The Create Unknown

Nerdwriter INSIDE, Rusty Cage TUESDAY!

We had a ball with the Nerdwriter -- he really is one of a kind. Evan's advice on the creative process is excellent. He understands the delicate balance of visuals and script that make YouTube a unique medium, and he's also a master of the traditional book. And because we love traditional people so much, we'll be talking on Tuesday at 6pm with Rusty Cage about building a guillotine. On to Evan...

The gold standard of the video essay genre on YouTube is ...

PsychicPebbles Opens His Brain For us

We start off our 2+ hour biannual neurological exam of PsychicPebbles’ lizard brain with a grim comparison of the Smiling Friends and Vsauce fandoms – and a realization about the rewatchability of both endeavors. Jimmy Carter is set to trade in the peanut farm and Habitat for Humanity for a brief cameo on the show, but he might be in line behind Putin and Kim Jong Un. Kevin wants Shaq to listen to the podcast, and we unite in our hatred of Big Cheese.

Smiling Friends has received a ...

Drew Durnil INSIDE, Pebbles Later TODAY!

We're finishing up and exporting the massive 3-hour PsychicPebbles edit, and we'll have it out to you later today. Don't forget that we've got a new day and time for NerdWriter next week: MONDAY, 3pm ET (he had scheduling conflicts with Tuesday). NerdWriter is one of the most requested guests we'e ever had and we're thrilled to finally get him into the Unknown. On to Drew...

Drew Durnil is one of the most prolific creat...

Charity Croff INSIDE, PsychicPebbles TUESDAY!

That's right -- Pebbles will be back in The Create Unknown next week at 6pm ET for what will surely be a serious lecture and nothing remotely funny or interesting. We just keep giving him chances to make us laugh, and one day we hope he will actually take one. Perhaps that will be Tuesday. If you've experienced a live Pebbles recording or listened to any of his prior episodes, you know that you NEED to be there (and will have to take off from work/school the next day). WE ARE...

VidCon Analysis INSIDE, Charity Croff TUESDAY

The best way to meet future guests is when you are trapped in a car with them -- because that's how Kevin met Charity Croff, who is AMAZING and wildly entertaining. We're pumped for Tuesday at 6pm ET... and we're also (mostly) recovered from both VidCon and its associated VIRUSES. 

We’re alive. BARELY. Did we go to VidCon, an event that Kevin has been featured at for a decade? Or… did we go to TikTokCon for the very first time? The answer to bo...

SERIOUS Advice Inside, VIDCON Next Week!

We're excited to leave the house for the first time in FOREVER -- because it means we get to see some of you along with a ton of TCU guests and other friends at VidCon in Anaheim next week. If you're going to be there, PLEASE drop us a line on Twitter, in the Discord, or here to let us know. We wanted to prime the pump for the event by having as important a discussion as we've ever had on this podcast, so here we go...

There’s no sense in talking abou...

AEW's Evil Uno INSIDE, Tuesday... ?!?

VidCon is fast approaching, and hopefully we'll see some of you there -- so we've kept this upcoming episode flexible. We're just not sure what we want to do on Tuesday, so hang out in the Discord to get a heads up when we decide. If you're going to be in Anaheim, hit us up on Twitter, in the Discord, SOMEWHERE. Just let us know. On to Uno...

Evil Uno has spent nearly two decades grinding upward in a physically and mentally grueling career that combines...

TierZoo INSIDE, AEW's Evil Uno MONDAY!

On MONDAY -- that's right, NOT Tuesday -- we'll be smashing this podcast right into the turnbuckle with Evil Uno of All Elite Wrestling. We've never had a guest like Evil Uno, and some of the Discord regulars are already pumped. It'll probably be pretty tame. On to TierZoo...

First off, we’d like to wish the infamous Ben W a happy 3-year anniversary with The Create Unknown and Unknown Media. Here’s to 33 more years with a 333% reduc...

BlameSociety INSIDE, TierZoo TUESDAY!

We had a really, really good time talking with Aaron and Matt -- we've been laughing with them for years now, and it doesn't take long to see why. We'll be inventing hierarchies with TierZoo next week, and we've booked AEW's Evil Uno coming up. We're going into VidCon with a vengeance. Time to Blame Society...

The comedy duo of Aaron Yonda and Matt Sloan has seen it all, from going viral before YouTube to playing board ...

Top Gun Debate INSIDE, BlameSociety TUESDAY!

Aaron Yonda and Matt Sloan are two of the funniest people we've ever seen -- and if you know Baby Cookie, you know why. BlameSociety went from Chad Vader to Beer and Board Games, and they're still delivering to a community that can't live without them.  TUESDAY. 6pm ET. BLAME SOCIETY. On to Top Gun...

The quintessential 80’s action film Top Gun appears to be a cultural litmus test – everyone se...

Rick Beato INSIDE, Top Gun TUESDAY!

Well... if you missed the live recording with Rick Beato, you missed an absolute masterclass from a legend. It truly is one of the most useful episodes we've ever recorded, and Rick's accessible wisdom is indispensable for anyone who makes or simply appreciates art. Coming up we've got a debate-to-the-death over whether the film Top Gun is great or garbage, and it's a lot less frivolous than it sounds. Kevin's position is that the world would be better off without it; Matt th...

Sniping Soup INSIDE, Rick Beato TUESDAY!

This week is ball-crushing metal with Sniping Soup, and next week is a music legend. Rick Beato probably won't talk about ripping on kids in Rust, though. If you came out for the live show with Soup, you got a hot, steamy bowl of gator stew. You won't want to miss Rick this coming Tuesday at 6pm ET -- it's TCU night in the Discord, so get INNNNN. Now get a spoon, because it's on to Soup...

Sniping Soup is pretty much living the dream: v...

Sean Malone INSIDE, Sniping Soup TUESDAY!

We're going metal and gaming on Tuesday with SOUP -- this is going to be pretty wild. And we're following him up with Rick Beato the week after. May is for music here in the Unknown. Tuesday nights at 6pm ET in the Discord. GETTT INNNNNNN. On to comics and economics...

WAIT -- we'll have Minecraft info in its own email, so look out for that. Back to Sean. 

There’s no one better at explaining economics in an interesting, non-obnoxious way th...

CoffeeZilla NOW, Sean Malone TUESDAY!

We're excited to talk to Out of Frame's Sean Malone next week, and hopefully there will be a fight to the death over Stranger Things. We don't know anyone who understands the intersection of media and how people *actually* think than Sean -- he literally is the best at mixing the audio-visual with humanity. If you make content that you hope resonates with people, do not miss this one. Tuesday, 6pm ET in the Discord. On to CoffeeZilla...

The man who used to make excellen...

Barely Sociable INSIDE, Coffeezilla TUESDAY!

We had an incredible time talking to Barely Sociable -- everyone who came out for the live recording (and aftershow hangout) can back that up. We've got the semi-return of Coffeezilla, where we'll debut UnknownCoin and a series of NFTs (not really). And then we've got the actual return of Sean Malone from Out of Frame. On to Barely Sociable...

It feels like everyone on YouTube is telling long-form stories now. But in the last 2 years, o...

Jared Bauer INSIDE, BarelySociable TUESDAY!

We're back to the normal 6pm ET slot on Tuesday to talk to BarelySociable, who is an excellent followup to the Wisecrack-style essay examination. The music industry? Silk Road? Everything is on the table Tuesday night. On to Jared...

Jared Bauer is one of the few people on YouTube who has built something massive and then moved on, and his journey from Wisecrack to his own total reinvention sounds like it’s just getting started. It doesn’t take long ...

HappyConsoleGamer INSIDE, Jared Bauer TUESDAY!

Kevin wrangled the return of Johnny Millennium for over an hour of GAMER TALK -- and we've got a crazy slate coming up. Tuesday night at 6pm ET is Jared Bauer (formerly of Wisecrack), and after that we've got BarelySociable, Coffeezilla, and Out of Frame's Sean Malone. APRIL IS BUSY and it's awesome. On to HCG...

Johnny Millennium isn’t just the HappyConsoleGamer, he’s probably the most genuine old-school nerd on YouTube. In a sea o...

Eggy INSIDE, HappyConsoleGamer NEXT WEEK!

We had a great time with Eggy on Tuesday, and that kicks off a string of outstanding guests: HappyConsoleGamer is back this coming Tuesday, then we've got Jared Bauer (formerly of Wisecrack), BarelySociable, the long-awaited return of Coffeezilla, and Out of Frame's Sean Malone. As always, we'll be live in the Discord where you can make use of the new "Events" feature to keep tabs on who's co...

Brady Haran INSIDE, Eggy TUESDAY!

The return of Eggy is upon us, and he's got plenty of new stories to tell us -- including how perpetual banning and re-banning from YouTube. WHY?!? Tuesday, 6pm ET in the Discord. GET INNN. On to Brady...

No one in YouTube’s educational universe is more productive than Brady Haran, with literally thousands of videos that cover math, computer science, chemistry… if it’s interesting, Brady has probably made a video about it – or h...

AVGN Inside, Brady Haran / Numberphile Tuesday!

Discord suffered its worst outage of the year about 45 minutes before recording with James Rolfe, so our Angry Video Game Nerd recording had to be done in secret. Clandestine. Stealthy. Raw. And here it is.

We're hoping James will come back for another session, probably when his book is ready for discussion -- and we've got a great lineup coming: Brady Haran of Numberphile Tuesday night, then The Return of Eggy, and Happy Console Gamer after that. March...

Laterment INSIDE, James Rolfe TUESDAY (2pm ET!)

We've been trying to schedule a time to talk to James Rolfe of Cinemassacre/Angry Video Game Nerd for... years. Literally 3 years. We'll be talking to James on Tuesday at 2pm ET -- NOTE THE TIME -- about why NES Bible Adventures is an underrated game, what it feels like to have a buffalo take a diarrhea dump in your ear, and how Rolling Rock has fueled one of the most successful, enduring projects on all of YouTube. THREE YEARS. Do not miss this. On to Laterm...

Kevin's Gets Personal INSIDE, Laterment TOMORROW

We've got a pretty unique episode Tuesday at 6pm ET. We experienced a massive Discord hack a few weeks ago and Laterment stepped in to sort it out in such a crazy way that it deserves its own episode. But... we're also just going to talk to Laterment, because his successful streaming career started as he listened to The Create Unknown. It's come full circle, and now he'll be on the show that inspired him -- get into the (non-hacked, entirely safe) Discord at ...

A Romantic Date with Alternate History Hub

We'll be recording Tuesday at 6pm ET as normal, the subject TBA -- but the next 2 hours of your is actually about the past. We've spent the last month pining over an opportunity to talk to Alternate History Hub, and we've finally done it. It was as hot, steamy, and YouTubey as we hoped it would be.

Our long-awaited Valentine’s Date is here! Getting a clear picture of history is hard enough, but Alternate History Hub somehow manages to imagine how things *could* have b...