How to RECOVER your ZOOM VIDEO FILES: double click to convert error message on Mac and Macbook Pro

How to recover Zoom call video files, if they haven't converted after the meeting has ended.
If you have a folder containing files called double_click_to_convert_01.zoom
and they don't convert when you double click on them, here is how I recovered my Zoom meeting video files on my Macbook Pro, so it might work on your Apple mac, ipad or who knows, maybe even Windows 10.

How to RECOVER your ZOOM VIDEO FILES: double click to convert error message on Mac and Macbook Pro



Knowing you've recovered your files is reward enough!
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0:00 Intro I've got a folder of Zoom recordings but they won't play
1:10 What to do when you get the error message: The document double_click_to_convert_01.zoom could not be opened. zoom.us cannot open files of this type.
2:50 How to recover video recordings from a Zoom generated folder, which contains files called double_click_to_convert_01.zoom
6:30 How to convert files from a Zoom call recording

Start a new Zoom meeting: hit record then press stop recording
You get the message "The recorded file will be converted to mp4 when the meeting ends"
DO NOT CLICK END MEETING or LEAVE MEETING!
Open the new recording folder for this call, and delete the "double click to convert" files in there.
Copy over the files you want to recover into THIS new folder.
End the Zoom Call, click Leave Meeting
Zoom then converts the video files (and audio files) you need in this new folder and will give you a progress bar.
Your recovered video and audio files will appear in this new folder.

TRANSCRIPT: (CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE)

Hello welcome back to the Happy Hut, I'm Neil and usually I'm a development producer.
I try to encourage as many people as possible to make youtube videos but this video is very specific - and if you've had to search this I'm so sorry that you're in this situation
It's a beautiful day out here except it isn't because you have gone on to Zoom, like me, and had a very long conversation - very long zoom call - and you've gone to get the recording in the recording folder on your computer and the recording isn't there.
Let me show you what it looks like.

THIS IS THE TRANSCRIPT - CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE!

The folder looks like this and in the folder instead of your beautiful recordings of your scintillating zoom call, like mine, all you get are these files that say "double-click to convert" - it's actually "double click to convert" as if to ram it home:
double_click_to_convert and you're watching this video so I know that you double clicked on that file and got this error message.

"The document double_click_to_convert_01.Zoom could not be opened. Zoom.us cannot open files of this type."

I've got good news for you.
There is a way to recover these video files from your zoom conversation - from the folder that's been placed onto your computer.

Obviously I've got a MacBook - I think this workaround works with either but a lot of the websites that I visited to try to recover my video files seem to only deal with converting the files in Windows, Windows 10.
So I'm hope that this advice is really helpful for anyone with an Apple Mac or a MacBook Pro or an iPad even.

There are other ways to attempt first. This is a bit of a last ditch, last resort way of recovering your video files from the Zoom conversation
I'll put in the description if I can find any links to these other things that you can try first - I'll put them down there.

They didn't work for me. I suspect that's why you have looked up this video on YouTube.
So let me walk you through how to recover a failed recording in zoom.

So here we have the folder that's all the problem.
Look the audio only is a temp file.

Double-click to convert - if you double click on it it doesn't work, and you've probably tried right-clicking and "open with zoom" but you get the same error message
I really did not want to lose this video recording, so this is how to recover these video files.
If you double click, open up zoom, and then you get the welcome screen that you're used to and we're going to click on "new meeting"

It's ok I think I can recover your video files - I hope so - don't hate me if it doesn't work but it did work for me.
It doesn't matter if you join with computer audio - I will join with computer audio

Now we're going to open up a new zoom call and we are going to hit just down here - my giant finger!
We hit record - we are now recording a completely different zoom call - this one - the new one.

We're going basically trick the zoom app into converting the files that we want to convert.
So if I hit stop recording there - you see up here it says the recorded file will be converted to mp4 when the meeting ends

That's what we're going to use to recover your precious video files
Now the really important thing at this stage is do not click end the meeting

All we've done is stop the recording - the meeting is still open and we're going to use that to our advantage.
So we'll step away from the zoom call now and go back to the folder that had the failed video recordings from the zoom call, that we actually want to convert... and then what we're going to do is open up the folder for this call - this temporary call that we're... that we're doing right now.

This is the folder right here that zoom has created for this meeting that we've got right now.
Hello. Here I am!

It's just... this is great! I've can just point to stuff on my screen this... this folder here
If we open it up you can see that this also has some files that say double click to convert.

Now we're going to get rid of these, so if you select them all. You can hit Apple-A to select them or select them individually, and we'll just delete them.
Move to bin... or move to trash there they go

And then what we're going to do is to copy these files from the folder that you want to recover the video from... we'll select them all.

Now I'm going to I'm going to copy them

I'm not going to move them so at least I've still got the original files if this system doesn't work
The original folder will still be there, so I'm going to go Apple-C for copy, or you can maybe right-click and then go down to "copy 5 items" and then we'll go over to this new folder and we will paste.
Here's where the magic happens you can now hit "end meeting" - end meeting for all.

Look what happens! It's converting something!
What it's doing is converting... it's a bit like a cuckoo in a nest: it's now converting the files that it didn't convert in the first place - because it's going to that folder - so we just let it do its thing.

The reason I think the zoom recording failed is that I think I hit "leave meeting" instead of stop recording - so to avoid this in future I'm gonna always hit stop recording before I hit the leave meeting or end meeting in zoom.
And there we go!

It's even opened the folder for me, so instead of having that test recording that you saw me make... if I double click on the mp4 this is the actual meeting that I wanted to convert and not lose.
So I hope this recovery system works for you.

Just to recap:
open up the folder where the recordings are and the files for "double click to convert"

Then start a new meeting, hit record, and then hit stop - so that zoom has created a new folder for converting at the end of this meeting.

Don't hit end meeting but go to the folder with that new recording in, and delete out the recording files there.

Copy over the broken files - the video files that you're trying to recover - and paste them into that new folder.

Go back into zoom and then hit "leave meeting" or "end meeting" and then zoom will convert those video files for you.

Did it work?!
I really want to know: leave a comment below.

If it didn't I'm sorry and I'll try and put some links in the description for other articles for other methods for recovering your video files from a zoom recording, but if it did work - oh my goodness, I'd love to hear from you.
Just say hello in the comments below - it'd be lovely to know this helps someone somewhere.

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And good luck for your next recordings of zoom calls!
I hope this never happens again.

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HOW TO ENGRAVE A MACBOOK PRO

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HOW TO ENGRAVE A MACBOOK PRO

I've been wanting to engrave my name on stuff. I don't know why.
On the surface, it looks like sensible property marking, so my stuff can be returned to me.
But its probably more to do with hoarding, and making things permanently mine.

Had a go at engraving a Macbook Pro. On the one had it'd help it be returned to me if I ever lost it (We're in shutdown at the moment, so would be grateful to go somewhere to possibly lose it).
Will it damage the hard drive inside? Or the Pro Retina screen?
And where's the best place to engrave?
Follow along with me in real time as I give the engraving a go.

HOW TO ENGRAVE A MACBOOK PRO



TRANSCRIPT: (CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE)
Now I flip the MacBook Pro over - I'm going to engrave my name on the back of this precious Apple object
I've written my name before in marker pen and it's just rubbed off over a matter of weeks
So I'm going to engrave my name now

THIS IS THE TRANSCRIPT - CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE!

I think this is gonna be easier than the than the drive.
Though, obviously there's a drive in here as well...
There's glass, there's electronics...
Right here we go - better get started
So I think we're gonna do it in the middle underneath the model number
[ENGRAVING NOISES]

Now when you go sideways it skips all over the place
[ENGRAVING NOISES]

It helps if you use the the side of the ball, rather than writing straight down
[ENGRAVING NOISES]

I'll just blow this outside
You know I'm quite happy with this
It's come out quite nicely

The font could be better, but it just feels like I've etched it enough for it to be a problem if someone nicks it and wants to pass it off as theirs
I'll hold it up to this camera, see if that's any better?

Catch the light...

So that's how it looks - and like I say, I didn't go too deep into the case because I'm worried that I'd damage it
I could probably go deeper than this but I just don't feel that comfortable

I hope this test this experiment has helped you or given you the courage to engrave a precious object of yours
What precious objects of yours will you engrave?
Leave a comment below I'd love to hear what objects you've engraved or you'd like to engrave maybe I could do them here on the channel?

Because I seem to get better each time I do this
If you've reached this point on the video thanks for watching
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Mugged by squirrels WATERLOO TO VICTORIA sort of London real time walking tour

Just before The Great Shutdown of 2020, I had to walk from Waterloo Station in London, through the South Bank past the London Eye, over Westminster Bridge, past Big Ben, Houses of Parliament, Parliament Square, Westminster Abbey down Victoria Street (the most boring street in London) to Victoria Station.

So I filmed the journey, in real-time from my POV on my DJI Osmo Pocket camera.

The tourists had already gone, the South Bank was silent, the London Eye was empty and Westminster Bridge was clear.

I've put all these videos on a playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtZM4-pHDwPmhVv2KuqmQcpv58ehRqhFk

Mugged by squirrels WATERLOO TO VICTORIA sort of London real time walking tour



TRANSCRIPT: (CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE)

What, you don't like the peel?!
You're like my kids.
Bit more?
Oi - get off!
Okay so this is the walkway that's opened fairly recently
Just show you what it looks like.
[MUSIC]

THIS IS THE TRANSCRIPT - CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE!

The old eurostar terminal.
[MUSIC]

This bridge used to go straight through the Shell Centre, but now goes down
Between the 2 new buildings
[MUSIC]

There's Royal Festival Hall over there
Hope you can see that
Here's what's left of the Shell Centre.
The upstream building.
[MUSIC]

So what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna walk from here to Victoria
And I'll see if I can keep the camera running.

So we're not on a lockdown yet but it feels like that's what's gonna happen by the time you watch this video.
Obviously you'll know what happened next.

But we don't know what's gonna happen
What's interesting er... slash eerie... is that this is quite a big tourist spot, and there's literally no one here.
There is literally no one around.
It's fairly early - oh hello - squirrel

Bet you're starving, aren't you.
You're starving because all the tourists would feed you.
Shall I give you a bit of apple?
Come over here. Okay.
Don't knock my camera over.
[MUSIC]

Just give him er... give him a bit of apple.
[MUSIC]

You're brave aren't you!
[MUSIC]

You don't like the peel?
You're like my kids!
There you go. Bit more?
Oi gettof! Here you go.
You don't want the apple? Let's go.

That's how desperate things are - being mugged by squirrels
Anyway oh, seriously I'm gonna have to disinfect my bag now.

Erm, what I was gonna say was look at this - this is the London Eye - the big wheel on the south bank and it's turning round but no one's on it
so I don't know if that means it's closed
but if it's closed, it's nice of them to give it a spin isn't it
it's definitely moving isn't it

No one on it it
Looks like it's moving because they're doing maintenance on it
...like removing panels and cleaning stuff
[MUSIC]

I don't know if I'm gonna put music on this - let's change that -
I don't know should put music on this - can you leave me a comment to say whether or not you'd like just a little bit of music playing in the background
[MUSIC]

There's County Hall... and Shrek's adventure
now Shrek's adventure was the home of the London County Council from the 1920s to 1986 and sealife was the seat of London government for most of the 20th century
Also it was home to the highly successful talk show Terry and Gaby on Channel 5 in the early 2000s
[MUSIC]

I don't know what those things are
I don't think you can see - just above that part of the houses of Parliament they've got like boxes on scaffolding
I'll try and cut closer to those in the edit
Wonder what they are
This is a great walking tour isn't it?
it's just an hour of me going "wonder what that is?"
[MUSIC]

I'll call it the comment tour you can leave comments -- leave fake facts in the comments
That'd be nice.
[MUSIC]

Some barriers on the bridge to stop the virus getting on
Hey it it almost - I'm not saying it's quiet - but it almost is like that scene on "28 Days Later"
Just need a bus inexplicably on its side and it would complete the feel at the moment
Some buses - will go on some of those later.
[MUSIC]

I never know if I should point the camera at me, or rather aggressively ahead of me
I don't think you wanna be looking at me though.
Portcullis House
Oh man, I really want an electric scooter
But I know I'd look a bit of a div on one.

But I don't care. I wanna be on a scooter.
[MUSIC]

Oh, you can see the clock face - I'll try and zoom in on it in the edit
it looks beautiful - it's so colourful
[MUSIC]

So I think here over here - don't - don't believe any of the so-called facts that I'm gonna make up as I go along but I believe that here is where the world's first set of traffic - traffic lights - were ever put up anywhere in the world
these traffic lights - basically the MPs over there thought it was a bit difficult to cross the road - so they passed a law to put lights up to stop the traffic - and they have been serving the nation for themselves ever since

Very magnanimous of the MPs to provide traffic lights for themselves
I think I want to go over there which is where Victoria is - so (SINGS) do I go left now or do I go right?
Something for the "Me Too!" fans there - that's "Me Too!" the Cbeebies series, not the movement to make the world better

I don't know - Me Too the Cbeebies series was a bit of a movement to make the world better
[MUSIC]

let's go this way we can see a bit more of Churchill
[MUSIC]

Cut across Parliament Square
Oh there' Whitehall where Matt LeBlanc raced a car - got into trouble with the newspapers - the newspapers that govern us.
[MUSIC]

There's Churchill - I've never been this close to the Churchill statue
I grew up in London and I haven't actually - I don't think I've ever walked across Parliament Square - I'm glad that I'm capturing this on video
So there's David Lloyd George and then erm...
I'm just reading what's on the things - there's Jan Christian Smuts - Viscount Palmerston, star of my "A" Level history.
That I've forgotten now.

Oh, that's just-- there's a lot of cyclists around, which is good.
Oh there's another statute to Gandhi, that's good.

So the other statute to Gandhi I did that on my other tour, from the top of the 168 bus - I'll put that in the description
but that's another one and - I think he's sitting down all in a meditative pose in-- near Russell Square.
Mandela!

freedom fighter and subject of my favorite Eddie Grant songs
there we go now I'm gonna cross over
Feel I have to run because the cyclists do like to go through the red lights somewhat in London.
it's a tradition

I can walk down Victoria Street - Victoria Street is a bit boring and a bit sixties in concrete so I might speed this up... or just cut it short
[MUSIC]

Westminster Abbey
[MUSIC]

Oh look - it's another hole of... "Hole of London"
I've got another video where I've put together lots of holes in London.
While they're springing up - here's one in Victoria Street, before a new building goes up.
I'm so sorry I'm gonna have to stop the video there this is a very very boring street

[MUSIC]
And for sake of completion of this video here's Victoria!
Oh, that's Hamilton
There's Victoria over there!
Run! Like a cyclist!

I hope you enjoyed this little walking tour with its completely accurate facts along the way
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that really helps me anyway, thanks for watching I'll see you on the next walking tour

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My old school being demolished for a tube station... Hawley Infants Camden Town

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My old school being demolished for a tube station... Hawley Infants Camden Town

This is a video I've wanted to put together for about 4 years. It jumps around a bit.
I went to Hawley Infants School in Buck Street, Camden Town, London NW1
It's now called Hawley Infants and Primary School and it's moved. So now the old school is due for demolition. It's to make way for a new Camden Town Tube Station entrance.

I went to visit it twice, in 2017 and 2019, after going to a closing party in 2016.
It was significant for me, because my kids are the same age I was while I went there in the sometimes bleak 1970's. Everything I remember about the place, I put in this blog post here:
https://neilmossey.blogspot.com/2016/03/hawley-infants-school-buck-street.html

An aggressive pusher was always lurking in Buck Street... will I even be able to shoot the video?

My old school being demolished for a tube station... Hawley Infants Camden Town



TRANSCRIPT: (CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE)

I went here in 1975... I think, 76?
Definitely '77 because we had the Queen's Silver Jubilee party here, and it's being closed down for-- If I go on the other side of the road.
I can never go on the other side road because the aggressive looking pusher - oh, he's back!
This is what it looks like today.
Hello I'm in Stucley Place, in Camden Town.

THIS IS THE TRANSCRIPT - CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE!

This is Buck Street.
Now I'm a quick look around, because every time I've had the camera out there's always some aggressive looking pusher over there - but some community police officers just walked past... which means that finally I can make the video of what has happened to my old school!
Hawley Infants - and here it is! I'll get out of the way now.

[Music]
This was the playground.
This is what it's looking like in 2019.

There was a party when it was leaving and let's run some footage of that now.
Look I've got the year in the corner: it was full of life and this was the last term, the last summer in this building in Buck Street, Hawley Infants - it was fantastic.
And this is what it looks like today 2019.

Back then, I showed my kids: this is where I kissed Sarah Goff - just here behind the bins.
This used to be a bin area - you can see on the floor where the wall used to be.
By the gates is where the bins used to be!
And it was here by the bins I used to kiss Sarah Goff. It wasn't my idea - she used to just take me behind the bins and say "let's try kissing!" (TO OFFSCREEN WIFE) Oh yeah, okay!

We're sitting where the toilets used to be.
There used to be a big block of toilets here. And, I used to come here a lot.
And we used to play in the playground here.
And we'd say "Who, wants to play..."
"Games!"
"Who, wants to play... Batman!"

Yeah I'm not sure my stories are going down well at all - but they're both the exact same age that I was with my sister in this photo!
So next I wanted to recreate this picture with ME standing in the exact same spot in the playground as Dad.

We didn't quite get it right... the kids aren't in fancy dress and look I haven't even got Dad's Fred Perry jumper.
There's not even any food in this one, and the kids are really fed up, so I tried it again and now the kids are just plain angry.
So I didn't quite capture the spirit of the Queen's Silver Jubilee there - so next I tried recreating something else and it's something that used to terrify me when I was six.

I just needed to find the old television room...
I'm gonna do it.
I'm back in the room where it happened, and we're watching it together.
This is the exact spot where I used to sit on the floor and watch this really scary bit of telly.
[Music]
[Music]

It was about here, I was your age - 6... 7... and it was terrifying.
[Music]

I used to look away to that window there.
"Trying not to think about it."
Yeah, I used to look out the window and try not to think about it, but I used to think about this music at night.
[MUSIC]
I'm really glad I've done that again. It's over.

[MUSIC]
It's being demolished for a new entrance for Camden Town tube.
It's looking a lot better. When I was last here, let me show you some footage of last year.
I'll put the year in the corner. That's what it used to look like.
They've cleaned it up, which is nice.
And, I don't if I can-- Right this is back to 2019, this is late August.

I don't know if you see -- this is where the nursery was.
I've got some photos of- of in there. Dunno if I can zoom in.
And it was in there that I managed to - on my first day they've got this brand-new donkey from Spain - a sort of stuffed donkey and I managed to paint it purple.
So it literally lasted about a week.

But then I moved over to Miss Collier's class and then Miss Hammond's class and she became the headmistress when I left.
Look at the old Victorian Tower. It's all gonna come down and then the-- and then the-- the nice gates that were here a few years ago... they've obviously moved to where the new school is now, and these are what the gates look like now. Yeah, it's gorgeous.
Uh-oh, getting bad looks again. (OFF SCREEN) "YO, BIG MAN..."
[MUSIC]

And this is what the gates look like now.
Not quite the same is it.
I've got some cars behind me.
I'll give you the full effect in a minute.

Those beautiful gates obviously not there anymore. That's it. Bye bye Hawley Infants. This is one year on.
So that's it! That's my memories of Hawley Infants from the last two years in one video.
I don't know if I'm in focus - I'll keep going.

I hope if you've managed to get to this point in the video, why not click the thumbs up just to let me know someone reached this point.

You never have to watch any of my videos again but why not hit the subscribe button - that helps me get paid for these. Anyway thanks for watching and leave some comments if you ever went to Hawley Infants yourself, it would be brilliant to hear from you.
Looking there so I don't get my-- moped mugged! If you went to Hawley Infants, why not leave a comment in the comments below be lovely to hear from you - like I say I was there from 1975 to 1979... It'd be good to hear your your memories of this place, thanks for watching.
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London bus ride with my Dad: 168 Waterloo to Hampstead Heath TOP DECK VIEW in real time with my Dad

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London bus ride with my Dad: 168 Waterloo to Hampstead Heath TOP DECK VIEW in real time with my Dad

Took a 168 bus from Waterloo station all the way along the route to Hampstead Heath... with my retired London taxi driver Dad.

I grew up in Camden, and we drive past all the places we remember.

Funny looking at it now, as it was shot a few days before The Great Shutdown of 2020.

London bus ride with my Dad: 168 Waterloo to Hampstead Heath TOP DECK VIEW in real time with my Dad



1:23 Bus sets off from Waterloo station
1:31 National Theatre, Waterloo Bridge and Somerset House
2:25 The Strand, Aldwych Kingsway and Bush House
3:50 Holborn Kingsway, Holborn Underground station
6:30 Holborn Kingsway Tram tunnel
8:43 Russell Square: Imperial Hotel, Russell Hostel
10:55 Tavistock Square, Ghandi statue, BMA and remembering the terrible thing that happened there in 2005
13:35 Remembering the Double Six Cafe used by London taxi drivers in Eversholt Street
12:30 Euston Station, crossing Euston road
16:20 Mornington Crescent, Camden Palace or Koko
17:20 Camden High Street, remembering the shops, like the Woolwich Building Society that always got held up
20:15 Camden Town Underground station junction with Parkway
22:20 Hawley Crescent, over the bridge past Camden Lock, Hawley Arms
23:00 Clarence Way and Harmood Street, past Camden Lock stables
24:25 The Roundhouse and Chalk Farm station, remembering Marine Ices, The Enterprise and past Mum's old school, Haverstock school.
27:40 168 bus heading back to Waterloo with the wrong destination board.
29:40 Belsize Park station and shops
30:20 Rosslyn Hill cab rank where London taxi drivers take a break
31:00 Where do taxi drivers use for toilets?
32:35 Pond Street: The Roebuck where I had my first drink, opposite the Royal Free Hospital.
34:00 South End Green, the terminus for the 168 bus route!

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I bought the URBANEARS PLATTAN 2 - two years ago... Here's what they look like 2 years on! Also, what they look like against a brand new pair of dark grey Urbanears Plattan 2.
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These are the cabled, wired, corded version of the Plattan 2 - the old pair are Indigo and the new pair is Dark Grey.

My original Urbanears Plattan 2 Unboxing and Review video is here: https://youtu.be/F0H4OxR7Ghg

How to remove ear pads Urbanears Plattan 2 Headphones - to clean or replace: https://youtu.be/6SJ8utDUCRk


OLD vs NEW: URBANEARS PLATTAN 2 two years on, headphones review!



TRANSCRIPT: (CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE)
[Music]
Hello welcome back to the Happy Hut, I'm Neil and usually this is the Tightwad Dad Vlog.
It's a place where we try to be happy with what we've already got, but today that's really true...
I'm gonna be really happy with what I've already got because I've got these!

THIS IS THE TRANSCRIPT - CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE!

These are the Urbanears Plattan 2 headphones
They are all over the earph-- I can't hear.
They're an all-over ear headphone that you can even twist them around

Now one of my most popular videos on the channel, bizarrely, is me unboxing these very headphones: the indigo Plattan 2 Urbanears headphones.
Not the Bluetooth ones - they're corded - they've got this wire and it detaches as well A

Anyway this video, it's got so many views you can see it playing now, where actually I'm doing an unboxing of the Plattan 2, and comparing them with the Plattan 1
Now I've been using these headphones every single day, and I only realized the other day that I've been using these daily for two years... so I thought I'd do two things in this video.

One is to show you how the urbanears Plattan 2 headphones look after two years of daily use.
I'll give you some close-ups in a second, but also compare them with a brand new set of Plattan 2's... ahh look... see how beautiful and clean and stitched they are!
And... ahhh, I've been using these every day for two years!

But they've held up - excuse me - they've held up really well, and I just want to show you which ways they've held up, and which ways they have probably deteriorated over two years
But anyway, this is what the box looks like

I actually got these new Plattan 2's for my long-suffering wife to help drown out me next to her.
Wow they feel different!

There's no Netflix account that can compensate for having to live with me I don't think but these sort of drown me out most of the time.

They're slightly different in a number of ways and I've only just noticed a few of the differences now and I wanted to go through those with you but let's take a look at the old Plattan 2, to show you a glimpse into the future of what yours might look like if you use them everyday for two years.
The first thing is... let me show you under the head - that has fared really well

There's just a little bit of-- where the colour has come away from the rubberized headband so this has worked really well
I think basically I've got a filthy head and I should clean more often, and I think the oil from my face in my head has... has worn this over time

The, the fabric has held up quite well as well I think you can see
I've spilt coffee on it

I haven't really bothered to clean it with fabric cleaner but in the comments on the other video, a few people were discussing best ways of cleaning these
I've not tried it, but I would use one of those pink sprays one of those OXY sprays that you have for upholstery
That will probably get that up
Hey, may-- that maybe that's another video!

But they don't look too filthy, thanks to the indigo colour.
And the next bit of wear and tear is on the ears, so don't know if you can see but these have completely unstitched themselves - so you can see the foam inside

They're still really comfortable though, but let me compare them with the new pair
You can see the stitching is pristine - that's how these used to look.

The oil from my face and being scrunched up as well has meant that some of the indigo colouring has come away

You know the great thing with these ear cups - I made another video about this
I'll give you a clip now: it's to show you how to disconnect the ear cups and replace them

I'll leave a link to that video in the description, or if you click on the "i" on the top of the screen - but just to show you if you wanted to get new ones.
They cost about fourteen pounds and and another fourteen pounds for delivery direct from Urbanears, but you can really easily disconnect them and they just they just twist-on really easily.

The last element of these lovely headphones is the cord and if you see, it's slightly frayed.
Now that is completely my fault because they're designed to be wound up and then you can tuck the 3.5mm jack under the cable like this, and then I pull it tight... and then I throw it in my bag!

What happens is, I think you can see that, but because I haven't extended the cups the cable clashes against the headband and bends it and over time - two years every day - it has caused the cable to bend slightly and wear away
It still works really well.

They still sound fantastic

What I didn't say in the unboxing review video was how they sounded, but I thought it was pretty obvious
I was replacing another pair that itself was I think five years old
The sound is phenomenal.

These cups kind of block out everything else around you which is why I've got them for my long-suffering wife but the sound is really rich and really warm
This is my favorite sounding headphones and they're so comfortable as well

I use them for really long... you know... walking, long movies
Sorry, it's the sound of someone's house being broken into!
So that's the tour of the two-year-old Plattan 2 headphones but look at this!

These are dark grey headphones - I'll just give you a comparison of the colour.
There are some differences between the two, and I can see one immediately when I do this...

The new headphones they have some kind of magnet attachment so where the ear cups meet the headband, Urbanears calls this a flexible 3D hinge
There's a magnet so they snap shut like this... and then to fold them up you just break the magnet

The other big difference that I've noticed - in fact I think it's the only other difference, it's identical in all other respects - is this...
This is how the Plattan 2 Jack has fared over two years

I'll put it over my head, there we go, nice focus
I don't know if you could see but the top of the L-shaped jack has worn away over time

Now again this is completely my fault because I have quite a chunky case on my phone, though it's got an L-shaped which is really helpful, and this lasted much longer than the jack on the original Plattan headphones

You can see the the rubber has worn away
But look at the new Plattan 2 Jack

They've given a very generous amount of protection on the end there because they know that's where it's going to be pulled out, over time
So you can see it's got this kind of rubber shield and it concertinas
I don't know what this is for, this hole

I can only imagine it's so you can tidily fold it up like that
But that seems to be putting a lot of pressure on the wire
I don't think I'd bother doing

That not that they're my headphones
Wrap the cable round and it's still clashing with the head band
So what I would advise if you get these headphones is to probably each time you do this push them up a bit
Oh now, that's made it worse!

Okay push them down a bit and then you'll see that the cable clears, but the great thing with the Plattan 2 is that the cable is replaceable
So this cable comes out

Don't do this if you have the Plattan and the original Plattan
Is it Plat-tan or Plattan?

This detaches as well so this part is completely replaceable and you could put in a cord that doesn't have the microphone built-in
Also, same with the other Plattan 2 - there's an extra 3.5mm jack so you can daisy chain your headphones and I can listen to things with my long-suffering wife, if she lets me!

She's probably gonna watch this video on these headphones, but do you have any questions?

Leave a comment - I'm sure there's something I've forgotten - but leave a-- a question below or just to say hi.
It'd be lovely to hear from you - maybe someone else could help you out with any questions that you might have about this, but I'll leave a link to the original video in the description because everything - all the details are there

The last thing I wanted to do is to just check if the ear cups detach.
This could go horribly wrong
Yes!

There you go
I haven't broken them. They do go back on, and I don't think this will show up on the camera, but it says put me back on or order a replacement at urbanears.com

I hope this has helped you decide whether or not you want the Plattan 2 Urbanears headphones
I cannot recommend more highly and like I say I've used mine every day for two years and before that daily for five years with the original Plattan

I better put this back together!
If you've reached this point of the video, it'll be fantastic if you could send me a little signal to let me know someone got this far

Just hit the thumbs up and if you're feeling even kinder why not hit the subscribe button you never have to watch anything I watch ever again but every subscription helps me get closer to 10,000 subscribers

It took me two years to get to 1,000 so I think we're looking at 2030 for smashing the 10,000 barrier

If you want to help me on that journey thank you and good luck with your purchase.
There are links to the Urbanears Plattan 2 in the description, if you buy them from there, Amazon give me a few pennies - so if you buy them from there thank you in advance.

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Trying something new every day.
Today it's showing how I Marie Kondo fold my T-shirts.
In real time. For 15 minutes.
It started a few days ago where I made a homemade DIY face mask video: https://youtu.be/e9iFYewJS1k

I'd pulled out all my T-shirts, so filmed myself putting them all back again, showing how I use the KonMari method for folding Tshirts.
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0:00 How to fold a T-shirt using Marie Kondo method of standing them up in the drawer
1:33 Should I call this vlog #TightwadDad or Self-Help Dad? - leave a comment below!
0:45 I was on the BBC News At Six on Tuesday 12 May 2020, 30 minutes in...
2:00 Man folds T-shirts for 10 minutes... T-shirt packing tutorial, KonMari style!
Fold in the sleeves, then fold lengthways down either side of the collar.
Then fold the Tshirt in half, and half again. Stand the T-shirt up to see if the folds are correct.
13:20 When packing the Tshirts into the drawers, move dark colours towards the back and lighter T-shirts towards yourself

TRANSCRIPT: (CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE)
This is ten minutes of my T-shirt, KonMari method.
My Marie Kondo - with these.
You're gonna watch for ten minutes? Okay!
Guess we're doing this...

THIS IS A TRANSCRIPT - CLICK ON THE PLAY BUTTON ABOVE!

Hello I'm Neil welcome back to the happy hut.
Usually I'm a tightwad dad, trying to be happy with what we've already got.
Which is what the words show.
But we're in the great shutdown of 2020, and I'm just questioning everything at the moment. I'm just trying to get through the day by coming up with trying out something new every day.

I made this video the other day, ah, where I'm trying to make a face mask out of my t-shirts, and it went really well.
It went so well two days later BBC News tweeted me and asked if they could use a clip on the BBC News! News at Six.

[CLIP] "Using anything from old t-shirts to bedding sheets...
Two of these guys are going to get the chop - quite literally.
[REPORTER:] This dad from Hampshire tried making a t-shirt mask for himself on his YouTube channel.
My ears aren't coping very well with the elastic bands.

So I'm on telly! And the video is on BBC One!
National British BBC One, which is fantastic!

Today it's kind of related to that because I'm going to be Marie Kondo -ing my t-shirts continuously, 13 minutes in real time - and it made me think!
Should I call this thing something else?

There's a poll on the screen - I think it's that side:
Should I carry on calling this vlog the tightwad dad vlog, where we're trying to be happy with what we've got... or should I call it something else like "self-help dad", which it's a bit wet.

I don't know is it? Tell me.
Tell me in the comments: should it be tightwad dad or self-help dad?
One feels more positive which is probably why it is not quite as catchy?

There's something about tightwad dad that I really like that it's actually true to the position that we're in.
But anyway - today is trying something new.
Marie Kondo 'ing all my t-shirts on camera in real time.

Guess I've got to put all my t-shirts back together again.
This is ten minutes of my t-shirt konmari method - my Marie Kondo - with these.
You're gonna watch for ten minutes?

Okay!
By the way, what do you think about my interpretation of the konmari method?

Leave a comment below!
I'd like to know if you have any tips or an opinion on how I'm doing this.
What do you think?
Leave me a comment below, I'd love to hear from you just to say hi.

And if you made it to the end - I don't think that anyone made it to the end - but if you did you could prove me wrong by clicking on the thumbs up, that would be really cool or if you're feeding even kinder why not hit the subscribe button.
Trying to get to 10,000 subscribers and I think this is just the kind of video that's goona - that's gonna send me all the way to 10K.

So thank you but-- but this is another video... and my face... if you click on that you can subscribe. Thanks for being there. Appreciate it.
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Made a face mask with a T-Shirt.
Then wore it to the supermarket.
How to make a DIY face mask... follow along with me.

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How to make a DIY face mask... follow along with me.
1:00 Why wear a face mask or covering.
1:50 It's to stop me touching my face: Here's the video of Dr. Dave Price of Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York City https://youtu.be/WxyH1rkuLaw
2:20 I can't stop touching my face.
2:46 I should get one of those cones that stop dogs scratching themselves.
2:55 Choosing my worst T-shirt to cut up... All my Marie Kondo folded T-shirts stored KonMari style!
4:27 My old Hawley Infants T-shirt before it's demolished: https://youtu.be/qD60N2qZyiw
5:22 My Stefon from SNL impression.
6:32 My Gordon Laing Cameralabs T-shirt, check out his brilliant YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/cameralabs
"All I Want Is A Perfect Camera" song stolen from Camera Conspiracies channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwxgo62w72LxZDA1fTibdYg
8:04 How to make a face mask from an old T-shirt, with no sewing, with US Surgeon-General Dr. Jerome Adams. https://youtu.be/tPx1yqvJgf4
But it's too bulky, you have to cut it in half and half again.
8:57 How to make a DIY face mask with smaller old T-shirt fabric and extra rubber bands x4.
12:00 Me wearing the homemade DIY T-shirt face mask in Lidl Supermarket, UK.
I'm not used to wearing the facemask in public...
13:18 My all-new 10,000 subscribers sigout voiceover!


TRANSCRIPT: (CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE)

Bye-bye t-shirt... so sad
"Then you fold either side to the middle and you have yourself cloth face covering - it's that easy!"
Hello I'm Neil Mossey - welcome back to the happy hut!

Usually I'm a tightwad dad just trying to be happy with what we've already got - like these words on the screen say.
But right now we're in the great shutdown of 2020 and every day I'm trying to find something new, and today it's this!

THIS IS A TRANSCRIPT - CLICK ON THE VIDEO ABOVE!

So this is foot-- as you can see footage of me, in Lidl wearing a face mask.
It's my first time - my first trip to a supermarket with a face mask.
Obviously there was no one who could hold the camera for me so I just propped it up on a shelf - walked past.
You'd think I'd be more uncomfortable with that, than the wearing the face mask - but look at me.

I'm getting milk and I'm breathing on a much smaller radius, but my face mask is homemade and this is how you make a DIY face mask.
That's... that's the video and if you're looking this up on YouTube, firstly hello!
Welcome.
Say hi in the comments - it'd be lovely to hear from you, but if you are looking up "how to make a DIY face mask" on YouTube, you've probably been through exactly the same thought process as me.

If you just want to jump straight to making the face mask, I'll put the the time on the screen now.
This really pushes a button for some people.
If face masks aren't your thing I think it might be best if you hit stop now and I'll see you on the next video.

But for the rest of us, hello, I completely understand why this this really pushes a button for some people... and they leave the comments, you know...
"You're not a doctor"
"Ughhh"
"It's not effective... ughhhh... N95..."

I get it! But this video - this video is of a doctor in New York.

He just happens to be an intensive care respiratory expert as well, but he made this video call to his family where he's explaining that the reason that he wears a face mask is to stop him touching his face.

And I touch my face all the time!
Most of the day I spend with my head in my hands.
Look here's a photo that a friend took of me at work, and this is this is what I look like all the time - with my head in my hands.
So I know from wearing my son's smelly scarf that this is 100 percent effective in stopping me touching my face.
I don't need a face mask I need a head mask.

I need one of those cones that dogs wear - you know when they've been to the vets?
So I wanted to do this obviously as lazily as possible, and I found this video.
It's of the United States Surgeon-General, showing you how to make it.

All you need is a t-shirt and two rubber bands.

And here are all my t-shirts!

Yeah I know what you're thinking, but you know we did Marie Kondo.
We did it a few years ago so that's why it's so neat... but we did a few years ago which is why there is so many!

And this is a very sad day.
Two of these guys are going to get the chop.
Quite literally.
But which two?!

I have three t-shirts that are in constant rotation.
They're not in here right now because they're - I'm either wearing it, or it's on the floor, or they've just come out the wash.
This one survives. Doesn't even go into the drawer.
So does this one, and so does this one.

Usually I don't like writing on my t-shirts.
I don't like people reading my chest.
Messy Darth Vader - keep!
Happy computer emoticon thing - keep!
Tour de France thing? I've got mark on it? I'll keep!

This is my oldest t-shirt.
This is an antique "I need TP for my bunghole!"
I can't cut this up!
But the thought of having Beavis on my face is very appealing.
That might go into the maybe pile, even though it's my oldest t-shirt.

Los Pollos Hermanos... from Breaking Bad.
I haven't worn this for about six months, but I don't think I can cut it up - keep!
Martial arts t-shirt - keep!

More writing... usually I prefer pictures - keep that one. That's definitely got a mark on it.
Now this is a strange one. This is from... it's from my infant school, when they had a big reunion could-- because they're demolishing the school.
I'll put a link to the video up top and in the description, it's Hawley Infants
I think this might be going to the maybe pile - I haven't worn it for a year.

I've worn it on a couple of videos.
T-shirt with a collar, fancy. That's for my formal wear.
See the t-shirt is the uniform for my midlife crisis
or midriff crisis
Keep.

I can't tell you what it is I'm using to choose which t-shirts to cut up.
I think it's the the konmari method - the Marie Kondo method of holding it.
Feeling if it sparks joy. This sparks joy. Keep.
I love this one because my long-suffering wife hates it - because it's got so many holes!
It's more holes... than t-shirt. Rodent food.
I love it - keep!

Now I like this one because it makes me look like Stefon from Saturday Night Live.
Okay I won't do the impression... "Well..."
I'm good, I've just been up for three days.
Hey maybe I should have a shot of me wearing it...

[STEFON'S VOICE] "I'm good I've just been up for three days."
Another martial arts t-shirt - keep!
Another martial arts t-shirt - keep!
Another martial arts t-shirt - keep!

I'm not sure about this. I got this from, from Disneyland, so I like the memories from it.
I'm not the slimmest guy in the world, but I like my t-shirts tight.
This is a little generous. It's just, it's just really wide. This is definitely going into the maybe pile.
I've not worn it for two years - it used to have a really good design. A row of cartoon gnomes - sort of vintage look - and a line underneath: "Rolling with my Gnomies".
It has gone, so all that there is left is t-shirt.

It feels like cheating, but I think this is definite, definite maybe.
Cameralabs! Check out the cameralabs channel at the top. Gordon Laing, see i bought your merch! I couldn't cut this up, although it'd be extra advertising for your channel.
[SINGS] "All I want is a perfect camera..." oh no, it's the wrong channel.

We've got three of these - I used to go jogging in them. It's the Late Show, The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn. For me the best Late Late Show, sorry to all the other hosts.
And it had the best merch, so I bought a second one, and then I bought a third one.
Definite keep.

I might start jogging again one day.
Which leaves this - it does not spark joy anymore, it just leaves me cold. Quite literally.
I suppose I could make a mask with the graphic.
I can't wear it with the words because it'd just say "OLD."
"OLD WHAT?!"

I do like the faded blue - definite maybe.
You know the real problem about putting videos on YouTube is that sometimes you feel like you, you, you might be sharing too much, that I think I just shared.
So this is the final shortlist.
The deadly five.

Look I've got paint on it!
So that's, oh that's keep!
It's that way.

I've had-- I don't think I could wear that on my face.
That'll be keep, but not for any good reason.
I don't want a white mask, cause I know what state it's gonna look like.
There's no way I'm gonna keep this white, so it's in the keep.
So that leaves "Rolling with my Gnomies" and this.
I did it!

So these are the ones, let's hack them up!

Hey I don't know if you're in lockdown as well by the way, but I've not put my wallet in my pocket for about two months. It's brilliant!

So these are the two t-shirts that are going to get it.

The first method we're gonna try is from the US Surgeon General, Dr. Jerome Adams.
Here's how you can make your own face covering in a few easy steps, with items you can find around the house.
Oh my goodness - the state of me! Up against that.
Or you can make a face covering out of an old t-shirt.
Fold it to the middle from the bottom.
Fold it to the middle from the top.
Fold it again to the middle from the bottom.

Look at his folding.
Look at mine.

Now the great thing with this method is that it doesn't need any sewing.
All you need is 2 elastic bands, which I've got.
The great thing about being British is that obviously we have elastic bands on the pavements scattered around the country, but I've not picked these up from the pavement.
I've picked them up from my kitchen drawer.
It's brilliant - there's no sewing, but the problem I had is that if you do it just with the whole t-shirt it sort of looks like this, which is okay? It sort of works, but I wanted to go for something a bit smaller.

I feel bad enough for being in Lidl at all, let alone being in Lidl looking like this!
So what I'm going to do is cut it up, which they don't tell you to do on the video.
Bye bye t-shirt, thank you for your service.
So sad.
On the upside, I've now got a little crop top!

So I'm gonna follow the instructions, this way - so put it sideways.

Here's how you can make your own face covering in a few easy steps, with items you can find around the house - like an old scarf, a bandana, or a hand towel.
Or you can make a face covering out of an old t-shirt!

Fold it to the middle from the bottom.
Fold it to the middle from the top.
Fold it again to the middle from the bottom, and again from the top.
And then two rubber bands.
One on one side and one on the other side.
Then you fold either side to the middle and you have yourself cloth face covering.
It's that easy.

I like that! It still feels a bit pudding-gy. It just feels a bit large.
I don't know how to lose the bulk - the story of my life.
Think I need to find a way, so it's not quite as bulky.

Maybe I should cut the t-shirt in half again? Let's try that.
Then cut THAT half, in half again.
Fold it to the middle from the bottom.
Fold it to the middle from the top.
Fold it again to the middle from the bottom, and again from the top.
And then two rubber bands.
One on one side and one on the other side.
Then you fold either side to the middle and you have yourself cloth face covering.
It's that easy.

That's the one!
I can't tell if it's dangling down.
The only downside with it, is now that I've worn it for 30 seconds, my ears aren't coping very well with the elastic bands.
Maybe if I, if I double up the elastic bands, oh look at that.
That's, that's gonna annoy me.
Okay so went and got the two extra elastic bands, and I might make it a bit wider as well.
So it's not so far to go, for my ears.
That feels just right!

So those are the dimensions - it sort of looks like this: about 25cm by 25cm.
That for me is the perfect length, and if it's too small for you, then you've got plenty of t-shirt left to try again!
You know it's much better with the two rubber bands as well.
So all that's left to do now is to try it out in an actual supermarket!

Here I am, this is me in Lidl.
So this is like literally the only place on earth where I can get this thing right now.
It works out really well but I just I'm not used to wearing the face mask out in public.
It feels like you are making yourself "the other".
Especially if you're around people who aren't wearing face masks.
If you're not that's absolutely fine!
I just don't want to smell you, that's all!
And also I don't want to touch my face!

But you think if I was that worried about not getting it, that maybe I'd put off buying papadums and pitta bread, and some potting compost!
The other-- right so the other thing as well, it feels really rude wearing the mask, and I just want to like pull it down say "hello!"
Anyway I hope this this video has helped if you want to make a DIY face mask without doing any sewing whatsoever.
And if you want to express your awesomeness by hitting the thumbs up button I'd really appreciate that, or say hello in the comments below.
And if you made a face mask - have you copied this yourself?

If you have let me know how you get on.
Let me know how you get on with the face mask situation because I'm still not feeling entirely comfortable with it, and good luck on your face covered shopping.
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TRANSCRIPT:
But here's the unit - THIS is what you've been waiting for
I'll probably put this clip right at the start of the video to reassure you that you will actually get to see this - it's the Remington stylist hair clipper
aha ah this is it!
This is this is the one that I lost - the one that got broken after ten years of use

Hello, I'm Neil, welcome back to the happy hut today I'm unboxing this
I dunno if you can see it - it's the Remington stylist hair clipper
Bit of a minimalist model title there which I like
Now there is no way I should be making this video at all, because I have bought over the years probably a double-digit number of hair clippers or trimmers or hair, head shavers...
whatever you want to call them

I do not need another one in my life
I'm not exactly a perfectionist
I just want the perfect head shaver!
I just want the perfect hair trimmers - just something that will give me a really good Grade 1 - you see I'm stroking something that's not even there!

I just want something that is cordless.
I want something that will give me the exact grade one that I want

Sometimes like this one - I thought this was gonna be the perfect head shaver
it's a Wahl... or is it a Wahl Colour Pro trimmer
I made a whole video about this thinking that this was gonna be the one
It's a really beautiful unit - as you can see - there's a link if you click on the "i" at the top or in the description below

It... I mean it looks great but look at this comb!
This comb is so thick - and this is the smallest comb - and I know what you're saying
I know what you're saying "why don't you just go Grade Zero, you've got no hair there!"
Why do you even want a little hint of it?

I don't know why, I'm clinging to my 3mm of hair that's there - I just don't think it's that big and ask

The reason I went for this the Remington is because when I first shaved my head - shaved my hair off completely - I did it with a Remington
And that... I don't know what the model number was but I used it for about ten years and it was fantastic!

The comb was just right - you only need one comb in here - you don't need the--
yeah this comes with 8 combs they all do!
I thought I'd come close with this Remington because it had an adjustable comb
But that plastic thing is so thick that the blades just don't get anywhere close to where I needed it to get to

So I'm hoping this is the one
If this is the one I've already given this in the description of this video - I'll call it the best head shaver for Grade 1 - and so if you can see that in the description you already know that I love this and I will change that description the moment that this fails me
But let's, let's open the box and see what you get inside

Here is a collection of some of the things I've bought
That was the Babylis for men
I even shot an unboxing for that - and as you can see I was really giddy with excitement because it has two combs - two shavers either side
These combs just didn't get anywhere near to a Grade 1 that I wanted
I looked like a hairy hippie

So here is the Remington stylist hair clipper - I've been saving it - look, look how you probably can't see but I am really shaggy at the moment because I've been waiting to unbox this on camera to help some other Baldy out there who wants a grade 1 and who hasn't found the right hair clipper - so this could be the one

Sure I'll give you a quick look at the box - there's a charging indicator - it can go cordless
That's one of the things that I've been looking for
I don't need to go in the shower with it
it says advanced ceramic I've no idea what that means
there's a free detailer inside - I don't - I don't need that - I just need - I wanna be like you!
But with a grade one haircut

I want that - that's the grade - the one that's on his Jimmy Hill chin!
that's what I want on my head
easy to store

I need my glasses on - not only is my hair failing me, but my eyes are too
I'm a wreck! why are you even watching this video!
What kind of advice can I give to you?!
but if you could live vicariously through my purchases, good on you!

So it says it's easy to store
well yeah anything is easy to store when you just throw it under the bed... between charges
up to 40 minutes usage time
well that's good because I never let it grow that long but 40 minutes would be helpful
it says it comes with eight combs for different hair lengths
grade one to eight - that's the one I want the 3mm - that's all I want from you Remington
and self oiling blades

Oh my goodness that is a relief because I've accumulated so many bottles of oil for all my other failed purchases
maintenance-free performance for life - for life
you can't take these back!

If this isn't good for you - if this isn't right for you - and I think this might be why you're watching this video you can't pass these on!
nobody wants a used hair clipper!
it's bad for the environment

my hair has its own carbon footprint and I want it to end on this shaver
I do want it to end on this shaver
this could be the one
Let's open it like a man
Oh there's a tab here

there's a nice box that will go under the bed, never to be used again
To store all the bits that I'll never use again.
Now if like me you don't really want to destroy the environment this would probably make your heart sink
Oh my goodness, look at all the wrapping

Oh Greta Thunberg... and, worse... I have to turn the heating up to heat this up
this is, this can't be good - this can't be how we used to live pre-industrialization
here are all the combs

Oh man, these combs look good - these combs look good
I know I get excited about every single trimmer that I apply but this is the one
3mm - that's my grade 1, and this is exactly like the comb that I loved and lost
oh this could be it - this could be it - and it comes with a natty bag - oh no this is this is a cape

You could be a bald superhero
But here's the unit - this is what you've been waiting for
I'll probably put this clip right at the start of the video to reassure you that you will actually get to see this
it's the Remington stylist hair clipper
hahaha shall we rip into it?
Ooop, that's probably an important thing

hygiene seal - only remove if you intend to keep the product
"Remington I'm in!"

ah this is it - this is - ahhh, this is the one that I lost... that got broken after ten years of use
Model HC 366

what I'm gonna do, I'll put a link in the description probably near the top because I need the money - but every one of these that is sold - Amazon would give me some - a little bit of money - at no extra cost to you If you use the link below

Shall I switch it on?
there we go - my goodness this is the one
so I'll show you what else you get
now this always makes me giggle because obviously we - we need to to make those who are not of a grade 1 length feel good about themselves

we've got some hair clips some scissors - I wish I could use that - maybe for some hair elsewhere my nose or ears? that would be good
and a comb.
Do you remember using those? they were good weren't they
[GLASS SMASH]

And it comes obviously with a charger
Ready, so you just plug it in and it's lighting up to show you its charged

Now I haven't read the instructions - you're probably supposed to charge it before you use it - I'm not going to make you wait - I'm going to do this right now
So get my favorite comb - ah, where is it
See, so you get some weird taper combs for your ear holes
There that's the one

I like on... is it makeup tips they, they put the hand behind it to show you
that's the Grade 1 - the precious Grade one
none of these I'll ever use again - apart from terrorizing the boy to shave his head once every six months

There we go - just clips on like that
there's a taper lever which makes it go longer or shorter
and then you turn it on just by pushing the switch on the side here
Oh dare I - dare I do this?

Here, give you a shave - go on.
Put your head close to the screen, go on, I'll give you... look...
that's what it's like being your hair every day
completely unappreciated
but I'm gonna do it now - you ready?

Ah this is the one I think this is the one!
Take glasses off - oh boy this is the stuff - this is the one, this is the one that I'd lost
so happy - look how much just came off - don't know if you can see that
Can I tap? maybe tap?
there you go
it's a messy business isn't it, having no hair

I've got some really big stuff at the back
now what I love about this - and why I bought it - let's turn it off - why I bought it
there's a perfect combination here

the comb doesn't scratch your head - it allows the blades to get super close but still allow 3mm - the crucial 3mm that us Grade 1-er's love
this is the perfect combination
right that - the comb's too thick

that says that's a Grade 1 - it isn't - it isn't - you just end up looking like a, a hairball
this? I mean frankly it-- and I know having this look gives the impression of me being perhaps more rugged or tough or even thuggish
but that's no good - that comb - it - I mean it just hurts - it's just like rubbing your head up against a plastic grater - rubbish
this this is the one

the remington model HC366 - it's the remington stylist hair clipper - once you've charged it up you can unplug and go rogue with it
did you see there's a big difference - I don't think the battery liked that - listen to the difference
yeah that's the speed it should be at

What are your best shaver experiences?

What brands do you like?

help me - advise the community
are there brands that have helped you to stay a good grade 1

leave a comment below
I'd love to hear your experiences with these hair clippers
my son's going to get me now
I'm gonna-- shall I give him a shave?
I'll show ya
come in look what I got!
I'm gonna shave you!
NO!

So look I hope this video and I hope these links below help
I just want to help the community of grade 1 hair clipper owners
I don't anyone to be buying - look at this mess - I don't want anyone to be buying this junk
because they're not cheap either - well they are cheap but that's the problem
once you accumulate a number of them that doesn't work - it really starts to add up
So I hope this video has helped
if you've reached this point in the video why not let me know that somebody reached this far, with a thumbs up they'll be really appreciated
Oh subscribe - you never have to watch any of my videos ever again but I'm trying to hit 1000 subscribers
if you can hit the subscribe button - you don't have to - just mute me you don't have to watch any any more of this nonsense
but it will really help me get some money off youtube for every 1000people that watch my videos


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How to get 1000 SUBSCRIBERS in 5 EASY STEPS

I got 1000 subscribers! I've been on YouTube for 10 years, but it's taken 2 years of effort to pass the 1000 subs barrier. I think these 5 tips helped me for how to get 1000 subscribers.
1 Regular Posting
2 Leave Comments
3 Subtitle Your Videos
4 Good Video Hygiene
5 Take Us On Your Journey

How to get 1000 SUBSCRIBERS in 5 EASY STEPS



TRANSCRIPT: (CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE)

I'm gonna go for it.
This is how to get 1000 subscribers.
So this is a video for how I think you can get 1000 subscribers... hello!

My name is Neil Mossey, and this is my YouTube channel.

And for the last 2 years, I've been trying to get to 1000 subscribers - I finally did it!
I leapt over the hallowed line of 999, to 1000 subscribers.
I'm monetized!

I was demonetized in 2018.
YouTube changed their terms and conditions.
And that was a sad time for all of us, who hadn't got 1000 subscribers yet.
Two years later, 2 years of slog and videos, finally... I did it!

I did it, I managed to get over 1000 subscribers and if you're watching this video-- Firstly thank you!
If you've subscribed, thank you.
Do you know what you get? When you, when you get 1000 subscribers - my son made this for me - You get the YouTube Brown Play Button!

Hey look, you can pause the video and you can make your own out of Hama beads there.
This will be the thumbnail!
[MUSIC]
[PHOTO SOUND EFFECTS]
It's... er, not edible.

So I just wanted to make this just to share some of the things that I think have helped me to get 1000 subscribers.
And I want to share them just in case any of these help you.
Now if you're looking into videos on "How to get 1000 subscribers" I'm sure you have seen - like I did - the same tips coming up over and over again.
But there were some things that helped my channel which I haven't really seen recommended elsewhere, so I just wanted to go through these 5 ideas.

Five basic ideas for things that I think helped me get this channel over 1000 subscribers.
Look - I've got my little list here.

The first big thing I think helped me hit 1000 subscribers is "Regular Posting".
I'll put it on-- I'll put it on the lower third caption there.
I went through a stage last year where I put up one video every day.
And my Views and Subscribers didn't move at all.
It, if anything, I think they probably went down a bit.

But I can't help thinking just from seeing all the Analytics that's presented to you on the Analytics page - the algorithm loves it when you just put out something regularly.
And that could be once a month, could be once a week, but just having that regular pulse means that it's a sign to the algorithm that you are consistent and that you have videos coming out at a regular rate.

I don't think it should be every day, I think you'll probably start to feel ill if, if you were to do it daily.
I just wanted to hit one video every week - even now that's a struggle.

But just getting out something regularly has, has, I think, was the first big step to a big leap in my subscribers.
Most of my views don't come from subscribers.

I think this is more a thing that lets the YouTube algorithm - the YouTube machine - to bump you up as a regular YouTube channel.

Now to help you, I've gathered a load of videos from around YouTube right here on this playlist.
I'll put the playlist link up here, and it's down in the description:

Videos that I found really really inspirational in helping you to keep going there's a video called 100 crappy videos - which is one of my favorites and oh my goodness the Casey Neistat video: "Filmmaking is a sport"
Anyway all of those videos helped keep me going - and this Ira Glass video as well.
So I hope those videos help you hit this point: number one post regularly.

The second big thing that I think helped me... I've not seen anyone talk about this at length really.
I am absolutely convinced that leaving comments on other people's videos is a really good idea - so that's my gut instinct tip number two.
I think you should be doing it for a number of reasons.
Firstly I think it's just a kind thing to do, so even if it doesn't have any effect on your channel - I think you're helping other people in your situation.

I think psychologically if you start helping other people to achieve their aim by encouraging them with kind comments you are more likely to invite some of that onto your channel.
So I think firstly just-- just be a good person and say well done to the people who make the videos that you watch.

As soon as I started leaving comments on other people's channels I think two things happened:
Firstly I think the YouTube algorithm started to see my channel in lots of other places, and that's another clump of data that it can gather to maybe suggest your channel to other people who like that channel?

Maybe it's more direct than that.

Maybe people scrolling through the comments might be more likely to click on your avatar to find out more about you, if you've left an interesting comment somewhere?

I just think it's a really good idea to leave comments on other people's videos.

One of the hardest things, as you know, recording videos on YouTube is that you're worried that someone's going to leave a nasty message - and I've had certain comments that have been a little bit off, and you know 100 percent of the time when you click on that avatar - when you go to their channel - the person who left you a horrible comment, they have never ever, EVER made a video themselves.

And I am delighted every time I get a comment that's slightly off-key.

I love the fact that they've not made anything themselves.

But anyway, leaving comments on other people's videos that's my big tip number two.

Unexpected tip number three, for how I think I got 1000 subscribers is "Making subtitles".
YouTube calls them lots of different things...
They're called subtitles... they're called captions, or closed captions, or CC, which is I think an American term.

I put subtitles on my videos and I'm convinced that has helped me.
I'm convinced that YouTube's seeing that my video has been manually subtitled bumped it up in the ranking.
If it doesn't, I'm absolutely sure that my videos have gone up in the ranking, which means they're offered to more viewers, because I have removed the auto-generated subtitles that are automatically applied to your video when you upload.

These captions are usually really good but the two things they get wrong... they get my name wrong!
They get the name wrong of the terminology that I'm using - so the actual video... say if it's about a camera... the auto-generated captions spell that camera name wrong - so you're missing out on letting Google and YouTube know what your video is about.

These auto-generated subtitles have actually put swear words into my subtitles where they don't exist!
Maybe it's my British accent?
Maybe it's because I do not have an American accent, but anyway I made a whole video about how to make subtitles and how to transcribe your videos.

It's up in the corner of the video now if you click on the "i" and I'll put a link to that in the description below - but I really, really strongly recommend you teach yourself how to subtitle your videos.
I think that really helped me get 1000 subscribers.

Tip number four: "Good video hygiene."
I came across this term when I was working for a branded content agency.
It's a lovely word, "hygiene".
It just means make sure all the bits of your video are clean!

Good YouTube hygiene is having a good title - it's having a description that's really sort of "beefy" and writes out in prose what your video is about, and what is in the video, and why your audience should be watching this video.

Subtitling is part of good hygiene.
I always put cards at the top of the videos.
I always put an end board... at the end!

I sometimes get a bit hung up about having to do it, because after I've shot the video and edited the video, the last thing I want to do is to spend the same amount of time typing.
But just good general hygiene for your videos has really, really, I'm convinced helped me to get 1000 subscribers.

I think good hygiene on your videos means that the YouTube algorithm ranks your video more highly because it shows it has some care and attention behind it, so--
And the details that you put in themselves also help rank your video higher and make it more likely that someone's going to see your video, and more likely that someone's going to hit subscribe.

By the way on that note, I've actually put these tips in the description so you can jump around if these tips are helping, or if you have any tips that have helped you to get more subscribers, please leave a comment now. Just click on the comments below, it'd be lovely to hear from you - just say hi.

But here's the last tip.
"Take viewers on your journey."

I'll say it again because it's a bit oblique: "Take viewers along with you on your journey."

So I wanted to get 1000 subscribers.
I was really upfront in every video that that was my aim.
I actually said it out loud in every single video "I really want to get a thousand subscribers".

Other creators - other youtubers actually want to help.

There are other people who want to help.

I want to help you, that's why I'm making this video - just to encourage you to keep going, so that you too can hit 1000 subscribers.
I know you can.

All you need to do is to keep posting and to take people with you on your journey.
We're all in this together, and we're all part of this YouTube ecology.

You can step up - you can leave comments on other people's videos - you can keep sharing stories from your viewpoint - and I found the more that I did that, the more of myself that I put into the videos.

I think it's a volume thing.

I think the more videos that you make, the more likely it is that you let your guard down and you bring people in on the things that you really want to talk about.

You won't do it on the first video.

You might not do it on the first ten videos, but if you have this regular pulse where you're putting out videos, eventually your story is just going to come out and you're going to share more and more, and that is why someone's going to subscribe to you.

Someone, somewhere in the world is going to want to hear your story.

And the brilliant thing with YouTube is that it could be out there forever, for everyone - and the algorithm, I find is really good at finding people who might latch on to hearing the things that you want to say.

So that's it!
That's my top five unexpected reasons why I think I got to 1000 subscribers.

Leave a comment! If you've hit 1000 subscribers and you have an unexpected reason that you haven't seen shared very often, please leave me a comment.
It'd be lovely to hear from you.
If you've hit this point in the video and it has helped why not hit the thumbs up.
It would be lovely to know that somebody reached this point in the video and if you're feeling even kinder, why not subscribe?

I guess my next goal - to hit - I don't know what colour button comes next after 1000 subscribers.
Leave a comment - what should the next YouTube play button be for 10,000 subscribers?
I can't even begin to think what would be more cherished than my beautiful brown button.
Thanks for watching and I'll see you for the next 10,000 subscribers!
I need to change the end of the video!


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