March 2022 Patreon Exclusive VIDEO Oddcast

Mat, I find your videos genius. I love watching any content. Ignore the complaints, because you should be able to see you have throngs of those who appreciate your content. Sorry for your personal difficulties. Take your time as need to recuperate. Thanks for the entertainment.

Beano! Now you've really made it! I'm from the US but my grandmother on my mother's side lived in England and always used to send me Beano back in the 70's. I feel like I'm the only person in the States that's ever heard of it.

I never realized you don't dub.

The hedgehog is our house patronus.

Thanks for the update video, I always enjoy watching these. FWIW, I'm 40, and ever since the pandemic began, I've been having weird memory issues as well. For me, they seem to come and go for months at a time. For a while my memory will be fine, then I'll go into a months-long cloud of not being able to remember things or find the right words, etc. I think for me it's probably caused by some mild depression and figuring out the right antidepressants seems to have cleared it up. At any rate, thanks for all of your hard work! <3

Some days we have trouble doing what we're good at, feel like I can do t but the mind fog stops me, Strong coffee usually gets me out of the fog😂 MD case's, that was great info.... My kids use iPhones, I have Google pixel pro, my car, wanted an Aston Martin but I ended up with a Ford escape haha

LOL!! My raw footage is exactly like yours! When editing, sometimes I edit out several minutes of take after take. It's honestly identical. I set myself a goal of minimum editing for my second channel. It's funny, it makes a huge difference as I can do large segments without any mistakes or if I make one, I just correct it in realtime. (like we would do talking to another person.) So do not feel like this is some kind of problem! I am pretty sure all YouTubers except maybe Big Clive are exactly the same.

Mat and Mr. Naughty reminds me of Bob Ross and Peapod.

Next video should be you fixing scuffs on the Smart with Brasso. Throw in a couple of empty cases and I'd watch that for a solid hour or two

Seeing Mr. Naughty really warmed my heart -- many years ago we had a recurring visitor named Chiquita the Squirrel. They're kind of the ideal pet -- no litter boxes, no allergies, and no costs except for the the price of a bag of nuts.

Re: Fisher Price player; interesting that essentially being a music box, the principal/mechanics are classically inspired. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Vintage-Thorens-Music-Box-Disc-Player-AD30W-5-Discs-Switzerland-WORKING-/115309849362?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0

A mention of "triple A's" still snuck into the final edit of that video. I recall hearing it and thinking, "Huh, those looked like double A's. I guess they were triple A's." As it turns out, your neurons were just misfiring. Incidentally, why don't you perform the action separately from recording the narration and then mix the audio in post? Then you wouldn't have to "walk and chew gum" at the same time. Or is it just too difficult to get the timing and delivery right if you're not physically doing the action while you're talking about it? [EDIT: Oops, just saw that the comment before me suggested the same thing.]

when I shoot a scene, very often I make a mistake in speaking and things fall out. So I record the action without speaking and as soon as I finish the action, and I like what I did, I repeat the action speaking focusing only on what I have to say. Then I put things together. It works, it doesn't look dubbed.

Thumbnail reminded me of this https://i.imgur.com/A4YwJf5.png

Keep making the videos that you want to make, and we'll keep watching them. Hell, I still listen to the "demo reel" of voiceover actors that you uploaded for us a year or two ago. I burned it to CD for my car, and now that I've got a newer car with a 'Cablet' (aka Car Tablet) it's an MP3 file on my phone that plays through VLC.

After around take 24 it was a bit like watching Monty Python--how many times will they repeat this bit for the sake of taking it so far that it becomes funny, then gets old, then becomes funny again.

I do appreciate the audio version. But it’s extra work for you so the video will do me equally well. Thanks for all the great content.

The Beano, eh? It'll be Ivor The Engine next... https://www.linkpicture.com/q/1A447049-D60B-4DB8-8F39-6CA8D6DAA49C.jpeg

If you haven't seen it, there's a great edition of Whicker's World where Alan interviews Percy Shaw, the inventor of Cats Eyes ("The Road From Rose Linda's", 8th October 1968.) Whicker: "I see you have four television sets." Shaw: "Yes. That one's BBC1, that one BBC2, third one is ITV and the last one is in colour." Whicker: "Do you ever watch MY programmes?" Shaw: "I have to admit I'd never heard of you til the production team rang up yesterday."

Matt I remember all of the ISO clause reference numbers lol 🤣

Matt - ignore the crazy folk, I loved the MD case vid as I have a lot of discs without cases! So this made me laugh as it's spot on for me and probably a lot of other vintage audiophiles out there. Keep them coming! 😊 P.s. my collection of retro audio gear is influenced by you. Stuff I couldn't afford back then, but now I can. Just purchased TWO Audio Innovations CD & amps and they sound amazing. Not sure why I got two but who cares 😂 Keep the videos coming, I look forward to them every week!

I'd appreciate if the audio version were to make a return, it's very convenient when it shows up in my podcast app. Just for future reference.

I wonder how many AA batteries are needed for the colour Videonow player and how many more that would be than for the black and white player.

I completely identify as being a cartoon character who really can’t hold a job or be out in public. I do those things, but boy I wish I could edit my words and actions most of the time!

It bothers me how much people complain about a video that was made for them to watch free, if you don’t like MD covers just don’t watch the video. Personally I actually really enjoyed that video, something about making a collection of old media look new and clean. Plus I have a soft spot for MD and their players, I was a bit too young to afford one when they were in their prime, so sadly I missed the trend.

Personally i like short videos like the md case vid. Think somebody just have big expectations and have to rant

Long live short term memory, as I like to say. 😁

Thinking of what to say, and actually saying it, while also demonstrating a device and operating a video camera is not an easy to skill to master. I still haven't, even after 13 years!

Off topic, but a candidate for the time machine 😆- Mat this stuff is for you, it's got your name on it - eh, ok, on the turntable mat, but whatever. https://ibb.co/ZTNt72T https://www.ebay.com/itm/165394444734

Name check in Beano - that’s a moment to savour 👏.

I guess views, and perhaps 'abandonment', are the only solid metric you can follow for judging the worth of a topic. I wonder how many who viewed the Minidisc case video and liked it didn't thumbs up or comment. ---- I was packing gear to relocate, currently on a drive/cycle trip, while listening to this and heard the whole thing! Your battery insertion was much like my packing, check this, did I get that, what about the other stuff... Got 20 minutes down the road and the motel rang to say they had found a micro SD card. It was from my cycle camera, all black card on a black granite look bench. Had taken it out to dry the port area after a very wet ride and forgotten...

In spite of your aggressive sales pitch, I bought a couple of t-shirts.

I started photographing squirrels in Boston's Public Garden just as a way of testing cameras. I became a fan. They're cute and they're full of personality. When they're standing and fidgeting as in your video they remind me of people waiting in line at Starbucks. They'd very much like to be getting their peanuts without delay. But they don't want to raise a fuss with the server. The rats are the ones who barge straight ahead and slap the counter for immediate attention. Squirrels assure the server that they could see how busy it is right now. Rats demand to see the manager.

My name popped up in an episode of a Japanese anime. I haven't a clue how that happened. I refer to it as my own "Mr. Sparkle" moment.

I was hoping you'd do an A500 Mini review, as it would have been good to get the perspective of someone who doesn't have any preconceptions (either positive or negative). The fact that you don't have nostalgia for the A500 Mini would've made your review one of the most valuable IMHO. The Sony Linkbuds review was great. You didn't pull any punches because you don't rely on companies sending you free stuff to keep your channel going. If the A500 Mini is anything like the other RGL retro products (THEC64MINI, THEC64 etc), you should be able to find one in CEX or Cash Converters in a few months time for a fraction of the new price. Might be worth reviewing one then?

Nice one with the Beano, Mat. Personally, I won't consider myself to be a success until I've been killed by Judge Dredd during a bungled stookie deal.

Oh, right, Amiga. I had an A2000HD. A full 40-megabyte SCSI hard drive. Bought more DIP memory, installed it on the A20891 HD controller card for a total of **3 Megabytes** of RAM. Amazingly, the damn thing was able to multitask in the 1 MB that it came with. A500s were, IIRC, 512k machines if you didn't work at it (no Zorro slot for a hard-drive controller, for instance). But I wasn't a gamer. Still liked it. Never tried to update to "Workbench 2.x" which was non-trivial on older HW. And then I bought a 486DX2.

Did you check you blood sugar after recording that double triple battery thing?

Correction: "I don't have any nostalgia for the Amiga because I had an Atari ST. Likewise I don't have any nostalgia for the Atari ST because I had an Atari ST!".

Thank you for the "blooper reel" at the end. I appreciate your videos even more now. Think I made it abour two minutes in before I was afraid of losing my mind.

I sure hope someone takes that maddening battery footage and makes some kind of sampled song out of it.

This video was worth the price of admission alone. Love the comment reactions and love that squirrel even more. That part at the end -- I had always thought you filmed the visuals and then edited in the audio later...now I'm wondering what other basic assumptions about reality I have utterly wrong.

You seemed quite “up” in the video. I think you look great in the hoodie, and I hate hoodies too. Do you ever make yourself laugh? That would be a great outtake reel. I think you should do a video if you’re interested in that content. But I don’t have to worry about running a channel.

Right, here's my opinions that no one asked for... Hoodies are awesome, I don't wear coats anymore just layer up with hoodies. Aygos have plastic body parts too, my sister has one (an Aygo that is, not a plastic body part) and after an incident with a deer, she just had to push the plastic from the other side to pop it out again (and clean off the blood..) I was an Atari ST user and I do have nostalgia, still got a 520 and 1040 and various issues of ST Format. To be fair though, it was the Playstation / Saturn / N64 generations of consoles that blew me away. So pixelly when viewed today but at the time but I moved from 16bit to the PS1, so it seemed night and day to me. You do make me chuckle with your deadpan commentary but I'm afraid I'm one of those people who can't stand out-takes/bloopers, I skip right past them. Extra footage - I'm all for, but out-takes just never appealed to me. I've seen the Cats Eyes Removed signs before and they thoroughly amuse me also. Oh btw, understand your point totally on the shorter videos but I found the MD case video useful, so could you keep these updates for Patreons? Edit - I remember buying the Beano when it was 12p a week, what is it now £2.50? lol I still to this day think my Bash Street Kids annuals are some of the funniest comics ever.

Obviously the world needs Mr Naughty merch.

For what it's worth, I've made a habit (a.k.a. struggling to make a habit) of reading tongue twisters for diction practice. I just have a 2-page PDF that I go through, almost all from the first site I found with something reasonable-looking, https://www.write-out-loud.com/dictionexercises.html

I’m always amazed that people people have the time and inclination to leave nasty comments. There’s enough cruelty and nastiness in the world without wanting to add to it. Maybe try and make someone’s day … I dunno. That’s Dr Mat.

I lasted about two minutes into the outtakes but you have to admit, if you watch only a couple of minutes, they were quite funny! Thanks for the update, Mat. Stay well.

Maybe some of the people leaving comments don't realise that the Techmoan channel name describes the commenters not the content.

My relationship with squirrels is worse than my relationship with smart phones. I remember going to Regents park in London and feeding them nuts. They were quite tame and would happily sit on my lap to eat them. However they must have followed me home as they started nesting in my loft. I had to get someone from the council to trap them and evict them My relationship with smart phones has been a bit better. Being a big fan on Sony from my days in the retail trade the second smart phone I bought was a Sony Xperia 1 which I still have. Moving over to the newest iPhone 13 Pro Max has meant that I am now saying Hey Siri rather than Hey Google. The navigation of my iPhone is something I am still trying to accomplish. Percy Shaw had none of these problems.

Watching Techmoan on Dad Tube - my perfect afternoon! Great video, Mat, thank you.

It's like a YouTuber hall of fame here.

It is good and comforting to see that our Icons and Superstar Celebrities are just people and that they make mistakes just like everyone else... Oftentimes, a repeating mistake becomes part of muscle memory or brain memory or something like that, and it is better to move on to something fresh, and then go back and try the mistake part again later when it is fresh again.

If you think you make a lot of mistakes shooting videos...

I was glad you showed the cleaning of the package. People often underestimate how much preparation goes into videos. Sometimes I spend 3 or 4 hours getting a computer cleaned up for a video. Nobody ever gets to see that. If it is going to take more than 3-4 hours, I will dedicate a whole video just to that. I also know what you mean about getting tongue tied. When I record my narrated scripts, they may only be 20 minutes long when they are finished. But it often takes me an hour, maybe an hour and a half to record it. And that's because I have to keep repeating and re-recording the same line over again. It's from a combination of issues. Sometimes I just get a frog in my throat, or my nose is stopped up. Sometimes I keep getting tongue tied and say the wrong thing. Sometimes I lose my place on the script. Sometimes I just don't like the way that sentence sounded, so I will do it again to change the emotion in it. You were also talking about not being able to speak at an event or whatever. Well, just so you know, when I speak at those events I have spent the last 2 or 3 weeks rehearsing what I'm going to say. Even on the airplane to the event I'm going over my presentation. So it's not easy for me either. And even in the final video on my channel, I edit out some bits where I got tongue tied or whatever. So the people in the audience get to see it, but the person on youtube doesn't. Oh. and I've seen the Mark Rober videos you were talking about with the squirrels! Love those! Congrats on being in the Beano! Don't worry about the anti-iphone jerks. I use one too. Not only that, it's still the best-selling phone on the market, so it can't be that bad, right? In fact, the last 4 or 5 videos on my channel have been filmed almost entirely on my iPhone. :-) You got me on the cats eyes thing. I'd never heard of that!

For those who want the audio version - just play the video version - and close your eyes - job done. I like the new merch hoodie you’re wearing.

Keep doing what you want to do. It's worked so far and there will always be people with anger issues and too much time on their hands making pointless comments.

Surely I'm not the only one to imagine you in the garage cleaning the scuffs on your plastic car using Brasso?

I reckon it's age thing Matt 🤣 I'm a ISO standards consultant and I can't string words together some days🤣 plus I couldn't think of the name of cling film yesterday and it just wouldn't come out of that filling cabinet of a brain I have 👍🏻

This phrase just popped into my head while watching the Brasso treament: "I'm dead chuffed to be well-scuffed." Anyway, I am sort of chuffed that I learned from Techmoan videos to use Brasso to clear up a scuffed face of my Casio wristwatch. I watched all the takes of the battery loading. In a way, that was impressive, to be able to do a Kubrickesque number of takes to get the one you wanted. I wouldn't have been able to get through even half the number of takes that you did before I lost the ability to string two words together and just gave up.

From now on when I keep doing the same thing over and over again I am going to describe it as "It takes three double A batteries" moment! You managed not to swear aloud... But you're hands emote the stress! Great ending and oddly compelling

No worries on the mp3 version (at least for me). I have youtube-dl'd the audio and put it on my media device to listen to at work tomorrow. It did give me occasion to scan through the video and see the images that will make the audio better tomorrow. The squirrel is cute, BTW. Thank you for the update.

Please don't listen to the negative commentaries. Make the videoes you want. Love Your channel. ❤

When you started unboxing, I somehow predicted it was a Sony sign. And when you talked about that A-KAI I thought to myself 'it looks like a slot machine; what do I get when I hit a jackpot?' Mr. Naughty is so sweet; adorable sitting there chowing out on walnuts. I bet he's thinking 'this is the best garden ever.' Here's a latest set of 'artworks' for amusement - but I had help from an app - my fav is the Fresh Prince mural: https://ibb.co/WnWQxTq https://ibb.co/cwryf71 https://ibb.co/TLmfcpT https://ibb.co/fQ5J6sQ Psst I like stuff on your desk. 😃 And you are NOT a baffoon.

Man plastic body panels were the *big* promise of Saturn models in the states. I wish more car companies went with them. Especially if they are relatively easy to change out, give a refresh in no time.

The outtakes at the end. I've followed you, Mat, for a while now, and so I think I "know" you -- I really don't and I understand what you meant about not being able to actually exist without the editing -- but I maybe I "get" you. In any case, throughout ... what was it, 300 attempts to get the damn AAAAs in the slots? .... every attempt, you maintained a perfectly professional manner. No change in voice, nothing. That is not a skill that many people have. Keep that at the back of your mind. I'm trying not to be Fawning Techmoan Fanboy, I just think you are pretty good at what you do. Better than some that are at a much higher pay grade.

Hope things calm down in your personal life soon, we completely understand you've got a lot on your plate right now. Also, the really obscure things like weird 1960s era background music machines are why I tune in.

Yes, I got two T-shirts, always wanted to have one with a cassette and reel-to-reel tape ;-). These squirrels: they are the invasive American species, aren't they? Maybe they're more of a problem in the UK, here I never saw them (maybe luckily, as that means the red and black ones are still here). But still cute to see. About the Amiga: definitely more for the 8-bit guy. Funny to hear that you have better memories of the 386 and 486, I still remember the PCs from that time as [censured], having to configure everything separately, the Amiga was much easier, with a HD, most of the loading times and disk swapping was also history. But that was my experience... Are you considering to have a bloopers section like Technology Connections? ;-). I'm wondering why you don't do the video and audio separated, concentrating on just one at a time... Thanks for the update!

So pleased to hear there was another Atari ST user in the world. I have no real nostalgia for them either, but I do find it amazing that I only ever hear people going on about the Amiga. I know you don’t have any interest in doing so, but if you *could* put out 5-6000 videos on the matter to even the balance up a bit, it would be great. 🙂

If you think that a topic is interesting to you, you might be surprised to learn that it's interesting to me too and, I think it'll land somewhere in the pool of 7.9B other people too. Please keep making them as, you know, not every single piece of content has to be A++ Oscar winning... I'm fed up with the 'If this movie doesn't get an Oscar in the first 5 mins, try the next one.' broadcast style... otherwise we'd only have Strictly come dancing and medical dramas left.

I know the internet is full of bad-faith comments, but the idea that someone would accuse any other person of "Faking the effectiveness of Brasso." floored me.

I had the exact same problem with variable speech ability, turns out I suffered badly with sleep apnoea, and after I was prescribed CPAP it was a lot less pronounced.

well now I'm awaiting the Techmoan cover of "Runnin' Off At Da Mouth" Oh and those comments about "sheesh you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel for subject matter," they truly are irksome on a level that's hard to convey. It's why I basically stopped doing simpler unscripted style videos as filler and made an entirely separate channel for them, and sometimes go weeks between "main" LGR episodes. It simply makes it easier on my sanity. Of course, now I get comments on the side channel saying "why isn't this an LGR video, it would fit right in" and "these unscripted ones are way better than your main videos." 😑

Hey Mat: Would it surprise you more to find out that 50 Cent was a fan of your channel or that Twista was?

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Only a few seconds in but ... brother, we *never* think you take us for granted! OK, on with the show.