 it is welcome to vlog Thursday he knew what to say and i just had forgotten what i was going to say this is why we sit at the table together it's been a morning already so it's been a morning i don't know why marvin never thought to put the the combination of words together of chainsaw vodka and ice gates as a youtube search well i've put those words together before but i always landed me in trouble with the law yeah so if you put them in youtube something wonderful happens it certainly does it certainly does there's this guy in youtube that i uh i don't know why i subscribe to the channel and then vodka chainsaw ice gates what more do you need what do you need it just makes these videos and the guy apparently isn't cool but we're gonna stay on topic because that will promise maybe he will be a discussion we'll see if we can't get an interview with that guy that would be epic if he even speaks english i'd still interview sure but so far the only the only thing we've heard come out of his mouth is and a lot of vodka yeah so good vodka goes in comes out yeah anyways youtube search him and you'll see yeah well i will just leave a link below so you guys can enjoy it as well so the new year is upon us things are going well the video i just did seems to be popular which i did last yesterday i posted it which is the behind the scenes for how he produced youtube videos and it's kind of fun because i've been watching a lot of youtubers and how they produce youtube videos and it's kind of interesting and i get some people already commenting oh moved to 4k or moved to this and i've had this before i made that video and it's also part of the catalyst for that video is i don't look good in 4k he doesn't either no i don't not at all it will not improve things to us so it becomes a should i spend that kind of money on that and i i see a lot of people to get stuck on the gear they get really fast any with it i always refer back to kasey nice that's guide to filmmaking or if you want someone you're like yeah but he's kasey nice hat i'm like okay follow my cousin she does a excellent youtube channel she has her gone to snow dogs youtube channel she is not shooting with even as much gears i have and has a substantially bigger channel of me so there are people there are people that with very successful youtube channels that simply use a gopro that is not 4k i mean it's or you can't get a 4k you oh you absolutely can but the bigger point is it's all about the story the narrative uh sharing something with people if you're trying to get more subscribers you just keep putting it's you have to put something out of my wife is starting a youtube channel now about eating and stuff like that and it's it's all about creating the content that's you know she got hung up for a while before she started on all the other things related to it and i'm like there's not a lot here's the thing all so many youtubers myself included i not all of them but a lot of us all want to help all the creators we all have no problems sharing with how we do a lot of what we do and uh there's some channels you can watch and i might do a video on this like the best youtubers to listen to to get started at least in my opinion because they're ones who helped me uh i'll make a quick list of them i don't want to say their names wrong because i i probably pronounced them all wrong i don't know but i'm bad i but kasey nice had to be on that list but not all of his videos uh he's because he's an interesting topic for youtubers because he's if you really watch his videos he's an amazing cinematographer and he tells a story with cinema which is actually really hard to do it's it well it's not hard as much as it's a lot of effort there's a lot of hours i mean he talks about spending two or three hours every single day editing and that's just was producing his vlogs uh some of these other people there's a few other ones out there i mean it's there's a lot of effort and i'm not as much a cinematographer i have fun i play with it i have a personal youtube that i just do it for no purpose like i'm not doing it for the purpose of subscribers i i produce my other personal videos that i throw on facebook randomly i mean riding a motorcycle or whatever it's just fun and it's something i go back and look at going man i was doing that four years ago or five years ago and what's cool is i have old videos on there i recorded a video of my friend playing drums at a band little stupid stuff it's archives for me if people want to watch it i have i can link to my personal channel it's not purposed at all but even those videos are like you riding your motorcycle whatever you're still assembling them into some kind of yeah whether you know it or not some kind of story some yeah right an hour long video of tom doing circles on his motorcycle not exciting right no offense but edited down with you know interesting cut interesting or not cuts whatever but it you still assemble a story to it and that's what makes the content yes that's the most important part is assembling the story not the gear you use or anything else uh i like understanding the gear and i chose the 70d but that's actually an easy choice for me it's not like i had all these options out there and i simply narrowed down on this the 70s is actually because i was a wedding photographer for a long time so i shot canon so i have been with canon since my first tendy so that goes back to 2005 i think so i had all the lenses and a familiarity with the product line that canon makes that once you've been doing dslr for a long time it was a no brainer gun oh cool the 70 has video support on it i have all the lenses matter of fact i was laughing because i bought that wide angle lens i showed in there which i love we don't use it all the time on the channel but it's great for vlogging people like but that lens is like used five hundred four hundred dollars i'm like yeah i mean i had it already though i mean i bought it in two i had to recede i think it was 2009 when i bought it so i had a lot of stuff already so when i moved to youtube and started really doing this in 2017 awesome it was easy it was like cool i just had to figure out how to shoot with the dslr but there's a lot of less expensive options out there and that's not to say you need all that at all right just a camera that shoots video really i mean to just get started and a good and and a good story good story and a lot of determination you know you you were going to talk to dead air for a long time and i talk about this with my podcast as well people are like oh your podcast took you to microsoft and everything else and stuff and you know me and my friends have that similar podcast but but but we produced that wasn't we our first microsoft episode where they flew us out to seattle was episode 200 something i think yes 200 something produced episodes later you know where we just kept talking and we kept putting it out there but it takes up forever i mean it's years it wasn't like oh we just did a racked out a bunch of content the content is processed post it produced everything there's so much work that goes into it and then no one listens to it and you're disappointed and this is what happens i we've seen so many people like over at podcast Detroit we see as people get excited because podcast Detroit is a local podcasting guys are awesome bob and david been doing it for a long time consistently yes on mondays forever and people like but how do i get to be their channel i'm like um it's actually easier today to get started than it was when they started but still getting your content known youtube podcasting whatever it is don't expect it to come easy now i will make a slight exception that for people you may think it kind of comes easy to there if you can hook up with other influencers and you can kind of get in there and get a shout out from them awesome not easy to do because uh you are not the first person to think of that matter of fact no uh any of these influencers they will they will tell you they're bombarded daily some of them are like i they either hide their email address or like they've given up on email but like yeah they're getting like so many solicitation today they have to hire personal managers just to deal with that so but have good content and get that in front of them yes that's important that goes a long way to when you do finally make contact or in your next you know other attempts to make contact it's that oh well wait a minute that was that video that we saw the other day right that's that guy right all right i'll look at his email or i'll you know listen to his voicemail right so it's this and that's where i might be going to VidCon so you can go meet some person in person because when you go to VidCon or some of the bigger uh there's a couple of our industry events for you for youtube and content creators when you go to those events especially when some of the ticket prices are kind of high that filters out the people who are random strangers to go okay you've taken the time to fly come to an event uh you paid the price bought the ticket and the ticket was like eight nine hundred dollars you are here for like craters pass for VidCon it's more mile how much it is but it's more money once you buy the creators pass not just i'm a fan and i want to come meet my favorite youtubers those people kind of get the idea that you're serious so that's kind of how that works and the same thing with the the irony of the branding deals is really weird because it's hard to get into that you have to review lots and lots of products by the way if if queens manage the hot sauce would like to sponsor us huge fans of your stuff you love your stuff this is caffeinated hot sauce we've gone through half a bottle and it's been a day um i know i love that so getting those deals kind of means you have to go buy all the stuff and then because there's almost a little bit of jealousy you get when you look at some of the other big youtubers which it took a long time i mean any of them well the majority of them you're going to look at their videos roll to their earliest pose you're like if they didn't delete them and you're like yeah they did some really horrible they were trying to figure out how to do this product review thing and you look at them they're like oh wait they have like 20 google pixel phones just given to them a truckload one guy i i think was on box therapy and he had worked out some deal he would give away like 10 iPhones or 20 iPhones the new ones i mean in these it's it's so strange because when you get that big they actually just start contacting you we're only big enough we just crossed off officially crossed 14 000 this year beginning of the year and what they do is the company start reaching out to us so far we apparently have reached the chinese companies just send us stuff which is kind of cool and start slowly reaching out to us you can't try to reach out to them but they also are bombarded with everyone wanting to become a content creator and get free cool stuff yeah it's you kind of have to prove yourself before they'll even listen to you and then they kind of seek you out as your brand gets bigger because they're always looking for places to market their product but you with no views is not really lucrative for them so it's really it's tough getting into the business once you get to the top as long as you're not as destructive as a couple of youtubers who shall remain nameless you can pretty much keep your channel and i yeah there's enough youtube controversy videos i don't feel i need to uh make fun of them right now where yeah address them it's it's goes out maybe we'll do an off topic tuesday and it goes outside the scope of it yeah well we definitely should yeah we may have some funny thoughts we'll share on it but the problem is by tuesday it's already old because here's a good part by next tuesday said youtuber who is super controversial may have done something equally dumb or stupid because it's a race to the bottom of stupidity occasionally so you're just watching himself destruct which is also it's like the car wreck you can't look away from people have taken lowest common denominator to a whole new level they're working hard at it they're putting the effort in burning midnight oil on how much of an idiot can i be somebody says well we fit the bottom now and they say hold my beer yes so jumping to lts creative and our efforts yay yay uh the website's live ltscreative.marketing and it'll be in the doobly-doo below the thingy here so we'll put that on there that's uh that's up and running we're working hard at expanding that uh we're also going to we still didn't get around to doing it we've moved all of our websites over for hosting so that's been kind of a fun project now here here's the thing about running a business people said well how do you just start a hosting company how do you just start another business and i won't lie it's a lot easier when you have a business and being able to kind of pivot and do something because i have experience doing running a business for the last 14 years and so we are just kind of expanding into it but one of the important aspects of a business and i want people to think about this is if you start something and you train nobody on it and you're the only one who can do it you have a job you may be working for yourself but you have a job so the important part and this is something i well here's my failing the hosting stuff you know who knows how to how do you set up a website how's my hosting work marvin i uh message tom and say hey tom so the the actual starting of my hosting company so i had a job hosting websites and i just never delegated that function out because i never tried to grow up very big and now that we're going to put some effort into it uh and we're working on putting the details on the website on there and what our angle is on it and that's i'm training kyle on it i'm training a little bit of steve on it steve's interest is a little bit uh but marvin and it's it we're creating a documented process that people can follow so it doesn't mean that all hosting is done by tom so that's part of it and the same with the lts creative marketing it's a team actually i'm less involved in it directly on functional sides of it uh i'm paying for it though so which is good yeah good for him because i've been paying him in the last month to do some of that right and here we are officially launching officially launching with with clients already with clients that's the important part there's it has to make money because uh the money has been going out no in your pocket well out of my pocket staying in the buildings it's the money has not left the building yeah it's just going from pocket to pocket that's all pocket yeah then it leaves the building well yeah then it goes to you know places like mortgage and whatever yes so i i actually there's always a question of can we do some more videos onsite and things like that uh we got one coming up that's coming up uh the construction company yeah that's uh we're friendly with the owners and we're going to talk about what they do a little bit we'll do the video camera i'm going to take the camera there and film it i'm i've got it cleared all with them but i think they're cool with the whole thing so yeah so we're actually going to document how they do it and talk with them as a business and you know services it's going to be an onsite job where we kind of show things uh we'll do that i did a rant yesterday that i didn't publish um and maybe you guys want to see it i'm going to let you decide whether i published a video i ranted about the status of it and maybe i got i was i'm occasionally jaded because i work at it and i love the creative stuff we like the social media we like this we like doing this building things and there's joy in creation uh we enjoy helping customers there's no joy in updating the rfms platform for one of my clients it is a joyless thankless like we get paid the clients very appreciative but there's a company called rfms that sucks and i'm just gonna i ranted about their software i showed what it's like to update their software because it doesn't violate any privacy rules we do it remotely so i'm sitting at my desk we have to reboot a client's server more than once to get their update to install and no update to software unrelated to microsoft not an update to the server just an update on a database program should require two to three reboots but there's does so they're and then it's like brace for impact because even the client knows that the update got released at the end of december but they wait a couple weeks because there's always another update to the update because the update had a problem yeah and we have this client this software is just suck and that it represents one of the problems with it where how you get burned out on this because you're not doing something amazing for the client and you're like oh the client should switch well the problem is it's a niche software they're a carpet company it helps them manage their carpet business and there's not another alternative out there that's good they've tried the other alternative and talked to other carpet places they hate it too yeah so if you are a developer going i am looking for a niche turns out people like carpet and flooring there's only apparently two good company two big companies and i don't know the other one's name at all okay i completely lose me but r4ms is the other one and r4ms does other things but they suck they are they're awful and it just uh that's such a niche thing though that i mean they do some r4ms actually they do carpet but they do a few other things yeah but here's the weird part for you for those of you who are going to have you heard of this their database is completely goofed up all the time it's massively oversized even according to r4ms they have no idea why it's so big it's dragging down on the system they told them to go find a sequel person to fix it i'm like you guys wrote the database really yeah but we don't we don't we can hire someone third party we don't work on databases i'm like but you wrote the software they won't log in and work on it they this is the stupid part too because the updates are so difficult to load because of all the server reboots and start and stopping services and all the details r4ms won't update the system needed they the client has to pay us to load the updates from r4ms and r4ms says well most of our other clients just do it in-house and they're like well we're not tech savvy and this is unknown like your process for update is this complicated yeah so well but they're one of only two so one of only two you're gonna use them or you're not basically so yeah so you use them or not and it's a pain in the butt but this is we see this a lot we dealt with the scanning software that just had a horrific amount of problems and it's something we used in a niche industry again the software is bad the support's bad we just spent time figuring it out we know it breaks randomly we're looking at you HP printers there's another one that clients just get kind of aggravated going wow the printers just quit first don't buy consumer printers second never buy a wireless printer sorry if you want to not be aggravated don't buy a wireless printers even the HP business ones they just kind of suck we have a client that it was funny because an update broke all the printers at once we don't know we the only thing we noticed that they all had the latest software on there I looked and there was a recent update and also did was un-set all the wi-fi for all of them and it wouldn't set back up until you went into the menu and hit reset i don't come right to the printer model but yeah it's kind of an aggravation the clients get mad when that stuff happens because they're like well I just spent money fixing printers um and first to disrupt my days I can do that I'm like yeah welcome to HP and speaking of big deals thanks Intel and a couple other companies uh I'm going to do something a little more in depth than this but this is the specter uh vulnerability flaw that was found that people are running around like just mad men over the how severe this is it is industry-wide it's basically a flaw found in processors they believe it may be an AMD it's definitely in the intels um and the solution to it could cause a 15 to 20 slowdown allegedly to patch it oh now that's at a data center hold it that was a hell of a tease anyways the problem is at a uh data center level it's at the consumer level it might be at the phone level as well uh but the the hacks are just crazy where it's a shared memory problem I might do a video on that I'm trying to read more on it to make sure I understand it so I can reiterate the how severe it is because it always starts up with the severity is here and we'll figure out in the middle where it really is other than that I what else we could go on here for business so that's uh oh process procedure videos I do want to do some of those yeah we should do some of those absolutely yeah yeah how we do things yeah people like to see that stuff I can't stop sneezing it's gonna be a lot of sneeze cuts there are gonna be sneeze cuts in here that's is that a technical term in the film industry um I know what a jump cut is yeah I I I've learned all the different cutting I think I would say that a sneeze cut is probably a sub category of like a jump cut there's in in radio there's the cough and sneeze button there is it just kills your mother's really quick so you can hit it and then yeah I learned that when I was on the radio I've been on radio a few times that's kind of fun I co-hosted a radio show yeah way more organized than this we're spontaneous it's part of our charm that's the last thing I'll actually leave you with here on the topic of YouTube spontaneous and the unmediated all on the unmediated vision of the creator that was a sneeze coming up which is causing memory loss hold on we're gonna cut all this out right it's time allergic to I don't know all right here we go I mean didn't it's happy now okay so YouTube allows I I've heard that I think the nerd writer wrote this the unmediated vision of the creator so it's a direct connection between our audience and us and we can be very real now that's why I like editing because it's the vision as how we want to portray what information I share with you then we edit it to keep that same narrative and focus and I'd like that about that this is where you see so many youtubers this is the connection that was created between the creator and the audience and I think it's wonderful it's in this direct sharing is really cool then you have YouTube red and they are trying to produce shows and I've seen some of the youtubers that I really enjoy their channel and I much less enjoy the content that's created on the YouTube red with them it's like you drop them into a full production thing and I'm like meh it's just not YouTube red is the YouTube red is the paid subscription service and one of the things are trying to entice you with I which I'm a fan of YouTube red by the way because I don't like watching ads I had no problem paying the few dollars a month to YouTube for the ads I've done a review on it I'll do a follow-up review because I'm still in love with that as a product and oh don't confuse it with red tube don't even google that oh god no their naming is dubious in edgy so anyways back to YouTube red not red tube uh YouTube red is being able to connect directly with your audience versus the classic uh the way they produce a discovery channel series with a voiceover narrator who talks about the things that this guy is doing and they cut it all up and try to produce it I lose the connection right away I don't feel like I'm just watching a TV show that I can't get through and versus yeah I might do a topic on that because I think maybe if more YouTubers kind of complain about this YouTuber will get it and they'll stop producing BS like that it's not a movie the reason we like people and I'm going to say like uh Colin Furs love his channel I've tried watching a few of the YouTube red things he's doing I like him his projects amazing I'm not a fan I try to watch a few I'm like they're okay I mean they're good I've watched some of them but they're not not as much fun as when he grabs the camera and just is himself where he is putting it all together and making it all happen and just and it goes for other YouTubers as well that have tried this like them you're watching it for them so yeah it's it's I'm really it's analogous to like you know a comedian he's a really great comedian then they give him his own show and it just isn't the same right it's not the same once it all you have all the influence around him and it's not totally you went there to see that comedian not to have a producer and sometimes it does work when a producer around him but it's not always working right yeah sure enough but we'll leave you with that we have hot sauce to eat mm-hmm we got a jalapeno popper bacon bacon wrapped jalapeno poppers that we got a yes and so uh I might talk about this one of my personal things is I buy everything on clearance for food so I come in here with the clearance bag somebody talk about the clearance stuff because I'm I'm a very there's a there's a line between frugal and efficiency that I try to ride all the time uh where I will be frugal as long as it doesn't as long as it doesn't interfere with my efficiency and we talked about that because we were screwing around with a boom stand over here uh you know I didn't want to throw one out but it's interfered with my efficiency so now it's time to throw it out so we'll leave you with that maybe that's a whole nother topic also once again like subscribe tell us what you want to see more of less of um oh we'll address this we're working on improving things we moved the orange someone said that that would uh detract away from not knowing what things are so well we actually might do a background drop thingy behind us in have it for these videos so that's some upgrades are coming to that just simple stuff that branding and and uh I don't know stuff I'm not good at hi that's what I'm here for that's what you're here for thanks for watching have a great day time to time to eat some uh wake up with some red habanero and black coffee hot sauce and if uh queens manage she wants to sponsor us oh scottie ohade shared my son's video i mean well i made a video with my son scottie ohade shared it we're gonna do a scottie ohade i'll review i actually have a connection with them and we'll get them to uh sponsor and the only thing i want from them is sponsorship is just lay out all the hot sauces and all the rest there we go thanks see you