0:00 they just tell you about the cars that you need to know when you buy it yeah it's the best curiosity itch for any car that dude I I don't like any cars like that but I watch it and I'm fascinated well that's why I bought that's why I bought the infinity I was like how well is this motor going to do I was waiting for them to do a Miata one they never came out yeah they they did didn't they they did you got to watch I could do a better [Music] job do you guys know about the channel donut yeah donut media dud have you seen the one where they get a mechanic in and they try to figure out like what's wrong with the car and then if you fix it you can keep you get to keep the car I love that one so they're not doing too well um what is it what's donut media donut media it's a it's a really massive like car channel
0:52 it's basically donut media and huigan are kind of like the new world uh Motor Trend like they're as big as Honan they took both of them are kind of like yeah they're like the titans of car channels and Honan and donut are kind of going through the same thing where they're losing all of their key people because of corporate uh takeovers where they like corporate people bought the channels they bought Honan I believe so I believe they bought hoonigan and and a different one may have bought uh there might be a different one cuz your main guy passed away right Ken Block yeah yeah and then the other guys left because of well ever since Ken Block yeah it's been kind of hard to I guess like get things back to being the way they were but but then even worse some other people have taken ownership and they've managed it in ways that left the main people really unhappy like it's been so hard on them because you know
1:44 like you know how it is when uh I'm sure like with maker you probably saw it happen in a lot of different ways where people who are the creative force behind a channel can no longer be that because they're being asked to do things that are more uh for profit not exactly hell of that so that happened with donut and the job and Jeremiah left and they're starting a channel called big time and then every I as of right now I don't know when this will come out but uh James has yet to announce what he's going to do and he's probably one of the like if not the reason why so many people love donut and uh this is a big big thing because for these two channels to be like like losing all of their players it's kind of like when BuzzFeed started losing people then people who made channels as offshoots those channels now past the buz that's probably going to happen with Wow damn
2:34 don't you know the freaking donut people yeah well oh you do the owner of uh Us Media that that does our podcast the the casuals MMA one um he was part of he was one of the creators of donut yeah and then they sold it to I don't know who but they sold it and then he's been hands off since sold it to Duncan maybe I think so I think that's what it was Duncan Dunkin Donuts right does that say it in there it says yeah that's what I thought but that's all I really know about it yeah it's they they go into pretty good detail explaining like what the process was and why it turned them off from it um and it's basically because they said like when when a corporate uh entity takes over your company they're um they start to prioritize other things and then now there's a more staff that need to get paid that aren't that's the biggest one
3:25 there's there's so many people that need to justify their jobs in corporations because it's like government there's a lot of bureaucracy when things get too big mhm there's a budget that each department needs to spend right and so like and also it looks good when your company grows it they need to show growth so like sometimes growth is like I'm hiring people to do this and this right but here's the problem is like you have people that might have a job and it was meaningful for like 6 months yeah but what happens after those 6 months where hey uh we don't really need you anymore but how but you don't want to you don't want them to know that well sometimes too and this is pretty hilarious to observe they keep people on
4:15 to make the company look bigger so that they can justify selling the company for more money to another entity yep and that is where ████ gets hilarious yep what cuz it's like why does it get hilarious well be well in some cases heard about okay um you get an email and they say hey everybody um we need you to show up early tomorrow and act like you're working oh my God why would they put that on email that's so stupid they're not you know you're not dealing with the sharpest tools right it's a bunch of ████ tuers scum who got a bunch of money all of a sudden so then so then you show up and like people are filming fake videos while you got like it's a North Korean vill legit dude you got corporate Big Wigs walking through and being like this very impressive wow this is look
5:07 like a real production house and ████ like that and that's what sold a company for a billion dollars to Disney dude watched it happen it was ████ crazy so whenever you see these these corporate dudes and they look so smart and wearing their suits and ████ just know they're dumb as ████ yeah takeing for a ride huh yeah dude legit but they're probably looking at you like you're dumbass ████ I got money I have to spend because it's Q4 and I'm about I just ████ made like20 billion that I need to ████ spend or else it's it's getting taxed but dude like imagine spending that on North Korean video Village know the cool thing is that with with this happening with donor right now I think it's really fun to watch because it's so transparent like all the people
5:57 that are leaving are being really open about what's happened to the company so you really get an inside look about like like very specific things they're like yeah they're like oh yeah the guy started telling us to stop making these videos and make these ones instead but had no data to support why like it just shows such clear bad decision making yeah it's like a just a random guy just comes in starts barking orders and ████ well that's the difference right like also guys that work on that level they don't understand how to bootstrap things so for example right like this this happens in production all the time in Hollywood where if you're used to aund million budget you're you don't understand how to work on a $1,000 budget it's just a different scale so like it's not that they're dumb and I mean they are but it's not like they
6:47 just don't know how to think the way that a tuber does or like a or like a small business owner does well a lot of the time they're not even from the same world like they like if I was successful in a that doesn't mean I'll know what to do in b and think situations people are from to how they ran their these guys probably really know car culture and they might have been part of like like a singing show or something but they're but because they're part of a big production singing show like oh they know how to run this yeah but the and sometimes it sometimes honestly does work weirdly like the people that created America's Best Dance Crew previously they created uh an aerobics tournament and that's how they they applied the same formula to make Dance Crew well there's two like if a company's big enough there's like two departments that don't speak in the
7:37 process of a takeover right so there's the uh acquisition team the one that makes the deal they look at everything and they go this looks like really good for our company for these reasons they buy it right but sometimes they don't even talk to the integration team which is the team that merges and makes it a part of the new company so sometimes if the company is big enough these two departments don't talk and then what ends up happening is even more confusion so like business gets acquired all right now this acquisition team is going off to the next deal the next deal the next deal so now the integration team comes in and they're like they weren't maybe put up to speed and then they're like all right cool we have a business new business now we got to run and then like you know how Steve was saying there's a lot of um waste there's like people that need to justify their jobs they come in they pretend like they're working and
8:27 then so like there's a lot of that corporate itic ████ that like I think small companies don't know how to work around cuz small companies you have to be efficient you have to be profitable there's things that you have to do or else you just die right whereas big companies it's like you have a lot of waste a ton of waste and like a lot of nonsense and a lot of like dude Elon just took over Twitter he fires like how many employees thousands of employees right and what was everybody saying at the time everybody saying the same ████ thing oh Twitter's going to die it's all it's going to be be dead tomorrow won't even turn on tomorrow and all this ████ Twitter was completely fine they've grown right but that's what happens people don't know what they don't know ultimately and then they just speculate on everything without having one ████ monome of an idea of how it works plus also too as tuber scum sometimes when
9:18 you're making something like you don't know what you don't know like like you you don't know how to how to scale the production up that much like if if I was to give you a million dollars you would only know how to spend 15,000 of it and the rest of it you be like I don't I don't need to spend all this money and I want I want to Ard this as profit and use it for other videos right so that's why I like those people better even though I call them tuers scum because they they actually know how to use a dollar and stretch it as much as they possibly can instead of just throwing money at every problem including when that money gets used to make more problems plus you're working with a creator that has an existing network of people that are not overcharging correct so the bill is less yep for people that are well tied into their Community versus a guy that comes in doesn't know anyone and has to pay top dollar to get people and treats everyone like ████ doesn't care all that ████ yeah exactly
10:10 but yeah it's it's really great if you if you guys ever want to you're going to see a little bit floating around when I posted it on IG story for JK a lot of people a lot of people seem to watch us and donut so they were like what the ████ my world's colliding maybe we should bring some former donut folks to tell us the details that would be cool that would be really cool have you seen a difference in their content in the past like year or so yeah like since they got well they got rid of one of their most popular series which was up to speed yeah I like that everyone loves it every and that's the thing like when someone comes in they would make a decision like that maybe because it's like oh these videos cost too much dude that was one of their best ████ like series and on top of that too how they shoot is just a guy behind a a green screen they write it and everything but it's sometimes a corporate guy comes in and that they don't like it and that's it yeah they're just like oh I don't like that one and it's like oh but everyone loves it all I Works dude half
11:00 the up to speed videos got like millions of views Millions yeah that's that's why it's a video essay you know what I mean like they kill it yeah and you can endlessly do those like there's they haven't even scratched a surface on the amount they could have done well they just tell you about the cars that you need to know when you buy it and what helps you is a reliable it's the best curiosity itch for any car dude I I don't like any cars like that but I watch it and I'm ████ fascinated well that's why I bought that's why I bought the infinity I was like how well is it motor going to do and they explained it and I was like all right I'll buy Infinity then I was waiting for them to do a Miata one they never came out yeah they they did didn't they they did you got to watch it I could do a better job subscribe I need to do a better job I need to handle that one no you need to subscribe
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