 Hello, citizens of tomorrow. My name is Benjamin Higginbotham. I'm the executive producer and creator of tomorrow I wanted to take a quick moment to talk about some of the changes we're going to be doing and the next few shows And why we're making those changes. I did another one of these updates a week or two ago It went over fairly well, and I think communicating with you why we're making the changes Helps a great deal So first let's start off with the space news show And what we're going to call it as as I mentioned in the last show space news comm has a trademark I've been doing some research, and I'm not entirely sure what they have a trademark on Do they have a trademark trademark on space news or their logo? If you are a trademark lawyer or if you can help in this regard and help us understand if we can call the show Space news legally with absolute certainty Once we have someone say with absolute certainty from a legal perspective. Yes, we can call it space news Then that's what we'll do. We've listened to the comments. I understand you want to call it space news I do too. So as long as we can legally do that That's what we'll do So a call out to the community if you know a lawyer if you are a lawyer if you know how I can get to this information I tried using the trademark website, and it was it was terrible So if you can help out or know someone who can help out or put us on the right path It would be greatly appreciated. Just leave a comment below or email me Benjamin at TMRO TV Other changes of the space news show You saw that we brought in space Mike this last week He did the launch minute and he did a segment this next week We're gonna bring Jared back in where he's gonna be doing a new story as well The goal is to bring in a lot more hosts So we'll have we'll be bouncing between hosts and each one of them will give their news story and kind of their take On whatever it is. They're an expert on and I think that's gonna be a lot of fun You have different perspectives different personalities inside the show. I think should be pretty cool We're gonna slowly introduce that kind of host by host so I can work with each one one at a time to make sure that We have the right feel inside of the show because the scripted shows are a little bit harder a little bit Harder is not the right word. They're just they're different than the live show. The feeling is different And it takes a minute to get there But give each of them a moment or two or show or two to kind of get in the in the right flow of things And I think it'll be really powerful when it works The other thing I'm gonna be changing it. I might change it back. I'm a little undecided on this But I think it's the right call I'm gonna change launch minute into traffic The reason I'm gonna do this is twofold One it eliminates the need to put it into a 60 second box some launches We only have 15 seconds worth of content for and we need to find a way to stretch that 15 seconds into one minute Other launches we have 90 seconds worth of content for and we have to find a way to compress that into one minute That's silly. So we're still going to target one minute per launch We want each launch to be around on average one minute But if a launch needs to go a little bit longer to fit it in we'll let it go a little bit longer If we have a launch with almost no data It's a NRO launch and we have no idea what they launched other than date and time and rocket then you know We'll go for 30 seconds instead I think that makes more sense in the scripted news format and I think you're gonna get better data out of it that way So that's reason number one reason number two is I'm also trying to spin up weather And I think traffic and weather in a new show makes a ton of sense I think it's fun to kind of have a space news show with traffic and weather as well It's a it's a I don't say it's a unique take but it's a it's a different take that I don't see other space entities doing and It kind of brings it down here to earth a little bit while still staying in the cosmos It's a little cheesy, but like I think the good kind of cheesy. It's a very fine line Hopefully, I don't cross that line But we're gonna try it. We're gonna see how it works and speaking of weather we've I've been in contact with Dr. Tamatha scov With regards to doing space weather she is known online as the space weather woman You can find her on YouTube. She does just great Great space weather updates and she's gonna be taking these longer updates and turn them into two-minute segments for us We actually have an example for you. If we were able to fit into the last week show it would have looked a little bit like this Space weather this week has gotten very exciting. It all began with region 2733 that grew very rapidly in earth view. It's been firing off a bunch of little flares Including a mid-sea class flare, which is pretty surprising considering its solar minimum However, this region did not fire any earth-directed solar storms at us and we've been watching it as it's slowly rotating now to the sun's backside We will continue to watch it on the sun's backside though to see what more developments might occur Meanwhile, we've got this massive chrono hole that's going to be rotating into the earth strike zone here in the next day or two The last time we did a dance with this chrono hole about a month ago It brought us up to storm levels and it could do so again We are definitely expecting aurora at high latitudes and we could even see a bit of aurora at mid latitudes for just a scotch So what else does our Sun have in store first this week? Well, this is stereo a it's our backside monitor You can see here's earth. Here's the Sun and here's stereo a staring at the Sun from behind And although there's not a lot of activity on the Sun's backside We do have a bright region and it's been pretty active In fact on the 29th it was firing off quite a few little solar flares And this is good news for amateur radio operators and emergency responders This region is going to be rotating into earth view here in about the next day or two We will actually can start seeing it a right about now And if it continues to keep up some of this activity Then it we will easily have the solar flux stay up into the marginal range for radio propagation And we will be able to enjoy the nice conditions. We've already been having an earth easily over the next week Okay, so I think that's gonna be really great. The question is what do you want to see in space weather? There are many different avenues we can take like space weather can impact launches So like if you have bad space weather your rockets could be grounded it can impact satellites It can do bad things to things on orbit. It can create Aurora. It can interfere with ham radio So what would you like us to focus on from a space weather standpoint? If I were to draw a line here be like do you want us to focus more on the space-based assets? Where it's how space weather is going to impact launches and satellites? Or do you want us to focus more on the earth-based stuff and bringing space down to earth? How it's gonna impact Aurora how it's going to impact ham radio and emergency operations here on earth? How it might impact you here on earth, which one would you prefer? We're probably gonna try a bunch of different things to see what actually fits and makes sense So give us a little bit of time to play with that format. I think all of it's gonna be cool But like you'll know it when you see it you'll be like, oh, yeah, that was awesome when that happens Please let us know that that really helps us not just know what doesn't work But what does work that that's really valuable data too So that's what's going on in the Space News show we also have our live show I talked a couple weeks ago in this update about how the live show is supposed to be just a casual fun Conversation we're gonna talk on top of each other and I I don't think that properly conveyed the feeling of the show This isn't a free-for-all Everyone's just talking on top of everyone else woefully drunk on set just rambling on for no good reason That that's not the point and I realize our shows have gotten up really long And there has been a lot of rambling and actually part of the point here breaking out Space News is to stop that so The the shows have always targeted 42 minutes and we've been missing that I want to get that back down to 30 to 42 minutes per show per live show. That's how long these shows should be I Also think that they need to be true to themselves Meaning it's live there needs to be a reason for live And I think the best reason for that is interviews interesting interviews with people that you want to talk with Peter Beck was a great example over at 12.02 if you had just extracted his interview segment and made that the entire show That would have been an awesome show. It was a really great show That feeling that type of thing is what I think the live show should be. It's a way to interact with us kind of More so than a scripted format. So you get a little bit more of our personalities We're laughing with guests. We're having fun But really I think we need to target those interview segments and I I think the round table should be the exception Not the rule will have a few of them. We're gonna have to guests will cancel We won't be able to schedule a guest sometime the end of the year is near impossible to schedule guests But I think having an interview segment and having the live show just be an interview is the best mess So we're gonna try that for a little bit. We're not gonna have segments anymore No more space news in the live show you have your own show for that now the live show will be 30 to 45 minutes or so It will be a single interview No breaks front to back you'll kind of see the cold open the open interview close That's what you're going to see It's a place for you to kind of come hang out ask questions of interesting people that you hadn't talked to before And I think that's how these two shows should marry up You're gonna get a little bit of a crosstalk because it is more people talking one other change in Orbit 11 we had up to six people on set before we kind of said okay No more we put a limit on that said no more than five including the guest. I'm actually bringing that down another step I'm saying no more than four including the guest using broad strokes So if there is a time when we need to break that and bring on more people we will but I think we're gonna try to average Four people on set. I think that's gonna be a better Conversation where there isn't quite as much crosstalk, but it's still enough people to be interesting and dynamic and engaging So you're gonna see that change imminently. I might try bringing it backwards one more level down to three people But I think three people including the guest is one two. It isn't enough It might be because science is able to pull it off I'm unsure, but we're gonna try with four for a little while So those are some of the changes inside of the live show those are some of the changes inside of the space news show Always look forward to your comments and feedback and what you think we've been doing right or we've been doing wrong Constructively again, remember debate the idea not the person One last final note And she doesn't know I'm doing this and she might be pissed at me for doing this, but I don't care I Wanted to thank personally Lisa for doing a lot of the behind-the-scenes work for the show it The community doesn't see Most of what she works on Which is sad because it's a lot of stuff Scheduling guests wrangling guests doing pre interviews to make sure that they're they're okay to bring on the show They're they're a point of bending metal and can speak about their product. Well Making sure that we have backup plans Coordinating media for all of these different things making sure that all of that's in place all of these are transparent and thankless jobs that without them the show would not happen and I just and I am swamped between doing this and the day job at company X And I have not been able to put forth the time necessary to make these shows great And so she has picked up that baton and run with it She's never complained smile the entire time and they'll always said is there anything else I can do to help and she has Never asked for anything in return and I just wanted to publicly thank her for doing all of that Because you the community don't get to see that and it's something that I think you should be allowed and able to see So thank you Lisa for making all of that happen now That's not to say that our other hosts and other people don't do a lot of work as well They do this job is a small army of people who put these shows together so thank you everyone and thank you to the community for supporting us and sticking with us when we make sometimes bad decisions on what the show should be and letting us know What you really think in in the best in a constructive way and then letting us know when it does work That that actually helps like just from a human level saying good job that helps us that we feel good about that when that happens So there you go. That's my update. I'm probably not going to do too many more of these publicly Most of these I think I'm going to be doing I'm going to continue to do these But I think these belong in patreon because they're the people paying for these shows to make sure we can do these Week after week do new things like the space news show So I'll continue to do this But I'm going to move it over to the patreon platform with the exception of drastically huge changes I think everyone needs to know thank you so much for watching the shows of tomorrow and I look forward to speaking to you this weekend