Hey, you know what, I should do a Q&A video
Where have I heard that before?
Hmm "Even though Q&A's aren't the focus of your channel or the content presented, I would love if you did one
because I have several questions and I bet other subscribers have questions too." "Same here. I got questions"
Hmm. Nowhere, it's a completely original idea. Let's do this!
Okay, new series. I'm pumped. This is Gonna be awesome guys, okay.
I have my, I have my laptop here
For questions and stuff. Mo Cyr writes "What got you into learning science and stuff #AskAlex". Good question
Also I like that hashtag ask Alex. I mean, I think Q with A is pretty cool, but ya know
So I actually got into science and these videos from ViHart who is another Youtuber, you can find a little happy triangle sprinkled author
In my videos which is her mascot
I found her because my friend Joseph was super obsessed with Hexaflexagons and showed me the video and from there
I found Michael and
Derek and Henry and Destin and all the hundreds and hundreds of channels I have subscribed to.
DasCrafter says "10 out of 10 selfies" Thank you.
"Well. I have a question. Sorta. Name all your fandoms and your favorite character from each."
All of them
Oh jeez. What constitutes a fandom. You know I'll order these from like the most tumblr-y fandoms to the least tumbler-y fandoms
Ready? Okay, so I'll say my fandom and then the favorite character. Here we go Sherlock: Sherlock. Dan and Phil: Dan.
Sorry Phil
Twenty one pilots
I mean there aren't don't really any characters here but
Star Wars: BB-8, Yoda. Star Trek: Picard.
Dr Who: the eleventh doctor. And shut up, that doesn't mean David Tennant isn't still a Saint. Rick and Morty: Mr. Poopy butthole.
Hamilton: Jonathan Groff. Looking: Jonathan Groff. Glee: Jonathan Groff. Frozen: Jonathan Groff. See a Pattern here?
Marvel: Vision
Or Black Panther
Or Doctor Strange
DC
Naw I'm just kidding no one watches DC movies. But I do watch the TV shows: the Flash.
Now on to sitcoms. The Office: Dwight. Though that is subject to change. Parks and Recreation
I'm most like Ben
But I also like Andy, and Chris Traeger is literally the best character on any TV show. Community: Troy and Abed, its a package deal.
Troy and Abed in the Morning
South Park:
Butters
Or Kenny, but you know, Butters. And there's probably many more, but you know that just scratches the surface for you
It's time for speed round
Part the First
What is this? Am I gonna put like text here? Part the First
1. I really like the curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon and the catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
links to those books in the description down below. 2. the fourth book. 3. Does fantastic beasts count?
4.
Tough one, gotta go with non-stop because it's kind of like a mash of all the other songs, plus I'm wearing the shirt right now
All the songs are amazing. 5. Refer to the previous answer. 6. All the people on screen right now
They are all cool people. Caw writes "You mentioned in a previous video that you did MUN. What's your favorite country to represent?"
I'm sorry about this, but I'm going to take your question a little differently.
A while back I had to represent Marco Rubio in an immigration debate
And this was probably the most memorable event for me because besides the fact that you know, it was really fun
Marco Rubio's opinions differ quite differently from mine
So it was really interesting to try to be in a different mindset. The takeaway is this: in our time of deep partisan fighting make
sure to keep an open mind as the other people's point of view. Dominate Awesome says "I only came to dislike this crap"
Yeah me too
And now it's time for
Speed round. Part the Second, my camera is on low battery edition whoops
I have extra batteries so yeah, I do. #1. I don't, I just know how to find all this stuffs. This is important,
Nobody can know everything
But if you're able to know how to be able to know everything then you're set. #2. the video creation process either comes from me
learning to reign in fact and then wanting to learn more about it or just some random thought or question popping into my head
and then I'm just like I have to find out more about this thing. #3. Let me preface this by saying none of what I'm
about to say actually applies to my youtube videos, but as filmmakers go. I really really like Wes Anderson
He's a great phenomenal filmmaker
I will recommend him any day of the week. Links in the description to his IMDb page, also Casey Neistat is cool
#4. What is the meaning of life? 42. #5. Okay, everyone Gather round,
I'm Gonna tell you deep dark secret
If you back flip five times in a row subscribe to technicality and ride a unicorn across the rainbow
You're pretty friggin awesome. #6. This is a common one,
I script in Google docs which I don't really recommend because actually when you agree to the Google terms and conditions you also agree that
Google in Part Owns all of the things that you like make in Google Drive, So...
I film with a canon rebel t5i, a sigma 18 to 35 lens
And I rode videomic pro, and I also found this really great cheap teleprompter on the interwebs
and it's been like super helpful in making sure I don't like look down when filming which like if you
If you watch my old videos I do that a ton like watch the Columbus video
I'm basically just like not looking at the camera. And finally I edit in Final cut pro
And I'm a very big supporter of it. #7. I don't know let's ask them.
You know about my YouTube channel technicality? "No who is technicality?"
"No", "No"
"No kids."
"Oh hell naw"
"No", "No", "No"
Yes, they know about it
Can I have this information without a ten-year-old screaming at me?
nope, sorry
It's genuinely funny
From the first curiosity box unboxing video over on EE, Vsauce3 says great unboxing, you rock dude
Wait. Wait. Wait. Hold up hold up there. Jake holy crap man. I love your videos. You're a great guy
I saw you had Vidcon been a back two two years ago or so
Thank you so much man for commenting on the video really means a lot.
"damn kid please relax with the sugar"
What do you mean I eat sugar? What do you mean I eat sugar?
What the
Julian asked: "do you monetize your videos? dude I honestly don't know what to do here
I've been debating this for a bit
And I really want you guys to make the decision. On the one hand
Monetizing videos allows for me to make a bit of money which I could then reinvest into technicality and make cooler and cooler videos
But on the other hand if advertising videos significantly reduces how many people actually watch my videos, It's just not worth it
So I asked you should I monetize my videos? Do you guys even care honestly?
Ok you know what I'll monetize this video, and we'll see how it goes and I'll monetize my next video
which is the project for awesome video and take all that money and donate it to the charity I'm supporting but on future videos,
I really want to know your thoughts
vote up here there should be like a voting card you can have a little poll and let me know
Libby says "oh my God did you see that episode of typical people with Lin? I almost died"
oh my God I know
Right it is ohh it's so good. If you have not seen typical people like at least try it out like it's it's a good show
It's time for speed round Part the Third. The part where I center myself in the camera
Cuz somehow I moved over there
#1. Final Cut Pro X I think I said this already #2. No but I would consider a series that takes more time to edit
Wink wink also if you want to see more of me unedited, follow me on snapchat
#3. About two weeks If I really work on it. More on that
Dapper Cuttlefish writes "question: do you have an upload schedule? If so, what is it? also Slytherins unite"
Ok so kinda
In the past, I tried uploading every Monday, and then I did that for a week
And then stopped, so that failed drastically. And that kind of got me discouraged, but now I try to upload every other Monday
It's less of an official schedule and more of a goal
But still. Also I know I just said this but in the next couple weeks
I will totally not follow that schedule because project for awesome is on a Friday
I think and I want to put out a Christmas video before Christmas so uh yeah but generally I'll try to upload every other Monday
Also whoo solar winds
From episode 39, the science experiments video, science Bob writes "Nicely done Alex keep exploring and sharing the world of science"
Thanks Man! love your work and your channel
And it's a huge inspiration obviously this comment means a lot thank you.
From episode 33, the Hamilton video, I got a comment
Where you guys totally ripped on Eacker. Oh my God so savage A+. I love it
No, let's just continue of Hamilton comments. We got plenty of those
Sally McSaggy Llama (great name) writes:
"Ok but like Hamilton is still perfect"
No disagreements here. Megaman Rock writes: "um they do mention how the election was a tie. They say it's a tie
It's up to the delegates. It's up to Hamilton other than that great video really" and uh okay
Yeah, a lot of people pointed this out, and I do want to address this yes, I screwed up
They did say that in the song right here to be more specific.
♪"It's a tie" "It's up to the delegates" "It's up to Hamilton"♪
And I bet if I actually saw the musical
They would have made it even more clear through dance that you know it was a tie
And then it was up to the delegates and then it was Hamilton, but regardless
I'm still glad I talked about it cuz I don't know I still found it interesting, I hope you guys did too.
Another one I got a lot: family guy is bae writes
"I like Hamilton, and I was going to be like screw you, but you're actually really smart and this is really good information"
Thank you to all the folks who said this
Catherine says "I don't think you get enough credit for the credit you give us. In other words, I subscribe to your channel"
Thank you. Thank you so much
That's so kind also a lot of people left really nice comments
and I wish I could read them on camera and mention them all but
in this video it would be way to long and it would take too long to find them all it would just be illogical but
Regardless here are some of the really nice ones, really nice creative ones I especially like
thank you so much guys to anyone who wrote a nice comment. It really means a lot, It doesn't go unnoticed
And now this isn't a comment on the Hamilton video but on an email on the Hamilton video. Miguel Montanez
Oh I really hope I'm saying your name right Miguel Montanez writes
"Hi Alex, my name is Miguel Montez. I designed the nonstop Hamilton shirt which you gave away in one of your videos.
I just wanted to say thank you so much. I'm glad you liked the design and since you featured it in that video
There's been a spike in sales for that shirt and other Hamilton designs in general
So I wanted to say thank you for that and keep up the great work man. Your videos are really well argued and informed
Cheers, Miguel"
Thank you so much, man!
You know what that is just so so cool that I can pimp out awesome stuff that I love, and you guys can support artists
Who make truly amazing stuff
I replied back to him and I said that I took picking the Hamilton shirt really seriously and actually I remember the day I picked
that Hamilton shirt uh
Maddie, Emmy Haley, and Olivia and I
spent the rest of our free period just looking through all of the awesome stuff on redbubble
And I finally you know picked that shirt, so if you want to grab yourself a non-stop shirt. It's really awesome
It says non-stop, and it has the lyrics of the song non stop in it
It's truly amazing you can help out a really awesome artist
And you can also actually help out technicality too because it's an affiliate link so click the link in the top of the description
Get yourself one of these shirts. I can't recommend it enough. It's it's a great design.
Ok that's enough Hamilton wait
No, no, you can never have enough Hamilton, but for now let's move on to episode 37 the breakthrough, Jr.
challenge episode but first it's time for
Speed round, Part the Fourth, the part where I wonder my face is still so red even after opening my window
#1. I don't really know yet. Hopefully technicality. Also I'd be pretty really superduper really psyched to work at McKinsey
Love that place
#2. Ehhh maybe I mean right now
I'm more likely a go for an NBA instead, but I gotta my keep my mind open. #3. It's obviously real, moreover,
Have you ever seen Earth and Batman in the same photo? No! Earth is Batman!
Moreover cool person Mike Rugnetta of pbs idea channel who I talked about the bit in episode 6 and I had a chat about this on Twitter
Mike originally tweets, but wait have you ever seen sexy hamburglar and sexy cracker barrel guy at the same time?
So I retweeted that and said
but wait have you ever seen sexy hamburglar and
Sexy Cracker barrel guy and Batman at the same time? and then Mike Rugnetta replies
oh shiiiiii
For a serious answer to your question, Vsauce has a great video on the flat Earth theory
#4. Okay my favorite quarks are the strange quark and the charm quark because physicists were like okay?
So we got the up quark we got a down quark. We got the top quark we have a bottom quark
These are all really rational names
But what should we name the other two? Ya know instead of naming it something like front or back quark
You know something actually logical let's name it strange and charm
This probably requires like two seconds of research to find out
But like why would you ever call it strange and charm?
#5. I know lots, but the first two that come to mind are Chris Hadfield and Neil deGrasse Tyson
Hi. It's post-Production Alex here to let you know that the rough cut of this episode was 23 minutes and 44 seconds
Which is a long time, so I'm actually going to stop the episode right here
so I can actually get out to you this Monday and get excited because
next week there'll be a whole new another episode of Q with A
That's right Q with A episode 2 premieres right here on technicality so subscribe if you haven't already. In my opinion, the second half
It just gets better. So make sure you don't miss it, you get another 12 minutes of Q&A awesomeness. See you guys next week nickel out