 How are you doing? Whoops, Daisy. We're off to a terrible start. How are you all doing? I hope you're all doing great. Good to see you here, Michael and Gage, of course, and Jeff, good to see the UK contingent here as well, and Chris obviously as well, two UK people here. Michael sent me a message earlier asking if the stream was at my usual time because it came up as 5 p.m. over there rather than the usual six, and I realized that in my video descriptions and things like that, I actually state the time in eastern standard time because I figured that the majority of my audience is actually US based, but I was forgetting about daylight savings, and so I'm still doing it my usual time because we don't have daylight savings here. Thanks, Chris. We don't have daylight savings here in Thailand, so yeah, I'm probably still gonna do it the same time. I'll just have to go and bulk edit all of my descriptions. I suppose it's a bit of a better, slightly earlier time for the UK contingent with the daylight savings, but in any case, do you know what? I've just realized, Jeff, I haven't replied to your email that you sent, was it Wednesday? Or it might have even been earlier than that. I can't remember. I've lost track of time this week, to be honest. You may have noticed there haven't been many videos coming out. We'll come to that in a moment, but yeah, just had one of those hectic weeks with proper work stuff, so it's all fun though, to be honest. I love doing all of it. But yeah, the YouTube stuff is just I've lost track of time with it again this week. So yeah, sorry if we're not getting back to you, Jeff. I'll do it straight after. We're not straight after this call. I'll get up and the kids will be up by the time I finish, but I'll do it later this morning, my time. So I'll get back to you about that, about the video. I think I've done, so you're asking about the setup, like how to do the, how to go live on YouTube and all of that sort of stuff. I did do one video about it, but I haven't done a sort of full start to finish guide of, you know, getting started on YouTube, but I will, I'll add that to the list, but I'll direct you to the other video as well. So in terms of this topic though, it was quite last minute really, because last night for me, so less than 12 hours ago, I realized I hadn't scheduled this live stream because work had just got away with me. And so I was just, it just sort of popped in there. Finding time for YouTube in amongst work and other life priorities. So I'll come on to that shortly, but I'll do my usual little update of where we are in terms of videos. Spoiler alert, we're a little bit further behind. So yeah, 365 videos in a year is obviously the target. And this week, I think I put out, I did the live stream, which I count and then one other video, I think. So anyway, it's 156. So I am now a month behind. And it's almost a, in fact, I think I've got six months left to go because we're halfway through, in fact, it's exactly six months, I think, until 15th of May is when I started. So yeah, it's the 13th of November now. So it'll be about the about about six months. So in the next six months, I've basically got to catch up on a month's worth of videos. But I think Vlogmas might come to my rescue there because I am going to do Vlogmas and that'll be in addition to my regular videos. So in any case, though, we're still obviously, we passed the 4000 watch hour mark, which is one of the requirements for monetization. Not that I'm really that fussed about it. I know that it's not going to make a huge difference from the beginning. Watch hours, these have both gone up, watch hours have gone up by about 300 or 500, something like that. And the the views have gone up by I think around 3000 something like that. So still good to see positive movement there. Subscribers have gone up by I think around 40 38 in fact. So that was a bit slower than the week before, but then I've not been posting videos. So I fully expect these things to happen. And certainly aren't fussed by them. Let's just have a quick look at the stats though, because I don't look at these in the week at all. I obviously, if I'm going into the YouTube app to look at YouTube Studio to upload things or things like that, then I'll just Hello, Paul, quick hello to Paul. Always great to see you. Yeah, I don't go into to look at the analytics or anything like that. So it's only really on a Saturday morning, when I look at them with you. And I do load them up beforehand, just so that I've gotten there ready. But yeah, this is, this is as far as I go with my YouTube analytics in the in the week, at least. And so you can basically see views tailed off slightly this week, because I didn't put anything out. If I put stuff out, then I get views. If I don't, then I don't. It's as simple as that. I do get repeat view. I do get some sorry, new views. So from people who have never seen my stuff before finding in search. But obviously, all the subscribers who are watching, you know, looking out for new videos, then they're obviously not watching anything. If there's nothing new coming out in general. So in fact, you kind of see that on the there's another chart here somewhere, which is there's one of them, which tells me let me have a little look. It's the audience actually. So here you can see returning viewers versus unique viewers. So the the purple or pink, whatever color that is, is the the returning viewers. So obviously, you see that the the blue line there, which is oh, sorry, it's completely off the screen. That's no use, is it? Let me get that back. So it is in view for you. There we go. So yeah, you can see that the the light blue sort of new viewers stays fairly constant. But then the the pink one sort of goes up and down basically based on whenever I post. So this week, I've not posted new videos last week, I posted more. There was more returning viewers. But this week, it dropped down because there wasn't. So it's as simple as that really. I haven't actually had a look at my just while we're doing all of this, I haven't actually looked at my which videos are performing well recently. So this is basically the top videos that I've got. So very mind I've done why is it 156? Oh, hey, Aubrey, great to see you as always. And yet just having a quick check through some of my stats. So yeah, but bearing in mind that I've done 156 58 videos, whatever it was. These are the the top 10. So the in the top 10 it goes from basically 900 views up to 2300. So that's the sort of level I don't know what the lowest is. I don't think I can sort this by by views to get the lowest. But in any case, that's these are the top 10. And as before, it's Oh, thank you, Jeff. I appreciate that. Let me put that up there. And just just pause for a moment to think about that. I do appreciate that. So yeah, stream deck stream deck, Logitech remote setup, that surprises me actually that that set or troubleshooting a Logitech remote on a Mac. Or perhaps it doesn't surprise me because it is easy to have trouble with with those ecome live and stream deck. I always noticed that stream deck is pretty heavy in the the rankings of the you know, top x videos. Another one here stream deck profiles stream deck new features, which is better OBS or ecom answers on a postcard, please. Then arranging windows with Moom. I'm quite surprised to be honest that that's been one of the higher ranked videos. It's a great app. I do love Moom, obviously, but I just surprised me that that one's up there. And then short MV seven. So an animated overlays in keynote and then Algato gear. So yeah, it's really the stream deck and things like that that do get the most views. So I if I was if I was going to be a, you know, chasing the numbers too much, then I'd just start to focus in all on stream deck, but I'm not I'm not going to go down that route, obviously, I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing. And by the way, speaking of stream deck, this is let me let me just illustrate exactly how busy I have not busy. I don't say busy. I've been there. I've focused on other tasks I've been, shall I say, a lot of people who are busy aren't actually doing anything, are they? I've just had some other stuff to attend to so but here is my my loop deck, which I got two weeks ago on Sunday. And I made the video about it, the unboxing and and sort of first impressions. I still haven't set set it all up. It's not a fully functioning part of my workflow yet, which is really strange for me because normally these things, I just get them set up and try and figure out how to actually put them to use immediately. But this one, I still haven't got around to actually doing that. So yeah, it's a bit of a bit of a surprise to me that is, but it's like I say, just had some other stuff on work related stuff that I've needed to get done. I did, however, find time to set up my new iPad mini. The iPad mini was always my favorite size of iPad. It just worked perfectly for me. The the larger size was just it was too big for me to just carry with me everywhere. So it didn't used to go with me everywhere. If I was taking a big like, you know, a messenger bag or something like that out with me, that would invariably have the laptop in so the iPad didn't get used much. And so my iPad Pro that I had before this, my daughter's been using it most of the time to be honest with you. I use it for illustrating in meetings and things like that on with e-cam. But apart from that, I don't really use it for sort of for much these days. But the iPad mini that I had before was always my my sort of favorite size. And I didn't replace it because it did have a bit of an accident, my original iPad mini. It was the first gen actually. But I didn't get around to replacing it because the update cycle of the iPad mini, it just felt like they were gonna they were gonna cancel it at any moment to be honest with you. The updates were really slow to come. When they did come, it was kind of like old, older technology in it. And so I never replaced that particular iPad mini and I ended up replacing it with an iPad Pro. It was four years ago now. So that shows how long it is since I I've been on the iPad train as it were. But when this one came out, I was just so pleased about it because it's really powerful. It's got obviously the new design. I mean, that was the other thing when they redesigned the other iPads. And then they did release an iPad mini, but it was still the old design in that. But this one, I'm just already in love with it again. It's just it's just brilliant. I tend to carry this peak design tech pouch with me. That's my little man bag. I throw in the car or through wherever I'm going. And this actually fits perfectly inside there. So yeah, really pleased about that. And I'm just using it a hell of a lot now. And I'm using this for my telestration as well on Zoom calls and stuff like that. So I will be making a video about the iPad mini at some point when I've got it all set up and got some things working on it as they should be. I also use it for it's great with OmniFocus. So I use OmniFocus as my task manager, which is based on David Allen's Getting Things Done system. So if you haven't read the book, Getting Things Done by David Allen, highly recommend it. It's a brilliant productivity book. And it's kind of it's kind of what I base my whole productivity system on really, or at least, you know, the sort of task management side of it. And OmniFocus is just a really powerful program for that. I will probably do a video about or two or 10, maybe a series of videos on OmniFocus and how I use that because yeah, it's just a it's just a great app. But it works really well with the iPad I find and sort of managing daily tasks and stuff like that. I'm back to doing it on the iPad mini now and things like the I was just about to launch into a thing about OmniFocus then. But basically in essence, to cut a long story short about the Getting Things Done system, you have like an inbox where you collect all of your tasks, but then you separate them by not just the task and the project they're in, but also by context. So you're only ever looking at the you don't have a big long list of tasks, as a lot of task managers might do. You only ever see the tasks that are relevant to your particular context that you're in, in terms of like what you're working on or where you are. So there's no point being shown a task that's to do with something that you've got to do, for example, at your home, if you are somewhere else. So it only shows you what is relevant to where you are and what you're doing at the time. And so the iPad is great for that because it's big enough that you can see, you know, all your projects and stuff like that. But it's unportable so that you just get to see exactly what you what you need to do at that time. It also rather than showing you, for example, in a project, all of the tasks for that project, it will show you the next task that you're able to complete in any particular part of the project. So there's no point seeing sort of 20 tasks deep, if you're only able to complete the first one first, if you so I mean, so it's just a really nice system for task management. So I've been doing that on my my iPad. I do find even though it's smaller, it's still great for telestration on the on the with with the Ecam, because although the other one, the iPad, I'd have it sort of landscape, I would only ever be writing on sort of part of the screen, the part of the screen that I wasn't on, basically, so on one side or the other. So what I've done with this one is I've just taken to using this in sort of portrait mode, and then writing on it, but it's just on one side of the screen basically. So I'm not actually losing anything over the iPad, over the larger iPad from that point of view in terms of like telestration on the screen and stuff like that. So I've been spending a bit of time getting that set up. Telestration, sorry. I mean, writing on the screen. Hang on, let me just do this then. Writing on the screen with the iPad. Let me quickly get this. I hadn't actually set this up. Destration. Sorry. I mean, writing on the screen. Let me just do one second while we're here. Writing on the screen. Let me get this one up quickly get this. I hadn't actually set this up. I didn't set this up. Let me just do one second while we're here. We'll get up quickly and get this one up please. Let me just want to say well, we're no Peddi here, we're no. We're no. We're not, we're no. We're not going to set this up. I mean, writing on the screen. Sorry, I mean, writing on the screen, let me just say it while we're here. 59, easy step, writing on the screen, writing on the screen, writing on the screen, writing on the screen. Sorry, I mean, writing on the screen, writing on the screen, writing on the screen, writing on the screen. Thank you, Paul. That was because my iPad Mini was not muted. So in any case, Jeff, this is what I'm talking about. I'm talking about writing on the screen. I get my pencil up, get the right colour. Like this. There we go. That's what I'm talking about. So it was because basically my iPad was not muted, so my iPad Mini. So there we go. I hope that that is sounding better, but that's what I was talking about in terms of the the illustration is writing on the screen. Look at that. It looks like I've got an empty iPad, doesn't it? But it's basically just a green screen, and then I'm writing on the screen, and so it's then coming through on the e-cam screen. So yeah, that's basically just using the Apple Pencil with the iPad. But it's great for when you're in meetings and stuff like that, and you can just write on the screen or annotate things. So if I've got stuff that I'm doing a screen sharing on or something like that, I'll be doing screen sharing on the Mac, but then I can just write over it with the writing on the screen. Do you know what, Chris? I do have a video about that, but I should probably update it. But yeah, I do have a video somewhere about it. Let me just have a quick look. It is somewhere here. It's illustration. I'll probably be able to find it. I'll have a little dig around for it. But yeah, so that's another thing that I'm using my iPad for. But what I found was, before, because my daughter started, she basically just co-opted my iPad Pro. So then what it would be is a case of every time I need to come to use it when I was doing meetings and stuff like that, invariably, it would be upstairs or somewhere and she would be using it. So it's good to finally have one back on the desk at all times. A quick look for this video. It is somewhere in here. Do you know what? As well, it used to be really easy for me to find things where I could just do a quick search. Thank you. Thank you very much, Paul. Much appreciated. In fact, has that come up yet? So I've lost my train of thought now. Oh yeah, so when I used to search for videos in the channel, especially things like one that comes up is people are asking about stuff to do with Zoom. So when I search for it, always it used to come up. But now, since I've changed my descriptions, it always seems to come up with loads of videos because it's finding stuff that was in the description and I couldn't just see in the actual search box in YouTube how to just search for only in the titles. I can do it in that thing, I can do it in TubeBuddy now that I mention it, but in any case, I digress. So yeah, thanks for posting that, Paul. Let me just have a quick flick back through the comments to see if I've missed something. Oh yeah, so this is what I'm talking about, isn't it? The paid job always gets in the way. It does indeed. And what else have I been doing this week though? Oh, so I had my vaccine actually, my first vaccine earlier this week. We've been waiting for ages for them in Thailand and the only vaccines that they did have, they bought a whole load of these Sinevac vaccines earlier on this year. And then they were rolling out mass vaccinations to everyone in the country and then this Delta variant cropped up and then it turned out that the Sinevac one wasn't actually that effective or wasn't anywhere near as effective with the Delta variant. So yeah, myself and my wife didn't want to have that one. And so we were just sort of waiting for some others and they'd ordered the Pfizer and the AstraZeneca one, but there was just a sort of backlog of them and they'd pinned all the hopes on this other vaccine, which turned out to be a little bit less effective. We didn't know when it was going to come and then finally, just earlier this week, it suddenly came about that it was there, it was available and so we went and had it done. So glad to have got that ticked off. We've got the next booster in 30 days or something like that, end of the month. So yeah, that's good. Just in time for my parents to visit because they're coming over Christmas and a new year is coming for a couple of months. So yeah, good to have it all unboxed off by then. And what else has happened this week? Apart from, yeah, so it's basically just work and that. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to stick up my little link because I've not got a huge amount to talk about today. So somebody feel free to jump on. But the thing about the work and finding time for it, I don't know what everyone else's schedules like, but I've talked about this so many times. My sort of window of opportunity for YouTube is this time between 4 and 6 a.m. every morning. Which is my sort of like quiet time where I can do it where the kids aren't up and about. I'm not spending time with the kids obviously because they're not awake. But then also it's not into the work time. So my work day is really always just my work day. I don't tend to do YouTube stuff in there at all. And it's just this little two hours. So if the two hours has gone, it's gone and I've missed my opportunity. So I do still need to get back into the flow of things. In Doc Rock's office hours last week, we were talking about what are our, what do we intend to achieve by the end of the year. And one of the things that I said was I want to get back to being consistent and I want to work on my consistency. And everyone sort of laughed because, you know, I have obviously been posting a lot of videos, but I really haven't been consistent. And regular viewers will know that for the past month, I have not been consistent at all. For the first 120 days, it was pretty much a video a day. And on days when I didn't post a video, I'd post two the next day or something like that. So there was definitely consistency there. Whereas this last month really, it's been, I had three weeks where I posted one or two videos. Last week was actually quite good. I did post seven videos, but then this week just gone has been, like I say, only two. So there's definitely a consistency problem there. It's not a problem. There's definitely inconsistency there though. And I do need to work on that. The other thing that I found that has been disrupting me, this is excuses coming out, but for my reasons as well, I've been having these late night Zoom calls every Friday. And I say late night like that because it's only from half past eight till half past nine. So I know that there's some of you watching now who it's far later than that. But for me, I always go to bed typically for as long as, not as long as I can remember, for a long time I've been going to bed at eight o'clock when I get up at three o'clock. That then gives me this four to five, four to six time to work on my YouTube stuff after I've got already had my coffee and all that sort of stuff. But having these Zoom calls late on a Friday night, late, that finish it like half past nine, that means that by the time I've actually shut everything down and finished properly doing what I'm doing, then it's like 10 o'clock. And then it takes me an hour to sort of, my brain to sort of wind down and slow down. So I'm going to bed at basically like getting to sleep at about 11 or maybe between 11 and 12 sometimes. But I'm still getting up at three o'clock. So when I've been doing these live streams for the past 10 weeks now, it's usually been on like three or four hours sleep. I don't set an alarm for it. I just still wake up and my body clock just wakes me up at that time. But it does mean that I've been, yeah, doing them on a lot less sleep. And to be honest with you, if I was getting up to actually record a video now, like having not had the sleep, I probably wouldn't do it. I wouldn't be in the right sort of frame of mind to necessarily sit and do it. You notice I'm probably stumbling over some of my words on these. So yeah, but it's had like a knock on effect to the rest of the week really, because it sort of throws me out of balance by having these. I also, for the same project that I'm working on, I also have one on a Wednesday evening as well, which is not quite as late, but it's a two hour meeting just before bed. I ended up going to bed a bit later then. And I'm realizing now that this is actually disrupting my whole patterns because rather than going to bed at the same time every day and waking up at the same time every day, I'm a bit of a stickler for sort of routine in that respect. By having this sort of disruption, it is actually throwing my whole sort of routine out of whack a little bit. But fortunately, it's the last week of this, is next week. So as after Friday, then for the time being, I won't be having more of these ever so late night meetings that end at half past nine. And so hopefully that'll help me return to a little bit of normality. I do have a number of different video series. I took on board what we talked about on my live stream. When was it? Two weeks ago, where we're talking about having a whole, like a series in a week. So I'm planning on doing basically five videos on a topic in a week. Then one, perhaps like random video if you like. And then also the live stream. So that would be my seven in every week. I am going to get back to doing the shorts as well, not instead of but as well. So just got to get back to, this is the same conversation I've had with you all, isn't it? For the past four weeks, just got to get back into the routine. But I can feel it's so close now. And then as I say, I'll be doing Vlogmas as well. So that'll, that should catch me back up with my missed videos. Between now and the end of the year, the target for my new year's resolution is to be back up to, back on top of the videos. So, yeah. Oh, thank you very much. I appreciate that. I'm not beating myself up about it. I'm just being honest and open with all of you lovely people. I don't, much as I'm talking about sleep, I certainly don't lose sleep about stuff on the channel, but it's just one of these things of having set myself a goal for it, then I'm just tracking the progress as I get to that goal basically. So we're only six months in. So I've got 30 days to catch up within six months. And like I say, Vlogmas should help with that. So, yeah. It's just a case of like for me, I've got this sort of set time. And so I suppose I titled this thing about finding time between work and stuff. Because I know it is something that other people, you know, I wouldn't say struggle with, but it's a challenge for some people, isn't it? Finding the time to do the content creation stuff in amongst all of the other sort of work life things. But, yeah. Yeah. I am a good napper. I'll say that. My wife always laughs and says that I can sleep anywhere. I literally can. So usually for the past few weeks, where I've been having not as much sleep before my live streams, then I do definitely get some nap time in on the Saturday mornings after my stream. So I forget your name, by the way. Can I just ask Driven Spice? I'm sure I've asked you your name before, I think, but I can't just remember. So I do like to call people by their names. But thank you for the comment, though. I do appreciate it. It's the same with all of this YouTube stuff for me, though. It is all just one big experiment. That's why I like to try out different things. And obviously share them with all of you. I'm totally open and transparent in that respect. It's just about seeing how things go and not beating myself up about it. But like I say, I always care about the numbers, but I don't really care about the numbers. I don't lose sleep over them, but it's just nice to see how things grow. Hi, Eileen. It's great to see you here. Oh, by the way, Eileen, thank you for tagging me in that Twitter message that you did, which was about Google Tags, sorry, YouTube Tags. And it came from someone at Google. I can't remember their exact position, actually. But yeah, they were saying about how the relevance of tags and how effective they are in sort of boosting your views and things like that on YouTube. And the short answer is they're not as effective, basically. And they said... In a roundabout way, didn't they, Eileen? They said focus on the things that people are likely to use to actually click on your videos, such as your descriptions and titles and thumbnails and stuff like that. Yeah. Hello, great to see you here. What is your drive based on? Meaning, is this a money of making? All right, so, okay, I'll tell you a little bit of story. So my channel is called Take One Tech. And the whole purpose of it is for me to get more used to sitting down and making videos in one take. So I use Ecam Live to create content for other business ventures. So I use it to demonstrate stuff. I use Ecam Live with Zoom meetings, which is a bit of a separate thing, really. But then also creating course content for other ventures, basically. And I used to do this by filming and editing all of my videos. And I used to hate it, because I was my own worst enemy. I used to give myself a terrible job, really, when it came to editing, because I would constantly be retaking things, like even just getting through... I'd have a sentence or something like that that I wanted to say, and I'd retake it multiple times. So then when it came to doing the editing, I actually really dreaded coming to do the editing because I knew what a difficult person to work with I was in terms of the content that I'd created. And I'd have to be editing myself, like to ridiculous lengths to actually get something together. And then, once I'd done that, it wasn't particularly great because there was loads of edits in it, so it didn't actually flow properly. And then when I discovered first OBS and didn't like that and then Ecamm Live, I realised how if I'm just talking, like I'm talking to all of you lovely people, there's no trouble to just talk. So why don't I just actually talk like that when I'm doing my videos and then capture that live. And if there are a few mistakes and errors in there, I don't think people are going to mind too much if it's just the odd... and things like that, people are quite forgiving are fine. So I decided that I wanted to try and get better at doing these videos, my tutorial videos. This is a live but I do... my goal is 365 videos in a year and the reason for it is I want to just practice this skill, if you like, of just sitting down at the computer and making a recorded tutorial video or whatever it happens to be, but that's what I do. I figured I'd start a YouTube channel as a way to do that and to also get over my recovering perfectionist nature. So I am a bit of a perfectionist and I tend to overthink things sometimes and unless they're absolutely perfect not put them out. So this whole channel was like an antidote to that as well. It was a case of me just getting over myself and saying, well, let me just put it out and like I said, if it has got a few OMS and ERS and stuff like that, so be it. Let's see how people deal with it and it turns out that people do they are quite forgiving and my content has been relatively well received from my point of view considering where I was coming from before thinking like, I can't put this out, it's not good enough. So the channel is not a money-making venture as such. I do want it to be at least cost-neutral and it has been so far and I started it six months ago, so 15th of May was my first video and that was a live stream and then as I say, more or less a video every day for most of the time since then but yeah, it's really a journey of self-improvement, self-discovery and experimentation and it's just to see what happens as well if you do post consistently to YouTube that's what I do on these live streams I talk about my stats and how things have gone how things have gone the last week and how the channel has grown just to share with everyone really what my experience has been of just posting consistently and the results that other people might be able to expect by doing the same really and so I'm just a bit of a got an open book policy in terms of what I'm doing how I'm doing it and the monetization aspect of it so although I don't have YouTube monetization yet because I'm only at 650 some other subscribers something like that I have monetized the channel in terms of a little buy me a coffee link that's popping up in the bottom corner there I do consultation calls and stuff like that so I didn't set out with this channel as being a as such a money making venture but I did want it to always be sort of cost neutral at that point and it certainly it is more than that at the moment so so that is my that is my motivation to answer your question and what's your name by the way M3 Live I can say I do like to call people by their names but yeah that's my that's my sort of YouTube motivation and I do find it fascinating I am you know got a bit of an analytical mindset and so I do love looking at all of the excuse me looking at all of the statistics and stuff like that I don't oh Melvin nice to see you here I don't like to say I don't lose sleep over it I don't like look at my subscribers daily thinking is it going up is it going up or anything like that I look at it generally once a week when I do these live streams and just sort of comment on it and see you know there's some really interesting things that do come out of it you know in terms of demographics and things like that so for example if I let me just come quickly show you this if I come to my this stuff really interests me so for example if I find it just interesting if I come to my this stuff really interests me so for example if I go to the audience and then I find it just interesting if I come to my this stuff really interests me if I come to my this stuff really interests me if I come to my this stuff really interests me thank you Chris thank you Michael thank you Paul yeah let me unplug that actually be better now thanks guys then yeah the sort of age groups 18 to 24 is 2.6% well the two weeks when I started doing youtube shorts that sort of changed to being like a much bigger majority of my audience so I love looking at how these sorts of things affect affect the stats and stuff like that you know doing these little experimentation things changing the thumbnails and stuff like that I mean the thumbnails seeing what happens with those which ones are more popular and stuff like that so that's really helping more of a description of the sort of stuff I'm doing I'm just playing and tinkering and sharing with you well yeah so I am a recovering the ing is the crucial bit there I'm a recovering I'm never going to be fully recovered and I have to just try and catch myself so welcome to the perfectionist club it's also I don't want to ever fully recover from perfectionism because it's something that it sort of drives results as well you know it can be something that holds you back well I should talk about myself it can be something that holds me back if I'm over fussing over final details before something actually goes out but on the other hand being a perfectionist is something that drives you to high standards if you're slightly short of it then you're still hopefully up at a high level whereas if you aim for mediocrity you're never going to get to the higher level so yeah I think it's got pluses and minus but in this context the recovering perfectionist is about the part in me where it has held me back in the past so let me have a quick look through some of these oh yeah you've always got to be on your guard in the building the swear jar is always there so that video that was about the tags from the Video Creators Channel yeah it was really interesting that was yeah well it's just the thing about the mistakes is and I don't know whether that's intentional the mistake in the word mistake I'm hoping it is but yeah I mean I just basically got over that and I do fluff things and make mistakes and stuff like that and I just try and roll with them now and as long as it's nothing too massive or major then just sort of go with it because and I also just think of it as opposed to when I used to make videos and it was almost like I was doing it anonymously to nobody I would really try to be that perfectionism thing would come in and everything had to be absolutely perfect but then when I started doing this channel and started connecting with people it feels a lot more to me now that I'm just speaking to somebody and I'm talking with them and in real life when you're talking with people then you know it's you do make mistakes don't you you do forget what you were saying you do say things like that occasionally so if I think about it when I'm doing my recorded videos obviously this is live to all of you but when I'm doing my recorded videos I do just think of somebody that I'm speaking to usually and that's usually because I genuinely am there's somebody who's asked a question or something like that and so I'm really just talking to them into the camera as opposed to talking to anybody else so that's that made it a lot easier then to when I do make a little a little mess up a little blunder or something like that to just sort of roll with it basically but yeah thanks Chris I appreciate the comment got lots of audio audio audio hey Rich the time change why can't the whole world just agree on one day to change the time and everybody do it or nobody do it because it is a bit of a mess the UK was 3 or 4 weeks ago was it then you've got some parts of the US on one day on another so yeah it's it's a bit funny really the time time thing and I'm still in that time I'm doing my same time but as I mentioned earlier I do have my I do sort of publicize my live stream time in the description of all of my videos and I've put it in eastern standard time so even though I'm in Thailand obviously maybe it's not obvious but I am so it's 5.45am here but yeah I publicize it there just because most of my demographics if I look at my stats are US so I thought I'd put it in a US time rather than telling everyone I don't think I've got anybody watching in Thailand so didn't seem any point in publicizing the time in Thai time for the moment so yeah that's caught a few people out but I'll forgive you this time Rich oh thank you that's a very good point that is Paul let's just take a moment to pause I'll wait while you go and hit that like button it's funny my daughter makes little videos for my parents for her granny and granddad and when she makes the video she says smash that subscribe button now it's so funny so cute and it is a bit like the old ham radio it's really lovely really isn't it to just have this I do love having the interview mode and just speaking of which if anyone does fancy joining you're more than welcome just click the link but yeah it is really nice isn't it to put people to join another thing that's been really great which we haven't done this week smash the like and subscribe I don't know quite how you do that with a mouse are you supposed to hover your mouse over it and then like really give it a smash on the mouse I'm not quite sure how you do smash the like and subscribe button that's what that's what all the cool kids are saying the other thing though that we've been doing in the group we haven't had any this week because doc who had been running them has been a little bit out of action it's poorly knee but yeah these what to call them the e-cam fam jam sessions in fact let me just pop up the little people got the little thing there we go the e-cam fam jam which is basically a co-working session on zoom so anyone in the e-cam live community these are getting posted into the group and then basically you're just getting on a zoom call and doing some work now I was I will be running some myself of these and some other people in different time zones as well but I couldn't I just couldn't this week because I had too many other commitments to that got in the way of it but they're really great it's just a zoom call where we jump on and then there's music playing and you're getting on with your work but there's other people there and it's it's just quite it's quite a nice thing to be honest you're still just getting on with the work nobody's talking it's not like a q&a session or anything like that but there is something quite nice about getting on with stuff in the company of other people so if you are in the e-cam group then definitely look out for those and definitely give them a go it's not you know there's no participation required as such it's not if you haven't come to any doc sessions or anything like that there's nothing that you need to do there just it's just a nice way to actually get something done in the company of some other cool people the other reason or the main reason why doc set this up was or came up with this idea for the group was to help people who are you know saying that they don't have time or they haven't been able to make time for their content creation then it's just a time when you know you can come together and say right I'm going to devote the time for this at this particular time and you know get some get some stuff done for your content journey creation journey or for whatever else you're doing but we'll see how it goes and how it grows but so far what I've noticed is it's all the action takers that are actually turning up so I've got a feeling that will continue but if we can just get the message out there and get a few more people to come along to them then it should really help a lot of people out the time change I know it's a bit ridiculous we don't really need it anymore do we not sure yes so yeah it's that yeah the times on the the last ekam fam jump were a little bit off weren't they on all levels but anyway do I see a comment from you about a twitter test are you using re-stream ah that's interesting no I don't Eileen let me have a little look I'm only getting youtube comments now that you mention it that's very interesting Eileen so if you've commented on my twitter and I'm using re-stream because I am so I'm using re-stream I'm streaming this to twitter to facebook and to where's this youtube twitter facebook and youtube and yeah I'm only getting the youtube comments actually so if you've commented Eileen on my twitter then that is very interesting hmm you've got me wondering now let me have a quick look obviously re-stream the idea of re-stream is ah so facebook's working so facebook's working and there we go I am not indeed seeing it from whoops daisy I'm not seeing now I'm looking in twitter I'm seeing your comment I think am I twitter live comments need a lot of work they do indeed don't they ah so that says live I can't actually see in fact I can't actually see your your comment even on oh yeah I can see it yeah so testing the live stream comments right I see yeah they're not coming through on re-stream I've got riches from facebook but not the one that you've just posted on twitter ah right I wonder who's who that is then is that the is that re-stream or is that twitter I wonder hmm yeah that's a little bit I mean I know that docs is a dox not a fan of re-stream is he because it's kind of your segmenting your audience oh that's the other place it goes to a twitch as well I don't do anything on twitch I don't know why I did it I think it was just one of those things that when I set up this channel I thought well oh here's this tool that you can stream to multiple places and so I set it up to stream to originally it was facebook, youtube and twitch but there's no there's no interaction there is that if you've got people like you know all of you lovely people are here on youtube then it's a bit weird if you just got Billy no mates there watching on his own on twitch and doesn't get that sort of you know can get the same sort of interaction so I might just knock that on the head at some point because yeah it was one of those things that seemed like a good idea at the time when I was starting out the channel but yeah increasingly I'm not I'm not so keen on that I left the stuff on facebook though just because I do have a facebook page that I'm intending to sort of grow not not so much for the live video stuff really all the video stuff but just for other stuff related to the channel I suppose so I figured that it was it was a good idea to just stream it to youtube so at least the video is there sort of as a native video on youtube and we've got somebody from the UK coming in Mr Chris Tim let me just add Chris in to here and there we go hey Chris how are you doing hey I'm good how are you Alec very good thanks very good glad you could make it I know it's a very late hour for you it'll probably be a very late hour for me over there yeah sorry I'm just going to adjust my earpiece there you go that's not too late I guess it's 10 to 11 yeah that's way past my bedtime yeah normally past my bedtime as well but I stay up specifically for these oh thanks just quickly Eileen's just jumped over to twitch and the comments are working from twitch Eileen so that's good to see but yeah the twitter one's not and hey Alicio good to see you here as always so how's stuff going for you Chris are you feeling better first of all oh man I was so so ill I had a really bad cold I think I told you it's called a super cold apparently whatever that means it wasn't COVID I did all the tests and all that but I was just literally out of action for about 13 days 12-13 days you know could hardly speak and you know running nose or throat all that kind of stuff so I think because we've been isolated for so long I think the germs kind of came back for the vengeance right and they were like we need some people to infect let's infect them doubly hard we got some catching up to do absolutely yeah yeah how's things going with your channel I know you're looking to do something how's things going with your personal channel yeah I mean it's the personal one's not really going as well as I had kind of hoped only because I haven't really done a huge amount with it the time thing again yeah it's time thing although I commented earlier on I've actually decided to take Friday's off now I don't I pretty much made it a thing that I don't work Friday's brilliant I've pretty much closed my diary don't do any work on Friday's that's a good move yeah and that's and really the idea and the purpose of that is so I can focus on my channel and focus on YouTube and building stuff just because otherwise work gets in the way I just get too busy and just don't have time to do anything yeah having sort of allocating a specific time for it's definitely good I mean that's why I was I seemed to do well in the beginning I've got to get back into my routine but having that sort of block time which was just a dedicated and said that is my that sort of YouTube two hours or whatever it was it does sort of make a difference yeah making the time for it yeah exactly and I think that's the thing is you know I've played around with Ecamm so much and tried to get it to be perfect before I start recording and then I've realized I'm actually wasting time not doing the recordings and like I said as well I make a lot of mistakes and then I kind of start again so I'm a bit of a perfectionist like you are but I kind of maybe just need to just actually start recording just get the stuff done and not worry too much about how it turns out because most of my stuff I'm going to do especially on the business channel so all tutorial stuff so there's no you know it doesn't matter if you are an R and you are an R and that kind of stuff so well I mean you watch my stuff you've seen how what a hash of it I make sometimes you know I'll get things wrong or trip over my words or something like that or just forget midstream what I'm talking about mid recording so yeah I think people are hopefully quite forgiving and stuff like that yeah yeah the one thing that I do sometimes retake is those first little introductions that I do to my videos where I say because once I'm actually talking about what I know about the content and that's I've got no problem with that but sometimes when I go in to do these little introductions basically like who the videos for the bit before my sort of title sequence I often just go straight into that without really giving it any thought and then I think what I'm talking about here and so I've got a little button that just sort of resets everything and they just go again so I sometimes do a couple of takes of that just first bit but just go straight into the video again but after I'm past the titles that's it I'm off sort of thing yeah I think I need to learn that as well I think I need to kind of not be so hard on myself when I you know when I make a few mistakes and I'm an R and just kind of let it go especially on tutorial stuff I think people are just as you say people are fairly forgiving and you know not too bothered about you kind of you know as long as you're sure of what you're talking about and as long as your content kind of makes sense then I think most people are fairly okay with that and if they're not then in fact find another channel well exactly exactly yeah and so how's the the work stuff going with how you've been finding like using e-cam for that sort of stuff do you use it on your like things as well that you're having with it I do yeah use it on zoom a lot so I do like yourself I'm probably spending almost every hour that I'm in the office on zoom or teams or one of those one of those platforms so and that was actually the reason I got e-cam in the first place wasn't really to do YouTube stuff was more to just kind of you know level up my videos and just make it look a bit more professional and kind of have borders around it and do little you know animations and things like that and then I started sort of thinking oh you know let's extend this to start doing YouTube stuff and things like that so yeah so it's no it's going fairly well and businesses is going very very well so which is always a good thing that's always a bonus yeah yeah exactly sorry my chairs just sunk down a picture actually too right yeah sorry I was sitting in my chair and I kicked back on my alright Diva kind of he dropped the chair so and how about teams by the way what are your views on teams because well I'll let you answer first but teams and zoom well I prefer zoom to teams any day I am a bit of a Microsoft fanboy though I do kind of like their whole ecosystem and the way things work in the Microsoft platform so you know I like a lot of Mac users who kind of switched over to the Google side I kind of still stayed on the Microsoft side so most of the stuff I use is Microsoft and yeah I mean I like teams it's not a bad product I like the collaboration side of it things like how it ties into all the other Microsoft products and things like that but for practical real day stuff and when I'm coaching clients and when I'm sort of talking to clients about stuff I always go and zoom and mostly because I record those calls and then I can send them their recording which you can't do as easily on teams yep yeah I find that as well it tends to be in your organization it's harder to just easily send them the thing out yeah exactly whereas zoom is just a lot easier to do that so you can you know just record it and send them the link and they can watch it whether they have a zoom account or not so yeah it's sort of become the standard as well almost so most people I mean my parents have got a zoom account lots of people now since the last 18 months or whatever a lot more people are just familiar with it so I find that it's more sort of ubiquitous really but I definitely prefer zoom to teams but well your thoughts on teams though are you gonna say you're gonna give your opinion on it it was really about the video I mean one of the things that I don't get is I don't use the built in green screen feature but I don't know how the green screen feature on teams shipped because the one on zoom is not great you know if you are if you're not using a virtual camera and you've got the using the zoom green screen feature if you have got a reasonably static background or you've got a green background the keying on it is quite good with the zoom one but the Microsoft teams one I don't know why that's even shipped to be honest it should not even be there as a toggle because it leaves a sort of like one inch green halo around you even if you've got like perfect lighting and a green background and whatever it's just terrible so I'm not a fan of it from that point of view but yeah I find that zoom is a lot easier to work with I'm not like a total apple lover Microsoft hater I'm not a windows fan obviously well I say obviously I don't get people who switch over to for what I do some people swear by you know numbers on Apple well there's no replacement for Excel for me and I spend a huge amount of time in Excel and I do love those sorts of Microsoft products so yeah the Excel stuff is a whole new channel I could just do a whole channel on Excel but I probably haven't got the time for it really but I live in that yeah I have one particular client who insists on using pages as well so he'll literally send me documents and send me stuff on pages and you know it's it's okay but obviously and I can open them because I've got a Mac but sometimes from time to time I do if I go to the office I do have a PC in the office a windows PC so then I you know I struggle with opening pages stuff so it does get a bit of a pain sometimes yeah I think it's a difference between it's almost like consumer apps and pro apps so the I see pages and numbers are probably they're a bit more user friendly for like people who are just doing basic stuff but for business I think it's definitely got to be like Word and Excel and stuff like that keynote's got one up on PowerPoint. PowerPoint in some ways is more it's got some more features but keynote it's slimmed down but it seems to do more I prefer keynote so yeah I was actually just going to say exactly the same thing I think the keynote is far better than PowerPoint in terms of you know functionality and flexibility and what you can do with it so yeah whenever I'm doing if I'm having to do a presentation in a you know keynote or something like that that's always my first go-to thing rather than using PowerPoint you know unless you're collaborating with somebody and then they've done it in PowerPoint and you have to change the slides or or what have you then it's obviously PowerPoint but if I'm starting it from scratch and doing the presentation myself then I'm always going to do it in keynote. Yeah I think PowerPoint's got that sort of bloat issue lots of things you know over from the pattern and that's the thing with some you know other Microsoft things where they've just got something where it's a hangover from the way that things were done and then they've just sort of built on top of it rather than keynote just felt like it was more of a sort of fresh approach to it almost so yeah yeah absolutely yeah sorry Aubrey just saying so this I'm just trying to get to bottom this comments thing so Aubrey is saying do I use restreamed of problems with Facebook comments so Rich just posted a Facebook comment in here somewhere and I'm screaming to Twitch and the Twitch comments came up but the ones that weren't coming up were Twitter comments and Twitter live comments is a Twitter issue but a blank screen on Twitch is a restream issue that you may want to report to them ah so I'm getting a blank screen going out to my Twitch am I there we go that's interesting I'll have a look into that um oh hey David good to see you here restream have you enabled Facebook comments in the Facebook settings oh so that's to Aubrey yeah sorry yeah that is exactly it Paul yeah he says I love the Mac but pages and numbers he's like writing with crayons that is exactly how it feels isn't it yeah it definitely is yeah exactly you can't get Facebook comments to come into e-cam oh yeah so just check your check your settings on that one so what are the software packages do you use for your business so what's the one your consultancy what package is that that you're giving to so I'm a consultant for the IT industry so I consult on a specific IT line of business application a product called Autotask and so it's kind of like an ERP solution so kind of has CRM and project management and all that kind of stuff built in specifically for for IT company so I consult on that product and I do a lot of tutorials on that so very very niche stuff you know it's not stuff that the average everyday man in the street would be watching because it's you know most people wouldn't understand it but if you if you were specifically using this product and you were in the IT industry then there would absolutely be something that you know people would be watching so so yeah I do a lot of consulting on that and but yeah I mean in terms of product you asked you know what I used so I started using keyboard maestro which is I know one of your favorite tools that's a great productivity tool for me and I think my all-time favorite tool that I use a lot which I know you use as well and I loved your videos on it is text expander it's like pretty much my my go-to tool for everything I hardly type anything these days I just kind of type a few keystrokes and stuff happens yeah so which is really good I love the reports that you get with that which tells you how much time you've saved and stuff like this it's quite eye-opening when you actually look at it in that context yeah yeah such a great product so I'm using those a lot and then starting to use Notion quite a lot more now as well I've never used that one yeah I'm sort of moving because I was using OneNote again from the Microsoft site storing everything in there and I've now started putting everything into Notion now which is quite nice I see Microsoft's actually brought out a version or a new tool very similar to Notion which is Loop which is coming out sometime this month or toward the end of the month so that might be one to investigate and what does that one do? so Loop it's very similar to Notion which is kind of like a collaboration tool that you can do everything in it so I don't know if you know the kinds of stuff you can do in Notion creating all your pages all that kind of stuff Microsoft Loop does a kind of very similar thing I think it's their answer to kind of what Notion does so I might end up actually switching to that because everything else I do pretty much is in the Microsoft ecosystem so yeah that's pretty cool yeah it looks like a good product I think it's only just it's kind of just launched or just about to launch so it's one to watch I think yeah well I use only focus for all my task management but then all notes and stuff like that I just use all text files actually and then I use a program called nvult there was a program called notational velocity notational velocity which was just a text file basically and then they came out with nvult which was Brett Terpstra did it like a fork of it basically so I just have all notes are in text form and then all tasks are in my task manager so I don't actually have anything that's kind of like this I suppose so yeah a little dig into that I think Notion would be good for you actually because there's so much you can do in that and it's not really a note taking act as such but you can kind of keep notes in it so yeah and I was the same as you I had everything in notepads and text files everywhere and I I just got fed up with not being able to find anything and stuff all over the place so I kind of wanted to put it all into one place yeah well I can find all of mine at the a few keystrokes because I've got my file naming system and so nvult basically all my text files there's like 60,000 of them something like that they all sit on Dropbox and just can search and find them on there but then the other good thing about it is because it syncs and their text files are so small it syncs to all my devices and then I've got different apps on my my iPhone and iPad and stuff like that so I use writer on the iPhone and iPad and that I can just search and find everything so I've got like a file naming system that means that I can generally generally find what it is quite quickly so it is quite light from that point of view the other thing is I used to use what's it called? Evernote when Evernote first came out I thought this is going to be brilliant it's like a place to store all my notes and all this sort of stuff but I didn't like being sort of tied into an ecosystem that's one of my thing the thing about a .txt file is it's pretty future proof I don't have to worry about like oh I've got almost stuff in one place and then I want to change out to another one so that's why I think I've always been a little bit resistant to sort of a specific app to manage all of this stuff for me but perhaps I just need to get over myself and have a look at it yeah well that was why I went with Notion because it's kind of more you know cross-platform and you can use it on especially you can use OneNote on both as well but I just I kind of started using Notion and I really love it as a product you know I do I do more than just note taking do pretty much everything inside Notion but yeah I mean I don't know I do have some stuff still stored as text files but I just find that it's a lot easier to just kind of put everything in one place then I have everything in where I need it whether it's databases that I'm building or some kind of all the YouTube videos I want to make or you know the course that I'm doing I'm doing a course I've got kind of all my course layout structure in that all built through Notion and I don't think I'd be able to do a lot of that stuff in text files oh no that's it yeah it's just it's not the right tool for that is it I'm just distracting just looking at the Notion website right now so I'll put this on my list I'll have a dig into it because yeah it's just another one of these these ones to investigate and are Jeff saying that Cat Mulville's got some good tutorials on that as well yeah I was going to say she's actually got some really good stuff that I think it was actually one of her videos that got me on to using Notion actually because I didn't know about it before that and I was watching some of her stuff and she was talking all about Notion and I started looking at it and yeah I mean it's pretty good I'll give it a whirl yeah I mean there is a free version of it so I think you can I can't remember what the limitations are of it but you can use you know use a free version and then it's like all these other things it's not that expensive if you upgrade to the paid version it's I don't know like ten dollars a month or something ridiculous whatever it is so oh yeah so free personal plan personal pro is four dollars it's eight dollars oh yeah oh it's filled annually so yeah it'll be like it'll basically be like five or for a team it's ten so yeah it's pretty pretty low cost hmm yeah exactly so you know there's enough videos in youtube just to show you how to use Notion I mean so yeah well I love cat stuff so I'll have to definitely go and check out her videos yeah Paul has been using Evernote for years I've still got a load of stuff in Evernote actually that I should probably go and have a look at although having said that I haven't looked at it for this long I probably don't need it it's one of those things like for ages when I'd like move house I'd have a box of stuff that I'd packed up to move house and then we'll move house again and then the box would still be there unpacked and then I'd move house again it still hadn't been unpacked from the first time and I just thought if I haven't unpacked it in all this time I probably don't need it maybe that's the approach I should take with my Evernote stuff yeah there's something quite quite nice about moving house actually because it gets you a good opportunity to clear all the junk that you have so we actually did that here just before Covid we were actually planning on coming back to the UK for a while and we literally got rid of we thought we were going to be moving out of this house so we got rid of a load of stuff that we thought we didn't need and then and then Covid here and we we sort of completely changed our plans we were basically just going to come back for a few months or something but yeah we were planning on just getting rid of a load of stuff so then Covid happened we never did go for that trip to the UK but it just meant we had cleared out a load of stuff so it was indeed quite liberating yeah I mean I had a you know a house down south in the UK and I sort of decided I was going to move out and I sort of moved more west in the UK and I basically just cleared the entire house out got rid of everything either threw it away or sold it and just literally had a suitcase and I was like right that's it I'm starting again and I just I cleared everything and it was great because you know you kind of climb up in the loft and there's stuff in there that was there for like 10 years ago and I didn't even realise I still had yeah so it's really good sometimes where you can just move and go right here's all the stuff I haven't used for 10 years didn't even know I had it chuck it just bin it or give it away or sell it or do whatever you want to do with it and then you know and then when you move to a new house you can just go right I'll start again and I'll start with a clean slate buy new furniture, buy everything new just start new and yeah it's great I always find the one that gets full up with me is the cable cupboard so when we cleared out I found I'd got like firewire cables first of all why am I keeping them but second of all they're not compatible with anything I always find like I've got this cupboard in my office where it's like oh something's come I've got a cable I don't need it now but I'll save it there because I'm sure I'll need it at some point seems to have like 10 times more cables than I do actual devices yeah absolutely I don't know if you ever saw that what if you know the chameleon Michael McIntyre yeah he's got this the skit he does about the mandrel and he kind of you know he says every man has a mandrel and you open it up and there's like batteries in there for things that you know and you've got remote controls for TVs that you don't even own anymore but one day you might need it you know and then he says this thing about oh you know he's got like old Greek money in his drawer he's like they don't even use that money anymore in Greece it's now the Euro but one day somebody might accept it so I'll keep it you know it's really funny because you can identify with it and you sort of open your drawer and you're like yep I've got all this stuff I never need I could do that right now exactly so yeah so I always every time I open my drawer I always think about the mandrel skits and I'm like yep it's just everything in there that you're never going to need but you want to keep it with me though if ever I have like a massive clear out like that and just get rid of everything then guaranteed like the next day or within a week there'll be something where I thought I need that thing that I've just thrown away it's like you see I should never have thrown it that's my justification for hoarding stuff as well unless you move house then you just get rid of it and I'm always of the opinion if I need it again I'll go and buy it or borrow it or do whatever I need to do but yeah but it's the same with me I'll often throw something away and then like I really needed whatever that was that I threw away and it's invariably the very next day that I need something with that I've just thrown it within oh this is exciting Michael has just got his new that must be your new MacBook arrived that's always great new MacBook Pro you'll have to let me know how you get on with it I've been waiting for so long for the 16 inch MacBook Pro I didn't upgrade my laptop ancient laptop for ages but I'm waiting for the newer versions of them but then I went and bought this Mac Mini and I'm not sure I'm going to bother getting a MacBook Pro at the moment I'm quite happy with the Mini I'm not moving anywhere yeah I got the Mac Mini and a MacBook Air and I got the MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM and yeah it works for me so well that I can't see myself actually needing now to buy a Pro for anything so I think the M1 chips are so good they are massively powerful I don't think you need really anything well I certainly don't need anything more than a MacBook Air yeah will you come up for Air next week Michael that's what it's like with a new thing although to be honest I still can't believe that I've had this loop deck for nearly two two weeks and I still haven't properly set it all up I speak of the devil Michael's just joining hang on a minute there we go whoops that's the wrong one hang on a minute where's Chris gone oh this one wrong name though look at this let me just get rid of these names I'll sort those all out later let me just come and adjust the this one one second I'll just do the colour here how are you doing Michael I'm doing well but your double audio again is it oh that's interesting oh that might be because you've got the the YouTube window open because my iPad isn't plugged in yeah you probably need to Michael you probably need to turn off your YouTube I had the same problem okay all right hold on yeah that will be what it is this time yeah last time it was because I'd got my iPad plugged in and then the iPad channel was open so it was actually just playing through that so that's what was going on there and then the iPad there that should be better yeah I closed it it's however great stuff nice I didn't come on earlier because I received a message that they were on their way with it and I didn't want to be in the middle of talking and have to go out through the door out through the door yeah great that it's come I know what you'll be doing for the rest of the weekend oh yeah oh yeah I thought about doing an unboxing but I don't know if I can wait long enough to do a video on it just switch the camera on and do it that's it that's all yeah that's it I'm tickled it actually took a little longer than they said but that's right it's here and how are you feeling by the way I know you weren't feeling too good oh I'm much better than I was last week I couldn't believe the pain I was under oh I mean initially I thought it was a heart attack but the longer it went on the more I realized it couldn't be a heart attack because with pain and a heart attack you either it goes away or you die either it doesn't last for hours and hours yeah but I went to the doctor anyway and he ruled out that it was not a heart attack but he told me or I think I may have told you he told me I sit at the computer too long yeah and I said yeah I said but I sit at the computer computer for the last every day and nothing's happened he said what can I say yeah I think so I had that same problem I sit a lot so I ended up getting a stand desk so you can kind of control it and raise the desk up so if you need to stand or you need to yeah I guess adjust it to whatever height you wanted so you can stand and do some work or sit and do work so that seems to make a huge amount of difference my other desk where the laptop's going to be is a standing desk it goes up and down yeah I think I need to when I do my updated studio I'm thinking of doing this standing desk because I've just been static for nearly two years now I used to be out and about like traveling and stuff like that so I've basically been walking down to the basement and walking back up again so yeah well if you find yourself getting pain in the back of your neck and across the board it's probably the same thing I don't know why my picture looks so washed out yeah I'll just have a look at that I'm not sure if I did adjust the let's have a look at this one that's Chris's I'm not sure actually I don't think it's on my side well it's fine on my side on Ecamm but looks terrible on your it does look a bit washed out actually I'm not sure yeah amazing Jeff says the delivery has scared you and the colour's almost gone I wonder why that is let me try and adjust it that's true I can adjust it a little bit but it was the normal settings actually so I'm not quite sure oh hey Dale great to see you here I always remember your name because that's my son's name Paul's asking if you're using a different mic Michael no does it sound bad it sounds a bit echoey actually it's quite echoey oh wait a minute maybe where's that option in Ecamm to cancel echo oh that there's that's more for when you're doing an interview when you're hearing somebody but this is more like just the room noise as if it's not coming from the same mic or something like that perhaps I'm not sure the same mic I've been using hi well you gotta get that fixed yeah it's almost as if it's coming from a different source than usual to be honest I don't think that's on my side we'll have a little test afterwards okay Alex throwing everyone off with the on time change yes that's Dale sorry I'm late yeah it's the time zone catching everyone out so what else have you been up to this week Michael how's things going with oh your website looks great by the way well thank you I appreciate it done a website in years and I couldn't remember half the commands I wanted to use so I'm doing help sections and but anyway I got it started yeah I just need to figure out I run it from Bluehost whereas you're from what do you use on Squarespace no I'm not on Squarespace oh I don't know why I thought you were on Squarespace well I was but I couldn't figure out how to use Squarespace and I couldn't figure out how to build my own site and put it up on Squarespace so I went to I went to a regular regular Bluehost for years before and they always treated me well and they're reasonable so I put it up on Bluehost but they've changed so much since I used the blast that I had to I've had a lot of phone calls with them like my contact page doesn't work it's supposed to send the email to me in case I'm not on the website and don't know it's just mail and that isn't working so I mean I have a list of things to talk to them about so I'm going to be calling them the other thing is I wanted to know how to do the redirect links from their thing because I do have some affiliate links now and I'd like to post them up there but however I didn't know how to make a link to your page I noticed that thank you very much to your channel with those redirect links you want to search for URL mappings basically is what you'd look for for that URL yeah I made a video about that for Squarespace and it's because you had mentioned about it that I made that video in fact but then I was thinking that because I remember you mentioning Squarespace before and I was thinking that that's what you were on but obviously yeah but I was lost when I tried to make a website so I just went back to I had used Rapidweaver for years oh yes so I just went back to Rapidweaver and Bluehost and I put it up there I just need some place to show people where to go basically like you do and I threw up a blog just because periodically I might have something to say that I think is important yeah and some of the other seniors out here might think it's important so anyway I got started and I got enough up there to put affiliate links and stuff as soon as I figure out what the affiliates is how to do them but URL mappings that's what I do URL mappings is cool I think yeah I'd plan to do it I mean I have got a blog on my site and I'd always thought that set out with good intentions I always thought that I'd be doing some content on there as well and like sort of maybe written content to go along with the videos but it's just one of those things that it's it's a lot easier to just sit down and make a video and post it than it is to start thinking about the writing stuff it's just not something that comes as naturally to me so it's on my list of things to do get back to doing more of the blog posts but I haven't got around to it yet oh okay I'm just going to look for the right guys I'm going to take off Alex I've got to get some beauty sleep so I'm going to love and leave you guys well lovely for you to start by much appreciated this thanks yeah good to meet you thanks you too cheers take care yeah you too cheers Michael go ahead I will switch this one over there we go where's Michael gone there he is and how about the I've got to ask obviously about your live streaming plans I know you've obviously not been well this week but have you had any thoughts about when to do some more of that oh yeah in making the website I wrote down some ideas for one oh great that I want to do I threw up a recorded video video this week I saw that I forgot to mention that in the video that I sent you yesterday yeah that was a great video I really loved your I love the whole video but I love the intro that you did for that by the way it was just a really nice yeah nice introduction where it came up and then came up with your logo at the end and stuff like that I thought it was brilliant yeah well you like that one yeah yeah I did that I did that in after effects right right yeah look really good yeah yeah I thought it was kind of if you I wanted to do something different yeah than what I do on my stream so but yeah I have I have a few ideas and I certainly have some ideas for recordings as far as the live streams yeah a little more I need to plan them out more than I do the recordings because the recordings by making the steak I just stop yeah restart it or if it's not a bad mistake I just keep living it go you know like maybe I have to get to turn the mic on yeah you know I did that once on my actual channel so yeah I sent Michael a video last week and my mic wasn't on and it was funny because I came in we had the the co-working session and I came into that and my mic wasn't on then because I hadn't got rebooted and I hadn't restarted audio hijack and it's funny even though I realized there was that issue in the zoom call I didn't sort of make the connection that all that means that the sound wouldn't be on on my video to you as well but I did post a video to my channel once like that as well and it was like a 30 minute video I recorded it posted it and then I just got a message from somebody saying oh no Alex there's no sound yeah take it down and remake it quickly yeah I thought at first I thought it was my computer and I was pushing all the buttons you know and checking other streams yeah I'm getting sound from everybody but Alex yeah and and I missed it but anyway I kept it anyway because if I ever learned to read lips I'll know what you said yeah but this is a little heavier than I thought it was is it? yeah it's like eight pounds or at least that's what UPS had UPS had on the label and Apple's got a new way of shipping there was a tab that you pull down and then the back sort of opens like that you know Apple have done so much for the world of packaging oh yeah I really love their packaging it's like everyone's sort of copying their style of you know everything the tolerances on cardboard boxes these days it's amazing what they've done oh I know I have to oh hey Doc I've just got to say hello to the boss it just came I hope your legs feeling everyone seems to have you've been feeling not well then Chris hurt his leg so I hope you're feeling a bit better Doc it's not too much too serious it comes with age you were all talking about taking days off and I was going to type in the comments that I take seven days a week off that's why Lisa Jackson will be CEO next there you go CEO of what that'll be Apple I'm presuming that she's the packaging expert I was impressed with the box I was yeah it's just the way that like you lift the box up and the bottom of it just is perfectly perfectly set up that it just sort of slowly falls out it's just amazing it's amazing that this is the tolerances and the effort that they put into a cardboard box essentially but yeah and then I'm going to enjoy taking that film off that's good a bit better but still so and she's the I see the VP of environmental impact at Apple they have done a lot to yeah with all these sort of recycling and stuff like that that they do with Apple where you see like every year they do issue the statement don't need about you know all the recyclability and stuff like that and yeah definitely making making a statement aren't there with what they're doing so which which what pro was it that you got then I know it was the 16 inch but did you end up getting the max the max it was wasn't it I got the M1 Max yeah yeah and then I only got one terabyte of internal storage because like Doc says yeah external storage is cheap and and I got 32 gigabytes of RAM I figured I figured that was enough for what I did yeah because that's what I that's what I had in my old MacBook yeah well it should really fly then shouldn't it with the M1 in it as well the M1 Max I would think I have a question though yeah I I don't know what operating system it came on with it probably the most latest and my question is some of some of the software I use has warned me not to upgrade to the latest latest Apple until they are able to to catch up or I won't be able to use the software and my question is if I back this say this comes with what is it 12 is the latest one Monterey yeah if this comes with Monterey on it and I tell it to bring my backup down from the cloud will it put my existing existing software back on it or were to keep Monterey no it should it should just bring all of your apps and data over but I don't it won't if you're doing like a migration thing then it won't write over the operating system it's basically just adding in all your apps and data and stuff like that so I won't be able to I won't be able to use some of the which one of well one of them is Ecam, Ken warned us this week about a microphone problem with the latest version of Monterey I've not had any issue with Monterey with Ecam at all actually apart from the very initial one that was with to do with the cameras over USB but they fixed that within like two days or something or in fact a day so yeah there isn't any issue with Ecam at all oh okay because well and the other one is my Abbot camera ah right they claim that there'll be a fix out for it within a couple of days it's been having with the camera yeah with Abbot what's the issue they just said that their software is I didn't keep the note but their present software that controls and runs the camera will not work on Monterey they're working on a fix and as soon as they expect the fix to be out very shortly so I'm not overly concerned because I have enough cameras I don't have to use the Abbot and actually the camera in the new laptop is supposed to be pretty good so I might see how that works out I might see how that works out yeah it looks good footage from there yeah he's been using Monterey since June with Ecam so oh okay because Ken posted on the beta group the other day that they knew there was microphones and Monterey and that they were on top of it and they would have a fix out shortly and I've checked every day sometimes there's just like the odd issue that it might not even affect you so like when I first installed Monterey I was getting an issue with my camera and it was to do with just certain cameras connected over USB there was an issue but Ecam was still working and it was working for everyone it's just that there was this slight issue but I could say that one they fixed within a day or two so I'm not sure I looked at the beta group recently so I'll have to double check that but yeah certainly for me it's working fine and in fact I haven't had any compatibility issues with this since upgrading for all of the other apps that I'm using as well but yeah like say bare cameras at least if your op spot isn't working oh yeah I think I have a camera too it'll work and a selection of mics as well I do yes and any girl what's going wrong with my sound you said I'm giving an echo it's one of these things it sounds like you're not as close to the mic it sounds a bit more like that sort of thing oh really? yeah just a little bit okay well I did I did notice the new beta by the way I have updated but I've not been in the group I don't think it was just there some fixes in that wasn't it sounds like I have a short I'll change out microphones later but now I sent you a video did it sound that way on the video I sent you? no that was alright that last video was alright because I played those back before I played them back to get the URL and it sounded alright on YouTube to me so I record for my family I always play them back and scrunch them down into iPhone size and they all sounded fine I don't know what it is there's a bit of an echo but there's also this interference as well that comes on sometimes I don't think that can be on my side like right now now basically it sounds it's a proximity issue not as close to the mic I think but there's this bit of interference that's coming through as well sometimes so it's Cylons the official word for it sounds like that doesn't it quickly say goodbye to Jeff thanks for stopping by appreciate it's getting very late there in the UK good night Jeff that's right Paul's got the answer your current Mac is upset oh you know what hold on hold on I have this set for the cameras audio let me go to now it says you muted yourself on my side it's saying that you're muted it still says you're muted that's terrible dark does it still say I'm muted oh that's it that's much better that sounds much better now okay yeah I didn't realize it was set for the cameras audio yeah that's what it was it just sounded distant so when I you know when I joined the stream I don't remember it asking me what audio I wanted to use right but I noticed this little gear wheel down on here so I clicked on it and it said I was using the Osbot audio so now it's okay that sounds that sounds great now yeah Doc says that your pacemaker is causing interference that's a that's a possibility I have two oh well you know Paul says that sounds back to like you you know okay thank you Paul thank you I wish I could realize that but anyway and that's probably what was set mic delay to 4 now is that that could be me could be honest I thought I had got my mic delay set to 4 do you know what I haven't in here I did always have that where do you set that there that's in in the it's in it's all good now don't change anything oh okay because that would be in the option yeah that's so it is actually in e-cam preferences it's when you got your camera and audio coming in but Docs say now he's screaming at the screen leave it it's caught up leave it okay it is in the audio settings of e-cam for future reference though yeah I I realized that as soon as as soon as I saw his first post it's good now so so yeah so when when is your next live stream though we got side tracks a little bit there yeah I'm hopefully this week if not there'll certainly be some recorded videos up there but cool I just I gotta wrap my head around it and you know practice myself what I'm going to say yeah and and then go do it yeah yeah I was I almost did the Marine Corps birthday live but I said well I'll record it in that way if I make a mistake the Marines won't be upset at me because I'll redo it yeah well it came out really well I did so great job but the and actually we have some Marines in office hours yeah yeah yeah lots of Marines and military in the group in general actually yeah well you can't see it because I'm cropped but Marine Corps emblem up there but I took it down alright right yeah must have been just off the screen slightly yeah miles miles posted a great picture of him in his army uniform yeah oh god yeah some fellow and so young to be a master sergeant what are they giving right away there yeah I thought that was just such an awesome picture looks absolutely really really top chap yeah no I if he's in office hours tomorrow night I've got to ask him what that rainbow badge is I wanted that myself yeah yeah I mean I'm not familiar with the military badges but I did wonder what but I am fairly familiar with US military and I've never seen that before I don't know if it's something special for the I think he's in the National Guard right and it may be something special for the National Guard I don't know but any rate no he was a handsome lad he looks a whole lot better in that picture than he does sometimes I didn't realize I didn't realize Felicia was military as well I had seen some pictures of her husband before she posted but I didn't realize Felicia was in oh really served as well yeah well there's a lot of veterans out here yeah there really is in the United States in fact I oh there is Gage went and had his grooming done today and as I was going into the groomers Oriental fellow was off to the left going into another store and he yelled Semper Fi and so I said thank you and it turns out he's was a Korean Marine oh right he was a Republic of Korea Marine Corps rock and so I told him that when I was in Vietnam I had served with a lot of Korean Marines and he said he was there in Vietnam so we talked for a few minutes and we were probably there at the same time he doesn't remember me but and I don't know why but I'm so unforgettable and if you could see pictures of me when I was in Vietnam I don't look anything like I do now you know I was my early 20s and lean and mean and I actually had hair I was watching a show the other night and I have a small spot in the back and one of the comedians says if he ever became Jewish he didn't have to worry about it because he had a built-in but it's been great and of course I spent a lot of time this week primping on the website you'll notice that I put different pictures on each page now and it didn't make any sense to me when I was changing pages it was all the same picture so I went out and found some pictures that I thought better spoke to that page so I did a lot of work on that and then the Marine Corps thing and watching everybody else's streams and I'm glad you're back to I was lost without my daily Alec I haven't posted that many this week I've only done two so I'm a bit further behind really but I can see that the end of these other things that I've got going on in the mornings is coming to an end so I will be back to my regular schedule Doc by the way is saying that that rainbow badge is at Army Service Award Ribbon okay Paul said that the difference with Miles is that he was looking at the camera this time that's the difference yeah rock army also I'm sure there is what's this link is that working the rainbow patch it's the 42nd division stretches like a rainbow from one end of America to the other oh okay I had just never seen it before so and I guess it's a total army type thing instead of just the National Guard got you there we go yeah although his rainbow was turned the other way but that's the same thing I believe yeah cool stuff thank you Paul I'm pressing my I'm playing with my foot pedals and I pressed the wrong one they are quite they are quite handy these foot pedals I've been using them quite a lot in various different things so I've got it's obviously three pedals but then I've got them all set up with different keyboard maestro sets for them so then I can use I can switch between the controls that they do as well so but yeah I'm waiting for the tutorials on keyboard maestro and your thoughts on the loop deck because I still haven't bought it because I want to see how you use it and how you put it together yeah yeah I've got to start using it myself it's just been such a I've had to prioritize other things this week and so and last week so yeah haven't had time to get that all set up yet but I definitely will it will become a part of my workflow for sure because I do already like it the sort of not concerned really but the thoughts about it that I had before actually getting into my hand I've sort of gone really the idea that you know the buttons are going to be hard to find and stuff like that is a non-issue as far as I'm concerned so yeah well and Doc proved that swiping was not an issue oh yeah that is definitely not definitely not an issue that at all yeah well Luria made it look like it was something that was going to cause a major problem yeah no comment yeah I agree with you no comment yeah yeah I'll be getting this set up hopefully this weekend I'm getting some more videos done I should have time this weekend to I'm going to do a bit of pre-recording because I'm going to be busy a few mornings next week but yeah I'll hopefully be back to my regular schedule this week that's good you know you do realize that it's part of my everyday life thank you Michael I do after well about sometime around 7 o'clock our time AM Gage will wake me up and announce that he's going outside am I coming with him so as soon as I come in from that I head to the computer to see if Alec has posted anything and well and to check on you know what's upcoming in Doc some of the others that I watch quite a bit of so yeah that's part of my daily routine it's on my bucket I'll have to make sure I don't let you down then I'll have to definitely post anything I don't think you could let me down you've done too much already thank you that's the perfect emoji there that Paul's picked out no comment oh it's a bit hard to see on the small screen that is probably but zipped mouth emoji I can't I can't see this thing full screen but anyway it doesn't matter well it's getting late here and he's getting a little bit antsy I can hear movement upstairs above me you know when I move into my yeah because I'm moving to this little studio I haven't done anything more on that by the way so I've got to sort that out it probably won't be for another month or two to be honest it's probably the end of the month because I've got to spend a bit of time thinking about it and find the time to do it but yeah for now I'm still in the basement and I can still hear that the kids are up and about upstairs so when you're in the new studio are you still going to be using a green screen or are you going to build something that's the point I want to just build out a proper space so that I can escape from the green screen yeah I still will use it for some stuff that I do but for the day today I want to create a proper setup in there and work on building the studio out a little bit more yeah if Doc is still on are you feeling any better Doc and are you going to be there tomorrow night he mentioned that he was feeling a bit better but he was still a little bit sore earlier and I wonder if Hawaii changed time like you did yes better but still so I'm not sure that they changed today Hawaii I think it's the same it's obviously daylight savings I think if you're in the tropics then the time doesn't change because there's no daylight to save where I am so we're slightly north of the equator and basically the daylight it either goes dark at half past five in the winter or half past six in the summer so there's only a small change because we're closer to the equator so we just don't change so is it still going to be five o'clock eastern time for office hours I see what you mean the actual time of it so yeah that's interesting it'll be the same time your time will it Doc for office hours that's not the answer because right now it's five minutes to two oh they're only five hours different so yeah they're going to start at four hour time yeah because he was six hours behind he's saying it's same for him so that's the same with me with this live stream I'm just basically doing it at the same time I normally do it and okay so that means it's going to be four o'clock eastern time that's right maybe just confirm that four o'clock eastern eleven and this okay yeah it's going to be four o'clock eastern so I will be late as you know I have church at four o'clock so I can't but I will be here be there but I'm going to be late hello hello yeah and Richie's saying it's an hour earlier for Florida as well yeah okay Doc so anyway I have to jump off yeah cool well enjoy your MacBook and setting that all up I will, I will yeah let's start again with it I certainly will and my best to you and the family and Doc get well soon and Paul good evening and Rich and I'll see everyone else later how do you up here see you later bye bye right well I think that it is about time for me to drop off as well because I can hear the kids up and about upstairs I've got a confession to make we put our Christmas tree up yesterday and the kids started decorating it's a little bit early isn't it it's the middle of November I tell you why it is though I'm really super excited this year because they're going to get to see their granny and granddad because they haven't seen them for over two years now and we didn't actually think that they'd be able to come for Christmas but then almost like at the last minute Thailand have decided to open up to people to come in and made it a lot easier from as of the first of November actually so my parents have booked to come for two months so they're here over Christmas and then also here over the kids birthdays as well so yeah the kids have been super excited about it and it's going to be the best Christmas ever so they were saying can we put the decorations up so we did but yeah middle of November bless for me Rich but I'm sure I know one person will be happy and that is Todd from the Christmas Clatter YouTube channel which is all year round Christmas I think that is such a cool idea for a channel Christmas Clatter and the Christmas channel I am a bit of a Christmas flat fan I have got a great clip for Stream Deck which I'm going to release on the first of December on that Vlogmas related to someone in the group and it's a Christmas related Stream Deck sound effect but I'm going to save that that's a little teaser for the first of December it's my usual target for Stream Deck sound effects by the way I should say it is indeed it's really exciting to be honest because yeah my parents were it's one thing that they speak every day we speak for like an hour on FaceTime every day so they get to speak to the grandkids but yeah it's not the same as it has been able to give them cuddles and that and Dale's only two and a half so the last time that Dale saw them he was only six months old you're right to be scared dog not really scared but that's right I mean I am in the future so technically I am closer to Christmas than everyone else anyway but yeah so thank you everyone for all coming and hanging out and thanks to Chris and Michael for jumping on as well and yeah I'm going to get I'm going to get some videos done today I'm actually going to pre-record some and get some queued up for the week because I've got it's not like I've not got any content to ideas I've got a list of over 100 or something like that in my task manager I think it's 150 now for 160 or something so I just need to sit down and go through them and actually do them but I should have a little bit of time today so I'll definitely make time for it but see you all a little bit later I'll see a lot of you actually in office hours tomorrow so