The Flow: Episode 120 - Stop Over-Editing & Burning Out | The Flow

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<v Doc>Aloha Flowriders and welcome to the flow. Today it is just me rocking it solo.

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<v Doc>I am your host Doc Rock and today we are talking about speeding up your production

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<v Doc>process by getting out of your own way.

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<v Doc>It's one of my favorite subjects. All right so the reason why we decided to

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<v Doc>do this is I have been working on this thought process about what it is that's

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<v Doc>really holding people up.

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<v Doc>And of course, one of the things that we hear over and over again is,

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<v Doc>you know, people trying to get to doing this quote unquote sort of perfect stream.

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<v Doc>And this perfectionism situation that everybody has for reasons unbeknownst

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<v Doc>to man is really crushing people's soul.

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<v Doc>Like you don't realize it, but it's almost like trying to swim with 25 pound

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<v Doc>concrete joints on your ankles, you know, like Bugsy Malone threw you in the Hudson.

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<v Doc>It's not going to work. It's really not going to work.

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<v Doc>And I get the dream of doing something perfectly.

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<v Doc>The reality is rarely, if ever, does it come off. I just think about this real

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<v Doc>quick before we get into the nitty gritty.

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<v Doc>There was a new phone recently launched by one of the largest corporations in the absolute planet.

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<v Doc>OK, and when they launched these phones, they sell each individual model somewhere

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<v Doc>into the ordinance of about 20 million a pop.

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<v Doc>And even at that scale, they probably bring back four or five percent within

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<v Doc>the first week just because they just failed.

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<v Doc>And even a company with that much money and know how.

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<v Doc>And at this point, 17 iterations will technically 16 because there wasn't a nine.

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<v Doc>They're still going to run into problems

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<v Doc>like they cannot do a perfect manufacturing run. It doesn't exist.

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<v Doc>And of course, do they try? naturally. Of course they try, but it doesn't exist.

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<v Doc>And so what do they have? They have mitigation situations in place in order

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<v Doc>to make up for this impossibility of getting a perfect manufacturing run.

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<v Doc>Lee Iacocca saved Chrysler. And yet at the time he did so, he had to bring back

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<v Doc>some 5 million cars. You guys remember that? The K cars?

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<v Doc>Like they just all had a recall. and but you

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<v Doc>know what they did they just fixed it and kept going so like

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<v Doc>if a multi-trillion dollar conglomerate can't

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<v Doc>pull off a perfect launch well it makes you think you're fitting to do so

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<v Doc>that's why it's super funny it's super funny that we're stuck there but let's

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<v Doc>talk about how we get there why we got there and sort of where it comes from

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<v Doc>so like it says in the description if you find yourself recording the same take

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<v Doc>12 times 20 times this is exactly for you.

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<v Doc>Um, the best part about today's show is I have Luis producing.

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<v Doc>He's so he's in the background and Luis has seen the raw videos for those Ecamp ads that I make.

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<v Doc>Okay. Some of you guys came in on a, a cyber weekend special or a cyber,

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<v Doc>uh, what's that thing called?

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<v Doc>The summer sale and the commercial that I used to make, you know,

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<v Doc>like that's right this Friday, black Friday, we're going to have,

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<v Doc>you know, X, Y, Z, blah, blah, blah. Right. Luis has seen those raw videos.

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<v Doc>And for the most part, I will read the script about three times straight through.

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<v Doc>And then I will add a bunch of fillers, which is to say the hard impact words,

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<v Doc>you know, maybe 10, 15 extra times just so that Luis can stack them or do things with them.

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<v Doc>And yes, in between every one of those reads, there is abject profanity.

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<v Doc>I hope they never hit the streets.

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<v Doc>I don't know how much I got to pay Louise because they're terrible.

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<v Doc>But they're funny to me at the time. And it's normally because I don't want

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<v Doc>it to sound like I'm reading a script.

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<v Doc>I want it to sound like it's more me.

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<v Doc>If I just read the script, I could probably do it in like two takes.

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<v Doc>But it wouldn't have the same vibe to it.

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<v Doc>Like it's, it's missing a certain level of genesis qua.

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<v Doc>Does that mean that it would stop somebody from buying Ecamm? Probably not.

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<v Doc>Probably not. So in reality, for a 30-second commercial, I should technically

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<v Doc>send him about two, maybe three minutes worth of audio.

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<v Doc>Sometimes it's seven. But a lot of times it's me saying stuff like,

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<v Doc>hey, Luis, okay, that last take was good. Make sure you use that one.

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<v Doc>Just ignore what that idiot was saying in the beginning, like stuff like that.

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<v Doc>So I'm sure when Luis watches those tapes, he's cracking up laughing.

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<v Doc>And I'm also sure that he has to watch that with headphones on just just in

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<v Doc>case his dad or the neighbors are listening.

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<v Doc>But I just want to give you an idea of what it's like, you know,

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<v Doc>when you're doing something that's at this point, what we would call really, really high stakes.

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<v Doc>Right. I mean, we're putting, you know, the whole Cyber Weekend sale on that particular ad read.

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<v Doc>That is about the only time where I put that much edit into what I'm reading,

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<v Doc>doing, saying, because the process of coming back to edit this footage.

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<v Doc>I know why people hate editing because you have so much to edit because you're

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<v Doc>doing too much mindful editing in your speaking.

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<v Doc>Now, in the chat, I'm going to check real quick. I know this is different for

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<v Doc>people listening at the replay, but you can do so in the replay as well if it matches you.

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<v Doc>When you are watching the TV, right, if you're watching sports or,

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<v Doc>you know, some sort of live situation,

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<v Doc>how many times do you hear those people make mistakes when they're doing their reads?

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<v Doc>And I want to say it's almost every time, but they don't stop.

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<v Doc>They just have to keep going.

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<v Doc>They don't have the luxury to like, keep trying to do the same thing over and over again.

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<v Doc>You have to realize like in a situation like, you know, Sunday football,

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<v Doc>whether round or oblong,

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<v Doc>That is costing them like legit millions of dollars per second.

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<v Doc>So if you are doing something and you're talking about, you know,

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<v Doc>say Manchester versus Arsenal and you meant city, not United,

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<v Doc>you just fix it in the next sentence.

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<v Doc>You don't get to cut tape, back up, stop, whatever.

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<v Doc>And they do it every game. When you have two teams in the same city, trust me,

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<v Doc>even when one is blue and one is red, every single game, the announcer at least

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<v Doc>will call Manchester United, Manchester City ones, or Manchester City,

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<v Doc>Manchester United ones. It's just what happens.

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<v Doc>And sometimes when they're talking about United, they mean Newcastle United.

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<v Doc>But they will say United. Normally when you say United in England, you mean Manchester.

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<v Doc>But there is such a thing as Newcastle United. or Sheffield United.

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<v Doc>And sometimes the announcers twist it up. They just keep going. It's not that big a deal.

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<v Doc>Everybody's expected to do that because regular people in their audience do the same thing.

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<v Doc>I would never do so as a diehard Manchester United fan. I would hurt myself

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<v Doc>if I accidentally called my team Manchester City.

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<v Doc>I would probably, like, remember, what is that, Da Vinci Code?

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<v Doc>When homie is hitting himself with the flagellation tool.

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<v Doc>So here's what this looks like. Thank you.

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<v Doc>You're doing your, okay, first of all, we're going to do ourselves a trick here today.

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<v Doc>I don't know how long we've been going so far, but I'm going to bet we've been

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<v Doc>going on, let me look at my time frame here. We've been going on for almost 10 minutes.

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<v Doc>I want to bet in that 10 minutes, if you were to stop this, and I ask everyone

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<v Doc>in the chat, when you come back and check the replay, listen to the first 10 minutes.

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<v Doc>I want you to count how many times I have uttered the word, um,

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<v Doc>it's going to be less than two.

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<v Doc>I just not something that I do.

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<v Doc>And when I do it, it's because I really needed to make a pause.

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<v Doc>But in a situation where I want to make a pause, anybody who's watched me long

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<v Doc>enough will know my pauses normally look like constipation.

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<v Doc>Like it's just just uh my favorite trick

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<v Doc>and i we call this in radio eat the ums and

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<v Doc>it takes practice but you can do it but here's

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<v Doc>the reality if you um in your

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<v Doc>video perfect why because

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<v Doc>you um in real life nine thumbs out of ten people who um in their videos actually

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<v Doc>um in real life what looks real suspect is when you and this happened that camp

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<v Doc>by the way i'm not gonna call anybody out in particular, but they would know exactly who they are.

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<v Doc>You meet them in public and they cannot hold the conversation without saying,

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<v Doc>um, every once in a while.

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<v Doc>But if they're videos, they don't have a single um in their videos.

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<v Doc>Why? Because they listened to my buddy Jeff C and pressed the button in the

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<v Doc>script, which yanked all the ums.

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<v Doc>I'll take it back, Jeff. Jeff always says, don't remove all of them.

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<v Doc>I take it back, Jeff. Jeff says, do not remove all of them.

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<v Doc>Only remove a couple of them because if you remove all of them,

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<v Doc>it will sound stupid. I just want you to know this.

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<v Doc>Nobody except for a trained radio person can hold an entire conversation without

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<v Doc>hitting the um button it's just impossible uh for me i normally eat the ums

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<v Doc>or i do the weird obama pause.

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<v Doc>Because i am reformulating a sentence in my head like that right like it just

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<v Doc>is what it is Now, there are definitely times when I'm on fire and just spitting

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<v Doc>bricks and not really thinking about it.

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<v Doc>And then, yeah, I might say, um, 50 times, but so what? It doesn't affect the

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<v Doc>actual meaning of what I have to say.

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<v Doc>Nobody is really expecting you not to hit the um.

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<v Doc>Now, there are definitely people, and she's not here to yell at me right now,

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<v Doc>so I'll snitch on her, that get excited and start talking really,

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<v Doc>really fast. And they seem to between every um word.

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<v Doc>But I would rather listen to that than the choppy sentence structure of a person

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<v Doc>who is trying to remove all of the ums.

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<v Doc>And Gretchen just said something absolutely phenomenal in the in the chat.

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<v Doc>When you are recording in Ecamm, there is a pause button.

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<v Doc>So one of the ways that you can do this is you do your ad read.

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<v Doc>OK, so let's use the the description from this video, right?

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<v Doc>I'll just pop this, hit this button on YouTube real quick. And it would be something like,

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<v Doc>if you find yourself re-recording the same clips 12 times or obsessing over

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<v Doc>how every edit is until all of the fun disappears, this episode is for you. Pause.

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<v Doc>I did it. Take a breath. Come back.

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<v Doc>Unpause. In this episode of The Flow, Doc dips into the real reason why many

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<v Doc>creators struggle to stay consistent.

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<v Doc>Perfectionism. Pause.

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<v Doc>Here we go. We'll explore how chasing flawless videos drains your creative energy

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<v Doc>and keeps you stuck and prevents the authentic conversation your audience actually wants. Boom. End it.

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<v Doc>That's how you do it. If you want to get it as I mean, lessy,

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<v Doc>lessy, I mean, I'm lessy.

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<v Doc>I don't have a word for it. If you want to get it to be less,

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<v Doc>I mean, the normal, that's what you do.

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<v Doc>Rock that pause button in ecamm one of the cool things about that is when you

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<v Doc>go to edit it and whatever your editing software is it actually gives you a

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<v Doc>little gap and all you're really doing is closing the gaps which is a lot of

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<v Doc>software can do automatically at this point.

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<v Doc>So gretchen says her finger is always hovering over the pause button on the

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<v Doc>stream deck uh it's the only keystroke i have memorized in my internal muscle

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<v Doc>memory that's funny that's I used to say that.

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<v Doc>The only weird part about having to touch the stream deck every time is you

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<v Doc>always will have this hand motion in between your arms.

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<v Doc>But depending on how you're cropped, you might not see that.

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<v Doc>This is where something like the stream deck pedal would actually come in pretty

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<v Doc>good or bring the stream deck closer to you and like stick it like right here.

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<v Doc>So you can just hit a little tap and then breathe it out, hit a little tap, breathe it out.

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<v Doc>Like that would be that would be really really change um

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<v Doc>right and then jeremy also mentioned if your pose

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<v Doc>changes from pause to pause it also looks like

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<v Doc>a jump cut anyway jump cuts are easy to fix uh you cover them with b-roll or

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<v Doc>you just don't care like at the end at this point in time most people don't

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<v Doc>even pay attention to them unless they're really really bad i showed my community

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<v Doc>once this creator that i watch from Japan and he does the crazy,

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<v Doc>like he edit with the script and let it pull all the jump cuts and my God, his jump cuts are like.

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<v Doc>It's it that's nerve wracking. But normally if you're somewhat in the same vicinity, it's not too bad.

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<v Doc>If anybody doesn't understand what a jump cut is, let me know.

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<v Doc>We'll explain it further. But it's basically that look where the person is talking

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<v Doc>in their head kind of does that in the middle of the sentence.

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<v Doc>That's normally a jump cut because they bumped to they bumped two things together.

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<v Doc>Right. And I'm with Matt, like they don't really bother me if the content is

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<v Doc>good. I'm really not paying attention. Let's back that up again.

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<v Doc>Let's back that up again.

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<v Doc>Let's back it up again. They say if you say it three times, people will pay attention to it.

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<v Doc>If the content is good, nobody, absolutely nobody is focusing on your jump cut.

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<v Doc>If people complain about your jump cut, your content sucks. Let's be straight up about that.

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<v Doc>I'm the nice one at Ecab. No, I'm actually the mean one. And it's not intended

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<v Doc>to mean. I just want everybody to put out good stuff.

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<v Doc>And the reality is, if people complain about your jump cuts,

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<v Doc>then yeah, their content wasn't good enough.

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<v Doc>If people complain about your lip sync, your content wasn't good enough.

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<v Doc>Because when the content is good, you are not paying attention to the lip sync.

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<v Doc>Like, I legit watched, there's one, write that down.

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<v Doc>I legit watched Raiders Titans game the other day, and the audio for Max Crosby

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<v Doc>knocked somebody out to it actually comes through the TV was off by 10 frames.

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<v Doc>Did not affect the game in any way, shape, or form. Why? Because we were winning, right?

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<v Doc>Maybe if we were losing, that would have pissed me off.

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<v Doc>But we were winning. So I didn't care that it's like you hear the whistle and

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<v Doc>then the quarterback goes back.

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<v Doc>And then two seconds later, Max Crabby knocks the lights out.

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<v Doc>And it was like more than 25 percent of the game. The audio was off.

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<v Doc>And that's on Fox Sports. I mean, again, damn near a trillion dollars of the

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<v Doc>equipment and audio is out of sync.

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<v Doc>But if it's good, ain't nobody paying attention.

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<v Doc>Again, we're obsessing over the weird things. OK, so let's talk about how to

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<v Doc>fix this, because I don't want to make this a complaint session.

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<v Doc>First of all, this concept of over editing is where you are eating up all your time.

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<v Doc>And because you're eating up all your time, you are giving yourself a level of frustration that.

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<v Doc>That would just really blow your mind. That level of frustration will take you out quicker.

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<v Doc>And you really need to know consistency is better than perfection.

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<v Doc>And I'm going to prove this fact right here, right now. Listen closely.

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<v Doc>I personally don't eat McDonald's. I just don't.

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<v Doc>But I know a whole bunch of y'all in the chat. Number one, I seen you do it.

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<v Doc>Number two, I seen your waistline.

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<v Doc>But McDonald's, you don't go there because you're expecting the perfect meal.

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<v Doc>My East Coasters, you definitely don't go to Dunks because you think the coffee

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<v Doc>tastes good. If you do, you got, never mind.

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<v Doc>Dunks does not taste good. I'm a coffee person. Dunks is disgusting.

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<v Doc>But have Louise and I been up in Manchester, in Amesbury, Massachusetts?

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<v Doc>It's actually Manchester is also there.

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<v Doc>Cause I went there this weekend to pick a Brandon from the airport,

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<v Doc>long drive, but we're not going to dunks cause it's good.

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<v Doc>We're going to dunks because they got a sausage, sandwich and hot coffee.

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<v Doc>And we ain't got that much time to get to the office and do something. We got to get done.

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<v Doc>And the whole time we're drinking it, we're like, why the hell did we come to

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<v Doc>Dunkin' Donuts? It's disgusting.

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<v Doc>But there's, you know, It's just one of those things. You go to McDonald's,

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<v Doc>you go to Dunks because it's consistence.

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<v Doc>Right. No, Paul. No, I'm not going to let you have this one.

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<v Doc>Paul wants to say everybody has their own taste. No, Duncan's is disgusting,

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<v Doc>bro. It is absolutely disgusting.

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<v Doc>I think people that drink it know it's disgusting, but again, it's consistent.

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<v Doc>Like it's one of those things. It's like, you know, you have,

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<v Doc>we're on the road and you got to get something from seven and 11.

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<v Doc>That's why Wawa's blew up. Cause Wawa has better food than seven 11.

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<v Doc>Or what's that one with the with the um

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<v Doc>what's that that bucky's

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<v Doc>yeah the texas one that's why bucky's blew up

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<v Doc>they got better food uh i don't

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<v Doc>know about different tasting bro that stuff is nasty i'm gonna just call it

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<v Doc>nasty i drink and crafted pour overs i'm not drinking dunkin donuts y'all can

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<v Doc>fight me on that one dunk is disgusting anyway the point is the oh my god now

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<v Doc>paul is in trouble because Paul said he thinks wasabi is disgusting.

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<v Doc>Wasabi is delicious. I've actually never been to Bunky's Rich. I have never been yet.

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<v Doc>That's on my list when we come back to Texas is I need to just go just to experience what it looks like.

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<v Doc>He said I'm out of the vote because I'm from South Africa. No,

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<v Doc>actually, South Africa has good coffee.

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<v Doc>Anyway, let's get off of that one because people are going to get mad at me

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<v Doc>talking about how bad Dunkin's is. It's disgusting.

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<v Doc>The point is the reason why you go to these places, even if you like Dunkin's,

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<v Doc>the reason why you go to McDonald's and some of these other places is because it's consistent.

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<v Doc>Like, you know, that local burger joint, if Rich Graham had a burger joint,

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<v Doc>trust me, it would taste much better than McDonald's.

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<v Doc>But if rich grams burger joint wasn't consistent and you were really hungry,

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<v Doc>you like, I'm going to take a spin going to Graham burgers.

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<v Doc>Hoping that he's on one of his good days, or I'm going to go to McDonald's where

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<v Doc>I know I'm not expecting much more than a five or six anyway.

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<v Doc>So we're going to run with it. Right. I think that's what that, what that means. Right.

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<v Doc>So a lot of people get the, the consistency mixed up with perfection.

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<v Doc>And no, it's not really the same thing. people just want to know what they're going

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<v Doc>to get and they'll feel okay with it so that's a big helpful there and

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<v Doc>you know one of the I have

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<v Doc>this really really strange thought process when it comes to the reason why we

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<v Doc>are so stuck on perfection and it's it's really it's something that's been processing

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<v Doc>through my head this whole time.

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<v Doc>And I've been trying to figure out a better way to formulate it into sentences

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<v Doc>because it's a little bit scrambled in my brain, but it basically boils down to we take.

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<v Doc>The what is the word I'm looking for?

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<v Doc>We take perfection as a destination in the West or in the U.S.

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<v Doc>Specifically, we take perfection as a destination and we assume that you can get there.

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<v Doc>One thing that was cool about my training in Japan, my school in Japan,

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<v Doc>and I realized how it's so different is everybody there strives for perfection in whatever they do.

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<v Doc>This is why the packaging, when you get something that comes from Japan,

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<v Doc>the packaging is like dang near flawless, right?

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<v Doc>The customer service is off the chain. The way food is delivered,

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<v Doc>even in the smallest things at the convenience store, the food is delivered

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<v Doc>with a level of perfection that's obnoxious for a good reason.

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<v Doc>But they see perfection as impossible. But we're going to strive for it anyway.

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<v Doc>And so when you're doing something with that mindset of I'm doing this so that I can get better. Yeah.

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<v Doc>It's different. You attack it differently. You treat it differently.

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<v Doc>You look at your mistakes differently.

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<v Doc>When you look at the perfection from a comparative way, the way that we do here,

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<v Doc>you feel like every opportunity is a failure and you look at your failures as if you messed up,

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<v Doc>not look at your failures as if, okay, I get to do that better the next time.

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<v Doc>And for a person that lives in

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<v Doc>both cultures super super hard it's mad

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<v Doc>perplexing it is

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<v Doc>very mad perplexing because i know better

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<v Doc>i know the kodawari mindset it's k-o-d-a-w-a-r-i look it up kodawari is the

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<v Doc>idea of doing something to get better at it each time so that you could eventually get to perfection,

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<v Doc>but you realize that perfection doesn't exist.

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<v Doc>The other thing, and it's funny because Paul mentioned wasabi because they're not the same.

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<v Doc>There is a terminology known as wabi-sabi, and wabi-sabi means that the beauty

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<v Doc>lies within the imperfection.

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<v Doc>So, why do people who work like absolute maniacs take off for three days a year, leave work early,

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<v Doc>run to the park to watch the cherry blossoms fall off the tree?

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<v Doc>Because they understand that the beauty of life is in its impermanence.

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<v Doc>It sounds crazy if you don't understand it. And I used to think it was wild

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<v Doc>because you're talking about traffic.

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<v Doc>Yo, the whole place basically stops.

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<v Doc>Every day for about three days, everybody takes off of work,

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<v Doc>grab a blanket, get a bunch of alcohol and sandwiches and snacks.

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<v Doc>And you pull out a blanket and you go to look at the cherry blossoms and you

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<v Doc>wait for them to fall off the tree.

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<v Doc>And on that right day, it's like it's snowing cherry blossom leaves.

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<v Doc>It's beautiful. It's called hanami.

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<v Doc>It's looking at the flowers. Hana, flowers, me, look at hanami.

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<v Doc>It's also why fireworks are called hanabi.

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<v Doc>It's basically fire flower, similar situation.

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<v Doc>And you realize that everybody's there to appreciate how fleeting life can be.

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<v Doc>So you live life to the fullest.

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<v Doc>You're trying to do something, right? So if we're in this situation where we're

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<v Doc>looking at everything we're trying to do is perfect, first of all, I think it's hilarious.

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<v Doc>I'm going to just be mean about this. I'm sorry. I think it's hilarious that

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<v Doc>we're sitting in our studio trying to make a perfect recording,

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<v Doc>realizing that every day we watch multibillion dollar companies screw up regularly

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<v Doc>and laugh and keep going and they produce, but they come out every day.

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<v Doc>Right. you watch shows that are recorded live if you've ever had the benefit

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<v Doc>of seeing something like Jimmy Kimmel recorded or what's the dimple chin dude

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<v Doc>Jay Leno I've seen him live I've seen live taping of Stephen Colbert,

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<v Doc>when you see those live tapings you realize like what you see on TV and what

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<v Doc>really happens is relatively close but not exactly like they screw up all the

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<v Doc>time but they just keep running with it and again they don't have the luxury

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<v Doc>to do 5,100 takes they have to get this thing recorded in a set amount of time.

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<v Doc>If there's a mistake, it's normally, it's just dealt with in life.

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<v Doc>You know, the director just calls the audible, so to speak.

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<v Doc>One of my favorite, that's two, by the way. One of my favorite conversations,

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<v Doc>we were talking about this at camp.

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<v Doc>I believe Matt was at my table and we were talking about like,

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<v Doc>yeah, in sports, if Dak Prescott throws an interception, which he does,

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<v Doc>he normally throws another pass right away to try to get it out of his head.

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<v Doc>Like they don't just like take

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<v Doc>the fact that he threw it. And so he's guaranteed at least one a game.

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<v Doc>Normally when they're about to win.

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<v Doc>As as happened the other day, I'm just rubbing it in because we won our one game.

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<v Doc>But it's just one of those things where they would normally get right back up

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<v Doc>and just go right back to that same play again very soon after because they're

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<v Doc>trying to get it out of their head. You don't want to be stuck with that process.

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<v Doc>So the first thing you need to do is the first helpful thing to do,

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<v Doc>let's put it this way, is to sort of embrace the one take mentality.

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<v Doc>And if you're talking about something and you make a mistake,

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<v Doc>as I just did like half a second ago, you really just fix it quickly on the fly.

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<v Doc>Like when your watch tells you that you should turn off the sleep focus because

00:27:53.931 --> 00:27:57.371

<v Doc>you're up early, then you just should have muted the watch.

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<v Doc>But, you know, you just take it on the fly. You just keep going.

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<v Doc>That's not really going to. But anybody who says, oh, that was super distracting.

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<v Doc>Yo, I don't know what they're watching. They're not really paying attention.

00:28:06.811 --> 00:28:09.871

<v Doc>Or some people actually go to people's videos to look for these things.

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<v Doc>And, yeah, they're going to exist. But those people aren't your people.

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<v Doc>You know, the reality, this, you know, perfection paralysis is exactly correct.

00:28:19.551 --> 00:28:21.351

<v Doc>Right. it will really stop you in your boots.

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<v Doc>So one of the things that you can do to help yourself is sort of embrace this one take mentality.

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<v Doc>Understand that you're not looking for perfection. You're looking for clarity.

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<v Doc>Clarity over perfection. I heard something recently and it had to do with, you know,

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<v Doc>making sure that you're absolutely clear on what you're saying and take as many

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<v Doc>swipes as that as you have to in order to make sure that the clarity of the

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<v Doc>statement is coming through more so than the fact that you got it out in one perfect statement.

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<v Doc>And a lot of times saying it several different times several

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<v Doc>different ways make it syncs tighter to the people

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<v Doc>that are listening so i'll give

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<v Doc>you an exercise and i really do want you to try this

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<v Doc>and the best way to try this believe it or not it's going to actually help you

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<v Doc>it's going to give your channel some discoverability start making shorts start

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<v Doc>making shorts where you just say what you need to say without editing at all.

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<v Doc>Just say the short anywhere between seven to 30 to 90 seconds.

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<v Doc>Say something valuable, impactful, helpful to the peoples and run with it.

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<v Doc>Just literally spit it out and don't touch it. Just let it go.

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<v Doc>Get into practice of doing that. Crank out about 50 of them joints.

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<v Doc>Then you'll be over it because what will happen with shorts is you will start

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<v Doc>to get views on those shorts and those views will start to get you subscribers

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<v Doc>and those subscribers will start to get you a bigger community.

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<v Doc>And the minute you realize that just saying what you got to say when you got

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<v Doc>to say it without some sort of script, you know what you're talking about.

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<v Doc>If you don't, be like, I'm going on a journey where I don't know where I'm talking about.

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<v Doc>When did I get this thing? December. I got this 3D printer in December.

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<v Doc>And back in December, there is no way I would have made something stupid like this.

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<v Doc>This is a giant octopus to hold my cam bottle. There's no way I would even attempted this.

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<v Doc>Right. And every time I had a question, I would hit up Luis and be like,

00:30:50.426 --> 00:30:52.006

<v Doc>hey, Luis, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. blah, blah.

00:30:52.226 --> 00:30:55.966

<v Doc>And Louise would be like, listen, dude, just, just print the damn thing.

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<v Doc>But through enough mistakes and, you know, anybody who has a 3d printer,

00:31:03.346 --> 00:31:11.286

<v Doc>uh, enough poop, as they call it, I, this time I was cruising with Mary Lou.

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<v Doc>We stopped by Katie's house and Dane showed me this. And I was like, dude.

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<v Doc>And he was like, all right, I'll get you the file. So I came home and I immediately printed.

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<v Doc>First thing, it takes a whole day to print. You talk about squeezing cheeks.

00:31:24.466 --> 00:31:29.326

<v Doc>It takes over 24 hours to print, which is the first time I printed something that long.

00:31:29.646 --> 00:31:34.366

<v Doc>And it came out, I would say, 95% dope, right?

00:31:34.786 --> 00:31:37.826

<v Doc>And it works. Like, it's for a wine bottle, but I don't drink wine,

00:31:37.826 --> 00:31:40.806

<v Doc>so I just use it to hold a camp bottle, Odwalla.

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<v Doc>But that came from just wanting to try something fun. And if it didn't work,

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<v Doc>I probably would have bought another roll of filament and printed it again.

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<v Doc>Because believe it or not, it takes up almost a whole roll to print something that's dumb.

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<v Doc>But it's cool. It is absolutely cool, right?

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<v Doc>So you really do have to just take these swings and understand that if it didn't

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<v Doc>come out, you could just try it again.

00:32:10.106 --> 00:32:16.146

<v Doc>Like the cool thing about content is for the most part is relatively short lived.

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<v Doc>You could make the video that you made.

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<v Doc>Paul said it's going to come alive on Halloween.

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<v Doc>Anyway, you can make the video that you made three months ago.

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<v Doc>You can make it again right now and nobody would care. As a matter of fact,

00:32:38.052 --> 00:32:39.832

<v Doc>some people would be like, hey, thanks for the reminder.

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<v Doc>It's hard to do these things by yourself first thing in the morning when you

00:32:48.139 --> 00:32:49.859

<v Doc>get dry mouth, it will crush you.

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<v Doc>So let's get into it. So, again, try recording those shorts and crank out 30,

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<v Doc>40, 50 of them. Give yourself a little calendar.

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<v Doc>And it's not about one a day. Like you want to get through these quickly.

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<v Doc>Right. You want to record like three or four a day.

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<v Doc>As a matter of fact, Gary Vee would tell you you need to do like five to 15

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<v Doc>a day. And most people think it's too much. But trust me, it's not.

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<v Doc>And then you go through what we call the live to tape process so alec is the

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<v Doc>best example of this other people out here doing it as well um i believe because

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<v Doc>i saw a picture yesterday on facebook,

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<v Doc>what our buddy matt in the chat is doing is drawing a little type of storyboard

00:33:35.819 --> 00:33:41.299

<v Doc>with his pen and paper and uses that to sort of play it out of scenes.

00:33:42.399 --> 00:33:45.539

<v Doc>And you just go through your flow. Don't put intended.

00:33:45.799 --> 00:33:52.039

<v Doc>You just go through your flow. So you're going to turn on the camera and then

00:33:52.039 --> 00:33:58.919

<v Doc>you're going to do a one-shot conversation about this.

00:33:59.059 --> 00:34:05.759

<v Doc>And if anybody wants to test the theory, I am taking... Anybody in the live,

00:34:05.819 --> 00:34:09.739

<v Doc>audience is why you want to come to a live taping drop. We're going to play

00:34:09.739 --> 00:34:11.399

<v Doc>something that we play an improv class.

00:34:11.779 --> 00:34:22.999

<v Doc>We play a game called expert and expert is where you basically practice giving a conversation.

00:34:23.219 --> 00:34:28.939

<v Doc>It's normally like, you know, two minutes or so about any subject when no practice

00:34:28.939 --> 00:34:31.639

<v Doc>and you have to sound like, you know what you're talking about.

00:34:33.900 --> 00:34:38.020

<v Doc>And the people grade you on this so anybody

00:34:38.020 --> 00:34:41.580

<v Doc>want to throw in a random situation i'll kind of show you what it looks like

00:34:41.580 --> 00:34:46.660

<v Doc>and these are fun like you can do these as shorts it's not going to ruin your

00:34:46.660 --> 00:34:52.260

<v Doc>channel shorts could be about anything a lot of people are i'm going to say

00:34:52.260 --> 00:34:56.980

<v Doc>something mean hold your horses a lot of people are protecting channels that they don't have yet,

00:34:58.540 --> 00:35:01.800

<v Doc>okay i get a lot of people saying that

00:35:01.800 --> 00:35:04.600

<v Doc>oh i don't want to do this type of videos because it's going to ruin

00:35:04.600 --> 00:35:07.920

<v Doc>my channel and then i like oh let's go take a peek and

00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:11.220

<v Doc>they're sitting on 75 subscribers you don't

00:35:11.220 --> 00:35:15.680

<v Doc>have a channel yet let's just be real right let's

00:35:15.680 --> 00:35:18.500

<v Doc>be real if you were sitting

00:35:18.500 --> 00:35:21.480

<v Doc>on 10 thousand and talking about

00:35:21.480 --> 00:35:25.140

<v Doc>something off the charts might skew

00:35:25.140 --> 00:35:28.240

<v Doc>your channel maybe but the

00:35:28.240 --> 00:35:31.120

<v Doc>reality is at this point in time most people are looking

00:35:31.120 --> 00:35:38.320

<v Doc>for real connection and they just want to know that the person is is is cool

00:35:38.320 --> 00:35:46.020

<v Doc>and sees them and recognizes their pain and possibly can help them either come

00:35:46.020 --> 00:35:49.100

<v Doc>out of that pain or ride dirty with them in that pain.

00:35:53.399 --> 00:35:57.879

<v Doc>And all of the above is really what's going on now.

00:35:57.999 --> 00:36:00.879

<v Doc>If you really check the internet, you watch the type of shows that you listen

00:36:00.879 --> 00:36:03.259

<v Doc>to. That's probably why you listen to them.

00:36:04.079 --> 00:36:10.779

<v Doc>You probably feel a place of belonging. You probably feel a place of like security

00:36:10.779 --> 00:36:12.319

<v Doc>blanket around those folks.

00:36:13.779 --> 00:36:19.379

<v Doc>And that tends to be what it comes from. So if you're putting out content that

00:36:19.379 --> 00:36:25.379

<v Doc>is a providing value, be giving people a place to hang and that in itself is value.

00:36:26.919 --> 00:36:31.619

<v Doc>See, making someone feel seen, belong or finally heard or listened to or,

00:36:31.619 --> 00:36:35.359

<v Doc>you know, similar in some way, shape or form.

00:36:38.338 --> 00:36:45.618

<v Doc>Then you will be able to put this content out without overstressing about this,

00:36:45.698 --> 00:36:48.058

<v Doc>this whole concept of pulling it off. Perfect.

00:36:48.938 --> 00:36:53.718

<v Doc>The other thing that before we do the samples, the other thing that pulls this

00:36:53.718 --> 00:36:59.998

<v Doc>in, the more shots you take at it, the faster your consistency builds up.

00:37:01.578 --> 00:37:07.838

<v Doc>Because what people don't understand, and I don't know why, because it says

00:37:07.838 --> 00:37:12.178

<v Doc>so in the word, is people think confidence is something that you're going to

00:37:12.178 --> 00:37:13.898

<v Doc>go take a class on and get good at.

00:37:14.158 --> 00:37:16.438

<v Doc>And that is an absolute lie.

00:37:16.938 --> 00:37:19.078

<v Doc>I just want to take that one off the table.

00:37:19.958 --> 00:37:22.678

<v Doc>Confidence means self trust.

00:37:23.878 --> 00:37:28.018

<v Doc>And the way you trust yourself is by improvement.

00:37:29.178 --> 00:37:33.158

<v Doc>The first time you jumped into the water, you was a little bit terrified,

00:37:33.158 --> 00:37:36.818

<v Doc>but you had to hide it because your sister threw you in the water.

00:37:38.098 --> 00:37:40.878

<v Doc>Then next time you jumped in the water, you was around your friends.

00:37:40.878 --> 00:37:42.818

<v Doc>So you had to hide the fact that you're terrified.

00:37:43.478 --> 00:37:46.618

<v Doc>But the more and more times you spent in the water, the more,

00:37:47.418 --> 00:37:50.478

<v Doc>comfortable you got within the water, the more confident you got in the water,

00:37:50.518 --> 00:37:53.578

<v Doc>because the more confident you built in yourself of your ability not

00:37:53.578 --> 00:37:57.538

<v Doc>to drown in said water or the more you start to dive in that water and realize

00:37:57.538 --> 00:38:00.578

<v Doc>the biggest fish in there is about yo big and they ain't gonna do nothing to

00:38:00.578 --> 00:38:04.758

<v Doc>you then you have no problems it's the reason why you go into a swimming pool

00:38:04.758 --> 00:38:06.258

<v Doc>because you're absolutely confident

00:38:06.258 --> 00:38:12.018

<v Doc>that there are no fish or weird things in that pool but like here,

00:38:12.558 --> 00:38:17.378

<v Doc>yo there's sharks in the water and we get in that joint because unlike people

00:38:17.378 --> 00:38:20.858

<v Doc>who don't live here we realize sharks ain't trying to eat you.

00:38:22.138 --> 00:38:24.738

<v Doc>They're not even thinking about you. They're doing something else.

00:38:27.545 --> 00:38:30.805

<v Doc>Do sharks occasionally bite people? Yeah, normally because of people that are

00:38:30.805 --> 00:38:32.065

<v Doc>doing something they're not supposed to be doing.

00:38:33.325 --> 00:38:38.965

<v Doc>But my boy Brady's not here today, but Brady is probably in the water right now.

00:38:40.065 --> 00:38:44.045

<v Doc>Surfing. Sharks right there because it's cuffing season.

00:38:45.285 --> 00:38:47.505

<v Doc>And he ain't thinking about that dang shark.

00:38:49.485 --> 00:38:54.065

<v Doc>It just ain't because they're not looking to eat Brady. He's not that delicious.

00:38:54.285 --> 00:38:56.945

<v Doc>Turns out short Okinawan dudes ain't that delicious.

00:38:58.725 --> 00:39:03.605

<v Doc>Turtles is right. Uh, little octopus that, uh, we call taco.

00:39:03.885 --> 00:39:07.645

<v Doc>They're delicious, you know, things like that, but they're not looking to eat humans.

00:39:08.545 --> 00:39:15.885

<v Doc>And, and so if you go into it, knowing this sort of thing, you got a better chance of doing it.

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<v Doc>Okay. So Gretchen said, um, well, let me read this question.

00:39:20.545 --> 00:39:23.665

<v Doc>It says, if you're, if you're willing to outwork the next person,

00:39:24.025 --> 00:39:26.105

<v Doc>you're going to find success. This is very true.

00:39:26.345 --> 00:39:31.585

<v Doc>And a lot of that has to do, um, it really does have to do with it.

00:39:32.025 --> 00:39:36.405

<v Doc>It said reading how doesn't mean knowing how you need to do it. A hundred percent.

00:39:37.545 --> 00:39:42.825

<v Doc>Sharks do like chubby Cajuns. Maybe Jeremy, maybe, maybe we just try to,

00:39:42.925 --> 00:39:46.345

<v Doc>we try to feed Ren to one of these sharks since he tried to get at me.

00:39:47.465 --> 00:39:54.965

<v Doc>Okay. So Gretchen threw out, two she says squircle and then old folks camping

00:39:54.965 --> 00:40:04.245

<v Doc>so squircle let's do a short about the squircle take a little neck neck and hit the water real fast.

00:40:09.844 --> 00:40:15.024

<v Doc>This is actually hard to do, but we're going to try it. This shape is not a square.

00:40:15.164 --> 00:40:17.904

<v Doc>You notice the edges are round and it's not just a rounded square.

00:40:18.104 --> 00:40:20.244

<v Doc>This shape is actually a squircle.

00:40:20.484 --> 00:40:24.504

<v Doc>Now, what makes a squircle different from a rounded square?

00:40:24.784 --> 00:40:30.384

<v Doc>Well, it turns out there's actually a mathematical equation that makes a squircle

00:40:30.384 --> 00:40:31.924

<v Doc>different from a rounded square.

00:40:32.684 --> 00:40:37.124

<v Doc>Eventually, if you were to pull in the edges of a rounded square until the two

00:40:37.124 --> 00:40:42.864

<v Doc>edges meet, you will end up with still a rounded square.

00:40:43.184 --> 00:40:47.724

<v Doc>However, if you pull in the rounded squares of a squircle until the two edges

00:40:47.724 --> 00:40:50.164

<v Doc>meet, you eventually could get back to a circle.

00:40:50.444 --> 00:40:57.004

<v Doc>This was maybe been around forever, but it got coined as a popular phrase during

00:40:57.004 --> 00:41:02.364

<v Doc>one of Apple's interface designers because the icons that you see on an Apple

00:41:02.364 --> 00:41:04.224

<v Doc>device, They are not rounded squares.

00:41:04.484 --> 00:41:08.904

<v Doc>They are actually squirrels. So it is a complicated calculation.

00:41:09.064 --> 00:41:13.484

<v Doc>So if you're a math person, I would highly suggest you go and pull up the formula

00:41:13.484 --> 00:41:16.484

<v Doc>yourself and try it out. Do the math as they say.

00:41:16.724 --> 00:41:22.264

<v Doc>But if not, just enjoy the fact that knowing that a squirrel is not the same

00:41:22.264 --> 00:41:23.824

<v Doc>thing as a rounded square.

00:41:24.064 --> 00:41:32.044

<v Doc>Fun fact, the mascot for Ecamm for Creator Camp 3 was a squirrel that was given

00:41:32.044 --> 00:41:34.404

<v Doc>the name Squircle, now you know.

00:41:36.286 --> 00:41:43.486

<v Doc>Script, not a one. Googled facts, not a one. Say what you got to say. Easy. Done.

00:41:44.346 --> 00:41:46.646

<v Doc>Take two. Old folks camping.

00:41:47.946 --> 00:41:52.666

<v Doc>It is a thing that when people retire, there's always this concept of hitting

00:41:52.666 --> 00:41:54.286

<v Doc>the road in your giant RV.

00:41:54.586 --> 00:41:58.306

<v Doc>Anybody ever see the movie Meet the Parents? That was all Robert De Niro wanted

00:41:58.306 --> 00:42:02.806

<v Doc>to do was to take his giant Winnebago on the road and take his family out there.

00:42:02.806 --> 00:42:08.406

<v Doc>Also, back in the day, there was Chevy Chase and the family vacation with the Griswolds.

00:42:08.546 --> 00:42:16.366

<v Doc>But it turns out that old people driving around in campers and RVs is a multi-trillion dollar industry.

00:42:17.006 --> 00:42:22.706

<v Doc>There's something about the dream of hitting the open road in a camper,

00:42:22.906 --> 00:42:27.446

<v Doc>whether you're building it yourself or whether you're buying it from some facility

00:42:27.446 --> 00:42:29.866

<v Doc>that you see every three blocks in South Florida.

00:42:29.866 --> 00:42:33.346

<v Doc>Hitting the open road is a big thing that people like to do,

00:42:33.506 --> 00:42:35.786

<v Doc>especially when they get to retirement age.

00:42:36.026 --> 00:42:41.146

<v Doc>Now, it's kind of funny because this trend is trending into the younger people.

00:42:41.266 --> 00:42:45.586

<v Doc>Now, if you hit the YouTubes, you don't have to go very far before you find

00:42:45.586 --> 00:42:51.506

<v Doc>a channel about some millennial person having a millennial life crisis and doing van life.

00:42:51.686 --> 00:42:55.966

<v Doc>Van life is the young person's take on old folks camping.

00:42:56.286 --> 00:43:00.546

<v Doc>And so if you really want to get into it, first of all, I'm going to send you

00:43:00.546 --> 00:43:02.886

<v Doc>over to check out Liz Wilcox.

00:43:02.966 --> 00:43:06.126

<v Doc>She did lots of blogs talking about living in the RV.

00:43:06.286 --> 00:43:10.066

<v Doc>And I'll also put you in contact with this great creator by the name of Images

00:43:10.066 --> 00:43:14.126

<v Doc>with Gresham's. And she can tell you all you need to know about old folks camping.

00:43:14.286 --> 00:43:18.666

<v Doc>But it turns out, yes, it is a thing. So maybe you need to get out there and

00:43:18.666 --> 00:43:22.826

<v Doc>strap one of those things on the top of your car, like the Griswolds and go hit the open road.

00:43:23.980 --> 00:43:26.480

<v Doc>Anybody want to test me again? What are we doing here? No, I'm joking.

00:43:26.940 --> 00:43:33.660

<v Doc>That really just comes from, it doesn't matter like how perfect that came out.

00:43:33.680 --> 00:43:35.860

<v Doc>It just mattered that it felt real.

00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:41.380

<v Doc>You know, it mattered that you were trying to help somebody get a piece of information out there.

00:43:41.600 --> 00:43:45.980

<v Doc>Now I'm not going to say just go out there and sophisticated wild ass guess

00:43:45.980 --> 00:43:49.600

<v Doc>everything, but you can do that.

00:43:49.700 --> 00:43:54.380

<v Doc>And the only way to be able to do that, the way I've done it is I've done probably

00:43:54.380 --> 00:43:59.500

<v Doc>well over a couple hundred thousand ad reads in my time in radio.

00:43:59.620 --> 00:44:03.380

<v Doc>But that's not even an ad read because I didn't have a paper with the stuff on it.

00:44:04.300 --> 00:44:09.240

<v Doc>But if you want to get good at doing this, then you have to actually do it.

00:44:09.740 --> 00:44:14.080

<v Doc>And the fastest way to build up those reps is to build up those reps.

00:44:14.300 --> 00:44:17.680

<v Doc>And so the safest way to build up those reps is to do shorts.

00:44:18.660 --> 00:44:24.640

<v Doc>Everybody in their mother will tell you how important repurposing is.

00:44:25.700 --> 00:44:28.440

<v Doc>Everybody and their mother would tell you how important repurposing is.

00:44:28.580 --> 00:44:31.800

<v Doc>You know what I think is the best way to repurpose something?

00:44:32.860 --> 00:44:42.180

<v Doc>Is to catch yourself in the middle of doing your content and say you come up

00:44:42.180 --> 00:44:45.180

<v Doc>with something that you think is a killer short.

00:44:45.360 --> 00:44:48.180

<v Doc>You think it is a good value add.

00:44:48.540 --> 00:44:54.080

<v Doc>First of all, your audience will not be mad at you for repeating something that

00:44:54.080 --> 00:44:57.100

<v Doc>was good because they need to hear it more than once.

00:44:59.135 --> 00:45:04.875

<v Doc>So rather than depend on the AI to pull out that perfect clip for you,

00:45:05.095 --> 00:45:11.795

<v Doc>how about you just re-say the clip now, clean, in the middle of your process,

00:45:12.095 --> 00:45:13.755

<v Doc>take a mental note of the time.

00:45:13.915 --> 00:45:20.195

<v Doc>I would look up at this sucker and I would say that we're at 48.10 and at 48.10,

00:45:20.415 --> 00:45:22.935

<v Doc>I would just redo the short live,

00:45:23.215 --> 00:45:27.495

<v Doc>know that I'm going to get a perfectly good, clean cut, shouldn't said perfectly,

00:45:27.915 --> 00:45:29.535

<v Doc>but I'm going to get a good, clean cut.

00:45:30.155 --> 00:45:35.055

<v Doc>And then just cut from there. Don't depend on the AI to pull out your heaters.

00:45:35.715 --> 00:45:38.935

<v Doc>Reiterate that sucker. Reiterate that sucker and say something cool.

00:45:40.195 --> 00:45:46.555

<v Doc>Right? And so, again, taking it back to our Western philosophy of perfection,

00:45:47.155 --> 00:45:51.475

<v Doc>our Western philosophy of perfection is perfection is something that other people

00:45:51.475 --> 00:45:53.675

<v Doc>have that I need to try to get to.

00:45:54.335 --> 00:45:57.595

<v Doc>And every time I don't get it, I'm failing.

00:45:58.655 --> 00:46:05.975

<v Doc>My Eastern philosophy of perfection is perfection is something that you strive for,

00:46:05.995 --> 00:46:10.655

<v Doc>even though you know it's a veritable impossibility, but you're going to enjoy

00:46:10.655 --> 00:46:15.195

<v Doc>the journey of getting a little bit better each time you try.

00:46:15.555 --> 00:46:19.335

<v Doc>You're going to enjoy the lessons that you learn each time you try.

00:46:19.535 --> 00:46:22.115

<v Doc>You're going to make your way through this each time you try.

00:46:22.315 --> 00:46:27.875

<v Doc>We all grew up at a time where we saw wax on, wax off.

00:46:28.335 --> 00:46:36.295

<v Doc>Wax on, wax off. And we all saw Ralph get mad because he was like,

00:46:36.475 --> 00:46:38.775

<v Doc>I came here to learn karate.

00:46:39.115 --> 00:46:44.235

<v Doc>Now he pronounced it wrong, but I came here to learn karate and you're making

00:46:44.235 --> 00:46:48.335

<v Doc>me paint the fence. or wax the car.

00:46:49.916 --> 00:46:56.636

<v Doc>And he didn't understand that learning the kata, the forms, was all he was going

00:46:56.636 --> 00:46:59.156

<v Doc>to need. I didn't want to hit the mic. I know how to do it for real.

00:46:59.436 --> 00:47:04.496

<v Doc>But it's all that he was going to need in order to hit that block.

00:47:05.756 --> 00:47:14.456

<v Doc>Mawashigeri, right? Jodanuki. Like he would figure out later that those repetitions, those forms,

00:47:14.756 --> 00:47:20.756

<v Doc>that kata was getting him to the point where he could actually do the moves

00:47:20.756 --> 00:47:22.676

<v Doc>in a pugilistic situation.

00:47:25.142 --> 00:47:31.982

<v Doc>That is what this idea is about. If you take the process of recording your videos

00:47:31.982 --> 00:47:37.082

<v Doc>live to tape and you take the process of sticking with it,

00:47:37.182 --> 00:47:41.262

<v Doc>no matter how weird you think it comes out. If you miss a scene, you just missed a scene.

00:47:41.462 --> 00:47:45.442

<v Doc>You don't got to cut that out. Just like, oops, I hit the wrong button. Hit the right button.

00:47:45.602 --> 00:47:48.402

<v Doc>You have watched every single one of us do this. Everybody in the chat,

00:47:48.702 --> 00:47:53.402

<v Doc>everyone in the chat from Paul to Gretchen to myself to Jeremy to Rich.

00:47:53.522 --> 00:47:56.522

<v Doc>I'm looking at K-Walk. I'm looking at everybody in the chat.

00:47:56.982 --> 00:48:00.382

<v Doc>Aaron probably did it too, right? Flow, absolutely.

00:48:01.122 --> 00:48:06.742

<v Doc>You have hit that button in the chat, I mean, in the stream deck where you hit

00:48:06.742 --> 00:48:09.902

<v Doc>the wrong button and you go, oops, and you hit the other button and just keep going.

00:48:10.502 --> 00:48:14.642

<v Doc>There's no need to cut that out. Like that is legit crushing your soul because

00:48:14.642 --> 00:48:15.722

<v Doc>you sit there and you look at it.

00:48:15.822 --> 00:48:18.942

<v Doc>The second time you look at it too, it also seems bigger than it really is.

00:48:19.222 --> 00:48:22.202

<v Doc>When you made the mistake live and you fixed it live, nobody really blipped.

00:48:22.562 --> 00:48:25.902

<v Doc>But when you look at it in the edit, you start going I can't believe I said

00:48:25.902 --> 00:48:30.182

<v Doc>it that way and then you're like well I never did get a good clean clip out,

00:48:31.622 --> 00:48:37.042

<v Doc>right so you're saying to yourself dang it Robin you should have said that better,

00:48:38.342 --> 00:48:42.722

<v Doc>and now I'm in a different outfit there's no way I can get the same lighting

00:48:42.722 --> 00:48:48.742

<v Doc>I have no way of plugging in that value so I have to leave the ugly edit anyway.

00:48:50.742 --> 00:48:55.542

<v Doc>So just avoid that in the first place, but don't even, don't even get there.

00:48:56.982 --> 00:48:59.202

<v Doc>Gretchen said, oops is a common noun for me.

00:49:03.087 --> 00:49:11.807

<v Doc>Yeah, the funniest thing is in nine times out of 10, if you're over editing,

00:49:11.807 --> 00:49:14.347

<v Doc>you're probably stealing the natural flow.

00:49:14.627 --> 00:49:18.827

<v Doc>You're stealing your personality right out of the content.

00:49:21.707 --> 00:49:29.387

<v Doc>And I know we hate this word because it is so overused, but the authentic nature

00:49:29.387 --> 00:49:32.387

<v Doc>of sounding like you in real life,

00:49:32.587 --> 00:49:36.907

<v Doc>when we meet you in real life, is so much better.

00:49:37.347 --> 00:49:42.167

<v Doc>Now you watch, you are going to go somewhere where you're going to meet a creator

00:49:42.167 --> 00:49:44.427

<v Doc>that you watch on TV all the time.

00:49:45.847 --> 00:49:49.647

<v Doc>And when you go to talk to that person they're not going to be able to get a

00:49:49.647 --> 00:49:53.947

<v Doc>sentence straight and you're going to be like wow that's what it looks like

00:49:53.947 --> 00:49:55.387

<v Doc>for the people who over edit,

00:49:57.327 --> 00:50:02.827

<v Doc>you ever seen an actor who just gives the worst interviews,

00:50:04.287 --> 00:50:11.107

<v Doc>like they go on Kimmel or Colbert or Oprah or The View or Entertainment Tonight,

00:50:11.627 --> 00:50:16.567

<v Doc>and their interviews are just dookie and you're like, how is a person who acts

00:50:16.567 --> 00:50:20.287

<v Doc>that good give such terrible interviews?

00:50:21.647 --> 00:50:27.687

<v Doc>That's what we're talking about here. The fastest way to crush your authenticity

00:50:27.687 --> 00:50:34.567

<v Doc>is to show up completely different from the person that people see on the interwebs.

00:50:36.307 --> 00:50:43.827

<v Doc>Everybody who has ever met me in real life is like that dude is the exact same

00:50:43.827 --> 00:50:46.927

<v Doc>idiot in real life as he is on TV.

00:50:49.215 --> 00:50:52.795

<v Doc>I've never had someone come to me and be like, oh, I thought you were different.

00:50:53.695 --> 00:50:55.855

<v Doc>You definitely get, I thought you were taller.

00:50:57.075 --> 00:51:02.215

<v Doc>And I definitely seem rich. It was like, I had no idea this dude was six, seven.

00:51:04.715 --> 00:51:07.775

<v Doc>I definitely thought Jeremy was taller. Sorry, Jeremy.

00:51:08.455 --> 00:51:13.435

<v Doc>But, you know, it's strange too. I actually, just to go to show you how much

00:51:13.435 --> 00:51:16.435

<v Doc>a connection that you make with people when you do this.

00:51:18.215 --> 00:51:21.235

<v Doc>I have been working in and around with

00:51:21.235 --> 00:51:24.255

<v Doc>Jeremy for almost four years and we

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<v Doc>did our first IRL meeting a week

00:51:27.235 --> 00:51:38.315

<v Doc>ago almost almost a week ago and it was like like normal because we talk all

00:51:38.315 --> 00:51:41.695

<v Doc>the time right we see each other all the time in the chat we you know he's a

00:51:41.695 --> 00:51:44.295

<v Doc>moderator for Ecamm so we have a Slack, you know, group.

00:51:44.675 --> 00:51:48.115

<v Doc>It wasn't even like, oh my God, I finally get to meet Jeremy.

00:51:48.335 --> 00:51:50.075

<v Doc>We were half, this happened twice.

00:51:50.435 --> 00:51:53.895

<v Doc>This happened with Diana. It happened with Jeremy. I think Daniel,

00:51:54.235 --> 00:51:59.635

<v Doc>myself, Jeremy, Mary Lou, Jill, we were like finished doing our work before

00:51:59.635 --> 00:52:02.635

<v Doc>we like, hey, wait a minute. This is our first time meeting each other IRL.

00:52:02.775 --> 00:52:05.495

<v Doc>As a matter of fact, Jill and Mary Lou was like, you guys didn't meet before?

00:52:06.195 --> 00:52:11.195

<v Doc>And it's like, no, because the connection that you make with people in real

00:52:11.195 --> 00:52:15.135

<v Doc>life is the same as the connection you make with people online.

00:52:15.435 --> 00:52:20.575

<v Doc>And because neither one of us present differently online than we present in

00:52:20.575 --> 00:52:28.355

<v Doc>real life, it just felt like going to go do some work with one of your friends, right?

00:52:28.575 --> 00:52:36.175

<v Doc>Even, you know, meeting his son who took all of about 10 minutes to just be part of the family.

00:52:37.575 --> 00:52:44.095

<v Doc>Because he just, you know, he probably has seen most of us over dad's shoulder for a while.

00:52:44.895 --> 00:52:48.055

<v Doc>And so he was almost in the company of people that he know.

00:52:49.791 --> 00:52:55.151

<v Doc>And then my highlight of the weekend is I got docked by my nephew.

00:52:55.531 --> 00:52:57.291

<v Doc>He got me good. It was funny.

00:52:57.951 --> 00:53:02.691

<v Doc>And now he walk around with a badge like, dad, I got him. And you didn't even get him yet.

00:53:03.651 --> 00:53:06.391

<v Doc>But it was funny. Like, that's that's what you want from people.

00:53:06.491 --> 00:53:10.731

<v Doc>You want that when you see someone in real life, when I see Matt, Matt is Matt.

00:53:10.871 --> 00:53:13.411

<v Doc>Matt is the same exact Matt that we see.

00:53:13.551 --> 00:53:18.011

<v Doc>He just doesn't have on the other 12 mats that you see in the picture.

00:53:18.011 --> 00:53:19.811

<v Doc>There's only one in the picture.

00:53:19.951 --> 00:53:23.431

<v Doc>There'll be 12 mats, but primarily Matt is Matt.

00:53:23.811 --> 00:53:27.971

<v Doc>Matt is the real deal. Matt, you know, Gretchen is just as Gretchen as she is

00:53:27.971 --> 00:53:29.511

<v Doc>in real life. And that's what you want from people.

00:53:29.691 --> 00:53:37.511

<v Doc>So please shake this concept of like, I need to be flawless because it's really

00:53:37.511 --> 00:53:42.011

<v Doc>going to slow you down and make your process a heck of a lot more insane.

00:53:42.791 --> 00:53:48.471

<v Doc>So to reiterate, it closes out, I highly suggest you put yourself in an environment

00:53:48.471 --> 00:53:54.871

<v Doc>where you can just start recording things that you refuse to edit.

00:53:59.077 --> 00:54:04.297

<v Doc>Paul said he's much younger in real life. Not true, but cute anyway.

00:54:06.957 --> 00:54:11.537

<v Doc>No, Paul is absolutely tall, by the way. We went to get the rented car and I'm

00:54:11.537 --> 00:54:13.657

<v Doc>like, we're not going to fit in that car, dude.

00:54:13.757 --> 00:54:16.957

<v Doc>What did you give us? We need something bigger than that. Then they gave us a big car.

00:54:17.077 --> 00:54:21.137

<v Doc>But at first, me and Paul walk into the Avis and they tried to give us like

00:54:21.137 --> 00:54:23.877

<v Doc>a clown circus car where all you would hear was the music going.

00:54:23.877 --> 00:54:27.177

<v Doc>Whenever we try to climb our big humongous

00:54:27.177 --> 00:54:30.337

<v Doc>butts out of that thing anyway so you want to record stuff

00:54:30.337 --> 00:54:33.317

<v Doc>and i think the best way to do this is to get into making

00:54:33.317 --> 00:54:36.257

<v Doc>shorts and try to get through i'm i think

00:54:36.257 --> 00:54:39.437

<v Doc>that my prescription is 50 to 100 shorts of just

00:54:39.437 --> 00:54:42.317

<v Doc>saying things without overthinking it like pick up

00:54:42.317 --> 00:54:45.077

<v Doc>something random on your desk billy was here billy would

00:54:45.077 --> 00:54:48.137

<v Doc>tell you to do a review about something you

00:54:48.137 --> 00:54:51.357

<v Doc>have random on your desk and I got

00:54:51.357 --> 00:54:54.397

<v Doc>one this is hella random this is a pencil it

00:54:54.397 --> 00:54:57.157

<v Doc>looks like a normal pencil but actually this is made out of pure

00:54:57.157 --> 00:55:00.957

<v Doc>metal this is a graphene pencil and

00:55:00.957 --> 00:55:05.057

<v Doc>so you never need to sharpen it you can't break it it's actually solid as a

00:55:05.057 --> 00:55:10.377

<v Doc>rock but you can pick up one of these at any good uh stationary store and this

00:55:10.377 --> 00:55:14.677

<v Doc>one is made by a company called Metasool because get it metal pencil but you

00:55:14.677 --> 00:55:17.697

<v Doc>can find these on Amazon as well but a really cool thing if you like writing

00:55:17.697 --> 00:55:20.357

<v Doc>with pencils and you're sick of breaking them, or you don't like wooden pencils.

00:55:20.517 --> 00:55:23.657

<v Doc>Grab yourself a metal pencil. Like that is simple. Do a short like that.

00:55:24.357 --> 00:55:28.117

<v Doc>It's interesting to somebody. I mean, we all see those stupid AI videos.

00:55:30.878 --> 00:55:32.618

<v Doc>And that reminds me, and then we're done.

00:55:34.638 --> 00:55:43.118

<v Doc>Your messy video, your um-filled video, your mistake-ridden video is better

00:55:43.118 --> 00:55:45.798

<v Doc>than the AI slop that's out there right now.

00:55:46.098 --> 00:55:51.938

<v Doc>Paul and I have a visceral reaction to that one, this is one voice.

00:55:52.158 --> 00:55:55.798

<v Doc>And when you hear it, you know it. It's prevalent on TikTok,

00:55:55.798 --> 00:55:59.938

<v Doc>a little bit on YouTube. YouTube uses a slightly different voice.

00:56:00.338 --> 00:56:06.898

<v Doc>But when you hear that voice, that one particular AI voice, this person is a genius.

00:56:07.078 --> 00:56:10.018

<v Doc>Look at what they did. They put a balloon on the water hose.

00:56:10.178 --> 00:56:12.258

<v Doc>I don't know what for, but that looks like a genius.

00:56:12.438 --> 00:56:16.458

<v Doc>This person drilled a hole in a bottle top and screwed it into the wall.

00:56:16.838 --> 00:56:18.938

<v Doc>Wow. Don't they look genius? Bruh.

00:56:20.038 --> 00:56:24.038

<v Doc>That voice, as soon as we hear that voice, both of us just cringe.

00:56:24.838 --> 00:56:29.358

<v Doc>It's our running joke. whenever we talk to each other about that one voice,

00:56:29.458 --> 00:56:32.638

<v Doc>that voice is obnoxious. It is absolutely terrible.

00:56:32.878 --> 00:56:38.218

<v Doc>So your video with your ums and your ahs and you're clicking the wrong scenes

00:56:38.218 --> 00:56:44.318

<v Doc>and saying the wrong things and mispronouncing karaoke is better than the AI

00:56:44.318 --> 00:56:46.758

<v Doc>voice of, this person is a genius.

00:56:46.978 --> 00:56:49.938

<v Doc>Look, they use Ikum to make live videos.

00:56:50.278 --> 00:56:53.998

<v Doc>Oh my God, it's disgusting. It's absolutely disgusting.

00:56:55.738 --> 00:57:00.238

<v Doc>Wow. I don't know why Paul made me think of that. I saw Paul type something

00:57:00.238 --> 00:57:02.198

<v Doc>and it made me think of that all of a sudden.

00:57:02.538 --> 00:57:07.438

<v Doc>But yeah, that, those are the worst. All right. So let's get this practice done.

00:57:07.658 --> 00:57:12.718

<v Doc>I want to see you guys, you can tag me in your shorts. I just want to see that you're cranking it out.

00:57:12.818 --> 00:57:16.218

<v Doc>Now, listen, I know that the fear is a real thing.

00:57:17.598 --> 00:57:21.998

<v Doc>I, you know, we all would say just step around the fear, ignore it,

00:57:22.078 --> 00:57:27.758

<v Doc>go into it. I definitely understand that it exists, but there's no way to get

00:57:27.758 --> 00:57:29.338

<v Doc>better at this without actually doing it.

00:57:29.438 --> 00:57:32.078

<v Doc>It's just absolutely veritably impossible.

00:57:35.028 --> 00:57:38.888

<v Doc>Yeah, you have to, you have to, like, I wish there was a way I wish I could

00:57:38.888 --> 00:57:44.108

<v Doc>prescribe you some magic pill that was going to fix all of this floor you floor

00:57:44.108 --> 00:57:46.728

<v Doc>you for you, but it just doesn't exist.

00:57:47.228 --> 00:57:50.188

<v Doc>The only way to do this is to actually do it.

00:57:50.608 --> 00:57:56.608

<v Doc>It's kind of like raising children's, like you thought you had a plan and then

00:57:56.608 --> 00:57:58.888

<v Doc>you had them kids and those kids are bad.

00:57:59.008 --> 00:58:02.388

<v Doc>And then you're like, dang, I wish I should have been like doc and not had none.

00:58:02.488 --> 00:58:03.568

<v Doc>It would have been so much cheaper.

00:58:06.248 --> 00:58:10.568

<v Doc>Now jerry's about to pay for college he's like dang i should have stopped when i was ahead.

00:58:13.356 --> 00:58:16.576

<v Doc>You know what I mean? It's like that. So, yeah, just get out there and make it.

00:58:16.976 --> 00:58:20.076

<v Doc>Reach out to us, of course, if you have any questions, comments, feedback.

00:58:20.336 --> 00:58:22.756

<v Doc>If you're not really understanding the live to tape process,

00:58:22.756 --> 00:58:27.656

<v Doc>we have a whole series on that put together by Mr. Alec from Take One Tech.

00:58:28.496 --> 00:58:34.176

<v Doc>And I really do believe you that if you get out here and you just start getting your practice in

00:58:34.616 --> 00:58:37.936

<v Doc>and you know don't be afraid to go live just

00:58:37.936 --> 00:58:41.096

<v Doc>to go live if you wait until you have to do it this is

00:58:41.096 --> 00:58:44.836

<v Doc>when you get sort of messed up right but

00:58:44.836 --> 00:58:48.156

<v Doc>if you go live for the sake of going live and just have fun like

00:58:48.156 --> 00:58:50.936

<v Doc>I'm just going to go live to go just chatting the just chatting

00:58:50.936 --> 00:58:54.016

<v Doc>people get good at this fast because they just chatting

00:58:54.016 --> 00:58:56.716

<v Doc>you know and there's no stakes involved but you get to learn your

00:58:56.716 --> 00:59:00.396

<v Doc>system and figure it out and have fun like

00:59:00.396 --> 00:59:03.196

<v Doc>just have fun that's the biggest takeaway because at our

00:59:03.196 --> 00:59:07.756

<v Doc>age we ain't got time to be out here being serious we gotta have fun that that's

00:59:07.756 --> 00:59:13.296

<v Doc>it that is it so as you know this particular show is brought to you by our friends

00:59:13.296 --> 00:59:18.476

<v Doc>at shore shore is one of our favorite people to work with they make some of

00:59:18.476 --> 00:59:23.056

<v Doc>the best mics in the world and i had a huge huge uh fun this week,

00:59:23.216 --> 00:59:26.736

<v Doc>testing out and setting up the new MV7i,

00:59:26.916 --> 00:59:31.556

<v Doc>which is an MV7 that allows you to use the other end as an interface.

00:59:31.556 --> 00:59:33.036

<v Doc>It's a really cool microphone.

00:59:33.116 --> 00:59:37.496

<v Doc>And so if you're looking for something that would allow you to create a two-person

00:59:37.496 --> 00:59:43.436

<v Doc>podcast really, really simply without a lot of equipment, go over to Shure.com and check out the MV7i.

00:59:43.616 --> 00:59:46.656

<v Doc>And we thank Shure for sponsoring this episode of The Flow.

00:59:47.796 --> 00:59:50.856

<v Doc>Also, if you want to know more about The Flow, you

00:59:50.856 --> 00:59:53.756

<v Doc>can go to flow.ecam.com that's

00:59:53.756 --> 00:59:58.516

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01:00:18.725 --> 01:00:21.585

<v Doc>That's really funny. This MV7i is really cool.

01:00:21.785 --> 01:00:24.725

<v Doc>See that? That's actually an interface. You plug an XLR cable there,

01:00:24.725 --> 01:00:28.425

<v Doc>not to go into the machine, but to plug the other mic in here so you can put

01:00:28.425 --> 01:00:29.865

<v Doc>two mics together. It's so much fun.

01:00:30.025 --> 01:00:33.605

<v Doc>We play with it at camp. If you came into my studio, you got to see how cool it is.

01:00:34.105 --> 01:00:36.965

<v Doc>That's it, friends. I'd like to thank you guys for coming in.

01:00:37.085 --> 01:00:41.285

<v Doc>I'm really looking forward to seeing some of you guys cranking your shorts out.

01:00:41.485 --> 01:00:46.125

<v Doc>I want to see what's happening. I want to see what you're doing. Make sure you tag me.

01:00:46.705 --> 01:00:51.705

<v Doc>And Robin, go Temple Owls. I'm heading to Temple, Japan in a couple of months.

01:00:51.865 --> 01:00:54.325

<v Doc>I'm going to take my niece up there to go take a look at the campus.

01:00:54.605 --> 01:00:59.325

<v Doc>So now, you know, you know what we say around here? Flo Riders, out.