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- [Tiffany] Morning. - Morning.
- [Tiffany] Ready for a new week?
- No. - [Tiffany] No.
Got practice tonight. - Yeah.
- [Tiffany] Yeah. - Yeah.
(coffee brewer brewing)
- Good morning, guys.
Hope you're having a fantastic day.
Hope you had a great weekend.
It's Monday here, right now, this exact moment.
Finishing up my coffee and
finishing up the editing of the vlog.
Gettin' that uploaded to YouTube before I start my stream.
As I said yesterday, last night, or this morning,
technically, it was a late night for me.
As I said, I'm trying to do more night streams to catch a
different side of the community, different side of the audience
that can't normally watch me during the day 'cause of school
or work or whatever.
And I enjoy it, I really do.
I enjoy seeing new faces or
faces that I only see at night, right?
During the day, for weeks I won't see anybody and
then I do a night stream and it's like,
"Hey, long time, no see. How you been?"
But the late nights, man, are killing me.
It messes up my morning mojo.
It's 9:30 and the vlog is just now uploading.
I should be eating breakfast and getting ready to start my stream
if not already be started.
Got to find some balance there to do the night stream but don't
let it go too late.
As I said, I do have to go.
My stream's are scheduled for 9 A.M. Pacific
which is 10 o'clock my time so I got about 30 minutes
to eat something, finish the vlog,
and get going but later on I do want to talk
to you guys about this.
- [Tiffany] Who is that, Babies?
Oh, say, "How was school?"
Did you miss him?
(laughs)
- [Clintus] Tiff's in the kitchen a little early
'cause she is baking.
- I had to use up our ripe bananas.
- [Clintus] Yep.
- [Tiffany] I'll use up two of 'em.
- [Clintus] We're at the point now where it's like they don't
get eaten we make something out of 'em.
- Yeah.
So this time it's banana energy bites.
- [Clintus] Mmm, okay.
- Banana Oat Energy Bites.
- [Clintus] Banana oa, we got some oats.
We got some honey, we got some peanut butter,
we got some cinnamon, we got some chocolate chips.
- [Tiffany] Yep.
- [Clintus] Very nice.
That honey smells good.
'Sup Bryce? - 'Sup?
- [Clintus] How was school? - Good!
- [Clintus] (chuckles) Good stuff?
- Yeah. - [Clintus] Cool, cool.
Alright guys, wrapped up with today's live stream.
Just checked in with Bryce.
Sierra'll be home in about 40 minutes or so.
As I said earlier, I wanted to talk to you guys about something
and I'm actually glad that I waited because Tiffany came down
and her and I talked for a little bit as well about the
similar topic and then we came up with a plan.
So we have a plan and we're gonna talk to Sierra and Bryce
a little later as well once Sierra gets home.
So the last few weeks guys, I've been really content with
where the vlogs are, where the channel is.
I've come to a realization that this is where our channel is,
this is the way YouTube is,
this is our audience that we have.
Someone made a comment recently in one my chats that said our
vlogs have become boring and that they stopped watching.
And that I should take a break to re-evaluate and
make them more interesting again.
And my response was this is a daily life channel.
This is what I do.
This is what I've been doing for almost six years now.
Just documenting my life.
And yeah, there's been times and moments where we do something
fun in the name of the vlog.
You know, the famous line "do it for the vlogs."
But at the end of the day, I live my life and I capture
moments throughout the day and I share it with you guys.
That's what this channel is.
And right now my life is boring.
Which means the vlogs are boring.
And for all you guys that are like,
"Oh, it's not boring."
Let's be realistic here. I live an ordinary life.
Other than the fact that I don't go to work everyday,
I work from home and I play video games and I livestream and
I make YouTube videos, my life is pretty much
the same as most people.
I have a 13-year-old and a 10-year-old,
they go to public school.
My wife's a stay-at-home mom.
Takes care of the house, takes care of the kids.
We have a dog, we pay our bills, we pay our taxes.
We're stressin' about money right now.
We have over our head in debt 'cause of medical bills.
We are the everyday ordinary American family
minus how we make our money.
And so, yeah, right now my life's boring so therefore the
vlogs are "boring".
And I've been content with that. I've been okay with that.
I've been focusing on Twitch 'cause I love Twitch.
I love the live format.
I love just talking and chatting with people.
I love playing video games, talking about video games.
It's like the perfect storm for me.
I love being on Twitch right now.
It's my favorite place to be
but I also recognize that I am a business owner.
Three years ago I decided to make this a business.
I quit my job and went full-time with YouTube
and it's been great. It's been great.
The first two years were absolutely amazing
but last year was rough.
Last year YouTube changed some things,
the ad apocalypse, the algorithm,
the search engine, things changed and
our channel went down, dramatically.
Just so happened to be the same time we bought this house.
So the stress levels have been high.
So being a business owner, being business savvy,
I've got to think about the business.
I've got to think about my family.
And if I owned a restaurant or I ran a corporation,
if business wasn't doing good you have to evaluate your
business and make choices to keep the business alive,
to keep your employees paid, to keep your company running.
And so with YouTube being my business,
I've got to do that.
I don't want to change the core values.
I don't want to change what this channel's about which is me and
my life and what's going on in my life. Right?
So right now I'm a dad, I'm a husband,
I'm a business owner and so what we do on a daily basis is going
to be the core of this channel but I also recognize that this
is YouTube and it's for entertainment purposes.
And the vast majority of the viewers on the channel are kids
and kids don't care about my boring life.
Now some of you do, some of you do, but I'm saying the vast
majority of kids do not care about my life.
If the title and thumbnail isn't some OMG,
poppin' off, challenge, trendy something,
then they don't click on it.
It's not recommended to them.
So for the sake of the channel and for the sake of my sanity
and the sake of my household, my livelihood,
we've got to make some changes to the channel and
I wasn't sure what that was gonna be.
I watched the Daily Bumps 5 Year Montage
and I watched their channel update
and the comment how they're basically
not going to be daily any more. They're gonna change things up.
They've been doing daily vlogs for a long time.
But if you look at their daily vlogs,
a lot of the stuff they've been doin' has been
a lot more stylized, right?
Montages, skits, little fun things with their kids.
Those aren't necessarily the types of things I can do because
I don't have little kids.
Can't dress up the kids and play some imaginary thing 'cause
they're not little kids.
But, with that being said,
my 13-year-old and my 10-year-old do watch YouTube.
They do watch YouTube and they watch YouTube on a regular basis
and like you saw in yesterday's vlog,
Bryce comes to me and says,
"Hey Dad, I'd like to do X, Y and Z.
"It'd be fun if we did this thing.
"I'd love to do that thing."
And we've done that a couple times in the vlogs.
But it gave me an idea, that what if we did that more often?
What if we gave the kids more control of the channel?
And said hey, what's that one thing that you wanna do?
What's that thing that you saw on YouTube
that you really liked, you want to make,
you want to do the same thing or recreate it? Right?
A lot of things he watches like Dude Perfect and WolfieRaps and
these guys do these crazy experiments or
what happens if we take 10,000 rolls of duct tape and
wrap it around this thing. What does it do?
So that's kinda an idea that I thought of.
It keeps the core value of our daily life but makes it fun and
interesting for YouTube and potentially,
hopefully gets some new eyeballs to the channel and kind of
reinvigorate the audience that we're missing.
650,000 subscribers guys and our videos barely get 20,000 views.
And I love you 20,000 people.
The 20,000 of you, 30,000 of you guys that come every single day
and watch all our vlogs and play catch up, I love it.
I get tweets all the time saying,
"I just five last weeks videos.
"Five videos in a row. I love you, thank you."
You guys are the real MVPs.
But it's the other 600,000 people that have just stopped
watching 'cause our life has gotten boring.
Our videos have gotten boring.
And then the longer it goes without they watching,
the less that YouTube recommends the videos to 'em.
So they don't even see our videos anymore.
It gets really, really sketchy.
So anyways, long story short, guys,
we're gonna start doing some more fun and challenging things
and hopefully try to make the vlogs a little more
entertaining while also keeping the core value of this is my
daily life and I'm just a regular Joe just like you.
So that's kind of the plan, that's the idea.
Hope it works out.
Hope is works out because this might be the last year,
guys, if things don't go up and improve,
I don't know what that means.
I don't know what the first step is.
Sell the house?
Sell the trailer? Downsize?
Get something small again?
Or go get a job?
Tiffany'll get a job to keep the house and
keep the things we have. I don't know yet.
I don't know what that looks like.
But anyways, that's a long rant, I apologize for that.
Hopefully you guys watched the whole thing,
listened to the whole thing 'cause it means a lot to me.
With that being said, let's go back inside and
help Tiff with dinner.
Okay, I just looked back at that clip and I realized I had a big
black dot on my forehead the entire time.
I apologize. It comes and goes.
When I put it in my pocket, and the camera's like
sideways it falls off the lens.
And then when I pull it back out sometimes it's
back in the middle of the lens.
It's on the inside, I can't get rid of it.
But I just took some compressed air and shot around
and it looks like it fell off.
I don't see it now.
Maybe I should go back outside and re-shoot that.
No.
- [Tiffany] Definitely goopier with the bananas in it.
- [Clintus] Yeah?
- They've got to refrigerate for a couple of hours.
- [Clintus] I'm excited.
Alright, this little girl's off to another adventure.
What do ya got going on tonight?
- We have a Culver's night for my school.
It's like a fundraiser. - [Clintus] Fundraiser, okay.
And why are you going?
- Since I'm in NJHS, I have to,
I don't have to but I want to help.
- [Clintus] You're volunteering. - Volunteering, yeah.
- [Clintus] You're volunteering your time.
- Yes. - [Clintus] Very nice.
- My turn to play taxi driver now.
Got to take this kid to basketball practice and
then I have to go pick up Sierra from Culver's.
So yeah, I'll be in the car for about an hour.
Alright buddy. - Alright.
- [Tiffany] You have a great practice.
- Okay.
- [Tiffany] See you in a couple hours.
- No.
- [Tiffany] Well, I might be in bed, we'll see.
- I'll see you in the morning. (Tiffany laughs)
- [Tiffany] Love you. - I love you too.
- [Tiffany] Just picked her up. How was it?
- It was cool. - [Tiffany] It was cool?
- Yeah, so we weren't allowed to,
the kids weren't allowed to serve food.
Like give the food to people but
I basically cleaned tables and
chairs like once people left.
I picked up trays from the tables and above the trash can
and then I got to clean 'em like back.
- [Tiffany] Yeah.
- And I got to clean 'em with the rags.
- [Tiffany] Oops, going dark on you guys.
- I got to clean 'em with the rags and pick up trash,
pick up people's stuff. Walking around.
- [Tiffany] Yeah. So it was cool?
- Yeah.
- And then she rewarded herself with a side of fries
and what kind of a concrete did you get?
- [Sierra] I had a cookie dough. - A cookie dough concrete.
But while we were there, of course Daddy's like,
"I want ice cream. Bring me home some ice cream."
So we did the pint deals again.
And it's a four for $10 deal so then Sierra got to pick one out.
So you know what, Sierra?
- I'm not gonna eat it tonight. - No.
- I am stuffed after that.
- So yeah, we got four of these again.
This'll last us, you know what this means though, Sierra?
We're not stopping to get ice cream this week.
We'll be good.
This'll last us all week. - Yeah.
- Cool, 'cause we got four of 'em.
One for each of us.
So we ended up going with cookies and cream for Bryce,
I got Reese's chocolate.
- Daddy got a salted caramel, butter pecan type thing.
- Double, yeah. - I got mint Oreo.
- So we're set on ice cream for the week.
- [Man] There are people that are burned.
There are people that are done with the game.
But where do we
expect Bungie to start?
- Alright, so I'm done with the podcast.
I went and picked up Bryce from basketball.
The girls just finished "The Bachelor"
and Tiffany surprised us with some Culver's pints.
- They already know that.
- I know but I'm sayin' it. - I like your shirt.
- You like that? Smooth.
- [Tiffany] Soft. - Soft that's it.
Salted double caramel pecan, my flavor.
All the flavors are very obvious.
Bryce was like, "Can you guess who's flavors and who's?"
What'd you get?
You got cookies and cream, right?
- [Bryce] Mhmmm.
- Sierra got mint Oreo and Mommy got peanut butter Reese's.
We all have our flavors we like.
Pretty easy.
- I don't know, your's was tough.
Strawberry cheesecake. - That's true, I, yeah.
- [Sierra] It was cheery cheesecake.
- Cherry cheesecake.
- Oh, there was a cherry cheesecake.
- [Sierra] Cherry cheesecake, cherry chocolate chip.
- Cherry cheesecake, that's a good one.
The berry cheesecake also is a good one, too.
- [Sierra] There was banana peanut butter.
- Thank you. - Welcome.
- So we started the vlog with coffee and we're gonna end the
vlog with coffee
'cause I am
prepping the coffee maker
for tomorrow morning.
Probably the best feature of this coffee maker is that you
can set it to brew at a certain time.
So all you got to do is load it with water and coffee,
set the time and you're good to go.
I ground up a fresh bag of King's Coast.
This is King Gothalion's EZ Morning Roast.
Oh, so good. Look at that.
It's a full bag of coffee there we ground up today.
Smells so good.
I was tweeting it out, I was like,
"Smells almost as good just ground up
"as it does when it's brewed."
Like fresh brewed coffee's like
one of the best smells in the world.
So good. So good.
Anyways, thank you for watching.
Hope that my little rant today made sense 'cause it was a rant
and I said it twice and vlogged it and I'll edit it,
whatever you guys end up seeing, I don't know.
But hopefully it made sense and hopefully you guys understand
and hope you guys like it and we'll see what the future holds.
Thanks for watching, we'll see you tomorrow.
Vlog on.
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