 Hi, I'm Mitch Mitchell. I decided to go back to telling people what my name was just because I don't know that everyone knows my name Now after I'm done with this video. You saw in the picture I'm gonna eat myself some wavy lays lightly salted with some French onion dip This is something called Marzetti. I don't know if it's local or not. I didn't see it down south But I'm gonna have a good time with that. I just thought I'd get that out of the way So anyhow, this video is talking about blab and I wrote a blog post Which I'm going to eventually link to in this in this video Talking about doing my first blab and the first blab I actually did was a test with my friend Eileen Smith because she'd been talking about it And I've been him hawing about it because I hate jumping on the brand new thing every single time But she wanted me to come see it So we went and she showed me some things while I was hanging in there and I said, okay, this isn't so bad This is pretty cool. And I've got one other video Actually, I've got two that are associated with my account one was I was interviewed by my friend Marcy Hill and we talked About leadership and health care and writing and stuff like that. That was kind of cool It was about 30 minutes and then I did a little introductory Video on my own on that channel just to let people know who I was although ain't nobody coming at least at least yet And I wanted to talk about it because there was this sense that when it first came out people were starting to wonder Well, is this going to replace Google Plus? Hangouts and is this going to replace YouTube videos now that you have this new thing well We already had periscope and mere cat and I haven't done either of those And I don't see me really doing them unless someone invites me to go But I wanted to kind of talk about this because we always have these new technologies that come up And the first thing people start wondering is this going to replace blank is blank now dead because we have this new thing So I wanted to kind of talk about blab In general, I think it has some great upsides to it I like the fact that you can have you know a few people in there talking about something at the same time It was really easy for instance for Marcy that interview me there and we saw other people when they popped in and I think she said hi to the few people who popped in and that's something unique You can do if you have more than one person maybe you have one person who's designated as the watcher into the little window because Blab has this thing where it's got basically a column on the side for chat So you see people when they come in they can ask questions by doing I think it's Hashtag Q or Q hashtag. I don't remember exactly not hashtag slash. It's one of those. I don't really remember But you know it has these different columns of things so you can answer people's questions if you want to and you know in general that's that's kind of neat and You know, it's a it's a different kind of thing with the Google Hangout because with Google Hangout if you're talking with someone You can decide to open up this other program so that people can ask questions Or maybe if you can keep an eye on the Google Hangout page and see if anyone writes anything there You can respond to So Blab makes that kind of easier But where I think it kind of breaks down is well pretty much like tonight now I'm doing this basically at What is it almost two o'clock in the morning? Because I I keep late hours and it's almost two o'clock in the morning and I decided let's go see what's going on over in Blab And you know what's going on a lot of nothing and I don't mean there's nobody there because there's some people there But I checked in on a couple of the things and maybe it's just because it's late night But people weren't really talking about anything as a matter of fact one of the ones I clicked on they were just blah Blah blah blah and it's almost work for work Do you want to know the truth and then they all put on their hoodies and they close it up and they just had their eyes? And I'm thinking okay. Well, this is exciting, you know, and I have to tell you I've never seen anyone do that with a Google Hangout. Maybe they do But I've never seen it I've always at least seen people having a conversation of some kind even if it's a stupid conversation I've always seen them having a conversation. This wasn't a conversation at all and I checked in on a couple of the others and That just wasn't appealing and I said well, okay, that's not so much fun You know what that reminded me of it remind me of the old chat rooms from the late 90s When that was a brand new thing when a well and time Warner because I had time Warner Open up these things where people could go in there and have these chats But I gotta tell you those actually the chats were a lot more exciting than this was So, you know, I looked at this black thing and I said, you know, maybe it's better when it's planned When there's a program where you're gonna have at least one other person on to talk to and maybe you decide, okay We're gonna take 30 minutes or 45 minutes We're gonna start talking on a topic and as people want to come in maybe we'll let them come in ask their question we will answer their question or let them give their opinion and I think it depends on what the topic is because I'm just sitting there imagining what kind of opinion some people might come in with and what they might say and how they might say it and For someone like me who would probably be using blab more for business stuff than for well for something like this I just don't know that I'm gonna trust any person to come in and say something that now I'm gonna wonder okay now do I keep that or not? I don't really know One of the strange things about blab, or I don't know if it's strange, but good things is that Even if you record the video and you leave it there You don't have a lot of people who can come back and say all kind of nasty stuff Unlike YouTube videos, but still the YouTube video I think is one of the coolest things people it's still the big dog people can find you if your topics are kind of cool and I you know, I don't see blab replacing that I don't see it really replacing Google plus hangouts. Yes There are gonna be those people who are just absolutely in love with blab and I've seen that on Twitter You know these people saying oh my goodness. I'm never going back to Google plus hangouts But you know what I know a couple of those people they never were on Google plus hangouts to begin with They're not really missing anything. They'd never really tried it out But one of the weird things I've seen people do on blab that I've never seen anyone do on a Google hangout Is they're filming a periscope or a meerkat at the exact same time So people are holding their phones and they're doing this Talking to themselves and you kind of see them in the thing so they can record themselves It's the same time that they're doing a blab. Are you kidding? I mean, maybe That's a thing now, but I'm thinking you know pick a platform and just stick to the one thing and stop Trying to reach everybody at the same time do them all differently. I don't know I mean, maybe I'm just this old guy who's sitting there saying you know, here you kids get out of their bucket or something I don't I don't know That's my old guy voice. I'm not quite that old, but you know, that's my old guy voice I don't know I mean I would be interested to find out how many of you folks really like blab What you think of it? Do you think it's gonna replace Google plus hangouts? Do you think it's going to replace? Doing videos on here Truthfully, I'm gonna say no I'm not a real one of those real creators. I don't know how to edit anything so I can't create anything fancy Blab's never going to allow that so therefore and you're always gonna have the Entertainment folks who are gonna do their thing and thank goodness for that because I love that kind of thing But I think blab would be cool if if you had four people who went saw the same movie But they didn't live in the same location and now they got to talk about it. I think that would be kind of cool I I'd love to hang on to something like that. Although. I don't really see a lot of movies You know, I'm still waiting for the next big thing. Okay. I wait for this for the peanuts movie. Okay. Yes I've said it. I'm waiting for peanuts. I'm just a big kid at heart. So anyhow, let me know what you think and That's all I got blab Tater chips and dip Y'all take care You