EB 72: Stampy Cat: How I Got Here (Jun 2015)

[Music] welcome to ear biscuits I’m link and I’m Rhett joining us today at the round table of them lighting is Joseph Garrett the creator and voice of one of the most popular minecraft avatars on the interwebs stampy cat his minecraft focus YouTube channel called stampylonghead boasts over 5.8 million subscribers and 3.5 billion views his popularity and I say that again 3.5 billion yeah you can see his money I love that being stutter now his popularity amongst children is unprecedented so much so the Entertainment Weekly called him the mr. Rogers of Minecraft he was not wearing a cardigan no arts talking to a trolley when he came in here though but he a legitimate publication has called him the Mister Rogers of Minecraft and that does it for me if you’re in grade school or know someone in grade school chances are you’ve heard of stampy cat his voice is an almost constant presence in my home I’m not complaining you know I sat down with Lily and said alright I got to figure out this minecraft stamping hat thing and I was kind of sucked in and I think you’re from the conversation you’ll kind of hear that there’s a level of fascination that I have for what he’s done because it’s so much different than what I thought it was I mean he’s got the voice very distinctive here’s a montage it’s just everywhere maybe she’d give me a baby shake Oh [Music] check that out how about that we can hit go and light up the cruise ship in the night you know but it’s not just the voice it’s not just any one thing it’s a it I think we hit on a bunch of things that are the key to the culmination of his success coming together a family-friendly character based on Minecraft 20-minute daily videos full of imagination and ingenuity it’s not your typical let’s play these are planned and executed much like a television show really storytelling humor friendly characters villains plot lines mixed into ingenuitive minecraft building projects yeah we had a great time sitting down with Joseph and talking about this creative process incredibly detailed and why he insist on doing most of it himself also talked about his new show that is filmed entirely within the world of Minecraft and how he gets cameras I’m using air quotes cameras into Minecraft that was fascinating to me is remarkably simple but I never thought about it before and how spending so much time playing Minecraft actually led to him getting a girlfriend who first time ever makes an appearance we have a girlfriend appearance on the pack yes so be sure to stick around for that but first we want to take a moment to tell you guys about our song biscuits volume 1 album available on iTunes if you haven’t checked it out already we got a whole season of the songs we wrote oftentimes collaborating with guests on ear biscuits like within an hour so we wrote those song you remember you guys tweeted us and told us what the right songs about now it’s all available on write all these were on good mythical morning you can go watch those there were Saturday videos for 15 weeks in a row but I think you’ll enjoy it yeah they were designed not just to be watched but to go right into your ear holes and so we have massively crafted those to go right into your ear holes by putting them on iTunes that’s pretty much how it works I think they’re also available on Amazon anyway be helpful if you go over there and leave it in a review and of course buying it’s always helpful to appreciate that and now on to the biscuit with stampy cat [Music] they said you had more videos than Bieber yes so everyone wanted to talk about but it’s just the first article when whenever they state something everyone just picks up on it and so the first big article about me said more views than Justin Bieber like on YouTube which is he’s not youtuber so it was a matter anyway for like yeah right he sold more songs than make it I felt like now every time it’s introduced is like more views than Justin Bieber like that phrase has stuck with me for like two and a half years or something you know because one person mentioned it you know kind of copy and paste it yeah yeah that sounds good that sounds real good why right when you can copy and paste yeah so we basically that was my philosophy well in English class growing up this is probably a good time to tell you that we just took that BBC article and we we’re gonna go put that away so we met this is our second meeting in person first one was in France yeah backstage at the whatever it was I don’t you know it’s still fuzzy on what it was we just knew it was a trip to France and so we went you had a similar situation to me so some wants you to speak in front in Cannes okay yeah yeah I’ll speak will go I gotta speak I having never been to Europe I had you have but I had never been to Europe I’ve never been to France and meeting you was a highlight because then I was able to have bragging rights with my kids and a little iPhone video from you to them that went a long long way yeah we remain we’re still dad’s to this day because of that iPhone video I mean it would have been over a few weeks ago they would they would have disowned us it probably would’ve been a few weeks back right you know well I kept your family life intact I don’t know if you remember I told you when I made the video but going over there I was like you know stampy’s gonna be at this thing I’m telling Lincoln and Lily cuz they watch it religiously lando now does to who’s fine so he’s finally getting into he’s finally getting it um I said you know there’s a chance we can meet stamping he’s gonna be there and they were like what do you want me to tell them and Lincoln said well just just tell stampy you you’re my biggest fan but I’ll tell him I mean it’s amazing when when you meet people that you know like other youtubers that you know that you respect and been watching for a while and you got to them you’re like how am I gonna save some I’m a bit nervous then they come up to you in they’re like hey it’s it’s time for your hair like it’s so great to see you it’s like you know like you know the fact they’ve heard of you and you know it’s it’s not because they got kids that watch you you know with me but that’s always an exciting thing well you know it’s funny cuz I mean it’s probably a little bit of a fickle thing but I’ve told my wife this before that it it is helpful sometimes when your reputation precedes you when you go into a group because a lot of times when you do what we do for a living like I was in I was at a birthday party a week ago with a bunch of people who are more friends than my wife than than me and no one really yeah I knew what we what I did and so then you kind of like I’ll kind of start explaining what it’s a moment when you you have to decide if you’re going to really hey am I gonna do like I’m a video producer let’s just leave it at that because you are in LA and you can understand what that is because if I say I make youtube videos then it just there’s all these questions that come up and then it that’s it’s just like it’s I don’t want to be in that conversation but when somebody has that like oh no no I get it I get it and I like it I mean it’s a little bit selfish obviously but do you deal with that but yeah I mean imagine there’s an extra level of explaining that the videos you do are playing video games you know you could send in one of your videos or a podcast and they they get you know that yeah but close enough to to something they can understand if I have to explain that or I make videos on YouTube or what do you do is like have you heard of Minecraft you don’t like yeah yeah yeah if they say yes or no then you know that you know whether it’s gonna be a 10 minute or an hour conversation of explaining exactly what you do yeah and then and then you if you go there if you say I’m going to do the long explanation so you will know exactly what it is I do you get to the end of this 15 minute explanation in there kinda like it doesn’t matter I mean have you ever just dropped a bomb on somebody and by the way I have 3 billion views you know it’s like I’m I think I have enough read on you to know that you would probably never say that but maybe you would know I mean like it’s what you gotta pull out the big gun and just buy out the first people generally we most people I meet kind of just know if you know if I might like a family thing of people know or meeting friends you know people Germany there are even other youtubers and so no or kind of have heard that I do something you know especially with kids because you know they it’ll be someone whose child watches me or someone’s auntie’s kids watching me say hey the kind of the connection gets through so they don’t really understand what I do but they know that you know little Billy loves me for some reason that kind of makes it easy I mean what I’ve been told and I’ve given advice for when when going through customs when I went out to say is it work or pleasure if I have to say work is just to say I’m in advertising and probably that’s the easiest way because then they’re like okay whatever they’re not interested I don’t I just let you go that’s good and the follow-up answer is just what pre-roll ads yeah you know and I mean other integrations if you really want to talk about it you know but it’s an internet thing right it’s an internet thing you three billion music understand you missed our scooter adventure in France you know the day after we met you yeah I saw huh I saw you speaking about it I heard about it oh man there was one of the highlights of our lives and and we’re not joking like I mean we each had our own scooter but we’ve had our wife on the back of the senator knows what a great experience going up to what’s it what’s a car Monaco Monaco yeah next time man you get your scooter you come with us I also remember you being fascinated by the toilets as well was that another yes I’m a fan of bidets and fancy toilets oh yeah yeah fancy toilets in London and you know if if you’re in a nice restaurant is good if you’re in a train station long night but the the bidet is is is not so much an English thing alright I mean you have them but it’s not like in every bathroom no I mean I mean Europe and you know that’s gonna say Europe and England very similar Europe’s in England yes anglers in Europe the other way around you know but you know it’s this is very similar like it’s you do have a bidet at your house in your apartment yeah you get sent one by the by by the Queen at a certain age when you turn 13 there a London thing – oh okay alright maybe I’ll visit now now that I know that I think I there’s a lot that I want to talk about I think kind of in one of the first places I wanted to go was I mean just in the videos that I’ve watched with Lily I mean she’s the most religious viewer in our house it I quickly find out it’s not a typical just watch me play minecraft I mean there’s a there’s a lot that goes into the various different types of videos that you play but I I just want you to walk us through a typical episode within your lovely world what are those called just the lovely world yeah yeah there’s no one your name of the series that the video is in my lovely world side and so this this is my that’s my main series and that’s right I put most time into and they’re my most planned videos so right oh yeah as you know you deducted I’m not just pressing record like I know kind of the the beginning middle and end of what the episodes gonna be so so walk us through it for someone who hasn’t watched yet okay so a typical episode is I’d be building either a new shop or a mini game or something but before I even think about building it of come up with you like seven doing a mini game I can’t with the idea of the game I’ve come up with a theme then I then entirely build it in a in a separate world to practice it have people come in and test playing it with me and then I’ll kind of go into the world and then work out well if I built this much in one episode then we could kind of test playing it’ll be a fun ending and then in the next episode we can do this part and then you know I work out three episodes which we spent building and then playing game right so the pre-production I mean I could just tell watching one 20-minute video it there’s a lot that goes into this but from a from an audience’s perspective walk us through from that perspective I mean right from the go there’s a few things that I can count on as a viewer right yeah more than a few things yeah the word the first words out of your mouth hello this is stumpy and welcome to a minecraft let’s play video that’s how it always starts and that’s you know it must not planned intro but people love that familiarity I always start in the same place and the the beginning routine is we’re in you’re saying yeah so you you’re in your house you’re kind of talking to the audience but the character is looking at the camera so to speak yeah so you’ve got that that viewpoint I always talk directly to the view I never say like well would all of you like this I always say you know would you like this like I’m always speaking to a new yeah yes in the camera but the camera is looking at stampy the character yeah well the majority of time it’s just the first-person perspective so they’re just seeing what stampy would be seeing if you know if he was in in that world so stampy leaves his house there’s usually like there’s a pet bit and then there’s a garden bit I mean walk me through all of that okay so always start off with in my room that has kind of changed a bit over the years I always have a cake for breakfast is a is a must because always I’m not happy for the rest of the the video and then I go to the love garden which is basically a place where anyone who sent me fan out or a great video or just on anything cool then I put their name down in a sign and say thank you so say someone has you know decorated an amazing wall in like stampy cat collars or something then real life yeah yeah then I’ll put a picture of that up and say thanks for doing that you know that’s really awesome welcome to my love guard and then that’s a sign in my world which will stay there forever so every video when I go to the live guard and then see their their sign which is a cool thing yeah in the garden is pretty huge if you’re do because you make a video every single day yeah not not in the library I do two videos a week in that series and originally there was a sign each there’s now they now have to share sign kind of like burying people in a cemetery at a certain point you got to start stacking pieces yeah well it’s kind of like the round table of dim lighting here you know villagers on top of each other yeah I don’t to be the first person to have to write the underneath of the table there is one under there but just to clarify the fans in your love garden they had they’re not deceased mmm I just want for anyone listening being diseased is not required at some point you bring a pet along so there’s like you know you’ve got you’ve got pets you’ve got dogs in the Minecraft world that have names that you’re you’re choosing one to be your companion yeah like people like animals a lot and I find having animals is good I mean having animals in Minecraft is great because like the thing that I do is is so planned like most of it but the commentary is unscripted and things can happen in the video which I didn’t plan and you just go with it like the dog can suddenly jump off something orb set off some TNT or something and having animals with kind of crazy AI running around is an amazing thing to add humor to a video yeah and you just to pretend like you know I speak to them as if they understand ER so Phil you’re looking happy today oh you go enough to explore this you know so like I’m always making up this most the story as I go along then it’s the same with other characters in the videos I have other people that join me who have real people controlling characters but they don’t speak they can hear me but they don’t speak so I could look at a character could leave their who’s a big bear I go oh no you look upset today you know he’s just standing there and then so he would then react to me and then I’ll make up oh did you lose your thing you know so I can make up a kind of a story on the fly and you don’t and this is never I mean as far as I’ve seen it’s never montage tit this is a it’s this is a single twenty-something minute long the episode yeah so 20 minutes straight commentary just me speaking you know sometimes it’ll go wrong and I’d be like there’s a lot of time I’ll get close to the end I’m like nothing happened like this is boring like and I just go and start again like that happens a lot or like a lot um so yeah don’t you’re that in 18 minutes in and you’re like this is got to the I’ve been editing a video and been watching it back and being like no this isn’t like I’m not I’d like this isn’t entertain there’s no nothing everything just went as it was supposed to that’s boring like it went too well it was it was just fine so instead of having an edit trick like I’m a splice in there I’m gonna create an alternate ending you start over it’s just because it’s lies yes it’s real it’s you know if I’m building something I’m actually you know I’m doing it all there but but you only thing you built you’d have to tear down and then rebuild you can kind of just quit without saving and then go back which is what which I what I do a lot good they’re typical episodes I then have special episode which take the planning goes even further to you know I do an episode where I go to space and I build a rocket I want to talk about that yeah but before we do just continue walking me through though and I like the details of it because you’ll pick your dog sometimes you’ll take it you know you’ll have your the other person who’s playing with you and then you’ll go and you’ll build a a game it but then you want usually you won’t finish it but then you’ll go and you’re okay that’ll be the first half you’re actually doing like construction and creation of a I like it it kind of like on Survivor where like everyone’s doing a physical challenge it’s kind of like a really fun minecraft version of a of a game a physical challenge game like that within the game you’re building that but then at some point you go to another game that you finish and you play that and it’s like a competition with stakes yes I so usually like I don’t want I never I never want videos to be just building for 20 minutes so normally you know what the ending are going like oh we’re play just a game I’ve already built just as a fun ending and so but when I’m when I’m actually building I’m really being very conscious to kind of teach what I’m building because a lot of the time people copy what I’ve built and build it in their own world so I’m being very particular about you know placed ten blocks along this way or then if I’m doing there’s something called a redstone in the game which is kind of like wire rings you can do like mechanical things have Pistons and buttons and things and if I’m doing anything like that I’m very particular in terms of like this is how you know then it becomes slightly more you know it’s always entertainment first but then it’s a bit more of a guide or you know giving people ideas at least so what percentage of your time now is devoted to planning versus the execution in in the world it’s pretty much like the recording is 20 minutes it’s the recording is the length of the video the planning can take for a lovely world episode you know I don’t need only be at least of a full day planning the the episode and then I normally record it the next day but even coming up with those games that they’re the intricate nature of these things there’s a mechanical nature and it’s just whimsical but it’s I mean it’s something all these things you’re talking about are things that like a top-notch television producer would hire a team of 20 people half of the people in the room would just be writers to devise this type of stuff but that that’s where the that’s where I think the value is like people can strike my commentary I think I’m fine like I’m getting better like I think a lot of people attribute most success of mine to the commentary and I don’t think that I think my country’s fight like it it does what it needs to do but it’s the the planning and you know being able to come up and a new idea each week and and it’s not even an idea of building something that looks cool or plays well it’s got to play well in my format or video like I can come up with with a game where the other person needs to speak so it needs to be easy to understand and even building it I don’t want to build something too big so I’ll be boring if I’m building like a skyscraper like I’m spacing rows of blocks like the building process has to be fun as well yeah I would agree I mean the commentary the person every it’s a total package but the ingenuity associated with and you only have to watch as a producer you only have to watch one to really appreciate kind of the genius of the the amount of ingenuity that goes into it and you’re with each one you’re building another game it’s it’s amazing really and kind of what I hear you saying that answer though is that you haven’t necessarily found someone yet that you can get to do those things for you because you know you’re still doing all of it I I haven’t even looked for someone like that’s that mean that’s what I enjoy most is when I’m in Minecraft and I’m just planning or like just scribbling on a whiteboard and working out that’s like that that’s the fun part I mean I love recording as well but that’s what I really enjoy and there’s some of that I’ve got an editor so a lot of you know the that side of thing is you know things that I don’t need to be as involved in because you know there’s generally little editing because you know as you said it’s 20 minutes straight no cuts so there’s not a huge amount that needs to be done but like I just do all the hard parts you’ve got an editor is nothing he’s did you invent the format I mean we would you emulate it emulating or inspired by someone else who was taking the world of Minecraft and then bending it to to be pre-produced as a show in this way or did you just invent it over time like yeah it was I mean if you look at an early episode compared to now like that wasn’t the initial format I mean the lovely world I don’t I’m almost done pretty just I hit 300 episodes now so and if you look at Episode one it’s in no way similar to any later episodes I kind of just kept adding on aspects and but no one else was doing it so you’re you are saying that you invented it over time there’s this format that you’ve arrived at yeah yeah I guess I was kind of naturally doing there weren’t many people doing family-friendly content on Minecraft when I began well when I started was when minecraft first came out for consoles and that is when a lot of children and on phones as well in tablets that’s where a lot of children started playing because before that minecraft was like a hardcore gamers game as a weird game you can only get online and you know a lot of the elements of it you know you kind of had to know some basic coding to do some things and it was it was not a kid-friendly game and it was only when it came to consoles did kids start playing and I started playing and so I think my timing was just so lucky the fact that I started doing videos as kids started playing and I think that is kind of a big reason why it was successful but the fact that you developed again the format of okay they’re gonna be twenty minutes you know why 20 minutes was that how long a television show is is that why I think it just seemed that that’s a good length to have a beginning middle and an end which is which is I guess why you know 22 minutes was became the the time that TV did it as well you know like it’s you know there’s enough time for you to to starts to explain what you’re doing start the idea then you’ve got a good middleware you’re creating it and then you have you know three or four minutes at the end for a fun ending but you know I never there was not once when I sat down and worked fought like okay I should start in the room and then I should go to the love garden and like that I never once fought about that it was instinct it just kind of happened and then people picked up and it people were like like I did one episode where I didn’t start in my room like oh why didn’t you start in your room that’s like oh that’s the thing now like that that just I guess I will doubt yeah like that’s what that’s how I start like it’s interesting that you know Entertainment Weekly called you the Mister Rogers of Minecraft and it’s that it’s that repetition and it’s that pattern and it’s I mean it’s also the target audience I guess but it’s so powerful you know I even fell mice like once I watched Italy I was like I get it I get it I can come back to this you know he was one of his dogs then he ran off and he doesn’t know where it is but he did that on purpose I bet I bet I’m gonna find out to next time that that dogs coming back this guy’s a genius I want to know what happened to the dog with the dogs fine I just want to rest to show that straight away the dogs fine I mean don’t lie a lot of your dogs have died I hope don’t don’t be like the dog is fine how many dogs have died and where do you bury him well I bury them where they died I mean that’s actually kind of and it’s not a nice thing but that is a nice way to kind of add a bit of a message in because there’s always if a dog died you know they’re always buried and you know I can always say a little thing about like you know them being remembered and things so that’s kind of that’s something that I’ve not shied away from there are certain dogs that I feel that if they died people would be too upset that couldn’t happen but especially the early save that one old so a bad dog dies is just start over yeah yeah yeah has that happened yeah very you know but not read but once you once you quit out the game it’s it’s back to school yeah yeah you know it’s kind of travel which dog are we talking about here and like you know I I don’t know any I don’t know any specific example cut off my head but it’s but you know that these dogs are meaningful to the audience so yeah I know that I’ve diverted destiny for a few new favorite characters they’re playing God in Minecraft I love it well I mean you talk about the audience and kind of changing making your content more age-appropriate yeah and it’s it’s not like every youtuber doesn’t knows that kids are watching their stuff what what made you make a decision because you made a strategic decision early on that okay you know you weren’t gonna you were gonna use foul language you were gonna keep it kid-friendly you know but but you didn’t have to and and most people don’t and it’s just it’s a choice it was it was a moral decision rather than a strategic one cuz you know that was still at a point where YouTube wasn’t even in the back of my head an idea for a career like that was you know that was pure hobby like I mean there was a you know I for years I did non child friendly content on YouTube just as a hobby you know no one was watching but I think air and then when minecraft came out I noticed kids were watching and so you know I thought like oh I can’t if kids are watching I can’t be swearing like but I I was happy to change and I’m so glad I did now because I think that was you know the the big reason why more kids started watching and you know parents you know trusted me at that point you know they were and yeah and I and we can say from the perspective of parents who have kids who are fans of yours yeah I mean we definitely appreciate that and that’s in that’s I think that’s something that we think about because we are parents so it kind of came like we started YouTube as parents so you know I’ve always just kind of thought oh yeah most of these single people they just they just don’t know that they’re not thinking beyond just the immediate experience that they’re having so I’m not thinking like oh like 75% of my audience is like really young kids so maybe I should think about what I’m saying so we as a parent we appreciate that yeah I mean it was it was never seeing like I didn’t see a gap in the mark you know I didn’t say oh here’s this big untapped audience it was you know that audience was there and I saw they were on my channel and I was like okay I better you know tailor my content to the people that want to say I mean I mean I say I didn’t make child-friendly stuff like I was never vulgar like it was just you know it was more it just wasn’t intended yet my commentary was like I am in this conversation I wasn’t you know I was speaking as I’m speaking now which is you know it’s just fine but it’s you know it’s not gonna grab anyone’s attention right and you’re not gonna like just drop an expletive when you when you feel angry you’re gonna you’re gonna hold back a little bit yeah and even more so than that I’m gonna I’m not gonna get angry I’m gonna understand the situation and you know like you’re never gonna see stampy you know getting like you say if he loses you know you know having a big tournament and I lost my loads I’m never gonna be angry no it’s like oh well but we all had fun you know it’s it’s it’s a road those messages it’s this you know it’s not my emotions at that point it’s you know it’s stampy’s and it’s not like it’s different being fake as well because you know if I’m laughing like that’s you know that’s like that’s laughing like if a song if I turn a corner and there’s a zombie and it makes me job like that’s all real but then there’s other things where I can tailor things to make it a little bit better than real life like a little bit happier as an entertainer and what’s the most what’s the largest scale project that you’ve done is it the the rocket launch that you were mentioning earlier um there’s a probably the money my Easter special this year was quite big that was a like a choose your own adventure style video so where it started off as an Easter egg hunt where there would be a riddle left by the Easter Bunny and I’ve got to work at where the egg is and then eventually I’m attacked by a villain and then it becomes like do you attack the villain or do you try and talk to him and then you know so that was a good 20 plus episode you did short videos and those were clickable annotations to different videos yeah yeah and and I cards as well so it worked on phones so yes yeah 2 to 0 never so that was quite a big one they’re flying to the moon one was a big one because in in Minecraft that there isn’t a moon you can go to so I give it all to the moon yeah give us the concept i watch the behind the scenes video you know I want you to explain it because it was just kind of taking minecraft from being a game and turn it into a cinematic tool yeah it would became video editing software feck software in every it was it blew my mind when I watched it behind the scenes so what did you want to do what was the first idea yes and this is actually it’s actually a really controversial video if you can believe it for really weird reason so what I love to do is to take the game and do things that you couldn’t normally do in the game but make it like like it’s never like oh I’ve added in a flying dragon which obviously doesn’t fit in it always is supposed to always look like it is just the game and I just kind of never acknowledge it and it’s just you know that’s what it is where it’s flying to the moon or traveling back in time or going around in a submarine like I like to do these bigger videos and they’re you know they’re always more popular so I did a video where I made it look like I was flying to the moon and I met aliens and the moon was powered by Luna cheese which I gave it up from the moon is like you know this big video and that’s when I knew you were fake when it was power that was it’s powered by naughty children turning cogs right no yes I said the process of making that that video was you know I tried to build the moon which was you know a month long project I had help building of you know we’re placing block by block building the surface of the moon and there’s a sphere of lunar scape well I was able to I pretended we couldn’t see beyond the horizon so I didn’t have to build I was able to build a flat plane and assume that the rest wouldn’t be wouldn’t be seen so I mean that was a big thing you know in itself and then I had to build a recreation of a huge rocket ship that I built in my world and then you know I had to then get the transition perfect from me flying up into the the sky and then you know loading up and brand new world and then editing it as if I land and trying to make it look seamless right so you get it you you built you build the rocket like the audiences along for the ride watching you and the struggling rocket on your plan on your in your world the lovely world yeah yeah you get in the rocket and it’s like alright launch sequence initiate and then you see the rocket take off this cannot happen in Minecraft roots going up you can see the you see the skyline disappear and the Rockets it’s it’s it’s in orbit well it’s out of orbit and then you see it just come down on them on the moon kind of like the space X rocket like it came down but first right yeah full of video logistical reasons yeah there’s the thing with that is it’s those mean the rocket one was I mean some people might have guessed that something would have happened but it’s always just happens within what would seem like a normal episode so they would never know when that things like that are gonna happen like I love to surprise the audience and so I’ll be having a totally normal episode I’m building a bakery and then suddenly you know a UFO comes down and suddenly something big happens and then there’s this quick adventure and they have no idea you know when it’s coming you know sometimes I do like a build-up to it that I leave clues in a few episodes leading up to it and how are you I say physically editing these things you’re like exporting capture footage from Minecraft into like Final Cut yeah yeah I was I was at that point so I did his that wives was controversial because it was you were to using editing tricks it don’t yeah the word the worry yet the controversy was the fact that I got accused of like faking a video and like you know and how did you find out about that like what was it just a bunch of comment well it was actually the I uploaded a I knew that after cuz that the moon one was the first big video like that you know so that when you broke the rules yeah yeah and so I knew I was going to get comment saying how did you do that but I thought they were all gonna be how did you edit that I didn’t realize they were gonna be how did you fly the moon in Minecraft yeah they’re like all racking their brains how do we do this in the game so I uploaded I I made at the same time I made a behind the scenes where every I recorded every process and I made a video pouch stamp you flew to the moon because I knew people were gonna you know wanted to know how I did it thinking the editing tricks assuming they would know but then would they would find this video and be like oh so you faked it you didn’t actually fly to the you made out as if you flew to them you were tricking us and I was like nice too entertaining you hopefully you know like I was you know like I didn’t you know I was a bit short-sighted on my side like I was didn’t realize that people would assume that I was actually doing this thing you know I thought I was making you know a cool entertaining video but I got yeah I mean it’s just a minority you know but it was how did learning that that people had an expectation or at least some people had an expectation for this to be an authentic minecraft experience how did that impact you moving forward and I I often now in videos like that at the very end say something along the lines of like you know like say like I hope you enjoyed this you know this this special video and kind of try and word it to make it obvious that you know like it you know like this wasn’t fake I hope you just enjoyed this this special thing I made for you you like I try and leave something like that but it hasn’t really changed too much like I keep trying to step up to beat the the previous thing and you know and there are a lot of people that aren’t thinking about the behind the scenes and whether they think it’s in Minecraft or not I just really enjoying these videos you know they always end up more popular and you know they’re they’re kind of the the people are mainly making the the videos for like it hasn’t hasn’t put me off make you know kind of doing that kind of thing right because that’s how you’re that’s one of the ways that you’re kind of pushing the pushing the boundaries of the space yeah it’s just something something a little bit different and I’ve done you know quite a few videos in that that style now where you know it’s probably what once every 2 or 3 months there’s just this video that kind of comes out of nowhere which always seems like a normal video and then you know something extraordinary happens what’s the next thing what’s in the works give us a hint and well they’re after the the Easter video the villain has escaped and will be coming back soon I’m not I’m not holding back from you guys I’ll tell you anything but I don’t know exactly yet you got to spend a month building something whatever it is it’ll be great tell us about the pre Stampede Joe like growing up um so I’d always wanted to what my two obsessions were playing video games and making videos and well where did you grow up I grew up in the the South of England about 15 minutes away from where I live now it’s a small town called Emsworth it’s like a fishing village it’s very on the coast yeah yeah right right right next to the the sea there’s a writer very happy childhood either did your dad or mom a fisherman oh no says that sadly not but my dad is actually a graphics designer and did all of the stamp er work for merchandise and things oh yeah he actually did all of that so and then my mum is you know number-one fan and now like YouTube expert from looking at you know from me going what watching everyone else and she’s number one on my stamp you Facebook page moderating it to see you wouldn’t believe what this woman was saying all this time through Facebook page so you know it’s kind of become a bit of a family project now which I would you what was she saying [Laughter] say what they think on Facebook yeah I’ll tell you that so you got any siblings yeah I got two sisters two older sisters one of which is a now works with my dad doing a design work and another one which has just started a youtube career as well so it’s like yeah well we ended up I wanted to do a video where I was getting my mum to play Minecraft for the first time and she would be playing and I would be kind of guiding her and she’s you know never touched a controller in her life she wouldn’t do it and then I asked my sister who was in the same situation to do it and she did it and loved it and then like a few weeks later started up a YouTube channel doing minecraft video so I was able to get my sister into as well did you guys get along growing up yeah yeah we always had yeah we were always a really really close family I mean we like having three moms when you have two older sisters no because because mums kind of you know like II I I kind of felt like it was a bit different for for I guess playing like I had very close friends and you know like I wasn’t particularly interested in in in girls toys so we were kind of close in a way but you know we didn’t we played together a lot when we were when we were very young but kind of as you get older like I I was super obsessive into video games and you know they weren’t so from there from a young age yeah well I never actually had games consoles as a child but all my friends did which like which is fine but like in wise it was your family just like we’re not gonna you should be playing those video games I don’t think I’ve already asked for one like I don’t know why but I I don’t think I I just I just never considered the fact I could have one two three until when I was very young but but I actually liked it now because it made video games like really special to me because I you’ll be you know they’ll be going to my friend’s house and I get to play it and I’d like oh yeah I’m gonna go around go around Liam’s house I get to you know I get to play the Savior I get to play the only I’m head there saying yeah yeah I’m here to hear all of them and I didn’t have any of them but you know so medium was spoiled well yeah there were kids like that they had all this all the systems now but a huge part of who you are and what you do now is your imagination right and so we as somebody who has a brain that can create a story and create a world I always picture them as a kid kinda lost and thought or you know wandering around exploring and stuff like that like how did that imagination manifest itself when you were a kid so when I was really young it was writing I used to write my own stories and like I used to get just a4 paper and like kind of fold it together and staple it to make books and like draw the the frog out so that when I was really young like that was my obsession and then you know like mom read my new book and her you know looking at my squiggle was trying to understand it and then you know in an innocent like so like we’re talking I could adventure novels about fantastical bands of creatures what genre no nothing nothing that good it was nothing that girls often slightly based on video games probably Liam’s video games yeah yeah you know there’s a long-running series called the cat and the dog which me and my friend Lee here’s that Liam’s real by the way that’s a serious who meet me and you know we were right kind of back and forth together and so as the only other person that would read each other’s books you know writing partner yeah that’s you know you were committed I should have gotten link involved at this stage because what I did is I began writing one book when I was about 10 years old and it was about this group of I remember people who were in this really weird world that had like cows would no short legs like perfectly manicured grass and well you let me read it and I guess my reaction didn’t inquiry is my band of friends who are like going out across this land they came to a huge chasm and then like I write now I couldn’t figure out what they should do when they got to the chasm so the book just ended it was I’m standing at the edge of a chasm that’s why they call it writers chasm mmm I’ll let you read it as a poet now in our in our relationship now link would be like I’ve got a suggestion for how to get across the chasm but he was like okay yeah let’s do some oatmeal paws yeah now if I what I if the mean now was then what I would have done was I would have given you 20 notes the four of them would have been really good and would have helped you get over the chasm but then the other 18 you just got really mad frustrated why do the cows have short legs that doesn’t make any sense like we get a lot of arguments so you had a runner and Liam yeah but that but that didn’t continue no I mean that this is very you know this is very young but then as soon as technology caught up to where like I could make videos then that was the used to be animations was my obsession I got I didn’t have a video camera but I would take my mum’s digital camera it’s like stills camera and I’ll make stop motions and that’s actually where I got the the stamping name from stampylonghead was a character in one of these animations he had a long hair yet he had a long head and big feet as and then and also on the the computer odd the way odd Anna makes I didn’t have flash or anything and if I did I wouldn’t how to use it I would I’d use Photoshop and I would save pictures so I’d have all my separate layers and I’d move the eyes and then the mouse and then I’d save a picture and then I just shoved them all in in a timeline and you know and then I’d make animations that way and that was you know like I I’m one of the people that I could sit there for you know seven hours just just doing that this is like high school or middle school this is this is kind of fast towards the the end of what would be the lowest Kairos primary school in in England like this will be towards the end of day this is looking at about nine ten eleven twelve yeah you know that’s when I was getting obsessed with that and then as soon as I got a video camera and you know I found picked a group of friends that would be interested enough to you know jump around in front of it while I’m trying to trying to make something then that was the that’s what I was doing you know and this is you know before YouTube and then to the start of YouTube and then so as soon as YouTube came along then that was like okay I got a place to to put all of these these early videos so you never went back to actually writing anything no I mean I was it was writing for for video at that point I know I never went back to just just literature this is these are kids books the dog see as soon as video-making like came around you know from then until now then that was that that was what I was gonna do not from through school and then I did college for two years doing TV and film and then did video productions in university like I I knew I was wanting to make videos but like my obsession was never with film I never you know I never I didn’t watch loads of films and watch loser TV my obsession was always still playing video games I loved the process of making video but then playing games so what is er what specifically did you think the career was gonna be um I wasn’t sure I always liked editing editing was a big thing I liked that’s why I try to specialize in I actually before going full-time in YouTube I was doing freelance vision mixing like live vision mixing at events like corporate events and things I was doing that because that was one of the few professional things I could do where people would pay me to do it Heath oh that was this I never need live cameras which yeah yeah a little I like life switching so we found your LinkedIn profile online okay which still says quote freelance video producer and features that you were bar staff at the railway in and that’s the only only work experience I that LinkedIn was made as in University like I just said like like do you have a LinkedIn to everyone and I was like I don’t know ones like if you don’t have a link to unlike make one now yes I gotta have one of those yeah and it still sits yeah yeah I can take it down but it is you should but you are a barkeep like yeah were you a bartender or were you like yeah through University and for a while afterwards I was I was a bartender at the railway in yeah what was that place like there’s a as a local English pub it was down the road from from where I lived they build pubs on top of pubs over there right yeah you walk in a pub to get to another pub right it’s like one of eight pubs in the town square of this tiny town it’s like every other buildings a small pub and I was a bartender in one of them we just churches in the south it’s like well you walk through a church to get to a church that’s right right yeah it is something like that but I mean that was a great job for me what I loved at a university because I’d love the contrast of the conversations you’re having with people at university and then going to the pub it was each one was a nice break from the the other rep and also I had you know I didn’t have great social skills or confidence before then like and that was a great way you know to be able to meet new people each day and just be able to hold you know conversations with people like that something that was it was a clientele in the real way in we talk in middle-aged men watching football yeah yeah yeah middle to later age aged men you know who who are in there for another day knows those are really nice people there though um you know it was it was a sport pub I had a pool table and a dartboard and stuff so there’s a pretty good mix actually right you seen any wicked dart accidents no and well almost course I mean we would when the when the pub was shut we would do crazy darts and we’d play darts in you know just difficult positions to throw darts oh you know no one was there we were we were fine but that was what are the the things to look forward to at the end of the shift crazy darts did you ever do that very stereotypical thing that a bartender does in movies where they had to cut some old man off like late at night like you can’t no you can’t have another one is that like is that part of the bartender’s code yeah you got a deal arguing with drunk people is one of the the skills you pick up early on and how to ignore knowledge like ignore ignore logic and just alright it’s just like dealing with just really big kids at that point yeah yeah I think that the way you gotta you go to speak to them right that’s where you developed your voice first ampie know talking to drunk men who needed to be like told a walk home [Laughter] that sounded nothing like they did that was the very poor Rhett interpretation of the very beginning of the other video what’s your your day-to-day like now I mean let’s get let’s talk social life and so I mean no I mean you know how hard it is I mean it’s a good thing I mean you put now how many videos a day how many days a week so I do minecraft daily and then there’s other other games I play as well which I sort of on top of that so seven days a week yeah it’s pretty about 11 or 12 videos I do a week I do so I do a minecraft one every day but you know we were speaking earlier about the preparation that goes into videos that’s not all of them that that’s very specific to my lovely world my main series there’s other videos where you know you could be sent a map which is kind of like a story and you kind of just play through it and you know you could do three four five episodes in a row you know kind of long as long as you’ve still got energy and got your voice like so you know so I could you know do do one day recording them and then that’s that covered for two weeks and so then I have the time to you know spend you know a day or two like working hard on one particular video so that’s that that’s the way you can kind of fit it in so you actually have time to do it all and I want to come back to that day to day and I think this kind of intersects with it too knowing that you know when you look at the amount of viewers that you’re getting on this content and imagining you know especially if you’re still doing so much of it yourself I mean your overhead is low views are incredible you’re obviously doing well funny financially so at what point did you start thinking like okay you know one point you’re a bartender and a guy who’s studying at university in the next moment you’re like well hold on this this is a real thing this isn’t this isn’t just making a living like this is this is building something that it’s a pretty big deal like I’m gonna have opportunities based on how this is going like do you remember when that started happening yeah well I mean the very specific day-to-day for producing videos for my channel has hardly changed like I’ve got you know I’m not doing it from you know my bedroom now which is not you know still in my house but the I’m not doing it from a bedroom anymore but you know the process of making videos like hasn’t changed coz there’s enough there’s nothing you can really change cuz because I don’t want to bring help in for that because I want it to stay so true to me that hasn’t changed it’s just other opportunities around there has change you know for things that I could do you know going forth like it’s just opened a little doors for me and so they said that’s that’s the the big thing that has changed but do you anticipate you know because I mean at some point you’re going to be like well I want to start a family or I want to try this or I’ve got this project that if I want to do this thing I’m going to have to let some of that go is there this is it a well I just hope I’ll find somebody I trust because I totally get it that you’re saying I enjoy that like I don’t want to let go of that I don’t want it to become just this enterprise or this business that I’m just managing because I the heart of it of you developing and executing your creativity is something you want to maintain but if you decide you want to you know like money you’d like your new project wonder quest things like that if they start pulling away that is it just a matter of finding somebody you trust to do it for you or is it pulling back I think is it would have to be pulling back like the the planning of the lovely world episodes and the the commentary are the the two things I could never give away there’s probably a few you know in like literally you know so if I was gonna do a video now of flying to the moon you know there’s probably someone I could get to build the moon for me or you know to build that map but the the commentary and then the the preparation for the actual video the coming up with ideas that I’m gonna always retain as me so it would have to be a case of you know you know three or four maybe minecraft videos a week rather than rather than seven you know if that did happen you know as you said like I wouldn’t have an option to start a family now like the you know my schedule wouldn’t permit for that you know it would be unfair to the the other people you know in my life to you know it’s no it’s ten hours a day you know if not more just you know and then that’s just getting just getting by and then there’s everything other opportunities that go on top you know which take up more time so you know you’re like how do you handle how do you handle a week in LA like this um so I always just stop pal like I do have opportunities to record when I’m going away but I’m so and I’m so particular about kind of where I record and like kind of my my setup like you know just the yes mentalism having a stockpile yeah like it if you here for a week the previous week you had to do double yeah two weeks yeah and then when I get it I’m always I’m always quite far ahead in terms of oh yeah record I always have safety room it’s just normally depending on what series it’s normally at least a month safety room I have so you know because if I’m so if I’m sick if I lose my voice then you know I don’t I don’t ever miss days you know like I’ve I can’t miss day is this I’ve never you know like kind of out or just traditional hate just to miss one day because I’m that you’ve never missed a day well like so since doing I don’t know from when it started but since I started doing daily minecraft videos I’ve not missed a day yet so okay we kind of just you kind of just suck just just to miss one because I have a sore throat and I probably end up using like Siri to do a commentary to text a voice to do as I go people might be disappointed but what about you gotta have time for romance man I mean and I’m not just talking like like some like me let’s just say there was a girl that you could play some minecraft videos with and then that could also be popular and like help meet your quota I’m actually talking about like in real life an actual girl yeah so what’s the question do you have time for romance and yeah I mean like mice my schedule isn’t to the point where I can’t do it like I can go out I can do things I can meet people I mean like it’s hard for me to duck to [Music] this it’s hard for me to meet people outside of the the YouTube space which is lucky for me that you know I I have met someone and it’s just we’ve not kept a secret like I’m with squashy who’s a duck in in Minecraft and you know and we met through through minecraft as I meet most people these days and she may or may not be in the room may not be to my left squirming in the corner I was like you can stay in here we typically said nobody can stay in here but I just wanted to see her squirm in the corner when I kind of made you squirm but I asked Lily I was like you think distemper you have a girlfriend no she she was watching the video like stamping and squashy playing and I was like okay I hear a girl I hear a girls voice that doesn’t sound like ballistic squid and unless he’s changed a lot last time I listened over your shoulder and I know that’s squashy I was like oh is that is that stampy’s girlfriend she was like she was like well he doesn’t say so but it’s pretty obvious right which is kind of what you’re saying I mean in videos it’s I never talk about personal life it’s just like I never even ref talk about my life like I never referenced real-life things like I never mentioned like you know as foresee you know I never mentioned what I had for breakfast is always because you know maybe a you know like I thought all about eating something I thought what I’m eating in Minecraft not real life so but as you’ll get your vlog Channel too though that people get it yeah yeah so there’s another channel magic animal Club which is kind of there’s a few of us it’s a bit of a joint channel so whenever we do want to do something that is kind of outside of that outside of the character you know that’s kind of a place where we can put like I’m the only reason we do that is because people like you know demander people are really interested they’ve got to know it’s just like we had to know right here and we had to talk about it so the answer is yes there is time for for girlfriend yeah and but then you guys have made a decision okay we’re gonna do the vlog thing you’re gonna see is it Disneyland you can you know we’re just gonna you know what what went into that decision like we mean we was just we never feel the need to like announce anything like we have anything in our personal life we never feel you know we’re not we’re not vlog it’s like well we’ve done a few vlogs but they’re always like we’re doing a big thing like you want to see this cool thing we’re doing like I’ve never done a vlog from home just saying okay you know I’ve never done just a general you know like you know I think I’d be really boring at that but you know if I’m doing a really cool thing and I think you know people would love to see us doing this this is cool you know that’s when we vlogging you know if I happen to be with squashy or whoever you know they’re gonna be in the vlog you know we’re gonna do it you know together but I never feel like you know I need to announce anything in my personal life I kind of and it’s kind of nice to have that you know that boundary like like you guys have you know a bit of that that separation right one of the talking about today I was true I was trying to picture like surely you know the fact that you guys are making videos together is it makes it a little bit less of a loner thing I mean like yeah you could easily just sort of dive into this world and just be doing everything by yourself which is kind of what you you were doing at one point so how is that how has it been managing a relationship like that and the logistical question are you guys in the same room when you’re talking to each other in the game we’re in the same house but in a in a different room just just for this easier just for sound isolation yeah yeah yeah so that makes it easy like that and we were recording such as how your relationship works there’s a line down the middle of the house is my side that’s what we do yes yes I mean I mean we were recording before we met together like it was you know it was that way around and you know I’ve done videos with with other people before that you mentioned earlier ballistics weird you know like you who I met when I either thousand subscribers where when I met him and we have been you know kind of unofficial partners for a while you’re not to the level that you two are in the fact that we we’re never planning stuff together like he has series on his channel which I’m kind of a guest in and I’ll jump in and be comic relief and then vice versa I’ll have a series which you know like I’m very controlling like I’ll kind of plan you know our plan what the series is and I invite him in because he really makes me laugh and so he’s great but you can’t talk it’s really only being ballistic squid and now squashy that I’ve done videos talking to people which is always awkward for me because are you a control freak I like to like if it’s a point where it’s gray she is nodding her head like if I’m doing a video on my channel you know then like I feel like I am in control and I want it the way I want it but if I was a guest in know squids or squeeze videos like I wouldn’t try and take control like I let them take control in our you know let them Rena I abide by their rules and go in the direction they want so but like in real life like okay it’s we gotta get from point A to point B and we’re gonna go my way and I don’t think so can we have an order of shake am i controlling we’re got a sigh I don’t think like full work stuff and video stuff like that that’s my obsession and that’s when I’m gonna really care you know if it’s about like what we’re gonna have for dinner like I Germany I’m not interested I don’t I don’t care you know we can have what you want worried you not like a personality type or you laid-back or like more tightly wound you know is there does it carry over from the meticulous planning that goes into your videos I think I mean there’s things that like you know that would stress me out but I think I’m generally laid-back about about most things has the so did the relationships start before yeah so so we though the way we met was she squashy sent me a map in mind and I will say we don’t want you to have minecraft me all have cinema map we would just bring her over but we don’t have a fourth mic and it’s just it’s also more entertaining for me personally to watch her just react I’m speaking trying to keep the woman silent it’s just sort of logistically working out that way right now well we met in a traditional way she sent me a Minecraft map nice she said to her she said she sent me a video like cuz you know people send me maps all the time to you know hoping that I’m gonna play through them and do a video of them so she sent me a stamp effets map that she made but she made a video of her playing through it and kind of talking about it and you know and I thought the the map the map was okay like the mat was pretty cool but like I thought her commentary was really funny like I thought she was really good and she had I don’t know how many subscribers she had at the time but I remember I was her 11th she’s he’d only been doing YouTube should be known for her for a few months and so I went and watched some of her videos I was like she’s really funny like this is someone who you know really child friendly bright happy this is someone who I’d like to do videos with looked out your window and she was standing there I reached out to her you know and you know I wanted to meet her for a bit in chat you know before saying about you know doing that I’ll never go let’s do a video together so I talked about you know the possibility of doing a series together one kind of worked out what that being and then we started recording and so you know when you’re recording a song you’re speaking to them a lot and so yeah we met we went through minecraft so she was kind of an a collaborator first or yeah yeah definitely we did videos together before before we you know before this before we met in person right and and then when you the first time you incorporated I know you’d incorporate a ballistic squid already into videos but when you incorporated her into videos what was the fan reaction in how do your fans react to changes and stuff in its general there’s that there’s a lot of negativity like any change like I needs like I did a one-off series with with Martin it would from the yogscast and you know and i think was a great series but like up until then all of that type of video had been with squid and so you know people generally react negatively to change and so I think when I started with squashy there was a bit of that I mean it’s always the minority you know it’s always a very loud minority right you know but that was when we started we’re now you know we’ve been doing videos for for quite a while now and you know people love her and she’s you know she’s got a strong channel as well and you know her her own set of fans and you know bitch she’s just kind of accepted as you know as part of the you know the the group of friends now did you start dating before you met in person uh no like we kind of you know we were kind of talking and getting along and then you know and then we we met we won’t keep grilling you about that we should talk about the new stuff that you’re working on because there’s like huge stuff a wonder Kratts Quest Wonder course wonder core you yes there’s a Wonder Quest is so this is off my channel this is a new channel called Wonder quest which is it’s a joint channel I’m doing with maker studios we’re kind of going into this together and I had the idea from as soon as I realized kids were watching I knew that I wanted to do educational videos and so and this was you know this is what that that is and so it’s a new channel where it’s it’s a it’s a brand new format to where unlike my videos which are completely unscripted these are completely scripted you know there we have producers of the show we it you know it’s shot like a show you know we have multiple cameras you know and we have overlays and music and sound effects and it’s but it’s set within a Minecraft yeah universe it’s minecraft yeah it’s all my characters yeah it’s all the rapper worlds yeah that there is also a side show called I wonder and that is an animated show right and so that that’s sure to content the each episodes about three or four minute four minutes and that goes even more in depth to the educational side whereas the main show I mean it it’s got to be entertainment first because I was no one’s gonna watch it you know but you know what’s the story like in general so it’s it’s kind of kinda like a Saturday morning cartoon as a there’s an evil villain villain called heinous who’s a Playfish a car and you know and then he’s got his his two henchmen and there’s the wonder cube which has been shattered and it’s basically stopped everyone from wandering like no one’s thinking like everyone’s just kind of turned dumb and and so we’re trying to piece it back together so each episode we’re like we’re following Clues to try and find a piece of the wonderment and then there’s certain obstacles we have to try and get passed on are on our way to doing that you know and we’re inevitably having to learn something to get past those obstacles in what was the motivation for kind of branching out I just knew it was something that I that I wanted to do I just knew as something that would work so well in Minecraft and you know minecraft has been used for education for a while now like it’s used in schools quite a lot there’s a a need EU version of Minecraft which is an educational version of Minecraft which is officially released so it’s not you know it’s not breaking like any doors down in that way but that type of entertaining video content is something that you don’t see see much of and it just seemed like such an obvious thing because it’s not just a show that they can watch because we’re also releasing the world you know the sets or the games that we’re playing in so with each episode will release a world so people can kind of do what we did and you know kind of carry on playing and learn you know beyond just watching the video but how is it shut its shot like a show it’s not it’s not like a live-action show right because you’ve got a real world a virtual world of Minecraft but then you have to shoot like I’m talking camera angles and characters and blocking no pun intended it’s not it’s not like an animation what you just draw whatever you want you have to a you have to build it then you have to insert the characters and then see you have to shoot it how does that work how do you work camera angles in Minecraft so yes so the first thing building the set is a big thing when I get there there’s Minecraft yeah yes that’s easy but then even looked how that stuff though so the filming so we’re we’re in the game and then we have characters that are invisible so they’re the they’re the cameras and there are settings you can do to have a smoother camera and make it so you don’t see any of the menus you just see you know what you know what you’re seeing so it’s the first person perspective of invisible characters edited together Tom’s the cameraman yeah but you know the amazing you know yeah I think if you have to do a crane shot in real life you know you’ve got to get a crane you know of us you got to press a button you can fly the invisible carrier yeah so there’s lots of opportunities to do cool things there and there are people doing this or is this the first of its kind there there’s beaming there’s been things that I’ve done on my channel which are kind of that in them yeah yeah you know and people you know before me doing that kind of thing I mean this is I mean this is long-form content though you know these are you know I mean it’s all into their basis it’s not straight but if they’re all about 20 minutes or so so this is long-form content and the you know the printer view and the overlays or the music and then the you know the simpler to say if I’m throwing so an item on the ground they don’t just rely on the minecraft sound you know they’re I don’t you know let me ask you this when you’re your plane stampy in this in this world are are you controlling the character and voicing it simultaneously yes so we’re saying you’re doing there’s a director are you all in the same room are you in London and shake Carl’s in like the middle of Idaho yeah so it’s if there’s a couple of us there’s myself and then Adam Clark who plays wizard keen who’s kind of he’s kind of like my mentor he’s the kind of guy teaching me I’m kind of their pupil we’re in the UK and then there’s the the team at maker and they’re in LA so I got a bad sleep pattern for recording late at night and so what essentially I’m doing is the commentary is still done live with the action we don’t just do a voiceover session like after we’ve shot it so I’m basically nodding I’m nodding the character’s head up and down yeah and speaking and there are some elements where you know there is a lot of improvising that that goes into it and there are some parts where it is more of a you know there’s oh there’s a horde of zombies coming we need to get them and so you’re setting up the scene is there like a director who’s like you’re hearing and he’s like on skype or something okay guys action is this yeah is it is this amazing how similar to a normal shoot a little like the logistics are you know we have to face a live action shoot it I mean I didn’t think I was like doing a play more than it’s like filming yeah you know what I mean no it’s still scene based I assume yeah then you stop down it’s like well let’s get that again I didn’t like your performance let’s write but you there’s if you’re building something or you know you the same thing applies where you’re you have to redo it right yeah but I like it yeah I mean if we’re building so we have to redo but there’s very little minecraft yeah you know it’s it’s more of a story with it yeah yeah it is you know puppets I think it’s quite a you know a nice thing to use you are we kind of playing through there are some times we might need to play something we never have any hammer men are there it’s usually too you know but we will redo the the scene a few times you know I’ll get specific things there sometimes you know there’s this – cam ops who are invisible men and then you’ll redo the scene in like giving them different assignments and there’s a director who’s deciding all that stuff that yeah yeah and sometimes if it’s a bigger scene you know sometimes we’ll have a scene where we need like a crowd and we need you know like it’s you know like a bigger scene than we have more people helping you know sometimes squashy might hop on and be an extra character in the background because it’s needed and how long I mean what how many episodes of how late how so there’s 12 episodes we’re doing free seasons the first season is out now and there’s 12 episodes of that and they’re all they’re all about 20 minutes so I’m go down to about 15 I think some a little bit low and how are you releasing that because I know that when we’re recording this you’re about to launch yeah and then once it’s launched you’re releasing them all all 12 episodes no we’re gonna be doing them weekly the guns gonna be so this is the the I wonder which is the animated show and then one of the the main show Wonder Quest is gonna be released each week and so they’re gonna be spaced out in that way and how do you doing I guess they’re supplies of your videos too but for some reason it just seems like more of an issue when you’re creating like an original programming when you’re basically creating a show that is intellectual property but you’re using minecraft is are there any like copyright considerations for that kind of thing yeah I mean the basically it means we we have ween there’s no opportunity to bring it to TV for example is is a big thing I mean the Minecraft great in terms of their their Terms of Use the fact they may spell out very clearly like it says in the Terms of Use you may you know put this content on YouTube and and monetize it and you know which is obviously they don’t take a cut no no but they you know they have the best free advertising in the word you know unless it is it’s way better than than any trailer so is this kind of it you know a mutual benefit situation right so you know and for things I say if we wanted to bring out you know merchandise or something you know we you can’t use any anything minecraft so it does kind of limit kind of the the potential of what these things can be but for this kind of show like its home is YouTube like there this is the place where you know children are gonna want to watch this this program so what now I mean it sounds like Wonder Quest is you know there’s two more seasons that you’re committed to are you happy with with it so far and what else are you setting your sights on yeah I mean I’m I’m super happy with how how Wonder quest is like turned up and I’m you know as I said as as we’re recording this it’s not public yet so I’m anticipating the the reaction and you know this is something then you know that the last year on so just waiting to see what what people think so hopefully as the time as I can listen to this some nice comments and I mean the next I mean the big thing for me is obviously been so ties directly to Minecraft the warriors that you know once minecraft Rupp Minecraft popularity starts to go down as you know inevitably will is to try and make it so you know the stampy cat character can kind of live on in in some other form and there’s you know that there’s nothing at the moment but you know I’m heavily thinking about you know other even other mediums or other ways that stampy cat can you know live as a character outside of Minecraft so that’s the the next big project well you know we’re we’re in awe of everything that you’re doing and we think it’s awesome and obviously our kids do so yes sign the table man and that will be that will be some of our kids can keep coming back to ya really did happen did yes and Beth yo you should you should come over to the Mike and say something come on I’m not gonna make you but I just said you should you don’t put on the headphones and everything just full treatment you could they can know that you were actually here I was actually here that’s her and that’s question back what’s your assessment I mean is there something that you need to correct that he said um not really I mean yes he is quite controlling and what else don’t hold back you know what you just earned your own signature on this table yeah yes to find a spot thanks for coming in guys [Music] and there you have it our conversation with stampy cat and squashy she’s got she get we got her on that mic there at the end so that’s we did it got her perspective I mean she was here the whole time which I think we explained but so it was only appropriate to bring her on and give her a microphone tweet at Joseph his Twitter handle is stampylongnose stampylongnose not stampy cat hashtag your biscuits let him know what you thought of the conversation also give us a review on iTunes we appreciate that one of the cool things that happened is right after we finished recording this podcast we walked we took him out of the the ear biscuits to do here and walked out into the the main part of the studio and to record the good mythical morning appearance that he made which has been up for a while at the Minecraft game well yeah I won by the way and I and I thought that she would win because you’ve been why now yeah you know you really should feel a little shame about that but questions were hard for us you’re our kids were here because not just because we wanted to use them in the game but because they really really really really really wanted to meet stampy this is probably dad meant maybe the number one celebrity that they would want to meet period oh yeah you know and so and of course once some of their friends found out that they were meeting stampy they had to be here too so we had all of our kids and some of their friends here but we knew they were here we said yeah we didn’t know what I wouldn’t know where they were so as soon as we get out into this or the main open area of the studio they’re all like standing there and they begin clapping like for Stanley as he comes out and it was just it was an amazing moment of course he’s like the most gracious guy you can tell you can totally tell he’s not one of these guys that is annoyed by the fact that he’s popular with children he immediately started talking to each one of them and you know Lily had made some stuff for him and anyway he it was it was pretty awesome but they definitely got more out of that moment than they’ve ever gotten out of anything that we provided as an actual father hey if that’s what it takes to be a cool dad or a good dad I don’t know you know it’s like I’ll pull out that stop you know you’ll pull out that stop I’ll pull out you know how they say pull out all the stops yeah you’ll pull out that stuff that doesn’t Garrett coming to your studio is one of the stops so but I think you pull out the stops to make things go faster right see you I have no clue what a stop is I think you play a card you know what playing the stampy card as a father to become a cool dad the funny thing is when you talk about pulling out the stops you know that picture and I have no clue why maybe you can explain this an organ are there stops in an Oregon I think that good that could very well be what it I’m sure it has some sort of word phrase origin thing and it could be I don’t know I mean it’s not pulling out a doorstop right because there’s multiple stops and you pull them out and then something happens you’re gonna look it up right now just to find out you know I mean the music playing that we’re sitting they know you can stick around if they want you to learn something Wow assuming you’re going to be able to figure it out by looking on the internet which is a questionable source often pulling out all the stops origin that’s what I would Google if I was googling it find anything an allusion to organ stops there you go how did you even know that I don’t know I don’t know an allusion to organ stops which control the loudness and tones of a pipe organ when all are pulled out the working super loud well well it can play all tones simultaneously I’m pulling out all the stops to reserve or hold back nothing they pulled out all the stops for that gala wedding that’s that’s the Wikipedia link you had you had some mystical insight I had knowledge emptied the tank give one’s all go all out either you’re clairvoyant or you’ve heard you’ve heard that before wait what’s your choice let’s say that a party okay I’ve got a lot of organist friends all right you don’t know about next week with that with another interesting tidbit about word origins not probably not that’s probably the only time that’s ever gonna happen Stu shirt will pull out all the stops for yes right stop yeah just one stop [Music] [Music]