- This is the Try Guys 2018 Year in Review
where we're gonna talk about every amazing, special,
hard thing that happened this year.
- Tell me about the hard things.
- Oh, everything was hard.
- We're gonna sip tea and dish.
- Oh wow.
(peppy guitar music)
- This year has been the most exciting, exhausting,
demanding year that I have ever had in my life.
- This year was so hard.
- I can safely say this is probably
the busiest year of our lives.
- [Ned] I can definitely say that.
- It's also been the most rewarding,
but along the way there have been
a lot of unforeseen challenges.
- People also don't know
my contract ended two months before ya'lls.
So I was out of Buzzfeed
and couldn't talk about it for two months.
Do you guys remember that?
- I remember.
- I had to stay quiet on social media.
- February to April.
- And then there was another two months
before we launched the channel.
So we were not making videos and people started to notice
but, you know, we didn't want to announce anything
until we had something to announce.
- Our last videos came out in January
and we didn't launch the channel until June,
so all of those six months it was just,
"What's going on with the Try Guys?"
And we're like, "We don't know either".
- My parents were so worried.
My parents thought it wasn't gonna work.
- I'm right, you're wrong, shut up.
- We're gonna go gay bars tonight.
- [Eugene] They were like, "Why the (beep) are you quitting
"something that gives you a full-time salary
and health insurance?"
- Our top Google result for that time was
"Are Try Guys--
- [Eugene] Straight.
- Right, and then the second was,
"Did Try Guys break up?"
- Before we actually launched,
it was the most stressful for me.
And then, my wife goes into labor.
(text message sounds) (suspenseful cello)
And, oh God, oh God, still don't have health insurance.
Now all of a sudden I wasn't just making
a new channel for me,
I was starting a business to provide for my family.
Hashtag feed Wes is real.
- You've told us about how low your bank balance got
and stuff like that, but,
in the process you never showed cracks.
- Oh thanks man.
- Except for that one that your sitting on.
- Heyyyy.
- [Eugene] But I think Buzzfeed, we still have
a great relationship with them.
We love all the work we did with them.
The big thing for me, and I think for all of us was,
you know, contractually you are obliged
to do everything with them.
- Eugene got cast in a movie, which is awesome.
Ned had a baby which is even more awesome,
and Zach and I were like, "Well, we're probably
"the least qualified",
and tried to hire a really good staff that could help us.
What's up everybody?!
These are our PA's, Kasiemobi and Miles.
Okay.
Our editor Devlin, our production coordinator,
our producer, Rachel.
That's our studio.
- We've just been filming, working, non-stop.
(Try Guys screaming) (pump-up rock music)
- It's certainly the most stressed that I've ever been.
- All of that was leading up to, I think,
one of the biggest moments of the year
which was our actual channel launch.
To discuss more about the aspects going into that,
we wanna bring in our first special Try Guest.
- Our producer, Rachel Cole!
(game show type music)
Come on down.
Over here, over here.
So Rachel was the very first hire of the Try Team.
- What were your first impressions of each guy?
- Well, Ned I knew.
- [Ned] Rachel worked on the branded series
where we bought a house.
- Keith I first saw at Ned's baby shower
and he was in a diaper.
- Please welcome The Ring Baby!
(techno dance music) (cheering)
- In a diaper?
- That point, you didn't meet Keith.
His--
- Experienced.
- You experienced Keith.
- And then, Eugene I knew a little bit about
because a director friend of mine
had worked with him on a commercial.
And I thought of you as more of like an actor.
- As you saw me in a diaper,
you didn't think of me as an actor?
(laughter)
(techno music)
- And the first time I met Zach
I think was for my interview with you guys
and he had just come from the dentist
and had a gauze and a bloody tooth and I was like,
"Shouldn't you be at home?" And you were like,
"I'm fine, I'm just gonna make some tea".
- So after those stellar first impressions,
what made you want to work with us?
- I thought I'd be working with you guys collaboratively.
- Can somebody zip me?
Would you be a 'deer'?
- [Rachel] Which has turned out to be very, very true.
- How do you like it?
- I will say, the first two things we filmed together
were Gourmet Garbage with McDonald's
and then Eat the Menu Taco Bell.
- And this taco is the Belle of the ball in the bucket.
- And then, Candid Competition: Cakes.
We only did one-person food videos in the beginning.
Big boy.
- Not that those videos aren't great,
but I'm really--
- [Ned] Whoa. - [Eugene] Whoa, Rachel, whoa.
- I'll have you know that Candid Competition has
a fervent fan following and people are writing
to get it uncanceled, thank you very much.
- I'm pretty sure I've canceled it twice.
♪I'm sorry ♪
♪ So sorry ♪
- By the time this video comes out,
we have exceeded more than half
of the products that we released under Buzzfeed.
Like, over four years we released about 120 videos.
I think by the time this one comes out,
we'll be well over 60, right?
- [Keith] Yeah.
- That's crazy.
- Yeah.
- People always ask me, when I tell them the story,
what would your name have been
and I'm so (beep) grateful that we're still the Try Guys
cause I hated every other alternative.
The Do Dudes.
The Attempt Asses, you know, like
The Guys.
KNZE.
Is it KNZE?
Is it Kenzie?
Is it kuhnuhz?
Is it nose?
Who knows?
The attempt-a-bros.
- I really don't wanna work with the Do Dudes,
I have to say - Neither do we.
Neither do we.
Also, congratulations.
- Oh yeah.
- She pregnant.
- Making some Try Babies.
Wes needs friends.
- We don't just hire people.
We make 'em.
- [Keith] We make 'em.
- We should clarify, none of us were involved
in the making of Rachel's child.
- But, they will work for us.
(laughter)
- [Zach] Please welcome Kasiemobi!
(applause)
- Hello!
- [Try Guys] Hi Kasiemobi!
- [Kasiemobi] Hi.
- One of your first big projects
was to help make our VidCon show happen.
- Yeah.
- And what was that like.
- That was (beep) nuts.
(exciting music)
Good evening VidCon,
and welcome to the closing night finale performance.
Rachel calls us frantic, all-hands,
like, "Okay.
"So we're doing a thing for VidCon.
"There's about 80,000 pages of script,
"and we got these few pages of props we need to get
"and everything has to be set, and there's cues
"and there's video segments we're gonna shoot,
"and there's also live things the guys need to rehearse,
"so we need to book spaces for that
"and also get costumes for that".
At one point, you couldn't really see the floor
of this whole area now because it was covered
in giant boxes of fake money, a whole box of cats.
Yeah, my search history is (beep)--
(laughter)
cause of all the random stuff I had to look up.
- [Eugene] VidCon was particularly important
because it was kind of in line with
are we the Try Guys or not
and once we launched the channel we were just like,
"Yes, we're going to VidCon".
We had to put this show together.
I kind of took on the responsibility of just writing
and putting the staging of the show together.
- We wanted to make a statement.
- You made it.
- And because we didn't have a lot of money,
a lot of the props we made, and you made.
- [Zach] Yeah, we didn't make (beep).
(laughter)
- I think one of my favorite props was
the deal with it sunglasses in one of the video clips.
We just had really...
Jankily float down onto Keith's face
and you can see people's hands at the corners of the screen.
- It was great.
- I was really proud of that, that's a Kasiemobi original.
That was me.
- You quickly realized that we like pouring
everything we have into what we do
and we really appreciated that you do that as well.
- Yeah.
- One thing I wanna say about Kasiemobi
that the world does not know.
Kasiemobi never stops eating giant bowls of green things.
Did you know how many greens
you're supposed to eat in a day?
- All of them. You're supposed to eat 'em all.
- Until you can't stop eating greens, and she does it.
- Also, for as much as Kasiemobi loves leaves,
she (beep) hates celery.
- Yeah, I think celery tastes like the devil's armpit.
- [Eugene] Wow.
- And, you can @ me.
- Strong words from a strong person, thank you, Kasiemobi.
- And don't you also hate pickles.
- Yeah.
- Get the (beep) out of here.
(laughter)
- Yay, Kasiemobi! (applause)
- [Try Guys] Hi Will, Devlin, and YB!
- [Devlin] Hi
- [Will] Hey
- [YB] Hey
- Welcome to our living room.
- I don't think people know how much
work we put into the edit.
Our videos...
Two weeks on average?
- When they're lucky.
(laughter)
- Will, you have to finish every video.
- Yes.
- Which is a herculean task.
- Well, for the DUI series it was
definitely a herculean task.
I worked some six to eight weeks
I worked some long days.
It was just like, everyday was very stressful.
(laughter)
And so, I'm thrilled that it's done.
- He loves it here.
- [Will] Love it here.
- He loves it here!
- You turn the brightest shade of red in a split second.
- I hope it does help people.
I read the comments with a lot of,
people on the high video being like, "I drive high everyday,
"this doesn't change that much at all".
So, was it worth it?
I don't know.
(laughter)
- Thanks Will.
- What was your favorite video to work on?
- I think it would have to be the little girl makeovers.
(mouth explosion noise)
- How would you describe my outfit?
- Like your in high school?
- [Eugene] Wow, thank you!
- Hello darkness, my old friend.
- Yep.
- What do we know that from?
- Trolls.
- It's from Trolls.
- I felt like I forced you guys to put my niece
and my girlfriend's niece in the video.
- We loved that. - It was so good.
- My favorite was probably also the little girl makeovers.
I think it's super cute and fun
and I'm surprised it doesn't have more views honestly.
You know, get out there, watch it if you haven't.
It's a funny video.
- You're gonna make Will upset.
And you don't him to get red again.
Okay, you better (beep) watch that video.
- Dude, by the way, over Thanksgiving
I watched the Trolls movie.
It rules.
- I hear people like it,
but I hear those people are six.
(laughter)
- My first video was the nail extension video
and it was really fun but also,
when it's your first day at work and they're like,
"Okay, have it cut in three days".
And I'm just like, "Okay, that was quick".
I feel like whenever I have quicker turnarounds
I get more pressure so I edit quicker,
so maybe it is better for me.
- Cause you're Korean.
- Maybe cause I'm Korean.
- Can I just say I'm sitting in the bottom of this frame
and I don't know where to look.
And I barely, I can't turn it around, and...
- Oh don't worry Zach, you're face looks totally normal.
As you sit there like...
- Zach, we've adopted you as our Jewish son.
(laughter)
Reverse adoption: the Asians adopt the white.
- Have you ever had the, I'm sure all too common,
experience where you got footage from us for something
and you just started shaking your head?
- The 14 hour labor video where it took a while to
go through and actually realize
that I was staring at Ned's butthole...
(laughter)
For a week.
- You gotta get the goatse.
Ya'll ready to bring in our production manager?
- [Ned] Yeah! (cheering)
- Come on over here Alexandria.
Yay, Alexandria, Alexandria, Alexandria.
- Hello, welcome.
- Hello.
- You've known us for a while.
- I met you at Buzzfeed and the first video we ever did
together was when you guys swam with sharks in Florida.
I was actually a really big Try Guys fan
before I worked with you, so I was really excited
to do the video.
- [Eugene] I didn't know that.
- [Keith] I didn't know that.
- Wait, what was your favorite video up until that point?
- Probably the ones where you guys
tried on the sexy Halloween costumes.
It's where I really got into it.
- And who is your favorite Try Guy?
We can move on, we'll come back to it.
(laughter)
- Recently we hosted the Streamys.
Now aside from managing all the day-to-day
with our production, you also did a lot
to make sure that that went swimmingly.
- [Alexandria] And you guys put it all
together very quickly.
You just started rehearsing the week before the show.
- Keith wrote the music and I did the choreography
and it was all, basically felt like last minute.
- And it all turned out perfectly
and it was really cool to see you guys
all in your element and choreographing and writing songs.
It was a really, really fun experience.
- There was some, I guess like, gripes about previous years
where the roasting was a little too heavy
on the audience members,
so we weren't allowed to be mean funny.
Which is really hard to do and not look totally lame.
- A toast to Liza Koshy who was nominated
for creator of the year and whose career is so far ahead
of ours that it really just makes us sad,
to sit around and try to write a joke.
They're like, "We don't want you to say the word 'boner'
"in the script.
"We don't want it to be too low-brow.
"But we love the goatse, it's so fun and fresh".
- Instead of "no one's getting a boner" I had to say,
"No one's ding-dong is dancing".
- That seems more graphic to me.
- Yeah, it's far more visual.
- So the night of the show, you got to attend the Streamys
and see the show.
What was that night like?
- It was a pretty magical night.
It was quite magical.
I'd never been to an award show before
and it's only something you see on T.V.
I feel like you guys all really killed it.
And then seeing Eugene come out in drag was
very surprising and amazing.
And then I remember at the after party,
who was it that we saw and I embarrassed you?
Yeah, so pretty big.
(laughing)
And I just didn't know who they were.
I'm just too old.
And they're all surrounding us and Miles
just looks at me like, "Alex, shut up,
"they're all around us".
- [Keith] Alex, you're embarrassing me.
- [Ned] You're blowing it.
- You know the only thing I remember from the after party
is right when I walked in you walked straight to me
and say, "Eugene? Shots?"
- I feel like you said that to me.
- You know what?
Yin and yang, it's the same difference.
- Alexandria is really great at her work.
She's done wonderful things for our company,
but she's also number one going out party queen.
- I'll take it.
- I've had Alexandria convince me to do
so many tequila shots
- [Eugene] That was in Miami.
that I vomited squid ink pasta.
- That wasn't my fault.
We had squid ink pasta at dinner.
I didn't like it, so he ate his and my plate.
So he had about two pounds
of squid ink pasta in his stomach.
- As one does, when in Miami.
- Ned is taking a shower,
he's vomited black pasta everywhere.
- It looks like he's rejecting Venom.
- And then he couldn't find a towel,
so he comes out with a hand towel,
just only barely covering his package.
- And he passes out face-first on my bed--
- With his bare butt sticking up
- With the hand towel just half covering his bare ass.
- I had covers on, didn't I?
- [Zach and Eugene] No!
- I covered you at some point.
- The takeaway here is that we're professional
but we also like to have fun.
- Yeah, we work hard and play harder.
♪ Miles Bonsignore ♪
♪ Miles Bonsignore ♪ (drum roll)
- It's been noticed that if anything horrible, God forbid,
God forbid if anything horrible were to happen to Keith,
we have a very suitable replacement in Miles.
Just throw on some glasses, trim the hair
and I think we're good.
You better watch your back, Habersberger.
- I would like him to already start being in on my wide chat
so I can just come in for the close up jokes.
- Yeah, that's fine.
Even if nothing happens to Keith, I mean,
we can still add another member to this ensemble,
you know what I'm saying?
- You know what Miles?
- Maybe do a five guys, burgers and fries.
- I have thought, the one thing that this needs
is one more white dude.
- Yeah that's what I was thinking.
- So, some exclusive 2019 news,
Try Guys are actually gonna have
a podcast that we're launching.
It's called the Trypod.
- It's always funny.
- So we've been doing some test episodes
over on patreon.com/tryguys.
You can go listen to all of those episodes.
But, in the new year, we're gonna have Trypod once a week
and Miles is kind of our poditect.
Our architect of the pod.
- A poditect, yeah.
- He's our podcast produce.
- We talked about it a couple months ago
and we had a shed out back.
As soon as I saw the shed, I was like,
"You know, I want us to sit in that shed and talk".
- We're a small but mighty team,
but we are growing and I think that
part of what we're aiming for is,
we say production assistant loosely
cause eventually Miles and Kasiemobi
are also gonna be making creative content.
And we want to sort of reflect our philosophies
with you young creatives and anyone out there
who might eventually be interested in working with us.
It's a possibility.
And so, Miles, kind of taking the helm on the podcast
was a good example of someone who just
knew what he was (beep) doing, cause I had no idea.
- Go listen to the Trypod.
- Also, Miles, I love this shirt that you're wearing.
- Thanks
- Where can the fans get those?
- You can go to tryguys.com/milesmerch
- Okay, you know, that's not, you know what.
It's just tryguys.com - Use the discount code.
Internet darling.
- We did not do that...
- We should really have an internet darling discount code.
- Hey, I mean...
- That's not a terrible idea - [Eugene] We'll see Miles.
- Aw, sorry we have to cut.
Thanks Miles!
(intense boom)
(Try Guys sigh)
What a year it's been.
- Yeah.
- It was a new challenge and through new challenges
you have new triumphs and that was really exciting.
- You thought this year was big.
2019...
- Even bigger.
- I mean, this year was super stressful for us
and it was crazy quitting the Buzzfeed
and going out on our own starting
our own independent company
and we really appreciate all of your support.
- [Eugene] Going independent showcased
how invested and passionate you, the fans, are.
And that was really the most moving thing about 2018.
- What I learned in 2018 is that triceratops's...
Triceratops?
- Triceratops is just the general term.
Like fish.
- Triceratops go hard.
- They go hard.
- [Ned] Mm-hmm
- [Try Guys] Mm-hmmm
What will we try next?
- I feel like you have to say it, "What will--
you gotta do the finger.
- Like, wi-- wi-- will.
- That is literally the Ned effect.
♪I'll be there for Christmas ♪
♪ Oh yeah, yeah. ♪
♪ I said I'll be there for Christmas ♪
(upbeat guitar music with claps)
- I want Will to take us out.
- Let's unbore the butthole, you know?
(laughing)
- Loose cannon over here.