Talking Iron Lung

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. [laughter] Just hold 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 [laughter] 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 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 of it is just 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 on. Hold hold on. I know I know why that's happening. I I was uh um uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh. [sighs] 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 am so I'm I'm I'm thrilled. Like really, I I am genuinely 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 with the movie industry and the system that it is. And I'm not even talking about like Oh crap. Lag. Oh god. Why? 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. Bear with me. Everything's fine. Everything is okay. Everything's fine. Every Everything's fine. 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 inexplicable. 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] think that 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 and 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 creator. 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 but 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 there. Yeah. 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 imagining 10,000 people in the same place, right? And that was 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 worry, guys. 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. Uh but again, when we call the Red Cross and we're like, "Hey, 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, I have to call 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 in America? 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 that one." So they they they in America are not all on board yet. I go to the Philippines and they're like, "How many Philippines subscribers do you have?" 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. Yeah. 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 weekend 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 grateful. 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 all of this. 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. Uh, so 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 Rodriguez. There you go. 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] so it's 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. A phenomenal phenomenal phenomenal quantity of blood, right? So much blood. 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 don't know. I don't know. 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 to look 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. [laughter] 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 the 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. Anyway, 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, yeah. 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 used and 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, 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, everybody. 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. pictures. 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. It must exist. Okay. Something. 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. Hold on. 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 I swear? Oh, come on. [snorts] Well, this is just embarrassing now. I'm officially a bad streamer. I can't even find this. 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. Okay, hold on. 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 My bathroom is 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. Gasp at this. Yeah. Jealous. Jealous in my big old bathroom. 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. Definitely. 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 deceptively 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 it had. 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 [ __ ] castle. [sighs] 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 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 that. [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, okay. Let's see. Oh, we got more. Oh, we got more. We got Malco. Malco movie theaters. So, we got we just got movie theaters in This is where I actually realize that I don't know 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 we got 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, Louisiana. Why no Chicago? WE'RE WORKING ON IT. 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 HEAR FROM US. They come to us. THEY COME TO US AND YOU ASK. 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. Uh, 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. Um, can you get your dist distributors submit it to some fil festivals? I don't What are you not getting about this? It's us. We're the distrib. What? I need I I need you to come here. I need I need I'm [ __ ] come here. It's us. It's independent, which means it's us. THERE IS NO ONE ELSE. THERE IS NO DISTRIBUTORS. WE'RE DOING IT. OKAY. OKAY, GOOD. Glad I clarified that. I wanted you to really understand that. Okay, cool. Good. Good. There's no one else. What do you mean distributors? 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. 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] So, yeah. 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 absolutely 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, I I think that 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 has been, it's been really something. So, I'm uh, 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 to see this. 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. And I'm I'm make you cry. I'm [ __ ] weep. I'm gonna make you [ __ ] weep. I'm gonna make you [ __ ] so openly. 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. I can't wait. Can't wait. [ __ ] yeah. Can't [ __ ] I'm excited. 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 to take 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 for it, 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 good. 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 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 just I'm incredibly grateful for the opportunity to live my life where I can do that kind of thing. And it's all been the same 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. 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