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Gold video release candidate preview

Hay all y'all, here's a potentially finished draft of the next video. I don't have any changes personally planned at this moment, but I haven't done my own watch-through of the YouTube upload yet, I will do that tomorrow while I make the thumbnail and get the transcript that becomes the captions finalized, so unless someone catches some fatal mistake or, like, the audio is just missing from the...

The Darkmoon Fiasco

Dumb Money: A Vlog

The writers of This is Financial Advice discuss the based-on-a-true-story film Dumb Money starring Paul Dano and Seth Rogan

Naked and Short

Deleted scene from This is Financial Advice

This is Financial Advice release candidate

All my Apes.

Goes live tomorrow unless it's broken.

Project draft and update

Thanks to everyone who came out to see Mikey and I at PAX, it was a lovely time!

We've made some pretty substantial changes to the video based on feedback and we're hoping that this improves flow and legibility. There's still a lot of unfinished visuals, and basically I'm holding off on the last round of re-shoots and VO replacement until I've finished combing it over for errors so I can...

Video Progress Update & PAX info

I want to thank everyone for their feedback on the draft of This is Financial Advice posted a couple days ago. It's reassuring that so many of you enjoyed it even in a janky, incomplete state with broken audio, missing graphics, and alternate takes.

That said, the feedback has revealed the extent of some significant structural problems that will take more time to address than originally a...

This Is Financial Advice Preview Draft

Hey everybody, the final stretch is in sight. I'm posting this in a less finished than usual state because we still have a couple days of recording left to do so that'll give us the opportunity to hopefully address anything that's just not working.

Probably our most ambitious video to date, I really hope y'all like it.

Vintage film "SHORT SELLING What you NEED to know! (Beginner Investor Series)"

No copyright infringement intended, for archival purposes only.

The Future is a Dead Mall sneak peek

Edit edit: final URL

Edit: there will be a new URL to correct some minor technical errors (typos, some slipped edits) that will otherwise haunt me for years.

I'm bad at doing sneak peeks reliably, but I still need to do captions, thumbnail, description, cards, end screen, chapters, etc. etc. etc. and I need some sleep, so this is a decent lead on the finished(?) video (barring unf...

Preview draft & call for feedback: The Future is a Dead Mall

Tell a story

Hey all, things are slowly wrapping up on this next video, to the point that there's a mostly-watchable draft.

I know a lot of you like to wait for the finished video, and I respect that, but for those who do want to see an unfinished 90% done preview, here it is.

There's still some pretty significant work being done on this, several minutes that might hit the cut...

A Skeptic's Guide to Hypnosis

Hello everyone, you should find attached the epub and pdf copies of A Skeptic's Guide to Hypnosis, the book from Contrapreneurs: The Mikkelsen Twins.

While this post is limited to Patrons only, the book is absolutely free to share. Send it to your friends, post it in your Discords, email it to your nan.

It's not the greatest book in the world, in fact on the whole it's rather medioc...

Griftmap: The Mikkelsen Twins

What's Happening With the Next Video (and a draft)

Hey everyone, first of all here's a preview draft of the next video, though this version is a few days old and is missing a whole bunch of stuff that's been changed in the interim. If you've been watching the editing streams then this is more or less the version from a week ago, since things were already finally getting into polish mode at that time.

At the moment it's looking like we'll ...

Line Goes Up ePub

Hello everyone, this was a popular request that took regrettably long  for me to get around to. Do note that this is not the "book version" of Line Goes Up, but a formatting of the transcript. I've been trying to come up with a good format for distributing transcripts and Line goes Up seemed like a good candidate for testing ePub as a format, so this is admittedly a bit of an experiment.&n...

Line Goes Up - The Problem With NFTs

Hey everybody, it's finally here!

This is... well, it's a lot. It was very stressful to make, took way longer than anticipated, and releasing it makes me super nervous, I get a bit vulnerable in places, but I guess here we are.

Captions are still being worked on, but should be done by the time it goes public.

Barring any technical errors or egregious mistakes that would necess...

We're All Going To Make It — A Short Story

Standing under the awning outside a Subway Dan jogged in place, cursing a digital sheep.

“Sell, you asshole, sell!”

His fingers, red from the early November chill, gripped the phone tighter.

This blasted $SHEEP refused to sell.

After twelve weeks of grinding TokenFarm day and night, waking up every two hours to maximize timers, /Petting his sheep, /Feeding them $FLAX...

Update on the NFT stuff

Hey everyone, as my NFT Twitter thread has expanded in scope and reach and longevity I've been approached by a number of podcasts, developers, and journalists on the pro-NFT/pro-cryptocurrency side of things and I have talked with a few of them. It's been valuable for me as a trial run of a lot of the ideas and framing that I would like to put into the video, which is coming along very slowly, ...

Jamie Oliver's War on Nuggets (preview)

Tell a story.

This is a bit of a lighter video while I work on the NFT video which will probably take me until the end of the year, which I guess is, yes, confirmation that I am working on that and not just angrily tweeting. I actually started working on it originally back in May, but the situation was evolving too rapidly for me to keep up and it was, frankly, making me angrier every day...

Bakshi and the Ring DRAFT 01

EDIT: lol, I forgot to export the audio

This is a lot less finished than normal, but believe it or not this is also over the hump. Still a lot of work to do, but all the black will fill in pretty quickly over a couple days.

On the whole I would estimate another week or two of work to do. At this point might as well make it super polished, ya know?

Patron Milestone Bonus Video - Let's Talk About Doug Walker's The Wall

Tell your patrons what you're working on

I've been chipping away at the Scientism video, still, when I decided to pivot to this, thinking it would be "easy" to turn out. Clearly it took a hot mo all on its own, as I really found myself getting pretty deeply invested into the subject.

I'm maybe a little more passionate and raw than normal for my channel, but, um, well, I hope it all ...

Patreon Exclusive: Frauds, Dinosaurs, and God

I'm hesitant to call this a preview excerpt because I'm not sure how much more I want to develop this specific line of research. This is very rough because of that, but also because I'm still waist deep in all the reading and watching I've done. Basically there's a lot more that needs to be done to check and double check everything in here. Heck, just in the editing process I stumbled on some m...

Christmas Movie Thing Preview Draft

Now this is a story all about how...

I forgot some stray assets at the end of the timeline and will need to export the final version later!

Maybe I spent forever on a Blender scene and all my Fusion comps because I felt bad that the video is, otherwise, just me talking.

I dunno. Merry Christmas ya filthy animals.

Draft of the Geocentrism Video That's Almost Done

This box is your blank canvas. Have fun!

Honestly this probably maybe would have been done a few weeks ago if my cat hadn't bit my arm while giving her an extremely necessary bath, resulting in an infected puncture wound that already set me back before, you know, that thing that happened at the beginning of the month, devouring all productivity.

There's some small changes I'd like t...

The Minnewanka Curve Experiment (Flat Earth Companion Video)

EDIT: I've replaced the linked video with the final version.

How's your next thing coming?

The two most common requests I've received in response to 'In Search of a Flat Earth' have been for a more classroom-friendly packaging of the experiment and a giant dump of all the extra lake footage, preferably at a higher resolution.

I couldn't include all of it, there was too much a...

"In Search of a Flat Earth" PREVIEW DRAFT

Tell your Patrons what you're working on!

So, this is a ~95% complete draft. There's still the following that needs to be done:

• Audio mix
• Fix some copyright music in a few clips (conspiracy folks love to blast Vangelus)
• Reevaluate a few clips I don't like
• Rerecord a couple lines where I hate my delivery
• Record the interludes
• Record the new ve...

Coming Soon: In Search of a Flat Earth

Honestly, write anything – your patrons will love it.

A draft for patrons should be available in the next few days. Release should be next week, barring any unforeseen problems.

120fps Vlog, Instructions in the Post

Bizarre experiment here, this is (in theory) a 120fps vlog that works within the limitations of YouTube to deliver some extremely rare ultra-high-framerate content and does so with a subject matter really capitalizing on the strengths of the format: a vlog sitting on the lawn rambling without script or purpose.

To watch the video "correctly" it will need to be played at 2x speed. If you h...

SECOND PREVIEW DRAFT: Cooking Food For Fun and Profit

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Given the degree to which this one has changed since the last draft I'm posting a new draft. The finished video should be up in a day or two and is unlikely to change dramatically from here.

PREVIEW DRAFT: Cooking Food On The Internet For Fun And Profit

Write like there's no tomorrow.

I think this one is going to be pretty good once it's actually done.

There's obviously a bunch of footage missing, some of that just need to be edited in, some of it needs to be recorded still, but it's happening.