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- Mention Mr. Beast, our moms go to Bible study. - Oh really? - Yeah, he used to come down to my office in like 2018, 2019, 2020. - Whoa. - How did your parents react to you doing YouTube? - Especially because it wasn't a thing. - Mom, Dad, I humbly suggest you save some money and shop Amazon for back to school. It's for my growth, meaning my body's growing at an alarming rate. And clothes you buy me this year will be very small very soon.
Plus, the clothes I love today will be out of style tomorrow. But at least your wallet doesn't have to be my fashion victim if you shop low prices for school at Amazon. Hopefully this is helpful. Amazon. Spend less, smile more. Back in my day, as Kate said, I'm old now. Are you and Brie really married? I'll be really married. Oh no. This guy is so offensive right now. This is crazy.
What's up guys? Welcome back to another episode. Today we have on Preston Plays. Let's go. I'm excited to be here, LOL. Yes. You know, actually, a lot of our fans when they meet us, they call it LOL. They don't even know that it's called that. It's so cute. I don't have the heart to correct them. I'm like, I'm from the LOL podcast. You can't. They're so innocent. They're so sweet. And they're like babies. I just want to take them home with me. Oh, wow.
Oh, wow. Well, I asked some of your fans on Instagram what they want us to ask you. For some reason, one of the top ones was, are you and Brie really married? Are we really married? Yes. No, it's actually been a ruse this whole time to get more views. No, actually, six years coming up, May 12th.
Oh, wow. That's incredible. Yeah, dude. Oh, you want to know something crazy? Math can never. My realtor was at your wedding. No. Yeah. What? Which one? Chris. He was like, yeah, I know another YouTuber that lives around here. I was like, oh, what's his name? He's like,
oh, and then he finds it and I was like, oh, no way. But I guess he knew like your wife's like friend or something. I don't know. Wait, that's so cool. His name's Chris, uh... Swan? I don't know. So probably on Bree's side then, right? Yeah. Uh, yeah. That's sick. I had no idea. That was crazy. So crazy. Yeah. Small world. It is. Yeah. Apparently we also found out that Preston used to live in our hometown. I did. What? Which is like 4,000 people. Henrietta? I did. Henrietta. I still don't know if he's... I'm not a cap. That was our reaction. It's not a cap. What's, uh...
What's a question that we could ask him about it? Wait, how old were you when you lived there? I was like, oh man, 14, 14, 15. Okay, so like, because I moved to, we moved to Indianola, which this place was so small in Oklahoma. I think the population was 150. They had a gas station and they had a K through 12 school.
That's how small it was. - I mean, that sounds-- - Oh, wow. - Right? Like, it was 35 to 45 minutes to go to McAllister and people went on dates at the Walmart. That's how small this was. - Oh, there you go. - Oh, yeah, okay. Sounds like it's from Henrietta. - All right. - It was tiny. It was so small. And then we moved back to Texas for a year and then had to go back to Oklahoma. - Did you go to Dallas when you came here? - No, we came back to Fort Worth. - Okay, but it's still a big city. - We were pretty much always concerned. - Like, to go back to Henrietta, like, that's rough. - That's crazy. - It was brutal. - Yeah, it was so brutal. - Wait, did you go to school there?
I was homeschooled my whole life. Oh, most of my life anyways. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, so y'all probably all lived there at the same time. Yeah, but we were all homeschooled. Wait, wait, how old are you now? I'm old, dude. I'm almost 30. So...
How, like, what year would it have been when you lived there? 15 years ago. You're kind of getting some great years. I know, dude. I got a bunch. Bro on the side. Bro on the front. I got a bunch, dude. Is it crazy? No, I probably lived there. So it was 15 years ago. We're looking at what? What are we in? 2024? So probably like 2009. 2009. Wow, that's crazy. Yeah, that's crazy. We all lived in Henrietta at the same time. At the same time. I don't remember. I don't remember the street. The street name was Howell.
That was the street you lived on? Yeah. I don't think I know where that street is. I mean, I know pretty much all the streets too. It's kind of out there a little bit. Yeah, that makes sense. Wow, and y'all all made it out. Congratulations. I thought we were alone. I thought we were the only ones that made it out. I didn't know anybody else has ever left before us. We didn't start there though, so I was like, dude, I want to get trapped here. You know what I mean? Yeah.
Yeah, no a lot of people get trapped there. Trapped? Why would they get trapped? You just can't leave. You just don't make it out. Barbara, don't you know if you never leave your hometown, like when you're like 20, you never leave? Like North Korea? It's pretty much the same thing actually. It's almost identical. Yeah, yeah. That's kind of where we grew up. A place like that. Understandable. It was South Korea, a little bit lower. Did you like celebrate Labor Day like crazy?
Labor Day because I got out of there? No. That's like the big holiday. Is that really the big thing there? Yeah. No, we did not do anything out there. We had nothing. We were taking care of my great-grandma, so I lived with my grandpa and my grandma. And then my mom and dad were there and my siblings, but we were also taking care of my great-grandma who also lived there. So we were pretty much always just taking care of them. And then my dad was going through a rough period of time. And then I was going through a rough period of time because I didn't have internet. Yeah.
Of course, that was the real big deal. I was a piece of crap. So were you trying to do YouTube then? No, not back then. I was just really big into gaming. Competitive gaming is what I was really into when I got to about 11 or 12. So you started with gaming first? Yeah, always started with gaming. Huge gamer. I was in a big competitive gaming Call of Duty, played in tournaments. And then so once we moved out there, there's no internet connection. So you're just like, what do I do? When your whole life is 12 hours a day on the internet and now you don't have it anymore. That's wild.
- Crazy. - Wait, so you were playing competitions back in like 2010? - Yeah. - Wow. - Yeah, a long time ago. That's what got me into YouTube, 'cause there was this really popular content creator named XJaws. - Oh yeah. - And everybody remembers him. OG, big Call of Duty person for like Black Ops 1. And I saw that and I was like, wait,
I'm so much better than this guy. I mean, I was so cocky and confident at that age. Did you win a lot? Did you do good? Yeah, no, we did really great in tournaments. Yeah, we played in some semi-pro and pro tournaments. There's like all these ones nobody will know. TWL, Cal, CVO and stuff like that. We always placed top five. So back then, was it all online like when you would compete or did you like go? No, no lands all online.
Oh, okay. It was like the beginning, man. It was the beginning. It was like when PC gaming was like, wait, what a second, there's tournaments for Call of Duty? That's insane. Well, I can't believe he was doing competitions on Black Ops 1. Dude, I'm showing my age, bro. No, we were doing these competitions on Call of Duty 4. Call of Duty 4? Wow. Black Ops 1 was the first Call of Duty I played.
Really? Yeah. No, they ruined it because there's dedicated servers for Call of Duty 4 and then they had none after that pretty much for PC. Yeah. That's where... You know all about Call of Duty, don't you, Harper? Yeah, all about it. What's your favorite game, Harper? Probably...
What were you just playing? You were just playing a game. Yeah, you were just playing a game when you were playing. You always play it. So I just... No, no, I don't always play that one. I see it all the time. She's always playing games like Farmville. Farmville? No. No, I play Yahtzee.
What's that? Oh, is that the letter game? Yeah. No. No. Dice. She doesn't play yachts. It's dice. Yeah. And then I play... Dude, still you play yachts. No, no, no. You're lying. No, I play geometry dash, gardenscapes, yachtsy. Okay.
but on my friend's TVs because my mom won't buy me one. I have a big variety. How are we going from Yahtzee to Fortnite? I have a shiny piece for you. You have enough money to buy your own TV. I refuse. Yeah, Harper does not like to spend her own money. We asked her, are you going to buy a car when you turn 16? She's like, oh, my dad will. No, I'm not like that. I'm not like my dad will. I'm just like, oh, yeah, my dad might help. But will your dad?
He will help out. Solid answer. He will help out with stuff. You guys PR trained? Yes, I have been. No, and then I also play Gang Beasts. I love Gang Beasts. I love Gang Beasts. That's a fun game. That's a fun game. Matt was like, yeah, let's play. Oh my gosh, I love Gang Beasts. I know, I told you we'd play last time and we didn't. Yeah, and then we did. No Among Us? No Among Us?
Well, I guess we're good in the time. So I used to watch James Charles and all of them. You have red hair. Hey, hey. No, but I used to be Cyan. I used to be Cyan. And then with the little thing. And I always would think Cyan was always the imposter. So I would always be Cyan because I always wanted to be in the imposter. Cyan's innocent. Innocent? Really? Well, then that's why if I was the imposter, it would be good. You have red hair. Yeah.
Ain't fooling me. My sister's got red hair too. Yeah. No, but the thing is, like, I literally, so I forgot what I was going to say. Hey. Why didn't you mention Farmville though? You play that all the time. You're thinking of Gardenscapes. Yeah, that's the one she plays. Same thing. Farmville, Gardenscape.
That's what my wife plays too. Yeah. No, I love garden scapes. And then. Wait, because is that the one? Oh, uh, stumble guys. I love stumble guys. Is that like a knockoff fall guys? Uh, I don't know. Actually, uh, Mr. Beast, he sponsors it. Um, yeah,
Yeah, I like roblox. Oh, yeah, I got 7% Oh, no Your phone is always set Harper. Yeah, actually yours - okay. No my phone's that it's only charged cuz I plugged it in last night a lot of times I wake up in the morning. I go to the gym and I'm like, oh man my phone's dead Yeah, fresh in the morning. What happens if your notes get deleted once like why would you say that?
- I'm saying everything in my life would just be out of order. Everything. - You keep everything in your life in notes? - Oh yeah. - It's terrifying. - No way we shouldn't say this because what if someone steals your phone? - Well, I mean, notes are also cloud-based. - Yeah, I mean, I think you'd have to have a password to get in anyways. - But maybe, you know, save them on somewhere else. Like a good CRM, maybe like monday.com. - But I mean, so iCloud, right? iCloud always...
Backing up. We have every brand deal running. Everything. You don't have like a project management software? You know, people keep trying to get me on those, but I just, I don't like them. I've tried to get them to at least just get like. I have other people that like, my other people, they'll put it on there, but I just don't like to put it on there. I've tried to get them to get at least like a spreadsheet. Yeah, I use Google spreadsheet. Dog!
What if I just delete the notes app? I tell them and then like they put it on there, but I'm like, I'm just going to do it on my list. What if I go on your phone right now and delete the notes app? That would be like probably equivalent to like me texting your crush something crazy. Well, I don't have a crush. Oh. No, I don't. I don't. Trust me. I do not have a crush. Does he have red hair? No. No.
God, no. Patrick's not your type, Harper? No. Oh, okay. Harper, how was your Galentine's party yesterday? Oh, it was so much fun. Galentine's? What is that? It's like a Valentine's, but it's with your gals. Imagine if we did that. A guy's Galentine's. Hey, you there. Did you know the LOL Bros podcast is out? This is true. It's like the LOL podcast, but...
It's just the bros. Just the bros. Link in the description. Link in the description. Was it fun though? It was so much fun, yeah. We probably approximately ate like 3,000 calories each. Oh.
That's always good. Congratulations. Yeah, a lot of sugar. And then we stunted and I fell straight to the ground. That's what you always do. I'm sorry that Harper can't stunt. Remember when we went outside? She's like, watch this. No. No, I can stunt. I swear. I was in my socks, so I slipped.
What is a stunt? It's just like, you know, where you're like, uh... She's a cheerleader. Yeah, I'm a cheerleader, so... Oh, okay, so like a cheer stunt. Okay, okay. Yeah, not just like any stunt. Now, this guy can do like triple backflips. Dang! He's actually insane. You're talking about him.
That's crazy. Last night, speaking of crushes, I actually, I asked a girl out, guys. No, you didn't. I did. I finally did it. Kinsey? Do you have any riz? No, what the? Wait, what the? I told you, you gotta ask me before you ask a girl out. I'm sorry, bro. Wait, is it proxy? Yeah. Yeah.
- His dating history, he just can't find the one. So the new rule that he made up, this was an article, he made it up. He was like, "You guys have to approve before I date her so I don't date someone crazy." - That's why you're pushing so hard for me to hang out with her tonight. - That is correct. - He's been trying, he's like, "Cancel your plans tonight." I'm like, "I already told my friends I'm hanging out with them." And he's like, "You have to cancel. She's going out of town tomorrow and you have to meet her tonight." - I can't believe you broke your own rule.
Well, she doesn't come to town often and I'm never alone with her. We're always in a group of people and we like all walked down to like let someone in at the gate. And then they all jumped in the car and me and her walked back alone. Oh, that's awkward. I was like, all right.
What'd you say? I might as well. I'm just like, so, uh, what do you even like about this girl? Did you get mad at her and said no more Mr. Nice guy? She's awesome. I did see her at the dance competition. She was very pretty. I need some specifics here. Like, that's like, that's like, you ever heard of a smart boy for one girl?
No, a smart goal. I need to know what your smart goal is with this lady. For one. Specific. She works at a snack company. Sold. I'm sold. Hey, what's her name? Ah, so you're a gold digger? Hey. Sure. Best girl? No, she's private. Docs her. Docs her. Yeah. With Kenzie Lassby? She's private. No, she will follow
- Don't follow me back. - I'll let you see your account on mine. - Okay. Yeah, 'cause you're not privated on hers. - Yeah, what do you like specifically about her? - She's just like, she's just so sweet and so nice and just like, so... - Isn't her Instagram a little odd? - She's very much like, just like, she's everything.
She's just everything I think I know. Seriously? Was she like an everything bagel? Yeah. Were you icky when you asked her out? Was I icky? Maybe a little bit. A lot of things you do. How'd you ask her out? Well, like I said, I didn't really have much time. She's pretty, but how old is she? Pee.
She's younger than me. Here's what Matt did on his last date. What? What did I do? The sea-doos? The jet skis? Oh, jet skis. He went on a jet ski date with this girl. Sea-doo. First date, girl comes back. They're in the car. Is that her? Matt, go ahead. Tell them what you said. Well, no, that's not her. No. Well, so... Do you approve of this?
- Yeah, that's fine. - No! - Whatever, please. - That's not okay. - Wow. - We're already moderating the IGs? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Go ahead, go ahead. - So I take this girl out and we had a good time, kind of. And so I was like, the date didn't go like super well, in my opinion. So I was like, I'm probably not gonna ask her out on a second date. So when we get back,
to the cars after we ride the seats. I'm like, all right. I'm going to be intentional and let her know what my intentions are with her. So I was like, I was like, yeah, I didn't want to lead her on. So I was like, hey, I had a great time with you, but as far as the second date, and she interrupts me and she goes, are you asking me out on a second date? And I was like, so,
- No, not exactly. I was gonna say as far as the second date, I don't-- - You better tell them what you actually said. - Yeah, I think it's probably better if we just don't pursue each other romantically. - That's not what he said. That's not what he said. - What did I say? - You said, "Yeah, I wouldn't be expecting a second call." - That's not what I said! - That's what you said. - No. - That's not what I said. - Dog, that's emotional damage. - No, that's not what I said. - That would be so bad. - Oh my gosh, you don't remember that forever. She'll be in her 50s and be like--
Yeah, don't expect to see your dad. That is pat. That's not what I said. I just didn't want her to get back in the car because I could tell she thought the date went really well. And I didn't want her to get in the car and call her mom or her friends. Why did you not think the date went well? Why did I not? The entire... So we had jet skis. We drove over to this island. We did some paddle boarding. But the entire time we were paddle boarding...
How not romantic? She just talked about her exes. That's rough. And I mean, to the point like... Now respect, respect. Yeah. I was literally just in the water just like doing backstrokes. Just like, yeah, let's see. Okay, yeah, cool. And she's just sitting there crisscross just going on for like an hour. Yeah, no, no. She hit therapist. Another ex. I was like, I'm at least going to enjoy the nice weather. Yeah.
That's my whole thing. If I'm going on a first date, I want to do something I enjoy. So if it goes bad, it's like, I wouldn't go for her. I wouldn't go for her. I would go for the other one. Kinsey? Yes. Yeah. Well, so that's the thing. So now, guys, I need some help. I want to go on a fun date. Go to Chuck E. Cheese or something. I thought about go-karting, but I don't think I want to go go-karting. I gave myself terrible advice. How much do you know about this girl?
We've been friends since like March. Okay, so it's pretty surface? Like how deep? Like, I mean, we've had a lot of deep conversations. Okay, okay. About what? How many times have y'all hung out together? Like four, 20? Probably like... She lives out of town. Like 10. Probably like 10 different times we've hung out at a house or had conversations. On your alone time? No, it's always group stuff. Okay, so you've only hung out with her once, right?
You're going to have to take it to Paris. Yeah. Oh, yeah, no. Paris, Texas. That's where we're going.
No, no. She's just, yeah. He spent too much money on his other exes, he said. Yeah. Way to just throw that out there, Harper. Yeah. Like antagonist right here. Harper the antagonist. Yeah, I know. Maverick doesn't like to speak all of the facts and Harper just won't let it slide. Speak facts? There was nothing to do with that. It was just a jab. It's just a fact. You spent too much money on all your other girlfriends. Yeah, and you said it yourself. Just for them to all block. Okay. Thanks, Harper. And get some write-offs.
Yeah, exactly. This one's a good girl. But y'all got to meet her. A good girl? I will. Bro, if she watches this, oh, he called me a good girl. He's not going to watch the podcast. Stop, Harper. All right. Well, okay. All right. Harper, sit up straight. Why is your posture crazy? Here's some more questions. You're crazy, bro. Here's some more questions that your fan asked. They really wanted to know a lot about you. They wanted to know how you guys met.
Oh, Brie and I? Yeah. Oh, it was a blind date. No way. On YouTube? Yeah. No, what? On YouTube? No! No! Like, a YouTube blind date, like, I'm going to be rating these girls, like, from their outfits. You know, like, those, like, the... Is that how you think people find love now? Yeah, like, Jubilee. What is happening? Are you a boozy? Yeah, very. Are you? I'm Jin A.
- You're not even Gen Z, you don't even know you're Gen! - Are you Gen Alpha? - How old are you? - When were you born? - 14. - She might be Gen Alpha. - March 20th, 2009. - That's scary. - You guys really met on a blind date? - Yeah, so like Brie was an ER nurse, she worked at UT Southwestern.
So she was there for a while. I went there when I broke my toe. Did you really? Yeah. I went there. I got my tonsil sliced out too, dog. Wow. Pretty nice. But my aunt was also a nurse there and they got along really well. And then Brie was dating somebody and then apparently vented about it to my aunt. And I was like, oh, you should go on a date with my nephew. And so Brie had no idea what YouTube was or even that you could like have it as like a real career job. And so anyways, set us up on like a blind date. But I was like in Japan and I was just like, ah,
I don't know. I'm thinking about becoming a male nun. This last relationship didn't work out. I just want to dial in on my work. I feel that. Yeah, that's what I wanted to do. And then my mom somehow got a picture from my aunt and was like, she looks so sweet. She bakes cookies. Could be your wife. And I'm like, yeah, sure. Sure. But then we went to coffee and then we were there for like eight hours. Whoa. Yeah, like 10 minutes. I was like, all right, politics, religion,
like everything an interview oh yeah don't waste your time look i'm a man dude i've been working since i was like 12 and i was like i got time yeah you know and i don't know if i want to give it to this person so you're gonna ask like those hard questions yeah luckily we've already been through a lot of those hard questions yeah so now it's like we just want to see if we have fun when we're not like with everyone well there you go i mean that's an important one too so how long did you guys date
About like three months, and I proposed. Yeah, pretty good. There you go. We got all the hard stuff out on that first date, you know? My mom called the cops and thought something bad happened to me. After the first date, he was like, "Mm-hmm, all right, you might call the cops." "All right, yeah, will you marry me?" Bro. That's it. Then I was like, "Cool, I just want to meet the parents." Back up. You said her mom called the cops? My mom called the cops. I never dated. My mom was like, she thought I was dead.
Wait, wait, wait. She called the cops. What do you mean? Because I didn't respond to my phone because we were like eight hours at the coffee shop. Oh, on a date. That's crazy. That's crazy. So like literally they thought like something was wrong with me or something like that. Yeah. And my friends called me and I was just like, you guys, I just went on a date. Yeah.
I'm okay. Wait, did the cops show up? Just an eight-hour date. No, no. They kept calling, like, run my license plate number. Bro. Has there been any wrecks? And I was like, no, guys. After this, can you ride down the stairs on that? I mean, maybe. It's a circle staircase, so probably not. Probably not.
so is that does she still work at uts southwestern no no so brianna always had this really big passion for musical theater she's a phenomenal um phenomenal singer great actress as well and then so once we got married i was like like if you want to you know keep pursuing your nurse practitioner degree or you know try this youtube thing out and so she was like in my content for like six months just kind of like helping support and just being like extra talent and just you know doing content that you couldn't normally do if you don't
have a spouse. Yeah. Which was really fun. And then we just made her a channel and then made another channel. That's awesome. And then she really popped off and now, you know, now I'm the gold digger. Yeah, I used to actually watch y'all. I used to watch y'all all the time. Oh, really? Yeah, I did. And then when she started gaming, I remember her little like, what, did she have a pink green screen kind of? Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah, uh-huh, yeah, I used to watch that. - Yay, that's so cool, I had no idea. - Yeah, this is so, she's my-- - Yeah, so that's pretty much the entire story, like quick, but top to bottom on how we ended up meeting. - I mean, we pretty much knew we wanted to get married right away. - I was like 16. - She was 16, so we had to wait two years. That was her dad's only wish. - Yeah. - We waited 'til she was 18. - So we got married two days after she turned 18. - Did y'all date for two years?
Yeah, right at two years. Wow, I thought you only dated a year. Because we started dating right before my birthday. So like right at two years, I was 18 and we got married. Oh, that's sweet. Her dad was like, just wait till she's 18. So we planned the wedding for two days after. What's the latest job ever stayed up? The latest? What? I mean, when I was like your age, I would stay at like church lock-ins and stuff and like stay up all night. No, besides that. Are you talking about like the duration of without sleep? Yeah, duration without sleep. Okay. Okay.
I'd probably say, well, let's see, 24 hours would be you wake up at 8. I've done about 57 hours. No. Wait, why did you know so precisely? I did like a big charity live stream. Oh. Setting a whole record for like a, during a stream, raising money for cancer awareness. Wow.
Yeah, it was really fun. Did you feel like sick? Yeah, was it? I definitely like probably almost got it. Like, cause I was just drinking nonstop energy drinks, caffeine powder. Yeah, you name it. You had a headache for sure. Oh, I slept for like 24 hours. So were you live streaming the whole 27 hours? Yes.
Straight? It's crazy. Wow. Not in Henrietta, you weren't. That wasn't Henrietta, thank God. No, I was like 18. Yeah, it was like me and a couple other people. So if you know where like a Moab is in Call of Duty, basically it's like a 24 kill streak. 24 kill streak in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3. And so I was getting 202 in one live stream. That's how long it took, 57 hours. Wow. Wow.
Oh, so you were just going until you hit it? Yeah, going until I hit it. For a long freaking time. Oh, God. Did you raise a lot of money? Back then, it was really good for us. Like, I mean, it was like $5,000 or $10,000. Yeah. Which I was super proud of. Right, yeah, yeah. Back in the, I mean, when I was 18, I mean, I was 11 years ago. Oh, yeah. Streaming was not where it is today. Not yet. You know what I mean? If you had like 1,000 live viewers, you were kind of like the king. Yeah. No, yeah. Me and Kay actually live streamed today. Yeah, we did. We actually got 3,000 viewers. Hey! Yeah. Actually, no.
No, I was so salty because I was just like... So I posted an Instagram picture and I was just going live to tell people about it. And then I was just like talking and stuff. And I was like minding my business. And then I see a little notification that says Harper Zillmer is live. My views...
The second she went live, everybody left. I was like, bro. Yeah, you sucked your views away. Yeah. I snatched the Harperbee vacuum. Yes, it was so sad. I was like, I see. And then she joined mine and then I didn't see her notification. So Cash had to text me and say, hey, Kate wants to join your live. Yeah, Kate was like, she's not seeing my thing. Because I was so sad. I needed to have a word with her. Yeah, I know. Everyone plays favorites and I know y'all do. No, I'm sure they like you more.
Okay. Okay. Okay. So do you like shooting like YouTube videos better or gaming videos? Oh, you're talking like real life versus gaming? Yeah. Yeah. I do. Honestly, it's such a fun mixture because like right now at the company, we output so much content, lots of volume. Yeah. Yeah. So like I have three gaming channels and then, well, actually four gaming channels and then one like real life channel, but I'm also talent and other channels that are either gaming or real life plus socials is its own beast entirely. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So I like both to be complete.
honest because the IRL ones really get to put you in like this really big challenge mindset, depending on what you're doing. Most of the time they're like very difficult grueling, like something to push you past your comfort zone. And then gaming is just so fun. Cause it's something I'm so familiar with. Yeah. So it's hard to answer. I couldn't pick one or the other. I like having both because of that balance.
So you said you have four channels. What all do you game? Like what channels? So you've got like Press and Plays, which obviously is Minecraft. And then you've got Press and Games, which is like a variety of games. A lot of it's like horror and Roblox, popular trendy games and variety. Then you've got TVNR Frags, like the OG channel. So it's like 2009 when I started this channel. This one's all first person shooters. Wait, when did YouTube come out?
- Uh, 2009. - You said 2009. - Oh. - Yeah. And that's when she was born. - Oh my gosh! - I've been making YouTube videos longer than you were born. - That's crazy. - I'm the old man of YouTube. There ain't a lot of us. There's not a lot of us anymore. - Oh. I'm MrBeast. - He had not been making YouTube videos though. - Yeah. No, MrBeast is crazy. He's the king of YouTube. - Yeah, I know. He's great. He's great. - So if you had to play one game for the rest of your life, one game? - You get one.
One game for the rest of your life entirely. I'd probably say Dota. I love Dota. Really? Yeah, it depends on the ancients. I would not have guessed that. It's like a MOBA. It's really, really fun. What about Mario Kart? I need to get on some games, guys. No, they're great. They're great. I would choose that or I'd choose like an FPS like Valorant. What about Mario Kart? All I play is Apex. Do you play Apex? Apex is good. Yeah, I was at the... Well, we went out there before it was released to the public to like play it and promote it. It's really fun. He's the perfect man to ask. All right.
we had a big argument me Mav and Alex at dinner which game is harder to be professional at Fortnite or no sorry it was Apex or Call of Duty Apex or Call of Duty I mean both of them are pretty similar in their own respects to be completely honest I would say Apex would be a little bit easier
All the reason... All the reason... Matt was right. It just depends, though. Like, you're talking about, like, a Warzone professional or, like, the typical Call of Duty professional who plays, like, Search and Destroy. Yeah. Probably... Which one? Like, Search and Destroy or Warzone? I mean, I think you'd have to do Warzone because you're doing... Yeah. Be closer, by the way. So, yeah, Warzone or Apex. Yeah, I'd still say that Apex has less of a learning curve. Yeah. A little bit less of a learning curve. Yeah. I don't even know what, like, A and X are on the controller. Yeah.
I know. Gang Beasts is so hard. You gotta play mouse and keyboard, guys. Wait, what do you play? I don't have a controller at my house. No, so what do you play like Gang Beasts on? My friend in Alpharetta, I play Gang Beasts on hers. No, you use like a PS5, an Xbox. It's a phone. Xbox.
Oh. Yeah, Xbox, yeah. So do you play games like in your free time for fun? Or are you just kind of like... Oh, no, I still play games in my free time. Oh, yeah. Like anime. It's either like anime, like Bible video games or like really good like indie card games. Yeah. Indie card games? What's an indie card game? Like Here to Slay? It's basically like video game card games almost.
Where it's like, okay, you draw this deck and if you get six different types of heroes, you can win. Or if you slay these three monsters, you can win. Oh, okay. Like D&D? No, not D&D. These games are quick, like five, ten minutes. Do you have an Oculus? Yes, we have. No, we have a MetaQuest. Oh, cool. Yeah. Wait, what games do you play on there? None. None? None right now. I like to play Rec Room. Oh, Rec Room is fun? Yeah, Rec Room. Yeah, I like Rec Room. I play those. Yeah, I like Rec Room because I meet new people.
and then like and they're actually real people not just bots and also it scares me sometimes though because mediquest is great we just did a huge partnership with them for the mediquest 3 they're they're awesome i just haven't had time to like set it up set it up no yeah it's really fun and um what's it called i love playing dodgeball and paintball and um and my mom she i walk it like i walk into the living room and i just see her playing i know i walk through no yeah i walk into the
- You gotta watch out, I've seen those TikToks. - She's playing Beat Saber, yeah. She's playing Beat Saber and I'm like, "Mom, make me lunch please." And she's over here making, playing Beat Saber. - Your mom's a servant. - No! - Harper, have you ever made lunch for your mom? - Yes. - What, like on Mother's Day? - Was it good? - No. - Are you lying? - No, yeah. - Are you lying though? - No, no, Mom, I made you lunch, am I right? Like, yeah, yeah, huh? - Mom doesn't remember. - Mom said no. - Harper makes her lunch. - Taking her up like Chick-fil-A doesn't count, Harper.
Like, I... When you're sick. When you're sick. Yeah. I gave you, like, some stuff, like a sandwich. No. No, I didn't. Dang, Jenae be soft these days. Yeah. No. Make me lunch. So, dog, you've been doing YouTube for a long time. Is there, like, any, like...
Do you feel like there's like an end point where you're like, I'm going to, I'm going to quit at this point or are you just going to do like a retirement? Yeah. No, honestly, I love making content so much. Like it's so much fun. Like it's such a big passion. I didn't know I had, cause I'm really, really introverted and I didn't speak to anybody. So I grew up like homeschool, but I did charter schools. So two different ones in the area. Uh, and I just didn't talk to people. Yeah.
Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, I just like go to school, go home, online friends only. Right. So I didn't think that, you know, God would want to use me for like a bigger purpose, like in the content creation space. Right. I was just like, I don't want to be extroverted. Yeah. But I love it so much. You know, even like you mentioned Mr. Beast. I love Mr. Beast. Our moms go to Bible study. Oh, really?
That's so cool. And Jenny used to come down to my office in like 2018, 2019, 2020. We spent a lot of time together. We do like media training. That's crazy. Still a good friend. Still answers my calls, thankfully. Wow. So like it's just really cool like getting to be in the space and all the people you get to meet that you never thought you'd get to meet. I mean, yeah, your life's totally... It's not just when you're on camera. Like your life's totally different. Yeah, that's why it's a lot easier if you're the same as you are on camera, as you are like off camera. Yeah, you are the same because like I was like... Look at this proof. Yeah. Because like you...
you're also like not like you're like also high energy on and off camera. I think it's fun if you just get to be genuine all the time. Yeah. Then you're just like, I don't know, just there's no, there's no worry. But yeah, making content so fun because there's only, I mean, the future of content, obviously a future of creator businesses is going to be huge in like the next hundred years. Yeah. So when you meet fans in public, are you introverted still?
- Oh no, I love hanging out with them. I mean the viewers are the only reason why we're here. So it's such a big importance to put them first. We always say it's like God, viewer, then the team. 'Cause without the viewer there is no team. So unfortunately they do have to come first. - Exactly. - So you have to spend a lot of time thinking about them. - Yeah, I need to do a giveaway. - Do you ever do meet and greets or anything? Or events where people come?
Yeah, we've done so many because we've been around for so long now. So sometimes it'll be like events for like a product launch. Like we had like a fun like book that we released with like Harper Collins. That was really cute. And then we did like a meetup in New York for like a Lego event, which was super sick. And then sometimes it's just great to just like, hey, like we'll be in this area, like come and say hi if you guys want to. Although like when we've done that in the past, like it's just there's so many people. It's like thousands. Yeah.
And there's not like regulation or like security or anything like that. So it's a little bit more difficult. But I mean, if we go out to Target, Walmart, airports, anywhere in public, we'll always meet like five to 15 people. So who's your favorite creator? Or I mean, just anyone you've met like in the industry. Ooh, favorite like creator? Yeah, yeah, say creator. That's really, really good. I really like, y'all probably have no idea who this is. Alex Ramosi.
Really, really cool. I'm addicted to like self-help individuals and career and growth and finance. So Alex Ramosi is great because he's like the creator. I know who you're talking about. I've seen him. I didn't know that's how you say his last name though. Yeah, Alex Ramosi is fantastic. He's such a cool guy. How would you pronounce it? I just never pronounce it, but I've seen him pop up on like my TikTok and stuff, but I didn't know how to say his name. He's really cool. But if you're looking for like a traditional creator that like, you know, makes like YouTube content, Ryan Trahan's really cool. Oh yeah, I love him.
him. I love watching him. The first time I watched him was the penny like like the penny series penny. Yes, series of so. Yeah, I saw him like in like three years ago. I was like, I tried to go to this guy's Twitter and it was like deleted and it was before he had like really blown up and I was like, this guy's going to make it like this guy's got such good content. Yeah, he does. So he's just really cool because he really allowed a lot of YouTube to go back into like genuine like authentic moments and just like you need to be yourself and like tell like a fun story without actually having to spend a lot of money on a piece of content.
Exactly. And it's a little more slower pace, I feel like, for one of his videos. It's not so like this, this, this, this. It's like you said, it's the sweet moments and stuff you get to feel. Yeah, he's such a great person. So he's a really cool person just because of the fact that he's so great at storytelling and just being himself. Yeah, he's funny. Yeah, his videos, his storytelling on his videos are crazy. I actually watched him last night, Inside Edition. I love watching Inside Edition. And then I also watched Ryan last night. I love watching YouTube.
I love watching these two. Who's your favorite creator? Probably, so my favorite creator to watch long videos is Preston. No, it's like Mr. Beast, Preston, Dhar Mann, LL Podcast. No, I don't actually watch them. Shameless plug.
What's that? Shaveless plug? No. You're supposed to get this. And then Inside Edition. Wait, you just like casually watch Inside Edition? Oh, yes. I'll show you that too. Inside Edition is banging. It's really good. I love watching it. I just always see the Inside Editions where it's like what's going on in your favorite hotels and it's like they don't change the shape. Yeah, exactly. It's always like the craziest things. Like Lisa Guerrero. I'm so scared of those. Yeah.
No, yeah, I love watching Inside Edition. And then sometimes I just watch myself. Yeah, it happens. There you go. Wait a minute, you got it. You got to make sure you're putting on good content. I have to make sure, no. And then I'm trying to think. That's pretty much all. You just named all of YouTube. No, and Mr. Beast. Mr. Beast, obviously. I think I said him about five different times, but I really like Mr. Beast. How long have you known Jimmy for?
2018? Somewhere around there. Yeah, so it's been a minute. Yeah, about six years or so? Yeah. Dude, he's such a stand-up guy. Yeah, yeah. Guy crushes it. Very, very intelligent. Very driven. A savant. Yeah. Harper, do you know who Jimmy is? Jimmy? Mr. Beast. Oh, okay. What's Lady Gaga's real name? Nobody knows that. That's a good question. I always assumed it was Lady Gaga. Yeah. Or like... That's a fantastic question. Yeah, I don't even know. Do you watch any anime, Harper? No, no, no. Oh.
Dog, why not? Anime? You have to ask them what anime is. You don't know what anime is? Ask him specifically. Dude, I know what anime... They don't like... He tried saying like Spongebob is anime. Dog. And we were like, dog. No, no, anime is just cartoon. That's animation. That's crazy, dude. But anime is different than animation. How is Spongebob different from Pokemon?
- It's vastly different. - Besides obviously the storyline and the things, but it's like saying a horror movie and a comedy, they're both movies. - Oh man, this is crazy. Man, you gotta get educated, my guy. - Okay, so what's anime? - Preston's gonna walk off, dawg. - I mean, the most popular anime is obviously One Piece, of all time. - I've heard Naruto and... - Fireball. - Oh, gee. - Fireball? - Pikachu. - Fireball Z?
Dragon Ball Z? Oh, Dragon Ball Z. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, no. This guy is so offensive right now. This is crazy. The comments are going to go crazy. If you want to have your mind blown and get lost in these such unique worlds and parallels, when you're ready to grow up, you'll watch anime. That's pretty much how it is. Do you read anime books? Manga.
Whoa! That's what that is? I don't know what that is. Mongoose? Oh, that's like the, that's what it's called? Yeah, that's what it's called, Mongo. I thought that was like a specific anime book. This is crazy. It's like, it really is a whole new world. Is that why you go to Japan? Well, I mean, the culture's cool too. I feel like
I feel like you go to Japan a lot, no? Because you said you went to Japan. I've gone twice, yeah. We just got back like a few weeks ago. Oh, okay. No, the culture's just super cool. I mean, obviously, it's super safe and the public transport's so cool. There's so much to do. I mean, you'll never get tired of doing things. Wait, do y'all know Danji Bros? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I really like watching them. Danji Bros are really cool, too. Yeah, I love watching Danji Bros. Yeah, but seriously, you actually need to unlock both of you. If you want to really unlock your creativity, you have to watch some anime. Anime. And Rihanna made fun of me for years. Actually. And then now she watches it alone.
- Yeah. - So that's how good it is, okay? You gotta like start with something great. - I'll stick with like "Victorious" and "iCarly," you know? - Look, look, look, you can rot your brain if you want or you can upgrade. - Hey! - All right? - I don't know. - Or you can upgrade to anime. - Why are you mind blown, Kate? - Because I go to the bookstore and I always see manga is what I thought it was and I'm like, "What the freak is manga?" - It's manga!
Yeah, manga is like the, they have like manga, light novels, and so they obviously, these are like the illustrators and the creators, and then often they get adapted into anime. That's crazy. Which is really cool. So like, I finished Jujutsu Kaisen last night. So it's like a manga. Jujutsu? Yeah. Jujutsu Kaisen. It's a show. It's an anime. But like, it's like only on season two, or you could pick up where the anime ends, and then read the manga, and then continue to, you know, read about the story before it's animated. Oh.
That's awesome. Because they release chapters usually like every single week. Yeah. Dude, I tried. I tried to get into anime. You got the wrong one. Shut up, bro. You were obsessive. I watched Hunter x Hunter. Hunter x Hunter is great. And I liked it. That's not a great starting anime, though. I think every guy watches anime. I liked it a little bit. I tried like... Are you watching also in dub or are you watching it in subbed?
I'm watching the English version. Yeah, that's trash. Because everybody sounds like this. Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait. It's me, Killua. Do you speak Japanese? I don't speak it, no. I mean, I can get around with some basic phrases, but no. Yeah, you got to watch because the inflection and the emotion in the original. Wait, so you watch it in the other language? Yeah, of course. The other language being Japanese. But you can't understand it? No, there's subtitles. Oh, okay.
But then why wouldn't you just watch it in English? Because it's not the same, man. Because it's like lip-syncing. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. No. It's like lip-syncing and the emotion isn't there. Okay? It's pretty bad. Actually, I'm telling you, bro. I will say. I will show you two clips. When I watch shows like Squid Games in English, it drives me crazy that their lips are off and everything. That drives me up the wall.
See, if you think like Squid Games, which is a creative show, like animes are like 50 times more creative because you have no limitations with animation. And if you want to get into something easy, like Studio Ghibli is like the Disney version of anime, and they've got a lot of fantastic shows that you can watch, like Howl's Moving Castle. There's so many good ones, but I promise you'll get in there. Really? Yeah. He can't do subtitles. Yeah, he'd have to learn to read. No, no, no. Don't say I can't. That's a weasel word. That's a weasel word. Yeah. You can. Uh-huh.
I can't read, guys. I'm an alarm. No, I can read. I don't know why everybody's saying I can't read. You should watch him try to read the teleprompter for ads. No, no, no. I can read. I could read it better. No, I did an ad last time. Barbara did do better than me, but I can't read.
I can read basic English. I just like reading off the teleprompter. It's really cool. Like it's like a mirror and another mirror and it like shows words to you. Y'all fancy most of the time. I just memorize the lines. That's so hard. You memorize it? The scripts are like pages long sometimes. That's fancy. I feel like that's fancy. That has to be way harder. Oh, you don't? It has to be a little bit harder? Wow.
Sometimes we look kind of delicious staring at the screen like... Yeah, when Matt does it, he blinks with one eye. He can't concentrate. He blinks with one eye. He doesn't... He's like... He's not hitting on you. He's just trying to blink. Speaking of hitting on people, guys, back to my date. What am I doing? What am I doing? I gotta take her out. You're probably winking at her. That is not a good idea. That is not a good idea. Mo.
She's like a Southern Christian girl. If I take her to watch an anime, she's going to be freaked out. What does Southern Christian have to do with anime? And she will eat it up. Oh, let's hear it. Why are y'all doubting me? That sounds more her speed. Wait, what'd you say? Crawfish boil.
Crawfish boy. My sister dated a guy named Crawfish. Or like y'all paint like. That doesn't sound fun. That is so much fun. Dude, don't bro. Oh my gosh. I took Kate to pottery paintings. Just go to a coffee.
coffee for eight hours. I didn't make the pottery. The pottery was already made. He was stressing. It was just the painting. Oh, you couldn't even do that? The painting, get it, like I'm trying to paint a tire. I'm trying to like put like the lug nuts, make them gray and make the tire black. The whole tire is just black. It doesn't like. He was like, I'll take you there. And we get there and he picks out this monster truck he's going to paint. And I'm trying to pick out and he goes, you have to do this one. And I was like, what? He was like, you have to do it.
He made me do a camper so he could pull over this truck. Wait, did you do a truck? That's great. Did you do a mug? A pink camper? No, it was a pink camper. Do a cooking class or something. I would do a cooking class. That sounds more fun. Something more fun, like authentic pizza or something that both of you guys like. You can learn how to make it together. That would be fun. Except for Cash forces her to bake.
He doesn't force me to bake. Harper. Forcing to bake. Wait, first of all, baking. Is different than cooking. Is different than cooking. Well, same thing. Same thing.
So she bakes. No, no. I try to get her to quit baking because she just feeds me up with sugar. I love baking. It's so much fun. He eats all of Kate's baking. Kate bakes cookies and Matt just eats everything. Yeah, I make cookies and I have my friends coming over and I'm like, I want them to have one. And he's like, I don't think your friends should eat them, honestly. He said these are pretty bad, so I'll just eat them for you. No, Kate once I made a
I made a hot dog for the club channel and it was brown. I didn't make a hot dog. I picked it up from Sonic. What? You did? No, no, no. That was a Sonic hot dog. And it was like eight hours old. That really made me rethink my chili cheese cone as I get from there. Dude, you buy a Sonic hot dog and set it out for like two hours and that thing shapeshifts. Yeah.
It did not. It looked like. It goes through metamorphosis. Yeah. It was like criminal how bad it was. Like someone needs to check on Sonic. Have you ever made a YouTube video, like a big one, put a lot of time into it, like a real life one and like not release it?
Oh, yeah, maybe a couple. I mean, I've definitely done some where we've released them and they just absolutely tanked. Right, yeah, yeah. Like we put like $400,000 in this one hide-and-seek video and then we released it and it only had like 2 million views, which of course for us is like a massive underperformer considering the amount of time and...
Money that was spent on it. So we probably had some video projects. We've spent maybe twenty thirty thousand that just didn't make it right Yeah, and usually it's just again like I don't want to provide like poor content to the viewers Yeah, you know like I'm not a savant like a mr. Beast I'm more of like if you can have two different types of creators There's like the savants that have to have everything perfect and then there's like the consistent creators that just want to get it at least in 90% perfection, you know like the rock of the world and
I like to fall in like that rock category. But if anything falls beneath like 90% perfection, it's like it can't really make it. Right. Yeah. So lots of videos like that. Like we had this really cool one. It was like a giant like murder mystery with like 50 people. Super, super cool. And the creative and the execution just did not come out good. It was just like really boring and like weird and just like very, very poor. And so even though we had all that time, all that money on those people there, it's just like.
Doledo Spaghetti. You never released it?
Nope. We also went and filmed in Alcatraz. We were the first creators to ever film in Alcatraz. Wow. Yeah, we were doing a video. Myths are a really big one, right? So we want to bust prison myths. Yeah, that's it. That's a good idea. Yeah, go to Alcatraz. That adds so much validity and awesomeness to the video. And unfortunately, the content was just, again, really bad. Probably spent like $40,000. And then we just didn't upload it. But what we ended up doing is we ended up using it in a compilation video with some of our other myths. And we just took the ones that were
actually cool and good. Like five out of the 25 and then used them. So it wasn't a total waste. I feel like playing hide and seek at Alcatraz would be crazy too. Yeah. You might be surprised back then people were so small. So like even like these holes that the people used to climb through, like I don't even know if like maybe Harper could fit through them. Really? Like they're just really, really small. Even the cells, like I'm 5'10 and I felt like a giant there. Wait, what do you mean the holes? Like the,
Like the holes like they would like scrape through to like escape and even just the prison cells like the height of everything. Wait, they still have that there? You can like see where they escape through? Yeah.
That's sick. It's very, very cool. That's awesome. Very unique. That's crazy. Yeah, I've never been there. So when you need like a bunch of people, like what's like the most amount of people you've had in a video? Probably the, there's two big hide and seeks. We did like one, which was like the YouTuber hide and seek. We flew 50 YouTubers down. Yeah. And then we all filmed in the Dallas Cowboys Stadium. Yeah. That was really cool. But then the one that we did in Maryland was 100 people and it was 50 parents and then their 50 teenage kids. Whoa.
And so it's 50 v. 50. How do you find, like, those people? Did you just, like, post it on the internet and were like, apply here or something? Honestly, we have, I mean, we have pretty large teams. So, like, usually the producer for the channel will end up reaching out if it's especially, like, in a different state. We've got to make sure that we're following, like,
laws and regulations there and we'll find like contracted production assistants or producers or even oh my gosh what are they called casting agents yeah and then we'll just go through the process with them nice yeah but we have a lot of like local talent here at least in like the DFW Metroplex that we can pull from it makes it a lot easier
What's your favorite video you've ever done? Oh, favorite video ever done? Dude, we did like, I love, do you guys know like World's Strongest Man competitions? Yeah. Well, we always get Robert Oberst, who was like the, I think he was the seventh or the eighth. He's retired now, but we film a lot of content with him where it's like, we build like some of the most insanely difficult things to get through. Like polycarbonate, which is like bulletproof. All these really cool things. Like we bought a bulletproof truck and had him go through it. See if he could get in. Did he? Yeah.
- You gotta watch the video. - He did. - But we did one where it's 100 layers of glass. And so we start off with like all the different types of glass. So the first one being like sugar glass, and then it gets like harder and harder and harder. And then it's like glass they use in banks that keep people from like getting in and breaking in. And the guy that sold us the glass is like, "Dude, this is what they put in banks. He can't get through it." Literally like three hits, he pulled the glass off.
No way. Dude, that's insane. And then the only thing he couldn't break was the bulletproof glass. Yeah. But he did so much damage that the entire wall that the glass was on fell down. So the structure around fell down. He could just walk into a bank, man, just by himself. That's a literal Hulk. Yeah. That's crazy. Genuinely. Ellen, let me do a video with him where it was like World's Strongest Man versus Airplane. So the final challenge, we rented this private jet to see if he could pull it better than 10 regular people. Ha!
So, I love that. That's crazy. Wait, who is this? I thought this was a machine we were talking about. No, Robert O'Byrst. I mean, he is a machine. He is a machine. Who is it? Robert O'Byrst. Super funny, really cool guy. He's in like a couple of like HBO shows now. Sorry, Mac shows. That's amazing. Is he just like? He said he's like the eighth strongest man in the world. Yeah, during the strongman competitions. I wonder what's the first strongest man. How did he get like that?
what do you mean? My dude eat a lot. My dude lift a lot. So when he's with us, he has to like eat like the same way cash did, you know? Yeah. He orders like Panda Express when he's with us or we'll order it for him and it'll be like four servings of like, just like teriyaki chicken, no teriyaki, like white rice. And so he's just eating. Wow. Like his maintenance is like 6K calories. That puts you to shame. Yeah. That's all I eat is Panda Express. I'm like, that's the only fast food because it's just chicken and rice. So 100 layers of old proof glass. That one was so fun. But a lot of the videos we filmed with Robert is just a blast. Wow.
Like, they're so fun. We also spent like a full 24 hours in the Bermuda Triangle in a Minecraft boat. Was it scary? In a Minecraft boat. Yeah, I mean, it took like 40, I mean, I don't know how long. It took us almost like eight hours to like get out 40 miles to the Bermuda Triangle. Oh my gosh, that's so scary. Did you get crushed?
I did not get cursed. But my boat's like not that big. I mean, it's maybe as big as this couch. Whoa. Sitting out there for like 24 hours. Yeah, the Bermuda Triangle. You go to Florida. I feel like the boat would like flip. No. No. I mean, we had somebody, the guy that built it for us is another YouTuber. He cooked a chicken by slapping it.
Oh, I've seen that. He's the chicken slapper guy. Cooked it by slapping the chicken. Cooked it by slapping it. So I was pretty confident that this boat was going to be buoyant. Yeah. Although he had no idea because the first time, once we got out there, it was the first time we loaded it in the water. That's kind of scary. Yeah, so it's really fun. Also, have you guys ever done like the wing riding? So like I flew up to Seattle and I rode, like when the plane's moving, you get up and you have to climb on top of the wing. Oh, no. So when you're like strapped in, you're standing up?
- No way. - How is that legal? - How is that legal to just climb on a plane? - Just in one place in the US? - That's crazy. - Wait, can we do that for a club? - It's sick. - A club video? - Man, I've always wanted to do that. - And then when you get down, you have the option of going onto the wing, but the wing, like you have to step in these very specific areas, otherwise your foot will go through. And you can like climb onto, it kind of looks like you're Harry Potter, you're like,
wrapped around this thing called the javelin that's crazy and you're just like on the wing and while you're up there he's doing like barrel rolls and hammerheads oh my god it's super cool have you ever been skydiving yeah what's scarier that or the plane uh i mean i would say the plane because you know you're only attached to like a very small rope so if you did slip and fall you're
probably dead because like i mean your body's gonna be doing this off the side oh yeah you know what i mean so like it's up to you and it's pretty hard to climb on top of the plane it's like you practice like six hours before you get to go really oh my gosh so anyways it's sick but like those types of videos are like my favorite i thought it'd be better to have a parachute rather than the cord because i'm with you you would just be you're only like three thousand maybe four thousand feet above ground that's not very far no not enough for a parachute yeah well
But it's so sick. That's awesome. That would be scary. He wants to get his parachutes license. Yeah, I was looking. It's not that expensive. Are you talking about like if you do 30 jumps? Yeah. I did. And then anywhere you go, you can go to Japan. Go skydiving. Anywhere you go. I feel like I'd rather just get my pilot license. Yeah, pilot license would be sick. That's a lot. You know what I mean? Because then I can like rent a plane. Like you rent a tiny plane. Probably cheap, dude. Then you fly to wherever you want. But everybody, like I get to hear like,
The planes that go down are always those ones. They're the little ones, bro. Think about it like this, my guy. If you made it to the airport, the worst danger is already done. True, true. Driving to the airport is the most dangerous part. Car wrecks are infinitely more deadly than planes wreck. It's true. Or the likelihood anyways. Really? Yes. Oh, 100%. I feel like I know more people that have died in planes than cars.
You know anyone who's died in a plane? Are you stupid? Yeah, we actually do. Yeah. Well, that's just because you guys knew like the pilots. My cousin's instructor died. Where did Cash go? My dad's like best friend, his son died.
Who else died? I feel like there was a third one. I feel like there was. I know way more for car crashes, though. Really? Yeah. I mean, I do if I think about it. Like, I know family members and stuff that, like... I mean, I don't know. You also got to have a good pilot, dude. Yeah. I mean, I'm a go-to gamer. Like, I mean, I'm not going to crash this plane. Oh, yeah, exactly. Or, I mean, I don't know. Maybe I'll fly, like, a nice plane that has, like, you know, more safety features. Do you feel like, right now, the pilot passes out on the plane?
It's just you and him. - I mean, I've been in the cockpit and like they let me have controls, but like we're already up in the air. - Yeah. - You think you can let out? - And they're still there. - I mean, I'm sure I could figure out how to activate some, if it has like safety protocols. - Yeah. - Like does it have like its own parachute, small planes, some of them like have parachutes? - If you put the headset on, they walked you through it for sure.
I mean, yeah, you could try. I mean, I'm sure you get to the point where you wouldn't kill everybody. It wouldn't be a clean landing. The plane may not be usable anymore. I'll pull up a YouTube tutorial immediately. I'd put money on it, though. Yeah, I'd put money on it. I'm pretty confident I can land a plane. Oh, I'd definitely land a plane. Sorry, guys. I've never had to pee so bad in my life.
Okay, we've asked this question before on the podcast. If you had to pick one of us to land a plane, who are you picking? Matt. Say it one more time. He doesn't know us, dog. Yeah, but just off natural instinct. All right, perfect. If you had to pick one of us to land a plane, who are you picking out of us four? Oh, wow. All right, Harper, you're out. I'm going to do elimination style. We like to build a little tension for a thing that we call retention. Okay.
Yeah, sorry, Harper's, you're gone. Yeah. I mean, then we go with the stereotype here. I mean, like, hey, what kind of dexterity? He's not going off. What would flip out? Well, when you were like talking about the side of the plane, just talking about, I mean, my hands sweaty. How long have you had your license for? I'm 19. So. So three years, maybe. Yeah, three years. OK, OK.
No, just... All right, I'm going to say Kate's out as well. Yeah. All right. Now it's a 50-50 at this moment in time. No matter what, I'm top two. So, go with that. Top two? Ooh, this is a big one, dude. Yeah, I've already made it. Yeah, I'm going to say Cash is eliminated. What? Yeah! I got you on that. I got you on that. Let us go. That's what we said last time, too.
time too it was mad no one's thinking i didn't know what it was well even to me that believes in you homie no yeah i could definitely trust mad more than cash because i feel like cash should like make it a game and you do bear rules and stuff let's see how far to the ground we can get before i actually have to stop the plane yeah yeah that at least means i'm co-pilot if i'm singing whatever at least i'm not in the back of the plane
- Yeah, that's the safest place to be apparently. You don't want to be at the front of the plane. - Oh yeah, the safest place is the back. - Not with me driving. - What'd you say? - You don't want to be at the front with me driving. - No, but I think you could save yourself if you didn't really care about the people in the back. You could land it like this.
But then you go like, "Ka-dunk, my guy." It's blowing up for sure. I don't understand how planes blow up so easy when they crash. Like, wouldn't it just like... Jet turbines, my guy. How much fuel's in there? The heat, friction. Yeah, but I watched Munch Busters and they did a thing where... Never mind, you know what you're talking about. They did a thing where they filled up a car with gas
And like it doesn't explode as much versus if there's just a little bit of gas in there. So I feel like the jet plane would have a lot of gas. So it wouldn't explode that much. Possibly. Maybe, but I mean, did it burn? Jet fuel is also a different beast than regular gasoline. Yeah. That is true. You know, were you talking about our friend that died in a plane crash? I mentioned it. Yeah. One of them actually survived the plane crash. Really? Yeah. I wonder if they were in the back of the plane or the front of the plane. Probably back. He was a Marine and he got out.
And then he went back in and got a girl. They were flying to like, it was like a Christian conference actually called, I think it was acquire the fire. Oh yeah. I've heard of that one. Yeah. It's a little older. I don't think they have it anymore. Um, but he, they were flying there to like go speak and he like plane crash. He gets out, goes back in to get like the daughter of somebody gets her out. But then he, he passes away. Cause he went back in. Really? He was like all on fire. He shouldn't have, but he got her out and she survived. What's the, what's the cause of the crash?
There was like a heater that wasn't supposed to be turned on and the girl got cold and she didn't know and she's in the back of the plane and turned on the heater. Oh, bro. She's the cause that she survived? Seriously? That's what they said, but... Dang, dude. I don't know if they really know...
Yeah, I don't know how you figure that out after the plane's been engulfed in flames. The same thing with people house fires. The place is burned to the ground and the fire department's like caused from a wire. I'm like, how do you know that? Do we really know that? It's ashes. Was that an airliner?
No, no, no. It was like a little six-passenger plane. Like a... Yeah, probably like a Cessna. That's scary. Yeah, it was a small one. For sure. Yeah, the small planes always go down. Like, not the commercial ones. I know. I like small planes. Oh, okay. Small planes. Like, when you went skydiving, was it like... How big of a plane was it? It was a small plane. Was there seats in it? Uh, no. Yeah. Small planes. Dude, the one that you get on top of is like... There's two seats. It's the pilot and then it's you. Oh, no. No. Yeah, dude. Come on. Like a Top Gun plane? Live a little...
No, that's a fighter. I mean, if I die, I go to a much better place. I'd rather die doing something cool. Hey, you know, sometimes I wake up in the morning and I'm disappointed I didn't die. What? Yeah. Yeah. I'm like, go to lunch and I like didn't choke on my food and die. And it's like, I'm ready to go. I'm going to choose cash. Yeah.
No, the thing is... Go, dog. Sometimes my time is my time. Decision remorse. I feel it. My grandma, bro, all the time, or my granny...
You know, so, you know, she's kind of older. You got family on both sides of how she says it. And anytime she's slightly sick, she's like, like I'm talking, she's got a cough. She's like, oh, I think this is my time. I'm ready to go. We're like, no, grandma, it's not your time. I wish the good Lord would just take me. She's like, I got all my family in heaven and I got family down here. So both sides is good. We're like...
Okay, well. She was like texting. Gash and I had just started dating. This is funny. I was like 16. Is she still alive? Yeah. She'd be like, I just got him baptized and she's texting me. And she's like, this is like so great. The best decision you'll ever make. And I was like, sweet, wholesome text. Out of nowhere. I'm pretty sick right now and I think it's my time. But I just love you so much, Kate. I'm so happy you're a part of the family. Yeah, Kate shows it to me. She's like...
Is your grandma dying? No, she's just got a cough. It's just grandma. It's just grandma. She sneezed. Yeah. She got a hangnail. Yeah. We love you, granny. That is me when I'm hanged out. She had to rip a hangnail off. I think it's about time to go, man. I don't want to pull this off right now. No. Those things hurt. They hurt so bad. But really, do y'all ever not feel like that? Like what? Like you're like, ah.
If I wanted to die, I would jump in the Grand Canyon. Don't validate that parking ticket. Like, I don't know. Sometimes I'm like... I mean, obviously you think about it where it's like, if I did die, I'd be fine. Yeah. If I died, I wouldn't be fine. 120 at least, dog. Yeah. I'm trying to live a while. I'm trying to live a long time. Just think about it.
You're going to be in heaven for eternity, right? Yeah. So why? You only have a little time. Why rush it, you say? Why rush? You're going to be there forever. Sounds like you love the world, dog. No. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. Why rush? You got nowhere to be. You're going to be there for a long time. No, I feel you. I feel you. Valid. Yeah. We say valid.
Valid. Valid. Yeah, that's valid. Valid. Valid answer. Solid. All right, let me see. There's a couple more questions here that your fans asked.
Where are you getting these, huh? Instagram. Don't worry about it. I posted a poll and I said, what do you guys want us to ask Preston? And yeah, most of them were like that. Is that your merch sock? No, One Piece. Oh, it's One Piece. Let's go. Let's go. Oh, so that's anime sock? Yeah, but you know who that is? It looks like Leo and Stitch on the front. No, that's Luffy. I mean, Leo and Stitch is...
So would Leo and Stitch be anime? No. Oh, come on. No, that'd be Disney. Bro, that's literally a cartoon with an animal. Bro. That's so different. Come on, man. Okay, give me this question right now. It better be about anime. All right, let's see. We have... Okay, I mean, I guess this is kind of ironic since we just talked about planes, but they said, with you being a creator, how many planes have you been on in your entire life? Yeah. I don't know, maybe like 100? Maybe like... I mean, I travel a lot. You think just 100? I bet more than 100. Maybe 200? Mom, how about...
- How many have I been? - Think about it, you have a layover. One, two, three, four. - I didn't start traveling until I really got into YouTube though. So like 16, 17. But before then I didn't take any plane rides. Yeah, maybe like 200. - Did you travel by yourself when you were like 16 or 17? - Yeah.
Yeah. Wait, how did your parents react to you doing YouTube? Like, were they like cool with it? Especially because it wasn't a thing in your time. No. Back in my day, as Kate said, I'm old now. No, yeah, they definitely were supportive because they're both entrepreneurs as well. Yeah. So they were all about it. But they were like, yeah, you got to also like find a job or go to school like one of the others. So you got to do both at the same time. Yeah. So I was like, all right, I got to figure out how to make money on this quick because I would way rather do this than go to med school. Yeah.
So it was that or med school. So you didn't go to school? No, I didn't because I graduated early. I was 16 when I graduated high school. And then when did your career take off?
It was probably when I was about 17 and a half, like I was able to make enough. Oh, so you were right there. Yeah, it was quick. Yeah, it was quick. So I was just like trying to hustle as fast as I could. And then also like make sure I really enjoyed what I love to do. My mom and dad were super supportive. They were just like, yeah, go file job applications, figure out how to make some other money on the side, or you can go to community college at the same time. So I very quickly figured out how to make some money.
Yeah. Yeah, I feel like that's most people's story. I was working with my dad when I was like 15. I was like, man, I don't like this. And then I saw like a MagCon and all them and I was like, wow, that's so cool. And so that's what motivated me to do it so I didn't have to get a job. Yeah. Hey, do you have a traditional job? In the beginning, huh? Ah, man. Never had like a traditional job? No, no, no. It was like...
hanging like gutter and insulation. It was like a construction job. - Well, that's a good traditional job. - Yeah. - Yeah, I did like painter's prep assistant, house cleaner, lawn mowing, life guarding. - Yeah, our parents owned a lot of real estate, so it was like fixing up apartments, stuff like that. - Oh, nice, yeah. So you always had something, you had a little gig. - Yeah. - Well, he always had a good gig. You know, I had to follow him around and be his assistant for the whole day. Every time, we'd be like on a, we'd be painting a house,
they would be like scraping the old paint off the house. Matt gets to, of course, scrape the paint. I get to go through and pick up his paint chips. That was what my job was. Pick up his paint chips. Did you ever have like that defining moment though for like your career? Yeah. So when we were on a job once,
I'm on a ladder and he takes a screw gun. No, no, no. You stick it on my pants. That's not what he's talking about. What? He's not. A defining moment. Like, you know, like for my social media career. Oh, yeah. I thought you were talking about a Mac. That was the day I was done. Okay. Well, I'll answer that second. He's sick to screw gun on my pants.
And he freaking pulled the trigger and it just like ripped all of my pants. So funny. And I had to duct tape my pants up the rest of the day. So funny. That's when he knew he was done. That was my last day. That was a defining moment on my career. Put him on notice. But yes, your actual question, the defining moment on this career. Yeah, I was doing live streaming. I mean, that's like how it was when I started. Were you on Twitch? No, musically.
- Musically? - Oh, I know Musically. - Yeah, yeah. It was Musically. And Maverick was still working. I quit because of the screw gun incident. And he was still working and then I was like finally was like making enough to like quit the job I was doing with my dad. And so I quit that and then I was doing stuff on Musically. And then Maverick was like, "I wanna do it too." So then he quits. And I was doing it two years. And in two years, I got 20,000 followers on Musically.
and i was like this is gonna take forever to get a million i added up it was gonna be like hundreds of years i was like well i was gonna be like 900 years old like a million like well this isn't gonna work matt comes home he starts the week he starts social media on musically he gets like featured on there which is like you get put on like the for you page you're recommended
and he gains like $100,000 in his first two weeks, and I was like, I was low-key salty because I've been doing it two years. I was like, and then I made a different account, and then yeah, it blew up together, but that was insane. Oh, it's really cool. Yep, he couldn't do it without me, essentially. That's the moral of the story is Mav-
Matt gave me my beer. Hey, this is good, man. You need that competitiveness. Yeah, no, we were hyper-competitive at first. Now we just do everything together. Yeah, but you still need that rivalry a little bit, you know? Oh, yeah, you saw us in the gym today, man. You ever do one of those things where it's like this and you gotta drop the weight? Are you talking about forearms? Yeah, it's like a little bar and you do this. It has a rope on it and a weight. Oh, yes, yes. Man, we went hard on that today. The competition was insane. The gym owner was sitting there, he was like,
You guys are brothers? He's like, y'all are definitely brothers. We're all at LA Fitness? No, we're at a local gym. Do you have any brothers? Yeah, four. Oh, wow. Four brothers, one sister. Oh my gosh. That's, wow.
- Wow. - Yeah, it's a two brothers. - She keeps talking about if we have kids, I'm like, I want a lot of boys. That freaks her out. - No, I can't, I can't. They are so overwhelming. They are literally just like, competition, no, it's annoying. All day, every day. - Yeah, but you can gamify it. It's easier to control boys. - Yeah. - No, it's not. - No, yeah, come on. - Come on. - Are you serious? I was trying to control y'all yesterday, I couldn't. I was like, can y'all shut up? Can y'all shut up? Y'all are being so annoying, can y'all shut up? And y'all wouldn't. - It's 'cause we bought a sword.
We bought a sword and a spear. So she just didn't like us. We were throwing the spear around, but.
Hey, boys will be boys. That's exactly what I said. Sometimes I wish I was a boy. I said, you boys enjoy your new toys you bought and they got offended by that. A sword is not a toy. Would you give a kid a toy? Would you give Harper the sword? It's to protect the household. It is not a toy. We don't need that. We have other stuff to protect our household. What line of defense do you have that's better than our spears? If you take away your sword? Yeah.
Well, I don't want anybody to get offended. I knew where this was going. You got water blasters? What you got? Bro. She's going to throw me and you on the front line and be like, get him! You guys go without the sword. Alright, guys. I think we're going to go ahead and end the episode here. Thank you guys so much for watching. Thank you for coming on for us today. Yes, thanks for having me. We'll see you guys next time. Peace!