 Hello, everyone. No titles. Straight into it. How are you all doing? Hello, Michael and Gage. Hello, Mateus. Hi, Chris. Hi, Paul. I know. More challenges. How's the morning going so far? It's going great, as always. I always, I'm a bit of a morning person. I always used to be a morning person, but it was at the other end of it. It was like late morning at the end of the evening. But I will switch that around when I had kids. Yeah, I've got a few, a few more challenges to, to share with you. Hi, Tish. Oh, hi from Houston, Texas. Nice to see you here. And also another, we've got another Michael in the house. Hello, Michael. So yeah, what I'm going to do today is I'm going to run through obviously my usual update on my current sort of, I suppose the major goal, but I'm heading for having done my 100 videos in 100 days. So I've got my 100, 365 videos in a day, in a, in a year, not in a day. That would be a bit silly in a year that I'm heading for. So I'll just give you a quick update on that. I won't stay on that too long. So we're on day 113 and I've done 113 videos. This would be my 114. I'm trying to edge ahead a little bit, because I got a bit of a head start. And then it meant that I always had a couple in the bag just in case. So I'm going to try and edge ahead a little bit over the next couple of weeks. Oh, hi, Richard. Nice to see you here. Is that what you call? So yeah, so 113 videos, 353 lovely people have clicked that subscribe button. Actually, it's a few more because some of them subscribe, but I'll forgive them. And then we've got 108, sorry, I can't even read that. We've got 1800 hours watched and 18,000 views. It still boggles my mind, to be honest, that more than, you know, I've got more than one view. So it does still, I sort of lose sight of that sometimes, but there you go. Does it include Christmas Day? Well, it kind of does, because I'm not necessarily doing one video every day. So it's just a target of like with 100 videos in 100 days, when I started with that, I just did five in one day at one point, two words to sort of get ahead. So it's just averaging out. I don't think that I'll be making a video on Christmas Day, maybe not even the day after that or the day before either. So I'll just try and get a few in the bag ready to release. How is the progress comparing to last week? Well, actually, thinking about it, last week, I was, I think I gained 30 subscribers. But this week, I've gained 23. But what I did notice is that there was one day where it dropped by about four or five. And I don't know whether that was, I said something terrible, or whether that was just a YouTube thing where I think it was, Tom Buck was mentioning that sometimes YouTube sort of clears out like dummy accounts or things like that, because I do get a bit of spam on my thing, although they're really good at catching it. So sometimes there'll be like a comment that's appeared there. And then I can see that it's not necessarily a good comment. Oh, hi Tish and Yusuf. Well, thank you and welcome. But yeah, so sometimes there is like some spam and things like that. So I don't know if those get subscribed and then when they get sort of weeded out. So I did have a drop of about five or one day it just went down suddenly and then crept back up again. So that is the extent of that. As I've said every time before, I'm not really bothered about the stats, but I am interested in them. So I don't lose sleep over them. And I don't check the actual numbers on a daily basis. I just do it on a Friday evening. It's a Saturday morning here five o'clock in the morning. So I just check them the day before to just update this. But I do notice the subscribers, obviously, because when I'm going in and looking at comments and things like that, then I obviously just see it. So there we go. Oh, thanks, Chris. I'm glad I've got somebody who's not going to press that unsubscribe button. And I'm glad to have been a help. And to be honest with you, as I've said this before, this makes it all worthwhile to be honest, knowing that it's actually being of benefit to people. It started out as predominantly an exercise in sort of self-discipline, to create the videos and all this sort of stuff. But it's become so much more than that and a hell of a lot more worthwhile than just that. So that is basically where we are. I'll give you another update on that next week. The other thing that's happened this week is I've finished Leader live every day in August, although I didn't actually do it. I did, I missed two days. So I did finish the whole thing. But I mentioned last week that I'd missed two of the challenges. So I was almost there. I did 30, how many days were the last month? I did 29 out of 31 days. So but it was really great. And it was so much more than I was expecting. As I said before, I was expecting that Leader was just, we just go live every day for a month. But you're actually, you know, there's a real sort of structure to it. And hey, Carly, nice to, nice to see you. Yeah, there's a real structure to Leader. It's a real, if you're thinking about doing live streaming and you haven't done it before, then there is live every day in August and live every day in April, the other a month. And it's a really good sort of program really, you know, there's people in there that are sort of nervous to go live and by the end of it, you know, you can see how they've, they've just grown so much. It's really a great thing. So that was wrapped up this week. So these two new challenges, there's actually more than two challenges really or goals that I've set. But the first one is actually thanks to you, Matt Mateus. By the way, do you prefer Matt or Mateus? Anyway, you just let me know. And I'll adjust accordingly. But it is the tweet 100 hashtag tweet 100 100 challenge to basically just tweet every day for 100 days. And I'm tying this in with some other stuff. Ah, well, on that subject, live every day in December, they actually do Vlogmas. So I'll be doing Vlogmas. And that one is basically that's not a structured program to it. But it's basically just you just do it. And it's not even necessarily live, it can be just a recorded vlog. But it's just to get people to do, you know, sort of on your phone, that sort of thing rather than all the fancy overlays and graphics. So I will be doing Vlogmas without a doubt. So cool, Matt, there we go. I'll let I'll know the future Matt. So yeah, tweet 100 is basically just to tweet every day for 100 days, simple as that, but have some sort of, you know, crafted tweets. So at the moment, my Twitter account, I set it up when I set up this channel. But I just basically set up automation. So if ever I post to the blog on my website, it gets tweeted out as a link. If ever whenever I post a video on YouTube, then it posts the link to Twitter. So all of my Twitter interaction up until a few days ago was just automated. So I wasn't really actually really there on Twitter. So tweet 100 is basically more crafted tweets and every every tweet that you do, you need to do one a day that has the hashtag tweet 100. So that's what that is. And I'm going to try and just be a bit more active on Twitter as well. And yeah, that's that's that's a little goal. So that one is quite easy really. And I'll let you into a secret. I'm pre scheduling them 10 days in advance. Does that count? I don't know. So Vlogmas, do you know what, I'm not exactly sure who organizes Vlogmas. I don't think there is some organization to it as such. It's not like leader where there is a real structured program with live streaming pros. Vlogmas, as far as I know, is that just the let's get live community? So dot rocks community. Maybe someone can fill me in because until leader, I didn't even realize it was organization to leader. So perhaps I'm speaking out of turn here. And yes, I do use Zappia. And thank you very much, Paul for mentioning that. So, so yeah, that is that is tweet 100 and I've automated it using Zappia for the the next sort of 10 days. But I am also just generally posting more on on Twitter as well. So it's just sort of getting me into that thing, that habit. So the other challenge though, and the sort of the bigger challenge is that I've joined the Great Cycle Challenge USA, although I'm in Thailand, but I'm assured that I'm still can can enter. So this is we're currently on day three of 30 because it is basically for all of September. And it's raising money to fight a kid's cancer in the USA for US kids cancer research. So I was invited to do this by Greg, who is my long standing guest on this show. He's on every week. And so, so yeah, that's what that's what this is. Now, we've got a group goal. I'll just show you quickly the landing page for it. So if you head over to that link, which I'll put up again, it takes you over to my page. Now you can see what I've got my target is 200 miles. I am going to be increasing that to probably, I think 500, because we're on day three and I've already done 35 by this afternoon, I will have done 50. So I'm just going to basically smash that goal in like a couple of weeks, I would say. So I'm going to put it to something more realistic. I haven't been on my bike in three years, actually. I used to do quite a lot of riding, but I haven't been on in three years. And I'll come to that in a minute because that links to one of my other goals that I've set myself. So my personal goal is, yeah, I'll up that, that sort of distance, but looking to raise, raise $500. But I'm also part of the team with, there's me looking a little bit chubby. That's the thing, by the way, you may wonder or you may ask why I have my monitor, my camera on top of my monitor. It's a very flattering angle up here. I couldn't do it where like Keith Palser, he has his camera right down on his desk looking up at him. Well, I can't do that. It's not the most flattering of looks for me. So that'll give you a little bit of a hint of the look. Not really that bothered about it. But I've also got this team. So if I click on my team, whoops, Daisy, in fact, I opened it already in another page. That was easier. So here you go. Here's our team. Now what we're looking to do is raise $1,000. We're going to smash this by it, by the way. But we're looking to do combined $1,000 and $1,000. Well, we've already done 124 miles of the thousand. And there you go. There's Greg, James Hicks, India Delgado, Randy Wilburn and Keith Palser. So if anybody fancies joining our team and showing some support, fancies getting on their bike, then then yeah, you can sign up. If you click my link, so I'll come back to where is it gone? Here we go. So yeah, if you go to takeonetech.io slash ride, I've made it easier, there is a longer URL to sort of follow me and to join our team. But if you just follow that link, then you'll get to my page and then you'll be able to click on my team and join the team as well. So that is the the sort of cycling part of it. And oh, are you getting a new bike as well? Oh, that's great. Well, we need you on the team, Carly. We definitely need to join you to join the team. And Matt, well, yeah, you're welcome. You're welcome to join as well. So all you need to do because I know you're asking about it on Twitter about can we use Swift and things like that? You certainly can. So Greg is not being able to get out on the actual roads for the past couple of days, I believe. So he did, he did some of it indoors. So you can do indoors, you can use Swift and I've just got it linked to my Strava. So if anybody's on Strava, by the way, just look me up on there and you'll find me. I used to use Strava extents extensively and then I couldn't get back into my account or couldn't figure out where I put it. So I ended up just I've got a new account now that I've just linked to my Facebook. I don't normally like linking things to Facebook, but it's just so easy to press that Facebook button, isn't it? So I've got a fresh account at the moment for for that. So there we go. And you prefer running? Well, to be honest, I can't be doing with running. I started training before and I didn't end up doing it, but I started training for the Ironman in it was actually in Phuket. It was going to be so I love swimming and I love cycling. But the one out of the three that I'm not particularly hot on is is running. I don't know why. No, it's just Alec Johnson on Strava. Are we friends on Facebook? By the way, Matt, if we're not, then look me up and it will be linked through there anyway. So that's what my Strava is linked to. So that is the sort of the bigger challenge that I'm working towards this day three of 30. But there is a bigger point to this, which is that I've become a little bit overweight in the past three years since I stopped cycling. And I'm not going to judge anybody else on their weight, but personally, I'm not entirely happy about it. And so just to put it into context, context, before I stick that up, when I moved to Thailand 16 years ago, I was 78 kilos, 170 pounds, slowly over 10 years of just getting too into running a business and out of health and fitness routines, that increased to 104 kilos. So that was really at 230 pounds. That for me was just like too much. Six years ago, I started getting back into my cycling and lost a load of weight. So I got down to 80 kilos. So that was 175 pounds. I'm looking up because I wrote this down, nothing that was going to be talking about it. Then in the last three years, I'm back up to 100. So that means I've gone from 80 kilos to 100 kilos. So if I just think about that, that is like I've got basically another 25% on top of my weight. So that's 25% that clearly I don't actually need because I haven't been bulking up becoming really muscular. It's just all unnecessary weight from my perspective for me. So I want to get back down to something more reasonable. So I want to go from 100 to 84, not quite necessarily 80, but by I'm setting myself a goal to linking with the Tweet 100. So within 100 days, what I want to do is I want to get to, where's it gone now? I've just toggled it off. There you go. So by the end of the Tweet 100, I also want to, I've done 1000 miles because we will have finished the obviously the great cycle challenge thing. So I'm aiming for 1000 miles in 100 days, which is only an average of 10 a day really. So you know, there's no, I should be able to do that because I'm going to do some longer rides at the weekend. And if I do a sort of minimum of five on a day when I'm not really doing it, then I can easily make that make that distance up. So yeah, and I want to get my weight down from 100 to 84. So I know that this isn't tech related. So it's a bit off brand for the channel. But I'm just sticking out there as a little bit of accountability because it helped give me a little bit of a kick off the backside to actually get it done. And then I'll just feel a lot better about everything. And like I say, no judgment on anybody else or their weight. It's just a personal thing for me. I feel tired and exhausted when I do physical exercise these days, whereas previously I didn't. And when you've got three young kids, that's not actually the best of states to be in. So there you go. That is that that is the the next challenge that I've got. Now I've also got another little overlay somewhere. Where is it? Here we go. Let me put my lower third up. There we go. I've got this little ticker. So if you do feel like supporting the challenge and no pressure, but you'll see a little link to go over to here and you can donate to help the cause riding to fight kids cancer. And that is that is where you can head over to that take one tech dot i o slash ride. So Matt, we're in the same boat. Are we? And now what's happened there? Those are going in the wrong place. One second. Let me just sort this out. Whoops, a daisy. Look at that. Don't want that to move. I want this up here. There we go. Let me lock that lock that scene. There we go. That should fix it. Yeah, I know. I don't know. I don't know why it is. I just got lethargic over the over the years. What is my Facebook? We're friends on Facebook, Chris. So yeah, look me up. I don't use LinkedIn. I have got LinkedIn. You can find me on there, Alec Johnson as well. But I have not done anything on LinkedIn for probably about three years. I just stopped using it. So I'm still there. You can find me. But yeah, I don't really, I'm not active on it at all. But Facebook, we are already friends on Facebook. So yeah, I can definitely definitely catch me there. Never asked. And by the way, anybody who wants to jump in just to follow the link, take one tech dot live slash join. Never asked, but why Thailand? So I came to Thailand on a diving holiday in 2006. And there's a little bit of magic about Thailand, to be honest with you when you come. It's a very easy place to live. It's everybody's so welcoming and friendly. It's not not most people don't speak English here. But there's something about everyone's really accommodating of people who can speak English here. It's it's in Bangkok. It's different as it's, you know, you can certainly get by. But you can also get everything that you could get in the UK. So it's not like moving to some completely foreign and alien place where, you know, you can't, you know, manage, I mean, they've got Tesco over here. So if you're really stuck, you can always go to Tesco. So for people in the UK, that will be something familiar. The cost of living here is really comparatively low on a day to day basis for things like food and things like that. So if you're going getting grocery shopping and stuff, then it is a fraction of the cost of the UK. If you start buying cars and houses and things like that, it's pretty comparable really. People think that, oh, everything's cheap over here, but that isn't the case. So like TVs, electronic goods, houses, everything that you might want to have in your house cars are actually cars are actually more expensive than the UK. I don't know compared to the US, but there's high import tax on cars. So any car that isn't made in Thailand has got 100% tax on it. So Ferraris are even more out of my bounds than they previously were. But yeah, you get sort of a lot of the big manufacturers have manufacturing plants in Thailand. So then you don't pay the excessive tax, but they're still quite expensive compared to the UK. And then there is the weather. So I was born and raised in the UK. And it's just so much better here. It's just so much better to walk out. I still get it now, even 16 years later, where I'll walk out of the house and I'll say to myself like, oh, isn't it a nice day? I'll think to myself in the same way that I would in the UK on that rare occasion when we had a really nice day sometimes that I would think that. So yeah, I still sort of pinch myself how nice it is over here really. And then there is the food and the abundance of fresh fruit and vegetables. And you go to like the fresh fruit markets or fresh food markets. And it's just like a sea of color. I love all the fruit. I love all the vegetables that they got here. It's just, it's just awesome. So I came for a month on a diving holiday. And then I figured that I could still actually work from over here. So went back to the UK after the end of my diving holiday and six weeks later, about six weeks to the day, I was back in Thailand and I didn't return to the UK then even to visit for 10 years. My family was still happy to come and obviously visit over to Thailand. So they come like twice a year. This one of the, this is the worst thing about COVID though, is that they haven't been able to come for, well, a year and a half now. So it's just, yeah, that's a bit of a, a bit of a pain really, to say the least. But yeah, apart from that, it's, that's, that's, that's why I'm here Chris. And that's why I've stayed. And there's a lot of people who do the same. They come over, they, yeah, it's just, it's just wonderful. What's that saying? Don't have one more overlay. Oh, yes, I see. Yes. When I've got them all up. Yeah, they're pretty, pretty short on space, isn't it? I'm going to try and find a more efficient way to display these stats. I might just have them scrolling at the bottom using the little ticker. Oh, thank you, Carly. How's the website going, by the way? Oh, we've got Matt joining. Hello, everyone. Second. I've got to assign you to a guest, guest number two. And there we go. Let me add you one second. Oh, guest number one. There we go. Hey, Matt, how are you doing? Very good. How are you doing? Very good. Very good. How's everything going over there? So, by the way, for anyone who doesn't know, Matt is in Vietnam? Yes, exactly. Yes. I mean, Hanoi, in the north of Vietnam. I hope that, fellow Asian contingent in Ecam live. Exactly, yes. We're having fun here in Asia. But unfortunately, we are not a lot in the group, right? I don't think there's a lot of people. There are a few other Thai channels. I noticed one of the Thai TV stations is actually in the Ecam live group. So they've been doing some live streaming with Ecam live, it seems. Maybe not the main stuff, but it's still interesting to see that there is a few Thai channels. So I'm impressed about your challenges that is coming in front of you. Thank you. Well, yeah, well, I've got to thank you for the tweet 100 for recommending that. Yeah, I'm really enjoying Twitter. I mean, like, I've really been, let's say, involved then and having more contents broadcasted on Twitter lately. And it's pretty interesting. And especially with this latest release that they had the Superfollow. I don't know if you have seen this one, but it's pretty interesting there. No, that's what what's a Superfollow. I'm not aware of that Superfollow, in fact, is as a creator, right? You can people can register, right? And they pay like a monthly fee of between $3 or I think $3 or $4 to $9 per month, right? And they have some exclusive content. So it's been like some creator, you have access to them because not everybody's interested to pay $4 per month, right? And so you have access to this kind of, you know, exclusive content with those Twitter creator. But for the time being, it's only available in the US and in Canada, I guess. But I don't know why. I mean, Twitter invited me for being able to subscribe to some Superfollow. So it's a very interesting concept, yes. Very good. So yeah, I'm just staging the rollout, I suppose. So I'm very impressed also by the cycling and the weight loss challenge. That's very good. Well, save being impressed until I actually achieve it. Because this one, to be honest, seems like a much harder thing to me than the YouTube stuff. So we'll see how it goes. But it's definitely good to have a target in mind. So do you cycle over there a lot? I mean, I'm like you, I mean, like I've been cycling for quite a lot on Swift, because you know, the roads here in Vietnam are pretty crazy. I mean, the traffic is crazy, the pollution and everything. And if you really want to cycle in a very good environment, you have to drive outside of the city, which is not really the concept that I like about cycling. Cycling is just, I take my bike out of the door and I cycle wherever I want, right? Right. So that's the reason why I've started this Zwift thing like a year ago. And then I got injured at my right ankle, so I had to stop. And the result is here. The result is I can wait. Yeah, yeah. I feel you. So yeah, now I'm restarting because now it's my injury, it's getting better. So now it's, that's why I'm restarting on Zwift. I am following the Zwift Academy. It's for months and a half. Now they're doing that yearly and it's extremely good. I mean, like you can meet people and you can get a group of cyclists and so on. Honestly, it's okay. The feeling is not the same on being in the nature and enjoying the view and the landscape, discovering new stuff, but it's pretty good for exercising at least. So yeah. And how do you, how do you intend to lose weight? I mean, except the fact of cycling, maybe there is some through cycling. And I'm also, I used to do intermittent fasting. So I'd only during four hours of the day. And then I've got out of the habit of that as well. So I thought I'll just go back to that. And obviously just exercising more regularly. The way I do it with the reason I prefer outdoor cycling, to be honest, is if I'm on an exercise bike, it's too easy for me to just say, I'm tired, I'll get off. And when I go cycling, I rather than do like laps of a circuit or something like that, what I do is I ride as far as I can until I feel like I can't ride any further. And then I realize I've got to ride all the way back. So I sort of, it's a mental trick that I'll play on myself because I think, oh, I'll just keep going. I keep going. And then I get to a place and then it's like, oh my God, I've got to go back 45 kilometers now. So then I have to force myself to get back. Otherwise, if I was just on a bike, I would just sort of step off. That's good. Oh, it does intermittent fasting as well. Yeah, I found that really, I found that it was not just a weight loss thing for me intermittent fasting, but I found I just had so much more energy as well, like throughout the throughout the day. When I mean, people probably know what it's like, if you have like a big meal and then you feel sort of a bit tired and bloated after it. But yeah, eating, eating just four hours of the day, I found that I just I just had a bit of a bigger spring in my step. And yeah, the fruit in Thailand is yum. So that's the other thing about the intermittent fasting as well is I just eat a lot of fruit and vegetables and stuff like that as well. Yes. And I just wanted to also thank you for like giving me the opportunity, opportunity, sorry, to join the just create more, you know, this initiative started by either and then and Tom, it's an amazing, amazing thing. I really enjoy it. I feel not alone anymore in being a creator, right? Yeah, yeah. So that's, yeah, I've got to, yeah, I did have an overlay for that somewhere, because I was going to mention that. Let me just let me just go and grab it. Hang on one second. Where's it go? It's down here somewhere. That's a pretty interesting, interesting community that's having I think I don't know how many hundred people is joining this and I think they've got about 100 at the moment. But yeah, it's one of those things that it is just increasing all the time. So it's there you go. Just create more at and you can join it take one tech.io slash create. And that'll just mean that they'll know that I sent you. But yeah, that is it's, I mean, I love Doc Rocks community as well. That's just that's like my home every Sunday morning. And it's just like one big family. So we all get together on a zoom call. And it's sort of 4am for me on a Sunday morning. Take one tech. No, that one's buy me a coffee dot com slash doc rock to join that one. But it's like a one once a week sort of thing. And then obviously we're all in the Facebook group and everything like that. But yeah, just create more because it's like its own little ecosystem. It's quite quite quite good really you don't get distracted like you might do on on Facebook and things like Facebook groups. And yeah, it's just just really really cool. That's great. Oh, no, I haven't seen that actually, I've obviously familiar with the film, but I'm also somebody if I've watched a film, I can actually forget that I've watched it like within a year. And my wife, my wife's the same. Sometimes we've watched films before where we've like got to like almost the end. And then suddenly it's just like, Oh, we did watch this. I remember now I remember how it ends, but we've got like no recollection of it. But yeah, right until you reach your limit, that is definitely my my approach. We've got Greg joining us now. So I've got Greg to thank for this. Here we go. Hey, Greg. How are you doing? I'm good. I see the the bicycling going by. Yeah, yeah, I've just given the the update on that as well. And so yeah, thank you very much for organizing that and suggesting it because it's it's going to really really help me out. It's good. I'm glad you're getting some exercise out of it as well. Yeah, getting some why I got that right. Hold on a sec. Let me see what I can get out of here. The problem I have is screen and I think it's eating my computer's brain. Ah, right, right. Can you hear us okay, though? Technical issues, technical issues. Yeah, I think so, yes. I think that he needs to use the application that you have shared about internet. Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah. I can't believe that because it seems like since I've started doing this stuff that I have had a few a few issues with my internet. Let's see if he's going to come back or not. It's part also of the cycling challenge. I mean, like Greg did it last. Yeah, Greg did it last year. And he's also the one that that that put it into the Let's Get Live group and sort of created the team. So that team was was Greg's creation. So yeah, I've got, if I get it, I think he must be going to call back shortly. If I get into shape, I've got Greg to thank for it because it's been one of these things that I've been meaning to do for so long. And yeah, just I've just always had other things. So it's always been either I've done my YouTube now in the morning because it always used to be that the morning time was my exercise time as well. And then when I sort of realized I could free up some time in the morning, I just started doing all the YouTube stuff. So I've always always had an excuse not to do the, you know, to put off the exercise, but no way, no excuse really to put off. That's the issue of having excuses. We are very imaginative about the excuse more than finding topic about YouTube, you know, if we have that that imaginative for Facebook for YouTube, sorry, I think that we have a million subscribers, you know, I've got you to thank for another thing that I've done actually, because I haven't started doing anything with it. But you mentioned about setting up a separate channel for YouTube shorts. So I've actually set up take one tech shorts as well. But I haven't started posting to it yet, because I've heard that a few people say that if you're posting shorts to your regular YouTube channel, then it can it can sort of throw off your stats really because you get different sort of views and stuff like that. So and I also didn't necessarily want to be posting it through there. So I did start my little TikTok journey, which I've talked about a few times where I basically posted five videos a day for six days and then stopped. So I want to get back into a routine of doing that, but do it in a more structured way and be posting them to, you know, all the vertical spaces. So YouTube shorts and TikTok and stuff like that as well. Me, I have seen I have seen a very interesting thing is so I have created this YouTube short short story channel. And I am redirecting people to my main channel, which is Challenge ITV. Yeah. And the scores are pretty good. Since I started, I've, I don't say that I have thousands of views, but at least I see this kind of funnel that is bringing also some people to the main content, right? Yes, sure. And, and honestly speaking, I've been enjoying creating those YouTube shorts because it's easy to do. I mean, like you just, you know, it's, it's just a 15 to 45 second, I may say I was like keeping myself in this, let's say timeframe. And honestly speaking, it's, it's, it's pretty fun. And also it's helping me to develop my editing skills, right? And just create some like, you know, like templates and everything and, and, and go straight to the point and to the essential. And it's, it's very interesting. Honestly, it's a very good thing. Yeah. Even it's adding one more layer of work to do it. Yes. Yeah. Well, that's always the same thing. When I did the, the TikTok thing, I did it all with that sort of overlays in Ecam live. So you can film in vertical format. So the way that I thought was, I'll do all one minute videos. And if I do five a day, it's five minutes of video. And because I don't do any editing, I thought, well, if I allow sort of a minute on either side of each one, that's three minutes one for each one. So that's 15 minutes, maybe some time to upload them is 30 minutes. It's only going to take me 30 minutes extra a day. But I just didn't have the, it just didn't grab me. So I didn't follow through with it. It's one of those things. And I also didn't set a proper sort of goal with it. Whereas with the YouTube stuff, I've got a clear goal of what I'm going for. It's the same with my podcast, where I've done three episodes and I haven't done any more. And what I tend to find is, this happens a lot with me is there'll be one thing that I'm focused on, which is like the main goal. And then there'll be all these things like adjacent to it that I just suddenly think like, Oh, I could do that as well. I could do this. I could do that. And so the podcast, whereas the YouTube channel, before I actually started, I spent a month getting together all my overlays, getting the website together, getting, you know, there was there was some planning to it and, you know, templates for thumbnails and stuff like that. So I did all of that upfront. And then I sort of went live for the first time. And then that was it. I was running then. But with the, with the TikTok stuff and with the podcast, I put all of like 30 minutes thought, preparation and planning into it. And that's why it failed because it's just like, Oh, I could do a podcast. What shall I call it? My YouTube journey, that'll do. I'll call it that. I need a little thumbnail for it. Let me create that. And then it was literally within like an hour, I'd made my first podcast. And but there was no, there was no planning to it. There was no anything like that. So yeah, that was that was that. So I need to just take a little step back from it and put some planning in. I've just seen your message, by the way. But I just wanted to try it because I think you are in the beta two of e-cam, right? I mean, the latest release, right? So I've seen this one. So I wanted to try to see if it works. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, what with the with the shorts thing, I basically want to just like take a little bit of step back a little bit more planning. And so I'm going to have the shorts channel on YouTube doing what you're doing. It's all still going to be, you know, my the same sort of type of content, just short form, but then linking back to the main one. So I'll probably end up starting that in maybe I'm not going to even say this month, maybe next month, but I'm just going to get everything all planned and ready of like the workflow and how I'm going to do it and fit it all in. And then I'll start doing that as well. Same with Instagram as well, you know, doing reels or whatever on Instagram and YouTube shorts and that just be able to do the same sort of content, but just repurpose it for those as well. I'm curious to know how much time you're spending on YouTube per day? Two hours, if that, because I was it's basically four a.m. until six a.m. is my sort of my YouTube time. Although to be honest with you, having said that the last few videos I've done, I've ended up I've not done them in the morning. I've done something else and then I've come back. I've done a few that have been like in the afternoon. The trouble I've got with doing anything in the daytime is I'm down in the basement, but our house above is all open plan. And then there's like garden all the way around it. And it seems that I can hear the kids wherever they are. And because they're off school at the moment, and although they're doing like some zoom things and what have you, they're still essentially here. So we've got a nine year old, a five year old and a two year old. So it's hard to get any peace and quiet and the living room is directly above us. So if I try recording in the day, you can often hear they're running round above me. So so that's why it's a great to just do it in the morning. So yeah, I mean, the videos take me as long as they are to do, you know, if it's a 30 minute video, it's 30 minutes. I don't really do any sort of preparation in advance. I accept, you know, like, obviously, if I've got an over, you know, a screen sharing, then I've got to actually set that up and put it in the right place and open any web pages up or things like that. But yeah, I don't do a huge amount of planning. The thumbnails are basically just a Photoshop template that I've set up. And I've got a series of ridiculous pictures of me making silly faces. And then I just changed the text and dropped the icons in. So that's kind of like a sort of I don't spend more than about five minutes on the the actual thumbnail. Greg's coming back in. So that's that's about it really to yeah, about about two hours, I would say. But then obviously, I'm in some of the, you know, groups and things like that. So there's more time spent, I suppose, in the community side of it. Hey, Greg. All right, took a reboot. But it's sort of working. Cool. You're back. Hey, Greg. Hey, how are you? Very good. I heard about the cycling challenge and I would join. Oh, good. Yeah, we need more help. We need to, you know, raise more money and bike more miles. This is Matt, by the way. Matt, meet Greg, Greg, meet Matt. I've seen you before, but didn't interact with you yet. Nice. Where are you based, Matt? In Vietnam, in Hanoi. In Vietnam, okay. Another one of the Asian ECAM contingent. We're all in this area. Good. So you're an early riser as well, it seems. Well, this is what I was, I was putting in the comments before the live stream started. And I was saying, like, I set up my alarm only for Alec. Just joined the live stream. I said, like, I'm not the one, like, is waking up at 4.50. I wake up at 5.50. So it's like one hour earlier for me just to join because I enjoy interacting with Alec. It's very good. I mean, he's a great person. I get a bit 350, so I guess we're the perfect crew. Yeah. So yes, definitely, I will join this challenge. It's fantastic. Excellent. And it's for a great cause, so we'll join. It's a great cause. I did it last year. I started cycling last year for the first time also, and it's very enjoyable. It's just good to go outside because we were stuck inside a lot. And I pledged personally to do 500, 400 miles, I think. And so I think we should be able to crush. Oh, no problem. Yeah. I'm also doing a century race this in 20 days or like in three Weeks. Cool. Cool. Weekends. Yes. I've been training up to 100 in one ride. Right, right. Well, I'm going to aim to get up there as well because I've done that before, but I've never done it. So, right, right. Yeah. So, three years ago, I stopped riding, basically. And at that point, I was doing that sort of distance or 50 miles, 70 miles, that sort of distance on a weekend sort of thing. So, yeah, I've got to increase my goal because I've put 200 miles down. When I've signed up for it, I just put 200 miles. I think it's automatic. It's 200 because I don't remember actually picking a number. Right, right. So, I'm going to bump that up because it's a little bit too low. But I don't know if you caught earlier. I'm actually going to, I'm doing the tweet 100 challenge as well to tweet every day for 100 days where you actually craft tweets. But I'm also going to extend the leader thing because like, are we supposed to do something else besides just a tweet? No, it's just, it's just tweeting. But I was saying earlier that basically my Twitter's just all been automated up until now. So, I'm going to spend some more time on Twitter actually using it a bit more. But combined with that because it's 100 days, I'm also going to extend the cycling thing and try and do 1000 miles in 100 days. But also, I'm going to try and lose quite a lot of weight. Basically, I put on 10 miles a day on average, basically, it's your goal. Yeah, yeah. So, it should be easily doable. I did think about, I'll see how it goes at the end of it. When I get to the end of the 100 days, I might aim for 10,000 miles in a year. I'll see. My goal for this year is 3200 miles and I live in Colorado. So, in about a month, it's going to be probably pretty cold for riding outside. I would be up to join you potentially on a longer riding challenge though because I would like to get closer. Yeah, I'm doing a bodybuilding show in November also. So, I'm basically cutting down anyway for show. So, I've been building my body for the past three years but in all the wrong directions. I need to get 1600 miles this year, Alex, technically to get to my 3200-mile goal. Okay, you need to do 1600 by the end of the year. Yeah, that's pretty tight. Well, you see, I was thinking that 1,000 in 100 has got a nice ring to it but I was also thinking, well, that's only 10 miles a day and if you're factoring longer rides at the weekend and stuff like that, I'd be quite happy to up that and adjust it. I did think about 2,000 in 100 days but I thought, that might be a bit pushing it because I do have off days where I don't fancy riding. Well, here's the thing, I think it's harder than it seems because weather obviously can get in the way until you make moves a day and also I guess if you do you count riding indoors and do you count that? I don't do any indoors, no, it's just all outdoors. I was just saying earlier as well that my strategy for bike riding is ride as far as I can go until I feel I can't ride any further and then think, shit, I've got to get back home. So I have to double what I feel I can do and what you find is you can actually do it. It's just where your brain's telling you I've had enough. Biking, you can always go slower and like barely pedal, you're still going like 10 miles an hour, right? Yeah, so that's my cycling strategy. By the way, Carly has just asked what are the dates for the cycle challenge? It's all of September. We only have this month though. Yeah, yeah, so it's September, basically, but every little helps. So Carly was just saying that she's getting a new bike as well. Lucky you, that's hard to go by these days. It'd be great to have you on the team, Carly. Chris has said if he rode 300 miles, he would fall off the end of the UK. That is very true. That's why we do loops. Yeah, you have to do a loop. And spoke audio. What's your name, by the way, spoke audio? I'm not sure. Yeah, this is nice. Yeah, so I'm doing the Denver Sentry, which rides all the way around Denver, up Lookout Mountain. Basically, it's like 100 mile loop. And I think there's maybe like four, three or four thousand feet of elevation gain. Right, right. Yeah, just let me know your name spoke audio so that I can refer to you. And he also says Greg has a great presence. Do you know what, Greg? My mom says that as well. My mom watches this and every time after the last, oh, Greg, he's such a nice man. That's right. Well, I appreciate that. Tell your mom I said thank you. And yeah, this is the short MB seven. I'm really happy with this mic, actually. It's the reason I got it was because it's got USB and XLR. And I always thought that at some point I might get a road caster and so it could use both of them. But I'm kind of liking the minimalist look without the road caster, to be honest, but I might I'm a sucker for gadgets. So I might. I don't know if you saw my new setup. So I did get a second screen. Yeah, I did. It looks cool. That is what's going my computer down now is that basically, I think it's just having a hard time powering to 4k displays. Interesting. Okay, right, right. And you're you've got the same Mac mini as me. I do, but I have the 8 gig version. I don't know. That's what I've got. Yeah, yeah. I have bad computer karma, though, like other people would similarly similar computers. They seem to go faster than mine. I think it's either like Dropbox or Chrome. I don't know what it is, but something right makes my computer. So how is the Mac mini is good. I'm thinking of buying one. Yeah, I mean, I was coming right. The new ones are coming out probably or they'll be announced and then at least you'll get a good deal on the last gen or there may be something worth getting in the new. Yeah. Because I'm using the MacBook Pro 2019 and I hate about this fan, you know, this fan is I have the feeling like it's a spaceship is going, you know, it's Elon Musk is behind and like trying to push my computer. Yeah, it's awful. I mean, it's it's it's really disturbing, you know, this this fan. And, you know, when you just try to relax and having a work on your lap and, you know, just, I mean, it's burning. I've like barbecue my legs 20 times, you know, it's it's crazy that I don't know. I mean, I really hope that this M1 will change the game. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. I mean, I was running previous to this. I was running a 2013 MacBook Pro to do everything. And it was just like, was it two, three weeks ago that I upgraded? In fact, part of the reason I upgraded was when Greg and Eileen were on the stream and everyone was saying, oh, Greg's really out of sync and all this, but it was basically my computer causing it. So I thought, yeah, I'm doing this. I need to just I got the eight gig. Yeah. Because to be honest, I'm still waiting for the 16 16 inch laptop. So I figured, well, yeah, this is a kind of like a stop gap. I think I'm yeah, I'm probably going to try to trade in the eight gig and get whatever the next Mac mini is. Yeah, probably. But yeah, I think it's just like the also you have a do you have a doc? I don't have a doc actually. And the screen I've got is like a it's a 43 inch Phillips. It's one of these things I've meant to do like a little video about it. But the trouble is it's not available in the US. So I thought people are just saying, oh, I really want that monitor. But then, oh, they can't get it. But it's like a 43 inch Phillips monitor. It's one of the biggest sort of traditional source aspect ratio. I'm not one for widescreen. I like to have just one big square monitor. Yeah. So it's more it's more like a more like a TV, but it is actually a monitor instead. So so that's what I've got. And then I've got my little lily put monitor, which is basically HD for my teleprompter setup. But I was looking to get another monitor actually as well. Just off to the side because when I do screen demos warning, you know, it's already bringing down my computer. Yeah. Well, that's what you're saying. Although Chris has just said that he's powering three monitors on my M1. It has a little more throughput. Yeah. Because the graphics card is like using some of those cores, I believe, right to sort of power these displays. I'll try. Yeah. So I go on. Oh, no, I was just going to say, because like I do use a cam link also your camera straight in, right? Straight in. Yeah. Yeah. I use a cam link, which I think it adds more overhead. Right. And you can reduce it down if I use the USB straight in. That was more bearable. But also my face cam, I have the Elgato face cam. I can't even turn the thing on. It's like too sluggish because I need a dock. All right, right, right. Power thing. Yeah. Well, it's like the worst hobby in the world. I've got some HD monitors. So I'm just going to try one of those on it because I wouldn't necessarily want a 4K. What it's for for me is when I do like screen demos for the channel, but also for the other stuff, having a dedicated monitor that's off to the side, it means that when I've got my little picture in the box, I'm actually looking at the monitor if I look over that way. Whereas if I'm doing it on this big screen, sometimes seems it looks like I'm looking off screen. So for the YouTube channel, it's not as critical. But when I'm doing like training videos and stuff like that, it's better to have it as a way it looks like you're actually looking at what you're talking about. Have you tried Sidecar? The Sidecar. Or Sidecar. That's it. The thing with the screen from that's built into the Mac. Yeah. So that's for like an iPad, isn't it? Yeah. Is it? Yeah, yeah. So the problem I've got with that. You can share that screen like separately. Yeah, yeah. You can do that. Yeah. Michael says, I've added a few body overlays and lower thirds. I went to the gym on Wednesday. Yeah, I've got quite a few extra body overlays going on here as well. I mean, we did not meet because of the cycling. We met because of live streaming, I guess, technically, even more precise e-cam. But no, the cycling thing just worked out like randomly that I didn't realize we had cyclists in the group. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So it's a good little commonality there. I'll be interested. Why did you get rid of the Rocaster Pro? Spoke audio. Is that because you just were not using it? What was the issue there if there was anything? Oh, Robert. Sorry, I've just seen you in the message. Hi, Robert. I'll remember that. Yeah, I'm just interested. Why you got rid of the Rocaster Pro? How do you find that, Greg, the Rocaster? So I use it a lot. But the main reason that I got the Rocaster was that I do a lot of audio rooms on Clubhouse and Twitch Maces. And when I tried some of the other hardware options, it wasn't really that great for merging the audio, like bringing my computer audio into Clubhouse or from getting my mic. And so it was a slippery slope. I got the Rocaster, then I didn't have an XLR mic, so I had to get the Pod mic and then cables and all the other nonsense, right? But I like it in general. I like having the Rocaster, I like having the dedicated hardware just to deal with the audio stuff. But I only use one mic on mine. And I use the audio and occasionally I'll use the Bluetooth interface as well. Right, right. Yeah, that was for me. I was always thinking if I've just got one mic going in, is it a bit of overkill? But yeah, I can see use cases. Obviously, can have sound effects, so I can have things like this. Greg, you're doing like regular Twitter spaces? Yes. So I do a live stream twice a week, probably about to become four days a week. But we do a new show on Creator Economics and sort of like companies building stuff for creators. And so we do syndicated, we do live streaming to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitch, YouTube on the video side. And then we do Clubhouse and Twitter spaces at the same time on the audio side. I'm not sure I have you in my Twitter list, because I do also some Twitter spaces. Oh, cool. Very fun. I really love it. I mean, I prefer spaces than the space above. Basically, as well. I have like, I got a big audience on Clubhouse pretty over the last like six months. But I honestly like dealing with the tool is too annoying like to sort of manage. Like I like being able to share links and all the other stuff that Spaces has. So yeah, I prefer Spaces as well. Actually, the last few weeks, we haven't done the Clubhouse room anymore. We just do Twitter. And I feel like there is less spam people on Spaces than Clubhouse. Clubhouse, I feel like there is a lot of people is joining just for having fun and not, you know, like when they raise their hand for speaking. I mean, that was awful. There are some people that just come on stage and I mean, like I don't know what the hell they're doing. In fact, it's, it's, I don't understand. But Spaces, I found it like pretty good and quality wise is okay. I think the other thing that goes with that is that you're sort of credentialed on Twitter, right? Like you have your account, we know who you are, even though it's kind of linked right from, from Clubhouse. But on Clubhouse, I think you're right. There were a ton of people who came in and like all kinds of nonsense, right? Like, what's all this stuff in your bio? Like none of it's verifiable. None of it's real. You know, everyone's sort of just chatting and talking about like any number of things. I help like, I'm one of the leaders for the startup club. Like it's the biggest club on Clubhouse. And we've seen all kinds of antics, you know, in the last year or so. So it's been an interesting journey for sure. No, it's good. By the way, just about going back to your monitor's minute. This is a good point that Michael makes. So how are you linking your monitors into your Mac mini? Have you got a hub for that? So I have two, I have LG, two LG 27 inches, one, they're both USB. So I use the USB C on one of them. And I use the HDMI port on the other. Right, right. Because I think that this is a good point you make. So you can get the the the docs that say display link on them. And I remember Doc Rock mentioning this a few times about having the doc that has got so you can plug it in over the thunderbolt. And then as long as you've got the display link type doc, then you can chain multiple ones in there. Yeah, I need the doc just to get my second camera to work anyway. But you know, the crazy thing is every time someone's like, you should get this thing, it's sold out. Yeah, well, that's the thing I get one of those docs. The KEL digit is the one that everyone keeps talking about. And it's yeah, yeah. And the reason I held off, though, is that maybe the ports will be better on the new Mac mini, right? So I was like, Oh, well, you know, before I have to go buy a $300 doc, like maybe that 300 could just go into the the computer, right? Yeah. Yeah. And Chris has also got a roadcaster, but doesn't actually use it. The have a shotgun in the camera and prefer this. How's the SM7b going, Chris? I know that Chris got an SM7b. Have you got to the bottom of the settings and that on that one? And speaking of settings, Michael has got the new ZV-E10. So if you want to look at the settings, I don't know if you saw, but Diana Gladney did a great video. Yeah, all of the settings. So that'll take you through everything. There was also in, was it in the e-cam group? I can't remember. But doc, Diana, and I think Keith Pelzer went through and did the same sort of thing where they were going through all the settings. So there's definitely a few few videos out there as a resource. How does she do that? By the way, it looked like like the camera's display was literally like being shared or was it an overhead cam? Because I only saw a part of it. I think that there's a setting so that you can share like all of the output as well. The HDMI output will carry that too. Yeah. Yeah. And Robert, just saying that he had a real complaint to the roadcaster pro. I'm getting comments scrolling away from here. I'm not used to having actual comments to deal with. You're becoming more and more popular, I think. I'll need moderators soon. I'm with you. Is it Chris Sandoval? Yeah. I have an iPhone now, but only because I have an Apple watch, but I've been an Android person for the last 10 years. That's, yeah, Paul's just mentioned about chip shortages impacting everything. That is a thing. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I can get how much is a Keldigit, the, what's it, the TS3? Yeah. Or the plus one, what's the price of it in the U.S. Oh, if it's available. It's like 200, I believe, or 250 U.S. Yeah. So I can get that here. They've got it in stock, but it's like $500. So, but it's because it's because somebody's another computer, right? Exactly. Somebody's basically just banked a load of them and then they're selling them for silly money. It's like this monitor that I've got was, how much was it now? It was like, was it 300? No, I don't know. It's 12, something like that. It was around about $500, something like that, but it was out of stock temporarily. And so there was people selling for like 1,005, like on Lazada is a thing we've got over here. It's a bit like Amazon, really, an e-commerce site. But yeah, people, when there's a shortage of stuff, they just, they just totally inflate the prices of it. And I don't know how many people buy it, but he's got the SM7B connected to Rocaster, but it seems to drop out. So maybe a settings issue. I'm just thinking, is there any good resources on that? There's probably something in the e-cam group, if you search for SM7B. Tom has some good videos, I think with that mic and Rocaster. Of course he has, yeah. Yeah, the Rocaster Master. Well, if you have like the noise gating on, sometimes that can happen, right? Like where sometimes it can clip automatically, like anything sound weird, like the mic is cutting out, but it's actually the gate coming out. So you may want to check the settings on the gate. The plus is the older version. I was trying to get the USB 4 version, but I've also heard it doesn't necessarily matter that much with the M1. Right, right. Yeah, just thanks for stopping by. And yeah, I do this live stream every week, basically. So videos throughout the week, but then the live stream is every week. So that you can catch you. But thanks for stopping by. Caldigit now on Amazon for 229. Yeah, see, that's a lot. That would be, for me, that would be like 6,000 bars, whereas here it's like 12 or 14,000. So yeah. A cloud lifter. I find, yeah, so you do need some sort of booster with the SM7B, I believe, but so the four is, yeah. Yeah, the OWC dock. That's the other like gold standard, I think. That one and the Caldigit is the one that's always been recommended. Anchor has one also. I know Doc had done a video reviewing the three of them. That's right, yeah. Clark Technic. Oh, I see, for the cloud lifter. Got you. Right, right. Yeah, that's one of the bonuses of the MV7 is you don't need to necessarily worry about all of that sort of stuff. And I think the sound just sounds okay. It's not too bad. And it's good being able to just plug it directly in over USB. Your sound is good. I mean, like, me, I'm using the ROLD NT mini US. Yeah, I like that, Mike. Yeah, that was the other one that I looked at was it was either this or that. And I just went for this one because it had the XLR, so I knew what my gear acquisition syndrome is like. And that I might want to upgrade and add the roadcaster into the link later. I have another setup with a mixer and everything. The issue that is in the other room where is my actual studio, right? But the air conditioning broke down. And as we are under lockdown, I cannot have any guys to fix the air conditioning. So I have to move here in this room where you see the green screen over there and so on, right? I had to move everything, but I cannot move everything because I'm producing music as well on my free time. So I have everything over there. Just I move like the essential thing that I need for live streaming, which is my camera and this one. And the monitor, which is like, in a very weird position. So that's the reason why you see me sometimes looking like in the angles and looking at the screen. It's very uncomfortable. But anyway, we do what we have to do, right? Yeah, my camera is still too high, actually. I just ordered a shorter pole because I'd like it to be kind of right here. Right, right. So much of my ceiling above me also. Also, like I have it screwed in without a ball head because the ball head was making it higher. So literally, I can't even angle it down. Did you see the thing that Doc posted with the clump? I did. Of course, I was out of stock, right? You can't blame that one on the chip shortage either. It's just a pole. No, that's just a metal bar. I found something called Ubit. What's it called? What is this company? Uitibit, U-T-E. And they made it. They have a clamp that has like the threads on the outside of it. Right. And so, and then I found a very, like a short, like they have a seven inch friction arm. So I'm trying to like MacGyver those two pieces together. Yeah. And then I can also move the camera a little closer to my face, like instead of being at the back edge of the, yeah. Are you going to get the teleprompter as well? Oh, you've been talking to Keith? This is what I've got. I've got exactly what Keith did. Is it the same one you have? The T3 is the one you have also? The T3 with the Lilyput A7. It's brilliant. It really is. Yeah. It makes such a difference. I mean, it's like now I can, I'm looking at you rather than down anywhere. And so do you use a splitter and then put one of your screens onto that basically? No, it's like a separate. So I've got basically the Lilyput is an NHD monitor. So that's plugged into my Mac Mini. And then I've got my main 4K display. So that's because you have two displays, right? Yeah. So that is just my second display. And so I use it on Zoom meetings. So I have the, when in Zoom, you get dual monitor set up. So I have like the speaker view on one, but then the gallery view will be on my main monitor. So it means I'm looking at whoever's speaking. And then when I do my video stuff, then I have the output, the what's it called, the virtual, not virtual monitor, the video out, video monitor to go into that. So now basically, I'm looking at the sort of the feed out. So I'm seeing what everyone else would see, which means I'm obviously seeing you then as well. Yeah, I'm contemplating it. But I want to get my next computer first and then worry about right, right. So it's the same problem. I did solve part of the problem. Because I think if you remember, I was saying before my camera was above my monitor, so I was always like either having to look up if I wanted to look into the monitor. So now because I have the two monitors, the camera's actually in the middle of the monitor, so I can sit right in the middle and I have them kind of banked a little bit. So I can literally like right now your screen is actually technically on my right hand monitor, right where you guys are. So yeah, it would be nice. But I also do have a TV behind me. Yeah, you got a really, really cool looking setup. And I found out that I can airplay to that from my computer. It just goes slow as hell. But when I airplay, that's what I did is I put, I use StreamYard when I stream and I use my ecam into my StreamYard. So I put StreamYard back there. And so that way I'm kind of looking upwards where I put my script over here if I want to read. But I could imagine me getting, I've thought about the teleprompter in the past, but there's other things I want to get done first in here. Yeah. The thing I liked about this, because Keith did a video about it in the ecam group, I forget how many weeks ago it was, but I saw that and it was just like I was sold on it. Because I was always put off having like a big massive dedicated, you know, like the glide gears that a lot of people have, the big one. Because it felt like the camera was not that I moved my camera around, but it just felt like two big and bulky. Whereas this, it just sort of, you saw Doc's stream the other day, it just sort of slots over the top of it. But your screen is very wide, right, Alex? So where do you put the teleprompter? Is it in front of your screen? It is on top of it. So I can show you just one second. I'll show you because it's just basically sitting on top of the screen. So I was saying earlier, the best looks for me, you never look like you're looking up. Yeah, that's my feeling as well. Yeah. So my eyes are basically say three inches below the sort of the line of it, and then it's angled slightly down. But the other reason why it doesn't look like I'm looking up is because I think the background is not, it's slightly different angle to the background. So that gives the illusion that I'm not looking up. But then also, if I was down here, it would be a very good, I've not got, I'll say earlier, Keith has his camera basically on his desk looking up at him. That is not a flattering look for me with this extra that I've got down here. So it does work out quite well. Let me just grab this up and I shall put it up. One second. Dead air is a crime. Hang on a minute. I'll get my phone up. So you are revealing the behind the scene? Yeah, I did do a video actually one of my first live streams, but it was I think it was my second live stream was like the studio tour. By the way, I think you were tuned in for this. Matt, have you seen this? I'm really enjoying Doc's new podcast. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Like one because I'm you know, as a almost 47 year old, I feel like I'm in the category. But also because I actually like I'm using the script also, I love it. It's like my favorite tool. But I'm really interested to see his workflow, like for building that podcast out, because I'm curious how to do the other blending. I just I'm hoping that he'll show some of those things as well. Oh, I think he's going to do it. Do it all. And I think you talked about he's going to do the editing in the year. Do you ever come to any of the Saturday? Oh, no, you don't either Saturday morning. Saturday is hard with the family and stuff, right? So that's probably why I usually just don't got you. I don't make it. Also, I'm usually biking in the morning and takes like three to four hours. So I often miss it. This script is a magic tool. It's amazing. It's like black magic. I mean, that also kills my computer, by the way. So that is where my thing is. So I've basically got. Wow. Is your chair really high? No, no, it's just a normal chair. I'm actually going to I'm going to change my desk to be a standing desk because I've been sitting down for all the time. So I'm going to the monitor is actually just all on a. Is it straight on the table? No, because it's massive. So what I've done is I've got the second I just release my cable. It's basically one of these like monitor stands. Ah, okay. Gotcha. Gotcha. That's how my TV is out the same way the TV that you saw behind me is on one of those stands like that. Yeah. So I can I can actually move my whole sort of green around with my feet. Not that I need to, but it's just it's just like an all in one. But sometimes I do do some stuff where I'm standing up so I can actually move the monitor back and then spin it around. But that is basically the. Yeah, it's amazing. Like I wouldn't know you were it was above your eyes at all. Yeah. I've attached a little. It's just completely like you're at eye level. Like it's like right in front of your face. Yeah. That's cool. How much have you raised? By the way, I have to donate to everybody. I don't know anything so far to be honest. I've not just sort of mentioned it for the first time today. So I haven't posted it on Twitter and that but I think another offer I did my first drop today. So I have my own creator token like a creator coin and we did it. We integrated into our live stream. So we actually today we did our first drop. So we were giving away free money basically during the show. Oh, right. Right. Yeah. I was just trying to figure out what you were talking about then. But right. Yeah. The crypto. I have like a crypto token basically for my show. Well, it's for me but I'm using it around my show. And so people can buy shout outs and stuff like that in the show. Got you. For with the coins. Right. Yeah. Yeah. But we're also I'm just giving them away. Right. Like so I think there's still a drop. I have a URL. I'll send it to you out. And if anybody wants it, they're free to try it. But yeah, you can get some if you ever wanted to try crypto like I'm giving it away. So like if you want to just experience what it's like. Yeah. This is a chance to do it. Yeah. Definitely check that out. Another challenge for Eric. Yeah. Another challenge. Yeah. Yeah. That's that's what I need. I've not been having enough challenges recently. So Chris has got the glide gear TMP 100 teleprompter. To be honest, it is good the larger ones because then you get you know, when you're on if you're using zoom with gallery view in on the teleprompter, then if you've got like 25 people on it, they are quite small. But that's why I tend to use the split screen and have it so that I just see the the main source. You should never be on a zoom with 25 people anyway. Oh, I was the one on the other day with like 125 and it was just it's just it's hilarious when you see the quality of people's like video because we're used to all looking, you know, reasonable, you know, lighting and stuff like that. And not just backgrounds, but just every, you know, the pictures clear, but you see people using the zoom green screen effects, you know, where it just takes out your background. And it's like the key in on it is terrible. And some of them have got like the northern lights going behind them. You know, it's just it's just hilarious. One of my one of my you'll find this funny. One of my consulting clients, my project is ending in like a week. And they're like, man, we're going to miss your your background. And I was like, you know what, guys, I'll send you all pictures of my backdrop and then you can use it for your when you're green screen yourself. Yeah, Chris, Doc's podcast is Creator 50. It's not released yet. He just recorded the first one yesterday, but I think it's coming out on anyway, it's coming out on his birthday, which is I forget the date now 19th of September, 12th of September. There you go. Yeah. Yeah, you have to be over 50 to get in to listen to it. Oh, there you go. Yeah. Oh, all of the answers. If I just read a bit further, I would have you pop on ND filter square on the lily put screen sometimes if they are white into the live outputs. Ah, okay. That's interesting. Right, right. 12th of the ninth. Yeah, it's it was it was good. And like I say, good to see him recording that all as well. And that's all going through the process. I will get back to my podcast using your your approach that you recommended, Greg. I'm thinking in a couple of weeks, I'm just going to get everything together and actually start doing it. And yeah, doc's been a bit of a motivation for that. Descript. It's so easy, right? I mean, like I feel weird because like I'm like removing people's words, like you can literally change what someone is saying. Yes, audio out of it. Right. Yeah, yeah. Like, you know, with copy paste, right? Like so it's pretty incredible to be able to do. But yeah, I we're same thing are we do a new show on Friday mornings. That's usually an hour long stream. We're going to break it up into two 20 minute podcasts so that we could react to the news a little more timely, right? Instead of like all on Friday, we could do it Tuesday, Thursday. Yeah. And it's the same thing. All we have to do is just read the intro. And we don't really need to read the intro. We could technically like prerecord that once, right? And then copy pasted somehow into into there, right? And then I think we should be able to get the out. And I think Descript sends straight to podcasting services. Is it? Yeah, they do. Yes. Yeah. There is this kind of export. I am on the script now. You can export directly to best proud, I think. Okay, I see no not anchor yet. But I see like, only best proud. I say that which is the most well known, right? And, and both podcast.co as well. And that's all. But what is interesting also is creating this small audiogram, you know, that's what I do actually. Yeah, it's very good. I mean, like, just like super cool. Yeah. There's an audiogram company and they charge more for just the audiogram stuff. Descript does for like all of the stuff they do. Yeah. By the way, don't worry, Chris, the videos are coming. I'm not there. I'm sure there's loads of people doing videos on Descript as well. But I'm going to be making there is plenty. I think there is Stephanie, Stephanie Liu, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah, Stephanie Liu. Yeah. Oh, in fact, if you, if you go and check Doc Rock's channel and then go and look for the the interview that he did with Stephanie Liu, it was about Descript and Jarvis. She did like a sort of double thing on that. So it was about a week ago, I think that was a great, a great interview that Doc did with Stephanie Liu. Definitely look there. Exactly. And it's good idea for your shorts. You have this audiogram, right? You can even upload it like one minute of part of the discussion. You just extract this one, audiogram and you can post it as a short. You see what I mean? And the only warning I'll give, and I think I mentioned this to Alec before also, they said it exports these square audiograms and they blow out if you put them into shorts. So I actually had to make a template in Premiere and then I drag the audiogram in and like center it and it centers automatically actually, right? Like if you just drop it into your final cut, right? And then I export that new video with the wrapper and then it has like my show name and stuff around it. But yeah, that's the only crappy part is that like it's added this step. But honestly, that step takes me like 10 minutes now, total from the time I have the audiogram to getting it onto my phone and pushing it out. Yeah, I mean, might use those on there on Instagram. Remove that last step. Oh yeah, if you put on Instagram, it's square already, you're good to go. Today, for the first time, I uploaded it to Twitter and to LinkedIn also actually, like the actual video. And then I just link back to my YouTube video. Nice. It's saving a lot of time. I mean, I have started to use it. I mean, my English is not very good. So it's not catching all the words and everything. So anyway, but it's helping, you know, and also you can do the caption directly in the subtitles. You can add it, you know, in the video. So, I mean, it's doing everything that we need to do in terms of content creation and it's saving a lot of time. The way that it's cutting the video, then I import this into my Final Cut Pro timeline. I'm saving like all this jump cut, you know, that you have to do manually and so on. It's saving a lot of time. I mean, like I can focus really on editing and producing a real good content instead of having like, you know, this repetitive work of cutting, you know, and that's, that's great. I mean, that's a great tool, honestly. Chris, that's going to do this great video today. I'll bump it up the list, Chris. So how many, how many videos you have in stock? Like, have you done like, I don't have any in stock. No, I just do them and then release them. So actually, I say that. No, that's, that's a lie. Last weekend on Sunday, I did four videos. And so I did actually schedule those to go out one every day. But generally, I just release them when I've done them. So, yeah, some days I might release four and other days none. But I don't tend to bank them up. Although, I think I might actually start doing that. Like if I did some over this weekend, then yeah, start to sort of build them up. But generally, I just put them out there. It's usually because I always think that there's probably somebody, I know at least, you know, one or two people that would kind of be need it or be waiting for it. So I think why sort of hold it back. I'm not bothered about what's the absolute peak time to release this video to get the maximum hits and stuff like that on it. So I just, I just get it out there really. But I think that with more video released, you will have more statistics so you will know more when it's the right time and when your audience is watching it. Oh, yeah. So in Facebook, I can tell you, not Facebook, in YouTube Studio, I can tell you exactly when the best time for me to release it is. It seems to be my time Wednesday at midnight. But it's in the, I'll just bring it up actually, it's in the stats panel. And that's, it's about the same time every day. But I tend to just do mine, like I say, when they are when they are ready. But if you go into, into YouTube stats, let me just do this one second, if I go into my YouTube stats and then go into the, where's it gone, analytics, and then somewhere down here, there is one to do with engagement, I think is it? No, it's one of these, or maybe it's audience. There you go. So it's this one, it's this little heat map when your viewers are on YouTube. So in fact, this is actually changed since last time. The best time now, it says weekly, the best time would be at Thursday, 10pm. You can't see it in dark mode very well, but it's just down there. That's a TubeBuddy thing. And then you've also got this that is the built in sort of YouTube one. So basically, this is saying basically Friday at midnight is the best time. And then you can click that for live streaming and it'll tell you. So for videos, the best time is for a weekly video would be 10pm or for a live stream would be Thursday at 11pm. But then also it tells you the time of the day. It's about midnight on each on each day, something like that. But yeah, I don't do that. I just think it's going out. Timing is a very hard thing when you're international or with a global audience anyway, right? You have to figure out a lot of things. You could you could sort of schedule it, of course. I mean, to be honest with you, once I've done like, maybe after I've done 365 videos, I might like spend some time seeing like, right, well, how can you really sort of refine it? And, you know, just as an experiment to see, you know, what difference does it make and do some proper sort of split testing and stuff. By the way, we're at $667 and $43 cents raised for our team. Ah, cool, cool. Let's go to that. Out of out of a thousand out of a thousand. There you go. I can't see the don't I don't see where the donations came from. Oh, so what it is is there's some that have come from directly to our group down at the bottom here. Oh, is it a roll up? And then, oh, Facebook does match them also, I believe. But then anything that each of us individually has got as well. So people can donate to the group like here, or they can go to any one of our pages. So I've got my page as well. So you can see how much I contributed to that from my my page at the moment is zero. So I'm looking for pity and I'm looking for people to see this scrolling ticket and donate here. I've got $51 raised from so far. Right. So that that would all be counted in here, but it might not all that money then. Well, like I say, I mean, I mean, where'd you get to that from? So that's that's on our page. If I'm on, if you're on your page, and then you go down to pay, but I don't see the donations. So if you go to view my team, then if you just scroll down, it's in there for me. Our sponsors at the bottom. Oh, and then there's the big important donate button. Yeah, can you can you see that or not? Let me see here. Now I see team sponsors, but I don't see anyone who's had got that much money in. Oh, well, this is this is individuals that have like sponsored the actual thing. Weird. So can you see how so so here you can see who's actually been sponsored. So that is you, that is you, Keith, and it's got your name next to it. So that's directly to you. Whereas these other ones are to Randy. So those are that's a Facebook fundraiser donation to Randy. Whereas this one, Melinda is to actually to our page. So they've obviously clicked this button. It's just weird though, because I'm the one who set up the team. I can't see the same thing you're seeing. You're not, you're not authorized privileges. But that's pretty cool, isn't it? Three days in and yeah, 660 of the thousand targets. So we'll definitely be smashing that. That's good. Yeah, Facebook does a bunch of matching early on. I don't I wish I could see where this is coming from because I literally cannot get to it. Chris is just saying, sorry to leave you, mate, but it's midnight here and I need some beauty sleep. It's been awesome. And nice to meet you as well. So Chris is in there. Chris is in the in the UK. So that's a bit late, a bit late there. Good night. Yeah, I'm about to go pick up some food. Oh, actually here I see team members now. Okay, the big one is Randy Wilburn. Yep, yep. Who joined, I don't know who Randy is. Do you know Randy? No, I don't either. No, I just do it. He's doing a great job of the team. Good job, Randy. Yeah, that's where most of the money is from actually he's 354 out of a thousand goal. I'm at 51. Actually, you have $36 raised out. Oh, that must have happened while we're on this. So thank you very much. 36. So it's time for me to contribute. I will contribute definitely. I will join the team and contribute. Yeah. Oh, that's from from Michael Powell. Thank you very much, Michael. That is much appreciated. Michael's in the chat as well. Yeah, much appreciated. That's great. I'm after a start. Awesome. Yeah, I'm gonna do a big ride this weekend for the family as well. I've just heard. So looking forward to it. Always good chatting fellas. And you too. Alec, I need one of those, you know, nice gamer intros when I come on. You keep promising me. Do you know what? It keeps coming into my mind. I don't know what are those things called? They're like the little stinger or something like that. Stinger. We need a Greg Stinger. I think about this every week on Friday. You make a video of it when you do it. Make a video how to make the guest stinger. I'll get that done for next week. I hope you get a ride in today as well. I definitely will. I'm gonna do at least one a day and it might be like if I'm having a slow day, it would just be five or 10K. But then I want to get a long one over the weekend. So yeah, try and do it. I should have at least a 50 mile ride tomorrow. So I have to do 100 a week. So I need to get, I've only ridden like 25 or 30 miles this week so far. So I have between Saturday and Sunday, I have to do my other 70 miles. Right, right. Yeah. So we'll see. Cool stuff. But I plan to drink this weekend. So maybe I'll ride both days. See, I gave up two years ago as well. So I don't have that problem. All right, gentlemen. Matt, nice to meet you as well. I'm Tati soon. Thank you. Yep. Sure. Definitely. Take care. Catch you later. Bye bye. Yeah. Okay. I think that will be also my turn because it's 6.30 in the morning and it's time for going for register. I want to register on this challenge as well. Yeah, yeah. Come on. Just join. If you get my link as well, you'll be able to go and join the team. So there's a little thing down there that says basically, if you go over, click here, go to join my team, then you'll be able to just do that there. I'm on it already. And that's part of my to-do list of today and then cycling and then breakfast with the family. Yep. So that's a program, right? So thank you very much, Alec. Well, thank you for coming, Matt. It was great and thank you everyone who has joined this live stream and always good to hang out with Alec and the audience. So you all take care, stay safe and enjoy the day, other weekend or whatever. Cool stuff. Thanks a lot, Matt. I'll catch you later. Thank you. Take care, bye-bye. Well, I think it is almost my time to go as well, since I did hear the little footsteps in the living room upstairs. So it means that at least one of my kids is up. So I'm going to wrap it up there, but I will keep you all up to date with the goals as I go forward and see how we get. But yeah, it's good when you're working in a team with people. So definitely the cycling one, no issues with that one. We've all got our backs covered with that, between us all. And yeah, the big one for me is just losing a few pounds, a few of those extra overlays, as Michael mentioned. So that's all for this week or this live stream. Next week, I'm going to carry on doing my stream deck beginner's guide, because I did the first video last week, and then I took a week off where I was doing more of the setup videos that I've done on the channel. So this coming week, I'm going to do more of the stream deck stuff. And then also, I'll probably get around to doing that video as well for Chris about Descript and Jarvis as well. I'm still waiting for someone in our group to do all of his stuff, because he's a bit of a master at it. So I'm still holding off the Descript until I can tell you about his channel when he's got some stuff up there. But I'll try and get at least an intro video out to it anyway. Thanks, Michael, and see you tomorrow office hours. And thanks a lot for supporting the cause. It's much appreciated. And another Michael. Good night in the UK. And yeah, have a great day. So I still haven't got my outro sorted for this channel. I will get one at some point, a proper end screen. But until then, then basically I'm just using my standard YouTube one. So thank you, everyone, for stopping by and chatting and leaving all your comments and questions, responses and answering my questions. I'll see you tomorrow Paul as well. In class, as always, I was a bit late last week. It was the first time I was late. I was 30 minutes late. My little son had been up in the night. And so I actually overslept for the first time. So I don't ever set an alarm. It's just I just normally wake up at that time. So woke up and it was like quarter past four. So I was half a quarter of an hour late or half an hour by the time I joined. But I'll be on time tomorrow, I promise. Cool. Have a great day, everyone. Or evening, wherever the time is, wherever you are. And I'll catch you all later. Thanks for coming. Bye bye. I forgot I still got this little five second spurge in here. So bye bye again. Have a great day.