Gratitude to Kevin / Buried On Mars for helping me get started with Streamyard. Thanks to the insightful Mr. Mars, and thanks to the perseverance of Mr. Books, today we accomplished a few goals:
- Successfully test streamed with the one and only Aaron of the KMA on board, full video and audio, for the first time ever.
- Added a third participant. The test volunteer today was the awesome Sarca from Caught Me Gaming!
- Cleared up some other issues when streaming with a co-host, such as mirrored images and working from a PC.
This test stream went on for an hour as our impromptu chat developed. We talked music, guitars, the Community, Covid, school, Paul Rudd, and Skip the Dishes. This little unofficial bonus episode is now available for you to watch below. But the significance is huge to me. Now I can have up to five additional co-hosts on future shows. The game has changed. The sky is the limit!
VOTE:
Does Aaron look like Paul Rudd?
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Interesting polling bias there, dude. Two Yes options and one No? Hmmmm…
Anyway, I don’t see it. But if folks say it’s true, then I’d say he looks like me more than I look like him.
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No, you don’t look like him. Paul’s got too much hair (read any).
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I mean it only in the nicest way possible, I like Paul Rudd a lot and I like you a lot too, so perhaps my bias is seeing two guys I like a lot.
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D’aw. I did go look him up and I said oh yeah, that guy!
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I hit Like on this because I am in it
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I say Bruce Willis.
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Hopefully young muscular movie star Bruce Willis haha!
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Bruce Willis circa his album The Return of Bruno.
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I have that one! True story!
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May I, take your order? Comin’ right up! Hilarious.
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It was a ton of fun!
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Absolutely! Let’s do this again!
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It was a lot of fun! And we will do it again! Deke and I are cooking up ideas and they are inclusive ideas.
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I think the Yeses may have split the vote.
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Kanye made me do it.
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He would!
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I think the more prudent question is: does Paul Rudd look like KMA with hair?
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A very good point Harrison.
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Dude I just noticed, that thumbnail of me on the video looks like I’m playing Head & Shoulders, Knees & Toes. Very professional-looking!
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So I scanned through the whole video basically looking for good moments to freeze frame for the top photo (with the cat). And my impression from that was “Wow, Aaron is so expressive. He is doing something interesting with his hands or face in almost every frame.” True story. Anyway again I am just throwing down compliments. I had a lot of fun with this and when we get back to doing a regular “scripted” / “themed” show, I can’t wait to get your face on there.
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Well I suppose I’ve always been animated… wee bit of energy, eh? Ha. But absolutely, looking forward to the next one!
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This is awesome! Sound is great, video looks great. This could make things even more interesting!! I have a large cardboard box full of wires
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Thank you John! I am very glad Kevin suggested this. And to finally have Aaron on the show is amazing.
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Seems like a great guy! There was a massive glare of his head though!! :-) Kidding!
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That was just the flow of his brilliance.
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Cardboard box works too!
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This is great, Mike. I’m intrigued.
And a big Hi to Aaron and Sarca too.
(Must be seeing the faces that invites this!)
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Hi!
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I dipped into your chat. This is great! Is it like streaming a Zoom conference to youtube in real time? Is that it?
-Bruce
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Well Bruce since Covid started I’ve been live streaming every week on Facebook Live, just to help keep people connected. Early on it became clear people wanted me to talk about music and I eventually figured out to stream with other people — and that catches us up to yesterday, when I started using Streamyard. It’s like a Zoom chat that I stream directly to Facebook. Starting next week I’ll be using Streamyard. First co-hosts lined up are Aaron and Deke and we are hammering out our theme. Some of the most popular shows have been list-based so next week we will be returning to that format with a music list. This all happens at, unfortunately, about 7 AM your time on Saturdays.
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Great effort Mike. Although I’m not often up that early on a Saturday, I imagine one can catch the fun on youtube any time?
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You went to Australia? You should have told me you were coming.
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He’s from Australia.
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Yes always uploaded to YouTube after.
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