The Reel Rejects - Reel Rejects LIVE MultiCon Panel Featuring… All Of Us
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I gave Greg the Star Wars panel, so this is mine now.
Oh.
Oh.
All right.
The Real Rejects.
You spent a lot of time with them, but do you really know them?
So I'd like to start out by asking a couple questions, very pointed, specific questions.
You guys didn't realize that this was going to be this intense, didn't you?
We did not know this was coming?
I had no idea what I was walking into today.
Is this broken?
Okay.
It's like the most important person to give the microphone, too.
You can't have that on, we're streaming.
So vitamin C is important.
I would love to know at what point did you first meet Greg and get introduced to the real rejects?
And when was the first moment that you really realized that you were stuck?
And this was going to be your reality?
And I'll open that up to whoever can answer it first.
I love how this is a Greg and the Rejects panel.
I haven't answered.
I guess I'll go first.
I realized when I actually started enjoying it
and that it wasn't the traditional internet slog I go through.
I'm really fiercely independent.
I don't like sharing.
And so I really enjoy, like, the way the internet allows
you to be like a democratic with your opinion like you can enjoy your own opinion and you can
decide whether or not to read the comments or not but that also means like it's in your control
and i've been a part of so many team shows and i've loved so many people i've worked with like
roxy and i worked together almost a decade before we did real rejects and we i think i've worked
with like so many people separately but this was um something i looked forward to uh it wasn't a work
thing it wasn't me going like oh i'm excited to see blank comma and then get paid um it was i'm
excited to go see these people and I'm excited to share in art and conversation. And then
then I've evolved recently with me and Greg doing a show that is somewhat titled. And we
actually talk about the things that I would talk about off camera. And that's always the dream,
right? Like the more we get into this, the more nuanced it gets, the more it's naturalized,
the more it's a regular conversation. That's what we've always wanted to do with reactions,
is make it like you're watching with us on the couch. We talk about that in every video.
but it isn't the case in most networks and with most people
and so to find a family to find a bunch of rejects
and then to evolve that over the time has made it
I'm stuck that was beautiful go ahead Aaron
so funny enough I guess my the way I met Greg is a little untraditional
I actually started off as a fan of the channel
I we met up or I met him at a screening of a Batman the killing joke
many moons ago I met him and Anne
Andrew at a screening and then we met and then departed fairly quickly.
And a couple years later I went to Greg and John's event called a film therapy and we
really got to connect there and then again sparse off into our separate corners of the
universe and I used to host an open mic.
One thing about me that maybe you guys don't know who watched the channel, I'm actually
a poet.
I perform poetry live spoken word across all of Los Angeles and I used to host a
open mic for four years. And I just randomly hit up Greg on DMs. I was like, hey, do you want to
come to my mic? And I think I invited him a couple times. First time he wasn't able to come. The second
time, he's like, yeah, sure, I'll come through. And he saw me host, and he saw all the different
artists come through. And then he did something I never expected. He got up on stage himself,
and he performed a poem, and I was like, I didn't know he did that. That's pretty cool.
and from there we really got to connect in our genuine level beyond movies and television but just as humans over art and from there we formed a very genuine friendship and I can still consider one of my closest friends to this day when I need advice in spite of the craziness that you guys don't see behind the scenes he's a very hardworking and passionate man and he's yet still has time to have close cultivated careful friendships and I consider him some
someone who is very warm and very present.
And I'm grateful to be a part of this team, part of this family.
And I'm happy that I met him because my life is forever changed because of it.
All right.
I love how much Greg is hating this right now.
I'm so tense in the shoulders.
I'm not expressed.
I'm going to help.
Don't worry.
First of all, you guys for being here right now, you're the real ones.
Thank you so much for saying.
We know this is.
running late and behind him were that the last panel here tonight so huge thank you like us
clapping for you because thank you for being here and then I'll give my flowers to Greg but the
truth about how I met Greg is that every time I tell the story he tells me I'm wrong and that's not
what happened so we we have revisionist history going on here he thinks he was a fan of me I think I was
a fan of him the truth is probably somewhere in the middle I think that what's really funny about
Greg is that he doesn't know that he has a channel with a million plus subscribers.
So he thinks that he's like, you know, just walking around like we're not all so crazy
impressed with him because he is unbelievably impressive but very humble.
So I was dying to get on his channel, dying to.
I love what the rejects do.
I'm the most recent member of the rejects.
I'm the last one to be added.
And no one's allowed after me.
Doors close.
And so I really wanted to get on the channel.
channel and apparently he really wanted me on the channel but um neither one of us said that for a while
and then finally he asked me uh we did the black phone and i i thought i blew it um i was really nervous
but the people liked me enough that he brought me back um and and then i did an animated movie
and i really blew it and everybody hated me and he brought me back anyway so i was like that's a
real one thank you so much then we did the thing and then they didn't release it for a year
Yeah, yeah, that happened too.
I'm part of the two worst reviewed with the thing.
Too, boy, let's go!
On the channel, so, you know, Greg must like me somehow, because he's kept me around.
But, yeah, that's kind of how I started here.
Okay, I'll go.
I was a nobody on YouTube.
I had like 800 subscribers, and Greg had, I think, 750,000 at the time.
He said, hey, you want to come on my channel?
And I was like, is this a scam?
And then I looked him up and I was like, he's legit, I will definitely drive to this guy's apartment, who I do not know.
He has 750,000 subscribers.
And I go, and he opens a door in this dark, like, dinchy apartment.
And with him, where him and John live.
They don't live there anymore.
And we didn't even get to film me right away.
We literally just talked for like two hours, became friends, filmed a reaction.
I was like, this guy is solid, legit, amazing.
We were friends after that, and I still went back to his apartment and would make him
and John do improv after we did a video.
I'd be like, but you guys have to do an improv video for my channel, though.
I don't remember what it was.
We would pick, like, an item out of the house, and I was like, you guys got to just,
we got to make something fun about it.
And I don't even know if it was funny, but they did it for me anyway.
And so that's how he met nine years ago.
How do I turn this into a movie reference?
So how I met Greg, we were at a pool party.
And I don't even think I've told Greg this before.
I actually recognized him when I saw him, but I didn't know how I knew him
because I'd actually only seen him on one video.
It was a Batman Arkham Night reaction.
And I had watched everything Batman Arkham Night at the time because I was so
anticipating that game and I wanted to play cool with him was like I don't want to let him
on to the fact that I know who he is so we engaged in conversation after an hour of trying to figure
out how I'm going to talk to this human being I didn't want to let him know onto the fact
that I give him status you know but um anyways so we engage in conversation he's like you know a lot
about movies and TV shows I was like a little bit
And he's like, would you like to come on my channel sometime?
I'm like, yeah, that'd be great.
So we exchanged what was known as Twitter back then.
And, yeah, he actually mistakenly called me by the name Aaron, which is funny because that's my roommate's name now.
Hi.
Yes, great poet, by the way.
But yeah, so then I started coming onto his channel.
I was a little bit nervous going on because I'd never, I'd always engaged in movie conversations, which I love doing.
and it's a passion of mine, but yeah,
I was a little bit nervous about it,
never been spoken in front of a camera doing it,
but Greg, you know, was really cool about it.
He made sure, you know, calm me down,
said, dude, just act natural, be yourself, have fun.
And yeah, in regards to Michael's question,
how did you know you were stuck with him?
I'd say it was either one of two different ways.
It was later that year on Christmas Day
when he messaged me,
and said, I need you to come over and do a Deadpool trailer reaction with me on Christmas Day.
You're Jewish.
Yeah, but still, it's Christmas Day.
I said, you're a Jew, right?
I'm a lot one day off a year, okay?
So it was either that day or it was either the day he asked me to officiate his wedding.
One of those two days, I was like, I'm kind of stuck with this guy,
but it's okay because he's one of the most genuine, kindest, empathetic human beings I've ever known.
known and even more so than just a great friend I love working with the guy too he just makes
life so easy around there even when times get crazy around there he just he's such a joy to work
with the whole team is a joy to work with um but yeah that's how we met and that's uh when I knew I was
stuck with him and this is I can say something really quick is it cool and what about John no
well I wanted to say something about John um because the John and I were talking about
like, what was the last week?
We were trying to compartmentalize some chapters
of Real Rejects history.
And as kind as all you guys are
on the stage right now
and off stage too.
John and I, this originally
did start off with the plan of like,
John and I were going to do this together.
And there were just things that happened
in the middle of the trajectory
where we weren't able to keep doing it
as partners on it in the beginning.
But to this day, I'm like, that shouldn't be
discounted. We wouldn't be here today if it wasn't
for John and like John and I were like this is our John and I were like this we did the
first album together that's that's how we put it we did the first album John I Paul yeah
then yeah and then I carried on and then eventually we came back again for like a third
album and now here we are I don't know it's like our fourth album and this is the best
album it's ever been yeah the band's only grown it's better ever since then so yeah
who's Ringo probably you yeah well I'm still having a good time yeah
That was beautiful.
I met Greg.
That was beautiful.
So I met Greg.
I met Greg at a...
You guys hear me okay?
Yes.
I just can't.
I like the sound of my own voice.
I made Greg get a jambajuice back in 2017.
I was introduced by Sally the Salamander,
who some of you might have seen.
And I really liked the conversation,
and I offered him 12 Bitcoin.
And I said, Greg, make me a star,
and you'll be my bestest boy.
Give it for Michael.
Give it a half for Michael.
Give it out of them too.
Elm the down, arranging so many of the things,
not yelling at us when we ask you questions
that aren't your department.
I don't know the answers to the questions.
So, listen, guys, I think one of the more interesting things about all of you is that, like, Roxy's panicked faces, I said that, like, where is this going?
Well, I've heard you sing multiple times tonight.
I've heard multiple impressions of yours.
I don't know where this could go from here.
Who knows what?
You have us on our toes, man.
What could be more interesting?
But you're sitting.
So everyone knows you as personalities.
online. Everyone does. Everyone.
But I think what's amazing is that somehow in real life, you're even more funny, hilarious, interesting.
What is something that you wish the reject nation and the general public knew about you that may not necessarily be conveyed in your reactions?
I was a dolphin trainer when I was 21. This is not a lie. I lived in Hawaii on the day.
Are you, dude?
I know, I know.
I lived on the big island of Hawaii on the Kona side, and I worked at Dolphin Quest.
And I was there, and I was an intern.
And then they bumped me up to assistant trainer.
And then I was like, I'm going to go to Seaworld.
And I passed, like, the test at Seaworld.
And then I was like, I can't.
I got to go back to L.A.
I meant to be an actor.
And then I moved back.
that's it
I think we're good
none of us are going to top that
I'm three kids in a trench coat
I think people don't know
like I talk about comics a lot and I talk about movies
a lot now it took a long time for people to see me as anything
about comics also shout out to Troy who brought me on a comic
that's crazy dude thank you
I got to sign my face on a comic
thank you Troy
but I love music as much as
almost as much as I love comics and movies
like I'm such a music guy and
I don't get to talk about it as much
but music is like I think the amount of time I spend reading
or watching I also spend listening
when did you Koi realize that
Drake was really the pinnacle
inspiration for you musically
was that
so there's this show the Big Bang Theory
and I think the Big Bang Theory
hurt my culture more than anything
else ever has and i think that drake is the equivalent for cultures that i can't speak on nearly as
much and as someone who doesn't appropriate thanks drake say drake i hear you like them dumb
dolphins and drake the beef continues damn that's it that's it nice subtle kendrick lamar
reference it's good no one else has fun but you're like i am all i am andrew can do the
Quint monologue from Jaws.
Oh, man.
Okay, I'll go next.
I said it in my previous thing, but I am a poet.
I do poetry outside of doing television and movie reactions.
There's a very different side of being an artist.
I'm also an actor.
But yeah, I hosted for four years, and I like to cultivate and nurture people's creative
inclinations, whether it be poetry, music, dance, or just forms of
of expression and that is in addition to talking about movies and film that is that is my
path yeah that's it I think this is probably relevant to everybody on the panel but
I kind of wish people knew how many hours this took just because so many people comment
like oh my god you guys are this is like the easiest thing of all time this is the easiest gig
And I personally work 90-hour weeks minimum every week for the last 15 years, and that's not like a point of pride for me as much as a fact.
You know, some of the people on the panel are in slightly different situations, but like I, I, this is my whole life, like doing movie reactions, being an actress, being in entertainment, and it's a full-time job.
So I do think that I wish kind of people understood that a little bit more.
because it's frustrating when people think that you're it's not work and I am so lucky but
I'm lucky at my job not not just you know like it's showing up and dicking around like we take
it pretty seriously so how many hours it is it's almost as good as the dolphin story I know
John is right I can't do the quint monologue but I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm
I'm not going to put you guys through that torture right now.
But I've mentioned it in a few videos, if not more.
I teach baseball when I'm not doing movie reactions.
I played basically my whole life since I could walk.
Baseball is such a passion of mine.
Teaching younger generations, nurturing.
I think that's why I gravitate towards the Karate Kid franchise so much.
It's something that is like, it's so endeavored into my
blood, that franchise really speaks to me, because it's what I do on a daily basis, not karate,
obviously, but baseball.
Secret alter ego.
But yes, it is. I'm Johnny Lawrence in disguise.
No, but seriously, I like making sure the next generation that they are properly attended to,
making sure they get proper life lessons, and hopefully succeeding not only in baseball, but
in life in general, it's a very big passion of mine.
I really, and I love doing it.
Like when I'm out there, if I know I have three, four, five hours of lessons,
or if I'm, you know, doing this with this incredible team I have here,
if I know I have a four, five, six, seven hour shoot day,
I'm not bothered by it because I love what I do.
And I'm very fortunate, and I know that, and I'm so grateful for that fact.
I would also say, too, I probably mentioned it in a few videos,
but I'll mention it again.
I love movie music so much because my fellow geek jack mentioned he loves music,
which I do as well, but movie music is, like, so engraved in my blood.
When I'm at the gym, that's all I will listen to.
Even sometimes when I'm at home, I will just listen to straight up movie music.
Because what it allows me to do when I hear that music,
I can put myself vicariously through these characters and put myself in that scene.
So I think movie music is so damn important to films.
I mean, I could top off some movies right now, Jaws and other films.
It would not be the same.
I had a quick question for you.
What's your favorite color?
My favorite color?
Yeah.
What's yours?
Yeah.
Oh.
Today, it's blue.
Well, that's mine.
No, seriously, blue.
Luciano Pavarotti, do you know who he is?
The opera singer?
Is this your segue?
What's happening?
No, I was answering the question.
Actually, I think I do know that.
He's all written on the key card, actually.
He once wrote a letter that said I was the future of opera.
That's a fun fact about me.
That was my answer to the question.
Who would like to answer the question next?
If you ever hear me in a video, say the words,
I'm pretty good with the Bo staff.
That is based on real facts,
because I did once win a gold medal for Bo staff
at a taekwondo tournament.
What?
I've held on to it for all of my validation ever since.
I love it.
So, yeah.
Dolphins and dolphins.
Am I the best moderator today?
You are.
And you're a really good question to be honest though.
I'm really impressed.
Go over Michael, you guys.
Michael.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I will live off of that for two months.
So we're running ahead.
Out of time.
No, we got so much time.
So I'm going to ask one more question.
I'm going to ask one more question.
I'm going to stand up for this one.
Oh.
Should we all stand up?
I'm standing up.
Yeah, do you remember WonderCon?
Greg can't sit for that long.
I think it's weird.
I feel like we should be on the same.
I feel like sitting above.
I don't want to be even further
above the people.
I don't know.
I want to move to this chair.
That's why Greg is like we all talk of his kindness.
I enjoy sitting up.
And Greg's like amongst people.
And I'm like, I like this.
We're on stage.
Shakespeare was like, this is right.
Really good that we're running out of time
and we talk about where we're sitting.
Should we keep doing that until we finish?
How do you like sitting?
Yeah, should we stand?
Should we sit?
It's actually a great segue because our next bitter stand-up comedians.
Ah, waka, waka.
All right, so final question for my rejects.
Guys, this past year has been a big one for the real rejects
in that you've tried a lot of new things.
Who has seen some of the amazing social media sketches
that Roxy's put together.
My favorite people here.
I like them best.
They're so good.
And also, now there's like certain theme things.
And it's just a lot easier to find stuff.
And there's all these cool new ideas.
If Greg didn't give you any pushback whatsoever,
what is one thing that you would love for the real rejects to be doing?
And then Greg, after they've all answered, you have to say yes, no,
And we're going to go in order of,
we're going to get down to Greg.
So, Aaron, you're taking us away.
Oh, you're talking with me.
Let's see.
I would like to do one of two things.
One, very intention, creative advertisements for our shirts.
because I think it'd be fun to just make commercials on social media that are funny.
And two, do reenactments of movie scenes because I think that would be hilarious.
I'm for that what he just said, because I love doing impressions.
Right, Greg?
Right.
I mean, we ain't hungry no more.
So you want to do reenactments of movie scenes?
Yeah, that's true.
should only take like a couple minutes yeah we can go ahead and do that yeah that'd be fun uh i love the
movie reenactment thing because that's how gregory found me i used to reenact movie trailers just me
and toys in my house yeah that's a thing i did i'm not i'm not um making a joke um i would like
to watch every a 24 film whether it performs well or not that's just how we roll we stick to it
Yeah, that sounds great.
I think that Aaron and I both pitched this two years in a row,
but I wanted to do all award show coverage watching every TV show that was Emmy nominated
and then doing coverage of the Emmys.
And then same thing with the Oscars, it got shut down.
But for a very good reason, right, Greg?
Yes, Roxy.
I likewise have two like Aaron
one of them would be
rewatching my favorite movies
but with someone that hasn't seen them
so John had never seen Fight Club
and I love Fight Club
Greg and I are both huge fans of The Matrix
and I think that is actually cooking
but my first one would be to watch stuff
we have seen and like to experience
our personalities a bit more not just like reacting
to something new but like reacting to something we know really well
and then with something that doesn't know it as well
and then the second thing would be
music stuff. I want to talk about me. I want like
guys, I love music so much.
So music and rewatches.
Yeah, I mean,
I think the movie commentary thing
we all talked about as a group doing is
being able to like rewatch stuff
but get a little bit harder on the
commentary. So people are like, please shut up. You guys are talking
too much while we're trying to watch this reaction. Yeah, what is
that? Like, it's the weirdest thing.
Like, you could just pause our faces and
watch it then. Like, just, if you don't want us to
talk, just like have a weird photo of us up
or something.
Reject, rewind, let's go
There you go, that's a good name
He didn't acknowledge music, noted.
I love the idea of doing music, so I'll just
throw a secondary onto the music, but I...
We talk about it on every Patreon intro week.
If you want a music podcast featuring John and Coy,
just sign up with Patreon.
Or a live stream by Kendrick.
If it was me, I would pitch,
we have a genre-based schedule
that includes a wild card Wednesday,
and what I would do is I would, like,
throw all the weirdo cult
movies at that make that like
the truly experimental slot of the week
which probably wouldn't garner like a whole lot of
views up at the top but like
that's where you put your samurai cop that's where you put
your troll to or your like
Tetsuo the Iron Man it doesn't even have to be like
terrible so to speak just like weird
off the beaten path stuff because that's what I
love the most so that would be my
pitch
what are you going to pitch
I would like to see Greg do
reactions to major shakeups
in the precious metal industry
I'm concerned that we as a reject nation
are not a gold-based
we need a fiat currency
no uh...
I want to watch paint dry
no uh I would love to see
video game reactions being taken a little bit further
we did like a little bit of trailer
reactions for the Jedi
Survivor game, which was extraordinary.
Greg is like a super
incredible gamer, and by that I mean
he really likes The Last of Us.
But, you know, especially
as the threshold between
film, television, and video games
gets thinner and thinner, and these stories
just become more intricate and narrative-based,
I feel like they do such a beautiful job at capturing so many of the emotions that everyone here on this stage is so good at expressing in an authentic way.
And it would be a non-Star Wars thing that Greg would probably let me do.
That sounds like a lot of fun.
I want Koi to cry on camera.
Now that I think about it, I'm like, it's so funny.
I was just thinking, but what is Greg won?
And this guy comes in.
I'm pretty sure.
he's the only one here who's never cried on camera.
The amount I want to be able to cry is rivaled only by the amount
Greg wants me to cry for his prop.
I'm sure that when,
I'm sure that when Koi starts to get there,
he's like,
oh, it's happening.
And he becomes so aware that it's about to happen that he doesn't end
of crying.
I almost cried during the abyss out of sheer bliss.
Like, I loved the abyss.
We did the abyss.
And I was like, is this a five-star experience?
And I was like, it's so.
And then I was like, I'm on camera.
And it wasn't the, I'm scared of comments.
It was like, this is weird.
It was so I want.
that for you, Greg.
Maybe we can do the director's cut and you'll have your chance.
Full weeping.
I see Strawah Goofy in the crowd.
I want him to come on the channel.
Yeah.
We're going to react to too fast and furious.
We're going to just recite it.
Roxy had a great idea to do more, like, we're doing a lot more Black History Month.
Because Black History Month, we're doing a lot more black-centric movies.
And she pitched the idea like last year to do more genre or thematic things,
depending on like the time of the year
and I really like that idea a lot.
But then I pitched one of them days
and I haven't heard back.
She looks at me
because she sent it to me but I haven't pitched
a degree yet because I've already looked at the schedule.
The team's shambles, right?
I, the poet, want to do poetic justice.
It's already done.
We did that. We did that recently.
I know.
Okay.
I just want to say a very special thing.
Thank you to all the rejects.
These guys, in addition to just being wildly funny and entertaining,
are also just some of the nicest and most generous people that I know.
And I'm so grateful to call you colleagues and so grateful to call, I think, all of you, friends.
Yes.
I shared your article within 17 minutes of it dropping.
I literally cried when Koi did that.
Who are you questioning if they're your friend?
You look to be in the eye.
I pointed to me.
Michael, I listened to that whole Atlanta story.
I am your friend, okay?
Which brings us to our next segment.
No.
Can I say one last thing?
Have you guys seen the movie?
Who here has seen the movie funny people with Adam Sandler?
Yes.
And have, have, yeah.
I'm only here to answer Straw Hat Goofy's questions today.
What do you want to know, Jujo?
What do you want to know?
Also only call them by a TikTok moniker?
Yeah.
So, in that movie movie,
one of the things that I realized at a certain point
with working with everyone I was like I'm a bit like
Adam Sandler here where I've like paid people to be my friends
in a weird way but I think it's evolved so
past that and when it came to this point here today
I was everyone who's asked about why have you been excited to do this
I mean like it's mainly because I just wanted to be up here
with all of you guys I think everyone here has made this channel
so much more special and it has made my life better
in so many ways and exciting and I don't it doesn't feel it's like it was like myself and
there was just myself and John and it was like a lot of grind and isolation so to be at this point
where a lot of people don't know is that there's a lot of like team building and there's a lot of
community and that actually started here at multi house when we all first met together and I was like
we got to take this into a different direction so there's all of a lot of you guys are like
strangers with each other and now two of you live together you know like part of this I
I love the fact that it's all
The rest of us, we all live together.
We have a place.
A creator.
Hented the house next door.
No, I love you.
I love you guys.
And I'm just happy that we could all just be here together
hanging out right now.
And I love all you guys who decided to stick around
after this thing started at 10 a.m.
And it's after dark right now.
And you guys are all here.
So thank you guys for being here.
and it means a lot, especially because it's all going to a good cause as well.
So thank you.
We appreciate you.
The real rejects, ladies and gentlemen, the real rejects.
Thank you guys so much.
Please stick around for Multicon after dark.
These comics are great, and they got pushed even further into the dark.
So if you want to just give us two minutes while we get set up,
it's going to be a great time.
You can grab a drink at the bar.
Maybe enjoy an IPA.
Whatever floats your fancy, whatever floats your fancy?
Do fancies?
That was a pun. That's a good comedy
right there. Also, I'm going to
speak for all of us real quick. You guys being here
in person, it's the weirdest job in the world
we talked about all the good stuff, but the job
is literally watching movies, like,
in front of a camera, and prepping and discussing
and all those things, and, like, being prepared
to comment, but, like, without you guys,
it is literally the only difference is we have
a roof over our head. The rest is, like, meandering,
homelessly muttering stuff. So, like, you
guys make it a real thing, so thank you for allowing
us to do this for you. You're here.
Absolutely. Thank you.
you guys. I love you guys. Thank you.