- Today, the Try Guys are going to be delivering
a special message to the class of 2020
while eating this ghost pepper. (yelling)
- Whoa. (laughs)
- We only get one shot at this.
This is one take, one pepper in, one speech comes out.
(Zach moaning)
(Zach hiccuping)
(podium crashing)
- This is a freaking raw, dry ghost pepper.
I'm gonna swallow it and dominate this whole thing.
(mumbling) Oh, the Devil's (beeping) my eyes.
- (chuckling) Oh boy, I'm nervous.
- Here we go. - No!
- No limits, persevere. - Ow!
(anticipatory classical music)
- Dear graduating class of 2020.
- Perseverance.
In these turbulent times, you will face
a great many unknowns.
- But to persevere is to conquer the capricious nature
of fate's mysterious hand.
- Unknowns, like this ghost pepper,
that will challenge you to persevere and usher your goals
to their befitting end, and like your unique journeys,
riddled with the heat of a thousand unknowns.
- We encourage you to honor your ambition and intention
by sticking with your lifelong dreams.
- No matter what unbearable spiciness life
might throw at you.
- We salute your bright futures with this special challenge:
to finish this speech even after we consume
one of the hottest peppers in the world.
(Keith crunching)
(Eugene crunching)
(crunching) For perseverance, oh my God.
- For perseverance is the ah, for, ah!
- Is the theme with which we implore you.
- To enact in the years to come!
- Whether it be professional,
like when I graduated over 10 years ago,
you know, during the Great Recession,
where I didn't have, you know, I had to find
new means to support myself.
Ooh, ooh.
- Emotional, like balancing full-time work
and welcoming a new (yelling), a new child into the world,
while striving to be a good husband and father.
Oh! (whimpering)
(Ned burping) (Ned whimpering)
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
- Physical, like recognizing my autoimmune disorder
and learning how to manage it with fortitude
and understanding.
- Or personal, like discovering new ways
to connect with the family,
especially after coming out to them after 30 years.
- You, similarly, will write your own stories.
(dramatic music)
(podium crashing)
(laughing) As you venture deeper into the (laughing).
- You similarly will write your own stories
as you venture deeper into the pages of your autobiography,
which will present provocation which you must defend against
with the single-minded of (yelling).
(Keith spitting)
- Which will prevent, ooh, which will present provocation
which you must defend against
with the single-minded objective to succeed
despite any delay or difficulty,
no matter how mighty they may be. (laughing)
I'm reminded of a quote by English writer Samuel Johnson,
who noted. (spitting)
- "If your determination is fixed,
"I do not counsel you to despair.
"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill,"
which you got, you got, baby.
- "Great works are performed not by strength,
"but perseverance." (spitting)
- You see, you, class of 2020, are undeniably strong,
but how you consistently withstand (panting)
withstand applied pressure to that strength
is what will test your resolve.
- A wise remark comes to mind
from famed French chemist, Marie Curie.
- Famed French chemist, Marie Curie,
who said, "Life is not easy for any of us,
"but what of that?"
- Oh, my throat, it's like I'm getting (beeping)
by Satan's dick.
Oh, ow, ow, why did I just do that?
I just wiped my mouth and my eyes.
- We must believe that we are gifted
for something and that this thing must be attained.
(dramatic music) (fire crackling)
(Ned yelling)
- Oh, oh!
(Keith sputtering) (Keith coughing)
The lesson.
The lesson there is that we must eliminate any doubt.
- We have so that we are destined for anything
less than our best, and you graduates will enter a world
that will unyieldingly try to bring out your worst.
Remember, in those times, something the Chinese, oh God.
(Zach yelling) (Zach burping)
- Remember, in those times,
something the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu
once ruminated on: "Of all that is good,
"sublimity is supreme.
"Success is the," (burping)
- "Succeeding is the coming together of all
"that is beautiful.
"Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just.
Perseverance is the foundation of all actions."
- It bears repeating, and say it with me:
"Perseverance is the foundation of all actions." (sobbing)
- As you can clearly see, from how I am resound (burping)
I am resolutely withstanding the incredible,
searing, bottomless pit of pain that is my mouth.
- I'm recognizing my ability to overcome
as the source of my inspiration.
- Even as the entirety of my soul is lit aflame,
oh my God, by this demonic pepper of excruciating agony,
I am continuing my speech to further inspire you onward
to invisible, inevitable greatness.
- Ooh, and now I'd like to present,
on behalf of the Try Guys, virtual diplomas,
yeah, to a select number of our wonderful Patreon patrons
who are graduating this year,
with the perfect pronunciation of a person
whose lips and tongues are persevering past the pain
of a piquant pepper.
Whoo! (blowing nose)
- Abbigail Brantch, Abi Kinsella,
Adrianne Kalla, Alex Fox, Alexa Zapczynski.
(slurping milk)
- Alice Somers, Somers?
Alison Lima, Allison Kelly, Alyson Clarke,
Alyssa Buffington, Alyssa Fairbairn.
- Amanda Condon, Amanda Hart, Amber Schultz,
Anna Delap, Anna Mosness Greenwald,
Anthea Chng, there's no vowels,
Anya Richardson, April Chan, Ashlee Coleman.
- Ashley Moore, Ashley Moseley, Aubree Porter,
Audrey Lewis, Becca MacDonald, Biana Kurtz,
Blaire Emirali, Braden Willis, Breanna Dites, Dite,
Brianna Schreckengost. (laughs)
- Brianna Lehane, Brianna Vasquez, Britany Vernon,
Brooke Tennant, Caleigh Hughes, Carey Toyooka,
Carmen Enriquez, Catherine Ferri.
- Celia Sanchez, Celine Park, Charles Randle,
Chelsea Remmenga. (yelling)
(whipped creme foaming) (Ned yelling)
Perseverance!
- Christina Archipolo, Claire Greenlee, Clare Kuhlmann,
Clodagh Quirke, Cole Messenger-Nyborg, sick name.
- Courtney Sprouse, Cole Sprouse's sister,
Crystal Chen, Dani Lowder, Danica Born,
Daria Crawford, Deena Castillo, historic Castillo,
Derek Wang, can I have more of the oats?
Oh man, it's just like lava.
- Diana Cleland, Diana Dao-Luu, Elizabeth Ilic,
Elizabeth Soto, Elle Knowlton,
Emerson Wilkins, Emily Czajowsi, Emma Shumadine,
Dang, Dang, Dang. (coughing)
Why do I keep touching my eyes?
- Fran Massington, Georgah Gromley, Haley Garrelts.
(whipped cream foaming) (Ned yelling)
("Pomp and Circumstance" by Edgar Elgar)
- Haley Hamilton, Hannah Altman,
Hannah Seligman, Hannah Swimley, ooh, wow,
it's really not gone down at all.
Issac Field, Izzy Elliot, Izzy Waite.
- Jaelin Woracek, Jenice Ko, Jessica Landress,
Jessica Young-Eleazar, Joanna Vasquez,
Joey Graham, Jordan Snellings.
- Joseph Vasquez, Kaitlyn Parker, Katilyn Witt,
Kaleen Hunt, Karan Ishii.
Ooh, Karly Maas.
- Kat Goode, Kat Bad. (sobbing)
Kathryn Bartels, Katie Schultz, Kayla Carter,
- Keenan Griebel, Kela Pereira, Kelly Blaine,
Kristine C, Kyra Delchambre, Kyrra Kahler,
Latifa Hinawy, Laura Power, ooh, Lauren Kaaua.
- Lauren Silverwood, Layah Fauth, Leah Lopez,
Lindsey Maner, Lisa Ong, Lois Reeves?
Like Lois Lane married Christopher Reeves, Superman?
That's crazy!
- Lottie Smith, Lucia Iannone, no, no, no, no.
(Ned yelling)
- Maddie Welsh, Madeleine Maka, Madeline Ziegler,
Maddie Ziegler?
No, Madeline Zinger, Madelynne Brown, Maggie McPherson,
Makaila DeWeerd, (chuckling) Mark Jackson.
- Meaghan Smith, Megan Kelley, hopefully not that one.
Megan Robinson, (laughing) Mira Gupta, Morgan Pohl,
Natalie Lopez, Nia Allen.
- Give me that pepper. - No, Eugene, no!
- My eyes will sting, but we gotta do it.
We gotta do it. - You don't need to.
It's no a competition. - No limits!
Perseverance.
- It's subsiding.
Give me another one!
Yes, I'm sure!
I gotta do this for the students of the class of 2020.
- Here we go. - No!
- No limits, persevere.
- [Keith] Don't swallow it, just chew.
- It's what you gotta do.
- Nicole Abraham, Nicole Newhouse, Nicole Wright,
Nikkia Borowski, (burping) Noah Caldwell,
Peter Schneider. (burping)
- Philip Schultz, Phoebe Epifano, Rachel Kaplan,
Reagan Bach, Rebecca Szymborski, yeah! (yelling)
- Rebecca Symborski, Regan Wain, ooh, ooh,
Rian McCament, Rose Trent, Rosie Roberts. (beeping)
My eyes, ah, now the Devil's fucking my eyes.
- Rubaai Gupta, Sam Gierer, Samantha Walls,
Sara Gibson, Sara Kate Bode.
- Ow, ow, ow, ow, ah!
- Sarah Montgomery, Sarah Wang, Saray Valdez Hernandez,
Serena Sodhi, Serena Sodhi.
- Shelby Lau, Shodmuro Gupta, Siena Costanzo, Sophia Gill.
- Stephanie Carpenter, (burping) Summer Barnum,
Suzanne Roope, (burping) Sydne Krueger.
- Teagan Messenger-Nyborg,
oh, there's another Messenger?
Tiffany Howard, Toby (burping)
Toby Kenworthy, Vanessa Vela,
Vianey Banuelos-Pena, ah, Will Haanen,
Will Haanen, oh, (beeping) me, God,
the Devil's dick has left (beeping) spicy.
Zrinka Silvana Radman.
- To these amazing and wonderful graduates,
and to all the graduates graduating from home this year,
we congratulate you.
- For your hard work, limitless potential, and most of all,
your unprecedented commitment to perseverance.
- You have such incredible futures ahead of you,
and we believe that you, the class of 2020,
you, you guys, will not only flourish in a changed world,
but indelibly change that world for the better.
- We leave you with the Try Guys' signature slolan,
sloman, sloman, shalom? (gagging)
- We leave you with the Try Guys' signature slogan:
What will you try next?
That's solely up to you, and we're confident
that whatever you decide to try.
- Just as we have prevailed over this very speech,
you are sure to persevere.
Congratulations, whoo!
- Ah! (gargling)
(upbeat music)
Whoo!
Thank you to the class of 2020.
If you believe in yourself,
you can at least accomplish some of your dreams!