What Youtube Pays

Summary

Podcast Summary: “What Youtube Pays”

Podcast: VIEWS with David Dobrik & Jason Nash
Release Date: January 27, 2026
Hosts: David Dobrik, Jason Nash
Guests/Regulars: Natalie Noel, Evan Ross Katz, Ryan (call-in, later)

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Episode Overview

In this episode, David, Jason, and Natalie dive into behind-the-scenes conversations about their YouTube content, creative processes, and how platforms like YouTube actually pay creators. There’s an open discussion about evolving digital content, creative authenticity, the saturation of spectacle, transparency about their earnings, and the quirks of life in LA. The group also reflects on imposter syndrome, running into celebrities at Grammy parties, double agent fantasies, and the importance of finding the right collaborators for new projects.

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Recap & Key Segments

Listener Feedback & YouTube Content Evolution

• (00:43) Jason reads audience feedback about the changing style of David’s videos—fans seem to prefer hanging out with the original group over high-production value or “bits.”
• (01:52) There is confusion over what qualifies as a ‘bit’; Natalie clarifies that it’s more about situations than sketches.
• Classic Views chemistry and banter is present throughout, poking fun at each other’s personalities and overthinking video formats.
• Notable Quote: “People just love to see him and his group, not always the full production vlogs... Just record, man, don’t overthink it.” – Jason Nash, reading a fan comment (00:47)

The Saturation of Money & Spectacle on Social Media

• (04:45) Jason shares a compelling, in-depth listener DM about how YouTube’s excitement has shifted; once-exotic luxury content now feels accessible and “boring” due to the success and funding of digital creators.
• (06:25) David builds on this, observing the endless parade of travel, luxury, and spectacle across platforms, which leads to a hunger for authentic personalities and relatable content.
  • "What used to be interesting...so many influencers have access to cool things now, right?...But the one thing that is lacking from a lot of things is personality." – David Dobrik (06:53)
• (07:02) The group agrees a “return to basics”—capturing everyday, personality-driven moments—is due.

BTS: Filming Vlogs & Desensitizing New Camerapeople

• (08:05–09:46) David expresses anxieties about bringing in new filmers, as group dynamics can get awkward when filmed. He suggests a humorous “desensitization” process for new camerapeople—having everyone throw failed insults and jokes to get them acclimated.

Life in LA, Imposter Syndrome & Networking

• (10:22) A detour into Grammy party culture: David discusses texting Diplo to get into exclusive events and feeling like an imposter.
• (11:09) Natalie recounts sitting next to Buzz Aldrin at an awards party, highlighting unpredictable L.A. moments.
• (12:06) Jason brings up “imposter syndrome,” inspired by musician Flea’s emotional response to recording a jazz album.

Spy Games & Silly Fantasies

• (16:09–18:54) In a humorous tangent, Jason muses about wanting to become a spy, and the group jokes about the qualifications required—ranging from discipline, social acceptance, and humor, to the ability to get a free coffee without asking for it directly.
• They joke about starting small, like spying on local competitors (Chipotle vs Sharkies), and reference favorite spy movies.

Daily Vlogs & YouTube Adsense: What YouTube Really Pays

• (26:01-28:21) The central, most revealing segment: Natalie talks about her daily vlogging journey and openly shares her actual YouTube earnings.
  • She’s uploading daily, with ~1.2 million views/month across her channel.
  • Her best video (16,000 views) earned about $96 in Adsense.
  • Average monthly revenue: about $1,300.
  • "If all the videos could do that, that would be $3,000 a month...but they're not all doing that." – Natalie Noel (27:51)
  • "That is really sick. How many days have you done in a row?" – David Dobrik (26:40); "26 in a row." – Natalie Noel

The “Love of LA” and Accidental Networking

• (29:09–35:30) Lively discussion about L.A.: its weather, opportunities, unique networking energy, and why everyone seems to have a love/hate relationship with the city.
  • "I've seen a resurgence for the love of LA...I've been seeing a lot of people that are like, 'I love LA!'" – Jason Nash (29:14)
  • Anecdotes about chance meetings at the gym or pickleball court leading to job offers or a $500k investment (call-in with Ryan at 33:23).
  • "If you wanted to try all the restaurants in LA, it’d take you like, 36 years..." – David Dobrik (35:34)

Family, Names, and Identity

• (38:42–43:32) The group banters about last names—changing them, keeping them, or even a man taking a woman’s surname.
  • David reveals his middle name “Julian” and childhood embarrassment about it.
  • "Let's reframe your brain right now...imagine you were a famous artist and you go to see David Julian Dobrik." – Natalie Noel (44:36)

Relationship Status, Vlogging & Life Choices

• (47:17–47:55) Jason and Evan declare themselves “single for a long time” due to vlogging commitments.
  • "There is zero chance that I'm gonna find anybody or even have the time to think about [dating] because we're just gonna be so busy." – Evan Ross Katz (47:38)

Requests: Editors, New Crew

• (48:06–49:00) David invites editors and creative collaborators to apply (with an email address given), specifying a desire for editors with judgment, comedic instincts, and “an opinion.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On YouTube Content

  • "People just love to see him and his group...Not always the full production vlogs...Just record, man, don’t overthink it." – Listener Comment, read by Jason Nash (00:47)
  • "The impossible has become real and it’s boring.” – Listener DM, read by Jason Nash (05:52)

• On Monetization

  • "My best video (16,000 views) made $96." – Natalie Noel (27:55)
  • "I’m at $1,300 a month right now." – Natalie Noel (28:14)

• On LA:

  • "I've been seeing a lot of comments that are just like, I love this place and I want to acknowledge the fact that I haven’t been the most positive towards LA...I think it’s turning." – Jason Nash (29:14)
  • "It’s a place to be inspired…there’s always, like, hope around the corner.” – Natalie Noel (30:43)

• On New Beginnings

  • "I want it to feel like these new vlogs...are a team thing." – David Dobrik (49:01)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:43 – 04:45: Audience feedback, creative process, “bits” vs. situations
• 04:45 – 07:02: Listener DM on YouTube saturation; authenticity over spectacle
• 08:05 – 09:46: Camerapeople, group dynamics, filmmaking anxieties
• 10:22 – 11:38: Grammy parties, celebrity run-ins, imposter syndrome
• 16:09 – 18:54: Spy dreams and “qualifications” bit
• 26:01 – 28:21: Adsense transparency (“What YouTube Pays”)
• 29:09 – 35:30: LA stories, networking, LA vs. other cities
• 38:42 – 43:32: Names, identity, childhood anecdotes
• 47:17 – 47:55: Single life, vlogging focus
• 48:06 – 49:16: Call for editors, future directions

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Tone & Vibe

• Conversational, irreverent, self-deprecating
• Open sharing about the ups and downs of creativity and YouTube
• Lots of banter and in-jokes, but accessible to new listeners

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Useful Takeaways for Listeners

• Authenticity and relatability are making a comeback in digital content.
• Even mid-size creators earn relatively modest income from daily vlogging (eg. $1,300/month for 1.2M views).
• LA remains a hub of opportunity—often in random, unexpected ways.
• The group is looking for new creative collaborators, especially editors with vision.

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Transcript

[Narrator/Host]

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[David Dobrik]

What's up, guys?

[Jason Nash]

Welcome back to Views guys. I see a couple of you commented.

[Natalie Noel]

On.

[Jason Nash]

On the last podcast where I was. Listen, I, I know I've been going through this. What do I do with my videos for the last like couple months? I'm not gonna bore you with it anymore. I've gotten some comments like, David, can you just fucking figure it out already get it? But Jason just pointed out that a lot of you guys have some things to say. Honestly, David kind of ruins things for himself from, from what I've seen, David's little mood swings, he has every five seconds end up comp complicating everything for him. I think he has to realize most of his audience, including myself, fell in love with him and his crew, not his videos. That's fucked up. That's why every little difference he's made in the videos is met with the same excitement. People just love to see him and his group. Not always. The full production vlogs 100 to 200 are the best blend of natural and funny. Okay, I'm gonna go back to that then. The Next comment says 0% of us asked for just bits. Just like seeing you all living life and that could be the good, bad, boring or fun. Just record, man, don't overthink it. I actually always find it weird when you start talking about bits that is interesting. Well, I don't, I feel like I talk about bits differently than like, what, Like I'm not doing, we're not doing sketches.

[Natalie Noel]

No, no.

[Jason Nash]

Like a bit is like going camping.

[David Dobrik]

Like that's a bit in my head.

[Natalie Noel]

Right?

[Jason Nash]

Like we need to have situations. So I didn't mean like we're like scripting things. Oh, next comment. I love the camping video. It was, I was sad it wasn't longer. Lily, just the Group Hanging for 10 minutes is entertaining.

[David Dobrik]

Yeah, see, that was a bit.

[Jason Nash]

Like, that was a bit.

[Natalie Noel]

That's a situation.

[Jason Nash]

But a bit is. I describe situations as bits.

[Natalie Noel]

Well, a bit is a bit is like.

[David Dobrik]

I, I, I know.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[Jason Nash]

Well, he's. Tell me, what is it a bit.

[Natalie Noel]

Is like, you know, it's Alex and he's with. He's in a sweatshop with a bunch of kids. You know, like, that's a bit, you.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Know, like something that's pre set up.

[Jason Nash]

Someone said, this is really interesting. Someone said, David doesn't want to hold the camera but wants to be around friends. Jason has been grinding to do more videos. And then his wife, which is respectful. Respectively. Respectively. Very funny. Am I the only one seeing what could be made here? Jason has been the golden ticket to David's factory since day one.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Really?

[Jason Nash]

Why not let him record? We love the insults towards him. Natalie's searching for love. David needs to start. Why not do a mini version of finding the songwriters?

[Natalie Noel]

Oh, I like this idea.

[Jason Nash]

I would never in a million years let Jason fucking film anything.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah, all right. That's a pass. All right.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Did Jason write that comment?

[Natalie Noel]

Hard? No. Hard. No. We can take it.

[Jason Nash]

Yeah. Okay. So anyway, yeah, I've got. You guys have sent me a lot of things. I'm gonna think about it. Don't worry. I also think a lot of people that, like, really like us, dude. Every time, like, I would stress. Stress about, like, doing the vlogs.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[Jason Nash]

Someone would always be like, dave, you could just fucking take a piss and it would get a lot of view. This is like.

[David Dobrik]

Like when we were making, like, you.

[Jason Nash]

Know, when the views. When the videos were doing the best.

[Natalie Noel]

Sure.

[Jason Nash]

And I was like, no, that's not fucking true. Like, I know it looks like that from the outside.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[Jason Nash]

But there's, like a method to it. Right? Like, I can't just take a piss because no one will watch it.

[Natalie Noel]

Well, you could probably make that funny.

[Jason Nash]

Like in. In, like, if you fraction it down at the time. We're getting so many views that, yeah, if I took a piss, like, it would still do well.

[Natalie Noel]

But at one point, I did feel like we could come up with almost anything and make it funny.

[Jason Nash]

No. 100%.

[Natalie Noel]

You know, you did say to me, let's do Ellie's gonna go take a piss out back. I would. My first instinct is like, yeah, hell yeah.

[Jason Nash]

That's amazing. No, no, no, no. That's a bad example, because that is actually a good thing.

[Natalie Noel]

There's a lot that could happen.

[Jason Nash]

No, no, but I hear you guys. I want these new videos to be more. Yeah, don't worry. Who cares? I'm not gonna talk about it. You'll just see it and we may miss it. We may get it. Who gives a fuck, Jay, I'm. I think I'm Trying to get into. I'm trying to. Oh, someone said something really interesting. Sorry about the videos. Yeah, okay. Someone DM me. I messaged this to Ferris and Natalie. Sorry, Jay.

[Natalie Noel]

You didn't read the good comments, by the way. There were so many good ones.

[Jason Nash]

Yeah, I just wanted to read the ones.

[Natalie Noel]

You read the.

[Jason Nash]

I just read the top. Yeah, okay. Someone said something really interesting. Sorry, I don't know who it was because I just copied and pasted it and sent it over, but here it goes. Who's ready?

[Natalie Noel]

I'm ready.

[Evan Ross Katz]

I'm ready.

[Jason Nash]

Okay. I've been too lazy to type this out, but listening to you get closer and closer to the point, but not fully reaching it. Almost every other podcast for the last six months is starting to get painful. This week you were the closest when you mentioned saturation of travel and money and zeroing in on simple concepts, transformation and documentaries. I may get restricted by wordcom, but bear with me. While content that consists of traveling, party parties and other unique luxury experiences can be interesting, their translation for the average viewer has changed within the last four or five years, which is. This is. This is really interesting.

[Natalie Noel]

Very good.

[Jason Nash]

The concept of otherworldly experiences displayed online has grown significantly in part of the immense funding digital creators have gained access to. That's really interesting. Heights that were totally unreachable for 99.9% of content creators in the 2010s. YouTube viewers in 2000. Blah, blah, blah, blah. In 2012, they were thrilled to watch a 10 minute vlog of their favorite YouTubers gather in a tiny hotel room during a convention. In part, AI has also watered down the excitement associated with a digital visual experience. This is really interesting. Want to see a guy climb Mount Everest on the back of a tiger?

[David Dobrik]

Got it.

[Jason Nash]

Want to see a horse dressed as a doctor deliver a human baby? Which this was actually a bit we had in mind too. Here you go. Want to see historical figures work at a drive through? Enjoy this clip of Abraham Lincoln dumping a frappe over an annoying customer's head. Frappe, frappe, frappe. The impossible has become real and it's boring. So, yeah. So basically, what's he saying? Long story short, that. That like the visual. The visual parts of making. Dude, I think this is. This is the thing I have a problem with.

[Natalie Noel]

What was he saying now?

[Jason Nash]

Let me tell you this.

[David Dobrik]

I fucking hate squirrels. No, no, I'm just getting sidetracked. Well, what he's saying is like, what's what used to be interesting? Which is like, how far can money take you? What can like, what can you get for that? Like, so many influencers have access to cool things now, right? So many influencers have access to like funds making, making a lot of money where they can like have these. Like, I, I turn on YouTube now.

[Jason Nash]

And a lot of videos are like.

[David Dobrik]

Look at me on this trip. Look at this drone shot. Look at how cool this place is. Look at how.

[Jason Nash]

But like the one thing that is.

[David Dobrik]

Lacking from a lot of things is personality. And that's something that I can't like replicate, right? It can, but like, it's not real.

[Natalie Noel]

Yes.

[David Dobrik]

So I think like going back to that, going back to the basics sounds like a really good time. I think shopping at Target, going to Home Depot. I think sitting on the couch, I think, yeah.

[Jason Nash]

Texting Diplo, trying to get into his Grammy party.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Yeah.

[Natalie Noel]

That's on your mind today, huh?

[Jason Nash]

That is what I did today.

[Natalie Noel]

What did you do today?

[Jason Nash]

Well, I texted Diplo. I was like, I texted him, I said.

[David Dobrik]

But anyway, what I'm trying to say is all of that kind of stuff is more fun, right?

[Natalie Noel]

Return to normalcy. Yeah, that's what that guy was saying.

[Jason Nash]

Everyone.

[David Dobrik]

I think it's just gone so far where it's just like, boom, boom. Like cool things that are just like, so. And it's not even that, like, it's not even that like you have creators like Mr. Beast that have infinite money. It's that now there are infinite amount of creators. So now there is, there is. You have that creator in Jordan that's showing us the best of the city of Petra and you're getting that experience and then you have that creator that's in Paris that shows that, that shows you the best of French living and the Eiffel Tower and what nightlife is in like in Paris. Do you know what I mean?

[Jason Nash]

So you have.

[David Dobrik]

And it's all on TikTok and you get all of it and you're like consuming so much where it's like, I think back to the root of all of it is just like going back to personality and fun vibes and stuff like that. I think it's important. We'll see. Who knows? I don't know. I had this bit idea I could. One of my biggest fears about having like people come film. Like, I want to have film, right? Like, I want to have two camera people on us and I want, like, I want, I want to be hands free. I want to be able to interact with people like without a camera in between us. And like the thing that worries me about that is like There's a lot of times we're just shooting the shit and, like, jokes aren't landing right. Like, we're just like. Like we'll insult each other or something and it'll just be. It'll come off, like, just without taste.

[Natalie Noel]

Especially once the camera goes up. Everyone starts trying.

[David Dobrik]

Everyone starts trying. And a lot of times it fails.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah. Yeah.

[David Dobrik]

Because we're just all trying. And, like, one of my biggest fears is to have someone in the room with us as it's failing. So I think when we get new filmers, the first thing we should do is, you know, like, when you're training a horse, they desensitize horses by, like, scaring them. So they're like. So they'll be like a horse on a pasture. And, like, the horse person will be like. And the horse will, like, jump. And all the comments will be like.

[Jason Nash]

That'S fucked up that you're doing that to the horse.

[David Dobrik]

But then the other comment underneath it will be like, well, this is actually how you make it so your horse isn't scared of, like, a mouse coming up or, like, random things. Nothing will affect the horse. So I think when we get these new filmers, it's. We all get into a room and we just hurl insults at each other. Ones that don't land nothing. Like, Natalie, you can call me whatever you want. You know, the nastiest names. Whore, cunt, bitch, whatever, all of them. And we do it in front of our new filmers just so they can get desensitized. Yeah, so that's my idea.

[Natalie Noel]

And then we start hurling insults at.

[David Dobrik]

The filmers, and then we. And then we make each of the film. I think this is like a college frat hazing.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[Jason Nash]

Yeah.

[Natalie Noel]

I think that's what it's turning into thing.

[Jason Nash]

So that's why I tell Natalie she.

[Natalie Noel]

Needs to stop eating now. I don't want to call her fat.

[Jason Nash]

I don't.

[Natalie Noel]

I don't want to. Don't make me just get out of college.

[Jason Nash]

Just as well.

[David Dobrik]

The camera, please.

[Natalie Noel]

I went to film school.

[Jason Nash]

I don't need this.

[David Dobrik]

Yeah, so, yeah, that's. That's that. But, yeah, I texted Diplo today. I was like, hey, listen, I was at your party in 2019 in like, 2020 and 2021 when you had Grammy parties, and they were really hard to get into. I didn't know you at the time, and I would just, like, sit outside the gate for a little bit. Is there any way you can let me know right now, ahead of time, if you're having something.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[David Dobrik]

And he said, hahaha, I'm not nominated, so I'm not doing it. But going to some random ones this week. Frowny face.

[Natalie Noel]

It's bullshit. They didn't nominate Diplo.

[David Dobrik]

And then I said, you could go to a party. And then I said, damn it. Then I said, damn it. Okay, next year. And then he goes, but tell me what ones. I'm asking you where to go. You're the musician.

[Natalie Noel]

Tell me about a Grammy party. What's that? Like? It's fun. Fun to roll around on Grammy night?

[Evan Ross Katz]

I think.

[Natalie Noel]

So what's. What's so fun about it?

[Evan Ross Katz]

Oh, I just think, like, it's award season, so like, that it just like you don't know who you're gonna run into. You know, like, you could be at some random spot, like small spot.

[David Dobrik]

Kesha could be there.

[Evan Ross Katz]

And Kesha can walk in. Or like, I don't know anybody. Anybody can just walk in. You never know because they might. It might be like their friend of a friend of a friend and they're just like gonna pop in and it's like this amazing celebrity. Like, it's just like we saw Buzz.

[David Dobrik]

Altrin at a Grammy party. Or was it, Was it announced? No, it was me and you.

[Natalie Noel]

Me and you. Oh, yeah, it was Golden Globes.

[Jason Nash]

Golden Globes.

[Natalie Noel]

Which was so odd, so cool. I don't think he was in a movie or there wasn't a movie about him. He was just there.

[David Dobrik]

A lot of movies are about him, I'm sure.

[Natalie Noel]

But not that year.

[David Dobrik]

Buzz Lightyear is literally about him.

[Natalie Noel]

Right. But it wasn't like, you know, they did the movie that year.

[David Dobrik]

But that was like my favorite moment. I always. I'll never forget it. When you turn to me and you're like, you know who's sitting next to you?

[Natalie Noel]

Right.

[David Dobrik]

I was like, who? That's the second guy to walk on the moon. Buzz Aldrin. That's crazy. I mean, they're always a blast. Just people, like, excited to go out.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah. And the Grammys as a show has really come up.

[David Dobrik]

I feel so phony because I have nothing to do with the Grammys.

[Jason Nash]

It's like, it's like, it's serious imposter.

[David Dobrik]

Syndrome till about 1am well, for an influencer especially, I have no reason to be. Wait, we've had this conversation. I think literally last Grammy season we did.

[Jason Nash]

And then you go. And then this is.

[David Dobrik]

Well, let me see what you're gonna say. Actually, let me play.

[Natalie Noel]

Like, what I was gonna say was, I'm Big. I'm big on, like, if you love something, okay, that's what you. You have every right to be there.

[Jason Nash]

That's what you said.

[David Dobrik]

You said last. Last.

[Jason Nash]

Last year you said you're a supporter of music.

[Natalie Noel]

Did I?

[David Dobrik]

Yeah.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah, I'm sure.

[David Dobrik]

And then I think we made jokes about.

[Natalie Noel]

All right, let's just end the pod.

[Jason Nash]

About how we both. Honestly, let's just play them back.

[David Dobrik]

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[David Dobrik]

Alex Ernst. If you're listening to this, you're fucking. You're a lunatic. You know, you text me. He'll like, text me. He's like, wanna film something soon? And I, like, won't respond. He texted me this Tuesday, 5:05pm I didn't respond. And then 5, 26, 21 minutes later, he texts me, you want me to die?

[Jason Nash]

I said, ha, ha, ha ha. Yes, let's do it. You're crazy. And then he said, do you have any ideas? You want to brainstorm soon?

[David Dobrik]

And I forgot to respond. It's my fault.

[Natalie Noel]

Oh, my God, David.

[David Dobrik]

And then he texted me just now. And he goes, you hate me and you want me dead on the street.

[Jason Nash]

Alex, I love you. Please stop saying that. I hate you.

[Natalie Noel]

Why don't you respond now?

[David Dobrik]

That I just. I.

[Natalie Noel]

That's what it feels like when you don't respond.

[Jason Nash]

I genuinely just forget.

[David Dobrik]

No, but I've told them multiple times.

[Jason Nash]

I'm like, dude, I like, like, take.

[Natalie Noel]

Me through the moment. You see the text and you just. And what goes in your brain when you see Alex has texted you or me?

[David Dobrik]

Well, he goes.

[Jason Nash]

He goes, you want to brainstorm? And then in My head. I'm like, okay, so when will I be ready to, like, use my head? And then I'll be like, oh, probably not now. And then I'll just put it to the side. I'm like, I'll text him. Yeah, I'm ready to brainstorm.

[Natalie Noel]

Right, right, right.

[Jason Nash]

Which I haven't done since then. Sorry, what were you saying?

[Natalie Noel]

Oh, there's a guy named Flea. He's in the Red Hot Chili Peppers. We were talking about imposter syndrome, and he just put out a jazz album. And so it's like. It's a really highly regarded jazz album from a rock guy. And so he's doing an interview.

[Jason Nash]

What is highly regarded?

[Natalie Noel]

Highly regarded. It's like, it's supposed to be really good.

[Jason Nash]

Oh, okay.

[Natalie Noel]

So he brought. Acclaimed. Yeah, he brought all the best jazz people together to make a jazz album. He's a rock guy, though.

[David Dobrik]

Yeah.

[Natalie Noel]

And he's like, inter. Being interviewed, and he just crying. Cause he's like, I'm not good enough. He's like, I had this whole thing in my head that I wasn't good enough to be around these jazz players because I play rock. And then he's just crying in this interview. And I was like, wow, that's really fucking cool. And they all said, no, man, you're your own musical force, and you have every right to be here, just like us.

[David Dobrik]

Do you think I will have the.

[Jason Nash]

Same conversation if I go to a Grammy party this week?

[Evan Ross Katz]

Yes.

[Jason Nash]

You think Bruno Mars will turn to me and be like, first of all, I love Views. I heard it.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[Jason Nash]

I don't know what Diplo's issue is.

[David Dobrik]

Without having a party this year, but you belong.

[Jason Nash]

You belong with us.

[Natalie Noel]

You are musical, man. You're musical. The way you do that pod, it's.

[Jason Nash]

Its own rhythm I listen to. It's like the melodies that play through my head.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[Jason Nash]

I've also been looking into becoming a spy. I mean, I don't want to say it, because I feel like it's going to ruin it for me in the future.

[Evan Ross Katz]

I don't think you're built to be a spy.

[Jason Nash]

Really.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Unfortunately, no.

[Natalie Noel]

Who you guys buy for?

[Jason Nash]

I just think, like, first of all, I like the word espionage, and I'm a huge fan of Aston Martin, and I've been getting a lot of James Bond edits.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Yes.

[Jason Nash]

And I think with enough confidence that I think I will have. I will build up my confidence. Right now, it's at, like, medium, I think I used to have it, like, really well because I was young and like, young, dumb, full of gum. And I was just, like, excited. But, like, I think at five years, I'm gonna reach peak confidence again, like in my 35s.

[Natalie Noel]

Yes.

[Jason Nash]

And I think I'm gonna go into espionage. Really?

[Evan Ross Katz]

Espionage? Like, what are you thinking you're gonna do?

[Jason Nash]

Well, I think. And honestly, people just take this as a joke so no one will believe me. Right, right. Like, I could go. I could talk about it clearly now.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[Jason Nash]

And also actually do it. So I'm not, like, shooting myself in the foot here, but I think I'm pretty good. I think I can infiltrate another, like, country's organization just by having a good time.

[Evan Ross Katz]

You wanna interview? Interview it up. Like the movie?

[Jason Nash]

Yeah. Like, get into. Yeah.

[Natalie Noel]

Interesting. Would you think about speaking of the interview?

[Jason Nash]

Yeah, sorry, I'm pivoting a lot here.

[Natalie Noel]

Go ahead.

[Jason Nash]

But we were at Jonas kebab. Did we talk about this on the pod with James Franco?

[Natalie Noel]

No.

[Jason Nash]

So Jonah and James are, like, really tight, and we were with James Franco at Jonas kebab. It was me, James, Natalie. Natalie left to take a call, which is so stupid because she, like. It was like, the best time. Jonah's writing partner and Jonah's mom to serving as kebabs.

[David Dobrik]

And he told us, like, the whole story about the interview.

[Natalie Noel]

Oh.

[David Dobrik]

Like, about, like, North Korea. Like, emailed and, like, threatened.

[Natalie Noel]

Sure.

[David Dobrik]

To, like, you know, basically go to war with the United States over this movie. Wow, it was so cool.

[Natalie Noel]

That was all based on hearing it from James Franco. It was all Jonas kebab. It was based on the Sony email leak, right?

[David Dobrik]

Yeah, yeah.

[Natalie Noel]

Sony had an email breach.

[David Dobrik]

Yeah.

[Natalie Noel]

And then what happened? All these emails got out.

[Jason Nash]

No.

[Natalie Noel]

Is that what happened?

[Jason Nash]

No, no, no, no.

[David Dobrik]

It was all because they were making.

[Jason Nash]

Fun of Kim Jong Un. Right, right. But so then they.

[David Dobrik]

Then they hacked Sony.

[Natalie Noel]

That's what happened. Right, right, right. They made the movie and then they. They hacked Sony because movie theaters were.

[David Dobrik]

Afraid to play the movie.

[Natalie Noel]

Yes.

[David Dobrik]

Because North Korea threatened attacks on movie theaters. So then it went straight to streamer, but it absolutely obliterated on streaming. Like, you had to buy it. Obliterated. It did so incredibly well.

[Natalie Noel]

It did, yeah.

[Jason Nash]

I mean, it's.

[David Dobrik]

It's one of the best movies ever. The concept is so good.

[Jason Nash]

Yeah.

[Natalie Noel]

Comedy wise. Yeah. Yeah. My friend wrote that movie and was supposed to be his, like, big thing. And of course, it just. I went and saw it in theater.

[David Dobrik]

It definitely didn't reach, like, the potential it could have.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[David Dobrik]

But yeah, back to espionage, I looked up, like, what it takes to be a Spy?

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[David Dobrik]

Someone I saw a TikTok earlier, and they're basically talking about. In order to be a spy, you have to have the ability to get someone to buy you a cup of coffee for free without you bringing up the fact that you want coffee.

[Natalie Noel]

Oh, that's such a great bit for the vlog.

[David Dobrik]

Yeah. Without you bringing up that you want coffee. Or without, like, you mentioning anything about coffee. It needs to be paid for and free.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Like, you're at a coffee shop.

[David Dobrik]

I don't actually know.

[Natalie Noel]

We should go try that out. We should put you down at a coffee shop with no money and see.

[David Dobrik]

If I can do it.

[Natalie Noel]

And see if you can get a free cup of coffee.

[David Dobrik]

Well, here are the qualifications that you would need. I just, like, looked up, like, what it would take to be, like, what.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Google qualifies as a. Yeah, yeah.

[David Dobrik]

So number one is highly developmental discipline. Now you're laughing.

[Natalie Noel]

Can't even text Alex Ernst back.

[David Dobrik]

But why are you laughing? They must mentally wall off the work life from the personal life and vice versa. Otherwise they would talk out of turn, get burned out or worse. If a field operative, they would get absolutely no way. Okay, let's go.

[Natalie Noel]

You'll be in the field.

[David Dobrik]

Let me hit 2 ups. Yeah.

[Natalie Noel]

You'll be talking about some girl you're DMIN with, and you'll be like, I really like her. And you'll be telling the spy everything. Go.

[David Dobrik]

Okay. Well, that's actually how you get closer to people.

[Natalie Noel]

Oh, really?

[David Dobrik]

Yes.

[Natalie Noel]

Okay. Okay.

[David Dobrik]

A love of travel and experiencing foreign cultures.

[Natalie Noel]

You love that?

[Jason Nash]

I do.

[Evan Ross Katz]

It's like, really a toss up, though.

[David Dobrik]

It's a tough.

[Evan Ross Katz]

The entire time.

[David Dobrik]

It depends when you catch me.

[Jason Nash]

This is.

[David Dobrik]

This is a good one.

[Jason Nash]

Number three is recognition that diverse people are actually diverse.

[Natalie Noel]

You're. You do think that.

[Jason Nash]

I do think that.

[Evan Ross Katz]

I don't get it.

[Jason Nash]

Well, I think it's. It's basically acknowledging that different cultures value different things. Like, there's different personalities, there's different customs, different contrasting values, and, like, playing to those. Which is very good. Superior intelligence. I don't even have to read this one.

[Natalie Noel]

You'll have Natalie with you. So you'd be Okay.

[Jason Nash]

I think I got this one in the bag. Wholly committed. I'm pretty committed.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah, when you're.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Yeah, when you're committed.

[Jason Nash]

If I was to be a spy, though, I'd want to be a spy for both sides.

[Natalie Noel]

I was gonna say, would you ever be a double agent?

[Jason Nash]

I'd have to be a double agent.

[Natalie Noel]

Really?

[David Dobrik]

Yeah.

[Jason Nash]

Cause is that allowed?

[Evan Ross Katz]

Can you just Say, like, I'm gonna be a double agent.

[Jason Nash]

You definitely can't, Natalie. You can't say that. But I. Cause I have a level of guilt being a spy. But if I'm, like, fucking both sides, then whatever, then I feel like it'd be even.

[Natalie Noel]

What makes me good.

[Jason Nash]

Number six. Ready?

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[Jason Nash]

Good sense of humor.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Okay.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah, that's good.

[Evan Ross Katz]

That one's good. That one we can confirm 100% locked in.

[David Dobrik]

Number seven.

[Jason Nash]

Loyalty. Okay, lock that one in.

[Natalie Noel]

That's good.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Lock that one in.

[Jason Nash]

Number eight. Socially accepting. Religion, race, ethnicity, first language, everything.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah, that's you.

[Jason Nash]

I mean, can you name a more socially accepting guy on the planet than me?

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah. Yeah. You have those two friends who shit on each other and you don't judge them at all.

[Jason Nash]

Nope, I don't. I don't judge them. No. I'm socially accepted.

[Natalie Noel]

Say whatever they want to do.

[Jason Nash]

Okay. Covert action spooks can get wild during recess.

[Natalie Noel]

What?

[Jason Nash]

I don't know what that means.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Covert action spooks can get what?

[Jason Nash]

Okay. And Patience. That's the last one.

[Natalie Noel]

Ooh.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Okay, so, like, what is it, four out of 10? There's a 40% chance you can.

[Jason Nash]

But again, I'm only 29, so I have, like, time to become the.

[Natalie Noel]

What's your point of being a double agent? So it's like, I work for the United States.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Yeah. Like, what's fulfilling about that?

[Natalie Noel]

But I'm sympathetic with Russia, so then I double agent for Russia.

[Jason Nash]

I'm not sympathetic. I feel like if you're a double agent, you're almost, like, paid for.

[Natalie Noel]

Pay for hire.

[Jason Nash]

No, Like, I think. I think. I don't think that there's any Right. I don't think that either have best interests in mind for the globe. I think if you're a double agent, I think you're playing both sides for your own benefit. No, for what you believe is, like. Is the greater good. Oh, yeah. So I've seen movies where, like, there are double agents and they're giving information to each side just in order for, like.

[Natalie Noel]

I think you should start small, you know, you should start locally. You know, there's a lot of lawyers around here that are trying to prove, like, people with faulty litigation cases. Like, I know my one friend was asked to go take photos of someone at the gym because they. They said they were. They had malpractice. But, like, so. So they were trying to prove that this guy, like, could work out that his neck wasn't messed up.

[Jason Nash]

Wow.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[Evan Ross Katz]

That's crazy.

[Jason Nash]

Did he do it?

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah, he Went down there, but the guy wasn't there.

[Evan Ross Katz]

How did he even get contacted for that, like, opportunity?

[Natalie Noel]

He somehow knew the doctor that was being sued. So the doctor called him, was like, hey, man, can you just run over to, you know, the LA Fitness and see if this guy's there to take some photos?

[Evan Ross Katz]

Wow, that's sneaky.

[Jason Nash]

That is small.

[David Dobrik]

I could easily do that.

[Jason Nash]

Yeah.

[Natalie Noel]

Or maybe go to work for Chipotle and spy on Sharkies. See what they're doing with their burrito, Right? That could be cool.

[Jason Nash]

Well, I'm pretty close with the Sharkey's team.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Yeah.

[Natalie Noel]

What about movies? Spy movies? We can get you. We can kind of get you up to speed.

[Jason Nash]

This isn't J. You're talking. You're taking the piss out of me right now. This is. This is something very.

[Natalie Noel]

I love Bourne Identity.

[Jason Nash]

I mean, I just.

[Natalie Noel]

I love Bond. Bond's all on Netflix now. Every movie.

[Jason Nash]

Bond is on Netflix.

[Natalie Noel]

Casino Royale is the best.

[Jason Nash]

And guys, I don't recommend shows often, but my favorite show I think that I've ever watched is currently on Netflix.

[Natalie Noel]

Assassination.

[Jason Nash]

Yeah. Yeah, it's the James Franco show. The James Franco show.

[Natalie Noel]

You haven't seen it?

[Jason Nash]

James Franco show where he finds a time machine in this, like, diner and he uses it to go back in time to figure out who killed jfk.

[David Dobrik]

Wow.

[Jason Nash]

And in it is like an intertwined love story. It really is so incredibly fulfilling.

[Natalie Noel]

You love it, huh?

[Jason Nash]

And I had no idea that James.

[David Dobrik]

Franco was the guy. Cause I completely separated it. And James came over the other day and I was like, dude, you're my favorite show. It's really funny sometimes when you compliment, like, actors, they'll be like, okay.

[Jason Nash]

They're like, almost get spooked.

[David Dobrik]

And then I remember, I was like, oh, wait, play cool, Dave. And then I was like, it's nothing.

[Evan Ross Katz]

It's nothing.

[David Dobrik]

But, yeah, that's kind of what's new. Have a big week ahead of us. Our friend Mike is coming into town. He's having a honeymoon in Hawaii, but he planned a little layover here in la. Oh, great. Yeah.

[Evan Ross Katz]

So we're so thoughtful of him to think of us, you know? Isn't that funny? That was definitely like. Like he doesn't actually need to have a layover in la. He was just like, I'm gonna do this, so my friends are happy.

[David Dobrik]

Well, he, like, he doesn't like to fly. He's like a big pussy.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah. This is your one childhood friend that doesn't live here.

[David Dobrik]

That doesn't live here.

[Natalie Noel]

The one guy that Said no.

[David Dobrik]

The one guy that's in the group chat.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[David Dobrik]

That doesn't live here, Right?

[Evan Ross Katz]

Yeah.

[David Dobrik]

Yeah. So he's coming here on Friday, so this gonna be a big day.

[Natalie Noel]

Oh, what are you gonna plan?

[Jason Nash]

I don't know. We'd probably just hit the clubs.

[David Dobrik]

I'm honestly just gonna text Diplo and be like, my friend's in town.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah, you gotta.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Where can we go?

[David Dobrik]

Where can we go? Please throw a Grammy party, dude.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Please.

[David Dobrik]

But, yeah. What do you have planned this weekend? Yeah. How are your daily vlogs going?

[Natalie Noel]

Amazing.

[Jason Nash]

Really?

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah, it's really fun. You know what's fun about it is, like, it's finding your own way to do it. Cause lots of times when I try to vlog, before, I was like, I was trying to do what other people were doing, but now I'm just trying to. I'm only doing what I can do.

[David Dobrik]

Do you ever like posting it? How many hours of footage do you have a day? Well, like, one hour footage.

[Natalie Noel]

About an hour. An hour and a half. Yeah.

[David Dobrik]

And you cut it to, like, 10 minutes?

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[David Dobrik]

Wow.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah, 10, 11 minutes. And just. And what's really nice, just the people that watch every day. Then you're like, wow, they're back, they're back, they're back, they're back. And it built a little bit from two weeks ago to this week. I was like, wow, it's building.

[David Dobrik]

That is really sick. How many days? How many days have you done a row?

[Natalie Noel]

26 in a row.

[David Dobrik]

Holy shit. Are you gonna go the full year?

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[David Dobrik]

You gonna go 365 videos in a row?

[Natalie Noel]

I'm gonna go 365.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Wait, are you being serious?

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Oh, no way. I thought it was just for the month of Jan. No, no.

[Natalie Noel]

I'm gonna go the whole year. I'm gonna try December.

[David Dobrik]

That you're supposed to do it.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Yeah. Yeah.

[David Dobrik]

Are you getting Adsense?

[Natalie Noel]

Yes.

[David Dobrik]

Can you tell everyone how much you're making?

[Natalie Noel]

No.

[David Dobrik]

Wait, why not?

[Natalie Noel]

No, I can't. I'm making.

[David Dobrik]

If you don't want to share, you don't have to.

[Natalie Noel]

No, I'm happy to share. How should I share? Like, the best. The best video? Like, one. How about I do the best? The video that's done the best?

[David Dobrik]

Okay.

[Natalie Noel]

It's a video with Wyatt.

[David Dobrik]

Okay.

[Natalie Noel]

It got 16,000 views.

[David Dobrik]

16?

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah. And guess how much money, how much Adsense I made.

[David Dobrik]

Okay. 16,000 views.

[Natalie Noel]

16,000. It's the best video I've done this month.

[David Dobrik]

Yeah, dude, Mr. Beast is so good at guessing things like this.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[Home Depot Ad Voice]

Fuck.

[David Dobrik]

I'm so out of touch when it comes to this.

[Natalie Noel]

Okay, well, you don't get Adsense.

[David Dobrik]

$75.

[Natalie Noel]

Close.

[David Dobrik]

$65.

[Natalie Noel]

No.

[David Dobrik]

$115.

[Natalie Noel]

Nope.

[David Dobrik]

$80.

[Natalie Noel]

Closer.

[David Dobrik]

$90.

[Natalie Noel]

Very close.

[David Dobrik]

91.

[Natalie Noel]

Very close.

[David Dobrik]

We're about a Chipotle fucking burrito way.

[Natalie Noel]

And Natalie's close. And you're close. You're closer.

[David Dobrik]

94.

[Natalie Noel]

You're really close.

[David Dobrik]

96.

[Natalie Noel]

$96. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good. But so if all the videos could do that, that would be $3,000 a month. That'd be great.

[David Dobrik]

Right?

[Natalie Noel]

But they're not all doing that. There are some are like 4,000, 5,000.

[David Dobrik]

But they're all gonna. But how many views are you getting.

[Natalie Noel]

A month right now? 1.2 million views a month.

[David Dobrik]

Okay, so how much is that?

[Natalie Noel]

It's thirteen hundred dollars a month.

[David Dobrik]

Oh, yeah.

[Natalie Noel]

With old videos and.

[Jason Nash]

Yes.

[David Dobrik]

That'll just build.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[David Dobrik]

If you have a catalog of 300 videos up.

[Natalie Noel]

Yes, I do have a catalog of 300 videos.

[David Dobrik]

No, I know, but, like, fresh ones.

[Natalie Noel]

Fresh ones. Yeah.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Yeah.

[David Dobrik]

Even, like, just like, you're gonna be fudgeing loaded. Imagine you're gonna be soon. You'll be swimming.

[Natalie Noel]

I'd be. I'd be so happy if you got really rich.

[David Dobrik]

Would you leave Naveen? Dude, nobody would be so confused. She'd be like, are you serious?

[Natalie Noel]

She's infatuated.

[David Dobrik]

Sorry, Naveen. I make 3100amonth now.

[Jason Nash]

That's crazy.

[Natalie Noel]

And we end because we're out. It's so fun. We run into people, listen to views. It's so fun. We saw this woman yesterday, Maya from. She lives in Santa Barbara. She was down at the Melrose Trading Post and she was like, oh, my God.

[Jason Nash]

Wow. You're, like, really doing LA things.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jason Nash]

You know what I've seen on Tick Tock? I've seen a resurgence. For the love of la.

[David Dobrik]

Yeah.

[Jason Nash]

Have you been seeing this?

[Natalie Noel]

I haven't.

[Evan Ross Katz]

I've been seeing it.

[Jason Nash]

There's been, like, a lot of people that are like, being like, I love la.

[Natalie Noel]

Yes. Yes. I guess it's the time to say it because it's been so bad.

[Jason Nash]

That's what Natalie said, too.

[Natalie Noel]

What did you say?

[Evan Ross Katz]

Well, I just said because the weather's so. Everywhere else, like, everybody's like, oh, I. I didn'.

[Natalie Noel]

But that's true, too.

[Jason Nash]

What did you mean?

[Natalie Noel]

I meant, like, the city's been taking a hit for the last couple years in terms of, like, fun and people, like, shit on it. And the nightlife is Done here. It's not what it was.

[Jason Nash]

I think it's turning.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Yeah. But I just wonder what's making it turn.

[Jason Nash]

It's actually made me feel like a proud LA er. I've been seeing a lot of comments that are just like, I love this place and I want to acknowledge the fact that I haven't been the most positive towards la. Every time people ask me, like, especially when I'm in a different country, they'll be like, do you like L A? Not really, I just, like. Which is kind of fucked up.

[Natalie Noel]

Yes.

[Jason Nash]

Because I do like L. A. Yeah, you love it. I think it's like. I think that's just like, a thing from my, like, youth.

[Natalie Noel]

What's the five best things about L A? Go from five best things.

[Jason Nash]

The five best things.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah, you can do it with Natalie. Okay, the weather one is obvious. Go.

[Evan Ross Katz]

The weather, the weather.

[Jason Nash]

Are you saying, like. Like, is this personal or is this anybody that comes?

[Evan Ross Katz]

I think it's just, like, generally speaking, let's do personal.

[Jason Nash]

Cause, like, obviously my friends and my home is, like, up there.

[Natalie Noel]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Jason Nash]

Like. Like, if I didn't. If home base wasn't here, would I have, like, would I have that much of an affinity towards la? I don't know. Yeah.

[Natalie Noel]

What I love about LA is just like, there's always, like, there's always, like, hope around the corner. Like, tonight I'm going, I'm going to Kevin Hart and Kenan Thompson's. They have an Amazon show and we're going to, like, a screening and it's like, oh, like, who knows?

[Jason Nash]

Yeah.

[Natalie Noel]

You know what I mean?

[Jason Nash]

Like, maybe place to be, like, inspired.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jason Nash]

There's a lot of people doing a lot of things.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Like, endless opportunity.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah, Endless opportunity. People doing stuff.

[Jason Nash]

It's a.

[David Dobrik]

People in a nice place to meet people. If you're wanting to get into entertainment.

[Natalie Noel]

Yes.

[David Dobrik]

And I mean that, like, as easily.

[Jason Nash]

As, like, at the gym or at Erewhon. You don't have to, like, have like, this crazy meeting at caa.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[Jason Nash]

Like, all those people that work at CAA go to the gym, go to the store.

[Natalie Noel]

Yes.

[Jason Nash]

Walk their dogs. Like, it's like, there's always places to meet people.

[David Dobrik]

I told you.

[Jason Nash]

Obviously, always places to not also talk to people and bother them.

[David Dobrik]

But, yeah, I told you.

[Natalie Noel]

I got a job on the treadmill once here, which was, like, incredible.

[David Dobrik]

Zilla Gym?

[Natalie Noel]

No, no, I was at the treadmill at Crunch and some guy called me and he was like, hey, I want you to host a Show. And I was like. I was like. I was like, what? I was like, shut up. Like, who are you? Like, he's like, no, no, no, no. Don't hang up. Don't hang up. I work for tmz. We're starting a new show. I want you to be the host. And I was like, I told you that story, right?

[Jason Nash]

I thought you were sitting next. You're sitting next to the guy on the treadmill.

[Natalie Noel]

He was across the way. He was in the office, like, 10ft away. And I just walked over. I left. I got off the treadmill and I walked office next door. And suddenly I was in tmz. And they were like, oh, you're the new host.

[David Dobrik]

Like crazy.

[Jason Nash]

And they paid you?

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah. And it was on for, like, two weeks until it got canceled.

[Jason Nash]

They paid you half a million dollars for two weeks?

[Natalie Noel]

No, I didn't say that.

[Jason Nash]

Wait, did you not say $500,000?

[Natalie Noel]

Never.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Like, that was never even David's world versus my world.

[Natalie Noel]

No, I think I got, like, you know, $2,000 an EP. But still, it was fun.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Wait, when was this?

[Natalie Noel]

This was like. I don't know.

[David Dobrik]

I knew you were a host on TV 10.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah. Me and Laura Silverman, we hosted a show called Totally Twisted. Yeah. And it was all.

[Jason Nash]

It was like, to look it up and tune in.

[Natalie Noel]

It was like tosh. It was like tosh zero. It was like Internet clips.

[Jason Nash]

Like, another good example of people meeting people here is, you know Ryan, our pickleball guy?

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[Jason Nash]

Like, just from people that play pickleball here.

[Natalie Noel]

Yes.

[Jason Nash]

Just last week. Got a $500,000 investment to fuse.

[Natalie Noel]

You're kidding.

[Jason Nash]

From someone that plays pickle here.

[Natalie Noel]

You're kidding.

[Jason Nash]

Like, they struck the deal right here in the backyard. That's crazy. Half a million dollars just over a game of pickleball?

[Natalie Noel]

You gotta get 3%, Dave.

[Jason Nash]

Like, that's Los Angeles.

[Natalie Noel]

3%?

[Jason Nash]

Yeah. Should I call him?

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[Jason Nash]

Should I see if I'll come in on it?

[Evan Ross Katz]

But, yeah, putting Ryan on the spot.

[Jason Nash]

Yeah. Ryan's like our guy that we call.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Is he?

[Jason Nash]

Well, we've called him on the pod so many times.

[Natalie Noel]

Wait, this is funny.

[Jason Nash]

You know, you're so good at picking up your phone, it's actually crazy if.

[Ryan]

I want to be.

[Jason Nash]

Well, thank you for being.

[Natalie Noel]

Wants to play pickleball.

[Jason Nash]

Ryan, you're on the podcast again. Guess what.

[Ryan]

Why?

[Jason Nash]

Well, it's not guess what. I don't know why I said that, but I heard you. You got an investor here on the pickleball court for $500,000. The other day?

[Ryan]

Well, not the other day, but, yeah, I met. I met somebody at the house. I think Ilya invited him over to play. Yeah, we had a lot of connectivity with his, like, network. Just who our existing investors are.

[David Dobrik]

Got it. So, yeah. So, Ryan, I'm just contacting you to see if there's any. Any way I can.

[Ryan]

I know, don't even ask.

[Jason Nash]

Just, you know, this is.

[David Dobrik]

As the guy who basically brokered the deal.

[Natalie Noel]

Where was David when the deal went down?

[David Dobrik]

I was probably upstairs in my bedroom, minding my own business, letting them connect, giving Ryan the opportunity.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I did do that. I did do that. I planted the seed. And then like a month later. So I do owe you dinner. How's that?

[David Dobrik]

Thank you.

[Jason Nash]

A half a million dollars.

[David Dobrik]

Ryan, we're Talking about why LA's say.

[Ryan]

What I said, I'll take you to dinner, as long as you stick around meal and you don't leave five minutes after.

[Jason Nash]

Ooh.

[David Dobrik]

You'Re good. You don't owe me anything. Ryan, we're talking about why we love la. What?

[Jason Nash]

That's.

[David Dobrik]

You're, like the probably the biggest LA fan in the world. Give me one reason.

[Ryan]

Honestly, I'm very, very mentally and emotionally affected by the weather and the climate, and I don't like gloomy skies, and I just love that 85% of the year, if not more. The weather in LA is like.

[David Dobrik]

It's just.

[Ryan]

It's pristine, you know, I. Look, nowhere is perfect, but I think we've got the best food. I think if we can clean up some things in the city, it's just a great. It's a great. It's a great city, the best weather.

[David Dobrik]

Thank you, Governor. Fus.

[Natalie Noel]

Okay.

[Ryan]

It's the weather.

[David Dobrik]

At the end of the day, it's.

[Natalie Noel]

Not the best food.

[David Dobrik]

All right, thanks, Ryan.

[Jason Nash]

What?

[Natalie Noel]

It's not the best food.

[David Dobrik]

It's not the best food?

[Natalie Noel]

No, sir.

[Evan Ross Katz]

This amazing food here, not the best.

[David Dobrik]

You ever hear that fact that if you wanted to try all the restaurants in LA, it'd take you like, 36 years if you went to one every day?

[Natalie Noel]

Sure. In New York, it take you 46 years. I mean, what do you.

[David Dobrik]

What do you say? Yeah, but that's. We definitely have the, like, the best food.

[Natalie Noel]

That's. That's quantity, not quality.

[Evan Ross Katz]

No, but I would say, like, whatever.

[David Dobrik]

Quality within quantity.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah. Yes, There's. There's quality within quantity. I see. The more of it, the more likely.

[David Dobrik]

Yeah, yeah.

[Natalie Noel]

I'm just saying, like, the food is better on the East Coast. It's better In Chicago, you know, it is.

[David Dobrik]

What? Chicago doesn't even have that many places to eat. Got, like, fucking.

[Natalie Noel]

Maybe the food's better on the East Coast. I know it is. I know it is.

[Evan Ross Katz]

But, like, whatever you have on the east coast, you can definitely find in la.

[David Dobrik]

Guys, this wasn't it.

[Jason Nash]

This wasn't a. We're not putting the east coast down here.

[Natalie Noel]

Hey, here's a good example of la. You guys went out Thursday night for John's birthday. How was that? Horrible.

[David Dobrik]

We were actually shocked.

[Natalie Noel]

Why?

[David Dobrik]

We're actually shocked. It was, like, one of the worst nights of going out ever.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Really? Nobody was out.

[David Dobrik]

Nobody was out. We went to, like. We went to this, like, club that's, like, always popping.

[Experian Ad Voice]

Yeah.

[David Dobrik]

And it was basically closed. It just had, like, five tables open for, like, dinner. So we just, like, sat and.

[Natalie Noel]

What time are you out?

[Evan Ross Katz]

Like 11pm 11.

[David Dobrik]

Oh, no, nothing. Nobody was out. But yes, in the summertime. Yes. Yeah, I think. I think it's because, like, when it drops below 70 here, people are like, what, do you stay inside by the fire?

[Evan Ross Katz]

Well, it's also January. It's like, dry January. Like, you know, people are, like, on their grind. You know, it's the one time to.

[David Dobrik]

Be in LA if you don't want anybody here. Yeah, It's Coachella.

[Natalie Noel]

Oh, that's a crazy. Oh, I love Christmas here too.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Yeah. The holidays here. Any holidays, Thanksgiving, Christmas goes down.

[David Dobrik]

Am I considered a transplant?

[Evan Ross Katz]

Yes.

[Natalie Noel]

I didn't know where you were going there. A transplant. Yeah. You're a transplant, but still you're not from here.

[David Dobrik]

I get it.

[Natalie Noel]

But like, LA transplant. David Dobrik.

[David Dobrik]

But, like, at what point am I not a. Am I forever a transplant?

[Evan Ross Katz]

Honestly, I would say if you've been.

[David Dobrik]

In LA longer than I've been anywhere else in the entire world.

[Natalie Noel]

That's not true yet.

[Jason Nash]

Yeah, it is.

[David Dobrik]

We went through this.

[Natalie Noel]

You've been 12 years here. You've been 13 years in Chicago, and you've been 5 years in Chicago.

[Jason Nash]

Suburbs.

[David Dobrik]

I switched suburbs.

[Natalie Noel]

Okay, so. Oh, so the subway.

[Jason Nash]

Okay.

[Natalie Noel]

You moved a couple towns over.

[David Dobrik]

Okay, okay, you're right.

[Evan Ross Katz]

You moved 20 minutes away.

[Natalie Noel]

I was a Lincolnshire transplant for a while.

[David Dobrik]

Okay, fine. Yeah, I guess you're right.

[Jason Nash]

But once I become once LA's number one, is that my.

[David Dobrik]

Am I still. I'm still transplant.

[Natalie Noel]

I've lived here more than. Yeah. Anywhere else, so. Yeah.

[David Dobrik]

Are you a transplant?

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah, I'm still a transplant.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Affinity is still like Boston, you know? Like, that's like his roots.

[Natalie Noel]

Good word. Affinity.

[David Dobrik]

Affinity.

[Natalie Noel]

I used to drive an affinity.

[Jason Nash]

No, that's.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Oh, my bad.

[Jason Nash]

Okay. Well done.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah. I mean, I do like it here. And that's the other thing is if I have to move, I'll be like.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Oh, I was having this conversation with some girlfriends and I thought this was interesting and, like, very, like, modern age.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[Evan Ross Katz]

A lot of my girlfriends are not taking their significant other's last name, like, when they get married.

[Natalie Noel]

Really?

[Evan Ross Katz]

Yeah, like, they're keeping their last. Their last name.

[David Dobrik]

Oh, I don't like that.

[Natalie Noel]

That's up.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Really? You think so?

[David Dobrik]

I don't like that at all.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Why?

[Natalie Noel]

It just.

[David Dobrik]

I don't even. I don't even care. Like, I'll take the girl's name.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Okay.

[David Dobrik]

But, like, someone needs to take somebody's name.

[Natalie Noel]

There's something. There's something so nice when I. When it's like, I forget that Naveen changed her name, and she'll be like, naveen Nash. And I'll be like, oh, my God.

[David Dobrik]

Especially weird.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jason Nash]

That's really funny.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[Evan Ross Katz]

I mean, I. I, like, a lot of them were saying just because, like, in professional settings, like, well, that their entire career they've been so and so.

[Natalie Noel]

Sure.

[Evan Ross Katz]

And so to change the last name, it's like. It's like an identity crisis, kind of.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah. I was Molly Iberneck. Now I'm Molly Iberneck Schwartz.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Yeah. And who the fuck is that?

[Jason Nash]

Yeah, it used to be really complicated with teachers.

[Natalie Noel]

Yes.

[Jason Nash]

Because, like, especially when a hot teacher would change her name and you'd be like, no, that doesn't fit how hot you are.

[Natalie Noel]

Glassman.

[Jason Nash]

Like, that used to be. Like, that used to be really tough. I don't know. I still think you should take a last name. One person or the other, please.

[Evan Ross Katz]

I think the man taking the woman's last name is just weird.

[Jason Nash]

Okay, cool. So take the man's last name. I don't care who takes who. I just think you should be cohesive. And I don't like the little squiggly marks in between the hyphens. Squiggly?

[Evan Ross Katz]

The hyphen. I don't love a hyphen either.

[Jason Nash]

I think that's strange. I think it's just complicated.

[Natalie Noel]

What about a tilde? How do you feel about a tilde?

[Jason Nash]

What's a tilde? Like the nyeh nye nye.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah, yeah. Little dash above, like an A or a, uh.

[Jason Nash]

Like. Yeah, no, I like those. I really like the ones that are squiggly.

[Natalie Noel]

You like a squiggly?

[Jason Nash]

Like gas.

[Natalie Noel]

Oh. Oh. Like in Vietnamese. Wording.

[Evan Ross Katz]

I have a squiggly.

[Jason Nash]

No, you don't.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Yes, I do.

[Jason Nash]

On what word?

[Evan Ross Katz]

N. In Maradwena, you have a squiggly above the U. No.

[Jason Nash]

You're like the widest person I know.

[Evan Ross Katz]

I know. I don't really know why you say that.

[Natalie Noel]

When you sign your name, do you put a squiggly?

[Evan Ross Katz]

No.

[Natalie Noel]

Okay, so you don't know this quickly.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Well, why would I do that?

[Jason Nash]

Are you gonna take your husband's last name?

[Evan Ross Katz]

See, you know what's nice about what I've done with my name?

[Jason Nash]

Are you comfortable with going with Natalie Dobrik for the rest of your life?

[Evan Ross Katz]

No, no, actually, that is my email. So, like, someone asked me on our meeting, they're like, are you the wife? And I was like, no, no, I'm the manager. She was like, from a different country. I thought it was so fun because your last name is like. It's the name of our company. So it's like in my email, are you the wife?

[Natalie Noel]

They would always ask me if I was his dad. Someone asked, are you the dad to David? Yeah.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Really?

[Natalie Noel]

I don't think he'd roll around vlog with his dad.

[Evan Ross Katz]

You never know.

[Jason Nash]

I'm a cool guy, Jason.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah, I've got my own thing going on.

[David Dobrik]

I'm daily vlogging now. By the way.

[Jason Nash]

Probably saw. There's a good chance you saw the one with Wyatt. Wyatt does well, you should start making statistics for your channel.

[David Dobrik]

Like, like Mr. Beast does.

[Jason Nash]

Like Mr.

[David Dobrik]

Beast has this like crazy statistic that it's like one in eight people on the planet have seen a Mr. Beast video. Yeah, you should do with your highest performing 16, 000 view video.

[Natalie Noel]

Okay, how do I do that?

[Jason Nash]

I don't know.

[David Dobrik]

Break that down 16,000.

[Natalie Noel]

I just have to divide.

[Jason Nash]

You should get like a really cool.

[David Dobrik]

Guy to do like a trailer for your videos. Yeah. One in 550,000 people have seen the latest Jason Nash vlog.

[Natalie Noel]

That's really funny. That's a good idea.

[David Dobrik]

Enter any state and there's a chance that there's a person in that state that has seen a NAS Nation production.

[Jason Nash]

Sorry, what were you saying?

[Natalie Noel]

That.

[Evan Ross Katz]

I was just talking about the last name thing. But yeah, I'm gonna take my husband's last name. Oh, that's what I was saying because my name is Natalie Noel. Like, that's what people know me as. Like my son.

[David Dobrik]

Oh, you're saying you did an interesting thing where you just completely. You basically stepped on your father's throat and you said, fuck this name. So not only am I not gonna take my future man's name, but I'm gonna make sure any man that has anything to do with this is eliminated.

[Evan Ross Katz]

My God.

[David Dobrik]

I am just Natalie Noel now. Just feminine names.

[Evan Ross Katz]

My dad does say that, though. He's like, use your last name. And I'm like, why?

[Jason Nash]

It's really funny.

[Natalie Noel]

Why don't you use your last name?

[Jason Nash]

My parents were nervous about me naming it Dobrik's because they're like, if the pizza sucks, we don't want to tie it to her family name.

[Evan Ross Katz]

That's crazy. Wow, that's ruthless. I didn't use my. Because growing up as a kid, like, my last name was so not American. So people just. I felt. I don't know, I just got, like, embarrassed by it growing up. Like, when we had to do, like, roll call or, like, lineup or whatever, and you just say, like, my full name, I'd be so. So I just. When I made my Instagram when I was in middle school, I was like, it's Natalie Nuel.

[Jason Nash]

Oh, well, that's how I felt about Julianne. Like, I used to get fucking, like, destroyed for my middle name, Julian, 100% to the point where it, like, traumatized me. Where, like, now I was hanging out with someone actually the other day and said my name on the hotel window or the hotel thing.

[David Dobrik]

We were all hanging out in the.

[Jason Nash]

Living room, and it said David Julian Dobrik. And I was like, I'm surprised none of you guys have mentioned anything about my last name. And we were in a different country. Or about my middle name. And they're like, julian.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[Jason Nash]

And they're like, yeah, like random people.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Or like, us.

[Jason Nash]

No, like, people from that country.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Oh, okay.

[Jason Nash]

And they're like, yeah, like, seven friends named Julian. And, like, I'm, like, so programmed for some reason to, like, be embarrassed by.

[Natalie Noel]

It because.

[Jason Nash]

It'S, like, so crazy.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[Jason Nash]

And I'm not even just saying this to, like, to, like, regain my confidence in it. Like, genuinely, I feel rude now when I'm, like, embarrassed to say my name to the Julians because there's nothing wrong with the name Julian.

[Natalie Noel]

Let's reframe your brain right now.

[Jason Nash]

Yeah.

[Natalie Noel]

Imagine you were a famous artist.

[Jason Nash]

Yeah.

[Natalie Noel]

Okay. And you're, like, world renowned. And you go to see David Julian Dobrik. Like, doesn't that sound good?

[Jason Nash]

Huh?

[Evan Ross Katz]

Or let's say, yeah, like, your name's not that bad. Like, Julian's not even that bad.

[Natalie Noel]

Or if you're an author or, like a. Maybe even an artist. Like a concert pianist.

[David Dobrik]

Yeah.

[Jason Nash]

I don't know what happened. I don't know who put it in my head that it was a bad name.

[Natalie Noel]

It was that kid on the bus.

[Jason Nash]

Definitely. No, what's the kid on the bus? They didn't know. It was like my close friends that knew.

[David Dobrik]

Julian. Your name is Julian?

[Jason Nash]

I think it's.

[David Dobrik]

Cause it sounds like Julian.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Yeah.

[Jason Nash]

Which is also like. I mean nowadays you could. Your guy could be called Katie and that's actually a really cool guy named Katie.

[Natalie Noel]

K A D Y. Yeah.

[Jason Nash]

I mean, yeah.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Now I love like the unisex. I love like a girl having a guy's name and like guys having.

[Jason Nash]

Yeah, girls having guys name is like the coolest.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah. Charlie.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Yeah, but even more so.

[Jason Nash]

Even more. You gotta go like hard, harder.

[Natalie Noel]

Like what?

[Jason Nash]

Billy's a good one.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Billie's good.

[David Dobrik]

But Billie Eilish kind of took it.

[Jason Nash]

Like Billie Eilish has now made it feminine.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Yeah.

[Natalie Noel]

Yeah.

[Jason Nash]

But like, I don't know what's like a really.

[David Dobrik]

Mark.

[Natalie Noel]

Mark.

[Evan Ross Katz]

No, that's too much.

[Jason Nash]

Really?

[Evan Ross Katz]

Yeah. Cause like Zach. A girl named Zach. Yeah, it's kind of interesting.

[Jason Nash]

I kind of like that.

[Evan Ross Katz]

I wrote.

[Jason Nash]

I wrote Jason the worst name. Jason. This is my girlfriend, Jason.

[David Dobrik]

What?

[Evan Ross Katz]

My girlfriend, Mark. No, I don'.

[Jason Nash]

Yeah, I mean, I don't know. Listen, we have some time to think about names, guys. New revelation. I'm gonna be single for a long time.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Really?

[Jason Nash]

Yeah.

[Natalie Noel]

No.

[David Dobrik]

Yeah.

[Natalie Noel]

Why?

[Jason Nash]

Well, because I'm gonna. I'm starting this new vlog journey and I can't have anybody beating down my back.

[Natalie Noel]

Oh, okay.

[Evan Ross Katz]

I kind of was thinking that too. I was like, if we're gonna start doing like. There was some things that I was like, this is so stupid. There's some things that I was like mentioned.

[Jason Nash]

We're just accepting defeat over here is what we're doing.

[Natalie Noel]

Tell me. Tell me.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Well, no, there was just like things. Decisions I was going to make for like my. Which I figure I should still make them anyway.

[Natalie Noel]

Like when you booked that thing last summer and you had to cancel it.

[David Dobrik]

Yeah.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Or just like. No, even. Just like personal health decisions.

[Jason Nash]

What the fuck you mean?

[Evan Ross Katz]

I was gonna move to Chicago for like six weeks and then we decided we were vlogging again, so I had to cancel everything.

[Jason Nash]

Oh yeah.

[Evan Ross Katz]

I wanted to live my life, live my dreams.

[Natalie Noel]

You go, girl.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Thank you. No, but there was like, I don't know, just like, like, like not smoking a cigarette, for example, was like one of the things I wanted to do this year in order to like, make sure my body was in peak health or whatever, so that once I find my person and then I, like, want to have kids, like, I'm gonna be, like, good to go and be, like, so clean, so ready for it.

[David Dobrik]

Okay.

[Evan Ross Katz]

But now I'm gonna be so busy. Like, I'm not gonna have time. Like, I'm. I've already mentally committed to, like, the next year is, like, I'm not gonna find. There's no. There is zero chance that I'm gonna find anybody or even have the time to think about whatever. Because we're just gonna be so busy.

[Natalie Noel]

No.

[Evan Ross Katz]

How am I.

[Natalie Noel]

You're closing the door, right?

[Jason Nash]

I think this next year, Jay is going to be so busy.

[Home Depot Ad Voice]

Yeah.

[Jason Nash]

Where it's game over.

[Natalie Noel]

Really?

[Jason Nash]

Yeah.

[Natalie Noel]

Oh, okay.

[Evan Ross Katz]

I'm sure I'll meet people. I just won't have time for, like, an actual committed relationship to the point where, like, I'm like, okay, well, but don't shut yourself.

[Natalie Noel]

That being said out there before we.

[David Dobrik]

End the pod, we are looking for editors that are incredible. And I mean. And I don't mean, like, you.

[Jason Nash]

You. I don't know.

[David Dobrik]

I don't mean you can cut to music. I don't mean that, like, you see, like, pretty shots of sunsets and a boat and cool drone shots and people playing sports, and you could put it together and make a really cool reel. I mean, like, some, like, someone that can, like, take footage that is complete shit and turn it into something by either making it really long or by making it really short. By, like, knowing, like, just, like, feeling. Just, like. By knowing what? Like what? Like, wow. I don't know how to describe it.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Like, having, like, a style and, like, opinion. Like, there's not, like, one right way to edit something.

[David Dobrik]

Yeah. There's, like, 100 different ways to edit something. And just, like, knowing at least one or two ways that's very strong and opinionated, and you, like, really feel that that's the certain way to go. And every. I don't know, just someone who's, like, just comedically fired up and also visually can understand the assignment. And. I don't know.

[Jason Nash]

I.

[David Dobrik]

You know, you get it.

[Natalie Noel]

Someone who gets you is really the most important.

[David Dobrik]

Yeah.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Yeah.

[David Dobrik]

And also, like, I want some. I don't want. I want it to feel like, not my. I want, like, these new vlogs to feel like it's, like, a team thing. Like, we're, like, a lot of people are putting it together, and it feels different. I don't want it to just feel like David making a video, but yeah. All right, well, we'll see you guys soon.

[Evan Ross Katz]

We're also hiring for other roles and other positions on LinkedIn if anybody wants to.

[Natalie Noel]

Oh, what positions? I'm looking for work.

[Evan Ross Katz]

Or you can just email us if you're actually interested in being an editor. Any of these roles at a S-T-O B R-I K.com Amen.

[David Dobrik]

Thank you. We'll see you guys later.

[Jason Nash]

This has been a Views podcast. Thank you for joining us.

[David Dobrik]

Go watch Jason's daily vlogs and we'll see you guys soon.

[Jason Nash]

Bye.

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