Why Do IRL Streamers Keep Getting Arrested? | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 242

Summary

Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 242: “Why Do IRL Streamers Keep Getting Arrested?”

Date: December 8, 2025

Host(s): Donut Operator, Eli DoubleTap, Brandon Herrera, The Fat Electrician
Guest: Atozi

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Overview

This episode dives head-first into the chaotic and increasingly hazardous world of IRL (In Real Life) streamers whose antics abroad have landed many in legal trouble – including high-profile arrests. The panel, joined by Youtube commentator and globe-trotting journalist Atozi, explores why these streamers keep getting arrested, what drives their risk-taking behavior, and the broader implications for online creators. The crew also reflects on internet pranks gone wrong, international law, the ever-blurring line between real and fake content (thanks, AI!), and some darkly humorous tales of online idiocy and comeuppance.

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Key Themes & Segments

1. Why Are IRL Streamers Getting Arrested?

[03:01–16:07]

• Profile of Problematic Streamers:

  • Main focus on "Johnny Somali" (Atozi has covered his antics and ongoing legal saga extensively).
  • “He’s been stuck in South Korea for a year now.” – Atozi [04:25]
  • Johnny’s journey: Japan (slap on the wrist), Israel, Thailand, and ultimately getting mired in South Korean law.

• Vitali’s Case:

  • Vitali, another IRL streamer, is in jail in the Philippines for livestreaming himself stealing a motorcycle:
    “In the Philippines, if you steal any automobile, it’s a 20-year prison sentence.” – Atozi [05:09]
  • Additional crimes include stealing police hats, an industrial fan, and making threats on stream.

• Financial Motive vs Risk:

  • High risk for (often) moderate rewards:
    “10k a month is not that much money when your job is to...edge the gayest episode of Locked Up Abroad.” – Donut Operator [08:24]
  • Some, like Vitali, have bigger casino or sponsorship deals, but most risk their safety for relatively small paydays.

• Consequences in Foreign Legal Systems:

  • Local authorities often build cases slowly but comprehensively due to the abundance of self-incriminating livestream footage.
    “They have like days on days of footage to go through.” – Atozi [13:18]
  • In South Korea, Johnny faces up to 12 years, including charges for deepfake content, business disruption, and possibly North Korea propaganda.

• Political Tensions Add Fuel:

  • Recent U.S. ICE raid in South Carolina caused South Korea to consider harsher treatment for Americans, possibly impacting Johnny’s case.
    “Now Johnny has accidentally fumbled himself into...Bacal.” – Atozi [15:14]

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2. Understanding IRL Streamer Mindset

[07:09–08:24]

• Perverse Incentive Structure:

  • “His entire setup is...‘Hey, I’m gonna put myself in really bad situations, and you guys can put me in worse situations if you donate...’” – Atozi [08:10]
  • The panel is baffled at risking so much for so little relative monetary gain and attention.

• Rise of Copycats:

  • “I am very surprised at how many more Johnny Somali clones we have out in Asia now...somewhere between 15-25.” – Atozi [43:05]
  • The cautionary tale is lost as new streamers follow the notoriety, not the consequences.

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3. Notable International Incidents & Cautionary Tales

[13:18–20:13, 46:01–48:23, 62:42–64:35]

• Unforgiving Legal Systems:

  • Stories recounted of North Korea:
    “The one dude who stole a poster...and he died...work camp...worked him to death.” – Multiple [47:13–47:48]
  • Philippines under Duterte’s presidency:
    “Hey, if you do drugs, we’re gonna kill you. No repercussions.” – Eli [17:41]; “More than 7,000 killed in six months.” [18:23]

• Other Grisly Outcomes:

  • American vlogger becomes a loan shark in the Philippines, is murdered by debtors:
    “He documented himself doing this … And because of that publicity and a bunch started owing him money … they ended up just killing him.” – Atozi [63:21]
  • Redneck girlfriend poisons her boyfriend over imaginary inheritance, inspired by a scam email [52:47–56:18].

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4. Legal System, Streaming, and Internet Content

[25:15–27:47, 49:42–53:35, 62:42–66:08]

• Internet as Evidence:

  • Videos made by creators/streamers are being directly used in criminal trials (e.g. Atozi’s video cited in a Philippine arrest report).
  • “That was an accidental thing … because that then went viral … and that was used to arrest him.” – Atozi [21:00]

• Crimes for Clout:

  • Examples:
    • Ding Dong Ditch TikTokers killed after trying to kick in the door of a vet in rural Virginia at 3am [66:11–68:51].
    • “Sludge bucket” and "RAID-on-produce" pranks turn into real crimes.
    • Woman streaming herself urinating on groceries for ‘spicy link in bio’ [78:05–80:22].

• Calls for Harsher Consequences:

  • “If they do that. Hammer those people. So then no one wants to copycat it, because if they see a really big hammer, then it’s like, oh, fuck...” – Eli [73:24]
  • Emphasized need to distinguish between dumb kid mistakes and malicious, dangerous behavior.

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5. AI and the Blurring of Reality

[33:21–42:44]

• Advanced AI and Deepfakes:

  • AI-generated content (e.g. Sora, AI on TikTok) is becoming indistinguishable from real footage.
  • “We’re getting to that time where AI is getting so good... you’re looking for watermarks... I thank God there’s a watermark now...” – Donut [33:21]
  • Fear of “AI pranks” and the new frontier in fake evidence or misinformation.

• Wearables and Coming Surge in POV Content:

  • Discussion about wearable cameras with instant “record the last 5 minutes” features, further flooding the internet with viral but sometimes dangerous content.
  • “It’s gonna happen for wearables very soon.” – Atozi [41:41]

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6. Creator Life, Platform Culture, and Behind-the-Scenes

[26:57–32:26, 85:19–88:12, 119:20–131:44]

• Creator Growth & Burnout:

  • Atozi started uploading as young as 13, struggled through lean years as a janitor and temp before big breaks [26:21–126:42].
  • YouTuber MC lingo—how video length and upload frequency relate to monetization (the “8-minute, 2-second” sweet spot, midrolls, etc.). [27:16–27:29]
  • Community anecdotes about content groups, moving from Skype to Discord, and seeing the evolution of YouTuber habits.

• Bizarre Internet & Platform Episode:

  • Recounting the infamous “Has Justine landed yet?” Twitter trending event where a PR officer nuked her own career with a single tweet just before her plane took off [57:52–60:22].
  • Examples where their own YouTube commentary is used by police, lawyers, or government agencies.

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Notable Quotes

| Quote | Speaker | Timestamp | |---|---|---| | “There’s a bunch of parents on depop looking for the stuff your kid just grew out of.” | Donut Operator | 00:11 | | “He livestreamed himself stealing a motorcycle. In the Philippines…that’s a 20 year prison sentence.” | Atozi | 05:09 | | “10k a month is not that much money when the job itself is to travel the planet and essentially edge the gayest episode of Locked Up Abroad.” | Donut Operator | 08:24 | | “They’ve already filmed and like, essentially broadcast themselves committing the crimes…it’s just up to the prosecutors...” | Atozi | 13:18 | | “Political pawn” cases in both South Korea and the Philippines may spell particularly harsh punishment for Vitali and Johnny Somali. | General, summarized from various | 14:15–20:03 | | “If you do drugs, we’ll kill you. No repercussions.” | Eli Double Tap | 17:41 | | “I am very surprised at how many more Johnny Somali clones we have out in Asia now…15 to 25...” | Atozi | 43:05 | | “They choose us. We don’t choose them, man. You gotta catch them all.” (Referring to dealing with a recurring homeless man) | Brandon Herrera | 122:57 | | “Don’t go to a foreign country and fuck around. Like, it doesn’t make sense.” | Donut Operator | 64:39 | | “I just hate. I can’t tell what’s real anymore.” | Donut Operator | 46:46, 42:46 |

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Memorable Anecdotes & Moments

• Atozi unwittingly becomes evidence: His YouTube video gets cited by the Philippine police to arrest a streamer, causing him a pang of guilt and surprise [21:00].
• Copycats and cautionary tales ignored: Despite international incidents and high-profile punishments (including death), many copycat IRL streamers emerge chasing attention and live-donations [43:05–43:35].
• Ding Dong Ditch turns deadly: Teens killed after TikTok challenge goes wrong, illustrating the real-life consequences of content-for-clout culture [66:45–68:22].
• Biggest blunder stories: From urinating on groceries for TikTok “clout” [78:05–80:33], to pranksters dumping RAID on produce, and a woman poisoning her boyfriend over a nonexistent inheritance [52:47–56:09].
• Atozi's rise from janitor to viral commentator: Facing off with an entitled “employer” homeless man, cleaning dumpsters at night, to breaking out with a viral video about “Lil Tay” [122:13–126:42].

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Other Highlighted Topics

• Crypto & NFT Scams:
  Discussion of the proliferation of influencer-led crypto scams, their temptations (“seven figure offers”), and regulatory gray areas [81:00–85:19].
• Law enforcement training & resource issues:
  How little money gets spent on police training and equipment, and how police-operated channels have become a source of both community oversight and police training content [111:25–112:26].
• Guns, gaming, and creator culture:
  Fun detours into favorite firearms, skeet shooting, and the panel’s history with MMOs and early content creation.

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Final Thoughts and Panel Advice

• To aspiring creators: Beware the temptation to chase shock/viral content, especially abroad—“the rest of the world does not give a fuck about your rights” (Donut Operator [64:50])
• On legal consequences: The panel agrees that harsher punishment is needed for pranksters who cross over into actual crime, to deter copycats [73:24–74:16].
• On the future: “As AI makes fakes more real, as wearables proliferate, the next wave of internet stupidity will be even harder to distinguish or prosecute.”
• Simple rule: “Don’t go to a foreign country and fuck around.” – Summed up by multiple hosts and guest throughout the episode.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [03:01–16:07] – IRL Streamers and International Arrest Stories (Johnny Somali, Vitali)
• [13:18–20:13] – Prosecution of Streamers, Max Sentences, Deepfake Laws
• [33:21–42:44] – AI, Deepfakes, and the Uncanny Valley Threat
• [46:46–49:41] – “I just hate. I can’t tell what’s real anymore.”
• [52:47–56:18] – The Antifreeze Poisoning for Imaginary Inheritance
• [62:42–64:35] – Loan Shark Vlogger Killed in Philippines
• [66:08–68:22] – TikTok “Ding Dong Ditch” Turns Deadly
• [73:24–74:16] – Calls for Harsher Punishment for Dangerous Pranks
• [78:05–80:22] – Woman Peeing on Groceries for TikTok (And Going to Trial)
• [122:13–126:42] – Atozi’s Janitor Years to YouTube Stardom

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Episode Tone & Style

True to brand, this episode is fast-paced, irreverent, and darkly funny, with gleeful takedowns of idiot internet clout-chasers and user-submitted “cringe” stories, peppered with police wisdom, military dark humor, and passionate but grounded advice for younger viewers or would-be content creators.

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TL;DR

Why do IRL streamers keep getting arrested?
Because the lure of internet fame and donations outweighs their understanding of international laws and consequences. Their antics are now being scrutinized and prosecuted more harshly, especially as local authorities increasingly use the streamers’ own footage as ironclad evidence. The panel’s advice: Stay home, make smart content, and for god’s sake, don’t try to be the next Johnny Somali.

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Transcript

[Donut Operator]

Kids, they grow up so fast.

[Brandon Herrera]

One day they're taking their first steps.

[Donut Operator]

And the next they don't fit into.

[Atozi]

The tiny sneakers they took them in.

[Donut Operator]

You blink your eyes and their princess dress is two sizes too small. And their dinosaur backpack isn't cool anymore. But don't cry because they're growing up. Smile because you can profit off of it for real. There are a bunch of parents on depop looking for the stuff your kid just grew out of.

[Atozi]

Download Depop to start selling.

[Donut Operator]

Welcome to the podcast based iDubbbz.

[Brandon Herrera]

Okay, listen to the music.

[Atozi]

Which is why you don't go to foreign countries and around. Like, it doesn't make sense.

[Donut Operator]

I just hate. I can't tell what's real anymore.

[Atozi]

And I always had beef with this homeless guy.

[Brandon Herrera]

Same dude.

[Atozi]

Dude, he was literally the same guy every single time.

[Brandon Herrera]

They choose us. We don't choose them, man.

[Eli Double Tap]

Say hi to Eli. He's racially ambiguous. And Brandon, his hair is fucking fabulous. Donut, a dog joke disposition. And there's a fat electrician.

[Donut Operator]

Welcome to unsubscribe.

[Eli Double Tap]

Okay, you ready for the countdown? You gotta get a new one to open.

[Atozi]

I just opened this one.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yep. Too bad. This is how we start the show.

[Atozi]

Oh, shit. All right. Okay.

[Eli Double Tap]

He's learning.

[Donut Operator]

Cause somebody popped in early.

[Eli Double Tap]

He was just going for it without the countdown. Everyone ready? Three, three, two, one.

[Atozi]

There we go.

[Brandon Herrera]

Hi, everyone. Welcome to the unsubscribed podcast. I'm joined today by Eli Double Tap, Atozi, Brandon Herrera, and myself, donut operator.

[Eli Double Tap]

What's up, beautiful babes? I'm gonna try a nice approach this time. I always tell him it's gonna.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, he's really nice.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, I know.

[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

No wonder numbers are going.

[Donut Operator]

Welcome to the podcast based iDubbbz.

[Atozi]

Right.

Right.

[Eli Double Tap]

Okay. They call you Based Dub.

[Atozi]

No one calls me that.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's your new nickname.

[Atozi]

Phenomenal. Hi, thank you guys for having me.

[Donut Operator]

Hey, man, it's cool to have you on, man.

[Atozi]

Cool to be down in San Antonio for the first time ever.

[Brandon Herrera]

Hell yeah, dude. How long are you here for?

[Atozi]

Till tomorrow.

[Eli Double Tap]

Okay.

[Atozi]

I just turned out, basically.

[Eli Double Tap]

But hey, and then you start your. You travel a lot.

[Atozi]

A lot.

[Eli Double Tap]

And it is wild. I'm like, holy shit, that is awesome. But dear God, at least you're young still. You got.

[Atozi]

Exactly.

[Donut Operator]

We sat down earlier, like, oh, where you from? You're like, Norway. Yeah, well, wouldn't have called that one.

[Eli Double Tap]

No accent.

[Atozi]

Well, see, I was. See, I'm born in the US and then my parents moved me to Norway when I was 7, so that's kind of. But also, if I speak Norwegian, no one would ever guess I'm American. So.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, I don't even know.

[Atozi]

Kind of have that going for me, at least.

[Eli Double Tap]

Whatever language.

[Atozi]

Then briefly lived in England and then bounced around the US And. Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

And now you're here. Now I'm here on unsub. Oh, this is gonna be good.

[Donut Operator]

Apparently, after this. Going to South Korea, correct?

[Atozi]

No, I am. There's some shenanigans out there, so I have to kind of COVID that because that's a. I don't know. I don't know how a dude starts falling down a staircase like, two years ago and he's still falling down the same staircase. So it's like a really slow and prolonged train wreck that we just kind.

[Eli Double Tap]

Of have to cover.

[Donut Operator]

A train wreck that multiple people at this table are somehow involved in.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's like.

[Atozi]

Oh, really? Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's right.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, my God, I forgot about that.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, that little asshole.

[Donut Operator]

Yep. Johnny Samark.

[Atozi]

Interesting.

[Brandon Herrera]

So he did a lot of videos on him, right?

[Eli Double Tap]

I don't know.

[Atozi]

I'm not sure how many. It was probably like 25 at this point.

[Eli Double Tap]

So we're in there and that's what he's going to South Korea for.

[Atozi]

Correct.

[Eli Double Tap]

So how many times have you been. And what do you go for?

[Atozi]

Just to cover the trial.

[Eli Double Tap]

Well, whose trial?

[Atozi]

Johnny Smolley's trial, essentially in South Korea. So, yeah, I started covering him, like, two years ago, and then he did his antics in Japan. He got a slap on the wrist, but he was like, you know, begging to the judge, saying he was going to quit this lifestyle, he was never going to do that ever again.

[Brandon Herrera]

And then basically just, like, maliciously.

[Atozi]

But, yeah, he did vanish a little bit, and then he came back and just resumed where he left off.

[Brandon Herrera]

Just being a dick to everyone.

[Atozi]

Exactly. Went to Israel, then he went to Thailand, then he went to South Korea, and now he's stuck in South Korea. He's been stuck in South Korea for a year now.

[Eli Double Tap]

They're actually getting who was the other streamer in one of the Asian countries. That's actually.

[Atozi]

That's. Vitali is in jail in the Philippines right now.

[Eli Double Tap]

He's not looking too good. When those updates come out of his photos, I'm like, yeah, he fucked around and found out. Also, you can tell he doesn't have TRT anymore because he is shrinking rapidly.

[Atozi]

It's. Yeah, his entire freedom is hinging on if they charge him for stealing that bike, which he livestreamed himself doing. And in. In the Philippines, if you steal any automobile, it's a 20 year prison sentence.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, shit.

[Atozi]

And he livestreamed himself stealing a motorcycle. So they haven't charged him with it yet, but it's there.

[Donut Operator]

This is Vitaly.

[Atozi]

Yeah, this is Vitaly.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, God.

[Atozi]

So this is a completely separate case.

[Brandon Herrera]

The evidence is kind of there.

[Atozi]

That's the problem.

[Donut Operator]

And it just depends on if they charge him with the thing that he did.

[Atozi]

Correct. His free indoctrination hinging on that.

[Donut Operator]

Is there a poly market bet on this yet?

[Atozi]

Cause there probably is. Honestly.

[Donut Operator]

Honestly, there might be.

[Eli Double Tap]

I mean, he also. Did he steal or do something against the police too, on livestream?

[Atozi]

Well, yeah. Well, he stole their hats. He ran off with their hats. He stole an industrial fan. He told a woman that he was going to rob her on his live stream. He also stole a red light mask. He did end up returning it after running around with it for about 10 minutes.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, I kind of miss when he just staged videos of beating up interesting.

[Eli Double Tap]

Those peaks. Just staging beat up videos.

[Atozi]

Were all of those staged or were? Because I have a feeling that some were real and some were fake, but.

[Donut Operator]

I'm not fully sure some of them were so ridiculous. You're like, this has to be staged. And he would just have this habit of going out and catching five a night or something like that. It's like, yeah, well, I don't know about that. But at the same time, the one.

[Atozi]

That I thought had to have been fake was the, the flashbang one where you like flashbanged a guy multiple times. Because I'm like, how is not getting a criminal record from flashbanging a random dude? Like, even though, like he's an alleged PDF, like, you can't just be flashbanging people in public without getting a charge.

[Donut Operator]

If it's a real flashbang, those are also illegal to possess. That's a destructive device.

[Atozi]

Oh, interesting.

[Donut Operator]

It's a real live like grenade fuse. So like, that's a. That's a 10 year infraction per flashbang.

[Atozi]

And he did it in California.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh my God.

[Atozi]

But so that's why I'm like, okay, wait, is it real or is it fake? So that's why I was thinking it was fake, but also it's livestream. How much room is there to fake that? I don't know.

[Eli Double Tap]

I don't. I can never wrap my head around the mindset of I'm making. Oh man, this month I'm gonna make 80. I don't know how much they make, but let's say it's like 100 grand this month. But all the risk for 80 to 100 grand does not seem worth it. I'm guessing that's a really good month for them, too. But all the risk of X, Y, and Z, especially if I'm going overseas to Japan.

[Atozi]

So.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[Atozi]

Are we. Are we talking about Johnny here?

[Eli Double Tap]

Anyone like any of the Johnny streamers?

[Atozi]

Never close to 80 grand.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, I don't think.

[Atozi]

They're never. Never.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dude, I get to. What Are not. What. What's the other one? You just.

[Donut Operator]

Vitali.

[Atozi]

Vitali was above there. I would. Because he had. He had to deal with stake. So, like, you can assume that he was actually making six figures a month. So, Vitaly, it's kind of like, okay, why. Why would you take that much risk? I agree with that. Johnny doesn't have anything. So I think Johnny's best months ever. My guess, and this is just a guess, is probably 10k, which is insane. That's really good.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's a lot of risk you're doing for that.

[Atozi]

Yeah, yeah, because, like, his entire. His entire setup is like, hey, I'm gonna put myself in really bad situations, and you guys can put me in worse situations if you donate something really offensive on Texas speech. And that's his whole setup.

[Donut Operator]

I mean, 10k a month is not that much money when the job itself is to travel the planet and essentially edge the gayest episode of Locked Up Abroad.

[Eli Double Tap]

Right.

[Donut Operator]

Not great.

[Eli Double Tap]

No. I want the world to hate me. How much does that cost you? 10 grand a month off while being.

[Donut Operator]

Repeatedly incarcerated in 40 countries.

[Eli Double Tap]

Well, and then that's like, Cody, your story on the individual, what was it? He was a Korean Special Forces.

[Brandon Herrera]

It was Dalgon, right, that you ended up Navy guy. Yeah, yeah. And now I saw that he. He tracked down Somali while he was out. So he just got released from the police station, I think. And so the dude tracks him down and just goes up and fucking pops him in the nose. And it was. It was. It was hilarious.

[Donut Operator]

Can we play that clip real quick?

[Atozi]

What he got?

[Donut Operator]

O.

[Atozi]

I've met a lot of those guys as well, and they're. They're super funny because they have like, an entire, like, group chat of tracking down where he is at all times. So, like, you. Huh?

[Eli Double Tap]

You interviewed one, didn't you?

[Atozi]

Oh, yeah, yeah, I interviewed one of them. But there's a whole network of those guys who are just essentially using a. Yeah, they're just tracking him down. They know at all Times where he is, essentially, I'm getting random texts of like, oh, that's him walking around the street. Like, I got one not too long ago.

[Donut Operator]

You just. You're playing geoguessr for where to beat up an asshole.

[Atozi]

Yeah, no, I'll show proof real quick because I got her. Yeah, no, literally, I got a video from one of them, and they're just, oh, yeah, look who we found. I didn't know he was out. Oh, he is out.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

He's not in jail right now. He's doing the hearings. Yeah. You'll explain it. So, Cody, when he got arrested in Korea, the individual that beat up Johnny, you. Yeah, the Navy guy you helped post his bell.

[Brandon Herrera]

I paid some of his legal fees. I think he needed 8000 and he was able to raise 3000. So I threw the last 5000 on there to help him out because I just. I have no patience for assholes. And, like, he did the world a service by popping that dude in the face. So I was totally down to help him out with that last bit of his legal fees.

[Eli Double Tap]

I love it.

[Donut Operator]

Thank you for your service.

[Eli Double Tap]

Two degrees of separation.

I forgot about that completely.

[Atozi]

And the other guy didn't get caught yet. The other guy who punched him in the face.

[Brandon Herrera]

Okay. I didn't know there was two.

[Atozi]

That's the guy I interviewed.

[Brandon Herrera]

Gotcha.

[Donut Operator]

You never said thank you.

[Atozi]

And you'll never have to.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, the guy you interviewed, that story, it was, as you said, it was like a group text. And then they're just like, oh, he's here. Or here. And then they all just converged. Yeah.

Brother, that's wild. In a country to be able to do that.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, just go, like, go to a country and they're hosting you, and then you just. You're mean to everyone around you. I'm glad. He got his ass kicked. Several times he had it coming.

[Donut Operator]

And again, repeatedly committing crimes in countries in which he does not live.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

And thinking it's going to be like, oh, it will be fine. We don't have to worry about this. Because right now, how many years can he serve up to.

[Atozi]

I think his. So there was a lot of, like, I did that as well. Where we thought all of his crimes could stack, but apparently North Korea. Not North Korea. South Korea on their.

[Brandon Herrera]

That would be a fun one for him.

[Atozi]

Exactly. But South Korea has a max of 12 years for everything that he's done. So he would have to go outside of those parameters to get more than that. Gotcha. Because his biggest charges are currently the deep fake charges that he's facing. So essentially people on his discord. They used AI to essentially have him make out with people. So. Yeah. And then he showed himself on his stream making out with, for example, Doggone, who punched him in the face. And then there was another female streamer in South Korea. And so by doing that, he's distributing it. So that's why he has those charges and that charge faces. I think it's. It's either eight or ten years max.

[Donut Operator]

Jesus.

[Atozi]

And we thought they stacked on top of each other, but the max then with. Even with the stacking is 12 years.

[Donut Operator]

That's the weirdest Rule 34 I've ever heard of. Some countries, Johnny, Somali Rule 34 is.

[Atozi]

Oh, yeah, no, it's. It's super interesting. And then other than that, it's kind of like he has a bunch of misdemeanors. So it's just like business disruptions. They're called minor crimes acts there. Which we thought was like. Oh, it was like interacting with minors or something like that. No, that's just what they call a misdemeanor.

And then there was also the. He has a.

He hasn't been charged formally yet, but they're investigating him for North Korea propaganda because he's again, livestream himself playing Kim Jong Un and everything on the Metro. So that's not that good for him either. And the problem with all these IRL streamers is they've already filmed and like, essentially broadcast themselves committing the crimes. It's really just up to the prosecutors to be like, all right, we'll charge him for that. We'll charge him for that. We'll skip that, but we'll charge him for that. So essentially they have like days on days of footage to go through. And Johnny's case, I think there's like 90 streams or something like that to go through.

[Donut Operator]

That's like a sentence in itself.

[Atozi]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

For the prosecutor to have to watch this shit.

[Atozi]

It's. It's so much. So, yeah, that's currently where they're at with the. With the. Vitaly, it's a little bit more simple because he didn't do that many streams before they actually got him.

[Donut Operator]

So the. The thing we were talking about earlier that really cracked me up was the. The South Korean government.

Wanting to stick it to us over that raid. Right.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, I didn't know about this.

[Atozi]

We already.

[Eli Double Tap]

This is hilarious, Cody. This is fucking wild. So, yeah.

[Atozi]

Okay, so now apparently, and I didn't even know about this until my, I guess, legal connection out in South Korea was Saying like, yo, you know, South Carolina, that thing happened to the South Koreans. And I was like, wait, I didn't. What happened? Apparently there was like an ice raid on, I think it was a Hyundai facility. And they ended up arresting and perp walking a bunch of South Koreans who were working there on the plant. I don't know the details of it, anything, but because they did the whole thing of perp walking them and everything, that really upset the South Korean government. And now my legal contact is saying there's a very high probability they might go harsher on Americans in South Korea who have committed crimes there because of that. So now Johnny has accidentally fumbled himself into.

Bacal.

[Donut Operator]

Is.

Amazing because the immediate thing that came to my head was the Pirates of the Caribbean bit where it's like, back down or we'll shoot your man.

[Brandon Herrera]

Shoot him.

[Donut Operator]

He's not our man. Like, we get ice raids and Johnny Somali gets fucked over even harder. Like, dude stacking dub after dub. I'm here for it.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's fucking wild.

I will never wrap my head around it. Guys, did you know it's smoose act summer?

[Brandon Herrera]

Damn right it is.

[Donut Operator]

I need to quit.

[Eli Double Tap]

Feel how soft they are.

[Donut Operator]

Was this a scratch and sniff?

[Eli Double Tap]

Wow, those are soft.

[Donut Operator]

Don't act like you've never done a.

[Eli Double Tap]

Sack check with the boys.

[Brandon Herrera]

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[Donut Operator]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Donut Operator]

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[Eli Double Tap]

Trim your pubes. God damn it.

[Atozi]

Smooth sack Summer and apparently vitali is stuck as well, obviously, because he's half Russian, half American, and the Americans nor the Russians want him.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[Atozi]

So now he's just kind of there as well.

[Donut Operator]

And he actually born in Russia.

[Atozi]

I don't. I don't know where he's born, but I know he is Russian American, so.

[Donut Operator]

Gotcha.

[Eli Double Tap]

And Philippines. Do not write Philippines.

[Atozi]

It's the Philippines.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, yeah. They don't fuck like Philippines especially. I don't know if it's still the president, but during Pacquiao's reign of fighting Philippines, did.

The president they got in office is the one that's like, hey, if you do drugs, we're gonna kill you.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, you were executed. If you were dealing drugs, you were executed.

[Atozi]

No, I did not know that.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, dude, 2010ish is when they got that president in. That president cracked down on drug like crimes. Maybe he. They were like, oh, might have corruption with him, but he got rid of a lot of drug problems because it was, oh, hey, I have kill squads and they are allowed to do this. You are allowed to. Actually, that was it. You are allowed to go kill drug dealers. I forgot that. Did you know that it's like the.

[Donut Operator]

Letters of mark, but for drug dealers. You could literally go kill your local drug dealer. Yep.

[Eli Double Tap]

Without. Let me double check that.

[Donut Operator]

That brings new meaning to like the jd. JD Delay shirts and whatnot. Kill your local. Oh, you could just do that shit.

[Eli Double Tap]

President encouraged. Yeah. More than 7,000 killed in the Philippines in six months. As president encourages murder. He was saying, yeah, dude. The president was like, yeah, if they're drug dealers and everything, kill him. No repercussions.

[Brandon Herrera]

Cool.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. Yeah. That was a whole thing. 2017. Sorry.

[Atozi]

Police.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, wow. Police are killing with impurity. Impudenty. But then you had civilians also vigilante groups also followed through with these orders.

[Donut Operator]

I hope they were. They were specific. Like there's dudes just rolling up wanting to like, act like the Purge Mercury and their local pharmacist.

[Brandon Herrera]

Dude.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's what it was. That dude went hard on that. That's why he got.

[Donut Operator]

Hello, sir, welcome to cbs. How can I help you?

[Eli Double Tap]

Tylenol. Boom.

[Brandon Herrera]

I know what you gave my grandmother. Tylenol Boom.

[Eli Double Tap]

My son has autism.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, he.

[Atozi]

And speaking of accidentally becoming political pawns, Vitaly also is in a similar case. Because my understanding is that the current government of the Philippines did some stuff that a lot of the people looked at was not pro the people. Now the people are very upset about Vitali. So now they're heavily incentivized to really stick it to Vitali to show, hey, we're doing something for the people. Oh, so that's another thing going on. So that's. Yeah. My. My legal connection in the Philippines was the one who told me that. So that's interesting. And there was also a lot of fake information saying that Vitaly was going to be released now, but we don't know the sources of that. And everyone I've checked with in the Philippines said this is not the case at all. He's still going to go to trial eventually when they finally get to him, because there's a backlog of about a year to two.

[Donut Operator]

Oh.

[Atozi]

So, yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, that's fun.

[Atozi]

Which is what? You don't go to foreign countries and fuck around. Like, it doesn't make sense.

That's.

[Donut Operator]

That's just what I want.

Johnny Somali to be sentenced to is. I just want to see him. He's got to stream it.

[Atozi]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

And they just trebuchet him into North Korea and just see what happens.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Wow.

[Atozi]

Yeah. No, he's.

[Brandon Herrera]

Damn.

[Atozi]

He's not in a calorie surplus in that captivity, that's for sure.

[Donut Operator]

That is a motherfucker who has run out of creatine and everything else that's injectable.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, that was. Wait, was that in two months?

[Brandon Herrera]

It'd be like.

[Eli Double Tap]

That could be.

[Atozi]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

I think it's. Even according to this, like, two months. Damn. Dude.

[Atozi]

They.

[Donut Operator]

They popped off the stem of, like, the tire.

Deflates.

[Atozi]

The worst part of the. Or the. The thing that was, like, me accidentally doing something that triggered something way bigger than what I expected was making a video on Vitaly being stupid in the Philippines. Because in the official arrest report posted on Facebook by the police there, they cited my video for how they found out it happened. No shit. And I went, oh. Because.

When it happened, right. I just cover anything that's laughably stupid on the Internet. And I just see this guy stole a motorcycle while livestreaming it. So obviously I'm like, oh, this is not gonna end well. So I just make a video on it, covering it and laughing at it because, like, how stupid can you possibly be to do this? Yeah. I didn't realize that was going to be used to arrest him, because that then went viral within the Philippines. And that was an accidental thing, because when things happen, a bunch of people just spam me. Like, look at the stream. Look. Look what's going on. And I'm like, okay, we'll see. And then I'm like, that's bad.

[Donut Operator]

Hell, yeah. But thank you for your service as well.

[Eli Double Tap]

Accidental, just like you're killing retard streamers one by one.

[Donut Operator]

Have you ever been used as evidence in a trial before? Like, any of your video breakdowns or anything? I know they use them a lot in, like, police training.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, a lot of police academies play my videos. I don't know if I've ever been used in a trial before, though.

[Donut Operator]

It's happened to me.

[Brandon Herrera]

I've had them try. I've had a couple places try to bring me on as an expert witness for things.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

And always defer that to angry cops because he's been a cop for much longer than I was, and he's still. He's still a police officer for sure. So that's happened a couple of times, and I just thought, yeah, I always defer that to him.

[Donut Operator]

For me, it was the. It was the Alec Baldwin killing.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, that was hilarious.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, the.

[Atozi]

The attorney reached out a video on that. Right.

[Donut Operator]

Or I made a couple. Basically breaking down. Like, why his version of events make no sense. And, like, the attorney reached out and like, hey, can I use this? And the other one was. Actually, I found this out the other day because a friend sent it to me. It was in One of the SIG P320 lawsuits.

[Atozi]

Oh, wow.

[Donut Operator]

I can't remember the quote that they had for my video, but I think it was. I don't want to misspeak, but I think it was verbatim accusing SIG of, quote, Olympic level corporate gaslighting is what I think the quote was.

[Eli Double Tap]

That is amazing. I mean, they really did. SIG was. They did everything in their power to fuck up their social media presence and then doubled down on it where you're like, oh, man, that one. Why would you tweet? Was it the 320? What was the one tweet that really.

[Donut Operator]

It ends today?

[Eli Double Tap]

That.

[Donut Operator]

That whole, like, there. There's no problem. There's never been a problem. Meanwhile, they are going off left and right. There's video footage of them just being jostled in the holsters. I for one, thought they were gay before they started killing people. But, you know, afterward, it's like, look, we can have differences of opinion on the SIG thing. Like, there's plenty of SIG products that are, you know, like the P365 and stuff like that.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm a P635 pointed at my right nut for, like, three years now.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. Is there certain stuff that's.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's been fine.

[Donut Operator]

The problem is when, like, you have entire Agencies that are cutting your product because they have record numbers of negligent or, excuse me, accidental discharges where the guns are just going off, you know, from a light breeze or getting jostled or whatever.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's like the cops. There's a lot of cops bending over, and it put a little bit of pressure on them, and they were just going off in their holsters.

[Donut Operator]

Holstered firearms going off is like, that's. That's crazy.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then fast forward a month after they tweet that. Maybe less than a month. And the Air Force or Navy guy.

[Donut Operator]

The airman.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, yeah, the airman put his 320 on the table during training and it goes off and kills him.

[Donut Operator]

All fairness to Sig, there is some doubt about that one now. Oh, they said there's potential that one of the people involved lied in their. Their testimony or something like that. So, like, there's some wiggle room there. Still not really sure what the fuck happened. But you just have records, like from ice, you know, like when they released their records of it, they had a detailed breakdown of all the accidental discharge that happened and whether or not they included an injury or death. Yeah, you had like, police officers that, you know, that woman had her femur destroyed and all sorts of stuff. It's like, look, you can tell me that the issue is overblown and that people are over exaggerating. And it's like only an issue with one out of a thousand.

That's an argument you can make, right? That's fair. But don't tell me there's no problem. When you tell me that there's no problem and that people are making it up for clicks. Oh, fuck you. Now I'm going nuclear.

[Eli Double Tap]

Especially all the video evidence of, as you said, Cody, it's like police just sitting there and goes to like, holster or its holster and moves and it fires. And then they're like, what the people at the range. One of the instructors yelling is like a gun goes off. Instructor looks, he's like, is that a fucking 320? And the guy's like, yeah. And he goes. Grabs. He's. Get that the. Off my wrist.

[Donut Operator]

I think that was Ben Stoeger.

[Eli Double Tap]

Get. Just going by. Wow. Yeah. Terrifying gun. Terrifying.

[Atozi]

Well, now I won't buy a sig.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, just a 320.

[Donut Operator]

As I noted, guns don't kill people. Well.

Sig, hold my beer.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's like, damn, the gun grabbers got us on this one.

[Donut Operator]

You're embarrassing me in front of the Wizards.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's wild. Now with. I Think Cody will appreciate this? A lot of people will. You started YouTube at what age?

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh.

[Atozi]

Nine. On another account, probably. Jesus. And then I started consistently uploading at 13 on my current account.

[Eli Double Tap]

Cody, last night, this fucking psycho's like, I'm trying to get to two posts a day as long as quality. And I love that you quality first. Yeah, but it is like two videos a day. We look at that like, huh, what?

[Atozi]

Well, if there's enough to talk about, that's cool. Because my current problem right now is I'm just like, I'm not covering everything and everything that I want to cover and that I think are like super interesting stories. I just can't get around to them all.

[Donut Operator]

So you get pretty fucking good views for as much as you upload too.

[Brandon Herrera]

What's your average length that you like to get to?

[Atozi]

Well, I don't try to get to a length. I just cover the story as is. And then if there's more, it's more.

[Brandon Herrera]

If not 16 minutes, minutes, 17, 13, 22 minutes.

[Eli Double Tap]

And those are like not just talking. You're putting in information with graphs.

[Atozi]

Yeah, yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Eight minutes, two seconds.

[Atozi]

I see you. Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

We know those two ads. We know those two ad spots.

[Donut Operator]

Let's get to the mid roll and.

[Atozi]

Oh, that's the.

[Donut Operator]

Game recognizes game.

[Atozi]

When I tell my editors, I'm like, The cutoff is 7:30. If the video is below 7:30, we'll just throw it out there. If it's right above or right like between the 7:30 to 8 mark, how can we extend it?

[Donut Operator]

Just like 30 seconds.

[Atozi]

That'll be a lot better.

[Eli Double Tap]

Just dance for 30 seconds at the end. No one's gonna say shit.

[Donut Operator]

Flossing.

[Eli Double Tap]

Just 30 seconds of flossing. And they're like, huh, huh. But it is wild to do two a day. Even one a day. As much as you're posting, we all have our different cadences depending. Like you have two a week to one a week, right?

[Donut Operator]

I typically do about one a week now. Yeah, I used to do two, but man, like I, I feel like I could just do better quality content. Plus I have, you know, a couple things going on right now. It makes it a little, little difficult, but yeah, I used to do two, but I feel like I could do better content if I just cut it down to one. But I'm not also like covering news. Like. Yeah, so like it's, it's harder for. I mean, I am occasionally when it comes up like, especially in the firearm space and stuff like that, or like gun bills and stuff like that. But yeah, what I do is just like, you know, gun shit or whatever like that, that 120 year old machine gun is going to be there two weeks from now. A month now. There's no urgency for it.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. And then Cody, you do. How many videos are you doing right now? A month? Week. Well, your live streams, you're cutting those out.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Kicking those up.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like that's just easy money right there. Yeah, because main channel, that's the one that I focus on scripts and information because that's kind of important when you got a cop shooting and killing a person. So I try to do two a week main channel. On the clips channel, I do five a day and.

[Donut Operator]

Five a day?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, because I mean, I'll get on.

[Donut Operator]

Like on donut operator tv.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, it slowed down a little bit the past week because we've been traveling so much. But I've been doing five a day, four to five a day. And it's making almost as much as main channel.

[Eli Double Tap]

Well, it's popping off. You're getting like a few hundred thousand per upload. I love you. You hated it because you're trying to get. Cody wants away from police content. He's like, I can do this. And then live streaming. And then you started live streaming police content because the views completely like it was, it was like, God damn it.

[Brandon Herrera]

It was ridiculous.

[Atozi]

When you live stream police content.

[Brandon Herrera]

So I can't do shootings. That's the only thing I can't do.

[Atozi]

Okay. So you kind of have to like or have someone pre check, make sure there's not something insane before you broadcast.

[Brandon Herrera]

As long as there's no shootings, I'm fine.

[Donut Operator]

Most of them have like a warning up front anyway, like graphic material, viewer discretion. Like as long as it doesn't have that.

[Brandon Herrera]

I just, you know, I run it on a. When I'm watching YouTube videos on my stream, I run it on a fresh account that doesn't have an age verification.

[Atozi]

Right.

[Brandon Herrera]

So it'll pop up and say you need to be age verified to watch this and though that there.

[Donut Operator]

I know.

[Brandon Herrera]

Okay, I won't stream this one. We'll move on to another video. Yeah, so it's mostly just like drunk chicks being arrested at the airport or beach. And I can sit there and talk about that all day long. And it's smile for the thumbnail. Yeah, it's pretty, it's pretty easy.

[Eli Double Tap]

And I love Air Rager Airport. It's called Air Rager. Oh, I sent you that.

[Atozi]

Yeah, no, there's a few.

[Donut Operator]

They just Airport covered airport meltdowns.

[Atozi]

And yes.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[Atozi]

Because occasionally there will be a body cam footage or a video that's like so laughably stupid. I'm like, I kind of need to cover this on my channel as well. So I do squeeze some, some of those in there. And they're also kind of what I look at as like evergreen content. So like, I kind of mix up like what's currently happening right now. And then I also like pre film some evergreen stuff that I can kind of like on days I don't have a video, I can post that.

[Eli Double Tap]

Cody, you want to borrow my ghost bed pillow?

[Brandon Herrera]

Does it smell like you?

[Atozi]

Yes.

[Eli Double Tap]

Do you feel that? Cooling technology.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's definitely not a hot pillow.

[Donut Operator]

I got to get out of here.

[Eli Double Tap]

Get out of here.

[Donut Operator]

Give me my pillow.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'm the one that has to sleep here. You guys have your own houses and your own pillows. Quit touching it.

[Donut Operator]

All right, real question. Can the gang do a pillow fight?

[Eli Double Tap]

Not with these.

[Donut Operator]

Slow motion pillow fight.

[Eli Double Tap]

No. They're heavy. It'll hurt.

[Donut Operator]

Are they really?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yes, they're premium. Dude, that would actually.

[Donut Operator]

I don't think I'd want to get smacked with that.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'm swinging it hard.

[Atozi]

Okay. Your son.

[Eli Double Tap]

You walk up and just pee off on your kid. If I smack you with this, you're going to be a ghost. And get this. They're built to last with a 20 year warranty and they have a three month free trial period.

[Donut Operator]

What do they do with all the used mattresses that get returned?

[Atozi]

Not black lights.

[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Donut Operator]

Which is really amateur hour. I've been sleeping for at least 30 years.

[Eli Double Tap]

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[Donut Operator]

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[Eli Double Tap]

What was the one I just sent you on that? I was like, dude, did you see this story? I forget what that guy was doing.

[Atozi]

Was that the guy who was like rapping Eminem on the plane?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yes. He was the one that was like, you don't know who the fuck I am. When we get down, my boys are going to roll up. He's acting like this hard op ass and he is throwing a temper tantrum. He is screaming, he is trying to fight people. All because he didn't have the charger to his phone.

[Atozi]

And a lot of alcohol involved. Like a lot.

Of alcohol. Maybe something else.

[Donut Operator]

You know, just dead ass sober.

[Atozi]

When I saw that I was looking for the Sora watermark, I'm like, there's no way this is actually real. But it seemed like that actually did happen.

[Donut Operator]

Isn't that crazy? We're getting to that time where like AI is getting so good.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

You're looking for watermarks and which. Thank God, because I thank God there's a watermark now that like people can look for. Because before this shit was just one shotting boomers left and right.

[Atozi]

Oh yeah, still is probably. I'm sure you can generate something on Sora and then run it through a different to remove the watermark.

[Eli Double Tap]

Zoom in a little bit.

[Donut Operator]

Don't do that.

[Atozi]

Yeah, don't do that.

[Eli Double Tap]

But hey, it's sore.

[Atozi]

We're getting into interesting times.

[Eli Double Tap]

What is the rules with watermarks on Sword 2 or anything?

[Donut Operator]

Like he just automatically does it. We're at like it's on the.

[Atozi]

All over the place.

[Eli Double Tap]

Okay.

[Atozi]

So it kind of like moves around like the Tick Tock one. Like when you rip a Tick Tock video, you see that watermark bouncing around.

[Eli Double Tap]

I think it's show Cody the Tick Tock. AI, you just showed us at lunch. Cody, this is. Have you seen Sword too? Sword 2 just came out a couple days ago. This is indistinguishable if you have seen the body cam footage of it. It is, but it is.

[Donut Operator]

I've seen him start popping up the last week or so and it is scary good.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm about to start making up so much.

[Atozi]

Turn on my phone. I turned it off earlier.

[Eli Double Tap]

Get it. Get Paul arrest. Watch this.

[Atozi]

Sora.

[Eli Double Tap]

The.

The Jake Paul getting arrested one is hilarious because it was. He was going into a fight. He went into a old people home and was trying to find a fighter. Like find somebody his next opponent. He's like, come on. I heard there's a retired boxer here. I want to beat his ass. And it's cops arresting him. You would never know it's fake though.

[Atozi]

So here you have this app which is. I guess it's like the Sora TikTok. And everything on this app is AI generated and people can just write a prompt and create content on this app. But Everything here is AI generated.

[Brandon Herrera]

I just saw the go up, the one with Jesus as a cartoon. I just saw that today.

[Donut Operator]

I didn't know that was flipping the tables.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, it's like some good animator that made that.

[Atozi]

So I just loaded up. I haven't gone through or made any algorithm yet, so I'm assuming this is just the popular videos that I'm being served right away on the for you page. But no, it's interesting. You have an entire app that's just AI generated content.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's the hard part is because once they started and a lot of them are doing, it's like chromatic abrasion. Let's add motion blur. That's when you add in those problems, how VFX works. I'm going to add layers on this to make it. Yes, it's fake, but I'm going to add those fake layers that mess it up. Now it looks real because you're like, okay, shit, it's blurry.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, shit. Skynet unlocked ray tracing.

I don't like that.

[Atozi]

Uh oh.

[Eli Double Tap]

And it's very fast, too. That's what's scary about it, is how fast it can generate everything now.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, you're like, that's what I'm saying.

[Atozi]

Like, horrifying.

[Donut Operator]

I truly think that there's a, like an AI renaissance that's about to happen with like, gaming, specifically gaming. Or movies where it's like, you know, AI, whatever. The. The UI that people use for that just pop up. It's gonna be like the new Gary's mod, but you just like pop in there like, hey, I want to play Red Dead 2, but every planet or area is from Star wars. And I want the main character to be Ryan Gosling. Generate. And you could just play that game. Like, I think the thing that's gonna save it is that everybody wants that shared experience.

[Atozi]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Where it's like, you know, I want to be able to talk to you about the game that I played or something like that. And like, that's where you're gonna have. In my opinion, at least the way it looks is that's where you're gonna start having, like, artists that are selling their own experience that they generated, where it's. It's just. It basically just takes the barrier to entry from movie design or from, you know, mov game design or whatever down to essentially zero. So then it's just going to be whoever can generate the best thing or whatever.

[Atozi]

I don't know.

[Donut Operator]

It's a weird frontier. It's like totally new.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, it's it's going from, like, special effects to vfx, because that was special effects. Hated the idea of VFX replacing Jobs X, Y, and Z. But VFX took 40 years to get good. Whereas, like, realistic. Look at Jurassic Park, Terminator 2. Those are the best. In the 90s, that was like pinnacle. But then for 20 years, nothing really touched that level other than Pixar lite room or ILM. ILM DreamWorks.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, look at how fast that went from. You went from Tron to Jurassic Park. How quick? Yeah, like, that's crazy.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then you now have, okay, hey, look at what we can do with just a prompt. Or it can write code or it can do all these things. And now it's like, okay, this is just exponentially faster. But as long as you learn how to do write the. Or do the command prompts, really refine it now you can use it as a tool. But still terrifying for a lot of people because, like, I don't have to, like, think. You don't have to go film B roll jets, anything. You can just be like, oh, we used to have to throw Top Gun. We'd have to throw a camera in a jet to fly or do 3D animation. Months of rendering, building assets. Now it's. I will do a quick prompt to get some B roll of that exact same thing I need, and then I'm good.

[Atozi]

Wow.

[Eli Double Tap]

Ten minutes.

[Donut Operator]

That's scary. And how fast it's gone to from like. Like, we were talking about the Will Smith eating Spaghett. Going from something that's just. Oh, God, that's not right. That looks fucking horrifying to. Now we have prompts that you could just put in. Now it's photorealistic.

Basically indistinguishable from real life. Like, man, that's. We went there in, like, two years. That's spooky.

[Eli Double Tap]

I learned deep fake AI tech. Like, actual, like.

Learning AI learning in 2019. Like, corridor. So Sam and Nico, they were doing it. They were like, the forefront of that. And then I. Nico and me were. He was teaching me.

[Donut Operator]

So they were literally doing it better than Disney.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. So he. Yes, they were.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. And I was the Mandalorian and all that. Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, yeah. And then, like, Nico. And then, like, oh, they should have done it this way. And you get to see how they would have done. You're like, oh, yeah, Corridor on top of it. And I was learning that in 2019. I just remember, holy shit, this is terrifying. This is absolutely terrifying. When I was teaching the shots I needed I was like, hey, I need all these scenes and I need to remember this face. You give all the prompts, you download a program that is not very like user intuitive and you have to know what you're doing. But the second you ran it through a crowd scene, it is then separating all the faces into piles. Like, do you want this face, this face, this face, this face or this face? And do you want to swap it with this face? And you're like, oh, that's scary as shit. This just memorized everyone's face, every frame of their face. And then every iteration, it's learning, it's getting smarter and better at it. And now I can just flip people's faces how I want for speech.

[Donut Operator]

It's the whole point of the movie Fall Guy, if you remember that, is that they just literally face swapped an actor to cover up a murder.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh yeah, I forgot about that.

[Donut Operator]

And it's like, man, I hate how not far fetched that is. That is something that is completely doable with modern technology.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's going to be getting into the law and the rules that will come into effect in the next six years. Because I think we're going to see a big problem. Especially with like everyone's first reaction with Jake Paul is like, let's do arrest videos or him stealing or. Yeah, that's terrifying.

[Atozi]

Yeah, there's a lot.

[Donut Operator]

And if I've ever done anything wrong, it was deep faked same.

[Atozi]

And it's like a nightmare for like my content as well. I just don't want to cover an AI video thinking it's real. Oh yeah, there's a lot of crazy stuff that I cover that I'm like, that has to be AI. But it's not. But now we're in that uncanny valley.

[Donut Operator]

That's fucking crazy. And it got there quick.

[Atozi]

Yeah, it's bad.

[Donut Operator]

It went from like, oh, who could fall for this? To I immediately scroll through comments. I'm like, does anybody else think this is AI? Because I don't know what I'm really.

[Atozi]

Well, I'm like excited, but I'm also dreading it because, you know, a lot of content hit the Internet when we got the body cams on the police officers. I think the next one's going to be the wearables.

[Eli Double Tap]

Let Cody tell you about a lot of content.

[Atozi]

I think the wearable glasses is crazy.

[Donut Operator]

Sleeping on his bed of money.

[Brandon Herrera]

Thanks blm for making making all police officers wear body camera. Only thing they ever did good.

[Donut Operator]

Like the Ray Ban.

[Atozi]

Yeah, these cameras are gonna get smaller and Smaller to the point where you can't notice them anymore. And I don't know if you guys are familiar with like shadow play. When you play video games where you can like something cool happens in a video game. You can hit a button and it records the last five minutes. Oh, yeah, that's gonna happen for wearables very soon.

[Brandon Herrera]

So like dash cam, bodycam are. It's recording all the time and when you turn it on, it records the last like two to five minutes.

[Atozi]

Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah, no, I mean that's gonna happen to wearables. More and more people are gonna be wearing wearables and then more crazy moments are gonna be caught.

[Donut Operator]

It's the archer. No, babe, the blinking red light means it's off.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, right. If cops catch the shit that they catch, which understandably they're dealing with like the worst rungs of society and all the crazy people. Yeah. Like you said, imagine like all the shit that's going to be flooding out there.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Just interactions between two people.

[Atozi]

It's going to be interesting. It's going to be good for content at least though.

[Brandon Herrera]

100%.

[Atozi]

But I'm also worried. Right, exactly.

[Eli Double Tap]

I just hate it as he dabs with hundred dollar bills, all this content that they're generating. Me.

[Atozi]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

I just hate. I can't tell what's real anymore.

[Eli Double Tap]

So you're like. You, Cody, have no shortage of anything because you're like, ah, retarded streamers. Guess what's never going to stop that Crime.

[Donut Operator]

Criminals.

[Atozi]

It is actually crime.

[Brandon Herrera]

Crime's not going away.

[Atozi]

I am very surprised at how many more Johnny Somali clones we have out in Asia now because like it started kind of with him and then now like I probably have somewhere between 15 to 25 that I'm like keeping barely like vaguely tabs on the fire rises.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Atozi]

It'S bad. Yeah. No, it's like 15 to 25 that are like actively doing stuff. I'm like, this is, this is going to be a video. This is a video any second now.

[Donut Operator]

The amount of motherfuckers that would look at what is essentially a cautionary tale.

[Atozi]

And they're like, oh, he got a lot of attention. I want to do that. And that's. Unfortunately, he got a lot of attention.

[Donut Operator]

He just didn't get any fucking money. Like didn't get banned from like. I think Kick kicked him off and.

[Atozi]

Well, yeah, and if you get banned on Kick, there's. There's something really wrong then that's when.

[Eli Double Tap]

You look in a mirror.

[Atozi]

Yeah, that's like that's the platform that you shouldn't really get banned from.

[Donut Operator]

Well, because I think that they were, they were realizing like, you know, he was just a bad look for the platform. Like Kick was getting a reputation, which.

[Atozi]

Says a lot as well. Yeah, like that's like they have a lot of people on that platform that would definitely not exist on YouTube or Twitch. But yeah, they had to get rid of him. But it was like he, he did like three things and I know because they kind of have a vague three strike system and that's what kind of got him off. But it was his antics in Israel that got him knocked off.

[Eli Double Tap]

He is just the best of people. Just up.

[Donut Operator]

So what did he do in Israel?

[Atozi]

He.

I don't, I don't think he went to the. He went to the Wailing Wall with a picture of Aiden Ross, the CEO of Kick, and Harvey Weinstein and shove them into the wall while doing some sort of like ritual and live streamed himself doing that.

[Donut Operator]

Oh wow.

[Atozi]

The cops, so.

[Eli Double Tap]

Or the military.

[Atozi]

The. That happens.

[Donut Operator]

Oh yeah, because he harassed some chick. Right? Like, so one of the IDF females.

[Atozi]

Or something like that. That happened as well. But that was like. I don't think that was a reason for him to get banned. But he was like, yeah, no, he was just harassing. He was like, you're a bad bitch. I could change your life, baby girl. Like, that was quote what he was saying.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yep.

[Atozi]

And then he got, he got carried, but only detained. He didn't get arrested for that. But I don't think that would be a reason for Kick to actually ban you. No, it's just.

[Donut Operator]

It seems like the death by a million pin pricks though. Every time this guy turns on a camera, he's a fucking asshole.

[Eli Double Tap]

And breaking laws in other countries again. It's that other country. Which is a wild idea.

[Atozi]

What so many people don't understand or like, what's shocking is like the fact that they don't understand they lose all their American rights when they leave our borders. Yep. So like them screaming I'm American does not help you at all in South Korea.

[Donut Operator]

In some countries, if anything makes sense.

[Atozi]

Exactly.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. Do you like a mouthful of hard wood?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yes.

[Donut Operator]

Go on then, boy. Do I have a product for you.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm reenlisting in the Navy.

[Donut Operator]

No, not this time.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh.

[Donut Operator]

The product is Fume.

[Eli Double Tap]

What's Fume?

[Donut Operator]

It's an amazing device for those trying to kick those nasty habits.

[Eli Double Tap]

When you said hard wood, you actually meant hard wood.

[Donut Operator]

I'm sorry to disappoint but yes, I mean literal hardwood.

[Eli Double Tap]

I love hard wood in my mouth.

[Donut Operator]

Wait, you know what's gayer than hard wood in your mouth? Dying from cancer.

[Eli Double Tap]

Fume has an award winning design.

[Donut Operator]

There's no battery, no chemicals, just flavored air.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dial that airflow with the clickies. Brandon, you ever tried maple pepper?

[Donut Operator]

No, I like crisp mint because I'm a coward when it comes to flavors.

[Eli Double Tap]

Cody, what's your favorite?

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't know about flavor, but John C. Fume told me it was sexy and sleek.

[Eli Double Tap]

That is a sexy and sleek piece of wood right there, Cody. Oh yeah. Put it in your mouth. Suck that flavored air.

[Donut Operator]

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[Eli Double Tap]

Just head to try fume.com unsub and use code unsub to start your good habit today. If you were to really pop off your career, head to North Korea and do the same thing. If you're having ideas, they'll love it there. They're really lenient on everything.

[Donut Operator]

That's great. They'll ship you straight back to the States. Your teeth will fall out and you die.

[Eli Double Tap]

North Korea doesn't fuck around. The one dude that stole a poster.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. Literally just for stealing a.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then he died in. It was like three months, six months.

[Atozi]

It was like a work camp he was sent to. Yeah. And they worked him to death.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Atozi]

Awful.

[Eli Double Tap]

He had what, brain swelling. He was in a coma when he got delivered back. Yeah, he was sick. That's all they said. They're like, we didn't do it. He was sick. Yeah. Kicked him back. Finally he was in coma or brain dead and then passed once he got back to the States. Or was he United States? I forget where.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Atozi]

He was from Virginia.

[Eli Double Tap]

And all he did, Cody, was went down in the hotel he was staying. I don't know if he drank or anything, but he went down to one floor and took one poster.

[Donut Operator]

It was like a proposed.

[Atozi]

There was a poster on a corkboard and he was like, oh, this is really cool.

[Donut Operator]

On a cork board.

[Atozi]

Yeah, it was like, oh, this is a really cool memorabilia. I want to bring that home. So that's my understanding what happened.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then. Yeah, and then it was full on work, labor camp, North Korean work.

[Atozi]

They pulled him aside as his entire class was boarding the flight. They pulled, pulled him aside and then everyone had to return without him.

[Donut Operator]

So it was a class trip.

[Atozi]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Under what circumstance are Americans going to North Korea as, like, a field trip?

[Atozi]

I don't know.

[Brandon Herrera]

Just go to South Korea.

[Eli Double Tap]

I don't know. I would never go to one of those countries and fuck with anything. Like, I would be on that next level of, like, you know what? Nope, I'm good to go. These people don't care about their own people. They really do not give a about me.

[Donut Operator]

If you want to experience the North Korean nightlife, just stay in your house and turn the lights off.

It's not that fucking hard.

[Eli Double Tap]

Turn off your Internet.

[Donut Operator]

Just turn off all electricity.

For fuck's sake.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's like, oh, man. What the were you thinking going there, any of that? That is one of my favorite vice docs is the North Korean. That's when the vice was really good.

[Brandon Herrera]

They actually made decent content.

[Eli Double Tap]

Did you ever see when they went to North Korea?

[Brandon Herrera]

No.

[Eli Double Tap]

Beautiful Doc, because it is. He sneaks in a camera. He has one out, and then he sneaks one in, and he documents everything. And they ride in a train. He's talking to Russians. Then he is like, hey, what is this? Oh, this is where they bring North Korean prisoners to Russia to work labor camps, and then they kick him back home, and then he is documenting every little thing of it. Awesome, doc. Awesome doc. I'll send it to you.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's scary. Sneaking a camera in there, especially if a poster gets you.

[Atozi]

That's risky.

[Eli Double Tap]

And that's what. He had an extra SD card, too. So anytime, like, you have to delete that. And he's like, oh, okay, deletes.

[Donut Operator]

I was just like, the camera guy.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, the Chinese you talking about.

[Eli Double Tap]

No, no, Shot show, too.

[Donut Operator]

Not. Not shot show. I was talking about the Gary Plushe thing. Because remember the. The. The guy that was recording it.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, oh, yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Immediately, as soon as the shooting happened, knew the cops were gonna try to get his footage. So he popped it out, stuck a new tape in, and that's the only reason we have the footage of it happening.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's. Yeah, that's that. Why, Gary? Why what you. We were talking about right now. Yeah, I forgot about that.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, the shot show thing. We might have just gotten some people executed.

[Eli Double Tap]

We didn't know it was. What happened, you guys.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, no, they were. Oh, we knew.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, yeah. Like, it was. When you're at shot show, it is wild. You will watch all the different countries that do come there, and they're like 3D scanning the firearms.

[Atozi]

What is this?

[Eli Double Tap]

Shot shows, like the world's largest gun manufacturing meeting. Okay, okay.

[Donut Operator]

It's a huge Thing for the gun. Gun industry. Tens and tens of thousands of people every year get together in Vegas. I think it was like, I don't know, I don't want to shit out a bad number, but like 80,000 people.

[Eli Double Tap]

80K to 120,000.

[Donut Operator]

So they, we congregate there in Vegas for like one week out of the year. It's a big like exhibitor. You have to be industry to go. And for whatever reason, shot show continues to allow like like obvious Chinese nationals to be going around and just like they'll 3D scan shit. Like it is a like wobble new.

[Brandon Herrera]

Prototype weapons that the largest companies in the world are releasing.

[Atozi]

Interesting.

[Donut Operator]

They're just taking, they used to be like, they just take pictures of everything. You're like, oh God, I wonder why he's here. But it has become a bigger and bigger problem. Well, at one point last year they came up to us or this most recent shot show, there was a group of Chinese guys and they were very nice, they're very polite. They said, oh, we're big fans of your content. Can we grab a picture? Like yeah, absolutely man, sure. Of course. Get together for a photo. Like, all right. Smile and say fuck communism.

[Atozi]

Oh yeah.

[Donut Operator]

The guy immediately like went fucking stone faced, grabbed his camera and we all watched him pull his SD card out of the camera.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh wow. Oh yeah, from that one statement.

[Atozi]

Oh, wow.

[Donut Operator]

Don't you love living in a free country where that's like an actual concern? So they're probably in a labor camp now, but you know, shit happens.

[Eli Double Tap]

That was one of those wild ones where you gotta watch it happen. You're like, oh wow, I've never seen someone do that. Just go white as a ghost. And it was like, well, I'm deleting this or taking this card out and destroying it. Yep, we were all there too. It's like, what the, dude?

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, we all witnessed that.

[Eli Double Tap]

That was fucking crazy. So I want the guys to hear the one story you recently did, which is the. The redneck man and the redneck. Not even the wife, but oh, the girlfriend. Dude, this is.

[Atozi]

Yeah, no crime. I can't believe that happened as well. Like, that's like, I don't know. So for my content, like the perfect story is essentially where the thumbnail and title is something so unbelievable. People look at it and they go, there's no way that. And when they click on the video, it's like, oh yeah, that happened. So this guy got a phone call from a scammer saying that, hey, your long lost uncle died. You're inheriting $30 million. You have to meet us at an airport and bring certain amount of information about yourself, and we'll sign over $30 million to you. So he was like, okay, cool, I made $30 million. Now this is awesome. So he told all of his friends and the person he lived with, which was his girlfriend at the time.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, no.

[Atozi]

She then got really worried that he was going to leave her with his newfound wealth. So.

[Donut Operator]

His real newfound.

[Atozi]

Yeah, his real newfound wealth. So she decided to poison him the day he was going to go meet the person to sign over and get the money. So I guess she gives him a bunch of. What's it called? Antifreeze. Antifreeze. Yeah, it's antifreeze. And he drinks it. Apparently, antifreeze tastes sweet if you distill it.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. So neighbor's dog trick.

[Atozi]

Apparently so. So on the way to the airport, he's just getting sicker and sicker, and all of his friends are starting to get worried about him. And she's like, oh, he's having a heat stroke. So. And then for some reason, all of his friends were like, yeah, that sounds about right. So they get to the airport and he's too sick to even do the meeting. So she's like, oh, I'll take him home. And they were like, sounds good.

[Eli Double Tap]

But they wanting to take him to the aunt. The hospital first.

[Atozi]

And she. Oh, yeah, they wanted to originally. And then she was like, hey, I'm gonna take him home. And I'm a nurse. Okay, cool. Yeah. And then, yeah, he goes home and apparently dies there. And at one point, his friends kept checking on him. They checked, going to the house, they're like, hey, we'd really love to see him. Where is he? And she was like, oh, yeah, we had to put him into the emergency room. And then they were like, which one? And she didn't answer. So then they started going to every single emergency room in town, and they couldn't find him or any records of him even being there. So that's when they finally called the cops and found out everything. That she poisoned him. But she obviously lied and said that she didn't do it and all that. And then eventually they found out it was because he was going to inherit $30 million. But then they were like, from where? And that's where the scammer story got.

[Brandon Herrera]

I was gonna say that sounds like such a scam that it's like it just never happened.

[Atozi]

Yeah, no.

[Donut Operator]

Well, the thing that's driving me crazy is that they're not Married.

[Eli Double Tap]

No. It gets better, Brandon. Okay, this is. Brother, this is a train wreck.

[Atozi]

That's why she wouldn't.

[Donut Operator]

She wouldn't.

[Atozi]

That's a key part.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. She wouldn't have gotten jack shit.

[Atozi]

Yes. She thought because of common law that she would get it, but her state doesn't have common law.

[Donut Operator]

Marriage.

[Brandon Herrera]

Jesus Christ.

[Eli Double Tap]

God.

[Atozi]

So, yeah, now she's in prison for 25 years.

[Donut Operator]

That doesn't seem like enough.

[Atozi]

Yeah, but she's old, so it's kind of like a life sentence no matter what. But still, it was 25 years of prison and then 25 years of probation after that was what they put it down to. So, yeah, no crazy story. Can't believe that happened.

[Eli Double Tap]

But I guess it happened over no money. I'm going to kill this dude because I think common law is a thing. And then I'll inherit half. She thought she would get half or something like that, right?

[Donut Operator]

To get that. I don't know.

[Atozi]

She thought. Yeah, I. I don't know what she was thinking, but it was like. It was like the pinnacle of white trash stories.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, yeah.

[Atozi]

Like, that is like, how is this possible? Guys? Come on.

[Donut Operator]

No, imagine being the scammer just reading the news, like.

[Atozi]

To accidentally catch a manslaughter charge.

[Eli Double Tap]

I gotta go.

[Donut Operator]

Shit.

[Atozi]

That's. If even knew about it. Because most likely that scammer is, like, abroad.

[Donut Operator]

I really want to find out what the. Meet me at an airport. I'm like, all right, this is already the most elaborate scam I've ever fucking heard of.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's the one. I didn't. That's. I said that yesterday.

[Brandon Herrera]

Wear a suit and ask for five grand to do the transfer. Some crazy.

[Eli Double Tap]

Like, literally.

[Atozi]

Yeah, that's. Yeah, mostly they were thinking it was like, a way to get money out of him, so they wanted to, like, meet him and look all legit. So he thought it was legit. And then he had to pay for, like, legal fees to transfer.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, sure.

[Atozi]

That's like.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, like throw me like, 5 to 20 grand or some shit. Like, yeah, like, we got to Pay. You're getting 30 million, but you got to pay these fees. Yeah, some.

[Eli Double Tap]

Here's the numbers on this piece of paper. See, it's real. And here's all the documents. Just sign here. Give us money. We'll start the transfer. And done. And instead it is dead.

[Atozi]

And then the girlfriend. It's sad. It's depressing.

[Eli Double Tap]

What was it?

[Donut Operator]

I just.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's still.

[Donut Operator]

The scammer just, like.

[Brandon Herrera]

Stood up.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, no.

[Donut Operator]

Billy Bob told me he'd Be here by now.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's like, holy shit. Holy sh. So what's one of the most up stories that you've covered? I know we were just talking about the. The one girl that got canceled on the the flight, Brandon. And you didn't know about the Twitter when she tweeted? Yeah, yeah, 2000. Do you remember this? Cody, dude, 2013. Did you know? So a lady is traveling to South Africa. So she is literally, I'm taking off and she tweets.

Heading. Wait, heading to South Africa. Hopefully I don't get aids, just JK because I'm white. That's her tweet before she flies off.

She is no Internet on the entire flight. When she lands in Africa, she has been fired. The hashtag is trending. Has Justine landed yet? She is hated across the world. So she didn't know any of that happened because she hit send tweet right as she took off, landed and then fucking canceled. Fired everything. She's like, oh, oh, oh. I was like, holy dog.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's wild. You state facts and you get fired.

[Donut Operator]

I just, I just imagine being gainfully employed and you're just like, I got a banger between.

[Eli Double Tap]

I guarantee she showed her friends, but is it good? Oh, yeah, you should tweet that it's tweet. And then did not enjoy the rest of that trip, I bet.

[Donut Operator]

No. So at what point was she like talking about this in an interview where you're like. Because you said her quote was like, when I landed, the whole world hated me. Like, was she talking about this later? Like, what?

[Eli Double Tap]

She apologized and then it was just the sending of the tweet and I'm heading to Africa. And then she had no response or presence on the Internet until she landed. And that's when the apology came through because it was. I have this 13 hour window of nothing other than the Internet hates me now and I'm fired from my job too. I am so sad she didn't know that.

[Atozi]

So she was blissfully unaware and got all the notifications that she got fired.

[Donut Operator]

Dude, I can make this story so much better. Do you know what she did for a living?

[Eli Double Tap]

No, what Fucking guess. Pr.

[Donut Operator]

She did pr.

[Atozi]

Oh, amazing.

[Donut Operator]

She was a PR officer for a US public relations company.

[Atozi]

That is well played.

[Eli Double Tap]

How do you do pr? I think you know what? As I said, got a banger tweet. Let me hit this one for full sand. What's gonna happen?

[Atozi]

So if she was in pr, that's just a massive skill issue. That's the problem.

[Brandon Herrera]

To be fair, she Sounds just like unsubs. PR officer.

[Donut Operator]

We're just throwing show under a bus. Oh, actually, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, yeah. Don Fry, our new PR officer.

[Atozi]

But to answer your question about like.

[Donut Operator]

So.

[Eli Double Tap]

Brandon, what kind of shirt is that?

[Donut Operator]

I'm glad you asked, Eli. This is a poncho.

[Brandon Herrera]

Brandon and I actually wear poncho so much, we constantly end up wearing the same nice poncho shirt.

[Donut Operator]

Good thing nobody's ever pointed that out before.

[Brandon Herrera]

Now, if you guys have ever seen one of our live shows or this podcast in general, you'll see Brandon and I wearing these incredibly comfortable, great looking shirts all the time.

[Eli Double Tap]

Finn, pull it up with pictures. They're literally always wearing the same shirt.

[Donut Operator]

I got turned on a poncho like a year ago. Been wearing them ever since. Personally prefer, I think this is the western because it's got the pearl snaps because it's hot in Texas and I like something breathable.

[Eli Double Tap]

Here's the thing I find really cool. Brandon, do the glasses trick.

[Donut Operator]

So ponchos have this neat little thing in the pocket or you just take your glasses?

[Eli Double Tap]

No, the other one.

[Donut Operator]

Be more specific.

[Eli Double Tap]

Who gives a shit about that? All right, watch everyone.

[Donut Operator]

So if you got fat fingers and you smudge your glasses all the time, the bottom of the shirt actually acts. It has like a microfiber so you can clean your glasses.

[Eli Double Tap]

I make him clean my phones.

[Donut Operator]

He does.

[Brandon Herrera]

I like the hidden little pocket on the breast.

[Eli Double Tap]

Wait, what?

[Donut Operator]

Right over here.

[Atozi]

Got a little zipper pocket.

[Eli Double Tap]

I didn't even know about that one. Is that where you hold Cody's heart and his drugs? Things you might need to know. Poncho has put a lot of thought and detail into each one of their shirts. Oh, holy sh.

[Donut Operator]

They're soft. They're really soft.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yo. What?

[Donut Operator]

That's my one like thing is fabric sensitivity. I don't wear uncomfortable shirts. This is comfy as.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's why we wear them all the time.

[Eli Double Tap]

So Poncho's got a bunch of great styles. The original western, denim and ultra.

[Brandon Herrera]

If you're looking for the perfect shirt, something breathable and stands out in a good way, give Poncho a try.

[Eli Double Tap]

Go to ponchooutdoors.com unsub and get $10 off your first order.

[Donut Operator]

That's P N c h o outdoors.com.

[Atozi]

Unsub to answer your question about some of the craziest stories I've covered, there was this one vlogger from the US who decided to just, I guess, move to the Philippines in a very remote and dangerous area and vlog experience. He Couldn't get a job there, so he decided to become a loan shark. And he. He documented himself doing this on YouTube. So, yeah, that was a really bad idea. And because of that publicity and a bunch of people started owing him money, I guess, and they ended up just killing him. So, yeah, that's how they erased their debt. But that unfolded on YouTube.

[Donut Operator]

Life hacks.

[Atozi]

So that was a really bad idea. That was. That was one of the stories.

[Eli Double Tap]

He went. He was like, I'm not making money, so now I'm going to document being a loan shark, was it?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, he just had a lot in savings or something.

[Atozi]

Okay. So essentially, like, he was like a travel vlogger. And he was just like, hey, I'm documenting my life. And he's like, oh, I met this. This girl online, or something like that, which was like some Filipino girl. And he moved out there to be there. And she lived on this, like, extremely remote village on an island. My understanding is it's one of the most dangerous areas in the world. And because, you know, there's no real job opportunities there, especially for a foreigner that doesn't know any skills. He became a loan shark because he had some money. So that's what he did. He documented it all. And then suddenly he went missing and he was live streaming every single day. And then suddenly his live stream stopped and people went, boy. Yeah. And there was multiple times where he was like, it seems dangerous. I'm getting a lot of death threats. But he was still live streaming and staying on that island. So, yeah, no, that was one of the stories that was just horrifying. So, yeah, don't do that. Big cautionary tale.

[Eli Double Tap]

It doesn't seem like that big of a big brain to be like that. Not smart. Me not do that.

[Donut Operator]

Like, it seems like the theme of this episode is don't go to a foreign country. And around.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, don't around to find out.

[Donut Operator]

Especially, yeah, don't. Don't around in general, but especially don't. Don't around in a foreign country where you do not have your constitutional protections of the United States, because I promise you, the rest of the world does not give a fuck.

[Eli Double Tap]

Asian countries with drugs. That's one of the things. It's like, Asian countries do not fuck around with any drugs like weed or anything. It's a very big no, no. And Japan, China, South Korea, where it is like, hey, we're gonna crucify you if we find this. And then you still have people, though. But how bad can it be in America, it's legal and you're like, homie, what.

[Donut Operator]

I mean, we just traded the Lord of War for a WNBA player over the exact same thing.

[Eli Double Tap]

Which is wild.

[Atozi]

You also had the, you had a school shooting prank that I covered. Where that happened in. Oh yeah, that happened in. I want to say it was either Vermont or Connecticut, but two kids thought it was super fun to go on TikTok and go into the cafeteria and go, everybody get down. And then the other guy went, he's got a gun. So yeah, that was super funny. I think they were facing like some serious time for that. Obviously that happened a couple years ago. So I haven't followed up and see what actually happened there. But that was a pretty appalling and shocking story.

[Brandon Herrera]

I get a commenter arrested for that one time.

[Atozi]

Crazy.

[Brandon Herrera]

You're a 17 year old high school kid in Florida, commented on one of my videos. It's like, I can't wait to go to my high school, list the high school and do this, this and this. And I contacted the local police department where he said he was at and they went and arrested the kid. No, I don't think he was actually going to do anything, but he was making some pretty up threats. He had his last name and his username for some goddamn reason. And they, the police department contacted me later and was like, hey, figured out who it was. We arrested him for terroristic threats. Oh shit.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[Atozi]

Have you guys seen the Ding Dong Ditch prank or the trend on TikTok where people are running and jump. Kicking people's doors?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, kicking people's doors in.

[Atozi]

Did you see that? Someone died pretty recently. Yeah, doing that.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think it was an old dude just fucking shot him or some shit.

[Atozi]

No, it was young, he was a vet.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, nice. Not the house you want to kick in.

[Atozi]

Yeah, exactly. And it was like fucked around. Morning. Exactly three in the morning. It was three in the morning. Dude, it was three in the morning and I think it's kind of rural Virginia.

[Eli Double Tap]

Brother in christ.

[Donut Operator]

Just stacking.

[Atozi]

Ls. The vet was probably like upper. Like he's probably around our age, like 28 to 31 ish.

There was like a high school senior who did it and all three of them. So there were three guys and they took turns, they all ran to the door and they jumped, jump, kick the door. So you had three massive.

So that's like he's probably thinking his house is getting broken into. So he grabbed his gun and he was ready. And now everything with the story is a little unclear. If he fired through his door, if he opened the door and fired after them. After them. Because now it. Like he was arrested. And that's a whole thing that's ongoing.

[Eli Double Tap]

They'll probably drop that because even Texas has Castle doctrine for property at three in the morning.

[Atozi]

It depends on if Virginia doesn't have Castle or. Well, they. I don't know. They have. They have a stand your ground, I think, but I don't think they have Castle doctrine. Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Fucking Commonwealth of Virginia. They. Yeah, they probably hemmed him up just for defending his own home.

[Donut Operator]

Well, it probably. It depends wildly if you said that the. There's some discrepancy as to whether or not he fired through the door or he opened the door and fired and fleeing people.

[Atozi]

Because there's. There are some people. Yeah, exactly. That's the problem. If you chased after them or did something like that, then obviously it's completely different.

[Donut Operator]

Obviously, I don't value those people whatsoever. But at the same time, there is a, you know, the legal standard.

[Atozi]

The victim was Michael Bosman, I think his name was. That was the guy who died. So his case.

[Donut Operator]

Okay, I missed that detail. Sorry.

[Atozi]

No, yeah, the gunfire killed him and then grazed the other one. So one of them got like, grazed and then one got killed and then the other one managed to get away.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's a wild thought process, three in the morning to do that, especially rule like, you're like, everyone's going to have a gun out.

[Donut Operator]

Because I've covered rural Virginia against a veteran. 3:00 clock in the morning. It's like, man, at what point do you just look at your homies and say, man, this is not a great idea.

[Atozi]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

So Virginia has no duty to retreat. You can stand your ground. If you're in your home or on your curtilage, which is your front porch, there's no duty to retreat. You fear that your life is in.

[Donut Operator]

Danger, but it's the retreat.

[Atozi]

I mean, three loud bangs.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, exactly. In the morning.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's when I was thinking too. They were running away or something. Maybe.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. Which ballistically speaking, that's not hard to figure out now.

[Atozi]

Yeah. No, but.

[Eli Double Tap]

Jesus.

[Atozi]

Yeah. No, because I've covered that trend so many times as well. Probably three or four times on my channel. And every single time I'm like, this is going to end really bad. And then obviously that happened.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Atozi]

And it was a really big case.

[Eli Double Tap]

So the guy that's going around, I don't think he's in the United States. But the sticking people with a needle, that doesn't have anything in it. Just.

[Atozi]

So that was Also crazy. And that also happened, like, right after, like, I don't know if you guys saw that Paris had these, like, needle attacks where 150 people got stabbed during a festival. I was there at the festival. Fun fact.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[Atozi]

No, so.

[Donut Operator]

So you have aids.

[Atozi]

Exactly. No, I was not stabbed with a needle. Thank fuck.

[Donut Operator]

But, like, was it actually. Was there something on the needle or was it just. They were just stabbing people?

[Eli Double Tap]

We don't know. We don't know.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, shit.

[Atozi]

Oh, yeah. People just were reported then getting jabbed with syringes. And it was like 150 people who got jabbed and they don't know what the happened. I forgot what the festival was called, and I didn't even know about the festival. My friends were just going to Paris and we had already been to Cannes. And I was like, well, actually, I don't have a return flight. Might as well go there, see what Paris is like. Because I've never been there. We get there, everyone's in the streets partying, like the whole downtown area. And we're like, oh, this is cool. So we end up just wandering around, had a good time next morning. Apparently some people had a bad time because 150 people got stabbed with a needle during that. So that was crazy. But it was like, crazy because it was like, probably a million people in the street. Shoulder. Shoulder. Jesus.

[Donut Operator]

So hopefully he kept, like, taking out new needles and not just fucking.

[Atozi]

Well, we don't know if it's one person, if it was many. Like, there's a lot of.

[Eli Double Tap]

One was a prank. One was attacks. So the prank guy was like, oh, and you don't know even if that.

[Donut Operator]

I saw the prank thing. Was that an actual needle?

[Atozi]

Needle, yes, it was an actual needle. He was actually stabbing people. No, no, he had. He had a cap on it.

[Donut Operator]

Okay.

[Atozi]

But it was a real syringe. And yeah, no, I actually, I covered it, but I haven't posted the video because it got demonetized. So I'm waiting for it to get reviewed right now. So we're kind of in that purgatory state right there on that one. But, yes, he ran around with a cap needle and just did it. And he specifically did it a lot on, like, women in front of their boyfriends and stuff like that. Because he's a big guy, so he was kind of like trying to taunt people because he thought that was funny. So, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

That is a wild, great guy.

[Donut Operator]

I got nothing that won't get me in trouble.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's what's crazy to me. I'm like. And just doing that in Texas.

[Atozi]

Oh, dude. Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

No.

[Atozi]

Awful idea.

[Eli Double Tap]

See, everyone carries.

[Donut Operator]

Everyone.

[Eli Double Tap]

Everyone carries.

Especially if you're going after a, like, wife, kid, family.

[Donut Operator]

This prank brought to you by staccato.

Dang hero shot. Yeah.

[Atozi]

Oh, boy.

[Eli Double Tap]

But you're with somebody's family or girl. It's like, oh, man. And especially if it's. You just see a needle.

[Atozi]

Yeah. Because you don't see the cap. Like, it's like, even on video, like, you could not see the cap. But in. They said that the cap was there, so that's the. The only proof that we have that the needle was capped was in the court documents.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Atozi]

So. And his. His defense was in court. His defense was literally. I was trying. I was just being funny. It was just a prank, so.

[Donut Operator]

Of course it's just a prank, bro.

[Atozi]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Straight up.

[Atozi]

Oh, then there's the guy in Belgium who. He made this, like, sludge bucket, and he called it the sludge bucket prank, where he put dog poop, a bunch of, like, liquids and everything. And he just approached someone on the. On the metro completely randomly and just dumped it on them and then ran away. And that was the prank.

[Donut Operator]

It's not a prank. That's just rhyme.

[Atozi]

Yeah, no, exactly like that. And he was facing, like, a crazy amount of time in prison, but they ended up only giving him, like, six months. So, yeah, he's back on the street. They were like, hey, please don't make videos anymore. Here's six months. That was kind of his sentence there, so.

[Eli Double Tap]

Truly.

[Atozi]

But he was. He was banned from using social media for two years, so that's kind of like.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, two years.

[Atozi]

Yep.

[Eli Double Tap]

No, literally, it's one of those things where it's difficult because I truly think you should hammer. Like, if they do that. Hammer those people. So then no one wants to copycat it, because if they see a really big hammer, then it's like, oh, fuck, okay. That guy got screwed over.

[Donut Operator]

Crime stuff. It's like, there's a difference between a. A kid making a mistake.

[Atozi]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

You know, like some. Some young, impressionable kid, you know, maybe around a little bit with the wrong crowd, whatever. People like that. Like, dude, I have a hard time seeing arguments against you being euthanized. Like, that's. That's a completely different ballpark.

[Atozi]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Because it is. Oh, and again, it is not six months. It's hammer them. So people their age thinking, oh, I can do this. And look, this is all I'll get if I get caught. It's also influencing younger kids because they're doing it for a few years, period. And younger kids are going to watch it and be like, I'm going to do the same thing.

[Donut Operator]

Just like they started legally sticking it to the people that were doing that. Like, they'd open up the ice cream at the grocery stores and lick, lick, lick out of it and record themselves doing it.

[Atozi]

It was like, oh, dude, that's so disgusting. I saw that as well.

[Eli Double Tap]

The one dude that was spraying insecticide, he would walk around with Raid and then walk by the fresh fruit and just spray it, dude, and record it. You know who I'm talking about?

[Atozi]

Yes, I've covered that guy. Yeah. His name is Wolfie Coletti. He's been on my radar for probably, like, three years at this point because he's done so much before that he. His. His most recent one or. No, before the insecticide one. The one that, like, I was, like, crazed about or, like, shocked about, honestly.

[Eli Double Tap]

Rage.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. At what point is that? Just chemical terrorism.

[Atozi]

Oh, yeah. He got prison for that or. No, he got jail for that. Not prison, jail.

[Donut Operator]

Less good.

[Atozi]

And he's out. He's out now as well.

[Donut Operator]

Way less good.

[Brandon Herrera]

So.

[Atozi]

But the first thing that, like, really shocked me that he went kind of viral for was he ran into. I think it was a Wendy's. He had a bag of ice, and he just dumped a bag of ice into the fryer while filming and then ran. Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Explode.

[Atozi]

Yeah. No, it's flooded the whole thing.

So he did that. I don't think he ever got charged for that as well, which is, like, really interesting. Then he did another thing where he was buying cakes from the grocery store, and he would go to three stories up, throw it at people, and then try to hit them. So, like, that's like, that battery really hurt someone. He did that. He had an ongoing series of doing that on his. On his TikTok again, he was doing, like. He had, like, easily 30 or 40 videos of doing crazy stuff like that before he finally just up the stakes. Because what I keep saying is what happens with these guys is they keep on having to up the stakes to keep getting the viral videos because they can't just do something that was as tame or tame as the last one, because people get tired of it, so they keep on leveling themselves up into a serious felony. But he was really just. He was given a slap on the wrist for the whole RAID incident because he went to a Walmart in Mesa, sprayed the whole produce section with Raid, and then uploaded to TikTok, and then he Thought it was hilarious. And then he left Walmart and then I think he had an oh, shit moment where he was like, there's a bunch of insecticides on produce. No one knows about that. So then he panicked and ran back into the store about like 15 or 20 minutes later, grabbed as much as what he could from the produce section, put it in like a shopping cart, and then wheeled the shopping cart into the back of the Walmart and then ran out of the store. So that's what he did to clean it up.

[Donut Operator]

What a hero.

[Atozi]

Yep. And then obviously he was arrested. He sat in like this, like he sat in the police station, I think, or jail for a certain amount of time waiting for his trial. And then he got about a year, I think, and then with time served from to his trial.

[Donut Operator]

So there's just so much. There's so many of those things where people will just put it on Tick Tock. Like, there's no accountability. Oh, yeah, sometimes there's not, which is the irritating part. And like, this is gonna get like a little political, but, like, I don't care what political party you're on, when you're doing like this, you're just a piece of. There were so many of those during, like the 2020 election. I remember seeing like, Tick Tock videos of poll workers that were bragging about like, having stacks of Trump ballots and like that and like throwing them away and like just bragging about that. I'm like, yeah, it's not, it's not because it's like my guy or your guy or whatever. It's like, no, that's. That's a felony.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, you're.

[Donut Operator]

You're ballot tampering. That's. That's a crime that you're uploading to the Internet. Whether it's red, blue, whatever. It's like, how the f. Are these people not getting thrown under the jail?

[Eli Double Tap]

And then you're. You're going. This lives eternally on the Internet once it's up. And you're like, well, I'm gonna document this.

[Donut Operator]

And then full face and everything.

[Eli Double Tap]

And you're like, are you sure, homie? And then they're surprised. Pikachu. I got fired. Like, huh? Really?

[Atozi]

And you have a Kelly Tedford, who. She was running around and filming herself urinating on grocery items in the store. So she popped a squat and urinated on items while filming it for her Tick Tock account because this was all to promote her. Her spicy Lincoln bio. So she used. So she just kept getting banned on Tick Tock, but kept Making new tick tocks where she would do something where she'd pee on something in public.

[Donut Operator]

I've seen a lot of those, like, with, like, they'll. They'll pull their underwear off or something like that and shove it into, like, random grocery store items.

[Atozi]

So disgusting.

[Donut Operator]

That's bad enough. But, like, pissing on shit in the, like.

[Atozi]

Yeah. And I think she lives in. I think it's Keene. New Hampshire is the town. And that track had all of these people from Keen hit me up. And she's like, this woman has been terrorizing our town for ages because apparently she was a doordash and Uber. Each driver. And people kept reporting getting, like, their food peed on. And that was from her because she was uploading it for her content and making some decent money doing this, apparently.

[Donut Operator]

My understanding is that Keen is like the Asheville or Austin of. Of New Hampshire.

[Atozi]

Is it? Yeah, it's like, I didn't know that.

[Donut Operator]

It's. It's like a big libertarian presence and stuff like that there. But it also brought a lot of weird people, like, a lot of, like, the weird hippie types, like, Free Keen and all that.

[Atozi]

It was a nice town. I went there for the trial.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, no.

[Atozi]

Yeah, I went there for the trial.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then I love that you go to all the Chargers. You're like, this is good content. I'll be out.

[Donut Operator]

That's hilarious.

[Atozi]

Well, like, okay, so the thing is, like, there's these niche people on the Internet.

[Donut Operator]

Hey, it's the P lady who do.

[Atozi]

Crazy things, and we get zero coverage of them. So I was like, well, looking at flights, I was like, I will happily pay, like, round trip, like, 700 bucks for, like, flights and hotels so I can go boots on the ground and put some attention on this. Because we should not accept this. Like, we should all live in a society where we don't get harassed on the street by someone trying to fly farm content off of you and you don't get your groceries peed on before you buy them. Like, that's, like, not that much to ask, really. So, like, that's why I want to.

[Donut Operator]

Go the bare minimum.

[Atozi]

Exactly. So I fly out to cover these things. I was disappointed with that trial coverage, though, because I got there and we found out that because she'd peed on so many items.

They upped the charges and moved the courts. That delayed the trial by more months because now it's like, she was technically in, like, misdemeanor or small. Small. Small crimes. I forgot what.

[Donut Operator]

Small claims.

[Atozi]

Small claims court, essentially, for that.

Yeah. Now, now she's. She was in felony court.

[Donut Operator]

So I love that. That implies there is a legal benchmark for the amount of you're allowed to pee on before it becomes.

[Atozi]

Yeah, it had to. It had to create what it was. More than fifteen hundred dollars in damage.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, yeah.

[Atozi]

Okay.

[Donut Operator]

I guess depends on the state.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Atozi]

Yeah. Well, so because she did that much damage. Yeah.

Tough. And chat. And then obviously you have all their crypto guys, which is just becoming more and more of a problem of like the both crypto scammers and now e comm core seller scammers. Like it's. We're in some interesting times now. Especially like the crypto guys, they're doing it so like it's just in broad daylight because everything's the blockchain. Yep.

[Eli Double Tap]

And you can just hide it.

[Atozi]

That's how I got sued was because I called out bitboy crypto for just rug pulling his audience over and over again. And then he sued me for defamation.

[Donut Operator]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Donut Operator]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Donut Operator]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Donut Operator]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Donut Operator]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Donut Operator]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Donut Operator]

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[Atozi]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Donut Operator]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Donut Operator]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Donut Operator]

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[Eli Double Tap]

Now hellofresh or a meal replacement program like that is cheaper than going at this point.

[Donut Operator]

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[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

I will say it is wild really quick. The. We've been offered to do a nft. Yeah, coins like, they're like, hey, we have a meme coin for you. But it won't be a scam. And it's. We will never do a coin period. Because guess what? All of them are fucking scams at the end of the day.

[Donut Operator]

We've gotten like seven digit offers to do coins like that and shit.

[Atozi]

Same or gambling as well. Not. I haven't gotten too many coin offers, but I've got gambling deal offers of like seven figures and it's like not gambling.

[Donut Operator]

I'm something of a scientist myself.

[Eli Double Tap]

But they'll just keep doing it over and over and then they get. They'll. It's crazy to do it once and then people don't catch on the second, third, fourth time and they're like. And they continue like, oh, okay, I'm not getting in trouble. I'm just gonna keep rug pulling people. Well, that last one was someone else's fault. I'm doing it again. This one's gonna be a sure banger. Oh, all the money's gone.

[Atozi]

It was crazy. The guy who like scammed the. Or I don't know if he actually scammed him or not. The. Was it the president of Argentina, Javier Malay? Yeah, like, that was all very interesting debacle. That was weird.

[Donut Operator]

I saw that it happened. I didn't read too far into exactly what it was.

[Atozi]

They launched a coin with his name and they promoted it with official government profiles. And it went to like, I think it went close to a billion dollars. And then they pulled the liquidity.

[Donut Operator]

God. And was he like directly involved in like, like the rug pull itself.

[Atozi]

To. To be disclosed?

[Donut Operator]

I don't know.

[Atozi]

It's.

[Donut Operator]

I genuinely don't know anything about it.

[Atozi]

Yeah, no. My understanding is there was a guy by the name of Hayden Davis who was behind it all. And.

My understanding also is he just got the money from it because technically it wasn't illegal what he did. So. Yeah, no, Very, very interesting situation. That's like one of the few cases when it comes to like big crypto scams that I actually didn't cover. So I'm not the most well versed on that one, but yeah, that was an interesting thing that happened, for sure.

[Donut Operator]

Do you happen to know. Because I know you're friends with a lot of our boys, like, you know, Paville and stuff like that. Do you know Coffeezilla?

[Atozi]

Yeah, like, yeah, I'm not, like, close with him, but, like, we've talked, like, many times. He helped me so much during my lawsuit. Yeah, I only have positive experiences with him.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, no, no, he's awesome, dude. I just. I didn't know, like, because, you know, there's a lot of just overlap in what we do.

[Atozi]

I'm like, yeah, no, you're definitely. See if that's definitely. There's. Yeah, we definitely overlap there.

[Eli Double Tap]

You knew Jimmy since how many subs?

[Atozi]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

40,000.

[Atozi]

Yeah, it was somewhere. It was below 100,000 subscribers, for sure.

[Eli Double Tap]

Beast.

[Atozi]

Oh, yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, so Jimmy.

[Eli Double Tap]

Jimmy, yeah, he knew him for a lot. I was like, what?

[Atozi]

Because we were in like, these Skype groups of just like a bunch of guys just trying to out figure. Figure out how to do YouTube full time.

[Eli Double Tap]

There's a good Skype group right there.

[Atozi]

Yeah, I know that was a highly.

[Eli Double Tap]

Successful Skype group right there because.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, was that. Was that the one? I. I've heard about this, I think, on pka, because I think Quebec Quebel.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Atozi]

Oh, that's okay. That's a broader one. And no, I wasn't in the. I wasn't in the internal chat with him because, like, the one that he went on Joe Rogan and talked about, like, that was with him. And then, like, some of my friends also. Gotcha. But that was. I think there was only four people in that chat. I was not in that. I was in a larger Skype chat that I think had the max members of like 50. So, like 50 guys. But I was. I remember looking in that chat before Skype got KO'd, out of the 50 people, I think, like 30 of them have over a million subscribers and the rest of them just quit YouTube, so.

[Donut Operator]

And then back Skype got Ko'd?

[Atozi]

Well, like, it's. It doesn't exist anymore.

[Eli Double Tap]

I didn't know.

[Donut Operator]

Does it?

[Eli Double Tap]

Not really. We lost Skype.

[Atozi]

Am I. Am I like.

Hello?

[Brandon Herrera]

Wait, did Discord just, like, knock them out?

[Atozi]

Yeah. Wait, Skype doesn't exist yet became teams or something, right?

[Eli Double Tap]

You have teams. You have a whole bunch. I mean, like, oh, oh, yeah, it may.

[Donut Operator]

May 5th.

[Atozi]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Okay.

[Atozi]

Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

That.

[Eli Double Tap]

We don't do none of the business meetings. I would actually turn down business meetings and make Them use Google teams. Because they'd be like, can you. Yeah, Google Meet. And they would be like, can you download Skype? I'm like, no, I'm not. What? No, I'm not making a Skype account.

[Donut Operator]

To Google Hangouts and all that.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, like anything else. Discord. Discord.

[Donut Operator]

Because I didn't know there's only like a couple, like, news outlets used to use Skype. That's the only reason I was ever on Skype after, like, fucking, I don't know, 2015.

[Atozi]

When the. We always had like these group chats running on Skype because back in the day on Skype, if two people are on the call and it was a large group chat, anyone can join and leave whenever, as long as two people at least were in the call. So they were always running. So I remember, like, after school we'd jump on like, Skype and just talk to whoever of was in that group that was kind of active, talking about YouTube and stuff.

[Donut Operator]

Because I feel like Covid killed Skype with zoom. Like, zoom and stuff like that just started.

[Atozi]

Yeah. Corporate at least. But Discord killed Skype for the. The social. Like, anyone who plays video games and stuff, they use Discord, not Skype. But it used to be. It used to be Skype. Or like, if you were in, like, if you played a bunch of wow. You're in like, either Team Speak or Ventrilo do van.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's.

[Atozi]

It has been. You play well, yeah, I used to play a bunch.

[Eli Double Tap]

If you said vent, you play. You're an. Oh, you're an OG playing with vent.

[Atozi]

I had. I have not played a lot of wow since Pandaria, so it's been a while.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm just saying the classic servers kind of fuck right now.

[Atozi]

They're good.

[Brandon Herrera]

They're good, man.

[Atozi]

I started to go, I might need to join it. That'd be a lot of fun.

[Brandon Herrera]

A classic PvP server. They're about to release Burning Crusade.

[Atozi]

Oh, no way.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Atozi]

That's cool.

[Brandon Herrera]

I get to relive the release of Burning Crusade again. And like, kind of psyched about it.

[Eli Double Tap]

That was a wild fadar text me and was like, oh, are you gonna join Cody and me? I was like, what? That's when I text you. I was like, how the fuck do you know Fedar, dude? That's my old EQ. That's like 25 years of knowing that dude through Internet forums, through doing EverQuest stuff. Yeah, because I want to say Fedar is one. I think he was part of Fire of Heaven. But that was the pinnacle that was the number one raid, the number one guild ever on eq. And he was part of that. So it was just like.

[Donut Operator]

And everything a sentence of saying, I, like, I have been playing video games online with this person for 25 years. Kind of rap that with my brain a little bit.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's like, oh, my God, Brandon, that's. You were four.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. Probably.

[Eli Double Tap]

You were three.

[Donut Operator]

Four or five.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. Because Fedar is one of, like, the. The top officers in my guild now.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yep.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, he's organizing everyone to get. Get into raiding because we're all, like, trying to get as close to 60s we can before Burning Crusade comes out. And Fedar is organizing everything. He never said he knew you. And then you hit me up and he's like, do you know this guy? So it's just weird. Like, me and this dude kind of. He's like, one of the guild leaders now.

[Eli Double Tap]

It makes sense why he's a guild. Like, he was. Dude, eq. This is when I was telling Brandon, Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

We were in the gym yesterday talking about this. I'm just like, your reaction, the amount of hours. Because I've never played any sort of MMO like that.

[Eli Double Tap]

So. Brandon, I was like, yeah, when you die, you lose your character. Perfect. He's like, man, imagine losing a character with 30 hours. So I was like, oh, Brandon, 30 hours is a fucking. You're level 10 at that point.

[Atozi]

Yeah, no, I lost tens of thousands of hours for.

[Donut Operator]

Wow. Unfortunately, that is.

[Atozi]

I started, like, Burning Crusade, and then I played way too much, all the way through Cataclysm. And then when Pandaria came out, I was like, all right, one last shot. And then. Yeah, I just wanted to go all.

[Donut Operator]

In YouTube, you were talking about the amount of time Asmin had in it.

[Eli Double Tap]

10,000.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, yeah.

[Donut Operator]

More. It was like 1200 days.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, yeah. That was it. 1200 days.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Atozi]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

I'm like, brother, at that point, do you just. At what point do you just pay someone to bring the grass to you so you can touch it? Like, just a little patch of.

[Brandon Herrera]

Astrid, I had an idea about Asmon. All right, here's what we're gonna do.

[Eli Double Tap]

Let's hear it.

[Brandon Herrera]

We're gonna get Tectone to go up there to his house.

[Donut Operator]

Does it involve a crime? Yes. Okay.

[Brandon Herrera]

Tecton's gonna gain his trust at the front door. So Asmon hits a button and lets him in. I don't know how he opens this door.

[Eli Double Tap]

A roach pushes us.

[Brandon Herrera]

But we're gonna be behind him. So Tecton's, you know, he. He. He's gonna get us in there.

[Eli Double Tap]

He's gonna block the webcam. Yeah. The ring camera. So we go in.

[Brandon Herrera]

Preaching.

We're going to slip in and kidnap him and bring him down here. At least to just hang out with the boys a little bit. We don't even need to do content.

[Eli Double Tap]

No.

[Brandon Herrera]

We don't even have to do a podcast.

[Eli Double Tap]

Let's just hang out, Touch grass, shoot a gun.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

As we talk about breaching his house, moving.

[Eli Double Tap]

All them. They live up in Austin. I don't know if we're. Yeah, they. Everyone says Austin area and then tech now. I don't know if he wants that disclosed. He lives closer to us now.

[Donut Operator]

I think that's public.

[Eli Double Tap]

I think.

[Atozi]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yes, he did say he moved. Okay. We have so many creators. They'll, like, come hang out and then.

[Brandon Herrera]

They move two here. Yeah, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Like a significant amount.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. I think it is public that he's. Yeah, he's in Austin.

[Brandon Herrera]

We've had like five creators, maybe more than that, come down here and be like, this place is kind of cool and you guys just make content. That isn't lame and you just move here.

[Donut Operator]

That and I feel like it's unique for our group that we just hang out outside of what makes us money.

[Atozi]

That's true.

[Donut Operator]

Like, it's just.

[Brandon Herrera]

We're.

[Donut Operator]

We're just actually genuinely friends in real life and not just like, what can you do for me?

[Atozi]

Right.

[Donut Operator]

Like, that's sort of. I think that's big in like.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Austin and la. Dude. The Austin guys are bad about that too.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's like, hey, let's go just have fun. Go drink. We just did Cody's bachelor party, which was a nice relaxing. Like, the livers hurt. Because. Yeah, I was a bed by 8pm Night one, because it was travel all day and then drink. And I was like, I'll go lay down for a second. 9am rolls around, I'm like.

Dude, I.

[Brandon Herrera]

Wish I could tell y' all some crazy fucking stories, but we sat by the pool.

[Eli Double Tap]

Tattoos.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, it did happen. We did get tattoos.

[Donut Operator]

Brandon Gang tat. Finally. Yeah, I think we all have it now.

[Brandon Herrera]

I've had mine for a minute. I didn't. I didn't get any tattoos.

[Donut Operator]

It's the opposite Watch band because I still can't probably have that on there yet.

[Brandon Herrera]

You're fine now. I was going to get an AK47, but they showed me a fucking Minecraft AK47, which is now on Eli's foot.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's. I picked that.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think that's fine for a Small, like my foot tattoo. But if I'm going to get it, I'm going to get.

[Donut Operator]

We get feet for free on unsub.

[Atozi]

Minecraft AK47.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Nice.

[Eli Double Tap]

I just got break and then I got Rich's angry cop helmet, which kind of looks like Saturn instead, which I'm fine with.

[Atozi]

Nice.

[Eli Double Tap]

So we like that.

[Donut Operator]

The drill sergeant hat.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

I was like, oh, dude. And then watching everyone get tattoo you Rich, and when it hits the tenant, you're like talking and there's like the.

[Donut Operator]

Real quick lock in.

Yeah, it's not too.

Oh, no, that's first tattoo.

[Atozi]

Yeah. I don't have any tattoos.

[Donut Operator]

I always knew this was gonna be the first because we everybody in the gang got this one at Eli's birthday party five years ago.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yep.

[Donut Operator]

We were over at your house. I think Will came over.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

And I really was kind of new to the group at the time, so I'm like, oh, A, I'm not really sure I want a tattoo yet. And B, like, I don't think I've earned this yet.

[Eli Double Tap]

But half a decade later, that was the best third. I was 35. I turned 30. This is turning 35. I hate, like, I don't want to trouble people. Like, oh, if it's my birthday, I feel I inconvenience somebody if I'm like, hey, do you want to go to dinner for my birthday? That feels like I'm like, oh, that's asking a lot. My friends are like traveling to me. They're flying across the country to come hang out. And then I have friends, which they're like, hey, why don't you invite me? It was like, it's not that I just didn't want to. It's a lot of. That's a. You're flying. So then everyone flew out. We had like eight people there. We laid out on air mattresses. Air mattresses. We got drunk as shit, livestream playing video games and getting tattoos and then got the gang tattoos. You got your gang tattoo and now that's a staple for us. And then just best 35 ever. We woke up the next day hungover.

[Donut Operator]

As and Eli's driving us to the range up through a windy back Texas road. Dude, he just sitting there blasting fucking anime intro music.

Driving like a psychopath because we had watched Ford v Ferrari the night before. And so he's just race car driving up this mountain while we're all pretty, like fucked up from the night before.

[Brandon Herrera]

Didn't know he was a race car driver before. And that's his passion.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. And I remember thinking the whole time, like, oh, man, I don't. Like, I'm friends with these guys, but I'm like, I haven't been for very long. Like, I don't.

I don't want to be that guy right now. I might have to go puke in the bushes or, like, tell him to stop. We pull up to the range, Cody jumps out of the car and pukes in a ditch. And I'm like, thank God it wasn't just me.

[Eli Double Tap]

I was like, oh, I was a dick.

Like, motion sickness. I don't get it. So I don't know, dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

You were doing the, like, making my way downtown. You were so happy.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, just anime music.

[Brandon Herrera]

Anime Metro's blasting, and I'm back there green as shit.

[Donut Operator]

Just like, you and I were both locked in.

I didn't notice you were in a bad place, too, because I was like, just eyes forward, like, thinking of anything else.

[Eli Double Tap]

It was no different than Moody with the jet. Oh, yeah, that was. I tried to warn Sav. I was like, hey, motion sickness. Like, I get a smidge in a jet just because it is a lot, like.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, it's a lot of GS.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then the girls, it was like, oh, it won't be. They had their little bags and, like, this is, uh. Oh.

[Donut Operator]

Cause I think Moody puked twice.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Atozi]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Sav was holding and swallowing. Yeah, she did, baby. And she's like, oh.

[Donut Operator]

Cause she beelined. As soon as she got out of the fucking jet, she ran straight to the bathroom. I was like, oh, good time, huh?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, little champ. The pilot was like, you good back there? Cause all they hear is like, oh, no.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, no.

[Eli Double Tap]

Because they have the masks on.

Like, sorry, babe.

[Donut Operator]

It's just when they get quiet.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, right. Dude, it was a fucking. It was a good time. But Key west was. Yeah, that was great.

[Donut Operator]

I didn't realize, like, half the island is gay bars.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. That's crazy.

[Atozi]

Never been to Key west, so it's.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

I was warned by a couple people before we went. They were just like, oh, that's an interesting choice for all of you guy people. Like, I. I just had never known.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think it's the district we were staying in, because when you stay closer to that north side where we went to get staked that one night.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's like all the. The gay fades away in that area because I never stayed on, like, near where we stayed near the naval base.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dude, Rich had his best time at the One Gay. Yeah, Cody, me and you.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Did you go to the gay bar?

[Donut Operator]

No, I didn't.

[Brandon Herrera]

We.

[Atozi]

We.

[Donut Operator]

We kept walking because I'm not one of you degenerates.

[Eli Double Tap]

But Rich, at the time of his life, the bartender was amazing because he was serving. We had that nice lesbian couple next to us just laughing.

[Brandon Herrera]

I didn't know it was a gay bar at first. Rich was the one that was like, let's go in there. I'd love to.

[Donut Operator]

How did you know?

[Brandon Herrera]

Hold on, hold on, hold on. We already a little drunk from Brian. Rich goes. Listen to the music. And he does his.

[Eli Double Tap]

Rich, like, ah.

[Donut Operator]

Ah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Goes in there, starts twerking and changing the music in the bar. And the little lesbian couple next to us, that's when I was like, two butch girls holding hands. Flags everywhere. Oh, I already ordered a drink. I'm gonna finish my drink. And they call me over the little girls next to me, and they're like, okay, I know you and that guy aren't the gay one, like, pointing at me and you. And it's like, that guy's the gay one pointing at Rich. We had to take it because Rich was fucking twerking.

[Eli Double Tap]

He was living his best life.

[Brandon Herrera]

I was like, no, he, like, married to a friend of ours.

[Donut Operator]

Me, veteran, with a sign. And Nick just all just, like, looked, and we're like, two doors down. Two doors down.

[Eli Double Tap]

And we were. It was. Rich just had the time of his life. And the. The lesbian couple was asking us. They were like, who has to take care of him tonight? He is. You got to watch him around the boys. I was like, actually, no, he does. He's just really into dancing and music. He was behind the bar changing the music because they gave him permission.

[Donut Operator]

What a wild thing to say. It's like, oh, after about 12 drinks, your friend gets a little.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's like, oh, Rich, you. But then what? The. The rum distillery your buddy owns, that was at a fucking awesome.

[Donut Operator]

That was Paul.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, yeah. Key West Legal Rum.

[Eli Double Tap]

He gave me.

[Donut Operator]

Cool guy. Yeah, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

It was just a good time. Like, the pool, it was much needed. And then, as you said, it wasn't like, let's party. It is. Let's.

[Brandon Herrera]

Let's drink every white claw on this island and sit by the pool.

[Donut Operator]

It was the first time in a while that we've all just sit around, like, three days, like, just the boys, you know, no content. No, we're not here for any reason other than just to hang out.

[Atozi]

Yeah, it's nice to have some of those disconnects.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Atozi]

I do not have those often, but I got to take more of them.

[Donut Operator]

It's our first one of years. I think that was just the boys.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. How old are you again?

[Atozi]

28.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, you start feeling it, man.

[Atozi]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Especially after 30.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, it gets hard. It gets harder and harder the older you get. Cody's catching up to, like, my age. And then it is, oh, shit, this is like multiple day recovery.

[Atozi]

I'm just gonna run with it as long as I can.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, dude.

[Atozi]

Dude, that's the. That's the goal.

[Brandon Herrera]

I started content around the age you are now.

[Atozi]

Oh.

[Brandon Herrera]

And, like, you know, you're traveling all over the place. You're always hanging out with friends. You probably end up getting a couple of drinks with them after a while. Dude, I just needed the last, like, like yesterday and day before, after we got back from Key West, I had to. I had to stay at home for like 48 hours and chill.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's rough.

[Atozi]

That's also the thing about South Korea is, like, they drink so much there, it's crazy. Every, like, all my friends there, like, they're like, hey, let's have lunch. And then I go sit down for lunch. They're like one bottle of soju beers for everyone. And then start cracking them immediately. And I'm like, oh, man, I thought we were having lunch.

[Eli Double Tap]

They are.

[Donut Operator]

Welcome to the unsubscribed podcast.

[Eli Double Tap]

Like, going to Japan, we'd get shit wrecked in Japan. I still want all of us to go to Japan because they have, like, I've said it. It's. We were walking downtown Tokyo or Koinji and walking through, looking for a bar, see a sign. It's like, all you can drink $20 for 90 minutes. It's like, well, we're gonna test that limit. Well, went upstairs.

[Atozi]

Sure.

[Eli Double Tap]

Shit, 20 bucks. Hey, we'll just bring as much booze as you can order. We're like, wreck, shit, wreck, wreck. After that one, it's like. And then the Irish pub we renamed was if you bought a drink. I was like, man, that seems expensive. It was like 10 bucks or 15 bucks for a drink, but it was liters or whatever. And I didn't understand it, but it was. You were getting. It was, fuck, yes. And I was like, jesus Christ. This is like two gallons of beer. And they're like, yeah, that's what you're paying for. I'm like, all right, everyone.

We blacked out that night.

[Donut Operator]

No, no.

[Eli Double Tap]

We'Ll go do a country trip somewhere sometime. Vegas is our like, and we have that coming up. Live shows. Vegas Range. Range? Yeah, range. Oh, That's. We'll have to. You'll like Range day. He's a gun guy.

[Atozi]

Okay.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. Oh yeah. If you want to come out to range day, that'll be fun.

[Atozi]

That'd be awesome. Yeah, I have a handful of guns I had smaller collection compared to any of you guys though, but.

[Donut Operator]

Well, you know, you got to start somewhere.

[Atozi]

My first gun that I actually went out and bought myself was a UMP45. But I have the. Fuck. Yeah, I have the USA version. Meaning it doesn't have a foldable stock. It's all kind of like all in one.

[Donut Operator]

You can get them converted.

[Atozi]

Yeah, it's like. I think it's like Tommy, Tommy. Tommy built. Yeah, something like that. Yeah, they'll convert it. My friend or one of my neighbors actually has a converted Tommy built version of it.

[Donut Operator]

So I think I've got a factory HK machine gun, the UMP40. I did a video on that. Not like a year ago, maybe something like that. Gnarly. Dude. It's. It's kind of jumpy though. In full on.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Cuz it's 45 ACP. Yeah, it's like I've got friends who really enjoy them, in my opinion because it's polymer and it's super light.

[Atozi]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

And I'm pretty sure it's direct blowback.

[Atozi]

Yeah, it's.

[Donut Operator]

It's jumpy.

[Atozi]

Interesting. Yeah. Never shot a Tommy gun before.

[Donut Operator]

Or the, the ump 45.

[Atozi]

Oh, oh, you have. Full out of ump. Okay.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Atozi]

Okay.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Atozi]

Oh, cool.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, that's.

[Atozi]

That's. That's awesome.

[Donut Operator]

The Thompsons aren't. Aren't jumpy just because they're so heavy, but the ergonomics suck ass.

[Atozi]

Oh, interesting. Okay.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, and they're slow too. Like it is a while for a full autos like the original.

[Donut Operator]

No, you're thinking of the grease gun.

[Eli Double Tap]

OG Tommy gun.

[Donut Operator]

Pretty quick.

[Eli Double Tap]

Really? I thought the OGs were like 700.

[Brandon Herrera]

No.

[Donut Operator]

Well, well, maybe. But like the grease gun's very slow rate of fire.

[Eli Double Tap]

That one.

I was like, man, I remember I thought I fired. Original Tommy gun was 600 rounds per minute.

[Donut Operator]

Was that the one where they had that weird delay mechanism or something like that?

[Eli Double Tap]

I think so. Oh, the duel. Oh, it was reduced rate to fire to 6 to 700 to make it more manageable for World War II.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Which even still, that's pretty quick. Like it's not too bad.

[Eli Double Tap]

Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't. They're just chonking fucking big ass bullets.

[Atozi]

Downrange Would you also have an L.C. smith double barrel shotgun like an 1898 one?

[Donut Operator]

I think. See Thompson rate of fire.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's a fast one.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, like it's awesome. It's pretty decent, that one.

[Eli Double Tap]

So they have like the 1921 Thompson had a high rate fire, 8 to 900. Later models, the 1928 went down to 6 to 700.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. For manageable M1928 is like the. That's the, the standard one that everybody.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's starting now. Yeah. That's fucking wild. What's your favorite firearm? You have a few.

[Atozi]

So yeah, I have.

I think it's the. The. The one that's like dubbed like the John Wayne. The lever action. Yeah, I have that one. I think it's a.

[Donut Operator]

Those are fine.

[Atozi]

Let's see. Is it a 3240, 1893 or 3240 model 1893 lever action marlin rifle.

[Donut Operator]

No, I've never heard of that. Also the grease gun. 450 runs per minute.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, that's Holy.

[Donut Operator]

So like that's what I meant like.

[Eli Double Tap]

Chunk, chunk, chunk, chunk. That's wildly slow.

[Donut Operator]

3240 Winchester.

[Atozi]

Yeah, it's like a super weird caliber and the ammo costs so much for it. I think it's like $6 around easily.

[Donut Operator]

That's a weird looking. Yeah, I'm actually unfamiliar with that. So you got me.

[Atozi]

Oh really?

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, no, you got me on that one.

[Atozi]

Oh, interesting.

[Donut Operator]

Wait, is that what the uncircumcised?

[Atozi]

Yeah, that's like my prized possession. It's like the coolest gun to fire.

[Donut Operator]

So the, the joke is so I. Oh God, you're. You're killing me here. 762 by.

38 I believe is the one from the Nagant revolver. So 7 6, 2, like 30. That is the. It was the Nagant revolver cartridge. Used a Bunch World War I, World War II. But the joke is that it's literally an uncircumcised cartridge.

[Atozi]

Right?

[Eli Double Tap]

No shit.

[Atozi]

Because like interesting.

[Donut Operator]

The casing extends beyond the bullet neck.

[Eli Double Tap]

Right? Oh no.

[Brandon Herrera]

What?

[Donut Operator]

It's beyond the bullet?

[Eli Double Tap]

No. Oh wow. Yeah. What the fuck? How's that work?

[Donut Operator]

So it's like. It's an anti anteater round.

[Eli Double Tap]

The bullets actually inside the casing which is wild.

[Donut Operator]

So yeah. Editor, pull up 762 by. Here's me firing.38R cartridge.

[Atozi]

There's me firing it.

[Donut Operator]

Looks pretty manageable for recoil.

[Atozi]

Yeah, no it's not. It's not bad at all. So your mod 270 I think it's a Remington.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. Hunting rifle.

[Atozi]

So yeah, that's just a hunting rifle, but. And then a bunch of like just double old double barreled shotguns. So my grandpa passed on a bunch of old double barreled shotguns to me. It's pretty much, I think are really cool.

[Donut Operator]

You ever do anything like skeet shooting or clay shooting or anything like that?

[Atozi]

No, I have not done that yet. But I want to do that.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's so fun.

[Atozi]

Well then I got to do that at some point. I've only gone to just outdoor ranges and then just shot outside in my friend's yards.

[Donut Operator]

I'm not any good at it, but it's every time I've done it. I've done it a couple of times for like charity shoots and stuff like that. And it is. Everybody just has a blast like nobody cares that you suck. It's just, it's fun to try. Yeah.

[Atozi]

I'm assuming it's really hard as well.

[Donut Operator]

Or no, I consider a good score for me. Like if I hit more than 50% of them, like, oh, wow, that's pretty good.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's not terribly hard, man. It depends on the course that they set up. It's like if they're just moving slow up there, it's easy to put the barrel near it and you're going to hit it because it's fucking birdshot.

[Atozi]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

But then there's some courses like. Remember the one where they rolled it across the ground?

[Donut Operator]

Rabbits.

[Atozi]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

They had it set up sideways and there was a ramp on the ground. And so the disc just like goes super fast and then ramps up in the air super quick into the.

[Donut Operator]

Slings it along the.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, it's a blast. I like, I just haven't done it much. It is a blast. Once it clicks though. It is. Once it clicks, you'll just always hit those clays. You're like, oh, there it is. Okay, now I understand this body mechanics.

[Donut Operator]

At the clay shoot I did for Texas gun rights toward the very end, like I started the lock in. Like you sort of get that. You're like, oh shit, I know what I'm doing now. I went for four for four on a couple of them.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Like, okay.

[Eli Double Tap]

And you get to shoot some machine guns though. That's.

[Atozi]

That'd be a lot of fun. I'd be down to do that.

[Donut Operator]

You ever shot full auto?

[Atozi]

Yes, I shot a full auto Aug at a cal. It was a gun range in northern Virginia actually.

[Donut Operator]

Think. I think I know that one.

[Atozi]

It's a olive. Downstairs is a gun range all of upstairs is a gym, so it's pretty cool. That's. And then now they're. They're opening like a. Yeah, I heard of that.

[Donut Operator]

Masculine as.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, I just got done doing chest. I want to rip some lead.

[Atozi]

And they also. They also have like a supercar meetup every Sunday there as well? No, I think it's Saturday. Saturday, Sunday. They do supercar meetups there.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's my heaven.

[Donut Operator]

If they had like, I thought I would die.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, a bar and you're in heaven.

[Atozi]

They have a bar?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, they have a bar.

[Donut Operator]

You're shitting me.

[Atozi]

Yeah, they have a bar upstairs, dude. They have like a membership only bar that you pay and then you can kind of socialize people in Northern Virginia. It's an Ashburn, Virginia specifically Jam supercars.

[Eli Double Tap]

Bar and a gun range.

[Atozi]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Now they just need the same spot. An apartment built onto the side.

[Atozi]

Well, it's not in the same building. There's our apartments all around. It's in this new section called One Loudon. So yeah, I need that. Pretty cool area.

[Donut Operator]

I might have to be spending some time in that area relatively soon, so I kind of want to check out some of the local. Local flavor.

[Atozi]

Well, that would be fun. Wait, so you started making content at 28? What, what videos did you start making?

[Brandon Herrera]

Minecraft.

[Atozi]

Oh, hell yeah. Okay. Yeah, I started as a gaming YouTuber.

[Brandon Herrera]

Minecraft, CS Go and Rust.

[Atozi]

Oh, hell yeah. I used to make CS Go Funny Moments videos.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, same.

[Atozi]

And it was like, it was like Battlefield and CS Go is what I kind of started my channel on.

[Brandon Herrera]

Funny compilation videos.

[Donut Operator]

Funny seeing your. Your original streams too, where you were in the full like SWAT loadout while you were playing them.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, yeah, I'd play Rainbow six Siege in my SWAT loadout.

[Atozi]

That's so sick.

[Brandon Herrera]

From the police department. They didn't have like plates back then. You're just wearing this big Kevlar.

[Donut Operator]

And.

[Brandon Herrera]

We had place, but we were too poor to buy them for the department.

[Atozi]

Seriously?

[Donut Operator]

Your SWAT guys didn't have plates? No.

[Atozi]

Jesus Christ.

[Brandon Herrera]

This big piece of like there's a. There's a steel plate in there, dude.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, oh, yeah. It's like literal steel.

[Brandon Herrera]

The big SWAT ones with the shoulders and like a steel plat plate. It was. Yeah, it was nasty.

[Eli Double Tap]

A lot of people don't realize how little money gets distributed to police departments. Like especially local 50. You'll. I know a lot were like, oh, I get to fire 50 rounds a year. And you're like, wait, that's how much you get a train with that Washington, Seattle area. They're like, yeah, we get 50 to maybe 200 rounds a year of training. Ammunition. Yeah. Otherwise you have to do it on your own time.

[Brandon Herrera]

For us, like, that's got to qualify once a year.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. Wow.

[Brandon Herrera]

Which is shoot a target from five yards three times. Shoot a target from 10 yards two times. It's like, oh, I got to shoot 10 bullets this year.

[Eli Double Tap]

Not stress.

[Donut Operator]

The CCW requirements for most states is more than that.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. There's no. And it's not under stress or dirt. Like, you're just like, oh, I got 1, 2, 3. So then there's no training for, oh, I am stressed out or I'm out of breath. They don't do any of that training. And then it's, well, last time I shot was a year ago with my 10 rounds to qualify. And that was it. And then it's like, okay, now you're in a very high stress situation. You're like.

Rounds kicking everywhere.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's why, like when I was on patrol, just having a SWAT dude or a veteran dude with me.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Atozi]

Smart.

[Brandon Herrera]

They're not going to freak the fuck out.

[Donut Operator]

As soon as adrenaline hits.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Atozi]

You're like, oh, ooh.

[Donut Operator]

And then.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. Cody went to. What was your first big video that popped off because you had your viral moment with.

[Atozi]

Squirt.

[Eli Double Tap]

Squirt.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. One of my buddies was driving really fast through residential neighborhood and the local news was like, oh, well, this cop is wrong. He shouldn't be driving that fast. But it turned out it was like to a home invasion with a stabbing in process.

[Atozi]

Right?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. And so he was being careful about it. We're pretty highly trained when it comes to vehicles. And I made a video that got a hundred thousand views about that. And I was like, dude, he was driving to. Someone was being murdered at this house and the news redacted everything and changed their statements and stuff.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's good.

[Atozi]

That's how you kind of got into like the whole body cam and. Please.

[Brandon Herrera]

I was just. I was just looking out for one of my friends at the time.

[Donut Operator]

Just setting the record straight.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, setting the record straight. And then I started setting the record straight for all of these shootings that happened. Like everything that was happening because 99% of the time, cops don't just go out and shoot people for no reason.

Yeah. Just started leading, like, just started doing that constantly and blew up, man.

[Atozi]

Awesome.

[Eli Double Tap]

The Eddie Gallagher one's the one I remember the most because I remember reading that I was still in la. Your article came out. I forget how long after that. But it was people sending it to me. Look at this shitbag. Or hey, he killed like murdered this kid. Blah, blah, blah. And I was reading, I was like, this is just insubordination. This is younger guys or guys under him that are pissed off. They don't like their leadership and they're trying to now railroad this guy. Sure. Shit. It's exactly what happened.

[Donut Operator]

Because how old was the kid in the eddie Gallagher thing?

[Eli Double Tap]

16, 19. Yeah. And he was ISIS.

[Donut Operator]

Like it was a fucking rifle.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, yeah. They were in like an 18 hour firefighter with this and they just happened to find a kid and Whoa.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, but it was like I say.

[Brandon Herrera]

Kid, they happen to find, found someone with.

[Donut Operator]

For isis. That's middle age.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, right.

[Eli Double Tap]

Especially at that time. Yeah. Yeah. So it was. This was a Navy SEAL sniper. And then you read it and it is. Oh, well, the guys that were against him, oh, he was committing war crimes. He's a terrible human bad leader. And it was only two, I think. And then you read it and they're like, yeah, we were messing with his optics to Unzero. Every time, every mission. I was like, what the fuck you were. I would know immediately who my guys were with my gun. After day two of me zeroing in, it's off again. I'm like, huh, that's weird. I'm a. As a sniper, you're gonna be accountable for your gun. And how accurate is every time you pull the trigger? You're like, whoa, that's way off as.

[Donut Operator]

Far as pranks go. Or I'm gonna fuck with this guy. That's a wild thing to do. Hey, let me with my own overwatch because.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, he is being. He's just targeting civilians. That's why we did it. And then come to find out they did. The prosecution is the one that delivered the malware.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. Yeah. Which is the craziest thing. One of those was it JAG officers. He was trying to make a career for himself and he delivered malware to the defense, to Eddie Gallagher's defense, that got into their computer and they could see all their shit.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

And it was a. It was a wild ass case.

[Atozi]

Wow.

[Eli Double Tap]

They dropped everything because it was like, hey, malware. And then come to find out, it's like, yes. They were told we need to hammer this guy to set exam. It was a Navy seal, so we have to hammer him. Doesn't matter if you're making stuff up. We'll. We'll erase it. We'll figure it out. Look, now we have. We're tracking Everything they say illegally.

[Donut Operator]

Now. Now, is that a fruit of the poison tree thing because it was illegally obtained or like, how did that.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, that would be if. Yeah, if they would have tamed it that way. That's fruit of the poisonous tree. You couldn't abuse it, even if it was bad. And then I think they were doing all sorts of gnarly. I haven't revisited the case in years, but there's like. If you guys read up on the case, like, the defense was doing a bunch of nasty. Primarily because the prosecution. Excuse me, the prosecution was doing a bunch of gnarly.

[Eli Double Tap]

My bad.

[Brandon Herrera]

Because, like, the baby man who was trying to advance his career in jag, that. He's the one that. You gotta look at him. Yeah, he was the one that, like, put, like, was working on, did the malware. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, It's. There's. There's so much in that case.

[Eli Double Tap]

The defense came in, like, hey, look, we caught that. Like, they came in and he's like, we caught your fucking malware. You're trying to track us.

And then that's when it got dismissed. Everything instantly like, what the fuck? Is this real? He's like, no, but nothing happened against the prosecution team. Like, yeah, for everything they did, I. I get it. Baby guy. Not a single thing happened to that guy or anyone on jag, even though they came to find out they did.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, no, he got fired.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, he did. Okay.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. I'm reading. Look at the article now.

[Brandon Herrera]

They treated Eddie unfairly, too. They held him in jail for months and months and months awaiting trial without anything. He's like, I'm not a flight risk. Like, there's like, I don't know why I'm here. And they just treated him, like, for several months. It was. It's a. It's a weird case, man, because I was following it from the beginning. I was waiting for a little bit to come out, but the whole time I'm like, dad, this just doesn't add up. And they started saying, you know, the prosecution was doing the malware and all this crazy. It's. It's a super interesting case. Eddie's got a book about it that's really good, too.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, they took. Didn't they take away his tridents and they get reinstated or trying to.

[Brandon Herrera]

I remember, dude, I haven't. I haven't. I did this video on that, like, six years ago, and I've made a thousand since then.

[Donut Operator]

I'm trying to remember it getting the tried and taken. Like, that's a big Deal.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

It was just really messed up. Especially, like, Eddie's a good dude. Especially when you meet him, you're like. And you help. Like, he was very thankful for that video you did. I remember watching videos, like, holy shit. Yeah, this is spot on. What I was thinking was the issue.

[Brandon Herrera]

I just dug deeper than the cause. The media was like, child killing, murder, Navy SEAL on trial. And I'm like, you know, war crimes happen, but I don't know if this guy did it. And I was like.

[Atozi]

I was.

[Brandon Herrera]

Just started digging into it, and his book, I think, is called man in the Arena.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, that trick, it's pretty good. Which reference to a great quote. Yeah, that's the man in the arena. I want to say it's Teddy Roosevelt.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, no.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. Basically, like, you know, paraphrasing a very, very eloquent quote is it doesn't matter the people that are talking shit from the audience. Like, what matters is the man in the arena doing things, not the people talking about how the man doing things could have done things better.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Atozi]

But the.

[Donut Operator]

The man who's actually pushing forward and doing stuff.

[Eli Double Tap]

Good. Very, very good quote. So what was your. What was your first video that really popped off where you're like, oh, shit. Okay, here is. I can do this. I got this.

[Atozi]

There was a handful. So it was first. It was like a funny moments video. I think I did for, like, just video games that probably got 100k. And that's when I started hammering out, like, funny moments content. And ironically, that's when I decided to drop out of high school. Like an idiot, because I was like, I think I got to, like, yeah, about three grand a month at that time. And I was like, this is. This is crazy.

[Brandon Herrera]

The world is mine.

[Atozi]

Make a living off of YouTube. This is so sick. And I dropped out of senior year as well, so I was big idiot. But that close in. Yeah, no, in. In my Skype group, I had a bunch of other friends who also just dropped out of high school. So we were just like, hey, let's do it. And then YouTube got really hard, and.

I quickly realized, oh, this is really hard. My three. Three grand a month went to.

[Brandon Herrera]

What year was this?

[Atozi]

2015.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, right. During Almost.

[Atozi]

No, that came later. So I got really humbled by adpocalypse later on. But first I got humbled just because of a massive skill issue. And I couldn't put out enough videos to make enough money if they weren't.

[Donut Operator]

Going viral, not because a certain Swedish guy said a certain word on later on.

[Atozi]

So so later on that, that became a problem for me as well.

[Donut Operator]

But.

What a fucking what now, Pewds.

[Atozi]

So first did that, then suddenly the gaming career thing was way harder. And most of my money was coming in from sponsorships at the time. So I was taking everything. I was getting like HyperX at the time, I think was one of my main sponsors then. And I was through an esports organization. So I went the esports route first. So I joined this esports organization called BX3 and we'll give you a 20 creator revenue.

[Eli Double Tap]

And you're like.

[Atozi]

And. And they started giving me brand deals left and right and it kind of worked. And I could live off of this until I couldn't. So then I saw a lot of people started blowing up off of making commentary videos while they were playing video games. So I was like, oh, this is a super easy pivot for me. I already have a video game audience. I can just talk about stuff that's happening while playing video games. Leafy, for example. Yeah. So Leafy Pyro also was really early. Yes. And like, yeah, they started popping off and at the time they probably had like 100, 200k subs. And it was like, oh shit, that's probably the new wave. And at the time I think I had like 40,000 subs, 30 to 40,000 somewhere around there. So I went all in on that. And then I did this video on. I think it was like Phantom Lord with a CS go shuffle thing where he was like rigging gambling results for himself to then react big on Twitch. Yeah, so he's doing that for a bit. So that was probably a 3 or 400,000 view video, which was really big for me at the time. But I still couldn't make the YouTube thing work. So then I became a janitor.

Because I already dropped out of high school. So then my job opportunities was like, okay, do I want to work at McDonald's? A 7 11. There's not too much else. Then I found this nighttime job. So it was like not an hour.

[Donut Operator]

Freddy Fazbear's pizza, pretty much.

[Atozi]

But instead of.

[Donut Operator]

It was.

[Atozi]

What's it called?

[Donut Operator]

It's called Watch guy.

[Atozi]

Yeah, I know. So essentially I just cleaned floors from like 11 at night to midnight until basically like 5 to 7 in the morning, depending on when I got done. And then my last round was like picking up cigarette buds and stuff like that out in front at like 6 or 7 in the morning. And I always had beef with this homeless guy who was there because same fucking dude. He was literally the same guy every single time. And he would always smoke cigarettes.

[Brandon Herrera]

They choose us. We don't choose them, man. You gotta catch them all.

[Atozi]

He kept throwing cigarettes down.

Like just where I had to pick him up. Essentially on the property of the. The place I was working for. So I kept on having to pick up his fucking cigarettes every single morning. So one day I asked him, I was like, can you like not three cigarettes here? And he was holding. He was drinking vodka at the time out of a bottle.

[Brandon Herrera]

And he went, oh, fucking blue top, plastic bottle.

[Atozi]

It was a. No, it was not plastic. It was glass. And I know it was glass because I had to clean it up.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's a fancy hobo, you notice.

[Donut Operator]

Sophisticated.

[Atozi]

So what happened was I asked him, can you please stop throwing cigarettes down? And then he threw a cigarette down. And I was like, okay. And at the time I was like 17.

[Donut Operator]

So you put antifreeze in a glass?

[Eli Double Tap]

Sweet tea. Told him he got $30 million.

[Atozi]

No, I was just like. I was like, absolutely not going to fight with a homeless guy about it. I was just like, can you please not do that? And then he was like, well, I'm employing you. And I'm like, what? He was like, I'm giving you your job. And I'm like, come on, dude. I was like, can you just please not do it?

[Donut Operator]

It's a bullshit answer.

[Atozi]

Yeah, no, exactly. Well, he was drunk, he was homeless. I don't know. And then he decided to. Excuses, excuses. He literally was like, I got. I got something for you to clean up. Then he threw the glass bottle of vodka towards me and it just shattered on the sidewalk in front of it. Of course, on the property I had to clean up on. So I remember staring at him, staring at the mess and going like, all right, I got to go downstairs to the janitor's closet, get the freakin broom and sweeper and start. That was. That extended my workday by half an hour. So that really sucked. And that heavily motivated to go home and keep making YouTube videos because my life can't be that.

[Donut Operator]

So we just. This is where we find out that your. Your new passion is you just Dexter. Homeless people.

[Atozi]

Right, Exactly. Right now just making commentary videos online. And then thankfully.

A few started popping off and I ended up moving to England with a few other YouTube creators. Commentary. YouTube creators. And we lived in like two different homes over about a year.

And then I went to LA for three months. I was not a fan of it. I also went broke there. So I wasn't making a lot on YouTube at the point. And LA is very expensive. So then went back to England, lived in England for a couple more months and then moved back to. And then. No, lived in England for a couple more months and then I made this little tay video that like completely changed my life forever because it got like 8 million views in a week.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's a little Asian girl with the money, right?

[Atozi]

Yeah, she's relevant again.

[Donut Operator]

I forgot about that.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh my God. That's a weird super.

[Atozi]

It's odd.

[Donut Operator]

Didn't she do some crazy shit like faking dying or.

[Atozi]

Yeah, she faked her death. She's blaming on her stepfather. I don't know.

[Eli Double Tap]

I mean, what.

[Atozi]

I don't buy it, but it is what it is. Anyway. It was just like. It was just this funny case on the Internet of you had this 13 year old like flexing, saying, she's so rich, look at this penthouse. I'm in all that. And then we find out that her mom is a Vancouver real estate agent and she's just flexing the homes that her mom is showing. So she's having open showings and flexing these condos. So I made a video kind of laughing at that that got like 7 or 8 million views and I was like, whoa. Now we went from the 20k to 30k view average to where I could barely make my payments every month to like, oh shit, eight, eight million views and like just a few days. And then I made a follow up video that got another 8 million view video on it. So I went from getting like, you know, between 800,000 views a month to maybe 1.5 million views a month to suddenly in a month I think I got like 26 or 27.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dear God.

[Atozi]

So that was kind of like the, oh, my life has changed forever now.

[Eli Double Tap]

Throw away video game content.

[Atozi]

Yeah, so, so, but that was after I kind of switched to commentary. So I. So first it was like video game commentary. That was like a few, like a year or so before that. And then I started doing the face cam stuff to kind of differentiate myself.

[Donut Operator]

More and then build a brand a little bit.

[Atozi]

Correct. And that's when I started building the whole brand of like, I want to be a low budget talk show because like all the mainstream talk shows are not relatable at all. That's kind of where that's my lane I want to be in. And that's kind of like why I started the like, like the frigging mat that I have behind me. It's like the streets I was raised on. Because every high end talk show they have like a skyline, like an expensive LA skyline or New York City skyline behind them. And I was like, what's something nostalgic? I'm from Lillehammer, Norway. That's not any. No one can relate to that. So I was like, I want something that's relatable that I was also raised on to put up behind me. And those would be like, yeah, my skyline. So that's kind of why I started doing those mats.

[Eli Double Tap]

Which. The mats behind me you actually brought.

[Atozi]

Yeah, no, I brought a few of them because, yeah, we did the Texas.

[Eli Double Tap]

You guys are going to laugh at the Texas one because, you know, it's actually good. I was like, our audience is going to love this.

[Atozi]

Yes, we did. We just dropped the Texas collection.

[Eli Double Tap]

Put it right here.

[Atozi]

We noticed something and my designer thought this was hilarious.

[Eli Double Tap]

San Antonio, Fort Worth, Dallas, El Paso. A highway with no mention.

[Brandon Herrera]

You're missing Austin.

[Atozi]

My designer thought the highway was more important than Austin on it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, it is.

[Donut Operator]

It is.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Atozi]

He thought it was hilarious. I was like, okay. Yeah, okay. We ended up negotiating.

[Donut Operator]

I also. I love how San Antonio has a beach now.

[Eli Double Tap]

And I was like, hey, man.

Clearly.

[Atozi]

We'Re not from Texas, but.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, I'm glad you skipped Austin.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, Houston too. You have everything. But we have.

[Atozi]

So we negotiated. So I was like, okay, because you really want to release this version of it? I was like, all right, I'll release it for a few months and then I'll replace it with an actual more correct one with all the right cities on it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Dallas is the top right hand.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. And like, Dallas and Fort Worth are farther apart than San Antonio and Houston.

[Atozi]

All right, look at that. I love it.

[Eli Double Tap]

This. This is like so far. So you got really driving.

[Donut Operator]

In reality, it's like a 15 minute Uber.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's so good, though. That's why I was like, sorry, we're.

[Donut Operator]

Just sitting here shitting on your.

[Eli Double Tap]

I just want little naked people roaming the road for where Austin would be like, what are they doing? Oh, those are the homeless.

[Atozi]

Our problem is we want to actually, like, the whole thing is like, you need to fit like a toy car on it. Right, right. So it really. If we want a two lane, it takes up a lot of space because we wanted to actually be usable if kids want to play with them. So that's kind of why the spacing gets a little off. Where, like, for example, Dallas, Fort Worth, we want a road between it. Then suddenly they get parted by a lot.

[Eli Double Tap]

Right, dude, we're gonna put that up. And then you got mousepads and this is.

[Atozi]

This is your guys.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, fuck.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

There you go.

[Atozi]

That's a gift.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, as a.

[Eli Double Tap]

You look, look. This is massive. What? I. Dude, I love it. Where you can, like. Oh, you'll sit down. We'll roll this bitch up so you.

[Donut Operator]

Can look at her. Can't get over the wall.

[Eli Double Tap]

She was a unintentional Mexican trying to cross the border.

[Atozi]

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Eli Double Tap]

Absolutely.

[Donut Operator]

Absolutely not.

[Eli Double Tap]

Your artist is just trolling you at this point. You're like, no, it's not what happened. That's not what happened.

[Donut Operator]

No, no, no, no, no. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

[Eli Double Tap]

There's a Mexican riding an ox. I just like, Mexico has nothing. There's not a city in Mexico.

[Atozi]

It's just.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's dirt. And two Mexicans.

[Atozi]

We also do mouse mats because, like, we realized that, like, when I started, I was also like, not everyone needs.

[Eli Double Tap]

A large toy car mat like that.

[Atozi]

So we ended up also, since it's called Mad City, we started making mouse. And then we. Yeah, no, we started making mouse pads that I actually wanted to use. So this is like, our largest one. This is actually from the Texas collection as well. That's fucking cool.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[Atozi]

Oh, yeah, yeah. They're braided as well, so they actually don't flake up. And they're just super nice.

[Donut Operator]

You get the Alamo, and that's like a big, big staple of the. The Texas State Fair.

[Eli Double Tap]

I love that you have, like, now something. It's like, oh, the kiddos can play with this.

[Atozi]

Yes, exactly.

[Eli Double Tap]

I've said, raiden will love that fucking thing. Raiden will flip. Shit. He's like, oh, thank you, Daddy. I needed a new mat. I'm like, okay, buddy. Make some videos with it. Okay, I shall do that. I was showing him the 1300 comments on his last Terminator video because he, like, recreated T2. Yeah. Shot for shot. Yeah. And added his own roto and explosions and everything. And everyone's like, holy shit. Because I was like, holy.

You just.

[Donut Operator]

You see him, like, evolving as, like, oh, I know how to do more things.

[Atozi]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then he ordered $400 worth of hot Wheels yesterday.

[Atozi]

Uh.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, yeah. Cause it was still linked to the ebay account card. Was. And then we're like, yo, bud. What?

[Donut Operator]

Whoa.

[Eli Double Tap]

What'd you do? You can't. You just spent $400. That's my money study.

[Atozi]

Well, now he has a mat to play with him on.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, well, he ordered it. Cause he uploaded a video and thought, but I made money because the video did good. So that's why I spent that money.

[Brandon Herrera]

What movie is he making with $400 worth of hot oils? What's his next movie? He's gotta be working on a big production or something.

[Donut Operator]

Is he looking for investors?

[Eli Double Tap]

He's actually. That's why I wasn't actually mad. I was like, hey, bud, we have to talk. It was for a new video. He's like, I wanna do a Halloween truck series. I was like, looked. I was like, fuck. Okay, well, daddy will fund that. Okay, but next time we gotta ask Jeepers creepers. Because your cars get really expensive really quick, bro.

[Atozi]

You're hot.

[Donut Operator]

Buying like legit T2 props.

[Eli Double Tap]

It would happen. He's the one that's. It sucks because he's like, I want this car. And is like a collector's hot wheel car. It's not too much, but it's like a hundred dollars or $140 for a one hot wheel car.

[Brandon Herrera]

And he wants to take it out the package. Yeah, of course.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. And I'm like, oh, he is. People would hate watching ride and just destroy collection cars that have been sealed for like 30 years. And he's like, thank you, daddy. Unbox. And he does unboxing videos of every car he has.

[Atozi]

Oh, that's awesome.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, he. He loves it.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. That's funny. I just starting a channel that's just unboxings of things that shouldn't be unboxed.

[Atozi]

You start seeing like charges of these like Pokemon card sets for like 20 grand coming out of your account.

[Donut Operator]

I would go upstairs, not even opening the cards, but just taking them out of the plastic.

[Atozi]

Just.

[Donut Operator]

Just trolling the collector community.

[Eli Double Tap]

I walk upstairs, he's opened all my collector video games that are sealed in my action figures.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'd be like, oh, aneurysm. You just gotta go outside and sit down on your outside chair for a minute. It's okay.

[Eli Double Tap]

Ryden was loved.

Like, no. Well, Cody, you wanted to close. Close this out. Well, first off, where does everyone find you? Mr. Atozi?

[Atozi]

Where did find me?

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, Tosi on YouTube in South Korea, apparently.

[Atozi]

Apparently in South Korea as well. You can find all the mats at Matte City. And that's really all my plugs, honestly. And we'll just kind of a YouTuber.

[Eli Double Tap]

We're trying to do an actual unsub mat too.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, that'd be rad.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Atozi]

Yeah, that'd be a super fire skate shop.

[Eli Double Tap]

Brandon. Brandon's rank on shop. Like unsub house.

[Donut Operator]

Just dox everyone.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. And we'll put actual physical address.

[Brandon Herrera]

The.

[Eli Double Tap]

Latlonge just, it's just Finn's place.

It's just our editor's address and everything.

[Donut Operator]

That's the one thing everybody's just like, oh, yeah, we're over here. Skate shops up here.

[Eli Double Tap]

Finn's address, Finn's phone number, address, social.

[Atozi]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Photo of his driver's license.

Like Ukrainian combat footage.

[Atozi]

That's so scary as well, by the way, that Ukrainian combat footage, seeing the killer drones swarming around, that they fly.

[Eli Double Tap]

Now that's what we're going to talk about on the after show.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, boy.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, we'll do a ten minute after show. Cody. Close us out, you beautiful son of a. Bye, everyone.

[Brandon Herrera]

Thank you for coming to the unsubscribe podcast. I was joined today by Eli Double Tap, a toy Brandon Herrera, myself, donut operator. Check us out on the Unsubscribe after show.

[Eli Double Tap]

We're gonna.

[Donut Operator]

You.

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