0:00 we did 5 years worth of rent or was it three oh dude if it if we calculate it like that that's what I'm calculating might be over a million how much was the rent alone I know this feeling I don't think you guys lasted that [Music] long welcome back to careful boys where we are afraid of absolutely everything yes we are and today our question is if and Joe had to start JK news all over again ████ what would they have done differently oh this is good from the beginning from the jum remind me never to touch that knife again Joe whoa do you think handle only handle only this is a good question because I don't even
0:51 know if me and Joe would have the same goals from it and let's talk about that then first I think wo whoo wo W what would you be your best just bringing it I think causing drama but only have 16 minutes to talk about this keep it short I don't okay I think one of the biggest things that I regret is how much money we spent on the studio yes wa it was a lot how much is a lot you want to share like 700 Grand what you guys spent 700 Grand if you add rent if you R studio equipment and you guys had like set Deco and ████ right said that someone do all of that that ████ was legit if you add inflation might be a million dollar dude let's go back is that studio still there no well yeah but they tore it all out and it's like a t-shirt shot we did 5 years worth of
1:42 rent or was it three oh dude if it if we calculate it like that that's what I'm calculating might be over a million how much was the set so I think our monthly rent was 17 grand a month yeah then it's over a million and then we did it for 5 years so even just rent alone I know this feeling I don't think you guys lasted that [Laughter] long so I think just that's mean Anthony Anthony that was mean I think red alone was a million dollar so it could have been like 1.5 cuz the set was 300 on the studio side I think it was 3 or 500 right but and then we had to build the drywall the bathroom the the toilets the showers I think it was like half a million showers all of that yeah now what I would have
2:34 done you guys have soap too what I would have done is kept this office yes cuz we're still freaking here anyway right join on the same page so far did you ever move out of here no we stayed we just kept it cuz when we were transitioning to move we actually uploaded an episode of just kidding news in that in that set yeah remember that they hated it and I hated it I just didn't like the way it was shot and um I remember that but the party was awesome the the set was awesome the space was awesome amazing yeah for crazier ████ that was so fun to watch that was super fun and our intentions back then the reason why we went so big is because we wanted to build out a network that's why we had like five channel take other creators under your guys we wanted to develop people that's why we started developing people within the group we wanted to create our own
3:26 like everyone was doing this right like yeah but then we wanted to do like a smaller version instead of being like a thousand channels and be like a b Comedy Network but it didn't really pan out that way because I think our Ambitions and were out kind of was like we it was bigger than our abilities of understanding how to manage business and creativity so like I think when you know you know you kind of go into this this whole thing like you have all these things you want to do it's like I want to have this Channel I want to run this company I want to do that right without even knowing the basics of how a company is structured and all these things I think like you just have a lot of ideas and you just run for it another thing is
4:17 I didn't think that all of the channels would do well so having like five plus channels to me were like well one of them is probably not going to make money so we'll be first forced to give it up but all of them was profitable so it was like oh ████ well we can't stop cuz they're all making money they're all making good money and it was really hard to give up the first one which was as of fields all that stuff but I would say looking back um I wish we had like a mentor a business a business manager who would focus on the business side so then we can focus on the creative side um me and Bart had to have a handshake agreement for every ████ decision instead of just being like you take care of that I take care of this but it was more like Jill took care of this me and Bart took care of this so we didn't really like divide it up now we
5:07 do but it's like a little bit Yeah and then I think like if if if we spent 1.5 million on just basically burning That Into Thin Air it's like we could have had a ton of properties cuz I remember Maker Studios actually owned several homes under their company and they were shooting there I didn't even know that that was a possibility oh wow and I wish I knew yeah cuz it wasn't toward the end that we realized oh we can have a house Studio we can film inside of a home you know and it's good on taxes yeah but I think there was just like all these things where we paid for the lessons instead of just taking a break to learn first and then spending the money you kept going I mean but content's like that you have to keep going I think that's what it is is like yeah looking back it was more like
5:57 I didn't know where to get the education and information so it's like you just make it up as you go and you just kept going and burning yeah on the bright side we have an empty Samurai case here from uh from the old office hey that was 20K baby the funniest thing is we always call it the new office go figure Bart your vision for JK how would it differ from this man's so far it's exactly the same I would say like I guess picking up where he left off would probably be like uh hiring a CEO from the start so I think like in the beginning when you when you go into this journey of like being an entertainment you you you're technically everything right like every YouTuber is like the minute you hire one person you are HR you're you're you are technically your own lawyer too cuz like you can't really
6:48 hire a lawyer so you just do like okay let me just do Legal Zoom but you're still kind of like have have to quarterback that thing and then you're you're entrepreneur cuz you want to grow the channel make money but then you're also a creative and an artist so it's almost like right from the start you're wearing like 10 hats and then the minute it grows you're like oh I'm kind of good at all these 10 hats but you're not actually you're actually just just only good at one or two things and then so you keep trying to grow all 10 hats at the same time and uh there's a point where like the other eight are bottlenecking what you're the other you're actually two superpowers so I think like um like that's where at least where me and Joel learn at least from in a small scale for this channel me and Joe if we don't host we're much better contributors to JK news which is why we learned that early
7:38 on okay we're not going to host because that was good but then like kind of taking that philosophy into into the business I think if we had like okay this guy is specialized he's really good at business or management or whatever then we can focus on the creatives that' be like probably like number one and then number two is what Joe's saying like splitting our roles apart where um we we don't have to always agree on the same thing and we can just trust each other to like delegate but from that if I were to continue JK I would say like I would probably treat it like a SNL where we have like the regulars but then also constantly have like a casting process so that uh we can continue to grow the channel and eventually we can have the channel live on without having our
8:28 involvement and our involvement would be purely just on volunteer and if we miss or or whatever miss doing it but it would be a completely different thing than what it is now though like the way that I view this now is all of us we got ████ going on and it's like the boys hanging out you know it's like the boys going to like oh we should go meet up and go play uh golf at the spring lakes or whatever but instead of that we're just kicking in and talking so it's like a this to me is more of like a country club like a productive Country Club than if I were to really put on my like how do we scale JK news that would be a different approach and it would feel different yeah cuz I actually accomplished what I wanted to for JK in general which was um it was a business to supplement My Lifestyle so like you know how people
9:19 approach passions and dreams is like I want to be a director in a world class director it's a title for for a for a thing a a craft right where I was like whether we're doing movies or just making ████ videos like I like these people and I like my lifestyle and I want to figure out how to uh us keep this going with the group vacations and all that while we make money so then if I were to do it again I think I would still do it the same way but it would be maybe financially savier nice yeah okay so going to kick the question down the totem pole how would Ry anime change JK the way it exists today how would I change it from here on moving forward oh like how do you evolve it yeah or do you
10:09 have like um notes on what you would do to to uh you know to grow the business or or any any thought to grow it like let's say me and Joe got assassinated and you guys discovered there's a will and it's got left to Ryan the ████ and maybe Ryan did it but we don't know I would start of everyone here he would have been the guy I would start with the obvious get video cameras cuz this one broke today it's a really good idea cuz like every time someone who knows cameras comes in here they always go why are you guys using photography cameras that shut off every 30 minutes cuz we like doing photos too and then do the uh thing where we don't have to change cards um we like doing it the hard way renovate the look of the uh of the office and uh and then maybe I'm not a
10:59 like a a visual expert but I feel like most high quality shows use better lenses I feel feel but I don't know what those are I think most high quality shows hire a cinematographer to make it look good maybe let's start with that I don't know that's a that's some pretty good notes dude as we all get closer to the 40s we don't need better lenses I'm like I'm going to take that note keep the goian blur we're going to upgrade camera okay it's really interesting okay sounds good really interesting and and then I think like maybe like regular scheduling for some of the other segments that we kind of toyed with as experiments that people did respond well to like uh like the one-on ones like people really like those but those are even easier to shoot than these and you can do them on
11:49 different days that don't require everyone here having a a set uh rotation of that would be nice I like that yeah where's the one with me and Steve I thought we had one dude the the um we don't know when videos come out they just come out we don't know that would be my biggest thing by the way maybe my it's probably my biggest dream for JK is just like the videos come out in the order in which they are shot it's something we haven't been able to figure out we don't know how it works but then we'll have to shoot more and more often when we watch like when I watch Like stranger things or like breaking B how there how how those guys figured out how to get those episodes to come out in order it blows my ████ mind out the back my how do they do it we have no idea how to do it and I just wish that there was a way to do it and nobody here can figure it out for some weird reason we can't figure it out we don't know how
12:39 it's done I don't yeah I don't really think there's anything like wrong per se with it there's just the the bandwidth to do more is just stretched so thin and it's understandable that like what why put more money into something that like is already barely surviving we're thriving we're growing we're thriving dude come on but I think like just doing more of the things basically like connecting with more people I think that that's helped a lot it's just like engaging with longtime audiences that have you know messaged the accounts for six years in a row and not got one answer and it's like that's pretty sick to like be like hey dude just pulled up your message from you know ████ forever ago congrats on graduating you know college and thanks for you know thanks for supporting us yeah cuz the sickest thing is you go through the uh go through the messages
13:30 IG and you can literally go back six or seven years and you can go back quickly cuz there's not that many messes and most majority of the people in there who are like talking it will say honestly it will say does not follow you because they've probably moved on but if there's a dude there and it says follows you that ████ means a lot dude that guy's been waiting for his ████ answer for he's been riding riding and riding riding yeah he's been riding yeah riding and waiting I mean we did pay someone to handle it but they didn't ████ respond or even use it they just probably posted one picture a week so I was like ████ man at least you paid them well yeah sometimes I feel that's another thing is like ████ dude that's why we needed a business manager cuz ████ man no one was staying on top of nobody but it is true people people like it's still a tried and true formula where like they like
14:21 you as this like they don't need you to do more necessarily it's just uh you know as ████ evolves and the market gets saturated with lots of stuff people do just enjoy seeing the things they love get better that's all how would you how would you adjust things around here very easy I would appoint Ryan as the shadow leader and whatever he says we should just do it it's really good very ████ simple it's really good it's very ████ simple Shadow leader but we we all Shadow leader what the ████ is that we're just a face and then you're the actual decision maker they're like the president and like you're like the ████ people running do I get Shadow the world economic for yeah and he should get a rais yeah I think easy he should be he should be properly incentivized to be our leader yeah I agree I agree Prett good you know what I mean I mean like from from getting the
15:13 proper equipment to taking on new like creative initiatives that are like manageable you know what I mean not like try yeah yeah not trying to like build ████ that doesn't need cuz cuz he's right you know what people love and what people come here for is like what what they come here for um to like making place not necessarily fix up cuz like we need to evolve and grow but because like we want to enjoy being in the space it's like what you said how it should reflect the personalities of who's here now yeah yeah like yeah cuz like I go like there's not like how come Rime doesn't have something on the wall really I mean you've made your mark here we everyone here has but like you know the old enough for kisses Jersey like on top of the ████ the corner back there I don't know what happened there you know like why we got the motor oil thing I don't get it there's like photos of like the old cast and like baby photos and stuff yeah
16:04 baby photos of the old cast people who hate this place yeah are in the hallway yeah that's always weird seeing them as a baby I'm like what human it humanizes they look like it's like an ofenda back there so you know it's just there's just some stuff here that's all that doesn't you know fully makes sense but again no complaints we're dudes you know we're we're easy we're low maintenance but we're trying to make it better then I'm like dude ████ listen to the guy like it me you're supposed to have your own suggestions I suggested that you be ████ full time here he wants to be led he defers his he nominates you hey Ryan should ████ be a full-time member and then after that I was like Ryan should run the social you're like tearing at the end of Game of Thrones you're like it should be the ████ guy in the whe I'm shadow shadow right he you the whole time I'm ████ double Shadow but nobody nobody wants this you
16:56 know I'm washed up you know second place you know stupid use it when it's convenient for you damn it it dude it's convenient and he had his office shorter than we had ours it's like and we spent more but look we weren't spending our dime but things are changing cuz we are going to clean up this place and we're getting merch baby oh dude this is probably one of the sickest like jumps I did not expect at all fan of it we could have done it 3 months ago but I got busy but we're doing but it was it's so well executed I definitely like I had to find the right people you know what I mean cuz like it was one of those things where it's like ah Teespring ain't working for us guys yeah we did try a te screen didn't yo somebody sent a ████ I didn't even tell you guys this some so someone messaged a JK IG account and was like yo
17:46 the shirt supposed to look like this they bought a uh the old one with the JK old logo that ████ was printed so ████ sideways yeah editor delete that D and he was like I was like Hey when we get our shirts I'll send you one for free cuz that's fed up that's cool shadow leader Shadow leader all hell R anime dude hey you got to go n my word is I'm [Music] the
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