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is Markiplier. Welcome to the video

where I am illprepared to do the thing

that the title says I'm going to do, but

I'm going to do my best. Uh, hi

everybody. I apologize um if I seem like

I'm in pain. It's because I am. My back

just started hurting today. I have no

idea why. It's not like I've been

physically active. Uh, but my back is in

incredible pain and I don't know why.

But I'm here um later than I thought I

would be. I said in the trailer that I

posted for Iron Lung that I would be

here yesterday and I wasn't. Not because

my back was hurting. Yeah. Thank you.

old hold. I know. Yeah. Um so I

I that's it is you know it really is. I

just wake up some days and I'm just

like, "Oh, man.

Just [ __ ] old." Uh, but I'm I'm doing

all right. There's a a reason that I'm a

day later than I thought I would be,

which if you've watched the trailer and

you haven't gone back to ironlong.com to

check uh the website,

there's more theaters.

There's six times more theaters than

there were when I posted the trailer.

and I I I know you guys probably don't

know the full details. I hope to talk a

bit about it now. Um

I

I'm surprised uh to say the least. I'm

pleasantly surprised. Uh, and I think a

lot of the theater owners are also

pleasantly surprised. Well, they're

probably hesitantly surprised at first,

thinking it's some kind of a prank

because you got to imagine for them,

like these people, I mean, it's not like

movie theaters aren't open on the

weekends, but usually they plan what's

going to happen on the weekends way in

advance and they probably go back, you

know, to take the weekend off, the

people that actually manage the

showings. But then they get all these

emails and people asking for things um

for uh uh getting getting theaters in

and all of a sudden they're getting

bombarded with emails. And it's so funny

because it's not like it's not like you

guys are are spamming them with emails.

I am actually really appreciative that

you guys are keeping it to your local

theaters uh as opposed to everyone just

blanket sweeping everything. Um because

they'll be like we've gotten like 30

emails about this. Isn't is there an ad

campaign? And I'm like, that feels like

a pretty reasonable number of people to

to ask for a movie. But it's it's I I

have heard that this is unprecedented,

which is very strange to me. Uh because

and also I am I am astonished at how

polite you guys are. You guys have been

incredibly polite. I've seen your sample

emails like across the board. You guys

have been very kind, very understanding,

not demanding. And I think that goes to

show a lot about you guys and and how

you're approaching this and just like

the the genuiness of the ask. And I

really truly honestly appreciate that.

Uh thank you for the the super chat, but

please give it to literally any other

streamer at the moment. Um I I do

appreciate though. Uh and I appreciate

you guys. So yeah, we started off with

uh yes, please pay your bills.

Definitely pay your bills. Um, we

started off with about I think it was

about 60 50 to 60 theaters on the

initial and and I know people were like,

"Wow, it's it's not in my area." But

that very very quickly changed. Um,

there's just before this stream, they've

been coming in batches, right? And one

thing about doing this independently is

we're doing it independently, which

means there's a couple people that are

helping on on terms of uh the

negotiating with the theaters, but a lot

they're working the weekend and they

even they didn't expect to be working

the weekend. And then I'm manually

parsing the theater address and Amy is

putting it into the website and we're

trying to get the thing updated. If you

go to the website and you check out the

map, we had to update it because

apparently the the the Google map API

was costing a lot of money to to get

directions for. So, we had to come up

Amy. I mean, I say we I didn't do I

didn't do anything in this. Um, but I'm

uh uh I'm going to uh Oh, lag. Oh, it's

because I'm trying to download. Hang on.

Let me limit that. Sorry. Hold on. Hold

Hold hold on. I know I know why that's

I was uh um uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh.

No, I think it's I think it's okay.

Actually, let me let me let me Yeah,

that'll be fine. It'll be fine. Uh

what was I talking about?

You made me completely forget.

Can we get a spoiler? No, you can't get

a spoiler, but I do want to talk about

it because I'm finally able to. What I'm

trying to do Oh, what I'm trying to do

in the background is I'm trying to

download some of the behind the scenes

stuff that I was supposed to have here,

but it's on a different hard drive at

the moment and I don't have it right

now. It's a long story, but it's been a

little busy this weekend trying to do

all this stuff. Um, not that I'm

complaining at all. I'm the only thing

I'm complaining about is my back pain,

but that's a completely different story.

I'm I'm I'm thrilled. Like really, I I

excited. I'm I'm so happy that

like that this has gotten the response

it did. It hasn't even really h I

wouldn't even call this like a crazy

response in comparison to everything

else. You know, I I think that this is

just something that I expected because I

I have a very good, I think,

understanding of of my audience and you

guys out there and what you're capable

of. I know you guys break websites all

the time. I know you guys show up in

force for things when when uh you really

believe in something and and that's

always been something that I I just have

admired about uh this community that

that you you guys have built basically.

I mean, I almost feel distant from it

given how much I've been working on this

and other things at the same time. Um,

but I'm I'm still honored because I uh

I've been so busy with this and life and

other things that have been going on and

other work that I've had and other

obligations that I've been having and

other obligations that I'm putting on

myself and trying to do too much.

Obviously, trying to do too much.

Whenever I'm doing these things where

I'm like, I'm really tired or I'm trying

to do too much or it's like things are

getting behind. It's not because I'm

trying to go for some trophy of wow,

look at me, how much I do. I'm the

greatest ever. Me and my big strong

muscles can take on the world. That is

not what I'm doing it for. It's because

I have a sense of responsibility to

finish what's on my plate. And I have a

sense of responsibility for the people

in my life. And I I have this I don't

know, I have this kind of anxiety about

not being able to be there for things

that I care about or people that I care

about. And so I I want to be able to do

it all. And I know that I can't do that.

But we're here now

at this point, way later past the time

when I thought it would be, but it's

we're here and it's really just

Yeah, it's really just going to be

incredible. I was never going to put the

names of all the members in the credits.

That would be the longest credits ever.

It's going to be a credit of thank you

to the members of the YouTube Markiplier

channel if you thought that all the

names were going to be in there. I look

even the unions wouldn't allow that and

I usually don't I usually try like

obviously the unions are a part of this

and they are they are negotiating on

behalf of all the people and what I was

what I'm going to say sounds like me

that's just like those but it's hard

when I go to the union negotiations this

is way back when this is way back when

it was all starting right because it was

it's a it's a union shoot um and so I go

to the union negotiations and I say yes

I want to pay people fairly. I want to

do this right. There's a few quirks that

I want to do. I want to edit it, but you

know, I've got editors and yada yada.

And they they're I think they're so used

to these studios coming at them just

being like combative to every single

possible. So, they come at me

aggressively because they're waiting for

a fight and I'm not there to fight

because I'm like, "Yeah, I want to pay

people well and I want to I want to feed

them well. I want to treat them well. I

want to do all these things. THEY'RE

LIKE, "HOW DARE YOU? YOU'RE GONNA TREAT

THEM WELL AND FEED THEM WELL AND PAY

them well." And I'm like, "Oh, you got

me. All right. You twisted my arm about

it." Anyway, uh so

yeah. Uh that's that's a that's a whole

other thing. But what I was saying, what

was I saying about that? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

The with the credits, right? There are

rules, right? There are rules. There's a

lot of rules. And I will say one thing

to basically take from all this is I

think you all have discovered this over

the past few years at least if you're a

movie fan or any kind of person that's

in the world of of video entertainment

in one way or another. Um

there is something fundamentally broken

the movie industry and the system that

it is. And I'm not even talking about

like Oh crap. Lag.

No. [screaming]

Trying to take me up, guys. They're

trying to take Why is God?

It's cuz I'm trying to do the Hold on. I

I don't think I'm ever going to get all

this going, but I I want to try. Let me

Let me limit that.

Hold on. Oh crap.

Oh no. [screaming]

I have to disappear under my desk for a

little bit. Don't worry about it. Don't

worry about it. Everything's fine. I

just got to I got to do a thing because

I kind of forgot a thing.

Everything's fine.

Everything is okay.

Everything's fine. Every Everything's

Everything is fine.

been switching computers a lot and I

sometimes forget which computer has

Ethernet, you know, because it's like my

job to be a guy on the internet and I

don't know I don't know how I keep

forgetting things like this that are

very basic cuz even even before this I'm

like man I'm trying to download this BTS

that I had. I wonder why it's going so

slow. Ah, it's inexplicable. It couldn't

it's inexplicable. Couldn't be that my

Ethernet's not plugged in. It's

God. And it it's it's really funny

because man, my computer must have been

sweating. My computer must have been

just Spider-Man 2 with the train

because there's no Wi-Fi antenna

[laughter] plugged into this thing.

So, it's just the two nubs on the back

of the motherboard that are just

struggling to pull all the Wi-Fi in FROM

UNDER MY DESK. [screaming]

SO, I THINK that I think I think it

should be impressive that it was doing

it anyway. So, uh yeah, I [laughter]

I think that honestly we should all be

very appreciative of of uh of my

motherboard and its Wi-Fi capabilities

that it was even doing that at all. And

the little bit of lag is very forgivable

for what it was having to endure. And

so, that's great. [snorts] Yeah. Anyway,

uh what was I saying? Um,

oh yeah, something fundamentally broken

about um the movie industry, which I

could go in a lot of detail for, but I'm

not even talking about like the the the

interpersonal stuff. Some of the things

that I that has taken me a very long

time to make this movie is yes, I mean,

I've been working on it for a while. Um,

but honestly, if you would be surprised

at how little time I've had to work on

it throughout the week, like considering

all the other obligations that I have

and and the way my brain works, I'm not

good at like picking things up and

putting them down. I had to work in

basically small sprints all the time. uh

cuz when I had the other things in my

life that I had to uh handle um all very

important, all things that mattered, all

things that could not be ignored, some

things took bigger priorities than other

um like uh obviously this past year with

Henry and and and losing him and also

trying to give him, you know, uh as much

as we possibly could in terms of like

life and seeing the world and and

spending time with him. Um, that was

that was obviously one of the highest

priorities, but I had other things that

I had to I I had obligations to even if

I had uh enjoyment out of it. Like the

podcast was definitely something that

the podcasts plural um was something

that I I definitely had to take care of

and I kept up with and I'm very proud of

that that I was able to keep doing that.

um uh very few episodes got missed, but

when it came down to it, that left maybe

one or two days out of the week to

really concentrate on working on the

movie. And that's if I wasn't completely

wiped from doing all the other things

that I had to do. uh and and so it made

it very difficult because with it with

with ADHD picking something up and then

down and keeping that same passion with

it uh as much as possible it was a very

difficult thing. Um, so

like when it comes to trying to get

something done, uh, I I wouldn't always

have the same motivation or the same

kind of concentration that I would have

or something would come up or or I'd

have a technical problem. That was the

worst where I'd have my one to two days

to work on something and I would have a

technical issue that would get in the

way of me doing it on the one or two

days that I had to work on the thing.

Um, and usually that would be the

weekends because it it would just be

that would be the day when no one else

would bother me. So I was the one it was

the days when no one else would bother

me. So it would be the days that I could

concentrate and actually focus on

something without having any

distractions. Oh yeah, and thank you all

so much for the the the Henry

commemorations and the fan art. It's

it's just really beautiful. It is um it

is just been I mean it's been really

hard. It has. I I'm I'm not going to

lie. We we had a a few delays, you know,

because of that, but we had another

delay recently because um there was

usually when we we finished these things

out, there's like a final sound mix,

right? Because sound usually the last

step. Um and we were doing it

you know, I think it was

it was like the week that we had to say

goodbye was the first week of those last

few weeks of SAI. So that like that had

to be pushed. Um I mean it wasn't really

pushed but it's like it's not like the

work could have been done. So we had to

get something again. Um and so things

you know life just really catches up. I

would love I would love to be in a

situation in the future where I don't

have to split my attention like this. Um

it would be done a lot sooner. uh but at

the same time there are other reasons

why it took longer and that's that is

largely because I think that there is a

fundamental problem in terms of making

uh things like this that get in the way

of people making things like this. Um

and it's it's part of this industry that

you know many great things have come

out. I'm never trying to to disparage

uh uh the movie industry as a whole, but

I will disparage the movie industry as a

whole because I'm a jackass who's

stepping into this acting like I know

things. But uh I kind of know things a

little bit here. So,

so get ready for me to disparage the

entire movie industry as a whole. Uh,

it's it's so disjointed.

It's so partitioned,

it's so separated, it's so multiple

islands trying to control everything at

once. uh as much as they like to harp on

about like, oh, there's a cohesive

vision and and a director there, there's

nothing people like more to do than to

squash that vision at every turn

possible. And I'm not talking like th

this this movie had amazingly talented

people on it. I'm not talking about the

crew or anything like that. Um well I'm

talking about in general there is this

general acceptance

this wide understanding that this is the

way things are and this is the way

things must be because this is how it's

always been done and if you don't do it

this way then it'll never be anything

worth anything. It's it's it's

gatekeeping to an elitist level like an

elitist level. And admittedly, it is a

very difficult thing. But I want to

reiterate, as everyone seems to have

forgotten, I am an Emmy nominated

I have made things. I have made many

things before. I was at the EMMYS FOR A

THING I MADE. I DIDN'T WIN, BUT you

know, I was there. Uh, but it's it's

it's one of those things where it

doesn't mean anything, right? Hey, it

doesn't mean anything. But I don't care

that it doesn't mean anything. So, I'm

not going to let that stop me. I never

meant anything in the first place. When

I started YouTube, I didn't mean a

goddamn thing to nothing. I don't think

I mean much of [ __ ] right now. I'm still

going to make it. I'm still going to

make things to the best of my ability.

And what I've done uh over the past few

years is try to build out the

infrastructure because I want to keep

doing this and I want to keep making

more things and I want to enable the

people that I know and care about to be

able to make the things that they want

to make. I want to kind of try to build

some kind of a road forward here. I've

been building the infrastructure so that

it will be not only easier to do this,

but I will not even have to deal with

the people that are obstructionist to

the process because it doesn't matter.

because it doesn't matter what anybody

who says otherwise thinks or does. It

doesn't matter at all. Um, and I think

that one of the cool things about this

is that like what what we're seeing with

the movie theaters is kind of indicative

of that. There is

a want to go see movies. There is a

yearning to go see them. There is. And

the business can work.

But for some reason, everyone in this

industry thinks that a movie needs to

cost $200 million and needs to be XYZ

and BCA and whatever, whatever. It's

it's it's absurd. And I've never cared

before, so why am I going to stop now?

Because other people say no, so I'm not

going to. And one of the things that I I

discovered is it's it's broken in more

than one ways because say someone does

make something, right? because the

technology is there for pretty much

anybody to make what they want to make

to differing levels of qualities. Like

for things that are bigger, you do need

more people. You need people of multiple

talents. Um I like I have a lot of

skills myself, but I do not have all the

skills to be able to carry every part of

this all the way. I don't think I ever

would. I don't think I ever should. Um

when you have, let's say you have a

group of people that have made something

like this and they have a product, but

you know what? If they don't have a

YouTube channel, if they don't have an

audience that wants to see it or has

heard about it or got excited about it

and requested it, um they have to go

through the traditional system. And the

traditional system is fundamentally

broken because they take it all of it.

Like that's that's the reality of some

of the deals that have come across my

desk in terms of uh uh looking into the

traditional means of getting this movie

out there is they want all of it.

You get a pittance. Like it's not even

about the money. It's about That's my

thing. You didn't make that. You'd had

nothing to do with making that. What are

you talking about? That's so weird that

you would come in here and say, "I have

the keys to the kingdom. Look at all my

success burning buildings behind them.

Look at all of the my golden road movie

glory. piles of poop and trash

everywhere. And so it's it's just

it's it's nearly uh uh absurd to think

about, but that is the reality of some

of these these uh the the choices, if

you can even call it that, the choices

that that come out there. Um and then

yeah, this this week is kind of a funny

uh uh thing about it is is because you

know, you got that the announcement that

Warner Brothers uh being sold

potentially. I I I don't know if it's

going to go through or not, but being

sold to Netflix for like

some $80 billion and the the crazy thing

was I was just at Warner Brothers. I was

just at their sound mixing stage like

the week before I was just there. I

don't I like I know it doesn't mean like

all of a sudden everyone Netflix came in

and was like, "Throw all this [ __ ] out

of here. Put a big N everywhere." That's

but I was just there. That didn't make

any sense to me, right? So suddenly it

it's just such a weird coincidence that

all these things are are happening

Uh yeah, just absolutely bananas. Yeah.

Uh so when it comes to uh Iron Lung and

uh yes, we're trying to add uh as many

theaters as possible. When is it coming

to Canada? Uh, so this is the thing that

I've I've harped on forever. It's

difficult. It's It's difficult. It is

just hard. But I want to make it not as

hard. That's all I want. Because now

that people are are asking for it, very

politely, I might add, now that people

are asking for it, more theaters get

FOMO about not getting in on this

project. That's how it goes. Like a

business is a business. They want to

make money. So when they see that the

movie theater down the road is selling

out their theaters, they're going to

want a piece of that because all they

have, all they're beholden to is what

the movie industry is making. And if the

movie industry is making garbage, then

they're not going to sell any tickets.

But they're entirely dependent on that.

They're entirely dependent on that,

which is crazy because those things are

are are it's just mind-blowing the kind

of stakes that they put up to justify

their own existences and and their

levels of success are so distorted that

it all comes all over the place. So,

it's hard enough in the United States,

in the country that I live in to get

this going, but it's easier now. And I

just need to remind everyone, we're

still doing it ourselves. It doesn't

suddenly become not ourselves because if

we ever get to the point where it's

like, oh yeah, let's jump over to this

level. There's the the people that I

told you about that are going to be

holding their hand out like this asking

for 70 80% of your project are still

going to be there. They're just at a

different border. They're just at a

different gate. They're at the gates to

Canada. And so what I'm trying to do is

I'm trying to do this

in in a way that doesn't give away all

of the movie to people that technically

speaking, by all proven metrics that I

have right now,

don't need to be there.

So we're we're at this uh interesting

place where I think tomorrow is going to

be a very strange day.

tomorrow is how do you request one uh at

a theater that doesn't have it? Uh you

just send an email I think or you call

they they usually have a number or they

have an email for that but really truly

only give cont or only contact for

suggestion to the uh the theaters that

are in your local area because I like

last thing I want is people spamming a

bunch of theaters that aren't in your

local area. This has been very effective

because a lot of people have just been

contacting the theater that they are

close to and really the tipping point

for getting them to act on something is

not very high. It's it's like 10 20

people can get them to start acting on

something. And that's really impressive.

And I've always said back when I first

started the channel when I hit like

10,000 subscribers, I have a video out

that I I I basically talk about

10,000 people in the same place, right?

imagining that is an astronomical

number. I think even during our tour, we

did not have a show that had 10,000

seats in it cuz that's just a very big

show, right? And so these movie

theaters, sometimes you go to a movie

and there's like, you know, there's like

30 seats and there's two people up in

the back row and they're mad because you

interrupted their private viewing. Um,

but that's really that's that's that's

the crazy thing about this is like it's

a very it's a very I I love it in a way

because it's very funneled. It's

extremely funneled to a weirdly personal

experience for someone in a dark room

that a lot of people are in, right? But

when it when I go from the bird's eye

view where I am and looking looking at

all these things that like the the the

the branching paths that get down to the

individual theaters and thinking about

how that like wow there are over 300

theaters that are going to be showing

Iron Long now. Um and and how that even

that's a fraction of it. But I look at

the map if you go on the map you'll

notice a little surprise that Amy put in

there uh uh for for uh where your

theater is. Also you can search by state

now. So you can you can go and you onto

the website ironlong.com and if you go

on buy tickets you can see the map of

where everything is and you can go um if

there's any websites that aren't working

on there please on my Discord mention

that uh again we're doing it all. So, if

we don't get the right website in

somewhere, we don't know until it's I

mean, I've been checking them as I go

through. I I try to check and make sure

that they all work or they point

generally to the right uh place, but

it's all it's all us doing it by

ourselves. Yeah. Oh, and I'm glad you

guys liked the trailer. I I I was really

happy with that one. I was I'm very very

pleased with that one. Um and I'm I'm so

happy to finally be able to show you

guys some of it. I I I feel crazy

sometimes not being able to talk about

this. Um it's just I don't know. It's

really cool. Uh I had to deal with

getting the movie rated which was a

which was a fun experience. Uh there was

actually someone who watched my videos

at the MPAA who I was communicating

with. So, thank you very much. Uh I

really appreciate your help. It's not

like you it's not like you got me any

benefits. I'm not trying to say you you

did me any Okay. you did you helped me

because you were like yeah I'll get you

scheduled because you're late and I'm

[laughter] like I know I don't know what

I'm doing here. Uh so really appreciate

it but you know it's still rated R. So

it's not like I was squeezing I this was

never going to be PG-13. Let's all admit

it. It was never going to be PG-13. But

uh there there's a lot of rules and

stipulations and things that I'm still

working through and still trying to

catch up with uh because it's it's just

super fun. But yeah, I I'm really happy

with where it's at. I'm really happy

because we did the the kind of premiere

as premier as premiere will get with

this thing. It was the premiere. I I I

don't know why I'm hesitant to talk call

it the premiere. It's it's because

there's still a few

effect fixes that I need to do. Uh uh

but it's it's No, it's not NC7. It's

rated R. Rated R is crazy. I don't think

it is. Is that crazy? What do you mean?

Oh, unless you're being sarcastic. I

don't know. See, I want to do all the

things. I want to do the popcorn

buckets, but the the thing is

doing it ourselves. So, I guess I'll be

I'll be at I'll be at the plastic mold

injection factory pumping out those

plastic buckets. Get your fish head

buckets here. Got your bucket of fish

heads. Get a free fish head with every

bucket. It's delicious. you get to the

bottom of your popcorn and your bloody

fish head. It's really good. Don't

I wish. Man, I would love to do stuff

like that. Will the butter be red?

God, I hope so. I don't think I can

change that, but Oh, man. That is that

is great. Yeah.

Will Iron Lung 2 be rated X?

Yes. Yes, absolutely. 1,000%. But, you

know, I will I will fight it and I'll

say like it's look, it's it's an

artistic sex scene with the fish. It's

just artistic. It's part of my vision.

You know, my vision. You need to have

that in there. It's Look, David didn't

want it, but I said, "You know who I am.

You know me. Who I am. Do you know me,

David? Do you know David? Do you know

me?" Anyway, yeah. Artistic with Yeah.

You know, you know how it is. You know

how it is. You know how it is. Uh we

still want to do the blood drive. I

still want to do the blood drive. Right.

when we call the Red Cross and we're

I got a really bloody movie, but I got

fans with a lot of blood in them."

You like blood. I got a movie about

blood. I got fans with blood in them.

They could lose a little. And so I call

them and they hang up on me. And I don't

know what that's about. Like you guys

got so much blood. You got blood gushing

out your ears or something. I don't

know. Right. You got blood, right?

You're not going to be greedy with your

blood, are you? So why not give a

little? So I call up the, you know, I

call them and they're saying no or they

say and they hang up. And I don't know

why they do that. Is it whatever?

Sacrificing you.

No, but I want to do the blood drive. I

want to do the blood drive.

So, it won't be worldwide. Look, that's

not what I said.

THAT'S NOT WHAT I SAID.

It will be It's very difficult. It's

very difficult to do because here here's

how it's difficult, right? Let me let me

illustrate to you. Canada, I think, will

happen. I do. I think it's it's it's a

natural transition. You mostly speak

English up there. It's it's no-brainer,

right? The UK, possibly that, too. They

got blood over there. Australia full of

blood, right? New Zealand blood.

English, it's nobrainer, right?

Since I'm doing this all myself,

a theater in Japan

and I have to talk to them.

Hey, you [laughter] want my movie?

And even if they speak English, they're

going to be like, is it in Japanese? And

I'm going to be like,

no. Is it translated into Japanese?

I don't have a guy that can do that. I

gotta find a guy to do that. All right,

call us when you do. And that's even if

I get a hold of someone, right? That's

that's the truth. That is absolutely how

it works. If you think that it's any

fancier than that, it's not. That is how

it works. You call a theater or they

email you and you're like, "Hey, you

want this movie?" And they're like,

"Yeah, yeah, we want the movie." And if

you're both speaking English, great.

Everything's going off swimmingly,

right? But if they don't speak English

or if I don't speak their language and

the movie is not translated in that

language, that [ __ ] ain't going nowhere.

All right? Now, I'm not saying it's not

possible. There are companies that make

these things and make the translations

and make it all work together, right?

There are companies that do that, but

you got to you got to find them and you

got to work with it. you got to call

them and you be like, "Hey, who's who's

going to voice me in another language? I

don't speak those languages, you know."

So, it's it's a

I know I know a lot of people speak

English in a lot of these other

countries, but also imagine use your

imagination. It is am I in every theater

Not yet anyway.

So if it's if it's hard, you know why

I'm not because they go like, "Will it

sell? Will it will you will we sell? Do

we want to take a risk on you, sir, with

38 millions? 38 million only. That's

only a tenth of the population. I don't

know about that one. I don't know about

So they they they in America are not all

I go to the Philippines and they're

like, "How many Philippines subscribers

Interesting. That's not a proportion of

our population. What you think we're

going to take a risk on you? [gasps]

So, yeah, it I'm not saying it's

impossible. I I definitely believe that

I have fans in a lot of countries. I

actually see the analytics for it

sometimes whenever I feel bothered to

look at that stuff. So, I'm I'm just

We're working on it. We're working on

it. It is being worked. It is working. I

appreciate I I appreciate the volunteer

to be a Spanish translator. And I think

maybe someday crowdsourcing this stuff.

It would make a lot of sense. It It

would make a lot of sense. Although, I

feel like you guys would mess up mess

with the the subtitles like you you did

on my videos a while ago. [laughter]

So, you know, you just put your own

jokes in there. And I don't think that

would be really topical in a story like

this. You know, I think if you put your

own jokes in there, it might kind of

ruin the experience a little bit and

people might think I'm just some kind of

a hack filmmaker and it would ruin the

artistic sex scene with the fish. You

know, it just like might ruin it and you

might put it I don't know, you might

ruin it. So, I I don't know if I can

trust you about that one.

Uh, what's the process of getting in a

state uh that I'm not in? Oh, there.

Look, things are flooding in right now.

They're literally they're flooding in

and there's an acceleration to it,

right? So, just over the weekend, the

there have been 250 more movie theaters

added, right? We're up over 300 movie

theaters total right now. And we started

with 50 or 60. I can't remember what.

Right. You heard me. Artistic, you heard

me. So, Monday is going to be a very

interesting day uh because we're going

to get all the businesses that were not

looking at emails or trying to get a

hold of people or trying to make calls

over the weekend. And then Monday is

going to be very interesting and I think

we're going to get a lot more which is

really cool. Uh

oh, your theat's added. Good. Yes, check

the website regularly. We are literally,

and by we, I mean me and Amy are

literally adding the adding the movie

theaters regularly. Oh yeah. No, 200

movie theaters is a lot. 300 movie

theaters for an independent release is

actually crazy. There have been people

that have been talking about this that

are said that are really curious of why

this is happening. Uh and if anyone

would ever listen to me, they would I've

like I've been telling them straight up

I've got an audience. I I have a YouTube

channel. Well, I know you don't think

much of that, but there's actual people

behind those numbers because that's kind

of a big thing for me is that all the

numbers are people and uh so you got to

always keep that in mind that if you

forget that there are people behind the

numbers, then you're just going to kind

of distort your perception of reality

and you're going to lose sight of what

you're doing this all about. Anyway,

long story short, there's people that

want to see it. I did a I would tell

people that I did a a uh tour. I would I

did a live tour in America, in Europe,

in Australia. I did a live tour and we

were selling out thousand seat venues

way bigger than movie theaters, selling

them out. They [laughter] didn't give a

[ __ ] They couldn't give a [ __ ] Yeah,

right. Oh, you you Oh, wink wink. You

did. And I was like, "Okay, all right,

okay, all right. It's fine." Uh, but now

anyway, all that aside, uh, it's really

cool that we're here. Um, just

it's it's just really cool. I'm

incredibly grateful. I I am stupendously

Like truly, it has been such a labor of

love and passion and anxiety and and

just learning. And I want to talk about

all of it in so much detail that I I

wouldn't even have time even if I stream

for 12 hours to be able to talk about

So to be able to to to be here and and

and thank you guys in person is crazy. I

think that Oh, I'm I might actually be a

little quiet. You might be right about

that. Okay, that's definitely better.

THAT'S DEFINITELY BETTER.

DEFINITELY BETTER. Is that better?

That's probably better. Yeah.

I'm sorry everybody.

I'm very sorry.

I didn't I didn't mean it like that. So,

I'm I'm incredibly grateful and I'm

super thankful and it it means a ton to

be able to share this with you guys. And

I want to talk about

how it was filmed. I want to talk about

the struggles with it. I want to talk

about dealing with the quantity of

blood. The logistics of that was

something that we had to plan way in

advance. And I wish we had done a lot

more pre-production. There was there was

kind of a time constraint with where we

were filming a whole other story.

Something that also uh threw some real

wrenches in production. Uh if you are

ever going into this um make sure that

you aren't in a place where you are

constrained in terms of time. One of the

things that makes me uh uh able to do

what I do is the ability to pivot when

things when things happen. I'm not the

type of creator or director that when

something goes wrong,

it has to be that or it's all else. I

pivot fast. I am all about a pivot. If

something isn't working, I I value time

above almost everything else. But you

need you need to have buffers to be able

to account for those pivots and changing

things on the fly and being able to be

dynamic about what you're doing. Because

if you can't handle these problems where

where a plan meets the real world and

you're not able to pivot about it, then

you're not going to be able to get

anything done because you're going to be

so bogged down in what you wanted that

you're not going to see what other

potential there is. And I think that's a

very important lesson that I want to

harp on and it's not something I'm

perfect about, but I think I'm very good

at it actually. Uh, but I had time

constraints and where we were for other

reasons are a whole other mess of webs

of complicated [ __ ] that I don't

want to get into. But long story short,

met Robert Rodriguez.

That's that makes it sound like he's the

fault of this. This is not that's not

what it's all about. But that is if you

were to trace all of the paths that led

to that thing happening. I met Robert

That's really I'm gonna leave it at that

because that's I love the mystery of

what that is. That has so many

implications that I'm never going to

clarify. Right. Okay. So, [laughter]

Oh, man. So we uh uh it's it's something

that has spanned a lot of nonsense going

all around, right? So there's there's a

lot of nonsense going around, but

there's a lot of really cool things that

came out of it. So logistics of the

blood is one of them. Uh and the

quantity of blood that we always knew we

were going to have was phenomenal.

phenomenal quantity of blood, right? So

Okay. All right. Cool. [sighs]

So

the blood that we we used is a very we

we did blood research, right? So, I now

know almost every type of blood that you

could possibly make, buy, uh, makeup

blood, you know, large quantity blood. I

know just about every of the fake

bloods. I even know some way some we

didn't do this, but I I not going to

lie, it wasn't presented as an option.

Uh, where real blood,

don't ask questions about it. Just go to

the blood drive I'm setting up, you

know, [laughter]

it's for a great cause. cuz you just

want to go right up there. Um, it's uh

it's it's actually way more way way more

than that. Uh, 35,000 gallons is not

what it was. Uh, it's over 80,000

gallons of blood that was used on this

movie. I have to uh redo the

calculations because we used more on a

couple pickup shoots, right? No, no, no,

no. We didn't use real blood. That is a

joke. That is completely a joke. We used

uh this glycerin based blood which

actually we got because it's safe to

have [laughter] all over me, right? It's

safe to be everywhere. So supposedly my

eyes disagree, but you know it's uh it's

so I I have um uh over 80,000 gallons of

blood. Right. The first order was on a

semitr. like it wasn't a semi-truck that

was just a very large like it wasn't a

cylinder but it had those uh uh 250galon

farm crates of blood [laughter]

and I'm sure people driving down the

highway because you just see all these

big red sloshing containers of something

that looks suspiciously like blood and

there's just it's just flying down the

road. Um so the way that I I did it

80,000 gall instant R rating. Yep. Uh,

you know, it's funny. I think the R

rating in the text that it says below it

is is for language,

some bloody images, and some gore. I

I I I feel like feel like some

a little bit of an underestimation, but

whatever. It's fine. Uh so the first

order the first order was on a

semi-truck of nothing but these big

250galon uh containers and that's

undiluted, right? So they they ship this

stuff concentrated. At least the stuff

that I want. There's some movies that

dye water red for that quantity. It's

like I'm not going to do that. It needs

like an ocean of blood. It needs to do

that. Uh so we we got a bunch of that.

And so we did our calculations based on

um the actual quantity used

in the filming process, right? So that

that we have a quantifiable metric. We

have a flow rate of the pumps that we

used to bring the blood in. We know how

long we were running them. We know

exactly like the the quantity that was

made out of that diluted batch. And then

we know how much quantity the spaces

that it was filling could hold, right?

Because we had to plan for it in accord

accordingly way back in the beginning of

it. Because one of the things that you

don't realize is that blood, not just

blood, water, any liquid weighs a lot.

So when we have our set that is on a

motion control rig, right? So we we our

entire set the entire time was on

something called a Nakmo. Uh, and you

can look up what a Nakmo is. Um, and uh,

the person who was controlling it, Nick,

great great guy. Very fun. He had he had

a really good time. Um, but if you look

up uh, I think it's

it's NACFX, right? So NACFX. So you you

can kind of get a general sense of what

they have. They have a couple different

sizes. We had nearly the biggest one,

but I don't think we had the biggest

one. But it has a weight limit, right?

It has it has an absolute calculated

limit of the amount of weight that it

can throw around. So you have to

calculate that, right? If you don't want

to and and the problem is because it's

off the ground, right? So our entire set

was off the ground on a motion control

rig so that it could do this,

you know, it could do that and it did do

that and I was in there.

>> There's a good I want to show you

eventually a BTS shot of uh the outside

of it as I'm in there and you can hear

my distant screams as I'm getting

chucked around in [laughter] there and

and so it's uh it's it's really

difficult to anticipate

what those forces of chucking around all

that weight is going to do. So you

reinforce the set like there was

actually there was a lot of metal and

welding going into the set. like it

wasn't all all metal. Um because we

couldn't do that because it'd be too

heavy if it was all metal. Uh but it had

to have metal because it had to be

reinforced strong enough to be able to

hold up not only to the motion control

rig which can throw all of its weight,

everything it's holding at half a g of

acceleration, half a unit of gravity of

acceleration, 4

n meters/s per second of acceleration of

moving things. Anything that's up on top

of it can move that much. Right? So when

you have that much blood in that much

space above that much air going chuck

that the last thing you want is about

10,000 gallons of blood to slam through

the wall and splash onto all of the

waiting camera equipment. Everyone in

the makeup department just Yeah. A

tsunami of blood goes out and floods

Troublemaker Studios. And then Robert

Rodriguez walk opens the door like what

tsunami of blood takes him out. Yeah.

Anyway, so that's uh [sighs]

that's the math that you have to do when

you're trying to do this. So it's not

it's not even just like it's it's not

even just like logistically it's a

challenge. When you see this movie, a

lot of people might be like, "Oh yeah,

record for most play." It's like if you

see this movie, it's unquestionable.

There is no argument to make about it.

you watch this movie, you're going to

walk out of being like, "Oh, yeah. Yeah,

that yeah, it's going to be really hard

for any other movie to beat that amount

of blood." And I'm I'm not even saying

this like I say it because it's a fun

headline. It's It's not even something

that we were aiming for, right? We

weren't intending to be like, "Yeah,

we're going to the most it's an ocean of

blood. You have to have a lot of blood."

So, we had a lot of blood. It was great.

It was awesome. It was super fun. Yeah.

uh well, I was talking there was a whole

other reason that I was telling

pre-planning, right? Planning.

Oh, man. I I got to Well, actually,

here's the thing between

practical and CGI. There is a very very

strong difference uh between where fluid

simulations are versus like the real

thing. However, that being said, one of

the reasons that I built my render farm

was to be able to match the fidelity

of what the real stuff was in a

simulated capacity. And I accomplished

that. My render farm is

stupidly powerful. Like stupidly

powerful. My my render farm would

probably put many VF not big VF I'm not

talking ILM but some some small business

VFX shops to shame and it's in my

bathroom and I'm s I bet I built that

[ __ ] for a fraction of the price that

they would have paid for it because I'm

the king of eBay and getting those deals

at chips that fall off of trucks.

They're all mine. I know how to find

them and I know how to get them anyway.

So yeah, but my electricity bill is

really [laughter] bad.

I can't wait to not have to render

anything anymore. My electricity bill is

unbelievably bad.

Anyway, uh why was it in my bathroom

again? Where else am I? I don't have any

other place to put it. [panting]

I got [laughter]

I don't have any other place to put it.

We had we had uh we had um we had an

extra bathroom that wasn't really being

that that's where it went. That's that's

all I didn't choose because a bathroom

was optimal for the faucets here. I can

water cool the whole thing. It' be

really easy. No, it's just like it's the

only space I had. So, I had to put it

there. That's all it was. It made sense

at the time. Now, it doesn't make any

sense at all. But it did. It still makes

sense. It doesn't make sense, but it

makes sense. Yeah. I've have I never

shown you a picture of my Have I really

never Hold on. Have I never shown a

picture of this? Have I never shown you

guys a picture of my render farm?

Your theater was sold out. Uh they are

adding um more screens and more

showtimes at certain theaters. If you

checked before and your movie theater

was sold out, check back again in a day

or so. Uh, and you will probably see it

again in the near future.

Oh god, where is a picture of this? So,

I have a ramshackle

first version of it and then I I I did a

whole overhaul of it. I cleaned it all.

I I disassembled everything and I

reassembled it. It took me like two days

to do. Um, I mean, the whole thing took

me

weeks and weeks and weeks to do. Oh,

man. Where the hell is this? Um,

no. Oh, man. I thought I would have had

this in my favorites or something, but I

do not. Wow. I don't. Huh.

Damn it. Where would this be? I should

have looked this up beforehand. Sorry,

Uh, entertain yourself. Go to

ironlong.com and check to see if your

theater's there.

Just seen Henry pictures,

which is really cool by the way. I don't

I don't bemoone that. It's very cute.

Man, I'm having trouble finding.

It's just like non-stop pictures, Henry,

which is great, you know.

All right, I'm at the part where I

should have found it by now. I don't

know what's what's the deal. I should

have had it. Why is it not here?

I'll look for it again some other time.

It's a lot of uh Yeah, a lot of pictures

of Henry over there. Yeah. Uh but it it

looks like someone um intentionally made

a computer room that was supposed to

look like from Mad Max or something.

There's hoses everywhere of air

conditioning units on the ground. Uh,

just take a picture. I have to go. I'm

not going to go over to it. See, it

looks clean now. Well, it doesn't look

clean. It's still kind of a ramshackle

mess. Um, but it's uh it's um this is

just there. Oh, I I I can't Oh, man. I

got to find it. Just [groaning]

I'm going to find it. I have to find it.

Wait. Oh, nearly. Okay. Wait. I'm in the

right space. I'm in roughly the right

time. I saw a picture of the first

stages of it. Okay, that's second stage.

Okay, it's getting closer. Okay. All

right. Okay. Hold on.

Hold on, everybody.

Okay. There's that. There's that. Oh, it

has to be here. Oh, come on. This is the

time when it would exist.

There's all of those sticks of memory.

Where the hell is

Well, this is just embarrassing now. I'm

officially a bad streamer. I can't even

I'm just chewing up dead air here.

I can't find it.

It was right there.

Oh, I found it. Oh my god, I found it.

Okay, wait. I did actually find it.

No, not that one.

Okay. Okay. Hold on.

Is that going to focus?

So, as you can see, what formerly was a

bathroom is a ramshackle assembly of a

server rack, some battery backups,

various computers everywhere. And uh

what you can't see around the corner is

about 50 Mac Studios. Uh so yeah, I uh

this is actually before I put even more

stuff in here. And I think I might have

dragged some things out just to be able

to fit uh some more in there. Uh it's

much cleaner now than it was then. Uh it

looks very nice. Looks really good. Like

really super good. So yeah. So uh that's

not even That's a massive [laughter]

bet. It is not a massive bathroom.

Excuse me. It's a wide angle picture.

I've lost the picture now. I'll never

That is a perfectly reasonable one

toilet bathroom. One toilet, one shower

bathroom. What do you What What do you

What kind of bathroom you have that What

kind of closet ass toilet you got? Huh?

That That's a giant It's not a huge

bathroom. It's a wide angle picture.

It's like six times THE SIZE OF YOUR

BATHROOM. HOW SMALL IS YOUR BATHROOM?

STOP ACTING LIKE I HAVE A gigantic

mansionsized bathroom. It's a It's a

perfectly reasonable size bathroom.

Look, I will not take this slander

that I am some big bathroom. I I have a

very reasonablesized bathroom. All

right, I my bathroom is dainty.

All right, dainty. Okay, it's a wide

angle picture. You never seen a wide

angle picture? It can make a space look

bigger than it was. Okay. All right. My

so small. All right. It is so small. I

don't want to hear any of this about how

it's a big bathroom. Anyway, let me show

you a panorama of it.

Okay. Okay. So, this is what it is. Now,

you want you want to see how how huge my

bathroom is. Get ready for this. You

ready to see the biggest biggest

bathroom you've ever seen in your life?

Here we go. Here we go. Ready? Ready.

Yeah. Jealous. Jealous in my big old

Yep. That's a big one, huh?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Take it all

in. Take it all in. Oh my goodness.

Anyway, that's my that's my render farm

as it currently exists.

Uh, very powerful, very strong, very

big, huge, actually. Yeah, it's a

panorama, but I don't care. That shows

an accurate representation of what the

bathroom is. I don't think anybody could

disagree that panorama is the truest way

to really encapsulate a space. Yeah,

golden toilet. Cable management actually

looks pretty clean. Uh, it did uh at one

point. I don't know what I don't know if

you looked at the same picture I did,

but I'm looking at it now. I'm like, I I

made the attempt at cable management,

right? cuz that was after I I ripped

everything out and put it all back

together. Um, yeah. So, SIZE YOUR NO,

IT'S NOT. ALL RIGHT. IT'S not the size

of your dorm room. Okay. That bathroom

is smaller than this office. How do you

How big do you think my office How big

do you think my office is? How How big

do you think my office is?

Look me in the eye.

How big is my office?

How can you be sure

that any of this is real?

How can you be sure?

That you're real.

Sorry, that's probably not not a good

thing to say people might be

dissociating. Anyway, we're all real.

Okay. Anyway, it's a perfectly

reasonable bathroom. 1,500 [laughter]

square foot bathroom. It is not. Oh,

this room 50. You think this is 1500 ft?

Could be. Might be. Might be close to

that. Okay. 4 and a half markups long.

Okay. I got to tell you, Lixian visited

and he walked in here and he was like,

"Wow, this is way [ __ ] smaller than I

thought [laughter] it was." It is. It is

it looks deceptively big. I don't look I

have I have a bathroom bigger than that

bathroom that the render farm's in. All

right. And I'm telling you that bathroom

perfectly reasonable bathroom. Right.

Perfectly reasonable bathroom. It has

two sinks. Someone's gonna be like, "Oh,

got two sinks."

Yeah, I do. What of it? One toilet,

shower, and tub.

What are you going to do about it? Huh?

I'm a YouTuber. You think I don't

deserve a bathroom with two sinks in it?

Huh? And a tub and a shower. Separate.

They're separate. Huh? Yeah. I bet

you're jealous of that. See, that's a

big bathroom. That's a big bath. That

other one, not a big bathroom. You could

not fit that in there. It can only have

shower toilet. Just one sink. That's all

You think? You think? Two sink. Yeah.

Two sinks. Yeah, two sink. Oh. Oh,

you're going to be so jealous. You're

going to be so jealous. I don't just

have two bathrooms. I don't just have

two. Well, actually, I'm down one cuz

the render farms in one. I don't just

have two. I got [ __ ] three.

I got [ __ ] three. Well, I got two,

come at me. Come at me, man. Live in a

>> Yeah. Look, man.

Look, man. Fine. [laughter] Don't

question it. Oh, yeah. Right. You have

four bathrooms. Yeah. [ __ ] right. No one

has four bathrooms. Three. What? Four.

Pooping. Pooping. Render farm. What else

would people have bathrooms for? Duh.

Idiot. Ow. Slap myself in my eyes. How

did I do that? I don't know. I can stop

now. I will never

I'll never never gonna do that. [snorts]

Anyway, uh what was I saying? I was

saying something important about the

movie. Anyway, uh thank you. The movie

website is being updated all the time. I

think I'm going to actually check to see

if there's more um

movie theaters that have been added.

They have been working through the

weekend. um the the couple people that

are helping us with this. So, I do

appreciate it that they've been doing

[sighs] I don't know how to

It's very bright,

but I I can't be one of those weak dark

mode people with their weak eyes. I have

big strong eyes. I'm not pathetic like

the people that enjoy dark mode on

things. I like being strong with bright

mode, you know?

I call it dim mode for those that like

the the dark color scheme, you know, for

they're a little dim. Meanwhile, us

bright mode likers, we actually are very

smart. Way smarter than anyone else,

actually. It's true. It's true.

Absolutely true. Not like any of those

demos over there. Uh what was I saying?

I It would have gone over the heads of

everyone that looks in dark mode. Um,

Oh, we got more. Oh, we got more. We got

Malco movie theaters. So, we got we just

got movie theaters in

This is where I actually realize that I

twoletter state names perfectly. We get

we just got one in another one in

Michigan. We got a bunch in Michigan. Uh

last time I think that's Mississippi. We

got a few in Tennessee. Now I we did

have Tennessee, but I know a lot of

people were requesting Tennessee. We got

three more in Tennessee. Callerville.

Hang on, let me put this over here.

Yeah, check the website ironlong.com for

uh uh any of this and make sure that all

is is well. And check those websites. If

they aren't working, please let us know.

We're trying our best. It's not working

a lot. Not working very well sometimes.

Okay. So, we have

uh

Howell, Michigan, South Haven,

Mississippi or Missouri? No. M Wait. Oh

god. What have I done?

Mississippi. That is Mississippi. I knew

that was Mississippi. I knew it. I knew

that was uh we got Collarville,

Tennessee, Cordova, Tennessee, Memphis,

Tennessee, Oxford, Mississippi, Corinth,

Mississippi, Smeirna, Tennessee. That's

a fun city. Smeirna,

Madison, Mississippi, Fort Smith,

Arkansas, Fagatville, Arkansas, Rogers,

Arkansas, Owensboro, Kentucky,

Jonesboro, Arkansas, Tupelo,

Mississippi, Gonzalez,

Why no Chicago? WE'RE WORKING ON IT.

THESE ARE NOT ACTIVE CHOICES.

THESE ARE NOT ACTIVE CHOICES.

I DO NOT PICK BECAUSE I HATE ANOTHER

CITY. THEY COME TO US.

THEY COME TO US. IF THEY'RE NOT IF WE

DON'T HAVE A PLACE IN WYOMING, why

aren't you asking for it in Wyoming?

WHY WON'T YOU ASK? [laughter] THEY COME

TO US. [screaming]

THEY COME TO US.

WE DON'T GO TO THEM. THEY DON'T WANT TO

They come to us. THEY COME TO US AND YOU

THAT'S HOW IT WORKS. [gasps]

ANYWAY, that's how it works. It actually

is. So, yeah. When you literally I would

love it to be wherever you are. I would.

It's not a betrayal. I swear. I swear

it's not a betrayal. I'm not getting

lost in my gigantic bathrooms and

forgetting about your city. I don't even

know your city exists sometimes. I WOULD

LOVE IT TO BE THERE. I DON'T EVEN KNOW

IF YOU HAVE A MOVIE THEATER. THEY GOT TO

COME to us. They got to come to us. How

[snorts] do we ask again? Usually they

have a an email or they have a part of

their website or if you just call the

movie theater if you're local or you go

to the movie theater and you say, "Hey,

do you have any means to request

movies?" You be very polite about it.

It's not a demanding thing. This isn't a

like you must. It's literally they have

a process for this. If you if enough

people are asking for a movie, then they

will show that movie. They will even do

it for movies that wouldn't normally be

in the repertoire. If enough people go

like, "I want to see Ratatouille in a

movie theater." They'll they'll figure

out a way to do it. They want you to get

tickets. They want your money for the

tickets. They'll show you whatever you

want. Really, it's it's all a movie

theater is is a place with a screen,

right? A big screen and a nice sound

system. They'll put on it whatever you

want, right? This is actually I don't

know if you guys know this, but you can

get a movie theater at any moment for

any reason. If you're willing to book

it, if you're willing to pay in advance

for it, pay for the whole theater, then

you're able to get whatever. You could

watch YouTube on a movie theater for a

whole day care. I'm pretty sure you can

make that happen. Yeah. Oh, absolutely.

right. So, you just all you got to do is

find if they have an email that is about

requests, you just write them an email

saying like, "Hello, I am a normal

patron of this movie theater. I I live

in this area." You don't have to give

them your address or anything, but I

live in the area. I go here all the

time. I would love it if I there could

be this movie there. And you ask very

politely. You don't This isn't a demand

campaign. That is just the only way that

it works. And then they know and then

they have a team that is a buyer team,

right? So most movie theaters either

have their own or they have a

collaboration or there's some kind of

group that is a buyers group and they

will go work usually with studios or if

it's independent they'll work with

whoever they can get a hold of and right

now that's just a few people that are

we're doing this with uh myself included

and they make it happen and that is

pretty much all there is to it. Um of

the new locations that we have so far

should international uh fans be doing

the same? I don't think it could hurt. I

really don't. I don't think it hurts

because I don't know what the difference

is between showing a movie in A versus

B, right? I don't know the difference.

can you get your dist distributors

submit it to some fil festivals? I don't

What are you not getting about this?

We're the distrib. What?

I need I I need you to come here. I need

[ __ ] come here. It's us. It's

which means it's us.

THERE IS NO ONE ELSE. THERE IS NO

WE'RE DOING IT.

OKAY, GOOD. Glad I clarified that. I

wanted you to really understand that.

cool. Good. Good.

There's no one else. What do you mean

What do you mean? Get my distributors.

My left hand or my right hand? WHICH ONE

ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? Which one

[laughter] do you mean?

am I submitting it to festivals?

Is

No, it's going to theaters.

Come here. Come here. I'm going to talk

to you for a second.

YOU ARE THE FESTIVAL.

YOU'RE THE FESTIVAL. IT'S GOING TO YOU.

WHY WOULD IT GO TO A festival

[snorts] anyway?

Yes, you are the festival. This is this

is the way that it goes.

Yes, you are a festival. It is so true.

All right. Good. You just got here. Yes.

Uh, all right. So, how can I request it

for if if it's just how can I request it

for XYZ? All you got to do is ask.

Seriously, truly, honestly, if you have

a movie theater that you go to, you just

ask. They have processes to buy movies.

And buying a movie is just communicating

with me and the people that I work with

and and that's it. And then if if we can

get it there, we will.

That's all there is to it. But it's a

lot of individual negotiating, right? So

it's it's a lot of individual

communication, which is why I've been

very busy this this weekend and I'm

probably going to be busy for quite a

while. But um yeah, that's that's pretty

much all there is to it. Yeah.

I don't even know what that means. How

can small theaters get a hold of you

regarding the movie? Uh, they are right.

So, there's so many and we can only

respond to so many at a time. Come

Monday, we're going to get more people

involved and they're going to also be a

part of it because we have to scale up

in accordance with it. Right? So when it

was just the first 50 or 60, those were

pre-negotiated. We already talked to

them. We reached out and we talked to

people that wanted uh the the movie and

we we convinced them they were either

believers or they had fans or were

working there or they understood it or

they were willing just to take a chance

on it. It seemed like a cool concept. Um

and we got them involved. Everything

after that when we started with 50 or 60

and now there's over 300 theaters part

of it. every one of the 240 additional

ones were emails that we just got and

that's for each one is a conversation

for a theater, right? Sometimes there'll

be a group like Harkkins in uh in

Arizona that's now part of it. So, or I

think it's beyond Arizona, too. There's

Harkkins movie theaters. It's actually

in quite a few places, but I I remember

it specifically being in Arizona. Um

sometimes we'll get groups like that. um

smaller organizations and I only say

smaller because compared to like AMC and

Cinemark um and you'll you'll be able to

work with that and get a few in there at

a time. So that's it's it's a whole

mystery and this is not important to

worry about. This is not something that

you need to understand. This is not

something you need to be concerned

about. It is not your job to worry about

this. If you want it, simply ask your

local movie theater if they can as

politely as you can. We're doing our

best to get out there. If we can get it

international, we will do our best to

make that happen. I want as many people

to see this as possible and I will do

everything I can to make sure that it is

the best experience for everybody as

possible. There's a lot of work leading

up to that. Uh but I am excited for it.

I'm excited for it. Yeah, even if you're

in Canada, it doesn't hurt to ask. I

think that maybe that could kickstart

the conversation. Um, I don't know if I

really don't know if it's just as hard

or just as easy for Canada, but I know

it's more difficult for other

international companies, but everyone

has their own markets and everyone

everyone gets to be a part of that.

Yeah. I don't want you thinking that

this is your job to do this. It's not.

This is not a big uh campaign to do it.

It is simply just if you want it,

request it. That's how they get their

movies. So, yeah. [sighs]

I uh I'm excited.

I'm excited. And we had our premiere and

you know, there's a thing about this

this movie process and a lot of things

that I do. I'm I'm very excited for

people to see it, but I was also it was

it was scary for people to see it

because I'd been working on it for so

long by myself and we had a premiere and

and other people were seeing it, people

that are my peers and and the the actors

that were a part of it. um all seeing it

and you know all I can ever see cuz this

is this is why this is why I've always

talked about like nothing anyone else

says could ever affect me at all. Um

because they don't know me, I don't know

them and I'm not I don't have nearly

enough time to worry about what they

think when I've got so much of my what I

think to worry about. So I only ever see

like the flaws that are part of it and I

only see the mistakes that need to be

fixed or things that need to be tweaked

or things that I wish could have been.

I'm I'm usually pretty good about uh

shrugging that stuff off. Um, but people

had such nice things to say about it.

People had such nice things to say about

it. It It made me feel crazy for even

being worried about some things because

people were walking out of that movie

just truly honestly not bullshitting me

and my [ __ ] detector is very high of

like congratulating me for getting this

far and um and really being impressed

with what I made.

That's pretty cool.

That's pretty cool. So, um yeah, I'm uh

I'm very grateful for everyone. And if

they if they didn't, then at least they

were very good at lying, which is

honestly admirable skill. But I I as

cynical as that does seem, and I don't

want to seem cynical, I'm I'm very

grateful to the the actors who are a

part of this um because it's it's been

tremendous. You got Carolyn Kaplan who

has just been just such a I wish I could

go into detail more but you know in the

trailer you know you hear her voice the

most um and you actually see her uh in

the trailer and then um you've got Troy

Baker that was part of the project um

and and Elsie Love Lock part of the

project and just all of them and and El

Lamont and just being able to work with

them and and really craft something

special has been nice and Andrew

Hullshult's music uh just is so

tremendous. I can't wait for you guys to

hear the soundtrack of this [ __ ]

movie. It is so so goddamn good. It's

it's incredible. I

man, it's super super fun and I'm just

enamored with everyone's skill that

they've brought into this and the trust

that they've placed in me um to be able

to

be a part of it. And I think that yeah,

it's such a it's such a [laughter]

I heard this a lot like in the beginning

phases and I I I used to think that it

was a negative thing and I I don't think

it was then and I I really don't think

it is now, but pretty much everyone said

they've never seen anything like this

and I think that's really really cool.

I am incredibly grateful to have carried

it this far and to do it, but I could

not have done it without all the other

people that are part of it. And uh most

of all Amy, of course, I always thank

Amy uh incredibly for everything she's

done to support me. No one else has had

to endure the barrage of brainstorms and

ideas and sanity checks than Amy has.

Um, if you don't know Amy, my wife Amy,

um, we, uh, uh, just, oh man, she's just

been such a rock on all of us. So, it

it's been really something.

I got a lot of work left to do. Of

course, I still do. But this is

something crazy.

It really is. and I can't help but thank

you for it. I want to get this out.

Number one, because it deserves to be

out, but number two, man, I want to get

back to YouTube so [laughter] badly. I

want to get back to YouTube videos. So,

actually, um, I am going to be getting

back into YouTube videos. Uh, I was

going to record today, uh, but my mom's

in town. If you don't know, also my

mom's book is coming out, uh, very soon.

Actually, we filmed some promotional for

that. If you don't know her, she wrote

the book uh that we made a documentary

about, but now the official book is

finally coming out of for a long delay.

Uh Markiplier from North Korea is coming

out very soon. Um so that'll be cool. So

a lot of things are finally coming to a

head. Uh and yeah, I know it seems like

a long wait until this movie comes out

or maybe it doesn't because January

30th, you know, it it's right there. I

really really really can't wait for you

I'm super excited about it.

I'm just so pumped. It's been such a

long road and it's been so disheartening

sometimes to, like I said in the

beginning of this, if you missed it, I

wasn't able to work on it nearly as long

or for the consistency that people

probably thought it was because of all

the other things that I had to uh deal

with. And like I I would give one to two

days a week maybe to work on it. And

that was just picking it up, putting it

down, picking it up, putting it down. I

was like, it's just like it was

maddening to try to work on it like that

because it's just like I couldn't hold

an idea in my head long enough to be

able to get back into it. Um, and so

yeah, I would stack up days. I would try

to record ahead in YouTube videos,

record ahead in podcast episodes so I

could get like a week, maybe two

straight just to work on it. And then

something would happen in between there

and I wouldn't get all those days and

then I would I would get behind again

and I wouldn't able to record and then

I'd have to lose out on videos because

I'm just so behind. And it was it's just

been years of that playing hopscotch on

it over and over and over again. Um

yeah, but it's finally

here and then constantly talking with

people about trying to make it happen

and and trying to convince people and

meetings after meetings after meetings

of pointless meetings. People that just

didn't understand and people that think

you know funny this thing is like people

think that I should be ashamed of

calling myself Markiplier on these

projects. was like, "No, anytime you see

Markiplier on a project, that's because

I put it there.

That's my name. What What do you think

everyone who sees me on the streets

calls me? It's Markiplier." It's not

even something like a branding thing.

It's just like that's basically me. And

I am not embarrassed in any way about

that name, about being from YouTube. I

am [ __ ] proud of being from YouTube.

I will shout it from the rooftops of

where I came from because where I came

from made me able to do the things that

I'm able to do and it's going to keep

making me able to do the things that I'm

able to do all the way into the future.

You know what I did before YouTube? Dick

and diddly. I didn't do dick, but I did

diddly, right? So, I did plenty of that.

I don't give a [ __ ] what anybody else

says about what anybody else has done. I

don't care. I'm the only crit critic I

care about. I'm the only one that has an

opinion that's gonna negatively affect

me. So, of course, I'm going to be more

critical about it than anybody. And I

want people to understand that there are

other YouTubers far more talented than

me that are trying to get their projects

out there, too.

And because I have a weird superpower

about a lack of ability to understand

what criticism means. So, I'm going to

I'm going to keep going for it. Yeah.

It's uh Oh, yeah. Garden a band pen.

That's my next movie. 100%.

100%. Yeah. So, yeah. No, that's why it

says a film by Markiplier because it is.

And that's why at the beginning of the

movie, you're going to see a big [ __ ]

Markiplier presents because I'm [ __ ]

presenting it. Who else is doing it?

Just me? Well, and all the other

incredibly talented people that are

helping me out. But hey, it's still me.

I'm make you cry. I'm [ __ ] weep. I'm

gonna make you [ __ ] weep. I'm gonna

make you [ __ ] so

You're gonna [ __ ] cry. You're going

[ __ ] cry. Anyway, it's going to be a

great time. It's going to be a horribly

depressing time, but it be a great time.

Can't wait. [ __ ] yeah. Can't [ __ ]

I'm excited. I'm very excited. No, don't

do [laughter] this. Have you seen

literally any of my other projects? Even

the comedies, I kind of make you cry a

little bit. So, I want you to feel

something. I want you to feel something.

I want you to feel something. Anyway,

all right. I gotta go.

I really do. Uh because I tomorrow I

have to play catch-up on so many other

things because I'm going to have a ton

of meetings tomorrow. I know it there's

going to be non-stop calls and I have to

catch up on Cloak stuff which I've been

has been rebuilding constantly. That's

another thing that I've been working on

all this year is is rebuilding Cloak. Um

and it's been going on really well,

extremely well except for the fact that

I have to often be pulled away for movie

stuff. Uh, but the team that has been

working on there has been working on

there really well. Um, incredibly

incredibly good team. Really, really

good people. Like

I I just it's finally all existing and

it's all existing at a very cool time.

Uh, as far as soundtrack, what that

goes, basically the way I operate is the

musician, it's their music. So, Andrew

Hullshelt is going to be launching the

soundtrack uh himself. I'll help him if

he wants it, but that's all I I I

consider that him, right? I never like

any of that, right? So, I I like to cuz

they made it and they basically lent

their talent to the project and that's

that's incredible for them. So, um I'm

hoping and hey, if there's enough demand

I'm sure it'll happen. Yeah. And it is.

It's so good. [laughter]

It's so good. It's so good. It's so

God, it's so good. Anyway, all right. I

gotta go. Thank you everybody so much.

Really, thank you. Truly, honestly,

I am unbelievably grateful to be able to

be myself with you guys, to be able to

work as hard as I do. not for the sake

of any accolades of working hard, but

because what I'm doing feels like it

deserves to have my full attention on

it. And uh it's been such a incredible

learning experience. So good. That's the

only thing I could ever take out of any

of these projects is how much I've been

able to learn from it and take that and

channel it into the next thing. I I am

so excited to have all of these lessons

that I've learned to be able to take

into the next project. I've I've bled

literally I've poured everything of my

soul into this just because I knew that

the dividends that I was going to get

back in terms of the education and the

skills that I was going to build were

going to be more than anything you could

ever imagine. Like the the the the

toll it's taken on me is been immense.

But also the amount that I've had to

adapt and grow as a person is just I

cannot stress how sometimes

as many as much as many people say like

you should take care of yourself and and

burning out is bad and it's not for the

sake of the grind. I believe in

destroying yourself for art sometimes. I

believe in it. I believe it immensely. I

believe in burning yourself to make

something great. I believe in I'm not

even saying I'm making great things.

That's not what it's about. But to

channel the feeling that maybe maybe

just maybe what all the all the sweat

and the the the little sleepless nights

is going to be making something that's

just even a little bit good.

That's oh my god is

I'm incredibly grateful for the

opportunity to live my life where I can

do that kind of thing. And it's all been

same thing I've been doing this entire

time is the opportunity to be that much

better and to make something that like

pushes that education just a little bit.

I I I encourage all of you to try just

really try your absolute hardest at one

thing and even if even if it doesn't

seem like it does any reward look inward

at what you learned to make that thing

happen. That that is when my life

started changing, right? When I actually

felt like I had a paddle in the river of

life that I was just floating through. I

actually could direct myself. Not well

at first, but I could direct myself,

right? That's the only only thing. All

the other motivational [ __ ] you'll

ever see in your life won't amount to

dick or diddly, which you know, reminder

I was doing a lot of. But it was it's

it's about it's it's just about trying

something. That's all it ever is. just

trying something and then taking the

lessons and not letting that be the last

thing and keeping the chain going.

have I tried pulak ramen? Uh yes, I

have. Yeah, absolutely. All right, and

that'll be the last question. All right,

thank you everybody so much. Uh take

care. Uh check ironlong.com for your

theaters. We are adding more all the

time. I have more to add after this

stream is done of the places that I saw.

If you don't see your theater there,

send him a request. Uh, thank you and

thank you everybody that did. Seriously,

don't feel like you ever need to send

for a theater that's not yours cuz

that's not what we want anyway and

that's not what you want. But if you got

a local theater that you like, they

probably have a way to suggest it. So,

thank you and uh, as always, I'll see

you in the next video and in the next

video. Bye-bye. Goodbye everybody.

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