=== Let's Drone Out — Episode 134 === Title: LDO Episode 134 Alex Edit The Positive Stream (Or Youll Get Kicked) Recorded: 2018-03-22 Hosts: Jack "Brightontillifly" Nash, Andy, Tony "TheTonstar1" Marchant, Andrew "Frank" Hyams Guest(s): Alex Edit, Anaseed, Chad Kapper Total audience: 2,797 Platforms: YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPdL9KLjzaI); SoundCloud (http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/424677912-letsdroneout-ldo-episode-134-alex-edit-the-positive-stream-or-youll-get-kicked.mp3) ===================================== Tonight Alex edit; https://www.youtube.com/FlyersDistrict Jacks on the TTNS after btw http://www.thethursdaynightshow.com/ [0.0] (Editor): This episode was edited thanks to the Patreon support of... [6.62] (Editor): Thanks a lot for supporting the show and allowing me to actually do a good job of editing this podcast. [13.12] (Editor): Is there an option on Patreon so people can donate so they don't swear, or so that they keep the episodes to an hour? [18.62] (Editor): If not... [20.12] (Editor): Okay, fine, whatever. [22.62] (Editor): Enjoy the show. [23.62] (Editor): Telemetry recovered. [26.62] Jack: Hello, and today is the 22nd of the 3rd of 2018. [32.62] Jack: And it is Electronaut episode 134. [38.62] Tony: Jesus, H Corbett. [41.62] Jack: Yeah, I know. We are officially the oldest. [45.62] Tony: And it is Electronaut episode. [49.62] Jack: Well done, Tony, for that. [51.62] Tony: Hello, apologies. Hello, it's Tony. [55.62] Jack: Thank you, my queen. I never thought I'd see you again. [60.62] Jack: So yeah, as you can hear, that's Tony in the background. [64.62] Tony: Sorry. [65.62] Jack: So today's show will be edited by him, but paid for by Ferdy. [72.62] Jack: Editor, will you remember to put the special little shout out thing that you made? [78.62] Jack: It's really lovely for Ferdy. [81.62] Jack: Or however you say his name, I'm really sorry. [83.62] Frank: Looks like a thumbs up, I think. [85.62] Jack: Okay, yeah, he's happy. He's editing right now. [88.62] Jack: He looks really shocked. He's in his wild, wild environment. [92.62] Jack: Dragged me out of his focus. [94.62] Jack: Yep, no worries. So today we are going to be talking to Alex Edit, but he's changed his YouTube name. [100.62] Jack: And we'll find out about that later. Hello, Alex. [103.62] Jack: What's up? [104.62] Jack: Yep. And we're joined by our usual host, Frank, the manager. [109.62] Jack: Hello, I'm currently a dog. [111.62] Jack: Andrew slash Frank. Yep. If any of you are suffering from substance abuse, [115.62] Jack: please feel free to contact him for support. [117.62] Jack: We're also joined by Andy RC. [119.62] Alex Edit: Hello. [121.62] Jack: What is RC channel? [124.62] Jack: And my queen. [127.62] Jack: Bonjour. [129.62] Jack: Hey, he answers to it. Yes. [132.62] Jack: It's like Pavlov's dog. Is it Pavlov? [136.62] Jack: I can't remember. [137.62] Tony: I'll just do it to amuse you, Jack. [140.62] Jack: Mass clocking. [142.62] Jack: Alex, how are you doing? [144.62] Alex Edit: All right, man. What's going on? [146.62] Alex Edit: Hey, sorry about the time. I'm always, I am absolutely awful at times, arriving on time. [153.62] Alex Edit: And so when we talked, when we talked, I don't know, two months ago, [157.62] Alex Edit: I thought, oh man, that is so far out. [159.62] Alex Edit: And I wrote down the time on my calendar for 8 p.m. my time. [163.62] Alex Edit: Yeah. But I didn't know that it was being 8 p.m. your time. [167.62] Jack: I did remind you on Monday and I was like, I'm sure. [171.62] Jack: Did I, did I write down, hang on. [174.62] Jack: Let me just, I want to know, not that I want to shame you. [177.62] Jack: I want to know whether I've done my job correctly. [180.62] Jack: If I, if I, if I, if I screwed you. [184.62] Alex Edit: Well, I don't know if it was you. I don't know if it was me. [186.62] Alex Edit: I usually don't care whose fault it was. [188.62] Jack: Don't forget you're on the podcast this week on Thursday, 8 p.m. [194.62] Jack: UK time. The thing is, I look at you and you're like, you know, [198.62] Jack: you do, you do interviews and stuff like that. [201.62] Jack: And I thought, yeah, he'll be fine. [203.62] Jack: No problem. You are a very busy man. [206.62] Frank: That looks like a very comfortable chair, by the way. [209.62] Alex Edit: Thanks. Thanks. [211.62] Alex Edit: I love this chair. I love this chair. [213.62] Alex Edit: I'm, you know, this, this is my main editing chair. [217.62] Alex Edit: When I'm editing and I'm in the zone, this is where I'm sitting. [220.62] Tony: It looks like one of my seats in my car. [223.62] Tony: It does. Yeah. [224.62] Tony: That's, that's what it looks like. [226.62] Alex Edit: Yeah. It has the side handle so that if I'm moving around, [230.62] Alex Edit: I don't fall down. [232.62] Alex Edit: If I, I can like, I can stretch it out all the way out. [237.62] Alex Edit: Wow. [238.62] Frank: Built for high G editing. [241.62] Alex Edit: That is a light back. [243.62] Frank: Mine's actually like that. [245.62] Andy: Except I'm too wide. [247.62] Andy: I got one too. [249.62] Alex Edit: Oh, that's a cool chair. Yeah. [251.62] Andy: I want to replace it though. [253.62] Andy: I'll have to look up the mate that you've got because that one looks [256.62] Alex Edit: much better than this. [258.62] Alex Edit: My favorite part of this one, obviously that the little handle here, [261.62] Alex Edit: like just like a car. [263.62] Alex Edit: Handbrake. [265.62] Alex Edit: I can go completely. I can go completely flat. [268.62] Alex Edit: And, but this, I can put my head back. [271.62] Alex Edit: And really relax and still be sitting upright. [275.62] Alex Edit: Most chairs that I, that I've had like that one there. [278.62] Alex Edit: I don't know if you can see it. It's. [280.62] Alex Edit: That's where I should video as well. [282.62] Alex Edit: That one. [283.62] Alex Edit: The chair. [284.62] Alex Edit: It's like right here. [285.62] Alex Edit: So I can't put my head back and I don't like that. [287.62] Andy: That kind of suggests that you end up sleeping at the office quite a bit. [291.62] Alex Edit: Quite a bit. [292.62] Alex Edit: Yeah. [293.62] Alex Edit: Actually yesterday, yesterday it was like 2 p.m. [296.62] Alex Edit: Cause I was working super late here. [298.62] Alex Edit: And I thought it was like, no, it was like one 30. [302.62] Alex Edit: And I thought, man, let me close my eyes. Let me take him out. [305.62] Alex Edit: Like an hour later. [307.62] Alex Edit: I wake up, but I have a couch on the, in the other room. [310.62] Alex Edit: And this office is, uh, that's like three different areas. [314.62] Alex Edit: I took a one hour nap. [315.62] Andy: This is the, this is the urban drones office. Yeah. [318.62] Andy: Yeah. [319.62] Andy: You're in a moment. Awesome. [320.62] Alex Edit: Yeah. [321.62] Jack: Can you ask you a question earlier? Because, uh, go for it. [326.62] Jack: Go and pretend. [327.62] Tony: I tried, but my internet just went pants then. [329.62] Tony: My question was the last video I saw was you in a Chinese motor factory. [336.62] Tony: And then I saw nothing of you for a month. [339.62] Jack: Tony, that's not a question. That's a state. [342.62] Alex Edit: So I have, well, let me. [345.62] Tony: What happened? [346.62] Tony: I want to know. [347.62] Alex Edit: Okay. So first I haven't gone away. [349.62] Alex Edit: I've continued to make videos. Hold on. [352.62] Alex Edit: I've continued to make videos. [354.62] Alex Edit: It's just that I changed. [356.62] Alex Edit: I changed the name of the channel. I didn't change my name. [359.62] Alex Edit: I changed the name of the channel because I want to, you know, [363.62] Alex Edit: I was sitting down one day and I was thinking, man, I, I, [366.62] Alex Edit: I don't want this channel to be about me. [369.62] Alex Edit: I don't want this channel to be about me. [371.62] Alex Edit: I, I have a lot of other interests, you know, [375.62] Alex Edit: and I want to be able to highlight other people, [378.62] Alex Edit: other people that are doing really cool things. [380.62] Alex Edit: My, my channel is really based on the love for creating stories, [386.62] Alex Edit: telling stories. I love telling stories. [389.62] Alex Edit: And so when I started the channel, [391.62] Alex Edit: I didn't have other stories to tell, [393.62] Alex Edit: or it was really hard for me to tell other stories because people, [397.62] Alex Edit: you know, they're very, they protect themselves. [400.62] Alex Edit: You don't, you don't know how you're going to tell their story. [402.62] Alex Edit: So I just started telling my story. [405.62] Alex Edit: And so now it's been like, I don't know, two years or something like that. [408.62] Alex Edit: It, it I'm heavily into aviation and pretty much all things that fly [413.62] Alex Edit: aviation, drones, helicopters, and RC airplanes. [418.62] Alex Edit: And so I am now creating, [421.62] Alex Edit: I don't want to say it's a different channel, [423.62] Alex Edit: but I'm making it so that I can tell other stories outside of only my story [428.62] Alex Edit: because I don't only want to tell my story. [431.62] Alex Edit: I just want to tell stories just, you know, [435.62] Alex Edit: and the thing that I like the most and every, a lot, [438.62] Alex Edit: most of the people that I hang out with are either drone pilots or RC pilots [443.62] Alex Edit: or full scale pilots. And so I thought, well, [446.62] Alex Edit: what if I changed the name of the channel so that it's not about me. [450.62] Alex Edit: It's just about, you know, [453.62] Alex Edit: my interest in the people that I know their interest in, you know, [458.62] Alex Edit: that's how, uh, flyers district came, came about. [462.62] Alex Edit: I looked into like, I don't know, [466.62] Alex Edit: like 20 different names, looked at the domains, [469.62] Alex Edit: look at the emails if they were available and, uh, flies district. [473.62] Alex Edit: I don't know if I could probably grow tired of that name, [477.62] Alex Edit: but I think that it's a name that describes what the channels about. [483.62] Alex Edit: It's about things that fly in the people that like the things that fly, [488.62] Alex Edit: the people that fly. [489.62] Alex Edit: So whether it's fire gliders, drones, RC aeroplanes, [493.62] Alex Edit: or full scale airplanes, uh, that's what the channel is about. [497.62] Alex Edit: Telling those stories. [498.62] Alex Edit: And so that's, yeah, that is the, you know, [503.62] Alex Edit: I call it the flying district, you know? Um, so it's just about flying. [507.62] Alex Edit: It's about, it's all about flying, right? Uh, because I'm, uh, [513.62] Alex Edit: it's not something that I like. It's something that I'm obsessed. [516.62] Alex Edit: It's an obsession and everybody that I know is obsessed with, you know, [521.62] Alex Edit: every pilot that I know, whether it's a drone pilot or any type of pilot, [524.62] Alex Edit: they're obsessed with flying and being around other people that fly and [529.62] Alex Edit: around people that there are things that fly. So I don't know. [533.62] Alex Edit: I came up with that name and, uh, [535.62] Alex Edit: I was bouncing the idea back and forth with a friend of mine and, uh, [539.62] Alex Edit: that name kind of stuck. And so I changed the name. [542.62] Andy: So the first time I saw you, Alex was actually on one of the first [547.62] Andy: road to riot episodes. [548.62] Andy: I think it's the one where they rented out the big house and yeah, yeah. [553.62] Andy: So I watched the road to riot video and I saw you in that video on it. [557.62] Andy: And, um, then I found your channel and then went and watched your, [560.62] Andy: you sort of like did a kind of behind the scenes and I sort of got the [564.62] Andy: impression that I noticed that your editing style was very similar to that [569.62] Andy: of road to riot. [570.62] Andy: And I kind of got the impression that you were involved some way with road [574.62] Andy: to riot early on it. [575.62] Andy: Is that the case where you're doing some of the editing or at the time? [579.62] Alex Edit: Yeah. Uh, at the time I edited, I think I got, it's been a while. [584.62] Alex Edit: I edited, I want to say two or maybe three episodes. [589.62] Alex Edit: Yeah. The first ones weren't I? Uh, yeah, [592.62] Alex Edit: it was like the first couple of episodes. Maybe it was two, [596.62] Alex Edit: I know, uh, guns and drones, uh, you know, like the one where Tom, [600.62] Jack: Tommy dove down the thing that was you as well. [604.62] Alex Edit: I capture some of that footage. I didn't edit it. Uh, [608.62] Alex Edit: and that episode actually came out just so perfect. [612.62] Alex Edit: The, uh, the, uh, the, uh, damn episode. Uh, [618.62] Alex Edit: I thought if I would have edited that, [620.62] Alex Edit: I would have ruined it because I would have made it into a longer story. [623.62] Alex Edit: I would have added all their things. Uh, and, and, um, son of copper, [628.62] Alex Edit: that's, uh, what, what, uh, uh, they call Chad son. He, [631.62] Alex Edit: he's the one that edited it. I think he's the one that edited that, [634.62] Alex Edit: that, that, that episode. It's right. [636.62] Alex Edit: It's so on point because it's the right amount of time is the right length. [641.62] Alex Edit: And it's just the right amount of content where you just, [646.62] Alex Edit: at the end of the video, he's like, you're so satisfied, [650.62] Alex Edit: but you want to watch more. It's not too little. [653.62] Alex Edit: It's not too much. And it's just the right stuff. [657.62] Alex Edit: So great. No, no, no, [661.62] Jack: some of the footage. That's why I thought, [665.62] Andy: have you guys talked about this before? Cause I, I, there's, [667.62] Andy: these are the questions I, I, um, [672.62] Jack: don't, don't worry about it, man, [674.62] Jack: because it's always someone's first encounter with Alex. [677.62] Jack: Like don't ever worry about that. [679.62] Jack: Yeah. [681.62] Andy: That don't worry about what I was wondering whether you talked about this [684.62] Andy: the first time. Cause I know you've been on the show before, [686.62] Andy: but it's funny that I didn't remember. I didn't even know. [690.62] Andy: I didn't even know that, [691.62] Andy: but I could tell from the style that it was you and that I think that's [695.62] Andy: what actually initially got me interested in road to riot and why I then [700.62] Andy: found your channel is because I was interested in that style. [703.62] Andy: It was, um, it was kind of like very similar to sort of how, [707.62] Andy: cause I was watching Casey at the time as well. [710.62] Andy: And I was a huge, [711.62] Andy: I huge fan of Casey and I could see that in you a little bit as well. [716.62] Andy: And, um, it was, it was kind of all new for me. So, um, how did, [720.62] Andy: how did, how did you actually get in, how did it start with road to riot? [723.62] Andy: How did they find you for you to, [726.62] Alex Edit: he's a good idea. [728.62] Alex Edit: So I, that's such a good question. So I met Chad capper. [733.62] Alex Edit: I don't even know how many years ago, [735.62] Alex Edit: uh, three, four years ago at a, at a drone convention. [739.62] Alex Edit: I was speaking at a drone convention and I met Jack capper. [742.62] Alex Edit: I knew of Jack capper because of flight tests. And so we met and, um, [748.62] Alex Edit: then he, I want to make sure that I get that correct. [752.62] Alex Edit: Then he invited me to, uh, he told me what he was. [755.62] Jack: Should we see whether he's busy? [757.62] Alex Edit: Sure. Yeah. [758.62] Alex Edit: So he, he, uh, he told me what he was putting together and I knew, [763.62] Alex Edit: you know, that it was going to be successful because, you know, [767.18] Alex Edit: his idea, the way that he was thinking about it, he was doing, [770.7] Alex Edit: I guess what you call casting. He was looking for, for people. And, uh, [775.82] Alex Edit: right around that time is when, uh, [779.9] Alex Edit: I was in Vegas then after that, probably a week after that, uh, [784.02] Alex Edit: I took a trip to Vegas or maybe it was the same trip cut. I don't remember, [788.26] Alex Edit: but then I met, uh, steel and, uh, and, uh, chat, chat, no, [792.7] Alex Edit: like, and, uh, funny story, side story. I was looking through my drive. [797.9] Alex Edit: I have all these hard drives. [801.42] Alex Edit: I could, can you hear me okay now? [805.38] Alex Edit: I was looking through a footage the other day. [808.94] Alex Edit: And so I have all these hard drives, literally buckets of hard drives. [814.86] Alex Edit: And, um, I, [817.18] Alex Edit: I was plugging in hard drive cause I was looking for a shot of an airplane that [820.54] Alex Edit: I had taken. And, uh, [822.38] Alex Edit: I found the footage of the moment that I made a steel Davis and chat. [827.02] Alex Edit: No, like at, uh, in Vegas on the floor, uh, of, uh, [832.18] Jack: were they still friends back then? [835.22] Alex Edit: Yeah, they were really good friends. Um, and so anyway, where was I going? [840.06] Alex Edit: I digress so far away. Yeah. So, so I met Chad and then, [845.58] Alex Edit: uh, I think Chad told me about, you know, what he was trying to do. [848.62] Alex Edit: And then weeks later, after I had met with, uh, still Davis and chat, no, [852.78] Alex Edit: like, uh, they were planning, uh, uh, shoot. [857.46] Alex Edit: And so they invited me to the shoot as a, you know, one of the production people, [861.54] Alex Edit: you know, camera and editing. And so I'm like, all right, let's go. [865.86] Alex Edit: And so I went out and that's what that came about. And I, I, I, [870.74] Alex Edit: I wish I was still part of it, but I, I had to, [873.82] Alex Edit: I had to make a decision pretty early on because it's working. [877.54] Alex Edit: The Rotoriah was taking a ton of my time, right? [880.7] Alex Edit: And so I have this thing here that I'm doing, uh, [884.9] Alex Edit: urban drones, my company and, uh, uh, working, [889.78] Alex Edit: you know, the Rotoriah thing was just taking so much of my time. [892.9] Alex Edit: So I had to take, uh, I had to make a choice. Hey, chat. [901.94] Alex Edit: At that, right at that time, I, I, I had to make a choice. And man, [906.82] Alex Edit: it was probably one of the toughest calls. [909.66] Alex Edit: I remember talking to my wife about it. Like, man, I, I, [912.78] Alex Edit: in the moment that I dropped that call to was like the absolute worst moment. [917.7] Alex Edit: But I was at a time where, okay, [920.1] Alex Edit: either I commit to Rotoriah full time or I commit to my company full time. [924.58] Alex Edit: I can't do both because then I'm going to do a shitty job at both. [928.38] Alex Edit: And so that one night I, I, I went in my garage and I had to call chat. [933.02] Alex Edit: Now my chat, I just can't do it, man. And my God, [936.78] Alex Edit: it was such a tough call because I really wanted to do it. [940.78] Alex Edit: I really wanted to commit. I was, I was loving what I was doing. [944.06] Alex Edit: I mean, I was editing and I was editing something that I really enjoyed. [948.26] Alex Edit: And, um, you know, chat, I, he took it really cool. [952.3] Alex Edit: I don't think it was really happy. Uh, cause of the time, right? [957.06] Alex Edit: No, you didn't. Uh, but it was like, maybe like a Thursday or like a Saturday [961.14] Alex Edit: night and the guns and drones episode was going to be up, [964.7] Alex Edit: had to be up like that Monday. And I was stressing out, I mean, [968.98] Alex Edit: I had a pile of emails from my company and a pile of things to do for my company. [973.1] Alex Edit: And I also had this two episodes that I was working on. I'm like, [976.26] Alex Edit: I just can't do both. And so yeah. [981.5] Andy: Well, but what I was going to ask that question, [984.3] Andy: but what I thought was interesting is you, you still crop up everywhere. [988.58] Andy: You're, you're in every party's videos. Like you're at every single event [992.66] Andy: somehow. And I think, I think a lot of people know you through that as well. [996.9] Andy: So I, I, I guess, uh, you know, no, there's no hard feelings there cause you [1001.14] Chad K: know, I don't think there are, I mean, not at all. No, I was very thankful. [1006.66] Chad K: Alex, Alex took guns versus drones. [1009.66] Chad K: That whole format was because of Alex. I mean, we, we, we refined it a lot. [1014.42] Chad K: Like it went through like four heavy refined edit. [1017.74] Alex Edit: Oh, at least. Yeah. Yeah. [1020.74] Chad K: We wanted it to be like a TV show. Um, but the problem is, is the, [1025.42] Chad K: even the way that it was shot was so intense. Like we, it was very, [1029.74] Chad K: Alex, you remember how much pressure there was when we were shooting it? [1033.7] Alex Edit: Not at all. It was, it was, it was, it was, it was really intense. [1038.5] Alex Edit: And so one, one thing that I, actually, you know what? [1042.9] Alex Edit: I just thought about this chat. I, I, we never had this conversation. [1046.26] Alex Edit: Something that I just thought about because I was, I was just, I was just, [1051.46] Alex Edit: crazy show. I was just part of a, of a, of a TV show. And, uh, [1057.58] Chad K: can you stop in chat, Chad? [1062.7] Chad K: The drone challenge show. Uh, I'm sorry. I forgot the name. [1066.94] Alex Edit: You forgot it too. The ultimate drone challenge. So that, that, [1072.02] Alex Edit: I, I, I came from my background is on TV, editing all their TV shows. [1077.34] Alex Edit: And the thing that I have with TV is that it's so, [1081.86] Alex Edit: the only way that I can describe it, it's so like, it's like a box, right? [1085.58] Alex Edit: It's like, uh, it's just so just bland. [1090.42] Chad K: It's so, you know, that's why, that's why, so we've had, [1095.58] Chad K: since starting RotoRiot, we've had, and I'm not kidding, [1098.58] Chad K: at least a dozen TV producers can make me some kind of offer to do something. [1104.58] Chad K: And I've turned every one of them down and, and not, [1109.58] Chad K: but I didn't even consider it because every one of them was, uh, we'll, [1113.94] Chad K: we'll take you, put you on TV, we'll own part of it. And, [1119.06] Chad K: and I'm like, wait, so, [1120.06] Chad K: so you'll pretty much do the concept that we're already doing, [1123.22] Chad K: but you'll take ownership from me and put it on a dining medium. Yeah. [1128.9] Alex Edit: Like that's the thing with TV. And the way, when you watch TV, [1133.74] Alex Edit: I don't have cable, but every now and then just this week, [1136.5] Alex Edit: and I was out of the country and I was at a hotel and I happened to be watching TV [1140.34] Alex Edit: and every, every now and then I get in front of a TV and I'm watching like this [1145.38] Alex Edit: just this style of editing and this style of, it's so boring. [1149.82] Alex Edit: And so just like predictable, very predictable. [1155.82] Chad K: It's the chocolate chip cookie mix and they put in raisins and then they put in [1161.82] Chad K: chocolate chips and then they put in walnuts and like, [1165.14] Chad K: but it's the same freaking cookie. Yes. It's just so. [1168.82] Jack: I don't know. I'm loving it. [1172.34] Tony: I just canceled my TV license. [1175.34] Tony: Your TV license is in England. Watch YouTube, Netflix and stuff. [1180.02] Chad K: You'll find, I don't categorize TV. Netflix is, [1184.9] Chad K: you know, the new media platform. [1186.78] Chad K: And I would absolutely do something with Netflix if they, you know, [1190.46] Chad K: if there was the opportunity. [1191.82] Jack: Dan, why don't you just phone them? They green light everything, isn't it? [1194.86] Jack: Like ring ring. Isn't that a joke? I'm Bojack Horseman. [1197.54] Jack: They phone up and it's like, hello, Netflix green light. [1201.7] Alex Edit: I would say Netflix is the new HBO. [1205.7] Alex Edit: It's everything they do is rich. [1209.14] Alex Edit: That independent feel of like you see someone's voice. [1215.02] Alex Edit: It's not this stupid, same exact formula that the first 30 seconds you already [1221.74] Alex Edit: know how everything's going to end in the commercials and they're coming up. [1225.98] Alex Edit: Oh my God. I hate it. I don't know, man. [1227.98] Jack: I've seen some panty liner ads that kind of blew me away recently. [1234.7] Chad K: Would it have made a joke? Who's hanging out? [1237.5] Jack: That's my editor. [1239.54] Jack: That's the, hi editor. Hey, what up? Do you want to borrow him? [1243.1] Chad K: He's pretty good. I just wondered if you knew someone was back. Yeah. [1249.34] Jack: He's a complete asshole. Cause like, I'm, I'm, I'm like, oh, sorry. Hang on. [1253.74] Jack: What, what time is that? 2029. Sorry. 29. [1257.74] Jack: He's like texting his wife and he's accidentally texting me about gluten free [1263.42] Jack: bread. And I'm like, I'm trying to podcast it. [1267.58] Jack: He's like ice gluten free bread. It's what was it? A gluten free bread. [1271.78] Jack: I don't know why it's got to be some sort of wheat free bread thing. [1274.94] Jack: That it's not stupidly expensive. I'm like, [1277.38] Jack: I'm trying to do a serious show here and I'm getting out. [1283.22] Jack: So if you, if you see me like throw things back there at him and then he's [1289.66] Chad K: actually looks like he's sitting on your shoulder. [1293.5] Chad K: I like the lighting. The lighting looks so cool. Doesn't it? [1297.42] Tony: Yeah. It looks like she's not serious. It's silly ass. [1301.26] Jack: Yeah. Um, yeah, he really wants, if any of you guys are, um, [1307.06] Jack: we should ask mousey mouse. He wouldn't know she's gluten intolerant. Um, [1312.34] Jack: anyone know any gluten free? [1319.38] Jack: One of any one of them off of you, cocaine and whores. [1323.26] Jack: Well, I just want to know. [1324.38] Chad K: Can we talk about wool socks next? [1327.1] Jack: Wool socks. Yeah, I can do if you want. [1329.3] Jack: Yeah. Do you go on? [1331.46] Chad K: That's one of my favorite topics. [1333.06] Jack: Really? Have you ever had silkskin socks, man? [1335.94] Jack: They're bad ass. They're waterproof. [1338.02] Jack: No, I actually feel real silkskin though. [1340.42] Jack: I know that. Seal is in to seal something off. [1344.26] Tony: Not this one. I might feel. [1349.38] Chad K: Well, I don't know. Just die of molding. [1351.38] Chad K: Is it okay then? [1352.66] Jack: Well, I have no idea. [1354.38] Jack: Well, what was that, Chad? Dying wool. [1356.5] Chad K: It feels just die of old age. [1358.26] Chad K: You use their hides then, or is that disrespectful? [1361.06] Jack: I don't know whether it made quality socks, though. [1363.3] Jack: Surely you want the fresh, you know, like. [1367.86] Alex Edit: Is it me or what are we, what are we talking about? [1372.82] Jack: Anyway, you're urban drones. [1374.1] Jack: You're all about like, you know, going out to the wilderness, [1377.46] Jack: you know, in the cold weather, flying your drone, [1379.54] Jack: finding out where those seals are, and then clubbing them. [1384.82] Tony: Jack, I'm going to club you in a minute. [1386.98] Jack: Good. Put me out of my misery. [1388.58] Tony: Come right down to Brighton and punch you in the face. [1390.42] Jack: Anyway, that is a negative comment, Tony. [1394.74] Tony: Am I not allowed to do negative stuff? [1396.98] Jack: Is it positive you're kicking me then? [1399.22] Jack: What's going to happen to Tony? [1400.18] Jack: Are you going to mute me for five minutes? [1401.94] Jack: Oh, sorry, Tony. [1403.46] Andy: Can I ask the guests some questions? [1406.74] Andy: Yeah, please do. [1407.22] Andy: So to get back on topic, we're talking about Alex and Rota Raya, [1412.66] Andy: and then so Alex is focusing more now on general aviation. [1419.22] Andy: A question that I had for him was, [1422.26] Andy: has the drone side of it taken a sort of back? [1428.5] Andy: Is it like on the back burner now that you're doing general aviation? [1432.5] Andy: Do you fly less? [1435.22] Alex Edit: Do you fly less sort of FPV and stuff? [1437.22] Alex Edit: Well, let me put it this way. [1440.9] Alex Edit: The last three years, the last four years, I have flown less and less and less drones, [1447.06] Alex Edit: but I work with drones every single day. [1450.34] Alex Edit: And the reason why I fly less is because I'm more in the running my bases instead of flying. [1458.58] Alex Edit: It's so stupid. [1459.54] Alex Edit: When I go flying drones, I feel guilty. [1462.1] Alex Edit: Oh, man, why am I flying? [1463.62] Alex Edit: I should be working. [1465.3] Alex Edit: And so, but I still fly at least once a week. [1470.58] Alex Edit: This past weekend, I took my Mavic to Dominican Republic, [1474.42] Alex Edit: and I was flying around at a really cool place. [1478.34] Alex Edit: But if I have time, what is that? [1483.38] Alex Edit: Is that an air? [1484.42] Alex Edit: That's a Mavic Air. [1487.94] Alex Edit: So if I have time, at the moment, I'd rather fly full scale than drones. [1495.22] Alex Edit: How is the air? [1496.26] Alex Edit: I was going to get it. [1499.54] Chad K: I love it. [1500.42] Chad K: I love it. [1505.06] Chad K: It's fine. [1505.62] Chad K: We just did it. [1506.34] Chad K: Actually, we have an episode coming up where we test the Mavic and Mavic Air next to one another. [1510.82] Chad K: Okay. [1511.14] Jack: And then you come to one. [1512.98] Chad K: Oh, you got to watch. [1515.38] Alex Edit: And then you shake one. [1517.22] Jack: It's charity. [1519.22] Alex Edit: I would say the Mavic Pro one, just because I still feel like Wi-Fi drones, for me, [1528.98] Alex Edit: my opinion, are not my thing. [1530.66] Alex Edit: I mean, with my Mavic Pro, I'm flying not in the US, of course, but I'm flying two miles out. [1538.5] Chad K: No, and I can tell you, yeah, I can tell you, we were at, I'll tell you, it's no big deal. [1544.74] Chad K: We were at like four to five feet off the ground and flat ground in Florida. [1551.14] Chad K: And we went out. [1552.26] Chad K: I got 3,300 feet away. [1557.14] Chad K: Holy. [1559.3] Chad K: So it's over half a mile. [1560.42] Chad K: It's about two thirds of a mile. [1561.94] Alex Edit: On Wi-Fi? [1563.06] Alex Edit: That's pretty amazing. [1564.74] Chad K: Yeah. [1565.46] Alex Edit: So were you in Tampa the other day? [1568.9] Alex Edit: Yeah. [1570.66] Alex Edit: Yeah. [1571.14] Alex Edit: No way, dude. [1572.58] Alex Edit: That day, I flew to Sarasota. [1576.34] Alex Edit: I was like five minutes from you. [1578.26] Alex Edit: And then I took off to another airport. [1580.5] Alex Edit: Oh, wow. [1581.62] Tony: Yeah, I could have gone there. [1584.74] Alex Edit: I lost you. [1588.42] Chad K: What do you say? [1590.02] Chad K: I think we did quad camp and shot episodes and, you know, all that stuff. [1597.0] Chad K: Cool. [1597.72] Jack: Frank, people want you to talk more. [1599.48] Jack: Ask a question. [1601.24] Frank: I'll ask a question when I come up with one. [1606.6] Chad K: So I was going to say, I was definitely heartbroken when Alex ditched us. [1616.44] Chad K: When you put it like that, it's the truth. [1620.36] Chad K: But I forgive you because my son now has a wonderful editing career. [1625.4] Chad K: And he has really blossomed. [1627.08] Chad K: I don't know if you watched our latest edit. [1629.24] Chad K: They did. [1630.52] Alex Edit: I was just talking about about my, you know, about him as an editor. [1635.4] Alex Edit: If I, there are some episodes that I've watched. [1638.28] Alex Edit: The dam being one of them that if I edited it, I would have ruined it. [1645.08] Alex Edit: I would have completely ruined it. [1649.64] Alex Edit: Because it was such a perfect amount of footage. [1654.2] Alex Edit: Such a perfect amount of everything. [1657.48] Jack: You know, it was, he had, he potentially had a beautiful [1663.48] Jack: chance to have an acting career and you've just lumbered him with editing. [1671.72] Tony: Yeah, but he's good. [1674.36] Tony: He's really good at it. [1678.92] Chad K: I've had a video production company since 1998 [1682.6] Chad K: and I've had a lot of very talented people come through. [1686.2] Chad K: And I absolutely don't want to insult any of my prior editors, but he is my son. [1690.84] Chad K: And I honestly think he is the most talented editor, especially at his age. [1699.48] Chad K: Of course, I'm biased, but he's 20. [1704.6] Chad K: But I can tell you, I see more comments about the editing on our episodes than anything. [1712.84] Chad K: So I'm a proud father, but if you guys haven't seen it, we just released a video called Drone. [1720.52] Jack: Yeah, it's an amazing title, by the way. [1724.92] Chad K: I mean, people were just, I was floored. [1727.96] Chad K: I watched, I was like, I knew, so Tommy and Christian and Drew were talking about putting [1733.64] Chad K: this highlight episode together and I was like, okay. [1737.8] Chad K: So I watched it for the first time and I was like, [1740.84] Chad K: what is, I was totally floored. [1743.72] Chad K: I didn't even know what was coming. [1745.48] Chad K: And I was like, this has feeling, emotions, story, depth. [1751.08] Chad K: I mean, it was so rich. [1753.32] Alex Edit: Yeah, I don't watch a lot of the episodes. [1757.64] Alex Edit: I mean, I get them on my notification and I watched that one. [1761.32] Alex Edit: And I was like, holy, that was just like, nothing had to be said. [1767.08] Alex Edit: You just felt it. [1768.12] Alex Edit: You just felt it. [1769.16] Alex Edit: And I think that when a video, when you watch a video that doesn't say anything [1773.96] Alex Edit: but says so much without saying words, that's good. [1778.44] Alex Edit: That's good content. [1780.2] Alex Edit: That's like deep content. [1781.8] Alex Edit: And I love that specific episode. [1783.72] Alex Edit: It was really good. [1784.76] Chad K: In this element that Alex and I are talking about is passion. [1788.52] Chad K: I think that's why I originally went to him. [1792.36] Chad K: And quite frankly, I wanted Alex on for the right because I felt like he was, [1797.32] Chad K: he was qualified in so many different ways. [1799.16] Chad K: He knew about drones. [1800.2] Chad K: He was very passionate. [1802.76] Chad K: He already had the background, the ability. [1805.48] Chad K: But in my mind, and I'm being serious when Alex stepped away. [1811.8] Chad K: I was, I was heartbroken. [1813.0] Chad K: I'm not kidding. [1813.72] Chad K: Like I felt like he was the best one for the job. [1818.52] Chad K: But it does go to show and nothing against you, Alex. [1821.48] Chad K: But when you have a passionate team, it finds a way. [1827.16] Chad K: Like the solution will find its way. [1830.28] Chad K: On it and you keep that passion alive and you just keep pressing. [1834.04] Chad K: Another solution will crop up that you never imagined or never thought could happen. [1838.44] Chad K: So I think that's a lesson. [1840.92] Alex Edit: But, you know, based on that, on that theme, there's a book that I cannot recommend enough. [1845.24] Alex Edit: It's called The Obstacle is the Way. [1847.24] Alex Edit: And it talks exactly about that. [1849.24] Alex Edit: When, when, when you hit a wall, when you're like the worst, [1853.8] Alex Edit: something really, really bad happens. [1856.52] Alex Edit: That's what's supposed to happen for you to find a way, figure out a way to get over that wall. [1862.04] Alex Edit: Because in a year or two years, three years, you're going to see that obstacle and you're [1866.76] Alex Edit: going to see where you are in that obstacle made. [1869.88] Alex Edit: You know, I mean, look at every everything that has happened in your life. [1873.0] Alex Edit: If you look back, I know a lot of people and myself and I know a lot of you guys [1878.44] Alex Edit: can say you look at either mistakes that you've made or bad things that have happened to you. [1883.24] Alex Edit: And then you see what, you know, how that made you who you are today. [1887.8] Alex Edit: You probably wouldn't change a lot of things, bad things that happened to you. [1891.56] Alex Edit: You, you would want to change them at the time that they happen. [1894.04] Alex Edit: But now looking back, you probably don't want to change them because they made you who you are today. [1898.28] (Editor): Yeah. [1898.68] Chad K: Yeah. I mean, I can say, I could say the last six months of Roto Riot was, [1903.32] Chad K: you know, some of our most challenging. [1905.08] Chad K: And I'd use the word testing. [1909.08] Chad K: Use the word what? [1910.2] Jack: Testing. [1911.56] Chad K: Yeah. [1914.84] Chad K: It's it's been, yeah, challenging. [1917.08] Chad K: And who has a really good attitude about that, too? [1921.24] Chad K: You know, just like, it's almost like double down. [1924.44] Chad K: Like you're going this way and you hit a big bump, it just double up and you just keep going. [1929.96] Chad K: And, you know, as long as you're sticking with now, obviously, if you get off base with your values, [1935.16] Chad K: like, you know, like the bridge dive was a big pivot point for us. [1938.84] Chad K: Because we had to really reflect on that, you know, say we're about inspiring. [1942.68] Chad K: We want to push for excellence. [1944.28] Chad K: We want to push limits. [1945.88] Chad K: But if it's attacking our values and our mission of educating and inspiring people [1954.52] Chad K: in a disrespectful way or, you know, less than cautious, which I don't want to get in all that. [1963.64] Chad K: You have to reflect on that. [1964.92] Chad K: You have to think about it. [1965.8] Chad K: And but you don't you don't wallow in it. [1968.28] Chad K: You don't you know, you correct and you move forward and you just keep moving forward. [1973.8] Chad K: And I love that we have a team that does that. [1977.0] Chad K: And, you know, a team that wants to help people, you know, through all that, [1982.28] Chad K: all of that comes, you know, things like quad camp, which has been. [1988.2] Chad K: And, you know, every weekend that we do a quad camp, the guys leave it on a natural high. [1994.92] Chad K: You know, they're just they're so energized. [1999.16] Chad K: Well, they're wore out by the time it's over. [2001.0] Chad K: But but in a really good way. [2003.16] Jack: And you mean natural because Bob Ginder says it's natural. [2009.24] Jack: Sorry, I just cried. [2011.96] Jack: I love. Sorry. [2013.64] Chad K: I there is another one like he's been he's been wonderful. [2021.96] Chad K: He's a purist. [2023.0] Chad K: You know what I mean? [2023.8] Jack: Like he just well, he doesn't use any tobacco. [2027.24] Jack: Is that what you mean? [2029.0] Chad K: Yeah, it's no green. [2031.48] Jack: No, it's all green. [2032.44] Alex Edit: It's all pure. [2033.96] Alex Edit: So he he learned that from Chad. [2036.84] Alex Edit: Everybody knows. [2039.8] Jack: I just I just want to point out someone someone in the chat said, [2043.64] Jack: Chad's got a 20 year old son. [2045.64] Jack: Yeah, he also used to be in the military as well. [2049.32] Chad K: Yeah, Marine Army Marine. [2051.48] Jack: Sorry, I do apologize. [2054.44] Tony: Sorry, I just bought some bottle grinder motors. [2058.52] Tony: They they made it to the UK. [2061.08] Chad K: You have them. [2061.8] Chad K: Yes. [2062.2] Chad K: You sent me a photo the other day. [2063.8] Tony: Yeah, man. [2066.52] Tony: They went to quadcopters.co.uk and I and I've just ordered them. [2070.76] Tony: They'll be arriving tomorrow. [2072.04] Tony: So I'm happy to have them. [2073.8] Chad K: Okay. [2074.28] Chad K: Okay. [2074.52] Chad K: You were asking me about them. [2075.64] Tony: Yeah, man. [2076.52] Alex Edit: I'm happy they're here. [2078.44] Alex Edit: Well, you know what? [2079.64] Alex Edit: I want to say I want to say something if I can about quad camp. [2083.08] Alex Edit: Quad camp, I think that's an idea that has been tried probably since I started [2090.52] Alex Edit: in the drone industry in 2011. [2094.68] Alex Edit: I have heard so many people. [2097.8] Alex Edit: Oh, and so, you know, we're going to have a warehouse where we're going to bring a bunch [2101.16] Alex Edit: of people and we're going to teach a bunch of people down the street of my office. [2105.72] Alex Edit: There was a guy that came here, a guy from a high school, actually, and he said, [2110.04] Alex Edit: yeah, and so we're going to bring all the kids and we're going to teach them. [2115.0] Alex Edit: I have never seen it work and you guys are making it work. [2119.08] Alex Edit: What is it about it? [2123.56] Chad K: Well, I think, okay, so this, I'm glad you brought that up because working in marketing, [2129.0] Chad K: this is something I run into all the time. [2130.84] Chad K: Everybody, so when you work in marketing, everybody brings you their ideas. [2135.32] Chad K: You know, I got this idea. [2136.28] Chad K: It's the best idea in the world. [2137.8] Chad K: But what they don't realize is you heard that idea 20 other times from 20 other people [2142.2] Chad K: that all thought they thought of it first. [2144.68] Chad K: And yeah, yeah, yeah. [2146.28] Chad K: The idea is, you know, I'm not, I don't want to mention ideas. [2149.88] Chad K: Ideas are great. [2151.88] Chad K: But that's only a piece of it without proper execution. [2158.04] Chad K: So let's just say 33% of it is the idea. [2160.84] Chad K: 33% is the execution. [2163.8] Chad K: The other 33% is adoption. [2166.92] Chad K: Like, are people going to adopt? [2168.84] Chad K: Are they going to use it? [2170.84] Chad K: And that piece isn't determined purely on the originality of the idea or purely on the execution. [2181.4] Chad K: It's a number of things. [2183.0] Chad K: And you have to have that recipe. [2186.2] Chad K: Correct. [2186.76] Chad K: And we were nervous. [2187.64] Chad K: Like, we know, you know, I was prepared. [2190.92] Chad K: We'd try it and it would fail. [2194.12] Chad K: But it didn't. [2195.4] Chad K: And it just keeps growing. [2196.76] Chad K: So we're happy. [2198.92] Alex Edit: And I, the one thing that I don't agree with what you're saying is, [2203.24] Alex Edit: I don't think that ideas are like 33% idea, 33% execution. [2209.48] Alex Edit: I think ideas, I like literally, by the time you have an idea, [2215.32] Alex Edit: there's at least 100 people that have had the same idea. [2218.28] Chad K: That doesn't mean the idea is bad, though. [2220.6] Chad K: No, no, no. [2221.16] Alex Edit: But to me, an idea by itself, I literally think it's absolutely just, [2226.44] Alex Edit: I think it's 90% execution, 10% idea. [2229.88] Alex Edit: You could have a really bad idea that's well executed. [2234.28] Alex Edit: Yeah, look at let's try now. [2235.48] Alex Edit: You could find the bad things of the idea and make it a good idea, [2239.96] Alex Edit: just with a good execution plan. [2243.32] Chad K: Well, what makes an idea good, though? [2245.56] Chad K: You said a bad idea. [2247.72] Chad K: Who says it's bad? [2251.0] Alex Edit: It's, I don't know. [2253.32] Alex Edit: To me, execution is, I put so much more weight on execution than on the idea. [2258.6] Alex Edit: Ideas are, they're cheap. [2260.36] Alex Edit: I mean, you're taking a shower and ideas. [2262.92] Alex Edit: Ideas are so easy and so cheap. [2265.72] Alex Edit: They, you know, you have thousands of ideas. [2269.16] Chad K: Okay, so I'm with you. [2271.0] Chad K: If what you're saying is ideas are plentiful, then yes, I agree. [2275.48] Chad K: But I don't think you can really rate an idea. [2280.97] Chad K: I think, I think your idea just needs to find its audience, [2283.85] Chad K: but it's not going to find its audience if it doesn't have some type of, [2287.21] Chad K: you know, execution that involves finding its audience. [2290.01] Alex Edit: So yeah, that's what I'm saying. [2291.37] Alex Edit: It's about execution. [2292.25] Jack: You guys are so philosophical about what is an idea. [2297.69] Alex Edit: I put most of the weight on the execution. [2301.13] Chad K: Well, I do, I do as well. [2305.21] Chad K: But a lot, most people don't. [2306.97] Chad K: And I'm very respectful of that because I'm, I'm not necessarily an idea. [2313.05] Chad K: I I'm a filter. [2314.41] Chad K: I find ideas that feel are worth investing in. [2318.41] Jack: Oh, no, but you keep people in your basement and with them to they make you content. [2324.49] Chad K: I mean, that's how I got made out. [2328.09] Chad K: Yeah, that's my process. [2329.77] Jack: And the only reason, you know, David got exported because you're jealous counterparts. [2335.13] Chad K: Well, I leased him to Jacko, whatever, you know, he's doing stuff on on his channel now. [2343.61] Chad K: Yeah, at last. [2345.05] Jack: I know he's been struggling a bit. [2347.21] Tony: That thumbnail man on his last video was like wicked. [2351.69] Jack: I can't believe I left him in my house. [2353.53] Jack: He's demented. [2355.21] Jack: He really is. [2356.65] Chad K: My own fire off you, Jack. [2358.73] Tony: Yeah, true. [2360.33] Jack: Yeah. [2361.13] Jack: Yeah. [2361.53] Tony: Oh, that's that you've got batteries lined up on your windowsill outside your house. [2366.73] Jack: Yeah, it doesn't matter if the outside burns. [2370.25] Jack: It's not renting. [2372.09] Andy: Is David still coming to mini air show? [2374.17] Andy: Do we know we might get a chance to meet him in the UK? [2376.81] Jack: Yeah, I think so. [2377.85] Jack: He's been here before that. [2379.77] Chad K: That'd be awesome. [2380.97] Jack: Yeah, I know. [2381.37] Jack: When are you going to come down? [2382.57] Chad K: You two were talking about we're just about Germany in May. [2392.57] Chad K: Someone else I can get that lined up. [2394.65] Chad K: Maybe we can through or something. [2397.21] Chad K: Yeah. [2397.45] Jack: And you're like literally flying over a slide. [2399.69] Jack: Oh, you thought if you looked at the, you know, the right, you like EU trip. [2406.09] Jack: There was 200 points that, you know, in there. [2409.45] Jack: Did you ever check that out? [2410.89] Tony: Then come to the it's better. [2416.17] Chad K: Well, we actually still quad camp. [2418.81] Chad K: That was London was like number one on the city's voted. [2422.17] Chad K: We did a poll both in Rotary and quad camp. [2425.77] Chad K: And London was like the top of both lists. [2429.37] Chad K: So we have to find a way to get out there. [2431.85] Tony: Yep. [2432.25] Jack: Wasn't too much granny porn. [2436.33] Jack: What the hell was going on in chat, man? [2439.29] Jack: The hell are we going to cut? [2442.17] Jack: Oh, yeah. [2443.37] Jack: No, no, no. [2444.01] Jack: I see. [2444.89] Jack: Whoops. [2445.53] Jack: Sorry. [2446.01] Andy: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. [2454.65] Jack: What it is is one of if anyone's wondering what the hell is going on, [2459.61] Jack: we've got a bonus podcast that we do every month and we were chatting [2463.85] Jack: like last week on our bonus part and [2466.33] Jack: No, yes. [2468.25] Jack: And one of one of Andy RC's followers was called finger banging granny in it or something like [2476.49] Jack: that. [2477.05] Andy: I like how you point the finger at me. [2480.09] Andy: I would not mention any of this. [2482.57] Jack: Yeah. [2482.89] Jack: So if you guys want a really good like after hours, you know, LDO, I will [2487.85] Jack: recommend going to our Patreon and giving three dollars minimum. [2495.13] Jack: And you too can learn about finger banging grannies. [2502.41] Jack: It's not. [2503.21] Jack: What am I getting accused of? [2504.49] Jack: I thought I'd done something wrong. [2505.61] Jack: Sorry. [2505.93] Chad K: I wouldn't normally say has nothing to do with what you just shared. [2511.69] Chad K: I have to get going. [2513.29] Frank: Yeah, if you need some space in London, we've just got a first floor at work. [2520.81] Frank: That's kind of mostly empty at the moment. [2522.97] Frank: So it's going to be used for events and workshops and things. [2526.89] Frank: So if you need a space, there's a space. [2528.89] Alex Edit: Oh, my gosh. [2529.93] Alex Edit: That's awesome. [2531.21] Alex Edit: Hey, Chad, before you go, what are you coming down to Florida to fly in the air? [2536.73] Chad K: Yeah, I don't know. [2537.77] Chad K: But I just got a text like two nights ago. [2541.45] Chad K: And now I'm going to be getting on a plane to China next Thursday. [2546.01] Chad K: So that's how quickly our schedules change and things happen. [2554.01] Chad K: But it's fun. [2555.61] Chad K: It's exciting. [2558.17] Chad K: But I love you guys. [2560.09] Chad K: Thanks for sending the link. [2562.01] Chad K: I had like five, 10 minutes. [2563.69] Chad K: I'm actually running late. [2566.01] Jack: All right, you know, message me, remind me, I'll send you a bonus part if you want. [2571.05] Jack: If you're traveling about and you want to listen to it. [2576.09] Chad K: Nice. [2579.69] Chad K: We'll put the word out. [2581.53] Chad K: If we can get enough resources together to make it happen in London, we'll be there. [2585.77] Chad K: I just, Kevin, run. [2587.61] Chad K: I can't run everything through him. [2589.69] Chad K: But yeah, we definitely want to get out there. [2593.53] Jack: There's a weekend spot you could run a quad camp from. [2597.93] Jack: I know from my friend. [2599.85] Chad K: Typically, you guys know, they're usually about 40 people. [2606.49] Chad K: And then we we try to cap it at 40 and then have a workshop space that you can fit everybody in. [2614.01] Chad K: But then also to fly ideally. [2618.01] Tony: We can easily do that easily. [2620.65] Chad K: Okay, good. [2621.77] Tony: Just like if you said we're coming over, we'd be able to sort out easily. [2626.89] Chad K: Awesome. [2627.53] Chad K: Okay. [2628.01] Chad K: Well, then the only thing we got to get sorted out then is the the plane tickets. [2632.25] Chad K: So so when we we figure that out, we can make all the finances work. [2636.73] Chad K: So we're not money. [2641.13] Chad K: So I'm sure it'll happen. [2644.89] Tony: Yeah, I look forward to it. [2646.25] Tony: I hope it will. [2647.37] Jack: Thank you. [2648.09] Chad K: All right. [2648.49] Chad K: Thank you, guys. [2649.85] Jack: Yeah, no, I've only got three really three more minutes before I have to go and set up. [2659.69] Tony: Let's ask Alex to give us a tour of his where he is at the moment. [2664.09] Alex Edit: Then saying that I haven't put any content. [2666.41] Alex Edit: I've been putting content actually more. [2670.73] Jack: Yeah, ignore Tony. [2672.73] Jack: What happened? [2673.53] Jack: This TV doesn't work. [2676.57] Tony: My TV license. [2677.85] Tony: What happened, Alex? [2679.53] Tony: I was subscribed to you. [2680.65] Tony: The last thing I saw was you a Chinese motor factory. [2685.69] Tony: And then I didn't see anything. [2686.97] Jack: You have to remember that Tony installed a webcam and race flight stopped working. [2702.25] Jack: Yeah, true. [2703.21] Alex Edit: Yeah, that's what I'm going to send you. [2706.17] Alex Edit: I'm going to send you the link to the channel. [2708.01] Alex Edit: The channel is the same. [2710.01] Jack: Can you put it in the comments? [2711.69] Tony: Like put it in the chat or I found it since I'm going to subscribe again in a minute. [2716.33] Tony: But I don't know why it was unsubscribed because it was Alex. [2721.29] Tony: The last thing I saw was Alex in showing us around China and motor factory. [2727.29] Alex Edit: Yeah, I'm actually going back to China. [2731.77] Alex Edit: I have a couple of things lined up that I'm going to go deeper into China [2739.13] Alex Edit: to show the manufacturing process of a drone, like even deeper. [2743.77] Alex Edit: Cool. [2744.17] Alex Edit: Tell the story. [2746.33] Alex Edit: I really, really want to tell that story. [2750.57] Jack: Don't you want to go to Canada first and watch them dig the minerals out of the earth? [2756.09] Alex Edit: I actually, you know, I do. [2759.13] Alex Edit: That's no joke. [2760.57] Jack: I don't think that would be good then. [2763.61] Jack: He wearing a dressing gown or a smoking jacket. [2767.21] Tony: It's only a smoking jacket if you turn your dressing gown inside out. [2771.93] Jack: I'm not doing a Joshua Bardwell, right? [2773.77] Jack: You know, it's such a I love. [2777.61] Jack: That's the one thing I stand about. [2780.17] Jack: Tony is I make a bizarre 90s TV reference and he understands it [2785.53] Jack: because he's been here since the end of time. [2788.25] Andy: Well, Alex, those videos really exploded though, didn't they? [2792.73] Andy: The China visit ones. [2794.65] Andy: I couldn't believe it. [2795.69] Andy: Like there was so much interest, wasn't there? [2798.33] Alex Edit: I really love them. [2800.97] Alex Edit: I really don't know how that happened. [2803.05] Alex Edit: Like there's one of the videos that's like 800,000 views. [2806.49] Alex Edit: I don't know. [2807.29] Andy: It's viral, I guess you would say. [2810.01] Tony: Zero says Elvis lives. [2815.21] Alex Edit: I'm sure that's. [2818.17] Alex Edit: You were joking about me going to Canada and seeing how they extracted. [2822.41] Alex Edit: That's actually what I want to do. [2824.09] Alex Edit: I want to tell the story like of a life or battery. [2826.97] Tony: That would be sweet. [2828.65] Jack: So you've got the reference, the lithium in thing. [2832.09] Alex Edit: No, I'm really proud of you and then they take it to China. [2836.33] Tony: Is it lithium growing from a like? [2840.25] Alex Edit: I have no I know it's. [2842.09] Alex Edit: It's. [2844.09] Tony: Jack Smackensley, but if you if you research, Jack, it will be from a light. [2850.25] Jack: Well, it's because it drags. [2854.25] Jack: You tend to find that the lakes drag minerals down because they do that with gold as well. [2860.09] Chad K: I wasn't wrong then. [2862.89] Jack: I know I can't really know. [2865.29] Jack: It's just sweet, sweet, really. [2869.21] Jack: You do risk becoming stranger parts. [2871.93] Jack: You know, that guy who made his own iPhone, you know, like that. [2876.73] Alex Edit: That's what I want to do. [2878.09] Jack: I actually did a good video of your own drone. [2881.29] Jack: Like what is different is a really crap idea. [2885.13] Jack: Well executed. [2886.41] Alex Edit: Go send it to me. [2888.41] Alex Edit: I'm in the process of doing something very, very similar. [2892.25] Alex Edit: And the I don't want to talk about it much yet because I'm still in the process of putting [2898.97] Alex Edit: it together. [2899.45] Alex Edit: But it's very, very similar. [2901.21] Alex Edit: But with a drone and I'm going to tell that story because I really I set up this year. [2908.33] Alex Edit: That's one of my goals this year was to tell that story. [2911.85] Alex Edit: And so I'm I'm planning on telling that that story. [2915.13] Tony: I'd like that. [2915.93] Tony: I've watched that. [2917.69] Alex Edit: Actually, I already have a couple of prototypes of what it is that I'm making. [2921.37] Alex Edit: So it's getting closer and closer. [2924.33] Andy: Sweet. [2925.53] Andy: A question I wanted to ask you, Alex, is I noticed that in a lot of the general aviation [2931.45] Andy: videos you do you have to do a lot of captions. [2935.53] Andy: And I think is that because like the FAA are out there hunting for mistakes and videos. [2941.61] Andy: I notice you'll you'll put like a little comment up that says I cut out the part where I turn [2946.73] Andy: the beacon on or like, you know, the full air traffic control has been cut out just [2954.09] Andy: for editing purposes. [2956.01] Andy: Is that something you've got you worry about? [2959.85] Alex Edit: I'm just I'm just putting those comments, you know, those those captions ahead of the [2965.05] Alex Edit: comments. [2965.45] Alex Edit: Right. [2965.69] Alex Edit: Because when you're flying, it's there are a lot of procedures that you have to follow [2970.81] Alex Edit: a lot of different procedures. [2972.81] Alex Edit: And so if I put all the procedures, the video is going to be an hour. [2979.45] Alex Edit: I mean, anything could be an hour and two hours. [2982.17] Alex Edit: And so I have to sit there in the edit room and think, OK, what what I'm going to cut out. [2987.85] Alex Edit: And so to jump ahead of the of the pilots that are watching that might say, oh, well, [2992.73] Alex Edit: he didn't do this and he didn't do that. [2994.97] Alex Edit: I just want to put that in there so that they know that I did do it. [2998.41] Alex Edit: But I'm cutting it out for, you know, to make to for the video to be able to be 15 [3003.93] Alex Edit: minutes. [3004.49] Andy: So it's not it's not for the FAA purpose, because I hear like rumors that they just [3011.37] Andy: sit there and try and, you know, find people from videos and stuff. [3015.53] Andy: So it's not really about that. [3016.81] Andy: It's about making the video shorter. [3018.97] Alex Edit: It's about making the video shorter. [3020.81] Alex Edit: I don't know. [3023.93] Alex Edit: I do that. [3025.21] Alex Edit: I know that I, you know, I'm very when it comes to aviation, this has actually changed [3030.65] Alex Edit: the person that I am. [3031.93] Alex Edit: It's it has changed me. [3034.09] Alex Edit: I'm a lot more organized. [3035.69] Alex Edit: I'm a lot more careful and I'm a lot more I pay a lot more attention to details because [3042.33] Alex Edit: when you're in an airplane, you can't miss things. [3044.73] Alex Edit: You can't be making mistakes. [3047.05] Alex Edit: You can't, you know, I mean, I'm editing a video right now where, you know, I'm having [3052.97] Alex Edit: a hard time editing this video because right now I have it in an hour and I want to cut [3057.37] Alex Edit: it down to like 12 minutes. [3058.97] Alex Edit: And I don't know what to call because everything is good. [3061.37] Alex Edit: Everything important. [3062.33] Alex Edit: I make that I want to watch. [3065.13] Alex Edit: So if by a lot of pilot videos out there, so I as I'm watching a video, I wish I would [3072.01] Alex Edit: see there are things that I wish I would see. [3074.89] Alex Edit: And so that's the way that I'm making my videos. [3077.93] Tony: I'm seeing I'm seeing a transition, though, like people used to only watch a couple of [3084.97] Tony: minutes of YouTube and then switch off and find something else. [3087.85] Tony: But gradually, I think people are turning off their TVs and choosing what they want [3092.89] Tony: to watch like me and would rather watch an hour's worth of content that you can actually [3101.13] Tony: pick rather than getting sent to you. [3104.41] Tony: You watch this. [3106.41] Tony: So you can pause it. [3107.85] (Editor): You can come back to it. [3108.81] Tony: Yeah, exactly. [3109.61] Tony: I'd rather watch the hour of something that I choose to than two minutes of something. [3114.73] Tony: Like if one of my mates posted a video of them flying for 10 minutes, chatting for [3119.21] Tony: 10 minutes, I'd rather watch that than two minutes of bloody news. [3123.05] (Editor): Yeah. [3123.45] (Editor): Alex, have you seen any of the Tucker got stuff? [3125.93] (Editor): What do you think about him and his flying exploits? [3128.73] Alex Edit: Oh, my God, I actually made him a couple of months ago. [3132.01] Alex Edit: His stuff is absolutely insane. [3134.81] Alex Edit: I have I've always liked fire gliding, but his videos made me want to get a wing. [3142.41] Alex Edit: And so I'm actually I'm friends with a lot of the guys here in South Florida that fly [3146.41] Alex Edit: fire gliders. [3147.45] Alex Edit: And I I've actually I'm just going to say I'm planning a video with a guy, a formation [3155.93] Alex Edit: of him and his fire fighter and me and airplane. [3158.81] Jack: Wow. [3160.25] Alex Edit: It takes a lot of planning because we have to be really, really safe. [3163.77] Alex Edit: And we got to fly to an area where there's not a lot of traffic. [3168.57] Jack: Guys, I am really sorry. [3170.57] Jack: I got to stop you there. [3171.69] Jack: I've got to go. [3172.73] Jack: So you could either stay and text me and let me know when you want me to cut you off or [3178.81] Jack: I can. [3179.29] Jack: We can finish up now. [3180.33] Andy: Well, we're at the hour plane, aren't we? [3181.93] Andy: So yeah, we cut it off anyways. [3184.89] Jack: Yep. [3185.77] Jack: All right, guys, we will put guys in the link tonight. [3192.17] Jack: You've been joined by Andrew Frank. [3194.89] Jack: Good night. [3197.29] Jack: Andy. [3198.73] Jack: Hi, everyone. [3200.25] Jack: Ash from Joining On. [3202.01] Jack: Hello. [3202.49] Jack: Goodbye. [3203.29] Jack: A lovely guest. [3204.33] Jack: Alex, I really enjoyed talking to you and talking to you beforehand a couple of months ago. [3210.41] Jack: And everyone subscribe to flies district and my faithful lesbian lover. [3219.21] Tony: I actually am a lesbian. [3221.77] Jack: Bonjour. [3226.09] Jack: Tony. [3227.53] Jack: Oh, Tony start on YouTube. [3229.53] Jack: Don't know why I thought, you know, and I've been bright until I fly. [3233.61] Jack: And you've been watching and listening to Let's Drone Out. [3236.89] Jack: Please like, subscribe. [3239.53] Jack: Yeah. [3240.49] Jack: And maybe donate a dollar on the Patreon just so you're a mod and then you can tell us. [3245.61] Jack: Go fast in the eye. [3248.73] Jack: Good night. [3250.17] Jack: Bye. [3250.65] Jack: Bye. [3251.13] Chad K: Bye. [3251.61] Chad K: Telemetry loss.