What Youtube Pays

What's up guys, welcome back to Views. Guys, I see a couple of you commented on the last podcast where I was— listen, I know I've been going through this, what do I do with my videos for the last like couple months. I'm not gonna bore you with it anymore. I've gotten some comments like, David, can you just fucking figure it out already? Which I get it. But Jason just pointed out that a lot of you guys have some things to say. Honestly, David kind of ruins things for himself from what I've seen. David's little mood swings he has every 5 seconds end up complicating everything for him. I think he has to realize most of his audience, including myself, fell in love with him and his crew, not his videos. That's fucked up. That's why every little difference he's made in the videos is met with the same excitement. People just love to see him and his group, not always the full production. Vlogs 100 to 200 are the best blend of natural and funny. Okay, I'm going to go back to that. Then the next comment says, 0% of us asked for just bits. Just like seeing you all living life. And that can be the good, bad, boring, or fun. Just record, man. Don't overthink it. I actually always find it weird when you started talking about bits. That is interesting. Well, I don't, I feel like I talk about bits differently than like, what are like, I'm not doing, we're not doing sketches.

No, no, no.

Like a bit is like going camping.

Like that's a bit in my head, right?

Like we need to have situations. So I didn't mean like we're like scripting bits. Things. Um, oh, next comment. I love the camping video. It was— I was sad it wasn't longer. Lily, just the group hanging for 10 minutes is entertaining.

Yeah, see, that was a bit.

Like, that was a bit.

That's a situation.

But a bit is— I describe situations as bits.

Well, a bit is— a bit is like—

I, I know. Yeah, well, at least tell me what is it.

A bit is like, you know, it's Alex and he's with— he's in a sweatshop with a bunch of kids, you know. Like, that's a bit.

You know, something that's preset up.

Someone said— this is really interesting— someone said David doesn't want to hold the camera but wants to be around friends. Jason has been grinding to do more videos, and then his wife, which is respectively, respectively, respectively very funny. Am I the only one seeing what could be made here? Jason has been the golden ticket to David's factory since day one. Why not let him record? We love the insults towards him. Natalie's searching for love. David needs to start. Why not do a mini version of Finding the Soulmates? Oh, I would never in a million years "Let Jason fucking film anything." Um, all right, all right.

Yeah. All right, that's a pass.

Did Jason write that comment?

Hard no, hard no. We can take it.

Um, yeah. Okay. So anyway, yeah, I've got— you guys have sent me a lot of things. I'm gonna think about it. Don't worry. I also think a lot of people that like really like us, dude, every time like I would stress about like doing the vlogs, someone would always be like, Dave, you could just fucking take a piss and it would get a lot of views. This is like when we were making like, you know, when the views, when the videos were doing the best. Sure. And I was like, no, that's not fucking true. Like, I know it looks like that from the outside. Yeah, but there's like a method to it, right? Like, I can't just take a piss because no one will watch it. Well, you could probably make that funny, like, in, in, like, if you fraction it down. At the time we're getting so many views that, yeah, if I took a piss, like, it would still do well.

But at one point I did feel like we could come up with almost anything and make it funny.

No, 100%, you know.

So you did say to me, let's Ilya's gonna go take a piss out back. I would— my first instinct is like, yeah, hell yeah, that's amazing.

No, no, no, that's a bad example because that is actually a good thing.

There's a lot that could happen.

No, no, but I hear you guys. I want these new videos to be more— yeah, don't worry, who cares? I'm not gonna talk about it. You'll just see it and we may miss it, we may get it, who gives a fuck? Yeah, I'm gonna— I think I'm trying to get into, um, I'm trying to— oh, someone said something really interesting. Sorry, about the videos.

Yeah.

Okay. Someone DM'd me. I messaged this to Ferris and Natalie. Sorry, Jay.

You didn't read the good comments, by the way. There were so many good ones.

Yeah.

I just wanted to read the ones that were like—

You read the—

I just read the top.

Yeah.

Okay. Someone said something really interesting. Sorry, I don't know who it was because I just copied and pasted it and sent it over. But here it goes. Who's ready?

I'm ready.

I'm ready.

Okay. I've been too lazy to type this out, but listening to you get closer and closer to the point, but not fully reaching it almost every other podcast for the last 6 months is starting to get painful. This week you were the closest when you mentioned saturation of travel and money and zeroing in on simple concepts, transformation and documentaries. I may get restricted by word count, but bear with me. While content that consists of traveling parties and other unique luxury experiences can be interesting, their translation for the average viewer has changed within the last 4 or 5 years, which is— this is really interesting.

Very good.

The concept of otherworldly experiences displayed online has grown significantly in part of the immense funding digital creators have gained access That's really interesting. Heights that were totally unreachable for 99.9% of content creators in the 2010s. YouTube viewers in 2012, they were thrilled to watch a 10-minute vlog of their favorite YouTubers gather in a tiny hotel room during a convention. In part, AI has also watered down the excitement associated with a digital visual experience. This is really interesting. Want to see a guy climb Mount Everest on the back of a tiger?

Got it.

Want to see a horse dressed as a doctor deliver a human baby? Which, this was actually a bit we had in mind too. Here you go. Want to see historical figures work at a drive-thru? Enjoy this clip of Abraham Lincoln dumping a frappe over an annoying customer's head. Frappe?

Frappe.

Okay.

Thank you guys.

The impossible has become real and it's boring. So yeah, so basically—

What's he saying?

Long story short, that, um— That, like, the visual, the visual parts of making— dude, I think this is, this is the thing I have a problem with.

What was he saying?

Now let me tell you this.

I fucking hate squirrels. No, no, I'm just getting sidetracked. Um, well, what's he saying is like, what's, what used to be interesting, which is like, how far can money take you? What can, like, what can you get for the— like, so many influencers have access to cool things now, right? So many influencers have access to like funds, making, making a lot of money where they can like have these, like, I turn on YouTube now and a lot of videos are like, look at me on this trip, look at this drone shot, look at how cool this place is, look at how— but like the one thing that is lacking from a lot of things is personality. And that's something that AI can't like replicate.

Right.

It can, but like it's not real.

Yes.

So I think like going back to that, going back to the basics sounds like a really good time. I think shopping at Target, going to Home Depot, I think sitting on the couch.

I think texting Diplo, trying to get into his Grammy party.

Yeah, that's on your mind today, huh?

That is what I did today.

What did you do today?

Well, I texted Diplo.

I was like, I texted him.

I said, but anyway, what I'm trying to say is all of that kind of stuff is more fun, right?

Return to normalcy. Yeah, that's what that guy was saying.

I think it's just gone so far where it's just like, Boom, boom, like cool things that are just like so, and it's not even that like, it's not even that like you have creators like MrBeast that have infinite money. It's that now there are infinite amount of creators. So now there is, you have that creator in Jordan that's showing us the best of the city of Petra and you're getting that experience. And then you have that creator that's in Paris that shows you the best of French living and the Eiffel Tower and what nightlife is in like in Paris. Do you know what I mean? So you have— and it's all on TikTok and you get all of it and you're like consuming so much where it's like, I think back to the root of all of it is just like going back to personality and fun vibes and stuff like that. Yeah, it's important. We'll see. Who knows? I don't know. I had this bit idea.

I could—

one of my biggest fears about having like people come film, like I want to have filmers, right? Like I want to have two camera people on us and I want like, I want, I want to be hands-free. I want to be able to interact with people.

Sure.

Like without a camera in between us.

Yeah.

Um, and like the thing that worries me about that is like there's a lot of times we're just shooting the shit and like jokes aren't landing, right? Like we're just like, like we'll insult each other or something and it'll just be, it'll come off like just without taste.

Especially once the camera goes up, everyone starts trying.

Everyone starts trying and a lot of times it fails.

Yeah. Yeah.

Because we're just all trying.

Yeah.

Um, and like one of my biggest fears is to have someone in the room with, with us as it's failing. So I think when we get new filmers, the first thing we should do is, you know, like when you, when you're, when you're training a horse, they desensitize horses.

Yeah.

By like scaring them. So they're like, so they'll be like a horse on a pasture and like the horse person will be like, and the horse will like jump and all the comments will be like, that's fucked up.

They're doing that to the horse.

But then the other comment underneath it will be like, well, this is actually how you make it so your horse isn't scared of like a mouse coming up.

Yeah.

Or like random things. Nothing will affect the horse. So I think when we get these new filmers, it's we all get into a room and we just hurl insults at each other. Ones that don't land, nothing. Like Natalie, you can call me whatever you want, you know, the nastiest names— whore, cunt, bitch, whatever, all of them.

Yeah.

And we do it in front of our new filmers just so they can get desensitized. Yeah. So that's my idea. And then we start hurling insults at the filmers and then we make each other feel—

I think this is like a college frat hazing.

Yeah. Yeah. I think that's what it's turning into. No, no.

So that's why I did it.

Tell Natalie she needs to stop eating now. Yeah. I don't want to. Call her fat. I don't want to. Please don't make me. I just entered college. You're fat.

It's just a spell.

The camera, please.

I went to film school. I don't need this.

Yeah.

So yeah, that's that. But yeah, I texted Diplo today. I was like, hey, listen, I was at your party in 2019 and like 2020 and 2021 when you had Grammy parties and they're really hard to get into. I didn't know you at the time and I would just like sit outside the gate for a little bit. Is there any way you can let me know right now ahead of time if you're having something?

Yeah.

And he said, hahaha, I'm not nominated, so I'm not doing it, but going to some random ones this week. Frowny face.

It's bullshit. They didn't nominate Diplo.

And then I said, you could go to a party. And then I said, damn it. Then I said, damn it. Okay, next year. And then he goes, but tell me what ones. Oh, Diplo, I'm asking you where to go. You're the musician.

Tell me about a Grammy party. What's that like? It's fun. Fun to roll around on Grammy night?

I think so.

What's so fun about it?

Oh, I just think like it's award season, so like, oh, that it's just like you don't know who you're gonna run into, you know? Like you could be at some random spot, like small spot, Kesha could be there, and Kesha can walk in. No, Kesha's never there. Or like, I don't know, anybody, anybody can just walk in. You never know because they might, it might be like their friend of a friend of a friend and they're just like gonna pop in and it's like this amazing celebrity. Like it's just like we saw Buzz Aldrin at a Grammy party.

No, it was me and you.

Me and you? Oh yeah, it was Golden Globes. Golden Globes. Which was so odd.

So cool.

I don't think he was in a movie or there wasn't a movie about him. He was just there.

A lot of movies are about him.

I'm sure, but not that year.

Buzz Lightyear is literally about him.

Right. But it wasn't like, you know, they did the astronaut movie that year.

But that was like my favorite moment. I'll never forget it when you turned to me and you're like, you know who's sitting next to you, right?

I was like, who?

He's like, that's the second guy to walk on the moon. Buzz Aldrin? That's crazy. I mean, they're always a blast. It's just people like excited to go out.

Yeah. And the Grammys as a show is really cool.

It feels so phony because I have nothing to do with the Grammys.

It's like, it's like it's serious imposter syndrome till about 1 AM.

Well, for an influencer especially. I have no reason to be— wait, we've had this conversation, I think, literally last Grammy season.

We did. And then you go, and then this is—

well, let me see what you're gonna say, actually. Yeah, yeah.

Let me play like—

what I was gonna say was I'm big I'm big on, like, if you love something, you have every right to be there.

That's what you said. You said last year, you said you're a supporter of music.

Did I? Yeah, I'm sure.

And then I think we made jokes about—

All right, let's just end the pod.

About how we both— Honestly, let's just play them back.

We have like 5 years of pods. Let's just reorganize them. Alex Ernst, if you're listening to this, you're a fucking— you're a lunatic. You know when you text me? He'll like text me, he's like, want to film something soon?

Yeah.

And I like won't respond. He's texting me this Tuesday, 5:05 PM. I didn't respond. And then 5:26, 21 minutes later, he texts me, you want me to die?

Oh my God. I said, haha, yes, let's do it. You're crazy. And then he said, do you have any ideas? You want to brainstorm soon?

And I forgot to respond. It's my fault.

Oh my God, David.

And then he texted me just now and he goes, you hate me and you want me dead on the street.

Alex, I love you. Please stop saying that I hate you.

Why don't you respond? Now that I just—

I just—

that's what it feels like when you don't respond.

I genuinely just forget.

No, but I've told them multiple times.

I'm like, dude, I like— I like—

take me through the moment you see the text and you just— and what goes in your brain when you see Alex has texted you or me?

Well, he goes, he goes, you want to brainstorm? And then in my head I'm like, okay, so when will I be ready to like use my head? Ah, and then I'll be like, oh, probably not now. And then I'll just put it to the side. I'm like, I'll text him when I'm ready to brainstorm.

Right, right, right, right.

Which I haven't done since then. Sorry, what were you saying?

Oh, there's a guy named Flea. He's in the Red Hot Chili Peppers. We were talking about imposter syndrome, and he just put out a jazz album. And so it's like, it's a really highly regarded jazz album from a rock guy. And so he's doing an interview.

What is highly regarded?

Highly regarded, it's like, it's supposed to be really good.

Oh, okay.

So he brought— acclaimed?

Acclaimed.

Yeah, he brought all the best jazz people together to make a jazz album. He's a rock guy though.

Yeah, yeah.

And he's like being interviewed and he just starts crying because he's like, I'm not good enough. He's like, I had this whole thing in my head that I wasn't good enough to be around these jazz players because I play rock, you know? And then he's just like crying in this interview. And I was like, wow, that's really fucking cool. And they all said like, no, man, you're your own musical force and interesting. You have every right to be here just like us.

Do you think I will have the same conversation if I go to a Grammy party this week?

Yes.

You think Bruno Mars will turn to me and be like, first of all, I love views.

I heard it.

Yeah.

I don't know what Diplo's issue is with not having a party this year, but you belong.

You belong with us.

You are musical, man. You're musical the way you do that pod. It's its own rhythm.

When I listen to it, it's like, it's the melodies that play through my head.

Yeah.

I've also been looking into becoming a spy. I mean, I don't want to say it because I feel like it's going to ruin it for me in the future.

I don't think you're built to be a spy.

Really?

Unfortunately, no.

Who do you guys spy for?

I just think, like, first of all, I like the word espionage, and I'm a huge fan of Aston Martin, and I've been getting a lot of James Bond edits.

Yes.

And I think with enough confidence that I think I will have, I will build up my confidence. Right now it's at like medium. I think I used to have it like really well because I was young and like young, dumb, full of cum, and I was just excited. But like, I think in 5 years I'm going to reach peak confidence again, like in my 35s.

Yes.

And I think I'm going to go into espionage.

Really?

Espionage. Like, what are you thinking you're going to do?

Well, I think, and honestly, people just take this as a joke, so no one will believe me. Right?

Right.

Like, I could go, I could talk about it clearly now.

Yeah.

And also actually do it. So I'm not like shooting myself in the foot here, but I think I'm pretty good. I think I can infiltrate another, like, country's organization just by having a good time.

You want to, like, interview? Interview It Up, like the movie?

Yeah. Like get into— Hmm.

Yeah.

Interesting. Would you think about—

Speaking of the interview.

Yeah.

Sorry, I'm pivoting a lot here. Go ahead. But we were at Jonah's Kebab.

Yeah.

Did we talk about this on the pod? With James Franco?

No.

So Jonah and James are, like, really tight. And we were with James Franco at Jonah's Kebab. It was me, James, Natalie. Natalie left to take a call, which is so stupid because she, like, it was, like, the best time. Jonah's writing partner and Jonah's mom. To serving us kebabs.

And he told us like the whole story about the interview. Oh, like about like North Korea like emailed and like threatened.

Sure.

To like, you know, basically go to war with the United States over this movie.

Wow.

It was so cool.

That was all based on hearing it from James Franco. It was all Jonas Kebab. It was based on the Sony email leak, right?

Yeah.

Yeah. Sony had an email breach.

Yeah.

And then what happened? All these emails got out.

No.

Is that what happened?

No, no, no, no.

It was all because they were making fun of Kim Jong-un.

Right, right.

But so then they hacked Sony.

That's what happened. Right, right, right. They made the movie and then they hacked Sony because of that.

And then movie theaters were afraid to play the movie.

Yes, I remember.

Because North Korea threatened attacks on movie theaters. So then it went straight to streamer, but it absolutely obliterated on streaming. Like you had to buy it and obliterated. It did so incredibly well.

It did. Yeah.

I mean, it's one of the best movies ever. The concept is so good.

Comedy-wise, yeah. Yeah, my friend wrote that movie and was supposed to be his big thing. And of course it just— I went and saw it in the theater.

It definitely didn't reach the potential it could have. But yeah, back to espionage. I looked up what it takes to be a spy. I saw a TikTok earlier and they're basically talking about in order to be a spy, you have to have the ability to get someone to buy you a cup of coffee for free. Without you bringing up the fact that you want coffee.

Oh, that's such a great bit for the vlog.

Yeah, without you bringing up that you want coffee or without like you mentioning anything about coffee, it needs to be paid for and free.

Like you're at a coffee shop?

Like, I don't actually know.

We should go try that out. We should put you down at a coffee shop with no money and see if I can do it and see if you can get a free cup of coffee.

Well, here are the qualifications that you would need. I just like looked up like, um, what it would take to be like—

look what Google qualifies as a Yeah.

Yeah. So number 1 is highly developmental discipline. Now you're laughing.

Can't even text Alex Ernst back.

But why are you laughing?

Mental discipline.

They must mentally wall off the work life from the personal life and vice versa. Otherwise they would talk out of turn, get burned out, or worse. If a field operative, they would get—

Absolutely no way.

Okay.

You'll be in the field.

Well, let me hit 2 at a time.

And you'll be talking about some girl you're DMing you'd be like, I really like her. And you'd be telling the spy everything. Go.

Okay. Well, that's actually how you get closer to people.

Oh, really? Yes. Okay. Okay.

A love of travel and experiencing foreign cultures.

You love that.

I do.

It's like really a toss-up though.

It's a toss-up.

Because you complain the entire time.

It depends when you catch me.

This is a good one. Number 3 is recognition that diverse people are actually diverse.

You do think that.

I do think that.

I don't get it.

Well, I think it's basically acknowledging That there's different cultures value different things. Like there's different personalities, there's different customs, different contrasting values and like playing to those, which is very good. Superior intelligence. I don't even have to read this one.

You'll have Natalie with you.

I think I got this one in the bag. Wholly committed. I'm pretty committed. Yeah.

When you're committed.

If I was to be a spy though, I'd want to be a spy. For both sides.

I was going to say, would you ever be a double agent?

I'd have to be a double agent.

Really?

Yeah.

Because I— because is that allowed?

Can you just say like, I'm going to be a double agent?

You definitely can't. You can't say that. But I— but I, you know, because I have a level of guilt being a spy. But if I'm like fucking both sides, then I feel like it'd be even.

What makes number 6?

Number 6. Ready?

Yeah.

Good sense of humor.

Oh yeah, that's—

that one's good. That one we can confirm. 100% locked in.

Number 7.

Loyalty. Okay, lock that one in. Number 8, socially accepting religion, race, ethnicity, first language, everything.

Yeah, that's you.

I mean, can you name a more socially accepting guy on the planet than me?

Yeah, yeah. You have those two friends who shit on each other and you don't judge them at all.

Nope, I don't. I don't judge them. Yeah, no, I love them.

Say whatever they want to do.

Okay. Covert action spooks can get wild during recess.

What?

I don't know if that means covert action spooks can get what? Okay. And patience. That's the last one.

Ooh.

Okay. So what is it? 4 out of 10? There's a 40% chance you can get it.

But again, I'm only 29, so I have time to become this.

What's your point of being a double agent? So it's like, I work for the United States.

Yeah. What's fulfilling about that?

But I'm sympathetic with Russia. So then I double agent for Russia?

I'm not sympathetic. I feel like if you're a double agent, you're almost like paid for hire. No, I don't think that there's any right. I don't think that either have best interests in mind for the globe. I think if you're a double agent, I think you're playing both sides for your own benefit. No, for what you believe is the greater good. Oh, yes. I've seen movies where like there are double agents and they're giving information to each side just in order for like—

I think you should start small. You know, you should start locally. You know, there's a lot of lawyers around here that are trying to prove like people with faulty litigation cases. Like, I know my one friend was asked to go take photos of someone at the gym because they said they were— they had malpractice. But like, so they were trying to prove that this guy like could work out, that his neck wasn't messed up.

Wow.

Yeah.

That's crazy.

Did he do it?

Yeah, he went down there, but the guy wasn't there.

How did he even get contacted for that opportunity?

He somehow knew the doctor that was being sued, so the doctor called him and was like, hey man, can you just run over to the LA Fitness and see if this guy's there, take some photos?

Wow, that's sneaky, sneaky.

That is a good move.

I could easily do that.

Yeah, or maybe go to work for Chipotle and spy on Sharkys, see what they're doing with their burrito. That could be cool.

Well, I'm pretty close with the Sharkies team.

Yeah.

What about movies? Spy movies? We can get you— we can kind of get you up to speed.

This isn't— Jay, you're talking— you're taking the piss out of me right now. This is something very serious.

I love Bourne Identity.

I mean, I just—

I love Bond. Bond's all on Netflix now. Every movie.

Bond is on Netflix.

Casino Royale is the best.

And guys, I don't recommend shows often, But my favorite show, I think, that I've ever watched is currently on Netflix.

Assassination?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's the James Franco Show. You like it? The James Franco Show.

You haven't seen it?

James Franco Show, where he finds a time machine in this, like, diner, and he uses it to go back in time to figure out who killed JFK.

Wow.

And in it is like an intertwined love story. It really is so incredibly fulfilling.

You love it, huh?

And I had no idea that James Franco was the guy because I completely separated it. And James came over the other day and I was like, dude, you're my favorite show.

It's really funny.

Sometimes when you compliment like actors, they'll be like, okay, like almost get spooked. And then I remembered, I was like, oh wait, play cool, Dave. And then I was like, it's nothing.

It's nothing.

But yeah, that's kind of what's new. Have a big week ahead of us. Our friend Mike is coming into town. He's having a honeymoon in Hawaii. But he planned a little layover here in LA. Oh, great.

So thoughtful of him to think of us, you know?

Yes.

Funny. Yeah, it was definitely like, like he doesn't actually need to have a layover in LA. He was just like, I'm going to do this so my friends are happy.

Well, he like, he doesn't like to fly. He's like a big pussy.

Yeah. This is your one childhood friend that doesn't live here.

That doesn't live here.

The one of the one guy that said no.

The one guy that's in the group chat.

Yeah.

That doesn't live here.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah. So he's coming here on Friday, so. It's gonna be a big day.

Oh, what are you gonna plan?

I don't know, we'll probably just hit the clubs.

I'm honestly just gonna text Diplo and be like, my friend's in town, where can we go? Where can we go? Please throw a Grammy party, dude, please. Um, but yeah, what do you have planned this weekend? Yeah, how are your daily vlogs going?

Amazing.

Really?

I mean, yeah, it's really fun. You know what's fun about it is like, it's finding your own way to do it, because lots of times when I try to vlog before, I was I was trying to do like what other people were doing, but now I'm just trying to— I'm only doing what I can do.

Do you ever like posting it? Like how many hours of footage do you have a day? Well, like 1 hour footage, about an hour, an hour and a half.

Yeah.

And you kind of take 10 minutes.

Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah. 10, 11 minutes. And just— and what's really nice, just the people that watch every day, then you're like, wow, they're back, they're back, they're back, they're back. And it built a little bit from 2 weeks ago to this week. I was like, wow, it's building.

That is really sick. How many days have you done in a row?

26 in a row.

Holy shit. Are you gonna go the full year?

Yeah.

You're gonna go 365 videos in a row?

I'm gonna go 365.

Wait, are you being serious?

Yeah.

Oh, no way.

I'm gonna go—

I thought it was just for the month of Jan.

No, no, no, I'm gonna go the whole year.

That's December that you're supposed to do it.

Yeah, yeah.

Are you getting AdSense?

Yes.

Can you tell everyone how much you're making?

No.

Wait, why not?

No, I can't. I'm making—

if you don't want to share, you don't have to.

No, I'm happy to share. How should I share? Like the best, the best video? Like one— how about I do the best, the video that's done the best?

Okay.

It's a video with Wyatt.

Okay.

It got 16,000 views.

16?

Yeah. And guess how much money I— how much AdSense I made?

Okay. 16,000 views.

16,000. It's the best video I've done this month. Yeah.

Dude, MrBeast is so good at guessing things like this.

Yeah.

Fuck, I'm so out of touch when it comes to this. Okay.

Well, you don't get adsense.

$75.

Close.

$65.

Nope.

$115.

Nope.

$80.

Closer.

$90.

Very close.

$91.

Very, very, very, very close.

We're about a Chipotle fucking away. $100.

And Natalie's close and you're close. You're closer.

You're really close.

$96.

$96. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good. But so if all the videos could do that, That would be $3,000 a month. That'd be great.

Right.

But they're not all doing that. There are some that are like $4,000, $5,000.

But they're all gonna— but how many views are you getting a month?

Uh, right now 1.2 million views a month.

Okay, so how much is that?

It's $1,300 a month.

Oh.

Yeah, with old videos and—

Yes, that'll just build.

Yeah.

If you have a catalog of 300 videos up.

Yes, I do have a catalog of 300 videos up.

No, I know, but like fresh ones?

Fresh ones, yeah.

Yeah, even like just like—

You're gonna be fucking loaded. Imagine you're gonna be— soon you'll be swimming in it.

I'd be, I'd be so happy.

If you got really rich, would you leave Naveen? Dude, Naveen would be so confused. She'd be like, are you fucking serious?

She's infatuated.

Sorry, Naveen, I make $3,100 a month now, bitch.

That's crazy.

And we— and because we're out, it's so fun. We run into people that listen to Views. It's so fun. We saw this woman yesterday, Maya, from— she lives in Santa Barbara. She was down at the Melrose Trading Post and she was like, oh my God, wow, you're like really doing LA things. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know what I've seen on TikTok? Um, I've seen a resurgence for the love of LA. Yeah, have you been seeing this?

I haven't.

I haven't been seeing it.

There's been like a lot of people that are like being like, I fucking love LA.

Yes, yes. I guess it's the time to say it because it's been so bad.

That's what Natalie said too.

What did you say?

Well, I just said because the weather's so shit everywhere else, like everybody's like, oh, I, I didn't I didn't mean that, but that's true too.

What did you mean?

I meant like the city's been taking a hit for the last couple of years in terms of like fun and people like shit on it and the nightlife is done here. It's not what it was.

I think it's turning.

Yeah, but like, I just wonder what's making it turn.

It's actually made me feel like a proud LAer. Like I've been seeing a lot of comments that are just like, I love this place. And I want to acknowledge the fact that I haven't been the most positive towards LA. Every time people ask me like, especially when I'm in a different country. Yeah, they'll be like, do you like LA? I'm like, uh, not really. I just like— which is kind of fucked up.

Yes, because I do like LA. Yeah, you love it.

And I think it's like— I think that's just like a thing from my like youth.

What's the 5 best things about LA? Go from 5 best things.

The 5 best things?

Yeah, you can do it with Natalie.

Okay, um, the weather one is obvious.

Go.

The weather.

The weather.

Wait, are you saying like— like, is this personal or is this anybody that comes? I think it's just like, generally speaking, let's do personal because like, obviously my friends and my home is like up there.

Yes, yes, yes.

Like, like if I didn't— if home base wasn't here, would I have like— would I have that much of an affinity towards LA? I don't know.

Yeah. Uh, what I love about LA is just like there's always like— there's always that hope around the corner. Like tonight I'm going— I'm going to Kevin Hart and Kenan Thompson's— they have an Amazon show. And we're going to like a screening and it's like, oh, like, who knows?

Yeah, you know what I mean? Like, maybe a place to be like inspired.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

There's a lot of people doing a lot of things, like endless opportunity.

Yeah, endless opportunity. People doing stuff.

Um, it's a people in a place to meet people if you're wanting to get into entertainment.

Yes.

And I mean that like as easily as like at the gym or at Erewhon. You don't have to like have like this crazy meeting at CAA. Yeah, like all those people that work at CAA go to the gym, go to the store, walk their dogs. Like, it's like there's always places to meet people. I told you, obviously, always places to not also talk to people and bother them.

But yeah, I told you I got a job on the treadmill once here, which was like incredible.

It's like, so, Zilla Gym?

No, no, I was at the treadmill at Crunch and some guy called me and he was like, hey, I want you to host a show. And I was like, I was like, I was like, what? I was like, shut up. Like, who are you? Like, he's like, no, no, no, no, don't hang up. Don't hang up. Like, I work for TMZ. We're starting a new show. I want you to be the host. I told you that story, right?

Oh, I thought you were sitting next to the guy on the treadmill.

He was across the way. He was in the office like 10 feet away. And I just walked over. I left. I got off the treadmill and I walked to the office next door and suddenly I was in TMZ and they were like, oh, you're the new host.

Like crazy.

And they paid you?

Yeah. And I was on for like 2 weeks until it got canceled.

They paid you half a million dollars for 2 weeks?

No, I didn't say that.

Wait, did you not say $500,000?

Never.

Like that was never even—

David's world versus my world. No, I think I got like, you know, $2,000 an episode. Episode.

But still, it was so cool.

Wait, when was this? This was like, I don't know, 2010.

I didn't know you were a host on TMZ.

Yeah, me and Laura Silverman. We hosted a show called Totally Twisted. Oh damn. Yeah. And it was all, it was like—

I'll have to look it up and tune in.

It was like Tosh, it was like Tosh.0. It was like internet clips.

Like another good example of people meeting people here is, you know, Ryan, our pickleball guy?

Yeah.

Like just from people that play pickleball here.

Yes.

Just last week got a $500,000 investment to fuse.

You're kidding.

From someone that plays pickle here.

You're kidding.

Like they struck the deal right here in the backyard.

Oh my God, that's crazy.

Half a million dollars just over a game of pickleball.

You gotta get 3%, Dave.

Like, that's Los Angeles.

3%. Yeah, I'm gonna— I'm actually gonna call Ryan.

Um, should I call him? Yeah, should I see if he'll come in on it? Yeah.

Um, but yeah, you love putting Ryan on the spot.

Yeah, Ryan's like our guy that we call.

Is he?

Well, we've called him on the pod so many times.

Wait, this is funny.

Yo, you're so good at picking up your phone. It's actually crazy.

If I want to be.

Well, thank you for being—

because he wants to play pickleball.

Ryan, you're on the podcast again. Guess what?

What?

Well, it's not guess what. I don't know why I said that, but I heard you got an investor here on the pickleball court for $500,000 the other day.

Well, not the other day, but yeah, I met somebody at the house. I think Ilya invited him over to play. Yeah, we had a lot of connectivity with his network, just who our existing investors are.

Got it. So, um, yeah, so Ryan, I'm just contacting you to see if there's any, any way I could—

I know, don't even ask.

Just, you know, just as, as the guy who basically brokered the deal, um, where was David when the deal went down?

I was probably upstairs in my bedroom minding my own business, letting them connect. Giving Ryan the opportunity.

I did. I did do that. I did do that. I planted the seed and then like a month later. So I do owe you dinner. How's that?

Thank you. A half a million dollars. Ryan, we're talking about why LA is— We were saying what?

I said I'll take you to dinner as long as you stick around for the meal and you don't leave 5 minutes after.

You're good. You don't owe me anything. Ryan, we're talking about why we love LA. What's your like the You're probably the biggest LA fan in the world. Give me one reason.

Honestly, I'm very, very mentally and emotionally affected by the weather and the climate, and I don't like gloomy skies. And I just love that 85% of the year, if not more, the weather in LA is like— it's just— it's pristine. You know, look, nowhere's perfect, but I think we've got the best food. I think if we can clean up some things in the city, it's just a great— it's a great— it's a great city. The best weather.

Thank you, Governor Hughes.

It's the weather.

It's not the best food.

All right, thanks, Ryan.

What?

It's not the best food.

It's not the best food.

No, sir.

It's amazing food here.

Not the best.

You ever hear that fact that if you wanted to try all the restaurants in LA, it'd take you like 36 years if you went to one every day?

Sure. In New York, it'd take you 46 years. I mean, what do you—

what do you think? We definitely have the, like, the best food.

That's, that's quantity, not quality.

No, but I would say like, whatever quality within quantity.

Yeah, whoa, yes, there's, there's quality within quantity. I see, the more of it, the more likely. Yeah, yeah, I'm just saying, like, the food is better on the East Coast. It's better in Chicago, you know it is.

What? Chicago doesn't even have that many places to eat. Got like fucking maybe—

the food's better on the East Coast. I know it is, I know it is.

But like, whatever you have on the East Coast, you can definitely find in LA. I'm—

guys, this wasn't a—

this wasn't a— we're not putting The East Coast down here.

Hey, here's a good example of LA. You guys went out Thursday night for John's birthday. How was that? Horrible.

We were actually shocked.

Why?

We're actually shocked. It was like one of the worst nights of going out ever. Really?

Nobody was out?

Nobody was out. We went to like— we went to this like club that's like always popping.

Yeah.

And it was basically closed. They just had like 5 tables open for like dinner, so we just like sat.

Yeah. What time were you out?

Like 11 PM.

11. Oh no, nothing. Nobody was out. But yes, in the summertime, yes. Yeah, I think, I think it's because like when it drops below 70 here, people are like, I'm gonna stay inside by the fire.

Well, it's also January. It's like dry January. Like, you know, people are like on their grind, you know.

It's the one time to be in LA if you don't want anybody here. Yeah, it's Coachella.

Oh, that's crazy. I love Christmas here too. Really?

Yeah, the holidays here. Any holiday? Thanksgiving, Christmas. Is, goes down.

Am I considered a transplant?

Yes.

I didn't know where you were going there. Um, a transplant. Yeah, you're a transplant.

But still, you're not from here.

I get it, but like, LA transplant David Dobrik.

But like, at what point am I not a— am I forever a transplant?

Honestly, I was in—

I've been in LA longer than I've been anywhere else in the entire world.

That's not true yet.

It is. We went through this.

You've been 12 years here. You've been 13 years in Chicago and you've been 5 years in Philadelphia.

Well, Chicago, I switched suburbs.

Okay.

So the same thing.

Okay.

You moved a couple of towns over.

Okay.

You're right.

He moved 20 minutes away.

Okay.

Got it.

Got it.

I was a Lincolnshire transplant for a while.

Okay, fine. Yeah, I guess you're right. But once I become—

once LA's number one, is that my—

am I still— I'm still a transplant?

I've lived here more than, yeah, anywhere else. So yeah.

Are you a transplant?

Yeah, I'm still a transplant.

His affinity is still like Boston, you know, like that's like his roots.

Affinity.

Affinity.

I used to drive an Affinity.

No, that's an instrument.

Oh, my bad.

Affinity.

Okay, well done.

Yeah, I mean, I do like it here. And that's the other thing is if I have to move, I'll be like, uh-oh.

I was having this conversation with some girlfriends and I thought this was interesting and like very like modern age.

Yeah.

A lot of my girlfriends are not taking their significant other's last name, like when they get married.

Really?

Yeah, like they're keeping their last name.

Oh, I don't like that.

That's fucked up.

Really? You think so?

I don't like that at all.

Why? I don't know.

I don't even care. Like, I'll take the girl's name.

Okay.

But like, someone needs to take somebody's name.

There's something— there's something so nice when I— when it's like, I forget that Naveen changed her name and she'll be like, Naveen Nash, and I'll be like, oh my God, it's especially weird.

Yeah, yeah, that's really funny.

Yeah, I mean, I, I—

like, a lot of them were saying just because like in professional settings like, well, that entire career they've been so-and-so.

Sure.

And so to change the last name, it's like, it's like an identity crisis, kind of.

Yeah. I was Molly Iberneck, now I'm Molly Iberneck Schwartz.

Yeah. And who the fuck is that?

Yeah, it used to be really complicated with teachers.

Yes.

Because like, when, like, especially when a hot teacher would change her name and they'd be like, no, uh, that doesn't fit how hot you are.

Wasserman.

Like, that used to be like, that used to be really tough. I don't know. I still think you should take a last name. One person or the other, please.

I think the man taking the woman's last name is just weird.

Okay, cool. So take the man's last name. Like, I don't care who takes who. I just think you should be cohesive. And I don't like the little squiggly marks in between.

Squiggly? The hyphen? I don't love a hyphen either.

I think that's true.

I think it's just complicated.

What about a tilde? How do you feel about a tilde?

What's a tilde? Like the nyet nyet nyet?

Yeah, yeah. Like the little dash above like an A or a U.

Like that.

Yeah, no, I like those. I really like the ones that are squiggly.

You like a squiggly? Oh, oh, like in Vietnamese wording.

I have a squiggly.

Yeah, no, you don't.

Yes, I do.

On what word?

N in Maradwena.

You have a squiggly above the U?

No, that's so weird.

You're like the whitest person I know.

I know. I don't really know why you say that.

When you sign your name, do you put a squiggly?

No.

Okay, so you don't know as quickly.

Well, why would I do that?

Are you going to take your husband's last name?

See, you know what's nice about what I've done with my name?

Are you comfortable with going with Natalie Dobrik for the rest of your life?

No, no, actually, that is my email. So like someone asked me on a meeting, they're like, are you the wife? And I was like, no, no, I'm the manager. She was like from a different country. I thought it was so funny because your last name is like, it's the name of our company. So it's like in my email.

Are you the wife?

They would always ask me if I was his dad. Someone asked, are you the dad to David? Yeah, really? I don't think he'd roll around, vlog with his dad.

You never know.

I'm a cool guy, Jason.

Yeah, I've got my own thing going on.

I'm daily vlogging now, by the way.

You probably saw— there's a good chance you saw the one with Wyatt.

Wyatt does well.

You should start making statistics for your channel like MrBeast does.

Like MrBeast has this like crazy statistic that it's like 1 in 8 people on the planet have seen a MrBeast video in the last month. Yeah, you should do with your highest performing 16,000 view video.

Okay, how do I do that?

I don't know, break that down.

16,000, you have to divide.

You should get like a really cool guy to do like a trailer for your videos. Yeah, 1 in 550,000 people have seen the latest Jason Nash vlog.

That's really funny. That's a good idea.

Enter any state and there's a chance that there's a person in that state that has seen a Nash Nation production.

Sorry, what were you saying?

I was just talking about the last name thing. But yeah, I'm going to take my husband's last name. Oh, that's what I was saying. Because my name is Natalie Noel. Like, that's what he will know me as. Like, my—

Oh, you're saying you did an interesting thing where you just completely— you basically stepped on your father's throat and you said, fuck this name. So not only am I not going to take my future man's name, but I'm going to make sure any man that has anything to do with this is eliminated. Oh my God, I am just Natalie Noel now. Just feminine name.

My dad does say that though. He's like, use your last name. And I'm like, why?

It's really funny.

Uh, why don't you use it?

My parents were nervous about me naming it Dobrik because they're like, if the pizza sucks, we don't want to tie it to our family name.

That's crazy. Wow, that's ruthless. Um, I didn't use it because growing up as a kid, like, my last name was so not American. So like, people just like— I was— I felt— I don't know, I just got like embarrassed by it growing up. Like when we had to like roll call or like line up or whatever and you just say like my full name, I'd be so— so I just— when I made my Instagram when I was in middle school, I was like, it's Natalina Noel.

Oh, well, that's how I felt about Julian. Like I used to get fucking like destroyed for my middle name Julian, 100%, to the point where it like traumatized me. We're like, now I was, I was hanging out with someone actually the other day, said my name on like the hotel like window or the hotel thing. We were all hanging out in the living room.

Yeah.

And it said David Julian Dobrik. And I was like, I'm surprised none of you guys have mentioned anything about my last name. And we were in a different country. Or about my middle name.

Yeah.

And they're like, Julian?

Yeah.

And they're like, yeah.

Like random people or like us?

No, like people from that country.

Oh, okay.

And they're like, yeah, it's like, I've I have like 7 friends named Julian. And I'm like so programmed for some reason to like be embarrassed by it because I made fun of it so much.

He shouldn't, he shouldn't.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where it's like so crazy. And I'm not even just saying this to like regain my confidence in it. Like genuinely, I feel rude now when I'm like embarrassed to say my name to the Julians. Because there's nothing wrong with the name Julian.

Let's reframe your brain right now.

Yeah.

Imagine you were a famous artist.

Artist.

Yeah. Okay. And you're like world-renowned, and you go to see David Julian Dobrik. Like, doesn't that sound good?

Huh.

Or let's say like, your name's not that bad. Like, Julian's not even that bad.

Or if you're an author, or, or like a— maybe even an artist, like a, a concert pianist.

Yeah.

I don't know what happened. I don't know who put the— put it in my head that was a bad name.

It was that kid on the bus.

Definitely. No, it was the kid on the bus. They didn't know. It was like my close friends that knew Julian.

Your name is Julian. I think it sounds like Julian.

Yeah, which is also like, I mean, nowadays you could be a guy, could be called fucking Katie. Mm-hmm. And that's actually a really cool guy name, Katie.

K-A-D-Y.

Yeah.

I mean, yeah, now I love like the unisex.

I love like a girl having a guy's name and guys having—

yeah, girls having guys' names, like the coolest.

Yeah.

Charlie.

Yeah, but even more so, like, more you gotta go like hard, harder.

Like what?

Billy's a good one.

Billie's good, but Billie Eilish kind of took it.

Like, Billie Eilish has now made it feminine.

Yeah, yeah.

But like, uh, I don't know what's like a really—

Mark.

Mark?

No, that's too much.

Really?

Yeah, because like, Zach. A girl named Zach? Yeah, it's kind of interesting.

I kind of like that.

I wrote—

I wrote Jason.

The worst name.

This is my girlfriend Jason.

What?

My girlfriend Mark? No, I don't like it.

Yeah, I mean, I don't know. Listen, we have some time to think about names. Um, guys, new revelation: I'm gonna be single for a long time.

Really?

Yeah. No.

Yeah.

Why?

Well, because I'm gonna— I'm starting this new vlog journey, and I can't have anybody beating down my back.

Oh, okay.

I kind of was thinking that too. I was like, if we're gonna start doing— like, there was some things that I was like— this is so stupid. Um, there's some things that I was like, mentally—

we're just accepting defeat over here.

That's what Tell me, tell me.

Well, no, there was just like things, decisions I was going to make for like my— which I should still make them anyway.

Like when you booked that thing last summer and you had to cancel it?

Yeah, or just like— no, even just like personal health decisions.

What the fuck you mean?

I was gonna move to Chicago for like 6 weeks and then we decided we were vlogging again, so I had to cancel everything.

Oh yeah, I wanted to live my life, live my dreams.

All right, you go girl.

Um, thank you. No, but there was like, I don't know, just Like not smoking a cigarette, for example, was like one of the things I wanted to do this year in order to like make sure my body was in peak health or whatever. So that once I find my person and then I like want to have kids, like I'm going to be like good to go and be like so clean, so ready for it.

Okay.

But now I'm going to be so busy, like I'm not going to have time. Like I've already mentally committed to like the next year is like I'm not going to find— there's no— there is zero chance that I'm going to find anybody or even have the time to think about whatever because we're just going to be so busy.

Oh, go. No, no, no.

Yeah. 100.

No.

How am I.

You're. You're closing the door, right?

I think this next year, Jay is going to be so busy.

Yeah. Where?

It's game over.

Really?

Yeah.

Oh, okay.

I'm sure I'll meet people. I just won't have time for, like, an actual committed relationship to the point where, like, I'm like, okay, well, but don't shut yourself.

That being said, if there's a body out there before we end the pod, we are looking for editors that are incredible. And I mean, and I don't mean like you, you, I don't know, I mean you can cut to music. I don't mean that like you see like pretty shots of sunsets and a boat and cool drone shots and people playing sports and you could put it together and make a really cool reel. I mean like some, like someone that can like take footage that is complete shit and turn it into something by either making it really long or by making it really short, by like knowing like just Just like feeling, just like by knowing what, like what, like, wow, I don't know how to describe it.

Like having like a style and like opinion. Like there's not like one right way to edit something.

There's a bunch of different. Yeah, there's like 100 different ways to edit something and just like knowing at least one or two ways that's very strong and opinionated and you like really feel that that's the certain way to go. And every, I don't know, just someone who's like just comedically fired up. And also visually can understand the assignment. And I don't know, I, you know, you get it.

Someone who gets you is really the most important.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And also, like, I want someone— I don't want— I want it to feel like not my— I want, like, these new vlogs to feel like it's like a team thing. Like, like a lot of people are putting it together and it feels different. I don't want to just feel like David making a video. But yeah. All right, well, we'll see you guys soon.

We're also hiring for other roles and other positions on LinkedIn if anybody wants to check it out.

Oh, positions? I'm looking for work.

Or you can just email us if you're actually interested in being an editor, any of these roles, at ast@dobrik.com.

Amen. Okay, we'll see you guys later.

This has been a Views podcast. Thank you for joining us.

Go watch Jason's daily vlogs, and we'll see you guys soon.