 Sponsored by Monday.com Okay. Oh, hello. Follow me. Well, I carpool with Riley and he's usually in front of me when we walk in the building in the morning. And he does this thing, he says good morning like exuberantly. I think it came from the roast. Morning. Morning. Morning Anthony. It's dumb, but that's our Riley. Not everyone likes my mornings. So the very first thing I do when I get to the office is open Monday.com. It's a pretty awesome platform for project planning and tracking and stuff. So I have my dashboard set up. So I have all of the tasks that we need to complete for tech linked right there when I get there. They actually auto populate every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. So that's pretty awesome. Monday is basically perfect for our needs, but they also have a ton of templates that make it super easy for teams working in video production or marketing or sales. So got to start out with finding the actual sources for the video. So I start searching for news aggregator sites that have kind of like they get all the big stories for the day. And then I will just open every story in a new tab and just max out my tab count. Telling is for people who don't have enough time to watch the full new story. They shorten this cost rate, everything on one pack, put that into your face and you have to suck it. Hey Jake, note seven is the one that exploded, right? Yeah, that's the exploding one. Eight or nine were not that splitting at all. No. Okay. So once I've gathered all my sources and I decide what today's stories are going to be for tech linked, I go to Monday.com and I click done on gather sources. And because of the automation that I've set up that will actually send a notification to Dennis and then he can start screenshotting them and putting them in the timeline. It's one click and it's all done. You know, it's like we're telepathically linked. We're like we're so in sync. Finally. Rally is always late from writing scripts, but when I see notification pop up, makes me want to kill him last. Let's do this. Okay, so I got all the sources, but we have no time to waste. He's still I don't know what he's doing. He's still writing a script, but I got all the sources I got here. I labeled them all in different colors. And now what I have to do is I put them on the timeline first and do all those movements. See, I almost done doing all the movement for the pictures and rally is not even done writing. Who's the real hero? Gathering all those stories and getting the script ready can be a bit of a challenge to do quickly. So sometimes Dennis starts to panic a bit and comes to ask me where the script is. Dennis. I'm going man. I'm sorry. Okay, like 15 minutes. So once I've written the three main stories and then I've gotten to the quick bits section, I let the shooter know that I'm going to be done the script in about 15 minutes because that's about as long as it takes me to write the quick bits. They're quick bits. Okay, you set up in a moment. It's a little late. I'm sorry. Wait, you don't say sorry to me. I say sorry to you. Brandon, I love everything you do. You do good work. Please continue. Thank you, Riley. You too. Yeah, I know. I know Dennis. We're going. We're going. We're there. I think it's really convenient, not just using like a group messaging service or something where I can put in on monday.com that the set is prepared and that it will notify Riley automatically and it'll kind of keep everyone involved up to date and on the same page, which is so much more convenient. Okay. Are you ready for tech news? Yeah. TechLink 69. It's not 69. Rolling, rolling. TechLink is a news show, but it's also just kind of a, you know, a place to hang out, you know. Oh, that's cruel. They'll be stuck inside my IoT network. That's like a black mirror. Yeah, it's like a special hell of baby monitors. Doorbells. I just got the XM radio joke. Now it's time for the quark bars. I would describe tech linked as the tech news, but we don't care about the tech news. We're just like, we're just like, yeah, it's a tech news, but like I've actually really checked out of this job at this point and I don't really care if you fire me because that was really where a lot of the attitude of the original netlinked came from because I had three feet out the door at NCIX and I just didn't care. So it was like, it's one take because that's all I have time for. And if it's kind of weird and goofy or I missed something or I don't like the script, I'm just be like, yeah, this is a stupid joke. Forget it. Wait, move. That's a bad acting. More tech news. Don't give a f***. Tech news. Tech news. Some more tech news. Tech news. Tech news. One of the coolest things about tech linked is that anyone can host it because we're not actually trying to do a very good professional job of reading you the news. There's a lot of room for people to experiment, have fun, or even learn and just get more comfortable on camera. Get more comfortable on camera. There's no going back for me. Okay, thumbnail time. Okay, wait. Oh my gosh. I can't believe it. Yeah, give me straight at the camera like you're pissed. Perfect. I love that. I love those faces you make. Okay, thank you. Thank you very much. Once I'm done filming, I ingest the footage and then I update them on the dot com, which will send a notification to Dennis that he's ready to start editing. Okay, start editing now. So at this point in the day, now that the script is shot and the footage is safely in Dennis's very capable hands, it's time for me to finally eat my lunch. Usually pretty late in the day. It's a very intense challenge for me every day. And they try to be funny so hard. But as you can see in most of my editing time, I'm not really laughing because I just, I don't know, it's because the jokes are not funny or just because I was under really, really high pressure. These jokes are horrible. So while Dennis is editing, it's time for me to make the thumbnail. So before I can do the thumbnail, I need to find a face that Linus is making that is suitably grotesque for the thumbnail. And usually that means I have to scrub through the video, the end portion of the video where Linus makes a lot of crazy faces. And I find that trying to make the face that I'm looking for helps a little bit with that. Hello? Was he pranked? Okay. Review time. Riley. Dennis. Ready? Hello, sir. I'm so ready. So ready. Go. You love that joke. That's the funnest joke I have seen in this channel. Linus falling asleep is the funniest joke you've ever seen on TechLink? Yeah. What are we even doing? That's a TechLink episode right there. That was it. That's how you do it. Bye. And that's the end. We're going to do more, right? More. More TechLinks? Maybe. It's not very encouraging. So after we've reviewed, it's a matter of Dennis rendering the video. And then when that's done, he marks done on monday.com. I get a notification that it's ready to upload. I upload and publish, attach a thumbnail. And that's how you do a TechLink.