Engaged in 2.5 months, having kids, and meeting on a blind date with Preston and Briana

- We just got set up on a blind date. After that date, I just knew Bri was the one. - And how long did it take you guys to get engaged? - It was about two and a half or three months afterwards. - It was three months. - Whoa, you've walked on a plane while it's flying? - It's like a biplane and they're doing hammer curls and bear rolls. - When he was doing that, I was like so nervous. - Content has made me do things I never thought I would do. - We did the hide and seek ones where I buried myself alive. - We put like a prison inside of the pool, putting chains around my waist so I would sink. - What? - There's no rule book on this, you know what I mean? - You say you want six kids, and then I heard you say maybe no kids, like what's going on here? - I don't think there's any change on wanting to have kids, just not six. - Preston and Brianna are two of the most subscribed to people on YouTube in the United States with nearly 100 million subscribers across their channels. But most people just want to know when they plan on starting a family. Today on unplanned, we talk about how they met, what it cost to film a large scale YouTube video as well as the extreme lengths they've gone to for content. This conversation was hilarious, and I know you guys are gonna love it, enjoy. - I kind of just want to know about your love story. Welcome to unplanned, by the way, how did you got to meet? (laughing) - That's a really good question. Brittany, would you like to take the lead on this one? - This is such a fun question to answer because it's like a full circle moment because I was an ER nurse. Didn't think I'd ever want to work in the ER, by the way. Like I wanted to be a nurse. - I felt so scary. - It was intense, but if I hadn't have done that, I wouldn't have met him. - Yeah, 'cause I was obviously like, I was a gunshot victim. - No. (laughing) - It'd be so much cooler if I went to the ER and then like, she saved me and then saved me, you know. Like you were like not, like you were gonna die and then she's in your life, and it's like, my look's in your eyes. - I was like, my look's in your eyes, my look's in my eyes. (laughing) - You don't wanna date your patients. - No, that was not, it was as cool as that, but was a big blessing is my aunt, who I hadn't spoke to in quite some time, was like, honestly, you need to meet my nephew. - That's the best, you have to meet my nephew. - She's so, so adorable. - She has so many acts, I love it. - I love that. - And so we just got set up on a blind date. And at the beginning, I was like, I don't know mom, I think God's is calling me to be a male nun. I dated two girls and it worked out. - Male nun. (laughing) - I dated two girls and it worked out. It's too much energy. I'm gonna go die back into work. And then mom's like, look, she makes cookies. - Show me like a Facebook photo. - That could be your wife. - And I'm like, okay, whatever. I'll go have coffee and then we had like an eight-hour coffee date and I was gone so long. I didn't respond to any text messages from my mom so she called the police. She thought I was missing. - No, she actually called the police. - Yep. - She thought I was missing. - Did she think I looked like. - I don't know. - Did I? - Was she new you were on the date and she still. - Yes. (laughing) - Did she think I saw it? - Maybe something happened. It was raining, so maybe there was like a car accident. - What did she tell the police? - I don't know, she was just like, I just called them and said to see if they could find your license plate. And I was like, well, I'm at the coffee shop. - We haven't moved. - We did the police show up at this coffee shop. - Oh, thanks for the not. That would have mortified me. - I don't know. - I was just remembering going for a sip of coffee, talking to Bree and then I totally just missed my mouth and it's just a giant cup of black coffee. - It was sweet. I thought it was cute. - Went all over me. - It was like all he's nervous. - And we talked about all the things you're not supposed to in the first date. 'Cause I was ready, I was locked in. I was like, all right, let's talk about who you voted for. Are your parents still together? What's your faith like? Do you want kids? - Oh, no, I think that's how you do it honestly. - Oh, it's so much better. - We're like, let's just dive right in here. And I think when you like date intentionally like that is when things move fast. Which y'all did move pretty fast. - Yes. - We did move quickly. - How old were you guys on the first date? - 23. - Yeah, 23. - 23, okay. Yeah, but he's older than me. - Okay, by a few months. You make it sound like a crazy thing. That's all I'm happy about. - Yeah, my brother dated Mary to an older woman. There's six months apart. - Six months. - Six months apart. Yeah, and I'm six months older than Abby, so. - Okay. - Yeah, I don't know how that really relates to anything. (laughter) - It was taller. - Yeah, it was honestly so much fun. It was so much fun. - Yeah. - On that first date. - And how long did it take you guys to get engaged from that first date? - It was about two and a half or three months afterward. - Wow. - And my parents dated for over eight years. So he asked my dad for like, if you know he could propose and my dad I think was overwhelmed for a hot second. - And that's also a very successful psychiatrist. - That's, you know? - So it's a little intimidating at the beginning. - Yeah, it's like we're going to be playing some mind games. - Well, yeah, 'cause maybe they're some statistics. Like you should wait. It's not a tie at least. - But my parents got married after meeting after three weeks. - When you asked for permission to Mary Brianna, was he like, let me evaluate you for any mental illness. (laughter) - Any thoughts? - I remember it vividly. - He was just a cross, almost exactly where sitting Abby, and he's just in this rocking chair. And then obviously his wife is just to the left. And I asked for permission, and there's like a 10 second silence. And then Connie, Brianna's mom goes, I think he's looking for a response from you Benny. (laughter) - My mom was like, you're making a sweat. Say something. - I'm cooking. I'm really cooked in the car pot Benny. - Oh my God. - And then he stands open. He's like, only if you'll call me dad. - Oh. - It was like so sweet and so sweet. - Yeah. - So I think they had an idea, because also Connie is a fantastic cook and had a huge meal prepared. So I was hoping that I was gonna get a favorable response. Otherwise, I was like, is this enough dinner for me too? Or is this just, was it them too up? I get rejected. - No. - But wait, from the first date to engagement in two and a half months, that's pretty quick. So was there anybody that was telling you guys not to get married or not to get engaged? - I didn't have that, but I feel like most of my friends were more traditional in the sense of they dated longer. But I mean, I called my mom after our first date and was like, I think he's marriage material. I remember verbatim saying that. So I feel like my friends were like, like you do you. But it is a bit rare to be that fast with things. - It was awesome. I got friends from all over the place 'cause growing up and making YouTube videos, especially gaming, but you have a lot of people you're recording with from Australia, UK, you know, lots of different types of values and backgrounds. And so they were like, okay, this is a little crazy, Preston. And I was like, I know, right? It's it. - Okay. - No, I feel like a lot of people we have on our show didn't date super long before they were engaged. And I think that. - It's a very common theme on our show. - The only thing that I can deduce from this is that it's really not about how long you date. I think it's about how you date and like your values and morals around it. - Well, it's about the intent, right? So if you understand, like I'm looking for a successful outcome here of, I want to find my wife, my forever person. So I need to have questions that I need to ask here because if not, you know, be a great little coffee, enjoy the coffee, maybe we can be friends, if not no hard feelings. And then we'll just go to the next one. Nothing wrong with that. And it's just like you're looking for that person that you want to build the rest of your life with and you want to find them as fast as you can while still being precise, of course. - Yeah, and I think part of it too is, you know, marriage, like it takes work. And so you're not, like if you're going into it, thinking that you're gonna have this perfect person that just like perfectly completes like every part of you and it's just everything's all butterflies and rainbows and it's easy, it's not. Like you, it's a relationship, right? And it's like a muscle. So if you're not working out that muscle, it's going to weaken, it's not gonna be as strong. So I think like when people have this perspective of, oh, I need to date a ton to find the right perfect. And it's like, well, maybe you're approaching it from the wrong angle, you know? - Yeah, like one person's not gonna meet all of those needs for you. - Yeah, yeah. - Like. - I want somebody to challenge me. You know, I was like having a wife in terms of video games, like video games terms, like it's a permanent buff, all right? Like this is crazy. - Thank you for calling me back. - I need that permanent buff. - Wait, can you translate that for me, I'm not in favor. - permanent buff, yeah, what does that mean? - A buff is like something that you just get by being around somebody. Maybe it's their energy. The way they support you, it's a positive thing. All right, it's like when you drink caffeine, you have the buff of having an additional energy or less fatigue. - I love your energy. I can so tell that you blew up as a streamer. Brianna, how did you, like, how did you respond to finding out that Preston was a famous YouTuber, gamer, streamer? Like, what was that conversation like? - You gotta tell the story. - I'm just so happy I didn't know any of that when we first met. - Oh, you did it. - Not really. I didn't understand this world of, like, content creation and all of that. - It was still a little early, it was 2017. - Yeah. - Oh, yeah. So I remember your mom, like, spitting out the facts of, like, how many views you were getting and, like, all this fun stuff. - I think so. - And did mention it and Bri said specifically, "Okay, cool, what's his real job?" - I wasn't gonna say that, but you're right. I didn't say that, yep. - I was like, "I'm very nervous, it's kind of new." - It was really cool though. I remember my first, like, meme I saw of you on the internet, like, making this, like, weird face. It was hilarious. But you'd been doing it for so long, and I don't know what made me jazzed. I was excited. - Bri was a natural. Just a natural. We had this awesome Q&A we did. It was, like, the fiancee Q&A. And we just curated a bunch of questions and then sat in, like, high chairs. It was actually really similar to the set if you guys have right here. - You know what? - And it was just so much fun 'cause getting to introduce Bri to these people that are like your family or viewers that you've just grown with. You know what I'm told? I'm 31. I've been doing YouTube since before they were required by Google. In my first YouTube video was, when I was 12, 19 years ago in Apple, and I always wanted, I was like, "Man, I just, like, I really wanna go and do some video games. I love video games so much." - Thank you. - Did you know that there was, like, actual money to be made in YouTube when you started? Or was it more so just for the passion of making a video and gaming for people? - Well, it was definitely much more passion focused 'cause I grew up and I was a very competitive video game player in PC, specifically Call of Duty. That was my jam. I was extremely, extremely sweaty. - My first ever YouTube channel is TBNR Frags. TBNR stands for the best never rest. - Okay. - And my older brother had a tattoo on his arm and so I'm like 14 and I'm like, "What is that mean?" And he's like, "The best never rest." And I was like, "I love that." - Yeah, let's just keep drinking energy drinks and stay up all night blaming the game. - It's funny though, because when I was a kid, my mom was like, you know, like, she's like, "Do you make any money "from playing those video games?" And I feel like your response to that could have been like, "Actually, I do, Mom. "I'm like, I'm making money." - At the beginning, she was like, I graduated high school pretty early. I was like, "16." So they're like, "I figure out how to make money "very quickly here." Otherwise, like, you know, gotta go to school, find a way job or something. So I was just like, "All right. "How can I make money doing this?" Like, I love it, but it's not, it's not that big, you know what I mean? Like, at least not yet. So at the beginning, I was just raising $100 a month to upgrade my internet that my parents had. - And you had a pretty humble upbringing, right? Like, you grew up in a mobile home, right? And you lived in an RV, you burned down the RV when you were four years old, right? Can you do that? - You sure that's what you're doing with us, sir? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - I was trying to make French toast for my dad. - And I lived this week? - I lived in math, 'cause that's how you had to light these stove or whatever. And then I threw the match while I was lit in the trash can. - That's so-- - So he still got his French toast, though. - Was anybody inside the house when they burned down? - No, it was an RV that we had parked at our grandparents' ranch. - Okay. - So they had a ranch and we all worked on it, and they helped rehabilitate like kids with special needs with the horse riding. And so, anyways, then here I am, just burdened down an RV that we're living in on the ranch. - You didn't mean to? - No, I didn't. - That does. - Oh my God. - Were you able to file a claim for that? Could your parents have RV insurance? - I just don't know what happened. I don't know what happened afterwards. I just know that half of that RV was just absolutely toasted. - That's so sad. - That's a fun story, though, that you can share. - Yeah, they'll never let me forget that. After that, I was like, okay, I definitely need to be a good sun growing up. - What was your childhood like, Brianna? - Very different, because I'm an only child. That probably made the conversation asking to marry her so much more intimidating, too. - This is their baby. - Yeah, yeah. - After dating for a month. - They're second child. - Yeah, she was coming over for July 4th to meet the family for the first time, and there was, she's like, there's a lot of people. - A lot of people. - But I always wanted to marry into a big family, 'cause my family skews older and it's small, so having, like, nephews, that are running around and all that is so nice, but yeah, my dad is a physician, and then my mom was an opera singer, so I grew up, like always performing, and I don't know that. I think that jazzed me up to do YouTube, 'cause I grew up in theater, so. - You gotta marry up, you know what I mean? - That's dope. - Bri was so talented. I get the beginning, Bri was actually going to school to be an nurse practitioner, and I was like, okay, well, like, you can definitely do this, but I think you would love YouTube. So I was like, just being a couple of my videos, you know, at the beginning, the Girlfriend Clickbait and Minecraft is fantastic. It was just so much fun, really? Yeah, just like getting to play Minecraft with your girlfriend for the first time. Like all these, like, fun and cute videos, and Bri was just an absolute natural and crushed. I remember one time I was sick, and she filmed an entire video for me on my gaming channel, where I think she, like, hacked my Roblox account and just messed with me while I was sick and bed, 'cause I was like, we gotta get an upload, up, up. - I felt so bad, he was so sick, and I'm like, I'm not letting you go dark on your channel. I've got this, and I really didn't know what I was doing, but it was fun. - You mentioned Minecraft YouTube, and I got to nerd out for a bit, 'cause my brother was the guy that got me into, like, watching YouTube as a kid, and there were four channels back in the day that he was a huge fan of. There was Casey Neistat, Roman Atwood, and then there was the Vsauce guy who had all the mind-blowing videos, and then the fourth one was Yawkscast. He loved to watch the mindset. Like, did you ever do any collab with Yawkscast? - I didn't get to do anything with the Yawkscast, but I mean, there were legends in the space. - Okay, legends. - 'Cause my brother's kind of like a closeted nerd. Like, he loves, he loves mine. Like, we would play Minecraft together going up, even though we were kind of like the generation, I would say, that wasn't, like, it wasn't as big when we were like, you know, 14, 15, but it was a blast, man. Like, I used to stay up late, playing on service in my buddies, and it's just, my craft's a good, it's a good one. - It's really cool 'cause it just spans a really wide-age gap. Anybody can have fun playing it. When it first came out, there was a platform back then for gamers for instant messaging called X-Fire. - This is like, I loved it before, like, seeing messaging kind of take over. You could just see what other games your friends were playing, and I saw also by load up Minecraft. I was like, mine to craft, mine to craft? What is this? I was like, this game looks so lame. Anyways, back to Call of Duty. And this was like, really early stages. And then, of course, later down the road, just became such a big fan of it. - Okay, so you guys started dating, gotten engaged in two and a half months. Your dad says yes, and then how long after that was the wedding? - Seven months. - Okay, this man, you're a wonderful human. He was like, let's get married like in a month, or something. He was like, I want to get married now. - What's ready? - And I wanted, like, my princess fairy tale moment. And I was like, babe, we have the plan. - Yeah, 'cause you're a Disney fan too. - Yes. I wanted the Cinderella moment. And so, yeah, I was like seven or eight months. So it was pretty, it was pretty fast. - It was a big wedding. - Yeah. - It was big, how big? - Like, 300 something? - 375, I have 300 people. - Wait, that's gnarly. That's a lot of people. - It was gnarly. - It was fun. - God bless her dad. Thank you, Benny. - Yeah, thank you, dad. - That was the bill for the wedding. Let's go. That was Abby's parents. They paid for it too. So that was a huge blessing for us as well. - Yeah, I feel like by the time our kids grow up, it's gonna be switching. (laughing) - Yeah. - 'Cause I feel like it's getting a little dated, you know? - Yeah, totally, totally. And I think with, like, how much money people spend on weddings these days? You know, I think it's going to change where maybe people are telling their kids, hey, maybe, you know, at least cover part of this or something. - Yeah. Also there was just me versus, like, you know, I feel like that makes it easier. You had one daughter. - True. - That's all. - Yeah, I mean, if you got, like, five daughters, oh my gosh. - Chats. - Yeah, I mean, you're one of six kids. I mean, that's, that, but only one sister though. - Only one. - Okay. - Yeah. So that's at least a good figure of parents and if they found this expectation for them. (laughing) - That's funny. So, you're a big Disney fan. I know Disney played a role in the proposal. - Mm-hmm. - Like, you're playing Disney music? - We had a string quartet. I'm gonna be honest, my mom helped me a lot with the engagement because I was like, mom, like, here's a lot of things that she likes, but like, "Tavity ideas." - That's amazing. - It's kind of fair. - And so she was like, okay, we used to have this lake house that we had as an Airbnb. They lived there, my parents for a little bit. They would always live, fix up the property, and then we'd Airbnb it out. My mom and dad are just absolute legends like that and they're working with the business. It was last, like, almost 10 years. And so we had this beautiful property lake front, get there for the engagement. String quartet, I got this private dinner planned and then the surprise boat ride that will take us out on the lake and then end up at a restaurant on the lake with all of Breeze friends, family and some of my friends and family. - That's all right. - That's all right. - He did amazing. - No. - No. - I didn't know. I thought it was like the fun sway of, like, dim lighting. - It went out in the encounter neighborhood. And so then you got like the chef who was like, all right, I'm switching to like, backburners, I brought her like, gas stoves and like, he's just trying to hustle and make it work and I'm like, is it gonna be ruined? It wasn't really, it was still amazing. But the string quartet played some of Breeze's favorite Disney songs. - Frank Sinatra included. - Okay. - So we made. - Is there a certain Frank Sinatra song that you like more than the others? - Oh, that's, I can't pick. I feel like fly me to the moon and pop in my head just now. - Okay. - Maybe that one. - It's funny that you said, 'cause that was literally the first one that popped in my head too. - Yeah. - I feel like that's an iconic one. - It is, it is. - Yeah. - Wait, is he the one who sings just the way you look tonight? - Yeah. - That's the one I dance to with my dad and my grandpa at our wedding. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I don't know who's singing. - I'm so bad at English music. - Someone will let me know in the comments. - Why are you bad with English music? - I don't really hear lyrics very well at all. So especially with musicals, I just can't hear it. I can't understand what they're saying. So I've been listening to Japanese pop for like 15 years. That's it. - Okay. - Explained that. Because I saw you mention that one of your YouTube videos and I had never, I should be honest, it was the first time I'd ever heard of Japanese pop. - Well, I've been a nerd for a long time. - I was openly not just in the closet, you know what I mean? I got watched like Naruto and all the anime when I was 10. And then at certain point in time, I was like, oh, I really like these openings. They're like the opening songs for the anime. You got a favorite TV show. They got an intro, intro song. And then you're like, wait, this music's really cool and I don't understand the lyrics, but I really like the melody or the tune so I can use it to focus while I'm working. So I just got in the habit of only listening to that 'cause I can't really understand the English lyrics a whole lot. So I just stuck with that. So breeze family being in the music. There's like, what's your favorite song by the Beatles? And I was like, who are the Beatles? - He didn't know who John Lyndon was. - No. - John Lyndon. - John Lyndon. - That was crazy. - Oh no. - I got to know what this guy is. - Who's your favorite J-pop star? - There's some really good bands out there. - Oh, all right. Probably one of my favorites is, I gotta remember their name exactly. If only I had my phone on me. They all have some complicated names, but I really like fear and loathing in Las Vegas. It's like a mixture of like scream mode and they go between English and Japanese. And are you also into K-POP or is it just J-POP? - Really, it's just like, that's sort of some K-POP stuff, but people always say that. They're very different. Obviously different languages. So they sound very different, but I like the Japanese language in the form of music more. - Interesting. - I could be so wrong, but I listened to both now. He introduced me to it. I feel like a lot of the J-POP I listened to is more like rock and roll scream O-Vib. And K-POP is more like-- - It's rock, punk, alternative. - Yeah, interesting. - Radio Bops. - We were at the New Year's Eve, like thing in New York City in Times Square a couple years ago. And one of the guys from BTS was there. J-Hope, was that his name that performed? Anyway, I didn't know who he was and everyone was roasting me in the comments. I made a video and I'm like, "I don't know any of these guys." They're like, "You don't know J-Hope?" He's the biggest pop star in the world. I'm like, "I'm sorry. I don't listen to K-POP. I had no idea." - That's cool. - Do you guys watch an anime? - No. - My brother does, it's funny you mentioned Naruto and I know who that is 'cause my little brother. - Why is your brother so cool? - So I have two brothers actually. I have an older brother and a younger brother. My older brother is the one that would watch Yawks cast growing up and then my younger brother is the one that would watch like the anime. - He still does. - Now I feel bad 'cause sometimes I would tease him I'm like, "Josh, why are you watching Naruto?" What is this Naruto, dude? But like clearly there must be, with you liking it too, I can understand that there's probably some, I've never actually watched that. - It's just so creative and so imaginative. - You'll never be able to- - You'll never be able to- - You get hooked. - You find like something that you love watching on linear traditional TV. So if it's like suspense or thriller, and then you just find an anime that also matches that same genre, and it's a lot easier to get into it. 'Cause you're already familiar with it, and now it's just a bit more novel, 'cause it's anime instead of, you know, real-life TV shows, but you're like, "Oh, but I'm familiar with this." So it's easier to start understanding it and kind of get into it, at least it's hour to breathe. - Yeah. - She's big in the thrillers. So I was like, "All right, well, I got one for you." - Oh, thrillers, really? I would not have begged you as a thriller lover. - I know. - It's also true crime a lot. - Me too. - It's so fascinating. - What's up with all the pretty ladies lacking the true crime? - Look, I don't- - It's fascinating. - For some reason. - Yeah, it's like, it's curiosity. Like how could someone do something like that? - Have you ever seen the trend that's like, her legs were cut off, her tongue was cut off. - Her eyes were just- - My eyes were walking in and I didn't do my makeup in that way. - Yep, that sounds right. - Bridges in their closet, getting ready. And I'm like, "All right, I'm gonna go the other direction." - It's fascinating. - Dude in his date line too, like now they have like, a date line podcast where they'd have the audio version of the episodes. And so my mom always watched that girl up and down. - It's not new, Matt. It's been around- - Whatever, I guess it was. - That's another one podcast. - Women have been into this for years. - Every night. - That's exactly. - I think it's just curiosity. Like you're just like, how could someone do something like that? - Yeah. - We gotta be ready. - I also think it's a female urge to like protect yourself. - Yeah. - It's scary, okay? It's out there, it's scary. - It's scary. - That's probably scary. - You guys don't get it. - You don't get it. - Apparently we don't. There's just something wrong with us now, guys. - I don't know. - I think, yeah, also maybe it's a short version thing. - That's true. - Wait, everyone's a friend. - Okay, you guys are both five, too. - You guys are the same height. - That's so short-winged. - I don't think he'll do it. - That's what he does. - Where are you going to get yourself some extra height? - I want to talk to you about working as a Disney princess. - Yes. - Are you allowed to even say which princess you were? - I feel like I can. - Okay. - I did Elsa, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty. - Go away. - My first one though, y'all, was Anna or Anna. - Yes. - From Frozen and I looked horrible. - That's why I only did that once. Putting me in a bun that was red. That is not my style. - But oh, it was so much fun. - Yes, like getting to surprise the little ones, especially when the parents didn't tell them that there was going to be a visitor. That was my favorite when you got to surprise them. - Wait, was that like birthday parties? - Yes. - Yeah, birthday parties, events. They didn't tell me though, I would be face painting. And I do not have that ability. - So I remember I painted this beautiful little three-year-olds face like I tried to make a butterfly, hand her the mirror, and at three years old she goes, (laughing) Oh no, they're the most honest again. - It's true, which is good, it's a good thing. - I'm just gonna ring it, yeah, literally. - That's so cute. - Oh my gosh. - Did the princess thing, and when you started being a YouTuber, did you keep doing birthday parties and stuff for kids after creating content? - I mainly did it during college. - Okay, nice. - And then once I became a nurse, I was working graveyard shift, so I didn't really do the princess thing anymore, but I missed it. - That's rude. - It was really fun. - Yeah, that's crazy. - Was that any of that during COVID at all, or was that pre-COVID? - Pre-COVID, I wanna say it was like a year before COVID. I switched over to full-time YouTube. - Wow, okay. - I could see you. - I could see you. - Pre-COVID, she absolutely crushed it. When we launched her first channel, it was 32 million long-form views in the first month. - Holy crap, that's amazing. - There was actually one point in time when Bri wanted to do a specific video, and myself and our creative director, the time like, ah, it's a terrible idea. And she was like, I'll take the camera and go film it myself then. - Oh, remember that. - Now it's like, ooh, sput up. - I feel like that was kind of a directive. Go ahead. - And do it. - I didn't work. - It did. - Oh, it did. - It did. - They did. - I was like, okay, so fresh perspective, actually really helpful here. - Yeah. - And at that point, you guys started new contes together. You were a seasoned veteran at that point, right? Like, wasn't there a time in your career where you were essentially coaching up Jimmy, Mr. Beast, like showing him the ropes back in the day when he was-- - There was a point in time when he came in. You know, he was already so far ahead of his time, even when he came in and we met him for the first time. Our mom used to do some Bible studies together, and then at one point in time, I think I got looped in the PR training with him for some stun. I can't remember what it was. And I was like, it's like when your dad gets a speeding ticket and then he takes you to be a part of it, so it lowers the insurance bill. - Okay. - It was like that. And I was like, I don't understand. Why do I have to do this? And it's like, because you have to, 'cause Jimmy's doing it. And I was like, okay. So you came all the way to our office, just to do that. It was hilarious. He's such a good guy though. Such a good guy, but this was like, maybe he was like 20 million views a month. Maybe if that, it was a while back when he was doing a lot more of the experiment type content, before he really blew up. And he was like, here's all the different ideas we have. Aren't these crazy? And I was like, yeah, why are you spending so much money on your videos? - Yeah. - You know, I was like, I don't understand this. Anyways, let's go film a roadblocks bill. I'll make you a roadblocks account. (laughing) - He was like, I think you should spend more money on your videos. And I was like, I couldn't compute it at that time. He's just so far ahead. He's super, super intelligent. I remember even looking at some of our videos at that time, and he's like, your intro's like a minute long. And he's like, dude, you gotta trim these. He's like, just get to the good stuff more quickly. And I was like, really? But what about like, you know, like the personal connection and getting the chat with the audience. He's like, yeah, save that for later. Anyways, the guy's brilliant. - Very smart. - That's so interesting. Yeah, I mean, it's clear, I mean, yeah, given like, Beast Games, you know, the success that he's had, it's clear that he was ahead of his time. It must have been like, pretty surreal to like, watch that happen from the beginning, essentially. You know? - That's cool. - It was really cool. We actually got to see Jimmy's mom last week, whenever. I went to, we did this awesome Make-A-Wish event with Disney and YouTube and Disney Land. Such a big blessing. And I got to see Jimmy's mom for some, like, five years. And she goes, Brett, did you look so old now? And gives me a hug. And I was like, thanks to, I love you too. - With like, I'm gonna call it for what it is. It's a media empire that you guys have built on YouTube, which is insane. Like, what do the logistics look like for that? - So if you're filming like some big hide and seek video in the stadium where the Dallas Cowboys play, like, how does all that work? That must be a logistic nightmare to deal with all that. - That was a really, really big video. And all the credit goes back to the team 'cause they spent so much time working on that project. We had not only our internal team, but we even hired an external production team to help facilitate and assist with that. We just always had this idea of like, how cool it would be to get 50 YouTubers into like one of the biggest stadiums and get to play hide and seek. And they were actually still giving tours that day. So some of the kids that were in the tours, were like, Preston, over there, over there. And I was like, I love you so much. Thank you for helping me out. - But it was a process. I think it was like six months of planning and getting to go through it. Just 'cause, you know, you got people sometimes are not able to make the flights anymore. To be honest, like I wasn't really involved in the logistics side of it. I was much more involved on the creative in understanding the structure and how we wanted to pace things. The team absolutely nailed that. It was such a spectacular experience. I almost accidentally broke the world record for the most indoor steps. - Really? - Yep. Just goes of how much distance we traveled. 'Cause it was like, good, 16 hours or 18 hours? I was just walking around looking. - Oh my gosh. - It was quite exhausting at the very end. I remember being like, oh, sitting down at the end of the day, I was like, this feels so good. - How do you find a partner to come alongside you and filming a hide and seek video with YouTubers? Like, where do you go? Like, there's not like companies that are like, oh yeah, hire us to do your hide and seek video inside an NFL stadium. Like, that doesn't exist. So, how does that logistically work? - Well, we had a VP of production at that time who had worked at Fine Bros and a lot of other amazing YouTube companies. And so, I just had pitched the idea and I was like, what does this look like? I understand what the outcome is. I would love to get to have a really big successful video where we get to actually invite so many different creators rather than just like, one or two creators at a time for a collab, which is amazing. But, you know, what would it look like to put us on the radar by doing a really big video with this many YouTubers at a stadium like this? - Yeah. - And then he was like, okay, I'll map it out. You know, I'll get back to you. So, honestly, like, you just spearheaded the entire thing. And he was like, finding the extra production team that would help us facilitate this and make it into a reality. But, you know, have people like that that really want to upgrade the capacity of the team internally. 'Cause they're like, if we can accomplish the successfully everybody's capacity, the amount of energy they spend, they either just get more efficient, better, or both. And it was a huge level up moment. You know, it's like in the video game. You defeat the raid boss and you're like, say, you know, I just got 20% extra XP, level up baby. That's what it was like. - If you don't mind me asking, what does a video like that cost to me? - I wanna say it was about $200 to $250,000. - Okay. - Somewhere along those lines. Most of it just being the flights, the camera equipment, a lot of the post-production, I mean, it took six editors. Honestly, it took about four to six editors, maybe around a month, if I recall correctly. - There's just a lot of footage. - Yeah, I'm sure. - Yeah, a lot of just for the hotels and the flights. I mean, those are the majority of the expenses because hide and seek, thankfully, you're just having fun playing hide and seek. There's not really any other expenses once the video starts filming outside of just getting the talent. - Well, even then had a camera too, right? - Yes. - And taking out how many hours. - Yeah, I was so much hours of footage. I don't remember exactly how large the project was, but it was absolutely-- - Mine. - Norally in the size. - Yeah, wow. That's impressive just even wanting to take on something like that, but then let alone executing like that. It's very impressive. I know you always wanted to work with their spouse. And I want to talk about, 'cause we work together, obviously. - Yes. - There's a lot of fun and games involved, but I know that also it can get hard sometimes I imagine. Where are the parts that you find are like, this is where it gets difficult for you guys. - That's a good question. Do you want to answer first? - Absolutely. (laughs) - You had something. (laughs) (laughs) - A lot more just up front. I always mean what I say. So you can always take me at face value. There isn't a motive or a hidden agenda behind that. So if Brie now having a conversation, we'll be talking about actions that we want to take or actions that I think Brie should be taking or looking into a little bit more. Sometimes there can be some friction between those, 'cause Brie is a lot more sweet-hearted and she's more kind-hearted and more tender. And so sometimes I can come off to be a lot more abrasive. - It's a good balance though, but sometimes in business I think too much with my heart versus getting really down to the business side. So that's kind of a hard thing. Like we kind of help each other in that, I feel. - What advice would you give to somebody that's wanting to be maybe a Minecraft YouTuber, gamer, streamer, like what would you say to somebody like that who's just getting into it? - You're going to fail and you're gonna be really bad. I had 300 videos that I deleted. Probably more than that at the beginning. - Oh, 300. - Oh yeah, you'll never see the lot of day on those videos. But it's all about getting the reps in. I think a lot of people are just very quick to want to have the instant gratification of a successful video. But in reality, a lot of times when you're talking about your successes or the things you've been blessed with, you don't realize that there was a lot of struggle that goes in there. So really it's finding the content you love making and then content that viewers also love watching. And then you get to marry them together. This is the Goldilocks zone. - You clearly have more patience and persistence than I do because I was about to throw in the towel after doing 50 videos on YouTube. I was like so burnt out. I was like a full-time job making no money. I was hoping to like maybe make a couple dollars out of that sense. And I couldn't even get that COVID hits. And I'm like, I think I'm gonna give this up. But somehow we ended up doing TikTok dances and that got us discovered. I don't know. And that blew up our YouTube channel, like the cross-pollination. - How about that? - You feel at that point in time where you like happy and slightly upset. You're like, I grinded so hard on these videos. And I should've just been dancing. - I was stoked though because I was like, I didn't think TikTok was going to like last like it did. So I just, at first it was just, we just did TikTok to get people to our YouTube channel. And that's how the first year we actually made money on social media was just getting people over to YouTube so we can make money off of AdSense. And that's how we were able to fully go full-time. - That's how you do it. That's streaming on Twitch. Same thing. I was like, I was trying to get as many people to my YouTube channel as possible. - Yeah, but it's just like hearing you make 300 videos in my whole, like that's six times the amount of videos. - That's not the exact same quality that you're quality that is my type. - And these are gaming videos at least. - Okay, okay, that does make feel better. But still it's like, you have to put in a lot of work not knowing if it's going to succeed. And that's scary. - It's the plateau of latent potential. A lot of times results lag behind the efforts. - Yeah. - So it's easy to give up more quickly. - Good for you, man. Good for you. - Good for you. - And good for you marrying someone that already had this content empire. You could just, you know, cohesively go together and-- - And build your own thing with it, man. - Yeah, I got to learn a lot. I was gonna say, every time I'm asked to give somebody advice, if you're starting like a YouTube channel or whatever, make sure you're passionate about what it is. Because if you're gonna go all in, if you like really dislike what you're making, that's gonna drag you down. And you wanna be able to be yourself. I feel like in my content, maybe I'll be like a little extra like loud or something. But I'm just myself 'cause otherwise I'd get more drained. So I think that's important to be authentic and-- - If you're going for the sustainability, absolutely. - Yeah, yeah. - Plus also, you're looking to serve people. And I always tell people, like if you're getting into entertainment, like you're looking to serve your viewers. So you have to enter with that heart posture. It's not about you, you might not always have the most fun making your videos or it might be very grueling, it might be demanding, but remember why you got into this. 'Cause you love seeing people that watch your content. And you're making it for them, you know. Did you open a coffee shop to make coffee just for yourself? Maybe. - Most likely you've done so much to make some amazing coffee. - No, that's a great way to look at it. And you can tell that you guys are one genuine, but also just truly care about your audience and want to cater them and see what they want to be reflected in what you're creating. - Well none of us would be here without the beautiful people that watch behind the camera. Like we just wouldn't exist. So this platform and this opportunity, this gift that we've been allowed to steward is only because they actually get to watch. - Because of you guys, thank you for being here. - Yes. - We appreciate you, cameras. - And while we're at it, go ahead and hit that like button. - Yes! (laughing) - My engagement right now and 10% on this video minimum. - My dad, every time we put my dad on camera, he'll be like, did you hit the like button? Like my dad always tries to plug us. And so, but he's like, did you subscribe? Like my dad. - I love that. - That's a sweet thought. - You got a good dad, yeah. - My dad just defaults to 10-year-old, like his 10-year-old self. - Oh really? - Did you put the camera on him? - Yeah, I'm like, did you subscribe? - Yeah. - Did you subscribe? - Yeah. - I'll just say just ridiculous things, like how you say it? Subscribe, pop a frags here. It looks like a lot of the deep end. It just be absolutely hilarious. He loves it. - Thank you. - Okay, speaking of family, speaking of parents, we got so many questions in this question, box and put out on Instagram, for you guys about, you know, starting a family, kids. - And I get why there's confusion actually, 'cause as I was watching some of your videos, I've seen you say you want six kids, and then I heard you say, maybe no kids, like I'm confused as well. What's going on here? - Things have evolved, but I don't think there's any change on wanting to have kids, maybe the amount, 'cause Brie and I are both, you know, 31 now. So. - Thank you. (laughing) - I would love to be able to have a few kids in the next couple of years. - Just not six. - Not six. - Not six, we probably-- - Personally, I don't want six. I feel like two. - I feel all the hard work. (laughing) You have to do all the hard work. - No, definitely. I feel like we were in this period of time, when I first got married and wasn't really in the YouTube space, I only was thinking about kids, and then I feel like I've been putting efforts just into the content creation side. And now that I'm like a little older, it's starting to lean more. We're thinking about it more. - You know, it's to submit your plans to the Lord so we can change them. So I was like, cool, I thought I would have a lot of kids, about 25 or even 23, it started having kids. And then it was like, okay, I really feel this calling for what I'm doing right now, and I really love it. And I feel like it's a purpose. I get to bring joy to people, and I only want to continue to multiply that joy. And do I want to split that time right now, or do I want to wait until I know for certain that I can make the time to have a child and to be a really good father and to be more present? - Do you guys have any preference on boy girl? Maybe one of each? What are you guys talking about? - Yeah. - What about boys? - What about boys first? - I don't really have a preference as long as they're healthy, but I will say only child girl, sorority girl. - I don't know how to grow. - Boy, necessarily. I don't know. - You're a secret girl. - Yeah. - Yeah. - You would be great. - I figured it out. - It's funny to say that 'cause I'm one of three boys, and so my older brother just had a daughter, and we were talking and he's like, "Dude, I have no. " It was actually while we were playing rockily the other day. He was like, "Dude, I'm so like this is weird. I have a girl. I don't know what to do." And I'm like, "I guess you just figured out." - Yeah. - I feel like, "Don't throw the ball at the door." (laughing) - No girl that just knows how to be a girl that. You kind of just figure it out. - You guys currently, if I'm not mistaken, have been living in a condo for a while. Talk to me about that. How do you like condo living? - Never something I ever thought I would do. To be honest. I'm not thinking that negatively. - It was hard to help her breathe. - I was actually really sad. When Preston was like, "My heart is set on moving." Like, we were a bit outside of Dallas. We had this house. I thought I was going to like have kids and like, die in. I don't know. My parents have lived in the same house for 31 years. - Okay. - So that's how I grew up. - And I grew up moving around a ton. - Right. - All the time every couple of years. - Right. Now I love it. - For safe and like you have like a pool. You don't have to take care of. - Really the big reason is like we found these offices that were in right now and they're a lot closer to the city. And so we didn't want to make a 25 minute commute every day. - Yeah. - And then also I was like, you know, it's kind of nice that I have to cut the grass or like, you know, take care of the yard or you know, do any of those things. And we had such a big, a big home. It was a huge blessing. It was like 6,000 square feet. And we just barely used any of it. - Yeah. - Actually we were able to sell it and the family, their kids watch our videos. And so they were like over the moon and I was like, this is awesome. - It's so cool. - Come and ask for like best kids. - Yeah. - They just tell all their friends that they live in press. - No. - So cool. - I love it. - Don't watch the video where we filled the bath tub up with ketchup. - Please. - It has been cleaned. - Wait, you filled your bath tub up with ketchup. - What does it do to your pineapple? - I don't know. - Unspeakable things. - Yeah, bad things. - You know at one time we definitely ended up nailing the furniture to the ceiling. - Just to make it look like the room was upside down. - Yeah. - All the furniture. So I don't even know if there's holes in the ceiling. - We put like a prison inside of the pool. - What? - Crazy things. So fun. - Ball pit balls, you nailed it. It was a congen house. - Well you have to go about nailing furniture to the ceiling. - My older brother, Deca. is a wizard. He was an engineer in the Navy and then he graciously moved out here to help us make all the content, dreams we had come to life. And so anytime I was like, I kind of want this done, I don't know how to do it. All right, David, we need this maze made of the Legos, but I want it in the pool. Yeah. He's like, okay. Is the water out of it? No. No. I remember we were putting chains around my waist, so I would sink to like place the Legos down and they would like rise up. There's no rulebook on this. No. That's sad. How did you like, if you were like chained to a weight in a pool, how did you get out? You could breathe. It wasn't too deep of a pool. So it was okay, but it was crazy. We even did like scuba tanks at one point to like stay down there like in the house. Oh, yeah. Same thing. We did to hide and seek once where I buried myself alive in the backyard of my parents. So we brought in a backhoe. Brie took my siblings out who are the seekers. And then I got in there and I was like, wait, I don't have any oxygen or anything like that. And I was like, and it's like 100 degrees in Texas. And I'm like, two, three inches in dirt, like underground. And day goes like, thank God I missed the pipe. I was digging with the backhoe. That could have been bad. Anyways, your box is ready. What was that like being buried alive? So much fun. It was so cool. You weren't even scared a little bit. You see, you seek some thrill and some novelty. Yeah. Have you ever done the plane walking? You can do it in Washington state. Plane what what is that? You can walk on a plane while you're in there. That's flying. And yeah, it's so fun. And you had like you walk on a plane while it's flying. You get to go from it's only a two-seater plane. It's like a by plane and they're doing hammer and barrels. But you get out and then you walk on top, strap yourself in, then you get back down and then you go out into the wing. And then you hold onto this javelin. You kind of like your Harry Potter. Thumbin' around. I'm thinking about the Tom Cruise video of him like holding on to the plane while it's taking off which is like, do you know that's like a real shot? They actually like hooked him, strapped him into the plane. Guys, I couldn't believe it. I thought the word CGI, that's tough. Now dude, Tom does all this stuff. That's insane. Are you a thrill seeker like this? I did hang from a crane in a box a hundred feet in the air or something. That was cool. But overall, no. Like when he was doing that, I ate ice cream and was watching Bob's burgers. Like just spray me out. I was like so nervous. But as you're comforted. Yeah, it was. Like content has made me do things I never thought I would do. I like to confront my fears because normally I'm not a thrill seeker at all, to be honest. That's honestly one of the coolest things about content. I hope you guys feel that same way. But the experiences that you're like, well, I wouldn't do this normally. But because I want to do it for other people. Yeah. I'm going to get to do something totally unique that I would never be able to get to experience and share with the world. Oh, no, it's so much fun. I love that about. I've just never walked on a plane that's flying in the air. We'll do it together. I'll be sick. I would be down. If that was if that was a legit possibility, I actually probably I would do that as long as there's a highly likelihood of me not dying. I have two. I have two boys. I got a kid. I got a one family. I would love to have more light super battles with those kids. What has been the coolest experience you've ever gotten to document on YouTube? What a phenomenal question. Do you want me to go for a brief? Sure. It feels like it's a bit of a cop out answer. But man, I loved, I just loved the YouTuber hide and seek. But if I have to answer a different one, the limo video we did was so much fun. That video where we had this old 2008 limo. God bless it. It's trying to tart us. We drove almost from the east coast to the west coast. We were not allowed to leave or touch the ground. So we had a pump gas by getting on top of the roof. We had to like harass people at gas stations. We were trying to get a souvenir from every state that we crossed through. We ended up trying to do it in 50 hours and it took us 26. Oh my gosh. We were not successful unfortunately, but the limo broke down once. Brother and law driving, I got pulled over. The whiskey decanters were not full of whiskey. How does you go to the bathroom? Oh my gosh. But like, but like, anybody have to go number two. Oh, yes. And it was while we were broken down. Oh, number, bro. I would. While we're busted down. But that was, that's just like those experiences are so fun because you get to bond with your friends and you're just sharing this experience of you all just going kind of insane. Wow. And then, but you have this goal. And you're like, we have to do this. No matter what we have to do this goal, we have to achieve this. We can do this. Um, those are all a little bit, but I love those types of videos because it's things again, you wouldn't get to do if you weren't making content and sharing it with the world. And so it's just like, okay, did I just design like a really hard and possible video game? Yes. And I can't wait to go and experience it. I know this concept's like five years old that I still want to do it. I recently got full self-driving on our Tesla Model Y. I want to do like a West Coast to East Coast road trip, like with my boys, but then like on full self drive the whole time. I think that'd be so much fun. But I know that's like not even close. That was actually our first video that inspired the road trip videos. Oh, really? Yeah. I saw Ryan Trayhand, Stoke Swins, they did 24 hours in Tesla Autopilot. Okay. What if we could do 50? And then can we go to this YouTuber's house and then make it all the way back in Autopilot? And can we get Elon Musk to notice us on Twitter or any social media platform within that time limit before we make it back? Did he notice you guys? He did not. And we were stuck in him. I mean, we were stuck in him. We're just trying to get a like or a tweet because we really want to do a fault video in the plaid at that time. The plaid was going to be the brand new Tesla. Yeah. We were unsuccessful. Surely Elon knows you are now though with like the 80 million subscribers across platforms, like there has to be a way. Elon has seen you. You want some pie please. That was Elon. If you're watching this, please say hi to President. Don't get over it. Brady, did you have a favorite video? I have two. I can't decide between. So one, I confronted my fear of being alone. When I was little, my worst punishment was sitting on the stairs away from my family because I cannot stop talking. I love to talk. And so I stayed in this building for 24 hours alone with nothing. I was just filming and like slowly going insane and just like talking to myself and just trying to like entertain. So it was like cool to confront something I never would have done otherwise. And then selfishly, I loved when I got to be at a zoo. And they like, it's where her rhombé was born. And they let me do everything. The Cincinnati suit that that one. It was on like the. Is it in Harajin, right? Harajin is Texas. Oh, okay. So that's where he was born. And they let me feed like all the animals. Like go back into places you never get to go. Like where all the dangerous snakes are. And like it was just such a fun time. We love animals. I do. Can we keep talking about the crazy stuff you guys have done for videos? Cause this is just such like our content is so like, okay, day in the life of a parent. I'm changing diapers. I'm doing like our stuff is just so boring and lame. But yours is like, I walked on top of a flying aircraft. Like I want to know more. Like tell me more about the cool stuff you've done. I find it so interesting. I feel like your followers too. Cause like from my understanding, your content is so fast pace and like high energy, like very entertaining. So I'm sure in this format, there's like so much more to say behind the scenes of like what it was like to make these videos that people would have never heard if it weren't for you talking about it on the podcast. That's true. Some of our favorites that we there's this guy named Robert O. Burst. He was one of the world's strongest men. We started partnering with him on some content back in 2020, 2021. So one of our really popular videos. It's like 40 million views was world strongest man versus bulletproof glass. So we built different types of bulletproof glass progressive, like a video game where it's like level one, two, three, four, five, ending with bulletproof glass. But throughout it, you'd have like glass sugar glass. You'd have silly glass that you use in movies. At one point in time, there was bank teller glass, like literally what the tellers are behind. And the guy was like, who sold the to us? So like, I don't care if he's the world's strongest man. He's not getting in one spear throw and he cracked the glass. You're kidding. Yeah. It was just like, oh my gosh. And like I just would never get to do something like that if I did do YouTube. It was so fun. Like the fact that you have to like access bank teller glass. How did you even access that? My bride. No idea where my brother got it. Like he literally is the goat. Cause he just brings all these crazy creative ideas and just engineers them into the real world. You should do like world strongest man fist versus like cyber trucks. If you can like plunge through the way. Cause I know there's supposed to be like bulletproof. Yeah. You probably be bleeding. I would watch that video. We did. We had him actually go up against bedrock. We have like a two-ton piece. I don't know how heavy this rock was. But you know, bedrock and minecraft is unbreakable unless you have creative mode. And so we were like, curious if he could go through different types of stones or materials from minecraft that lead up to bedrock. And if he'd be able to get through it, man, we were dropping this thing off a forklift and then eventually we got feather wedges. We had seen it on a TikTok. I forgot some random guy to mine and use some feather wedges to crack a rock. And I was like, we should save that for the end. Maybe he can get through with this. Have you seen those? It's like when you take these little wedges and then you like hammer them with a sledgehammer and then just create enough pressure that the whole rock cracks in half. No, I didn't see that. I get like just stuff you'd only get to do in contests. So you just made me think of a video I did. So I went to Mexico and I don't know how to swim very well. So my fear I was confronting in this video was I was going to go to submarine thousands of feet under the ocean. And this beautiful lovely man was like, go ahead, you can drive it. So I'm just like under the sea, kind of freaking out. And then this very sweet man is like, go for it, sit in the chair. So I was like, this is terrifying. Did you not hear about what happened to the people that were looking at Titanic? I did, but we did not go down that far. I will say I feel like that had something maybe to do with that. They were like, real deep. I like was near the sand already. - Okay, could you imagine? - No, no, that sounds terrifying to me. I even want to do the Nemo ride at Disneyland. - No, Abby's afraid of the water a little bit. - It's fine. - I've been trying, we used to live in Hawaii and I try to get her to surface me, but maybe one day, maybe one day. - I should've surfed with you. - Did you ride the wave or did the wave ride you? - I guess I'm the Waikiki. - I got up on Waikiki. - Yeah, that was great. - The easiest surf spot. - Hey. - Hey, but you tried it. That's what matters. - You can get up on a surf board. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Tell me how good the local mocos are in Hawaii. Hawaiian, y'all know your boo. - So good. - It's wild, like in Hawaii, we met a lot of people that were in the military because like, there's a lot of military people in Hawaii. And we knew a guy that was under, like, under water. - There was a submarine for months, that time. - Was it three months? They don't come up. They're underground in like a nuclear submarine, right? And someone died while they were down there. He got like crushed from some big piece of equipment and they didn't even come up. They just had to put his body in the freezer and just leave them there. - 'Cause you just, you have to. - Yeah. - For like, for security reasons. - You're supposed to have to call the family? Like you, no, no. - You can't even call people. - No, you didn't call. - And it's why I'm told us that he came back so weird because like, when you're down there for that long and it's just a bunch of dudes under water. - We also don't know anything that's happened. - Right. - They're not on TikTok or, you know, YouTube shorts. They have no idea what's going on in the world. - No. - So they come up and they're just like, they're a little weird because they've been under water. They're like, literally been like buried under a water rock for every month. - For a year right now. - It could be, I lived in a submarine for three months and then you come up. That would be an epic challenge to like, come back three months of your life. - That would be so sick. - Oh my gosh, Matt, we could not be apart. We were apart for 24 hours last week and we were just like, come back home. - Oh no, I hate being away from Abby. I don't want to be together. - Even being away from Abby for 24 hours sucks. And even right now, like we're away from our kids now for 24 hours and I hate it. Like I did not want to be - That's so right. - Yesterday. - Yeah. - That's cause you guys are awesome parents though. - Yeah. - Oh three. - Thank you. We try our best, you know. - You quit. - It's not me right. - You're getting you guys up for some lessons. - Yeah, it's for you. - No, no, no. Well that's exciting that you guys are even thinking about that chapter of life. It's like my favorite thing I was telling you before we felt like it's literally the most fulfilling thing ever. We talk about it all the time. I don't need to be the one to tell you. You already probably know from everyone and your family and your life. - Wasn't it such a blessing when you have amazing parents? Like you really have this almost just edge on life. - Yeah. - That is so unfair because of all of the people and your parents that have just blessed so much of their time and refinement with you. - Totally. - I get really just such a gift. - We feel very blessed that we have, yeah. Like just the business that we have on social media it's been a huge blessing to us and our family. We don't have a ton of family members working with us like you guys have but we have a couple and it's really cool to like see it provide for us, provide for them. Even though Abby and I don't come from wealth or money like we both come from having loving caring parents and I feel like that's undervalued in today's age. Like to have two parents that really care about you and want the best for you. I feel like that just made us feel secure in ourselves and grow up knowing who we are, you know. So I think that was a huge blessing. - It's the biggest edge. - It's the biggest and most important job in the entire world too. Like nothing is more important than that. And more than that, just like having parents that are proud of you and parents that enjoy you. That is like, 'cause also the flip side of that is like bad parents can also do life long. - You draw them on damage. - Damage, like to you as an adult. Like even like I was telling Matt I was like, think about how we're like establishing our kids in our dialogue essentially. Like what they believe about themselves, what they believe about the world. Like a lot of that is like come so early on in life before you're 18 for sure. I think about like the things that I believe in myself because of like what my parents said to me and like instilled in me and like yeah. Like that's just such a, that is such a responsibility. But then we always have like, there are like a seat. Like this is like, this is forever. Like even past like our own life. So it's such a rewarding thing, fulfilling thing. And they're also like lucky 'cause we have just like really fun. Kids like we are like, you're just really easy to me. It's really easy to be your parent. Like they're really fun and enjoyable. - I'm sure that helps a lot. - Yeah. - Yeah, like we got lucky 'cause we like genuinely, like of course love you, but we also just really, really like you. And so this is really working out well. - That does a big plus, yeah. - Doing social media for as long as you have and not quitting, not like falling into burnout, which I feel like every creator experience is at some point. Have you been able to stay positive? - Well, there's a couple of things. I mean, Bree is obviously such an amazing support. We get to support one another. But even before I was able to me, Bree and my mom, just like a rock star, you know. There's definitely a point in time where YouTube is much more edgy than it is now. And I was getting very, very bullied. And I was like, all right mom, it's over. It's done and she's like, no, it's not. - Wait, what do you mean? Like you were like bullied, but like people just-- - Yeah, I was getting super bullied for a big part of us because of my faith. When I was like streaming and just starting out, I had like 20 live viewers, you know? So for me it was like a really big deal. And then I was like, I just think I'm done, you know. Everybody hates me and she's like, no, you're not. You get back up right now. You're not giving up, this is your calling. This is your purpose. You get back up there and you just go. You ignore them. And then it started to really re-engine the way they think about it. And it's like, well, if people didn't get to have such a blessed upbringing, how much, you know, potential drama are they caring right now in their life. And so I think about it a lot more of like, how sympathetic can I be towards somebody? Because what causes somebody to act in that type of way? - Yeah. - You know, because I think we've all kind of experienced that maybe a little bit being trolls growing up. - A little bit? - Maybe not to that extent. But then you can start to relate and just think about it from their perspective and understand like, okay, well, they might not have had the same upbringing. - It's also motivating because we're both wanting to be lights to people. And I feel like that gives me a lot of motivation. Like, say you have a kid who got bullied at school and then they turn on the channel and they're able to laugh and not think about it and they feel like they're included in like your family. That's even if I'm having a rough day, that's motivation to not give up. Or even if you have a hard day, it's like, here's my purpose and it's so motivating. - Yeah. - That it makes me excited. - Has there ever been like a situation like that where you've felt bullied or felt like somebody was just like out to get you and you've had to overcome that as well? - So it's been a while. I will say when I first met Preston, people were actually pretty mean to me. I don't know why. I think it's because Preston was so established and he was so fast with proposing. So a lot of people were probably like, who is this chick? - Yeah. - And they might have not understood that I just like loved him for him and didn't know like anything about this industry. - Yeah. - But I feel like that lasted for such a small period of time and people have been so gracious and kind overall. Like I really have no complaints, to be honest. - That's awesome. Was I a geek? Can you hate Bre? You know? She's so much prettier than me. (laughs) - Well, your hands are more than me. That's the word. - Thank you, Bre. - I appreciate that. - Well, you guys, this has been such a fun time getting a chat with you. I feel like we really bonded in this like hour, 15 minutes or whatever and spend them getting a chat. What's next for you? Is there an exciting project that you're working on that you want to share about? Or maybe that's all top secret? - I see even more importantly, we're really excited to hopefully be able to get to start our family here soon. - Yes. - That's really on our heart recently. Okay, wait, that's so cool. I'm so free of rest. - Oh my gosh. - That's awesome. - I know, people always want a big five-year plan like tell me it all and it's like, sometimes you just take it a day by day and you're evolving as the new information comes in. - That's true. - Well, I feel like the best things in life are unplanned. - Yes. - That's right. - Yeah, the best thing to life are unplanned. - I think as soon as you try to come up with a plan is when life just reminds you that you don't have that control. - So true. - 100%. - Where's the best place for people to stay and touch with you? Is it YouTube, Instagram, TikTok? - I'd say Instagram is really good. - Okay. - Instagram is definitely more Breonnaire than most active. - Yeah. - Okay. - So you guys go check out Preston and Brianna on Instagram. We'll link their Instagrams below, as well as their other socials. - Thank you guys so much. - Thank you guys for having us. - It was such a blessing.