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Some stuff from the "Marble Hornets Radio Interview"

[Craig Digsby]

Hold on, I'm going to go transcript it. I'll be back in an hour, more or less, tomorrow or in a couple days. However long it takes me to do it.

Update 1: It seems unnecessary to update on this, but I'm going to have to take a few minute breaks every now and then. Yes, even the great Craig Digsby's fingers can get sore. I'm halfway through the second part, and there's supposed to be — what — four more? Wish this guy luck.
Update 2: Ya'll gotta be patient. Lookin' at you, Noran. There's five parts to this, and transcripts ain't easy. Troseph stutters a lot. Also, does anyone know what Troy says at 04:54 and 0:4:57?
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[darmam0o]

Good luck! A transcript will be very much welcomed, as I can't understand all of it by ear.

[Sha Noran]

As usual, the transcript is not delivered. Come on Mr. Digsby.

[SonicN2O]

[CenturyChild]

[Craig Digsby]

Marble Hornets Radio Interview: Transcript

Part 1/5

Troy and Joseph, the creators of Marble Hornets talk about things. The questions asked in this part are as follows:

1. Describe Marble Hornets in 5 words.
2. What's your favorite social networking site?
3. Were you honor students?
4. Do the fans ever creep you out?
5. What are your favorite horror... things?
6. Non-Horror?
7. Tell us about the Marble Hornets ending.
8. Where did the name "Marble Hornets" come from?
9. What classes do you play in Team Fortress 2?

[00:00] Interviewer: "Hey guys, I'm here with Troy and Joseph from the hit ARG Marble Hornets, and also here is my bestie Kathleen."
[00:00] White text appears centered on the black screen: "Here is an interview with WXCI."
[00:03] A picture of Troy Wagner appears, with text of his name "Troy" next to his face.
[00:04] A picture of Joseph DeLage appears, with text of his name "Joseph" next to his face.
[00:07] Kathleen: "Hi guys!"
[00:08] Interviewer: "And she's also an avid Marble Hornets fan, so basically... first question."
[00:14] Kathleen: "So guys, is there any way you could describe Marble Hornets in five words?"
[00:16] White text appears centered on the screen: "1. Describe Marble Hornets in 5 words."
[00:21] Joseph: "Uh, Troy, you first."
[00:22] Troy: "Umm... we talked about this today, what did I say? Uh, I think it was: 'Aaah! Look at the background!'"
[00:28] White text appears centered on the screen: "AAAAHHH LOOK AT THE BACKGROUND"
[00:31] Joseph: "And uh, mine would be: 'I don't know. Where's Waldo?'"
[00:34] White text appears centered on the screen: "I don't know. Where's Waldo?"
[00:38] Troy: "This is —" He stutters. "This is in no way off the top of our heads, so don't think we're all that funny."
[00:43] Joseph: "We really aren't funny at all."
[00:45] Interviewer: "All right, guys. What's your favorite online networking site? Like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Tumblr, what have you."
[00:46] White text appears centered on the black screen: "2. What's your favorite networking site?"
[00:52] Joseph: "Uh... OkCupid."
[00:53] Troy: Yeah, yeah, we're totally big fans of OkCupid. I — like, we're on it all the time. That's actually how Joseph and I met."
[01:02] Joseph: "It is. Sixth grade."
[01:03] Troy: "Sixth grade! What?" He starts laughing. "No, but um... I guess... I guess Facebook is cool? I don't really use other stuff. I'm really bad about updating my Twitter too much, but — you know, who isn't?"
[01:19] Joseph: "I use Facebook. I've never had a MySpace and Twitter. I just follow people, I don't use it."
[01:28] Troy: "Just like in real life!"
[01:29] Joseph: "Yeah."
[01:30] Troy: "You don't talk to people, you just follow them. But yeah, those."
[01:35] Kathleen: "So you guys seem pretty smart. Were you honor students at all?"
[01:36] White text appears centered on the black screen: "3. Were you honor students?"
[01:38] Joseph: "Absolutely not."
[01:39] Troy: "No."
[01:40] Joseph: "There was not a year in high school where I did not go to summer school. I was a slacker in every definition of the term."
[01:47] Troy: "I wasn't as bad as Joseph, because my mom would like, kill me. But I was definitely, like, a C/B student, mostly C."
[01:59] Interviewer: "All right, lurkerpants wants to know: Do the fans ever creep you out, make you uncomfortable, or annoy you?"
[02:01] White text appears centered on the black screen: "4. Do the fans ever creep you out?"
[02:05] Joseph: "For the most part, no, in fact there are several that, you know, I now play — you know, video games online with a whole lot, and uh... talk to, and you know, I would consider them good Internet friends. But, to make the answer short: yes. There are some."
[02:23] Troy: "In every group, I guess."
[02:25] Joseph: "Yeah, it's not unique to Marble Hornets, but, uh... by letting our personal life kind of be exposed there... on accident... my bad, Troy — we did get ourselves into that, and it kinda took on a... I don't know. It came to the forefront, I guess, it's, 'Wow. These are... people.'"
[02:48] Troy: "When our — when our, uh... you know, Faceboo— our personal Facebooks and everything got out, we actually had a kind of long conversation of like, 'Hey, are we gonna actually friend people and everything?' 'cause we were kinda... it was more me than Joseph was obsessed with people keeping... you know, their... uh..."
[03:06] Joseph: "Immersion."
[03:07] Troy: "Immersion, yeah. Immersion in like, you know, Marble Hornets and everything, so we were like, 'Should we let people friend us on Facebook?' and... basically we were just like, well, you know, whatever, if they want to do it, they can, so. You know, it doesn't really bother me. I don't know about Joseph, but it doesn't bother me."
[03:23] Joseph: "I'm just set to offline Facebook chat. So. That's also an issue."
[03:30] Troy: "I don't mind talking to people, though. Mos— most people." He laughs. "I won't name any names, but yeah."
[03:38] Kathleen: "Well, lurkerpants also wants to know: What are your favorite horror movies, books, games, whatever?"
[03:41] White text appears centered on the black screen: "5. What are your favorite horror... things?"
[03:44] Troy: "Um, let's see. You know, horror books... uh, I'm actually reading — right now — uh, House of Leaves. Which a lot of people, when Marble Hornets first started getting... you know, looked at by everyone... uh, I would get — or I would see a lot of people being like, 'Oh, this guy must have read this book, uh, you know, called House of Leaves.' Yeah, I'm reading that now. Um... uh, there's not really scary T.V. shows, but horror movies? I'm definitely going to have to go with The Room."
[04:16] The poster for "The Room" appears on the screen.
[04:19] Joseph: "I really recommend it to uh, everyone. Uh, if you haven't seen it, it's... it's got — it's powerful."
[04:27] A picture of the character "Johnny" from the film appears on the screen.
[04:27] Troy: "Yeah, it's a powerful movie, for sure. You should go see it."
[04:30] Joseph: "That's one of my inspirations for acting."
[04:33] Troy: "Yes."
[04:34] Joseph: "Tommy Wiseau: He directs it, he wrote it, and he acts in it. Uh, so, The Room, uh, everyone should check that out."
[04:40] Troy: "Definitely check it out. It's — it's — it's great, it was a big influence on — on us and our lives. Our lives, yeah."
[04:48] Interviewer: "Well what about non-horror?"
[04:48] White text appears centered on the black screen: "6. Well what about non-horror?"
[04:50] Joseph: "Uh... I'm trying to think."
[04:54] Troy: "We [indiscernible] about this."
[04:54] Joseph: "We... we, uh..."
[04:57] Troy: "Joseph is looking at his DVD [indiscernible] right now." Joseph laughs.
[05:00] Joseph: "We, uh.. we really watch a lot of stuff."
[05:04] Troy: "Yeah."
[05:04] Joseph: "After watching Inception I've been going through a bunch of Christopher Nolan films. Uh, [indiscernible] of course. Uh... I — I'm not so much an any-type movie person. I'm not 'in the know,' I am by all means part of the general masses when it comes to — like, the mainstream media. So, uh, you're not going to hear me popping off any names that no one's ever heard of. Um... so... I guess I'm pretty regular, my taste. Uh, Troy's the film guy, he'd probably have something."
[05:39] Troy: "Uh... Kubrick, I guess. I like Stanley Kubrick. Um... yeah, uh, we saw Inception, and it was good!"
[05:49] Joseph: "I really liked that movie."
[05:51] Interviewer: "Well, it seemed that you, uh, implied that you have an ending planned out. Could you give us an idea of how much we'll quote unquote 'hate you' for it?"
[05:57] White text appears centered on the black screen: "7. Tell us about the ending. Now."
[06:00] Joseph: "Uh... no. Uh... but... it's funny you should mention the ending because Troy and I, we don't fight much, we've known each other for like eleven years now, been good friends for of course, uh, we have a house together right now, and, uh... we don't fight much, like I said. But we did get in a rather heated argument just a couple months back about — not the Marble Hornets ending — but endings in general, and spoilers, and what you know about them and everything, and I'm of the mindset that it doesn't matter to me. It doesn't matter to me what the ending is 'cause it's all about adjourning. And—"
[06:37] Troy: "Joseph's the kind of person who will pick up a book and read the last page first."
[06:41] Joseph: "Yep. If you rely on the novelty of a twist, or something like that, to validate your creative work, it didn't have much merit to begin with."
[06:48] Troy: "Whatever, I think you're crazy."
[06:50] Joseph: "I think you're..."
[06:51] Troy: "I think you're a jerk. And then Joseph and I get in a fist fight right here. If we do, keep it on. Don't cut that out. Uh, to answer the question, you know, for real — uh... we can't talk about it, really."
[07:06] Kathleen: "So, where did the name 'Marble Hornets' come from? Does it mean anything significant?"
[07:07] White text appears centered on the black screen: "8. Where did the name 'Marble Hornets' come from?"
[07:12] Joseph: "Uh, Troy?"
[07:13] Troy: "Yeah, okay. Yeah, uh... yeah, very evolved process. Uh — let me shorten my story here — um, I was basically just thinking you know, the concept of — of — of the whole thing, of, uh, you know, pretentious student film goes horribly wrong. Uh, I was trying to think of, uh, you know... what do pretentious film students tend to name their projects and everything? It's always some king of weird..."
[07:38] Joseph: "Adjective-noun."
[07:38] Troy: "Yeah, adjective-noun is what it tends to be. So, when I first got the idea I was uh... I was driving somewhere, I think I might have been bringing Joseph somewhere...?"
[07:48] Joseph: "No, you texted me while I was out."
[07:30] Troy: "Oh, okay. Well, I was driving somewhere and I was like, okay, the next few things that drive by me, I'm going to name it this. So... basically what happened is like... like, a granite, you know, delivery truck or something drove by that said 'Marble' on it, and then like, a pest control thing went by and it said, like 'Hornets.' So I was like, uh, 'Marble Hornets.' That's what it is. I feel like I'm ruining it, though, by telling people that."
[08:13] Joseph: "Ah, whatever. Alex probably did the same thing."
[08:15] Troy: "Yeah, whatever."
[08:17] Joseph: "Well, it is an acronym, apparently, but, uh... it wasn't intentional."
[08:21] Troy: "Nothing was intentional about that. Although it does work perfectly."
[08:25] Joseph: "It really does."
[08:27] Interviewer: "Guest wants to know: What class does Joseph play most in Team Fortress 2, and if the other cast members play, what classes do they play as?"
[08:28] White text appears centered on the black screen: "9. What class do you play in TF2?"
[08:35] Joseph: "I am a Medic. Uh, I also play a little bit of Pyro but mostly medic. Because I'm a little baby girl."
[08:37] A picture of the TF2 Medic appears next to Joseph's face, followed by the Pyro, followed by the Medic once again.
[08:43] Troy: "Yeah, you are. I don't play Team Fortress 2 that much, but when I do, I tend — I — I used to think I was good at being a Spy, but I'm really not. I tend to be Heavy most of the time, because I don't like aiming."
[08:50] A picture of the TF2 Spy appears next to Troy's face, followed by the Heavy.
[08:56] Joseph: "Tim plays too, but honestly, I think he just owns the game and plays Garry's Mod. Uh, I've never actually played with him."
[09:03] Troy: "Yeah. Too bad Tim couldn't be here."
[09:05] Joseph: "Yeah."
[09:06] Troy: "He'd probably be just making like, old Nickelodeon references or something."
[09:08] Joseph: "Well he's playing Duck Hunt right now."
[09:10] Troy: "Oh yeah. He got his — he got his NES working, so now he's playing that, because that's just who he is."
[09:15] Joseph: "That is Tim." Troy laughs.
[09:19] Screen fades to black. Text appears centered on the screen: "Continued in part 2"
[09:26] End.

Part 2/5

In this installment:

10. Will there be an HD version of Marble Hornets?
11. Did any of the fan theories have an effect on the story?
12. What's part 2 looking like?
13. What is The Operator's ideal date?

[00:01] White text appears centered on the black screen: "WXCI Interview part 2"
[00:04] Kathleen: "Some people have been wondering if you will be releasing an HD version of Marble Hornets."
[00:06] White text appears centered on the black screen: "10. Will there be an HD version of Marble Hornets?"
[00:09] Joseph: "Um, I think I came up with a pretty good answer for this one."
[00:12] Troy: "Yeah. You did."
[00:13] Joseph: "Uh... but — tell this in a little bit of a story. Uh, back when high definition was first getting really, uh... I — I guess more available to the public, and you'd go to Best Buy, and they would have all — you know, their whole T.V. wall going, and the big one that they played a lot around here was Pearl Harbor. And... they would always show like, the attack on Pearl Harbor scene in that crappy, crappy movie. And the effects they used were very obviously not intended to be high definition. So, everything looked awful."
[00:33] The poster for "Pearl Harbor" appears on the screen.
[00:50] Troy: "Awful."
[00:50] Joseph: "Just awful."
[00:52] Troy: "Really, really bad."
[00:53] Joseph: "Terrible. And, uh... so yeah. My answer to that is just simply going to be, 'Have you ever seen Pearl Harbor in HD?'"
[01:00] Troy: "You can everything that was not meant to be seen in HD. So, I don't think, uh... Marble Hornets would really benefit from that, so short answer: no. Probably not. Probably not but probab— but no."
[01:13] Joseph: "No. Probably no."
[01:14] Troy: "Probably definitely no."
[01:16] Interviewer: "All right, um... nomanrose and [indiscernible]— however you pronounce his [indiscernible], I don't even care... uh, they ask, did any of the fan theories slash puzzle solutions have any bearing on the plot of the videos, and, uh, did you ever have to re-film anything due to the players' theories?"
[01:24] White text appears centered on the black screen: "11. Did any of the fan theories have an effect on the story?"
[01:32] Joseph: "I'm sure this will hurt some Internet egos, uh... hopefully not a large amount of them, but you know, there's always a few that feel like they're in control, but... no. Uh, it was eerie how close some of the theories got, occasionally, but we never altered our ideas to fit or, you know, move away from any theories that were being posted."
[01:56] Troy: "Yeah, um... there was — there was a bunch of, you know, theories that you know, some of them — very, very off the wall — uh, that we would never think of, ever. And, you know, we — we read, you know, like UnFiction and SomethingAwful and everything, we read all of those, and we like look — we like looking at the, you know, all the ideas and theories people were coming up with and, there are, you know — a good handful of them that we were like, 'Oh, wow, we should have thought of that!' But it never... it never, you know, changed anything. We — we were still pretty set."
[02:24] Joseph: "My personal favorite was the 'it was all a prank' theory. Honestly, I unironically liked that idea, on at least some level, but there's no way we could have done it."
[02:35] Troy: "Once — once that idea was introduced, we were like, pretty — pretty deep in our own stories, we were like 'it'd be funny to turn it around', but no. We're like, 'oh, it really just Jay's birthday, and Alex wasn't really missing, yaaay. Happy Birthday, everyone...'"
[02:51] Kathleen: "So the jankman wants to know if you could give us any insight on what you have in store for the sequel."
[02:53] White text appears centered on the black screen: "12. What's part 2 looking like?"
[02:56] Joseph: "Should I?"
[02:57] Troy: "Should you what?"
[02:58] Joseph: "Just be one hundred percent honest right now."
[03:00] Troy: "Uh... sure, I don't know that you're gonna say, but if — we can just like, uh, 'oh, cut that out.'"
[03:06] Joseph: "Yeah. Okay. Well, to be one hundred percent honest, we have not started working on Marble Hornets... again."
[03:12] Troy: "Yet."
[03:13] Joseph: "Uh, it — it's, you know, we want to, but it's one of those things where we definitely don't want to rush into anything, we don't want to fall to your regular sequel... uh... disease, where it's just a worse version of the first one. Uh, so we haven't worked on it at all, and it's gonna be something that we wanna put a lot of time, a lot of effort into — to make it better than the original Marble Hornets, make it — just — more cohesive, uh, and, you know, just a higher quality product."
[03:43] Troy: "We haven't — we haven't completely, I mean, you may not have been doing anything, but I — I have some like, ideas floating around in my head."
[03:48] Joseph: "Well, yeah."
[03:49] Troy: "I've written a few down.
[03:51] Joseph: "It's nothing official, though?"
[03:51] Troy: "No, no — nothing is set in stone yet, you know, about the story or anything, but I have a few... you know, ideas that I obviously can't share."
[03:57] Joseph: "Really, the, uh, things we're working on now, we do have a couple of projects, but they're all comedy, they're all completely different from Marble Hornets."
[04:06] Troy: "Yeah."
[04:07] Joseph: "Uh, so... don't give up hope." Troy laughs. "I assure you, you don't need to give up hope, but don't think that it's going to correspond with like, the school year, or the winter solstice, or [indiscernible]..."
[04:21] Troy: "Or 2012."
[04:22] Joseph: "It's going to be just a 'when it's ready' type deal."
[04:25] Troy: "Yeah, we — we've been saying, you know, people have been asking, that's like, absolutely the most common question people have been asking is like, 'When is, you know, part two, season two, you know, Marble Hornets 2 coming out?' And you know, honestly, we — there were a few entries we had in this past quote unquote 'season' where we weren't super satisfied with the — the final product, so we really wanna take time, really... make sure it's right this time, 'cause we did write ourselves in a few corners, uh, in the first part."
[04:56] Joseph: "Uh.. when you said we weren't happy with some of the final — like, entries we had, there are some where we were just... it kinda gave us goosebumps again. When you're involved in something like this, at the very beginning of the project, it was creepy to us, and you know, kinda unnerving. Nothing you lose sleep over, but you're — while you're filming, you're like, 'Ooh, this is awesome.'"
[05:17] Troy: "'This would look cool.'"
[05:17] Joseph: "Uh, but, then you start getting more analytical about everything, and I said this in one of the Q&As we had, uh... then it stops becoming scary, and it's more just like a science project or something like that." Troy snickers. "Uh, but there's sometimes when we would — I would watch the editing that Troy had done, just — you know, get those goosebumps again, it's like, 'Wow, that's gonna be awesome.' It wasn't exactly the same as when we first started but I could tell exactly how it was going to impact the audience. And that's something we wanna have for every entry, not just every third entry."
[05:49] Troy: "Yeah, no more — we — there were definitely a few entries where — where you know, we would look at the finished thing once we post it and be like, 'Wow, that's, uh... that's — that's filler.'"
[05:58] Joseph: "Yeah."
[05:58] Troy: "And uh, we don't — we don't want that. And like, people would look at it and they'd be like, 'This feels like, you know, filler.' And there's not really... you know, we have more information, kind of... but, you know..."
[06:09] Joseph: "But it's filler."
[00:10] Troy: "But it's filler. And that's what we don't want."
[06:12] Interviewer: "All right, what is, uh... the Operator's ideal date? Like a romantic stroll on the beach, or... whatever."
[06:13] White text appears centered on the black screen: "13. What is The Operator's ideal date?"
[06:19] Joseph: "Uh, what did we...?"
[06:21] Troy: "I don't remember. I was going to ask you, we — we talked about this. We actually had a conversation about this, um..."
[06:27] Joseph: "Wait, was this the, uh... what this the one where I just kinda shook my head and said 'no'?
[06:31] Troy: "No, it wasn't that one. It was, uh... shoot, what was it? Um..."
[06:36] Joseph: "I swear we haven't rehearsed."
[06:37] Troy: "Yeah, we haven't rehearsed at all."
[06:39] Joseph: "Oh well, just think of one."
[06:40] Troy: "Yeah, go ahead."
[06:42] Joseph: "This is where I say we are not witty. Uh..."
[06:43] Troy: "Yeah. Improv!"
[06:45] Joseph: "You know, I'd imagine that the Operator would enjoy nice scenic locations, like woods."
[06:51] Troy: "Yeah, woods. Definitely."
[06:51] Joseph: "Uh... probably something more rustic, old buildings."
[06:56] Troy: "Old buildings..."
[06:57] Joseph: "In the woods..."
[06:58] Troy: "That are — that are leaky, and..."
[06:59] Joseph: "Where there's not a whole lot of communication with the outside world."
[07:02] Troy: "Yeah, dark...
[07:04] Joseph: "Something like that."
[07:05] Troy: "Something — some — something like that, as little light as possible, and, uh, no cameras."
[07:09] Joseph: "No. No cell phone service at all."
[07:11] Troy: "Yeah. I mean, you know, uh..."
[07:13] Joseph: "Free standard stuff."
[07:14] Troy: "Free standard. Uh, yeah. Yeah. Uh, candle lit. No, actually no candle lit."
[07:18] Joseph: "Well, he does like fire."
[07:19] Troy: "Okay, yeah, fire. We'll do fire. Yeah, yeah — lots of candles. Lots of candles and lots of flammable material." He laughs. "Next question!"
[07:29] Screen fades to text centered on the black screen: "Continued in part 3"
[07:35] End.

Part 3/5

Questions asked in this video:

14. Where do you get your ideas?
15. How was the filming process?
16. Did you plan on having "seasons"?

[00:00] White text appears centered on the black screen: "WXCI Interview part 3"
[00:03] Kathleen: "So, jurdif wants to know: Where do you get your ideas? Uh, stating in another way, why is it so scary? How do you make Marble Hornets so terrifying?"
[00:06] White text appears centered on the black screen: "14. Where do you get your ideas?"
[00:15] Joseph: "A lot of the, uh... scares, because of our own limitations with how we had to film it, come from... I guess you would 'em the 'baser' scares, the... fear of being followed, the fear of not knowing what's out there. So... I know Troy said that — you know, you remember those dreams?"
[00:35] Troy: "Yeah."
[00:36] Joseph: "Well, and everything like that, that it gave kind of a 'jumping off' point, uh... look at each individual entry and try to figure out something that was scary, like the memory loss, not knowing where you were, losing large amounts of time — things like that, things that would... freak out anyone, regardless of the situation they were in."
[00:57] Troy: "Yeah."
[00:57] Joseph: "And then you throw in — you know, our... tall antagonist there, and that sense of immediate danger, although it might not have always been portrayed well — that it was an immediate threat, uh, you have that in there for the character, and uh, if allow yourself to be immersed, you can feel it too. So — I'd say, you know, just... own personal insecurities and things like that, I don't know if we really got any other inspiration beyond the, uh... the initial Paranormal Images thread on SomethingAwful."
[01:31] Troy: "Yeah. Um, definitely in the beginning, in the, uh, you know — the firs— the first season of Marble Hornets kinda split into two parts, uh, you had the whole, you know, watching — watching the tapes that Alex Kralie made, and you know, uh, you know, Jay watching that, and after that, you know, Jay kinda goes on his little 'quest' and everything. But, uh, you know, th— the first half of that — wh— what'd you say?"
[01:53] Joseph: "Quest."
[01:53] Troy: "Quest, yes, quest."
[01:54] Joseph: "Excelsior." Troy laughs.
[01:55] Troy: "Yeah, in the beginning it was that, you know, whole, you know, being followed, and 'who was that in the background,' like, 'did anyone notice this at the time,' 'what am I seeing'... that was more, you know, the scare we went for, and of course the whole, like, digital distortion, you know, coming out of nowhere thing, and the second half, we really — or, you know, we when were writing it, if you can call it our 'writing sessions' that..."
[02:18] Joseph: "Yeah."
[02:19] Troy: "We'll talk about that later. Um... uh, we had to go with, you know, Jay being all on his own, uh, being, you know, going out to, you know, that abandoned house or whatever, by himself, and you know that fear, that comes with that, of — 'if something happens to me, no one's gonna know what — what went down.' So... yeah, being — being by yourself and being terrified is what — really the scares we were trying to go for in the second half."
[02:45] Joseph: "Yeah. As far as like, outside media influencing us, and like 'Oh, hey, we saw a movie, and this is really cool, we wanna put that in there,' uh, I can't really think of any instances where that happened."
[02:56] Troy: "Yeah, I don't think we really, we really... we were writing it, went with like, 'Oh, you know, let's do that thing that was like, in... Lake.' Yeah, there were — there were pretty much no talks of The Blair Witch Project, ever."
[03:07] Interviewer: "Nomanrose wants to know, uh, how was the filming process? Like, did you guys film in order, or in broken chunks?"
[03:09] White text appears centered on the black screen: "15. How was the filming process?"
[03:14] Troy: He snickers. "...Broken chunks."
[03:16] Joseph: "Everything about the production was broken."
[03:18] Troy: "Yeah."
[03:19] Joseph: "Uh, we always filmed the entries on a one-at-a-time basis. And, the filming schedule was... at the mercy of, you know, school, work, uh, if we were both in town at the same time, procrastination... so it was by far the worst decision we made throughout the entire process, was to shoot it one entry at a time."
[03:44] Troy: "Yeah, that was not... I mean, but the thing is, we kinda didn't really have a choice, really, because otherwise... if we did it all once, I was afraid we'd lose interest or something, and it'd just become like another unfinished thing. So I think doing it one at a time, we kinda kept a good... 'momentum' going, I guess? Or more so than we would if we were doing it all at once. There were plenty of times where — where we were like, uh, you know, 'Hey, let's — let's do three at once!' And, uh... but then it never happened." He laughs.
[04:11] Joseph: "Yeah. And, yeah, I realize also, when we started this, it was a very spur-of-the-moment thing, and..."
[04:17] Troy: "Absolutely."
[04:17] Joseph: "...in the middle of an ongoing thread on SomethingAwful.com, and Troy made a whole post about how he found some tapes, and all this stuff, and, you know... 'I'll post 'em up.' And then he texted me." Troy laughs. "Uh, we — he hadn't — we hadn't even gone down to starting the very first story boarding session, and the ball was already in motion to get these things out quick. So there was no time to really queue up a whole bunch of them. And then, you know, scheduling just played out to where it was necessary to film everything in broken chunks for the entire duration."
[04:24] A screenshot of Jay's original post on SomethingAwful appears on the screen.
[04:53] Troy: "Yeah. Um... I was gonna say... oh yeah, also, with the whole filming in broken chunks instead of all at once, is that, uh, there was that whole, uh... I don't know, I guess 'height' is a good word? Of going along with that thread, of you know, those series of pictures that were posted, like, people were getting really into it, and we were — and I was afraid that if we did it all at once, people would start to lose interest before we could get on that, you know."
[05:17] Joseph: "Absolutely. 'Cause that was probably the, uh, biggest key to success of the series. We — right off the bat, the first week we had like, five thousand views on the first video. And, we're like, 'Well, there you go,' and then it starts spreading out. And the difference between, you know, five thousand views spreading to all their friends, and, like, two hundred viewers is just... it — it's magnitudes difference."
[05:40] Troy: "Yeah. Uh... yeah, the first entry now has over..."
[05:44] Joseph: "Three hundred thousand."
[05:45] Troy: "Three hundred thousand? [indiscernible] three hundred fifty thousand, I don't know. I haven't checked in while. But, uh, yeah."
[05:50] Joseph: "Probably wouldn't be having this interview if he hadn't jumped on it."
[05:53] Troy: "Yeah."
[05:53] Kathleen: "So after that, um, in the beginning, did you have plans for a multi-season story? Or was it decided later on, or..."
[05:56] White text appears centered on the black screen: "16. Did you plan on having "seasons"?"
[06:02] Troy: "Uh, there was definitely... an ending planned that we were gonna — it was — uh, if memory serves, I think, uh, when we first wrote it all out, uh, there was definitely no seasons going on."
[06:15] Joseph: "No. Absolutely not. In fact, there was originally supposed to be shorter than it was, then it was supposed to be a little bit longer, then it was just a matter of 'We need to finish this right now,' uh..."
[06:26] Troy: "Yeah."
[06:27] Joseph: "...because we didn't want to burn ourselves out any farther than we already had."
[06:31] Troy: "Yeah."
[06:31] Joseph: "Uh, the original ending, I actually put in one of our Q&A sessions, I didn't name it as such, but it was actually a really cool idea, I thought. Uh, was — it was gonna have — end in a similar — I don't know, what was it, Ted the Carver?"
[06:44] Troy: "Ted the Caver."
[06:44] A picture of the Creepypasta "Ted the Caver" appears on the screen."
[06:45] Joseph: "Caver. Sorry. I haven't watched it. Uh —"
[06:47] Troy: "It's a — it's a story."
[06:47] A screenshot of the story appears on the screen.
[06:48] Joseph: "Story. Okay. Uh, that shows that I'm telling the truth." Troy snickers. "Uh... a— anyway, it was gonna be a very... 'dooming gloom' kind of ending."
[06:57] Troy: "A very ambiguous, uh, 'Hey, guys! I'm going out there, and finding out what's going on!' And then like, nothing after that."
[07:03] Joseph: "Yeah. Uh, but — it was gonna to be a really cool shot of driving along a road, and you know, the Operator being at each little orange, uh, street light down this road that fogs up every night, near where we live. And looks incredible, but it was just not a practical shoot to do. And, uh, the story obviously... uh..."
[07:24] Troy: "Has e— has evolved. What?" He laughs.
[07:26] Joseph: "Yes. It's evolved in — you know, it just bloomed to such an extent that there was no way we could just finish it in the allotted amount of entries we wanted to do."
[07:35] Troy: "Yeah."
[07:35] Screen fades to text centered on the black screen: "Continued in part 4"
[07:41] End.

Part 4/5

In this part:

17. Will people get to see the outtakes?
18. How was The Operator done?
19. Any Marble Hornets merch?

[00:01] White text appears centered on the black screen: "WXCI Interview part 4"
[00:04] Interviewer: "All right, [indiscernible] and StickTheFigure wants to know if you are — if you guys are gonna be posting any Marble Hornets outtakes on your other YouTube account."
[00:07] White text appears centered on the black screen: "17. Will people get to see the outtakes?"
[00:12] Troy: "Uh... quick answer, yes, probably, but not until... Marble Hornets is finished, I don't think. Uh, we — we — we do have some pretty awesome outtakes that are all... I don't know."
[00:29] Joseph: ???
[00:30] Troy: "What?"
[00:31] Joseph: ???
[00:31] Troy: "Oh, Joseph knocked on wood. I guess 'awesome' is a really good word, but was like, was very funny at the time. Uh, there were — with Marble Hornets, a lot of the entries, especially more — the more involved ones, like going to the house and everything — uh, there were plenty of takes for all of those and some of them were just outright failures. Like falling, tripping over things in the dark, and you know, getting our timing wrong, forgetting lines constantly..."
[00:56] Joseph: "I think some more of the funnier moments actually weren't even caught on tape. Uh, let's tell them the joke."
[01:01] Troy: "Okay. Hey Joseph, knock knock."
[01:04] Joseph: "Who's there?"
[01:05] Troy: "My cat, Jasmine."
[01:05] A picture of Troy's cat appears on the screen.
[01:07] Joseph: "My cat Ja—"
[01:07] Troy: "MEEOW!" He laughs.
[01:08] Joseph: "Oh. During the, uh, entry where Alex is seen scribbling frantically on the paper, uh..."
[01:16] Troy: "I think it was... six or four?"
[01:18] Joseph: "No, it wasn't six. I know six."
[01:20] Troy: "It was four, maybe...? I don't really — I don't really remember the entry numbers by heart."
[01:25] Joseph: "Anyway. Uh... so, we're sitting there, and obviously it's all quiet, and instead of — I guess we could have just cut out the audio — instead of doing that, we were just had to keep on doing takes and hope that nothing made a noise. And — Troy has a very nice cat, I like it, but, uh... it is loud."
[01:47] Troy: "Yeah."
[01:47] Joseph: "And it was outside, and right as we starting filming, it just goes, 'MEEOW!'"
[00:52] Troy: "Like, you hear it clearly, and Joseph was like, being all serious and writing on the paper and I'm like, 'Okay, Joseph, go' and he starts scribbling and then you hear 'MEOW!' in the background. So you know, that — that obviously wouldn't have been a very good take to use."
[02:02] Joseph: "There were — there was also something we were — uh, doing with, uh, Entry #6, which is down in the basement when the Operator comes across that door or window... uh, we were trying to a head snap like we did in the, uh, Entry #1. And we did at least thirty takes. The latter half was with the head pop, and every single time, it just looked like... Night At The Roxbury Head Bob. Uh..." Troy laughs.
[02:32] Troy: "We actually started singing the song." He laughs again.
[02:34] Joseph: "We did. But I made Troy delete all of those out of embarrassment."
[00:39] Troy: "I didn't delete anything."
[02:40] Joseph: "Oh..."
[02:41] Troy: "Tim, actually, is the one that probably... uh, got the most really actually funny things going on. Any — any entry where it's just Tim... I think it was nineteen or something?"
[02:54] Joseph: "The one in front of the window?"
[02:55] Troy: "Yeah, the one in front of the window, where Tim is just talking to Alex. A lot of that was completely improved. And —"
[03:01] Joseph: "Tim has some fangs."
[03:03] Troy: "Tim — Tim is a really funny guy, and I really wish he were here to do this interview with us."
[03:06] Joseph: "He so much wittier than us."
[03:07] Troy: "Yeah. He was just like —" He starts laughing. "He just like — during — while were filming, he just like, walked over to where our junk mail was laying and started shoving it in his lips. And, like, had these giant lips going, and just telling us that was his creative process. It's all very strange."
[03:24] Joseph: "It's very surreal."
[03:26] Troy: "But you'll have to wait until Marble Hornets is over to see." He laughs.
[03:28] Joseph: "They're really funny."
[03:30] Troy: "Oh, trust us, they're funny. Just, uh, getting back to the question — is, uh, you know, you — you — you watch Marble Hornets, and you know, you're affected by it, whatever way. And — and you'd go over to like, my personal YouTube — uh, channel, and it's just us goofing around. And they're like the same set. And you're just like, 'Wow, this isn't that scary anymore,' 'cause of that, so."
[03:51] Joseph: "Yeah."
[03:51] Troy: "That's basically why we haven't posted any outtakes, but there are outtakes, I'm sure there will be outtakes later."
[00:56] Joseph: "Absolutely."
[03:57] Troy: "Yeah."
[03:58] Joseph: "We will never stop being inept."
[04:00] Kathleen: "Well gesguy and grimjoker wanna know, um, how did you make your Operator? And is there anyway that we could get one?"
[04:02] White text appears centered on the black screen: "18. How was The Operator done?"
[04:07] Joseph: "We can't tell you. But... yes and no as to making your own."
[04:13] Troy: "This was asked — this question was asked when, uh, we were doing our — our Q&A session thing, uh, wh—where people would send me questions and everything, and that question got asked a lot. Uh, mostly from people saying, uh... 'Hey, you know, I want — I want to do this for Halloween' or something. And, uh... I'm actually kind of proud by the way, uh, you know — proud of the way it looks on the videos."
[04:37] Joseph: "Especially in the last entry."
[04:38] Troy: "Yeah, it was. It looked really good." He laughs. "Not to toot our own horn."
[04:42] Joseph: He is laughing, too. "It looked sick."
[04:44] Troy: "Um... we're really proud of it, and we don't really want to tell it, we don't want to — you know, ruin the magic of it, you know, keep the mystery up. Uh, but I — basically—"
[00:00] Joseph: "It's not us being jerks, and you know, wanting to keep the secret to ourselves. Eventually we will tell how it's done, it's just — it's another one of those things, its like, now that I how how it's done, its not scary anymore."
[05:02] Troy: "Yeah, yeah. Uh, but I will say — I, uh, I did say this before, of, uh — we do not own a mannequin, 'cause they are expensive."
[05:10] Joseph: "And again, we are poor."
[05:12] Troy: "We are poor. So — so no mannequin was used. And, uh... going back to what I was talking about earlier, people saying, you know, 'Hey, I wanna make — do a Halloween costume' or something, I absolutely would not recommend making a Halloween costume the way — the way we— we did the Operator."
[05:26] Joseph: "It would be awful."
[05:28] Troy: "It would not look very good. Probably."
[05:29] Joseph: "And not to mention, all I can imagine is a thousand people going out, and like — getting arrested, because they wanna creep out their friends."
[05:36] Troy: "Yeah."
[05:37] Joseph: "Going back to, uh —"
[05:38] Troy: "Fans creeping you out."
[05:38] Joseph: "Fans that creeping you out."
[05:40] Troy: "No, it would not be, don't do that."
[05:42] Joseph: "We wouldn't be scared, we would just be angry."
[05:45] Troy: "Yeah, we'd just be line, 'Stop.'" He laughs.
[05:48] Interviewer: "Jay wants to know if there is going to be any, uh, Marble Hornets merch, like stuff on Zazzle."
[05:49] White text appears centered on the black screen: "19. Any Marble Hornets merch?"
[05:53] Joseph: "Probably... not."
[05:55] Troy: "Yeah."
[05:56] Joseph: "A—At this juncture, I don't foresee anything because — honestly, what are you gonna do?"
[06:00] Troy: "Yeah, [indiscernible]."
[06:00] Joseph: "Draw a circle with an X and sell that..."
[06:02] Troy: "For like, thirty bucks a pop. Yes I am! No. I mean —"
[06:06] Joseph: "Put Troy's face on a T-shirt." Troy laughs. "Team Jay, Team Alex."
[06:11] Troy: "I'd buy it." He continues to laugh.
[06:12] Joseph: "Me too, I would buy a shirt with your face on it."
[06:14] Troy: "I would buy a shirt your face on it."
[06:16] Joseph: "Um..."
[06:17] Troy: "But —" He laughs again.
[06:18] Joseph: "Best friends forever!"
[06:20] Troy: "I mean, yeah, uh... it doesn't really — at this particular point, it doesn't really [indiscernible] to be, you know, heavily merchandise or anything, that's not really what it's about. I know, I mean — we're not setting off to — you know, this whole wasn't like, 'Oh sweet, maybe we can become YouTube partners and make a million dollars!'"
[06:39] Joseph: "We don't make money."
[06:40] Troy: "Yeah, you know, despite — despite what people may think, we're not — we're not rolling in dough or anything because of this, and that's not the — that's not the whole point at all. We didn't set out to be like, 'Kay, we're gonna ride this — you know, idea and make tons of money.' So, uh... in short, probably not."
[06:58] Kathleen: "So, I take it that you've noticed all the other sidestories and the blogs about the Operator. Um, do you — have you been following any, or do you have a favorite?"
[07:00] White text appears centered on the black screen: "20. Are you into any of the sidestories?"
[07:09] Joseph: "Uh, there's a new series out, and you know — I'm okay with giving them a plug."
[07:14] Troy: "Yeah, sure."
[07:14] Joseph: "Uh, because the EverymanHYBRID — it seems like its probably — pretty cool. Uh, but you know — we aren't affiliated with any sidestories, its just totheark and Marble Hornets. Uh... but, uh, you know, I wish them well in all their endeavours."
[07:15] A screenshot of the EverymanHYBRID YouTube channel appears on the screen.
[07:29] Troy: "Yeah."
[07:30] Joseph: "Uh, so — you know, I do think it's interesting, but... for some reason, I just can't get into 'em. They kind of — not weird me out in like, they're creepy but, weird me out in the — it just kinda feels like like I'm — I don't know, looking into a... a mirror, one of those like, circus mirrors where everything is distorted, 'cause it's like, 'Well, I've done this, too. And now I'm reading how someone else would have done it.' Uh, not saying, you know, they're trying to be the next Marble Hornets or anything like that, but — you know, it is the, uh... related content."
[07:47] The picture of Joseph's face on the screen becomes distorted.
[08:00] Troy: "Yeah."
[08:01] Joseph: "So, it just kinda feels 'off' to me, to follow them. So I don't. Uh, Troy — may be a different matter."
[08:08] Troy: "You know, the — the — the sidestory blogs and everything, it started popping up a lot, uh, when I would be, you know, reading through the — the UnFiction forums or something. I read a few of them, I did read some of this one called Just Another Fool, and — and the guy who made it actually contacted me, uh, asking, you know, I wanted to like, you know, collaborate with him in any way. But you know, I mean, I had to tell him — you know, we — we have already written our thing out, you know, 'good luck,' but you know, we can't really be affiliated, you know, in — in any good way. Other than that, uh, I do think EverymanHYBRID is pretty cool. Um, and another blog I did read, it was called... uh, what was it? It was about some girl. Uh, Rainbow Life I think it was called. I did read through the entirety of that one, or up until, you know, now. Uh, but — basically, yeah, what Joseph said, uh, it felt kinda weird... uh, you know, reading about stuff that came off of us. Not that, you know, I don't — um — against it or anything. It's just — it's just, like, I — it feels kind of... uh, I can't use the word Joseph said, I don't think. Um... yeah, I mean, it just feels like — I'm — I'm like really into myself or something when I read stuff like that, I don't know."
[09:22] Joseph: "'Masturbatory' isn't a curse word, you can say that."
[09:24] Troy: "Can I say 'self-masturbatory?'"
[09:27] Joseph: "That's redundant."
[09:28] Troy: "Okay... mas— mas— it feels masturbatory. Can we say — can we —"
[09:33] Joseph: "Can we keep on saying it forever and ever?" Troy laughs. "Uh, but yeah, and — best of wishes to all of them, and, uh, you know — more content for all the fans, it's great. The more stuff that's — that's up there to keep people interested, to keep them — you know, entertained, that's great."
[09:49] Troy: "And you know, it benefits us, as well as them, 'cause like, people aren't gonna forget about. Then, while — while, we're over here, you know, stumbling around, trying to figure out what to do next."
[09:56] Screen fades to black. Text appears centered on the screen: "Continued in part 5"
[10:02] End.

Part 5/5

In this extra long final installment:

21. Any tips for working on this kind of thing?
22. What got you started/ what are your influences?
23. Any clues for the totheark videos?
24. Any other stuff?

[00:00] White text appears centered on the black screen: "WXCI Interview part 4"
[00:04] Interviewer: "All right, uh, do you have any tips on how to keep on top of producing such a time consuming project? Like, with work and school and whatnot."
[00:07] White text appears centered on the black screen: "21. Any tips for working on this kind of thing?"
[00:12] Joseph: "We are about to confirm everyone's suspicions. Uh, you don't want to listen to any advice from us, and, uh — because all those huge, huge in between times between updates — that was our fault."
[00:28] Troy: "There was one entry, I think it was between like, seven and eight or something where there was like a one month big quiet period when nothing was happening. That was... I mean, there things that were — that were out of our control."
[00:39] Joseph: "Work, finals... all that stuff."
[00:41] Troy: "We actually — we actually had to move. But yeah, after that one, that did kinda kick us into — into gear, after that. 'Cause we were like, 'Man, we really need to actually get back on this.' I guess it was like a... semi-burn out at first."
[00:53] Joseph: "Yeah. And then there were many times where we would sit down and be like, 'Okay, let's have a writing day!' Then we would like — we had these whiteboards that we got specifically for story boarding."
[01:05] Troy: "Yeah."
[01:05] Joseph: "And we would just draw pictures."
[01:06] Troy: He laughs. "It's like — I would come into Joseph's room and be like, 'All right, we're gonna — we're gonna write this next entry, we're gonna...' like, I mean, we did have a basic outline of what all was going on, like, uh, a through-line the story and everything, but we didn't have the basic — you know, like the any detail for each entry thing, but now we usually have to like, meet beforehand. 'Have a writing meeting,' we'd say."
[01:29] Joseph: "And then there were times when we did it at the filming." Troy snickers.
[01:33] Troy: "There were times when we typed up a script and printed it out and gave it to everyone who was there and be like, 'Okay, we're gonna do this,' uh, at the very last minute. But, uh — yeah, basically... I'm trying to think of a good — like, legitimate bit of advice to give, and... mind is blanking right now."
[01:49] Joseph: "We're easily distracted. Because, after like two hours of drawing pictures, we're just like, 'Okay, we're going to bed.'"
[01:54] Troy: "Yeah."
[01:54] Joseph: "And once Tim got involved — seriously, uh... every time he would come over, it would take us an additional hour at least to film any entry he was in, too."
[02:03] Troy: "Yeah, because he'd just be like — he'd just be doing his own thing. It's kinda like — I guess it's kinda like what it would be like to work with Robin Williams, maybe. And I mean, definitely to a much lesser extent, I guess, it'd be like, you know, just trying to keep him under control while you're trying to keep everything else under control and yourself under control."
[02:22] Joseph: "So... no. We don't have any advice."
[02:26] Troy: "Uh..."
[02:26] Joseph: "Everything we've said — avoid that."
[02:28] Troy: "Yeah."
[02:28] Joseph: "Never work with us. We are not professional."
[02:31] Troy: "Hey, shut up. You don't — you don't particularly have a career in this. I do."
[02:35] Joseph: "Are you saying I'm not talented?"
[02:37] Troy: "You're absolutely not talented. Get out. This is — I — Joseph is gone. He's crying."
[02:08] Joseph "cries" mockingly.
[02:42] Kathleen: She is slightly laughing. "Well, speaking of the media business, sickmanslick — sickslickman wanted to know about what got you started in the media business, and what were your influences?"
[02:48] White text appears centered on the black screen: "22. What got you started/what are your influences?"
[02:53] Troy: "My... I— I'm still in college right now. Uh, I'm actually a — I'm starting my fifth year, uh... this coming August. I know, congratulations. Uh..."
[03:01] Joseph: "You should feel sorry for yourself."
[03:03] Troy: "Shut up. Um... so my — my — my major is, you know, I'm definitely a film major. Uh, that's basically... I mean, I — I love watching movies and everything. I'm not really... I'm not really into the whole — you know, strict horror genre per se, like the whole, uh, you know, Saws... and — and, uh, you know [indiscernible] or whatever. I'm not — I'm really into the whole like, you know, big violent stuff. Uh, although I did like the first two Saw movies. Those were pretty good."
[03:36] Joseph: "[indiscernible], started when Troy texted me. And was like —"
[03:40] Troy: "And was like, 'Hey, I'm doing a thing. You wanna do this thing with me?' And Joseph was like, 'Okay, I'm bored.'
[03:45] Joseph: "Ugh. I'm honestly more interested in the behind the scenes-type stuff that, uh — making the best with what you have kind of thing, ever since we started this I've actually found myself watching movies more and more just to see how they film stuff, how they — you know, use lighting, and you know, the, uh... you know, set pieces, thing like that. Uh, I guess I'm kinda like the Matt Stone to Troy's trade partner, whereas he's the talented one that knows everything about everything, and I'm just there to provide moral support and help them write."
[04:22] Troy: He laughs. "And do silly voices."
[04:23] Joseph: "And do silly voices."
[04:24] Troy continues to laugh. "Uh — yeah, basically that."
[04:29] Joseph: "That's pretty self-deprecating. Next question."
[04:31] Troy: "Yeah. Yeah, all right."
[04:33] Interviewer: "All right, StickTheFigure wants to know, uh, can you provide any clues at all to the connections we haven't made from totheark?"
[04:35] White text appears centered on the black screen: "23. Any clues for the totheark videos?"
[04:39] Joseph: "Uh, I believe there is actually a question we had at one point that said, uh, 'are some mysteries supposed to be unsolved to keep the, uh, scary atmosphere and all that stuff',' and it kinda answered it own question."
[04:54] Troy: "Yeah."
[04:55] Joseph: "Everything that's supposed to be a mystery, and there's really — doesn't seem to be a way for it to be answered, it's that way kinda for a reason."
[05:05] Troy: "Yeah."
[05:05] Joseph: "There are definitely puzzles inside of it, nothing truly full-blown ARG-esque, but things that we kinda you know, push you in the right direction, or like, provide a little more enlightenment, there are just some things in there that are meant there to you know, they might be a red herring or they might be something like what I was just saying: that it's a mystery for the sake of being a mystery, and if you figure it out, good for you. If you don't..."
[05:30] Troy: "That's okay. You just enjoy it, I guess."
[05:31] Joseph: "That's okay. Yeah, there's nothing — there's no actual, uh, puzzles or anything like that that are essential to enjoy the series."
[05:39] Troy: "Yeah, it's kind of a — going with the question you asked earli— earlier of like, why is it scary and stuff — I think that might play off of it a little bit in that you know, you don't really know what everything is — y— you don't know a hundred percent of what exactly is going on, because Jay doesn't know exactly what's going on. I mean, you only know as much as he does."
[06:01] Joseph: "Yeah. The limited perspective is a big thing with the whole series."
[06:05] Troy: "Yeah. In fact, it actually made a bunch of speed bumps while we were trying to ride of like, 'How do we explain this without, you know, having some kind of —'"
[06:12] Joseph: [indiscernible]
[06:13] Troy: "Yeah, having some kind of fourth wall thing going on. Now that's definitely one of the regrets of making it this way." He laughs.
[06:20] Kathleen: "Well, that seems to it for the questions, so, do you have any last minute information, or stories you'd like to throw at us?"
[06:24] White text appears centered on the black screen: "24(?) Any other stuff?"
[06:28] Troy: "You know, Joseph actually is really bad about when I editing them. He'd like, walk into my room while I was putting every— everything together, and he'd just be like, 'Wow. That looks awful.' And I'd be like 'Thanks, Joseph!'"
[06:41] Joseph: "Well — again, that goes back to — while I do a consider myself a creative person, Troy initially do— he does all the actual scripting. Uh, be both collaborate to come up with ideas for each episode, and you know, bounced ideas off of each other, so it wasn't — you know, a one-side thing, I — I did have input and I don't want to sound too self-deprecating when I said I'm Matt Stone. I'm very... very much so a perfectionist. Uh, and I've always been that way whether it's with music, or you know, just this."
[07:13] Troy: "Yeah."
[07:13] Joseph: "Uh, so — after a point there — I just — would try to leave Troy alone with the editing, because you know, the final product was always something good. It's like every — towards the end, each update I was like, 'Wow, this is like, your best work yet.'"
[07:28] Troy: "Aww."
[07:29] Joseph: "And then the next one would come out, but, uh, during those first few weeks like, especially when we had the — the bumps with all the text from Jay, it took us two hours. It may have taken us fifteen minutes to shoot one scene, but it took us two hours to write the words because I would constantly be changing something."
[07:44] Troy: "Yeah, Joseph's kind of a grammar Nazi, so..."
[07:48] Joseph: "And I don't even have that good of grammar, it's weird." Troy laughs.
[07:50] Troy: "Someone — someone asked in like, the other Q&A thing of, uh — what was the hardest part about Marble Hornets, and I was like, 'definitely the text.'"
[07:57] Joseph: [indiscernible]
[07:57] Troy: "—that we would put up there, because there was this really fine line we had to walk, of... keeping it — keeping it in character, which is a lot harder to do than I originally thought, uh — keeping it sounding like something Jay would say without going into the whole realm of like, 'OMG did you guys see that, what was in the background, question mark exclamation point one'"
[08:14] White text appears centered on the black screen: "OMG did U guys c that what was n the back ground?!1"
[08:20] Troy: "Like, you know, people would usually say after like, a new entry came out or something that'd say something like, you know —"
[08:25] Joseph: "Jay sounds robotic."
[08:27] Troy: "Yeah, like, 'Jay sounds so removed from everything.'"
[08:30] Joseph: "And he does."
[08:31] Troy: "Yeah. Uh... like, 'he should get get a shotgun and you know, go back to the house and kill everyone!' You know, that's not what he would do."
[08:38] Joseph: "No."
[08:38] Troy: "It was like — that was really hard to do, was — was being a good... puppeteer, I guess? Yeah."
[08:43] Joseph: "I'd say other than making it through my quality-controlled Nazism, the hardest part was actually doing any sort of character development whatsoever, especially for Jay. Uh, that was one of the main criticisms I had of our series, as well as — uh, you know, the viewers had of it, was... it seemed like you could kinda plug any character into any slot, and you know, you'd have the same product. And that came from having such a limited perspective with the shooting and wanting to keep the sights set on one thing, which was this whole 'mystery' kind of aspect. Uh, so there wasn't... one time — to do a whole lot of character development, and there wasn't a practical way to do it. Well, I take that back — there probably was, but at the time, we just — we couldn't figure out a way to do it without it seeming too obvious."
[09:36] Troy: "Yeah, like script it and stilt it and everything."
[09:38] Joseph: "Uh, because we're not professional actors. Uh, we can write something really good, but it if do— if it doesn't work, then you know, it's all for naught."
[09:48] Troy: "Yeah. I mean, I'm a theatre minor, and that's pretty much all we got going for us."
[09:52] Joseph: "Yeah. There is character development, you just have to really decide to pay attention to just that. Like, I'd say Jay is kind of like an impersonal person —"
[10:03] Troy: "Yeah."
[10:03] Joseph: "— you know, he's not going to let his emotions become too overt. Uh, he's not overly aggressive, he's not gonna take a gun to a house, uh, he's going to take a knife and then he's going to lose that knife." Troy laughs. "Alex — kind of like me. Uh..."
[10:19] Troy: "Yeah, I mean w— we were definitely talking about this while we were writing, it's like, 'Um, I think Jay is just me and Alex is just you.'"
[10:25] Joseph: "Like, all those parts where Alex is being a jerk and everything, I can get like that. I'm especially like that at work. Uh... outside of work, I'm more of, you know, the relaxed Alex, the... the, uh —"
[10:38] Troy: "Entry #26 Alex."
[10:39] Joseph: "Yeah."
[10:39] Troy: "Just like, chilling out on the couch or whatever."
[10:41] Joseph: "Yeah. The Alex that's doing this interview, you know..."
[10:43] Troy: "Doing your spreadsheets on the couch." He laughs.
[10:46] Joseph: "And there's definitely some character development there, it's not as deep as we would want, but, uh — it is there."
[10:52] Troy: "I mean — I mean, not to, you know, do any kind of foreshadowing or anything but, uh — there's definitely still time."
[10:59] Joseph: "Yeah."
[11:00] Troy: "...to work this kind of stuff out."
[11:01] Joseph: "And that's something I'd definitely like to work on... you know, the next progression of Marble Hornets is making the characters feel more human."
[11:08] Troy: "Yeah."
[11:09] Joseph: "Uh, because if that's the main criticism, that's the biggest place where we can improve upon."
[11:13] Troy: "Yeah. Yeah."
[11:14] Interviewer: "Well, that basically wraps up the interview. Thanks guys, so much for coming on and doing this with us."
[11:20] Joseph: "Thank you for having us!"
[11:21] Troy: "Yeah, no problem."
[11:22] Interview: "And hopefully you guys can come back on and do a little interview for Marble Hornets 2."
[11:28] Joseph: "Maybe, we'll see!"
[11:28] Troy: "Who knows!"
[11:29] Joseph: "Who knows!"
[11:30] Troy: "Marble Hornets: Part 2, 2012!"
[11:31] White text appears centered on the black screen:

"MARBLE HORNETS
Part 2
2012
...coming soon
to a theater
near you?
mark it on your calendars"

[11:33] Joseph: "What is it when the world's —"
[11:34] Troy: "December 12th, 2012."
[11:36] Joseph: "Yeah, that."
[11:36] Troy: "Coming soon to a theater near you!
[11:36] Joseph: "Mark it — mark it on your calendars. December 12th, 2012."
[11:40] Troy: "Coming soon."
[11:45] End.

[Ristar]

Great job Mr. Digsby you have earned an internet

[Kraehtot]

Thank you so much for doing this, Mr. Digsby!

But I've got a question to whoever can tell me: What do they mean with that "Marble Hornets" is also an acronym?

[Aesculapius]

The "indescernable" part at the end is probably "NDS" (Nintendo DS).

[chaoswinter]

[Sha Noran]

[SonicN2O]

Told you guys he would pull through.
I salute you, Mr. Digsby.

[paulisdead18]

I have to say, asking a question about the ending was a big waste of time. From an interview standpoint, they could have asked a different question that could have gotten an answer, important or not. I dunno, to me it seems like it wasn't very smart to ask that question, seeing as their response is obvious.