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Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, Episode 183

Welcome to the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, where our mission is to help you turn your creative passions into a stable, reliable income. If you're in audio, video, design, photography, or really any other creative field, and you just want to learn from other successful creatives, you're in the right place.

Welcome back to another episode of the 6 Figure Creative Podcast. I'm your host, Brian Hood. I'm here with my big, bald, beautiful, well-lit co-host, Christopher J. Graham. How are you doing today, Chris?

Christopher J. Graham (0:32)

I'm doing equally as well as you are because you are also well-lit.

Brian Hood (0:37)

You got me on the gear-loss world of good lighting, man. I spent like 350 bucks on new lights after last episode.

Christopher J. Graham (0:44)

Yeah, so the story with that is we went to NAMM, which is like this professional conference for media people, and we were there, and we met a rep from this company called Aperture, and we struck up a conversation. They gave me some lights.

Brian Hood (1:01)

They didn't give me any lights? What the hell?

You're repping a brand right now, and I haven't seen it. I paid money for these.

Christopher J. Graham (1:08)

They're hard to get a hold of. Our guy is amazing, but he doesn't respond that often, and so I just went out and bought their big freaking video light.

Brian Hood (1:16)

That's their strategy. They connect with people, the young upstarts like us, that gets you excited with a prospect of free gear, maybe free gear, and then they leave you dangling, so you're like, I can't wait anymore. I'm gonna go buy it myself with my own money.

Christopher J. Graham (1:28)

Not to be fair, I did get free gear.

Brian Hood (1:29)

Yeah, you got little square lights thing, it's fine. It's like, for anyone watching on YouTube right now, it was like a pack of cards he just held up. It's like, it was a nod to lighting.

Christopher J. Graham (1:38)

Indeed, but yeah, so we got, and I think we've had, this is such a weird conversation because we're both geeking out about it, but you see on like YouTube or videos where someone's making a video and they have this huge, giant half of an egg that glows, and it's like three feet wide. It's a dome light.

And the thing about a dome light that I think is important for creatives and people that make videos to know about is that a dome light...

Brian Hood (2:05)

Anyone listening can just skip ahead, like probably four or five minutes, Chris, how long are you gonna go on this?

Christopher J. Graham (2:10)

I'll be like four or five seconds. Brian and I have glasses, and when you have glasses, you get weird shadows all over your face when you're trying to make a video and it makes you look like a psychopath or like...

Brian Hood (2:18)

It's true. If you watch any of my old videos, YouTube or anything, before mid-January, it is a glasses shadow. I look kind of creepy.

So Chris got me on this train. I bought this light. I look way better. I'm not gonna lie. It was a good investment of my time and money. But yeah, so there we go. If you're watching YouTube, you see the beautiful difference between before and after. Me and Chris both look great. But I also noticed one thing that also makes Chris even more beautiful is that his mustache is gone. Chris, I just now, like literally just now noticed you don't have a mustache anymore.

And we've been talking for like two hours today so far.

Christopher J. Graham (2:49)

I know, what the hell, man? Yeah, I just sort of on a whim shaved it off over the weekend.

My daughter and I have been like pretending to have salons at the apartment, and like I'll do her hair. She gave me a haircut. And I had my, in my mind, I was like-

Brian Hood (3:05)

Pretend haircut, by the way, because you don't have hair.

Christopher J. Graham (3:07)

Oh, no, no, she shaved my head. It was awesome.

Brian Hood (3:10)

Oh, you actually gave her the little shaver thing to shave your head?

Christopher J. Graham (3:11)

Yeah, I gave her the buzzer thing. Like you can't possibly hurt someone with my shaver. It's the Philips OneBlade. Shout out to Philips, we're not sponsored, but dear God, what a good shaver.

And I had in my mind that like she was gonna, I was gonna let her cut my mustache off because I thought like that's a memory for sure right there.