Gear Talk with Zach Mitchem

WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.280 --> 00:01:52.200 Tata district nations. What is going on, everybody? I can fix that. 2 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:56.000 For some reason it abruptly stops. What is happening? Welcome. It 3 00:01:56.120 --> 00:01:59.400 is Thursday, August four. Can you believe it? Can you believe it? 4 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:01.760 It's August for that is so mind blowing to me. But we are 5 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:06.920 back with another episode of creating daily. Thank you so much for being here. 6 00:02:07.079 --> 00:02:09.520 If you don't mind, you hit that follow share like all those little 7 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:13.319 fun buttons. Give us a little thumbs up. Say Hello in the chat. 8 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:17.039 I see my friend Monty weaver already jumping into the chats and hello creating 9 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:22.560 daily. Nice microphone. And Yeah, if you want this microphone, I'll 10 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:24.520 just go ahead and pitch it. 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WE'RE NOT gonna get too crazy with it, 43 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:27.920 but we are going to nerd out on some gear and talk about how you, 44 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:31.720 as a content creator can level up. You as a video creator podcaster, 45 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:36.000 can do some really minute things, but we'll make a world of difference 46 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:41.720 and so I'm really curious. I caught I I met Zach. Well, 47 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:45.639 I guess I found Zack. I'm gonna say I discovered him on Amazon live. 48 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:48.439 I was watching and I do watch some of his videos and he has 49 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:53.480 some really good gear review videos over there, and we'll talk about it what's 50 00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:57.079 up? GOB jumped in over here. Appreciate you, man. Goby has 51 00:04:57.120 --> 00:04:59.759 been working on a new show, doing a lot of test lives to go 52 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:03.600 come out as well. Alright, so let's go ahead and bring on the 53 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:08.720 guest, the man of the hour, Zack Mitchum. What is going on, 54 00:05:08.839 --> 00:05:11.600 my guy? How are you good? How are you doing? I'm 55 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:14.560 glad to be here and I'm doing good. I'm having fun. I'm setting 56 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:17.279 it set up in my my my funny little green screen here that I love 57 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:21.079 so much. That's awesome. Yeah, man, it's fun, Dude. 58 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:25.079 So Um, dude, let's kick this thing off. First of all, 59 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:28.879 because I haven't really met you, I don't really know your backstory at all. 60 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:31.360 I don't typically ask this question because I'm better at researching and find it 61 00:05:31.399 --> 00:05:34.240 out on my own, but I want to give you an opportunity, just 62 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:39.199 real quick, to kind of tell us how did Zach get into video and 63 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:41.240 how, you know, how did you get into all this stuff that you're 64 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:45.399 doing right now? Yeah, yeah, absolutely so. So it is a 65 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:46.560 long story. I tell people all the time I'M gonna write a book one 66 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:49.959 day. It's gonna called accidentally on purpose, because I just kind of follow 67 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:54.959 things and accidentally the right thing happens. Um. But I an interest in 68 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:58.920 video and audio like. It was very important to me very young. That 69 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:00.879 was one of the things that it was a video camera. We were poor, 70 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:03.839 couldn't afford it, and I finally got one, Um, but I 71 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:08.800 mean my my son's, you know, toy camera has better resolution than that 72 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:10.920 thing did. So, Um, but I had fun with that, played 73 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:13.839 with it. Actually recorded a youtube video back in two thousand and eight. 74 00:06:14.199 --> 00:06:16.000 I never uploaded it, though. Kind of regret that thing. My life 75 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:19.800 be a little different, um. But really what was happening is I was 76 00:06:19.959 --> 00:06:23.600 going to college, to go to p a school, and I found a 77 00:06:23.639 --> 00:06:27.240 youtuber and just started talking to him. I like to get to know why 78 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:29.240 people do what they do, and he's like, Oh, I'm actually about 79 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:31.800 to quit my job because it's replaced my six figure incomes. Like we only 80 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:35.160 have fifty subscribers. He's like yeah, yeah, I do. I'm like 81 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:38.240 okay, cool, can I learn from you? He's like yeah, sure. 82 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:41.199 Um. So I wrote some blogs, I worked for some other youtubers 83 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:45.360 as well, and then when the pandemic hits like that, something's gotta Change, 84 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:48.120 because what I was doing really died of selling bespoke suits, very very 85 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:53.000 expensive suits, and uh had done some social media for the company, but 86 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:58.000 Um, just really dove into Youtube, paid for some courses, some mentors 87 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:00.079 and then I reached out to some friends at Youtube, Chan anals and companies 88 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:02.360 locally. It's like hey, here's some tips. Like Oh, this is 89 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:05.839 awesome. What do you charge? Like, Oh, what do you mean? 90 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:08.720 Like, well, your service. How much do you charge? was 91 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:12.240 like, uh, okay, well, I I charged this Um, and 92 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:15.319 it was part time work and it was more. It was as much as 93 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:16.639 I made. It my best full time job while I was in college. 94 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:19.560 Um, I was married, had kids and so like, okay, well, 95 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:24.839 this is awesome, and just kind of went down from there. Well, 96 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:28.079 up from there, UM, word of mouth. WORKED WITH BIGGER BUSINESSES, 97 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:31.120 marketing agencies, fortunate hundred companies, and then now I'm a, you 98 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:34.439 know, chief social media officer at a seller universe, which is an agency, 99 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:39.399 and so it just kind of kept going and I was really really obsessed 100 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:43.600 with having the best looking and best sounding videos I possibly could and I would 101 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:46.160 get so many questions on how do what micropunction, to buy, what camera. 102 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:48.160 So I was like, okay, well, I'M gonna shift from the 103 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:53.480 channel I was doing, which was actually clothing reviews, to teaching people how 104 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:58.240 to do well on video and Youtube and video podcasts. Dude, I love 105 00:07:58.279 --> 00:08:01.040 that, man. I love the transition of, you know, kind of 106 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:03.800 getting well in the whole pandemic transition. I think that was like one of 107 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:07.759 the it was one of the most brutal times and a lot of people's lives, 108 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:11.160 but it really set me up for success and what I really wanted to 109 00:08:11.240 --> 00:08:16.639 do, and so it was really good like pause button to go okay, 110 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:18.279 what do you really want to do when you grow up, and so Um. 111 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:20.480 But I love, as a content creator, man, that you can 112 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:24.519 kind of go in into these different spaces from like, Oh, I'm doing 113 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:28.000 clothing, but then people are curious about how I'm doing what I'm doing. 114 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:31.519 And now you are, you know, on Amazon live. I know I 115 00:08:31.559 --> 00:08:35.720 see you on there. I don't know if it's daily or every other day, 116 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:41.120 but you're on there quite often teaching people and educating them about products and 117 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:43.159 in different things that they can do to level up, to have the quality 118 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:48.080 of video, to show up professional in front of these brands, to be 119 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:50.600 able to get them to compensate. You know, them as a creator or 120 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:54.440 you as a creator, and keep showing up that way. So I love 121 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:56.879 what you're doing, man. I love that. I met you, Um, 122 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:01.639 through by finding you through Amazon line and then I'll drop up here real 123 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:03.840 quick. It's always fun to see how people meet you. So here's gob 124 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:07.639 saying he caught you on Fanny Dunnigan's live stream with Stephanie Lew and, so 125 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:13.279 that's how he came to know about you. So, yeah, I appreciate 126 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:15.799 that. I'm excited. We were in the chat. Actually it was what 127 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:18.440 it wasn't. Then they actually invited me on to actually be on the show. 128 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:20.799 So I was like, Oh, cool, I was just trying to 129 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:24.440 give some wisdom in the chat and as that's that's cool, dude. I 130 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:28.200 love it, man, I love it. So so let's dive into a 131 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:31.240 little bit. What is what's one of the number one questions you get asked 132 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:33.799 right now? Is it about your video, your lighting, your audio? 133 00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:39.399 Yeah, I think there's probably two of them. The first one is always 134 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:41.679 what can I do to grow my Youtube Channel? Um, and then the 135 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:46.679 second one is usually how do I get my videos to look better? And 136 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:48.279 or a version of that, what camera do I buy? What lighting, 137 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:54.080 but it's usually just they want their videos to look like mine and that they 138 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:56.000 don't don't quite know what it takes to do that. So that's just like 139 00:09:56.039 --> 00:09:58.440 how do I how do I look him to look better? But I'd say 140 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:01.320 those are usually the two that I get. All right, got you, 141 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:05.600 all right. So give me your number one tip for Youtube growth and then 142 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:09.879 will jump into how do we make our our video look better? Yeah, 143 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:16.480 so youtube, preface this with have have good expectations of yourself. What what 144 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:20.200 people don't understand is at a thousand subscribers you're in the top of all channels 145 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:22.960 on planet earth. And so when you're like, my channel is not doing 146 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:24.879 that great, I only've got three hundred subscribers. Five hundred subscribers something that 147 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:28.759 that you don't realize how close you are to being really, really high up 148 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:33.360 there, like a hundred thousand is the top point, zero, zero one 149 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:37.320 percent of all channels. Like it's you're doing better than you think you are. 150 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:41.120 So typically, when it's on Youtube, the number one tip I would 151 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:46.879 have to say is make sure that you're you're answering a specific question. You 152 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:50.720 know all of your content. Figure out what question you're the answer to. 153 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:54.120 And make content around that. If you are serving that purpose and and really 154 00:10:54.159 --> 00:10:58.480 do something that lights lights your fire up, just makes you excited to make 155 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:03.240 content, you'll get there, because all of the other things that are important, 156 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:05.720 you know, getting in the reps so that your videos get better, 157 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:07.679 practicing your content, practicing your but, like all of these other things, 158 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:13.039 kind of take care of themselves if you're really making content on something that you 159 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:16.879 love and you enjoy and fulfills you like, if you if you have that, 160 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:18.840 instead of well, how do I make more money? What? What 161 00:11:18.879 --> 00:11:20.919 do I need to talk about to make more money? Or what do we 162 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:24.600 need to talk about that more subscribers? Those things can work, but really, 163 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:26.960 at your core you need to be serving a purpose and if you'll do 164 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:30.399 that, some of these other things will kind of take care of themselves. 165 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:33.159 Yeah, I love that answer. I think that's where I've had some success 166 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:39.399 in the podcasting world is really dialing in, like who who am I talking 167 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:41.120 to and what am I talking about? And I think a lot of content 168 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:46.320 creators and maybe a lot of business owners in general, I mean maybe, 169 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:48.960 maybe almost say. Well, I'll say more content creators, because that's who 170 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:52.559 I'm I'm mess with that's who I talked to a lot and it's always like 171 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:54.919 well, if I'm only talking about this and there's all these other millions of 172 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:58.639 people that might need to know about this, I'm like yeah, but those 173 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:01.000 aren't your millions of people, those are somebody else's. So like focus on 174 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:05.480 you know, what you're trying to accomplish and UH. And so I love 175 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:07.399 that advice, man. So, and that seems to be across the board 176 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:11.480 with podcasting, with live streaming, with all this kind of stuff. Um, 177 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:15.879 but real quick before we jump into I keep I keep rabbit trailing off. 178 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:20.440 I want to talk about your your new podcast that you're doing, because 179 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:22.720 you just told me you made it official. So I guess if it's official 180 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:26.279 enough to announce on this show, I'd love to help you promote it. 181 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:30.120 Yeah, no, I appreciate that. Um. So I've called that branding 182 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:33.000 with video kind of taking all the experience that I've had past clients. Most 183 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:37.360 of my clients have been you know, they have a video podcast of some 184 00:12:37.480 --> 00:12:41.240 short or they're trying to use youtube to build their authority and, you know, 185 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:45.799 really become an expert in their space, in their industry. And what 186 00:12:45.879 --> 00:12:48.320 I love about that is it's like you said, you don't need to have 187 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:50.399 millions of follows, you don't need to have hundreds of thousands. Um, 188 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:54.519 you know, recently I've really that I've pivoted into this. I've had this 189 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:58.240 experience for a few years now, but I've pivoted to being, you know, 190 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:03.159 specialized for creators, business owners, thought leaders who want to create videos 191 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:07.919 to build their authority. And I thought it would have been kind of limiting 192 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:11.799 because I'm going from a big group to a small group. But now the 193 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:15.200 youtube experts, and they are experts, but they have hundreds of thousands or 194 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:16.759 millions of followers. I'm not competing with them anymore. I am very, 195 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:20.720 very specific and I'm the person in this space. Maybe there's another person in 196 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:24.159 this space, so I don't know them. And so I'm using the podcast 197 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:26.279 too, you know, once a week give just a solo podcast of like 198 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:31.399 hey, top three tips or top three biggest mistakes I see, you know, 199 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:35.039 people making on Youtube when they're trying to grow or how the Youtube Algorithm 200 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:39.240 works or how to make more content out of your video podcasts more easily. 201 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:41.559 In fact, they just created a it's a small course, it's free, 202 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:45.159 it's a gift. We can mention at the end, but it's like thirty 203 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:46.840 minutes to teach you how to make ten videos in ninety minutes a week from 204 00:13:46.840 --> 00:13:50.159 your video podcast. Um. And then the other side of this is I 205 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:54.320 bring on guests who have built their business using social media. Add Christo on. 206 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:58.679 He has two million subscribers on Youtube and I think his total audiences like 207 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:03.879 four million across platforms. But it wasn't that way ten years ago. Like 208 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:07.480 he built a very, very successful business and it's become exponentially more successful as 209 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:11.759 he's used social and so he's just one of the examples. But you know, 210 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:13.039 the second show of the week is to try to have a guest on 211 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:16.519 every week at you know, maybe maybe not crystal caliber. I wish I 212 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:18.960 could, you know, always have the one of the caliber, but there's 213 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:22.720 something to learn from everyone and there's something that they've done and you know, 214 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:24.960 to have them on once a week. Yeah, man, that's awesome. 215 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:28.679 So but to go right now to your what is it on the apple? 216 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:31.720 Is it available everywhere right now? It should be available everywhere. I just 217 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:35.279 literally posted it. It's been maybe an hour now. For sure. Is 218 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:37.559 On apple right now. It's branding with video um, but it should be 219 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:41.879 everywhere else. I'M gonna try. I'm gonna start doing the video podcast to 220 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:46.320 spotify. How many people actually watch video podcasts instead, you know, outside 221 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:48.000 of like Youtube? But we'll put it up there. I don't know. 222 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:52.279 I don't open. I watch like Joe Rogans sometimes on spotify, but because 223 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:56.840 I have to. Otherwise I'd be watching on Youtube. So Um, so 224 00:14:56.879 --> 00:15:00.759 I don't know, but in and we'll put the link. Until we mentioned 225 00:15:00.799 --> 00:15:03.399 it. We'll put the link to the mini course in the show notes afterward, 226 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:07.279 because I don't have an available ride posted right now. Um. So, 227 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:09.320 men, I guess we did. We did. We did say we 228 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:11.759 talked about gears. So I'll stop talking about podcasting for a second, video 229 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:16.399 Um, and we'll kind of jump into some gear. So, out of 230 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:20.200 all the stuff that we can talk about, we got lights, we got 231 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:24.000 cameras, we got microphones, we got headphones, we got all this stuff 232 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:26.320 that we can talk about, what do you feel like, as a content 233 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:30.399 creator, is the most important thing out of all of those first like, 234 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:33.519 if I if I was just bare bones, I'm just getting started today. 235 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:37.240 What should I focus on before anything else? That's definitely sound. Definitely in 236 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:41.840 the microphone. My first sixty videos on youtube were made with a smartphone. 237 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:45.440 It was an iphone eleven so and older. I mean not older, but 238 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:50.080 not a great smartphone. As far as the camera Um and sound, the 239 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:54.720 sound was far more important. So if you're just getting started, get a 240 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:56.159 good microphone. In fact, I would say if you're like I've got a 241 00:15:56.200 --> 00:16:00.240 small budget, you know, smaller, maybe hundred thousand dollars like total. 242 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:03.399 I can't spend anymore. That's like pushing it, I would say spend maybe 243 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:06.759 half of that on sound and just save up for a camera later. Like 244 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:08.759 you don't need a camera right now, but if I can't listen to your 245 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:14.799 videos without like just your fatigue, then you're not gonna get very far. 246 00:16:14.840 --> 00:16:17.519 So definitely get a good microphone. Definitely get a good audio set up. 247 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:19.000 Yeah, man, that's what I write. I always recommend that too. 248 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:22.639 And and I do recommend to like if you don't have to go out and 249 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:26.320 buying SM seven B or whatever, like, go buy something. Go Buy 250 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:30.840 something like this, like this is a microphone. You can use it with 251 00:16:30.919 --> 00:16:33.159 USB, so you don't have to have an additional like interface or all that, 252 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:37.639 and it's more fun, trust me, like I don't need all this 253 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:41.159 stuff in my studio, but I just love having it, like it's a 254 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:45.600 lot of fun but necessary stuff. I'm with you. It's like get a 255 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:48.960 nice microphone, use the phone on your camera or use the camera on your 256 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:52.360 phone, that type of stuff. So what what microphones, like beginner microphones, 257 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:56.600 would you recommend? or or maybe I'm thinking too too slender? Maybe 258 00:16:56.639 --> 00:17:00.759 I don't know of another product out there, but because always go to USB 259 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:04.839 microphones. Yeah, no, I think honestly, I think USB is is 260 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:07.400 a good option. I don't love it because the sound quality isn't as great, 261 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:10.960 but if, if you're just getting started into this and then I'm not 262 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:14.960 sure if you're gonna do this long term, it will give you of the 263 00:17:15.039 --> 00:17:17.799 result for a lot less money. So I think that's a great option. 264 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:19.920 The other thing to think about is, like what kind of show are you 265 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:23.599 having? If you're doing like a livestream while you're cooking or demonstrating something, 266 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:27.039 you probably want something more like the road go to. It's a good option. 267 00:17:27.079 --> 00:17:32.160 I have a set of those. And is it sound quality the best? 268 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:33.160 No, but I can get up, I can move, I could 269 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:37.519 draw on a whiteboard. You can do whatever you need to do that way. 270 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:38.519 Um, if you are going to sit at a desk, though, 271 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:44.480 I do recommend getting some sort of diaphragm microphone, whether it's USB or excel 272 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:48.000 art. The thing that it drives me nuts is people will get shotgun microphones, 273 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:51.680 which I've had had, in fact I've had a really, really nice 274 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:55.039 shotgun microphone, Um, and you put it out a frame. The problem 275 00:17:55.119 --> 00:17:57.400 is you don't get nearly as good of sound and I don't know why so 276 00:17:57.440 --> 00:18:00.880 many people on Youtube kind of straight away from the larger microphones. But you're 277 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:03.160 gonna get much better sound that way and it's gonna be a lot cheaper. 278 00:18:03.279 --> 00:18:07.400 So, Um, yeah, USB, you know, microphone that way. 279 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:12.000 I don't have actually I do have one, the Sampson q nine. You. 280 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:17.799 It's probably my favorite USB microphone. I've got it right here, um, 281 00:18:17.839 --> 00:18:22.160 but it does xlr and USB and it for podcasts, for anything of 282 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:26.119 that. It sounds amazing. It's I think they're like. So it's not 283 00:18:26.119 --> 00:18:29.880 not bad at all, um, but definitely like some people like. It's 284 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:33.000 it's just cumbersome. Right here. It's gonna be much better sound. So 285 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:36.039 that's that's what I would go with. Yeah, man, that that's always 286 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:40.079 my thought too, because and then I see people too using something like the 287 00:18:40.119 --> 00:18:44.279 seven b or the M v seven or the the q nine and they got 288 00:18:44.319 --> 00:18:48.240 it off camera and the Games is ripping high trying to get it. These 289 00:18:48.279 --> 00:18:52.799 are and what I always recommend, and I'd be curious because you know, 290 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:56.319 like most people, will will straight to like something like a blue Yetti, 291 00:18:56.400 --> 00:18:59.240 which is USB, but if they don't know how to work it, if 292 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:02.039 they don't have in the right room, it's picking up all this room noise, 293 00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:04.640 all this echo. As to where a dynamic mic so that's a condenser 294 00:19:04.680 --> 00:19:08.640 microphone, but where a dynamic microphone is more directional. Speak to it or 295 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:12.720 speak through it. So what is your your thoughts there when it comes to 296 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:19.079 condenser microphones? Oh yeah, I have a condenser microphone here. So this 297 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:22.480 is the blue baby L S L. This is one of my top three 298 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:26.759 microphones. I keep getting new ones and so that rotate. I would say 299 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:29.359 right now this one. That's either number one or number two as far as 300 00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:33.440 the sound and the look. Problem is it is a large diaphragm condenser microphones. 301 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:36.319 So what that means is this is super sensitive, and so in this 302 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:40.279 room here I have about a thousand dollars worth of sound treatment. But when 303 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:44.200 my a C kicks on, you can hear it in this and I'll have 304 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:47.599 it off to the side, but it's sensitive enough that I'll get some plosives 305 00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:49.920 or some noise pick up even if it's off to the side. So it 306 00:19:49.960 --> 00:19:53.759 just picks up a lot more. And so this one right here, this 307 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:59.240 is the high lpr forty and it's a dynamic microphone and I can turn the 308 00:19:59.240 --> 00:20:02.799 game down enough that when it's silent, it is silent. You can't hear, 309 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:06.400 they see, but you still pick up good sounds. So when I 310 00:20:06.440 --> 00:20:08.519 first started I was like a well, when I first upgraded everything, like 311 00:20:08.680 --> 00:20:12.400 I like the condenser better and I've come to learn that I really don't actually 312 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:17.039 love the dynamic better because it rejects noise better and if you can't afford to 313 00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:21.200 treat your room or your space, you're gonna want a dynamic microphone, in 314 00:20:21.200 --> 00:20:22.920 my opinion. Yeah, no, I'm with you, man, because I've 315 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:27.160 had a room where it's been treated very well but not proved. So there's 316 00:20:27.160 --> 00:20:30.680 a big difference in sound treating and soundproofing and that that was my biggest, 317 00:20:32.319 --> 00:20:34.200 you know, Hiccup. With a condenser microphone. I'm like, this isn't 318 00:20:34.200 --> 00:20:38.039 a recording studio, this is just a studio, and so I don't have 319 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:42.400 I don't have everything sound treaty, because that's like twenty or thirty thousand dollars 320 00:20:42.519 --> 00:20:47.480 versus a thousand bucks or whatnot, and so I think that's a big thing 321 00:20:47.559 --> 00:20:49.519 for for people to realize, especially if you're just getting started, you've never 322 00:20:49.559 --> 00:20:53.319 purchased a microphone and you're just going on Amazon, you type in podcast microphone, 323 00:20:53.720 --> 00:20:56.799 you're gonna see condenser microphones come up and you, in my opinion, 324 00:20:57.119 --> 00:21:00.559 the same as your Zach. I think you should you're away from those and 325 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:04.119 look up more of a dynamic and make sure says dynamic in the listing. 326 00:21:04.119 --> 00:21:07.680 That way it's more directional, because you know you've spend a hundred, two 327 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:11.000 hundred dollars or fifty bucks or whatever on the MIC and you and you're like 328 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:15.720 wow, I can still hear my dog barking three streets down, but or 329 00:21:15.759 --> 00:21:18.519 whatever, somebody else's dog. It's annoying, man, it's annoying. So 330 00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:23.680 definitely learn how to use them to like the story you talked about the Blue 331 00:21:23.759 --> 00:21:26.319 Yettie. I don't have a belie. Anybody have something similar? Um, 332 00:21:26.359 --> 00:21:32.000 but the person that they asked me how to like, why can't? Why 333 00:21:32.079 --> 00:21:34.519 is my sound so terrible? And they had blue Yettie, but they had 334 00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:38.240 it turned the wrong way and they had it too far from their mouth, 335 00:21:38.680 --> 00:21:41.319 and so I was like well, you know, just turn around, put 336 00:21:41.319 --> 00:21:45.319 it close to your mouth and then listen to them. This sounds phenomenal. 337 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:49.319 It's like yeah, it doesn't. And and that's and honestly, some people 338 00:21:49.359 --> 00:21:52.759 also looking at that and be like, oh well, I speak into the 339 00:21:52.799 --> 00:21:55.680 top of it, and some of them you do this one, you don't. 340 00:21:55.720 --> 00:21:57.960 You know this one you do speak into the top of so just take, 341 00:21:59.200 --> 00:22:02.279 you know, fifteen minutes and really learn the MIC, just a couple 342 00:22:02.279 --> 00:22:03.920 of the basics, and you'll be good to go. Yeah, man, 343 00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:07.640 that's good advice. And I always do that when I get into even with 344 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:08.880 this new microphone, and I'm like, okay, how do I want to 345 00:22:08.920 --> 00:22:11.160 talk to? How what do I want to sound like? I got my 346 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:15.319 innears in trying to figure out what is the you know, less plosives and 347 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:19.640 the best placement Um for the microphone. So so there's a couple of good 348 00:22:19.640 --> 00:22:22.880 options. Man. You talked about the Samson. You've we've talked about a 349 00:22:22.920 --> 00:22:26.359 little bit about the M v seven, which is basically, you know, 350 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:30.880 same thing, same operation, either xlr or or USB UM. Is there 351 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:34.880 any other microphones that you recommend for and I'm talking about beginners, but there 352 00:22:34.880 --> 00:22:41.400 could be you know, maybe advanced or pro level as well. If beginner, 353 00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:44.119 especially if your podcasts, I think those are probably the best options. 354 00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:48.960 I do have a couple of other options here, but if you're just actually, 355 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:52.960 you know what, let me grab on. There's a couple here and 356 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:56.880 I just got these in and I didn't really think about this because I did 357 00:22:56.039 --> 00:23:00.119 just get them. Let's see, Um, so these are from high out. 358 00:23:00.160 --> 00:23:02.640 Yeah, this is actually one of looking for Um. So this is 359 00:23:02.680 --> 00:23:07.079 the PR twenty two. I was on a call with the I think she's 360 00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:11.519 the UM chief marketing officer or something like that, and she was using this. 361 00:23:11.599 --> 00:23:12.920 It's like that looks weird, like I would never use one of those, 362 00:23:14.200 --> 00:23:18.240 but I think the reason she's using it is it is a sound um 363 00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:22.079 isolating microphone, and so she like her office is to like a highway. 364 00:23:22.279 --> 00:23:25.359 She's like there's cars going on, there's tons of stuff going out there. 365 00:23:25.400 --> 00:23:29.839 It's like I can't hear anything. And so while this doesn't look maybe the 366 00:23:29.839 --> 00:23:32.839 best, like I would prefer the look of this, it sounds like it. 367 00:23:32.839 --> 00:23:36.279 It sounded amazing and it rejects always really well and it's about a hundred 368 00:23:36.319 --> 00:23:40.359 and seventy dollars. So it is Excell r all there, all of the 369 00:23:40.400 --> 00:23:44.759 high microphones are xcelr Um. I do prefer that, but you can have 370 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:47.359 this. Plus, you know, I used the wave excellar. You're about 371 00:23:47.400 --> 00:23:51.000 three forty dollars for that set up. So it is a little bit more, 372 00:23:51.039 --> 00:23:53.599 but it's not crazy like this. This microphone and cage right here is 373 00:23:53.640 --> 00:23:59.240 for fifty. So you can't even it's not even close. Um. That's 374 00:23:59.240 --> 00:24:00.799 probably the next if you want to if you want to elevate a little bit 375 00:24:00.839 --> 00:24:04.559 from some of the like a USB microphone and you don't want to treat your 376 00:24:04.839 --> 00:24:07.240 room and you've got a lot of noise, that's probably what I recommend. 377 00:24:07.640 --> 00:24:11.000 All right. Yeah, man, if somebody can make a microphone that would 378 00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:15.119 make your kids not exist, I'm just gonna put that out there. Just 379 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:18.519 put that out there like whatever frequency my kid yells through the door at, 380 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:22.440 like if you guys can make sure it cuts that out off. They'll be 381 00:24:22.480 --> 00:24:25.480 great. A little customize it, you know, like your kid yelling and 382 00:24:25.480 --> 00:24:29.480 they put it in the software like eliminated that. So it would be awesome. 383 00:24:30.359 --> 00:24:32.839 Yeah, I feel you there. It's not low cut filter, it's 384 00:24:33.079 --> 00:24:36.799 kid filter. Yeah, it's like it's like customized kid filter. Like there 385 00:24:36.839 --> 00:24:38.559 we go. Um, so maybe. So we talked about a little bit 386 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:42.519 about USB and then Xlr. So if you have an xlr microphone, then 387 00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:45.000 you gotta have an interface. So what kind of interface are you using? 388 00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:49.359 Yeah, so I have the wave xlr. So I originally purchase I think 389 00:24:49.359 --> 00:24:55.599 it's the audience evo four and it has two imports. It just it was 390 00:24:55.599 --> 00:24:57.160 a little little plastic, you feel, but that's the real thing that I 391 00:24:57.160 --> 00:25:00.839 didn't like is it wasn't super easy to use. Was it's one of the 392 00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:03.160 easiest ones to use and it's like this is the first experience I have with 393 00:25:03.240 --> 00:25:07.599 and in interface and it's it's got a few things going on. I could 394 00:25:07.599 --> 00:25:11.319 have learned it. But the waveacks are especially if you're beginning. It's one 395 00:25:11.400 --> 00:25:15.319 KNOB and it just cycles through like the gain and the volume on your microphone, 396 00:25:15.319 --> 00:25:18.680 your headphones, and then you can, you know, turn the mix 397 00:25:18.759 --> 00:25:22.279 of do you just want to monitor your voice into your microphone, do you 398 00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:25.920 just want to hear the computer what's going on there, or do you want 399 00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:27.400 to mix of both? Um, and then there's a mute button on the 400 00:25:27.400 --> 00:25:33.599 back and it's USBC right into your computer. It is it's super, super 401 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:36.119 easy. It's like made, made for streamers, made for like if you 402 00:25:36.119 --> 00:25:40.920 want to do video conferencing. It's amazing. So it's a hundred six dollars. 403 00:25:40.920 --> 00:25:42.160 So that the reason I like that one is just because of the easy 404 00:25:42.240 --> 00:25:47.480 use and it's very unassuming. Like it. It doesn't take up a lot 405 00:25:47.480 --> 00:25:49.359 of space. I do love like the road, Um, you know, 406 00:25:49.440 --> 00:25:52.599 broadcaster, but it's huge. It's got a lot going on, it's complicated 407 00:25:52.640 --> 00:25:56.839 and, Um, you must be able to need that. It's just huge. 408 00:25:56.880 --> 00:26:00.759 I'm like, I was even telling somebody the other day if it didn't 409 00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:03.319 have some of the built in effects to it that I use for live streaming, 410 00:26:03.960 --> 00:26:07.519 especially like the noise gate, where like cuts all, you know, 411 00:26:07.559 --> 00:26:11.480 like whatever, I probably wouldn't use it. I'd probably just use I mean, 412 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:14.720 I've never even seen the wave Xlr, so I'm looking at it right 413 00:26:14.720 --> 00:26:17.599 now. I don't think I set up a scene to to bring this up 414 00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:22.079 and look at it. But this thing is let's just see what happens here. 415 00:26:22.519 --> 00:26:26.200 Yeah, there we go. Look at that. So I think it's 416 00:26:26.240 --> 00:26:29.039 pretty cool, man. It's like just dialed in. And then here's the 417 00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:32.480 back of it. So that thing is pretty dope. Yeah, super. 418 00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:34.359 On the back is a touch mute. So when my kids come in in 419 00:26:34.359 --> 00:26:37.680 the middle of the meeting, I just touch it and mutes. It turns 420 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:40.559 everything red, so you know it's muted and then he's touch it again and 421 00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:41.519 good to go. Yeah, man, and I like it. I like 422 00:26:41.599 --> 00:26:45.960 this picture here. It's paired up against the stream deck. So I get 423 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:51.720 the stream deck as well. Same thing right here, just on the other 424 00:26:51.759 --> 00:26:53.359 side. Okay, yeah, so you get that? Yeah, that's one 425 00:26:53.400 --> 00:26:56.319 I got as well. I wish I would got the bigger maybe I don't, 426 00:26:56.319 --> 00:27:00.160 because now you can do like anyway. We're gonna WE'RE gonna get it 427 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:03.559 into a rabbit hole. Get really neardy here. Yeah, people are like, 428 00:27:03.599 --> 00:27:07.319 I'm just starting, man, like, what's that like? What is 429 00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:11.519 it? Yeah, you don't. You don't need wave XCELR. Good option 430 00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:15.119 for you. Stream deck, you don't. Don't. Don't mess with that 431 00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:18.799 yet. Get get everything else dout in first all right, so that's cool 432 00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:21.279 that you're using the wave xlr. I've never heard of it. I think 433 00:27:21.319 --> 00:27:25.319 I'm gonna have to check that out because, yeah, man, the roadcaster 434 00:27:25.519 --> 00:27:29.960 pro takes up it's probably what, I don't know, six of those. 435 00:27:30.079 --> 00:27:33.759 Probably you know something like that easily. Yeah, I think footprint on it 436 00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:37.720 is like it's tiny. It's maybe a little bit bigger than the bottom of 437 00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:41.039 this water bottle. It's it's small. Yeah, man, that's awesome and 438 00:27:41.079 --> 00:27:44.720 that's real simple and I know when people are first getting started it's it's kind 439 00:27:44.720 --> 00:27:45.640 of like, Oh man, I don't want to learn all this stuff or 440 00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:48.519 whatever, and that just I guess that just goes into your software and you 441 00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:53.759 selected within your software that says wave X L R pretty simple and has a 442 00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:57.160 really easy to use software that comes with it. So if you want extra 443 00:27:57.240 --> 00:28:00.960 stuff, so like, for example, when I do I've streams, sometimes 444 00:28:00.279 --> 00:28:04.079 I'll do video editing like behind the scenes. I just kind of I'll edit 445 00:28:04.119 --> 00:28:07.200 my youtube videos and I'll kind of tell you why I'm doing what I'm doing 446 00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:11.119 and give you tips and tricks. Um, I can pull in the sound 447 00:28:11.160 --> 00:28:15.240 from final cut pro into there and then feed it into whatever I need um 448 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:17.440 or. I can go in there and it does have what's called clip guard, 449 00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:21.599 and so very, very simply, like if your microphone settings aren't set 450 00:28:21.680 --> 00:28:25.480 right, you can get some like really too loud and it clips off and 451 00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:27.319 you can't hear it all. It has a software that makes us so that 452 00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:30.079 doesn't happen. If you do have it turned up too loud, it will 453 00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:33.240 sound terrible, but it won't it won't be clipping. So if you are 454 00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:37.240 a beginner, it's it's nice because it it kind of gives you some user 455 00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:41.839 friendly features to to keep the you know, the things you really don't want 456 00:28:41.880 --> 00:28:45.559 to have happen from happening. Okay, heck yeah, man, that's awesome, 457 00:28:45.599 --> 00:28:48.720 Dude. I Love I love learning about new gear. My wife is, 458 00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:51.200 she's watching this, is gonna be texting me in five seconds, like 459 00:28:51.599 --> 00:28:56.799 no stop, and it's Elgatto. So good luck getting stuff from them. 460 00:28:56.799 --> 00:29:02.240 But it's so good. This arm yourself. Yeah, Oh, you got 461 00:29:02.279 --> 00:29:04.240 the which one you have? You get the toll, I get the I 462 00:29:04.279 --> 00:29:08.720 get the LP. Yeah, so this is the yeah, not the low 463 00:29:08.720 --> 00:29:11.519 profile, the other one, but it's it's amazing. You can move it 464 00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:15.640 with one hand. Like I do have, actually have another one on this 465 00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:22.400 side, but it's not the ELGATTO. This one's actually hiles. I'm probably 466 00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:26.000 switched camera angles here real quick. Um, so I can test multiple microphones 467 00:29:26.039 --> 00:29:30.440 and show people. But it's this one's easier to move than most, but 468 00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:33.519 I definitely can't move with one finger and this one's just like yeah, whatever, 469 00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:37.119 where do you want to be? Yeah, Dude, I got the 470 00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:41.240 LP. So I got the low profile and I like it. I like 471 00:29:41.359 --> 00:29:45.119 it pretty good. Like it's not it kind of gets in the way a 472 00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:48.279 little bit, especially with the Road Cap Crow being on the same side and 473 00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:52.839 my desk is like I can't mount stuff on the side because there's like a 474 00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:56.119 little guards. So that's not but anyway, I mean it works good and 475 00:29:56.200 --> 00:30:00.480 it just swivels right out of the way. When I'm doing Amazon live videos 476 00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:04.839 with my with my road wireless here that you're talking about, that's gonna show 477 00:30:04.880 --> 00:30:07.559 that thing. I love that thing. Um. So okay, man. 478 00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:10.839 So let's see what we're talking about. We talked about Mikes a little bit. 479 00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:14.680 We've talked about interfaces a little bit. Talk to me about the lighting 480 00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:18.440 that you use, because I think that is it looks great. So let's 481 00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:22.319 talk about that for a minute. Yeah, actually, let me grab my 482 00:30:22.359 --> 00:30:26.960 phone real quick and all hook up a third hum. Actually, I don't 483 00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:30.640 think I can do it on this software. We'll try it. Um, 484 00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:33.599 I do have my phone and I'll put it as a third camerangle sometimes so 485 00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:37.480 I can walk you around stuff. Um. But when I first started I 486 00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:41.880 just bought two little lights in the the kneewer for eighties maybe, and that 487 00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:45.119 works great enough. Like it really does. Unless you're trying to do this 488 00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:48.759 professionally, you want to have a big setup. You don't need anything crazy. 489 00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:52.920 Let's see if I can. I don't think it's gonna let me. 490 00:30:52.200 --> 00:30:56.920 That's okay, yeah, okay. Well, right here I have. It's 491 00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:02.680 Amaran Um. It's a fairly big light. Um, I mean it's hundred 492 00:31:02.680 --> 00:31:06.000 wats, so it's not crazy. But the soft box on thet across or 493 00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:08.599 it's it's a big light up here, and then over my left shoulder I 494 00:31:08.640 --> 00:31:11.680 have g v M FFT RS. So they're not they're not crazy big. 495 00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:14.960 I just have it turned down a little bit, a little warmer for some 496 00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:18.400 separation. The real kicker that was the blue in the back. It's a 497 00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:21.759 photo backdrop. Um, it was a temporary set up. I really wanted 498 00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:23.160 to have some two lights in the back and a bunch of stuff. It's 499 00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:26.680 like it's going to be like a thousand dollars, so I'll just buy a 500 00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:29.920 photo back drop for now and throw an r GB light back there. And 501 00:31:29.920 --> 00:31:33.160 I've had so many comments on this set up. How it looks like, 502 00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:36.279 how did you do that? It's amazing, and I'm like, Um, 503 00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:40.599 it's literally the photo back drop and then right there is a light and like, 504 00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:41.960 Oh, I love this Mike. Well, maybe I don't need to 505 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:47.319 spend spend a thousand dollars, so we'll just keep this and Um, yeah, 506 00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:49.400 it's it's pretty simple. I don't go crazy on lighting. I think 507 00:31:49.559 --> 00:31:55.359 for most people, if like, make it compact, because this this is 508 00:31:55.440 --> 00:31:57.839 huge. I would get like Elgado has a desk key light that you can 509 00:31:57.960 --> 00:32:01.279 use, uh, and maybe some lightning the background. Don't go crazy on 510 00:32:01.359 --> 00:32:05.640 lighting. You don't need to spend a lot on it unless you're you're really 511 00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:07.440 setting up a studio space. Yeah, yeah, man, I agree, 512 00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:12.200 and I'm like you, I got a big I got a giant thirty five 513 00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:15.279 inch soft box as well, because I think it's like a Godex. I 514 00:32:15.319 --> 00:32:19.119 can't remember, like a six sixty as. I can't remember what it is. 515 00:32:19.359 --> 00:32:22.079 I've had it forever. A friend of mine that's a photographer was like 516 00:32:22.119 --> 00:32:22.960 yeah, Dude, you gotta get this. You get to check it out 517 00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:25.680 and, Um, and it's pretty dope, man. Like I used to 518 00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:30.400 do way more cinematic shots with it. Now that I'm trying to do more 519 00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:32.839 Amazon stuff, I'm lighting in this place up way more than I normally would. 520 00:32:34.440 --> 00:32:38.319 Um, but you do want that softer look and I've never used those 521 00:32:38.440 --> 00:32:42.519 led panels. I have a couple on the way from a company that I'm 522 00:32:42.519 --> 00:32:45.519 gonna check out. So I'm excited to use them because, man, this 523 00:32:45.640 --> 00:32:49.200 soft box is giant, like I can't like if I was gonna take it 524 00:32:49.279 --> 00:32:53.000 and go produce someone else's show on location somewhere. It is just like I 525 00:32:53.039 --> 00:32:55.440 gotta tear it down and I gotta put it in the bag. I get 526 00:32:55.440 --> 00:32:58.680 to do whatever and they gotta take you know, take it out and then 527 00:32:58.680 --> 00:33:01.359 you can put it back together. And the things to put it together are 528 00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:07.480 so tough. It takes me like twenty minutes. I'm like and quick release 529 00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:09.440 soft box. I don't know if you've had one of those, but I 530 00:33:09.519 --> 00:33:13.440 used to have one because I would go do corporate shoots and it was amazing. 531 00:33:13.480 --> 00:33:15.839 But it's still like you have to like pull the things out and it's 532 00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:20.599 just a little clip that like springs out, kind of like an umbrella, 533 00:33:20.799 --> 00:33:22.920 but still annoying, dude. Yeah, those things are annoying. I was 534 00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:25.000 trying to figure out. Let me switch over here real quick. I was 535 00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:28.640 trying to figure out if I had oh yeah, dude, okay, so 536 00:33:28.680 --> 00:33:31.400 I'm using my phone like disappeared. But here you go. There you can 537 00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:36.200 see a big giant soft box that I have, and then I just used 538 00:33:36.279 --> 00:33:40.480 this little guy just for additional light and then I just have to light other 539 00:33:40.559 --> 00:33:44.559 stuff over there that I should have turned that light off actually, but anyway. 540 00:33:44.759 --> 00:33:47.400 So, yeah, man, there's a little floating camp. My phone 541 00:33:47.480 --> 00:33:52.640 screen is green, or my phone case. Okay, like how does it 542 00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:57.079 like does the software just know you're holding like what the I don't want you 543 00:33:57.119 --> 00:34:00.599 guys seeing my super secret phone. So there you'll never know what I have. 544 00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:05.039 This is the beautiful green screen. I can get a magic cloak out 545 00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:09.159 here in a minute and disappear completely. Yes, Um, well, man, 546 00:34:09.199 --> 00:34:12.760 and that's a funny you know the funny part two about your backdrop, 547 00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:15.239 because I ran into the same thing. I got the studio space I moved 548 00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:19.960 home from Puerto Rico and I was like it was ninety day gold to have 549 00:34:20.039 --> 00:34:22.679 a studio. And then a friend of mine has a building. They're like 550 00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:23.960 hey, you can, you can rent one of the rooms for rust and 551 00:34:23.960 --> 00:34:25.880 blah, Blah Blah, and I'm like, Oh, it's too good of 552 00:34:25.880 --> 00:34:30.199 a deal to pass up, and I couldn't figure out what I wanted to 553 00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:34.599 put back here. And for Amazon I just used to floodlights and change the 554 00:34:34.639 --> 00:34:37.679 colors and do whatever on a white wall, and then for this show I 555 00:34:37.719 --> 00:34:39.880 was like man, I want to do something different. I just don't know 556 00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:44.360 what it is, and I tried a bunch of different things and finally I 557 00:34:44.440 --> 00:34:47.400 just like I'm gonna go green screen and be a little bit cheesy, which 558 00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:51.320 I don't know. What's your thoughts about green screen? Are you a fan 559 00:34:51.599 --> 00:34:53.880 or not so much so? I've never used a green screen. I do 560 00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:58.800 like I like how you have the effects, though, because most shows are 561 00:34:58.880 --> 00:35:01.440 split and what you're doing is unique. I like it. So it's the 562 00:35:01.480 --> 00:35:06.920 same one. So I have like thirty two thousand followers on TIKTOK and I'll 563 00:35:06.920 --> 00:35:09.239 go live on there occasionally, but I'll create this banner looking thing where it 564 00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:13.199 just has a circle where you can see my face, but everything else around 565 00:35:13.199 --> 00:35:15.760 it will say my user name, what we're talking about, where you can 566 00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:17.039 find me, stuff like that, and people all the time. How are 567 00:35:17.039 --> 00:35:20.559 you doing this? Like are you? Are you stringing from your computer? 568 00:35:20.599 --> 00:35:22.679 What's going on? I'm like, no, it's just a it's a filter. 569 00:35:22.840 --> 00:35:24.760 You can. You can do this and just because it's different, it 570 00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:28.039 gets noticed, and so I like, I like how you're doing this, 571 00:35:28.119 --> 00:35:30.719 especially since you're switching back and forth like that. I think it it looks 572 00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:34.119 unique and it makes it makes it a signature show for you. So, 573 00:35:34.760 --> 00:35:37.159 personally, I don't think I'll ever use a green screen, Um, just 574 00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:42.519 because, I mean I don't I don't need it. Like I have a 575 00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:46.199 sixteen my sixteen room here that I can use so can like angle things if 576 00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:50.719 I really need to. But Um, I think this is about as close 577 00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:52.960 as I'm gonna get. Like when I have my phone set up before, 578 00:35:53.199 --> 00:35:57.440 you could see the top of the photo drop is like, Oh, this 579 00:35:57.480 --> 00:36:00.159 looks terrible. So I have this shot set up just just perfectly, so 580 00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:05.239 you can't see them here. Yeah, that's my man. Well, dude, 581 00:36:05.239 --> 00:36:07.320 that's like I'm in a Um. It's like it's decent. It's like 582 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:12.280 Thirteam by fourteen studio space here. Now what I had to do, though, 583 00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:15.519 because all the surfaces were flat. The ceiling is like warehouse style, 584 00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:19.760 so it goes up to a mental roof. So I had to make of 585 00:36:19.800 --> 00:36:23.000 stuff on the wall. So I really there's probably one good wall to use 586 00:36:23.079 --> 00:36:25.440 and the rest of the might have to get creative if I wanted to. 587 00:36:25.719 --> 00:36:30.199 In it's like black, which I maybe should. I mean, whatever you're 588 00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:31.960 shooting from black, it looks cool, whatever. Just light it up. 589 00:36:31.960 --> 00:36:35.239 But Anyway, man, I had to do all that just to get this 590 00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:37.400 sound, because you would hear yourself like four times when you're talking here. 591 00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:42.960 It was insane. So a little sound treatment. But yeah, for tip, 592 00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:45.079 I mean for I don't know what you did for sound treatment, but 593 00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:49.480 I literally this room was so big. I literally went to Walmart and bought 594 00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:53.719 king sized quilts and just tacked them onto the wall and it like like dead 595 00:36:53.719 --> 00:36:58.360 and to sound like crazy. And then for the ceiling, which no one's 596 00:36:58.360 --> 00:37:00.079 gonna have to do this unless they have this where style. I went and 597 00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:05.119 got off Amazon, went and got these big room dividers and just hoisted look 598 00:37:05.159 --> 00:37:09.039 up there and clamped them onto the to the rafters or whatever. So we 599 00:37:09.320 --> 00:37:13.760 cool tip for for everybody out there. If you and those room dividers work, 600 00:37:13.800 --> 00:37:15.840 great too, if you have a small space and you just need to 601 00:37:15.880 --> 00:37:22.760 like like around you say so. We have hardwood floor and like nine of 602 00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:24.360 this house. We just moved here like ten months ago, Um, and 603 00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:28.960 this is the one room in the House that didn't have not they didn't have 604 00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:30.119 a light up here. They didn't have a light fixture. There's no light 605 00:37:30.119 --> 00:37:32.880 fixture in this entire rooms, the only room in the house like like okay, 606 00:37:34.360 --> 00:37:37.320 cool, Um. But it's hardwood floors, hard walls obviously like everything. 607 00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:43.000 So Um, I put I think it's a t s sound panels. 608 00:37:43.039 --> 00:37:45.559 Maybe they make a like do it yourself kits. You Save a little bit, 609 00:37:45.599 --> 00:37:49.760 you can just buy them, but I have several arounds. So I've 610 00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:53.199 got it. Gets, two, four, six on the walls and then 611 00:37:53.239 --> 00:37:55.360 it was still echoy as, like what is going on? So I have 612 00:37:55.599 --> 00:37:59.599 actually took three of them, I screwed them together and they're bolted to the 613 00:37:59.599 --> 00:38:04.199 ceiling rectally above my head, um and that that did it. So but 614 00:38:04.239 --> 00:38:07.000 you have nine, nine sound panels, and then I have some moving blankets 615 00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:10.480 like tacked above. There's a closet and it's hard, hardwood, and so 616 00:38:12.039 --> 00:38:15.079 just tacked over that so it doesn't echo back at me. Yeah, man, 617 00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:17.320 I always love it when people are like, Dude, your studio space 618 00:38:17.360 --> 00:38:21.119 looks so great. I'm like, yeah, if you saw what I see, 619 00:38:21.239 --> 00:38:25.079 you do anything but that, like you put every pile of crap you 620 00:38:25.159 --> 00:38:28.760 had in there, just a deadened sound. I'm like, Dude, when 621 00:38:28.760 --> 00:38:30.639 I would live in Puerto Rico, it is all concrete. So I literally 622 00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:37.960 we rented an AIRBNB and they had like to twin beds and in a full 623 00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:40.639 bed in one room and I literally broke down the beds and took the twin 624 00:38:40.679 --> 00:38:45.760 mattresses and like put them in the corners and a but like I didn't bring 625 00:38:45.800 --> 00:38:47.840 my big light with me, so I had like a ring light with a 626 00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:54.519 white holy case over it. I'm sure it was crazy, but that's what 627 00:38:54.559 --> 00:38:59.639 I love about all this stuff is like there's really no rules in doing it. 628 00:38:59.639 --> 00:39:04.719 It's just kind of being creative and and I use some old boom arms 629 00:39:04.760 --> 00:39:07.599 and adapters, like one of my favorite, one of my favorite tools in 630 00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:15.199 this whole office is like this little adapter right here that will adapt anything to 631 00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:19.119 like it's a it's like a I don't know what size it is, but 632 00:39:19.719 --> 00:39:23.239 regular mic stand to like your camera, and so you can mount your cameras 633 00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:29.320 or I'm out this little ball adjustment things all over the place and move cameras 634 00:39:29.320 --> 00:39:34.199 around and do overhead shots and all kinds of fun stuff. So it's really 635 00:39:34.239 --> 00:39:37.760 just hodgepodging stuff together. At some point I'm like, wow, I can't 636 00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:42.519 believe I'm doing this, but I think everybody's that's the beauty of this. 637 00:39:42.599 --> 00:39:46.440 Everyone's content is unique, everyone's message and purpose emissions unique and everyone's studio is 638 00:39:46.519 --> 00:39:50.840 unique. Like there's nobody that has exactly what you have, which is great. 639 00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:53.679 So make it your own, like enjoy it and like some people, 640 00:39:53.760 --> 00:39:55.920 like I, want this to be simple, like okay, I have an 641 00:39:55.920 --> 00:39:59.400 APP that will work for your phone. We'll set your phone up and you 642 00:39:59.400 --> 00:40:02.360 won't ever have to crazy camera equipment. That's great. Other people are, 643 00:40:04.599 --> 00:40:08.599 unfortunately, maybe a little uh perfectionistic and we focus too much and you know, 644 00:40:08.760 --> 00:40:12.280 no one, unless I say it, no one would ever know that 645 00:40:12.360 --> 00:40:16.559 the difference between this shot is a camera set up. If you take all 646 00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:21.719 the extras off, just camera lens and then you swap over to this one 647 00:40:21.719 --> 00:40:23.639 and you're at four thousand dollars, like nobody's gonna know the difference. For 648 00:40:23.719 --> 00:40:28.800 that I will. I I enjoy that. I know the difference. Nobody 649 00:40:28.800 --> 00:40:30.719 else does, and so it's it's for you. Don't think you have to 650 00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:34.039 buy a four thousand dollar camera or that you have to have a camera. 651 00:40:34.360 --> 00:40:37.039 Quite frankly, Um, you can do with what you have. If if 652 00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:40.519 you want to be a content creator and you really want the perfect setup, 653 00:40:40.920 --> 00:40:45.480 well, what's your perfect I use fujifhone cameras. I don't think I've met 654 00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:49.840 another creator who has a dual foji film camera set up. Like everybody else, 655 00:40:49.880 --> 00:40:52.480 use a different rand. That's fine. I find a lot of joy 656 00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:54.079 in it. So what do you find Joyanne? What do you actually want 657 00:40:54.199 --> 00:40:58.480 to put time and effort in money into and do that? It's it's yours. 658 00:40:58.880 --> 00:41:00.320 Yeah, man, I love because I think a lot of people will. 659 00:41:00.679 --> 00:41:05.159 They will not do they when I hit go live, they will not 660 00:41:05.320 --> 00:41:07.800 hit the record button. They will not do anything because they look at the 661 00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:10.400 people around them and say, well, I don't have that. You know, 662 00:41:10.440 --> 00:41:13.119 I don't have that gear, I don't have that camera, I don't 663 00:41:13.119 --> 00:41:15.599 have that microphone. And Man, when I first got started in podcasting, 664 00:41:15.639 --> 00:41:19.519 and I don't know, two thousand and eighteen or something, not even that 665 00:41:19.559 --> 00:41:22.440 far not not even that far ago, and we're doing actually a livestream show 666 00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:28.400 of a live stream fishing podcast, and I literally borrowed camera from my neighbor, 667 00:41:29.159 --> 00:41:32.679 Um use my phone for another camera, borrowed microphones from friends, Mike 668 00:41:32.760 --> 00:41:37.639 Cables and and like I just borrowed everything. I was like, I don't 669 00:41:37.679 --> 00:41:38.840 even know if I'm gonna do this long term. I don't even know what 670 00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:42.440 this means or what it looks like. And I did. You know, 671 00:41:42.480 --> 00:41:46.440 I did produce for other people in their business, Um, like for nonprofit, 672 00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:50.559 for like ten years, working in media and cameras and lights and all 673 00:41:50.599 --> 00:41:52.519 that fun stuff, but it was all on their credit card, not mine. 674 00:41:52.639 --> 00:41:57.039 So when it when it became my credit card or my bank account, 675 00:41:57.119 --> 00:41:59.800 I'm like, Bro, I'm no way, I'm gonna go over here and 676 00:41:59.840 --> 00:42:02.800 try to find the budget friendly stuff to get started with and then you can 677 00:42:02.920 --> 00:42:07.400 upgrade an increase and and then, as a creator, you really do start 678 00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:10.639 finding what you really need. Like I I had a old cannon cameras. 679 00:42:10.639 --> 00:42:15.000 I had three cannon cameras, all this glass and all the stuff, and 680 00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:19.280 then I realized after a while, like man, I don't really for what 681 00:42:19.360 --> 00:42:22.559 I'm moving into, which is more Amazon, more product review stuff. I'm 682 00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:27.039 like I really need a Sony camera that's gonna auto focus super fast and have 683 00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:30.599 product recognition and all these kinds of things. And so it's similar to as 684 00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:35.239 you grow as a content creator, your gear and all that stuff will kind 685 00:42:35.239 --> 00:42:38.039 of grow and flow and you'll figure out new stuff that you you know, 686 00:42:38.119 --> 00:42:42.880 didn't know whatever, like I didn't know Sony like did what it did until 687 00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:45.440 I watch all these live streamers and I'm like what the CRAPP are you guys 688 00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:50.119 using to where everything's like auto focus like so fast, like this is insane. 689 00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:52.000 And then when I figured it out, I'm like, Oh, I'm 690 00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:57.119 gonna sell my gear and go by much cheaper cameras that do just what I 691 00:42:57.199 --> 00:43:00.079 needed to do, not all this other stuff. So, anyway, I 692 00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:04.440 get off my soapbox now. No, but no, I think you're right 693 00:43:04.480 --> 00:43:08.400 on, and it's sometimes we get like could like this so this is the 694 00:43:08.400 --> 00:43:12.960 Fuji x h two s, the brand new one, Um and the like, 695 00:43:13.039 --> 00:43:15.440 the old camera that I have the access to the auto focus is my 696 00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:19.079 and this one. The problem is it's really good at recognizing faces. So 697 00:43:19.079 --> 00:43:22.440 if you don't fully cover up your face, it still likes to try to 698 00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:24.280 find your face. Um, but it has everything I need. Could I 699 00:43:24.320 --> 00:43:28.480 probably could have gotten what I wanted into stony like, to be honest, 700 00:43:28.519 --> 00:43:30.199 because it is the out of Focus, but I love the colors. I 701 00:43:30.239 --> 00:43:35.639 like. That is something that I'm very sensitive to and so it's what I 702 00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:37.920 like, so I'm willing to spend the extra money. Also, it's kind 703 00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:39.599 of niche, and I think when you're creating content, one of the things 704 00:43:39.639 --> 00:43:44.440 that you need to do is I hate that. For a long time it's 705 00:43:44.440 --> 00:43:45.559 like niche down, niche down, and then I kind of got away from 706 00:43:45.599 --> 00:43:51.000 that and now I'm back to yeah, create content. You like, answer 707 00:43:51.039 --> 00:43:53.000 a specific question, but do it for a smaller group, because if you're 708 00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:57.800 trying to talk to you too large of a group without having a large following, 709 00:43:57.960 --> 00:44:00.239 nobody's gonna hear you because you're competing against the the big guys. Um, 710 00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:04.440 which is kind of what I was doing for a while and my audience 711 00:44:04.519 --> 00:44:07.159 is like forty across the platforms, but it's not big enough to compete with 712 00:44:08.039 --> 00:44:10.760 eight, ten million. But if I just go down one level and say, 713 00:44:10.760 --> 00:44:15.199 instead of just youtube, on Youtube for people trying to build their authority, 714 00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:17.800 become a thought leader, or video podcast, like, there's a few 715 00:44:17.800 --> 00:44:22.039 things there that still still work in the kinks out, but it's a much 716 00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:25.199 smaller group. Like, sorry, just the podcasting active podcasters is is a 717 00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:29.960 very, very small group. And so then I'm that person, because the 718 00:44:29.960 --> 00:44:31.840 big guys don't want to be the small person because they're big now. So 719 00:44:31.840 --> 00:44:34.639 so find your line, friend. You're a little thing that you want to 720 00:44:34.639 --> 00:44:37.519 talk about and and things that you enjoy. Like I love the X H 721 00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:40.000 two S it. It makes me so happy to like pull it out and 722 00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:45.400 take pictures with it, and it's just a thing, but it's my thing. 723 00:44:45.559 --> 00:44:47.400 So you'll find your thing. Love it, man, love it. 724 00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:51.519 Yeah, I find your thing and if you need help find your thing, 725 00:44:51.960 --> 00:44:53.440 Zack is gonna help you do that, man. So let's talk about as 726 00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:57.280 we kind of wrap this up, let's talk about your course. Let's talk 727 00:44:57.360 --> 00:44:59.079 is it a free course? I don't know if you said free. I 728 00:44:59.079 --> 00:45:01.000 don't know if you said cheap, I don't know if you said five thousand, 729 00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:07.920 I don't know. I forget what you said one million dollars. It's 730 00:45:07.920 --> 00:45:12.639 only one bitcoin. Like anybody, guys are in one bitcoin. It's it 731 00:45:13.599 --> 00:45:15.760 Um. So this, this course is actually free. So I don't know 732 00:45:15.880 --> 00:45:20.679 how many people out there have read key person of influences by Daniel Priestley. 733 00:45:20.800 --> 00:45:23.000 Absolutely love it and one of the things that he says, and a lot 734 00:45:23.039 --> 00:45:27.440 of people are saying now, is it's like information is so readily available that 735 00:45:27.960 --> 00:45:31.280 if you're gate keeping anything, your secret sauce, whatever it is like, 736 00:45:32.039 --> 00:45:37.519 you are not showing people that you're an expert and you're going to, you 737 00:45:37.559 --> 00:45:38.800 know, suffer because because they can go learn it for free anywhere else, 738 00:45:38.800 --> 00:45:44.519 what they can't do is implement that knowledge effectively and efficiently for their specific situation. 739 00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:46.760 And you, as the expert, have, you know, the experience 740 00:45:47.079 --> 00:45:51.239 and the ability to do that. So sell the implementation. And so this 741 00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:53.800 course is it's thirty, I think it's thirty minutes long. Essentially teaches you 742 00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:59.960 how to make ten videos from a video podcast with like sixty to ninety minutes 743 00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:02.559 of effort. A weekend. That's including recording your podcast. So if you're 744 00:46:02.559 --> 00:46:06.840 trying to post more content and you just don't have time for it, and 745 00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:09.400 honestly, you could teach a virtual assistant how to do this. It's that 746 00:46:09.480 --> 00:46:13.320 simple. Um, you can go ahead and do that. That's that's free. 747 00:46:13.320 --> 00:46:15.119 I put that at gift dot we are video makers dot com. I'll 748 00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:19.079 get you the link, but that one's free. I am building other courses, 749 00:46:19.559 --> 00:46:21.960 um, that will come after that and those won't be free. I'll 750 00:46:21.960 --> 00:46:25.320 go from slightly expensive and very expensive into working with me one on one, 751 00:46:25.920 --> 00:46:29.480 which will be very expensive because I don't have very much time right now. 752 00:46:29.519 --> 00:46:31.800 But uh, this one's this one's on me. It's free. Awesome, 753 00:46:31.840 --> 00:46:35.440 man. Well, that's a great gift and I'll put them. I'll put 754 00:46:35.480 --> 00:46:37.320 it in the show notes and let people know where to go get it. 755 00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:42.119 Um Man, we didn't talk about headphones, but we'll make it really easy. 756 00:46:42.360 --> 00:46:45.360 Wear headphones, all right, I don't care if you're just recording video 757 00:46:45.559 --> 00:46:47.719 or you're going live or on a zoom call or whatever. Just wear headphones, 758 00:46:47.800 --> 00:46:52.119 okay, like there's so many out there. Just well, that's all 759 00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:55.599 that matters, especially another person's show. Just wear heads and you don't want 760 00:46:55.599 --> 00:46:59.519 to Echo, because, goodness gracious, that is the most annoying thing. 761 00:46:59.559 --> 00:47:02.400 Yeah, I'm if you'd like to hear yourself repeat and stutter while you're talking, 762 00:47:02.440 --> 00:47:06.159 then don't wear headphones. And you want to be annoying and never get 763 00:47:06.239 --> 00:47:09.880 invited on another show, don't wear headphones. There we go. Oh Man. 764 00:47:09.920 --> 00:47:13.039 Well, Zack, it's been a blast having you on. Man, 765 00:47:13.159 --> 00:47:15.360 it's good to, you know, start this relationship with you to to learn 766 00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:19.440 more about what you're doing and, you know, help you, help get 767 00:47:19.440 --> 00:47:22.039 the message out about what you're doing, and so I really appreciate you coming 768 00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:24.440 on the show, sharing all your knowledge with the with video and audio, 769 00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:29.840 and I know we'll do some more collaboration stuff and and maybe over on Amazon 770 00:47:29.880 --> 00:47:32.079 live. We didn't even talk about Amazon live, but I know you're over 771 00:47:32.079 --> 00:47:36.960 there crushing it, so I'm excited to see that journey continue as well. 772 00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:39.039 Man. So I appreciate you being on. Yeah, thanks for having me 773 00:47:39.079 --> 00:47:42.360 on. I would love to do this, Skain. We can so much 774 00:47:42.400 --> 00:47:44.719 we can talk about, but I'll have to have you on a podcast, 775 00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:46.480 Amazon live, all the good things as well. Appreciate it go, man, 776 00:47:46.519 --> 00:47:49.800 it'll be funn yeah, we we had to do a collaboration on Amazon 777 00:47:49.840 --> 00:47:52.559 live. That'd be it'd be a lot of fun. So just let me 778 00:47:52.599 --> 00:47:53.280 know, all right, Zach. Well, I appreciate you. Man. 779 00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:57.880 I'M gonna jump back over to I think what is my camera, or might 780 00:47:57.960 --> 00:48:00.159 be Nope, it was not my care right. Here we go. There 781 00:48:00.159 --> 00:48:04.320 we are. I had to switch that back. Um. So everyone appreciate 782 00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:07.920 you jumping in. Thanks for joining us today here on creating daily and be 783 00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:10.280 sure to do all the fun stuff with a like, subscribe and shared, 784 00:48:10.360 --> 00:48:14.800 all that stuff that everyone asks you to do all the time. And be 785 00:48:14.880 --> 00:48:16.920 sure to go with ritual motion DOT COM. Check out their platform. They're 786 00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:21.559 awesome. They're sponsored the show, making this possible. Uh. And also, 787 00:48:21.840 --> 00:48:24.280 join me next Tuesday at four PM eastern time. I'M gonna have my 788 00:48:24.320 --> 00:48:29.519 friend Jody cranle on. She is the voice over Queen, so she knows 789 00:48:29.960 --> 00:48:34.719 so much about audio. She leverages audio in a million different ways and she's 790 00:48:34.719 --> 00:48:37.440 gonna come on and we're just gonna talk about how you can also leverage your 791 00:48:37.519 --> 00:48:42.880 voice and leverage audio to grow your brand, Grow Your Business, all that 792 00:48:42.960 --> 00:48:45.800 fun stuff. So be sure to mark that on your calendar. Four PM 793 00:48:45.039 --> 00:48:49.280 next Tuesday. And I think that is it. I think that's it for 794 00:48:49.320 --> 00:48:52.000 me for today. I'M gonna go back and and start making some more more 795 00:48:52.119 --> 00:48:57.320 videos for for Amazon. And if you don't know about Amazon live, go 796 00:48:57.440 --> 00:49:01.400 check out Tuesday's episode from Dan Kurr Year. Um I'm gonna Actually Upload the 797 00:49:01.400 --> 00:49:06.199 Audio today to the podcast platforms, but it as long with Zack, so 798 00:49:06.239 --> 00:49:08.920 you can listen to those back to back. Alright, high five long distance. 799 00:49:08.960 --> 00:49:28.159 Thank you, guys so much, and we'll see you Tuesday at four PM M