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00:00:00 ◼   ► welcome back gray hello oh you sound [TS]

00:00:04 ◼   ► chipper on this lovely British morning [TS]

00:00:05 ◼   ► is it morning I don't know what it is [TS]

00:00:07 ◼   ► hey we're not on grace not the time [TS]

00:00:10 ◼   ► anymore my friend no we're not on grey [TS]

00:00:12 ◼   ► standard time which is a shame see you [TS]

00:00:15 ◼   ► are back in the UK yeah it's the middle [TS]

00:00:17 ◼   ► of July is it okay you left the UK at [TS]

00:00:21 ◼   ► the beginning of June yes I arrived back [TS]

00:00:26 ◼   ► in the UK six weeks to the day from when [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► I left that's what happened is this the [TS]

00:00:33 ◼   ► longest no it's not the longest trip [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► you've taken away is it you've done [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► longer than this well I was trying to [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► think about it it depends a lot on what [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► you mean by a trip like I have done [TS]

00:00:47 ◼   ► there have been longer periods of [TS]

00:00:50 ◼   ► traveling mm-hmm [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► but I think it I think in the way that [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► any reasonable person would think about [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► what is a trip versus what is simply [TS]

00:01:00 ◼   ► being nomadically homeless like there's [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► a boundary there right and I think if [TS]

00:01:05 ◼   ► we're constraining it to trips this this [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► is the longest trip I think I have ever [TS]

00:01:12 ◼   ► done yeah I think I can probably safely [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► say that there's a couple things that [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► come close but I think this is the [TS]

00:01:19 ◼   ► longest continual thing that is still [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► clearly a trip that I have ever done I [TS]

00:01:23 ◼   ► have this coming up to actually in just [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► a few weeks oh yeah so in I'm gonna be [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► in the United States of America for all [TS]

00:01:31 ◼   ► of August oh I didn't realize that yeah [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► this is this is something different for [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► me I have three independent events that [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► I need to work that I need to do so I [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► have three things I have to attend [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► during August and I decided that I would [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► just stay in America for the entire time [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► rather than coming back and going back [TS]

00:01:54 ◼   ► against I've done that before right way [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► like you know you've got something one [TS]

00:01:58 ◼   ► week and you've got a week break and [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► then another thing and I've done that [TS]

00:02:00 ◼   ► and it will kill you [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► right like terrible's destroyed first [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► yep so I've decided this time to pack up [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► my bags for a month and go I'm ending it [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► with a vacation [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► but the first three weeks are all [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► work-related activities so I was hoping [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► that you could give me some kind of [TS]

00:02:20 ◼   ► travel tips life hacks for an for an [TS]

00:02:25 ◼   ► individual who's going to be spending a [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► large period of time away from home your [TS]

00:02:30 ◼   ► life hacks that's what you want I don't [TS]

00:02:32 ◼   ► even know how to do laundry like how [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► would you you know like there are all [TS]

00:02:36 ◼   ► these things and like meals do I eat in [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► restaurants the whole time like I don't [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► really know how to handle this the first [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► thing is your simple decision to just [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► stay in America that's that is the [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► correct decision good right that's [TS]

00:02:49 ◼   ► that's by far and away the best thing to [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► do and that that's why my previous trip [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► was so long it was the exact same [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► situation like I had a bunch of things [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► and inconvenient times from each other [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► that in like maybe I could have gone [TS]

00:03:02 ◼   ► back to the UK but it would have been [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► terrible and I would have I would have [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► done something like eight transatlantic [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► flights in six weeks like nope not [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► happening it's a similar thing right [TS]

00:03:11 ◼   ► like yeah for me like a bunch of [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► conferences and then just some [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► work-related meetings and activities [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► that are better if it's in person rather [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► than digging yeah yeah so I can I [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► totally understand how this can end up [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► happening and then this is also at least [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► I find it becomes a little bit of a [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► self-sustaining cycle because once you [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► commit to being in a place for a while [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► then you can start gathering up other [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► things that are useful to do while [TS]

00:03:37 ◼   ► you're there oh yeah like I'm spending a [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► bunch of time in New York which just [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► from a business perspective could be [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► very valuable to me exactly there are [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► things I haven't planned out yet but I [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► know it's gonna be a beneficial trip [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► mm-hmm yeah that's that's exactly right [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► you can start making these things more [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► useful then your time would be spent on [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► a plane going back and forth yep and [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► then dealing with jet lag and all the [TS]

00:04:02 ◼   ► rest of this so yeah it's I think it's a [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► smart move to try to bundle things this [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► is this is why I like the the summers [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► for me are always big blocks of travel [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► is because of this exact thing like I I [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► finally the flights are very costly in [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► every in every meaning of that word yeah [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► and so decreasing the number of flights [TS]

00:04:22 ◼   ► and bunching as much together into one [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► big block of travel is much [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► more valuable to do than breaking it up [TS]

00:04:30 ◼   ► into a bunch of little trips and she's [TS]

00:04:32 ◼   ► interesting talking to other people that [TS]

00:04:34 ◼   ► I know I think the default human [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► response is if there is time enough to [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► go back home that you should go back [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► home but I really do [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► urge people who travel a bunch to think [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► about bunching things together into [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► bigger blocks like I don't know [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► I personally find it much better to do [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► even if it's inconvenient for a long [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► stretch I totally understand that right [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► cuz I felt that way and it's why I've [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► done it in the past right like if I have [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► a week or eight days or something wive [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► where I could be at home and I would do [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► that but like this particular trip it's [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► never more than like four days at a time [TS]

00:05:07 ◼   ► mm-hmm and that's just not tenable right [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► like I would be traveling for fifty [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► percent of those four days so great it [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► doesn't make sense it really just [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► doesn't make sense I don't think anybody [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► will benefit from that right like the [TS]

00:05:22 ◼   ► reason I would go home is because I [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► don't particularly want to spend three [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► weeks away from Edina like it's just not [TS]

00:05:28 ◼   ► really a thing I'm keen on doing but the [TS]

00:05:32 ◼   ► time that I would be here I wouldn't be [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► very great to be around so I you know [TS]

00:05:39 ◼   ► it's at the end of the trip is we're [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► taking a vacation together which i think [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► is a good way to cap it all off right [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► we'll be away for three weeks but then [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► we'll be back together and going on a [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► holiday which seems just I don't know it [TS]

00:05:51 ◼   ► seems better than like Mike being a [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► zombie for a day and a half before he [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► gets ready to go again cuz then there is [TS]

00:05:56 ◼   ► all these things that just more [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► frustrating you know like for example me [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► waking up at 4:30 in the morning to go [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► back to the airport right like nobody [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► wants or needs these things in their [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► life so I'm I think I'm I mean I'm gonna [TS]

00:06:07 ◼   ► see how it goes I might hate this right [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► but I think that this this seems like [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► the right course of action for this [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► particular set of trips mm-hmm yeah I [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► can I can definitely see that alright so [TS]

00:06:21 ◼   ► you want you want life hankari and [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► they've really usable choose any tiny [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► takeaways in some key takeaway [TS]

00:06:27 ◼   ► and I mean I'm just I'm just nothing [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► like it's the things that matter for [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► lucky we'll start with start with number [TS]

00:06:34 ◼   ► one mmm-hmm laundry when I do this kind [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► of trip laundry just becomes a big part [TS]

00:06:41 ◼   ► of it right because you can't actually [TS]

00:06:43 ◼   ► pack six weeks worth of clothing you you [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► can't pack a month's worth of clothing [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► it's just not gonna happen [TS]

00:06:50 ◼   ► but I like to view this I like to view [TS]

00:06:52 ◼   ► this as an advantage because once you [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► assume that laundry is going to be part [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► of this process you can actually pack [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► less than you would for a trip that's [TS]

00:07:04 ◼   ► like a week-long trip mm-hmm all right [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► because if you think about it if you go [TS]

00:07:07 ◼   ► if you know if you know you're going to [TS]

00:07:10 ◼   ► be doing laundry you can probably cut [TS]

00:07:13 ◼   ► down the number of outfits you would [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► take on on a week trip I like 30 percent [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► at least so I just you I just assume [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► that it's that this is going to happen [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► and it depends on like what exactly your [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► situation is but like very very often in [TS]

00:07:30 ◼   ► America like if depending on where you [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► are there just are not convenient [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► laundromats around or like it's such an [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► incredible hassle and you're usually [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► busy so I have yet to meet a hotel that [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► won't do the laundry for you and this is [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► this is one of these places where yes [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► are they gonna charge you a fortune to [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► do the laundry of course they are [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► because because they've got you right is [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► they have like a laundry monopoly in [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► this in this little moment well so they [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► should because nobody wants to do other [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► people's laundry yeah nobody wants to do [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► other people's laundry no people need to [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► be paid handsomely for that task yeah [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► yeah with that in town like someone's [TS]

00:08:13 ◼   ► got to fold your socks Mike and I find [TS]

00:08:15 ◼   ► that this is one of these things that if [TS]

00:08:18 ◼   ► if you can mentally get on board with [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► the idea that you just accept that that [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► you're not getting like a deal on your [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► laundry and of course if you went to a [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► laundromat it would cost less but what [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► you're getting is a bunch of hassle [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► removed from your life yeah and a thing [TS]

00:08:36 ◼   ► that just happens automatically tell you [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► why I wouldn't want to go to a [TS]

00:08:39 ◼   ► laundromat great [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► okay tell me why I know I wouldn't know [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► how to use the machine and I don't want [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► to have to deal with not knowing how to [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► use the machine right like I won't get [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► there yeah and I like would be bumbling [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► around and I'd maybe need to ask for [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► help like I don't want to be in the [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► situation where I have a washing machine [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► that I don't know how to use I know how [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► to use my washing machine but I was [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► taught how to use our washing machine no [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► one's gonna like it's not gonna be just [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► an implicit thing I arrive at a [TS]

00:09:06 ◼   ► laundromat and they're like mr. Hurley [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► come this way let's show you the machine [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► that's not what's gonna happen so I [TS]

00:09:11 ◼   ► can't gonna stand in front of this [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► washing machine and like American [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► washing machines are so different right [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► like you put stuff in the top that's not [TS]

00:09:18 ◼   ► I don't even know how to do that right [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► like that doesn't make any sense to me [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► that gravity pulls it down that's how it [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► works you hold the clothes over and you [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► let go and gravity pulls them into the [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► washing machine and then they just pop [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► out the other and that how it works no [TS]

00:09:31 ◼   ► there's like one come up pick them up [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► out of the hole and you put them in the [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► drum yeah I just I don't know man I just [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► there's too many variables there so I [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► I'm scared of the laundromat honestly [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► okay look well I've got some bad news [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► for you okay has when I say that I've [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► never been at a hotel that that doesn't [TS]

00:09:48 ◼   ► do the laundry many hotels will just [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► take your laundry away and bring it back [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► to you folded up in a little box which [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► is like a gift from heaven when you're [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► traveling like oh thank god it's a thing [TS]

00:09:59 ◼   ► that I don't have to worry about but if [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► they don't do that they will have a [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► little mini laundromat in the hotel and [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► so you you may you when I say doing [TS]

00:10:09 ◼   ► laundry at a hotel you may have to [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► functionally use what is a laundromat [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► just in the hood but it's very easy Mike [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► all you do is you go to go to the front [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► desk mm-hmm you ask the nice person at [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► the front desk to turn a five-dollar [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► bill into a bunch of quarters and you [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► put the quarters in the Machine and it's [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► essentially all automated like that you [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► you will have almost no options except [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► to put your clothes in the machine feed [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► the Machine and that's it we see the [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► thing is in the hotel I would be more [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► willing to ask for help and I wouldn't [TS]

00:10:37 ◼   ► feel so awkward right like if I needed [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► help I could ask the person at the front [TS]

00:10:41 ◼   ► desk but like in the laundromat I don't [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► know it just feels it feels like a more [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► intimidating experience for me to walk [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► into this you know room of people doing [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► their laundry and then I'm like oh [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► bumbling around and [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► my Britishness and I dropped my top hat [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► and and like I said it would be a [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► nightmare yeah but you got to you got to [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► make that work for you Mike you just be [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► like I'm from a foreign land we don't we [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► don't have laundry machines please help [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► me so I should basically what you're [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► saying is I should walk in there with [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► like a Union Jack waistcoat yeah exactly [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► that's what you need to do hip everybody [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► off straight right at the beginning yeah [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► that's that's that would that would work [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► best for you but you won't really have [TS]

00:11:16 ◼   ► to do that because the hotel will just [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► handle it for you great and that's [TS]

00:11:20 ◼   ► that's the number one thing and I guess [TS]

00:11:23 ◼   ► especially especially the summer for me [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► with with the conferences that I was at [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► mm-hmm I cannot I cannot tell you what a [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► mental relief it is to just have this [TS]

00:11:32 ◼   ► one part of the problem just handled [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► yeah it's like great my bags are lighter [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► but my clothes will always be clean [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► because I'll just every other day I'll [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► hand the hotel that I'm at a bag with [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► some small amount of laundry and it will [TS]

00:11:47 ◼   ► just be returned and everything will be [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► fine so that's great that's really great [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► that's it okay so next two of the three [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► weeks right I am gonna be working mm-hmm [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► I'm just working as normal in hotels the [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► third week I'm staying [TS]

00:12:03 ◼   ► with Stephen my co-founder and I'm gonna [TS]

00:12:05 ◼   ► be working from his office some people [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► do let me work in their offices with [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► them which is just just really nice you [TS]

00:12:12 ◼   ► know like it's just a good thing to do [TS]

00:12:14 ◼   ► so your office surfing that's what [TS]

00:12:16 ◼   ► you're doing mm-hmm so I'm just gonna be [TS]

00:12:18 ◼   ► working his in his office cos he offered [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► because he's kind you know you so good [TS]

00:12:22 ◼   ► like a good thing right like you got a [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► friend you need some time to spend in an [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► office and he's like I'll bring a desk [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► in for you we'll work together in the [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► office [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► you know some people are just really [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► good about that sort of stuff [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► no so we're gonna do that for the third [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► week but for the other two weeks I need [TS]

00:12:38 ◼   ► to be working as normal but I'm living [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► in the hotel right where do I work do I [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► stay in the hotel or do I go to places [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► okay all right [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► it always depends on the hotel okay but [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► one of the things I really like about [TS]

00:12:57 ◼   ► traveling and being at hotels is [TS]

00:12:59 ◼   ► exploring a new hotel because I have yet [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► to find a hotel that doesn't have some [TS]

00:13:08 ◼   ► kind of nice area to work in but it's [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► not always it's not always obvious where [TS]

00:13:14 ◼   ► this area is you saying you spend time [TS]

00:13:16 ◼   ► in the business center is that so where [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► you go well okay so some places will [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► have business centers right and that can [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► be very nice but very often the business [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► centers are terrible confined areas [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► printe and one computer in a closet yeah [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► so that's it's not very nice but almost [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► every hotel has has some kind of area [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► that's like for people having meetings [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► who might be at the hotel and even [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► surprisingly small hotels will have a [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► little mini conference center of some [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► kind and I often find that you can you [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► can either just like find these areas of [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► the hotel which are essentially [TS]

00:13:57 ◼   ► abandoned and you just use them what do [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► you like cuz I've been in those hotels [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► where like you walk down a corridor and [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► there's nothing there there's nobody [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► then just look like anybody's been there [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► in five years but there are these huge [TS]

00:14:12 ◼   ► rooms like all of the San Francisco [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► hotels I've stayed in I like this oh [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► yeah yeah I think there was one of the [TS]

00:14:19 ◼   ► hotels I was at this summer it's like I [TS]

00:14:21 ◼   ► was just walking around trying to do [TS]

00:14:24 ◼   ► this like I'm trying to find a place to [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► work and it's like oh there's a gigantic [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► ballroom in the basement I know it's [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► just like just go down the stairs all [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► the doors are open like this there's [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► this whole place here it's just lit up [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► but there's nobody here [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► so nobody here all day maybe four not [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► for ten years you know it's like you [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► just don't know but it's it's it's [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► surprising how many hotels [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► if you look around have a space to work [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► that is almost certainly better than [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► whatever sad little desk you have in the [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► actual hotel room okay so so I have I [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► have extraordinarily rarely not been [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► able to find some better space in the [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► hotel and if you can't find anyplace [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► I've asked [TS]

00:15:08 ◼   ► front desk like are there like is there [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► is there a meeting room somewhere that I [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► can use if nobody is using it and you [TS]

00:15:15 ◼   ► know usually if you're nice to the [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► person at the front desk like oh yeah [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► whatever there's some there's some space [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► that nobody goes into and it's fine so [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► do you not look for like cool coffee [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► shops outside places to work or do you [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► just tend to stay in the hotel well what [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► I'm trying to the reason why I'm [TS]

00:15:30 ◼   ► discussing the hotel here is I'm running [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► under the assumption that you you might [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► be in a place where it's there's nothing [TS]

00:15:37 ◼   ► around the hotel which is useful because [TS]

00:15:39 ◼   ► like sometimes in America particularly [TS]

00:15:41 ◼   ► if you don't have a car you can be a [TS]

00:15:43 ◼   ► little bit isolated depending where [TS]

00:15:46 ◼   ► you're staying well so most of this time [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► we'll all be in New York City [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► okay so you'll be in New York City yeah [TS]

00:15:52 ◼   ► all right well then then it's a [TS]

00:15:53 ◼   ► different thing like then then you can [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► try to find cool hipster places to work [TS]

00:15:59 ◼   ► in I'll make you think that that's what [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► I'm looking for and I just assume that [TS]

00:16:04 ◼   ► you go out on the streets and your [TS]

00:16:06 ◼   ► hipster door would point you in the [TS]

00:16:08 ◼   ► correct location to close that I think [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► like hipster hipster would have been [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► better you really you nearly got it [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► nearly got it I think it was perfectly [TS]

00:16:17 ◼   ► fine but yeah like that that can totally [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► that can totally work but I prefer if I [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► can find a guaranteed quiet spot in the [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► hotel to work I would usually rather do [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► that because it's just it's just like a [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► more it's like a more guaranteed space [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► yeah yeah there's no expectation if you [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► need him to leave because you haven't [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► bought enough lattes right like you yeah [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► yeah even if it's is in the back of your [TS]

00:16:41 ◼   ► mind like what's the latte counter per [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► hour here and yeah it's like I've gotten [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► a lot of really good work done in in [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► like weird abandoned places in a hotel [TS]

00:16:51 ◼   ► so it's that's why it's just [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► particularly on my mind and it's like a [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► life hack [TS]

00:16:55 ◼   ► right that's what that's what you're [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► that's what you're looking for so when [TS]

00:16:57 ◼   ► you're in these weird abandoned places [TS]

00:16:59 ◼   ► are you also playing fun to sounds or [TS]

00:17:01 ◼   ► you do not do that depends depends on [TS]

00:17:04 ◼   ► how likely I think it is that someone's [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► gonna walk by I imagine like some [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► attendant walking past the closed doors [TS]

00:17:09 ◼   ► of the ballroom just hears some some [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► person muttering to themselves [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► these thunder and lightning noises [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► so I must be incredible yeah this is [TS]

00:17:18 ◼   ► this is how haunted hotel rumors start I [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► have one last thing one last thing I [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► need your advice on for this trip Ranko [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► food now I have noticed about myself [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► that if I am away from home for like a [TS]

00:17:34 ◼   ► long period of time I start to feel a [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► bit sick from eating out all the time [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► yeah yeah so how do you combat this [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► because like you can't I mean at least [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► not in the hotels that I'm saying and I [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► can't prepare myself a meal so what do [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► you what do you do do you do eat out for [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► every meal I'm totally with you on this [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► you can get kind of travel food sick [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► yeah especially in America where yeah [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► I'm sorry Americans like you have such [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► amazing food but it's really bad for [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► your constitution yeah and it can also [TS]

00:18:10 ◼   ► be like this food is amazing but also [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► kind of plastic at the same at the same [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► time grace I don't know me I didn't do [TS]

00:18:21 ◼   ► that that's why I didn't you didn't need [TS]

00:18:23 ◼   ► to say it like the American can say it [TS]

00:18:25 ◼   ► and then it's fine I can say that out [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► loud [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► but it's even like oh like if I go into [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► I hop and it's like oh I hop you can [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► make me an omelet any time of day that's [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► great it's a fantastic standard meal but [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► after three of them it's like these [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► omelets are both delicious and plasticky [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► like I feel like I have some kind of [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► plastic revit residue building up inside [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► of my body or the food can just start to [TS]

00:18:54 ◼   ► feel a little bit unreal and again Orion [TS]

00:18:59 ◼   ► again in America sort of say me like [TS]

00:19:02 ◼   ► every burger place is sort of the same [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► so yeah it's like America fantastic for [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► two weeks but it can if you're there [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► longer it's like you need to start [TS]

00:19:12 ◼   ► planning for this kind of stuff I don't [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► have a lot to tell you about this [TS]

00:19:15 ◼   ► because it's like it depends so much on [TS]

00:19:17 ◼   ► what you eat but there's there's two [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► things here like the first is I will [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► very like on the this past summer I very [TS]

00:19:27 ◼   ► frequently would [TS]

00:19:29 ◼   ► just try to find a supermarket that was [TS]

00:19:31 ◼   ► nearby and almost in a way like eat out [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► at the supermarket like I'm just gonna [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► go to the supermarket I'm gonna buy some [TS]

00:19:39 ◼   ► things that I can immediately assemble [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► into a meal that I will just eat instead [TS]

00:19:43 ◼   ► of eating out at a restaurant because [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► it's just sort of like I said the food [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► is sort of tiring constantly eating out [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► at a restaurant but what I also try to [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► look for is a lot of American hotels are [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► sort of family-oriented in that they [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► will have like a little fridge or maybe [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► a super tiny kitchen area and and that [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► can be helpful so if you know you're [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► gonna be in a place for a while I will [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► very often try to find a hotel that [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► won't just have a minibar but they'll [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► have here's a little refrigerator and [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► maybe just like out like a one pan [TS]

00:20:19 ◼   ► electric stovetop but it makes a huge [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► difference I think I you know look you [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► know me right like the places that I've [TS]

00:20:26 ◼   ► booked that they're too hipster to have [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► a little kitchenette like it's right [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► let's be honest I'm staying in Brooklyn [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► you know I yeah the kind of hotel that I [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► assume has it like a dog at the front [TS]

00:20:40 ◼   ► reception desk maybe I'm not interested [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► in the dog it's very possible yeah a dog [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► with glasses yeah a bowtie so I may have [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► shot myself in the foot on that one now [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► if you already made reservations I can't [TS]

00:20:53 ◼   ► help you [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► of course I've already made reservations [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► I leave in like two and a half weeks [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► gray no we don't all live on the edge [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► like you yeah I love I love to leave [TS]

00:21:02 ◼   ► everything into the last possible second [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► I know you did everybody who knows me is [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► irritated to no end [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► it's like this is that this is a [TS]

00:21:10 ◼   ► hangover of standby flying is like how [TS]

00:21:13 ◼   ► late can I leave this decision until I [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► will leave it until the last possible [TS]

00:21:17 ◼   ► moment but yes I'm sorry that your [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► hipster hotels won't have refrigerators [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► yeah I mean they have all the other [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► amenities that I'm looking for but maybe [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► not maybe then maybe it has a [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► refrigerator but I doubt it has a little [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► stovetop or anything yeah well I think [TS]

00:21:33 ◼   ► even with the refrigerator I think that [TS]

00:21:35 ◼   ► that becomes I've noticed becoming more [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► difficult over time is that you used to [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► be able to kind of at least pack stuff [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► in a little refriger [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► even if it was explicitly intended to be [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► a minibar but more and more hotels are [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► using those mini bars that are pressure [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► sensitive so if you try to like pack [TS]

00:21:51 ◼   ► some stuff in the refrigerator it [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► registers that you have purchased [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► everything and you hate writing you have [TS]

00:21:54 ◼   ► like a five hundred dollar bill the next [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► morning so it's those those those [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► refrigerators are super annoying there's [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► one last thing that I'll just mention [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► for long-term travel which people don't [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► often think about but you can have [TS]

00:22:10 ◼   ► things sent to a hotel in advance of [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► your arrival mm-hmm and what I'm just [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► thinking about your cupboard full of [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► audio equipment look like we don't need [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► to get into the details we can gloss [TS]

00:22:27 ◼   ► over the details but I'm just gonna say [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► for very long travel it is it is worth [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► thinking about are there things that you [TS]

00:22:39 ◼   ► can have sent to the hotel instead of [TS]

00:22:41 ◼   ► having to carry it to the hotel or [TS]

00:22:43 ◼   ► things that you'll need on on the trip [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► which are simply easier instead of [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► getting them before you leave and [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► packing them having them sent to where [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► you're gonna go you just you need to [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► speaking from experience you need to [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► contact the hotel before you do this and [TS]

00:22:57 ◼   ► find out whatever their little system is [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► because each hotel will have some [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► squirrely system for how you're supposed [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► to address the mail that they're going [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► to get for you in advance but this is [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► this is also a hugely helpful thing and [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► so this summer I was actually very [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► fortunate in that I was I was reopen on [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► some of the clothes that I buy in like [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► packages as we've mentioned before it's [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► like oh it's time to get new shirts so I [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► need four new shirts of the exact same [TS]

00:23:23 ◼   ► kind and so I had a bunch of clothes [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► that I was able to just have shipped to [TS]

00:23:28 ◼   ► the hotel which were the like new [TS]

00:23:30 ◼   ► clothes that I was going to wear in bulk [TS]

00:23:33 ◼   ► so that I didn't have to actually have [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► it shipped to me here in the UK and then [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► like pack it all and travel with it to [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► America it's like no just I'm just [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► arriving and the stuff is here and yes [TS]

00:23:45 ◼   ► there may be some other like equipment [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► or other things who knows that it's [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► useful to have sent ahead of time but [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► it's just like I just want to mention it [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► because it's the thing that people don't [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► think about [TS]

00:23:56 ◼   ► but it's useful to just have in mind [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► especially if you're doing a long trip [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► where I feel like it's very easy to [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► overwhelm yourself with packing just to [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► keep this in mind as a tool you can send [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► stuff to a hotel in advance and they [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► will have it for you when you arrive and [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► there may be things that you can do this [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► with instead of having to pack them up [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► and bring them with you so just keep [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► that in mind this is something that I'm [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► familiar with because quite frequently [TS]

00:24:23 ◼   ► there will be a call from the front desk [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► for me and I have to go pick up a [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► package which is probably something from [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► Levi's the Idina has ordered for me to [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► bring home this is yes yes that's a [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► whole other category of things to bring [TS]

00:24:38 ◼   ► home for somebody else from America yes [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► because America is full of treasures [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► like what's the name of the hotel that [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► you're staying it what's the address yes [TS]

00:24:48 ◼   ► it is it is not possible to return from [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► America without bringing things back for [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► people unspecified yes I once happened [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► went down to the front desk he came back [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► upstairs were box I opened the box and [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► there was a cooking thermometer in the [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► box that's good it is a really good for [TS]

00:25:07 ◼   ► moment though you know America they make [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► good stuff there except homeless right [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► almost are good but not more than three [TS]

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00:26:25 ◼   ► to sleep on Casper understand that you [TS]

00:26:29 ◼   ► actually want to take some time before [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► you make this decision which is why with [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► Casper you actually get to sleep on the [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► mattress before because Casper gives you [TS]

00:26:38 ◼   ► 100 nights to try it out they understand [TS]

00:26:41 ◼   ► that you want to spend some time on that [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► mattress before you commit to sleeping [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► on it for the next third of your life if [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► you don't love it they will pick it up [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► and refund you everything dive deeper [TS]

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00:26:54 ◼   ► mattress and get fifty dollars towards [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► any mattress purchase by going to Casper [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► comm slash cortex and using the code [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► cortex at checkout terms of conditions [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► apply we thank Casper for their support [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► of this show and relay event so I have a [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► question for you mm-hmm I feel like over [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► the time that I've known you over the [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► few years have been working together [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► you've been very influential on me in a [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► few different areas you know like making [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► me think about different projects to [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► start different ways of thinking about [TS]

00:27:22 ◼   ► work I just want to see if it is [TS]

00:27:25 ◼   ► possible that I influenced you in any [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► way [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► to start vlogging no I'm sorry Mike you [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► should give me one you know just throw [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► me a bone you know look just say yes I [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► mean I can it like we have to be we have [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► to be truthful with the listener doing [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► and it's like I can like I can hear it I [TS]

00:27:55 ◼   ► can hear it in your mic voice and I feel [TS]

00:27:58 ◼   ► like I would I would love to give this [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► gift to you but if I give this gift to [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► you then like I have to i'd have to like [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► lie about all of the other questions you [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► can ask me about vlogging and so we have [TS]

00:28:10 ◼   ► to we have to go into this truthfully [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► what you say there's absolutely zero [TS]

00:28:15 ◼   ► influence from our discussions about [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► vlogging which pushed you into creating [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► a vlog that's literally zero [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► so I'm like if you go but if you go back [TS]

00:28:27 ◼   ► to the CGP grey to youtube channel [TS]

00:28:30 ◼   ► mm-hmm and you look at some of those [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► early videos those early videos are [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► there because they are discards from [TS]

00:28:37 ◼   ► vlogs that I tried to make right from [TS]

00:28:41 ◼   ► the start of the channel like or their [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► test footage for things that I was [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► trying out mm-hmm [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► so that vlog that I put up was probably [TS]

00:28:52 ◼   ► the fifth or sixth serious run that I [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► had done towards vlogging of some kind [TS]

00:29:01 ◼   ► in the past many years so I'm sorry Mike [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► well moving swiftly on then why did you [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► do this I really I can't understand why [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► you did this like there are so many [TS]

00:29:15 ◼   ► things that you just put out a video [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► right like a couple of days before it [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► was a pretty big video that you've been [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► working and I know for quite a while [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► which was very good cause seven ways to [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► maximize misery that I don't want to [TS]

00:29:28 ◼   ► talk about because I'll have to think [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► about that video again and it just makes [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► me sad right if I think about me and [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► that video I don't want to talk about [TS]

00:29:38 ◼   ► that one so okay we just move swiftly on [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► swiftly along really swiftly almost [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► breakneck speed forget that videos made [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► a lot of people uncomfortable yes yes [TS]

00:29:49 ◼   ► perfect think about it for a while and [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► now I don't want to be here anymore like [TS]

00:29:58 ◼   ► just put it up and it was doing really [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► well and then you're like oh surprise [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► here is a vlog that I made which is 16 [TS]

00:30:06 ◼   ► minutes long which is 15 minutes 34 [TS]

00:30:10 ◼   ► seconds to be precise my my number one [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► piece of critique for you is that your [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► your time lapse was too long that is [TS]

00:30:18 ◼   ► that is my critique for you okay if I [TS]

00:30:21 ◼   ► know you didn't ask for it but that [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► would that would be it I'm interested in [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► your input so I'm just very I'm really I [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► was really struggling at the time to try [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► and work out why you did this mmm and I [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► still don't think I have a good a good [TS]

00:30:36 ◼   ► idea for do you have any guesses you [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► just like to surprise people I don't [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► know like I feel like sometimes you know [TS]

00:30:41 ◼   ► just about 60% of your overall work is [TS]

00:30:45 ◼   ► just like a real long con [TS]

00:30:46 ◼   ► on someone's right there is like you [TS]

00:30:51 ◼   ► know some scrolling event that you're [TS]

00:30:53 ◼   ► working towards and like when we get [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► there you know it's like a prestige type [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► thing wow that would be a lot of my work [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► like my whole YouTube career was a long [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► con for this moment like surprise I'm [TS]

00:31:11 ◼   ► actually come flocking so it's just [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► gonna be vlogs from now on yeah yeah oh [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► yeah someone upset you like 15 years ago [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► and like you've been working towards the [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► payback like and eventually you'll get [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► there mmm-hmm that's the interesting [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► perspective no no Michael although [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► although I do have to say it was it was [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► in a perfect lineup of things in the [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► universe I was I was planning to post [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► that that video when I did you know a [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► couple days after the previous one had [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► gone up but I absolutely loved is the [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► day before I posted it some guy on the [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► reddit had a top-voted comment or he's [TS]

00:31:53 ◼   ► like oh let me just I know what kind of [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► videos gray makes he makes two kinds of [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► videos and he like wrote this long [TS]

00:31:57 ◼   ► explanation of like this is exactly what [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► grade does and we can expect all of his [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► videos look like this and I was like [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► tee-hee-hee inside I was like you don't [TS]

00:32:05 ◼   ► know it's coming tomorrow buddy and it [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► was great because a lot of people [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► remember that comment the you know when [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► the vlog went out there like hey didn't [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► this guy have a top voted comment about [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► you know it's exactly what's going to [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► happen so I you know you know I think [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► the listeners of this show know that the [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► expectation is that you should not have [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► expectations as you put it once Mike and [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► I feel like this doing a vlog certainly [TS]

00:32:34 ◼   ► certainly fits into that category of an [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► expectation breaker it was one of the [TS]

00:32:39 ◼   ► many things that that you do like [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► sometimes you do something and then I [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► start getting texts from people like [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► people they just want to know you're [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► okay right like if you go on [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► you're particularly interesting Twitter [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► excursions for anything who you know [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► like people like see all right and like [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► I think so yeah so this was one of those [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► I like the idea that people don't [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► message me about the video people [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► message you about the video it's more [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► about just your overall state really [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► okay right that's why they don't they [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► don't ask me because they're worried [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► they want to know it's you but I think [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► people just know you won't respond [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► respond eventually I get back to text [TS]

00:33:21 ◼   ► messages within at least a week most of [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► the time that is really good yes keep [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► that try to keep that a real tight loop [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► do you have like a good reason for why [TS]

00:33:30 ◼   ► you did this like what what made you [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► want to like what what was it that one [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► like made you make the video and to put [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► it on the main channels well like it [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► really is an out of character move like [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► it like to be serious like it is a it is [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► a strange thing to do I think well I [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► don't know I mean again it doesn't seem [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► out of character to me I mean okay let's [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► compare it to every other video on the [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► channel shall we right like it is [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► different it's it's different in a posh [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► way to everything else that you produce [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► because people learn things from your [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► videos but like the lesson that you were [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► teaching in the vlog people shouldn't [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► learn ramune it's a perfect that's a [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► great that when you travel that you [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► should keep your timezone of home like I [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► don't [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► that was very / - are you seriously [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► gonna say that that's not a great like I [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► think that genius I think everybody it [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► is a good idea for if you are in this [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► very specific set of circumstances that [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► you were in and very rarely when people [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► travel are they in those exact set of [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► circumstances I think I think more [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► people could get more utility out of [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► this than then you might be expecting [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► Mike alright I think this is great I [TS]

00:34:40 ◼   ► think this is a fantastic idea haven't [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► you done it since well I've only done [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► one actually wait a second okay so what [TS]

00:34:51 ◼   ► I'm realizing is I just realized I have [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► to do the mental calculation because in [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► my mind publishing the vlog when I did [TS]

00:34:57 ◼   ► puts the actual trip in my head in the [TS]

00:34:59 ◼   ► wrong timeline right I think like oh [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► that trip happened much more recently [TS]

00:35:03 ◼   ► than it actually did because it happened [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► a while [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► go mm-hmm but so the answer is yes I [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► have done it but only on trips that are [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► going to time zones that are very close [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► and this summer six weeks I think would [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► have been too long [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► to try to maintain grey master time I [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► think that would have been a fast recipe [TS]

00:35:23 ◼   ► for disaster [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► so I have not had a short trip to [TS]

00:35:27 ◼   ► America that it would make sense to do [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► this but I feel like there are many [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► trips to America in which this makes [TS]

00:35:33 ◼   ► total sense that this is this is the [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► best idea ever was it under very [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► specific circumstances right like if you [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► are only going for a very short period [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► of time what you don't need to be a [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► shorter act with other humans in regular [TS]

00:35:46 ◼   ► settings this is a very abnormal trip to [TS]

00:35:49 ◼   ► take I don't know it seems like a lot of [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► my trips are like this literally [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► everybody travels like again like [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► completely centered around you and your [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► cuca see is this a human okay but it's a [TS]

00:36:02 ◼   ► great idea and I'm glad we can both [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► agree on that so I still don't have a [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► good answer for why you did this well I [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► guess there's two things here one of [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► which is if you go back to again some of [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► the older videos on that CGP grey 2 [TS]

00:36:18 ◼   ► channel where I'm doing like test [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► footage of trying to figure out some [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► stuff for vlogs and you're seeing like [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► little leftover bits I'd always just [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► kind of thought that there was some [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► space on the channel for doing a [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► different kind of video something that [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► wasn't animated explanation and I like I [TS]

00:36:39 ◼   ► had it in my mind that doing something [TS]

00:36:41 ◼   ► like a vlog and talking about stuff like [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► there was there was some kind of space [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► for this on the YouTube channel but I [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► could I could never quite figure out [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► what that was and so there's a there's [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► just a bunch of like aborted attempts [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► over the years of kind of getting an [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► idea and shooting some test footage and [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► then realizing oh that that doesn't work [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► I think actually on on this podcast I [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► made reference to one of these attempts [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► where I talked about like I bought I did [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► buy the Osmo because you recommended it [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► and I think I made a reference about [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► like I was shooting some test footage [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► for something and [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► that was an attempt I spot that I [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► figured something else going on when you [TS]

00:37:21 ◼   ► bought that thing right because why else [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► would you buy a gimbal exactly what what [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► project is this for it's it's it has a [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► very limited number of uses I think [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► that's a good example of like acquiring [TS]

00:37:36 ◼   ► tools over time each time I tried to [TS]

00:37:39 ◼   ► make a run at vlogging it didn't work [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► for a bunch of different reasons but [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► this has been one of these things that [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► has been on the back of my mind for [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► forever and this is one of these [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► examples where you know when I make [TS]

00:37:51 ◼   ► reference to side projects this is the [TS]

00:37:53 ◼   ► kind of this is one of those kinds of [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► things like I've been tinkering on [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► something like this in in the background [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► and I think said this is maybe the fifth [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► or sixth go at it and I feel like each [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► time I made a go at it they didn't work [TS]

00:38:09 ◼   ► at all but I kind of figured out what [TS]

00:38:13 ◼   ► part of a thing worked like I'll give a [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► perfect example there is a monument in [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► London which is like a it's a monument [TS]

00:38:22 ◼   ► to animals in war it's sort of on the [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► side of Hyde Park and a few years ago I [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► made an attempt of shooting a thing [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► talking about that Monument so I was [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► trying to try to put together like oh [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► here's the thing that I can talk about [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► something but in sort of a more casual [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► way and I'll upload it to uploaded to [TS]

00:38:41 ◼   ► the channel and I shot a bunch of stuff [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► and recorded it and put it together and [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► when I was finished with this like oh [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► all I've done is I've made it like a [TS]

00:38:50 ◼   ► terrible version of the vlogbrothers [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► thoughts from places I was like this is [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► it was like it's so clear when I cut it [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► together like oh this is what this thing [TS]

00:38:58 ◼   ► was it was like I'm not gonna upload [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► this because I don't I don't think it's [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► very good and it's not just very good [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► it's also like a worse version of [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► something else but shooting that and [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► getting practice for talking while I'm [TS]

00:39:13 ◼   ► shooting a thing like that it helped [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► build towards something else so I did [TS]

00:39:18 ◼   ► this a bunch of times someone actually [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► spotted in the vlog because people who [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► are always amazed at what people are [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► able to spot in in videos and in vlogs [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► but somebody spotted that in my Final [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► Cut Pro library there's another library [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► that's called the Cardiff log and it's [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► like yes that was another abort attempt [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► at like a thing that I tried to do but [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► they were like ooh cart cart if vlog [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► confirmed or Anna's like oh no that's [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► just a dead project that I haven't moved [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► but it's like I'm one of the screenshots [TS]

00:39:45 ◼   ► you can see it there but somebody was [TS]

00:39:47 ◼   ► really excited about a car to flog sorry [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► guy it's not happening it wasn't very [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► good [TS]

00:39:51 ◼   ► probably nothing caught if let's be [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► honest probably so like I guess the the [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► most direct answer to your question is [TS]

00:39:59 ◼   ► like why did this thing happen it's [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► partly that has just been on my mind for [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► a long time not a high priority project [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► by any means but something I've been [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► thinking about and then it was also just [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► the result of a bunch of things coming [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► together that felt like oh I've made [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► enough goes at this that I've learned [TS]

00:40:21 ◼   ► how to do a few things and I happen to [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► be doing a trip that I think is [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► interesting to other people in a [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► particular way and like I can look at [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► that vlog and very clearly see things [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► from older vlogs that like I changed or [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► adapted like last year at VidCon I was [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► trying to shoot a bunch of stuff for I [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► felt like oh I'll do a vlog about going [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► to VidCon like this will be kind of [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► interesting [TS]

00:40:48 ◼   ► no-one's done one of those before yeah [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► well this is it like I thought I had an [TS]

00:40:52 ◼   ► idea about how to do it and it's like oh [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► this and and when I was there it was so [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► clear like this is terrible like this is [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► a terrible idea but there were a couple [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► of things about that that I thought like [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► well this whole thing is terrible I have [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► an interesting idea about a way to do [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► something and I'll just I'll put that in [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► my pocket for later so I feel like this [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► is this is another one of these examples [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► where it kind of I think it kind of [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► looks to people like it like it's a [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► thing that comes out of nowhere but it's [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► actually like everything it's grown out [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► of other stuff okay I think it's for you [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► specifically vlogging is weird why well [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► because you don't show yourself right [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► like that is a thing that you have made [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► a concerted effort over the years I'm [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► working right that you're you're quite a [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► private person and you never show your [TS]

00:41:42 ◼   ► face like I don't show my safe face in [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► the vlog though [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► I know but what I mean is the fact that [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► you are a very private person and you [TS]

00:41:50 ◼   ► don't show your face is why when people [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► see Seagrave vlog they're surprised by [TS]

00:41:56 ◼   ► that because those two things are pretty [TS]

00:42:00 ◼   ► prevalent in vlogging now again look of [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► course you can do things your own way [TS]

00:42:02 ◼   ► you did you did a good job of how you [TS]

00:42:04 ◼   ► did pieces of camera you can see why [TS]

00:42:06 ◼   ► like it is surprising for you to vlog [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► because you don't like to talk about [TS]

00:42:12 ◼   ► your private life and you don't like to [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► show your face and that's kind of like a [TS]

00:42:16 ◼   ► big part of what the vlogs that people [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► expect to see include yeah I can I can [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► see that and this is where from the [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► behind the scenes stuff like one of the [TS]

00:42:26 ◼   ► rules that I had for myself about these [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► various projects is how to put this but [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► like let's say like you know if you know [TS]

00:42:36 ◼   ► a bunch of people who are vloggers there [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► are ways that you can see that the vlog [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► is their whole life I had just had it in [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► mind for this Las Vegas one in [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► particular that I was only gonna do this [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► if I could do it in a way that doesn't [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► interfere with any of the other stuff [TS]

00:42:53 ◼   ► that I'm there for or doesn't interfere [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► with my life in any way I am very very [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► conscious of this myself mm-hmm whenever [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► I take blog footage of a trip like a [TS]

00:43:04 ◼   ► conference I only take what I need right [TS]

00:43:07 ◼   ► and you know a lot of times like people [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► will say to me oh you're not vlogging [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► this because but just like well yeah but [TS]

00:43:13 ◼   ► I just choose not to take video footage [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► of all of us sitting around together [TS]

00:43:17 ◼   ► right like I'm very particular when I do [TS]

00:43:20 ◼   ► it of what I'm shooting because I don't [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► intend for the vlog to be all that I do [TS]

00:43:27 ◼   ► when I'm yeah I'm traveling and it's not [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► about this like being the moment type [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► you know like you know that whole idea [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► of like don't have don't take pictures [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► be in a moment which I kind of [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► understand to a point but that's not [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► yeah what I'm doing that's not you Ariza [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► yeah I have a life that is not the vlog [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► the vlog is not that important to me [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► that it needs to become my life [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► so exactly I will just take the footage [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► that I want and need and not film [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► everything because I get that perfect [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► moment right I actually I actually do [TS]

00:43:55 ◼   ► feel very strongly kind of [TS]

00:43:58 ◼   ► presence focus and that that was [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► something in particular that when I [TS]

00:44:03 ◼   ► mentioned like trying to film a vlog at [TS]

00:44:05 ◼   ► VidCon last year that was a thing I was [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► hyper aware of doing wrong was a kind of [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► thinking about everything in terms of [TS]

00:44:13 ◼   ► film ability and just realizing like wow [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► this makes me really unhappy immediately [TS]

00:44:19 ◼   ► like I just I hate having this loop run [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► in my mind which should have been [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► obvious because it's like there's plenty [TS]

00:44:27 ◼   ► of things I do in my life that are to [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► increase I kind of now focus that's like [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► this is one of the reasons why I took [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► Twitter off of my phone is because I [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► recognized having Twitter on my phone [TS]

00:44:37 ◼   ► means there's a constant demon process [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► running in the back of my brain which [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► says is there anything you could tweet [TS]

00:44:44 ◼   ► right now and it's like something like [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► that sort of pulls you out of just being [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► somewhere so I feel like I'm I am very [TS]

00:44:51 ◼   ► sensitive to that and like that's [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► something I learned from trying to film [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► a vlog like in a place where there are [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► people and I'm doing stuff pace is like [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► oh okay yeah I'm not I'm used to do this [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► because it makes my life worse [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► makes my life dramatically worse I found [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► myself just naturally doing this over [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► the last couple of years as my life has [TS]

00:45:11 ◼   ► changed you know in that like the people [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► that I'm closest to I see F handful of [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► times a year in most cases yeah like [TS]

00:45:19 ◼   ► most of my closest friends do not live [TS]

00:45:22 ◼   ► in the same country as me and so when I [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► am on these trips where we're all [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► together I just don't want to do [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► anything else that's contained within [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► the little box in my pocket right like [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► I've just become naturally quite good at [TS]

00:45:37 ◼   ► it well like without trying because it's [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► important to me so you know I I haven't [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► had to force myself I can see really see [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► why people do like I can totally see why [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► like people make the effort to force [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► themselves but when I'm on these sort of [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► trips okay it's just not something that [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► I want to be doing or dealing with and [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► honestly like the Apple watch has been a [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► big help for me with that because I [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► don't need to get my phone out of my [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► pocket because I'm confident that [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► everything that I need to know we pushed [TS]

00:46:06 ◼   ► on my wrist oh yeah and and like you [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► think that I'm aware of in conferences [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► is [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► I sort of have to open up my phone [TS]

00:46:15 ◼   ► more I think of it as putting the phone [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► in conference mode and like like one of [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► the reasons is there's a bunch of people [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► like Twitter is a conferencing [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► networking kind of tool and so when I'm [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► at a conference I'm aware like oh [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► there's many people I follow who don't [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► have my iMessage or phone details but [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► who might direct message me on Twitter [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► yeah I'll meet up with em and so just [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► it's a funny thing like a could because [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► I've the feeling that I had was when I'm [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► at conferences I have to have more [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► notifications on and my phone has to be [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► more opened up than it would normally be [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► and then adding on top of that doing [TS]

00:46:52 ◼   ► something like and now I'm constantly [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► thinking about what I'm gonna film for [TS]

00:46:55 ◼   ► the vlog it's like it's too much like I [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► just it makes like I don't like having [TS]

00:46:58 ◼   ► the phone even this open in the first [TS]

00:46:59 ◼   ► place and then adding one more thing on [TS]

00:47:01 ◼   ► top of that was just like oh I hate this [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► so that's but that's partly why like [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► when I was thinking about that Las Vegas [TS]

00:47:07 ◼   ► trip it was a thing that was kinda like [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► a test for myself is is there a way I [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► can do this where I feel like there I'm [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► never having a moment [TS]

00:47:16 ◼   ► like it doesn't intrude in my mind and [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► it doesn't intrude on the people around [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► me in any way that I'm doing a vlog and [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► so like that was kind of one of the [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► tests for me as I think I know a way I [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► can do this but I have to actually try [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► it to see if it works and obviously like [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► it did work I wouldn't I wouldn't have [TS]

00:47:36 ◼   ► done it or I would have stopped filming [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► if I felt like oh this is this is [TS]

00:47:39 ◼   ► impinging on my life so it was this is [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► what I mean like that vlog kind of just [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► ticks a bunch of boxes in my head that I [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► feel like I had an idea for how a format [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► could work for me and I had an idea [TS]

00:47:54 ◼   ► about how to like film appropriately [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► without getting in the way of my own [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► life yeah and yeah the other thing is [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► like why have I been messing around with [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► vlogs in the background is if people go [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► back and listen to a bunch of maybe like [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► the last five or so episodes of cortex [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► there are times in there where we're [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► having conversations about like oh you [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► need to have other creative outlets like [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► when you're talking about your vlog as [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► like an additional creative outlet [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► and I think if someone goes back and [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► listen to those conversations I think [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► it'll be much more obvious now that's [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► like oh I was clearly coming close to [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► the end of finishing this vlog that went [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► up because that that's another benefit [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► of it is it is useful to make different [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► things on occasion like if you work in a [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► creative field this is a this is a [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► beneficial thing intrinsically right [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► even even if it's not going to [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► necessarily be like a like an incredibly [TS]

00:48:58 ◼   ► popular or profitable thing doing [TS]

00:49:01 ◼   ► something different creatively can be [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► beneficial in all other kinds of ways so [TS]

00:49:08 ◼   ► that's why I feel like it ticked all of [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► these boxes for me in it so it so to me [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► it makes perfect sense to make this vlog [TS]

00:49:13 ◼   ► can we take a quick sidebar on that sure [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► so I've been feeling this again I'm in [TS]

00:49:19 ◼   ► that mode right now and I thought that [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► making youtube videos would fill the [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► creative gap in my life that I was [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► looking to fill it has to a point and I [TS]

00:49:33 ◼   ► feel like I'm I know where I'm going [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► with the YouTube videos now like I'm [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► trying to make like one a month and it's [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► about something that I really want to [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► make a video about so I'm not like [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► forcing the topic so which keeps it good [TS]

00:49:48 ◼   ► for me because they because I make a [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► video when I have something I want to do [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► and if I don't have something in a month [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► I'm not beating myself up about the fact [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► I haven't done one yet that is super [TS]

00:49:56 ◼   ► smart that is a super smart way to think [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► about it it is purely just an outlet a [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► different thing trying to learn some new [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► skills that's why I'm doing this [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► but it hasn't filled the creative hole [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► that I felt hmm and I think I've gotten [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► closer to working out what it might be [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► but I don't know how to get there and [TS]

00:50:17 ◼   ► basically I think I want to do something [TS]

00:50:22 ◼   ► that isn't based in reality okay [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► everything that I do is focused on real [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► things right and I think I want to do [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► something that is fiction based who [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► that's the move that I'm going towards [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► so that's very interesting that's very [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► interesting I don't really have any idea [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► yet but just looking at my own tastes [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► for things that I'm enjoying I feel like [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► you know and just thinking about me as a [TS]

00:50:52 ◼   ► person right like I was one of these [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► kids that used to write stories and like [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► did when I was a teenager right like you [TS]

00:50:58 ◼   ► know I I have many beginnings of novels [TS]

00:51:02 ◼   ► right like you know I'm up with one of [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► those sorts of kids right that I would [TS]

00:51:06 ◼   ► write stories and I think that that is [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► where I'm leaning right now but like I [TS]

00:51:11 ◼   ► don't have I don't really have anything [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► for it's like I just wanted to mention [TS]

00:51:15 ◼   ► it because it is a thing that I'm [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► feeling right now and I think and I hope [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► could become law or running trend for a [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► bit of me trying to work out what that [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► might be but like that is where I've [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► gotten to with my kind of like I feel [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► like I have to do something new and [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► different and and that's where I'm [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► leaning towards right now that's very [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► interesting [TS]

00:51:37 ◼   ► not that I ever expect to fill that by [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► the way yeah no I don't I'm not like oh [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► this is the announcement that in two [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► years like the book is going to be out [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► right like we're not that's not the [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► expectation well and though I mean just [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► it like if I do something that I think [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► that it will be the magic bullet and I [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► want through and I will feel creatively [TS]

00:51:54 ◼   ► satisfied right right just retire yeah [TS]

00:51:58 ◼   ► exactly you'll be sitting upon a lotus [TS]

00:52:00 ◼   ► throne and like oh yes I am now I've [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► reached enlightenment yeah no I don't [TS]

00:52:03 ◼   ► think that's the expectation like with [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► all these things I think it's good to be [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► aware of that and to just have it in the [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► back of your mind and you can just turn [TS]

00:52:10 ◼   ► on it for a while like it's it's it's [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► the exact same thing with me for this [TS]

00:52:14 ◼   ► vlog it's like I'm aware that there's a [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► thing here it's a background process [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► yeah and it's like I'm just gonna turn [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► on this and maybe it's going to take [TS]

00:52:22 ◼   ► five years before something pops out but [TS]

00:52:24 ◼   ► it's like this is just running in the [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► background as a thing and it and I think [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► in your position it's also it's very [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► helpful to be aware of the specific [TS]

00:52:36 ◼   ► nature right to be aware like oh the [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► vlog is not exactly hitting what you [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► want on this and there's something else [TS]

00:52:43 ◼   ► and you're able to put words to [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► precisely what it is like that's very [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► helpful I have an Apple note where I add [TS]

00:52:48 ◼   ► random things to every now and then [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► right leg notes that's kind of where [TS]

00:52:53 ◼   ► that project is in its life and it's [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► very like it is as likely right now that [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► nothing will ever come of it but it's [TS]

00:53:00 ◼   ► where I am kind of pushing towards yeah [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► and that like for anybody who has [TS]

00:53:06 ◼   ► creative projects on the back of their [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► minds like the thing that you've just [TS]

00:53:09 ◼   ► mentioned there that process of [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► collecting I think is super important [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► even if you don't specifically do [TS]

00:53:19 ◼   ► anything with the items that you have [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► collected but this is this is where I [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► feel like in many ways I'm almost a kind [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► of digital hoarder because it like a for [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► any of these like background processes [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► like I'm very aggressive about [TS]

00:53:33 ◼   ► collecting thoughts and notes and links [TS]

00:53:36 ◼   ► and second sections of other things like [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► anything at all and just putting it in a [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► bin that is the bin related to whatever [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► this project might be and I think that's [TS]

00:53:46 ◼   ► that's a great way to make it more [TS]

00:53:49 ◼   ► active in your mind as opposed to like [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► oh someday I'll write a screenplay [TS]

00:53:54 ◼   ► because I well actually just have just [TS]

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00:53:58 ◼   ► put whatever in there like put put lines [TS]

00:54:00 ◼   ► from a movie that you like or just [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► random thoughts that you have [TS]

00:54:03 ◼   ► I think the like the act of collection [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► is disproportionately valuable to the [TS]

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00:56:12 ◼   ► at hand oh right yes if we can put on [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► our business hats for a moment business [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► hats I think that CGP grey is in the [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► viral-video business [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► oh is it this conversation again yeah [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► you are in the business of making videos [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► that go viral like that is whether you [TS]

00:56:30 ◼   ► intend to do that or not like that's the [TS]

00:56:32 ◼   ► business you're in now a vlog of you [TS]

00:56:37 ◼   ► going to Las Vegas is unlikely to go [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► viral and if we're looking at the view [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► counts didn't so from a business [TS]

00:56:44 ◼   ► perspective did you achieve the goals [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► that you intended when you made this [TS]

00:56:49 ◼   ► video right like it is not a 1.7 million [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► views video right like it is a extremely [TS]

00:56:56 ◼   ► respectable number a number I would be [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► very happy to achieve but like in the [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► trend of your videos it's not so much [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► and I wonder kind of from a business [TS]

00:57:07 ◼   ► perspective how you feel about the [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► performance of the log [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► well from a business perspective this is [TS]

00:57:15 ◼   ► maybe one of the worst business [TS]

00:57:17 ◼   ► decisions I've made in my entire career [TS]

00:57:19 ◼   ► this was kind of what I was angling [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► towards without saying right but yeah [TS]

00:57:24 ◼   ► time and money investment for this one [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► must be a show right yeah III I really [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► think this might be literally the worst [TS]

00:57:33 ◼   ► thing I've ever done in terms of a pure [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► ROI calculation but as we have [TS]

00:57:38 ◼   ► established many times yeah I think [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► people have an expectation of you which [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► is different it's not all about the ROI [TS]

00:57:44 ◼   ► right yeah it isn't but this one is [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► especially bad it's especially bad I [TS]

00:57:51 ◼   ► mean I mean for God's like if you want [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► to consider all of the aborted attempts [TS]

00:57:55 ◼   ► before this one came up like let's not [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► even think about how many hours this [TS]

00:57:58 ◼   ► creeper since yeah yeah equipment like [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► all of that kind of stuff and then it's [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► like I didn't put this video up on [TS]

00:58:06 ◼   ► patreon it didn't have an embedded [TS]

00:58:09 ◼   ► sponsor at the end so it's just like [TS]

00:58:11 ◼   ► this is this has got to be by far and [TS]

00:58:13 ◼   ► away the worst the worst thing in terms [TS]

00:58:15 ◼   ► of return on investment at all however I [TS]

00:58:18 ◼   ► feel super happy about bloating this is [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► this video I was a little uncertain [TS]

00:58:23 ◼   ► about how it was going to be received [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► like it and I did a very different thing [TS]

00:58:28 ◼   ► uploading this video that I normally do [TS]

00:58:30 ◼   ► when I upload videos which is that I [TS]

00:58:33 ◼   ► actually as part of the big long travel [TS]

00:58:36 ◼   ► that I was doing of this summer when I [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► arrived in America I was actually [TS]

00:58:40 ◼   ► visiting my parents first so I flew into [TS]

00:58:43 ◼   ► North Carolina and I had actually [TS]

00:58:47 ◼   ► exported the final version of the vlog [TS]

00:58:49 ◼   ► on the plane on the flight over which [TS]

00:58:53 ◼   ► really kills your battery but so I get [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► to my parents house I connected their [TS]

00:58:57 ◼   ► Wi-Fi and I uploaded the final version [TS]

00:59:01 ◼   ► of that vlog and then I just pressed [TS]

00:59:03 ◼   ► publish so I told my parents like oh I [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► have something I just need to do for a [TS]

00:59:07 ◼   ► few minutes cuz if I uploaded it hit [TS]

00:59:09 ◼   ► publish and I thought great because when [TS]

00:59:12 ◼   ► I'm locked into now is I've just arrived [TS]

00:59:15 ◼   ► to visit family it would be the rudest [TS]

00:59:19 ◼   ► thing in the world to be on my computer [TS]

00:59:20 ◼   ► constantly checking and seeing what's [TS]

00:59:22 ◼   ► happening [TS]

00:59:22 ◼   ► so it was locking myself in [TS]

00:59:25 ◼   ► to not having any ability to look at the [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► reactions or see how it was going for [TS]

00:59:30 ◼   ► essentially the rest of the evening [TS]

00:59:32 ◼   ► because I haven't seen my parents for [TS]

00:59:33 ◼   ► quite a while [TS]

00:59:34 ◼   ► what an interesting form of online based [TS]

00:59:36 ◼   ► torture that you perform telling [TS]

00:59:38 ◼   ► yourself I did it for the exact reverse [TS]

00:59:41 ◼   ► reason because it's it's such a lock in [TS]

00:59:46 ◼   ► that it simply removes the option to [TS]

00:59:48 ◼   ► even think about a thing [TS]

00:59:49 ◼   ► so I genuinely didn't even think about [TS]

00:59:52 ◼   ► or worry about it because it's just like [TS]

00:59:54 ◼   ► this is not this is not going to happen [TS]

00:59:56 ◼   ► like you're not going to see your [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► parents for the [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► parents for the [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► first time in many months and be sitting [TS]

01:00:01 ◼   ► in front of them hitting command or [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► command R on a webpage to see how the [TS]

01:00:05 ◼   ► stats are doing I just it's just out of [TS]

01:00:08 ◼   ► the question so I think I didn't [TS]

01:00:10 ◼   ► actually look to see how anything was [TS]

01:00:13 ◼   ► doing until at least six hours later [TS]

01:00:16 ◼   ► when my parents had gone to bed so it's [TS]

01:00:22 ◼   ► very different because I think was he [TS]

01:00:24 ◼   ► discussed on one of the much earlier [TS]

01:00:26 ◼   ► podcast like I often like to have a [TS]

01:00:27 ◼   ► little command center to see how things [TS]

01:00:29 ◼   ► are going when the videos go up because [TS]

01:00:31 ◼   ► they're infrequent enough that each one [TS]

01:00:33 ◼   ► is disproportionately important but my [TS]

01:00:37 ◼   ► like my feeling was I was super happy [TS]

01:00:40 ◼   ► with the results like I had mentally [TS]

01:00:42 ◼   ► calculated I thought if I get 250,000 [TS]

01:00:47 ◼   ► views on this thing and I all I wanted [TS]

01:00:52 ◼   ► was a 75% like to dislike ratio on the [TS]

01:00:58 ◼   ► actual video itself [TS]

01:00:59 ◼   ► I thought that'll be a huge win that way [TS]

01:01:01 ◼   ► that was kind of my mental oh you did [TS]

01:01:05 ◼   ► way later than that yeah oh yeah but [TS]

01:01:07 ◼   ► that's what I mean like as far as I'm [TS]

01:01:08 ◼   ► concerned I was this was like incredibly [TS]

01:01:11 ◼   ► successful in some ways this may be the [TS]

01:01:13 ◼   ► most successful video I've ever had in [TS]

01:01:15 ◼   ► relation to my feeling about uploading [TS]

01:01:18 ◼   ► it right I see because it's like when [TS]

01:01:21 ◼   ► you upload a thing that's different I'm [TS]

01:01:22 ◼   ► aware that you know what people don't [TS]

01:01:24 ◼   ► like Mike change change change any kind [TS]

01:01:28 ◼   ► of change right change for the better no [TS]

01:01:30 ◼   ► good alright they don't like it and so I [TS]

01:01:33 ◼   ► thought like I could be looking at a [TS]

01:01:34 ◼   ► video where people are just reflexively [TS]

01:01:36 ◼   ► hitting the downvote button immediately [TS]

01:01:37 ◼   ► like I could be having a video where [TS]

01:01:39 ◼   ► it's 50% dislikes you know and then and [TS]

01:01:42 ◼   ► then that becomes a thing that kind of [TS]

01:01:43 ◼   ► feeds itself so I expected a bunch of [TS]

01:01:48 ◼   ► people to not like it because it was [TS]

01:01:49 ◼   ► change and it was different and I also [TS]

01:01:52 ◼   ► was anticipating I mean one never knows [TS]

01:01:54 ◼   ► the mind of the algorithm but I was [TS]

01:01:57 ◼   ► walking into this assuming that since [TS]

01:02:01 ◼   ► this video was probably going to have a [TS]

01:02:03 ◼   ► bunch of people hitting it realizing [TS]

01:02:06 ◼   ► it's something it's different and [TS]

01:02:07 ◼   ► turning it off immediately that this [TS]

01:02:10 ◼   ► might get recommended to very very few [TS]

01:02:12 ◼   ► of my [TS]

01:02:13 ◼   ► subscribers that the algorithm would [TS]

01:02:15 ◼   ► clock this right away as a video that [TS]

01:02:17 ◼   ► just doesn't do well because everybody [TS]

01:02:18 ◼   ► closes it at a super small proportion at [TS]

01:02:20 ◼   ► the time so that's why like I was really [TS]

01:02:23 ◼   ► expecting much lower and worse numbers [TS]

01:02:26 ◼   ► than I got so that's why I feel I feel [TS]

01:02:28 ◼   ► thrilled and then and on top of that [TS]

01:02:30 ◼   ► that overall the the commentary was [TS]

01:02:34 ◼   ► ridiculously positive I think that's [TS]

01:02:37 ◼   ► partly a side effect of the algorithm [TS]

01:02:40 ◼   ► probably not recommending it to the less [TS]

01:02:43 ◼   ► intense members of the audience yeah [TS]

01:02:45 ◼   ► like that's my guess is that there's [TS]

01:02:47 ◼   ► sort of a self selection bias there but [TS]

01:02:49 ◼   ► I but I feel like great I got perfectly [TS]

01:02:52 ◼   ► happy with that [TS]

01:02:53 ◼   ► that the people who wouldn't have liked [TS]

01:02:54 ◼   ► it didn't get recommended it and the [TS]

01:02:55 ◼   ► people who did like it did yes yeah [TS]

01:02:58 ◼   ► exactly like to thumbs-up algorithmics [TS]

01:03:00 ◼   ► algorithm yeah that's exactly what [TS]

01:03:02 ◼   ► you're supposed to do [TS]

01:03:03 ◼   ► I feel ridiculously happy with the way [TS]

01:03:06 ◼   ► that it went like it it was succeeded [TS]

01:03:08 ◼   ► beyond my wildest expectations [TS]

01:03:11 ◼   ► even though it was by far and away my [TS]

01:03:13 ◼   ► worst business decision ever so you're [TS]

01:03:16 ◼   ► gonna do it you're gonna do any more of [TS]

01:03:17 ◼   ► these like you know without committing [TS]

01:03:19 ◼   ► yourself like did you be great the [TS]

01:03:21 ◼   ► vlogger is the thing that could continue [TS]

01:03:23 ◼   ► like you feel from this project but like [TS]

01:03:25 ◼   ► okay I could potentially do more of [TS]

01:03:27 ◼   ► these if I wanted to yeah guys the least [TS]

01:03:32 ◼   ► committal way to trim put that I feel [TS]

01:03:35 ◼   ► like if the star is a line in the right [TS]

01:03:37 ◼   ► way that this that this makes sense to [TS]

01:03:41 ◼   ► do again but there I feel like there are [TS]

01:03:44 ◼   ► a lot of stars that have to align in [TS]