 All right. Waiting for the thing to say you're live. We're live. Hi everyone. My name is Jamie Higginbotham. I am the creator of Tomorrow. You may have noted that the Tomorrow live shows have not been on the air for quite a while. That's my fault, right? Doing gender transition didn't want to be on air while we were doing that. We were struggling to kind of find a format for our live shows that worked, that were conversational, fun, and yet very space related. I think I finally figured it out and I don't know if this is it, but I'll give you my theory and I'll tell you what I'm planning on doing and hopefully this all makes sense. So back in the day in the space big cast days and then the tomorrow early days before we had a studio space, we actually did pretty good. I think we had a really good growth with our live shows. People seemed to really enjoy it. They were very conversational, quite a bit of fun. We didn't take ourselves too seriously and it was great. And then we got the studio space and it was kind of okay at first, but after we got the set and the lights and the new cameras and everything kind of like became nice and clean and smooth and worked together, it became a little more stuffy. The hosts were much more like wanted to have, they wanted to look good and sound good and not make mistakes on the air, which is totally understandable, but it's not actually the feeling we were going for for the live shows. So I fought for frankly for years trying to figure out how do I make it so that the hosts are comfortable being human, right? Being in the natural state, just kind of having fun, laughing and enjoying themselves because space is about humanity, right? Rockets don't build rockets, humans do. We get excited about humans going to space. We get less excited about payloads going to space. We just do. So I wanted to really bring humanity forward in all of this. And I just, I needed to get the hosts in a mental state of conversation and not a mental state of like, praying improper and like making sure that you're speaking basically what I'm doing right now, speaking straight to the camera, but in a conversational tone, right? I'm having a conversation with you. I'm not speaking to you, I'm speaking with you. Looking over at the chat room and saying hi everyone. So Matty says good to see you again. We'll get into comments in a moment. I kind of want to finish this thought if that's okay. So here's my solution. I don't know if this will work, but I'm hopeful that it will. My solution is I'm going to kind of change the live shows and do more of a podcast format. There's some advantages and disadvantages to this, but what I mean by this is hosts, I'm going to create kind of, I'm going to have two tables that are in a V formation and hosts will be facing themselves, which and they're going to have a microphone kind of right in front of them and they'll be wearing headphones. And the thought process here is there's going to be something they can hide behind, right? It's the same kind of concept as a podium, right? When you're up on stage giving a presentation in front of a bunch of people, sometimes it's nice just emotionally to stand behind the podium because you have something that kind of literally shields you from everyone else and it can help take some of the edge off. My hope is that by turning their bodies away from the camera and not seeing the tally lights and not seeing the dark lens that you know is capturing the light by looking at the other human across the table from them, by having a microphone in front of them to help shield them from the studio. Emotionally, I'm hoping that it puts them in a different mindset than when they're standing, sitting there with nothing between them and the camera, straight full body straight onto the camera because it takes a certain personality to be able to do this with the camera in a certain comfort level. So that's part A, right? So I'm going to turn it into a podcast format. The other advantage of this is we should get much cleaner audio, really great audio, and I'll post it to Spotify and iTunes and I'll pick your podcast flavor, it doesn't matter, as an audio only format. So if you want to listen to the shows, which part two of this is we're not going to have a set time for the shows. If it goes for 20 minutes, cool, it's 20 minutes. If it goes through four and a half hours, then it's four and a half hours. So if you've got a long drive and you just want to listen to the show and you don't need to watch it, you just want to hear it on your drive in and out of work. Awesome. Do that. Listen to it instead. Or you'll have the YouTube live video kind of like we've got right now. Or you can watch it on demand, right? So you'll be able to do whatever you want. We're really going to focus on YouTube and kind of the podcast format. That's the plan. I don't know if it will work. And then, sorry, so with the V formation that we'll put the TV behind it. So it'll be two hosts and then ideally someone else remote and that someone else remote could be a guest. It could be another host. I don't know. I haven't figured that apart out yet, but I think it would be fun to bring in someone unique. So having two hosts that are the same and then a third person that's unique for each individual show. I really think it'd be fun to have kind of like rotating guest hosts. Some people that maybe you know in industry just so you can get their opinion on things. And we'll just be talking about space newsy stuff and, you know, bring in in the chat room. Docs, as Doc says, you know, let the tape, you know, let the topic go where it needs to go. Exactly. Be true to the topic. A couple other notes. I'm planning on moving this to Friday evening specific time. And I realize that that may not be opportune for everyone across the US. Well, it won't be terrible for people across the US, but like across the pond, certainly it's going to be a not great hour for you if you want to watch live. The reason I'm doing this is because what was happening is the shows were early, early ish in the morning on Saturdays, which is fine. But then it's like the first thing you do that day, not the last. And so you're still kind of like waking up and getting into a mental state of trying to prepare for this thing. And really the show should be the last thing you're doing. So you've already had a full day and you're just kind of like you're sitting down to relax, have a drink. Like that's the other thing is like if I wanted to offer drinks, whether they want one or not. If I wanted to offer a drink, it's weird to have a martini at 9am in the morning. Right? It's just or even 10am. It just doesn't feel right. But like 7pm. Oh yeah. Let's have a drink. Let's have fun. So it offers me an opportunity to literally have drinks on the air. And maybe we make a thing out of it. I think it might be fun for you, the community to choose what drink I have to drink. And I know you are going to make them the most disgusting, awful things ever. And I think that's amazing. The other thing that might be fun is, and I have not spoken to them, but I thought it might be cool like Hendrix did a sponsorship of Eury's Night. And they've got like, I love gin. I already have some Hendrix Lunar. We already like Hendrix and Muddled Cucumber because like it's just a delightful summer drink. You know, it might be kind of cool just to do something there, right? And have like a, if you hadn't seen it, go back and watch Eury's Night and watch the sponsored segment from Hendrix. It's amazing. If I was going to do a sponsorship on tomorrow, that's what I want. I want that guy. I want him alive. And I want him to be exactly as quirky and as animated as he was. It was brilliant. I absolutely loved it. It's one of those things where you actually look forward to the commercial to the sponsored segment as opposed to skipping through it because you do not know what's going to happen. Anyhow, that's not happening right now. I don't know if it can happen. I think that would be fun. So that's the plan. Why are you here today? Well, if we look on one of my screens, there's that guy right there. That, those are two IKEA tables that need to be assembled. And then in this control room, we've got, let's see what I, oh, I have one out of the box. So I've got a microphone arm from blue, right? So we need to clamp one of these sides. I believe this is the clamping side. So we'll clamp this to the table. I've got some cable. And then I've also got, let's see here. I'm not going to lie. I bought it because of the name. I was looking to get some new microphones for the podcast format. For those of you who watched in the Spacevidcast days, we used Shure KSM44s, the large, I think they're 2-inch diaphragm microphones. They don't make the 44s anymore, but they make the 44As. They're the same thing. The nice thing about those microphones is they have a really great bass response. And so Ben's voice sounded magical in those microphones. And Karianne has a really nice kind of like, her deeper register. She could manipulate that microphone and it sounded brilliant. But Jamie's voice, like I'm not happy with my voice yet and I do not want to highlight that part of my register. And so I knew that the KSM44 was out. There are other microphones. I came down to three. It was a Neumann, the KSM and a blue bottle rocket stage one. Obviously I got the bottle rocket stage one. And the reason I got this is two-fold. And I'll be honest, it's because of the name. That's the primary reason I got it. All three microphones were about the same price. They were $100 off from each other. And so because it said bottle rocket stage one, I was like, yep, that's the one. Now there is an added advantage that this is actually a modular system. It's actually pretty cool. And I'm going to be putting this together for you today. I'm going to be attempting to put this together for you today. So first thing is I got to put the tables together. Then we're going to put the arms on. And then we're going to put these in. So the way the bottle rocket works is you've got, here's the bottle itself. Now they have a version of this that's even more awesome. It's the bottle which is substantially larger. So this is the main solid state component of the blue microphone. But you'll note there's no microphone element on it. And that's because the microphone elements are modular. So if I don't like the way I sound with the microphone that it shipped with, I actually have there are eight different modules you can get. I believe we got the R8 modules, which is just kind of a good all around general unit. Let me see. I'm sorry, not R8, B8. Actually we have B6s it looks like. I thought it was the eights that we wanted, but I have a six. So we'll listen to it. The other one that I think would sound good with our voice is a B0. So we'll try it out. And this just connects to this like so. Right. And so now a couple of nice things. This doesn't look like your regular podcast microphone, right? This actually looks kind of unique and cool. We've got a really, I mean, come on. This set is unique and cool. And so I've got this to work with. And then like, again, I'm not super happy with where my voice is. And this will give me an opportunity to try different modules without having to spend an absurd amount of money every single time. And if we have different guests on, we can actually swap in modules, you know, elements that match their voice better because microphones are a very personal thing. Yeah. So I'll get these going. Hopefully I'll get all of this going tonight. And then my audio interface, we're a Dante house, right? So this board is running almost all completely Dante, including the Accient. I'm on a short Accient wireless system right now. We'll leave the Accient system in place. But I've got a Focusrite do Hickey. This is my audio interface that will also be hooking up. And the idea is this ethercon. Oh, good, it is. So it'll come in. I'll have to get a different cable for this. I'll run a temporary cable today. So it's going to be power over ethernet with an ethercon connection. So basically network connection, but it has a locking outer ring so it doesn't get unplugged. And then I can plug in two microphones into this. And then I've got a headphone jack coming out here. And so I'll be able to use this as my main audio interface for the two microphones. And then I'll get another, they make a version of this that I don't have yet. That is just basically a headphone amplifier that I'll plug in for the second person. So we'll be on headphones. So that's what we'll be hooking up today. I will be putting the IKEA tables together alone and they're large and heavy. So this will be fun. So let's go ahead and get started out here. Let me see if I can get first things first. I'm going to need to get the chat room up so that I can actually see you good. Yeah, exactly. Johnny Spacer says on box therapy. Actually, let me go through the chat room really quick. Scrolling all the way back up. Also, hello everyone. It's good to see you. It's been a long time. Fabiano, do I prefer dVader? That goes into a tweet that I sent out. I'm trying to get at Company Axe. I'm building a new, trying to build up a department there. And it's what I want to call the video audio design and engineering resources team or Vader. And I want to be the director of Vader, so dVader. Yes, it's a background. It's absolutely background. Getting any form of acronym or background through Company X is difficult. So I don't know that that's going to work, but I will call it Vader internally, mostly because I want someone to call me on comms. I want mission control to call for Vader. I think that would be amazing. I think that would be amazing. Again, none of that's approved, including the team. So who knows? Let's see here. Vader says, awesome to see you. Thank you very much. Let's see here. Colton loves my nails. Thank you. Sorry, this is the awkward moment where I try to catch up. A smoke sale says, just looked it up and oh my gosh, it's not cheap. I mean, it's all relative, right? So like, video is 80% audio. If you want to see how much this control room is worth, like, look up the Atom 2 ME control surface, just this one box, not even, and then we have an Atom constellation. So take just this and an Atom constellation and add those two numbers together and you start to realize that this is a drop in the bucket. But I think I'll, first off, for those who don't know, I kind of use this as a way to test things for Company X. I don't really talk about it too much because I don't want you to know, and I don't want you to make assumptions about what you're going to see, but it does offer me an opportunity to try things out and see if they work before bringing them to a larger audience. And I'll be blunt, 90, 95% of the time, they do not work at all. And even then, like, of the things I'm testing out, I've enjoyed even of them, don't even make it to air here. And then once they do make it to air here, they sometimes still fail. But a handful of things do actually make it. And I'm like, okay, this is actually pretty cool. I think I can copy this over. And so it's worth it to me to have kind of a playground where I can sit here and I can try this stuff and not be worried about, you know, what the, you are a different audience. You are a much more understanding audience and you're a much more forgiving audience. And so I have an opportunity to kind of play with you and see what actually works. Also, there are some things that they're just never going to allow that I desperately want to do. And since I want to do them, I can just do them here. What else have we got? Dog says, okay, it's a really serious mic. I've broken the fourth wall. It's Rocket Science's new trans woman watching the streaming and seeing how it successfully makes me feel much better about my future. Thank you very much. I don't know how to pronounce your name. I think it's Yorg. Hopefully I'm pronouncing that right. If bedtime, 5 a.m., I'm so sorry. It was good to see you even for a few moments. It will be available on demand when you wake up. Oh, Nero, this is one other note that I wanted to make. Carrie Ann hadn't really been on the show a whole lot. There are reasons. But I think when we come back, part of what makes tomorrow magical is the chemistry we have on air. And I think, especially when we come back, having Carrie Ann part of that is very important. The two hosts will be myself and Carrie Ann on air, like old-school Space Vidcast days, just dorking around having fun and geeking out over space. And I'm itching to get back at it because we've got really ship-start building the tables. It's almost 8 o'clock, and I've just been sitting here talking to you. But I miss you guys. Part of what has me antsy is talking about the Carmen line. And there's so much data there. And it's really interesting. And it's not, you know, cut... It's not A or B. It's not binary. It's not one or zero. It's not, like, here's where the line is. I don't understand. It's super, super-duper, like, all sorts of, like, wishy-washy information. And I think it's a really interesting conversation. Suborbital spaceflight. We were joking about everyone six months out for years. For the last decade, we have been joking that everyone's six months out. Everyone has flown... They all flew. Within a week, they all flew. Humans. How incredible is that? How incredible is that? So I'm eager to talk about that. And, oh, my goodness, did Blue Origin mess up the PR on that one? I mean, we all knew they would. Their PR is terrible. I mean, it's not even, like, sometimes good. It's just plain out. It's just right up bad. It's amazing how much better Virgin Galactic's PR was. I don't understand why they have that team at Blue, but whatever. I can say that they know they're never coming on this show because they're terrible. So anyhow, regardless. Okay. Since 2004? Wait, what? Also, I'm drinking this. This is Cosmic Stardust. I don't know if you can see that. I think I have to bring it back here. Cosmic Stardust. Oh, I should also mention just because I'm back on the air right now doesn't mean that we're back full-time. The thing I don't want to do is start and stop and start again. I think that will be more damaging to the show than if we just wait a little bit longer. So something like this where it's kind of an in-between thing, where it's not really serious and like, you know, you're watching me build something poorly, it's a little bit different. Once we come back with the show, I want them to be back and I don't want them to be irregular. However, I do still have one more surgery and it is a major surgery and it's going to knock me out of commission for quite a while. So that surgery is on September 7th and I'm going to be out until at least the middle of October. I'm out at Company X, I'm out here, like, I'm not going to be able to human for a minute. My hope is that middle to late October is when we'll be able to restart the shows, but you need to understand I don't actually know what this surgery is going to be like. So I don't actually know when I'm going to be able to start the shows. I want to start as soon as possible, but I will let my body decide when that's actually viable. The good news is that's the last, there were four surgeries total that I was going to be doing. I've done three of them, so this is the last one. So once we're through that, peace out, like, we should be back and hopefully we'll be back stronger than ever. We'll be back with really great cast of characters or going to be having a ton of fun. I think we'll be laughing together. It's going to be great. So on that note, let's bounce back out here and let's watch me struggle to put this thing together. Where's my toolkit? Let's see here. You know, the other thing I should do, here we go, looking at, so I have one of those body scales that measures, you know, it does its best to try to measure like fat content versus muscle mass versus anything else, and everyone kind of freaked out a little bit when I, you know, I got off the air when he began transition. I then promptly lost 50 pounds. Mostly fat. And then I continued to lose weight, but I was not losing fat anymore. Now I was losing muscle. And while I was losing that muscle, I was regaining fat, but I was regaining fat at approximately the same rate that I was losing the muscle. And so when you look at the charts, it's amazing because you see, you see the weight go down overall about 50, and then you see, you see it go up a little bit again, but you see the muscle mass going down while the fat is going up. And I'm like, awesome, thanks hormones. That's great. So yeah, point of all of that is it was actually moderately difficult. You know, I should bring the chat room up on this. So I can see what you guys are saying. It was actually moderately difficult to bring these into the studio by myself. I'm not gonna lie, I struggled. Also, there's no HVAC right now. I think this is, I think I can just do that again. Tomorrow, yay. Thank you, Colton. I appreciate that. I have the chat room up. All right. We're getting, okay. We've got, I love how they're like, don't cut this. Well, then how am I going to open it? I did actually consider other things trying to change the host's, like mental perception of everything. One of the things I did consider was not using the set because I do think that the set does contribute to it because the set's big and impressive as you can kind of see on the air. Here's the table. It's actually pretty big. Let's do both of them while I'm here. However, I love this set so much. Dada built this. Dada built this out of pure passion, blood, sweat, and tears. That's how this set got built. I don't know. I'm generally okay getting rid of things. I'm okay removing the past in order to move forward with the future, but this just has a special place in my heart. It's just got character and there's no one else that has anything like this. I just can't bring myself to not use it. So I really, really spent a long time carrying on with a test of this just trying to figure out how we can change the mental state of the host while still being on the set. This is my plan. I hope it works. This is table number two. Ideally, so one thing we may do in the future is get a third microphone kit. Thanks, Ikea. So if we have, instead of a remote guest, we have someone in studio, we'd be able to do that, but for those of you who looked at the price, that's pretty expensive for something that's going to happen, like not very often. So for now, I'm not being out of that. And it's just going to be two microphones, two turn tables and a microphone. It'll be two microphones, and that's what I say to that. This camera kit seems dark. Take a moment to try to brighten it up a little bit. Where's my screen just dark? What you guys saying? Smokescale says it'd be really cool to make this instead of a static image, an actual screen that had some sort of moving something, something, something back there. There are ways to do that that don't cost an arm and a leg, for example. I did actually toy with a green screen and actually tested some stuff back there. Live green screen done well is actually very expensive. It can be done, but like, I can do it poorly. I can certainly do it poorly, but I just, oh, you know, it doesn't look so bad in here. I think it can use a little bit of love. So it's definitely that screen. Yeah, I'm winded from unboxing two pieces of wood. That's why I should fix it. I didn't have the software open, so it wasn't sending the color commands to the system. You know, I thought that these were going to be maybe too big, but now that I'm seeing them in person, I'm like, actually, these are about the right size. Also, I like that they have rounded corners. So anyhow, you're not wrong. It would be very, very expensive. And the other problem is like, if I were to do an LED wall, which is ultimately what you need to do, we don't have the throw distance for projection, even short throw. So if I were to do an LED wall, the power requirements are crazy. And, you know, I could probably get by with a 2.5 millimeter dot pitch. It doesn't have to be super bright, so it can be indoor rated, but I do need structure. That's going to be about half a million all in, including structure, processors, and everything else. I did not consider what I was wearing and being on camera, bending over at the same time before doing this. So that was not smart. Okay, here we go. Dan asked, do we pay utilities under a lease? Yes, we do. We pay electrical, and then there's a common thing for water, I think. I forget how it all breaks down, but like, yep, we absolutely do. Okay, which way? Does it matter which way is up? I feel like it doesn't. Equidistant, equidistant. Cool. I should probably grab the instructions. Okay, we have the... Where's my camera? We have this thing. I don't know if you can read it. Nope. Look at that. Look at that dark piece of paper. It's a beck hand. Who knows? Oh, you have to have happy people doing this. No sad people. So there's no sad people, only happy people. Again, you can't see it. It's way too far away. Lots of parts. I think that's an earthquake thing. Cool. All right, so first things first. This is not what... Oh, I have to build the legs first. That's stupid. Oh, that's not stupid. I have to build the legs first because I have to attach to the... Good thing I read the instructions. Let's see here. It does say have two people, not one. But it'll be me and my ego. How about that? You know what? I have more than two people. I have me and all of you. So I have like, lots of people, preferably two people who aren't yourself. Well, it's going to be two people who are myself. Come on. I can do this. You guys got to watch me cook that one time. How does this work? This way. There's no way that's right. Oh, that is right. Okay. Yeah, we got nearly 100 people. Like, how many people... Like, I'm the first person to have like nearly 100 people put together two tables. All right. I need that piece. Okay. So I need all of the little ones. We'll use you as a staging area. This one. It goes in here. This one. Like this. Look at that. I am already winning. Star Empress says, I'm totally interested in what's going on here. I feel like, no, you're not. I'm literally building tables on a space station set, which, by the way, if I look really hot, that's because the HVAC unit in this room is no longer operating. And it is 78 degrees celsius... Celsius, God. It is 78 degrees Fahrenheit in this room. Good night, Eureka 360. Maddie, or I'm just really, really hot. Oh, actually, Maddie, I think that is right. 202553.21. Hang on. I think that's... Yeah, I think it might be. Star Empress looks like it's going to be really fun. I mean, better be fun. At a minimum, I did forget to put on an appropriate... Like, I didn't actually think about... I didn't think about... I didn't think this through. It's fine. One. So, the other thing I didn't think about is in order for me to run the Ethernet cable, because I'm going to have to have a CAT 6 cable that goes behind the set, I need to get in the ceiling tiles. For those who don't know, we have acoustic ceiling tiles that are made of fiberglass. And I am not wearing any form of long sleeves. So, let me tell you what I am not doing today. There's a zero percent chance I'm going into the fiberglass ceiling without any form of protection over my skin, because I will hate life for the next week if I do that. So, what I'll do is I'll just temporarily drag the cable out here through the door. And then later, when I actually have, like, a full garment on, then I will... Yeah, I'm not wiring it today. There's no way I'm... I have... You make that mistake once in your life. And I have already made that mistake once in my life. So, I do want to get audio flowing. I'd like for you guys to hear the microphone and see what you think. What am I going to do when it's all said and done? I mean, start live shows again, hopefully. Again, I've got to get through that last surgery, but my goal is I'd like to have this done and ready to go before the surgery. The interesting thing is, one of the decisions I have to make, and I'll talk it through with you guys right now, is that the place for this facility is up at the end of August, I believe it is. It might be the end of September. Regardless, it's like, it's right around surgery time. So, and I can't go month to month. They don't want me to do that. So, I either have to vacate or I have to extend, but it sounds like I can extend by just a year. I would... Like, the facility is fine. The facility is fine, but also, I feel like I could look for something else, but then we'd have to move the set and, like, that's not going to be fun. Okay, so now, these go in there with these. Copy that. So, this is why they want two people. This is awkward AF, okay. It's fine, I'm fine. How would we move the set? Well, poorly. It would have to come apart in pieces, and it would not be fun, right, like, at all. Let's see if it can be smart about this. There you go. I do it this way. Be straight. Ooh, that's going to be a problem. And it is why I am struggling. I could flush up. Getting this to be flush is proving to be not fun. Oh, there we go. Did you, nope. This is why they want two people. It would have been radically easier with two people. Yeah, Lupi says, extended a year and you revisit the idea then. I'm 99% there. Dan says, I don't need two people. I can handle this all by myself. Prince says Jamie. First off, it's Empress Jamie. I've been upgraded. It's Empress. Jamie, thank you very much. And yes, this is why you're watching. You're watching from... Come on. You're here to watch me fail. Let's be honest. You're here to watch me struggle. That's why you're watching me right now. And oh, am I struggling? Ugh. This one. Oh, hey. You know what? I think I can do now. Just be smart. Yeah. You? Yeah. There's a black plastic thing to go around the L range. I'm fine. My nails are an acrylic dip with a gel on top. I'm not breaking a nail. And if I do break a nail, then that's on me. Okay. I feel like that's pretty good, right? And now, now what? Look at that. Maybe this is my entire table. Maddie, it's an acrylic dip with gel on top. So there's... They're super strong. Okay. A hammer. What the? Come on, Ikea. Ugh. Both on that side. Smoke scale says stop hammer time. I don't have hammer pants though. So this goes like this or so. Then it's this bit that goes in on this side for reasons I won't understand. Only good things will happen. This table is literally held together with plastic. Now, to be fair, it is an Ikea table, so I don't know what I was expecting. But like, this table is held together with plastic. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Am I missing a bit? Nope. I'm just going to eat it. The question is, does the studio have a hammer? Ah, it has power. Maybe table two will be smarter about it. Do I have... did they send me the bit? No. Let me have one though. They want the long ones. Alright. This is riveting televisions. That's what this is. Okay. That makes sense. At least it's not all held together with plastic. One. Two. Not digging on that. I didn't miss. It was fun. Alright, well that's actually holding fairly well. Okay. Now, these bits go where? They go on the ends? That doesn't make sense. There's no holes there. Oh, far-fagnetic in it. Did I install this upside down? 50% chance I did. Because like, it wants this here? No. It wants it... hold on. What in the world? Okay, I'm dumber than the bit. This picture does not make sense. Okay, those go in there. Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. It goes like... No? All the same, aren't they? Oh wait, no they're not. Yes, they are. Okay. But there's nothing for you to attach to. Okay, yeah, so it doesn't matter. Also, that's stupid. You want them there? Fine. Ugh. Ugh. We're getting the power tools out. So this is the emergency, maybe the plastic won't hold, bit of the table that it wants me to install. But they don't pre-drill any of these holes, which is neat, and this is not magnetized, which is also neat for FFS. Oh, I got it started. Is this the right bit? That's the only bit. Oh, I see. Yay, one done. Three to go. There are not holes. If there are supposed to be holes, there are not holes. And I'm definitely in the correct side of the table because there are only holes on one side of the table and now I've lost the other screws. Here they are. Like there are holes for everything but these, which is fine. I'll just force it. Yeah, I mean like, there are definitely no holes for this. I like how you're following along with the instructions. That's amazing. Holes would be way easier. Come on, crab. There you go. Close enough. Let's spin it that way but whatever. Look at this. I only took way too long for one table. Whoo. Yeah, Mattie, it doesn't have holes and expects you to screw it in without a power screwdriver. That is evil and it is wrong. There's a zero percent chance I would do this. There we go. Yeah, that's a good one. Okay. Now, make sure the... Okay, yeah. This is really stupid. That wants me to... I did that, I did that. Oh, I gotta put this in. Do I need to put this in? I will. This is the stupid little underneath the table cable catcher which to be blunt, I wish I had under the tables at company X because it's just like, it has nothing but I use the kind of the metal as a way to... Oh, I see what you're doing. Ugh. I see what you're doing. Stupid. Okay. Yep, I get it. I mean, I guess it's clever. Uh-huh. Can you hear my disappointment? They love their plastic. I mean, the nice thing is I suppose I could run XLR cables underneath here, but like, whatever. This is gonna be really low to start. Uh-huh. Everyone get what's going on. They just put a silly little mesh underneath here, and then it kind of bends and you can run your cable underneath and they're like, oh, look, it's a cable thing. I'm like, no, it's not. This is not a cable tray, guys. Or it's the world's most disappointing cable tray. Oh, hi, Vax. It's good to see you. There's gonna be a KSC for the STP... uh, sat 6th launch. That's cool. All right. Am I sweet? No, I got an extra bit. Cool. Ladies and gentlemen, that was one of my two tables. Look at that. You get to watch me do this all over again. Here, let's, uh... This is a heavy table. I know I'm weak, but like, all right, I think this goes like, oh, maybe I don't need to raise it up. That's actually a pretty decent height. Look at that. One table. All right. We got one done. Go team. Hang on. We're gonna admire my work. Let me grab a chair. I mean, I'm going to admire my work. It was really hot in there. I don't know if you can see, but like, there's sweat dripping down the back of my hair. All right. I think we need different chairs. There's always a struggle for chairs at tomorrow. I don't know why. We've never found a chair that we absolutely love. Look at this, right? I'll be like this. I mean, obviously it would be a different camera angle. And then, like, I'll have a microphone coming off over here. Plenty of room for, like, a bunch of computers. The table will kind of be, like, right over there. We'll have a kind of a screen right here. So maybe more like this. So we can turn, talk to the screen, turn, talk to other talent. This'll be nice. Jared's hair would melt in this heat. Why did Tim dot our Tim's? Tim dot. Why did Tim Scott feet are crooked? They're not crooked anymore. Do I have to tighten the feet? We'll deal with that later. Dan asks if we're going to control cameras from surfaces still. All things, we still have the control room, right? So, like, you still have a control surface in there. I'm not going to move a control surface in here. I feel like this part of the set, you should just be concentrating on conversation and not thinking about anything else, right? The hosts shouldn't have to worry about what's going up on air or what's happening. There should be limited structure to the show. So you need to have some structure. You need to know who's going to come on. You need to have a general idea of topics. But, like, no scripts. I've been fighting against that for years at this point. No scripts. No even real talking points. Just, like, have a conversation. If you don't remember it, if you don't remember a point, turn to the community and be like, hey, I don't remember how, what was the actual apogee of Spaceship 2 on the Branson flight, right? And someone within seconds will give you an answer. It's a way to involve the community. They get their name up on the screen. Yeah. Oh, hey, by the way, Colton, I assume you pushed green. Did that work? Did that go up on screen? I didn't look. Push something else green. I don't know if it'll work. Yeah, Tim, as Dada said, remove distractions, right? Let the control room be the control room. Let the hosts be, OK. Hang on. Colton said that didn't go up. So I think I know what the problem is. Oh, so nice on this side. There are two zones for air conditioning. Of course, I didn't bring the chair in here either. All right. So I'll just awkwardly do this. So let's see here. Social CG. Oh, that's the problem. Social CG is down. It is powered off. I'll do it. Let's get that going. All right, Colton, let me know what I really should do. Well, you know, I was going to drag the other screen out there, and then we could put social up on that screen, and you could just push red. But give me a moment. Let me get the social CG system up, and then you can stuff in things. It wants to go into recovery. Let's see here. Where is it on here? That's where we're at right now. Can I? Will it let me? I don't think it will. Let's see if I can. Sometimes I can get around it by simply power cycling the unit one more time. All right. Come on, social. Do it. Anything? No? Not even a bio screen. Oh, there we go. Ah. One more time. You can see it on the screen in the background. I wonder if I can... I wonder if I've just lost the hard drive. That's going to be a pain in the butt. Like, it starts, and then it fails. We're going to take just, like, a couple of minutes to see if we can get this going, because I would love to get social up on the screen. Oh, it's cool in the control room, in the studio, because you can actually see... you can see it failing. All right. Let's pull this out. Let's get a keyboard connected to that system. We use Linux, Mac, and Windows in the control room. And the system that we have the most problems with? Windows. Do I have to function? Let's try 6. We got something. Here's what we got. Look at that. Attempting... Look at that. Maybe it was a Windows update that did it, like an automatic update. Yeah, now this is content. Hey, I did not promise you riveting content. I think I pretty clearly said I was going to be breaking the control room or breaking the station. I don't know what better way to break the station than this right here. I'm delivering on the title of the video. Let's go back here. Let's give you this. Let's get this other table set up. I should be able to monitor... Oh, you know what? I should put that in preview so I can monitor that. If I was smart. Social computer. There we go. So I'll monitor the social system and see what it comes back up with, if anything. Doc, this is not a Microsoft Surface. It's just an HP Z400 series with some Blackmagic decklink cards installed, which we use tied to Casper CG. Now, at the time we installed it, which was several years ago, there was no Linux variation of Casper server. So we were basically required to use Windows, but I believe they have an Ubuntu build now. I'm not sure if it's Ubuntu, but they've got, I believe they have a Linux build of the server. So I should just deploy it on Linux instead. It would make life a little bit easier. I just have less problems with Ubuntu. It just kind of works. Well, here's the thing. Ubuntu either works, or it's beyond broken. This is like that weird in between state of like, maybe we could get it back to work? Maybe not. But you don't... Like this is the common problem I have with Windows. It's like you get into this weird like half state all the fricking time. Like if you're just using it for a home system, browsing the internet, yeah, you'll be fine. We should try to do anything with like, you know, actual enterprise grade apps. This is what happens. Start and press topics. By the way, are these exactly the same level of science? Yep. Okay. So Colton, for the overlay, we can't do virtual because the system is actually fully utilizing the GPU and offloading that to the deck link card. And so now for the full screen graphic, yeah, we might be able to do something there because that's a little bit different. That's literally just a web browser being called up. So is that fan? Is that fan? So podcast, are you getting into big mic and headphones? Yes, absolutely. In fact, the microphones are here. They are the blue. If you want to look them up, they're the blue bottle rocket, and I've got the B6 element on those. Although I may be getting the B0 element. We'll see how I like the sound of the B6. At least one of them is a B6. Okay. For headphones, I don't actually have headphones yet. I don't know what I'm going to get. The interesting thing is for the set, for this side of it, am I still on camera? Yeah, okay, cool. For this side of it, I actually think that the aesthetics are more important than the sound quality, which is something I don't ever say about headphones. So it's actually kind of painful to say that. But in this particular application, I think that's true because it is what's on, it is what's on camera. Oh, hey, we're getting, we're back to BIOS on Windows. Let's see where we're at. It's trying. It's contemplating life. Star Empress, what will I call the show? You know, I figure, you know, that's a great question. I hadn't actually thought about it. Like, should we call it something different? If so, like, anyone have ideas? Cosmic cast? That's kind of lame, and I'm sure someone else has it. You know what? There is a, at the end of Space Mountain Q, Station 205, tomorrow today, at the end of the Space Mountain Q at Walt Disney World, when you're getting off of the attraction and you're walking up the ramp, there's actually a, like a bar area, and they call it constellations. Maybe we should call it constellations and we should be drinking. And this is kind of our bar area. Chattercast, the cosmos with the cosmos? Late night with tomorrow? Late night with tomorrow. Hot mic. Tomorrow today, now, again, forever. Maybe we, maybe we could just call it tomorrow after dark. Because it's always dark. Somewhere, no. Yeah, it's always dark somewhere. That was it, right? I have measles and my left knee hurts. Okay. Yep, I almost did that backwards. And then tomorrow, the real world, isn't that an old school real world or MTV reference? Like, they don't still do that, do they? Do they still have, do they have any music television on MTV anymore? I'm not judging other than I am judging. What's it called with the stations on the shadowed side of the planet? Eclipsed. Eclipsed. Change is eclipsed. Tomorrow eclipsed. That might be fun. Oh, hey, I think we have the social system back. It's purple at least. I got my purple screen. Music on MTV perished the thought. Okay, so the system is up. Okay, I've got full screen stuff running, but okay, this is not threading. I'm going to fix this first, and then Colton, I need to actually launch Casper CG. But the full screen graphics are quasi-working here. Let's try this. The lower thirds are not yet. Because that needs Casper running. Okay, if you can see this post, a cow emoji in the chat. No one else can see it, only I can see it, because I have the preview screen in the studio, dark side of tomorrow. That's funny. I like that. Are we on Vox? That's a good one. That is a good one. I do like that one too. I feel like that fits. That might be the winner so far. I'm not sure I'm 100% sold on it, but that is a fun one. We could have fun with that in the intro too. Oh, it smokes me. I feel like we all get that. All right. Built this one. Let's not put it up there. I'll scratch this. I could see people cringing at the idea of me. Oh, I've lost my mic pack. All right, hang on. Let's see if we can get the lower thirds working. Stupid windows. So first off, there you go. That's working. Now, you get to watch me do this. What's not to find? That's fun. All right. You're connecting. Do you see? You do see the deck link? Okay. Let's do this to your computer. Come on. Wait, what version of Casper is this? Oh, that needs to be updated. There we go. Huh? Okay. Lower thirds should be working again. I feel like... Udibi port for VLC. I actually, so I believe Casper CG does. I missed what went up. Was it a birthday cake thing? Are the emojis working? Three falcons to the wind. That one I don't get. Yeah, what do you... Okay. You guys ready for another table? And then we got to get a microphone installed. Drag a cable in here and actually see what it sounds like. Shouldn't take too much longer. Now we've done it. I've upset the build gods. You know, I just realized that I could have put these together the wrong way and I got lucky because there's a screw on the leg for sizing the height and it's only on one side and I wasn't paying attention to which side it was on on either one of them. And so I just happened to get it on the same side on the other table so I don't have to rebuild it. Thanks Dan. Dan says, quote, shouldn't take too much longer. Empress Jamie 2021. Thanks. That's great. I appreciate the trust in my ability. Hey, I built one of these already for you guys. Okay. That looks good. Same side? Yeah. Great. Alrighty, that's done. And of course I put all of the bits exactly in my way. Go there, go there, go there. There, there, there. Yay. Winning. Vax, the planet is rotating. Absolutely. Yep. It's totally rotating. Yeah. One. Akia, why do you hate me? I'm still blown away that this thing's held together by plastic. I'm not going to get over that. Three, four, three, I need one more. Four. Awesome. Four, five, six. Temperature increased? Yes, it did. We are up to 80 degrees Fahrenheit. I can feel it. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. Here we go. Don't mock me. I can hear you mocking me through the screen. Really wish they had pilot holes. Grab. Come on, grab. There you are. Ooh. Nope. I'm going to try that one again. That was an epic fail. Thanks, Akia. I was going to bend the metal because the screw moved on me because there are no pilot holes. Well, this is the opposite problem, but all right. Come on, grab. There you are. That was not a feminine noise. I'm sorry. There we go. There we go. Carrie Ann yells at me when I make noises like that. As she should. The thing is my vocal folds don't change, right? They went through male puberty, so... Arguably the hardest part of transition is voice. I've spent more time and energy on voice than anything else. And I still don't like where I am. Dataset is happening behind a table, so you see nothing by design. That's by design. Do it. Do it. Do it. Yay. One more. Sometimes I can do it great. Other times, not so much. Last one. Come on. Yay. Huzzah, even. Dataset says I'm trans femme, and everyone who hears me tells me I sound like a girl now, and I don't believe them anyway. I don't know if I'll ever be satisfied with where I'm at. Yeah, I mean, I hear you. Like, same boat. So the thing I think I have is when you see me at this point, you generally think female. And my voice is not super masculine anymore, but it's not super feminine either. One, two, three, four, five, six, three, four. So, I don't know. Like, when I'm on the phone with people, I mean, that's the thing, right? So I can tell because I'm on the phone with people, and they'll usually say he or sir or whatever if they don't know me, right? And I'm not going to correct him, because for me it's a data point. And so I'm purposely not telling them because I want them to come to their own conclusion and figure out what they should say, and if they're not saying what I want them to say, then I use that data to figure out how I change, what I need to change to get them to say, you know, get them to perceive me as I want to be perceived. So, also it makes far less awkward conversations on the phone. And I mean, it is getting better now. People just don't... I think I'm in the middle. People just don't gender me that much on the phone anymore. They just don't say anything. I think they can't tell. Try a breathy voice. Maybe. I'm not going to be trying voice stuff while I'm trying to build a table, and it's 80 degrees in the studio. I'll work. I'll try to do voice stuff. Like, I'll work with you guys on it during the shows, and you guys can give me honest feedback as to what I need to do, because I won't be insulted by honest feedback. If you hear something where you're like, oh, that was very masculine, and you went down. Sometimes, like, I hear it too, and I'm like, oh, that was wrong. But, like, yeah, I think that data helps, and then I have to build habits, because it's not pitched. Like, it's pitched, partly, but it's intonation more than anything else. It's how you form your sentences, like, easy onset, easy off-set, e-ification of everything, e-sounding instead of all-sounding. And, you know, I've made improvements there, but they're not lark. I mean, I don't know. You guys would have to tell me, and I fear that people try to be nice. Like, when I'm talking about this, I feel like people are trying to be nice to me and be like, oh, no, it's great. And so I don't feel like it's actual real data. Does that make sense? SmokeSkill says, I think it's interesting, about 10 to 15 years ago, I got to be really agitated when someone called me ma'am on the phone or in the drive-through, not kind of giggle. Yeah, I mean, also it's all just comfortable, you know, comfortable level with it. Also, I'm actually pretty comfortable with myself. So, if I'm not getting gendered correctly, I'm not gonna... I don't get angry at people. Want to say correctly, hi. When I'm not getting gendered the way I would like to be gendered, I don't get angry at people. How's that? I don't actually know how we want to do this. These tables are actually large. Like this. Maybe. Is that too much? That's a lot. Let's go to Camera 2. There's a lot. Camera 2, apparently I mean Camera 12. Holy cow. Okay, to that camera. Then we'll get the microphone bit installed. We're getting closer. All right, so we'll get off that shot and we'll move towards this one, which I think is the better, like, two-shot, and then the other ones would be tight shots of talent. Here is this. Where's the... Here it is. So, I think I want the microphones to clamp from this side and come this way. I'm pretty sure. You know what? Maybe I don't. Maybe I want them to come... Yeah, no, I think I want them to come that way. But they can't come from right here because I want to have... Get this cleaned up a little bit. So, eventually, there's a way I can drill this into the table so it'll look a little bit nicer when I'm having to clamp. But for now, we're just going to clamp them because I don't actually know where I want them and it gives me some flexibility. And then once we get it figured out, we'll make that change. Okay, so now this. 205 system. What are we talking? 204? I can't cut a diagonal corner off of the tables because the metal beam underneath will kind of prevent that from happening. Right? You saw me put the metal structure in it. It goes pretty close to the edge of the table. Also, I think it's just like MDF underneath this thing. Right? It's not really great wood, so that's not going to look super great. Yeah, Ikea laminate would absolutely crack. So the other thing is, based on that note, I cannot apply too much pressure here either. Just enough to allow it to hold. Look at that. Ooh, it needs some weight. Hang on. Let's get that blue microphone, shall we? Here's this. Here's this. I'm going to like, I think I really like, one of the things I like about the Focusrite, although I don't know that it's actually going to show up. Yeah, not really. It kind of comes across as black on camera, but it's got this really nice, it's like bright red. And I like the stark contrast of color. Yeah, I could do OBS, but like, I mean, it's six and one half dozen the other Colton, right? So OBS is arguably more unstable than Casper. OBS is not my friend when it comes to stability, especially the new version after the whatever company acquired it. Hold, hold, hold. Is this, you flip around? Oh, I see what you did. Do you have pattern selection on this? No, no pattern selection. I feel like you thread it all the way. No way you are. Hang on. You need me to do this first? Yes, you do. What do you thread? Are you just spinning at this point? I feel like you're spinning. Whoa. Do I want it like this? Kind of feel like I'm going to want it like this. Yeah. I like that. And then we can tighten that down. Tighten that down. And then this needs to... Okay, so let's see here. Let's get this set about like I want. I think it's going to be something. I want it like that. Or should I go like this? I'm starting to think like this. I mean, there is something to be said for like this. Hi, John. Drop down. So we prefer it this direction. We think it looks better this way. More like... So it'd be more like... I can't quite get it far enough. I think it'd be more like this. Yeah, one mic boom for each table. That's correct. So one person at each table and we'd be kind of like... We'd be facing this way. So I think it actually needs to be kind of like here. Lock that too much. Also, I need to adjust the tension. I think tension is too loose. Yeah, I think... Tim, I think you're right. I think this needs to move to the middle. I think that's ultimately my issue is that I can't have that clamp there. Also, I think I need to increase the tension. So let's make this adjustment first. Let's take you down a bit. Let's take you... I think you do need to be closer to the middle of the table. The other nice thing about that is I might be able to punch in on the shot a little bit. So I think you need to be closer to here. That's not in the middle. Ah, close it up. Let's see. Maybe my tables are just too deep. Yeah, that's a better tension on it too. Oh, hey, yeah, this might be better. Right, because then I can do like this. That's cutting me off though on the two-shot. It needs to be further over this way. It needs to come one foot that way. Because I need it to be here. I need to be here. I could do... hold up. I could do... Well, hang on. This isn't bad. I can make it like this. Ah, that's not bad. The middle of the short edge. Ah, hang on. Let's see if I can't. I could anchor it on the whole side of it. I can anchor it anywhere I want. Right, that's the whole point of the clamps right now. But like, you really don't... I'm not sure I like the way their mount works. Like, it's not bad, but like, it's not great either. Okay, so this I can... All right, I mean, this allows me to be here. I can have my audio interface over here. Take that off the table a little bit. I can punch in a little bit. Put you over there. Let me get a laptop for staging, too. Because everyone's going to need a laptop. It's so freaking hot. There's a threshold that I cross. Yeah, like, this is not terrible, right? Because I can... I can kind of like... This is approximately what it would look like. Something like this. Okay. Ah, oh. So, hold up. Sorry, are you guys saying I should clamp the arm on this side of the table on the host's side? Maddie, thank you. My beautiful wife, Carrie, can I just cut my hair? Okay. I understand. I wasn't understanding what you're all saying. I think you might be right. Okay. Because this is just a lot of arm. Short side in the middle. Short side this side over here. Because I don't think that's going to make it. Yeah, I think that's the problem. It goes in the short side in the middle. It has to be on this side because there's not enough room to get it all the way over to this side. All right. I would point and have you guys stop, but there's a delay. So my other short side. There are two short sides. So this is where I had it originally. The only other thing I can do is move it towards the host or move it away from the host. So I can move it towards the host over here. I think I've got it. So my right. That's where I am. So my right. My right. So then my right. So stage right. So this is going to be stage right. And then am I downstage or upstage? Okay. Right here is what you're saying. Downstage. Leaning on the microphone is not the best idea I've had all night. Oh, it looks like the, is that the Disney fireworks? I thought the Disney fireworks weren't going because of the jungle cruise thing. Oh, you know what would actually work potentially really well? Is like right on the round part of the table. We're going to try that. I'm 180 degrees inverted. We need to go this way. There we go. So in this mode, this isn't, I feel like it needs to come from this side. It is fun to watch the mic go around, right? So, I mean, this isn't terrible, but I'm looking through the clamp. I'm, what's Vax say? Yeah. I need to be looking at my host when I'm talking in the mic, right? So I actually think that it needs to come from my left so that the mic ends up over here. Otherwise, I'm looking through this. It cannot be on my right hand side. Yeah. This is terrible. You know, anything on the short side, I don't think will work because I end up looking through the pole. I think it has to be on the opposite side of the host, but it doesn't need to be, it doesn't have to be. I think, let me try this side of the table. Yeah. I might have to collapse the arm a little bit, but let me try like here. Yeah, the arm can go in many different directions. Don't cross the streams. If you learned nothing from, did it again. There we go. This way. And then actually I feel like it really needs to go up instead of down. So more like, more like this. I've got a lot of tension on this now. Maybe I need to release some of this tension. I have too much tension on the arm. Yeah. We're going to pull some of this out. See if that helps. That's better. So now up and like this. Yeah. This feels better. Right. Because now, because now I can talk kind of directly. I can talk across it, which is really what I'm looking for here. Right. We hate this mouth though. It really just will not. I'm missing the point. Right. Something like this. Right. So then I can actually, it needs to be. Oh yeah. Like this. Right. The mic isn't super in the way of my computer view. Right. So I can, I'm talking this way. Also in this mode. Hang on. Give me a moment. This will be awkward. I think we can do this. Sorry. It's not a par focal lens. So you'll have to bear with me. It's like that. I may have missed this card to do with only one person. Right. So about like this. Oh yeah. I missed. But you get the idea. It needs to be a little wider. Right. And then I'm talking right over here and then we've got a screen right back over here. Actually, I might, if anything, I think this needs to do this. I think this needs to be a steeper. Right. More like that. And then let me fix this. More like that. I mean, I can frame the shots better later. I probably killed my focus. Sorry. Thanks. So then I'm talking this way to this person. Yeah. I'm not centered up correctly. I can see that this needs to come like this. And then I need to fix the other table. Yeah. The symmetry is definitely. Sorry. Hang on. Hang on. Like obviously I don't have this. Okay. The camera's off center. That's why. So if I come in at this angle, you need to come. You're off by a good meter. Let's do this. Is that more symmetrical? Hopefully. I feel like it is. Yes. Right. So it'll be more like this. This is my two shot. So it makes a Canada arm. Mike would be amazing. Oh my God. That would be incredible. Okay. So I feel like this is good. Let me get you the head shoulder shot too just so you can see it. I'm going to have to play a guessing game again here. That's interesting that that's not showing up on the switcher. And the slightest is aggravating. Okay. Turn you on. That looks awful for this shot. Actually, I think this is going to be pretty awesome. I think you guys are going to like this. Let me. I can't lock it down right now, but let me get to. Let me get to that shot. Give me a moment. Check this out. I don't know if I framed it correctly, but that's my head shoulders for one of the hosts. And then the other host would have the opposite head shoulder shot. So got close. Right. So this is basically what I would do when I'm looking at this one. So I'm definitely not making eye contact with the camera. But if I'm looking at the person that's right here and having a conversation, the mic within, that's within six inches. I'm talking over it. I might have to move this slightly. It needs to be about there. And then if I want to talk to this camera. Yeah. I feel like this is it, right? This is a nice. Yeah. Okay. I think this is great. Okay. The next thing we're going to do, you guys want to hear the microphone before we call it a night. I think I'm only going to do. Okay. First off, this needs to come off. These are quite literally removed before before flight tags. We all like this. We're all happy with this. The desk. The problem with the desk mic stand directly is I hear that there's going to be a bit of audio that's going to come back with that. I mean, one thing I can do is I've got a bit of movement here. So I can actually move the arm further this way and get more angle of attack. So it's not in the frame as much. So I can try that really quick because I think what I can do is I can do more like this. So that it's a little bit more, right? So it's a little bit more like that. But now in order for this to work, this has to be not here, obviously. Not that far. Like here. Okay. Yeah. So I haven't seen all of your messages because I've been kind of bouncing back and forth. But like here or so, I think, right? Like right about like that. We think that looks decent enough. And then I can drop this. Check the other cam too. Oh yeah. So hang on. Let me drop that over here. That's my audio interface. So this is what I would do. So I'm kind of, I feel like I'm at the edge of the table a little bit. Maybe more. I see what you're saying. The camera two shot. I can't actually see in my preview right now. That was a stupid move on my part. Yeah. So you like that it's floating a little bit more in this shot. Is what you're saying, Vax? I think more like, see, I want a bit of an angle of attack to the microphone. I don't want it like straight on. I want there to be, I want the sound to kind of go over it. And let me give you the two shot really quick. It's just inside the two shot. But I feel like I can probably punch in a little bit here. Right. So I've got a little bit of movement here. I don't have as much as I thought I had. Also, like if I move over to here, this is actually a better spot for me. So let me, I'm going to move it over a little bit more about there. About like this. I think I might need more tension. That's not locked down at all. All right. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. I like this. Yeah. This feels nice. This feels like it's a good distance. I feel like I can talk to this camera without getting covered up too much. Yeah. Right. Like this, like this. And then I'll give you this shot. I'll give you one shot again. Technically it's camera three, I think. Yes it is. Yeah. That feels better. That feels good. I'm happy with this. I feel like this is winning. I'm excited for this. This definitely feels like I'm just sitting here talking on this microphone and it already feels different. The fact that I'm sitting behind a desk, I'm covering my body with the desk itself. Yeah. I'm wondering about mic stands placed in the V, so putting the stands over here. So anytime we put the stands over, the reason the stands can't go on this side is because the booms come this direction and I need to look this way. And when the boom crosses my field of view, it becomes difficult to have a conversation with the, like, I could already, I could tell immediately when I was trying to go this way that there were going to be issues. Yeah. Right. So I need to be able to have a conversation with this person, have a conversation with the screen, right? Because I'm going to have a screen here, like joke, ha, ha, ha, ha, whatever. And then turn to you guys and be like, what did she just say? I don't think so. Really, that's going to be Carrie Ann that turns to the screen is like, Jamie's an idiot, right? Loopy, do we have glow-in-the-dark stars at the state of Lina Station 204? I think this is it. Like, we can, frankly, we can, okay, let me get the screen in the shot. I'm going to, I'm going to go to the two-shot and then give you the screen. Actually, if I was smart, what I could do is go to the two-shot, give you the screen, and put the full screen chat room up on the screen. I have no idea what the screen is routed to right now, but we should have plumbing going. I have to do that because the camera's in the way to roll the screen in. But I think it's fully plumbed. The screen might have to come up a little bit. Actually, no, it doesn't. That's brilliant. I'm happy with that. That's winning. I'm going to plug you in. Which one? I didn't label them? No. No way. No way. Oh, I'm an idiot. Wait, wait, wait. I did label them. Okay, good. I'm like, I always label my cables. I don't understand. How could I have done this? That goes in while I'm here. Let's see if I have scissors or anything that I can open this up with. Whoa. That's messed up. Where is that coming from? Oh, I assess above. Look at that. Let's do, it should be, is that ME3? Yes, it is. I need that to be social. And then on social, thanks HP. All right. All right. That's a social system. That actually looks pretty decent. I'm moderately happy with that. I need to square up the TV a little bit better, but like, you get the idea. Should I, I actually kind of like this. I rather like this chair too. It's kind of a nice, it feels good. Still don't know how I'm going to open this. God, I need shears of this thing. They're not kidding around. What do I have? Dear studio, give me things that are sharp. My wit won't work. Carrie, I would have eye rolled something fierce. Sorry, I didn't mean to hit the mic. Really? I have nothing sharp. Oh, God. This will be interesting. I can, about like that. I feel like I'm not quite enough. All right. Pretend like there's not excess. We'll drop you into input one. And now network. Are we doing? Hey, Colton, if you're still around, you want to push something red for me just to make sure that's working for the cable? Yeah, but there's no, there's no cable pass. Right? So it's like, cool. I got this basket, but no pass. Makes me sad. All right. Which one's POE? You are. Oh, I already hate this cable. Oh, gross. Do this. Oh, don't drop it. Now this needs to be a ethercon cable. It needs to not be what I'm doing right now. This cable is terrible. Oh, you guys, why did you spool the cable like that? They spooled it so that it wraps into itself, which means you can't just pull it off of one side. It basically has the two sides wrapped together. So you have to unspool it from each side because they hate me. All right. This is close enough. I have an available POE port. Oh, yeah, I do. I have plenty. Give me power and give me ethernet. Let's give that 48 volt. One, two, three. One, two, three. I don't want it muted. One, two, one, two. I feel like, oh, I see. I get it. Oh, oh, whoa. 36, 35. What do I want? Like, right in there. That's touchy. What's that do? There's nothing. I don't need to do that. What is? Okay. Now I have a Dante problem. Do you think the TV needs to come up? Seriously, Windows? Seriously? It's like it knows that I'm pissed off. Reminds me tomorrow. Yeah, seriously, Windows? Okay. Now I need to get a Dante route going. Let's see here. A TD computer. There we go. Let's get Dante going. Oh, well, this is going to be terrible. Let's just move it to my three. Oh, let's do it now, right? You guys can watch me run updates. Oh, it's broken on the audio. I'm sorry, probably a via. Yeah. In case anyone's ever wondered how we route audio. This is it. I had a good clock for like, what's going on? I mean, I don't know if the TV corner being clipped matters. Like, are we going to have important content there? You don't got it. I mean, you don't have to see all of it. Actually, what we should potentially do is turn the TV sideways again, like we did with Space Mike, right? And get that kind of going. If I could figure out, like, I'd have to, not do some not great stuff. Oh, let's see here. Red. That's the red net. Great. So we'll take the red net one and two audio mixer. I'll take that into, let's take that in the mic three, shall we? We'll do the mic three and four. There it is. That's Mike three. Do I have VU meters out there? No. We'll turn those on. So now I can see the U going out to air. Yes, I can. Yay. Done. All right, now you get to see how it's all made. Do I have headphones in here? I used to. Okay, let's do, maybe go into the red net. I want to take the mixer output. I don't want an IFB. I want program that are right under the constellation seven. It's not rocket science, it's streaming science. That's funny. This is the audio mixer, but it isn't. It's not mixed minus. It's not the TD computer. It's saying that it's output seven. We don't buy that for a minute. Let's see, what else am I doing? Social CG eight. Sorry, everyone. I'm trying to figure out my own, what I do here. Thanks. It's a whole lot of white space. TD computer. All right. That makes sense. That makes sense. What are you? So I must have done a rename. Let's do routing on here. One, two, eight, nine, six, seven, eight, ten, twenty. So select that. Right. But okay, hold on. We're going to try something because I don't trust my own routing here. We're going to look at the constellation. Oh, wait a minute. Yeah, no. Constellations here. According to this, it's seven, which I don't believe. So that should have knocked down. All right. That is the left channel. All right. So the left channel routed again. So seven and eight. Really? That's weird. All right. Fine. What happened if I do like 31 or 32? I usually put program. I didn't put program over here. I always put program on the end of the switcher. I put it seven and eight. Fine. Whatever. Red net. Come back into you. Seven and eight. Now I need to locate my headphones. And then I can kick off this microphone and y'all should be able to hear me because I've got it up on the board. I have no idea what to do with my headphones. Watch it sound worse than the microphone I have now. Won't that be hilarious? Ah, here we go. Now that means I don't have... I do have the quarter inch adapter. Sweet. Oh, these are open. Oh, these are actually nice. These are HT650s. I did not know I had done that. All right. All right. One, two. Whoa. That's local. Okay. It's a little bit of echo. How's my view? Oh, my view seems okay. Oh, I forgot to... Hang on. Sorry. All right. See, the problem is, when I do this, there's a weird... There's a weird echo. Let me do this. Okay. That's not bad. That's not bad. I'm going to have to do like an IFB thing. Ah, that's fine. Okay. How's my... Bring it up more like this. Well, I can't... So you're saying you don't need the TV in the shot. I need to... More like that. You don't need the TV in the shot. You don't disagree, but I can't frame... Like, by myself, I'm not sure I can frame this out. By the way, how does this sound? Do we like this sound? I assume it's a lot better than the lapel. Yeah. Like, there's not... The weird thing... So the fun thing is, I've got a RedNet X2P as my audio interface. So that allows me to do my headphones. So I can change my volume on my headphones. But then I can also mix to what the control room is doing. The problem is, I get a slight echo. So, it's like... Oh, Starship sounds. All right, hang on. I'll turn this back on. Hang on. Let me just do this. Wow, it's really fuzzy. Oh, it's fuzzy when I sit down. Huh, that's interesting. No, I know you don't hear the echo. The echo is because it's slightly delayed from myself. Oh, I have to take the headphones off. It's late. What do you want from me? Okay, okay. What was I doing? I was getting you Starship sounds. Actually, here's the fun thing. I have a link for that on my desktop. Let's see here. It is... Let's do a Voyager. Bridge ambient noises. Cool. How's that level? Hopefully that's a good level. And now I should be... Hang on. Let me... Why do I have to be three instead? And then if I go back to where my bus sends... That's not a DC. It's a bus 1 through 8. And now if I... It's really hard to tell. It's so much easier if I just do it this way. What was it? I really dislike the Behringer. A lot of the Behringer stuff, like, is just not as user-friendly as I want. Really? You're going to be teeny tiny like this? Okay, fine. All right, let's see here. If I want bus... I want mix three. So bus three. I don't want you to send yourself back out. So routing, uh, sends. That's not sends. It's send on that. So I don't want it to be on three. Right? Nothing on three. Well, why is my two? Am I not sending on two? Should be. Oh, I am. Oh, because... Okay, if I've done that right... Now, I can hear the noises. Okay, I cannot hear my own microphone, but if I do this, now I can hear both. That's not bad. Now I can hear a mix of both, but I don't have a delay. Does this... That's a... I feel like... I feel like, yeah... I feel like this is too much Starship noise, right? Like, I'm sending you way too much Starship noise. Yeah, I need to pull that down by... Good 10 to 12 dB. Now how are we doing? Is this a lot better? Yeah, 60 dB is half... Well, yeah, every... Yeah, every 60 dB is half again. I didn't... I thought I needed to go by more than half. Is that not a... Yeah, I felt like I had to go down a lot. We were pushing... Neg-10, so you... Yeah, I gotta watch my pops. But we like this mix better. I'm not entirely sure what air does. Okay. I feel like that's... Hmm, I don't know. If I do that... I'm not actually muted. Huh. Okay. I don't know what that does either. Neat. Still going... So mute does nothing. Maybe mute mutes my line output. How neat is that? That's pretty neat. I think this sound, at least in my own headphones, are open air, so I have a little bit of ambient going on. Also, I'm cheating because I'm listening to local audio as well. But I feel like... This is pretty decent. This is a nice sound. You're not getting... It's a good... Oh, I forgot. You should tell me when I'm being an idiot. Because I can see... This is why I should not... I can't direct my own show. Because there's just no way. Alright, Vax. It's great to have you back. Hopefully, we'll be able to start live shows again. Probably end of October. Middle end of October. No promises on start date, but you can see that I'm actually... I'm investing time and... I need pop filters. I'm investing time and money into it, so... Yeah. Data says you always need a data. Yeah, I can't tell the balance of the mix either, because I'm in studio. What I'd love to do... I wish I could get the delay problem to not... So, it's a good 10 milliseconds delay by the time it makes it back into my headphones. I think that's just a Dante route issue. If I can get around that, then I can potentially just listen to the final mix on the headphones. But right now, I'm listening to a local mix, and then I have an IFB that strips my own audio back out. So, I don't... The problem is, now I'm not listening to the real mix. I'm listening to, like, both. Does that make sense? Yeah, someone else has to mix it. Like, I just need to be able to understand the other side. So, I can... Yeah, I mean, I can play with levels and blah, blah, blah. There's not a lot of amplification in the headphones, though. I guess... Okay. If I do that... And then I hit that. Whoa. That's a lot more present, isn't it? And then I do that. I'm not sure I like that. Do you like that? Is this better? It's more... I got more mouth... More mouth noise. This one seems... I don't know. Anyhow, while I'm here, initiate ASMR mode. Hello. Welcome to Tomorrow After Dark. Where it's always dark. Somewhere. Alright, while I'm here, let's get that side set up so you can see what it looks like as a cohesive thing. And then I think we'll call it a day. I won't have the cable necessary to drive that one also. The other downside of all of this, because this is kind of a pain to set up, is we're not going to be able to do news like we did before. Or, I mean, if we do news, it would have to be like here, in this chair, with this microphone, which might be okay. That was so Maryland. Yeah, again, my voice isn't right. So, I'm working on it, but I'm, you know, I'm not there yet. The other host will not look good in this shot. This is... This is my shot. Their shot goes the other direction. Hang on. Let me... Let me get that side set up, and I want to see if the boom arm gets in the way. Because, like, right now, there's... I'm just shooting over the table, but it's possible that their boom will screw up. So, I'll go to the wide shot again, so you can watch me, and then go from there. I'll turn this microphone back on so you can hear that. This way you can hear me, like, walking around and doing my thing. Walking around, do my thing. And I said I would go to the wide shot, so we'll do that. I love that it just says, up on the screen still. Never open a box like I just did, by the way. Always cut away from yourself. Unless you're me. Do as I say, not as I do. Thanks to go about here. I want to say this got tightened up a little bit. Here. Oh, stupid. Yeah, this is reversed from that one, isn't it? Oh, that'll be fun. I mean, it makes sense. Okay, I need the other blue mic. Over here. Let's go over this. Okay. I don't think it's any other shot yet, and it's actually standing pretty tall, so. Also, giga-ty. Yeah, a wrap around in front of the tables might be nice. Like, something. I feel like, I feel like this shot isn't super great. I can clean up some of the cables and whatnot. Like, it's not too messy right now, but it's not great either, you know? One of these. One of these. And one of these. I do love, I don't know if I did an unboxing for you guys, but like, so this is what it comes in. I know it's a lot of focus, but it's actually a wooden box. You slide it open. And this is where the the actual bottle rocket itself is located. I do need to, I do want to make sure that these are both B6 elements. And then I didn't screw up and get like, two different, oh, they're super nice microphones. Actually, I'm really happy with them. Okay, good. They're both B6s that in place. We'll get this going in here. Thomas the Mars train, it can appear on the screen. We moderate everything. So, Colton, if you wouldn't mind making that go. And then it needs to be basically how did I do this? It comes down, trying to mirror this. Okay, it comes down and it's like, gotta answer my phone. Hi. Oh, I answered on my, sorry about that. That was sweet. Carrie Ann was worried about me because apparently I hadn't been answering my text messages because I didn't have I didn't have my phone on me. So, didn't know she was texting. Whoops. Alright, so it does cross into the other shots slightly. But, if I do I think it comes up it's not terrible. Like, this needs to come this way. Get a chair. I can get the cameras all set up. Ouch. You know, I think actually with some clever angles I can get around. Oh, this camera did not color correct. Yikes. It's about right. We'll punch in. That's a good point. If I come off center I know if I Oh, that's the problem. I can't go off center that way. Give me a second guys and I will get you this shot and then I will update I think I can be smarter about this shot. Let's see here. This can come around like this we can punch in a little bit. That's not bad. I have a little bit of the screen in this shot, but it's not much. All right. You guys can't see this just yet. I'll be able to see it in my preview screen, but let's see if this frames this frames really well. So, let me show you that shot. Do I have and it's fine. It's going to saw the 8M software so I could just do it for my laptop, but that's going to take longer than just walking around and doing. Okay, so here is the updated three camera three shot. Right. So, now I was able to crop out the good chunk of the screen. Oops. There's probably a little bit of an echo with both of those on. I was able to crop out the screen. So, now I can look straight over here. I might have to move this backwards slightly if I'm going to be able to interact with it. And then I can look over here and you don't see like the other microphone is installed right now but you don't see it in the shot at all. So, if I take the chair and everything turn this back on so you can hear me again. Now, I'll cut to that camera. Yeah, and we can play with the framing a little bit more too. But like so that's the camera three shot and I don't know if it's framed correctly, but here's the camera one shot. That microphone is not plugged in just yet. So, we'll have to continue to use my lapel mic. But here's the camera one shot and this will need to do something like this, I think. And that doesn't get any other frame either, which is nice. Right, so this looks really good. We've got really two really great shots of my hosts. My hosts can look directly at each other. We've got kind of these tables that are changing how we feel about you know just from a what am I trying to say, from a feeling perspective, like it changes how you think about everything from a host, right, because you've got your computer in front of you now you're sitting down Yeah, I think this is about it. Hopefully everyone enjoyed the random stream of me getting tomorrow kind of put together. You got a nice little preview of kind of what our live shows are going to start to look like. I hope you're enjoying the ideas I have for the tomorrow live shows and that this all makes sense and it's something that you're excited. There's a back and butt shot. You're welcome. Hang on. Then again, I suppose in this short I've been doing nothing but showing off cleavage while I was building the tables. So I guess double you're welcome. So yeah, I mean like let me get these boxes taken off the tables and you get a rough idea as to what this is going to look like. I think I can just do a fairly low cost draping system in front here to clean it up a little bit, although I don't know that we need to right away. Like that's just kind of a nice to have. The thing I'm really trying to focus on is more than anything else, the hosts. And so I'm using equipment as a way to fix the hosts. So I don't need everything to be perfect. I just need the hosts to be in a good mental state and I don't know that I don't know that a kickboard or a privacy mask on the tables is going to really change that too much. There we go. That goes over there. We'll get rid of these. Make these out of this microphone as well. Just make sure that this frames up still nicely with this person sitting here. Oh, yeah. We'll have to play with it a little bit. I think I need to come out just a pinch. Or like I need to move a little bit. Yeah, but this should be great. It also allows me to keep the really cool set. I lose a little bit. Like the giant window is frankly difficult to work with. So like I'm not entirely sure. You know, maybe I need to move everything. I might move everything a little bit just so that I actually can't see what Dada said. Manages to set the tables entirely in the light too. Yeah, actually that's another thing. The lights might need to move ever so slightly because I'm not equal. Yeah, I think everything actually needs to shift this way. Maybe half a meter or so. There's a little bit of tweaking that needs to be done. The goal here wasn't to get this all the way working. It was to get it most of the way. And I feel like that's what we did. The tables are sci-fi? Huh. Well, thank you. The tables are IKEA. Yeah, exactly Maddie. That's exactly what this is. This is a proof of concept. I wanted to make sure that the microphone sounded great. I really didn't want the standard microphones that you see like Joe Rogan using or Leo Laporte. I wanted something that had a little more character. I wanted more character both in the visual aspect of the microphone also in the sound aspect of the microphone. I wanted something that was a little more fun, a little more poppy. And I feel like I'm not a huge fan of the blue USB microphones. I know some people who absolutely love them for podcasting and whatnot. I just don't think they have great sound fidelity. However, the analog blue microphones like what we've got right here I think they're phenomenal. I've loved the sound quality of blue for a really, really, really long time. And so, yeah, I'm really excited to actually be able to use blue microphones on set. I think they're going to look cool. I think they... Oh, that's interesting. I actually moved that camera in such a way that now I can see the entire... That's a bummer. All right, I'll get that fixed later. Lupi says they're good entry level, but A. I think the blue... Yeah, that's what she said. I think the blue USB microphones are... They have to use DSP to make them sound. Yeah, I think the laptops, by the way, the laptops cutting into the big screen shot I think is fine. Like, it's not actually covering up anything of value and I don't think it matters. You don't have to see everything on that screen. Also, we can punch into the shot full screen if we need to. Really, what I think is going to happen is I'm going to rotate that 90 degrees potentially or use the screen that's already been rotated 90 degrees and run with that instead. And so it'll kind of be that... Remember that old space mic effect? But what I need to do is... What I need to figure out how to do is to get a remote guest or whatever it is and have it running in that orientation. Yeah, you wouldn't be... Exactly, so this would be... This would be a guest, a Zoom dial-in guest. And it would probably actually be backwards a little bit. I think it would actually be like here. Let me just see if that feels right. Yeah, that's better. Right, because then I can turn to this person or I can turn to the screen and I can see stuff. I think it would be closer to, like, right about there. And we can bring it up a little bit if we need. Also, I haven't fully framed the shots yet. Yeah, we're going to make the first guest place important bugs in the bottom corners. Exactly, there's not going to be anything important. Everyone's worried about this overlap. It's not going to matter. There's nothing in this part of the frame. You don't have to have everything be individual objects. You can have a little bit of overlap. It actually shows that it's a real set and not just a green screen because we can do the overlap. But yeah, but if we go vertical like Space Mike used to be, it's tricky because what we have him do is to rotate his camera 90 degrees. But I can't do that with my guests. So what I need to do instead is punch in to a 16 by 9 screen and, like, rotate and punch in. And no, I'm not doing everything green screen. Maddy says, don't do vertical. No one has their campsite for vertical. Exactly. I would have to digitally set it up for vertical on my side. So that way they're still horizontal, so we can still cut to them full screen as necessary. But we can put them vertically on this screen. And we're going to lose a lot of resolution on this screen, but that's okay because you're picking it up through the camera sensor anyhow, so we're already losing a lot of resolution. And the guest would not need to stay in a box. That is incorrect. What we would be able to do is we would digitally rotate 90 degrees and then we would actually zoom it in just for the screen. So we would pull a MixFX bus out so you'd lose ME4, but you would still have ME2 and ME3 to work in. And ME4 would be working on, you know, rotating and doing what it needed to do to size correctly. No additional delay. It's the same delay. You're already going through MixFX bus here, right? So, I mean, I can probably show you guys... I can probably show you guys what I mean, but it's so much time to rotate the screen. But, like, it's... Yeah, so... Here's what I can do. I can simulate it. And I can simulate it with one of the cameras, but it's going to be sideways. So I'm not going to rotate the screen, but what I'm going to do is I'm going to take one of these camera shots and I'm going to put it on the screen. You're going to watch me rotate it and then zoom into it. And you'll see it fill the screen. So it'll still fill the screen, but I'll be sideways. And then you'll have to imagine if I took the screen and literally rotate the screen 90 degrees, I'd be back upright. But the camera itself is still in the correct direction. Does that make sense? So the camera is still a horizontal view, but on the screen it will be vertical. On the screen you can watch me work. It'll be amazing. I need to do that to camera. You know, I'll do it to camera 3 screen. So what we're going to do... That's going to be a bit of a pain in the butt. So let's...let's see here. That is ME3. We'll leave it on ME3. I'll do it with all of this later. It's on ME3. And we'll do upstream key 1. We'll do... Let's do back on that. Okay, so now you can see I've got camera 3 on there. It looks correct. Yay. Everything's like you expect it to be. But it's...but now I want to rotate it 90 degrees, but still have it fill the screen, right? Oh, can I now do that on this camera? Is it because it's on air? I don't understand. I should be able to have rotation on my... Can I just do a DVE instead? Why is there no rotation on this switcher? Sorry, everyone. Give me a second. I feel like... Maybe I can't do this. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. It's 8.2, so... 6FX1... Key 2... We're not applying... Key 3...not applying... Sorry, I'm silent. I'm looking at this because I don't understand. It is completely possible that this switcher just cannot do key rotation. I'm going to look at this at a later time because maybe I can't do it. Here's what I would do, though. Pretend like I could rotate that image 90 degrees, which apparently I cannot do. You can see that I can actually size it. So we'll put that at 0 and 0. So what you do is you rotate it 90 degrees and then you zoom into it so that you're much tighter on the image, but it would be rotated over. So... Yeah. But again, I can't actually do it, so... What is Station 204 and what does it have to do with Space News? Station 204 is the... Well, 204 is actually the address of the tomorrow studio, so we just call this facility Station 204 because we can and we're cheeky like that. What's it have to do with Space News? Normally what we do is record Space News on this Space Station set. However, since the pandemic started, we actually stopped doing that because we basically stopped having everyone come to the studio. What is tomorrow? What is TMRO? Tomorrow. We are a decade-running live video show about human exploration of space in the cosmos. So we're all about getting you excited about going to space. And TMRO is just short for tomorrow. We used to be known as Spacevidcast back in the day. Yeah. Maddie, you're not wrong. Yeah, Tim, I think it is 13 years now, but it depends on how you look at the depends on how you look at the the pandemic stuff. Let's get the mic out of the shot. Let's rotate that out. What is tomorrow? A truly deep question pondered by many of the greatest thinkers. That's funny. And Maddie, you're not wrong. The guest would have a bigger head than the host, but they, you know, it's not exactly we could, you know, Pedro, how expensive is it to fly guests to Station 204? Pretty freaking expensive. It's why we don't do it. We try to do guests remotely when we can. And especially now with the pandemic, remote is the only thing that makes sense. It really sucks that we stopped live shows like right before the pandemic started because everyone's hungry for content and I think everyone would have loved to have live shows, but I just was not comfortable going on air and I knew that it was working against the show and I knew that we were going to take a huge hit. But I just couldn't, I just couldn't do it. I'm so sorry. But we will be back. We're going to come back. Richard Workshop is a spot for people to meet up and go to Disneyland. Yeah, we used to bring guests to Disneyland after, that's correct. We used to do that. Yeah, Dan says 2020 didn't count. That's very true too. Yeah. I think we're going to end up with a couple computers here. Well, at least I think I might for me. Oh, I don't get a discount on launches. Smokescale has a whole long story about how how you get people. Oh, you can't even read that on the screen. It says, yeah, you got to buy Flight on the Dragon 2 on top of a Falcon 9, take him to the interstellar gate, which is a steep toffee, and then you got to book him into lodging on station, which is something. Ricky Rodriguez asks, who will be our next guest? I have no idea. We have not scheduled guests this time because I don't actually know when live shows will return. Right now, I'm just preparing the studio, getting everything set, building the tables as you've seen me do, get the microphones kind of like wired in. I still need to open up the ceiling and get the ethernet cable properly dropped. I need to figure out what the audio interface for this side of the table is going to look like. Yeah, so it's still going to be a little bit yet. And I want to, yeah, chat is the guest, exactly. I want to make sure that this is all set and ready to go prior to me going into surgery. And then once I'm done with surgery, we can, you know, pop back in here and just, like, pick right up. That's kind of the goal, right? So, I wish this had more of a stop on it. So, yeah, and actually the nice thing is when we don't have an in-studio guest like we don't have anyone coming in remotely, we can just put the chat back there. And, you know, that's not a terrible idea. I think this might be a fun show with just carrying in myself in chat room. Like, I don't know that we need to have anything else going on. Like, keep it simple. You know, I think the three camels would be nice. You can just bounce between the two of us talking and then select, you know, whichever single camera you want. I'm really excited for this. I think it's going to sound, hopefully it'll sound great too. I might have to get pop filters for these on this side of it. But, like, yeah. It's coming together. I think it's really coming together. Surgery, you'll need a donut on your chair. Yes, I will, for quite a while. It's going to be very interesting me going back to company X as well because, yep. Dan Thomas asks, will we get some more quality Jamie Carrion show in France? Again, you know it. How could I not? Right? I think a lot of people kind of miss the, well, at the time was the Ben and Carrie Ann show, but now the Jamie and Carrie Ann show. Tim says, you got two TVs, you can switch them out. You know, I really thought I was going to be able to do a 90-degree rotation on the switcher, but I can't. So, I don't know what I'm going to be able to do here. Ricky says, it's fun already, and this is my first time being here. Oh, that's awesome. This isn't a real show. This is me basically putting tables together on the air for hours, dropping in blue microphones that I'm not even using right now, and then getting an audio interface setup so I could test it and make sure that it sounds good on the air. And, yeah. The problem is the camera, I moved the camera which caused the screen to move which caused everything to get out of whack here. So, let's So, then I can't see what's on the chat room. Ooh. That's scary. And if I pull that out okay, maybe we can go this way. Let's go this direction. So, this screen needs to move over here. This needs to get out of the way. At least it's cooling off on the room now. That's nice. You come over here. You, here. There we go. See how that works. Oh, you know what I could do? This would be better. Hang on. This is what we're going to do. Just for a little bit. And then we're going to call it a day or a night at this point. I'll go for another 13 minutes or so because I do have to work tomorrow. I'm going to have to get out of here, but we're going to try to use some of the new gear as best I can. So, we will go to Camera 3. Look at that. There it is. It's a little bit sad because that is like a $10,000 wireless audio system. You can definitely hear the tapping of the keys. At least I can. Alright, let's go to the chat room. Not the chart. It's very present. There we go. We need to ambiginate. It's a bit much, but that'll work. Awesome. And now... Wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, I'm in hosts. That's why. There we go. Now, I can do this. I can do this. I can do this. I can't. Apparently you can't. There we go. Keyboard ASMR. Yeah, silicone. You guys could hear that, right? The mic is touching the unsuspected part of the mic holder. That's not... It might be an optical illusion, but it's definitely not the... Oh, yeah. Also, I haven't checked the antennas on the wireless system for a while, and I haven't checked the frequencies on that either. So, it's completely possible that because there were definitely moments of static, but usually it was when I was sitting, so I might have been bending the antenna or doing bad things. So, with regard to the microphones we're using, these are the blue Bottle Rocket Stage 1s, and they've got the B6 capsules attached to them. Which is... I thought they were B8s, but now that I'm thinking about it, I think it's actually the B6. That's a general, like, overall, really nice... You can use it for a lot of things, capsule, but I think we will potentially move to the B0s. Yeah, I know. I know. I have... I have energy, and so I do this. Or it's half my foot. That is not wrong. I need to sit still. This... Oh! This cable is very long. Like that. Like that. Hey, everyone. Yeah, this works fairly well. I'm happy with this. I can have notes here, I can talk to Carrie Ann, I can talk with my guests, right? Not too much. I do have some mouth noise. I need to get something to minimize that a bit, I think. But yeah, I think I'm happy with this. Oh, yeah. That's the other thing. I have not removed the lofts from the workflow. Now, I did... If you were watching the Dante routes, I did temporarily take Mike 3 and 4 and route them to the RedNet audio interface. But that's just because I was too lazy to create a new input for the Behringer. I could do that. The other thing that would be nice is I could... So, I could get an Alan and Heath Avantis audio mixer and then you can get what is it called? It's the stream deck companion. And you can actually control an Avantis with the companion. So we could do some pretty cool things with that where it detects and actually switches the camera. But that's super deadly. Yeah. There's only one Mike. There's only one Mike. So all the Mike sounding good is this one microphone. The other microphone is over there. But it's not plugged in yet. But this should be a much more present sound. So after we are done... This is the problem. This is what I was worried about is that I hear my own voice and I try to go down. And create that. And it's exactly what I shouldn't be doing. So, yeah. This is going to be interesting. This is going to be tricky. But I'll get there. You all have to be honest about it too. Like... Help me out here. Me saying the word here was not good either. I'm trying to do the NPR voice because of the... I think part of the problem is I'm alone. And this goes back to the mental feeling of having a microphone in front of you and the headphones where you can hear yourself. So when I do this it's so much easier to get into that voice because I'm so present and I'm so right here. I'm no longer trying to put on a whatever that is towards the camera. It changes the feeling of what I'm trying to do. So I think it's going to change a little bit because I'm carrying on over here too and I have someone to talk to and we've got a guest over here and we're going back and forth. I think it's going to be pretty different. But yeah, absolutely. Things change and you end up... there's just a natural mental shift that occurs when you stick a microphone right here and you can hear yourself and it's super present. Dan asks what if I use an IFB with one guest or an IFB? I have custom-moled IFBs and IFB is an internal foldback. Music stars, if you're watching music, they use IEMs in ear monitors and in broadcast and television they're known as IFB, which is internal foldback. The primary difference being with an in-ear monitor you're basically listening to a submix of what's going out. With an IFB it's actually interuptable. You can actually talk in your ear and interrupt what's happening in your earpiece. It's a subtle difference between the two otherwise they're virtually the same. It's the same core equipment used for both of them. Although with IEMs there's sometimes multiple drivers and they can sometimes be quite a bit larger because the talent may need to be able to hear more fidelity or if they're in a large venue like a stadium they also need a lot more sound suppression as opposed to comfort. I'm reading the chat. Sorry, that's why I have the awkward pause. I think I can lean back. I wish I had a martini. Oh, Dada. I meant to text you, but I didn't have cellular signal and I forgot. Is Dada still in the room? Dada, Dada, Dada. Oh, Dada. I was at 1901 which is a secret bar in California Adventure and there's a bartender there and we were just talking and she's like, what's your favorite drink? I'm like, well, when I don't know I get a dirty martini and she's like, oh, that is my favorite drink and I have a special dirty martini that I make. I think you'll love it. I'm like, okay, okay. We'll see. Dirty martinis you can screw them up but it's pretty hard to screw them up, right? It was the best dirty martini I have ever had in my life. It was phenomenal and I thought of you and I went to text you but there's no cellular service in 1901. None whatsoever and you're on Android so I couldn't use iMessage because I had cellular so I was like, nooo but yeah so you need to go to 1901 oh yeah, so for these shows I would love to have a dirty martini actually I think Dada could serve double purpose Dada could be not just the technical director but also the bartender he's the guy in of the station right? Do we give him the crazy hat? Do we put him in the crazy hat? So I could just I'd be like, I need more booze more booze right? Wouldn't that be fun? Dada stare I can't even do it Give him a bow tie That's a little more Doctor Who than it is Gynan though, right? Anyhow, this is going to be fun I'm excited for this This is going to be fun What other questions did I miss? Alastair Oh, so Alastair that's, this is there, there we go is when we went to club 33 for the first time the grand salon the waiter we had was Alastair and he is absolutely phenomenal and I love him to pieces and he just makes stuff up and we didn't know that in the moment by the way, Tim, he makes stuff up most of what he told us was total BS but he says it was such confidence that you have no idea so you just believe everything he tells you because he does it so well but no, no, it's all lies oh, it's awesome yeah Dan Thomas, do we still have the prototype 0G glassware? Well that wasn't us, we didn't have the 0G glassware, that was one of our guests he probably does he made a kickstarter, but unfortunately I don't think it made it Tim says that was the best time because he was so convincing and I agree it's just because he's just so good at it yeah, spaceman Sam, that was the one he was the one who had the he has the 0G drinkware, he has like a martini oh my god, we should get those on station, we should reach out to him and see if we can get a 3D printed martini glass and drink from the 3D printed martini glass on the air, how cool would that be? that'd be pretty freaking sweet yeah, Richard's asking who Dada is so you see this set behind me, the space station set he conceived and built the space station set out of sheer wheel power right, so and MDF by the way, this is coming off, whoops, wrong way this is coming off it's getting there, I think I've done like 10 sessions now it hurts a lot removing a tattoo just so you know there's permanent MDF in this facility at this point yeah, he cries in MDF MDF just nothing but MDF oh, you know what, I think that's about my time um, yeah we've been on the air for, oh you can't see that I have to bring it up in the lower third we have been up on the air for a very long time, we've been tomorrow for like 6 years and we were space vidcast prior to that we've been around for, this would have been orbit 13 if we had been up this year so, like we've been around for a while and, yeah I'm you know, I've seen I don't want to say competitors because we don't really, we don't compete with each other, we all have the same goal but like, I've seen counterparts you know, video counterparts come and go over the years, some of them had much larger audiences than us, some of them much smaller some of them had more money than us some of them had nothing lots and lots of people come and go but we've had the staying power like, we've been here for 13 years and no one else can say that and um we're gonna, hopefully we'll be here for 13 more, right? I don't know if we'll be in this space, I don't know what we'll look like it's constantly changing and evolving and that's okay, I, I, I, I, arguably it makes it fun, it means that we're always trying to be better than we were last time right, we don't just sit back and like let it, let it be we, we always try something new and so, yeah I'm, I'm proud of where pride's not necessarily a good thing but like I am, I'm proud of where we've been and where we're going and I think this kind of new podcast format should be nice, um it'll be great to be able to just listen to the show if you don't have the time to watch it buy a video in your car and de-emphasizing the need to have like visual elements for everything and just you know, just have a conversation just geek out over space, have a martini have a glad, have something, have fun right, like, again space is all about humanity and so we should be having fun with all of this and, and you know that's yeah smoke, smoke scale says the amount of blood, sweat and tears put into the building that's set, I'm surprised it hasn't absorbed enough emotional energy to become a paranormally active site with Jared's laughter echoing in the dark you are making assumptions that it is not paranormally active it is, there is no way that it isn't and there's literal blood in the MDF, I think from both Dada and Jared, I don't remember oh, I did bleed on it, I absolutely did when we were putting the support structure you can't see it, but we were putting support structure up above and I was doing some things that I won't mention on camera and yeah, I nicked my finger, absolutely there's a question, why am I speaking into the back of the microphone capsule, this is actually the front of the microphone capsule, if you look it's hard to tell but I can't really rotate, hang on so here's one of the microphone capsules and you can see there are two sides to it there's kind of a shiny side let's see if I can hold this somewhere where you can see it better there's a shiny side and a dull side you want to speak into the shiny side it has noise rejection on the back and at least this capsule does, they have eight different capsules you can get and I believe this is a cardioid pattern which means it's going to basically have a pickup zone like this and a rejection zone like this which is what you want here you don't want to speak directly into it because if I do that first off you're going to get a lot of noises whenever I hit my P's but then also you can get a lot of mouth noises doing that so instead what I'm doing is I'm picking my voice up I'm speaking over the capsules you're not getting that P noise and then the other advantage of doing it this way, so I want to keep it pretty close to me I want to keep it close to me I want to point it up because I don't want to pick up the resonance in my chest because I don't want to sound male so I'm pointing it away from my chest if I wanted to pick up the resonance I would actually point it the other direction and try to pick up some of this additional bass and then also when I turn over here there's not a huge variance when I turn over here there's not a huge variance but if I talk like this and then I turn over this way you can actually hear how the sound changes as I turn and I speak in different directions right so we don't want that we want to have a pretty constant sound quality when I'm talking from here to here and then back over to you oops I'm over here to this one so that's why I'm speaking that's why also this is the first time using this particular microphone so I don't every microphone has its own unique characteristics it's own personality so to speak and I don't know the personality of these microphones yet and I don't know the personality of this capsule yet so I may change the angle of attack in future episodes I may change how all of this goes together but like yeah Neil LaGrasse Tyson would be a great guest brought up in the chat room however he has a booking fee so yeah I like this setup too I want to stay off access ever so slightly you can actually go on access on some microphones but again it depends on the microphone and it depends on and I have no pop filters here and I'm already picking up a lot of noise so I got to figure out ways to like fix that am I going to space that is a really great question that's a really great question I would love to and I would fly on either Virgin Galactic or Blue Origin I think I would prefer flying in Virgin Galactic I think their overall experience from head to toe is more thought out than in Blue Origin I also absolutely despise Blue Origin's PR department I think it's some of the worst in the industry and I think they're working against themselves and I think they're working against the industry as a whole and I don't like that which means they're never giving me a free ticket because of what I just said so yeah I just fundamentally don't like the way they deal with any of that stuff I think they mishandled the Jeff Bezos flight so immensely instead of turning into a great thing that humanity was doing it was it doesn't matter so it doesn't matter I'll just get angry this is a debate for the actual show where we can actually have real conversation about this but frankly Blue Origin doesn't want little shows like tomorrow talking about them so why give them any attention why even admit that they exist if they don't want you to know that they exist that's their stance they don't want you there they don't want you to talk about them they don't want you to do anything with them so if they don't want us then why should we talk about them like Virgin can do it too let's talk about Virgin Galactic instead because their experience is better so save that rant for next time yeah Blue is pretty cringe which is too bad because I think their architecture is pretty you know what the architecture is pretty good the vision Jeff Bezos' vision for what Blue should be doing is phenomenal but their PR department doesn't talk about that vision they're so they don't matter they don't care about us they don't care about you they don't care at all they're just cringy and they don't realize that they're cringy they don't care that they're cringy and I'm not sure about Virgin it's hard to trust a pilot over a computer I mean I guess I think that but if I'm talking about experience when you look at the Blue capsule there's that giant abort motor in the middle so if I want to go in there and you're thinking about the three-dimensional space see Virgin thought about three-dimensional space Blue didn't appear to so in the Virgin experience you can actually get up there and you can do some flips and what not in Blue you've got six people in that circle and you have that giant abort motor in the middle where are you going to do flips also where are all the foothold doesn't matter the Virgin experience in my opinion is probably better but I haven't flown on either one of them so I can't say with any level of certainty that the PR department is absolutely better they care they want to reach out to smaller groups they actually they actually care about humanity getting into space and Blue doesn't at least their PR department doesn't that doesn't mean that I like their webcast either one of them I think they both did not do great there but I'm not sure it's fair for me to comment on that just because of my role I finished pretty hard on both of them I was like no what are you doing why are you doing this please don't do this guys having Stephen Colbert on I think was really great but having Stephen Colbert the comedian on was not he shouldn't have been in that role he should have been Stephen Colbert the human and the friend of Sir Richard Branson because things could have gone wrong so like I don't need I'm not looking to laugh I'm looking to be inspired and I just he didn't feel right to me he was kind of funny I mean he wasn't not funny but I just what if what if things hadn't gone right it would have been really bad I'm glad that they did go right but like I missed this bit the brand deal I missed all like I was only passively watching the webcast I had I forget what I was doing but I think I was doing something I did watch some of the webcast for Virgin Orbit as well and a huge congratulations to that team so Richard Branson has one of his companies has reached orbit unlike Blue who has not reached orbit ever so Bezos has never reached orbit with payload or with people and he has so double win on Virgin all right on that note it is like 1041 and I do have to work tomorrow and Carrie Ann is going to be upset at me I am getting some plosives here aren't I there are no pop filters here I need to what happens if I this is bad you know and I can do this isn't too bad back here this is still pretty hang on I think I need to I can compensate this way there we go we get the volume back that way I'm still present I don't have as much mouth noise I can still turn like this is pretty good you don't have a lot of room noise from what I can tell hang on let me just listen there's a little bit more room noise yeah there's definitely more room noise a lot of it's covered up with the the ambience I can actually listen to just the microphone and I can go to just the remote stuff and I'm cheating by looking at my levels I can adjust my levels on my interface and then I'm I've got a view meter on my screen that I'm cheating with yeah so I think we're pretty good actually I think yeah I think there's a little too close to it so here I think this is better right so here there's really no audio change whenever I'm moving this is a this is a nice place this is better and there aren't is there aren't any waves so I don't actually need a pop filter here I don't believe you're not getting much mouth noise and it's still really nice and clean and so I think I can actually I can drop this on Spotify or iTunes and I think that this is a nice clean sound I just need help with my voice a bit of am here how true this is yep absolutely all right well I do have no makeup on right now by the way cause I just didn't today and so usually like it's hard to tell cause like I was like oh it's all my blush but like no I just have giant cheeks now all right thank you everyone this was fun I'm excited to bring back the live shows I'm excited to have debates with you and Carrie Ann yeah Maddie I'm not wearing any makeup whatsoever I have nothing on my face yeah and my cheeks are rosy it's weird I still have from electrolysis I still have like some sunburn effect here and some sunburn like down in here this is getting pretty close to being done I still got a ways to go down here this is this needs a couple more like just clean up sessions but getting close maybe by middle of next year I'll be completely done with electrolysis if I'm lucky we'll see it takes a while again it was it was phenomenal talking with everyone I hope you love this new setup as much as I do I hope you're as excited as I am to do all of this and I hope you understand why we haven't been on the air and I know that it kind of sucks but we will be back and hopefully we'll be back stronger than ever in a really fun format I'll have Dada bringing me booze Dada switching the show we'll have Carrie Ann back on set we'll have great conversations that way we'll probably start with no guests and just you as the guest right the chat room and yeah I'm excited to get back into it I just give me a little bit more time to get through this last surgery and then off we go alright on that note awkward me getting off of Mike and going from there