Exiting My Company With $500 Million

What's up guys, welcome back to Views. I want to be clear, I'm not gay. I just posted a video and I'm scared that something was misinterpreted for a second. Yeah, I, I, I said something that I am gay because you guys, like, that's one of the most, uh, one of the most popular comments I always see on my things. So I called myself it, but I'm not.

You did say that you were, though.

What do you mean?

Wait, in the video?

I did. Yeah, but I was— Yeah, I'm not.

So you're not.

So it was a joke.

Yeah, it was a joke.

Oh, shit. I got to call my mom.

Are you sure?

I mean, I'm not.

Oh my God. Wait, are you?

No, I don't know. I always do this every time we talk about this. I'm not. I just— It was— I don't want it to be like a thing where, like, because I made a joke when I was with Corinne in the tub.

Yeah.

And I don't want people to think that I just came out in like a low-key way. If I was to ever come out, I'd make a spectacle of it. Just do like—

I mean, for sure, it'd be like a whole dedicated video.

Sure. Dedicated video with swipe-ups, Instagram stories, static posts. It'd be a whole thing.

I don't know. Harry Jowsey said this. I don't know why I'm talking about him like he's like a philosopher. Harry Jowsey once said this.

Sure.

That everyone's a little bit gay.

Nietzsche, Jowsey.

Everyone is a little gay for sure.

Like everyone. Yeah. Like there's like, I would never like sexually do anything with a man, but I would definitely like put a finger in the butt or my own ass. No, no, no. But yeah, that's it. Why are you looking at me like I'm hiding something? Now you know me.

I know. That's exactly why I'm looking at you that way.

I haven't known him my entire life.

I struggled with that when I was your age. People thought I was gay too.

Yeah, I don't really— I don't struggle with it, but like, I didn't want to— like, I feel like being gay has become like a cool thing now. Where like, I don't want to like steal that, you know? That's why I'm saying it, not because I'm insecure. Yeah, I'll take the gay title any day, like whatever. But like, I just like, I don't want to like own it without representing it, if that makes sense. So that's why I'm saying, um, but okay, anyway, uh, just the entire podcast and just like completely sitting on all my words. Jake, stop watching pickleball.

I'm looking for a boyfriend for Nat.

I know, he's looking out there and he keeps saying there's all these like hunky men out there and I'm like, every single one of them is taken or just like, where's Noah back? Yeah, or is Noah back? Which, you know, is mine.

Watching Noah play sports is so fun.

I like just had a realization that day. I was like, oh, Noah's actually pretty cute.

You just figured that out? What are you, blind bitch?

He was like attractive, but like, I think it's because we played, um, spikeball with him.

Yeah, like we've just been like hanging out more and I'm like, oh, like he's like a friend, you know. I love my friends, so.

Oh dude, you little fucking monster, you cougar. He's young, he's 24. Oh, please. He's a baby. Actually, I don't even know. I think, is he 24?

I think so, yeah.

I saw a TikTok the other day. This is not Noah Beck related, but I thought it was a really good idea that I think it was like some guy making a joke, but it seems incredible. So when you're at a restaurant and you're done with your food, you can ask to package it up or you can give it to the rat. And the rat is like a restaurant option that if you don't have a lot of money, you're the rat in the restaurant and the waiters will bring you other people's leftovers.

Really?

Wow, that's interesting.

Which is like, if I was 17 and 18 and I was going to Buffalo Wild Wings, So many times I would walk around tables and I'd be like, okay, there's like untouched wings everywhere. Yeah, like food. I would love to pay like 30% of the regular price and eat everybody's leftovers.

Yeah.

And it's called The Rat. I think it's fucking— I know it's completely a bit.

It's an app.

No, it's not real.

It's just—

it was just some guy making a joke.

Oh, that's funny.

But I think it's really funny.

Someone should do that.

Yeah, 100%.

Or like, even like, yeah, even just to be nice. But there has to be some like There's got to be some kind of health code or something.

There's a health code.

You're definitely not allowed to do that.

What if someone comes and injects your food and then sends it to the rat?

That's the problem.

And kills the rat.

Someone will poison someone else.

Yeah, it's just, it's got to be—

It's got to be—

We can't have nice things.

Yeah, we can't have nice leftovers.

Yeah, we can't be nice to each other.

Yeah.

Because there's one psycho out there.

Yeah, exactly.

That wants to poison the wings.

We posted another vlog today, which is really fun. This was when we went to go visit Corinna. There's a whole bunch of stuff in this one.

Yeah. Like chock full of stuff.

Chock full of stuff. We went to go, Natalie's sister went to get her wisdom teeth removed. Mm-hmm. And we didn't put that in the vlog at all, but we did put in, it's, that's what I love about vlogging is like me, Jason, Harry Jowsey, and Natalie all went to go vlog Natalie's sister getting her wisdom teeth removed. Right.

Which is like a, which is like a universally loved bit.

Everyone loves like a person coming outta the wisdom teeth removal.

Yeah.

Like all like looking like a chubby bunny and drugged up. Like it's always funny.

Mm-hmm.

But like the best part about vlogging—

That's not that funny. That's fake. You didn't see it.

But the best part is like we vlogged the whole thing, but the best part was the elevator ride up with Harry Jowsey to the doctor's office.

You never know.

Yeah, you like never know. That's why like Ilia will always be like, do you need me to come with you to like, I'll be like, I'll go into the Antonians for like pumpkin carving.

Yeah.

And I'll be like, I don't know if like you need to be at the Antonians or if the car breaks down on the way there.

Right.

Because like all the best stuff happens when you least expect it. It's always like that. And I like— and I forgot that for a while, like, because we haven't vlogged in a while. So I'll always like pull out the— I'll only pull out the camera when we have a big bit. You're really good at it, Jason. You'll just be like, just turn the fucking camera on, start filming. But like, I get really shy about that shit. But like, that is how the best things are made, when you're literally just filming like aimlessly and then something happens. And I was like, the best example was literally—

that's like when I used to vlog there would be moments that we'd pick up that we wouldn't normally pick up, 'cause I would just let it roll.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Did you, my favorite—

And then we got into trouble 'cause I would show too much stuff.

What's the thing that you showed that got you in the most trouble?

His dick, his balls.

Zane's balls.

Was it someone's dick?

I think it was Zane's balls, yeah. We talked about this, I think.

You showed Zane's balls once, and there was another time that we were doing the podcast here. A bunch of things. This wasn't on video, but Ella was one of our podcast guests.

Yeah.

I don't know if we put this in, But she was staring at my testicle. It was popping out of my shorts.

Oh my God.

I don't know why that's like—

On video?

No, no, no.

Oh, okay.

She goes, she goes, I mean, I can't imagine what's going through her head. She goes, is that your testicle?

As in the middle of the podcast?

In the middle of the podcast. I think we either cut it out or it's in it. I don't know.

Where were you at? Like, what was your location?

I was sitting exactly how I'm sitting now.

In this house?

And Jason was where he is now. So I'm on the couch with my feet off and Jason's on the floor. And if you look, like, if you look at me, Jason's like, eyeline is straight to my crotch.

I know, I get it.

I've seen, I've seen men's, men's balls.

It's not— there's no like cool way to like recover from that.

It's hard.

Yeah, men's balls are really tough.

Yeah.

Apparently if you take— I met this guy at the gym the other day and I was thinking about, uh, like people will do like testosterone.

Yeah.

I mean, you've done it once. No.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I was like, why don't I just fucking do it? Like, I don't have to like have a nice body for like anything like specific, like the Zilla transformation. I obviously couldn't do Yeah, but now I'm like, why don't I just do it and I'll just like easily get into like good shape? Like I'll work out 3 times a week as opposed to 5 or 6.

I mean, there must be some side effects.

Yeah, well, one of the side effects is your balls shrink. And like in my head I'm like, not TRT. Oh no, no, in my head I'm like, that's a good thing if your balls shrink.

Like, right?

No, I think people like—

like who?

When you take off a guy's pants, you like big sacky balloons down there?

I don't want saggy balloon, but I don't want something like inverted into your fucking penis.

Like, oh, I don't know if that's what—

that's what they mean by ball shrink. Oh wait, you— I'm so sorry if this is too much information. You like cupping? Like, you like playing with like a punching bag? No, but I never assumed that a girl liked a set of balls.

No, but I like— you just do— like, I just feels good for the guy. So like, you just, you know, Wait, what feels good?

Can you be more specific?

Like incorporating the balls into the whole thing is like, you know, part of the—

Okay, interesting. Yeah. Is that true, Jay?

Sure. I love having my balls touched.

Do you? Do you?

You don't.

I got to put this down. Jason keeps looking out there, brother.

I'm listening. I have headphones on. I can fucking— I'm enjoying a pickleball game and I'm listening to your nice voice.

You're listening. It's me. I disconnect from you. I lose it.

Do you know what I mean?

Okay. You want to wear the headphones today? You can wear them if you want.

Does that I mean, you look at my eyes on you.

Yeah. All eyes on me. Here you go.

This actually helps me. I should always be that.

You can always have the headphones. I don't care. This is like the special ed kid. They had to put the headphones on him.

I mean, when he comes a little lower. Sorry.

So sorry.

Sorry.

Jason kept looking out the window.

Here you go, man. You ready?

Yeah.

Okay. Let's lock in.

Wait.

See, I like this. You're looking at me.

Eyes on eyes.

So what did you just call me? Because that was interesting. That's an interesting point.

I don't know what I said.

Autistic.

You said I'm autistic.

Yes.

But why did you say it?

Because we had to put headphones on you to have you focus.

Yeah, yeah, that's 100%. But that's like, that is like me coded like back millennia. Like, that's like, that's like, well, that's the reason I can't play tennis is because I have like the word— like, tennis is— have I talked about this? Tennis is one of those sports that you can overthink easily. And I lost every match because I overthink everything. And like every little thing. If my dad made a fucking move and he was sitting 4 courts away and he like didn't watch a certain point, Or he like lifted his hand weird or something. It would fucking throw me off for like a solid 4 points, like the full game. So like, yeah.

So you think you might be on the spectrum a little bit?

No, I think I just have like, I think I just have like really like I have to be like in control. Like that's why I like driving. Like if I'm not OCD, like if I'm not driving the car, I'm like losing my mind. I don't know. Like I don't know what's going on.

How's it feel? You made 3 vlogs now or 4?

Yeah, 3, 4. How does it feel for you?

It feels good.

I mean, it's—

are they kind of stressful? Are they stressful?

Um, no, they're not that stressful for me. It feels good. I mean, I think it's fun to do. They're fun to do.

How did you feel about being buried the other day in the vlog?

Um, it wasn't too bad. Just the sun was a little hot. It was a little hot, but it was good.

But it wasn't a lot.

I wish it was— I wish there was just more that came out of it. It just felt like a waste.

Wait, did we talk about on the last podcast?

Yeah, we said you were going to cut it, but we didn't say what the bit was. But now we can say it was— it was the being buried bit.

So Jason was buried because I got robbed and these people came up from, from up the hill. So like the whole bit was he was guarding that hillside. Yeah. So we buried Jay and I remember like Olivia, who I wanted to like, I wanted to like show a couple of people, right? The buried thing. Like Dixie came by.

Yeah.

A lot of people came by to see you buried.

Sure.

But the light was so bad and I'm like, I just film on auto. Like I film like an idiot on the camera, right? Like I don't, I don't have any like cinematography skills whatsoever. I'm just pointing and shooting. So sometimes I'll point the camera at somebody and it just so happens it hasn't focused yet and the light's bad with all the shadows. So for a lot of people that we filmed that day, the light was just really bad. Their face was blown out or it was like all shadowy. So we couldn't use the bit. And I remember you were in there for like an hour and a half or 2 hours, like in the dirt. And I was like, hey, can you please sit by him and make sure that he has water and like whatever he needs, like put shade over him and things like that while he's in the hole? Because I was going to get Olivia and all the people that were coming in.

Right.

And I, I was waiting for Olivia to pull in from the driveway, and I see Taylor like sitting on the couch, and I'm like, Taylor, why aren't you with Jason? Because you're buried, you can't do anything with your hands.

Yeah, yeah, can't be on my phone.

Your face is just out of the fucking dirt. And she's like, it's okay, I put a towel over him.

I'm like, no way.

I'm like, you put a towel over Jason? Because she, she did that first.

She did that for the—

obviously if he wanted to, he could break free. Like, he wasn't like That one I could have broken free. Yeah, like he wasn't like in danger. But like it was the fact that we would have had to like rebury him and all this stuff.

I'm kind of shocked that—

But she left him, 'cause she put it over you for the shade.

Yeah, which was really nice of her.

Yeah, but then she also could have just suffocated you in there. I was like, Taylor, you have to get back.

I'm surprised that I can sit. I can sit for a long time. And even when I go for makeup, if I do a Jackie thing.

I am surprised more so.

2 hours, I can just sit there. I don't know how.

That's what I'm shocked about.

Me too.

Oh, can we say the other bit that we didn't use?

Sure.

That we flew all the way to Corona for?

Sure.

Oh my gosh. Did we talk about this?

No.

We flew all the way.

Somebody fucked up.

Dude, I was livid.

Yeah, I was livid because I told you to not do it that way.

I was livid at you. So the bit was Jason dressing up as Bigfoot and like, I was inspired by like the Bigfoot videos on TikTok and I was like, oh my God, Jason would be so funny as Bigfoot. And he— and the whole bit is that he's been living on Corinna's property for the last couple of years and he's like perving on her and he's just been there like because he's a big fan of her OnlyFans. And no one's seen Bigfoot in years, but he's just been sitting in Orlando, Florida, like on Corinna's property. So we get there at night and in the morning Jason gets up pretty early, like 6 or 7 after like 2, 3 hours of sleep to go sit in the makeup chair. How long are you in the makeup chair for?

Hour and a half.

Hour and a half, which is a long time. Yeah. You know, it's— yeah. Well, the rest of us are sleeping, so we're getting our sleep. Poor Jason is in the makeup chair. And then, and then we pull up next to Jason and I'm like filming him just to get my initial reaction. The bit really hasn't started yet. And I like, my smile just drops like, like immediately. It is the worst makeup job I have ever seen in my entire life. Yeah, it is so botched. And just like, and I don't know how to explain it. It made you not want to— it's harder to interact. Like when Jason was dressed as the alien, every bit was so funny. Like even with Madison, we did a bit with Madison Beer, right? Where like Madison Beer was literally panicking and like squirming because you looked so much like an alien. Yeah, it looked real. And it was so easy to interact with you because even talking to you, you're like, this may actually be a fucking alien. That's how good the makeup job was. But this was so bad. And so gross and disgusting that it made me genuinely, like, mad to see you. I was like, we can't film this. Yeah, because it just looks crazy.

It also looked almost like blackface.

Yeah, it just didn't look really— everything about it was just like completely wrong. And we flew to— 6 of us flew to Florida for this bit. And Corinna was like, where are you guys? Where are you guys? Because we were just sitting outside her property for like an hour and a half just being like, fuck, we're fucked, we're fucked, we're fucked.

We flew all this way.

Luckily, we like, we just ended up hanging out with Corinna normally and just like doing like other random things that were fucking incredible. And it was so— Jonah and Corinna are like the best combination on the planet. I think. Well, I think Jonah and Natalie also are a good combination, but Corinna is so hot and Jonah is so like ruthless. Yeah, it's just like the best combination. And like Jonah will like drag you down like for any reason. Like Corinna's hot, successful, lives in a beautiful home.

Yeah.

But Jonah still finds great ways to make fun of her. So like just having that combination was amazing. But yeah, so that was like another moment where we went for a specific bit and we ended up getting a whole bunch of different things because the main one—

it's been pretty— it's been pretty hard to get you back up and running, I'll say that.

Yeah.

Yeah, for sure.

It's been really hard. Like, it's— I feel better now that you've done a few. You seem a lot better, but That, that first like couple months or that month or so you were trying, well, it was really hard around here.

Yeah, the first vlog to get the Bangkok vlog up. Yeah, yeah, that was like, that was really hard.

I mean, yeah, it was like, but it was like popping your cherry.

Like, it was like also like no one knew that we were filming yet, so I was just like not like, I didn't want to hit anybody up yet. I was like, let's get this first vlog up, just us four, and then like once it's out, I can, I can be like, we're vlogging again, right? Come by, Adam W, Harry, blah blah, right? Like then it's easier.

Yeah, feels better now.

But yeah, yeah, yeah. Now it's like— and now, now it's gotten to the point where like people are like, like, Corinna just called and pitched me this bit. I don't even know if I should say— I'm not going to say it.

What is it? What is it?

It's a pretty funny bit. I don't want to say, but like, like now people are calling me and like, cut it out.

What is it?

She— and then, and then we like, what? Yeah, it's pretty good. But yeah, other than that, the vlogs— what a job you have. As we're filming, it's getting more and more fun.

Good, good. Yeah, you seem like you're a much better way.

Yeah, like yesterday was really fun, and I've been filming with John. Yeah, it's really fun to film with my hometown friends. Yeah, because I just have like years and years.

Where'd you film with John?

Um, we haven't put the bit in yet, but like we have— I have like a couple bits that like I'm like Halfway through with John. Uh-huh.

Uh, can we expect a video next week or in 2 weeks?

I think 2 weeks.

I like 2 weeks.

What about a second channel video? Can we expect one of those? All my bits that didn't make it?

Jay, you're in everything.

Every time I show my roommates like bits and like Jason's in it for too little, they're like, can we put more Jason in?

Yeah, they, they're— they, they like me.

No, my roommates have been the biggest fan of you since like day one. Like, remember like, like back in the day when people were still like like vlog 1 and 2 and 3 with you where they were like, sure, this is random, why is this guy here? But they were immediately, they were like, I totally get it, that guy's fucking hilarious. So like, they've been like your number one fan for a really long time.

Okay guys, we have an ad, I think. Well, sort of. I'm not sure if it's a real ad.

Where is it, Nat?

You motherfucker.

Do I get paid off this?

No, I mean, nobody gets paid really.

Okay, no one gets paid. Natalie's making me read this.

She has a back end of the company.

Natalie Yeah, Natalie.

I feel like Mike Malek here. He didn't get any of Prime.

Yeah.

Natalie is—

Love you, Mike.

Natalie wrote an ad for Wavers, our new chips. Today's episode is brought to you by Wavers Snacks.

Natalie wrote it?

Did she use AI to write it or did she write it?

No, I used AI, of course. But I also like—

Wavers Snacks are a new line of wavy, crunchy snack chips based on the flavors at my pizza restaurant, Doughbrix, here in LA.

Come on, read it.

You're doing it really bad, David. You're giving it a bad read.

Let me get on that show. Okay, I'm not good at promoting my own shit. I don't know why.

Well, let's fucking figure it out.

Because it's just like, go check it out.

Listen.

Can I read it? I have a phone.

No, no, no, I got it, I got it right here. I'm gonna explain this to you now. I'm not trying to fool the audience here. The chips are really good. I don't like talking about it. I really do recommend you guys try it.

I ate half a bag last night at 2 AM.

They're so incredibly addicting.

They're so good.

They're good.

You're supposed to let people know.

No, I know, but I've always, all my philosophy of everything in my life has been if you find it on your own, you're gonna love it 10 times more.

Interesting.

How are they gonna find it if you're not telling them where it's at.

Oh, you're a fucking asshole. GoPuff is giving all of you 50% off your first order by using the code DOWBRICK.

Use the code DOWBRICK for half of your first bag of wavers.

So what do I do? I go to gopuff.com and then I plug in DOWBRICK and I get—

GoPuff, you can go to any BevMo, it's at It's Sugar, or you can go to eatdowbricks.com.

What's GoPuff?

GoPuff is like a delivery app.

Oh, like Postmates?

But I do recommend— I don't want to talk about this forever, but I do recommend you try it.

I don't know.

I mean, I think people should try it just to see what you're up to.

Yeah, for sure. It's just like, dude, there's so many fucking products nowadays, you know?

Yeah, there's a lot of products out there.

Does that really help say there's lots of people? To be totally transparent and fair and not biased, there's like nothing out there like Waver. It's totally different.

I know, but I hate doing the, trust me, this one's great. Do you know what I mean? I stand by it. I stand by this product.

I don't think it's like— Like Cheetos and Doritos and shit are still amazing too. I'm just saying this is something new, fun.

Totally.

Try.

Totally.

This is like, I will be honest, it has entered like my top 5 snacks and I'm a big snacker. I put Wavers at like 3 or 4. I think undisputed champion is Hot Cheeto. I don't think anybody on planet Earth will ever beat the snack Hot Cheeto. I think full stop. I think it's the most original. The shape is fun. What your fingertips look like after. What?

I love a Ruffles.

Like sour cream and onion?

Yeah. Or just plain. Sour cream and onion is really good.

This is reminding me of my favorite podcast. Group, the Foodie Boys. Oh yeah. All they do is talk about snacks.

You got to get waivers on Foodie Boys. You got to send them something.

You know how much you have to pay for that placement?

How much is a placement on Foodie Boys? It's $187,000 a read.

$187,000. No, it's a lot. The Foodie Boys are what, these like 14-year-old kids, high schoolers? And all they talk about is like school lunches and their favorite snacks. And they're always on TikTok. It's really fun. It's kind of niche, but like you really are hooked when you're listening because there's no better expert at snacks than kids. They see everything. You know what I'm shocked is like I see at every fucking store I love this man, but Shaq gummies.

Oh my God.

Yeah, I see it everywhere. No. Are they really incredible?

I haven't tried them yet.

I just like in my head, like if I'm getting gummies, I'm just getting regular gummies.

I love a gummy, right?

Like I'm just getting regular gummies.

Is it healthy gummy? It's like a healthy gummy.

I'm not shitting on Shaq gummies at all. I'm just like, I'm shocked that I see them everywhere.

I'm shocked that they've— it feels unless they're just big in L.A., it feels like they've transcended like just being like an in— like a celebrity snack. Yeah, I don't know.

You see them everywhere?

I see them everywhere.

You see them at 7-Eleven?

Yeah, like in Chicago.

Are you guys at 7-Eleven? Wavers?

Uh, in some in Australia, but not in America.

To me, that's the big one.

Yeah.

7-Eleven. 7-Eleven is so well done.

Yeah, you're right.

'Cause I like 7-Eleven. You can go in there and be a fat ass, or you can go in there and they have some healthy stuff.

Like what?

Yeah, like what?

They do, they do. They have like, um—

Water?

No, no, they have healthy chips and stuff. They have like baked chips. Stuff like that.

I think 7-Eleven is like the most beautiful place when you're a young kid.

Yeah.

When you're high or when you're just on the move, you have to go quick.

There is nothing—

That's so funny.

Seeing a 7-Eleven is like something at the end of a rainbow. Like the Slurpees alone.

Very good.

Make 7-Eleven an S-tier place.

Yeah.

It really is incredible. There used to be one in Vernon Hills in my hometown, and that is where we would go and bike. We would get Slurpees. They were so fucking cheap. And we would get the barbecue twisted Fritos. I'm talking about that with this, that with the Slurpee was like, that's, that's probably the first time I came when I was a kid.

When I used to smoke, I'd get cigarettes at 7-Eleven.

Oh, I still got them.

Fucking best.

Trying to quit cigarettes.

Hey, you know what I figured out?

I can't—

I eat with Naveen and I eat two meals. Like, it's really bad. Like, if you have a partner, you end up eating your partner's meal.

Oh my god. Yeah, I mean, that's how I like gained all my weight before.

Really?

Yeah. Yeah, it's the worst.

You have to send it to the rat. Yeah, you have to get rid of that food.

Well, it's 2 plates I gotta get rid of.

Wait, you think you gain more weight in a relationship?

Yeah, like last night we went to John and Benny's and I ordered my food.

You also just like—

wait, guys, hold on, you guys are both podcasting at the same time here.

We've got 2 pods going.

Okay, let's, let's see if I can field both. Go ahead, go talk at the same time.

1, 2, 3. So last night I went over and I tried to get something healthy. I ordered— other than to go out, I just ordered the chicken cutlet, right?

Natalie, you're always doing it.

So Naveen, what did you do? She goes and she gets the chicken parm.

But did you want it or no?

I really wanted the chicken parm, but obviously I just love eating.

So I just constantly want to go out and—

Natalie got too focused in what I was saying. She heard chicken parm, she was like, oh, never mind my combo.

Natalie was going hard.

Well, I heard Jon and Vinny's too, which is like a big trigger word for me.

Yeah. Jay, you can't name drop foods around Natalie. You know how distracted she gets.

Who loves food more of all your friends? Natalie, Ilia, Jon, or Alex?

Bro, that's tough. It's Jon or Natalie.

It's definitely John.

Well, that's because he's a little bit bigger, you're saying that?

No, but he just generally— like, I love—

No, John has a real passion for it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He does. Yeah, you're right. He always tells me about restaurants.

I do also have a passion for food. Like, I love eating. I love finding new restaurants and stuff. But like, John really like gets into like flavors and like descriptors and stuff.

Natalie's— dude, last night we were editing the vlog and I'm like, Natalie, can you spend the night here? And like past 10 o'clock, this woman doesn't do anything other than consume food.

And just pass gas.

She was farting last night.

She was so sick.

I never farted. I don't know why he's saying that. It's embarrassing.

Because she was like laying on the couch in my room and I was on the bed and I was like, can you come here and watch this? And she's like, this was after I let her eat for like 45 minutes.

Oh my God. You're so dramatic.

And then I was like, okay, are you ready to come here, Natalie? And then she's like, now I'm digesting. So she did that for like 5 minutes.

So I'm assuming she was passing gas.

She was eating kava. It's like a Chipotle type place.

He was eating a salad.

Yes.

And then she was, I'm assuming she was farting a lot. And then she came and said—

Why do you assume that she was farting as you go over and say that?

Just the faces she was making.

I just said digesting because—

She was barely making eye contact with me.

No, the reason I say digesting, I intentionally, and David, to my own fault, now thinks that I'm disgusting. But I say these things because I know once I say something like that, he'll immediately leave me alone. Like he doesn't want anything to do with me if I say I'm digesting or like farting or whatever. I wasn't farting, but. You know, like that's how you get him to leave you alone.

That is pretty true. Like if she, if she like really needs like to like take the day off, if she says like she has a sore throat.

Oh my God. Yeah. So easy.

It's like a life hack. I don't care what's going on that day.

I don't want her anywhere near me.

Oh my God. If I just say like, if I like, if we're editing or something and I have to like, and I'm like, I need to like take a break, I'll just say like, I have to go poop or go to the bathroom. And like, even if I don't, David's like fully leaves me alone for like 30 minutes.

Why is that?

I do think that's really funny. Natalie, you actually do that to me too.

What?

Like, I feel like I've talked about this before. Like, I'll be really shocked at how much you'll let me, how much you'll let me do when I say I'm not feeling well.

What do you mean? What am I letting you do?

Jon's actually really good at this. Like, when I rolled my ankle, Jon's really good at feeling my pain. He'll ask me a million questions about it. He'll be like, is it right here above this place? And I'm like, damn, John, you're really locked into like—

That's the Filipino way.

You're a little pansy, bro. You're always hurt. You're always sick. You're so fragile. So I just don't have a tolerance for that.

He's fragile.

Oh my God. He's so fragile.

Dude, I got a liquid IV because we were hungover. My hand swelled up. It looked like I got shot by a bullet, just from the needle coming in and giving me—

Oh, like an actual needle. I thought you meant like the hydration water.

No, like—

You keep saying liquid IV. It's just an IV.

Oh, an IV.

Sorry.

Brought to you by Liquid I.V.

Yes, but I like, even I had that like little needle in me and I was like, yeah, fuck.

Yeah, you are, you always hurt. You always are talking about some ailment. You know, you're always like, I have a rash inside my asshole.

Dude, that's something I've been battling that one for a while and I don't even know what it is.

There is something growing inside there.

That's enough.

One day it's going to come out while Natalie's sleeping on the bed with me.

It's going to crawl right into Natalie's ass.

Imagine just a little alien. It could be.

It could be like housing some. Yeah.

That's dude.

How have we not talked about this? Alex Ernst is the next Zillow transformation.

Oh my God.

Yeah.

Oh, that's great.

It's a really, that's a really, really big deal. I'm super, first of all, Alex has been secretly working out here.

Mm-hmm.

For a while.

It's funny to see him like every morning when I come in, he's just like working out in the gym.

It's funny that you see him.

Mm-hmm.

Because there was like a month where I was like, I haven't seen Alex in a while. And everyone else in the house sees him every day, but he works out at 8 a.m.

Yeah.

And I'm up at 11, so I miss him every single day. And like, for the last, like, 3 weeks, he'll text me. He'll be like, can you try to get up at 11 so we can play some pickle? So like, I've gotten like a pickle game in with him or two.

Nice.

But it's really hard to wake up at the time he functions.

Have you seen him with his shirt off yet?

No, but Ilya is saying that he's like, he's moving the fastest out of anybody. Oh, but Alex has always been like that. He's like, He locks in. Yeah, he's like a little— like, even like when we lived at the apartment, like, when he gets out of shape, he like bounces back like he's Christian Bale, like preparing for a role. He's really good at that shit. And like, he's now engaged and he's going to get married. So like, it's just like a fun, like, little character arc that like he's like getting into shape for it.

Do you think that Alex will be able to stay in shape?

If he cares to.

Yeah.

Like, I don't— like, I think he has no problem with it, but like, sometimes you just like— sometimes you want to let a little loose, you know, have a little snack. Yeah. I'm just trying to defend myself.

Yeah.

For 6 months to a year.

Yeah. Yeah.

Sometimes for—

no, but I am. I'm really excited to get back to like working out. I just slowly started to go back to the gym with Jonna. I took like a little—

That's good.

Yeah. You should get back. How many times you been to the gym? This week?

Twice.

That's pretty good. It's really good. It's Tuesday, so you went Sunday and Monday?

In the last, in the last like 6 days.

In the last 6 days.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

Which is not a lot, but that's because we were wrapping up this video.

Do you go on runs?

But like, no, I play pickleball every day. That's my problem.

Oh.

Is it's always, it's always, always cardio, cardio, cardio, and, and I'm losing my muscle and I'm getting really skinny, but like not in a fun way. Um, but speaking of pickleball, my buddy Ryan is here. We have a special guest here. His name's Ryan. Do you want to introduce him?

How do you spell that?

Just R-Y-A-N. Nice. Controversial spelling.

R-Y-A-N.

Okay, so Ryan is the president and co-founder of ChargeFuse, which if you don't know what it is— So ChargeFuse is that battery— How do you describe it? And not like a boring way, Ryan.

No, we're like— The best way to describe it is like a city bike for portable phone chargers.

Oh, incredible.

So you rent batteries from our kiosks and you can return them to any kiosk.

You've seen them everywhere.

Yeah.

Like, where are you guys now?

We're in 40 states and 9 countries. But more specifically, we work in a lot of pro sports venues, concerts.

Yeah. Like, I first saw them in Vegas, like in casinos. Anytime you want to— anytime you want to rent any— like, it's those fucking little things, the little refrigerators for phone chargers.

Yeah.

You come in, it's like a vending machine. You come in and you borrow it, and then it charges you if you don't return it.

Yeah.

And you can return it anywhere.

Yeah.

So like you can leave Madison Square Garden and return it in L.A. or return to Penn Station.

I didn't know that.

So the exciting part about Ryan is he comes over here and he plays pickleball with us every day. He's got a weird obsession with it. It's actually terrifying.

It's not actually every day.

No, it is every day.

I have investors, David. I work.

Well, they should know. No, they should know that you're here.

It's every weekend.

You're fit.

It's every week.

And then like once during the week after work.

Yeah, he waved at me. He's lucky this isn't a video podcast. No, he's here quite a bit. It's really funny because like, and then he'll leave.

He's—

this company's fucking huge. But like, we're all convinced that this man just like has let go of the company because I really haven't.

No, I know.

I know. I know.

I know.

I was just working outside. I brought my laptop.

This is your new office. He'll leave.

And then like 8 hours later, he'll like text me and Alex and be like, I can't believe I let that lob go. I should have put it away when I had the chance. He'll like talk to us about pickleball, and it's just like a very— it's a very bizarre thing, like what an obsession he has with it. But he's—

I've fallen in love with the sport. It's become therapeutic for me, and the only two things I do now are work and play pickleball. And I love it. I dream about pickleball.

Do you really?

Yeah, I do. I had a dream about it last night. You know, I played today.

What do you mean?

I had a 9 AM game here today.

Really?

I swear to God.

Wait, wait, wait, sorry, you're saying that in a funny way. Yes, it's now— it's 3:20.

Yeah.

Yes.

So we— the reason we pulled Ryan in is because we saw him playing pickleball. We're like, oh, let's interview this crazy He's a successful entrepreneur. Bring him in. But you were also here at 9 AM.

So I had a game this morning at 9 AM with two buddies and Matt McNasty threw his back out.

It's old age. Oh wow.

Yeah, we played from 9 to about 11:30 and then I left. I had a lunch meeting at 12:30.

Wow.

So many people come and play pickleball here now, Jay. It's like there's levels now.

John was telling me.

Yeah.

Yeah. So like Ryan's group will be referred to as like, actually, what are you guys?

No, we're probably, I'd say John's group.

Do you listen to How Serious? Oh, John's here too. John's here too.

Ask him.

Wait, John, come here. John, what is, what are all the levels of pickleball? What are the tiers here? And John looks like he was farming cranberries. Okay. What are, what are the tiers?

Well, we have Ryan's league.

Okay. So what, yeah. What is Ryan?

Ryan's league is like anyone he brings. Cause they're like already like athletic.

Oh, okay. So they're the better ones. Yeah.

And then I have my league development league.

You know, who's in that?

Uh, it's me, Joe, Phil, Jack, Tyler.

Really?

Like, you know, who has no background with any sports in high school.

Okay, that's really funny.

Has anyone made the jump from development to Ryan's League?

They try.

Yeah, yeah, but then they get sent back down.

And what's above Ryan's League?

Oh, that's like David's League.

David's League. And who's in David's League?

Well, David's in a league of his own.

Yeah.

Thank you so much, guys.

Matt Menassi is probably in your league.

Yeah, like pro people.

Pro people.

Yeah, I'm considered pickleball pro around here.

Yeah, what?

Every time I tell somebody that David's the best pickleball player I've ever met, they're like, what, really? David? He doesn't look like it. I'm like, I know.

Yeah, Noah Beck actually just gave me a compliment yesterday. What did he say?

He was like, I low-key, like, when I'm like not with you and I'm talking to other people, I tell them like you're like my most athletic friend, or whatever he said.

It's because of how I'm built. Like, I have like a really— like, I have like chicken legs, my butt is like a little bit bigger, I'm like a little wobbly. Like, It's like when you see me walk around, you're like, oh, that guy's going to fall.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Kind of funny.

Yeah. I'm shaped really funny.

Yeah.

Like, you know, like a chicken before it's about to peck, sticking its butt out. That's what you look like walking around here.

Oh my God. You little pervert. That's pretty good.

So, okay, really good.

Let me get back to Ryan. John, how exciting is it that Ryan, one day you're going to be worth half a billion dollars?

That's the plan, man. We're building. We're just head down.

No, but don't even say it like that. Like you're like, it's going to happen.

Okay, yeah, it's happening.

It's happening currently. Yeah, there will be a moment you are going to wake up and there's going to be at least $50 million in your bank account, new.

Wow, it's crazy to think about.

And you're gonna take us all on a trip. It's gonna be crazy.

I'll pay you back for all the free pickleball court sessions for all the lessons. You know, you want to know something? I, I'm not joking. I think about 4 times a week what I can do to show my gratitude for the fact that you just allowed me to come here at like as if it's my own pickleball court all the time. Dude, I feel so uncomfortable about it. Because I think I use this court now more than you do.

That's really funny.

I'm like, what can I get him?

Dude, he's saying it with a straight face. He's like, this is like a dilemma he has when he goes to bed.

I do think about it often. It's like, what can I— what's something nice I can do for— I haven't been able to think of something that like would—

I've explained this to Ryan a million times because Ryan said that his girlfriend came up to him and was like, hey, don't you think that like it's a little bizarre how often you go over there? Like, does David Does David not have a problem with that? And you had to explain to her.

What did you—

Well, what I said was, when you and I first started to become friends, you would always say, dude, come by anytime and use the court, like, as if it's your own. And I thought you were just being nice.

Yeah.

And then you're like, no, seriously, like, the neighborhood court. I was like, okay. And then you said it like 5 times. And then finally I was like, I was with a group of non-David-associated friends who wanted to play and we couldn't find a court. And I was like, I have the perfect court. And I didn't even ask. I didn't even text you to ask you. I texted Ilya to ask him. Yeah, because I still wasn't sure if it was okay. Yeah, brother, if no one's using it, then we— and the rest is history. We should put up a sign that says Ryan's Court.

That's really funny. And then, yeah, then a month ago, Ryan came up to me. He's like, you—

I don't know.

He was like saying thank you again.

He's like, thank you so much for letting me use the court.

Like, my girlfriend doesn't believe me that this is okay.

Yeah, Maddie, Maddie, Maddie knows now.

Yeah. What did she say initially? I don't want to get her words wrong.

At some point she was like, are you really going and playing pickleball this much? What are you doing? I was like, yeah, no, I'm really— I'm at David's house. She's like, okay, tell Natalie I say hi. I was like, it's like, all right. And now she— now she actually loves how much I play pickleball. If you couldn't tell, like, you sure? Pretty intense. Yeah, I'm sure. I think I'm sure. And it's like a good outlet for me, honestly. Like, It's therapeutic for me. That's why I love it so much.

That's nice.

No, I mean, yeah, you're— you were waking up the neighbors by screaming. Yeah, you get really into it.

I do. Did you see the dent in your bench? I'm not joking.

No, I had a moment this morning. Well, that's fine, because yesterday I kicked the Celsius—

I kicked the Celsius refrigerator and it hit the mirror and it broke.

That—

you're the one who shattered the mirror?

Yeah.

So I got here this morning and no one was in the yard and the mirror was shattered.

And I took a photo of it just to prove that you didn't do it.

Just to prove that I didn't do it.

I said, like, there was a car.

I swear to God, I took a photo. And sent it to Alex and said, hey, I just got here and the mirror is shattered. Who did this?

Who did this at Ryan's court?

Someone owes me money.

This is unacceptable, Alex.

I just brought my friends over.

I have a 9 AM game.

This place looks like a mess. That's really funny. That's really funny.

Back to this company.

Yeah, Fuse.

Yeah. When you end up selling it, have you ever sold the company before?

I haven't. I haven't been the founder of a company that's sold before. I've been involved. Involved in a couple companies.

This would be by far your biggest exit.

Yeah. Okay.

Okay. And, and what is like in your head? How old are you?

Uh, 32.

In your head, what's like the first thing you're going to do when you become a $100 million millionaire?

That's a good question.

No, like genuinely, like where does your head go?

Do you go, I'm gonna buy 4 houses straight out the gate?

I'm gonna build a pickleball court, pickleball clinic. Um, I've thought about that. I try not to because the reality is that the company could go to zero tomorrow, you know. So I try not to count my eggs before they hatch. But I don't know, I think, I think we just want to do right by all of our investors. We've, we've raised, you know, a lot of money from big companies and some individuals like yourself.

Thanks.

Thanks, man.

Yeah, of course.

And we just, you know, if we walked away with nothing but we were able to pay back all of our investors in full, like, we would be happy. Now hopefully we have a much more meaningful outcome than that. And I've thought about it, I don't know, maybe I'd buy a gift for my parents.

Oh wow, that's really sweet.

Yeah, like a house. I figured out— yeah, or like pay off their mortgage.

An Xbox.

Yeah, I'll take them to a nice dinner.

An edible arrangement. Mom and Dad just sold my company for $250,000.

Oh damn, one with cantaloupe and honeydew and a pineapple.

Chocolate-covered strawberries.

And flowers.

No, I think, like, you know, not to hype up—

yeah, not to blow smoke up your ass, but like, I'm an investor, so I should be blowing smoke up your ass. Yeah.

Um, how much money did you put in?

$3 million.

Wow.

No, no, no, I don't know, Ryan. So I posted is I was in Vegas in Resorts World and I saw a ChargeFuse machine. Well, you tell the story better than I do.

Yeah, this is actually one of my favorite investor stories.

This is how we met.

Yeah, this is how David and I met. I woke up on a Saturday morning like 3 years ago and my company's Slack, like the overall general Slack group, had like 40 notifications in it. It was a Saturday. I was like, oh God, yeah, what? Can we cuss? Yeah, what the fuck is going on? I thought there was a big problem. It was Saturday like 8:00 AM., and I was reading all the messages and like all the young, young bucks at the company at the time were freaking out because David at like 1 a.m. was at Resorts World in Vegas, typical, and was posting video using a ChargeFu station. But it was a really organic video. We had never met before. As far as I'm concerned, you had never come across our business.

No, that was the first time I've seen anything like it. It was so— and I fucking hate things where like it's like hard to check out or whatever. Charger. And like, it was so easy. This sounds like I've got him on here to hype up the company, but I genuinely wanted to give him shit for how much he plays pickle. But like, no, it's like, it's so easy. The charger fucking pops up and you can leave with it. Like, I've seen charging things where you put your phone into the thing and like, it's like, yeah, like it locks in there and it like sits there, which I think is like crazy. Yeah. But this is just, I have it at my house.

So like when you walk, I have two at my house. Yeah.

When you walk into the front door and one by the kitchen, you like literally, you text a code. I have it saved in my phone as charge charger. So whenever I need a charger, I text David to charger and it pops one out and I have a full one and I, and I go about my day. The only problem with having it at my house is how many have we brought? How many have we asked you to bring? Because so many— everybody steals them. Nobody returns them.

I think we've gone through like maybe 200.

I think more. So we, so we, so we, we have like, uh, everything. We track everything in our business, right? Like every single location in, you know, thousands and thousands of locations. We know all the data— how much, how many rentals, how often do we need to replenish batteries. And every time we get a, uh, lost battery report, it's David's is at number 1 on the list.

No, it's not.

Always. No way.

No, it's not. Always.

Because we don't charge people here, obviously, so no one has an incentive to return it.

Oh, that's fucking— like, out of a casino, you're saying I'm beating a casino for that?

For those unit types, the bigger, like, the 10-unit station that you have, or the 15-unit station, that's really—

I'm number 1 for stealing for that, for that. Yeah.

Wow.

Okay.

It's an investment well worth it.

Ryan called me the other day. He was like, hey, can you guys just do a little bit better on not losing the chargers?

Natalie had to talk with me.

Natalie's like, yo, you got to return the chargers.

I'm like, I don't leave the house.

They're somewhere around here, but people are leaving with them.

I know that for a fact.

They are.

They are.

Sorry. What's going to happen is the machine's going to stay. You're just going to keep—

No, we're going to keep pumping in the batteries. So you can keep playing pickleball. David's made his investment back already. On lost battery charge.

Yeah, just on phone charging.

Wow.

Isn't that crazy how like that like was brought together by like, you know, obviously Ryan's an older gentleman, 32.

Older gentleman.

He doesn't, he doesn't know much about the youth, but it's funny.

Barely could walk in here.

He barely walked in here. Um, but it's just funny how like his younger employees made that connection. Like that's like, that's like, I mean, that's like the story of my life being a YouTuber, right? Like it's all kids or younger people telling the people in charge.

Their parents.

Their parents, like, hey, my mom's a celebrity, she wants— she should do this with you. And then they convince their mom, and their mom's like, who is this? Like, and it's like the same situation with Ryan.

It's really— I will say that I obviously knew who you were before that happened. Sure, sure.

But he's like, you're not that old.

He's like, you're still 32, dude.

I don't think I had Snapchat, so I like downloaded Snapchat in there, and then I saw it.

How do you get new contracts? How do you go about that?

It's a great question.

I mean, now, like, like, like, you wouldn't Do you just, would you just go to a one-person store or do you just kind of go for chains or big hotels?

Yeah, we do both. So we have both, we have the enterprise side to our business, which is like one contract and lots of locations with one brand, right? Like Live Nation, for example. But then we also have—

you're in all Live Nation venues?

Yeah.

And we do—

that's nice—

40 to 50 Live Nation festivals a year as well with them.

Wow.

How many arenas or stadiums are you in?

We are in over 200 stadiums around the world and 70% of pro sports teams in North America. Fucking shit.

Yeah, it's a lot.

Damn.

It just happened.

Yeah, just recently, or you're just saying it just casually kind of?

No, I feel like we blinked and we worked really hard, but— right, right. I remember the first one was the biggest win, and it's like, oh my God, we got one. And then, like, you know, 6 months went by and we had like a dozen, and now it's been a few years and we are in a lot of them.

Were you guys the first?

We were one of the first. We're the biggest outside of like Asia.

There's a couple companies that are bigger than us, but you're the biggest in North America.

In Europe, in the UK, in Latin America and Asia Pacific.

Yes.

Damn.

Yeah.

Well, and we launched January 1st, 2020. Yeah. It wasn't, you know, timing. Yeah, it wasn't great timing because of COVID No one was leaving their homes and we had no business. I thought we thought our company was done. Caught a second wind in 2021. We kind of relaunched in September of '21.

Well, damn, that's great.

Yeah. Well, congrats. Thank you for coming on the pod.

Fun.

I appreciate it.

I don't want to keep you from— you have games coming up, your big game today. It's quite hot out there, so you're taking a break.

I'm just gonna sit in the shade. Yeah, yeah, I was doing some emails and then—

yeah, okay, you know, we got it.

You were trying to take down in Ryan's league right now.

And are people mad that it's your league, that your name is on the league? Crazy that it's become my league. People are like, hey, are you in Ryan's game? It's become like the hottest game.

It sounds like a movie where the kid Dick.

Yeah, or like Ryan's Game, or like Molly's Game.

Molly's Game.

Molly's Game.

Molly's Game.

Underground pickleball.

We could start charging cover.

Yeah, I made some good money off Ryan's friends the other day.

Oh, I see why you're having—

and somehow I got looped into it. Yeah, yeah, I Venmoed him $200.

I felt like—

no, I never, I never bet, but I guess I don't know how that came to it. But oh, I think I lost to them. I do 2-on-1s and I lost, but like I have a hard time playing people that suck.

Snookered them, huh?

Oh Okay, I do.

I have a hard time playing people that suck.

Sorry, Ryan. And I lost, and I was like, okay, I can't have them think that this is how I play. So I was like, let's bet.

And then, yeah, David won money, and people sent it to him.

They did. I don't have access to my Venmo. I think now they—

what? Oh, I thought we sent it into the—

fuck, I'll stop.

I just want your money out of your pocket, not even to me. Just throw it out and burn it.

Um, great chatting with you guys.

Thanks for chatting, Ryan.

Go check out ChargeFuse, everybody. All right, guys, that's all the time we have for today's podcast. Thank you guys for listening. Thank you, Jason, for joining us. Go watch the new vlog, it is up. Go listen to Jason's podcast, All Good Things.

And eat Wavers!

Hell yeah! Yeah, go Natalie and David and the Darbrix team.

Thank you guys.