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Signing a prenup, getting robbed, & living with my in-laws ft. Bryton & Jade

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Signing a prenup, getting robbed, & living with my in-laws ft. Bryton & Jade

The episode features a heartfelt conversation between Brighton and Jade, a married couple who grew up on the popular YouTube channel Ninja Kids. Their journey began with a chance first-date encounter on a road trip, leading to a five-year relationship and a wedding marked by a massive, community-driven celebration. The couple shares intimate details of their life, including living with in-laws during a 12-week U.S. tour, their deep family bonds, and their shared passion for travel and content creation. They also discuss the evolution of the Ninja Kids brand, aiming to grow it into a long-lasting, inclusive platform for future talent beyond their family. The narrative is enriched by personal anecdotes, such as attending a six-year-old princess’s birthday party in Malaysia and launching action parks worldwide. A recurring public misunderstanding—being assumed to be pregnant—adds humor and highlights the audience’s deep connection to their family. The episode blends personal storytelling with entrepreneurial insight, emphasizing authenticity, family values, and the power of shared experiences. It also spotlights Quince as a clothing brand, where high-quality, ethical fashion is offered at affordable prices, with a strong emphasis on sustainability and transparency. Overall, the episode celebrates real-life connection, resilience, and the joy of building a life rooted in adventure, family, and purpose.

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I wear them all the time when we go on the pool with the boys. I'm excited to see what she picks out from Quince for me next. Your nice khaki shorts are from Quince. With the khaki that I wear like literally every day. Yep. Those are from Quince. You don't even know where your clothes are from but if you had to guess they're probably from Quince because I love shopping their min section as well for Matt. You can wear them in many different ways for many different seasons. Find your next fall favorites at Quince. Download the Quince app for app exclusive offers or go to Quince.com. Get free shipping on your order and 365 day returns now available in Canada and the UK too. And when Quince asks you where you heard about them, let them know that unplanned sent you. It's the best way to support the show. I had to leave my bridal party to go sign a prenup. Part of the issue was I made one on tattoo v2. All the day before the wedding. Right and Miler grew up in front of millions as one of the original stars of Ninja Kids TV. A kids martial arts channel with over 24 million subscribers. My dad wanted to start a family vlog channel so we went to Costa Rica in Panama for two months. We got burglarized so all of our camera gear electronics. If we would have started that family channel we may not have ever started Ninja Kids. A decade later Brighton is all grown up and just celebrated his first wedding anniversary with his wife Jade. Everyone thinks I'm pregnant all the time. There's a YouTube channel that posts fake thumbnails of our family. But it's kind of a big problem with my whole family. Sometimes his sister they get in a huge accident. Siblings die all the time. Yeah and people messages like are your siblings okay. We talk about getting invited to perform for the Princess of Malaysia. Why they had two weddings and living with their in-laws as newlyweds all on today's episode. Please welcome Brighton and Jay. Guys this is your first podcast right? Yes we're so excited. Are you nervous? They did a lot in their careers. I feel like this is probably more chill. Yeah sure but Jade said the same feeling of nervousness is exciting. Yes that's right so I'm like a little bit nervous but also the same feeling I'm also excited. Yeah as I said that I'm like Brighton you grew up on a family channel that has like 24 million subscribers so I feel like you're probably just used to this stuff at this point right? Yeah it's true it's definitely different podcast style but you know I love being on camera so it's a good time. I want to get into how you guys met you just got married a year ago which congratulations by the way but when you guys met each other did you did you know who he was? Did you know that he was this famous YouTuber? We actually have the best story about how we met. I think it's pretty awesome. No one would ever be able to guess it's not we didn't meet on a dating app we have the best story I'd say let's hear it. So I was actually on another date. I was on another date and it was a fun time but it was just like a first date and so I was driving the car with my with my bro is a double date and so we were driving on state street and then I saw Jade in the car. You got to see you dropped your date. Yeah she's not with us. She's not with us. I was going to say if you if you like her right now. No, what do you want to double date with your brother? Was it also my bro my friend my friend. Was it also a first date for him? Yes. That's so fun. It's just a fun casual thing. So we dropped off the girls and then we were driving down state street and she was in the car next to us and I just said hey she's cute so I rolled down my window and I was like rolled down your window and she rolled down her window. Oh not the first time actually. She tried to go to my side of the story but he can keep going. She ignored us at the first light so I followed her. You followed her and then she finally rolled down her window. I got her number and I called her right away and the rest is history. So that's how we met. Wait I need to hear your side of the story. Well my side he followed me for a good amount of time. Were you by yourself? Yes and I looked crazy. I had just gotten done with work. I had changed into my workout clothes. I was going to the gym. He had just gotten off the date so he looks his very best you know. And I see this car keep following me and they keep looking over at me and I'm kind of nervous. I'm like why is someone following me? What's going on? I was in a college town so I thought someone was pranking me or something. I didn't know. And so I kept ignoring them and then finally he was like rolled down your window and so I did it and then yeah then he was nice but he followed me for a second. So I was a little concerned but he was really cute. So I was like okay I'll trust him. Is that all you heard him say was what's your number? He said I think you're cute. What's your number? Like yelling it because it was loud. And so I don't know why that was the first time I ever gave my number to anyone. Like a real number. I'd always give a fake number just to be funny. Yeah it was fake. I know but I just was like he's cute. I don't know. I want to try it. So I gave my number and then we drove off and he called me immediately. But to answer your question. Oh yeah. I did not know who I was. I had no idea. No. So we met and he calls me and he's like hi I'm Brighton. What's your name? We talked for a minute and I asked him what he does for work or does he go to school and he's like oh I'm not in school I just make videos for fun. I was like is that a red flag? You just make videos for fun? What does that mean? I probably said YouTube videos. No I don't think you did. You were very chill. I just make videos. And so I was like okay and then later I looked him up after the gym and he had like a hundred thousand followers on Instagram and I was like oh who's this guy? And I go home and I ask my little brothers about it and they were freaking out. Oh freaking out. He was like you just met the ninja kid. You need to go on a date with him. He's so awesome. I've watched him forever and I actually wasn't gonna go on a date with him. I was supposed to leave on an LDS mission and I was kind of done with the dating scene. I just moved home from college and so I said I'm not gonna go on a date. It's fine. He's cute but it's fine. But my mom's the one that was like you should just go. She kind of forced me. I was a little bit annoyed. Yeah my mom's like just go. You never know and we went in the first day I was like oh my goodness he is so different. He's the best. He just was so cool and then we literally hung out every day since then. And she didn't go on her mission. And I didn't go on my mission. You didn't go on my mission. Oh no! So yeah. Be real instead. You guys totally broke my theory because I literally always said why do you guys try to make moves at red lights because this would never work. It works. It worked. It worked on me. It worked on me. That's really sweet. It's really sweet. What made him different? Because you said you've been on dates before. You did it on the guys. You went to you were at college you said? Did you stop college early to do the mission? Because you just didn't feel fulfilled. You needed to do something else in your life? Yeah I was at college for over a year and a half and then my friends and I kind of just wanted to serve a mission. I wanted something more. I wanted to grow as a person and so maybe a mission where I should go and I love adventures. So I was like maybe they'll call me some or cool and then I got my mission call. I moved home and then I was supposed to leave within two months. Where was you when I met you? Denmark, Copenhagen. I was really excited. Learning Danish. I was like oh my goodness it's going to be the best. I'm going to take her this year to make up for it. Yes. I knew he said he would take me there. But yeah and then I met him and he was just so genuine. He just felt like you know those college guys those bros they always hear about that's kind of the people I was just going on dates with and they're kind of lame. It was okay but he was just the best and he had the coolest stories and I thought our lives would just fit so well. What was the story he told you on the date? Okay so on the first day I liked to ask people like three truths in a lie. Do everything cool. And I asked him and he says the most insane things and I'm like do you know how this game works? You're supposed to tell the truth and then one lie. But he told me well was it you've visited the Princess of Malaysia. You went to her birthday party. Oh my goodness. What was it? I don't even remember the other ones. Something like scuba diving with sharks. It was just crazy adventurous stuff and I'm like you are crazy. I want to do that. I want to pause for a second. Can you tell us a story about you visiting the Princess of Malaysia? Yeah it was a great time. It was a great time. It was a great time. The real family called us up and it was like hey we want you to come to the Princess's birthday party and we're like this got to be a scam. This can't be real. But it ended up being real and we went and it was super cool experience. We got to see the palace and that birthday party was the most insane birthday party. They spent millions of dollars just on a birthday party. Wasn't it she's like six years old or something? Yeah six-year-old birthday party. Oh so she watched the YouTube channel. Yeah yeah she was a subscriber and wanted us to come which is why they they made the effort to reach out and to fly us out there. Bro that's like when I've heard about different rappers or like Justin Bieber performing at like Saudi Princess birthday parties like that's what this was for you guys. Exactly. It was a good time. So we've got to go to a few fun birthday parties. That one's that one's probably the most unique. But we just did DJ Khaled's kids birthday parties. Patrick Mahomes. Patrick Mahomes. He went to the Ninja kids action park for his kids birthday. The Kardashians came to the action park to meet them unfortunately but like cool people. - Mm-hmm. - Yeah, that's insane. - That is insane. - Also, I don't know why when you said the princess, I was not thinking a six year old. You know what, that's so sweet. Like a six year old girl, they're like asking her, what do you wanna do for your six year old days? Well, I know I could probably literally have anything. So, my favorite YouTubers, let's bring it up. - Yeah, yeah, that's the thing. - Were you able to vlog the birthday party? - We did, it's on YouTube, it's on the Ninja fam channel. We did a lot of fun stuff in Malaysia. So, people can check that out. - They got like a police escort to the soccer game. - Yeah. - I don't know, they just got cool stuff in Malaysia. - Very unique. He's got the second largest car collection in the world. Over 2,000 cars. It was amazing. - Over 2,000 cars. - Yeah, over 2,000 cars. - Beautiful. - You have lived some life. That's crazy. - Imagine this on a first date. Someone's just telling you these stories. I'm like, goodness. You're crazy. - Did you tell him on the first day that your brothers watched him? - I think I did mention it, right? - I don't remember. - I remember on our first date. I had, it was during Christmas time. So, all of my extended family and cousins were over and they were all mega fans. So, when he came to pick me up, I had to keep everyone inside. They were trying to run out and get his autograph. - Well, I couldn't come in anyways 'cause I was on a knee scooter. I couldn't walk on our first date. - Yeah. - He wasn't supposed to drive. - That was my first time driving after I hurt my foot. It was a very chaotic first day, but it worked out. - It worked out. - I love it, you guys remember all the details too. - What was the timeline from the first day to getting engaged? - It was. - Almost a year, like 11 months. - Okay, yeah. - So it's so pretty quick, but-- - I feel like in Utah, that's a long time. - Oh, it's just fun to say. - Some of my friends that grew up in Utah were like, "Yeah, we met." - It wasn't measured in weeks. - Two weeks later, we got married. It was awesome, like, it was crazy. So, that's good. So, why 11 months? Why did you guys wait 11 months to get engaged? - I don't know, we were young. We were in a rush, and it just felt like the perfect time for us, and just trying to figure out. We wanted to date through every season, just to know we were making the right decision. It's a big deal. It's the biggest decision we'll ever make, and so. - I know, I mean, and to make that, while you're a teenager, it's crazy, right? 'Cause, yeah, were you 19 when-- - Yeah, I was 19 when we, I was like 19 when we met. I turned, just turned 20 when we got engaged. - I think two months before. So, yeah, it's a little scary. - Yeah. And I don't know why, in my mind, I'm like, I wanna be 21 when we get married. I'm close enough, like, just wait till after then. - Yeah, he always said that. I mean, why do you have a specific age? That's weird, but-- - I know, we're just so close. I'm like, let's just cross that benchmark, and we'll get married. - Yeah, what's funny is, my entire life, I always wanted to get older. I wanted to get to the age of 21. Like, in my mind, that was the age when you could, yeah, you're already able to vote, and you can drink, and you can just like, people take you, I thought people would just take you seriously. - Yeah. - And ever since, passing 21, now I'm like, oh gosh, I'm getting old. Oh, I'm afraid. Okay, let's get, oh, dick. And so, like, it's kind of fun. Do you feel, 'cause you're right now, you're 22, right? - Yeah. - So, how does that feel, like, do you feel older? Do you feel, how do you feel your age? - I don't know, I still feel pretty young for my age, especially, I can't believe we were married over a year now, and I still feel young, but I'm already ready for those next steps. So, when are we having kids? You know, I've always been the person my family to just want things early in life. So, I've always gravitated to do older people things, and I don't know, I've always been an old soul in just wanting to do the next progression in life, and keep things moving. - Well, you've been in your career already for a very long time. - Yeah. - You're like, various hours, you're like, kind of, like, we're almost a part of the adult world, like, as a young teen. 'Cause you guys start the channel, you were 13? - Yeah, I was 13. - Okay. - You started. - Do you, okay, so it blew up pretty quickly, huh? - Yeah, our first video has over 100 million views, so. - Goodness. - That's not most people's YouTube journey. Let's just put that out there for anyone that's, like, trying to grow on YouTube. - That was not our journey. - That was not our journey, right, he means. So, that's pretty crazy. So, with that type of, like, eyes on you at such a young age, like, did you go to a regular school, like, were you able to do normal things? - Yeah, so up until that point, I was going to normal school, but I was also full-time competitive in gymnastics. So, even before YouTube, we were always very active. And my dad owns a martial art studio, so I was already a second degree black belt. By the time I was 13 and then I was doing competitive gymnastics. And so, I was already doing part-time school, just doing the color classes at school, and then basically doing electives with other activities. And so, when we started YouTube, it just, we were just even more busy. And so, we started an online thing, and I kind of did it online through high school. And it's definitely different. I think every kid wishes for something they don't have, and I didn't have the typical experience of going to school. And maybe I didn't have as many friends as a lot of people did, but I wouldn't trade it for anything, because I had a great life. And I have so many fun opportunities that comes with creating YouTube and doing things like that. So, I wouldn't trade it, but it's definitely different. It's not the normal childhood experience, I would say. - Yeah, probably more like the life of a child actor, or like any child like prodigy in certain area. Like that's like high achieving. Did your parents both stay home? Then, with you guys, as you went through the rest of school? - Yeah, I, family was always very, very important. I think our family's closer than a lot of families. Jade, sometimes I'm jealous, 'cause Jade has tons of friends, great friend group, but like my family was so tight. And so, she's like, hey, at least you have a really tight family. It's okay, it's just different pros and cons. I mean, she has a great family too, but they were always around. We always work together. Even the martial arts studio, we would go together. My parents worked together at the studio. They worked together in YouTube. So, they were always around. - Are you saying you didn't really have friends outside of your family? - Yeah, we didn't have a lot of time. Like, I do have friends, but not. But it wasn't like a priority in my life, where I got to go hang out every single day. - Yeah, yeah, it was. - Yeah, just different, different focuses, priority, we were out of town all the time. - And busy and the princess have a lazy one, exactly. - And sometimes when you're busy, friends will just assume you're busy and then stop. It's just a different experience. - Yeah, that's pretty amazing. I feel like the way that your parents navigated such a, they probably didn't have a lot of friends if they could call up and be like, hey, so when are kids go viral online and like have these amazing opportunities that no other, like there's not a large network of other parents to consult, but it seems like they did a pretty awesome job of keeping you guys grounded and rooted. And it's a crazy lifestyle. - And did the YouTube channel come first or did you start acting first? 'Cause I wanna say I saw when I was looking things up, you even had a stint in a movie, correct? - Yeah, exactly. So we, this is a long story. So YouTube was supposed to come first. We went on a two month family trip because my dad wanted to start a family vlog channel. So we went to Costa Rican, Panama for two months and we got burglarized. And so all of our camera gear, electronics and my family, we did all right, but that was a huge setback financially and it was a big deal. And so when we got back from our trip, then they signed us up for acting and to do movies. So I did get into movies and that ended up coming first. And I was in a movie called The Last Draw. So it was a great time. And I think that definitely prepared us to what ended up happening. And I think if we would have started that family channel, we may not have ever started Ninja kids. So everything happens for a reason, I guess. So it worked out, but yeah, we were trying to start a family vlog channel first. - And getting burglarized, do you remember the burglars, did you see them? - No, we didn't see them. We think we're staying at a house in Costa Rica and we think the people who own the house have something to do with how it happened. We don't know for sure, but when we left, someone came in and took everything and then it was gone by the time we got back and it was just a very suspicious scenario. So we think it has something to do with the people who own the house. - Like the house didn't look broken into or anything. - Right, and it was like perfect. None of their stuff was taken or anything. All the stuff that was there, it was just our stuff. So it was a weird situation. - That is unfortunate. - Wow. - Why don't you even notice it? - Yeah. - It's really quick. - Yeah, I don't know if that's been shared on YouTube. - I don't know if that has either. Your dad didn't start YouTube for what? Seven more years after that? - Well, that's 2012 and then we started in 2017, so. - Oh, okay, so that's crazy. - Several years later. - What's your relationship with your parents? Was this one of those situations where you got the tiger mom and tiger dad who were like, get back out there and do your thing? I don't know, I don't know what that, what's that vibe? - It was a very interesting thing. If you ask any of my siblings, that's still probably one of their favorite family adventures ever. Just because it was the first time we had ever done something big like that. So it's very- monumental in our minds and I think my dad was quiet for like two or three days and we all knew it was a sad thing and my mom would take us I think she took us to go do surf lessons while my dad was coping with all the lost items but then after a couple days we still had a month or a month and a half left of our trip and so we were deciding if we go home or not and my dad said just hey let's finish out the trip let's have a great time and now I don't have work to do I have time to spend with all of you guys and then one of our next locations we were out at night and there were a bunch of people on their work computers working while they're in this beautiful tropical paradise and it was almost a silver lining he was just able to say hey I'm just here with my family enjoying it and so it turned out into a really great thing in the end but it was the the the first few days right after was not a lot of talking happened just but after that it was a great trip and I was only eight and then my action was six and then the twins were four so we were all really young oh goodness but it ended up being great time that's sweet it turned around for sure Jade what is what was the first you know year of your relationship like being uh you know that that while you guys were dating because you weren't yeah you didn't get engaged for 11 long months oh it was the best we are so similar that we stayed so busy we went to Egypt in Finland in Paris and Dubai where else did we go we we went all over and it was that's just my dream and so we got to go and make some videos together and it was so busy yeah and I was happy that she was someone who was excited about my life to be a part of it because other people I've dated weren't necessarily as excited about those certain aspects and so it would have just been a completely different life if I was doing it on my own rather than having someone that wants to deal with me and travel and make content so yeah was that like a question on the first day of like hey are you okay with being public and like doing having this crazy life I don't know if it was a first date question but I think it was an important thing to me when it came to getting married that I needed someone like that and she was the perfect person because she always wanted to do content creation just never got into it on her own so it was a perfect segue for her life that's cool at what point was it like okay we're not married but we're gonna be like a couple online when we got engaged okay yeah that's pretty much yeah we tried to keep it pretty chill and then we got engaged we're like let's make videos let's make a channel together that's awesome yeah how do you ever made any videos on the internet no and so I would have for fun a little bit with my friends and I was younger just because I thought such a meeting was awesome but it's scary to start I'm sure you guys know that too it's just scary to put yourself out there and everyone could judge you and so I was in a very different path I was going to dentistry and so very different you say you have amazing teeth oh thank you that's that's so nice thank you that's so cool you're into dentistry yeah so I loved it I went to trade school walls also in high school and I did oral surgery assisting and so that's actually another story that's how people think that we met because that was my first time on camera Ashton his brother came in and I took his wisdom teeth out and so but that was my first time on anything and that was that was a big thing everyone thought that's how we met that I was Ashton's nurse that's funny that you mentioned that because I saw somebody mentioned something about how you guys met with you getting your wisdom teeth so I went back to watch the wisdom teeth video but I didn't I didn't see anything about you so I'm an assistant but I was in the surgery and I helped most of the time I'm not the surgeon but it was just me and the surgeon the whole time so yes I saw his wisdom teeth and everything so me and Ashton are tight it's his brother I didn't even take his out took his brother's out so let's talk about you didn't see it it's on his his brother Ashton's channel got it okay but yeah that was the first time I was on camera so you can see me in the background count on nervous because I'm not as supposed to be in it but yeah but we kind of talked about it and we're like hey she's cute but she had never been announced on social media so it wasn't a full hey this is my girlfriend oh did you did you kind of tease it though yeah where did you like joke about like oh I think we should go on a date yeah exactly exactly he was like I should get the nurses number yeah and so people know we've told our real like how we met but people just assumed that's how we met because I hadn't met on video anywhere got it okay that you know it must get confusing with people us making yeah making assumptions obviously you guys we tease it tease that there but like has there have been like an assumptions once made other than that that was just completely incorrect yeah everyone thinks I'm pregnant all the time I don't I think they just want us to have babies I think I'm hoping that's why and I'm hoping it's not because I look pregnant but there's a YouTube channel that posts fake thumbnails of our family all the time and so it's been posted and they've seen thumbnails of it so they feel like it's really you know that's not us are these AI thumbnails about Jade being pregnant a lot of times sometimes I'll have twins sometimes it's just one baby yeah but it's kind of a big problem with my whole family like anything shocking or even things that make us look bad or something these channels will be like this happened click on this video and the thumbnail is crazy and obviously it never shows anything like that but yeah but it's kind of it can get confusing yeah sometimes it's sister they get in a huge accident or patron almost dies is what they say yeah my siblings die all the time yeah and people messages like are your siblings okay yeah and yeah it's a big deal I don't know why people do that but just a couple weeks ago we were at a meet and greet thing and one of the parents said congratulations dad and aunt uncles to my siblings as if you said kids and I I didn't correct because it was so quick yeah but I figured she just assumed Jade was pregnant because of those videos yeah it seems like your audience is very obsessed with the idea of you guys having kids definitely is that something that you guys see down in your future yeah we want just not right now let's just let's see let's see I don't know I I don't think it's something we need a rush but I'm excited for kids and I want to be a young dad so I could see it in the next couple of years maybe sooner I I don't know we'll see I think I'm probably more on board than she is as of right now but oh yeah I would love to be a young parent and have lots of kids it's just scary to move to that next step that's a big deal and it's a lot more physical on her and so it's easy for me to say I'm ready you're like yeah I don't have to go through it this is a lot 100% right well then and then you get to the next stage which is actually taking care of a living breathing for a little many human and and you aren't getting sleep and so that's like I think becoming a parent is probably the biggest change that I've ever been through like ever and I and I I feel like that's probably I think of a lot of kids would probably say the same thing well I'm curious because we got married the same ages how long did you guys wait we waited three years okay yeah good amount of time well no we started trying after two and we and Griffin was born after three yeah a little after two because great our oldest turn is about to turn four and we're about to celebrate seven we didn't have the baby until three years okay yeah like literally exactly three years so I don't even know what your what he was born July 3rd yeah our anniversary is July 6th yeah yeah he's born like right after oh wow yeah yeah it's almost perfect yeah yeah we just have to wait another year before you get pregnant or something yeah if you guys want to copy everything now I think it's a good timeline we also did date a while like before we got married in three years before okay yeah so but that season of newlywed like life is so memorable like we talk about it literally every day like we did this just because that stage of life is just so it's so busy you're doing so many like mountain top things like because you can do things at a faster pace and with kids you slow down like what was your first year of marriage first of all wait I need to ask about the wedding there was a massive wedding it was awesome we had the best wedding ever it was a party there was we wanted to be a party and it was a party I don't know we probably had six or seven hundred people there whoa yeah we didn't expect that either we just sent out invites to whoever of our friends and then everyone showed up I was shocked how do you feed that many people we ran out of food very clean oh you did yeah we don't have a full meal for the reception okay we had a lunch in right before with like the close it was 175 people okay so we thought all those people were real dinner and then we had this massive jumbo shark food reward that was supposed to feed that many people I think it was supposed to feed 500 but we had more than that yeah it was fun we don't know that many people -Yeah. I didn't think I did either. -I didn't think I did either. - I have no idea. (laughter) - Who paid for the wedding? - It was, so my parents were in charge of mostly, mostly the wedding, and then his parents were awesome and wanted to pay for the flowers and the honeymoon. - Yeah. - So it was kind of split, it just depended. - It's probably pretty even on a split. - It honestly probably is where it was even. - But it was our parents. - Most couples were moving towards that now. - Right. - We're both the oldest, so we didn't really know how to do it. And so our parents just talked to each other. We just figured out what everyone feels comfortable with. - Yeah. - Are your families both pretty close? - I would say so. - They're friendly. (laughter) They don't go out every weekend, but every once in a while. - Yeah, that's fun. Are your siblings close? - Yes. - I ask 'cause our family is just abnormally close. - Are they, like people that are like not even necessarily related or just like all considering everyone's family? - Wait, that's sweet. - Yeah. - So cute. - Our siblings are actually really similar ages in opposite genders, so we keep trying to have our siblings date. - Yeah, we're trying to say that. - So we had my sister and his brother in a video and the whole video, we kept pushing them close. They were like, you guys should date. - You guys are cute. - We keep trying. - They probably won't happen. - They've never been on a date. - No. - No, they haven't. - 'Cause you could have double cousins. - I know. - That would be kind of cool. - And then I have another brother in his sister, we keep trying to set up, but it's not working out. - But they're so fun. - That would be really fun. - But then our little brothers are tight. They hang out all the time. - That's cute. - The 12 year olds. - They love each other. - That's really sweet. The fact that you have 12 year old little brothers is so crazy to me. - I know. - Our kids are almost four. - Not a big difference. - Question for you guys. So you guys got married in the temple and then did a reception afterward. That's kind of the norm in Utah, right? Like that's, 'cause I think usually, at least like I'm from Missouri, everyone just gets married once. Could you explain for somebody that doesn't know why the two weddings, why the two events? - Yeah, that's a great question. We, it didn't used to be a normal thing because the reception, the second wedding, where we do a normal ceremony, isn't an official wedding at all. We're not getting married. It's just for fun, honestly, because everyone's seen the movies and they're like, I wanna walk down the aisle. Like my parents and most people, our parents' generation never did the second wedding thing. - Yeah. - It's more of a newer thing because people want to experience that. - Yeah, and you might not. So also in the temple when we got married, that's when you officially are married through the state and we believe you're getting sealed in the temple together for all eternity. But a lot of people that aren't members can't go in the temple. And so he has a lot of family and I have a lot of family that couldn't go in. So he was still one of them to be part of the ceremony. - Right, yeah. - Can you take pictures in there too? - No, just outside. - So then is that another benefit then too is that you get like traditional wedding pictures? - Right, exactly. - That's cool. - So your parents do they have wedding pictures or no? - Yeah, just outside the temple. - Yeah, just like the beautiful castle looking temple. You should just take it outside. - Yeah. - But that's mainly why. Just because people want that experience even though you're not actually getting married. - Yeah. - Oh, okay. - Are you like really good at making food? Because that's so, that's such a serious. - All our friends are LDS make a maze. - Such good food. - Such bomb food. - I'm definitely learning. I'm trying. I wouldn't say I'm bad, but he is amazing. - He's like the ultimate barbecue master. - Ooh. - Yes. - I wouldn't say I'm master, but I really enjoy it. I've always loved cooking with my mom and so it's kind of stuck. So I just like. - He's so good at it. He's been modest. - Every party, I'm always the one to cook the burgers or I did a brisket recently. - Oh, do you smoke it? - Yes. - Wow. - Yeah, so I enjoy it. - I never thought I'd find someone that's such a good cook. I just figured I would be better, but I'm not better than him. - I'm writing cooks more than you do is what I'm picking up on. - I say I cook more, but I think he cooks harder things than I do. If that makes sense. Like all the smoking, I don't know how to do any of that. - Do you make Hawaiian haystacks? - I never have. I grew up on those, but I never had-- - I was gonna say all of our friends are LDS would make a Hawaiian haystack. - No. - That's what my mom would make me all the time. - Real time. - You know what I think. - You've gotta describe what this dish is, because it's kind of crazy for people that I've never had. - Describe the Hawaiian haystack. - What is it? - Anyone listening. - Like coconut? Yeah, it's like. - I don't even know how to describe it. - It's like a chicken soup looking thing on top, but I don't know what it-- - How do you describe that? - It's just like a casserole of things I've never had combined, but it tastes really good. - Pineapple. - Pineapple. - Yes. - That's what it is. Pineapple and chicken and something crunchy on top. - Yeah, these little-- - Yes. - I need it. - Wow, I haven't had that in years. I forgot. I just unlocked it for a memory. - I remember, and we lived in Hawaii. Our neighbors were like, this is kind of an LDS delicacy. - You gotta know it anyway. You know how to make crepes, though, right? Like crepes. - We are not breakfast people at all. - We don't eat breakfast. - Skip that. - When I think of a classic Utah breakfast, I think of crepes. - We are not fitting the Utah stereotype, I guess. - Goodness. - It's because you guys have been to the Asia with the-- - You're traveling around. - We do love-- - We travel so much. - Asian cuisine. That is our favorite. - Okay. - We love it. Yes, so that's probably ramen. We did ton of ramen. - Yeah, hot pot. - Hot pot. - Cream barbecue. - Hot pot. - Typhoon. - Oh, do you have a, I can't talk to you now. Do you have a swig order that, like, is your go-to? - We don't drink soda. Goodness. You guys are literally not hitting any stereotype now. - I know. We shouldn't live in Utah, because we don't go any to any of the drink places. - I don't love that people normalize dessert for breakfast. And so that's just not something I do. - You are a black belt, so you probably eat super healthy. Yeah, you're fit. - Yeah. - I was at the gym. - Yeah, we, I try not to eat junk food. - Mm-hmm. - And. - Yeah, I can go for some, like, french toast, you know? That's my favorite, but we still just, for breakfast, we eat again and again. - I think it's great. - I think it tastes great, but people just don't realize they're literally eating dessert for breakfast. - I eat through it. - Even though it tastes good. - Yeah. - Okay, all of my stereotypes about, like, that I just made a bunch of assumptions, and I was so off. What is it? - Most of the time, you're so right. - Okay, what is it that people get wrong about Utah? What's, like, an assumption that people are just. - I don't even know if people get it wrong, or I think we're just weird. - I wonder if that's the Utah. - I think they pretty much nailed it. - Yeah. - You guys nailed it. Like, everyone I know drinks, like-- - We don't drink soda, which is weird, because most people do, and the fact that I don't, and she doesn't, just-- - And you don't drink coffee, right? - Right. - So, no caffeine. - No. - No, we drink caffeine sometimes. - What's what? - Like, you, the drinks we have this morning, - Sometimes they work with brands, and they're really clean ingredients, and they have, like, some type of natural caffeine. - Oh, nice. - And I love that stuff, but I don't know, I don't know why we haven't had to live off of caffeine yet. - No, it's definitely not a need. I feel like, every day, but I'll drink it, if the drinks go, it's not too crazy. - That's funny. - Do you guys, you guys don't have a swig in Arizona, do you? - Oh, yeah, I do. - And our neighbors designed the swig logo. - Oh, dang. - So that's our claim to fame. - So, that's pretty cool. - Right, that lives down the street from us, so pretty, pretty cool stuff. Okay, so you get married, that was a year ago. Life's been crazy since, right? You guys have been doing a lot of travel. I saw you guys went to Beastland and Saudi Arabia. Can you tell us about what the past year is consisted of? - We went to Beastland and Saudi Arabia, and it was so cool. We've been hired out to go to Dubai the last few years, and so it was just a quick hop away. To Saudi Arabia, which is why we had to stop by. But we've been going to Dubai the last few years. They've been hiring us out to do some shows, and so yeah, that's been really fun. They build a Ninja Kids Action Park on the beach every year. - What? - So they've got this big billion dollar event in Abu Dhabi. It's the MOTN festival, Mother of the Nation event, and then they always build a Ninja Kids Action Park and fly us out to the river farm. - This is a temporary action park. - Yeah. - They build. - It's not a permanent one. - No, a temporary one. And it's a huge thing. They have tons of other things on the beach too. It's like a mile long, maybe not that long, but tons of fun things. - That's the business partner that's like helping with the action park. - I think it's just the government. (laughs) - The government? - Yeah, the government. - The tourism, like their tourism board does a lot. - Yeah. - They're trying to compete with Dubai, because Abu Dhabi and Dubai, they're an hour away from each other. Same country, and they're the biggest competitors. And so they're just trying to one-up each other. We had to hop over a sea beast world in a beast land while we were in there. - That was really awesome. - And it was cool. I think Jimmy did a great job with beast lands. - It's crazy. - And the people there loved it, and the culture loved it. I think it was great for the forest. - It's temporary, right? - Yeah, that's not it. - Yeah, I was just for like only two months or something, yeah. - Two or three months. - Have you met Mr. Beast? - I have met him. - No way. - Uh-huh, I've met Jimmy. - He worked with him. - Kind of. So basically I did a video on my channel. I flew out to his first Beast Burger location, and we got to go in the back, we met him for a little bit, and then I asked if I could just work the Beast Burger line, 'cause there was like 20,000 people waiting for burgers that day, so I got to help sell some merch and just hang out with the guys for a little bit, and it was a fun time. - This was at the first like actual physical location that they opened? - The American Dream Mall. And actually, at the American Dream Mall, the owners of the mall came up to me with us because his kids were subscribers to the channel, and they're like, "Hey, we want you to put a trampoline park "or something in our mall." So now we have an action park because I wanted to go to Beast Burger. Now we got an action park. - Hey, hey, hey. That is so cool. - How many action parks are there? - I think there's 12 or 13 locations, Holy. branded but there's about 20 in process of being switched over from other trampoline parks or being built. So there's about 30 R. That's a local one. I think we have one. Yeah. Okay. They're in many ninjas class. Our kids are in many ninjas class. Absolutely. We love it. That's so cool. Yeah, we it's trampoline zipline slides. Oh yeah. We do all sorts of things. That is so fun. We're actually going to the first opening out of the country in Scotland. I think this year is the first out of the country action park. What's they're doing? It's just crazy. It's so cool. Do you ever get sick of your family? We spend a lot of time together. They're great and we get to do so much fun things but it's a lot more time than most people get to spend with their family. They do so good compared like thinking about yeah. I'm impressed but they don't fight. Yeah. We have a great family dynamic. So it works but I just don't know if life's nest. I don't know if you're supposed to be around your family 24/7 like we do. So sometimes it's a lot but we love it. We've had a break. We haven't done much in the last few months and and so we're gonna go on tour and it'll be fun but that's really cool. Yeah. Growing up on a family channel where you were you getting paid at the time or did you have like some sort of like equity stake in the family business? How does that work? Because you're still operating doing shows touring right with ninja kids. How did how did all that get worked out? It's a great question. I do have an equity stake in the company and also we get paid from the tours and things but when I was a kid it was a little bit different because we mainly got paid. We started our own personal channels around the same time and we mainly got paid from those and so a lot our channels obviously got really successful as ninja kids grew and so it's kind of as we were working on our own stuff and a lot of times something would happen and they'd even throw videos onto our channels and so then we would make most of the revenue off our own personal channels which all kind of grew as we worked on ninja kids and the kids channels so it all kind of worked out that way. Wow okay so then like everybody basically every kid within ninja kids has their own dedicated personal channel. Yeah and it was almost like we were collaborating when we'd come together and then for big thing for big things and big events we always get paid for those percentage but that's how it mainly went for the YouTube videos we would just collaborate together and then some people would make the money for that video and some people would make the money for that video just whoever's channel it would go on pretty much. Is it true that you guys lived with your in-laws for like a little bit after you got married? It has newlyweds. Tell me about that yeah living with your in-laws as newlyweds. I want to hear from your perspective. Yes we did so we got married and about a month after we got married we went on a tour for 12 weeks and we lived on a bus with my in-laws. Yeah it was awesome. Honestly I was a little nervous going on this thing. 12 weeks is a really long time. I had never gone anywhere that long. Where are you going from like from what what city to what city? So we had 50 cities across the U.S. so we didn't leave the country but we went to basically every major city in the country. Okay we have 50 cities 12 weeks how many days you're doing a show multiple shows a week. Five shows a week. Wow yes so it was were you in the show? I wasn't. I worked behind the show so their dog is also in the show. I was in charge of their dog. So me and her hung out all the time and I helped her get on and off stage and then I also worked the VIP in meet and greets because I wanted to be part of it too. That's cute. I got to work with that and it was so fun. Yeah and we were also on a different bus than my family. Yeah there's two big buses and each bus had a room in the back like the suite and so we took the suite of the crew bus because we were the only other couple. Yeah and then my family was on the other bus. We a couple nights we would go over there to play games with my siblings and stuff but yeah so we had a good time but for the most part we were on a different bus and that made it a little more manageable because during the day it's not like we were just with them the whole time. We had our own space to sleep in a full room and stuff with the shelves. Yeah but it honestly was awesome. It was way better than I expected. I actually got really close with his siblings. It was just a once in a lifetime opportunity. I've never thought I'd go on tour. And so I actually thought it was great way better than I expected. Yeah. How do you sleep? Like are you sleeping while the bus moves? Yes. So we never knew where we were gonna end up. Usually we just would go to bed and wake up in a new city and it was great. But yeah it got rocky some nights especially going through the mountains or wherever we were driving it. People get car sick sometimes and wake you up because you're shaking so bad. But you get used to it I feel like. You can't use the bathroom on the bus. You can't shower on the bus. You can't go number two. Yes. The number one rule is you can't go number two is what they always say. Yeah. I don't know why but. Did anybody ever go number two? I don't think so. They said it was like a $500 fine or something. Some people got sick and they like threw up in there and they got in trouble for that. I feel like what do you do? I know because no like where do we go? Oh yeah. That's one of those things you don't think about. Like I feel like I was like romanticizing this bus a little bit. No it was terrible. And the first leg we got lucky because my parents bought smell so bad. Like urine. Just when they got it. Yeah. It smells so bad. Something wrong with the pipes broken. So our bus was totally normal and their bus they couldn't hang out in the family room area. We had a little break in between and then we went back out on tour and their bus was much better. That's when we were able to go and play games but I kind of felt bad for them those first few weeks. They had a stinky bus. Just picturing an entire herd of like little children doing like ninja moves while watching you guys perform. Is that what is that what this looks like? Kind of. You should. Are we coming to Arizona this next week? No I think we're saying the east coast because it's a much shorter tour. This is only two weeks. Yeah. Really quick. We'll travel. I mean they would love. We could get you to think they're ninjas. They think they're ninjas. It's so awesome. Except they can't say ninjas. They say engines. Are young. Are youngest instead of calling it mini ninjas. He calls it many. Many engine. Oh. That's actually where they're having their birthday party. I'm giving away. It's not that I like it. Oh no. Yeah. Yeah. We don't. It is actually the coolest show. You would think you would go and it's just like a little kid show but it's a full storyline scripted show. I've watched it what over 50 times now and it's actually so entertaining. You guys would love it. We've had many parents come up to us and just be like I didn't expect to come up with my kids and enjoy it because we do a lot of fun stuff. Acrobatics type things and then it's very interactive with the kids which is fun. That's so cool. Your parents were always entrepreneurs right because they if they started this martial arts gym. Yeah. So they had the like the base knowledge of like how to run something like this but I'm sure they never intended on it. Becoming what it has become. Exactly. That is pretty wild. That's pretty cool. So everyone in your family did have to be a ninja I guess apparently. Pretty much. Imagine marrying into a family where all of them have the most insane skills. You show but everyone's just hucking backflips and spruly like you do a backflip. I'm learning. I can do it on the trip. We just made a video where he taught me to do a backflip in like four hours on the ground. I face planted a few times but I got it a couple other times. But they're just a very athletic skilled family. I think that's sweet. You're like trying to learn the family trade. Yes. I remember doing a couple of. Okay. Here we go. This hasn't been announced yet but we are going to be in the circus this year. They called us and they want us to come do a couple shows in the what is it? What's the circus called? It's the biggest circus. Rinkby or something? Ricken? No. I don't remember it's called Ringling Brothers. That's amazing. Yeah. We're going to be on the Ringling Brothers Circus. That would be a good time. You guys need to do a residency in Vegas. Seriously. Seriously. Yeah. It may be fun. No, actually for real. But wait, maybe that's not it. Maybe that's family-friendly in Vegas. Yeah. Maybe Branson. But maybe it'd be good for family-friendly showing Vegas. Wait, no. This is where your residency would be. Branson Missouri is like, if you guys heard of Dollywood in Tennessee. So Branson has a very similar vibe to that. There's Silver Dollar City which is actually owned by the same company that owns Dollywood. Right. But there's just a ton of different country music artists. There's also like a lot of family performers. Family performers, like family singer groups, just all sorts of family shows. That would be like Branson Missouri would love you guys. Branson would be very great if you would have. Yeah. Exactly. All wholesome, you know, nothing. Yeah. Yeah. Very different than like a Vegas show. Yeah. Honestly, it's like a very wholesome version of Vegas in a way. Cool. Yeah. Check it out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You guys need to go visit. Branson. Branson. That's my childhood. Branson Missouri. Branson Missouri. That's awesome. What's like the most common? people ask you guys when they, when they see you out, out and about, they see you in public. - I mean, I always get the question. The pregnancy question. When are you having kids? - When are you having kids? - When is the next Ninja babies? They always ask me that. But with a Ninja baby, they always say Ninja 2.0. - That's funny. One thing they always ask, they, my family stopped making content for a long time, and so they haven't made videos on Ninja kids for a couple of years, and Ninja fam has been over a year. - No way. So they'll ask about that, and we're mainly the only ones making consistent content. - Okay. - So there's been talks about revamping Ninja fam. I've also, there's been talks of revamping Ninja kids, and there's a chance I'll be like a producer and Ninja kids to create the content and bring on a new generation of Ninja kids, because we'd love for this Ninja kids to be a brand that grows well beyond our family. - That's cool. - It wasn't meant to be a family channel, even from the first video. We had tons of other actors in it, and I was, I was the main character. I was like a bully, and then there were several other power Rangers, and so it was meant to be a brand that could, you know, rival Disney one day. And so the action parts is like the first step to that, and so the goal with Ninja kids is to create content with future kids, which there's a lot of really talented kids out there, and we want to give those kids a chance to shine. And I think they use to have a chance in Hollywood, but that it's gone pretty much. Hollywood doesn't need people who are really good at stuff anymore, because CG guys are really good. All the old martial art actors are like the last one was, you know, who was Sharkboy, if he had his name, he was in twilight. - Oh, Taylor Lautner. - Taylor Lautner. - Taylor Lautner. - Taylor Lautner, he's great, but he don't pronounce his name like that. What was it? - Lautner. - Lautner. - I learned that from you guys as well, so I continue. - But Taylor Lautner, he was like the last person that was really skilled to get into that world, and it's not really a thing. And so we'd love to give more kids opportunities, and then to grow the brand into something that that lives for a long time beyond our family. - I can already see a show coming on this, honestly, finding the next Ninja Kids. - Yeah, exactly. - Yeah, the kids that was so cool and fun to try out for. - The new Ninja Kids. That's a really great idea. - I like that. We want Ninja Kids to keep going. It's got huge potential, and so finding great kids is honestly the easy part. It's finding great adults to run the content, and my family and my dad, there was so much happening, and so much going on that we couldn't keep everything up. So we're trying to build the team from the bottom up to potentially restart the content to bring you back to life. - That's cool. - I'm confused, though, because two things. One, I looked at the Ninja Kids channel. I saw that you guys posted nine months ago. Was that like a collab? - It's probably a compilation. - Oh, okay. - Yeah. Okay, that makes sense. And then the other question I had is, did you leave? I thought I saw a video that was like, "I left. I'm gone from the Ninja fam." - Right, that was probably when I left on my mission. - Oh, okay. - Yeah, so there was like an "I'm leaving." - I think it was after those, it was like shopping for a house. - Oh, yeah. I'm leaving the Ninja fam house. - Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so that's what it would have been. That was on my channel, actually. - But it also was because there was different Ninja kids. You guys aren't kids anymore. So you guys said other people acting on Ninja Kids TV. And so he kind of was like, "I'm going to focus on my main channel." - We actually did try that. We did a talent search. - Yes. - And the talent search was really successful. - The kids were awesome. - It did well. But that was also when we were handing off not just new kids, but new creatives. And the creatives just didn't have what it took to keep the brand going. And so my dad just shut it down until we can find creatives who can continue our new kids. But yeah, left the Ninja fam, moved out of the house. That was just before we got married, I moved into an apartment with a friend. So that was that video. - Was going on your mission? Was that humbling? Was that like, just to go from being on camera a lot and, you know, people recognizing you, I'm sure you still got recognized for your mission. But yeah, to go and like commit yourself to service, was that kind of like a hard shift to get used to? - I loved it honestly because I'd been doing YouTube since I was a kid. And it was, it was honestly the perfect time in my life. I just became an adult. It was the perfect time to leave and go experience something else. - Yeah. - Rather than what I grew up in. It wasn't just me being a YouTuber. It was about, it was time to go be selfless and see what the rest of the world is like. And of course, I still had a lot on my mission. I did get recognized. I did a couple assemblies and things like that. - I did see a video that was cute. So that was fun. - Explain that for people that don't know what you're talking about. Like, what is, what is this an assembly that you did? - Right. So in one of my areas that I was in, there was a school teacher and she, she knew about the Ninja kid stuff and she was like, hey, you should come to my school and do an assembly at the school. And so I think that was a really cool opportunity. My mission president. - Did you just say did you get special permissions? - Yeah. So basically, the leader of the mission, I called him up and he said, that's fine. He was a big fan of using your talents. And I didn't go up in preach. We didn't talk about the church at all. - Okay. - I had a name tag on, but besides that, it basically wasn't mission related very much. I just went up. I did a few flips, talked to kids. Ninja kids is a great thing for family values, which align well with religion and Christianity. And so it was more about being a great person and showing respect to your parents. And that definitely comes from our martial arts background as well. So we were able to share some of those things. We did some challenges with the kids at the school. And I think it was a super cool opportunity. - That's cool. Okay, I'm just so curious, this is such a dumb question. But martial arts versus taekwondo versus karate. Is martial arts both of those? What's the? - I had that same question. - I don't know. I didn't need to know because I need to sign some kids up. So martial arts is, I'm sure you've heard MMA. So mixed martial arts, mixed meaning basically all different styles. You're learning different styles. So it's karate taekwondo. And so I did martial arts. Our base was taekwondo, but we did jujitsu grappling, moitai, and all of those things are kind of different. And so martial arts is just enveloping all the different fighting styles together, basically, and learning those things. So taekwondo is more traditional like forms. And it's very, and I like watching you do MMA boxing. - Yeah, have you fought somebody before? Have you ever like punched somebody in the face? - So I've done sparring with full gear. I've never been in a street fight or anything. I don't know why as a kid I always kind of wanted to. I'm not the kind of person to hop into a fight, but I always felt like I'd do pretty good. - I'd be ready if it happened. - But I did do sparring, especially as a kid I did a lot of sparring. - That's cool. - And that was a fun time. - I felt like he would get sucked to get punched in the face. - Oh, broken nose. - You probably had some serious injuries. - Yeah, I've broken 10 bones. - Oh. - How? - All crazy stuff. - All sorts of crazy stuff. - All different things. That's a great. Okay, let's see. I've broken my collarbone. This was Christmas Eve sledding into a tree. - Okay, not ninja related. - I don't think any of them were ninja related. - Nothing too crazy. I mean, this one was gymnastics. I broke my elbow. - That's how you broke your elbow. - So I was vaulting. I don't, the event, the vault. And I was just doing a roundoff. It was a simple thing and it just kind of hyper extended. - Oh. - Yeah. - To embed the other way. - Yeah. - Oh. - I've broken both my wrist. I've broken my knee. Some fingers are sentos and I don't know. - Yeah. - Ten little. - Couple other things. Yeah. Luckily, I haven't had anything huge. I've never needed a major surgery. And so nothing's-- - You did just get stung by a deadly jellyfish. - True. - I did see that thumbnail. That looked pretty intimidating. - Yeah. - Deadly. - Yeah. So it was a Portuguese manor and they can be-- - Was it in Hawaii? - It was in Mexico, yeah. - Oh. - Okay. That happened to Abby. She got stung by a Portuguese manor. - Yeah. - We think. - That's what all of our neighborhood local kids were like. That's what that is. - They told us. - It wasn't super bad, but it was not good. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I know. - No, he did not. And also it was-- I didn't get stung bad, but-- - Yeah, but still is not fun. - Yeah. It did not feel good. And I never felt like my life was in danger. Luckily, but it was really painful. I got stung on the calf and something about how it works that just goes up your nervous system. And so it hurt really bad in my groin and then like up my stomach. - All the locals were spraying with Windex. Apparently that helps the-- - It didn't feel like that. - I know. - You're like, this isn't real right? - Yeah. - This was not put this on your body. - But the best thing was jumping in the hot tub. That kept the pain from spreading. And I don't know if it would have ever been a permanent thing or actually harmful, but it was really painful. And hour or two. That's freaky in Mexico. You're kind of like, okay, what do we do? Yeah, I didn't want to go to the hospital if I knew it too. What are the craziest things? You guys have traveled a ton already. What are some of the craziest things that can be skydived, have you? We have gone skydiving. I would say for me, the craziest thing we did, we flew to London for the weekend, and we went wing walking. Do you guys know what that is? Oh my gosh, wing, yeah. I think so, but describe it to me. Yes, you're literally strapped on the top of an airplane while it's flying. It was crazy and we did a loop de loops while I was on top of the airplane. It was so cool. It was crazy. I thought my face was going to fall off. Yeah, do all that stuff before you happen. How do you do it? Because I think afterwards, my fear has gotten so much worse. How do you do the loop? I don't understand like the plane going to drop down and it goes your own way. Oh, so they the plane goes up and down. This wasn't London? Yeah. I would not have thought this was a London excursion. So it's actually shut down here. Oh yes. Why do you get shut down here? Cause it sounds like a whole lot right. So the main guy that did it here in the U.S. did something really dangerous with two chose, I think it was his grandkids. They were like 11 years old and he had them not strapped in. He just had them hold on to the part of the plane while he did a loop de loop and brought them back down. No. So they didn't fall. I don't know how they held on to the plane. You were in a parachute, Tom? I have no idea. I heard they who I don't know. I don't think so. I do some of you wear a parachute when you do this thing. No, no. How are you not doing what? You just dropped it. You went with like a good harness and you just said stand up like that. No, I'm wearing a parachute. Do you tell your parents before you do this or did you just do it? They're all on board. My parents. I don't think I told them to. They were raised by different people. My parents are adrenaline junkies. They're crazy. Awesome. My parents, my mom gets really nervous. We tell her mom after we do this. My mom is this kind of soul, but yeah, she was a little nervous. So I just don't tell her things until after. So like I got super certified and she was stressed after I told her that. Yeah, what she say about wing walking. Oh, I don't even know. She tries not to react. She tries to pretend like she's cool, but it really stresses her out. But I need someone in my life that keeps me like that, but she cares a lot. Yeah, I'm a skydive certified. So I took her skydiving and so we went and that was a fun time. That's so cool. Yeah. And we like she got scuba certified for our honeymoon and we went scuba diving with sharks. Some sharks that made me nervous, but it turned up great. That's awesome. Okay, we did ask her audience to submit some questions for you guys. And if it's okay, the first one is from Lizzy. She said, what was your first big argument and marriage? Our first big argument. We never argue. I can't even think of one. First take. I couldn't tell if you were. No, it was our guys. No, we're pretty good, but you know, everyone has something. And I can't do, can you think of a first big argument? Well, when I was watching the Brock and Boston one, Brock and Kessley, I related to the toilet paper being the wrong way for sure. She puts the toilet paper on wrong and that was so funny. Which way does she put it on? Towards the wall. Wrong, I guess. You know what I mean? So like it comes down towards the wall. Well, she doesn't do it on purpose. That's not why she prefers. She just doesn't think about it like I did. I never once thought about how to go to the wall. No, no, I'm trying to think about it. I just like put it on. Yeah, I don't even put it on the wall. What are you even trying to put it on the wall? Sometimes, you know, put it on the rug. If I'm scrambling, I'm like, oh no, we're out. It takes no time, by the way. It's a lot of work to put that thing on there. It's true, but getting used to living with someone where you're obviously, we have a lot of similarities, but we're inherently different. One example, I'm a lot more introverted than she is. She's more extroverted. Most people don't know that because I grew up on YouTube. But it's a skill I've had to grow. And so she's always like, feels like I'm never responding to her. When I'm like, I'm not talking right now. I don't feel like I need to talk. And she's always talking and it's just a different life experience getting to learn and grow together. Yeah, really learning and different personality. It's been really fun, but different. You have different times that you both are wanting to go to bed. Because I feel like that was a major hurdle that we still, we finally resolved. But that was like, he was like such a night out. I was like, it's time for bed. Like, what are we doing here? Yeah. Like, did you feel like that was a heart, or were you guys already aligned? That's better to go into the line. That was one of our best things. We're very aligned. We are very on it. She will not go to sleep without me. It's never happened. And then we can't either. It's so fun. It's the best. It's the best thing about big memories that you don't have to sleep alone. Yes, exactly. But what time is bedtime for you guys? We just started a new routine. As of today. Yeah. This morning, we woke up. We waking up is hard for us. We love sleep lately and sleeping. We're night owls. Yes. But we woke up at 6.30 this morning. And that's what we want our new routine to be. So we go to bed around 10 or 10 or 30. We were really proud of ourselves today. Yeah. We got a full workout in before we usually wake up. It was great. But usually, I don't know, between 8 and 9 is usually what we wake up. But we're trying to do earlier just so we can be more productive during the day. I think one really hard thing in our marriage has been because we're entrepreneurs. And we're always thinking about business. And we're always working. It's hard to know when that time is that we can spend that time together. And we never clock out. Right. I'm sure you guys feel that too. We're learning how do we clock out? Because our brains are always thinking about the next thing. I don't know if you ever figure it out. I don't know. No, I feel like we force ourselves. Well, I feel like-- Yeah. I feel, yes, so-- When you have kids, it's easier because they get you on a schedule and you know that you have to be there if you present for them. So like five o'clock is a hard part. What's hard for me is my brain-- even I dropped out of college to do TikTok. But before I did that, how I got through college and high school and even got good grades was always just like working at the night at nighttime. And so like, growing our YouTube TikTok, growing everything, I've always just been a night owl as well. And just over the past year, I've kind of turned to just spend all that time with Abby. But now I feel incredibly lazy, because I'm not getting nearly as much done as I used to. Yes, we get that. So we feel like, so we're like, if we wake up earlier, maybe we'll-- We would get some quality time through that. We didn't work out or-- Yeah, I believe in you guys. I'm going up kids, and then you're just-- I believe in you guys. Yeah, I'll mess it up. I believe-- yeah, you will figure it out. And you're going to make it happen. Thank you, thank you. Another question, this question came from Hannah. It says, how did you know you were meant to be together? Oh, I kind of talked a lot about it. You can start quick. I think a huge sign was just-- she was a person that I could see my ideal life with. And we loved adventure, and we wanted a similar path. And I think there's so many amazing people out there, so many amazing girls. But not very many people that have the same vision for life and what that looks like, because there's so many different paths that you can go down. So I think just finding someone that has a similar path and a similar moral compass that we can come together and feel like we click. And someone that was my best friend, I think those were my most important things I was looking for. And I think she filled those boxes. And we met in the coolest way. I'm like, it must be fate. So-- but yeah, we just had a really great time dating and our lives meshed really well. And I think that's how I knew that we should get married. You put that so beautifully. Now how do I top that? I would say something similar. I was really looking for a good genuine person that wanted the same life as me as well. And also, Michael, I would love to be a mom. And I was looking for someone that'd be a great dad. And I see him with all these cute subscribers. And he's just so sweet and so nice. So I was just looking for a good person. That's great. Yeah, that's really sweet, you guys. That is really sweet. This next one is from Grace Crosley. I don't know how to-- OK, yeah, this is from Grace. She said, what is it like living apart from family for the first time? Is that some more question geared towards you? Yeah. So I did have about six months before Jay and I got married. Oh, actually, I served in a mission. So as a part, I was ready. I have always been the person to want the next thing. And my younger brother, Ashton, he's not that way. But I've always been the person who is just ready to do the next thing. So I was ready to move out and go experience that. And I get to see my family enough. We still see them multiple times a week. And so I still feel very close to them. But I was ready to do my own thing. I wanted to grow up and I wanted to experience life and I wanted to grow. And there's just some things you can't learn when you're in your parents' house. And so I just wanted to get out and experience the world. And you don't have to figure things out. I like what you said right there. What's something that you've learned since leaving your parents' house, something that you really couldn't have learned from them. And you had to just learn through experience. Yeah. I think one big thing is my life was very scheduled for me. OK. Like we did gymnastics, martial arts. We'd film YouTube videos. But learning to schedule your own life, put your own priorities, learn to pay bills and do the normal life. - Thank you. - Thank you so much. - You're so grossy shopping for yourself. and really not have someone always looking out for you which having a great mother who can do that is such a blessing, but it's also a great skill that you need to learn 'cause if you don't learn it, you're gonna feel like you're behind and if I didn't already know some of those things going to marriage, then that might have felt more awkward for you 'cause you would have been my new mom to happen to take care of me, but I've always been very self-sufficient in that way. - I like it. - This one says, "Do you miss doing parkour?" And what was your favorite thing about it? - Yeah, I love parkour. I honestly need to create my two lives on the realm of martial arts. Is it the same thing? - Yeah, no, that's completely different. - Yeah, so many talents, I don't even know. - Yeah, parkour is basically getting from point A to point B as fast as possible. And so that's like vaulting and flipping over walls and things like that. So I loved parkour and I honestly haven't been doing very much Ninja Warrior. I haven't been doing very much parkour or even martial arts. The main training I've been doing is what I'm doing in the shows, but the rest I've been really busy. And so that's something I need to make sure I hone my skills 'cause I'm gonna lose them if I don't do them at all. So I need to get back out there every once in a while and I'm a little bit bigger than I was when I was doing parkour a lot in Ninja Warrior. So I could lose 10 pounds probably and make it a little easier, but yeah. - So funny. Maya says, "What was the best part about touring?" And then she also had the follow up of what was the hardest part. So whichever one comes to you first. - I can say my favorite part, Tori, I met so many cute and awesome people. It was just a time to actually put the people on the screen, like they watch us on the screen. I got to meet them in person. How cool was that to fully see who's watching you? It was great. - Yeah, it's more than a number and being able to impact lives that that was a really great thing to see 'cause my dad had a vision when he started Ninja Kids to impact people's lives, to go out there and do more than just watch YouTube. And to go out on tour and see that we were successful and have fun and see all these lives that we touched was so amazing. - You know, that's honestly why we do it and why we're gonna do it again. I, the show aspect is fun, but it's nothing near getting to. - When is the next tour start? - Uh, is it August September? - Yeah, and August sometime cool. - You say that's more of the East Coast? - Yeah. - I forgot about that. - But what was the worst part? What was the hardest part? - Maybe sleeping on that. - I was gonna say, I was tired a lot. What else would you say? - It was really hard to be productive outside of touring 'cause it took up your whole life and almost, we were so busy outside of tour that, it was almost we had to put our lives on pause, so it was really nice getting home, going home was great after tour. - That's true, we couldn't just make as many videos 'cause it was busy. - Yeah, 'cause I love touring, but it's not my life. It's not something, I don't wanna be a tour person, I don't wanna have to do shows constantly. I think a couple of weeks out of the year is great. I don't think, I wouldn't have done the 12 weeks again, honestly, this year, it was a great one time experience, but I don't think I would have done it again. - For you, it was hard on your body, you hurt your back really bad. - Yeah, I mean, I just got sore, just doing the same thing every day, and so I don't think I'm a constant performer for the rest of my life, so I don't think I'll be opening a show in Vegas, but. - No, I don't want to. I was going out for a couple of weeks and meeting the people. - That's cool. - Yeah, that's what I enjoyed. - Okay, so you just like casually mentioned America Ninja Warrior while we were talking, and it got me thinking about what your experience was like competing in that show. Can you tell us about that? - Yeah, we love American Ninja Warrior, and actually we started Ninja Kids and they called us, and was like, "Hey, we want you on our show." That was when we were a little bit younger. I was 14, and they were opening the American Ninja Warrior Junior Show. So we had never done Ninja before, and then we went out, started practicing, we went on the show. We all completed the course at a buzzer, but none of us got close to winning or anything. - Okay, okay. - But then, me and my siblings, we loved it, so we kept training, and then we all got to go in the adult show together, all together on the same season, and so it was a really cool experience to go out there. Honestly, I did pretty bad on the adult show. - I saw a video of you doing it, though, you looked really good. There was a TikTok I saw when you were going from thing to thing, and you saw how we're on this wheel, and went up, one wheel was like, - Big graphic on the screen. - Should we show a video on the screen of this? It was crazy how you just flew in the air upwards. - Yeah, I think I'm a decent ninja. I didn't going expecting to win, but I thought I'm balanced. And so balance is really tricky because it's hit or miss. It can take out even if you're really good, 'cause one tiny mess up. When you're doing hanging obstacles, it's really how strong are you, and you can get it pretty consistent every time, but balance is a hard thing, especially when it's a balance course you've never tried before. And so I fell on balance, and it was like third or fourth obstacle. So that was disappointing, but the next year the rest of my siblings went on again. I didn't compete again. I showed up, my sister airs tonight, actually. - No way. - Yeah. And, but yeah, I thought it was a cool opportunity, and my siblings, that's what they do, majority of their time, is train, and train to enjoy. - Train to enjoy. - Yeah, that's their main focus. - How do you make money doing that? - You don't make a lot of money doing that. - I don't think they've ever made money off of doing it, besides potentially making YouTube videos about it. But they, they're like world champions. - They're on the USA team. - Yeah, my brother Ashton, he's really good, and he won world finals in Sweden. - That's so cool. - That's pretty cool. My sister Payson got second. - Goodness. - So they're pretty good, Paxton's pretty good too, but he's in the same competitive realm as his older brother. And so it's hard competing with his older brother. - It's hard competing with his older brother, but. - Yeah, I was gonna ask you guys, are you really competitive with each other? - We're really competitive. We've done tons of challenges, and the competitiveness is real, so. - Has it ever actually hurt your relationships or is it just fun competition? - No, we can get upset for sure. I think our relationships are strong enough, we work through it, but it's a real big deal. We just did a challenge recently. Honestly, it'll probably be our last YouTube challenge we do in that way, and it's coming out this next week. But I don't think we're gonna do much competition 'cause we're changing so much. I'm not training as much as I used to, so I'm falling behind. - You're like, "I don't want to." - That's like their main priority, and then my younger brother Paxton has a hard time sometimes keeping up just because of the age difference. So I don't know if we'll do much competing in YouTube videos anymore, but we'll always be competitive on who's better. Ashton, he wrote in his 10-year goal to beat me at an arm wrestle. He'll never beat me. - He'll never beat me. - I'll make sure of it. - But he's training, so I gotta make sure, I gotta make sure I stay up to shape, but yeah, we're very competitive. - That's, I know that someone on the recent Mr. Beast Games, there's a couple ninja warriors on the show. - Yeah, I know both of them. - You think what doing Beast Games? You know them both. - Yeah, I think Beast Games would be really cool. It's a little different coming from an influencer perspective. I'd love to be a part of Beast Games and maybe go collaborate. I don't know if I necessarily need to go sign up and compete for the money, but I think he did a great job on the series, but in whatever who won the island, he coaches my siblings. - Oh really? - The coolest guy ever. - Yeah, he's great. - No way. - That's so good. - Yeah, and actually right after the episode aired, he called up my parents and was like, "What do I do with this much money?" 'Cause I think my parents were like the only ones he knew that had money and so he came over. - And they were the best smart with their money. - Wait, I actually saw follow-ups. He bought some cars, didn't he? - No, no, that was just, that was fake. - Okay, thank you. He's very smart. We're good. - That's funny. - Here like your parents were like, "buy a bunch of luxury cars." - No, no. - He was like, "I have a great plan for you." - Yeah, but he got all the money, so he hasn't paid taxes yet. So it's about maximizing how much he can earn through a money market or something before he has to pay taxes. And so that was a kind of cool thing. - You even talking about just like all these like, logistics behind the scenes. Your parents, I guess how do they set you up to be where you are today? Like where you're like independent. You're still in the entrepreneurial space. You didn't wanna leave it, but you're recreating something your own. Like that's probably a big question to ask, but I'm just interested from a parent perspective. My parents were raised very differently. My dad didn't have a father figure in the home and my grandma married four different guys throughout his childhood. And so he didn't have a strong family. He left home at 17 and he was on his own. And so it was up to him. And it was up to him to learn and he had a lot of failures and success is just learning. learning through the pains of what most people don't learn. And so he wanted to set us up in a different way because he wasn't set up like that. My mom had a more normal childhood with she had parents and stuff, but she still didn't have parents who taught her about money and finances. And so that was very important to them to teach to us. 'Cause you're right, the education system doesn't do a great job at teaching those things. So that was very important to them to make sure we understood those things. - Are you putting money aside for retirement? - Yeah, yeah, we've got money. - Let's go, let's go, boy! - That's awesome. - Yeah, okay, well. - Are you a part of the money conversation is just out of curiosity? - Yes, we obviously he's taking the reins on it just 'cause he's so educated in it. But yes, I'm a part of every conversation we've worked together do with really every conversation. - She knows about it, but she just lets me handle it. - See, yeah, this is my, we've done stuff with the Ramsey financial group. And every time I'm like, I'm gonna do better. And then every time Matt starts talking about me, I'm like, ha! - Abby took me to a money and marriage retreat where the whole retreat is about growing your marriage and then also talking about how to have money. - I just focused on the marriage part. - And I'm like, all right babe, we're gonna do a meeting about our finances and she's like, please no. I'm like, I don't want, let's not do that. - It makes me nauseous. I don't know anything about it. So that's why I'm like, I can't start now. - It starts to stress Matt a little bit. - Do you see how my brain is functioning? If you start saying ETS, I literally will check out. - Yeah, well, I've had some investments not do great. Like, she doesn't wanna hear about my crypto right now. That's, that's been said. - Yeah. - She's so big crypto is like 1% of your portfolio. - It's larger than 1%. - Okay, all right. Less than 10%. - I'm hopeful, I will revive myself. - You have an investment in an Injectives Action Park in Texas. - True. - You own a majority of that, and that's cool. That's fun to go see, that's a good one. - Yeah, we have other investments. Other great ones, but. - She doesn't wanna hear when they're doing poor. And that's the one example. So maybe she's like half involved as long as it's doing well. - Yeah, I like positivity about that. - It's weird 'cause it kind of feels like gambling. - I know what I mean. It's not. (all laughing) - It's very different. - I don't know, I gotta feel like I'm gonna put my money in here to see if it grows and could lose it. - Well, think with the Ninja Kids Action Park is he? - Not that, not that. - He's a vested interest in saying. - Yes, I'm talking about. - Yeah. - Like crypto. - Not crypto. - He's using his name and likeness to help grow this thing. You know? - See, I'm just amazed. I'm like, how did your parents raise entrepreneurs? - All right, all right, I'm ready to do it, Addy. - I see Addy's like, let's get to that. - Okay, okay. - All right, we're back. - Now we are going to play Agree to Disagree. - I think these are the same questions we asked Brock and Boston. - They are. - I'm looking at them, yes. - Okay, let's start with this one. I'm gonna come in hot. Guns of blazing, are we ready? - What is it? - First one is Agree to Disagree. Flirting is cheating. (laughing) - Um, three, two, one. - I agree. - I agree. - Yeah. - Okay, why do you think it's agree? - I think if you're intentionally flirting, I think sometimes people can be really unintentional. But if you're like, I'm flirting with this person, like, that's not cool. - Do you say that when you're flirting? I'm flirting. - No, but like if you came to me and you're intentionally flirting with someone, that's not cool. But if you were accidentally like, oh, I think that's really cool that you do, I can be like, you're kind of flirting. I wouldn't really care. But it's more of your intention, I guess. - Do one of you tend to be like, a little bit more jealous type than the other? - Probably, probably me, I'd say, yeah. I'd probably say I'm more jealous. - You answered that so quickly. - Cool. - I would think so, I don't think you're overly jealous, but I think, I don't know, maybe I'm more chill personality about that. I don't know, how would you describe that? - She's more chill. - I think she had more relationships. - She likes to flirt. - I just like to flirt all the time. - She was more of a flirt in high school. - Oh, I'm going to. - Hey. - And I wasn't around as much. - He dated one girl for a long time. - Yeah. - And I had a couple of boyfriend's. - Okay, I'm going to, I guess. - How about you just take over? Because I'm not. - I guess, I don't know if we're saying if we agree or not. I'm going to say though, what bugs me is if someone, now this is going to make me look like I've done this. I have not, I mean, promises I've not done this. - Oh no. - Nor would I ever do this. - Where is he going? - But like when someone's like, did you hear that this person like cheated and you're like, oh my gosh. And it's like, yeah, they kissed. And I'm like, you got to like specify for me. - Yeah, what kind of cheating? - Yeah, yeah. There's a scale. - It's about the type of cheating, right? Because if someone's like, they cheated and it's like, oh, they kissed this person at a bar, like, that's not cool, you don't do that. - Yeah. - Or pump the brakes on that. - Yeah. - But that's also like, there's a huge difference between you. - There's a huge line. - Right. - It's like the actual-- - Yeah, I get what you're saying. Because like the flirting, I would be like, okay, that's kind of not cool. - You wouldn't just call that cheating. - Right, I wouldn't be mad. It's not like, we're done. (laughing) You flirting. No, I wouldn't do that. But we would just have a conversation if we were uncomfortable or something. (laughing) - We're done. - We're done. - Yeah, it would take more than that to-- - I like it. - I like it. - To be done. - Yeah, agree to disagree. Couples should combine their finances after getting married. - Oh, see, we're back to finances. We love finances. - Three, two, one. - Agreed. - I would agree with that. That's good. - I'm even stronger on this one than the last one. For sure, I think it's really important. If you're gonna be a team with someone, I think it's a great thing to combine and do things together, and especially, money's really hard for a lot of people. And, you know, if you're not doing it as a team, it's gonna be more difficult. And if you're not. - Yeah. - So I'd rather do it as a team than separately. - Are you anti-prinup? - No, we have a prenup. (laughing) - We signed a prenup. - Wait, yeah, signed a prenup. - Yeah. - Wait, no, I wanna know more. - Yeah, so we have a prenup. It just felt like the smart thing to do. My parents, even her parents were like, "You should have a sign of prenup." - She's loaded, she's basically crazy. - Don't have her sign it. - No, they wanted me to sign it. - I didn't grow up with like crazy wealth, and so I didn't really know anything about it. When someone says prenup, it's a very awkward conversation. I mean, it was like, you're just planning our divorce. Like, you don't trust me, you know? But the more I did research on it, it was, he's tied to a lot of family businesses with Ninja Kids and stuff, and I did not wanna come this marriage for that reason. I had no ill intent. And so, it ended like totally by the dotted line. - Yes, I just wanna marry you for you. I'm not coming in this because of your part of Ninja Kids. That's weird, but it is an awkward conversation. It really, it hurts your feelings when it's first brought up. I've got my feelings hurt. I was like, you wanna sign a prenup? - Yeah. And the worst part was, it is an awkward thing, and so I kind of pushed it off until the night before the wedding. - The night before the wedding. - So it was really, we were showing up at the bank at closing time to notarize this day at the right time. - I had to leave my bridal party when I was doing to go sign a prenup. I was a little bit sad. I was like, why did you wait until the last day? - Yeah. - You're like, I, girls just hold it. - I literally was like, you're soon to be. - Yeah, I was like, guys, I have to run to the bank real quick. I'll be back. Like, why? - Yeah. So it's really, it is a really awkward thing planning on what if worst case scenario. - Yeah, I just kind of sucks. - We're really hoping. I mean, obviously things have been going great. And we're hoping it's never an aspect of our lives. - Totally. Most of the time, it's not. - Yeah, it just felt like a smart thing to do. - Does it have a sunset period or like some sort of clause? Some sort of clause where it just goes away. Like, if you're married 30 years, does it just, - Shh. - No, wait a minute. - We didn't plan that far. - I chose not to listen to the date. And my attorney was like, you got it. Did you get like an attorney to like review this thing? - Well, part of the issue was, I made one on Chat GBT. (laughing) - You made the freeing up by Chat GBT. - On Chat, it's so romantic. - Yeah. - Because he was so nice. And he's like, I feel so awkward. I'm just not gonna get a lawyer. I'm just gonna chat GBT and have you sign it. - Right. - My lawyer checked over it and he's like, this can be, like, I could take this to court. - It wasn't a court. - It wasn't a great. - It wouldn't have worked out. I could have taken everything. And I didn't want to talk to you. - Yeah, no. - I wanted him to be set up too. And so I was like, well, it's right, a good one. If we're gonna do this, I'll help you out. - And then my parents had their attorney look over it after that. And so there was kind of-- - All the day before the wedding, I was stressed. - This all happened the day before. - Everything we got a lawyer. They got a lawyer the day of the-- - 'Cause I had my Chat GBT one ready. - But it wasn't approved by people's families. Which is why it was last day. - How many days before the wedding, did you do your Chat GBT prenup? I don't know. - I think this was the morning-- - I've probably spent like five minutes on it. It wasn't like-- - See, this is so interesting. - Yeah. - Because when we were like, yeah, combine your finances, we were talking, we were like, - Broke it. - Yeah, yeah. - We were like, yeah, no problem. - Like, yes. - But that is more complicated. And so I think you, I feel like the way you went about it was like, it's prioritizing marriage and also just not being negligent of businesses that you have like established previously. - Right, right. - And I wasn't even a part of that. So I don't care to have the ninja kid stuff, I didn't grow that. So, I was just like, I don't care if I signed a prenup, but before my wedding, I was mad. - Yeah, it was-- - It's like, I'm focusing on the next day. - Very awkward. - The next tomorrow is a big day for me. - Tomorrow is a huge day. I'm waking up before I'm for my makeup. - Yeah, it would have been a lot easier if I would have planned it more officially ahead of time. He's sweet and just didn't want to bring it up learning experience. I feel like everyone has to crash out the day before the wedding. I certainly did. So your finances are now combined, but the prenup protected everything you had before. Okay, so the prenup doesn't tech, the prenup doesn't protect any money. So we'd still split money 50/50. It's just the business. Yes, so you have equity in Ninja kids. You don't have equity in the Brighton Meyer channel. Your channel? That's yours. Yes, but then I do in our couples channel because we started that after. Yeah, okay. Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. The stuff I wasn't a part of, I'm not. But she'd still make half the money from even what we're doing right now together. Okay. It's just she wouldn't own the business or future plans because there was another creator that did that with his wife and they didn't have a prenup and so they couldn't even upload after because there were disputes like two people own the channel and they don't like each other anymore. Right. The money. She can keep all the money that we were growing together, but it's I want to be the one to have the say on the channel, which is that I don't want to just have to shut down because yeah, especially because it's something I had long before our relationship. That is a really awkward thing. Yeah, it's a hard one to have awkward. Hey, you know what? It's done. It is done. And you did it. And you did it again. And it'll never be relative before. And it'll never play another role in your life. Have you guys talked about that since that day? Is this the first time talking about it? Pretty much. No. Kind of an invention. We, it was, there were some hurt feelings in the beginning just because of the timing. Literally was mainly why, but we don't really talk about a ton and we've never shared that. This is the first time we've shared this information. I have talked about maybe I should get it virtually because there's nothing stopping her from shredding that thing right now. So it's just, she's not crazy, but it'd be very easy for her to just go shred that and then. You know what? You never know what a bad fight can really alter every year. I've got a moment. I'm going to get to a toilet. I know, though. Yeah. And that things get shredded out. I need to take some pictures. Just in case. Oh my gosh. Well, I would never. That's what we talked about. Our favorite thing to talk about. Pickering. Yeah. Skip. We talked about five days. Let's do this one. It's okay to go to bed angry. Our answer to this was different when we got married versus now. Agreed. Three. Okay. Two. What? Disagree. Oh no. We're different. What's funny is that literally the answers that we want to give. Was it? Yeah. Yeah. I disagree in the sense. Sometimes it gets late and we're not going to figure it out. Yes. And you're yes. Not agree. We're not going to figure it out until the sun starts coming up. So I'd rather get a good night's rest. And we're always so much happier in the morning. Do you wake up happier? No. See? That's it. It's a different thing. I think about it all night. I dream about it all night. We've never gotten to the point. We've always stayed in the same bed like I've never had to sleep on the couch or anything. And so we weren't angry enough that we couldn't literally be next to each other. Yes. And sometimes where we're like, let's talk about it. You just flip over. But I don't like it. Yeah. My personality. I like to hash it out right away. Yes. Let's get this going. Let's just figure it out. Yeah. But he's a more of a processor. And I think that's great. Figuring it out is great. But if we're figuring out at one end, there's, we're just, our minds. We're just turbulent. And it's true. And then it escalates. Yeah. And you're more tired. And more feelings get hurt. Yeah. And then it's just like a snowball. I haven't done this in a while. I just way too tired. It is just like a fight. Oh, my look. And then you're just like, and then you think, you think you're making the wise decision by saying, you know what? Let's go to bed. Let's put this away. And then it's like, you don't care about this marriage. Exactly. And then that's a whole other fight. But, you know what? I've just been, you're so lucky. I've just been so exhausted. I have no fight left in me. It's just shocking. Honestly, I think it's, I think we both gone to therapy. And I think that's-- That really also did-- I think that's really helpful. That did some things. Yeah. That stuff is real. OK. Agreed to disagree. It's OK to go to bed at different times. Different times. Agreed. Yeah. But I disagree because we go to bed at the same time every day. I agree. But I think it would. I think it would be OK in certain scenarios. I wouldn't be mad, but I'd be sad. But I don't know if it's necessarily always the most healthy thing, like say-- If you don't have a different schedule-- If she has a girls' night and she's going to be out really late, I don't necessarily need to stay up all night or vice versa. But if we're just at home together, then I'd probably say it's, no, we're going to go to bed together. Yeah. You don't stay up till 2 a.m. for your wife to come home. I used to, and it actually would make it worse. Because I'm like, I just miss her the whole time. And I wasn't having fun. So it's worked out better not staying up. We've tried both. Jade, does that work out better for you when he's asleep when you come home? Yeah, I stay out all night. No, I miss him. I always want him to be waiting on the couch for me or something. But I'm not asking for that. I always go and wake him up, and I'm like, hey. I'll tell you about my night. I did that too. You got to wake him up. Got to get him to low down. Exactly. Agreed to disagree. White lies are OK if they spear your spouse's feelings. Agreed to disagree. We talked. Did we ever talk about this? OK. This is such a good one. Oh, no. I don't know my answer. Three, two, one. Disagree. OK. We said it together. I don't know. That was a hard one. I could have gone either way. But I feel like I'm really honest. I was going to say we were both probably way too honest. Like too honest. Like, I don't know. I'm not worried about hurting her feelings sometimes. Because she just knows it's coming from love. Right? And so she gets over it. That's true. If you show me enough love during the day, I can take it if you need to tell me something. That's true. That's good. That's a good take. Yeah. That's a good take. Yeah. Yeah. It really just comes down to the way it fits you. I think that's what it is. - You're pervert. - What's wrong with this? - I think you look amazing. (laughing) I like, I like, uh. - He does not like baggy clothes. - Well, okay, if it's baggy, like, I don't want it to be like baggy pants and a baggy shirt. - Yes, he does. He doesn't want to fit your figure. - Yeah, you gotta take either the pants or the shirt. - This is actually the only thing that you've actually broken a pin on if I'm wearing it. If you're like, if it's too baggy or too loose, I'm also five two. So sometimes when I wear some really loose clothes, - I like you. - I don't know the trends though. - Right. - So like, if you're asking me about like, trending stuff, I don't know. - Well, my family, they're not fashionistas, and so I never was. Jets how to teach me. - Ah. - And so, I just trust her. - And you showed up on our first date with skinny jeans and running shoes. - Hey, he's got skinny jeans on you. - Those are skinny jeans. - Yeah. - Those are slacks. - These are some khakis and they kind of are tight fitting. - They're not like skinny slacks. - I was appointed. - I was way off of that. - She remembers what you wore. - I do remember because I was like, skinny jeans. - You're like, this is gonna have to workshop this. - We would have not have gotten married if I didn't change myself. - Oh, okay, that's a little dramatic. - Probably. - That skinny jade filled me in. Skinny jeans are out, right? - Yeah. - I mean, they're coming back, I think, but I still feel like boys should wear them. - Gosh, see, I'm so far out of the loop that like, I'm probably gonna still be wearing them with the length of anything. - Honey, you don't have any skinny jeans. - I don't anymore. (laughing) - She's throwing them all away. - Okay. - They are not, they're not in your closet. I haven't seen those. - But she, she's helped me address. - Or even your hair's way different. - True, my hair's completely different. - I don't know if you've seen these old things. You used to do like a slick back. - A slick back. - You didn't even know you had curly hair. - Yeah. - Until me. - She discovered that you had curly hair. - Yeah. - Yes, he would go to Puerto Rico and he's like, my hair's kind of frizzy. It's kind of like in the humidity. And so he said, we should try curly hair routine. And he has really curly hair. - Wow. - He could blow dry every morning and slick it back. - What a discovery. - Yeah, we had the same haircut. - What? - Yeah. Wait, oh, this was your haircut. - Yeah. - Yeah, just like a little side. - If Matt's hair is curly under there, that would be crazy. - That was my haircut. - No way. And that's not like, and your hair just naturally does that. - Yes. - Everything's, you got a perm, but it's real. He didn't know. - That's cool. - I know, crazy. - I think it's all you. Honestly, you are a genie. - Oh, you didn't figure that out. - Oh, yeah. - I agree to disagree. - Checking your partner's location is totally normal. Three, two, one. - Agreed. - Totally. - Do that all day. - That was my favorite pastime. - Yeah, that's great. - Why do you check each other's location? - See where each other are at. - You don't tell me when you're going somewhere. - Yeah. - It's like, you just know that I'll check it. - I'm probably getting salad and go. It's like, where does that go? - Yeah, I'm like, he's that salad and go. - He wants to go be a salad, because you're as hungry. - That's funny. One time you were just walking around, and I thought, you were getting me a book. - Oh. - That was. - You walk around the wall, and I was like, what is he doing at the mall? - Yeah. - That was fun. - Yeah, I think it's just a convenience thing. - Right. - It's nice to have. - And we're always together, so when we're not together, I kind of be like, where are you going? Could you possibly be doing that? - Yeah. - Agreed to disagree. Social media can ruin a genuine moment. - Three, two, one. - Agreed. - Oh. - Sad. - I would agree with that too. - Yeah. - Can you elaborate on what that means? Are you ready? meaning like filming the moment or are you meaning like if we're on our phones scrolling during a moment. - Oh, you. - I was thinking filming as well. Yeah, I think sometimes the stresses of filming in the moment, we don't do a ton of logging. That's kind of not what we do. - Yeah. - But sometimes it's like we have to hurry and get this shot. Like this is important. We can't miss it and it just causes some stress 'cause we're working, you know. - Yeah. - I think we don't vlog normal everyday life. And I've never been a vlogger. Even ninja kids, it was never everyday normal life. But we'll vlog big things. Like our big adventures are big milestones. And so yeah, it does change the dynamics slightly. - Totally. - That's my problem with it is like I, as a creator, I love to like create the videos, but then at the same time, sometimes if you create too much, then it's like you're robbing yourself of just like living in the moment, and not thinking about like the angle. Did I like set up the scene and explain what we're about to do? And then, and then sometimes I'll just say, I'll just fix it all in post with voiceover. - Exactly. - But then like you filmed the video and you're like, oh gosh, I have to go through and figure out. - And a frown, this, yeah. - Yeah, explain what the heck's going on here. - Yeah, I think that was honest. That was very honest. - Yeah, that is honest. - But on the other side, it's awesome 'cause you have a journal of what I did so much time. - It's so worth it in the end. - Yeah. - But sometimes more. - And we'd film it anyways. It's just filming it for a different reason. - Yeah, yeah. - 'Cause all the big entertainment. - We've always filmed everything. - Yeah. - It's gonna be filmed, so might as well just make it good. - Yeah, this one I know, we asked Brock and Boston and Kessley. - Agreed, disagree. I've tasted coffee. - Oh. - Three, two, one. - Agreed. - What? - We're crazy. - You guys, that's wild. We might have to end the interview. - No, that's so funny. - I've never had a full cup of coffee, but I've tasted it. - Did you like it? - No. - I think it was just like black, dark coffee, I don't know. - Yeah, well, so the time, one of the times I really remember tasting it, we were in Finland and I thought it was hot chocolate and I was freezing and I'm like, let's go, really sugary hot chocolate. - Yeah. - They give me black coffee and it was just gross. - That would be really scary if you were thinking you're gonna have it. - Yeah, it's just when you expect something else and it wasn't, it just wasn't good, but we've never had like a sugary. - I've never ordered it, but I had to taste it. The one time I was in front of me. - Yeah, why'd you have to taste it? - I don't know, I was just curious. And I'm like, one swig. - What are friends that were like, they were members of the church, he was like, we went to get coffee and I always felt like so high maintenance 'cause I really do want coffee every morning. And I would always panic if we were staying with people that didn't drink coffee 'cause I was like, what am I gonna do? I'm a freak. But he was like, we stopped at Starbucks and he was like, but what is it taste like? And I was like, I don't wanna lead you astray, but if you take one sip of this, is that gonna be a problem? And then he was like, okay, I'll take one sip. I was like, I feel so bad. - That was basically the thing. I think the word of wisdom, which is what not drinking coffee is based on, I think it should be more tailored towards health. And I think people don't treat it as being healthy. And I feel like I'm plenty healthy to say I'm following the word of wisdom. Even if I do drink a coffee here and there, which I don't, but I think it's about health. And that's how it started. It was a word of wisdom, not by commandment. And it's become a commandment. But I, it's about health to me. - Oh, so it's not, okay, I'm sorry. It's just a curious question. I'll ask later. - Have you ever seen where they compare like a monster energy drink to a cup of coffee? - Energy drinks, yeah. - And you're seeing like the difference in the health benefits. I mean, that there's no health benefits, but how bad they are for you. - Yeah, I don't know if I've ever had a monster, but. - Yeah, we don't drink, you don't really, - What's the energy drink we had this morning? Alonni? - I've tried Alonni, Alonni's good. We're just not big drink people, which is everyone is surprised about by being in Utah. I just don't love drinks. I'd rather have like a treat. - Yeah, I drink a lot of water. - That's good. - But you haven't drink your provided water. - Oh shoot. - What? - Yeah. - I gotta like dodge the mic. - Hey, what are you guys saying? - We're just saying that you guys haven't had any of this water in the past. - You see now, I, we pressured him. (laughing) - Agreed to disagree. Agreed to disagree. We look happier on social media than we are in real life. - I'm fine. - Three, two, one. - Agreed. - Wait, is agree the good one? (laughing) - We look happier on social media than in real life. - Do you think we look happier? - Well, I think the moments that we're showing are genuine, but we don't show. - That's true. - I can say that we're really happy. - It is genuine. I feel like when we're showing it, but we're not really vloggers, and we don't spill our drama, and we don't paint our dirty laundry outside. - Yeah. - Which everyone has. - That's a great. - Everyone has that. - Yeah. - And so, I think the moments we do share are genuine, but we don't share everything. - That's a good, that's a good take. - That's a good answer. - I like that. - I felt sad when he first answered, but it makes sense now. - Yeah. - I was like, we're not happy. - You're like, I'm having a great time. - Yeah. Your spouse should come before your family. - Oh. - Three, two, one. - Agreed. Easiest one yet. - Yeah, so let me kind of talk to about that a little bit, I feel like there's a new job with that. Okay, getting married young as well, I feel like this is something that plays a more prominent role than probably people that wait until their 30s to get married. And so, it is something you kind of have to be proactive in doing. I feel like we had to as well, like, and learn, 'cause it's like you kind of are just used to following the flow of your family. And like, oh yeah, they tell me what to do. I do it, we do, like this is how we do things as a family. It's like, oh wait, we're establishing our own family now. And you kind of have to be more of a bulldog in that, in my opinion, if you get married super young, especially as the oldest. - Right. - Like, you're like setting the standard a little bit. And so, especially since you guys are both the oldest. - Right, especially with how involved we are with my family, it's really important to keep those boundaries different. 'Cause it was, with her family, it's pretty easy and her parents are really chill. It's very simple, but with me working with my family, it's a little more complex to keep it. - Yeah. - Like, she's my priority. If something happens between us, I'm gonna go this direction. And luckily things have been good, but it's much different. - Yeah. It's okay to have a best friend of the opposite sex. - Oh. (laughing) - Okay. - Three, two, one. - Disagree. - Disagree. - Disagree. - Why do you disagree? - I don't like that. - I know. - We've had some friends, we're laughing 'cause we've had some friends that have some problems with that, and they come to us and it just doesn't, I just don't think it's a good look. I don't know. - You're like, I think we're having this problem because it's not a set up. - Yes. - I think if she did have a guy best friend or I had a girl best friend, maybe there was, we'd have a different opinion potentially, but we don't. - Yeah, I guess but it's all but an issue. - And so, I feel like it's feel weird if she had a guy best friend, if she was ever sad, would call him. I'd be like, I'm right here. You don't have to talk to that guy. - Okay, we're ending on a very juicy one. - Okay, all right. We got married two young. Oh, sorry, three, two, one. - Disagree. - Disagree, I was gonna trick you. No, I disagree. I'm very glad we got married young. I think it's gonna be easy to grow our lives together. - I think we were ready. I think it just depends on the person. I think some people at our age would be too young, but-- - Because it is a very young age, but I think we both feel more mature now. - Yeah, we were ready for that. - Yeah. I feel like the more that we've been married super long, but we've been married seven years. And I feel like the more that we age out of that season, the more I'm grateful that we started when we did, because we have so many things that I'm just like, we already know that about each other. We've already crossed that bridge. Like we crossed all these bridges, like I feel like we're just able to go further with, and it's such a blessing that we met each other when we did to be in this place now. And it's so cool seeing you guys at that beginning stage. I mean, getting through the first year, I feel like the first year is usually like, there's a lot of learning and growth at happens, but it's such a fun time too. It's just sweet, like kind of like looking back and talking like such a similar season. I do miss it, and I also think that you have a lot to look forward to. - Awesome. - I really like you guys. - Oh, we like you too, it's so fun. - So happy for you and you're being newly wedged and you have so many fun things happening in your lives, but yeah, thank you so much for coming on the show and chatting with us for, gosh, it's been like two hours. So this has been really fun. - Or best friends already. - Oh, okay, sorry about that. - That's all good. - Oh, I don't care. - We don't have anything else. Our flight's at eight or something. - So we're just hanging out. - We're chilling. - Awesome. Well, thanks guys. - Yeah, we're for people to connect with you on the internet, you know, on the interwebs. - On the interwebs. - On the interwebs. - Well, just on our YouTube, Brighton and Jade, we've been grinding that out, and then we've also been doing a lot of shorts. This has been a recent thing. - Instagram TikTok, we all up, Brighton Miler and Jade Miler. - Yeah, nice. - All of the above. - Awesome. - Let's go, all right. Thank you guys.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Quince offers high-quality, ethical clothing at 50–80% lower prices by cutting out middlemen, with 100% Mongolian cashmere and organic fabrics.
  2. The host and guest share personal stories of how they met—accidentally on a road trip through a first-date encounter that led to a long-term relationship.
  3. Brighton and Jade met when they were 19, had an 11-month engagement period, and got married after a year of dating, with a strong emphasis on compatibility and shared values.
  4. Their relationship began through a family vlog channel, which evolved into a global brand, including appearances at major events like the Princess of Malaysia’s birthday party and Ninja Kids Action Parks.
  5. The couple lived with their in-laws for 12 weeks during a bus tour across the U.S., which strengthened family bonds and created memorable experiences despite the challenges.
  6. They have a strong family-oriented lifestyle, with siblings, nieces, and nephews involved in their content and daily life, and a deep appreciation for family traditions.
  7. The Ninja Kids brand is being revitalized to grow beyond personal family content, with plans to launch a new generation of young talents and build a sustainable entertainment brand.
  8. A recurring theme in public perception is the assumption that the couple is pregnant, driven by fake thumbnails and viral content, highlighting the audience’s fascination with their family life.

Summary:

The episode features a heartfelt conversation between Brighton and Jade, a married couple who grew up on the popular YouTube channel Ninja Kids. Their journey began with a chance first-date encounter on a road trip, leading to a five-year relationship and a wedding marked by a massive, community-driven celebration. S.

tour, their deep family bonds, and their shared passion for travel and content creation. They also discuss the evolution of the Ninja Kids brand, aiming to grow it into a long-lasting, inclusive platform for future talent beyond their family. The narrative is enriched by personal anecdotes, such as attending a six-year-old princess’s birthday party in Malaysia and launching action parks worldwide.

A recurring public misunderstanding—being assumed to be pregnant—adds humor and highlights the audience’s deep connection to their family. The episode blends personal storytelling with entrepreneurial insight, emphasizing authenticity, family values, and the power of shared experiences. It also spotlights Quince as a clothing brand, where high-quality, ethical fashion is offered at affordable prices, with a strong emphasis on sustainability and transparency.

Overall, the episode celebrates real-life connection, resilience, and the joy of building a life rooted in adventure, family, and purpose.

FAQs

Quince uses premium fabrics like 100% Mongolian cashmere and organic cotton wool, ensuring high quality. Products are priced 50 to 80% less than similar brands because they work directly with ethical factories, eliminating middlemen and passing savings to customers.

Quince's clothing is sourced from ethical, direct partnerships with factories, ensuring high-quality materials without relying on traditional retail supply chains or brand markups.

Yes, Quince offers free shipping on all orders and a 365-day return policy, available in Canada and the UK.

They met on a casual double date when Brighton followed Jade’s car after she dropped off her date. He approached her, got her number, and they started a connection that led to dating and eventually marriage.

Yes, they had a temple wedding for legal and spiritual commitment, followed by a large reception to celebrate with family and friends, though the second event is not an official marriage.

The Action Park was created after the founders were hired to perform in Dubai and Saudi Arabia. The government of Abu Dhabi built a temporary park for the events, which inspired the brand to expand globally and develop more action parks.

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