(Skype ring tone)
- Prank calling my buddy Nate.
- Hey, what's up, Zack?
- Hey, dude, water fight?
- Maybe later, dude.
- Or right now!
- Dude, Zack, seriously?
Stop!
- Dude, that's for getting you back last Friday! You to--
No! He fried my laptop!
(upbeat funk music)
What's up, YouTube? I hope you guys enjoyed
that magical prank video.
Thought it was a fun way to ring in summer.
Let me know if you guys are still in school
or you've graduated or you're still stuck in school.
Comment down below.
And let me know also in that comment
what the most exciting thing
you're going to be doing this summer.
I'll respond to the first 100 down there.
But I just posted on Twitter, "Ask me your questions."
I'm going to answer the first five,
no matter how crazy they are.
Question number one:
Jane asks, "How do you get your ideas?"
My ideas come kind of randomly.
There's not a secret formula.
There is a pattern though: I get my best ideas
weirdly in the shower.
It sounds so weird.
And driving to work.
If there's no traffic and I'm just driving
I get into this weird trance.
Has anyone else driven somewhere
and you've gotten there, it's super scary,
you've gotten there and all of a sudden you're like,
I don't remember the last two minutes of driving.
It's the weirdest thing but somehow I zone out
and all of a sudden I have a video idea
but then I'm like, How did I get here?
Sounds dangerous, maybe I have a problem.
I maybe need to get that looked at.
Question number two:
"What or who is your inspiration for magic and YouTube?"
My grandfather was actually a big inspiration
in all my magic.
I started learning practical magic
when I was in middle school.
For me, magic was a really cool thing
because I was a shy kid.
I'm still actually a really shy person; I'm an introvert.
It's hard for me to actually make conversation with people.
So magic, especially when I was growing up,
was a cool, kind of conversational piece.
And learning magic as a kid really gave me confidence
to walk into a room
and in that awkward moment
of I don't want to start a conversation,
I'd be like, "Hey, you want to see a magic trick?"
Pull out a deck of cards and all of a sudden
you're making a friend, two, and a crowd slowly gathers
and it gives you this boost of confidence as a kid.
So that's why I am a big supporter for learning magic
and it's also very, very difficult.
So my grandfather, to answer your question,
was the one who got me in.
We'd travel all around the Northwest.
He'd take me to convention centers
where there was magic communities and performers,
and then they we're telling the secrets and training.
It's a fun community if you get down the rabbit trail
in the magician world.
Question number three:
"I'd ask you a generic question like something about magic,
but instead, I'll ask,
What's the funniest way you've been injured?"
I totally know the answer actually.
I think I was about 11 years old,
we moved out to the country.
I had lived in the city.
I grew up in Portland, Oregon.
We moved out to the country.
Within the first day of moving there
I was exploring the backyard, which was a giant forest.
It was about 10 acres of farmland
and then behind that was a forest.
Growing up I always wanted a zip line.
My dad and I had planned to make a zip line,
and we never got around to it so I was like,
You know what, I'm going to grab some rope.
I found some sort of wheel that kind of acted
as that top little thing to get you across the zip line.
So I built a zip line across this gully
and in the backyard the forest went like that.
I ran the line of rope from one tree
on one side of the gully to the other.
And I decided to make a harness for myself
so I just tied the rope around my waist and my crotch.
And I went for it and I ended up getting stuck
because it wasn't downhill enough,
the rope was just kind of even.
I was 11 so I should have known that
but I got stuck in the middle.
I'm just hanging there but I'm screaming
because my crotch hurt really bad.
Totally lost all feeling below the waist
and I was dangling there for 30 minutes
until my sisters finally came over and cut the rope.
But I was convinced because of that experience
that I might never be able to have kids,
which isn't true because my wife and I are having a baby.
It feels like a lot of YouTubers having babies right now.
Question number four:
"When and how did you start your magic video?"
I'd been on YouTube for about nine
or 10 years up to this point.
When Vine came out several years ago,
it was interesting because it forced me,
for the seven seconds, to tell a quick trick.
And I kind of went back to my roots
from middle school and junior high learning magic,
pairing that with the film that I know now.
What I always felt like magic was missing
was the story element.
You'd see a white handkerchief turn to doves.
It's really cool, don't get me wrong,
but I never understood the story connection like,
why would you in your life
need to throw a white handkerchief and actually get doves?
So for me, Vine challenged me in this weird way
to add a story to the magic and the tricks,
and that's been the fun of it ever since.
"Did you ever find the owner of the credit card,
ID and cell phone?"
Yeah, so a couple videos ago in a vlog,
I went to San Francisco.
I dove down with my buddy, Aaron,
underneath the Golden Gate Bridge
and we searched for some treasure
and we found actually some cell phones and some other items.
You can watch that video.
I'll post a link down in the description.
But we found this gal's cell phone
and it had a wallet and some personal credit cards
so I asked you guys for help if you knew this girl
and I got like 1000 responses.
So I'm still going through those.
Most of them are all completely fake, thank you very much.
Okay, answering a few random questions
and then we're going to call it.
"Favorite breed of dog?"
My favorite breed of dog is a boxer.
And actually, it's really sad, my childhood dog
that I grew up most my life with
just passed away last weekend.
So it was really sad, we were on Facetime together
with my family and we watched him pass.
He had a heart attack.
He was 10 or 11 years old so he was ready
and boxers die around that age.
It's been a sad week.
There's something about a childhood dog,
it's like losing a friend in a really weird way.
You grow up with him.
"Favorite Otter Pop flavor?"
Green. Every time I see a green one I'm like,
"Give that to me."
"Do you like sandwiches?"
Yes, and you know what sandwiches I've been eating lately
that I really enjoy?
The Panera ones.
I hadn't had them before
but they have this ham and swiss one, mmm.
"What was your job when you were younger?"
I used to work at county fairs and farmers markets
popping kettle corn.
I was actually the one to pour the kernels
and actually learn the recipes of Miss Hannah's kettle corn.
Amazing stuff.
If you ever go to Portland, Oregon,
they still have a shop up in Bridgeport Village, I believe.
But it's incredible and I still order it online, actually.
So that was my first job, it was fun, I popped kettle corn
and I can still whip up some really good
kettle corn here at home.
So thank you, Miss Hannah's, for my first job
and employing me and believing in me.
Look where I am now.
On YouTube.
"Are you actually good at Fortnite?"
No, I am terrible.
But I play. It's fun.
"Are you in a relationship?"
Yes. I'm married.
So a lot of people were asking me to do Nerf battles.
Yes, we're trying to do some fun Nerf battles
and if you have any ideas for who we should invite
like other YouTubers and challenge them to a battle,
let me know down in the comments as well.
I'd love to reach out to them
and see if we can get them over to the studio
for a fun battle.
Anyways, I'm going to run, go get some barbecue.
But I hope you have a great weekend
and here's a fun video and subscribe right here.
Peace.