Elijah: "Alex gave me a 30 second rundown so I'm an expert" Alex: "I watched a youtube video so I know what I'm doing" The LTT Cinematic Learning Universe is expanding.
Look, I became a software dev starting out on RUclips tutorials. Once you get the distilled easy to understand basics, learning the more complex things is SO much easier.
automotive mechanics used to read books that people wrote as the just took apart and rebuilt everything in cars to learn how to repair cars. now they all watch people doing the same thing on videos. same concept.....
@@7shortofperfection not tv cause that's through an aerial thats outside the house and then transferred using a wire - not wireless from the aerial. Cell signal 100% yes as it's not recevied outside the house.
@@chaschuky999 and you can tell the house painter inside him never died when hes like "Its a thousand dollar paint job, you can spend 4 seconds to sand it down" at 7:10
The thing is, i have never seen Linus as serious about a piece of tech as he is about painting. Life or death versus "yeah whatever, let's water cool the 4090, what if it leaks all over the x3d"
Love how everyone is ignoring the fact that the RF paint is getting painted over as well. Even with a proper black wall paint, it wont look nearly that dark.
13:00 I know Linus was a professional painter and all but there's always something amusing about him being more knowledgeable about painting than the "professionals" that are getting hired.
@@kriaz9916 Yeah - why would they care when they get paid either way. I sure hope they hired a different company to do the scraping otherwise they would be profit-motivated to mess stuff up like this on purpose heh
Teaching nah he is using his kid for free labor. I dunno but its scummy to make your kid work for your business. But what do I know I dont run a business. I just think because its family dont make it okay to make your kid an employee
@@monsterhunter445 bro Elijah is like Linus's right hand man after Luke took over Floatplane. He is going to be recognizable for decades. You literally can't ask for more. Also he's a very positive guy and was probably genuinely stoked for this experiment.
I love that ltt is linus' wife, best friend/ex-tenant or roommate(Luke), boyfriend (Jake) and adoptive child (Elijah). Not only does he have paid friends but also paid family. The guy won in life but has to rent his victory 😂
After doing a bit of reattach I talked to an RF engineer I worked with who has used this stuff in offices to prep labs. He notes this paint is HIGHLY sensitive to proper mixing. The particulate in the paint does settle out quicker than pigments in other paint, and this is not visible. RF engineers who use the stuff actually recommend using a drill mixer and re-mixing the paint every-time you fill your paint tray. Secondly the bonding is quite important and that you really want to maintain a wet edge between any surface and the bonding strips to ensure you don't get layering of the paint binder messing with the bonding (you generally want to also just use much more potential grounding than absolutely necessary. Third, you want to apply at LEAST 3 coats with a high nap roller. The two the manufactures recommend generally results in disappointing performance. And finally for WIFI specifically, I've been told that a 3 coats of RF-IE50 and 2 coats of PPG or Behr Copper paint gives a very good frequency coverage. And for flooring, if you cannot cover the floor you can use conductive materials under carpet, or good quality ESD flooring matts to cover as much of the floor as possible (all have to be grounded as well).
@@KingdomJackFantasy sure, just place a conductive sheet over every surface. Copper foil or mesh behind or affixed to all the drywall would do fine. 200-300 mesh is ideal. Technically aluminum would probably do okay as well.
@@KingdomJackFantasy of course you can (even if this is not a good idea because of graphite can flake out easily and prevent the plaster to attach properly). Using a wire mesh just prior to apply the plaster to the wall (which is, BTW, a standard operation to keep the plaster in place, even if in this case you need a metal mesh instead of the classic plastic or glass fiber one) is definitely a better option. Anyway, anything that is conductive is adequate, but keep in mind that you must ensure a good electrical connection on all seams otherwise the results will be inadequate. Also, you cannot penetrate the wall with wires or metal pipes otherwise the results will be severely impaired.... To penetrate the wall with a pipe you need either a plastic pipe or a metal pipe strongly bonded and connected to the mesh in the exact place where it cross the cage. To penetrate the wall with a cable you need a proper EMI filter that must be placed in the same place and strongly bonded with the cage. For best results is better to avoid penetration in multiple places (if possible) and keep all the connections in a single place. Of course, both the doors and windows must be shielded too, and, most important, you need an RF gasket (or EMI fingers) all around the doors and windows to keep the cage closed. The most important thing is not the shielding material itself (tinfoil is adequate) but how you install it.
F O R E S H A D O W I N G That's the entirety of this episode XD I had so much fun watching this. Thank you so much Elijah for accepting the bonkers idea of RF-proofing your apartment. You are a gem Linus is actually pretty good at teaching people how to paint
Woremor: Sponsors the episode by gifting the paint required Also Woremar: Gets the LTT distrack of "we don't like them because almost all their products are snakeoil" Massive respect for calling them out despite the gift.
People who buy into snake oil shit won't care about the critic (because they obviously just believe whatever they want to) and therefore any good ad is a good ad for Woremor lol
@@marcup1584 maybe. But if Linus hadn't said anything, plenty of people could go there and just assume any product is endorsed by Linus. We may be a very techy community, but there are still plenty that take his word as absolute. or lack there of I suppose.
Lol. I was starting to wonder if I heard the part about them gifting the paint wrong. Regardless of how Linus trashed them, I'm sure it'll still translate to sales for them, either from people who believe the snake oil anyways or people who want RF blocking paint for reasons like Elijah.
Lol as an RF engineering student I love this. They put a similar coating onto stealth airplanes. Although using percent to describe the loss instead of dB hurt a little
and that shits expensive and requires a whole ass clean hanger just to redo it. i was stationed at a base with a stealth plane and saw that seperate hanger dedicated to recoating.
The B-2, F-117, and F-22 all use a ludicrously expensive and expensive to apply paint, yes. The F-35 and in the future the B-21 have the coating hard-baked into the skin panels and it can't be scraped off like on older stealth, and when a mission calls for it they have special tape for covering all the seams and panel bolts.
okay props to Elijah for (i think) playing the (arguably) "dumb child" in portions of this video to have a baseline for educational "corrections". now i don't know whether he ACTUALLY doesn't know the things Linus was teaching him about but i genuinely think Elijah is a pretty freaggin' smart dude and embraces the "i'm here for you to correct me" role to make the point that's being educated about more fun to digest. i absolutely love it and think he's an amazing addition to the team!
If you never painted before you are going to do it wrong, it takes time to learn how to edge manually for example (without pretaping). Linus of course has years of experience painting so he is skillful. I don't think Elijah was playing dumb he was just being his normal aloof self and figuring it out along the way.
Elijah is clearly very knowledgeable about tech-related things, generally speaking. The thing is that he's really young (I think he's in his early 20s?) so he's very much a zoomer and hasn't had nearly as much life experience as Linus. And then yeah I'm sure he plays up his ignorance a bit for the camera. Calling it "sanding paper" is totally something my little sister would call it. She's not stupid she just hasn't ever had to sand anything lol. Also, cutting a perfect edge while painting, without using tape, is NOT easy. I was a house painter for a few years and like yeah you can do it really well if you're a beginner but you are going be super slow. So slow that most beginners will get bored and speed up and then fuck up the line. It's not exactly intuitive, you can't use too much paint or else it will glob and run over your line, but you have to use enough that it actually provides coverage.
@@Tyler-z8rmy first mistake painting was trying to put it in thicker instead of letting it dry for a second coat. It does definitely take some finesse.
Wait, are you telling me paint is better than the scamulet? I mean, I'm not terribly surprised, but also more amused at how bad the amulet people screwed up 😂
I think he was trying to avoid the reflection of his light on that screen, but he keeps panning back and forth so I think he was acutely aware of the waifu pillow
@6:56 - 1000000% Feel that pain. Had family and friends that wanted my help in painting and were like "yeah, there are lots of spots on the wall that are f'd up and I don't want to fix them, just paint" Like folks rolling around in a dented up, newly painted civic.
I love how Linus just gets in there and does some handwork or troubleshooting despite being the boss and a millionaire, this is why I keep coming back to this channel after all these years. Great content guys
Elijah's wife is really a trooper! No way my partner would let me get away with such a project! Also, I hope Elijah doesn't rent and actually owns the place!!
This is actually pretty useful information. Especially for property developers. If they can get the price of the paint down to something reasonable, then companies building apartment complexes could just go ahead and paint all the surfaces of all of there apartments with this stuff, and advertise that there apartments are heavily RF isolated from each other, which will make all your wireless devices work better. And you can just paint over it. Which means you cans still have the interior be whatever color you want while getting the blocking benefits of the graphite paint. Not gonna lie, if this stuff was even remotely affordable, I would heavily consider painting my house with it.
Don't need this. My colleage moved into a brand new appartment recently. THICK concreate house with 3 pane windows, super low energy usage etc....which also means it blocks RF REALLY well. He could not make calls properly, data don't work etc. Cell reception and 5g in that area is quite good so works if he is on the balcony. He changed his gf phone to get wifi calling through his carrier (which is available here, similar to VoLTE but over wifi) and just relying on wifi inside the appartment. Don't know the appartment to appartment isolation but the exteriour wall is wade well.
The problem stills comes with the cost of boosting cell service in each apartment though. Tenants are going to be ticked it they move in only to find that their phone barely works at home.
Linus, pro tip on the painting... Yes, use the angle of the brush but flip the brush around so the point of the angle is facing the direction of travel. You can paint a longer and wider stretch with each brush stroke -- bristle length is directly proportional to capacity to carry paint and you want the bristles carrying the most paint leading the brush stroke. Once you get to this orientation (it definitely takes some practice because the bristles behave a little differently when fanning out), you'll find you have fewer instances of needing to go back over the area again to clean up paint streaks/trails.
I just want to say that Elijah is getting so good on camera. He is definitely becoming an on-screen personality. Keep it up Elijah. You're doing great. Keep him around Linus. He's good.
Linus and Elijah give a strong Father vs Barely Adult Son vibe in a very good way… they bounce off each other incredibly well. More videos with those 2 please xD
It's a little painful to watch these videos. A couple of years ago just before she passed away my mother was so convinced that EMF was making her sick that she had moved into the basement of her house. In the interest of protecting her from the consequences of living in the basement I turned her bedroom into a faraday cage. That specific graphite paint is one of the layers of blocking that I buried in the walls. The Wi-Fi doesn't work in her bedroom to this day
That sounds really distressing and intense both for you and for your mother. I'm sorry that you had to go through that. It sounds like you took great care of her, she was lucky to have someone so loving with her for those final years
@Kibannn she has set a pallet on the basement floor, and had poor circulation, combined with blood clots, and arrhythmia. She'd already had at least 2 strokes and visible clotting in her legs. The second stroke was bad enough that it left her partially blinded. She was refusing medical care and my sister didn't want her to die in the basement and then be accused of failing to care for her. The fundamental problem is that she was a trusting innocent person who had lived a generally sheltered life and when the conspiracy poison entered her life it ultimately consumed her. We as a species must combat toxic misinformation because it is literally killing people.
Only about halfway through the video but this is so cool had to pause to say so. Our family just helped to paint my step sons new house last weekend. Ahh the memories.
I always find it amusing how the general behind the scenes team just kind of stand there when Linus is doing one of his bits. They're like extras who were never given any direction lol.
Where that paint would really help is painting the backside of the drywall so it faces the studs so you dont even know it is there. And then you can do the entire house including the floors because you can paint the subfloor and the subceiling.
I'm not an expert but there is no such thing as a subceiling. Drywall is screwed directly to the framework. The subfloor however is true because it needs to be strong enough to hold the weight of everything on the floors. Then it just a decorating choice of carpet, tile, ect. Just like you said of painting the back side of the drywall before mounted will not work, how will you apply the continuous metal strip on the walls before you paint?
One better, drywall is in powder form at some stage of production. They can intergrate the graphite strait into the material, no paint layer required. You would still need to know to ground them tho
I loved this. One of my favorite videos recently. I always enjoy the home renovation videos but with this being something as simple as paint it was super cool. Would probably be amazing for high rises that want them to be smart homes
This is actually really interesting as since I moved into an apartment, my razer kaira pro (which uses a 2.4ghz connection for my xbox) has had repeated connection issues and now I realize its likely the other networks in my building that keep dropping it off
Finally a good use for American cardboard house walls !! You could paint one of the inside surfaces of those sheets with this paint and it will do its job and can be grounded on the inside. Meanwhile the outer wall which you can see doesn't need to go through a goth phase.
A few years ago i discovered how much better setting up a powerline for my gaming PC rather than using Wi-Fi. Its pretty cool you can just plug in this adapter to the router and put another one somewhere else in your house using your electric lines to connect anywhere in the house where there is an electrical socket.. works great I live in a really old house, but we have our Wifi router on the second floor and there are certain spots in the house that the WiFi doesnt work great... We have a wi-fi extender adapter too but for gaming a ethernet connection always works better
@@-_-----It's a pun. The graphite in pencils is sometimes called "pencil lead", as actual lead was the original thing that was used to draw in that way, until someone figured out how to make a graphite pencil.
@@nikkiofthevalley No point in trying to be soft in your reply to them as their aggressive ignorance doesn't require politeness. Not 'sometimes', all the time. Literally still is the product name when you are buying mechanical pencil refills.
A real, useful utility of this paint is in guitars - guitar pickups can pickup radio waves so painting the inside of the guitar can drastically reduce white noise.
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Elijah: "Alex gave me a 30 second rundown so I'm an expert" Alex: "I watched a youtube video so I know what I'm doing" The LTT Cinematic Learning Universe is expanding.
Yeah that's how we all do it now 😅
Look, I became a software dev starting out on RUclips tutorials.
Once you get the distilled easy to understand basics, learning the more complex things is SO much easier.
@@shapelessed Yeah I start coding by going library and loan the book, gotta admit youtube helps alot. Python is still shit :)
automotive mechanics used to read books that people wrote as the just took apart and rebuilt everything in cars to learn how to repair cars. now they all watch people doing the same thing on videos. same concept.....
This is the way
The next tenant is going to be super confused when they can't steal their neighbor's WiFi
Couldn't this effect cell signal and TV signal too?
@@7shortofperfection yah did you not watch the video?
@@7shortofperfection not tv cause that's through an aerial thats outside the house and then transferred using a wire - not wireless from the aerial. Cell signal 100% yes as it's not recevied outside the house.
@obliviator1 if they are using rabbit ears it could, but only if their tv is behind Elijah's painted wall, and the station comes from that direction.
@@masterhacker7065 I'll admit, I didn't finish it when I commented
Linus, leaving his painting job: "Well, I will not be able to use these very specific skills for the rest of my professional life"
So glad Linus is returning to his roots and becoming a house painter again
I unironically love Linus Paint Tips whenever it comes up in a video
@@chaschuky999 and you can tell the house painter inside him never died when hes like "Its a thousand dollar paint job, you can spend 4 seconds to sand it down" at 7:10
Im glad linus is Canadian
^Eh?
The thing is, i have never seen Linus as serious about a piece of tech as he is about painting. Life or death versus "yeah whatever, let's water cool the 4090, what if it leaks all over the x3d"
Those cats are just going to be completely invisible in this apartment. I bet they love it. Couple of little Predators.
What cats? Those were black voids!!
Love how everyone is ignoring the fact that the RF paint is getting painted over as well. Even with a proper black wall paint, it wont look nearly that dark.
Bro I have a black cat and man LOVES to hide in any sort of shadow. They peak at night but his cats can be peaking at any moment. Wicked hahaha
The cats were a different color before. They were painted black as part of the sponsored segment.
Yup, their just going to be eyes, teeth, and claws now. Just the way they like it!
5:32 - I love how the cameraman keeps panning over to make sure we see the dakimura, lol...
13:00 I know Linus was a professional painter and all but there's always something amusing about him being more knowledgeable about painting than the "professionals" that are getting hired.
A Jack Spicer PFP? In 2025??? Let's go! Based!
It’s not about knowing more it’s about caring at all, these painters probably know these things they just can’t be bothered
@@kriaz9916 Yeah - why would they care when they get paid either way. I sure hope they hired a different company to do the scraping otherwise they would be profit-motivated to mess stuff up like this on purpose heh
Painting walls is actually really fun. I've painted a few houses now and it's so simple yet so satisfying.
@ I find drywall mudding and painting to be very zen-like activities for me
Seeing Linus teaching one of his sons about painting and decorating is a beautiful thing to see
The good part is that it will make watching OLED TVs even more immersive.
Teaching nah he is using his kid for free labor. I dunno but its scummy to make your kid work for your business. But what do I know I dont run a business. I just think because its family dont make it okay to make your kid an employee
@@monsterhunter445 bro Elijah is like Linus's right hand man after Luke took over Floatplane. He is going to be recognizable for decades. You literally can't ask for more. Also he's a very positive guy and was probably genuinely stoked for this experiment.
@@monsterhunter445you understand Elijah is a paid employee, and not actually Linus's family, yes? I'm confused as to what you're even talking about.
I love that ltt is linus' wife, best friend/ex-tenant or roommate(Luke), boyfriend (Jake) and adoptive child (Elijah). Not only does he have paid friends but also paid family. The guy won in life but has to rent his victory 😂
After doing a bit of reattach I talked to an RF engineer I worked with who has used this stuff in offices to prep labs. He notes this paint is HIGHLY sensitive to proper mixing. The particulate in the paint does settle out quicker than pigments in other paint, and this is not visible. RF engineers who use the stuff actually recommend using a drill mixer and re-mixing the paint every-time you fill your paint tray. Secondly the bonding is quite important and that you really want to maintain a wet edge between any surface and the bonding strips to ensure you don't get layering of the paint binder messing with the bonding (you generally want to also just use much more potential grounding than absolutely necessary. Third, you want to apply at LEAST 3 coats with a high nap roller. The two the manufactures recommend generally results in disappointing performance. And finally for WIFI specifically, I've been told that a 3 coats of RF-IE50 and 2 coats of PPG or Behr Copper paint gives a very good frequency coverage. And for flooring, if you cannot cover the floor you can use conductive materials under carpet, or good quality ESD flooring matts to cover as much of the floor as possible (all have to be grounded as well).
Would it be possible to have this conductive material in the walls instead of the paint?
@@KingdomJackFantasy sure, just place a conductive sheet over every surface. Copper foil or mesh behind or affixed to all the drywall would do fine. 200-300 mesh is ideal. Technically aluminum would probably do okay as well.
@@KingdomJackFantasy of course you can (even if this is not a good idea because of graphite can flake out easily and prevent the plaster to attach properly).
Using a wire mesh just prior to apply the plaster to the wall (which is, BTW, a standard operation to keep the plaster in place, even if in this case you need a metal mesh instead of the classic plastic or glass fiber one) is definitely a better option.
Anyway, anything that is conductive is adequate, but keep in mind that you must ensure a good electrical connection on all seams otherwise the results will be inadequate.
Also, you cannot penetrate the wall with wires or metal pipes otherwise the results will be severely impaired....
To penetrate the wall with a pipe you need either a plastic pipe or a metal pipe strongly bonded and connected to the mesh in the exact place where it cross the cage.
To penetrate the wall with a cable you need a proper EMI filter that must be placed in the same place and strongly bonded with the cage.
For best results is better to avoid penetration in multiple places (if possible) and keep all the connections in a single place.
Of course, both the doors and windows must be shielded too, and, most important, you need an RF gasket (or EMI fingers) all around the doors and windows to keep the cage closed.
The most important thing is not the shielding material itself (tinfoil is adequate) but how you install it.
The LTT Office is the closest real-life counterpart to the The Office TV show.
linus is the abusive megalomaniac?
@@dmmetzpaul Yes.
YESS ahaha this is perfect ! We need a full work day TV show for LTT !..
Sometimes Linus even sounds like Michael Scott. I think it's great
Mandatory fun activities
Elija's face perfectly captured everyone when the router was pulled out of the box. My brain went "Is that a router or a fking drone?!"
Imagine flying router who would follow you :D
My first thought was how the hell does it have less ports, while being 3x the size of the other one.
@lukaskucera2501 Who needs 5G when I have Wifi wherever I go!
@lukaskucera2501 Could do that with relay drones
Yeah that router is beastly 😅
F O R E S H A D O W I N G
That's the entirety of this episode XD
I had so much fun watching this. Thank you so much Elijah for accepting the bonkers idea of RF-proofing your apartment. You are a gem
Linus is actually pretty good at teaching people how to paint
It could be a part of the fact I paint parking lots and such, but just about everything about this video was hitting gold for me, really fun video
Woremor: Sponsors the episode by gifting the paint required
Also Woremar: Gets the LTT distrack of "we don't like them because almost all their products are snakeoil"
Massive respect for calling them out despite the gift.
People who buy into snake oil shit won't care about the critic (because they obviously just believe whatever they want to) and therefore any good ad is a good ad for Woremor lol
I think all the costs associated with the video, including paint, contractors, etc, were paid by Asus here?
@@romangiertych5198Paint was said to be sent by woremor
@@marcup1584 maybe. But if Linus hadn't said anything, plenty of people could go there and just assume any product is endorsed by Linus. We may be a very techy community, but there are still plenty that take his word as absolute. or lack there of I suppose.
Lol. I was starting to wonder if I heard the part about them gifting the paint wrong. Regardless of how Linus trashed them, I'm sure it'll still translate to sales for them, either from people who believe the snake oil anyways or people who want RF blocking paint for reasons like Elijah.
Cats: "Thank you for painting the wall to match us! Very good taste, sirs!"
The relationship these two have on camera is very endearing
Lol as an RF engineering student I love this. They put a similar coating onto stealth airplanes. Although using percent to describe the loss instead of dB hurt a little
and that shits expensive and requires a whole ass clean hanger just to redo it. i was stationed at a base with a stealth plane and saw that seperate hanger dedicated to recoating.
The coating they put on a stealth plane is nothing close to this.
@@JSLEnterprises In its ingredient and effectiveness probably but in terms of functionality its not that different
The B-2, F-117, and F-22 all use a ludicrously expensive and expensive to apply paint, yes. The F-35 and in the future the B-21 have the coating hard-baked into the skin panels and it can't be scraped off like on older stealth, and when a mission calls for it they have special tape for covering all the seams and panel bolts.
And that is the reason why I put a faraday cage on my apartment when renovating it. It's surprisingly cheap to do it in a small place.
Only Linus could take 'painting a house' and turn it into a full-blown tech experiment.
okay props to Elijah for (i think) playing the (arguably) "dumb child" in portions of this video to have a baseline for educational "corrections". now i don't know whether he ACTUALLY doesn't know the things Linus was teaching him about but i genuinely think Elijah is a pretty freaggin' smart dude and embraces the "i'm here for you to correct me" role to make the point that's being educated about more fun to digest. i absolutely love it and think he's an amazing addition to the team!
If you never painted before you are going to do it wrong, it takes time to learn how to edge manually for example (without pretaping). Linus of course has years of experience painting so he is skillful. I don't think Elijah was playing dumb he was just being his normal aloof self and figuring it out along the way.
Legit - if they don’t play dumb then the channel just becomes the same as every other channel. It’s a great ploy
@@MonolithStudiosMelbourne. It’s probably a bit of both. Ignorance from Inexperience and playing a part..
Elijah is clearly very knowledgeable about tech-related things, generally speaking. The thing is that he's really young (I think he's in his early 20s?) so he's very much a zoomer and hasn't had nearly as much life experience as Linus. And then yeah I'm sure he plays up his ignorance a bit for the camera.
Calling it "sanding paper" is totally something my little sister would call it. She's not stupid she just hasn't ever had to sand anything lol.
Also, cutting a perfect edge while painting, without using tape, is NOT easy.
I was a house painter for a few years and like yeah you can do it really well if you're a beginner but you are going be super slow. So slow that most beginners will get bored and speed up and then fuck up the line.
It's not exactly intuitive, you can't use too much paint or else it will glob and run over your line, but you have to use enough that it actually provides coverage.
@@Tyler-z8rmy first mistake painting was trying to put it in thicker instead of letting it dry for a second coat.
It does definitely take some finesse.
Wait, are you telling me paint is better than the scamulet?
I mean, I'm not terribly surprised, but also more amused at how bad the amulet people screwed up 😂
19:38 that is not what I heard the first time 😂😂😂
6:04 camera man knows whats hes doing including the waifu pillow REPATEDLY in frame😂😂😂
I was just about to say that - I was looking for this comment 🤣🤣
The camera man needs a raise
@@FOOTEAH he's not though, he's trying to keep the measuring device in the frame.
Is this waifu interference?
I think he was trying to avoid the reflection of his light on that screen, but he keeps panning back and forth so I think he was acutely aware of the waifu pillow
That foreshadowing slide in is pure comedy gold
Just the perfect pacing.
I absolutely loved that I was dying laughing
12:30 At this point, it's not even foreshadowing anymore; It's a full-blown prophecy.
The ghost wire tape name drop was perfect timing. I was looking for a nice way to run surround speaker cables this morning
That's scrolling foreshadowing... 😂😂
Had me rolling
It's even more fun with popcorn ceilings depending on their age. They could have asbestos in them until the late 1980s so it's an extra layer of fun.
I really dig the black paint ... didn´t know I wanted that, but now I do.
"No, please don't!" "let's roll the intro!!!" 😂
That’s how i feel at 20 hp before the DM says “Lets roll the initiative”
As a former professional painter as a first career, Linus touches my tech and painter heart all in one. His advice about painting is good.
13:06 I died when the foreshadowing definition came up!
The void cat is going to love being extra void in the void room 😂
Two of them!
@6:56 - 1000000% Feel that pain. Had family and friends that wanted my help in painting and were like "yeah, there are lots of spots on the wall that are f'd up and I don't want to fix them, just paint" Like folks rolling around in a dented up, newly painted civic.
I love how Linus just gets in there and does some handwork or troubleshooting despite being the boss and a millionaire, this is why I keep coming back to this channel after all these years. Great content guys
Elijah's wife is really a trooper! No way my partner would let me get away with such a project!
Also, I hope Elijah doesn't rent and actually owns the place!!
its his job, my wife would get smckd if she tried to mess with our income xD
@@TheNeext 😬
@@TheNeext - yikes, found the abuser.
@@TheNeext bro what
this editing is just priceless.. Elijah is so likeable and maybe scripted but him bothering his boss cracks me up!
5:35 is no one gonna talk about the random anime pillow he just has lying there?
Was looking for this.
No, lol
Thats kind of Elijah's thing, lol.
its called a dakimakura ;)
@@plasmathunderdx and it's art, to kinda quote a certain famous person
Elijah is now addicted to graphite
A wifi analyzer in the same shot with the waifu pillow. Epic.
The editing on this LTT video is a cut above normal. The editor needs a raise.
10:45 It's so nice to see a father teaching his son how to paint
that 12:52 "hm" was absolute golden
13:12 the Wikipedia article slowly gliding in is just so funny to me 😭 my humor is broken
1:15 Bro living in the backrooms
6:13 The way this whole scene unfolded into the rainbow bathroom was just too perfect. 😆👌
This is actually pretty useful information. Especially for property developers.
If they can get the price of the paint down to something reasonable, then companies building apartment complexes could just go ahead and paint all the surfaces of all of there apartments with this stuff, and advertise that there apartments are heavily RF isolated from each other, which will make all your wireless devices work better.
And you can just paint over it. Which means you cans still have the interior be whatever color you want while getting the blocking benefits of the graphite paint.
Not gonna lie, if this stuff was even remotely affordable, I would heavily consider painting my house with it.
Don't need this. My colleage moved into a brand new appartment recently. THICK concreate house with 3 pane windows, super low energy usage etc....which also means it blocks RF REALLY well. He could not make calls properly, data don't work etc. Cell reception and 5g in that area is quite good so works if he is on the balcony.
He changed his gf phone to get wifi calling through his carrier (which is available here, similar to VoLTE but over wifi) and just relying on wifi inside the appartment.
Don't know the appartment to appartment isolation but the exteriour wall is wade well.
Just put screen or foil under the drywall. Far cheaper.
The problem stills comes with the cost of boosting cell service in each apartment though.
Tenants are going to be ticked it they move in only to find that their phone barely works at home.
Problem is cell service though
This would be illegal in the US. FCC prohibits interfering with wireless signals. That includes cellular networks.
The perfect look of helplessness and shock on Elijah’s face. Gotta love it
😂🎨 Just when you think it's all about painting... then it's about fixing WiFi! 📶🤣 Loved the twist, so creative! 👏🙌
11:12 daddy Linus teaching his adopted son is so cute
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Never thought I’d see Linus giving valid painting techniques 😂😂 never knew he used to be a professional painter for abit damn
look up the paint rant.
He was soooo mad when his new house got painted (or was it the one before?) and the contractors were soooo bad :D He ranted about it for months.
An interesting video that is both informative and funny?
Damn LTT, you’re burning it up these days. 👍👍👍
5:33 that pillow is wild 💀
Could be worse, could be a shadow the hedgehog daki
Never seen a dakimakura before?
@@amr_4509 id have one if i lived alone
And he has a wife!
The pillow from the REDMAGIC unboxing
Fantastic video idea, I also appreciate the call out about the company selling snake oil as well
Linus, pro tip on the painting... Yes, use the angle of the brush but flip the brush around so the point of the angle is facing the direction of travel. You can paint a longer and wider stretch with each brush stroke -- bristle length is directly proportional to capacity to carry paint and you want the bristles carrying the most paint leading the brush stroke. Once you get to this orientation (it definitely takes some practice because the bristles behave a little differently when fanning out), you'll find you have fewer instances of needing to go back over the area again to clean up paint streaks/trails.
I love seeing this genuine kind of father & son bonding time ♥
I just want to say that Elijah is getting so good on camera. He is definitely becoming an on-screen personality. Keep it up Elijah. You're doing great. Keep him around Linus. He's good.
This.
Elijah and Linus has the best onscreen chemistry. Love the Odd couple vibe in all their videos
This video wasn't on my radar, but now it's my entire map
"Hey, I know someone with a weak backbone!"
Elijah catching strays 💀💀😂😂
Linus and Elijah give a strong Father vs Barely Adult Son vibe in a very good way… they bounce off each other incredibly well. More videos with those 2 please xD
It's a little painful to watch these videos. A couple of years ago just before she passed away my mother was so convinced that EMF was making her sick that she had moved into the basement of her house. In the interest of protecting her from the consequences of living in the basement I turned her bedroom into a faraday cage. That specific graphite paint is one of the layers of blocking that I buried in the walls. The Wi-Fi doesn't work in her bedroom to this day
That sounds really distressing and intense both for you and for your mother. I'm sorry that you had to go through that. It sounds like you took great care of her, she was lucky to have someone so loving with her for those final years
what a 🥜 job 😂
What do you mean by the "consequences of living in the basement" ?
/gen
@chimpo131 probably was mentally deteriorating dude. Calm down. Even if not, psychosomatic symptoms are sadly still really felt.
@Kibannn she has set a pallet on the basement floor, and had poor circulation, combined with blood clots, and arrhythmia. She'd already had at least 2 strokes and visible clotting in her legs. The second stroke was bad enough that it left her partially blinded. She was refusing medical care and my sister didn't want her to die in the basement and then be accused of failing to care for her. The fundamental problem is that she was a trusting innocent person who had lived a generally sheltered life and when the conspiracy poison entered her life it ultimately consumed her. We as a species must combat toxic misinformation because it is literally killing people.
i saw Elijah's reaction to the router at 3:42 and thought "theres no way thats not an over reaction" until i had basically the same reaction.
Only about halfway through the video but this is so cool had to pause to say so. Our family just helped to paint my step sons new house last weekend. Ahh the memories.
I always find it amusing how the general behind the scenes team just kind of stand there when Linus is doing one of his bits. They're like extras who were never given any direction lol.
I appreciate they also made the cat black to protect it from the RF, top notch
Elijah is such a good sport 😂 good guy.. funny af. ❤
4:01 Linus almost had another hard R moment lol
a fella can't even add "er" to the end of a word anymore, sad times
saying gigger is more than just adding an er :D
@@tizxan you got a problem with ten giggerbit ethernet?
So what?
@@darthdonkulous1810 guys I'm not complaining, it's just a funny moment
i love that the definition of foreshadowing starts scrolling when linus tells elijah that the paint will peel off the ceiling
This video is actually fantastic, and includes a free painting tutorial!
LOL that Elijah opening skit!
Where that paint would really help is painting the backside of the drywall so it faces the studs so you dont even know it is there. And then you can do the entire house including the floors because you can paint the subfloor and the subceiling.
I'm not an expert but there is no such thing as a subceiling. Drywall is screwed directly to the framework. The subfloor however is true because it needs to be strong enough to hold the weight of everything on the floors. Then it just a decorating choice of carpet, tile, ect. Just like you said of painting the back side of the drywall before mounted will not work, how will you apply the continuous metal strip on the walls before you paint?
One better, drywall is in powder form at some stage of production. They can intergrate the graphite strait into the material, no paint layer required.
You would still need to know to ground them tho
@@profwaldone at this point you can just add a thin foil layer into the drywall sandwich whic will probablyu be cheaper to manufacture
You can get drywall/plasterboard that is x-ray proof , we use it when we do doctor or vets rooms
@@ErrorTH true
5:30 hm, nice pillow
I like the intro 1:33 : it's also the summary of the video ("a tinfoil hat is cheaper")
Man i love Elijah he's such a perfect addition to LMG.
Hopefully they hire him on, ive never seen an intern so committed to his craft 🥰
@@DerekMartelldoes he not have a fixed contract?
I'm always left feeling like Linus enjoys painting more than tech tips.
Why is it so comical watching Elija and Linus... Like they brothers, like Linus is trying his best to be a dad. Lol I love it
Having your Millionaire Boss paint your house is pretty funny. Go Elijah!
I loved this. One of my favorite videos recently. I always enjoy the home renovation videos but with this being something as simple as paint it was super cool. Would probably be amazing for high rises that want them to be smart homes
18:07 "MMS" i think i aged a decade hearing that
y'know, i get what you mean, but MMS is still in use a lot (i could _not_ tell you why)
2:30 Thank you for the free paint! Now, screw these guys and all the other stuff on their website!
Promote the worthy, trash the unworthy.
That matt black look of the graphite paint looks really nice. It really needs a matt clear coat over it.
He wasn't alive when the Star Wars Kid was doing his magic
Why you gotta make me feel old??
Props to the camera operator for trying to keep the waifu pillow and creeper in frame!🤓
Is that the pewdiepie pc ?
Isn't kind of weird saying that with an anime pfp?
This is actually really interesting as since I moved into an apartment, my razer kaira pro (which uses a 2.4ghz connection for my xbox) has had repeated connection issues and now I realize its likely the other networks in my building that keep dropping it off
Finally a good use for American cardboard house walls !! You could paint one of the inside surfaces of those sheets with this paint and it will do its job and can be grounded on the inside. Meanwhile the outer wall which you can see doesn't need to go through a goth phase.
Or.. you can wrap the inside in aluminum foil an get the same results without spending that amount in fancy graphite paint.
Painting popcorn ceiling black is so bad☠️
It’s funny when you hear silly talking about “cardboard houses” it’s like calling brick houses dirt houses.
This is the best father son relationship ive seen
A few years ago i discovered how much better setting up a powerline for my gaming PC rather than using Wi-Fi. Its pretty cool you can just plug in this adapter to the router and put another one somewhere else in your house using your electric lines to connect anywhere in the house where there is an electrical socket.. works great
I live in a really old house, but we have our Wifi router on the second floor and there are certain spots in the house that the WiFi doesnt work great... We have a wi-fi extender adapter too but for gaming a ethernet connection always works better
I love that when Elijah moves out of that apartment, the next person is going to get horrible cell service, lol
Elija's "No, Please Don't" Felt like Linus actually broke into his house to paint it Black
I really enjoy Elijah and Linus interactions.
13:39 "who painted my cats?"
2025... the return of leaded paint.... just pencil lead instead of other lead lol 😅
Well, pencil lead is made of Graphite, a form of Carbon, and is definitely conductive, so it might actually work... if you can apply enough layers.
@gh8447 umm, you've just commented on a video where they do it and show it working... lol
It's graphite, bro. Not 'lead'.
@@-_-----It's a pun. The graphite in pencils is sometimes called "pencil lead", as actual lead was the original thing that was used to draw in that way, until someone figured out how to make a graphite pencil.
@@nikkiofthevalley No point in trying to be soft in your reply to them as their aggressive ignorance doesn't require politeness. Not 'sometimes', all the time. Literally still is the product name when you are buying mechanical pencil refills.
I always love projects involving Elija 🤗
“Penetrating our box” is crazy work
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5:39, waifu body pillow detected, and it looks like from genshin impact? i dont know her name, good choises Elijah
Genshin impact is too normie. Mid choice
@ i dont have the money to invest into gachas XD so i avoid them, still cute waifu tho
It's not from genshin impact but her design could very well be in genshin. Also, not sure if eww or based to have a casual body pillow like this lol
It's the waifu from the Redmagic phone.
A real, useful utility of this paint is in guitars - guitar pickups can pickup radio waves so painting the inside of the guitar can drastically reduce white noise.
6:18 *not yet* 👀
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Yet not 👀
The 6:20 "I was gonna propose..." line was hilarious Elija!
In the bathroom is crazy
Linus's reaction is PERFECT
That intro was gold
11:04 dad moment
"I know a person with a weak backbone"
nah why he doing him like that