2021 has been an unbelievable ride for the mr who's the boss channel i'm still in physical shock at what we've managed to do this year so there's my way of saying thanks here are 50 surprising things you didn't know about me because i'm so focused on not wasting time i've got really good at throwing things into bins from a distance i eat an average of five meals a day i'd love to tell you it was because i was bodybuilding but i really like food someone once showed me what i'd look like as a girl and i did not hate the result the most searched internet question about me is oh i don't have a studio this room that we film everything in that's my bedroom the bed used to be right here in the middle but we had to move it to get more space so now i just sleep in the corner oh yeah and thanks to rhino shield for sponsoring this video my top five most used apps in order are whatsapp twitter instagram youtube and then netflix one person at school called me ugly when i was 13. it took me 10 years to shake that feeling don't be mean to others i used to grow my hair really long to try and hide the shape of my head until i realized that everyone looks pretty strange if you stay long enough except long i know people think i'm obsessed with rick astley i just don't get it if you include my hair i am six foot one inches tall here's a cat for reference i've actually got two cats this simba who's three years old and milo who's less than one but has somehow still managed to become the alpha of the house i could still take him though ah oh people often think that i have a team of like 20 people but in actuality i have just two employees right now we have joe's who is master of channel graphics and josh master of our beautiful camera work tell us something fun about yourself so when i can't find a sound effect sometimes i make them myself what about you well fun fact milo definitely prefers me to aaron but i said that if you've ever wondered how i catch phones out of nowhere and videos josh's hands and a lot of retakes one of my main objectives in life is to just try as many things as possible i've ended up in some very weird situations because of this philosophy i have a surprising ability to cope with sour foods i'm going to eat this whole thing while making eye contact with you biggest thing that i spend my money on is this channel i reinvest like 98 of my total budget just buying tech to feature in the next video that's the only reason we've managed to make videos like this like this and this for every single video we've made over like the last year i don't just like sit down and film we actually designed like an entire color scheme based on the tone of that video we make a custom set design with those colors and then we even make custom text and custom graphics just to match that theme sometimes i tell josh that i really like a choice taken just so he doesn't retake it 30 times looks great josh thank you so i have a birthmark right here i literally go years without realizing but then every single time i re-notice it i can't unsee it for months at a time oh damn it i've been told that i have really fast reaction speeds promise these aren't mine my favorite tv show ever is new girl i've watched it like seven times already i've been keeping printouts of like every single one of our channel metrics ever since there were just 3000 of us and looking at these things and then realizing that we're now approaching 10 million it's just blowing my mind [Music] i'm slightly jealous that milo has better toys than me i have scored the highest possible grade in every exam i've ever taken except my driving test which i mean calling that one a fail would be extremely generous but it's not just my driving i have also been hit by a tram i'll never forget it i was 16 i was walking home from school i was probably thinking about what pokemon i was going to catch when i got home but then i stepped onto the road and i remember i looked left completely forgot to look right and this thing came and whacked me from the side i went flying i landed on my legs which were pretty cut up by this and i just distinctly remember the feeling for the whole journey home of blood slowly but surely soaking into my socks sorry for that mental image cheers jeff unfortunately it's not the only accident i've had when i was younger i walked directly behind my brother while he was taking a golf swing i got smashed in the face and that's why part of my front tooth is missing i once asked someone to shoot me in the butt at close range with an airsoft rifle i think i can still feel it i have a problem where i keep trying to learn the most pointless skills for example there was a three-week phase while i was at university where i kept locking myself out my room so i decided to learn how to pick locks so that i could pick my way back in i also dabbled in a little bit of close-up magic as i'm sure you can probably imagine it's very popular with the ladies there was even a phase where i thought the key to success was juggling my top five most famous twitter followers are xiaomi with 3.42 million hassan 3.71 hussein with 4.45 marquez brownlee with 5.25 and then mr beast with 12.6 12.6 it took me two and a half years of doing youtube videos with just my hands until the day i finally plugged up the courage and showed my face it's like a breaking news report [Music] hi guys too awkward i have just applied for a world record in something if you want to know what it is then it's up to the channel would be unparalleled my favorite songs pretty much all come from the movie the greatest showman these eyes look it's a masterpiece okay my most recent obsession is shower steamers they're these little rocks that you can effectively put into the corner of your bathroom and then as they get wet they release a scent that makes your shower feel like a spa you might have seen me clap in videos to change the color of the lights yeah so that actually involves me taking a really deep breath and staying completely still for three whole minutes while josh manually changes each light one by one i used to love playing the drum kit here's a really old clip of me doing so but when we had to get rid of it to free up space i had to start playing in my mind which is why half the time when you find me walking around doing stuff i will beat box without even realizing i'm doing it so i've only ever done one fan meet-up in my entire life and i had absolutely no idea what i was doing i remember we actually got kicked out of the place that i booked for the meet up within like 10 minutes of being there and so we literally spent the entire time just roaming the streets of london while i was there just racking my brain trying to figure out like what to do with all these people who'd made so much effort to be there speaking of which though one fan at this meetup insisted that he gave me this commemorative coin which so far i've kept to my wallet every single day since the one sport that i spent like half my childhood playing was chess yes it is a real sport look it up i'm not even joking one of my best friends actually broke his arm at a chess tournament running back to his mum after a game so pretty much the first thing that i do when i've like finished covering a big smartphone launch and i've done back-to-back sleepless nights is grab a canvas and paint i have a second channel dedicated to making videos that are less than a minute long but even a 30 second video on that channel can take up to six hours to make all right top five when i was at school my severe lack of confidence meant that i literally used to spend the entire time with my head down like this no joke this is how i would walk around until one day my uncle took me to the side lifted it and said stay like this changed my life i also had a moment in high school where i decided that i wanted to defend myself against bullies so i started training in taekwondo that is until one day when i tried to tornado kick my sparring partner causing me to keep spinning land on my knee and shatter it into oblivion self-defense is one thing i probably should have focused on defense from self people often ask me do i have a girlfriend there is a go it's not this one i promise if you follow on instagram i will post something about us as soon as i can pluck up the courage to do it took us over eight years to hit one billion views on this main channel the second channel is on track to do that in one year bonus fact i have been resting my arm in a bin for that shot it would not be the first time and number one which is kind of related this year has been the most surreal year of my entire life i started out in january thinking okay let's try and hit this many instagram followers and this many twitter followers but never did i imagine that i would be sitting on billboards or finding myself in newspapers or the most crazy not just being nominated for the best tech channel in the world but actually winning we won best tech channel in the world that's like that's like the kind of stuff you dream about but you never really think is gonna happen to you so thank you thank you so so so much and we're gonna try and change the game in 2022 let's do something stupid is the phone damaged though nope the tree is though now the reason that i'm confident doing that is material called shock spread it's what rhino shield uses on every single one of their cases and what they're saying is that this one material combined with the honeycomb lattice on the inside is the equivalent of two layers of protection without needing two layers it means that you can drop your phone from 11 feet no problem which is probably why they give you a lifetime replacement warranty with every case but the thing that's really important to me is that they've coated it in such a way that you can just wipe off stains like it's covered in stains right now because i threw it into a tree amongst other places but give it a quick rub and you're pretty much good to go oh yeah and as well as being able to choose your color and finish and design from an almost limitless amount of collaboration from marvel to star wars or snoopy to keith haring you also have changeable buttons and if you use the code mr boxing you can have 20 off in the first week of this video going live to see the biggest tech you've ever seen click here or to find out why i think the metaverse might be a problem that video is here my name is aaron this is mr who's the boss i'll catch you in the next one