August 2021 Patreon Exclusive VIDEO Oddcast

You spend days, if not weeks, working on a video only to have some 'Kevin' complain about it. Answer: ignore the complainers (who are never happy anyway) and remember that a lot of us are supporters who rarely, if ever, complain about anything.

I am glad you mentioned the Kickstarter for that Coturn portable turntable when you did; I might never have known about it otherwise. Now, if it would only get here...

You don't need a classy logo because you are a classy person. Not taking sponsorships and the fact that you always dress up nicely for a video are just two reasons for it. I like your picture with the raised eyebrows, it's iconic and I'd buy a T-shirt with it printed on. But I understand that having strangers walking around with your face on them might feel awkward.

Hi Wil, Enjoyed the update, I tend to watch it over a few days so not sure what that does for your watched stats. Now don’t look down on me for asking, but if you lend me a million I’ll happily come around and do your washing-up a few evenings a week. Hope the brother and sister are working again now they have been updated to version 2. Damn that’s 21 seconds already I’m ou..

It's interesting, I've found a number of YouTube creators talk about negativity in the comments which, as a viewer, I don't seem to really see. I don't know whether it's the YouTube algorithm purposely trying to create drama for more activity and eyeballs for advertising, or whether it's that burden of being a creator (I know I focus on the single negative comment on something I've made far more than the hundreds of positive comments).

If a product is rubbish and the audience is “glum” (gloomy), do like the outro and take a sledgehammer to it, that’s surely going to appease and brighten everyone’s mood ;)

Regarding repairs, Mat, I wonder if you have come across this chap: https://www.youtube.com/c/video99couk/videos He does seem to be able to repair just about anything video-ish. There might be the odd opportunity to do something together and each get an interesting video out of it. Just a thought. SB

I think if anyone watches a channel called Techmoan and expects every review to be positive then I think they're a bit silly. There's way too much fake reviewing going on youtube as it is. Maybe you need a second channel called Techpraise :)

Talking about an easily recognisable logo, I'm sure the muppets are distinct enough since no YouTuber uses them apart from you.

Haha, that’s the exact same reason I spell Mat with one T too.

I wonder if bigclivedotcom has any tips for you, if you felt it appropriate to ask. He had all sorts of gadgets for his mother.

Those Wikispro listings are hilarious. At least if they had used Seeing AI you would have been a “55 year old man looking neutral”

I think I'll pass on YouTube Shorts. They're uncomfortable, and I have ugly calves.

In my world thats a normal energy level and I prefer that to all this leaping about , drone footage of stuff and jump cuts some people do. YouTube is always recommending Techmoan videos and 8bit guys videos to me, I’m never stuck for something to watch.

Have you seen Veritasium's video about thumbnails and their effect? It's interesting how some old videos got a new life with a new thumbnail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng

My favorite thing about those repair videos isn't the improbability of going for a random walk and chancing upon a RED Epic-W 8K video camera buried in mud beside a drainage ditch. It's their soldering iron. They're repairing delicate pick-and-place surface-mount components using a tool that was designed in the 1940s for installing copper pipes, with a tip that's roughly the size of a toddler's shoe. Call me skeptical, but I'm guessing that someone who shoots their YouTube videos with what is obviously a high-quality 4K camera can afford the local equivalent of $11 USD for a modern soldering iron.

Always great to hear from you, Mat - or should I say, William. One of the things I really like about your monthly updates is that they feel very personal, like you're talking directly to me. My mother also has dementia, and when she was going through the 'walkabout' phase, I got the cheapest iPhone and convinced her to keep it in her handbag so that I could track her down if she ever went 'missing' as yours did. She's given up going out at all now, which is actually a relief. My DDPai dashcam that I got following your review a couple of years ago seems to have saved me some trouble, as following a minor collision in traffic, I was able to provide the insurance people with a video clearly showing the other driver to be at fault, so thanks for that - if it wasn't for you, I would never have got a dashcam. Have a great weekend, and keep up the good work!

This is fantastic, I have had cuba baion as my ringtone for about a year now.

Youtube got a boost over lockdown Mat, suddenly a large percentage of the world changed its viewing habits as TV suffered not being able to even make new programmes. Now things are returning to near normal I have noticed a shift back to what Youtube shows me. Technology Connections is one of them. He does mention you occasionally as he sometimes covers identical subjects or Items. Westlife is another person who duplicates subjects on Retro Audio. I still watch your videos on Youtube but skip to the ending vote a like if I have already watched them on your Patreon channel. Would It might make a difference if I let them run silently in the background and vote a like ? Who knows but youtube do push subjects in my area of interest. Probably because they might get accused of not giving newcomers to Youtube much promotion when they start making videos. Some of them I find annoying because people who know little about the subjects go round them in such a cack handed way. Thus they make a video of 45-50 minutes when it could be 15 minutes. Just a lack of basic circuit tracing by starting at the end and tracing back. As apposed to starting at the beginning and tracing the fault quickly. Good luck with making videos Mat.

"Mick Jaguar" the phrase of the day!😜

I wish to go on the record with this: I enjoy "Cuba Baion" unironically.

I got my Bob just after you did……and it died about a month ago……..

There used to be a cable channel called L!ve TV. It was notorious for its topless darts but it also had weather forecasts in Norwegian. The joke was presumably that you didn't care about not understanding the forecast because you were too distracted by the woman delivering it. At one stage these forecasts alternated with 'Britain's Bounciest Weather', delivered by a very short man on a trampoline. I really hope I didn't dream this stuff. Incidentally, the sound on this video sounded absolutely fine to me until a tiny click near the end but I was listening on bog-standard TV speakers.

I'm sorry that YouTube views are down. Maybe you should respond to market forces and launch a "Naked Techmoan" channel on OnlyFans HOLD ON JUST LET ME FINISH see, you hire three commercially-attractive models and reshoot your most popular videos, using them as presenters. While one of them is doing a (nude) speech to camera, the other two are making out. The only difficulty would be the sections of the original video where it's just your hands fixing a tape deck or operating a piece of tech or somesuch. Probably best not to overthink it. One of the models just says "...but we can't show you this unique autoreverse mechanism in action because the deck we sourced from eBay doesn't work. Let's see if Mat can fix it for us. And speaking of action..." Then he or she joins the other two in the hot tub while the repair video plays out on an HDTV somewhere in the shot. Before you dismiss all of this as some attempt at humor, might I remind you that the Galaxy Note was considered a stupid idea until Samsung actually put this crazy thing out there and demonstrated that there was an entirely untapped market starving for a product exactly like it.

Thanks for always great content!

Reddit, to me, seems like a modern equivalent of BBSes. Microcommunities that post text, image, and video content with comments and direct messaging. I don't know if you ever used BBSes (or the early web equivalent of usergroups), but if you did and you enjoyed them then it might be worth checking reddit out.

Have a nice one! I worry about my parents as well.

I've gotta say, the hiss is really noticeable since you started using the bluetooth mic, it really sounds like a heavy background tape hiss. I've put the current and the previous monthly updates into a Spectrum Analyser and the difference in the amount of hiss is quite noticeable: (August) https://imgur.com/ZBt1nuV ;(July) https://imgur.com/FThwGJX

absolutely hissy unfortunately, I am 20 mins into the video and you just mentioned hiss.

As always- thanks for the delightful chat. Some solid laughs on the WIKISPRO site. and your experience with the Youtube Shorts. Was disappointed, but not at all surprised by your video's reception once I poked my head into that site... breathtakingly stupid content as far as I could see. Also, the dot matrix font for the merch store... that's actually a pretty solid Techmoan logo. Slap that on a sticker or tote bag.

Hi Bill, nice to meet you! 😑 Whoever does "research" on that website stopped and decided to have fun instead, apparently. Full disclosure; a good number of those play counts may have been from me - because I binged-watched ALL of your video catalog chronologically on my TV within a few weeks 😔. Some of them warranted a good couple of re-watches. I'm sorry - I tend to get OC on things I enjoy. 🙂 Since I have YT premium, I hope you got some sort of revenue from my madness. I know you've said before that you'd never intended to become famous and just want to share things that you like. But you must realize that in some capacity you've created your own auto-biodocumentary - your experiences and your thoughts are imbued within your work. It would be a damn shame to take the Mat out of the Tech, because he's a very amusing and entertaining guy. Oh, I think I commented to you before about not having anybody to talk to about ideas and things. Most if the things I am interested in are totally opposite from the people who are my age. My mom was 36 and dad 49 when I was born. Growing up in rural Iowa in the late 80's early 90's with no internet, crappy analog TV reception on a black and white (no color until 1992), I had to find ways to keep myself entertained. Result: complete introvert and social outcast. I never met anyone and only interact with co-workers. My adopted mother tells me these days, "You need to get out more from your apartment, meet people." I just laugh because meet people and talk about what? My Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis DVDs? My vinyl record collection? The documentary video I watched on Amazon? An interesting old video I found on YouTube? I need to stop now, this is probably too long. I had more but I'm boring - have a good relaxing evening and know that you do have loyal friends. *Edited to add: when you have mentioned feeling old - for some reason it brings to mind this song: https://youtu.be/8LQk_GOBSL0

I dunno if it's the microphone or not, but a sudden boost in volume has twice managed to temporarily short my Bluetooth speaker out! Perfectly fixable, you just reset it. Just interesting that I've never had it happen on your videos before (not even yesterday's with the same microphone!) It happens a bit with other channels.

The Youtube algorithms are weird. Someone commented on a video I made about a Panasonic casseiver and I replied saying that you could get a matching Linear Tracking Turntable. The next video Youtube played was one about a Fisher Linear Tracking Turntable which VWestlife made over ten years ago !

Well done you, keep up the good work, and maintain your sanity!

Enjoying your recent content as always! The VMD videos in particular were interesting. Have you seen the small "EYoYo" monitor on "Adrian's Digital Basement"? (on his second channel) It's obviously less useful than the one you demoed, but that doesn't mean I don't want one! (as a secondary display/status of course!)

I haven't watched the patron update yet, but I just have to say that the Cuba Baion on the streets video is joyous.

I am right there with you on this “shorts” nonsense. If I could filter shorts from my feed I would.

"People on Patreon are a lot more normal than people on Youtube" ... That's the nicest thing anyone's said about me this week.

While you do your moaning I listen while I do my work and internally moan about it.

1. Although it seems counterintuitive, just sitting at a computer doing research for long stretches of time can take a toll on your health. I do enjoy those historical research videos, but hope you don’t need to wear yourself out producing them. 2. I still have a hard time understanding why there are YT channels which regularly rack up one or two million views while yours only get around 100-200K. I occasionally watch some of those other channels and while they are mildly entertaining they sure don’t seem 10 times better than yours. 3. The next Techmoan profile update on Wikispro will now state that William "Mat" Taylor is the proud father of Kurt Drabek, who along with his dad, wrote the sensational YouTube hit song, Cuba Baion.

As always, another fine video. 👌

I am on Patreon but I am definetly not normal :)

Techmoan's legacy: the revival of DCC and the Cuba Baion 😂 Nice to see it in the Dutch tradition of "Draaiorgels", reminds me of my youth 😃

"I don't want to call it a job because I enjoy doing it": What's wrong with that? I would rather say if you enjoy the job you are doing you got a very important part of your life exactly right.

Oh Ziggy was the computer in Quantum Leap. Controller was Gushie FYI

I found it just before.... Watch the whole minute:). Still got your new video on bigscreen ATM and your on about the Dishwasher issues. At least you have somewhere for Portrait Madness videos now lol.

Another channel..... Where where!