Hello. Welcome to the live stream. Hi, Kath. Oh, look at that. Look at that. Unprofessionalism. It's not even set up properly. Just a second. Let me get that right. I'm using the the beta at the moment. So I've probably got a few. There we go. I'm gonna stick this up just in case anybody does want to join in as well. There we go. I'm all over model this morning. I've actually got up a bit later than normal and in fact I sort of move this forward a little bit because I'm doing leader this week but then also I had a conference that was basically 14 hours on zoom yesterday and I got the same again today so sort of eight until 10 p.m. and the same tomorrow as well. So I did actually earlier on in the week let a couple of people know that I wouldn't be going live because I thought well there's no point to add it to my schedule and then my sleep patterns would have been all over the place I thought but then in doing leader this week one of the little learning exercises we had was about consistency and basically always showing up and not not breaking any sort of regular patterns that you've got so I thought well that's a bit of a clue really isn't it a bit of a sign that I should not be canceling this live stream so I thought well I'll just still do it but just do it a bit later so that I still get my my weekly live streaming so here I am and here I am 6 a.m. here and it's lucky because I normally go out at sort of 4 4 30 a.m. but I didn't wake up until 4 30 this morning so it has screwed with my schedule a little bit but been on zoom so much by the way when you're in the you know you come live community and live streaming community and youtubers and things like that everyone's you know obviously audio and video is a certain level and it's a really high standard it's only when you're doing zoom calls with other business people that you realize how terrible most people's audio and video is it's quite quite funny and I mean I use a green screen hey rich how you doing well actually I'm up I'm up late rich I woke up at 4 30 this morning and normally I'm streaming at 4 30 so that was yeah I blame my zoom call yesterday but yeah people on on these zoom calls where they've got you know like the the northern lights as their green screen background and the green screen keens terrible as well so it's all like half in and half out it's it's quite it's quite funny when you're watching professionals and these are you know professional business people but it just doesn't put them across in a good light if their audio and video isn't right and it does give you sort of instant credibility if you do have a better image and audio quality people just sort of seem to pay more attention to you so yeah it's definitely definitely a bit of an eye-opening when you're in the the the real world but anyway I don't normally have the the pink background by the way in business meetings I have something a little bit more professional so anyway that was that's why this is stream is a little bit later than the normal so let me just give you my normal update on my hundred videos in hundred days so here we are it's day 92 nearly at the finish line and I actually got off to a really good start didn't I I got quite a few videos in the bag so you know at day yeah whatever it was I was you know 5 20 videos ahead or was it I can't remember I was quite way ahead anyway and slowly over the weeks the the days have been catching up with the number of videos and now we're exact equal I've done 92 videos in 92 days so eight days to go so gonna gotta do another eight and I'm gonna be busy the next couple of days so I've got to really knock them all out next next week but don't worry I'll definitely do it so in 92 days 274 wonderful people have been enjoying my content well now that's not true 274 people have clicked the subscribe button in fact it's more than that because some people have unsubscribed but that's that's fair enough I'll let people off don't worry and 1300 hours of watch time 12,800 views in total so that's that for what it is so that's what happens if you post consistently for that amount of time basically I'm not drawing too many conclusions from that as such but that little thing about my video numbers so I'm at 92 and I'm aiming for 100 obviously and I've been thinking a lot about this and you know I want to put something together after a finished to sort of help other people who may be you know wanting to embark on something and maybe having a few issues getting over the line or you know getting over the start line that is and so I've been sort of thinking about this and one of the things that I do in there's another course that I do which is unrelated to this about something completely different but one of the things I talk about in that course is the the concept of smart goals this isn't something I've made up this is just a thing that I forget who made it up but I'm pinching it and it is in sort of common parlance at the moment but smart goals are basically they need to be specific i.e. I'm gonna make a hundred videos they need to be measurable well I can tell how many videos I've made it needs to be attainable it's one a day I should be able to manage it it's not like I'm saying I'm gonna make 50 videos a day you know there's not enough hours in the day to make them they need to be relevant and that is relevant to basically your your end goal what you're trying to what you're trying to do hey Greg so they need to be relevant to what it is that you're trying to do so I'm trying to improve my skills at creating ad hoc videos basically and you know growing a YouTube channel so certainly I got that the goal I set was relevant to that and they need to be time-bound so doing a hundred videos in a hundred days and I think if you set goals like this it's certainly like I say I didn't invent this but it certainly has helped me in thinking about the goals that I'm setting and also achieving them so like for now at this point I've got eight days left and eight videos to make well I'm definitely gonna make them aren't I I'm not gonna come to the last day and think oh never mind I'm too short I'm just going to do it whereas if it didn't have that goal then the next few days I'd think well I'm busy I've got a conference on or whatever so I'm not going to I'm not going to bother making a video and it doesn't really matter so there's definitely definitely something in smart goals so so that's that's just something I thought I'd throw out there for anybody who's interested so then this last week as well as leader which has been I can't I can't get over actually how how good leaders been because as I mentioned on my last stream when I actually said that I was doing leader all I thought it was was people getting together and saying hey let's stream every day for the month I didn't realize there was organization and structure and like an actual sort of growth and learning path to it I thought it was just a commitment to go live every day and that was up until the day before the first of August and then Paul Duncan mentioned it and Michael Powell mentioned about oh well you do need to stream into the group you have to sign up for it so it's been a really good couple of weeks really and there's been lots of sort of growth experiences learning experiences from it so it's been yeah really good I highly recommend it to anybody who hasn't hasn't done it before to can't sign up for this time but next time around sign up when I do sign up for it next time I've definitely got a block more time out for it because the time allowance that I'd given for it this month was I'm going to be doing you know a video a day for you know a 10-minute video 15-minute video a day for a month where's actually the power of leader is actually going and watching other people's videos and commenting on them and things like that and so that takes some time and it's something that I'm still I still haven't done what I need to do for that I need to go back and watch more of them and comment more on them but I just haven't had the time and I know some people have pulled out because of that constraint you do feel guilty if you're posting videos and not actually going and giving other people the benefit of your you know watching their videos and being present for them as well so it's definitely something that I need to work more on more on next week next next time around rather I'll book some time out for it every day so what else has happened this last week well I was on James Hicks show I really enjoyed that talking about my favorite subject recovering perfectionism which as I found has really excuse me something went down the wrong way there it's really touched a nerve with a lot of people in terms of you know a lot of people relate to it the idea of being a recovering perfectionist or at least maybe you haven't started on the road to recovery yet I'm not sure but this thing about it sort of holding people back and being a barrier to creativity I'm also going to be on actually JP high tech show this week coming up or next week whichever way it is 18th of August at 5 30 central time so that's next Wednesday is my Thursday morning Wednesday for most of the people will be watching so so that is again the same sort of topic perfectionist mindset as a creator so we're talking about the same sort of things and the more I'm doing these things and the more I'm talking about them the more it is sort of formulating ideas in my in my mind around this topic and as I say I want to do I want to put something together really to help people who are struggling with this sort of thing and struggling to get going and so I've been trying to formulate some ideas around this and one of them that is I've been sort of mulling over recently is about fear of failure and there's a methodology to actually overcome these sorts of things so I can tell you I can tell you how I learned this methodology and it came from I let me just get this book up wait one second drag this in here right so I quit drinking six years ago and I didn't I didn't ever feel like I was an alcoholic or anything like that but I used to drink me and my wife used to both drink every day after work we'd go to work do a hard day's work and then come home and we'd either have wine with our meal or we'd have a beer you're calling a friend's bar on the way home have a beer or something like that or whiskey or whatever and so we just have a drink every day basically as I say not to excess every day occasionally there'll be times when we drink to excess but not every day it wasn't like you know there's a guy that we know locally who wakes up in the morning and he'll have his coffee half coffee half brandy and that's him for the day then he's thought you know on to it all day and he's is what you would describe as an alcoholic whereas I never thought of myself as an alcoholic because well I was getting up I was going to work I was doing my thing and would just come and have a couple of beers in the evening so then at some point me and my wife both decided that we wanted to we wanted to reduce the amount we were drinking and we said well we don't really need to be drinking in a week do we so let's just save it for the weekend or something like that so we just we decided that that's what we're going to do and we found it really difficult and I personally found it really difficult and we would find like excuses for there would be some some reason to celebrate in the middle of the week so that we had an excuse to have a drink in the middle of the week or there'd be something had gone wrong and so there'd be a reason to commiserate. Hey Greg. So let me just add Greg in one second and I'll just finish my little story. There we go. Hey Greg, how are you doing? Can you hear me? Okay, Greg, can you hear me Greg? Can you hear me? Yeah, yeah, cool, cool. Can you hear me? Okay. Yeah, please finish your story. I don't know, I was on a delay so I can't tell if you were done yet. All right, right, right. So so what I was talking about, yeah, so it was this thing of I decided that I wanted to reduce my alcohol intake and but my wife and I would both find excuses in the week for some reason to commiserate or some reason to celebrate and it would be the smallest possible reasons why we thought, oh, let's have a let's have a drink. And it was at that point that I realized that like for me personally, I'm not judging anybody else, but for me personally, that is the definition of an alcoholic. It's somebody who does it habitually, who has some form of like dependency, something that's pulling them towards it that is maybe against their better judgment or better logic. And I'm only talking like a couple of beers in the evening, but that is the way that I personally felt it was for me. And that's the way I sort of judged it. So the point, this is a bit of a long way around to say that I bought this book and I'll put this book up just now because I'll stick it up in the middle here. So I bought this book called The Easy Way to Control Alcohol by Alan Carr. Now, this book, I listened to this book on audio book and I haven't touched alcohol ever since and I've recommended it to a number of people and they've read it and they have not touched alcohol ever since. I've recommended it to some other people and they're scared of the book because they said, oh, well, maybe I won't want to drink, so I don't want to listen to it. But the way that this book had an impact on me, first of all is obviously I don't drink anymore. So that's a benefit that's come out of it. But the methodology that he uses to do it and there's a lot of this, this sort of easy way series. So there's easy way to control smoking and all these other sorts of things as well. But the reason why this book had an effect on me was because of the actual process that it uses. And I won't go into all the details of the book itself. But basically what it does is it gives you a series of logical steps that is sort of your thought processes. And then it disassembles those thought processes so that you have a realization at the end that the way you've been thinking is totally incorrect, basically. And that's sort of the way people think about alcohol. Again, not judging if you like, like a drink, that's no problem. But for me, the effect it had is I realized there was no reason for me to actually want to drink. So the way I'm trying to get to with this is I've been thinking about this with fear of failure as well, because this is something that a lot of people have is this fear of failure. And really, there's nothing to fear about failing because nothing's going to happen if you say you're going to do 100 videos and you don't do 100 videos. You know, nothing's going to happen at the end of it. Really, what the fear is, is it's fear of embarrassment. That's what people are afraid of when they're afraid of failure. They're afraid of embarrassment. So what is embarrassment?  But then ultimately, that is just you picturing the worst possible scenario. You know, we're all our own worst critics. And so people, this is what I'm thinking. I'm just thinking aloud here.  So bearing in mind that we are our worst-owned critics and people don't actually mind and the vast majority of people, if people don't, you know, if you're striving for a goal, let's say, or you're starting a business or something like that, and you don't actually achieve what you'd set out to do, the majority of people aren't going to have the absolute worst case view of what you have set out to achieve and failed. They're actually going to be supportive and compassionate. And this is what I've been finding from leader this week. You know, there's people who have been sharing stories about things that have happened and everybody is just full of support and compassion for them. So I'm trying to get to some, some sort of methodology of removing this fear of failure by breaking it down into these logical steps that actually if you think you've got a fear of failure, it's a fear of embarrassment.  In actual fact, the majority of people would never think that of you. And in fact, the people will be there to support you and catch you if you stumble or whatever. And so in therefore, there is nothing to be afraid of by actually just giving something a go in terms of, you know, I'm not talking about starting fire juggling or something like that. But I mean, doing something like getting content out there, it's trying to remove that fear. So I'm only just talking about this because it's something I've been thinking about with going on this thing with JP and trying to try to put things into a context to help people because I'm getting so many people reaching out to me and saying, can you help me? I just can't make a start or, you know, things like this or I'm not sure how to go about it. I'm not sure if I'm going to be authentic or all these these sorts of questions that people are, you know, I get emails, people book calls with me through my buy me a coffee and stuff to talk about these sort of things. And so I'm just trying to articulate some idea of helping people with that sort of aspect of stuff. So that's my little rant over, Greg. Oh, that's great. I agree with you. I would say I would sell out because it's very interesting because I think I think maybe 90% of the time I think you're right that people are scared of like embarrassment or or the other. There is a very small percentage, however, of people who are scared of success. Right? And so they do self sabotage as well. Right? Yeah, sure. Sure. Yeah. You know, so I think there is an interesting and I like I said, I think I think it's like a 90% most people are scared of failing. However, I do think like addicts, they're they're scared. They can be scared sometimes of like what life feels like without the thing that they're that have the addiction to right? Sure. Sure. Sure. Yeah. Sometimes you see like founders and entrepreneurs, they don't want to launch their business because they're scared of the things that are actually going to happen. And usually there's a false assumption, right? Like of all the things going perfectly right and they're going to end up in this great spot. And so usually now what happens obviously, but they sort of pre anticipate success. And so then they sabotage it because they have they're anticipating the success like it's real, right? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So it's interesting, though. Motivation is the thing. I'm very much like you. I think I I every once in a while I would test myself to see if I can not drink to make sure. And interestingly enough, the way I solved it for me was I started like when I was 44 a couple of years ago, I started bodybuilding. Yeah. And part of the the side effects of like becoming a bodybuilder is that like once you start training and cutting down for like a show. Yeah. You actually can't drink as much or you're you're not allowed to drink. And so like I actually use that as a way to like cut out drinking for like at least half the year. Yeah. While I'm training as well. I mean, the the alcohol analogy was about the book, but it is funny talking about alcohol that I told somebody else a close friend about this. And I said, oh, you know, I've listened to this book and I'm never I'm never going to have a drink again. And his his words exact words were, oh, well, it's never say never like as if, you know, as if I'd been doomed to like never be able to drink again. And it was like a terrible thing. And he's like, oh, well, I'm sure there's still hope for you at some point. You might be able to have a look in the future. Funny people's attitudes and that thing you said about people afraid of what's with the alcohol book in particular. So many people are like, oh, keep it away from me. They're scared to listen to it in case it removes this thing that they they enjoy doing. And it's like I say, I'm not I'm not judging anybody for drinking or anything like that. And if they they're sure that's fair. Yeah, yeah. It was just really interesting, this methodology of the way the book works, like the way the book works on your mind to sort of lay out all of the all of the benefits that you believe you get from it, all of the negative effects that you believe that there are associated with it. And then it just sort of systematically removes all of those benefits that you think that there are associated with it. And then you come out of the other side thinking, Oh, yeah, there's nothing good in it for me personally. And so I'm trying to think of that same sort of methodology for this thing about, you know, people not getting to make a start. And it's it's funny because I've read loads of books about business and all this sort of stuff. But the one thing I haven't really read a lot about is the psychology of perfectionism and procrastination and all these sorts of things that hold people back. So I'm sure people have done a much better job of figuring out There are interesting books out there. Definitely. My best friend wrote this book called Life Scale. And it's actually a book all about distraction, actually, and how distraction has been built into our lives. Yeah. And what it does now is that distraction is actually a rate limiter on creativity.  By the way, I am interesting if I kind of been toiling with a book on the side as well. And I do have a framework for motivation actually. All right, right. So let me let me share it with you. I'd love your feedback on it. Yeah, yeah, your thoughts on it. So I used to be I'm a software developer. I used to be I don't write software that much anymore. And so my framework is called the wild loop. Right. And so while is an acronym and while it stands for Work Health Inspiration Lifestyle and Experience. Right. And basically the idea is that that the loop part is really about have creating legitimate outcomes towards ongoing progress. Right. So let me give you an example. A lot of people say, like, for example, oh, I want to lose weight. All right. I'll put my hand up to that one. Yeah, right. And and so the work part is really about like underestimating or not understanding the effort required. Yeah. Right. And so sometimes that's because we have like bad role models, right? Like sometimes because we have unrealistic expectations, like you were pointing out, right? The health or the age is really like the habit. It's like the measurement. It's the ability to create repeatable processes inside of a thing. And so most people, for example, I'm going to go on a diet and then they fail to do a diet after like two days. Right. Well, why is that? Because another part, the eye is the inspiration, like they don't find a target or they don't sort of find a realistic role model in the process of where they like to understand what they want to go. Right. So you're like, oh, great. I want to be Elon Musk. Well, that's not very realistic for most people. Right. And so kind of like in the smart framework that you're sort of alluding to as well. L is the limitations and it's kind of the same thing like smart, but it's like the boundaries that you face. Right. So like you can't lose 100 pounds in a month. Right. But you could lose five. Right. And so that was the idea about refactoring back like into legitimate outcomes versus like the ongoing goal. So like, yes, you understand you want to be 100 pounds lighter, say there's baby steps along the way to getting to that point that, you know, I think are really important. And like unless you refactor into smaller achievable pieces, more smart sort of mentality, right? Like you're kind of doomed to fail. Right. And then the last one is experience, which is like the nature of the effort itself.  Right. And so this is how I help like other founders as well. Or like people come to me all the time for like fitness advice. Once like I started training, like how do I get to here? And I'm like, well, you've got to have these pieces all sort of lined up, right? Like if any of these are out of whack. And so the idea of the wild loop, though is that change one of them. Right. So you this loop, a while loop in programming is like while something is true, it's true until an exception causes the loop to break, right? Yeah.  Right. And then you can refactor, right? So then you can say, great, oh, that work. Now how do I go from this point to this point? I love that analogy. I love that. I love the programming link. It's so true, though. Yeah. If you could just break the chain and the cycle, then it's, yeah, that's really powerful. That is and it feeds itself, right? So the second you get a little success, then you're like, oh, I can do it. And then now you can now you can do more. Yeah, it's always the initial sort of starting, right? That's always what clobbers most people. I'll just quickly say hi to Glenda and thank you very much. Oh, yeah, it's, um, yeah, it'll be really interesting to read your your book and get your view. I have like notes and stuff. My title of the book is is minimum viable person. So I'm a product manager, right? Yeah. Yeah. And so my whole philosophy is really about like people having a more balanced life and not working all the time and like as a as a formally abusive to myself entrepreneur who would work all the time. I've come to learn that there's way more to it.  And that's the minimum viable person is really like making sure you're the right amount of views everywhere you need to be as opposed to just all one thing. Well, so first of all, the minimum viable person, I love that because part of the thing that I've been talking about is with creators having set in if you're a perfectionist setting a minimum viable product for what you're trying to do. So I like the sort of link there. But the thing that you've just mentioned there about having balance, that's something that I'm actively trying to work on more in my life because I am, I am trying to pack a lot in. And so I do do, you know, obviously I do my YouTube stuff usually in the morning for a couple of hours then I've got my work and stuff. And there's definitely currently a bit of an imbalance in my life. You know, I should be spending, you know, more time with family, but I'm finding that I'm doing the YouTube stuff in the morning, but then I'm working a lot through the day and I've got different things that I'm working on. So I've, you know, got multiple different, you know, totally different business interests really. So I've got to try and sort of cram in to the day that it feels like I'm doing all of these things. And I enjoy them and they've been productive at them. But I'm definitely going through a process at the moment of just sort of reassessing things a little bit and trying to get a bit more sort of balance. I mean, it's the pandemic, actually, I know it's a terrible thing is that it is really on this under statement. But for me personally, I've been able to spend so much more time at home with family and not not traveling before I was away for basically 50% of the time.  So it's don't don't not give yourself credit for that either though, right? Like I guess this is the problem, like, is that you're also discounting that that is still a tangible improvement, right? Like, sure, we always can want more, we can always make it better. Yeah, but I'm grateful that you got that part, right? Yeah, that's still like I was the same way as you by the way was on the road 50% of time he's to fly 160,000 miles a year. Yeah. And I now I haven't left my house like in forever. Yeah, I get what you mean. But part of the thing with me with founders, especially like us right is it's understanding it's it's about minimizing the guilt and understanding that we made choices. And so being accountable to the choices we made to be the way we are, right? So that means that we have the power to change it whenever we're ready. Right?  And you say, you know what, I proved myself I could do it. But I want to get back one of those hours for my kids, right? Like, that's a choice you can make, right? Like it's not like but we all make choices. We're not victims here, right? Like we're sure we're making these choices and we can choose to put it in different places. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's definitely definitely I acknowledge that it is the way that I have structured things and I have the power to change it as well. But it will be more that it'll be more the daytime stuff. The thing I found with the YouTube stuff is when I started it was an exercise in self development and in being able to sit down and make these videos because I need to do that for some of my other work roles of making course material for some other things. So that's that's why I started the YouTube channel originally was just to sort of practice this this process. But the more I've got into it, the more that I'm actually it's become it's becoming a lot more present in my mind during the day when I'm doing other stuff as well. Because I'm I'm actually really enjoying it. And it's part of the you know, the sort of community side of stuff has been. Yeah, yeah. It's a really, what's the word? At least I was going to say addictive is probably not a good analogy really. But it is there's something about it where it's nice, you know, it's filling for sure, right? Yeah, it's human, it's connection, right? It like, why do I come here? Just because, you know, we've become friends through here. And I like, I like, I never want to see you alone. So if I if I'm around, then I can make it at your show. This is our small window to chat, right? Yeah, yeah. But you're right. You think, you know, it's interesting, right? Like, that these things, one of my my hacks though, that I recommend to people is see if you can, if your worlds can collide sometimes, right? Yeah. So it could be like, maybe your kids would love to learn how to do this, right? And I'm sure the priority toilet around over there. They already are.  My sister, my daughter is already making her videos with it with her sister. But yeah, they're, I don't know, a little bit a little bit too young to be YouTubers. Well, you don't have to put them on air. But you know, but what it is, is the thing that you're learning and you're doing something together. And that's it's such an expressive form. Yeah, like for them any way that there's something really powerful about in bonding through it anyway, right? Yeah. But you know, I think that's what everyone thinks is that you have to do one thing at a time. And sometimes I know multitasking is not optimal in a lot of ways. But sometimes you have a certain amount of things you have to do. Maybe you can do them together or find ways to make them fun or interesting, you know, like my friend's daughter or sons, she's made them all entrepreneurs. They have a soap company now, like and they're running it together and she's but she's an attorney, you know, and right, right? Yeah, like that that she turned it into an activity like with them, you know, like, you know, this is pretty interesting, like to see entrepreneurship. Yeah, the great thing about watching kids doing like making videos is all of the things that in in leader, you know, they're helping people to be honest, the stuff in leader, I don't I don't have an issue with just sort of being myself on camera or anything like that. But there's a lot of people is is getting over getting over yourself to just be yourself and chat on camera. But the one thing that you notice about kids is they don't have any of these hangups. You just give them a camera and oh, here we go. This is what I'm doing. It's like it's natural to them. It's really it's lovely to see. I feel terrible because I did sign up for Leah and I have not submitted one video or been to the group. Right. Right. Well, it is a massive time commitment. I had no idea. I didn't even realize it was doing all that stuff that you were just saying was in it. I had no idea either. Yeah. I mean, I didn't so it's organized by Luria Petrucci. Yeah, but I never used to and I used to watch her back when she when she first started, she did a load of tech videos as Callie Lewis. Yeah, that was that was a sort of pseudonym and then she she started doing something. Was it Geekbeat or Geekbrief or something like that? Yeah, that was like that was a scene, wasn't it? It was a scene or I think it was something like that. Yeah. And then it had come up. Yeah. So so I used to watch all of those sort of things. But I'd never got into the the sort of live streaming pros community because I don't have time to watch everything. And I was in docs community and stuff like that. So so yeah, I never realized that it was, you know, them that had organized leader and there's a whole sort of organizational process and have you have you been getting the emails with like the daily tasks to see the sorts of I see them. But you know, yeah, it's much like you I have, you know, like two consulting projects and the startup to run and that also. Yeah. So yeah, the day I get up at 330, we were talking about this, I get at the same time as you to like get my training in and all the other things so I can be ready when my son wakes up. Yeah. Yeah. And yeah, I just haven't had the time because the same thing I'm producing our live stream is twice a week and we're about to go to three days. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, it's a lot. It's a lot. I just I I also don't have a problem being on the camera, I guess. So but I would love to be able to help others like that part actually seems fun. I just don't have enough time unfortunately. Yeah. And it's and it is so much. It's not just the time that you're going to be doing your videos themselves. It is this thing of showing up for other people's videos and I've tried to do that. But there's like 200 and something people in now there's one there's one, you know, Sammy, Sammy superstar is in all the chats. He comments on everyone's video. He's I think he just blocks out August to go and watch everyone's video. And he's amazing that I don't know exactly how old he is. Is he 17 or 18 or something like that? But he's and he's school just started. Maybe he'll be busy. Yeah, it may be maybe. Yeah. But yeah, he's easy. He's awesome. He is Sammy. But yeah, the time involved to I see Glenda's talking about the kids put their videos in a private folder and they can watch them later. Yeah, definitely. I'm definitely keeping them up. But yeah, so it's a it is a big commitment leader. And I'm probably I don't know. I don't think I'm even spending an hour a day on it. You know, I do my video, which is like five, 10 minutes and then, you know, try and catch up with other people's and stuff like that. But it's just I'm going to try to do Vlogmas. That's that's probably the one. Yeah, that one. Am I right? That one is just literally you're doing a blog every day.  I only do live streams. So right, right. And so what Vlogmas is is not live. Is it? I believe it's like 30 days of logging, right? Or something to that effect. And you post basically like the month of December, I believe you post, right, right? Like a video day kind of thing. I'll be sure to check the full details before I before I commit to it.  You know, I think it's the F. It's the effort that counts. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. I saw your holidays. Those is hard, right? Like how do you can't film? Well, it's yeah, the of all the months to think that you're going to be committing to do something. So yeah, pretty tricky one, I suppose, but I suppose it helped people get into the festive spirit, perhaps. So if you've mapped your last eight videos out, by the way, 92 was a big celebration yesterday. How come we're not having a 92 celebration? Well, actually, you know what? I should have thought about that. I should have got a key little logo up. But that was that was awesome. Yeah, it was really cool. I was like, I was like, I had no idea what I was tuning into. And I'm like, wow, this is awesome. Yeah. Yeah, I should have I should have made a big thing really. Shouldn't have 92. It's going to become the new milestone that everyone's got a hit in the LGL group, I think. I have a question for you, actually. The beta stuff, are you allowed to talk about the beta stuff in your video? Well, so this is the thing Doc sort of mentioned, we had a little in the beta group. We had a a live stream about it.  But I've been in two minds about it really, because I almost don't really want to make public videos about it, although a couple of people have. But I don't necessarily want to make public videos behind it that cause people to think, oh, I want that feature and they jump on it because it isn't it isn't totally stable. I'm running the I'm running it now on this. Yeah, right now. Yeah. But I have had issues with it. So I wouldn't necessarily. There's some really amazing features in there. Profiles are awesome. Oh, profiles. Yeah. Things like just grouping, grouping overlays. Screensharing was a big one for me just to having a screen sharing overlay and stuff like that. There's there's so many things in there that answered like scratched an itch for me. And there's some that were like, I didn't even know I needed, but now I can't imagine not having it. It was it's amazing. But the problem with that is because they are such like they're the the feature they may move and they may be. Yeah, you know, even where they put them in the menus may change. Yeah, I get you. I'm so I'm sort of worried about people seeing the video and thinking like, oh, that's an awesome feature. I want that. And then jumping to a beta when they're not really, you know, they don't know what they're getting themselves into because if it doesn't go wrong, then they'll be then they'll be in the main ECAM group. It does so long side though. So it's not like you have to overwrite your other one. Sure. Sure. Yeah. But I think a lot of people don't quite understand what a beta is, you know, they just think it's always easy access to these features if they're not used to the idea of. So what happens if something goes wrong? Do you what do you do? You make a little video about it, post it in the group and say this is the you know, the issue of being having an in the beta group and tell people rather than, you know, and submit a support ticket and all that sort of stuff in the forum where people are there to, you know, share updates to make the software better, better, whereas people are not used to it, but just want the feature. If it goes wrong, I can just see them going straight into the main ECAM Facebook group. This is spoiled my live stream and, you know, right, right, right. Complaining in the way that they do, you know, what's what's definitely not used for production things, if it really counts. So especially someone's paying you for it. Exactly. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So have you thought about your yeah, Glenda's like on that messing with that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's definitely well advised, Glenda. I yeah, I fully support that. James, what's up? Why don't you jump in here? Come on, man. I've got. So the funny thing is the first time I ever previewed this topic with my while loop was on James's show eight years ago. Oh, cool, cool. Yeah. I've known James, I think eight years, nine years, something like that. It's been a long time. Cool. Yeah, it was really fun being on on James's show this week. Yeah, you guys did a good job. It was a fun, fun, fun topic. I was a little upset that he didn't press you a really hard questions. Well, bring, bring him on. I'm still here. So here, I guess let me give you I'll give you not a hard question, but I will I did have a follow up question, I guess, from your. Yeah. From the talk that you guys did have, right? Yeah. Before the. When you talk about like, we're letting go of perfection. Yeah. How do you figure out how much to let go? Yeah, that is that is this thing I was talking about minimum viable product and working out what that is. And it's it's it's about actually I haven't totally let it go. So it's another way that I put it is it's about being happy with being unhappy about it. And it's this thing of like thinking, well, it doesn't actually matter if things aren't exactly perfect. Like the example I use was my thumbnails and everything would I would normally have to be a lot more structured about it and make sure everything was lined up and everything like perfect. Whereas now I literally if something's got to move up because the you know, I've dropped an imaging or something like that and it's difficult to not difficult, but it's going to take me too much time to tweak stuff, resize stuff and stuff like that. I just leave it and I think well, it doesn't really matter. Whereas before I would have been these fonts need to all be exactly the same, you know, size, the spacing needs to be the same. They all need to be aligned the same on every thumbnail. Whereas in actual fact, just to a thumbnail, it didn't really matter, does it? And so it's the fact that I can look at it now and think, well, that isn't how I would normally sign off on it. If I was signing off on it for well, previously for myself or but certainly for a client. Whereas now it's kind of like it nobody really cares. And it comes back to this thing of fear of failure and fear of being judged. I'm realising that part of this this sort of perfectionism thing is it's partly because I see it as an internal thing of I wanted in the past, I've wanted things to be perfect because well, that's the way that I like things, I like it to be perfect. But there is obviously some sort of element in there to not just it doesn't look pleasing to my eye, but I don't want other people to think that I have not noticed that this thing is wrong. It just doesn't mean right. So it's it's getting it's getting that thing of acknowledging nobody cares. I mean, they might care about it. But what I mean is that you might look at my, you know, I know that you've got a good eye for detail.  Someone who has to make his own thumbnails, I don't judge anyone's thumbnails as long as it exists. Like, it's a lot of work and I don't ever begrudge anyone to work. Yeah, but so what what it is is I know that people will will notice there'll be some people who won't notice at all. Some people just see them come up and they've got no clue whatsoever about any sort of spacing or kerning or anything like that. Hey, Eliseo, he's another one who's got things are on point as well. But yeah, so it's it's just that acknowledging that most people aren't going to care about it. And I'll see you later, Glenda. Just acknowledge she's she says you know, to your point, Alex, like I pitch a lot of founders, for example, when they're pitching their startups like to raise money or something, right? Yeah. And one of the common advice that you hear often is like, people always get up and they're like, oh, sorry, it's my first time I'm nervous or whatever. And I'm like, nobody knows you're nervous. Like, stop broadcasting that, right? Like, that's right. Like, nope, nobody knows the things it doesn't do, except for you, right? Yeah, yeah. So you don't need to live by that. Like, I think might like, if I was to try to answer the question, I would probably say like, the best thing to do is turn whatever you think it should be into the goal. Right. And then just get 80% of it. Yeah, yeah. Like, right. And be happy. So that is another another part of the perfectionist thing being sometimes a totally negative thing. Whereas actually there's a huge amount of positive in being a perfectionist because of that very thing. If you aim for perfection, then you're going to get something pretty good. Whereas if you aim for mediocrity, you're going to end up with something mediocre or less. So you're still going to end up at 80% of it. Exactly. Yeah. So I've also got to be conscious of not just hammering on this thing like, oh, I didn't, you know, throw perfection out of the window and that, but it should always be I always aim for it as a goal. But it's just a case of that. Yeah. Being happy with what is a minimum viable product. And that's the I don't like it when people say, you know, there's sometimes people in the group or something like that, they're struggling with with getting started. And so many people will just say, Oh, well, don't worry, just get your phone and go live in the group or something like that. You know, just do it like that. I could never do that. Like to start with I could do that because I've done live streams. But what I mean is for my channel, I'm not going to just start making videos on my phone. You know, there is a minimum viable product for me, which is that thing. And it's what are you absolutely comfortable with in terms of, well, if it looks, you know, all right for most people, it's that 80% thing. Yeah, then then then it's, it's, you know, it's acceptable. You know, I usually tell people don't don't treat the V as viable treated as valuable, right? Like, right. So like, like our mission is as people who create things for others is to generate units of value, right? Yes. And so I think viable actually is where the crappy nonsense comes from, right? Because they're like, well, can I call it? Can I pretend it does this? Right? Like it's so yeah, that's why I actually prefer the word valuable because I'm like, all right, sure. Yeah, it's a thing. Is it valuable? Right. And I think if you can say, yes, it's valuable, then you have enough, right? I love that. Yeah, I really do. Yeah, that is that is a very good reframing of it. And and it's part of the thing about, you know, there is somebody always wanting your content and they don't care the level it is. So that comes back to that really. That's the sentiment that I think when people like just go live, that's what they really mean, right? Yeah, yeah. Like. But we should be, we should do a better job of communicating the things, right? Like, you know, it's like, what's the gas gear acquisition syndrome? Yeah, yeah. Everyone everyone slips down that trail pretty quickly. Yeah. And you're right, because like what happens is like, you know, people feel like, well, I need this, I need this, I need this, I need this to be able to start. Yeah. And I'm like, wait, let's ask a better question. Do you have something valuable to say? Yeah. OK, great. Just tell me it right now. Right. And OK, if you could do that, hold your phone up and say it. OK. And if you could do that, push that out, right? And that's it, right? Like, and it's just like reshaping, because I feel like viable is where gear acquisition comes in, right?  And if I can't look like that, then there's no point in going live, right? Not true, because you can still have a ton of value to offer everybody. Yeah, sure, sure. Yeah, that is a brilliant reframing of it, actually.  So it's just the basic one, because I'm still waiting for the 16 inch MacBook Pro, to be honest, but I just thought. You get the 8 gig? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's what this is all running on also. Yeah. Yeah. So at some point, in fact, I've just got a one of these little external disk. Oh, nice. 200 megabits per second. So it's pretty, pretty quick for this read-write speed. But yeah, at some point, I'll probably convert this to probably get handed down to my daughter for her YouTube editing. But yeah, so that was the reason why I, you know, my camera, I've still got a 10 year old Canon EOS 60 days, my camera and stuff like that. So it's, I was specifically not wanting to go and say, right, what's all the latest gear that I need to get set up? And the other thing is I wanted to try and have it so that it was almost sort of self funding. So when I finished my 100 when I finished the 100 days, I liked it because it makes it tangible. It makes it real. Yeah. I think I saw Kirk stream today and he built and built and then now like the communities helped him. Yeah, yeah. He created enough value.  That's like awesome way to do it, huh? Yeah, because I think a lot of people are stuck thinking, you know, how long it's going to, how long it's going to take to get monetized and things like that. And really forget about that. Too long, too long. Yeah. Hey, Steve, how are you doing? Yeah. All right, Alec, by the way, the speaking of family dinner time. Cool. No problem. Go upstairs. Always a pleasure to chat, my friend. Thank you for having me as usual. Oh, by the way, thanks for Heather's live stream of the day. I thought that was was great. I couldn't join the after party. I know it's it's a long run, but the after party is actually a lot of fun. Yeah, yeah. I'll definitely try one of them soon. Yeah, yeah. For sure. All right, everyone. Bye, everyone. Bye. Cool. Have a good day. Thanks, Greg. Catch you later. All righty. There we go.  I do have another 14 hours of Zoom call to get on to today. So that's starting in about an hour. Yeah, I've I realized so I did a 14 hour Zoom call yesterday, a 14 hour today and then another 14 hour one to tomorrow. But then I also realized it's Doc's office hours in the morning. So that's usually another about three hours. So I think 45 hours of Zoom on over three days is probably going to be a new record for me. And I'm not sure I want to want to beat that one anytime soon either. But yeah, that is that that's about all I'm going to cover for today. I'm going to go and have a little bit of time with my kids for the next hour before before I have to get back onto another Zoom call. So thanks, everyone, for stopping by and joining and thanks, Greg, for the conversation. It's be really, really useful as in sort of helping me formulate some things in my my my eyes. I love the minimum valuable product instead of minimum viable product. That's I think that's a really amazing sort of reframing of the phrase for people because yeah, if you stick with minimum viable product, you're still constantly questioning whether something is viable or not. Whereas if you can see that you've added some value, then it makes it a lot more a lot better, a lot easier to work to frame. Yeah, thanks, Greg. Great to see you. So that is all for me. I am if I can find my little outro button. Thanks, Rich. Nice to see you. Nice to see your smiling avatar as well. Cool, everyone, I will catch you all later and I don't have any proper. I still need to get some proper stream outro music don't have. But in the meantime, I just basically go to my typical end screen. So have a great day, everyone, and I'll catch you all another time. Bye bye, guys.


Personal notice, dangerous by stock and trade. If the job's too tough for you to handle, you got a job for me, George Valentine. Write full details. Bay of California, on behalf of independent Chevron gas stations and standard stations throughout the West, invites you to let George do it. Christmas in January, another adventure of George Valentine. For a picture, lady? Oh, hello, buddy. Hey, how much is that one? This one? Yeah. The painting in the building? It's a street in Paris. Looks more like Oswego. And now it's somewhere on the left bank, I presume. You see, the painter lives in there. And never mind the travel notes, Jack. Just how much, huh? Well, I'm afraid it's probably a good deal more than you could afford, sister.  Huh? Well, is it yours? Oh, well, I didn't mean exactly that. What do I got to do? Wear tights? What's the name? Charity du Frayne. I'll buy you a seeing-eye dog. Oh, Mr. Frayne, well... Oh, I'm awful, sorry. Gosh, I've even got pin-ups of you myself. Holy smoke. I guess I've seen every one of your pictures three or four times. Well, then you should pay more attention to details, like my face.  Huh? Oh, the picture? Well, look, if it's for your own house, I mean, you would, uh... Who sent you to this place? Don't flatter yourself. It's a junk shop. And don't worry, I won't tell anybody. I want to buy a gift. That's all. Oh, I see. Well, uh, if you're giving it to someone you like, I... I know what kind of a picture it is. I'm giving it to somebody who should use it as a winding sheet, I hope. Oh, I get it, yeah? Yeah, it's very appropriate. It's, uh, $250. Here, Jesse James. If you'll wait just a second, I'll wrap it up for you so nobody'll notice the price. I'll wrap it myself, thank you. I brought my own stuff. This, buddy, is gonna be something real special. You know who it's for? An octopus. You know what it's for him for? A Christmas present. Yeah, in January. Yes, that's... That's my dear charity. As wholesome and appetizing as a tube of ant paste. Oh, but she adores me. Worship is the proper word, perhaps. She's like a yo-yo to which I hold the streak. Yeah, sure. But, uh, look, she got out of the car, Mr. Wick, and walked into the shop. My dear Mr. Valentine, you will keep your eye on the doings of Miss Charity to frame. How about that, Miss Brooks? Did he just watch the doings, or did he let his eye wander to what's already been done by her beneficent creator? Well, I was right there with him. She's very attractive, but I... I'm trying to tell you what she did, Mr. Wick, if you'll just let me. She's like a drum buoy, either one of you. The only drink worth drinking. Because, like a woman, a drink should be stimulating to the senses, but easy to see through. Jokes! Where's that bottle of drum buoy you brought to town from the hovel? Uh, my country place, Mr. Valentine. Well, no thanks, really, Mr. Wick. Why should I, though, boss? I've been busy with the lights. Look, Mr. Wick, I'm... I'm trying to give you a report, would you? Of course you are, my dear man. Of course you are.  Yeah, isn't that wonderful, do you? Yeah, I guess so. You mean one of them things... Don't you wish you had thought of it? Jokes is so prosaic when he calls me names. He used to be a mule skinner's apprentice, I believe. I was a male noice. I was studying to be a pharmacist. Yes, yes, yes. Let's not bore the people, Jokes. Just run and fetch them a brandy. My name is really Anthony. Of course, dear boy. They understand Mr. Valentine knows a Jokes when he sees one. Now hop. All right, boys, I'll see what I can find. My companion, isn't he delightful?  And I'm tied to him like a millstone. I've been ill, you know, so my wife hired him to fetch and carry. And then when I was helpless and at his mercy night and day, she ran away. Makes a rather charming story, don't you think? I call it the Frau's Revenge. Yeah. I didn't even know you were married, Mr. Wick. Oh, miserably. Don't you ever read my column? Good heavens, man, let me inform you. It's the sort of rounded anecdote Walcott would have adored. She was my secretary, you see, in years past, until in my bestial fashion I decided I could save a good bit of expense if I married her and stopped her salary. However, fate in his hairy-handed way... Never mind, never mind. I've heard enough vocabulary for one day. I'm a busy man, Mr. Wick. Don't check over my report, okay? Forget it, goodbye.  I asked you to observe the suspicious actions of Mr. Frank. Look, she only bought a picture. I wouldn't have taken the job if I'd have known you just wanted me to snoop. An original oil painting of a Paris building in street. Now tell me, there was a lamp in the background, wasn't there? And two children rolling a red horn. Well... Well, yeah, yeah, that's right. Of course I don't suppose you noticed the name. The artist's signature. Well, it was kind of a funny painting. It didn't mean anything to me. Something like, uh... patrulla. That's all I mean. What? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Mr. Valentine.  She won't know what it is. What on earth are you talking about, Mr. Wick? It will all be in print, dear one. I'll never give away the end of a story before it's written. Tell me, tell me, do you think green lights will look well on a blue Christmas tree? A what? Mr. Valentine, you have your check. Goodbye. Out of the hovel tonight, it's Christmas, didn't you know? Yes, in January. Now get out of here, run along. I'm a busy man. Not so fast, Buster, not so fast, please. What's the big joke in this picture deal? What kind of a stunt are you up to? You dragged me into being a party to something I don't love anymore? Curious, curious, curious. Life and death, Mr. Valentine. The death of pride. The world is a yo-yo, didn't you know? For a man like me. So read about it tomorrow in my obituary column. Christmas in January, yo-yo's paintings. What kind of a loony character? Autrillo, George, that's it. And he painted Paris streets and buildings. And you said she bought it for $250. Yeah, that's right. An original painting by Autrillo. Would you like to find out just what kind of a snide story Mr. Wick is getting ready to write that I'm afraid we helped him to write? Now look, don't rub it in. What don't I know besides everything? Come on, we're going to a real art store, George. Because you want to bet the lead of his story will be all about Miss Charity Dufresne buying a fraudulent painting? Well, darling, a real Autrillo should sell for at least $15,000 or $20,000. And not just on Christmas. $17,250. Yeah, well, look, friend, we already know that. We found it in a catalog of one of the other places we went. There's lots of new interest in Autrillo right now, you know. But that shop we told you about, it must sell fake paintings, isn't that right? It must. It does. It copies and imitations. But it doesn't always bother to mark them as such. Well, like the one you saw. All right, but Brooks, he looks.  She doesn't like him anyway.  Oh, well, never mind. Enough people are confused already. But look, Angel, I don't understand why that should make the old goat so happy. How am I telling him about it would give him any hold over her? Mr. Valentine, I too am an ardent reader of Francis Xavier Wick, his column, his books. He has a passion for what he calls the rounded anecdote, I believe. Well, I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about, but mine is the gallery which owns the original of that Utrillo painting, you know. The real one. Of course. That's why we came here out of curiosity to confirm that price of $17,000. Yes, and you leave in greater curiosity too, young lady. And I'll be worse off than you are. Because I sold that real Utrillo for just that price and sent it out not two minutes before you walked in to a man who phoned the old goat himself to Francis Xavier Wick. What? He said he wanted it wrapped as a Christmas gift. He was going to present it to a woman named Charity de Frayne. Oh, Broxy, we're out of order. Curiosity killed a cat. George, that woman's coming back. Mr. Valentine, Mr. Frayne seems to be busy right now. She's on the whole telephone talking to an art dealer back in town. Oh, yeah, well, we only came out here to the hovel to find out... Oh, you're quite welcome. There have been guests coming and going all evening. It's Christmas here, didn't you know? How could we forget? Mr. Wick was ill at the real Christmas time but, of course, he can't celebrate it unless he can get out of bed, unless he can dress up as Santa Claus. Oh, well, that explains part of my... Unless he can give presents and receive them in person. Wouldn't be Christmas without people, would it? Wouldn't be anything without people, would it? Around him all the time. His court, his fools, his... Oh, well, come in, come in. Join the party. The great man has just served the curse. Perhaps you'd like some. Join me in a creme de maths. Maybe you'd rather have him locked. Oh, wait a minute. Look here. We know we're prying. We only want to find... You came out to warn Mr. Wick what he was up to, of course. Well, I'm sorry. She's already found out. She's crying with embarrassment and she's at the telephone trying to buy the most expensive painting in the gallery for Mr. Wick. She's... Oh, it makes less and less sense. You see all the paintings around here? Mr. Frayne has bought many of them. Real ones. Thousands and thousands of dollars of gifts to him in years past. So this year, she got caught trying to give him a pony, that's all. I'm not sorry for her. I get it. She hates him. But why does she give him things at all? Hey, what's he do? Blackmail people? Oh, blackmail. Mr. Valentine, he tortures people. I say, have you seen him anywhere? You served the drinks and then went out for a minute and I've got to be running back to... Mr. Culler, of course I haven't seen him. I've been here for an hour myself. I haven't spoken to me. I'm sorry, Mrs. Wick. I didn't know... Hold it, hold it, please. You're Mrs. Wick? Well, who did you think I was? A dear, dear friend like Mr. Culler here? Like Charity of Frayne? Mr. Valentine, do you know what this man gave my husband tonight? A Cadillac. If you don't mind, Mrs. Wick... Oh, yes, it embarrasses him. It embarrasses all of them. Well, come in here under the Christmas tree. If you can stand the hideous green light, I'll show you the biggest pile of loose... Oh, Mrs. Wick, forget it. Will you please? I'm not into... Christmas in January. Christmas for Santa Claus. Diamonds, cigarette lighters, statues, paintings, money. And all from torture, Mr. Valentine. Ah! Be quiet, Mr. Frayne. Lying on his face, the side of the door. Wick! Francis! Let me, I'll give you a hand. 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Every 1,000 miles get chassis lubrication service at an independent chevron gas station or a standard station, where they say and mean, we take better care of your car. To tonight's adventure of George Valentine, Francis Xavier Wick, the columnist, the gossip, the collector of rounded anecdotes. The man who this year was celebrating Christmas in January. And why? Apparently because he likes to collect presents, too. He wouldn't miss Christmas for anything. Well, if your name is George Valentine, you wouldn't either. Yes, by now you've learned enough about the man in the Santa Claus suit to know that his vast collection of friends and retainers are not exactly loyal to him. In fact, one of them has just murdered him. Murdered, George? Well, there's no blood, Angel. No marks on the back of his head under the couch. Mr. Keller, I'll do that. Whatever you say. It wouldn't be surprising if he were murdered, I suppose. People all around him, always with him, and yet easily the most disliked man in the world. You should know, Mr. Keller. I understand you gave him a car tonight as a gift. I'd rather not incriminate myself if you don't mind. Well, I don't like to disturb the mask and whisk his... George! Yeah, it's face. It's not Mr. Wick at all.  Poisoned. Look at his face. But where is Francis Xavier Wick? But I saw Wick, I tell you, before he put on that ridiculous costume. Or rather, he had just part of it on. When was that? A half an hour earlier, I suppose. I don't know. It was before Mr. Frame got here. What about the other guests? The people who brought all those other presents? They'd gone. They'd already left. Just who are you, Mr. Keller? What are you doing here? What? Good heavens, man. I'm a banker, but that doesn't have anything to do with it. For some reason you give huge gifts every Christmas to Mr. Wick. Just like Mr. Frame, like the others. Well, stop harping on it. It's a fact, that's all. I'm certainly not going to explain it. Why should I? I didn't try to kill the man. Well, somebody who was left in the house must have... All right. But it's Dukes who's dead, not Wick. And you can't even tell me when they changed parts, when Dukes started playing Santa Claus? No, no. What of it? Charity to Frame told you where we all were. And now confirm it. Yeah, right here, Mrs. Wick. The little summer house. The studio. Out where he does his writing. All right, come on. I'll get your breath. What's the matter? I found him. You what? My husband. He's unconscious. I'm fine, I said. I'm fine. I'm fit as a grave digger's shovel. Oh, twisted my ankle when I fell, that's all. Now stop pawing at me, Janet. You're my wife, not my secretary. All right, stop talking, you two. The door out there's open and there's blood on the floor where you were. Blood is from my head. Very high quality. I fell because I was struck and I was struck because the worm turned, that's why. The worm? Mrs. Brooks, all my life I've pampered myself by having a retainer. Someone night and day, like Janet here. Might as please. I've never been a well man, and besides it amuses me to watch Lackey's work. Wester, why don't you... It was Dukes who hit me. You cretin, who else would it be? Oh yeah, Dukes.  I was wearing a Santa Claus suit, as I recall. Where is it? On him, you say. He called me out here to the studio, he knocked me out. A child could deduce that he took my suit. Now you wake me up saying he's dead. Well, well, well, so be it. Wretched rash intruding fool, farewell. Thou were taken for thy better. Well, don't stare at me. I'm disappointed in him, that's all. And we shouldn't judge the worm just because he turned. The temptation was just too great, I suppose. There's over a hundred thousand dollars' worth of gifts in there under that Christmas tree, at the brand new car outside to make a getaway in. Can you blame him for wanting to step into my shoes? Okay, okay, Mr. Wake, two and two is four. He knocked you out and tended to take your place so he could collect the last couple of gifts and get by the servants on his way out. Only who poured those drinks, George? I didn't, I assure you. Dukes did. It must have been he. That's when I came into the house and I was so upset because he wouldn't even speak to me. I thought it was you, Francis. He passed around drinks and wouldn't even speak to me. And I suppose you wept copious tears into your usual crammed amount. Well, it logically would have served drinks to cover not talking. And they were left standing. I remember that too. He left them for quite a time to open a present. Anyone could have touched them. Well, what's the matter with you? I was thinking what a beautiful story it will all make, particularly the ending. Well, laugh out of the other side of your face, Busty. Somebody wanted to kill you and didn't succeed. Exactly what I mean. That's the most fascinating part. Read my column tomorrow, young man. Oh, I'll give you something to read. You too, Mrs. Wake. There were only three people who could have tampered with a drink. You, Mr. Keller and Charity Dufayne. They both hate Francis. I'm sure either one of them... And Keller and Charity both agree they were together all that time. Oh, George. Yeah, that's right. You heard me. They gave each other alibis. Listen, that must be the police car coming. I'd better get over to the main house to... Janet! Why? Police will be here in a second. She won't go far. Besides, I want to straighten this guy before they come. Oh, you mean you're going to carry me back to the house? I don't want to miss any fun, and my ankle... $100,000 worth of gifts from people who hate you. But it isn't blackmail because you give them gifts, too. And you make them play a farce like this Christmas in January. Mr. Valentine, I'm so pleased that you figured me out. People are contemptible. I despise them. Oh, yeah, famous people, rich people. You like to watch them suffer. I know where their bodies are buried. Keller, Charity, all of them. Blackmail? No. I've never threatened anything. We just exchange gifts. And the most contemptible and amusing thing about people is their willingness to believe that I ever would write what I know about them. They're afraid. They never know. And so they really are blackmailing themselves. I think you must be the most horrible man who ever lived. Skip it, Bruxy. Come on. He's cleared it up. Let's go. Mr. Valentine! No, Valentine, wait. You're not going to leave me. Why not? Oh.  What? Well, that doesn't bother you, does it? You were laughing about it a minute ago. Ridiculous, of course not. But now see here, with this anchor... You're comfortable. Just relax. Police will get around to you later on. No, Valentine, no. You don't... See you in the morning. Read my column for the last chapter. Oh, Bruxy, this is one case that I don't particularly care if I ever... What's the matter, George? I don't know. Just the police car on the driveway, that's all. Oh, I'm way, way wrong. That guy's quicker than I am. What? Let me run a minute. Here. George, there's somebody. All right, Mrs. Wick. George, look out! She's got a gun! Drop that thing, lady. Drop. That's better. Leave me alone. You get out of my way. Going back out there to that studio with a gun, huh? He can't do things like that to people. He can't treat them. What? You mean he can't treat you like that? I don't care about me. George, look at her eyes. Mrs. Wick, Mrs. Wick, listen to me.  You don't know how he could have done it, but somehow you think he must be responsible. You said yourself the other two had alibis. And if you knew that you didn't do it, then you assumed that he has to be behind it, like he's behind everything else in the world, sticking in pins. Let go of me. I've got to know what... Well, come on, then. I'll take you there without the gun. We'll wrap this up before anybody else gets hurt. Francis! George, he's on the floor. What's the matter with him? Perfectly all right, young lady.  Well, don't go pawing at me again.   But here, get up. Come on now. You're all right. All right, one thing at a time. Jukes killed himself. What? All the police will be there. There'll be all kinds of evidence, fingerprints on the glass. You figured that out, too, didn't you, Wick? Isn't that the story you were going to write? We're laughing about? Valentine, I shall write my friends in Scotland. Good God, buddy. No, no, wait.  Mrs. Wick, do you drink green creme de ma? What? Oh, well, yes, but... Jukes took over Santa Claus' beard and ordered to get away with a sack full of loot, right? He'd already slugged your husband here. Well, how do you think he felt when you walked in the door? George, I don't get it at all. Mrs. Wick, it was only a matter of minutes before he knew you'd recognize he wasn't the right guy despite the pillows and beard. So maybe the ex-pharmacist got a little desperate. You never drank your drink, by the way, did you? I remember you holding it. I mean, it was poison. You mean, he was trying... Janet, will you let the man talk? His syntax is excruable, but his logic... It's all a yes, but it's a good one. The connoisseur here likes dromboi. Like women, it should be stronger the senses, but easy to see through. Oh, quote. But Jukes had no about that. Playing Wick, he'd make his own liquor, dromboi. But he left the drinks for a few minutes, you said. And the drinks were in by the Christmas tree. George, what in the name of the world are you talking about? By the Christmas tree, Brooksie. And when he picked one up, he picked up the wrong drink. The creme de month meant for you, Mrs. Wick. But we can check, we'll find out. But how could he mistake a green creme de month? I know, I know, yeah, dromboi is almost white. But there were only green lights in there on that Christmas tree. Don't you know what happens to anything green when it's matched by a green light? The color cancels out. It turns white. Bravo, Mr. Valentine. A very well-rounded story. White Christmas in January. Yeah, and much to my regret, there's probably nothing I can hang on to you, Mr. Wick. All right, come on, Mrs. Wick. Oh, no, you don't, Janet. He doesn't have to order you around, you know, not anymore. What? Janet. Maybe he wouldn't have to pick on other people if you could control him, the people he despises so much. Janet, come back here, don't leave me. You know, he'd already figured this crime out. So a few minutes ago, why did we find him so scared? Why? Janet, will you do as I say? The acid-bath man who's had a lacky attend him night and day all his life, always people, people. Janet, Janet, don't listen to him. Haven't you ever wondered about that, Mrs. Wick? And why his hatred of people? You've been his wife, but I'll bet you haven't even noticed. He never gave you a chance to. All you'd ever have to do to gain the upper hand is just walk away from him. I must go back. Look, he's a case. Can't be without people. Terrified of being alone. Remember that. Okay, Mrs. Wick, go on back. You can have him. George, I don't envy her the job. Yeah.   Well, he won't give Christmas parties anymore, I bet. George, that color business. I mean, well, it proved to be true and everything, but you're so unobservant, generally. How did I get it? You really want to know? Well, Bruxy, in there by the Christmas tree earlier, I haven't noticed something, that's all. Something about you. Me? Yeah. Then later on it clicked. The color of your eyes. What that light did to the blue in them. Oh, George, really? Wow. I never see you noticing. Well, I do. I like to look at you. George quite often is about to cry. Is that all right? Oh, darling, you know something? I'm not even going to tell you that my eyes are really hazel. Listen to the difference. In a few seconds you will hear Geiger counters measuring automobile engine wear. The engines are equipped with irradiated piston rings, which make it possible for the Geiger counters to detect where as it occurs. You will hear authentic scientific proof that new RPM motor oil cuts in half the wear rate of critical engine parts, doubles the life of the average auto engine between major overhauls due to lubrication. First, let's listen to the Geiger counter slowly click off the low wear rate of new RPM. Now, the much faster wear rate of a premium type oil is designated by the American Petroleum Institute. Now, new RPM again. 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Hey guys, Thundee here and today we're taking a look at the Lenovo Legion Slim 5. Now this is an Intel-powered laptop, packing a lot of power performance and we're gonna be checking it out in this video. And we wanna give a big shout out to Lenovo and Intel for sponsoring this video and slending over the Slim 5 for us to check out. So what is the Slim line and what does it bring to the table? It's a more portable, slimmer, aesthetically looking gaming laptop from Lenovo. And I do like the design here. It is very non-flashy. I like just the flat, simple color here. You have the Legion logo on the top as well as Lenovo. The design of this laptop does have a front lip, allowing you to open it with one finger and also open it all the way to 180 degrees, which is cool. Now you've got a 16-inch display. This is an IPS panel, resolution is 2560 by 1600, anti-glare, this is also non-touch, 350 nits, but as gamers, it's got 165 hertz refresh rate, which is what we like, and that's what we wanna see here. Now under the hood, this is powered by the 13-gen Intel Core i7-13700H. This is a great processor with e-cores and as well as performance cores, giving you the balance of both work and play that we're gonna see here fully in this laptop. Plus it also has an RTX of 4060, 16 gigabytes of RAM and one terabyte of storage. I do like the memory flexibility with support of DDR5 and DDR4 on this laptop, which is great, as well as also the fastest data transfer rate to up to 40 gigabytes per second with Thunderbolt 4, which means you can play or move large game files at blazing fast speeds as just similar to your internal SSD. You also have super fast Wi-Fi connectivity up to three times faster with Wi-Fi 6E, making sure that you can download, play your games at fastest internet connection possible to you. Plus the overclocking max performance is possible with enhanced memory overclocking and P and E-claw overclocking as well. That's pretty cool. Plus you've got a nice flush keyboard here with fold and unlock keys, so you've got those side keys as well, but it doesn't feel big or spread out. It feels very comfortable to use. I do like this keyboard pretty well and also a really good trackpad to use across the board. Now in terms of ports, you've got a lot of ports on this device. On the right side, you do have an SD card slot here, as well as also a physical privacy lock for your camera. And then on the left-hand side, you do have two USB type-C ports with PDG charging. And at the rear, we've got a full ethernet port, HDMI, two USB-O as well as also the power plug. Now this thing runs off a 230 watt battery and this supplies the kind of performance we need. So what does that mean to game on this Intel-powered laptop from Lenovo with the Slim 5? Well, we took a look at a couple of games. Now the first one, of course, was Shadow of the Tomb Raider. It's something everybody loves to test on. We ran the benchmark tools. We're getting about 110 frames per second for the highest setting. And then when we went ahead and played the game, we're getting a steady frame rate about 129 frames per second. That was pretty cool to see. I like that and really, really good performance here. Now the next game, of course, is Red Dead Redemption. This is a great game with a lot of aesthetics. We're still playing the snow stage. And as you can clearly see, it's doing the solid 66 frames per second all the way through. No drops, no hitches. And that wasn't actually, and you could hear the fan, but it wasn't as loud. And we'll get to the audio in a second here. And then we move on to Warzone. Warzone Call of Duty, we're getting a solid 80 frames per second. You can see Gameplay was really solid with this. And I did like the fact that every single game that we touched, and you're gonna see here, performance was just solid all around. I think a lot of people will enjoy that here with the Slim Five. And then finally, Doom Eternal. Now Doom Eternal, as you would expect, this is a game that runs fast. It's high performance. And this system didn't slow down in any form or fashion. Do you know about 150 to 170 frames per second? Solid frames per second on this device. Performance was great. And I really enjoyed gaming on here. Now this is the device that I think a lot of gamers would appreciate because it's also really customizable, easy to go ahead and unscrew it, open up the back and revealing the fact that you can add an extra drive to it. So there's an extra M.2 slot as well as also replacing the memory on here, expanding that memory with the two dim slots that are available. So you've got expandability on this laptop and you've also got great connectivity with Wi-Fi 6E on here. So which means your gaming sessions will not be caught out and you'll be able to enjoy the games to where you want to on this device. Now we do have a 1080p webcam, which is decent and does a decent enough job. And when it comes to battery life, we're looking at roughly around seven to eight hours of battery life here. When just doing regular tasks and of course while you're gaming, you will be plugged in. So on the go, this is actually a pretty good device to use, especially if you're switching between gaming and then also doing some work, or just sending out some emails, it makes a lot of sense. Now when it comes to heating temperatures, you've got vents on the side as well as also the rear of this device. So allowing you to actually disperse as much air as possible. So your device doesn't run hot and I felt like this device ran fairly warm just all the way through, but also temperatures didn't actually spike up in any way. Now, what about audio? What about the audio experience on here and how do the games sound while playing? So let's take a listen. Now, while the audio is good, I would say that that's probably my only downside with this laptop. It's not as loud as I would like to see and it's not as crisp, but it's still good enough, especially in the pinch while you're gaming. Honestly, when you're using the gaming laptop, especially when you want to crank it up, I suggest using, of course, headphones. Lenovo has some really great headphones that you can actually use. So great gaming headphones that will pair well with this laptop. Now, that being said though, you do have some software tools that actually help you with your gaming experience. There is the Legion Arena, which of course houses all your games, allowing you to access the games directly from one single location.  Now, this is where you can customize this laptop to maximize as much as possible. You can watch your CPU, your VRAM, your storage. You can also balance your thermals from balanced mode to high performance, depending on what you're doing. You can also overclock your GPU as well, network boost as well as also overdrive your system. So you've got something that you can play around with and maximize this laptop to its best potential. And I really like that it's there because there's a lot of just customization there. Now, you also got an RGB keyboard. This is the Lenovo Spectrum, which you can easily change from your keyboard here by just using the space bar, but also you can customize it with the software tool. So a lot of tools here that make this a really fun laptop to pick up. And with that starting price at $1,234, I think this is a great gaming laptop to pick up, especially when you want to do. And I think that the Legion Slim V really hits the mark for what people are looking for. So if you guys have any questions or any comments, let me know. Otherwise don't forget to like, share, subscribe and always enjoy the entertainment.


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Item No. SCP-683 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-683 is to be kept in a standard 8x8x5 meter research bay equipped with a portable gas-powered generator. SCP-683 itself is to be covered with a suitably large, opaque drop cloth to prevent inadvertent visual contact when not involved in active research. Research bay doors should meet Level 2 hazard control rating, steel door reinforced hinges, SC passport key card access with manual override, but without the standard observation window. Video surveillance is restricted to this exterior door until testing is approved for recorded viewing of SCP-683. No guard should be posted unless approved by Level 3 or higher administrative staff, again to prevent possible inadvertent visual contact. No food or drink is permitted within 20 meters of the containment area. SCP-683 is currently held in Research Bay, Zingerber 4, at Site-19 under these conditions. Description SCP-683 consists of two objects, SCP-683-1 and SCP-683-2. When its unique properties are activated, it will produce samples of SCP-683-3. SCP-683-1 is a white 1953 crossley shelvedor brand refrigerator showing moderate external wear. Internally, SCP-683-1 appears clean and well maintained regardless of contents, results of testing procedures, or delivered attempts to soil it. SCP-683-1's power cord terminates in an unknown plug configuration that has proven incompatible with modern outlets. Modern electrical engineers have constructed an adapter, inventory control code 19ALYS-683-7, allowing SCP-683-1 to run via a standard gas-powered home generator, which is used for all testing. When supplied with electrical power, SCP-683-1 functions adequately as a refrigeration unit. SCP-683-1's unusual properties will function with or without electrical power, but when power is provided, instances of SCP-683-3 produced do not appear to decay or spoil as long as they are kept within the unit. SCP-683-2 is a child's age-approximated at between 5 and 7 years drawing on standard 8.5x11 white paper oriented as a landscape and affixed by unknown means to SCP-683-1's exterior. SCP-683-2 appears to have been created with pencil and felt pen, showing evidence of moderate water damage at some point in its past. The drawing depicts a mountain's exterior landscape with an anthropomorphic sun, a house, a well, a dog, various vegetation, and a central figure which appears to be wearing a chef's toke. Any person either uttering disparaging remarks about SCP-683-2 or attempting to remove it from the surface of SCP-683-1 begins to incur damage to both internal organs and skin musculature upon ingesting any food item. The damage manifests as the excision of tissue from various locations on the body equal in mass to the food ingested. This effect ceases once the victim has ingested 0.42 kilograms worth of food and an equal amount of tissue has been excised. Though observably painful, tissue is excised seemingly instantaneously following each bite of food, and has yet to strike any internal structure that would cause the death of the subject before the 0.42 kilogram threshold is reached. All subjects have expired within 26 days of last excision. Once the 0.42 kilogram excision of tissue is complete, a brown lunch-style paper bag here after SCP-683-3 will appear in the interior of SCP-683-1. SCP-683-3 has consistently been labeled with the name Eric. Text appears symmetrically in capital letters printed in black ink. Writing style appears consistent with each sample of SCP-683-3. With each appearance, SCP-683-3 is contained to following. A sandwich consisting of two pieces of white bread, crust removed, and 0.21 kilograms of various excised flesh and viscera. DNA analysis has confirmed it to be that of subjects who last disparaged or tended to remove SCP-683-2. A plastic zip-top bag containing 0.21 kilograms of various excised flesh and viscera. DNA analysis has again confirmed it to be that of subjects who last disparaged or tended to remove SCP-683-2. A plastic zip-top bag containing three chocolate chip cookies measuring approximately 9 cm in diameter. Testing showed no abnormalities or traces of DNA. A 3x5 note card reading, Be a good boy today, ink is black and handwriting is consistent in style with the Eric written on SCP-683-3's exterior. Following testing, all instances of SCP-683-3 have been incinerated with no unusual effects. SCP-683-2 cannot be removed from SCP-683-1, and all attempts to do so have resulted in the activation of SCP-683's unusual properties. Without any attempt to remove it, SCP-683-2 has been set alight and incinerated via simple match on three occasions but has returned to the surface of SCP-683-1 within 68 hours each time. Despite expectations, D-Class personnel who performed incinerations were unaffected by SCP-683. If multiple subjects disparage or attempt to remove SCP-683-2 at one time, only the first subject to do so experiences its effects. No further subjects can be affected until production of an instance of SCP-683-3. Subjects who fast following removal attempts or disparaging of SCP-683-2 are unaffected until they attempt to ingest food. To date, two subjects have starved themselves to death without suffering any effect from SCP-683. Subjects fed intravenously following removal attempts or disparaging of SCP-683-2 have been affected as if they were consuming solid foods. Discovery SCP-683 was discovered in a storage unit adjacent to the home of one Yolanda ████ of ██████ Washington. A collector of vintage refrigerators and furnishings, myths ████, claims to have simply found SCP-683 unattended on the street corner in late July 19███. Our nephew, who reportedly helped her move the item, died two weeks following the move. COD on certificate listed as complication from hernia. The item was brought to the Foundation's attention when an appraiser occasionally under contract with the Foundation, through front agency Sentiments of Centuries Past LTD, became a victim of SCP-683's effects while evaluating Ms ████████ find. When asked why she never attempted to remove SCP-683-2, Ms ████ replied, it's a nice little picture, isn't it? Why take it down?