Unus Annus

We gotta go mark, I was just trying to time it did we make it? Oh, we gotta go, Mark. I was just trying to time it. Did we make it though? I think we did. Yeah, five years?

Yeah.

Are you sure? We don't have a clock. We just had ticking.

I think so.

Okay.

Five years. Okay. AHH! AHH! Come on, Mark! AHH!

Come on, Mark! Let's go! AHH! Come on, Mark, let's go. Ah! Ah! Ah! Let's go. We got it. OK. Oh, God.

Hello.

Hello.

Hello.

If we're not muted, hopefully.

Are we here?

Are we here?

Wow. Are we here? Are we here?

Wow. Are we?

Five years, gang.

Five years. Five years. Five years, and boy howdy.

Do we have a plan for you. Do we?

Oh, do, oh, you know.

All the plans.

From the beginning, we had this all in store. Surprise, surprise. We've been watching your every move. We've been calculating the outcomes, the multiplicity of the, all the choices of the universe. I can't believe people didn't see the hints.

They didn't see the hints anywhere.

Well, some people didn't.

Yeah.

There were a select few, a beautiful, intelligent, perfect few that saw the path, what we intended, what we really meant, everything about it.

Welcome, gang.

And only the ones who got it are here.

Yeah, that's right.

So you're part of a select few, beautiful beauts.

Yes, yes, exactly. Yeah, we've actually been building this entire skyscraper we're in. We're in the first floor of a skyscraper, of course. We've been building it all this time with our own hands. We filmed the entire process, of course. We won't release it to you because you don't deserve it as

perfect as you are. Why would you think that you deserve it? Come on. provided the people about uh... but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but

well man

and guess what we don't even just have this we've got this too I have one more. Oh wait, cut back to the wide.

What if Amy was here? Oh!

Shit!

In the years, technology has advanced so far.

So far.

To be able to, are we, we're not needed.

We're here, right?

Yeah, exactly.

We're around.

So, is it time to unleash all of the secrets that we've been in store?

Yep.

The five years of videos that we've been doing every day since, for Quintus Anus.

Mm-hmm.

Everybody's getting ready for Quintus Honest. Everybody's getting ready for Quintus Honest. 1,826 videos are dropping in 3, 2, 1.

That would be so crazy if we could bring it back, bring the channel back. But we didn't and that's not true. If you thought for a moment that it was, you're a fool.

You, cut to this one, you're a fool.

Quick, quick, cut to this one.

The other one.

Yeah, you're a fool.

If you thought that we would be doing anything like that,

you're a fool.

Well, okay, well, we are here doing a new Nissan Stream, literally.

We are.

As. But we don't have 1,000 whatever videos. doing a new Nissan stream literally We are as

But we don't have 1000 whatever videos

No, we don't and we didn't have 1000 videos before we had we had

367 videos. Yes. Yeah

I guess yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there was like the intro videos and whatnot. Anyway, so we have a lot to talk about

We do should we tell them what we're doing? I mean, it's not.

Yeah, yeah, go ahead.

Okay.

Hey, stay on this one though, or do this one.

No, the other one.

So every year for the last five years, we have done a little video. The first one was us finding the coffin again, putting down, oh, it's a rose. Second one was going back to it.

Yeah, no, the second one was going, first one we slow motion walked up, put down the rose, said some words. Second one we came back, said some words again, an update, just straight up, and then the third one was like, hey it's been a while but filmed kind of off angle.

No, no, no, the third one was when we had both of our things, or was that the second

one?

When did we have both of our angles?

Oh that's right, the second one was us both, and then the third one was going back being like, hey, it's been a while, but kind of off angle. Fourth one was we didn't show up at all.

Yeah, and then there was a-

What?

A-goosh, goosh, goosh, goosh, goosh, goosh.

Definitely didn't write ourselves into a corner.

It's all part of the plan.

It's all part of the plan.

All part of the plan. But today we thought because it's five, five years since the death of Unus Annus, we just sit, we talk about, you know, what it was like doing that. Go over old memories and go over new memories and new life. Yeah. And whatnot.

Can I admit something about this as well? This, all this came together really quickly from you and Amy just sprinting.

For the last like 24 hours.

Yeah, yeah, cause we didn't think that, well I mean I think a week ago we didn't really think we were gonna,

Amy, Amy, Amy.

Yes. I think like a week ago we didn't really think that we were going to be doing this.

Well I figured it would come together, because it always came together, right?

Yeah, yeah.

You had a plan. But given things that were happening in the moment and how busy things were, it's kind of shocking that we were here. But as soon as it started moving, it felt like we were back at Unasana's days.

That's nice.

We did.

Like, the last I was talking about this with my therapist this morning. I was like, it's the Lunasana's death-iversary today. I was like, yeah, it's been really nice, like the last couple days we've been prepping for the stream. And I said that, I was like, it feels kind of like what it felt like when we were in it.

And it was, it's kind of nice. It's like, it's like when, when someone is pregnant and they give birth and it's a crazy pain, and then later on they forget and they go, I wasn't that bad and you want to make a baby again. Yeah. It's kind of like that where I've forgotten the pain.

And so I'm like, I could do that again.

Yeah. Let me tell you, I have not forgotten the pain. I have, you know, I thought I would have so many more projects under my belt at this point. The past three years have been nothing but iron lung. And let me tell you, three years is so much worse than one. I would love to go back and do Honest Again.

Yeah!

And so that's why...

Or not.

No, no, no, It's not happening again. It's been, especially the past few weeks, you know, it's been really refreshing to do this. I, for many who don't know, Henry passed away a couple weeks ago and so it's been really, really hard to do anything, especially as it's coming into the last moments with the movie. It's just been really hard to get going in the morning, and especially in the evening.

But it's been... Every time we were doing something like this, I was in my office, doing the work that I didn't want to do, just kind of sitting there, but as soon as it was like, it's time to do the prep for the scream, I get this weird surge of energy.

Suddenly this joy came out and I was just like, man, I love the making of this huge endeavor, but the actual creativity was so long ago. And it's just all this business and fiddly work.

But this stuff is so fast-paced. Like, yeah, yeah.

We did, we set stuff up for this 15 minutes before it started and it was like, that's funny, let's do that, you know?

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, did you like the intro video?

We filmed that yesterday.

Uh-huh, yeah.

Yeah.

We filmed it yesterday and in such, it was so nice, in such unisonous fashion. We came in here, we were like, all right, what are we doing? I guess we'll get in the coffin and then we'll just like, three, two, one, and then we'll burst out and then we'll just kind of get up and then we'll go like, okay, time to go. And it's just like, I don't know, it's so nice being, like the three of us are just on the same page

where it's like, oh yeah, no, it'll work.

It always does. It was two takes and both would have been good. Yeah, it really did mess him up. Too bad I hated you after it ended.

I know.

Isn't that crazy?

Took you five years. I know. Yeah. Isn't that crazy? Took you five years. I know.

To get back in the same room again.

I know.

It's been so long.

We've had to do them separate. I couldn't stop punching you before the stream started. You know, but as soon as it started, you know, I don't want my reputation to be burned this close to the release, you know. Exactly. that I've been plugging, you know, have been just about to explode. And it has been really nice, like, in the last-

The trough?

Yeah, well, in the last 24 hours, just seeing each other for the first time again, censoring us on, because of the deep hatred

that you had towards me.

Resentment.

Yeah.

The resentment, the everything.

I mean, I just couldn't even believe you would steal my spotlight for a single moment. And having to endure that for a year, took me five years to recover emotionally. I did not see a therapist at all, actually.

No. You just saw yourself in the mirror.

Yeah.

You looked at yourself and went, fucker.

You were right, he was wrong.

This is what I did.

You were right, he was wrong.

You can't just laugh and it cuts to a close up also.

That's not nice.

But it's so funny.

Yeah, what's wrong with my face?

What's wrong with my face?

Nothing, there's nothing wrong.

Look at how much more bounce I get from my white shirt.

Mm, and look how much knot I get from my shirt.

I'm seeping into the shadows.

I look dark and evil.

Meanwhile, good, good person. If you're wondering why they're not wearing their suits, it's obviously because the year's over and that's why they're not wearing them and not because.

Well, we weren't gonna wear them anyway, were we?

I don't know.

I don't know, there was a debate about the jacket

and you know, couldn't find.

The suit's gone. Mark's suit just walked off one day.

It disappeared.

No, it didn't walk off. The bag it was in is empty. You just had it, you wore it at your wedding. That was not the same suit everybody, that was not the same suit, clearly not. It was double-breasted.

Double-breasted. You're an Unasana suit. No. Yes, you wore your Unasana suit and I officiated the wedding. That's how I remember it. Do you remember me officiating your wedding? It was so beautiful.

The words I said when I wed you.

Oh yeah, absolutely.

Say them again, they were so beautiful.

I bring you guys on in here today. Go on, kiss.

Go on, a little more.

I'm gonna cry right now. Too bad it had to be a video call because we couldn't be in the same room. It's an hatred. Yeah. When's Glue 2?

Man, Glue 2 could be soon. Once I'm more, once all your blood stuff is done, then we can bring back into Glue.

Yeah, oh man, it's so close. I have so much to do before.

The fact that this stream is happening is crazy, honestly. Yes, exactly.

Let me tell you, these weeks are not the weeks. Like, it's not. But here we are.

Here we are. And I feel like none of you saying, like, none of you being like I'm so busy is ever like you looking for sympathy from anybody. I think it's just genuinely like, like with losing Henry and everything, and it's like, okay, and now we have to do like

14 hour days for the next God knows how long minimum, you know, next couple months. But it's like, I don't know, it feels like an interesting intersection to me of like grief and creativity.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Absolutely.

I mean, if you think about it with Unus Annus like going into COVID. And man, can't believe COVID's still locked down, man. We've been locked down since the end.

We've been in this room.

Yes, in our skyscraper that we built.

He hasn't hated me for five years. We've been in this room for five years.

Exactly. But it was funny, because when, you know, well, not funny, it was actually opposite of funny I guess, but when it was happening, you know, in a way we were sad because we had all these plans and all these ambitions. We touched on that and that became part of the art. At the end we did those like basically short films where we were talking about how it wasn't perfect,

but it never is and you still move forward. And so, you know, even I'm still trying to remember lessons that I thought I learned that were engraved in my bones from Unus Annus and it's so easy to forget them.

It's weird that it's already five years from the death day. It's one of those things where it's like it feels like it was yesterday But it also feels like it was 40 years ago. Yeah, like I know it's very It's very interesting to think back on that time and I always think back on that and I'm like man

How did we do that? That was so much. Yeah

You guys are doing regular videos then too, at least to some regularity through that. I don't know how regular was, I don't remember, but. It was semi-regular.

More regular than it was now for me, for sure. And man, there's so many reasons that I could explain and I think now I can explain a little bit of what's going on because I mean it wasn't all but there were occasions with we can talk about it more like when we're gonna Amy and I I'm just ring this way.

You're the little doll there. I can be the streamie.

Amy and I we're also gonna talk about us getting married and and that and the movie and tons of stuff we don't want wanna make that the main focus of the stream.

Make Ethan our third wheel.

Are you gonna talk about our unisonus dance at the wedding?

Obviously.

Ooh.

We had our thrumple dance.

No, but you did introduce,

Ethan did screw up at our wedding. He did introduce Mark's mom.

Okay, okay.

So, I didn't officiate the wedding, I don't know where people got that from. But I did like MC kind of. So I was the person that like introduced them for the first time and they walked into their room, into their thing.

And then I like announced like the dances and stuff.

He's good on a mic, we thought.

We thought. You had five lines. I had five. Which was, you know, for the first time, then for the second time, and then for the third time, and then the father-daughter.

We thought it was funny every time we came out if Ethan had to do, for the third time!

It was very, no it wasn't for the third time, for the very third time!

Yeah, it was very good. Yeah, so, but he messed up because he said, you know, the father-daughter dance, and then you said

the father-son dance.

The father-son dance.

Very much like, hey Siri, call me dad.

Like, oh, daddy.

The father-son dance, and then I immediately was like, oh, I mean, whatever, go I don't know, whatever, go!

And then later, later when the, when the normies got to dance, your mom walked by me and I was like, are you gonna save a dance for me later? And she went, no, you called me a man.

Very funny.

That was very funny. Yeah, but we'll talk more in detail, Amy and I.

Again, this is not me being like, oh, we're so busy, but like, hand over heart, we intended, Mark and I, to do a livestream after we got engaged. Yeah. And now, what, a year and a half or two years?

However long it's been.

Did we plan this be engaged? We were going to because we didn't tell anybody for a little bit and then we were like, okay, eventually we have to say something and we're like maybe, because I was like the idea of a main channel video like makes me want to vomit, made me very anxious, not the vibe. But then it was like, well, I was going to jump on PowerWash Pals, that was the idea.

Yeah. all of a sudden people are gonna engage and go on a podcast and I don't know. I very cringe very quickly and I'm like, I don't know if I wanna be.

Yeah, yeah, so honestly this is kind of a cathartic moment to be able to just talk casually. There's so few moments where there was like the occasion, the aligning of the stars or whatever and so this being the five year, even though technically it's the worst time for work

or personal life in general. It's weirdly the best time because of all the things that have happened and are happening.

I feel like doing stuff like this, specifically with Unus Annus, there's like a weird, I feel like you guys probably feel this, where there's a weird safety with it, where if it was anything else, it would be way more stressful,

but because it's Unus Annus, it's like, oh, there's a weird kind of like safety net.

Yeah.

Also, it's like, for me, the set decking and all of it, and the setup is very familiar, because it's not a movie, so it's not intimidating. It's like, it's YouTube, and you don't do YouTube.

Aren't these the chairs? We did the Honest video, you know, where we wrote it really was.

Yeah, where we're honest.

We did a lot of Unus Honest videos in these chairs. It was not the final chairs. We don't know where those are.

Were there?

Were there for the finale?

Yeah, there was like a white one and a black one.

Could they rent chairs?

Oh yeah, I think they rented chairs for that, yeah.

Yeah, you got about that. Let's recap everything that we've done since then.

Since then?

Yeah, because you started right away. Well, started right away, but you wanted to do something.

Well, yeah, God, someone needs to make a timeline.

Man, doing my show?

Yeah.

Yeah, I went on tour. Let's see, okay, so Unus Annus ended November of 2020, and I went on tour in March of 2021. I can't remember. I guess it was, no. It was, I don't remember exactly when it was. It was probably December of, wait, no, when was that?

You started it and it took you a while to get the idea together.

Yeah, because it... I'm trying to think now, because November 21st, 2021 was when I did the Tester Show. And then I guess it was...

That was a year later.

Yeah. So that's when I did the Tester Show and then March of 2022 is when I actually-

March 21st, 2022 Toronto.

Yeah, is when I went on tour. And then I wrote the show for like eight months to a year-ish, cause after the Tester Show, I like polished it and stuff like that. That feels like such a long time.

I mean, it and stuff like that. That feels like such a long time. I mean, it was.

It does.

Doesn't that feel further back though than Unus Annus?

Yeah, it does.

That's like space was after.

Space was after.

And it'll feel sooner.

I have a funny story to talk about that that I haven't really talked about, but I think I can because YouTube Originals doesn't exist anymore. Oh yeah. I could talk about this. Can I tell this? We might figure it out. Okay, so during the last parts of Unus Annus, or like the six months leading up to the end,

I was supposed to have already started filming space, but COVID had happened, and I was telling them constantly, I don't think that's possible because of gestures to the world.

And the precedent hadn't been set for like, you know, after, by the time that we filmed in space, all of the protocols had been set and there were people, like people that we worked with who were in production

who pivoted their jobs to like doing COVID testing.

Yeah, yeah, some people had to adapt

and they filled roles.

Somebody had to do that job.

Absolutely. But at the time, YouTube was pissed. YouTube was livid that I was, not YouTube as a whole, some certain people at YouTube, was livid that I was slacking off and not doing the show. And I kept telling them, I'm doing something really important on YouTube with a YouTube channel.

That you're not paying me to do.

That you're not paying me to do, but I feel like this is an art piece that you should celebrate. I will tell you, YouTube was not supportive of Unus Annus because they were so mad at me for not doing space at the time they wanted me to do it.

I had producers from YouTube Originals that were calling up my producers, screaming at them, saying, you need to control Mark. And thank fuck, my producers were like,

do you know Mark?

I don't control him.

What would they do? Like, you can't go into production.

That's the crazy thing. It's like, and it's like the script for Space was so far beyond what they could even understand. So when I actually handed over the script, they didn't read it. It was 380 something pages of just fucking nonsense.

89 different videos with the bajillion branching paths.

Because you get notes back that were nonsense and you're like, yeah, if you wrapped your head around this, then you know that that was a stupid note.

Yeah, yeah.

So I mean, I don't remember even who missed what.

I don't remember that happening.

Well, because I didn't talk about it, really, because it's like, it didn't matter. And that's why they, when we deleted the channel,

that's why they. It's funny. It's funny. Let's get it all out. This is not like, oh, what was, oh, don't feel bad for us. It's simply a funny story.

Okay, we don't know the number for sure.

It was hard to tell because the last month of Unus Annus, obviously all you guys, everybody was trying to watch a video.

Yeah.

Everyone was trying to cram it in.

Views, unbelievable views that month. So we had, we had, I think, 160-ish million views, maybe more than that.

In the month?

In the month.

I think we got a billion.

Probably more than, I have no idea.

Like everyone was trying to cram it in.

Because like, Social Blade isn't accurate.

Yeah. I have no idea.

Yeah.

It was the kind of numbers that YouTube verifies on the back end, so it's like hard to say This is all just to give context of what went down. Yeah again, this is not always me. No, it's fine We were fine as soon as we heard that that's the way it was gonna be. Well, the email was very abrupt But really I guess is what it is. I'm not gonna I don't know why we didn't go back

To them being like, are you sure there's nothing? So the way that YouTube works, right? You watch a YouTube video and ad plays. YouTube gets the money first, and then they take their cut of that, and then they give it to you.

So the ads have already played on all of these videos

throughout the month.

We didn't get a check from YouTube on the last month of Unasana because they said,

well, you stopped midway through the month so we can't pay you.

It's like you deleted the channel so we on our back end we can't do anything about it.

Yeah, because they couldn't, they don't own the back end.

It's a big enough goddamn number.

Yeah, it was.

That money is sitting somewhere.

So it legitimately, they were just like, nah, you're not getting that last month. Nope. Of course, again, not woe is us, it's just, it's funny. Because I have to assume that if we were in any kind of good graces with YouTube because of how mad they were at me, that they would have made an effort

to do something about that.

YouTube, you have that data in your back end. You should go through and you should just say, hey.

It's fine, I'd rather just be able to talk about this in the open and be able to shit on them a little bit. It is crazy that they did that. Yeah, it is crazy. And I've always been the biggest YouTube defender. I still believe, it's lesser now, but I still believe it is a place where creativity can be put out there.

I believe that TikTok is pushing ahead or is already ahead in terms of the instantaneousness of being able to put it out there, but I still think YouTube is a great place if you can get a consistent solid core to be able to make a career out of it. It's very hard to make a career on TikTok. It is not easy to make a career on YouTube,

but it's a more stable, developed, robust platform. Does not mean, usually I'm a very big YouTube defender. Still am, but less so. And with this, I feel like they were mad. They were fucking pissed. And then they stole from us.

They didn't tweet. They did not tweet the day of our last live stream. No one, no YouTube account, nothing. YouTube didn't say a word.

Yeah, and it was everywhere on the internet. Like every single, this was back before Twitter is what it is now. Like every single thing was Unisonis related on that final stream.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And YouTube didn't.

I remember I was talking to someone at YouTube. I forget who, but I told them, like, yeah, it was crazy. I think we must have had one of the highest livestream viewers ever. Like, we had 1.7 million, I think it was, the peak right before the end.

And I remember it was so dismissive. Whoever I was talking to was just like, yeah, well, the guy, he didn't say this, but the guy who jumped out of the way up high weather balloon or something and and the tallest Thing it was like technically that had like two something million. So it's like your accomplishment meant dick

That's legitimately the way they put it out there is like I said, yeah We had 1.7 million people concurrent on a stream that must have been that must be up there I didn't even say it was number one I said it was like it must be a accomplishment right I feel like I was I was proud it was nah. Other streams better. It's not number one. It was never number one.

It's not Ninja Drake I don't know whenever it was happening back then. Oh we had way more than Ninja Drake.

We had way more. I don't remember. We did like 600 I think. 600, 700,000. We had in the waiting room before the stream started we had 200,000. Yeah, it was crazy.

And it's not to brag, this isn't bragging about the numbers. This is, we look back on this not because we're like, wow, we were so successful. It's like, wow, it meant that much to that many people. It meant something that they wanted to witness the death of this channel.

It meant something.

The thing that really blew me away with the end of Unus Annus was like the insane support from everybody who watched it was that was incredible but the thing that really put into perspective how big Unus Annus was was all of my friends tweeting about it and being like, oh, I had no idea that like any of you guys would watch this stream

or just like random peers being like, wow, watching the end of Unasanas, blah, blah, blah, blah. There was, everybody was watching, it was crazy. And it was so wild and it really put into perspective how big of a deal it was and like this really cool thing that we made.

It was very special. I was talking to my mom about that yesterday where I don't, I have a hard time like acknowledging accomplishments that I've had and I'm like, yeah, like I went on tour and it was good and blah, fine, but Unusanness is one of the only things where I'm like, wow, we really kind of like made history

on YouTube a little bit. Like no one will ever be able to do what we did. Like there will only ever be one Unus Annus and one thing like that. Like anything that happens that's similar to Unus Annus in the future, I think will just kind of be compared

to what we did. And I think that's pretty crazy, that we made something so special.

I think so, yeah. I, and again, I hesitate to say it in a purely bragging way, but there's many times where I am just proud of what we have done, and I think it is perfectly okay to say that I am proud of what we have done.

And that is healthy in some regards. I'm known as an egotistical guy, of course, but I am extremely proud. And the problem with that pride is, I went on to do Space, and let me tell you, the production of Space was nightmarishly difficult to do.

It was so much to wrap my head around, the whole team had to wrap their head around it. The filming of it was so intense, more filming days than Iron Lung had.

How many crew were on that?

140, 100. It was huge.

Which that, Mark, you have to cut YouTube some slack. It really makes sense to put 140, 150 people into a production deep in COVID. So you should have listened to them.

Well, they could have paid for all of it, you know, but they didn't do that either.

We were sick on that shoot. We had one person test positive and they didn't make it in the door.

Yeah, no, we were very, very good about that. And so it was a very well-run production. It was nightmarish, not in terms of like, it was hell on set. It was a great set.

It was a blast.

That's not what I meant. The actual putting it together was so much stress and so much work and so much effort. The crew did beautifully. Like, that's not where any of the issues was. There was obviously some hiccups here and there,

but I'd like to think that a lot of people who came off that set could say, like, that was a very fun, or at least, at the very least, it had really good food. That's a big priority to me on sets, is really good food. Good food. That's, if you're gonna have long days, you've gotta have great food, and we're filming in Austin, and Austin has great food.

But it was so much intense work, because I was like, I gotta go better and and I think space suffered because it was too big because I was reaching too hard the The ending of it wasn't supposed to be part one part two. It was supposed to be just one The ending of part one was that a you thing or was that a YouTube thing? That was a little bit that was a compromise between me and the the former head of YouTube who is not Person that I am talking shit about by the way, I'm so sorry names are terrible with me and I'm forgetting but the former head of YouTube who is not the person that I am talking shit about by the way I'm so sorry names are terrible with me, and I'm forgetting but the former head of YouTube originals

While I was doing that is not the person I'm talking about here she's very lovely and I I I took on too much But part one part two was a way to get more money from YouTube, even though it wasn't enough to do all of it, even though I know some shows got way more than,

and they weren't nominated for an Emmy, but that's fine, whatever.

Anyway, it's totally off the path.

I'm getting off topic here.

No, this is the topic.

It's what's been going on the last five years.

It's just what we've been doing.

Yeah, true. It's just reflecting on all these projects and how you've grown, you know?

Iron Lung was supposed to be smaller.

Well, and that's when we started Iron Lung. That was the most infuriating part out of the gate was the amount of people when you're like, oh, I'm doing a feature. They're like, wow, are you ready for that? The last thing you had done was just the most fucking bat shit, like crazy brain thing you've ever done.

Yeah, yeah.

And not to say that Iron Lung didn't end up being an absolute goddamn bear, but.

Yeah, but for different reasons, and we'll talk about that.

But not because it was a feature film.

Yeah, not because it was a feature film. That was the fine part. That was totally okay.

Yeah. That was totally okay. As far as amount shot, you shot way more for space than Iron Lung.

What was the total run time? Nine hours or something?

Six hours, close to seven hours.

Not quite seven. How long was production?

Forty-five days, I think.

And how long was Iron Lung production?

Thirty-five.

Thirty-five. And that how long was Iron Lung production? 35. 35. And that got extended from the original.

Yeah.

Oh god, I forgot. And then that first week we panicked and added days.

Yeah, panicked and added 10 days. Thank god. Because it was supposed to be a 25 day shoot. Because again, it was supposed to be smaller. So that's you know. Not that it wasn't a fairly ambitious idea, it was a you know, I mean it was, it hasn't come out yet for you guys, but you know,

approaching the end of it right now. It wasn't something that could be really small, but it was supposed to be contained where a space was so expansive and huge. I wanted to do something that was super focused, like laser focused in here. And there's tons of challenges that were either part of my own fault, production fault,

egos get involved when it's like a serious feature film, not blaming anyone on set or anything like that, but people take it much more seriously than what seemed like a fun YouTube thing with space,

which it was.

It had a serious core, but at the heart of it, it's a fun YouTube show.

It could be scuffed at the end of the day, and that could be the joke.

Yeah, a movie can't. A feature film cannot. Well, it could.

But I didn't want to.

You're not writing a comedy.

Look, next time you write a comedy, Do you like comedy? Yeah, of course I do. I like jokes. I like jokes.

I like a laugh.

And I feel like every once in a while, nothing makes me happier, I'll come across some random tweet or something and it'll be somebody in the last few months being like, I finally got around to watching in space and holy shit, this is dense with jokes.

It's so dense.

It's so dense.

Oh, it's so dense with jokes. That's one thing that I think that you genuinely have a skill in is your density of jokes that

you can pack in.

How would, I didn't really ever think about that, because like, when, I'm trying really hard to like not say anything, because like with space, it's, and people have seen it obviously and it's like, haha, goofy, blah blah blah blah blah blah, but with something like Iron Lung it's not like that. Was that weird on set at all? Like, did that kind of like, for lack of a better term,

like bring down morale?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think it's a spoiler to say that Iron Lung is not a happy experience.

Okay, so that's what I was gonna say and I was like, maybe not. Because a lot of people have been like, oh, have you seen Iron Long? And I'm like, kind of. And they're like, is it fun? And I'm like, I wouldn't say it's fun. It's not really a fun movie in that sense.

It's a ride.

I'd call it a ride.

If you know about the coaster that does six loops and then kills you. That's kind of a good analogy.

Yeah!

I love that.

But I think I know where you're getting at with, wait, what were you getting at?

Oh, did, compared to like Space War, it's ha, goofy, goofy, with Iron Lung, did it like kind of bring down morale?

Right, right. So that's where it was tricky, because obviously the character that I'm playing is not having a good time. But as soon as it yells cut, I like having fun on set with Space,

because I would be in different costumes and get into a different character. So I would get into that character and I would be able to play that character and it's fun and everyone's having a good time, it's taking it less seriously.

There's not as much pressure in terms of delivering performance. So when I have to deliver a really tough performance on Iron Lung, it's difficult to be happy before and it's really difficult to be happy after when I've done it so well

that everyone is weeping in Video Village from the genius that was my acting.

It's true.

It's hard, it's hard.

It really goes hard, guys.

Also let alone your actual physical exertion and risk that you took on with this project. And again, this is not frankly a flex, but Iron Lung, if I could give one non-spoiler, it would be that nobody else could make it. And that's not even necessarily a compliment,

it's just like you just wouldn't put an actor through what you put yourself through.

I wouldn't, for sure.

No, you couldn't.

Yeah. It wasn't, not that you were doing things that were unsafe, you know? Yeah, yeah. But it was... I mean, as sick as it could be. It was like... There was shit that you were doing that was brutal on you. It was!

This whole conversation of the clip in my brain that is playing from SpongeBob is just,

careful SpongeBob, careful, careful SpongeBob!

I know, I know!

Yeah, anyway.

I know people are chomping at the bit, but it really is super soon until you will have something actionable.

Yeah.

Actionable.

Keep your eyes out if you're here

and you're interested in Iron Lung. Just keep your eyes and ears open to all the channels that Mark is on and he'll tell you when there's something you can do.

We'll probably talk more when we talk, but anyway.

Yeah.

It's very exciting, though. Very exciting.

Yeah, tell about the last three years that you've been under. Because you, I know you, yeah, I know you've been extremely hard at work. Like before even like.

You're doing these huge, like big production videos now. And that's not, I guess, what you're doing.

I'm not trying to spoil it.

Oh, no. videos now and that's not I guess what you're doing. Not trying to spoil it for anyone. Oh no, yeah the last little bit there's been a lot of videos that have been in the works that have been kind of crazy which will, which are being worked on and will come out when they come out. But there's a lot of really big videos coming down the line, a lot of things that take a long time. The last few years... weird. I mean, I think I definitely...

The thing that I worked the hardest on and that was the most personal from this last five years was definitely tour. Like, I really put a lot into that and I had so much fun going on tour. And that's something that I really want to do again because I really like, I like performing a lot and that's something that I really missed. Because like when we went on tour, it was so much fun just being on stage every night and

then doing that again for my tour was super, super fun. And being like really vulnerable for anybody who saw my show is a pretty vulnerable and like personal show. And that's always something that's difficult where it's like that's something that I want to do again but I'm not really sure how I want to do that or like what I would do but I still have the itch of like oh I I know that I want to go on tour again and I know that I'll figure out a way to do

that again.

I feel like there's a lot of opportunity not that you would want to do it that way but I think of like what is it like Scribble Showdown or some of those shows that are more variety

where it's not just you having to carry two hours you? I think you probably could cook up some kind of, I don't know, something. I didn't mind carrying two hours. It also, every show went by super fast, so I didn't mind, listen guys, I love being the center of attention, I don't have a problem with that. It's just like figuring out what that show would be if I were to tour again. And I will tour again at some point. Like, it's something that I really, really want to do. I just have to figure out what that would be.

You could get a stand-up routine. Get a tight 40.

A tight 40?

Yeah, you could do that. Well, you don't want people to pay a ticket price for a 10 minute show.

No, but I would also feel bad about 40.

I think everything's gotta be at least an hour.

Well, is he joining stand-up sets?

No, I don't have an hour of jokes. I don't want to do stand-up at all.

A very serious show.

Very serious show. I want people to horror show. Yeah, yeah. Weep and cry. Remember how you were like, I can't wait to do a comedy. We're talking about bringing the morale down with Iron Lung.

Yeah.

That's what I want to do. I want to go up on stage and make people really sad.

Oh, man.

They'd sit there and they go,

I don't want to be here. You know, yeah, I got a taste of that with Who Killed, you know, when we did that. Just bringing the mood way down at the end of that one, just like, grrrrr. Ha, you think it's going to be a happy ending?

No.

No!

No, never.

No, not at all.

Not at all. Yeah. And I mean, even with Space, like, it did a little bit of a depressing ending, but it had a good ending, you know, at the end of it. But yeah, not this one.

I think the last few years, I've been going through, because I was thinking about this the other day, actually. You went through a pretty similar thing. This was around 2018, 2017, 2018, when you had identity crisis is way more than what it was. But you kind of like had a little freak out for a second. This was around like the barrel videos and the fan videos where you were like, I don't

really know what I want to be doing, but I want to be doing something bigger. That's kind of how I've been feeling the last couple of years where I'm like, I don't really know what I want to be doing, but I want to be doing something bigger. That's kind of how I've been feeling the last couple of years, where I'm like, I don't know what I want to be doing, but I know that I want to be doing something more, but I just don't know what that is yet.

And I think, I feel like a lot of people go through that in their late 20s, where it's like, oh man, I'm not a child anymore. And I feel this. Gotta make your own fun. Yeah, I feel this pressure to be like, oh, okay, I need to enter my 30s with a clear vision of what I wanna be doing.

Yeah, I think with it, you know, I think naturally it just gravitates you towards positions of responsibility. I think that's what it, that's at least for me, what I realized is like over a long period of time, the craving that I had to expand what I did

was more to enable other people around me to be able to do what they wanted to do, or at least as best as I could. And I think it's naturally happening because you have, one of them's actually monitoring.

Over there.

One of them's actually monitoring over there. One of them's watching. One of them's watching.

I was there not for like two seconds, oh, I thought you were pointing to me.

I was like, what's happening?

Oh no, no, sorry, not you.

No, I'm so sorry, I was just like, shit,

I wasn't paying attention.

No, it's like your circle starts to expand because to do. But it's also, it's a natural progression. Like I'm getting older, and I'm not going to be able to yell at video games forever. So I need to be able to pass on my genius

to the others around me, and they can bask in my glory until I die.

And then they can make Let's Plays.

But never as good as me.

No.

Never as good as me.

Are you training people up to make Let's Plays?

Since when?

Well, whatever they wanna do, really.

You haven't seen the whole conveyor belt thing and the people coming through and they're just,

they're starting to get aNAF videos out soon. They'll get- Man, I miss making Let's Plays, I'm gonna be honest.

Didn't you do one recently again?

On your channel?

I recorded one recently and I had so much fun and I was like, I have this weird thing currently where I have this like weird pressure, it almost seems like that I put on myself that I like uploads now have to be a bigger thing and like a more special thing.

And I'm like, why can't I just put out bullshit? I miss it.

That's what I do.

No, legitimately. When I was just for that brief window of time where I was like, I'm getting back into it. I'm playing Silent Hill. I'm recording these random videos. I'm like, this feels great.

When I got back into that rhythm, it felt like an organ woke up in me. No one knows what that feels like.

What the fuck does that even mean?

You know when an organ wakes up in you?

You know when you're like,

oh, I got that new organ that they were talking about. The messiantery or whatever that is. Anyway, it's-

What?

Is there a new organ?

There's a new, well, it's not a new organ for us. It's a West Point organ. A West Point organ. But it felt like I grew my phantom limb back or something like that. It felt like I was me again. And that's what a lot of what I've had to deal with thus far is not like I'm working with a lot of constraints on the end of this project because doing a movie is a very big endeavor and people say that I can't do it alone but I know a lot of constraints on the end of this project because doing a movie is a very big endeavor and people say that I can't do

it alone but I know a lot of the pieces of it now and I think that the next time I do this I'm gonna do a lot of the parts me even though people the people on the team are looking at me like you already took on all the parts or

yourself you really shouldn't I know but I'm really really egotistical about it. Yeah, but there's something about that. And I think it's just like to make a generalization. It's a little bit of a YouTuber thing where it's like, no, I know how to do this stuff.

And if I have a vision.

But there's a lot of YouTubers that don't.

That's so true.

That's true.

That's true.

You guys both surprise people

when you actually know what you're talking about. Yeah, that is true actually. They're, okay, listen, listen.

This isn't a shit on streamers at all.

Streamers are so great and cool.

Okay, I'm going to say something and you can put this wherever you want. I don't even fucking care anymore. Okay, listen to me, you. COVID happened, right? Everyone was at home.

They were streaming and huge audiences were made. But guess what happens when you get successful and then you're like, oh, I have this big streaming platform, I should naturally go over to YouTube. And then it's like, well, who knows how to edit?

I have to hire somebody, and nobody knows how to do fucking shit anymore. Nobody knows how to make their own thumbnails. Nobody knows how to edit anymore. And I'm talking to all of you streamers who blew up during covid Why don't you fucking learn how to edit for once you don't have to hand everything off and then it's great

Because you have a thing that you need to do last minute or somebody does something and then it's shitty Then you can just be like well, I know how to fix this but no one knows how to do anything anymore mark

I saw your video with Smosh. Yes. And I know some of them might have been playing it up.

I think there was a lot of maybe.

Maybe.

Maybe.

But it's, even though I disavow everything he says and I'm good with you streamers, you can always rely on me to be on your side.

Yes.

But anyway, don't cut away just yet. No, no, no, please bring it back to me. I've forgotten what I was going to say. Smosh. Smosh, right. I do think that that is something that a lot of people need to recognize because what happens is, just like what you say, is not only are they not able to fix the problems, they don't recognize the problems because they don't know how the sauce was made. And they can't communicate, they can't speak to the editors like an editor

needs to know information because they don't know what they're asking for. And so that leads to inefficiencies. It's not even so much like, oh, you should do this because you should be able to do it yourself. You should be proud of the art that you make, but not everyone can be multidisciplinary. But you should at least know the basics so that you can build those relationships and not have them constantly talk shit

about you behind your back. And as a guy who no one has ever talked shit about me behind my back, and I would never talk shit about you behind yours. As that guy that I just said that I was, the conclusion that I was gonna say that I didn't forget.

Yes, yes.

No, and I'm not, I do think that that is an important thing if you're specifically in a creative space. Like I think it's really important to know these other aspects at least a little bit. And I'm not shitting on all the streamers. I'm just saying that everyone should know if they're in this space, how to edit a little bit

because then you can properly communicate

and at the end of the day, make better stuff.

This is exactly why you were saying is true with Unus Annus not being easily replicatable. People could, but yes, it would be compared to this, is if we didn't both know how to edit and picked up videos, and Amy picked up videos and was conjuring up the ideas for the videos,

while we were able to, we took a bunch of improv classes before, we had the skills to be able to do all of this, thumbnail, metadata, planning, logistics, camera, all of it was done by us. If this was a TV show doing daily content,

like these 15 to sometimes 40 minute,

why were some of those 40 minutes?

Yeah, some were long.

Yeah, but I mean, they were good, but it's difficult. It's extremely difficult to expect that many different skills coming in there. And that's why I say that YouTube is a really good place because it forces you, if you're starting off from nothing, it forces you to meet the challenge that is put in front of you.

And TikTok makes the barrier to entry easy. And I'm not shitting on TikTok. Like Ethan's shit on streamers, I'm not gonna do that to you, absolutely not. But with-

I love this because it's just,

because obviously we're jokes and goofy and ha ha, but it's just like, no listen, my friend here that I'm throwing under the bus, fuck that guy, I'd never do that to you.

Never, never, I'm pure of heart.

I got a thing, I got a thing happening that I gotta get people on and I need everyone to be happy with it. The drama can explode after the thing that I'm trying to rope people into. I haven't guilted him yet.

No.

Which I will move on to that.

That will come.

Oh, I've got the dirt.

I've got so much dirt.

You do?

On so many people.

Do you?

Yeah.

No, not that much. We got a couple bangers.

I don't know, we got a couple things

that we sit on.

Yeah.

We have a couple inside stories.

You know, just a rainy day.

When you get bored.

No, it's all, like, not all of it, but it's like, most of it is harmless stuff,

like, you know.

I know exactly what It's really funny, but it's not worth the bee bush. It's not worth Mark sticking his hand into the bee hole.

Yeah, it's not worth the bee bush. I know.

But it's lip-syncing.

You know what I'm saying.

You know exactly what you're talking about.

And you're never gonna know unless the star is aligned.

I plan to outlive everybody, I'll get on a live stream. Don't tell them. You know? Be like, I remember!

I do think now, because you get the question all the time of like, how do you start to become a YouTuber or whatever, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, because it used to be that you had to and now you don't necessarily. If you want to make things on YouTube or you want to be in a creative space with video at all, learn how to edit. That is my number one tip. Don't get a cool, don't spend all your money on a camera.

Don't spend on blah, blah, blah, learn how to edit. Like that, it is such a good skill because then you can do everything yourself if you have to, but you also can just communicate better.

And the people that I have seen, like younger, newer creators who have made the successful transition from like, oh, I had a couple viral TikToks into like a YouTube career or any kind of sustainable online career, always edit their own stuff because people like the videos and they come back to them and all the comments will be like,

this editing is so unique, right?

Absolutely.

You create this, I think if you're using all the pre-fab stuff, you're never gonna develop your own style. Yeah, on like TikTok, I see it all the time now, maybe just because of what I watch, but I see edits. And then people talking about the edits, being like, this edit was the best, this edit was the best, no, this edit. And they're like, this wasn't as good as this edit.

And people literally respect editing.

The studios are paying for them now. The studios are hiring people off TikTok to make fan edits because that's where the marketing is now.

Exactly. Yeah, clip editors, like people do. That is a whole secondary market to content creation that I have never talked about really and is like quietly not acknowledged by a lot of YouTubers. It's not something that I do, but man.

Clip editing?

Clips. Clipping.

I fucking hate it. I hate it so much. But it's not going to make me make my own clips, it's just I'm not going to do it.

Everybody's always like, oh you gotta put out shorts, you gotta put out TikToks, I hate it! I don't want to do it!

It's not just about that. It is paying other, like now it's companies, but it's like groups of editors to organically clip your things and place them everywhere. If you didn't know, that is a extremely big business.

So if you still use Twitter, like I unfortunately do sometimes, and you get this shit in your feed, and you're like, why does this same god damn streamer that I've never heard of keep coming up? It's like, and I guess the Viewbot stuff has come out now,

so maybe that's all slightly different. But that is the game, is getting into the mud of it.

Yeah, it is.

There's a lot of mud. There was a lot of mud when I first started. There was always gonna be mud, but it's...

What?

Who knew it was so muddy?

Listen, when I started, there was mud everywhere.

The walls caked in mud.

I didn't realize at first.

I was climbing out of a silo filled in mud. I didn't realize it at first. I was climbing out of a silo of mud.

Sorry, continue. There was mud, right? Mud. But I had a point before I started talking about the club. Editing. Editing is an extremely valuable skill. Even if I'm saying like this is mud. That's a career. I don't fault anybody for hustling to make a living like and editing especially in today's age like a video my you know take over all of this and it'll be irrelevant as you go like make me a movie with boobs and guns and

the World War II and you're gonna watch that and be like that was great I loved that I felt a real human connection when I watched this. I feel like more of a person, more of a well-rounded person because I experienced this.

Really grinds my gears. What?

Really grinds my gears.

What, which part?

All of it.

All of it, which part?

Well, so there was a thing recently, I don't know outside of LA how big it was, like AI actress.

Oh yeah, Mark probably doesn't even know about this.

I don't remember what the name of it was.

But it's stupid because it's, what's the point?

I agree, what's the point?

I agree.

You tell me.

Yeah, you tell me. Yeah. You tell me.

Anyway, um, yeah.

You're almost done though.

With what? Wait, what?

Wait, what?

No, you're almost done with your big movie, Mark.

Oh, yes, yes, yes.

And then you can take a breath.

I would love to take a breath.

Wouldn't that be nice?

It has not been possible to take a breath for a while. I am not going to lie. It's not just because I've been doing this a while. It is the amount of things that have piled up are pretty overwhelming. The past couple of weeks have been tough, because it's hard not to wake up and cry from losing Henry.

And going to bed is just hard because it's quiet. And then on top of that, the work doesn't stop. It just doesn't. And I've taken some time. I mean, you know obviously how hard it's been for both of us. And it's been really, really, really hard.

And all I want to do though is to finish it. I want to experience the relief of knowing that I overcame all of these obstacles and was able to conjure up something that was worthy of the time that was sacrificed to make it. That's kind of what Unasana is all about, make it worthy of the time that was sacrificed to make it. That's kind of what Unisonus is all about,

make it worthy of the sacrifice.

And I think that's something that I'm sure people in the comments are saying right now, and this is not a judgmental thing, but there is a very, very, very, very, very big difference, one that I don't even know, between making something for YouTube

and making a feature film because I'm sure that there are so many people that are right now being like Mark the movie can wait just take a break but like the movie is so much bigger than yourself it's like no like I have all of these deadlines that I have to hit like I Like, there is not really a choice here. So it's like, yes, I will rest once this is done, but I have to finish this.

And that isn't even like a unique, and that's why it's interesting to talk about, I think, especially like with Islam, it's like what you're saying. You know, it's like, that's why I was so excited to do this, because it's so strange to go through grief like that, and it's like this tightrope where you're like,

okay, I have to stare at work, because it's the only thing that feels familiar and sane, and you know what I mean? You can only be physically sad for so long, and your brain needs something else. So like, it's like both, we have to do this movie because it's the only thing holding us together.

And also I have, when you lose, like when you go through, even it's like there's no point to doing any of this, right? And it's like, I don't, it feels like every day we're holding both these things in our hand.

Of like, this is the most important pointless thing

in the whole world.

It's the most important pointless thing and that would happen a lot. Like, this was just like a week ago, it seems so strange now. But I would be driving onto the Warner Brothers lot to do this final, they'll get excited.

Oh, did we lose chat?

We might've. Oh, there was some, hold on, hold on.

Oh, are we here?

There were some Fs, but I don't know if Fs are just people spamming or they're just doing, sorry, I might have gotten got, they might have pranked me. I might have gotten pranked. It's back, wait, somebody said it's back.

Oh, it's back, oh, good.

I don't know.

I didn't see any interruptions.

It's just as many Es as Fs, so it's sort of hard to tell.

Look, so I was, you know, I would wake up, just be absolutely miserable and being getting my big truck and just sitting tiny in my big seat.

Have you even talked about your big truck?

I haven't talked much about it. I have a truck.

What kind of truck?

I have a truck.

And he uses it.

I love that truck.

Who would have thought?

It's called a big truck.

It's an electric truck, not a cyber truck.

Not a cyber truck. I need to get rid of my dumb ass car push it down I am I did buy that sticker listen yeah listen I did buy that I'm so

lucky I sold that I wouldn't say lucky I was was still a big L you took.

Oh, it was a hell of a loss, but the timing was great. Yeah. Before a certain heart went out to certain people.

Wade made the best joke.

I forgot a certain heart went out to certain people.

So funny.

Wade made such good jokes. Okay, for those of you that are hunting for content and you have not been watching slash listening to Distractible, we have put out some, in the year where it's like snow time, some fucking hilarious episodes.

Oh my God, if you have, like, this is not a plug for Distractible, but it's like that has been so grounding.

You can plug Distractible, but it's like that has been so grounding. You can plug distractible, why not? That's the one thing that you are keeping up with.

Absolutely.

Even when YouTube slips, it's like,

you do those Tuesdays?

I've been doing that because I'm contractually

obligated to do it for one.

No, it's the love of the podcast.

But it has been grounding.

It feels kind of unisonic, but instead of us, I have a corporation holding a contract gun to my head. And so, that I love.

I feel like it's not, okay, this is kind of morbid, but it's not even like a normal gun that they're holding to your head. It's like those guns that they kill cattle with.

I thought it was gonna be a money gun.

No, it's way worse than that.

Yeah, but honestly, truly, it has been so grounding to be able to do that podcast regularly. And my friends have been so accommodating. And it's not just like distractible. Go, my favorite sports team, also has been continuing on.

Tyler has been such a sweetheart in terms of conjuring up those episodes.

Bob and Wade have done OK.

No, I'm too kidding. But all of the onus is on Tyler. I don't come up with shit for Goh. He leads the charge with that, at least distractively, shared responsibility. It's been so grounding and so heartwarming that I've been able to do that

and they have been so there for me in terms of the craziness of the schedule and adjusting it, constant cancellations, last minute moves to things. They've just been so good about that. And just, oh man, not every episode's a banger,

but a vast majority are just like gut-busting laugh.

Or like the one when you're in the tub.

Oh, I saw a clip of that go around yesterday

when the water, did you turn the water on?

Okay, I'm gonna say something really funny.

Oh, I'm gonna say something really funny. Okay, I'm ready. Wait, I'm ready.

Mark, okay, ready?

You have, and it's something that I love so much about you. So much.

You have so much goddamn money. You have an unfathomable amount of money, and it's so great seeing you record a podcast in a fucking tub. It's so funny! It's so funny! You have so much money, you record a podcast in a tub, you record a podcast with a fucking, like, wall of bicycles behind you and weird garage in the closet. It's so funny.

What are we gonna be in a mansion recording a podcast? No, it's just the contrast is so great. I love it so much.

It's so funny.

It reminds me of the thing that we talk about this sort of stuff sometimes. Because, okay, in theory, sure, when you would go to Austin and we'd work on these projects and you needed to do podcasts. Sure, we could have rented a studio somewhere hourly or you could have done that. It also, it makes it, no, no, no,

it makes me think, you could have, I would have thought, it makes me think of when people talk about, oh, if I had a bunch of money, I would hire someone to cook for me every day. I'd have someone drive, you know, have some, I'd outsource all of my chores.

Yeah, yeah.

But we talk about that sort of stuff sometimes, and it's like, yeah, but would you actually want to live that way? That doesn't sound, that sounds like, somebody coming to my house in the morning to cook me breakfast, that actually sounds horrible.

Looking at my sink full of plates

that I have in kind of goes back to the thing about being self-sufficient with editing though. It's like, okay, well in this scenario, okay, maybe the tub is not a good example, but you're like you know enough about audio and enough about how this thing is made that you know

what is good enough.

That's why you're in the closet, the audio is better.

The tub is probably not a great example because the audio was, tub was great.

Let me tell you, there was no other option in that Airbnb. It was one of those hyper modern, no carpets, like all white, flat walls, echo. Weirdly, the bathroom had the most like curved and also cornered surfaces. So it broke up the sound the best out of the worst scenario.

That's so funny broke up the sound the best out of the worst scenario. That's so funny. It's even dumber.

That's so good. It's so funny.

I'm glad that makes you laugh.

It makes me giggle.

I can't imagine not at least cooking. I mean I order a lot of food. I go to restaurants on occasion but I get it. I was at Warner Brothers again and they were like, hey, it's the last day, and we were like, yeah, what if we, because Warner Brothers has a really nice cafeteria on studio, not even on set, on campus,

that's like a long walk across it, but it's nice. And then they asked me, the only thing special for the last day, and I said, Chipotle'd be great. Did they laugh?

They didn't say it.

Alright.

That's fine. You didn't ask for Cracker Barrel.

Well Cracker Barrel's too far away. That's the special request.

You know what's funny though? It's Warner Brothers so if you were like I'd loveacker Barrel, they probably would send somebody to drive five hours

to go get it.

No, yeah, it is kind of that culture there, but like every morning I would get in there and there was this beautiful cut plate of fruit, and there was these pickled vegetables that was great, like carrots and cauliflower and celery, and it was just pickled in a way that was unbelievably sour. I loved it. Like punchy in the face kind of taste to it.

And I was like, wow, did this come from,

where'd you buy this?

And they're like, we made it. And I'm like, can I have the recipe? And they were like, well, I didn't.

They made it.

They made it.

The who's, hey, tell me.

I want to make it. Let me into your kitchen. I don't think they could even fathom someone just asking for the recipe for these pickled vegetables.

And I'm just like.

Did you get them?

No.

I should follow up about that.

You should.

Follow up to Warren about the pickles.

Mr. Warren.

Circling back to the pickles.

You should put that email in.

Circle back on those pickles.

Man, it's gonna be so nice when you don't have to circle back about Iron Lung stuff. It will be so nice to just be like,

ah, it's out, and the people.

Are you scared you're gonna freak out? Are you scared you're gonna, the freedom? Okay, my, if you're asking what's happened over the last five years for everyone else, I've learned that I really struggle with absolute freedom. It's really bad for me. I need some guardrails in my life. I need some bumpers. But I feel like you've

been on a track for long enough. I don't know. I'm so curious.

The track feels like it's just doing all of this all the time. And I'm learning as I go. And I am grateful for all the people that I'm working with that have been very gracious in terms of my feelings of that. But sometimes I feel like they're holding things back from me.

That if they told me-

They're keeping me secret.

Keeping secrets.

And if they told me a little sooner, I wouldn't have fucked up so much stuff. I didn't realize how bad AAFs were.

This is gonna mean nothing to anybody.

Okay, I need to translate. Tabula Rasa, right? No, not that. What's the other one? Tabula Rasa is like a clean slate. Rosetta Stone.

Yeah.

Not Tabula Rasa. But Rosetta Stone, right? So it's got translations, right? So AAF is like going from the top translation through the middle one to go to the bottom one, right? It starts here where it's nice and clean in my project, turn

into AF, goes... then it gets pulled in all squishy and wet into Pro Tools. It's all wrong and things that I retimed are off and it retimes things randomly for me and it doesn't copy the raw files, it just makes new files because it feels like it names them this file F. Why does it got to go to Pro Tools? Because that's what Brad mixes in. Why doesn't Brad do it in Fairlight? Because Pro Tools is the industry standard. I guess so, but so is Avid still for some fucking reason.

Yeah, that I don't get, but it's the same company that makes Pro Tools, so you know they kind of get the run of the show. If you're going to build all your infrastructure. Cut to the wide. Look, it doesn't matter. I'm tired of looking at all the jumbling over there. Just keep it here for a bit. Keep it here for a bit.

I'm so tired.

Amy.

Huh?

Don't put it on me, though.

Oh, I see.

Baby!

All right.

Anyway.

It's exhausting seeing that flash. Look, none of that matters. It's difficult, I'm learning pieces of the process. They didn't tell me that it was messing up. They didn't tell me that if I disabled clips on the audio that it would still get to them. So the way I did it, I have a lot of options

that are disabled, so they would get things and it would be like six lines from different takes stacked in a row and they wouldn't say anything. They would take it like, must have been what he meant. All right, like the music will be so wrong. It'll be all over the place.

It'll be like, all right, let's go baby, yeah.

And do you not get offended because?

I get offended because I think that was like that I'm a fucking idiot. Like, no, I didn't know that it was coming through wrong. So I said, and you were there for that, is like, I'll just get Pro Tools and I will put it into Pro Tools for you.

And they were like, oh, that'd be great.

How's that going?

It's fine.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

I mean, I don't really know it that well, but I'll figure it out.

Yeah.

And that's what it's all about. You just gotta figure it out. You just gotta figure it out. Yeah, exactly. Amy, what are you, what are you, what are you talking about? Tell me, tell me about your years.

Do I have to?

We've been going around in this circle,

talking about our years.

I don't know, I don't know.

The years.

Both getting roped into and also roping myself into things. I don't know. I've always been sort of like, fill the gaps that you see, you know, a little bit. And it turns out there's just infinite, making a movie takes infinite resources.

When living with me, there's a lot of gaps that I don't see. And thankfully, Amy sees a lot of them. And even if she doesn't want to jump in there and fill the gap, it's like,

at least she'll let me know about the game. I was like, has anyone thought about this thing? Has anyone considered that someone's gonna set this thing up? And if we don't know anybody to set it up, I either find the person who can do it or I learn to do it myself. I feel like, and that's why I think in the past,

like for me, I've never had any kind of issue, I mean, especially now that we're married, like with people being like, oh, is it hard to be like known as like, just like through my association with you? And to me it's like, no, because I wouldn't know those people to begin with if I didn't know you.

So it's sort of a, sort of a wash in that regard. And, and it doesn't, I don't know. Like I get so anxious in front of cameras anyway. It's never been my place to begin with, but I do really enjoy the creative process and working with our friends is the coolest thing in the whole world. And I think there was a time where I was really like,

okay, I need to branch out and learn on my own stuff and do something totally different, right? Even like, oh, I'm just gonna work at a coffee shop. I gotta get out, I gotta do something totally different. But then I'd find that, and you'll vouch for this because you know how it goes, is I'd be like, okay,

maybe I'll learn this thing and it'll be like 3D scanning or all the interactive stuff I'm doing now, like whatever the topic is, and I'll start that I'm doing it, and you're like, that's really cool. Then you'll buy all this expensive equipment for it, and then it's immediately like, well, now we have all this equipment. It's like, well, how can we apply this to

all these work-applier related things? I think like, oh, but you could totally use this. The short-term projector of mine that I'm doing this on,

it's like stuff like that. I have ideas for things, so I can't get away. You're talking like if you had just even one more day to plan this, you could have put your face Wizard of Oz style here, like swirling in the background, and it would not have been that.

Oh, and I could have just done a whole board, I'd turn red when I'm angry.

Yeah.

And again, anybody out there, like learn stuff.

It's so fun learning shit. It is. It's so fun learning shit. I don't know, it's so gratifying and when you can actually do something, when you start to figure things out on your own, it's so nice. I've been learning piano recently and it's been so nice and oddly emotional for some reason.

But just sitting down and learning something new has been so wonderful. It's been so cool.

Go learn things. That's sort of what I tried to do. It was sort of my intention once we found out that Henry was sick because I was like, okay, we are all three of us crazy dog people. Like, we just are.

And so I know that so much of my own identity is like poured into this dog, right? Like I just, when I view myself, it was like I'd see myself reflected like back from him, right? But I knew once he got sick that, you know, it was like, oh God, how am I, after I'm through all this, I'm gonna have nothing. You know what I mean? I felt like, oh God, what am I gonna hold on to? And so I do think I spent the last year being like, you gotta find something you're, you gotta remember passionate about to begin with and learn some shit and push in some direction so that when it does get bad,

like you'll just have something to focus on. And I do think like, I think I feel like I've done a decent job of that because I do think like those things are kind of keeping me stable right now.

Absolutely.

I don't know if this is true, so let me know if this isn't. But before I was like, I was talking about how, you know, you guys have so much going on and it's like, okay, the, I can't stop right now because I have to finish this movie, but does it kind of some days feel like less of a, and I'm talking broader spectrum here, less of a half, I have to do this,

and it's like, no, I need to do this thing.

Man, that is kind of a thing, but the problem is when it goes to an I need, there's a lot less motivation in an I need versus an I want. Like, I need to exercise more. I don't want to exercise more.

Yeah.

Like, I always chase the feeling that I had when I first started YouTube, where I was so, so excited every morning. Wake up, leap out of bed, ready to work at something. And let me tell you, I do not leap out of bed. Not these days.

Even before Henry passed, leaping out of bed was not really how I was vibing. Occasionally, every once in a while. But when you're three years into a project that probably should have been done a long time ago if a million other things weren't all happening

at the exact same time, then yeah it's really hard. It is hard. But I do need to. And so that still does push me. And I want to. But I have to remind myself that I want to.

Yeah, and when I say need, it's kind of interchangeable with want. It's like I have to do this thing for myself and there's this kind of drive inside to like, okay, yes, I do need to, I have to hit these deadlines or whatever, but I also need to do this to kind of keep myself going, I guess.

Yeah, I think so. I mean, I put so much of myself into the creative endeavors that I do that it's hard for me sometimes to separate who I am from what they are and that could be extremely unhealthy I'm aware and to many many many you know credit goes to Amy in terms of pulling me back from

throwing myself entirely to the meat mincer that is just content generation because it is I've always says like you you squeeze some of yourself out to make content in it or make it art in any form you squeeze some of yourself out to make content or make art in any form. You bleed yourself to make it. And eventually you run out of blood. You need to live more experience to be able to do that.

So I've been trying to walk that balance. Amy has always been such a great balance for that because being reminded of just the things that I take for granted and the things that I miss from not paying attention to them. You know, they do weigh and they eat up a lot and it just means, you know,

it just means again, there's not enough time to do everything. There never is going to be and there never will be. And it's not going to be perfect, but you still still gotta do your best, I suppose. Yeah.

What are you guys excited about?

Other than the movie.

The movie we've done?

No, I'm excited for people to see it.

I'm excited, I am really excited.

And the kind of marketing ideas that we have for it are coming together, and I'm super excited to...

Actually, like, do the thing.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, the jumping from the plane like the Red Bull guy, but higher.

Yeah, exactly.

So the views are higher.

Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

You should pitch to YouTube. You should see if you can get a meeting with YouTube and be like, guys, I got an idea.

I...

You like this guy?

What about me?

What about this guy? What about me? What about this guy? Huh? Hey.

No, it's gonna be really fun once it comes out. And I think that's important to people watching too. Not just with us, but with anybody that you watch. Like with YouTube, it's now becoming like a little bit more mainstream, I guess, or whatever. But in this case, it's still very much independent art, you know?

And that's very important, and that's why you should support people, support artists who are making stuff, and especially making stuff for the right reasons, you know? So once the movie comes out, make sure you go

and see the movie, for your friends, for your family.

You're swinging with it. I mean, that's what I'm excited about, because I feel like there's been a little bit of, I mean, back when you announced, there's a lot of chatter of like if it was even a concept that could be pulled off or anything.

And it's funny because the concerns that people have are very much the opposite of the concerns that we had making it. That is not the problem, actually, at all. I keep losing my focus, sorry.

No, no, no, no, it's all good.

We're just exhausted.

I kinda wanna read.

You wanna chat?

Yeah, pop your head up.

I haven't looked at any comments, hello.

Hi guys.

Hello, people.

We were holding off, we were just gonna do a little bit until we ran out of things to talk about, but man, we've been going for almost an hour and a half.

Good, good.

Yeah, anybody have anything that they're thinking of now that we, as we put a close to that casket once and for all?

Maybe.

Maybe.

Probably. Well, I don't think we're gonna do yearly big things anymore.

No.

After this.

Maybe something on 10.

I do think, I do like a deadline, and I do feel like I will continue to use November 13th as a personal, like,

Mm, yeah.

Gotta finish whatever the thing I'm working on is.

I think you were saying it earlier, where it's like, this kind of feels like our New Year's Eve a little bit.

It does.

Like, oh, it's kind of the end of whatever.

I think that might be a better way to approach it, is like, whatever going on. That's what Lixian was doing a lot, is like he was doing. I mean, a lot, you're doing something for a year. And he wasn't always successful at it, but you know, he would try. And it was funny because he was at the wedding, but it was like he was telling me about what he wanted to do for a future project,

which I have a Korean cousin, I also have a Japanese cousin, but one of the Korean cousins is an actor, and I've always wanted to make a project In Korean to solidify me learning Korean for that and Alexia goes up to me if I learn Korean Can I help? If you're watching I bet he could I bet he could he's too late for it He's probably not watching this but it was like I bet he could I bet he would yeah kind of guy he could

He would yeah, yeah

Totally off topic of whatever the hell I was saying before. What are people saying?

What are people saying in here? I don't even remember if we... Did we read comments during the final livestream?

I pulled screenshots from socials.

I don't know if...

Yeah.

I mean, I think we had comments going like that we could kind of see, maybe?

I don't know.

I don't feel like we just riffed for 12 hours without seeing some comments, right?

Yeah.

I'm wearing socks. They're no-show socks. Multiple comments being like, you have to wear socks with shoes. I'm wearing socks.

I don't think that there's a law that says that.

I almost bought you white socks, Mark, and I'm glad I didn't, because that would have looked crazy.

Can I talk a little meta, because some people were talking about it, about Unasanas in the end, and the whole redacted thing, and really being strict about people not watching reuploads, and clips, and the rules,

and I had to do a whole subredploads and clips and the rules and I had to do a whole subreddit thing to lock down the rules again. Can I say something that's a little meta about it? Yeah. Just a little confession. I always wanted there to be fighting about it. We knew that it would be fighting. It's stupid to think that deleting it would be funny. We knew that it would be funny. We're not stupid to think that deleting it would do it. Erase it from the internet. We were obviously expecting it to happen.

And it's something that, in all honesty, we know how you guys are and how the rest of the audience would be. And we knew that there was going to be some people that were like, I want to, it's two sides of the same coin, I want to hold on to these videos because it's important and the videos themselves weren't important,

it was about the message, you know, so I can watch the videos. And then other people are like, it's not about the videos, it's about the message, which is why I'm not watching the videos. It's the same reason, right?

But it's just two perspectives of the exact same reason of like, I believe in the message that the videos weren't important, so I'll watch them. I believe in the message of the videos are important so I won't watch them. It's the same thing. So going into that I am happy to defend my belief that I think you should stick to the message and I believe that but I am I understand that people are going to not agree with that and that's good. The discourse is good because it it shows that people care and

when they have some opposition to their views, that's the only time that they get stronger is by challenging those views. And it can cultivate this kind of debate about what it, you know, keeping things on the internet and archives

and things like that.

It's a safe place to have a conversation about media preservation because ultimately it's about these goofy little videos and it's not that, you know. Yeah. Yeah, I

Miss I miss the Unisonis community a lot. It's very fun. It was very very fun. Oh, I discovered this recently

I think I must have known about and I forgot about it, but I looked on a store. Sorry. I looked on a storage server Recently and I have all the raw files of every Unasana's video we've ever filmed. Technically, we could recut those bad boys. Recut them. Take all the stuff we cut out and reform it. They would be new videos.

Oh, extended.

Technically.

What if we released all the raw footage?

Oh my god!

No!

There's some uncensored things

that we should probably re-censor.

But there's nothing... It was always me being like, I don't think this is gonna go, it was always me being like, this is where...

I was talking about me being naked.

Oh yeah, yeah.

I was talking about like jokes that I would say we should cut.

I was also thinking that where I was like,

there was revealing things for sure. No, no, no. I think that there is a world where there might be some other content, but right now we're trying to go through the behind the scenes of Iron Lung and that's already a bear. I figured that out, but it exists. It exists. It exists.

All the rough, it still exists.

It's there. In the cloud.

My take on the whole, like, the archives existing and stuff, my conclusion was, like, the archives existing and stuff. My conclusion was always like, well, it's convenient for us that the funniest stuff, like the funniest clips will last the longest. Because as time passes,

the only clips that still get reposted are like beta counts on Twitter trying to get money. So they only post the funniest shit. So it's like, actually all the videos that weren't very good just sort of like disappeared.

There's so many videos, there's so much stuff that I have completely forgotten about. So many of those videos.

Yeah.

Maybe, I don't know. Maybe for the 10 year we'll open the vault. And that way, you know, the people that'll care will maybe, they'll move on a little bit and less people will here and it could be

new what cannot no we turn off

do you know i want to go on this i want to pitch by ten-year

idea

but i think i know I won't you may resume the camera switching sorry I didn't mean to stifle oh yeah well not me not this what come, this guy? No. Yes. What are you talking about?

OK, listen, when we're talking about preservation and when we're talking about remembering things,

remembrance.

Right.

What better way to remember we only do it once and we blow

it up.

OK, I think it's

so cool. I think it'd be so cool, shh, shh, I think it would be so cool

for the 10 or 25 or 50, right when we're about to die and we're the last stop, doing an interactive museum

and then we're dead at the end.

Wouldn't that be cool?

But see, my, my quome, I guess, or my unexplored sort of like thoughts about doing something like that is like, so are the things in the museum props? Because if so, they're just, it's like,

well, it's props and then there's clips from the video and then there's, there's little plaques, right?

Oh, I know that idea. I thought you were going to talk about selling merch again or something like that. No, but that's what you were going for.

Put a pin in that, we'll come back to that.

But listen, it would be funny.

The museum or the merch?

The merch. It'd be funny.

Ethan and I had a bit going the last couple days that we were gonna set up a whole merch operation behind Mark's back and then just launch it during the stream. Listen, it's just a black t-shirt and a white t-shirt with a tiny, little tiny,

embroidered five. That's it. Doesn't even have the hourglass or anything? No, just five.

It could be the hourglass. The thing could be five. I thought it was one big five.

Oh, you thought it was one big five? I thought it was one little five.

You could do both. You can do both. Put it on demand. We had morals once and now they're gone. So why don't we just do whatever we want.

Pull up a pole.

Look, if we open that can of worms, then we gotta open up all the worms.

Okay, what other cans we got?

Yeah, what other worms you got?

Tunus, anus.

No, that's stupid. Oh my fucking god. No that worm can never, that worm can never see the sun.

It's like a cicada. What's the point of the original worm if that worm comes to

me? Well there's a can of worms. A lot of worms in a can. How many? Well it must be like 10. How many? Well, it must be like 10. How many? 15? Listen, I think the little five is fine. Let me ask my friend. Can we talk about that? Can we talk about the joke that got cut out?

We can talk about it. Can we kind of talk about it? My friend? This was, this was, uh, Amy, Amy said that I don't, I, okay, I very rarely say this is the hill I'll die on, hey, like, don't post that.

So this is like, like a week after the,

The AI shit, when Mark got in all that hot water.

Oh!

Yeah, right?

Goddamn mess.

So it's a whole thing, I did that live stream, and then there was a video, cause one of the big contentions was the non peanut video. Yes, and so we filmed another video With non-alcoholic beers. Yes, and I thought it would be really funny Really funny

If I if I did not it wasn't

No If I, if I, did not, it wasn't Chad GPT.

No.

It was another one.

It was very funny.

You were asking about if you could have raw egg.

Yeah. And then I, so at the end of that video,

there's a clip of me screaming, just going,

give me back my friend, give me back my friend.

It was like a callback, it was very funny.

It was very funny, because the first time was to mock AI, and people didn't get that, because even though I was clearly like, no, are you just saying that you're not using as much as almonds, because you really just try to protect yourself,

because you're an AI, and you do this. Clearly, I'm not defending it. But this one was so heavily into the satire, but Amy was right, it was right after this.

It was too soon.

I was like, we have spent,

I was like, we spent two and a half years on this movie, you cannot tarnish your reputation on a fucking joke like this.

It's not that funny.

I'm so funny.

It was really funny.

It's not that funny.

It was very funny, but.

We'll release the clip after the movie comes out and you can judge for yourself if it was funny enough or if you cancel me. And I understand! I will take that punishment.

But after the movie comes out.

After it comes out?

Yeah.

A few weeks after.

It was really funny.

It was really, really funny.

It was so good. It was so, so good. It had to be.

It was funny.

It had to be.

It was great stuff.

It was great stuff. It was really funny. It was great stuff, you know? I mean, it wasn't even that funny at the moment, but the whole buildup afterwards just made me laugh harder. And I know that's not always a recipe for good posting online, but.

Well, I think it actually is a recipe for good posting. I don't think it's a recipe for a good reputation.

It was so funny.

You know, we make funny things together, guys. We do. It's very silly. Yeah.

I think that, you know, maybe, because what happens with merch, talking about merch again, and doing that, it's like, it would have to be something that is, it would have to be extremely special and meaningful.

Similar to how this-

What's more meaningful than the number five?

The t-shirt, Mark.

It's a plain white t-shirt or a plain black t-shirt,

but it has the number five on it.

I mean like this, like the five year, the timing of it, it all coincided into something that meant something and made sense to do. This dream, us being in, at least the pants again, not the same shirts.

It's not the same pants, I bought those pants

at the mall yesterday. Never mind, I'm wearing nothing except the shoes. I had to go to the mall and buy white pants. That are from the original, but it's like it was it was I didn't I wouldn't have thought that we would do a live stream like this. No it was very like it was

very funny being like oh yeah five years well, no time to do a stream.

Somebody said, somebody said hourglass-shaped butt plug merch. I thought that was an idea.

Does it work? Is there sand in it?

Yeah.

It's kind of a timer, I guess.

For how long?

You can only take it out once the sand has changed to the other side. The Unisonus butt plug challenge.

I thought we were talking about all the morals and philosophy and what we were doing.

If it was so meaningful, we could sell something.

This is what it is, all of that.

Hmm.

Do not pee in the printer filter box. We have a printer filter.

We have a printer filter.

Oh, it's so funny.

That's a funny Unus Annus thing, like when I think back on Unus Annus, that was like the B-plot of my life.

Yeah. like when I think back on Unus Annus, that was like the B-plot of my life.

It's like where I forget that like our experience doing it is very different than people's experience watching it. And one thing that I always think about is the house that we filmed in, where we no longer live. But at the time we were living there and when we moved to that house,

your address had been leaked to that point where we were before. that it was like, we are not going to film in this house. It will be so nice to have a house that no one ever sees.

And then they saw all of it.

And I would like, you know, I had to like leave for trips or whatever. And then these videos of the house would just be a goddamn wreck and people in the comments being like, these people can't keep their fucking house clean.

And it's like, I'm sorry, I'm trying so hard. There is no merch store that is legit, you fools.

Oh God, no, please.

There is no merch site that sells legitimate Unasana stuff. It hasn't since it ended because that was the point. Critical thinking will allow you to make conclusions that will lead you to truth and justice. Why are you laughing at me?

I'm giving the truth.

We could either mock their stupidity or point it out. I say let us shine a light upon it.

That's true, there's nothing there.

Your ignorance is not your fault.

Kind of.

A little bit.

Did all of the merch have the skull

in the print on the back?

All of the merch had a time of when it was, it was the day that it released was the time code.

Yeah, so you can tell something's legit if you're buying it second hand because there are only certain number of time codes that are valid and the design has to be the same and the designs actually, I've seen some knockoffs that are pretty bad.

So, and you know that the knockoffs are gonna be made bad because they're gonna be made cheap to make as much money as possible. So, I don't have a conclusion.

So don't buy it.

Don't buy it.

Don't buy it.

Until we release our-

Buy Mark's movie ticket. Oh yeah, please. If you'd like to do anything like that, support their next big thing.

A movie ticket.

A movie ticket.

Tickets on sale...

Not now.

Not now.

Not now.

But they will be.

Not yet.

I don't know.

What?

You don't have a movie coming out with tickets to avoid.

Oh, yeah.

Do you have something you can hawk, though?

Hawk!

Yeah, man.

Man.

No, it would only be guilt tripping.

It would only be guilt tripping.

I liked your most recent video.

I got a kick out of that.

Which? I got a kick out of that. One of it was most recent now, the Garrett Watts one. Oh, thank you. It was very, very funny.

Brought him to court.

I didn't see that.

Oh, Amy told me about it.

You know what, I was telling Mark about that video actually after I watched it because I was reading the comments on it and it reminded me of Unus Annus, I said, because what I thought was unique about that video I think is when you collab with somebody, you know the person that you're going to. You don't just take on collabs with totally random people.

I feel like you're maybe not as picky as Mark. You know what I mean? You don't just do clubs for the sake of getting your name out there with people really. Yeah. I feel like with that video, a lot of the comments were complimenting you on being like,

oh, this feels like it was sort of built for him, right? And like this wouldn't have worked if it wasn't designed around like your guys' personalities and the way that you work together. And I feel like Unus Annus is the same thing where it was you guys knowing each other

and knowing where you guys worked well and didn't, you know?

Yeah, I think it's cool.

Yeah.

And it was funny.

It was a funny video.

Thanks, Amy. It was a fun video. It was a funny time. It was a silly video.

It was.

Is there any myths that we can dispel about what was real and what was not on Unisonus?

Oh yeah, there is some stuff that I don't think we ever clarified.

The pee was all real for those who were asking.

The pee was. I don't think they were. No one was asking. You didn't have to clarify.

No, there was some of them.

It was a real thing.

We could have faked that though.

Yeah, we could have.

We could have faked many things.

We faked other stuff.

Why didn't we fake that? Yeah, what did we fake?

Let's list all the things we faked the easy stuff, the camp, obviously the camping and the sleepover on the last day, which pissed me off that we didn't actually do that. You went home, I was like, what is this bullshit?

I remember being mad about it.

Why didn't we do that?

I think the finale stream and it was like.

Yeah, there was a lot going on. And we needed a good night's sleep to be able to last 12 hours of performance, we need as much rest as possible. We should sleep in our own beds. So that was a good thing. And it was only gonna be up for,

that video was only gonna be up for a few hours anyway.

And we couldn't film ourselves time-lapse sleeping anyway. That's true. Because it had to go to the editors like immediately, or one of us had to.

And we were making them that fast,

that it wasn't, thing. The time capsule.

Oh, it's still there.

Katie opened it the other day. I got a text from her being like,

I found an onion!

What do you mean, opened it?

Or shallot.

It's, I know.

I was like, what did you do?

Close it!

Oh, we dug it open it. Well, I think mine had the, did it have peanut butter in it? Because- No, it was, no, no, no, it was not that one.

No.

It wasn't that one. Okay, but also now that it's open, it's kind of gonna-

But she said, it was a text, and she was like, oh, there's letters in it, but it wasn't, she would have said if it was. Shallot at some point. Was He Who real? In what way? Yeah, what sense?

Yeah.

I will say I was not naked during the majority of the filming of Hunting He Who. I was wearing a dancer's belt. Similar to the one I wore on this piece.

I don't even know about, I don't remember anything being like

Fate the dog video with dog wait. Sorry people are asking where Amy's legs are babies not sitting at a desk Amy is not sitting in the-

Far away.

Oh, girl, careful.

Oh, there's Chica now.

Oh, girl, there's all the candles.

Oh, B.

Oh no, the very real candles.

The candles are fake.

The candles are fake.

Chica, you very good girl.

But they're the good fake ones with the mechanical flicker. I only get the rest. They look very real. Spencer's not gonna call me. Hi, girl. All right, B, you do need to scooch out of the way.

Oh, well, girl.

She's looking at you.

You mean, she's looking at you.

Well, she's looking at the spiral, is what she's actually looking at.

Chica is real, yes.

When we came in this morning, she did make the connection, likes watching TV and stuff so she's looking at it and I was setting stuff up so she was kind of like watching me move around and then my face like entered the screen and she like looked at it and she turned and she looks at me.

Yeah. She's thinking. The bug watch? Well I mean it was real but I guess people are asking

where it was. I have it. I have it. It's at the house in, oh it's in, actually I have a little, you and your like acquire weird little toys from like, I don't know, just like little things over the years. And I have like a little toy bag full of my random, and it's in there.

Yeah.

Random little things.

I've got a bug watch. I've never put a bug in it because it seems like it's torture for a bug.

So sad, living in a plastic dome. Did you guys actually, oh, got one by Sylphus. Did you guys actually enjoy Unasana's production? Because it was daily. It wasn't daily. It was like three to four days out of the week we would spend to record,

and then editing would fall in between at first, and then we hired more editors.

Oh, I was gonna ask, when did we, when you were talking about us editing the videos, when did we hire an editor? How long did we make it before we were like,

holy shit, this is not gonna happen?

Lixian was helping from the get-go because it used to be just him, even for my videos, which was a lot for him, I can't believe he did that. Then it was Rachel, and Marcus, and then Vincent, and then, did anyone else help out at that time. No, I think it was, I think it was at that time. Yeah, there's more of those now, but that was that was the core group back then. Eating onions for a whole week? No, we didn't. No. For a whole week? That was just a day.

Yeah, we had a lot of onions. We had a lot of onions. Careful, Chica. She's watching monitors. Not gonna lie, it's your tail. You're looking at your tail. Chica, come over here. Oh, Chica. That's your tail, girl!

That's your tail! Wow, good girl.

That's crazy, Chica.

Good girl.

Go over there.

Chica, come over here.

Chica, this way.

Chica, come over here.

Come lay down with me.

Oh my god, that corpse.

Come here, Chica out like on that beach trip. Aw, Chica's little beach trip.

Ethan has been an angel with all the Henry stuff. Not to talk too personal.

Yeah, it was so good for her especially to get out and have just a day of running on the beach and it was really, really nice.

Yeah, Ethan took her out like,

was it the day after?

Pretty much, the day after? The day after, pretty much. The day after, the two days after, I can't remember. Yeah, it was like a couple days after. And she was running.

Oh, she was sprinting.

I mean, she can book it.

Yeah.

Yeah, she had a great time on the beach.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

She'd been good.

Yeah. So she'd been doing more. Chica has been good. You're like you feel good and then you feel like horrible and you just do this for forever Yeah, as much as I sometimes make fun of her, you know

Her voice is like she's very aware and she's very emotionally intelligent. So that's that's one of the best things about her

She is like she can really tell when people are feeling certain types of ways. She picks up on it

Yeah

like I've been talking a lot like lately with Henry and stuff about how he was, and the reason why our house feels so quiet now is he was always that buzzy, noisy, what's the next thing we're doing? He was just the noise of the house, whereas Chica's sort of the opposite, and she's like.

Called.

Yes.

Soothing.

Regulating, always.

Yes, Chica.

Chica.

Yes, Chica. Yes, Chica. Yeah, she had a lot of fun on the beach. That big fish.

Remember Chica, the one on the beach?

Yeah.

She hasn't been a long time.

She was crazy.

Yeah, so this VOD will stay up afterwards, so if you miss anything, you can do this. We're not deleting anything right now.

Not right now.

Not right now.

People were wondering if my echolocation skills were real. That clip gets a ton of traction still to this day. It's very convincing. So a lot of people probably don't realize that it was actually pitch black in there.

Yeah, I don't understand. I saw a comment the other day on Twitter or something being like, well, you can see that there's a light and it's not dark.

That's how it works.

That's how the tech works.

That's fucking infrared.

You stupid idiot! It's part of the reason why I did that flashlight video in there, because I wanted to show, this is what it looks like.

It's black.

It's black. But then I was able to turn on the light,

it goes, poof, oh!

You know, it's a very dark closet, interior to the building. No windows, and then we blacked out the bottom. It's such a black room. It was an extremely uniquely placed closet that was perfect for those. I mean, every video in that closet was a banger.

It was so funny.

It was so funny.

I don't know if Unus Annus would be the same if night vision wasn't invented.

Oh my God, yeah.

All the night vision stuff is so funny.

I can't believe there haven't been

more night vision cameras. good content. Every time I see a video with Night Vision, I'm like, it's bigger. Amazing. Incredible. It's so, so funny. Art. Yes, the echo location. You can do it

yourself. I swear you can. If you're in a room, you can pick up, you know, if you clap in one direction and there's nothing there but blank space, and then you clap in another direction and there's a chair there. There's, you know, there's slight difference.

The grip was loose, but I played it up a little bit. What?

The grip, the grip was loose.

I remember you, I remember that line, but I don't remember where it's from.

The grip was loose.

The grip.

The grip was loose.

I remember this, this is the thing

that you would say to us, right? I tied you to a chair.

The grip was loose.

Oh, the grip was loose.

The grip was loose.

The grip was loose.

The grip was loose.

Your grip was loose.

My grip was loose.

Remember when you guys were tied to chairs and you had to break out of them?

No, no, that was not it. You had to keep it squeezed on the ball, but you had the ball in your palm and it was open.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I was mad. See, what happens is we look for bits, truly. We look for opportunities for storylines

and through threads because-

My whole comment section is just,

the grip was loose!

It's just like, what the fuck are you talking about?

Somebody said, what about that video of you having to rush clean before Amy came back, was that real?

Yes.

Yes, yes.

I don't think so. I don't remember what the time frame was.

Because I was very anxious about the fact that the house was always a goddamn mess

and I would get shit for it.

Was the glue, I don't think anyone said this, but I thought about the glue. That video was so fucking funny. Us taking ramen, smashing it with super glue. But the fumes were actually concerning.

The fumes were concerning, and I definitely got a little bit lightheaded. And obviously we did a funny edit where it's like we both got crazy high or whatever, but nothing like that happened. But definitely the fumes were not good in that room

and got a little lightheaded for sure.

Those videos always made me nervous at the time of making them, but now I love them. The ones that weren't like, oh, it's 10 minutes of funny, like the videos that were more like, oh, there's like a gimmick to it or it's sort of, because when we started it, that's what it was gonna be. They were all just gonna be shitposty,

and then like a format kind of developed from them.

God.

Yeah, it very quickly went from, oh, these videos are just like, we're putting them up and we don't care, it's fine, and then it was just like, nope, we care about these more than anything.

Yeah. piss tent was real, like we said before. Someone said, like, how could that be real? I'm like, it's very easy. Oh, pee sauna? Pee sauna, yeah.

Oh, piss tent.

I was like, piss tent. Because I immediately thought to when we were camping and I was like, did you pee in the tent?

Just in the corner.

Pee sauna was unfortunately real. And the little sauna, DIY sauna thing, you know, it just, it makes vapor out of water or whatever. So at one point I got like boiling hot piss on my feet.

It was terrible.

Yeah.

Oh, we have Benjamin ketchup somewhere.

And yeah, we have all of them actually, all the cutouts.

Me getting Ethan with the paintball, he did not know ahead of time.

I did not know.

I think I got you pretty, pretty good there.

Yeah, it was really funny. I think I got you pretty good there. That's a hard watch for me. Really? It makes me like secondhand because I don't want to get shot with a paintball gun. I just feel very bad for Ethan in that video.

We teased it for weeks.

It was so funny because in the moment I didn't catch on at all until you had the paintball gun.

I was like, oh no, I just had it. I measured everything. It was perfect. It looked, I get why people are like, was that stage or scripted? Some of the things we did were scripted, but that was not scripted.

It was just like, we looked for bits and opportunities to do those. The Gongus are, I didn't know you were gonna fucking do that.

So that's what I think is real, is real great about us guys is that like we do look for bits and we're really good at not only like following kind of like yes and and what the other person is doing but like noticing when a bit is happening and going along with it I

think we work really like intuitively together which is nice. Staring contest was real. That was real. Escape room was so funny, absolutely. We wanted to do more videos like that. I feel like very early on, we did a lot of videos outdoors and then COVID,

and then it was like, all right. And then by the end, it was like, by the time we were able to make videos again, it was like, we're sprinting to the finish. we wanted to do the camp and then all the other big ideas. So we started doing those. But those were very fun. I still think about like the videos that we were able to do out in the wild.

In the wild.

That's the one where we have the two kind of like the parallel videos, the haunted house ones where we'd set up like Riddle Mark on the camping trip. And then the one that we did for Halloween for Mark.

The Riddle videos were so funny. Both of those were so funny.

I love those.

God.

I just love to set up an elaborate bit and then force somebody to do it. That's like always my dream. I just need people, like that's why you guys are so great because I have an infinite number of ideas.

I just need somebody to stick in them.

I want to go back and experience your haunted house so many of those and I felt like I was playing a role that was a little too like, meh, whatever about it. I wish I had got more into it, but I love the line with the fish bucket. I would not have changed that at all. So funny, I look at it and it's like, you must find the key or whatever the fuck is in there.

I'm like, I'm not doing that. That's okay.

That's okay. That's okay. That's okay. Boundaries are important. I still quote that. What happened earlier in that, when he went to the bathroom?

Do you remember that?

Oh, right, I thought you were gonna be right.

Cause it was like a, I don't know. Like it was a place that we rented, but it was like almost like a construction zone.

It was really weird.

It was very strange.

It was like weird. It was very strange. It was like a tablet filled with poop.

It was like somebody had invested in like a really dilapidated, oh, this fell, goodbye.

Oh, I knew it.

Someone had invested in like a really dilapidated kind of mansion and I assume we're eventually going to renovate it, but in the meantime, I remember that they had said that they were like, oh, we just like decorated, it was like a funky situation.

It's so funny, I saw a clip of that the other day where, yeah, you like go in and you're

like, do I have to go in the poop?

And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Pumpkin hands

Screenshot it it was so funny. Wait, I gotta find it. Oh, where would that be?

So great. It was on my phone

That was such a great thing about Unisonis was that,

you know, people nowadays are just like, you know, YouTube is such a title and thumbnail game. And we really had it made where it was like, it did not matter because everyone wanted to watch every video and we could just make it the craziest thing. Most of the videos were just like,

we could do whatever, it was awesome.

We were debating what to call this stream before we started.

Right, what is it?

Unisonus 5.

Unisonus 2, Unisonus 3, cause we were gonna have separate ones. Unisonus the prequel, and then Unisonus the sequel.

The Unisonus situation is crazy.

It's crazy.

Yeah. I'm really sad and depressed about the fact that you were going to make a critical thumbnail. Yeah, I was just going to take a photo of Charlie making a thumbnail.

That was one of the biggest compliments I think was the aftermath of seeing Charlie make a video. It was really nice.

Yeah, I mean a lot of people.

Oh, speaking of Charlie, Mark, you have a char... Remember last night, you were like, oh, you should mention that.

Oh!

This is a perfect opportunity.

I am a bad person.

Is it confession time?

Yes, it's confession time, all right. I love star-forged computers. Ha ha ha ha ha ha! I love Star Forged computers. I've always believed in that computer company specifically, because I think four, three, four years ago, I reached out to Charlie, I knew he had that computer company,

I was like, hey, I don't have a 49 yet.

Is your computer company?

He's like, I'll send you one, absolutely.

I was like, oh, thank you.

I'll definitely promote it. It's like all the producer printers sitting out there that I swear, I swear.

Once the movie is done, we'll be so...

There's so many other, like, it's not like, cause I've seen people in chat be like, oh, are there other projects that you've been working on? All of it has been in service of Iron Lung, but there are so many like, like two month things that it's like,

oh, and I just, there's 3D printing,

far more than this. printing farm and there's all these things. There's a video that you wanted to do forever on your channel with me.

Which one's that? Which one? What did you want me to say? Describe it. Lights and things. Oh yeah. Oh right yeah that I just haven't

gone around to. So funny. Before I forget because I'm doing it again. Buy Star Forge computers cuz Charlie gave me one for free and that was years ago And I went to go send him a DM about something else And I realized I can't ask him this Other thing because the last message was enjoy the computer

You'll figure out what it is and then you can send him the clip and then say by the way, I have another question

Another question to ask you.

Another question to ask, which is.

Another one on good terms.

Another one on bad terms.

Clean slate.

Now that my part of the agreement is fulfilled.

Yes, tabula rasa, am I right?

Yeah, it is. Anyway, also Prusa has sent me a bajillion printers for free and thank you so much by Prusa printers because they're great. They print their own printers, it's super cool.

They print their own printers, it's super cool. They're really nice. We use other 3D printers that aren't like that and god when a part goes wrong it goes so wrong it's a nightmare. But the Prusa stuff, you can kind of self repair a little bit, you've been cool, I think.

Again, these are not sponsors.

These are people that I have gone to great lengths to be like,

Oh, give me stuff, I'll promote you, and then I didn't.

So... It comes from a good place. No, but you reach out because...

I want free stuff.

I love free things.

No, but it's...

Sometimes it's like, it is like you... It comes from a good place Free stuff I love

Sometimes it's like it is like you you aren't looking for like that's always in that you struggle with it's like people back Oh, we don't have the marketing budget and you're like no. No, I just want a casual relationship. Oh, yeah Yeah, you tell me what new things you're you know that you're making and give me a little sneak peek

And I you know and I casually promote you like that's dream. And then when a company like Prusa does it, I don't follow up and that's where it's really bad. So anyway, that's my, any confessions from you?

No, the ball gag in the mailman was real.

That was real.

That was so real.

So real, so coincidental, we made eye contact.

It was fine, I guess. The Eggnog, the Pyramid of Nog video was very real, unfortunately. Yes.

I threw up a lot.

Yep, that was a lot of nog.

There was that. Do I have any contractual obligations that I need to know? What I will talk about is a thing that I need to start soon. The room that we are in is to be a podcasting room.

And that's something that-

For the Unisonis-

For the Unisonis-

It's already set up, man.

What?

Unisonis what?

Podcast.

Yeah.

No, not that, that's not happening.

Yeah.

That'll be happening soon. I don't know, maybe. Hopefully, I have to. Well, I don't have to. There's no contractual agreement, but I told people that I would, and I want to.

Were all the-

And we spent a lot of time fixing this room up, huh?

We did.

Were all the Amy noises real? Was that from the radio?

The Amy noises?

Oh, yeah, when it was like the RoboMe.

Okay, yes.

Oh, I forgot about that.

The terrifying- I'm not about that. It's terrifying. But the walkie-talkie started when it was like exploring this weird basement. That was real. We did not do that. It just started happening. We don't know why.

It was probably that the thing was broken, but it would just start screaming for no reason. And you, did you go down?

Yeah.

Yeah, you went down. You thought I was messing with you Yeah, I was not messing with you. It was just happening. Yeah, it was weird in there. I didn't like it I still love that edit. That's like big smooches big popper

Oh I love that lines

Big kiss for popper, I forget

Everybody, kiss received

Kiss received

Everybody I would love we probably we won't go through them on the stream because it's going to be a whole thing, but I would love for people to just go and post your favorite clips from Moon and Sonis, whether it's on Twitter or Discord or whatever.

I think today only, or maybe we can spill into tomorrow, because technically we ended on the 14th because of the leap year and whatnot. But I will allow, just for this moment of this, next 12 hours, you can crack open your archives and you can dig for new clips.

Mark's allowing it, guys.

Just, this is a limited thing.

Limited thing.

Limited thing.

Like our five shirt. Teeny tiny five. All black shirt, teeny tiny white five right over here where you're not going to be and then there's also a black version where the there's a white person and it's a team that five with a little bit of a right where you're going to be

where you're not going to be mindful of the

uh... we are marks and bullets and then you know i'm not sure i think you know

and never where it's nipple is, so that you, if you buy the shirt, it could be like, yeah. Nipple merch! Where it's our nipples, on the shirt, right? But it's life size. Oh, but how would sizing work? That would be so hard, because you can't, ah.

Well, it would be accurate.

It would be accurate.

To, you're wearing a shirt, right?

And it's got your nipples. So we only sell mediums?

How does that work?

See, you have to do one size fits all.

I've lost this plot.

Chat, chat, you know what I'm talking about.

Come on, come on guys.

Come on.

I'm not a TV.

I got legs.

She's not a TV.

I promise.

She's not, look.

It's crazy.

It's extremely convincing.

Oh, it almost looks like I'm going behind.

The power of technology is crazy these days.

I could go behind the, I could go into the spiral.

You could, yeah.

You absolutely could.

That would be exciting.

Oh!

Oh!

Oh no!

Yeah, we aren't seeing all the nice props. I feel like maybe I could go away because I miss all the nice props. I feel bad because I was like,

stop switching and now I feel bad.

You gotta stop laughing when it cuts to my face. I don't think that's very nice of you.

That's very funny, I'm sorry.

You make me laugh, Mark.

It's a good thing. You make me giggle. Don't touch me. It's a good thing. You make me giggle. You make me laugh like nobody else.

Other than myself, of course. Okay, yeah, that's true.

So true.

Was the Dance of Italy real?

Yeah. How could we fake something like that? How could we? Was the marching backwards real? Yeah, me doing that was very real.

So was the fading out of existence.

That was so funny.

Oh, it's so good.

Oh, the fucking earthbound.

Do do do do do do.