David Dobrik Tells All In This Exclusive Interview

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sonic I have not so we just got to your house like is this what you do all day like this is your world like just making just being funny I haven't done anything I've just stood around waited for you to set up all these cameras I know there's a lot of cameras out here Bri it's been 25 minutes interview were supposed to start ten minutes ago I apologize so we have five minutes starting now yes five minutes wide all right fire the questions away yes actually before we start go ahead yeah I spelled my name wrong on this cue card do that really oh man and I wanted to wait till the cameras were rolling second play now you're good so I sometimes spell my name like that too so it doesn't matter a lot in common thank you yeah so like you just do this like you wake up with an average day like you wake up this beautiful house wake up at 5:00 p.m. and make the magic I mean now I don't know um I don't know we wake up I go to bed pretty late when I'm posting like like this morning I went to bed at 7:00 which sucks 7:00 a.m. yeah and I'm old I got a kid I wake up at 7 a.m. you're going at 11:00 I'd never wake up you know you know what I don't understand is they don't understand like like people like really like to glorify like waking up early they're the worst people in the world I don't understand why don't you look at how many hours you're awake yeah exactly like Mark Wahlberg goes to bed at like what 4 p.m. yeah the rock are you straining to 4:30 in the morning and then he wakes up I want to have like the same thing just go to bed it go to bed at 11:00 and wake up at whatever other time like it's just I don't know why wouldn't you glorify people who wake up late exactly like that [ __ ] woke up those time did you wake up today let's clarify what you're up to I woke up at 11:00 okay good you just heard from the board good for you yeah no but I don't know it's it's every every day we wake up and we just try to figure out what to film and it's every day it's like do you have a game plan you go to bed at 7:00 a.m. this morning you have like a game plan like tomorrow I'm gonna wake up now these people coming over I'm gonna shoot this no that's the worst it's like every time we start a new video it's like starting from scratch and we have literally zero ideas I've no idea what I'm doing today and it's pretty frustrating you don't have a backlog you don't have like a goat like a notebook with no not at all 30 ideas right and it's not like left over like footage from like other days it's like everything every day it's like do your videos are the same length right yes oh why the 4:20 I'm sure people have asked you that but isn't a weed thing I don't know I think because it's just like a really like comfortable amount of time to like watch a video and 420 like everybody knows that sure number so that's like just very simple but I but don't you have leftover footage because I'm sure you're shooting longer than 420 I am but I don't I don't use it so it's like it's like you know you know what it's like I hate comparing it to this but what is that company everyone thinks they're [ __ ] because like once they're done with their clothes they throw them out like well like if they don't sell the clothes they throw out all the clothes okay I think it's like Abercrombie are possibly I don't know it's probably but it's like it's like no do you know I'm talking about it's a probably Thank You Ned okay so it's like air Postel you're okay yeah so basically like if they don't sell the clothes okay they like Birnam oh wow so just to make sure that no one else can like buy them that's kind of the same thing I do with my footage because it's literally burned it out yeah because if it's not good enough then like I know I don't want to ever use it again sure okay that makes it so like I'll shoot like three hours for one video and then I'll trim that three hours down to four minutes okay and then the rest is just it's just garbage so then you're just starting fresh every day yeah it's fine and it sucks but how many how many videos you doing a week three three so you do three so and how long have you been doing this for um I don't know I feel like three years now so three years and have you ever missed the week I mean have you ever done - and a week one week yeah it's three week no matter what yeah Christmas New Year's families and that's the worst Christmas why because everyone leaves all your friends leave and like I shoe with my friends a lot yeah and it's like I have to go back home and be like by myself where's home Chicago yeah sure yeah and it's your family still back there yes yeah well it's like the suburbs of Chicago okay it's like pretty far from Chicago everybody yeah okay Illinois's from Wisconsin no but um yeah and that's that's tough is like holidays because everyone wants to be off um no but yeah everything everything is fun okay yeah so three three week four minutes of video and where do the ideas come from like do you just you wake up a lot of pressure like you wake up yeah it's like that oh [ __ ] feels yeah I got to do something all the time it's like um yes it's very difficult but I'm very lucky to have like literally 1520 friends that like helping with all my videos and it's it's so so much easier I'm so much easier working with them and the Mod Squad yes and they make it they make it yeah they make it super fun hmm um but yeah like even school I would always procrastinate and like I wouldn't I wouldn't do like most kids like yeah I wouldn't do my project of the day I've so like setting a pace for myself that I can't really keep up with is kind of the only way to keep me going yeah because if I was posting once a week advantage you would dig around to the last yeah yeah so does it matter so now this way like I'm always stressed out and I'm always put under like pressure to post the next video so it's a lot easier well you seem like you handle it well like the it seems like the new trend in the creator world is youtuber burnout oh my gosh and then people would you comment yeah people would just go on month hiatus because their burnout know I'll get there how do you that one here goals for 2019 burnout yeah I feel better I don't think it's like necessarily burnout I think it's like I don't want to say because I am gonna jinx myself so I want yes and I think it is I think it's upon me yeah yeah I'm always like oh this is the last week I'm doing this this is the last day I'm doing this but I get to surprise myself every other day I'm like I can't believe I made another one but what's the plan like you can't can you keep the of the schedule forever I hope not yeah fat mouth I don't know there is no pranks YouTube's had such a weird spot right now where it's like it's like is their goal to get off it or is the goal to stay on as long as possible like so many other like so many other entertainers are coming on to YouTube yeah so it's like it almost seems backward for me to be trying to leave YouTube I don't know it's you to place to beast though yeah but it's not as like respected as like obviously being in a movie or having a TV show is there still a pecking order like entertainment pecking order and where are youtubers on the list like movie stars one like so bottom like oh my god it's horrible like Instagram models and then youtubers or what it's like it's like actors Instagram Isles porn stars the people who clean up after porn stars and then and then maybe some kind of a cute dog and then youtubers know what yeah it's the worst yeah but then but you still see mainstream celebrities coming over like Will Smith's doing some YouTube stuff like all these guys are coming over yeah but they're already established entertainers yeah I mean so it's got to be the place to be though I think it is the place to be but it's still not it's still not the place to come up like it definitely is the place to like be hanging out in but like the people that were like bred by YouTube or like that we're like built on YouTube still don't have the respect like the kids who like the bynars who went to but for the right reasons like there's a lot of youtubers that do a lot of [ __ ] up [ __ ] so I don't expect people to be like you tubers are the best people ever yes I totally get why people don't like youtuber so that's fine but the reason I like youtubers is the fact that you guys are all hustlers you're all entrepreneurs and really you run your own organization and like this is a Forbes so it's business but you are all running you're running david dobrik inc whether you like it or not you know you've got I got you've got a business you gotta share this other stuff yeah you know no one handed it to you I think it's a beauty of being YouTube or something like that can happen some kid in their basement watching this right now could have five followers and then kind of get 10,000 that it it is the best that's like like my friend Jason like he wanted again to entertainment and he would like stand outside a comedy store Nash yeah Nash and he would stand outside a comedy store for like five hours just waiting to be like to do open mic yeah and it's just like it's such a different world like now what you can do it you can you can put something on the internet now and you can instantly receive feedback from it rather than like going you know getting lucky and meeting the right person like it's just a different different concept now which i think is so cool and a lot of these like funny youtube creators kind of go the other way they have a following and then they do the stand-up thing yeah so like it's already a packed house cuz their fans come yeah so they don't have to really struggle as much it seems like yes but it's but it's also like it's like like I did like a views tour for my podcast yeah but like that's it's no it's not like a solid reflection of how your performance is on stage what do you mean like the people that come to watch me for my podcast it's an it's already a winning crowd oh my god so like I think a lot of youtubers may may be surrounded by that and then maybe they think holy [ __ ] I'm the [ __ ] I'm actually I'm actually a talented singer yeah when in fact that's just the people that watched your whisper challenge videos but now I just want to see you in person that's why they're supporting you are you saying some there's some youtubers who aren't great singers maybe no but um but yeah it's definitely it being a youtuber definitely has its pros and cons yeah and I think it's pretty pretty well-balanced mmm but there's gonna be a shift I'm sure in the next couple years like I always see you too with the monetization and like kind of posting you and you know your friends and stuff what's up with that I mean you don't you're not super controversial like there's some like pretty pretty out-there ones no I've never I've never seen like a so far controversy knock on glass I haven't been involved in like a major scan no not at all mm of lock squad really hasn't seen the all kind of escape like team 10 and the faze clan where ever there yeah we chat which had to like stay far away from that no yeah D monetization is a big thing I think how does that happen explain to us like normal people who aren't big youtubers that were in in December I was I was maybe like bottom three paid my friend grew from my videos because I just my videos just get all my videos get hit bottom three and you probably have the most followers at all these right yeah yeah like the most views okay that's kind of how you count okay but the best way to put into perspective is um when I was uh when I first started youtube I was getting paid let's say I was getting paid a hundred dollars for the month okay I was getting a like 1/4 of the views I'm getting now okay so now I'm getting four times the views I was getting okay but now time is money right no now I'm gonna be paid $25 oh because it since like the whole YouTube like ad pocalypse happen I've just been destroyed PewDiePie to this thing okay did their own yeah I mean it was bad happen with whoever but I mean yeah so like now I get paid very very little to what I used to get paid and I literally get four times and you're still doing the same amount of work oh yeah I mean a lot more for sure and I was doing before it's it also sucks because YouTube does this thing where they favor like they won't favor like my videos because they're very edgy Shane has this runs in the same problem sure sure they're doing better with Shane's like I've seen them I've seen them like push them up to trending and stuff yeah 100% but it's like I don't know that it's really weird that videos cuz the trending page is all just like people in the office going I want this video there's no algorithm to it okay it's literally just like it's it almost feels like favoritism sometimes yeah and yeah and it seems like a lot of the same people without naming names the real clean-cut yes it's boring yes always super it's always super clean which is so strange because like you don't want to turn into television because TV is TV for a reason and YouTube is YouTube for a reason so you should be promoting content that you can't find anywhere else but I mean I guess I guess people have to make money right it's like the Friday night ABC lineup when I was a kid it's like everybody's it's a strange concept yeah or maybe they should like invent like YouTube dark or something like that's like a little bit more edgy sure or like YouTube late-night that's like more like that sounds super porn yeah well that's what could be on it yeah all right there's an idea I don't know it's whatever it doesn't matter to complain about YouTube because it's just like whatever it whatever is gonna happen is gonna happen yeah if we go back like to actually let's go like way back to the beginning you had a great tweet this week yeah where you said I hit 10 million subscribers today that's almost double the population of the country I was born in oh yeah thanks for making me a world leader and I looked it up Slovakia where you were born has a population of 5.4 million yeah and you have 10 million subscribers yeah which is pretty insane that's awesome yes so does the whole country of Slovakia everyone your audience everyone subscribes me everyone there subscribes to me yeah I guess for the boy you know I think there's like seven people there that have internet better watching our videos now that's pretty incredible yeah it's really cool I'm I like I say this all the time I'm so [ __ ] lucky yeah to be like doing what I'm doing like I've like I've wanted to do like something in the entertainment world for a long time and I feel like this is like the best way to do is you're your own boss and it's just so simple and it's like not simple but you you do it and then you release it and then you get feedback it's just the best now when you move from Slovakia that we came over to Chicago the Chicago suburbs Wisconsin aka Wisconsin I moved to Ohio first oh did you oh yeah okay what part of Ohio Toledo okay yeah yeah how old were you at the time when you came over I think I was five or six okay yeah so you're a u.s. kid I mean do you remember Slovakia really if I a little bit I do I mean I do but yes I'm definitely like a super US kid yeah yeah but I think what I found too is with immigrants right even though you were young when you came home it seems like there's a an extra something to prove again reviewed Gary Vaynerchuk you know that is yes he's like a big business kind of easy immigrant yeah he's um from Russia it's been okay Shannon came over and you know hustle you had a hustle they bought a liquor store and kind of the American Dream thing sure it seems like the kids always have something more to prove yes do you think that kind of fuels you is that is in your DNA maybe subconsciously that I've never thought about that never I was never like ah like I just wanted to I've always wanted like I've said this before I've always wanted to like I've always wanted to work hard okay but like I never it's so like and you know what I hate I like this when I first moved to LA I was driving a 2004 Toyota Corolla the the side door was broken and I would pull up to like people in Lamborghinis and Ferraris and I'd be like what do you do because that's my favorite question to ask them yeah and and how do I get the Ferrari yeah and they go and they go work hard and it's just [ __ ] you answer hustle it's such that's a new thing now it's so stupid because everybody like there's so many people that want to work hard but like I don't know where to go it's yet look where do you work hard yeah like in the back of McDonald's I'll throw those guys are working hard like where do you do it and like that's like that's like the part I struggled with and then I think it's like a little bit of timing a little bit of luck that goes along with it of course where like it gets you to the point where you're like okay now I have something to be working hard at yeah and like that's why I'm really lucky where I'm like finally in a place where I'm like I have I have this like infrastructure and now all I need to do is like not stop and I keep going yeah yeah and like that's what I really like maybe that is some of the drive from your parents I mean did they push you at all like was education is always happy oh no my dad was a you know hey yeah we want you to be a doctor or a lawyer yeah is that part of the thing well yeah it doesn't want me to go to college and yeah their ultimatum was was I either go to college or I move out so I moved out and but my dad would always say he this is like the one the one thing that I really liked that he would say he'd always be like whatever you do like whether you're a garbage man or like a FedEx employee or an athlete like do it the best to your ability yeah like whatever you're doing yeah like do it to the best of your ability and like I think that's like that's the best motto to live by I couldn't find the words yeah that's like I think that's like a really interesting way to look at it and when you were in high school I read somewhere that you said that was like some of your favorite memories I loved house and you still hang out with a lot of those guys right there yeah all of all of them still yeah I'm like I'm obsessed with like I'm obsessed with anything nostalgic it's kind of weird so anything that like like I'm very attached to like I can't I can't let go of things about don't throw away I'd birthday cards and stuff or no I do I actually don't care about birthdays at all no but I like I'll still talk to my old high school teachers really like yeah it's their high school me like I love it I'll go back and visit that you talked to him about whatever just hey what's going on in your life Levine has a way to contact your high school teacher they have cell phones now I don't like it's their teacher over there number I know I know it's but it's very weird it's so I don't know I may be from the town where we came from to like it's yeah it's like really like normal to run into your teacher at like a bar now was medic wasn't that weird as a kid like when I was little if you saw like your teacher out of school like that grocery store was like weird like you're a real person but like it's weird I was always so excited were you really yeah seemed out of the natural yes it's like I don't have to like I don't have to like do what you're tell me I'm just out here riding my bike but yeah so you still keep in touch with them which is yes pretty one why do you think I mean a lot of people I'm sure a lot of your fans that's some of the worst times like high school is a disaster for me I don't like high school no like why do you think you had such a good experience I don't know because I feel like I had like me I had like the right amount of love and I had the right amount of hate like I like like there was people that like my teachers there was a lot of teachers like I remember one of my teachers I said something in class and he goes and he goes David you're not funny like the world does not revolve my shadow but like but like just like [ __ ] like that would put me into place so many times yeah and like if it wasn't for my teachers that'd be from like like it'd be from like some guy on the school bus and like I feel like I would just like [ __ ] on you something yeah like I think I just had the right amount of it to like to keep you humble not to keep me humble but to like learn what is acceptable and what's not like people were really honest with me so if I was out of line they did I dude stop [ __ ] doing this yes stop [ __ ] around focus which I guess I kind of don't do now do you rolling cuz I just watched you before this interview kind of zipping around the house well I was getting the props ready props ready you're a hardened to fine escape well like did you have trouble I can only imagine like a little baby class right yeah I mean everyone has a hard time focusing of course yeah um yeah yes I had a hard time focusing but that's all kids yeah yeah I love the youtubers always on interviews go like they are at their I was like I was in school I could never focus I just wanted to like go I wanted to create everything buddy I couldn't focus in school school sucks yeah but but yeah so how did you get out so your dad goes college or move out of the house like how did you yeah money to move out of house like your sis what 18 so yeah so I worked on I worked at a retirement home okay and I was working there for I think I worked off like eight months to a year okay and I had yeah I never actually okay so in the retirement home you had to set up a separate account to actually collect your money but you had to go to a separate bank where all the money was like piled into the pyramids and I never I never touched the money what for the eight months of the year I never touched it how did you have money or the movies or by I mean I didn't if I had to go buy lunch I would go to the Wendy's like dollar menu can be like a double stack for a dollar at the time and it was a great deal okay so um so I did that and I just borrowed like my parents money or I would just say coins around the house and I just go buy food but yeah and I didn't touch that money until the day I was leaving for LA and I had $1,600 I think that it was sixteen dollars in your pocket that was great and you scared of [ __ ] no not at all you're too young they even yeah you have no [ __ ] looking back now it's like it's idiot yeah he's an idiot and your parents let you go yeah I told my parents I'm like I'm moving Tali and they're like like where you gonna move to Hollywood and I'm like exactly I'm moving on how your Boulevard and and yeah and I remember the first time going grocery shopping and I was like did you have any Fame like were you one of these like Jake Paula's a blue I don't know I was very small and buying I was posting like once a month okay and like I was getting brand deals for like 50 to 100 dollars okay in there but this wasn't a career at the time no no no what a dream I'm gonna be comedian I'm gonna go I want actor I always wanted to be a late-night host okay so kind of currently like what I'm like looking for but I think that's a hard job to get sure but things always change you know again there can be like a new job in like a year that I'm gonna want but as of now I really I mean like when you're 18 your souls coming to LA like it's hard to get a shove is that late-night-tv goats yeah but you don't think that when you're coming to hell and you're 18 yeah no but yeah I just remember coming to LA and like the first time we went grocery shop we were getting like peanut butter and I was getting Brad and in a did you come out here with the free yeah I I moved two of my friends out here with me okay who weren't doing anything and it was four of us living in a two-bedroom apartment there's another guy who came from Minnesota and and we went out to buy bread and was like $25 for my entire like meal for like the next 3-4 days and I was just like I looked at my friend as we were like scanning all our items and I'm like dude I don't know if we can do this and it was like and he was like he was very confident too and like before that he was like oh we're gonna [ __ ] kill in LA and then he looked at me is like I had no [ __ ] idea that was gonna be like this yeah and we just like this like this moment of panic and it's so cool to have because I remember it like so vividly just how scared we were and yeah I mean it is crazy to do something like move out here but but what is it what is that saying fortune favors the bold I just interviewed a guy who said the same thing yeah ryougi was that was it in a movie he just said that he just said the same thing the guy he's got rude clothing is a designer but he said the same thing he's a great guy yeah yeah yeah pretty fine think alike um no but I hear that and like yeah just I guess it's true sure yeah I mean how many people did you go to high school with who maybe talented that are still sitting in some yeah I know a lot with the regular job but I also like it's also like I had when I moved out to LA I made all these new friends like I can think of like 15 different names that I that I moved out here with at the same time and they're all gone I was on the phone with someone when I first moved to LA and she was like listen I know you can do this the trick is you have to stay here for at least a year okay once you're here a year you're good okay stay here for a year yeah and eat the peanut butter and jelly make it a year yeah you're making a year and and people like pulled out like six eight months and they're like dudes anymore cuz your friends my whole outer today let's tough it out no they all tough to doubt they're still here okay which is great um but yeah but yeah we stayed over a year and it I guess it worked we've definitely got there's a lot of luck involved sure but how did you support yourself so you get here you have $1,600 so are you paying the bills like do you immediately get some I was waiting tables I was no I was running um like I was running accounts on vine that weren't under my name okay so I was like there was like like a top sports or something and I were like upload sport clips okay and that would celery vines on that so is like a super like like I'm very creative but then I'm also like at least I think I'm creative and then I'm and then I had this like like little business side to me that's like not that business fee but like I like money so so yes so I would have like a bunch of different theme pages they were called okay and I would just celery vines on those pages so they had like five hundred thousand followers each and I'd make like 60 bucks a day by rebinding other brands okay and that's what kept me afloat Wow so you you were entrepreneur right out of the gate I mean you didn't have to go get a job my China member is like a really heavy word but yeah yeah yeah I was working for myself which was so cool and I was you know I was making I don't know how much I was making 1500 2000 a month an hour Jewish you're good I was like I'm [ __ ] loaded I was like I cannot believe this I would go to Jimmy John's every day which I couldn't do back home and sometimes they get to number five videos cuz I literally I was just like I don't give a [ __ ] it's like yeah it was good it was great I'm so yeah I'm very very very lucky so what did you do how did you were you just continue to make vines at the time like how the ascent of david dobrik like what was the next step I was making vines and then and everyone was like everyone was like frantically like trying to rush over to you - did you meet all the Viners like did you know all those you know big people at the time kind of not really no no I'm at a different level and yeah totally 1600 vine they're all totally different yeah no I knew some of them and I befriended zane and heath okay would they were like the biggest - any night like three million and yeah i started hanging out with them and then everyone started to panic cuz vine was like coming to an end and for some reason again i thought i would be okay I was like I'm fine like I don't need to go over to everyone was like going over to youtube like we need to [ __ ] start making skits and they were hiring these big Purdue like big producers but they're hiring like all this camera equipment yeah and like all this lighting and it would run out restaurants to film film these skits yeah I was like there's no way in [ __ ] I am ever ever going to do that because for some reason I thought like something else would come along yeah I don't know why and then and they were like a real positive guy cuz you seem like you know I'm a huge pessimist so you're pessimist and like other areas but yeah career you're like very optimist no no I'm super sir mr. Cooper my career I literally think this is I think this how this house is gonna fall off the [ __ ] Hill any second and that's just because they can't afford the payment for the gravel underneath it um but no it's like but how are you not pessimist I'm like oh [ __ ] vines I don't know in a way what are we gonna do that was the same mentality that I had when I moved out here it was still a little bit of kind of crazy I'm just kind of like kind of goofy and then I met and then I met Liza and she was filming she's filming a vlog and then I just really liked the fact that it was this like a small camera and you can brick you can record your entire day yeah this is so cool you could just do whatever you want yeah with the small camera people see it so yeah I just filmed my first vlog and I think the reason it worked is because I wasn't trying to make it work I mean literally just me hanging out of my friends it was so simple it's so horrible there's nothing to it but I was doing it purely for enjoyment and there was no other purpose to it I did not feel at all like I needed to do it no and I think that's why it works is that the secret because there's a lot of aspiring creators out there but was it Gary Vaynerchuk said that - he said you've got to love us a hundred percent you will never if you're if you're if you're in it for followers he was saying like it was a great quote check out the interview but he said his claim to fame was he's making these wine videos his parents at a liquor store yeah he said for a year and a half no one gave a [ __ ] about me I would make these videos every day he's like and I would lost money because I had to pay camera guys and stuff because I love the process so much I didn't care I just like posting and editing in the whole thing yeah like if you if you if you're in it for the money mm-hmm I don't think there's any way in [ __ ] you will ever make it ever if there's even a thought about making money when you're making videos on your phone just [ __ ] quit yeah I don't think that's that's what's gonna get you there at all so what get you there that love of the it's yeah I wouldn't even call love because that's so cheesy yeah I don't want to go I'm like I'm passionate about like making videos like that's so lame I always wanted to create when I ya know I just wanted to I just made fun videos of my friends I didn't do anything of it okay and I think like that's the key is just there is no key because you shouldn't you shouldn't don't listen to you if you're like that don't watch don't watch take tips from it just [ __ ] do you yeah yeah I just do what you got to do and it and you know if people see that you're enjoying what you're creating yeah they're gonna enjoy it do did you take a while to find your voice because a lot of people out of like successful creators now go like I took down videos for the first year cuz it was like I was trying to be this person I'm trying to be this person didn't work were you just yourself right off the gate yeah it was never yeah I was never I think that's what came with with the not feeling like I need to be on YouTube okay is that like I was just lose being myself and I was like [ __ ] it like I don't care if this doesn't do well yeah I'm just kind of doing it for fun and so ya know I I think I found my voice the first video I posted it was just my voice yeah but you've gotta have some balls to do I mean like I've got a cousin and she wants to be she's a dentist and she wants to create like Dennis used to be like a dentist influencer basically oh great but she's terrified to create content she's terrified to put herself out there and I think a lot of people are like that like what if I get you know what if people don't like it or what if I look stupid or what if I look ugly like you just seem like you didn't give a [ __ ] like I just put it out there yeah I don't know what is that like what gives you that confidence I don't know and I'm not even that confident I don't know I don't know pessimistic and not conscious I just do it just upload it just do and I'm not gonna say like gives a [ __ ] what people said because I care about what people say so much I'll read one comment and I'll cry - my assistant Natalie [ __ ] three hours so I don't want to be here like [ __ ] people's comments that's not true but like just like I said just do you like it's don't ever try to like fall into like this like like don't look at my videos and be like I want to make videos like this what people do like their people have to Casey nice that a lot yeah and I'll I think he's like the most like replicated youtuber on the platform everyone wants to be like hey don't do that there already is a Casey nice - yeah [ __ ] doing he's doing a good job yeah he's doing a great job and it's just like just do you people like people love seeing people being themselves and and being authentic and if you're being authentic to yourself to your viewers then you're just gonna that you're gonna gain traction from that by itself yeah you were making the like you did the vlog but then you didn't you join a group second class I do my research I spelled that right - second class great one word right yes everything else is misspelled no I'm yeah I did join I joined Joe isn't like a comedy troupe or something wasn't that a comedy troupe it was just like a bunch of boys from buying and we were just like I don't know I wanted the name to be THC v and and that the name stood for the highly conceited five okay and they vetoed it and they're like let's be second class and I'm like so this is what they meant by it they were like they're like so cameron dallas and nash grier are first-class so we should be second-class and I was like so you're already putting us behind them but yeah yeah see we see did you I just did it because there's like a way to get on YouTube right we said were you doing your own vlog with the time table at the same time no no no this is way before oh this was this is when I was like living back home oh okay so once you posted your video like what was the growth like so you do your vlog was so slow did anyone see it like how did you even get people to see it yeah I was getting I was getting like five thousand views five to eight thousand views a video for the first like three four months but that's because you had a vine following right that's not bad for somebody just posting their first video for four months of videos oh I thought you meant your first one was 5,000 oh no no no my first one was like 800 views okay yeah it was my friends and me watching it a bunch in Slovakia yeah no but it was it was a very it's been a very slow growth but I'm not complaining because I'm yeah yeah but there wasn't like a video that like that like really blew up I mean other than like the breakup video that like really like sped up the whole process but like it was it's very it's been very progressive and I'm very lucky like the people that like have watched me from the beginning are still around and like that's like the best part and you keep that isn't that the best thing you have your core group and you keep kind of adding to it yes yeah I love that yeah I love that so much and with our friend group - I love that our friend group is so real that we're constantly like there's new people in our friend group all the time like we're just hanging out with new people now yeah and it's just like it's so like it's so fun to watch like I can go back I can go back two or three years and find out what I did today because I have it like diary on online and I think that's so cool it's like like even if I wasn't getting paid for this yeah like that's just so cool my kids will be able to see what I was doing when I was 18 years old yeah like that's ridiculous and it's cool no let me the break up right and Forbes oh I'm not a gossip guy or anything like that but everything is how much money did that make you sponsored by our but because everything is catalogued there I was thinking about that on the way up it's like it's like living in a house and you break up with your girlfriend but yet there's pictures of your ex-girlfriend all over the house isn't that kind of like like that's what it feels like if it's it's like your YouTube channel has your ex oh yeah it's weird yeah it's so weird it's so weird but I mean that was you know that's what we signed up for like yeah it's really interesting but I also don't regret any of like the videos we made or anything cuz I think there was like the finer gram of the funniest things that we've that we've created so no I'm super happy with it did you like this part part of like the lesson or that experience are you gonna try to kind of keep some of your life private yeah going forward especially like relationships going forward layout I saw they know asses and minuses of this stuff I don't need to do that again no yeah yeah so we're not gonna see no no the relationships come and go through your vanilla yeah no more yes you talk about the crew to kind of your successful friends have come in you've got like the vlog squad but then you've got I'm just looking at this list of people you work with like kendall Jenner Jimmy Kimmel JLo John Stamos look Jimmy Kimmel we stopped for a second that's right but John Stamos is always in the mix it seems like yeah you're lovely eventually yeah it's great I love literally it's so crazy like every celebrity at work this is so stupid to say like every still everybody I work with like I I love them and this is gonna sound dumb but like they're people too but it's like it's so quick I saw you on TV yeah and they're so great yeah I've been nothing but sweet to me and it's just like it's so it's so cool like working with people that like you grew up watching like seeing seeing their life yeah it's just really interesting how does that even happen that organic like how do you hook up with the John Stamos through Josh or like Josh yeah it's like it's like one person introduces you to the next and you say let's do something yeah [ __ ] yes let's do it I love like working with celebrities is like one of my favorite things because it's like I don't know it's like it's so cool to like that guy I don't know I still feel like I'm like that guy living back in the suburbs of Chicago is so like when I get to like hang out with Josh Peck or John stainless uh my god I'm hanging out with Uncle Jesse yeah yeah yeah do they sit back and let you kind of be the director almost like hey we're in your world like that you're the YouTube sensation like we'll do what you tell us no I mean it's where do they is it like a collaborative thing oh it's super collaborative yeah yeah no yeah I don't yeah it's like it's literally just us hanging out there's no really secret to what we do it's just us just hanging out and talking yeah but it is as natural as it looks on camera yeah I mean you guys aren't fighting before hands like open action hey we're buddies know and like and there's no beat it doesn't seem like there's beefs or drama like no just cuz your actual friends and not just kind of like throwing together yeah and I also like I I don't hold grudges like on anyone really and I get over things so quickly cuz I just don't care to be angry but that's nice to say up here but like who doesn't [ __ ] like sometimes like if you get an old or something put you put a little person I'm just wash it off yeah wash it off and don't talk to that person yeah I don't have [ __ ] this person I never went like it's just like you know think about it yeah it's just whatever this this didn't work goodbye that's a good attitude I guess yeah I feel like it's a pretty simple attitude I guess just kind of do that yeah I'm not think I discovered anything anything how's the podcast going what's that experience alright it's like whatever don't don't no it's fun we have a good time ah the woods then so it sounds like there's not you you make it sound so easy like there's no thought no but I there's a lot of thought that goes into it maybe it's not you pen to paper but like there's a lot going on yeah come on content three days a week for four years yeah no it's like why the reason I I I love like like this is fine because I've never met you before so we can talk about whatever any old egg oh that's new yeah but like on the podcast I've literally talked about everything you talked about all this stuff a million times yeah like every single thing of my life is on the podcast so it's like every time I sit down I'm like I have nothing left to give I know so it's like that's the most stressful part like I love talking interacting with people but like we still don't have guests on the podcast okay so it's just me and Jason and we already a lot of space to follow yeah and we put all our entire life on videos because we do three a week yeah so it's like what else is there to talk about that we already haven't shown or talked about previously so why do you do it like I looked and check out the Travis Mills interview - I looked at interviews and there actually wasn't a lot of like long interviews with you I mean Travis's was a recent one but a lot of them were like five-minute gossipy kind of ones or who but didn't seem like there was like you talking real for like an hour they didn't seem like there's a lot of those I guess but I did my homework I was looking because I hate asking questions that you know you've been asked a thousand times but you've talked about all this stuff so why even do press like doesn't it get annoying they like sit down and like okay they're gonna ask me about Lies I don't know I guess you're right maybe should we even keep going no I don't know I literally don't know the reason for anything yeah I just I'm just I'm just doing whatever I don't know I'm just trying new things like James Charles was I guess he I don't know when it's gonna air but he gotten some controversy or it wasn't real controversy he went to the UK and was promoting something and then like the news anchor said like who was this guy I saw that that was just now that was like yes yeah yeah that was weird and I was just thinking so it's so weird and then I was doing my homework and I'm like James Charles doesn't need [ __ ] because I said I looked up the number one cable show new show is Sean Hannity I guess he's three million viewers a show James Charles drops a video 10 million yeah so [ __ ] the the old lady like making fun of him on the news yeah like he doesn't need to do anything in the new socks who cares yeah but like your negotiator yeah no but you're in a good position to because you don't really need any of this you've got a podcast you've got your YouTube channel you have a direct link yeah your followers yeah but it's like this is also temporary like it's like how long can like one keep this up for yeah and like I think that's like that's why this comes in yeah maybe someone will watch this and doesn't know who you are yeah and they'll hire me you know to be a manager at a movie theater or something one day because this machine by I'm telling you this [ __ ] is gonna [ __ ] crumble and it's gonna be it's gonna be me for it out I'm gonna be I'm gonna have a crack pipe in my hand and people gonna be playing this interview right before they post the pictures of me on the side of Hollywood Boulevard it was so funny I interviewed Tana mojo the week before Tanika sure and the whole interview was like it's gonna be great and inclusive it so smoothly and it was yeah so hopefully you'd rot in the crack pipe and hopefully you know I'm not I'm not doing any conventions anytime soon yeah some sober calm no not anything no Dober calm yeah is the podcast that waiter like that diversify cuz yeah I don't want to put all your eggs in one basket yeah you do keys shutting you down you go hey I got my own thing over here too I think it's like a I think it's like a way to like start like interviewing early and getting into the interview process or like like for like longer conversations yes like like I said I want to do late nights so I think it's better that I'm learning how to speak to people yeah I don't know yeah you talk good I talk good good you know so that's always been a goal you the late-night thing the late-night things kind of it seems like the podcast and the late-night thing they're kind of the same but they're kind of different because like the late-night thing you got four minutes commercial break five minutes commercial break be quick get laughs laughs laughs we're podcast you can get like a laugh and then kind of be serious for five minutes of them yeah we can do down late night to you can yeah the way we structure our our podcast or like I like to do it is I like to go from one thing to the next like I don't like like I don't like to like dig in deep like I don't give a [ __ ] about like what you did today I want to I want to have a story and on the next door and then the next door and then the next story okay just like I cut my videos that well yeah I just wanted to keep going kind of like late night like it's it's like bit bit bit it's so interesting watching like late night because it's like they'll be talking about like like Jimmy will ask a question about like so you have a newborn yeah and the person will be like yeah he was just born he's six months old and then Jimmy well it's as if he wasn't even listening he'll go the new movie or coming out looks wonderful and I love that it's so quick just like bang bang bang yeah yeah wait I think you know what people don't see too is the pre-interview and all this [ __ ] that goes on hey tell me a funny story what's going on in your life yeah so he can do that you you know and know I've always yeah I should be so fun I don't know maybe it's Sukkot late night I've never except I've never actually done it so it's like I don't know the life thing with the live thing throw you because this is a cold environment you can you say something stupid we can edit that out we can retake yeah we're a lot of times live audience it's like you gotta think on your feet no yeah I had no idea I've no idea I mean that situation I've never done actually anything like I've done anything live yeah we did out we did a views tour oh so we like yeah we did that same kind of thing but it wasn't like there was no there was no it wasn't high stakes it was like yeah like I said it was a winning crowd so I could have talked about you know the poop Jason took that morning it's five minutes yeah but no it's it's a different world and I'd be really interested to like dabble in it and see how it works what's so like what does that look like do you think I mean do you have to is there like a stepping stone steps no idea no and that's that's like how do you just go like all sudden I'm replacing Jimmy Kimmel you know how does that happen I don't think there is especially not a rule book especially now with like the Internet and like how things are going there is no rule real book and I think jeans cart James Corden's probably the closest like he kind of had the carpool karaoke and that kind of he had like a little thing and turned that into a big thing yeah is that hot or did he do the carpool and the car pole is actually oh I got you okay I don't know you got the big first but um but yeah I don't know I don't I don't know what the formula is to be on late-night and I don't think there is one and I think I think this is this is all such new territory like this well you do think yes I think we're gonna find out what that leads to okay the podcast just go back to that to tie you structure it do you go in with the game plan Jason what do you got Oh tell that story about how you took a big [ __ ] yesterday and after that I got this story it's usually like Jason what do you what do you have and then he goes nothing no do you do this Leo enough I mean it's before the show or that we the night before yeah this happens like three for em and we're when do you shoot the body well I just shoot America's doing you're receiving do it whenever you want yeah yeah okay it's yeah it's like super it's it's really great as no produce I do love it I do love talking yeah but it's just figuring out what to talk about like that's the only tough part and that's why I don't like it like once if we have like something good to talk about I love it because I love heading into like tiny details with like stories like that's like a lot of structure is good for you yeah say you asked for bullet things and yeah that's it we've done this one that's that's like that's my only pet peeve with everything I do is there is no structure and I want like I want my life to be like like an organized hell like I want it I want to be able to wake up and be like at 2:00 o'clock you know you're here you're doing this interview at 3 o'clock you need to do this at 4 o'clock you need to say this and in front of this camera yeah yeah I want to be work to the [ __ ] bone yeah yeah but like the problem with this is like the job I have now is it's tough to do that because a lot of times I'm sitting on the couch because I need to like creatively catch up yeah and I'm like ok I can't just keep moving because there's an you you don't know what to do yeah and you can't have you kinda have to let ideas come to you yes and like I wish I had a job where there was like a team around me though I was helping me like put me in certain situations like today you're you're you're working behind the desk of a Chipotle counter and you're interacting with the people you know I mean yeah yeah like I won't fan of Saturday alive or did you grow up watching it or you've seen that you're talking about yeah it's like Saturday the shoot they have their after-party Sunday they sleep and then Monday's that I love that meeting that's Sunday we're starting over yeah your ideas that's Wednesday's rehearsal but when they have it that's been for 40 years yeah and like like I can't a man and then I'm done at 8 but from 10 to 8 I can't breathe yes I'm so busy yeah but when I get to bed at 8 I don't have to worry about it for a single second yeah and I just go to bed and I wake up and I start worrying when I wake up then you can wake up before you have more qual Berg because you're going to bed exactly get my pump in I like to work out three times a day so that really helped me out Instagram your cheat meals like the wrong yes no but yeah and like the problem with this now is like it's nonstop yeah it's like oh my god I'm so stressed out what am I gonna shoot today yeah there's no days off especially if you're doing content hash tag hustle yeah never give up what else you promote man you got the podcast you got your channel go buy it go buy my merch go Sam are you wearing the merch oh yeah yeah we sold this obviously from friends very nice thank you where do we get this merch this actually is discontinued right I go to fan joy Kovaks no brick you can't go to fan juco backslash in Tobruk which camera do I look into I don't even know there was one here holy [ __ ] hello yeah so yeah there's different kinds of merchants go buy some it's great it's alright alright who cares just do whatever you want podcast channel that's it views podcast YouTube child david dobrik i like it I live in Studio City it's best place ever what else shape him out do people come to show up to your house yes don't do that please don't do that dude I was watching and I shouldn't even know of this the Dolan twins I saw one my god yeah I've died in like I don't know if they have yeah I found one Twitter then he had a tweet like several times do not come to the way fun real like he has to do I'm guessing some probably ended up showing up did they I didn't find one no idea okay if they did that it's so disrespectful and she's just so insane it's scary you have to say that yeah I've had I've had someone walk up to my door and then walk in because they watch these videos and they think they're like a part of the friend group yeah and like listen I like please come up to me in public and Sheryl oh and I love that that's so cool I'm us glad to yes but do not come to my house that's terrifying yeah horrifying and that's happened before several times yeah it happens like three times a day no kid yeah it's really bad wow what do you do to prevent that you don't I just send Natalie out and Natalie's your muscle yeah and she punches him in the face but yeah so don't you up in his house don't show up in my house buy my merch go watch my youtube videos and if you're a producer of a late-night show yeah there's not something going go and if your parents are celebrities please let me know I'd love to work with them yes thank you guys subscribe hit subscribe below we've got a bunch of good interviews coming out with your favorite creators and influencers so check it out guys subscribe and that's it 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Channel: The Tom Ward Show

Views: 794,662

Rating: 4.9404259 out of 5

Keywords: David Dobrik, Vlog squad, jason nash, trisha paytas, tana mongeau, tom ward, under the influence, under the influence with tom ward, kendall jenner

Id: 31tyNOCzR8A

Length: 49min 50sec (2990 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 10 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/peeinherbutt]

It's insane to me that he was one of the least-paid people in his friend group in December

I know his videos are a bit on the "edgier" side, but I guess I never thought about him actually being demonetized for it

I'm sure he makes plenty of money from merch and sponsors, but it has to fuck with him when he thinks about how much money he's missing out on

Makes the decision to drop a video a week even more complex for me. Dude clearly works his ass off, and even though he's getting shit on by Youtube/advertisers, he cut out a video a week.

Hopefully that makes anyone who is mad at him (not sure if people are) for doing it understand it a bit more. You know he's exhausted if he's choosing to make even less money just to give himself a break

edit: also, maybe if lilly singh is a successful late night host, david's chances will increase

[u/neversleepever]

I’m very pleasantly surprised by how self aware he is for his age.

[u/iBeFloe]

This was a pretty good interview. It was comfortable & not boring.

[u/zipperjuice]

I feel like no one's going to agree with me, but the host's constant grinning felt forced and over the top to me. Good stuff other than that.