The Group Chat - JEROMEASF IS HERE!!

Episode Date: November 14, 2025

A great warden of Youtube has entered the arena... | VISUAL PODCAST - "THE GROUP CHAT"

all right you guys want me to start I can start it off if you started on you're okay ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the group chat podcast

episode 121 somewhere 34 24 seconds before starting we were just talking about how you do every podcast

you gave you the warning before starting that it was rough around the edges that's crazy you don't even know what episode was it we gave

we gave Jerome the warning what episode are we That's insane, dude Grok has no lighting fixture Yeah, I don't know My shit's so busted Wait, why is Isaac's webcam as Minecraft? Oh, I'm a big faceless new

I love my big faceless guy It might be a little oversimulating at the start Hopefully you get used to it You do get used to it you start to watch It's like walking into the bad part of town And it looks bad but then you get accustomed to it And you're like, you know what's what's the bad My problem is my, I keep like, I'm trying not to look at it and I can't stop.

No, you can literally watch it. After how many years of Minecraft, you're not tired of it still, Jerome? Oh, well, you know. This is like my version of subway surfers that I turn on during my TikTok short, dude. So everyone can like watch something. The attention span corner. Yeah, the attention span cafe. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, ladies and gentlemen, we have a special guest on today, Jerome ASF, longtime friend of mine and now hopefully new friend with the group as a whole oh yeah oh yeah we're best used

absolutely I'm torn in that Minecraft world oh yeah it lit dude actually that would be so much fun yeah I think we're gonna convert it to a server

right grunk yeah guys and what we're talking about is I created a Minecraft realm like last week and it's just for all my friends including IRL and internet friends so like the worlds are colliding right now and everyone's becoming friends and it's like wow

this is what a sweet time to be playing micrath right now yeah during the winter too yeah yeah see I did that during COVID and the problem was we had like everyone just was kind of chill like people building like dirt houses and stuff and then we all signed out for the night one guy stayed up all night long got full netherite armor we had a wall around our community houses everything we're like really dude what are we gonna do wow yeah dude yeah there's there's some people like that as our server. There's one specific person like that. But be careful of what you say because he actually gets so pissed and won't let it go.

He holds drudges and his name is weird. You get so mad. You know what? We're about to air the whole thing out. I'm about to air the whole entire VC right now. Listen. Jerome, I play Minecraft.

I play for fun. Okay. I'm a very giving person. People can take my stuff if they want. I got no problem with it. You tried to tax Tanner, your roommate. You charge me. You charge you for it.

He taxed in Minecraft? Time out. Wait, how do you tax someone in Minecraft? Okay, Jerome, it's like, hey, can I borrow like three coal? He's like, yeah, do you have any emeralds? We can trade? I'm like, three coal. No, you just want, are you a villager?

Are you a villager? You're making a immigrant. Okay. That's insane, dude. Okay, guys, listen, you guys are misrepresenting the truth here. This is what happens, okay? Here we go. I'll be making a grinder for this, for like, a skeleton spawner.

And Tanner sees I'm showing my screen of showing it. And he's like, ooh, what's this? And he just comes over and he starts to use the grinder. And then he takes all the lapis and takes it home with him. No, but I don't use it all. You took it home with you. I go to go in my chest for safe keepings. I was going to return it.

I had the plan to return it, though, because I was looking at it. I know. I forgot. I was, dude, I am a very generous person. This is the problem, though. Yes, I would like for Tanner to like, hey, can I use your Mending Villager? Dude, Tanner, for Tanner to use it, it's like, what, 20-something emeralds? For me, it's eight.

So, I'm doing you a favor. So, you know, you got to like, come on, give a little bit. I don't, I'm like, all right, give me some diamonds. Yes. I did. But where the problem starts is in a group chat. I'm just chilling, recording. We're going to talk about this, by the way.

We helped Jimmy here and Bryce up record a video yesterday, Larry and I. And I just go check my phone. My phone's buzzing all through this recording. I finally go check. And I'm like, oh, yeah, hype. We're going to record a game. We're going to play some whatever. And I go and see Grunk and Isaac both dicking on me in this group chat.

You got to clarify what you mean by that. Okay. I'll tell you right now what that means. Because that can mean a lot of different things. Dude, you know, oh my God. It's actually kind of crazy that you're here. What do you mean, Isaac? So normal for us to say, now that I'm realizing it's like, wow.

Dude, I'm reading these text messages right now. Someone call it that That's all I'm saying Dude He's so dramatic He's so dramatic He's so dramatic He's pulling up logs

Grunk says I want to get good gear Might just have to sit in Grindr for a couple of hours And Isaac says I have fucking nothing dude Don't worry There are hella sweats

Low key But we are allies So all is well For now When did I say your name Willie And then And then Grunk responds

It's crazy how Some people have Nothing to do but grind and then I scroll down a little bit more or actually I scroll back up and grunk is asking to use the same grinder that I made that they're dicking on me for

Who's they? You're saying they It's only grung I didn't say you're saying they. I don't think we were talking about Jackson as well none of us mentioned well I could have been anyone It could have been me Well it's clearly me it's clearly me actually I wasn't referring to you I was referring to someone who plays a server

named Jackson who gave me four diamond blocks for a fish in a bucket. I was called an axelotto. I guess that's like a really awesome cream of the cop crop of the cream of the crop over there. I don't know what the hype is about it. So yesterday I was kind of having a little bit of a meltdown and I kept telling myself I'm 26 years old

and it's Minecraft with friends so not to take it so serious. So I let everyone use it. But I did want Grunk to apologize and Grunk did apologize. He made me apologize like five times I'm not even kidding. And he kept asking, too.

Dude, how would you feel drunk? Put yourself in my shoes, man. Um, what is with the lighting, dude? I'd probably feel... I don't know. Like, I'd be like, damn, yeah, I low-key am a sweat, like any other person.

Dude, it is crazy how Minecraft can just change somebody for the boys. I know. I chose a path of peace. I chose a path of letting everyone use my shit. Well, hey, hey, good segue. I think Minecraft changed. feel for the better. Jerome. What was Minecraft to current day? How is it shaped you as a person?

I think I've lost my mind a little bit. I don't know, dude. I like Minecraft. I don't know how to put this. Like, I wouldn't play it in my spare time anymore, right? But like, I don't mind it. I mean, I've just played it so much for so many years. And like, at this point, we don't even play like the normal base Minecraft. Everything we do is modded. So it's almost like we're not even playing Minecraft, if that makes sense? Right. What's one of your favorite mod packs like ever?

Well, there goes my question. I mean, easy. So mod pack, crazy craft, for sure. Like, that's just an absolute classic. Really? It's just crazy. It's like 100 plus mods and one. But actual mod, I mean,

I don't think you can get better than Pixelmon or Cobbamon. Like, that is just still top tier. Oh, Cobbamon. What about Feed the Beast? Did you ever like that? Yeah, I like Feed the Beast a lot. I'm not very like, I don't know,

I was never technologically like super savvy with it. you know because it's all like just pipes and machinery and things like that but recently I've started getting into that and like playing more packs like I actually started Stoneblock 4 and that's been pretty fun I kind of like I like I like the challenge I don't know if my viewers like watch me

fumble the bag for like 30 minutes but like I like trying to figure out the machine works what's that mod pack that's like super realistic like you can get dehydrated RL craft don't play that dude yeah I did it's too hard it's really too hard

You can get like sunburnt, can't you? Yes, you can get like burnt, it's like, too cold, too hot. I just get so frustrated with like items don't auto pick up either in RL you have to right click and pick them up from the ground and it's like, oh, dude, and you have to find a pebble in order to like start crafting.

You have to find a stick in a pebble to make the most basic materials. Let's just make the game not fun at all. That's what RL craft is though. It literally is. Honestly, dude. So I know a bit of history about you and like how you started and everything like that like do a lot of people know about like your

whole history of like when you first started like and like what you were doing first and then how you segue into it like do you talk about that or have you ever talked about that uh i've definitely talked about it but i mean not in like a long time yes like it for a brief rundown of it's crazy it sounds i started my first channel march 30th 2008 so like 17 and a half years ago uh yeah long time ago it started off just being like real life stupid skits with friends and they were horrible no one to watch them and so then i was like all right you know this is kind of lame and they all thought so too and then they all quit and so like all right so what can i film on my own and at the time the largest gaming youtube had less than a hundred k subs his name was c m near he did

like halo three tricks and stuff like that and so it was kind of like a new thing and i was like you know maybe i could do that i'm like you know it's only 100k subs is like the peak now but like maybe there'll be bigger peaks down the line and so i just decided to start filling myself playing Minecraft, reconnected with an old friend of mine who had moved away in our childhood, Mitch or Bayesian Canadian, and then he started filming with me online. And then next thing you know, we were doing like call of duty zombies and things like that. And it was not family friendly at all. It was the complete opposite.

And then later in the career, I switched to Minecraft. And I was like, all right, nowadays it's weird because Minecraft is kind of aged up. A lot of people aged up with it. So I would say the average demo is like a young adult who plays Minecraft, as weird as that sounds. But back then, it was mostly kids. And so I was like, all right, like, I can't be making content for like 11-year-olds and just screaming, cursing, like a maniac. So I've just been family-friendly ever since for probably like 11, 12 years now.

But yeah, that's kind of like how it all went. You're like Pioneer. Did you? Gaming pretty much. Yeah, true. Did you ever go to the mind cons when they were around? Yeah, I did. Dude, I love watching those compilations of just like the most important moments.

They're so funny to me. I was there for those moments. Like, impersonate. Yeah, dude, I was there for those. That's so thick. I think I've been, I'm on one of those. The, which one? The cringe compilation, too, I think.

I think I'm in the background of one of them. Let me see. I don't think I did anything too terrible, but, yeah, let me see, cringe compilation. Because they're a tough one with, like, mega viral. Was it this one? Yeah, yeah, it was definitely this one. mind con cringe compilation mixed years oh i'm in this one somewhere for sure

i think i was on like a podium were you the cringe or were you like i don't think i was the cringe but i was on a podium oh god where was this no i'm gonna find this for you guys i will i promise you okay okay i think nine times out of ten of those cringe comps it's always the person asking the question i don't think i've ever seen yeah yeah dude the guy yeah everybody Snapka in the chat. Oh, yeah, yeah. Some of those are just like teeth gritting, like really hard to sit through.

Dude, but it's also, there's such like a sweet side to it because it's like, oh, these little children who don't really know socialize at all. They're usually like, everyone's inside playing Minecraft, right? Everyone who goes to those conventions are inside.

They're spending time on their computer, so it's like a break free. Oh, bro, I found, dude, I was in this one a ton. This is the 25th two. I literally went in 40 seconds in. You can see the back of my head. It's me and my friend. There's Preston, Woofels, me.

I'm trying to see, well, is that is Lockland, maybe. Yeah, that is Lockland. That's hilarious. There's a bunch of very cringy MindCon moments. That's insane. That's awesome. Did you, like, have fun at the time at MindCon? Like, what was the adult life there like?

So that's where... Are you guys going out for drinks? I mean, that one actually was... 2015 was in London, actually. So, like, yeah, it was a ton of fun because we all got to travel overseas. Only downside is, I don't remember if the exact day overlapped

or it was like a day after it was the 4th of July and so I didn't get to spend 4th of July at home with my family and friends which kind of sucks you wouldn't believe it but the British aren't fond of the 4th of July they do not like the 4th of July actually yeah

interesting not fans I can imagine why it was kind of lame missing the holiday there but in general it was it was a lot of fun yeah to your point like whether Pax East or E3 or MineCon any of those ones the real fun for like content creators kind of came like the after

because there'd be a bunch of like industry parties, dinner. You basically didn't have to pay for food or drinks or anything for like an entire It was awesome. Dude, drinks are great when they're not when they're paid for it. It tastes better when they're not paid for you. Yeah, but it was fun though. Yeah, like we would have an absolute blast at the actual conventions like it's cool and it's fun like getting to meet fans. That's always incredible and you get to kind of like it's it's like a very like humbling moment because you put an actual face to like a screen name or even a number on a screen, right? So, like, it makes you realize, like, okay,

what you do actually does have an impact? Actually, like, people like this stuff, and you're making at least a positive difference somehow. And that's really cool. But then, like, the actual, like, crazy stuff, like, that's all not, you know, that's after the convention every day. Yeah.

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, that's crazy. That has not changed, I would say, at least from our, like, our experience. Do you guys go to convention? I haven't been a convention in five years. We did go to TwitchCon once a year We just got back from TwitchCon about a month ago And exactly like you said

I think it's extremely humbling You know putting a name to a face Or putting a face to a name And like they you know They'll make little bracelets and stuff And it's really really cute And it's like artwork Some people like there were

Yeah Pressing music onto like CDs It's so sweet And it's so it's awesome hearing Like the stories of the folks Because like you get messages Online and it's always great to see it and it's always like really sweet to read it out but then you see the person

and you're seeing the facial expressions and you're seeing the had movements and you're seeing all that energy and you're like you don't get to see that you know yeah you don't get to see that messages and you're like holy crap this is like it's always cool right yeah someone from chat too like when you see someone from chat or from social media and then you like meet them in person yeah yeah you're like going to sign their name tag right you realize it's like I'm like damn that's nuts like these videos are it's just like me and tannery or me and whoever just making a stupid joke and like it there's a weird ripple effect that happens of people who are watching it and how to yeah it affects it i think

i was going to say i think a lot of people forget like you know a lot of times people like say like you know like hey this is going on in my life thank you so much for you know making the content you i'm sure you guys see that all the time and and what we don't realize is like while we're not like doctors or therapists or anything like that we can't solve people's problems but sometimes sometimes all someone needs is just a distraction in the moment something to laugh and smile about when everything else in their life sucks they just want something to laugh and smile about and that's what we can do right we can't fix their problems but if you can do that then i'd like to believe we're doing something good that's kind of my line of thinking anyway yeah absolutely absolutely yeah because like i i would think about when i was a kid what i would look forward to dude i had my ipod my ipod fourth generation so that was back when like it had the

YouTube icon on it. Still, like the TV. Oh, like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Classic. And you couldn't even close the app, right? If you wanted to keep like listening or something. Yeah. You couldn't shut your phone off. Those were the days.

Yep. And so that's where I would have like, and I remember there's a feature. I'd never had a YouTube account at the time. But they had, they allowed you to favorite up to 50 videos. And so I would like always watch whether it was like Halo Fails of the Week from, I'm pretty sure it was Achievement Hunter. I think that's who that's who did that. stuff. I was like big into Halo and probably watched your, the one biggest guy at one point, but a lot of Minecraft videos. I actually, funny enough, I was in, I think fifth or sixth grade

and we were given laptops throughout all of my years. Like it was like up to, I think it was like fifth and then six, seven, eight, all the way through high school, we were given laptops. And I was making, I was making Minecraft videos. Were you public or private school? That's crazy. I was a public school. Wow, and they gave you lap, that's cool. That's real cool. Yeah, we were, we were all given a MacBook airs. What? That's nice, dude. Damn.

No, you got like sweet. You had a sweet. Yeah, really small, small school. Yeah, yeah. And I would play Minecraft with a friend and he was a really big fan of Jerome.

And he would always like, you would always scream like Baca and use like the ax and shit in our recordings at the time, dude. Classic. That was you, right? That was you that would say that? Yeah, that was me.

Yeah. But, you know, I watched a lot of, like, syndicate at the time, like, growing up. A lot of the Mayanite, for example, that was, oh, my God, dude, all that, him. And, oh, man, I forget. I know it was Sparkles, but who was the other guy, used to date? OMG, it's Firefox. I forget his name. Oh, Jericho.

Jericho. Yeah, Tucker. Yeah. Yeah. So that, dude, that's crazy, man. So, like, tying it all back together. Yeah, like, I was, like, so bored and I, I fucking, there was a lot of things going on back in my childhood that I was just like man I just wanted

like an escape so I would watch all that stuff yeah it's so weird you said that because you just named like a bunch of people like I've met them over the years or I'm friends with and I don't know it's just it's fun right yeah you guys like have like a stamp like it's an imprint yeah so wait how how did you both

me because you guys have known each other for like I'm it's pretty well now I think mutual friends right yeah yeah we we had back yeah we had Mutual friends back in, like, 2019. Yeah, sexist years ago. And then it turns out that he lived like, I mean, what, 20 minutes away?

Yeah, yeah. In New Jersey. Yep. Who dogs to? Yeah, we met up, had a dinner. I still had that picture saved because I was, I was a big, I was a big old chunky boy. I'll be honest. 2019.

Yeah, 2019. Well, you helped me out big time, though. What was it? Three years ago, he got me into the gym. gym for the first time ever. Like, I had not been in the gym in a very long time. And he taught me everything. Dude, he's the man.

Nick is the man. Like, I'm talking like, he went with me like every day almost for like two, three weeks straight. He's brutal at the gym. I don't know how you did it. I know. One time I went with him to do, uh, I think it was app workouts. We were doing app workouts.

And you had this fucking, oh my God. It was like, yeah, awful routine. I did it. I did like, I did like one set. And then he was like, all right, we got to do that three more times. I was like, no, dude. Yeah, dude. He did that the first time I went to the gym. It was like an hour and a half long session of leg day combined with all of that. And then at the very end, he sends me home with a, remember, low carbs. And I'm like, dude, I need to eat like all the carbs. I'm going to die, dude. In that time, I've definitely grown a lot. Like, I would have told you maybe like a sweet potato or something now. Right. I should have really said eat a sweet potato. Dude, I'm like, I'll be for real. I went right home.

I went right home and stopped at Chipotle on the way. I was like, dude, I'm not doing a little car. That's still the wave right now. Chipotle, yeah. Yeah, no, I remember all that time, and I was just like, I was just at the gym all the time, dude. I would go work out in the morning and then, or like morning, early afternoon, and then you'd get off and you'd be ready to go work out at like seven o'clock at night. Yeah, you usually like six, seven around there, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Sorry, sorry, sorry. Oh, man, I looked at everyone's chasing. My head to die there for a second. My ears perked up like a dog. That's why I said seven. I didn't want to say it. Bro, we found, Camden and I found the new one last night.

I was much of my teeth. And I was like, the new number. We were talking about something. Yeah, and he was like 10 or 11. And I was like 10 or 11. Okay.

All right. So we already moved past 41. It's just kind of nice. Oh, I think that's been bad. I was like a new or two of high. And then I was gone. It was like gone after. I'll see Buffalo Wild Wings making a 41.

Jerome. Is, are your viewers still like young demographic? Like, are they still like, uh, I mean, well, it's hard for me to tell, right? Because I think there's like, there's two audiences. I live stream Monday through Friday and I do videos daily. So the video audience, I don't know. Like, some of them I feel like are definitely younger. But the live stream audience, 100% they're older.

Like, I'm talking like probably 16 is the younger. end of things and you'd be shocked I have some viewers that come out all the time every day that are up to like 35 36 so like wow it's definitely I would say the average viewer right now for my live content like 22 23

years old it's real like it's different man it's never been like that before for me yeah I like it though it's fun I was gonna ask like if you have those young kids like I just wonder what the comment sections of like young

audiences are right now like with all these all this well that's why I think that I don't have a lot like a lot of young audience because I see it like with Roblox like channels I'll like look at their like comment section I'll be like oh my God but then I like look at my own

it's nothing like that so I'm like yeah I think they've kind of aged up a lot which is good and it's cool yeah no like dude I was looking at my nephews because my nephew's trying to do like a YouTube channel right now and I think he was doing he was just doing a bunch of

like FNAF edits with Capcut using a bunch of P&Gs that he gets online and then you know doing whatever and he uh all he ever comments is like questions like if he just spams questions and he'll spam he'll make like a kind of like a tree of comments underneath like a bunch of videos he watches like how did you do this? How did this happen? What's this? What is that? What's going

on here? What's going on there? It's like a whole list. Wow. He's like so committed dude. And sometimes I read our comments and like, I just imagine, for the most part, I imagine just people kind of being like, they just, it's like comment and you forget about it. You just like leave it alone. Yeah. I don't really comment, so I don't have like a thing. Usually when we comment, it's like something stupid like a, like a jerk or whatever. But it is really, really hard to tell the sort of age demographic with comments.

It is. Absolutely. Yeah. But you can tell with young, young kids, you could tell in the comments actually. Oh, you can. Yeah. Like, you know. that's so true

yeah I don't really comment on YouTube too much sometimes I do and then yeah dude I was never really a commenter I was a Twitch chatter bro that's really like QC era bro bro yeah I oh my god yeah that was fucked up I like would

I would just go into chats and just like I'd like craft messages that would be more likely to be read than others you know Like, like, ask a question or say something very relevant in the moment, you know, because it's like a little addiction, a little dopamine hit whenever my Twitch chat comment was read. Strange.

Jerome, did you know that grunk was our most parissocial fan? What? Like, for you guys? I never had the ambition to, like, become a YouTuber. I just wanted to be friends with the people I watched. And then I literally got it. I don't wrap, but we hosted a long time ago. No shock.

Really? You want to go to give away. No. I did start streaming, but I was on S&P live for a little bit. And then that was kind of my end. And then I was on S&P or. Oh, that's cool. And then that's how we connected.

But it was just like, yeah, I never really, like, had the drive or motivation for YouTube or Twitch. I just wanted awesome friends. And then it just kind of accidentally happened from there. Yeah, yeah, like it all worked out very luckily and I don't know, I can't really Well, dude, I mean, you hit the nail in the head though. That's something a lot of people don't realize is like, something like the people that you record with a lot of time end up being like some of your best friends. Like you see them more often than anyone else.

You connect with them. You also like, I think there's something about sharing like a common goal. Like if you're working together to make a really awesome video, get as many views as possible, like that's fun, like that's cool. Like that's, I don't know, man. Like I end up usually being best friends with the people I record with. It just happens. yeah yeah and like our our vibe is like based on friendship as well like without without the

core friendship we just fall apart yeah it's definitely a foundation that you can't really just get rid of you know yeah we we literally stop when that shit like when we notice like something's just weird we like we like stop and we like recalculate yeah yeah it's like okay hold on hold on something's off with us yeah yeah because like about a year ago we were doing our group channel and we were getting a pretty decent track a lot of videos are doing really well but we started to realize very quickly that

it was starting to be more of like that business than the friendship which is okay but like when you don't know how to like differentiate the two you can very easily confuse the both of them and intertwine them and then things just start to get like not weird but like just things just start to get like a little too off yeah yeah like we operate

again on like the friendship basis so it's like yeah I don't know it's like a fine balance though and it's really hard right because like you want to like treat things like a like a true friendship like you don't want like any like business or anything in the way but at the same time at the end of the day it's your guys's jobs like you kind of like you know what I mean you actually you do have to have some kind of I get what you're saying it's difficult to balance it to so I've been there I've been

oh go ahead I'm good you're good no I was going to totally change good I was going to say um so sweet so I took like one singular no I took a few but I took one mark class way back in my day during my very, very short college career before I got my first YouTube check and I dropped out. Don't be me. So the first thing my professor said to me when I walked into this room, she opened up the entire semester with saying rule number one of business, never start a business with your family or friends. And I was like, damn, okay, all right, We're just going to just lead with that as I'm like, you know, looking to go home and record with all of my friends and everything, watching it gradually turn into something I have to maintain on a business standpoint. It was tough. And, you know, there wasn't always like a balance that I found to work. But it all worked out in the end because, I mean, we're still here. I was going to say two things to dissect that. One, like, it can backfire hard when you work with friends and family, but it doesn't necessarily have to. And the second thing is just in general in life, especially when it comes to teachers or professors, like, this person's, they're teaching.

Like, they're not like, this isn't like a business guru. It's not like, like, a billionaire came up to you with some great novel advice. Like, what business is this person running to tell you that it doesn't work? Like, don't work with friends and family. What businesses do you have? None. Okay, well, shut up, dude. Like, I don't care what you have to say.

Like, I really don't. That was pretty much. That was the only thing I really took away from that class. And a few other, like, silly pointers. But, yeah, it is, it is, like, knowing in that world that's not something. in that's normal. Yeah, I wouldn't even lead that with like a don't. It's just more of like, know that there could be some, not consequences, but certain outcomes could happen as a result. You know what I'm saying? I think the biggest thing is you have to, if you do end up working with

friends, if you are able to, like if you're someone who's able to separate the two, if push comes to shove and be like, hey, look, like, you know, we need to part ways or whatever, then fine, you can do it. But if you're not someone, if you're a timid person or you're not someone who can like confront a friend like that it's not for you you can't work with friends and family because like you're gonna like butt heads sometimes and if you're too like scared to say anything yeah you can get yourself in a lot of trouble you can get yourself in a big pickle yeah yeah that's why like you know that's why like communication is like the key you know to everything like and i've always said this it's like the number one differentiating thing between turning 17 and 18 is communicating

and like you know like your words because at 17 years old someone can't speak for you still, right? Your parents or your guardian. But once you turn 18, you are the one speaking for yourself. And like, you know, sure, people can still try and speak for you, but people are going to look at the fact you're an adult now, you know, so you have to be responsible for yourself and communicate. And that is like my number one takeaway, you know, because no one else is going to do it for you, to be honest. You know? Yeah. But, yeah, I wanted to ask you real quick, because I heard the story, but I don't know if I remembered it correctly. Was it in London when you were at an airport? Is that where you met PewDiePie? No, no, that was actually a Newark

Airport. Oh, man. I can't. I can't remember where we were going. I was flying somewhere with Mitch, so Vajia Canadian. We were going somewhere. And then he, we're walking by. And right there is Marcia and Pewify, just sitting at this like the restaurant right there. Nick, I don't know how familiar are with Newark Air Force. It's Terminal C and you go to the left. I'm pretty sure you just redid Terminal C. Oh, okay. Well, Terminal C, you go to the left wing and then you go down

as a restaurant right there. They were standing, they're sitting right there and I look at Mitch, I go, dude, that was totally like, that was PewDie Pied. Like, that was it. And we just went over there and we were like, dude, hello. It was really cool. I don't know if it's still up on his channel, but we were in the vlog for like a half

a second. Like, you could see us walking up. And I was like, that's us. Like, we're in it. I feel like I remember that I don't know I was definitely watching Peti Pie back in the day and I feel like I remember having that

like connection of like wait wait a minute what are they doing yeah dude it's crazy what year was this wow dude

oh god probably 2014 I'd say probably 2014 somewhere around there oh my damn that's crazy did he like know you guys like have you guys

like at the time yeah he did now he either could be extremely polite and just had pretended to know us but he did say he knew like he had heard of us or knew us and I was like oh that's awesome he could have just being

polite I don't know but uh right mm-hmm he claimed he did so that was cool okay that's funny Newark bro that's so funny Newark all places Newark of America bro you all no paradise dude the nicest there's

waterfalls in the background is very scenic beautiful Newark I love Newark Airport I can't get over that that Newark is going to host the World Cup final. I'm like, dude, we can't show the rest of the world. The rest of the world isn't ready for Newark, New Jersey. When was that announced? Is that real?

You don't know that? Yeah, it's at MetLife Stadium where the Giants play. Oh, my God. You didn't know that? World Cup final stadium. The World Cup final stadium. Type that in, it says, uh, the world. The upcoming final. The upcoming final for 2026 will be held at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The world's going to see New Yorker.

We got to go. I remember. No, no, we don't want to go. You know how they do those, like, those, like, drone shots of the outside of the stadium? Like, whenever they do that, it's just going to be, like, the most depressing scene. It's going to be great. I'm like, how could you show the whole world this? You can't.

I love where I grew up in the surrounding towns where I grew up, but, like, once I tread a few towns past that, it starts to get a little murgy. Dude, all the towns when I went, they're all fine. They looked fine. Okay, Larry, let's, time out for a second. Jerome, I picked this guy up from the airport and we were driving on the parkway back home and he said that Camden

was one of the prettiest towns Wait, Camden? Camden, New Jersey. We were driving. It looked fine. It was like trees everywhere. It was either Camden or Irvington. Whichever one of the two.

He said it was beautiful. We were driving in like a highway and there was trees everywhere. We were doing this like loop and I was just looking at all the trees and like you know it was like cool I was like oh yeah this is chill this is really really pretty it was calm dude

yeah dude I love Jersey I remember we ate at diner and I was like this is the best food I've ever had in my entire you did say that the best onion rings tenors ever had the best onion rings are clutch because a lot of them are 24 hours so like at 3 am you can just get a waffle with ice cream on it it's it's pretty are they still 24 hours even after COVID Some, some are

Not like I'm trying to think Like the smaller ones know I think Whatever sunset diner used to be on 22 I don't even remember where that it was Nick Or sunset diner They changed their name

Now they're like I don't know they pick some ritsy name for some reason Are they in like the middle of 22? Yeah Yeah Okay it wouldn't be Union Diner I don't think You gotta be real name Plaza Diner

There's definitely some that in there are 24 hours still but not COVID definitely screwed up some shit that's the one that's the one thing I miss about like pre-COVID where the 24 hour everythings well we had Wawa Isaac so we were chilling Wawa never even once went not 24 hours and that is why

there's still Wawa is fire still yeah the goat dude we need to get sponsored by Wawa you Wawa hit me can we be like a bassist Oh my gosh can we do that you guys don't even have access to Wawa we can open up one here

we can be we can be the pilot for Texas. Let's try and talk to that would be fantastic. Let's do a wabaw next to a cobobob like right. Oh my god. And then and then we start we start stacking all of our favorite stores in like one street. It's all like right next to us. We're the only customers too. We need a subway for Tanner. We need a Wawa for Isaac. Grunk when you visit we can get a Wegmans. Well in Texas you guys you guys have Bucky's right Buckees is sick. We have Buckeyes. Yeah. Okay. Dude Buckees is here now Not a problem, but the thing with Buckees is that Buckeys are always in the middle of nowhere.

It's like they're always the, they're always in between towns. So if you want to go to the Buckees, you got to drive like, what did this, 30 minutes away. I think the closest one to us is like 60 miles away. Oh, that's not close at all. Yeah. Well, I think in terms of Texas, definitely cool. That's like 40 minutes away. In terms of Texas, that's like, in terms of Texas, that's like 40 minutes away.

Yeah, but if you're like really in the mood for like a snack, you're not driving. Oh, yeah. Fuck, no. I'm sorry. I can't do that. That's too far away. But dude, being like a general manager over at Wawa, they get paid very handsomely.

Oh, they get like benefits out that. Oh, yeah. I didn't know that until one of my best friends. Like he was a groomsman in my wedding and he's also one of my longest running employees, Steve. So he's worked for me for almost 10 years now. And before he worked for me, he worked at Wawa and he was like an assistant manager there. And he was telling me how like if he had stayed just like another year or two,

he would have gotten like, I think it was like stock options and like a bunch of other benefits and like salary. And I'm like, this is, like, crazy position is like, quarter of a million dollars. Oh, my God. I was like, dude, I was like, dude, that's, we just play Minecraft. You probably should have stayed there. It's like, what's what's doing here? That's, oh, man, dude, employee, uh, so nice.

So is Wawa only, like, East Coast? Yeah, Upper East. And there's some in Florida. So, yeah, it's just all East Coast. I'll be real. Dang, dude. It really is. So I feel bad because, um,

Like me, I'm from Pennsylvania Grunk here, it's from Virginia And of course Willie But the two people They haven't like Had access to a Wawa Or Larry and Tanner And I feel for them man

It just makes me upset There is in my town there's nothing There's a 7-11 There is Dude, your town is awesome It's kind of awesome Because it's just funny But I don't

I have like there's no snack options Well it's like cozy I mean seven-11 is all you need though For snacks Yeah I do like tequitos here and there Yeah, but you've never had a Hogi Fest Hogi. No, but I did go to Wawa once.

And I was like, it was like Disneyland for me because I was just looking at all the, I was looking at all the snacks like, oh, wow. I still have that picture of you, Tanner, outside of the Wawa and you were wearing your brand new Yeezys that you bought and you were, you were wearing like a hoodie that I bought and something. Oh, yeah, I was wearing pretty much all your clothes. I think, Nick, if you look at your first Instagram post ever, I'm pretty sure it was that. Yeah, where we did that sandwich picture, where I, like Isaac gave me a sandwich and like yeah we dabbed each other up that is that is my first picture it's right here you can't really see it that well but damn that's that's Isaac passing me the sandwich I remember that day so sandwich you hang up each other uh you take it and you dab

them up and that pose wow that's fire that was the first time we all met in person too yeah that was crazy that was like a movie yeah not to circle back to um Oh, it's Buckees, right? We were talking about Buckees. Yeah. Yeah. What do you like comparing contrasting the employee benefits? We were talking about, we were talking about, okay, that's the general manager of Buckees can make between $150,000 and $225,000 a year.

Good God. The 401K is 100% match up to 6% three weeks paid off. Like, dude, even the- I'll see you guys later. I'm going to go. Dude. I'm going to go work at Buckees. Quoting content creation to go get a job at Buckees.

Jerome. Assistant General Manager, $100 to $150,000. For Buckees. At Buckees? Or Wawa? Yeah. Oh, wait, you're talking about Wawa? Wait, who was at Wawa?

Oh, he was at Wawa. Okay. Okay. So there is... I think Buckees clears. He was an assistant general, man. He was just an assistant manager. So I think there's a difference, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because general probably is like regional. Are I just like coping for potentially ruining his life? Hold on, let me see. Let me just quickly take a look here. Yeah, I'm looking here. The general manager makes upwards of almost a quarter of a million. And then, dude, like the car wash managers can make 125K.

That's insane. Sorry, Steve. God, Steve. Why don't you tell me? Maybe they'll take it back. Maybe we can open a Buckees or something. Let's do it. I'm telling you.

Can we, as a franchise, well, we should open a Buckees and we put Steve in charge. Dude, let's do it. That would have to do it.

He'd be so bad. I know Steve would run that like the Navy. He would. He'd run that tight as hell. Yeah. There wouldn't be a single complaint. Run that tight as hell. It's not a franchise.

It's privately owned. Oh, dude. Lame. All right, maybe we can, maybe we can privately have a conversation with them and just privately be there.

Let's do a new mascot. Let's do a new guy, a whole new thing, copy the same layout. Who's gonna, who's gonna care, who can't? Speed run to a cease and desist. Let's get it. It's called it Buckees, but B-U-C-K. You know, it'd go viral, freaking cucking. Really?

Why? How did I go viral? I'm serious. I'm gonna be like, this new gas station is called what? Cuckies and it has a bunch of cuck themed items. Did everybody go? What? Yeah.

What would they sell it? What would they sell here? Yeah. Yeah, what? Like chairs. Like, who knows what else? Maybe, maybe like a camcorder. Chairs and a camcorder.

The mascot sitting down on a chair with a camcorder. Man, yeah, that'd be pretty good. Oh, dude. There's a real barking. It's nuts. I actually now, more than ever, I could see it being, being a store yeah for like a temporary amount of time

yeah it pops up it's like spirit Halloween it pops up for a little bit should we do it let's do it let's fucking we'llie vlog we can do it we live vlog we created a store we've created a store Jerome I've been meaning to ask this

and again we've been friends now for six years so I probably did end up asking this over a nice steak okay what were the golden years of YouTube would you say like in all of YouTube now like not for me you're talking about like just YouTube yeah like yeah

you know what I'm saying like what would be like the best peak like for creators like the best time to have been making content like it's the best pay the algorithm is really helping you grow a lot it's like booming just in general I'm gonna say something that's gonna piss off a lot of people the answer is right now the answer is literally right now it has never been a more fair

it's never been a more fair system if you make good content you will succeed which is why my content sucks and my views are way down and I know I own it dude like I don't make good content I don't care though I mean like I'm on the back nine of my career I'm good

but like I dude 100% if you make actually good content think about this how many channels do you know or have come across that have like 10k subs that put out like three or four videos and they're getting like half a million views a video and it makes no sense Well, it does make sense because it's just good content. YouTube is actually picking up.

Back in the day, dude, you can make the best content in the world. And your first 10 videos are still going to get like 100 views. Now, you make the best video. That first video could get 100, 200, 500K views, a million views. Now, this is the most fair system it's ever been. People hate hearing that. But most of the time when people hate hearing it, it's because their content sucks. I'm just going to be real.

Mine is two. I'm not being judgmental. I get it. Mine sucks. But so does yours, pal. I'm just being honest with. Damn. It's just true. It's right on the head, man.

It's heartwarming to here. I need to be. Holy crap, dude. Do I fucking, I really want to fight. I really want to fight for like quality content and sort of kind of progressing sort of like it's a lot. Like me and Isaac, we do a lot of editing. Like most of our time I spend editing. And we take a lot from a bunch of not even, well, at least for me right now, I'm not even taken from YouTube like videos.

Because, like, when we started editing, I'm pretty sure we were both, like, taken from a bunch of YouTubers that we liked. I took from, like, Soviet Womble in that subtitling, and then I took from other people. But now it's, like, I'm really, I'm really into movies. And I like taking inspiration for movies and applying them to our gaming videos that we got going on. So a lot of the music, a lot of the, like, intro, outro, transition graphics, I want to put a lot of care into. Even though they're gaming videos. Like, end of the day, they are gaming videos. But if I can do that for gaming videos, then that can translate over to even like the

IRL content that we do. And, you know, it can get even further than that, further than just videos on YouTube. And gaming videos are great, dude. Like, I, what a low lift way to like, if you can nail it on the head, dude, it's the lowest lift way to get good views on YouTube and, and it's, it's cost effective. It's ever, it's wonderful, dude. Like, if you can blow up a gaming channel, it's way better than running a real life channel, in my opinion. You might have a harder time finding brands and stuff to sponsor you, but I mean, whatever. If the content's good, they'll come. I want to tackle both. I want to tackle IRL in a way that's like, I like traveling. I don't know about you boys, but I do like the travel stuff. It is a bit of a hassle to figure out like the, you know, it's like the setup, right? The setup's always going to be with cameras and trying to get angles and microphones and all this stuff. But besides that, I feel like there is like a gap.

Or there is like a ceiling with gaming that can happen. It does depend on like the ideation maybe or like how you. Because like it's a difference between just playing the game and then also playing the game with extra stuff, you know. Or maybe like you're playing it in like a non-traditional way. That could be the difference or I don't know, whatever it may be or even just the editing itself. But yeah, I do see a lot of people though make some really crazy content and they got like 5K fall or, yeah. There's like 5k subscribers, but the videos get like 250,000 views and it's like this level of production all being done by one person and it's crazy. It's always one person or it's always like like a small team doing some crazy animations or you know all these things.

It's like wow. I don't even know it's nuts. Yeah. Well, I have a question for you, Jerome. What do you think about like the Mr. Beastification of YouTube? like you support that I mean support is what like I don't I don't not support it I don't

do support it I I just I don't know it's kind of it is just a reality and that's the whole reason that like quality has to go up so much I I say it all the time like I've said it to my wife I'm like thank God that I don't have to like compete nowadays because it's yeah it's way harder now he raised the bar to new heights

and I would say the only danger the only danger is it's not impossible but on a but on a limited budget you really it's harder it's a lot harder yeah

because it's not always like that's not the case like it's not like money trumps art but at the same time if you've got money to spend on a video typically you can hire a better editor

you can hire a better cinematographer or cameraman whatever you want to refer to them as you know you can pay for assets like a royalty free music, you can pay for a good thumbnail artist, you know, you have more tools of your disposal.

It doesn't mean just because you throw money at a wall doesn't mean it's going to stick either. Well, dude, you have the best tools ever if you don't know what to do with them. You're not going to be making the best content ever because of those tools, you know, it's, yeah.

But it definitely helps. It does help. It does help. So I don't know. I don't like that aspect of it. I miss when like my first videos, when I was blowing up on YouTube, I had a million subscribers and I was

on a laptop with a track pad and a microphone that didn't have a stand it was just on top of a stack of books and like but nowadays that would never happen you could never succeed with that level of you know whatever you couldn't um maybe i mean if it's funny enough you know some people really like the uh yeah i remember when like i mean like look at slushy news yeah yeah very simple they're kind of a new new channel that's late they just record on their iPhone and do very minimal editing But a lot of people like it. There's a lot of that content right now where it's just iPhone and that's it. It's like iPhone personality. So that is coming back. Yeah, I'm going to be real. About like real life, just more authentic content where people just basically unfiltered. They might have like a few cuts, but it's just them talking to the camera. Like stuff you would have seen in 2009, 10, 1112. People are looking for authenticity again. This is yeah. It's something that happened as a result of, of course, the Mr. Beastification. Oh, yeah. Counterbalance. Yeah, it did a full circle and now we're back to square one where, you know, less can be more and people can appreciate it in the stats too, Isaac, where like, uh, if you look at like social media stats, social media amongst younger kids, shockingly is actually down since, uh, COVID. It's not down a lot, but it's slowly starting to trend downward. I think you're starting to see a reverse of, uh, I think people are dopamine burnt out. I think they're just completely burnt out. And I think you're starting to see people start to seek out, long form content with less consistent dopamine hits because it's just kind of exhausting dude like I don't know what you guys

are in COVID like I was doom scrolling Twitter nonstop like I wonder what meteor is going to hit Earth today and like I don't know it gets exhausting like I'm not myself moving more towards like long form media trying to read a little bit more like things like that it's better it's better for your brain too but that's a whole other discussion it is yeah and that's not that's not something

because clicking on a Mr. Beast video like yeah I watch Well, even Mr. Beast was trying to do that, wasn't he? Slow things down? Yeah. I mean, his definition is like removing the smile from his thumbnail. I mean, I'm watching this guy's videos and he's blowing up, like, trains.

And as cool as that is, you know, it gets to a point where I'm watching that every other week for multiple years. It's going to start to lose its spark. And you can't go higher than that. Like, the bar is raised. There's a guy on a, there's a guy on TikTok named Hoopify who, uh, uh, uh, Parodies. What is this? The whole style.

Every word he says has like a bell. And it's like, Beep, Bebe, Bebe, Boops if I, I remember back when the six, seven shit started like blowing up.

Dude, he had like 230 shorts where he just said the same thing. Who is this kid? And why does he keep saying the number six, seven? This is the six seven kid. And he would just go on and on and on and on. I didn't know how we got here to this specific part,

but it's, yeah, I've seen that guy a lot on TikTok, dude. I wanted to, I wanted to loop back because Grunk asked a question. I was almost, it was on part with mine. But Jerome, out of everything that you've done in all your years doing content creation, whether on Minecraft or something else, you know, what was the most grandiose project or video that almost drove you up a wall

to get out or just do? Was there something of that caliber in your career? It's a tough one. I'm trying to think. You could shoe on it. Yeah, I was going to say, let me think on this. Because like typically, you know,

a lot of the content we do is not like super difficult really in nature. Honestly, I have an answer. and I don't want to say it because I don't want to disparage the brand but can I leave it at sometimes brands can be the biggest pain in the world

to work with and I literally wasted two straight days and a lot of money shooting at this one thing and then they just nuked the entire idea and then had me do it from my house

which is what I suggested to begin with and so I wasted 48 hours and a ton of money and then had to reshoot it again and did it over the course of like a few hours that day and none of that

that was necessary and I wanted to pull my hair out. I do not want to say the brand name. Yeah, you're told. I think that's enough context. Um, those who know, we'll leave it at that. Um, I've, I've had my fair share of experiences like that. Never, never traveling, but yeah, brands can be a massive pain in the, uh, in the butt to say, bro.

I will air them out right now. Timu, bro. Teamu, they made me, they made me re-reperse some shit like four times. I'm going to air it out. Dollar general. Dollar general. You gotta mess me up.

It's here, dude. No, bro. I'll never remember with Timu again, bro. Like, again, also, yeah, sure, the class action lawsuit. But, like, still, they made me re-record some shit so many times. I was like, what happened to the agreement of, like, free, like, I could do whatever I wanted and let me integrate it naturally? Because they turned from, like, yeah, you can do whatever you want to. Well, we want you to do this.

And then I read this and they're like, okay, now can you put a picture on screen and hold it in your hand as well? I'm like... Yeah, make sure you put the coupon code. The one that makes no sense and there's a bunch of letters and numbers on the screen too. Yeah, also we sent you a tattoo gun. Get a tattoo of Timu on your shoulder.

Yeah, dude. They, dude, they took over the industry for a very short amount of time. This was like, when was, when did Timu like first pop? Two years ago, right? Yeah. Dude, they get like every Super Bowl, they get like four ads.

They used to. I was looking this year. They didn't have one for this year. They didn't. But they were blowing it on on Super Bowl ads. Tons of creator integration. Dude,

what's the catch? Because I've never used T-Mu. So what's the catch? Because I get their like ads and it'll be like back now and you can get this like $50 product for like a dollar or whatever, right? And I'm like, well, surely not.

I see Nintendo switches for like 13 bucks. I'm like that that's something wrong. That's what I'm saying. I think they like, isn't it like really bad labor quality? There was that so a lot of it is drop shipping as well. It is drop shipping. So if you go to Walmart, you're going to find something that has a certain amount of dollar amount. But Walmart gets it from a supplier or a manufacturer for much, much less.

Timu is pretty much like cutting out in between Walmart and manufacturer. They're right in the middle. So everything that comes from the manufacturer goes to Timo. and they can just slash the hell out of these prices but on the same side of course there's going to be like pros and cons for buying

things that are a dollar 22 that should not be a dollar 22 like it's too good to be true type of thing there were a lot of labor issues they got outed there was a whole thing and again this is like years ago but yeah it's that's one of the brands that a lot of creators on here

you know we just shilled the hell out of it and then later comes come find out it's ooh yikes you're pulling your collar yeah i'm reading this now what a class it's like timu offers low prices by cutting out the middlemen like we were saying sourcing directly from chinese manufacturers and using the u.s uh i guess it's de minimis tax import loophole so it's like basically they allow packages to below a certain value of $800 to enter the country without being inspected or taxed that is now is that gone now the tariffs yeah but i don't i don't i don't don't know too much on that but I do basically everything coming from out of country

like China if they were to sell like a bunch of Timu shit here are like double the tax now well yeah I know that they put you know they tariff it yeah the the goods that's coming in but yeah that's boring yeah let's talk about Minecraft what's your favorite Montag Jerome no I'm kind of interested I was like Dana's really affecting the world right now no I think that like companies like Timu bro like which by the way guys shout out to Honey for sponsoring today's

podcast right guys? Oh really? I was like I thought they got canceled or something we're bringing them back Come on there! Come on! They chose us. Come on in bees. Yep. No, no. They're doing something like ran like shout a

thank you so much Purble plays for sponsoring us this video. We love Perbal Place. Play it every day, right? Guys, we're going to get on tomorrow. And our second sponsor, Cuckies. Thank you so much. Cuckies, thank you.

Oh, and we cannot forget, Solitaire. Solitaire, the computer card game. You can get it now. You already have it on your computer, actually. You turn to play it. Go ahead. This is their first brand ever. And Spider.

Spider. Thank you, spiders. Yeah, we tried Mind Sweeper because Larry really loves mine sweeper. Oh, I love Mindsweeper, dude. I can do a competition. I don't care. I'll compete with the world. I love that

Has Rubik's Cube ever sponsored anyone? That's a good question I think like My own Rubik's Cube Is it Rubik's? No Rubik's Oh it is Rubik's with an X Yeah Rubik's

I haven't lost cubes in a while My God I haven't touched Rubik's Cube I've never solved the Rubik's Q in my entire life Dude it piss me off man I can't do it I don't have the attention span to actually like

Learning it just start turning it I'm just like I don't know I just threw it I just went to their website What is this? Did they make like harder ones now? Dude, they make like nine by nine and stuff. Like what is this? No, like what are all these colors?

Dude, if you're colorblind, are they invented? I am colorblind and I can tell this is next. Oh god, don't look at that picture. Are you actually colorblind? Yeah, red green and color deficient. Yeah. Oh, dude, that's like all of Rubik's cubes, dude. It's the only three colors of a Rubik's cube to roam.

It feels... Oh, wait. You're not missing out much. I can promise you that much. Jerome, good news. Good news. They have a Rubik's Batman cuber. So you can play with a Rubik's cube that's Batman.

There we go. Thank God. Thank God for that. I'm glad the world we live in. Here you go, man. Take a look at that. They're all the same color. How are you supposed to solve it?

That's even worse than the one that he said. What are you talking about? Wait, this is crazy, dude. How do you solve it? Yeah, I don't get that. I found one that's arguably even worse. Dude, this is the kind of thing you give to that one family member you absolutely hate for Christmas. You just get them to think Batman Cuber.

Yeah, have fun of this. You're not solving this. If you think you did, you didn't. Awesome. Oh, no. Wednesday, dude. Go ahead. Take a look at the Wednesday.

What the hell? They're all the same. Yeah. Man, Jerome, I'm sorry, dude. We went from, you know, you've played so much. craft, we're just talking about another form of block right now. Like, where the circles? Like, where the circle's at?

Where the circle games? Wait, they make new games too? Rubik's race? Oh, I saw it's like, whoa. Dude, we should get a sponsorship. We gotta get the word out. Damn. I didn't know that.

Products, yeah. Oh my god. We're gonna get the word out here. Comment if you want to see it. I wonder how many people would actually buy a Rubik's cube if they heard a brand integration. I don't know guys. Get this. Get this.

Community is kind of hardcore. Like they're, when you're in the community, you're in. Yeah. They know you. Crazy. Yeah. Yeah. That in the Tetris community.

Oh my God, bro. There's more blocks, man. Mm-hmm. Oh, my God. You didn't, Nick, how could you pass on the Rubik's Iron Man, Cuber? Well, you said you were red colorblind, so I thought that would be like making fun of you. Oh, they got black panther, Hulk. Oh, they got all of them.

Dude. No. Yeah. They were vogue. I was trying to be nice. Yeah, dude. Hello Kitty. Hello Kitty.

What's so cute. Oh, my God. Yeah, hey, Jerome, I know you're colorblind red, but here's Iron Man. Here's Batman, and it's all different shades of gray. They got a sensory one. All right. Well, shout out Rubik's. Mr. Rubik's himself sponsored us.

As well as GamerSups, actually, sponsored us using code for 10% off. That one's the real one. There are a few lies for sponsors. You have to figure out of the one. Cuckies is not real. truth for lies. Cuckies is the real one, Isaac. I really want to see if someone, like, invented that joke already,

but I don't want that in my Google search history. Like, I don't want to search that, and then my wife comes downstairs, and she's like, what is this? What are you doing? Oh, my God, it exists. It does? No, I gotta look it up now.

I'm not scared. I'm not scared. No one checks my computer. Oh, it is. Whoa. Wow. It's, oh, it is dude. They already did our hard work for us.

Exactly. How did you guys spell? Because I'm getting a bunch of birds. You looked up. Did you look up a cuckoo? C-U-C-E-E-S. Maybe. C-U-C.

Oh, I see. Damn. A planned but not yet open spin-off of Buckees with some location set to open in 2027. Wait, it's already planned. Some location. There's never an original idea anymore ever. Wait. Jerome, I have a question again

Were you involved with SEP Live at all? No, no, I wasn't. I wasn't cool enough. Oh, what? Well, S&P Live, that came out, what, like 2020, 2020, 2021? 19? Yeah, I was way too old and washed at that point. No, man.

Because I thought they, like, had invited some, like, some founding fathers of Minecraft. I thought they invited Sparkles, maybe. Captain Sparkles was on it. Yeah, Captain Sparkles was on it. So I thought that everyone got an invite. So what the hell? Invited voiceover P.

Whatever happened with that guy? I don't know. I just saw a tweet. Everyone's like, what happened to this guy? What happened? Yeah, no, I just saw it happen to that guy. Yeah. Nice picks, Bridget.

Such a vibe. I use bathroom. Yeah, I'm going to be real. I think a dude, an SMP with all the founding fathers, like bringing it back. that would be pretty cool like I think someone someone tried that would you be interested in that

it was Dan TDMs it was like shady oaks or something oh no way but that was years like let me see shady oaks SMP I was in a little

like a few episodes of it but I don't know you should make it an SMP called oh he's still doing it maybe I don't know like we're not washed we're just we're just chopped or something

chopped yeah that's beautiful Chopped S&P There's a qualifying process That you got to enter Your views have to be down At least like 80% from peak or something And then you can totally chopped

Exactly You have to send a selfie And you get in Send a selfie Bro I at least submitted a school assignment today With a selfie Why? Like instead of actually submitting the assignment

Because he said it was fine because we were supposed to get our project peer reviewed but then everyone left before we could get a peer reviewed thing so he was just like you could just submit a selfie wait you're in college oh what are you saying yeah I'm a junior environmental studies yeah it's a vibe over here it's a you can see what's on your mind it doesn't look like he is in college

okay yeah no no I'm gonna be real grunk okay wait Jerome how old did you think drunk was before finding out he was in college I would say he looked obviously the youngest that of everyone here I would say 22 wow yeah how old do I look 21 oh I was like pretty close yeah

how old do you think Tanner Big T's over there Tanner I would say I don't always bet I'm definitely older than everyone but I would say the oldest out of this, I would guess 27 or 8? Wow. You know, I'm 26.

26? Wow. Your age rate is pretty good. How old do I look, Jerome? Not a day over 25. Oh, not a day. Hell yeah. Hey, not to get political, but I'm curious

about your guys' opinions on the digital ID that Apple allows you to now connect. Your ID is to be all the hooked up. You would. Mr. Apple, this guy's an M5 computer in his back. Do you see that? All the monitor back there?

He's a $3,000 in your fucking head. This guy loves Apple. He loves Apple. No, I don't. I don't. I don't. It looks like you do. I get.

No, he definitely. No, I don't. Yeah, you do. He definitely saw. I don't. It's not available in Texas. Yeah. How'd you know that?

Oh. Because you try it. That's why. Oh. I was like, I'm curious. Let me see. Is it in Texas?

I am not. It's like an. Iowa and like New Mexico and it's like not that many states dude but they already have everything everyone has everything that they want to have about you already true if you think about it true I just I was clicking through my video

backgrounds I don't even remember doing this I have one video background I could cycle to on Discord and it's just this oh whoa that's crazy what the hell Spudge doing

that would have been awesome You should, look at this. Check this out. Oh, yay. Isn't that pretty cool? You got the mouth. I'm a big SpongeBob fan. Are you that big, though?

He is. I would say he's that big of a Spongebobo fan. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. He had a Spongeball chair. It's serious. SpongeBob chair. Gruggs.

Spongebob and one. Spongebob in the group. He's our SpongeBobbub. Yeah. He brings a lot of joy. I'm the Patrick It's awesome I remember

I remember back in This was like a few years ago Grunk had to do like one of his One of his first and only Like What was like a deliverable He had to do for Yeah

For a product that was set to him Because he really wanted this So he DMed this place It was a SpongeBob chair And He had to do What did you have to do like a reel Or something on Instagram

Yeah I'd Bro I did post the Instagram reel Promoting the SpongeBob chair and like it just blew up it got like 100,000 likes and it was an ad guys it was an ad

the whole time I'm sorry everyone does nobody know it was an ad yeah it is well I think I put a hashtag out in there oh look this up I'm curious yeah can you check

organic organic one million views it is the only real they owe you they owe you that's your only real they actually owe you so much more they do

that's probably the best promotion they've ever had Look at this. The hat, the shirt. It's actually pretty crazy. The back. The back. I forgot the whole setup.

It was the whole thing. It's the whole thing. Dude, you definitely delivered. Like, they actually owe you so much money. They owe you a few thousand dollars, I said. Where's my comp? That is crazy. I know we did that successful.

I was thinking like... It hit nuclear. Nuclear levels of performance. levels of performance ghost keyboard dude oh it's a ghost that's what it was yeah I think the most cringy advertiser I ever did

this was so I had something to win viral too is for a mobile game called uh-lala or you la la la it's like a caveman game or whatever I don't know anyway so I did a whole video on it and I signed that they would get like licensing rights for like X amount of months or whatever right so they could basically blast it out wherever they wanted and I was like

whatever it's not a big deal it's not going to go that far. 11 million views on a mole dude, the comments rip me to shreds. One of the top comments is, where is this? This guy honestly looks like the word you la la la.

Who is this big-nosed man? And why do I get the same advert every bloody video? Oh my God. Let's see, there's a couple. Dude, they got me good in a few of these. Man, oh man. You never think that's going to hit.

Why did it hit? So it's because they bought the licensing rights. So they paid advertising around it. So they, it's my most few video. It's my number one video is this mobile game video. They cycled your video with the advertisements on different social medias. That's my assumption.

Yeah, either that or I mean, I don't think they would view it. It sounds like they, based on the comments and all the angry people, they're real. They're real people. It'd be a lot to fake.

Thankfully, real people. Yeah, it's kind of crazy But that's all I can guess is, you know That nose looked like it's about to fall off That is insane Damn Damn How long ago was that?

Five years ago, yeah Man, I was I hope it wasn't like, I'm glad it wasn't like yesterday Minecraft Villager's getting sponsored now Bro come on oh come on just leave a bee dude real quick drum

I saw when your dog came in he was like up to your shoulder are you like low to the ground or is your dog or is your dog five foot two no so oh well she jumped up so she had half her paws on the chair oh she's like

yeah okay okay yeah I got it was like so surreal because it was like whoa I don't know if you're like your dog walked in on two feet nah she's on the small side of German well she's a German Well, she's a German shepherd.

So, like, to me, smaller. I say smaller size, but she's probably larger than most people's dogs. But she's a German shepherd, and we got a golden retriever, uh, peanut. And he's big. He's a, he's a hefty lad. Yeah. We had to start, we actually had to start putting him on a diet, which is sad for him. Oh, he's chunky and big.

Yeah, yeah, he's a, he's a thick lad. He's a little, like, slow motion dog. I like to have some umph when they walk. Dude, dude, speaking of hefty golden retrieving. We've got a friend named Bryce up and Jimmy here and they have a golden retriever. He weighs 85 pounds. Yeah, they said. He is, he is a big boy. He looks like a burrito. He had like roll. They were like, they were like, they were like, they were like, they were like, they were like, they were like, they were like just barely getting around. I'm like, he could roll over. And they like, they took out a treat. They made him roll over and he was like, uh, like just barely getting around. I'm like, oh. Oh. Oh. But it was a good role. It was a good role. It was a good role.

It was like an old man. He was like, I keep telling my wife, I want to get another golden retriever one day and just like, because he's peanut and then I want to get butter. But the thing is, with a name like butter, he's got to just be like,

get over here, butter. He's like, come here, I want to hear like every step he takes. I want to feel it. Throughout the thresholds of my house. That's what I'm saying, dude.

I want a dog. I can like, come here. And like, we like both wrestle. Like, come here. Like just dog fight in the middle of the liver.

room. Jerome, how how hyperactive is your German Shepherd? Like, oh, she's insane. She's unstoppable.

Yeah. I thought the gold retriever was like crazy. No, dude. He like gets tired of her. I have a German shepherd named Nana.

And she, I would, I'd play fetch with her, like, at least for 20 minutes. Yeah. We get in and she's panting and she just like staring at me

with the ball in her mouth still like, just wondering why I'm sitting down. All right. What are you doing? Why are you breaking? Sitting out. The Golden Retriever, dude, he's such a lump. Like, we, I love using him for, like, reaction gifts.

Like, the other day, like, I asked him, like, how are you feeling this morning? Because, uh, because she's, uh, pregnant. She's, well, we're having a son in, like, less than a month. Um, so she's very pregnant, uh, towards the end of things. And, um, thank you. Wow. And, uh, yeah, so she, um, anyway, so I'm like, how, how are you feeling? And this is, this is, this is all I get back is this picture.

Oh, my God. And I was like, yeah. All right. That's fair. I'm like, that's fair. I'm like, that's fair. Ruby. That's so adorable.

Dude, I have a golden retriever as well. Her name's Raya, and she, she's not as golden as peanut, but yeah, I call her chicken because she's a fried chicken. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's not golden. She's like, definitely a little, like, roasted. Yeah, but she's definitely a little burnt,

but, like, not, like, too crazy burnt. She's, like, the perfect amount of, yeah. Yeah, because they can get pretty dark. Yeah, because, yeah, caramelize. That's the word I was looking for. Yeah, absolutely. But dude, congratulations on the upcoming kid. That's freaking huge.

Yeah. Absolutely. Thank you, man. Serious life happened. Have you thought of a name? Yeah, so it's, well, it was the Italian version of it, but the Italian version and in the Americanized version, Jerome has been in the family since my great, great grandpa,

so it was kind of just, he's just going to be Jerome, I don't know. Oh, Jerome Jr.? I guess. So, like, my dad's Jerome. my grandfather was his middle name was Jerome and then my great-grandfather was Girolamo which is the Italian name and my great-great-grandfather was also Girolamo So it's been the family for ever

Ongoing thing Wait so are you Jerome Jr.? He's like the four different middle names We all had different middle names for the most part But yeah no it's pretty crazy Whoa, dude okay I gotta ask you something This is this is gonna be a crazy question

I've been thinking about like having a kid not like now I want to do something like we got to start you have a woman in mind does she know I want this baby to do a want to train backflips like I want to NFL bound it'd be super cool do you have any aspirations for your kid that'd be like super funny yeah like a back handspring baby would be so cool let's let's hope he doesn't dig up this podcast way he's like I never I am the way I am. I want all the normal things for him. Oh, yeah, no. Are you going to play

Minecraft with him? Oh, honestly, I don't think so, dude. Name him Steve. Name him Steve Minecraft. No, what I did. I do think the one screwed up thing I'm going to do, but I already got my wife's approval, so it's happening. I'm going to hand him at a young age. I'm going to hand him my old

game boy and my Pokemon Red, and I'm going to tell him that that's the new Pokemon and then have him play it, and that it's As soon as he beats it, I'm going to go, dude, you're never going to believe it. They just came out with Pokemon gold, dude. And I'm just going to make him play through all the Pokemon, like the good ones. That's awesome. See, that's good.

That's what I was trying to get at. He will love that. That's good. I think that's a fair one. So he's going to, like, go to school and be, like, bragging to his friends. Like, I just played the new Pokemon game. It's like Pokemon, right? Oh, no, they're going to burn the bubble.

It's like, tell me. Yeah, they're going to be a little bit. You're going to come home and be like, well, What do you mean? What do you mean this wasn't the... Dad, did you know they have 3D ones now? The kids have it on the phone. You should be like, no, those are made by a different company.

Say it was a knockoff. Say that was a knockoff. Dad, they didn't even know what a game was. They have a Switch 4? What is that? Have you started rehearsing what you're going to tell your son when he says, Dad, I found this game? And it just so happens to be Minecraft.

Oh. No, I've heard of me. Show me around. Hand on the shoulder. Maybe I'll just play dumb and be like, you've got to teach me how to play. Oh, my goodness. That would be the biggest reveal

like years later. Oh, my God. He stumbles across his dad's videos. Take this out, son. Oh, wow. What is your plan? Hey, Dad, you're a Hunger Games legend. You never told me you were a Hunger Games legend.

I was teaching you. So much, you already knew. You already knew it. Guys, I'm actually so deadly afraid of, like, my future kid ever finding out about all of this. I don't even know what I would do. Yeah, your digital footprint is kind of. I know. Bro, my, yeah, me and Larry Bone.

I know, everyone here. All of us. Yeah, everyone. We're all kind of, man, or I don't know what I'm going to explain or I don't know what. Yeah, I'm looking back, I'm kind of glad I didn't make all those, like, you know, really sexual jokes with my friends for all to see. Yeah, that's, that's a good thing

that you didn't do that, I would say. Well, it's so funny. Dude, it's like the Tanner of me and Tanner, it's like, Larry and Tanner moments. It's like, it's like, it's like, it didn't make out and shit.

Oh, dude, that's like me and Mitch back in the day. Have you been shipped? You've been shipped? Yeah. But dude, we didn't do it any favors, though. I mean, we, we lean into it. We'd sell merch that were, like, Marome and it's me and him on like a date.

I'll show you this is an old shirt design. This is an old shirt design of ours too. We were leaning in. Oh, my God. We can't do that now. Like there's no way. No, you've got to make a lantern.

The problem is we learned very the hard way about Photoshop. So we had a sandwich much and we did a picture where we lady in the tramp just on one end and the other. We did not kiss. There was like a solid this much distance. But then some little twerk. with Photoshop, got rid of the sandwich, and so that just lives on the internet.

Holy that's that. Yeah, that looks way over there. It's quite bad. It's quite bad. And if you want to see some very disturbing artwork, you can just Google image search for Rome, and you'll find some stuff. Wow.

Yeah, we have our fair share. I'm glad you've come to terms with, I guess, just acceptance, because I'm not going to lie, that was something that, I mean, no creator wants to look on the internet and see I guess they're them drawing out or making out with their homie and yeah

yeah that yeah did you have to deal with like growing up through the Minecraft whatever like growing as a creator the parissocial like fan did you ever have to deal with that or or not really? Um not super like you're saying like creepy scenarios

or like what do you mean? Yeah maybe. Yeah. Like a creepy scenario of yours I never had any like creepy scenarios I've had Well only not creepy because Like one of them was like

It was more weird on the mom But like a kid showed up at the apartment building I used to live at down in Florida With his mom And they were like asking the front desk to like Call my unit and like See if I'd come down and say hello And it was like

Whoa Whoa Yeah Like that was you do it No Oh Did you do it? Did you do?

Hey, buddy! Well, they came all that way. That was crazy. Did you do it? I'm trying to think. Another time I was really, like, I was sick for like a week or two. And same thing, like, a fan who just happened to, like, live in the same, like, city as us down at St. Pete, she, she drove over with her mom and, like, brought, like, a handmade blanket and, like, other things.

And I'm like, this is really sweet, but, like, you really shouldn't, you know. It's, like, not the time or it's not good. Or the place. Or the place. It's not time. Or the place. Yeah. Yeah.

but uh so that was like but like I said like I never felt like like neither of these people were threatening me or anything the only time I was like freak out was I got swatted

on a stream like two years ago and that just straight sucked yeah yeah that was not fun but you probably you probably like fucked them up in Hunger Games years ago

and they yeah yeah it was his gal they had the heavy grudge yeah it's like

while now like I that that is like one thing I do think about with like uh because back then there were so many bits and jokes with people like especially like they were uh with creator friend groups of like that type of like you know two friends like you know doing a bunch of shit together but now it's like if you do that it um unfortunately sort of pushes pushes pushes like people to start to get really like attached and like super like almost like sink their claws into you and they want to know everything and want to create like a false like reality that's like way to you know people are way too yeah i mean i've heard of this like i've never had i've never been like super really creeped out by anyone i guess so i guess that's a plus

right as a plus yeah for sure gotcha well i'm like all questioned out personally i've i had a really good time this is honestly a little longer than we go and that's that's great dude you know do you do you have anything you want to talk about or ask us or anything like along those lines? Not super much outside of if you guys are looking for an extra in Minecraft on that world, let me know. That would be so fun.

I'll send you to Discord invite, bro. You should make like a video or a series or something. I'll make a mini series out of it. Yeah, I mean, it could be a stream server. Like this is, see, this is what actually Jerome, this, you should know this. What spawn this server is because we wanted an escape from

content creation and excuse to hang out. Oh, then you don't do what I said. Just friends. You know, getting on, getting on.

No recording, no nothing. Yeah. But you're still totally welcome if you want to come. I mean, shit,

we got a nice man. Yeah. It's a, it's a realm right now, but we're probably going to switch it to is that all what Nick built? That's all.

Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, this was just like Knicks of what

Nick built. Yeah. It's just his world safe. Wait, Jerome, are you good at building? Last Minecraft question, do you know how to build? No, dude, I'm actually like, I'm terrible at it. I can't build to save my life. I always find a hole in a ground and just grind. It was like wholesome, though, because yesterday I, I woke it up from like a nap and I go to the living room. Tanner's eating a burrito watching a miccar video on how to build this like blacksmith. It was like so cute. I was like, oh, that's great. Dude, I ended up actually making like the family guy house on accident. So I was like, dude, I'm tearing this whole thing down.

Yeah, Tanner just lives in the side of the mountain Right below my house The hole is a method I'm telling you It's the whole The hobbit hole I don't know

I feel like you probably have A whole bunch of Realm invites Probably but I just sent you An invite There we go I just linked At minecalf.com

I still got I still own Minecraft.com Wow That's pretty far Holy cow Minecraft.com That's going to be so funny

It's like a $2 million dollar domain right there I bet Dude I love how Jerome joins the server that we have Jackson just sends the GIF Yeah I can only imagine what he's Lord knows

Lord knows what's about to happen But Lord knows Worlds are colliding in ways I never thought possible And it was, and I had a very good time. Yeah, Lord knows that as well. Jerome, I hope you had a great time. I did, yeah. Yeah, thanks for having all that.

Absolutely. You are the first guest we've had in a year. It's quite a long time. Yeah, about a year. Dang. Why don't you guys get more guests, son? Oh, we will be. This is that, this is that, this is that, that kick that's going in.

This is it. Yep. Absolutely. So, sir. Yeah. Amazing first guest, in my opinion. Yeah. I'll say.

Thanks for having me, guys. Yes, sir. Thanks for, thank you. Thank you, man, brother. Appreciate it. All that being said. Code group 10% all. Thank you, grunk.

Code group. Anything else? You got it. Y'all. No, we all have to brof-in-love to all. We all have to brofice the camera because that's how we out show. All right. Maha.

See you guys later for next week. Mah-ha.