![]() GD: And then you can do a “Pimp My Walker” as well. Turning a double stroller into basically a Batmobile with ground effects and spinners and a chocolate milk dispenser, that basically sucked us dry when it came to our engineering abilities. We were college roommates, we both studied and got engineering degrees. LN: No, I think that’s the last time that we can honestly say we used our engineering degrees. GD: Will you ever do another “Pimp My Stroller”? LN: Yeah, I don’t know if you know but Google representatives come to your house and they lash you. It probably got a couple hundred views and we were like, “A couple hundred people.” Then, when somebody took that and uploaded it to YouTube it got a couple thousand views, at that point we were like, “Maybe we should do that on purpose.” I think that was the first video we uploaded to our channel but it has since been deleted automatically by YouTube because we didn’t understand copyright at the time and it had a bunch of real music in it. RM: My son who was basically an infant and his daughter, who was basically a toddler, we put them in the stroller, we pimped it out, we put it on our website. Back in 2005, we’ve got a website, we hear about YouTube and people are like, “Why don’t you have a YouTube?” We’re like, “We don’t need YouTube if you’ve got a website.” Then, when people started taking the videos that we were putting on and putting them on the internet and they were getting more views, specifically one that we did called “My Stroller,” which was a parody of MTV’s “Pimp My Ride” where we took a double stroller and we had kids… We still have kids. GD: Do you remember the first video you ever uploaded to YouTube together? ![]() ![]() That is where we started and we’re proud of where we came from and we’re astonished where we are that there’s 15 million subscribers, 100 million views every month. I think because we have a show that’s on YouTube, we feel like we need to say that because a lot of people think of YouTube as just two best friends still in their basement, basically. It’s really developed from just being two guys talking in your converted garage to us having a studio in Burbank with over 70 employees. I think an Emmy would definitely help keep our friendship intact. LN: Yeah, it’s pretty humbling to be able to work with your best friend since first grade. We do a lot more than just talk at this point, like Link was saying. It was just the two of us having that 10 to 15-minute conversation and then slowly over a few years it began to eclipse everything else we were doing so it became this thing that was the most popular daily show on the internet and something that people actually wanted to come on to promote their stuff. Let’s have that as part of our show.” It started very, very small. ![]() In fact, it would be a conversation that we might be having when we were coming into work and we’d say, “Nope, let’s not have that. Rhett McLaughlin: We started as just the two of us talking about whatever we wanted to talk about. First of all, greetings from the set of “Good Mythical Morning.” Five days a week we upload an episode where we’re talking about all types of stuff, sometimes eating weird stuff, many times having guests on the show to promote their own stuff but we always have a good time. Gold Derby: What’s been your favorite thing to talk about? ![]()
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