 Okay, so technically, according to YouTube, we're live, there's going to be like a delay of a minute or two, so if people in the chat are like, you guys aren't live, yes we are, it's just it's going to take about a minute or two for them to hear our responses. So if you guys are listening to this right now in the chat, hello, sorry if there's a delay. So yeah, you can tell people in the chat that if they can't see us live yet, they can just hit the refresh button in about 30 or so or seconds and hopefully an ad will pop up. In the chat, if you guys can see our lovely faces, if you guys can hear, we'll see our lovely faces. No, if you guys can hear us, just let us know. So. Okay, coolio. It's up. Hey, they're saying it's up. Nice. Nice, nice, nice. Cool. Testing. Everything seems to be in order. Winkle says they're not live, he's lying. Yes, what we did is we pre-recorded this entire thing. We assumed that you would make that comment. And now we're just, you know, replaying it back. So, Big C, do you want to say hello to the people? Hi, everybody. How many people we got here? It looks like we got a whole bunch of people. Let's see. I know that this is taking place quite late in the day. Sorry to the people. Obviously, there will be some people who watch this and they'll be like, ah, I missed the stream. It was very last minute. Big C, can you explain to the folks why we decided to do this live stream? Yeah, this is a last minute call, actually, a potato. I'm used to calling you Chris, but I'm going to call you potato, I suppose. You can call me either or. Okay, well, I'll call you names. I don't even mind. But potato was like, hey, you know what? We did a launch today. We launched Freedom Online and we did a video and got a massive response. In fact, it got so many people liking it and checking it out. Everybody went to the website and they crashed the servers. That's the long and short of it. They crashed the damn thing. It's periodically up and down. But, yeah, we're getting more subs… We're getting so many views that our server just tapped out. It literally submitted. That's why we're doing this, kind of. Also, we want to talk to you guys and let you know exactly what Freedom Online is, why we're doing it, and answer any questions that might not have been addressed in the video because it was a 15 minute video, but A, I know a lot of people have ADD just like me. I'm going to watch the whole thing. I had a hard time just doing it myself. I'm like, this is too long. Let's go ahead and chat about it. Before we talk about that, there was a serious question here. I just want to make sure I get it addressed right away. Tristian Hens has asked me, how many times did I go to prison? The question is pretty much once a week. I go there quite a bit. I don't know if you were looking at the comments. Did you see what my response was in the comments to that issue? I did. I did. I don't know where I was talking in the third person, and then what was the other comment? I said that I had to bail you out because you keep swimming in public fountains. Yeah, the public fountains, that's right. Yeah, you got to stop doing that. I know, but whatever. Put my clothes on, right? I know. Whatever. I guess we'll be answering questions regarding freedom online. If you guys have any questions, just post them in the chat. We'll be doing this maybe for about 15, 20 minutes, because usually when we do live streams, I go on longer than that. There are people who don't like to watch the videos because they're like, the video is too long. I don't want to check it out. Be sure to ask us some questions. There may or may not be some sort of a surprise at the end. We don't know. Yeah. Yes. Let's go with the questions. There was one. I'm pretty sure, besides the number of times I've been here, one guy suggested we get dedicated servers. We might as well address that right up front here. I can tell you that we are doing that now. I talked to George today, and George is talking to his tech guy, and he is apparently going to be moving from standard servers, which is what the website was on right now. We're moving it over to cloud-based, ultra-fast, elastic computing, balance, load-balanced, the whole nine yards. We're going live with that, and we're going to be doing that today. That's coming. Yeah. I don't have an ETA as to when the migration will be complete. I don't have that. The guy who's doing it was asleep. He's in Philippines, but I think he's awake now, and I think he knows this is what he needs to do, because I told him. There we go. For the people who don't necessarily understand what Freedom Online is, can you explain it in a nutshell? Yeah. In a nutshell, Freedom Online is a new website that we've been working on and kept it under wraps for a while, but basically, Freedom Partners, when you read the comments and you read what people want, everybody wants to get more views, get more subscribers, get more, I won't say advertising or marketing, but just have more options as to how to get your content out to people. Freedom Online is there to address that. It's a place where you can submit your content, so we get your videos, we get your written description as to what the video is about, and that's a pretty important point, which we'll probably have to talk about again here, and then we get your featured images and things like that, and then we post it on to Freedom Online and we try and get some views based on our website, search engine optimization. Like I said, we've got really fast servers coming. We've got all the SEO stuff that's really technical and nerdy, but basically, in a nutshell, we're trying to give views. Something beeped at me. Oh, that was my Skype. A lot of people, we pretty much read all the comments, even though for certain issues, we can't really respond to them either because we're not really qualified or we don't have only information, but obviously, a lot of people keep asking us for more ways to help them promote their content. There's obviously the forum, so if you're not taking advantage of that, that's obviously a really great resource to check out and to just market yourself, but this is also going to be a great opportunity and what we want to do. Also, I know I'm interrupting my little comment here, but be sure to really thank Curtis for this because this was his initiative and his project. A lot of people are like, thank you, Freedom, but it's really Curtis who did this. Yeah, be sure to thank him for all this awesome stuff, but it's like this is going to be a new platform that we want everyone to really check out on a regular basis, and we want it to be a really cool spot for people to get to know Freedom Partners more and get an idea of the amazing people who are part of our community who are making really, really awesome content because YouTube's a struggle. It's a marathon. It's not the easiest thing, and there are some people, even if they have awesome branding and they tag everything correctly and they make awesome content, it's really hard to market oneself, so hopefully this will help people. Yeah, that's what it comes down to. Freedom has a lot of partners, but at the end of the day, starting YouTube and getting it going is the hardest part. Literally, it's the initial momentum that you need to build, and a lot of Freedom Partners are either just getting started or they've been doing it a while, but they still haven't cracked a big time, as 99.9% of us haven't, and this Freedom Online is just another tool. It's another medium that we've created to just try and help people get push they need. When you look at Freedom Online, when somebody submits a video to YouTube, for example, Google and YouTube and all the search engines will look at it and go, okay, well, what's the title? What's in the description? And that's kind of all they got to go by. The tags, but tags have been sort of phased out as something because you can just tag anything, whatever you want. But that's kind of all they got. The other factors, of course, are how long the channel, how many views they get, how many people subscribe, et cetera, et cetera. But we can't control that at Freedom, but what we can control is having a website that allows, that has, that search engine optimized, that allows you to post your content, write it up, go after topics that you want to talk about and leave that out there and post it so that people can find your content through another way. It's just not enough, I could just post something to YouTube. That's the hard way. Posting it to a website, plus YouTube, plus social sharing, now you got a chance. That's been my experience, at least. So anyways, that's my little ramble and rant there, but that's what we're trying to do. Absolutely. Are there any features? I'll just kind of open the floor maybe to the chat. I know that you guys are asking a lot of questions about stuff unrelated to Freedom Online, because we want to keep this live stream relatively short. We'll pretty much tackle those questions exclusively. But one question that I have for you guys is, what kinds of features would you like integrated into Freedom Online? Knowing it's a platform for spotlighting your guys' work, for featuring your guys' work, are there any features? Are there any ideas that you would like us to integrate? Maybe you can inspire us to add on some extra things. We could talk about them here live, see if we can discuss whether they're good ideas or bad ideas. Well, yeah, that's for sure. Up until this point it's kind of been, we've known what partners want in a lot of ways, but there's a lot of things that we can add in that we haven't added in. I'll give you an example. I have a social networking addition, a module that I've sort of integrated in. I haven't flipped the switch on it yet and made it live, but if you want something where you can have your own profiles, you're upload your own pictures, your own links, make friends with other people, that kind of thing is completely doable. I haven't released that for two reasons. One, I haven't fully tested it. And B, the servers can't even handle what we got now, so we got to wait until it gets into Amazon and into the cloud. But once we're on there, yeah, we might do social networking. We might do anything you guys want, basically. Some people are saying, add sponsors. Well, that's really unrelated to freedom online. But to touch upon that issue, because a lot of people like to ask about sponsorships, the thing about sponsorships is that when we're partnering up with various companies, well, obviously, you know, companies are only interested in working with us if they see a benefit because it has to be mutually beneficial for for both parties. And so a lot of people keep asking us, I know on the forums I've seen this often, why are most of our sponsors gaming focused? And that's because the reality is most of our partners are gamers. I know that as of a few weeks ago, Erin, the head of sponsorships, was talking about potentially getting a microphone company to work with us. The thing about sponsorships is these kinds of deals take a very long time to set up. We would love to just go like, Oh, we got this and we got that, we got that. But again, because you know, the terms and conditions need to be like mutually beneficial for everyone, these kinds of things take, you know, quite a while to set up. And someone mentioned Monsterscat, it's the exact same thing. So it's just like, you know, these things are in the works. It's just that there's lots of paperwork involved, there's lots of discussions. And sometimes, you know, we're waiting on them. And, you know, we again, we need to make sure that they're cool with the terms and we need to make sure that we're cool with the terms. And so typically when it comes to sponsors, it's finding people who could benefit from the types of content that our partners produce. And so we're always trying to find those people. So yeah, no, that's a good point. I mean, we get a snowball sponsor. I read that somewhere. Yeah, I would like a snowball sponsor. I've got a snowball microphone and it works great. But yeah, oh, yeah, go ahead. Sorry. No, as I said, we're in talks. I think Aaron said that we're in talks with two different companies. Again, I haven't I haven't spoken to him about the issue in a few weeks. So that could have changed. They could have lost interest. I don't know. But I know that we're in talks with with a few people. So again, it's just it's, it's, it's, it's paperwork. It's lots of paperwork that's and politics is like that's that's always what it boils down to just lots of negotiations and discussions and all that that fun jazz. So exactly. And I do see a comment here or a question. Can submit video game machinima? Yes, you can. We will accept it. You know what? That's our original content. I find that kind of stuff quite enjoyable. I know it's hard to make. Although there are some free programs out there these days that are pretty good. But I don't know the technical behind it. But yes, you can definitely submit it and we will definitely accept it. May or may not post it. But if it's good, yeah, why not, man? Let's do it. Yeah, definitely. I mean, obviously the best thing is, you know, we'll be most likely to feature to spotlight high quality content. So and I know that having some sort of experience like choosing videos to spotlight originality is is really key. So being original, doing things that like no one else is doing is a great way to get some attention on your content. So be sure to just be bold. Be unique. And yeah. Yeah, there's a whole bunch of chat about mics. I'll let you know some guys like road, some guys like snowball, some guys like Turtle Beach. I have one of each. I have a road bike. I use road for my DSLR and for my channel stuff. I use snowball for game recording when I'm talking on my desktop. And I use Turtle Beach for a headset when I need no feedback and I have to and I don't want to use my speakers. So I'm all over the place with that. And they're all good. I like them all. So yeah, okay, let's read some more comments here, some more suggestions. Okay, as for the comedy stuff, can it be any type of comedy like IRL comedy as long as it's funny? Yes. If you do sketch comedy or stand-up comedy or anything that's funny and we like it and you like it, then yes, it'll definitely be up under the comedy section. Right now we have five or six music. We got comedy. We got gaming and all the different platforms. And one of the other ones, I can't remember, but we will be expanding that out as content comes in. That's not those categories aren't locked. So if something comes in like somebody does amazing videos about something that we don't have a category for or a menu item for, we can always create that and create that on the fly. So yeah, throw it at us. Absolutely. And I will make a note here that it looks like we've had 170 submissions in the last three hours from what I can tell. And I'm not making that up. I couldn't even make that up. But it looks like we've got 174 posts inside the draft post button. So yeah, we're getting some feedback. We know why the servers are crashing because you guys are smashing the server and it's awesome. Yeah, for the people who have tuned in, you know, just in the last few minutes with the whole server or deal is just because, you know, we're having a lot of activity. So just just be really patient with us. Everything hopefully should be good in the next, I would like to say 24 hours, hopefully keeping my fingers crossed. Don't worry, this isn't one of those, hey, we're announcing something and then five months from now, we're still talking about it. This is, this should be up like with, you know, hopefully a day or two, just because of the transferring of the server. That's a good point. So that's a good point. And that's partly why it was worked on and why I disappeared for a few weeks. I wanted to do the announcement and say, Hey, I'm working on something, but I do know that sometimes we say we're going to do something we don't always deliver sometimes. I'm not pointing people out because I don't care, but I was like, this has to be ready. And when it's good, I will announce it. And we got potato on this and all that stuff. But we had to wait till it's done. So we are like 98% of the way there. The only 2% that we couldn't do was basically server related. And we wanted to gauge the partner freedom or freedom partner feedback. And so far it's been pretty massive. So we are appreciative. Yeah, definitely. Absolutely. I mean, kind of touching upon, you know, the infamous projects that have kind of been in limbo for a while. Okay, honestly, we both don't know a lot about a lot of those projects. But I do know that certain, a few of them are either because there are certain things that are out of our control, like, you know, like outside partnerships with other companies. Or I know for one specifically, relating to freedom points, the reason why that's been limbo for so long is even though it's like an awesome concept and an awesome system, the main problem is that there's an easy way to really abuse the system. And so we've been trying to think of a way to find a solution to that. Because we know that if we just released it as we formulated it on paper, like some people would easily exploit it, abuse the system, and then it would get very chaotic really quickly. And so like that it's the big question of how do we fix this problem that has kind of made that, you know, shelved. But it's something that we're always thinking about, obviously. So yeah. Oh, hey, there's a question about monster cat music, I'm kind of out of the loop on that. Do we know? Okay, so essentially, I kind of addressed this earlier on, like really quickly with monster cat, I think we're like just discussing terms and things like that. Again, I'm not I'm not head of sponsorships. That's Aaron. We can't really talk much about it right now. Because once again, be behind the scenes discussions, paperwork, things like that. But it's being worked on. It's something that we're working on behind the scenes. And oftentimes, you know, whenever we don't talk about something for an extended period of time, it's, you know, it could be that the person that the company we're talking with doesn't want us to talk about it. Or we don't really want to discuss things until, you know, there's something official. So sorry for the silence on that issue. I keep trying to poke Aaron from time to time. But again, as mentioned, sometimes these kinds of deals take several months to to negotiate because a lot of people when it comes to sponsorships will kind of like blame us for they'll be like, you don't have any sponsors or, you know, just recently, you know, a partner was kind of talking about, you know, I can't get into gamma labs, he was actually going about it the wrong way. Be sure if you want to apply for sponsorships, you do it through the dashboard and don't email the companies directly unless you're told through the dashboard. But like a lot of people, we often get a lot of hate for like sponsorships. But you guys need to recognize that it's a partnership with another company, and it needs to be mutually beneficial. So it can't just benefit the partners that has to also benefit the company that's partnering with us. And so often they'll be like, you know, our partners will be like 10,000 views for this sponsorship. That's crazy. But it's because we're selling, you know, like ad space to this company, you know, so which which will which will offer them a return, you know, so it's like they need to they need to benefit from from everything as well. So that's why these whole, you know, things take take so long to organize and do. I know it's not a fun process, but we're we're we're constantly looking for new opportunities for you guys. We we're thinking about you guys constantly. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. We I mean sponsorships is is a huge like like in my books, you know, we want to get we want to get sponsorships we want to help our partners either with equipment or with music or with technology of any sort. We want to help them with promotion, something like Freedom Online, for example, get their name, get their videos out there, get them some traffic, give them an another place where they can post content, good content on a really popular website, which is what we have, and get them more traction. That's really what it all comes down to. And that's what we're working on in terms of sponsorships. Well, I don't know, those take a long time. And yeah, like Chris was saying, they there's a lot going on behind the scenes that's kind of you can't really talk about in a video because it's either a negotiation or it's, you know, hey, here's what we can do, here's what you can do. Yeah, but we're on it. Basically, long story short, we are on it. Yeah. Also, also know this is also really important to keep in mind. We're like over 100 employees at Freedom, and all of us kind of specialize in our own departments. And so we're all looking at the comments. And we all try to support, you know, you guys as much as possible. Some things are kind of out of our hands. And so just sometimes we ask that you be patient with us. We try to communicate with the right people. But sometimes that takes time just because of the scope of the company. I don't know what just happened with Curtis. Yeah, no, that I got a text message here. That was my parole officer. Sorry, guys. Just kidding. Have you jumped into another public fountain? Are you at a public fountain right now? Oh, my God. Oh, yeah, no, I got to stop myself here. I get in trouble. Yes, I'm not in the fountain. Oh, yeah, no, there's there's tons of stuff going on. Yeah, check out online.freedom.tm. That's the website. We sort of went about that earlier. But yeah, I'm, I'm watching the the submissions and we're getting a submission pretty much every two minutes. We're getting 30 to 40 minute or an hour. Pardon me. That's what I meant to say. Nice. It's out of control. Like I don't even I don't even know if we're going to be able to handle this to be honest. Like I'm going to have to get people to help me sift through the pile, which is awesome. It's a great problem to have. But you guys are just smoking us with content and stuff. And I that is awesome. I appreciate that. So I know, right? It's like the best problem to have. I know that when I was running display, I would get something like 300 submissions a week. And when it gets to that point, even if you only spend five minutes going through everyone's submissions, it takes like eight, nine hours to really see everything. And so yeah, we'll definitely try to get several people on board to just kind of review all the submissions. Uh, blah, blah, blah, blah. KG gazelle asks, when is the gamma labs affiliate coming out? That is a question for our head of sponsorships who's not in the call right now. So obviously, because I'm not really an authority on the matter. I mean, I can't really respond to that. I don't want to say anything that's that's factually incorrect. Be sure to check out the dashboard because I know that you can apply for a gamma lab sponsorship via the dashboard. There's a button that you can click there. And then there's a form you send out. Unfortunately, past that point, the reason why some applications, a lot of people have been saying, you know, I applied several months ago, and it's taking so long, it's taking so long. It's because it's gamma labs that that reviews the applications. So it's like once that form sent out, it's, it's kind of out of our hands. So so be sure to to be patient with us. Obviously, be sure to ask questions about freedom online, because that's what this whole live stream is about in years. Let's see. Yeah. Yeah, freedom online. Okay, so Jay, I mean, this is completely unrelated. I would like to answer all of your questions. But I guess, I guess, I guess we should keep them to to freedom online stuff. A lot of the questions that you guys are asking have already been answered in this video in this live stream anyways. So once it's processed, be sure to to to check that out and to review it. We've been talking now for I think we went live. How long have we been online? Ah, 21 minutes. 20, 25. Yeah, 25 minutes. What I think we'll do. Okay, well, actually, a raptor who's Alex asked, lol, you skipped my question. No, it's not, it's not that I skipped your question. You asked what's what's going on with MGM. It's just that I want to keep the subject on freedom online. So basically, what's going on with MGM? Well, for the people who don't know, MGM is the multi gaming network. So it's it's the sister network to freedom. Because we have a lot of gamers within the freedom network. Essentially, what we want to do is we were were well recently a few months ago, we created the sister network for gamers exclusively. So what we're building that up to be is just a network and community of gamers. And the focus is on gaming. And we're trying to get, you know, more sponsors through that. Because obviously, with the gaming focus, we can attract more sponsors and and work at some new opportunities every single Monday. Every single week, we have a video just kind of talking about either a staff member or just kind of some updates with a network. And if you go to MGM's YouTube page, which is youtube.com slash MGM, you can keep up to date. We have another weekly news series on there just kind of going through all the updates of the week, things we've changed, things we've updated. And yeah, okay, I got some questions here. There's two and I'm going to hammer them. One is from Fabio p 96. Is there any way for the community to choose a video that goes up on freedom online? That's a really good question. I mean, to be honest, we're going to be posting a lot of videos, but having one or a series of videos that are chosen as maybe featured content. That would involve a, I guess, sort of like a rating system or a voting system. And yes, I do know how to do that. That might take a little while to implement. That's a good idea. Kind of like Reddit, you know what I mean? Like I'm thinking out loud here, but you know, where you thumbs it up and thumbs it down and the top videos go to the front page, totally doable. Just have to figure out how to do it. But yes, we would like to do that. Okay, we had another question there too. Sorry, is there any way for the community or is it me or are the submissions not going through online.freedom.tm? We talked about that a little bit earlier, but basically what's happened is the servers got bombed. Like you guys have sent, like we get, I'm getting so many messages and requests through the server. It's through the website. It's almost unbelievable. And I am, I'm not complaining. This is like a great feeling. And it's a great problem to have. But occasionally the submission form is timing out because we can't keep up. So we are fixing this. This isn't, this isn't a long term thing. This is a short term problem. We are moving from a, our standard web server over to a cloud based server that's got all the bells and whistles. I mean, we're talking elastic computing, load balanced, anything you could imagine that goes on a server, it's going there. And if that can't handle the traffic, well, then we have to get yet another server, but we are doing it. And that is actually occurring tonight. It could be occurring right now. I haven't heard back yet, but we are doing that transfer shortly. I want to say it'll be ready by tomorrow. I'm 95% certain, but this is out of my hands and out of Potatoes hands here. So we can't guarantee it, but we have some internal agreement that this is going to happen. So that's where we got grungy smile asks Chris, will we get an email or something when our submission is accepted? I mean, I think, I think eventually that would be really cool. The problem is, is I'm kind of foreseeing in the future with my experience with display already depending on how many, you know, submissions we get, which will probably be in the hundreds every single day. Even if we only dedicate a few minutes to every single submission that ends up, you know, it comes to the point where we're spending the entire day just watching videos. And so because we're only like a few people dealing with this right now, maybe at first people won't be contacted. So you'd have to, you know, just check the site regularly. But as we expand and we get, you know, more staff on board, I can potentially see people, you know, reviewing a video that they like, and then, you know, sending out an email to let them know that they've been featured. I guess for the moment, just check the website, you know, every day. And I can actually add something really cool onto this. I briefly touched on it in my video, but this is going to be an important thing is not only are we going to, you know, post your content to help you guys get more views and all that stuff. I know I personally make a daily video where I will be once I get this under control. And in that video, I'm going to talk specifically about which content we posted online, if it's, you know, if it's a review or a preview or a top 10 or whatever the heck it might be, we are going to do that. And we're going to like basically triple promote like the first, the first way you promote is up to you. It's up to yourselves or as partners and as YouTube makers, you make your video, you title it, you write your description, put your tags in, upload it. That's on you. Good. Second level is submitting it to us. And if it meets, you know, requirements and standards, and we have the capacity and the bandwidth to handle it, we're going to put it on the website and we're going to further promote you through that method. The third method and the third way we're going to do it is we're going to do daily recaps hopefully at some point where, you know, either me or Chris here or potato or some sort of combination where we talk about the video or the content that's gone up on the website and give a third layer of promotion where we talk about, Hey, we took these 12 posts yesterday, we've got articles on this, we've got, we've got video review here, we've got a game review, we've got some whatever the hell it might be. And we're going to promote it that way. That way it keeps the everybody interested. It sends more traffic to the website. It gives a good message that we're promoting our partners. And we can talk to you guys and let you know that this is what, you know, this is what we're looking for. And tomorrow or the next day or during this week, we're looking for these topics and give you advanced notice as to what it is we want to see so that we can, you know, you guys know what we're looking for. We give you notice and then we will take the information and post it and promote the hell out of you. That's kind of how I see it in my head right now. I don't know. It could change, but yeah, we're really here trying to help. We're trying to promote you guys. You got this. Yeah, that's feel free to add on to that. But that's how that's how I like that's how I see it right now. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely couldn't agree more. Some people are talking about or asking questions like once again, outside of the freedom online topic. Just just for the purpose of this live stream, I'd ask that people kind of just exclusively ask questions about that because we want to remain on that topic. And a lot of a lot of questions are being asked that have already been answered. So as soon as this video goes live, what I might do is just, you know, if I do have the time after this video is processed, just kind of go back and create like annotations for some of the main questions that have been answered just so you can conveniently, you know, get there. I don't know how to do that. If I didn't know how to do that, I would do it. But I swear to God, I have no idea. And oh, yeah, I do see a couple things here about, you know, some of the some people have like, you know, under 30 subs, for example, guys for for online, for freedom online, the number of subscribers you have isn't doesn't matter. We're not going to promote only the big guys or only the little guys. We're going to look at the quality of the content and whether or not it's, you know, on a topic that we want to talk about, or we want to, you know, we're talking about if it's an important topic in the news, for example, or in the gaming world, whatever we might choose. And that's that's those types of things will determine whether or not the video goes up. It's not going to be, you know, whether or not you got how many subs you got or how many views you got, we don't care too much about that. The only thing that does the only other thing is you got to be a freedom partner. We don't want to promote non freedom partners because that defeats the purpose. So there you go. I think you guys can understand that. Yeah, we don't want to promote people that aren't with freedom because we can barely, you know, handle the freedom number. So that's where we are with that. And yeah, and I can tell you right now, I'm just logging into the website and we've had in like how long what time did the video go live at like three o'clock four or three ish hours ago. So three hours. Yeah, I don't know what times on you are in. I'm in Pacific Standard Time PST. You're in like mountains or something or you're eastern. Yeah, I'm in the east coast. You're an easterner. I'm sorry to hear that. Hey, you have all your teeth, right? What are you talking about? What kind of stereotypes do you have here? Easterners don't have basic health care and like dental. I don't know. I'm just making that up as I go here. Oh, and somebody asked what the point of the game is that you're playing a civilization. You know, like, over the world. Okay, well, essentially, because this live stream was like very impromptu. I don't want people seeing my ugly face right now. And, and, you know, because, because, you know, OBS and X split aren't really great with webcams of like other people you're streaming with it's in the past, it's always kind of complicated to integrate someone else via webcam because you need to take like a window capture of Skype and so it's this is just something to kind of entertain you guys or just, you know, some visual for while we're talking. Are you not entertained? Yeah. I know that I'm doing really horribly guys. I am entertained. I haven't played this game in several weeks and and as well because I'm focusing on my answers. Sometimes I've been I've made several really dumb moves. Like there was an explorer and I was going back and forth because I forgot to do one operation. So like I'd forget to go back to my base and go visit this to try to do an expedition. I realized I didn't have any expedition points. I'd go back to my base, but I would just, you know, be shy of it and then I would come back and waste a bunch of time. So I'm not I'm not playing super duper well. So be sure, you know, feel free to call me out on my crappy gameplay right now. But you've got like everybody here watching is judging you what's going on here. You've got a city named Mandira. I didn't even know that was a city. Is that a real one? Or did you like make that up? Oh, no, that's just like the default name that you get depending on, you know, what what character or what class or group faction you choose things. I don't know. Have you ever played this game before? No, I have not. I'm getting a lot of requests page. One guy in there made a comment at ace prime time. Why do you put a certain word in there and all your titles? And and I'm just going to tell you right now, those titles are coming into the post into the submission base, too. It's it's kind of weird, but it's keeping me it's entertaining. I'm laughing at it. So good work. What is the best way to get a banner if you don't have Photoshop? That's right up your alley there, Chris. I'm going to say pick monkey. Um, what what I'll do is I'll actually kind of point to one of our series that we have on freedom right now called impulse. Essentially, we have, I think, like four videos on branding right now. So you could check those out. They're all zesty Mike videos. And so we have three weeks back to back. We actually had an episode. I think today's episode was on branding outros for your videos. So we have one on outros, one on thumbnails, one on general branding. And he made a video, which is basically free apps. And he goes over editing software and like, you know, alternatives to to Photoshop. So be sure to check that out. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, just for the record, let's see here. So far we had 2,688 views on freedom online in like three hours. Day of sun. You crashed a server the day before we had like nine. I'm wondering why the server went down. They're like, Hey, you guys just increased your load by 47 million percent. We weren't expecting that. Yes. Oh, hey, grungy smile in the video in the chat there says he'll make banners for people. So maybe that'll help. I don't know. Yeah. For for the people who who don't know some of the resources like who are looking for for channel art and whatnot. Be sure to check out the forums, not not everyone knows about the forums, which which is unfortunate because the forums is a great place to be to meet people to find people to collaborate with. So there's an entire section just dedicated to graphics and you just need to make a request. And sometimes there are artists who are offering their services. The only thing I'd say is be sure to if an artist is is volunteering their services, be sure to look at the portfolio and make sure that you choose one that, you know, someone who actually knows how to do graphic design. Because not not to be critical of everyone's skills, but unfortunately there are a few people who are like, I'm a graphic designer. And the only thing they've done is, you know, like one thing on Photoshop. Yeah, like that would be me. Guys, I know how to work with layers and I know what a smart object is and that's about it. But that's why we got guys like potato because he can do that stuff. And I can do the other stuff and division of labor and all that crap. But yeah, before before I was a freedom employee, I would do requests for the community. I wish I could do more because that was really it was a lot of fun. But I'm super duper busy constantly. And unfortunately, I can't because for the people who don't know me who, you know, join this live stream and like, who the hell is potato? I'm I'm the senior graphic designer for MGM. And I'm one of the graphic designers for freedom. So I do a lot of branding and a lot of graphic design. I also do some visual effects and I do some video editing. So so my plate is rather full of working on several projects, helping out Curtis with freedom online, just we're trying to work out, you know, like the visual components to make sure that things look snazzy. We have a bunch of widgets and plugins. So I'm just trying to figure those things out. I went crazy. I went crazy on the functionality side of things. But I'd rather have too much than too little. There's there are weeks worth of things to learn in there. If you are interested, believe me. Well, maybe a week. Basically, you set up the website and WordPress was like, what plugins? What do you want? He's like, I want everything. I'm like, I'll take them all. And then I bought them all. And then I started working with them. And but at the end of the day, there's so much in there that we are not. I mean, the limitations are our abilities as opposed to what the website can do. So and that's a good thing to have, right? If you guys need like a new page that's dedicated to music content that has grids and widgets and it's got a slider at the top and it's got shout outs and call to actions, like whatever it is, we can do it. There there really is no limitation as to what we can do on the technicality and the functional side. It's just doing it and getting getting some of the skills down. But I've been kind of mad nerding. If that's a term, I have been nerding out in like the most maximum out of way lately. And we can do some really cool stuff over here. One of the things that Curtis might not have touched upon. If he has, then then feel free to correct me, Curtis. But like just like the chat. So like people can log on to the website. And if one of us is online, you could like chat with us. And I'm sure we'll we'll set something up for feedback. So hell yeah. Like if you guys have suggestions on things we can do, things we can improve, like you could just message us. Hopefully, you know, ideally what we want is to have someone on the website. Triggin's Steam. Yeah, that would be nice if we had somebody there that could answer questions. I mean, there's so many questions like building FAQ. There is an FAQ section. It's got three questions on here because that's all I could think of. Oh yeah, I got to get my grade nine here guys. But yeah, there's an FAQ section. And yeah, we're going to have a live chat. Hopefully we'll have like somebody around there to give feedback and answer questions. And I don't know if it's me, you guys can just log in and call me names. I don't mind. It's okay. But that's me. I'm like that. Other people might get offended. Yeah, but yeah. Okay, my screen crashed out. There we go. And I'm getting messages now. Okay, check out my channel. I do Five Night at Freddy. Yeah, Five Night at Freddy. That's a pretty popular game. I haven't played it yet, but it's pretty creepy. You guys probably see my friend who's advertising himself shamelessly on Steam. He didn't know that I was live. So he's like, hey, come check me out on Hitbox. I'm doing a pizza stream. So I guess after we're done this, if you guys want to see a pizza stream, just some guy eating pizza playing games, you guys are more than free to do that. Okay, I guess, I mean, I don't know how much more we have to say. I'll let the chat decide. Chat, do you guys want to keep going and doing this live stream or should we end it? Yeah, I think we've been on now for like 45-ish minutes. So I don't want to keep this too long. How about we just kind of stop it like an hour? So we're going for like 15? Sure, we can do 15 more minutes. There you go. Cool. I generally don't last too long. Do you know how many people are watching us right now? I'm looking at like 48, 50, looks like 51. Cool. Cool. That's a lot more than that. That's a lot of people. Yeah, 51 people. Okay. But yeah. So anyways, one guy asks, how do you get employed with freedom? There's a big George, I think. Yeah, that's basically the secret. Now, George actually talks about it in almost every single one of his latest videos. So there's actually a jobs page. So I'm not 100% sure if it's freedom.tm.jobs, but there's a place that you can apply. A lot of people from time to time will kind of ask me, you know, like, you know, how do I get in or can you get me a job? I say the best way to get noticed is to find a problem. So if you can identify, you know, something that might not have been addressed that you think you could fix with your expertise, will then make a pitch saying, you know, this is the problem that I think I could tackle. This is why I think I could tackle it. And then maybe even give an example to prove that you're the person to do it. And that really kind of sparks attention because a lot of people will be like, I'm a graphic designer. Can I get a job? The thing is that right now we're good for graphic designers. And a lot of people will kind of apply for jobs that like all the positions are already filled in that area. So the best way to get attention is to really offer up something that we haven't really seen before. So, um, yeah, yeah. That would be an example. Well, the best example. Freedom online. Yeah, freedom online. I was going to say the best example is actually me because Curtis, I would not be working for freedom if it wasn't for Big C, because he's the one who noticed me. What did I do? Yeah, you know, you don't remember? Yeah, I think it was like back in August. I had been with freedom as a partner for about like a month and I was watching a video. I think it was like one of the episodes of the George show and was like, hey, I could probably produce a show that's like higher quality, you know, just kind of up the quality of the videos. Because I know a lot of people are always commenting, you know, like, oh, the green screen isn't fantastic and you guys could do better. So I was like, okay, well, you know, I do graphics. I could up the game. And then Curtis, he noticed my comment and he was basically like, okay, prove it. And he got me a call with George and George was like, okay, try something. And that's basically how I got my foot in the door. So it's the best thing is really propose something that you're an expert in that maybe might not have been tackled. Yeah, yeah, I think that that's how it went. I remember reading the comments and I was like, hey, this guy's guy seems good. And yeah, and then a little later, he worked on a bunch of projects, impulse was born and all that cool stuff. And now he's he's running the show doing his thing. And and and I'm not getting a royalty from you getting hired. Why aren't I getting a fraction of your pay? Pay me for this. I'm not I'm screwed. I'm not that word. I am. I am. I should be getting paid like this is a mafia, bro. But anyway, no, okay. It's not a mafia. Well, we'll just we'll discuss something after the live stream. Joking aside. Yeah, no, I'm kidding. But no, but I mean, the point of that is is all joking aside is yeah, let's go say that and you can do something that's going to, you know, make an impact at freedom. And you've even done it in your own personal life or in your own professional life and you want that. And it would be a good idea for freedom. Check out George's videos. I think in every one, he's got a link to do that. And then he will he'll take a look. And if he doesn't get back to you, scream really, really loud and keep showing up. And then eventually they'll just be like, all right, man, somebody talk to just deal with this guy. Maybe then you'll get found. I don't know. I'm making that up on the go. But yeah, joking aside is pretty awesome. It's awesome working here. Yeah, just the it's it's it sounds weird. The thing that that comes to mind is I was doing like some research on just, you know, like starting your own business or just, you know, like a few months ago and someone made their he basically what he said is the best way to get into business is to get into business. Meaning that like the best way to start something is to just jump into it. Don't wait for someone to open the door for you. Create your own opportunity. Yeah. And so like if you want to work for freedom, well, then just just start working on it. Write up a proposal. Think of, you know, again, things you can tackle. Come up with, you know, a portfolio or proof, you know, demonstrating that you're the person to tackle the subject. And I mean, if your work is impressive, that's that's a fantastic way to get noticed. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you've got an idea, like a unique idea, like let's say I'm going to throw in out there, you've built an app like a phone app or an iPhone app or an Android app or something. It's like a freedom app and you could do that for freedom. That would be something that they'd go, Oh, hey, man, we don't have that. That's really cool. Or you built a website that has, you know, that that features content, for example, that's really what they need. That's cool. But a joking aside, I mean, yeah, those are the kind of things that are going to get you noticed. That's actually a really, really, really great. I mean, he just brought up, like for the people who are paying attention right now, a lot of people have been asking for mobile apps for freedom. I know George has talked about it in the past. I don't think anyone's actively working on it right now. We had been kind of talking about it. If you develop apps and you're really good at that, just try something out and then just kind of mention it to one of us. And if we like it, then we forward it to George. And yeah, I mean, that's a way of potentially getting your foot in the door. Yeah. If you're an app builder or you know how to build apps, man, I think there's some opportunity there. Just calling that one out. Yeah. I don't know how to make those. Oh, somebody knows how to make them. Forced Gamer knows how to make iPhone, Android apps. Hey, man, job opportunity. Potential job opportunity. Potential. Yes, potential. What else is there? Oh, yeah. So wow, we still got a bunch of people watching. Any other questions? Anything else that you want us to add in here? We're good to go. Yes. Ask your last questions because in about seven or soish minutes, we're going to be ending the stream. And yeah. And now silence. And now the questions are ended. I know that. No, there's going to be a lot of email. About, well, okay, here, I'll let you answer that first. And then. Oh, you go ahead. Okay. I'm just gibbering. Someone asked before the question, can you guys supply me with new equipment to make better videos? The quick answer is, unfortunately, we can't because because we have like over 100,000 partners. If we did that for everyone, we'd go bankrupt. Like boom, because equipment's expensive. That being said, however, there is a program that not everyone knows about that everyone should know about, which is Gear Locker. And this is something that Anthony Smith started. It's his initiative. And basically it's people who have old equipment that they don't need anymore. They can just send it via PO box to Anthony. And then he'll forward those pieces of equipment to people who need them. So let's say, you know, I have a really crappy webcam right now, but let's say I upgrade the webcam. Well, then the old webcam I can give it. And yes, I know a lot of this equipment might not be, you know, the highest of end stuff. Sometimes you'd be surprised. A lot of people will be like, oh, I just got this, you know, these high end headsets, but I've got like two of them and I don't need the second one. So I'll, you know, I'll give it to you. Some of the equipment might not be the top of the line, but it's better than nothing. And so that's, that's one way, one opportunity to check out. And sometimes, um, sometimes Anthony, he'll, he'll throw in some new products in there as well. Because I think he did a product review a few weeks ago and on an episode of Impulse, and he was like, okay, well, if you want to win these headsets, just, you know, tweet out at Impulse this, you know, and leave us this message. And one of you guys might just win this pair of headsets. So, um, so, yeah. Yeah, and I'll also say here that we've also got a few other guys that are looking to get involved in this as well. Just so you know, we've got a guy named B Original who's going to do some design stuff. We've got JJ MC Hammer, yes, MC Hammer with the big pants. He's getting involved in some of the design, some of that stuff. We've got another guy named Simon who was interested. So there are some people, and my younger brother, Dexter, who's probably going to get involved in it. So we've got some people in queue that are going to help us, you know, kind of take on the content. Like it's, we're getting blasted with content. So, I mean, there's going to be guys looking at the video, putting them into pose and stuff like that. So, right now it's kind of a, it's a small shop, but we got people there that are going to be able to pitch in, especially after we convinced George that we need help and not the psychiatry type help that I do need. But there are going to be some people in there helping out. So, it's coming. There's going to be a boost, I promise you. Cool, yeah. Okay. We're going to scale at some point. So, Curtis, for these last few minutes, I'm going to ask you a special favor. Do you happen to have Heartbeat installed? I did on my other computer, but I don't have it installed here. I can do that. Okay, so let me just pause the game. So, for the people who did not hear my announcement, I want to keep this on the down low. Typically, whenever I do live streams, I like to give away a game at some point during the stream. And I know that a lot of people, typically when you announce games during the live streams or the giveaway, what people will do is they'll just wait for the giveaway and then they'll leave right away. You know, it's kind of, I don't know, it feels bad to know that some people are like, only pay attention because they just want the game and then afterwards they just leave. So, I didn't announce it. I just wanted to kind of reward the people who were here, you know, stuck around until the very end of the stream. Hotline Miami 2 just came out today. Now, when people ask me what games to do Let's Plays of, often I tell people a great way to get views is to be the first people to tackle new games that are hot, that people are talking about. Hotline Miami 2 has just come out and so I'll be giving a copy of that. The procedure is, if you have not watched the last video on Freedom Online, I want you guys to go on there and I want you guys to leave a comment because part of Heartbeat Chrome is a button that you click and it's a randomizer and it will choose a winner at random. So, essentially leave a comment on that video. So, just go to the other Freedom Online video, the announcement video. Leave a comment if you have not already and what I'll do is I'll use the randomizer to pick a winner and that winner will get a steam copy of Hotline Miami 2. Yes, and the procedure for getting the code will be you can send me a PM after I announce the winner to my YouTube channel. So, you just search Akramat. What you can do is, my URL is youtube.com slash C slash Akramat design. I'll put it up here. I'll type it in. That's true, we can't really type links. So, I'll have to do it this way. Slash C slash Akramat design. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so what you just saw right there, that is the link to my YouTube channel. And so, the person who wins, when I announce them, they can just go there, send me a PM with your email address, and then I'll gift them the copy of the game. Okay, so let me go to the announcement video if I can find it. Hey, can I win this thing? I know, okay, I can't win it, damn it. I'm trying to cheat. Okay, ignore me. See, here's the thing, I would love to gift you a copy of the game. At the same time, though, I'm afraid that if you did win, people would be like, no, you cheated. I would, I'm telling everybody. This has been a fraudulent, okay, cool. I do not want to win. So, I'll be refreshing the page and choosing a winner in about one minute. So, if you haven't posted a comment on that video, Ace Time Prime's like, come on, what's your YouTube channel? I've already posted the link. Guys, just search this, just search Akramat. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. It's like Akramat, but without the tight shorts. It's very close, guys, it's very close, honestly. Okay, that's what I'm going with. I'll repeat it. Okay, so, I will now hit, I'll refresh the page. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. Okay, and I'll hit the pick a winner button. Uh, the nice, not talking about that button in your nose, guys, not that pick winner. No, wait, what did you, never mind, carry on. Okay, don't pick that one. This is the first time I've used the pick a winner thing, so it's really interesting. Okay, I'm going to ask, is Nick a lot here? If Nick a lot is here, spelled, you know, like the name Nick, a lot. If Nick a lot is here, just post a comment. If not, I'll just, then I'll just have to choose another one. All what I'll do is I'll do three cycles of the pick a winner thing. And if the person is not in the chat, well, then I'll just choose someone by clicking on their names directly in the live stream chat. Nanner Aircraft is asking, who's winning what? I'm giving away a copy of Hotline Miami 2. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. Well, they don't seem to be here, so pick another winner. And let's see. Nick a lot wins again. Pick another one. What? Yeah, I know. It's weird, huh? The randomizer chose the same person twice in a row. Showtime plays games. This is Showtime plays games here. Who's this guy? Showtime. Show yourself. Showtime plays games. This guy's got Doug in his name, nickname there, DOGE. I like that. That's many, many good name. Okay, never heard of it. Holy God. Is this guy here? Guess not. I'll try one more time. You know what? What I'll do? Is I'll just do it the conventional way, because Hot Beat has failed this, folks. Okay, so typically when we do giveaways in the live stream chat, essentially what we do is we ask people to write hashtag who is George. So just write hashtag who is George. Keep writing it, okay? And then I'll just choose someone at random. I'll close my eyes and I'll keep my mouse somewhere in the chat box and I'll just click on someone's name and then I'll just announce the name that I've clicked on and that person will message me. So the other names that I announced before, like the winner was this person. They didn't win because they weren't actually in the chat. So it kind of was self-defeating. They left a comment on the video, but they weren't actually here. So, yes. So as soon as the hashtag who is George is start rolling in, that's when I'll know. Nobody. Oh, okay. I'm starting to see them. Coolio. Find the George. It's funny because once or twice George has come in midstream and then he'll see the hashtag who is George and he'll join in. So as George renews, he'll be like, hashtag who is George? I don't know. Okay. Even he doesn't know. Yeah, he doesn't know. So Kudos props to whoever knows the origin of the true origin of the hashtag who is George inside joke. It was born on MGM. I can maybe go over it. Okay. So I'm going to choose someone in five, four, three, two, one. And the winner is, the winner is Tristan, Tristan Hens 5851. So Tristan Hens 5851, you have won a copy of Hotline Miami 2. No, I'm going to do. I'm just going to, I'll keep your name in mind and I'll message you directly. So instead of, you know, getting you to message me, I'll just message you. I'll do so after the live stream. So congratulations to you. Everyone congratulate him in the chat. Yeah. And good work, buddy. So once again, it's Tristan Hens 5851. Okie dokie. Well, yeah. Just see a flood of who is George and then Tristan going, yes. Yes. I think we know who won it. Yes. Oh man. So thank you guys for checking out the live stream. I know that, you know, we were talking for over an hour. I think when we started it, we were like, okay, we're going to do like 20 minutes tops. But obviously it's really cool to talk with you guys. One thing I'd like to do. We did this with impulse before where it was like once a week, we'd check in with you guys, do a live stream, give away a few prizes. I'd like to return to that format. So demanding waffle. No, you did not win. He's claiming that he won, but your name never came up. So damn. Yes. Unfortunately. So yeah. So what I'd like to do is kind of return to this form where at least once a week, we do a live stream with some staff members and you guys can ask us questions and we'll respond to you guys. One thing that we'd like to do in the future, either on freedom online or somewhere else, is just kind of have some sort of a place for you guys to ask us questions and address certain concerns that you might have. You guys can feel free to call us out on things that are late that you guys are concerned about or things we haven't addressed in a while. And what we'll do is we'll take those popular topics and we'll try to make like a weekly video addressing those things directly. So people during the stream, we're talking about monster cat and in the past, people were talking about iron side, but I think most people, those who don't know, it's just goes back to sponsorships, negotiations with companies and blah, but people have talked about sponsorships, people have talked about freedom points and freedom wallet and dashboard 2.0. So you guys could have just kind of a place to talk about those things, voice your concerns, and then we'll just kind of take those topics and make videos just kind of directly addressing where are we at? Why has it been so long? Where's the progress? What do we need to continue and fix these things? Yeah, put me down for those things because I can chat about online, freedom online and handle that side of things with you guys. So yeah, yeah, definitely. Mark me down. Yes. So once again, for the people who've just joined us, well, this is kind of the end of the stream, but be sure to check out what's the URL to Freedom Online. Oh, I put it underneath under the link there. It's online.freedom.tm. It's right in the chat thing and I'll pop it in again. Check it out. We're fixing up the servers right now. We're getting so many posts and requests. We're just getting blasted and it's amazing and we appreciate it. And tomorrow hopefully we'll be on the cloud and we'll be able to handle everything you throw at us. Yeah, absolutely. If you guys can't submit your content right now, just be patient. Again, we're transferring things over and we'll just kind of look through all the, how many submissions have we gotten so far? Over 200? We have 208, it looks like, in the last couple hours. Nice. So we'll probably right after this live stream, I mean, you can maybe forward me some. It's crazy. We could start going through all those submissions and as soon as we can edit the website, we'll pick some videos to Spotlight and we'll put those up. So thank you guys for submitting your videos, for being awesome, for being here right now. Even though this was a very impromptu live stream. And thank you guys very much. So I guess I guess we'll sign out. Yeah, take care, man. Signing off. All right, cheers. Cheers.