FULL SEND PODCAST - MTVJesse x Nelk Boys | Ep. 100

Episode Date: September 1, 2023

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All right, boys, we got a long awaited episode today. We just did the, we did the NELC video last Monday. If you guys were watching this, it's probably Thursday or Friday. But we just uploaded the NELC video where we linked up in the video. It's been like a long time. Long time we kind of wanted to link up and do something, but we didn't know exactly what. We kind of knew I feel like we would always do the pod. But just kind of, I don't know.

I don't know if it was timing or just it was just kind of more random, right? Yeah. I mean, I think it's better that we're doing the pod now anyway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We were actually just thinking about that on the way up where it was like when we were going through all that, whatever. It's like I feel like, I don't know, we're pretty civil and it's good vibes now, you know? But people, obviously people love the video. Yeah, that's good for sure, obviously.

I mean, we knew that because everyone obviously, like, missed obviously seeing you on the channel and stuff like that too. so I watched the video a few times during the edit but then when it was premiering I watched it like the whole thing through and then I kept like I was going back and watching it it was just like it's a good feeling right dude yeah like that's what I text did at the end too was like super dope

how did it feel to film that um well film together in how long do you think I don't know definitely a lot of mixed feelings for sure not gonna say it was like just like you know what I mean it's crazy but yeah it's dope I think the filming was more easy because we were chilling before that when we didn't film it and stuff like that but that was definitely like crazy

seeing you after like a long time and stuff like that but the filming when we came to your house was it was pretty chill like yeah it was normal kind of everything in the edit he was just like cool I remember seeing you before like even doing the whole filming stuff but like when we've seen you remember you came to the house

oh yeah yeah that was like that was insane yeah that felt great seeing you I didn't even realize when he said that it was like three years i was like i know it's a long time also just fucking flies now but like i didn't think it was three fucking years i know it doesn't feel like three no it feels like a year or something it does right it does my feet don't touch the ground right now dude it's fucking hot should we just go tarps off the hell of course i'm no wait let's actually bring that up because when you were in the bathroom we congratulated jessianna's transformation

look good no ozambic no it's no no i can't even say that word no you dieting and all that how much has that changed for like your your mental health everything it's all connected you know fucking like like how you were saying but not drinking that probably was like step one but uh it was just a bunch of good habits keep on adding onto the list and then doing it every fucking day yeah we're trying to do that too right now yeah it's fucking hard bro what what do you guys on like second week third week i think we're all on a different wave i don't know if i'm on this i don't think he goes twice a day to the gym row my wave but yeah you don't want him to tie in into your wave?

No, it's just like... What the fuck does that mean? I'm like fucking like... Like I'm gonna play you down? I'm like South African like... Fucking, what's like... I don't know. Just like big waves and you're like, I don't know.

Yeah, no, I'm slacking. Like Lake Michigan or something like that. It's just a different kind of thing. I just roll. Like, sometimes I hit the gym, but... Yeah. I like being active. I think that's what it is.

What would you say to like one at 10 health? Like... What's that? David Goggins up here at 10. What are you at? at right now. No, I just like, I like gym Jitji, bro. I think that's very fun. Yeah, but what if, what would you put on your, oh,

one to ten? If David Gorgens is a 10. I'll probably add to two. I mean, nah, no, that guy's a fucking warrior. You watch that guy to get fired up? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I've been trying to tell him, bro. That guy gets, can get anybody motivated. Oh, yeah. It's fucking crazy. I mean, you're not gonna, he's not gonna back down somebody that like,

fucking talks to you like that. He's like, oh, fucking train! Right to come, you pussy. He's like, what? What do you think was the biggest thing that clicked? Because me and you were always trying to work out and kind of get in shape and stuff too. But what do you think was the biggest thing that clicked for you? I've kind of explained this before, and I might have texted you about it.

But the main thing for me was creating a streak is like huge. Just like for me, it was run at least a mile every day or eat under 1,750 calories. Like whatever it is, you make your list. But I would do it for seven days in a row. And it would just be like clockwork, like lose two pounds, feel better all. that shit. And then I was like, okay, cool, let's do two weeks, three weeks. And then at a certain point, you're like, oh, I'm 150 days in. Like, it kind of felt like drinking, like quitting drinking, right? Like, you're creating that pressure to like have a beer is like a bigger deal

now because you're breaking that streak. And I kind of just like tried doing that with fitness the first time. Because like we, like, how many times have you seen me like lose weight, gain weight, lose weight, weight? I was like, fuck, dude, it's so annoying. Drinking definitely is is step one for fucking obviously weight loss too and just like working out like you're gonna be like sober though no no you can still drink it's just yeah because that's what I'm trying to do now it's just like probably just every Saturday yeah every Saturday if you say every Friday like don't say once a week because like then you could hit a Friday yeah and then like you know a chick hits you a chick hits you up on a Saturday and then you're just like fuck so

that's why I'm just thinking like I think it's the step one is chasing pussy honestly no yeah Because we never just really went out for, like, casuals. Like, we never said, like, yo, like, I really want to just go have a beer right now. You know what I mean? It was always to go out and get fucking chicks. Pretty much. Like, even back in the day, no? 100%.

Like, I don't think we would just go to a bar and be like, oh, we need to drink right now. It was always just like we'd film and then, like, whatever college or whatever the thing we were at, it's like, let's go try to wheel chicks. Yeah, that's where it starts. We should honestly take it back. where you guys first started you guys are down just for the fans to talk about because i honestly i don't even know bro like that's how new i am uh like the day you guys first met first thing you filmed kind of how it all came together yeah no i remember i remember the first time we uh linked up i think you'd message me on like facebook or some shit right yeah and and jesse had an m tv show at the time

careless teens that was on mtv canada i was just doing the youtube thing and he would kind of like sent me some ideas and then i think we went back and forth and then we did this prank like you lit me on fire yeah where jesse said he knew how to like light someone's arm on fire and like knock it where's that video at it's on there yeah it's still up yeah oh shit it's like you lit me on fire prank okay and um so yeah so we went we like put the gasoline on like my arm for example and then like i would sit beside someone and then jesse would come up and like light me on fire and then i would like freak out and see it and blame the person beside me like and be like yeah like we'd only do it to people that were smoking or yeah oh shit so you act like you're blaming there and how to go

it's pretty funny like how to do how to do on the internet too views wise and all that it's hard to say at the time who knows at the time right i don't i don't even remember what it did at the time like it's not like it went like fucking viral right definitely a hundred k would be like like we were pretty stoked on 100k i think yeah but i don't even think it definitely didn't get that I don't even I don't even What was your guys First 100K or big video

Where you were like So like we were doing our thing for a bit And then it's when we moved to LA Um The first viral video we hit Was seven ways to compliment boobs Oh yeah I thought it was a coke prank

But it was that got like I remember And this was when YouTube videos Would go viral right So people were sharing YouTube videos way more And it was all about getting Reposted on like other sites So there was sites like

I forget what they were called, but, like, there was, like, big, like, sites that would post videos. Yeah. You would Google the title of your video and then see if those big pages, like, posted it, yeah. So, like, people were reposting the video. But, you know, honestly, I think it only got, like, 300K and 24 hours. But that to us was, like, holy shit, like, 300K and 20. How long it was? Like, what year is this?

I didn't think. Like, 2013? No, I think. 15? I was 19. Yeah, so about 2014, 2015. 2014, 2015, yeah. So you got to, that was your first 300k video. Probably, yeah.

And that's where, is that where you guys walk us through that one? Like where you say like nice rack. And there's a person with the rack. Yeah, it was just a bunch of, like, like, uh, reference. The first two that I ever saw was, um, embarrassing phone calls in public and then college dorms. I think you did most of that one where you were like trolling the guy like, y'all, I'm supposed to move in here.

Oh, you have the basket of clothes and all that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. that show was good both of those went i don't even know if it was tick talk i want to say it was ticot or maybe even vine but they both went crazy on there like that's how i first found you guys yeah no and then i think we would go back and then we did coke prank out there at that same trip and that was the next big one which is still the most viewed video and that one went that one that's like 50 mil i think right how many videos you think you guys were at before the coke one i mean kyle was you were shooting a bunch of stuff before but we had done we've done a lot of different ones for

sure we were vlogging that's when daily vlogging was big too and we had the second channel and we were trying to do that on the nilk 2 channel daily vlogging see it feels like we went to la and we hit that viral like in a month yeah like didn't that happen yeah and i remember first i don't know if you can remember but i just remember like dude i was 19 like flying to la oh my god it was crazy bro like landing there like from toronto like i fired up we dropped out of school like it was like it was crazy. How scared were you guys? And the thing is also like we couldn't you couldn't we couldn't sign a lease because we didn't have places or anything like that. So the only like short term rental place we could like stay

at was like this like luxurious kind of like condo. That was like our first like disagreement I remember but like it ended up paying out. Like he was like pushing for this the 10 10 Willshire place and I was like fucking you know because we're both working trying to save up money. And I remember being like fuck dude it's too expensive at the time it was like four grand so you wanted the sauce crib and he wanted the more like financially no but he had a good point like it did work out it was like yo we got to be in the fucking shit it's like wu tang clans our fucking neighbor like and so which condo you ended up moving into the will shire yeah but we like it was two bedrooms so we like two people both shared

rooms and this is before after the coke prank this is the same time okay that time where was like merch and stuff at during the coke prank merch didn't even start yet merch didn't even start yet so then after that we would like go back to Canada because we also couldn't afford to stay there yeah where's the money coming at that time bro like i'm not even like we couldn't even like we couldn't afford Uber like to go to Venice we would take like uh we'd walk to the subway and then we'd take the subway to like oh my god wow that would take us it would take us like two hours to get to Venice and it was like the lady getting robbed yeah that was we saw one lady get robbed that was so yeah so was LA like kind of like uh because you guys are from Toronto obviously yeah coming to

LA like were you guys like what the fuck's going on yeah that had to be sick dude I remember I remember Venice Beach was like the place to shoot too all the big pranksters were there it was like a lot crazy people there yeah that's wow but not it was cool did you guys at this point have any doubts of like getting to where you wanted to be yeah for sure yeah like what do you think at that point where your biggest speed bumps I don't know about you Jesse but I think so we would have to go home because we couldn't afford to stay out there like we couldn't

eat out like we would yeah where was the any money coming from at that point just a little YouTube money a little bit and then I think even we were doing some random ass brand deals like you do birdie and remember that it was like an essay thing

I remember the phone one or something yeah just like some random ass shit eating birdie haven't heard that in a while yeah I know crazy but then we would go and then we would go home because not only could we not stay there for six like we'd only be in there for six months but we also just needed to go home and like kind of save up money to go back again yeah but i think every time we went home some it it did slow down

a little bit kind of because mentally you're just like you're not together all the time and like you know there's you're hanging out with old friends that are kind of not on the same wave right fucking smoking weed in your friend's basement and shit like we were still young too like 20 years old 20 like you know what I'm saying it was like a reset but also it was like life pulling you back into like reality of like no man you should go fucking work at the golf course you could work at Pasco and then it was like that's a good point we like meet up and you'd be like nah man like these dudes probably what kept you motivated was going back to Canada and being like yo I'm back in my golf course job fuck that or whatever right

well you all you just didn't see eye to eye with like some you couldn't like some conversations didn't really like I don't know it's just different dude the energy like i'm sure you can relate but like when you're in la and it's like every coffee shop everywhere you go everyone is just trying to fucking like it's not weird to talk about how to make a viral video or like oh how did that post go up towards yeah okay you go home and they're fucking like talking about the rims on their truck and shit you're surrounded by it you're consumed in it which could technically like people say it could it's it could be mentally a bad thing but it's also kind of like maybe what it

takes you know what i mean yeah whenever we were there like i think i remember some times like yeah and then we would do different trips then we'd go to florida for a little bit we did that but then there was a time we're like dude we i remember we were trying to follow the typical prank model and like i don't know what it was we were doing but like remember remember when we lived in florida with like tory and like we were shooting like skits yeah yeah i don't know why yeah i don't know why we did that i don't know what i'm trying to think but like whatever we were doing was not working at that time

like people just weren't fucking with it you're talking about the audience wasn't fucking with it yeah they weren't fucking with it like we were uploading skits on the channel yeah oh we did like the rockley thing and like Facebook was taking off yeah that that shit so maybe we started to focus

because we needed money so we started do another so we got money I remember in Florida too we always like doing sketch comedy too so it's like we kind of we kind of did try to do that like not faking pranks but like sketch comedy is that when you like kissed a girl or like some shit you're in bed oh yeah yeah that was in canada but i remember that that was around the same time yeah i think i don't remember that sketch so we were trying that type of

shit and it just wasn't working and dude i literally remember like the youtube was not working and like we even said like yo i don't know if the youtube's going to work out like we're like i swear to god bro like i was like i don't know like i was like maybe we just like do this facebook shit and and like we can kind of be more on the back end and like make money like doing that what do you do you remember what you filmed after that or what and then I think it was I remember this is this is when it fucking switched was when we said like yo let's just do this let's upload three times

I was just what to say that's a lot this was right before the like grind started right yeah traveling who's editing at this point both just us do sharing it that's wild thank you how did that change for the whole channel when you do three times a week at that point we said let's just i don't know what we did we said let's just i don't know yeah we just said let's do it and let's stick to it and we just did it and we just i think that's when we got in the car and road trip to vidcon yeah and we just we just did it so we're on the road like driving staying at fans houses and we're filming and editing at the same time so you're on the road you're filming and you're fucking then at night like you're editing and you're uploading on the

road in motel. Dude, trying to find Wi-Fi float at a motel and shit. I remember like... What was the best Wi-Fi spot? Motel? Dude, we used to go to... We could know because they were always shit,

so we'd try to go to fans' houses. I remember we would make a story being like, who's got... They would send us their, like, rating of their, like, how strong their internet was and we would, like, drive to their house. Snapchat was key for us, yeah. But we'd also, like, snag a sandwich

out of their fridge or something. You did that, huh? What are you guys... You dickhead. I'm just kidding. Outside of the... Outside of the Coke prank, what do you guys think each of you was like your favorite prank that you guys successful prank

or just one where you guys were like, yo, that was fucking hilarious. That's hard. Do you have a favorite one? If I just had to think at the top of my head, like, I think I like the wine tours. I think the Bigfoot. Bigfoot is funny too. But besides those like movie ones.

Like an OG one. An OG one? I mean, I think if you just go back and watch any of the fake employees. Like I told you. Best Buy was hilarious. Yeah. Yeah. I was watching.

Best Pye was actually hilarious. All those are just so funny. Like the one-liners are just like ridiculous, dude. Like they're fucking hilarious. Like chirping hockey dads too, any of that shit. But yeah, just go watch any fake employee prank, bro. Like we're just ripping people. Like, they're so funny.

Yeah, dude. Best Buy was. Were you guys honestly, were you prepping your chirps before? Was it kind of off the rip? Improv. Probably a lot of improv, but you'd sometimes like. Have one of your back. I used to write in my notes like just like funny.

fucking couple things and you'd see if you'd remember some but most of it would be i know i'll drop a line and this guy would be like you didn't just think of that i'm like dude i mean both of you i'm like holy fuck because it's so it's so on point yeah yeah's that question because he wanted to answer that yeah he wanted he wanted to you treat you know what you're doing it is i will say it yeah pranks like it's like the hardest comedy improv to do yeah it is tough because you're also have to like there's this like weird science of like giving them a bit to make them think that this is a real conversation so you don't go too far but then also still pulling off like hilarious shit like and fucking with them yeah you're like controlling this like

manipulating this conversation well you guys never really freeze up i noticed too well i was actually gonna bring this up when you were bringing up the fire prank the first because like for me that was the first time i ever shot a prank i was doing like stunt shit and stuff but i remember i don't know if you remember this but that day i could not stop laughing oh really dude yeah like there's probably a bunch of footage where it was like every time you like you'd say anything on camera and I'd have to like turn my head away because I didn't know how to like not fucking freeze up and like bro I remember I just couldn't keep it together that's the only time I'll laugh I'll never laugh at myself but I'll laugh at like if you say something or if you said something like I would laugh I'll laugh at other people

but if it's myself I'm I could keep a straight face like if you two did like the moaning in the ear thing yeah I couldn't I wouldn't be able to like sit there and just be like in your like face and shit like I couldn't that would get me something like that for sure so once what happened after the coke prank how big because that was the biggest video ever what changed not much dude no it was big over time no it was big over time yeah it went it went big like off the break it went viral but like it not like 10 million or some shit so when do you think was the big breaking point when i don't think there was other creators started to give you respect or yeah like we said we got in the car and we were driving and then it was a pretty crazy we were going to go to vidcon you know what that is it was

It's way bigger back then that it was now. But it's where all the YouTubers went. Okay. So, like, you know, I don't know who was really big at the time, but, like, who was there, really? That was, like, like, the phase guys, I guess. Like, the phase guys were there and, like, probably, like, Wolfie was big at that time. Probably, like, rice gum. I don't know who else was really big at the time.

Andrea, who was her name? Andrea Russet. Yeah, it was, like, a totally different cat. So we were going to go to VidCon. That was our plan. So we drove, stayed at fans' houses. and then YouTube was very YouTubey, like at that point. Yeah.

All the stars were like fucking PG-13 and shit. Like, pretty. And then I think we stayed at Big Dawes' house. Yep. We filmed with him. We stayed at his house. And then on the way from Arizona to L.A., Jesse's car broke down in Palm Springs.

Yeah, the engine blew in the toaster. And then what happened there? Well, I remember, like, we brought to the shop in, like, we don't have any fucking money. And then they did they like they didn't speak English very well or something but yeah it just took like a whole like week and they kept saying like you know this part's coming in this part's coming in this part's coming in. But they put the wrong engine in do you remember that? Yeah they fucked it up. And then we like come back we're like ready to go and they're like we put the wrong engine in dude. Why would they not tell you? Yeah. But we also didn't have like we didn't even know how we were going to pay for the car getting fixed and we had to get home to Canada after this too. Oh shit. So we're like what the fuck do we do? I think we were questioning leaving it and I was like, Yeah. Maybe you're not leaving it. That's my fucking baby.

What do we do? We did leave it and come back, though. Because we snapped out and a fan came, a group of fans came to get us. They drove to Prom Springs. They picked us up and they brought us to VidCon. I think we like slept on their like hotel like floor and shit. Like, was that the night? We were fucking sleeping on like floors, like a lot.

I thought it was an LA house, a floor that we slept on that night. Do you remember we like went to Vidcom? It was in Anaheim. Oh, yeah. We probably stayed at their. house maybe eventually yeah i don't know but yeah and then we made it to vidcon and i think one thing that really motivated us there i remember is actually phase adapt that said it so shout out to him he met that when he came up to us yeah he came up to us and he just like yo and this is one phase was

like really big too and he was like he was like yo dude like i like your guys videos are fucking hilarious like me and all the boys we always get high and fucking watch your guys videos all the time and we're like damn like all right like oh wow you know and i remember that kind of stuck with me too so that was just a respect and then it got you guys motivated it's just like when someone with like two million subs at the time says that to you like you know when did merch come into play because it was such a big piece of your guys's success right yeah i think i think after that we kind of just kept it going and kept the three a week thing going and doing trips like you know with nine we would go to like i think we did like boston and new jersey and like yeah we would just keep

traveling traveling traveling traveling you know keeping it going three times a week and then Florida was the first drop I think with those crew neck hoodies yeah I can't remember that but yeah yeah what are the first what did the first drop look like but I also remember your dad your dad made that yeah

oh fuck yeah I think was it George Hennon that was first that was probably our first but your dad made that hoodie right was your dad your mom so I think did they source it off yeah it was like from China and shit I remember because we got it we gave them we gave them a certain hoodie a champion hoodie

and we were like oh fucking rip this like yeah we sent in a champion hoodie i don't i know i forgot my they actually did that off ali baba i didn't i forgot about that they so my dad was like kind because my parents used to source like shit from china yeah they used to sell these like spray fans that were like yeah yeah electric powered things so they knew how to do it so i guess we gave them the champion hoodie they sent it in and then i don't know if there was a couple trials but we we used the end like the classic n logo and we ordered 2,000 of them i think yeah Because there's no full cent at this point. We're not designing that.

So do you remember if it sold out? Yeah. Were you guys surprised by that? Or were you like... I don't really remember that. I don't think we were surprised though. Like how much we made or anything. Yeah.

I don't think we were surprised because we like could gauge the demand of it based on like the response. Yeah. I think we knew it was going to sell. So were the fans like asking you guys, you know, we need merch? We need merch. We showed it to them. We showed them the same. sample and everyone went nuts and the hoodies were fire whoa that is true now I look back at it

we were showing them the process yeah which probably built the demand yeah like that's pretty yeah we showed them like yo this is the first sample and you know it was the first time we did it and the hoodies were dope they were like they were fucking just the classic end in like blue gray pink like maroon yeah so they're just like they were dope like yeah so we yeah and I think by the demand we knew that it was going to be big and yeah I think I think they sold out in like 30 minutes probably that's fucking wild bro i was gonna say i remember the first real one that it was like when we were in miami and we were still like i don't think we had that much money no boys canada yeah yeah on the on those like college fucking varsity sweaters and yeah i think we shot

we shot like a merch promo in niagara yeah we had like a bunch of chicks over i remember that like a boys all rona season like cronas and shit yeah that was like what the first big merch out Yeah, wasn't it like, I always say this number, but Those girls there actually Really? Yeah, what the Like, didn't we do like 700K or something like that?

Like I remember it being something Who was like, holy fuck? This was in Miami. Who was a part of the team at that point? Just me, Jesse, and Nino. So Nino's fully on the team. Yeah. And how long do you think he'd been there?

I don't know. Maybe like a year. Yeah. And how did you guys want to talk? about like the first time he filmed with him or it's just a funny story yeah like the way nano came into it was that he he went to my high school i wasn't like super friends with him like i knew him um but he he was always like doing photography he lives literally a minute and a half from my house like i swear so like drive so he was always horny with his camera around and shit i'd see him

walking around the neighborhood me and lucas would see him playing Pokemon go around the neighborhood and shit. He played Pokemon Go like a year after it came out. He was at Walmart, right? Yeah, and he was working at Walmart. And it was the time when everyone was vlogging like this. Yeah. So like no disrespect to him, but like me and you literally said like,

yo, we just need someone to hold the camera because we want it to be like the third person. Right. Because it was way cooler than like doing this. Which was game changer. Like I remember. I think we were the one of the first to do that. Yeah.

Because everyone was doing daily vlogging. We thought it was cringy. We were like, that's like dust. Like we wanted to be like a TV show. I remember that. And then I think Nino was just at Walmart, so he had a lot of days off. So whenever he was free, he would come and just shoot for free and stuff. And then eventually we started paying him just like a day rate or something to come film.

Yeah. And then eventually we just said, hey, dude, like quit your job. Were you guys surprised how the three of you just immediately clicked like that? Yeah, the first time, Nino was behind the camera for a while. And then we flipped it during the George Hennon video that we did that was like this big video too. They didn't know who he was. And they didn't know who he was. And then he slowly became more and more of a character that he actually is that character.

Yeah. No, it was like, yeah, like we just needed someone to hold the camera and then it was like magic. It's like he just was the perfect character to be the guy behind the camera to then start becoming like, you know what I mean? It was just fuck. It was like it was good. You didn't really have to force it. No. Like put that guy beside a chick and he's just going to be like.

Well, yeah. It's just like Jesus Christ. Even I just saw him recently. He's the exact same guy. He's a funny guy. He won't change till he's like 40. Like he'll be the same fucking just, he's just so funny. Okay, so we were at Miami. So after that huge merch shop in Miami, where you got, where are you living at that point? You remember? That's, we had, I think at that time now we had some Airbnb. Kind of money, yeah. But not even. Like, we were all in one Airbnb. I think you even fucking brought your girl at the time. yeah and like we're all sleeping in the same room oh my god i know i know a sleeping bag like me here

jesse rings his fucking chick how hard is it to have a how hard is it to have a girlfriend when you're staying at fans houses and stuff well that i don't know if she was down when we were at fair me was okay but that i do visually remember oh okay that was probably a dick move on my part you're like man you're gonna bring your girl yeah i was like we're all the same you asshole I'm like buddy I'm in love so how did it go from that to then getting into the cloud house when you guys all moved in there that was cool moment

do you remember that story yeah Banks uh sent us a DM and was like I can't remember what he said but he was just basically like he's you know banks he's just right to the point he's like you guys are dope fucking come out here come fucking move in how crazy was that this is one this one the cloud host was like the biggest it was yeah like it was like give us an idea who was in there and stuff

phase Banks versus Jake Paul drama like Alyssa Violet shit just went down like it was the prime of the cloud house and we like they were all over YouTube we're obviously seeing them and Banks started shouting us out in his YouTube channel and he was pulling like 5 mil

like a vlog and he started shouting us out in his YouTube videos oh yeah he did and we're like what the fuck like that's when you start seeing shit like that and it's just motivating like you're getting shouted out like we're getting shouted out by Banks he's in the cloud house

like we're like dude what the fuck what's he saying just like yo go watch these guys I fuck with them they're hilarious yeah I think so and they were saying like

yo we gotta get an elk out here and shit and we're like shut out banks yeah shout out banks banks definitely was one that till the day I die that dude fucking

like for you he never took a dollar never like coolest guy ever ever for you like Jesse like seeing that like was that like like what the hell

like what's going on yeah because there was probably still at that point a little bit of that like like that fuck is this gonna work this yeah yeah like and we were at that point we were grinding like grinding to make it and like i don't know it was just one of those like moments that were like tipped you over the edge of like fuck this gonna work yeah like i remember we were on our way back from like new jersey or some shit to Canada and but yeah banks tweeted us and said yo you guys ready to move in and we literally flew out probably five days later like we

went home like I was like we're flying it like we're going now that's wild and that was the crazy it was good that you and me were both those guys that were not like oh well I got to make sure this is ready and we were like you guys ready we both saw a vision we were like no dude like yes like don't no question yeah we weren't like people that would wait around and be like all right well I need time to situate this yeah it's like yeah when's the next flight like two days from now like we're going and shit you know that's awesome I think that was probably a pretty damn pivotal moment yeah that's what I was going to say when you asked about that like like what was like a tipping point like it was like that was like it put us in the mix

it's the same way that like when you found steve and then because we're at the cloud house and you know working your magic and all the shit and Steve just being like an icon it like that's why Steve blew up in like a fucking but this is when we went for a week right oh that's not yeah so did he did he oh we weren't moved yeah so he asked you to come film first and then later ask you to move in yeah yeah yeah so what happened the first time you guys go there well we're just driving up the Hollywood hills for the first thing time we stayed there yeah we spent the night crib yeah stayed for a whole week oh yeah we did okay sorry my fucking memory i know it's hard to remember i totally forgot that we only went for a week

yeah what did that week look like we we just like i mean summer ray was there illison violin ryan uh wolfie was there he was massive at the time rice gum was massive at the time banks was and then yeah phase adapt like temper all the phase guys they were they were all there and now what's going through your guys's mind when this is like when you're seeing all this like honestly going into the house it's pretty crazy bro it was it was very surreal like a video game i mean this was the this was the top youtube crew yeah they're at the game like at the time right and it was just like holy fuck it was crazy but even then bro it's interesting because i remember too even then people were saying we switched up really oh like you guys went Hollywood already like yeah i swear i totally

remember when we first moved into the cloud house like i remember thinking like all right we got to stay canadian and like we fucking hung up the canadian flag we got like tim horton's espresso shit and like so i remember that too that was honestly a challenge too it's just funny yeah we did yeah did you did you guys film a video that week there with like a collab yeah banks did something we did like a calling and sick i think with thanks yeah yeah we did that was like our go-to because it was like so easy to bang out because we quickly also realized that doing a collab with someone big that doesn't know how to do pranks is kind of like you can't like make him go do this and then they're not going to perform or like same thing with the lecture prank i feel like we did that a lot because it was just like just be loud

at the same way you guys did UCLA too i remember you guys did a video on UCLA you guys did a typewriter oh typewriter it was typewriter i don't know if that's funny that was definitely cloudos but then yeah then i think we probably went back to canada and then banks let us move in. That's wow. And then we, I don't know how long we lived there. And you guys are just shacked up in two rooms or what did that look like? He gave us those rooms on the side, right? Me and Jesse had a room. There was a bathroom in the middle and then my room. And then there was like, it was the guest area. And then there was like a little living space room. And then there was a bunk bedroom with four bunk beds. And that's when we, we hired Osgod. He came out.

Manager Drew was there. Those boys were grinding. too and that fucking little hot yeah like I don't think there was AC and then we'll show a clay who did her a lot of our accessories for merch are you guys are you guys they're all in one room four guys yeah I was gonna ask so are you guys everyone else at this point is kind of like starting to see real money and you guys are still like trying to get to that point trying to think we're we more famous than rich like we were definitely making money at that point because that's when we're like all right we hired ozgod to like kind of edit the videos Because Nino was never editing the videos.

Yeah, and Osgot has like eight rollies, so. Yeah. Well, we definitely had money if we were getting Osgaard. Yes. What, man? But we were still just putting it kind of all into the operation. How much did that change for the channel and the views when you move into that house on a content side? Just with collabing, having all those guys.

Yeah, a lot. I remember seeing fucking Nino and Matt and Matthews was there. Yeah, Austin Matthews came to the crazy. You guys fucking played hockey with them in the best. I remember watching those. Yeah. We put Nino and Nett and shit. Yeah.

And then that's when you guys like invited us to come out. I remember Kyle hit me up and was like, hey, like this film a prank, whatever. We did sneezing, right? We were sneezing. That was the first one. Yeah. But I remember you guys were having like a merch drop like when we came upstairs. I remember manager Drew got us upstairs.

On that last table. Yeah. All you guys last table. You guys look like you guys look stressed. That's pretty much. And then I just remembered when the merch drop. went i was like bro what the fuck type of numbers are these like what the hell's going on here i wonder if at that time it was like really going yeah i remember playing pong with like nine oh

like we're playing like uh ping pong and then like it was just such a total operation the one thing i really really remember man was bro we're or you guys were filming it was adrian and i think ozgod pushed you and kyle into the pool and you guys shot in the pool I will never forget that moment. And me and Cousin are just sitting in the back, like, yo, dude, like, we were just living in the car, bro. That was about to happen. But no, I don't know.

It was just such a great opportunity. And then we did sneezing. We and Kyle did sneezing. Well, what was that week for you? Because I don't even know if I knew. Because I obviously knew who you guys were. Like, I've watched you guys, like, I've watched all your guys' videos. I'm not going to lie.

Yeah. I think everybody knows that. But I don't know. The Cloud House was like such a surreal moment in my eyes because. it just it was such a total operation like that opened my eyes like okay bro if you want to be if you want to really really get to that top this is how it's going to have to look you got to be stressed the fuck out it's not going to be all dandy and like happy and like yo we're filming videos oh just posted this is that now this operation but i seen how you guys were

and you were mercer money at the time like you were like i was very i was very scared i was very scared i was like bro i'm meeting like one of my idols like seriously i remember you too you're at the table and it seemed like you were very stressed out because you really wanted the merch shop to do well and i thought i think it was going live in like 30 45 minutes i think you guys were doing videos on phone to promote it on instagram yeah i didn't know what the hell was going on there but i kind of realized that when you guys got pushed in the pool i was like okay yo the merch shop to live you guys had the funnels that 60 minute window when like a drop would happen would be a chaotic stress something going on with shop fight because we'd crash something going on with shop

fight because we'd crash the site so many times you guys crash site we have to get more promo up we have to tell people that something sold out like that that that that like always be this like high it's almost like gambling and then but but i i i really actually had like back then like even now too like i admired the fact that like dude you guys were like that showed me a lot like i think that's what made me want to keep going as well yeah it was ridiculous bro did it was ridiculous it was ridiculous what do you guys think you cool about those days it's just like it's dope it was a good time. I was just like crazy. But I think now when I look back on it, I kind of said it in the video too. It's just like I would recommend to like younger people to, but you can't like recreate it.

It's so hard to explain. It's just like we were just going. Yeah. Like, you know, like we weren't like we were strategic and we were thinking and it was not luck. There's obviously maybe some luck. But like we were very strategic with everything we did. But at the same time, it's also like, damn we were just like in the zone right like i think that's what like short-circuited me a bit at a certain point like it was the exactly what you just said it was like what is you start thinking right like now it's like i don't got to worry about all these things we got money coming in we got this everything's working and it's like what is the goal post i mean i mean when you continuously just like trying and keep going i'm sure luck is going to play a part in a lot of things right

like getting that perfect reaction or yeah for sure getting those days we're like okay we just banged out of prank in 30 seconds. I mean, I think that plays a part with you working so hard, like, three times a week. It's like how you guys said. I mean, you're bound to have it. Was there any point when you guys started making that real money and you're in the Cloud House, like, all the distractions start to come in? Not Cloud House, I think we were pretty fucking, like, still just, like, dialed.

If anything, other people were distracted and, like, they were kind of had already made it a bit. yeah so like they weren't working as hard i think we were like by far and like i've heard other people say like we were like the hardest working team in that house like we were like dialed well i don't want to speak for you but i think that what it is is you and me were grinding like we went through all the other shit so it was like once you get a glimpse of like this all paying off and working it was like we're like dude this is time to press play like we got a fucking go go 100%. And we were like,

fight cheer by any means at all. Like we were like still like on the come up, you know? Yeah. But it opened up so many. You could collab with fucking anyone. You could fuck it. It was like,

I remember you were wanted to like meet Nigra and shit, right? Dude. And then it was like slowly like people that we were like dreaming of meeting. Yeah. Like next thing you know, Nigra posts a feed put like a fucking Instagram feed post with Jesse like skateboarding with them. Yeah. It was like shit like that was happening where I was like a.

For sure. Dream of yours too. or then like Austin Matthews is coming to our fucking crib like playing hockey with them in the Hollywood Hills like I'm a kid from fucking like I've been a leap span like it's just like what the fuck is going like that does happen it was always interesting too to see who was like he throws us up on his feed too yeah right now boys like it's just like shit just keeps going comes from hard work right I mean like yeah look at it it was cool to see like who was like your idols and who you were like stoked on and then who would I be stoked on and

like that whole like you don't want to be too like fanboy or whatever but like it's like someone that like half the people here wouldn't even be like tripping about and i'd be like fucking like what's up man like fucking altru you might as well be a fanboy right but then like someone else it's like big and but you're not it's not your guy like you're like chilling but yeah but i think we definitely me and jesse understood the youtube game yeah i was gonna say what do you think made you guys so different we knew how to grow subscribers we knew how to like pitch people ideas right like yeah like you know we would like not that we were using people but like we were like we knew how to collab with people and like you know you always got to present someone

like your idea to that person how is it beneficial for them or like do you know you think they'd like this idea 100% so you know we'd brainstorm like if we wanted to do something with niger like yo what are we going to do this no no no this no that yeah yeah and we would know and we would we were good at collabing yeah i think with people and like collabing with bigger people and since we were the we i think we're the first youtubeers i don't want to say first someone will call me out but like we're the first people to kind of like be degenerates for sure for sure yeah like one of the first popular people to be degenerate so like people wanted to work with the cool YouTubers

dude no one drank beer i remember that no one drank we would walk around with two fours and you're instantly the life of the party because it was like oh what the fuck like they actually brought beer like they didn't know what that was like shock gunning. They don't know what that was. Like, it was like, I don't know. It's interesting to think about that. The Canadian circus in LA. Like, we were fucking showing up and it was like different than what everyone else's vibe was, if that makes sense. So when did, when did Fulsen come into the picture? When was that created? That was from Lawrence, you said, right? I heard it at our boy, Laurent's mouth, but I think. Would you say that was when the brand really elevated when it went

from Just Nelke to Full Send? Merch wise, I guess. It was that white t-shirt. Yeah. We just put full sign on it and then that that girl at a gas station or something did the promo right wasn't that the first time we like marketed it uh-huh I wonder if I could find that clip I wonder episodes I didn't that'd be cool to look at yeah this is kind of off topic this is for all three of you but uh

if you had to look back what do you think which prank gave you the biggest adrenaline rush or are you most fucking nervous in the moment what was the scariest shit to do coke prank in Mexico yeah sure I mean my heart was racing you were pushing it you were fucking I forgot about that

dude they're like taking our car and shit and you're like still going ripping jokes i'm like bro let's get the fuck out of this country that was nuts that was a crazy one watching porn at a lecture would always be pretty uh like i mean it's just it's an adrenaline rush it's like what the fuck this whole fucking atore like everyone is looking like hearing you do this pretty fuck far out about coke prank in mexico that's a legendary one yeah that's a tough question well everyone always talks about too you you never break characters so it's like in the moment are you fucking freaking out or yeah like which one twisted you up selim like just like fuck or you didn't want to do it or some shit you know i don't think there's ever been a prank where i felt as if

i was scared to do i i'm being generally honest i don't know why i've never seen you hesitate on anything i really don't because it takes a lot for someone to really hate you right i mean Other than like, I've never been to jail. I mean, obviously once in Alabama, but besides that, I mean, you're never going to be scared of something unless it happens, right? Yeah. It happens the second time. It's like, oh, shit.

Dude, yeah. I just went through a wrong experience. For me, it was the arresting shit that would freak me out. The arresting shit, yeah. A person never scared me or like getting punched never scared me. It was like, oh, am I going to go to fucking jail? Yeah. It doesn't necessarily scare me.

I think where I felt as if, man, this is too. much. Yeah. Probably aggressively like when we were vaping in people's faces. Oh yeah. I thought that I was like, okay man, you're just being a dickhead. You know what I mean? But it was uh... With the sideways hats and shit? Yeah, I think

with that prank, in my opinion, I was just like, all right, let's not make it known. Let's not make it feel as if you're actually fucking waving this motherfucker's face. Whose idea was that one? I don't know. It's you, right? Didn't you start that one? No, I didn't fake back then. I didn't vague back then.

I thought he did that. He started it. I think those guys, the suss dudes were doing it. The suss dudes did it. Shout to those guys. Yeah, and honestly, like, I remember they did it. And then we just decided, yo, I remember we shouted them out in the video as well. Well, we brought them out to collab with us.

Yeah, yeah, they collabed with us. I'm thinking about the Instagram prank that we posted. But it was a good one to do on someone's boyfriend in front of their girlfriend. So you'd vape in their face and then hit on the girl. Yeah, that was so disrespectful. Flirting with girls. That's some of your best shit. Flirting with a boy.

Girls in front of their boyfriends. Yeah, that's hilarious. I thought that was hilarious. That's pretty. That takes balls. For me, like,

I like testing people a lot when it comes to, like, just pranks. Because you just never know what the hell is going to happen. I like that risk. But, I mean, it's not always smart to do. Yeah. Yeah.

But I've never been really, you know, like scared or felt like something bad may happen. I don't know. Maybe I'm like a cycle path. I think, I think, yeah, just like the cloud host, though, was just like, yeah it was just fucked like you guys have any stories that you haven't told or anything to share

there jesse has a crazy man probably i got one fucking crazy i could try to think yeah it's up to you if you want to talk about it yeah i don't give a fuck i mean i'm sure i'm not gonna get in trouble for it now but the oh my goodness i remember i went out with all the guys banks took us out to like a club i got blacked out and uh apparently i ended up going to like three other fucking parties i heard the next day but like I don't remember any of this and I just disappeared and then um like the cloud house like all the homes look the exact same like they all look like cookie cutter homes three in a row yeah and I guess I came home and like went to the wrong house and I don't even know how I got in there but I'm in the house and I'm in the top floor I'm like eating food out of the fridge like chocolate

cake and shit and then I left the sink running and then I passed out on this guy's couch and the apartment started flooding and then the guy woke up like three floors flooding and then he came out and like fucking thought that I was like a break in entry called the cops

wake up to like fucking shotguns pointed at me like thrown on the ground dude it was fuck what and then I get like so I'm in the back of this cop car and you know after being blacked out even if you get woken up it's like you're like half out of it still

and I'm like fucking dude I live here he's like dude you don't live here He's like, you're going downtown, like you're done. And then fucking fush saves my goddamn life. And I'm, and he walks out because he, because they're all gamers. So they were working. They're like, you know, gaming late. And I don't even know what happened.

But somehow he, like, came outside when I was in the cop car. What's that? They probably saw the sirens. Oh, yeah. That's a, yeah. There's probably cops everywhere. And, uh, and then he's like, he vowed for me and was like, yeah, he lives here and all this shit.

And then the owner of the. house came out and was like if he pays for the damages then like yeah he's good to go and then yeah lost all the money in my account and fucking oh good play by that guy though how much was that like 15 k $41,000 what the hell is you doing there what is she doing there? I didn't know it was that much damn it was all my money well Jesse what did you do in there holy fuck like 41,000 what'd you do well dude the whole house flooded in a fucking oh you flooded it okay yeah I didn't know it's 40 that's wow how do you how do you come back from that Oh, that was probably the start of my fucking, like, wake-up calls.

Really? Yeah. I had really bad anxiety after that. Oh, my God. And then fucking gambles banging on my door the next morning. Why did he do that? Did I tell you that? Oh, he, like, I don't even think he knew what was going on.

He was drunk or something, but he, like, banged on my door and was like, the cops. He's like, open up. And I, fuck. I'm in my boxers. And, dude, I'm, like, probably slept like an hour. I have so much anxiety. I, like, pounce out of my bed and, like, put on. clothes in like two seconds because i'm like i'm not going to jail in my boxers and then i like open

the door and it's fucking him and he's like what's up his hat sideways i'm like dude my heart is literally beating through my chest like holy that's fucking nuts dude it was crazy that's the crazy story yeah damn bro that's a tough tough bill to pay yeah um how much longer after that i'm sorry bro how much longer after that were you guys in the cloud house i don't know like when did you move out, go to Ferdonia. They were moving out, right? I think it was over. The cloud house

was just like done. I think. I can't remember. Or maybe we just fucked off. I think we fucked off to Europe. Yeah, that's what it was. Okay. We went to Europe. Everyone knows that that was a legendary fucking. Yeah. That's I mean, and then that's the next step, like, where

we like really elevated. And we were doing one video every Monday shooting it, editing it. it sounds like timing was just key like you have nowhere to go you're like fuck it let's go to Europe and it just elevates the entire channel because now we had the funds to go do that and like with

Osga and everyone it was like we weren't just dropping a YouTube video every Monday it was like fucking movie it was like every week shooting it and editing it one week what do you think we'd shoot Monday to Thursday or Friday and then boom edit edit edit get it up Monday

and same shit so like they're seeing it live on their stories and the video's like out that same week which is like pretty fucking crazy yeah those are some of the best videos yeah europe's legendary i mean that's when steve was obviously just like you know steve joined and he was he took knelt to another level for sure right like a massive yeah that's when he proposed to nine oh in front of the rifle tower right and you guys did soccer balls out there too yeah yeah where was that london or something yes those guys got piss they were trying to scrap us and shit i remember and then m tv pat on there bro mtv how did you guys decide i don't know i've never heard this how did you decide yeah we got to put mtv pat in the videos

how did that start he must have came down to like visit us and then was just in vlogs just like once in a while in it or yeah even in your old vlogs and like i always thought he was jokes too you obviously thought he was jokes so yeah i think he was down to come i was even like oh yeah does he down to come The father figure is a funny character. And he's just hilarious. Yeah. So fucking funny, bro. And that was an epic trip.

Yeah. There was a fake tour. But even that it's different because like we were fucking, we had 13 people probably. We had three editors. Osgaud, D. Tomas, Adrian. Yeah. Me, Jesse, Nino, Steve, Jason Ernie, Clay, Drew. Lawrence was there, chefing.

Yeah. And you had nine out. It was an operation, man. Yeah. How crazy is. big back moving like that with 13 people like and that's got to be expensive as fuck right it was oh yeah it was expensive and at that point are you guys like trying to like even save money or just putting everything like yo let's just fucking we're kind of as big as possible whatever it's going

right back into it pretty much yeah yeah yeah and Airbnbs weren't cheap out there for 13 people well well we're the fucking we were like some people like almost you guys definitely fuck them up you could even see you in the video did you guys even care or no oh yeah we were fucking up so for sure i think one in france got fucked up i was sleeping that night the paris one him and steve would go through a phase of just like when they would get drunk just like slamming beer bottles breaking shit yeah yeah why man i don't know it was pretty much you can't explain really like we would do that we just like throw shit you guys just get fucked up just randomly yeah we never even uploaded the paris no we didn't upload it because it was too fucked it was just like it was just

it wasn't funny it was just like yeah fucking yeah after europe did is that when you you guys moved right into ferdonia pretty much i was back in canada with that ohio charge i see i was like bro what the fuck's jessia i remember i think yeah i think we stayed at brads for a little bit just and we're looking we're looking for houses and then we found the yeah the first first knellk house that we actually right paid for ourselves and signed a lease yeah how big of a moment was that big was pretty big yeah but yeah europe was when i think europe was the prime was still the biggest drop we ever did it was it was right after the wine tour one of the biggest drop no the biggest i thought that the one we're like in a hotel room like 13 million

dollars in gross revenue ferdonia wasn't the biggest minutes wait ferdonia wasn't the biggest no no no no we're all like on biggest drop i think oh i think that one i remember that one maybe huge drop maybe that one was tied probably tied yeah yeah i just remember like no the one where we had the screen outside. Yeah, I remember that. That one was crazy too. I remember this guy, Kyle was like, Drew fucking fix his shit right now because some shit crashed. I remember you said that, man.

You were like, dude, fix that right now. You had to be on your hand, dude. That was hilarious. Just to give people an idea. It was crazy to see. Oh, yeah. That was a huge drop too. How many people are live on the site?

He said it's 30 minutes. Right? Was it like 300,000? We've done over 300,000 probably. 350,000 fans are waiting to buy. That's amazing. Merch at once. That's amazing.

That'll never not trip me out. Like, 350,000 people with a credit card. Like, imagine that many people, like, checking out at a fucking venue or something. I don't think that's ever been done. Like, that's like some Kylie Jenner shit. I was going to say, are any other creators moving merch like that that you guys had seen? I haven't seen. It's got to be up there with, like, a Supreme or something.

Like, I wonder what was back when Supreme's prime. Yeah. Because it's probably pretty insane for them, too. That's, like, an insane number. Like, what the hell? bro like 350 000 people just there when it's five minutes to go making fucking a million dollars a minute for like the first four minutes i remember i'm fucking you're nervous right i mean i bet i mean that's like crazy it didn't look real that's 350 000 people god damn it that's a lot of people it's crazy yeah

just getting that amount of people on that site is just like pretty ridiculous yeah that's insane find the older i get the more like these numbers like fucking like i was even just like this podcast is going to like million fucking people are just going to like dissect this conversation and like it's fucking nuts like it's when you think about it you can't you almost can't think about it it's like it's fucked so much people that is pretty crazy because i remember when that that drop did so well i remember wearing suits yeah and you were in the pool for some goddamn reason well for every merch drop we would try to think of something like engaging to do on the day that we would like post on our stories so like our story views would

be like the highest on the day yeah to like because because then when we would post the merch was live it would be like the most amount of people seeing it dude that was that was a very that was all part of the geniusness of it though like even like that was just as important like how many people would do a drop and they would do a countdown and then they'd fucking post it like seeing steen and Kyle shotguning behind the bar we had oh yeah yeah at that point you guys hyped we're so good at hyping that shit up Dude, you come up with like 10 ideas, like, oh, we're going to have three hookers come by, and then they'll be doing this. Random shit, right?

You just create a circus. That's amazing. That's like genius, right? Like, that's genius. Like, seeing that was like... What do you think the biggest key to that was, like, why do you think that we were able to get, like, 300,000 people on the site? Honestly, not to be corny, but I think that's where I got to give, like, the roses to you, man.

Like, that's where, like, I even, like, still in business that I'm doing now, like, I still take that energy of like how you you just like understand how to like build hype properly and how to market and like create real hype and it's like yeah and i'm sure yeah we both had ideas and did shit but like dude i think that was the science to why it like was different than anyone else it fucking it's just like i think one thing that i noticed as a fan was just everyone watched your guys's entire journey but everybody wanted to yeah the story selling the story That's a true story. That's what I was going to say where it was like

It's not like we like You know, fucked up or anything It's just like I think we were just literally like In this mission And it kind of like lasted for as long as it did And like like the fact that we went from doing like Three videos a week

To like you know what I mean A video every single Monday shooting and editing Like we can't even do that right now Yeah we have like a whole machine behind this too It's just like Like, once you have that jolt of energy, like, I feel like if you're like a young creator, like you got to capitalize on that because it's, I don't even know how to describe it. It's just like, it's to me, it's now all a blur.

Like, it's just like, damn, we were just like, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Like, you can't replicate that energy. No, but you showcased that. I remember, I can't remember what video was, but you guys were driving from, I think, Callie to Canada. And you almost stopped in, I want to say Chicago, because now I know how to girl there or some shit. but you literally showed you guys in a shitty car all three of you jam packed in there like in every video you just saw like the entire storyline dude no one else showcased that like you're thinking about that when you're a fan of someone and you're like about to press

purchase on a hoodie you're 100% being like oh fuck like I'm buying into this fucking story we weren't flying that was the thing back then like we were literally looking at the camera and we were like saying like yo guys like you You guys are funding this. Yeah. We're not making YouTube money. Right. We had zero brand deals that I can remember.

Like I don't think we had any. Because we were too, like, R-rated. Yeah. And no one was paying us brand deals. Like, literally, like, the fans were buying merch. And with the merch money, we were like flying to Europe, like, getting the Airbnb's, paying for the videos to go out. Like, it was like a real thing.

Right. And so that's why I think it was so successful, too. We have the fans that are so engaged and they're thinking, yeah, we got to see this. continue and that's the only way to see it yeah the fans pretty much built the channel i've seen too even kyle like when that merch drop happened when um we're all in suits yeah um just like how quick you were to think of like yo man like you're just quick to think of like the greatest shit to happen for now yeah because the merch drop dropped or it's about to drop whatever the case you'd be and like just thinking like what is going to make the sheet anything i remember we bought like 500 tins and put them in my g-wagon

so that when I open the door like we just like cool that's a 10 second clip that'll fucking bang then it was like another one like you know what I mean it was just thinking a lot of things that were very eye catching

yeah I wish we had like behind the scenes footage of that shit that's amazing there's a lot of things I haven't fuck it was like it's pretty magical like what we did like some other things that you guys did

like that because I remember like Steve's boot was just so on brand and so perfect for him oh yeah you had a new one every drop like there was just like little things like that that were just perfect for each guy.

Kind of the first people to like, definitely from YouTube to start like sourcing hard goods and like like shit like that, the shotgun tool and making our own. And like that was another pivoting point, I think, that like separated us from like a merch company. Play was a hard good guy. Dude. Yeah. And he'd have to work throughout the night to talk to China.

He's grinded. It's wild, dude. That's wild. Yeah. So at that, I remember. That was the first thing I ever went to Ferdone was the suit drop. And you guys had a fucking party at the house. I came with Bob.

And I was like, yo, this is fucking in. I'd never seen anything like that. Did you see the drop or just the party after? Just the party. The party, yeah. But I was like, you have live tattoo artists. Yeah. So many.

I remember. I was like, I was like, yo, this is fucking crazy. There's so many hot chicks. Like, when I went, I was like, yo, these guys are the fucking shit. Like, that's the kind of scene. Like, you know people want to be in yeah so at that point when merch and stuff you guys would say you're

pretty much on top like you went from kind of the new guys to like yo 100% man 350 000 people yeah we were it's insane we were yeah so what's what's the motivated and how do you what's the next step after that like when you reach that you're like fuck how do we how do you get creative at that point it's tougher i mean i think i mean yeah when the money does come it does it does make it it does change it a bit mentally yeah yeah it changes it a bit because it's not you don't have to do it yeah right before we had to do it we had to right like that's what it was so it was like when you don't have to do something then you know it's it's not as right you're not gonna go watch a porn video in a lecture when you have that kind of money coming in you're not as it like incentivized to go

yeah also we'd been doing it longer too so the stuff that you know we wanted to do can get like repetitive or like what's that saying that it's hard to train in silk sheets like they'll say that about like Connor McGregor or some shit right I think that but I think that's just a learning curve you just have to like find what you're like maybe it's more about just like oh we can do a bigger video and I'm super excited about shooting this certain thing or moving the goal post but it's tough when you've been doing it for a while too and like also we'd both been arrested like Jesse twice yeah yeah like even even now I'll still think like we will think of some prank ideas that I know would bang

and I'm like we were about to shoot it too like we've been talking about the too touchy thing or it's just like I want to do it but it's like just pushing myself to do that like prank that like I might get in shit or I might get fucking hit it's just like damn I just can't do it like I like it doesn't make me happy you know what I'm saying so it's like I like doing the pranks that like I'm not going to get in trouble like yeah we did the car one car wash one recently or like even the wheelchair one was like not as like you know what i'm saying yeah i mean it's but it's just tough to like when it doesn't make you happy it's not same right before we would enjoy shooting pranks like back in the day like we'd probably maybe it wasn't

the funnest thing ever but we had we didn't have a terrible time doing no i mean dude i don't know before i got arrested oh i definitely was like i wasn't scared of being arrested wasn't scared to punch in the face i was like whatever the fuck we got to do to do it like there was a switch that happened for sure like it freaked me the fuck out but the yeah like i can't picture me doing anything now that would like get me arrested i don't think i would yeah it's fucked like if you're talking about like hey you don't have to do this it's like but i also love still doing pranks and all that shit still yeah is there anything you guys miss about doing that shit i just miss it's like missing like fucking going to high school or something that's the way i see it is

Like you look back on this time and it was like, you know, you were younger, you had less worries. Mm-hmm. And you just, you just like, what a great fucking time. Like, what a fucking time to be alive. Like, we were just. I think if you remove all the stress of having to do it or getting arrested or any of that bullshit, like, I would go shoot with you tomorrow. You know what I mean? Like, if it was like, because there is something really fun about you'd be this crew and you'd watch someone go do their bit and you're like, oh, fuck, what's going to have?

happen and then you go do your bit and you try to one up them and then they try to one up you and it like it is fun as fuck like and then you get to go and sit with editing and fucking create the comedy magic and like you guys know too once you get that good reaction you're just sitting there like yo oh yeah it's a great feeling that's probably the best feeling we said this in the knellk video but our whole group was like from the editors to like even when you guys came in everyone wanted to make a good fucking product you know everyone wanted to be like if we got something good it wasn't like all right like sweet like put it out like we were fucking like yo we're fired up for the set we're proud of what we made yeah and we can't wait to share it

like very selective fans like what go 10% yeah yeah that was the best that was the best thing man we're able to all sit down together and really really watch like Jesus Christ like we know it's going to be good yeah that was the best feeling is like we know it's going to be good I remember uh crashing online uh the Zoom lecture oh yeah You don't have a video? Like, yeah. That was, that was people sometimes say that's like how they found us.

Dude, isn't that crazy? Like, like, I remember us sitting down and we're watching that. And we just all clapped at the end. I was like probably one of the most beautiful things ever. Zoom was.

I've ever seen like, that was such good timing. That was such great timing, man. Such great timing. And we just all like that. Well, we had to improvise too.

It was like we couldn't shoot anything. It was like, we could shoot nothing. We're still hitting a prank calling. Apple store IDs or Apple. or Apple. I remember you guys were sitting down. You had the hat.

You know what I mean? You guys were definitely able to capitalize. You guys were able to capitalize on the COVID situation harder than any other creators, I think. Yeah, no 100%. Because it also was at the time, I think, probably the most amount of people on their phone too. Right.

What else did you guys do? You did something else. You did the lectures, which was fucking hilarious. That was so viral. And then what else was done? Well, there was an endless amount of online classes. So the amount of ideas you could do was pretty honest. I remember doing the shitting one.

Remember I was like, I took a shit. Yeah, I was like insane. But I just remember we just kept firing those off. You were definitely actually shitting too, didn't we? Huh? You were shitting for real. I did. I did.

I had it. Yeah. It was funny. But I remember we did that and we saw a lot. Dude, that was, that was amazing. That little couch we had downstairs. Oh, yeah. Next to my fucking shing, the room that I had that was like, it's fucking terrible.

Oh, yeah. But it was just, I don't know, it was just great. Because like the whole house. Ernie would be down there rolling up a fucking. Oh, yeah. Dude, the whole house every morning. Let's all, let's be honest. Yeah.

The whole house was in shit. Well, there was fucking 15 people. It was a frat house. But it was beautiful when we all came. Because of the first house we ever like actually signed a lease for. Yeah. Like that was the, like, it was always month. It was always month.

Yeah. Which was crazy. I remember I'd go through spurts where I'd like clean the kitchen or some shit. Be like, y'all, I need to clean home. and then like yeah no one's fucking rager in an hour cleaning you know i'd be in there i'd start the rager like people are making bacon eight a ms there was a lot of next emotion be like oh no no we got to be like it's like a house oh it's not my bedroom at that house man it was like a it was like a it was like you had a nice you had a nice room though you had a nice room i really went

in there if you were on the top floor on that house you were okay it seemed like oh fuck you still have people banging on the door, though. Kyle's had nothing in there. No. It was like how I'm a boring guy, man. I just, I just go to bed. Steve, I don't know. It's fun of dog traps. I don't know what's going on.

I remember I started cleaning up. I don't remember this, but I was like, I was trying to store things in your closet, like snowboards or like some shit. And you're like, yo, dude, I'm not trying to like. Oh, really? Yeah, I remember one time I was cleaning up and I was like, you got this big closet. And I started like bringing all this shit upstairs. And you're like, dude, you're not moving all this shit.

fuck you ask yeah do you guys have any any other funny ass moments or like untold stories in that house the fucking laundry room was a fucking ass ass it was a mountain every day it was just it just wasn't it it just wasn't it might that was funny and was that enjoyable or you guys like yo we got we got to take it somewhere else after this what was that sorry like was that situation with having the entire team that was pretty much the office was that enjoyable or was it like yeah we got to keep going and get something better than this I don't know we probably have

different opinions on that moment I mean for me like I was definitely it just I grew up forks so like it was just like I had this where it is I mean I don't know how you guys thought of it but I did seem like yeah it was definitely hectic

I think I liked like alone time I was gonna say yeah fucking that like that was probably part of two it's just like eventually like so I remember we were going to go to um was it Dubai what was it where yeah and

Osgod got COVID or something happened and then I couldn't go and then I got an Airbnb because I couldn't go back to the house or something but I remember that was like the first probably because I like went to an Airbnb by myself

and like probably got a taste of like a little bit of a quieter The Kabid fight thing and that was like kind of a I don't know definitely like you almost didn't think that like that's an option

you're like nah dude you gotta live with fucking 14 dudes and keep going. There's a lot of dudes. That's a lot of dudes, man. Especially after doing it for a long-ass time. It's just like... I'm just going to say, like, when did you guys find

like a time where it was just like you're just not motivated and you're just not as into it as you used to be? Probably around that time for me. Was there like a certain moment or it just was building up and you're like, yo, I got to try something different. Yeah. For me, it was just building up around

that time for a while, I think. but it was also a mixture of a lot of things i think like i just wasn't like in a good headspace so i just fucking had to figure out some shit but uh like i'm sure it tested you a lot of times like i could tell and it was like a lot on you but you were always good to fucking just like this is what we got to do fucking keep it going i think i think that it's just like i understand too what you were going through too because it's like even now with like my like health too and mental health like i realized too like dude it really is everything yeah and it's like if you don't have your mental health then like what do you really

have right so like if you were going through that time when like you had like you had to do it you had to do like yeah i mean like if you were not in a good headspace and like it wasn't the best environment and all that it's like it makes total sense to me like you know best way to describe it was it was it was like you know there was crazy even now bro it's still you know there's times where like that's why even now I'm prioritizing my health and like yeah there'll be certain trips that I could go on like we're talking about and doing international shit like besides probably Dubai I'm not like I don't even want to travel till I get the shred done and like get to that goal of like November's when it ends like I want to get healthy and like yeah put that first because

dude even with the shit now like with happy dad and shit there's a lot of there's a lot of temptations right and like yeah like we could easily slip up and go down that that lane too so i totally get like i get it it makes sense to me there's just a point where you realize like yo this isn't sustainable if you want to accomplish things you can't like live an unhealthy lifestyle like that no like daily the best way to describe it like is when you're at a point like say someone's going through whatever it is like fucking depression or crazy anxiety or dude like even far like bipolar or schizophrenic like dude like when you go through something like that to a point where you've like redlined it i feel like all these things that matter right like

your business and you're like all these things that you are like at the front line it's almost like that becomes one percent because your head's not there so like your 99 percent of your brain is freaking out because you're like like like you know what i mean it's like i can't i can't really explain it but like it's like the best way i can say it is like you don't really have a choice yeah you don't have a choice it takes over it's like there's a filter over you and you're like i have to have to deal with this and then i can go deal with those other things that matter i've i've i've i've hit like breaking points like that re like recently more too really like yeah but like i don't it's just like you know shit will happen or you know

doing too much of something and just you just hit a wall yeah you know you hit a wall or like you know just stress and anxiety from online bullshit or like whatever it is just like that time it's like sometimes you're just like fuck like you know like this is this really worth it like type shit but for sure that happens with everybody it's tough it's a lot to juggle for sure it is yeah so that's why i think just like i've realized too like god damn like you got to stay sane you got to stay right did you guys ever have uh this is kind of off topic but a video or a prank idea that you were never able to do or you never like actually followed up on filming I mean near the end of film and there was a lot of ideas that I didn't even do because I was

all freaked out about getting arrested kind of shit but there was definitely some crazy ideas thrown out there that I was like well probably not I'd have to think I just always think but I don't know what were you guys saying about do you guys continue where you guys were saying before he mentioned that I just didn't want to know what you said the wall oh yeah just like dude i don't know whether it's like whatever it is like you know if it's too much partying or you know yeah like i said maybe there's like just drama and shit online or whatever it is you know shit like that where it's just like sometimes you just like yeah you hit a wall and whatever situation that is yeah and it just kind of shuts you down right and that can't

even be glossed over either dude like i'm just interested because what you were internet shit like just not like yeah like that whole thing of like just so many eyes watching everything you're doing is like crazy people yeah commenting things and this and you're just like yeah it's a lot to like add on top of all the was that was that part of it like when we're at the fraternity house too maybe like i'm sure yeah definitely a part of it but i don't know it's really hard to explain especially with the sober like going sober too and like not drinking too like even for me if I'm trying to get fit and not party less, you do have to just, you do have to just not be in situations like that too. Yeah. I mean, like, I'm not fucking going to the club sober straight

up. But I'm not. Like, I can't, like, I'm not going to do that. If I'm going to go out, I'm probably going to drink. Like, people would say whatever the fuck they want. Like, how can you not go sober? But it's, I'm just not going to do that. It's just like, it's just not what I'm used to. Dude, I tried when I first stopped drinking. And it's like, dude, you last, like, you can only get so many fucking like what are the fucking flavored waters up to you and says let's take a shot like you're buckling and so it's just like for me if i want to stay dialed in the gym like i just chill during the week and then saturday's my day you know to like if you want to go out and have fun have some drinks do that but that's kind of where like i'm kind of at right now

so i'm that's my goal yeah it seems to be good but it's just like outside of uh like the mental health physical health all that deep what's your guys is goals that you want to accomplish like in this space personally um my i mean my business goals really just right now is to like the main focus for me is just to build happy dad to be like the biggest one of the biggest alcohol brands in the world yeah like yeah we say we're not really competing with like people think we're competing with white claw but like we're we think we're competing with bud wiser right in the sense that like you know we could be an entire alcohol company you know happy dad could just be our first product of many but like we want to

own like the consumer like goods consumer products like space you know and now we have so many relationships with all these stores like direct relationships with like walmart you got distribution to set up all the like all our partners now we have we own those relationships so like happy dad might just be our first product like maybe we'll launch a liquor maybe we'll launch something a non-alcoholic product and now you know yeah it's just a funnel because we have all these stores so that's kind of like my business goal but and then just continuing to try to have fun with nilk I think like that's why this video is good for me too because I kind of wanted to just tell the fans like it's just like I feel like they take it sometimes too seriously and because they're passionate and it's like

what me and you built from the beginning was just like it's fucking. magical so but for me i just want to have fun with it and just i just like making content so it's just like i just want to have fun and upload the videos and like there's definitely no need to make it stress you out yeah i'd love to just have fun and like upload videos and just like you know what i mean 100% like i that's why i wanted to tell them like i agree with you guys like old nilk is dope as fuck like no one said it wasn't you know like i fucking love it just as much as you guys like yeah no lie so like yeah that's that's where i'm at but i can't complain bro life is fucking i'm we're blessed i'm very blessed grateful like very blessed actually

100% really how about you yeah i think um i'm really happy with sunday and how it's all coming out and uh that i took my time like like i've said this before but basically just creating something that would keep me stoked for the next 10 20 years um but uh no like real massive goals basically just getting it to a point where it's profitable and it can keep funding creating more shit and i know that's kind of corny but it's like that's like really my only goal right now because like i know that like obviously even when i exited it was like i made it i can chill whatever but like i quickly realized that i'm just not that guy like i like working on shit so like yeah that's like the dream i see just like not being

in one lane obviously i love doing product development and creating brands but uh i don't know like you know we used to talk about like making movies or shows and like i just being able to like keep doing that and growing connections and fucking just keep creating things is how's boxing how's boxing helped you like because you've been doing dude it's it's it's fucking awesome it's it's so funny that obviously like skateboarding has always been my thing and there's so many similarities to like because it's like a it's not a team sport it's like you can go work on it whenever you want and like i don't know i just fucking i never like fell in love with another sport like since skateboarding and it's like took over skateboarding that's

but dude i i i love it man that's awesome that's actually really good yeah you think one time selian fucking loves ufc now too yeah i love yeah we've been talking this guy will have a chick over and put on a fucking rerun ufc fight oh yeah it's so funny though i love it bro such a great Every bird. I love hearing that, though. It's like the same, it's like the same fight is Lom versus Volk. He just puts it on the TV and makes them watch. It's a great fight to watch.

And like girls don't fuck with UFC really. Like not a lot. It's not a lot. Like, yeah. It's so funny. It's just cool. You got to keep doing like, dude. Like you never know what the hell is going to have.

Such a power mood, bro. It's not. I would, I would watch you watch UFC. I would watch UFC fights with girls. Like, I would love to watch that. Like, please film. Dude, I don't even watch you. That's a good show concept.

No, I don't watch it because I'm just trying to put it on for them. Like, I just generally want to watch it. Like, I just want to watch the fight. There's a lot of fights that I like a lot. My go-to is the Connor Dustin trilogy. Like, watch that so much. And Gaichi, like, dude, any of his fights. So, Gagee's fight, dude, that guy's brawler.

Dude, I like that guy a lot. I love Gage. He's on a next level right now, too. He's dialed. He's ready to go. I think he officially just joined Team Happy Dad today. That wasn't doing to that. If we put it in the pod, Justin Geachie, welcome to Team Happy Dad.

dad let's go that's fucking no baddest motherfucker yeah that's crazy you got the bmf belt this is pretty cool i know uh you think ever one time for the fans you guys could run back one prank maybe it's like less risky or yeah for sure yeah like soon that would love to like i'll go shoot one this week i mean with you guys but i would love if all of us just got into one man that would be so amazing we should just if it's a the thing of it's a prank we got to definitely be like we like then it puts a little more pressure on us That's why I was like, let's go on a trip and just have fun. And it's just like, but if we're doing a prank, we might got to sit down and be like, like, what prank is it going to be?

Like, I feel like it should be the most simplest fucking thing and just like more about like it doesn't matter, you know? It's not this big thing we got to pull off. Or we do, we do have some like more like Bigfoot ideas though that we like we thought of. Oh, really? Yeah. We thought of some pretty dope ones. Really? So, yeah.

Not Bigfoot. But like movie style. Oh, movie style. Like one concept where it's just like we thought of some pretty funny ones that like it could be dope to do something like that too Or it's we'll just brainstorm and choose what if you three did the like golf chirps ran that back Yeah, it'd be cool. I think I know the fans would be thinking just do anything I think that I would I would prefer to come back with something like fires fuck but I really like the trolling like anime fighters I feel like that is I mean obviously with your connections out too like I don't know where you do it but some

kind of like just like you go in there and you think you're the beauty and you're like sparring too hard or you're fucking dude there's so many jokes you could do you're thinking of doing um we're about to shoot it we might shoot it but oh the jihitsu one like yeah like it's kind of weird though I guess like saying saying like gay shit to people while you're like rolling jiu jihitsu it's kind of weird though I mean you think about though like you're on full mount you know what I mean like he was saying it to you was like I could flip you over by like I just don't know if I could say a line was saying my legs and like he could just be just break it to you like they're in your guard and just like I'm not gonna lie like I love where you

are right was just like weird shit that's that's pretty fucking funny I thought that was pretty hilarious like because it's like shit dude is this guy is this guy gonna actually flip me like that'd be weird I mean it kind of makes both people like oh yeah you want to keep it out you want to pass my guard right now yeah especially with them I mean I got it especially if you show up wearing like the wrong pads or on the wrong like you're wearing too much pads like You're just so much sure where you just look like a rookie, but you're talking all this shit. Dude, imagine like worn out pads or some shit,

like you're all the time colors and shit. I don't know. It's just like weird shit. You should just show up wearing full hockey gear. That would be funny. We were thinking of doing one like, uh, Austin Powers, like,

you know how he got frozen? I can't remember. Like, so like basically the concept would be like, um, it could be two people that are frozen, but let's say like I was frozen or something. And then,

your job was to hire someone to like when I get unfrozen like show me around the world like I've been frozen I've been frozen I've been frozen for 30 years and then like we actually do it like we get crate the thing oh that's funny they like would they come like we'll interview marks yeah like post on Craigslist and say like hey we need a caretaker then when they like interview them choose the right one then when they get to the crib like they witness it like crazy like lab like getting unfod and then it's this person's job to like show in your outfit looks like you're from 50 years ago yeah and you're like some rich guy that was like i don't know that could be like epic yeah it's hilarious a few ones like that we're so many lines that could come out of that too

yeah like something crazy like that those ones are fun how would you be like look would you show him that you're in ice like how would yeah like we'd just create it like we have this props girl that would probably like pull it off yeah like i don't know how she would do it but maybe still got a little bit of ice on your cheek or something yeah yeah yeah like we'd just had a little bit of ice on your cheek or some shit. But, like, no, we'd actually be in the, like, however she would do it, yeah. Like, we have to do that. Just like Austin Powers, right?

Yeah, make them sign a bunch of shit so they think it's, like, top secret. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like, it's a big deal. Yeah, that's actually a good idea. It's funny. Yeah, because imagine the reactions to that. That'd be like, what the fuck? That's a good one.

I think that's good idea. I do agree. I like the idea of us all, like, everyone plays a certain part of a, like, Bigfoot. Yeah, that'd be the best way to do it. Yeah. And everyone has their own role. and we just like make it happen.

We have a few movie ideas like that that we thought of. Really? Yeah. So we could brainstorm. Yeah. Yeah. We should just fucking kick it

and fucking come up with some ideas. Yeah. For sure. We brainstorm. And then we got to get fucking, if we do a re-we could do some sort of trip too. I think that would be cool. Mm-hmm.

Just even, I don't even like know where it would be, but I think just like you and like if Nino was there and like Pat, like interacting with like the new people too. It's just like so much different shit now. Like you know what I mean? So what's the deal with like Gabe and I know? Could Steve

be in it or he's? Steve can't be on YouTube. That's what we got to figure out. It's because like I say put him on but just for his face. He's got to be. Can you do that? Are you serious? Dude in the Trump video they like wouldn't even let us put his hand in the video. Like he hands Trump's fucked man. I know. Yeah. So I don't know. You got to have Steve. Put it on ass. I know. I know. We got to have Steve. If we bring him back

everyone we need Steve in the video like we need to figure that out something. We need Steve in it. Or we shoot something with Steve for Rumble or something. Yeah. I mean either way. I miss Steve. Steve has to always be in there. No, he would obviously want to. He wants to be in the video is bad. We're trying to figure it out

but I don't know. Yeah, well I'm glad we did this. The fans, the long time coming. Obviously me and Gabe have utmost respect for you, bro, because we wouldn't be here without you. I appreciate that, though. Yeah. Appreciate everything you guys, all three of you've done.

Are you still sipping on that coffee? No, it's a spitter now. Wow. I ruined this coat. And then, yeah, I think from here, you guys figure out what the most fire thing we could all fucking film is. Yeah. Well, I think me and Jesse were just talking.

We just treat it more like a collaborative thing now and it's just like, just have fun with it. And then whenever we have an idea, we'll work together and stuff like that. Maybe at one night was Steiny, huh? I'm fucking new with that. I was doing that. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

I'm just playing. She brought you up a few times on there. Yeah, I heard. All right. Well, yeah, comment. Comment if you guys have any ideas that you guys would like to see for even for a trip

and then for pranks, too. But yeah, I think the trip would be first. I think we get, we'll see if Nino. MTV Pat. I think we just do it. I think everyone wants to see it. Got to have Steve, bro.

It'd be fucking fun. Yeah, we'll figure out the Steve thing. Dude, my dad called me like three times a day. I haven't answered it. Yeah, really? Dude, he's so horny, man. Really? Dude.

You guys, because the Nalk video went up. He's just like, yo, bro, he's probably already packed a bag and shit. Dude, that's so funny, man. Hell yeah. All right, well, drop a thumbs up, guys, comment. I think this was fucking awesome. I feel like you, bro. Hell yeah.

All right, boys. Good shit, boys. Fuck yeah, buddy.