 Hey guys, Aimee with you on the set of Vintage Space today, which is really just my apartment, because a lot of you ask me questions about, like, who was my editor and who's working the camera. Well, I thought today I would take you behind the scenes on Vintage Space and show you what my crew looks like. Spoiler alert, it's just me and Pete. Alright, so as you guys can see, you are in my house and this is what the other side of the camera looks like. This is a GoPro placed behind me, so you can see where my lighting setup is, you can see where the bounce plates are, you can see the messy desk and the messy bookshelf that is allowed to be messy and human because nobody has to see it on camera. So basically when I'm getting ready to record a video, I either pick a topic based on things that you guys are asking me in comments or really good email questions I've gotten, or sometimes just something that I come across that I think you guys are really gonna like. And then I research it and I write it and I either write a blog post about it or I take copious notes. And I leave those notes pulled up on my computer so that I have them as a reference because as you guys can see, I don't have a teleprompter. I learned by doing that I'm way better, my energy on camera is better. If I'm extemporaneously speaking, if it's more natural, it just comes out better. But I always keep those notes on hand. That way I can double check a date while I'm talking. If I feel like maybe I'm missing it, I can make sure I get it before I deliver it to camera. And sometimes I have things that I just can't remember, either a very specific wording of something that I want that I'm never gonna get right without reading it. Or more often the name of a very long proposal or committee or something. A lot of times I will have to read those bits off the computer screen and then cover the fact that I'm not looking at the camera with video and images. So little pro-tip secret right there. So once I've recorded it, I shut the camera off, pop out the SD card and then get to editing. And editing is a process that involves me staring at the computer, watching through the take, and then cutting it up into pieces so that I have the rough cut of what it is that I like. And then I start going in and adding the title, adding the fades, adding the images, adding the video. Everything to make it look more polished. And of course the best part of editing is when Pete comes up on my desk and snuggles me because he is the best assistant ever, even though he does nothing to help. So basically at the end of all that, what I get is a relatively polished little video that you guys will watch on Vintage Space. The countries are knowingly arming themselves against the other, but no one is really sure what exactly is happening in the other country. President Eisenhower actually proposed the Open Skies Treaty. This would allow both the U.S. and the Soviet Union to fly surveillance and reconnaissance flights over the other country so that each nation would know exactly what the other was doing so that no one was surprised by the number of missiles and bombs the other nation was developing. Now, so that's it. From start to finish of filming and editing and uploading, that's usually about two hours. I can turn around a video pretty quickly. Really, the bulk of the time is spent researching the topic, making sure I've got all the pieces that I want squared away, figuring out exactly how to tell that narrative of that little story or that program, detail, whatever it is. And then uploading is the other side of that. Once that's uploading, it takes a while on my internet. I do the thumbnails and figure out the description and stuff for the YouTube version. And then that's it. Then the video is done. So really, the bulk of the time is figuring out the right story to tell, the right little thing to dig into to hopefully get you guys really excited. And as you can see, it is just me in my house doing it every week for you guys.