[Toria:] Hi, I'm Toria at the Hongqiau Railway Station in Shanghai,
and this is WhatImDoingRightNow.
[ Mechanism whirring ]
[Michael Aranda:] Good morning.
I haven't looked at my schedule yet today,
but I know for sure that I've got an episode of Crash Course…
Physics to finish.
And then of course, there is episode two of Kate Tectonics
that is taking forever!
Though I think I've got an episode of SciShow Kids due tomorrow…
So should I work on that?
Or work on Kate Tectonics?
I don't know.
I'll feel it out in the moment.
Lookit that dog stickin' his head out of the car!
Sniffin' the cold air!
[Michael:] Nick bought himself a new car.
It's a Dodge Challenger.
Joinin' back up with the, uh, the muscle car family.
[Nick Jenkins:] Indeed. [Michael:] It's got just some buttons…
It tells you the time on that thing…
It's got a glove compartment…
There's some dog hair…
[Nick:] Oh yeah!
[Michael:] And it says "Dodge" right there!
What else do ya need?
It's got some nice rumble-bumble.
[Nick:] It does have some nice rumble-bumble.
So this is a 2014 Dodge Challenger.
It is…
Big.
[Michael:] Was it… new when you bought it?
[Nick:] Nope. No, it was used.
[Michael:] That's a short amount of time for someone to use a car.
[Nick:] I know! Unless you're me. [Michael:] (Resigned) Meh.
[ Nick chuckles ] That's true.
[ Nick laughs ]
[Michael:] Is there… something in this?
That's really… thick.
[Nick:] So you know how you can flip 'em so…
th— the high beams behind you don't hurt?
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Nick:] This is a powered one.
It works!
It like, senses…
Stuff.
[ They laugh ]
[Michael:] Far and away the best feature of this car
is that the uh, fuel intake area says, "fuel."
[Nick:] "Fuel!"
Just in case you wanted to know.
[Michael:] So you don't get confused,
and, like, put chocolate milk in there or something.
[ Engine revving ]
[Michael:] I like that you can hear the engine, but…
it's much quieter in the cabin than it is in my car driving down the freeway.
This feels like you could— You could go on a long road trip…
without it f***ing up your eardrums.
[ Nick chuckles ]
[Nick:] I would be interested to know…
'Cause like I just got a ride in your car the other day, on the freeway,
and I hadn't been in it in a while, and I— I…
I had been in it since the exhaust—
I was impressed at how…
Intense that sound was.
[Michael:] It's…
Okay if you can stay at…
Like, 80 and above, drone just kinda goes away.
[Nick:] Oh, okay.
[Michael:] But below that, it is very intense.
Especially when you're in the…
65 mile-per-hour range, that's its peak.
A couple hours with that, and your ears are ringin' for a while after you get outta the car.
It's better now that I got the rear differential changed,
because it moved the peak of the drone from about 80 to about 65,
but before that it— it was...
pretty annoying.
[ Nick laughs ]
[Michael:] I have gone into that Blue Ribbon place
and asked how much it would cost for them to
take out all the paneling
and then put in more sound insulation.
They were gonna charge me about $600 to do that.
Maybe that's worth it? I don't know.
[Nick:] I'm considering a different exhaust for this.
Mainly because the around-town stuff
is where the drone hits this thing.
But like, I don't have to raise my voice to talk to you, like…
It's pretty easy, and it's—
I love these seats, these seats are so comfortable!
And they're heated. [Michael:] Mmm!
[Nick:] I've never had a car with heated seats before. [Michael:] Good for winter!
[Nick:] Yeah!
[ Dance music ]
[Michael:] It's lunchtime…
And i'm about to be on my way
to Chipotle to meet up with a fellow YouTuber
that I've never met before.
Her name is Allie Knight, and she's a trucker,
and I recently found out that she...
moved into the same apartment complex that I live in.
She's got a pretty big following, she does videos where she
vlogs from inside of her cab, as she's hauling stuff around the United States…
Sometimes she intercuts it with stuff where she's narrating at home
to kind of give additional context to what's happening,
and there's a lot of time lapse footage of just traveling down the open road.
Which, as you guys know, I definitely have a thing for that.
So I'm really interested to talk to her about how she got involved with YouTube,
and what she plans on doing with it in the future,
and also how she approaches filming long distance journeys the way that she does, because
that's something that I would be really interested in doing more of in the future.
You guys always really enjoy the road trip videos that I do,
and I wanna learn more about how I can
make those journeys more fun for you guys.
That sort of makes me think about a conversation that I was having with Tyler yesterday
about the approach to editing these daily videos.
He was asking if we're going for a more realistic view of what happened on a certain day,
are we just trying to document life the way that it happened exactly?
Or are we massaging it to some extent, to create a narrative?
And the way that I see this daily vlog project, I'm seeking to communicate to you, the audience at home,
how it felt…
I'm not exactly seeking to communicate to the audience exactly what happened in actuality,
but rather I'm seeking to communicate how it felt to me...
to experience what happened.
So very often when we have conversations between people in this daily vlog,
it's a very highly compressed version of what happened.
I'm not just sticking the whole conversation in there unedited,
we're cutting out pauses between people's words...
I'm sure in the editing process of this car ride right now,
there's a lot of empty space that's getting cut out.
Because when I think back to those conversations,
or when I think back about this car ride,
I'm not gonna remember all of those pauses.
I'm just gonna remember what the general gist of the conversation was.
So that's the kind of thing that I'm seeking to communicate through these videos.
When I think back to long road trips…
I don't remember how it felt to sit in the car for 12 hours straight,
I mostly remember the interesting things that I saw along the way,
and the general feeling of being out on the open road,
which is why I'm not gonna upload a video 12 hours straight of me just driving,
but rather, I'm gonna deliver to you a time lapse,
or a series of clips, a montage set to some music or something like that.
Because that more closely recreates how it felt to me to experience that road trip.
[ Dance music ]
[Michael:] So I haven't seen you in about 12 hours.
In that time, I had lunch with Allie Knight, it was really nice...
I'm really excited about working with her in the future on videos,
and then we talked about me potentially tagging along when she has to do, uh,
some truck delivery stuff, and I think that would be really exciting.
I then finished up Crash Course and SciShow stuff for the day,
we then had dinner… bar-drinky thing for…
Uh, we were celebrating the end of the Crash Course Physics shoots...
So it's uh Shini Somara's last day in Missoula,
Nick has worked for Complexly for five years,
and it was also Marie Ann's birthday.
Marie Ann is, uh, Hank's assistant.
All of that was the cause for celebration...
I ate a burger. While I was there.
It was this weird sort of bar restaurant thing that I actually didn't know existed in Missoula
and it's really close to both of my offices.
But after that I went to the Synema Studios office and worked on the vlog
in which we traveled to Holland Lake,
and then I played Planet Coaster on Steam, which came out today,
played for probably an hour while I waited for that video to render,
and now I'm going home.
Might be wondering, "Why didn't you film any of that?"
That's because after I finished lunch with Allie Knight,
I forgot this phone-slash-camera thing…
I left it on my desk at Complexly.
So I just didn't film anything until after I was done with everything,
and I went back and got my phone.
And now it's 12:30 at night.
I'm sleepy, I'm getting to bed two-and-a-half hours later than I wanted to,
but hopefully… you know, I can still get seven-and-a-half hours of sleep…?
That's not too bad.
[Michael:] Planet Coaster, if you haven't played it yet, is pretty fun.
You could spend… hours and hours just working on one single coaster.
Probably my single biggest…
I don't know if regret is the right word.
But my—my single biggest complaint, maybe,
about being an adult
is that there's just not enough time…
for video games!
[ Uplifting music ]
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