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- Hey everybody, I am joined by the Try Guys.
- [Everyone] Yeah!
- So tell my audience about--
- Yeah!
- Ah respect us!
- So tell my audience a little bit about
who you are and what you do on your channel?
- We are the Try Guys, we are four best friends
that try things outside of our comfort zone.
And we recently left Buzzfeed earlier this year
to start an independent company and a new channel.
- Yeah!
So check out all links in the description,
we did a video over there.
You'll have to go and look at their thing.
I think it's very funny.
I enjoy all of your content.
And I always will remember you as the glitter beardmen.
- We wore the glitter breads three streamies ago.
- That was my very first streamies.
- That was our first.
- And so how do you balance being friends and working.
Do you ever hangout and not work?
- Actually yeah, we hang out a lot, perhaps too much
because--
- But do we not work?
- Yeah there's time where we don't work.
- Sometimes.
- But we certainly talk about work.
- A lot.
- Pretty frequently.
When we started as coworkers, who became friends,
so talking about work made sense
because that was our relationship.
And even as we did friend things, went on vacations,
of course like we're social people so making,
I mean it's kinda work to post an Instagram,
even if it's really fun and gratifying and on your own.
- I guess I'd be curious to get your perspective
because yeah we do a lot,
like Keith and I go on vacations together,
Ned and I have hung out and watched football, or Eugene.
Like all we all do stuff in different pairs
but also we have a group thread and we are texting nonstop
and the lines are blurred.
It's like, we're talking about something funny,
we're ragging on each other,
and then we're talking about a project and then we're back.
It never stops.
- So there's like no boundary between?
- Not a hard line.
- Should there be?
- No, there doesn't have to be,
but I was just curious if you're ever able,
cause we talked on your channel about like burnout
and then taking breaks.
So I'm curious if there's ever like a time
where you're like, no no, this isn't work,
this is us just hanging out.
- Yeah, yeah we do that.
- And I think it's best when we have an activity
that we're like involved in, that you can't be working
and doing at the same time.
Like even us just playing Smash Brothers,
like you get lost in a video game
and then you're not thinking about a due date
of anything you're working on,
you're just hanging out.
- We all like to Palm Springs together,
over the summer, and we specifically designed it
as like a retreat.
- Oh so no work?
- Minimal, minimal work.
- We were gonna film a video called
the Barkchler in Purradise.
- Purradise.
- Where we were gonna go on romantic dates with our dogs,
each other's dogs.
- I like that.
- You get it.
- But then we were like, maybe we should just relax.
- Chill out.
- So we really ended up filming nothing.
It was nice.
- Okay, cool.
- You did spend the first night editing.
- Fuck, you're right.
(everyone laughs)
- But it was cause the video was due.
- Nothing's happening on the first night, you know.
- It was my ease in.
- So is it easy for you to shut it off
or it sounds like it's kinda difficult.
- No no no no no.
- Yeah I would say it's difficult.
- Well like it never shuts off, right?
- Of course, I totally understand.
- The world never stops moving,
the content never stops needing to be out,
so yeah it's hard for us to turn it off
because if we turn it off,
then something's not getting done.
- Cause I like it, I don't want to shut it off.
- So part of it's fun.
- Of course, that's why we got into it,
we liked it.
You created it, so it meant that you wanted to do it.
It wasn't, I don't think like forced you,
you were like, no I think--
- No quite the opposite.
I don't think they wanted us to.
- They didn't want us to do it.
- You don't think?
- I don't think so.
- Well it turned out okay.
- Eventually they did want us to do it,
but not the way we did it.
Anyway.
- Truly.
- So the last six months have been, or seven months I guess,
have been kinda a lot?
You could say?
- Yeah, every time you like pass a bench mark or something,
or you think your past whatever was stressful,
there's a lot of new stressors waiting for you.
- Totally.
- And we also wanted the company to be a company
that the people who work for us, wanted to work for us.
So it was fun but were also rewarded.
So like, and then making a salary position for people here,
getting health insurance for people here.
- Wow.
- Try to get a 401 K plan for people here.
- You have health insurance?
Can I be a Try Gal?
- Yeah.
- I mean, we can envelope you, sure.
- Perfect.
- You know, it's an interesting challenge
that we went through was that we were starting over,
totally from scratch, but also with the momentum
of four years behind us.
- Yeah.
- Right, so we wanted and kind of had to,
just hit the ground running and continue where we were.
We didn't want our videos to miss a step.
We didn't want the quality to dip.
We wanted the quantity to increase.
Also, we're totally starting over, with nothing, so--
- Yeah.
But your channel's like blown up.
- It's done great.
- People have followed you.
- Yeah!
- And a lot of hard work went into making that seamless.
- I definitely, even personally, can understand the like,
there's always another stressor. like I really connect
with that cause I've been telling myself,
with the launch of my book, I just need to get through
that week, and then I'm good.
And then I'm already like, next week's already filling up.
I'm like, just gotta get through that week,
and then it'd be good.
And I think that's, like what we talk about
on your channel is like burnout,
and have you noticed in the past six months,
like are there certain symptoms
that you all can pick out from one another,
where you're like, he's having a shitty time,
he's feeling burnt.
- Yeah and I think our signs are very different
with what we're getting stressed.
I think we can all say we know what Eugene's are,
and that's typically because--
- What are Eugene's?
- Well he doesn't sleep.
He doesn't sleep because he works very, very, very hard,
and like his work is amazing, and it's super great,
but sometimes it's at cost of his own health
and fatigue, and then he's a little more irritable
which makes sense because he hasn't slept.
- You're not sleeping, yeah.
- We all get cranky.
There's totally, we all have our--
- Irritability across the board.
- Yeah I think we all get irritable.
Yeah I noticed Eugene especially I think,
do you mind me speaking about your stressors?
- You wanna speak about your own stressors?
It's totally up to you.
- Sure I can say something.
I hold a lot of stuff in and I tend to be observant,
and then when I, because of maybe my upbringing,
I don't talk about my problems.
So it explodes, and it will explode.
- Yeah.
And I've had to balance like,
I think aside from The Try Guys, like three other jobs
at the same time.
And that's hard cause I'll stay up memorizing an audition,
or I'll be having to write another show,
and I think on average I've pulled
like two all nighters every week this year.
So because I'm also responsible for Try Guys stuff,
so then I let it out on them
cause they've sort of become my therapist.
- Of course, and they're the closest to you, we tend to-
- So yeah, I will literally, but I have to dramatize it
cause as someone who doesn't talk, I will be like,
(serious tone) I need to talk.
And then I'll have like a full mental break down
in front of them.
- Like a melt down, yeah.
- Instead of letting it seep healthily out
in different areas, I'll like make it an event,
and they're like, oh Eugene's a time bomb.
But yeah, I time bomb it, and that's probably not
the most healthy way to do it.
- But I'm glad you get it out, at all.
- Sure.
- And I'm fine you letting it out on us,
because I would rather you let it out on people
who know how to handle it and deal with it,
than like a fan.
- Yeah because we go through very similar stressors.
- Totally.
- A lot of shared stress.
- Yeah, yeah I went through a lot this year.
- He had a theory where he was like,
well a cup can only overflow once,
so I'm just gonna keep dumping water into it,
and I'll do all the stressful things at once,
and then you can only be so stressed.
- Dump two pitchers of water on my face.
- I like it in theory, I don't know how it was in practice.
- Yeah, it worked.
- Are we still dumping?
- And literally I could only be stressed
about one of those four things at any given time,
so you know like, now it's pretty good.
- Are we still dumping into this overflowing cup?
- No, the house is pretty much done,
baby's sleeping through the night, like--
- I'm dope.
- Well we're out.
- You know I think I know everyone's stressors,
now that I think of it.
- Yeah, let's do it.
- I would say Ned, because he had so much dumping in
at one time, with the child especially,
and the new house and the business,
he chose to fixate on one aspect of our business,
which was the business.
So Ned let a lot of his stress
I think essentially permeate through anything
that had to deal with numbers essentially.
- Okay.
- Like Ned is extremely numbers oriented,
which is very good because we're not.
- Yeah I'm not.
You need one person that is.
- So it's interesting cause Ned stressors I think
we're very clearly validated because something was figured,
not figuratively, figure-driven--
- Yes.
- So it was a figure-driven stress, you know?
- Yeah.
- Like it was very clear that there's a reason.
- If someone was like taking money from us,
or we were overpaying for something,
or someone was like charging more,
I would just get pissed.
- And Ned would let it out.
- Put all his energy into it.
- He was not gonna let anybody take advantage of us,
which was great.
- You need someone like that,
cause a lot of YouTubers have been taken advantage of,
a lot of entrepreneurs are taken advantage of.
- The way I know that Ned is stressed is that
he puts on his noise canceling headphones
and tries his best.
Oh yeah, this?
I've seen this.
That's when he's really stressed.
Ned gets in this place sometimes
where he's like, I don't want to talk to anybody,
get away from me, I just have to work.
And that's when I know like, alright, he's in his place.
But I've totally seen, I have videos on my phone
of Ned--
- Of him just--
- At lunch, full on--
- Shutting down.
- In his, yeah.
I forgot about that.
- I think Zach's--
- I curl up into a little ball.
- Yeah, I wanna hear, I wanna hear.
- I think Zach's kind of like the opposite
of how I deal with stuff.
Zach's, so if I'm an explosion of a balloon,
his is just a constant bzz.
- Yeah, Zach is like--
- So it's good because it keeps us in check.
- Diarrhea mouth.
- Yeah but usually like checkpoints,
like either every day, or midday,
he'll just like (sighs), just a deep sigh and be like,
"Guys, guys I think we just like,
do you have a moment, can we talk?"
And it's just always like a, let's talk about
what's stressing me out, what's stressing us out.
- Yeah, it's like he'll be talking,
but he won't actually be saying anything.
- He's just talking in circles.
- And his hair gets increasingly frayed.
- And then he ends that like,
you know what, I think I just figured out my problem, okay.
- Yeah, I'm that way too.
- And he'll actually solve his problem through talking it
to us, he'll be like, I just, I got it, nevermind.
Don't even talk to me.
- We were supposed to film an Olympics video,
ancient Olympics where we were gonna be naked competing,
and they neglected to tell us that they also had like--
- A children's soccer game.
- Like yeah, a rec game.
So we're like, in robes and nothing else,
and we're like, there are kids running around here.
What the hell, guys?
And they're like, oh no you guys do you're thing.
I'm like, we can't do our thing.
- [Katie] There's children here.
- We're gonna get arrested.
- We've paid for a crew, we've scheduled the date,
we traveled half an hour to get here.
- And then--
- We're very explicit with what we were doing.
- Yeah.
- We were like, you guys are cool with that?
- Our site rep sent another messenger to tell us,
we had to leave, and I was like, no, we need to talk
to the guy that was the site rep.
I don't know who the fuck you are.
You're not in charge of me.
Get me the real person.
- [Katie] Get me the person.
- Meanwhile I was like putting suntan lotion
on like my bits.
- Yeah it was interesting because the way
in which we're discussing our sort of release of stress,
that expression, is many times complimentary
or even like inverse,
to what our general, outward demeanor is.
- Totally.
- And I wonder if that's psychologically true
across the board because like Keith is known as
the friendliest person, but when he releases
something like that, he becomes the most like,
formidable foe.
I'm known as a very stoic person and sort of like--
- You're definitely the most quiet.
- Visually scary and quiet.
But when I let things out, I'm like an emotional nutcase.
Like I become like Meryl Streep in every film she's been in.
- Well I always think it's kind of like goes back,
and this is a funny saying to even weave into this,
but like what they say,
"soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals,"
and it's like, we all have this persona we put on, right,
in a way that we're supposed be.
And you all play, even though you are very much
the same in real like, just so you know,
as you are on your channel, but you definitely play up
your own personalities cause you each have
your own individual feeling on the channel,
and like persona, but I think we all have that,
that we put up in the world, everybody does,
and that's just our best foot forward,
whatever we think that looks like.
- Right.
- Yeah.
- Based on what we've been taught.
And then everybody's got like the crazy side to them,
that like loses their shit, or like shuts down.
- The evil twin that hides inside of you.
- Yeah.
I can definitely be that way.
Like, you can push me so far and I'll play it cool.
I'll be super nice.
And then all of the sudden, I'm like, nope, that's too far.
And then I'm like, this personal gnome comes out.
- I wanna see the scary version of you,
I would love that.
- You would have to really threaten me.
- Is it Katie with an E at the end?
- And like, rage.
- Has anyone ever done a drunk therapy session?
- No, I haven't, that would be kind of funny.
- That should be the next video.
- Pretty good video.
- But you have to get drunk too.
- Yeah, that would be really funny,
who knows what I would say.
- Everyone's gonna be bad at what they're doing.
- Who knows what I would say.
- Yeah.
Katie with an E will come out.
- I just imagine her being like,
you and you, stop being little bitches.
- You're fucked up beyond repair.
No therapy.
- Honestly drunk therapy is a great show.
- It's all in your mind.
- Let's write that down.
Let's write that down, drunk therapy.
- I honestly, we're gonna maybe bring you back.
I think that's our new series.
- I would totally do that.
- Yeah.
- In the evening.
- You know thing I've been trying to exercise,
which is kind of new for me,
but maybe I just, because of how I am with my sisters,
it was a tactic.
I don't know if you guys been noticing recently,
I'll lead with compliments.
- Oh yeah.
- So I'll be like--
- It's so helpful.
- It's a hug and roll.
- I'm always like, look at this thumbnail, uh!
Oh dude your edit, amazing, fantastic.
And then I go, if you want, maybe like trim that.
- Yeah.
- And then usually that's taken almost like
it's a little sugar.
- I also don't like lie when I say I like something.
- No, I call it a hug and roll.
- It's like, you gonna use that thumbnail?
I thought the thumbnail was fantastic.
Yeah it was great.
But that's kind of something I feel like
we could do a little more of.
- You could totally because then people are warmed up.
- Yeah.
- I call it the hug and roll.
In relationships, like if someone falls asleep on your arm,
you hug them close and then kind of roll away.
- So we're just trying to roll right now,
we're not hugging enough.
- Yeah, you're just rolling.
You're actually like pushing kind of, there was no hug.
- That's cuddling.
- I would like to choke and push.
(everyone laughs)
- I just wanna be choked.
- It sounds like, like you know the talking stick
in elementary school?
- Yeah.
- We should get a chef hat.
- Oh, totally.
- We got a meeting, we just put the chef's hat on.
- Who has the chef hat.
- That way the person who's talking about how upset they are
also looks ridiculous.
(everyone laughs)
- I'm like kind of serious.
- So when you said that this,
this was a problem.
I was like, it's not a problem.
- And all I'm see is, herdy derdy derdy der.
- Exactly.
- We'll take a photo of that for you on our next video.
- I can't wait.
I can't wait.
- Yeah yeah yeah.
- But thank you guys for being open to talking about things.
And hopefully some of that was helpful to you.
And check out their channel.
We did a video over there, all about burnout.
I know a lot of people are talking about that.
We talk about not only their experiences with it,
my experience, but how it can effect you as well.
Thanks.
Thank you guys.
- I think we should hug and roll out.
- Hug and roll.
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- How are we gonna do this?
- Group hug.
- [Everyone] Hug.
- We are all amazing people.
- [Everyone] And roll.
- I rolled this way.
- Goo goo gaa.
- [Katie] I rolled this way.
- I didn't want to knock over the poinsettias.
- Oh no, I rolled into the camera.
- Ned, no!
- Choke and push.
- [Katie] (laughs) Choke and push!