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Sammy: Since you all love this so much, we came back with part two; 2 00:00:02.936 --> 00:00:05.872 if this gets enough likes, maybe we have Linus to react to it again. 3 00:00:05.905 --> 00:00:07.974 Plouffe: Hi, my name's Plouffe; I own a display. 4 00:00:07.974 --> 00:00:12.012 My first time meeting Linus was actually in the interview process for the job, 5 00:00:12.012 --> 00:00:14.180 because this is back when he was still doing that. 6 00:00:14.180 --> 00:00:19.019 It was pretty normal, except for I had my YouTube home screen in the background, 7 00:00:19.052 --> 00:00:23.656 and James really wanted to just keep the interview going and not waste time. 8 00:00:23.656 --> 00:00:25.959 And Linus is like, oh, what's on your YouTube home screen? 9 00:00:25.959 --> 00:00:28.328 So as I'm getting up to run over, I can just hear James going like 10 00:00:28.328 --> 00:00:30.397 "no, it doesn't matter", like, whatever; 11 00:00:30.397 --> 00:00:31.831 but, you know, who am I going to listen to? 12 00:00:31.831 --> 00:00:34.934 If I've got Linus telling me, like asking a question, 13 00:00:34.934 --> 00:00:37.170 I've got- Like, James wasn't my manager at that point. 14 00:00:37.170 --> 00:00:38.338 I'm going to listen to Linus; 15 00:00:38.338 --> 00:00:40.940 so I went over and like looked at my home screen and told him what was there. 16 00:00:40.940 --> 00:00:43.143 But the first time I met him in person, 17 00:00:43.143 --> 00:00:47.080 I was supposed to start on the Monday, but I came in on the Saturday or Sunday, 18 00:00:47.113 --> 00:00:51.351 because this was at the point where they were doing a big clean of the studio. 19 00:00:51.384 --> 00:00:53.753 So we're getting rid of this giant sea can that was outside 20 00:00:53.753 --> 00:00:55.622 that had all these boxes in it and stuff. 21 00:00:55.622 --> 00:00:58.091 And so the first time I met Linus, he actually fired me. 22 00:00:58.091 --> 00:01:00.894 So we're all just like tearing down cardboard while Linus is like 23 00:01:00.894 --> 00:01:04.798 scanning random box barcodes and stuff; and like, we're just chit chatting. 24 00:01:04.798 --> 00:01:07.534 And I can't remember, I did something stupid and he's like, 25 00:01:07.567 --> 00:01:09.536 oh, alright well, you're fired, it's not going to work out. 26 00:01:09.569 --> 00:01:11.337 And I figured he was joking. 27 00:01:11.871 --> 00:01:14.441 You know, I wasn't 100% sure; but then Colton was right there and he's like, 28 00:01:14.441 --> 00:01:15.742 "don't worry, that means he likes you". 29 00:01:15.842 --> 00:01:20.346 So if there's anyone who I'm going to believe when they tell me that, it's Colton. 30 00:01:20.447 --> 00:01:22.682 Do we have a counter Sammy for how many times Colton's been fired? 31 00:01:22.682 --> 00:01:24.784 Someone should do that; someone should make a super, 32 00:01:24.784 --> 00:01:27.387 supercut or like something of how many times Colton's been fired. 33 00:01:27.387 --> 00:01:28.588 But yeah, it's a good experience. 34 00:01:28.588 --> 00:01:31.391 I mean otherwise, you know, he's a pretty normal guy. 35 00:01:31.491 --> 00:01:32.559 I don't know how to end this. 36 00:01:32.559 --> 00:01:33.359 Sammy: That's not normal. 37 00:01:33.460 --> 00:01:34.094 Plouffe: Goodbye. 38 00:01:34.194 --> 00:01:36.196 Colton: I'm Colton Potter; I'm head of business development. 39 00:01:36.196 --> 00:01:38.932 I've been here for 10 years as of next week. 40 00:01:38.932 --> 00:01:39.632 What? 41 00:01:39.899 --> 00:01:41.501 10 years, guys! 42 00:01:41.501 --> 00:01:41.935 Glenn: Wow. 43 00:01:41.935 --> 00:01:43.403 Colton: Have you guys been your 10 years? 44 00:01:43.436 --> 00:01:44.170 Glenn: Yeah. 45 00:01:44.237 --> 00:01:45.939 Colton: Basically, it feels like it sometimes. 46 00:01:46.372 --> 00:01:47.173 Uh, what am I doing? 47 00:01:47.240 --> 00:01:51.311 Open up YouTube, go to a now defunct channel called Channel Super Fun. 48 00:01:51.311 --> 00:01:53.880 Pull up, what's this video called? 49 00:01:53.880 --> 00:01:59.452 Indoor Drone (Destruction?) Racing & Bonus "Get the Keys" mini-game. 50 00:01:59.486 --> 00:02:03.923 That is a terrible title, but it's got over half a million views, so that's cool. 51 00:02:03.923 --> 00:02:09.028 That video is the first time I'm in a video, and the first time I met Linus. 52 00:02:09.028 --> 00:02:14.267 So basically the way that it happened is I was talking to Nick Light. 53 00:02:14.267 --> 00:02:16.402 I think I was supposed to hang out with him that day, 54 00:02:16.402 --> 00:02:18.204 because we're friends, we're buds outside of work. 55 00:02:18.238 --> 00:02:22.976 And he was like, hey, do you want to come check out our new office? 56 00:02:22.976 --> 00:02:26.179 Do you want to just like hang out with my work people? 57 00:02:26.179 --> 00:02:28.648 And I said, sure, why not? 58 00:02:28.748 --> 00:02:32.285 So I went to the old Langley house and I met up with Nick and Linus and people, 59 00:02:32.285 --> 00:02:34.787 and they had a U-Haul, and they were getting ready to move everything 60 00:02:34.787 --> 00:02:37.490 from that space to our new office space, 61 00:02:37.590 --> 00:02:39.726 their new office space at the time because I didn't work for the company. 62 00:02:39.726 --> 00:02:42.562 Anyways, they were moving things onto a U-Haul to come here. 63 00:02:42.562 --> 00:02:45.598 And honestly, I think Nick was just looking for like free labor out of me, 64 00:02:45.598 --> 00:02:47.534 because he was like, hey, let's hang out, 65 00:02:47.534 --> 00:02:50.069 but like you want to like help us move as well? 66 00:02:50.069 --> 00:02:52.572 So I was moving things. 67 00:02:52.572 --> 00:02:58.144 And the first interaction I have with Linus is I actually broke a drone 68 00:02:58.278 --> 00:03:01.047 that Nick, I believe in the video takes the fall for, 69 00:03:01.047 --> 00:03:02.849 but I definitely broke it moving it, 70 00:03:02.849 --> 00:03:05.485 it was like the first box I grabbed and I moved it; 71 00:03:05.485 --> 00:03:08.521 and I think we tripped over it in the U-Haul and I broke it. 72 00:03:08.521 --> 00:03:09.689 So that was pretty cool. 73 00:03:09.689 --> 00:03:14.194 Linus found out about this broken drone and he did his... Kay, 74 00:03:14.194 --> 00:03:16.963 you know, like the shrug; he still does it, right? He still does this thing. 75 00:03:16.963 --> 00:03:20.567 He goes... "*sighs* Kay." does one of those; 76 00:03:20.567 --> 00:03:24.404 and Nick covered for me, otherwise maybe I wouldn't have gotten a job here, 77 00:03:24.404 --> 00:03:28.074 and I wouldn't have been fired so many times, but it worked out. 78 00:03:28.174 --> 00:03:31.077 And then we went and we flew drones around. 79 00:03:31.177 --> 00:03:33.213 Somebody got their keys stuck? 80 00:03:33.346 --> 00:03:38.685 And then we spent a long time, like an hour trying to get these keys down from the rafters 81 00:03:38.718 --> 00:03:41.554 and they included it in the video, and I went home and I thought to myself, 82 00:03:42.689 --> 00:03:43.823 this is a weird place. 83 00:03:43.957 --> 00:03:47.160 If you want to hear my other like second interaction with Linus, 84 00:03:47.160 --> 00:03:50.296 we did a video that was called "What it's like to work for Linus". 85 00:03:50.296 --> 00:03:51.698 I think it came out in like 2016. 86 00:03:51.698 --> 00:03:55.501 I talk about my first real sit-down one-on-one with Linus, 87 00:03:55.501 --> 00:03:58.838 where he interviewed me for this job and that was quite an adventure as well. 88 00:03:58.838 --> 00:03:59.539 So check that out. 89 00:03:59.539 --> 00:04:03.710 TLDR is I was one minute late for my interview with Linus, 90 00:04:03.710 --> 00:04:06.479 and I ran up to the Langley house and I was trying to open the door; 91 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:10.817 and the door was locked, and I thought Linus just ghosted me because I was one minute late. 92 00:04:10.817 --> 00:04:12.085 I was like, man, this guy's hardcore. 93 00:04:12.085 --> 00:04:15.154 Then I was driving home and Linus calls me 30 minutes later and goes, 94 00:04:15.388 --> 00:04:19.726 Hey man, I totally forgot about your interview and everything; can we reschedule? 95 00:04:19.726 --> 00:04:20.660 So we rescheduled. 96 00:04:20.660 --> 00:04:22.829 Nick had prepared him some questions to ask me. 97 00:04:22.829 --> 00:04:26.032 And I remember Linus having this bunch of pieces of paper and he was looking through. 98 00:04:26.032 --> 00:04:27.600 He's like, this question's dumb. 99 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:29.335 This question's dumb, whatever. 100 00:04:29.335 --> 00:04:32.005 He just kind of throws away the piece of paper, and then he asked me... 101 00:04:33.706 --> 00:04:35.008 are you into bestiality? 102 00:04:35.642 --> 00:04:36.709 To which I said, no. 103 00:04:39.045 --> 00:04:40.280 He was joking, it was a joke. 104 00:04:40.280 --> 00:04:41.948 And then actually, hold on, last thing. 105 00:04:42.882 --> 00:04:47.220 Last thing; so there's three parts to my, "What it's like to work for Linus". 106 00:04:47.353 --> 00:04:50.823 So there's where I first met him with the drone racing thing, 107 00:04:50.923 --> 00:04:51.858 then there was the interview. 108 00:04:51.858 --> 00:04:54.494 Then I didn't talk to Linus for basically a year. 109 00:04:54.494 --> 00:04:56.262 I worked at this company, didn't talk to him. 110 00:04:56.262 --> 00:04:58.398 He was just making videos, just grinding it out. 111 00:04:58.531 --> 00:05:01.367 Me and Nick were up there selling sponsorships, it was all good. 112 00:05:01.467 --> 00:05:05.772 And then we went to Mexico in 2016 and did like our workcation thing. 113 00:05:05.772 --> 00:05:07.507 I think it was the first time I actually was like, 114 00:05:07.640 --> 00:05:10.810 Hey man, I get to talk to you for longer than like three or five minutes; 115 00:05:10.810 --> 00:05:13.313 and then talked a lot more since then. 116 00:05:13.346 --> 00:05:18.484 Adam: Hi, I am Adam Pilolla; I am the customer service manager over at LTT Store. 117 00:05:18.484 --> 00:05:22.622 And my first time meeting Linus was extremely awkward. 118 00:05:22.722 --> 00:05:26.526 It's November, 2020; it's peak COVID, we're all wearing masks. 119 00:05:26.559 --> 00:05:31.964 Most everyone is working from home, but I'm at the office being onboarded for my very first day. 120 00:05:32.098 --> 00:05:36.769 So I've only been employed by the company for all of like 20 minutes officially. 121 00:05:36.769 --> 00:05:41.107 The whole office is just in complete disarray, because since everyone was working from home 122 00:05:41.107 --> 00:05:44.243 they were making changes to the office layout and everything. 123 00:05:44.243 --> 00:05:49.148 Desks everywhere, just piles and piles of random assorted stuff. 124 00:05:49.148 --> 00:05:53.519 So we sit down in what's now a call room, Nick and I, 125 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:56.055 to go take the Monday morning meeting; and as this is happening, 126 00:05:56.055 --> 00:05:59.492 Linus kind of walks into the building finally. 127 00:05:59.525 --> 00:06:02.428 He's arriving a little bit later than usual. 128 00:06:02.528 --> 00:06:05.865 I get the impression that he's kind of hurried or whatever. 129 00:06:05.865 --> 00:06:08.401 He pops in just to have a chat with Nick. 130 00:06:08.668 --> 00:06:14.474 Which, mind you, there's enough space for Nick to be visible to Linus, 131 00:06:14.574 --> 00:06:18.544 but I'm sitting behind basically a pile of crap on this desk; 132 00:06:18.544 --> 00:06:21.280 so he doesn't even know I'm in the room at this point. 133 00:06:21.314 --> 00:06:24.350 And he's chatting with Nick or whatever about I don't remember what. 134 00:06:24.384 --> 00:06:28.020 At the last second, Nick goes "hey, do you want to meet our new person?". 135 00:06:28.020 --> 00:06:31.891 And at that point, I don't really know what to do because I'm pretty sure he hasn't seen me. 136 00:06:31.924 --> 00:06:38.030 So I pop out like a meerkat from behind the desk, from behind the pile of stuff on the desk. 137 00:06:38.765 --> 00:06:41.534 I just go, Hi, I'm Adam. 138 00:06:41.534 --> 00:06:43.536 I can't tell because he's wearing a mask. 139 00:06:43.536 --> 00:06:48.174 I can't tell if he's smiling; I can't read him at all, but his eyes just look so tired. 140 00:06:48.374 --> 00:06:50.810 And he goes... Hey. 141 00:06:50.943 --> 00:06:55.314 So I don't know, I have no idea like what- 142 00:06:55.448 --> 00:06:57.717 I doubt he even remembers that story; 143 00:06:57.717 --> 00:07:01.487 but I, I was actually kind of afraid to talk to him for a little bit after that. 144 00:07:01.487 --> 00:07:02.922 Jamie: Hi, I'm Jamie Pilkey. 145 00:07:02.922 --> 00:07:08.961 I started here as the logistics coordinator, then I was the inventory coordinator; 146 00:07:08.961 --> 00:07:12.331 and now I'm the operational associate for Creator Warehouse. 147 00:07:12.331 --> 00:07:13.666 And a lot of people had like... 148 00:07:13.666 --> 00:07:17.770 oh man, Linus was so weird and uncomfortable when he like introduced himself. 149 00:07:17.804 --> 00:07:20.907 I applied to be a writer, so I interviewed with Linus. 150 00:07:20.907 --> 00:07:24.544 And so my interview with him was like perfectly acceptable. 151 00:07:24.544 --> 00:07:27.346 Like it was like, hey, nice to meet you. 152 00:07:27.346 --> 00:07:30.650 But then I got hired here for my logistics position; 153 00:07:30.650 --> 00:07:34.587 on my first day, Linus came down and absolutely scared the bejesus out of me. 154 00:07:34.587 --> 00:07:36.522 And just like gave me a fist bump and was like, 155 00:07:36.556 --> 00:07:38.257 hey, I hope you have a great first day. 156 00:07:38.357 --> 00:07:40.526 That was it, like all the other people who had a weird one. 157 00:07:40.526 --> 00:07:43.863 I was like, I don't know, that, that seemed really strange to me. 158 00:07:43.963 --> 00:07:47.333 Dan: Hey Jamie, were you there for the "who the f*** is Dan Besser?". 159 00:07:47.333 --> 00:07:48.501 Jamie: Oh yeah; okay. 160 00:07:48.501 --> 00:07:52.405 Dan was working here as a contractor before Alex Dick started. 161 00:07:52.405 --> 00:07:54.106 Alex couldn't start until the end of the month, 162 00:07:54.106 --> 00:07:56.008 but Dan was free at the beginning of the month. 163 00:07:56.008 --> 00:08:01.581 Dan was working on the old lab building, but he needed Linus's master key; 164 00:08:01.581 --> 00:08:06.519 so we went up to Linus's office, we grabbed the key and like, 165 00:08:06.519 --> 00:08:11.157 as we were leaving he was like, all we heard is "who the is f*** Dan Besser?". 166 00:08:11.157 --> 00:08:15.761 And Dan was like, was he, was he, was he talking to us? 167 00:08:15.862 --> 00:08:18.965 Was he, was he talking to me, or was he just saying something? 168 00:08:19.098 --> 00:08:20.766 And then we kind of went on with it the rest of our day; 169 00:08:20.766 --> 00:08:23.970 but Dan was like, did I, did I, did I like offend him? 170 00:08:23.970 --> 00:08:26.772 Or like, should I, should I, should I explain? 171 00:08:27.106 --> 00:08:31.944 I was like, I don't know, probably not; we just kind of went on with our day. 172 00:08:32.044 --> 00:08:36.048 Sam: Hey all, I'm Sam; I'm a thumbnail artist and an editor here at LMG. 173 00:08:36.182 --> 00:08:41.521 I started at Creator Warehouse and on the first day the company had a softball event. 174 00:08:41.521 --> 00:08:44.991 I just wanted to attend for exposure and like just to know people, 175 00:08:44.991 --> 00:08:46.592 because I knew no one. 176 00:08:46.592 --> 00:08:49.428 My first interaction was trying to high five Linus, 177 00:08:49.428 --> 00:08:53.566 and I don't know if it's a thing, but he's never impressed by high fives. 178 00:08:53.566 --> 00:08:56.202 He's always like pshh you can do better. 179 00:08:56.636 --> 00:09:00.172 We tried three times, still nothing; and then we just moved on. 180 00:09:00.172 --> 00:09:03.209 I thought he was interacting well because we were playing Softball. 181 00:09:03.209 --> 00:09:07.046 He was teaching me how to play, how to pose and we had fun; 182 00:09:07.046 --> 00:09:10.216 and then he forgot about my existence for the next four months. 183 00:09:10.216 --> 00:09:14.554 It was a Tuesday, he was attending his fashion meeting 184 00:09:14.587 --> 00:09:16.689 and I was caught up on my work. 185 00:09:16.689 --> 00:09:19.559 I was like, okay, I can just sneak in and maybe take a selfie. 186 00:09:19.559 --> 00:09:22.428 Because I knew LMG before joining in. 187 00:09:22.428 --> 00:09:25.998 So I was kind of a fan and the fan inside me still wanted to talk to him, 188 00:09:25.998 --> 00:09:27.133 or even take a selfie. 189 00:09:27.266 --> 00:09:29.335 And so I decided to do so. 190 00:09:29.402 --> 00:09:33.439 I was down there; there was Linus and fashion people and Nick. 191 00:09:33.439 --> 00:09:35.107 They were just talking over there. 192 00:09:35.141 --> 00:09:39.478 Vance was over here just silently taking notes, and I was just creeped up to him. 193 00:09:39.512 --> 00:09:41.881 I was like, yo, what's up? I just want to take a selfie if it's okay. 194 00:09:41.881 --> 00:09:42.381 Is it okay? 195 00:09:42.381 --> 00:09:44.383 He was like, yeah, I'll let the conversation be over. 196 00:09:44.383 --> 00:09:47.086 I just waited for three minutes and Linus noticed me, 197 00:09:47.219 --> 00:09:51.490 and he stopped everyone, he was like "how can I help you?". 198 00:09:51.624 --> 00:09:53.025 It freaked me out. 199 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:54.694 Nah, I'm just chilling. 200 00:09:55.828 --> 00:09:58.898 Vance, the snitch, told him oh no, he wants a selfie. 201 00:10:00.466 --> 00:10:04.303 That was the most embarrassing day of my life. 202 00:10:05.237 --> 00:10:08.074 He was like, what? Who is he? 203 00:10:08.407 --> 00:10:09.809 And I thought he knew me. 204 00:10:09.909 --> 00:10:13.145 Well, yeah; I just ran back to my desk and never talked to him again. 205 00:10:13.145 --> 00:10:14.180 Sammy: You didn't get the selfie? 206 00:10:14.447 --> 00:10:15.448 Sam: I didn't. 207 00:10:15.448 --> 00:10:15.815 Sam: Yeah. 208 00:10:15.815 --> 00:10:16.716 Sammy: Noooooo! 209 00:10:16.716 --> 00:10:18.985 Sam: I got it six months later. 210 00:10:18.985 --> 00:10:19.819 Sammy: Let's gooo. 211 00:10:19.819 --> 00:10:20.286 Sam: Yeah. 212 00:10:20.286 --> 00:10:24.457 Sam: He was, he wasn't CEO anymore; he was a CVO and he still didn't remember me. 213 00:10:25.791 --> 00:10:27.026 Sam: Wha- Bro. 214 00:10:27.226 --> 00:10:29.328 Yvonne: Hey guys, I'm Yvonne; I do all kinds of stuff. 215 00:10:29.328 --> 00:10:30.596 My role is a little complicated. 216 00:10:30.596 --> 00:10:33.933 I met him back in university, first year of university. 217 00:10:33.933 --> 00:10:40.439 So we had just turned 18 and it was I think, the fall of when university started. 218 00:10:40.439 --> 00:10:42.274 So school usually starts in September for us; 219 00:10:42.274 --> 00:10:44.310 and then I think I met him in September - October. 220 00:10:44.310 --> 00:10:48.714 We had just finished one of our, I guess midterms or exams or something like that. 221 00:10:48.714 --> 00:10:52.518 And we were standing outside, and him and his friend were discussing 222 00:10:52.518 --> 00:10:54.120 whether or not they got the answer right. 223 00:10:54.654 --> 00:10:57.556 And I was standing there putting on my jacket, getting my umbrella out, 224 00:10:57.556 --> 00:10:58.524 getting ready to head out. 225 00:10:58.524 --> 00:11:02.595 And I heard them talking and I was like, I think you guys might've gotten that wrong. 226 00:11:02.595 --> 00:11:04.964 So I jumped in, maybe I shouldn't have but I did. 227 00:11:05.064 --> 00:11:08.100 And then we started talking a little bit and then I headed out. 228 00:11:08.100 --> 00:11:09.335 I didn't really think anything. 229 00:11:09.435 --> 00:11:11.771 Later on that week, I noticed him again. 230 00:11:11.871 --> 00:11:16.042 I came in and I usually sit in the back, and I noticed he usually sat in the front; 231 00:11:16.075 --> 00:11:18.978 so the next class after that, I was like, oh, you know what? 232 00:11:18.978 --> 00:11:21.614 Maybe I'll just go sit somewhere near the front. 233 00:11:21.781 --> 00:11:25.451 And he happened to come in and he walked into my row, 234 00:11:25.451 --> 00:11:27.620 and he sat probably like three chairs down from me. 235 00:11:27.653 --> 00:11:30.089 He was looking around putting his stuff away and then he noticed me; 236 00:11:30.222 --> 00:11:31.857 and then he started talking to me. 237 00:11:31.857 --> 00:11:35.995 So then he came and he sat next to me and then kind of hit it off from there. 238 00:11:36.429 --> 00:11:38.130 Sammy: Wow, what a great video. 239 00:11:38.230 --> 00:11:41.934 Make sure to leave a like so I know you guys enjoy this video and see you later.