last month I missed February favorite so
today I'm recording February and marches
favorites I'm gonna need to get a beer I
was gonna put it off a little bit more
not the beer shooting the video but I
was like you know what I need to shoot
today
today's towards the end of March and I
kind of want to be a little bit more on
schedule so let me grab a beer from the
kegerator real quick
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whoa whoa that's a lot of foam this are
just a little over carbonated here and
while we are waiting we're gonna be
drinking the Red Room IPA it's a red IPA
from one of my favorite breweries around
here my friends at boson Brewing made
really good beer I usually have one of
their beers on tap in my place and you
have six they're usually mostly my own
beer I have one commercial tap on here
it's pretty good funny thing I was about
the next day and my neighbor came over
and knocked on the door we talked for a
few minutes and then it was dinner time
so I didn't have a chance to shoot the
video last night so we're shooting it
today so let's sit down and talk about
it I have a couple categories to talk
about for my favorite things this month
and actually I'm gonna refer to it and
use it the whole time so I'm going to
talk about Trello just for a second I
can just show you what I have going on
so I use Trello and I have been using
Trello a little bit more here recently
in that my assistant and I are using
Trello to help manage the content for
the YouTube channel so I actually have
my notes right here and my Trello app
and I can get to it easily on my phone
so if I think of something say when I'm
at the gym I could type it in or if I'm
at my desk
there's a web app so Trello is awesome
and it's a nice way I could actually
explain a little bit on how I'm using it
if people are interested leave a comment
if you want to see how I'm using Trello
and how the team is using Trello to
manage my content so I could show more
on that if you're interested so just let
me know leave a comment let me know what
you want to see on the Trello side but I
use trouble for a lot of different
things and there are a lot of tools it
you can use but for me Trello seems to
be like the easiest to show other people
how to use it for example Mackenzie my
assistant is using Trello with me on
this YouTube content and she literally
got no instructions for me I just said
we're gonna start using Trello have a
look around and you know once you poke
around a bit you'll figure it out
I'll go over some stuff later and there
essentially no learning curve really
straightforward so Trello is awesome
couple other apps have been using a lot
is calm that's a meditation app and I
have been meditating every day for like
I think about a hundred days so I
started in December and some days are
you know a longer period than others
I've been using calm for my guided
meditation and again I'm using it like
90% of the time or so for keyword
research I have been testing out other
tools and using other tools just to see
how they how they are I know a lot of
times there are updates to tools so
tools that I didn't like in the past or
sometimes better but currently I am
using SEMRush quite a lot so there's an
affiliate link below if you're
interested in getting a trial I'm using
H ref a lot as well but not as much for
keyword research but more for backlink
checking so another good app from an SEO
standpoint and finally the last app or
tool that I'll mention is zapier and
zapier is a web tool that allows you to
link up different apps zapier is a
really convenient way to interface
different apps that don't have any
communication channel but I guess zapier
ties together the api's and they're able
to work together so for me I've been
using a lot of zaps as they call them to
link up like YouTube videos with you
know Facebook so if I publish something
on YouTube it'll be shared on Facebook
automatically so I don't have to
anything extra additionally when my
editor finishes editing a video she'll
move it to a specific folder in Google
Drive and zapier zapier detects when the
file is placed in the folder and then
it'll automatically upload it to YouTube
I don't have to take that step anymore
there's a lot of other stuff you could
do I mean there's almost an unlimited
number of things that you can do with
zapier because you can interface it with
multiple different apps at the same time
it's been super useful and it's a great
way to save time for things you know
you're gonna do over and over again
where you don't need to specifically
check or you don't want to do things
manually if you can
move data automatically it saves a lot
of time so food and drink I have been
making kombucha at home so if you're
unfamiliar with kombucha it is fermented
tea basically so it's fermented tea and
I got into it because I didn't drink any
alcohol in January of this year and I
wanted to drink other stuff because I
brew beer I'm comfortable and I enjoy
fermenting beverages and I have friends
who make kombucha so I asked for a
Scobie if you're interested in knowing
more about kombucha let me know in the
comments and actually if you just search
or things on YouTube you'll probably
find all sorts of information about
kombucha but it tastes like you know
kind of a tea beverage with a little bit
of vinegar there's some acidity in there
they say it's quite healthy because it
has live cultures in there and it looks
kind of gross actually let me go show
you real quick so cabbage actually like
I said it looks a little gross
looks like snotty and slimy it actually
feels really weird this part up here is
called a Scobie it's a symbiotic culture
of bacteria and yeast Scobie that's
right yeah so it's a clever name and
yeah literally does look like kind of
nasty but it's fermented tea and it
tastes pretty good so if you haven't
tried it before
ignore what it looks like please it
actually tastes pretty good so give it a
shot you can buy it at the store
so with kombucha you can make like
different flavors so I've put berries
and some I put ginger and lemon and
others sometimes you just drink it plain
but it's a versatile drink and it's been
interesting to make that it's a lot
faster to make than beer it's literally
like making sweet tea and then putting
the scoby into a big jar sanitation is
important but not nearly as important as
it is with beer so kombucha has been fun
I've been drinking coffee a ton of
coffee I love coffee I drink it a lot
anyway every now and then I'll like
roast my own beans so I don't know if
people are into that but I've actually
you know purchased some green coffee
beans and then you could you know just
roast them at home so it's pretty easy
and you get like the freshest coffee and
you get really high quality beans
we're a fraction of the price you know
I'm paying maybe five to seven dollars
per pound and then I could roast it at
home it's like premium kind of beans so
really good and really fresh so I'll
roast the beans one day and then I'll be
drinking the coffee like 24 hours later
so pretty cool
enjoy roasting the coffee and I enjoy
like really fresh coffee so it's been
awesome and for beer I do drink and my
fair share of beers well I have really
enjoyed triples lately so I like that
style be are like Belgian beers a lot
and I started getting war triples in the
last couple weeks I just really enjoyed
drinking them so if you're unfamiliar
with the triple it's a Belgian style
beer usually they'll call it like
there's some Trappist breweries and some
ABI type breweries but usually it's just
a light-colored beer it's typically
about like 8 to 10 percent alcohol or so
so a little bit higher alcohol but light
in color light body and has a nice spicy
sometimes fruity flavor I love them I've
been getting a new Belgian Tripel
here in the last couple weeks it's you
know readily available around here and
like I said I really enjoy them so I've
been having you know a few of those a
week and now I'll talk about some tech
gear gadgets so I got a new camera it's
called a Yi that's why I so it's a Yi 4k
action camera I never thought I would
like need or want an action camera but
as I am shooting more videos and seeing
you know the capabilities of these super
small cameras I was like well I think
I'm gonna check one out the Yi is it's a
fairly high quality comparable I hear
too like a GoPro but it's a fraction of
the price I got one of those and it was
great to shoot like in-car footage so I
went down to visit some friends in
Denver about a 12 hour drive and I just
I mounted the camera inside my car so I
was able to get like you know while I
was driving I was just able to like hit
record really easily have my hands on
the wheel and have some interesting time
lapse additionally I got this
like a selfie stick with a gimbal on
there and the gimbal keeps it level
keeps it stable so if your
you know moving around if I would say
went to go for a jog or something and
wanted to film some stuff for whatever
reason maybe I have a dog Georgie with
me something like that I could use the
selfie stick with the gimbal and the Yi
4k camera and get pretty good footage
additionally it's just kind of fun to
have a huge wide-angle camera and like
cannot have to carry around a larger you
know DSLR which is what I'm filming on
now other tech stuff it's been working
out well is lights so when I first
started shooting more YouTube videos the
lighting was really terrible and lights
aren't particularly expensive in fact
the lighting kit that I got was only I
think was like 60 or 70 dollars or so
you know that comes with a carrying case
it comes with bulbs I think it's a 700
or 800 watts set of lights so each of
the bulbs is you know roughly 400 watts
their fluorescence so it's not actually
like 400 watts like pull through the the
cord or anything it's it's a much
smaller like real wattage but anyway
they're bright and it really helps the
image quality so turns out right now I'm
actually in front of a window is just
bright right now but the interesting
thing is when I was filming and shooting
video before I didn't have any
consistency so if I didn't film at the
right time of day I was like struggling
to get things bright enough and
sometimes I would just have to not shoot
any video cuz it wasn't bright enough
but now with a light kit that I have
it's just it's very bright I can make it
consistent now if I have the opportunity
to get in front of a window like I am
right now I'll usually do that even
though it hopefully it's not too bright
right now but it's great to have like
the natural lighting and coming through
a window it's not so direct it's sort of
reflecting in and it's it's fairly good
lighting so I'll do this if I can but
these big lighting kits I mean they're
they're nice they're really consistent
and they're relatively inexpensive for
how well they work so I have sort of a
like the upside down umbrella kind of
reflectors that maybe you remember from
when you go to like a portrait studio
they'll have those sort of big lights
additionally have a lighting
that it's a called newer and it's I
think it's like a hundred and sixty LEDs
and it will actually fit on top of the
camera so I haven't been using it as
much I have a mic on top of the camera
right now but I'll often use that
smaller 160 LED lighting kit on my desk
right so if I'm doing a livestream a lot
of times I'll I'll put that on my desk
to get a little bit more even lighting
and again it's improved the quality a
ton in fact a lot of people were asking
you know once I started shooting better
video better quality video what I was
using what camera was it well it turns
out a lot of it I could credit the
lighting kit so by having a good bright
lighting that helped and then it's the
lens that I have here which is actually
a it's a Canon EF 24 millimeter F 2.8
STM lens very small it blurs the
background the bokeh as they call it so
it blurs the background and it's
actually decent for relatively low
lighting as well so it's not a zoom lens
but it provides you know really sharp
images and it's small and relatively
inexpensive next we'll talk about a
couple TV shows that have been watching
so my wife and I finally got into the
Netflix series making a murderer so it's
like a real crime documentary style
series these are like real hour-long
episodes sometimes over an hour so it's
an hour-long episode there's ten of them
I will tell you anything about the show
in case you haven't watched it before
it's very intense it is a you know real
crime documentary so it gets pretty you
know sort of emotional and heated we
were really invested in it and we
usually binge watch stuff if we have the
ability to but we're you know we won't
watch like five episodes at a time we'll
usually watch like one episode a day
consecutively but it's rare when we like
to do that every day this making a
murderer series we watched like the
whole series in like eight days or
something seven eight days so there were
a couple days where we watched two
episodes in a row which is kind of a lot
for us we usually don't sit and watch
like two hours of TV but we would
that great storytelling crazy story in
general and again I will mention a thing
no one spoil anything in the comments
but let me know if you watched it the
other show that we are watching is
Seinfeld I've seen a lot of Seinfeld
episodes but I never watched from like
episode 1 like throughout so I've seen
him in syndication I've seen him
probably the majority of the episodes
but never in order
we bought Hulu which actually has
Seinfeld on there now so we we started
with the first episode thing we're on
like season 4 right now but we're going
through and it's pretty awesome to see
it all together
I'm learning a lot of learning a lot by
watching a Seinfeld so pretty funny show
let me know if you're a fan of Seinfeld
I mean there are so many like popular
culture references from Seinfeld I
definitely didn't watch it when it was
on TV like live in the 90s I did watch
the syndication but it's exciting to
watch it from the beginning all the way
going a little deeper on entertainment I
have been watching you know YouTube like
I do one thing that I finally upgraded
is YouTube red I wasn't a paid YouTube
red subscriber and I just started doing
it and I have to say it's pretty awesome
because you get music right so you have
like a music app that you could download
and I didn't have a music app previously
I've gone up and down with Pandora to
Spotify and I've had periods where I've
used each of those but I was kind of in
a lull and I didn't want to pay like
just for Spotify at this point in time
so turns out YouTube bread is great they
have some original shows they have the
music app of course and if you're just
watching regular YouTube videos which I
do a lot I probably watch 3040 minutes a
day at least
sometimes more you don't have to watch
commercials then so just plays the shows
and it's great let me know if you use
YouTube red just curious how many people
out there are users of YouTube red again
I find them the music app pretty cool
and a lot of times I'll just I'll turn
off the videos play the music and then
I'll just have music going on
which is great it seems like the
algorithm for the music app is pretty
good so if you like you know if you
thumbs up the music videos that you like
it has a pretty good idea of the kind of
music you like and what other people
like tons of data available for YouTube
so they make good recommendations and I
find like the playlist just like the
regular playlist for certain songs are
pretty solid and I like listening to
them and the last thing I'll mention
this is not really a favorite thing but
it's something that I've been dealing
with over the last few weeks and that is
my crawlspace so we had record snow here
in Bozeman this year so I'm told
so there was a lot of snow and a lot of
this snow melted in the last like few
weeks
so our crawlspace flooded in fact most
of our neighbors around us their
crawlspace flooded too so we have what
they call sump pumps that sort of gets a
reservoir or pools a reservoir of water
down there you put the pump in this
reservoir and it pumps it out right it
gets it out of the crawlspace the
problem is so much snow melted in a
short amount of time and the ground was
saturated already our pumps couldn't
keep up so even with our pumps pumping
water out a lot of people had flooding
in their crawl spaces we had flooding in
the crawl space it was very close for
our furnace our furnace is down in the
crawl space the water got within inches
of the furnace and it would have been
very expensive if the furnace got wet
that would not be a good thing as it
stands a lot of stuff did get wet down
there so I was actually crawling around
trudging around in several inches of
water as I was trying to you know pump
water out one of our pumps dydz we had
had to replace a pump and then the new
one died and there were a lot of issues
so not a favorite thing but it is cool
now that I think we're out of the water
now so to speak I mean it actually just
snowed today but I think our pump is
oversized enough that we can pump enough
water so even if we have like a lot of
rain or snow I think we're in good shape
those are my favorites let me know if
you are fans of any of the things that I
mentioned you know what beers are you
drinking that's what I want to hear
about what beers are you drinking I know
weather is different all over you know
if you're down further south it's
probably warmer you're getting into
some springtime beers here it's still a
little chilly there's literally a few
inches of snow that just came down today
but let me know in the comments what
kind of beer do you enjoy this time of
year thanks
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