(upbeat music)
- Today is just a day of guest stars
here on the show and cameos.
Now I'd like to introduce you to the superstar
of the day, one of my favorite people,
and favorite YouTubers.
- Hi.
- Peter McKinnon, ladies and gentlemen.
- I forgot my sunglasses at home.
I can see nothing.
- Wow, Peter, you are just as white as a ghost.
I mean I know I've got a really rich tan goin' on,
but you are just.
- I rode by dog sled here.
- Look at the difference, try to see a difference
between the color of my shirt and his face.
(funky music)
- Okay, let me tell ya a little story about
what happened two weeks ago, when I flew from Toronto
all the way across America to sunny,
beautiful Los Angeles California.
Where the waves were smashing against the rocks.
The sun was setting.
The footage looked amazing.
A promising week ahead for sure.
Then everything took a turn, took a turn for the worse.
Today, is story time and I wanna tell you about
how a promising week week shooting videos
with Casey went to complete garbage because of this.
(bell dings)
Fish 'n chips, fish 'n chips was the culprit
of an entire week ruined filming dope videos.
Let me explain.
(whimsical music)
(gulping)
Aw.
If I'm just sittin' at home in Canada,
you know, minding my own business
and then Casey messages me and he says,
hey do you want to come to L.A. this weekend?
Obviously I said, yeah, I would love to come to L.A.,
that sounds like a great idea.
Pack everything up, flew all the way there.
Got to this nice fancy hotel but you guys remember
I had quite a time in room.
(whimsical music)
Geared up, amped up, ready to go.
Met with Casey for lunch.
We started kinda cathin' up, swappin' stories, if you will.
And this photo was taken right here.
(camera clicks)
(bell dings)
Check that out, we look happy, eager, ready to go,
planning out the day's videos.
Great ideas, we had some really fun stuff about to happen
but 10 minutes, 10 minutes, everything just went down, fast.
(church bell ringing)
Everything just went down fast.
I got married in this church, that's fun.
So, this is what happened.
We some fish.
80% of that fish was consumed by myself,
like maybe 10% consumed by Casey.
But, immediately Casey was like,
I don't know if I'm feelin' the best,
I'm gonna go to the washroom,
I'll meet you back outside.
So, I head outside, start reading some comments
to the latest YouTube video that I just posted.
Just seeing what you guys had to say.
Responding, and the next thing you know,
the whole floor started getting blurry.
I started feeling like I was dizzy,
like I was gonna fall over.
Ew, not good at all.
Casey comes out, we start walkin' down the beach,
ready to make awesome videos.
And then, it got so bad I could barely walk.
I was so dizzy, my vision was so blurry
that I felt like I couldn't walk in a straight line.
I had to sit down.
- [Casey] I need you to snap out of it
for the well being of the day.
- Casey starts his vlog, which is the clip
you saw at the beginning of this video.
(computer mouse clicks)
- Hi.
- Peter McKinnon ladies and gentlemen.
- I had enough energy to kind of muster out
a little bit of a response to what he was saying.
- The color of my shirt, same color.
- I'm a part of the fabric.
(heart beating)
But, I started feeling my face go white,
my whole body starts to go numb and tingly.
I actually thought for a moment, am I dying?
Is this it?
(light music)
(police sirens blaring)
(car honks)
- Peter, never in my life have I seen someone
that shade of white, you're face
was the same color as this truck.
(truck honking)
- Am I gonna die here, vlogging with Casey?
Not that that'd be like the worse thing.
Naw, that would suck pretty bad, that'd be pretty bad.
I thought to myself, it's the fish.
It has to be the fish.
Casey looks at me, and he's like,
it's the only explanation.
It was hurting my stomach too,
not to the degree it was hurting yours
because I only had, like I said at the beginning,
10% of said fish, you had like 80% of that fish.
It makes sense that you can't see.
I thought maybe it would go away.
The nice ocean breeze, some of those waves comin' in.
Deep breaths, in and out but nothing was helping.
Nothing was making this go away.
I don't know why I came up this fire escape
to tell you part of this story,
just felt like, a nice location change
would be, appreciated.
So, (laughs) that's why.
- And also, known you for awhile buddy, you're a tough guy.
I've never seen anybody throw out
their feet like that before.
You were just all of a sudden, out of the blue,
let's make a movie, let's make a movie, let's make a movie.
And then, all of a sudden you're like,
I have to go to my hotel room right now.
- At this point, it was like, alright Casey,
I gotta go back to the room.
I can't sit out here.
I'm dizzy.
I can't even walk, so he, graciously enough,
walked me back to my room and was like,
alright McKinnon you let me know in like 10 minutes
or 20 minutes, take all the time you need.
Let me know when you're feelin' better
and we'll get to makin' movies.
I shut the door.
Things just amplified, 'cause I started Googling.
You know when you start Googling, oh,
man things accelerate fast.
What happens when I have food poisoning from fish?
(intense music)
Start scrollin' and all these things start saying,
you're gonna die, go to the emergency room.
Call 911 immediately, seek medical attention at once.
I started thinkin' about all that stuff.
I think that only just made it worse.
So, now I'm freakin' out in my room.
I feel like I'm dying.
All of this stuff, Casey's waiting outside for me to vlog,
make good movies, I'm lettin' him down,
I'm lettin' you guys down, I'm lettin' myself down.
I flew all the way from Canada to do this
and these fish 'n chips are bringin' me down.
Argh.
Passed out.
(watch alarm ringing) (phone ringing)
Missed call from Casey.
I'm like, oh man, what, oh no.
It's been five hours.
Hey man, feelin' a little better,
what are you up to?
(phone dialing)
- [Casey] Hey Peter, it is eight o'clock,
I'm at the airport, I'm going back to New York City now.
(somber music)
- So, I check my voicemail, message from Casey
and wouldn't it just so happen that Casey
had an emergency of his own,
that he had to actually fly back
to New York that very minute.
While I was passed out sleeping,
he was probably already two hours into his flight home.
No videos, nothing, just a complete disaster.
The trip just (whooshing), just imploded.
And it made me kind of think to myself,
like sometimes, you just can't save something.
Sometimes you just can't fix something,
you can't make it better.
Like, you might have a plan B, you might have a plan C,
but sometimes it's just, you just gotta be okay
with accepting the fact that it didn't work.
You couldn't fix it, you got nothing from it,
it was a learning experience.
It just didn't work out and you have to be okay with that.
So this trip was a big, kind of, lesson for me,
that even though you can put all this planning
into something, you can go the distance.
You can put in the work to try and make something happen,
sometimes it just doesn't work out.
And you gotta be okay with that.
I think at the end of the day, makes a good story
so we did get somethin' out of it.