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Welcome back to the ice coffee hour.
It has been a very long time since we've done something like this.
We have a lot to catch up on.
Lots of drama.
Yeah, we did.
This is something I didn't know.
Alex, you sold your entire portfolio.
And you didn't tell anybody.
We had no idea.
First, you go to margin.
You don't tell anybody.
There's a lot of money on Ethereum.
And you sell everything.
What happened?
You don't have to calm me out like that, man.
What happened?
You know me.
I'm just trying to time the market.
No, I didn't sell my, like, retirement.
like portfolio, you know, that's just been consistently investing.
But everything that I had in Robin Hood,
which at the time that I sold was probably like, I don't know, 10 grand.
I just sold it.
But I thought you would have learned from me, Alex, after I lost it.
So now I'm holding cash.
So how much did you lose?
All time.
I didn't.
Well, yeah, I broke about even.
That's not bad.
So you sold it break even.
Yeah, I sold that break even.
I maybe lost a hundred bucks.
Okay.
But you sold out of all of the positions you were holding.
Except for like $2.
And how long ago was that?
Or like months ago?
So technically you made the right to see.
No, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, yeah.
I don't, this is not financial advice.
Please do not follow what I do.
But I'm going to be buying back in in about two months.
Are you also going to be selling a stock course now?
Yeah, so actually like if you actually look at the shape of the candles, I'm just kidding.
No, it's honestly like it's my YOLO portfolio.
Don't do what I did
I'm just playing around with it.
If I lose that money, I don't care.
But yeah, I didn't know you guys were going to call me out in the podcast.
I'm going to look so stupid.
I thought you're going to tell us.
I mean, you made the right decisions.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, here's the thing.
I feel like it's bad luck if, like, I sell everything.
And then I tell you because then I feel like it's going to jinx it.
Well, I didn't want to go there.
But yeah, that's true.
Then Jack would sell everything and it would catapult.
But so far, it looks like it's the right move.
again, I'm not saying I could time the market or anything.
I'm just, it's glorified.
I don't want to say the word, but gee, you know.
He gets very lucky with, you know.
Well, I don't want to say the word, man.
I'm trying to avoid demonetization.
Every time.
Oh, baby.
Because here's, do you want to tell the story?
Yeah.
Oh, it's a quick side tangent,
but I posted a Ludwig video on my main channel.
I thought should have done really well.
He's got a huge audience.
I spent so much time in this video.
It came out perfect.
And I posted it and immediately.
I noticed that the views were like a third of what they normally would.
And usually for a video like this,
I would expect it to not do as well right off the get-go,
but never by like, never to see such a huge decline.
I'm thinking about it, the one thing that's in that video is the term,
we can't even say it here because I don't want this to happen with this video.
You know, when you do something a lot.
Okay, so it rhymes with rambling.
Yeah, a rambling.
And then, but when you do something compulsively,
a lot.
Oh, you can't control it.
Yeah, it's a rambling prediction.
Yes, something like that.
Yes.
So I think because I use that term
multiple times throughout the video,
I think that YouTube may have subdued that video.
Now, this is just the theory.
We're not 100% sure.
But with the looks of like how
there's a lot of hate on Twitch
towards that kind of stuff,
it would not surprise me if,
because when we were looking at the charge
when it posted, it was crazy.
But, yeah, aside from that side to hand it.
That's interesting.
Yeah, they could have saw the captions and then figured out from the transcript that you said those words and it could be shadow ban.
And it analyzes it immediately.
Like the transcript or the video is available at the time the video is posting.
And we uploaded and posted as soon as the checks were complete.
But I have a feeling those checks when YouTube goes through the video.
They're analyzing what's said in the video and then they decide from there, which audiences.
They're so smart.
Of course, there's always videos that are going to have like, there's a Joe Rogan thing that has that.
in the title.
Yeah.
Of course,
there's going to be videos that do.
And there's no way for us to tell for sure.
Yeah,
so we should actually bleep out the word.
Yeah,
okay.
And see if it makes it.
No,
seriously,
let's bleep out the word
that rhymes with rambling.
Yeah,
okay,
sure.
I'm curious,
why two months for you?
Why is that your time horizon
on buying back in?
There's no answer.
It's just a feeling?
Yeah,
100%.
Like,
At this point,
I'm just,
uh...
Kind of coincides with midterms,
doesn't it,
Alex?
No,
no,
no,
Coincidence there?
No.
Okay.
I will say, though, I've been getting knocks on my door so frequently from people dropping off
this political mail.
They're leaving it on my cars.
Like, I don't live in a gated community.
They're leaving it on my cars.
They're calling me like three times a day.
I cannot wait for this time of the year to be over.
I get the texts all of the time.
I get the texts too.
Yeah.
All the texts are insane.
It depends on your state because certain states publicize the, uh, the, the, the, the
register certain like registration information and certain states don't and Nevada I think is more lenient
than where I used to live. I never used to get this much bombardment. I'm really surprised that it's
honestly legal to leave things at people's doorsteps or when you're driving and parking in like
a random parking lot how you can come back to your car and there's a flyers all in your. Listen man we don't
have to get into the legality of that because honestly I don't know what's illegal and what's not. Yeah.
I'm just something because I feel like every time that happens I just see litter everywhere. It turns into
garbage. Yeah.
But anyways, we have a lot to catch up on because I see you wearing a new watch.
Your weight loss, you took a little bit of a slower period where you were.
We could talk about that.
And then now you're kind of back into it and you're doing really well.
Lots of other stuff to catch up on too because we visited Dave Ramsey.
We visited Mr. Bees.
We visited Darman.
We saw all these guys facilities and they are mind blowing.
Yeah, we haven't talked about it until now.
I'm going to tell you guys the truth about these people.
Do we like them or do we dislike them?
The good, the bad, the ugly.
You got to keep watching and subscribe.
if you haven't done that already.
The new YouTube layout, have you seen it?
It sucks on mobile.
It makes subscribing so difficult because now when you go to a video,
all the information you want to see a subscriber count,
it's not there, it doesn't matter anymore.
And the subscribe button isn't there either.
You have to click on a profile to see the profile
in order to subscribe on mobile.
It's so annoying.
You could do anything else.
You could create clips from videos, but you can't subscribe.
Also, just show the subscriber count and the subscribe button.
That's it.
They also, yeah, I was going to say,
it's just the comments.
I think they move the,
comment section now too so instead of scrolling down and automatically reading comments
which I used to do for every video uh no now it's suggested first and you have to click into
comments so some could say that they're tick to tocifying YouTube but but let's get into it
you talking it you ticking nice hey nice Graham good job let's get into it guys I've been
working hard the last two years and I thought it was finally time to reward myself
What do you guys think of my new watch here?
I mean, I like the fact that, you know, the size is a good size.
It's a really good size.
Yeah, because it would have looked a little silly.
I think if you had a tiny little watch.
Sure.
You have a big manly wrist.
Thanks, no.
Thanks.
I think it looks really nice.
Yeah, do you think it was a good financial investment?
You know what that is, Jack?
No.
You don't know what it is?
It's a Pannerai.
Oh, wow.
You know how much it's worth?
I'm guessing 2,200?
$2,700?
Panorys are not that cheap, Jack.
I know, but I'm probably, probably like double that.
Holy.
Well, I know that panorized are expensive, but I wouldn't have, like, I wasn't taking that.
I was mostly talking about your, you're like, frugality, I guess, in a sense.
What are you trying to say?
I wouldn't have expected Alex to spend so much money on a watch, but I think that's awesome.
You spent more money in the aquarium?
Are you true?
I actually did.
Probably.
Well, MSRP, not like actual money I put.
This was actually a gift from a fan of the channel.
No way.
Yeah.
Some say.
Who was it?
Some say that it was actually the creator of the channel.
Got him a watch.
Congratulations.
Thanks, Matt.
I think that's awesome.
No, no.
Graham gave me the watch, but it's not real.
Oh.
Did we get you?
Yeah.
That makes a lot more sense.
That makes more sense.
Yeah.
I was really surprised.
Graham did that?
Yeah, right?
I was like, wow.
No, dude, that's, I mean, I think it looks great.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Yeah.
It's great.
How much was it?
I don't know.
A buddy gave it to me a while ago.
So you didn't even buy it.
You know what?
I didn't even know that Graham didn't buy it, but that makes a lot of sense now.
Did you give him boxing everything too?
Boxing papers.
No, no.
You know what?
He bought it.
And either he didn't wear it or I forget.
Like, it works fine.
But it's so big on me that I just.
It looks like a normal watch on my hand.
I think it looks really good.
No, yeah.
And so, I mean, a clone, I mean, I don't know.
what it's worth maybe a couple hundred bucks.
Yeah.
He was saying this is actually what's called a super clone.
Yeah, I mean, if you're looking at it, I was looking up pictures online.
It looks pretty dang identical.
I mean, maybe the band is a little bit different, but I think it looks really good.
Apparently it's becoming such an, I don't know what you say, epidemic of these superclone
watches.
They're getting so accurate now because of the technology.
What they do is they take a real watch.
They scan it and they remanufacture every bit for a,
fraction of the price and then they resell it.
It's basically, you know, it's not a real one, but is it the same, like, materials and
everything?
Probably not.
Yeah, they probably don't use the same materials.
No, I mean, if you put the two side by side, I mean, obviously a real one's probably
going to, it's probably going to feel heavier.
It's, it's going to be more accurate on time.
It's going to be better in every way, but.
The movement is probably just a generic.
Yeah.
Right.
And why doesn't Panorai find these people in Suiting?
Oh, they do.
I mean, but, but they pop up probably so fast.
Like whackamol.
Like you get one of them and like 20 others pop up.
That's really interesting.
Yeah, it's not worth their time to go and pursue.
But it is, it is effective.
But I did go to a wedding, you know, last weekend.
Or this watch.
People were like, oh, nice watch.
That's awesome.
Yeah, that's all you need.
I didn't say anything.
I was like, thanks.
Appreciate it.
Oh, this thing?
Oh.
It just, we're taking wedding photo.
Like, no.
So, but yeah, that's the watch story to the weight loss story.
Yeah.
So it's been so long that the ice coffee.
our audience does not even know that I posted a video on my channel, which I normally would shamelessly plug.
That was definitely a shameless public.
No, no, but it's, no, no. Honestly, this video guy's like, it took a lot of, like, heart and soul for me to post.
It was the hardest thing post probably ever on my channel so far. And it started off with shirtless and weighing myself.
It had the starting weight that, that means, like, a lot to me of where we started this journey.
And I explained, like, how I used to eat.
I explained, like, just what basically was weighing me down.
And I wanted to kind of take my biggest insecurity and put it out in the world for everybody to see.
And ever since then, I will say, it has felt like a weight lifted off my shoulder.
And I think we started the weight loss journey.
How long has it been, Jack me?
Like, almost three months?
Yeah, I would say close to three months.
Close to three months.
And I'd say the first.
first like two months were pretty, pretty good. The last I want to say like three to four weeks
was tough. I mean, I hit a wall at about 30 pounds, lost about 30 pounds. And I just like hit the
wall and I didn't know what to do. And I think I just got a little bit too comfortable, I guess.
Like it became a routine. So like the good thing now is that I no longer go to fast food places.
I think in the last three months I've been to McDonald's once,
and then any other place has been like we go to Chipotle or something.
So now the habits have changed, and that part is pretty much easy.
I don't worry about that now.
But now I'm getting more into controlling portions
and trying to introduce more exercise.
But you've broke through this?
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Recently.
Yeah, recently.
It was so hard.
I mean, I was stuck for like probably like three years.
And it's, it's really hard to, it's really demotivating.
But then I kind of like think about where we started and it's better.
And the good part or the important part I think that when I hit a wall,
I definitely focus on at least like not going back up within like four pounds.
because it's that's been like the really big part i think as long as i think everybody has
their own speed at which they're going to lose weight um and i certainly definitely definitely want to go
faster than i have been the last month um but i think as long as we need to show progress i think
it's okay and introducing more exercise for sure yeah i think you need to exercise like three times a week
i think so too he's gone to treadmill 30 minutes yeah that's it and just just do a good pace yeah i will
say it did slow down when I um when I stopped going to boxing oh yeah I was going to boxing
every every week and I was like you should continue that yeah and so I was thinking about finding like
just a different teacher yeah and continuing it because I noticed that correlation that as soon as I
dropped that um and so I would do boxing once a week and then I would shadow box one more day a week in
my home. And then I was going to the gym with Graham about once. Yeah, that's it, man. So I was getting
workouts every, every week. And I noticed that as soon as I dropped that, I didn't gain weight, but I,
the progress, like, was so, so slow. And so, uh, I think, I think that that's what it was.
Oh. Yeah. So yeah. That's the update. What do you, what do you guys think? I mean, you've done a really,
really incredible job so far. You've already lost, like you said, 30 pounds, which is crazy to think about,
because if you hold up a 25 pound weight and a five pound weight for you.
I'm sure if you put those on your shoulders, you'd be like, oh my gosh.
But that's literally what it was like to walk three months ago for you.
So really impressive.
I'm extremely proud of you.
You've done an amazing job.
And I think there's only, you know, we can only go, I guess, down from here, right?
Not up from here because we're losing weight, but he was waiting.
He was waiting to say that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
mother-in-law gave me a wedding present for our honeymoon as a trip to Hawaii and I'm going to be doing a video idea so tomorrow Kelsey and I are going to be staying at the travel lodge downtown in Vegas.
Vegas okay and for those of you guys that don't know what the travel lodge is it's rated like the worst hotel in Vegas I think the rooms are like $30 and we're going to be probably like the worst review how do you get food from there do they have no I don't think
they have food they don't have like uh but i'm gonna but i'm gonna find you know what i should call and ask
just to see is your honeymoon yeah this i want this to be the first day of my honeymoon so
because i want to like for some reason i i thought it would be to do like one star honeymoon versus
like five star honeymoon yeah so um because we did not spend money on the accommodations in
Hawaii. I took the budget that I originally set aside for my honeymoon.
For the travel lodge.
And I'm keeping the rest for myself.
I just put it towards the travel.
No, I took it and I told Kelsey we could do like things like excursions or whatever.
So I'm going to film all that and I'm going to post it on my channel.
That's cool.
Are they having an interesting video?
Jack's been TikTok famous.
Now, if you guys have not been keeping up with him, Jack's been getting millions of views on
TikTok. How many followers do you have, 20,000?
20,000, 20,000. Have you been recognized
from your TikToks yet? I have. Yeah.
I've been recognized for my TikToks. What do they say? Like, it'll happen, like, it's
only happened twice. And both times, they were like,
did you go to college? Which is this, like,
and it's, you know what's funny? You dropped out of college. I know,
I dropped out of college, but that thing is, like, I asked people if they went to
college. But I've been posting stuff on TikTok. People have been really liking
it, it's kind of fun for me. And I really like to escape my comfort zone and approach random people
because I definitely am not good at doing that at all. So, you know, two birds with one stone,
escaping the comfort zone and also growing a social presence on TikTok. I feel like, why not?
You posting every day?
Almost.
Sometimes. Like I go through phases where I'll post every single day and usually that's after I go out
and film for a day. So I'll have a bunch of content. And then once the content starts to dry up,
then I kind of like once every days, once every three days, I haven't posted.
in probably three days right now.
I just have to go out and film more.
But it's really cool.
Like, I've kind of found a way to,
like a process to go viral on TikTok
over and over again.
And I'm starting to, like, catch up on a bunch of different strategies.
I don't know, man.
I see the views declining.
It's a trend.
It's a trend from what do you do for a living, you know, Daniel.
But then you've got to find the next thing, right?
Yeah, yeah.
I have theories on why the views have been declining,
but still I'm extremely grateful.
What are your theories?
Why the views are declining.
Yeah.
Because I'm spending significantly less time on it.
So you've seen a correlation between the effort that you've put in to the views.
And also the pickiness that I have with the type of videos that I post.
I still know what's going to do well.
But the thing is, in the beginning, I didn't uphold myself like, oh, I have to post once every single day.
Whereas, like, you know, in the beginning, so I'd post maybe once every three days,
but I'd spend so much time on a specific video.
And I'd be extremely picky on which interactions I post on my TikTok.
And those would consistently go viral every single time.
Whereas now I'm just like, I'll just post whatever.
And I think that as a growing TikTok creator,
it's probably more important to have quantity over quality
to be completely honest.
Just so you can get extremely familiar
with the algorithm how to post all of the little tips.
It's crazy.
It doesn't matter how much you post on TikTok.
Like you could post 20 videos in an hour.
Yeah.
And TikTok knows which videos are going to do well.
And it'd be like just promote that.
I don't know.
I'm afraid of the TikTok algorithm
because I know so many people on TikTok
like millions of followers from before
like the big algorithm update.
And now they're getting just a couple thousand views on their video.
Everyone is doing it.
Like, yeah, but like.
So much competition on TikTok.
Yeah, but like to be in my head, it just, I get like hundreds of thousands.
But in my head to find somebody who has like two, three million followers and now their videos.
Like there's this kid on TikTok that he's the pop up on my for you page.
The corn kid.
No.
World of T-shirts.
Yeah.
You know him?
Yeah.
His content is funny.
And.
Well, people got sick of it.
It's the exact same stuff.
People got sick of it, yes.
But even if you did the same thing over and over on YouTube,
I feel like the ratios would still be much higher.
Maybe because they have more of a connection with you.
But still, he was posting the same type of content over and over again.
Yeah, he still does it.
He's not learning his lesson.
It's like you kind of got to adapt and evolve with the algorithm and with the times.
It does seem like TikTok goes through these phases where it's like a few months.
It'll be one thing.
And then after a few months, it'll be something else.
Right now, it's street interviews.
They're doing really, really, really well.
But that used to be the case, too.
On YouTube, 2015 YouTube.
15, 16 YouTube used to be those, Jack Manley.
It was like capitalized on that so well.
And then it just kind of went away.
And now it's coming back again through TikTok.
So you're saying Jack should just take the next trend
that followed street interviews on YouTube and just do it on TikTok.
Yeah.
Well, I honestly, I'm thoroughly enjoying the street interviews.
So I wouldn't honestly really want to gamify it.
And like I could adapt and evolve with the algorithm,
but I'm enjoying what I'm doing currently.
And I think I can do it in a way that probably will not necessarily,
lose relevancy because I think street interviews will always be popular.
You can adapt the questions.
Exactly.
You can adapt the questions with the time.
You can add little tricks and gimmicks and stuff like that to hopefully, you know, spur interest.
But I think it'll be okay.
We'll see.
See.
I saw that you also were, I don't want to say taking out checks, but you were asking girls if they would date.
Yeah.
So how's the love life, man?
I deleted all my dating apps, first of all.
No.
I deleted every single one of them.
Yeah, except Tinder.
I haven't deleted Tinder yet.
that's like the main one.
That's the main one.
I'm not going on it.
I'm not swiping.
I'm not messaging people.
You still have Tinder platinum?
Yes.
But that's because I paid for it in a six month period.
So it's not going to expire until December.
You should get a refund on the two days.
That's fine.
So why did you uninstall your dating apps?
So the reason why I deleted them all and let me say I'm going to delete Tinder once this
girl gets back to me.
The issue was I message this girl and she was like getting back to me like a lot.
And then I said, hey, I'm deleting my apps.
Here's my phone number.
And she hasn't.
me yet. So I'm waiting to make sure she text me before I delete my
that would be a good closer to get a number and then just keep it open afterwards.
Yeah. Like I'm about to delete it. Give me your number. Yeah. And then just never delete it.
I mean, it's a unique strategy. It's a little bit higher risk, high reward. I don't know. Maybe
maybe starting a relationship on that. No, maybe that isn't the best. I'm about to leave.
I mean, it is good because I don't think girls necessarily like guys that are on dating apps.
period.
I think it's probably a more unattractive trait than it is attractive one.
But yeah, I deleted all of them, though.
But yeah, so you just think it's not for you?
I thought it wasn't really serving me in my life.
Sure.
I thought it was more of a negative than a positive.
At a certain time, it was more of a positive than a negative.
Back when I was actually like utilizing them,
I kind of slowed down where I wasn't really spending much time on them.
I would swipe just for the gratification of swiping and getting matches,
but I wouldn't follow through with actually messaging and trying to set up dates
and stuff like that.
And it was a wasting my time, even though I wasn't spending much time on it.
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And B is just like mental thought process that I didn't necessarily need to have.
Have you thought about just outsourcing your Tinder?
No, I would.
I thought you did that, Jack.
No.
I was thinking about doing it.
I know.
I thought you had JJ do some swiping for you.
No.
I mean,
I asked JJ for advice sometimes on my messages, but I definitely have anyone's swine.
I think we all contributed to some of those messages.
Oh, easy.
Yeah.
There was a group effort.
We'd sit there at the table, like five of us to be like, all right,
We're going to craft this message.
No, no, don't use that word.
What?
Graham thinks he's smooth craft.
No, no, I'm saying like, we'd be like, no, don't use that word in the message.
Oh, yeah.
Like, oh, I had this emoji.
And Graham thinks he's so smooth.
He really thinks he's smooth with the messages.
Jackie, what is it?
Jackie's so many emojis and smiley faces.
I'm an expressive person.
No, it's not the lingo.
Yes, it is.
20 emojis in like a little sentence.
If you don't put like emuages.
20 emojis in a little sentence, yeah, that's a little much.
But the thing is, if you're trying to convey how you're feeling in a message,
nothing better than an emoji.
And I think,
what a girl likes is the fact that you don't care,
and you're fine.
Throwing the emojis out there.
You're fine using exclamation points.
You're fine showing interest.
Although Graham thinks it's more of a game.
I have to say don't use emojis.
You're backwards smiley faces.
Simple.
Backwards smile.
Jack does the parentheses.
Oh, yeah, no, no.
It's colon parentheses, Jack.
100%.
I agree with that.
Okay, well, I was initially like that.
I was initially a colon parentheses person,
but then I was critiqued by it and made fun of it.
Who?
It was a long, I don't even remember who it was.
but it was back in like middle school.
Someone's like,
oh,
you write your smiley faces like that.
They were sarcastic.
They're a messy.
No,
they weren't.
No,
they weren't because they would send them
the other way to me.
And ever since then,
ever since I was made fun of it.
What if they were wrong?
You were right the entire time
and you doubted yourself.
Oh, man.
Look at me now.
Deleting all the apps.
Yeah.
Didn't work.
So that's it.
Deleted the apps.
I want to,
you know,
if I end up,
you know,
eventually meeting a girl,
I want to ideally approach them in person.
I don't think there's anything wrong
in,
with dating apps, and I will maintain that.
But I'd love to meet him in person.
But now we're going to talk about what it's really like to meet Mr. Beast in person.
What is warehouses like, his offices, Dave Ramsey and Darman.
Their headquarters, honestly, might be more impressive.
Yeah, I got to say, we first went to Mr. Beast's headquarters.
He's so nice, by the way.
It was amazing because we flew in.
We stayed at this hotel that was way too expensive.
It was $250 a night.
Overpriced.
But anyway, we get there.
$250 a night.
Like for a last minute trip, I don't think that's that bad.
Was it last minute?
Yeah.
It was a little bit last minute.
Yeah, I wouldn't say.
I wouldn't say that.
It was like a motel six or something like that.
Okay, for a motel six.
Yeah, it was not like a Ritz Carlton by any means.
It wasn't a motel six.
It was a Marriott.
That's reasonable.
But it's like the Marriott.
You can't say you.
No, that doesn't matter.
You can't compare a motel six to a Marriott.
It doesn't matter if it's like a.
It was a fine experience.
But anyway, we show up there.
It's incredible because we showed up to.
his whole warehouse and I'm like this is a you like a YouTuber is working here like what do you
mean what do you mean you wouldn't expect it from someone who makes YouTube videos like it's so massive
the amount of land that he has and building space that he has in this new warehouse is enormous
where his buildings like branded at all or no no also one thing you forgot to mention is the morning
when we woke up the first day we were going to go visit the headquarters we he actually sent someone
like a driver to come pick us up.
What?
So we had our own driver
that picked us up in a Mercedes
drove us to the headquarters
and while we were on our way there
it was just like tons of planes and field
and there was a house that was just sliced in half
sitting in the middle of like a grassy field
a massive grassy field and we're like
that has to be Mr. Beast's project right?
Like yeah that's a project we're working on right now
video's up right now
and then we pull up to the headquarters
and it's just a massive what was it like
half a million square feet of warehouse?
No.
No, I don't think it was that much.
Dave Ramsey. Dave Ramsey was happening.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know how big his was.
It was big, though.
It was massive.
It was massive.
Yeah.
Is this the one where he filmed the interview with Colin and Samir, right?
Yes.
Yeah.
What is all that space even being utilized?
All of it.
Really?
Yeah.
It's incredible.
But when you walk into the warehouse, you have office space,
and then you walk further beyond, and it's just like a big open space with different sets.
And there are multiple different sets.
And there's like 50 people working.
Just they're all doing something.
You're all there.
What I found remarkable is that we're talking about, like, where to set up and stuff.
And they said, how's this chair?
How's this?
How's this?
All right, perfect.
We'll have that all set up for you.
And then, like, 20 minutes later, it's set up.
They had, like, six production assistants that were working basically the entire time, just
making sure we have a great experience.
Yeah.
Like, they let us use their SD cards.
They let us, like, use their camera equipment.
They were maintaining everything.
You know what's funny?
When you guys came back, Graham's like, oh, yep, got the footage right here.
And he has, like, a little envelope with, like, all the SD cards.
And I'm like, that's funny that he just gives you the SD cards.
Because like on our neck of the woods, if you come like, go with us,
we'll be like, oh, by the way, bring your SDK.
Or we'll be like, oh, wait, let's transfer the footage because you can't take our
as a decade.
Because we only have, like.
We only have a few of them.
Yeah, Lexar finally sent us some.
Shout out to Lexar, the official card sponsor.
They finally sent us some.
But for so long, Graham was using like this broken SD card.
This one, he has one.
And it's broken.
And I'm like, Alex, I need that back.
He's like, I need, he's like, transfer the footage.
I need it back.
Meanwhile, you guys are over at Mr. Bees Complex, living it up, and they just give
USDA cards.
So walk me through it because I was shocked.
He lives in his studio.
Did I hear that right?
Yeah, so he has a room in his massive warehouse, which also has a kitchen, like a community
kitchen where you can just walk in, grab snacks for free.
Yeah.
We ate for free, free coffee.
There was a massive, like, industrial-grade refrigerator that was just stocked.
Oh, yeah, it's always stocked.
bunch of different beverages.
It was incredible.
Any drink you could want was in that fridge.
Did they have vegetables?
It should be bars?
No, they had tons of prime.
Oh, they had a ton of prime.
Yeah, they were stocked with time.
Every flavor.
I think they even had like a new flavor.
I didn't even know that was out.
Oh, is it the Meta Moon flavor?
I don't know what it was.
It was just some like really colorful flavor.
I'm like, that's nuts.
It's great.
But it is insane.
I would never leave the warehouse.
Well, I think he designed it that way so he didn't have to.
to leave.
Right.
So do you think, now I was hearing also that he said in an interview,
I think in your interview or maybe a bunch of other interviews,
that for him, he just works until he's burnt out.
Is that similar to you, Graham?
Because that sounded kind of familiar.
I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
I like it.
No, I didn't.
Whoa, man.
Why are you getting so defensive?
I never said there was anything wrong with that.
No, no, no, I agree.
I just said those words really sounded familiar.
And I was like, is that similar, something that you do?
I guess so, kind of.
I think it's a little different.
You think so?
Yeah, I think Mr. Beas' intensity of working is jacked up a little bit,
and his intensity of taking breaks is also jacked up a little bit.
Like, he'll just take an entire day hiatus where he just sits in his room and watch his anime for like 24 hours straight, he said,
and then he'll just get right back into working.
But Graham's a little bit more balanced with it.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't think I could take a full day off, but I could do a half day,
but I won't work as much as he does during the days that he's on.
Usually I'll try to cut it off.
But it's still pretty late.
Yeah.
Depends on the day.
But yeah, he will outwork me.
Absolutely.
How did you land this?
And, like, how do you convince Mr. Beach?
Sit down with you.
Yeah, so I had a meeting with David and Ezra from Night Media,
who work with Mr. Beast.
And I was like, yeah, we had a lunch together.
And I mentioned that I wanted to do these interviews.
And he said, oh, you should reach out to Mr. Beast.
And I said, no.
Just like, directly?
Yeah.
And he said, I'm pretty sure if you ask him, he'll say yes.
And I was honestly like, I didn't want to bother him or like, why would he want to do it for me?
Like, all these things.
As an example, you have a lot of people's contacts.
And when I see them on Instagram and I see there in Vegas, I always tell Graham, oh, this person's in Vegas.
And Graham's like, I don't want to, I don't want to bother them.
And I'm like, no.
Some of the time I do reach out.
I do.
No, sometimes you do.
But I'm just saying he's very.
if he reached out every time that like we sent him things,
he'd be reaching out like all the time.
But so you were just weary of reaching out to him
because you didn't want to waste his time.
Right, right.
I didn't want to ask for something if I felt like it was a overreach
or like, you know, I wanted to be respectful of him and his time.
But anyway, he said if you ask, he'll say yes.
And so I got home and I just sent a message.
And pretty quickly afterwards, he's like, yeah, I'm down.
Coordinate with my manager.
and if he could find a time, I'm in.
And so then the rest of the two weeks,
I think it took like two weeks to set up with his manager,
because his schedule is so sporadic.
Like he doesn't know what's, like every day there's a lot of flexibility,
and he's so busy that he can't guarantee that I'm going to be free at this time.
And so we got a small window where he's like, okay, we could,
we're pretty sure we could do this day or this day.
And then as it got close, he says, all right, we could do this day,
but we're not exactly sure what time we could film.
It'll be some time that day.
So we got there.
at like 8 o'clock in the morning.
So the compound?
Yeah, to him.
All right.
And we set up all day.
Just expecting that whenever he's free, he's free and we could do this.
And I think we started filming around 6 p.m.
So we were there all day.
But that was, I had so much fun just being there during the day and getting to talk to
his team because everyone is like an A player.
Like everyone is the best at what they do.
He doesn't hire anybody who's just like average.
Everyone is so expert in everything that they.
do. And so just meeting his team is super cool. And then he came in. We started filming.
Such a nice guy, very laid back. You know, and I was very conscious too of his time because he was,
I think he still is working out every single day. And so he said that he has to play soccer and
workout afterwards. And I was just really respectful of like, I didn't want to go over, but he was
cool with it. He was like, no, no, we could keep going. We just kept going. It was amazing. And we
were there, I think, until like midnight or something like that. No, we weren't there until midnight.
We were there until like, like, 10.
No, but then.
And then we played soccer.
And then we came back.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So you weren't you, but you were basically with him till mid.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Really nice guy.
Overall, fantastic experience.
Thumbs up would recommend.
So what's the dirt guy?
Did the employees truly look like they were happy?
Yes.
Yeah.
Oh, God.
Yeah.
And I don't know how the hours work, but you see some people who are just working really
late.
And then when we got in really early, I mean,
People are just walking in.
It seems like they're just working their own hours,
but they work a lot of hours because they really enjoy it.
Like, everybody is thoroughly just invested in what they do.
They seem inspired.
And that they agree with the mission that Mr. Beast has,
which is to become as big as possible on YouTube
and make the best videos possible.
It was really incredible.
Everyone's really young, too.
Like, I would say, I don't know, I'm just guessing probably 1825.
He has the majority.
Oh, yeah.
A majority of them are younger.
Yeah.
But like go-getters, like really motivated young people who are just experts.
So does he have like in-house people that build these sets?
Like he must, right?
No, those are contractors, actually.
Oh, he does?
Okay.
Yeah.
So the people that build the sets, that's all just like woodworkers and stuff that are on contract.
Yeah.
That's incredible.
Yeah.
And then Dave Ramsey, which we did like a week or two, what, two weeks later or something like that?
So we left Mr. Beast and we're like, this can't get any better.
I was visiting my family during that time.
So I did not go to this.
But, yeah, tell me how that one.
Dave Ramsey, we pulled.
up and we we see like office building after office building after off like huge places and it's all
owned by dave ramsie he had half a million square feet yeah all right so again my first question is
how the heck did we land day because i know a little bit of the story and i know that that was like
kind of just things lined up how did how did you get how did you get in contact with david and his team
and how the heck he doesn't do collabs with anybody so
How did you convince him?
Yeah.
So it was George Camel.
Works with Dave Ramsey.
He's one of the personalities.
And he reacted to a video that I posted, I think it was an old TikTok or something like that that I had posted.
He reacted to it and said that even though we disagree with debt, we're on the same page about saving money, living below our means, all of that.
And then I posted a response video.
We started talking on Instagram.
And then he said, hey, you know, we're going to be in Las Vegas speaking.
if you guys want to show up, I'll get you three tickets.
It was like the Peace Universe.
Yeah.
So we show up there.
And I'm surprised just like, you know, how nice everybody was there.
We just sit in and this huge space.
I don't know, maybe 5,000 people could have sat in this place.
And we sit down and we watched Dave speaking.
Dave was a great speaker.
And afterwards, I go and talk to George.
I take a picture with him.
And he mentions like, you know, maybe we could get you to Tennessee.
see if you want to come and we could see what we could do.
And we just kept in touch.
And sure enough, the timing worked out.
We flew down there.
But it was through George.
We were able to make that happen.
Yeah.
And Dave's place was on honestly a whole other level.
Yes.
So you're saying that Dave Ramsey's play was on a different level of mystery.
It was more impressive.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
Significantly.
By tenfold.
Yeah.
Why?
What set it apart?
It was like a hospital.
Like it was so clean.
It was massive.
There was like a huge open floor plan with an indoor auditorium that just opened up into like countless rooms and offices.
There's like restaurants inside.
Yeah.
What's really interesting that I had no idea is that if you're a fan of the Dave Ramsey show, you can just show up and walk into his headquarters.
And you can, they have this.
So where they film the Dave Ramsey show, there's a massive glass wall.
And you can sit outside of the recording studio and just watch as a fan.
And they play it on this TV.
And you can also watch through this screen.
Is there filming?
Just watch it happen live.
What?
Is they filming it?
Yeah.
And then Dave Ramsey, after he finishes whatever segment,
maybe the debt-free scream or something like that,
he'll always walk out, shake everyone's hand,
take photos, talk with people.
And then he just walks right back in,
and then everyone just watches them through this big glass screen.
And there weren't even that many people there, maybe 25.
Yeah, if that.
They're all young families, a lot of kids,
but they just sit there and watch.
I thought it was amazing.
But his team also is so just, you're good.
They're all, again, A players.
Everyone that works there is really aligned with his mission.
And they're just thorough.
Like, you could tell they're thorough.
They're precise.
They care.
No one's sloppy.
And just, you could tell the cleanliness when you walk in there.
Even the corridors.
Like when you go down the side staircase and stuff,
that are usually kind of like, they smell like pee.
These places were immaculate.
Like, everything was cleaned.
Amazing.
And they also, if you go there and you want to watch the show live,
everyone gets a free coffee as well.
So you're saying go there for the free coffee.
Go there for the free coffee and the entertainment.
Yeah.
So how many employees does Dave?
Over a thousand.
Yeah.
Something like that, 1,200.
Full time.
And that's not remote.
That's in person.
So what do you think separates Dave from Mr. Beas in that terms?
Do you think he's just had so much time to really, like, because my guess is,
and you guys correct me if I'm wrong, it sounds like Dave has this more corporate
structure, but still like a good.
It's not like an old and updated structure.
It sounds like it's more modern, but there's still structure.
And it sounds like Mr. Beast.
Since his probably employees are much younger,
they're kind of more laid back and prefer like the,
come in whenever you want but get stuff done.
Yeah, Dave was very structured.
So I have a feeling people get there.
They clock in at eight.
They clock out at five.
But what was interesting, too,
is we got picked up that morning.
We show up and there's like a really nice brand new Cadillac escalate
that's there to pick us up.
We get in the car and we're talking to the, what was he, head of security.
Yeah.
And apparently, like, he had worked his way up with Dave for over, what was it, over a decade.
Like, he started off helping him with certain things.
He worked really hard and just, like, over the years, just kept, you know, one-uping the ranks.
As Dave grew, this guy grew as well, and they were just side by side.
The guy was so thankful for all the opportunities that Dave gave him.
But he stuck with him and just along the way kept advancing.
It's just incredible story for him, too.
Well, I'm sure they must have an entire security team.
Because considering that you guys were saying that it's public.
Yeah.
You know what?
Here's when you could tell there's good securities when you don't notice the security.
100%.
I guarantee we walked through probably who knows how many, like, you know, people and civilian clothes and whatnot.
Secretly.
That's the security you want.
Well, I think if you have the other kind of security, that's very notable or whatever.
draws more attention sometimes that you don't want.
Yeah.
Sometimes it's to deter anything from happening
because if you see someone like that,
like apparently Bill Gates is always tailed
by like two to three people in civilian clothes
and you have no idea there's any security.
Like you wouldn't see it,
but that's to draw less attention.
If you see some security guards like,
is that Bill Gates?
You know, but it depends on the situation.
So what's up with these interviews, man?
Because I've noticed that on your main channel,
we're posting more interviews.
We're interviewing more.
large creators about how they're running their operations, how they got to where they are.
Are you planning on stopping the normal market update videos?
No.
Or what's the plan?
I want to do at least one a month because I think that would be a lot of fun.
But yeah, I've been making a list.
Every time I think of someone that I'd like to have for a video, I write it down now on my phone.
I have probably 20 names.
Very few people get back to me, but they're big names.
Like Tony Hawk was one of them.
I'm like, imagine we could get Tony Hawk.
Steveo would be another one.
You know what?
I mean, it would be cool.
How do we not have Steve's car?
I feel like we know somebody who knows Steve.
Here's the thing.
I bet I could rattle off a few of these names.
And someone watching would have a connection.
Do it.
You know what?
They're getting a first sneak peek of who might be.
So I don't want to tell everybody.
Okay.
But a few of them I would love.
Anthony Padilla would absolutely love that.
Let's see.
I'll get rid of some of the big names here.
Justin Beaver's on there.
Yeah, Justin Beaver's on there.
Stivo would be amazing.
Gordon Ramsey would be incredible.
Dave Grohl.
Why does that name?
The fighters.
Dave Chappelle.
Trey Parker from South Park.
He would be the one for me.
I think from all of the names,
Trey Parker for me would be the most surreal.
So if anyone has a connection to Trey Parker or Matt Stone,
either one of them.
It would be fantastic.
A few of them have actually got back to us.
I don't want to name who.
But actually, we could bleep it out.
I'll just get your reaction.
No way.
I almost broke the chair.
Are we doing that?
He said yes, but just around his schedule after Thanksgiving.
So I don't know when, but I don't want to jinx it.
Because the thing is, with people like that,
the schedule will change.
In a moment's notice.
If we get, that's, guys.
that's big you know what go to graham's main channels they're probably already subscribed they're
watching the podcast i'm excited but that yeah but i was shocked i just sent the dm and within like an hour
i got a response that's amazing i love that yeah wow but yeah tray parker tony hawk would be like
my top tier i'd love to do that if you guys have connections to them stevo too that's a joll of us
we'll look johnny knoxville as well so if if any of you watching have a direct connection and
you think they're open to doing it, just reach out.
You could send me a DM as well, and I'll be, I'll be taking a look at those.
Send everybody.
Send everybody.
Just get it.
Just get it to us.
If you have a sincere connection, DM me, Alex.
Everybody.
Jack doesn't check his DMs, but me or Alex do.
I have an interesting story.
So I was coming into work here to review with Green.
And there's this truck that pulled up to the driveway.
And it's this huge, like, freight truck.
and the guy, I see him going to the door and I'm like, oh, like, what are you delivering?
He's like, oh, he's like, I got a palette of fitness equipment.
And I'm like, Graham has a gym right down the road.
Why would he order fitness equipment?
And so I knock on the door and I get Graham and I'm like, Graham, where do you want this guy to put your fitness equipment?
And he's like, what are you talking about?
And I'm like, there's a palette, an entire palette of fitness equipment and it weighs over like a thousand pounds.
And he's confused.
And then he remembers, you know, Liver King reached out and said if I was available today.
So Liver King, who was on the podcast, who's trying to get Graham to train for like a barbarian or something,
he ordered an entire palette of fitness equipment to his house.
And we had no place to put it.
So it's sitting in his driveway.
Yeah, we got to open it.
I had no idea what's inside of it.
So I wanted to wait for you to be here, Jack, because maybe you put some of it in the back of your car or something.
You gotta go through it.
I have no clue it's in it.
I'm excited.
Yeah, I'll take some weights off your desk.
We'll see, I don't know what you're in.
No, I'm just kidding.
I don't know what there is.
The guy had to crate it in.
It's on a crate.
On a palette.
Yeah.
I had to arrange for the shipping.
They like, they contacted me.
I got a call.
And they were like, hey, this is, you know, where do you live?
Or do you confirm this shipping address?
And I was like, for what?
And they were like, oh, it's the weights.
And I'm like, oh, my God, because I remember liver king said he would send us some.
And I was like, holy cow.
I'm like, yeah, sure, send it to the address.
Yeah, we'll put it here what it is, but we'll go through and I have no clue.
I have no clue.
So on the topic of Liver King, got to say, I still am shook he gave me this watch,
and he gave Graham an amazing necklace, and it's so surreal.
I had never...
What is it called?
A chain.
I have never received a gift as generous as the watch that he gave me,
and I don't think you've received a gift as generous as the chain he gave you, right?
In terms of a dollar amount.
Grant Navar gave me the Rolex day chest, though.
True.
To dial.
That was a substantial gift.
I do wear that often.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I mean, just the sheer generosity of Liver King is unparalleled.
And on top of that, he wants us to go by to his house in Texas, where we can do a barbarian with him.
He said he wants us to live like he does for like a couple days.
I think that would be so fun.
Crazy.
I would love to make a video.
But I think Graham has to get really ahead.
but I think
It would be a weekend
So we'd fly on a Friday
Leave on a Sunday
I think that would be cool
And
I'll be loose
Yeah it would be good
Yeah
I'm excited because
The Barbarian sounds
Incredibly difficult
I honestly do not think
I could do it
In my current shape
It's 70 pound kettlebells
In each hand
I think a 120 pound backpack
20 pound ankle
And you're dragging a 120 or so
Pound sled
You have to walk a mile
So even just like
The kettlebells in each hand
70 pounds
just sounds like extremely challenging.
But here's what I'm curious about.
Do they adjust for your weight?
Because you weigh more than I do.
And the percentage of me carrying two, you know,
70 pound kettlebells is significantly more than you doing it.
I don't think they adjust for the weight.
Yeah, I don't think.
Which I think it should.
Same goes for me in Liver King.
It's like Liver King has an incredible weight advantage.
Yeah, but I feel like it should be like between a heightened weight perspective,
that's significantly more weight than for most people.
But he also had his like 16 or 17 year.
Yeah.
Still, that kid is taller than I am.
Yesterday I did train a little bit.
Like I, sorry, not yesterday.
It was probably about a few days ago.
I grabbed 70 pound dumbbells and I tried walking with them.
It was like starting to like pull at my skin.
Granted the weights had very like rippy rips, which kind of weren't the greatest.
Kettlebells would be better.
But it's still extremely challenging, just like walking, you know, 50 feet with 70 pound kettle or dumbbells in each hand.
I don't, I don't think I could do it.
No.
I'm worried about adjusting for weight though.
That's all.
Because you wouldn't put someone who's like, you know, 90 pounds, let's just say.
They wouldn't do this at those weights.
So where's the cutoff between like, hey, we should adjust down a little bit?
I think it should be based on a percentage.
Take it up with liver king.
Yeah.
I mean.
See what he's got to say about that.
Yeah.
I don't think he's going to adjust the weight.
Yeah.
That's all I got to say.
I think we just got to train really hard.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Guys, you know what's been blown up my TikTok?
It's tri-guies.
Have you heard about the try guys?
guys and the cheating skin.
I heard about it.
Jack.
Do you know about it?
Yeah, I heard about it.
Okay, why is it everywhere on my...
Like, normally we don't talk about this stuff,
but why is it everywhere on my feed?
And do you guys think that all publicity is good?
I mean, it really depends on the kind of audience that you have
and your end goal.
If your end goal is to attract as much attention as possible,
probably, yeah?
But if your end goal is to try to gain, like,
a network of really devoted supporters
and stuff like that, probably not.
What was the example where Will Smith slapped Chris Rock?
What was that on?
What was that on?
What was the thing called?
Oh, the Oscars.
The Oscars.
The Oscars had seen declining viewership for years,
and that was one of their most viewed episodes ever.
Brought a lot of attention back to it,
but because of a negative event.
But I'm sure they could say,
hey, we could turn this into a pilot.
We got more eyeballs on this.
The people watching the next one,
one.
It'd be an all-time high because you're going to want to wait and see what...
They're going to pay off some actor to slap someone else.
That's going to happen.
No, I think for them, obviously, that's a good thing.
But we're talking about Will Smith, he's getting a lot of publicity from that.
Probably a lot of very good thing.
Oh, yeah.
He's ruined his image.
But Chris Rock, by the way, sold out of his next show.
Yeah.
Everyone's like, is he going to talk about?
So, I mean, it depends.
I think for this is probably not the attention that they want,
but they could probably spin it in such a way where they make it a positive in
in a weird way, but people are thirsty for stuff right now, man.
It's just like they want something to latch on, do drama,
and I feel like anything right now is just,
they want to focus on something.
It just happened to be that.
Final thought, which I think is kind of an interesting topic.
Graham finally listened to me, which is a good thing.
What did you say, Jack?
I said,
Graham finally got you.
He got you.
Did I actually get you?
Yeah, you did.
He got me.
Because he's sent out an application to hire an assistant editor,
which I think is a fantastic idea.
Basically what happened, if I'm understanding this, correct,
Graham posted on his story, right?
Sent out an application for people,
for an assistant editor,
and he directed everyone to your inbox on Instagram.
And basically, you were supposed to try to find someone
to hopefully, if you were ever out,
if Graham was unable to edit a video,
someone that's like a second string editor.
Yeah.
Which I think is a fantastic idea.
I think if any YouTuber who's making the amount of money
that Graham's making with the responsibility
and the output that Graham has,
I think it's really important to have fail safes,
especially, you know, when it's such a low cost
to try to just train somebody to edit a video.
I feel like that's a very reasonable and good business decision.
I'm proud of Graham.
I agree.
I agree.
So we'll see.
We'll see how it is.
But yeah, I think having a backup is a good idea.
I mean, worst case, I'm just going to edit myself.
But it'll be good if Alex goes out of it.
Because every single time, Alex is like, hey, Graham,
we're going out of town this week.
When was the last time I was out of town?
I try, I try not to go out of town because I try to, I try to man the post, Jack.
I think there's been a few times, but we've always been able to work around it because Alex
will tell me and it's okay, well, then I'll work in advance and we'll get some videos done.
Usually it's only like one day though, like aside from weekend.
Usually it'll be like a Friday or something.
I think you went to Wisconsin too, and that was a month ago.
I thought the cruise was for quite a few days.
Yeah, that's the only other time that I've taken time on.
In Wisconsin.
And you went to California that one week.
I took one day out.
These are times where we were all gone.
You guys, I will say the only time that I did when you guys were here was when I went on.
But that was when I first got hired.
Yeah, you got hired.
You started working.
And the next year, you're like, all right, guys, going on a cruise.
The next year?
No, it was like literally, no, it was literally like, I think like four months.
after I think.
I was like,
I think I got hired or something.
But anyways,
I think it's a good idea
you're hiring.
It's like an editor.
You know,
there's a word for this.
But, you know,
outsource is a great thing.
I'm in full support of it.
It was funny,
I was at an event or a conference,
I guess,
whatever, convention.
A couple weeks ago,
Vid Summit.
And a lot of people came up to me
and they said some of their favorite discussions.
I know you guys may be extremely sick of it.
Oh, gosh.
Are the outsourcing versus not outsourcing stuff?
And I just thought that was really funny to you here
because my idea,
on it was everyone was super sick of it.
I'm not going to continually bring it up because I understand, you know,
don't be the dead horse.
But it was just interesting to hear that.
That was some people's favorite segments.
They looked forward to them.
Graham is still like holding his ground though because I got,
when I got the submissions back for the 80% of them, 90% of them, one were remote.
I did mention to Graham.
I was like, you know, Graham for like a backup editor, it'll be fine.
And but Graham's like, no.
Got a tight operation.
We keep it that way.
And Alex has been doing fantastic with title thumbnails too.
Oh, I got to say, I've been getting back.
Yeah, we brainstorm for a good 30 minutes, 60 minutes every video.
And usually between the both of us, we'll bounce ideas back and forth.
And Alex is, you know, really picking up.
It took a while.
Anyways, guys, thank you so much for tuning into this midweek episode.
It's been an amazing conversation with two very close friends of mine.
Alex and Graham here on the Jack Selby show.
By the way, guys, also...
What shirt are you wearing?
This shirt, you may have noticed I look extremely overdressed.
Turns out I'm not.
This is as comfortable as maybe a pajama top.
But it looks extremely nice.
I would wear this A on a date,
B, a business meeting,
C, if I was going for a jog in the park,
or D, sleeping as well.
It's also, it's waterproof.
I was kidding.
You could have done that.
I would have done nothing.
It's not waterproof,
but it naturally gets out wrinkles.
If you're walking around in it
because of some crazy material it's made out of it.
Literally, I'm not even using hyperbole when I'm saying this,
the comvious shirt I've ever won in my entire life.
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They sponsored the last podcast episode,
and I just want to say because I've been like continually
wearing their shirts that they sent us since the last podcast episode, and I've been loving them.
In fact, I went out with my housemates last night and like four of us wore Rhone shirts.
So I'm not even, I'm not even kidding.
I'll throw up a photo right now.
We went to Tony's Mexican food.
That's absolutely crazy because, like, I've been using Lexar cards.
Okay.
So with that, you guys, thank you so much.
It's funny too, because I've been using public.com slash gram.
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So, thank you, Roan.
Thank you, everyone, for watching.
See you guys next time.
Until next time.
Let's see what's in that liver king thing.
