Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux - 4269 Freedomain Studio Tour: Merry Christmas!
Aired: 2018-12-21
Duration: 04:04


=== New Studio Upgrade (03:08) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey everybody, Stefan Molyneux from FreeDomain.
[00:00:01]  Hope you're doing well. I wanted to invite you into my lair, into the new upgraded studio so that you can see what's going on a little bit behind the scenes at FreeDomain.
[00:00:11]  So, a couple of things I wanted to do.
[00:00:13]  I'd first of all been working with the existing studio setup for about five years and I wanted to change it to get better lighting, also to be free of being tethered like a fish with a hook to the microphone that had to stay so close.
[00:00:25]  To my voice. So what we've done is we've got some different lighting here on the background.
[00:00:30]  So as you can see, we've got a paper background and I can change the lights up a little with a variety of gels.
[00:00:35]  I'm looking at sort of themes for various show types with different coloring and the shading is nicer, a little bit more visually interesting.
[00:00:42]  I've got an overhead light that is good, but a challenge because, you know, being bald, lighting up the old head is a challenge because it basically looks like I'm always having a good idea.
[00:00:53]  Or it looks like an eclipse, a sort of diamond ring situation.
[00:00:57]  So we're still working on that. The mixer has been upgraded, which is great.
[00:01:04]  And we've got lights here now that are very different from what I was working with before.
[00:01:08]  So this is a fill light.
[00:01:10]  This light here, this circle light, took me a little bit of getting used to because I had lights on either side before, but my lights before had all the subtlety of your average pharmacy lighting situation.
[00:01:20]  Here, looking in the camera lens through the middle here, it's kind of like I'm staring down through a tunnel of infinite time.
[00:01:27]  It's taking a little bit of getting used to, but it does produce a much nicer effect on the outside.
[00:01:31]  You can see here down on the ground, this is, well, it's my Not autofocus prison here.
[00:01:38]  So we've got this tape on the ground, which is where I have to stand in order to remain in focus.
[00:01:43]  I did autofocus before, but sometimes it will go out of focus, get blurry and be a mess.
[00:01:48]  So that's better.
[00:01:49]  This mic has liberated me from being chained to the microphone.
[00:01:53]  It's a directional mic, very sensitive.
[00:01:56]  And if it's pointed at my mouth, I can roam around a little bit and I don't have to be tethered.
[00:02:01]  And it gives great sound regardless of how close I am.
[00:02:04]  Which is fantastic.
[00:02:06]  We've got a new box to help me do better live streams, to do intros and outros to all of that.
[00:02:12]  I've upgraded the computer with an AMD Threadripper that allows me to produce videos much more quickly.
[00:02:19]  As you can see overhead here, I had to put in some sound dampening panels, which was quite the exercise in not passing out from spray glue.
[00:02:27]  But it was very exciting.
[00:02:28]  I had lots of visions after working on that.
[00:02:31]  And I'm very, very pleased.
[00:02:33]  I upgraded the camera considerably to get a better video.
[00:02:37]  This camera also can be used when I go out of the studio to work on documentaries as well.
[00:02:43]  I just wanted to give you a sense of what's going on here.
[00:02:46]  It was a pretty expensive upgrade, but I do believe it's worth it.
[00:02:48]  It does make the videos easier on the eyes.
[00:02:50]  The sound quality is better.
[00:02:52]  It gives me some more freedom.
[00:02:53]  It gives me some choices in the backdrop.
[00:02:55]  And it's much more efficient in the production of videos.
[00:02:58]  Much less post-production is needed to get videos out, which allows me to do more videos, which I'm very, very pleased about.
[00:03:05]  So, I just wanted you to know what's going on behind the scenes.

=== Support Makes the Difference (00:55) ===

[00:03:08]  I wanted to thank you for your support.
[00:03:10]  It is your financial support that makes all of this possible, that also makes documentaries like the one I just put out about Poland called The 100-Year March, A Philosopher in Poland.
[00:03:21]  I'll put the link below. I hope you will check it out.
[00:03:23]  I was really, really proud of how it came out.
[00:03:25]  And this is what your support is helping me to achieve.
[00:03:29]  So I just wanted to thank you so much for all of your support and to ask you, if you haven't donated for a while, if you're finding value in what it is that I do, to ask you to please, please, please go to freedomainradio.com slash donate, freedomainradio.com slash donate to help out the show.
[00:03:45]  I promise I've got more documentaries in me.
[00:03:47]  I've got great shows coming up, great guests coming up, and I can't wait.
[00:03:52]  To see everything that we can achieve together in 2019.
[00:03:55]  So thank you very much.
[00:03:57]  Merry Christmas to everyone.
[00:03:58]  Happy New Year. And again, if you have a moment, freedomainradio.com slash donate.
[00:04:03]  Thanks everyone so much.