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Hey, y'all. I just wanted to leave a quick message here. This is probably one of my favorite episodes we have done. Brandon and I had a fantastic time recording this. We were truly blessed to hear these stories, and it is absolutely motivating. As you can see, this episode is four hours and 13 minutes, and we did that for all of you, and these stories deserve that much time.

If you want to laugh, this is an awesome episode for that. But most importantly, if you want to be motivated and see what trials and tribulations some people go through to get where they are, this is the episode. I hope you guys enjoy it. Keep kicking ass. Keep taking names.

And hopefully this motivates you guys to go out there and crush life. Also, if you can do me one quick favor, Ryden has started uploading YouTube videos. And when he got home, he opened it up. He's like, I have zero comments. I just want one video or two videos to have some comments on there. I will leave you the name. It's Ryden Cuevas. Just go leave some comments. Tell him he's doing amazing. And I will teach him about retention beats because homeboy doesn't know it. Also about copyrighted.

Let's make his day. I want to record it and show you all. Thank you guys so freaking much. You're amazing humans. We are blessed to have this community. I've said it many times. And most importantly, enjoy the episode. Welcome to the podcast, guys. Welcome. This is your guys' first podcast? Yeah, pretty much. We did do one that was not released. Oh, first podcast ever. First podcast that is public. The unreleased one. Except the unreleased one, which shall not be named. Right.

that happens sometimes. We've had a couple of those. We call that the juicy podcast incident of 2021. It was a big deal. It was a big deal. I had a moment. It's like a Wikipedia page, like a battle. Like you've got combatants and shit on the side. Yeah. Yeah. There's like a list of, there's like, of course, like an obituary and a lot of people. It was a big day. This podcast is dedicated to the brave fighters of the Mujahideen. Yeah.

You're like, yes. Welcome. Okay, so hi, everyone. Welcome to the unsubscribed podcast. God, that felt good to do. We're joined today by my friends, Eli DoubleFap, Juicy,

Eddie and narrator and myself not donut operator. Mr. Brandon Herrera everyone. I think isn't isn't former congressman. Yeah, yeah, former almost congressman. Yeah, we got to pop it. I was about to say, well, yeah, there's a tradition here. Okay, what's the tradition? Yeah, the pop it.

You grab one, and on the count of three... What is that? Wait, hold on. What is that? It's a spice. It's good. I've never seen that. It's unfortunately... Three, two, one. Oh, yeah. That was actually a very sexy click. All right.

We did a little out of order. Sorry, I'm not Donut. Well, at least you remembered it. He's here with us. Hi, everyone. Hi, everyone. I thought these were his ashes. Yeah, he's here with us today in spirit. Poor guy exploded. There's ashes in there. He came back from California. I told him to cease fire on the bullying, and he just melted down in front of us. Cease fire, cease fire. The campaign's over with, and he's just...

It just literally just melted. It was like fucking Terminator 2 with just the thumbs up coming from the lava. Yeah, it was just...

I've served my mission of destroying people on Twitter. I can rest now. Credits for all this. Just turned into a pile of ashes. The end of Operator 2. And you'll rise out of them again, you know, for round two. Do you guys have... First off, I love that you guys put... You take jokes, you nail jokes, and you push the envelope, even though you have, like, a younger demographic than...

Like us. We have like that 30, I think 35 is probably our average demo. I would say so, yeah. Somewhere like that. And you guys are like that 16 to... Yeah, it's like 16 to mid-20s, but... I think so. Yeah, YouTube says otherwise. YouTube says the majority is 18 and over, like between 18 and 24, but we know the little fucking 14, 15-year-olds out there are like making 18-plus accounts. Yeah, and a lot of those people have...

Grown up. Carrying on the tradition. I remember doing that when I was like 14, 15. Yeah, I did that. My original YouTube account, I'm like fucking 50, dude. Any kid follows that, it's like, is this porn time? Are you 18? No. They're like, damn it! It kicked me out! How did they know? It's like the fucking memes of the fence in the middle of nowhere with tire marks around either side. What am I going to do?

but yeah to your point i think it's uh uh that's one of our staples is you know just making fun of each other and yeah and basically like our group which molly and josh aren't here but um our group is just basically made up of five dudes that are just friends and dudes and we just joke with each other we joke with each other and we have that camaraderie with each other and i think

We don't fake it and we also don't like sugarcoat anything or hold back. And we're just like very real with each other and with our audience. And I think they...

they vibe with that because everything is so curated on youtube that yeah something like what would we portray is it's just much needed i guess it's just a genuine friendship i remember a bunch of dudes joking with each other that might sound familiar yeah right yeah yeah enhanced i mean but like the way that you guys talk to each other and some of the stuff you say say like reminds me of me playing with my friends

You know, growing up and playing video games and shit, which that's not allowed on YouTube anymore. In the public perception, like most people are afraid to still do that, but you guys are just really real about it. Yeah, I mean, I feel like...

We've always been that way. Yeah. So it's like not really a big shocker to anybody. You know, it's not like someone who's trying to put up this like picture perfect image. Yeah. And then the group chat leaks and they're in federal prison. You know, it's like, well, don't get me wrong. If our group chat leaks, we're still going to federal prison. I don't know. We don't even know where to start on this. The discord leaks of 2024. It's just like, I just get a knock on the door. It's like,

I'm ready. Let's go. Swap them on. They don't even have to say FBI open up. They're just knocking on the door and you're already there. Take me. I'm sorry. Oh, you made it past the Claymores. Well, fair game. Sir, I'm your Uber Eats. Yeah, we delete all of our group chats every year. Oh, that's probably smart. We're overdue for this next one, but we typically just purge our group chat. Not a bad idea. In case anything happens. It's really something I feel like everyone should do. Yeah.

We're reaching for the phone right now. Burn it all, burn it all. It's awesome. No, I was just saying, half my group chats have moved to Signal now and shit like that. Signal, Telegram, birds. Yeah, birds, exactly. Unless they're birds owned by the government, you know. Ugh.

The ones that are... That's most of them. The ones with the big batteries. Yeah. They recharge on the power lines. You know, just the norm. God, government conspiracies. I've never seen a baby pigeon. I'm just going to say that. That's all you guys like. I'm going to be honest with you. I'm going to keep it real. I've never once seen a not full-sized pigeon. Yeah. No. They did videos like, this is what one looks like. Never proved it.

No, I'll do you one better. I saw this one fucking... It was like a green text. It was like, have you ever seen a pregnant Asian? I was just... Not in person, but... It doesn't count. It doesn't count. No, it doesn't count if it's not in person. Somebody's like, what, did they just spawn Call of Duty? You know, I heard this somewhere recently, and I went back through both of my trips to Japan, and I'm like...

Where are the pregnant Japanese ladies? I saw them with kids. Is this a fetish or something? You're just looking for them? No, yo, dog, where are the pregnant Japanese ladies? I'm trying to remember. I cannot remember spotting a single pregnant Japanese lady. It's a rare spawn. God damn it. Have you ever seen...

Your neighbors unloading their groceries. Yeah. Well, okay. Yes. Three-fourth of July is ago. Saw her unloading the groceries. Three-fourth?

three fourths of July ago. Is that like some like segregation joke? That's like three weeks dude. Is that like some like three fifths common? No, no, no. Like three fourths of July. You're like the parents that go like, "Yes, my child is 56 months old." White privilege is getting an entire July. There's a crazy punchline to this though. Okay. Alright, alright, alright. I saw her unload the groceries and I thought of the meme. She died that night in the backyard.

How do you know in the backyard? How is that a punchline? Because I was there. This is crazy. This is crazy. The next day, so we had our 4th of July party. I saw her unload the groceries, and I'm like, that's crazy. My neighbor's unloading the groceries. The next day, someone's knocking on my door, and they're like, can you hop the fence and unlock this house from the back door? They're not answering. I'm like the grandmother or whatever this. I hopped the fence, and they're there. And I'm like, they got him.

They unloaded the groceries. They blew the cover. They unloaded the groceries. You're not allowed to do this as a neighbor. You're looking at your decaying neighbor. Wait, wait, wait. You kind of just glossed over the fact that you saw this dead lady in your... Did you see the dead body? Yeah, yeah. But, like, listen. It's...

But yeah, but the groceries though. If you are a neighbor. God. If you are a neighbor. This is the weirdest trauma coping I've ever heard. If you're a neighbor, be careful. Be careful when you unload your groceries. Don't get spotted. Don't get exactly. Did you feel a little bit responsible because you were the one who went? Because I spotted it. Yeah. I haven't even thought about that. That's fucked up. You killed her, dude. Yeah, it's your fault.

It was you! Put the wrist together. Oh my god, dude. I remember the story, but I do not remember us putting two and two together. You might have been responsible for killing your neighbor. Don't say that.

It'll only be seen by hundreds of thousands of people. It's quite fun. Well, it's the same thing if you go to a huge city. I can't really argue that. They have the gigantic cranes that build the towers and different skyscrapers. Have you ever actually seen one of those cranes being put up? Like them building the crane? Oh, and actually moving? No, no. Like building the crane. It's a crane being built. Oh, yeah. They're just there. Actually, yes, because of 1604. Oh. Yeah. San Antonio. There's so much construction here. Yes, I have. Okay.

I've never seen the crane going from point A to point B, though. I know what you're talking about. I'm like, wait, I have not seen a crane getting... Seven crane operators die in San Antonio. Oh, no. It was you. You ratted him out. You witnessed it. Wait, did we make sure that no one spotted Cody unloading the groceries?

Oh shit. Oh no. Bonobop-a-nado. He's dead. If I see a pregnant Asian lady unloading the groceries and then working on a crane like... That's what caused Nagasaki. Texas gone. Japanese lady unloading real pregnant. She looks at you and you're just like, I'm so sorry. Yeah, I'm sorry. It's a fucking like...

That's the ultimate spawn. At that point, pull out a Pokeball. You have to catch her. You're never going to find that spawn right again. I was going to say, how many of them are in your basement? You have to catch her. My basement? None. White guy thoughts. God. You have to catch her. White guy thoughts narrator.

All right, British Museum. This was supposed to be like the most PC podcast we've ever done, and we've gone harder in like, what, eight minutes? Yeah, 12 minutes. We're going hard. Just fucking throw it. Nice. I am so excited for this one. I know a little bit about your story. Zero on your story, and you've told me your story. I don't know if you've heard...

one of these stories it is amazing and inspirational of how far you guys came and even with like the card stack to get you he was fucking in debt he was like i'm gonna give up here's my he hit that pivot point in life and you're like hey babe

And can you tell that story? I want to go through each one of them because this is motivating as fuck. Sure. Sure, yeah. Is that where we're starting? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Let's do this fucking thing. The story of how you overcame Down syndrome was really inspirational. That one too. Yeah.

He's still in the process. I'm working on it. Your syndrome may be down, but your funny is up, my guy. So your syndrome's down? Money up. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Disability? Disability? Just stack bread. Stack it. You just left it hanging. Thanks. He's still working on it. I'm sorry, man.

I love being able to say we've raised so much for autism charities because we just have that past now. We can just make whatever jokes we want. By the way, fucking congrats on that. Oh, thank you. These amazing people out here. Insane. Absolutely insane. Yeah, that was awesome, bro. They crushed it. Yeah. Like, how do you guys...

We'll get to that. How do you guys feel? Our audience is a chaotic force for good. Yeah. Nice. That's probably the best way you could possibly put it. Well, even the ladies when I called, because I just cold call those three places. It was like, hey, blah, blah, blah. And I waited until the end. So we've seen how much money we raised. Mm-hmm.

and that they were like oh oh well you just go to the website and donate i was like oh it's a decent size check we're just trying to figure out how to do it uh the community raised a lot and they're like oh okay okay well like uh i'd still go to the website i was like okay so it's like 50 grand they were cool whoa oh and that was just one of the groups yeah yeah and they're like ah well um i need to put you on a different call uh holy crap one lady started crying like and all of them are been super supportive they did we put like 200 or 300 kids through uh a

summer camp for autism with just 25 000 shout out to bunker they're actually doing 25 000 more dollars i knew about all the stuff we raised but like that kind of hit me a little hard when you could put it like a definite number on the kids and shit it's like fuck yeah oh you get i forget we're doing things like yeah that's good yeah like you've possibly impacted that many lives like

It's directly like it's, it's, it's insane. And it's an awesome experience. And again, like it was thankful, thankful for everyone that bought those shirts, these offensive ass shirts, which is awesome. That shirt is perfect. I didn't realize that you, that that was a shirt that. Yeah. One of them is just shooting puzzle pieces. Yeah. Yeah.

But they did. All of them reached out. They're super stoked, super happy. Going to the bank to withdraw that money. That lady was like, are you sure? I was donating this. This is for a month of raising song shirts. Then that lady was like, I'm in the wrong business.

Fuck. They're like, you're donating this? It's like, yeah, we raise money. It's to an awesome cause. And now all of them are super supportive and they want to come back, probably help the same people next year and see what we can do again. So, damn. Change of families. We love it. That's beautiful, man. Good work, boys. Cheers to that. Cheers to that. Cheers to autism. Cheers to autism. To autism. Fucking autism.

But anyway, sorry to derail on that point. Oh, it's fine. Yeah, talking about some of you guys' background, because I'll be the first to say, like, I've known you guys for a while, like, especially you guys, because you guys are relatively local. Fuck you, I guess. Yeah. But I don't really know much about where you came from. Like, we've talked a little bit. Yeah, yeah. What's funny is that we were introduced to you guys from Juicy. Really? Yeah. No shit. Okay, how'd that happen? I think I got a hold of Cody...

For a range day or something like that? Yeah, I was messaging Cody about a range day. Sounds funny. Yeah, I think that's how it all started. Yeah, that's how it started. The range days are such a good intro funnel to just meeting people for the group. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, we were doing range days with you guys before it got so big. Yeah, back when it was like 15 dudes. Yeah. That's pretty much what it was when we went out. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Because back then we weren't like trying to put on a range day. We were just trying to like, I mean, shit, we're already going to the range. Like, do you want to invite a couple of creators that we think are cool? Yeah. Yeah. That's literally all it was. Yeah. And now here we are sitting down together. Yeah.

We're cheering for autism. We're drinking drinks, sharing autism. I love it. Is it contagious? Apparently. You get enough of us on the same Wi-Fi router and we're fucked. I was just watching Limitless and I was like, imagine if it's a pill but it gives you autism. You're like...

He starts standing. But he's probably doing really good. The tits of hands start coming out. Because when he's like, he does the jug and all the stuff starts happening, it's like, that's literally what they describe autism like. It's like the overload of sensors. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I need that pill. It's just Adderall. Yeah. Methamphetamines and go. And back to my story with them from the transitioning from methamphetamines. Yeah. Autism and meth. Autism and meth leading to this. No, I didn't do meth. That's not how my story starts. I love how you like left the autism. You're like, you did autism and meth. I did a little bit of autism. I didn't do meth. I've done autism. Uh-oh.

didn't agree with me i think it actually i think it was compatible

I think everybody in our business is like, I've talked about this a million times, but everybody in our business to succeed at the level that we have has to have a little touch of testimony. I say the exact same thing. There's a test online that we wanted to take. Well, we were planning a video where all five of us go to get officially tested. Yeah, yeah. And go through the whole thing. I can save you a trip. The fact that you ignored a dead lady for a minute.

Put the groceries? Whatever, I like- I like- Just tell her that story. I like, pass the fence and I was like, guys? But then it's like, um, yeah, I'll just unlock the gate, I'm sorry. It was- It was wild. Yeah. She's sleeping. She's tuckered out, man. Yeah, she's like, big nap. Very big nap. All tuckered out. I swear the last thing she did was unload her groceries. Yeah.

I wasn't watching her but like someone must have been yeah someone had to have observed her I made sure to look through a mirror yeah very very very spurgy anytime you walk outside and you see your neighbors pull under their driver you pull out a mirror and only observe through a mirror okay it's safe to look bro and then you watch them through the mirror and they're reaching into their trunk pretending to pull out groceries but they're not what the fuck are you talking about

What the fuck? Groceries are not real. What? We've been tru- wait. Now we're back in the groceries. Okay. I like how many times we've started from the start. You gotta tell your story, bro.

Andy Rowe. Andy Rowe. Andy Rowe. We're just edging the audience. This is what happens every time we do anything. Anytime we hop on to record videos, we hop on Discord, and it's three hours of this before we actually get up. That's why we started just doing brunch.

before we do anything now. Because we know that just get out the socialization. Fucking when we come here, it's time to just get down to business. Yeah. Work, work time. Yeah. It's hard though. Or film videos or whatever. Those tangents just go and then you're like, oh, this conversation is nowhere where it was supposed to be.

Bring it back on tracks. That's why depending on the time frame, we get Director Eli. Oh yeah, very much so. And then everyone's like, Eli's mad. I'm like, no, I just... I have to do the same thing where it's like we're in the middle of a joke or whatever. I'm like, alright, let's get this knocked out. I won't go home. We got shit to do. Sleepy time. Alright, can I start my story now? Go for it, brother. If it pleases the court. Go for it. Well, I guess I should start by saying that

Who we are the boys we have a channel called the boys. Yeah, and we started YouTube at different points in our lives, but we all culminated and came together making VR videos and The reason we got so popular was because we were doing VR videos that were completely out of the norm like you had a

Most gameplay videos are like, you're playing a game, and it's like you're watching someone play a game like, oh, look, I can pick this up with my VR hands and things like that. You know, it's just like same old shit. You guys were building Auschwitz in Minecraft. Exactly. Basically. Exactly. That's the best way to put it, yeah. Exactly. And so you put us in a room together, and we started like...

fucking with each other like mess messing around and saying jokes to each other making fun of each other and we're playing Pavlov which is a uh it's a it's a shooting simulator in VR and put us in a lobby together and now we're playing Russian roulette and like cheating the rules and like shooting each other and like we just started like um like building narratives right and like

just improv-ing and like building out like I guess a scene and a situation yeah and yeah you know using virtual characters which if if for those at home that have never used a VR headset or seen a VR video it's filmed from the perspective of the person so what you're seeing is first person perspective yeah right so you've got a group of five dudes the way I would equate it is like we're

Basically, it's like a comedy set, but in virtual reality, where we're literally the directors and the camera people at the same time. And there's five of us in a room. And we're like, hey, shut up for a second. Don't talk over each other. Can we do this again? Do this again or do this again? And we're retrying scenes and things like that. Yes.

And okay, we're gonna throw them off the building. Okay, the shot wasn't good, but let's do it again. And this time scream louder and shit, you know? And so like, so that we're actually like improvising, but also directing the video as we go. And it was a different style than what most VR gameplay videos were about. It wasn't gameplay. It was five dudes coming together and, excuse me. It's because he watched you bring your groceries out. Yeah, he's trying to get up. It's true.

You got like 15 minutes. Fuck, I better hurry up and tell my story. How many times have you done this? He's like looking for neighbors. I'm like, yeah, you next motherfucker. I'm terrified of the day. I'm like bringing my groceries in and I look across the street and it's fucking you with Groucho Marx glasses with the nose and mustache. It's like,

It's like looking up from a newspaper. It's like this. I just wave. That's two episodes in a row we've done a cryptid. That's his cryptid. Oh, that's a good one. It's like Slenderman, but watching you with your groceries and you die the next day. You're like reaching for the trunk, just looking around, making sure nobody's there. Just like... All of a sudden the static comes in as soon as you grab the groceries. Yeah.

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It was like 14 minutes left. I have 14 minutes left now. Thanks for fucking cutting into my time. It was like community theater, but in VR pretty much. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's kind of what it was. And it also wasn't anything PG. We were going at it like... And the thing was, we were also making fun of current events. So we got popular during COVID because most people were at home and...

it our channels just exploded during that time we had already been working up to that point but that time it like exploded i think a lot of people had a similar thing yeah with that

Especially with like camaraderie type channels because that's kind of what people were craving. And being in VR, that's the only way that we could get together, especially because two of us are in Australia. Right. Yeah. So. They have the daily butthole inspections and everything like that. Exactly. Yeah. So we were doing skits where we were like, we were playing, what was it? What was the game called? The other shooting game? Contractors. Contractors.

Contractors. We were playing Contractors and we were like in a neighborhood. It was just like a neighborhood map.

and we were doing skits where like Mully couldn't come outside and we'd be like, oh, we got you a little vaccine for you. And we would put it in his front door and he'd be like, oh, the vaccine. And he would come out and try to pick up the vaccine. And then as soon as he stepped out of his door, we would shoot him. Just unload on him. Unload like RPGs and everything. Now you got fucking pranked. And so that's the kind of shit we were doing. And that's different than Australia? Yeah.

From what I was told, that's how they handled it. Pretty much. He walked outside your domicile. We were just showing him what would happen.

Stay in your fucking house, Molly. So it was learning. You're a fucking guy. So we would make fun of like current world events. And I think that's why people fell in love with the channel. And then we transitioned into VRChat, which is another social platform. It's kind of like a Facebook, but with VR characters and people, their community-made characters.

So one day... Oh, like the metaverse. Like the metaverse. Hey.

that no one fucking uses like the metaverse except people are there you sound like my grandma trying to correlate oh yeah yeah like that thing you can do on the facebook metaverse it's like the fucking what alt history hub's like yes jimmy like your game of thrones um so yeah so we were we transitioned into vr chat and um there was this

unfortunate event that was happening on tiktok called the no no square trend oh god um and uh it was because of us and molly it was molly hops into a molly molly called me at 2 a.m yeah you can tell this part so molly started an entire trend yeah so that's the no no square thing was the story okay the no no square was thing was literally i like point of origin um

Which I feel a lot of grief for. He's the no-no squad guy. He started a meme. It's awesome. He called me at 2 a.m., which he normally did because of the time zones, and he would just call me and be like, I had a TikTok idea. Wake up. We got to make this TikTok.

And I crawl out of bed. Never fucking call me at 2 a.m. saying, I have a TikTok idea. Wake up. Probably myself. I'm not right at that point, Brett. Call the **** online as soon as he calls you at 2 a.m.

I got an idea for talk tick. What? Pow! Eli! Eli! That's when you know it's bad when you just, you don't get a call from him at 2 a.m., but at 2 a.m. you see Eli has gone live on TikTok and you're like, oh no. I guess. Oh no. It's over. Juicy must have seen him unloading. Well boys, I guess that's it.

We've always had that running joke actually One of the members in our group have always said if you ever see me go live on YouTube

It's happening. On Facebook, right? No, YouTube. On YouTube. Oh, shit. If I ever go live on my YouTube channel... I mean, honestly, same. It's happening. Yeah. And I'm like, alright. I'm about to do the funniest thing ever. And for my final joke. Can people reset? You get what you fucking deserve, Murray.

Holy fuck. It's a no-no square. We're really good at tangents. So Molly calls me to him. He's like, dude, there's this... I found this funny song and I just want you to get... I have this avatar. So you can just pick avatars. They're like publicly searchable and like an index. It's just a little green fucker in underwear, right? It's this little green guy in underwear and he's like, put the skin on. I'm like, okay. And he's like,

We're gonna go to this map, draw like a little square around yourself and just like sing the song and dance. And I'm like, word? Okay, so I like get in there and I draw this little square and this little toothbrush you and then you're like, no, no, don't touch me there. This is all that shit. I have it right here. I have it right here. It's 10 seconds. Yeah. Oh, here we go. This is the original. This is what started. No, no, don't touch me there. This is my no, no square. No, no, don't touch me there. No, no, my...

What are you doing here, Molly? And then it's literally like... It's literally like two days later and like... It's like Justin Bieber's like posted like a fucking TikTok doing it. I'm like, what? We're like, what is going on? It was not abused, bro. It was... No, it was insanity. I got like...

800k subs that month from like 50? Was that like 50k subs? On YouTube. All y'all's growth, just real quick, is fucking ridiculous. Yeah, it was mind-blowing. This has like over 100 million views and most of them came from the first night.

Yeah. You woke up. How many views were on like, I think it was like 60, 60, 60 million a day or two. I think so. It was, it was, it was overnight. The video right now has 9.2 million likes. And most of them, most of it came from that initial pot, the initial pot. 9 million likes. Yeah.

Brandon, what happens if- that's more than any of your videos' views. Thanks, buddy. Just put 'em on blast like that. First of all, that's not true. Second of all, it's really close. Those are lightness. You're like, "What the fuck?" Wow, I'm just feeling the fucking heat over on this side of the table. Goddamn, boy. So we- Wow, how does it feel that he's infinitesimally more successful than you?

That was the wrong word. Time to go live. I'm going live on YouTube. We had this process of...

Of videos, right? Like our videos were filmed with TikTok in mind. Because this was back when TikTok was just starting to blow up. It wasn't what it is today. So this is like late 2019, early 2020s that this is all happening. This is like musically going into TikTok, right? It was musically had just turned into TikTok and...

There wasn't a lot of gaming content on TikTok and the gaming content that was on TikTok was just random clips of the same shit you see on YouTube. So that's why we decided to go this like comedy set style videos because we could take those clips, put them on TikTok. They get millions of views overnight.

And then we would release a video and then the video would get a ton more views. So we were studying the algorithms on both sides and came up with a theory that ended up working for us that the algorithm would reward you if you bring in outside eyes, right? So what if we took advantage of TikTok, put our YouTube channel in there,

Now you've got all of this influx of people that are watching us on TikTok that want to see the full video. When they watch the full video, then now the YouTube algorithm would recommend you more. And so you have explosive growth from two different angles coming in at once. Yeah.

So we had a formula set up to take advantage of TikTok. That's something I don't think a lot of outside people when they see, oh, you do YouTube. Oh, how hard is that? There's so much that goes into looking at your data. A, just like the day-to-day of running a big business like that. But B, looking at your data and figuring out how to manipulate the algorithms and how to do what nobody else is doing in order to – anybody can do YouTube.

Yeah. In order to succeed to a massive level on YouTube, that's fucking hard. Absolutely. There's a reason why people are where they're at. Yeah. They fall off. It is understanding the algorithm. Fuck, we pushed Wednesday, your election, the numbers were Tuesday evening. I pushed back my vacation, my two-day vacation, seven days.

It's flight because I was like, hey, tomorrow, good idea for an episode. And Brandon's like, fuck yeah. And everyone showed up, knocked out a really good episode. And then you see today, it's one of ten. Yeah. I think he fucking just like, booga booga, just watching shit right now. You pushed back a vacation. I lost, so I pushed back going live on YouTube. Had to fucking, you know, just had to get with the boys, you know? Yeah. Yeah.

I also would get with the boys real quick. Quick piss. I was going to say with your one point.

Because he spent $10 million, you spent $1 million, right? We were like roughly, when the dust settles, we'll know the formal numbers. But roughly, we got outspent about $10 to $1. I'd imagine someone made a joke. They're like, when do I get my money back? Imagine if you lost, you had to repay how much you spent. You would be like, okay, let's not spend that much because if this goes south, bro, I ain't got $10 million in my bank account. Or you would just go harder.

Oh, God, yeah. Knowing that it's all or nothing? This is where the gambler comes out. This is the politics I want to see. That dude's bent all his cards. That adds a whole new Mad Max dynamic to the whole situation. I have a feeling that when this new generation of kids gets into politics in the future, we're probably going to have election nights be a 1v1 Fortnite match.

I still offered like I offered throughout the entire playing. I'm like, I will end this on a boxing match.

yeah dude like a boxing match for charity and if you if you win i resign i i made that offer several times like i i will just recuse myself i love that idea it's going back to like when the kings would fight like me versus your best or whatever yeah yeah let's do this thing throw down the gauntlets kill each other or one person achilles it's so good now um

well wait for him i guess right now i want to go back to your like because again this is learning the algorithm i know you asked me about oh i know my personal story and and i and i and i will get there way to monopolize the mic thanks man yeah yeah well you know what if you want me to remember why we didn't invite them

This Mexican just doesn't shut up. It's kind of funny because out of anybody, we hang out with you more than anyone. Like in the fucking San Antonio YouTube spirit, it's not a gun tuber. And it never dawned on me we never had you on before. We just did that. You guys are like... I'm a pretty forgettable dude. I'm a pretty forgettable dude.

Try harder! And now that I think about it, you know what, I'm gonna go home- A lot of people are going live on YouTube today. I'm gonna go unload groceries and stand and wait for a neighbor to see me. I'm just gonna stand there inside my car. Hey! Hey! Hey! Look at me! Look!

You're just going to go live on YouTube, literally, while unloading your groceries? The surefire way. Oh, yeah. That's a life hack. Or, well. Church's original recipe is back. You can never go wrong with original.

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viewership. Exactly. I woke up and did one video and now look. I feel like that's most people's understanding of it. Absolutely. While this was blowing up, we understood that memes don't last forever. While we were in the process of blowing up with this meme and milking the shit out of it, what we did was

we took that character and basically associated it 100% with the Nono Square meme. So now we were taking that character and putting it in our videos all the time. And now what we did was we bought the rights, we bought the rights to that character and the IP of that character from the creator. And we then transitioned that character and altered it to match each of our personalities. So then we made the green brush

We made a baby version. We made a Mexican version. We made a crackhead version. And then we associated that with each of us, right? Who's the crackhead? Mully. Mully. Mully's the crackhead. We would do videos in a daycare with a baby brush, and he would go in and try to sell them drugs. It would literally be like four-year-old, and he's like shooting up heroin. He'd be like, you got to try it, kid.

Give it a try! Just give it a little go! Like the baby versions of the characters trying drugs. Oh, God. Are you allowed to say how much the buyout was for that character? If you remember? I can't remember, to be honest. I remember how much it was. Are we allowed to say it? I don't know if we're allowed to say it or not. We can bleep it. I'm just curious. It was s***. Yeah, it was s***. I mean, that's pretty reasonable. At the time, it was s***. Yeah, at the time, it was s***. That was like a big deal. Yeah. Because that was like right in the beginning. So it's not like we like had...

but you got your money back. - Yeah, it was enough to be an investment. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Well, because we didn't know where it was gonna go from there. So we were like, you know what, let's buy it. Let's buy the rights to it and let's expand on this idea.

And if anything comes from it, then we will have the rights to this thing, right? And we'll be protected in case we get sued for using the character in different ways. Let's just get it out the way now and put the investment in now. Yeah. And so... God, that's a hard one. Like, a piece of paper where you're like, this green character and actually being like, hey, it's going to cost X amount. And you're like, okay. Yo, bro, I just bought a green toothbrush for...

And it's just like a model that some dude just made and publicly put up in VR chat. But we all saw the signs and we're like, we're going to make, we may, we ended up like from this thing now looking back at it.

We've made merchandise from it. We've made music videos with it. We've started a music career from the No No Square thing. And we've expanded that, evolved from that. We altered it.

We ran that meme to the ground, finally, like very aware. We were very self-aware of what was happening. So we actually killed the meme off at some point. We made a video about it and shit. Like get back in your grave and shot it and shit like that. You know, like, you know, so we were very self-aware of what was happening.

You old yellered your own creation. No, no, don't touch me, baby. Pow, pow, shut up, shut up. Playing Russian roulette with all six cylinders. So we ended up just running it to the ground and we evolved from VR videos, which made us very, very successful in that space that

And we transition that into a real life content. So now we do the same thing we did in virtual reality, but in person. So we now get to travel the world and do videos the same way we would do them in VR chat. Well, can't throw each other off buildings, unfortunately. Yet. We're good. But now the videos that we make,

people know us from those times and we've now expanded the audience from just people that watch video games to now people that enjoy like irl content yeah they like the dynamic you know yeah so the transition wasn't actually at least for us wasn't hard really you guys killed it was it was an easy transition for us to do because once we started getting together in person the first time we met we're like

There was no, hey, nice to meet you. It was like we've known each other all along. It's the same energy. You're still like a bunch of dudes hanging out. Which is to the credit of VR. Like being able to learn. Like we were making videos in VR to the point where we were learning each other's mannerisms. When Among Us came out, we knew who was who. Like the body language. Because of people's body languages. Even when we only made each other like for once, for two days or something. Like it's just like.

You just learn so much about people through just even just VR. Like, it's crazy. So there was no there was like no transition from VR to real life. And you still had the active mindset to do that. You weren't like and I think that's a credit to you guys. And Brandon, any anyone that's still in the game of YouTube as they they adapt through time, they don't just stay stagnant. So I'll just do this, this, this instead, you killed everything.

your most successful thing that got you famous. That is adapting. We knew it was going to die. We knew it was going to die as it was happening and we were planning the next step as we were enjoying the fruits of that labor and writing out as much as we could that. We always say chestnut checkers. That's one of my favorite statements because it is. It's like, hey, okay, this has a lifespan.

We got to move on. What is that next step? And all of you evolved together, which is fucking dope to see. And that's just like the, that's just the overarching story of where we started and how we got here pretty much with a lot of little details left out. Fun details left out. But each of us individually had channels beforehand. I think you might be the only one that didn't have a YouTube channel before. It's the lucky and you're like, you fuck.

From day one, I realized how I was very self-aware about how lucky I got. Like, from day one. His dump stat was luck. Do you know how they found him? Oh yeah, he's told us. He was a little key to the game. Brendan, do you not know this? No, I have no idea. This entire, like, one of the craziest fucking stories possible. Each one of us has a really cool...

like upbringing backstory how we so I feel like this is like Ocean's Eleven you're hearing the backstory behind everyone on the team but everyone's retarded yeah yeah walking into Robbick and Zito each one is one of the 250 we sent to Summer Camp yeah

By the way, thank you guys for sending me to summer camp. I'm looking hype! I am so hype. Enhance. I can't wait! They sent us a photo of the kids. If it wasn't for that check, man, thank you for that check. I want to be going to summer camp. Yeah. I'll make sure to send you pictures. Oh, thank you. I want all the pictures. Can I see one of those? You read my mind. You want? Please.

Thank you. I'm just, the way you've been sipping that, bro, I've been like over there like... Damn, girl. You're hitting my drink with that light-skinned Riz. The light-skinned stare from across the table.

Fucking hell, dude. Oh my god. This will make no sense to anyone over 40. The light's good. What? The what? The what? The what? We just started a campaign. We just started a campaign. We haven't announced it yet to our audience, but we're the Fellowship of the Crayon. It's a Baldur's Gate campaign. Are you Marines?

Are we what? Marines? No. We're playing Baldur's Gate. I didn't know if this was related to you and somebody. No, we're called the Fellowship of the Crayon. Yeah. It's just autistic people? Yes. Yeah. It's like our characters are the stupidest fucking thing you've ever seen. Wait, oh, oh my, and this is from Baldur's Gate 3? Yes. Oh, I can't. Yeah, sorry, I just, again, I just derailed you. Another chance. Those cut scenes must be an idea of like a demon god's like, no, I will end this. And you guys are like, no. Oh.

Not today. That's about how it went. Not making eye contact with the demon, though. Actually. Pretty much what happened. Counterspell. Yeah, counterspell. Pretty much counterspell. No, daddy. These Cheerios are bullshit. These Cheerios are bullshit, daddy. I'm glad you fucking got that. Love it.

Oh, man. God damn it. Damn, you overloaded that. Just how I like it. Thank you, Tron. What the crap, dude? This is a joke I made earlier. He's over there flipping the hibachi all sorts of crazy while he's putting out a cigarette on a screaming child. He's acting into the flavor. When we got Cody back, the food tasted significantly less like cigarette ash. Yeah.

Most of that sake has not gone into the food. No. Oh, you got the... It's never a cooking ingredient. Trav just said that was not a cooking ingredient. He's just pulling from the bottle. That's funny, dude. So, Brandon, this is probably my... Dude.

Everyone's had, like, when you start in your YouTube careers, we've all had different experiences. His is probably the most insane when I listened to it. I was like, bro, that is the most motivational shit because this dude also didn't even have a green card at the time. He was... Wait a minute.

That part of my life is over, but I want to get more. It's fine. Aren't you Mexican too? Isn't this cannibalism? Yeah, kinda. E2 Herrera. Self-hating bean.

Oh, man. This episode's called Brown People. And I'll just hit your guys' skin. Do we force them into blackface? No, no, no. I feel like we've done a skit about that at some point. Wait.

Wait, actually, if you try to be a... If you're a black character in VR chat, is that blackface? We've definitely done that at some point. Yeah, I think we've definitely... 100%. I think we had... I don't know. I can't remember. We've done so much shit. It's hard to remember. But no one is safe, you know? And I think that's why our audience loves us is because we're...

We make fun of each other, but we make fun of everyone and everything. These jokes are rated E for everyone. And nothing's malicious. Nothing's malicious. Exactly. I think the biggest thing is context fucking matters. It's like, are you doing it because you hate people? No, absolutely not. Are you doing it because you think it's funny? Of course. You know, we're trying to...

at the end of the day, at least in what we do. And we're trying to make people laugh. And there are attempts at jokes. None of it's malicious, which is a big thing. And I feel like people, I feel like... Context is key. Context is key, yeah. And I feel like a decent amount of people can discern that.

A decent amount. That's what I always say. Yeah, decent. That's a good way to put it. That's what I always put. Because people took jokes out of context this entire campaign. I had $10 million spent trying to ruin my life over jokes. I'm like, look, you don't have to think that I'm funny. My fucking other half doesn't think I'm funny like three quarters of the time. That's fine. You're allowed to think that. But at the same time, you have to know that this was a joke. This wasn't done maliciously. This is something that's done at an attempt at humor. Just like iDubbbz used to say.

Back before that went fucking sideways. Like, either everything's funny or nothing's funny. Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. Everything's on the table. Yeah. Like, there's no hate in anybody's heart. You're just fucking... You're making jokes. And the way you include people... And when it comes to comedy, the way you include groups of people is by making fun of them, too. Yeah. If you want to include...

disabled people like... Yeah, it's... And most disabled people would fucking laugh at the jokes anyway because they're being included! Yeah, exactly! It's just that you were making a genuine attempt at saying something funny. That's what's important. And making them laugh. Yeah, you probably wouldn't do it like a standing ovation. You're not just dogging on someone and just like, wah. Like, it's... The reason I laugh at Mexican jokes...

is because I can relate to them so much and it's fucking ridiculous and funny, right? I feel like if I'm a disabled person and no one can say any- no one's saying any jokes about me, it's hard to relate.

It's easier to relate if there's a joke that's targeted at someone like me, which makes me feel included, you know? Yeah, if you don't make the jokes, then you're excluding an entire audience. We had one of my favorite comments on today's episode that went out was, man, I am gay and autistic. Y'all fucking crush it. I'm like, hey!

There we go. You gotta make jokes about everybody. Like the autistic people, the gays, the disabled, your fruits and vegetables. Speaking of autism, when I was in high school, I did a game making summer camp.

And I learned how to make video games. And I made a video game that won the first place prize in that camp. It was super lame. It was like pretty much a copy of Mario, but with a penguin. And it had Kingdom Hearts music. But anyway, so I won the first prize. And the second place person was going to be doing a speech with me.

And I had no idea what autism was. You know, it's like, I had no idea what it was. I knew the word, but I didn't know what it meant. To be fair, that's like largely a last 10, 20 years kind of thing. Sure, sure. People didn't really know like we know now. So we're practicing our speeches on stage in front of the committee. So there's no audience yet. This is the day before our speeches. And I have my speech written. But the second place guy goes first and he says, well...

I'm a little more autistic than I am artistic. That's how he started his speech. Fucking gangster. Which is a pretty gangster thing to say. And I was like, all right, how do I... That's pretty good. How do I top this? So when I go up, I'm like, well, what can I say? I'm a little more artistic than I am autistic. Not...

So you just accidentally dabbed on this poor kid? You killed him. Holy shit. And then he went live on YouTube? I remember. And I didn't know. I was like, I remember. You fucking dunked on him. That's insane. Bro, I'm telling you. There was like five people in the audience. It was just the committee. It was the practice speeches. And I remember my director was like,

And then the people next to him, the girl next to him was like, and then the committee guy was like,

And I was like, I remember sitting up there. I was like, what did I say? Did I say something wrong? Yeah. Like, I don't know. Was that better for you to say? Yes, you did. You said something very right. So I edited my fucking speech and I was like, okay, I'm not using that one tomorrow because of the reaction I got. But then the guy came up to me and was like... So black people, right? Yeah. I'm going to go with this one instead. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, so anyway, that's my first encounter with the word autism used in a real world context that I've never...

Crazy. I had no clue what it was. Yeah. I'm glad you changed it. I accidentally just crushed some autistic pig. I'm glad you changed it because you would have actually fucking destroyed him. Like that would have been the end of everything for him. Yeah. It would have all came crashing down in front of him in the moment. Looking back at it now, that's like the most like asshole-ish way to like take the first place speech and dab on the dude that got second place. If your game was Penguin Mario though, I want to know what fucking second place was. Math.

Which one's moving?

I was not ready for you to come in. Matt. What? Holy shit. Well, I'll stop edging the audience. I'll tell my story. I was going to say, what's our timestamp, Eli? Oh, we're good. This is fucking fantastic. I'm like, how long did it take to get here? For 12 minutes. We're now 54 minutes. Oh my god. We're an hour in and we've...

Told you about that one TikTok we made. Yeah, see, that's true. Remember when I was talking about how we all understand the algorithm? Yeah, that was what that was right there. Just fucking edging until now. I'm giving you watch time here. Oh, yeah. But, no, you've hyped up my story a little too much, I think. No, dude, no. It's a pretty good story. Now, like... It's a pretty good story. Now, if I tell it, it's probably going to not be as... I'll tell my story. I'll tell my story. Not a citizen. Not a citizen. Okay, um...

I'll start with, I came to this country legally, but became undocumented by overstaying. And I lived all my, this was when I was seven years old, my parents brought me here. So I've lived my entire life under the radar, pretty much, until recently that I got married. So I didn't have a green card. I didn't, you know, there's like, growing up in that way is...

I thought it was just normal. Real quick, I just feel like the Spongebob, like the seabear with the line being drawn now.

You win this round. It's a no-ball. It has to be a circle. Sorry. Please continue. I apologize. I just couldn't let that one go. That's fucking funny. No, that's funny. Yeah, growing up like that is...

You're a cannibal. You're a cannibal. Eat your own, huh? I said undocumented and you start laughing. Damn. Look, I got PTS over my last nine months, right? Yeah, true. Oh, fuck. Anyway, yeah, so grew up undocumented. I'll spare the pity party, but it was pretty difficult.

You know, parents had to start their own business because there was no way for them to legally work. And so that's the way I grew up, up until I was... I couldn't even get into most colleges simply because of the fact that I was undocumented. So coming out of high school, I had to like...

go with colleges that for some reason accepted a tax ID number and not a social security number. Could you list those institutions please? So I went to Texas State University. Sorry. The conference has come down. Just out of curiosity. Sorry, where was that again?

I actually forgot like the exact process that it took to get into college, but I got into college with a tax ID number. I must have used a fake name or some shit. Can't either confirm nor deny. How much did that tax ID number cost? I can't fucking remember, dude. I had it since I was a kid. Anyway, so when I started YouTube because...

I was in a really bad spot. I quit college. So I quit college to start my own business. So how old were you, roughly? This was 2014 when I left college. So I was...

22 a military age male cut it yeah the military age male which we were we're the same age when we started youtube actually remind me i got a funny that's crazy dude i got a funny story about like having to sign the uh the fucking like uh what do you call that when you turn 18 and draft draft the draft i had to i had to sign the selective service thing i had to sign that and i have a funny story by the way we can we can circle back to that if you want yeah um

But so I left college to start my own business and I was messing around with like what people most people call pyramid schemes Like companies like Amway and that kind of shit Oh, yeah, so like trying to get people to sell products underneath me and and shit like that I'm starting my own business. Yes, and so I left college because I realized you know for me That's not what I wanted. I was doing a music degree and I was like, oh

I'm probably gonna be just playing saxophone at bars for the rest of my life and it's either that or become a saxophone professor and I want neither. So left college to start my own business and I joined a few different companies, sold a few different products and

It completely flopped. But I was like hustling. I was like going door to door, cold calling people and never giving up. And I was simple. I learned that from my parents because my parents never made any excuses. You know, they never asked for any handouts or anything like that. They were never on the streets. They were always like they always taught me that I had to.

If I wanted it, I had to get it. And that this country was the place to do that. Take responsibility for your own recovery. And take responsibility regardless of the situation, right? So my mom didn't have any business cards. So I wrote, she didn't speak English either. So I wrote her business cards, had written on a piece of notebook paper. And we spread like 300 of them in a rich neighborhood. And she got her first client like that, you know? What was she doing? Cleaning houses. Yeah. Cleaning houses. Yeah, that's how she started as well.

It's either that or construction. That seems to be like the two most... I joke around because my first business that I ever really did was when I was a teenager. I fucking... I literally cut grass.

It's like, yeah, well, that was kind of the free space in bingo for me, huh? Yeah, pretty much, yeah. That was the only space for me, dude. Can you pay me under the table? Me, we good. Hey, you pay cash? Cash only. Cash only. You pay cash? I got you. That was really what those rich people saw, is they saw handwritten notebook paper, and they're like, not going to have to

To put aside 401k. Exactly. And it's cheap. But... Felt like you were trying to sell me on it when you said that. And it's cheap. Listen, man. If you need somebody to clean houses... Mexican's gonna do it. I got connections. I'll come do it.

You're an electrician. You fucking clean houses. You do YouTube. Just lock up your Percocets. Well, I put my jewelry in the safe. And for a bonus, I'll unload your groceries. Really? So you're not at risk of dying. Thank you so fucking much. That's worth it. They've been sitting in my trunk for three years. I've been trying to find someone to do it.

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Ten years together. Very proud of that. Fuck yeah, man. Let's go! Let's go. Shout out to that. We don't do that here. Oh, sorry. No clapping cheeks. No clapping cheeks to the dad. We were living in an apartment together and I started a YouTube channel because I've been watching YouTube since like 2008, 2009 and I was like in love with the gaming space in YouTube.

So I had it in my head that I was going to make it in life in some way through my own actions. I cried wolf. I told my parents I'm quitting college. They were so upset when I told them I was going to quit college. I've never told this story on YouTube because they were so upset because I was the very first person in our entire family tree from that side that was going to go to college.

in the United States and become successful through that route. You know what I mean? So everything was riding on me. I had so much pressure. I'm like the firstborn of the family. Like I got to carry the family name and become successful through college. And one semester before I was supposed to graduate, it dawned on me that I felt like I was not going in the direction that I should be going. In my heart, I knew that wasn't my place. And so luckily I had people around me that were supportive of

This was people I met through those businesses that I was trying to associate with. And they were like, you know what? You should do what... You should try and fail your way, in your own way, right? Was your family still supportive at the time? Or were they kind of... Yes, they were very supportive. But especially my mom, she was very disheartened. Yeah. She was very disheartened. Man, it was like... It was like...

All Mexicans relate on that. Mi hijo. She cried like that. Yeah, that's what I was scared of. That reminds me a lot of me quitting college for the exact same reason. Oh, did you quit college as well? Yeah, three semesters in, I was out.

I was supposed to be the one that went to law school and did all those things. Like, hey, I'm quitting to pursue YouTube. I was watching my parents do the meme of stress 99%. Yeah. Yeah. High school. This is too much. My parents are like, high school is so much. I'm just going to go to war. I need a war bell. But, sorry. No, you're fine.

But yeah, so I left college in that way and was doing the business, was trying businesses. And I had something to prove at this point, you know, like I was going to make it because I said I would. I just didn't know how. And I'm just very stubborn in that way. So yeah.

One of the businesses that I was a part of completely crashed. And I was like, I had everything riding on that. I was left with nothing in my bank account. And at the same time, I was working at Target. I had side jobs because I still have bills to pay for and I wanted to be responsible. So I still had a job. And then I started YouTube.

On a whim, I was like, you know what? Today's the fucking day I'm going to do it. Like, this is this is this is my calling. I'm going to do it. And I didn't have I only had an old PC. And so what I did was I figured out how to record on the PlayStation 4.

And I was like, I'm just going to try it. I'm going to do it. I didn't have a tripod. I didn't have a camera. I only had a computer. I didn't have a desk. So my capture card, my table was like a thrift store, like fold out table, fold out table. That was my dinner table. Cause we didn't have much. And, um, luckily the, the place we were renting had a, uh,

Um, it was like, it was like the place where the dishwasher goes in the kitchen and, but the dishwasher wasn't there. So I put a chair up to it and that was not like, that was now my desk. Right. And so I started YouTube in that way. Um,

That became the desk, but I started it on a table with the PS4 there, the same computer I'd been using for a long time to record things. I didn't have any money to buy any subscriptions, so I learned how to edit on free software. Old Windows Movie Maker used to fuck. That used to really fuck. They fucked it up. Yeah, when they changed it. All the charm's gone. Now, at this point, it's 2016. I'm 24 years old, and I...

thought it was too late for me to start anything. I'm like, I'm too fucking old for this. Like I should have started when I was 16 or whatever, but I wasn't going to give up. Right. So I like still stay true with it. My tripod was a napkin holder stacked on top of books with my iPhone in front of it. And that was, that was my, that was my camera. Yeah. So then I decided to make things even more complicated. I didn't have to, but I wanted a green screen cause I wanted to have, I wanted to be the YouTuber that had like the

The green screen and I was just like a little floating head on the bottom of the screen. So now I needed a green screen. So what I did, um, because I didn't have any fucking money, it was, I went to Walmart and got one of those fold out cardboard, um, fruit class projects, the science. Yes. I opened that up and I also bought a green construction paper.

Genius. And I taped it up. Holy shit. And so I sat and now I had a desk at my kitchen. So I pull up a chair in the kitchen and behind me was two other chairs. And that's where I stood up the green screen, the $3 green screen that I made for myself.

And now I had to figure out how the fuck to make, to like key out the green colors so that I could have the videos. So my first few green screen videos was like me with like a bunch of fuzz everywhere. So you still see the square, but it was so shitty because it was free software. It wasn't Adobe Premiere. Um, but that's how I started my channel. Right. Um, so that was, that channel was called Sauce Eddie. Um,

And that channel went on for, well, it's actually my most successful channel now, but I'll get to how that happened. That channel was started in 2016. By the time it was 2019, I was selling cars at the same time. So at this point, like we had a lot of the similar. I was I was selling cars, man. I was selling cars and I still had this dream that I had to work for myself, but I knew that it wasn't going to happen if I just quit everything.

So I was stacking it was my full-time job to sell cars and then come home and

Film and try to edit as much as I could after coming home. What were you filming at the time gaming videos? Yeah, like what kind of stuff counter-strike see a source mostly horror Okay, horror videos horror gaming that was kind of like the thing like Five Nights at Freddy's type of thing like but they weren't even Well, no, this was in 20s. This was now so we're fast-forwarding now. So it's like 2017 2018 Okay, so Five Nights at Freddy's was kind of matured by that point. Yeah, I

So starting a brand new channel was really difficult to do in that era, especially in gaming when you had like the behemoths, the markipliers, the jacksepticeyes and those guys that had already like cornered the market to Let's Plays.

I just wanted to be like that. It's wild because we're all starting YouTube around the same era. We're looking up to the same people. I remember watching the Markipliers, the Five Nights at Freddy's videos, stuff like that. Me and Delance would actually sit up and watch videos like that. Look at what they're doing here. This is really fucking interesting. Yep. This is our way to do it. Right before I started selling cars, I decided to try some VR videos. I bought a...

I bought an Oculus headset and the way I bought this headset was really stupid because I ended up spending my entire paycheck by accident instead of putting it on the credit card, I put it on the debit card.

Oh, that's tragic. Was it like literally in the moment thing? Like you accidentally did it? All the motherfuckers who have ever been broke in this room are just like, oh my god. Holy shit. My heart just fucking dropped. And man, I remember it was probably like the lowest moment for me because I had this. So my studio had evolved from the kitchen to.

my studio to a thrift store, like makeshift desk in my bedroom that Gabby and I, like it was, it was, it was a desk and a bed. And so while she was sleeping, I had to still record, you know? So, uh, dedication. She was, she was very, very supportive. Um, the entire time, the entire time she was extremely supportive of all this. Um, but my lowest point was that was telling her that, Hey,

I'm out 500 bucks and I remember I had bought this from like I bought this headset used so I couldn't just return it. I just used the wrong credit card and I had to tell her like hey I can't make my half of the rent this month you know and she was very supportive. She was very supportive thank god she like she had some savings and she I think she might have asked her parents for help but

I made a big no-no at that point, right? I had nothing to show for it. Luckily, it worked out. Yes. Yes, 100%. But I remember it brought me to tears that I only had $4 in my bank account and I couldn't

I couldn't fucking pay for food or I had $4 in my fucking bank account. You're depending on somebody else. Like for your man or especially Mexican culture, you take care of your family. Exactly. It was like I had $4 in my bank account and nothing to show for it and a dream. That's all I had. You had a cool VR headset. That's true. Yes. I did. My

My videos at this point were getting around 100. Check this thing out, though. Yeah. My videos around this point were getting about 100 views, which is huge. Fucking huge, man. Huge. 100 views per video. Oh, yeah. I was making a whopping $300 a year off of YouTube. Yeah, massive. I remember my first ever YouTube, I guess, paycheck or pay stub was $329 a year.

for the year of 2017 or something like that, if I remember correctly. But I couldn't even withdraw it because there's a limit of like 500 that you have to get before YouTube pays you out. Yeah. It's like, look at that. It's almost there. It's right there. It's right there. It's right fucking there. This money could be yours. It's going to be mine. It's funny that you say that because I remember the first time, me and Delance were looking at this recently because of the AK-50 video that like,

That's been a project we've been working on for eight fucking years. And so like going all the way back to the beginning, I remember we were, we were looking at the AK 50 video, like, man, we just hit a million views in hours.

But I'm like, man, I remember the first time, like, we just hit a thousand views in the first day. Holy fuck. Yes. We're cooking with gas now. We're going to really do it. Yeah. It's just you fucking build up from there. Like, the first time we ever hit 100 views in the first hour was crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But there's something about looking back at all this stuff that's like...

Makes you very grateful for being where you are, you know? And it's, I think a lot of people give up after, because a lot of people put it in a time frame of one year. And this group doesn't. It is like, hey,

What is the one-year goal, the three-year goal, the five-year goal, and how do I get there? Not seeing like in six months, it's like, oh, we made 100 views on the studio. I'm quitting right now. Yeah, yeah. Without fail, everyone always overestimates what they can do in one year, but they underestimate what they can do in five. Yeah. Yes. Yeah, literally. Right there. I think we literally have a seven-year roadmap. Yep. Yeah.

So, like, you know, like... We have a seven-year roadmap, but, like, a six-month lifespan. Yeah, pretty much. Jesus Christ. That fucking sucks. Especially if he catches you fucking bringing your groceries home. Fuck, man. You're like the girl from The Ring. When I was told that at the beginning, I don't know why, that just wasn't, like, super...

Like, significant head. I'm just like, oh, he said the grocery thing. I'm going to tell this story. I just, like, drew it out. I just, I feel bad that we're, like, dunking on a trauma in your life. It wasn't even, like, honestly wasn't even, like, wildly...

It's because you're autistic. Yeah, it was probably autism. You just got a random encounter. Chase just cut to Eddie peeing for the snacks. Yeah. Oh, God. Yeah. We still have to laugh. We do that so much. It's just 30 seconds, like... Every time in a boys' video, whenever I piss, I'm, like, holding the fucking mic to the bowl, dude. Like, to the bowl. Like...

Dude, homeboy's frying bacon in the air. When I did, I saw like local like KSAT News did an interview with me at one point and I'm like, hey, do you mind if I use the restroom real quick? Blah, blah, blah. And like they're just used to like, you know, fucking people not like me, not YouTubers, but like normal people or whatever interested

in the community, whatever. And so like, I, I go to the restroom and I go to the sound guy. I'm like, Hey, real quick, here you go. He's like, you do do YouTube for a living. He was just like, thank you. You have no idea how many hours of fucking people pissing. We all have plans in life, maybe to take a cross country road trip or simply get through this workout without any back pain.

Whether our plans are big, small, spontaneous, or years in the making, good health helps us accomplish them. At Banner Health, we're here to provide more than healthcare. Whatever you're planning, wherever you're going, we're here to help you get there. Banner Health. Exhale. For not making me listen to you taking a shit, I really appreciate it. You get real good at turning those mics on. I just saw the relief wash over his face. He's just like, a professional. Oh my God.

Just catching those things with the TV shows. I had to always, I got really good at turning off mics for conversations. It was like the second scene was cause I was like, and hold and done. Yeah. Just in case it's recorded. I don't know. I didn't tell you about, I did that on accident when I was doing the jump training shit for the, the jump school. Yeah. I accidentally, the, the second jump I ever did. Cause they have, they give you a radio where they're giving you commands. They're telling you basically how to do all this shit. So you like you jump static line, jumping out of a plane, like round canopy and,

The second time I jumped, I forgot. I was like, man, they're just talking to everybody on the same channel. I'm going to turn it off. I never turned it back on. Oh, my shoot tangled. Hmm. What do I do?

So I just fucking yeeted myself out of a Cessna with a tangled shoe. I was like, what? You learned really fast that what you have to do is you pull your risers or the cord above you as hard as possible and you just kick your fucking legs. Bicycle kick. Yeah, in one way. You're like... And that's how much you move. And then you just wait for like...

You're like, oh. Yeah. I didn't realize until way too late. I'm like, my fucking radio was off and I hit the ground. He's like, oh, very good. You listen to commands really well. You guys weren't saying shit. So my radio was off. He's like, your what was what? I'm like, oh my god.

Yeah, probably could have ended very poorly. That's fucking insane. This is my mic recording. This is like, he's cooking bacon in the bathroom. Oh yeah, I forgot you could hear me. I should have put it closer so you could hear. You guys, you guys have worked together for a while. Damn. Oh yeah. I forgot I had a microphone on me.

I know you would have done it if you remembered. I knew you would have. And he's so good. So poor, getting through it. You just told me. So anyway, you're fucking broke. Poor. Guns in your mouth. Just fucking waste your time. And he can't afford the gun.

The gun was accidentally on the debit card instead of the credit. Wait, but I don't have a green card so I can't even own one. Nope, no bullets. The courts just changed that. Fucking hell. Oh god.

Yeah, so... God. Yeah, when were we? You just bought the VR headset. Yeah. You bought the VR headset. And you're getting 100 views a bit. I'm getting 100 views a video, but this thing's going to happen regardless. You know what I mean? This is what I want. And I think there's still privated videos on my channel of me telling my audience, like, celebrating the 50 subscriber mark. 69 subscribers? I thought it would be funny to celebrate 69 subscribers.

I think is that video unlisted? It's not unlisted. No, I have I have all of my old I have three hard copies of that video because it's so funny spread throughout all of my electronics just in case you ever unlisted. I remember those days of like starting a channel really early like previous channels I've had where you like try to do the sub for sub thing like every fucking subscriber insane. Yeah, every subscriber you gets like a

Battle. Oh, yeah. Oh, fuck yeah. Now we get jaded. You look at a thousand subs, you're like, all right. Yeah. Bad month. A thousand subs nowadays is an apocalyptic amount. It's ramen. Yeah. Cool, so no rent. Nice. And I was trying to publish every day. Day to day. Every fucking day. Crazy. Every...

day. Fuck that. While selling cars, right? So I figured, okay, what if I just like, I learned this car business thing as much as I can. I learned how to sell really well. So I ponied up, learned how to sell. Like I was a top salesman. I wasn't number one all the time, but I was top salesman of the month. I was selling about 12 to 14 cars a month, which was netting me like four to six grand a month.

which at the time was really good for me. - Yeah, that's great. - But I learned how to use the phones. So I'm like, and internet appointments. So I'm getting appointments set up instead of having to actively try and get customers

I've set up my, I've spent the first three, four hours of my day setting up appointments. And the next, the few hours afterwards that were left of my day, I went and bought a laptop and I was bringing my hard drive and editing videos while I was at work. Openly on my desk. Also on the debit card. But this time I could afford it. My managers fucking hated me, bro. They hated me. I bet.

Because they couldn't say shit. Yeah. They couldn't say shit because I was still selling cars. So it didn't matter what I was doing at my desk. And anytime they come and be like, and I had one manager. And how often do you think about them now? Almost never. Right now. Weird. Almost never. I had one manager that would come up and be like, you want to make six figures a year like me? You got to get off that fucking laptop. Well.

Well, I don't want to make six figures like you. I want to make seven like me. I wanted to get to six figures first. But he had a really funny saying, and I'm not going to repeat it, but you can put two and two together. He was this black guy that was making around...

200 to 300k a year. He was doing good. He was his used car sales manager. He was a fucking G. But he used to say, he used to call himself a six-figure...

Black man. Black man. That doesn't rhyme as well. I'm going to call Darnell and have him insert it. I'm assuming he calls him a six figure. He used to say, he used to say, he used to tell me if it ends with an A, it's okay. But ER gets you sent there.

There we go. Alright, yeah. Yeah, word. And he's like, "Get off the laptop!" "Get off your fucking laptop!" "I heard you talking with your VR boys." That hadn't happened yet, but that'd be... Yeah, that was... Anyway, so... That hadn't happened yet? That hadn't happened yet. God. So, anyway, I'm editing my videos and dream is to quit fucking selling cars because I hated it with a passion, man. It was so miserable.

It was so miserable. Constant bullying, like, every fucking day. But, you know, you had to... Sounds hard. You had to be a shark and take it all. You know, folders thrown at you. Like, it was a really bad environment. Specifically that dealership. But anyway, so 2018, I finally catch my big break from...

and get a video that did over 100,000 views. I mean, that's a huge jump. Yeah. That's massive. And I'm laughing because it was a Fortnite trolling video where I did a... I would do like...

I would do like Spongebob voices and troll little kids on Fortnite. So you succeeded in life by bullying children. Yes. Yes. 100%. It all started with that autism speech at the game making. That was the trailer. And I would come home. Now I would come home and practice character voices.

So I'm like sitting in my, Gabby would have dinner and I'm like, okay, Gabby, I gotta go to the room now. And like, I'm just like. I see why you all get along right now. And then, yeah, I'd get to the room and just, anyway, make videos and whatnot, come edit them at the job. And this, this,

Voice trolling started going viral for me. So I started picking up on that and I started doing more voice trolling videos and more voice trolling videos. But I didn't know how the algorithm worked at all. I was I didn't know that I was killing my channel.

by making viral content and at the same time putting other random shit that had nothing to do with that. So I was just throwing shit against the wall. It's like, oh, I know voice trolling does good, but I always wanted to be a gaming YouTuber. So let's put this out. Yeah. So I always wanted to be like Markiplier and Jacksepticeye and PewDiePie and those guys. So I want to put out Detroit Become Human Part 27. Yes.

Even though it bombed, all 26 have bombed three times. 27 is going to be the one. When the final one comes out. Wait until they see this. They're not ready for it. Wait until they see this, right? And then it's like voice trolling. 500,000 views. Detroit become human. 200 views. So that's a recipe for disaster. You're confusing the algorithm.

And people who show up to your channel, you're confusing them because they're like, oh, well, I'm here for this, but I really couldn't give a fuck less about this shit. It's a very good point. I've watched it a lot. It is the idea of just like, hey, if it's not working, don't fucking push into it just because you want to do it. This is a business. You have to go where the views are going. The analytics will tell you to AT, hey, this fucking works.

This doesn't work. If it doesn't work, you know what you do? You don't dump lots of money into what doesn't work. There's also a paradox that I've noticed with pretty much all successful YouTubers, which is if we have a project that we care a lot about and we want to put a bunch of money and a bunch of time into because we think this thing's going to fucking work. Like, I've always wanted to do this project. It fails. Every time. Every fucking time. It never fails. Yep. Eli doesn't pop.

Podcasts, I can tell you, that was on the bottom list of things. I was like, I want to do that. Never in a million years. Like, I wanted Freddie Wong. I wanted to make movies. I wanted, like, it was like Freddie Wong, Corridor Digital, learning from them. I was like, movies, shorts, skits, doing all that, being able to do it really well. And then podcasts was just that, like, the bottom of the barrel. It's like, okay.

Weird. Here we are. There's still something to be said about doing what you love, but you have to figure out how to make that work. Yeah. Because then you can pay for what you want to love. You can't just do everything like, well, I think it's a good idea. It's like, okay, cool. Enjoy poverty.

It's different when you have a good thing going. Like when you have a good, stable, steady thing going and you're like, fuck it, I got time and I really like doing this. So I'm doing it on the side. It makes me happy. But I have figured out that stable thing and I'm growing it and I have my plan, right? Now I can do also on the side some stuff that I like. Maybe it doesn't do as good, but I feel fulfilled, you know? And I have a plan and I'm furthering all of it.

Figure out how to enjoy the thing that's making you money while also using that money to fund the things you enjoy. Yeah. The perfect way to put it. You can be artistic and autistic at the same time. Exactly. That's not what you said before in the podcast. I've grown. I'm watching Mane. Holy shit. The character development in the last 30 minutes has been nuts. Insane. Um...

Yeah, so the voice trolling was doing well. I didn't know I was driving my channel to the ground. But on a month, I made $5,000 on YouTube. Finally. Mind-boggling. Now, let me put this in perspective. After 800 videos of nothing for three to four years.

After 800 videos of nothing for three to four years, finally something good comes and a couple of viral hits come in and I get my first YouTube paycheck and it's five grand. And I compared it to what I was making in the car business. And to me, I had made it. I was like, I fucking made it. This is my big shot.

At the same time, Gabby gets a job opportunity in San Antonio. So I'm like, this is my time. I can finally quit my fucking job and live out my dreams as a YouTuber. And I can do this YouTube thing full time. I was like, in my head it made sense. If I'm doing this on a part-time basis right now, imagine what I could do if I did it on a full-time basis. And right now it's making five grand. Imagine what it's going to do.

If I do it full time, like I could double this and we'll be good. So I'll move to San Antonio. Let's move to San Antonio together. Take that job offer. You keep doing your thing. I'll do my thing and I won't, I won't be at a job anymore. So I put in my two weeks at car sales and they thought I was fucking crazy.

I got made fun of for leaving the car business. The last thing my manager said to me was, I'll see you back here in a couple months. Give me a call. I got the same shit. Literally the exact same response. Guess you'll never be a six figure. That's kind of what he said. That's kind of what he said. That's kind of what he said.

Why did that hit so far? Holy shit. That was epic. That execution was nuts. So this is early 2019. Early 2019, I leave my job and I was about to start the most depressing fucking year of my life because I leave and I come set up at my new house and

And I recorded a shitload of videos so that I could have stuff putting like to go up while I transitioned. And the channel fucking tanked. Oh my God. I'm in a new house. I'm ready for my next. My channel just, my next video is like the next voice trolling video went from like a few hundred thousand to like,

Almost 100,000. The third one down, down, down, down, because I was running it to the ground with these other fucking let's play videos. And I went in a couple of months. I went from that 5000 in that month.

to about $300 a month. And you've given up a career at this point. I gave up a good car sales job, yes. Because it sounds like at the time you were doing like 60 grand a year. Like, that's pretty good. It made sense in my head. You know, five grand a month. I'm like, yeah, fuck it. Let's do it. I'm going to chase this dream. And...

I'm watching my channel slowly burn, right? I understand I have savings, right? But I'm still responsible for half the rent and the food. So I'm like, how do I extend the life of this channel? So I started a Soylent diet. And I was super fucking skinny. Do you know what Soylent is? Do you know what Soylent is? I was very confused as the correlation between those two things. Your instant reaction was...

Not a soy boy diet. Cut to reaction. Slow motion. Sorry, I have a zero poker face. I was very curious.

Oh my God. I'm here for the ride. What? So I was, instead of spending money on more food, I was buying drinks. Soylent is a meal replacement, just terrible for you. Yeah. But I was drinking. You might end up like a bread tuber. Yeah.

I was drinking cheap meal replacement drinks to extend the life of me chasing this dream. I can have ramen in this. Yeah. Ramen and soy, maybe. Like Ensure and shit like that. But luckily, Gabby's a really good fucking cook, and she was making, at least when she came back from... She was cooking soy land? I put pepper in it.

It's seasoned enough. It's now warm. It's now warm. That's it. I made soylent and chicken tonight. Yes. Oh my god. It tastes really good. Anyway, so I was living off of cheap fucking food and... Min-maxing. Min-maxing. Exactly. I was min-maxing. After that summer...

Sure you can.

I could've! And I don't know how that would've gone. Babe, I need you to be more supportive right now. Please support my rap career. SoundCloud. I feel like I'm at my precipice. Like, can you like, can I borrow your parents' credit card? Jesus Christ. Your mom always gives you money. Come on.

I didn't ask my parents. I never talked to my parents about this. I told them the story later. Mexican culture, this is the hardest. Asking for money or anything. I don't know. My parents are so pissed at me for not

telling them what I was going through during the day. They thought everything was fine, but I didn't tell them shit. - But it's the trials and tribulations. - Exactly. I had to go through this shit, right? And Gabby was like, at the same time in my relationship, we had been together for like seven years. And Gabby was like, "Hey, we've been together for a long time. When are we gonna get married? You said you wanna marry me and I did.

I've always wanted to marry this girl. She's the love of my fucking life. And I wanted, I've always wanted to marry her. But I told her, I was very honest with her. I said, look, I have to make something out of myself because I don't, right now I'm undocumented. If I marry you,

That to me feels like an easy way out if I get like citizenship or my green card, you know, for me, that's what it was an internal kind of thing. It was an internal battle that I had something to prove. And to me, what that was, was proving that my family was right in moving to this country.

And that I wanted to make, I wanted to prove that the American dream was still true and possible even without what at the time felt like citizens had a head start with, which was social security number, benefits, and medical insurance and all of that. And taxes. I also gave my taxes back. Fuck your taxes, Don. Shit.

Sorry, that was a layup. That's actually fucking funny. Oh, fuck. I did pay my taxes, by the way. If you're watching Joe Biden. If I don't understand anything, I just watch it. He's watching, but he doesn't know what he's watching. Why is that a**hole yelling at me? He's just looking at the camera. It's funny. But yeah, that was my reasoning for not... I told her, you know, this...

I want to do this without the papers to prove that it can be done because there's a whole generation of people coming in of kids that are also in the same boat like myself that might feel like they have no hope or they have nowhere that they can go. And I want to be able to tell my story

that's in a way that's still relatable to my people. Persevere. It's always perseverance. Exactly. There's always a way up. And so she understood that and...

She said, I'll just continue to be supportive. And then when you're ready and when you make this thing happen, we'll get married. And I said, okay, sounds good. Which is incredible that you guys finally got to do that. That was awesome. And that's why I cried my eyes out at my wedding because that's when everything just came rushing back. That was that goal that was achieved. Exactly. Exactly. So we kept going forward and kept going.

Kept you know the Soylent diet up and then he realized you didn't want a wife anymore I'm so glad I'm here

Have I ever told you that you have the most beautiful eyes? No, but when you get drunk enough you thank me for my service. Holy fuck.

That- You gotta warn her, brother. That was insane! The first time! I'm so sorry to detour, but we had to, bro. It's gonna be like a minute. First time, I fly over to Eddie's house, and we're doing like this boys IRL video. We're not even really doing IRL videos at this point. It's just for funsies. Eddie gets fucking hammered. What's the first thing he does? Viciously thanks narrator for his service for like an hour. I'm like-

Only, what is going on? That was before I realized he was just posted up.

You never had to tell me all I had to see was like the first time we brought out the 249 to the range and just the way you Looked away as you open the top cover. I'm like, yeah Like I own that fucking thing I don't even do that that's the mannerisms of the man that had to carry that for Fuck

Anyway, we're getting to the punchline of the story. Finally, after how many, how long have we been recording this? Two years. Yeah, it's been like five, right? Two hours. Um...

Yeah, so we... We got one out of the three. This is going to be a long podcast, boys. I like it. I'll keep on short. I did it. That's it. I did it. I have been watching Molly and Josh on TikTok blow up. And I was starting to implement a strategy for myself in...

for my own channel for Sausetti and it just wasn't working for me. But I remember I had $5,000 in my bank account left and I kept getting this idea kept coming to me that was like start a VR channel. Start a VR channel. Start a VR channel. So finally I go up to Gabby and I was like, hey, I'll never forget this moment because it's nighttime and she's in bed and she's ready to go to bed and I walk in like

Just like the top light illuminating and so you all you see is like the big-ass nose. Holy shit. Gabby, um, you know this YouTube thing that hasn't worked for the last four years? I've got a couple options here. I only got five thousand in my bank account. I could either A go back to a job, which I'm happy to do at this point because we need to pay the bills and I only have a few few bucks in my account left.

Or you know this YouTube thing that hasn't worked for years? I'm thinking about starting from scratch again. - Double down. - But this time it's gonna work. I promise you, I have this big idea and it's gonna fucking work. And I've now learned everything that I could from YouTube and all of everything that has worked, that hasn't worked, it's all in my head and I just need a fresh start. And I'm gonna feed it through the TikTok algorithm. I've got it all planned out.

What do you think? The numbers, Mason. What do they mean? And she goes, she said, keep following your dream. I'm going to support you. I'm going to support you. Within the first month. What fucking lab did they grow her in? She's the, I'm telling you. There's going to be so many comments. Does she have sisters? I want to start using it. Oh my God.

um she's my guardian angel you know yeah but um like anybody who's seen you two together like knows that you're clearly yeah and on the same page yeah awesome love hanging out with you both you thank you for your amazing couple appreciate it the punch line is is that i started eddie vr and implemented everything i learned um within my first tick tock somebody

commented and said something like, oh, I like... I was playing a... It was a porn game, but... In VR, but... Straight jerking. It was not straight jerking, by the way. It was a girlfriend simulator. So you get to interact with this girl before...

You do anything, so I was like, okay, I could use the first half. And your now wife was supportive of this. Yes. I literally know what you're talking about. It's VR Kanojo for all you gooners out there. Babe, it's video game. Babe, you're ruining my date. Shut the fuck up. I love how you're like telling a real life woman to fuck off.

It's for the video! I have to count the pixels! I remember doing a TikTok where I slapped this bitch in the face with a dildo. Oh, fuck!

In the video game. In the video game. Not my wife. Not my wife. She was an angel. So here we are. I'm talking about the video game character. I slapped her. I slapped her with a dildo. And I said, Bendeja, wake up. Because she was like, bro, this girl was getting on the bed asking me to do shit that I was not going to do.

And I was like, pendeja, wake up, get out of your bed. And so I grabbed the dildo that she had in her hand and I slapped her with it and it was really funny. And people were like, oh, it was really funny when he said pendeja and yelled in Spanish. So I was like, okay, what if I just start throwing in my Spanish bits in my videos? Babe, I am now...

An abusive Mexican husband. Yeah. But only on the internet. Both ways. Within a month. Within a month, Eddie VR got its first silver play button. Jesus Christ. Crazy. Within a month of starting the channel. Within...

I'm skipping ahead here, but within a year, Eddie VR went from zero to over 5 million subscribers. I'm sorry, within what? A year? Within one year. Zero to 5 million? So... Dude, I...

I have been doing this for 10 goddamn years. I don't have that. Jesus Christ. If I can cut you off real quick, this is the level. You went from 800 videos to this point to then having the ideas like, hey, I've learned from my old channel. Yeah. I'm going to fucking nuke it and start a brand new channel. My spouse is supportive during this. I have no, my money's running out and you did this on a whim, but you took all that knowledge you learned through those 800 videos and you're like, hey, I'm going to do this now.

And I am placing all my bets on this one and it fucking worked. And all it took was someone to believe in me. Yeah. And it gets even better. A few months later, Mully and Josh comment on one of my videos. Right before that comment, I'm in a call with Mully, by the way, right before this comment.

We'll get to that whenever I do my three-hour monologue. But I already knew Mully at this point. And we're gonna call him. Mully's going, who the fuck is this guy? Because Mully's already doing VR. And he's like, this fucking guy? Who is this? Who's this Eddie VR guy? This guy's coming up. We gotta keep an eye on this guy. And he's like, maybe we should get him in a video. I'm gonna comment on his thing. Like...

Ha ha funny taco man. Yeah. That was the comment. That was the comment. It was ha ha funny taco man. And I flipped the fuck out. I was starstruck. I was like, there's no way Molly messaged me.

He's trying to bully your ass. And then he invited me to a video, and you can go back and watch this for anybody that watches my channel. You can go back to the first video that I ever joined. It was a Pavlov lobby, and it was the first video that I ever joined with the boys, and you can see how nervous I am because you can see my VR hands doing this.

I'm in there shaking. He's stimming. Exactly. Exactly. The ideas are flowing. So that's what happened within a year. And then I'll keep the ending to this short. But the punchline of the story is this, is that Eddie VR had its big rise and its big success. It's still a very successful channel, but it isn't my main bread and butter anymore. So from Eddie VR...

I watched and I was able to predict when that channel wasn't going to be as popular because of the climate around VR videos and that kind of stuff. And I noticed that Saucetti, the channel that had been dead for a couple years at this point, was starting to get a fresh wave of followers and views from the VR videos. I never promoted this channel.

And that channel all of a sudden at random made $5,000 in a month again. And I was like, oh shit. Okay, hold on. So I picked it back up and that I changed the name Sauce Eddie. I privated all my videos and I started fresh on it with the new name Special Ed with two Ds. Oh, that's a good fucking... Because my teacher used to call me Special Ed. Okay.

Why? I have no idea. Anyway, anyway. Special? I thought you were more artistic than you did. Not true. So it all came back to that channel because that channel now is about to surpass the Eddie VR channel.

How many... Okay, and how many is Eddie VR? Eddie VR has over 7 million subscribers right now. Brandon wants to fucking go live right now. Special Ed is on its way to 5 million. Special Ed is on its way to 5 million. Jesus Christ. And I've pretty much... Like, the VR channel is now just kind of like a play project. I just get on it when I feel like I want to get creative with things. My main bread and butter is now the Special Ed channel. And now...

I'm able to do videos like Markiplier, Jacksepticeye, and pretty much regardless of what I post, I have a very loyal following and people that will watch those videos. And I'm living that dream that 2016 me set out to do. I just didn't know how it was going to play out. And I just had to follow all of the signs and stick with it.

As long as I could without giving up. And I look back at that moment now where I was standing in front of Gabby saying, hey, I could go back to a job or I could start this Eddie VR channel. And I see that as a crossroads. It was like the moment I decided I'm going to go all in, God took away everything from me and said, let's see if you actually want it.

You know what I mean? And so I was at a crossroads. I just didn't know it. I could have gone back to a job and I almost fucking did. Safety net. I mean, you're like, fuck this. I almost went back to a job, but all, all that I had to do was just prove that I was still in it. And the moment I chose to start Eddie VR, it was like, God said, okay, he's, he's in it for, he's in, he's in it to win it. He's not quit. He wants it. And yeah,

all of my dreams came true. I think it's at a certain point, all of us have a story that's kind of like that. There's a, there's a fork in the road where we get to make a decision and we all fucking, we all made the same one. So now that the podcast is over, what are your stories? Yeah.

Well, let me tell you. I'm going to do my 10th piss of the podcast. Go pee-pees. What we can't do. Is everyone good for a long podcast? I'm good for a long podcast. Are we going the long game on this one? This is my bad. This is my bad. I'm sorry. That was so much fun.

That was such a well-balanced, like we were joking and going tangents in between. It was a well-balanced, good, long story. Here's what's going to happen next. If everyone's down for a long one, I'm down to hear both stories. And then I want to do, you guys just did wings, or hot sauces, and our boy, our favorite trout, our favorite fish. My favorite Japanese man. Arigato!

You guys just launched this. Once you go pee, we'll talk about it and we're gonna munch on some wings. Yeah. He wants two. He wants to wreck into your carrier. We'll come back. We'll eat some wings. I'm gonna go pee these too.

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Sushi chef King Trout come in with the fine wings and the boys are gonna explain all these motherfucking sauces that we about to indulge in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Guys, alright? First off, the- Oh shit. Can we just take a second? The cooking- Oh, we'll all do a pull? Yep, well I guess so. All doing a pull? Now breathe fire! So go ahead. Oishi!

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Like I learned, and probably you just through watching anime, a lot of us is like, oh, I watched a lot of Japanese anime. He's also like literally been to Japan. Yeah, that too. That helps. I just got back. We've been a couple times. We were forced to learn some shit. When you go there. Some until you go that like you have to really...

Now it's like, okay, now if you get a cold, now you got to learn how to fucking ask for it because no one's going to help you. How do you ask for cold medicine? So I'm sitting there fucking studying Google Translate. Okay, okay, okay. And then I go and I'm like, tell the lady. I was like, achoo, por favor. Anyway, but yeah, you're forced to learn that shit. It's like nobody knows.

I mean, it's... It's a blast, dude. It's not... Yeah. It's a fucking blast. You guys have started a sauce company. A food company. It's a food company, and our first launch is a sauce. I fucking love this. This is the motivation that gets me hyped. It has to be such a pain in the ass dealing with, like, FDA and all sorts of shit. So we've been working on these for almost two years. Two years. Like, I mean, like, in the trenches almost two years. Yeah. Not even, like, just talking about it, but, like...

in the actual process. Which is, it's a testament. Are you partnering with a company or are you like, we are partnering, we're partnering with a, we're partnering with a company and a chef that can make our recipes for these. So you're not starting on a blank slate. We're not starting on a, well, yes and no. Yes and no, right? So yeah, we are partnering with, with somebody who's bottling, with a bottling company. Yeah. Partnering with, with the company that's,

Distribution. The chef. Yeah, the chef. Yeah. Yeah. But these are not white label. No. Yeah, exactly. No, not that it... Like, there's a difference. Like, not saying that you're, like, just relabeling somebody else's shit, but, like, you're partnering with somebody who's already got the certifications and shit to be able to make your own stuff. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. There's a fine line there. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. We definitely don't have the time or...

to start something like this from scratch. Yeah. Thanks for the pizza. There's daddy like. But every single one of these sauces has our personality in it.

This is going to be the first ever mukbang episode of fucking Subscribe. So let's start. Okay, from left to right. Do we want to do least spicy to spicy? Least spicy to spicy. Okay, that's fucking fantastic. Oh, are they? Okay, this one's least. Yes. Fuck it.

Okay, from viewers. Yeah, they are. Yep, they're already lined up perfectly. We'll start with two and work. All right, to left camera. Left to right. Thank you, thank you. Grab a couple. Grab a couple in there. There you go, there you go. So we started a company called Hungry Boy.

And for now, our first launch is these hot sauces, which we've been working years on. Some of our most popular videos. Can you just try it without the sauce? Yeah. Just a little one. Some of our most popular videos are hot sauce videos, and that's kind of how we started our IRL stuff. And like me and Eddie personally, we just love hot sauces. Yeah.

We did a 50 hot sauce tier list video. Yeah. Where it was... Dude, I made it halfway. Edited? It's like... So there it is, Gerd. Oh, well, yeah. Which is why we made his just honey and seeds. He ate half of the tier list and then laid on the couch and we almost called the ambulance. 90% water. Yeah.

It's called the white people sauce. It's honey. It's spicy as fuck. Honey and crackers. So our most popular videos are hot sauce and we decided, you know what, we're going to work on this and it just took us too long to do, but it's finally happening. This is sweet sting. This is

By him. Yep. Um, by narrator. And so this is- I was making a joke. I didn't realize it was literally honey. Yeah, it is. It is. Wait, what? I said, why do you want what you said, honey? That was a total fucking joke. You actually did, no? No. Holy fuck. Yeah, it's honey. Well, shit.

No, but this is... Surprise, motherfucker. Surprise, motherfucker. That's right. No, but we... This is... So this is Sweet Sting. It's... The main components are honey, garlic, crushed red peppers, little extra stuff that I won't say in there, but this is the entry level. Cum. And spit. Cum. In the form of garlic aioli. Yeah, yeah.

Narrative passed out four times making that bottle. So we went to the... So what we did was... We're going to wait for everybody to try our first... Sure. Yeah, we'll take a bite together. All right. We put together a bunch of flavors that we wanted and ingredients and...

And we got a chef to nail it. So we went through like four or five different revisions of each of these with a chef. Some of them more. Some of them even more. And until we got them right. And we wanted each to be like, there's our personalities in each of these. Our individual tastes as well. Yeah. Like what we individually wanted for our sauce. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Cheers, boys. This is sweet sting. Three, two, one.

Alright, that's really manageable. I don't like sweet and salty is my least favorite thing. You like that? Dude, this is fucking good. Yes! Approval. Actually, in my opinion, it's the best sauce for chicken wings. Yeah. This is the one that's got the right amount of spice to where you can eat a lot of it.

You can have a lot of this sauce. We did a lot of experiments with different foods. So each sauce goes well with different things. So if you have all five, you're covered. So I can take that home, right? Of course. These are for you guys. You and Eli can fight to the death over it. That's the shit that I would like if I was going to door dash something to the office. That's what I would probably do. Literally just...

Yeah. We'll have a fucking pallet sent to you guys. Don't worry. You know, it'd be really good like a spring roll with that. Holy shit. I've not thought of that. That would be insane. It's got like an Asian, like an Asian zing to it. That would be nuts. Dude, if you dip that with spring rolls or something. Oh, fuck yeah, dawg.

Oh shit, the knife came out. Oh, he's ready. How does human meat taste with it? Brandon just kills your narrator. We only know he's a cannibal. It tastes good though. There's a little blurb on the back from each of us. Yep. Which we'll save for later. We have Chad GPT to make all of them. Yeah, pretty much. Read that blurb and we'll pass out the narrative. So...

And what's on the back of this is actually a true story. So it's, when I was a kid, my grandma called me honey bunches because I was so sweet. The older I became, spice started to be a more prominent flavor in a lot of the food that I liked. This hot sauce is a combination of how sweet and spicy, when melded together, can be the perfect flavor combination.

That was sexy, bro. I love this so much. Can you be my sugar daddy? Yeah, man. Now we're moving on to the butt bubbler. This one's by Mully. This is Mully's. I like how you have a spice rating. They're from 1 to 5. That way you're not just like, oh, this one looks good.

Just start at the final boss. Dude, that one is good. Like, sweet stink. Thanks, man. I really do. That was really good. The sweet stink is like, you can definitely just run through a whole bottle of it. Yeah, no. It's nothing. Whenever I play like D&D with everybody, that bottle, we've already gone through two. All of you are under 30, right?

No, I'm 30. I'm 25. I have to think about that. I'm 22. But it's awesome to see. It's that level of just entrepreneurship and then creating stuff like this where you're still refining it because you all probably had a say in it in a little bit. Oh, yeah. We revised ourselves. We wouldn't let this come out if it wasn't. I'm 32. What not having a birth certificate do to a motherfucker? Yeah.

I'm thirty! Gotta count those fingers. That's fucking funny. Sorry, I couldn't let that go. You don't have to apologize, dude. That's fucking funny. Alright, so the butt bubbler. The butt bubbler. Yeah. This one? That's more of a traditional hot dog. This is more of like a... Almost like a marinara as well. It's like a spicy marinara. Yeah. I can see that. What I... I've experimented with all of these with food. This one goes excellent with fries.

fries yeah and like it pizza-fies your fries fries any pasta you mix in literally any pasta yeah yep also chicken parmes as well chicken parmesan fried chicken would go good with that yep do i just love it you can like just see you like it i know who has the best uh australian accent i'll do it eddie has the best this is mullie

In a secret location, I combined the finest tomatoes with rich garlic cloves and sharp parmesan. I didn't know you could be racist against white people in 2024, but now you know what it looks like. The hottest, most fragrant, spicy peppers and other secret and epic ingredients from the Bottle-O, this is the Butt Bubbler.

If you consume this hot sauce, then your butt will be bubbling. That's it. That's the story. Molly's going to throw up when he watches this. He's going to be like, what do you think? What do you think? Is Grant still your favorite so far? Yeah. Grant's for chicken right now. Yeah. You got to have a chicken. Yeah. But when I can do this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is Josh's sauce. Um,

This one, I've tried- Oh, that looks Mexican. Is that green? Yeah. Is that Serrano vinegar and garlic, I believe? Oh, this is going to be my jam. Okay, this one on fish and chips is fucking nuts. Here you go.

This one had a more like... Any fried fish? This one is like insane. You know what? I put that on fucking talk. Dude, fajitas. That was the first time I think I've ever heard Mexican E-Lite come out. Fajitas. You gotta get that good phlegm in the back of the throat. He saw the liquid green sauce and he's like... Fajitas, dog. Fajitas, dog. Dude, a breakfast bowl or something? Ooh.

Ready? Ready. And go. Get it. No mommies homes. Dude. It's still really easy. Yeah.

For level three? Yeah. That's a level three? Oh my god. I'm loving this. So good. It's a really... It just kisses your tongue. The back of this one says, I really like this other hot sauce, so I just copied the recipe. Enjoy. That's actually what the back says. Does it? No. You get a C&D from like four different companies. I knew it tasted familiar.

familiar. Evergreen sauce context sauce. It has like a sweetness to it too. In the jungle's depths I stumbled upon an ancient recipe etched into stone forewarning of a sauce so potent it could fuel rockets. I concocted gut grenade using this ancient formula birthing a hot sauce of expensive flavor set to have secured victories in ancient culinary wars. It's fucking epic. That was like eggs or something like an egg like an egg tortilla and egg. Oh yeah. Chilaquiles with the sauce on it?

What? Mexican Eli's coming out. I know, yeah. Hey, hey, hey. He's not Eli anymore. He's Eric.

I'm my friend. He does like some crazy fucking hand motions and then a lawnmower appears like, he's coming out. Eli, are you okay? My name is Eli. My name is Taco. Fucking business cards in all of our pockets are at the table. Yo. Taco. That one good?

That's fucking good, dude. Yeah, man. So far, Josh's on fried fish has been my favorite. It's been my favorite thing. I had a tuna melt earlier and I put Josh's sauce on it. That sounds weird when you say it like that. Are you carrying it around now? I want to get one of those bottle sanitizers filled with sauce. Oh, no.

Alright, so let's try this out. Eddie, you gotta give the fat back. Oh, that is viscous. You might have to, yeah. Alright, there we go. There you go. That is the, excuse me, the Mexorcist. I can only imagine whose this is. This is my sauce. Um...

I really, it was inspired by my mom's recipe. She used to make this kind of like roasted garlic sauce whenever we would have barbecues on Fridays. Oh, there's garlic in this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So this one has guajillo peppers, tomatillos, and it's actually, I actually like, mom came over to my house and she had never like put this sauce into a recipe before. So I was sitting there taking notes, trying to translate it for a chef to be able to recreate and bottle it.

Because she never measured it. Because she's never measured it. I love this story. She's just like, you know, Mexican moms. Two par chancla? Yeah. There's pieces. I was wondering, like, what needs to be translated? This much? There's ground up chanclas in there. Yeah. And what's the heat rating on this? This is about a four. It's pretty spicy. Four out of five. All right. It's pretty spicy, but this goes excellent on any Mexican food. Tacos, beef. I haven't tried it on chicken wings yet. Oh, man.

It's good on chicken. I've tried it on beef. I have not tried it on chicken. It's very bold. Yeah. That on a beef, like tortilla. Yeah. This is my favorite episode just because I get to eat it. You get wings. Normally we just have to drink this entire time. This is a halftime show. This is fucking epic. Dude, we just sober up. This is great. Do you want more wings? This is awesome. Now we can drink more. Dude, they're so... Does anyone want any more wings?

I've been like using one wing per shot. I'm eating a whole fucking wing over here instead of a bite. I'm just, I got five wings for that reason. I've been drinking Soylent all day. I've got three, so I still have one whole ass wing left. No, fuck Soylent, dude. That shit was bad. That is the, yeah, that is. All of a sudden you like Harry Potter and Joe Biden and you're like, oh, fuck. Oh, no.

You're a soy boy, Eddie. We have taste bud trauma. This is a full five. Wait, did you read the back of that? I just told him. Hola, buenas tardes. My name is Dora.

I'm kidding. This recipe is inspired by my mother. It honors my Mexican roots in a few words, bold, spicy, and savory. The Mexorcist is a blend of chile de arbol, guajillo peppers, and garlic. I recommend pouring it on your tacos, steaks, or chips. Disfruta.

So this last one is very... This one is quite hot. This is not viscous at all, so this one's just like fucking... Oh, that's red. This will pour all over. It's 90% spit. Nice. That's why I drink it. It's spit and chewed up garlic. Me and Eddie chew it up, personally. It took about 10 days to fill the vat.

That's it. You almost passed out, but you got it done. But let me tell you, your jawline has never been sharper. That's right. Strong jawline now. Oh, wow. Yeah, that is. Brandon wasn't lying. This is like liquid. Yeah, this is liquid. That is

Now this one is hot. I like my sauces hot. When the Mexicans copping like that. Wow, this is... This one's delicious on wings, dude. I haven't tried any of these on hot wings. Oh, that's a wing sauce. The shack or the... Oh yeah, this is hot. I put this on my Popeye's chicken sandwiches. But here's the thing, though, like...

Yours is the hottest out of all of us, but I love that yours has like a sweet note to it on the back. Yo, that one's good. There's that lippy like, pa-pa! Yeah, it's spicy. Are you alright, Brandon? Okay, for Tweek and Sho, come here. The whitest of the folk here. Try Grant's white folk one.

Dude, but try it. Try it. It is so fucking good. I don't know how you want to do this. I don't know either. This is very awkward. Yeah.

You can come over and ride. You can come over and ride. Here, here, here. Bam. Please, take my chair. I'm like, I'm trying to fuck myself up on this hot one. Just a quick sweet sting, because that fucking... Yeah, that one right there. If you're white, you don't like spice, this is the one. Also, if you're a fucking spicy, spicy one, if this is the hottest one, this is fantastic. Stop being gay, bro. No, man. I went back and forth a lot. You can't tell me to stop it.

Because I personally love really spicy food. I just casually eat really spicy food. And I wanted it... There's that level where your mouth hurts and it's not fun to eat anymore. I wanted it just below that.

Honestly, I don't like spicy food. I don't like spicy for spicy's sake. That being your strongest spice, it is definitely spicier than everything else, but I don't hate it. It's good. You could keep eating. I hate it when you eat something. I literally just did. You did it. I double dipped on that one because it was still good. I hate it when you go to eat something spicy and your mouth hurts so much that you're like, I fucking don't even want to eat. You're KO'd after that. It makes no sense. My mouth actually hurts. It's sensitive.

I mean, don't get me wrong. I still need more liquor afterward. Dude. Those are all fucking fantastic. Thank you. Thank you, man. Thank you. That means a lot. Thank you all for just coming out with that fucking. You just came out and hit another home run.

No, no, it doesn't. Like, I honestly, I think out of all of them, I still enjoy yours. Okay. White people approved. Mexican approved. Everyone approved. Dude, because I can tell each one with the different foods. I wish we brought different foods. They're vastly different. Yeah, dude. Like fish for one, tacos, like...

Yeah, but it's like your gears are turning, right? Like, oh, this would go good with this and that and this and that. And that's what I fucking love about the whole collection of salsas. Are you selling a pack? Yeah, we are selling a pack. We still sell them individually, and then there's also a pack.

We're working on stores. Yep. We're working on putting these in store shelves. They will be there. Tell them where to go get it if they want to. We're releasing them in June. And for the record, we're not sponsored in any way. No, they're not paying us. They rock these sauces and we had the idea. If you guys said they were all dog shit, then that is what it is. That is what it is. Well, funny you say that. These all fucking suck.

I actually really like this one. You do? That's really good. The spicy one? I told you man. No shit. That sweetness on the back. Let's fucking go. Cause dude, Sho- I'm white as fuck so. Yeah. So have you seen a lot of Indian food? And Sho would always get like butter chicken. I love butter chicken. Man, the irony of the- Oh, go on. Those from the British Isles really loving Indian food. It's almost like there's historical context for why you like that.

You liked it so much. It wasn't me. I didn't call her out. And next in history, we're talking about the Boxer Rebellion.

...swayed with these. Holy shit. Thank you, man. That means a lot, man. Thank you so much. Thank you. Honestly. These are launching first on hungryboy.food. Put your email in and you'll get notified as soon as we have a release date and they're ready to go. But they are... Will be in June. They are releasing in June. You go to hungryboy.com and then you can, for five cents a day, feed one of us.

So just all of us in a Sarah McLaughlin commercial. So if you buy these hot sauces, you are supporting a disabled veteran? Yep, a disabled veteran, a undocumented immigrant. Did you just bring the right and the left together? We just bridged the gap with hot sauces. Yeah, we bridged the gap.

You're supporting a disabled veteran, undocumented immigrant, and a disabled person. So, go to Hungryboy.food. Way better than Kylie Jenner's Pepsi ad. We did it, boys. Well, we're very proud of these, and we hope that everyone loves them. We definitely wanted to separate our brands from...

Yeah. Yeah. You know what I mean? So these are not related. These are made by us, right? But the Hungry Boy brand has nothing. So if these are on store shelves, it doesn't relate to a YouTuber. Does that make sense? Yeah. It doesn't scream YouTuber merch. Kind of what we try to do with everything is...

With our clothes. Like our clothes and stuff like that. It's building those empires. Not one. It is, hey, okay, we have one. How do we then brand off from this and then build other empires on top of it? And it's so easy, too, when it's like something you're actually like,

It's a bit goofy to say I'm passionate about fucking sauce, but like... Are you? Yes. Then yes, alright, that's fine. Like, I like sauce. Oh yeah. I like hot sauce. God damn, yeah, those, now I'm like, okay, I know what each one will go on, and we're gonna do Kobe's cooking show with this motherfucker. It's summertime, let's have a cookout. We were making them too. Trav, do you have the cooking board? Oh dude, okay, so what do you think the best one would be on elk?

Elk. I have a shitload of elk left over from when me and Cody took one in Utah. I feel like yours. I feel like Eddie's. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

Oh, what's that? It's a cooking show. That's where all the meat's gonna be placed. Oh, that is so fucking nice. Pepperbox. Holy shit. Yeah, Pepperbox, unsubscribe down here. That is so nice. I love that cutting board, dude. That is precious. Man, y'all need a taste tester? God, that looks good. I still have a little egg. You guys are coming down for us. Can I lick it? Can I lick it? I still have a little bit of like, uh, Edris Elba leftover when he was on Hot Lons. I'm so bad.

Your sauce is still like in the back of my tongue a little bit. Tickling. Tickling away. It's not painful, but just reminding me it's there. It's just little kisses. It's just a knock on the door every once in a while. It's not like, here's Ghost Reaper. It's going to rip your butthole. Yeah. It's not like that. Ghost pepper. It's not like that. We're not here to rip anyone's butthole. Not at all.

Meanwhile, everybody within fucking a hundred miles of Scandinavia... I mean, Sho and I... Sho and Tweek, they made it through it, so it's fine. I'm opening another white cloth. Super white people approved. Now it's your story time. I think narrator. Because mine might possibly be long. So you couldn't afford college.

You're damn right. So you were posted up playing soldier. Brandon, this whole podcast, you're sniping left and right. That's my job. Don't call it out. I love it. I love it.

Wait till I've got a one-liner and then fucking let her loose. Holy fuck. You know how many people he's killed by watching them unload their groceries? He's gonna go up after today. He's been sniping, dude. I'm just gonna say the fatalities of unloading groceries are gonna go up a lot after this podcast goes out. All I'm saying is that, like, there's a reason to do, like, HEB delivery and DoorDash. It's just somebody else takes the ball for you. There's a reason I unload my groceries with my garage door closed. He's watching them through your front window. Oh.

It's like the fucking death note. The zip of the pants. The moment it's witnessed, you're done. That's why there's a different delivery driver every time Gabby orders groceries. Exactly. They've all died. Yeah, dude. You're welcome. They're in the fucking cemetery. No witnesses. This new cryptid I love. Yeah.

Yeah, the Watcher. The Watcher, that's what it's called? That's great. Congratulations, you've nicknamed yourself. You're now the Watcher. Fuck! Now you know what it feels like for everyone to edge you before you start your story.

The watcher is like a watcher in groceries way, not like a cuck chair in a hotel room way. You know? I have to clarify. That's your new, that's your offender's superpower. You are now peeping Tom. That bitch is unloading laundry. They're dead, okay?

If he observes you doing a normal thing, you're dead. Within 20 minutes. Captain Cuckold here. Do you have like a cool down? No. Oh, dude. That's dangerous. There's no cool down. Post-nut clarity does not exist for him. No. There's no cool down. He just goes to like a fucking neighborhood laundromat just like you're all.

Yeah, dude. And one pair of binoculars, they'd take out a whole block. All these college students are fucked. Just pull up, just... The whole graduating class of 2024. One pair of binoculars. Sorry, narrator. Dude, you in a farmer's market would be crazy. So anyways, a rock.

Did you say Iraq or A-rock? Well, to be honest with you, I'm a little bit between a rock and a hard place.

You're going live after this. Yeah, probably. Oh, man. You came from an almond farm. Yeah, I did. We talked about that. Almond farm. Almond farm. I used to pronounce it Ammon. Yeah, the Ammons. Yeah, that's fucked. That's good. I don't know about gay, but it's pretty fucked. Yeah, there's a whole story. But no, I grew up on an almond farm.

And uh... It's the whitest story ever. Ah dude, it really is. Northern California almond farm. Born and raised. No wonder your sausage made of honey, bro. I literally grew up around bees my entire life. I could probably throw a habanero at you and fucking kill you. Probably.

That was the wildest defense I've ever heard for that. I grew up around bees, bro. Let me tell you. I've never heard like... I fucking love you, bro. I've never heard a guy that like...

Like this big burly ex-military dude just like casually saying, "Oh, my tummy hurts." Like the way that you do, bro. The way that you do. It's true. No, I love it. It's fucking great. It throws people off. It's very fun. Oh, I just—I'm just gonna gas you up real quick for your story. But you were very just unapologetically you.

Like 100% you have been since I met you. Out of all of us. Yeah, like I would literally say out of all of us. And I think we all put forward our like true selves. But obviously you amplify that for a camera. But you've always just been like, you're just you. Like...

just the fellow you hold nothing yeah it's great i love it he actually what's crazy is so he was part of 2cr yep so we stood up 2cr in fort lewis and then they transitioned to germany yep and we obviously know what that is but for the audience who doesn't as a medal of honor my first acronym is two crazy retards what does 2cr mean i don't

I don't know what this means, dude. What is 2CR? The most dangerous youth in the military. It's only two people. Two crazy retards. Oh, the boogie! Give them 249s and they're going to kill a lot of people. The two most dangerous men in the world. Jesus Christ. Why do we call him uncle if he's not related? You're the dad about to drop the bass, Laura.

But please, what's 2CR? So 2CR is a Calvary regiment. 2 Calvary, I think that's what, right? Yep. First Squadron, Second Cavalry. But when we got to Fort Lewis, this is pre-surge, so everything's getting set up. When we got to our base, they're like, hey, you're part of 2CR. What?

We literally had, it was like an E4 for first sergeant and then a first sergeant actually took over. But for a long time, it was like privates and specialists are the leadership in this. Nothing's getting done because it is 20-year-olds running a fucking regiment. Look, privates and E4s just like lower enlisted. The lowest of the enlisted. They're like, you're all in charge. Nothing's happening. You want to do training? No, y'all are off.

Good luck. Yeah. Paragons are running each way. So it's too many crazy reasons. Yeah, too many crazy reasons. 2MCR. So it is, we get stood up and then we switch to 2nd Infantry Division and then 2CR goes to Germany. Yep. My unit then became his unit because of that. Really?

Really? Oh, shit. You're in the 82nd now. Yeah, exactly. So that was crazy hearing that. I was like, holy fuck, that was my old unit. And then they stood up, striker. Yeah, it's insane. We're connected beyond words. Penises touch, we dock. Bing bong. Nice. And now he's in Germany and you enlisted at what year? 2013? Yeah, 2013. 2013.

essentially like I as soon as I hit 18 years old

I was like, "Well, fuck these almonds." Pretty much. Especially since I'm allergic to almond dust, which is the-- Bro, that is fucking wild, dude. Wait, wait! What?! Do you not know this?! No! You're allergic to fucking almond dust?! Two thousand years ago, your dad would have thrown you off a cliff. You're watching him unload groceries and it just happens to include almonds.

You know, someone's gonna make a meme of that scene in 300 where they throw out the little defective babies off the cliff and it's gonna have your face on it, dude. It reminds me of that gif where they fucking edited the Lion King.

Rafiki just tosses the hell out of the guy! Yeah! So, holds an almond up to his nose, he sneezes. So yes, really, really quickly, super short to info dump on that. You were nerfed. Yeah, it's fine. So, essentially, I was born, the moment I was born, my grandpa and my uncle were covered in almond dust because it's harvest season.

Um, and you- when that happens you shake them off the tree, a lot of crazy like- Not the babies, the almond. Yeah, no, not me. But, wait, babies are like raw trees? Okay. As soon as they got to the- I'll tell you in a minute. Yeah, yeah, we'll talk about it. What? But as soon as they got to the hospital, they were like, "Oh, let me see my grandson and my nephew." Oh god. And meat coated in almond dust, they just picked me up and started holding me like, "Look at him!" And the doctor was like, "Alright, so what are you doing?"

and took me away. Like they cleaned me off, like did all that, but it was too late. I was infected. So my, because I was so new, my skin didn't, didn't re obviously was reacting to all this, you know, all this new stuff. And the almond dust caked on both my grandfather. So are they the reason why? Yes. Oh, no shit. Oh, it's the early exposure. It's the early exposure stuff. So then when, how did we ever survive? Yeah. I don't know. What the fuck? Back in the day before NICU, they were just like, again,

Yeah. Yeah. Figure it out. He's weak. So... Ooh, wow. Well, better luck next year. He's gonna grow up to make a honey sauce. Throw this bitch out. Get him out! Not my... Not my son. Weird. Nobody can eat narration. But like... When I was a kid... That's fine. Yeah, when I was a kid, nothing seemed to happen. You got stitched up. But like, as I got to like 10 years old, it triggered.

Fuck. And as I was... Because after 10 years old, that was like essentially in farm terms, that was like, all right, you're working now. Figure it out. Family business. So... But as harvest season came around, they... I was outside. It was hot. But it was like... I was just...

It was just like, it was like the scene from Dune. It was just mist and like dust everywhere. The spice. Yeah, it was just the spice everywhere. So you were the original mask wearer. Yeah, 100%. Because once it hit me... You did it before it was gay. If it was just like a slight reaction, I would have been fine. I would have dealt with it.

It was to the point where if I was not wearing – even if I wore like a long-sleeved shirt, like a flannel and like jeans and I would – I tried to tape my jeans up so it wouldn't get on my skin. Holy shit. It didn't work.

Do you get hives and stuff? My entire body would flare up like hives. I just picture a boy in the bubble, but two arms sticking out that have the clappy things. It's like you're shaving trees. You watch too much anime. Arms come out, shake trees. He's got the little T-Rex grabbers. 15 years old in the hamster bubble. Technically midlife. Technically midlife. Yeah.

It's weak at genetics. Picking single almonds. Jesus. So it got to the point where it was so bad, the only thing that would cure it is immediately going to hospital and getting a steroid shot. That's insane. And that was the only thing. How old were you at this point? 10. So you're 10 years old with almond allergies, having a midlife crisis. Yeah.

I can't be white. Yeah, exactly. But of course, I still had to work on the farm, so my grandpa would instead give me different jobs, like different tasks. He would put me in the shaker, so I'm in a cab. I would go up to the tree, it would clamp the tree, and I'd hit the button and it just vibrates really fast and drops all the almonds off. This figure getting killed by a Hershey's bar. LAUGHTER

Well, that's the thing which is super crazy. I can eat almonds and be completely fine It's literally just the ducks. That's it. So wait, is it just on your like skin? Yes. So eating them is fine, but it's actually having it on your skin you have like- Yes. Do you still have like a hives reaction to this day? Yes. To this day. Holy shit. I'm gonna-

So I literally, as I grew older, my grandpa was like, you're not taking over the farm. So instead he put me out in the thousand acres that he owns of trees. Oh, that. But he was just like... To survive on your own. Essentially. He was like, here's... Only thing to eat is almonds. He was like, he gave me a four-wheeler and then with a spreader on the back for ant bait. So I would go up and down all...

all of these rows and rows of trees every single day with ant bait to make sure, you know, none of the trees would get ants and infection, all that shit. So I was like, cool, but that's, that's the reason. And then when, when you shake the tree or the almonds off the tree, uh, when it drops, so does the letter L. And that's what my grandpa called it. Ammons instead of almonds. Fucking ridiculous. Yeah, I know.

But that's everyone in North. Yeah. But it was funny because it wasn't just us like my family. It was most people in Northern California would say almonds, which is hilarious. And then almonds. I'm more amazed that your parents definitely had a conversation. They have to have more kids because you're not the one. Yeah.

Listen, I mean, because they found out you were gay- A thousand years of spreading ant bait or being thrown off a cliff?

Is that why they added the A to LGBTQIA? Almonds. Almond allergies. Almond allergies. So, but essentially because of that, I grew up with that mentality of like the core rules, like family, of course, family is number one. Always take care of your family. Treat others the way you want to be treated. And that was a big one.

that I spend my life with. So if I meet someone new, I'll treat them like a friend before. I'll treat you as a friend until you prove otherwise. So at 18, after I graduated high school, I looked at my parents. I'm like, I'm no longer your problem, essentially. If I want to get an education, if I want to go to school and get a job, you're not paying for it. So I went military.

How I got the Cavscowl role, though, is that they showed me a fucking Special Forces video, and they asked me, do you want to be Batman? And I went, hell yeah. Yeah, you got the Mustang in the end. So your recruiter fucked you. Oh, recruits never lie.

Ever. You show up for a couple years, 11 Bravo, and you will be Special Forces before you know it. Oh, let me tell you. Patriot Missile Program will be yours. They gave me an airborne contract. How many years? For four to start out with. Dude, during the service, they'd be like, hey, if you sign this 18X-ray contract, you'll go Special Forces. It's five years. It's Special Forces. But it's a five-year contract.

1% pass to make a special forces. So they got a five-year contract out of your ass. Yeah. The gate. Look at your side right here. So if you didn't pass, you would still be hooked for five years. Yup. Infantry. Yeah. Fucking love.

life. You got that 1% shot. So you're telling me there's a chance. I met the, some of the people I met going in under the 18 extra contract. This is people that just played video games for a living. And you're like, you're fucked. Yeah. Oh dude. Oh,

And you watch him fail at two setups and you're like, dude, I watched people sign up, go in, and they could do not even two setups and they were dying. That's insane. And they're going to war and Joe Son is like, yeah, you're a crude lie, but now you're five years in. I'm glad they don't have to perpetuate the lie like, yeah,

Ranger school is for you, brother. Drew's eyes are just basically like, why the fuck did this recruiter send me these retards? I can't even stand up. What the fuck? I was like, who are Drew's eyes? So how did you go from being lied to by your recruiter to YouTube? Yeah, so... So... So, so far we have...

You're allergic to the land that you live in. And then you get finessed. Earth hates you and the government hates you. Move on. So I went in, did my training in Fort Benning, did that. And then...

With that, after my basic training, I went to go do my airborne school. And from there, I got 41 clubbed. For those of you who don't know, 41 club is you need at least 42 push-ups in order to qualify. And so you get to 41. But once airborne school or certain schools have a certain number of people, they'll usually be like, we don't need any more. So I got to 41, did 42. I had 30 seconds left. And he goes, 41, 42.

I'm like, that's really weird. All right. So I was like, what's wrong, sir? And he's like, ah, I just arched your back. All right. Made it flatter. 41. What happened? Oh, well, you know, you just didn't go down far enough. And I'm like, this motherfucker, dude. So I just did. I sat there for 30 seconds, 41 over and over. And he goes, ah, looks like you didn't pass. And I went, fuck you. All right. Yeah, that's insane. 41 for dinner again. Yeah. Yeah.

So they went ahead and they were like, I looked around at how many people, because we already had like a big group for me trying to get in. And they were like,

You want to try again at 2 a.m. again tomorrow? And I was like, you can go fuck yourself. Yeah. So they switched my orders to Bilsick, Germany to be in the striker cab unit. Not too bad, though. Not too bad. That's a pretty decent fucking call. You're like, okay. And that led to a bunch of different stuff like me taking a shit in front of a president, all kinds of different stories. Yeah.

That's a different time. I don't know if we have time. Wait, you guys have like the craziest things happening and you just gloss over them. You killed somebody. You killed someone and you all shit in front of the president. You spent way more time on the fucking almonds than that. Yeah, you're like, I shit in front of the president anyways these fucking almonds. Okay, really quick then. Okay. Before you fucking just skip over it. Yeah. The metal.

the law the the the the on the side of the mountain shit the fucking medal that you got oh for accuracy that's cool yeah the javelin medal and then shitting you forever president you have to tell those stories i'm not gonna let i'm not gonna let you gloss over dude this is as i will let everyone out there a lot of military dudes just don't

Like I've told a couple of war stories. Yeah. Yeah. Just cause we're just like, but whatever, but I've been in like, I don't know. I've said like, I can say 50 to 70 gunfights just doesn't register in my head. I was like, Oh, everyone in the military has been in a lot of gunfights till I realized it's not as normalized as I thought it was. Yeah. I thought everyone got shot at. Well, you don't get what really? Huh? No, I don't want way more rare than I thought it was. Yeah. My, my unit was the one, uh,

uh, that was right after, uh, four, two CR came back from Afghanistan. So that's why we got dictated to, uh, my unit was NATO. So that's why I got to go to like Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine, border of Russia. Like we just traveled. Yeah. Um, for sure. Show for shit. But for that one, yes. Um, so we were out there doing, um,

a uh just a giant a giant NATO thing we were stationed in Poland and we were doing eight months worth of training out there so we were out there sucking it up for eight months limited tents one of the big joint unit operations that we were going to do that day we did it most of it was everything was fine but the the Polish president was coming out

to like as like I don't know like as gay or no just like see what's going on you know cohesion military but

Well, I don't know, maybe. I don't know. I'm always present. It's like, hey. I'm coming out. I don't know what the hell you're here for. What's up, guys? I'm here. Yeah, just go. Just in case you're wondering. Yeah. Military activate. Go. Hi, NATO. Anyways, yeah. But essentially, we were, after we did that exercise, the joint group exercise, we were

We went around and parked all of our Strikers in certain spots, covered, concealed, all that shit. But I was like, we've been out here for like six, seven hours. I pounded my MRE, but they also had this really cool vanilla milk thing.

It would go right through you. It doesn't matter if you had an MRE or not. So MREs, there are certain that constipate you and others are just like, you got to shit. You got to go. We've tried MREs. I made them happen. He made us have MREs and I've had both experiences. Game of the Red Chicken gum? Yeah, dude. So at that point, my stomach is gurgling and I look at Sarnhampton and I'm bubbling even. And I looked at Sarnhampton and I'm like...

Sorry, I gotta go. And he's like, okay, if you hurry, you can go into the wood line. Hopefully nobody should see you. Because it was like maybe one or two rows of trees in this like giant, tall, like yellow, grassy area. So I'm like, all right, too easy. I get out there, take out my E-tool, my little shovel, dig a little fucking hole. And I'm like, and I'm just squatting. And as I do that, I see one black SUV roll up. And then another.

And then another. And I'm like, that's pretty weird to be out here. Omen Mafia. Yeah. You're late on your payments. Is it over, bro? Yeah. So. You just joke with me. Oh, fuck. This fucking retard's been a lot too long. So.

So I- But what about- But what about the pinky fucking almonds? Pocket dust! Yeah. It disintegrates. The opposite of pocket sand is all the- Pocket dust? Pocket dust. But- Now I know how to kill you. We all-

You know how to send me an anaphylactic shock. We don't even have to look it up, dude. Now we just know exactly what your weak spot is. Dude, oh my god. You're gonna turn me into goop. Juicy got a cat, and the first thing I did was google its weakness. Yeah, bro, I look over at Eddie's phone, and it's like, I'm not kidding, and this isn't a bit. We're sitting in my fucking house, and I look over his shoulder, because Eddie's like looking at my cat like, look at his face.

Persian cat weakness. I'm like, what the fuck? Hey! We're just gonna do it! I was curious. I was curious. What is this thing's weak spot? It's like this. Persian cats are not cats. They're like fuzzy caterpillars that are shaped like a hot dog. It's weird. Flat face.

And they have a flat face like those things I've never seen an animal that will bump into a wall with its eyeballs first We straight up just ignored shitting in front of the president to talk about cats Yeah Welcome to the almond mafia Back to the almond mafia Yeah so what's our time stamp just out of curiosity? Oh two hours and fifty three minutes Fuck me Here we go I'll speed it up Um

But yeah, so essentially, I thought it was at a hill, and I thought I had, you know, decent concealment. I didn't. So he comes out, essentially, so two guards get out of the vehicle. Everybody else gets out. And then you see, you can obviously tell that this is the president. Everyone's shaking his hand, going through the motions. What year is this? This was 2016. Okay, so still Obama. Yeah, yeah, still Obama.

So he gets out, though, and as he gets out, so on a long strip of road, I'm down here on the left, and on the right there's, like, a stage, essentially. He gets out on the left side, and his whole thing as he gets out, he goes, looks around, goes...

And I'm just like... No! Deer in the headlights. Thank God. Wave. There's no other choice. I wave at him. Were you mid-shit? Yes. Did you cut it off or did you just commit? I can't stop. Did you do a nice wave?

I did the deer in the headlights look up at him like this and I'm like, "You're like mid-bigfoot." And so like, I'm already done. I have to finish. I have to finish. So I do. I do that. I'm slowly burying the most embarrassing shit I've ever taken. You shit in front of the fucking-

And so I get my pants back up and I just go, there's no easy way to do this. So I just, I run as fast as I can to my striker and my NCOs popped out of the hatch. Like you gotta be fucking kidding me right now. You're like, I don't know how to say this, but, um,

They're out of NATO. They pulled out and we need to... Foreign relations gone. Next time you have to use the restroom, is this an Obama-level shit? A Defton 2. Yeah, yeah. And this was also right after my NCO almost called a fucking 10-digit grid airstrike on our striker. So, hilarious. But that happens...

What was the other story you wanted me to say? Oh, the Javelin Missile. Yeah, the Javelin Missile. The very last training exercise that I ever did before I got out was they had me Javelin certified. So for those who don't know, it's a big old missile. You play COD, you know what it is. It's a big old missile with a screen and then a wire that goes whoop.

It goes up in the air and then it comes right down. It's where they pay somebody who makes 30 grand a year to shoot a quarter million dollar rocket. So good. And they gave it to the guy who has almond allergies and shit in front of the Polish president. The American president. What did he do with it?

Wait, was it the American president or the Polish president? No, it was the Polish president. Oh, oh, oh, this whole time I thought you were talking about Obama. Oh, no, no, no. No, no, no. I just thought you were saying Obama level shit because it was up that level. No, I was taking a piss when you were talking about the Polish president. Fuck the Polish president. You're a narrator. No, I was a father. No, like, fucking, in the 20th century, they spent 50 years as a country. Fuck them. Like...

That's why I made the joke about him coming out as gay. Oh, no, I'd be okay with that. I'd finish taking the shit. I had to. I'm not going back to the truck. Come on. I'm going to have like 15 Polish friends that I know that are like, hey, fuck that podcast. Fuck that podcast, man. But no, so the very last thing that we ever did is they gave me, they were like, all right, listen, this is your final one. You are technically certified to,

we have a javelin for you if you want to fire it. And I went, yeah, a hundred percent. I do. So they give it, they, they, uh, give my, uh, assistant assistant guttering because usually I'm, I'm rocking the empty four nine. So the light machine gun and, uh, you guys have met him, Casey, everybody, Casey, he was my AG. Um, so he, he grabbed, he's rocking my ammo pack, but he's also rocking the, uh, uh,

Because there's two components so he's got that and then I've got the javelin so we go through the woods It's it's snowing by the way So there you are Bill's Bill's tech Germany, okay? Yeah, so fresh snow Everything's everything's cold, so we're like alright. We finally go through the motions We get up to the top of the crest of this hill and we're like all right. I

Grant, this is your moment. And I was like, sick. Apparently what I didn't know is that, again, I assumed that if I've taken the class, the NCOs with me have also taken the class. So they understand how the javelin works. They didn't. So when you lost... Terrible assumption. Yeah. Wow.

That's military. So what they taught us is that once you lock on with a Javelin missile, it's primed. You have a minute to fire that missile or it goes kaboom. So me thinking everybody else in the unit knew that, I was like, all right. So I get up there. I set up and my NCU goes, okay. He says 12 o'clock and he says –

But he doesn't give me meters. He just says 12 o'clock. And I'm like, first of all, that's kind of weird. So I'm searching through thermals for a target in the snow. Nice. So she can't see shit at all. But what I know, what's the target?

It's just like a... It's like a destroyed tank. T-72. Yeah, exactly. A cold... A cold metal... I need to reiterate. A cold blending in colder than snow. That's not... I was going to say the engine hasn't run in 30 years. Yeah. Target ahead of you. Where? It's invisible. Neat. So I was like...

This is weird. So I just keep scanning, keep scanning. And they're just like, of course, NCO is getting impatient. He's like, come on, we got to fire it. And then I see something. I see a heat signature and I zoom in. It does look like a T-72. It does look like a tank. So I'm like, cool, that's it. And I'm like, Roger. All right, Sergeant, I got a target in front of me, 12 o'clock.

I'm ready to lock on. And he goes like, perfect. And that's how you killed the president of Poland. The captain's like this. He's like, okay, you're locked. Grant's like this. Yeah. That's a long way. No one can know. Fuck. So, but with that, but with that, I, so I, I locked onto it because it was, it was warm.

So I was like, okay, it's obviously they heat up some of them for the ranges. So I was like, cool, sounds good. I lock onto it and I'm waiting. 10 seconds go by. I'm like, cool. What now? 20 seconds go by and I go, uh-oh. 30 seconds. Hey, Sarge, quick question. Y'all know I have a minute to fire this or it blows up, right? And he goes...

"White One, this is, uh, uh..." And I just hear panic in his voice. They called you White One? His Native American name. Yeah. It's like, "Army of Darkness." "White One! White One! White One, fire it!"

"You Polish president! Now!" "Take the shot!" But uh, yeah, but no, we were uh... And that's why... Never mind. Out of all... Out of our troop, we had different colors, so we were white platoon, red platoon, and blue platoon. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No black platoon. Not in Poland.

Why does our platoon have a bad credit score? Why can't we sign any weapons out of the armory?

Thought you would like that one. Holy shit, bro. That's hilarious, dude. Fuck me. All right. So it's about to explode on you. You're about to blow up. You're about to blow up. And finally, you have 60 seconds before it deaths you. Yeah, before it goes. This is not accounting for the amount of travel time. No. Yeah, it's literally, it's going to death in the tube. Yeah. So after that, I hear extreme panic for like maybe three seconds. He goes, oh, I want to do this.

"FIRE THE FUCKING-" just over my head and I'm like, "Okay." So, it's locked on, I'm like, "It's gonna be great." I fire it and- It's gonna be great. I saw the video after- I'm sure I'll- That's right, you have a video of this, right? You showed me the video. I don't have it on my phone anymore. I don't- You showed me it when I- I remember seeing this video. Yeah, so, from my perspective, I watched as the missile leaves the rocket, or leaves the tube, slowly drops.

Nothing happens. Javelins, by the way, are terrifying because go on. Yes, because it exits the tube and then it drops. It doesn't just automatically shoot out. It drops first and then ignites. Because it has to calculate or whatever. Yes. So in my perspective, I heard this is going to explode soon. I launch it and then I see it go. Thump. Doot, doot, doot.

Right in front of you. So I think everything went slow-mo and I went, well, I had a good run. And then it takes off. Luckily. Really thought it'd be the almonds. I really thought it'd be the dust that got me. Well, maybe on my next life I'll get a good rerun.

I'll try a different build next time. I'll try a different build next time. So it launches. And after it launches, they're like, hell yeah. And my NCO next to me goes, it hasn't hit yet. Where did you shoot it? And the hang time was maybe about eight seconds that we just didn't see it go off. And then way off in the distance, we see, and I hit it.

It said target hit, target confirmation hit. And I went, awesome, sweet. I hit it. And I look up and my NCO's like, you hit the Polish president. Yeah. Special election time. So he was pointing to, or what?

In his words, he said, I was telling you to aim for the one that's 300 meters in front of us. However, we're on a hill. I couldn't see it. Also, nothing that close was heated up. So it's all just noise. Yeah. Just white noise. And I'm like, so what the fuck did I hit? I'm panicking because I'm like maybe two months away from getting my DD214 and getting out of the army. I'm like, I can taste it.

And so we all go back into the big briefing room.

And I see a two-star general walk in. Oh, my God. And we all stand up. You know those two sweet German hikers in that van? We're going to blame ISIS on this one. Those ISIS members in their javelin missiles. They were decapitated. Don't worry. We got lined up. So we all stand up. And everyone goes with tension. He goes like, calm down, calm down.

So which one of you was the one that shot that javelin? And my heart drops. And I'm like, I shot someone or something important. I'm... I would have been like, who's asking? Is it over, bros? The two-star general. So I was like...

I'm going to jail. Don't fuck your problem. So at that moment, I'm thinking two seconds later after I answer, I'm just going to see MPs walk in. I'm fucked. Prison forever. So reference, if you're in the military, generals are absolute. Like anyone higher over... Dude, a fucking captain is terrifying. When you start getting lieutenant colonel, colonel,

That is when you as a private or any enlisted other than like command center major is you are.

You're terrified. I was. I've told it before. I don't have a frame of reference because I'm retarded. Two-star general. Bullshit. I would give him shit. And all the enlisted would be like, why are you talking to a general that way? First time general got in, we're giving him a patrol of our area. I'm up in the rear hatch. Fucking. I'm like, hey. Old general comes up. I'm like, what the fuck? You're old as shit, sir. Bullshit.

What is wrong with this kid? He'd be walking if I'd see him just walking out in our cob.

fucking what? Why is your hat not on? Where's your hat at, sir? And he'd be like, Quavis, what the fuck? He'd be like, why is it? What? Get down and do pushups. I'm like, fuck you. But he loved me. I gave him too much. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you going in at two star, you're probably like, everyone. I was specialist. I was, I'm done. Yeah. Shout out to the E4 mafia. Ah, anyway. But,

But we... So I see that, and he goes, so who is the one that shot the javelin? And I'm like, I stand up, and I go, that was me, sir. It was all me. And he goes, you know, you just set a new base record with that shit? And I'm like, what? Yeah, most Polish embassy... Most Polish ambassadors killed in one missile. What?

Well, this was back in Germany. But that's objectively worse. I killed him in Germany. The last time this happened, something very uncool followed. For about six years. So what had happened was that target was another... It was on another range, but it was for mortars. So it just happened to be next to this one. It was just way farther out. So I set a new...

I think it's still holding. New base record for the longest javelin confirmed hit at 4,500 meters. 4,500? Yes. Holy shit. Yes. Oh, my God. Four miles? Five? No, it's like, what is that, like two and a half miles? Two and a half miles. Wait, how many meters? It's like 4,500. It's 1,600 meters for a mile. Yeah, 1,700, something like that. Holy shit. What is it, 1,780? Yeah.

And the first time that I heard about this, I was at your house and I saw the medal and I just asked about it. I was like, what's this about? And you had the video at the time of the actual firing. Yeah.

Like, he has somewhere. You have the weirdest fucking awards I've ever seen. Yeah, so I got the, it was the coin. I got a coin from the two-star general, which is somewhere in my house. I need to find it. I guarantee it's in my old military box that I just keep in the closet. But no. What'd I do with my purple heart? And they gave you, dude, you are so proud to be a 249. Until you have to.

Carry it? And you're like, fuck this thing! This is heavy as shit! And then a 240 gunner or the ammo barrel, you just hate. You really like that weapon, don't you? No, sir, I prefer the one that's half the weight. Too bad! But fuck. 12 miles? 12 miles? Yeah. Figured out, buttercup, and I'm just like... And I had the Bravo. I didn't have the Lima. So I had the bigger bitch. Which was awesome.

awesome so you can you can be a bigger bitch yeah so you understand why when they move me to a like bravo and and lima right so lima is light and bravo is back pain yeah yes that's why i have arthritis that's why his gout yeah yeah but uh that's why i was super happy when i got switched over to be a 50 cal gunner with an rws system so i just sat in the truck and just played video games

awesome. You want a cheating system to killing people? That system right there. It was sick, dude. You could just pull up in the middle of the night and they're like burying IDs and you just send thermals because they run quiet too because it's diesel. You stop like 500 meters before and they're like, hey, there's people on the street. So what are they doing? Burying something in the road? Light it up. Meanwhile, Abdul's just trying to put a time capsule for like...

It's like a picture of my family lineage in the street where I was born. In 20 years, they'll look back on this moment fondly. This street, they move too fast. I need oil. I will protect the kids in this neighborhood. Put a speed bump right here. Speed bump right here.

These hummers are much too fast. They see a Humvee, he's got a radar gun. Much too quick, much too quick. Put in a speed bump. For the longest time, I thought that... Muhammad's at play. Shh.

For the longest time I thought that slow kids at play meant that there was like some really slow kids playing outside. They couldn't jump out of the way? God damn it. So I got out. Yeah.

Anyways, back to the story. But yeah, no, I got out. And then after that, I was like, all right, time to finally use this fucking GI Bill that I've worked so hard for, whatever. And I was like, okay, well, I've always been...

I've always wanted to do like voice acting or stuff with cameras like video photography, videography. I really wanted to do something for Nat Geo. So I wanted to just travel and take videos and photos. It was really cool. And then a tenth of Poland's leadership later, you're able to. It wasn't until three quarters in, I found out there was a job called combat photographer. And I'm like, no fucking way.

So show up at civvies and be home by one, whatever. So literally a job in the military. Right. Oh man. But I, I got out. And so I went back to Sacramento. So I was like, I'm going to start this film degree. So I moved to Sacramento, did that. I was, I was like, I'm going to get at least a bachelor's. Like I'm going to make some cool movies. It'll be great. Turns out halfway into my bachelor's, my four-year bachelor's degree school shuts down because the school was embezzling and

Word. They're apparently making some shady deals as well with some other people that were donating their money to keep the school running. God bless for-profit schools. And what they did afterwards is they were like, you have two options. You can either A, transfer your credits and you'll keep all of them. Just go to a different one of our schools. Or we will give you $3,000 as an I'm sorry and you just sign this paper and you'll leave. Or no, it was $5,000. My bad.

If they're making you that offer, that means they're worried about worse. Yes. Because in that contract that most of my friends signed, instead of just trying to go to the other schools, in the clause inside that contract, it said, no matter what, you cannot sue us. Yeah. You just got Stormy Daniels.

Which as it turns out isn't the end either.

So everybody got, like, hooray, they got five grand. But they had, like, $30,000 to $45,000 in debt from their student loan. Because that means their attorneys were like, this is a good deal. Please make them take that. Exactly. And it's students, so they're going to be like, oh, fuck yeah. Anybody with, like, above a room temperature IQ fucking immediately recognizes that for what it is. Yeah, so that's why I was like, I still want this degree. And, like, that...

I actually was one of the people that for one reason actually read the contract. So I went, I just want to go ahead and, you know, I want to get the bachelor's. I really do. So I looked at all the other art institutes that were still working and

Every single one on the West Coast shut down. Every one. I know the ones in Austria don't have a really good track record. Not the best, but they're trying. They at least have one mulligan. One. They have one. You're not going to make it, kid. I hate the Jews! Ooh!

Our bad. Our purpose is like, uh... So the closest one that was still working was Dallas. And I was like, shit, I guess that's my only option. So I got in my car, packed everything I could in my car. My grandparents had their trailer that they would pull when they would go camping, and

They put all of my stuff into that trailer. And then me and my mom drove with my grandparents. We all drove all the way from Northern California to Dallas. And it took three days. So we drove there, set my, I was, I was set up with a single bed half bath apartment. And so I moved in and I start, I continued school until the final, just like Eddie, the final semester of,

And then COVID hit and shut the school down. But luckily, before that happened, I was going through VRChat because as I was doing this film degree, I still wanted to practice voices. This is crazy, too. I love this story. It's so good. I'm going to start this thing because what year did you start your YouTube career? Oh, God. 2019? Yeah.

yeah 2019 is the first time i ever saw yeah yeah 2019 so it was like i got out of the military 2017 did did uh yeah did that for two years and then almost done or two or three years then almost done and then when i got to the last thing i had to do was just the my senior project that was it

But I was chilling in VR chat and I would pick the smallest characters that I could find because it'd be really funny to see a little Pichu bird looking thing. Oh, look at this little guy. And I'd be like, hey, how you doing? The tiniest little Pikachu that is on a counter so it can talk to people. Yeah. I'm just thinking the meat canyon. Yeah.

You've got a nice little type of name. And for the audience at home, this is the game I was talking about earlier, VR Chat, where you can go into a community-made level. It could be a courtroom or a bedroom or a fucking theme park. It's public lobbies literally just for you to role-play and or chat. Yeah, and you can pick any skin you want, like Kermit the Frog or... I'm going to Kermit the...

Or a game that we rushed that syncs No-No Square. That is an option. Yeah, so that's the game. You got me with that one, Brian. You got me with that one, Brian. You killed me. But like Eddie was saying, that was... You triggered a memory on that. Yeah.

That's one of the funniest VR chat clips I've seen. When Eddie was saying, yeah, that was the game. And I just liked it because it was live feedback. So if I was working on impressions or anything like that, people would either tell me, oh, that was really good. That was really funny. Or you suck. That's how I practice. The real feedback. So as I was doing that, Josh and Molly were making a video. And this is when they were first starting out.

And they walked in, they saw me entertaining people and doing like my narrator spiel. And I would be like, I would have like, I had a snowball, a blue Yeti mic, USB, super shitty quality. And I was just like, hello everyone. Welcome. And I would put on music and I would be like, I, I had a terrible day today, but you made it better. Like just stuff like that. Yeah. And,

I think it was Struggalos I talked about, which is a Kevin Hart joke, which is hilarious. But they walked in, they thought it was funny. And they're like, hey, do you mind if we put you on a YouTube video of ours? And you were really funny. And I was like, yeah, just tell me the channel and I'll keep an eye out for it and see what happens. And then a couple of days later, they posted it.

And I was like, wow, that's so cool. I'm in a YouTube video. This is so awesome. So I commented and it was like, hey, this is the little Pikachu bird narrator guy. Just wanted to say thanks for putting me in and it was really fun. And like 30 minutes later, I think I get a comment. It was like 30 minutes to an hour. I get a comment and it was just like, you were super funny. We should do more stuff together.

And so I replied quickly. I was like, yeah, no problem. And because they saw I was replying, they're like, okay, they're on. So they quickly messaged me a Discord link. I got into Discord and then they deleted the comments so no one would, you know. So we all added each other on Discord. Got friends. So if you use the Wayback Machine, you could probably find the link to the private Discord. Yep. Probably. Which no longer exists because we've covered our tracks. Oh, we did. Oh, we did. On a yearly basis. Yeah, on a yearly basis. Smart.

Which means if you use the Wayback Machine... This is way back in 2019, but this is a 20-second clip of Narrator. You had this primed and ready. Well, I was looking it up just now. Yeah, I do have it primed and ready. This is one of the clips that blew up with him in it. Is it the ABCs? Yes, it's the ABCs. You guys are all so cute. Thank you. We were all going into public lobbies and shit and doing things that would...

If anything funny happened, we'd put it on TikTok. So this is a narrator talking to a girl. God damn, baby, look at you. Listen, I know you may get this a lot. You are beautiful. Girl, I can sing my ABCs to you. See, I'll give you an A because you're awesome, a B because you're beautiful, a C because you're confident, and I'll give you this D because you deserve it.

And I go, "Is that a yes?" And she's like, "Alright, fine." I just yell out, "SHE WANTS THE DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

And everyone clapped. And that was the TikTok. And then everyone clapped. And that's how you're a narrator. That's how I was super etched into. But yeah, after the school shut down. But at that point, right before it shut down, I was at 100,000 subscribers thanks to the boys. Because they were like, buy a VR headset. We're going to make videos. You're in film school. You know how to edit. Let's do this shit. And I was like...

So I did that. When the school shut down, I was like, I have two options. Either A, go back to Best Buy, get a regular job again, or do absolutely nothing but grind this YouTube stuff out. I also do have the record for most Polish emissaries in the church. I could probably hit Poland from here. So...

5,000 meters may not sound like a lot to you, however... But with that... Oh my god. So as that happened... ABCs, my lady, always be conquering Poland. See me live on YouTube. Someone's gonna start to destroy Poland! What? What?

With all the... But yeah, once I started... Always blitzkrieg. I always have my A for arsenal. Jesus Christ. Oh, man. Poor Poland. Poor Poland. Yeah. They're doing fine now. Yeah, they're all right. They're okay. Since the narrator left the fucking military. They're safer now. They've had time to recover. Yeah. They caught their breath. And you're... So you took off like...

Comparative. You were the one that landed and you were like, how long did you take between you starting versus them finding you? So they found me

And after that, they were like, buy a VR headset, make a YouTube channel, start it now. And I went, okay. Within, I think, two months, I had 100,000 subscribers. Brandon, imagine that. From nothing. 100,000 subscribers in two months when you've never done YouTube before. Oh, I know. That fucking bothers me. Frankly, I'm pissed. It took me three years. I think it took three years for me to go from zero subscribers to...

uh, I think 10,000. Yeah, that sounds about right. And then from like 18,000 to 2 million, I think took me another three years. And it just kind of shows like how much, like you could just try and try and try and try. And then when you find your formula, like you find, you find something that takes off. That's the thing you just got to have, like keep dedicating yourself to because that's the thing that's going to go on. Yeah. Yeah. People. So we, we did that, uh, after I hit a hundred thousand and that's when the school shut down. So I went, all right,

I have a choice either a work at Best Buy and try and do this on the side and see how well it does. Or I just say, go balls to the wall, do this absolutely nothing but for a month. So I would, I started doing that where I would record with Molly and Josh at like 10, 11 PM. And then because I was, you know, I was the newer up and coming guy. I was hungry. And I was like, also because of the time difference, I was like, I have to post before them.

I have to. And that was my mindset at the time. So I was like, if I get my video out first, maybe I'll get more views than what I do. So I'm like, let's try it out. So I would record from 11 to noon or noon, Jesus, 11 to midnight or 11 to one. And then I would just stay up all night editing myself and

And then early morning I would post the video and then I would knock out for the rest of the day. I became a vampire. Yeah. So I did that for the first month. I made just enough money to pay for my super shitty ass apartment and I could afford top ramen.

For-for- Dude, you got Top Ramen? Dude, yeah. Damn, boy! Any flavor? Shit! You don't need to fucking flex on the rest of us. No-no soiling for this guy. No! Soiling. So I was like- You thought I survived off of one month of doing YouTube. Yeah. It was hard. You're like, "You're wrong!" My man's on a liquid diet after years. And I'm just like, "Wow, I'm all-" Meanwhile, the rest of us are on a liquid diet after succeeding.

I think it's interesting because once we all met each other, like, yeah, we all have these stories, right? But we wouldn't be where we are without each other. Yeah, 100%. Without each other. And I can pinpoint the moment for each of us

when, like for example, for you, when we sat down with you and we're like, okay, look, we have, there's this formula that we can follow. If we start featuring you, particularly in the VR videos and having you be a part of the thumbnail and title and revolve the content around your talent. Yeah.

and promote you in that way your individual channel would it was wildly it was wildly wild and strategized everything was strategized and it was the same thing for him which we'll get to but yeah it was it was everything was calculated in a way and and they we would like we're looking at each other's analytics and being like okay well you're here and you're here and you're here right now we have a trending clip with you how about in the next three videos we feature you and we

Try to format some skits around you and try to get another viral clip and grow your channel because it's right here. Yeah. The successful people all do the same thing. How many people push back against that formula is fucking ridiculous. We try to help people and they're like, no. And you're like, no.

And it's funny. Well, and we were doing that and fucking having so much fun doing it on top of it. Yeah, and it's funny because the comments would be like, why are they bullying Juicy? Why are you like this? Because it would be a video of me walking. We're just in a house. We're making money. We're in a house and I'm beating the shit out of him with something. And he always beat the shit out of me in VR. And people genuinely started picking a side. They're like, whatever.

But what they didn't know is that it was all planned by him. He knew that that shit would be like... People talk about it.

He knew what would drive the content, and it would be him getting bullied by me, so he would be like, hey, I need you to hit me harder. And it's like, it's VR, bro. What do you mean hit you harder? Yeah, because I'm like, two-thirds of the comments on my last video were about that part where you came out of prison and then instantly beat the shit out of me. So let's try to do something like that again. Like...

and keep that conversation going, you know? - Yeah. - As it should be. It's, yeah, dude, people fight against what works and what doesn't because- - Man, it's a- - Egos are the hardest thing to check in the content creation field. - Yeah. - No, it's not gonna work. It's like, bro- - But you can still do what you're doing.

and strategize exactly because like we were still all posting on our own individual channels but we were all coming together and going like by the way like because it was at the beginning it was like five different perspectives of the same video sometimes but we were all like

we're all doing this because we know like if we throw, you know, juicy in the scenario with Eddie, where he beats, it's going to help him. It's going to help him. And we were all doing that. So we would do that to the point where certain videos, like we would all do the same video from five different perspectives on each of our channels. But we knew that one of like one video would help out one of us and in turn would grow all of us. Yeah. Cause I mean, you have literally five videos from this like up and coming group all coming out and it's the same video.

session yeah same video from five different perspectives with different super interesting yeah and that was every time and because it because this meme was because this meme was so powerful the characters that we built around it were so viral that we could post the same video five different times from five different perspectives from each of our individual channels and it would bang across all five yeah and and we all had our like

Because we all had our own personal ways of, because we all still edited our individual videos. Yeah. Everyone would get something different. There would be so little different. The end, pretty much. We all edited our own videos still. And the end means. It'd be different. The end, when he says the end, we were posting individually. Transitioning into the main boys channel. We transitioned into, we finally decided, you know what? We're going to build a company around this. We're going to come together. Let's build the boys as a company. And that's.

That's there's now a boys the boys channel which now has a struggling five million subscribers There's a go fund me in the description Reminds me a lot of the ways that we've done unsub is like all of us were independently successful in our own ways Yep, like, you know me Cody you like we all just had our own thing going on and you know We brought in Nick like who was obviously like the next up-and-comer and instead of like

Like what you guys were talking about earlier, instead of seeing like a challenge, like, oh, well, nobody else can succeed in this space. It's like, no, there's no ego. It's like, yeah, you're doing fucking great, man. Here's how you can continue to do that. And also, can we help you? Can we bring you up? Yeah, that's exactly right. A rising tide is going to raise all ships. And the way that we saw it in our philosophy was like, hey, you know what? If we can create this new genre of making videos, yeah.

Because we were getting copied left and right by other creators as well. You guys are so original in the format. That's what matters. You guys work together. And if we can help Juicy rise from zero to a million and Narrator rise from zero to a million and everyone just build up. It's the integrity of the whole ship. The whole platform. We're raising the tide for the entirety of the platform and we all will benefit from it.

it. It's kind of like that old saying that like, it's kind of like a little fruity, but like there did bear some, some, you know, some actual wisdom is, you know, there's enough room under the sun for everybody. Yeah. The fact that I'm succeeding isn't taking anything away from you. Yeah. And we never, we never ever went after anyone who used our videos in any way, shape or form. You let them, because that like that, that's like a community thing. You know, like that's, they're also building that,

genre as well. And bringing more eyes to it. What we actually do, we upload our raw footage for people to edit.

Like you can do whatever with our clips. We have that. Like if you want to do clips. Yeah, that's cool. That's awesome. It's just up on the internet where it's like, Hey, go have fun. Fucking edit all we requires you tag us. So that way you can do whatever, put it on your own fucking channel. We don't care. It makes money. Like, yeah, definitely eclipse channels and stuff like that. And Jerry clips. Yeah. It's crazy. It works well because P and, and people are, I mean, people are passionate also about your content are incentivized on top of it. So it's like,

They have the consent from you of like, oh, I can do this and I'm not going to get struck down. How many people have found their favorite podcasters just because they found clips on the internet? Oh, several. I mean, that's, I feel like that's how you find everyone. Yeah. I thought I found you guys before, like,

There's no egos involved. It's just like, hey, everyone, it's friendships that work together and they're more successful. You could have either if, let's say, Eddie was like, you're like, this is mine. None of this would have happened. Instead, you're like, yo, hey, these guys are great. I can get together as a brand. And I mean, it carries over in everything we do because we, despite like, obviously, there's people in the group that have always been bigger than other people in the group. Yeah. And some by like pretty big magnitudes, but we split everything evenly. Yeah.

Everything. We always have. I mean, exactly evenly, and that has never been a question. Which has always led to a point of contention within you two. Like, have you guys ever thought about that? No. You ever wanted to fight?

Actually, you know, now that you mention it. Yeah. Do you have any gang gloves? We got some soccer boppers at the garage. Funny enough, I actually have somebody that can train both of you. By the way, now that I'm done with the campaign, do you want to go back to boxing every week? I would fucking love that so much. I've gotten fat and just slapped. I just want to.

What are you talking about, dude? You're the buffest motherfucker I know. No, no. I need to go back to actually fighting every week because I felt so fucking good when we were doing that. Like, even after the fight was over with, like, last year, I felt the best when I was boxing, like, two times, two, three times a week. Dude, your cardio is good. You, like, lose a lot of weight really quick. You're like, hey, this is dope. And then you feel like you can...

defend yourself no matter what. Like, I haven't just hit a mother in the face. Before, I always thought, like, in a bar fight, I'm like, I know how to punch. And then I, like, started boxing. The first two weeks, I'm like, I don't know how to punch. You're going to get my ass shit out of me. Like, I've been in a couple of bar fights, but, like, after, like, you fight somebody who knows what they're doing, you're like, oh, fuck.

this guy can do whatever he wanted and I can just stop him this is terrifying and then you just keep leveling up and then you're like hey I'm really comfortable you just smile when you fight that's when you're comfortable you're like ha please swing at me I fucking I hate it whenever like we're sparring and then I just see you just do like

I'm watching you do like Zach Galifianakis where like 8,000 equations are going past your head. I'm like, oh, Eli's about to hurt me. I can push now. Step one, move to the left. Step two, discombobulate. We're going to do the last segment, which is your story. Oh, shit. And then we're going to wrap up this podcast. Because what are we at? This is already our longest podcast. Is it actually?

Oh yeah, hands down. By like an hour. Really? I can't wait to see how this does though, because this is also like testing that algorithm. Yeah, it's an experiment. Speaking of algorithms, that's what we're doing. Dude, if YouTube's like, if this one just goes like 1 of 10 and then outpaces everything, it's like, fuck. We're going to have a very different job. Dude, we've got an 8-hour podcast on the way. We're just here for a day. 24-hour podcast? Would anyone like a beverage? I'll take a beverage.

So anyway, what is the- Would I be able to get another one of these? Yeah, you know- What is the Book of Juicy? Fuck. It's an encyclopedia. Yeah. So it all started- I was born in Florida. Central Florida. With an algae allergy. Just allergic to grass. Yeah, so- So Orlando-

I was born in a town called Melbourne. Okay, yeah, actually, yeah, I've been there. Why? Because a buddy... A old business partner of mine used to live there. That's fucked. Yeah, nobody goes there. That's really weird. I've never met one person in my life who's been to Melbourne. I've been told before I'm an East Coast fake, so... Thank you. Fuck. Yeah, so...

That's where I'm from. I have literally lived there my whole life until YouTube started taking off and then I moved out of there, moved to Tampa. So I live in Tampa now. Yeah, I grew up in Melbourne and I started YouTube. My first YouTube channel was actually April of 2008.

Oh, wow. Holy fuck. Yeah, so I was 10 when I made my first YouTube channel. How old are you now? 25. Yeah, I could have done that quick math, but... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Podcast math. Yeah, my first YouTube channel, I was in sixth grade, which would have been like, God, 2006, 2007. Yeah. So it was about the same time. The same time, yeah, yeah. And I initially started doing like Super Mario 64 speedruns. So I like literally like propping up...

my fucking like digital camera with like my 15 fps video and like just uploading super mario 64 speed runs over and over again um you're a summoning salt guy i love summoning salt i have i have fucking seen that coming i have notifications on something so dude one of the best youtube so good so what was the first thing that really like kicked off yeah so i started doing animation when i was like 12 okay um

And that was, yeah, that was around like 2010. And it was like Source Filmmaker, TF2 animation, stuff like that. And I was like 12 and I had a video get... YouTube poop level kind of... I made probably 100 YouTube poops in Windows Movie Maker. Like fucking, it was, that was literally what initially drew me into YouTube. And yeah, so I had this animation video get 300,000 views online.

In 2010. That's fucking insane, dude. This is 2010 for reference. Freddie Wong, I think, was at the top of the game with maybe just cresting 10 million subs. And that was peak. Yeah. So that was fucking incredible back then. Rocket Jump and all them, they were way ahead. The most subscribed channel is 10 million views. Right now it's like 280 million. Yeah, it was nothing like how it is now. It was such a niche thing that like...

to have a YouTube account was a niche thing. - Yeah, exactly. And so before then I had actually, so before when they rolled out the first AdSense program, you had to have like credentials.

But I was like 11 when I signed up for it. I'm telling you the YouTube analytics lie to you, dude. So you had to have these like crazy credentials before. And I made this account. I found like a form post about how to like game it. Because it was the first iteration of YouTube like monetization. And I made this account on this like doctor's registry website. And then I used that to verify that I was a professional and get like

Because this was like first iteration of ads. So I now had this YouTube channel that was monetized and you had to have like an MCN then too. And I went through like, it was like broadband TV or some shit. God, MCNs are a totally different story. Nightmare. We'll have to go into that. One of these days, by the way, we need to do just a, just a Our Boys episode. Oh. The core four episode.

Where we talk about our start in YouTube. Because, my God, this is such good content. I love this stuff. It's all the different stories and how they got to it. And I'm so engaged in this right now, just listening to how old these are. And it's for the audience out there. It is to show, like, the trials and tribulations other than Grant got handed things. The hard work. I'm joking. You have to kill a fucking foreign emissary. What the fuck?

What are you talking about? This guy literally went to Poland and blew it up. I already know though, like, the amount of what happened with me, like the fucking planets aligned. I was literally in the right place at the right time.

And I know that for a fact. He's already a NATO persona non grata. But at the same time, I want to give credit where credit is due because the planets did align. But if you wouldn't have had the work ethic to try and edit your own shit and do something with it, you wouldn't be where you are today. You put yourself in the place to receive luck. It's what you do with it. Exactly. It's actioning on it. It is, oh, this moment happened. What do I do?

I always said that luck, people say, oh, you got lucky. It's like, no, no, no, no, no, no. Luck is the, it's the skill to recognize opportunity. Exactly. And capitalize on it. And you've got to put yourself in the position to receive luck, which is opportunity. Because you don't get to be a shit bag and win the lottery and, oh, okay, I get a job. It's like, no, you have to recognize an opportunity when it comes around and then capitalize on that. 100%. I always say with Gallagher, when I met Rocket Jump, Gallagher said no to the con and I said yes.

no money when I went to that con I spent and I was like okay well I don't get to eat this week right in and baby mama do get to eat so I'm just going to sacrifice my food in order for a chance to meet Rocket Jump Freddie Wong and then I met them and I met them four times in that day became friends with them and then at next year they're like hey you want to hang out have you heard of Soylent

- Shit like that, like even that part of your story, I've never, I've been friends with you for a long time. I've never heard that part. - Yeah. - I'm super interested in this stuff. - Yeah, we'll have to do a gag episode where it's like, "Hey, this is what we do." - But, and it motivates, it's always for the people out there where I look at them like, "Hey,

If you think your life is hard, it's like, that's unattainable. You work fucking harder. A lot of the time is if you're thinking you're working hard, you're not, I can tell you, you stack your work ethic against a lot of these individuals and you're like, man, I am not putting enough effort forward to,

for anything from gym to personal life to business it is you can go so much further if you have time to watch sports take weekends just relax you're not putting in the effort if you want to spend if you want to spend money without looking at your wallet you got to work without looking at the clock yeah yes god damn that's good that's fucking thing

The thing that I learned from the campaign that I'm so fucking thankful for that can't be taken away from me is realizing that I had enough time for 50 extra hours a week that I can now put into my businesses. That's something I didn't realize. You found that 50 hours. Yeah, because I had to. And then I didn't realize, oh damn, I thought I was busy before, but I really wasn't. You just gained a whole new perspective. I always learned, do what others aren't willing to do so that you can live...

where they can't. And to me, what that meant at the time was like, you know what? I have zero talent, but I can outwork every motherfucker. And so that's my 7 a.m. to 2 a.m. work hours, going to my full-time job so I can take care of the bills and then coming home and working on my dream and continuing that process until one day my dream can feed me and I don't have to depend on my job anymore.

Damn, we're really in the I love you guys part of the podcast. Ten white claws later. Anyway, I was 11 years old. Which is fucking crazy to have that work ethic at that age. White claws later, Eddie. I love... Just thank you for your service. Thank you so much, narrator. Thank you so much, Eli. Oh my god.

Yeah, so I don't know. I just realized that was something that I wanted to do. And I mean, by this point, by probably like 11 years, I probably had made like 50, 60 videos. Like I was pumping them out. It was just speedruns and YouTube poops. Nice. I love speedruns. But then I started doing animations because I really, really liked doing like funny Source Filmmaker. What were you doing? Source Filmmaker. But it was before the official release. So you had to do like the Half-Life 2 crack to get the...

A broken version of Source Filmmaker. So with animations, by the time VR came out, that had to be like a godsend. Oh, yeah, dude. Absolutely. They had to just track everything in their bodies. Yeah, 100%. Instead of like a thousand times easier. Yeah, a million times easier. You just do it. So yeah, I got AdSense right before that video. They got 300k views. And I was...

I remember when I first got my first check from AdSense, it was right when I started seventh grade. Jesus Christ. I feel like a piece of shit. It was seventh grade, I was pirating CDs and selling them at the flea market. What year is this? This would be... Oh, fuck.

This is hard for me to game because I never finished school. 2011 or what year? Probably somewhere around there. Yeah, I've been back from war for four years. I was downloading- This kid is making money on the internet. I'm like fuck that kid. I was downloading Livewire. So my first cash out was like $280. Which for an 11 year old, that's fucking wild. It was mind blowing. It was like, whoa bro, I'm rich.

No, literally. Mom, go fuck yourself. Well, I wanted to make more like Gmod and SFM videos, so I just spent it on like a new graphics card, right? So I just upgraded my PC because I started- But that's awesome that you immediately were like, I need to invest harder. That is- I sense- I was literally like single digits. I've always saved my money and I've always loved technology. So- Reinvesting back into tech. Yeah. So I built- My first PC I ever bought-

I built when I was 10. So like, I just learned, like, I just figured it out because I really wanted to.

God, that $110,000 one tour is a good thing. We're going to summer camp. Summer camp is going to be lit. Okay. I cannot wait. I'm going to send so many pictures. I'm going to the artistic summer camp. You always were more artistic. I'll be in the pool with my floaties on. So...

We have fun here. I want to hang out with you guys way more than we ever did. It's so fun, dude. So, yeah, and, um, like...

I didn't grow up with any money, really. I think we all other than Grant came from that background. Oh, I had nut money. You had all my money. I almost broke this chair off the term nut money. I think you just made a first discovery. Nut money. And it didn't come from OnlyFans girls. It was you.

I'm the OG of nut money. What do you know about nut money? Nothing. So yeah, it's fucking like growing up. Christ. It was always like every birthday, it was just gaming all of my family members to like give me like 30 bucks for my birthday or like 50 bucks for my birthday so that I could save up to like upgrade my computer or like build a new computer. That's always what it was. It was the only thing.

pretty much I ever spent money on. And I just kept making videos. And I remember I was in middle school and one of the kids in my middle school had seen that animation that did really good.

And that like, that literally kept me going for like probably five years. Cause I was like, that was like, I'm fucking like seventh, maybe eighth grade at that point. And one kid from a total stranger, like was like, holy shit, you did that. Yeah. He's like, I love TF2. And I was like, yeah, I make animations. And I did this video and he's like,

I've commented on that video. No fucking way. You made the spy crap video. The spy crap. I'm like, that literally like kept me going for like a half minute. Yeah, the first person you meet in real life like that who's like really attached and you're just like, oh shit. I'm like, I know I.

this out on the internet, but like that has a tangible effect on people. Yeah, yeah. These are real people. You had a wholesome first fan experience. My first fan experience was at a Wing Daddy's in a really ratchet part of town and I was like really hammered and I was like, me and Gavin, I was just fucking drinking. Yo, you got that YouTube money? Yeah, this little six-year-old comes up to me and he's like, Eddie VR? And I'm like, and I'm like hiding the drink and grab the water and

Hi? Hello! Okay, and then I look forward and I'm like, where's his parents? And then he shivs you in the calf and runs away. Where's his fucking parents? Oh, okay. Hi. Hi. I'm saying hi to his parents before I say hi to this kid. I'm like, I'm making sure I'm being protected here. I don't want to fucking say hi to a seven-year-old in a wing bar.

That makes you much different than other YouTubers. Well, I'm drunk as shit. Yes, I'm... Yeah. Luckily, I didn't play Minecraft. I was just about to say. Yeah. That kid would have been in danger if I was playing Minecraft. So... Goddamn. So... That clipped audio right there. That kid would have been in danger. So I started playing Minecraft.

That's the next part of the story. Is that it? So I started playing Minecraft. He just shot your star in the knee. I used to be an explorer like you until I started playing Minecraft with miners.

No, no, that's not what I mean. That's what they're called. That's what they did for coal. Misinterpretation. Sorry, James. Go ahead. So I started doing Minecraft and then Fallout 4 was coming out at the time.

And I started uploading these Fallout videos, and they started getting, like, 5K views. And until that point, I was getting, like, 60 views a video. Like, nothing... I'd have the occasional video get, like, 1,000 views, but nothing was, like, really catching. And it was a lot of... I was so young, you know? Like, I was just doing shit. I wasn't really thinking about it too much. At that age, it's still insane. You still had that work ethic to do that. Yeah, I'm like a freshman. Yeah, I'm like a freshman, and I'm like...

Like, I've... At this point, I have hundreds and hundreds of videos. Because, like, this is all I did, like, growing up. Like, I just stayed inside and made YouTube videos. That's what, like, all my friends knew me for. It's like, I just sat there and fucking, like, made videos. And, yeah, so this Fallout stuff started picking up. And then I kind of was like, maybe I should do a lot of Fallout stuff. And that did good for a little bit. Until Fallout...

Yeah.

And I was like mind blown at this point. Because by that point, I'd probably been doing it for like 10 years. 10 years to get 1,000 subscribers, right? Yeah. I still have all my videos live. Let's just clarify that. Let's just put that into perspective. 10 years of making videos to get 1,000 subscribers. So 100 subs a year. You're doing great. And the people out there that are like, I worked so hard. Imagine that. That is the perseverance you need. It's shutting the fuck up.

It happened over 60 days. It didn't happen over six months. Yeah, that shit like makes shut up and makes me tweet. Anybody like us fucking makes our brain boil. Yeah. When people are like, well, bro, like I tried YouTube for like six months. Yeah. It's like, I'm like, you can't try that. You did not try. Yeah. You gave up.

And then you're like, well, it wasn't for me. No, you didn't have, you didn't have it handed to you. Yeah. Yeah. Like you just thought it was going to happen overnight. And I think a lot of artists have that mindset. It's like a hundred percent for the next six months. And if it doesn't happen, I'm quitting. I'm falling for my safety net. I know too many people like that. Well, it's like what you were talking about. They overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in five. Yup. Yup.

I love this table right now. This is such a good table. Everyone, I know the comments are like, I am so motivated right now. The audience here will be so motivated. I hope so. I hope so. Oh, it's not hope. All these motherfuckers are going to be like, I'm a piece of shit.

And I need to work harder. I need to upload. And it's not just about YouTube. It's about literally anything you're fucking doing in life. It's the same. It's the same. If I wanted to be a fucking mechanic, if I wanted to be a fucking anything, it's literally, it applies to anything. It's not just YouTube. Exactly. If it's going to get handed to you, you got to fucking earn it. Yeah. And the thing that you'll find is if you go out there and you actually just keep putting in the work and make it happen, it does. Like it's, it's the people who set an expectation for themselves and

And they do it completely on their own, like fruition and everything. And it doesn't happen exactly how they want it to. And then they give up and it's like, fuck, well, how bad did you really want that? Like the idea of like you, you shoot for the stars and land on the, on the moon, like that sort of thing. It's like, yeah, I set expectations for myself all the time that I fall short of all the time, but I fall short of them in a fucking rad way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, you, you just set your expectations high.

work toward those. Exactly. You'll end up in a great place. Yeah. So it's like all, like I'd be business partners with all of you. And thankfully Brandon, Cody, Nick are my business partners, Jake show. Like everyone has these high expectations going into each and everything. And we're,

we may not hit the stars but dear god do we hit the moon every fucking time because we're like hey everyone's working super fucking hard no one's quitting or no one hits the part like oh that's good enough there is never good enough i don't know if you guys ever think it's never because because it's the hunger yeah and it's there's there's always i mean there's always a place to improve no matter what because the moment that you stop looking at it that way

Is that when you get complacent and then everything just dies. So it's like I just made the deep state spent 10 million dollars beating a youtuber. Yeah That sounds like a Comedy Central skit, but it's real Like when you say it objectively like that, it's like that's fucking retarded. Why did that happen? But it's like in my mind. I'm like could have done better

And we're always going to have that. But the fact is like, it's better to, what is that? Shoot for the stars, land on the moon, then shoot for the, or shoot for the clouds and then land on the roof. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Two options in life. And it's one do good. And everyone out there, it is persevere. If you, if you look at what you're doing right now, you're like, I tried my hardest. Look at what these guys endure to get where they are. And like, you got to do starting at fucking nine to 11 years old and

and continuing the hundreds of videos, 800 videos, two videos, and he blew up two millions. And then- - Fuck off. - Two premiere tutorials. - Golden child.

- No almond farmer over there. - And before this gets away from me, one of the most important things that I learned, and this goes back to where you were talking about is that you have this, you feel sick, you don't feel like you've done enough yet. Like you still have so much more you can offer. And I learned, I forgot where the fuck I learned this quote from, but I internalized it a long time ago and I've repeated it to myself and repeated it to myself. And that is success

is not getting somewhere.

It's the progressive realization of a worthwhile dream or goal. And it's through that progression that you find that success. Yeah. You know, I feel the most successful when I'm chasing something and not getting somewhere. And I think that's like, I've learned that from Jordan Peterson amongst other people. Like you're never like men aren't happy because they reached a goal. Like find a fucking man who's happy because he got something. Yeah. It doesn't.

You're happy when you are succeeding at chasing a goal that you set. Literally anything. And that's exactly the same thing. Chase that goal with no safety net. You chase that fucking goal until you catch

There is no option A, option B, option C. It's option A, option A, and motherfucking option A or nothing. Andy Fursella always says, he's like, motherfuckers that make it don't have a plan B. They make plan A.

Yeah, dude. No matter what. Goddamn what. 100%. I remember, like, and this may need to be cut from the podcast, but I fucking remember, like, when I was in the very early days of, like, starting my business and getting everything going, the YouTube, everything, I remember having a hollow point next to my bed called Plan B. Mm-hmm.

That was it. It's literally, it's like, hey, talk about motivation. It's like you wake up every day and you look at that. It's like, if this doesn't work out, that's plan B. So you better fucking make plan A work. In other words, you're lighting that fire under your ass. Yep.

It's the best thing you can do as an entrepreneur. That is what makes the difference. That's how you have employees. That's how you make differences in others' lives. It's not your own. Now you're like, hey, I got to run this and I'm going to have to run it consistently for X amount of years. Then I have to worry. Dude, being a nine to five would be, for us, it would be nice because then you're not worrying about

a paying others yeah ours other people are influenced if we fuck this up yeah other people's lives there's people that rely on us and it's the same it's the same thing for us yeah it's a stress level that it happens real quick when it when it when it when that first like like hit me it was so overwhelming where i'm like my actual continuation of this and work ethic is

Like I, I basically have to provide for these people. Yup. You know, and I can quit on me, but I can't quit on other people. Yeah, exactly. So it's like, I mean, I need to be in this in my mindset. I was like, I need to be in this, uh,

Also for these people. These people rely on me. These people have families. That was a crazy realization. I can't quit. You broke back down. Yeah. And on that note. And then we go to his. Back to your story. I got a few more. We're going to get through this. Brandon's like, what? I'm like, to spice up. I can't fucking stop.

So I had a really like topsy turvy kind of situation when I was like just turning 18. Um, I was held back a couple of years, so I was only sophomore and because you were retarded. Yes. Um, artistic, artistic, artistic, um, and basically, uh,

I was in a situation to where I just turned 18. I got a job when I turned 16 as a camp counselor on the summers and stuff. Took care of like, it was massive groups. It'd be like, I had 60 people in my class, stuff like that. And that was like super fun.

And my dad kind of got me into construction literally as soon as I could hold something. My father did the same. Yeah, yeah. So when it came to working... It was a brown rite of passage. When it came to working, I was like, okay. You can hold a maraca? Okay, here's a hammer. Same motion, same thing. I was in this position to where things happened and my...

My mom was like, I was in the middle of a school year. I just turned 18. She's like, we're moving away. I'm like, what? I'm not doing that. And I mean, I just turned 18. I was only a sophomore in high school and I had no job at the time. At 18, you were a sophomore? Yeah.

He was just saying he was held back. Yeah, I was held back. Remember when you paid for his camp? Summer camp. Yeah. Yeah. So, I was basically given the decision of like, well, I'm going to move. And you and your brother should come with. And I'm like, I'm not doing that. I don't know how I'm going to figure it out, but I'm not leaving. Like, this is, I got stuff to do here. Like, I'm in high school. Like, and growing up, because of like a lot of my family situation and stuff, like my friends...

I've had the same friends since I was like 10 and it's a group of like six or seven people and it's that's like that's my family, you know, and it's always been like that because I haven't had a super really expansive family or anything like that. So that was always my family. I'm like, I'm not leaving this fucking place. Are you kidding me? Um, so basically I refused and I'm like, I'm going to stay here. And, um,

For a little bit, I worked and did high school, but I couldn't work enough to pay the bills. So I dropped out of high school eventually. And basically, we just started, I guess, like, grew home. It eventually turned into a trap house, by all regards. It was, like, as trap house as it could have been. And we just...

survived and worked and did goon shit for like three years and um i was delivering pizza and i did that for a while and i bust tables and this and that odd jobs i do odd construction jobs and stuff like that and i was still making videos in the background

I never really fully partook in the goon shit because I was like, I want to make YouTube videos. I was never super into it. You actively looked at people like, oh, well, I would drug deal, but I kind of want to do Minecraft. Yeah, that's literally how it was. And they'd be like, word, okay, bet. Yeah, okay, I got you. Why you sound like Finn right now? Word. It would be like, oh, we're all going to

take shrooms tonight and pop some shit i'd be like okay well i'm gonna record this video so wait 20 minutes so i can babysit you anything like that like you literally like but god it's just like you were talking about earlier like you're you're actively choosing the harder path

yeah to succeed well yeah i was i was still like doing videos yeah and i like i was still working a job because i had to and your friends probably called you crazy this is what i always you will always hear this during motivational speeches people why are you doing come have fun do this thing aren't you oh yeah blah blah blah blah and the one dude that persevered and said fuck no i got a vision i got a dream yeah yeah chasing that

where are you now compared to everyone else? It is because you didn't sit down to peer pressure, all that dumb shit. Oh, this is fun. Great. You know what? It's not fun working, but still at the end of the day, if I'm pursuing a dream and bettering myself, that's how you like doing that shit felt better to me. You know, I'd still have like the occasional night of fun, but it was like, I would much rather do this because this is fulfilling. Right. Yup. And, um,

so that went on for that was like a couple years of of that probably three or four and then eventually i ended up getting an editing job for laserbeam's sister if you guys know who laserbeam is the biggest creator in australia yeah

I am too old for this. The Fortnite guy. The Fortnite guy. Fortnite guy. That is why I don't know. I'm also still too old for this. Do you know why you're the AK guy? He's the Fortnite guy. He's the Fortnite guy. He's the Fortnite guy down under. Down under. Yeah, exactly. I don't want to answer questions. You don't want to answer questions? Who's coming on the podcast soon, hopefully? Oh, I'm so excited for that one. Oh, yeah? Who's that? Mr. Inbetween, Scott Ryan.

Mr. Inbetween is such a great fucking Australian crime show. He's the writer, director, main actor. He's a fucking rad dude. Ask your Australian bros. They'll know. They will know him. They're like, what the fuck? No way. It's one of the best crime shows I've ever seen. Mr. Inbetween. It's on Rotten Tomatoes like a 9.6. It's on Hulu. I'll check it out.

Um, so yeah, I got this editing job because when I originally signed up with that MCN, they had a meet a creator chat, and I met this guy named Toasted Shoes when I was 14. Sorry, this guy Toasted Shoes is currently being silenced by Warner Brothers. Um...

So he makes mods. Toasted Shoes makes mods on games. And he like actively mods. Oh. So he like puts like Looney Tunes. But he mods like unmoddable games. He's probably seen it. It's like... What's he under right now? He was modding something in... Mortal Kombat. Mortal Kombat. Holy shit. Why do I know this is insane? Because everyone knows who Toasted Shoes is, but he never gets credit for it. So he's never blown up because...

Everyone always takes credit for his shit on the internet. And so this time he got a season to sis from Warner Brothers. For all his immortal comments. That's all of his earning videos. We were in a call with him. We called it the Warner Brothers support chat.

And we told him, we're like, bro, all the boys called him. We're like, you have to capitalize on this now. This was like two weeks ago. This was like two weeks ago. So after we like, we deliberated ideas with him and we're like, you have to do this. And so the next thing he did was, it came from our little support group.

He went to Movie World, which is a Warner Brothers, like a Six Flags, but for Warner Brothers. So they have all the Warner Brothers characters. Gold Coast. And he went in with a...

what looked like an autograph book but was disguised it was a consent release form to use their life for each character so he goes up to it would be like tweety the bird and it'd be like a picture of them and then a cutout square and he'd be like can you sign right there and then he'd pull it up and it's consent release he's got it right and he did it amazing so now he's fighting back with like I have permission from every character themselves yeah like

At the Warner Brothers theme park. Dude, that will never hold up in court, but that's such a 200 IQ. It isn't for court, but it was the biggest meme fucking like

strategy it was so it was so good it was so fucking that's that 4d chat right there yeah so funny oh my god it came out so funny but that anyway toaster shoes is the hardest working motherfucker i know that always gets cucked by everyone else who takes his content and never he's always been that way like so i met joe through our mcm1l we i was 14 he was like 15.

And he's like the point of origin, pretty much, for anything Australian. So eventually, like, me and Joe became best friends. A real Steve Irwin.

Pretty much. He's like Steve Ornick again, but kind of like... Alive. Alive, yeah. And Ginger... Thank you for fucking slamming that one down. That one still hurts, bro. It's not what he would have wanted. I think it might have been a game, it's fine. So Joe introduced me eventually to Laserbeam, um...

And I was like just talking to him on Twitter and he was like, hey, my sister wants to start a YouTube channel and she wants to get more into YouTube. And I'm like, I can edit videos. I couldn't edit videos. I was like, professionally, I'd never done it. But I was like, yeah, I can do that. I got this. I'm going to learn right now. I had never once professionally edited for somebody other than myself, but I just acted like I knew how to. And, um,

That worked out. That worked out. So I edited for Tanner for a while until eventually I quit my job at Pizza Hut. Smart move. Yeah. Yeah. I quit my job at Pizza Hut and they were like, well, you're fucking insane. Have fun with that. We'll see you in three months. Relatable. Yeah. And I did that for a bit. And then eventually Joe's friend, Mully...

I get into this like Snapchat conversation with him and me and Molly are just like talking for this instance. And that's it. We talk like one time. That's it. And then a year later, Molly's working for Tanner with me. Right. So Molly's kind of my boss. And so I knew Molly for a while. He would grill the shit out of me. Just be like, work harder. Constantly. Yeah. And, um,

One day he just called me and started ranting about his fucking life problems. And I was like, I've never been in a call with this guy. Mully does that. Mully's introduction to me was him like ranting about some bullshit. So he calls me and he's like, could you believe this shit? And I'm like, dude, my only interactions with you are you grilling. I don't even know you. You're like a famous YouTuber I look up to. Why are you like telling me your life problems? So anyhow, my fucking.

wife and i'm like uh-huh uh-huh meanwhile um molly had started this vr channel and i was like man that's stupid i was like that might be the lamest i've ever seen in my life no joke that was my first initial reaction to molly when he started his vr channel i'm like that is i would not

like clockwork you could clockwork orange me i'd fucking close my eyes like that's there's no way you could it's stupid i'm like this shit never pay this shit i joke about is like yeah the like bro you couldn't have waterboarded that out of me that's dumb why would you do that like and uh yeah so he did that for a bit and then him and josh started actually getting like some success through it i'm like okay i guess i'm just retarded um

And he was still working for Tanner at the time. Yeah. And we got into this call and he was once again ranting to me about his life. And I still didn't really know him. And I told him a joke. And he was like, that's a funny joke. You're funny. Do you have a VR headset? I'm like, do you have a French maid outfit? Yeah. Do you have cat ears? He's like, do you have a VR headset? I'm like, no. And he's like, you should get one.

And you should start a VR channel because you're actually pretty funny. And I was still making like normal YouTube videos at the time. Yes. And this time I was like, okay, maybe I'll concede because, you know, like...

i'd come around at this point i'm like okay these are actually kind of lit at first it was just like a weird idea to me like the pov and everything and this is like weird super weird concept especially when vr's first i never even put on a vr headset so it was like so strange to me and um he's like you should get vr headset and uh you're funny guy i'm like so i had uh 300

in my savings and like $30 in my checking, what'd your credit card look like? So I didn't even have a credit card. I didn't even have a credit card. I can't talk shit on that right now. Mine's currently maxed out. I can't buy gas on my credit card right now. Mine was on a fake social.

Yours isn't even real. Playing with Monopoly money. What's your name? John Smith. My name is John Smith. In the widest voice possible. I would like to buy a hamburger. I actually got a credit card. I don't know why. I was just like, yeah, maybe I'll try this VR shit. I got a fucking credit card and went into debt.

Because the only debt I had at that time was like hospital bills. And I'm like, I'm never paying that. Are you insane? That's not happening. But I got a credit card and went into debt just to get a VR headset. And I had $300. So I went $1,300 into debt. And I was like, man, I hope this turns into anything. Anything. Yeah. Because I'm making like a couple grand a month max. Like I could really, this would be cool. Yeah.

And Molly got me into this TikTok, and he's like, tell that joke you told me in that call when I was ranting about my life. And I was like, okay. So I did the little joke routine, and it actually did really good. Holy fuck. You nailed him. Is that our Japanese chef? Yeah. King Troutu. King Troutu. He's taking a little break right now. He took off the bandana, and now he's put a cowboy hat on. He's going to cook a steak next.

Every meal's a different costume. Sorry, I didn't want to interrupt. Are we having a barbecue for dinner? Yeah. Keep going now, I got it. So yeah, I fucking got this VR headset and I did this meme and it did like average, it did pretty good. Like it wasn't anything crazy, but Molly was like, yeah, that was funny. People liked that. Was it this one? I have it. Yeah, I actually, I have an OK Boomer pulled up. Yeah.

Yeah, check this out. So this is okay boomer. This is what you see so good. I got that Google home check this out ready Hey Google start a boomer chain. Yeah, baby, you can get this thing just go forever Okay, all right shut up stop that. Okay, baby. What are you doing? I just turned it off

so i'd even have a chat like vr channel when i made that i did that he was like talking about his life and i'm like this will be funny i'm like i might google home okay yeah and he's like do that in a tick tock so that people liked it so i'm like maybe i'll do this vr stuff

And then it took off? And then I did one video and it got like a thousand views in the first day and I was like, my fucking little head exploded. I was like, no way! We make it out of mud with this one. How many subs did you have at this point? Around 2,000, right? Or something like that? On my other channel? Like main? Well, how many? On VR channel? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I had like a thousand subs when I made the first video.

So I got like, it got like a thousand views, but I got a lot of subs. So you made a new channel from your previous one you had been working on for 10 fucking years. Because everyone told me to. Yeah. I love everyone just like, we got to start over. Yeah. We start anew each and every time. Yeah. Dude, I started over like three times. Oh yeah, I forgot about that. You did too. I had an Airsoft channel in the very beginning, which like, I was in sixth grade when I started it. Like I was, it was like 2006. Wow.

I started that over and then I started a another gun channel that I was just using like just you know shit I could borrow or whatever like want to do like Call of Duty guns in real life so I use guns that were like close and that I started that over when I was you know both of those channels I think I got to like three four thousand subs yeah it started right over which like I look back now I'm like Jesus Christ how many like fucking millions I could be at right now

It's adapting and overcoming. Yeah. We do it in a retarded way. So look at where you're at. You're right where you need to be at. Not that I'm bitching about where I'm at now, but it's just kind of like looking back. Yeah, definitely. I'm in 2009 with 3,000 subs on a gun channel. It's like, where could I be fucking now? Yeah. I just realized that like women smell nice. So I stopped doing YouTube. You went from 3,000 subs with a gun channel in 2009 to fucking millions in 2024 with a gun channel still. Yeah. Yeah.

That's pretty dope. I just look back and I'm like, now I could be at like six, seven million if I wanted to be. But everything works out for a reason. You'll be there. Give her some time. Thanks for the motivation, buddy. I really could use it right about now.

Oh, fuck. Okay. So, okay, Boomer thing happened. Molly's like, make a VR channel because people really like this. He's like, you should make the channel. And I'm like, I still think it's kind of cringe. And I'm like, fuck. Okay. So I make it and we do the first video. It did good. I got like a thousand subs. Brain exploded because that took me like 10 years. And it happened in like a week. And the second video we made, I did this skit in VR chat where I was Baby Yoda.

And I got this girl with full body tracking to do a full strip routine on me. So I'm like Baby Yoda. I'm like, damn, bitch. She's like throwing it back on me. I'm just literally Baby Yoda. I'm just going crazy. And that actually went like semi-viral. And it was like the second VR clip I'd ever done. No shit. Yeah. And it's just taking off. Yeah. And you're like, well, there. And I was like, holy shit. And then I got to 10K subs in like another week. And I was like, what the?

I was like, this is insane. And then Mully introduces me to Josh. And Josh is like, oh, another fucking random guy you've dragged in from the street. Literally his reaction. That was Josh's reaction. Yeah. He's like, oh, so this guy's funny like the other 10? Let's see. Jesus Christ. Which was funny as fuck. It was funny. It was super funny.

And I guess that was funny because they were like, Ben Jordan. And I was like, dope. They introduced me to the narrator. And then one day, Mully calls me and he's like, this fucking Eddie VR guy. Basically, he's like, he's stepping on our turf. He's like... I remember this. And I'm not kidding. We have never spoken to Eddie. I think he hopped into our side of the border is what they say. Yeah, like...

He's like... He's like linking me videos and he's like... Have you seen this? We've got this illegal competition. Have you seen this fucking guy? I have some intel on this guy. We can get him out of here. Me and Eddie actually met in a Pavlov lobby. Way before the boys started. I accidentally met him and I was like... I couldn't tell him I was starstruck. I was like, it's you or fucking...

narrative. Yeah, yeah. It's like a cod lobby, but in VR. In Pavlov. And I was like, this is the VR guy. And I was in a team with him, and he's going in the front lines. He's not even recording. He's just like, and now in the front lines, we have Eddie VR walking through this. And I had no subs or anything at that point. And I'm like, I'm getting narrated by this guy.

No way! And then I got cut off. I was going to ask him if I could join him for another game, and I got fucking dropped from the game, and I couldn't. No! No! I missed my fucking chance! Anyway, so yeah, that's...

At this point, though, I remember so that all of the boys got together for PAX 2020. Yeah, we'd made like a handful of videos together at this point. PAX South 2020 was right before. San Antonio. It was here in San Antonio and it was right. It wasn't really. Yeah. It was right before COVID. It was right before I moved here. And I didn't have the money to buy a plane ticket.

So Mully bought me the plane ticket because I had like 90 bucks in my checking account. We had only made a couple videos today. I had zero in my savings because I bought a fucking VR headset. What's crazy is when I met Freddie and I was on my last leg, it was PAX West.

No shit. Really? Yeah. No way. It all happened to Pax. We all got together. It all happened to Pax. We all got together that first time. It was, like what Eddie was saying, there was like almost no... It was easy. There was no change. Yeah, it was instantly. Until we walked out of IHOP and I slapped Mully in the face with a dildo. That was great. Yeah, so for his birthday, he slapped him with a dildo. In VR? No. No.

I want to feel the recoil. So that night we went to, uh, one of the nights in packs, we went to, I think, I think the club is called Paramore. It's here in San Antonio. It's like, they have like drag shows on Sunday. And, uh, so we went there for the first, for the first time together. And, um,

And that's where we were like... That's Juicy landed and went straight to this club to come meet us. And that was the first time I met Juicy. I've flown like one time in my life at this point. I've been on one plane for a family trip. And we're at like this fancy ass... And some random Australian is like carting me out to Texas. I've never been to fucking Texas. And I'm like, I have like... I have enough money for dinner. And I'm like...

But we're like, we're like, I'm not hungry. Don't worry about me. Yeah. I'll take water. Oh dude. I've done that so many times when I was fucking broke. Like, oh yeah, no dude. I just, I ate before I came here, man. It's fine. I don't drink alcohol. Yeah. That was the first time I ever met Cody outside of like an event or something like that. I remember I came down to like fucking Fort mill, South Carolina. I was on my way back to Fayetteville at the time. And I remembered like,

me and him met up for lunch just hanging out he was with his axe and shit like that i'm just like oh yeah no dude i'm good like i just i ate before i came and like i was too broke i was too embarrassed to say like dude i don't have money three dollars left on my fucking debit card yeah like i have no money i can't eat the struggle is real i love dude by this point by this point that we met up all together um we had a solidified group and juicy was like the baby of the group he hadn't he was the only one who hadn't

I guess, flourished in the YouTube space yet. He had like 2,000 subscribers on his VR channel. I had like three videos. And by the time we went to PAX, I just hit 10K because the Baby Yoda meme. Yeah. I think, yeah, it was something like that. I remember I just hit 10K and it was like mind-blowing. And he's at, so he's at PAX with no money. And I remember I was like,

Have you ever had an old-fashioned before? It's like, what the fuck is that? I've been to a bar one time. My uncle gave me two when I was 12. By this point in my life, I had just gotten my first... You mean the pacifier dippy sauce? By this point in my career, I had just gotten my first big YouTube paycheck. And I had just turned 21 when I showed up. He had just turned 21, and I...

And I'm like, and Molly and Josh had also just gotten like their first big break as well. And they're like trying like expensive drinks and shit like that. And to me, it's like, what the fuck is going on? This is crazy, right? So Juicy's here and we're like, we have videos of all this shit. And we're like, we're buying them like expensive drinks, like an old fat, like a $15 old fashioned, you know, that's an expensive drink. You know what I mean? I'm like the-

he's like what what i don't even know what makes drinks and i remember i you not bro that night we all sat down at the gay couch at paramore and that was a really good couch we all sat down together and we looked at juicy and we were like okay bro you're the newest one to the group or you're the youngest one in the group as far as subscribers go and josh sat him down and was like okay look

We're going to develop this strategy around you. We're going to make you the face of the boys for the next few months or the next year. And we're going to put all this effort together and we're going to make the boys flourish. And you're going to be the face of it for a while. That way people can flock to your channel and we can have you come up to us so that we can have this foundation of all of us, right?

And Josh said, within a year, you're going to have a million subscribers. And I was like, you're retarded, dude. I'm like, the fuck are you talking about? A million subscribers in a year? I'm like, I have three videos. I literally thought you were like the lean Shane Gillis. Dude, I looked at him and I was like, what are you talking about, bro? A million subscribers in a year? You're fucking retarded, bro. Whatever, bro. I was like, you're insane. He told me he's like, we're going to get at least a silver play button. Probably a gold. I'm like, you're...

You're actually fucking like, you're out of your mind. And within a year, sure enough, we all got our gold play buttons within a year. And Juicy got his coming from like a couple thousand subscribers. 800,000 subscribers. Wow, dude. Yeah. And it was like, I was still in the trap house. That's how fast this happened. Like, I'm still in the same environment, same stuff happening. And I'm like... I just picture you in a trap house, but with a throne.

It was not even, I was like, I was like the iron throne, except the iron is needles. It was like a whole year before I was like, I can spend this money. Like literally. Yeah. Cause I was like mortified. I'm like, Oh, I, cause my first big check was like, I was 27 grand.

And I was like, this is more money than I've ever seen, but it'll be gone. Like, what if it just, what if this is a one-time thing? It took me about two years before I think I ever spent anything on myself. Yeah. Like two years of the money coming in. Yeah. Before I'm like, I'm willing to do it. Yeah. So scared. And I, I, I, your story is like,

extremely inspirational dude like yeah to see like in such a short amount of time you go from nothing to something yeah and like such a drastic way you could have derailed in so many ways and followed your environment and like yeah yeah and you're here like inspiring millions of people that's very like I'm fucking proud of you bro on that note I think now we can end this at four hours and a half minutes we're not gonna do an after show

No, dear God. An after show? Yeah, they usually do after shows. Yeah, we're not doing that one. I can't wait for the comments because I know everyone's going to be like, I get unsubbed for four hours and 34 minutes. Oh, my God. I can't believe that. I can't believe it. Shit. The average retention time is going to be an hour and 38 minutes. Oh, you're right. I'll clip that. It's going to be around there. Guys.

Thank you so fucking much for that. Thank you, guys. Thank you for letting us just come on here and just spout shit for four and a half hours. I feel like I went from passive friends to deep, very good friends with you guys after this. You just got all of our life stories. Yeah, literally. I thought we were going to come in here and just talk about YouTube and just be idiots for an hour or something like that. Hey, you want to talk Helldivers? No!

We have more time. I got 130 hours. Jesus Christ. What level? I think I'm level 78. Oh, shit. I'm like 49. That's a shame. Get good, Congressman. Brandon, I want you to close this out. Take Cody's spot.

Thank you, everyone, for watching this episode of Unsubscribe. I am joined by Eli DoubleFap. We've got Juicy. We've got Eddie VR, your narrator, and myself, Brandon Herrera. Thank you guys for watching this episode of Unsubscribe. We appreciate you, and we will see you in the next episode. Love you guys. Goodbye. Adios.

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