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It's good writing. In all seriousness though, I'm gonna need you to explain what you do because I can't even remember it anymore. I know you manage the writing team, which is like a dozen people now. I help unblock them. I review some scripts, because remember it's not just LTT, it's also Mac address and channels who are fun. I make sure those shoots happen on time. And when they do, I get ice cream sandwiches for everyone. And when they don't. Uh. Man, is everyone else here? Are you on probation still? No. No, you're not. What do you mean? Yeah, it's November. You've been here that long? Yeah, like 10 months or so. Okay, what would you say you do, Adam? I'm a writer and I make videos. Wow, that's fantastic. Computer. This one's coming along great. You just wait. He's actually the one organizing this very video. So he had to leap over here in his LTT shorts. Nice, by the way. Love them. And pretend to write. Where the hell is everybody? We've got a probationary employee. Alex isn't at his desk. Anthony's not at his desk. Jake's not even here. We're going to have to find some of these guys at some point. But in total, we have eight writers for LTT, 12 writers total. And we do a total of how many videos a week? Like 15. 15. I don't think that's right. We do six LTTs, one WAN show. That's seven, two tech quickies. That's nine, three short circuits. That's 12, a Mac address theoretically, a channel super fun theoretically. And don't forget about tech link. That's another three a week. Don't forget about They're Just Movies. And Dad, the They're Just Movies podcast. Plouffe, what do you focus on? I write things. Oh my God. But what? Display stuff and other things that we cover. I do all the random stuff. Would you believe he hosts too? Oh yeah, sometimes. Yeah, he's really good. Yeah, I do the SC. It's fun. And you're writing about a water block right now. Yeah, I was going to do other things on screen for a joke. Yeah, maybe something you actually did, because I wrote most of that. Keep up the good work. You're going to walk right past me. Okay, where are we going now? This is completely off the rails at this point. Go talk to Horst or something. Fine. Let's go find some- Do you want us on the flow? No, we're- Alex is 105. F*** the flow. Okay, well, that ain't all my work. Oh my God, Dennis, don't leave. I wanted to lick my face. What are you doing? Okay, we've got our channel managers for Mac address, as well as channel super fun. Dennis used to be an editor, but now he's like- Why are you so close to me? You know what it does? Okay, I can't hold it. He just let me put on the spot. That's closer than I was holding it. I'll hold it. Okay, I don't like that. Why are you moving away? Why are you so close to me? Okay, Jonathan, yeah, so you do Mac address. I do Mac address, hello. I can do this if you prefer. I like to think of myself as someone who tries to show everyone here why Apple does the things they do. Right, now I haven't actually watched it yet, but I love the title of the most recent video. I am going to watch it soon. Am I becoming a hater? Do you think that being around all of us has made you see Apple in a different light? I've always been a hater. I've always been cynical. All right, that's fair enough. Now, Dennis, you used to be an editor here, and now what on earth do you do? I go, mostly I spend my time... I spend a lot of time in your house and watch you naked three times total. I wouldn't describe it as super fun, but is it at least a little fun? It's not fun. It's not fun. So, Arthur, what do you do here? I make memes. I mean, that is an actual position that we actually have, but in all seriousness, these guys have been absolutely crushing it. We've got float plane exclusives that have been just off the freaking rails awesome lately, whether it's cutting room floor or original content. These guys have been doing a great job of, I mean, yeah, making memes. I guess that really is like a big part of it. Among us? If you want to learn more about some of the people that we have here, you can check out the Meet the Team series over... Where are you going? I'm going downstairs. If you want to learn more about some of the people here, the Meet the Team series over on float plane is awesome. They're exclusive, kind of behind the scenes content that Arthur and his helper put together. Where am I supposed to go next? We're supposed to be up in the labs together. You're supposed to go to business, I think. You're supposed to go to business. I'm informed that I'm supposed to talk to the business team next. We'll start with the one and only Colton Potter, who surprisingly has not actually been fired yet. Yeah. I'm head of business development. What are you doing with this? Why are you holding it like that? Hey. I'm going to let you finish, but just... I do business stuff. Marketing, sales, events. We're doing an event right now. Yeah, a LAN party. It's going to be awesome. By the time you see this, it'll be over. So don't try and sign up. Yeah, cool. That's it. That's it. Well, you said you were going to ask me something. Yeah, I don't want to ask this on camera. Now for the rest of the business team, where the hell is everyone? Vacation, helping, blurred. Okay. Well, fine. Go. All right. Hey, Sean, sales supervisor here. Oversee our accounts team. Essentially, we work with all of our different partners from the Intels, the AMDs, the Samsungs. Now how many customers would you say that each of our salespeople works with? Oh, I'd say at any given time, probably 30 to 40. Wow, we're not going to get any applications anymore ever because that's a lot of clients to have to work with. You got it right. The sales team also handles procurement, but neither of those guys appear to be here either. Oh, they moved. We used to manage the relationship with all the brands ourselves, but now we have Matt and his helper who is on probation. And what is it that you would say you do? I would say that we talk to all the brands ahead of time so that we know what's coming out next, when it's coming out, whether or not he can get his hands on it, and whether or not it's drop proof. That's always pretty critical. Oh my God. Enough. Thanks, Matt. Over here, we've got the accounting department, some of which is still on probation. It used to be just my wife, and now it's my wife is gone. Okay. She's gone and Jake's gone. What is going on here? Oh, this is, this office is probably full of confidential stuff. Blur everything. Also in this office is other Yvonne and then another probationary employee. Wow. Other Yvonne has some really cool Lego flowers. Are these cool or what? They're red. Once we've procured the stuff. Yeah. Where does it go? It goes to your mama. Nope. Okay. Logistics, logistics. Let's go. Welcome to the hold. This is the logistics department where Serge, Jamie, Nicholas, Dan, Alex, Dick, all do their, oh my God, it is a mess in here, Dan. No it's not. Give Dan the mic. Are you kidding me right now? No. Hi. So these guys do everything from inventorying and stickering things that come in to rearranging sets, to right now building up the computers for our whale ticket holders at the whale land. That's right. How does it feel to be working on something so pointless given that four out of the five whale ticket holders told us they already have better computers anyway? It's a good use of my time. Better than sweeping up, you know, HQ2 in this heat. Yeah, that's fair. Is that where everyone else is? Yeah. So let's see the other cool thing you did recently with the mockup, with the thing, with the panels. Oh yeah, sure. Here is your mockup. Check this out. That's the theater room at my house and those are the exact dimensions of our LTT acoustic panel frames that we're working on. So we are going to absolutely deck this room out with them. How many did you say I would need of the little modular connectors? So yeah, it looks like we need 1,700. Cool. Yeah. All right, let me tell you something I know about Surge. All right, fire away. When something needs to be picked up at my house, Surge is the guy. Oh, is that all you think I do around here? No, but darn it, you are so fast at it. Well, if you're wondering what else I do, I also handle your cross border stuff that comes across. So Camino server, you name it, like the EMC thing, testing chamber, I was dealing with that as well. Little import things, yeah. I also deal with the customers and brokerage and I read all the trade loss so you don't have to. That's actually pretty critical. Nicholas, I would say is our specialist when it comes to cooling, component repair, stuff like that, like super geeky stuff, 3D printing, that kind of thing. Alex D is the manager of the team here. So he coordinates, I mean, really the higher level things that logistics does. So kitting out a new building, for example, is going to fall on mostly Alex and Dan. And then the rest of them are going to make sure that it actually happens. And then they do a lot of the making sure it actually happens. We have five people in logistics now. I mean, if you look around though, there is a lot to keep organized. So here's incoming items to be inventoried. Here's things to be returned to inventory. I brought this back from my house, by the way. So that, yeah, that was me. I just dropped it there this morning. Picking up after me is a lot of work and not everything they do is logistics stuff. The set design and actually the production set up over here, particularly the audio was handled by the logistics department. Everything from design to fabrication to building out the set to actually running all of these cables and making sure that the WAN show and, and they're just movies podcast sound and look awesome. Where is everybody? I know you're there, but like Andy's not here and David's not here. I'm kidding, David. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Brandon. I think many of our viewers probably aren't familiar with you. So I've never, I haven't worked here for very long. Yeah, not very. Definitely fresh meat. What do I do here? Yeah. Well, if it has anything to do with lighting or pointing a camera at something and it's on one of our channels, I'm one of the shooters. So one of the people who is doing exactly what's happening to me right now. Very good. In all seriousness though, a massive shout out to those of you who actually notice and care about what these guys do. I actually forwarded you guys some comments and some emails that I got recently where people are just like, yeah, you know, I don't really notice the production values on LTT until I go to other channels. Honestly speaking, I'd say that is the highest praise that you can give to a team like this, where they just make it look kind of effortless. Really yeah. I promise you it's not effortless. It's very, very high effort. The stuff is like actually heavy. That's something all of our camera guys have in common is like they're not stick things. They actually have to like move stuff a lot. Andy here is our sort of supervisor for the camera department. So what do you do that's different from just operating a camera? Merge photo. And I sometimes like help out providing feedback for new shooters. I do a little bit like Chinese thing procurement. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Andy's our guy. So there's some like super weird thing we need from China. This guy has connections. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of weird actually. Naturally, once we shoot the videos, somebody's got to edit them. Let's see if my production manager is here. Ah, yes. One of the original gangsters, Ed Zoliago. Does this actually work? Like is that? Yeah, it's not a product. Ed manages our editing team, which is now a total of, holy crap, do you have like 15 people? You count yourself? Well, 13. Did you count the camera guys? 15. 15. Who said 15? Me. Okay. Yeah, you're right. Are you going to tell them what you do or do you want me to tell them what you do? Ed's camera shy. You should see his first video that he hosted way back in the day. We tried him out as an on-camera host and he was so sweaty. I had to run back and forth between the camera and prompter. What do I do here? That's really good question. Really good question. I'm going to pack my things because I knew this was going to come. Ed does scheduling. He also does hiring for the editing department and lately he's actually been doing a ton of R&D including coordinating with YouTube as well as Adobe on HDR content. Name deleted here is finally a dedicated thumbnail artist. We should have had one freaking ages ago. There are YouTube channels literally a tenth our size that have a dedicated thumbnail artist. He also does a ton of the merch photos now including both the photography and the photo shopping of them. The delightful one with the dog pulling down my pants. That was her work. And then we've also got Scott. What a dick. That's got sorry. What would you say you do here? I document line this drop tips. Everything you drop. I got a shoulder pop. Thank you. That was bound to happen. All right. We've also got Emily who is an editor plus. Plus. Yes. I help out a little bit. Yeah. When Ed and Nicole are not here, then I make sure that these guys do their job. Good job, Emily. And she even knows that she does it, which is excellent. Also in here we've got the one and only the meme king is Alex. Hi. You're going to give me nothing. No. When he edits this video, he's going to make it so that his segment is like the bombest segment out of the whole video and he's going to do it purely in editing. That's really his superpower. Oh, wow. The whole microphone was a lie. This is just a road wireless go to. Oh yeah. What's up? You're relatively new. I forget your name. I'm sorry. Andrew. See, you don't have a name like Scott where I can just be like, that's Scott. What a dick. Yeah. Well, I'm happy about that. Yeah. It worked out great. Yeah. What do I do? I edit and I shoot some stuff as well. That's great. Fantastic. We have a lot to shoot and a lot to edit. Robert? Hello. I'm Robert. I'm one of the editors. We know you're Robert. You're standing in the editing desk. We know you're an editor. Come on, man. Help me out here. Basically, my job is I make him look good. That's a tough job. Hi, Nicole. Hi. Hi. Everybody knew I was coming. Come on, people. I help schedule videos. I help Ed with a lot of other things as well. I assign people to videos and I heard that Alex is now assigned to this video. Oh, hi, Mark. Hi. How are you? I mean, I did not hit her. That's a line. Okay. Mark's one of our editors, resident hoarder, resident Mac user. Why is this still here? Do you know how many times I've tried to give this thing away, this weird NZXT helmet? I took it. It was great. I can see that, but you know the problem that you have is not going to get any better by taking more random crap. It's not data. What? Oh, no. You've seen, oh, you're talking about my crawl space. Yeah, I'm talking about your other hoarding problem. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Fair enough. Throw it away. But it's at work. It's not supposed to be at work. I'll throw it away. Thank you. Hi, Marcus. What are you working on? I'm working on Tech Quickie. So I just stare at whoever is hosting eight hours a day. Okay, cool. James knows he has a little something right in the crotch area there, right? Yeah, I should crop it out there. Thanks. That's a lot better. Yeah. That's everyone down here? That's good, probably. Except your COC chief officer. Cool. I think we all know what David does. David operates the camera and also is on the There's This Movie's podcast and also contributes to some of our retro gaming content because he's turned into something of an enthusiast lately. This is the thing, this whole work from home trend. You want to make a video, you want to take a group picture or something. Everybody's freaking at home. Man, I was talking to another YouTuber who was commiserating with me about business overhead and they gave me the number for their monthly payroll and they were like, yeah, man, it's like... And I was like, let me tell you. We have customer care agents like Adam and Nolan who take care of all of the incoming tickets for our... Oh, ow. Dang it. Merch sales. We've got everything from pillows to T-shirts to plushies to the upcoming backpack. We did a video recently showing off a lot of the stuff that's coming down the line. At that time, this is unfortunate, at least some of these guys were in office, but today I don't see Bridget, I don't see Matthew, I don't see Olamide, but the engineering department is here. You're not live, right? No, no, we're not live. Act like we are though, so be nice. Am I not nice? No. No. Otherwise, why would I say that? That hurts. Kyle's the engineering manager here. He's been tasked with a multitude of projects, most importantly, our LTT screwdriver, but he's also worked on a battery bank, RGB accessory of some sort. He helps the other guys out when they run into roadblocks and has actually helped us out a lot when it comes to just general procurement best practices, because he actually has experience in it, unlike us. I also did some of the initial hiring for the labs and kicking that off the ground before Gary came along. And he has great taste in cars. Honestly, it was so validating for me when our first actual engineering hire came on staff and drove the exact same car as me. I was like, now that is a practice. I was like, now that is a practical car. Sup Tynen? Oh, hi. How it goes? Is there anything you can actually talk about or is everything top secret? I mean, I guess I kind of leaked everything. Almost everything. So yeah, no, I don't have anything new. Tynen is our resident physical therapy guru. You can see that he's the king when it comes to balance boards and that's not all of the things. That's two of the many things. Look how many things there are. I actually designed this thing and own a patent on it. Really? Really, really? So this is a patented balance board and I won't die if I try to use it. I would not say that. Hold on. No, no, no, no. I'm good. I'm good. I got this. I got this. All right, Jacob, what's up? Hello. How's it going? This is exciting. Jacob, can we show the power bar holder? I gave all of my prototypes. Are you freaking kidding me? He's filming a video. It is coming. Spoiler. How about the power brick one? Wait, no, I showed that one in the last one. The power bar one. You don't have a single power bar holder. How about an early prototype? Show me a crappy power bar holder. So what does he do here? I'm doing product design with these guys. I'm working on some stuff that involves magnetism and also high volume production. So I'll work on quality control and like validating suppliers and things like that. Yeah. So I went ahead and ran off with every single common power bar I could find and ordered more online and stuff. The goal here was I wanted to have something that interfaces with as many of these keyhole slots as we could and then make it as, I suppose, easy to use as possible and not finicky. This is an older prototype. Yeah, so it's a little finicky. Ease. See? Just put it on there. And once that's on there, if you have a metal strip on the bottom of your desk or a metal surface, there goes your power bar. And most of them are going to have two of them on them, obviously, so it'll totally hold it in place. And this is also much weaker compared to the final one. We have final ones that are so strong due to magnetic simulation stuff that you can actually unplug things without it pulling off the power bar. You can see even this one, the early one holds as long as it's right above the magnet. Lloyd designs delightful t-shirts like this one. Got some new plushies coming, all that kind of good stuff. I have no idea what these are, but they're cute. Sarah does more graphic design as well as product design for things like our notebooks, which you can find on LT. Oh wait, this isn't ours. Our notebooks that we sell on lttstore.com as well as our toques or beanies. And in here, we've got the business folks from Creator Warehouse. So Bridget and Kyle manage their respective departments, and then Nick is in charge of the whole shebang. He used to be our business development manager for LTT, but then moved on to bigger and better things to be replaced temporarily by Colton until we find a suitable long-term fit for the job. Then this is Natalie, she works on just like logistics basically. But not like what our logistics department does, like the logistics of containers of things coming in. Crap. Serge, you were saying you like drive things? I do, yes. Okay, can you drive us? To what? Which key two? Yeah, we need to go to lab two. Sure, let's go. Okay. After a short ride, we've arrived at lab two. I mean, most of you only see the videos, but if it wasn't for the large team that we have behind the scenes, there would be no way for me to lose money on a scale like this. Whoa, whoa, whoa, blue space, blue space, marketing, blue space. New marketing guy. What does the marketing guy do? We've hired a lot of people lately. Everyone we've blurred or covered up started in the last three months. It's been insane. The marketing guy does marketing for Float Plane, LMG's channels, LTX, and that's it. LTT store? I probably haven't noticed it yet because he just started and also Colton's been guiding him. Can we expect so much? Yeah, he's got to be a self-starter. You know what I'm saying? What's up, Jake? Okay, hi. Hi, this is the Jake show. Hello, what's going on? Okay, you're taking us way over to the probationary employee again. Hey, probation, come on. You're making extra work for the editor. So Linus, what do you do here? Well, I roll in anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes late. I get dragged around by James to wherever it is that I'm supposed to be or Jake. Jake's actually been doing more of like a supervisory role for the writing department. James was on Pat Lee for a bit. Screw that guy. Jake had to cover for him. I mean Jake. I look pretty. Is that a Dennis Liao exclusive? Thank you. This has been wonderful. The cooling alone for this 150 attendee LAN party is apparently costing $13,000. Chase, get over here and explain yourself. No, you can't point there. Did Colton approve this? $13,000 for cooling? Yeah, but you also approved a LAN party in the summer. So it's my fault. Chase is our event coordinator. He does like lounge night. He does this. He does kind of large weird sponsored shoots like that PC or no PC thing. Yeah, he was hired to run LTX and then boom, pandemic, lol jokes. Thanks for that. Great job on LTX. We found them folks. Alex D, manager of the logistics department who takes my dreams and makes them close to reality. Yeah, sometimes they don't turn out the right color. The walls in there are supposed to be gray. Can you explain the dusty brown aesthetic? Yeah, it's kind of like a, Jamie put it the right way. It's like a beverage holder. Well, anyway, this was coordinated at the last minute. So this was a collaborative effort between logistics and event planning. This is the $13,000 air conditioner that because it was so last minute, we couldn't just buy our own air conditioner and put it up on the roof. We're just blowing away money. See you later money. So that's pretty cool. Good work. Yeah. Well, I mean, if you want to put AC on there, it's at least 150,000. Are you serious? Yeah, that's the lowest quote I got. You know, we're doing that though, right? Oh yeah, I know. It won't happen till next year though, unfortunately. Holy s**t. Yeah. Oh yeah, Float Plane. Where the hell is Float Plane? I know two of our Float Plane people are attending the LAN, but they're mostly like scattered around the globe. They build our own like inventory management system on top of maintaining our video streaming platform, which now has over 27,000 paying subscribers. Shout out you guys Float Plane. Oh yeah, they do a ton of the dev work for lttstore.com. Did we miss anyone? God, there's so many people who work here now. Oh yeah, John, one of our writers. He's based in North Carolina. And I think that's everybody from my checklist. Okay. That's a lot of people, Linus. Yeah. And aren't we hiring more? LinusMediaGroup.com slash jobs, I think, or something like that is where you can find the latest listings. We gotta like chill out though. You know we're headed for like a global recession, right? You wouldn't know it walking around here. See you later. Manscaped. Manscaped's ultra premium collection is an all-in-one skin and hair care kit designed to keep the everyday man covered from head to toe. It's the two-in-one shampoo and conditioner, their body wash infused with aloe vera, hydrating body spray, deodorant, and a free gift, moisturizing lip balm. Simplify your man maintenance with Manscaped. 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