Confronting The New Assistant On Why He Quit

welcome back to the 47th ever episode of the iced coffee hour my name is alex and so far we've made fifty four thousand three hundred fifty eight dollars and eighty six cents wow that was good alex thank you so much for coming on the podcast this is a really exciting episode that we've been waiting quite some time to do uh let's just get this the cat out of the bag right now we picked the new assistant congratulations alex thank you a really exciting moment uh how this came to be though was actually kind of funny so i found jack about a year it's been a little bit over a year now no it's been like over two years graham really yes it's been over two years and your appreciation yeah you just whatever you've been dating me for add like add two months add two months gosh time flies okay so anyway so two years ago we've gotten really busy here at the family and we needed some extra help so i talked to jack and we're like how do we go about finding someone else to help us out and maybe you know help us with some editing and like little errands here and there so we think it's a good idea to go and make a spur-of-the-moment video just explaining what we want in somebody we thought it would be a fun idea and creative to make like a video submission where basically people could go and like submit their own video of why they should come work with us and admittedly in our first video it didn't go over so well uh it was horrible i saw it i was like why do you guys keep mentioning laundry like you guys just your jokes did not work yeah it was a mistake you shouldn't be making jokes in like something that's like here's a job posting yeah okay so i actually technically wasn't supposed to be like a joke per se but basically like we were trying to emphasize the fact that whoever we ended up hiring it's likely they could be doing less than glamorous work sometimes because the purpose of the assistant would be to alleviate and like give more time back to graham and i so we kind of like went in for an example like what if they needed to do laundry sometime because we were like really busy working or something like that i mean a purpose of an assistant is to give your give you your time back and basically people got upset at us for saying the laundry thing yes yeah but like instead of saying you know they're you're going to be doing less than glamorous work you're like do laundry and that's the only thing you didn't say do laundry you said it might include yeah you said it like it might include us doing laundry and then i was like yeah you don't want to do jack's laundry like it's bad and then we kind of joked around about it and then i thought it was a great video i i didn't even think i put a second thought and then once i started seeing comments like dude i can't believe it you're looking for somebody to do jack's laundry and i showed it to macy and he's like why did you throw that in there that's really bad like is it that bad see the thing is you and i we think alike insofar as like we wouldn't mind doing someone's laundry i feel happy if that means that we can work with with like a job that we we would like to work with people we like but we have to do laundry i would do it in a heartbeat same but it doesn't matter to me i'm competent at doing laundry i've done laundry first i'm not terrible you've done laundry like three times you've been together and you have turned your clothes pink i think one or two of those times and another yeah but that was the first one the first one yeah the blank you didn't tell me i had to do the blanket on low heat anyway you didn't even know that that didn't matter the point the point is basically that uh when i started working i was doing anything like literally anything i could i was doing all the grunt work i was uh like going and picking up like check checkbooks from somebody's car and like driving like across the town just to pick up like a key or like just little stuff i didn't ask for anything in return same with jack i think jack when you started a whole bunch of just miscellaneous stuff that just sucked to do but it was just a part of the job so that's that's the point we were trying to emphasize didn't hit people didn't understand it and uh so we came back with another video and that's when you saw you saw our video how did you see it alex yeah i mean um so i work from home so once i was done with my shift um basically i was on instagram and i follow you at gp stefan and nice plug wow he's a natural wow that was great that was good that's the whole reason why we hired you right that's gonna be that just a plug and um you know i just saw his story that he was hiring and i don't think it was the first time he posted it because um when i searched graham's stuff an assistant on youtube there was already like maybe two videos or three um at least that popped up for me and you know that's when i that's when i saw it and i kind of felt compelled to apply and i don't know if you guys want to go into the story now i do oh let's see yeah let me tell you guys so i saw it i was out of my shift and i was like man this would be an awesome opportunity i was like i felt a calling and so the first thing i did i told kelsey which is my girlfriend i'm gonna apply i'm gonna hop in the shower i look like a werewolf so i scheduled the haircut while um hopped in the shower went to get my hair cut after i got my hair cut i was searching because i was coming up with ideas and i was gonna do the coffee thing that i uh for those of you guys that didn't see the video i wrote out smash the like button in in coffee but um i had to research where to buy i don't drink coffee by the way um so i had to strike once more for us scram yeah that's a good that's what i said so i had to figure out where to buy the like the same coffee maker that you had in your video the same coffee the same coffee creamer the same filters and um i did that while i was getting my haircuts on my phone and i figured out that it was like a like a kroger brand so went to one of the the chains picked up the stuff and that same night i uh i filmed that video i'll tell you my initial impression it i this was within the first like 24 hours i think of my of of my instagram post going live uh i saw your video and instantly i was like this is it i remember even going to bc yeah really oh yeah no he ran back and he's like found the guy i found it and i was like okay okay just let's let's look at everyone else he's like don't watch the videos like oh you found it yeah yeah yeah yeah you found it yeah macy agreed with me and this is like we had a week by the way of more submissions i just felt like first of all you were very prompt and so i get sometimes there's an advantage of kind of being late to the game and like seeing what other people are doing and improving on that but you were on it and at that point i'm like you know mentally i was almost like you know why even look for anybody else of course we weren't going to do that and we were going to look through everybody and give everyone an equal chance i told jack this and jack was very much like graham we got to look through everybody you you can't do this we don't no uh uh you're jumping the gun yeah i thought it was unfair to say in the first 24 hours that we've already picked someone i wasn't going to say we're going to pick someone well yeah but like we probably should have if we had made up our mind because people were still posting my mind but i thought you said you had made up your mind you wanted him mentally but like i would but we hadn't met yet like we all should watch it yeah i just knew based on the video i just i felt like this is this is it so i saw his video i thought it was really good i thought it was i mean it was my favorite video definitely by that time but at that time graham was so early on to it and he wanted to jump the gun and i said no we have to wait for everyone else to submit their videos because what if we like make up our mind but we don't publish anything anywhere and then people are still submitting videos after we already and people are just wasting their time you know and i felt like it was wrong to set a deadline and then just pick someone in the first 24 hours yeah so we did just that and uh we looked through everybody and i remember you sent me one from colby colby baker colby baker that video i was blown away now jack told me listen alex's alex seems pretty good but watch colby's video i like colby's video a lot just wait until you see it we got an argument in the car yeah like on the way we were just we're driving around we got an argument because i i forget what what that was about macy do you remember what was the argument about he ate that argument because you guys have two different they have two different communication styles so they'll be saying the same thing at each other and then you're in the car you're just like i want to bash my head through this window right now shut up you're saying the same thing that was like the only oh sorry i just so their argument was is like oh i think this is the right one but um we should see everybody and they both were saying that in different ways back and forth at each other and i literally was like what is wrong with you that was it we both were saying the same thing yeah i was saying i like alex and colby but we should meet them both and then jack was saying we shouldn't pick one of them until we meet both of them yeah and we just i don't know something wasn't wasn't hidden there yeah there's gonna be someone at home this just like understands my frustration of hearing this for 20 minutes in the car we were driving from somewhere that was like all the way across town and it was just whole drive yeah and i was like okay i'm gonna throw up wow i'll admit you showed me colby's video i was really impressed colby's video by the way uh for those that will we should put a few little clips of it on here it was so entertaining to watch i felt like from a creative standpoint colby just from a filming standpoint this was a 10 out of 10 this video it was so creative it was filmed so well and just the humor behind it i felt would make for a really entertaining either vlog episode or just a person to work with in general so it was close but before we made the final decision we actually sat down for probably like what was that like two and a half hours looking through every single submission that everyone has made we watched them all so if you submitted we watched it we saw you we know you we know who you are it was over two and a half hours i think graham was spending at least 30 minutes a day if not more oh yeah every single one and even myself too i know i was spending quite a bit of time because i was just curious like i wasn't part of the decision but i wanted to see like kind of get my first impressions because obviously like you're in the house all the time i wanted to see who possibly could be yeah yeah in the living space i was scoping out the competition yeah you know i was like no i thought they were all good and um i kind of wanted to see because i was so early i really did want to see okay what is everybody else doing because i kind of just shot blindly and i was like i hope it hits and i don't know there wasn't a established set of videos yet and and so yeah it felt really blind to me yeah i think you had this nice mix for me because like there was a few like there was a few i was kind of rooting for that like either they seemed really hard working but they didn't have the technical skills yet but they seemed like they would learn yeah and so it's like really i thought that was really cool but you seemed to be hardworking you would learn new skills but you already kind of had some stuff to bring to the table as well as being like having humor in your video and just technical skills with it that you were bringing to the table that you just had this nice jack of all trades where some people might have had one or two of those traits you just seem to have all of them which made it work really well yeah it was tough we had it must have been like 10 or 15 different tabs open and what we would do we'd watch all the videos if we liked somebody we'd keep the tab open open up another tab we got like 15 tabs open to people and then we watched them all again back to back we're like between these two people what do you like okay we like this one and we slowly narrowed it down and really it was be it was between you and colby and that was that was uh your your big competition there so we decided what we would do is fly each of you out to las vegas and give you a test and you showed up you were dressed 10 out of 10 very spiffy you were over dressed for the uk where were you wait isn't that how i'm dressed now yeah you were wearing dress shoes which i think was a little intimidating i still wore them today they still weren't yeah we're basically just wearing sweatpants and stuff like i wouldn't expect you to show up in sweatpants but you were dressed you were overdressed yeah so i think the thing with that is um i don't buy a lot of clothes i i have a set of clothes a few clothes that i like and that's what i have and so over the years i phased out any t-shirts because i was working in the corporate world it's like why am i going to spend my money on a t-shirt when the only thing i wear is to work and i could wear the things that i wear to work on the weekends so um being here is kind of different because the other day i went with kelsey and i bought my first t-shirt and watched wow yeah so i know it sounds so ridiculous but it really is a huge a huge thing for me you're going to have to get your honorary pair of sweatpants that way yeah that's all we wear around here now pants so tell us what were you doing first of all before doing all of this and then what was your reaction when we reached out to you yeah so before this um i was working at a bank and i was working from home and i was working in operations so what i did was move money around so other teams would send us files um we'd upload them into the system you know like millions of dollars they'd get moved and uh reconciling like internal bank accounts so really boring stuff basically in excel all day and uh when you guys reached out to me it was ridiculous i think um well graham saw my video within the first 10 minutes that i posted i don't know if you knew that no i didn't first 10 15 minutes you saw it you responded i just scroll i'm constantly refreshing to watch all the videos so yeah you were on there and when i got the message i i was luckily i was at home and i told kelsey and we were just like oh my gosh but then i was also like maybe he's reaching out to like fifty percent of the people like i had no clue but when it really turned real was when you guys both reached out to me to say hey we want to fly you out which is kind of where you were going towards and i was just like oh this is real like like now i didn't know how many people you had in mind but i knew that there only has to be a handful of people at this point because i was like graham is so frugal he's not going to buy a bunch of people playing tickets i was like how many could he possibly fly that was a joke but it's kind of true yeah no it's true it's true so what were your thoughts about moving to las vegas because you'd have to relocate you weren't living here but first i want to thank our sponsor notion notion is a powerful tool that improves team collaboration and can also help you stay organized on your own notion lets you take notes manage tasks set goals and so much more when i was in college it was super important for me to keep all my notes and schoolwork organized for all the different classes i was taking and of course not to mention all of the work i had to do with grant fortunately for me a friend showed me notion notion was able to 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scorpions i told jack this i'm terrified i don't know what spider lobsters that's what they are like yeah exactly i mean i told jack i was like i was like i'm i'm i'll deal with the heat the only thing that for some reason creeps me out is i know that we're in the desert and there's creepy crawlies and i'm okay with most of them but scorpions that was my only concern is that a weird have you have you seen a scorpion before um yes there was a traumatic event so yeah one time i was sleeping um in a house in mexico with my mom and my mom in the middle of the night i just hear a giant smack and what it was was i was sleeping near the bed by the wall and my mom had woken up in the middle of night saw scorpion on the wall she took a like a shoe and she like smacked it on the wall and it woke me up and so imagine waking up to like scorpion being like right next to you so maybe that's it but i didn't really see it because it was dark they're pretty harmless oh no they're terrifying though if you've ever seen them in person i had one time when i was staying in um in like a foreign country and it was like a really really tropical area uh they would like to hide if you left like a beach towel on the floor and it was damp underneath so i went to go pick mine up and it just like fell out and it was like oh my goodness there's a baby and it was terrified i wanted the scorpion as a kid my dad was all for it but i split time between my dad's house my mom's house and my mom just did not want a scorpion and uh didn't get a scorpio i really wanted she was actually fine with the tarantula believe it or not i had a tarantula for like eight years but no scorpion no scorpio i really wanted a scorpion and they're so cool too when they glow under the black light i love that that is so neat you guys don't think so no i agree i i think it'd be cool like i'd be okay if you had it as a pet in the house and i'd be like oh cool just why like i don't want to find a scorpion under my towel to be fair i have um we have you know friends that live out here like jeremy from financial education his wife and his wife said that they've only found two and they were both in the garage yeah well i think she said like you just get your house sprayed right here yeah i think to summarize i think that it was a bigger deal in my head than it really is because since i've been out here i know they come out at night but i don't think i have to worry about it i think i'll probably see one or two like you know like you do a spider in your house and i'll get over it but other than that the only other thing that i that in my the back of my head was like oh should i move to vegas um kelsey and i both have family you know not too far where we live but luckily we've lived away from them uh for about three years now three three and a half years and so that wasn't really a huge issue and where'd you come from oh right i'm from wisconsin so milwaukee wisconsin um originally from the northern suburbs of illinois though so it's all within like a one and a half to our drive and when you flew out here there was a little bit of a mishap oh tell tell them this is unbelievable okay so i got here and you know graham and jack asked me oh how was your flight and you know i was straight up honest with them i was like i'm not gonna i'm not gonna lie to you guys so i told them the truth and and here's what happened you don't know this may say i don't know oh yeah this is good so listen to this um so i was so excited i was getting to the airport maybe like two hours before my flight because i'm like can't miss this flight you know gotta be on time i get to the airport and it turns out that i had booked my flight for the wrong day and i had no ticket and i was just stuck in the airport no ticket i have to see graham and jack tomorrow at eight in the morning what am i gonna do so i pull out my phone and i see that there's one more flight leaving milwaukee in 20 minutes so i run to the delta desk because it was through delta and i paid 800 bucks for a one-way ticket to come to las vegas and you know do a trial run with graham and jack that's committed that is committed i i was a little hesitant but i couldn't miss the opportunity i mean and and when you guys told me i didn't want it to be like i'm a pretty honest person and i didn't i didn't want to be like oh it was good because it was ridiculous it's crazy so yeah that's um that's that's kind of what happened so it was unlucky but it was also lucky that there was another flight we we comp we paid we gave him money we didn't give him 800 but we gave him we gave him a flight we paid for his initial flight oh yeah housing and everything yeah jack and graham agreed to give me you know a 100 yeah 400 for flights and and accommodations which in vegas is pretty easy flights are pretty cheap and uh yeah one flight surpassed the budget by double that's nuts but yeah but i mean it paid off you know yeah and i remember too when you showed up i was really impressed because you printed out this whole like booklet of ways that we could improve and make more money on the channel and i i like i like to pull little pranks every now and then and i get this book and it's so nicely done and i open the first page and like it's a typo right here i i had only known graham for like 20 minutes at that point yeah i was like because we were gonna film and so i was like well i may as well give him this because you know there's going to be free time or whatever yeah any and he pulled that prank on me and my heart just dropped i was like oh my gosh i spent all night on this booklet i had my girlfriend proofread it and i was like there's got to be a typo in there because i did it at like three in the morning but i was like on the first page like that would be ridiculous but good good job good job so as soon as you arrived to las vegas what happened what were your first impressions of graham and i and macy be honest be percent honest yeah so don't don't to be honest i in my head i was like i didn't think i would get along with jack as well as we do and i i mentioned this to jack a little bit why why not because you know jack to me like i i knew we would get along i i just didn't think we'd be like bffs you know you guys were in separate i was actually really surprised it's just like how much you just hang out outside of work like pizzas yeah they made these pizzas last night right yeah so it's like work ends and then you guys are just hanging out right yeah yeah because so in my head i was like well jack and i kind of i like i was like we come from very different backgrounds i was like you know jack kind of like he seemed like almost like a college bro to me you know and and i was just like you know i was like grammy he seems a little bit more like calm macy seems you know calm i was like but jack i was like i think he's gonna i think we're gonna get along but we're not gonna be like super close and i'm being honest here guys i know i love it here and it's the complete opposite because jack and i the first thing that we talked about are microphones and how we have to convince graham to buy sure sm7bs and not that we don't love road you know road is absolutely cool thank you brod great great company right right in australia too man but no we the first thing we bonded over was like really weird techie stuff and it just kept going like we like um so we're like we both have a really wide range of music that we like um we both well he actually he took me out to the strip oh like my first year i know i know you sent me a picture of both of you on the strip by like one of the casinos i was like oh man that seems like so much fun just for a walk yeah we didn't do anything we literally because jack was like have you ever seen the strip and i was like no because i never visited vegas before and um so he took me out and since then i got to say jack like i don't have any friends out here and i hang out with jack every day and no how did you do it with you ever since same thing yeah so yeah that's uh my first impression of you um it was you were so candid man i showed up graham answers the door and he's just like oh yeah like we have a podcast he's like he's like i gotta hop in the shower and i'm just like i'm like he did he did say to show up at like eight or nine a.m and i looked i was like yeah no no i was like so like the fact that it was so candid was just incredible and then yeah let's see what did i think of macy don't keep doing me keep doing me okay let's talk about ground let's take a look talk about me more talk about me more yeah so this we woke up 15 minutes before you got here because we end up staying up super we end up working until like eight or nine at night so then he and i want to spend time together so we stay up till like midnight or later so let me sleep until about eight right so that makes sense so but i just thought it was hilarious that he knows i'm showing up at x amount of time or at x time and then i show up and he's like oh yeah what's up alex and then the first thing graham says to me is alex whatever you want from the refrigerator man he's like he's like he's like go ahead just and then um i was so odd because i was like uh and then i looked and i forgot that you guys had the mini fridge yeah so there's like three things to pick from yeah yeah and i was like i was like i didn't know what to pick from so luckily macy peer pressured me she was like she's like take the uh there's butternut squash ravioli so while macy and graham stepped out i made myself some butternut squash ravioli see my thought was that we we had a podcast guest coming at like 11. you were showing up at like eight eight thirty ish so my thought was that like jack and you would do your thing i would get ready and i would show up by the time we had to film so but uh but yeah i think you came and i just wanted to open the door and introduce myself yeah no that was super nice i think it would have been a little odd if i was in here and i was like oh where's graham um graham's just a simulation yeah what did you guys think of me like i know you said i was overdressed but what were your initial impressions because i know you saw the video right so you might have had a a preconceived notion maybe of of what i was like but you were the exact same from the video as you were in person yeah i don't i don't think there's any difference whatsoever oh you know what you know what the thing i liked what kind of sealed the deal for me but first i want to thank our sponsor ladder life is amazing and full of beautiful surprises whether my ears are being blessed by my favorite pianist i'm admiring the inspiring marine life at my favorite lookout or i'm eating all-you-can-eat sushi with some of my best friends it's moments like these that act as a constant reminder of how beautiful life is and exactly why it should be protected on that note it makes sense why 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anything he sees out of place even if you don't ask him like if he sees like a little you know something on the ground he'll just pick it up and throw it away you never have to ask him you did that in the kitchen there was something in the kitchen like the dishes or something like that you started just cleaning up everything around the kitchen we didn't even ask you to do that right that was huge i think i cooked dinner for everybody but my ankle was really shocked it was like i cannot do the dishes afterwards it's like i'll get it tomorrow morning and then i woke up the next morning and walked out and all the dishes were done i was like oh i appreciate it keep that up don't stop doing that anytime you see something it needs to be just clean it up clean it up we notice yeah i mean it's not you know and i think i mentioned this like it's not like i was trying to you know kind of do it it's more of like like if there's i'm not i wouldn't say i'm like anthony where if i see a piece of paper over there it's freaking me out but if i'm walking past that piece of paper am i just gonna kick it to the side like what am i supposed to jack that hasn't understood gosh jack your room hey jack oh it was so bad red so the door in there the door was open and ramsay ran in there open and then ramsay was in there odor coming it wasn't there no ramsay went in there i had to go and pick out ramsay from your room it was like like something like something blew up in the room are you kidding me no i'm not kidding whoa hold on slow your roll just what you couldn't even see the carpet because we have stuff everywhere mats and rugs in there no you couldn't see the mats and it was just the whole thing was completely covered like you had to step around okay so truth be told we don't have a dresser or anything in the room you have a huge closet but i don't have any hangers i don't have any hangers i i they're on their way they're on the way they've been they've been on the way for months well they're coming did they get lost look i it's not it's not as bad as you guys think you have a huge walk-in closet amazon sent it to china i've never had such an impact and then they went back to china and that's the deal yeah so don't worry about that guys it's not that dirty after jack and i have been making dinner every night we've been cleaning up you know yeah very well yeah i've noticed and i noticed i do the dishes after you cook two like fifty percent of the time you do yeah you do you do help me clean up afterwards jack doesn't know how to use a dishwasher though but that's a story for a different day we don't talk about graham doesn't know about that we don't talk about it yeah we don't talk about that he doesn't know how to use a uh uh iron either that's that that's that's true was that the the day that you get yeah okay so the day that i come to film this podcast jack goes to put on his uh his weeble shirt for the podcast and he comes out and it's full of wrinkles and we all look and amazing graham and i are standing there and we just look at him and we're just like you're not gonna wear that to the podcast are you and jax just looks at us like yeah what's wrong with it and i think macy's the one who's like jack go get the iron i'll get the iron for you just iron your shirt and but you know i mean it was really bad but yeah okay so it looks like somebody folded the shirt and then ironed it folded that's how bad yeah the whole thing was crazy but you guys were so surprised i didn't know how to use an iron right but my logic is how are you just born knowing how to use an iron well my favorite part was when the seam was coming out of it you're like ah graham it's leaking yeah oh i spilled water everywhere you pick it up there's water in this i still the water everywhere i'm like yeah they're supposed to be what you're supposed you but you plug it in why is your water if you plug it in i'm not that bad guys yeah but now i know how to use an iron yeah i walked up to alex i'm like welcome to my insanity welcome what were your initial impressions of alex um alex didn't do his initial impressions of me it was a little different because i i don't think i saw well i saw macy a little bit but then she kind of went to do her own thing for the day um but my initial impressions were she's literally just like her youtube videos like literally the same personality like i don't know how to explain it it's just the vibe that she gives off is the same but she was super nice because she did the same thing that graham said she's like grab left basically and she's like oh by the way alex grab anything out of the fridge i'm like oh okay i see the the type of uh house this is but no super nice super accommodating um because and and i could tell i think macy was interested in having another girl in the house like my girlfriend because um i think i think one of the first things she said to me is like oh i really like how you have a girlfriend did you say that i did because i said then there's gonna be another girl around cause you know how many times i'm like okay guys i did my nails and they're like ah and i'm like i'm like what color should i do my nails next because after you know you do them all the time it's just they go um blue or something but i was like oh so there's another girl so she'll get it i'll have somebody do face masks with and drink wine out by the pool yeah we don't we don't get that stuff no um that was my i didn't have many crazy thoughts about me as much as you guys i didn't really watch her videos too much but from what i saw exactly the same yeah super nice and then your impressions of alex okay my impressions of you um this might have been a little bit of projecting because granted i worked corporate and then i went youtube kind of similar to what you did i thought with my my perspective on how you go from that to that i thought you were ready to step into a world that isn't as structured as the corporate world but it has like a lot of room for fast growth it's a little bit more volatile i thought you would be able to handle that really well some of that might have been just because i went from doing that and i was like or maybe it's just that i did it and then i recognized you that you'd be able to handle it too i thought from like i think like five minutes of you walking in and i was like i hope they pick him because i feel so comfortable with him in the house like you know we left you up and like you're doing your thing on your computer in the dining room and i like walk out to go grab myself a snack and it didn't feel uncomfortable it was really nice it was just like i hope they pick him because he just feels like he was supposed to be in this house if that makes sense so um and you know this is this is nothing against colby at all or any of this that i'm saying it's just i felt like you belonged in the house and part of the group and then watching you interact with us while we're eating dinner it just felt like you were this piece that we didn't know we needed as part of the team or part of the fam here uh so i just i thought you were just like oh this piece that was gonna you were gonna be able to handle it really well you were here to come you were gonna give it a thousand percent and um i just overall had like was just excited to have you around so you got here we did a lot of work that day it was a very very busy day you were able to actually edit that podcast that we filmed on saturday and have it completely done by the next morning on sunday and that was rough i remember that first night that saturday you and i were both up until it was like what was it three in the morning 3 30 in the morning we were editing that podcast just me and him in the kitchen at the big table side by side going through final cut pro editing the podcast and that was definitely an experience and i'm glad that you were you were totally willing and ready to to pump that out and the next day i think you arrived back here at like no you spent the night and then you were up at like eight oh yeah yeah originally i was gonna leave sunday my flight was on sunday but i booked the flight for the wrong day so i didn't have a returning flight back so that's when i was like oh it'd be cool like stay one more day because i was also trying to get a feel for it too like i wanted it to be fun like i was like can i really see myself doing this and i know like everybody's like what do you mean like i want to be a youtuber or whatever but like you have to think about it in real life like like you have to be ready to know that this is going to phase into some part of your life and it's going to mix and you're going to be stressed and and it's different than working in nine to five you clock out and i can do whatever i want it's completely different and so um i was like you know what a second day might be might be fun so i actually told jack i was like if you guys or i think i told you yeah i was like if you need help the next day i was like i'm not planning on leaving until monday just let me know and you said well i'm gonna be busy all that day because i'm planning but you were like but if jack needs help which i did which he did and i was like yeah jack needs more help than any of us could give him that's because i have so many responsibilities a lot of help yeah i have a lot of responsibilities so i don't think anybody could give you the help that you need so what's going on with this today huh what's going on you guys set off the fire alarm oh okay i remember that okay i thought that was macy's cooking and i went out to see macy i'm like why is the fire because we have sprinklers and new constructions when uh when it senses there's like a fire since the smoke the sprinklers go off and i didn't know that equipment and we got a piano like we got a lot of stuff that could get ruined yeah so essentially so what happened the second day was basically alex and i woke up and we're actually planning on creating a full-on podcast studio in the room right now that i'm using as my office and we were installing these foam like acoustic panels or something on the ceiling and in order to do that you have to have like a spray adhesive so you can like get them to stick together and basically alex and i worked on that for i don't even know how long it was that day it was all day that we were just sticking foam panels on the ceiling which is like very high almost out of reach very dangerous activity yeah because jack ordered a spray online specifically for the phone so as we're spraying it and the room is filling up with like glue chemicals particulates particulate yeah uh glue particularly jack and i look at each other and we're like uh is this safe and i was like yeah yeah let's just go put on our mask so we put on our masks as we're like spraying like the covet mask no by the way literally like it looked like a laboratory like in there it was white no it literally did like i remember you walked in there and you're like whoa what's going on i walked in and it looked like uh like the whole room was filled up of steam [Music] and they kept the door closed didn't open the window we didn't want the door open because anyone would spill into you guys yeah that was the only consideration we didn't want the animals going in there but still it was like yeah so anyway the the thick particulate set off the fire alarms and it made graham come out of the office because he was planning and macy was in the middle of filming a cooking video and i'm the new guy who's just like hey sorry for setting off your fire alarm it was a big ordeal it was an ordeal i'm confused because i pick cookies but i always like them like a minute or two under done so it's like there's no way i burn these macy's set off the fire alarm though a few times i've done that quite a few but it's usually cooking like meat or something and she she'll forget to put on the fan yeah and usually if you're cooking the meat the the steam is going everywhere we got a smoke alarm right next to it so it goes off every now and then right no that that makes sense it definitely she took out the cookies early i was like there's no way but you rushed to macy and you were like because you knew she was baking and i think you were like missy did you burn the cookies and then that's when you guys that's when we came out and we were like it was scary i didn't when you said the sprinkler thing i was freaking out on the inside i was like oh my god are we gonna just destroy tens of thousands of dollars worth of stuff yeah fortunately the sprinklers didn't come on everything went fine except for the fact that now all of the panels are falling from the ceiling yeah so again we're gonna have to do it again which is the biggest pain in the butt but it's fine for old time's sake we're gonna do it again yeah for old time's sake and guys look out because we're actually ordering a big table and we're going to set up that as a podcast studio it's going to be incredible yeah please open a window this next time we will yeah yeah afterwards yeah yeah absolutely jack won't remember alex i'm thanking you i'll remember but anyways those were our two days with you alex and they were great days and we really loved spending that time with you and we knew you were a great candidate from then it was where selling macy when you left it sounds weird to say i missed you being here yeah yeah it was weird but it just felt like it was different like it just wasn't the same after you had left it's true and it was like i missed having you here like i just i like just having you around the house even if we don't talk or like i'm i'm in here doing my thing it's just it's cool to have you just in the living room working on just whatever it's just it's nice yeah i move around i yeah i use the i use the kitchen table the living room um i've even used like the guest bed like i and i've told alex just just hang out here just if you if you want to just hang out over a weekend just even if you're not working just come and show up and hang out i don't mind use the use the guest bedroom i don't care he has a good price to come over yeah yeah i will say um that's one thing that that shocked me when um when i came over i i mean graham the first week that i was here he was gone and one of the first things he's like yeah you want to come to my house and make dinner he's like i'm not there but he's like go ahead and just i was just like oh and it was very very odd you're very uh because we're we're still small we have a close crew so i guess it's pretty nice right yeah so your presence was great and uh that was our experience with you on that first time we flew you out and we had those two days with you then we had colby fly out and i'm i was really excited with colby and he met all of my expectations colby was honestly he was great bobby had a lot of strength colby's strength in my opinion was was his creativity i think his ability to add humor into the video was unparalleled it was so good uh but then i then i thought like overall like the entire package i felt like sure you might not have his level of like humor creativity but that's not something that you you need right now and can't learn in the future yeah and i mean i i also told jack it was a little bit different because i was kind of doing a podcast where it was very cut cut um and then kobe got to edit a vlog which i don't think you guys mentioned he edited the first vlog so if you guys saw the first vlog on thus the family subscribe um your free stock down below in the description yeah worth up to fifty dollars and you send it for public and i'm posting all of my stock trades on there so if you want to see what stocks i'm buying it it's free it's basically it's free money it's great you might as well do it amazing and then i'll buy wait oh actually if we're posting this tomorrow i'm doing a uh i'm gifting a tesla stock to whoever signs up using the link down below in the description deposit 100 on the platform and then friday april 16th i'm going to be giving someone a free share of tesla should do that yeah you should awesome yeah yeah so yeah just do that because you may as well it's like it'll take you a few minutes worth of work best case scenario you get up to like 700 of a free stock worst case scenario you spend like what a minute two minutes signing up and you get a free stock worth up to fifty dollars you win either way no matter what happens free money free money yeah um kobe got to edit the vlog and that was awesome i got to edit the podcast so not much creativity now the second vlog which is going to be out by the time that this is out i got to edit the second vlog so i i feel like for that i did get to do get to be a little bit more creative with the with the editing um but i agree kobe i think i think hobie's creativity it's great it's insane yeah he wrote sponsor scripts for us for that podcast that released that following weekend and the sponsor scripts were hilarious he's just so good at just creating like structure and like telling a story and all that stuff he's just got a great sense of humor i just want to make sure we're doing colby justice because he really was great and the thing is we had so many people apply for this position and so many people that were good enough so many people that would we know for a fact they would blow yeah perfectly fine with us we could do a great job with them and they would they would be better than good enough they would be perfect for the position the unfortunate thing is that we could only pick one person so if we didn't end up picking some of you that doesn't mean that you guys were bad candidates we had so many candidates that were like i would have been so excited to work with you guys yeah there were at least a dozen where if if if that was the only if we just if they showed up tomorrow i'd be like oh yeah this is awesome yeah which is so happy there's like a dozen people like that that were honestly it might be just pretty much perfect so not to discredit anyone else right apply for the position or colby and leave your videos up there because we may not be done with just alex like we we may continue hiring at some point not to mention i've spoken with a few other people who have started looking over those videos and want to recruit people who have submitted for me yeah wow i won't mention any names but youtubers yes yes other people that need help me at some point in the future there was a few that i saw that it was like ooh okay if they don't pick them at some point in the future when i get to meeting someone for that stuff i'll keep them all up there we have a great pool of people that applied for the position so thank you guys yeah and i'll be honest you know getting here and speaking of all these other candidates man you guys needed help badly like how busy are you extremely busy i mean i went back home easter weekend right and um i shot a wedding because i do photography and after the wedding i mean i stayed up editing a podcast until four in the morning and i mean i could have done it at different times right but just need having to get it out there and working and it doesn't feel like work that's the weird part jack and graham keep me extremely busy and i feel like if this keeps going the way that it is you're gonna need more help yeah where do you see yourself in five years where do you see this going well to be honest i hope i can your graham in five years and here flip the tables yeah i'll come work for you in in five years if ideally i'd love to stay here in five years i this is like what i love to do i was like i'm so glad i got this opportunity in five years i'd love to see myself kind of like i don't want to say in jack's role but like kind of what jack's role has evolved into i'd love to um i think when we talked on the phone i mentioned how i'd love to grow the way that we produce content um i won't necessarily get into it but it involves hiring more people and i'd love to help run that operation as smoothly as possible and i think i have the benefit of coming from the corporate world but i also don't want to force corporate structure because i think part of what makes this weird machine run that is youtube creation is some of the some of the messiness like it sounds kind of crazy but i think you need i think you need structure but i also think that not having structure is also a good balance so ideally in five years i'd love to be in a position where i'm able to help uh the graham stuff and brand i guess grow and and people won't even know that we do it that's what i like yeah but i would like to see you eventually doing other things in addition to what you're doing now and growing whatever that is like you've started doing that the iced coffee hour clips channel down below in the description great thumbnails by the way i like those thumbnails thanks yeah so so stuff like that i i'd love to take on more projects too in the next five years um but i can also tell that we're gonna we're gonna be busy we're there's gonna be a limit we're gonna keep creating so much content that we're gonna probably need i'm not gonna say now but you might need another person eventually was there ever any moment when you were here that you were like okay this is it this is what i want to do yeah i i think the moment where i knew that this was for me was after jack and i hung all those foam panels because that was grueling work you were just high yeah you didn't have to be mildly delirious you ruined so many brain cells you're like yeah i want to work here no i i think after that because what happened was like um jack it made sense for jack to be on the ladder he's like a thin guy over here i was on the ladder and he was i was i was holding the ladder and then i was also um like grabbing the foam from the floor spraying it handing it up to jack so it was a lot of like moving all day from probably like eight or nine in the morning we probably didn't finish till like seven it was and so when i finished doing that and it felt like i had just you know when you help a buddy with a project and and you're just like oh let's like let's go get dinner afterwards when i felt that feeling after just doing labor all day i was just like this is it like what more could i ask for i mean you know you guys said that there there would be things that aren't editing like hanging foam tiles and to be to be done with that and just feeling like i just i just spent a day with with my my best friend that i didn't it was awesome it didn't feel like work it felt like two go two bros two guys just like building a deck in their free time yeah building a deck building a deck two college brothers on the fun too you know yeah do frat bros exactly down that's funny though that you said that hanging up all of those pads was kind of like your aha moment and i think for me it was the exact same thing but we flew you out before we flew colby out and i wanted to make sure that we gave colby a fair shot at the position at the same time but that was kind of my moment where i was like oh okay i could definitely see myself working with this guy i would be so happy and and lucky to have this guy on the team very very happy with the four of us right it's a great great group yep how did you find the channel originally um i found the channel so i wasn't always into personal finance and you know i've had some conversations with jack there was a point where i've maxed out my credit cards so that's an interesting story but um i didn't grow up in a financially literate household my parents were immigrants and so when i was working at a bank uh just as like a customer service rep before i was you know where i was but back then i saw these people with a bunch of money they would get like 10 grand every two weeks or 10 grand every month and it would be at zero in their living paycheck to paycheck and they're asking me to reverse their fees and i'm like you're making so much more money than me i shouldn't be having to reverse any fees for you like what's going on and so i think at that point i i almost got scared so i just wanted to get educated and and be financially literate so the first person i ever found on youtube when i was like searching about finances was jeremy financial education and i didn't watch his vid like i wasn't like i didn't watch every video the only thing i remember was like holy smokers the same no joke we gotta all do it at the same time ready three two one holy smokers his story about like working at the gas station and i was like oh that's cool and then the youtube algorithm just grabbed me people they pulled me away from jeremy then they fed me some meet kevin and they're like oh you like me kevin you know so i did watch me kevin a little bit but then they fed me graham stefan yeah and um yeah so i'm lucky that i followed you on instagram because if i didn't i wouldn't have applied that's a sign to follow us yeah on instagram gps yes at jls selby so out of curiosity you said you'd watched a few of my videos was that after you applied for graham no yeah before yeah because everybody apparently in the comments just calls you graham's girlfriend but i was curious i was like who is like who is graham's girlfriend and so you know and then i was confused because i thought your name was savannah so before i didn't know your real name because you don't say it well now you do but no i do you didn't say it in your youtube videos so i was like so i was like wait so is her name is her name savannah or is it is it me so i knew so i knew before i left that your name was amazing so what was one thing that really surprised you about us and then maybe what was another thing that was something that is like generally assumed about us and it held true and then one thing you don't like about us yes please what about each of us i would love the transparency i really would all right uh okay so the one thing that is actually true like that is perceived and is actually true graham is so freaking frugal okay like i show up and i was telling him about the towels and the lights and to me it just didn't make sense because i was like okay you make all this money on youtube it's more of an investment and i'm not saying get the fanciest lights you can i'm not trying to say that i'm just trying to say get some diffusers like get some get some you know a soft box or or whatever it is um so that's the one thing you as well you you don't spend money it's true it's insane yeah yeah and you know what jack told me something he's like when you work here he's like you don't have time to spend money wait a second true i'm gonna take a quick break i might have something for you surprise okay yeah so this is a gift i want to present to you it is uh from eric open it up no no that's awesome guys so this is from carrots i so this is under my account but now you don't need to ask my permission if i ask you to go and buy something now you have a credit card a business credit card that you could spend under me so that so i see what you're spending on that uh i pay for it but for any legitimate business expenses now you have your own card that you could spend that congratulations that's amazing do you have a gram stuff in business card no a matter of fact i don't have a grammy business credit card no because here's what happened you went to go and buy a hose and i asked you to buy and hose from lowe's or wherever it was and uh then you gave me the receipt i had to pay you back i'm like that's stupid you know what now i'm going to get you a credit card under my account and then that way if you spend anything i'm paying for it anyway so and open it up i've seen this card well kind of no you haven't seen that one can i see yo this is thick it's a there's no numbers on the front this is a thick boy it's like gold that's really really fancy let me see it wow that's cool i like the gold so don't why that's cool that's awesome why does it have a home on it uh so carrick customizes the credit card so you don't need to have a uh oh so the name oh yeah so there's the name back there but yeah on the front you don't need to have anything on the front so they just put a house on it talk to the viewers for a second just just have a 30 seconds with them i saw so many great applications i i'm sure they did too i just want to say everybody did a really good job um i've had some really awesome people who like reached out and and they told me my video was good before they even knew i got the job um so so i appreciate that and i'm sure you guys will get to kind of get to know me as i might appear in some stuff but um i'll be a lot behind the scenes yeah and who knows you might be working with somebody who's watching this at some point in the future you probably will be all right chances are so you got you got to say to any future people who might end up working with us so anybody who is going to come work for graham in the future you know six months a year two years down the line three years down the line run man you know well you still can't unsubscribe like mace thanks for joining too what do you have to say yeah i feel like yeah you got it you got to speak up i don't know what to talk about just shout out savannah smiles on youtube yeah your amazon affiliate link is in the description of one of those videos i've made have you guys ever wanted to send fan mail oh yeah plug the p.o box so if anyone wants to send stuff to me or graham i mean usually i unbox it so you might get my reactions it's not grams but i do have a po box it is 9360 west flamingo road suite 110 number 536 las vegas nevada 89147 it's in the description if you want to send any of us any any fan mail but you got to put either my name or macy's name on it you don't put jack or alex because they're going to be like who who is this it's got to be one of our names cool so with that said you guys thank you so much for watching i really appreciate it as always make sure to destroy the subscribe button like button and notification bell also feel free to add us on instagram i posted pretty much daily so if you want to be a part of it there feel free to add us there make sure by the way to get your free stock down below in the description public is going to be giving you a free stock worth all the way up to 50 you may as well do that and you get a chance to earn a tesla stock uh by april 16th so you gotta do it by april 16th and uh enjoy thanks so much for watching alex thanks so much for coming on thank you guys join the team and until next time we have to complete the funnel guys go subscribe to the vlog channel oh and this is the family right do i say my name first yeah welcome back to the 47th ever episode of the yes coffee on my name alex and so far the podcast is 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