WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.960 So we're going to take a look back at your first time on camera, starting with this amazing b-roll. 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:07.120 This amazing b-roll. This is where you used to work. 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:10.240 That's true. This was in the 101 where logistics was. 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:13.360 Basic dev board that's meant for people wanting to try. 00:00:13.360 --> 00:00:17.840 Is that the whole b-roll shot? I remember this one, actually. It was Glenn, I think, who came up and was like, 00:00:17.840 --> 00:00:22.080 I need you to recreate that internet meme of that kid that's just. 00:00:22.080 --> 00:00:25.600 And I was like, sure, I did that. And then I stole this cork board, 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:28.720 and I had it above my desk for like six months before I moved. 00:00:28.720 --> 00:00:32.480 Where's it now? Oh, it's been taken apart and like, yeah, whatever. 00:00:32.480 --> 00:00:36.360 When was this? Two years ago. So I would have still been in logistics at this point. 00:00:36.360 --> 00:00:40.040 And I think at this point, I hadn't even been asked to be a writer yet, 00:00:40.040 --> 00:00:43.360 because I think this was before or just at the same time as LTX. 00:00:43.360 --> 00:00:48.680 I was very much into logistics, and basically had no plan of going to writers at this point. 00:00:48.680 --> 00:00:51.720 This is where I thought it was your first appearance. 00:00:51.720 --> 00:00:56.400 This was buying out the Mama Pop tech shop, September 21st. 00:00:56.400 --> 00:00:59.680 I think this was either my first week of a writer 00:00:59.680 --> 00:01:04.120 or my last week of logistics was when we filmed this. 00:01:04.120 --> 00:01:10.040 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. 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:14.680 I'm not quite sure. I'm 98% sure you're a logistics person, 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:18.200 because I remember when I did the extras for this video, you came up to me. 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:22.480 That means you would have been at the Labs with me. OK. Then you also said a joke in this video, right? 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:25.760 I don't remember, to be honest with you. 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:28.800 I know there was a lot said about this video. 00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:33.760 Just go in the comment, maybe he says something. Because every time you say something, it's kind of quotable. 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:37.640 It's kind of quotable. Yes, funny as f***, so you said something. 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:41.000 I was funny, apparently. Why just having a meeting with HR? 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:46.520 What the hell did I say? Where my HR Mama Pop computer repair shop is standing around. 00:01:46.520 --> 00:01:50.840 No, I do remember now. So Starbucks Express, they don't sell those anymore. 00:01:50.840 --> 00:01:56.640 So? This eBay listing is saying $480 plus 60 shipping. 00:01:56.640 --> 00:02:01.240 I'll give it to you for $40. So you're saving on shipping Linus if you pay $80 for that thing. 00:02:01.240 --> 00:02:03.720 Thank you. OK, $80 is fair. 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:10.880 Linus, that look of disgust from him was very genuine. 00:02:10.880 --> 00:02:16.600 You could tell. I've done so many videos at this point that I genuinely forget what I've done 00:02:16.600 --> 00:02:24.120 and the concussion in between didn't help, so. Oh wow, this is a good memory lane done for you. 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:29.640 Yeah, I genuinely don't remember this shoot. Thanks, Ariana, for pushing me down the stairs. 00:02:29.640 --> 00:02:34.080 Oh, this was my first b-roll with my face in it, 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:37.920 because I had done one b-roll before this with just my hand 00:02:37.920 --> 00:02:41.800 when I was on probation. But now it's my face, baby. And you know what I did? 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:46.840 I was told to look uncomfortable. That was the entire b-roll. 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:50.000 I'm lucky to remember a small thing, but you forget your birthday. 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:54.360 OK, listen. I had my birthday six days ago at the time of recording, 00:02:54.360 --> 00:02:57.760 and it was the first birthday. I didn't struggle to remember it. 00:02:57.760 --> 00:03:00.880 This was my second AMD up... 00:03:00.880 --> 00:03:03.880 My second? I think it was my second AMD upgrade, or maybe my third. 00:03:03.880 --> 00:03:09.000 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 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:12.120 on tech upgrade sets, because usually it's just Linus 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:17.160 and the person getting the upgrade. Oh, I see. Now it's like you, Reese, the writer. 00:03:17.160 --> 00:03:21.800 Yeah, I guess whoever the extra writer is now mic'd up a lot. 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:25.480 Maybe I did, I don't know. That's tough to say. 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:30.760 I think I definitely normalized it. I don't know if I necessarily was the first one or whatever, 00:03:30.760 --> 00:03:34.400 but because after this upgrade, I did the next... 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:38.120 Pajillion. 14 or 12 or something. 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:41.800 I became... I literally, at the beginning of the year, when all the names were drawn, it was just like, 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:45.120 yep, Elijah, here's your 12 videos for the year. And I was like, cool. 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:50.440 I love doing them, to be clear. I think they're great, but I asked to step back from doing them for a bit 00:03:50.440 --> 00:03:53.800 because a couple of reasons, 00:03:53.800 --> 00:04:00.040 but I think one of the reasons was definitely they were easier videos in terms of planning and coordinating. 00:04:00.040 --> 00:04:05.480 And I felt that if other writers wanted to have access to an easier video, they should. 00:04:05.480 --> 00:04:09.560 I also was tired of the comments, if you want me to be 100% honest. 00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:12.880 The user comments, full-blinked comments are great. Full-blinked comments are great. 00:04:12.880 --> 00:04:16.760 The YouTube comments being like, I can't believe they hired a f***ing idiot 00:04:16.760 --> 00:04:19.960 just to be an extra goofball who says incest on camera. 00:04:19.960 --> 00:04:23.760 Yeah, okay, thanks buddy, totally playing a character. 00:04:23.760 --> 00:04:27.280 We are certain to be out of here by 6.30 on the nose. 00:04:27.280 --> 00:04:31.480 I have a funny story about that. We actually faked that clock. 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:35.440 It was already like 13.30 or 1.30 00:04:35.440 --> 00:04:40.600 when we were starting this. And it was like, oh, okay. Cause Linus forgot that we were filming in the city 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:43.960 where this takes place. So he went to the office first. Oh my God. 00:04:43.960 --> 00:04:47.920 Yeah, delayed the shoot by like an hour. Anyway, sorry. Oh, and this was the upgrade 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:51.680 after I filled out Ariana's stairs. Where is it? 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:55.020 Where is it? Elijah, you ready? Yes, sir, almost. 00:04:55.020 --> 00:04:57.480 No, you're not ready. You need this first. 00:04:58.700 --> 00:05:02.180 There we go. All right, we don't want you precious Elijah 00:05:02.180 --> 00:05:05.220 getting injured again. Of course. Iconic. 00:05:05.220 --> 00:05:08.940 And that helmet caused a decent amount of controversy too. 00:05:08.940 --> 00:05:12.420 Cause obviously those who watched the last video 00:05:12.420 --> 00:05:15.420 and kind of understood a little bit, they were like, oh yeah, it's protecting him 00:05:15.420 --> 00:05:21.420 cause he fell down the stairs. Some people thought we were making a really insensitive joke about like the mentally handicapped 00:05:21.420 --> 00:05:24.460 needing a helmet cause they're like banging their head or something. 00:05:24.460 --> 00:05:29.780 I want to make sure it's very clear. That was never the intention behind wearing the helmet. 00:05:29.780 --> 00:05:32.940 It was just because I had fallen down the stairs and it was funny. 00:05:32.940 --> 00:05:37.220 That's it. And I think that's also, if people had that kind of speculation 00:05:37.220 --> 00:05:41.420 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 00:05:41.420 --> 00:05:44.620 cause they were kind of like drawing a parallel that didn't exist. 00:05:44.620 --> 00:05:48.860 Oh dude, one of my favorite moments in this video. So it comes on. 00:05:48.860 --> 00:05:51.300 Don't worry, you're doing great. I do my best. 00:05:51.860 --> 00:05:56.220 You did not just trailer him. He hates that, by the way. If you ever want to really bother him, 00:05:56.220 --> 00:05:59.700 if he goes for a fist bump, just do that. I'm gonna do that. Yeah. 00:05:59.700 --> 00:06:05.140 He's kind of a germaphobe. So if you do that, he gets really mad. The last favorite moment from this involving me. 00:06:05.140 --> 00:06:09.140 Oh, I love this joke. Is the, oh. The bye guys. 00:06:09.140 --> 00:06:13.620 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 00:06:13.620 --> 00:06:18.380 to try to get comfortable with Linus on camera and like what our kind of banter style was with. 00:06:18.380 --> 00:06:23.980 And when you start to click with him, he can just set you up the softest ball 00:06:23.980 --> 00:06:27.260 so you can just hit it out of the park 00:06:27.260 --> 00:06:30.740 and be the funniest guy in the room. And that's exactly what he did here. 00:06:30.740 --> 00:06:35.420 Cause if I didn't say it, he was gonna say it. And you can tell by like the way his lips quiver. 00:06:35.420 --> 00:06:38.860 We can try. Let's go. We're the try guys. 00:06:38.860 --> 00:06:42.500 Except I didn't cheat on my wife yet. Oh. Yet. 00:06:45.380 --> 00:06:49.700 Also I was gonna say, there's only two of us. So we can't really be the try guys. 00:06:49.700 --> 00:06:55.020 Or the bye guys. I beat him just like barely to it. 00:06:55.020 --> 00:06:58.780 Oh yeah. Our little laughter here is so funny. 00:06:58.780 --> 00:07:03.460 It'd be kind of funny. No, we can just flip it in Windows. 00:07:05.620 --> 00:07:09.100 That actually would be kind of funny. Should we do it? It's kind of worth it. 00:07:16.460 --> 00:07:20.700 Our little stupid laughter there. Our stupid laughter. 00:07:20.700 --> 00:07:24.020 Because again, we're joking how in Windows you can adjust the rotation settings. 00:07:24.020 --> 00:07:28.060 So we're like, ah, we'll put the monitor on upside down and then flip it in Windows. 00:07:28.060 --> 00:07:31.460 Okay, you know that's upside down, right? No. 00:07:31.460 --> 00:07:35.540 Can you tell he's worked with Elijah before? He used to have to manage me. 00:07:35.540 --> 00:07:39.260 And he couldn't. That's why I had to go to the writing team. That's kind of true. 00:07:39.260 --> 00:07:44.340 He was my manager. It's not that he couldn't manage me. It's just that I went to the writing team. 00:07:44.340 --> 00:07:48.740 But that was a really fun shoot day. That's probably one of my favorite upgrades 00:07:48.740 --> 00:07:55.580 that we filmed, to be honest. I had a lot of fun. Oh, and then everyone saying that the helmet came into play. 00:07:57.340 --> 00:08:01.260 Yeah, look, see? Value, that's value right there. I did it on purpose. 00:08:01.260 --> 00:08:04.340 What? I didn't hit my head on purpose. 00:08:04.340 --> 00:08:07.620 I put myself in a position where if I stood up, 00:08:07.620 --> 00:08:13.280 it would hit my head. I knew that it would be so funny if the helmet paid off. 00:08:13.280 --> 00:08:17.700 I'm so sorry if I broke the fourth wall Floatplane and just ruined it for you. 00:08:17.700 --> 00:08:20.940 But yeah, I had to make sure it was, yeah, here. 00:08:20.940 --> 00:08:25.220 Elijah hitting his head with the helmet and on actually protecting him is hilarious. 00:08:25.220 --> 00:08:29.660 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. 00:08:29.660 --> 00:08:33.740 This was my first 100% fully scripted video 00:08:33.740 --> 00:08:37.420 that I also did with Labs. AMD upgrades aren't fully scripted. We try to script the intro 00:08:37.420 --> 00:08:41.060 and then we try to script certain beats. For Alex's, it's building the computer, 00:08:41.060 --> 00:08:46.900 installing the monitor, right? Versus something like this, which is just like a talking head, sitting down video. 00:08:46.900 --> 00:08:50.500 This was one of my first 100% scripted videos 00:08:50.500 --> 00:08:54.260 and I worked with Labs on it. It was a fun learning experience. 00:08:54.260 --> 00:08:59.300 Didn't do very well, but it was a relatively easy video from my perspective. 00:08:59.300 --> 00:09:06.980 So it was kind of an interesting thing to do and test. And it's also, I think my first fully scripted A-roll 00:09:06.980 --> 00:09:10.220 that I ever did. It's more of a DNT. 00:09:10.220 --> 00:09:14.740 On a shampoo site, we were overwhelmed by just how many pieces of software they made. 00:09:14.740 --> 00:09:19.100 And when we did find Win Optimizer, the one that the review sites told us to use, 00:09:19.100 --> 00:09:24.940 there was six different options. We could have just gone with the latest one, version 27, 00:09:24.940 --> 00:09:29.620 but we didn't even feel like we could trust that since if you refresh the page or clear your cookies, 00:09:29.620 --> 00:09:33.940 the price would change every single time. It even went as low as free 00:09:33.940 --> 00:09:38.860 if you bought it with another piece of software. I think I actually did pretty decent. 00:09:38.860 --> 00:09:41.940 Reading off a teleprompter is hard, by the way, if you've never done it before. 00:09:41.940 --> 00:09:45.220 And this was my first time doing it. If you want to know how hard it is, 00:09:45.220 --> 00:09:48.860 go watch the video with Sammy, Alex, and Linus. 00:09:48.860 --> 00:09:52.100 I was just gonna mention that. Oh my God. On the Snapdragon part two. 00:09:52.100 --> 00:09:55.700 Okay. Sammy is an excellent producer for float planes. 00:09:55.700 --> 00:09:59.180 You sucked at reading prompter. You know what it was? It was a small prompter. 00:09:59.180 --> 00:10:04.420 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. 00:10:04.420 --> 00:10:07.940 I'm like, this is impossible, man. That's not me criticizing him. 00:10:07.940 --> 00:10:12.180 Because again, it is a skill that not everyone can have right away. 00:10:12.180 --> 00:10:16.180 But it is also something you can learn and get better at. It sucks when you're dyslexic. 00:10:17.420 --> 00:10:21.180 But yeah. This is also the, we also did our first closer look on this one. 00:10:21.180 --> 00:10:25.980 Oh, that's right. Yeah, right here. We did our closer look, Sammy, John, and I. 00:10:25.980 --> 00:10:30.300 Because there was a lot of notes for this project. That's sometimes the hardest thing about making a video 00:10:30.300 --> 00:10:36.460 is like not going too deep into the rabbit hole, right? In the Puro Air video I did about the one company 00:10:36.460 --> 00:10:39.740 that sued HouseFresh for making a honest review 00:10:39.740 --> 00:10:43.580 about an air purifier. Oh man, I could probably have talked for 45 minutes 00:10:43.580 --> 00:10:47.320 and maybe asked a lawyer to get involved to help the video. 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:50.460 But cutting that down to like a digestible 20 minutes. 00:10:51.620 --> 00:10:56.740 Do you like my wallpaper background? Was Bell leaning in for a kiss, but it's blocked by. 00:10:56.740 --> 00:11:01.860 I can't tell that yet. I know, you can't tell because I purposely blocked it. 00:11:01.860 --> 00:11:03.860 I was like, I don't know. No! 00:11:04.860 --> 00:11:09.860 I did fully show that. That was my desktop wallpaper for one minute 00:11:09.860 --> 00:11:14.500 while I was recording this L-roll. And then I changed it back. All right, I think we got this last one here. 00:11:14.500 --> 00:11:20.180 My first reactive video. Oh man, I remember being kind of hesitant for this video 00:11:20.180 --> 00:11:25.260 because this was a Jordan project. And he was like, I want Luke, I want Linus, 00:11:25.260 --> 00:11:28.460 and one other host to do these reacts. 00:11:28.460 --> 00:11:32.740 And I was still relatively new to the writing department. I had, yeah, April. 00:11:32.740 --> 00:11:37.020 So I had been there for, well, if we take away the month that I was away from my concussion, 00:11:37.020 --> 00:11:40.940 I was there for five months in the writing department. So I was very new. 00:11:40.940 --> 00:11:44.180 This is super cool. Too bad he filled the loop with c- Oh! 00:11:45.300 --> 00:11:49.420 What, no one was thinking it. I think we're gonna have- The extra is so funny. 00:11:49.420 --> 00:11:52.820 You're watching this on Floatplane, so you might have seen it. If you haven't, you should go watch the extra. 00:11:52.820 --> 00:11:57.740 I think I cracked the funniest joke in that entire video which was just like, the premise of the video was 00:11:57.740 --> 00:12:02.180 they listed these for a price and then we had to guess what the actual cost of the components were. 00:12:02.180 --> 00:12:05.380 And we were like guessing, it's like, oh, how much does the wood cost? 00:12:05.380 --> 00:12:08.660 How much does the water cooling? And I was like, are we taking into account the man hours 00:12:08.660 --> 00:12:12.420 to fill the loop? Because it was right after the cum joke. 00:12:12.420 --> 00:12:17.700 Dude, I thought it was the funniest joke in the whole video. And Luke just kind of looks at me and just like, 00:12:18.860 --> 00:12:22.060 he's like fighting so hard not to laugh. We can look it up, we can look it up. 00:12:22.060 --> 00:12:25.820 Oh yeah. That's picture I could get of it, unfortunately. This is super cool. 00:12:25.820 --> 00:12:28.700 Too bad he filled the loop with cum. It's very quiet. 00:12:30.260 --> 00:12:33.260 Unless you hook it up like directly to your wife. 00:12:33.260 --> 00:12:37.420 Oh my God. I can't believe you said that. Hook it up directly to your wife? 00:12:41.100 --> 00:12:44.340 Hold on, how do you, I gotta turn the pump on. Geez. 00:12:44.340 --> 00:12:47.420 Yeah, okay. The more I'm watching this, I'm like, yeah, it's probably pretty good 00:12:47.420 --> 00:12:49.220 that we didn't upload this to YouTube. 00:12:52.020 --> 00:12:54.940 Oh my gosh. These D5s are a little powerful. 00:12:56.060 --> 00:13:00.300 But yeah, this was my first react video. I've done a couple since then, but... 00:13:00.300 --> 00:13:03.460 What would you say is your favorite video that you've done at the company so far? 00:13:03.460 --> 00:13:08.140 Oh, that's so tough. I didn't know the Linus Torvald one because that's a free gimme. 00:13:08.140 --> 00:13:11.700 Oh yeah, that's, yeah. I mean, I haven't, I can't say that one because it's not out yet. 00:13:11.700 --> 00:13:16.460 I mean, it might be out. This is coming out way after. Oh, is it? Okay, okay, then yeah, the Linus Torvald's one. 00:13:16.460 --> 00:13:20.100 Oh dude, I can name so many cool ones off the top of my head. 00:13:20.100 --> 00:13:23.980 I think one of the coolest product videos I ever did was that directional speaker 00:13:23.980 --> 00:13:29.780 that can fire like a hundred feet in like a cone. One of my favorite react videos I ever did 00:13:29.780 --> 00:13:33.500 was reacting just to viewer setups. That's a good one. 00:13:33.500 --> 00:13:37.740 My favorite AMD upgrade is, I owe a lot to Ariana's upgrade. 00:13:37.740 --> 00:13:41.420 She literally launched my career down the stage. She literally pushed it. 00:13:41.420 --> 00:13:45.380 Oh, you know what? No, favorite video just because of bragging rights. 00:13:45.380 --> 00:13:48.420 You and me now have the most viewed video on the LTT. Oh, the short let's go. 00:13:48.420 --> 00:13:52.300 Yeah, I'm taking full credit with you on that. No, with you, with you. 00:13:52.300 --> 00:13:55.340 You and me, full credit on that one. That's the favorite video 00:13:55.420 --> 00:13:58.980 because I single-handedly dominate this channel now. What's your first ShortCircuit? 00:13:58.980 --> 00:14:02.540 I don't think actually- My first ShortCircuit? Ooh, is the game sent. 00:14:02.540 --> 00:14:06.580 Yeah! So many comments being like, he's shaking. 00:14:06.580 --> 00:14:10.900 I was so nervous. So when did this come out? July 5th, so I had been a writer 00:14:10.900 --> 00:14:15.260 for a couple months at this point. This is my favorite comment. When I was like reading all the sense, 00:14:15.260 --> 00:14:19.260 it's like napalm human excursion. I've never been to a golf course 00:14:19.260 --> 00:14:24.500 so I can't really speak on that. Elijah finally admitting his experience with napalm. 00:14:24.500 --> 00:14:31.220 But yeah, basically this was a thing that allowed you to smell your games through audio AI. 00:14:31.220 --> 00:14:34.220 It works like ass. It sucks. Don't use it. 00:14:34.220 --> 00:14:37.740 Neither is- Oh, you see this, do you? What did you just shoot out at me? There's nothing in you. 00:14:42.300 --> 00:14:47.460 That is a horrible, horrible smell. It smells like old gunfire. 00:14:47.460 --> 00:14:51.060 It doesn't smell like gunfire, it just happened. It didn't perform very well. 00:14:51.060 --> 00:14:54.820 So I remember being- I think it was fine. I think it was 15. That's not very good. 00:14:54.820 --> 00:14:59.420 It performed like garbage out of the gate. Maybe it's doing a bit better now. But I remember doing this video, 00:14:59.420 --> 00:15:02.940 seeing how poorly it performed. And then I was like, I'm never doing another ShortCircuit. 00:15:02.940 --> 00:15:07.820 So if you guys enjoyed that, go check out the last time Sammy did this with Ploof. 00:15:07.820 --> 00:15:11.020 He reacted to his videos. And then also comment down below 00:15:11.020 --> 00:15:14.780 which host you want to see do this next. Maybe Sarah. 00:15:14.780 --> 00:15:15.860 Maybe 00:15:18.500 --> 00:15:21.740 Taryn? No, not Taryn. No, not Taryn. 00:15:21.860 --> 00:15:27.020 Oh, Taryn's first time on camera is great, I hear. He had to address the nation. 00:15:27.020 --> 00:15:29.220 Actually, his first time would have been the roast. 00:15:31.780 --> 00:15:33.900 The second one, where's he gonna skip that one?