Properties of persons who defy sit-at-home order destroyed in some parts of the southeast, despite iPops reports its suspension of the order. And the Federal Inland Revenue Service loses bid to stop states from collecting value-added tax. And today is the International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies. We'll find out why that is important and why residents of Rivers State are worried about sooth in their air. Welcome to the Breakfast and Plot, CV Africa. I am Annette Felix. And I almost have them. Thanks for joining us and welcome to Tuesday morning. Alright, so top trending stories this morning. We saw the headlines. It says, VAT collection saga again, Rivers bids FIRS in court as WK Cushions taxpayers. So we know that this whole story began when River State government took this matter to court, saying that they're supposed to be receiving the value-added taxes in their states and that it was an aberration for the Federal Inland Revenue Service to go ahead and do that. They took this matter to court and the judgment was in their favour. They caught the clip that it was the constitutional right of states to go ahead and collect value-added tax. But we know that the FIRS didn't take this line down. They lashed out saying they were going to appeal and they went ahead to appeal. But again, the River State bit them in court as a Federal High Court in Port Hackett as dismissed the case, the application by the FIRS that was seeking to stop the River State government from enforcing the earlier judgment of the courts, which is for them to collect VAT. Now, this links to the stories that we've seen in recent time and the story we talked about yesterday on the breakfast with Mr. Paul and Ananda, a senior advocate of Nigeria, regarding courts giving deferring and contradictory judgments. So we could say that maybe this was the judge trying to sit up based on the invitation of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Tanka Muhammad, yesterday to make sure that, like Ms. Ananda Mba said, there is sanity through the courts and not chaos. Yeah, so yeah, that's the point that I wanted to start with. But I don't want to discredit that judge. He might have also looked at the details of the case and thought it was wise to give that ruling, not necessarily because of the influence of the Chief Justice of the Federation, CJN. So there is that. But I understand the fears that people have when there's some confusion like this in certain issues across the country. They always expect that there would be another court somewhere in Kirby or somewhere in Cross River or in Katsina, wherever that would give a conflicting judgment. The conversation really, you know, assigns that part is what exactly is the FIRS fighting for? If the court says it is not constitutional and the constitution is interpreted perfectly, then what exactly is the FIRS fighting for? What's your challenge with what the court has said? I understand that they have maybe a quota that they need to meet up with with regards to their collection of taxes across the country, which is remitted to the federal government. But, you know, there's also need for the FIRS to understand that there's still a Nigerian constitution that needs to be followed. This is also a good time to once again speak about the idea of restructuring that people have been mentioning.  At what point are states going to be able to take certain decisions for themselves? You know, certain things that people have said they need to be taken off the exclusive list for a very, very long time. Nigeria seems to just ignore some of these challenges. The country itself, the government itself, knows that there are certain things that are just not really right. If you're running, you know, the system that we're meant to be running, this thing shouldn't be this way. But we've ignored this for so long, you know, for decades. And just thrown our face the other way and act like we don't understand. And so it's a great thing that the River State has started this. I think Lagos State, I believe, has also taken similar steps. And I hope that other states across the country, and that's very likely where our next top trending story is going to. I hope that other states across the country will be able to see that, yes, they should be able to collect value-added tax for themselves. It is not a federal tax. It should be kept for the states and not submitted to the federal government every month. I still would love to understand better what the FRRS is fighting for here. If this is unconstitutional and the court has interpreted it perfectly to say that, is there going to be another court that would see the constitution different or read the constitution different? I don't know and I hope not. But once again, great move by the River State government. And I'm hoping that other states will follow. Let's move into our next top trending story, which is Governor Masari, who has said that he doesn't agree with River State collecting their value-added tax. And according to him, he says that this means that everybody, when you move to a different state, you're going to be paying a value-added tax. In Rivers, you're going to move to Canada, you're paying a different value-added tax. You're going to move to Bainway and different states and the value-added tax will be different. Yes, and so what? That's the way that it should be, I believe. And I believe that what he's fighting for, and this is the narrative that I've seen a lot of people point out, is the fact that some, actually a lot, not some, a lot of states across Nigeria, cannot really generate income for themselves. His state was only able to generate, I think it was 2020-2019, 8 billion Naira, but received 136 billion Naira from the Federation account that year. So how are you? And this is one of the things that has been mentioned many times about how we put people in power that are just completely lazy with ideas on how to develop their states, with ideas on how to make their states better, with ideas on how to improve on the revenue of their states. They are completely lazy. So you have governors who vie for these positions. They campaign. They do whatever they possibly can to get to that position only just to sit down there for four years and, you know, of course, get re-elected for another four years to really just be governors and not actually know what it takes or, you know, look after what it takes to develop the state. Look after what it takes to invest in infrastructure in the state to generate more revenue. Internet-generated revenue for many states is embarrassing across 36 states of Nigeria. There's probably only about five or six states that you can look at. For eight years, the idea actually makes sense. Lagos state is mountains above, you know, other states across the country. But if you look at states in the north, you know, Katsina, and some of all those and for all those states, the Internet-generated revenue is embarrassing. And you wonder what these governors really do for eight years, aside just be there.  That's a way above people who have gotten to the peak of their careers and spent 30, 35 years working for the federal government. You've been governor for four years, and suddenly you have these entitlements that are just hard to imagine. But in those four or eight years, you couldn't, in any way, develop new ideas with which to make your state more fruitful, or generate more revenue. And that's where, I believe, that is where Governor Massari is coming from. One other thing that people have pointed out with this is how do you want to collect value out of the tax for things that people in your state are not even allowed to enjoy? You want to collect value out of the tax for alcohol? Because yes, some of the money that gets to be spread to some of these states is from the sale of alcohol in states in the south. But you want to collect that fund, that money from them when you don't even allow the sale of alcohol in your state because of religious concerns, obviously. And so Governor Massari, I'm not sure what battle is fighting, really, but it makes absolutely no sense. And this should be one step before the next one concerning restructuring. So you know what's ironical for me regarding the story? Katsuna State Governor Amino Massari reacted to the river state ruling that basically went ahead to say that river state government can go ahead and collect VAT. His response to this was opposition. He said he would go ahead and appeal the court judgment to say that he wants the FIRS to collect taxes, not state government.  So you see what's ironical for me? He made this statement when he was speaking to the RMAFC committee yesterday. And in that same breath where he said states should not collect internally generated states should not collect VAT. In that same breath, he went ahead to challenge the current revenue sharing formula in Nigeria and said that it was wrong for federal government to collect 50% allocation and for states and local governments to have to share the rest. Now listen, he wants states' governments to get more money so that they can do more things in the state. Then he goes ahead to oppose one way for states to make more money, which is collecting value added tax. How does that even work? How do you say state government should get more revenue allocation? But one way for you to get revenue allocation is through taxes and you say no, states should not collect taxes. Is it because, you know, like many activists here, like Libor Soshoma have said, you know, people go cap in hand to get federal allocation. You want that. You want to collect allocation, you know, just handed down to you. But when you have to actually do the work, putting infrastructures in place for you to go ahead and collect those value added taxes and things that, you know, would go ahead and create more revenue for the state, it then becomes a challenge. So how then do you reconcile both thoughts? Do you really want more money or you don't? So I think Governor Masari is focusing on the wrong things. I think he also needs to be reminded. Oh, he lacks clarity on what VAT and taxes can do for a state. I think he does. You know, he does understand what value added taxes. He understands perfectly. He just is part of those people who have basically been governors to receive revenue from the federal government every month and spread it as far and wide as they possibly want to and then, you know, just be there for 80 years without any critical thinking, without investing in critical infrastructure, without investing in agriculture, without investing in education and anything. They're just there to exist as governor for 80 years. And once again, I think he should be reminded that the biggest challenge for cuts in the state right now is not value added tax. It is the insecurity that has ravaged his state to its knees. And it currently has made the news for the last few weeks every day with the worst stories. It's kidnapping. It's murder. It's killings. It's everything you can imagine. I think it was yesterday or on Friday that I said it, that there was a video in the Cassinus State House of Assembly of their lawmakers crying, you know, to their speaker and seeking solutions to the insecurity. Members of their State House of Assembly and their family members are being kidnapped. Wives, girlfriends, whoever, cousins are being kidnapped left and right. That should be governor Masari's problem, not whether a reverse state wants to collect value added tax or not. And it's embarrassing that we have not gotten to a place where some of these states really, you know, should be able to say, you are not working as a governor. You have no relevance as a governor. You've really just been there for the last four years. That's true. That's true. I'm glad for them to swallow. All right. Let's move on to our final top trending story this morning. And, you know, it's about security. We know Sheikh Gumi. He's been a very vocal voice when it comes to security. And he's been very controversial. We know his stance regarding amnesty for bandits and the federal government accepting them, saying they're repentant. He basically is a fan of the carrot. He says the stick wouldn't work. And he put this in a post on Facebook yesterday. He titled this Zanfarah, the Flaring of Crisis. So in that post, Sheikh Gumi went ahead to say that the military action in Nigeria by the federal government would not succeed in eliminating bandits. He said that these killer herdsmen, these Boko Haram terrorists are here to stay and that the only way to basically ameliorate the situation is to whine and dine with bandits, is to give them amnesty, is to forgive them, you know. And he says, no official pardon, no end to banditry. Well, how does that make sense? If I do something bad and you forgive me, there is a tendency that I would do that again because your forgiveness is easy to get. So how do you, like how, make it make sense to me to say that people kill other people and then you forgive them. Isn't that not license for other people to go ahead and commit crime? How does an official pardon work to checkmate bad behavior? Please help me. Sorry again. Well, it obviously doesn't. But all of this is coming from, you know, the foundations of this conversation where, you know, the Nigerian government and, you know, leaders in the north, including Shegumi have not, you know, I think have been deceitful with the nomenclature with which they describe these terrorists. And that's why for a long time we had unknown gunmen, we had bandits, we had killer herdsmen, we had different names for people that should have simply just been called terrorists. Terrorists. With the same speed that the IPOB was proscribed years ago, even before they, you know, became violent now, like we're going to talk about today. The ESNM and all of that. Yes. Before they got that way, when they were simply just having their rallies and being peaceful, they were immediately declared terrorists. I remember that day very well. So we've continued, you know, to live in that lie for obvious reasons, for personal reasons, because, oh, not personal reasons, but obvious reasons of certain characters in government and, you know, in positions of power who do not want to completely, you know, name these people terrorists. And of course, they immediately then know that the Nigerian government needs to do what it needs to do, what should be done with regards to eliminating terrorists from the country. So that's where all of this is coming from.  But it's very, very different. And the reason is, the Niger Delta, you know, persons, militants, had a cause that they were fighting for. There was something that they were fighting for. They believed in a certain cause, and that's the reason they were carrying out their, you know, pipeline vandalism back then, kidnapping here and there. It would be very, very unfair. It would be very, very unfair to put these two situations, you know, at par. It would be very unfair because everybody lived through the period of the Niger Delta militancy, and it was never, not even 5% as bad as what we have today, from these terrorists. If we're being honest with ourselves, it's only a person who decides to be honest with himself and every other person that would equate them. So they're both crimes, but they were on totally different levels. The atrocities were totally different. Once again, those people had a cause that they were fighting for. Can Sheikh Umi tell Nigerians what the bandits are fighting? What's their cause? What's their grievance with the Nigerian government? What exactly is the challenge that they have with the Nigerian state or the Nigerian station that has led them to commit these atrocities for the last couple of years? They have killed thousands. They have displaced thousands. They have kidnapped thousands, even. 2021 alone, if you look at the figures of people who have been kidnapped, it is shocking for just 2021. So I want you to then look at or imagine what the figures will be like since 2015 to date. What exactly is their grievance that you should now say, okay, let's have a conversation with them. Maybe we've been unfair to them in this regard and we should grant them honesty. There's no clarity concerning some of all this. It's just trying. Which the military law enforcement agencies were formulated and mandated to check? That's simply what it is. It's crime that should be punished. I don't completely... So I want to give a space where we can actually have a carrot and stick possibility that there is some level that we can say, okay, let's not completely use military tactics to deal with this. There's that possibility in a tiny way. But the body language of the Nigerian government concerning the life and property and the value of life in Nigeria should be one way. There's no okay... I know you killed 12 people. I know you wiped out the whole village in this way. Okay, let's pardon you. And then this one doesn't get the same pardon. It should be the same way that the Nigerian government and the Nigerian people and the Nigerian criminals, terrorists, bandits, everybody should know what the Nigerian government stance is with regard to murder of Nigerian citizens. And when you don't have that stance, it creates a space for people to commit these atrocities and expect that there will be somebody who will speak on their behalf and say, oh, let's grant them pardon and grant them amnesty. Until we take that step, until we have a government that knows and tells the Nigerian people this is going to be the Nigerian government stance with regards to taking the Nigerian life, the value of the Nigerian life, until we have that government who will continue to see these things crop up every now and then. And there's always space for five people to name themselves a particular group, carry AK-47s and commit atrocities against the state. That's it on Top Trending this morning, but guess what, there's more on the papers across the national dailies. Let's take a break here and we'll return with Off The Press.


What's up guys, EvilDeer here, and today's video is just my contribution to the campaign Esperanto Lives. This is a big international campaign where Esperanto speakers basically make a video, target Esperanto lives and share it around to just raise awareness. So first up, I'm EvilDeer, my real name is Richard Dalamall, but I prefer EvilDeer, and you guys need to call me that. No, it's just my online name, it's my YouTube name, because that's what I do most of the time. I'm a YouTuber. That's one of my secondary income sources, I suppose. So I do YouTubing and I do it in Esperanto. So first up, what is Esperanto? Esperanto is a created language. It's about 120 years old. It was originally created to be an international language for all people, so it was based on a mixture of the dominant European languages at the time. However, since then, English has become the most dominant language, but Esperanto is still growing and quite steadily. So I speak this language and I first learned it because I wanted to learn a language that I could actually conquer. I was not very confident. I tried French, tried Japanese, failed at both. So I tried Esperanto and I found that I could actually learn this language. And little bit by little bit, I became more and more fluent to the point where I'm now an Esperanto YouTuber and people actually look up to me regarding grammar and stuff like that, which I would never imagine would have ever happened previously. It just wouldn't have entered my mind if you asked me that seven years ago. If you told me seven years ago that I would be an Esperanto YouTuber, I'd go, what's Esperanto? That would be what I would say. So anyway, that's how I found the language. Well, not really how I found it, but that's why I learned the language, I guess. I found it if you're interested just randomly while surfing Wikipedia as you do. And now I want to speak about why I stuck with this language. So I learned it, it was easy. That was the first reason why I kind of stuck around. Every day I saw progress when I was learning it. But I really stuck around because of the friends and the connections I made within the community. The Esperanto community is like spread across the entire world. And I found that really helpful in pretty much every aspect of my life. It has helped me with my career because if I need to contact or find out something about a particular country, language, location, there's always someone who's able to help me. All I have to do, like for instance yesterday, I needed to write a letter in French. I posted it on Facebook. Within two minutes, I had four different people propose to translate that letter into French for me. That's how handy the language is. I could do that with anything realistically. I could ask about a culture, about something historically about a language, and I would be able to find someone with instantly who could help me with whatever that question is. So that's another thing. It's a really helpful community. Third, the reason I stuck around is I felt like I could make a difference. With the English community as an actor, I'm a nobody. I'm just some actor on the side who might occasionally get work if I'm really, really lucky. But that's about it. In the Esperanto community, I've made an impact. I have actually helped push for the Esperanto film industry in a sense. I'm not trying to be all bigheaded here, but I feel like I've made a contribution that's actually helped in some way. So that's why I stuck around, because the community's big, but just small enough for me to make my impact on it. And I guess that would be the main reasons. Friendship, ease of learnability, the impact I can make on the community. And I guess lastly, the culture. How many people can say that they speak the only created living language in existence today? And it makes a really good conversation breaker. I'll tell you that. You just pop out, I speak Esperanto and pretty much everyone's asking you questions. And then from that point on, you know, whatever strangeness there was in a conversation, it just gets so much more awesome with that. So that's pretty much it. Just wanted to share my thoughts on the language. And I hope you've enjoyed this video. So if you like it, like it, share it around, sub to my channel if you haven't already. If you don't speak Esperanto, all my videos have English subtitles, so you can just turn that on. And that's it. I'll see you all in the next video. And it is customary at the end of my Esperanto videos to threaten you all. But today, since I'm speaking in English, I'm not going to threaten you. You have to learn Esperanto to truly understand how horrific I can be. Have a great day. But you can also subscribe to my channel if you're interested. There's a link in the description below. Donate now. So I'm a donator now.


Yeah, I can't, I can't understand what you're saying. There's three people watching it. The thumbnail's been changed, cool. It still says meet the moderators, unless they refresh it, there we go. Okay, now it's a simple Monday video critiques. Okay, so now we should, oh god, we're gonna be on the YouTube live now. We are live by the way, just so you know. Awesome. Okay, so we'll just do it on here today since this is all that's working for whatever reason. Okay, that's sure. I don't, I, I'm scared. Daddy, I'm scared. You're something. This isn't video critiques, I got lost. I don't know what I'm doing. All right, so. You got 99 plus unread bells. You should go check that. Where are we Michael? So. I don't, I need to don't it. I don't know. I'm a little bit confused as to why all of them are foreign comments. Probably we have some English people in here so I could, I could read. Hello, English. Oh dear. How many people are actually in here? This is what happens when we do it later on.  All right, cool. We're good to go. We're getting a bit of English. Not that we don't mind foreign, of course. Yeah, no, that's fine. I prefer foreign, to be honest. I just can't read Spanish. I can't read. I can't read foreign. All right, guys. So today things are gonna be a little bit different, obviously. Normally every Monday we do our live video critiques and today I am like deathly ill and not doing so well. So today I have Jordan and Derpy with me to help me out and do the live video critiques and do the heavy lifting and the talking. So. Hello. Yeah. Hi, I'm not eating a donut. So I'll let you guys introduce yourself and then we can get this started. Who wants to go first? You go first, Jordan. All right, I'll go first. Hi, my name is Jord Wilde.  Have we been there for a few months? Eh. And yes, hello everyone. Beautiful. Hello, my name is Derpy Thunder at YouTube.com slash Derpy Thunder. I make YouTube videos on YouTube, the platform on the internet. My videos consist of many interesting things such as game play and literally nothing else because I'm unoriginal. Please go look at my channel and like all of my videos. Thank you and please enjoy the rest of your day. Awesome. All right, so let's go ahead and well, there goes my voice again. Let's go ahead and pick the first channel and we can go from there. I have a lot of people in here that love freedom. I love freedom. If you guys in the chat could tell us if we sound all right because we've had problems in the past where one of us is too loud and one of us too quiet. If you could let us know in the chat if we sound all right, if one of us is too quiet, then please let us know.  Oh yeah, yeah, volume wise, yeah. Cool story, bro, but needs more dragons. No, I don't have enough of the dragons. Yeah, you got it. Yeah, you got a side eye. All right, cool. Cool, so let's go ahead. Who has a channel? Yeah, I think all the people commenting on the channel. No, so guys, we're all here from Pinterest. Remember, you need to leave the title to your video that you want us to check out and we will check it out and pull it up in the stream for us to watch. No phone numbers. Unless you're calling me. So video titles, guys, we know it to check out. Please. Everyone here is foreign. It's brilliant, I love it. Parkour Pig, there we go. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Parkour Pig. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. All right. No, I have no idea what I'm doing. Got a channel? All right. Yep, we are going to Parkour Pig. All right. Okay, so it's an actual sketch of real life. You guys don't quite dance really. Oh, brilliant. So I'm assuming this is like a Allenge? Or like a... Oh, I bet it's like a horse, like basketball with parkour. Mike, we have our favorite intros of all time. Yeah, I'll let you guys reiterate that. Yeah, so if you guys have watched before, we have no problem with dubstep or drum and bass intros. The only time in my opinion that dubstep and drum and bass intros work is if your video is actually as powerful and as energetic as your intro instead of going... It's just not... It doesn't feel the same. So that's just something I could probably... That's the only thing I've got to say about the intro. It's good to start things with really high energy, but that's kind of the problem is it starts with almost way too high energy that you feel like you're going to watch this video on a bunch of dubstep lasers flying everywhere. Yeah, man. If it's like a parkour channel, start out with the parkour intro. If you have a dubstep channel, you can start out with the dubstep intro. Do people have dubstep channels? Is that like a thing? Well, we've seen like beatbox channels and stuff like that, and that would be fitting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm liking the... I'm liking the different angles of comedy there where someone goes, Ha, you lost and there's a guy going... Which is funny. It's that kind of stuff works. I'm liking... Yeah, I like how the camera actually jumps around to different positions. Yeah, it's very obvious you're using one camera shot and then you're just using it to do different close-up shots. Good. What do you guys think about video quality and everything? I think it looks pretty good personally. I think the quality is great. I think the first thing I notice is just for having the camera be stable for shots, like when they're climbing the wall here in the beginning, just be sure to lock the focus on it. So that it doesn't sit there and focus in and out and blur back and forth and everything, which can quickly distract you from watching it. Yeah, and there's also pretty simple ways to stabilize your camera that you could do without having to buy full, steady cams or shoulder rigs, stuff like that. So... Now, because you guys live in England, because I can tell by the accent, we can all agree, English people here, that the weather is always gonna be an issue. Yeah. So... What's the sound again? The fact that you've got wind picking up in your microphone going... There's different ways of doing it. It completely depends on what you're filming on. If you're filming on a simple digital camera, then it's kind of hard to fix. No, they even have wind screens for those now. Yeah, but to be honest, I'm just going by the age of these kids. I mean, the age of these kids, I doubt they're gonna be buying cameras of that magnitude. They probably just have a simple digital camera, which they film on... Yeah, but they have wind screens for those, is what I'm saying. They even have them for your phone. They don't always work, though. Do you feel that? I mean, mine works just fine. On my digital camera. Mine does. I'm obviously doing something wrong, then. Do you have a wind screen on it? Well, built-in iPhone 6 Plus is and whatnot. Even if I'm filming, it's still gonna be... No, you put a wind screen over the microphone. It's like a sticky one. Oh, wow, yeah. It's $10, and you get a whole pack of them that you could stick on. It depends what they're filming on. I wouldn't... It goes on literally any camera in the world. Hello, ladies and gentlemen, welcome. We have now canceled our Monday video cutrie and replaced it with our Monday wind screen debates. Please cast your votes into the ballot box. All I'm saying is, you are clueless at the moment.  I don't imagine sticking a wind screen thing on my iPhone 6 Plus. Yeah. But I'm sure you are correct. I am correct. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Of course, of course. Yes, as I was saying, audio-wise, even if you just stood in front of the wind, that always, that does help. If you know where the wind is going, you can just stand in front of the wind, and it does help about quite a bit. And I also like the sped-up parts where you're swinging your friend. You've got this little timer here. Yeah. And how long you've been swinging your friend, which is well over 25 seconds. I think the camera work in the editing is very well done. Yeah. I'm very impressed by the quality of the video. So if you guys look on here, this is what I'm talking about. There's a little sticky wind screen that you can put on virtually any camera, phone, digital camera, whatever, and it covers up the mic. So when the wind hits it, you can hear the sound of the wind outside, but you can't hear the scratchiness on the mic because this diffuses it.  Yeah, it's called a dead cat. And they come with a pack of, I believe, like 10 of them. So yep, I use it on all my vlogging cameras and phones and stuff like that. It's pretty useful. I mean, couldn't I accomplish the same thing by just going into my dryer?  That's like, oh no, that's part of my camera. It does look like it. Yeah, yeah. That's kind of cool though. Yeah. So yeah, I like the use of graphics, like you were saying, the timer, that's cool. The bottom, I think, is nicely fit in there. This is... This is different. I like it. Yeah. Oh, God, the ending. What was that? I was just skimming through. Jordan, is this your channel? Hey. What happened to the ending? Go to the very end, like 9.57. Okay. Oh, oh no. Oh my God. What? Why would you do that? Wait, what? That's a terrible idea. Fans hurt. Fans spin. You have it still. Oh, I see you. Oh my God. Is that me? Yeah, that's what I asked. Is this your channel? Oh my God.  Often ends in pain. Oh my God. So one last thing I'd like to say about this channel, like the target demographic for this, it's one of those things I feel like it'd be fun for your current viewers, but as far as like growing and making this be seen like cross-platform, organically growing stuff, it's probably not gonna do that well.  So if this is what you did here, then that's good, but this is just one of those things that are just fun to share with your viewers and fun to look back on. I can hear you in the background, Mike. I don't know if that's me or I can hear you on someone else's channel. What? Are you watching yourself, my compressor chord? No, I was talking. It might be me. I can move my microphone away a little bit. Wait, were you watching one of my videos? No, it's somebody. I'm confused. Blame the noob. All right. Mike, I'm always watching one of your videos. I appreciate it. All right, so let's go ahead and pick the next video. All right. I can hear myself. You can? Yeah. From where? I'm the stream? I'm pretty sure it's Brendan. It's me? I can't hear it over, Brendan. Oh, I can. Let me do this. Okay, now try it. Say something. I can still hear. But it's going to be delayed. It's probably like it's yours. OK, that's not me. Yeah, I can't hear it and you can't hear it. So if you're the only one hearing it, then. It's gone now. OK, OK, whatever. Anyways, back to the critiques. Next up, we have. Oh, yeah, that's what we're doing. Next up, we have Firewolf. We've gotten so distracted on so many different levels tonight. Wildfire Wolf. Bad guns of cod pubes. I can tell instantly this is advanced warfare. You know, it's fishing. Fishing. Whole dude. I haven't gotten this DLC yet for fishing. This is awesome. I'm actually using a very. As far as your. As far as your capture quality, you're on 720, which is not. What's up, everybody? I'm going to show you how to use. If you can go up to 1080, that's always best. Your audio is actually pretty good for what I can hear. Yeah, the audio is very good. I'd say at least 1080p or 720, 60. Yeah, it's kind of round where you want to aim. But then again, we haven't heard. Yeah, I'm heard him scream yet, which is always an issue. We're gaming. What is going on? I keep on changing the video with Call of Duty. It looks like he's playing on an Xbox. So that could be hard to get the top quality recording. So maybe. Oh, yeah, the X-Bone only records at like 960p or something. Here, let me skip halfway. Oh, foul language. Yeah, I just hit. As a British person, as a British good Lord, as a British person, I'm sorry, it's a language. But, you know, obviously on the stream, maybe not. As a British person, I do that for the English. With my tea. He seems remotely calm throughout the whole thing. Yeah, that's not that I'm going to comment on. It's like, yeah, it's just very, very calm and relaxed. Like, I just picture this guy chilling on his couch, like a kickback, which is both a good and a bad thing. It's like, I know a lot of very chill, calm commentators. I know there's a huge market for that. But with Call of Duty, I don't I don't know about that. Yeah, like right there. He's like, I just want to throw my controller at the wall.  Oh, I should have gotten that kill. I see. If you're recording yourself, I mean, I'm put on YouTube for reaction wise. Are people really going to react? You going? Well, I don't know. It's it's a 50 50. There's some games and stuff where you can just be chill and play. And there's some where you need like a really high energy to drive that selling point to help make it more entertaining and that much more watchable. So it kind of depends on what you're going for. Like, for instance, this video is a challenge video. It's not funny moments in Call of Duty. You know, this is showcasing this challenge. This isn't showcasing your comedy skills or anything like that. So I think it's acceptable for what you do. I'd just like to see how it works with your other stuff. Like, if all your stuff is like this or if. Yeah. And if I could just make a comment like this, this is more of a personal thing than anything, but I do think it should be noted considering, you know, like first impression audience and all that type of thing. It's like as I'm watching this, every time you die or like do something wrong, you seem to get really, really like irritated. And me sitting here watching this, when you get incredibly irritated, I feel incredibly irritated. It's kind of like this mere reaction type thing. Kind of feel like you're playing it.  Come on.  And there's a certain amount of that before it starts to enter the realm of being a little bit. Well, what would the word be? Annoying. Yeah, yeah. Overall, you're a very calm commentator, which I have no problem with that. But especially with a high energy game like Call of Duty, I don't know how well that works. That seems to be a big problem that happens quite frequently in the world of Call of Duty videos. And it's something you have to really try hard on and push yourself to go above and beyond. Yeah, overall quality and like concept of the video, I think, is good. Yeah, there's just a couple of things I think you need to think about long term. You know, how you how you present yourself, how do you want others to perceive you? And when you start developing and building your name, like what do you want that name to be associated with? You know, is it just, you know, about like the cool things that you could do or the cool challenges you can complete?   So like, yeah, you kind of want to think about where you want to take this because as you begin to build your brand, that's what matters. Well, and I see in your logo, it has the WF Wildfire Wolf. And I do see eSports below it. So that does tell me right up to that that realm. Yeah, you're you're planning on doing more titles than just this. So that that's good. Well, they're saying that your channel, your channel, as far as I can see, is what is this mount? It's a very lovely photo, but it's of the mountain.  Don't see the record. I don't see the connection. Speaking of that, one thing I've noticed about eSports players, for whatever reason, we've been talking to him more and more lately. And they seem to just focus on showcasing their skill. They're not really too focused on growing their YouTube channel. And if that's the case, sure, whatever. But if you do want to grow your YouTube channel, currently your channel set up to feed view instead of browse view. And like what Jordan mentioned, you don't have a banner stuff like that. So you could easily, like, you know, set up your channel nicely and start optimizing on that pretty quickly. Mm hmm. Get some get some thumbnails in there, because it doesn't look like you really have thumbnails set up either. Yeah, he said he still needs someone to make him channel art. Ah, understand. You can do it yourself. Yeah, you can get on paint, grab that and put some titles on, which is totally ideal. I do my videos. Yeah. Whether or not you want to is a different story. Yeah, yeah. And somebody called Beasley says, if you checked out my channel, I'm coming up to 50 subscribers and I'm going to do a giveaway. What are your opinions? Hmm. All right. Is that what we're doing next? Yeah, he's been posting that. He's been posting comments saying check out my channel, because I'm going to be doing a giveaway of 50 subscribers. I want to know people's opinions or channel critiques. Yep. And then one last thing real quick. It just cuts out really quick to black at the end. So another thing when you start asking for graphics, maybe you try and see if someone can help make you an outro slate to redirect your traffic to where you want. Hmm. That's that's kind of the thing. I don't mean to like cut to assumptions here, but a lot of the videos seem like they were just taken from perhaps the Xbox or yeah, I'm reading the tags right now. It says PS4 share. OK, see that. Yeah, exactly the tags right there. It seems like someone just hit the record button on their console and then told it to upload directly to YouTube. Yeah. And I know that's it is a lot of work to take the video and edit it and add extra things to it. But that's it definitely can separate good channels from from bad channels, putting in that extra effort can really go a long ways. OK, so, Jordan, you want to link me to that one? I'll link to the channel. OK. All right. So this is Beesley. Hey. So what first video we got? I don't want to hear the custom or the four videos in total. Yeah. That is a Banksy. They were that latter as a day wasted, which is an English artist, a YouTube thing. YouTube has a day wasted. Yeah, they have like six or seven banners you could choose from. I believe that's one of them. How is it really? Well, I can tell you, that's Banksy. That's Banksy art right there. I have no clue what that means, so I'm just going to watch a video. Which one are we on? Culturally uneducated. I just click the latest one, the Minecraft factions to Godax. Godax. Wait, no. Godax. You'd say that better than Godax. You have to question extreme it at the same time over and over. Godax. What are you wanting? I can't really hear it. Yeah, I cranked it up and I can kind of hear. So obviously, first impressions, you need to upgrade your microphone. Yes, Brennan can't even hear you. I can hear you, but it kind of sounds like you're underwater, to be honest. I always spell it like you before. I don't know why. Yeah, either underwater. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. Something just popped up in black text that was sorry for sniffing. OK, it says he's sick. So that doesn't make the microphone any worse. But yeah, well, kind of sounds like Mike right now. Yeah, hoping me. Because like your video quality is not bad. However, you're being hindered by your audio quality at the moment. And really, it's not too difficult to get good audio. Now, I know a lot of people, they start out and they don't have good audio, but you can use your phones like voice recorder. You can sync that up. When I first started, I used an MP3 player with the voice memo setting. You know, I was actually fairly surprised that the like iPhones or current generation smartphones ability to record audio. Yeah, it's I never really that never crosses my mind as a solution that you can use. But yeah, I guess I've used it more times. Yeah.  And, you know, I didn't have a lab mic or anything. So I just took a cheap pocket camera and literally put it in the actor's pocket. And then it picked it up.  And it might not be perfect audio, but it's better than. Well, I think that's that's like filmmaking in a nutshell. Filmmaking have to be creative with what you have. Yeah. And YouTube is no different. YouTube is a lot of people don't see it as being that. But YouTube is literally filmmaking just a different form.  You have to make it all choreographed together to make it work. Yeah. Don't have to be masterful cinematographer, but it's always good to learn best practices and kind of find ways around common problems. So I think as you continue to grow, that's going to be a huge.    So that's all up to you and what you want to provide. And I'm sure Brennan can help suggest some cheap microphones so you can ask for it for Christmas or your birthday or go mow five lawns. The shirt. SM7B. Yeah, about cheap. I mean, my original, my original thing about this was he was asking about I'm getting up to 50 subscribers and I'm going to be doing a giveaway at 50 subscribers and I was asking what your guys opinion on that was. Well, my question is like, what's what's the giveaway? Yeah, maybe you should keep that money for the giveaway and buy yourself a mic and that'd be a better present to your viewers. Yeah, you know, yeah.  I've spent $10 on a little karaoke mic. It actually sounded pretty decent. Just had no bass. It was just very, very tinny, but it sounded clear and crisp and it was loud. Um, I think it was like $7.99. I used that for a while in my comedy sketches and short films. You know, half the time, environment can be your microphone as well. You know, you don't need a super expensive microphone, but just whatever you use, don't back yourself into a corner. Don't have a wall right next to it. Try not to be in that large of an open room. I mean, you don't need to buy expensive sound proofing and put it everywhere, but just try to reduce the echo, reduce the noise. There's plenty of things you can do to improve the overall quality and crispness of a microphone. It doesn't need to be five hundred thousand dollars just to make you sound like you're presentable. Now, at the end, I think you kind of took a nice direction with it because he, um, he just cut to music instead. Now, it might be copyrighted music, but besides that, just the fact that, you know, he's not focused so much on the audio and he's focused on the visual, I think that's a nice solution for now. But yeah, as far a giveaway, like there's nothing wrong with giveaways and they're fun, but in these early stages of YouTube, you need to kind of focus on your channel and not force people to subscribe in return for giveaways. Yeah. Mm hmm. There's about 32 subscribers and all your videos have one or two views. So who's going to do a giveaway giving away to theoretically one or two people, which in my books is a waste of your money. So I would use your money to be working on your own channel. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of make it better. I think giveaways are fantastic. I think it's it's a great idea. It's a great direction. I think they're a lot of fun and they bring a community together.  Well, how many of those people are going to come to your channel, sub you and then stick around waiting desperately to get something for free. And once they either do receive it or find out they didn't receive it, they're just going to leave and never return. Same goes for shout out channels and stuff like that. Yeah. I mean, they're fantastic ideas, but that's what they are is there to bring communities together. The unfortunate is you need a community to bring together first. And it seems to me like this channel, you started this up not that long ago. So you have still a lot of base groundwork that needs to be done before you can really start getting these type of things going. Yeah. We don't we don't talk a lot about tags. I feel like those are equally as important. There's only three that he uses. But yeah, we do we do touch on it roughly every week. But yeah, if there's someone that like has no tax, we make sure we point a finger at that. But yeah. Well, because I just noticed this one, I mean, it has Minecraft, it has video game culture and then just video game which are very, very incredibly broad tags. There's try it when you're doing tags, think a little bit more about how to narrow the selection down. It's it definitely pays to do your homework a bit. And well, both types of homework, don't neglect your homework for you to stand school kids. But it definitely pays off to do a bit of research to try and figure out tags and what's popular at the moment and what you can really target to possibly bring in a few more people. Yeah, someone said we did a video on tags. Yep, we did. I've done plenty. Yeah. How many people go back to watch all my old videos? I can't tell you. Well, we don't need to like talk about tags for an hour. I'm just saying, I think it's kind of important to point out. Use them. Yeah. Three three tags, very, very broad ones at that, not going to get the video very, they normally recommend like 10 tags that are both generic and specific. Yeah. Also, too, buddy, go use it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's awesome. Definitely. We get it for free. We do. All right. So let's go ahead and pick out a new one. Okie dokie or you take one, Brennan. My pick. All right. What do we got here? All right, everybody. Some of your channels. What do we got? They're your channels. Are these new emotes? I haven't seen these little wavy things before. Oh, my God. What's with the thumbs up in the. I don't know. That's. Oh, my God. YouTube, what are you doing? OK. You know what? I got excited. I'm terrible at picking somebody do it for me. I'm going to grab a donut. I got too nervous. I'm going to go grab a donut. I stress eat. I do.  It's a personal problem. So do you have one? I'm looking at one right now. Let's check out this guy. This is who are you? Captain Curtis. Yeah, four. For whatever reason, I went over my phone instead of the computer. Oh, OK. He's a four. London's calling clan official patrol 40 hashtag. Brackets, prison break. Bracket. Oh, prototype. A little, a little too much Twitter there. Must wear a little too much internet. Understandable. So this. Wow, that's British. So they've gotten GTA 4 and just put police British police cars in there. I love it. Anyway. I do. Notice that. It's a game. I don't actually know. As we all can see, the British police cars are ugly, but interest. I think that voice is in game. OK. So it's not not a game. Then I think so, yeah. This can't be a game. Is this supposed to be like a comedy sketch, maybe? Oh. Where they like, I think what they try to do. Yeah, role playing video game. Oh, this is cool. So that is them talking. Yeah, I thought so. Yeah. OK. So I was going to say, this is a pretty cool automatically that that pumped the production value like through the roof. Yeah, I was going to say, by all means, take no offense that I thought you were part of the game. That's actually a compliment. Because yeah, I've never played the games. I'm not familiar with. Yeah, that that's well done if that isn't part of the game. That's that's crazy. Maybe since this is kind of like a first impressions critique.  Yeah, so especially someone from the country where this is meant to be based because this is very British. This is like every British cop show ever. Yeah, I'd really like to be. I'd really like to sit down and listen to what they're actually saying on here. I think you've definitely grabbed the attention of the British crowd. There you go. Oh, you caught my attention. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. This sounds great. I love it. Metropolitan police. I love it. I love it. Especially with the I love the English number plate there. I love it very much. So as far as an ATP, very nice, very nice. I don't I don't think I need to question the audio. Yeah, maybe boost it a little bit. So it comes over top of that siren channel. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've just pulled it up on. And maybe I have a pretty low right now. So maybe instead of having it as a 32 minute video, maybe have it like as a highlights video. I know it's a role play. It's a role play or like break it up at the same time. Not everybody is here to watch a role play GTA five that GTA four video.  Well, maybe there's a pretty cool. Like what an awesome video. This is awesome. Just like you love these episodes. Awesome role play as usual. The scenario is intense. You know, it's getting good feedback. This is this is me being a noob on this kind of thing. Yeah, but I do agree. Like, you know, you could have easily chopped this up into three episodes and released them over a course of three days. Yeah, this is obviously like a lot of work that goes into this. If you're setting up a whole scenario and all that stuff to, you know, sell this video or even to like 15 partners. Yeah, you could be you could like a full on cliffhanger with this stuff. Yeah, yeah. What happens next? It's like one of the things we often talk about is YouTube rewards, watch time and the new algorithm will push your videos higher on the search results, depending on how long people are watching. And if they don't watch the whole video, it really hurts your search results. So it's easier to watch a 15 minute video than a 30 minute video. Like, for instance, us three, we're not going to finish this video. Unfortunately, we might later, but not right now during the stream. So look at that British ambulance. Oh, ugly. I love it. OK, so you have guaranteed that Jordan is going to finish the video later. He's already subscribed. Yeah, I can't wait to watch more. If I can just say, like, this is really cool. And that's coming from someone who cannot stand GTA. Really? You don't like GTA? I do not like GTA. I can't watch videos on it. I can't play it. It's I absolutely despise it. But this I think this is really cool. I could watch this. So, yeah, I'd like to see like Minecraft and other games, to like take this to other games you could role play on and set up, like, you know, free range games for you. Oh, yeah, like I'm surprised that. In fact, it very well might be if I go to his channel here and look real quick. Oh, I'm surprised more Gary's mod isn't on here. No, it's actual title says high quality police and aviation videos. Oh, OK, well, they're really interesting. That's the concept. All their actual aviation videos. What was that? What? Somebody on someone's huge right now. I think your computer is playing games with you. I think your computer is haunted. Oh, no, it's my audio. Sorry. It just sounds like it's coming from another computer haunted by haunted by the ghost of Zesty plays. You'll just hear coughing in the background. Yeah, I'm sick. Kill me. All right. I like that. Yeah, you have a really really, really unique channel. Definitely targeted, unique audience. And I think that's one thing that you need to think about is just your watch time. Take a look and see what your actual watch time percentage percentages are. And if it's like, you know, 70, 80 percent, then forget anything that I just said. But if you're seeing it like down to 20 percent or 10 percent or whatever, then you definitely need to reconsider the length of your videos. But. Oh, London's calling was recruiting. Can I be on it? All right. So let's go ahead and pick a new video. So, guys, make sure to leave your video titles that you want to check out in the chat and we will check it out. Mike. Yes, I've got a serious problem. You run out of donuts. No, but I've got one left. I don't know if I should eat it now or after the stream. Please don't make yourself sound more American that you do right now. Cut it. My weight is a serious problem. You have no idea how fat I am. I weigh like a whole 117. And I'm serious. Gosh. What he forgot to mention is he doesn't have legs. Right. Yeah.  Oh, hey, here's some. Freak the meta. 80 bruiser, Katarina, get some League of Legends stuff going here. OK, the link over. I don't even know if that's actually their video or if that's. Oh, I think it is. OK, well, here's the channel. I don't know. Oh, wait, never mind. I found I found the video. There's the video. There we go. God, I'm such a nerd. But oh, whatever. All right. So we're watching no dragons, please. See, you guys are going to judge his video. I'm going to judge his game play. This may not work. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Oh, you should. The meta is going to be an AD bruiser, Katarina. Well, first is audio. Yeah, clippy clip clip. It's much louder than than a lot. But yeah, it might be a little too loud and sounds like an easy fix. So it doesn't sound like a bad quality mic. And it sounds like it's like the gain is too high or something. Yeah, it sounds like you have a snowball or something. You're talking way too close to it. But here we go. Now, another first impressions said, what's up, guys? It's freak the meta. However, your channel name is no dragons, please. And that's what your watermark is as well. So it makes me kind of confused.  Or is this like a re-upload channel where you upload other people's work here or? There's like community channels and stuff where they showcase other people's work. Well, his character's name is no dragons, please. OK, that's true. So that's, I guess, an interesting thing is this is freak the meta. However, all your characters are named no dragons, please. And no dragons, please. I mean, it's a pretty easy change to them of like the dragons.  OK, so yeah, that's the series. Oh, it is. Oh, OK, gotcha. Then maybe just rephrase it.  What's up, guys? We're back with more freak the meta. I said, this is freak the right. Yeah, you know, I just have one question.  OK, sorry, Mike, you can continue your critique. I just had to get my two cents out there. If you need an announcer pack, I know someone who has a good one. The Derpy Thunder announcer pack. Just self plug the hell out of myself. Actually, I don't even think that pack works anymore with the current update, sadly. Oh, really? I have to go up to make a new video. Yeah, I could go make a new pack. I could take like community suggestions and make a new pack. There you go. Yeah, there you go. And I get 10 percent commission coming up. So, Brennan, the channel avatar, is it is that related to game? No, I'm not real sure what that is. No, OK, I didn't think so. Yeah, that might just be something he's gotten or coming up with. It looks like his banner is very much League of Legends related. So it seems like the general direction and goal of his channel is to do gameplay of this particular game. Yeah, League of Legends and other competitive gaming. Yeah, which I will be the first to say League of Legends love the game to death, but it is very difficult to make a channel on. And I'm sure I don't need to tell you that. But it's it's one of those games. I mean, right here, you have a 31 minute video. That's because usually when people do League of Legends videos, you know, it's a game where every single game can last anywhere from 30 to 40 minutes. And then you upload that entire thing very rarely are you going to find people that are willing to watch the entire game. I'm not going to tell you there isn't an audience for it because there are so many channels out there that have done it successfully. So there are definitely people that will watch entire games of this. But I think the big thing that that should be pointed out is the microphone quality because while it may not be yeah, while it may not be that big of a deal when you are doing a game such as League of Legends, where you need to put up 30, 40 minute videos, you want that audio quality to be the absolute best you can possibly make it because you're asking people to take 30, 40 minutes and listen to you and watch the game. And so it can be very difficult sometimes to keep people's attention. I don't know if you have on here if I go back to the channel. I know highlights are a popular thing that people tend to do, especially with this game, just to get people's attention kind of draw people into your channel. And yes, I do actually see you have a couple. That's the reason I also do short stuff like highlights and montages. Yeah, and I see there are actually quite a few shorter videos. So that's good. That's that's very good to see. That's something you should keep up. Yeah, I mean, like I said earlier, it does sound like you have a good mic. Just turn down the recording like like when I recorded my mic before I set it down to like 10 percent because I knew I'd scream a lot and give like a lot of energy. Yeah. And that way you can always change it later. You can't fix, you know, a peeked out mic, but you can fix the quiet mic. Right. And in a game like this, you really don't need to scream or anything. It's not that higher, high energy of a game. But commentating is something that's very important. I know even myself, when I started my channel, I I can't offer much as way of suggestion just because I'm not really that familiar with making a channel based on one game. I tend to do things more based in variety, but I do know when I first started my channel, I contemplated making a bunch of League of Legends videos because they are so good at practicing commentating. The fact that you have to spend an entire game, again, a very long period of time, anywhere from half an hour to, well, up to an hour.  It is definitely a good way to practice it, commentating. No. The only thing I could really recommend is I'm not huge in these games now, really. I've played maybe like 15 minutes of this game once. That's about all my knowledge. However, OK, all right. When I first used to I used to get on the YT talk forums a lot. And I'd go on there and talk with other creators and stuff. And there was a creator by the name of Uber Danger. I don't know if you guys are familiar with him or not, but he was at the time, I think he had like 17 subscribers or something. And we talked to for a little bit and he seemed like a cool guy. And I checked out of stuff, it wasn't bad. And within like a year now, he's almost at a million subscribers and he's focused solely on League of Legends. Yeah. So he blew up really well. And obviously he's doing something right. So it might be worth checking out his channel and seeing like what makes this successful because it literally just exploded. And within, you know, like each month, he'd get another 100,000 subscribers. And it was just ridiculous how quickly he grew. I know Uber Danger, a lot of his success, I know comes from just his. He puts up videos that are very short, but very highly edited. So they're kind of, you know, it's not the typical League of Legends channel where, again, you rely on these super long videos. It's he probably he was able to get his channel up there because he has a whole bunch of very, very short, but very, very good videos. So as you were talking earlier, YouTube's whole retention rate thing. Yeah, was able to make him go up there. And I know that's also it's kind of funny. I look up Uber Danger. I also find Spazzy on here, which I equally remember him as a channel. I actually used to watch the guy when he had around, I think. He had like 400, 300, 400. It was before he even made a new channel because he switched over to a completely different channel. I know he's equally. He doesn't solely do League of Legends stuff. It's kind of his main focus, but I know it's all based around being able to make videos that can really keep people's attention and sometimes doing the solid nothing but the commentary and nothing but the game. It can work, but I don't know. It's it's very difficult to do. He did mention that he was recommended to weekly montages. So he thinks he's going to do that. So I think that would be a nice direction to take it. That would be a fantastic way to do it, especially if you want your entire channel to be based on League of Legends, which yeah. Oh, man. I I love the game. I don't think I could do that, though. That's way too much. Hey, Jordan, you awake? What? What? Oh, hi. Good morning. Welcome back to the stream. I don't have any knowledge of that game. Yeah, I was too busy. I was too busy going ahead and picking channels for OK. All right. Well, we do have a couple of time for a couple more closing remarks on this one. My closing remarks. You have like the most knowledge of this game. So I think you have the most beneficial thing. All I did is like, I know someone that did good at this one. All right. Closing remarks.  Seriously, like you need to add that person and then you need to remove them. What? No clue. You've already linked another video. Yeah, well, we moved on the middle of that sentence. Rude, you lost us. So rude. I'm trying to offer my specialized critique. It wasn't special enough. All right. Let's move on, shall we? All right. We kept getting a whole bunch of coal by. Oh, don't really remember what I like. The energy that he did in the last episode. This is the one diamond by speed. He's getting a whole bunch of coal. OK, so I'm not sure what's going on with the video quality. So he's obviously recording it off of his TV or his monitor. But what I like about this is it's actually watchable because his audio is really good. Yeah. So, by the way, what I always remember the music at the intro music is copyrighted just so you know. Yeah. So be careful on that one. Also, you know, if you have like a full HD intro and then cut to this, it's kind of like, oh, OK. But if you just start out with your, you know, your good sounding mic, I think that would keep better people around better. But what I always say is, you know, with filmmaking or with game play or whatever, you can have an OK video, but good audio and it'll be watchable. But you can have a beautiful picture and crappy audio and it's not watchable. So you can have like the best camera in the world. But if your audio doesn't sound good, you can't watch it because it's just it hurts. But with this, it's the polar opposite. You know, it's not the best quality, obviously, because you're recording it off of a screen. But the audio is beautiful. So that's it's actually watchable. Now, I would recommend recording your video like the screen recorder or something. But you know, the funny thing I'm finding, I don't want to like, I'm not meaning to encourage this, because, yes, you should definitely work towards getting either a capture cord or capture cord, capture card. You are speed cable. You are speed cable. Procaded with HDMI or find some way to record this off the console directly. But the funny thing is or for play on master race. Yeah. But the funny thing I'm finding here is actually I'm I'm intrigued to watch this just because the style of it is so different. I've never seen anything like this. I'm not like I've never I've seen people record off their screen. And I'm always like props to you for trying. But like the audio is bad. And I that's really all I could say. But with this, I'm actually enjoying it because the audio is good. I don't remember. Yeah, it's like it sort of gives it this old, tiny sort of filter. It's intriguing. Yeah, Minecraft in the 60s. Oh, God, when he opens the menu, the exposure goes wild. Yeah. I think that might be maybe that. Maybe that's what you work on. If you have to use the camera to record your screen, you may want to lock the exposure at something. Lock everything. Lock everything. Yeah. Yeah, manual. You need to lock your ISO and your focus. Oh, we still have like a whole bunch of iron in. Yeah, I mean, to be honest, your audio is better than like most the people that we do get the chance to watch on here. Don't judge if I just forget everything. Yeah, well, I am. Audio is great. You're talking. You're commentary. You're commentating on what you're doing. And I'm fairly impressed with that. Really, the biggest thing that I see is I think it would draw a bigger audience if you would get a capture card or record off of something because another thing you're missing out on that I just noticed is in-game audio. So although your audio is good, like a creeper just exploded and it was like, so you can hardly like hear it. It sounded really weird. You can totally add in your own sound effects and just have a creeper explode. That would actually be funny. If you're stuck with this for a while and you can't go anywhere with it, do sound effects like what he said. That'd be awesome. Even better, do your own sound effects. Yeah, yeah. Set up a microphone, record yourself. Just overdub it later. Good personality, though. I mean, I'm not getting bored of your voice. Yeah. The fact that you're able to keep us around while recording it off your screen is awesome. I think the important thing is you seem interested in what you're doing. Therefore, we're interested in you being interested. That's like the one thing a lot of people tend to miss out with YouTube is if you're having fun, everyone around you will have fun. If you're bored out of your mind, nobody's gonna watch you. Yeah, if you're filming something boring, we're gonna be bored. Yeah. But the fact of the matter is this is kind of like a boring thing in Minecraft is just digging in a cave. It is, yeah. This is hard to make entertaining to watch. Yeah. I will get out of my way. This is often like whenever I play Minecraft. This is the type of stuff that I cut out because I can't keep it entertaining. So you have a great personality. You have like, I don't know, I think you have the right direction of everything and you'd be able to do well with it. So. Personally, I'd like to see you do sort of story driven adventure maps and stuff. Do they have them for Xbox and stuff? Oh yeah, Xbox. Okay. What I'd like to see you do is go on PC. Now I know they do have some stuff on PC, but I think they're limited to what they can and can't do. So I think they're like a few versions behind PC normally. Okay. I don't know. My apologies. I'm not familiar with the console versions of it. The fact that you're keeping Derpy around and he hates Minecraft too is pretty cool. Yeah. This looks promising. Gold. Okay. I can see some gold over there. That's a good start. He sees some gold. Are we at the same time? Yeah, I'm already interested. I'm like. Five minutes and 50 seconds. I got to him. He found a diamond, guys. Spoiler. Oh, I'm watching the diamond right now. Yeah, I think that's what you just need to do is start focusing on. Okay. Oh, you're like getting the rest of your quality out. Oh, no. He's fighting the skeleton. Will he make it? So between that and the copyrighted music. Going on your channel, right? Actually, your channel is simple. Good. The only thing I can say is probably your actual text and your art, maybe you can stand out a little bit because it gets a little bit lost in the background.  Comparing the channel art to your avatar, it's very different as far as standing out. So take a note from what your avatar looks like compared to what your channel art looks like. It looks a little bit lost. Yeah. But you do have your channel set up in the correct way. Very nice. So we have uploads, we have possible Monday video. Playlist. Yeah. Good. Because then people can find what they want to watch if they find stuff that you do, they can go to videos and go, oh yeah, there's more of that stuff. Even thumbnails and stuff are pretty good. Yeah. Yeah, they really are, yeah. I ain't no quick version. That's a thing. What? Pokemon black version? Of course. That's a thing. Oh, I don't know Pokemon black. Oh, okay. Well, I just watched the whole thing. It's a very short video. So that's props on that. Yeah. I do like the channel. It's set up nicely. As far as your recording quality, yeah, you can obviously do capture cards and whatnot, but that comes with time. I mean, nobody's the next PewDiePie when they start. That comes with money. Yes. Whether or not how much time that is is up to you. Money comes with time. Hey, Mr. Person who's trying to crush dreams. But yeah, once again, it kind of runs into that. You go from the video quality to again, a very, very high definition HD outro here at the end. So. I almost think you should just record the intro off your screen and then put it there. If you're gonna do that, just to match the overall quality throughout the video. Just make that your gimmick. All your videos are recorded. I almost think that that could go far if you would make the in-game audio good too, somehow, whether it's voice-overing it or adding funny sound effects. Well, that's what the Irish YouTuber, Life is Bri Bri, whatever his name is, does. He's like, I don't care. I'm going to record all I can do. He just records on terrible recording quality. Even though he has half a million subscribers, he's like, I don't care. All of his videos are like, what? Ato mode. That was good. I can't do an Irish accent, so. Yeah, that's all I can do. Don't ask me to do anymore. Okay. Do your American one. Oh. Can you do it? Well, hey guys, my name is Zesty Mike and welcome to another press record video. Courtney.  All right. I think my, I think my British is a little bit too stereotypical for me to try and put it on here on the air. All right, Jordan. My channel is more of a, ow. We got another one? You got another link for us? He said you had a few queued up. Oh. Does he? I said I had one. We do have a video from Sir Chris Gaming because he's been requesting this all night saying, check out his outro slate. And I've only got one opinion on this outro slate. It's only 30 seconds long. I'm sure you'll guess what it is straight away. So this is Sir Chris Gaming, the Sir Chris Gaming outro. Okay. So did he do what we suggested on the last one where you recorded off a screen? Yeah. The quality is 144. I was going to say, what's with the 144p? Yeah. So that's what I have to say. Yeah. What's with the letter boxed 144p? Yeah. If you're showcasing your, you know, your outro and you're trying to show off your outro, you need to make sure it's, you can actually read it and it's top notch quality. And yeah. Like the graphic looks nice. It looks like it would look very good if it were in high definition. Yeah. He said it took one month and two days to make this outro.  Yeah. And if you don't export it correctly and you see it, don't leave it like that. It's okay to reupload it. It's okay to reupload it now. You've only had 14 views and one like, you know, you can go in and delete it and reupload it correctly. Another thing too, what I think you did this, Brandon, when you made your new outro, you didn't really just, you know, post it as a video. You just made it as a surprise at the end of the video. Then when people saw it, they were surprised and they had something to talk about like a conversation piece. Right? You didn't just upload it separately to see? Well, no, I didn't, but I know some people do enjoy doing that. So it's really more a personal opinion type thing I've always found. Personally, I like surprising people with something new. It's like, hey, I can see how many people pick up on it. Yeah. Cause it was hilarious how many, actually the first video that I put up that new outro it was probably maybe the third video I put up before I started getting comments on that third video. Hey, I like the outro. So it was kind of a fun way to watch and be like, okay, so you didn't watch that video at all. Yeah. Apparently the air, the live stream has frozen for a few people. I've just told them to refresh. Oh. Bro, so it was kind of a fun way to watch. Can you hear me? Okay. Hello? I didn't watch that video at all. Hello? It does actually look like it froze. It's still going for me. However, it's the audio that's working but the visuals aren't. Okay. So they can't see what we're talking about. So, I guess I'll just recapture the window. Thanks for letting us know it froze, by the way, guys. Yeah.  Now it's up. Okay. So it should be updated here in a second. The stream is frozen. Quick, everybody, let it go. Let it go and hold it back anymore. You're up, Jordan. Enough with the copyright. That's not even copyright. I couldn't say that well enough. Apparently it's fixed. Copyright if I try. Yeah. Cool. Oh, goody, it's fixed. Yeah, as you were saying, Mike. Yeah, just, what? Rendered out, correct? I'd be over talking about words. Yes? Cool. Yeah, channel. Excellent. Yeah. Merrick Platinum says, such beautiful singing. Thank you. I try. Not if you guys want to see it. Don't forget, we'll cover of it. Go check out Jordan's channel. Oh, don't forget to check out Shrekstar. Yes, I did do a cover of Let It Go, my channel. Did you really? I did, yes. I have to go see this now. Wait, some of your channel, wait. No, after the stream. We have time for one more video that I actually have to hop in a meeting. So. Ooh. Okay. I have to go to bed, because it's half one in the morning. Yay. All right, so let's check out one more. How about Moral Wild? Oh, Moral Wild, I thought you said Jord Wild was like, huh? There you go. Okay. Please review my channel, I've been doing YouTube for about a year now, and my channel hasn't really been growing much, so I'd really appreciate it if you could help me out with things. All right, Mr. Moral Wild. Okay, and then which video would you like to see? I am dumb. I was looking at that one. Yeah, let's do I am dumb. I am dumb, all right. So first and foremost, I actually like the banner. It kind of looks like something that you'd see on a template, however, I really don't care, because it's cool. Yeah, fair enough, maybe. However, although your name is channel, your channel name is Moral Wild, yeah. And then the title's Burt. Yeah, kind of curious about that. I seriously, pretty much forgot about all the files that I've saved on my iMovie, and so I downloaded this. Oh my goodness, foul language. Files that I have a lot of iMovie ones on, so I go delete them, and now I'm free to... So this is one of those where they... 50 minutes. I'm assuming this is a highlight video. Now how many... There's something that's happened. I think this is just a vlog update. Yeah, this is one of those where people will just take some gameplay and talk over it. Okay. Yeah, so they don't talk while they game. I always find these type of videos interesting. Yeah. The audio is good. Yeah. I'm not sure about the music in the background. It might be royalty-free. Sounds it. No way to tell, it's not in the description. So you need to make sure if you are using royalty-free music that you actually credit it, because that's in the terms and contract of actually using a lot of the royalty-free music you have to credit them. Which is changing as well. Apparently. Okay. I don't know. We're like... Sorry for moral-wise, sorry for swearing. I mean, swearing is your own thing, man.  It's... Nobody's getting down on you for swearing. I think it's just... No, God, no, no. Yeah. At least no one here in our chat here. There might be some people that will get mad at you, but... Well, yeah.  But if you are wanting to target towards three-year-olds and their mom at the same time, then, uh... You know. Yeah, but three-year-olds and their mom will get offended at everything, so... That's very true. You can't, really. That's why if you watch my vlogs, it's like, so I'm doing this, and then you have to explain all the good things that you're doing with that and how it's not incorrect and like... Really? Yeah, you have to explain every tiny little thing. So you don't offend people, but... I'm making a cup of tea with semi-skin milk. Yeah. Not whole milk. It was not from a dead cow. No one was hurt to make this milk, I promise. Actually, I don't know that, but you just trust me. It's all natural. I'll go to the bathroom afterwards. We're okay. Um, anyways, back on topic. Disney Channel's on your TV at all times. Another thing that you could improve on is an outro slate. That's something that we often recommend because you're redirecting your viewers to where you want it. Currently, you know, it just gives us this list of videos to check out. I'm gonna go to intro and outro. One of his videos, other than just an update. How to trick shot in private match and water ruffer 2. I don't know how to do this. Teach me. Let's go. Okay. Also, your channel, the recommended videos on the right side, they are all other people's videos. Um... Yeah, so... What is the actual way of doing this, Mike, where you get your videos to be in the recommended, so it's not any... Because at the moment, I can see Gavin Free Best Buying Compilation. I mean, I love Gavin Free. He's amazing, but... Oh, on the side there. You guys have no idea how much... I actually have a different list. I don't see him in there. Why? It's because it's recommended for you, isn't it? So I watch a lot of Achievement Hunter just saying. Yeah. There's actually a couple of his own videos in the recommended there for me. However, that's partially due to his tags. His tags are I'm Dumb, Cod, Bought, Call of Duty, Commentary. So it's very, very generic and big. So that way it's going to start taking people from this. Yeah. Binding people also have these tags. And then if they're more successful videos, chances they'll be seen. So another one that you could do to like easily get your own recommended videos on the side is put your name in your tags. So that way it's searching for other videos that have your name. Yeah. It's a really simple fix that you could do to help narrowing down your search results. But like we said earlier, get about 10 tags that are both generic and specific. That'll help. Yeah. I mean, I always put my name into it. Mr. George Wilde or Mr. George Wilde. Even though it's my video, but I still put them as how people find you. So you put your own channel in there. Mr. George Wilde. Oh, there's that video. That's okay. Do phrases to call a duty commentary instead of call a duty and commentary. Because I for one have never searched commentary on YouTube. I always try to do it. Think of yourself in someone else's shoes. You have a video and you uploaded that video. Now pretend that you are trying to find that video. What are you going to go search? Like if you're interested in seeing something along that topic, what are you going to search?  Let's play call of duty. You know that type of stuff. Yeah. And then take that and try to get a bit creative with it.  I just try to come up with things. Call of duty funny reactions or call of duty no scope. You want something that is slightly unique but still very specific. Yes. That way it's still searched. Yeah. Two buddy. Yeah. Again. Yes. Two buddy.  You have good energy throughout. It's fast paced. It's not a super long video. I would recommend outro. And other than that, any other thoughts? Think about it. Oh, and credit your music. Yes. Yeah. As far as your analog as well, make sure it's, you know, the same name as your. Yeah. Moral wild, as divert wild. Read his description for his channel. On it. Shit feeder uploads Saturday, Sunday, Wednesday. Oh, dear family. Okay.  I completely agree with that. But yeah, I don't know. Oh, and last but not least, your Twitter button takes you to an active link. Yeah. I'd be honest. Oh, channel hit Twitter goes nowhere. Dun dun dun. Oh, Tom ammo two is. I guess. Yeah. So yeah. I think that's it for today's stream, guys. As I mentioned before, I do need to help in a meeting. So I appreciate you guys hanging out with us and I appreciate Jordan and Brennan talking for me on this dreadful coughing night. Oh, no. It's fine. It's been a bit slow tonight, guys, because one is nearly two in the morning for me. Mike is it. Yeah. And Brennan has done it before. Yeah. You know what? I had a, what should we call it? Slushy earlier. You call it? Yeah. And lastly, guys, if you want to check out Brennan or Jordan's channels, they're both in the cards as well in the description below. So we'll see you next Monday.  So we'll see you later. And no being tomorrow morning. Yeah. It's Tuesday there. It is. It's a Tuesday critique. All right, guys, that's it. We'll see you next time. See you. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.