¶ Getting to Know Travis and Jen
Welcome back to the only podcast that wants to get to know you as much as you want to get to know us .
I'm Travis and I'm here with Jen . That was a good one .
That was . I'm listening .
Actually , that was a really good intro .
I do this for a living , you know .
Well , like you said it , you're going to get to know us .
Which is a scary thought .
Actually it is because I think we're going to get to know a lot about each other .
So , weirdly , as much as we know about each other , we don't know a lot about each other , that's true .
It's funny because I've had podcasts with our friends and stuff that have gone for years and it's almost like when you watch a TV show and you go , oh , they must be friends in real life and they aren't , you're shocked , like I remember the first time Did you just say you're not my friend . No , we're friends .
But here's what I mean , For example no , no , you just found out . Live on air . Wait , what ? We're not friends ? No , no . But let me give you an example the show Mythbusters . Okay , I used to love that show and I thought all of them were friends , and I thought , of course , the main two guys , jamie and I forget what the other guy's name was , adam .
I thought they were super good friends , but they shocked me and it made me feel weird .
So if people were to think that we weren't friends like outside of this , that might be really weird , or they didn't think about it till just now , and now it's even weirder .
Now I'm gonna have an existential crisis over whether we're friends or not . I think leave us a comment , let us know if you think we're friends . But what I think is interesting here is we probably will learn about each other a little more here in , in front of everybody , which I love .
That type of content , that's just different , and I think we've constantly learned about each other through doing these podcasts as well . We've learned a lot of things like you don't know physics .
And apparently .
I don't know how to say research or something I don't know . It's just a lot of weird things .
There's a lot of things that come out , and I also think it's funny because we almost never agree on anything 100% .
We agree on a lot of things . I think that make us friends . But there are definite things just outside of that circle where we're like , and then there's things outside of that we're like nah .
Definitely not .
Yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , which is great . But the thing about it is , and what makes I think this work and makes our friendship plus the show work , is that we're open to all that .
Yeah .
And we talk about both sides of all of it . Yeah , and the way you you approach things on YouTube is slightly different than me .
That's what I'm saying , Like I don't think we , like we're definitely not going to have the same answers to , I would say , almost every single one of these questions .
Pretty much the case and behind the scenes , like we talk a lot about you know the way we're going to do podcasts and stuff , and Jenna is very likes to be organized and stuff . I love the idea of organization , not that I am organized , I'm really not organized , I don't really like to be organized , I just like the idea of it .
But that's why I like working with you is because the things that maybe I already know about myself that I need structure in , you bring and I don't know what I bring to you .
But it's a balance .
It is a balance .
We're balanced yes .
It's a balance , all right . So with that we're going to get started . Of course , welcome again . We try to help you learn about YouTube . I don't know how much of what we're going to . We're going to do . We're going to teach by love that tie . We're going to teach by doing . We are going to have a community-based video .
This is basically an episode that's just for the community . We don't expect this
¶ Candy Tasting: Gushers and Cow Tails
to go anywhere or have great you know performance or get new viewers . We're doing it for the people who love the podcast and we're just going to talk . So we'll start that by , of course , the candy thing which let's talk about .
Candy .
When we started this thing , when we took over the podcast , we never really talked about candy . It randomly came up one time .
Because I couldn't control myself to stop . I had to take the candy corn off my desk before recording , because I told him I was like like hold on , I have to go put this candy corn away because I will subconsciously reach into it , yes , and be chewing it during the podcast . And he was like what , yeah ? And I was like yeah , no , I will reach in .
He's like no , no , no , no . What did you say ? You were eating ?
right , right and then it became a thing and then the , the , you know , we went along again . I only expected to be a week like we were talking about that week , and I didn't expect anything else from it . When we got messages the next week I thought it was cute and funny .
But , when we got messages two and three weeks later and then months later , I realized that it was the community telling us that there's an aspect of the show that's silly , that they enjoy and they like to be a part of it . They come in and they email us and they tell us what they like , what candies they like and stuff .
It's so good though Cause candy is delicious .
It is , so let's start with one . So I , uh , I'm going to start this episode with this Now . I haven't had one of these in forever .
Okay .
And I can't remember if I ever really had one , and you're going to have one of these . What do you got ? And it's Gushers .
Oh my God , I mean , I did .
I mean , this is kid candy 100% , isn't it ?
Wait , that's amazing . Gushers .
Alright , now it's open , you go ahead and have whatever gusher you want .
Let me get a red one so my mouth isn't bright . Blue for the rest of the ?
Oh , does that happen ? The episode Did it color your mouth ?
I'm gonna go safe .
Those are like pure food color . I didn't know that I'm going to go safe . Oh , definitely I would have picked up a blue one . Those are like pure food color . I didn't know that . I'm glad you told me because I literally would have picked up , my mouth would have been crazy .
Oh yeah , it's a candy podcast .
I got an orange one . Okay , here we go .
There's no way this is going to be bad . It's a little bad .
It's a little bad . It's a little bad . It's actually like yeah , it's kind of bad .
It's kind of bad . I'm disappointed . It's kind of bad , bad it's . It's really not good . It's not how I remember gushers what has happened .
I think they literally put everything that's going to be banned at the end of the year into this thing are we just like , accustomed to like not trash food now and now ?
we have these old snacks and we're like , oh god , do you know that was like four dollars , god no . But I'm just like do you know ? We used to eat that like every day at lunch I didn't good god , oh my gosh that was terrible , oh my god . Well , we might have two bad ones , because I picked up a candy that I've never even had or seen before .
Okay , cow tails minis honey bun what does that even ?
mean , I have no idea . That looks like dollar store candy . What are you doing ?
that is 100 dollar store candy cow tails . I feel like I've seen these no , that is dollar .
Well , yum , yum , yeah , let's try it cow tails , here we come , this is terrible . Why kind of a podcast is this ?
I literally don't know what is . This just sounds like a mix of . I can't even tell you what . You're not excited . Oh , it's larger than I expected . Also , it said it was a bun .
I just it's not a bun , this is a stick .
Watch . This is the best thing you've ever had in your life All right ?
If it is , I'm going to be upset because I know , oh , this is like caramel or something . What ?
is this . What even is this A honey bun .
It's a honey bun in a stick form this is oh , it's a cow's tail . That's disgusting . Whoa smell it first .
Is that just like corn syrup ?
Yay , what's the powder on it ? I have my favorite candy for the finale . Okay , well , we'll do that at the end of the episode . Okay .
Oh , I don't like it already .
There's a lot more chewing than I thought .
Oh , actually , that's not as bad as I thought it's not bad . Wait , that's not bad . Why is this better than gushers ? Oh , it's actually .
it's actually not bad what's going on .
It's like it is very , very sweet for me , but it's not bad and like it kind of . It does actually kind of taste like a cinnabon . It almost does . Wow , okay , coming at me with Dollar Tree candy .
Will Dollar Tree be saving on dollars and giving us good value ?
Wow , honey bun .
I actually could recommend this for someone who just wants to try something different .
Run to your local Cowtail retailer .
I like that I actually like it .
Cowtails even make things for the plug , I know it CalTale's going to be like thanks for the plug .
I know they're like Nobody's heard of us before we finally got a podcast to talk about us , Wow Well that was fun .
Actually I'm really really surprised because that was not I dig it .
That was like really actually
¶ YouTubers We Want to Meet
not bad . So why are we doing this ? Okay , we're doing this because we got an email . So , of course , if you want to email us , it's theboostvidIQcom . This one comes from Benjamin . What has Benjamin got to say this week ? He's a young guy . The top four YouTubers I want to meet are GD Colon . I don't know who that is . Did I read ?
that right ? I think so . Is it GD Colon ?
Okay , keeks Crafts , who I know , that is is logan paul and , uh , the royal pair .
What are ?
yours , which we'll talk about and am I gonna get canceled because I said logan paul maybe yes , uh , good question that's fun so I think this is a good kickoff too it is because these are all gonna be similar style questions okay . Well , let me say I think the number one guy I'd like to meet .
I've chatted with in dms before , but I'd like to meet oh , you slid into his dms yes , would be . Casey , nice , that great guy okay , right , right , right it'd be a lot of fun to talk to me um , but a lot of the other creators that I really wanted to meet I have met okay um , but I mean um .
I mean there's like tv people and stuff , but I think from youtuber casey , because I like to dig into his mindset about things and just kind of get to see who casey is outside of the camera , because I feel like people are different in front of and behind camera okay I'm certainly definitely so we're gonna get into that too yeah , um , who's someone you would
want to see ?
um 100 . Number one on my list is beard meets food like number one fangirl on youtube 100 , I would just eat food yeah , I would . He's literally my favorite youtube channel .
Why , though ?
I don't know , that's interesting oh my gosh , he's like the best why , his , his personality is like so chill and he's just like he's doing something in such a watchable way where I think actually like competitive eating is like disgusting and like even watching like the hot dog eating I love watching .
I watch it every , I think that's so gross , like I think like the way , like I think like the way like they look at their ear . I'm just like , oh my God .
Yeah .
But like he's just like chilling talking , like he doesn't stress the time , like he'll do challenges and like he'll stop and be talking to someone that walks up to the table and have like one bite of food left , and it's just like win it , like he's having a good time and it's so different than like what you expect for a competitive channel , niche , space ,
whatever you want to wrap it all up into , but yeah .
So here's something I just realized two YouTubers who I would have wanted to meet , who I have met . Now , at this point , you didn't like them . No , I liked him in person , although that's a , that's a danger . Be careful .
Never meet your heroes , never meet your heroes and they're larger creators .
Both of them have been to their houses , which is wild , because the one person's house when I went to VidSummit he actually lived in Texas , but he has people , for whatever reason . He has viewers come to his house sometimes , which is a wild thing . I just think it's reason he has viewers come to his house sometimes , which is a wild thing .
I just think it's now . He's a nerdy guy , so his viewership is more nerdy , so it's probably more safe , but it just seems like a bad idea .
Uh , this other person who I can tell you off camera , I really don't want to mention because at the time they had just moved and they didn't want anyone to know they had moved that thing like they're that big and I just thought I was .
Uh , I was there with a friend and we were going to meet them for lunch or whatever , but they took us to their house immediately , like , oh , just come here , I'm waiting for a delivery of something and we're like okay . Huge YouTuber .
We had had them on our podcast a while back before , but I hadn't had a lot of conversation with them In this damn near mansion I mean it's not a mansion , but it's like a super , really super nice place that you do money it had an elevator in there .
That's how nice this place that's amazing beautiful place and they just would treated us like we were just friends and just like , hey , hang out and let's you know how you doing just amazing , the most amazing time . I have so much respect and and adore this person . Now that I met them in person , I think they're an incredible person .
Who do you think you would be best friends with as a creator ? Oh ?
There have been a lot of people .
Like you know , everyone watches someone and they're like we would be such good friends .
Yeah , man , I feel like I've been fortunate enough to meet a lot of those people , and I was wrong about some you're not friends I would still like to be their friend and some of them , but yeah , I mean I , I think I again .
I've just been in a really fortunate situation where a lot of people that I've wanted to meet I've been been able to meet Again Casey's , one of the only people that I haven't really got a chance to meet .
Would you guys be friends though ?
Casey , I don't know . He seems quirky enough that maybe , maybe not . I think I'd be his resource more than his friend , Like if he had a question about something technical or something he'd reach out to me or something , but I don't even think he would do that . But he's not like hey , man , you want to go for a jog , I can't .
I can't bring your gopro , he's gonna kill me , he's gonna leave me . I'm gonna be in the middle of nowhere , be like casey left me .
Um , I think that there's a lot of people that I would be very interested in meeting , from tv shows and stuff like I would definitely want to talk to the rock a little bit , just because of I used to watch him as a wrestler . Then I would love to talk to Denzel Washington . I would love to sit down with him . I think he's incredible .
You're reaching for the stars . You're asking the question , okay , okay , and like your personalities are just going to line up , I don't know , you're just going to click . Well , you think you would .
I feel like , because I've actually interviewed celebrities before . I've met celebrities . So I are a couple of people that are like you , live in the stars and if I saw you in person I think I'd be like this is kind of wild and again , at this point , it's kind of rare for me .
There's only a few people that live in that place , but I do want to live in that moment and and get to understand what makes them tick . I'm more interested in what makes someone tick than like asking them well , what was it like to be in that movie ? Like that's cool , cool story , bro . But I'm like , what drives you now ?
What's your everyday like when you wake up ? Do you go to the grocery store or can you not even do that ?
What is it like when you're literally picking up onions ? You want an insight into their life .
I want to know when you pick up an onion and some dude wants a photograph with you , you go . Listen , I can't right now .
I can't , even I'm trying to figure out this onion .
I don't need a picture that happens to me like bi-weekly . Obvi . What about you ? Who do you need to meet and be the best friend with besides ?
Who would I be ? See , I think it's different than who you need to meet and who you would just like vibe with .
Who do you want to be your good friend ? That's a , I think .
I would vibe well with Mia Maples . I think would be chilling . I think our personalities are , like I would say , offset enough that we would balance each other .
I would say like she's a little bit more awkward like quirky and like I don't necessarily associate those traits with myself but you think you'd be friendly with her yeah , I think we , I think that we would be friends , I think like we would go out and , like , push each other out of our comfort zones .
Number one , I don't even know who you're talking about . But number two , I agree with you , mia maples , come on your name sounds vaguely familiar , but here's why I'm .
I'm positive , you're right , you don't watch like fashion , no , I believe it or not , can you ? Not tell ? What do you mean ? You don't watch her video ?
100 guarantee that you would get along , because I've seen it in person .
When we got that YouTuber event a couple of weeks ago , you walked up to a couple of ladies that were standing there that I mean I don't think they look like your vibe or anything and you guys were hugging on each other within like two minutes Like you were best of friends , Like you hadn't seen each other in years .
We changed phone numbers .
It's wild , it's wild . I watched it in real time and at first I'm like did you know them ?
And you're like no , that's something I get a lot , though Like do you know them ? And the answer is always no .
But you started talking immediately , like you knew each other . It was wild .
This is why my mom was never afraid that I would get kidnapped .
You'd befriend the kidnapper .
No , they would return me with money . We chose poorly . You can have her back .
You need to take her .
Yeah , no , no , no , no , no . Would you have another one , can we ?
exchange you for the sister we've heard she's much more valuable .
Yeah , yeah , yeah , she's a little quieter , you can have her .
All right , let's go on to these other questions .
Okay , what you got , what you got .
What trend do you secretly love ?
Oh , my gosh , Okay , ooh .
You want me to answer first ? Yeah , you want an answer first . You know what I've been watching .
I'm trying to think of trends right now .
¶ Keeping Content Creation Fun
You know how much stuff I've been watching right now about jails . I watch so much jail content now . Uh , the thing I'm watching at this moment is , uh , I think it's not first . Not first for you , it's like the first time people get booked into jail okay .
So there's like there's this camera crew that just sits at a jail and like people as they get booked in , they like interview them , it's like and a lot of these people first time ever being arrested for anything .
Sometimes it's something silly , sometimes it's really crazy stuff and and it's interesting to me to see how people react when they're in that situation , because some people react , I think , completely wrong . It's like , bro , you made these choices in your life .
To put you here , um , and some people are self , are really reflective and like I got to stop doing this . Other people are like it was done to me . So I love that type of content .
That's interesting .
I I . There's something fascinating about that and I love the 90 Days In . I think is what it was called too Another great show where these people who aren't criminals get put into jail for 90 days for a reality show , which is wild .
That's wild .
But the people in jail don't know that they're not supposed to be there , so they have to keep a cover .
Because you do not want to be in jail and have the people in jail know that you're just part of a tv show , because they will beat you up . You gotta walk in and be like I'm on a tv show and I'm like she's delusional . Oh my god , like yeah , yeah , yeah , get your crazy ass back there . Like you just gotta go right I love that I watch .
I'm gonna watch it today . My mentality what about my ?
mentality .
What about you ?
Let's see Trend . Okay , I could say the weirdest . No , I don't know if that's a trend . I don't know if I'm watching anything like really like trendy . I mean I do watch .
Like I will fall into , like trying you know um a compilation of tiktok , like food trends , like I'll see girls do that on youtube and make like trying out like five tiktok , yeah , like food trends , and I'll watch through those , I'll click on them every time okay but as far as like trends , that's kind of like the only thing I could think of at the moment .
That would make sense .
Yeah , I mean , I don't know if jail stuff is trending at this moment . I think it's just constantly popular because it's wild .
You're like , I just like it .
I just like it .
We're talking like weird things and maybe not even trending . I've recently got into watching like dumb driver compilations .
What does that even mean ?
like people who are like driving a car , like missing an entire wheel , like nothing's wrong , like there's like full-on , like compilation videos of like people who just like drive through buildings like one after another , like horrible drivers and like nobody gets hurt or anything , but it's just like compilation videos of like dumb drivers .
I've never heard of this .
Yeah .
Dumb drivers .
I don't know what YouTube was thinking . Well , I know what they were thinking . They were like you'll love this . And I was like , okay , I'll try , I'll watch it .
I'll watch it .
You know me so well YouTube .
YouTube knows me better than I know myself , which is basically true for most people , because you'll end up on the homepage .
You'll see some random video , Click it and then all of a sudden you're like I can't get enough of people who bake in their sneakers or something weird .
You ?
know whatever so crazy .
Yeah .
Can't wait to see what surfaces next .
Yeah , I'm not trying to watch anything , okay .
Well , what about a trend you can't stand then ?
I mean most everything else , I mean I actually pretty much anything on TikTok All of TikTok . Everybody on associated with TikTok and shorts .
No , no , I'm just kidding , have you ever seen a trend that just like infuriated you . I think doesn't have to be a current one .
I think a lot of dumb things , like when , when people do things that can hurt themselves , like they turn , they set things on fire and just okay , just outwardly dumb stuff is like dangerous tie pod challenge yeah , yeah , that was like . What is even that
¶ Weird YouTube Rabbit Holes
like I ? Think so here's what I think is funny . It's not really , it was never dangerous per se , but like what was the spoonful of cinnamon ?
Yeah , the cinnamon challenge . Youtube banned that .
Which is wild , because I don't Well you can die , you can choke . So because , back to my ex , she choked on cinnamon . No , I didn't fool her daughter . I asked her daughter to do the and she was like okay .
Oh my God , I never tried it . Did you try it ? I didn't try it . I'm not dumb , I wanted someone else .
Of course , duh , that's what you're there for . In fairness , she was a teenager , teenager , fair , fair , fair . She had some type of common sense . That's funny .
Oh my gosh . Okay , cinnamon Challenge , that was a good one . I'm trying to think um , I still think like my favorite did you do the ice bucket challenge ? I think everyone did everyone did yeah I mean , everyone has done that . I would say planking was my all-time favorite trend .
I watched that on the office or like the mannequin , oh , are you just supposed to say somewhere like a mannequin ?
no , like it was like you'd be like in public or something and like you literally just like be frozen , like you were like a mannequin no , I wouldn't do that .
It's too wild . I don't think I can some people were scarily good at it do you feel self-conscious recording in public ?
never , you just whatever , you just yolo yeah , yeah I do kind of feel self I have like no self-awareness , I would love to see me vlogging in public as like another person and be like oh my god , she's actually can I vlog , your vlog she's actually out of her , like I would love to see .
I've never seen the third person of someone I've , yeah , I've never seen someone like truly , truly vlogging like . I've seen people , like you know , making tiktoks or something or like , which I think is more normal than not , but I've never really seen someone like truly vlogging in the wild .
I would say like regularly , maybe a couple times , like just maybe in passing , but like nothing I can even like , remember or stand out to me well , I mean , I've seen , like I've seen some stuff .
Uh it also . It's always interesting to see the kind of behind the scenes . One thing I've been seeing a lot on social media lately is people filming from a distance someone else doing like a tiktok or something like . There was this one . I saw this guy and he was like , and then as soon as he stopped he was like , he looked like he , he was depressed .
You know what my favorite TikTok trend is right now ? Where it's like you , it's like people , it's like things you should not be doing , like in an airport , and they're like this on camera . And then they like set their phone and their tripod like far away from them and it's just them standing like this , like actually filming there .
That's funny .
And it's like in different situations , and I think it's just like such a funny trend , like poking fun at like this exact situation where it's like what do we actually look like filming ?
in the wild . I found this channel the other day , so I don't know if someone sent it to me or whatever . I can't remember it . The channel's called anything can be a podcast . Did you see this ? It's a guy oh , who's ?
In an elevator okay and he'll just talk about a subject as a podcast , but he's recording in an elevator which train , like whoever's in the elevator , keep coming in and out .
Could you do that ?
no , okay , but he does the whole thing . He's like , he's like a younger kid that's , and they're getting tons of views .
It's an amazing concept .
It's not really edited or anything . He's just obviously got the camera up at the top and he goes hi , this is such and such from Anything Can Be a Podcast , and we're . Anything Can Be a Podcast . Today . I'm going to talk about whatever and it's like something that's I don't know .
It could be historical or anything , Anything , anything I love that and then he just goes off and they're getting tons of views . I mean yeah , because it's like most people's worst nightmare yes , like some guys end up , you get in the elevator just trying to go up or down and you're like someone who's afraid of elevator right , do you want to ?
Answer my question , bro , this guy you want to comment on terrorists oh , my god , oh my god let me find this guy , but that's like that . That's um that . Recently came on my radar .
That one's so funny . I think that's such a great concept .
Anything can be a podcast . There it is . Anything can be a podcast Uh , there it is . Uh , anything can be a podcast to the channel he's got . He's now got 41 000 subscribers with 14 videos , which is wild . Of course , he has some shorts that's amazing .
I think it's great short form content too .
I think that's like a hilarious so here it is concept also here's like his his title ideas and his idea . So this is literally an hour and 10 minutes where he's explaining the minecraft movie in a crowded elevator and he's in there for an hour just talking about it what ?
What does it ? Have I got to look deeper into this later . This is going to be my homework tonight . I'm going to look into this channel .
Now here's what's even more interesting . So that one has 500,000 views . The one after that explaining brain rot in a crowded elevator 142,000 views , amazing , right . Then it's explaining ice age while freezing in ice water . Explaining Ice Age while freezing in ice water . So now he's not in the elevator anymore . Conceptually amazing .
My guess is he's got kicked out of that elevator , but it only has 27,000 views .
They're like you're a safety hazard .
Right .
You're a fire department risk .
But look what's interesting . This is interesting Explaining Pope elections while running three miles so progressively .
He's doing other things , which is cool because Well , he doesn't want to be locked in an elevator .
But . So here's the thing , but it's really funny . Explaining Hamilton while locked in an elevator . Okay , so what's interesting is he has this thing . The things that work best for him is in the elevator , right . Conceptually , that's weird , odd , interesting . Yeah , we are going to watch this part of it , right ?
these other things are him smartly pivoting to things that he can do more of that aren't going to nail him into an elevator right , yeah , that's true so this is he is getting a lot less views , but there's still good views for his channel size , um , and I think that one of the things I always tell creators when they when they get something that breaks out ,
is what's the next thing you're going to do ? How are you pivoting out of this . This thing's not gonna last forever and he's already doing it , which is very , very smart . I don't know if this kid has ever had a youtube channel before , but he's doing smart things .
They are getting less views see , I have mixed feelings about doing it that soon he did it right away . I don't know , he's only done like right away like three or four videos of the other ones .
And yeah
¶ YouTube Pet Peeves and Hot Takes
, I agree with you , I think he should be pivoting more , but we don't know what's going on with that elevator .
He might not be allowed . We don't know where the elevator went . He might be getting arrested . He's currently searching for another elevator . We don't know . If you have an elevator to be used , please reach out . Please reach out to him .
He's trying to start his podcast .
Oh my .
God .
That's good . That's good , I love that . Okay , yeah .
What's next ?
Let's see how do you keep filming fun when you're not feeling motivated ? And I guess this is both a personal and professional question , since , well , sometimes there's a fine line and blurred lines between the two , and we still have to stay motivated and have work , be fun .
the same way , youtube has to be fun so are you saying how do you film while looking like you're having fun when you're not motivated , or how do you what is no ? How do ?
you keep filming , looking like you're having fun when you're not motivated , or how do you ? No ? How do you keep filming fun when you're unmotivated ? How do you keep ?
Oh , how do you keep filming ? Okay , I thought you meant how do you keep filming fun Like fun's in ? You're filming the fun .
Well , it'd be easy if you were unmotivated . If you're unmotivated , you don't have to have the fun rather than having the fun .
So you're saying how ?
do you ?
keep a filming fun . Find the fun . How do you have fun filming ?
how do you stay motivated ?
how do you stay filming fun ? Yeah having fun yeah you say fun . Enough times the word sounds weird after a while . You ever done that where you say a word a lot and it's always fun there's got to be a term for that too . There has to be . There absolutely is Okay .
So I think it's very difficult and it's a skill that I have not even mastered , because at times I'm heavily unmotivated , depending on what's going on . I'm unmotivated all the time . I'm like rarely motivated by anything anymore , but that's a me problem . So how do you keep it fun ? I think , and I hope that these episodes have been really fun .
They certainly feel fun in the moment .
I feel like watching them might be fun , but I think the only reason that is isn't because I'm coming in motivated to make it fun , it just is okay and I feel like what we've done is we've created a scenario in a situation , in a podcast that just by the nature of doing it brings that out , because that's what it is . We don't have to fake into it .
Yeah .
It just is .
Well , what would we do if this is no longer fun ?
We'd probably stop .
That's also my answer .
Because what else could you do , I think , unless we're making a lot of money , in which case we're going to fake that fun until I am paid everything off it , I think , unless we're making a lot of money , in which case we're going to fake that fund until I'm paid everything off .
It wouldn't work . We'd stop making money though . Yeah , that's the thing Like it's so we think you know that you could fake it . And then it's edited and it's like all good .
But people can like sense on the other side , when , like things are just like off or like you know , maybe you weren't feeling well that day , or your energy is even like slightly off , like if I was kind of sick today , like you'd be able to tell , yeah , like you would . Just , you would just be able to tell , because you can't just force that level .
I mean , I don't know , I couldn't . That would be like insanely difficult .
Well , I think what we do is we already plan ahead of certain types of ebbs and flows of the show anyway , to continually change it up in some way , like this alone changes it up right during the discord episode , changes it up . The new thing we're going to start doing , which is you can send in a video question 20 seconds or lower .
You take a video , you put it in the discord and we're going to pick those . That's going to change . That's going to be a new dynamic . Um , you know , when we had the Collins of the discord was fun , that changed . So because of that , because it's not always the same thing , it's easier to be fun .
Um , when we do recordings , we now can spice it up with those . When we do remote recordings , we can spice it up with those other things , and then when we're in person , it's just straight up different because we don't do it all the time .
So we're fortunate and we're in a situation where we are making everything different enough that it's always fun and it will last a lot longer than if we only did one format every single time .
Yeah , I think unmotivated just means that you need to be trying something new , like you're saying , like you have something to change , because I I feel like it would be highly unlikely for you to suddenly feel like just really motivated all of a sudden doing the exact same thing that you just took like a two-month break for right and I just don't see that
possible . Like , if you you're taking a content break which , if you are feeling unmotivated , I think you can hear both of us saying , like stop creating , it's not worth it , you're just gonna burn yourself out and you're just gonna like resent making content and not have that creativity be present .
But don't expect to take that break and then come back and suddenly feel motivated to do the exact same thing . That was unmotivating you . So how are you making those little changes we're not talking about like , hey , start a new channel , um , make entirely different content , yeah , but like , how do you make something ?
Or take the time to figure out how you make something that's gonna feel exciting . If it feels exciting , it's gonna be fun and it's totally normal for content to stop feeling exciting which is why I think we change things up .
Uh , every so often you'll see us do a couple things , and then we'll do it for a little while and then we will stop and then we'll try something new , and then we'll do that for a while , and the things that work . All the time we'll just continue to do yeah , which I think is answering occasional questions .
I think that always works , so we just keep that as part of it . But then we add new things , like this episode . This episode , in and of itself , is less about the question and more about talking to me and you . This is completely like different , because we're not necessarily teaching YouTube per se .
I think there's actually some good little bits here , especially talking about motivation . Yeah , and we actually agreed on it 100% . That's crazy .
Like fully agreed . What would be the controversial hot take on that anyway ?
It's your full-time job and you have to make content . Okay , fair , that's fair . Let me go to the next one . That would really be it . But at that time , like you one , you're probably due for a break . And how good are you doing at growing your business if you're not excited and making good content ?
Like you're just kind of staying stagnant at that point , if it's just to survive .
Yeah , yeah , and if it is your full-time job .
This is why I make such a big deal about when you're picking your niche to begin with , to really take the time to ensure that you love what you're doing , because it could become your full-time job , and if it's one of those videos you're like , oh could become your full-time job , and if it's one of those videos you're like , oh , this took off , let me do
more of those . I don't really care for it . Well then it becomes unless that video , real quick , because that might become your job and you don't want to do something . You don't really want to do . So , uh , what's your weirdest ? Uh , youtube rabbit hole you've ever gone down ? I don't know .
Man , there's probably a bunch of those um , there's definitely so many I could say um , this past week .
I don't think I've really had any this past week , I've definitely . I just feel like there's actually like countless things that I search far too in depth on youtube . I would say , etiquette was a big phase for me . What Like etiquette lessons on ?
YouTube . You watched etiquette lessons Randomly . Were you looking for it ?
No , no , I'm not going anywhere , that I need etiquette .
Okay , let me understand this .
I'm going nowhere . There's multiple forks .
How did you ? Okay , let me understand the . The beginning of this were you on your home page and etiquette video showed up ?
no , did you ? Just randomly ? You searched , this was searched . Why did you search ? I couldn't even tell you .
I had no idea you just randomly were like etiquette , yeah , I need to get some yeah yeah okay , and where did it take you with journey ?
A YouTube rabbit hole .
About how long were you down this rabbit hole ? Like how many videos ? How long ?
I definitely watched like videos for I would say like several weeks , maybe longer .
Wow , what did you learn ? It's like so fascinating , is it ?
It's literally like things that you've just never even heard of before . Like it's , it's crazy , like the way you're supposed to butter bread .
Like , excuse me , whoa okay , hold on like hold on this thing .
I need you to help me understand you are supposed to how etiquette wise , you are supposed to rip off a tiny piece of bread and butter individually , the bite that you are taking wait what okay ?
no , first of all , no etiquette . No , hold on , you have a piece of bread a roll .
So you got a little roll like a little dinner roll but what are you ?
are you dipping it into the the community butter ? No , you , I believe you would have like your own you have your own little like hat , yeah , and then you butter that one .
No , no , no you don't no dipping . I see you dipping over here . You gotta have your little butter knife and then you butter that one . No , no , no , you don't no dipping . I see you dipping over here . You gotta have your little butter knife and then butter that bite . And then you have to lay your knife .
You have to lay all of your utensils down in a certain direction to signal , to like the staff , that you are still eating this is not an old country buffet . I yeah , where you turn over the receipt when you're done eating it's like the same thing , though Like your fork has to be like turned down or something to signal that you're done .
I don't remember which way it has to be .
What kind of restaurant is this ?
No , this is not like restaurant , this is like events .
Events .
Events . You have butter eating events . You're going to the Met Gala . I don't even know if they eat at the Met Gala . You're going to a fundraiser . You're going to save the turtles . You need to know how to butter your bread , okay .
What other things did you learn from this ? I'm fascinated now , but I'm more fascinated by your journey than I am the thing . So what was another ?
thing . Next time you see me butter my Bro , we are going somewhere .
We got to butter your bread .
I'm going to show no , we got to go somewhere , so normal and I'm going to do it like a crazy person .
I need to see you butter some bread .
And someone's going to be watching and be like , why is she not ?
putting butter on the entire .
Thing .
Why is she ?
ripping it's nuts .
They do things differently mine's not even crazy then , because I'm trying to think I'm sure in the past I've looked a bunch of things that were kind of me just like spreading awareness to all the etiquette channels I kind of really want to see this now it's fascinating , that's what I'm saying .
Like that , I feel like that's like a true there are some fascinating that you fall into , because I will never need that but the thing is I I see something like that would happen to me by the homepage Like something random .
video would be there to watch it . Oh , no See , I think weird things and then search them . It's like an impulsion . I need to watch this , but like I have to , actively try to like , avoid , like I think weird things and I have to tell myself like no , you don't have to search that right now .
We need to film you doing that , just searching things .
You're just live streaming like add throughout the day . I need this in my life . It's so funny like I can't , I don't even know . Like I thought on my drive here and I'm like I wanted to google it . If there are people who don't know that you're not supposed to eat the outside of a pistachio that consumed like wait what I can't even tell you how much .
Like you know , you have like a shelled pistachio . Yeah , like , are there people in the world who just like ?
eat the whole thing . Oh , I'm sure there are .
How many ?
Why do you want to answer ? That question is a little wild to me . Why did you even think that you were driving ? Yeah , in the middle of driving , and you thought of first of of all pistachio nuts at all like were you hungry think about while I'm driving .
I've always said I was gonna do like a live stream while driving somewhere , because it's unhe , like it's unhinged thoughts , and then that thought just goes away and I'm like , yeah , I'll google it later you definitely are one of my most interesting friends .
I , I am so we are friends I'm so thankful that I know you , because it's so entertaining . It's endlessly entertaining . All right , let's find one more of these before we hang it up .
Actually , let's go hot takes . I want to know your YouTube pet peeves .
Well , you know , it still is , and they're going to .
I just feel like they're going to be offensive , I feel like this is when they're .
It's not so much offensive as that . I'm just not going to be very specific about the things that I see . I'm going to say what it is . I'm not going to tell the specific scenario that might be , like Travis probably wouldn't say that .
Okay , so just what I said earlier , even which is seeing things in thumbnail that aren't in the video oh , that's like that's a fantastic pet peeve I hate that , but it's . But I mean it's like it's not just clickbait per se , it is that this scene because a lot of times it's not like a like obviously ai generated something .
It's not like that , I mean like it looks like it's a screenshot of the something that happened in the video and that stuff never happened in the video .
That I'm always like the highest level of clickbait .
It really is .
Like that's insane .
Even if so , for example I'm not saying this specific thing ever happened . But let's say , for example , I go , you see a video that says this is the most fancy steak you can have in New York , and they show a guy with like this huge , amazing , beautiful steak and he's holding it like oh my God , and you never see that steak .
And he's holding he's like oh my God , and you never see that steak .
He's not in that restaurant . The perfect thumbnail , too . Like if that was actually a thumbnail like . That's exactly what it would be Right .
Seriously , that steak isn't in the video . That restaurant background that's in there , not in the video , the person that's sitting next to him not in the video , like all that stuff .
Oh , that's my that's , definitely , that's yeah that's ridiculous and they're like I didn't clickbait you a steak yeah , like you still see the thing they're talking about , but it's , I want to see that scene , like that thing that I saw , I want to see it I think that's actually .
That reminds me of like when we talked to brett and his most successful video was like an actual . Like you saw it yeah , within the first seconds of the video going and like you knew what you saw in the thumbnail .
Yeah , yeah , yeah , you were getting and as a travel creator .
It was like that destination looked as stunning as it did on the thumbnail .
It was awesome yeah .
That's what that reminds me of , and that steak did not . Mine is . I know my hot take is already like shorts .
Of course .
Whatever ?
And I feel like this one might actually be worse . I don't know . Let's hear it . I'm really curious now .
Everyone , and I'm sorry if you do this , just know I hate it .
Okay , just know that you're a terrible person .
I hate when people hold their lav mics .
Oh , you're not the only person Like Dan hates that .
To your anything Dan hates it has a clip on it . It's not .
Oh , okay , for people who don't know what this is , this really became popular when Ryan Tran was doing it .
Okay , the tiny mic . I'm fine with the tiny mic . I that was a little gimmick . It was still a microphone looking Tiny mic like that was fine .
Yeah , but he was actually holding his lav mic .
Was he ? Maybe I'm thinking of something else . You know the tiny mic thing that I'm talking about .
Where it actually looks like a microphone . Yeah , yeah , yeah , I haven't seen lab , I know . Yeah , dan has a huge problem with this , as well , he hates it .
I can't wait to talk about this with Dan .
He hates it , so you definitely should talk to him about it . Oh my gosh , I'm not bothered
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by it .
Because in the moment , like I think , the times , there's something like that . Well , I don't know .
Maybe he couldn't attach to a shirt for whatever reason , I don't know , but it became like this thing , like people like oh this , I'm supposed to do it this way , or something , and I don't know why .
Oh my gosh , Maybe people actually thought that Maybe 50% of people .
They were like oh , I guess this is the way it works .
We're like oh , I had no idea there's a clip .
That would not surprise me , by the way .
And this is supposed to go on your lapel .
That would not surprise me .
I wouldn't even , I didn't even like think about that , because some people . That's funny , though . Some people don't know how to eat a pistachio , we just don't know how many of which are out there .
IQcom .
Yeah , I love that . Dan hates that . Oh my God . He does he does not like it . Do you want to know ? What drives me even more insane which gets like my friend as well is like we're talking about irresponsible users . You have a microphone to have better audio and you're like talking with your hands . It's like hey .
It's like bro Whoa , there are some people who have immaculate video setups and their sound is like echoey af and I cannot stand that . I'm like bro , spend the 20 , I love it .
I just literally like I see the girls all the time like talking with their hands . I'm like uh , girl , your mic is in your hand , right ?
where are you going ? It's like me going I love being here .
No , but you got to take it like it's got to go in and out , so that it's like absolutely unhinged audio .
That's like the next level tier to besides just holding it some people very responsibly hold it and some people it is pretty bad I have no idea this is what kind of makes you , you and me , me yeah well , for whatever the hell , clickbait and mics I almost want to end it .
I don't know what I ended up naming this thing , but I almost was like don't watch this video .
That's how I kind of want this video will trigger you .
Yeah maybe that's . That's actually what I probably should name this video . This video will trigger you .
Do not watch if you're easily triggered there's a lot of people right now holding their mics that are like oh my god , we called out every youtuber in this video I could list like a hundred youtube pet peeves one more , one more for the road .
I want to hear this you , you want to know what 100 ? Oh my gosh , this was my biggest . And then I want a random thought from you now also .
And then this was my biggest one up until , and this is like . This is not hate , like I don't like unsubscribe to anybody who does these things , it's just like something you notice okay and like the mic I genuinely don't like .
But this one just like a true pet peeve , where it's just like , don't like that when people are vlogging and they say uh , I'm gonna take you along with me and it's like I know I'm watching the video , but I'm okay with that , I that feels very quick .
That's what I'm here for . I like that .
Why would you not take me with you ?
No , I'm okay with that . See , I'm totally okay with that . I actually kind of like it .
As a matter of fact , it's like so pointless .
Well , here's something else that's interesting .
Okay .
Tell me if you like this or not Okay , because there , saying this , I'm like , oh , I guess I could do that he goes , and if you want to stick around , I have some more videos here you can watch .
And I'm like , oh yeah , and you don't like that . No .
I like it , okay . And at the time I'm like , oh yeah , I guess I could no reason that I . It's an obvious statement . You're a YouTuber with other videos . You have other videos what I can watch other . Is that okay ? Do I have permission to watch them ? And I'm okay with it because I was like , oh shoot , maybe I should watch some of the other stuff .
That's so funny . Do you like that or do you not like that ?
It doesn't even phase me .
It doesn't even register . I can't understand what the fat I need . I need another random thought for you before we end this episode . I need to understand , like , what's going through your head another like random thought . I don't know that you've had recently , or maybe even the drive up even on the drive .
I don't know if I could , I don't know if I could pull another one , like really , give me a weird thing you think about for food , something food related like a hot take on food .
Yeah , like what's , what's a line for you , like you don't I think avocados are overrated yeah , I don't really care I think they're overhyped because that's that's why you make guacamole out of right and I can confidently say I never have never will purchase avocado toast outside of my house yeah , I don't understand it's a , it's a moral . I just won't do it .
It's literally like I I can't and you're a vegan too , which means they might kick you out of veganism , Seriously the only option . We're literally going to kick you out of being a vegan .
If it's breakfast , they're like it's avocado toast and I'm like I can't , I will not purchase your $13 avocado toast . Well , that's what I'm saying . It's the price .
Well , so you know , the last couple of months I've been losing weight and doing lower carb and that sort of thing and I found a couple of really low-carb breads which are great . Most of them are terrible . Found a good one .
There's a brand called Hero Bread which does amazing low-carb bread and bread-type products which are things like muffins and all these other really amazing things . You don't have to give up and it's great , very low-carb $9 a loaf .
So yeah , it's every and everything Okay but I support that because you have the loaf in your house and it's for , like a very specific purpose . Yeah , I would not buy avocado anything , let alone avocado toast , which doesn't even make sense , do you not like ?
avocados ? I don't think I do . I say this , I say this oh , Nathan , no , Okay , look here's the thing . Look here's the thing . I lived in Delaware . Okay , All right , as a young kid I lived in Delaware . We ate very , very , very short list of things . I didn't think I liked a lot of things . I think I had tasted some of them before when I was younger .
But I am weird about food , for example .
That's fair .
I do not like apples , but I love applesauce , apple juice , apple pie . People feel that way with bananas also . I love bananas . I do not like anything made from bananas Baked from . Yeah , yeah , yeah .
No , I feel like that's actually super normal .
So with things , when I say things like I didn't think I liked mushrooms or tomatoes and stuff for a while , but I actually love them now . So I say I don't like avocados , and I say I don't like guacamole , that I might be okay with it .
Someone would have to force me into eating some . Every seven years your taste buds change . I believe this . It could have been seven years .
We are now a different type of podcast . All right , look , have you got any more candy before we go ? Because that was amazing .
Oh , let me pull out one this is actually my favorite candy in . I should call this I guess I could say my favorite candy in the whole world .
What is it ?
Hot tamales .
Shiza , you know I don't like hot things . You know I don't like hot things .
It's not hot .
Is it , though ? It's cinnamon ? Well , I like cinnamon .
It's not spicy , it's spicy cinnamon .
It's cinnamon , let's do it . Let's do it , it's my favorite candy .
Oh , my gosh , the fact that these are open now and they're gonna be are they all gonna be gone ?
Why is like I've had this kind of mid ?
Oh my gosh . No , these are amazing all right , I have to take three well , you didn't , I just , it was , you're like , I love them already . I mean there , I Alright , look right , bosh candy ever . I mean they're all right , they're all right , all right .
Look , you probably didn't learn anything that you can use in your YouTube videos , but we have tons of videos where you absolutely can , and tons of audio , if you're listening to the podcast , where you definitely have learned things .
So we hope that this deeper dive into what makes us us yeah , has been at least interesting hopefully it fueled your rage bait in some way or another to leave a comment .
It's gonna be all about the price of avocado , which is wild .
I just think it's funny that we had a fellow vegan right in telling you that candy corn isn't vegan I know well , we gotta have each other's backs , because sometimes you don't know when things aren't .
I was just like it's okay .
I just thought it's wild that it's like the worst things that make that the gelatin yeah , try this one with gelatin .
Was that was a day ?
that was wild . It was like cartilage and all types of feet . I'm just nasty stuff . Anyway , thank you for joining us . Of course , you hit the subscribe button if you're listening on the audio podcast , leave us great ratings everywhere and , uh , you know , we'll be around again I can't stop .
I learned this by hand candy .
I can't stop the hell out of these things . We'll see you in the next one . You can watch more because we have more wait what I was saying like that one guy , you watch my other videos , we'll take you along with us .