- So, consensus, is it a vase or vase?
- This one's really fancy, so I would say vase.
This over here, this is vase.
- If you're like a little sexually attracted to the vase,
it's a vase. - It's a vase.
- All right.
[upbeat music]
- What are we doing?
- We're asking questions to each other.
We got cards with questions, we're gonna take turns,
we're gonna go in a circle
and obviously the laughs will pour in.
[all laughing]
- It's quiz time.
[upbeat music]
- What is the story behind our current studio?
And what's the plan for the new studio?
- Ooh, buzz.
Our current studio used to be my old house.
So right when we were starting the company
I was also moving.
We had so many tasks that moving our company
into my old house was just one last thing.
And then as the company grew,
and as we got more and more people,
then all of a sudden we had like 15 people
crammed into this thousand square foot house.
And it got a little messy then COVID happened
and then we got a rat problem and then it's a mess.
But we are moving to a brand new studio.
It's gonna be a 5,000 square foot production space
in Burbank.
We're custom designing it.
It's actually being constructed right now.
- The old office is no longer our office.
It has been claimed by the rats.
- LA, no matter who you are, you could get a rat.
And especially if you weren't there
but there's still food there.
- And if you leave candy at your desk.
- You gonna get one or two.
Turns out we actually thought we had a huge rat problem
like lots of rats but we had a single, huge rat problem.
It was one giant rat.
- There are some things I'll miss
about our old studio though, right?
Like being able to film in Ned's old bedroom.
There was an energy in there.
- There's a magic there.
- No, I don't, don't like this.
- An energy of creation.
- It was a startup for those first two years.
And I think everyone who was there on that ground floor,
it felt like, oh, this is junky and this is...
We're slapping this together
but we're all getting by together.
- It's like, you get to hear those stories of like,
oh you should have been there in the early days.
We were working out of a garage that grew weed,
which we don't but that would have been cool.
- Would have been better than the rats.
What's the next question?
What's the weirdest thing we have in the studio.
The weirdest thing.
- Huh?
One of the weirdest things we ever made.
We have this long running prank
where we try to get Eugene to sit on Keith's lap.
A lovely Shakespearean tale
that has spanned years and generations.
So we built a custom, giant La-Z-Boy chair
for Keith to hide his body inside
so that Eugene would sit on Keith's lap, unknowingly
and then Keith could pop out and hug him.
And we created an entire fake branded video.
We said it was for Ashley furniture.
And Eugene came in and was like,
"I have to say nice things about this ugly ass chair.
This is the ugliest chair I've ever seen, okay.
The brand new Ashley max 3000 chair."
We also had to film interviews
with everyone sitting in the chair.
So I was in the chair as different people sat on me
to prove it was just a normal chair.
I'll do it, you do it, okay Eugene, it's your turn.
And it was kind of like a transformer.
Like I could stand up and kind of move around
and then get back sucked inside the chair.
- I should also say Keith is a huge human being.
It'd be a lot easier if it were a chair for my body.
This chair was like a throne.
- The chair was obviously too tall to be a normal chair.
- Even if you had a home movie studio
you'd be like, "This is ridiculous."
- We will never get an Ashley furniture branded deal.
- No.
- So Try Guys, I've heard a lot about this old office
but who's in charge of decorating the new studio?
- Buzz, not me.
[all laughing]
- My wife, Ariel, who is an interior designer,
has been in charge of decorating our new office.
She's getting a whole bunch of different furniture.
She's like made the layout.
She taped out where all the couches
and chairs are gonna go.
So we actually got to walk through our new office
even when it was just tape on the ground
and be like, "Ooh, this feels right."
A couple of the cool ideas she's working on
is like a built in like coffee bistro area
where people can eat lunch
or maybe like work on their laptop a little bit.
We're gonna have a mural when you first walk in
and a big light up neon triceratops
that hopefully is a little better
than the one that we made ourselves.
- The mural we'd think is gonna be me
sort of eating furniture.
- I have a question. [Eugene laughs]
Team two, what is the first thing we shot together
as a team?
What was the first thing that we shot in the studio?
- The first thing that we shot, you know
in our new office was an interview with you and your wife.
She was pregnant. - That's right.
- We were doing this whole parenthood series
around your new baby.
And then two days, three days later
she went into labor about a month early.
And so the entire beginning of our company was just...
all of our plans got torn up and thrown into the wind
and everything changed.
So we put those videos on hold
and shot me eating everything at Taco Bell instead.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Okay, this is a great one.
Question, who of us has the best taste in decor?
- Ooh.
- Huh.
- Buzz.
Our partners.
[all laughing]
Not us.
All of us are not very good
but all of us have luckily found partners that are.
- So the answer is not us.
- Yeah.
- Not us - Not us.
[upbeat music]
- Okay, where do we most often brainstorm new ideas
and why do you think that is?
- Together or alone?
I'd say most of our brainstorming
we do in the main living room.
We try and keep an open office plan.
And I think we like to be surrounded by as many people
as many ideas as possible.
You know, we took on a philosophy pretty early on
that it should never just be the four of us.
And no matter what your position is,
we wanna hear from you.
- Yeah, it's true.
We do brainstorm right in the middle of the office.
I wonder if the other people get annoyed by that.
- Oh they certainly do.
- Yeah we're in front of other people's desks
but I like to think they like to be a part of it.
- Yeah.
- I think the shower.
- That's where you brainstorm personally the best?
- That's where we brainstorm the best.
- Yeah, maybe individually.
- Yeah, not together.
[all laughing]
- Yeah though I mean we have had some very productive
group showers.
- Have we ever been in a shower together?
- Yeah.
- Have we?
- We've been in a bathtub together.
- I know for a fact.
- We've been in a bathtub together, who hasn't?
- I can think of at least one shower we did together.
- Was it on a shoot?
- It was in Florida.
- Oh yeah, the Florida one.
We did technically take a shower together.
But that was just for photos.
Just sexy photos.
- Were we trying to get me out of a wet suit maybe?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah that was fun.
- We couldn't get you out of it.
- Yeah.
- Get him wet and then we can get him out of it.
- All right, next question. - Next question.
Who's got out of the shower?
- Okay, if we were in the studio right now
what's the weirdest thing each of us have on our desks?
This one's for points.
- Buzz, the weirdest thing at my desk
is actually the picture framed above my desk,
where somebody drew a portrait of me
using like the pen type, like the pen like dot method
except instead of dots,
I'm entirely made out of chicken legs.
The entire picture, my glasses frames,
my pupils, everything, my shirt pattern is all chicken legs.
And it was the coolest fan art I've ever seen.
So I reached out to the fan and I bought it.
And I had him send it to me because it was like so cool.
- Buzz, I got two.
One, someone made a custom pop figurine
of me as a vagina.
I don't find that weird.
I think it's endearing and awesome.
However, some may not be so open-minded.
I also have a Coors bottle with the Jonas brothers on it.
- I have random pictures of your wife on my desk.
- You do.
- Who put them there?
- Your wife, yeah.
She wanted to remind me that I love her, yeah.
They redecorated our office without our knowledge.
And the main takeaway was all of our spouses,
significant others said we don't have enough pictures
of them.
- Yeah, except I apparently don't have enough
of Keith's spouse.
- You also have a foam mushroom on your desk
which was from the pizza costume from our tour last summer.
- Oh yeah.
On our worldwide tour I dressed up as a giant pizza
that was made out of styrofoam
or some sort of foam material,
danced in it in over 20 shows.
It smells like it's been in over 20 shows.
- I got a fun one.
What are each of our favorite office snacks?
- Ooh
I'm a real cutie boy.
Love those little cuties, peel 'em, pop em in my mouth.
- I'm a big nut head over here.
A handful of nuts will get you going.
- What do you think my favorite snack is?
I'll guess yours.
- Yours probably cheese, when we have cheese.
- Oh, I do like cheese.
Eugene, I think your favorite snack
is just pure cold brew inject it into the veins.
- That's right.
I don't believe in snacks.
- No, just caffeine. - Just caffeine.
What is our most prized possession
that is going to be in the new studio?
- So I have this very stupid video series
called candy competition.
And for it, I made this conspiracy theory board,
you know, like we have the red strings
connecting different faces.
And it stayed up for over a year.
It has no right to still be up.
But I think in the new office
I would like to have a conspiracy theory board
or at least continue our tradition
of cutting out our friends' faces
and hiding them places.
Like our friend Kelsey,
her face was in our bathroom cabinet for a while.
Just a surprise friend, everywhere you go.
[upbeat music]
All right, here's a question that's a bit more personal.
If you didn't live at your personal home
what celebrity do you think it would be perfect for and why?
- The main appeal of my current place
I think is how many plants we have.
Just a little jungle wonderland of an apartment.
And so I think Uma Thurman in Batman as Poison Ivy.
I think that, yeah.
- Yeah.
- You know who I wish
I had the home aesthetic of would be Rainn Wilson.
I just watched his and his house is just like
bizarre and funky and things clash and yet go together well.
- I feel like our design style
is very similar to Mandy Moore
but what I wanna see is the Nick Offerman treatment
on our house.
Like what does that guy do to our backyard?
How does the grilling and the smoking happen?
What sort of mahogany accents get added?
'Cause right now it's very like California modern.
- Okay, I have one.
This is maybe I feel like this is kind of easy.
What inspired the style of your personal homes?
I have a lot of natural sunlight in my place
and I wanted to take advantage of that.
So a lot of bright furniture, a lot of plants.
I just wanna smile when I walk in that room.
I like to really surround myself
with a lot of mementos from travels.
And so instead of decorating with just, you know,
something I got at restoration hardware, whatever.
We would find old books from different cities
that we went to.
Just collect things that have personal meaning
so that when I touch it I go,
"Oh, I remember when we got this."
- Yeah, I think my favorite thing is
we did a complete renovation, right?
It was this very kind of cramped house
and our priority was to make it
so that it could be for entertaining.
Every Sunday pretty much
we'll have like a barbecue outside.
So one wall, we completely knocked it down
and replaced it with like an entire walls worth of doors.
And so all of those doors can open up and reveal a deck.
And so like on a day when we have people over
and it's nice weather,
it's basically becomes like an indoor outdoor space
where the entire wall becomes just one big door.
- Yeah, I love that about your house.
Similarly, I bought a house during the pandemic
and where I lived was in an apartment with no outside space.
So one of the things we really wanted
was to have outdoor space.
So we got this big backyard.
It's got a nice deck.
It's got a nice grilling area.
- You have a bunch lights strung up.
We strung up a bunch of lights
so it has that very like warm, cozy look of a place
you wanna vacation.
- I bought my first house right before the pandemic.
It was investment that we knew
we wanted to do ton of work on it.
So it's almost completely transformed.
His inspiration was more kind of
taking the Spanish colonial bones
and then filling it with lots of modern furniture,
which is pretty common in California.
He was kinda going with a contrast of black accents
with white marble and then touches of a gray blue.
So like a depressed zebra is what I joked.
A lot of my decisions
were actually determined by the paintings
I knew I was gonna inherit
from my stepfather who recently passed away.
So I personally decided certain furniture
based on these extremely modern art pieces
that I grew up around.
- Wow, that's cool.
- You guys, congratulations.
You win the architecture quiz
which means you get to ask us questions.
Lightning round bring it on.
- All right this is the lightning round
we got 10 questions.
I got five of them, Ned got five of them.
You got one minute, you got to answer all of them.
Can you do it?
- Let's do this.
We got a timer.
We got a timer over there.
Are you ready?
- [Man] Yes.
Okay, three, two, one, go Ned.
- Is the studio usually messy or clean?
- Messy. - Messy.
- Okay, which is the best room in the studio?
- The living room. - The living room.
- What's the ideal temperature
of the thermostat in the studio?
- 69 - A sensible 74 degrees.
- Oh you're out of your mind.
- Okay, if we had to move the studio
to any place in the world where would we put it?
In another country, perhaps.
- New Zealand. - Japan.
- Favorite food to order in the studio?
- Sushi. - Japan.
- How many rooms are in the studio?
- One, two. - One, two.
This is our old studio, right or the new studio?
- The old one that's where we are right now.
- One, two, three, four.
- I don't know nut Ned made a baby in one of them.
- Yeah. - The bedroom.
- Who is usually first to arrive at the studio.
- Keith. - Keith.
- Best video we've ever shot?
- Sitting on Keith's lap.
- No it's not, how dare you?
No it's not.
- You can't top it.
- Who is first to leave the studio?
- Ned. - Ned.
- How many years have we all worked together?
- Too many. - Six, four, five, six, six.
- That's it we did it.
[all cheering]
That was cool, look at that.
- [All] Wow.
- Architectural digest.
- Turns out it's neither a vase nor a vase.
It's the sexiest, it's whatever the hell that is.
- Well, thanks for having us architectural digest.
- Check out our new movie,
"Behind the Try: A Try Guys Documentary"
It's an inside look at us and all the things that we do.
You can check it out at tryguys.com/movie.
- Bye. - Bye.