May 12, 2025 • 44 mins
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Building a loyal, interactive YouTube community is crucial for channel growth, even if you're just starting out. Community-building creates deeper connections with your audience, establishes your channel's identity, and turns casual viewers into dedicated fans.
• Distinguish between search-based content (answering specific questions) and browse-based content (designed to be discovered on homepages)
• Approach your channel with confidence - "fake it till you make it" by acting like thousands are watching
• Remember that your content isn't for everyone, but can be for anybody who shares your interests
• Create community-specific content like live streams that focus on interaction rather than discovery
• Respond thoughtfully to comments and foster conversations between viewers
• Allow inside jokes and traditions to develop organically based on audience response
• Position yourself as part of the community rather than above it - you're leading a club, not collecting followers
• Set clear boundaries for your community and let loyal viewers help maintain them
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to the only podcast that's more excited
to see you than you are to seeus.
I'm Travis and I'm here withJen once again.
Hi Still here in Seattle, stilldoing the fun things, still
enjoying talking to the peoplethat listen to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Still YouTube obsessed is what you mean to say
Still YouTube obsessed.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
If you're watching on the YouTube channel, you might
have noticed that there's somenew art on the channel and maybe
a new name, even VidIQ Podcast,which doesn't really change
anything.
We're still here, still doingthe thing.
It just feels nice to have aconclusive.
Anyone who's been around thispodcast knows the name.
Now, of course, the audiopodcast hasn't changed or
anything, but you'll notice thatthe YouTube channel has and I
(00:37):
think it looks cool.
It looks cool.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I think it looks great.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
We're all looking suave.
We're almost like the Avengersof.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
YouTube.
We do look like a superheroteam.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Totally amazing looking.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
YouTube superheroes.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
So let me hit you with a quick hit For those of
you new to the channel.
Of course we're here to helpyou grow your YouTube channels
and we give advice and talkabout candy and everything else,
but we actually have a commenthere from our YouTube channel.
I just wanted to share itbecause we talk about YouTube,
so, channel.
I just wanted to share itbecause we talk about YouTube,
so let's do that.
This one is from Snow FamilyRacing.
I've been working with a vidIQcoach to get my largely
search-based channel into browse.
Two weeks ago, I had a channelget 5,000 views in a week and
(01:13):
it's still going.
I'm working on morebrowse-based content and it
seems to be working.
Views are up, revenue is up,subs are up all good indicators.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Let's go, let's go coaching.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Congratulations.
If you're interested incoaching, there'll be a link in
the description.
That is from one of the peoplewho's watching.
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I love that.
I love when people are watchingall of our content.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Let's talk about that Main channel one-on-one.
I know.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Coaching, now with video reviews too.
Discord, if you just want to dipyour toe in the water with a
about that the, the video, thevideo review is you can now
submit just a video for review.
You don't have to fully committo one-on-one coaching.
You can just send in a video,have a coach review it, with
like a crazy amount of feedback.
(01:55):
In my opinion, um, especiallyif you're listening to us and
we're talking about something,maybe you tried to execute it
and you don't know if you did,which is fair you can have one
of our coaches look at it andthen maybe kind of sort of you
want to sign up for one-on-onecoaching after there you go and
maybe get more browse basedcontent or maybe you just made
an awesome video and your coachis going to tell you how
incredible it actually wassometimes.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
That's all we need, that's so cool.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I love that you know there was a success we talked
about last episode YouTube terms.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
This person used some terms browse and search and
again, we talked to a lot ofpeople who are new to YouTube
and have no idea what some ofthese words are.
Let's talk a little bit aboutsearch and browse and what that
means, Because what they talkedabout is they wanted to take
their search-based content intobrowse-based content, and I
think there's some peoplewatching right now that are like
I have no idea what that means.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
That's fair.
I think this is a morecomplicated thing.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, so let's quickly talk about that.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Quick, quick, quick.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Quick, quick.
Let's talk about whatsearch-based content is.
All right, this is super easy.
How to unclog my toilet.
Joe is back.
Joe is back, joe the plumber be, back how to make chocolate
cake.
That's search-based content.
Like I'm searching it up, Iwant to know how to do a thing.
I want to.
How know how to unclog mytoilet with a chocolate cake.
How about that?
Now you're viral that's it.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
That's all you need that's.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Can you do that I'm?
Can you make a plunger out ofchocolate?
I?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
was gonna say your craft channel your refrigerator,
did you?
Did you see the name?
I gave your craft channel in myvideo oh, what was it?
No, I missed it.
What was it?
I saw my video.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Oh, what was it?
No, I missed it.
What was it?
I saw the video, but I forgot.
What did you say?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I gave your channel a name Do you remember what it
was?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I'm not going to tell you.
I got to rewatch it again.
I watched that segment likethree times, I don't remember
seeing it.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Was it on the bottom or?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
something I gave you and John's channel a channel.
Jen did another video.
What's the name, what's thetitle of that?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
video.
The thumbnail is your IdeasSuck.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
The active title.
I'm not 100% sure, Because wechanged that stuff, things
around here change quickly yeahwe changed these very quickly.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Go watch that.
You'll see a little cameo bymyself and John from the channel
.
All right, but okay,search-based versus browse-based
.
I love talking about thisbecause there is a different
intent here.
So search base that we talkedabout is what people are
searching for.
It's usually what I callutility channel.
The answer is usually the pointof the video you want to know
how to do a thing, and thenyou're not necessarily there to
watch anything else.
You're there to get the answerhow to tie a tie.
(04:15):
Oh my God, I'm going out on afancy date.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I'm going funny because this is literally like
our last episode, which wasevergreen versus viral content
yes suggested and or notsuggested um browse and search
yeah, but we didn't really saybrowse specifically.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
We never really said the word no, we didn't and we
should have.
That's why we're bad at thispart two right now.
Part two where we're talkingthat viral content is yeah
browse and yeah, the searchcontent you're explaining could
be that evergreen content it 100be so search-based content
you're going to find when yousearch, browse-based content
shows up on your homepage.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
That's what YouTube thinks you want to watch while
you're browsing.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Right, and we've had this discussion before.
Some people were like well,what's the homepage?
They thought the homepage meantsomething different.
The YouTube homepage.
These were words.
Words are tricky.
Why this is where words, wordsare tricky.
Why what's tricky about thehomepage?
Because some people thoughthomepage for youtube meant
something then, other than whatit was.
This was an email from like acouple months ago.
I remember this specifically.
They're like well, that's notwhat the homepage is.
(05:13):
No, no, the home fee, the.
Basically, when you open upyoutubecom, that thing that's in
front of you, that's your home,that's the youtube homepage
that's your browse trafficthat's your browse traffic.
That's all that's youcontributing to browse traffic.
Yes.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Possibly suggested traffic too.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
So the point of that is that it's YouTube the actual
algorithm, so to speak, puttingyour content in front of people.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Doing the work for you.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
There you go.
Such a good way of putting it.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
And that's where you go viral.
Nine times out of ten is on thehomepage and stuff like that
with browse, because it's likethis is the hot newness, this is
the new hotness.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
And you probably want to watch this A hundred percent
.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
That's where you're seeing what's the new hotness on
your brow.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
What's the new hotness on your, on your.
Let me see what's on my home.
Feed right quick.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I'm curious.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Which which I'm in airplane mode right now, what's
it's different than on.
I'll usually watch on desktop,but it even says home at the
bottom it even says home.
Yeah, of course it does.
Okay, my first thing is from aRC car channel that I sometimes
watch.
I got Linus Tech Tips.
I got a picture of somebody.
I don't know what that's allabout.
Some wrestling and then some ofmy favorite things a full
(06:19):
episode of Chris Hansen TakeDown with Chris Hansen.
I love those, love watchingthose.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
So that's on my homepage.
I love you, just scrollingright past it, destroying
click-through rates.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yes, scroll.
Goodbye, I'll watch it laterwhen I get home.
So that's the homepage and youwant to be there.
So the type of content thatyou're making for search base is
a lot of times different thanyou're making for browse base.
Titling, for example, could beway different.
How to Unclog a Toilet versusYou'll Never Believe what
Clogged my Toilet, which is kindof the same thing, but it's a
(06:48):
different way of putting itDifferent storyline, for sure.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah so browse-based titles are usually more
click-baity, if you want to say.
All in all, this was a reallybig difference from what this
person was creating.
Difference from what thisperson was creating.
They're trying to make morepopular content instead of just
necessary content yes and that'shard to do because that's far
(07:13):
more creative and, I would say,far more rewarding and
devastating yes, and we talkedabout all of that in the last
episode.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
What the difference is between those?
Make sure you go check thatepisode out.
It's the one right before thisone.
It was a great episode.
We talked about a lot of things, including Nana, or Nama, nana,
nama stay.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I'm going to let you have it.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Anyway, you've got to watch it to see what I'm
talking about.
We got an email today, ladiesand gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
If you want to email 13, have a youtube channel.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
This is illegal, but he's in the netherlands so maybe
the conversion is he's 13 he'sdoing legos, so maybe it's just
a kid's channel if we tariff him, is he 13 oh my god, I don't
even know if he's 12 in thenetherlands, is he 13 here how
do you know where he's from?
He says he's in the netherlands.
Well, he said it in the emailthat.
Oh, I was like I'm losing my.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I'm reading this right now.
I don't see it I think theoriginal email says he's from
the netherlands, so oliver is 12years old and we won't say
running, we'll say participatingin a lego focused youtube
channel, and he's beenconsistently uploading videos
like set reviews, city updatesand live shows.
Um, he wants it to feel likemore than a channel.
He wants it to feel fun,connected and like a community
(08:30):
for lego fans.
And that really leads us intohis question, which is how do
you do that?
How do you build a loyal,interactive fan base early on as
a small channel?
I love this and we're here totalk all about building
community as a small channel doyou know who's a huge lego fan?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
no jeff, I'll have a reviews, really yeah I like
legos too actually I'm not likea.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I would say my sister is like a, very like she buys
all like the new lego sets andstuff.
Like she loves legos really.
I just like from time to timelike find a cute one and do a
little lego what and stuff likeshe loves legos really.
I just like from time to timelike find a cute one and do a
little lego what, uh, what onesdo you?
I have one on my list right nowthat I want.
It's like a pink typewriter.
Oh see, I've seen some coolones.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I've seen like the atari and nintendo ones,
whatever.
This is kind of neat, like alittle nintendo system and stuff
.
Those are cool.
But a pink typewriter it's yeah, it's like a pink typewriter.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
It's like a pink typewriter it has a flower
coming out of it.
Super cute.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Did you know that I actually brought that here today
?
Did you know how?
Would I have known that A pinktypewriter Lego?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
set.
It's so cute.
I think it would be cute on myshelf.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I will say that there are some really big Lego
channels out there, tons, butthey all do it differently.
So like you have those onesthat are like stop motion, yeah.
Those are super dope butprobably very time consuming.
Stop motion probably takesforever.
Then you have ones that arelike reviews and then you have
ones that are like news related,like the things that are coming
out, the pink typewriterreviews and stuff like that.
You have a lot of differentones.
(09:57):
I don't know that.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Oliver tells us what their type of content is yeah,
it sounds like he's covering alot, but this could also be
something to consider whenyou're talking about building a
loyal fan base.
It has to be a very clear thingthat your channel stands for,
especially as a small channel.
It should be so hyper-focusedand clear that your audience
(10:19):
knows immediately like yes, I'mhere, no, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yes, exactly that, and I think.
So what ends up happening is ifyou specifically said you want
a community, which is great,because I really believe
strongly we were talking aboutthis before we recorded in
community I think it's one ofthe most powerful things you can
get from YouTube, from doing aYouTube channel.
Um, and that brings me to apiece of uh I've been thinking
(10:43):
about this for the last 24 hoursthat your content isn't for
everybody, but it can be foranybody.
Let me say that again, becauseit might sound like I'm saying
the same thing, but I'm not.
Your content, including ours,isn't for everybody, but it can
be for anybody.
And here's what I mean by thatIf you are focused on something
(11:04):
very specific that you'repassionate about, more than
likely there are other peopleout there that have that same
passion, even if they don't evenrealize it yet.
Like, maybe you get intosomething, you fall into
something that you absolutelyend up loving, but you would
have never known had it not beenfor this TV show, this
commercial, this friend whotalked about it, or whatever.
Right, that could be anybody,but not everyone's gonna like
(11:29):
your stuff, and you know, everyonce in a while, we get a
comment or two, like oh, youguys talk too much.
You know, first of all it'spodcast.
Of course we're gonna talk toomuch.
That's really literally thewhole thing, right?
So we're not for everybody.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Some people don't like me, that's okay some people
everyone likes jen, so that'snot no, that's not true and I
was on the live stream.
The other day.
Someone was like you have toomuch energy for the morning.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I don't like it really and I was like no good
we're here to wake things uparound here wait until savage
got in there.
So you're okay.
Someone actually well, thatperson is not a real person to
ai, for sure, but again, butthat's the case point everyone
loves jen, but not everyoneloves jen.
So the thing is, your contentwon't be for you will get people
out there that will justrandomly because maybe their
(12:00):
lives suck randomly saysomething mean to you and and
that's okay.
It's totally okay for yourcontent to not be for everybody,
but it's for just about anybody.
Anybody who could just comeacross it, who maybe isn't a
psycho, super crazy Lego fan,still might like your content.
We literally had a viewer emailus and said I don't even have a
YouTube channel.
I have no idea what half thethings you guys are talking
(12:20):
about is but I just like towatch you guys, that's true.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, I think when we break this down into steps, I
feel like the first place thatyou could start is kind of
faking it till you make it surelike I feel like the last thing
you want to do is when you havethis mentality of you know
making content for everybody buteverybody not liking it is
really acting like an authorityin your space, acting like you
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already have this community.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yes, like it already exists, oh my God, yes.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Like literally faking it until you make it Like, even
if you have two people, oneperson who regularly comments
maybe you don't even have anyonewho regularly comments yet and
you're working towards that yougot to act like you got 100,000
people just waiting, bashingtheir keyboards, typing to you
and I think that's like a hugeconfidence thing and people see
that and they feel that and theyenjoy the content more.
(13:14):
Imagine if you were watchingsomeone and like they weren't
even sure of what they weredoing.
One it would be really hard forwhat travis is saying to make a
definitive decision whether youlike somebody or hate somebody,
correct, and if you're notreally doing it on the platform,
it's going to be harder tobuild a community If you stand
for nothing.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
You'll fall for anything.
That's one of my favoritesayings If you stand for nothing
, you'll fall for anything.
I love that.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Why should someone stand behind you?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Right, because you're going to fall and they got to
catch you.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
They're going to protect you.
Who wants that?
You got to do a trust fall withyour audience.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
No, but this is a good point and I love what
you're getting at here and Ithink it is super important to
act like everything is.
I remember and I've never toldanyone this.
This is a God honest truth.
Okay, so when I was firststarting out, I remember when I
would set up the cameras andeverything and I would get
cameras.
I had the camera.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
For a while.
Travis's a 10 subscriber studio.
I don't even doubt it.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
My first many, many videos were done in my living
room.
I mean, come on, so I remembersetting up and going.
One day this is for thousandsof people and I just always
would put myself in a mindsetlike I'm talking to thousands of
people and I had like 150subscribers at the time.
I'm like this is for thousandsof people, let's get it going.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Fake it till you, make it, fake it till you, make
it.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
And eventually it got there right and that was cool.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
That was dope.
Do you think you would have hadthe success if you didn't have
the mentality that you did atthe time?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
So you could fall into it, right?
Some people just fall into it.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
But I think you're always in a better place if you
prepare for it and if you setyourself up and you're like I
know that I'm going toaccomplish this.
I mean, don't just randomly dodumb stuff and then think, oh,
that was great.
I mean, take your time tounderstand what you're doing, do
a little research, listen to us, you know, think about things,
talk to peers and stuff likethat, and you'll get there.
But yeah, if you don't believein yourself, after all of that,
it's all for almost nothing.
Where are you going?
If you don't believe in whatyou're doing and you have no
strong opinion of where you'regoing, how are you going to get
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there, of where you're going?
How are you going to get there?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Yeah, you're the president of your club.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
That's such a good way of saying it.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
You're the leader I think that's another thing to
talk about too is like, whileyou're the leader and this is
your channel, like don't thinkabout it as that was you.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
No, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I was about to say something so intense, please.
The screen wasn't even ready.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
It really wasn't Go.
I was about to say something sointense, please.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
The screen wasn't even ready.
It really wasn't Go ahead.
Don't think about this as alittle drum roll, please.
Like these are followers.
Think about this like it is aclub, like you are all in this
together.
It is a community for a reason,like you're not putting
yourself on this pedestal forpeople to follow you.
Sure, you're a part of thisclub, you're just leading it,
yes, and like that, puttingyourself in that position and
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involved in that is so differentand so much more welcoming,
because there becomes like adisconnect when you think about
people.
It's just like your subscribers, your followers, and these are
the people I want to, just likeme.
It's like, no, that's notcommunity.
Community is being a part ofthat yes and that can be lost
really easily when people thinkof like the success they want.
(16:23):
But are you actively taking thesteps now to engage with the
community?
Are you answering everyquestion?
Are you answering replies ifyou have enough time?
Are you replying to replies?
Are you encouraging youraudience to start conversations
with other people?
Are you jumping in a threadthere?
Are you providing, you know,really engaging things and like,
(16:45):
eventually that time you won'thave that time?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
to do that.
Yeah, and I remember.
I remember writing my aboutpage which has since changed,
but I remember when I was firstputting you on my YouTube
channel, I was like, okay, whatdo I want people to know about
my channel, what do I wantpeople to know?
And I put the words in I wantto build a community of
like-minded people.
I remember writing that andthinking I really genuinely want
(17:07):
that.
I want a community of people Ican interact with, I can talk
with, I can talk with each other.
If someone else has a question,or something they help each
other and, um, eventually, I Igot it, which was amazing the
moment.
Those moments were amazing andone of the things that I use,
one of the tools I used tostrengthen that, was live
streams community buildingcontent oh my goodness that's a
whole thing we need to talkabout is what is community
(17:30):
building content we're talkingabout?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
obviously, things that I feel like are youtube
basics, like sure, answer yourcomments, right?
You're supposed to do that, youshould.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Why else are you here but?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
taking it to the next , like how are you answering
those comments?
Like are you taking the time,if you have the time, to
actually provide thoughtfulresponses, or are you responding
thanks for watching.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
With like a smiley face, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Are you actually trying to build a community or
are you just showing up becauseyou feel like you have to?
This is what makes thedifference.
These are really the make orbreak moments, especially in the
beginning.
If you think about if you gotresponse like a true, true
response from a creator that youwatch on a channel Like that's
the greatest feeling in theworld.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I think there are times, even today, that it's
cool to hear back from evensmaller creators.
I just like to watch.
I see it all the time.
Like I'll, I'll be in.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I love it.
I think there's somethingspecial about it.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I love showing up in the comments.
I used to not leave comments.
I was always like a lurker,like many people are, and then I
started like really diving intoleaving comments and it is so
fulfilling and it is so funny toactually see people's responses
, because it's just like you'rejust talking to people online,
like you're just talking topeople online.
(18:47):
Like you're enjoying watchingthem.
You like who they are.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
And then you've now started a conversation just with
someone that you enjoy.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
You know, what's interesting about that is there
was a time and this will happento some people, depending on the
niche you're in you'll leave acomment for someone, like I was
leaving a comment for one of myfavorite creators at the time,
and someone recognized me in thecomment section, like, oh my
God, you're here, which was wild.
Like I'm like what's happeningright now.
Like I was literallyno-transcript, left a comment
(19:25):
about this much larger youtuberand then underneath had a whole
bunch of comments like oh my god, you're here, you like this guy
?
Do you like this guy too?
And weren't you talking about,a couple months ago, um, seeing
a collab you never thought youwould see?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
you see, like one creator and another person
collab it always blows your mindyeah, you're just like why are
you friends?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
yeah, how do you know each other?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
that's so funny.
That's why I I comment fromlike all of my accounts.
I have like my coaching account, I creep into places with, and
then the main channel account Icreep in but you wouldn't know
it's me, yeah, and then all myother 12 gmail accounts that I
creep in with our burneraccounts I love it.
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I love it, but when it comes tocommunity content, what does
community content even look like?
Live streams?
live streams are so strong forthat because we're not doing
live streams with the hope thatwe're gonna get you know
discovered right, the algorithmis gonna pluck you out and be
like I mean you shouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
It could happen, but like that's not.
That should not be the reasonyou're doing it, generally
speaking, unless you're like adaily streamer and you're like a
gaming streamer.
You're like, well, I'm playingthe newest game.
Okay in that case.
Okay, maybe.
But I think what we're talkingabout here is very specific.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
It's like every once in a while, you do a live stream
yeah to interact I see lots ofgirls who do live streams, like
opening all their um pr packages, oh, opening all their po box
things, like all kinds of thingsthat their subscribers sent,
and they do that why?
Because it's their communitysending them things.
It's only for the community,yeah, like they're not trying to
get people who aren't involvedin this to yeah yeah, which
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makes sense.
That is a good example of a livestream that is meant for your
community.
And then there's also just likecommunity content.
Think about channels that youwatch that have life updates,
channel updates.
Maybe they move or something,and it's you know I'm moving,
it's an announcement, it'ssomething I'm pregnant, it's
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something like exciting likethat where it's not know I'm
moving, it's an announcement,it's something I'm pregnant.
It's something like excitinglike that where it's not
necessarily relevant to theirchannel, but they're updating
people who care about them yesand then go notice how much less
views those get that they willget a lot less content.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
But also pay attention to who shows up to
those, because those are yourloyal viewers and those are the
people that think you're amazingand are with you through thick
and thin and sometimes they'rethere when you need somebody.
I I hate to admit it I've beenon more than one live stream
where I've I've lost it and I'vecried in front of my live
stream, but the people that werethere comforted me and then I
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could see other peoplecomforting other people in the
chat and that really meant a lotto me.
There was this one really meanta lot to me.
There was one guy was goingthrough like just the worst time
, like he explained in chat likeum, like his, I think his wife
had died or something he wasgoing through really just a
terrible time.
And then everyone was justshowing him love and chat yep
and it just caught me in thefeels yep um, and I loved every
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minute.
Everyone who was there was likethis is the greatest thing,
because it was such a cool,uplifting moment.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
It's really sweet.
It's sweet to get to know yoursubscribers yeah because like,
why not?
Yeah like that's also.
Like you're saying, you're partof that community, like you
care about these people, likethe approach you have, where
you're all kind of breaking downtogether, and the approach I
have where, like, you genuinelycare about someone yeah even
though they're a stranger yeslike they're still a stranger
(22:38):
nothing wrong with but likeyou're not, you're the same.
You are the community you'renot.
You know, above everyone elseand that's just your subscriber
community like no.
You have to be a part of thecommunity and do cool things
when you can yes, and we try todo that with our discord.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
So our community lives in our uh, our comment
section and, of course, in ourdiscord yeah and we, we, uh, we
pipe, we poke our hole, or pokeour holes, we poke our heads.
We poke our heads to get yourmind out of the gutter.
We poke our heads into ourdiscord.
Every once in a while we say hi, and then we do these things
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like, uh, these q and a's andthen recordings of the actual
episode in there to engage withsome of y'all, and by the way
fun things we give away boostfrom time to time we do.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
You know it is about giving back.
It's not about giving back in away that's like obscene and,
you know, financiallyirresponsible.
But there are acts of, you know, giving back to your community
I love doing that.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yeah, I've done that more than I've.
I've done it a couple times off, off stream or whatever.
So to say so that people notbecause the point wasn't for
other people to know about it,the point was just to do the
thing yeah but I've also done iton stream just to kind of
encourage other people to do it.
So there's this thing.
Some people will try to shameyou into not sharing the, and
they've done this to mr beastover and over and over again,
(23:58):
where someone will do somethingkind for others and then I'm
like, oh well, you just did itfor the views.
No, bro, the reason that I evengot into doing things like this
on youtube is because I sawanother youtuber do it.
I'm like, oh, that's reallyinspiring.
It inspired me to do it.
I want to inspire someone elseto do it.
So I don't really care.
I mean, it's great to get moreviews and that'd be great for
more people to see that, becauseI want people to see that
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positivity.
But I'm not doing it to patmyself on the back, bro, I don't
care about that.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I really don't.
No, that's odd, that's awkward.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
I want it to inspire others.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
I mean it's not genuine, and people can see when
things are not genuine.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah, not genuine.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yeah, and so, for example, I'll give you an
example of when I did this.
Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
But this was.
This was years ago.
I I saw a gentleman.
I was at a food court in a mallwhen, I used to leave my house
and it was very obvious that,like he didn't have a place to
stay and I just decided I'mgoing to buy him lunch, I'm
gonna buy him lunch.
I'm not gonna give him randommoney, I'm just gonna buy him
lunch, bought him lunch, satdown and just talked to him for
(24:59):
a little while, just to kind ofunderstand his stories.
He must have been like in his20s.
He was not a real kid.
So I really just kind of wantedto understand his story.
He told me a little abouthimself and I said, do you mind
if I you feel more fed?
And he was like, yeah, man,thank you so much and I just
wanted to share it as a momentof humanity in the midst of
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everything that was going on atthe time and there were so many
people like, why are you doingthat?
You're so close to this guy,you don't know where he's been,
but I'm like, bro, can we reallyjust be nice to each other and
not shame?
So I say that to say this Ifyou were sharing something nice,
you do something to someone inyour community, or even someone
who's outside of the community,to encourage your community to
do more, which is what my wholepoint was it's the intention.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
The intention was to.
That's really what it is.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Exactly To get my community to be more broadly
thinking when trying, whenseeing someone who may be in
need, to just be kind to them.
I'm not saying you have to givethem, buy them lunch, I'm not
saying that but I'm saying, justbe kind, don't let anyone talk
you down from what you know yourgood intentions are and if your
community backs you up.
You'll know, because yourcommunity will either back you
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up or they'll tell you nah,that's a little bit much, you've
gone too far.
They're probably going to backyou up, especially if your
intentions are good and if yourcommunity's things.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Don't let these naysayers uh change your, your
well that's the differencebetween like having a community
that stands behind you yes andthat doesn't right.
And that comes from, like, whoyou are as a person, how you
present yourself online.
Sure, because if you didn'tpresent yourself in a way that
was genuine, your communitywould not stand behind you if
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they find out you're not genuineyeah, and it's the same way
like people, like your communitywill attack people in the
comments.
For you, absolutely, if youhave they will defend you.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, they will defend you, which is great to
see.
I love that.
I've seen that.
I've seen even on the boostchannel or, sorry, vidicu
podcast channel.
I've seen that once or twice.
It doesn't happen very often.
But someone was like why areyou doing all this?
You're like, bro, I like thischannel I love it.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I love seeing that.
Yeah, I love seeing that.
Which is so funny.
Um, I just saw that on one ofmy friends channel, like the
other day too which was likejust so relevant.
Someone popped in and was likeum why would you say that you're
being nasty, right?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
yeah, they don't stand for that.
So a friend of mine, um uh,emily, who has a I mean she's
been doing this for a while, butshe has this thing where her
core audience, which is prettylarge, and her live streams,
which have like thousands ofpeople that watch.
They know the rules and whensomeone new comes in, she
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doesn't have to moderate a damnthing because her community
makes sure everyone's in lineand if someone says something
it's not a line, they'll go.
They'll give them a warning.
Hey, we don't do that here,it's not what we do.
And if they fall in line, great, then they can become a part of
this large, really coolcommunity.
If they don't, they get bootedout.
And that's because she hascultivated.
(27:52):
We'll have to have her on thepodcast because she really did a
great job with, like, how toget her community in line.
Um, she always talks about likeyou set the boundaries of your
community and they will.
The people who love you willfollow them, and it just works
out that way.
So there's this, this, this.
I actually researched this fora video.
(28:12):
I did a long time ago aboutlike haters.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Did you just say research?
This was back when I cared no,is that how you say it?
Researched no, that's not whatyou said what do you mean
researched?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
I researched it.
How do you normally say it Isay I researched it.
What is?
Why are you laughing?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
wait, you're saying it different.
You're like going back andforth between like data or data.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I mean sometimes I say it different way.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
It depends on how I feel.
That's not normal.
What are you talking about?
Do you go back and forthbetween saying like data or data
?
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I usually say data, I think.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
You don't even know, you probably do go back and
forth.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Maybe I do because I'm fancy.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
That's insanity to me .
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
You're so weird.
What do you mean right now?
That is literally insanity.
What did I say?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
The level of the influx on how you say things.
I'll say this example my sisterwill not say Red Bull, she'll
say Red Bull.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
What I'm sorry.
Sounds to me like you said thesame exact thing.
Wait, are you joking?
Sounds like you said the samething.
I'm sorry.
Sounds to me like you said thesame exact thing.
Wait, are you joking?
Sounds like you said the samething.
Say it again, red bull.
Did you say red bull?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah, like, the emphasis is on the B.
Like, instead of a B, I say redbull, yeah, red bull.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Okay, red bull.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
It's just normally, but like the emphasis will be on
like red bull.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Red bull, I got reamed for saying Intel wrong.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
What did you say Intel?
I don't even remember.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Maybe Intel, intel, I don't remember.
I got killed for it in thecomments of a video I made once.
I'm like why are people havingproblems with this?
You know what I said.
You know what I mean.
It's not like I'm saying adifferent word.
People don't understand.
Okay.
So what were you researchingResearch?
I don't see there's adifference.
Researched it, I researched it.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Okay.
What were you researching?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I don't know what I researched anymore.
I forgot.
You just completely took me off, you railroaded me.
I can't help it.
I can't help it.
I didn't know.
I said that differently.
Oh my gosh, I didn't thinkanything of it.
Okay, you know there's a lot ofwords and things that, a lot of
things that I say, that I don't, I don't put the emphasis on
thinking that it's thatimportant for certain aspects,
for certain people, it's a bigdeal and I acknowledge that for
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certain things, for certainpeople, saying things in a
certain way or communicating acertain way is important.
I just think it's funny,because I don't think it matters
, because you know what I'msaying.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Like I know what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I just think it's funny because Because, like
there's nuclear and nuclear andI don't know which one is right,
I don't even care.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
It's like you know what I'm saying See, that to me
didn't sound different, but likeI'm sure it's different.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I'm sure it is, but to me it's like you know what
I'm saying, so it's funny.
Yeah, a hundred percent.
We'll get comments about thiswhole little thing, what we just
said.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
A hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
And that's an important thing to have on your
channel.
It's never too soon to startdoing that.
Like you can have inside jokeseven if you have five people
watching.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
How many people?
We talk about candy all thetime.
We get comments all the time.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
That's comments all the time.
That's what I'm saying, so it'slike just a world building.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yes, that is a very easy thing for people to join in
about build a world.
I love that thought.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, because if this was just our, our youtube world
alone, which is fine.
Like we only talked about you,sir.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
We only talked about youtube yeah, that's not how you
say youtube then you search andI didn't.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
It's because I was gonna say you're gonna say
research, it's because I wasgonna say night, I resisted the
urge to comment on you sayingresearch, research.
Then there would be, I wouldsay, a lot less, a lot fewer
moments for people to be able tochime in, because the level of
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youtube knowledge and some ofthe conversations we have, yes,
could feel more intimidating topeople for sure and if we're
sitting here supposed to be, youknow, the experts, how easy is
it for someone else to chime inwithout being the only the only
thing yeah, I think it'simportant to understand what
this podcast actually is.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
So we do.
The large portion of it isabout YouTube education, but so
much of it.
And what makes it what I thinkmakes it so interesting are the
other things that connect it.
So I know there's some peopleout there that would like the
podcast to just be like straightto the point, whatever.
That's not what this is.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
We got a main channel for that we do, and that's why
we say this content isn't foreverybody, but it can be for
anybody, and that's exactly whatthis is.
We have a community thatunderstood the community we do
have understands, gets it andloves it.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
We get emails every week talking about I binged,
watched everything until now.
We had a comment this week thatwas like I finally caught up to
everything and now I'm sad Ihave to wait.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
devastated yes, and we get that a lot and I am so in
my heart, yes, full, every timeI read this thank you so much,
so incredibly grateful for that.
But we cultivated that okay,but what did we do specifically?
Well, I think there's anythingthat you can break down that,
because when you think of thevodcast component, the channel
is small yes like we don't relyon the main channel, like
there's been no, you know,really crossover, call out type
of thing like no, not, reallynot really because it is a
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little bit of a differentaudience and it's a different
type of intention, but so whenwe think about that, we're
thinking about, you know,smaller channel.
You know we're not gettinghundreds of thousands of views
on on our videos.
So we're in the place thatwe're talking about, especially
with the podcast being so oldand it being revamped.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Right, we've changed it.
What have we done?
Speaker 2 (33:55):
that was different from the way it was.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
I'm glad you said this, because there's a very
specific strategy that I tookand that we've done together,
and I use some of this from myexperience of getting my
community together which is gointo it with a plan but be able
to be flexible as things develop.
So, for example, for my channelI'll explain how it went with
(34:20):
it I cute with this channel.
I had this.
I was like okay, I want to havea saying because I wanted to
make that that like kind ofviral branding between no, it's
a community branding where youhave the inside jokes and
everything.
And I had this thing I wanted todo.
I wanted to say this thing atthe beginning of every video and
I want everyone to get into itand be a part of that Like let's
go.
And it was what up play isright.
I would always say that.
(34:40):
But you know what?
That wasn't what the communitypicked up on.
They picked up on this otherthing that I said one time on
accident, and then they were allinto that.
So I had to switch this thingthat I was.
So I was getting merch, You'regoing to get merch made for this
other, saying oh my God.
And they pick the other set andthey're like I only watch this
channel when you say this.
If you ever stop saying this,I'm going to stop watching it,
(35:00):
Like all those I love when yousay it.
So that became the thing.
So I went in with one idea.
The idea stands.
They did catch on to something,but they caught on to something
that I didn't intend.
Same thing here.
What does everyone call us VidIcrew?
We didn't come up with that.
No, that was from an emailPeople within our company.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
We need to remember who.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
We need to go back and find out and find that.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
So, as we talk about that, we can give them credit.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Can we get a Wikipedia page made, please,
because?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
we definitely did not come up with that.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Can someone please come up?
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Nobody in the entire company came up with that.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
You know what's hilarious with that, but it's
been used within the company.
I saw someone mention it inlike another Slack channel or
something that's funny.
So they're like, hey, it's avidicrew.
I'm like, no bro, you got thatfrom our podcast.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Which our listeners called us the vidicrew.
Now we hear that all the timeright.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
So that's one of the things we go into and we also
dove into when people would sendin pictures of merch and stuff
they would do, and the candything was literally only going
to be one episode.
We talked about candy cornversus cat bread.
That was it.
All of a sudden, the communitywas going, was saying these
things and sending in theseemails.
So we've been talking about itsince October of last year.
Why?
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Because candy corn is delicious.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
No, that's why.
That's definitely not why westill get emails to this day
about candy corn that we startedback in October when it was
Halloween-ish.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Oh, just wait till this year.
Oh, I can't wait this season toshine the season to shine, Bro.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
I ordered 24 Cadbury eggs the other day because it's
after Easter and I got them onsale.
I told you I should do it.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
You just sent me that you sent me a screenshot.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
I got them and I'm eating them and I was like oh,
what's this for?
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Like you already made me eat one, he's like no, no,
no, they're on sale, they're forme, you're not getting them but
we didn't and because of that,I feel like we have even as we
get today.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
We'll even mention, oh, and as far as candies go,
blah, blah, blah, like we'll seethat in coming weeks in
episodes and stuff.
So I think that's one of thethings.
Is you start with an idea?
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Yeah, and let the community tell the community
will cultivate it too, because Ithink a lot of the times we say
or do or just have mannerismsor things that we're not even
aware of.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Say words in different ways that we didn't
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
It's stuff that you are just who you are, yeah, and
if you're showing up like whoyou are, then it could just go,
yeah, it could just go rightover your head, like why would
you notice something that's sonormal to you?
We should like put our channelthrough the vodcast, through
chat gpt, and be like what do wesay?
What we say like break downlike what each one of us it's
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not a bad idea actually, by theway.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
I just thought genuinely j-e-n-n-u-l-e like
you're genuinely that personthat's funny, that's good.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
That's actually the name of my refrigeration channel
.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Is it genuinely Genuinely?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
cold, genuinely freezing, genuinely frigid.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Genuinely cool she's crispy, she's crispy, she's
fresh.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Was there anything else in this email before we
finished this episode?
Thanks so much.
Your advice is helping me chasemy dreams.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Actually did we get to the bottom, um, so it was
actually.
There is a little bit you knowmore which we could get into a
little bit, but also could beits own episode also, which is
you know, what can you do tostand out and grow faster, and
while this is kind of theopposite of the community
content, right, do you feel likewe should do this in another
(38:30):
episode?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
that actually sounds like a really, because this is a
deep conversation.
This is talking about growth,yeah, yeah, yeah, we should
probably save that for now.
All of us.
A really great question for a12 year old, which is wild they
must be actively listening toevery episode.
I feel like first of all, I'veseen oliver around in other like
in live streams and stuff.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
He's been around so he's a community member, he's a
community member, totallycommunity member.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Very interesting that .
And, by the way, oliver, take alook at, like, the way we've
cultivated this kind of thingand how you fell into the
podcast, because I think, if Iremember correctly, you're
actually on the main channel andthen kind of fell over to the
podcast.
Think about how you made thatjourney and what made you want
to do that, and then considerhow to do that for your audience
.
Figure out new ways to haveyour little honeypot, so to
speak, of people to fall into,and then you keep them stuck in
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the honey and then they can'tget out.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Speaking of sweet, should we do a candy?
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Yes, I was literally about to say that.
So we figured we would do alittle candy podcasting and our
candy podcasts are secretly nota candy podcast.
I was over in the Stordia justa little while ago and I was
going to pick out some candy.
But there's something Iactually want to have now
because literally, I wasthinking about this exact thing
the other day, what this exactcandy the other day, but I
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thought they stopped making it.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
This is why it caught your attention.
It was on the brain.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Well, the thing is, first of all, the wrapper
doesn't look like it did backwhen I used to buy it.
But it was one of my favoritecandies.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
One of your favorite candies, like top three favorite
candies.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
It was definitely one of my top.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Did you get it on Halloween or was it not a
Halloween candy?
Speaker 1 (39:59):
I feel like it was a time limited, because there's
very big differences.
Right, it's not like aHalloween candy.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
It's not in a trick or treat like variety this is a
candy bar technically,technically, but it's not Okay.
Like bars are bigger.
Here's the ultimate war.
I will start right now.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Are you going to start talking about?
Is a candy bar really candy?
Speaker 2 (40:13):
No, is a candy bar or a chocolate bar.
Is candy chocolate?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Candy can have chocolate in it.
No, is candy chocolate Do youwant to know where this came
from?
Is candy chocolate?
Yeah, do you want to know wherethis came from?
It doesn't make any sense Goahead?
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Or is chocolate candy ?
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Is chocolate candy.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Are they the same thing?
Okay, because you called it acandy bar.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
That means that a cake is a candy cake.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
No.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Okay, you can have a chocolate cake then.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
No, that's cake, that's cake.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Right, but it's chocolate.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
A chocolate bar or a candy bar.
You just called it a candy bar.
Why didn't you call it a?
Speaker 1 (40:49):
chocolate bar, because in my mind, a chocolate
bar is just all chocolate.
You open it and it's justchocolate through.
Chocolate, like a Hershey's bar, is chocolate all the way
through.
That's a chocolate bar.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
So there's nothing else, it's just pure chocolate.
That defines a chocolate bar Tome, what if there's chocolate
in the bar?
Is there chocolate in that bar?
Speaker 1 (41:06):
It's chocolate on the outside and there's something
in the inside.
So this to me is like more of acandy bar, because a chocolate
bar sounds like it's just a barof chocolate, like a gold bar.
Isn't gold on the outside andsilver on the inside?
Speaker 2 (41:16):
See, I don't think that's candy.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
What do you think it is?
Speaker 2 (41:19):
I think candy is like sour candy, like nerds.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Sour Patch Kidss, I have traditional candy as well.
Yeah, candy, I have that aswell.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Yes, that's like there's a weird world where,
like people call a chocolate bara candy bar candy bar is what?
Speaker 1 (41:33):
where I'm about to show you to me?
There's no candy unless youhave a chocolate covered nerds
bro.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
No, I don't know.
I'm like that's a candy bar.
I went to the 7-eleven.
They don't have that kind ofstuff look all right.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Look here's what's gonna happen.
I know people are probablytuned out by now, but anyway, I
used to love this thing.
It was in different packagingback in the day and when I saw
it after, I thought it was gone,because I even looked on Amazon
for it.
I couldn't find it.
I was shocked and amazed andexcited.
And it is Twix.
I love Twix, but it's cookiesand cream Twix.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
Oh interesting.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
I love cookies and cream Twix.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
This was already a flavor.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
For a little while it came out, and I don't know when
.
It came out early mid-90s, andI used to buy it all the time,
and then it seemed to have goneaway.
It didn't look like this.
This was not the color of thecase.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
And then I'm pretty positive it actually did go away
for a while and then I rememberit coming back like a couple of
years ago.
But then I thought it went awayagain Because I even looked for
it, just like last week.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Someone's going to post the history of Twits.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Cookies and Creams.
By the way, last episode, ortwo episodes ago, we talked
about Rob and I talked aboutwhat a Google was, which is like
one with like a hundred zeros.
What a what A Google is?
It's, and then I forget who itwas.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
I don't know what you're saying.
A.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
Google.
A Google, yes, oh, is one withlike 100 zeros behind it.
But then we started talkingabout well, what's beyond that?
Speaker 2 (42:54):
And then someone literally gave us the entire
history.
Yeah no, I don't doubt thatthat person's like oh, you want
the history of cookies?
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Yeah, and they did.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
They left us a big long comment about it.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Let me have one very particular.
There's four of them.
I don't know.
You want one, you okay?
Okay, here we go.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
I'm going to think this is 100% disgusting, do?
Speaker 1 (43:11):
you think so?
Speaker 2 (43:11):
I hate milk chocolate , I hate cookies and cream.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
It's so good.
I think it was better back inthe 90s.
Still good, though I like it.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
That's literally so disgusting, which is why I broke
it off.
So you can save it, and you caneat it that tastes like
actually you know what it does.
The cooking and cream part doesremind me of like the hershey's
cookies and cream bar which Iused to eat as a kid, like the
white chocolate one yeah, theystill make those, but yeah, I
like those.
That was like kind of thethrowback taste that gave me,
but like-.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
It's not high quality chocolate.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
No, it would be probably like bad if it was.
Because it's Twix.
It should literally taste likea weird sugary concoction.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
It should taste like chocolate.
This should taste like what ittastes like, which is basically
which is I'll give it that it'sa Twix.
It definitely is.
But Twix are good, I think.
But this would be theequivalent of high school
cafeteria chocolate bars.
But I like it, I happen to likeit.
I don't think it's like thebest anymore.
Cadbury's pretty high up now.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Higher than that.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
But it's a cool.
Here's a funny thing Verynostalgic Tastes like nostalgia.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
That's the fun part.
That's why you do it.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
It literally tastes like I'm eating the 90s Took you
back to the 90s.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
That's what we're here to do.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
Anyway, if you want to do something amazing for us,
you can leave us a five-starreview.
If you're listening to theaudio podcast, if you're here on
YouTube, hit that subscribebutton if you're feeling awesome
.
And if you're feeling even moreawesome, you hit that like
button as well, and we'll.
I have a feeling the nextepisode I'm going to be trying
one of your candies.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Yeah, you will.
You'll probably like them,though, because I have great
taste.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
Let me research that.
Welcome back to the only podcast that's more excited
to see you than you are to seeus.
I'm Travis and I'm here withJen once again.
Hi Still here in Seattle, stilldoing the fun things, still
enjoying talking to the peoplethat listen to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Still YouTube obsessed is what you mean to say
Still YouTube obsessed.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
If you're watching on the YouTube channel, you might
have noticed that there's somenew art on the channel and maybe
a new name, even VidIQ Podcast,which doesn't really change
anything.
We're still here, still doingthe thing.
It just feels nice to have aconclusive.
Anyone who's been around thispodcast knows the name.
Now, of course, the audiopodcast hasn't changed or
anything, but you'll notice thatthe YouTube channel has and I
(00:37):
think it looks cool.
It looks cool.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I think it looks great.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
We're all looking suave.
We're almost like the Avengersof.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
YouTube.
We do look like a superheroteam.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Totally amazing looking.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
YouTube superheroes.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
So let me hit you with a quick hit For those of
you new to the channel.
Of course we're here to helpyou grow your YouTube channels
and we give advice and talkabout candy and everything else,
but we actually have a commenthere from our YouTube channel.
I just wanted to share itbecause we talk about YouTube,
so, channel.
I just wanted to share itbecause we talk about YouTube,
so let's do that.
This one is from Snow FamilyRacing.
I've been working with a vidIQcoach to get my largely
search-based channel into browse.
Two weeks ago, I had a channelget 5,000 views in a week and
(01:13):
it's still going.
I'm working on morebrowse-based content and it
seems to be working.
Views are up, revenue is up,subs are up all good indicators.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Let's go, let's go coaching.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Congratulations.
If you're interested incoaching, there'll be a link in
the description.
That is from one of the peoplewho's watching.
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I love that.
I love when people are watchingall of our content.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Let's talk about that Main channel one-on-one.
I know.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Coaching, now with video reviews too.
Discord, if you just want to dipyour toe in the water with a
about that the, the video, thevideo review is you can now
submit just a video for review.
You don't have to fully committo one-on-one coaching.
You can just send in a video,have a coach review it, with
like a crazy amount of feedback.
(01:55):
In my opinion, um, especiallyif you're listening to us and
we're talking about something,maybe you tried to execute it
and you don't know if you did,which is fair you can have one
of our coaches look at it andthen maybe kind of sort of you
want to sign up for one-on-onecoaching after there you go and
maybe get more browse basedcontent or maybe you just made
an awesome video and your coachis going to tell you how
incredible it actually wassometimes.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
That's all we need, that's so cool.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I love that you know there was a success we talked
about last episode YouTube terms.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
This person used some terms browse and search and
again, we talked to a lot ofpeople who are new to YouTube
and have no idea what some ofthese words are.
Let's talk a little bit aboutsearch and browse and what that
means, Because what they talkedabout is they wanted to take
their search-based content intobrowse-based content, and I
think there's some peoplewatching right now that are like
I have no idea what that means.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
That's fair.
I think this is a morecomplicated thing.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, so let's quickly talk about that.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Quick, quick, quick.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Quick, quick.
Let's talk about whatsearch-based content is.
All right, this is super easy.
How to unclog my toilet.
Joe is back.
Joe is back, joe the plumber be, back how to make chocolate
cake.
That's search-based content.
Like I'm searching it up, Iwant to know how to do a thing.
I want to.
How know how to unclog mytoilet with a chocolate cake.
How about that?
Now you're viral that's it.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
That's all you need that's.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Can you do that I'm?
Can you make a plunger out ofchocolate?
I?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
was gonna say your craft channel your refrigerator,
did you?
Did you see the name?
I gave your craft channel in myvideo oh, what was it?
No, I missed it.
What was it?
I saw my video.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Oh, what was it?
No, I missed it.
What was it?
I saw the video, but I forgot.
What did you say?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I gave your channel a name Do you remember what it
was?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I'm not going to tell you.
I got to rewatch it again.
I watched that segment likethree times, I don't remember
seeing it.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Was it on the bottom or?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
something I gave you and John's channel a channel.
Jen did another video.
What's the name, what's thetitle of that?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
video.
The thumbnail is your IdeasSuck.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
The active title.
I'm not 100% sure, Because wechanged that stuff, things
around here change quickly yeahwe changed these very quickly.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Go watch that.
You'll see a little cameo bymyself and John from the channel
.
All right, but okay,search-based versus browse-based
.
I love talking about thisbecause there is a different
intent here.
So search base that we talkedabout is what people are
searching for.
It's usually what I callutility channel.
The answer is usually the pointof the video you want to know
how to do a thing, and thenyou're not necessarily there to
watch anything else.
You're there to get the answerhow to tie a tie.
(04:15):
Oh my God, I'm going out on afancy date.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I'm going funny because this is literally like
our last episode, which wasevergreen versus viral content
yes suggested and or notsuggested um browse and search
yeah, but we didn't really saybrowse specifically.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
We never really said the word no, we didn't and we
should have.
That's why we're bad at thispart two right now.
Part two where we're talkingthat viral content is yeah
browse and yeah, the searchcontent you're explaining could
be that evergreen content it 100be so search-based content
you're going to find when yousearch, browse-based content
shows up on your homepage.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
That's what YouTube thinks you want to watch while
you're browsing.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Right, and we've had this discussion before.
Some people were like well,what's the homepage?
They thought the homepage meantsomething different.
The YouTube homepage.
These were words.
Words are tricky.
Why this is where words, wordsare tricky.
Why what's tricky about thehomepage?
Because some people thoughthomepage for youtube meant
something then, other than whatit was.
This was an email from like acouple months ago.
I remember this specifically.
They're like well, that's notwhat the homepage is.
(05:13):
No, no, the home fee, the.
Basically, when you open upyoutubecom, that thing that's in
front of you, that's your home,that's the youtube homepage
that's your browse trafficthat's your browse traffic.
That's all that's youcontributing to browse traffic.
Yes.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Possibly suggested traffic too.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
So the point of that is that it's YouTube the actual
algorithm, so to speak, puttingyour content in front of people.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Doing the work for you.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
There you go.
Such a good way of putting it.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
And that's where you go viral.
Nine times out of ten is on thehomepage and stuff like that
with browse, because it's likethis is the hot newness, this is
the new hotness.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
And you probably want to watch this A hundred percent
.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
That's where you're seeing what's the new hotness on
your brow.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
What's the new hotness on your, on your.
Let me see what's on my home.
Feed right quick.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I'm curious.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Which which I'm in airplane mode right now, what's
it's different than on.
I'll usually watch on desktop,but it even says home at the
bottom it even says home.
Yeah, of course it does.
Okay, my first thing is from aRC car channel that I sometimes
watch.
I got Linus Tech Tips.
I got a picture of somebody.
I don't know what that's allabout.
Some wrestling and then some ofmy favorite things a full
(06:19):
episode of Chris Hansen TakeDown with Chris Hansen.
I love those, love watchingthose.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
So that's on my homepage.
I love you, just scrollingright past it, destroying
click-through rates.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yes, scroll.
Goodbye, I'll watch it laterwhen I get home.
So that's the homepage and youwant to be there.
So the type of content thatyou're making for search base is
a lot of times different thanyou're making for browse base.
Titling, for example, could beway different.
How to Unclog a Toilet versusYou'll Never Believe what
Clogged my Toilet, which is kindof the same thing, but it's a
(06:48):
different way of putting itDifferent storyline, for sure.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah so browse-based titles are usually more
click-baity, if you want to say.
All in all, this was a reallybig difference from what this
person was creating.
Difference from what thisperson was creating.
They're trying to make morepopular content instead of just
necessary content yes and that'shard to do because that's far
(07:13):
more creative and, I would say,far more rewarding and
devastating yes, and we talkedabout all of that in the last
episode.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
What the difference is between those?
Make sure you go check thatepisode out.
It's the one right before thisone.
It was a great episode.
We talked about a lot of things, including Nana, or Nama, nana,
nama stay.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I'm going to let you have it.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Anyway, you've got to watch it to see what I'm
talking about.
We got an email today, ladiesand gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
If you want to email 13, have a youtube channel.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
This is illegal, but he's in the netherlands so maybe
the conversion is he's 13 he'sdoing legos, so maybe it's just
a kid's channel if we tariff him, is he 13 oh my god, I don't
even know if he's 12 in thenetherlands, is he 13 here how
do you know where he's from?
He says he's in the netherlands.
Well, he said it in the emailthat.
Oh, I was like I'm losing my.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I'm reading this right now.
I don't see it I think theoriginal email says he's from
the netherlands, so oliver is 12years old and we won't say
running, we'll say participatingin a lego focused youtube
channel, and he's beenconsistently uploading videos
like set reviews, city updatesand live shows.
Um, he wants it to feel likemore than a channel.
He wants it to feel fun,connected and like a community
(08:30):
for lego fans.
And that really leads us intohis question, which is how do
you do that?
How do you build a loyal,interactive fan base early on as
a small channel?
I love this and we're here totalk all about building
community as a small channel doyou know who's a huge lego fan?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
no jeff, I'll have a reviews, really yeah I like
legos too actually I'm not likea.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I would say my sister is like a, very like she buys
all like the new lego sets andstuff.
Like she loves legos really.
I just like from time to timelike find a cute one and do a
little lego what and stuff likeshe loves legos really.
I just like from time to timelike find a cute one and do a
little lego what, uh, what onesdo you?
I have one on my list right nowthat I want.
It's like a pink typewriter.
Oh see, I've seen some coolones.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I've seen like the atari and nintendo ones,
whatever.
This is kind of neat, like alittle nintendo system and stuff
.
Those are cool.
But a pink typewriter it's yeah, it's like a pink typewriter.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
It's like a pink typewriter it has a flower
coming out of it.
Super cute.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Did you know that I actually brought that here today
?
Did you know how?
Would I have known that A pinktypewriter Lego?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
set.
It's so cute.
I think it would be cute on myshelf.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I will say that there are some really big Lego
channels out there, tons, butthey all do it differently.
So like you have those onesthat are like stop motion, yeah.
Those are super dope butprobably very time consuming.
Stop motion probably takesforever.
Then you have ones that arelike reviews and then you have
ones that are like news related,like the things that are coming
out, the pink typewriterreviews and stuff like that.
You have a lot of differentones.
(09:57):
I don't know that.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Oliver tells us what their type of content is yeah,
it sounds like he's covering alot, but this could also be
something to consider whenyou're talking about building a
loyal fan base.
It has to be a very clear thingthat your channel stands for,
especially as a small channel.
It should be so hyper-focusedand clear that your audience
(10:19):
knows immediately like yes, I'mhere, no, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yes, exactly that, and I think.
So what ends up happening is ifyou specifically said you want
a community, which is great,because I really believe
strongly we were talking aboutthis before we recorded in
community I think it's one ofthe most powerful things you can
get from YouTube, from doing aYouTube channel.
Um, and that brings me to apiece of uh I've been thinking
(10:43):
about this for the last 24 hoursthat your content isn't for
everybody, but it can be foranybody.
Let me say that again, becauseit might sound like I'm saying
the same thing, but I'm not.
Your content, including ours,isn't for everybody, but it can
be for anybody.
And here's what I mean by thatIf you are focused on something
(11:04):
very specific that you'repassionate about, more than
likely there are other peopleout there that have that same
passion, even if they don't evenrealize it yet.
Like, maybe you get intosomething, you fall into
something that you absolutelyend up loving, but you would
have never known had it not beenfor this TV show, this
commercial, this friend whotalked about it, or whatever.
Right, that could be anybody,but not everyone's gonna like
(11:29):
your stuff, and you know, everyonce in a while, we get a
comment or two, like oh, youguys talk too much.
You know, first of all it'spodcast.
Of course we're gonna talk toomuch.
That's really literally thewhole thing, right?
So we're not for everybody.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Some people don't like me, that's okay some people
everyone likes jen, so that'snot no, that's not true and I
was on the live stream.
The other day.
Someone was like you have toomuch energy for the morning.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I don't like it really and I was like no good
we're here to wake things uparound here wait until savage
got in there.
So you're okay.
Someone actually well, thatperson is not a real person to
ai, for sure, but again, butthat's the case point everyone
loves jen, but not everyoneloves jen.
So the thing is, your contentwon't be for you will get people
out there that will justrandomly because maybe their
(12:00):
lives suck randomly saysomething mean to you and and
that's okay.
It's totally okay for yourcontent to not be for everybody,
but it's for just about anybody.
Anybody who could just comeacross it, who maybe isn't a
psycho, super crazy Lego fan,still might like your content.
We literally had a viewer emailus and said I don't even have a
YouTube channel.
I have no idea what half thethings you guys are talking
(12:20):
about is but I just like towatch you guys, that's true.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, I think when we break this down into steps, I
feel like the first place thatyou could start is kind of
faking it till you make it surelike I feel like the last thing
you want to do is when you havethis mentality of you know
making content for everybody buteverybody not liking it is
really acting like an authorityin your space, acting like you
(12:47):
already have this community.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yes, like it already exists, oh my God, yes.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Like literally faking it until you make it Like, even
if you have two people, oneperson who regularly comments
maybe you don't even have anyonewho regularly comments yet and
you're working towards that yougot to act like you got 100,000
people just waiting, bashingtheir keyboards, typing to you
and I think that's like a hugeconfidence thing and people see
that and they feel that and theyenjoy the content more.
(13:14):
Imagine if you were watchingsomeone and like they weren't
even sure of what they weredoing.
One it would be really hard forwhat travis is saying to make a
definitive decision whether youlike somebody or hate somebody,
correct, and if you're notreally doing it on the platform,
it's going to be harder tobuild a community If you stand
for nothing.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
You'll fall for anything.
That's one of my favoritesayings If you stand for nothing
, you'll fall for anything.
I love that.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Why should someone stand behind you?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Right, because you're going to fall and they got to
catch you.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
They're going to protect you.
Who wants that?
You got to do a trust fall withyour audience.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
No, but this is a good point and I love what
you're getting at here and Ithink it is super important to
act like everything is.
I remember and I've never toldanyone this.
This is a God honest truth.
Okay, so when I was firststarting out, I remember when I
would set up the cameras andeverything and I would get
cameras.
I had the camera.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
For a while.
Travis's a 10 subscriber studio.
I don't even doubt it.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
My first many, many videos were done in my living
room.
I mean, come on, so I remembersetting up and going.
One day this is for thousandsof people and I just always
would put myself in a mindsetlike I'm talking to thousands of
people and I had like 150subscribers at the time.
I'm like this is for thousandsof people, let's get it going.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Fake it till you, make it, fake it till you, make
it.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
And eventually it got there right and that was cool.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
That was dope.
Do you think you would have hadthe success if you didn't have
the mentality that you did atthe time?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
So you could fall into it, right?
Some people just fall into it.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
But I think you're always in a better place if you
prepare for it and if you setyourself up and you're like I
know that I'm going toaccomplish this.
I mean, don't just randomly dodumb stuff and then think, oh,
that was great.
I mean, take your time tounderstand what you're doing, do
a little research, listen to us, you know, think about things,
talk to peers and stuff likethat, and you'll get there.
But yeah, if you don't believein yourself, after all of that,
it's all for almost nothing.
Where are you going?
If you don't believe in whatyou're doing and you have no
strong opinion of where you'regoing, how are you going to get
(15:13):
there, of where you're going?
How are you going to get there?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Yeah, you're the president of your club.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
That's such a good way of saying it.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
You're the leader I think that's another thing to
talk about too is like, whileyou're the leader and this is
your channel, like don't thinkabout it as that was you.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
No, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I was about to say something so intense, please.
The screen wasn't even ready.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
It really wasn't Go.
I was about to say something sointense, please.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
The screen wasn't even ready.
It really wasn't Go ahead.
Don't think about this as alittle drum roll, please.
Like these are followers.
Think about this like it is aclub, like you are all in this
together.
It is a community for a reason,like you're not putting
yourself on this pedestal forpeople to follow you.
Sure, you're a part of thisclub, you're just leading it,
yes, and like that, puttingyourself in that position and
(16:01):
involved in that is so differentand so much more welcoming,
because there becomes like adisconnect when you think about
people.
It's just like your subscribers, your followers, and these are
the people I want to, just likeme.
It's like, no, that's notcommunity.
Community is being a part ofthat yes and that can be lost
really easily when people thinkof like the success they want.
(16:23):
But are you actively taking thesteps now to engage with the
community?
Are you answering everyquestion?
Are you answering replies ifyou have enough time?
Are you replying to replies?
Are you encouraging youraudience to start conversations
with other people?
Are you jumping in a threadthere?
Are you providing, you know,really engaging things and like,
(16:45):
eventually that time you won'thave that time?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
to do that.
Yeah, and I remember.
I remember writing my aboutpage which has since changed,
but I remember when I was firstputting you on my YouTube
channel, I was like, okay, whatdo I want people to know about
my channel, what do I wantpeople to know?
And I put the words in I wantto build a community of
like-minded people.
I remember writing that andthinking I really genuinely want
(17:07):
that.
I want a community of people Ican interact with, I can talk
with, I can talk with each other.
If someone else has a question,or something they help each
other and, um, eventually, I Igot it, which was amazing the
moment.
Those moments were amazing andone of the things that I use,
one of the tools I used tostrengthen that, was live
streams community buildingcontent oh my goodness that's a
whole thing we need to talkabout is what is community
(17:30):
building content we're talkingabout?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
obviously, things that I feel like are youtube
basics, like sure, answer yourcomments, right?
You're supposed to do that, youshould.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Why else are you here but?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
taking it to the next , like how are you answering
those comments?
Like are you taking the time,if you have the time, to
actually provide thoughtfulresponses, or are you responding
thanks for watching.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
With like a smiley face, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Are you actually trying to build a community or
are you just showing up becauseyou feel like you have to?
This is what makes thedifference.
These are really the make orbreak moments, especially in the
beginning.
If you think about if you gotresponse like a true, true
response from a creator that youwatch on a channel Like that's
the greatest feeling in theworld.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I think there are times, even today, that it's
cool to hear back from evensmaller creators.
I just like to watch.
I see it all the time.
Like I'll, I'll be in.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I love it.
I think there's somethingspecial about it.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I love showing up in the comments.
I used to not leave comments.
I was always like a lurker,like many people are, and then I
started like really diving intoleaving comments and it is so
fulfilling and it is so funny toactually see people's responses
, because it's just like you'rejust talking to people online,
like you're just talking topeople online.
(18:47):
Like you're enjoying watchingthem.
You like who they are.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
And then you've now started a conversation just with
someone that you enjoy.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
You know, what's interesting about that is there
was a time and this will happento some people, depending on the
niche you're in you'll leave acomment for someone, like I was
leaving a comment for one of myfavorite creators at the time,
and someone recognized me in thecomment section, like, oh my
God, you're here, which was wild.
Like I'm like what's happeningright now.
Like I was literallyno-transcript, left a comment
(19:25):
about this much larger youtuberand then underneath had a whole
bunch of comments like oh my god, you're here, you like this guy
?
Do you like this guy too?
And weren't you talking about,a couple months ago, um, seeing
a collab you never thought youwould see?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
you see, like one creator and another person
collab it always blows your mindyeah, you're just like why are
you friends?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
yeah, how do you know each other?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
that's so funny.
That's why I I comment fromlike all of my accounts.
I have like my coaching account, I creep into places with, and
then the main channel account Icreep in but you wouldn't know
it's me, yeah, and then all myother 12 gmail accounts that I
creep in with our burneraccounts I love it.
(20:03):
I love it, but when it comes tocommunity content, what does
community content even look like?
Live streams?
live streams are so strong forthat because we're not doing
live streams with the hope thatwe're gonna get you know
discovered right, the algorithmis gonna pluck you out and be
like I mean you shouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
It could happen, but like that's not.
That should not be the reasonyou're doing it, generally
speaking, unless you're like adaily streamer and you're like a
gaming streamer.
You're like, well, I'm playingthe newest game.
Okay in that case.
Okay, maybe.
But I think what we're talkingabout here is very specific.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
It's like every once in a while, you do a live stream
yeah to interact I see lots ofgirls who do live streams, like
opening all their um pr packages, oh, opening all their po box
things, like all kinds of thingsthat their subscribers sent,
and they do that why?
Because it's their communitysending them things.
It's only for the community,yeah, like they're not trying to
get people who aren't involvedin this to yeah yeah, which
(20:55):
makes sense.
That is a good example of a livestream that is meant for your
community.
And then there's also just likecommunity content.
Think about channels that youwatch that have life updates,
channel updates.
Maybe they move or something,and it's you know I'm moving,
it's an announcement, it'ssomething I'm pregnant, it's
(21:17):
something like exciting likethat where it's not know I'm
moving, it's an announcement,it's something I'm pregnant.
It's something like excitinglike that where it's not
necessarily relevant to theirchannel, but they're updating
people who care about them yesand then go notice how much less
views those get that they willget a lot less content.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
But also pay attention to who shows up to
those, because those are yourloyal viewers and those are the
people that think you're amazingand are with you through thick
and thin and sometimes they'rethere when you need somebody.
I I hate to admit it I've beenon more than one live stream
where I've I've lost it and I'vecried in front of my live
stream, but the people that werethere comforted me and then I
(21:50):
could see other peoplecomforting other people in the
chat and that really meant a lotto me.
There was this one really meanta lot to me.
There was one guy was goingthrough like just the worst time
, like he explained in chat likeum, like his, I think his wife
had died or something he wasgoing through really just a
terrible time.
And then everyone was justshowing him love and chat yep
and it just caught me in thefeels yep um, and I loved every
(22:12):
minute.
Everyone who was there was likethis is the greatest thing,
because it was such a cool,uplifting moment.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
It's really sweet.
It's sweet to get to know yoursubscribers yeah because like,
why not?
Yeah like that's also.
Like you're saying, you're partof that community, like you
care about these people, likethe approach you have, where
you're all kind of breaking downtogether, and the approach I
have where, like, you genuinelycare about someone yeah even
though they're a stranger yeslike they're still a stranger
(22:38):
nothing wrong with but likeyou're not, you're the same.
You are the community you'renot.
You know, above everyone elseand that's just your subscriber
community like no.
You have to be a part of thecommunity and do cool things
when you can yes, and we try todo that with our discord.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
So our community lives in our uh, our comment
section and, of course, in ourdiscord yeah and we, we, uh, we
pipe, we poke our hole, or pokeour holes, we poke our heads.
We poke our heads to get yourmind out of the gutter.
We poke our heads into ourdiscord.
Every once in a while we say hi, and then we do these things
(23:16):
like, uh, these q and a's andthen recordings of the actual
episode in there to engage withsome of y'all, and by the way
fun things we give away boostfrom time to time we do.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
You know it is about giving back.
It's not about giving back in away that's like obscene and,
you know, financiallyirresponsible.
But there are acts of, you know, giving back to your community
I love doing that.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yeah, I've done that more than I've.
I've done it a couple times off, off stream or whatever.
So to say so that people notbecause the point wasn't for
other people to know about it,the point was just to do the
thing yeah but I've also done iton stream just to kind of
encourage other people to do it.
So there's this thing.
Some people will try to shameyou into not sharing the, and
they've done this to mr beastover and over and over again,
(23:58):
where someone will do somethingkind for others and then I'm
like, oh well, you just did itfor the views.
No, bro, the reason that I evengot into doing things like this
on youtube is because I sawanother youtuber do it.
I'm like, oh, that's reallyinspiring.
It inspired me to do it.
I want to inspire someone elseto do it.
So I don't really care.
I mean, it's great to get moreviews and that'd be great for
more people to see that, becauseI want people to see that
(24:20):
positivity.
But I'm not doing it to patmyself on the back, bro, I don't
care about that.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I really don't.
No, that's odd, that's awkward.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
I want it to inspire others.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
I mean it's not genuine, and people can see when
things are not genuine.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah, not genuine.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yeah, and so, for example, I'll give you an
example of when I did this.
Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
But this was.
This was years ago.
I I saw a gentleman.
I was at a food court in a mallwhen, I used to leave my house
and it was very obvious that,like he didn't have a place to
stay and I just decided I'mgoing to buy him lunch, I'm
gonna buy him lunch.
I'm not gonna give him randommoney, I'm just gonna buy him
lunch, bought him lunch, satdown and just talked to him for
(24:59):
a little while, just to kind ofunderstand his stories.
He must have been like in his20s.
He was not a real kid.
So I really just kind of wantedto understand his story.
He told me a little abouthimself and I said, do you mind
if I you feel more fed?
And he was like, yeah, man,thank you so much and I just
wanted to share it as a momentof humanity in the midst of
(25:22):
everything that was going on atthe time and there were so many
people like, why are you doingthat?
You're so close to this guy,you don't know where he's been,
but I'm like, bro, can we reallyjust be nice to each other and
not shame?
So I say that to say this Ifyou were sharing something nice,
you do something to someone inyour community, or even someone
who's outside of the community,to encourage your community to
do more, which is what my wholepoint was it's the intention.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
The intention was to.
That's really what it is.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Exactly To get my community to be more broadly
thinking when trying, whenseeing someone who may be in
need, to just be kind to them.
I'm not saying you have to givethem, buy them lunch, I'm not
saying that but I'm saying, justbe kind, don't let anyone talk
you down from what you know yourgood intentions are and if your
community backs you up.
You'll know, because yourcommunity will either back you
(26:05):
up or they'll tell you nah,that's a little bit much, you've
gone too far.
They're probably going to backyou up, especially if your
intentions are good and if yourcommunity's things.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Don't let these naysayers uh change your, your
well that's the differencebetween like having a community
that stands behind you yes andthat doesn't right.
And that comes from, like, whoyou are as a person, how you
present yourself online.
Sure, because if you didn'tpresent yourself in a way that
was genuine, your communitywould not stand behind you if
(26:33):
they find out you're not genuineyeah, and it's the same way
like people, like your communitywill attack people in the
comments.
For you, absolutely, if youhave they will defend you.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, they will defend you, which is great to
see.
I love that.
I've seen that.
I've seen even on the boostchannel or, sorry, vidicu
podcast channel.
I've seen that once or twice.
It doesn't happen very often.
But someone was like why areyou doing all this?
You're like, bro, I like thischannel I love it.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I love seeing that.
Yeah, I love seeing that.
Which is so funny.
Um, I just saw that on one ofmy friends channel, like the
other day too which was likejust so relevant.
Someone popped in and was likeum why would you say that you're
being nasty, right?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
yeah, they don't stand for that.
So a friend of mine, um uh,emily, who has a I mean she's
been doing this for a while, butshe has this thing where her
core audience, which is prettylarge, and her live streams,
which have like thousands ofpeople that watch.
They know the rules and whensomeone new comes in, she
(27:32):
doesn't have to moderate a damnthing because her community
makes sure everyone's in lineand if someone says something
it's not a line, they'll go.
They'll give them a warning.
Hey, we don't do that here,it's not what we do.
And if they fall in line, great, then they can become a part of
this large, really coolcommunity.
If they don't, they get bootedout.
And that's because she hascultivated.
(27:52):
We'll have to have her on thepodcast because she really did a
great job with, like, how toget her community in line.
Um, she always talks about likeyou set the boundaries of your
community and they will.
The people who love you willfollow them, and it just works
out that way.
So there's this, this, this.
I actually researched this fora video.
(28:12):
I did a long time ago aboutlike haters.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Did you just say research?
This was back when I cared no,is that how you say it?
Researched no, that's not whatyou said what do you mean
researched?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
I researched it.
How do you normally say it Isay I researched it.
What is?
Why are you laughing?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
wait, you're saying it different.
You're like going back andforth between like data or data.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I mean sometimes I say it different way.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
It depends on how I feel.
That's not normal.
What are you talking about?
Do you go back and forthbetween saying like data or data
?
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I usually say data, I think.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
You don't even know, you probably do go back and
forth.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Maybe I do because I'm fancy.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
That's insanity to me .
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
You're so weird.
What do you mean right now?
That is literally insanity.
What did I say?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
The level of the influx on how you say things.
I'll say this example my sisterwill not say Red Bull, she'll
say Red Bull.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
What I'm sorry.
Sounds to me like you said thesame exact thing.
Wait, are you joking?
Sounds like you said the samething.
I'm sorry.
Sounds to me like you said thesame exact thing.
Wait, are you joking?
Sounds like you said the samething.
Say it again, red bull.
Did you say red bull?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah, like, the emphasis is on the B.
Like, instead of a B, I say redbull, yeah, red bull.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Okay, red bull.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
It's just normally, but like the emphasis will be on
like red bull.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Red bull, I got reamed for saying Intel wrong.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
What did you say Intel?
I don't even remember.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Maybe Intel, intel, I don't remember.
I got killed for it in thecomments of a video I made once.
I'm like why are people havingproblems with this?
You know what I said.
You know what I mean.
It's not like I'm saying adifferent word.
People don't understand.
Okay.
So what were you researchingResearch?
I don't see there's adifference.
Researched it, I researched it.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Okay.
What were you researching?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I don't know what I researched anymore.
I forgot.
You just completely took me off, you railroaded me.
I can't help it.
I can't help it.
I didn't know.
I said that differently.
Oh my gosh, I didn't thinkanything of it.
Okay, you know there's a lot ofwords and things that, a lot of
things that I say, that I don't, I don't put the emphasis on
thinking that it's thatimportant for certain aspects,
for certain people, it's a bigdeal and I acknowledge that for
(30:32):
certain things, for certainpeople, saying things in a
certain way or communicating acertain way is important.
I just think it's funny,because I don't think it matters
, because you know what I'msaying.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Like I know what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I just think it's funny because Because, like
there's nuclear and nuclear andI don't know which one is right,
I don't even care.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
It's like you know what I'm saying See, that to me
didn't sound different, but likeI'm sure it's different.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I'm sure it is, but to me it's like you know what
I'm saying, so it's funny.
Yeah, a hundred percent.
We'll get comments about thiswhole little thing, what we just
said.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
A hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
And that's an important thing to have on your
channel.
It's never too soon to startdoing that.
Like you can have inside jokeseven if you have five people
watching.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
How many people?
We talk about candy all thetime.
We get comments all the time.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
That's comments all the time.
That's what I'm saying, so it'slike just a world building.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yes, that is a very easy thing for people to join in
about build a world.
I love that thought.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, because if this was just our, our youtube world
alone, which is fine.
Like we only talked about you,sir.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
We only talked about youtube yeah, that's not how you
say youtube then you search andI didn't.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
It's because I was gonna say you're gonna say
research, it's because I wasgonna say night, I resisted the
urge to comment on you sayingresearch, research.
Then there would be, I wouldsay, a lot less, a lot fewer
moments for people to be able tochime in, because the level of
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youtube knowledge and some ofthe conversations we have, yes,
could feel more intimidating topeople for sure and if we're
sitting here supposed to be, youknow, the experts, how easy is
it for someone else to chime inwithout being the only the only
thing yeah, I think it'simportant to understand what
this podcast actually is.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
So we do.
The large portion of it isabout YouTube education, but so
much of it.
And what makes it what I thinkmakes it so interesting are the
other things that connect it.
So I know there's some peopleout there that would like the
podcast to just be like straightto the point, whatever.
That's not what this is.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
We got a main channel for that we do, and that's why
we say this content isn't foreverybody, but it can be for
anybody, and that's exactly whatthis is.
We have a community thatunderstood the community we do
have understands, gets it andloves it.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
We get emails every week talking about I binged,
watched everything until now.
We had a comment this week thatwas like I finally caught up to
everything and now I'm sad Ihave to wait.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
devastated yes, and we get that a lot and I am so in
my heart, yes, full, every timeI read this thank you so much,
so incredibly grateful for that.
But we cultivated that okay,but what did we do specifically?
Well, I think there's anythingthat you can break down that,
because when you think of thevodcast component, the channel
is small yes like we don't relyon the main channel, like
there's been no, you know,really crossover, call out type
of thing like no, not, reallynot really because it is a
(33:35):
little bit of a differentaudience and it's a different
type of intention, but so whenwe think about that, we're
thinking about, you know,smaller channel.
You know we're not gettinghundreds of thousands of views
on on our videos.
So we're in the place thatwe're talking about, especially
with the podcast being so oldand it being revamped.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Right, we've changed it.
What have we done?
Speaker 2 (33:55):
that was different from the way it was.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
I'm glad you said this, because there's a very
specific strategy that I tookand that we've done together,
and I use some of this from myexperience of getting my
community together which is gointo it with a plan but be able
to be flexible as things develop.
So, for example, for my channelI'll explain how it went with
(34:20):
it I cute with this channel.
I had this.
I was like okay, I want to havea saying because I wanted to
make that that like kind ofviral branding between no, it's
a community branding where youhave the inside jokes and
everything.
And I had this thing I wanted todo.
I wanted to say this thing atthe beginning of every video and
I want everyone to get into itand be a part of that Like let's
go.
And it was what up play isright.
I would always say that.
(34:40):
But you know what?
That wasn't what the communitypicked up on.
They picked up on this otherthing that I said one time on
accident, and then they were allinto that.
So I had to switch this thingthat I was.
So I was getting merch, You'regoing to get merch made for this
other, saying oh my God.
And they pick the other set andthey're like I only watch this
channel when you say this.
If you ever stop saying this,I'm going to stop watching it,
(35:00):
Like all those I love when yousay it.
So that became the thing.
So I went in with one idea.
The idea stands.
They did catch on to something,but they caught on to something
that I didn't intend.
Same thing here.
What does everyone call us VidIcrew?
We didn't come up with that.
No, that was from an emailPeople within our company.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
We need to remember who.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
We need to go back and find out and find that.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
So, as we talk about that, we can give them credit.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Can we get a Wikipedia page made, please,
because?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
we definitely did not come up with that.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Can someone please come up?
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Nobody in the entire company came up with that.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
You know what's hilarious with that, but it's
been used within the company.
I saw someone mention it inlike another Slack channel or
something that's funny.
So they're like, hey, it's avidicrew.
I'm like, no bro, you got thatfrom our podcast.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Which our listeners called us the vidicrew.
Now we hear that all the timeright.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
So that's one of the things we go into and we also
dove into when people would sendin pictures of merch and stuff
they would do, and the candything was literally only going
to be one episode.
We talked about candy cornversus cat bread.
That was it.
All of a sudden, the communitywas going, was saying these
things and sending in theseemails.
So we've been talking about itsince October of last year.
Why?
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Because candy corn is delicious.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
No, that's why.
That's definitely not why westill get emails to this day
about candy corn that we startedback in October when it was
Halloween-ish.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Oh, just wait till this year.
Oh, I can't wait this season toshine the season to shine, Bro.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
I ordered 24 Cadbury eggs the other day because it's
after Easter and I got them onsale.
I told you I should do it.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
You just sent me that you sent me a screenshot.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
I got them and I'm eating them and I was like oh,
what's this for?
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Like you already made me eat one, he's like no, no,
no, they're on sale, they're forme, you're not getting them but
we didn't and because of that,I feel like we have even as we
get today.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
We'll even mention, oh, and as far as candies go,
blah, blah, blah, like we'll seethat in coming weeks in
episodes and stuff.
So I think that's one of thethings.
Is you start with an idea?
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Yeah, and let the community tell the community
will cultivate it too, because Ithink a lot of the times we say
or do or just have mannerismsor things that we're not even
aware of.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Say words in different ways that we didn't
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
It's stuff that you are just who you are, yeah, and
if you're showing up like whoyou are, then it could just go,
yeah, it could just go rightover your head, like why would
you notice something that's sonormal to you?
We should like put our channelthrough the vodcast, through
chat gpt, and be like what do wesay?
What we say like break downlike what each one of us it's
(37:34):
not a bad idea actually, by theway.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
I just thought genuinely j-e-n-n-u-l-e like
you're genuinely that personthat's funny, that's good.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
That's actually the name of my refrigeration channel
.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Is it genuinely Genuinely?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
cold, genuinely freezing, genuinely frigid.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Genuinely cool she's crispy, she's crispy, she's
fresh.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Was there anything else in this email before we
finished this episode?
Thanks so much.
Your advice is helping me chasemy dreams.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Actually did we get to the bottom, um, so it was
actually.
There is a little bit you knowmore which we could get into a
little bit, but also could beits own episode also, which is
you know, what can you do tostand out and grow faster, and
while this is kind of theopposite of the community
content, right, do you feel likewe should do this in another
(38:30):
episode?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
that actually sounds like a really, because this is a
deep conversation.
This is talking about growth,yeah, yeah, yeah, we should
probably save that for now.
All of us.
A really great question for a12 year old, which is wild they
must be actively listening toevery episode.
I feel like first of all, I'veseen oliver around in other like
in live streams and stuff.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
He's been around so he's a community member, he's a
community member, totallycommunity member.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Very interesting that .
And, by the way, oliver, take alook at, like, the way we've
cultivated this kind of thingand how you fell into the
podcast, because I think, if Iremember correctly, you're
actually on the main channel andthen kind of fell over to the
podcast.
Think about how you made thatjourney and what made you want
to do that, and then considerhow to do that for your audience
.
Figure out new ways to haveyour little honeypot, so to
speak, of people to fall into,and then you keep them stuck in
(39:11):
the honey and then they can'tget out.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Speaking of sweet, should we do a candy?
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Yes, I was literally about to say that.
So we figured we would do alittle candy podcasting and our
candy podcasts are secretly nota candy podcast.
I was over in the Stordia justa little while ago and I was
going to pick out some candy.
But there's something Iactually want to have now
because literally, I wasthinking about this exact thing
the other day, what this exactcandy the other day, but I
(39:38):
thought they stopped making it.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
This is why it caught your attention.
It was on the brain.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Well, the thing is, first of all, the wrapper
doesn't look like it did backwhen I used to buy it.
But it was one of my favoritecandies.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
One of your favorite candies, like top three favorite
candies.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
It was definitely one of my top.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Did you get it on Halloween or was it not a
Halloween candy?
Speaker 1 (39:59):
I feel like it was a time limited, because there's
very big differences.
Right, it's not like aHalloween candy.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
It's not in a trick or treat like variety this is a
candy bar technically,technically, but it's not Okay.
Like bars are bigger.
Here's the ultimate war.
I will start right now.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Are you going to start talking about?
Is a candy bar really candy?
Speaker 2 (40:13):
No, is a candy bar or a chocolate bar.
Is candy chocolate?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Candy can have chocolate in it.
No, is candy chocolate Do youwant to know where this came
from?
Is candy chocolate?
Yeah, do you want to know wherethis came from?
It doesn't make any sense Goahead?
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Or is chocolate candy ?
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Is chocolate candy.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Are they the same thing?
Okay, because you called it acandy bar.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
That means that a cake is a candy cake.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
No.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Okay, you can have a chocolate cake then.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
No, that's cake, that's cake.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Right, but it's chocolate.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
A chocolate bar or a candy bar.
You just called it a candy bar.
Why didn't you call it a?
Speaker 1 (40:49):
chocolate bar, because in my mind, a chocolate
bar is just all chocolate.
You open it and it's justchocolate through.
Chocolate, like a Hershey's bar, is chocolate all the way
through.
That's a chocolate bar.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
So there's nothing else, it's just pure chocolate.
That defines a chocolate bar Tome, what if there's chocolate
in the bar?
Is there chocolate in that bar?
Speaker 1 (41:06):
It's chocolate on the outside and there's something
in the inside.
So this to me is like more of acandy bar, because a chocolate
bar sounds like it's just a barof chocolate, like a gold bar.
Isn't gold on the outside andsilver on the inside?
Speaker 2 (41:16):
See, I don't think that's candy.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
What do you think it is?
Speaker 2 (41:19):
I think candy is like sour candy, like nerds.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Sour Patch Kidss, I have traditional candy as well.
Yeah, candy, I have that aswell.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Yes, that's like there's a weird world where,
like people call a chocolate bara candy bar candy bar is what?
Speaker 1 (41:33):
where I'm about to show you to me?
There's no candy unless youhave a chocolate covered nerds
bro.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
No, I don't know.
I'm like that's a candy bar.
I went to the 7-eleven.
They don't have that kind ofstuff look all right.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Look here's what's gonna happen.
I know people are probablytuned out by now, but anyway, I
used to love this thing.
It was in different packagingback in the day and when I saw
it after, I thought it was gone,because I even looked on Amazon
for it.
I couldn't find it.
I was shocked and amazed andexcited.
And it is Twix.
I love Twix, but it's cookiesand cream Twix.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
Oh interesting.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
I love cookies and cream Twix.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
This was already a flavor.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
For a little while it came out, and I don't know when
.
It came out early mid-90s, andI used to buy it all the time,
and then it seemed to have goneaway.
It didn't look like this.
This was not the color of thecase.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
And then I'm pretty positive it actually did go away
for a while and then I rememberit coming back like a couple of
years ago.
But then I thought it went awayagain Because I even looked for
it, just like last week.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Someone's going to post the history of Twits.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Cookies and Creams.
By the way, last episode, ortwo episodes ago, we talked
about Rob and I talked aboutwhat a Google was, which is like
one with like a hundred zeros.
What a what A Google is?
It's, and then I forget who itwas.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
I don't know what you're saying.
A.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
Google.
A Google, yes, oh, is one withlike 100 zeros behind it.
But then we started talkingabout well, what's beyond that?
Speaker 2 (42:54):
And then someone literally gave us the entire
history.
Yeah no, I don't doubt thatthat person's like oh, you want
the history of cookies?
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Yeah, and they did.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
They left us a big long comment about it.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Let me have one very particular.
There's four of them.
I don't know.
You want one, you okay?
Okay, here we go.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
I'm going to think this is 100% disgusting, do?
Speaker 1 (43:11):
you think so?
Speaker 2 (43:11):
I hate milk chocolate , I hate cookies and cream.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
It's so good.
I think it was better back inthe 90s.
Still good, though I like it.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
That's literally so disgusting, which is why I broke
it off.
So you can save it, and you caneat it that tastes like
actually you know what it does.
The cooking and cream part doesremind me of like the hershey's
cookies and cream bar which Iused to eat as a kid, like the
white chocolate one yeah, theystill make those, but yeah, I
like those.
That was like kind of thethrowback taste that gave me,
but like-.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
It's not high quality chocolate.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
No, it would be probably like bad if it was.
Because it's Twix.
It should literally taste likea weird sugary concoction.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
It should taste like chocolate.
This should taste like what ittastes like, which is basically
which is I'll give it that it'sa Twix.
It definitely is.
But Twix are good, I think.
But this would be theequivalent of high school
cafeteria chocolate bars.
But I like it, I happen to likeit.
I don't think it's like thebest anymore.
Cadbury's pretty high up now.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Higher than that.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
But it's a cool.
Here's a funny thing Verynostalgic Tastes like nostalgia.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
That's the fun part.
That's why you do it.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
It literally tastes like I'm eating the 90s Took you
back to the 90s.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
That's what we're here to do.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
Anyway, if you want to do something amazing for us,
you can leave us a five-starreview.
If you're listening to theaudio podcast, if you're here on
YouTube, hit that subscribebutton if you're feeling awesome
.
And if you're feeling even moreawesome, you hit that like
button as well, and we'll.
I have a feeling the nextepisode I'm going to be trying
one of your candies.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Yeah, you will.
You'll probably like them,though, because I have great
taste.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
Let me research that.
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