S1: #12 - Ian & The Slow Mo Guys

Summary

Podcast Summary: Smosh Mouth – S1: #12 - Ian & The Slow Mo Guys

Introduction and Creator Summit Insights

In episode #12 of Smosh Mouth, released on May 8, 2019, hosts Shayne Topp (Ian Hecox) and Amanda Lehan-Canto are joined by special guests Daniel Gruchy and Gavin Free from The Slow Mo Guys. The episode was recorded outside their usual studio setting, as Ian was attending the YouTube Creator Summit in New York. Ian shares his experience, explaining that the Creator Summit serves as a hub for YouTubers to engage in presentations and networking opportunities organized by YouTube to inspire and collaborate with content creators [00:30].

“The great thing for me about the Creator Summit is that it's a lot of cool YouTubers that I don't oftentimes see,” Ian remarks, highlighting the value of meeting peers and influencers he admires [00:30].

Meeting The Slow Mo Guys

During the summit, Ian had the opportunity to spend about 45 minutes with Gavin Free and Daniel Gruchy. He expresses his admiration for their work in creating captivating slow-motion videos and mentions Gavin's association with Rooster Teeth [00:30]. The conversation sets the tone for the episode, which primarily revolves around humorous and light-hearted topics.

Fart Humor and Personal Anecdotes

The hosts dive into a segment dedicated to fart humor, a recurring theme in their discussions. Daniel recounts an incident where he believed he had broken his pelvis during a stunt, only for Gavin to humorously ask, “Did you fart?” upon landing [02:38].

“I thought I'd like broken my pelvis at first, cuz it was in so much pain,” Daniel shares, eliciting laughter from the group [02:38].

Gavin adds to the humor by describing Daniel's competitive nature during restroom breaks, “He would always come around my house and pee really hard into the toilet,” highlighting the playful camaraderie between them [03:06].

Accidents and Injuries in Content Creation

The conversation shifts to discussing various accidents and injuries they've encountered while creating content. Daniel details an experience in the army where he ended up in a field hospital due to a video mishap involving glass exploding from a jar [17:47].

“I had a piece of glass in my finger from the slow mo guys,” Daniel explains, emphasizing the unexpected risks involved in their creative processes [17:47].

Ian shares another story about breaking his nose during a video shoot, only to have his dog inadvertently fix it by batting his face—a testament to their light-hearted approach to injuries [20:55].

YouTube Platform and Creator Summit Experience

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to discussing the YouTube platform and the dynamics of the Creator Summit. Ian critiques the summit's effectiveness, noting that it often feels like a marketing event for YouTube's advertising summit rather than a genuine support system for creators [05:56].

“For me, it's always about just meeting my peers and the people that I'm a fan of and exploiting that as much as possible,” Ian reflects on the personal benefits of attending the summit [05:56].

Gavin and Daniel echo these sentiments, sharing their own interactions and experiences. They express frustration over YouTube Rewind and the pressures of maintaining content under stringent platform guidelines [35:03].

Child Labor and Ethical Concerns on YouTube

The hosts delve into the controversial topic of child labor on YouTube, particularly referencing channels like Ryan Toys Review. Ian voices his concerns about the ethical implications of involving young children in content creation without adequate regulation [38:48].

“How do you, how do you police that?” Ian questions the accountability measures in place to protect child creators from exploitation [38:48].

Daniel adds that legislation often lags behind technological advancements, making it challenging to regulate new forms of content creation effectively [40:41].

Closing Thoughts and Future Content

As the episode nears its end, the hosts engage in a light-hearted discussion about their personal goals and hypothetical scenarios, such as filming a slow-motion video of their own demise [45:02]. They wrap up by appreciating the contributions of their guests and sharing excitement about their ongoing projects, including a new clothing line [46:15].

Notable Quotes

• “I thought I'd like broken my pelvis at first, cuz it was in so much pain.” – Daniel Gruchy [02:38]

• “For me, it's always about just meeting my peers and the people that I'm a fan of and exploiting that as much as possible.” – Ian Hecox [05:56]

• “How do you, how do you police that?” – Ian Hecox [38:48]

• “It’s like giving… the kid might grow up to be, like, super embarrassed by it.” – Gavin Free [40:50]

Conclusion

Episode #12 of Smosh Mouth offers a blend of humor, personal anecdotes, and insightful discussions about the challenges and ethical considerations within the YouTube creator community. Hosted by Ian and Amanda, with guests Daniel and Gavin, the episode provides an engaging glimpse into the lives of content creators, balancing light-hearted banter with thoughtful critiques of the platform they help shape.

Transcript

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[Ian Hecox]

Ramble hello everyone and welcome to a special episode of the smoshcast. We did not shoot it in our normal studio because I was all the way in New York at the YouTube Creator Summit. Basically, the Creator Summit is where YouTube gathers together a whole bunch of YouTubers and then throws them through a bunch of presentations and tries to inspire them. And it's actually just a way to get people there for YouTube's advertising summit so they could show a bunch of creators and be like, hey, look, people that make videos. The great thing for me about the Creator Summit is that it's a lot of cool YouTubers that I don't oftentimes see. One of the groups that was there is the Slow mo guys, Gavin Free and Daniel Grouche. I'm afraid to pronounce his last name wrong. I've never heard him say it, so that's my bad if I fuck that up. They create a lot of these videos where, I mean, it's pretty self explanatory. They do slow motion videos. They always find really cool stuff to shoot in slow motion and they're just good guys. Gavin Free also works over at Rooster Teeth, which I am also a big fan of. And occasionally the two of them get together and make awesome videos. So I was fortunate enough to get about 45 minutes with them. That's all the time we really had at the Creator Summit. We were just bouncing from thing to thing, thing to thing, so they were gracious enough to give me their time. Most of this episode we're talking about farts. So if you are offended by conversations about farts, maybe this isn't the best podcast for you. But if, if you don't mind a little fart humor, man, strap in because it's, it's a farty ride. We talk about other things too though. Good guys. Hilarious. And, and let's, let's just jump right into it. Oh, and I apologize if the audio a little bit weird. We all we had was handheld mics, so hopefully it's not too bad. Okay, enjoy.

[Daniel Gruchy]

I thought I'd like broken my pelvis at first, cuz it was in so much pain. And when I landed, the first thing that Gav said to me was, did you fart?

[Gavin Free]

I met him a couple of years ago and it, you know, just like a dude with a backpack in it. I was. He was like talking to me. I was like, oh, you looked up his channel? I was like, jesus Christ.

[Ian Hecox]

I mean, to me, a slow mo fart on a thermal cam sounds like, you know, that's like avatar level sort of, you know, greatness.

[Gavin Free]

He would always come around my house and pee really hard into the toilet.

[Ian Hecox]

What? All right.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Right in the mouth.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay. Hey, everybody. Welcome to a super special Smoshcast with me, Ian Hecox, and my two friends, Daniel and Gav. Do you say Gav or Gavin? I don't. Do you go by both or just Gavin?

[Gavin Free]

Both. They both register to me as my name, so I don't really ever notice which version people are saying.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay, well, Daniel and Gavin from the Slow Mo guys. And also, well, you're also on Rooster Teeth. Yes.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah. Many channels.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. You're a man of many channels. Or is. I mean, as are you. Yeah. So yeah, this is a special Smosh cast. Not just because it's short, because we're on a limited time window, but also because we are at the Creator Summit. Woo.

[Gavin Free]

On the beach.

[Daniel Gruchy]

That was enthusiastic. Does it feel like you're on the beach with this giant hedge?

[Gavin Free]

I feel like I'm on the beach.

[Ian Hecox]

Is this.

[Gavin Free]

Have you been to every Creator Summit?

[Ian Hecox]

No, I've only. This is the only. Maybe the second time I've been invited.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Second.

[Ian Hecox]

I think maybe I was invited one other time, but I think the first Creator Summit I might have been invited, but because of some other sort of YouTube gatherings that had happened in the past, I was like, oh, it might be a shit show. So I think I declined it.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Maybe that was the best one as well. The first.

[Gavin Free]

It was actually really good.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Like, the stuff they did was great. You know, the guests were good.

[Gavin Free]

We have been to all of them, every single fifth one.

[Ian Hecox]

What?

[Gavin Free]

And I do find them useful. It's just fun. Just like, even if you don't go to the seminars and stuff, it's just nice to see people.

[Ian Hecox]

I think that's the big sort of takeaway for the summit. For me, it's always about just meeting my peers and the people that I'm a fan of and exploiting that as much as possible. I mean, it's weird because the Creator Summit, as we're starting to realize as the years go on, I mean, I think it's sort of a way for. Well, there's this thing called the New Fronts in New York, and it's a way. It's basically all the giant companies that are online gather all the advertisers, and they show them these big presentations and say, like, this is what we're doing this year. We have this show and this show and this show. Please give us your money, your ad dollars. And so YouTube does a really, really big one every year, and it just so happens to coincide with the Creator Summit. So I think it's. It is partly because they do that because they have this huge gathering of YouTubers that then they send to the brand cast, which is their New Fronts presentation, and they're like, look at all these awesome YouTubers that we have.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah, we did a couple of things for that before, didn't we? I think the first time we did something and we did something another time as well.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah, we had a bunch of people come and throw paint on us for like an hour and a half, and we had. We would.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah.

[Gavin Free]

To make little mini slow mos with them. And then.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, was that too? Was that too. I seem to recall you guys were in like a. Like a glass cube. Oh, that was.

[Gavin Free]

That was for this year. That was for the James Corden bit.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Oh, yeah, that's right.

[Gavin Free]

So, yeah, we. We. I was going to say, like, YouTube wheel us out for that. They literally wheeled us. We were in a box on wheels, on stage.

[Daniel Gruchy]

The first time, though, when we had to do the thing with the fans, we're like. They had, like, paint on us and everything. We finished and we were just like, how do we get back?

[Gavin Free]

It was very well thought out up to that point. But then once our bit was done, we couldn't sit down at Brandcast because we were caked in paint. We kind of just had to stand off to the side and then we had to leave through. And if you've ever been, there's just people in suits, really. And we were there.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Like, I ruined, like, seven suits with, like, paint.

[Gavin Free]

We couldn't get in an Uber, so we just had to walk, like, 20 blocks so far, covered in paint, in lab coats. And because it's New York, just no one batted.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, they just thought it was some kind of, like, presentation.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah, just people from the city.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Is that when I absolutely twatted my shin?

[Gavin Free]

That was a different Time.

[Daniel Gruchy]

That was a different time.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah. You what?

[Ian Hecox]

Your shin.

[Daniel Gruchy]

I was. I was just on my phone and you know how in New York, there's like, those, like, basement things with the doors open?

[Gavin Free]

Cellar doors, Right.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Daniel Gruchy]

And I was just on my phone. And, you know, in England, we don't really have those, so there's not really, like, pubs that you have to walk out.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah.

[Daniel Gruchy]

And they usually, like, you know, safely guarded with, like, bars over that. I absolutely cracked my shin on the, like, sharp edge of one of those. And this guy was just stood there. I think he was like, just, like, hanging out. Like, it just goes. I was, like, on the floor at this point, like, almost crying. He was just, like, texting because I was just texting on my phone.

[Gavin Free]

He was like, you text. It was like the biggest bong sound. It was like someone whacked a gong, but it was his shin hitting this metal door.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Oh.

[Ian Hecox]

So, you know, that guy just sits there and just gets enjoyment out of people whacking their shins on that.

[Daniel Gruchy]

He's probably seen, like, seven people fall into those.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah, yeah. Just be lucky you didn't go over it and down the stairs. That would suck. Yeah. But, you know, it's America, so I think you could have sued someone quite easily.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Probably true.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Daniel Gruchy]

I've just realized that one of the things in my hotel room is out of date. What do I do about it? I wanted to use it, but I was like, do I use it or not? It was the hangover cure thing. That's like a hangover box.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah.

[Daniel Gruchy]

And when I date in January, I'm like, what the hell? I don't want no one, you know, want to open it and find out that there's, like, stuff that's all out.

[Ian Hecox]

Of date and things. I looked at the hangover cure thing because I was like, oh, what's in the hangover cure?

[Daniel Gruchy]

What's in it?

[Ian Hecox]

They know that I don't. And it's literally. It explained. It was like, two Tylenol and some emergency.

[Gavin Free]

And a mint.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And some. Some mints. I'm like, that. That. No, it's not a hangover cure.

[Daniel Gruchy]

I'm tempted by the Tylenol, though, to be fair. Yeah, that is out of date.

[Ian Hecox]

That might help a little bit. You know, it'll thin your stomach lining a little bit, but, you know, although, who needs that?

[Daniel Gruchy]

I went downstairs just a minute ago, and they're doing, like, these, like, little things where you can get, like, a massage, you know, or like, your little.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah, I saw the Express Facial. Did you do it?

[Daniel Gruchy]

I.

[Gavin Free]

The.

[Daniel Gruchy]

I went down there, like, probably like 10 to like 20 minutes ago. And the only one they had available, they were all fully booked was B12 shot.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. So is that injected in your bloodstream?

[Daniel Gruchy]

I was like, what the hell is that? And they literally get a needle and inject you with like a literal, like, shot. Like you're getting a flu shot. What does that do? It's supposed. Because I've got the hangover. Hangover. And I was like, you know, sod it. They were like, in 45 minutes you'll get a bit of a buzz, like a bit more energy and like, it's good for the immune system and stuff. I was like, I feel like I'm like juicing here. Like, what a weird thing to offer people downstairs. Like, you can have a facial. You can be palm red or you can have a shot.

[Gavin Free]

It's like there's places in Vegas where you can get people to come just put on you.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, well, I mean, that actually works. Like, I know a guy that was an emt and he was also like a club bro, and him and his bros would go out and party in a club. Then the next morning they'd all get IV bags and plug right in.

[Daniel Gruchy]

How much does that cost? Is it like.

[Ian Hecox]

I have no idea. I'm guessing maybe they just stole it out of their ambulances, but it's out of date.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah, whip it. Whip it on, Gary.

[Gavin Free]

They actually crumb pour some emergency into the bag, so you get a little bonus.

[Ian Hecox]

I feel like as I get older, that sounds more and more appealing. As I feel like. I don't know about you guys, but as I get older, hangovers are worse.

[Daniel Gruchy]

These days I'm having like two day hangovers.

[Gavin Free]

Honestly, there have been times where I'm kind of reluctant to go out ever at this point, just because I'm much more tired than I used to be. I feel like I get hungover before I get drunk sometimes.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh.

[Gavin Free]

I feel like I'll just be like, I'm feeling like a slight headache and I'm not having fun yet. So it's just like, what's the point in drinking?

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah, I mean, I sometimes have a couple drinks on a plane. This is always a stupid idea. But one time I had some drinks. I had like smashed a few and I just fell asleep. And then I woke up on the flight hungover. Oh, it was the worst.

[Gavin Free]

You're dealing with, like, double dehydration on a plane as well. You shouldn't. You shouldn't really Booze on a plane.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah, it's awful.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, I've done it a couple times. But drinking on a plane is weird because, like, you're just kind of stuck in this chair. I feel like I get really gassy on a plane. If I'm drinking on a plane. It's like, it's, it's not a great situation.

[Daniel Gruchy]

But if you do get gassy, there's a lot of other people that it could be. So you can sometimes get away with it if you.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, I let loose. I don't care.

[Daniel Gruchy]

You just don't care?

[Ian Hecox]

No, no. I mean, once, once we're, once we're done taxiing, we're in the air, we're making all that noise. You know, I am courteous. I don't, I don't lift cheek and you don't lift cheek, fly it into people's face.

[Daniel Gruchy]

But that's fair.

[Gavin Free]

If you could, would you fart towards the window or the aisle if you could?

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, I mean, yeah, if I was in an aisle seat, I guess I would throw it into the aisle. You know, I'm not, you know, it's not going directly into anybody unless there's like a kid, like walking through the aisle when they did it.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Like pink color.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, no, I keep it self. I keep it contained into the cushion, you know, so it diffuses a little bit before it gets, you know, released into you.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Get those pants and stuff that like contain it as well, can't you? Those fart pants, like box shorts with like, like this special padding, like soaks up farts.

[Gavin Free]

That can't be real.

[Daniel Gruchy]

I think it's real.

[Gavin Free]

It's like fart sponge.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah, like a fart sponge. It like filters out the fart fart. I'm pretty sure that's real.

[Ian Hecox]

Are you sure?

[Daniel Gruchy]

I think it's real. Like a fart capture thing. I mean, maybe.

[Gavin Free]

Who is that for, though? For other people?

[Daniel Gruchy]

I guess it's to like, if you've got like bad, like gut problems, then you're constantly like letting rip. Yeah, but it's embarrassing. You don't want to, you know, have to constantly leave every five minutes.

[Gavin Free]

How much were your fart pants?

[Daniel Gruchy]

Like 30 bucks.

[Ian Hecox]

That's a great deal.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah. No, I want some, though.

[Gavin Free]

They work.

[Ian Hecox]

Have you guys done a slow mo infrared fart?

[Gavin Free]

I have actually talked to flir, the thermal imaging company about, because they have a high speed camera. It only goes up to 1000 frames a second and it records in this weird circular format. But if we do manage to get hold of it for a video. That's the first thing I want to do.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Did you tell them that's the first.

[Gavin Free]

Thing I want to do?

[Daniel Gruchy]

Well, I didn't want to insult them.

[Ian Hecox]

But what do you guys want to do? Like flamethrowers? You want, like, burn rubber?

[Daniel Gruchy]

Something scientific May, but there's also, like.

[Gavin Free]

Different methods of infrared, so I'm not actually sure it would register in the air. It might be on a surface, but.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah, like, I've seen those videos of. But is that real? I feel like it's not real.

[Ian Hecox]

I think it's real. I don't think it's real like, the. The infrared. Like, in an airport, somebody farted. Yeah.

[Daniel Gruchy]

And there's like, the black comes out of the.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. It's like the cloud is not real.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah.

[Gavin Free]

I just.

[Daniel Gruchy]

I just don't know if it'd work. Like, even with a flip flair.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, flare would know, so you guys should ask them.

[Daniel Gruchy]

You should probably ask before you get it.

[Gavin Free]

I was just too embarrassed to ask. So if you're very, like, scientific, you know, engineers and all that, if you.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Manage to get the camera. We fart into it.

[Gavin Free]

It doesn't work far into it.

[Daniel Gruchy]

What are you going to do then? You're going to be like. You're going to be like, oh, better send it back then. Didn't work.

[Gavin Free]

It was actually cool. The demo they showed me, they just snapped a pencil.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Oh, yeah.

[Gavin Free]

And you could see where it got hot because of the strain. And then it pings off and it's like, that is cool.

[Ian Hecox]

But that's not a fart.

[Gavin Free]

It's not far.

[Daniel Gruchy]

It's not.

[Ian Hecox]

It's not as cool as a fart.

[Gavin Free]

Snapping a pencil doesn't have the same, you know, clickable thumbnail as a, you know, slow mo. Far infrared.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Especially if you totally watch that video. I don't. I guess I'd watch the pencil one, too. Would you.

[Gavin Free]

Would you want to be in the.

[Ian Hecox]

Video for the fart?

[Gavin Free]

Yeah, just like.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Gavin Free]

You know you would.

[Daniel Gruchy]

You know, you would do a fun double fart double. Like, you come in.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Like a stunt fart. Like, I'll just.

[Ian Hecox]

I'll just. I'll come to Austin. I'll eat a bunch of those delicious baked beans.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah. We got good barbecue that will. That'll work something up inside you.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. And then we'll just let her up.

[Gavin Free]

Do you talk about this stuff on your podcast, Farts in that.

[Ian Hecox]

I just, I, you know, I just see where. Where the adventure takes us, you know, I mean, to me, a slow Mo fart on a thermal cam. Sounds like, you know, that's, that's like avatar level sort of, you know, greatness.

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[Daniel Gruchy]

You.

[Ian Hecox]

You kind of alluded to me this morning that you're a little bit accident prone.

[Daniel Gruchy]

I wouldn't say I was accident prone. Like I'm actually quite good at not getting injured. It's just that I constantly in situations we'd be making me more likely to be injured.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Like what I do.

[Gavin Free]

Just the way our channel has worked out. We used to both try and be in the shots, but with an unmanned Phantom, you don't Always get the best stuff. So we just kind of fell into the routine of just, I'll always do the camera and you'll always be guinea pig.

[Ian Hecox]

Convenient. Yeah.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah. So I'm actually had, like, I was in the army and I didn't really get in, like, for like seven years. I didn't get injured or like, nothing happened to me. Thankfully, I've had way more injuries from shooting stomach, like, way more. At one time I was in Afghanistan.

[Ian Hecox]

Right.

[Daniel Gruchy]

And I had to go into, like, the field hospital.

[Gavin Free]

Right.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Because I had a piece of glass in my finger from the slow mo guys.

[Ian Hecox]

No.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah.

[Daniel Gruchy]

So, like, there was people, you know, like, with serious, like in, like wounded people coming in, all this sort of stuff. And I was like, yeah, I've got glass in my finger from back home.

[Gavin Free]

That was our first video to get demonetized, and that was in like 2011. That was like an early days demonetization. Yeah. The blood.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah.

[Gavin Free]

It was a glass jar exploded.

[Daniel Gruchy]

It had like a bunch of paint and exploded. We didn't think to use plastic cups for some reason. We used glass jars. Like idiots.

[Gavin Free]

Looking back, we were much less safe when we were completely unknown.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, dude, like several years ago on YouTube, rewind. When Anthony was still with Smosh, they wanted us to recreate I'm on a boat, and they wanted us to clink champagne, like glasses.

[Gavin Free]

Was that the 2013 one?

[Ian Hecox]

Sounds about right. No, might have been like 2014 or 15. I don't really quite remember. When we clanked the glasses and they're like, oh, no. Like, can you guys do it harder? Like, we really want to see the, like the champagne go flying. We're like, okay. So, like, we hit the glasses and the glass, like, cracked and we're like, oh, okay. And so he's like, oh, all right, let's. Let's just try one more. So we got new glasses. We go to clink it really hard. Glass breaks and shreds Anthony's thumb.

[Gavin Free]

Oh, God.

[Daniel Gruchy]

And such a stupid idea.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Daniel Gruchy]

What did he think was gonna happen? It was a safety guy, like, seems fine.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Daniel Gruchy]

I mean, they could have just used plastic glasses or anything.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. And we were out in the water. We weren't on land. We were. We like, drove this boat out of the Marine.

[Gavin Free]

Did it on a boat. Yeah. Yeah.

[Daniel Gruchy]

I like that.

[Gavin Free]

There are movies that would green screen that, like Hollywood movies. But YouTube Rewind does it for real.

[Ian Hecox]

They did it for real.

[Daniel Gruchy]

We need the real chick real. Yeah, yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Cuz they're all about realism.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Gavin Free]

Is that very Typical of your guys's relationship that he would be the one to get injured.

[Ian Hecox]

He's cracked his. He cracked his tooth at least twice in video. No, maybe three times. He cracked his, like the fake part of his front tooth because he had, he had broken his tooth in high school. Kids swung a tennis racket, hit him in the face. So he had, you know, like a, like a fake part and he broke it two or three times in videos. Just random things that he was having to bite. But no, one time he, One time he kind of broke my nose in a video. He. He. We needed him to fake punch me, but because of the camera angle, he needed to use his left hand and he's right handed, so he swung with his left hand and just cracked me right, right in the nose. And it bled a little bit.

[Gavin Free]

Did you. Was that in the cut that take?

[Ian Hecox]

We didn't even use that take. We used a different take.

[Gavin Free]

Why would you not use that take?

[Ian Hecox]

Because strangely, the one where I actually get punched looks less realistic. Yeah, because I'm just like, I'm shocked. Like, it shocked me that he actually punched me in the face. I was like, yeah, I guess in.

[Gavin Free]

An action movie when you take a punch, you're going to take the punch, not go, oh, yeah, I like that.

[Daniel Gruchy]

He broke your nose with his offhand.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Gavin Free]

Didn't know his reach with that arm.

[Ian Hecox]

I guess it was weird. And then, like, I was looking in the mirror, I was like, I can't tell if it's off, but it kind of looked like it was a little bit off. But I didn't go to the hospital or anything. I just, I was like, I think maybe it's just the swelling or something. And then I got home and my, my dog, who's a German shepherd, was playing with her and she just like, bat me in the face with her paw and hit me right in the nose. And I think she actually corrected it.

[Gavin Free]

Like, it doesn't look broken.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, good, good, good. Yeah. I mean, he didn't like super break. He didn't like Owen Wilson, my nose. You know, he's like, it was just like, it was very minimal. I think that that's about as far as, like, injuries go. Yeah. So. Oh, yeah. So he, he slice his thumb and luckily they had a medic there. And the guy was like, oh, yeah, just put a band aid on it, whatever. It doesn't seem too deep. But then it just kept bleeding and I was like, oh, yeah, you should probably go to the hospital and get some stitches.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Oh, my God.

[Gavin Free]

And It's a wrap. Yeah, good.

[Ian Hecox]

And then I don't think we were invited for the rewind.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Like, it was your fault.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, yeah.

[Gavin Free]

We don't trust him. Yeah. We both got injured on our first YouTube original super slow show.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah.

[Gavin Free]

Dan broke his wrist.

[Daniel Gruchy]

It was my thumb.

[Gavin Free]

His thumb. Trying to impress Tony Hawk by dropping in on his 14 foot vert ramp.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah. That was an experience.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Daniel Gruchy]

They did it, though. It was totally worth it.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. You guys just showed that to me this morning. I'm sorry, but it was kind of funny.

[Daniel Gruchy]

It was. Yes, it was worth it. Like, I wouldn't have done it if it, you know, first of all, it's going to be on YouTube. It's on YouTube, you know, forever probably pretty much, you know, it was in front of Tony Hawk, a childhood hero.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah.

[Daniel Gruchy]

You know, and if I hadn't have done it, I'd have had such a sense of like, regret, of like, oh, you know, I could have done it and everything. But the fact that I did it, tried it. Yeah. I absolutely smashed my hand to bits and couldn't walk properly for a week. But it was totally worth it.

[Gavin Free]

Like, we went to dinner after he went to the hospital. It took him like 90 seconds to cross the street. On the way back to the car. I felt so bad.

[Daniel Gruchy]

I landed on my, my, like, hand first.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah.

[Daniel Gruchy]

But then I'm a chunky bloke these days and like I landed on my hips on my side with the rest of my light weight and it like squished my pelvis together. I thought I'd like broken my pelvis. It was in so much pain and I just couldn't walk properly for weeks. And when I landed, the first thing that Gav said to me was, did you fart?

[Gavin Free]

Well, okay. It smelt really bad right by the landing site and we were just, basically just walked into. And he had farted on impact, it turned out. But I think because of the compression, it was sort of like a deep gut fall. So what happened within?

[Daniel Gruchy]

If you imagine like you've fallen like 15ft and it's like I was squashed. Like I was fully emptied out. Like my small and large intestines. I was completely like compressed by the landing and it just forced all this like, ass gas out of my ass.

[Gavin Free]

Sure.

[Daniel Gruchy]

And Tony Hawk was just like walking into it, politely not mentioning anything, like, clearly.

[Gavin Free]

After we, after we'd done all the reaction, I lent down, I was like, did you fart? And you were just like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know, maybe it wasn't the main. I think we actually left that in the episode. Me asking you whether you.

[Daniel Gruchy]

You see, obviously I didn't, like, feel a fart come out. I wasn't like, the first thought of going through my head. I farted, you know, I mean, so.

[Gavin Free]

That was one of the few things where I feel like a lot of the stuff you do, I would have given a go. Like, I used to want to be a stuntman as a kid. I used to love throwing myself around. That is the one thing you've done that I absolutely would not have done. It was like, Johnny Knoxville levels of commitment because you. You basically knew that you were gonna break something. I couldn't. Yeah, definitely.

[Daniel Gruchy]

I pretty much just threw myself off that, knowing.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, you did, because your body left the half pipe and the skateboard went one way and your body went the other way.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah. It looked good for a very small period of time.

[Ian Hecox]

Right.

[Gavin Free]

I mean, even with the Phantom extending that period of time, it wasn't a lot of time.

[Daniel Gruchy]

All right, all right.

[Gavin Free]

In the. In the commentary, I say, we might as well just film someone fall off a roof.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah.

[Gavin Free]

Because that's. That's the effect. The skateboard had absolutely nothing to do with anything.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah, it's true.

[Gavin Free]

But it was a bloody good effort.

[Daniel Gruchy]

I'm glad I did it. And it was totally worth it because, look, my thumb's fine. He was. He said it was incredibly gnarly. He was impressed.

[Gavin Free]

Coming from Hawky himself, coming from Big Tony.

[Daniel Gruchy]

And, you know, he gave me a skateboard and was like, that was amazing. He signed it everything. He put Way to Slam Dan on it. And I was like, yeah. How cool is that, right?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Well worth it.

[Ian Hecox]

I wouldn't have done it. No, no.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Oh, man.

[Ian Hecox]

But, I mean, that's the difference between you and me.

[Daniel Gruchy]

I'll tell my grandkids, you know, when I'm like 80, I won't tell them, oh, I could have done something in front of Tony Hawk, but I didn't. I'd be like, yes, I tried to do something smash my arm. And I think it'd be worth it.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, it is.

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[Ian Hecox]

One of my. One of my gnarliest slams was. Was last month. I was walking down my stairs and I stopped for a moment to try to blow out a candle. And I slept on the stairs.

[Gavin Free]

And then just Wait, you have candles on the stairs?

[Ian Hecox]

No, no, no. So. So do you.

[Daniel Gruchy]

House lit by candles, Is that.

[Ian Hecox]

Yes, I live in a castle.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah, no, he's been staying at Winterfellow.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, yeah. Well, no, there's like. There was a candle on kind of like this little, like, console sort of thing that I had next to the stairs. And I was like. I was like, oh, shit, I gotta blow a candle out. Because, you know, you don't want to leave a candle just burning in a room. And so I. I turned for a moment to blow it out, but my lower half of my body was like, whoa, what are you doing? And I just. I. I missed something. And then I just proceeded to have the most pathetic fall downstairs. We're just like. Just like, down the side of me. I had the gnarliest bruise on my. On my hip.

[Gavin Free]

Is anyone in the house?

[Ian Hecox]

No, I was. I was all alone. Which was which.

[Daniel Gruchy]

No one could even see it either. Yeah, no one even witnessed it.

[Ian Hecox]

But the scariest thing is, like, yeah, what if I. What if I broke my hip? Nobody else is there. Like, what am I gonna do? I guess I call 911. As an American, though, I'm afraid to call 911 because ambulances aren't free. It sucks.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Sucks so bad. It's like, you really don't want to get hurt. Even if, you know, you've got insurance and everything, it's still going to cost you money. And also, you're like, is it worth it? Like, it's a real thing. It's like a risk. Whereas in. In England, I'm so glad to just be able to just be like, well, yeah, obviously I can just go to the hospital.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah. I called an ambulance for the first time in the US and I got, like, a $900 bill just for that, like, let alone the emergency room stuff. So I was like, that's a surprise.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Hey, you know. You know, that's just the cost of freedom. Welcome to our country. Now I definitely get why. Why there's the cliche of, like, old people falling downstairs and breaking their hips. I totally get it now. And now whenever I walk down my stairs. I'm like, careful.

[Daniel Gruchy]

You're more careful now. Did you get carpet burn? That's always really painful.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, no, they're. They're wood. Wood stairs. Nice. And just slid all the way down.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah. You want the cushioning of a little bit of carpet.

[Daniel Gruchy]

I think the carpet burns pretty bad.

[Ian Hecox]

I wasn't naked.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Why did I have carpet burn one time? And I found.

[Gavin Free]

Because you were naked.

[Ian Hecox]

You were naked.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Probably. Yeah, it's probably true.

[Gavin Free]

We had a naked incident. We at Vidcon once.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Oh, we did?

[Gavin Free]

Yeah, we went to Vidcon. We. I live in Austin. He lives in England. So we usually meet. We only really see each other at these kind of events. And I got. I got to Vidcon really late. It wasn't. It's always in Anaheim. Right? That's where they do it.

[Ian Hecox]

Yep.

[Gavin Free]

And got to the hotel. It was like 1am Because I was. I think I was shooting that day. So I took the latest possible flight. And I didn't realize they put us in the same room. And neither did he. Nope.

[Ian Hecox]

So I walk in, just sort of.

[Gavin Free]

Like, don't bother knocking because I assume it's my room. And the light from the hallway comes into the room sort of directly onto his anus. Almost like.

[Daniel Gruchy]

It was like. I sleep completely naked, and I was turned over on my side, and my. My chocolate starfish was pointing directly at the door. Directly at the door. And I just see Gavin walk in. This beam of light go up my ass, and then this, like, slender. Slenderman shadow figure in the door, like. Oh, yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Were you sleeping on top of your bed? Like, above the covers?

[Daniel Gruchy]

It was. Yeah, it was hot. You know, it was. It was warm.

[Gavin Free]

I mean, I certainly don't sleep like that.

[Daniel Gruchy]

I do.

[Gavin Free]

And I don't sleep without boxes on, so it was. It was so shocking. Well, at first, I had, like, a split second where I didn't think it was you because I didn't obviously make it recognize you by your cornhole.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Would that make it worse or better if it was someone else? Because then you don't have someone else. Never again. And. Right.

[Gavin Free]

No, it would have been better if it was someone else.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah.

[Gavin Free]

Because I could have put the whole thing behind me and just gone and found my actual room or got him out of my room, obviously. Then I had to figure it out and then go to bed next to you. It was two. Okay. Do you ever have that with Ian or with Anthony or anyone like that?

[Ian Hecox]

No. The only. Yeah, no, luckily. Because usually if you're roommates with Somebody for at least a year. It's highly likely you've seen their genitals.

[Gavin Free]

Yes.

[Ian Hecox]

Did you guys ever live together?

[Gavin Free]

No. No.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay.

[Gavin Free]

I've seen his genitals. Just because he just refuses to be careful.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah, it's true. I've also never seen yours, I don't think.

[Gavin Free]

No, I'm very careful. I wear boxes. He loves to brag about the fact that he would always come around my house and pee really hard into the toilet.

[Ian Hecox]

What?

[Gavin Free]

I had like this tiny little toilet next to my bedroom. And he would make sure I could. I could hear him. So he would. He'd just put the lid up and then just go like.

[Daniel Gruchy]

I was trying to like, bust the hole in the back of the toilet.

[Gavin Free]

And I. He just like, he. I knew him for, like, just peeing really hard. So he started like taking videos of him just in like a. We went out for an Indian once and he was there at the urinal. Urinal. And he was just filming his stream. What? Really?

[Daniel Gruchy]

And I was like, forcing out, like.

[Gavin Free]

He was trying to film, like the stream, like, really hard. So it's just like, sent me a video of just a stream of piss. But what it was in the weird period where the iPhone screen was kind of like 4 by 3. It wasn't widescreen yet, but the video was widescreen. So basically what you could do on the iPhone then is you would double tap and it would slightly zoom out because it would by default crop.

[Daniel Gruchy]

I'm so careful with the framing.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah. So I zoomed out and I was like, that's the tip of your penis.

[Daniel Gruchy]

No, just caught. Just the tip. Just the tip.

[Gavin Free]

I was like, no, you're framing, Dan. This is a 720p video.

[Daniel Gruchy]

I was drunk at the time as well.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Like, I was drunk and I was.

[Gavin Free]

Like, well, I mean, if I hadn't zoomed out. Impeccable framing.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Thank you.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah.

[Gavin Free]

Wow. So just moments like that is why I've seen his junk.

[Ian Hecox]

Okay. Yeah. I had a guy on my cross country team, we called them the vortex because he liked to run ahead of everyone and then take his pants down and show us his ass. And we called him the vortex because his entire ass was covered in hair.

[Gavin Free]

Oh. And like a swirl pattern.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. And it all sort of swirled towards the anus. Wow.

[Gavin Free]

Do you think if he was in another hemisphere, it would go the other way?

[Ian Hecox]

Definitely.

[Gavin Free]

It was in Australia.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. Yeah. It would kind of be going out. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Do you think he knows that his hair on his ass does that? Oh, you Never really see your own ass that much, do you?

[Gavin Free]

You don't.

[Ian Hecox]

It's a badass name, though.

[Daniel Gruchy]

I don't generally, like, look at my own ass.

[Ian Hecox]

Hmm.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Like, I don't really know what it looks like. He knows better than I do what my ass looks like.

[Gavin Free]

I mean, I've seen it from an angle that you could never possibly see it.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Unless I would like some sort of, like, elaborate rigged mirrors.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Sort of situation going on.

[Gavin Free]

It'd be an apparatus.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah. Really would.

[Ian Hecox]

So you guys have been every single creator summit. So being that this is my second time I've seen. I've noticed a theme. They do a Q and A. Yeah. With Susan Wojcicki, Robert Kinsel. Robert Kinsel. And their head of some other. Some other top guy. And they open it up for a short Q and A to these sort of top creators. And, you know, YouTube creators are not always happy with the platform, so it usually just turns into just a. Just a mess.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah, well, it's.

[Gavin Free]

It's like the. Because I'm. I'm always pretty quiet at those. I've never stood up to ask anything just because I don't want people to look at me because I'm scared. But a lot of people don't have that fear. And they'll ask a question and they'll get a response and then follow up, and then it ends up just being like a room full of 200 people and a conversation. Just watching a conversation that. But it's. But it's clearly like, we should move on and go to other questions. There's just no sense of, like, I should finish this seven part question.

[Ian Hecox]

Mm.

[Gavin Free]

Which is interesting.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Daniel Gruchy]

This one guy just kept asking questions today, like constantly. It was like five minutes probably.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. And there was like people raising their hands, like, waiting, like, trying to be polite. And then the guy was like, yeah, yeah. But. But what about this? What about this? And it's like, dude, can you please just like.

[Gavin Free]

And then you've got like other people raising their hands, but then someone else will just get the other mic and ask the next question. It's very like. But it's like people have a lot of strong opinions, which, you know, they've based their income around this platform. So it's important.

[Daniel Gruchy]

I would like to see the difference between the European version of that and the, like, the different cultural differences. Do you know? I mean, I feel like the atmosphere would be slightly different and, like, people wouldn't be acting like that necessarily. Do you know? I mean, I'd like to see the difference.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah, I've only gone to the very confident North American one.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, yeah, you got to go. The really repressed UK one. Like, sorry, sorry.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Excuse me.

[Gavin Free]

Excuse me.

[Daniel Gruchy]

No. Okay.

[Gavin Free]

My CPM's crap.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, it's just. And it's just, it's just crazy that we actually get an audience with, you know, the heads of YouTube, which is, you know, one of the largest online platforms in the world.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

And. And then it just kind of bugs me. Like, like, we can ask them whatever we want. This is our opportunity. And then somebody's like, yeah, so like, I uploaded a video and like, it didn't go out to, like, all my subscribers. And like, somebody's like, well, you know, like the subscribe button and the bell button. Like, what's the deal with that? It's like, can we, can we just, like, go a little bigger picture maybe? Like, can we ask a question that hasn't been asked before?

[Gavin Free]

Like, down to the point where, like, someone's stepping in. Just be like, can you just email me the link and like, while we'll look at it? Yeah.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Or like, let's talk about this afterwards.

[Gavin Free]

They do get blasted up there, and I feel bad for him. Yeah. I don't know why they. Because they don't. They're not like, pre. There are some pre written questions, but a lot of them are just like people just standing up and kind of yelling at them. So I feel bad for them in that regard, but they handle themselves pretty well. They're very, you know, they've been. They're in. They're in the CEO position and, you know, CBO for a reason.

[Daniel Gruchy]

There's no, like, filter. Like, there's no one asking them what the question they're gonna ask first to make sure it's a good question.

[Ian Hecox]

Right.

[Daniel Gruchy]

So it could be anything.

[Gavin Free]

I also feel like there should be.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Someone, like, filtering out the questions first and be like, you can ask that question. It's a good question. Because some of them are all right.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah, some good ones. I also feel like they kind of build the room up a lot. And I guess there's. There's a lot of subscribers in the room and a lot of views in the room, but if all those people were gone, there'd still be a ton. It's still a perfectly functioning platform. Like, they don't have to do this event.

[Ian Hecox]

That's always.

[Gavin Free]

That's why I appreciate. That's why I come. Honestly.

[Ian Hecox]

That's always been my take. Like, I think there's. There's a little bit of Entitlement from some of the people that come to these things. And it's like, look, you could, you could get rid of everyone in this room and it would be a drop in the bucket for all of YouTube.

[Daniel Gruchy]

I think YouTube would be fine. Yeah, YouTube would be totally fine.

[Ian Hecox]

And that's one of the questions that I wanted to ask him. I'm like, look, I like, thank you so much for inviting us here, but like, you don't really need us, so why, why are you throwing this for us? Like what, what are you getting out of this other than us being like you're, you're, you suck. Like, you know, and they're constantly telling.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Us like that they do need us and that like, you know, I mean, they're like saying, oh yeah, you guys are this. And it's like, I feel like I.

[Gavin Free]

Don'T believe that Definitely like takes effect in some people.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah, some people are like, yeah, yeah.

[Gavin Free]

I, yeah, it's like interesting to see the entitlement that some people get. And there are a lot of realistic people who are just like, you know, we're just happy to be here. You know, it's like we're glad the platform exists still.

[Ian Hecox]

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[Gavin Free]

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[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah, for sure.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. It's strange. I mean the one, the one good question that was asked I thought was the issue of children on YouTube. Like that's always kind of been like a weird thing for me. Like, you know, child labor, like should a seven year old child be put on YouTube videos and worked, you know, day in, day out for their parents YouTube channel. And I'm always like super sketchy about that. But how do you, how do you police that?

[Gavin Free]

I feel like when they were talking about it, the only way I could see it being like 100% good all the time is there's like an additional application where you actually get like investigated where it's like these are the working conditions. Yeah, it's kind of like if you adopt a pet, you know, they come and see if it's like, can a cat live here and stuff, or adopt a child? That would be a very example.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah, yeah, but it's like, whose responsibility is that? Like, do you like with. With acting with child actors? You know, you can only work a certain number of hours a day. There's a student teacher there that has to, like, you know, make sure that the kid is still studying and, you know, taking classes and all this stuff. And there's. There's a lot of regulation over that. So when it comes to YouTube, a parent could, you know, potentially be taking their kid out of school and just filming a bunch of YouTube videos and essentially fucking up this kid's life for the benefit of their own wallet.

[Daniel Gruchy]

I feel like it's like any of these things. When something new comes along, legislation takes time to catch up to it afterwards. So things like, you know, like drones or whatever, like there was. It was like a free for all and then like legislation kicks in afterwards sort of thing. When, when, when it comes to light that there's a problem, then it catches up. I feel like that's probably what's going to happen. I don't know how quickly it's gonna happen because it takes time.

[Gavin Free]

And there's probably a sense of that in the parents where they're like, oh, we've hit some gold here. We need to, like, get it all now.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah, we need to rinse this kid.

[Gavin Free]

For his work and then the kid ends up getting affected by it.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah, it's this really sad, but, like, you know, how are you gonna enforce that? It's like a really difficult question.

[Gavin Free]

It's also iffy on the level of, like, the kid doesn't really have a choice at a young age on whether he. I mean, there's not. There's no consent, really.

[Ian Hecox]

No.

[Gavin Free]

So it's like giving.

[Daniel Gruchy]

You know, it's like your parent or guardian. But if it's the parent or guardian that's making you do it in the first place, it's like, who do you.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah, the kid might grow up to be, like, super embarrassed by it. And then it's just online and they met. They may never have had control of the channel themselves, which is. Which is iffy. And it's. YouTube's been around so long now that there were some people on stage today who were in high school and when they grew up, they wanted to be a YouTuber. Another hero is a YouTuber, a top creator. Someone said that your video Was like the first video they saw on YouTube.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Gavin Free]

So you've like influenced people who were children and are now here with us.

[Ian Hecox]

Now they're full grown adults.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Well, full grown adult.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, that was the. That was one of the YouTuber apps that was up there saying that. She was like, oh, yeah, teenagers, like watching your thing. I'm like, oh, now you're telling us. Now you're like working for the company and saying like, what we can or can't do is fine. Yeah, yeah, it's. It's just weird, man. The, the children's stuff is just strange. And then, you know, the highest grossing YouTube channel right now is Ryan Toys Review. Not. Not Ryan's Toy Review. Ryan Toys Review. I think he's nine now or something. But from everything that I've heard, his dad actually does a really good job of. Of being like, look, if you don't want to do anything, we don't do it. And he actually, his dad was here and kind of spoke to it and he said, you know, he only works five hours a week on YouTube and, you know, we have a way that if he wants to change anything or he's not excited about that, we can easily change.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Whatever it is.

[Gavin Free]

Clearly put in a lot of good stuff into effect because I assume under very high scrutiny, being at the level they're at. Because I met him.

[Ian Hecox]

A good point.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Actually.

[Gavin Free]

I met him a couple of years ago and, you know, it's just like a dude with a backpack. You know, I was like, he was like talking to me. I was like, oh, what? Did you looked up his channel? I was like, jesus Christ. The views on these videos, their most viewed video has more views than our whole channel library combined.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. They have one video that has 1.1 billion.

[Gavin Free]

1.8.

[Ian Hecox]

1.8.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah. I think we're at like 1.7 for our whole channel in like nine years.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah.

[Gavin Free]

Which. And then, and then you scroll down, it's like 950 million, 890 million.

[Daniel Gruchy]

It's like how many, like millions of views does that channel have?

[Gavin Free]

It's like 29 billion.

[Daniel Gruchy]

29 billion.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, my God.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah, that's it. Billion.

[Gavin Free]

Which is like several earths.

[Daniel Gruchy]

That's insane.

[Gavin Free]

It's absolutely insane. And he's just, he's like, you would never know it by meeting him. Like, I looked it up expecting. Because I meet a lot of people here and I'm like, honestly, I don't know 90% of the people here.

[Ian Hecox]

Right.

[Gavin Free]

Because. And it's nice to meet him and learn and I always look up their channels and that one, I was just like, oh, my good God. Yeah, that's insane. Just quietly existing amongst us.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah. I didn't know anything about the channel. And then Gavin over to me and just showed me some of the stats while he was talking. I was like, what?

[Gavin Free]

What the hell?

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah. I think the estimate was that they. They make something like $13 million a year. But now. But now they have a TV show, they have toys, they have like, stores.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Clothing lines in like Walmart and Target and stuff. I couldn't believe it.

[Ian Hecox]

They have store. I mean, they have toys and everything. So, yeah, it's. It's probably quite a bit more than that. So. Good for them, man.

[Gavin Free]

Very good for them.

[Daniel Gruchy]

The thing about the. Obviously the child. Kid, though, is with a channel like Gav was saying that high profile, it's going to be scrutinized.

[Ian Hecox]

Yeah.

[Daniel Gruchy]

But then. Which is kind of good because it stops anyone from exploiting their child to such a degree that they become that successful journey, because then they would be scrutinized and there would be a check that's put in place.

[Ian Hecox]

That's the hope. I just hope there's not like these sort of like, lower sort of YouTubers that are just grinding the shit out of their kids in the hopes that, you know, they'll get somewhere. Like, I don't know, like, I. Not a fan, but I wouldn't do it. Yeah.

[Gavin Free]

I mean, there was an arrest recently for, like, a mother and a son for put. Basically putting their youngest kids through that, like a rigorous shooting schedule and like, locking them in closets when they wouldn't do it.

[Ian Hecox]

I honestly think it's gonna. It's gonna like, take. I mean, how it always is with legislation. It's gonna take somebody dying to actually get something through. So now we've really covered a range today, I think. I think we're running up on time, unfortunately. I guess. One last question. If you had. If somebody told you that you were going to die the next day, but you had to film one more slow mo video, what would that slow motion video be?

[Gavin Free]

It'd probably be the death.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah, I'd like jump off a building or something.

[Gavin Free]

Oh, oh.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Be like, like, like, if it was like, you know, I'd probably prepare and be like, what time I'm gonna die tomorrow?

[Gavin Free]

Here's how landmines work.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ian Hecox]

Oh, my God.

[Daniel Gruchy]

So, like, just the minute before I was gonna die anyway, I'd do that. Okay. I'd just do that. And it'd be like, There you go. That's better than just croaking it.

[Ian Hecox]

Gav.

[Gavin Free]

I'm trying to think of, like, what was in my dream list of stuff that.

[Ian Hecox]

The fart.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah, I definitely think that's fart now.

[Daniel Gruchy]

That's what you do. One day left on the planet.

[Gavin Free]

Yeah.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Brilliant.

[Gavin Free]

A nice slow mo guff, like the last puff of life.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Oh, yeah, the death rattle.

[Ian Hecox]

All right, well, Daniel, Dan and Gavin, Gav, thank you guys so much for coming.

[Gavin Free]

Thanks, Ian.

[Daniel Gruchy]

Thank you.

[Ian Hecox]

Well, and that does it for that podcast. Thank you again to Gavin and Daniel. Awesome guys. Love talking about farts with them. One more thing I wanted to say. We just dropped our first ever clothing line. You guys, check it out right now at Smosh Store. We got a hoodie, we got T shirt, we got water bottle, we got hat. Oh, we got. Oh, we got. You're my favorite pizza place shirt for all you people out there that have been begging for. For more of that. So it's. It's really cool. I think the. The hoodie is so freaking awesome. It's like, it's sort of cool tie dye situation. And I'm really excited to see how. How this does. And I'm really excited to see you guys wearing this stuff. And if enough of you guys buy it, baby, we're just gonna keep making more. We're gonna. We're gonna keep.

[Daniel Gruchy]

We're gonna throw.

[Ian Hecox]

Maybe we'll throw something at you guys every month. If you guys like it, we're gonna keep bringing it. So Smosh store, get at it before it's gone.

[Gavin Free]

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