Editing The Pen Addict 225/transcript (section)

== YouTube Videos ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' So, this is the problem. Is it has varied wildly for each of the videos that I've done. I put one of them together. The one where I'm just at home. Where I'm making coffee and stuff. Because basically there are four videos. Three of them are test videos. The audio is terrible on them. Like they were just purely tests. There's some balance issues. But I decided to put them out anyway. The one that starts at 001. That's like the first real video. Where I've improved a lot of stuff. I've still got some way to go. But like things are a lot better. But all of the 000 videos. They were just like tests. But I ended up being happy enough with them. That I wanted to share them with the world.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, the one where I'm just at home. That took me like shooting and editing. And putting on YouTube like two to three hours. Which I was really impressed with.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that's not bad actually.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But that one. The big one. I don't even know. Eight, nine, ten hours.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I would say that's probably fair. It shows. It's like the time you put into it. Shows up in the quality of it. And you guys have to go. Go subscribe to this channel. And watch all the videos. They're fantastic. I mean really, really good. The thing that surprised me the most. And I've heard about this. Is the quantity of comments. You have. Like I didn't read them all. But they're incessant.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There is a lot of comments.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Hundreds of comments. I'm like what is going on? But I think that's what you always hear about YouTube. Right? Like the comments section. And you know. Also you hear about trolls in the comments. And I don't think there's any of that. But I was just.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, I've been very nice so far.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But like looking at the number of views so far. And looking at the number of comments so far. It's an enormous percentage of comments. I thought that was very. That was an interesting takeaway. I don't know that I have anything to say other than that. But I was like look at this. It just keeps going.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So there are a couple of things about this. Which I can go into. So one of the reasons that there are so many comments. Is like the majority of these people. Have come to this channel. Because they've heard me talk about it on Cortex. Right. And they are. As it stands currently. The people that are watching these videos. Are people that enjoy my work. So they are sharing their opinions. And their thoughts with me directly. So I think the amount of comments per view. Is probably skewed for someone who's just starting out. Because I have an inbuilt audience of people. That I'm bringing with me. Right. And they're sharing their thoughts. And I ask people as well. To leave me comments. You know. Constructive comments. Sure. Things they like. Things they didn't like. That kind of stuff. So I've invited it. There's another thing though. Which is YouTube's statistics. All kinds of crazy. So the views that you're seeing. On the videos right now. Are not accurate. They're higher than that. Most likely. So the balance is all wrong. And it just looks weird. Because the comments are accurate. But the views aren't necessarily accurate. A lot of it's like estimated. Which I'm trying to get my head around. A lot of this stuff. So. I'm going to be talking a lot about this. Because it's a new thing for me. I've been talking about it on every show I've done this week. So I apologize if people keep hearing this stuff over and over again. But this is something that's really interesting. And is kind of important to me right now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So yeah. I'm going to be talking about milestone cortex though. To be honest.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you man. Keep it up. Thank you. Because it's like. It's one of those things. Like I don't hardly watch any YouTube. Like I watch Matt's from The Pin Habit. And I think that's about it. So I would like. This would one. And I'd be anxious to see like an alert for that. Oh Myke's got a new video. I would watch it immediately. Because it was so fun. So fun.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Thank you mate. I'm planning to have a video up this weekend. Yep. Cool. Because I want to capitalize on the fact that people are subscribing. And I don't want to leave them hanging. So I want to do a video where I kind of explain a little bit more about what's going to be on the channel. And then also I've got some. I'm going to be out a couple of days this weekend. So. Cool. Yeah. And I've already got some videos planned for next week. Like I've got some stuff bubbling. I'm really excited about it. I'm really excited about it. I can tell. I can tell.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And you can tell in the videos that you are. I enjoyed the Alexa bits I think the most out of all your show. And she's going to.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think she's going to be a running character. She has some funny stuff to say. That woman in that little tube.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So one of the things you did a lot in your videos. You use a lot of emojis in very proper places. And, you know, we're both iOS users. And we both enjoy our emojis. And we enjoy sharing them back and forth. And with this update, you know, we got the wonderful edition of iMessage stickers. Right? So, you know, I thoroughly enjoy and have a real problem with using the stickers. And one of our good friends, Le Reyes, has these sticker packs. And I know you've seen it and I've seen it. But I want to make sure everyone who's listening to this has seen it. She does these. She has two sticker packs out. One's called Feel Blots, which is her first one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They're basically blobs of ink with faces drawn on them. Yeah. Like to show emotions, which is a really nice touch.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. So all the different ink colors and like different washes and then faces within them. And then she went and topped herself with one called Extra Finer. Yeah. That is the ticket. If you're on iOS and use stickers in iMessage, you got to get and you're listening to this show, you have to go get the Extra Finer sticker pack. It is so cool. She's done.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It is drawings in like pen and ink drawings of fountain pens, bottles, writing equipment, and then a bunch of beautifully lettered like emotives like OMG and yay and LOL and stuff in fantastic handwriting with beautiful colors. All. Yeah. This is the one right. Like Feel Blots is like a fun little thing. But Extra Finer, that's the moneymaker right there. This is just stunning. Leia's done an incredible job as always with everything she does. Yeah. So you got to just go and check these things out. They are amazing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. So get those. And I'm a big fan, big fan of the stickers. And I kind of can't get enough of them right now. So, yeah. I'm usually buying like one or two packs a week.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, I'm more like one or two packs a day.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Part of it is because my wife likes to use them and I like to see how she figures them out and how she uses them. And it just cracks me up. So I find a lot of hilarity in that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm going to send you something here.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Something secret that you haven't seen yet. Oh, yeah. I know what it is. I hope I know what it is. Y'all are going to be jealous.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's coming is what I'm saying. Yes. But I want to send you something. Cool. That you haven't seen. So that's sent to you via iMessage right now. Awesome. So I have everything turned off on my phone.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I should probably send it to you twice so you can get the full effect. Yes, I have two.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's the sticker.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Nice. That's great.