Auditioning for SNL
What's up, guys? Welcome back to Views. I'm here with Jason and I'm David. And I want to— I want to say some things that are going to be a little bit more serious. And I know a lot of you guys aren't used to me being a little bit more serious, so it's going to spook some of you. But I want to address some things that I feel like are pretty important to me and to Jason and to a lot of people listening. Jason and I have made, I don't know, over 600, 700 videos together. I couldn't even tell you. And the intention with every single video is to make people laugh. And I know it sounds so cheesy and I hate saying it, I hate saying it, but every video I make, every Instagram I post, everything I do, I just wanna cheer somebody up. I wanna make them laugh, I wanna make them smile, I want them to share it with a friend. And I just, I want them to have a positive experience when they're interacting with anything I produce. And with that being said, I feel like on a handful of occasions, I've just missed the mark on that. And that really, really bums me out. And that kind of sucks that it took me so long to understand. But I think when we went to our first Black Lives Matter protest and I was looking through my DMs afterwards, and it's one thing to get DMs from somebody going, "Hey, your video is so funny," or, "This was so funny," but it's a completely different thing to get DMs about how much your alliance with a cause means for that person and their family, or how much it means that you're using your voice to amplify theirs. Like, that is a completely different feeling. But that's when I realized, holy shit, there's people that are seriously looking up to me for things more than just something goofy. You know, I think for a while I was kinda just like, I'm the goofball, that's all I am. But I think there's parts of this where I need to be more serious because I want to be a good role model for the people watching. And I'm ashamed and I'm embarrassed about some of the things I did in videos or in Vines or whatever I was doing. And genuinely, I genuinely feel awful about it. And I'm going to do better actively and I'm gonna do that consistently. And you know, you have my word for that. And I promise that. And if I'm anything, I'm a man of my word. And I just wanna say that if there was a kid who saw something from me that didn't make them feel welcomed or just made them feel uncomfortable, I'm sorry. I did not ever mean to make anybody feel out of place. I genuinely just want to make you have a good time. And I'm going to do that from here on out. And I'm gonna do a better job at it.