We are the open organization of lock pickers. We're going to be teaching the introduction to lock picking class. We're starting a little late. So I skipped over some of the introductory material. We're going to start you right with the meat. This is going to be about a 25 minute class, which will give you the theory of how locks work, the theory of how lock picking works, and then some practical tips on how to make those lock picks you're holding in your hands actually open the lock in a practical fashion rather than a theoretical fashion. I'm going to try to answer all of your questions as I go. I'm hoping to preempt most of them. If you do have questions, hold them to the end and we'll either answer them at the end or send you over to the tables where you can get the one on one. And if you're having trouble hearing me, just wave your hands wildly in the back and I'll try to modulate that. To start off with, we are the open organization of lock pickers, which means we are ethical hackers. We teach ethical lock picking. The way we do that is by following these two rules. One, do not pick locks which you do not own, variety of reasons for that. First, it's an optics problem. A lot of people think lock picking is either illegal or immoral. It is in most cases neither. Since we teach ethical lock picking, that's legal everywhere. If you're picking locks which you do not own, you risk the, you run the risk of committing burglary if you succeed. So don't pick locks you don't own because it doesn't look good and you could accidentally break the law. Number two, do not pick locks upon which you rely. That includes even locks you own, even if it's your front door lock, don't pick it because if you're here, probably by definition you're a novice lock picker and you're more likely to break picks off in the lock or damage the locks, in which case then a lock you rely on now is no longer in working order. So help us improve the image of lock picking and stay on the right side of the law by following these two rules. That emphatically goes for anything here in the venue. If you buy lock picks from us, do not hack anything in the venue. We're not gonna back you up one bit on that. Kind of lock opening we're gonna be talking about. There's lock picking, there's what you might call quick and dirty techniques and then there's covert and high tech. Lock picking is what we're gonna be teaching today. That's using picks in the lock to address the lock as a coherent system to work with it on its own terms. There's quick and dirty techniques which you're familiar with. The most common of is just take a credit card, slide it down the side of the door. Maybe that works, maybe it doesn't, but you're not engaging with the lock at all. You're attacking the latch. That's a great bypass technique. It's not really a lock picking technique. Finally, covert and high tech stuff. These are hardware exploits. There's something wrong with the design of the lock, not the manufacturing of the lock. I need to talk louder or slower. Okay, I'll try to do that. The last one, fascinating stuff, not really our bag, at least not to teach here, not in a non-professional capacity. We're gonna focus on picking the lock. Here's what lock picking looks like. If you have seen lock picking in the movies on TV in video games, you have almost certainly seen it wrong because if it doesn't have two hands doing two different things using two different tools, then that's probably not real lock picking. So I wanna put this up front so you'll have seen it at least right one time before we start. Two different hands with two different tools doing two different things. We'll talk about what those things are, but I want you to see it right once. Type of picks we're gonna be talking about, they look like this.   You see it in padlocks. Pretty much everywhere you go in North America. If there's a lock, it probably looks like this. You're used to seeing it from the outside. So this is a schematic view of something you're used to seeing which you're probably less used to seeing is the inside of it. So now we've passed from the introductory portion to the mechanical portion. Here's what's going on. We've got that plug right there. That's what turns. That's ultimately what we want to happen. Preventing it from turning is a pair of pins. Not one pin, two pins. It's important because they separate. The key pin there, that's the red pin, above it is the driver pin. We try to use functional names for them because you can install them upside down as they do in Europe often. Since they've been doing it longer, they say we install ours upside down so we compromise, we give them functional names. The lock works just fine if you turn it upside down because the spring there takes away the effect of gravity and it means the whole lock works just fine no matter what orientation. When you try to turn a pin without a key, you see how that GIF shows that it's gonna turn a little bit but not very far. That's the plug trying to turn but being prevented from the driver pin. That blue pin right there, that driver pin, its job is to be in the way unless and until the correct key is placed in there. You'll be unsurprised to find that the peaks and valleys on the key correspond to the lengths of the key pins. You put in the right key, it pushes up the key pin to the right amount and that split between the two pins there lines up with the split between the plug that turns and the housing that doesn't. If there's anything at that shear line right there, we call that the shear line because it's two things sliding by each other, just like a shear line fault for those of you from California. Okay, that wasn't the funniest joke but I expected something. If there's anything at that shear line there, the lock won't open. So your job is to make sure there's nothing at that shear line. A key by its nature will solve that problem. As soon as this GIF loads, that's pin the butt running it on a net book but as soon as the GIF loads, it'll show you that a key pushes up the key pin to the right height, meaning that the shear line there matches up with the shear line there and the plug can turn. If you have multiple springs, multiple driver pins, multiple key pins, you'll see in its normal standard configuration without a key in there that there's driver pins all along the shear line and those key pins are different height. So if you ever wondered, all the variation comes from the key pins, the driver pins are uniform. The key will slide in there and it will make up the difference of each one of those key pins and when each one of the key pins has been pushed up to the right height, then there'll be nothing at the shear line and the lock will open. This is one of the better animations of the whole presentation is this is pretty sexy. As long as it's not, you know, glitching out. We'll watch it one more time. You'll see that everything goes up and down, up and down until it finally falls into the correct slot at which point that shear line will be perfectly clear. No. That lock will open. Anything short of a perfectly clear shear line is almost but not quite open, which is very similar to locked. This lock is almost but not quite open. Clear, clear, clear, clear. There's your problem. Hasn't been pushed high enough. That lock is almost open, AKA locked. Here's the opposite problem. The key pins don't start off in the way but can easily be pushed up in the way if you push it too high. So this lock, opposite problem, key pins in the way, shear lines blocked, still won't open. This is an important step to realize is that a lot of people think, I'm just gonna pick the lock by pushing everything up to the top. That's simple. I'm just gonna shove it in there, push everything up to the top. And not quite there. You're replacing one problem with another. Doesn't matter whether there's a driver pin at the shear line or a key pin at the shear line. If there's anything at the shear line, the lock won't open. All right. We are now leaving the world of keys and we're now starting to worry about things that only lock pickers care about. Or else just jumping ahead one slide. Go back. Go back. Thank you. All right. This is an example of a perfect world. We do not live in such a world but I want you to think about it for a second. In a perfect world, those holes in the top of the plug, that's a top view of the plug where the holes have been drilled in the brass, those holes would be perfectly aligned, laser aligned right down the center. So what would happen if you tried to turn that plug without a key, it wouldn't open because you got the driver pins in the way, doing their job as driver pins. Each driver pins job is to be in the way and each and every one is doing their job working together to keep the plug from turning because they're all in line. Every time you turn it, each and every one of those gets pinched on the shear line. The lock doesn't open. In fact, the lock doesn't budge at all. However, that's a perfect world. We don't live in such a world. We live in the real world. In the real world, you can see that these are not perfect holes by any stretch and more importantly, they're not perfectly aligned down that center line. So when it looks more like that in the real world that we live in, the pins are the same thing. The pins have miscasting and they've got rest and they've got all sorts of gnarly things which means the world we live in looks more similar to this. This line, it's subtle here, but you can see that there's a bit of snakiness here. Is that visible from the back that those are not exactly aligned? That's an exaggeration. Normally you can't see it with your regular eyeballs. It doesn't matter if you can see it. If it's there, it only matters that physically the lock lines up differently. So now I want you to do a mental experiment where you take these misaligned holes and you drop springs, driver pins and key pins into each one of those, put it in the lock and now give it a turn. Now it's not gonna open, it's not that bad. It's gonna turn a little bit and when it turns it's gonna stop on one of the driver pins. The key word is it's gonna stop on one of the driver pins because since they're not all aligned they can't work together. It's like having a football defensive line where one of the guys is forward and all the rest of them are back. One of the guys is gonna get clobbered because he's gonna take the whole weight of the team. Our sports metaphor is really a good one for this crowd. Okay, thank you. So instead, what I want you to imagine is when this plug turns, one of those is pinching.  If you're turning that plug a little bit and one of those is getting pinched, you're gonna have a different pressure profile if you're to reach in and lift up on those.  Reach up. If you reach up on the first one, what's it gonna feel? It's gonna feel springy. You're gonna feel the weight of that spring and those pins are so small that the weight hardly matters. You're not even even gonna detect them. What you're gonna feel mostly is the spring. Springy here, springy here and here, springy as well. This one is gonna be odd man out. It's not gonna be like the others because in addition to that spring, you're gonna feel a little scraping, binding, grinding, metal on metal feeling of a machine being used in a way that's not supposed to be used which is in fact exactly what's happening. The lock is gonna leak information. If you turn it a little bit, bind that one pin, then it will tell you that is the pin that is most out of line. That's the one that's in the way. If you got something in the way, what do you do? You move it out of the way. You reach under there, you lift it up, you feel that binding, grinding sensation.  What's that feedback gonna feel like? Sorry, I can't tell you what it'll feel like every time on every lock but it'll feel like maybe a click, maybe you'll feel a sound, maybe it'll feel just like a little bit of give. That's your cue, that one is set and it's time to move on. Now when I say set, here's what I'm talking about. If you push up on that red pin, that key pin, you push it up high enough that the driver pin that was in the way is now just above the shear line and it's no longer in the way. An amazing thing happens, auto save. As soon as you set the driver pin to the right height, the driver pin is no longer in the way, that plug that's been wanting to turn, wanting to turn, wanting to turn, now it turns and the hole that that driver pin was in, that hole disappears, the door shuts behind it. It can't go home again. As long as you keep constant gentle pressure, as long as it doesn't turn backwards, in this case counterclockwise on you, then that pin is set and will never come back down. That's not a design feature, that's a design bug that we exploit. So here's what it looks like. This is just emphasized that the spring and the driver pin are gonna be isolated from the key pin. The key pin is free to move freely. You can push it up and down all day long. It's gonna accomplish nothing. You should probably leave it alone because there's nothing you can do here except mess up your nice set. Once you have that one pin set, the plug is gonna turn. How far is it gonna turn? Only until it runs into the next driver pin that's in the way. What are you gonna do with that driver pin? Find it, find the bind, and then lift it up until that one's out of the way. The plug will advance a little bit more and you're on your next pin. You do that as many times as there are pins in the lock. The lock will open, I guarantee you. I'm gonna back up one slide just so this animation doesn't fire prematurely. Here's the next thing that I wanna have generally in your head. When you are acting as a member of the key using public, the rubric in your brain is take the key, put it in the door, turn the key. Put the key in, turn the key. When you're using the lock picks, I want you to flip that around because when you have a key, you set the pins and then you turn the lock. When you don't have a key, I need you to turn first because only until you turn, only when you turn can you find the binding pin. The binding pin is created by that plug turning and then getting stopped on one of the pins. So if you're gonna pick a lock, turn first, then that creates the bind. Do your job then, find the bind, solve the bind. Find the next bind, solve the next bind. Here's how it looks like in practice. We put the turning tool in, we give it a little bit of tension. That creates the bind. Where's the bind? We don't know. It's somewhere, it's random in every lock but it's consistent over the life of that lock. Now we're looking for the bind. We weigh each one of those. What are we feeling for? Is it springy or is it something other than springy? Is it scrappy, is it binding, is it grinding, is it catching, call it whatever you like. 50-50 discrimination. Is it springy or is it not springy? Find the one that's binding, push it up to the right height until it gives you a click, gives you some kind of feedback, don't push it too far and then move on. In locks with only a few pins, this is pretty simple. There's no mental bookkeeping required. In locks with multiple pins, four, five and six, it helps to keep track of which ones you've picked.  When you get to the last one, that's the only one in the way. When you move that one out of the way, the lock will open instantaneously. There's no need to turn. You've been turning since the very beginning and you've just been solving your barriers that are in the way. Does anybody wanna see that again or we wanna move on to the next one? All right, we'll do it in practice. Here's the biggest way to screw up. Yes. Pins differ from lock to lock to lock. Padlock four is a standard amount. Door lock five and six is a standard amount. The question was how many pins in a standard lock? There's not exactly a standard lock, but generally four in a padlock, five and six in a door lock. I'm gonna start this one over because I wanna draw your attention to what's going on here. This is the most common mistake. This lock picker's gonna do everything right for two pins and then screw up on the third one. We're weighing each one of those pins. We're looking for the bind. Once we find the bind, we're gonna lift it to the right height and it's gonna set that pin. Gonna set one right. Notice how this pin and this pin are relatively short compared to that one. So this lock picker gets used to pushing it high. It's gonna mess them up because they're gonna push that one too high. As long as you have tension on there, this lock will never open until the end of time.  You have to shake the whole edge of sketch. So my rule, my suggestion to you is remember that this is a precision exercise and you're moving a millimeter at a time and you're sensing very small changes inside the lock. When in doubt, leave it alone. Say, hey, that was enough. I can always come back but if I do it too hard, I'm gonna freeze the whole lock and the most likely way I'm gonna have to get out of that is by losing all my progress. So think of a haircut or think of salting the soup. It's really easy to go back and do more. It's really hard to go back and do less. We're gonna, now we've moved from the theory of lock picking into the practice. What tools we wanna use. I wanna talk briefly about raking which is the opposite of single pin picking. When you're single pin picking, you're touching each pin at a time and giving it, it's like table service. Sir, what would you like? Let me get that for you, sir, right away, sir. This is buffet style. Each pin knows two things. You're relying on the fact that each pin, sorry, I haven't been speaking to the mic. You're relying on the fact that each pin knows that it has a particular height that it wants and a particular order in which it wants to get picked. So you're gonna give them a whole variety of heights and figure when it comes time for that pin to set, it will set itself even if you don't know what's happening. And it looks like this. You put the tension tool in, you put a little tension on. It creates a bind. We don't care which one's a binding pin because we're gonna run through there and we're gonna set and unset a whole bunch in a row. And once each one gets its particular pin, its particular height, it'll set and it's a very fast way to open a lot of locks. It's not a fast way to open good locks but it's a fast way to open cheap locks. It won't make you better at picking but it's a great way to impress anti-M at Thanksgiving. So if you're starting off in the tables, I recommend you look for one of these two. We call those single pin picks. It's good for hitting one pin at a time, great for learning. You'll find those on the tables. Don't start off with raking. It's not exactly a dark side technique but it's more just a shortcut and it won't make you any better at picking locks overall. It's good for opening A lock. It's not good for getting good at opening locks. I'm skipping over this. The big thing I wanna get to you since we're running a little bit behind is counting pins. Counting pins find something with a flat back on it. These half diamond look great. If you wanna see how many pins are in something and it's not labeled on the outside, many of them are, they'll say basic one, two, three, four, five, six. That's how many pins is in it. Locks in real life are rarely labeled. In fact, I've never encountered one. So if you don't know what's going on inside the lock, count the pins. Put something under the flat back, push everything up to the top and then as you pull it out slowly, listen for those clicks. For each click, there's a pin. You have to do it multiple times but all you're hearing is that spring shooting the pin back down. Do that a couple of times until you get the same number a few times in a row. That's how many pins are in the lock. If you're just starting off and you hear one or two clicks, that's great, that's a good place to start. If you hear four, five, or six picks, come back and get it later. Turning tools are the unsung heroes here. They're the supporting cast that should get the Oscar but never do. Turning tools is how you put that all-important turn on. First, last and always, you're putting constant, gentle pressure. If you don't have a good turning tool, you don't use your turning tool right. It's gonna make the lock a whole lot harder to pick. The chief way that people make the lock harder to pick is by putting too much tension on here. Again, this is a precision exercise so I encourage you to do what you can to put less tension. This is the wrong way to do it. You would know that even if I wasn't up here telling you because of the infomercial rule. It comes first and it's in the black and white one. This is the person who can't boil water and needs a snuggie because they don't know how to use a blanket. Don't be this guy and you tell it's a guy because he chooses fingers.  You can push up here but you can push even better by going very lightly out on the end. And when you're out on the end there, principle of leverage means that you can use a very light tension to get the same amount of push and it doubles the feeling of any response that you get from the lock. A little jiggle down here will be magnified and you get that much more sensation. Since this is a precision exercise, you want all the data you can get. Good turning tool pressure looks like this. Barely a dent in the finger but the finger looks all healthy.  Because remember, all the push you do there gets translated down to there. All the turning that gets there gets translated into the single pin that you're trying to move. So this is standing on something that you're trying to move. Please don't do that. It'll be frustrating to you because you won't be opening locks and you'll be more likely to bend the tools. We're gonna skip over that. That's what turning tools look like. Again, they don't look fancy so people forget about them but they're key. We're gonna skip that, skip that. On our tables, most locks open in most directions.  Padlocks tend to open to the right. Some shlags, they open right. Other key and knobs open to the left again. Anything on our tables probably doesn't matter if you have any questions to ask or just try to pick it and see if you can meet with success. But turning direction tends to be clockwise unless there's a countervailing reason to go other ways. As I said, they're labeled on the tables. These aren't labeled. I can tell you, or you can try it and I will confirm how many's in there. You can learn how to count pins. This is new. The silver part is the front part. And the brown part was sort of the puckering. That's the back. If you're just starting off, I recommend going in the front. Uh-oh, we're frozen. We'll make it. While I'm vamping, any questions? Oh good, I've tried to answer all of them. Oh, that's cute, give me a second. The question was, I showed two different kinds of single pin picks. Is there a difference between them? The half diamond versus the hook. It's a purely matter of personal preference. In my experience, the hook tends to make people a little bit more likely to over lift because that hook motion makes them more likely to dig and really get up there. So if you find you're having trouble with overlifting, then maybe avoid the hook. It's got its uses, it's a really good one because it forces you to accurately register on a particular pin rather than sliding back and forth in more of a raking motion. So they've got their strength and weaknesses but if you find you're having trouble staying on a particular pin, then gravitate toward the hook. If you find you're having trouble with overlifting, then gravitate toward the half diamond.  This is really worth the price of admission here. I want you to find one that says basic one on it. This is exactly what it looks like inside. It's got a spring and driver pin and a key pin. Don't put any tension on it. I know I said when you're picking a lock, start with the tension, you're not picking it just yet. I want you to get the feel for it. Reach in there with a pick, either one, either the hook or the half diamond and just lift up on that pin. You're not trying to open the lock right now, you're not turning the lock. All I want you to do is feel what that pin feels like when you're lifting up on it. What's the spring feel like? Where is it? What's the weight feel like?  You could think of it as what's it feel like when it's springy? What's it feel like when it's scrappy? If you can make that discrimination, then you can pick the lock much more reliably. Once you put the tension on, then of course lift it up. Then of course lift it up. There we go. Once you lift it up to the right height, the lock will open instantly. Congratulations, that counts as a lock. Put a very simple lock. Do it again and get used to that feeling. This is the time when I take a moment out to editorialize and say, I've been lying to you a little bit. The reason I've been lying to you is I've been implying that you'll be able to feel that discrimination all the time right off the bat. It takes a lot of practice. It's very subtle. It will probably be below your noise threshold most of the time when you start off. This is about lowering your noise threshold. In the meantime, you will still be able to pick locks by lifting gently up on each pin. As long as you don't lift too high and freeze the whole system, you'll be able to pick a lot of locks just by lifting them up a little bit. So even if you find yourself in a fog and blind and don't know which is the right pin, try lifting gently on each one and you'll be able to pick a lot of locks that way. But the whole time you're doing that, be attentive to what feedback you're getting. Is this one more springy or more scrappy? Did I feel it set? I don't want you to get frustrated just because you can't feel the bind at any given time, but I want you looking out to see when you do feel the bind, be excited because that's your sign that you become your more proficient and methodical picker. Finally, I want to bring your attention to this, which is the most common way that people actually affect the pins inside. The question that people ask me is Preston, you told me what I'm supposed to do inside the lock. What do I do outside the lock to make that happen? And the answer is it doesn't matter. You can hold the pick any way you want. You can stand on your head if you want, as long as inside the lock, you're able to make small controlled moves and get feedback out. This is the most common thing that happens is they kind of put it down along the bottom of the lock, maybe rest it on their finger and they're kind of doing this rocking lifting, this digging motion. That's fine as long as rocking lifting doesn't turn into crow barring. If you're putting too much pressure on the lock, if you're pushing too hard, then you're locking down the whole system and you're really having to dig at that pin and eventually it means that you're gonna start bending the pick and then the pick is useless, we have to throw it away, replace it and it costs more to run these things. So for your own benefit as lock pickers and for our benefit as people putting on these events, please take the kiddie's advice, relax, chill out, talk to some people, distract yourself a little bit and if you find you're having some trouble, try loosening your tension and when you finally do get it, I want you to say open. Say it out loud, say it proud, no matter which lock you're on, every lock open is a success. Take a moment, celebrate that and then once you get it, go back and do that same one again so that you know you've got it. And since I just killed the presentation I think that's the end anyway. If you've got any questions, I'll be circulating around here afterward or you can find anybody in a black shirt to ask questions to. Once again, we're the open organization of lock pickers, I'm Preston. Thank you so much for coming.


I am delighted to announce that Griffith University will be the official research and education partner for the Gold Coast Suns. So the partnership will take many facets, will involve many different programs, particularly we've been impressed with the standard of research here at Griffith University and we're delighted to say that across the course of this partnership there will be coming together for research purposes that will benefit both Griffith University and also the Gold Coast Suns. There's opportunities around commerce and business analysis, game day attendance, demographics and of course the social impact of sport which is something that we put a lot of time and effort into. We have injury prevention, women in sport performance which is an under-researched area, diet and impacts of those things. We're looking at wearable technology and injury rehabilitation, women in sport participation and engagement. This is a relationship that is a whole of university and whole of club partnership centered around the increasingly complex business of sport. Part of an ongoing story for Griffith University. Since the 1990s we have been supporting elite athletes through the sports scholarship scheme. Griffith Sports College has been a major part for me and I know it's been the same for Charlotte as well but they've definitely helped us in managing and balancing our uni life as well as our outside life with Foody as well so it's been it's been amazing yeah. We think our role is not just to undertake formal education programs and research but to be an anchor institution here in the Gold Coast. A catalyst for the city's economic, arts, cultural and of course importantly sporting community development.


Hi there, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosel here. So I've been talking a lot recently about this idea of what I term format agnostic content or this idea that basically we are moving very quickly towards an era in which your average consumer of content, whether somebody's consuming content for pleasure or for content marketing. They're trying to find a solution to a problem that they're going to be expecting that content to be available across different formats. And the three kind of classic formats I've been talking about and writing about text, audio and video. So if you think about that from a content marketing perspective, let's just take a classic acid in each. Well, let's look at a blog post being text. Let's look at a podcast as being an audio format.  And my contention is that right now we're seeing this great technology coming to market for going between those three different formats. If you write a blog post, you can use text to speech to quickly generate a podcast or you can do that manually by sitting down to record a podcast. And if you've got an audio version you can pair that up with stock imagery or you can read out a script and make that into a video and vice versa. And the best practice at the moment is to make all that easy.  Now I've talked in my blog post that the key thing is what I call honoring the format. You don't just want to it's very easy to simply strip audio out of video and boom, you've got a podcast. That's not what I recommend doing. I recommend putting a little bit of time and effort into editing it each layer you go down to. Now just to make this a bit more concrete, I want to just give a demo of a very, very quick way or that you could begin to develop a blog post from a vlog. So a vlog, me speaking to a webcam and I'd say oh that was interesting, maybe we should put out a blog about that. So here's just kind of a workflow that I would suggest or advise people to consider. So very quickly this is a rather geeky video I just put out on YouTube just about something to do with computer networking, backup, internet, etc. Now let's say that I wanted to do a get a blog or convert this into a blog, make a blog based on this. So if you click into the subtitles tab very, very soon after you upload to YouTube, YouTube is going to automatically generate subtitles for you. So I can go down here and click on download and they're automatically published. I didn't actually publish them and I'm going to download these as an SRT file. Now depending on what operating system you use, you're going to want to run these into a subtitle editing program. Now it might work if I just click on this file. I might already associate. Indeed it does with Agisub. So here's something I can do. Now this is a Linux program so if you're on a different, if you're on Windows you're going to be using a slightly different program. But this is YouTube having pulled out an automatic transcript based on what I just talked about this networking topic. So what you can do in this program and a lot of subtitle editors have this functionality is export your subtitles and this is going to get you to text. And once you're a text you can begin the process of formatting that as a blog. So I've just jumped ahead a little bit. So I've gone to my desktop and I can call it my video about cellular, cellular backup and I'm going to give it a text file name. And now if I open up that text file, you can see I don't have those timestamps anymore. This is just like a raw 188 lines of text that YouTube has automatically converted. Automatic transcription has taken the soundtrack from that video and has converted that to text. So now I can go into something like just change up the tool here. Let's open up a word processor, LibreOffice and I can just dump that in and I can begin to write a blog post here. So this was about 4G routers what you might not know before purchasing. I'm just going to give an example. Now this is very, very rough. The text is very rough, but it's still going to be easier to develop a blog post out of this than it would be if you were just trying to start something from scratch. So that's just a quick example I wanted to give of a method you could use if you want to, if you do a blog off the cuff and you say, oh, you know what, that was actually quite good. That could be there's material here for a blog post. Now the hard way to do that would be to watch your video, maybe watch it in slow motion, take notes and start to write a blog or you could leverage something like this, get a transcript. You can get a better transcript than that. You don't have to use YouTube's auto-generated transcript. You can run that video through Rev. Whatever you want to do, start with the computer-generated AI transcript, extract down to the text layer. And once you're at the text layer, you can begin formatting that into blog post format. And what I didn't show is that you could also download that MP4 file from the back end of YouTube, download that, convert that to MP3, start editing it, and then once you're done, you have a podcast version. So that's what I'm talking about format-agnostic content is taking, starting from one format, whether that's video or text, and either working up or working down, honoring each format that you edit in. And once you do that and you publish through your blog, through your podcast, through your YouTube channel, you're going to each time be widening your distribution options and getting more eyes, ears on your content because you're making it easy for people to consume what you have to say in the format that's most convenient to them. Thank you very much for watching. 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Aha! Someone gave me a microphone. That's going to be a very big mistake. Hello, MCM Comic-Con! How are we feeling? Good. That's good. We're a couple minutes away from starting, but I thought I'd grab the mic and start talking because that's what I like to do. It's my favourite thing, talking. I've got my fiancee and my parents in the front. They can attest. Now, let's see. Have we got any cosplayers in the room?  Let's have a look. Let's have a look. We've got a bell. We've got a 12 in the front. We've got... Oh, what are you two? I can't tell. Konstantin... Of course it's Konstantin years. We've got... I can't see you. Oh, it's a Capaldi. I saw the Sonic. A Whittaker. An Ace. Another Capaldi. Animals! Are you the master from survival? Just fully formed?  That's just to separate the fans from the confused. Good. Good. That's good. Oh, I see a fez gone up as well. Now, I'm going to very, very slowly introduce our beautiful, beautiful guests. One by one because we need to make them feel special and we're going to applaud them. Are we going to applaud them? Good. Good. First of all, Tom... No, that would be great, though, wouldn't it? Right next to him. Right next to him. Okay, so, firstly, is a wonderful impressionist and voice actor. You may know him. You may love him. He's also worked with Big Finish somehow. I must get your details. Everybody, welcome Chris Walker Thompson. Take your seat, my friend. Up next... Oh, I was tempted to do them as a duo, but no, I'll do it separately. They deserve their own time. Firstly, is companion to the Little Red Fan Film Doctor. You know her? You love her? It's Meg Shirley. I was going to use your companion name. Then I remembered it's just your name, which is cheating. Up next, not the companion, but the doctor himself, the Little Red Doctor, which I think is a bit of a harsh name, but he gave it himself so it's his fault. Luke Newman. Mr. Tardis. No, I'm kidding. It's the fantastic live streamer and reviewer, Mr. Tardis. Is that first and last name? Mr. Tardis? Biblical. Ah, is there a Mrs. Tardis? Anyway, right. So, how this is going to work is the main bulk is going to be me quizzing these four. There is a question each about each of them, so they should at least get one point each. And then in between, there's random docky-hoo questions. So, feel free to play along. And if you get more points than them, you have the permission to just laugh in their face, because that's what I'll be doing. It'll be hilarious. So, shall we start things off? If I can find where I put my book. Does anybody see a Tardis book? That went well. Is it around? We would like to apologize for the technical difficulties you are about to witness. It's fine. I have backup on my phone. But before I do that, I might as well show what they're competing for. I have three prizes in this bag. And the fourth place gets nothing. So, for third place... Oh, there's the book. For third place is a mini Jonathan Petwee Lego figure. The arm's fallen off, but it is in this bag, I promise. There it is, a mini Jonathan Petwee. For second place is a custom 3D printed by Lovely Bow in the front. Tardis key glow-in-the-dark key ring. Pretty good. And for first place is Robots of Death on VHS. Honestly, didn't know if that was good or not. I'm going to take that as a fairly positive... Is that good? Is that worth winning? It's valuable. There we go. Oh, hello Connor. Good to see you. Right, let's get on with the quiz. You'll all be answering on your whiteboards and you will be answering on your pen and paper because they ran out of whiteboards. Question one. This is about Chris Walker Thompson. Oh dear. As I mentioned, he is a fantastic impressionist, but he doesn't do everything, not one man could. So, which of these three can he not do an impression of or hasn't done an impression of? Maybe he can. Peter Capaldi, Patrick Trouton or David Tennant. Write down your answers now. This is the exciting bit where you just watched them write. Look at them go. All right. Have we all got an answer? Okay. Well, let's go to Will first. I put Tennant. Tennant, Luke. Tennant. Oh, is yours not on? Hello. Oh, there we go. Yay. David Tennant. David Tennant and Chris. Well, I can do all three technically, but not this one very well. So, you're right. I'll give you that. David Tennant, point for each. Although I'll give Chris an extra point because he corrected me. It was always going to happen. I looked through everything. I couldn't find one of you doing Tennant. Well, I didn't say it was good. Well, he's got me there. Number two is a Doctor Who question, but not just any Doctor Who question. It's about, you love it, the official Doctor Who YouTube channel. It's the best thing. But what I want to know about the official Doctor Who YouTube channel. Actually, Chris, could you do official Doctor Who YouTube channel? Well, let me just let you know. I have a bit of a cold, so it's really helping this Peter Capaldi voice at the moment. Good. So, what's the line? Don't forget to subscribe to the official Doctor Who YouTube channel. And what's the devil's hour? Oh, I've got him started now. But about the official YouTube channel, I want to know what the most viewed video on that channel is. I'll give you a hint. It's a scene from Doctor Who. Yeah. Does anyone need more of a hint than that? I'm happy to give an extra hint. It is from a Matt Smith episode. There's a couple of people checking their phones to be like, oh, I know this answer. Yes. Anyone who is checking their phones, please whisper. No. Tell you what. How about some possible bonus points? Potential five bonus points. Name any of the top five most viewed videos on that channel. Just think of the most iconic moments from Doctor Who. You know, like the absorbaloth and Delta and the Bannerman. Can we get a cheer for Delta and the Bannerman? Wrong. And the Merca. Big up the Merca. Love him. I'll give him a moment to think. Give him a moment to think. And if we have time at the end, there will be a chance for a Q&A, by the way. So get your questions thinking now. Oh, look at them think. Look at them think. What's going through your mind? Meg, what's going through your mind? Not a lot, and that's the problem. I see. How about you, Luke? What's going through your mind? I only got one scene I can think of. Interesting. Interesting. I'll give him a few more seconds, and then I'll start going down the line. Well, there's only one writing currently. So that, we can tell who's potentially got the most points. Okay. Well, I'll start with you, Chris. What are you thinking? Uh, I think I'm going to go with the regeneration to Capaldi. Oh, so 11 to 12. Yeah. Okay. And you've also got rings of Akuten speech. Okay. So interesting choices. Good. Meg, what have you got? I put 11's regeneration. So 10 to 11? Yeah. Interesting. Okay. Anything else? The day the doctor, the all 13 part. Okay. Good choices, Luke. The all 13 save Gallifrey scene and the 10 doctors regeneration. Okay. They've clearly worked together here. I should have just paired them up. I'm already making them share a microphone. I generally don't know the answer. I'm actually interested to find out. Well, I think I have the answer. And Will, what do you think? I thought I knew and then you've got me doubting. Oh, the Van Gogh Museum trip. What for number one? Yeah. Okay. Anything else for the top five for the top five 12 to 13. Yep. 10 to 11. Right. The series eight trailer. Oh, Jody Whitaker revealed the modern hoodie and that. Yeah. And then the Van Gogh trip. Okay. So we'll start from five and work our way down. The fifth most viewed is Capaldi to Whitaker regeneration. So I believe you all put a regeneration, but only one of you got a point. Good. I saw you only put that's fine. You could have totally cheated. All right.  Number four, defeating the absorbal off. Genuinely, the absorbal off made the top five. How? I'm sure Peter K is delighted. It's the genuine article. It sure is. I was shocked. Anyway, number three, the rings of Akaten speech. So Chris, that was a point to you. Oh, brilliant. And number two, 11 meeting 10 in day of the doctor. So not the wrong day of the doctor scene. I'm afraid. And number one, Vincent Van Gogh in the museum. It's with the TARDIS point. It's also now a good time to say you should be totalling up your own scores as we go. Ah, just keep a, keep a little note, little tally. Yeah. Good. Right. Before we begin, how many have I got so far? Thank you very much. Thank you. Thanks, Jim. Moving on to question number three. This question is about Mr. TARDIS. Oh, you shouldn't be worried. The suspense is killing me. Now, as I said, Mr. TARDIS, actually your surname is reviews. It's Mr. TARDIS reviews. So he reviews lots and lots of different episodes, especially ones with those pesky Daleks. Oh, can't stand Daleks. But the very first review up on your channel is also a Dalek story. But out of these three, which is it? Is it Dalek from series one, Genesis of the Daleks, or Victory of the Daleks? Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. That was very loud in my ear. Thoroughly enjoyed it though. That was very on pitch. Let's see. We'll go to Mr. TARDIS last as that kind of is the giveaway. We'll start with Luke. What have you got? Victory of the Daleks. Victory of the Daleks, Meg. Victory of the Daleks. Okay, Chris. Genesis. Oh, and Mr. TARDIS, what is it? Victory. Victory of the Daleks. One point to Luke. One point to Meg. One point to Mr. TARDIS. Neil for Mr. Kapali over here. Question number four. This is a community question because one of my favorite content creators, apart from these four, obviously, is a man by the name of Clever Dick Films. He does big era reviews. You might have seen them. And he's also done companion ones. But which of these three is the wrong one? Basically is the question because he's only done two of these three. That's how multiple choice works. Is it Ian Chesterton, The Brigadier, or Jamie McCrimmon? Which of these has he not done an era review of yet? And for some potential bonus points, because he's not done all of the doctors yet, which doctors has he not yet done? Which TV doctors specifically has he not done? I'll give them a moment to think. It's very tricky. Very tricky. Anyone here watched any of Clever Dick Films' reviews? We got some? Yeah, good. Good. No. Well, you should. This is going to be a shot in the dark, we'll see. I prefer it when they don't know. It makes the quiz a little bit more interesting, I think you'd agree. Oh, I thought that was Nick Briggs in the crowd. That confused me. Hello, my friend. Good to meet you. It wouldn't adjust. Now, let's see. Have we all got answers? Okay. Will, let's start with you. Ian, I believe, for the ones he's not done, doctors 11 onwards, so 11, 12, 13. Okay, okay, Luke. The Brigadier. Okay, the Brigadier, Meg. Oh, sorry, continue. The doctors, the 14th Doctor, David Tennant, and Shutey's 15th Doctor. Fair. Meg. Put the break, and then I put the war doctor. Oh, yeah, yeah. Very good. And Chris? I did Ian Chesterton, because I don't know the answer. And I took a stab at Whitaker, because she's only just finished. But I realized I should have gone to Shutey.  Well, the answers is. Ian Chesterton for the first half of the question. So despite not knowing the answer, Chris actually got it right. And then for the doctors, he's actually only done up until number 10. So if you've written Smith, John Hurt, Capaldi, Whitaker, Joe Martin, Shutey Gatwa, you get a point for each. Thank God. Tell you what, as that thank God has reminded me, let's do a points check. Will, how many points have you got so far? I have McGann points. McGann points, Luke. I have Tom Baker points. Tom Baker points, Meg. Pertwee points. Pertwee points, Chris. Tom Baker. Well, it's close for last place. It's very, very close. Question number five. I've knocked all of our faces down. That was a bit rude of me, wasn't it? Yeah, stay on the floor. Anyway, question number five. This is a Meg question. Oh, how exciting. Meg, you've appeared in lots of DW 2012 episodes at this point. Lots of fan film episodes. Would you agree? Yes. Care to comment? Overruled. But which was canonically her first? Is it birth of an angel, reflection or glitch? Birth of an angel, reflection or glitch? Is this where I find out? She's made a cameo in one of the first ones and I've completely buggered my own question. I hope not. Okay, let's see what we got. Chris. Reflection. Luke. Reflection. Will. Birth of an angel. Meg. Reflection. Reflection. Luke, why did you sound so confused? You're the showrunner. Because she appears in the Ten of Darkness. Damn it, I knew it. That was my second guess. I'm not sure what comes first. This is the hard part. You know what? I got the hardest job in this room. I have the struggles. Moving on. Question number six. This is a complete The Quote. Never be cruel. Never be cowardly. Blank. And for bonus points, who said it and in what episode? It's not just one word, by the way, the blank. It's just a few words. Have a think amongst yourselves. Really think.  No, I can't do a Sylvester McCoy impression so this bit doesn't work. Can't even play the spoons. I'm disgraceful. Let's see, let's see. Okay, let's start with... She's still writing. Chris. I can't remember. I am the worst panelist ever invited on. Take a guess, take a guess. Is it going to revoke my membership? Correct. We have the power to do that. I'm sure Capaldi said it at one point, but I can't remember the full thing. Okay, so your guess is Capaldi? Pick a random Capaldi episode. I'm really helping here, aren't I? This is good content. I've never watched a show, it's a lie. It's a sham. What, let's just say... I thought it was the one with the phasers. The phasers. Capaldi in the phasers, that's his pick. Meg. No, he's the last one I'll go for. The last one, twice upon a time, okay? Is it the war doctor in the 50th day of the doctor? I don't know what the quote ends with. You don't know what the quote is. That's the main part of the question and two people have failed to answer. It's looking good. Luke. Yeah, I'm going to say the war doctor from the 50th, but again. Are you just... Who's copying off who here? This is an outrage. What was that, Meg? Is that Tom Baker? You did, you did write Tom Baker. She scribbled it out. And Mr. Tardis? The end of the quote, never give up, never give in. And it's the war doctor in the day of the doctor. The answer is, never be cruel, never be cowardly, and never ever eat pears. It's Peter Capaldi from twice upon a time. So somehow, you got two points. Thank you very much. Please show your board to the audience. That's so audacious, I won't contest it. He wrote help and got two points. Thank you, right board. I mean, also, Mr. Tardis, you're technically right, but I'm not going to give you the points anyway. I respect the audacity of it. I respect it. Never be cruel, never be cowardly. And what was the last bit? Never ever eat pears. Never ever eat pears. There we go. It's like he's in the room. Question on price. Question number seven. It's a Luke question. It's a Luke Newman question. Can you believe us?  You're getting old. And so's your channel, mate. It's been a long time, but I want to know the exact date you created that channel. I want to know the day, I want to know the month, and I want to know the year. Do you know any of those three, Luke? We will find out. Yeah. Before the panel, I said you should all at least get one point right. I don't think he will. Tell you what, I'll be nice. One point for each. So a point for the year, a point for the month, and a point for the day. So if you don't know any of them, just write a possible one down. And much like Chris did a minute ago, you might just accidentally get a point. Give them a moment. It would be comedy if none of them got it right. Because we've got the man it's about and his fiance. Good stuff. Have we all got an answer? All right, Will, we'll start with you. Okay, I put July 15, 2010. Interesting, Luke. Question mark. 15th of April, 2009. Okay, Meg. September 23rd, 2012. Okay. And Chris. I tried to work it out in reverse. I thought DW 2012 might be a clue. So I went 2012, that's probably wrong. Then I had 12 months to choose from. I just chose February, because I like February. It's a good month. And 21st, because it's... That's not today's date, is it? No, it's just 21st. You know, I loved the process. It's part of the fun. The answer is April, the 16th, 2009.  That's not bad. I think I did it about midnight. Why are you called 2012? That's what I was thinking. Well, shockingly, it's wrong. That's when the series started. Damn. And 2009 was taken, so... You were future-proofing. Wait, so DW 2012 is just because 2009 was taken. Yeah, and 2010, so I just skipped. This is the fun tidbits you came here to learn. Moving on to question number eight, another community question. Because, as you all know, there are a lot of audio productions. Not just Big Finish, there's plenty on YouTube. For which of these three have I made up? TT Productions, Man at Desk Productions, DWF Productions. And any bonus points for any others you can name. This is unlimited points here. Potentially thousands. If you can just name as many as you can. Look at them go. Have any of them noticed that I've just been holding up the answer book this entire time? At one point, I put it by Mr. Tardis' feet. He could have caught the whole answers. Excellent. I'm a good host. Am I a good host? Timid, I like it. Can you get a bit more, please, for Jack? A little bit more? Yeah. Validation. I mean, he's got to carry us throughout this whole thing.  They're not getting off stage with their legs. I thought I'd physically carry them off. Okay, let's see what we got. Let's go with Luke first. Man at Desk. It's the fake one. Okay, any other ones? Is there any others for the bonus points? Oh, I didn't put NA, sorry. Noted. I went DWF. You went for that for a fake? That's the fake, yeah. Any others for the extra points? Well, other audio productions, yes. Overton. There's ones I did. And if anyone had a time tunnel, that was one. But you wouldn't have heard of them, so it's probably not a point. Noted. Meg? I put Man at Desk. And then I put Fractured Timeline, because they do audios. And Overton audios. Very nice, very nice. And Will? I got Man at Desk for the fake. And I named Spectral Horizons and Farris Features. Very nice. Well, all of you can get extra points for the ones you wrote down as extra. And the fake one, the people at the front are giggling because they know. The fake one is DWF Productions. It literally stands for Doctor Who Fake. I made it up last night. Man at Desk is a good friend of the ones in the front row. So they're going to have fun when they watch it. We've just offended everyone. Sorry, Dom. Oh, yeah. And Rassilon Productions is in the front row. He's got nearly a thousand subscribers. Ladies and gentlemen, Rassilon Productions, give him a hand. And also Dom, stand up. Give him a hand as well. He does some amazing audios.  I like breaking friendships. I really am the seventh doctor. Dom, if you want to hand in your resignation, I understand. Now, before we get on to the final question, I think we should do another points check. So Will, how many points have you got? Tenant. Ten points. Tenant points. Luke. Peter Davison, I'm afraid. Peter Davison points. Meg. Colin Baker points. Colin Baker points. And Chris. Matt Smith. Oh, oh, you could feel that through the room. Fantastic. Now, the final question. We've done one about Will. We've done one about Luke. We've done one about Meg. We've done one about Chris. Now, we need to do the one that actually matters. It's me. Hi. None of you know my name and I'm not going to say it because I want the confusion just to fill the room. Now, this is not my first time at MCM Comic-Con. I've had the privilege to do this three times. This is my third batch. Not bad. No, it's fine. Yeah, sorry. We'll let you down a bit then. No, it's fine. You'll leave it up to me later. But I want to know, because I'm a forgetful soul, who are all of the panelists I've had so far? I want to know the name of every panelist, every single one from all three of my current panels. This instant. Now, right. They were just looking at me. Go. Now, we all enjoy the quiz. Got one woo. One woo and some tepid applause. I'll take it. Look at them right. What's going on in their minds? My goodness me. Again, fascinating, isn't it? To watch the human mind at work. I'm going a bit David Attenborough. Here we see the tepid nerds whittling away on their whiteboards and one pad. Wondering how they got here, what they're doing, and why they're doing it all unpaid. Have we all got all of our answers, or are we needing a few more minutes? Because I can ramble away. I think I've all got who I can. Yeah, are we all good? Okay. I have the full list here, but I am going to tell you what, turn around your boards, you three, because we can see your answers so we know we're not cheating. You've been writing down on the same piece of paper. So Will, read out what you've got. There's one I've forgotten, and... If it's one of the two in the front row. Okay, so you're at Rasselon Productions, Phillip Hawkins, Don Martin, Josh Carr, Abbey Louise. There's a sixth who I can't remember, and it breaks my heart. Oh, it's going to break someone else's heart, much bigger. Well, Chris Walker-Thompson, Meg, Luke, me. Very nice. I noticed that two of these... Well, one of these persons. Okay, yeah, just the one has forgotten the four they're on stage with. So here's the full list. It's impressive, isn't it? I specified three. I did a whole spiel, weren't listening. The full list, Rasselon Productions. There he is. Phillip Hawkins, Dominic G. Martin, Abbey Louise, Josh Carr, who's also in the audience over there. Hello, Josh. Jude Lavers, I nearly fell off the stage. Mr. TARDIS, Chris Walker-Thompson, Meg Shirley, and Luke Newman. So give yourself a point for each. I want to note that only one of these people on stage has seen the other two. But I forgot Jude. I'm so sorry, Jude, if you watch him this. It's Jude. I love you, Jude. I don't believe him. Don't believe his lies. Good. Right. We'll let them tattle up their scores, and we'll see who's won. Remember, this is first place. I'll put that there. I'll let them collect it themselves. They've been sat down so lazy. Pertwee, who I will fix, and the key ring that's in here somewhere. There it is. So, let's see the scores. Chris, how many you got? We're off the doctors now. 18. 18. I wonder who that's going to be. I can't wait to watch this in a few decades' time. Meg. James Corden.  Meg. Matt Smith. Oh, okay. Luke. I have Paul McGann. And Mr. TARDIS. I have 19. Oh, so, our winner. Mr. TARDIS, collect your prize. In second place, Chris. Come and get your key ring. Straight on his keys. And Meg. Come and get your, at this current time, broken, Pertwee.  Come on up, Luke. Okay, I suppose. Come on up, buddy. So, what happened? I think Nerv's got the better of me. I could have done better. I hate to see it. Well, I disappointed the fans. Mark, I'm sorry. You know, do we forgive him? Give him a round of applause. Luke Newman, everybody. Well, I do believe we still have some time left. So, if you, yes we do, if you have a question, pop your hand up, and I'll come and hunch you down. We got one that's shot up over here. Oh, hello. What's your name? Mummy. My mother, ladies and gentlemen. What's your question? When are you going to get round to doing another community show? Oh, I see. Okay, I didn't expect to get called out by my mother at the first question. I haven't released an episode in a while. The last one I did was a cosplay one, then a time fracture one. That was really cool. I'll do one later. All right. Good, good question. Anyway, anyone got a better one? It's not going to be hard. Anyone got a question? Anyone, anyone, anyone? What's your name? Gemma. Nice to meet you. My fiance, ladies and gentlemen. What's your question? When's the next episode of Doctor Who Road coming out? I'm not answering that. They're making fun of me now. We got one in the back. Good. Thank Christ. Okay. Hello, what's your name? Aden. Good to meet you, my friend. What's your question? It's for our DW 2012. When's the next episode coming out? DW 2012. What is it? Come on. Well, it's just right there. We are coming to do some reshoots on it. So it's taken a bit longer. But you know, things you've got to do to make it look decent. Be happy with it as well. The answer is coming soon. That's the one, Jeff. Thanks. Fantastic. Coming soon. Any questions? Oh, we got one here. Oh, hello. I know your name. What's your name? Connor. Good to meet you, Connor. What's your question? To all of you, quick thoughts on the recent episode that went out this time last week. Well, power of the doctor. We'll go around the line. Will, what's your thoughts? So my review is dropping in the next few days, but I really, really liked it. Did you just plug yourself? Yeah. Coming out soon. Like, subscribe. Continue. Yeah. By the end of it, I was really just emotionally drained because I didn't really hit all the balls as I wanted it to. I thought it was a really good high note. And yeah, really impressed by it. Very nice. Luke, what do you thought? Oh, I thought it was brilliant. I did tear up a bit when Ian came on. I was like, oh, there he is. Yeah, but now it was a really good episode and nice send off for Jodie as well. Fantastic. Make your thoughts. Yeah, but it was really, really good. I think I'm a massive fan of Ace. I was just happy she was back. I just spent the whole episode just watching Ace like, oh my God. I can't believe she's back. Who's Ace? I was happy in my best place. Who's Ace? Excuse me. What? Chris, your thoughts. It was all right, wasn't it? No, I was watching it with my now wife. Woo! And I just, I think I enjoyed it a bit more than she did. She's not really a big fan. But every now and again, I'll go, that's Ace. That's Peter Davidson. That's Colin Baker. And she just gone, all right, okay. No, I really, really enjoyed it. I thought it was, well, better than I was expecting. That's always nice. I thought it was a really good send off for Jodie. No idea why Rasputin was involved. But otherwise, I thought I just enjoyed it. At the end of it, I enjoyed it. And that's something I haven't done in a little while. Fair enough. Give us a cheer if you liked it. Mixed. Anyone got another question? Anybody? Oh, there's hands. Should I be over there? I'm on the way. Oh, I can't see where I'm going. Hello, my friend. What's your name? I'm Oli. Good to meet you, my friend. And what's your question? It's for DW22. What was your favorite episode to work on? Like, what was your favorite production to work on? Favorite fan film that you've worked on? What is it going to be? Is it the one that I'm in? Is it in our own or another fan film that we've worked on? Your run. Your one. Mine. Oh. Ooh. Is this where we find out you, like, directed Day of the Doctor or something? Like, oh, well, yeah, that's one film. Probably one of the episodes that hasn't come out yet. Oh, for God's sake. Which is probably. This is what, okay. I interviewed him last year and I kept asking him questions like, oh, what's your favorite moment? What, what's this? What's that? And they go, go, oh, it's not out yet. Oh, that's good for an interviewer. Thanks, Luke. Pick one that's out, please. Pick one that's out. If you could. That we let you. Vengeance of the Bloodline. There we go. There's a proper answer. Good. Because it was nice to finally get it out. Fair point. Any other questions? Oh, one shot up over there. I'm on the way. Hello, my friend. What's your name? My name's Stuart. It's for DW 2012. What's your writing process for writing fan films? Oh, good question. Good question. And you two are popular today. Weirdly, I get a lot of good ideas when I'm in the shower. That happens a lot. If you want good ideas. Yeah. Come round. I just kind of like just I sit there and I listen to a lot of music. I watch a lot of other films, media, get inspiration in the show. Yeah, in the show. It's great. Have you got a whiteboard in the shower? You're just like, oh, I've got an idea. I'll make Dom do this. Yeah, I've just got a sharpie and all our tiles are just covered. It's like that Stephen Hawking film is just writing on the windows. That's it. Yeah, El Capaldi with the chalk on the floorboards. Yeah, it's just I just get ideas from things. And then I just listen to music a lot. And yeah, that's just my process. Very nice.  Well, that's a writer for you. Good stuff. Oh, we got one up of the air over there. The man with the fizz. What's your name?  But this is for all of you. Which era was better, Davies or Moffat? Davies. Moving on. Go on then, you four. Chris, Davies or Moffat? I didn't hear the question, sorry. Davies or Moffat, that's why I repeated it. Sorry, I felt like a very senior man here. Sorry, where am I? Sorry, Davies or Moffat? Yes, era-wise, what's better? I think Davies had an idea of where it was going. And when hurdles came his way, he knew how to adapt to it. Like for example, Bernard Cribbins turns up for one Christmas special. And then before you know it, he's regular. And that's mainly because the actor playing Donner's dad died in production. And he quickly managed to turn that into something. You know, Wilf was there at the regeneration. You know, he's the genius of that. Moffat I find has great ideas, but not necessarily the narrative to link everything. But I think there's a load of brilliant moments that he's done. I just think he's not quite good at linking them. But I think Davies, that's why I'm looking forward to Davies coming back. Because I think he's got a good vision of where it's going. It'll be different to what we've had. And I think it'll be brilliant. Good answer. Mr. Turdis, for me, it's Davies. But it's because it came out, Eccleston was my doctor. And that's when I was really getting into the show. I love a lot of Moffat stuff like Heaven Sent as one of the best episodes in the show. I also think that Moffat was, he would repeat a lot of his tropes. So you could actually see a lot of twists coming from a mile away. But he is an incredibly clever writer. But I think Davies just knows which heartstrings to tug when to do it. And he hits you with such precision that there's a reason why End of Time is a bit of a messy story. But we still look back on those Wilf and Ten scenes and those lines. Like just say, I don't want to go and half the audience will start crying. They're doing it quietly, but half the audience is now. It's on the inside. Uncontrollably weeping. He said, I don't want to go. It's a bit backfired on him now, isn't it? Yeah, it's calmer. We're almost all now saying, let it go, David. You're better than this. We've seen Broadchurch. You're capable of so much more. And Luke and Meg, Davies or Moffat? Davies probably for me. Davies and Luke? Davies for me as well. We're all Davies stands up here. Is this where Moffat like appears at the back? I think you're fine. We really create Dracula when he's behind the fence. Any other? Oh, we got two at the front. I'll go with you first. What's your name? Hello. My name is Rory Rasson Productions. Hello, everyone. Hello. My questions are, how do you do with creative burnout and looking back at your journeys on YouTube through retrospect? How would you kind of sum it all up and from beginning to now? Oh, interesting. Okay. Well, we'll tackle the first half first. Who wants to chime in? Creative writing. How are we doing with it? Burnout? Anyone got good answer for burnout? I get burnouts before I even write the script. I come up with some ideas of I'm driving. I end up acting them out. And then before I managed to get home and write them, their ideas gone. And then I sort of then read it. Then I'm like, so what was it? What was it? It was this. It was that. Eventually some of them do stick. But I find it's just a lot of ideas. I just can't get to paper quick enough. Fair enough. Do we agree? Do we agree with the right burnout? Yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm really bad at creative burnout. All right. I really struggle. I get ideas and then like, same request, you just can't get it there. Like, you know the scenes, you know where the story is going, but it's the bits in between on how this links to this. Yeah, I'm very bad at creative burnout. When I burn out, I fully burn out. Fair enough. And will anything? Yeah, burnout stuff. When you, I think it's just to try and mix up what you do as much as possible and not just online, but in like outside as well, whether it's like with your friends and family or just a different hobby or something, something that you can get away from your creative or online work entirely, which can inform the creative work as well. But I think it's just having that variety outside of the work, outside of the grind. Good, good. And the second half was, okay, retrospect. So I'll rephrase it to make it easier to answer or quicker to answer. Looking back, what is something you could tell yourself starting out on your sort of YouTube or voice acting or impressionist journey? We'll start with Will. I have a schedule. Please, Will, do it. Yeah, because there's often like maybe two or three years where I can do consistent output and then a few years where I'm not able to do anything and then I have to come back and YouTube hates the inconsistency. So it's just about trying to have a rotor or have a routine or something. Get up at the same time every day if you can. And yeah, Will enjoy the next 10 years. And Luke, how about you?  Meg, how about you? Maybe from an acting standpoint? Sort of having more confidence, I guess, or sort of just actually from the start believing in what you're doing, essentially, because I mean, it is a process.  Very nice. I don't know about mature, at least for us lot. And Chris, how about you? I've never really, the thing is, I tried to do the YouTube thing years ago back when YouTube sort of started and I just could never commit to doing something that regular and in a way, I'm okay with that because most of the ideas I've ever had have always been on a whim and then I'll just put it out and then it'll be a while till the next whim and then I'll look back on those whims and go, that wasn't very good or I'll be really proud of it or something, one of the two and then it'll be a long time. So essentially, don't be hard on yourself if you can't be creative all the time and that next whim will come along before you know it. Very good answers all around. Any other questions? There's one at the back. Come on the way. What's your name, my friend? Adam, what's your favorite TARDIS interiors and what do you want to see in Shooty's new interior? Favorite TARDIS interior and what do you want out of Shooty's? Anyone got a good answer?  My favorite interior is Capaldi's because I love the levels, the bookcase, the rotors at the top and whenever Rachel Talale is directing that interior, you're in for a good time and we're going to have Talale directing the first of the next year special. So are we? Yeah, she's done. Yeah, so she's, she filmed the regeneration scene at the end of Power the Doctor. So yeah, so for Shooty, just levels something fun so that the directors have variety in there because I think they were maybe a bit restricted by Whittaker's which I'm sure looks great when you're there but I think they found it difficult to work around the claws that were there. Yeah, that was the vibe I got but yeah, Capaldi's is my favorite. Very nice. Any agreement? Any disagreement? I agree, the Capaldi set is amazing. No, absolutely. Because I got a chance to run around it once. Yes, I've seen that picture. Yeah, I don't even know how I managed to do it but it was, did anyone do the Mission Dalek or hear of that competition? I did. A while ago, back in series nine came out. I lost. Some people asked me, can you do Capaldi for me and I thought, no, because I know how to do it for everyone and then Rob Ritchie who does all the animations. This is before he did all the animations there. He then said, I've got an idea, Chris. Would you mind doing that then? I said, yeah, all right, why not? Go on. And he won. He was one of the winners along with Matthew Toffolo and everything else and we ended up going to Cardiff and out of the groups of us, they said, you can bring us up to three plus ones, really. It's a plus three, really. That is how maths work. It is. And one group sensibly brought their family. The rest just brought their mates. So one had this little kid and this was beautiful. He let him, of course, go forward. Oh, the rest of us were like, no, we'll let you have this. He got to push the doors open to the TARDIS and if anyone's been there, it's a 360 degree set. Once you push those doors open, you're inside the whole TARDIS. And he got to do the honors of doing it and it was amazing to watch him do that and we all felt envious of him and hated him in a way. But then they said, two hours, make yourself at home. Oh, did we? We ran laps in there. And it was fantastic. I like the idea that, like, Peter Capaldi comes into the TARDIS ready for the days she's filming, just watching you... And he came up. He came up to visit. Came up in his outfit. He was filming the Husbands of the River song, so he came up in the red velvet. And although there was a child running around, very excitedly, not talking about myself, another one, there was... I was the loudest one who went, Oh, my God! And Capaldi was just... And he picked up the little boy and sat him on the console, which is beautiful.  That's amazing. He wouldn't have had difficulty picking me up at this 16 stone. I'm sure he would have tried. Bless him. But no, that was an amazing cut. But no, for the shoot, I'm back on topic, sorry, I digress. I just thought it was a lovely story to share with Peter Capaldi. It was. It was a bit brighter. I don't mean to sound old. I'm only 31 for God's sake, but I still sort of think I'd like to see things more. If you had something to the scale of Capaldi's, but a little bit brighter, and less steampunk, it would be fantastic for me. Absolutely. Megan, Luke, what are we thinking? Favorite TARDIS? What do you want out of shooties? 12th TARDIS. And for shooties, I hope... It's good to get the wide range of answers. I hope to see, like, some more rooms, because the TARDIS is a control room. Doctors shouldn't be living in there all the time, so I'm hoping we can see just a little bit more. Or just put the bed in the console room, just like a sleeping bag underneath. I absolutely loved that in the 80s when they had their own rooms. Yeah, it was great. And it looked ridiculous. With the Leakley Bible, you're able to see the 1990s series that they never made after Paul McGahn. They were going to, like, have a staircase going up to, like, a viewing platform. So you could see where you'd landed and different... Like, stuff like that... I'm not saying take everything from the Leakley Bible, the cibles, but I think stuff like that to really open up the space and make it feel more like home as opposed to a craft. Excellent answer. Meg, what was your favorite TARDIS? My favorite was 11s, but the first TARDIS. See, that's mine. That is my favorite as well. I like, like, the glass floor. It's quite like a homely style of a TARDIS. Like, the same is not just, like, a craft ship. Yeah, and it suited Smith as well. I think it really did more so than his next one. I think that suited Capaldi more so. Something like that, maybe, yeah. Very good answer. Any more questions? Oh, hello. What's your name? Dominic. How old are you? I'm 28 years old. Ah, here we go. Sorry, I couldn't help it. What's your question? Okay, so what are your thoughts for all panelists? What thoughts on David Tennant being a new numbered incarnation of the Doctor, as in, like, specifically, 14. Being known as the 14. So David Tennant taking two slots in the timeline. Why not? Sure. I mean, look, we all know David Tennant's going to smash it because of how amazing an actor he is in anything he does. But I'll admit, him being another number is cheeky, but as a David Tennant fan, I'm not going to argue. Any other answers? I think he'll bring a lot of people back. I was talking to a friend of mine who said that even his brother and his family of all, they sat down and watched it as well. And they're in their 30s, these people, you know, and then his parents are older, obviously. And they absolutely loved the idea that he's back and they're going to be into... I think Russell's doing a bit of... He's using this... We all love or hate Jodie Whittaker. I think the series has been a bit mixed, but I think Russell geniusly is using the 60th to bring the Stalger back, to bring back David Tennant, to bring back an audience again, and then give Shutey the biggest jump-start going. And I think that's a genius move. So David Tennant's really just a caretaker, but a very good caretaker. A very, very good caretaker. And he just didn't want to go. He didn't, and now here he is again. Luke, Meg, anything you'll add? I think I prefer him coming back as like a new number than having Tenn back. I think the idea of having him being slightly different and not just playing the 10th Doctor is quite good. It's kind of more experimental as well, and plus his costume's really nice. We all had a look at the new costume. How many of us really wanted to just wear the coat? I know there's someone there to stop you, but yeah, exactly. There's someone there, but you would absolutely steal it if no one was looking. Yeah, exactly. Will, anything to add? Yeah, I think when it comes to the numbering, don't take it too seriously, because he's technically maybe Doctor 18 at this point. But when it comes to him coming back, it's a logistical thing. You were mentioning earlier, Russell was able to work around these creative hurdles. Shutey was filming the Barbie movie last summer. He's doing such education at the moment. The show, not the profession. And when it comes to like, you want something for the 60th, so he's got a great working relationship with Tennant, obviously. Catherine Tate's coming back. We're going to have Bernard Criven's again for a special. Rachel Tullally's back, of course. Some new directors as well. Chanya Button and I forget the name of the third. But yeah, creatively, I'm interested in what he does, but logistically, production-wise, it's a clever move. Oh, absolutely. Luke, anything to add? I'm excited to see him back as 14, and I'm happy he's 14. Obviously, we've had the curator. We know that the Doctor can pick old favourites, so it's going to be interesting to see how different he plays it, or whether he's going to be little bit going back to 10. Maybe he'll be more vain. Wouldn't that be good? Fantastic. Any other questions? Any other questions? Oh, we've got one round the side. Yep, this will be the last question. So make it a good one. Which one was it? I couldn't tell. What's your name? Alex. And it's kind of for everyone, and I think it's quite perfectly the last question. What's your favourite regeneration line? Oh, okay. All right, we're going to do this quick fire. So, final line of the Doctor. Which, what's our favourite final line? Will. Apart from carrot juice. We've got it. I do love Tag You're It. It's so playful. It's so fun. Off the top of my head, yeah, I think Tag You're It because it's short, snappy, optimistic and playful. I think you embrace the regeneration to come. Very nice, Luke. It's Capaldi's last line. Was it Doctor I Let You Go? Yeah, very good choice. You could tell it was personal. It wasn't just the character. That was Peter Capaldi's speaking. Absolutely. Meg. I like tenants. He says, I don't want to go. Because someone said... Is it because it's the most accurate? Because... Yeah, I'm with him returning when he regenerates. Like, maybe he'll kind of be quite happy or like, you know, accepting the fact that he's regenerating. So it might be like a little... Very nice, very nice. And Chris. It's a tie. Ooh. There's Tom Baker's brilliant one of It's the End, but the moment has been prepared for. But I also like Patrick Trouton's final little way of wavering around and everything. Oh! What's happening? I'm getting it giddy. We got the Trouton impression! Yay! You can't do this to me! And my one is from the TV movie where McCoy just goes, Ah! That's it. That's mine. 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So tell me a little bit about what you're doing and what your role is here and then we'll talk a little bit about what helped you get here Yeah, sure. So here. I'm the medical assistant. So basically I says tether who's the medical manager of the facilities I do like daily tasks and medication when cats nail trims Helping out with the guinea pig stuff. So yeah, I do everything medications vaccines I realized that like I need some animal experience before going to that school So tell me how that happened. What was how did what led you to your interest in this area? So I was the animal rescue service trek leader last year I'm actually going to be again this year, which I'm super excited about and we've been volunteering around Vermont And we went to this one shelter called the second chance animal center and they were building this brand new facility And it just I don't know I just warmed my heart to know that people are taking such good care of these animals and that animals are loved And I just want to be a part of that and I just want to help them all So why did you choose to be out? I love that the professors do research my b-court 12 teacher Lorame Coyado She does this amazing research with found those dolphins in Panama And so I signed up for it and this past summer I went to Panama to go do like float surveys in person and follow their behavior listen to acoustics It was just so amazing what you're really creating is this experiential learning here at the Humane Society But also capitalizing on experiences and research, which is going to make you a super awesome veterinarian Thank you


The NFC South might be the worst vision in football this year. I think that's a great opportunity for the Falcons to maybe sneak into the playoffs. Their current win total on the season right now is sitting at 8.5. A win week one versus Carolina, but then they lose against Green Bay. They lose week three in Detroit to a very fun line team and very similarly lose against the Jacks next week. They get two bounce back wins versus Houston and Washington to get to 500, a three and three. Then they lose in Tampa and to Tennessee to go to three and five. A loss to the Vikings, a win over the Cards and they're going to split with the Saints so they take the home win. And they lose to the Jets. They get revenge versus the Bucks with a home win. They sweep the Panthers for another and then they beat the Colts. They close out the season with two losses, splitting with the Saints on the year and losing in Windy City on New Year's Eve. That puts them at 8 and 9 and I don't think they're out of the playoff race because I think the winner of the NFC South and getting a playoff fit could be a 9 win team and it might be the Falcons.


Okay, I can already tell that this is going to get weird. Ladies and gents, it's Madison Harnish back here in my blue kitchen filming another MLM video. And today we're talking about a really bizarre MLM and the pearl parties that they do. But before we get into that, make sure you're subscribed, clicked the bell and like this video if you want to see more anti MLM videos in the future. And let's get into it. If you're new to my channel, I'm a girl who over-analyses a lot of random subjects. But one of my favorite subjects to talk about is MLM companies and all their bizarre interactions and business practices. MLM companies take advantage of innocent, unassuming people and cause them to lose a lot of money, a lot of friends and a lot of respect and dignity. But some of these MLM companies themselves are so random and strange that I really don't know where they come up with this stuff. So I thought I'd share a really weird MLM company today and have kind of like a mini series within my MLM series be like really strange, bizarre MLM companies. Today I want to talk about pearl parties and the MLM company, Vantel pearls. Vantel pearls is behind the infamous Facebook pearl parties. Vantel pearls is a jewelry company, which isn't necessarily strange in itself, but these pearl parties are a really interesting, bizarre concept and it gets even deeper than that. Here's how the pearl parties work.  These hunbots will read off your name, then crack open an oyster, which contains a special pearl grown inside that oyster. Yeah, sounds legit. This MLM company just happens to have all these pearl containing oysters.  And when you receive a pearl from a lovely hunbot on a Facebook live pearl party, the hunbot ships the pearl over to you with all the jewelry that you bought. Peacock black back inside. Isn't that gorgeous? I love the peacock blacks because they're like this beautiful color changing black and it's so pretty. I love this color. Look at gorgeous. Play the lottery. Because honestly it is a champagne. It is really beautiful. See how pretty it is, all together and you can see the variations, really big for a black one. Usually they stay pretty in the low sixes. So this one, $78. That is gorgeous. Obviously these pearls are extremely valuable and you can feel excited about this rare and priceless product that you just got. This rare one of a kind single pearl. I'm sorry, what's the point of having a single pearl? I don't really get that. Except for these pearls actually aren't valuable at all. The oysters, these hunbots open are not capable of producing the pearls of that color that are shown to be opened in the oyster. Does that make sense?  These pearls actually come from completely different oysters, cultured on an oyster farm. The pearls are then harvested, dyed and inserted into the oysters shown at the party. The oyster is then dipped into a chemical bath to seal it back shut as if it's been untouched and then vacuum packed into a preserving solution. Pearl party, hostess, boss babes, almost always wear gloves. If this was a natural pearl from a natural oyster, why would you have to wear gloves to open it? And that's extremely disappointing considering it was kind of the only cool aspect of Vantel Pearls, the company. The actual jewelry itself is extremely cheap and gaudy and just not good at all. And in my opinion, pearl parties were created as a gimmick to distract from the extremely cheap jewelry that they sell. Like a revamped QVC commercial, consultants in the pearl parties lead the people watching to believe that these pearls are worth a lot when they're opened. If that was the case, why wouldn't the consultants themselves just keep all the pearls? They'd definitely be making a lot more money than they're making right now in this MLM scheme. Well, these pearls are actually worth less than a dollar. Yes, they're worth less than a dollar. You could buy a meal at McDonald's that's worth more than these pearls or a subway $5 foot long. That's literally five times the cost of these pearls for a single sandwich. Think about that. This company is also extremely vague and misleading. The metal content of their jewelry, the actual quality of the products that they sell, and they overpriced everything on their site under the facade that these pearls are just so extremely valuable. And it kind of is like this shiny thing that distracts from really how cheap and bad all the products are. First of all, the chemicals used to preserve the oysters have not been adequately disclosed. So the pearl and the oyster aren't even technically safe to handle. Many believe because of Vantel Pearl's willful lack of disclosure about what chemicals they're using that the oysters are treated with highly toxic chemical compounds, such as ethanol, which is illegal to ship to Northern America and some parts of Europe without a disclosure form, or worse, formalin or brominated solutions. Why do all of these MLM companies go above and beyond to do the worst, shadiest things? Is it not enough that you're a pyramid scheme that you have to put people in danger too? So yeah, I wanted to talk about this MLM and make a short video because A, it's just such a bizarre concept to host a pearl party and do a pearl opening and it's just weird how it caught on. I really don't get it. But B, I haven't really heard too much about this specific MLM and it seems like a really dangerous company considering they haven't disclosed what chemicals they use in their oysters. They're kind of scamming people, not kind of. They are definitely scamming people into believing these oysters are worth a ton of money when in fact they're worth less than a dollar and any reputable jeweler would not even take it. It's literally that cheap and not valuable at all. What they're doing is actually extremely dangerous and dishonest. And I'd read a ton of different articles about people who've actually put a ton of money into buying Vantel jewelry to collect these pearls, thinking that they're like priceless pearls that they can, you know, add to their collection when in fact they're literally worthless and people have sunk so much money into it. So it's really gross and sad. And if you hear about anyone who's looking into hosting or buying from a pearl party, just let them know about this because it's crazy and super weird and just a bad thing to get into. So yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed that little bit of a quicker video on Vantel pearls and these pearl parties.  It definitely helps grow my channel. I'm kind of a newer channel wanting to grow a little bit more. And thank you guys for watching. Have a good one.