May 26, 2025 • 39 mins
Bonus 9 - What happens when a podcast host puts his own son in the guest seat? Pure magic. In this heartwarming Memorial Day bonus episode, Jake welcomes his eldest son Josh for a conversation that bridges generations, creative pursuits, and shared family memories.
Josh, who made Jake a father 25 years ago after being born prematurely at just three pounds, has grown into a creative force who now manages his own growing YouTube channel, Tri Nintendo. Their conversation weaves through cherished family traditions—from Wednesday night Survivor viewings paired with Taco Bell (a multi-generational Bushman obsession) to their numerous Disney adventures that actually inspired the concept behind Journey with Jake.
The father-son dynamic shines through as they recall specific memories, like driving up Mount Evans in Colorado and Josh's first encounters with video games at age five ("I'm just so interested in games!"). We witness the beautiful evolution of Josh's gaming passion, which began with borrowed Nintendo consoles from friends and relatives, into his current creative outlet combining gaming insights with his professional design skills.
What makes this episode special is the mutual admiration flowing both ways. Jake expresses pride in Josh's talent and consistency in building his channel to nearly 10,000 subscribers in just five months, while Josh acknowledges learning the value of diligence and hard work from his father. Their rapport reveals how family connections provide the foundation for our individual journeys into new territory.
The conversation concludes with rapid-fire questions covering Josh's favorite Nintendo games, Disney rides, and even his standard Taco Bell order (bean burrito, no onions, extra red sauce and a crunchy taco). When asked what adventure means to him, Josh offers a beautifully simple definition: "something new."
Ready for a feel-good listening experience that celebrates family bonds and creative passion? This father-son conversation delivers exactly that. And don't forget to check out Josh's YouTube channel at @TriNintendo – even if you're not a gaming fan, his creativity and production quality are worth experiencing!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Happy Memorial Day.
In keeping with my tradition ofdropping a bonus episode on
holidays, this one is extraspecial because I'm joined by my
son, josh Bushman.
We dive into family memories,our love of Disney and Taco Bell
and his journey as a risingYouTuber with his channel Try
Nintendo.
From gaming and graphic designto consistency and creativity,
(00:23):
josh opens up about thechallenges and joys of content
creation and what adventuremeans to him.
Welcome to this father-sonconversation with Josh Bushman.
Welcome to Journey with Jake.
This is a podcast aboutadventure and how, through our
adventures, we can overcome thechallenges of life that come our
way.
While I expect you will learnsome things about different
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adventures, this show willentertain you have done or are
doing to overcome the hardshipsthat come their way.
My goal is to take each of uson a journey through the
experiences of my guests, withthe hope that you'll be
entertained and inspired toovercome your day-to-day
challenges.
After all, it's not all aboutthe destination, as it is about
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the journey.
Thanks for joining me for thisspecial bonus episode of Journey
with Jake.
It was a real treat to have myson, josh, on the show, not just
to talk about his journey inthe YouTube world, but also to
reflect on our relationship andwhat it meant to grow together
over the years.
I'm incredibly proud of Josh,and that goes for my other three
kids as well.
I'm truly blessed to be theirdad.
(01:51):
We'll be back with our regularweekly episode this Thursday, so
be sure to tune in.
But for now, enjoy thisfather-son conversation with my
son, josh, all right?
Well, we're all smiles here.
I've got someone who Iabsolutely love on the show with
me today.
This is a bonus episode.
I got my son, josh Bushman here.
Josh, welcome to Journey withJake.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Thanks.
It's good to be on the show,father.
I've heard about it for so long.
I've watched some episodes,listened to some episodes here
and there.
Watch some episodes.
Listen to some episodes hereand there.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So typically I like to have my guests kind of give a
little introduction of who theyare.
I don't think I need to do thatnecessarily with you.
So I thought what I would do isI would kind of give my
introduction of you and then youcan kind of fill in whatever
else you want.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah or you know correct mistakes.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Yeah, I can.
You can correct my mistakes.
I make a view.
Correct mistakes yeah, yeah,exactly.
Yeah, I can.
You can correct my mistakes, Imake a view.
Vice versa, whatever.
But first of all, josh is myoldest.
Josh was the one who made me afather.
So Josh is 25 now, 25 years old.
He's out doing his own thing.
He's married to Elizabeth.
You have a beautiful babydaughter, brielle, my
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granddaughter, which is awesome.
I love her.
It's exciting.
A couple of things, interestingthings about Josh.
Josh was premature.
I always have to say thatYou're a premature.
Josh was born at 29 weeks.
He's only three pounds.
So whenever I'm embarrassedsomething he does I just say
it's because he was premature.
I still use that to this day,right, josh?
Yeah, a couple of things aboutJosh.
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Super friendly, he's alwaysbeen friendly.
I know friends are important tohim.
He's always been a reallyfriendly kid.
He's an athlete.
He played baseball.
He plays pickleball a lot now,so he's always pretty talented.
He was coordinated, that sortof thing.
And super creative.
Josh has been our creativechild, our artiste, so to speak.
He likes to draw and just becreative.
All of the Journey with Jakestuff that you see the website,
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my logos, all that.
Josh helped me create those, soJosh is pretty much the one who
did it all.
So I'm excited to have Josh asa bonus episode Plus.
You know it's my son and it'sfun to talk to him.
You get to know me a little bitthrough this conversation.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
We'll know it's my son and it's fun to to talk to
him.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
You get to know me a little bit through this
conversation.
We'll get to know josh as well.
Did I get everything okay?
Yeah, no, that was perfect, yougot it.
So the first thing I kind ofwant to talk about is for you
growing up bushman, what it waslike to be to be a bushman
growing up.
What stands out so for you,when you think about growing up
in our household and our family,what kind of jumps out to you,
what comes to mind?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
so it's interesting, I feel like as a teenager I kind
of strayed away from some ofthose bushman roots.
But as I've been married andgotten older I kind of go back
to some of those things, some ofthose traditions.
A big one, I think, for us isreality tv.
We love our survivor, our bigbrother, our amazing race.
We just love all those shows.
I remember wednesday nights, Ithink, for us, is reality TV.
We love our Survivor, our BigBrother, our Amazing Race.
We just love all those shows.
I remember Wednesday nights wasalways Survivor Night where
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we'd watch it and get Taco Bellevery week and that leads into
another Bushman tradition isTaco Bell.
I think it's in our blood.
My great grandfather, yourgrandfather.
That was his favorite place andwhen he passed away at his
funeral, trays of tacos, traysof burritos from taco bell.
So I always love sharing thatbecause it's just a place I
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still go to at least once a week.
That hasn't changed.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
um, yeah, it's funny you say that about taco bell,
because when you think about ataco Taco Bell, I mean it's Taco
Bell, we love it and there'ssentimental value to it,
especially at Grandpa's funeral.
You know, when we had a littleget-together, family night
together, what do we have?
We have tacos and burritos.
And he would go to Taco Bell.
(05:38):
I don't know if he knew thisnear the end of his life He'd go
to Taco Bell, like every day.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, and I heard that was like the last place he
fell, so but I mean, I mean nobetter place for him to have
fallen.
It seemed to be his favoriteplace, so yeah, absolutely yeah,
very good.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
So that's a good one.
That's one I didn't really eventhink of.
But the reality TV, taco Bell,yep, and if anything else, jump
out to you growing up.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, I mean sports is another one.
We did baseball Little League,me and my two brothers and so I
remember always being at thebaseball park.
Funny because I remember a lotof my friends as I was getting
older they hated baseball, notbecause of the sport but because
I would be gone and couldn'thang out with them because I'd
be at baseball.
So that was kind of our weekendthing for you know springs and
falls and stuff.
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But that's another one where,as I kind of got older, I didn't
really care for it as much.
I mean it was hard to beinvested if I didn't play
something.
I'm still kind of like thatwhere I don't like to watch
sports as much, I like to playthem.
That's kind of like my exercise, how I get my exercise and
stuff.
But now I'm like fully back onthe D-backs train.
(06:44):
For the last couple of yearsT-Mobile Tuesday came in clutch
and gave us a free season, sothat's like you know nothing to
do in the evening.
Let's start watching someD-backs games again, and so
baseball's a big one for meagain and I think a big one for
our family, but just kind ofsports in general.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yeah, we've always been sport type people.
We've always enjoyed sports.
I think something interesting.
You look at the show that I'mdoing, journey with Jake, which
I've been doing for three and ahalf years now, and it's about
adventure and you know, peoplejumping off cliffs and people
doing crazy things.
What kind of adventures did wedo or did we do adventures?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Zero adventures no, I'm just kidding, we did a lot
of stuff.
Bushmans, like Disney,no-transcript, like that, it's
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just always, always been with me.
It makes me think of not justour immediate family, but our
extended family, of your mom anddad, and so it's just, I don't
know, it's just kind of in ourblood too, I think, is Disney.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, you know, and I think Disney is kind of what
really kicked off the ideabehind this podcast, because my
thought was, when I firststarted Journey with Jake, my
thought was, okay, it's going tobe a travel type podcast, but
it's going to be about people'sspecific memories of certain
places and why those places hadimportance.
And the show kind of startedoff like that In I had the
(08:24):
castanhos.
You know the castanhos, theywere on they, they talked about
their, about disney and whatit's like for them and the rope
drops and just you know,memories, things like that for
them.
And that's kind of what Iwanted.
I wanted to dive into thatwhole nostalgia thing.
But then as I really I got intothe show and I realized, oh man
, this is so much more than that.
It's, you know, people'sexperiences, and not necessarily
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places and things like that,but really Disney and my
experiences with going to Disneyis kind of probably what
started it.
Fun fact, I haven't been toDisneyland California since 2020
.
So it's been over five years,which is a long time for me, and
I'm okay with that, which is soweird to say now, because I
know, I know it bothers youwhenever, I know, whenever I say
that I'm like I'm okay notgoing.
(09:07):
But you know, disney was goodfor our family because of that,
for sure, it definitely did that.
I have, yeah, lots of memories.
I still remember when we allwhen I, we took all of you guys
to florida too we went to disneyworld.
Yeah, I think you were 14 or soat the time yeah, I think, yeah
, I was 14, 14, all the way downto four years old Haley was
four or five at the time.
(09:28):
Yeah, that was a lot of fun.
I mean, it's just fun spendingtime together as a family and
you know those kinds of kinds ofthings for sure.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Oh, I was just going to say about that Florida trip.
That's around the first time Ihad a.
I got a phone too, so I have alot of like really low quality
images of that trip, of justanything and everything.
When you first get a phone or acamera, you just kind of take
pictures of literally everything, so that one's pretty well
documented for me and I likelooking at those from time to
time.
Yeah, when was that?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Was that 2014?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It was 14.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, so you know, 11 years ago.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
And you guys surprised us too.
That was like we had no idea.
I think brandon figured it out.
He's, you know, the brother twoyears younger than me.
He'd kind of sneak into, he'dlisten under your guys's door
and hear your conversations withgrandma and grandpa, and he I
don't think he told any of us,though I think you swore him to
secrecy.
But for me and my othersiblings it was a surprise and
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it was fun seeing them at theairport and stuff good old
brandon, he's.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Uh, that's our accountant kid, your accountant
brother for sure.
No, that's good stuff, allright, any other fun things that
you remember doing as a kid?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I mean I remember, I know you have really close ties
to Colorado and I remember thatColorado trip we took and I was
older, like you say a kid, but Imean I was 16.
I think I was 16.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah, 16 or 17.
Were you a senior Going to be asenior?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Maybe it was when I was an older teenager.
For sure that was really funbecause I'd never been, that was
my first time.
Even like the drive I rememberjust being really beautiful,
like I remember having like ariver going alongside us while
we're traveling throughmountains and stuff and got to
see Diamondbacks and Rockiesplay.
That was really fun, I don'tknow.
It's just kind of cool toexplore new things as a family
(11:10):
because I mean we kind of stayedto, you know, the West for the
most part, kind of Arizona,nevada, california and Utah was
kind of our main thing.
So it was kind of fun when wegot to branch out a little bit.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, that was a great trip.
I'm glad, glad you mentionedthat, because Colorado for me,
yeah, growing up, was huge and Ididn't really get to experience
that with you guys until youguys were a little bit older.
But I remember, yeah, drivinginto Colorado, just a lot of for
me, a lot of memories came back, A lot of nostalgia came back.
But I remember going to do youremember going to Mount Evans.
We went up on.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Mount Evans, I think so.
Is that where the goat was,there were?
Speaker 1 (11:45):
goats up there.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yes, yeah, I do remember that.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
That was a lot of fun because I remember first of all
, it's the highest- it's kind ofscary too, driving up there.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I remember it was really narrow roads.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
The road was scary.
It's the highest paved road inNorth America at 14,000
something feet.
I struggled to breathe up atthat elevation anyway.
But it was fun being up therewith with you and the rest of
the.
Our whole family was up theregetting pictures of these
mountain goats that were thereand it was just, it was a good
time.
I just yeah, I had a.
I had such a blast with youguys in in Colorado.
(12:15):
It was kind of our.
I mean, it was kind of our lasttrip altogether, I think Left
and went on a church mission.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
We did Disneyland 2018, January.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
We did do Disneyland 2018.
Okay, that's right.
I do remember that.
I remember going there.
Grandma and grandpa came tothat as well.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Cousin Chandler.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
And Cousin Chandler.
Yeah, exactly so.
We did Disney quite a bit.
I think that was probably yourbiggest thing, that we did
Something else about you, josh.
That was quite interestingabout you and I always thought,
maybe, that you would grow outof this, but you never did.
You loved video games.
Yeah, okay, tell me how youknow.
(12:52):
When did you first get hookedon gaming?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
You always love this quote.
You still reference it.
It's me as a five, six-year-oldor something, and I should say
because it's so interesting.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I'm just so interested in games.
I'm just so interested in games.
That's what it was.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
It's hard to pinpoint when it started, I mean because
I don't think we owned our ownsystems for a while, but it was
always like going to friends'houses, like if you remember the
Watsons, they had like aGameCube and you know, when I
was five, six years old I'd goover there play it.
I remember there was a kid infirst grade who was playing
Pokemon and Pokemon was, I mean,it's still a huge thing, but
(13:31):
late nineties, early twothousands, pokemon was just just
booming.
Game Boy and DS and so Pokemoncards too.
I mean it was just a kid's plaything, like it was so, so big.
And there was a kid in firstgrade that let me like borrow
his ds.
Just yeah, you want to playthis game here.
You go like you know he's sixyears old, doesn't, doesn't know
(13:52):
any better, lets me take ithome.
And so I remember playing onthis kid's ds up in like my bunk
bed and just spamming the the abutton using the same move over
and over and watching the enemypokemon die, or I don know it
was really fun.
And I remember mom coming inand being like, where did you
get that?
It's?
Just yeah, I said, kid, let meborrow it.
You know, I don't, I don'treally know him, but I gave it
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back to him the next day.
But I don't know, just just alot of different things.
I know grandma, your mom, shehad a Super Nintendo and so
whenever we'd go over therethere was a Super Nintendo that
I'd play.
Just I don't know a lot ofdifferent consoles from
different places, every timeVery fun for me, very exciting.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
That's so funny.
Like you said, your grandmother, my mom we had the Super
Nintendo.
I played the NBA game a lot.
I like to play the NBA.
I was huge into the NBA when Iwas a teenager so I'd play that,
but that was about the extentof it.
I didn't get into games likeyou do.
I mean, you got into them andit's interesting because we yeah
, your mom, myself we weren'tbig gamers, so we didn't really
(14:53):
care to get you games or do thatsort of thing.
So it's amazing to me that yougot into them secondhand.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah, and I mean you have siblings that are pretty
into it.
I mean your brother David, yourbrother Will are pretty into
games.
Your brother David's probablythe one that got me into Zelda,
which is my favorite series.
It's the shirt that I'm wearingright now for today but he let
me borrow a copy of TwilightPrincess, which is my favorite
game.
I mean Will, I'm always likethat's what we connect on.
(15:22):
I talk to him about video gamesor Disney, and so I mean Will,
I'm always like that's what weconnect on.
I talk to him about video gamesor Disney, and so I mean it's
always been around like family,but not, yeah, not you, and mom
specifically Mom hates themactually, so that's always been.
Probably the only point ofcontention between us is her
disdain for them and myfascination with them.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
And it takes us to today.
You started a YouTube channel.
What's the name of it?
Kind of tell us what thisYouTube channel is, because I
know it has a lot to do withyour love of gaming.
So tell us about it.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
The handle on YouTube is at TryNintendo but I just go
by Try based off the Triforcefrom the Legend of Zelda, so
it's a TR, a little trianglecharacter.
Actually, my wife got me thisfor my birthday.
It's what he looks like Ifyou're for you video watchers
just my guy waving his hand.
It's kind of cool.
I got a lot of skills that Ipicked up from just high school
(16:12):
and college, doing graphicdesign, some video editing here
and there, and I was kind ofable to use this vast hours of
time sunk into YouTube and andkind of turn it into creating.
I.
I felt like I don't know ifthis, if it was like this for
you with with podcasting, but Iwould start watching so much
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YouTube that I'd be like I can'tbe a consumer anymore, like I
need to.
I don't know.
I felt like I was just I coulddo something.
I could actually like be a partof this instead of just
absorbing it.
I don't know.
That was one of the reasons whyI wanted to start my channel.
I talk about video games thatI'm interested in, usually
Nintendo-type stuff and alsodesign.
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I did UX design in college, gotmy degree in that.
Sometimes I'll do case studieson game console UI design or
video games, and those alsohappen to be kind of the most
popular videos on my channel.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
You know it's funny that you talk about the whole,
you know, youtube thing andbeing a consumer of it, and I
think that's the way I was.
You know, when the pandemic hit, I was definitely a consumer of
podcasts.
That's where I first startedlistening to podcasts and I
think you're right.
I think after a while I waskind of like I can do this, or
like why, you know, I'm justconsuming it all.
(17:30):
Why don't I do this?
Why don't I step into this game?
And I still consume a lot, justbecause I have a lot of friends
who are podcasters and thingslike that.
I consume it from that thatpoint.
I still listen to things tohelp me with things.
But yeah, I've switched it tonot just full on consuming but
after giving out, you're doingthe same thing.
Why do you think it was justthis niche for you?
Was it because that's what yougrew up loving?
I mean, obviously you use thedesign background that you got
(17:51):
in college, but why the videogame thing?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah, I mean I already loved it.
I feel like that's a hard thingfor a lot of people when they
create a YouTube channel is whatam I going to make videos about
?
Some of the biggest channels,you know, ryan Trahan, mrbeast
they're kind of variety contentcreators where it's very hyper
speed, hyper edited, attentiongrabbing challenges, and they're
very.
I mean, one video to the nextit's completely different.
(18:18):
It could be Squid Game, onevideo.
It could be I survived on anisland.
You know what I mean, and I feellike that's what a lot of
people think of when they thinkYouTuber.
For me, I've always consumedNintendo based YouTubers, so so
people that talk about the gamesI already enjoy, and because
Nintendo is constantly puttingout games you know four or five,
six games a year there's alwayssomething to talk about and the
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community is always growing andpeople are always sharing their
ideas on the different gamesthat come out, or there are
times playing the games or evenjust playthroughs of the games,
and so there's just kind of anever-ending source of content,
something that I've beenconsuming literally for over 10
years on YouTube itself, whichis just kind of crazy.
But I was like it's time for meto join the conversation
(19:01):
instead of lurking and watching.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
All right, and how long have you had this channel
now?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
uh, january, january.
Okay, so just this year youstarted, this year try nintendo
five months listen.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I listened to it and of course, I'm proud.
And then, because I know you'remy son and I, I love hearing
you and I love seeing whatyou're doing.
I feel like you're talented,you know.
I think other people need tojump in there, check, check out,
try Nintendo, to see if theylike it.
But I think it's great becauseyou sound good, you're
well-spoken, you have goodvideos, it's fun, it's funny.
(19:34):
So I love it.
I love seeing it For you.
What's been the biggestchallenge to having a YouTube
channel?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I think it's just consistency.
I feel like I haven't feltreally any burnout yet, like I
still love putting videos out,but they take a lot of time.
I mean, my videos are only fiveto 10 minutes and I have to
come up with the idea for thevideo.
I script it, I do the voiceover, I edit the sound and then I
edit the actual video.
And it takes like 10 plus hours, I think, for for each video,
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depending on how long it is.
And so it's kind of hard to dothat week to week with just
family stuff, like I'm.
I'm a father now and and youknow I don't want to just leave
my wife hanging and say here'sthe baby for 10 hours while I
shut myself in.
But it's also hard becausethat's kind of how I work.
I I'm not very good at likegoing in, you know, an hour a
day doing something.
(20:25):
I'm very much an in spurtsperson and so I just like to
grind something out for a lot ofhours.
So that's been kind of achallenge, scheduling, I guess.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
You get that from your mom.
Oh your mom does that.
She decides she's going toclean something.
Next thing you know she's goingfor hours on end and just like,
yeah, that's funny, that's.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I could see that.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Yeah, so that's definitely.
You get that from your mother.
What are some of the wins Like?
What are some of the benefitsthat you've noticed?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I mean it's.
I think one of the bestcomments I get is just people
saying you're underrated.
Like to hear that is justreally cool to for a lot of
people to say, oh, you only haveX amount of subscribers, I
thought you had way more.
Like it's just such a coolthing to hear that I'm already
producing content at a highlevel.
I don't want to say that likeI'm tooting my own horn, but I
(21:13):
mean I do put a lot of work intoit.
I it's something that I've, Ithink, because I've been
watching it for so long, I kindof know what good content looks
like.
That's helped me to be able toproduce something that I would
want to watch.
That's a big thing.
A lot of the times when peoplecan't get their feet off of
YouTube, it's because they'remaking content that even they
wouldn't want to watch.
So I try to always make sureit's entertaining enough for me
(21:36):
and maybe teaches you somethingtoo.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
What do you think your big like?
What's the goal with it?
Like, what do you want to ifyour dreams or goals not just
necessarily the goal, but what'syour dream of this?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I mean, obviously I'd like to go full-time at some
point with it.
It's been able to make somemoney for me.
So far.
I've been able to get somefreelance jobs from it doing
design, so it's it's somethingthat it's like a lot of people
talk about how difficult it isto get to like a thousand
subscribers, or you know, ittakes years and years and I feel
like, at the rate that I'vebeen going at, it's like within
reach.
You know, I don't, I don't knowhow long it'll be to get to
that point, but I know that Ineed to stay consistent to get
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to that point and I feel likeI've already established a
pretty decently strong base of,like loyal subscribers, people
that are like interested in whatI have to say about different
gaming topics, and I don't know,it's just kind of cool to like
have that, to know that thereare people that will always be
there hour one to watchsomething and to interact with
me.
It's just cool.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
What's something surprising you've learned while
building up this audience?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Maybe just how nice people are.
I mean, you'll still get thosestray 1% people that are just
kind of negative.
But I was genuinely surprisedthat people would even like
comment on my stuff, like Iexpected friends and family to
comment.
You know what I mean Likepeople that I directly sent my
stuff to and said, hey, pleasewatch this, I've worked hard on
it.
But when it's like just acompletely random stranger that
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comes in and says, hey, like Ireally like how you did this,
like I agree with your takes, orI thought this was really funny
, that was pretty surprising tome.
I don't know, I guess just thesheer amount of people that I've
had so far.
I feel like I've.
I've been pretty lucky with thesuccess I've had in in the
short amount of time that I'vebeen on the platform, at least
from a creating standpoint.
That's kind of been a surprisefor me.
(23:19):
I didn't expect to be where I'mat in the amount of time it's
been.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Well, I'm super impressed because I've been
doing this podcast for three anda half years.
You talk about the burnoutaspect of it.
That's the great thing that Ilove about what I'm doing.
I love it so much that I don'tget burned out.
I actually I enjoy the editinga lot more now, especially, you
know, cause I've gotten faster,you get faster, you get better
as you move along.
But I love when I listen backnow and go through that it just
(23:47):
hits me like, oh, I didn'trealize that when I was
recording it or whatever youknow.
So I like that part of it and Ikeep, you know, little
adjustments here and there.
I keep making as I move forward.
I'm sure you'll do the samemany videos you have out right
now uh 22 22.
Okay, so 20 some odd videos.
You got several thousandsubscribers, right?
I mean, you're pushing 10, 8800.
(24:09):
Yeah, so you're pushing 10maybe by the time this comes out
, you'll be close to 10.
I don't know, let's see.
So yeah, I mean you're, you're,I'm impressed.
I remember your first video Iwatched was like, dude, my son
is good, like, and again, you'remy son, am I?
Just, you know right, maybe it,you know, there might be a
little bit of that.
There's a little bit of that,but you're really, you are
really good and I think, likeyou said, you watched enough to
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know like, hey, this is whatpeople like, this is what I like
and that's what you did.
And I do the same thing withthe podcast.
I've watched enough, listenedto enough.
I'm like I don't want to dothat because I didn't like it,
so let me do this and see ifpeople like that.
So yeah, absolutely.
What else do you want to tellme about trying Nintendo and
your, your channel?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I think the inception of it, cause I, for the longest
time, didn't think I wanted todo YouTube Like it, genuinely
like you'd.
You'd see where I'm at and whatI've done with it and think
like, oh, you've been wanting todo YouTube for a long time and
that's that's not true at all.
I thought it was going to bekind of a, a, a dumb job, like I
don't know.
I just felt so out of the realmof of reach for me, which which
(25:09):
I feel like, going back on howI'm kind of like a creative and
I like to do stuff like thatLike I'm surprised that I never
connected those dots sooner.
I guess how it started was thisthis last December, my daughter
, brielle was just born.
She was born November 14th, soshe was like a month old, going
into Christmas break and becauseof that she was a month we
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couldn't go anywhere and so Ijust had a lot of time to just
kind of sit and do nothing.
No good games were coming out,so I was, you know there's, I
had nothing to do and I rememberjust watching YouTube and
specifically like NintendoYouTube, and just like thinking
like I can do this, like I can,I can do what these guys are
doing.
There are some things that I'mseeing that I feel like I could
(25:52):
even do better.
I don't know if it was a divinething.
It genuinely could have beenlike from God to just like in my
mind.
It was like from then on I waslike, okay, okay, I'm making a
YouTube channel.
And I remember telling a bunchof people I was so excited about
it and this was before I hadeven started my brand at any of
that stuff and I was justtelling people like all right,
I'm doing it, this is my newyear's resolution, I'm going to
make a YouTube channel.
(26:13):
And then I decided on how I wasgoing to do it.
There's a big creator calledArlo.
He's kind of a family friendlyNintendo YouTuber.
He's like a puppet.
He's kind of like a Muppetright when he's like a big blue
monster.
I've been watching him forprobably 10 years or so and it's
just a.
It's just kind of cool to tosee this different way of
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presenting takes on Nintendofrom this little little monster
character.
And so that's kind of where Tri, the the triangle character I
have kind of came from too, wasto have like an avatar for me to
speak through and to be able touse animation and stuff to tell
my story about different thingsI'm interested in, and so I
don't know.
I think having this graphicdesign background also kind of
(26:56):
gives me an edge.
Thumbnails are a big thing onthe YouTube space.
If you don't have a goodthumbnail or like a good title,
nobody's going to click on yourvideo.
So fortunately I've been ableto have decent enough design
skills to to get people to wantto at least click.
I don't know, I guess that'skind of how try started was, I
think, part of it's divine, likeI genuinely YouTube was not
(27:16):
even a thing for me.
You know, six months ago Ididn't think it was going to be
part of what I'm doing now, butI don't.
I think the stars kind ofaligned for this one, if I'm
being honest.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
What was the reaction of people when you first
started telling people thatyou're going to do a YouTube
channel?
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I mean surprisingly, not negative.
I think a lot of people I mean,if you look up, I don't know
what they're called likeinfluence, I don't know.
But it's like don't know whatthey're called like influence, I
don't know.
But it's like don't tell peopleyour dream You've probably
heard that before Like don'ttell people your dream because a
lot of them are going to kindof laugh in your face or shut
you down and prevent you frompursuing that dream.
So keep it to yourself, work onit and don't really, you know,
(27:55):
until until you've donesomething with it.
But for me I was kind of likeI'm gonna do it, do it anyway,
so I don't care, I'm going totell people so I can get people
on board, so I like they're,they're aware of when I'm
actually posting, or somethinglike that.
So the reaction wasn't too bad.
I'm, fortunately, I have reallygood friends and family who
support me and something likethat.
I mean you were a big reason,honestly, for why I even like,
(28:15):
took that jump.
If you hadn't already beendoing content creation, I feel
like it would have been hard tobe like hey dad, I'm going to do
YouTube.
I think 10 years ago, if I saidthat, you'd have been like I'm
stupid or you know I don't know,get a real job.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Yeah, exactly, yeah.
I think that's a real thing.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
But in today's day and age, with how popular the
internet, how people consumemedia, tv is kind of, I feel,
like what YouTube used to be,where it's like you know, you
get your broadcasting job, youget your job in Hollywood, all
that stuff.
People are shifting to cheaperalternatives to to media.
It's sometimes it's hard to payfor that YouTube TV, that
direct TV bill.
(28:53):
It's free to watch somebody onTwitch stream a video game or
free to watch someone on YouTubeplay a game, and also a way for
somebody on YouTube to get paidto do that thing they love.
So I don't know.
There's been a lot of differentthings that I feel like have
led me to it and got me excitedabout it, and you're a big
reason too.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
No, I appreciate that .
I remember you asking me aboutmicrophones when you were first
coming out.
So I remember telling oh, thisis the microphone I got when I
first started yeah, there it isthe samson.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Samson to my dad for that.
There we go I got a.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Now that's what I use now but no, that's good, that's
a good, solid microphone.
So I remember hearing that.
I remember when I first startedtelling people too, about the
podcast, I remember telling youknow your grandma about it and
she's kind of okay, you know,just, I don't think people took
it serious until I actuallyreleased an episode and then I
was like whoa, he is serious,like what's going on.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
And then I think it's too, when you're consistent,
like it's for me.
It wasn't just I did my onevideo and then it was like well,
that was YouTube, like I tried.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
I've been posting every week since January, so
it's something that and I'vemissed, you know, a week here
and there.
But I'll do something else tomaybe a stream or something.
But I think it's thatconsistency that it's like all
right, like we're, we're in itfor the long run, you know.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
All right.
So I want a couple, a couple ofpersonal questions to kind of
wrap things up a little bit.
I want to talk about somethingthat you've learned from me and
I want to mention something I'velearned from you.
So I'm going to go firstsomething I've learned not and
(30:26):
not just in the podcast space,but I do know that you are
talented.
Like I said, you set up mywebsite.
Look for me, my look forjourney with Jake, the whole bit
you've done.
But I think something, the thingthat I love about you, Josh,
and something that I've learnedfrom you, is just the importance
of of being friendly and havinga happy countenance.
You've always been like thatsince you were just a little guy
.
You've always just been happyto see people.
You're friendly, you're justfun.
You're fun to be around.
You're a jokester too.
We have a lot of fun.
We have a lot of laughstogether.
(30:47):
Yeah, and some of you I meanjust the little things you do.
I remember hearing you one timeupstairs saying hello, governor
, you got that off of some.
I don't know what show youwatched from disney show or
something you were saying thatyou came down the stairs acting
like tiny tim one time.
We've just I mean, there's somany memories of you and just
and who you were and with youbeing, you know, a premature, it
took you a little longer as faras the under two part, so you
(31:10):
know you took you a lot longerto crawl, to walk, all that sort
of thing.
But even as a baby, you stillwanted to be part of the action
and part of you know.
You're just always like a lifeof the party and had a lot of
fun.
So I learned that from you.
You know about being courteous,being nice, just being friendly
.
What's something that you'velearned from me that's helped
you on your journey?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I think it's something that I struggle with a
lot.
It's being a hard worker.
You probably don't like hearingthat, that I struggle with that
, but no, I feel like whenthere's times where I feel like
like I'm just going to be lazy,or today, like I genuinely feel
like you're so good at justhitting the pavement and just
just going for it and workingreally hard at whatever you do,
even if it's something you don'tlike to do, you'll still work
(31:52):
hard at it, and I feel likethat's that's really admirable.
It's something that I wish Idid better.
It's.
It's something that I feel likenot only you have, but mom has
too.
You're just both really reallyhard workers and really diligent
, and I feel like that's like inour faith as well that
diligence and something that Itry to do for me and for my
(32:12):
family.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
You're a good kid, josh.
Okay, some rapid fire questions, if you don't mind.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
For you.
All.
Right, you said it already, buttell us again.
Favorite Nintendo game.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
It's the Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Legend of Zelda.
Twilight Princess, favoritegaming?
I don't know.
Is there a console?
Is that the right word?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Console.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Okay, yeah, what is that?
Speaker 2 (32:33):
It's probably Nintendo Switch, but the 3DS is
a close second.
Okay, nintendo Switch 3DS rightthere.
Okay, favorite family trip?
It might be florida.
Maybe it's just because Ihaven't been disney world in so
long, but there was so much newto it that it was just really it
was cool.
It was cool to go to, you know,somewhere past utah, I think
(32:55):
was the furthest east we've gonebefore or maybe arizona yeah
probably eastern arizonacrossing the mississippi, going
east, going to the atlantic.
It was cool, favorite disneylandride it's so hard not to say
rise the resistance, but I'mgonna go splash mountain.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Shout outs to og, splash mountain og, splash
mountain, the one with therabbit and the fox, and okay,
yeah, I went on it four timesright before it closed.
So yeah, that's probably myfavorite too.
I loved splash mountain,although the last time I was
there I swear it was wetter thanit's ever been.
I don't know if that's just I'mgetting older, I don't know
what the deal is, but all right,cool, very, very good.
(33:31):
Favorite disney ride we saidwhat was my other one?
Oh, just basic stuff.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Favorite food uh ramen like a real authentic
ramen, not maru chan, not topramen like an actual, like ramen
shop ramen okay, ramen.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Well, interesting.
What's your go-to at taco bell?
Speaker 2 (33:47):
it changes depending on what they have on their menu,
because it used to be a loadedpotato griller, but that third
item is always a specialty item,but it's always a bean burrito,
no onions, extra red sauce, acrunchy taco, whatever third
seasonal items in in.
Right now it's nacho fries.
But you're always doing thebean burrito, no onions, and the
crunchy taco, Always beanburrito, no onions, extra red
(34:08):
sauce and a crunchy taco.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Wow, okay.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Very good.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
I love it.
What other questions do I havefor you?
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Favorite dessert I'm not a dessert guy like you are.
You love dessert.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
I do love dessert.
What's what's my favoritedessert?
Is it brownies, I mean?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I like brownies.
It used to be brownies.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
I love brownies, Probably cookie a chocolate chip
cookie.
A chocolate chip cookie is myabsolute favorite.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
I'll go shaved ice though.
Love shaved ice, it's myfavorite.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
All right Dream destination or dream travel
experience for you.
Where would you want to go andwhy?
Speaker 2 (34:40):
I want to go to Japan really bad.
There's a lot of people in thelast couple of years that I've
known personally that have goneto Japan because it's just
really cheap right nowUnfortunately not able to do
that.
But Nintendo's there.
There's a Nintendo museum therenow where you kind of look and
see the history of Nintendo.
I'm also a big anime guy, sothere's a lot of stuff there for
(35:03):
that.
Ramen shops, it's my favoritefood.
I mean, there's just a lot.
It's clean.
I feel like I relate with thepeople a lot.
I like to be very clean.
Don't look at that.
I'm moving.
I I don't know.
I feel like I relate with thema lot, but Japan would be so
cool.
Sakura trees I'm also a big fanof that aesthetic.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
There's a lot wow, japan, that's your spot.
All right, very good, all right.
My final question for you.
This is a question I askeverybody on my show what does
adventure mean to you?
Speaker 2 (35:29):
I don't want to get philosophical because I'm not
good at that, but let's go withsomething new.
Adventure is something new, sosomething new?
Speaker 1 (35:37):
okay, yeah, which could be.
You know, going to to Japanwould definitely be an adventure
.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
You're kind of in that mode, you're moving, that's
something new.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Yeah, that's something new.
Could be trying something new.
That's an adventure.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yeah, you know, I like that Something new.
Very good, Josh.
This has been fun.
It's awesome to have my son onhere.
You know I love you.
You're a great kid.
I admire what you're doing.
I'm proud of you.
I'm proud of what you're doingwith your YouTube channel.
I think it's really cool.
Thanks, and I hope you justkeep it up.
And thanks for coming on.
Journey with Jake.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
I'm glad I finally got in a reservation slot.
I've been on the waiting listfor two, plus made it.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Bonus episode buddy.
Bonus episode Josh, love you.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Love you too.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Thank you, Josh, for coming on the show.
It was a lot of fun to have youon Journey with Jake and just a
real treat for me personallyand everyone listening.
Do me a favor and check outJosh's YouTube channel at Try
Nintendo, and that's Try spelledT-R-I.
Even if you're not a hugeNintendo or gaming fan, stop by,
watch a video and say hi toJosh, or try, as he's known
(36:45):
online.
We'll be back this Thursdaywith another great episode
featuring Jeremy George, thefounder of Bucket Match.
We'll be talking all aboutbucket lists, including Jeremy's
inspiring goal to complete onebucket list item every week for
an entire year.
You won't want to miss it, andjust remember, it's not always
about the destination as it isabout the journey.
Take care, everybody.
Happy Memorial Day.
In keeping with my tradition ofdropping a bonus episode on
holidays, this one is extraspecial because I'm joined by my
son, josh Bushman.
We dive into family memories,our love of Disney and Taco Bell
and his journey as a risingYouTuber with his channel Try
Nintendo.
From gaming and graphic designto consistency and creativity,
(00:23):
josh opens up about thechallenges and joys of content
creation and what adventuremeans to him.
Welcome to this father-sonconversation with Josh Bushman.
Welcome to Journey with Jake.
This is a podcast aboutadventure and how, through our
adventures, we can overcome thechallenges of life that come our
way.
While I expect you will learnsome things about different
(00:58):
adventures, this show willentertain you have done or are
doing to overcome the hardshipsthat come their way.
My goal is to take each of uson a journey through the
experiences of my guests, withthe hope that you'll be
entertained and inspired toovercome your day-to-day
challenges.
After all, it's not all aboutthe destination, as it is about
(01:29):
the journey.
Thanks for joining me for thisspecial bonus episode of Journey
with Jake.
It was a real treat to have myson, josh, on the show, not just
to talk about his journey inthe YouTube world, but also to
reflect on our relationship andwhat it meant to grow together
over the years.
I'm incredibly proud of Josh,and that goes for my other three
kids as well.
I'm truly blessed to be theirdad.
(01:51):
We'll be back with our regularweekly episode this Thursday, so
be sure to tune in.
But for now, enjoy thisfather-son conversation with my
son, josh, all right?
Well, we're all smiles here.
I've got someone who Iabsolutely love on the show with
me today.
This is a bonus episode.
I got my son, josh Bushman here.
Josh, welcome to Journey withJake.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Thanks.
It's good to be on the show,father.
I've heard about it for so long.
I've watched some episodes,listened to some episodes here
and there.
Watch some episodes.
Listen to some episodes hereand there.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So typically I like to have my guests kind of give a
little introduction of who theyare.
I don't think I need to do thatnecessarily with you.
So I thought what I would do isI would kind of give my
introduction of you and then youcan kind of fill in whatever
else you want.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah or you know correct mistakes.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Yeah, I can.
You can correct my mistakes.
I make a view.
Correct mistakes yeah, yeah,exactly.
Yeah, I can.
You can correct my mistakes, Imake a view.
Vice versa, whatever.
But first of all, josh is myoldest.
Josh was the one who made me afather.
So Josh is 25 now, 25 years old.
He's out doing his own thing.
He's married to Elizabeth.
You have a beautiful babydaughter, brielle, my
(03:02):
granddaughter, which is awesome.
I love her.
It's exciting.
A couple of things, interestingthings about Josh.
Josh was premature.
I always have to say thatYou're a premature.
Josh was born at 29 weeks.
He's only three pounds.
So whenever I'm embarrassedsomething he does I just say
it's because he was premature.
I still use that to this day,right, josh?
Yeah, a couple of things aboutJosh.
(03:27):
Super friendly, he's alwaysbeen friendly.
I know friends are important tohim.
He's always been a reallyfriendly kid.
He's an athlete.
He played baseball.
He plays pickleball a lot now,so he's always pretty talented.
He was coordinated, that sortof thing.
And super creative.
Josh has been our creativechild, our artiste, so to speak.
He likes to draw and just becreative.
All of the Journey with Jakestuff that you see the website,
(03:50):
my logos, all that.
Josh helped me create those, soJosh is pretty much the one who
did it all.
So I'm excited to have Josh asa bonus episode Plus.
You know it's my son and it'sfun to talk to him.
You get to know me a little bitthrough this conversation.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
We'll know it's my son and it's fun to to talk to
him.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
You get to know me a little bit through this
conversation.
We'll get to know josh as well.
Did I get everything okay?
Yeah, no, that was perfect, yougot it.
So the first thing I kind ofwant to talk about is for you
growing up bushman, what it waslike to be to be a bushman
growing up.
What stands out so for you,when you think about growing up
in our household and our family,what kind of jumps out to you,
what comes to mind?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
so it's interesting, I feel like as a teenager I kind
of strayed away from some ofthose bushman roots.
But as I've been married andgotten older I kind of go back
to some of those things, some ofthose traditions.
A big one, I think, for us isreality tv.
We love our survivor, our bigbrother, our amazing race.
We just love all those shows.
I remember wednesday nights, Ithink, for us, is reality TV.
We love our Survivor, our BigBrother, our Amazing Race.
We just love all those shows.
I remember Wednesday nights wasalways Survivor Night where
(04:51):
we'd watch it and get Taco Bellevery week and that leads into
another Bushman tradition isTaco Bell.
I think it's in our blood.
My great grandfather, yourgrandfather.
That was his favorite place andwhen he passed away at his
funeral, trays of tacos, traysof burritos from taco bell.
So I always love sharing thatbecause it's just a place I
(05:12):
still go to at least once a week.
That hasn't changed.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
um, yeah, it's funny you say that about taco bell,
because when you think about ataco Taco Bell, I mean it's Taco
Bell, we love it and there'ssentimental value to it,
especially at Grandpa's funeral.
You know, when we had a littleget-together, family night
together, what do we have?
We have tacos and burritos.
And he would go to Taco Bell.
(05:38):
I don't know if he knew thisnear the end of his life He'd go
to Taco Bell, like every day.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, and I heard that was like the last place he
fell, so but I mean, I mean nobetter place for him to have
fallen.
It seemed to be his favoriteplace, so yeah, absolutely yeah,
very good.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
So that's a good one.
That's one I didn't really eventhink of.
But the reality TV, taco Bell,yep, and if anything else, jump
out to you growing up.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, I mean sports is another one.
We did baseball Little League,me and my two brothers and so I
remember always being at thebaseball park.
Funny because I remember a lotof my friends as I was getting
older they hated baseball, notbecause of the sport but because
I would be gone and couldn'thang out with them because I'd
be at baseball.
So that was kind of our weekendthing for you know springs and
falls and stuff.
(06:22):
But that's another one where,as I kind of got older, I didn't
really care for it as much.
I mean it was hard to beinvested if I didn't play
something.
I'm still kind of like thatwhere I don't like to watch
sports as much, I like to playthem.
That's kind of like my exercise, how I get my exercise and
stuff.
But now I'm like fully back onthe D-backs train.
(06:44):
For the last couple of yearsT-Mobile Tuesday came in clutch
and gave us a free season, sothat's like you know nothing to
do in the evening.
Let's start watching someD-backs games again, and so
baseball's a big one for meagain and I think a big one for
our family, but just kind ofsports in general.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yeah, we've always been sport type people.
We've always enjoyed sports.
I think something interesting.
You look at the show that I'mdoing, journey with Jake, which
I've been doing for three and ahalf years now, and it's about
adventure and you know, peoplejumping off cliffs and people
doing crazy things.
What kind of adventures did wedo or did we do adventures?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Zero adventures no, I'm just kidding, we did a lot
of stuff.
Bushmans, like Disney,no-transcript, like that, it's
(07:50):
just always, always been with me.
It makes me think of not justour immediate family, but our
extended family, of your mom anddad, and so it's just, I don't
know, it's just kind of in ourblood too, I think, is Disney.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, you know, and I think Disney is kind of what
really kicked off the ideabehind this podcast, because my
thought was, when I firststarted Journey with Jake, my
thought was, okay, it's going tobe a travel type podcast, but
it's going to be about people'sspecific memories of certain
places and why those places hadimportance.
And the show kind of startedoff like that In I had the
(08:24):
castanhos.
You know the castanhos, theywere on they, they talked about
their, about disney and whatit's like for them and the rope
drops and just you know,memories, things like that for
them.
And that's kind of what Iwanted.
I wanted to dive into thatwhole nostalgia thing.
But then as I really I got intothe show and I realized, oh man
, this is so much more than that.
It's, you know, people'sexperiences, and not necessarily
(08:46):
places and things like that,but really Disney and my
experiences with going to Disneyis kind of probably what
started it.
Fun fact, I haven't been toDisneyland California since 2020
.
So it's been over five years,which is a long time for me, and
I'm okay with that, which is soweird to say now, because I
know, I know it bothers youwhenever, I know, whenever I say
that I'm like I'm okay notgoing.
(09:07):
But you know, disney was goodfor our family because of that,
for sure, it definitely did that.
I have, yeah, lots of memories.
I still remember when we allwhen I, we took all of you guys
to florida too we went to disneyworld.
Yeah, I think you were 14 or soat the time yeah, I think, yeah
, I was 14, 14, all the way downto four years old Haley was
four or five at the time.
(09:28):
Yeah, that was a lot of fun.
I mean, it's just fun spendingtime together as a family and
you know those kinds of kinds ofthings for sure.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Oh, I was just going to say about that Florida trip.
That's around the first time Ihad a.
I got a phone too, so I have alot of like really low quality
images of that trip, of justanything and everything.
When you first get a phone or acamera, you just kind of take
pictures of literally everything, so that one's pretty well
documented for me and I likelooking at those from time to
time.
Yeah, when was that?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Was that 2014?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It was 14.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, so you know, 11 years ago.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
And you guys surprised us too.
That was like we had no idea.
I think brandon figured it out.
He's, you know, the brother twoyears younger than me.
He'd kind of sneak into, he'dlisten under your guys's door
and hear your conversations withgrandma and grandpa, and he I
don't think he told any of us,though I think you swore him to
secrecy.
But for me and my othersiblings it was a surprise and
(10:20):
it was fun seeing them at theairport and stuff good old
brandon, he's.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Uh, that's our accountant kid, your accountant
brother for sure.
No, that's good stuff, allright, any other fun things that
you remember doing as a kid?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I mean I remember, I know you have really close ties
to Colorado and I remember thatColorado trip we took and I was
older, like you say a kid, but Imean I was 16.
I think I was 16.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah, 16 or 17.
Were you a senior Going to be asenior?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Maybe it was when I was an older teenager.
For sure that was really funbecause I'd never been, that was
my first time.
Even like the drive I rememberjust being really beautiful,
like I remember having like ariver going alongside us while
we're traveling throughmountains and stuff and got to
see Diamondbacks and Rockiesplay.
That was really fun, I don'tknow.
It's just kind of cool toexplore new things as a family
(11:10):
because I mean we kind of stayedto, you know, the West for the
most part, kind of Arizona,nevada, california and Utah was
kind of our main thing.
So it was kind of fun when wegot to branch out a little bit.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, that was a great trip.
I'm glad, glad you mentionedthat, because Colorado for me,
yeah, growing up, was huge and Ididn't really get to experience
that with you guys until youguys were a little bit older.
But I remember, yeah, drivinginto Colorado, just a lot of for
me, a lot of memories came back, A lot of nostalgia came back.
But I remember going to do youremember going to Mount Evans.
We went up on.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Mount Evans, I think so.
Is that where the goat was,there were?
Speaker 1 (11:45):
goats up there.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yes, yeah, I do remember that.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
That was a lot of fun because I remember first of all
, it's the highest- it's kind ofscary too, driving up there.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I remember it was really narrow roads.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
The road was scary.
It's the highest paved road inNorth America at 14,000
something feet.
I struggled to breathe up atthat elevation anyway.
But it was fun being up therewith with you and the rest of
the.
Our whole family was up theregetting pictures of these
mountain goats that were thereand it was just, it was a good
time.
I just yeah, I had a.
I had such a blast with youguys in in Colorado.
(12:15):
It was kind of our.
I mean, it was kind of our lasttrip altogether, I think Left
and went on a church mission.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
We did Disneyland 2018, January.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
We did do Disneyland 2018.
Okay, that's right.
I do remember that.
I remember going there.
Grandma and grandpa came tothat as well.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Cousin Chandler.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
And Cousin Chandler.
Yeah, exactly so.
We did Disney quite a bit.
I think that was probably yourbiggest thing, that we did
Something else about you, josh.
That was quite interestingabout you and I always thought,
maybe, that you would grow outof this, but you never did.
You loved video games.
Yeah, okay, tell me how youknow.
(12:52):
When did you first get hookedon gaming?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
You always love this quote.
You still reference it.
It's me as a five, six-year-oldor something, and I should say
because it's so interesting.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I'm just so interested in games.
I'm just so interested in games.
That's what it was.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
It's hard to pinpoint when it started, I mean because
I don't think we owned our ownsystems for a while, but it was
always like going to friends'houses, like if you remember the
Watsons, they had like aGameCube and you know, when I
was five, six years old I'd goover there play it.
I remember there was a kid infirst grade who was playing
Pokemon and Pokemon was, I mean,it's still a huge thing, but
(13:31):
late nineties, early twothousands, pokemon was just just
booming.
Game Boy and DS and so Pokemoncards too.
I mean it was just a kid's plaything, like it was so, so big.
And there was a kid in firstgrade that let me like borrow
his ds.
Just yeah, you want to playthis game here.
You go like you know he's sixyears old, doesn't, doesn't know
(13:52):
any better, lets me take ithome.
And so I remember playing onthis kid's ds up in like my bunk
bed and just spamming the the abutton using the same move over
and over and watching the enemypokemon die, or I don know it
was really fun.
And I remember mom coming inand being like, where did you
get that?
It's?
Just yeah, I said, kid, let meborrow it.
You know, I don't, I don'treally know him, but I gave it
(14:13):
back to him the next day.
But I don't know, just just alot of different things.
I know grandma, your mom, shehad a Super Nintendo and so
whenever we'd go over therethere was a Super Nintendo that
I'd play.
Just I don't know a lot ofdifferent consoles from
different places, every timeVery fun for me, very exciting.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
That's so funny.
Like you said, your grandmother, my mom we had the Super
Nintendo.
I played the NBA game a lot.
I like to play the NBA.
I was huge into the NBA when Iwas a teenager so I'd play that,
but that was about the extentof it.
I didn't get into games likeyou do.
I mean, you got into them andit's interesting because we yeah
, your mom, myself we weren'tbig gamers, so we didn't really
(14:53):
care to get you games or do thatsort of thing.
So it's amazing to me that yougot into them secondhand.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah, and I mean you have siblings that are pretty
into it.
I mean your brother David, yourbrother Will are pretty into
games.
Your brother David's probablythe one that got me into Zelda,
which is my favorite series.
It's the shirt that I'm wearingright now for today but he let
me borrow a copy of TwilightPrincess, which is my favorite
game.
I mean Will, I'm always likethat's what we connect on.
(15:22):
I talk to him about video gamesor Disney, and so I mean Will,
I'm always like that's what weconnect on.
I talk to him about video gamesor Disney, and so I mean it's
always been around like family,but not, yeah, not you, and mom
specifically Mom hates themactually, so that's always been.
Probably the only point ofcontention between us is her
disdain for them and myfascination with them.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
And it takes us to today.
You started a YouTube channel.
What's the name of it?
Kind of tell us what thisYouTube channel is, because I
know it has a lot to do withyour love of gaming.
So tell us about it.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
The handle on YouTube is at TryNintendo but I just go
by Try based off the Triforcefrom the Legend of Zelda, so
it's a TR, a little trianglecharacter.
Actually, my wife got me thisfor my birthday.
It's what he looks like Ifyou're for you video watchers
just my guy waving his hand.
It's kind of cool.
I got a lot of skills that Ipicked up from just high school
(16:12):
and college, doing graphicdesign, some video editing here
and there, and I was kind ofable to use this vast hours of
time sunk into YouTube and andkind of turn it into creating.
I.
I felt like I don't know ifthis, if it was like this for
you with with podcasting, but Iwould start watching so much
(16:33):
YouTube that I'd be like I can'tbe a consumer anymore, like I
need to.
I don't know.
I felt like I was just I coulddo something.
I could actually like be a partof this instead of just
absorbing it.
I don't know.
That was one of the reasons whyI wanted to start my channel.
I talk about video games thatI'm interested in, usually
Nintendo-type stuff and alsodesign.
(16:55):
I did UX design in college, gotmy degree in that.
Sometimes I'll do case studieson game console UI design or
video games, and those alsohappen to be kind of the most
popular videos on my channel.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
You know it's funny that you talk about the whole,
you know, youtube thing andbeing a consumer of it, and I
think that's the way I was.
You know, when the pandemic hit, I was definitely a consumer of
podcasts.
That's where I first startedlistening to podcasts and I
think you're right.
I think after a while I waskind of like I can do this, or
like why, you know, I'm justconsuming it all.
(17:30):
Why don't I do this?
Why don't I step into this game?
And I still consume a lot, justbecause I have a lot of friends
who are podcasters and thingslike that.
I consume it from that thatpoint.
I still listen to things tohelp me with things.
But yeah, I've switched it tonot just full on consuming but
after giving out, you're doingthe same thing.
Why do you think it was justthis niche for you?
Was it because that's what yougrew up loving?
I mean, obviously you use thedesign background that you got
(17:51):
in college, but why the videogame thing?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah, I mean I already loved it.
I feel like that's a hard thingfor a lot of people when they
create a YouTube channel is whatam I going to make videos about
?
Some of the biggest channels,you know, ryan Trahan, mrbeast
they're kind of variety contentcreators where it's very hyper
speed, hyper edited, attentiongrabbing challenges, and they're
very.
I mean, one video to the nextit's completely different.
(18:18):
It could be Squid Game, onevideo.
It could be I survived on anisland.
You know what I mean, and I feellike that's what a lot of
people think of when they thinkYouTuber.
For me, I've always consumedNintendo based YouTubers, so so
people that talk about the gamesI already enjoy, and because
Nintendo is constantly puttingout games you know four or five,
six games a year there's alwayssomething to talk about and the
(18:39):
community is always growing andpeople are always sharing their
ideas on the different gamesthat come out, or there are
times playing the games or evenjust playthroughs of the games,
and so there's just kind of anever-ending source of content,
something that I've beenconsuming literally for over 10
years on YouTube itself, whichis just kind of crazy.
But I was like it's time for meto join the conversation
(19:01):
instead of lurking and watching.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
All right, and how long have you had this channel
now?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
uh, january, january.
Okay, so just this year youstarted, this year try nintendo
five months listen.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I listened to it and of course, I'm proud.
And then, because I know you'remy son and I, I love hearing
you and I love seeing whatyou're doing.
I feel like you're talented,you know.
I think other people need tojump in there, check, check out,
try Nintendo, to see if theylike it.
But I think it's great becauseyou sound good, you're
well-spoken, you have goodvideos, it's fun, it's funny.
(19:34):
So I love it.
I love seeing it For you.
What's been the biggestchallenge to having a YouTube
channel?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I think it's just consistency.
I feel like I haven't feltreally any burnout yet, like I
still love putting videos out,but they take a lot of time.
I mean, my videos are only fiveto 10 minutes and I have to
come up with the idea for thevideo.
I script it, I do the voiceover, I edit the sound and then I
edit the actual video.
And it takes like 10 plus hours, I think, for for each video,
(20:05):
depending on how long it is.
And so it's kind of hard to dothat week to week with just
family stuff, like I'm.
I'm a father now and and youknow I don't want to just leave
my wife hanging and say here'sthe baby for 10 hours while I
shut myself in.
But it's also hard becausethat's kind of how I work.
I I'm not very good at likegoing in, you know, an hour a
day doing something.
(20:25):
I'm very much an in spurtsperson and so I just like to
grind something out for a lot ofhours.
So that's been kind of achallenge, scheduling, I guess.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
You get that from your mom.
Oh your mom does that.
She decides she's going toclean something.
Next thing you know she's goingfor hours on end and just like,
yeah, that's funny, that's.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I could see that.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Yeah, so that's definitely.
You get that from your mother.
What are some of the wins Like?
What are some of the benefitsthat you've noticed?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I mean it's.
I think one of the bestcomments I get is just people
saying you're underrated.
Like to hear that is justreally cool to for a lot of
people to say, oh, you only haveX amount of subscribers, I
thought you had way more.
Like it's just such a coolthing to hear that I'm already
producing content at a highlevel.
I don't want to say that likeI'm tooting my own horn, but I
(21:13):
mean I do put a lot of work intoit.
I it's something that I've, Ithink, because I've been
watching it for so long, I kindof know what good content looks
like.
That's helped me to be able toproduce something that I would
want to watch.
That's a big thing.
A lot of the times when peoplecan't get their feet off of
YouTube, it's because they'remaking content that even they
wouldn't want to watch.
So I try to always make sureit's entertaining enough for me
(21:36):
and maybe teaches you somethingtoo.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
What do you think your big like?
What's the goal with it?
Like, what do you want to ifyour dreams or goals not just
necessarily the goal, but what'syour dream of this?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I mean, obviously I'd like to go full-time at some
point with it.
It's been able to make somemoney for me.
So far.
I've been able to get somefreelance jobs from it doing
design, so it's it's somethingthat it's like a lot of people
talk about how difficult it isto get to like a thousand
subscribers, or you know, ittakes years and years and I feel
like, at the rate that I'vebeen going at, it's like within
reach.
You know, I don't, I don't knowhow long it'll be to get to
that point, but I know that Ineed to stay consistent to get
(22:13):
to that point and I feel likeI've already established a
pretty decently strong base of,like loyal subscribers, people
that are like interested in whatI have to say about different
gaming topics, and I don't know,it's just kind of cool to like
have that, to know that thereare people that will always be
there hour one to watchsomething and to interact with
me.
It's just cool.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
What's something surprising you've learned while
building up this audience?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Maybe just how nice people are.
I mean, you'll still get thosestray 1% people that are just
kind of negative.
But I was genuinely surprisedthat people would even like
comment on my stuff, like Iexpected friends and family to
comment.
You know what I mean Likepeople that I directly sent my
stuff to and said, hey, pleasewatch this, I've worked hard on
it.
But when it's like just acompletely random stranger that
(22:58):
comes in and says, hey, like Ireally like how you did this,
like I agree with your takes, orI thought this was really funny
, that was pretty surprising tome.
I don't know, I guess just thesheer amount of people that I've
had so far.
I feel like I've.
I've been pretty lucky with thesuccess I've had in in the
short amount of time that I'vebeen on the platform, at least
from a creating standpoint.
That's kind of been a surprisefor me.
(23:19):
I didn't expect to be where I'mat in the amount of time it's
been.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Well, I'm super impressed because I've been
doing this podcast for three anda half years.
You talk about the burnoutaspect of it.
That's the great thing that Ilove about what I'm doing.
I love it so much that I don'tget burned out.
I actually I enjoy the editinga lot more now, especially, you
know, cause I've gotten faster,you get faster, you get better
as you move along.
But I love when I listen backnow and go through that it just
(23:47):
hits me like, oh, I didn'trealize that when I was
recording it or whatever youknow.
So I like that part of it and Ikeep, you know, little
adjustments here and there.
I keep making as I move forward.
I'm sure you'll do the samemany videos you have out right
now uh 22 22.
Okay, so 20 some odd videos.
You got several thousandsubscribers, right?
I mean, you're pushing 10, 8800.
(24:09):
Yeah, so you're pushing 10maybe by the time this comes out
, you'll be close to 10.
I don't know, let's see.
So yeah, I mean you're, you're,I'm impressed.
I remember your first video Iwatched was like, dude, my son
is good, like, and again, you'remy son, am I?
Just, you know right, maybe it,you know, there might be a
little bit of that.
There's a little bit of that,but you're really, you are
really good and I think, likeyou said, you watched enough to
(24:31):
know like, hey, this is whatpeople like, this is what I like
and that's what you did.
And I do the same thing withthe podcast.
I've watched enough, listenedto enough.
I'm like I don't want to dothat because I didn't like it,
so let me do this and see ifpeople like that.
So yeah, absolutely.
What else do you want to tellme about trying Nintendo and
your, your channel?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I think the inception of it, cause I, for the longest
time, didn't think I wanted todo YouTube Like it, genuinely
like you'd.
You'd see where I'm at and whatI've done with it and think
like, oh, you've been wanting todo YouTube for a long time and
that's that's not true at all.
I thought it was going to bekind of a, a, a dumb job, like I
don't know.
I just felt so out of the realmof of reach for me, which which
(25:09):
I feel like, going back on howI'm kind of like a creative and
I like to do stuff like thatLike I'm surprised that I never
connected those dots sooner.
I guess how it started was thisthis last December, my daughter
, brielle was just born.
She was born November 14th, soshe was like a month old, going
into Christmas break and becauseof that she was a month we
(25:30):
couldn't go anywhere and so Ijust had a lot of time to just
kind of sit and do nothing.
No good games were coming out,so I was, you know there's, I
had nothing to do and I rememberjust watching YouTube and
specifically like NintendoYouTube, and just like thinking
like I can do this, like I can,I can do what these guys are
doing.
There are some things that I'mseeing that I feel like I could
(25:52):
even do better.
I don't know if it was a divinething.
It genuinely could have beenlike from God to just like in my
mind.
It was like from then on I waslike, okay, okay, I'm making a
YouTube channel.
And I remember telling a bunchof people I was so excited about
it and this was before I hadeven started my brand at any of
that stuff and I was justtelling people like all right,
I'm doing it, this is my newyear's resolution, I'm going to
make a YouTube channel.
(26:13):
And then I decided on how I wasgoing to do it.
There's a big creator calledArlo.
He's kind of a family friendlyNintendo YouTuber.
He's like a puppet.
He's kind of like a Muppetright when he's like a big blue
monster.
I've been watching him forprobably 10 years or so and it's
just a.
It's just kind of cool to tosee this different way of
(26:34):
presenting takes on Nintendofrom this little little monster
character.
And so that's kind of where Tri, the the triangle character I
have kind of came from too, wasto have like an avatar for me to
speak through and to be able touse animation and stuff to tell
my story about different thingsI'm interested in, and so I
don't know.
I think having this graphicdesign background also kind of
(26:56):
gives me an edge.
Thumbnails are a big thing onthe YouTube space.
If you don't have a goodthumbnail or like a good title,
nobody's going to click on yourvideo.
So fortunately I've been ableto have decent enough design
skills to to get people to wantto at least click.
I don't know, I guess that'skind of how try started was, I
think, part of it's divine, likeI genuinely YouTube was not
(27:16):
even a thing for me.
You know, six months ago Ididn't think it was going to be
part of what I'm doing now, butI don't.
I think the stars kind ofaligned for this one, if I'm
being honest.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
What was the reaction of people when you first
started telling people thatyou're going to do a YouTube
channel?
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I mean surprisingly, not negative.
I think a lot of people I mean,if you look up, I don't know
what they're called likeinfluence, I don't know.
But it's like don't know whatthey're called like influence, I
don't know.
But it's like don't tell peopleyour dream You've probably
heard that before Like don'ttell people your dream because a
lot of them are going to kindof laugh in your face or shut
you down and prevent you frompursuing that dream.
So keep it to yourself, work onit and don't really, you know,
(27:55):
until until you've donesomething with it.
But for me I was kind of likeI'm gonna do it, do it anyway,
so I don't care, I'm going totell people so I can get people
on board, so I like they're,they're aware of when I'm
actually posting, or somethinglike that.
So the reaction wasn't too bad.
I'm, fortunately, I have reallygood friends and family who
support me and something likethat.
I mean you were a big reason,honestly, for why I even like,
(28:15):
took that jump.
If you hadn't already beendoing content creation, I feel
like it would have been hard tobe like hey dad, I'm going to do
YouTube.
I think 10 years ago, if I saidthat, you'd have been like I'm
stupid or you know I don't know,get a real job.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Yeah, exactly, yeah.
I think that's a real thing.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
But in today's day and age, with how popular the
internet, how people consumemedia, tv is kind of, I feel,
like what YouTube used to be,where it's like you know, you
get your broadcasting job, youget your job in Hollywood, all
that stuff.
People are shifting to cheaperalternatives to to media.
It's sometimes it's hard to payfor that YouTube TV, that
direct TV bill.
(28:53):
It's free to watch somebody onTwitch stream a video game or
free to watch someone on YouTubeplay a game, and also a way for
somebody on YouTube to get paidto do that thing they love.
So I don't know.
There's been a lot of differentthings that I feel like have
led me to it and got me excitedabout it, and you're a big
reason too.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
No, I appreciate that .
I remember you asking me aboutmicrophones when you were first
coming out.
So I remember telling oh, thisis the microphone I got when I
first started yeah, there it isthe samson.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Samson to my dad for that.
There we go I got a.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Now that's what I use now but no, that's good, that's
a good, solid microphone.
So I remember hearing that.
I remember when I first startedtelling people too, about the
podcast, I remember telling youknow your grandma about it and
she's kind of okay, you know,just, I don't think people took
it serious until I actuallyreleased an episode and then I
was like whoa, he is serious,like what's going on.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
And then I think it's too, when you're consistent,
like it's for me.
It wasn't just I did my onevideo and then it was like well,
that was YouTube, like I tried.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
I've been posting every week since January, so
it's something that and I'vemissed, you know, a week here
and there.
But I'll do something else tomaybe a stream or something.
But I think it's thatconsistency that it's like all
right, like we're, we're in itfor the long run, you know.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
All right.
So I want a couple, a couple ofpersonal questions to kind of
wrap things up a little bit.
I want to talk about somethingthat you've learned from me and
I want to mention something I'velearned from you.
So I'm going to go firstsomething I've learned not and
(30:26):
not just in the podcast space,but I do know that you are
talented.
Like I said, you set up mywebsite.
Look for me, my look forjourney with Jake, the whole bit
you've done.
But I think something, the thingthat I love about you, Josh,
and something that I've learnedfrom you, is just the importance
of of being friendly and havinga happy countenance.
You've always been like thatsince you were just a little guy
.
You've always just been happyto see people.
You're friendly, you're justfun.
You're fun to be around.
You're a jokester too.
We have a lot of fun.
We have a lot of laughstogether.
(30:47):
Yeah, and some of you I meanjust the little things you do.
I remember hearing you one timeupstairs saying hello, governor
, you got that off of some.
I don't know what show youwatched from disney show or
something you were saying thatyou came down the stairs acting
like tiny tim one time.
We've just I mean, there's somany memories of you and just
and who you were and with youbeing, you know, a premature, it
took you a little longer as faras the under two part, so you
(31:10):
know you took you a lot longerto crawl, to walk, all that sort
of thing.
But even as a baby, you stillwanted to be part of the action
and part of you know.
You're just always like a lifeof the party and had a lot of
fun.
So I learned that from you.
You know about being courteous,being nice, just being friendly
.
What's something that you'velearned from me that's helped
you on your journey?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I think it's something that I struggle with a
lot.
It's being a hard worker.
You probably don't like hearingthat, that I struggle with that
, but no, I feel like whenthere's times where I feel like
like I'm just going to be lazy,or today, like I genuinely feel
like you're so good at justhitting the pavement and just
just going for it and workingreally hard at whatever you do,
even if it's something you don'tlike to do, you'll still work
(31:52):
hard at it, and I feel likethat's that's really admirable.
It's something that I wish Idid better.
It's.
It's something that I feel likenot only you have, but mom has
too.
You're just both really reallyhard workers and really diligent
, and I feel like that's like inour faith as well that
diligence and something that Itry to do for me and for my
(32:12):
family.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
You're a good kid, josh.
Okay, some rapid fire questions, if you don't mind.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
For you.
All.
Right, you said it already, buttell us again.
Favorite Nintendo game.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
It's the Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Legend of Zelda.
Twilight Princess, favoritegaming?
I don't know.
Is there a console?
Is that the right word?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Console.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Okay, yeah, what is that?
Speaker 2 (32:33):
It's probably Nintendo Switch, but the 3DS is
a close second.
Okay, nintendo Switch 3DS rightthere.
Okay, favorite family trip?
It might be florida.
Maybe it's just because Ihaven't been disney world in so
long, but there was so much newto it that it was just really it
was cool.
It was cool to go to, you know,somewhere past utah, I think
(32:55):
was the furthest east we've gonebefore or maybe arizona yeah
probably eastern arizonacrossing the mississippi, going
east, going to the atlantic.
It was cool, favorite disneylandride it's so hard not to say
rise the resistance, but I'mgonna go splash mountain.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Shout outs to og, splash mountain og, splash
mountain, the one with therabbit and the fox, and okay,
yeah, I went on it four timesright before it closed.
So yeah, that's probably myfavorite too.
I loved splash mountain,although the last time I was
there I swear it was wetter thanit's ever been.
I don't know if that's just I'mgetting older, I don't know
what the deal is, but all right,cool, very, very good.
(33:31):
Favorite disney ride we saidwhat was my other one?
Oh, just basic stuff.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Favorite food uh ramen like a real authentic
ramen, not maru chan, not topramen like an actual, like ramen
shop ramen okay, ramen.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Well, interesting.
What's your go-to at taco bell?
Speaker 2 (33:47):
it changes depending on what they have on their menu,
because it used to be a loadedpotato griller, but that third
item is always a specialty item,but it's always a bean burrito,
no onions, extra red sauce, acrunchy taco, whatever third
seasonal items in in.
Right now it's nacho fries.
But you're always doing thebean burrito, no onions, and the
crunchy taco, Always beanburrito, no onions, extra red
(34:08):
sauce and a crunchy taco.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Wow, okay.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Very good.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
I love it.
What other questions do I havefor you?
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Favorite dessert I'm not a dessert guy like you are.
You love dessert.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
I do love dessert.
What's what's my favoritedessert?
Is it brownies, I mean?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I like brownies.
It used to be brownies.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
I love brownies, Probably cookie a chocolate chip
cookie.
A chocolate chip cookie is myabsolute favorite.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
I'll go shaved ice though.
Love shaved ice, it's myfavorite.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
All right Dream destination or dream travel
experience for you.
Where would you want to go andwhy?
Speaker 2 (34:40):
I want to go to Japan really bad.
There's a lot of people in thelast couple of years that I've
known personally that have goneto Japan because it's just
really cheap right nowUnfortunately not able to do
that.
But Nintendo's there.
There's a Nintendo museum therenow where you kind of look and
see the history of Nintendo.
I'm also a big anime guy, sothere's a lot of stuff there for
(35:03):
that.
Ramen shops, it's my favoritefood.
I mean, there's just a lot.
It's clean.
I feel like I relate with thepeople a lot.
I like to be very clean.
Don't look at that.
I'm moving.
I I don't know.
I feel like I relate with thema lot, but Japan would be so
cool.
Sakura trees I'm also a big fanof that aesthetic.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
There's a lot wow, japan, that's your spot.
All right, very good, all right.
My final question for you.
This is a question I askeverybody on my show what does
adventure mean to you?
Speaker 2 (35:29):
I don't want to get philosophical because I'm not
good at that, but let's go withsomething new.
Adventure is something new, sosomething new?
Speaker 1 (35:37):
okay, yeah, which could be.
You know, going to to Japanwould definitely be an adventure
.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
You're kind of in that mode, you're moving, that's
something new.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Yeah, that's something new.
Could be trying something new.
That's an adventure.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yeah, you know, I like that Something new.
Very good, Josh.
This has been fun.
It's awesome to have my son onhere.
You know I love you.
You're a great kid.
I admire what you're doing.
I'm proud of you.
I'm proud of what you're doingwith your YouTube channel.
I think it's really cool.
Thanks, and I hope you justkeep it up.
And thanks for coming on.
Journey with Jake.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
I'm glad I finally got in a reservation slot.
I've been on the waiting listfor two, plus made it.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Bonus episode buddy.
Bonus episode Josh, love you.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Love you too.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Thank you, Josh, for coming on the show.
It was a lot of fun to have youon Journey with Jake and just a
real treat for me personallyand everyone listening.
Do me a favor and check outJosh's YouTube channel at Try
Nintendo, and that's Try spelledT-R-I.
Even if you're not a hugeNintendo or gaming fan, stop by,
watch a video and say hi toJosh, or try, as he's known
(36:45):
online.
We'll be back this Thursdaywith another great episode
featuring Jeremy George, thefounder of Bucket Match.
We'll be talking all aboutbucket lists, including Jeremy's
inspiring goal to complete onebucket list item every week for
an entire year.
You won't want to miss it, andjust remember, it's not always
about the destination as it isabout the journey.
Take care, everybody.
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