The Group Chat - #173 - Kids in America

Episode Date: August 28, 2026

R.I.P Dolly Parton.

And he's back. Oh. Oh. Oh. Welcome back to the group chat podcast where we use code group for 10% off of the game. Yes, we do. Yeah. What's new, guys?

I feel like it's been a minute. It has been. It has been a fucking long time, dude. Did we talk last week? Nope. Wow. Did we talk last week? I don't think we did.

No, I mean. Tanner left. Tanner left. Set us, for sure, his dog. disappeared and no one talked to each other. And you did too. They did that same thing. Lion and I have to keep in the house here that's strung down.

It's kind of tidied up a little bit. It's not going to lie. It's been like a pig. It's been like a ghost town. No, we're the pigs, man. Guys, like the past like four group videos that we recorded, all of the shit that's left over after the fact doesn't go anywhere else but our home. It stays just fragments and all over the place.

We like, we sit there. We look at it. We're like, well, we might, may be. need that. Yeah, most of the time we don't. Yeah, most of the time we don't, though. And that's called hoarding, folks.

We're hoarded. Let's talk about hoarding. We're hoarding. There's someone hoarding a lot of gameplay of GTA6 right now. And he's, and he's fucking making people pay crypto for GTA6. What is? Yeah, big time, dude.

That's been kind of my world a little bit recently. It has been kind of on that. CyberLeak has been holding. Oh, my gosh. Dude, it's like, this is like the new generation's like lizard squad. Isn't that the best, bro? They have their lizard squad except it's one guy. And usually can GTA6.

Could be multiple people acting as one guy. You're actually right. That could be it. Uh-huh. This actual lizard squad. That could be it. Uh-huh. There's a lot of fakers out there.

I don't know where the sources really come from. I just see them all explode on Twitter whenever they drop. So I think there's a telegram. That's what's going on. There's a telegram where the guy's dropping everything and then, or guys or people. or people and then it just spreads like wildfire

damn you're chugging down that drink down boy yeah I haven't had a nuri in a long time in a long time you didn't take you need a nuggie for that nary

yeah I'm gonna give you a nougie when I say I wish you were here so I could give you a nudge but you're not yeah why aren't you there tell me why because my throat is itchy

oh he doesn't want him to get sick which is really kind yeah I don't know if I'm getting sick or not but I think it's definitely a lack of sleep

it would make sense bro you're traveling i feel like i'm uh i'm gonna call with your doctor right now grunts your doctor yeah you're the patient i would hope not i hope you're not sick don't come back to my office you slide over the bill and they pay dude i need to schedule the doctors of playing because i've been i've been becoming aware that i haven't had a check up in probably like four or five years and yeah like within that time i probably could have i could be dying and i have no idea you could have a massive like super fucking golf ball tumor in between like the diaphragm in your long and be like oh that's why it hurts to breathe oh that's why yeah see that bro isn't that crazy they're gonna grab your balls and make you cough they don't do that no more man I thought you gonna say another word that starts to see and I was about to be like what yeah

make you chop chill and make you chill and make you chill yeah make you count to 10 or something yeah um I'm sorry that you're feeling sick and I hope you don't actually get sick. That's so nice. I should be fine. I think it's just lack of sleep. I think it's like, it's like, tons of smoke.

From Las Vegas because you're just in Vegas for a little bit. I was with, yeah, I was with Jimmy and Bryce and, and, yeah, it was fun.

Dude, I got recognized while I was working out. I don't know if that person watches a podcast. I wanted to ask. Yeah, I was working out at the gym, you know, recording a great lock in.

And she, she walks up to me and she just asked, If I'm me and then we you know took a picture and shit it was just like really cool because she was with their dad and that was like awesome That's sweet did not expect that so how how are the gyms? I've been here. I haven't gone anywhere in so long I haven't been to a new gym and so long I'm just like trying to live a little bit through you how are they out there? Are they good? So I went to the aria which is the casino They have a are you in there? Are you? Yeah, I was in there. I was in there. Yeah, I was in there. Yeah

I can't stop smiling. He's been overcome with like whimsical joy. I actually feel like I wanted to tell a health call. You were like, this is my crash out day. I'm crashing out. I know. I was in such a bad mood but didn't we started recording it. Wow, look at this.

I just can't like to smile off my face. It's just adorable. I just miss my friends. Oh, buddy. I'm excited. Well, first of all, I'm excited. all, I do not know the a aria had a gym. It's like a hotel gym.

It's a really nice gym. Wow. Is it like gold-plated everywhere? There's just a lot of equipment. Right outside of there's the pool. So I do have a little bit of sunburn. So is it like, is it one of those gyms where you go in? You have to pay $2 to use the treadmill $3 for a towel.

Oh shit. That's awesome. It's all free. Nothing. Free Shavakado? Yeah. Nothing. Do you mean included with your hotel stay? Yeah.

That was a very important That's an important detail, Willie. That means it's not free. You paid for that. Well, I used it. A lot of people don't use it, you know? Why not? Because people, when people go, they're not going to the gym.

No, no, I'll tell you why. It's because my friend Willie is locked in. Thank you, Grunk. Dude, I ate so well on that trip, not a single drink. I think the worst thing I had was chips and salsa. Oh, my God. Wow. I commend you, bro. Good stuff.

And then, I condemn you, actually. He shouldn't have had those chips in salsa. I thought we were locked in. Yeah. Dude, they were so good. Oh, my God. I was like, can I get more chips? I brought more chips.

I just kept on fucking eating them. Oh, you're probably like one of those cats. I don't know. I don't think about it, dude. I feel like the one thing we can relate on in terms of like when it comes to dieting is I'd be eating the same is every single day. But oh my God, if I find like a chili, a spicy chili or no, a sweet and spicy chili Dorito. And I taste it, bro. My mouth starts doing like the worm.

Like it's actually crazy. Like my taste plays actually just ignite with like the most, the most emotion ever. It's the best taste ever. I was able to work out like every day. I haven't had fucking Doritos in so long, dude. When you have one? God. Oh my God.

Oh my God, bro. No, he's never going to have one. Just one is all you need. He's locked in for life, bro. When you're going to get a stomach ulcer? Yeah, you just, your whole stomach's going to turn to like a big gym. Can you do a video where, uh, you're like about a failure. You're like, oh my God, I want to eat.

so, like I want to eat shit, dude. I want fucking Jenny's ice cream so fucking bad. So in order to not do that, you make a fucking blood oath and you like take blood out of your thumb and you make the thumbprint and you make the signature and you're fucking locked in for life. That would be tough. Forever.

And if it even slices your head off. Yeah, you're fucking cooked. You're going to be the next chip you have, you actually have a heart attack and you die. It will not happen. Do you sign? Dude, I have no like want for trashy food. Like I don't even care but the fucking the sticker bar.

You were past that when we were on the road trip. You were talking about that. Yeah. Yeah, I don't really crave it. I believe that. I just want food. That's good.

I just want fuel. I like, I would, okay, like, for example, like I would eat like a McDonald's burger, even though it's not the most optimal.

I would just eat the, like, the paddy or some shit like that. Like, I'll eat certain things if I really need to. If push comes to shove, if there's nothing else healthy,

you know, I will. But, you know, on this trip, it was really, it was really a cool time. Dude,

We were playing Baccarat, high-stakes Bacchrot, and, dude, the people that were sitting at our table were crazy. It was such a good time. You want to get into that? Are they going to fly you out to their island and stuff? Yeah. Sorry, that wasn't a reference to Epstein or anything. That was just, my bad. I think that was a surprise.

That's exactly what it saw. Rich people have islands. It's not a crazy thing to say. It was supposed to be a rich people with an island thing, but I realized, you know, given everything. Now that I'm really thinking about it, I probably shouldn't talk. about it publicly. Nothing like crazy happened. It's just like kind of like talk about other people's business at the table. Okay. Well, drunk, see what you did. Now the world, now it could be anyone. It could be terrorists. It could be at the high room box at table. It was just one of those

things, bro. It's just one of those things. It was such good vibes of the table. Those guys were having such a wise. It's one of those things you don't speak about because they get in trouble. Yeah. Now you see that's not terrible. Not yet. Now you sound like a cyber criminal. No, you're all good. You're with cyber league. You're just respecting their privacy. Yeah. You don't know if they want their information out there. I'll, like, I'll spill, like, I'll spill a bean. It's in regards to someone that Nick met. Very high profile, man. It's super cool to hear.

Super cool. Are you giving hints? All right. So, all right. Now we're going to talk about the companies he runs. All right. So the first one, two words. First one starts. I'm kidding.

We're not going to go that far. But, yeah, it's still cool. Dude. Dude, what? What do you think they know? No one knows. Say it. Oh, man.

No, I. No one knows. they would know if they found out that. If I gave enough hint, sorry, second hit number two. So the man, how tall is he? Stop. You're going. You're still going.

I'm like prying. No, I just, I would, I would love to talk more about, like, the people and stuff like that. But again, you know, I don't know if, like, I should. But it was just really good vibes. It was, like, meeting people that, like, you know, they're wagering a lot. they're having a good time, very high profile people, and it's just like really chill, dude. Like, everyone's having a fucking blast.

There was this one guy at our table, and I can't talk about this guy. So in Baccarat, it's a game where, like, you can either bet on player, banker, tie, whatever. And this is one of the only games in the casino where you're able to touch the cards and fold them. It's really fun. It's a Chinese game.

And, yeah, you can actually touch the cards. Yeah, because at the very end, they take all the cards and throw them away. Oh, literally they... Every game? Every... That's so expensive. Like a fat deck.

No, it's a fat deck and then they put them all together. They probably recycle them because they're a casino and they're recycle friendly. I have no idea. Cicinos are good places. Because they're awesome. Yeah, they're great places. Cisinos are awesome. But, yeah, so we were sitting there.

It was me and Bryce and Jimmy and there was an older Asian guy that like walks up and he sits down. And dude, we in Baccarat, the goal is to get as close to. nine as possible to win. Like the number that you get as closest. So like aces count as one, then two's count as two, three, four. Any ten card counts as a zero. So if you were to pull like a nine and an ace,

a nine and like a king, that's nine. And you would get a natural nine if the other side has less than nine. If they get a nine, you tie. You know what I'm saying? So you want to get nines. And so this older Asian guy next to us, we don't know his name. at this point, but he kept on

pulling nines for us and we kept on winning and so we eventually called him Uncle 9. And so the entire night, we were like, come on Uncle 9, come on Uncle 9, you got this. So he went by, he started calling himself Uncle 9 and he could barely speak any English. He's going to keep

that forever now. Uncle Nine. Dude, oh my God. Do you remember the guy in Japan that we saw Nick at the Rayban store? He like came out of his car. Oh my God. And he had like a golden He had like a golden skull, like on the top of his walker. Yeah, yeah.

He was a kingpin fucking mafia boss. And like they opened the door for him anywhere he went. And they're like fucking sweep the floor on his feet. That's probably Uncle nine, bro. That's how he got his wealth. It's like, old 10. Uncle 10. Yeah.

He was overseas and shit. So. That was like trying to fun things. Trying to find out the rules of Baccarat. I'm a little stunker. It's a little. You're just trying to reach nine. You pull a 19, but no, it's actually nine.

Okay, because face cards, 10 or any face card counts to zero. Okay. Oh. So let's just say you pulled a 9 and an 8. It would be 7. I have 17. What? It's 9 and 8 because you're doing addition.

Like you're adding them, but like you, so it's like if you pull an, Willie 9 plus 8. Oh, so once you go over 10, it becomes zero. Yeah, once you go to 9 and then it goes back to zero and then one, two, three, five. Oh. So if you pulled a three and a four, you just dropped the one. You just dropped the one. Four, that's a seven, right?

Yeah. On one side, yeah. Then there's more rules to it. Like, if you pulled a three, you get to draw on the card. Yeah, it's just a fun game. You never know in this game, man. You never know. Oh, damn.

But it's all about vibes. It's literally all vibes because most of the time it's 50-50. Like, either you win or you lose. I mean, that's gambling. That's life. Yeah. I would hope it's 50, yeah, 50-50. It's, it's.

Dude, it's such a fun game with the right table. That table was so legendary. Like, I wish I could. Oh, my God. I feel like you're, you're like a mature, a mature man with his money. Like, you, you play the tables. You talk to the people. You maybe order the drinks if the mood is right.

I don't, I don't feel like I'm the same. I really wanted to, but I didn't drink at all. Yeah. I mean, like in a social setting, like, if you were not locked in per se. Yeah, I would have a drink with them. Yeah, maybe. But, you know, if I was in. your position, dude. I don't know if I would be there. I don't know if I'd be playing

Baccarat. I feel like I'd be over there popping pigs. Popping pigs? Yeah, bro. On the slots. Oh, oh. Like piggy banks. They're so stimulating, bro. Oh my God. Yeah. I'm definitely, I'm definitely a degenerate. For sure. You're a degenerate? Why? Table degen. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. I am. Did you see like a really chubby, what? Yeah. No, I'm just a degenerate. But the Baccarat tables are real. Is that how bad it gets? The closer it gets to eight.

He's, oh, oh, no, yes. It was, it was really cool over there, though. And dude, there was a lot of fucking crackheads.

There was one guy. It was one guy that walked up to a blackjack table, and he, like, just sits down, he's, like, cursed it under his breath, saying, like, a bunch of fuck words. And then he, like, places his bet. He splits his sevens,

which is normal against, like a six or something like that and he ends up getting like 17 and like another 17 I forget how many got and so the dealer flips her card pulls cards and she pulls like a five she pulls out like five different cards and she gets to 21

but this guy did shitty math he's like yes and he thought he won and then she's taking all the cards and takes his money and he's like what is going on and he's like you lost and he's like what and he starts flipping shit Oh man.

And then he starts cursing so loud and he just walks away, I'm like, bro. If I ever turn into that, please just kill me. Oh, shit. Yes! Yes! What? No! Wait a minute, you guys are right here.

They're right here, aren't they? Yeah. Oh, okay. What's up you guys? Yo, wait, who's right here? Bump my fucking fist. Who's bumping my fist? I don't know. Is it you?

No, I a little bit farther. Way farther. Willie would. Willie Wood. wait let's see if we could conjoined hands I can't my my cutting off my arm

yeah sorry this whole setup is a little bit improvised last minute super last minute just why not and Tanner we didn't even talk about Tanner's missing

oh yeah yeah we didn't yeah we said he's out of town no we didn't he said Tanner went out of town I went out of town oh do we yeah he's been posting pictures

of his dogs back home yeah his pets yeah I feel like Poor sick pets, dude. He's been having not a great time with his pets over there. One of them had ran away, and then the other one got hurt. Pretty dang bad. It was the outdoor cat.

The outdoor cat. Extended adventure. Which is kind of sad because, like, guys, I don't want to say this. I don't want to bring this into fruition. But, you know, cats have that thing where they... Or so I read, or so I read. Oh, no. Is it where they run away to go die alone?

Yeah. That's a thing. That's a thing. I mean, that's a thing with some animals. I think, yeah, with some animals, they don't want to see their owners. Or no, they don't want their owners to see them like all fucking dead and sad and shit. So they walk away. They run away, yeah.

That's actually really upsetting. That's really upsetting. That's why I was like, that's the first thing I came to mind. It's so funny because, like, did the cats tell people that? Like, how do we even know that? Right. That's what I wonder about, too. It's like, how can.

people read body language if we don't know for sure what they're feeling. It reminds me a video where it's like cats view you as just another cat. It's like, meow. How do they know? They don't start just like tripping balls and they go on like an acid trip and get lost. Like when they hit a certain age. How do you know? I think if they were tripping, they'll probably stay home because it would be like not knowing where they're at.

I think that conclusion came, I'm assuming here, from the constant like, damn, our cats keep walking away from us and then they just die. Why is that going on? Oh, they're probably sad about us. They probably feel for us. Yeah, because we're so egotistic. So we're like, they, they, they just don't want us to be sad. So they walk away.

Humans are the center of the universe. Exactly. The group is going to TwitchCon. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I got, I bought my plane ticket, but nothing else. I really, I really, really, really, really, really thought we were not going to go this year.

I'll be so damn real. Yeah. Last time, it's every year that happens. Last time we talked about it, it was like, fuck, no, never again. But this is the furthest we've planned ahead ever. This is the furthest we're playing. This is how planning trips with friends is, guys. Yeah.

This is how it's supposed to be. You tell me it's not just how you want to go right now. Yeah, Isaac, you were like, I don't know, man. Let me think on it. I'm like, dude, when you think on it, it's going to take you until October. You know what happened? You immediately started pressuring me and everyone else around you because you were already in. Retract that statement, buddy.

What? Retract. pressure you. I did not pressure you. One other person did. I was like, come on. We're going to go Twitchcon. I was like, what the fuck? Wrong person, brother. It's Tanner. Tanner did. Tanner did what? Tanner pressured you. Nuh. Tanner was in your room and then you were like.

No. Tanner's like, I'll get him to go. Don't make me call. Oh, shit. Boy, I'm going to throw a knuckle at your head. Oh, it's like 9 a. Okay. I want to make it clear. I do want to go. This is all my boys are gone. but the way I got to all the video I was like oh by the way Larry I think you're going to TwitchCon I was like okay and I saw the email that we have a flight book I was like all right

we're going this one is but I'm fine with it I'm cool with it I like this one's different we're getting an Airbnb we're staying in a multi-billion dollar mansion oh great we're sharing rooms of a bunch with Minecraft YouTubers first home yeah I do I just I think I missed a location of it

dude remember that hand that in the alley yeah The one that had like no AC? Yeah. Yeah. It was kind of a vibe. I had videos on my phone of Grunk and I doing karaoke.

Yeah. Playing cards and shit. Yeah. And then we had cards. We had a lot of pizza and we had tachis and we had Cheetos and we had all this shit. Yeah. I had some hockey and I was sitting on the floor. Yeah.

Exactly. That's a vibe. But yeah, we're sitting in a different place. There's no reason we can't do it again this year in a different place. Bro, Jackson would have gone. But like, of course, the one weekend where he has a wedding to go to it. Yeah. Like what literally there is no other wedding plans for this guy

And TwitchCon has never been in November Can we just talk about that? It's like never, ever It was always October. Yeah, always like second week of October. And now it's like second week, five weeks. Five weeks lady.

What? Kind of fucking nuts. It's gonna be cold maybe chilly. I bet you they didn't want to like pay an insane price for the venue in San Diego. I don't know. I just want to go and do fun stuff. Yeah.

Absolutely. Yeah. And meet some of the folks too. Like meeting the folks is always sweet hearing all the stories are really sweet You know when we're working those are the things that stick with me It's those damn fucking swords I get told about like damn that's a good point or like that's a good Perspective about our work that would only see a lot you know what when people talking about like the lives we touch Oh like anyone going to Twitchcon can you come up to us and tell us a joke that we don't remember we said from four years ago

And then when I look at I remember I remember I remember I want you and kind of laugh and then say, did I say that? Can you show me the clip of me telling you to do that? Here is my request, my one request. If someone could come up and just try, just try it. I feel like I am like on top of everything that's ever been said in the video ever. Not in like group videos, but my own videos I watch over and over and over again. Yeah, Last Lee, VC.

I feel like yes. I feel like I could do it. I feel like you watch Lastly VC so much that it's just like all you remember. It's bad, bro. It's bad. Not even Lastly VC. just any video in general. Dude, you need to clear your cash, bro.

My cash is needed to reset. My cash is over, you can't remember shit from last week, but you remember shit from last CVC2. It's bad. It's like my whole head

is just filled with funny bits and moments. And there are times where I look... You get terrible. When I ask Isaac for any sort of like, you know,

like peer review, he starts to get really fucking bad with... Okay, that was like yesterday. He's like, he spam this. That was yesterday. Okay.

That was yesterday, yeah. To put this into perspective. Nick while you were out of town there was a lot of group reviewing going on here we were reviewing videos left and right we reviewed we got big walk coming big walk oh my god grunk is so good you're gonna love it um we got there's a whole bunch of these videos that need reviews um and one of them is the next up group video yeah and we're we're sitting there and like i i just got done editing my own shit with my own sound effects and i'm a little bit different than the average group video but

Immediately, when I sit down, a million of these really funny fucking ideas come to mind. And I'm like, all right, wait, Larry, what if, what if I'm blah, blah, blah, blah. And I feel like I'm backseat editing. But it doesn't help because Larry's kind of like, ooh, it'd be kind of funny. We like, we see how it looks and it just sucks. So we just like delete him, move on. There's one. There's one edit.

I get the vision. Like, I understand where you come from every time you tell me. But there was one where he was just like, wait, just cut all the audio. Just make it completely silent. no transition just cut it all and I cut it all and it's just like

awkwardly sitting there like it's so funny and he's like oh it's better in my head it's like I'll put it back I mean but that's kind of is why editing videos takes you so long

that's literally no that is that is part of the process that is like I do the same fucking shit where I think of an idea I'm like

oh that's really funny and it happens when I'm eating it always happens when I'm eating when I'm not editing I'm like oh wait oh that'll be probably

good if I do that you know let me give it a shot and he spends the time in it, it just doesn't work out. And it's like, damn. I feel like spending as much as you might disagree, but I feel like spending time on editing and spending time on whatever the fuck you're about a post

is like, it makes it memorable. If you look back, there's not going to be a lot of videos that other people are watching that have that same level. I think the best way is you just do it all in one go so that your most natural, instinctive ideas just come out, you do them. And then you look at it back and you're like, that was shit.

Oh, that was good. Oh, that was shit. Oh, that was really bad. That was really good. Crazy ass. Crazy as crazy segue. Crazy segue. Speaking of editors, Nick G.B.

I saw something about Gameburger. Gameburger. Grunk Gameburger. There was like a notepad picture I saw. Yeah. Jackson and I are now the face of Game Burger. Yeah, Grunk and Nick had an argument. Grunk and Nick loved Gameburger.

Yeah. Okay. We miss. And now he's in Willie Corp. It's not the same when it's not the same. It's not the same. It's not the same. But no, he just, um.

Wait, Greg. What are you just in annoying? Hold on guys. Don't be a clip farm coming. Here we go. Oh, God. It was so bad. We were throwing things at each other and stuff.

And like, oh my God. He threatened to leave the house. Oh, shit. Oh, man, it was so rough. That is. Yeah, man. You sound like you're taking it well. Yeah, it's hard to do that.

I'm saying genuinely nothing. Just looking at your fucking mobs with your input. That sounds like you're taking it really well. Looking down at shit. But yeah, he just, basically found that he didn't like being on camera that much and finds himself more comfortable working on the back end. And yeah, but now that changes the whole dynamic of our YouTube channel as far as making content. Content in the tree.

Two people is very different from three, which you wouldn't expect. And I perform best in groups of three or more, I think. Whoa, I think so. We have a dilemma. Yeah, because we just recorded last night, Jackson and I. Yeah. And maybe it's just because of what we were recording, but it felt like there wasn't much going on. We were recording.

We were recording. We did a Minecraft recording. Hell yeah. Just like a challenge, Minecraft challenge video. Nice. But yeah, so this is going to be kind of an interesting transitioning period. Change your guys' name to Burger and Bun. Burger and bun

Game sandwich And I gotta change the branding and stuff Game sandwich We'll see what freaking happens Honestly Because Nick still wants to be a part of The channel Yeah

Just back in Yeah just back in So we're trying to decide on how Like splitting up workload And everything should be Like finding out what the most fair thing is For everyone I think this is really funny

Just hearing everything that's going on The way you're explaining it And the final button at the top of the collar Is pinch shut as well It's like you're in your Sunday finest You're at the job interview And you're just getting it into the nasty bro I am

But we roll with the punches as they say Or you get knocked the fuck out is what they say Yeah That's what they say They do And you know School I just Oh my gosh

I just try I just started my analysis for all the data I collected this summer over my internship. And it's going to be really hard and really tedious and a long and arduous process for this next coming semester. God, arduous. I'm not excited. Is it like due? I have things expected of me by the end of the semester. Like basically what's expected of me is like some, my data should be wrangled, which means like,

all the data that I have. Compiled and orderly. Should be in order and stuff. And then hopefully like some outputs like graphs and... Are you just dealing with like decimals and numbers statistics and stuff or is it like... Yeah, kind of. It's like I'm basically just dealing with numbers and making sense of them. We have all the numbers.

Like the amount of bugs collected, the amount of type of bug that we collected. Like midges versus driving. Dragonflies. Stuff like that. And I'm going to be comparing our data to data gathered from 2019. And oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. I'm like really working hard to not get overwhelmed and discouraged.

But damn, dude, it's like. You got that, bro. It's already like I, oh, this is just going to be a lot. Just dumb it down to like general topics that you have to be or like go over. Yeah, it'll be fine. I was talking with my classmates about it. You have until the end of the semester? Yeah, and this was day one.

Like many months. It's a big, like, competency issue for me, I feel like where it's like, I feel like I'm not well-versed in what we're doing. But that's, I mean, everyone feels that at some point. And I'm comparing myself to, like, PhD students and stuff. So I was like, okay, just forget the whole thing, you know. Yeah. I know you'll nail it, but. But I don't know.

I want to be a YouTuber, I think. that's the most fun being a YouTuber is really fun I've found out like I've come to really enjoy like just the whole process there's the freedom the freedom at first where you can do

just whatever the fuck you want to do and sitting down and planning that and everything like bro uh huh yeah and it's interesting because you know I've been a part of the group for like damn like six years now but I haven't really like actually been the person dealing with

making the content. I've just been a part of the content because all I do is stream for personal stuff and now it's like now we're planning videos we're recording them I sit down and cut them up and then send it off to either Jackson or Nick to add the effects and whatnot and it's really fun but it's also like really stressful too at the same time. well yeah not so much stressful but it's insane how literally every single recording we've had at least one technical issue at least one every single one it never fails and it's always like with audits and it's just so like we we just had we just had a recording with Mitchell this past Sunday that we had to scrap because audio recording was fucked oh like like and it was such a good recording too and it's like well here instead of instead of scrapping it why not I mean like you like you said rolled the punches you know when it comes like audio issues my first the first thing my head goes to is why not just like dub over what he's trying to say like a brief explanation do that or it's like another option to just wipe Mitchell's POV's entirely because we could do that but it's like that's kind of sucks. Every time it jumps him just like a jump right back.

Dude, I had such oh my gosh, yeah, I don't want to reveal too much about the video even though I don't even know if you're like that. But yeah, that was a really good video and I'm sad that it won't work out but we're going to re-record I think at some point with Huzzah. You gotta finish this. You gotta finish that damn heist. I know.

That damn GTA hires. Actually like faded not to be with that. Like the internet going out, the power going out and then, oh my gosh, actually terrible. And then our schedule is like just not at all. We'll get to it, bro. Dude, that's not. Like, planning videos with people that you don't live with is very difficult.

Yes. Like, everyone has such a moving schedule. And I hate being that guy to plan it because if I feel such like a pester, I feel like a woodpecker or something just pecking on the tree over over. Dude, when it comes and then when it gets down to like double texting. Oh, my God. Just shoot me in the face. Oh, my God.

There have been times. There have been times. Like I had to double hit one of y'all. I had to double hit someone like that's supposed to be coming to a video. And I have never felt like more of a like a thorn in someone's side than in that moment. It's, it's, you want them to join the video. Okay. Okay. niche discussion right here. You want this person to join the video really bad, right? You want them to be a part of it. But you don't want to be annoying. But so you sit so you send the text, but you hold off on. saying it's okay if you don't want to join because you don't want to give them an easy cop out you know oh it's easy oh it'll be okay okay around you're an asshole for not saying that because you don't want to make someone do something they don't want to do but you also like it's just like you're pitching yourself to to uh the a brick wall pretty much yeah and you just have to like kind of cross your fingers and hope and pray and there will be times you just miss and it really oh bro it's a shot it's not to the ego but like to the confidence of reaching out again in the future. Every time it happens, it's just compounds. You're just like, oh, fuck. These people hate me.

I know. You just start thinking about it. And yeah. Yeah, man. But you do miss every shot you don't take. Yeah, exactly. That's kind of mentality is you really do miss every shot you don't take. The answer is no until it's yes. And it's funny because like now that I'm getting back into YouTube and content creation and stuff, it's like I've been, as far as like the social networking goes, I've been out of the game for like two or three years. Like I haven't talked to the people that I used to be close with from like Minecraft streaming in years.

And now it's like I'd love to rekindle those friendships. They're in for a fucking shock. I mean, I saw all the stuff that took for you to be like here in this chair, but they did not. So they're going to see like, you know, the grunk who was in there, in his parents' house at one point. And now they're going to see this version of girls. It's going to be a little bit of,

of a system shock but it's gonna be a funny one. But yeah, it's cool. It feels it feels cool to grow a channel from almost scratches. Like I feel like we're a bit nepo-babyed, but it's, you know, we're still, we're still growing from our own, which is really cool. Yeah. Yeah, bro. It's gonna be cool. Home fucking grown.

Watch y'all ball, watch y'all do shit. Willie's stretching. It means he's about to say something really important. No, I'm just stretching. No, I just called that out. Well, anyways. Oh, you make me want to stretch too. Yeah.

Is something happening this weekend or no? Oh, maybe. Yeah, I was talking with Grunk possibly about going and visiting Richmond. There's a Pokemon convention over there. Oh, shit. Yeah. Crazy sauce. Can we record a video with you?

This is the first time I'm hurt. What the fuck? You're going to Richmond now? You're just traveling 24-7, man. Road trip Vegas, Richmond. God damn. That is crazy. That's the life, dude.

That's the fucking life. I don't have the fatigue for it either. Like, I'm down, you know? Because I think everywhere I'm going has like some sort of purpose, especially when it comes to filming. Like I think for me, my goal is to try and make the Great Lockin as like not gym oriented but also gym oriented as possible. I don't want to make just gym content right now.

I want to do like other things in life. So like imagine like went to fucking Richmond. Yeah. We went and worked out. That'd be fine. Nice. Oh, man. I gotta see you and Jackson, bro.

Y'all got your beef. Y'all got your beef. It's time to finally settle it with a bench off. True. He's gonna try and wrestle me. You'd kill him. Like, he talks about it, like you would own him. Oh, my God.

You're, like, stout and strong. Will we admit to that right here? No. Whoa. I think he would. You think so? I thought he would know him better. He, like, like...

Yeah, I think he would. I think he's like said it to... I remember I briefly mentioning it in Minecraft, but Nick, you missed a Pokemon show, Pokemon Cart Show here, believe it or not, when you were out. Yeah, I heard. Yeah, I have no idea if it was like,

I didn't go or anything. It was like yesterday or two days ago? Yeah, it was this weekend, this past weekend. Yeah, yeah, his Niztopia, he hit me up. Asked if I was going to the show. And I said, I'm out right now. And he said, well, I figure what he said, he said something funny, though.

He's pretty funny if you get to know him. He's quite for real. Real funny. He called me a weiner. He said fucking weiner. That's pretty silly. I'm out right now. Fucking weiner.

Fucking weiner. So what makes the card show in Richmond? Is it just like the time? It's just like, yeah, why not? Fuck it. It's like, yeah, it was like, so funny enough, Pat God texts me. He's like,

what to go to Richmond, Virginia with me? Dude. Oh, you're kidding. me, bro. And I was like, I was like, I was like, um, the only reason I would go to Richmond,

to be honest with you is to see grunk. So that's like the only redeeming thing that I care about Richmond, Virginia. Otherwise, you know, I don't need pack God. Yeah, and then I told the grunk,

grunk was like, I want to be fat God. You would love him, bro. He's like, I wanted to pack Jackson. I want to go to Virginia just to see grunk. I want to see Pat God.

I want to be pack God. Nick to be here too because that's just like that's something that's never happened none of you guys have ever No never been to the ball ever no but oh my god

it's actually time to start planning for all of you guys to come here for my college graduation which is in May it's like a fucking year I don't know if that's happening bro

it is happening drunk I don't know what the fuck he's talking about oh don't listen to him no it's happening I don't care if I'm the only one who goes I'm going what are you talking about

I don't know if that's happening I'm sorry then why is that why is that huh there's no fucking monitor up there you're looking at a wall don't pretend it's important oh my god these flights are so expensive what do you look at flights

what 13 no but i'm seeing price if it's if it's over 13 no if it's over 8 which i think august august what 28th that's in fucking five days yeah three days really so fucker the cheapest flight and it has one stop is frontier for 400

What? Dude, that's... Everything... Everything else is $1,000. What? So it's either like... Let me see... Let me see if I can go to the 29th.

Oh my god, it's even worse. Isn't that Sunday? Damn it, if you're not coming, everyone's gonna be so sad. Because we've all been so hype for it in the house. Yeah, let's just do a road trip. Yeah, I was thinking like, why didn't you guys were just road trips to pick in here? Come on guys, impromptu group road trip. visit grunk let's do it let's do it

let's rally up everyone as soon as tenor lands we pick him up in a van we get straight to perjee that guy would kill his fucking life I could hear it go no

he would actually jump out of the car while it's rolling get an Uber dude I don't I can't I was already I was thinking about the other day I was like what happens if like you know, we're doing all these road trip videos.

If we do another one, we're just going to be like the road trip guys. Yeah. And is that really what I want? No, it's not. I don't want to do road trips. I like traveling. I like traveling, but I also like absorbing, like, where we go. And sort of documenting.

Documenting and really soaking up the place and the history. You like filming it and jerking off to the footage is what you like to do. Yeah. And there's nothing wrong with that. Yeah. Exactly. It's fine, though. Do you hear that guy?

Yeah Thanks dude Right here You said Willie's calling you No I thought my mom was calling me Oh Well all right

I'll figure it out But I'm not spending a thousand dollars on flight So Yeah Just take the 400 The $400 Frontier flight Where they charge me for everything

Oh yeah I forgot about that I mean I would literally have to only I would have to just bring a backpack that's all I could bring. Holy crap though, I thought about it just now. I could, I could straight up, like, I could bring my vlog camera, and every day offloading footage, I could just offload it to Nick instead of putting it on Google TV. Right on to his PC, right?

That's so sick. Right onto his computer. Dude, and also, um, uh, Lorelei and Jackson, they, like, their, Lordeis parents has cats. Like, they got two kittens recently for, for, uh, Lorelei and Jackson, they, like, their, Laurelize parents has cats. recently for that that will eventually become loyalizer one of them will become loyalized um but basically we're cat sitting them this next week so both of them are going to be living here as well on starting got four cats in that john four cats in the house and and willie if he pulls up are they friends though funny time which ones mine and theirs yeah hawk and tour we'll see we'll see

we'll see this will be an experiment all right all right i'm sure i'm sure something could be oh you're about in the midst of a experiment willie Yeah. Yeah. Dude, I love cats. Cats are awesome. They are awesome. I love cats the most. Cats are like my favorite animal of all time for pets.

Dogs are like, dogs are starting to like really peave me. I don't know. I think I just, I think dogs that bark. I'm just not used to dogs that bark. Like Misty, you all remember OG?

Bro. She would never bark. It was like, if she barked, we'd like, holy shit, we forgot you can do that. Yeah,

I never heard of you. When I first, when I first met Misty, um, my daughter, are loud as shit, they're vocal as hell. If there's even a minor disturbance, somewhere within a mile, there's barks. And it's a chain reaction.

One barks, and the other one hears that. So they start barking because they don't know what's going on. So they're all barking. Yes, there's a factory of barks. But Misty, like, I remember walking in the first time I ever met her. And nothing. She came up. Dude, do you remember when Misty attacked me?

Yes. She like tore off one of your legs, one of your pant legs. Oh, man, you're in the basement. exaggerated to the hell. Yeah. And she was like, and she bit in much. And then she killed you.

No. And then she killed you. No. You don't remember that? It was 2018. She killed you. No. No, she killed you.

I can't just eyes. Dude. I was trying to fling the ball. This house is so damn fucking quiet. It's only, it's only Larry and I. So we've been like, I've been trying to like catch on to his bit,

his bit all youps. And we're working on it. Really working on it. Yeah, we're working on it. It's not freaking working. Yeah, we've been in our damn rooms, dude. Yeah. Shutting out like...

Literally this past this whole past. So nothing changed. Nothing at all, no. Nothing changed. No, I've just been doing the same shit I did when you were gone. The one thing I'm looking forward to is Grunxel thing. I don't know how much I could say about us. I'm not going to say nothing at all.

Dude, he's a funny thing. Jack Manifold completely leaked it on his stream yesterday. Yes, he did. How did that happen? the whole Discord server He just opened Discord on main monitor

Which had my DM open With the Discord invite link Oh man Oh wait Oh the invite got leaked Yeah Were people joining in A few people join

But it's deactivated now Someone at everyone Dude I was like What the hell Oh shit That's actually so funny That's so funny That's so funny bro

Just like what really He's been doing it for like 7 years That's like that's one of one you never be open in this point. Hey man, I've... It happens. I don't like...

Leaking things is so easy. Like, it just catches you off guard. Should I work out in this sponge, buff shirt? Yeah, dude, dude, dude. Dude, till it like rips. Dude. There you go.

Oh, man, you're all green. You're green. You're green. It says, like, something... Awesomeness since, like, 1999 or something. That's sick. Did you get that?

No, you've had that. Did you bring any, like, a souvenir home for me? Um, thanks, I don't. No. No. No. I didn't. Um, no. No. No, I didn't. Okay, so what do you think is a funny name? Dillweed or, oh, thank, I think, I'm looking at the other one. I'm looking at flights right now. Or what? I'm trying to think. They're mine. Forget it. Damn it. I thought of the other name.

Dillweed or Flibertie gibbet? Oh. What are we naming? I don't know. It's like what's something. What's better? Something, something for Instagram. Huh? Something funny. A funny Instagram handle. Do we have to think. Dillweed's taken already on Instagram, unfortunately.

Dude, every single funny name. I want to do a thing where I want to like gamify the amount of calories I could burn. So like if I burned like let's say, I don't know, like a thousand calories, which is really low. Yeah. Yeah. To spin a wheel and maybe get like a Snickers player? Is that what I'm hearing? No.

No, it'd be like I could open like, Pokemon pack if I hit or like if I burn like X amount of calories I can open that amount worth of Pokemon or something like that okay but like I have to like earn it you know what I'm saying like there's a trade off like every calorie burned is worth like a cent okay okay you know what I'm saying yeah yeah yeah right damn that's you know what you should do you know no no no no no a hundred calories would be a dollar you know what you should do I think is you right here I guess so yeah okay you know what used to do you know what used to do You have to look at me too.

What? You know what you should do? You turn to your left or right. What? We ultimately don't know where you're going to be yet. Yeah, I don't know either. It could be over there looking at Grunker right now. You know what you should do?

You should do the big three. You got the squat, bench, deadlift, combination. That's your budget at like a Pokemon card show. Okay. You know what I'm saying? Yo, your whole face, your whole half of face just gone. It's gone. Completely disappeared.

Your facial features are gone, but your head is just your head and headphones. That's awesome. This is going to look so. Oh, it's going to look great, bro. I can't wait. I actually can't. But you should do that. I forget what that's called.

There's like a name for it. Squat bench deadlift. It's like the big three. Thousands club. Yeah. If you can, I mean, yeah. If you're doing like 400 of each thousands club. I hit thousands club once.

I don't know. I haven't. I'm not like zero club. dude you're at like five yeah i actually think i am i think it might be 20 not counting the bar no you're it's two tens on that side of a squat dude

i want to show that video so bad of me benching no of you squatting and you're like there's five there's fives on each side is it with my big gelatinous ass oh my god isn't there a clip out there i don't know if it's you no it's someone else

where they were there uh no it is someone else because they have the they have the rack with their shoulders and when they squat their hip moves to the side. Yeah, yeah. That's what I was imitating. Oh, that's your irritating. Oh, okay, okay. The winter art guy. Yeah. He's like, hey there. He's like, he squats like crookedly. Yeah, it's like crooked. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like a little bit. What? We can just do ourselves. Oh.

It's all green. It's all greened. You're greening your pants. Dude, never mine. It looks so, okay, that looks like. Yeah, that's exactly how they do it, Larry. Dude, I feel like you get one really round cheek doing that Or one really muscular chick just one side Dude, you would kill your fuck, your back, your spine's over Also, that video that Nick just showed was way funnier if you could see the two tens on each side There's a guy on Instagram that only is like working out one side of his body Yeah, he's trapped

You're talking about the one where he's like only doing one strap His arm, yeah And now he's doing the opposite side leg that's so silly can you believe that commitment dude like that is absolutely and it actually is so huge yeah

and that's like that's not something that you can just like like change overnight either that's something that you have to like literally work to work towards in order to like even out yeah which looks good

I mean that one trap looks fucking nice dude I'm sure that one trap you were saying if he turns into a zombie it'd be over oh my god yeah there's a there's a Leffered Dead zombie

where he's like a little tiny arm and then a really fucking huge arm Aren't they What are they called Tanker or something? Thanks so No no no no no Because I'm thinking

I think tanker's the one That has the two big arms There's one that's really huge And then there's one that has only one arm That's like Lilfinsie I played Leffordead The Boomer?

Is it a boomer? Oh no it's a charger It's a charger The boomer's the one that Chachers when you shoot him Yeah Yeah I don't know

Dude oh my God I'm like, I'm waiting for something big like that to happen in real life where every big a fucking apocalypse It's not about money anymore. It's just about fucking surviving Some threat something like an alien invasion. Oh, imagine like all all currency gets like automatically just flatlined like it's worthless in this economy It's worthless in this time right now I saw a headline and it's only a headline about It's just a possibility that the US can go we're done blackout for 18 months.

Possibility. What is blackout me? Like all, because there was a problem going on with, um, the, what is it? Electric,

uh, fucking grid. Yeah, there was something wrong with the grid. Like some issue happened and, uh, across the whole United States. And yeah,

they were like, it was just a headline. It was like possible or something like that. And it's like the US go blackout for 18 months. And I thought about it was like, damn, 18 months of blackout. That would be.

you fucking insane. It's a year and a half. US power grid at risk of blackout. One city now in dark for more than a week. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, one at a time. One out of time. It's going up. I will say it'll bring people together at least for a moment because our neighborhood that we live in had a neighborhood wide power outage a few weeks ago.

And like... Where the streets like filled with people playing and dancing? Like, not really. But I walked outside and I noticed other people out on their porch. And I was like, hey, did your power go out? And they were like, yeah, is yours out? And I was like, yeah. And then so now I met a lot of our neighbors.

That's awesome. That's awesome. That was crazy, though. There's like, there's like 800 people out of power. Or 800 homes out of power. Damn. It's crazy for like four hours. Can I say something funny?

Yeah. No, no, no, no. Don't do it. The TwitchCon 2026 scheduled just got released. Oh, yay. What is it? Let me guess. First up.

Minecraft Rive. Stable Rinaldo Con Lacey Con I want to say I want to say that on Friday I'm a part of the panel

Ah You're so random Yeah that was I don't know how the fuck you chose to do that Act a random kid What are you going to do and say What are you going to do and say Babbleu asked me he's like

Do you want to be a part of this panel And I'm like Yeah what's the bad he's like the unlimited potential of Minecraft. Are you serious? Yeah. So this is what the panel details are. This is public.

You guys could go on to Twitter. That's what we're going to. Yeah. That's pretty much what we're trying to farm. The details for the first time ever, some of the biggest names in Minecraft gather on a stage. Oh, boy. Some of the biggest names.

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and Diamond Ho and playing with... No way. That would be a legend. From Diamond Ho to teaching Mia Malcova how to your Minecraft. This soft willing.

Will this be your big reveal that you're bringing back the Minecraft S&P and inviting everyone that's on the panel to the server. And it comes back in a big way. So what they did was they Babblue did want me to kind of talk about that.

Yeah, I think that, I feel like that's all you really can talk about. No dis but I feel like that's a big that's a big thing because I think that was generally like an innovative really cool thing. It was bro. You should have not yet you should and that's like mic drop I am Iron Man ass speech

like you got to do it. Yeah it is coming back bigger and better than ever I have nothing playing. Can you walk up with like a cardboard fucking figure of yourself and your skin with my nipples? Like the boxes on the arms and everything you're like a

perfect Minecraft replication. You have the big shit stain right in the back of the skin as well, just leaking out. There's no more shit stain on that one. It's just the hard nipples. It's the 3D nipples. You just got rid of the poop. You white. Every time I turn around, someone would go, ugh, like, have you heard that video?

The friend's vomiting. The friend's vomiting, and he's like, oh, he's like, uh, he's like, uh-huh. You don't know that audio? Uh-oh. You don't know that audio? I don't know it. Oh. Are you talking when they're laughing and then he fucking vomits and like it sounds like gloop?

It's like all gloopy. Ew. Yeah. Is he about to fucking. Ooh. Maybe. Nope. Nope.

Never mind. That's the funny. Oh yeah. That's the funky air. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I just went to the bathroom.

Huh? I just went to the bathroom. Oh. Oh Funky Funky I don't know I have to

Dude where is it It's Yeah it's such a funny Discussing so if You do you play Please give a warning It's not that bad It's pretty bad

Like I can hear the The sounds of like the toilet It sounds like it's in a room It's like I'm not to give it to justice at all Nor do I really want to But yeah It's a

Yeah It makes me scared, by the way, because I have this thing where it happens. No matter what, once a year, I have to, there's going to be a gross discussion. Once a year, for whatever reason, I have to vomit. And it just happens. And I remember there was one year in particular where I was like, dang, this whole year I've gone through, I think it was like late November. I was like, dang, I've gone pretty dang far. What?

I was going to say that it has to happen once a year where I vomit. And if it doesn't happen and it gets close to the end of the year, it gets like really scary because then it's at any moment, I can just wake up and you're like, I'm fucking nauseous as hell. Yeah, have you already puke this year? Probably. Probably. I think it's right.

Did you not wretch in the sink? Oh, I did. Yeah. Yeah, because the videos were recorded. God damn fucking food videos. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

It's already happened. It happens once a year. But there was one time I remember that's what I was saying. It was that, this is when I was in high school. I was like, damn, I'm pretty close to the end of the year. It's like late November. And I haven't vomited all year. Not that I can think of. And I think it was like a few days afterwards, I just wake up feeling so sick to my stomach. Oh, God. And yeah, it's terrible. It was terrible. I don't know if it's a phenomenon or what or if it's like a placebo. both thing that really tricks me to thinking it's real. Yeah. But yeah, dude, it's like some shit I've been

living with my whole life and I don't think about it. The only time I puke is when I drink at this point. I haven't gotten a sickness that's made me puke in very long. Yeah. I'm really good at keeping that down. But drinking. Yeah, forget it, bro. I drink too much. Wake up dizzy. It's over.

Morning walk to the bathroom. It's over. The other thing I was going to say was like it's the era of fucking YouTube channels being made Nick with this great locking, grunk, game burger. We're in such a crazy-ass time. It's like, I thought back when I was making a silly channel, it was like I wasn't the peak,

but I was like, I felt like I was already late to the game, you know? Yeah. And now you look at today and it's like you weren't late at all, homie. You weren't late at all. There's no such thing as late right now. We're still peaking. We're still going out. I always feel like I'm, I'm entering an oversaturated kind of,

zone but yeah i don't like but it's also like i don't think that matters too much because i think people like watching watching more than one person too yeah and it's like especially with shorts and that's something i i still need to like i need to get on top of i won't lie but like with shorts bro like if you're posting shorts of yourself like it's even if it's just you sitting there it's the most like blandish ever that shit can do well eventually really yeah just it's like a algorithmic looks hmm Shorts are so weird. They're like an anomaly to me.

Yeah, I don't really, I don't really get shorts that well. I know that they work well. It's always like the thing, the mantra of like, just do shorts. That's what Arrow fucking says. Like, do shorts.

Yeah, do shorts. They all ever explain like why. No, just like, do short. Just do it. Is it do shorts specifically on YouTube or like any short form content? Everywhere.

Everywhere. You post them on the big three every time you're doing. I always wonder like how much those even, how much do they help? Good, good channels, good channels are just like, I know there are certain channels that are only shorts. Like there's no long form.

I'm the complete opposite. I have all long form. I have one short that got grandfathered into the short program because it was too short of a video. But there are channels out there that don't do any long form. And if they do, it's like underperforming compared to their shorts that are banging out 10 million views

like within the past like week. I've seen people make like, 10 to 80K from shorts channels a month. That's insane. Is it possible to have bang in long form and banging shorts in the same channel? I haven't, I'll be real. I haven't seen one that isn't run by like a team. You know, you have like Mr. Beast.

You get good as views on everything. Like, duh. Yeah. Yeah. That's like, that's like, that's like, that's like, that's like, that's like, that's like. I haven't seen one. A boy in his mic. Not that I can.

Yeah. We're in such a weird time because I feel like to succeed on YouTube, you have to like kind of to be something that is not. You have to. You have to. Yeah. And it's like, ah, that kind of sucks. Because that's what, that's kind of what I've been reckoning with with Game Burger. It's like, okay, if we really want to grow our channel, then we probably have to do things that aren't actually true to who we are like 100%. That's been the reckoning, bro. That has been the reckoning for very long. time and it is really fucking unfortunate. How much like thumbnails and titles matter because they matter so

much and like I just like making a funny thumbnail and title because our recent one I thought was really funny but it's our least performing video and it's like well damn that's how it is that's how it's your favorite videos that you like the most are always the ones that don't do well and then the ones that you don't like are the ones that boom they just boom off the radar

they boomed it's like I feel like trying to like spending time trying to understand the algorithm and how things work. It's almost like, just forget it, bro. Like, just do what will succeed. Like, you know what will succeed and get clicks but, like, I don't know, that's just so weird. Don't try, trying to study

something that changes once a week is psychotic. It's like, it's like gambling, bro. Yeah, it's like, you know, there are rules to follow with YouTube and stuff, but I've seen people like just flesh it out as if it's like a mathematical equation. And, you know, if you do this, they have a probability of this and that. Like, the people that are like,

All right. If you want to post your TikToks and get a million views, you got to do it at 2 a.m. Because I was like, why? Like the myths. The myths of YouTube. How do you figure that out? I actually did watch a game-changing video for me.

And it was, you know, Veritasium? Yeah. His method of like saying misconceptions, common misconceptions. Oh, yeah, the misconception of X, Y. And that's how they pull people in and get people watching longer. It's so funny. we tried that with the Sky Wars video.

We tried it. We did. The title is the Sky Wars misconception. There's nothing to do with a misconception in that video. That is our best performing video. Oh my God.

It's annoying. It's annoying. Because it's like, why is this being, it's what we, okay, a lot of people are like, there's a lot of talk about

like how it's, YouTube is really shit now and it's very like formulaic where you have to follow a certain system and da, But it's all because of the reward that you get for doing it. And if you do anything yourself or on your own, there's no, there's nothing for you.

There's like, it's not sustainable in that way. And it's so like, yeah, it's so, you know. Talking about shorts. And it just doesn't reach anyone. Talk about shorts in YouTube. I invite you next time you're scrolling on through your YouTube recommended. Start looking at the titles of the long form videos and seeing like what they are. because they're all, or a lot of them are surprisingly, like,

on that misconception type of title. There's a formula, yeah. Like, it's like, something to grab you, bro. Yeah. I mean, that is the whole point. Yeah. You know, they got to grab you. I don't know about shorts.

I heard that YouTube's doing short thumbnails, which, oh, my God. Oh, my God. That's all I can say. But the titles of shorts as well are, like, so, who, gives us shit. Remind me a lot of, like, titles that just, they don't have, like, any, any, there's no grammar as correct. It's just like, man, find pig with dynamite.

Dude, my 4-U page is so butt. It's like, what? Are you on TikTok or YouTube? I'm on YouTube. Actually, so, but what are you guys as a 4-U page on, on YouTube? It's completely fried right now. It's all like, it's all under two-minute videos. Oh!

Love that. Love that shit. It's so weird. yeah no mine's it's like i'm watching shorts without watching on the shorts mine's all about camera movie and i have veritasiums on here bro apple i also have um god damn the like like sleep videos for some reason

i think what happened one day is it auto played into like a sleep video and then that sleep video played for like eight hours and now it's all i see on my feed yeah my phone recognizes that like if i leave it alone for a minute it'll just auto suggest a sleeping video yeah it's like a gradient have you ever been like auto playing on youtube browsing or just like goes to like a gradient video it goes 10 hours of like one singular color it just goes to this like the the frequency shit where it's like oh 550 hertz 512 hertz super focused frequency ground yourself and be productive

I don't mind it. I don't mind it at all. So was that Willie? What did you do, poop? Yeah, that was awesome. No, that's great. You look very happy. I probably weigh 190 pounds now.

It was the last time you waged yourself. Wow, that's a big poop. I weighed myself last night. Last night? Yeah. What? Dude, it's so crazy. Before the trip, I weighed 227,

and then I came back from the trip. I weighed 233, but I barely ate. It's not like I barely ate. I guess I just didn't go to the bathroom much. Oh, so you kept it all with you? Now you're slowly packaging.

I don't know how to shake that, Larry. I don't know how, like, why? Because you went five days without poop. I went five days without pooping, and then after that it was a slow increment of letting it go. You just got to kiss goodbye. Farewell with your poop, I guess. I don't know.

I wonder if your body's like hanging on to different like fat just like hanging on to you know like a hibernation stress or stress or stress of like just not dude like yeah change in diet like it's crazy what stress will do to your body swear to God bro and I'm and I'm thinking

I'm hoping so I told my my my sister my mom about my whole back situation shit going on and I presume it's stress and in like sort of just like yeah fears like anxieties and but at the same time my sister brought up like possible like

virus or something you know like something that can be in me that could be like you want to get that checked up just in case you know it doesn't progress and get worse and you know worse comes to worse it develops in your fucking system because I haven't had any other symptoms like I'm not getting cold or nothing like that but getting this like really my back still like it doesn't hurt but you know it's definitely like posture check sore

okay low key I'm actually like pretty much chilling right now Willie didn't even budge bro I do you got to stand up Did you even hear what I said up? No posture check the podcast Ladies and gentlemen Welcome back

I look you gotta go pick up my car Because it just said it was ready Alright I need to get it before I work I'm gonna slash your other tire You have to go back wow You can't You're a problem Willie We're gonna talk we're gonna speak after

I hope I can go to Richmond Me too, that'd be really fun. Once you do that, then it'll be my turn to go to Richmond. If you actually go to Richmond, I'm going to be pissed, bro. It'd be so mad that you just get to go out there and have fun. It'll be sweet. I might. I'll look into it, grunk.

I'll look into as well. I'm not. What, into the trip? Huh? No, because if I do that, means you'd go, right? Would you go if I went? Would you go if I went? To what?

Richmond? Yeah. Dude, the more group members that go, the better. But the more the merrier. That would be, bro, imagine, like, grunk told his parents, like, last second, like, hey, the group's coming. Can we have a grill out or something? Oh. And then Isaac's dad's like, I need to met.

Absolutely. Isaac's dad says that. Yeah. And then Nick's dad would be like, dude, imagine. I've never thought of this in all the years. We've been friends. I have. All of our families.

A barbecue. A big barbecue. What the way. Family barbecue. I was thinking about it. That would be fun. Is that possible? All right.

You know what it sounds? It sounds like I'm about to call Tanner and break the news that we're all going to Virginia for three days. All of us? I bet he's going to go. Dude, I'm not going to lie. That would be such a fun group video where it's just us. We go and we just do a group vlog to go visit Grunk. Keep in mind, it was just you up until like 30 seconds ago.

Yeah, but then you just said that you wanted to go. Yeah. Why are you pinning up against me? Why are you gaslighting me now? What's going on? You and I, but the whole, the whole group that we'd have to come up with that. We'd have to come up with the best ideas. What's wrong?

No? No, you don't. No, you don't. No, you don't. No, you're rotting. You're rotting the core. You're actually rodded the fucking core. That's why the group fell off.

No! Our creative directors need to know. Our group videos are trash because of that. Why can't we just be friends? Why can't we just go and have fun? Just go have fun to be friends. And we're gonna do like a hot one's video or anything. No.

No. We need to make shorts. Why can't we just, why can't we just, go and have fun. Just have fun. And enjoy the cord having fun. You know what I really want to do? I really want to have a fucking barbecue by the river.

I thought you were vlogging. We can do that. You know what I've wanted to do? I'll be vlogging, but I'm saying the group. Yeah, but like I'm going to be, dude,

all I care about with the Great Lock In is working out and then like having a little bit of footage here and there. Yeah. I would love if the entire group were to go and we just brought ourselves, no camera crew and we didn't even like give a fuck about like microphones. Yeah, you know what I was going to say? We all bring our,

ZVEE 10s. The old... And we just record on that, dude. Ah, come on, baby. No fucking... That would be funny. Jackson and I were brainstorming videos to do while you're here, Willie, and now if all of you guys are here,

and we have a pile of bricks in the backyard, and we just do a video where we just play with bricks and, like, build shit with them. And that's, like, pretty much... Group needs help with the patio, so he's bringing out the group. Dude, did you guys see our recent TikTok at all? Is it the one where you guys are following, or is there a new one? No, it's the one where you turn into planks.

It's so funny. It's flopped, but it's so funny. It's a food review, and it's really good. Where is it? It's on Game Burger TikTok. It's blocked. What did you say? It was blocked.

What? No, it just flopped. Oh, it flopped. Well, real people, they don't understand. It literally doesn't matter. Anything could happen at any moment. Like, there's no algorithm. The algorithm is fake.

It'll, it'll succeed or it doesn't. Verdy, Rudy, Rudy. Oh, shit. Okay, you guys are, I'm speeding in 2X. Are you guys in like a red room sauna? Where are you? No. Nick was standing there with his light and just kept changing the colors.

Okay. Wait, you're telling me it changes from this color? It does. Oh. Can you give us fast forward to the end? Yeah, I'm fast forward and you guys are eating it? Because they're called old-fashioned stage fights. I'm going to fast forward.

Oh, my God. That should have been. If you guys, can you guys take that down, re-upload it? But it's like 8. seconds of talking and then just like that for a minute. Yeah. That would, that would do it.

That'd be good. That's a good. Here, does a camera see? Can the camera see? Can we put it up? I'm just going to go to show the camera. Okay. Just show them the picking end.

Boy? Edab boy. Oh, no. It's not auto. It's a manual. No. Go all the way back. Just go to our TikTok, y'all.

Go follow our TikTok. More bangers to come. Banger, bang, bang, bang. Whatever. Like, flipping aside. It's a banger, it's a banger, it's a banger, it's a banger, it's a banger. Oh, man. All right.

Well, folks, is it... If we're posted up in Richmond, literally tomorrow as you're hearing this, that'd be really funny. That would be funny. That would be funny. So we'll see if this is, if this is how the plans are made, I just want to let you know, this is how the group rolls, baby. When Greuk was talking about, we're doing it so, headed in advance for TwitchCon guys.

He's talking about the last minute plans that we always make, like, the week of. And this is, you witnessed it right here today. Like two days from now. You guys were on this journey with us. So if we just appear in Virginia tomorrow when you're hearing this, that'd be fun. It would be funny. We had a low-key record this whole podcast again because I didn't shave. Okay.

I also, I also. Yeah. I also. I don't like the feeling of it. So on that note, we're going to wrap up next week. We will be back. I'll be back. All of us.

I'll be back. Yeah. If Nick's not sick and once Tanner back, once Tanner is back from home, then it'll be back to the Uge. And, uh, yaw. It could just be the acclimation too. I went from really dry to then really humid here. I mean, you're also just like in a casino, man.

Like, as a germany place. Oh, you're around cigarettes, bro. Yeah, brus. Cigarettes, you're in a fucking hellhouse. Germs and Germans and. I love cigarettes. We will see you guys next week. Please use code group.

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