Fixing My Employee’s House For a Day - The Setup Doctor

Setup doctor started out as a way to hang out with our viewers and colleagues and showcase our incredible magnetic cable management arches. But we found that most people need more than just cable management to really fix their setup. In addition to his pretty unique hobby, Ree both games and streams at this desk here and collects shoes. Dude, how do you get anything done in here? The walls are closing in around me. I just kind of deal with it the best way I can. I don't know. And we've already taken stuff out of here to make more room. Yeah, this is this is kind of cleaned up. You have a problem. No. No. Actually, no. You have several problems. I have I have multiple solutions to my problems, and that's the problem. Must be kind of hard to be always the bridesmaid, never the bride. You have helped with like dozens of ultimate setup upgrades, and yet this is your cable management. Well, uh, yeah, it it actually used to be managed at one point. And you say you stream, do you? I do. Really? With what microphone? Uh, this guy right here. Why is this one? This is a great microphone. It It's actually We share We share a microphone. Really good microphone. I bet it isn't as good as this one. Oh, that's actually a pretty nice mic. Yeah, I actually used it for like trying to do voice acting for a little while. I wanted to get into voice acting. How'd that go? I work for LMG. So, do you have two printers? No, that's a UPS. Okay, man. I don't even own a printer. That thing hasn't printed for years. It's actually a blank paper holder designed to look like a printer. What is this video even going to be? Good news. I've got a plan. We're going to start by ripping everything out of here. Yeah, I figured that would happen. Then we're going to fix Reese's streaming setup and ergonomics with some accessories from Elgato, Small Rig, and Ben. And then I don't know how we're going to do it, but we're going to fit in all of this stuff from our sponsor for this video, Vernal, who sent over their Core 3 desk. It's a perfect option for someone who's looking for a sturdy and reliable lifting desk, and it starts at just $460. You can check out the link in the description and use our discount code to get an extra 6% off. How are we going to get all of this in there? The fun part is it won't fit through the door, so we have to build it in there. Ha. Very nice. All right, let's clear this stuff away. Where's the stand? What's up with your lights? What do you mean? They're just double-sided taped. Yeah. Oh, and it's literally just a tripod. Yeah, your strap is worth more than this tripod. Yeah. Uh, no. It's a Manfrotto. It's a Manfrotto. Oh, it's a nice tripod, but yeah, it's not ideal. Really nice camera, too. XT3. I like that you have a little bit of every trading card game. Digimon, Gundam, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh. Literally one of each. Go to take that off. Careful. Just sits on top. I thought it was all bolted together. No. No. Okay. Wait. Reese. I think it's supposed to. There's no That's for uh You're so wrong. That's for something else. No, it's not. There's a hole right here. No. No. It's for something else. These monitors will definitely need to move for And they clamp. Did you Did you they're I clamped them down. Listen, I'm all about safety here. All right. Yeah. So, I did I did already do a little bit of cable management previously like a long time ago and it was still this bad. Huh. And listen, you know when you like do a job for like so long and then you come home and you don't want to do that job. It's like chefs who only exclusively McDonald's and grab dinner. Precisely. It's actually kind of good cuz I've got some stuff that I've like fallen back here a long time ago and I've just never grabbed for like a year plus. Is any of it food product or is it all okay? Hopefully not. Hopefully not. When was the last time you think you dusted? I This is the crazy part is I dust quite often actually because I need to because there's so much. I think that's what most people need more than anything for the subd doctor is just a duster. That's a lot of dust. That's disgusting. Yeah, we might want to get a vacuum. I'm going to get a vacuum in here. Don't get this. Don't get this. Oh, that's a nice color. Uh, why did you pick this one? The other options were like kind of lighter colors and like honestly it probably would have worked better in this apartment, but I'm thinking about the future. You know, the future. This is This is the future right here. That's premium. Oh, it comes with like grommets. No, it does. That's actually pretty sweet. I think I know how that works. Your desk comes in a lot of pieces. You're telling me that's how you know it's premium. That's true. That is actually true. Is it? Well, actually, unless you go so premium that they build it for you, right? There is kind of a there is kind of an assembly valley. Definitely. When it's really cheap, it comes fully assembled, ready to go, and then last for 10 minutes. And then at the other end, it's like, "Oh, you wanted legs with your desk, sir? Well, you'll need our leg package." Is now the moment for us to acknowledge your little hobby, by the way? How did you get into this? Little. That's so demeaning. Look at how big it is. It's a big hobby. It's a big manly hobby. I don't know. I I thought it was cool, so I was like, I could probably do that. And then you did it a lot. I mean, not honestly, not even as much. Camera, pan over to the yarn wall. he does it a lot. Yeah. Yeah. I mostly do it now just to stream it. Okay. You know, you know when you like you do something and now everybody knows you for that thing and now that becomes your life. I'm sure you understand this. How long does it take to make one of the roads? It really depends. Like the more complicated it is. Like Tombbo over here, he probably took in total 20 hours or so. But there's something like Shy Guy here. He'll probably take me five or six total. What makes that so much more complicated than that? So, it's the amount of detail, right? The amount of detail you got to do. So, like little tiny toughs will take longer. And then when you're carving it afterwards, the carving is what takes so long. For example, this is a nightmare. This is a nightmare of a tough cuz like it's just tiny little details that you got to do. Uhhuh. Right. Right. And then carving it out to make it look not just like a shaggy mess. Like I've got some out there that I haven't carved yet. I can show you what those look like. The main reason I bring it up is because, you know, you should subscribe to You don't know my You don't know my Twitch handle, dude. That's so rude, dude. I know yours. Do you? Not your Twitch handle. The point is that this is part of the upgrade. We have a sick storage pegboard that's going to really free up a bunch of space that right now is taken up by this. But the star of the show is these 3D printed yarn holders go into the pegboard and then this can like sit on top. Uh does this is this strong enough? Yeah. Can't you see? Well, hopefully. I We haven't tested it. We don't have the boards. I actually think there is more help. Oh, brilliant. Okay. This will take some time. All right. I'm trying to understand what I'm looking at here. So, this is number three. Okay. Right. And then I've got this screw guide. Okay, I think I figured it out. Okay, we've got this little sleeve that goes in here. Then we take the hex screw and we put it in here. Oh, so you screw the screw. Oh, okay. Also, this guide is totally unnecessary if you have a magnetic screwdriver, which conveniently I do. To Vernal's credit, at least they put the lock washers and the regular washers on for you. So, you just kind of go, "Oh, I don't have a room." Yeah, I was afraid this would happen. Um, what are the odds that we can move this shoe rack without taking all the shoes off it? Oh my gosh, it's so heavy. It's pretty heavy. How do you I got big feet. That's not the problem. No matter how big your feet are, one pair of shoes does not weigh that much. This the issue is the quantity. Okay, show us your favorite pairs. Is this like picking a favorite child? Do I ask you? It is a little bit cuz like I like different shoes for different reasons. Like these ones are quite nice. Kith Kith Osaka 992s New Balance. Very nice. Very nice. I quite like these Amomanir Jordan 4s. You've never worn these? No, there's a couple I haven't worn, but okay. But I'm not the kind of guy who like buys things and doesn't wear the shoes ever. I have a lot of shoes. It takes a long time to get through them. These actually go for like 1,200 bucks. So, the the only ones I haven't worn are the ones that like, you know, I want to save for like a nice day or something like that, but I don't do things so I don't opt to Do you wear these 3D printed ass ones? I actually bought these at the same time. We were going to do a short circuit on these. Um, we never did though. That's not real. They're horrifically bad to put on, but they're not too bad once they're on. I'm wearing your Your sock like sticks to the inside. Really? They look I mean my feet are a lot smaller than crazy on you. Okay, hold on. This is great. This is great. We got a shotgun mic. Okay, tell tell us. Counted recently and at the time there was over I think 89 pairs. He's recently bought more. So I think we're in the '9s approaching 100 pairs of shoes. What are your thoughts on that as the one woman on earth who's married to a man with more shoes than she has? What are you talking about? I have always been supportive of his hobbies until we literally ran out of shelves place. We have like shoe racks in the closets outside of the closets at our door. I'm reaching my limits of support, I think. So, I appreciate the help that you're offering today. Yeah, this setup doctor just became an intervention. Reese, we want to start by telling you that we love and appreciate you. A thanks guys. Okay. BUT WHAT THE MAN? WELL, I will say some of them are for sale. hey, anybody if you got size 14 ft, hit me up. Uh, all right. Let's get this out of here. I think between the three of us, we can lift the shelf. Where are we putting it? All right, hang on. Hang on. What? Before we move it, okay, this is going to tell us which you can remove one pair of shoes. No, no, it's fine. It's fine. I don't care if they fall. IT'S OKAY IF THEY FALL. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT? THEY'RE SHO THEY'RE SHOES. It's okay. They're meant to go on the ground. It's fine. Okay. All right. Yeah. Go for it. Oh, he's crazy. He's got ice in his veins in his hand. Nothing flaps this man. I could do this and it wouldn't flap him. True. Gundam down. It's exactly my size. Wow. OH MY GOD, IT'S HEAVY. Oh my god. Okay, I think you're going to scrape. I can't help. I have never carried this much in shoes in one go. Okay, I've got to put it down. Put it down. Okay. How do they weigh so much? They almost look better from the front. Eh, hey, this is where we were looking at them from. No, we were looking at from the back. We were I could I couldn't tell. They're just shoes. I don't know fronts. I don't know backs. That was it. Your healing is now complete. Reese, look how much space we freed up. Can I get my shoes back or That's not part of the deal. Sorry, buddy. Oh, that's cool. It's like a little heat map. Hey, it's just the only material I had left to print this. Oh, that's awesome. Is this just someone designed this for our just on uh It's just on uh Thingiverse. Thingiverse. Thank you. Too bad we don't sell anything like this. Well, I mean, we got the baby. We got this little baby guy. Yeah, we have the bid holder. Yeah, this like this. No, but the grommet's at the front. Don't make me tap the sign. But the Why would you have a grommet at the front? It says front. Front. The grommet is going to be right next to where my arms are. Listen, I don't know the front of shoes, but I know the front of desk. Oh, I was trying to figure out what was it when I was brushing up against on the wall. I was like, "What's there? What's there?" I think I might take this off now. I forgot I was wearing it. You know, to Vernal's credit, this was a lot of pieces, but it's pretty intuitive once you get going. Okay, big moment. Now we find out if we have enough room to flip this inside this room. I think we flip it that way. Really? Poor David. Flip it. Flip it the long way. Why not flip it this way? Shut up, David. This is my video. No, I'm kidding. I like both plans. Wow. Thanks. Fight to the death. And we'll go FOR THE OH GOD. YEAH. So if you lift that and then we get it vertical. Actually, you might say it's vertical. Boo. Boo. This man. Boo. Oh yeah. But look at this thing. Reese, how the devil were you planning to get the shoes back in here. It It actually fits perfectly. I measured it once. Huge question. You don't need to hang your PC off the desk, but for a sitst stand desk, it can reduce the chance of accidentally ripping a cable off. So huge moment. You want your computer on this side or this side? I think purely because the cables that I have will only reach on this side. We'll choose this side. This side it is. It is. Even though it'll kind of interfere with my foot room, but Right. What can you do? Wait, you have a foot room and a shoe room? Guys, did you did you put the controller on upside down? Just get out of here. How did you do that? No, no, I'm not offering you a tool to fix it. I'm just pointing and laughing. Let's push the down arrow here. How high can we go? About 120 cm. 120 cm. That's a lot of centimeters. That's a lot taller than I would need it to be. It has a lifting speed of 40 mm/s. Supports three presets and can support up to 180 kg. And you can mount stuff upside down even if you like if you wanted to. I love it. It actually is. Oh, it's Yeah, makes way more sense now. It's nice and secure now. Making good progress. We're going to do a quick test fit of the PC. I take back what I said before. I think it's totally going to fit because I forgot that this is a super compact face. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Sorry. If only somebody cleaned this computer, Oh, lordy. You guys good? So, will Oh god, that's some dust under there. You know, you never looked underneath YOUR WHAT THE HECK? BUT IF YOU NOTICE BEFORE, my filter wasn't accessible because of the because of the way the table set. Did the wind just close your blind? The wind closed my blinds. Yeah, don't worry about it. They're back. Uh well, now you can access it. Yeah, exactly. You got it. Thanks, Vernal. Beauty. Okay, this is petrifying. That seems fine. Does it just sit there? I'm not going to lie. I think this setup has been doctorred. This is actually really cool. We don't really have a ton of time. Like, we need to get this out of here still, right? Yeah. Oh my god. Sorry. All right, let's go. Do you think you could kill a human with this? Honestly, very easily. What a gross, weird murder scene that would be. It would be. Yeah. Cuz what it is, I won't show you while you're running it, but that's fair enough. The a little pair of scissors comes out and goes, "Oh." Every time like sort of like, you know, thousand times one. God, the shoes are never ending. We didn't even show these ones earlier. Those are those are the ones I'm like looking to get rid of. Dude, we're not even meing on you at this point. It's like no, dude. Are you okay? Actually, there like there's shoes in here. There are four fantastics. But even a collector such as yourself only ended up with three of them. Guess how much these three were. That's besides the point. You didn't want the woman fantastic. What the heck? Let me tell you Let me tell you why it's not. So, these were a mystery box. Nobody knew what the shoes looked like. So, I bought three because I'm stupid. And if they aren't the three ugliest damn shoes I've ever seen in my life. Are you having fun? It's a lot easier to do cable management when you have proper cable management trays to uh cooperate with our magnetic cable management. Are they steel? Uh, LET'S FIND OUT. YEAH, let's go. Steel, baby. Okay. What is the What What's this going to do? Uh, this is going to replace the table that was here. It's like perfectly sized for the tuing thing to go on. And it has storage, Which is beautiful. Storage is beautiful. Normally, I might like to try to put, you know, some of the stuff that goes toward the back, like the Elgato lights and everything in first, but I feel like the monitors are kind of the center of the user experience. So, we want to put them where they're going to go, and then we'll build everything else around them. Yeah. I I actually wouldn't turn it around just yet, though. Crazy idea. Maybe you could grab a cloth and just, you know, give them like this patina. What do you mean? Okay. I forgot that I ordered these, but this is actually a great way to clean up your whole setup is to have a USB and other thing dock that you can clamp your desk and then forget about and just plug that in. All right, let's clamp these bad boys Okay, we want to push it as far in as we can while we can still move it to the window. Yeah, it's getting pretty heavy. OKAY, DON'T CRASH HIM. OKAY, WE GOOD? That's pretty good. It's fine. Yeah. All right. And then do we want to go further towards this wall? No. What we want to do right now is find out if those shoes fit. Oh my god. WHO'S STACKED SHOES ON THE TOP? When you got too many to bring it in right now? Yeah. We need to know if IT'S GOING TO FIT. DUDE, this is not going to fit. Going to fit, my brother. So, you're going to have to No, no, you can stay up there, but you got to lift this leg cuz I can only do the one cuz I don't have a lot of leverage here. Okay. It's touching the desk now. Can you close the door? It's so close. We can also move the desk like a tenth of an inch. Okay. To There you go. Okay. How's that door doing? It's pinched my arm. Yeah. Yeah. See, I told you. Okay. Measurements. No, we're not home free yet, boys. Why not? Because we still need to know if the sitst stand desk can move. Okay, there goes the shelf. We've got like 2 mm at the top here. Easy. No, no, no. Okay. Okay, hold on. Yeah, just hit the hit the desk. That gave us another fraction of a millimeter, I think, at the top. Okay, hold on. OKAY, OKAY, hold on. Do we have another Do we have another millimeter on the desk? Well, I don't have your head under there. It's actually could crush your head. No, I'm fine. Except for the uh vernal open safety feature. Yeah, that won't allow you to run it back up. We Maybe we just crushed Linus' head. Lus, you still there? Lionus. Oh. Oh, like a glove, dude. Look at that. Oh, yeah. We're going to stand or you GOING TO WA WA. STOP. STOP. STOP. OKAY, that was pretty exciting. Uh, just about rip. Oh. Uh, yeah. We were kind of trying to think maybe we want to put the UPS on the shelf as well, but what if Do you think it could straddle it? That's psychoit, dude. Okay, but hear me out. Now the UPS and the computer go up and down together. Who needs air flow, bro? Who needs airflow? Who needs that air flow? You got air flow. There's a little bit of air flow right from the hot UPS. It'll cool it. Okay, wait a second. This is crazy. You're going to hate it and you're going to love it. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Okay. Okay. Let's see here. Okay. Okay. Wait, wait, wait. There's zero air. Hold on. Let them cook. Let them cook. Okay. Okay. Cook. Cook for me. Cook for me, Walter White. Yeah. That's probably too dumb. It's probably too dumb. Okay, I think this is going to have to go on the floor for now, Ree. Yeah, I'm Listen, I never said it couldn't. So, I don't mind. I think a big part of setup doc that we forgotten is actually making sure you have the right equipment to do your job. And Reese's camera is more than good enough, but those lights were pretty pathetic. So, we got him the Elgato key lights so that he should be able to get way better even illumination both at his desk and at the tufting setup. Plus, the experience of using these is going to be way better than those janky USB ones. Yeah, they were jank. They were very janky. Say what you want about Elgato's pricing. The uh mounting solutions that they have are pretty quick to set up. So, we've got our two key lights here. A third key light. That's crazy. Tell me about it. The idea is to have a little top down area over here. Ooh. Unboxing things and whatnot. What did I walk out here looking for? Ah, this microphone. It's uh it was so easy to find and yet that I feel so lucky for being able to find. Look at this place. Sorry, Ree. Yeah. You know, when I saw how empty and nice that room was, I was like, "Hey, maybe we should leave it this way." And then I came out here and this literally looks like a hoarder's house/ a bomb went off and you had all of it in there. I had all of it in there. And it fits so nicely in there. Yeah. That wasn't the takeaway. So, other than tufting, what do you stream? Do you like unbox overpriced shoes or like Yeah. Yeah. Unbox overpriced shoes. Unbox mystery boxes. I like mystery boxes. They're the gambler. Not really. Um but I mean maybe a little bit. Now we're finally getting to the part where we do the thing that the whole series was designed around and show off our cable management stuff. This is our power bar holder. Uh it's not really designed for bricks that are very square like this. And we didn't have any of the long cable ties that it's supposed to come with. But I'm actually pretty proud of the little kind of harness that I created for this thing. So, we just had this like strip style Velcro and then I put one on the top to kind of hold it together so it won't slip out. Not bad, right? Boom. See you later, buddy. That's not actually where I want it. I want it over here. Oh, I love magnetic cable management, dude. Game changer. I got to say, it's looking really good, though. It actually looks amazing. Like the transformation in years. Yeah, it's going to look good. How's the girlfriend approval factor, though? Here. Oh my gosh, this actually looks so much better than I expected. I was What does that mean? I was a little bit worried about how big the desk was going to be and maybe fit, but this is like a little bit more shallow, so I think it compensates for it. Well, yeah, we haven't we haven't finished the side. We're experts when it comes to compensation. All right. What's supposed to come back in here now? I feel like this is too clean. It does feel that way, doesn't it? There is a few things that's like missing from the desk, but nothing mission critical like at all. Nothing that I'll miss immediately. Uh, but then we still have to organize all that. But that'll be another day because yeah, didn't arrive on time. You're watching that happen right now. It looks incredible. It looks beautiful. I've never seen anything LIKE THIS. WOW. IT WORKS. GO LIVE. Go live. Do it. Do it. Do it. Yeah. Looking good. A little too bright. Oh god. Okay. That's a lot too bright. Beautiful. Maybe dial. That's how that's how I stream. I stream on the sun. How about we put some footage of you streaming sometime in the next couple of days here and then, you know, we can judge it based on the actual end product. You'll have to do like an unboxing, maybe some tuing. Are you going to buy stuff for me to unbox here? Is this not enough? Yeah. Hasn't Vernal given you enough? I mean, if I could have unboxed the Vernal desk, that would have been pretty cool. I am. YOU LITERALLY UNBOXED it today. Yeah. I'm going to do it on my stream though. No. Verno, thank you very much. And LMG and Elgato. Loving this setup. This looks great. Much cleaner. Freaking amazing. He's going to look even better tomorrow. Congratulations, doctor. It's a success boy. It's a It's clean. It's a It's a happy boy. Thanks, Vernal, for sponsoring this video. Thanks to you for watching. If you guys enjoyed this one, maybe check out a previous episode of the setup doctor where we fixed Dan's problems. Well, some of them. Yeah. And if you want to check out this desk from Vernal, which is available in a wide variety of different configurations, we're going to have it linked in the video description, and you can get 6% off using our code, which is going to be down there as