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