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So we're going to take a look back at your first time on camera, starting with this amazing b-roll.

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This amazing b-roll. This is where you used to work.

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That's true. This was in the 101 where logistics was.

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Basic dev board that's meant for people wanting to try.

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Is that the whole b-roll shot? I remember this one, actually. It was Glenn, I think, who came up and was like,

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I need you to recreate that internet meme of that kid that's just.

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And I was like, sure, I did that. And then I stole this cork board,

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and I had it above my desk for like six months before I moved.

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Where's it now? Oh, it's been taken apart and like, yeah, whatever.

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When was this? Two years ago. So I would have still been in logistics at this point.

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And I think at this point, I hadn't even been asked to be a writer yet,

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because I think this was before or just at the same time as LTX.

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I was very much into logistics, and basically had no plan of going to writers at this point.

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This is where I thought it was your first appearance.

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This was buying out the Mama Pop tech shop, September 21st.

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I think this was either my first week of a writer

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or my last week of logistics was when we filmed this.

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At the time this came out, I was in the writing department. But at the time we filmed it, I'm a little on the gray area there.

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I'm not quite sure. I'm 98% sure you're a logistics person,

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because I remember when I did the extras for this video, you came up to me.

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That means you would have been at the Labs with me. OK. Then you also said a joke in this video, right?

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I don't remember, to be honest with you.

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I know there was a lot said about this video.

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Just go in the comment, maybe he says something. Because every time you say something, it's kind of quotable.

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It's kind of quotable. Yes, funny as f***, so you said something.

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I was funny, apparently. Why just having a meeting with HR?

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What the hell did I say? Where my HR Mama Pop computer repair shop is standing around.

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No, I do remember now. So Starbucks Express, they don't sell those anymore.

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So? This eBay listing is saying $480 plus 60 shipping.

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I'll give it to you for $40. So you're saving on shipping Linus if you pay $80 for that thing.

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Thank you. OK, $80 is fair.

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Linus, that look of disgust from him was very genuine.

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You could tell. I've done so many videos at this point that I genuinely forget what I've done

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and the concussion in between didn't help, so. Oh wow, this is a good memory lane done for you.

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Yeah, I genuinely don't remember this shoot. Thanks, Ariana, for pushing me down the stairs.

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Oh, this was my first b-roll with my face in it,

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because I had done one b-roll before this with just my hand

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when I was on probation. But now it's my face, baby. And you know what I did?

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I was told to look uncomfortable. That was the entire b-roll.

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I'm lucky to remember a small thing, but you forget your birthday.

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OK, listen. I had my birthday six days ago at the time of recording,

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and it was the first birthday. I didn't struggle to remember it.

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This was my second AMD up...

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My second? I think it was my second AMD upgrade, or maybe my third.

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And this was the first time I was mic'd up for the video. I think you said a precedent on people being mic'd up

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on tech upgrade sets, because usually it's just Linus

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and the person getting the upgrade. Oh, I see. Now it's like you, Reese, the writer.

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Yeah, I guess whoever the extra writer is now mic'd up a lot.

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Maybe I did, I don't know. That's tough to say.

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I think I definitely normalized it. I don't know if I necessarily was the first one or whatever,

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but because after this upgrade, I did the next...

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Pajillion. 14 or 12 or something.

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I became... I literally, at the beginning of the year, when all the names were drawn, it was just like,

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yep, Elijah, here's your 12 videos for the year. And I was like, cool.

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I love doing them, to be clear. I think they're great, but I asked to step back from doing them for a bit

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because a couple of reasons,

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but I think one of the reasons was definitely they were easier videos in terms of planning and coordinating.

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And I felt that if other writers wanted to have access to an easier video, they should.

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I also was tired of the comments, if you want me to be 100% honest.

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The user comments, full-blinked comments are great. Full-blinked comments are great.

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The YouTube comments being like, I can't believe they hired a f***ing idiot

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just to be an extra goofball who says incest on camera.

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Yeah, okay, thanks buddy, totally playing a character.

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We are certain to be out of here by 6.30 on the nose.

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I have a funny story about that. We actually faked that clock.

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It was already like 13.30 or 1.30

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when we were starting this. And it was like, oh, okay. Cause Linus forgot that we were filming in the city

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where this takes place. So he went to the office first. Oh my God.

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Yeah, delayed the shoot by like an hour. Anyway, sorry. Oh, and this was the upgrade

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after I filled out Ariana's stairs. Where is it?

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Where is it? Elijah, you ready? Yes, sir, almost.

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No, you're not ready. You need this first.

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There we go. All right, we don't want you precious Elijah

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getting injured again. Of course. Iconic.

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And that helmet caused a decent amount of controversy too.

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Cause obviously those who watched the last video

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and kind of understood a little bit, they were like, oh yeah, it's protecting him

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cause he fell down the stairs. Some people thought we were making a really insensitive joke about like the mentally handicapped

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needing a helmet cause they're like banging their head or something.

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I want to make sure it's very clear. That was never the intention behind wearing the helmet.

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It was just because I had fallen down the stairs and it was funny.

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That's it. And I think that's also, if people had that kind of speculation

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in the back of their mind, I think that's also what led into a lot of comments of like, man, Elijah's just an idiot

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cause they were kind of like drawing a parallel that didn't exist.

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Oh dude, one of my favorite moments in this video. So it comes on.

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Don't worry, you're doing great. I do my best.

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You did not just trailer him. He hates that, by the way. If you ever want to really bother him,

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if he goes for a fist bump, just do that. I'm gonna do that. Yeah.

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He's kind of a germaphobe. So if you do that, he gets really mad. The last favorite moment from this involving me.

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Oh, I love this joke. Is the, oh. The bye guys.

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I had of your time. I had of your time. I had of our time. And this was at the time when I was just starting

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to try to get comfortable with Linus on camera and like what our kind of banter style was with.

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And when you start to click with him, he can just set you up the softest ball

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so you can just hit it out of the park

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and be the funniest guy in the room. And that's exactly what he did here.

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Cause if I didn't say it, he was gonna say it. And you can tell by like the way his lips quiver.

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We can try. Let's go. We're the try guys.

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Except I didn't cheat on my wife yet. Oh. Yet.

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Also I was gonna say, there's only two of us. So we can't really be the try guys.

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Or the bye guys. I beat him just like barely to it.

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Oh yeah. Our little laughter here is so funny.

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It'd be kind of funny. No, we can just flip it in Windows.

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That actually would be kind of funny. Should we do it? It's kind of worth it.

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Our little stupid laughter there. Our stupid laughter.

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Because again, we're joking how in Windows you can adjust the rotation settings.

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So we're like, ah, we'll put the monitor on upside down and then flip it in Windows.

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Okay, you know that's upside down, right? No.

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Can you tell he's worked with Elijah before? He used to have to manage me.

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And he couldn't. That's why I had to go to the writing team. That's kind of true.

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He was my manager. It's not that he couldn't manage me. It's just that I went to the writing team.

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But that was a really fun shoot day. That's probably one of my favorite upgrades

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that we filmed, to be honest. I had a lot of fun. Oh, and then everyone saying that the helmet came into play.

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Yeah, look, see? Value, that's value right there. I did it on purpose.

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What? I didn't hit my head on purpose.

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I put myself in a position where if I stood up,

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it would hit my head. I knew that it would be so funny if the helmet paid off.

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I'm so sorry if I broke the fourth wall Floatplane and just ruined it for you.

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But yeah, I had to make sure it was, yeah, here.

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Elijah hitting his head with the helmet and on actually protecting him is hilarious.

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I thought it would be really funny and I'm glad I did it. Then your next one, I think this is your first written.

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This was my first 100% fully scripted video

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that I also did with Labs. AMD upgrades aren't fully scripted. We try to script the intro

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and then we try to script certain beats. For Alex's, it's building the computer,

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installing the monitor, right? Versus something like this, which is just like a talking head, sitting down video.

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This was one of my first 100% scripted videos

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and I worked with Labs on it. It was a fun learning experience.

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Didn't do very well, but it was a relatively easy video from my perspective.

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So it was kind of an interesting thing to do and test. And it's also, I think my first fully scripted A-roll

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that I ever did. It's more of a DNT.

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On a shampoo site, we were overwhelmed by just how many pieces of software they made.

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And when we did find Win Optimizer, the one that the review sites told us to use,

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there was six different options. We could have just gone with the latest one, version 27,

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but we didn't even feel like we could trust that since if you refresh the page or clear your cookies,

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the price would change every single time. It even went as low as free

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if you bought it with another piece of software. I think I actually did pretty decent.

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Reading off a teleprompter is hard, by the way, if you've never done it before.

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And this was my first time doing it. If you want to know how hard it is,

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go watch the video with Sammy, Alex, and Linus.

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I was just gonna mention that. Oh my God. On the Snapdragon part two.

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Okay. Sammy is an excellent producer for float planes.

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You sucked at reading prompter. You know what it was? It was a small prompter.

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It was at an angle. And the first time I'm reading it, it was so far. I'm like leaning in, trying to see what's up.

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I'm like, this is impossible, man. That's not me criticizing him.

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Because again, it is a skill that not everyone can have right away.

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But it is also something you can learn and get better at. It sucks when you're dyslexic.

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But yeah. This is also the, we also did our first closer look on this one.

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Oh, that's right. Yeah, right here. We did our closer look, Sammy, John, and I.

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Because there was a lot of notes for this project. That's sometimes the hardest thing about making a video

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is like not going too deep into the rabbit hole, right? In the Puro Air video I did about the one company

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that sued HouseFresh for making a honest review

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about an air purifier. Oh man, I could probably have talked for 45 minutes

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and maybe asked a lawyer to get involved to help the video.

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But cutting that down to like a digestible 20 minutes.

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Do you like my wallpaper background? Was Bell leaning in for a kiss, but it's blocked by.

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I can't tell that yet. I know, you can't tell because I purposely blocked it.

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I was like, I don't know. No!

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I did fully show that. That was my desktop wallpaper for one minute

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while I was recording this L-roll. And then I changed it back. All right, I think we got this last one here.

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My first reactive video. Oh man, I remember being kind of hesitant for this video

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because this was a Jordan project. And he was like, I want Luke, I want Linus,

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and one other host to do these reacts.

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And I was still relatively new to the writing department. I had, yeah, April.

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So I had been there for, well, if we take away the month that I was away from my concussion,

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I was there for five months in the writing department. So I was very new.

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This is super cool. Too bad he filled the loop with c- Oh!

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What, no one was thinking it. I think we're gonna have- The extra is so funny.

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You're watching this on Floatplane, so you might have seen it. If you haven't, you should go watch the extra.

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I think I cracked the funniest joke in that entire video which was just like, the premise of the video was

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they listed these for a price and then we had to guess what the actual cost of the components were.

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And we were like guessing, it's like, oh, how much does the wood cost?

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How much does the water cooling? And I was like, are we taking into account the man hours

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to fill the loop? Because it was right after the cum joke.

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Dude, I thought it was the funniest joke in the whole video. And Luke just kind of looks at me and just like,

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he's like fighting so hard not to laugh. We can look it up, we can look it up.

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Oh yeah. That's picture I could get of it, unfortunately. This is super cool.

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Too bad he filled the loop with cum. It's very quiet.

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Unless you hook it up like directly to your wife.

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Oh my God. I can't believe you said that. Hook it up directly to your wife?

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Hold on, how do you, I gotta turn the pump on. Geez.

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Yeah, okay. The more I'm watching this, I'm like, yeah, it's probably pretty good

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that we didn't upload this to YouTube.

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Oh my gosh. These D5s are a little powerful.

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But yeah, this was my first react video. I've done a couple since then, but...

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What would you say is your favorite video that you've done at the company so far?

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Oh, that's so tough. I didn't know the Linus Torvald one because that's a free gimme.

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Oh yeah, that's, yeah. I mean, I haven't, I can't say that one because it's not out yet.

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I mean, it might be out. This is coming out way after. Oh, is it? Okay, okay, then yeah, the Linus Torvald's one.

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Oh dude, I can name so many cool ones off the top of my head.

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I think one of the coolest product videos I ever did was that directional speaker

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that can fire like a hundred feet in like a cone. One of my favorite react videos I ever did

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was reacting just to viewer setups. That's a good one.

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My favorite AMD upgrade is, I owe a lot to Ariana's upgrade.

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She literally launched my career down the stage. She literally pushed it.

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Oh, you know what? No, favorite video just because of bragging rights.

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You and me now have the most viewed video on the LTT. Oh, the short let's go.

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Yeah, I'm taking full credit with you on that. No, with you, with you.

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You and me, full credit on that one. That's the favorite video

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because I single-handedly dominate this channel now. What's your first ShortCircuit?

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I don't think actually- My first ShortCircuit? Ooh, is the game sent.

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Yeah! So many comments being like, he's shaking.

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I was so nervous. So when did this come out? July 5th, so I had been a writer

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for a couple months at this point. This is my favorite comment. When I was like reading all the sense,

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it's like napalm human excursion. I've never been to a golf course

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so I can't really speak on that. Elijah finally admitting his experience with napalm.

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But yeah, basically this was a thing that allowed you to smell your games through audio AI.

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It works like ass. It sucks. Don't use it.

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Neither is- Oh, you see this, do you? What did you just shoot out at me? There's nothing in you.

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That is a horrible, horrible smell. It smells like old gunfire.

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It doesn't smell like gunfire, it just happened. It didn't perform very well.

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So I remember being- I think it was fine. I think it was 15. That's not very good.

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It performed like garbage out of the gate. Maybe it's doing a bit better now. But I remember doing this video,

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seeing how poorly it performed. And then I was like, I'm never doing another ShortCircuit.

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So if you guys enjoyed that, go check out the last time Sammy did this with Ploof.

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He reacted to his videos. And then also comment down below

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which host you want to see do this next. Maybe Sarah.

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Maybe

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Taryn? No, not Taryn. No, not Taryn.

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Oh, Taryn's first time on camera is great, I hear. He had to address the nation.

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Actually, his first time would have been the roast.

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The second one, where's he gonna skip that one?