Hello, hello
Welcome
To day three [of] live week at Vat19 we're going to take you guys on a tour of VAt19
So happy to have you here welcome to our st.. Louis
Headquarters, which is also our North American headquarters and our worldwide headquarters anyways
I've got some people here are going to be helping me on the tour today say hello to [danny] . Who's flying the drone
We've got [Aundrea] our social media manager
so if you have any questions at all about
The things that go on behind the scenes of vat19 questions about how we make the videos or anything along those lines
Put those in the comments
And we'll be answering those as we walk around so let's head on in all right
I hope you guys notice the carribean artwork around here
I only point out because my grandfather painted it, so I'm proud of it
Okay, right behind me is our
Golden play Button that we got from YouTube for reaching 1 million Subscribers and
Actually, just like an hour ago today
We passed 3 million subscribers, and we've kind of been watching it on this live count here. So we're at 3 million 228
Subscribers, which is mind-blowing and that's all because you guys have watched so thank you so much for watching alright. Let's continue the tour
all right, Danny's telling me that our stream is going a little bit weak, so I'm just going to pause for a second here until
its still weak, it seems to be going a little bit. We won't
don't worry you I won't skip ahead or anything until
It's kind of a large building and the Wi-Fi kind of goes in and out in certain places. so hopefully it picks back up
What's that? Yeah? We could do some questions right now while we kind of wait
Um Hawky wants to know how long [does] it take you to make a video?
oh
Well it depends on the video, but roughly speaking
It's like about a month from start to finish so we spend a couple weeks on the script
And then it takes about a week to shoot it, and then a week to edit the video so yeah about four weeks
Okay, danny says we might be good to go all right. Let's continue the tour um
This is just our um
Supply closet office supplies, not a huge it. Hey, uh
Killer slacks um those Khaki with pleat no. It's Wednesday. These are my beige ones
Okay, anyway um
Heading down the Hallway here. Let's get another question
Okay, let's see what we have
Andrea is looking for your comments right now. She's looking for something good
Emma the stator Animator asks is this the not- a- VAt19 ,Vat19 Studio
is this the not-a-vat19 vat19 studio well you know what that's a great question because in the room, we're about to be going into
the Writers room is uh
one of the creators of the not a Cat-cat oh
hey guys
That was a real question that was not planned Eric one of our writers
Just happens to be I'm petting a not-a-cat cat also say hello to ben
Hi, guys one of our writers and gus hello these guys write the scripts for the videos and it looks like
You must be working on something new here. [oh]. Yeah, this is Mini beer pong
It's a new product um you can have the world's tiniest frat party. i think with it. I've been working on my shot. [oh]
I hope Jon Cotton's invited to that part he's not invited, but I'll show up anyway okay
All right after these guys write the scripts. We shoot them in our studio. Which is where we're heading to next
This is one of my favorite parts of the building because we get to have so much fun making our videos
This is studio a and to give you guys a better look around we're going to send the drone up
So you guys can get a little bit better view?
of studio [a]
All right, so we love our studio. It is the largest in the st.. Louis area
St.. Louis, Missouri is where we're based and you can see we have
240 Outlets in our ceiling to plug in lights there must be miles of cable up there all right
We're going to bring the drone back down and we're going to take a closer look at things
Let me show you guys around to some of our sets here. This is our kitchen
set where we've shot tons of videos like the Carolina Reaper challenge and
What you might, not realize is it's totally fake so you can't open these cabinets. It's just open on the back
There keeps his coffee in there, I guess
And right behind me is our office set fun fact
This is also where we shoot Confection perfection?
So you can imagine [chauncey] and theodore hanging out here as we swing around to another area of the studio
[do] we have any more questions andrea yeah? ya We do hannah wants to know when you make your videos
How do you come up with the characters? Oh?
Wow, how do we come up with the characters for the videos I would say the entire team kind of works together and sometimes it just happens
Magically somebody just comes up with an idea, but yeah, we do love our characters here. We've got a lot of them, too
this is our more urban kind of living room set and
This is where Joey smashed my ukulele and the do it yourself ukulele video. I'm not still bitter about it trust me
But what is kind of cool? I think yet if we can get in close there
You can see the dents in the wood here where Joey smash that thing to pieces
We have one more living room set
Across the way here, and I'm going to see if we can turn the lights on for you guys
Yeah, so you can see this thing like lit up when we actually do videos
this is where we shot the opening scene for the saand video where I was on the floor and had sand all over me and
A lobster and a fun thing you might not know about sand is that it's super cold
so I was laying there we had to have one of these huge lights on me the entire time like a
like a heat lamp for a lizard, so
Anyway
i want to show you guys next our
Bar set which actually today is set up a little bit more like a man cave looks like [they're]
they've been shooting something here for oh, right ah
the Pac-Man ghost lamp video so that's going to be coming out probably in a couple weeks and
oh!
Hey, let's see what these guys [are] up to hey. What's up we are shooting
We're going to be shooting tomorrow live right [here] on YouTube. We're going to be doing make me laugh
Make me laugh number four its going to be live
This is the chair that someone's going to sit in with their hands tied [up] in their [mouths] full of water
And then someone's gonna walk through here. I try to make them laugh
So awesome so everyone please come back tomorrow at 3 p.m.. central and you can see us doing
Make me laugh number four right live yeah. Yeah right behind these guys in me is our green screen
This is where we do special effects. It's how we get Jiminy [ricketts] in a bar. It's how we get the southern gentleman
On his front porch so we have a ton of fun with our big green screen
Through here let me widen that out a little bit for our cameraman
This is our final set this is our cafe. Set. We can also sometimes turn it into like a
Study, it's where we shoot the burning questions videos in here. We've made a lot [of] messes in this set as well
I think yeah there they are
Check out these
footprints these are coffee
Footprints from the Ostrich pillow video Joey got completely soaked in coffee
And when he walked out he left those footprints, and they're still here today
So that's pretty much our main studio. So let's head
into the kill floor
Actually our warehouse where we keep a lot of props such as our
somewhat famous bathtub from our 500 pounds of putty video Joey got into this thing and
Think he left a little bit of himself behind
Armpit hair sorry cool
Check out my fish I got to show off [my] fish
I caught that when I was 14, and we used it in the world's largest gummy worm video and
Bonus points to anybody who can figure out what type of fish that is?
Give you a hand starts with the letter of t. Okay?
Let's head into Studio B
this is Studio B and
These are two of our photography folks mallory and corey. They're working on something here
[oh], I know what this is let's take a look this is called maze Racers this will be up on the website [soon]
It's really cool you and a friend each make a maze using these pieces in their magnetic
And then you swap, and you see who can finish the other person's maze the quickest really fun maze racers
That'll be out soon
As we head to the next part of the studio do we have any more questions
Yeah, we do Riddhi Rana wants to know how many people work here oh um
There's about 25 people that work here at vat19, so you don't see all of them in the videos
But there's a lot of [people] here to make everything happen
[Kenna] [quirk] wants to know how old is the VAt19 Factory oh?
okay um
This building was built in 1980, so it is 36 years old
[I] think in october [oh] yeah um
We're at our next location. This is our awesome time set
I hope some [of] you who are watching watch awesome time. This is where we shoot it
Check out the gummy couch
This couch is made entirely of gummy Bears
Check out our gummy shot glass video
And you'll see this is the same couch although you might not believe because in that video it was yellow. It's turned this nice
kind of
Vet 19 orange color over the years and then here's some of the fan art you guys have sent us love that
this is where Eric and I sit as we
Challenge Ourselves to win the Golden Gummy bear
this set also shares its space with our
Purchasing and shipping office, so that's a perfect segue to the next spot
Which is [our] warehouse, so I wanna show you guys quickly our warehouse
We're going to slide out [here], and we're actually going to take the drone back up again
So you guys can get a better look around?
There we go
okay, so
Everything [that] we sell at VAT19 we store in this warehouse
[and] it gets shipped out from here if you order by 2:00 p.m.. [any] day
We're going to ship that order out to you that same day and here's kind of an unknown fact about our warehouse every
Single person [that] works here at Vat19 so all the guys you see in the video all have to help ship packages out
around Christmas
So the more stuff you guys buy during Christmas the greater the chances that Joey's gonna be out here
Packing stuff up with his shirt off getting sweaty
okay, maybe that's
Maybe that's an overshare anyway, lets head oh
How are you not hearing that just stick it in see boot listen to yourself
stick it in zee boot one more time stick it in zee boot okay, so
That was the sample room. That's where we shoot those episodes
Um as we head down our main hallway here. Let's uh let's answer some more questions
Chloe asks how do you get your ideas?
How do we get our iDeas well the three writers?
Who we've met a little bit earlier?
[come] up with a lot [of] the ideas, but then the whole video team gets together once a week
And we brainstorm a lot of stuff. So it's a lot of a group effort
Super [flower] 0/2 asks what room do [we] use the most I think in the studio is what they mean
Oh like which of the sets do we use the most ooh um?
What I would say the two living rooms
I'm actually going to ask the guy running the camera right now you think it's a the living room. Yeah
Yeah, yeah, delimit [though], so those two living room sets. I think we use the most
Battle Droid asks what's the lobster real?
yes, the lobsters were real, and I was way more terrified than I should [have] been because
That lobster was probably a lot more scared than I was okay word our next location here
Which is our editing suite. This is where a lot [of] the magic happens. [this] is Maddie
She's one [of] our editors, and this is adam. He's another one of our editors and
we kind of wanted to give all [of] you on the tour today little sneak peek at something new
Up, okay. It looks like our signal has gotten a little weak. So we're gonna take a minute hopefully it
rebounds a little bit while we wait
[maybe] I'll answer a couple more questions
Robert wants to know what was the [worst] challenge?
What was the worst challenge okay? So I've got to think it was the Carolina um
Well, [it] [was] probably a tie between the Carolina
Reaper Powder and the Stinger Pop challenge, I'm Gonna go with I'm gonna go stinger pop. I think that was
Whore that was so spicy that was crazy
Okay, danny says we're back. So now we're gonna give you that sneak peek hey guys, so uh the video
we're going to show [you] is gummy grizzly and
Just a little sneak peek
Pop quiz you're out on a hike when you encounter a grizzly do you a act tough?
B stand still their vision is based on Movement or [C] run
How about a new option use your teeth?
Like this big No-no. Go [ahead] sink your teeth into a giant [dummy] grizzly beng [all] right
That's a little sneak [peek]
[look] for it on our channel in the next few days
Pretty cool awesome. Well, I'm uh
Got to say thanks to Adam for showing that and I hope you guys enjoyed [seeing] something a little bit new
We're gonna head [back] out into our main hallway
and see if we can't answer a couple more questions that have been coming [through] in the comments if you
Are just joining us and have any questions about kind of the behind the scenes of that 19?
How we make the videos go ahead and [ask] a question in the comments?
Sark ear xander wants to know what's the longest time you've ever taken to make a sketch
Or the longest time we've ever taken some of the music videos that we have made have probably taken
The longest I'm trying to think it could be
Murphy's law which was the video for the self-balancing unicycle?
We those guys spent a long time on [that] one?
oh
Danny's got his hands up. I think our signal might have gone weak again
Okay, we're just going to move forward a little bit. Hope that it hoped the signal comes back a little bit stronger here, okay?
He's giving me the thumbs up. Let's see if we got another question
Morgan Thompson wants to know who are the people who have worked at Vat19 the longest who has worked here the longest [I] think
that goes to donna who is not in
Many of the [videos], but she's been here for I think over [a] decade and she is our customer service [manager]
So we have a problem with an order, and you call donna. She's so sweet and she's
[been] here the longest, she'll be able to help you out
Happy Marshmallow asks. What is the worst accident to ever happen in the building? What's the worst accident ever happened in the building well?
It happened to the guy holding the camera right now Adam
[he] was putting back a
Giant Lava lamp and the thing fell and it broke on his hand and cut it wide open
[there's] blood all over the floor all over the kitchen
Me and Danny took him to the hospital got a whole bunch of stitches he cut tendons. That was really bad
So yeah poor poor Adam worst accident ever yeah
[alright] continue heading up the Hallway here
Let's get maybe one more question if we can
Sydney [amis] wants to know why did you guys start trying to win the Golden Gummy [I]?
Don't know why we started doing that I?
think we were just I don't know I wanted to have some fun and awesome time and challenge ourselves, and it just seemed like
it
[just] seemed like it made a lot of sense at the time yeah
Um well you guys might those of you have been watching for a while might notice that we're sort of back [up] at the front
of the building so it's kind of time for me to wrap up the tour here and
I just want to take a moment to tell all of you
How much?
I've [enjoyed] hey, Danny
Okay
he's watching I wanted to take a second here to
tell you guys how much we
Enjoy having you watch our videos how happy. We are that you've subscribed to our videos
[I] usually end every episode of awesome time by saying thank you for watching thank you for subscribing
And we'll see you next time, but I think we've got a couple more people that want to say thank you
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