- Hey guys, this is Austin.
It is finally time for another Q and A.
But, before we get into it, this video is sponsored
by Honor and their new View 10.
So, I did an entire series talking about it
over on the Honor channel,
with Jonathan Morrison and Sarah Detchee,
and here's a sneak peek.
- Here guys, Jonathan here, back again with Austin Evans
and Sarah Detchee.
We just talked about AI,
and I got a surprise.
- A surprise?
Oh boy, tell me what.
- Close your eyes.
- Okay. - Don't close your eyes.
- Okay. (laughing)
- Ohh, I think I know what this is.
- What is it?
- It is the Honor View 10.
- Now, word on the street is,
this is packin' some power inside.
Now, what I think is cool is,
if you measure it in the work environment.
So, say your team all had these in their pocket.
- So, the idea that everyone has
an actually smart assistant to help them kind of
not be late to work,
or remember to text me when you're coming in late to work.
Not like anything specific
I'm talkin' about. - Or maybe a situation where
you're out on production in a different country, maybe?
- And you'd have the actual translation.
- Yeah, so I've been in situations where you have
to do interviews or meetings and,
it's sometimes a little hard to communicate
when you don't know that language.
- I think AI has a lot to do with taking data
and taking so much information and really packing it
into something that people can understand.
So, especially, we make videos, we collaborate with people,
I think bringing that into the workplace with collaboration
saying, oh this person can't make it.
Maybe your calendar updates,
and depending on other information, it makes new plans.
I think that's exciting to-- - And the idea that having
something smart that opens up so many possibilities, right?
Where it's like, you might not necessarily think, oh,
let me connect this dot with that dot,
but the phone's like, oh, I know this is what you're doing
and this is who you're talking to.
The more information it knows and when it actually
has some intelligence behind it,
it can sort of connect a lot of dots
and make your life easier in a lot of ways
that you might not necessarily think of.
What's the dumbest thing that's completely ruined a video?
We didn't quite lose the video,
but there was a project that we shot,
actually a few months ago, where I deleted all
the raw footage before it was finished.
So, what I ended up doing was I took the export
that we had done, sort of the temporary version,
and then I just recut that
and put it back together as a video.
Since the house fire happened and you moved,
do you think it helped or hindered your future
compared to if it had never happened?
Oh man, I think it helped.
Things were going well for me before it.
But, the fire was really kind of like a wake up call to me
and it was sort of a forced fresh start,
which I like to think was a good thing.
What is the difference between your video editing
and Ken's video editing?
So, there's been some rumors going around
that Ken edits all of our videos.
However, that is completely false.
Jimmy, care to comment?
- Everyone's gonna find out
what I finally do. (Austin laughing)
- So, the way we do our edits is actually--
Jimmy does, I would say, 95% of
our edits these days. - Yep.
- I'll do it a little bit here and there,
but he's editing this video right now.
- I am.
- Make a thumbnail for this video yourself.
Don't let Ken do it.
All right, so this is me.
I'm very blurry.
Then, this is Ken.
Little known fact, I actually taught Ken
how to make his thumbnails,
and this is how every one of them starts.
It's like this, and then, here's a giant smile.
'Cause Ken's just a happy kind of guy.
There you go.
That is how to create a thumbnail.
What was the transition like from being
a single person rodeo to a team, specifically with Ken?
(laughs) Well, now it's great.
But, I distinctly remember Ken's first day
in which he forgot the lens adapter and a microphone cable.
Then, at one point, I'm pretty sure I took the camera
away from you and just shot myself.
It was, uh, (laughs).
How much of your Twitter timeline is filled
with Ken's anime retweets?
Over 90%?
All right, so for all of you guys who are smart enough
to follow Ken on Twitter,
the best way of doing it is to mute his retweets.
Because Ken, he tweets some great stuff.
His retweets, a little questionable.
Hey Austin, when are you getting married?
Just kidding, suggest some best laptops for video editing.
Generally speaking, gaming laptops are pretty good
for video editing, and I really like
the Acer Predator Helios 300.
So, not only does it have a GTX 1060,
but it also has a core i7, plenty of memory, an SSD.
That's great.
And if you're on the final cut side of things,
the MacBook Pro 15-inch has been honestly what I've been
using to do any kind of video editing
for like, a year and a half now?
When did you move to LA and get the office?
I actually moved to LA in August of 2015.
I was literally driving from Missouri to LA on my birthday.
I originally actually worked out of John's office.
So, you guys probably know John from TLD.
I worked out of his office for almost a year actually
until we got this office that we've been in
for the last year and a half or so.
That's when Ken came on.
That's where we just kinda really started
building things up.
But, yeah it's been a little over two years at this point.
What piece of tech are you most excited to see at CES?
I feel like what I'm really, really pumped to see
is more on the AI side of things.
The self-driving side of things.
I know that this CES actually got to ride in a BMW
that was fully self-driving.
Or essentially fully self-driving.
I was able to drive on the freeway,
take my hands off the wheel,
talk to Ken in the backseat,
and it totally just handled everything.
So, being able to see more stuff like that this year
would be awesome.
Do you think Bitcoin is going to fall down sometime,
and have you invested in it?
I don't think it's going anywhere any time soon,
to be totally honest.
I think that it's going up.
It's a little wild and volatile right now.
But, generally speaking, I think it is sort of
trending upward, and I haven't invested my life savings
in it, but I do think that there's potential,
and I've put a little bit of money into it.
Does Ken ever get frustrated or annoyed between takes?
He just seems so chill all the time.
You guys have no idea.
I live a personal hell every day.
I think I'm on camera and everything's happy and great,
and I'm having a great time.
Then, Ken's just yelling orders at me,
"Do it again!
"You can do better than that.
"I'm not feeding my family with this."
It's honestly kind of sad.
He pretends to be chill, but honestly it's not safe.
I...
I need help.
To Ken: how annoying is it to work with the "Hey guys" guy?
- Not as annoying to me as it probably is to Jimmy
since he has to edit every video.
At least I can listen to music while Austin's talking,
so I can block it all out.
- Hey Austin, what's your favorite fast food restaurant?
I used to say Taco Bell, but since I moved to California,
it's gotta be In-N-Out.
How much has life changed since the start of your
YouTube channel?
So, I was actually reminded of this the other day.
Someone tweeted me a screenshot from a comment I left
on a Marquez video seven years ago,
talking about my 2009 was great and I was basically
totally committed to making videos in 2010.
So, a lot.
When I started the channel, I was 16,
living at home.
Didn't have a job.
Didn't have any money.
Didn't have anything.
I think compared to then,
I feel like I'm a different person.
Like, if we're being totally honest,
I had not really fully grown up when I started the channel.
I didn't really understand a lot of things in life.
I feel like my life could not have possibly turned out
to be any more different if I had not created the channel,
and not made that first video.
I honestly can't even picture where I would be
if I would have gotten that job at Best Buy
and sort of lived in Missouri forever.
It's kind of scary to think about it to be totally honest.
Anyway, that is going to be it for this Q and A.
Of course, if you guys have any more questions,
feel free to hit me up on Twitter,
and as always, Ken will catch you on the next one.