So we're going to take a look back at your first time on camera, starting with this amazing b-roll.
This amazing b-roll. This is where you used to work.
That's true. This was in the 101 where logistics was.
Basic dev board that's meant for people wanting to try.
Is that the whole b-roll shot? I remember this one, actually. It was Glenn, I think, who came up and was like,
I need you to recreate that internet meme of that kid that's just.
And I was like, sure, I did that. And then I stole this cork board,
and I had it above my desk for like six months before I moved.
Where's it now? Oh, it's been taken apart and like, yeah, whatever.
When was this? Two years ago. So I would have still been in logistics at this point.
And I think at this point, I hadn't even been asked to be a writer yet,
because I think this was before or just at the same time as LTX.
I was very much into logistics, and basically had no plan of going to writers at this point.
This is where I thought it was your first appearance.
This was buying out the Mama Pop tech shop, September 21st.
I think this was either my first week of a writer
or my last week of logistics was when we filmed this.
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.
I'm not quite sure. I'm 98% sure you're a logistics person,
because I remember when I did the extras for this video, you came up to me.
That means you would have been at the Labs with me. OK. Then you also said a joke in this video, right?
I don't remember, to be honest with you.
I know there was a lot said about this video.
Just go in the comment, maybe he says something. Because every time you say something, it's kind of quotable.
It's kind of quotable. Yes, funny as f***, so you said something.
I was funny, apparently. Why just having a meeting with HR?
What the hell did I say? Where my HR Mama Pop computer repair shop is standing around.
No, I do remember now. So Starbucks Express, they don't sell those anymore.
So? This eBay listing is saying $480 plus 60 shipping.
I'll give it to you for $40. So you're saving on shipping Linus if you pay $80 for that thing.
Thank you. OK, $80 is fair.
Linus, that look of disgust from him was very genuine.
You could tell. I've done so many videos at this point that I genuinely forget what I've done
and the concussion in between didn't help, so. Oh wow, this is a good memory lane done for you.
Yeah, I genuinely don't remember this shoot. Thanks, Ariana, for pushing me down the stairs.
Oh, this was my first b-roll with my face in it,
because I had done one b-roll before this with just my hand
when I was on probation. But now it's my face, baby. And you know what I did?
I was told to look uncomfortable. That was the entire b-roll.
I'm lucky to remember a small thing, but you forget your birthday.
OK, listen. I had my birthday six days ago at the time of recording,
and it was the first birthday. I didn't struggle to remember it.
This was my second AMD up...
My second? I think it was my second AMD upgrade, or maybe my third.
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
on tech upgrade sets, because usually it's just Linus
and the person getting the upgrade. Oh, I see. Now it's like you, Reese, the writer.
Yeah, I guess whoever the extra writer is now mic'd up a lot.
Maybe I did, I don't know. That's tough to say.
I think I definitely normalized it. I don't know if I necessarily was the first one or whatever,
but because after this upgrade, I did the next...
Pajillion. 14 or 12 or something.
I became... I literally, at the beginning of the year, when all the names were drawn, it was just like,
yep, Elijah, here's your 12 videos for the year. And I was like, cool.
I love doing them, to be clear. I think they're great, but I asked to step back from doing them for a bit
because a couple of reasons,
but I think one of the reasons was definitely they were easier videos in terms of planning and coordinating.
And I felt that if other writers wanted to have access to an easier video, they should.
I also was tired of the comments, if you want me to be 100% honest.
The user comments, full-blinked comments are great. Full-blinked comments are great.
The YouTube comments being like, I can't believe they hired a f***ing idiot
just to be an extra goofball who says incest on camera.
Yeah, okay, thanks buddy, totally playing a character.
We are certain to be out of here by 6.30 on the nose.
I have a funny story about that. We actually faked that clock.
It was already like 13.30 or 1.30
when we were starting this. And it was like, oh, okay. Cause Linus forgot that we were filming in the city
where this takes place. So he went to the office first. Oh my God.
Yeah, delayed the shoot by like an hour. Anyway, sorry. Oh, and this was the upgrade
after I filled out Ariana's stairs. Where is it?
Where is it? Elijah, you ready? Yes, sir, almost.
No, you're not ready. You need this first.
There we go. All right, we don't want you precious Elijah
getting injured again. Of course. Iconic.
And that helmet caused a decent amount of controversy too.
Cause obviously those who watched the last video
and kind of understood a little bit, they were like, oh yeah, it's protecting him
cause he fell down the stairs. Some people thought we were making a really insensitive joke about like the mentally handicapped
needing a helmet cause they're like banging their head or something.
I want to make sure it's very clear. That was never the intention behind wearing the helmet.
It was just because I had fallen down the stairs and it was funny.
That's it. And I think that's also, if people had that kind of speculation
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
cause they were kind of like drawing a parallel that didn't exist.
Oh dude, one of my favorite moments in this video. So it comes on.
Don't worry, you're doing great. I do my best.
You did not just trailer him. He hates that, by the way. If you ever want to really bother him,
if he goes for a fist bump, just do that. I'm gonna do that. Yeah.
He's kind of a germaphobe. So if you do that, he gets really mad. The last favorite moment from this involving me.
Oh, I love this joke. Is the, oh. The bye guys.
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
to try to get comfortable with Linus on camera and like what our kind of banter style was with.
And when you start to click with him, he can just set you up the softest ball
so you can just hit it out of the park
and be the funniest guy in the room. And that's exactly what he did here.
Cause if I didn't say it, he was gonna say it. And you can tell by like the way his lips quiver.
We can try. Let's go. We're the try guys.
Except I didn't cheat on my wife yet. Oh. Yet.
Also I was gonna say, there's only two of us. So we can't really be the try guys.
Or the bye guys. I beat him just like barely to it.
Oh yeah. Our little laughter here is so funny.
It'd be kind of funny. No, we can just flip it in Windows.
That actually would be kind of funny. Should we do it? It's kind of worth it.
Our little stupid laughter there. Our stupid laughter.
Because again, we're joking how in Windows you can adjust the rotation settings.
So we're like, ah, we'll put the monitor on upside down and then flip it in Windows.
Okay, you know that's upside down, right? No.
Can you tell he's worked with Elijah before? He used to have to manage me.
And he couldn't. That's why I had to go to the writing team. That's kind of true.
He was my manager. It's not that he couldn't manage me. It's just that I went to the writing team.
But that was a really fun shoot day. That's probably one of my favorite upgrades
that we filmed, to be honest. I had a lot of fun. Oh, and then everyone saying that the helmet came into play.
Yeah, look, see? Value, that's value right there. I did it on purpose.
What? I didn't hit my head on purpose.
I put myself in a position where if I stood up,
it would hit my head. I knew that it would be so funny if the helmet paid off.
I'm so sorry if I broke the fourth wall Floatplane and just ruined it for you.
But yeah, I had to make sure it was, yeah, here.
Elijah hitting his head with the helmet and on actually protecting him is hilarious.
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.
This was my first 100% fully scripted video
that I also did with Labs. AMD upgrades aren't fully scripted. We try to script the intro
and then we try to script certain beats. For Alex's, it's building the computer,
installing the monitor, right? Versus something like this, which is just like a talking head, sitting down video.
This was one of my first 100% scripted videos
and I worked with Labs on it. It was a fun learning experience.
Didn't do very well, but it was a relatively easy video from my perspective.
So it was kind of an interesting thing to do and test. And it's also, I think my first fully scripted A-roll
that I ever did. It's more of a DNT.
On a shampoo site, we were overwhelmed by just how many pieces of software they made.
And when we did find Win Optimizer, the one that the review sites told us to use,
there was six different options. We could have just gone with the latest one, version 27,
but we didn't even feel like we could trust that since if you refresh the page or clear your cookies,
the price would change every single time. It even went as low as free
if you bought it with another piece of software. I think I actually did pretty decent.
Reading off a teleprompter is hard, by the way, if you've never done it before.
And this was my first time doing it. If you want to know how hard it is,
go watch the video with Sammy, Alex, and Linus.
I was just gonna mention that. Oh my God. On the Snapdragon part two.
Okay. Sammy is an excellent producer for float planes.
You sucked at reading prompter. You know what it was? It was a small prompter.
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.
I'm like, this is impossible, man. That's not me criticizing him.
Because again, it is a skill that not everyone can have right away.
But it is also something you can learn and get better at. It sucks when you're dyslexic.
But yeah. This is also the, we also did our first closer look on this one.
Oh, that's right. Yeah, right here. We did our closer look, Sammy, John, and I.
Because there was a lot of notes for this project. That's sometimes the hardest thing about making a video
is like not going too deep into the rabbit hole, right? In the Puro Air video I did about the one company
that sued HouseFresh for making a honest review
about an air purifier. Oh man, I could probably have talked for 45 minutes
and maybe asked a lawyer to get involved to help the video.
But cutting that down to like a digestible 20 minutes.
Do you like my wallpaper background? Was Bell leaning in for a kiss, but it's blocked by.
I can't tell that yet. I know, you can't tell because I purposely blocked it.
I was like, I don't know. No!
I did fully show that. That was my desktop wallpaper for one minute
while I was recording this L-roll. And then I changed it back. All right, I think we got this last one here.
My first reactive video. Oh man, I remember being kind of hesitant for this video
because this was a Jordan project. And he was like, I want Luke, I want Linus,
and one other host to do these reacts.
And I was still relatively new to the writing department. I had, yeah, April.
So I had been there for, well, if we take away the month that I was away from my concussion,
I was there for five months in the writing department. So I was very new.
This is super cool. Too bad he filled the loop with c- Oh!
What, no one was thinking it. I think we're gonna have- The extra is so funny.
You're watching this on Floatplane, so you might have seen it. If you haven't, you should go watch the extra.
I think I cracked the funniest joke in that entire video which was just like, the premise of the video was
they listed these for a price and then we had to guess what the actual cost of the components were.
And we were like guessing, it's like, oh, how much does the wood cost?
How much does the water cooling? And I was like, are we taking into account the man hours
to fill the loop? Because it was right after the cum joke.
Dude, I thought it was the funniest joke in the whole video. And Luke just kind of looks at me and just like,
he's like fighting so hard not to laugh. We can look it up, we can look it up.
Oh yeah. That's picture I could get of it, unfortunately. This is super cool.
Too bad he filled the loop with cum. It's very quiet.
Unless you hook it up like directly to your wife.
Oh my God. I can't believe you said that. Hook it up directly to your wife?
Hold on, how do you, I gotta turn the pump on. Geez.
Yeah, okay. The more I'm watching this, I'm like, yeah, it's probably pretty good
that we didn't upload this to YouTube.
Oh my gosh. These D5s are a little powerful.
But yeah, this was my first react video. I've done a couple since then, but...
What would you say is your favorite video that you've done at the company so far?
Oh, that's so tough. I didn't know the Linus Torvald one because that's a free gimme.
Oh yeah, that's, yeah. I mean, I haven't, I can't say that one because it's not out yet.
I mean, it might be out. This is coming out way after. Oh, is it? Okay, okay, then yeah, the Linus Torvald's one.
Oh dude, I can name so many cool ones off the top of my head.
I think one of the coolest product videos I ever did was that directional speaker
that can fire like a hundred feet in like a cone. One of my favorite react videos I ever did
was reacting just to viewer setups. That's a good one.
My favorite AMD upgrade is, I owe a lot to Ariana's upgrade.
She literally launched my career down the stage. She literally pushed it.
Oh, you know what? No, favorite video just because of bragging rights.
You and me now have the most viewed video on the LTT. Oh, the short let's go.
Yeah, I'm taking full credit with you on that. No, with you, with you.
You and me, full credit on that one. That's the favorite video
because I single-handedly dominate this channel now. What's your first ShortCircuit?
I don't think actually- My first ShortCircuit? Ooh, is the game sent.
Yeah! So many comments being like, he's shaking.
I was so nervous. So when did this come out? July 5th, so I had been a writer
for a couple months at this point. This is my favorite comment. When I was like reading all the sense,
it's like napalm human excursion. I've never been to a golf course
so I can't really speak on that. Elijah finally admitting his experience with napalm.
But yeah, basically this was a thing that allowed you to smell your games through audio AI.
It works like ass. It sucks. Don't use it.
Neither is- Oh, you see this, do you? What did you just shoot out at me? There's nothing in you.
That is a horrible, horrible smell. It smells like old gunfire.
It doesn't smell like gunfire, it just happened. It didn't perform very well.
So I remember being- I think it was fine. I think it was 15. That's not very good.
It performed like garbage out of the gate. Maybe it's doing a bit better now. But I remember doing this video,
seeing how poorly it performed. And then I was like, I'm never doing another ShortCircuit.
So if you guys enjoyed that, go check out the last time Sammy did this with Ploof.
He reacted to his videos. And then also comment down below
which host you want to see do this next. Maybe Sarah.
Maybe
Taryn? No, not Taryn. No, not Taryn.
Oh, Taryn's first time on camera is great, I hear. He had to address the nation.
Actually, his first time would have been the roast.
The second one, where's he gonna skip that one?