The Couple's Table
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The Couple's Table
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Gather 'round at the couple's table for a content creators' soiree, where the spontaneous serenades of Heather and the dynamic aura of February set the scene. Our live audience gets a warm virtual hug, with a shoutout to friends like Spire Lab and Home Sick Mac, who've joined the flow of our digital hangout. This episode is a treasure trove for anyone looking to rejuvenate their Ecamp skills or seeking an escape into Drew's art-adorned world, as we dream of teleporting to his gallery walk. Plus, we're buzzing with excitement over our Just Create More community's comeback—a safe haven from the trolls, where content creators unite and thrive.
This chatty session isn't just about the pleasantries; we tackle the gritty reality of our love-hate relationship with wireless audio systems and their sealed-in battery woes. I lay out the conundrum faced by tech aficionados when grappling with the eventual demise of their cherished gadgets from brands like Rode and Deity. It's a candid chat that resonates with our community, as we look beyond the shiny exterior of our favorite devices to their finite lifespans. Joining the dialogue, Bill spills the beans on his content-sharing strategies, igniting a broader tête-à-tête on the ideal platforms for tutorials and streams. Soski chimes in too, inspiring us to rethink workspace organization for peak creativity and efficiency.
As we reach the episode's end, we venture into the whimsical world of wildlife cams, sharing our fascination with the Royal Albatross and its fluffy offspring. The Boston Main Live feed has us hooked, and we delve into how these 24/7 nature peep shows double as nifty fundraisers. The fun escalates as our buddy Tom throws in a word association game, weaving playful banter with a sprinkle of unexpected tech insights. And before we sign off, get pumped for the insider scoop on the National Association of Broadcasters event and a quirky iPhone tidbit that'll whisk you down memory lane. Tune in for this episode and let your creativity, tech love, and sense of community soar!
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Content Creators Hangout and Updates
Speaker 1Music Hello and welcome. My name is Tom and I'm Heather, and you're sitting at the couple's table, the couple's table is a last year podcast here on the channel. Join us for better or worse, the richer rapport Insignis and in health Every Friday at 1 pm Pacific Standard Time.
Speaker 2That was great, and Tom is going to double check the audio. Dun dun, dun, dun dun. Happy Friday everybody. It is February. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Did you like my song? Yeah?
Speaker 1This is what it's like. If you ever wondered what it's like living with Heather, it's a lot of these songs all the time, about everything. I just sing things.
Speaker 2All right. Spire Lab is in the house. Hello, home. Sick Mac checking in Real Pell Room. Hello, good to see you. Drew is from is currently at the other side and saying hello. Reagan is here. Made it Jared. How do y'all what's?
Speaker 1up. Look at this.
Speaker 2Rainy Cajun Heather, you were watching Adrian on Ecamp. Yes, I was, because I totally needed a refresher on Ecamp and like there were a lot of things.
Speaker 1Ecamp's come along. Yes, I haven't set up Ecamp.
Speaker 2I think all of last year I didn't touch it. I was really into it when I had my my many live stream shows and podcasts and all of that and like I still have my scenes still in here and gaming my gaming channel, stuff like that, and that was definitely a year ago and I hadn't touched it since. I didn't know about profiles, I didn't know about all these other things that you can do. So I definitely needed the refresher and the Ecamp challenge was awesome. It covered exactly like what I needed it to cover. I know we can go more advanced, but I think a lot of that is like customization. So, yeah, it was fun. Introvert Aventure Hello, you made it Good to have you here. Oh, no coffee's in the house. Call me Cubby. Hello, hello Bill, hey Bill. Hey, baro, how are you?
Speaker 1Is that a Buck Blue Pod mic? It's a. It's a Buck Blue Pod mic windscreen. That's like a perfect Buck Blue. It is sorry for the sound, but yeah, this is.
Speaker 2Did they ask you for the hex code?
Speaker 1No, it's just the thing. The thing I will say about road is when they choose colors for things like their blues, greens, pinks, purple, that's they choose the perfect shade and I guess they're coming out with bees for the Pod mic and they'll be in different colors and things and they gave me the blue ones because obvious reasons. Oh, sorry if that's sounding weird, but I really like how it looks.
Speaker 2Drew says. Before the stream starts, I just want to invite anyone that will be in Washington state to my gallery walk Saturday from 4 to 7pm in Bellingham.
Speaker 1Nice Congratulations on that.
Speaker 2That sounds so cool. I wish we could go See, let's, someone has to invent teleportation. That sounds so fun. And congrats, living in Los Angeles. Hello, hello.
Speaker 1Hello.
Speaker 2Top of the morning podcast.
Speaker 1Hello.
Speaker 2What it do. Andrew Poole's in the house. Happy Friday, hello. Oh my gosh, heather. I always sing, but my lines are stupid. Mine are too. I just like talk about what's happening.
Speaker 1Say a thing, Say a thing. Did you know about the thing? So it'd be like you know, I don't know. French fried potato. French fried potato. Did you know about the French fried potato?
Speaker 2Yeah, that's kind of the song that's like my go to. What do they call that Refrains?
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, I just fill in the blank there. Let's see, honestly, I didn't have it open, I just like full screened Adrian, because it was getting distracting. I tried to pay attention to the chat. I just said hi and then look for people I knew, but so many people had so many questions that I knew the answer to. But it's so. It's like you're asking the wrong question because you don't know about this thing yet.
Speaker 1Right.
Speaker 2So it's like like someone was asking how did you remote podcast? Like, oh my gosh, you have to like you know what I mean. Like you need to have Ecamp set up and you need to have your scenes and then you have to know about guests, and it's like I don't even know how to get started with this question, so I just had to like stop looking at it. That cover is amazing.
Speaker 1I'm sure these are going to be very popular.
Speaker 2All right. Well, there we go. It's great to see you everybody. Happy Friday. Okay, I have updates and news. Oh, okay, since today is just going to be a hangout.
Speaker 1Sure Kind of excited about. That's what we're doing today. We're just hanging out. I got my coffee. The chat is where it's at.
Speaker 2Tom has his awesome water bottle, and so we're just going to hang out. So I'm going to start Ready.
Speaker 2Yeah, I have nothing prepared, so thank you, okay, well, I'm putting it out there into the universe Just create more is the community that Tom and I started and kind of took a break from for a while. But we're relaunching on Friday Not this Friday, next Friday and it's free. You just have to fill out like an application because we want, you know, we don't want like trolls and spammers and we only want people who want to be there to be there. So it's a place where you can connect with other content creators. It's a place to connect with a lot of people who are here.
Speaker 2But also I wanted it to be more like, of course you can ask I don't know, I don't know. Like of course you can ask questions, ask, you know, everyone who's going to be there as content creator. But then also, just like I think what I want in this party that I am throwing, that we're throwing, is like a place just to hang out with other people that do the thing that we do. You know what I mean. So totally we can, you know, focus on the YouTube stuff and all of that, but sometimes it's just like we want to, you know, like this, like your PodMic covers, sure, yeah, like just to look at this, this is cool.
Speaker 1Yeah, it doesn't have to go further. Yeah, here's a problem, here's a poster or whatever.
Speaker 2Yeah, so it's going to be. It's going to be chill. I still have to like move stuff around and for the people who already have a membership, I mean you can go in there now. But formally we'll do a little, we'll celebrate on Friday Reorganization and stuff.
Speaker 2Yeah, so now, if you are trying to grow your YouTube channel or wanting to start a YouTube channel, I'm also relaunching the YouTube huddle up over on my tutorial channel, which is at youtubecom slash, heathermarish, and that's where that's like. We've got goals, weekly goals that we want to work on. It's a place where you can have, you know, be kept accountable and the things that you're working on and making progress to when it comes to your YouTube channel. That's all going to be over on my tutorial channel and that's free. That's just whoever wants to join the live stream.
Speaker 1That was really fun.
Speaker 2Yes, Tom was a had been a special guest on the YouTube huddle up many times.
Speaker 1I mean, I watched it every week. It was cool to see the. It was cool. It's like accountability partners sort of thing.
Speaker 2Yeah, it was a super like I don't know. I got lucky with that group Everyone was so chill, yeah.
Speaker 2Next announcement oh yeah, this Tuesday I am going live with my friend James. He was in the YouTube huddle up. He's been a guest on the channel. He's been our friend. I met him in college, so we've been friends for like oh my gosh, 20 years now. But James started a YouTube channel shortly after I did. But now has really grown his Instagram account and I feel like Instagram has is just not the same platform. It's completely different, especially in the past year, and he saw a lot of success last year. So we're flipping the table. Like before he asked me about YouTube stuff and now I want to. I want to ask him like, tell me about YouTube today. Like, are you still using hashtags? Are you still? Like, what is your strategy when it comes to posting to your, to your stories versus to actually creating, like something for the grid? Do you focus on reels? Do you do picture posts at all? You know like, do you use your phone for everything? I have a bunch of questions that I want to ask.
Speaker 1Sounds like it, yeah.
Speaker 2And so, if you, I haven't decided where to do it, though Maybe you can help me.
Speaker 1I don't like. What channel? Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 2What do you think?
Speaker 1I. You could argue it works on either one, but I feel like if the huddle up is going to be on your tutorial channel, this is more in line with that. Yeah, it's focused on creating growing understanding. So, yeah, tutorial channel makes sense to me, okay.
Speaker 2So I think it's going to be on the tutorial channel.
Speaker 1I don't know, we'll see.
Speaker 2I'll post it on Instagram if you follow me. But I'm excited for that because I I just know nothing about Instagram. I've just been kind of doing my thing.
Speaker 1Yeah, and that's it I. Those are some really really awesome updates here, so Spiralab super excited. Yes, huddle up.
Speaker 2I'm excited for it, too, cause I you know what I my approach this year is I'm going to do the things that I need to I want to be a part of. So, like I need YouTube accountability, I'm going to relaunch the YouTube huddle up so that, like, we can all keep each other accountable and I miss, like all our like you know, friends that live everywhere else and not it was cool.
Speaker 1You're so innovative too. It's just how you like. I don't know the way that you did it and obviously the way you would, you know, do it a year later. Whatever, it's fun. It's a really fun thing.
Speaker 2Yeah, but then also, like you know, just create more when we had those zoom. Yeah, those zoom hangouts, I you know that was cool.
Speaker 1Drew's like kind of like going back to the idea of a chat. I don't know why it is so incredibly tiny on screen when I put it up there, but Drew has an idea? For a podcast, thinking of picking up e-cam to host remote guests. Question how easy hard is it to create a brand design for the show and implement it into e-cam?
Speaker 2That's so easy. You can do the whole thing within e-cam now.
Speaker 1You could always like import, you know, something from Photoshop or Canva or whatever like make a template, make a PNG or whatever, but now you can do essentially all graphic design and layers with complex like moving stuff and everything all in e-cam.
Speaker 2Let me see if I have my. Hopefully this is a break yeah.
Speaker 1There we go.
Speaker 2Boom.
Speaker 1But you made it. Oh, there you go. Oh, there we go.
Speaker 2Yes, you can make all that in, like Canva, keynote Photoshop, like those graphics. You just drop, you literally just drag it into eCAM and you just put the camera on top.
Speaker 1Or you can build, you can add in shapes, some basic shapes and design things in eCAM. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, totally worth it, 100% it's so easy. I don't.
Speaker 2I honestly don't know how you would do it otherwise.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm just looking forward to amateur.
Speaker 2Yay, I'm so excited, Looking forward to rejoining with the Huddled Up same with Mac I'll see already, if it was just us, it'd be an awesome group, you know.
Speaker 1And here's K-WallCompany. Kathy, I have to edit a work podcast by 4.30, so I'll have to catch the replay. Just need to check in on full out.
Speaker 2Full out everywhere is happening, so I couldn't decide whether to daily vlog. I decided that I don't need to do that because I want to do all these other things and it takes a lot of time. So full out February is basically a mantra for the month of February to apply yourself, to share your gifts, share your talent by creating stuff, because it makes an impact on people who see it, and to just do that to the best of your ability and that's all it is right. So I'm excited to relaunch, Just Create More. Relaunch YouTube Huddled Up, you know. Think more about Instagram, start making tutorials again. I'm just excited to I don't know go full out. So that's what full out February is, but there is no formal sign up or anything. It's just like, you know, I don't know at the next couple of days when we could just be like how's full out February going, but yeah.
Speaker 1It's almost like a New Year's resolution.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1It's an informal thing to focus on. Reagan said Huddled Up, I'm keen. So that's Heather Maris' channel. What's the dates?
Speaker 2again, we're going to kick it off next Wednesday, 1pm Pacific Standard Time. Wednesday is 1pm Pacific Standard Time. I hope that works Well.
Speaker 1I guess we'll see today, since three, four people want to be there, yeah, so maybe we could say if that works or not.
Speaker 2I figured 1pm Pacific Standard Time works for people who are here. And then, yeah, Wednesday is the day that I decided on midweek. So we'll see the way that I did. Youtube Huddled Up. You didn't actually have to be on the stream because the accountability happened in a Google Sheet, so you could just log into the Google Sheet and put in your progress there and I would just read it off and you catch a replay. But you know, it's cool to be there live.
Speaker 1It's fun when people could be in the chat.
Wireless Audio Systems With Non-Replaceable Batteries
Speaker 2So we're kicking off like next week Wednesday. I have to like schedule this stuff, but yeah.
Speaker 1Call Me Cubby says. I'm excited too. I've been filming vlog stuff but haven't fully edited or posted anything yet.
Speaker 2Do it See? So if you post it by next Wednesday, then on Wednesday at the YouTube Huddled Up you could be like I posted my first vlog. Hey, there you go.
Speaker 1Drew said after we talked about Ecamm, I'm even more excited to pick up Ecamm now. Thank you, ayes Cam, for so much. It's awesome. It is awesome, it's worth it. Use our affiliate links. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, no shame in that. Right there, sasky Lee.
Speaker 2Hi, hello, hello. Happy New Year, happy New Year, happy New Month. Happy New Year.
Speaker 1Yeah, and Rim Jam Everyone. Just a quick hi, we'll catch y'all on the replay.
Speaker 2If you wasn't going to edit it. So everyone's editing on Friday.
Speaker 1I know I know I rigged and I saw you say it's still it's Saturday where you're at, but you'll pretend it's Friday and I was thinking that just means you get a longer weekend.
Speaker 2There you go, so do you have updates? You put out a video. You should talk about that, because I feel like it was a little bit of a different approach, thomas.
Speaker 1I did. I put out a video that was about an issue that I've just that's sort of been. It's just, it's an issue that's been like.
Speaker 2Bothering might be the wrong word, but I can't think of it, just something that you're thinking about, something I've been thinking about.
Speaker 1Something I've been thinking about that I feel like affects a lot of people but I haven't heard talked about, and it has to do with all of I'm going to grab some props here.
Speaker 2I thought of another thing I wanted to share. Let's share, go ahead, oh let's, we'll go through my thing just for the sake of yeah, go you, finish your thing.
Speaker 1So all of these kinds of things. This is a road wireless one, but there's these kits, you know, from DJI, from Deity, from Hollyland Comica. A million brands now make these, like the wireless transmitter receiver kits, and they are awesome because they help people get better audio. So number one, that's great. Number two, they're pretty affordable for the most part. And number three, they are simple, and wireless audio used to be something that's really complicated, but now these are super simple.
Speaker 1I mean, this one has a charging case, so you open it up and you know you have a receiver here that can go into your camera, your phone, and then you have two transmitters. And what's really cool Rode was the first company to come out with this sort of a thing is the transmitters have microphones built into them, which is super cool because that means you can hold it as a microphone, you can clip it on your shirt or whatever, although I do not like it when I. I just don't like, so watch, I'll clip this here and now. It's gonna like stretch out my collar and it just People do it anyway.
Speaker 2People do it and honestly I will I mean, it's not weird, I will take that over bad audio.
Speaker 1I will take a distracting black thing hanging here over bad audio but, they also have inputs for lavalier microphones.
Speaker 1So I always just, you know, keep it in my pocket, put it whatever. And this is set, the Rode Wireless Pro. I really like it because it comes with two lavalier microphones in addition to everything, so it's like everything that you need and these are awesome. The problem with them is you can't change the batteries in any of them. I think actually, someone sent me a link. I think there's like a no name.
Speaker 1It's one of those like crazy overseas companies that sort of just like steals technology and repackages it. They have a copycat system that actually does have some sort of replaceable battery and none of the other ones do for many of the brands. So this oh, you're back, so this isn't a specific is probably lost audio and maybe we cut to NDI. Yeah, so it isn't just a specific Brand or anything, but it's. All of these things don't have replaceable batteries and the bummer with that is batteries don't last forever and so after a sign, if after years pass, not months, but if for years past, your battery starts, starts losing the life's, you know you fully charge it, but it's not gonna last as long as it used to last. There's nothing you can do about it and some of them Like my deity system that I have. I just didn't use it for a few months and it d-charge so much that.
Speaker 1I mean be recharges totally dead, it's done. And what sucks then is when that happens. You have this system, you know even your amazing charging case. You have all the transmitter, receiver things, all this cool tech, and it's just kind of dead. There's nothing you can do with it and Credit or credit to do.
Speaker 1I did ask road directly about this and they said they use very specific batteries that don't D-charge that much. They have like a special forget what it's called in it, protective circuit or something, so they always keep a little bit. So even if they sit for a long time, you could recharge them and, to be fair, I haven't ever had my road ones die. But they can't overcome the laws of you know physics where after years, battery lifespan shortens, and so the video was kind of about that. It was just saying, and I'm really kind of shocked how Well the video is doing, because it's not about a new product, it's about an idea like right, it's not about anything new but I think that's like an interesting thing to think about the crazy thing is I've never heard it brought up In any review for any of these things ever and I even had to ask because I was like maybe I'm wrong and maybe there are.
Speaker 1You know, there's so many of these systems out there now. Maybe replaceable batteries have become popular and no, like, I mean I asked people, I asked manufacturers, they did all kinds of searches and like no, I guess just, it's just not. And yeah, I mean there's, there's the insidious side of it which is the like maybe in citizen's right work. But the the bad faith argument would be you know the companies don't want to put replaceable batteries in it because then you have to keep buying more of them, right, like if you replace the battery they're not making money because you keep buying systems and the other side of it like when I asked road directly they're the only company I talked to they said that when they were coming up with it, being compact and simple was kind of their priority.
Speaker 1You know, double-a batteries are kind of big and it's hard to make things super compact and having a battery Be something someone has to think about changing, moving whatever made it more complicated. But you know there's, there's more pro level systems that all let you replace the batteries in the transversors and receivers. They're a little bigger, they're a little more expensive, but these literally like they don't break, like you could just use them forever. And I have, like I used so many of these when I was teaching that literally were like over 10 years old or more. Just as long as they.
Speaker 1Yeah and that's anyway, that's. That's the Long short explanation of the video.
Speaker 2Bill says this will be on her Instagram channel it. Yes, I will post all the things in my stories Because I can't decide yet where all this will happen. It'll be their tutorial channel. Well, youtube huddle up will be over on youtubecom slash. Heather Marys the live stream on Tuesday was still debating. I feel like it should be over there by. Since it's Instagram, I think it might put it here. So I don't know. But yeah, I'll post it and catch here Multitossi, everyone's multitossi. I like that. That's a great.
Speaker 1It's the best way to watch a live stream right and Soski says yes, it's been a minute since I sat down with you guys.
Speaker 2Glad I'm able to catch up and thanks for the encouragement as I just rearranged my desk and plug back in my RCP. Nice, I've been wanting to.
Speaker 1You're gonna hate this. I rearranged my office a little bit.
Speaker 2I'm not gonna hate it. You do what you gotta do. But I tinker so much you do what you gotta do. Yeah, tom, I feel like every like once a quarter. Well, I have a, if not sooner than that. Basically takes everything out of a studio and then puts it back in.
Speaker 1I know and I know it goes where it was, but there's there's. There's two things to rearrange one is for the on-camera appearance and two is for the functional workspace side of things.
Speaker 1Mm-hmm and on camera is perfect. Functional workspace, not perfect, and that's where I need to like Shift it up. And I've been watching a lot of studio tours and a thing I've noticed and a lot of people's setups even I don't know if Leo's here, but he did one recently a lot of people have two desk setups or even sometimes like three or four desk setups in their rooms and I was like this is kind of cool because one will be there like they're talking, had filming desk, and one will be their actual work desk or whatever, an unboxing desk and a talk, whatever might be a streaming desk and a Filming desk, something like that. I was like that's Kind of cool as someone who's like constantly shuffling things around. Okay, everything is everything, hey.
Speaker 2Oh, no coffee. Any idea on how long we can expect these wireless batteries to last? There's a lot of variables and it depends on the brand.
Speaker 1The I would call them the higher-end brands in these systems, which would be like road and DJI. I think you can pretty reliably get three to four years, which is pretty good, but it's nice if you get, you know, indefinite. For some, you just swap out the batteries.
Speaker 2Kane trouble in the house. Barely the never morning from Australia. Oh yeah, so happy Saturday.
Speaker 1By the way, tom, I like that new road stand.
Speaker 2How is it not sure? If we spoke about it before, I haven't. If you go check out, I don't know if he's here in the chat, if you go check out audio hotlines channel.
Speaker 1He has a review all on this. It's the road DS2. These are pretty sweet and a cool thing. I was sort of testing this out. I don't know if you can kind of see, but my mic is very off axis right now and it's not tipping at all. So the weight of the mic is like way in the front and the stands not tipping, which is very cool. Super heavy-duty stand.
Speaker 2I use it a lot.
Speaker 1I've like sort of mentioned it here. They're in videos. I think people like audio hotline have done amazing reviews and I don't need to do one because the other thing is it's expensive. They're like $90. Other desktop stands like $20. It's super well built and you know you buy it and it's a lifetime purchase.
Speaker 1For sure it's the opposite of the battery thing, like it will just sit there forever. You can use it for lights, cameras, whatever. But I don't want to get into the price debate in my comment section because I feel like Looking at other people's videos. Most of the comments are just about price and I just don't you know, if you like it, buy it. Yeah, if you don't like it, don't buy. Mr Camerajanke in the house, I saw you this morning in the Ecamp challenge.
Speaker 2Homesick Mac have an old set of wireless road filmmaker kit that works with AA batteries and still works. I think everything we might have talked about, the comment video or somebody else.
Speaker 1But road used to have a low not low end, but a more affordable wireless system called the yeah, like the wireless filmmaker kit, and it took AA batteries, but it was discontinued before they started putting out these new generations of things. Rainier Cajun, you all see the new capture device from Elgato 4k, 60p plus pass through.
Speaker 2Yes, seems awesome and we were talking about getting one because you like to do your thing of doing gaming stuff.
Speaker 1Yeah, at some point for funsies for funsies. I saw him on the internet. Yeah, at some point for funsies, for funsies.
Speaker 2I saw my gaming channel and no goals, but I like that it's there.
Speaker 1Oh my god though I just realized we have the. So yeah, yesterday I'm not gonna lie it was sort of like the last horse crosses the finish line moment with me when I realized that, since we don't do gaming content, the 4k pass through is important for gaming, so that you can play while capturing with no latency and no lag. That makes sense, because for the longest time I couldn't understand why are these different than like a cam link? And it was just I Couldn't get it.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1Now I get it, and just now, this minute, I'm realizing that there is a road streamer X just sitting on a shelf over there that has 4k pass through and it's just sitting there.
Speaker 2Because then I wouldn't need this a temp right.
Speaker 1Yeah, no, no, you wouldn't. Yeah, cuz you would. You would have your camera coming through the cam link. You have your console coming through either the Elgato thing or the streamer, and then it would need to pass out to like another monitor or something.
Speaker 2Well, there you go. All right, I should probably watch that road vid. I got road wireless go to and the bat is bad now either full or empty and no in between, I would say definitely.
Speaker 1Reach out to road like the battery should last. They cover stuff like. Reach out to their customer support and let them know like what's the deal. Just tell them like hey, my battery is not lasting as long as it used to. Is there anything you can do? And hopefully they will Take care of you.
Speaker 2Yeah, sounds good. Any other updates?
Speaker 1There was.
Speaker 2I think you had something, though I do.
Speaker 1Okay, let's go to that then well, tonight.
Speaker 2I am going to the trilogy tour, which this is like a total impulse thing, the trilogy being Ricky Martin and Ricky Iglesias, and Pitbull, Mr Worldwide himself I know I can't believe. I'm like actually very excited Cuz with with them three. Look, I'm a fan. I like pop music. My favorite, well, the one I probably sung along to the most, is probably Pitbull, because you know, any party, any event, they're always playing pitbull. I'm very excited to see Ricky Martin and they're playing right here at our sureena, like where we are every day basically.
Speaker 1Well, cuz I will be there at the same time for a hockey game that I have to play golly.
Speaker 2So we will hear from next door and I was like, oh, I want to go, but like I can go either way. And then a friend was like you said, you want to go, you want to go.
Speaker 1Cuz I was up for going with you and then we realized they shifted my like team schedule around and we had a game at the same time.
Speaker 2It's like oh, I don't know you were down. I thought thousand percent, thought you were not down.
Speaker 1Of course I would have gone to like ten aqua. I can go to a Ricky Martin thing like 15 minutes.
Speaker 2I'm like so excited to see.
Speaker 1Well, Okay but I'm glad you found someone to go who's, like you know, really into it.
Speaker 2Yeah, shut out. Okay, which, by the way, nitro has a YouTube channel, if you want to go check it out. It's called nitro does hockey. She just launched it. This is a new friend we made playing hockey and going to Firebird games and it's been so fun to, you know, see someone start a YouTube channel from scratch, like today in 2024. So if you want to check that out, maybe I'll go tell her about the YouTube huddle up.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, that'd be fun.
Speaker 2Yeah, gotta go. So glad to hear about the relaunches. I'll see you around. Yay, it was so good to see you, marta. Take care, we have to catch up. Let's see. Do you have any other updates? I Feel like there's a thing. Hold on, I think let me think why are you laughing?
Speaker 1Oh, I don't know. There's a couple, there's a couple fun things coming up that I can't talk about, to tease, which is fun.
Speaker 2You cannot talk about, not talk about, so then what?
Speaker 1I'm just letting you know, it's there. There's also. I was supposed to actually Monday, which potentially still happened. Probably won't. Monday was supposed to be the season premiere, my podcast, but then I was sick for like three weeks out of a month and it just had to re move, you had to move it.
Speaker 2Yeah, it just kind of.
Speaker 1Didn't work. I didn't publicly say that it was supposed to be the line, but usually For the past several years, like it's the first Monday of February is when the podcast, the first podcast season the year, starts. It won't probably won't be this week because I want to make the first episode good, but that's something I'm really excited about, especially with, like, I've a lot of new gear to podcast with since last time, like the, the Mackie XS and all that fun stuff and yeah, so I know that that will be fun to relaunch that and I think we were talked about last week. I feel fairly confident or comfortable in making my podcast audio only and keeping it that way. Yeah, what nothing and what what's it?
Speaker 2As I said, don't you guys want Tom to go live?
Speaker 1Oh yeah, I want to go live too, but yeah that's also a.
Speaker 2Thing.
Speaker 1That is.
Speaker 2A separate thing, that's a separate thing.
Speaker 1Yeah, I want to do that more. I plan to do that more. That's just. There's a lot of things I want to do and it just is on the bottom of the priority list.
Speaker 2Well, we have the couple sable, so it's okay. Yeah, kat says everyone's favorite update is the secret one.
Speaker 1I'm just letting you know there's a couple very cool things coming up that I can't talk about Very exciting.
Speaker 2We're all very excited to hear about the secret thing that I also do not know about.
Speaker 1I think I've told you I could remind you of them.
Speaker 2Oh, oh Well, apparently it's not that exciting because I can't think of anything.
Speaker 1No, it's all good things.
Speaker 2Season 12 already. Oh, I have an idea for a podcast, Honestly no.
Speaker 1I was wondering. That's what I didn't say. I believe it's season 12, but it might be season 13.
Speaker 2Well, it's your amateur nose, more than you. Yeah, I should know this, hi, heather, and Tom Michael and Janet checking in. Hey, hey, we have your channel on right now. Oh my gosh, our favorite thing has been the royal albatross, because the chick hatched and it's just so cute. We have Boston Main Live on one TV.
Speaker 1On the main TV. On the main TV.
Speaker 2And then we had to pull up the royal albatross on a separate TV just so we have that one going on 24-7, because the baby chick is in there and it's like so cute, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Late to the chat, but love the mask.
Speaker 1Oh, thank you. Yeah, and it is season 12, I checked what mask? The hockey mask.
Speaker 2Oh, the goldie mask. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is how you can tell I'm still new, because I call it the helmet.
Speaker 1Well, it's funny because it is a helmet.
Speaker 2But it's started, yeah, but it's like what a way to identify that you are new by calling it a helmet.
Speaker 1But any normal human being is going to look at that and go that is a helmet. But it started goldie is more nothing and then wore literally just the masks that strapped to the front of your face and it.
Speaker 2I associate the word mask with like COVID mask. Oh, like, I don't think I was like, did you draw on your mask or something?
Speaker 1No, but it was funny because I wore that for the first time on Sunday during the game you were playing in the scrimmage game.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1And you know, of course, everyone was like, wow, look at that, it looks so cool, which you know was great. And then I took a pocket right to the face and everybody's like that's a mask. And I was like, oh, I'm fine, by the way, Thanks y'all, but yeah, no, not the mask.
Speaker 2Well, because you take shots of the face all the time. This is like you know I do.
Speaker 1It's something that you have a custom painted Golemass.
Speaker 2Yeah, but yes. The albatross is your break. It's like as big as our dog.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean it's crazy because when you, when you just see the like the shot of the albatross just sitting on the hillside, it kind of looks like a seagull. And then you see, and sometimes you will see, like the, the workers or the researchers like going up to weigh it or whatever, and you know the bird is closer to the camera. They're far away and the person gets closer but the person like doesn't get any bigger because the bird is so big. Oh, so they have it they have it on the neighbor right now.
Speaker 2This is the neighbor, yeah, the main. So this is the Royal albatross cam that we always also have on. Actually, you talked about this, the. It's the department of conservation.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2This is like a little yeah.
Speaker 1Cause this is the normal view that we see. So the albatross in the closer part is like the main one that they're featuring and it's sitting on a chick right now, maybe hatched a week ago.
Speaker 2Yeah, they're vibing right now.
Speaker 1Both of these birds are actually sitting on chicks, but I want to see if we can find a part where, like the person comes or like something cute happens.
Speaker 2Oh, there's a person, yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, um. Oh sorry guys, usually like once a day someone comes to.
Speaker 2Well, it's how big it is.
Speaker 1Wait Right there and they yell at it. Yeah, like when the people are sitting there.
Speaker 2Like a seagull, but yeah, when the person's next to it.
Speaker 1Yeah, there's a size thing. It's here and when they stretch out their wings, I think the week span is over six feet or something.
Speaker 2Oh, we put the bird back. There's the bird. Oh, there, oh there's the baby bird. Oh my God, they have to like check, check on it.
Speaker 1They check them, they rotate them. Sometimes they like, yeah, they make sure. Yeah, it's fascinating. There's a whole discussion board too. There's an old school message board just for this, and you can like get updates from the people who go.
Speaker 2Tom has donated, so by the way your nonprofit organization having a 24 seven cam is a great fundraiser.
Speaker 1Yeah. Because Tom has already, because we watched the chick last year not from when it was a chick, but from when it was like a couple months from leaving and then literally one day it's flanged.
Speaker 2It's just left.
Speaker 1And then when they leave, they they don't come back. They don't come back to land for like three to five years. They just basically live on the ocean and even sleep on the water, like they don't touch land, and then eventually, when they're old enough to like have their own babies, they come back to the spot that they're from. Yeah, and they live a long time. So I'm going to be like 50 or 60 years old they're. I learned all this because of the Boston and Maine webcast.
Speaker 2Yeah, I don't know, hotline Almost. We were just talking about you.
Speaker 1We were just talking about you, I told everyone to go to your channel to check out your DS2 review and I told them to make sure to complain to you about the price of the mic stand because it's your favorite favorite thing to talk about.
Speaker 2Michael. Hello, all grading student videos. I'd rather be creating than grading. Oh, that sounds fun, Don't you? Do you miss that?
Speaker 1Grading.
Speaker 2No.
Speaker 1No, no, no. I was just thinking. I may or may not have the chance to work with one of the schools in my old district at some point this year to do like some podcasting workshops and stuff. But the cool part is I would be an outside consultant, not a teacher like the ones I used to have come in. And so you do, you plan the workshops, you work with the students.
Speaker 2You do all the fun parts.
Speaker 1You don't do any grading, you do all the teaching.
Speaker 2Yeah, you do all the teaching, you don't do anything else.
Speaker 1I would love to do that, so hopefully that happens.
Speaker 2Yes, I'll try some friggin massive. Definitely look like overgrown seagulls, but they're like so docile because they have no land predators.
Speaker 1And so even when the researchers walk up and like, take the baby out, they just sort of sit there.
Speaker 2Squawk, and that's it.
Speaker 1And they're also like, because they don't live on land, they're like super clumsy. When they land and take off, they kind of like fall and just crash a lot and it's like really funny.
Speaker 2Mike, what's up? Everybody's editing the video.
Speaker 2I know this is the best, like we can't miss the couples table because, yeah, got email notification while editing my next YouTube vid Excited. Tell us what it's about. Maybe it's a secret. Give us a preview. Yeah, okay. So for the rest, well, I don't know, whatever, today is a hangout. So if you want to talk about something, we can talk about it. But also, I brought this in case we had absolutely nothing to do. This is actually my mom's Christmas present that I gave to her, but she told me to keep it because no, no, she Okay, that sounds bad, like she didn't like the gift you gave it to your mom.
Speaker 1Everybody was here we were playing at. Your mom had the best time.
Speaker 2We should keep it here so we could play it next time, so we could play it when they come back to visit. But see, so was it two live streams ago on the couples table, we tested out that, uh, that new tool stream alive, I think it was called and I wanted. I was thinking about this when we did it, because there's like a word cloud feature Okay. Um, so this is how it's going to work. We're going to. We're just cause the thing is there's a delay with YouTube.
Speaker 1Blank slate is pretty crazy, though, when you um play with other people we're just going to test this out right now. So for, so yeah.
Speaker 2Okay. So basically, um, the way that you play in person is that everyone has a piece of paper and someone draws a card and, um, you have to finish the word or like the association yeah, you fill in the blank, yeah, and your goal is to match with most people, like to get the same answer as most people, but not all people, because then everyone gets less points. A little complicated. But for today's purposes we're just going to have you guys play with Tom. Okay, you have to try to write fill it, fill in what you think Tom is going to fill in, okay.
Speaker 1And this is great. So, for example, one of the cards might say foot blank oh, here, let's use this. Okay, what does that say?
Speaker 2Money, money blank. Can you see this?
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2Money right Honey honey.
Speaker 1Honey, blank, so you might see something. You say honey, okay, cool, um, and you have an idea. That's like the first thing that comes to your mind.
Speaker 2You're like obviously Okay. So you think of something I'll think of something.
Speaker 1But what I'm saying is, when we play, you think like, obviously, like the example I use was foot, because it was foot blank and I was like football, obviously, like, I'm not even a football guy. That's the first thing that comes to mind Ever since I write football. So many times when we played, we all wrote entirely different things and the scoring goes by, like how many people um have the same thing, yeah.
Speaker 2So today all you're going to try to do in the comments is try to match what you think, not what you would write, but what Tom would write.
Speaker 1Yeah, cause, that's yeah Cause. It was like football foot rub, foot massage, foot odor, I don't know.
Speaker 2Well, let's see if we get this.
Speaker 1What is it, honey?
Speaker 2Yeah, okay On three Ready One, two, three.
Speaker 1Honeycomb. Oh see, audio hotline put honey buns, honey bee, oh, that's funny. Yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, so I said honeycomb.
Speaker 1Duh Honey bear. What is that? I don't like the bear that has the honey in it.
Speaker 2Oh see, honey badger would have been a honey bee.
Speaker 1Oh yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, so honey, bee even. So it's really funny that every yeah, but you have to try to get what Tom is going to write, okay, okay. So you have to, you have to know him a little bit, you know.
Speaker 1Okay, that's an interesting spin on it.
Speaker 2Yeah, okay, and we're going to try this right now. Ready Sure, I'm also going to try to play.
Speaker 1I'm also going to try to play.
Speaker 2Okay, so you have to get the set bubble. Okay, you guys, we're all going to get this right right, yeah, right.
Speaker 1We think so Okay.
Speaker 2Bubble. Okay, we have to give them a try.
Speaker 1Okay, so it says bubble, so don't look, don't look at the. Okay, I'm not going to cheat, I'm not trying.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, do you have your answer? Yes, oh, here, you should write it down.
Speaker 1Oh, you know what, here I'll be right back. Oh no, here I got it.
Speaker 2The markers are next to my Japanese books, babe. Okay, we're all going to get this, we're all going to get this right. Wait, no, not that one. Where are you going to go? Oh, yeah, I lost it. Oh crap, what was it? What was the word? Oh, I lost the. I lost it. What did I do? Oh, here, it is here. It is here, it is Okay. Bubble, bubble, blank. Write down your answer. Can you grab me one too, babe, I don't know where they are. It's by my Japanese books. I don't know where that is. Oh, by the TV On top of the switch. Sorry, I'm just yelling. Okay, he's getting. We got to play Japanese music while we are at it. Do I have Japanese? Let's see how it goes.
Speaker 1All right, ready, here's yours. I'm still writing my word, okay.
Speaker 2So it was bubble blank, bubble blank, okay. We have to try to match top Okay.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Bubble.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2I would write a different word, but I have a feeling this is what you're going to write.
Speaker 1I can literally think of one thing Okay, ready.
Speaker 2Wait, wait, wait, wait. I wrote down what I wanted Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Do you have any racer?
Speaker 1I don't.
Speaker 2Sorry, I got it backwards. Hold on, don't look, I got it. I got it. Do you have any racer?
Speaker 1I don't have any racer no here, oh, okay, oh shoot, this is.
Speaker 2Okay, this is just the hangout. Okay, okay, I'm going to be so annoyed.
Speaker 1There's only literally one thing I can think of, so.
Speaker 2Okay, ready, yeah Set Go.
Speaker 1Yeah, okay, okay, bubble gum.
Speaker 2I put bubble bath.
Speaker 1Oh, I see, it didn't even occur to me.
Speaker 2Tom would not write that yeah.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2Let's see if everyone got it. Okay, you put bubble gum, bubble gum. We had bubble wrap, bubble gum. Okay, bubble gum. Bubble gum.
Speaker 1Okay Good, most people got gum yes.
Speaker 2Gum All right so chat. I think the chat one. Yeah, I think the chat wins.
Speaker 1Yeah, bubble tea, bubble tea, that's a good one, I thought.
Speaker 2I was shipping.
Speaker 1Bubble wrap makes sense though. All right, okay. So what's the next? What's the next card?
Speaker 2Okay, are you ready? Yes, so we're going to, we're going to flip it and it's going to be Wait, I don't know, I'm sad.
Speaker 1What does it say? Denim, what does it say?
Speaker 2Blank drum.
Speaker 1Blank drum.
Speaker 2It's drum D-R-U-M. Okay, drum, blank drum.
Speaker 1So the word goes, this one should be If we're going with what I would write, it should be simple. What Tong would write.
Speaker 2It should be very Okay if you're a longtime Tom Buck fan. We're all going to get this right, okay.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2But we got to wait for the chat.
Speaker 1Yeah, Got to wait for the chat. I'm sure to change those settings for those YouTube studios which, by the way, if you're interested in knowing, YouTube now has settings in YouTube Studio when you schedule a live stream. You can adjust the latency.
Speaker 2Oh no, no, I'm second guessing my answer.
Speaker 1You can adjust the latency for less latency, for quicker engagement, but it would be lower stream quality, higher stream quality, more latency Okay.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1Oh shoot, we're going to leave this okay.
Speaker 2So we've got snare, snare, kick, drum, snare, drum snare drum.
Speaker 1Wow, okay, Snare kick.
Speaker 2Snare ear drum. That's a good one.
Speaker 1See, there's different Bass drum. Wow, snare, snare, snare, snare.
Speaker 2Everyone wrote snare. Everyone wrote snare.
Speaker 1Ready set go oh Bass, that's the bass, which I mean is the kick, the kick drum, but that's the one that popped into my I feel like that's yeah. I think because I have more often said the bass drum, I need to move my bass drum.
Speaker 2Snare. He doesn't say drum after snare.
Speaker 1Yeah, I just say the snare.
Speaker 2That's what it calls it. That's what it calls it.
Speaker 1It's my snare, so yeah. But I remember I think drum came up with your parents and like some of them were like oil drum or like they were.
Speaker 2Yeah, it was all Totally different. Ear drum yeah. All right, let's Snare, we're just going to keep going here.
Speaker 1This makes me think that snare is the most popular drum. Yeah, mike was the one who said bass drum specifically, I bet.
Speaker 2See, I can't look at it, because then I start.
Speaker 1Okay, start thinking, okay yeah.
Speaker 2Okay, this one's going to be interesting. I took a peek ready, Okay.
Speaker 1I can't read them.
Speaker 2Snow blank. Okay, snow blank. Let me just tell you this is a desert baby. Okay, so snow blank.
Speaker 1I actually had one, okay, so.
Speaker 2I have one that I feel like this is the one we're all going to write, right? Yes, okay.
Speaker 1I have one. Okay, I'm going to actually put two. No, and I'm going to explain why.
Speaker 2Okay, fine, All right, you know what it's our show. You do what you want to do. Boo boo. Oh shoot. Now I'm confused. I don't know what the fuck. I can't.
Speaker 1Did you just see my answer? No, I'm looking at you to see if it'll give me some clues.
Speaker 2Can you hit me the lid of the box over?
Speaker 1there, I need to cover up half of my thing when I show it.
Speaker 2Okay, ready.
Speaker 1Cool.
Speaker 2I'm going to go with this.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2All right, let's see what people are posing. Oh geez, no storm See you know, what I should have done is so everyone who was at the Ecamm Challenge, adrian, had like a. He put the Ecamm Chat like on the as an overlay as an overlay.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's the way to do it.
Speaker 2Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1See snowball Wait, really cool.
Speaker 2Homestick Mac when we're done with the game. How do we get to the new huddle up, please? It's onit's going to be at youtubecom slash Heather Marys on my tutorial channel and I have to schedule it first. But Wednesdays, 1 pm, pacific Standard Time, I'll send out a thing. Homestick Mac. I'll make sure that everyone knows.
Speaker 1Okay, audio Holly said snowball. Okay, he said snowman. Real Pell Room snowball Ballstorm.
Speaker 2Snowball.
Speaker 1I saw Kat said snowstorm and I saw Boston and Maine said snowstorm, all the people from cold climates that get snowstorms. You know what didn't even cross my mind.
Speaker 2That was not even an option. Yeah, I wrote down something and then I re-stayed it for something else which someone hasn't said yet Snow globe is a really good one. Yeah.
Speaker 1Snow angels, snowman, snowblower, snow white oh, that's like a different angle Snowblower. Okay, ready.
Speaker 2So I'm going to flip mine. Okay, ready.
Speaker 1Snowman and my main. Well, okay, I put snowman because I feel like this is the one, that the other one I feel like is unfair, but the first one that actually popped into my brain was snowbird Bird. Really, I guess, well, you're not from, because you're like, oh, he's a giant Cause. You're like, oh, he's a desert boy. I grew up in the desert my whole life and our population changes half the year.
Speaker 1Oh, bird, see, I'm not from the desert, so this is a new term, Snowbirds is a thing for people who live in colder climates, like where you all have snowstorms and when it's the winter months there you come here.
Speaker 2You know what someone didn't? No one wrote what I wrote.
Speaker 1And it's called snowbird and that's the thing, cause that's for most of my life, when I hear snow blank, I hear snow bird, and so I thought it was snowbird, I wrote snow flake.
Speaker 2Oh, that's a good one too.
Speaker 1No one wrote it Snow. Yeah, snowbird and snowman were my favorite one.
Speaker 2Snowstorm. I forgot that was a thing that even happened. All right, let's do. Let's do one more. We got one more, Okay, ready Lightning round for all the points. Okay.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2Bam.
Speaker 1What is it? What does it say?
Speaker 2Chance. Blank chance, that's hard, blank chance I have.
Speaker 1I'm going with the one that popped into my brain first.
Speaker 2Nothing is popping into my brain. First, is there something obvious?
Speaker 1I can think of two Chance yeah.
Speaker 2Like chance the wrapper, but the blank. The blank is at the beginning. Oh my gosh, I can't think of anything. Okay, I think I thought of something. I don't know if it's what you would come up with, but whatever, I'm just going to go with it. This is so stupid. Okay, oh let's see, I did not. Fat chance that's a great one, that's not the one I wrote Bye Drew, See you. Fat chance, random chance Okay.
Speaker 1Fat is funny.
Speaker 2No chance, no chance. Second chance, second chance.
Speaker 1Well, mr Audio Hotline, oh wait, never mind, we're not on the same page.
Speaker 2Is that not what you wrote? You thought that's what you wrote.
Speaker 1That was my second option. That I thought of was second chance. I think I'm more on Vage with Call Me Cubby because I wrote last chance.
Speaker 2I put on the off chance. Oh, that's clever, though, because I couldn't think of anything else.
Speaker 1I only thought of last and second. Fat is really funny.
Speaker 2And off chance is really clever. Okay, we have to do one more, One more one more one more, one more, one more.
Speaker 1Heather wants to go out feeling victorious. She said end it on a high note, Okay.
Speaker 2Ready, let's do. And the word is at the end. Okay, how about this Boom?
Speaker 1Is it like packing parking?
Speaker 2Parking Parking blank? Oh, this one's Okay. Southern California Parking. I feel like our associations are going to be different, because I grew up in LA. Living in LA. I think we're going to come up with the same one.
Speaker 1Marking is not a thing that you think about. Where I am from, it's just the thing you do easily.
Speaker 2Okay, here I think I'm going to go in so many directions with this one.
Speaker 1See, I feel like I took the most obvious first association. That's what I think. But the thing with this game is it shows you that what you think is the most obvious usually, oftentimes, isn't.
Speaker 2Okay, wait, I'm trying to think of what Tom would write. Okay, clever goofy right now I know but I'll tell you what I thought, what I thought of first. Okay, okay, let's see what people put ready Parking ticket.
Speaker 1Parking lot, parking lot, parking pass, parking lot, parking lot, parking lot parking space, parking, parking ticket, parking, spot parking brake and break. I like that parking. Parking tickets over here is what I'm learning.
Speaker 2Okay, do you want to show yours or mine, or do it at the same time ready? Oh, I just already saw it one, two. Are you a?
Speaker 1lot and I put space.
Speaker 2I was like cuz you park in the lot.
Speaker 1I do, yeah, but I park in a space in the lot you know what I wrote first.
Speaker 2It kept like mr Camerich again put spot.
Speaker 1Well, see, I was curious. I was like, well, spot or space, but I I think I use the terms interchangeably, but space is the one that popped in first. I was like, I guess that's what's more natural to my brain, so I'm gonna go with that. I definitely went with parking ticket first, like you know what I've never gotten in my life?
Speaker 2They've erupted a. A statue in the city of Long Beach, with all the friggin donations I made of parking ticket payments.
Speaker 1How much is a parking ticket?
Speaker 2It's like $53 and it's like every week.
Speaker 1It's so dumb build it into the monthly budget.
Speaker 2Yeah, well, that was fun. So anyway, that game's called blank. Wait, what's it called blank spot?
Speaker 1Oh, I think blank.
Speaker 2This is super fun. Super fun to play in person. You think you know everyone. You know you think everyone's gonna get the same one. It's like how could you not put this answer? And everyone has a different.
Speaker 1well, some of them feel really hard where it's like obscure word blank, and you're like I don't, I can't think of one thing, I don't know what a bunch and we all get it right, yeah, but other ones are not right, it seems like so common and then people get different things.
Speaker 2Yeah, that was fun.
Speaker 1That was fun Good idea yeah. Well, we still have a couple minutes here a couple minutes on the couple table, all right. So there's any last-minute topics, subjects, things.
Speaker 2Whatever?
Speaker 1Mr Cameron junkie says we use spot in Florida because the sidewalk is Parking on the sidewalk.
YouTube News and NAB Plans
Speaker 2I'm trying to think anything else.
Speaker 1YouTube newsy updated related it's February. What we got coming up, it is February. Yeah, full-out February trying to finalize some NAB plans.
Speaker 2NAB is happening.
Speaker 1And I.
Speaker 2Literally pulled up my calendar. The firebirds are doing well, the Coachella Valley Firebirds. We are number one in the Western Conference now.
Speaker 1Yes, and number two in the league, right behind the freaking Hershey bear. Yeah, the team that we lost to in Overtime game seven. Oh, I mean honestly, if it came down to a rematch, that would be kind of epic. But no, so terrified, I wouldn't want yeah but the thing is like the firebirds were the better team.
Speaker 2It just sort of doesn't matter, I know it doesn't matter. Oh look, michael got his NAB tickets already.
Speaker 1Oh sweet, yeah, I would. The thing that I didn't realize about NAB was that it's a lot of days and it's the yeah, it's like four or five days and we should all stay in the same Area but we're trying to figure out if we if we're gonna get someone to sponsor our tickets or for buying our own tickets, and that's going to determine where we stay, like how much money goes towards is this.
Speaker 2It Did I put the wrong NAB. That's not it. This is not it. Hold on.
Speaker 1No, that is it. It's his National Association of Broadcasters. Yeah, it's just looks, it's so contenty and usually they don't use the word is it yeah?
Speaker 2Yeah, usually it's.
Speaker 1April 13th through the 17th, so 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. That's five days. There we go. National Association broadcasters when content comes to life so we're usually it's okay, so they're like leaning usually it's not because content creators are such a tiny, tiny part of who goes there.
Speaker 2Yeah, so this is April 13 to 17 24 in Vegas.
Speaker 1So we need to figure out like that the must not miss days. Yes, cuz that's a five days is the freaking work week.
Speaker 2I know I'd love to catch a hockey game. I Know that's not.
Speaker 1I mean, that would be amazing.
Speaker 2Yeah, we all need to stay in the same hotel and, oh my god, be so much fun, whoot. Anyway, stay tuned for that.
Speaker 1It's expensive, though, my friends, so, mr Cameron, junkie said hearing the words rematch in game seven coming from Thomas. Oh, it's. Yeah, I Like. There's a few friends I haven't talked to in a while and when we catch up I say things like this and they like they literally think I am joking at first Yo. James Hicks.
Speaker 2I just saw you live with doc on Instagram. But, yeah, we're going, you're going, we're definitely gonna hang out, let's go. Oh, it's gonna be so much fun, yeah, okay. So Hassan has like a Question. Okay, productivity apps. This is a good question to end with boom. What productivity apps Do you both use? Notes, calendar, email, etc.
Speaker 1I use the notes app. That's sort of it.
Speaker 2Okay. So my newest App that, like I open regularly, is called mind node M-i-n-d-n-o-d-e, and it's basically a More visual version of notes.
Speaker 1Oh, it's like a mind.
Speaker 2It's the mind mapping app, yeah you can do mind mapping, so base you know, like actually here let me see if I can, if anyone in here saw Peter Lindgren's video from a couple.
Speaker 1I mean, like a month ago he did a thing about mindmeister which is like a mind mapping thing. This is very similar to that, but I think this might be a little more flexible in terms of how you can actually like drag and arrange like this.
Speaker 2So what I put here is like my video topic. Each of these are the bullet points, basically, and then within those you can break it down, and then you can also switch to an outline.
Speaker 1It will automatically take your thing, and yeah, it'll here hopefully Shows me the oh Didn't.
Speaker 2So it's gonna look like this right hello visitor show up a finster like that, and so I've been using this like weekly goals. I did the same 2024. I wrote down like you know what are all the things I want to work on this year, and like you can turn it into to-do lists and stuff I Visual. I just have to see everything because if I don't, it's like in the pantry. If you don't see it, then I won't realize.
Speaker 1Yeah, it doesn't exist in here.
Speaker 2Oh, the counter goes bad. Yeah, exactly, and it's a cloud based, so you know, accessible on all your devices. This is the go-to one that I wanted to talk about, because everything else we, I think, is the same thing we use since forever, like, yeah, just Gmail.
Speaker 1Fun fact do you know why, when you see a lot of iPhone Add things like this isn't even an Apple website, but it's still there. Why the iPhone's time is set to 941?
Speaker 2Yeah because that was the time when Something happened.
Speaker 1Yes, that was the time during the iPhone announcement Keynote, when Steve Jobs like I knew it was something like that. That's, that's fun. A little tidbit it is. Maybe it's not as obscure as I thought.
Speaker 2But you know who told me that was it me.
Speaker 1Yes, I had to. We were in a grocery store earlier. The grocery store is called the winco, so you're around winco and I had to refrain from telling you this Because I think I already told you like repeatedly. But every time we walk by, like the bread aisle, where all the like Snack cakes are like Twinkies and stuff, if you remember, like 14 years ago Twinkies were being discontinued and it was like the announcement.
Speaker 2Yeah, it was like the last Twinkie or whatever right.
Speaker 1So I panicked and drove as fast as. I could, to that winco and bought all of the Are they still in the closet, honestly? They could be. No, they're not. I ate all of them. But Every time we go by there I think of telling you that story. And today I really debate. I was like I think I have. I don't know if I have, I can't remember and I didn't, I didn't repeat it.
Speaker 2Here's the thing, babe we're married, I know so I I've signed up to hear all of it 50 times. Okay, I mean, it makes me feel good because you also repeat yourself as well I. Feel like I'm not the only one. I Still tell them. It's like the first time he's heard it like oh my god, did you know? Yes, I've told me seven times now. Okay, they're having a creators party at any. Be, have fun.
Speaker 1Oh my gosh, he's so fun.
Speaker 2Let's see, I'm at the Hilton Grand, but heck, if you're somewhere else I'll read I don't know where, I don't know.
Speaker 1Our favorite Vegas hotel is the Palazzo, but it's also not the cheapest and I don't, I don't actually know where NAB is, so that might be like, out of the way. But yeah, so I will have to figure that. But, like I said, we're kind of waiting to figure out our ticket situation first, because that determines our hotel budget.
Speaker 2Yeah, and the Plaza is like not you know, it's kind of it's just so nice, more expensive.
Speaker 1It's so like clean.
Speaker 2That's like for vacation, babe Nice.
Speaker 1Comfy.
Speaker 2Let's see, I like whimsical when I want to draw and visualize and then I embed into notion whimsical. I should check that out whimsical.
Speaker 1And Reggie said pretty sure my nodes includes a set app subscription is included in a set app.
Speaker 2I don't know what set up is. Is that a you?
Speaker 1got set up with set up it. Aubrey says less. Yes, let's hang out together audio hotline has a win-co. I've never been to the US of a will try visiting on April in a year or two to attend the Nam show.
Speaker 2Oh I, would is Nam different.
Speaker 1Nam. Well, nab is an April, nam is in January and just ended, nam is the music one. Oh.
Speaker 2Which I really wanted to sign. Hit us up like if you're gonna be in LA, will we'll go meet you.
Speaker 1Yeah, it doesn't have to be around a conference. Yeah.
Speaker 2If you've, especially if you've never been here.
Speaker 1Oh my gosh, how fun and max said can you imagine how many times I said, oh, did you know? To my wife during 32?
Speaker 2Okay, see, yeah, she's, because we're you know still newly wins it. Near four years going on for yeah, I have set up what you set up. I gotta check, so set up.
Speaker 1Well, there we go. Well, there we go Does that mean it's time to clear the table.
Speaker 2I think it might be. Oh, he met.
Speaker 1Are you?
Speaker 2coming this April. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1We said April in a year or two. Oh yeah, big trip to book.
Speaker 2Well, okay, if you weren't here at the beginning, tom and I are going to relaunch, just create more, which is the community that we have, but it's gonna be free. You have to fill out an application if you're not already a member, but basically we just want to be able to continue this conversation throughout the week, so like we're gonna talk all things content creator but also just have zoom hangouts and have fun and chill. I think I I mean, if you already have a membership, then you're already in there. I still have to like reorganize some things.
Speaker 1No, mighty has changed a lot.
Speaker 2Yeah, we need to like, I need to like go in there and Pardon our dust kind of a situation, but definitely by Friday, by the next time we do the couple table.
Speaker 1It'll all be right again. Just for those who weren't here how and when do they do you to puddle?
Speaker 2up is kicking off next Wednesday, 1 pm, pacific standard time. On Wednesday yeah, every Wednesday on my tutorial channel. So YouTubecom slash Heather Amir's. I haven't put anything out yet, but I'm just giving you the heads up. You can join whatever. So if you have to like, do the next week, that's fine. Yeah, sweet yeah, we're still on mighty.
Speaker 1Still in the mighty, so if you're.
Speaker 2So, if you have, if you're already a member, like you don't have to do anything. Yeah, you should be there, but just know that, like we've we. Well, I'll speak for myself. I kind of didn't log in for a while, but, as I said at the beginning of the show, I like I'm trying to like throw the parties that I want to like be a part of, and you too, huddled up is something, just create more something. So hang out with us, hang out with me. Tom will be in there too, and so will Ben.
Speaker 1He's sleeping right there. There he is.
Speaker 2All right If you want any help with mighty. I've been spending hours on my mighty. Oh, that's great. I thought we're only a few wincos. I was wrong about that.
Speaker 1I don't know where they're regionally at western United States. I don't know if they're all over the US. I like ours, though. It's big and it's clean. It's nice.
Speaker 2Yeah, and it's cheap. Oh, I'm so glad. I was really debating like what day and time? And Tom was like do the one that you can do? Do the time that you can do. Oh, this is great. I'm so glad to hear Okay, awesome guys, cool, so this was fun. Thanks for hanging out. We're gonna have little surprises next time. What's gonna be next in store? Because this was a win, it's gonna be a surprise. Yeah, maybe Tom will have a surprise.
Speaker 1Maybe I would definitely get surprised. All right Well have a safe, happy, healthy, fun. Rest of your week and we will see you next time.
Speaker 2Happy Friday. Have a good weekend, bye everybody.