December 2020 Patreon Exclusive Video Oddcast
Hello, good evening and welcome. I’ve only gone and done another one of these here update things again. Enjoy/endure almost an hour of mean-spirited irrelevance from a greedy man.
An audio version is available in a separate post.
EXTRAS
Skip Intro’s Movies Vol 3 https://youtu.be/xqOs41V1oF0
Links
Light Dims http://lightdims.com
Descript https://www.descript.com
Comments (81)
Love these Patreon only posts. But that crappy union jack thats all you fault your greedy bar steward :) I'm joking BTW . Keep well Matt and we will see you again when you are back :)
Thank you - it's great fun to watch! I hope that the second part with the overview of the past year is still coming :)
Yes as soon as I feel fit I’ll get onto it.
Thank you for all your excellent and entertaining content. We wish you much health for 2021!
If I had made the fridge comment, I would know exactly why! Whenever I try to dual screen I end up completely missing huge chunks of both things I'm trying to watch, so I reckon they were probably just dual or triple screening and failing to watch any of them.
Ok, but _if_ you had written it - what would be the motivation behind the comment. What would you expect a spell in the fridge to achieve. That's what I'm confused about as much as anything... what did so many people think would be improved by putting it in the fridge that was missing from the surprisingly accomplished, clear and non-skipping playback shown in the video. Dolby surround?
If iMovie works for you, I don't see a reason to change. There's Premiere Rush which is trying to capture the same market - unfortunately also suffers from the "all your projects in one database" problem as iMovie. As for captions, I've used Rev.com before, they are cheap and the accuracy is decent. They just flick you back a subtitle file you can slap straight on your YouTube upload. Not sure how they'll fare with your accent (I find you perfectly understandable) but worth a go maybe?
Hoping for more ups than downs in the future, myself. The downs get tiring,
I realise you're a chap who's modest about his achievements and I'm not here just to swell your head, but I have to forcefully (and respectfully) disagree with you about the clarity of your content. When you deal with a topic, your attention to detail and the sheer quality of your descriptions and explanations is beyond reproach. In fact I am amazed that there is no formal script as your points are so well made that I had assumed that you spend hours honing what you say to explain them in a way that is both informative and entertaining. I won't go on, but I couldn't allow you to say what you did without this friendly rebuke. Whatever you do, and however you do it is of the highest quality and I enjoy (nearly) every frame. Please keep it up and I wish you all the very best for 2021. Thank you.
Well thanks old chap - that’s very kind of you.
Had me laughing couple times 🤣
Happy Christmas! Enjoyed the update.
Can't believe you're a greedy bas@@rd some ar@e holes out there whose got nothing more better to do its being a great year with the techmoan channel
Watched it right through, understood every word and didn't nod off like I did watching the latest Grand Tour, so it was far from a rambling failure. I think I got more giggles too :) I share the same sentiments for the Silly Season, so I trust you also have an equally underwhelming Christmas, but a safe and pleasant new year.
I saw the fridge comments and I was going to suggest freezing it with liquid nitrogen 😂 I don't comment on videos unless I feel like I have actually paid attention
These odd casts really allow your self deprecating humor to shine. Like your comment at the end about the electric cars “they’re not very interesting, but they take a long time to talk about”... truly had me laughing for a while. Always enjoy these grab- bag videos. Never miss one of your videos. Thanks for a lot of enjoyment.
Thanks very much, Mat, for all your videos, which have kept me entertained while I have been stuck at home in COVID lockdown. I enjoyed every one! Looking forward to the one about your experience with electric cars. 🎅
Nothing this house enjoys more than a Techmoan commenting-on-the-comments Oddcast section, so much so that I felt compelled to comment on the comments on the comments. I guess you could comment on this comment too! Wishing you all the best for 2021 x
The unboxing was brilliant. Maybe post it publicly as an "out take"? On the "did you try putting it in the freezer" thing ... is it possible that they found the notion of putting a record in the fridge absurd and were just repeating it for effect? Because it is absurd especially if you don't catch on that *it's made of chocolate*. :-) Despite your downplaying, I am seriously looking forward to the electric car stuff, not because I think you're some sort of expert but because you are just some dude (who I know from the TeeVee and who I like).
My brother suggested that the 30 people who missed the part about the fridge were distracted by you opening the box containing the record, like a form of misdirection that magicians use. They were paying so much attention to it that they weren't listening to what you said at all. Either that or it was aliens.
I agree with your brother. It was this that made me think of the mentalist angle - being able to say something...and yet have someone completely blank on it and blank on it so much that they then go on to suggest it back to me thinking it was their idea. Now if I can figure out a way to monetise this skill.
Thank you Mat for all you’ve produced this year; these updates and all the cracking videos. Another vintage year!
Fantastic as always, Mat - just like having a chat with an old friend. Don't know if you've seen Atomic Shrimp on YT, (he lives near Portsmouth) but he does a lot of e-mail scambaiting and the pre-loaded ATM card is a common bait used by scammers; I think such a thing may exist ( a bit like a store gift card?) but very much doubt they can be preloaded with 8 figure sums. I'm not sure I buy the idea that initial scam e-mails are deliberately illiterate because the subsequent e-mails (that Atomic Shrimp receives) are just as badly worded. Interestingly, scammers are often bad at understanding how given names and family names are used in the UK or US. In the example you had, it looks like they tried and failed to get around that by using 'James Mike' - whereas James could be a real first or surname, I have never seen 'Mike' as a surname, so that's a fail. Enjoy the rest of the week, if not Christmas. At least you can comfort yourself by knowing that turkey is as tasteless for the rest of us as it is for you. Thanks for a great year of information and entertainment!
Interesting as always, Mat. These videos are what make you 'a mate' rather than just someone we watch. I am looking forward to the electric car video. EVs are very much our thing. We have Vehicle to Grid and we do talks and videos about that and living with an EV as our primary vehicle, so I'm interested to hear your take - whatever it may be. Shameless plug: www.electraa.org.uk/videos I'm a 'Christmas person', so thank you for your kind wishes. Have a good break but most of all stay safe and healthy. SB
"Shameless plug" ... 😏
Every time I'm listening to Matt doing another oddcast I learn no less than a dozen new idioms I've never heard before. Thanks Matt! ))) I'm not in the UK, by the way. And not a native speaker. Which makes me hearing you talk even more useful for me. And although you're not a Christman fan, I wish you a merry and truly warm-hearted Christmas, Matt!
By the way, now that the Moans are semi-retired, you could perhaps attach outtakes at the end of some videos. The puzzle box was hilarious, and much appreciated as a 'Patreon Exclusive' – but what if it had been included as a post-credits extra on the original video? 🤔 Maybe it's the sort of thing that drives views and engagement, especially if there's an on-screen caption that notifies the viewer to stay on until after the credits. Same could be done with the Christmas tree and the Union Jack disaster. Although, about that: you say that you cut it out of the video because it didn't turn out right. However, as it was a review I believe the scene could have stayed in and then would just have to be added to the list of 'Negatives', without the audience thinking any less of your video (only the product). Of course I still enjoyed that video, it's just a thought. 😃
Some interesting ideas - the Union Jack though - I don’t feel that should reflect on the tree. The Twinkly download store is universal - it doesn’t know what you’ve bought...whether you’ve got a million lights and decked out your roof or forty lights on a wreath - all the same effects are downloadable. The Union Jack just wasn’t suited to 600 lights wrapped around a tree. It was the wrong effect for the wrong device and that’s why it was excluded. User error, rather than product error.
Did anyone else come away from this with the suspicion that Skip Intro might actually be Mat? Just a few clues I picked up here and there...
I think they're related. Is Mat's surname also Intro? Intro. Mat Intro. 🤵🏻🍸
Matt just keep doing what you are doing, always entertaining and sometimes funny remember that you have over a Million Subscribers so a few percentage of them will take their Brains out and stuff them in their shoes before watching anything intellectual and informative, love your videos as do a Million other subscribers
Love the comments rant. And yes, looking forward to the Car episode. Hopefully 2 hours long
In fairness, the comments about the chocolate record all seemed to mention the freezer, whereas you say that you put it in the fridge. Perhaps the commenters were only suggesting colder temperatures? But then one wonders if a colder record would cause other problems, such as condensation and ice crystals? 🤔 It's almost as if chocolate isn't an appropriate material for use as a record substrate... Also, despite playing Cuba Baion over the 'puzzle box' sequence, I could only hear Yakety Sax. 😁 Very Merry Christmas, and Happy New (COVID-free?) Year!
As chocolate is a solid at room temperature - anything colder than a fridge is overkill at hardening it up. A bite out of frozen chocolate or refrigerated chocolate is much the same. Yes you’re right though - I didn’t stick it in the freezer because I suspected something might expand and crack when frozen. I’m almost certain it would do more harm than good. I’ve still got to wonder though - and this is my real point that I perhaps didn’t highlight enough - what were they expecting to happen with a frozen record over the refrigerated version I played - what was missing - what was it that my chocolate record didn’t do that they wanted the record to do? I’d love to have used Yakety Sax - but I feared ‘This video has been blocked by Benny Hill’.
Thank You Matt for everything you made! Merry Christmas
I think these vids are just great, the 52mins literally flew by! Love your sense of humour Mat. Thanks for all the content this year, I eagerly watch every one of them as soon as they are released.
Thanks for allowing us to suffer alongside you with that crate. Even in its first appearance I thought it looked like a prop built for a comedy sketch. "Well, obviously, nobody would ship something in a container that's THIS much of a struggle to open...and it doesn't look like it's even padded on the inside to protect the item. But boy, it sure was funny watching Mr. Bean wrestle with it for eight whole minutes, wasn't it?"
I also can't resist with some sarcastic rebuttal to silly comments I find. It's very therapeutic! But if you have 200,000 people watching, there's a certain percentage who may have been distracted at the critical "fridgegate" moment, and a certain percentage of them want to help by commenting. To err is human, at least on YouTube.
Yes no doubt it’s all about percentages - put 200,000 people in a room, and at least 30 of them will say it’s crowded.
I thoroughly enjoy these update videos, and seeing you vent your frustration over comments is comedy on a whole other level. After your last Patreon update video I took the opportunity to rewatch a lot of old videos and I have to say: thank you for making truly enjoyable videos covering such broad topics--you're in a class all your own. Best wishes to you and your family this holiday.
Thank you Matt for many years of videos. I am a recent patreon supporter, looking forward to many more videos to come. Oh, umm you should have put the wooden box in the freezer, might have helped dislodge the projector.
Oh gosh, that unboxing saga deserves its own video! Haven't laughed like that in quite some time. Thanks for putting a big smile on my face :)
Mat should put it out as the "Ultimate Unboxing Video - You Asked For It So You Got It". Be good for 500k views at least these days.
I can’t think of anything of value to add to what others have said. Thanks for the best year ever. I will say I’m usually so happy to get a notice of a new Techmoan video, I won’t watch it at work, because I want to be warm and comfy at home. Then I usually forget to watch it until a few days later. See you at JFK. The one in New York, not the other one. The front fell off that one.
Love these videos, skip into's volume 3 reminds me of the melotica jurassic park theme video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w-58hQ9dLk That may be worthy of a separate video. forget the haters matt!
Loved the bit trying to open that box, that screwdriver is adorable lol
I love the comments bit, keep it up
Thank you for all the great content this year Matt. You're genuine in your content which is one of the things that keeps me around. No fake crap. Final cut pro xcrement lol. I'll laugh about that one till next year
Looking forward to that "boring" electric car story. Thanks for this years videos, stay as healthy as you can be and I wish you all the best for the next year. Just stay exactly as mean-spirited, irrelevant and greedy as you supposedly have been this year, haha. It was a lot of fun to watch :)
Talking of sticking with things, I've been using the same version of Paint Shop Pro for 22 years! I upgraded once, hated it, and immediately went back to version 5. It's terrible at some things, but really great at others. My faux Top Of The Pops 'Brad' avatar, that I use on here, is made in it, for starters.
About Christmas depression and the "what did I do the last year" topic. You did a LOT. You produced great content that is always something to look forward to. I like your humor and the way you look at things. I especially enjoy videos like the one above. The unboxing of the box with the perfect matching music made me really laugh! The timing when the music stopped and resumed was just on spot. So just go on doing what you do. There're a lot of people who really really like you as a person and your content.
"There're a lot of people who really really like you as a person". I like his content but, despite not knowing him, I think Mat is a git! Yours sincerely, A. Youtube Commenter.
I found this entertaining, especially the fight with the wooden crate. I'm planning to upgrade my Mac Mini to an M1 unit as well sometime next year. Right now I am editing video on a 2011 Mac Mini, which is getting kind of long in the tooth. Of course, I use Final Cut Pro. As for the spam, the funny thing is, I don't hardly get spam anymore. Gmail has gotten really good at blocking it out . What I do get a lot of is spam SMS messages to my cell phone, along with 3-4 robocallers per day. I'd actually rather go back to the days of email spam.
For landlines at least I’m robocall free now - have been for a few years. I use a system where unless the caller is in my telephone’s phonebook they’ll have to announce who they are - then my phone rings and asks me if I’m willing to accept the call. It’s cut out 100% of the sales call. It’s been a great help - in the UK it’s called ‘Call Guardian’ but I suspect similar tech is available elsewhere...and after the cost of buying a new phone (which I needed anyway) it’s free.
Thank you Matt for another wonderful year of videos. Becoming a father in this crazy year has been a challenge for me but no matter how stressful some weeks have been, Saturday mornings sitting with a cup of tea and an episode of Techmoan always bring a smile to my face. As always, thanks for making videos.
Matt, this made me laugh and that's a wonderful thing in these times! And, just because I'm rather delighted can I share that I had my Covid 19 vaccine today. The second shot is in 3 wks. I am rather upbeat at the moment.😀
My parents had theirs on Sunday. As soon as I’ve had both mine I can finally visit them for the first time since Feb 2020. They won’t be around for long, so it’s quite important.
Matt, I love you mentioning the crazy comments on YT videos. Seriously - it makes me feel even better about being in your wee gang here, where the comments are only occasionally crazy.
Intro: Before you showed it I had a look at the latest intros and did not notice that little "problem". Nitpicker :) I like your attention to detail.
Mat, you should have put that wooden box with the projector into the freezer for a while first, then it would have slid right out! I mean, you said it yourself in the thumbnail;>) Seriously though, I had to smile watching the clip of you trying to get that thing out of there--we've all been through that before.
When you were talking about how poorly closed captioning works for you and you said that you were the king of ums and ahs, I thought to enable CC and see how well it worked for that phrase. It had you saying that you were the "king of ominous," which leads me to think that maybe Diplomatic Agent, Mr. James Mike has done the programming for the CC system.
Great video, mat. Thanks. I want to prank 'James Mike', the 10MUSD scammer. To facilitate this, if you give me the phone number he put in the email, I'll transfer 10000MUSD into your own bank account. Just let me know your full account details and PIN number and I'll transfer that over in a jiffy. Merry Christmas!
Your videos certainly made 2020 better than it would've been without them. I'm always interested in the story of how people got an electric car after getting mine in April (which has a boring story behind it) so I'm looking forward to that.
I watched the Twinkly Tree review and was fascinated. I then did a Google Search and found someone had done quite a decent review on Youtube showing it's functions, including drawing on the phone to put stripes on the tree back in 2019. I wonder if that was why the video did so badly. Amusingly the only review on John Lewis was a woman complaining bitterly that the tree didn't look realistic, and that if it wasn't for her children enjoying the App so much she would have sent it back. The technology behind it was obviously completely lost on her. Have a good Christmas and keep up the good videos.
If 2020 taught me anything it is that people are insane! 3:42!
Mat, yes, Christmas can be depressive, for that reason I've stopped celebrating my birthdays. Thats getting old thing is really a bad issue. There is so much to discover, dis-cover, remove the cover of it and look under it. Thanks!
Not a big fan of birthdays myself. I know how many orbits I've completed; no reminder needed. Xmas is also not a particularly fun time of year, either, so we just don't. But, honestly, Mat's videos are a lot of fun.
Thoroughly enjoyed all of this video - but im still chuckling to myself about the greedy bastard comment as i write this🤣! thanks for all the fascinating videos and hard work this year, and putting up with all of our nutty comments...
I always look forward to these. The time you can ramble as much as you want. The comments parts amused me as well, so if it was up to me: keep 'm coming. It was a weird year but still you kept up. Thanks for the videos and the community here on Patreon! Merry Christmas and here's wishing for a better 2021. Greedy Fridge
Hi Mat thanks for another great video and for another year of smashing stuff. Happy Christmas you greedy bastard ;-) p.s did you think about popping that chocolate record in the fridge before playing it, it might have sounded better?
Don't be daft, Steve. All true audiophiles know that, for best quality, a chocolate record must be played with a chocolate stylus, through an amplifier with chocolate-plated leads.
In the past you have said "I don't do unboxings". After watching you fighting with that wooden crate, I think you made a sound decision. All the best.
I love your sense of humor, both with your response to the person who didn't get the sarcasm about "the best year ever" and also the video thumbnail now that I've watched the bit about how much trouble that (impressively over engineered) shipping box caused you. Just keep being you, its awesome, happy holidays!
I do wonder what nationality the person who wrote the comment was. Many people outside the U.K. sometimes don't understand sarcasm or self depreciation, especially if English isn't their first language. It might have been written by the guy waiting at JFK airport with your ATM card filling in time watching your videos :-)
Thanks for your great videos this year as always, you got us through lockdown. I wish my google home mini would learn techmoan i usually get techno when i ask it for your videos. My favourite video this year was polish postcards. My all time favourite was 45 vs 33. I use subtitles when watching videos at night, the auto subtitles are so funny
Congrats with the M1 Mac mini, makes me interested if it is really better/faster, maybe you could enlighten us once there? These LightDims are cool, never heard of them before also... Usually, I open the devices and get out the blue LEDs and replace them with some less bright red/orange ones anyway, but this could also work. I woud need a lot of them the cover the o so all to bright lighting in the modern trains these days 😜. About the chocolate record: I immediately thought: did you put it in the fridge? But yes, then you said it, first watch the movie, then write comments (like I'm doing it here: first write on what I want to comment, then do the writing 😜) Apparently YouTube doesn't understand British English 😜. Don't know why, but some people here I know, including me, actually like your accent, and I think it's very understandable, but maybe that's because I'm also from Europe... The Happy Birthday thing: hilarious! Made my night! Fits somehow 🤣. Then, last but not least, my Christmas wishes, I promise, despite my nickname, this time no Hammond organ: https://mvgoldau.ch/2020/11-dirk-hoch4/
Oh that's too bad, I love the sound of Hammond organs, I'll have to check out your other videos!
Put it in the fridge needs to be your new meme :)
Oh, and sorry about asking about the Union Jack... :)
Regarding the PIN digression, I'm in the US and I haven't used an ATM except for maybe every other month. In the old days I would use my debit card every couple days. Because of that, I have forgot my PIN the last couple times and have to look it up in my password manager each time.
I bought some LightDims probably close to the very beginning as I thought it was a cool idea, and also got the "thank you, we're a family business" note, all good. But a couple of years later I was on some forum and came across someone who portrayed themselves as the owner and was trolling / bragging as "haha a few years ago I made a business that was no work, cost about nothing to build, materials are pennies, I can sell for 10000% my cost and now I'm filthy rich and you're all losers". No idea if it really was them but... it did leave a bit of a bitter taste having potentially supported such a prick and having been tricked into feeling good about it. Hope it wasn't but I can't see who would otherwise take credit for that...