The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby - Engaged in 2.5 months, having kids, and meeting on a blind date with Preston and Briana

Episode Date: November 12, 2025

Preston and Brianna sit down with Matt & Abby for a super fun and honest chat about their relationship, YouTube, and what life’s really like behind the scenes of their massive success. With almost 100 million subscribers between them, they’ve built an empire—but it all started with a blind date that led to getting engaged just two months later. They open up about balancing marriage with content creation, what it actually costs to film huge YouTube videos, and the wild things they’ve done for content. Plus, they talk about where they’re at when it comes to starting a family. This episode is sponsored by Ka'Chava, Revolve, Olipop & Zocdoc Ka'Chava: Go to https://kachava.com and use code UNPLANNED for 15% off your next order. Revolve: Shop at http://REVOLVE.com/UNPLANNED and use code UNPLANNED for 15% off your first order. #REVOLVEpartner Olipop: http://drinkolipop.com/UNPLANNED ● OLIPOP is sold online (drinkolipop.com + Amazon) and available in almost 50,000 retailers nationwide, including Costco, Walmart, Target, Publix, Whole Foods, Kroger and HEB Zocdoc: Stop putting off those doctors appointments and go to http://Zocdoc.com/UNPLANNED to find and instantly book a top-rated doctor today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It was about two and a half or three months afterwards. Three months. Whoa. You've walked on a plane while it's flying? It's like a biplane and they're doing hammer curls and bear rolls. When he was doing that, I was like so nervous. Content has made me do things I never thought I would do. We did a hide-and-seek once where I buried myself alive.

We put like a prison inside of the pool, putting chains around my waist so I would sing. There's no rule book on this, you know what I mean? You say you want six kids, and then I heard you say maybe no kids. Like, what's going on here? I don't think there's any change on wanting to have kids. Just not six. Preston and Brianna are two of the most subscribed to people on YouTube in the United States with nearly 100 million subscribers across their channels.

But most people just want to know when they plan. on starting a family. Today on Unplanned, we talk about how they met, what it costs to film a large-scale YouTube video, as well as the extreme length they've gone to for content. This conversation was hilarious, and I know you guys are going to love it. Enjoy. I kind of just want to know about your love story. Welcome to Unplanned, by the way. How did you guys meet? That's a really good question. Brie, would you like to take the lead on this one? This is such a fun question to answer, because it's like a full circle moment. Because I was an ER nurse.

Didn't think I'd ever want to work in the ER, by the way. Like, I wanted to be a nurse. That sounds so scary. It was intense. But if I hadn't have done that, I wouldn't have met him. Yeah, because I was obviously, like, I was a gunshot victim. No, he wasn't. It would be so much colder if I, like, went to the ER and then, like, she saved me and then saved me, you know?

Like, you were, like, not, like, you were going to die and then she saved your life. Wait, is that a violation of, like, HIPA or something? Maybe. Probably so. You know, I want to date your patience. No, that was not, it wasn't as cool as that, but what was a big blessing is my aunt, who I hadn't spoke to in quite some time, was like, honestly, you need to meet my nephew. That's the best, you have to meet my nephew. She's so saddened, she has such a big, I love it.

I love that. And so we just got set up on a blind date. And at the beginning, I was like, I don't know, Mom, I think God's is calling me to be a male nun. I dated two girls that didn't work out. Male nun. I was like, I dated two girls that didn't work out. It's too much energy. I'm going to go dive back into work.

And then mom's like, look, she bakes cookies. Show me like a Facebook photo. She's like, that could be your wife. And I'm like, okay, whatever. I'll go have coffee. And then we had like an eight hour coffee date. And I was gone so long and didn't respond to any text messages from my mom. So she called the police.

She thought I was missing. She thought I was missing. Did she think I look like dangerous or something? But she knew you were on the date and she still? Yes. She's like this girl. She thought maybe something happened. It was raining.

So maybe there was like a car accident. What did she tell the police? I don't know. She was just like, I just called them and said to see if they could find your license plate. And I was like, well, I'm at the coffee shop. We haven't moved. Did the police show up at this coffee shop?

No. Thankfully not. That would have mortified me. I would lie. I just remember going for a sip of coffee talking to Brie and then I totally just missed my mouth and it's just a giant cup of black coffee. It was sweet.

I thought it was cute. Went all over me. It was like, oh, he's nervous. And we talked about all the things you're not supposed to on the first date because I was ready. I was locked in. I was like, all right, let's talk about who you voted for.

Are your parents still together? What's your faith like? Do you want kids? Oh, no, I think that's how you do it, honestly. Oh, it's so much better. Yeah. You're like, let's just, let's just dive right in here. And I think when you, like, date intentionally like that is when things move fast,

which y'all did move pretty fast. Yes, definitely. How old were you guys on the first date? 23. Yeah, 23. 23. Okay. Yeah, but he's older than me.

Okay, by a few months. You make it sound like crazy thing. That's like Caleb Abby. Yeah, my brother dated. married an older woman. They're six months apart. Six months apart. Yep. And I'm six months older than Abby, so. Okay. I don't know how that really relates to anything. But matters is who's taller. It was honestly, it was so much fun. It was so much fun. After that date, I just knew Bree was the one. Yeah. All that first date. On that first date. And how long did it take you guys to like get engaged

from that first day? It was about two and a half or three months afterwards. It was three months. Wow. And my parents dated for over eight years. So he asked my dad, dad for like if you know he could propose and my dad I think was overwhelmed for a hot second her dad's also a very successful psychiatrist that's you know you know it's a little intimidating at the beginning it's like are we gonna be playing some mind games you know yeah because maybe there's like some statistics like you should wait X amount of time at least but my parents got married after meeting after three weeks yeah when you asked for permission to marry Brianna was he like um let me evaluate you for him in any mental illness

can you imagine i remember vividly he was just across almost exactly where sitting abbey and he's just in this rocking chair and then obviously his wife is just to the left and i asked for permission and there's like a 10 second silence and then connie brand his mom goes i think he's looking for a response from you benny oh my mom's like you're making him sweat say something i'm cooking i'm like i'm being literally cooked in the crockpot benny oh my god and then he stands up and he's like only if you'll call me dad oh it was like so sweet I think they had an idea because also Connie is a fantastic cook and had a huge meal prepared. So I was hoping that I was going to get a favorable response.

Otherwise, I was like, is this enough dinner for me too? Or is this just for them to if I get rejected? But wait, like from the first date to engagement in two and a half months, like that's pretty quick. So was there anybody that was telling you guys not to get married or not to get engaged? I didn't have that. But I feel like most of my friends were more traditional in the sense of they dated. longer, but, I mean, I called my mom after our first date and was like, I think he's marriage material. I remember verbatim saying that. So I feel like my friends were like,

like you do you, but it is a bit rare to be that fast with things. It was awesome. I got friends from all over the place because growing up and making YouTube videos, especially gaming. You have a lot of people you're recording with from Australia, UK, you know, lots of different types of values and backgrounds. And so they were like, okay, this is a little crazy person. And I was like, I know, right? It's sick. No, I feel like a lot of people we have on our show didn't date super long before they were engaged And I think that...

It's a very common theme on our show. The only thing that I can deduce from this is that it's really not about how long you date. I think it's about how you date And like your values and morals around it And what's about the intent, right? So if you understand like I'm looking for a successful outcome here of I want to find my wife, my forever person.

So I need to have questions that I need to ask here because if not, you know, it'd be a great little coffee. enjoy the coffee maybe we can be friends if not no hard feelings and then we'll just go to the next one nothing wrong with that it's just like you're looking for that person that you want to build the rest of your life with and you want to find them as fast as you can while still being precise of course yeah I think part of it too is you know marriage like it takes work and so you're not like if you're going into it thinking that you're going to have this perfect person that just like perfectly completes like every part of you and it's just everything's all butterflies and rainbows and it's easy it's not

Like you, it's a relationship, right? And it's like a muscle. So if you're not working out that muscle, it's going to weaken. It's not going to be as strong. So I think like when people have this perspective of, oh, I need to date a ton to find the right perfect. And it's like, well, maybe you're approaching it from the wrong angle, you know. Yeah, like one person's not going to meet all of those needs for you. Yeah, yeah.

Like, I want somebody to challenge me. You know, I was like having a wife in terms of video game, like, video games terms, like it's a permanent buff. all right like this is crazy thank you for calling me i need that permanent buff wait can you translate that for me i don't know permanent buff yeah what does that mean a buff is like something that you just get by being around somebody maybe it's their energy the way they support you it's a positive thing all right it's like when you drink caffeine you have the buff of having an additional energy or less fatigue i love your energy i can so tell that you blew up as a streamer brianna how did you like how did you respond to finding out that preston was a famous YouTuber gamer streamer like what was that

conversation like you got to tell stories I'm just so happy I didn't know any of that when we first met oh you didn't not really I didn't understand this world of like content creation and all of that it was still a little early it was 2017 yeah yeah yeah so I remember your mom like spitting out the facts of like how many views you're getting and like all this fun stuff I think my aunt did mention it and Bree said specifically okay cool what's his real job I wasn't going to say that but you're right I did say that, yep. I was like, I'm fair, you know. It's kind of new.

It was really cool, though. I remember my first, like, meme I saw of you on the internet, like, making this, like, weird face. It was hilarious. But you'd been doing it for so long, and I don't know, it made me jazzed. I was excited. Brie was a natural. Just a natural. We had this awesome Q&A we did.

It was like the fiancé Q&A. And we just curated a bunch of questions and then sat in, like, high chairs. It was actually really similar to the set of you guys have right here. And it was just so much fun because getting to introduce Brie to these people that are like your family, your viewers that you've just grown with. You know, I'm old. I'm 31. I've been doing YouTube since before they were required by Google. My first YouTube video was when I was 12, 19 years ago when I uploaded it. And I always wanted it. I was like, man, I just like, I really want to go and do some of video games. I love video games so much.

Did you know that there was like actual money to be made in YouTube when you started? Or was it more so just for the passion of making a video and gaming for people to watch? Well, it's definitely much more passion-focused because I grew up and I was a very competitive video game player in PC, specifically Call of Duty. That was my jam. I was extremely, extremely sweaty. My first ever YouTube channel is TBNR Frags. TBNR stands for the Best Never Rest. Okay.

And my older brother had a tattooed on his arm, and so I'm like 14, and I'm like, what does that mean? And he's like, the best never rest. And I was like, I love that. Let's just keep drinking energy drinks and stay up all night, Blame. it's funny though because when I was again my mom was like you know like she's like do you make any money from playing those video games and I feel like your response to that could have been like actually I do mom like I'm making at the beginning she was like I graduate high school pretty early I was like 16 so they're like I figure out how to make money very quickly here otherwise like you know

got to go to school find a day job or something so I was just like all right how can I make money doing this like I love it but it's not it's not that big you know what I mean like at least not yet. So at the beginning it was just raising $100 a month to upgrade my internet at my parents' house. And you had a pretty humble upbringing, right? Like you grew up in a mobile home, right? And you lived in an RV, you burned down the RV when

you were four years old, right? Can you have that your own? I was trying to make French toast for my dad. And I lit a match, because that's how you had to light the stove or whatever, and then I threw the match while I was lit in the trash can. He still got his French toast, though. Was anybody

Was anybody inside the house when it burned down? No, it was an RV that we had parked at our grandparents' ranch. So they had a ranch, and we all worked on it. We helped rehabilitate kids with special needs with horse riding. And so anyways, then here I am just burdened down an RV that we're living in on the ranch. You didn't mean to? No, that counts. Oh, my gosh.

Were you able to file a claim for that? Like, could you, did your parents have RV insurance? I just don't know what happened. I don't know what happened afterwards. I just know that half of that RV was just absolutely toasted. That's so sad. That's a fun story, though. You can share.

Yeah, they'll never let me forget that. After that, I was like, okay, I definitely need to be a good son growing up. Thank you to Kachapha for sponsoring this portion of today's episode. It is all too often easy to sacrifice quality nutrition for convenience, especially as a busy parent, jumping from workouts to work to kids, to activities. And I'm very particular about my protein. So when it comes to plant-based protein, it's usually hard to find one that tastes good. But Kachava tastes great, you guys.

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Go to cachava.com and use code unplanned for 15% off your next order. That's Kachava, k-a-a-v-a-com. Code unplanned for 15% off. What was your childhood like, Brianna? Very different because I'm an only child. That probably made the conversation

asking to marry her so much more intimidating too. who's like, this is their baby. Yeah. Well, after dating for a month, their second child. Yeah, she was coming over for July 4th to meet the family for the first time.

And there was, she's like, there's a lot of people here. You know what I mean? But I always wanted to marry into a big family because my family skews like older and it's small. So having like nephews that are running around and all that is so nice.

But yeah, my dad is a physician and then my mom was an opera singer. So I grew up like always performing. and I don't know that. I think that jazzed me up to do YouTube because I grew up in theater. You got to marry up, you know what I mean? That's dumb.

Bree is so talented. At the beginning, Bree was actually going to school to be a nurse practitioner, and I was like, okay, well, you can definitely do this, but I think you would love YouTube. So I was like, just being a couple of my videos, and at the beginning, the girlfriend clickbait in Minecraft is fantastic.

It's just so much fun. Really? Yeah, it's just like getting to play Minecraft with your girlfriend for the first time. I'm like all these like fun and cute videos. And Bree was just an absolute natural and crushed it. I remember one time I was sick and she filmed an entire video for me on my gaming channel where I think she like hacked my Roblox account and just messed with me while I was sick in bed.

Yeah. Because I was like, we gotta get an upload up. I felt so bad. He was so sick. And I'm like, I'm not letting you go dark on your channel. I've got this. And I really didn't know what I was doing, but it was fun. Okay.

You mentioned Minecraft YouTube and I got to nerd out for a bit because my brother was the guy that got me into like watching YouTube as a kid. and there were four channels back in the day that he was a huge fan of. There was Casey Nystatt, Roman Atwood, and then there was the Vsauce guy who did all the Mind Blow videos, and then the fourth one was Yogscast.

He loved to watch the Minds. Did you ever do any collab with Yogscast? I didn't get to do anything with the Yogscast, but I mean, they're legends in the space. Okay. Legends. Because my brother's kind of like a closeted nerd. Like he loves, he loves,

we would play Minecraft together going up, even though we were kind of like the generation, I would say That wasn't, like, it wasn't as big when we were like, you know, 14, 15, but it was a blast, man. Like, I used to stay up late, playing on service with my buddies, and, uh, it's just, uh, Minecraft's a good, it's a good one, you know? It's really cool because it just spans a really wide age gap. Yeah.

Anybody can have fun playing it. When it first came out, there was a, uh, platform back then for gamers for instant messaging called Xfire. This is like a little bit before, like, steam messaging kind of take over. You could just see what other games your friends were playing. And I saw also buy a load up Minecraft. I was like, mindcraft? Mindcraft? What is this?

I was like, this game looks so lame. Anyways, back to Call the Duty. And this was like really early stages. And then, of course, later down the road, just became such a big fan of it. Okay, so you guys started dating, got engaged in two and a half months. Your dad says yes.

And then how long after that was the wedding? Seven months? Okay, this man, you're a wonderful human. He was like, let's get married like in a month or something. He was like, I want to get married now. And I wanted like my princess fairy tale moment and I was like, babe, we have to plan it. Yeah, because you're a big Disney fan too. Yes. I wanted the like Cinderella moment. And so yeah, I was like seven or eight months. So it was pretty, it was pretty fast. It was a big. Yeah. It was a big. Yeah. It was a big. Yeah. It was a big. Yeah. It was a big. Yeah. It was a big. How big? Like 300 something. Yeah. That's nary. That's not. It was gnarly. That's all right. It was fun. God bless her dad. Thank you, Benny. Thank you, Ben. Yeah. Thank you, Dad. Oh, did he pulled the bill for the wedding. Let's go. That was Abby's parents. They paid for it too. So that was a huge blessing for us. So that was a huge blessing for us. as well. Yeah, I feel like by the time our kids grow up, it's going to be switching. Because I feel like it's getting a little dated, you know?

Yeah, totally. Totally. And I think with like how much money people spend on weddings these days, you know, I think it's going to change to where maybe people are telling their kids, hey, maybe, you know, at least cover part of this or something. I don't know. Also, there was just me versus like, you know, I feel like that makes it easier. He had one daughter True. That's all. Yeah, I mean, if you've got like five daughters, oh my gosh. That's, who, yeah. I mean, you're one of six kids. I mean, that's, but only one sister, though. Only one. Okay. Yeah. So that's at least good for your parents. If that was the expectation for them.

That's funny. So you're a big Disney fan. I know Disney played a role in the proposal. Mm-hmm. Like you were playing Disney music. We had a string quartet. I'm going to be honest. My mom helped me a lot with the engagement because I was like, Mom, like, here's a lot of things. that she likes, but like, do you have any ideas? You know, kind of nervous. I'm kind of fanicking. And so she was like, okay, we used to have this lake house that we had as an Airbnb. They lived there, my parents for a little bit. They would always live, fix up the property, and then we'd Airbnb it out.

My mom and dad are just absolute legends like that. And they're working with the business last like almost 10 years. And so we had this beautiful property, lakefront, get there for the engagement, string quartet, got this private dinner planned, and then the surprise boat ride that will take us out on the lake and then end up at. a restaurant on the lake with all of Brie's friends, family, and some of my friends and family, like an engagement party. That's nice. Power goes out. He did amazing. No. I didn't know. I thought it was like the fun sway of like dim lighting. It went out in the entire neighborhood. And so then

you got like the chef who's like, all right, I'm switching to like back burners I brought or like gas stoves and like he's just trying to hustle and make it work and I'm like, is it going to be ruined? It wasn't ruined. It was still amazing. But the string quartet played some of Bree's favorite Disney songs. Frank Sinatra included. Okay. He's my faith. Is there a certain Frank Sinatra song that you like more than the others? I can't pick, I feel like.

Fly me to the moon popped in my head just now. Okay. Maybe that one. It's funny that you said, because that was literally the first one that popped in my head too. I feel like that's an iconic one. It is. It is. Yeah. Wait, is is he the one who sings just the way you look tonight? Yeah. That's the one I danced to with my dad and my grandpa's at our wedding.

That's so sweet. Yeah, I don't know who's saying it. I'm so bad with English music. Why are you bad with English music? I don't really hear lyrics very well at all. So especially with musicals, I just can't hear it. I can't understand what they're saying. So I've been listening to Japanese pop for like 15 years. That's it, exclusively.

Explain that, because I saw you mention that in one of your YouTube videos, and I had never, to be honest, it was the first time I'd ever heard of Japanese pop. Well, I've been a nerd for a long time openly, not just in the closet, you know what I mean? Like, I grew up watching like Naruto and all the anime when I was 10. And then at a certain point in time, I was like, oh, I really like these.

openings. They're like the opening songs for the anime. You got a favorite TV show. They got an intro, intro song. And then you're like, wait, this music's really cool. And I don't understand the lyrics, but I really like the melody or the tune so I can use it to focus while I'm working. So I just got in the habit of only listening to that, because I can't really understand the English lyrics a whole lot. So I just stuck with that. So Breeze Family Bingbing in the music, there's like, what's your favorite song by the Beatles? And I was like, who are the Beatles? He didn't know who John Lennon was. No. John Lennon. That was crazy. Oh, no.

I don't know what this guy is. Who's your favorite J-pop star? There's some really good bands out there. Oh, all right. Probably one of my favorites is, oh, I got to remember their name. Exactly. If only I had my phone on me.

They all have some complicated names, but I really like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It's like a mixture of like screamo, and they go between English and Japanese. And are you also into K-pop, or is it just J-pop? Really? It's just like, I listen to some K-pop stuff, but people always say that.

They're very different. Obviously different languages. so they sound very different, but I like the Japanese language and the form of music more. Interesting. I could be so wrong, but I listen to both now.

He introduced me to it. I feel like a lot of the J-pop I listen to is more like rock and roll screamo vibe, and K-pop is more like poppy, like radio bops. We were at the New Year's Eve like thing in New York City and Times Square a couple years ago,

and one of the guys from BTS was there, Jay Hope, was that his name, that performed? Anyway, I didn't know who he was and everyone was roasting me in the comments I made a video and I'm like, I've no idea who this guy's like, you don't know Jay Hoh? He's the biggest pop star in the world. I'm like, I'm sorry, I don't listen to K-pop.

I had no idea. That's cool. Do you guys watch any anime? No, my brother does. It's funny, you mentioned Naruto and I know who that is because my little brother... Why's your brother so cool? So I have two brothers, actually.

I have an older brother and a younger brother. My older brother is the one that would watch Yog's cast growing up, and then my younger brother is the one that would watch like the anime. He still does. Now I feel bad because sometimes I would tease him out, but like, Josh, why are you watching Naroto? What is this Naruto, dude? But like, clearly there must be, you know, with you liking it too, I can understand that there's probably some, I've never actually watched Narutov.

It's just so creative and so imaginative. Sometimes I Nanny watched movies that were anime. There's a lot. They show me one. And it was like a main one because I like looked it up afterwards. What was it called? How's Moving Castle, Kimi No Wah, Spirited Away. Spirit Away.

Yeah. Studio Ghibli. Really popular. You know, you do all the names right away. That's such a good movie. I'm telling you, like, we'll give you guys a couple, and then you watch it. Bree's to make fun of me for years. So bad.

Really? I was like, this is weird. Why are you watching this stuff? Now I love it. It's like, you just find one you like, and then you get hooked. You find, like, something that you love watching on linear traditional TV. So if it's like suspense or thriller, and then you just find an anime that also matches that same genre, and it's a lot easier to get into it.

Because you're already familiar with it, and now it's just a bit more novel because it's anime instead of, you know, real-life TV shows. shows, but you're like, oh, but I'm familiar with this. So it's easier to start understanding it and kind of get into it. Nice. That's how worked with Bree. Yeah. She's big into thrillers.

So I was like, all right, well, I got one for you. Oh, thrillers. Really, I would not have pegged you as a thriller lover. I know. I also like true crime a lot. Me too. It's so fascinating. Thank you to Revolve for sponsoring this portion of today's episode.

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I don't, it's fascinating for some reason. Yeah, it's like, it's curiosity. Like, how could someone do something like that? Have you seen the trend that's like, her legs were cut off, her tongue was cut off? Her eyes were gotcha. My husband walking in and getting to doing my makeup and I'm like, yep.

That sounds right. Breaches in their closet, getting ready. And I'm like, all right, I'm going to go the other direction. Dude, and it's dateline too. Like now they have like a date line podcast. where they'd have the audio version of the episodes. And so my mom always watched that growing up and now. It's not new, Matt.

It's been around the number one podcast. Women have been into this for years. Every week. Definitely. I think it's just curiosity. Like you're just like, how could someone do something like that? Yeah.

We got to be ready. I also think it's a female urge to like protect yourself. Yeah. It's scary. It's out there is scary. It's true. It's probably scary. You guys don't get it.

You don't get it. Apparently we don't. There's just something wrong with us. I don't know. I think, yeah, also maybe it's a short person thing. That's true. Everyone's a predator. You guys were both five, too.

You guys were the same height. Yes. Short queen. I mean, wear heels, though. That's the name. We're wearing heels to give yourself some extra height. I want to talk to you about working as a Disney princess. Yes.

Are you allowed to even say which princess you were? I feel like I can. Okay. Yeah, I did Elsa, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty. No way. My first one, though, y'all, was Anna or Anna. Yes. From Frozen, and I looked horrible.

That's why I only did that once. Putting me in a bun that was red, that is not my style. But, oh, it was so much fun. Yes. Like, getting to surprise the little ones, especially when the parents didn't tell them that there was going to be, you know, a visitor. That was my favorite when you got to surprise them. Oh, wait.

Was that, like, birthday parties and stuff? Yeah, birthday parties, events. They didn't tell me, though, I would be face painting. And I do not have that ability. So I remember I painted this beautiful little three-year-old's face. Like, I tried to make a butterfly. I hand her the mirror. And at three years old, she goes, oh, no.

They're the most honest. It's true, which is good. It's a good thing. You're like, I'm just going to wing it. Yeah, literally. That's so cute. It's really fun. Did the princess thing end when you started being.

a YouTuber or did you keep doing birthday parties and stuff for kids after creating content? I mainly did it during college. Okay. And then once I became a nurse, I was working graveyard shift. So I didn't really do the princess thing anymore. But I missed it. It was really fun. Yeah.

That's crazy. Was that any of that during COVID at all? Or was that pre-COVID? Pre-COVID? I want to say it was like a year before COVID. I switched over to full-time YouTube. Wow. Okay.

She's being very modest. She absolutely crushed it. When we launched her first channel, it was 32 million long-form views in the first month. Holy crap. That's amazing. There was actually one point in time when Brie wanted to do a specific video and myself and our creative director at the time, like, ah, it's a terrible idea. And she's like, I'll take the camera and go film it myself then.

I remember that. And I was like, oh, spicy. I was like, that was kind of attractive. Go ahead. And did it work? It did. It did. They did.

I was like, okay, so fresh perspective actually really helped. here. And at that point, you know, you guys started new content together. You were a seasoned veteran at that point, right? Like, wasn't there a time in your career where you were essentially coaching up Jimmy, Mr. Beast, like showing him the ropes back in the day when he was new? There was a point of time when he came in. You know, he was already so far ahead of his time, even when he came in and we met him for the first time. Our moms used to do some Bible studies together. And then at one point in time, I think I got looped into PR training with him for some stunt. I can't remember what it was. And I was like, it's like when your dad gets a speeding ticket

and then he takes you to be a part of it so it lowers the insurance bill. It was like that. And I was like, I don't understand. Why do I have to do this? And it's like, because you have to because Jimmy's doing it. And I was like, okay. So he came all the way to our office just to do that.

It was hilarious. He's such a good guy, though. Such a good guy. But this was like maybe when he was at like 20 million views a month. Maybe if that. It was a while back when he was doing a lot more of the experiment type content before he really blew up. And he was like, here's all the different ideas we have.

Aren't these crazy? and I was like, yeah, why are you spending so much money on your video? You know, I was like, I don't understand this. Anyways, let's go film a Roblox video. I'll make your Roblox account. He's like, I think you should spend more money on your videos. And I was like, I couldn't compute it at that time. He's just so far ahead.

He's super, super intelligent. I remember even looking at some of our videos at that time. He's like, your intro's are like a minute long. He's like, dude, you got to trim these. He's like, just get to the good stuff more quickly. And I was like, really? But what about like, you know, like the personal connection and getting to chat with the audience? He's like, yeah, save that for later.

And I was like, okay. Anyways, the guy's brilliant. Very smart. That's so interesting. Yeah, I mean, it's clear. I mean, yeah, given like beast games, you know, the success that he's had, it's clear that he was ahead of his time. It must have been, like, pretty surreal to, like, watch that happen from the beginning,

essentially, you know? That's cool. It was really cool. It was really cool. We actually got to see Jimmy's mom last week whenever, well, I went to, we did this awesome Make-A-Wish event with Disney and YouTube. at Disneyland such a big blessing and I got to see Jimmy's mom first time in like five years

and she goes Brendan you look so old now and gets me a hug and I was like thanks too I love you too with like the I'm gonna call it for what it is it's the media empire that you guys have built on YouTube which is which is insane like what do the logistics look like for that if you're filming like

some big hide and seek video in the stadium where the Dallas Cowboys play like how does all that work that must be a logistic nightmare to deal with all that that was a really really big video and all the credit goes back to the team because they spent so much time working on that project.

We had not only our internal team, but we even hired an external production team to help facilitate and assist with that. We just always had this idea of how cool it would be to get 50 YouTubers into one of the biggest stadiums and get to play hide-and-seek. And they were actually still giving tours that day.

So some of the kids that were in the tours were like, Preston, over there, over there. And I was like, I love you so much. Thank you for helping me out. But it was a process. I think it was like six months of planning and getting to go through it. Just because, you know, you've got people sometimes

are not able to make the flights anymore. To be honest, like, I wasn't really evolved in the logistics side of it. Really? I was much more involved on the creative and understanding the structure and how we wanted to pace things. The team absolutely nailed that.

It was such a spectacular experience. I almost accidentally broke the world record for the most indoor steps. Really? Yep. Just because of how much distance we traveled because it was like a good 16 hours or 18 hours of just walking around and looking.

Oh, my. It was quite exhausting at the very end. I remember just being like, oh, sitting down at the end of the day, I was like, this feels so good. How do you find a partner to come alongside you in filming a hide-and-seek video with YouTubers? Like, where do you go? Like, there's not like companies that are like, oh, yeah, hire us to do your hide-and-seek video inside a NFL stadium. Like, that doesn't exist. So how does that logistically work?

Well, we had a VP of production at that time who had worked at Fine Bros and a lot of other amazing YouTube companies. And so I just had pitched the idea and I was like, what does this look like? I understand like what the outcome is. And I would love to get to have a really big successful video where we get to actually invite so many different creators rather than just like one or two creators at a time for a cloud, which is amazing. But, you know, what would it look like to put us on the radar by doing a really big video with this many YouTubers at a stadium like this? And then he was like, okay, I'll map it out. You know, I'll get back to you. So honestly, like, you just spearheaded the entire thing.

And he was like finding the extra production team that would help us facilitate this and make it into a reality. But you have people like that that really want to upgrade the capacity of the team internally. Because they're like, if we can accomplish this successfully, everybody's capacity, the amount of energy they spend, they either just get more efficient, better, or both. And it was a huge level-up moment. You know, it's like in a video game. You defeat the raid boss. And you're like, sick.

You know, I just got 20% extra XP, level-up, baby. That's what it was like. If you don't mind me asking, what does a video like that cost to make? I want to say it was about $200 to $250,000. Okay. Somewhere along those lines. Most of it just being the flights, the camera equipment, a lot of the post-production. I mean, it took six editors.

Honestly, it took about four to six editors, maybe around a month. If I recall correctly, it's just a lot of footage. I'm a lot of logistics for the hotels and the flights. I mean, those are the majority of the expenses, because hide-and-seek, thankfully, you're just having fun playing hide-and-seek. There's not really other expenses once the video starts filming outside of just getting the talent. Well, each them had a camera, too. Yes. And so think that how many hours.

Yeah, it was so much hours of footage. I don't remember exactly how large the project was, but it was absolutely gnarly in the size. Wow. That's impressive just even like wanting to take on something like that, but then let alone executing like that. It's very impressive. I know you always wanted to work with their spouse. And I want to talk about it because we work together, obviously. There's a lot of fun and games involved, but I know that also it can get hard sometimes, I imagine. Where are the parts that you find you're like, this is where it gets difficult for you guys? That's a good question. Do you want to answer first? Absolutely. you add something a lot more just up front I always mean what I say so you can always take me at face value there isn't a hidden motive or a hidden agenda behind it

so if Bree and I are having a conversation we'll be talking about you know actions that we want to take or actions that I think Bree should be taking or looking into a little bit more sometimes there can be some friction between those because Bree is a lot more sweethearted and more she's more kindhearted and more tender and so sometimes I can come off to be a lot more abrasive It's a good balance though

But sometimes in business I think too much with my heart Versus, you know Getting really down to the business side So that's kind of a hard thing Like we kind of help each other in that I feel Thank you to Ollie Pop for sponsoring this portion

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YouTuber, gamer, streamer, like, what would you say to somebody like that who's just getting into it? You are going to fail, and you're going to be really bad. I had 300 videos that I deleted, probably more than that at the beginning. 300. Oh, yeah. You'll never see the light of day on those videos. But it's all about getting the reps in.

I think a lot of people are just very quick to want to have the instant gratification of a successful video. But in reality, a lot of times when you're talking about your successes or the things you've been blessed with, you don't realize that there was a lot of struggle that goes in there. So really, it's finding the content you love making and then content that viewers also love watching. And then you get to marry them together. This is the Goldilocks zone. You clearly have more patience and persistence than I do because I was about to throw in the towel after doing 50 videos on YouTube. I was like so burnt out. I was like a full-time job

making no money. I was hoping to like maybe make a couple dollars on ad sense. And I couldn't even get that. COVID hits. And I'm like, I think I'm going to give this up. But somehow we ended up doing TikTok dances and that got it discovered. I don't know. And that blew up our YouTube channel, like the cross pollination of all that. How did you feel at that point in time? Were you like happy and slightly upset? You're like, I grinded so hard on these videos. And I should have just been dancing. I was stoked though because I was like, I didn't think TikTok was going to like last like it did. So I just, at first it was just, we just did TikTok to get people to our YouTube channel. And that's how like the first year we actually made money on social media was

just getting people over to YouTube so we can make money off of AdSense. And that's how we were able to like fully, you know, go full time into it. That's how you do it. That's when I was streaming on Twitch, same thing. I was like, I was trying to get as many people to my YouTube channel as possible. Yeah, but it's just like hearing you make 300 videos. I'm like, whole like that's six times the You're probably not the exact same quality of videos are much higher. And these are gaming videos at least. Okay, okay. That does make it feel better.

But still, it's like you have to put in a lot of work not knowing if it's going to succeed. And that's scary. It's the plateau of latent potential. A lot of times, results lag behind the efforts. Yeah. So it's easy to give up more quickly. Good for you, man. Good for you.

And good for you marrying someone that already had this content empire. You could just, you know, cohesively go together and expand it. And build your own thing within that. Yeah, I got to learn a lot. I was going to say every time I'm asked to give somebody advice, if you're starting, like, a YouTube channel or whatever, make sure you're passionate about what it is. Because if you're going to go all in, if you, like, really dislike what you're making, that's going to drag you down.

And you want to be able to be yourself. I feel like in my content, maybe I'll be like a little extra, like, loud or something. But I'm just myself because otherwise I'd get more drained. So I think that's important to be authentic. If you're going for the sustainability, absolutely. Plus, also, you're looking to serve people. And I always tell people, like, if you're getting into entertainment, like, you're looking to serve your viewers.

So you have to enter with that heart posture. It's not about you. You might not always have the most fun making your videos or it might be very grueling. It might be demanding. But remember why you got into this. Because you love seeing people that watch your content. And you're making it for them, you know?

Did you open a coffee shop to make coffee just for yourself? Maybe. Most likely you're trying to sell customers. It's just some amazing copy. No, that's a great way to look at it. And you can tell that you guys are, one, genuine, but also just, like, truly care about your audience and, like, want to cater them and see, like,

what they want to be reflected in what you're creating. Well, none of us would be here without the beautiful people that watch behind the camera. Like, we just wouldn't exist. So, like, this platform and this opportunity, this gift that we've been allowed to steward is only because they actually get the watch. It's because of you guys.

Thank you for being here. Yes. All five of you cameras. And while we're at it, go ahead and hit that like button. Yes. We need a higher engagement rate. I want 10% on this video minimum. My dad, every time we put my dad on camera, he'll be like, did you hit the like button?

Like, my dad always tries to plug us. It's so funny. He's like, did you subscribe? I love that. That's like you got a good dad. My dad just defaults to 10 year old, like his 10 year old self. Oh, really? When you put the camera on him?

Yeah, I'd be like, did you subscribe? Did you subscribe? I'll just say just like ridiculous things. Like, is that how you say it? Subscribe. Papa Frag's here. They'll just like go off the deep end and just be absolutely hilarious.

He loves it. Okay. Speaking of family, speaking of, you know, parents, we got so many questions in this question box and put out on Instagram for you guys about, you know, starting a family, kids. And I get why there's confusion actually because as I was watching some of your videos,

I've seen you say you want six kids. And then I heard you say maybe no kids. kids, like, I'm confused as well. What's going on here? Things have evolved. But I don't think there's any change on wanting to have kids, maybe the amount, because Brittany and I are both, you know, 31 now. Thank you.

Lord willing. I would love to be able to have a few kids in the next couple of years. Just not six. I don't. Personally, I don't want six. I feel like two. I have to do all the hard work. You would have to do all the hard work.

No, definitely. I feel like we. were in this period of time, when I first got married and wasn't really in the YouTube space, I only was thinking about kids. And then I feel like I've been putting efforts just into the content creation side. And now that I'm like a little older, it's starting to lean more. We're, like, we're thinking about it more. You know, submit your plans to the Lord so we can change them. So I was like, cool. I thought I would have a lot of kids at 25, you know, or even 23, it started having kids. And then it was like, okay, I really feel this calling for what I'm doing

right now and I really love it and I feel like it's a purpose. I get to bring joy to people and I only want to continue to multiply that joy and do I want to split that time right now or do I want to wait until I know for certain that I can make the time to have a child and to be a really good father and to be more present. Do you guys have any any like preference on like boy girl? Maybe one of each. What are you to see nice? What a boy first? I don't really have a preference as long as they're healthy but I will say only child girl, sorority girl. I don't know how to It's a boy necessarily. I don't know.

I guess you figured it out. Yeah. You would be great. Yeah, I'd figure it out. It's funny you say that because I'm one of three boys and so like my older brother just had a daughter and we were talking and he's like, dude, I have no. It was actually while we were playing Rocket League the other day, he was like, he was like, dude, I'm so, like this is weird. I have a girl. I don't know what to do.

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Right. Now I love it. I feel super safe and like you have like a pool you don't have to take care of. Really the big reason is like we found these offices that we're in right now and they're a lot closer to the city and so we didn't want to make a 25 minute commute every day. And then also I was like, you know, it's kind of nice that I happen to cut the grass or like, you know, take care of the yard or, you know, do any of those things. And we had such a big home. It was a huge blessing. It was like 6,000 square feet and we just barely used any of it. Actually, we were able to sell it and the family, their kids watch our video. And so they were like over the moon and I was like, this is awesome. Like so cool. Couldn't have asked for a better.

Yeah. They just tell all their friends that they live in Preston Place. No, it's so cool. I love it. Don't watch the video where we filled the bathtub up with ketchup. Please. It has been cleaned. Wait, you filled your bathtub up with ketchup?

Yeah. I don't know. Unspeakable things. Yeah, bad things. You know at one point in time, we definitely ended up nailing the furniture to the ceiling. just to make it look like the room was upside down. Yeah? All the furniture, so I don't even know if there's holes in the ceiling or something.

We put like a prison inside of the pool. What? Crazy things. So fun. Ball pit balls, you name it. It was a content house. We have to go about nailing furniture to the ceiling. My older brother, Deka, is a wizard.

He was an engineer in the Navy, and then he graciously moved down here to help us make all the content dreams we had come to life. And so anytime I was like, I kind of want this done, I don't know how to do it. All right, Daco, we need this maze made of the Legos, but I want it in the pool. Yeah. He's like, okay. And with the water out of it? No.

No. I remember we were putting chains around my waist so I would sink to like place the Legos down and they would like rise up. There's no rule book on this. You know what I mean? That's terrifying though. How did you like, if you were like chained to a weight in a pool, how did you get out so you could breathe? It wasn't too deep of a pool.

So it was okay. But it was crazy. We even did like scuba tanks. one point to like stay down there like in the house oh yeah same thing we did the hide and seek once where I buried myself alive in the backyard of my parents so he brought in a backhoe brie took my siblings out who are the seekers and then I got in there and I was like wait I don't have any oxygen or anything like that and I was like 100 degrees in Texas and I'm like two or three inches in dirt like underground and dig is like thank God I missed the pipe I was digging with the

backhoe that could have been bad anyways your box is ready what was that like being buried alive so much fun it was so cool you weren't even scared a little bit. You seek some thrill and some novelty. Yeah. Have you ever done the plane walking? You can do it in Washington State. Plan, what is that?

You can walk on a plane while you're in the air. That's flying. Yeah. It's so fun. And he had like one little hook. You walk on a plane while it's flying? You get to go from, it's only a two-seater plane. It's like a biplane and they're doing hammer curls and barrel rolls.

But you get out and then you walk on top, strap yourself in. Then you get back down and then you go out into the wing and you hold on to this javelin. You kind of look like your Harry Potter, thuming around. I'm thinking about the Tom Cruise, video of him, like, holding on to the plane while it's taking off. Which is, like, do you know that's like a real shot? Yeah. They actually, like, hooked him, strapped him into the plane.

I couldn't believe that. I thought they would have CGIed that stuff. No, dude, Tom does all the stunts. That's insane. Are you a thrill-seeker like this? I did hang from a crane in a box, 100 feet in the air or something. That was cool. But overall, no.

Like, when he was doing that, I ate ice cream and was watching Bob's burgers, like, just freaking out. I was, like, so nervous. That was your comfort. Yeah, it was. Like, content has made me do things I never thought I would do. I like to confront my fears because normally I'm not a thrill seeker at all, to be honest. That's obviously one of the coolest things about content.

I don't have you guys feel that same way. But the experiences that you're like, well, I wouldn't do this normally, but because I want to do it for other people, I'm going to get to do something totally unique that I would never be able to experience and share with the world. Oh, no, it's so much fun. I love that about it. I've just never walked on a plane that's flying in the air. We'll do it together. It would be so fun.

I would be down. If that was a legit possibility, I actually probably, I would do that. As long as there's a highly likelihood of me not dying, because I have two boys. I got a kid and I got a white family. I would love to have more lightsaber battles with those kids in the future. I would like that to keep happening. What has been the coolest experience you've ever gotten to document on YouTube? What a phenomenal question.

Do you want me to go first, Bree? Sure. Gosh, it feels like it's a bit of a cop-out answer, but man, I loved, I just, I love the YouTuber hide-and-seek. But if I have to answer a different one, the limo video we did was so much fun. That video where we had this old 2008 limo, God bless it, it tried its hardest. We drove almost from the East Coast to the West Coast and we were not allowed to leave or touch the ground.

So we had to pump gas by getting on top of the roof. We had to, like, harass people at gas stations. We were trying to get a souvenir from every state. that we crossed through. We ended up trying to do it in 50 hours, and it took us 66. Oh my gosh. So we were not successful, unfortunately, but the limo broke down once. Brother-in-law driving it got pulled over. The whiskey decanters were not full of whiskey. How did you go to the bathroom? The whiskey decanters were not full of whiskey. Oh, my gosh. But like, did anybody have to go number two? Oh, yes. And it was while we were broken down.

No. Number two, bro. I would hold that for the life of me. I'd be out. That's just like those experiences are fun because you get to bond with your friends and you're just sharing this experience of you all just going kind of insane. Wow. And then, but you have this goal and you're like, we have to do this, no matter what, we have to do this goal, we have to achieve this, we can do this. Does you sleep at all? Well, a little bit.

A little bit. But I love those types of videos because it's things again you wouldn't get to do if you weren't making content and sharing it with the world. And so it's just like, okay, did I just design like a really hard and possible video game? Yes. And I can't wait to go and experience it. I know this concept's like five years old, but I still want to do it. I recently got full self-driving on our Tesla Model Y. I want to do like a

West Coast to East Coast road trip like with my boys, but then like on full self-drive the whole time. Like I think that'd be so much fun. But I know that's like not even close to the scale of life. That was actually our first video that inspired the road trip videos. Oh really? Yeah. I saw Ryan Trahan Stokes twins. They did 24 hours in Tesla Auto Pot and I was like okay, what if we could do 50 and then can we go to this YouTuber's house and then make it all the way back in Autopi? And can we get Elon Musk to notice us on Twitter, any social media platform within that time limit before we make it back? Did he notice you guys? He did not.

And we were stalking him. I mean, we were stalking him. We were just trying to get a like or a tweet because we really wanted to do a follow-up video in the plaid at that time. The plaid was going to be the brand new Tesla. Yeah. We were unsuccessful. Surely Elon knows you are now, though, with like the 80 million subscribers across platforms, like there has to be a way. Elon has to have seen a press and digital.

Elan Sinai, please. Elon, if you're watching this, please say hi to depressed. Okay, I'm over it. Brede, did you have a favorite video? I have two I can't decide between. So one, I confronted my fear of being alone. When I was little, my

worst punishment was sitting on the stairs away from my family because I cannot stop talking. I love to talk. And so I stayed in this building for 24 hours alone with nothing. I was just filming and like slowly going insane. and just like talking to myself

and just trying to like entertain so it was like cool to confront something I never would have done otherwise and then selfishly I loved when I got to be at a zoo and they like it's where Harambe was born and they let me do everything

The Cincinnati suit? That one? It was on like the Is it a Harlingen right? Harlingen It's South Texas Oh okay so that's where he was born and they let me feed like all the animals like go back into places you never get to go, like, where all the dangerous snakes are, and, like, it was just such a fun time.

We love animals. I do. Can we keep talking about the crazy stuff you guys have done for videos? Because this is just such, like, our content is so, like, okay, day in the life of a parent, I'm changing diapers, I'm doing, like, our stuff is just so boring and lame. That's not true. But yours is, like, I walked on top of a flying aircraft. Like, I want to know more.

Like, tell me more about the cool stuff you've done. I find it so interesting. I feel like your followers too because from my understanding your content is so fast pace and like high energy like very entertaining so I'm sure in this format there's like so much more to say behind

the scenes of like what it was like to make these videos that people would have never heard if it weren't for you talking about it on the podcast. That's true. Some of our favorites that we there's this guy named Robert O Burst. He was one of the world's strongest men. We started partnering with him on some content back in 2020, 2021. So one of our

really popular videos is like 40 million views was world strongest man versus bulletproof glass. So we built different types of bulletproof glass, progressive like a video game where it's like level one, two, three, four, five ending with bulletproof glass. But throughout it, you'd have like glass, like sugar glass. You'd have silly glass that you use in movies. At one point in time, there was bank tether glass, like literally what the tellers are behind. And the guy was like, who sold it to us. So like, I don't care if he's the world strongest man. He's not getting in. One spear throw and he cracked the glass. You're kidding. Yeah. It was just like, oh my gosh. I just would never get to do something.

like that if I didn't do YouTube. It was so fun. Like the facts that you have to like access bank tellerglass. How did you even access that? My brother I'd no idea where my brother got it. Like he literally is the goat because he just brings all these crazy creative ideas and just engineers them into the real world. You should do like world strongest man fist versus like cyber trucks. See if you can like punch through the way. Because I know there's supposed to be like bulletproof. Yeah. You probably be bleeding like I would watch that video. We did. We had him actually go up against bedrock. We have like a two ton piece. I don't even know how heavy this rock was, but you know, bedrock and Minecraft is unbreakable unless you have creative mode. And so we were

like curious if he could go through different types of stones or materials from Minecraft that lead up to bedrock and if you'd be able to get through it. Man, we were dropping this thing off a forklift and then eventually we got feather wedges. We had seen it on a TikTok. I forgot some random guy to mine using feather wedges to crack a rock. And I was like, we should save that for the end. Maybe he can get through with this. Have you seen those? It's like where you take these little wedges, and then you hammer them with this ledge hammer, and then it just creates enough pressure that the whole rock

cracks in half. No, I haven't seen that. I get, like, just stuff you'd only get to do in content. It's so fun. You just made me think of a video I did. So I went to Mexico, and I don't know how to swim very well. So my fear I was confronting in this video was, I was going to

go in a submarine, thousands of feet under the ocean. And this beautiful, lovely man, was like, go ahead, you can drive it, And I was like, really? So I'm just like under the sea, kind of freaking out. And then this very sweet man is like, go for it, sit in the chair. So I was like, ha, ha, this is terrifying.

Did you not hear about what happened to the people that were looking at Titanic? I did, but we did not go down that far, I will say. I feel like that had something maybe to do with that. They were like real deep. I like was near the sand already. Okay. Could you have imagined. No.

No, that sounds terrifying to me. I don't even want to do the Nemo ride at Disneyland. Yeah, no, Abby's afraid of the water a little bit. It's claustrophobia. We used to live in Hawaii, and I try to get her to surf with me, but maybe one day. Maybe one day. I did surf with you. Did you ride the wave, or did the wave ride you?

I guess in Waikiki. I got up on Waikiki. Yeah, you surfed. Yeah, that was great. The easiest surf spot. Hey. Hey, but you tried it. That's what matters.

It's hard to get up on a surfboard. Yeah. Tell me how good the loco-mokos are in Hawaii. Hawaiian, y'all know you're food. Dude, it's wild, though. Like, in Hawaii, we, like, met a lot of people that were in the military because, like, there's a lot of military people in Hawaii. And we knew a guy that was under, like, underwater for, like, six months at a time.

Was it three months? They don't come up. They're underground in, like, a nuclear submarine, right? And someone died while they were down there. He got, like, crushed from some big piece of equipment. And they didn't even come up. They just had to put his body in the freezer and just leave them there. Because you just, you have to.

Yeah. Do you have cell service to call the family? No, no, no. You can't even talk to people. And his wife told us that he came back so weird because like when you're down there for that long and it's just a bunch of dudes underwater. Well, they also don't know anything that's happened.

Right. They're not on TikTok or, you know, YouTube shorts. They have no idea what's going on in the world. So they come up and they're just like, they're a little weird because they have been underwater. Well, they're like literally been like buried under a water rock for three months. That should be your next video. It could be I lived in a submarine for three months and didn't come up.

That would be an epic challenge to, like, commit three months of your life. That would be so sick. Oh, my gosh, Matt. We could not be apart. We were apart for 24 hours last week and we were just like, come back home. Oh, no, I hate being away from Abby. I don't want to, even being away from Abby for 24 hours sucks. And even right now, like, we're away from our kids now for 24 hours, and I hate it.

Like, I did not want to leave yesterday. That's because you guys are awesome parents, though. Oh, thank you. We try our best, you know. It's our main priority. You're heading you guys up for some lessons. Yes, for real. No, no, no.

Well, that's exciting that you guys are even thinking about that chapter of life. It's, like, my favorite thing I was telling you before we film, like, it's literally the most fulfilling thing ever. We talk about it all the time. I don't need to be the one to tell you. You already probably know from everyone in your family and your life. Wasn't it such a blessing when you have amazing parents? Like, you really have this almost just edge on life.

Yeah. That is so unfair because of all of the people and your parents that have just blessed so much of their time and refinement with you. Totally. It's really just such a gift. We feel very blessed that we have, yeah, like just the business that we have on social media. It's been a huge blessing to us and our family. We don't have a ton of family members working with us like you guys have, but we have a

couple and it's really cool to like see it provide for us, provide for them. Even though Abby and I don't come from wealth or money, like we both come from having loving, caring parents. And I feel like that's undervalued in today's age. Like to have two parents that really care about you and, and, and, want the best for you. I feel like that just made us feel secure in ourselves and grow up knowing who we are, you know? So I think that was a huge blessing. It's the biggest edge. It's the biggest and most important job in the entire world too. Yeah. Nothing is more important than that. Yeah. And more

than that, just like having parents that are proud of you and parents that enjoy you, that is like, because also the flip side of that is like bad parents can also do lifelong. Trauma and damage. damage like to you as an adult and like even like I was telling Matt I was like think about how we're like establishing our kids in our dialogue essentially like what they believe about themselves what they believe about the world like a lot of that is like come so early on in life before you're 18 for sure I think about like the things that I believe in myself because of like what my parents said to me and like instilled in me and like yeah like that's just such a that is such a responsibility but then we always talk about like they're our legacy like this is like this is forever

like even past like our own life so it's it's such a rewarding thing fulfilling thing and they're also like lucky because we have just like really fun kids like you're just really easy to be it's really easy to be your parent like they're really fun and enjoyable I'm sure that helps

a lot yeah yeah we got lucky because we like genuinely like of course love you but we also just really really like you and so this is really working out well that is a big blessing yeah doing social media for as long as you have and And not quitting, not like falling into burnout, which I feel like every creator experiences at some point, have you been able to stay positive?

Well, there's a couple of things. I mean, Bree is obviously such an amazing support. We get to support one another. But even before I was able to meet Bree, my mom, just like a rock star. You know, there's definitely a point in time where YouTube was much more edgy than it is now. And I was getting very, very bullied. And I was like, I'm like, it's over. It's done.

And she's like, no, it's not. Wait, what do you mean? Like you were like bullied, like people are just. Yeah, I was getting super bullied for. for a big part of it was because of my faith. When I was like streaming and just starting out, I had like 20 live viewers, you know. So for me, it was like a really big deal.

Yeah. And then I was like, I just think I'm done. You know, everybody hates me. It's just like, no, you're not. You get back up right now. You're not giving up. This is your calling. This is your purpose.

You get back up there and you just go. You ignore them. And then it started to really reinjured the way they think about it. And it's like, well, if people didn't get to have such a blessed upbringing, how much, you know, potential of drama are they carrying right now in their life? And so I think about it a lot more of like how sympathetic can I be towards somebody because what causes somebody to act in that type of way? Yeah.

You know, because I think we've all kind of experienced that, maybe a little bit being trolls growing up a little bit. Maybe not to that extent. Yeah. But then you can start to relate and just think about it from their perspective and understand like, okay, well, they might not have had the same upbringing. It's also motivating because you're, we're both wanting to be lights to people. And I feel like that gives me a lot of motivation.

Like, say you have a kid who got bullied at school. and then they turn on the channel and they're able to laugh and not think about it and they feel like they're included in like your family that's even if i'm having a rough day that's motivation to not give up or even if you have a hard day it's like here's my purpose and it's so motivating that it makes me excited has there ever been like a situation like that brie where you've uh felt bullied or felt like somebody was just like out to get you and you've had to overcome that as well. So it's been a while. I will say when I first met Preston, people were actually pretty mean to me. I don't know why. I think it's because like Preston was so established and he was so

fast with proposing. So a lot of people are probably like, who is this chick? Yeah. And they might have not understood that I just like loved him for him and didn't know like anything about this industry. Yeah. But I feel like that lasted for such a small period of time and people have been so gracious and kind overall. Like I really have no complaints, to be honest. That's awesome. But I can you hate Bree? You know, she's so much prettier than me. Well, you're handsomer than me. It's not the word. Thank you, Brie. I appreciate that. Well, you guys, this has been such a fun time getting to chat with you. I feel like we really bonded in this like outward 15 minutes or whatever it's been that we've gotten to chat. What's next for you?

Is there an exciting project that you're working on that you want to share about? Or I don't know, maybe that's all top secret. I see even more importantly, we're really excited to hopefully be able to get to start our family here soon. Yes, okay. That's really, really on, been on our heart recently. Okay. Wait, that's so cool. I'm so free, Russ.

We're both. That's awesome. I know. People always want like a big, like, five-year plan. Like, tell me at all. And it's like, sometimes you just take it a day by day. And you're evolving as the new information comes in. That's true.

Well, I feel like the best things in life are. unplanned. Yes. I really do think so. The best things to life are unplanned. And I think as soon as you try to come up with a plan is when life just reminds you that you don't have that control. Yeah. So true. 100%. Where's the best place for people to stay in touch with you? Is it YouTube, Instagram, TikTok? I'd say Instagram's really good. Okay. Instagram is definitely where Brie and I are the most active. Yeah. Okay. So you guys, go check out Preston and Brianna on Instagram. We'll link their Instagrams below as well as their other socials. Thank you guys so much.

Thank you guys so much for having us. It was such a blessing.