 Welcome to, hey, it's Jeff Gehrling, already here this morning. Welcome to vlog Thursday, and it's number 351. I am at Vid Summit, so I'm keeping this kind of short. I was gonna do it at night, but I realized each night as typical for a packed hotel full of technology people, the internet is terrible, and the internet with over 3,000 people. That's just what I was trying to figure out. This is how many people are using the Huvva app, not the full amount of attendees. I've heard a couple of people say we have over 3,000 people here at Vid Summit, but at least signed up just for the app, for the conferences, 2,420. Among those people are a Jeff Gehrling is here, and I got to meet him in person, which was really cool. We, me and Jeff had a conversation. We've been sharing some of the fun details we've been learning here at Vid Summit, and you can go to VidSummit.com and figure out more about what it is. Essentially, it's a creator meetup for lots of creators, primarily YouTube, but there's other people here creating other content for other things. Definitely really fun. I'm learning a lot. I really like getting to meet people in person. There's as much as I'm a technology-driven person, if you will. I think there's a lot of nuance left on the table, if you will, that I would describe that you miss when you just do a Zoom or some type of video conference meeting. Sitting down at the table and meeting people is always a little bit better, or maybe a lot better. That's why I took the time to come down here to Dallas, Texas. I'll be here a few more days, and if you're here at VidSummit, say hi. A few people said you looked busy. I said, what do you mean I'm busy? I'm here to meet people. I should get a shirt next time. I've seen some people say, like, hey, I'm a video editor under a shirt, and I'm like, I should just get a shirt so I'm here to meet people, maybe. You know, I don't mind people coming up, talk to me, asking questions. That's really why I'm here, is to hang out, do some learning, collaborate with other creators, and my voice sounds done for. I know it's day one, and my voice has gone well, technically, because it was the first day, was the kickoff party, then day two. I probably will be voiceless by Friday. So, yeah, and Jeff's right. There is no time I can think of where I'm at a conference where I wish the music was louder. I can think of many, many times. Yeah, 90 dB in the main hall. I can think of a constant time when I want the music quieter, when I want to have a conversation. I've never understood this because this is not just this conference. This is the conferences you go to for tech. They have the same exact problem. You go to a tech conference. I was at a Comtea conference in Chicago. I wanted to leave because the music was so loud. I don't know, we found a corner where the music wasn't loud. There was speakers they put over there. I don't know if someone disconnected the speakers or they broke, but I was just like realizing more and more people were huddled over in this one area, which made it a little bit louder. But I laughed because the reason so many people over there is because we just wanted to talk to each other. And cranking the music up, I'm like, cool that you had a live band. Thank you for accommodating people who want to dance. Awesome, that is, it was a big venue. We didn't need speakers outside of the live band area. And yeah, that's just, that's some of the challenge. Like it causes me to lose my voice because we all have to talk at this level. Then my ears are ringing. It also causes mentally me to be so overstimulated. I'm happy to get back to my hotel room at some point because I'm like, I just need quiet. I just, but it's been great. It's been fun. Especially I get to meet not just Jeff. I'm to meet someone else. A few people might recognize. I had a good conversation with Network Chuck, super cool guy in person. One thing is I've talked to Chuck more than once outside of his videos. He's much calmer in person. Let's just say that if you look at Network Chuck's videos and you're like, he's really hyper. I think he, and I've seen the jokes. He's had too much coffee or whatever. But if you meet him in person, he's very, he's much more chill person. We had some good business conversation. And yeah, it was, it is nice talking in some of these people like a one-on-one in person like that. I also got to meet and he's also a fellow IT, well was a fellow IT business owner, which was my friend Pete. He has also turned cool YouTuber. If you look at notabusinesscoach.com, he's got his business coaching stuff, which I think he still does some of. He, young guy, awesome, that he kind of converted, you know, I kind of jealous because I wish I would have started YouTube a long time ago. I feel like the old man here, because I definitely, it's not that there's not other people my age, but I am definitely, I'm definitely on the other side where this is the majority younger person conference, if you will. But hey, you know, it's still a lot of fun. My only complaints besides the music about the conference, so I'll throw those out there for anyone wondering, the ticketing system is atrocious. They need to fix that. They could hire an event company, waiting two hours for a ticket you bought online months ago, that's dumb and just poor planning. The conference itself is good. Just the, how you get the tickets is a mess. And that's my only really big complaint about the conference. They're not too big of a complaint. It's a complaint though, because I get aggravated greatly when it comes to disorganization. But at least I meet lots of cool people that's been fun. They have like a vendor area. So I got to talk to, I'm using StreamYard for this. I got to talk to the people at StreamYard. That was pretty cool. And so meeting some of the different vendors and things like that, it's not like the vendors you meet at a, I'm gonna stop wobbling as much if I move this over here, I think. There we go. But, oh yeah, I got a StreamYard duck. So that was kind of cool. Actually, one thing I'll say for the people at StreamYard was they really engaged, wanted a lot of feedback on people that used it. So I had a good conversation with like two or three of the people. And when it comes to branding, that was actually kind of neat. They even had, the girls had earrings that were little ducks, the StreamYard ducks. So I was like, okay, this is kind of like everything they had was well branded. And I thought that was, I thought that was actually kind of cool. Other companies when they have like a good plan like that and everyone was, as you usually find at a booth, everyone was really nice, hoping they'd come up with some new features and stuff like that. Onto the tech side though, one of the big reasons I'm coming here is always to think about storytelling and strategy. You know, I've seen Jeff Kearling commenting and I imagine a lot of you if you watch any tech videos, Jeff Kearling comes up a lot and I think he does a really good job of putting together a narrative and story. And I've been slowing down a little bit in the videos because I wanted to really think about how I put together some of the story. I just want to improve that. So stopping and thinking as opposed to the brute force of Tom just hits your cord and makes a lot of videos and kind of narrowing that down. I'm actually going to a class today on script writing so I can figure out how to write a script. I'm terrible at it. And my videos not really scripted, they're bullet pointed. So sometimes in my teleprompter, so I get some long model number right. I'll have a bullet point and maybe a model number of a part, but I don't really write out the script as well but I'm working on like, what's the happy balance for myself? And that way my content has a more flow to it. There's actually one of the reasons I stopped doing some of the wiring and catering videos is I felt some of the ones I did, one took me extreme amounts of time to put together to try to do it. And I'm like, how can I make that process a little bit more concise and then bring it in the story? I actually like some of the older videos I did but I also know some of those videos took me like two weeks of work. And it's challenging and maybe that's the stuff I need to split out and find an editor for is figuring out how to sort out. The problem is this is where the challenge always comes in. If I want to do a wiring type of video with an editor, you have to have the editor understand where to insert which part of B-roll. So you have to very clearly label all the B-roll for this is what this part of the project is. And that's what makes it really challenging on there. So it's definitely all the little things you have to think about as a content creator to put this together like the behind the scenes. So this is, I did say it did say Tech Talk Live Q&A but I'm actually gonna keep this relatively short because I have to go to a, well, I wanna get back to the conference which starts in about half an hour, huh? 45 minutes. 45 minutes. And we gotta grab breakfast. Oh yeah, we gotta grab breakfast as well. But I am, if you are a creator that is here, please, I would love to connect with any of you and if you're not here, you're like, hey, I'd like to work with Tom on some tech topics. I'm a really easy person to get a hold of. There's a contact form on my site. There's Twitter. I don't give out my email because I just invite spammers. But the contact form just goes to HubSpot and lands where it's supposed to land. So if anyone contacts me through that but the other places that we're fine, whatever, LinkedIn, Twitter, I have all those links down below. So definitely if you wanna reach out, connect and collaborate on things. But I'm also gonna be connecting, hopefully with a couple more people here to do some content. I've never really, it's funny because Chuck said he's one of the million to a video with me but I'll be honest and me and Chuck, we kinda laugh because we both have the same thing. Like, hey, cool, we'd both do tech content but what do you wanna do together is what sometimes the question is. And that's always my challenge with collaborations is what should I collaborate on? Talking head is easy where I've joined like Jeff on his live streams where people have joined my live streams and that's perfectly fine. But the harder part is like, what would two creators create together? I don't know, unless we are physically building a project together, which isn't always the case, it's hard to say. So nonetheless, I'm gonna keep this short because I do gotta get breakfast. The first talk is one that's kind of interesting. I will, I see, it's not really my place to do chair reviews and but why is it important? We all have to sit in chairs as tech people. I actually think Jeff came up with this, ZFS road trip to level one techs. Yes, I actually think Wendell had mentioned this and before I get to the cheer thing, Wendell had mentioned talking about, hey, why don't I create a storage place for other creators to store their data off site? And with prices going up with cloud storage, why not use Wendell? And Wendell's got a place and Wendell doesn't live, he's in the Kentucky area. So me and Jeff, who live opposite of the Kentucky area, could meet up and me, me, Wendell and Jeff doing a ZFS collaboration, I think that'd be fun. I think that'd make a fun off site storage and that might be a good collaboration video. Plus, I've met Wendell in person several times. I actually, I'll go further. I've been to a conference a couple of times with Wendell and sat around and just talking to him. We usually with a group of people for like three or four hours, which is just really cool. Wendell's an awesome person just to talk tech with for two or three hours. I was wondering if we should hit record on that because he's such a wealth of knowledge on things like that. But yeah, that might be a collaboration. Back to the chair thing. The first person I'm talking to this morning has an office. If you type in any high-end chair reviews in office furniture reviews, this particular person comes up, but they have an interesting kind of problem. They have a lot of views on their chair videos. People don't subscribe. And why would they subscribe? I don't subscribe. So he's gonna offer a lot of the insights of how he built a company reviewing office furniture because it's a critical thing. I need a nice chair. I bought a really fancy chair based on the video. I used their affiliate link, but it's not something you subscribe to. So it creates this kind of strange niche in YouTube where you can't really ever get a high subscriber count but you get a high view count because I was looking and they did a great job on title. If you type in and just want easy ways to find them, I feel like type in best chair to sit cross-legged in and that's how I sit frequently. So like they knew they were building the video for someone like me. And I think I like a high-end chair and I always use low-end chairs. One of those, well, I don't want to spend too much money on the wrong chair. So I keep using these cheap chairs that kind of fall apart over a year or two. But when one of them finally fell apart again, I was making noises. I'm like, all right, time to invest in a good chair. And I didn't want to get another Herman Miller air-on chair like I had before, so the cheer guy. So I'm going to actually get to meet, that he's the first speaker and I find it to be an interesting thing. So I think it's going to be kind of cool. Oh, let's see, I answered two more questions here before I go to breakfast. If I were getting into more areas, is it possible now to have off-site storage? Yes, I have been thinking about as well, can peer with me for free traffic. Yet, the internet keeps getting slowly faster here in America. All my European friends are laughing in one gig symmetrical transfer. I'm maybe not everywhere in Europe. I know I've had a lot of commentary from people that a lot of areas have faster. It's very wildly different depending on where you live here in the US, whether or not you have a faster, slow internet connection. But yes, they are slowly catching up and this is going to make it a lot easier for you to transfer. And for some people, there's a collaborative. I've seen more people asking this and I think this might be a fun topic is how to back up your NAS to your friend's house. And that saves you on cloud. You can set up something encrypted. So you don't want the goals as I would define them because this is a video topic I've been thinking about is how to back up to your friend's house but also have it encrypted. So you do a trade because your friend wants to back up to you. You want to back up to your friend. You can figure out how many people you want involved in this but there's methodology which you can not only do this, you can do this and have it so you don't have each other's data. Like it's encrypted before send. So you have securely backed it up. There's no way if your friend tried to pick through things they would have access to your data but now you both have created an offsite backup and you've saved yourself a few dollars in cloud fees. So that is a topic I've been thinking about and it might be a pretty good video topic. But with that being said, what do I have here? All right, making sure I have all the messages taken care of. I'm going to go to breakfast, leave your thoughts and comments down below and we have to wait for all the big eyes, piece of milk us and milk us with that before they start milking asymmetrical speeds. Yeah, there's some pain in it. And the one thing I mentioned and one of the things about doing it with a friend is usually your friend lives and granted this is not data center level backups, they may live geographically close. And that's what me and Jeff would do is the backups would be you seed the backup. So you drive to your friends to do the initial seed but then your data rate at the rate you are creating data means it's not too terrible. So cool, I got 12 terabytes or 18 terabytes to backup. That's a lot of data at first but if you're only creating a few hundred gigs a week or whatever that number might be that's not too hard to transfer and synchronize. And if there was ever one of those incidents where well I've completely lost my data, I have to go to a offsite. I can drive over to my friend's house and grab the copy and get it because obviously downloading it would take a long time. So there's a lot of merit to that. It's something I think is going to be a fun topic but leave all your thoughts and comments down below. I will possibly do another live stream on Saturday when I get back. And if you're at VidSummit and Dallas say hi I will be here all day today. So these last day of the conference. All right and thanks.