is a German website where you can customize and create your own shirt from [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► a selection of options [TS]

00:21:10 ◼   ► custom shirt configurator the configurator should have a ke liye [TS]

00:21:17 ◼   ► conquer use Concord back in the day that the games thing I'm thinking of Linux [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► was one of the interface I didn't I was not a conqueror person I was a known [TS]

00:21:30 ◼   ► person but these are as always on the internet you have these arguments [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► between computer people just leave Apple vs when does the all but even that even [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► the people who use Linux they have their own little holy wars they have to fight [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► and conquer vs nomas one of those things but everything in Concord was with AK [TS]

00:21:45 ◼   ► which I thought was good I've never seriously used Linux you're not missing [TS]

00:21:51 ◼   ► much if not for normal people that's all that's all I mean if you if you know if [TS]

00:21:59 ◼   ► you're the kind of person who is using Linux you already know that you're that [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► person but I see little people sometimes think I set up my mom with Linux now [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► don't set up your mom athletics at the terrible idea if someone doesn't already [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► know they need Linux they shouldn't be using Linux that's why they are not [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► talking about register a selection of people suggested that I try out an app [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► called Narwhal [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► which is a very simple read it up and I love it and it's now the abiam using it [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► has like I really like the UI has lots of swiping and stuff and it's set up in [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► such a way that is really really easy for me to get to your surrender which is [TS]

00:22:39 ◼   ► like the only thing that I haven't read it also edits I tried a way to do it [TS]

00:22:46 ◼   ► that's the way I've added a couple and then had to remove them like basically [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► within five minutes because it's just too much for me right now but it doesn't [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► really cool stuff like when you click on the [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► thread in the comments below and you can swipe up and the webpage sits behind [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► it's quite nice you can swipe down and see the web pages linked to an end up to [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► see the comments I really liked it but it is iPhone only that's the only [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► problem so I'm using I a lien on the iPad and now using novel on the iPhone [TS]

00:23:20 ◼   ► and I like it very much I have spoken to the developers of the app and then tell [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► me that iPad is coming at some point Coupee could be seven years away from [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► yeah you can ever trust developers when they say oh it's coming at some point [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► well just in general really means when they say it's coming as they have a have [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► a text file somewhere where they've written iPad app in that text as one of [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► a thousand potential things to do that's all that little white board yeah that's [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► Katie 1313 1314 edit 12 to know something in regards to the way that you [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► post videos to social media like to use anything like gift to do that or do you [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► like before anything or do you just post them all manually ok first of all people [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► know how I say it [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► know what the heck you're talking about their asking about if this then that is [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► and automating web service and maybe the best way to describe it i mean it exists [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► on iPhone and iPad as well but it is a service that is designed to if something [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► happens do something else so I do use if this than that for a couple of things [TS]

00:24:36 ◼   ► one of which is I have a Twitter account which automatically tweets anything that [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► I post to my website as the CDP great blog I think that Twitter account I'm [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► not exactly sure what it is [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► but that that I set up automatically so that when I post something on my website [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► a minute or two later that Twitter account automatically fires off a tweet [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► and I do the same thing with the hello Internet Twitter account so that when we [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► post a new show the hello Internet Twitter account will automatically post [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► as well saying that there is a new show but I don't do that they don't do that [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► with the videos because it's just it's not really saving me much because the [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► the video posting doesn't happen all that often and that is the the kind of [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► thing that I want to have more fine-grained control over I don't always [TS]

00:25:29 ◼   ► feel like I want to post on Twitter straight away that the video is up in no [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► small part because twitter is not the best place to get feedback it just tends [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► to be a wall of people talking so I sometimes wait until a little later in [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► the day to actually post on Twitter when I can then pay a bit more attention to [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► what is happening on Twitter as opposed to focusing on reddit which is my main [TS]

00:25:52 ◼   ► focus when the video first close-up complain about it this and that [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► four-minute yes I hope there's a developer at if this and that listening [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► right now i i don't understand why they don't yet have additional logic [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► operators as part of if this thing that you know logic Mike no more than what [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► we're used to it lol podcasts with ok not that logic this is the good kind of [TS]

00:26:21 ◼   ► logic logic is the simplest kind of programming that can exist so right now [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► if this than that all I can do is exactly what the title is if a new [TS]

00:26:34 ◼   ► episode of hello internet goes up then posts on his Twitter account that it's [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► got up that's useful but it would be infinitely more useful if they added [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► logic operators which are things like and or or so you could do something in [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► one of the things that they have they try to sell you on is whether [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► notifications or something but you want it you want to be able to say if a [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► certain weather conditions [TS]

00:27:05 ◼   ► is the case and it is a particular time then send me a notification you want to [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► be able to combine stuff into a bit more of a sentence and if they've if they've [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► programmed it to be able to do if and then adding and or adding or does not [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► seem like it's a big deal and I keep waiting for this to appear because it [TS]

00:27:32 ◼   ► would be vastly increase the utility of if this than that because it would turn [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► it into a very very simple programmable [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► where you can have people adding blocks of and or or or not so that you could [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► make it more complicated conditions for when things are going to happen and it [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► just speaking of developers and when teachers are coming I find it mind [TS]

00:27:56 ◼   ► blowing that this that if there's the net has been around for as long as it [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► has in it hasn't added what is the most obvious most useful next feature so I'm [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► really I keep my fingers crossed for logical operators in if this than that [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► but I feel like maybe they're never going to come [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► is just strange I find it very strange this week's episode of cortex is bored [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► she very kindly by the lovely people over at home however is the best way to [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► buy a managed domain names it has been my place choice for as long as I can [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► remember needing to register domain names in a way that didn't make me want [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► to tear my hair out because I have used people in the past and have not been [TS]

00:28:37 ◼   ► happy and have a dot com everything that I need me to very quickly go in and [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► search for a domain name have an idea for something funny or have an idea for [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► a project or something serious to be working on they have a very simple fast [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► and hassle-free method of searching and buying domains and this is why I love [TS]

00:28:56 ◼   ► them like you look through a thousand screens have a ton of add-ons thrown up [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► to you every hurdle with super high prices do not have any of that they just [TS]

00:29:06 ◼   ► let you get in select what you need by and get on with building your ideas I [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► have honestly registered have a dot com domains in like 30 seconds it's just [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► insane how quickly you can get in and they have all you want [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► they have all the TOD should expect a dot com dot com dot net dot meet all of [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► them have every single one that you could have a wishful they have a two [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► hundred options [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► Khamenei a dot-com domain start $12.99 they also include who is privacy for [TS]

00:29:32 ◼   ► free with all of homer's domains wherever applicable to the TLD they will [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► just put it on for free for you they don't believe that you should have to [TS]

00:29:40 ◼   ► pay to keep your private information private unlike some other companies have [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► a fantastic support their no holds no weight no transfer telephone support [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► policy is super famous Buddhist nasa great reason why when you call however [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► we talking to an actual human being you don't have to talk to a robot but if you [TS]

00:29:56 ◼   ► do prefer robots like Raiders they also have great email support as well along [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► with some great documentation and guides in case you need anything and don't [TS]

00:30:04 ◼   ► forget however have a fellow service valet services recall say you have ten [TS]

00:30:09 ◼   ► twenty thirty two hundred domains somewhere else you wanna move them over [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► to Harvard take advantage of you just let homeowners or something that you [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► want to do and they will move them all for you for free so how many domains you [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► have them anyhow it remains you want go to have a calm right now and try them [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► out [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► you want to use the code brains BR a I N S check out and you will get yourself [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► 10% off your first purchase over a.com and you'll also be showing our support [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► for the show and relay FM thank you so much for the help today [TS]

00:30:44 ◼   ► table lamp ottoman on the red it would like to know what you do during video [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► rendering time and look when you're uploading some of what's happening in [TS]

00:30:53 ◼   ► these long period of time where your rendering video uploading it or [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► processing it like what sort of tasks to undertake are you working during those [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► times do you take breaks during those times I can say the exact things that I [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► do [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► this is this is one of the ways in which I like to play around with the [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► checklists because yes when I'm done at a meeting of video and i've i've [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► synchronized all the animations to the audio I'm going to export it it takes a [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► little while it doesn't take too long because my videos are relatively short [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► but I don't know maybe it takes 10 or 20 minutes because I also help yeltsin now [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► render the video is at four K and 60 frames per second [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► people sometimes think is it is a bit excessive but I like doing it that way [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► because why not it doesn't cost me anything to do it I've played around [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► with the checklist to move different things to different times in the thing [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► that I normally do while I'm waiting for it to export is I am creating the video [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► thumbnail which I usually leave until the end because very often I'm just [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► modifying one particular frame of the video to be the actual thumbnail and [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► then I am also getting the email list ready during that time I i do i do think [TS]

00:32:18 ◼   ► that when you are grinding through options it is very useful to you think [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► about things that you can do while something else is happening that always [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► feels W productive to me to be able to do something while something else is [TS]

00:32:34 ◼   ► happening which I will mention one of the dumbest psychological trick that I [TS]

00:32:39 ◼   ► use on myself but that is totally effective when I'm not feeling really [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► productive I like to run the dishwasher or run a load of laundry because then I [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► feel like I'm getting twice as much done if I'm working right now because I'm [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► doing something and my washing machine robot is also cleaning the clothes and [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► somehow it feels like the work counts twice as much when I'm doing it this way [TS]

00:33:06 ◼   ► it's one of the the weirdest little tricks but it is definitely effective at [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► to get myself started sometimes when I don't feel like doing something in the [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► afternoon [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► you can run a load of laundry right and ok I can put some laundry in and then I [TS]

00:33:21 ◼   ► started and then and then I feel that well while doing the laundry might as [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► well do this other stuff and it just yet feels like it's like a 20 X modifier in [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► a video game to do work while also doing the laundry or the dishes I'm very [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► confused so you have work to do and you procrastinate from the work by doing [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► some housework [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► from the house but by doing more work and have not exactly get what I what the [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► situation that I'm talking about is usually an afternoon and what this is [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► like a starter motor problem [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► afternoons are not very good working time for me but very often I have things [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► that I want you crying through anyway and the laundry is this little trick to [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► get things moving [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► not right it's it's that I don't really want to get started but the laundry is a [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► very simple task to just start it is totally mindless and I just do it and [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► then it feels like it counts more when I am doing other work it's a it's a bit [TS]

00:34:26 ◼   ► like I like to work really early in the mornings something really nice about [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► getting up early [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► doing work and somehow if I if I'm writing a script before other people are [TS]

00:34:41 ◼   ► awake it's that same feeling I don't know why but it feels like it counts for [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► more doing it while other people are asleep like this were counted twice as [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► much it obviously doesn't know about actually getting twice as much done but [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► it just feels like there's a visit to axe modifier on top of my activity when [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► this is happening there's just this idea in my mind that lake she set the washing [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► machine on the dishwasher on and then you like what other robots are working I [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► guess I should be honest to god that it that is probably a good way you [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► summarize it that is exactly if I had a Roomba I would set that going as well [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► the more robots that could be doing work around [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► the house the more likely I am to be doing work around the house so today I [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► want to talk a little bit about taking time off to have a topic today that [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► we're doing this is the topic today and i wanna talk about kind of like [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► entertainment as well in part because we've spoken about putting out the as [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► you mentioned like once you do that you take a little time but you can't take [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► like your video weekend right we just their jail and just do whatever so is [TS]

00:35:49 ◼   ► this the only time that you can go out for relaxation during like a regular [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► schedule what I currently have is Saturday's I'm not perfect about this [TS]

00:36:02 ◼   ► but this year I have been trying to reserve Saturday's as a work doesn't [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► need to happen today day off and usually that means hang out with my wife on [TS]

00:36:17 ◼   ► Saturdays but I have been far from perfect with that because work still [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► often intrudes and because I usually upload the videos on Monday Tuesdays or [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► Wednesdays it's very easy for work to bleed over into the weekend and I have I [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► have definitely gotten better over time it actually reserving Saturday's as a [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► day off now on on my layout of the week I do have the other six days blocked out [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► that workers on those days [TS]

00:36:51 ◼   ► different kinds of work at different time there's a whole there's a cycle to [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► it but yes the other six days of the week are blocked out as as workdays to [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► some extent by on Sunday it's a bit flexible but the mornings at the very [TS]

00:37:08 ◼   ► least are blocked out [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► so I guess to answer your question aside from The Saturdays yes the time after [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► the video is is the the time that I really take as as down time and that is [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► that is officially worked into the schedule in the sense that it's just I [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► just blow off whatever is on my calendar for the next few days after video goes [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► up I just say okay as long as I don't have appointments with anyone in person [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► I'm going to ignore what else is on the calendar here or what else I would [TS]

00:37:39 ◼   ► normally be doing on a Tuesday I think that we definitely have very very [TS]

00:37:45 ◼   ► different ways of approaching us so on an average day i I work very late into [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► these things go your whole schedule is weirdly shifted into the evening because [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► most of the people you work with are not only americans like myself but Americans [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► in America so you have to live halfway on an american scheduled to record like [TS]

00:38:11 ◼   ► with Jason's Deli record he's on the the west coast of me what on earth time do [TS]

00:38:15 ◼   ► you guys record together we he does [TS]

00:38:17 ◼   ► luckily we were called at like 7 p.m. something so that's that must be morning [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► time for him [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► the west coast is the worst to try to coordinate with with London that is the [TS]

00:38:29 ◼   ► worst mismatched yeah I'm very lucky that one Jason was himself so he can [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► pick is ours because if he worked a job we wouldn't be able to do it would get [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► on the like 56 p.m. and then I basically the next day and said he you know [TS]

00:38:47 ◼   ► greatest [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► early in the day which makes it doable I mean I had some shows where the [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► recording begins at 11 p.m. so quite frequently I am awake working maybe [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► until like 1 a.m. 2 a.m. sometimes three or four depending on what's happening so [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► I was i were quite weird hours but I wake up most days relatively early like [TS]

00:39:13 ◼   ► between 8:30 and nine and that's mainly just to see my girlfriend in the morning [TS]

00:39:18 ◼   ► until the house like it's just something I like to be able to do to let her keep [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► the cues from UV rays that in a very catlike way she's at the back door [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► meowing and you're going to let her out of the house if I don't prepare meals [TS]

00:39:39 ◼   ► for in the morning of the door she just basically just wake up and then I see [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► are often you know [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► ok see something I like to do because I'm able to do that which means that [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► typically I'm awake then so effective in the first couple of hours a day most [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► days I don't really do anything I maybe watch some TV or I like my breakfast and [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► ivory Twitter and may play their game I tend to just tool around until it gets [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► close to lunchtime I Z usually like 11 a.m. is when from then on is when I [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► heard she sought to do any real work most days and I'm pretty good at giving [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► myself breaks where I need to the day if if I want to you know I am i feel i say [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► pretty good at that caused it means I don't work constantly cuz I worked [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► really really weird hours how many if if I'm have scheduled six days a week of [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► work happens at some point on those days how many days a week do you have that [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► workers off 55 till the weekend off is that the way that works [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► typically yes so I always do a little bit of work on Sunday evening have a [TS]

00:40:58 ◼   ► show that I ended on Sunday evening and sometimes I work on the weekends if my [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► girlfriend needs to work mostly [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► most unless unless something crazy is happening and I asked her she's ok with [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► then I I will do some work on the weekends because that time is carved out [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► to spend with her and that is very important to us so I basically turn over [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► my whole weekends mostly for us to spend time together and I do that [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► happily cuz it's also what I would want to do I would go crazy ways because of [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► the weird hours that I work we never really get to see each other because I'm [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► not locked away recording and she comes home and then it's like 11 p.m. and I [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► sneak out for like five minutes and you know then back to work again so the [TS]

00:41:50 ◼   ► weekends are very important to us that I get those so that's kind of the weather [TS]

00:41:54 ◼   ► I work so I tend to do five days of work but my hours are all kinds of crazy by [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► nature that take time to chill and to relax is gonna go crazy if you don't [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► take some what kinds of activities do you tend to partake in in your [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► relaxation time depends it depends a bit on well it depends on what's happening [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► but in terms of hours spent in non work relaxation mode it's it's gotta be [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► gaming by far as playing various video games that's that is my big downtime [TS]

00:42:37 ◼   ► activity and I have always I've always enjoyed video games ever since I was a [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► kid but the thing that I find really useful about them now as an adult is [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► that they occupy the work part of my brain they keep it they keep it busy and [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► so I feel like I can actually I can actually genuinely relax because I but [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► this is what I was when I was younger I I would also read a lots for relaxation [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► but now I'm aware that because I mostly read non stick [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► action that activity is also still partly work I don't read as much as I [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► did when I was younger although I still read but I'm aware of how that is not a [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► 100% downtime activity I i scheduled work schedule are reading into my day [TS]

00:43:44 ◼   ► because it's important but it's also partly your work actively reading [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► non-fiction because I'm reading a book that's about a topic and AM always [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► making highlights and notes and and saving things for the future or I'm [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► reading a book that's maybe about business and so now this is very [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► directly related to work so that's why we're reading has has what was used to [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► be a big amount of just relaxation time it's now become work in a way whereas [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► video games there's no way to pretend like thats work it's just not it's just [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► not going to happen and I find them engaging and enjoyable and it's just [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► like yes this is 100% down time you can't can't fool yourself like you're [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► working when you're when you're doing this are you really need to actually [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► just be able to be in a situation where you can just relax and unlike reading a [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► book I don't have this thing in the back of my mind about go this is 20% work so [TS]

00:44:54 ◼   ► that's that's one of the reasons why I tend to play them as my mean relaxation [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► I totally get that but occupying work part because you're you're working and [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► someone like you're working on a new thing but the things in the video game [TS]

00:45:11 ◼   ► world by the same what it does is during that period of time [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► my brain is satisfied that it's accomplishing something but I'm not [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► thinking about stressing about the jobs that I actually have to do yes that that [TS]

00:45:22 ◼   ► is a perfect description of what it is [TS]

00:45:25 ◼   ► and I mean this is this is going to be people who don't play games though is a [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► bit hard to do hard to describe this but I can say that when I'm playing a game I [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► am actually doing the exact same thing that I'm doing what I'm working on a [TS]

00:45:41 ◼   ► video in a way so if you think about the high level of making a video [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► the big task I'm accomplishing is that I'm trying to figure something out and [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► then be able to explain it to somebody else and I i pick games the kinds of [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► games that I play are almost exclusively what could be described as I sometimes [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► joke that their work simulators but they are system games where there's very [TS]

00:46:13 ◼   ► little instruction you have a bunch of tools you have to put them together and [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► you need to figure out how to make this whole thing work and so one of the games [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► I was playing for a long time was called prison architect and that that was the [TS]

00:46:26 ◼   ► same this idea of you have to figure out how to make this prison run without a [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► descending into into a riot but it occupies it like it makes that some part [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► of my work brain feel good because it's like ok we're still doing the same thing [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► we're figuring out something we're figuring out how this works in the same [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► way that we figured out how to the how does the Pope get elected and like that [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► part of my brain feels like it needs to be always engaged and it's very hard to [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► have that being caged and also feel like I'm relaxing at this at the same time so [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► that's that's why they're useful and I and that's also why I i play a very [TS]

00:47:07 ◼   ► particular genre of game and I'm always aware of how as soon as I have the game [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► figured out I go through the same pattern every single time I know I'm [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► nearing the end of my lifetime with this game because I start thinking I should [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► put together a tutorial series on this game have never actually done right I've [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► yet to do this for any game but I've done this with every single one ago I [TS]

00:47:34 ◼   ► should put together to talk and I'll start making some notes about [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► oh yeah let me put together a tutorial on this ok here's here's the quick start [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► guide here's what you need to do and I'm making out and almost always halfway [TS]

00:47:49 ◼   ► through that process I all of a sudden I just lose total interest in the game and [TS]

00:47:54 ◼   ► then my brain switches and I go back to the next video because my brain goes it [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► doesn't make any sense to spend time on this tutorial series for this game [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► because I lose interest instant I figured it out I just dropped games [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► right away when I figure that out to to the full extent and I shouldn't spend [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► time making a tutorial series for a game that I'm no longer interested in now [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► it's time to make a real video so this is this is the cycle this is the cycle [TS]

00:48:26 ◼   ► that occurs is it because the challenges lost acquired you lose interest [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► it's not the challenge it's for me I am playing the games in a meadow way I'm [TS]

00:48:43 ◼   ► playing it to figure out what the thing and again it's very hard it's very hard [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► to explain [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► are using the game I blame the past few days this has been my my game this time [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► round after the Confederate video I've been staying away from it because I [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► thought it looked like a terribly ugly game I've said as much in the reddits [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► but I have been playing a game called fact Oreo which I have ended up quite [TS]

00:49:11 ◼   ► liking even though it is hideous to look at but victoria is a game where you are [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► basically building factories the whole does not look good it is very ugly [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► I have stayed away from it because of its business for a while but I never [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► played it but I gave in and actually I'll give it a try because I wasn't [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► quite finding anything that I liked [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► the whole game is just figuring out how to connect these various factories and [TS]

00:49:45 ◼   ► assembly lines together to build other things and use the things that you just [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► built to build more complex things and while the game in theory has its own [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► purpose that the players might want my feeling of playing the game is always I [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► don't really like to look at instructions very much I don't really [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► like to look at tutorials I want to figure out how to make this thing go and [TS]

00:50:10 ◼   ► that's that's one of the ways that I really like video games if it's totally [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► unlike the only comparison i could think of here or the the best contrast I can [TS]

00:50:19 ◼   ► think of is you couldn't sit down with a board game on your own without looking [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► at the instruction manual and just figure out how it works [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► that's an impossible task but a video game is an interesting system because [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► you can just mess around with it and it pushes back against you it lets you know [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► when you're doing things wrong or when you're doing things right and that that [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► is the thing that I find engaging about it it's not the game it's pushing up [TS]

00:50:53 ◼   ► against the boundaries of ok if I do that I die in this is obviously the [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► wrong thing to do I like Who I made this new thing here ok great what can this [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► plugin too so it's all about figuring things out so a video game for me is [TS]

00:51:06 ◼   ► it's like a really complicated Rubik's Cube you can figure out the pieces and [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► how they work and that that's what I find enjoyable but as soon as I have it [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► all figured out it's it's always I don't want to actually play this game right [TS]

00:51:21 ◼   ► now that I know how everything works I have no more interest in this thing and [TS]

00:51:25 ◼   ► that's it that's the same thing that happens with my videos it's a it's a bit [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► weird when people want to talk to me about the videos later on because very [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► often I remember so little about the videos I put together years ago because [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► I was trying to figure out what the thing was and I figure that out and now [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► that's now that's done but at least with the videos actually do producers thing [TS]

00:51:47 ◼   ► that people can look at [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► unlike my video game tutorials which I always think I'm going to make but I [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► never do I want to come back to video games like to talk about some of the [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► other stuff that you play in america meant there was one other thing I want [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► to talk about in regards to taking time off and as vacations I know that you [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► take vacations because you told me you were on us how often do you do to take [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► vacations my wife and I went to Vegas in April and that was the first actual [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► genuine this is 100% of vacation it's not partly work or its not partly family [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► vacation that we had taken in years and that was again this week this is part of [TS]

00:52:40 ◼   ► the changes that I'm trying to make my life now is is this moving much more [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► towards a life that I want to live and my wife and I hadn't traveled in a long [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► time just to travel and finally this year we felt like it was more of a [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► possibility so I can't say that I we have an answer to how often do we see [TS]

00:53:00 ◼   ► vacations because we're just now in a position where it's something that we [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► can actually start thinking about him in a much more deliberate way whereas in [TS]

00:53:11 ◼   ► the past few years it was always it was always going to see family and then [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► we're we're sort of half doing a vacation then but you have seen family [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► which is a different experience or something related to work so I don't [TS]

00:53:28 ◼   ► know how often were going to do something like that that's something we [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► we still we still have to figure out I tried to take as many as possible I left [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► college college here is 18 [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► whenever there's an america I don't know sixth form college yeah I did I didn't [TS]

00:53:46 ◼   ► go to university so I kind of got a job because I was going to take a break from [TS]

00:53:53 ◼   ► university and then just like getting money [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► so I've been like in I was in full time employment from the time that I was like [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► 18 to 26 27 something so I didn't really get the chance to do much traveling I [TS]

00:54:11 ◼   ► just went on some holidays here and there but I never took the time that [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► many people take before they get a real job to go and do any traveling so now I [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► am in the position where I can set my own schedule a bit more I'm taking more [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► time traveling to more places because luckily right now I have the means to do [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► that as well so I'm making sure that I do that cuz I like I like to take [TS]

00:54:34 ◼   ► vacations and breaks but the problem is that what comes along with this is the [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► factor I can now never ever for the rest of my life take a proper vacation ever [TS]

00:54:44 ◼   ► again because I'm self-employed yes you and you in particular have scheduled you [TS]

00:54:52 ◼   ► you have shows that you're supposed to be recording there are people who are [TS]

00:54:55 ◼   ► waiting on you for things this is the real trouble with being self-employed [TS]

00:55:02 ◼   ► and so yes you have more control over your day to day time but it definitely [TS]

00:55:11 ◼   ► comes with this this tradeoff that I mean if you want to go to the UN to WWDC [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► which is half working that's not really a vacation anyway but you had to plan [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► the week ahead I'm presuming you were double recording shows that you have to [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► do way more work before and after when you take a vacation as a self-employed [TS]

00:55:31 ◼   ► person yet sometimes during the recording shows whilst there but then [TS]

00:55:37 ◼   ► also the other part is when I when I used to work in my bank marketing job [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► there are a couple of things that could happen when I went away I was able to [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► hand over my work to somebody else to look after while I was gone [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► yes and also when I was as soon as I left that building I could just stop [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► thinking about it [TS]

00:55:55 ◼   ► fine writes that does not happen now I mean I can hand over some elements of my [TS]

00:56:00 ◼   ► job to you know exist even my co-founder or two other people within relay can [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► look after some things to me maybe cover shows none of that takes away the fact [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► that I'm constantly thinking about it and there's no way to fully relax in [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► that regard just like what is something down what happened is like oh you want [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► to go ahead they also have to take a laptop in case something breaks you just [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► have to do that now I'm going away for a short break this weekend as well I have [TS]

00:56:30 ◼   ► to take a ton of stuff with me in case something explodes in anything like you [TS]

00:56:37 ◼   ► know I will be sneaking time where possible to check and respond to emails [TS]

00:56:42 ◼   ► and you know it's it's not a great scenario like a look whoa is me tell [TS]

00:56:49 ◼   ► very as i said im lucky that I'm able to do this stuff but it is that things like [TS]

00:56:54 ◼   ► the tradeoff that you get from being able to do this stuff and go on trips [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► and and kinda that way is it you can never truly take a real vacation again [TS]

00:57:03 ◼   ► yes this this is the the big difference and it's the thing that I am most aware [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► of being different in my teacher self-employed life is this constant [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► awareness that there is always more work that can be done there is always more [TS]

00:57:28 ◼   ► that you could do for the business and it's a it's a hard thing to get used to [TS]

00:57:38 ◼   ► and [TS]

00:57:41 ◼   ► especially when you're just 11 person and there's there's nobody to hand stuff [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► off to its it's one reason why when I did take that Las Vegas vacation I was [TS]

00:58:00 ◼   ► really a year with myself that there was going to be nothing that was work during [TS]

00:58:08 ◼   ► that time I didn't look at any emails I didn't really look at Twitter I was just [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► trying to stay off the internet as much as practical and not do any work she [TS]

00:58:23 ◼   ► just try to disengage from that for the space of a week and do not have my brain [TS]

00:58:31 ◼   ► always thinking about what should be the next thing that happens there's people [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► waiting for the next video or what should the next video be and it's it's a [TS]

00:58:41 ◼   ► hard thing it's a hard thing to do but I think it's really important to have [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► times when you're not focusing on work at all but and here's why it's hard to [TS]

00:58:53 ◼   ► do when it's just you completely ignoring work means there will be [TS]

00:59:02 ◼   ► problems that will happen when you're not looking [TS]

00:59:08 ◼   ► and if you're not you have to learn to be able to accept that and it's it's [TS]

00:59:17 ◼   ► very heart the III have after the Confederate video came out I was [TS]

00:59:24 ◼   ► unusually exhausted because a bunch of things it all happened all at once and I [TS]

00:59:31 ◼   ► decided to take a longer than usual breaks today is really my first day back [TS]

00:59:36 ◼   ► at work [TS]

00:59:37 ◼   ► took four days off [TS]

00:59:40 ◼   ► and I was very conscious of am not even going to open my email during this time [TS]

00:59:46 ◼   ► I'm really going to take time off from work but I guarantee you that there are [TS]

00:59:51 ◼   ► problems waiting for me in that email when I get back in that that is that is [TS]

00:59:56 ◼   ► a hard that is like a hard balance to to play because if you if you take off too [TS]

01:00:02 ◼   ► much time those problems get big and then they can turn into costly problems [TS]

01:00:06 ◼   ► and that actually happened on my my trip to Las Vegas there was a thing that [TS]

01:00:12 ◼   ► occurred that if I had been able to pay attention to it at the time I would have [TS]

01:00:16 ◼   ► been able to fix but because I wasn't paying attention to the business [TS]

01:00:22 ◼   ► don't go into the details but there was a a business problem that that cost a [TS]

01:00:27 ◼   ► lot of money and i'm i'm ok with that because that is the price of taking time [TS]

01:00:38 ◼   ► off sometimes when you're self-employed and when there's nobody around 22 past [TS]

01:00:43 ◼   ► the work off to that has to be the price you can't you can't assume that you're [TS]

01:00:51 ◼   ► going to be on top of everything all time and so you have to become [TS]

01:00:56 ◼   ► comfortable with allowing problems to happen and and learning what kinds of [TS]

01:01:05 ◼   ► problems are ok and learning what things are courting your business and you have [TS]

01:01:11 ◼   ► to stay focused on that's a really long rambling answer about why vacations are [TS]

01:01:16 ◼   ► are difficult when it's when it's just you and you're the only person in the [TS]

01:01:20 ◼   ► business done that to not working on the Vegas trip whether you think your brain [TS]

01:01:27 ◼   ► was working on that trip because you came home made a video about Vegas but [TS]

01:01:31 ◼   ► that's why the the Vegas trip is is one of the worst examples I could ever do I [TS]

01:01:37 ◼   ► literally made a video about las vegas however however what I want to say in my [TS]

01:01:43 ◼   ► defense is that I had written almost all the script before I went to Las Vegas [TS]

01:01:49 ◼   ► and I did that so that I could [TS]

01:01:53 ◼   ► have it off my mind I always knew that I was going to do a las vegas with you at [TS]

01:01:56 ◼   ► some point and I was in Las Vegas and just thinking ever so slightly if I [TS]

01:02:02 ◼   ► happened to come across anything that's interesting here to add to the video I [TS]

01:02:06 ◼   ► will do that but i i i have I did that script as much as possible before a Las [TS]

01:02:13 ◼   ► Vegas because I knew otherwise it'll be on my mind the whole time I'm here and I [TS]

01:02:18 ◼   ► didn't I didn't want that to be the case but yes I did snap screenshot well I was [TS]

01:02:24 ◼   ► in paradise [TS]

01:02:25 ◼   ► to get it on the phones that you could see it the right one or two other little [TS]

01:02:28 ◼   ► things that happened while I was there but it really wasn't very much I was I [TS]

01:02:31 ◼   ► was pretty successful but but that also goes to the gym before about the core [TS]

01:02:36 ◼   ► think the thing in my business that matters the most is getting videos out [TS]

01:02:40 ◼   ► and anything that is a problem that is not related to that is a problem I'd [TS]

01:02:47 ◼   ► like to fix but it doesn't necessarily take priority and what's going to happen [TS]

01:02:52 ◼   ► something like a vacation can take priority if I'm keeping focus on the [TS]

01:02:58 ◼   ► most important things are still moving forward like videos [TS]

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01:04:55 ◼   ► haida and Mike and I think the rooms now so we've spoken about like taking breaks [TS]

01:05:01 ◼   ► and you know there's those breaks would tend to be filled with entertainment [TS]

01:05:05 ◼   ► total video games little bit but what do you tend to choose to unwind with more [TS]

01:05:11 ◼   ► frequently other than video games especially for shared activities of [TS]

01:05:14 ◼   ► missus great do you guys watch movies and TV together like what do you do [TS]

01:05:18 ◼   ► yeah we we tend to take a little walks were in an area of London that is very [TS]

01:05:24 ◼   ► walkable that's that's a nice thing to do [TS]

01:05:27 ◼   ► like many couples we will watch movies together or TV shows together I feel [TS]

01:05:35 ◼   ► like it's just a it's a very normal days on Saturdays because my wife has worked [TS]

01:05:43 ◼   ► a full work week and she's really exhausted when the weekend rolls around [TS]

01:05:49 ◼   ► and so she also just wants to relax as a way to let go I want to relax as well [TS]

01:05:55 ◼   ► cowboy we have a very nice comfy couch and he will take great advantage of that [TS]

01:06:00 ◼   ► company challenge and so is there's a lot of there's a lot of hanging out with [TS]

01:06:05 ◼   ► my girlfriend and I do anything we like to watch TV shows that we like to pick a [TS]

01:06:11 ◼   ► show that we haven't seen like [TS]

01:06:12 ◼   ► watch all of it I recently we did all of friends but felt like a great [TS]

01:06:17 ◼   ► achievement the entire thing and shows like you we just have caught up in [TS]

01:06:23 ◼   ► Brooklyn 99 which is a show that i very much enjoy so we do that kind of stuff [TS]

01:06:27 ◼   ► watch movies TV and but we do know we try and get out into London as well go [TS]

01:06:34 ◼   ► for walks places my better half enjoys that kind of stuff like and hunting call [TS]

01:06:41 ◼   ► last weekend which is part of London and we tried to get a little bit mainly I [TS]

01:06:50 ◼   ► think the majority of the time is that kind of idea because she is also what [TS]

01:06:53 ◼   ► the work week and is tired so we were like movies and TV shows and things like [TS]

01:06:58 ◼   ► that together for you though for your tastes what types of movies do tend to [TS]

01:07:06 ◼   ► enjoy comedy man action man do you like documentaries it's very hard to find [TS]

01:07:12 ◼   ► good movies and things worth watching [TS]

01:07:18 ◼   ► I i I don't tend to left to my own devices watch a lot of stuff but if I [TS]

01:07:29 ◼   ► things that I like tend more towards dramas [TS]

01:07:35 ◼   ► so I may have mentioned my favorite TV show ever the best TV show is is the [TS]

01:07:39 ◼   ► wire which I really enjoyed but in a more and more modern show is something [TS]

01:07:44 ◼   ► like I've been watching The Walking Dead which I'd like even the season two is [TS]

01:07:49 ◼   ► terribly boring it's picked up so that that kind of show is the thing that I [TS]

01:07:55 ◼   ► would tend towards but my wife does not like those kinds of shows to watch those [TS]

01:08:03 ◼   ► on my own as great I'm she watches more upbeat stuff so we just worked our way [TS]

01:08:09 ◼   ► through arrested development so we watched the first three seasons of [TS]

01:08:12 ◼   ► arrested development [TS]

01:08:13 ◼   ► and don't watch Netflix one yeah I've not heard good things about it but when [TS]

01:08:18 ◼   ► she yes she tends to like other stuff I know a few years ago we worked our way [TS]

01:08:22 ◼   ► through all the Voyager which she really likes and which i think is fine but I [TS]

01:08:27 ◼   ► get hugely frustrated with inconsistencies in the Star Trek [TS]

01:08:30 ◼   ► universe it's hugely frustrating it's usually frustrate the worst thing is [TS]

01:08:37 ◼   ► that I I end up knowing all of the details about the Star Trek stuff [TS]

01:08:41 ◼   ► because while we're watching it I'll be on like the Star Trek the the Memory [TS]

01:08:44 ◼   ► Alpha their their wiki looking at the details of this and not wait a minute is [TS]

01:08:48 ◼   ► just the Star Trek universe has the same problems that comic book universe is [TS]

01:08:53 ◼   ► happy just to big over too many years it can't possibly be consistent but I can't [TS]

01:08:59 ◼   ► stop myself from getting frustrated with it on occasion so that I don't know yet [TS]

01:09:03 ◼   ► I'm not saying that I don't like it but I i just there are many things that [TS]

01:09:08 ◼   ► would change about Star Trek james' I would change so yeah that's when we're [TS]

01:09:14 ◼   ► watching stuff together it tends to be lighter stuff like that but when I'm [TS]

01:09:19 ◼   ► watching stuff on my own I tend more towards dramas I feel like we've been [TS]

01:09:24 ◼   ► friends for long enough they would not surprise you when I say that I am an [TS]

01:09:28 ◼   ► emotional person yeah I'm not surprised by that so I tend to like upbeat things [TS]

01:09:34 ◼   ► like I like comedies and things that are simple like if if a movie is exceedingly [TS]

01:09:41 ◼   ► good but it you know I know it's gonna be sad but I know it's a good movie then [TS]

01:09:45 ◼   ► I will watch it right now and I like action movies as well but I tend to like [TS]

01:09:49 ◼   ► light-hearted things because stuff movies tv-shows ebooks music can have a [TS]

01:09:55 ◼   ► lasting effect on me and my try to limit the effect that I'll allow things to her [TS]

01:10:00 ◼   ► have if they're not good enough right so I i tend not to be a big like drama guy [TS]

01:10:08 ◼   ► but I will watch something if I know it's good enough like the wire for [TS]

01:10:12 ◼   ► example and Adina she introduced me to the wire and a good girlfriend yeah [TS]

01:10:20 ◼   ► because I had done what many people don't I watched the first episode and [TS]

01:10:24 ◼   ► then stopped so like my advice to anybody hearings who's not seen the wire [TS]

01:10:29 ◼   ► I heartily recommend wire season as well and would say if you are interested you [TS]

01:10:38 ◼   ► have to commit to the first three episodes you can't just say I call see [TS]

01:10:44 ◼   ► what's it like in stock if you want to start you must commit yourself to watch [TS]

01:10:48 ◼   ► the first three cuz that's in my opinion once you've got through that it clicks [TS]

01:10:52 ◼   ► because the wire starts and you have no idea what's going on because I think [TS]

01:10:57 ◼   ► it's purposeful date day take no time in trying to introduce the characters you [TS]

01:11:00 ◼   ► have to learn the characters long and it takes a few episodes that yes yes that's [TS]

01:11:06 ◼   ► definitely the case and I like the wire for the same reason I like many other [TS]

01:11:09 ◼   ► things it is it is a show that is much more about a system and I love how the [TS]

01:11:15 ◼   ► wire just makes no concessions to the audience of explaining anything like you [TS]

01:11:22 ◼   ► know what buddy you're just going to figure it out yeah we're going to [TS]

01:11:25 ◼   ► explain none of the slang none of its yes there were lots of the show had to [TS]

01:11:33 ◼   ► watch subtitles to just understand what was going on at home you are you just [TS]

01:11:38 ◼   ► kind of have to infer what is occurring by the way the people talking to each [TS]

01:11:42 ◼   ► other rather than actually trying to understand words yes a very fascinating [TS]

01:11:46 ◼   ► show but that's one of those things so I knew that was gonna be good I heard [TS]

01:11:51 ◼   ► always good things about it she really really pushed it you should you will [TS]

01:11:56 ◼   ► like this you have two washes by trying to limit that kinda stuff I tend to like [TS]

01:12:00 ◼   ► things it's you know what I mean I enjoy it rather than needing to think about it [TS]

01:12:06 ◼   ► for six weeks what about music do you listen to live music [TS]

01:12:11 ◼   ► mean we spoke about all day right but that is a functional thing that is not [TS]

01:12:16 ◼   ► like music for enjoyment that is like this exists to help me do my work you're [TS]

01:12:25 ◼   ► not going to like this but I have zero interest in music outside of its utility [TS]

01:12:32 ◼   ► as a tool to accomplish just nine [TS]

01:12:39 ◼   ► always been this way I don't think i mean i think is a kid I like music more [TS]

01:12:46 ◼   ► but I I just have I have no interest in music other than a kind of audio version [TS]

01:12:54 ◼   ► of brain doping the code that this this sequence of sounds can put my brain in a [TS]

01:12:59 ◼   ► in the mood for the sequence of sounds associated with something or this [TS]

01:13:03 ◼   ► repetitive noise is useful in this moment I just have no interest in music [TS]

01:13:10 ◼   ► in and of itself as an art form I don't have any appreciation for this are you [TS]

01:13:15 ◼   ► able to compute any music that you like what you mean like is there anything [TS]

01:13:23 ◼   ► that you can say I like this album or I like this artist now reeling some [TS]

01:13:32 ◼   ► interesting to me again I like that Girl Talk album but that exists to me in the [TS]

01:13:39 ◼   ► world as a thing that I listened to at the moment i mean that the most the most [TS]

01:13:46 ◼   ► music I ever listened to was done a couple of in my younger days road trips [TS]

01:13:51 ◼   ► across the United States and I had long lists of music that I listen to then but [TS]

01:13:58 ◼   ► even then it was as a tool for I can't listen to audio books for four hours a [TS]

01:14:03 ◼   ► row in a row every day while I'm driving I need to break this up with something [TS]

01:14:08 ◼   ► else I'm not gonna break it up with silence because that will drive me even [TS]

01:14:12 ◼   ► more crazy so I need something else I'm gonna break it up with music but again [TS]

01:14:16 ◼   ► it was music as as it cool if if I was able to listen to audio books all day in [TS]

01:14:22 ◼   ► the car [TS]

01:14:23 ◼   ► or silence in the car I would have but I just had had a lot of upbeat sing-along [TS]

01:14:29 ◼   ► kind of songs that I listen to you on the road trips because of the of the [TS]

01:14:33 ◼   ► function that they serves not because I was like oh I love this music so I'm [TS]

01:14:39 ◼   ► sorry Mike I don't you have a podcast were you interviewing people about music [TS]

01:14:43 ◼   ► and I don't listen to that but in those scenarios you have to make a choice when [TS]

01:14:52 ◼   ► you need music even in those times like driving across the country [TS]

01:14:57 ◼   ► you must choose something would you choose [TS]

01:15:02 ◼   ► ok here is the way that new music comes into my life right now [TS]

01:15:07 ◼   ► ok because I haven't had any music come into my life for me be ten years because [TS]

01:15:13 ◼   ► I just didn't listen to the radio or anything I had I was aware that there [TS]

01:15:17 ◼   ► was no way in which new music came into my life I just had a collection of songs [TS]

01:15:20 ◼   ► that I've been carrying around since college and there was there was no input [TS]

01:15:25 ◼   ► into the system would have recognized was not optimal but I would never just [TS]

01:15:29 ◼   ► listen to the radio or anything so I signed up with Spotify so that there is [TS]

01:15:35 ◼   ► a mechanism by which new music comes into my system or what I will often do [TS]

01:15:40 ◼   ► as I will just go to like the top charts on Spotify or something and just play it [TS]

01:15:45 ◼   ► randomly and this is when I'm working I don't know how but but very quickly some [TS]

01:15:52 ◼   ► song will will clearly become stuck in my brain and then I'll just loop that [TS]

01:15:57 ◼   ► one for an hour to just that same song while I'm doing work but again it's a [TS]

01:16:04 ◼   ► it's totally utilitarian thing it's like I'm using this music to stay focused ion [TS]

01:16:14 ◼   ► even know who the artist sorry I don't know what song I'm listening to I know [TS]

01:16:18 ◼   ► that the the kinds of things that tend to work for me are usually I would just [TS]

01:16:25 ◼   ► say just like pop kind of songs there's something about them that really clicked [TS]

01:16:31 ◼   ► in my brain just like listening to it over and over again [TS]

01:16:35 ◼   ► has a catchy hook and has little melody that goes along so I listen to that [TS]

01:16:40 ◼   ► stuff but yeah it is I i never i never think you know what I want to do right [TS]

01:16:45 ◼   ► now I want to listen to some music I almost exclusively listen to music when [TS]

01:16:50 ◼   ► I am doing work and I'm doing work with words in particular otherwise I almost [TS]

01:16:56 ◼   ► never listen to music I didn't think I would ever meet somebody that feels this [TS]

01:17:03 ◼   ► way it's so interesting [TS]

01:17:06 ◼   ► me think of all of the things I know about you this is the one I am now the [TS]

01:17:09 ◼   ► most fascinating it seems to so strange that you don't seem to take control of [TS]

01:17:14 ◼   ► your music like it that's the wrong thing there is not that I don't like [TS]

01:17:19 ◼   ► music that that's wrong but it's it's never an activity that I would seek out [TS]

01:17:25 ◼   ► or do in isolation [TS]

01:17:28 ◼   ► it's always accompanying something else and it is it its accompanying for a lot [TS]

01:17:33 ◼   ► like like the mood modifier show me that that's how I listen to music by still [TS]

01:17:37 ◼   ► have tasting choices and artists and albums that I enjoy you know yeah yeah I [TS]

01:17:44 ◼   ► know I know this is a thing that people do I am a music fan and i'd like I have [TS]

01:17:49 ◼   ► a very wide music taste and I would suggest if anybody likes music like I do [TS]

01:17:55 ◼   ► and is not great they should maybe try out my favorite album run into the [TS]

01:18:02 ◼   ► favorite albums like that show notes that the one that I am NOT yeah why not [TS]

01:18:09 ◼   ► surprised now I i 10 my mind tastes tend to skew to alternate rot but I like wide [TS]

01:18:18 ◼   ► range of stuff you know I like rap and hip-hop R&B and swing music soul music [TS]

01:18:26 ◼   ► pop by I have a very wide range of tastes but I guess I kind of skew [TS]

01:18:32 ◼   ► towards the independent alternative rock [TS]

01:18:36 ◼   ► more generally upset about video games done so I can perceive you as human them [TS]

01:18:42 ◼   ► while some of your favorite video ever was some of the stuff that you played [TS]

01:18:48 ◼   ► recently that you really really enjoy and what kind of all time favorites or [TS]

01:18:54 ◼   ► maybe just like you know I know that I know that you tend to like simulation [TS]

01:18:57 ◼   ► games is that the only type of video games you enjoy know there's I tried [TS]

01:19:03 ◼   ► lots of stuff I i just I'm very aware that I tend to focus on meez work [TS]

01:19:09 ◼   ► simulator systems games right after I finished video for awhile like that will [TS]

01:19:14 ◼   ► hold my interest for a long time and I'll play those but I played I play lots [TS]

01:19:19 ◼   ► of different kinds of games I like to try out different stuff you tend to [TS]

01:19:25 ◼   ► mainly play on PC you have a console I do I don't have a console I haven't had [TS]

01:19:31 ◼   ► a console since as a kid I had a super nintendo [TS]

01:19:34 ◼   ► wow so you are strict PC game yes I assuming that you do all of this on your [TS]

01:19:39 ◼   ► Mac though I am I'm a member of the PC master race but I also play lots of [TS]

01:19:47 ◼   ► games on an iPad and also playing on a Mac so maybe I'm the worst member of the [TS]

01:19:52 ◼   ► PC masteries I don't have a console but that's mainly because I don't have a TV [TS]

01:19:56 ◼   ► to hook the console up to I'm not opposed to consoles I just haven't [TS]

01:20:00 ◼   ► haven't played them in years but on the occasions when I have played modern [TS]

01:20:06 ◼   ► games with consoles I find myself frustrated by the lack of precision [TS]

01:20:11 ◼   ► input I just want a keyboard and mouse to play games or I want the other [TS]

01:20:19 ◼   ► extreme which is games that are designed for touch on the iPad I find the console [TS]

01:20:24 ◼   ► my limited experience has not been great with modern console games but that could [TS]

01:20:30 ◼   ► just be that lack of exposure and I think it's more the latter yeah [TS]

01:20:35 ◼   ► but I feel like I didn't get a definitive answer as you don't [TS]

01:20:42 ◼   ► jeopardize mister you do not have a gaming PC will do you no I don't I don't [TS]

01:20:48 ◼   ► have a dedicated gaming PC right so there is no windows machine that you are [TS]

01:20:52 ◼   ► using to play video games on [TS]

01:20:54 ◼   ► I have a Mac team a lot then I have just in the past year started to use steam so [TS]

01:21:04 ◼   ► I don't have a bunch of stuff on Steam I only have a few items there but yes I am [TS]

01:21:09 ◼   ► currently using steam for for a few things things worth noting on Steam that [TS]

01:21:15 ◼   ► I have I have city skylines which I highly recommends as the SimCity game [TS]

01:21:22 ◼   ► that should always have been very excellent yeah I own that I haven't [TS]

01:21:26 ◼   ► played it I started it and then stopped I don't know why but I bought that [TS]

01:21:31 ◼   ► because I love Sin City and the last one was an abomination well EA has been [TS]

01:21:37 ◼   ► horrendous [TS]

01:21:38 ◼   ► mike has been sitting all over SimCity three years in a way that I have found [TS]

01:21:47 ◼   ► hugely frustrating I want a new modern good sim city for the iPad and they will [TS]

01:21:52 ◼   ► not give that to me the last one that they did what they called a builder or [TS]

01:21:58 ◼   ► something was good except for the fact that you had to wait and buy and you [TS]

01:22:02 ◼   ► know all the micro transaction crap but the game itself was built well but then [TS]

01:22:07 ◼   ► they'd just Morinda ruined it completely ruined yeah I highly recommend city [TS]

01:22:12 ◼   ► skylines very good it's everything sim city should have been and i think is the [TS]

01:22:19 ◼   ► most delicious part of the story of that game that is made by people who worked [TS]

01:22:22 ◼   ► at da on sim city who got frustrated enough to leave and then made teammates [TS]

01:22:27 ◼   ► amazing game like you know what I would buy that game twice to support them and [TS]

01:22:34 ◼   ► to give the middle finger to accompany me a really is terrible they ruin [TS]

01:22:39 ◼   ► everything [TS]

01:22:39 ◼   ► yeah that's the worst I just based on some of the recommendation on the red [TS]

01:22:43 ◼   ► eye I got a game on Steam called mini Metro which it's only an afternoon's [TS]

01:22:48 ◼   ► worth of play but it's it's a fun little game like Metro simulator that was good [TS]

01:22:55 ◼   ► yeah it's beautiful [TS]

01:22:58 ◼   ► it has a night mode which is very nice prison architect which I mentioned [TS]

01:23:01 ◼   ► before ok so that now something that's a little bit different [TS]

01:23:05 ◼   ► is and very good that I recommend is XCOM which is a turn-based combat game [TS]

01:23:16 ◼   ► you are defending the earth against an alien invasion but it's the aliens take [TS]

01:23:23 ◼   ► turns and you take turns and you have to do it in a strategic manner of [TS]

01:23:28 ◼   ► maneuvering around obstacles on the board and which which order do you want [TS]

01:23:34 ◼   ► to fire in or you have a bunch of decisions to make and it's different [TS]

01:23:39 ◼   ► from other games it's a it's a combat game and I really like that one is is [TS]

01:23:45 ◼   ► very good I'll go for another recommendation which is a very different [TS]

01:23:48 ◼   ► game and I wish there were more things like this but I'm going to highly highly [TS]

01:23:54 ◼   ► recommend a game called year walk which is for the iPad maybe another platforms [TS]

01:24:00 ◼   ► but I think you should play it on the iPad if it does exist elsewhere [TS]

01:24:05 ◼   ► here's my recommendation for your walk Jones don't read anything about it Jones [TS]

01:24:12 ◼   ► even watch the trailer for the game this is like like an experience that you're [TS]

01:24:20 ◼   ► going to have its not really traditional game so I would say put on headphones [TS]

01:24:27 ◼   ► dedicate two hours by your walk and just play it and I found this amazing and I [TS]

01:24:38 ◼   ► wish there were more games like this [TS]

01:24:40 ◼   ► which were not necessarily games that you have to put in hundreds of hours for [TS]

01:24:45 ◼   ► but they carefully crafted experiences that that you can have as a as a player [TS]

01:24:53 ◼   ► I think it's very hard to do this right but your walk really really hits the [TS]

01:25:00 ◼   ► mark dead-on so I i I really recommend that one that was there was a great [TS]

01:25:05 ◼   ► experience on the other extreme I do sometimes like really mindless stuff [TS]

01:25:10 ◼   ► like I am looking very forward to the new version of doom which is coming out [TS]

01:25:15 ◼   ► because I used to play just many more just great shoot-em-up games and I [TS]

01:25:20 ◼   ► haven't seen one that I like in a while and sometimes when I play a game I just [TS]

01:25:25 ◼   ► want something that is absolutely absolutely mindless and doom looks like [TS]

01:25:29 ◼   ► it it fits that do ittt they don't need to think about anything I'm just going [TS]

01:25:33 ◼   ► to run around and shoot a bunch of demons and that can also be an enjoyable [TS]

01:25:37 ◼   ► gaming experience a lot of tower defense games on my iPad those are good [TS]

01:25:42 ◼   ► Kingdom rush is very good this is turned into the video game episode mike was not [TS]

01:25:46 ◼   ► I was not prepared for this I like to surprise here so I'm more of a console [TS]

01:25:51 ◼   ► game in person I actually have all of the 30 got Playstation and Wii you have [TS]

01:25:57 ◼   ► a lot of cables going to your television [TS]

01:25:59 ◼   ► oh yeah it's one of the reasons again so I tend to like a couple of different [TS]

01:26:07 ◼   ► types of console game I tend to like all of the first part Nintendo stuff always [TS]

01:26:13 ◼   ► been a fan since I was a kid [TS]

01:26:15 ◼   ► tenders always so I love you know all the Mario games the platform as the 2d [TS]

01:26:21 ◼   ► 3d love marry a car that stuff just fantastic there is a new game to noon [TS]

01:26:29 ◼   ► which is a first person shooter which is just a bunch of fun because you just [TS]

01:26:35 ◼   ► basically have to just spray the world with Inc really fantastic love that game [TS]

01:26:41 ◼   ► man and I also tend to like big open world games like currently I'm playing [TS]

01:26:47 ◼   ► Batman Arkham night and I am loving the game that is my current game of choice I [TS]

01:26:54 ◼   ► love that and I'm very excited for a game coming up on PlayStation cornerman [TS]

01:26:58 ◼   ► sky gonna be on the PC which is a is a space exploration game procedural like [TS]

01:27:07 ◼   ► Minecraft and its basic clean they have found a way to crew to randomly generate [TS]

01:27:15 ◼   ► planets and some of the planets are the same size scales real planets and [TS]

01:27:23 ◼   ► they've created universes and they're saying there's currently like [TS]

01:27:27 ◼   ► quintillion planets created and the idea is you just there that is it is what it [TS]

01:27:34 ◼   ► is like like Minecraft in a way that there is an end but you basically just [TS]

01:27:38 ◼   ► go and explore and see what you end up coming up with just looks incredible I [TS]

01:27:45 ◼   ► think people in the gaming world are really down on procedural stuff but I [TS]

01:27:49 ◼   ► think that is clearly the future of games and procedural is very [TS]

01:27:56 ◼   ► those who are not gamers what this means is it instead of a game designer hand [TS]

01:28:02 ◼   ► crafting a level of a game you set of rules so that the computer can create [TS]

01:28:08 ◼   ► its own areas in its own levels but because the computer is doing it you can [TS]

01:28:13 ◼   ► do it on an infinite scale you can never run out of levels are you can never run [TS]

01:28:17 ◼   ► out of worlds and i've seen procedural stuff done badly but I think as time [TS]

01:28:22 ◼   ► goes on procedural gets better and better and it's it's clearly the future [TS]

01:28:28 ◼   ► of of big having enormous worlds that that you can explore it's it's a very [TS]

01:28:36 ◼   ► interesting very interesting development and yeah I like it I like that kind of [TS]

01:28:41 ◼   ► stuff [TS]

01:28:41 ◼   ► creates completely different houses video game weather like there isn't even [TS]

01:28:46 ◼   ► really need for a story anyway you make your own [TS]

01:28:48 ◼   ► yeah yeah yeah I think that was that was one of the big things for for minecraft [TS]

01:28:54 ◼   ► is probably the biggest most popular procedural game of you can just keep [TS]

01:28:59 ◼   ► walking forever and it's going to keep creating more world around you and as [TS]

01:29:05 ◼   ► you go [TS]

01:29:05 ◼   ► areas will be different and the others will just never end you can spend [TS]

01:29:10 ◼   ► forever in this area saying help up here as I saw a story today that Mike Ross [TS]

01:29:17 ◼   ► sales and now reach seventy million copies of twenty million sold on the PC [TS]

01:29:21 ◼   ► easy that is a popular we would normally do some questions at this moment but I [TS]

01:29:31 ◼   ► really I think it's it's better for both of us if we stop right now and it's [TS]

01:29:36 ◼   ► better for the audience if you stop right now because if we keep going on we [TS]

01:29:39 ◼   ► might actually die just a moment you're just gonna hear this sound and that's me [TS]

01:29:45 ◼   ► passing out yes so there's there's thank you for the unexpected video game [TS]

01:29:51 ◼   ► podcast I hope you made it to the end but we're going to we're going to have [TS]

01:29:55 ◼   ► to go if this episode was little weird and a little difference you know you [TS]

01:30:00 ◼   ► know why we are both podcasting with half big brains [TS]