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- Working at Buzzfeed, you're signing up
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for your life to be weirder.
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(upbeat music)
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- Everything we do, every video is already a,
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this can only happen at Buzzfeed.
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You're lucky if you catch one where we have clothes on.
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The one I'm gonna speak about today
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is already the most Only at Buzzfeed video we ever did.
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Which was the Try Guys try Ancient Olympics.
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We compete in the Ancient Olympics, naked,
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as the Ancient Olympians did.
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Let's start at the beginning.
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We're shooting at the Getty Villa,
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a beautiful museum of ancient Grecian artifacts.
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We first want to try to let them have
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us compete naked on their grounds.
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This was out of the question because some
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of our older donators don't want naked men
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running around million dollar art.
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Fine, whatever.
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We only have a few days to shoot this,
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you know, scheduling stuff is hard.
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Also, any unscripted video can quickly fall to shit
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because there's no script.
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We find a place to shoot.
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It is a nearby high school.
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This is the summer, so nobody should be there.
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We fill out some paperwork,
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we have this check ready for them
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and we show up on the day we agreed to show up
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on the football field, and then
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a day camp of 8 to 12 year old boys and girls
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comes onto the football field.
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Uh, we're naked in bathrobes in July.
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Now we're like, uh, this isn't supposed to be happening.
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No one should be here cause a bunch of grown men
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are about to try to do the long jump, naked.
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There's a guy who we were working with,
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and we call him down and say hey,
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what are all these kids doing?
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He's like, well, we thought you
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could only use half the field.
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And we're like, we told you we'd be naked.
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We had paperwork that specifically says
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we're gonna be naked here.
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He's like, well you can't they have this field.
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I'm like, no, we have this field.
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And I start getting very upset.
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I say you need to get these kids to leave,
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we had it first, he says that's not gonna happen,
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you guys have to leave.
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And there are, again, hundreds
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of 8 to 12 year old children watching this happen.
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At some point we concede defeat,
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we go over, pick up our clothes off the ground,
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and just carry them away with our camera equipment
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to a car, but then the car is behind a gate
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that we don't have the key to, so we're stuck
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in this place and we're naked still.
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And we're like, well do we put the clothes on?
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No we can't put our clothes on because
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there's children over there.
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So we're sort of trapped on a high school campus,
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naked, in a day camp with everyone mad at us.
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So we rescheduled the shoot,
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and we shot it on Buzzfeed grounds.
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And only our coworkers had to, got to see us naked.
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- It might have been like six months
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into my Buzzfeed career.
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Gosh, was it Daysha?
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She was like (texting sounds)
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hey Nick, how do you feel about wearing heels for a day?
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I was like, I've done drag a couple times,
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I'm like, I'm good, but I didn't wear it all day.
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Also, this was in the summer too,
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so it was like hot as (bleep).
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And Daysha was like I'm gonna put these boys in some heels.
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And we knew there was gonna be like
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some sort of like fire alarm
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like that week, but we didn't know the exact day.
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So we're going about our day (typing sounds)
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making interesting articles for you all to read,
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and here we go, there's like people throwing (bleep)
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all over the office, it's like earthquake!
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And we have to go outside.
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And these are not like two inch heels.
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These are like heels like this.
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Like, they're big ass heels.
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We're walking, walking, walking,
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like outside our office, and then they're like
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oh you should like walk in the grass.
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Girls have to do this all the time,
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and I'm like, okay.
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My ass was sinking in the damn grass like quicksand.
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I'm sinking.
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Then we had to walk to Jersey Mike's for lunch.
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And people were honking at us,
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like literally cat-calling us.
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- Oh, and I don't like it at all.
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- Thank you.
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- First cat call! - Woot woot!
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- I was like, wow, this is what
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also you all have to go through.
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Like, no one's cat calling me on a daily basis.
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I'm wearing heels and y'all wanna cat call?
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Okay.
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I don't know, I obviously like didn't wear them all day.
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I kind of cheated a few times.
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I'm done.
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This is my life right now.
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Now you know why some girls take off their heels
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and put 'em on their back.
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That (bleep) is painful.
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- I don't want to tell you about the time
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my penis was on the internet, not yet.
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There's a weird thing that happened when we were
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preparing for our Try Guys strip show.
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We decided to put on a strip show, how fun.
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Not only were we doing a strip show,
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we were doing a strip show in front of 200 people,
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it was the first time that Buzzfeed
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had ever done a live show, and so we were really nervous.
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At this point, I'm used to being naked around my friends.
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I'm not used to being naked in front of strangers.
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You know, we're professionals,
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we want to put on a good show.
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We're gonna practice, we're gonna practice a lot.
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At the time, Buzzfeed's main shooting space
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was a hollowed out Big Lots.
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It was a department store that we just gutted.
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I called it the Catacombs.
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It's like exposed brick everywhere
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and like, just like the faint
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dripping sound in the background.
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So that's where we decided to practice our strip show.
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We're four men in thongs, and Keith is wearing a horse head.
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So it's a horse head and nothing else.
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And then he strips it off, and
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reveals that he's a beautiful man.
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At this time, Ze, who is the President of the company
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was giving a tour to Jonah, who is the CEO of Buzzfeed.
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It was his first time in Los Angeles to see the new space.
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So he was getting a tour of the whole complex
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and we're like in the heat of practicing.
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Like we're really going for it because like,
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we only have like maybe like an hour to practice.
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And then we have to go that night to perform.
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We're dancing, and you know, we're slapping
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and jumping around and writhing our body.
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And we just hear a, Oh!
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Oh, hi, hi.
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I turn around and there is Jonah and Ze,
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and they're just kinda looking around this creepy room.
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I'm holding a light saber, and there's like a box
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of like animal heads all over the place.
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And like what weird sex dungeon
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did these two just walk in to?
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I don't think I'd ever met Jonah at that point.
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And I was excited, so I said, oh hi, oh...
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And I realized like what we were.
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Unfortunately Keith couldn't see Jonah.
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Keith who had a horse head on.
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The three of us are frozen staring at my two bosses.
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But Keith is dancing, and he's just going for it.
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Now he's really, really going for it.
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He's slapping and he's writhing
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and then it ends with him ripping his shirt off.
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He holds it and he's breathing heavy
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cause he's, you know, we're not fit people.
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Yeah, then I think Jonah just went, alright.
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And he left.
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You know, the things we do for videos.
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