[Music] welcome to ear biscuits I’m Link and I’m Rhett this is the inaugural episode of our audio only podcast there is no video being shot of this to your disappointment I’m sure or at least to our knowledge which is good cuz I’ve got on flip-flops people give me a lot of flack about this so this is a new thing that we’re very excited about thank you for being here for this our plans are to do this every week and see where it goes I don’t know is history being made here I’m not gonna go so far as I say though I mean technically history is always being made you alone in your room whimpering to yourself or accidentally burping after a meal is history being maybe the question is is it notable history and I don’t want to make any sort of prediction as to whether or not this will be notable or memorable it is but it is for your entertainment purposes but you know it’s also for our entertainment purposes one of the things that we’ve been talking about is how this is not what they mix but this is gonna be a lot different Rhett and Link podcast this is this is so we want to warn you right at the top number one this show is not about us right you see enough of us saying things that we think and you know if you watch good mythical morning on morning talk show on YouTube our second channel Rhett and Link to you see us talk every single weekday about something that we think our perspective on something you can see and hear a whole lot of us and this is not just more of that type of thing without a video component right this is a conversation with another person of course our guest this week is grace Helbig she is not sitting here now with us at this point in the process is just the two of us kind of preparing you for what this is this week and for weeks to come it’s they’re going to be conversations with other YouTubers friends of ours it may branch out from there you know we have a what we think is one of the greatest jobs in the world we get to make YouTube videos full-time and there are these other people who are doing the same thing are things very much like that and we just think this is a moment in history that’s pretty interesting and we and to know these people especially since we moved out to Los Angeles the world’s pioneering this there’s so many people out here who are doing the same thing that we’re doing and we always find it fascinating to just talk with them talk with them about how they got started doing this talk about talk with them about who they are you know not the the Daily Grace that you see every single day on YouTube but who was grace as a little girl and you know where she grew up and what her relationships were their parents were like and this in this kind of thing what shaped her to become the person that she is and we got to assume that there’s enough of you out there who are interested in the people that we’re going to be talking with like grace Helbig that you’re gonna be fascinated by this conversation the same way that we are so that’s the first thing is that this show is not about us it’s about a conversation that we’re interesting interested in having with someone else hopefully you’ll be interested in listening I think the second point we want to make is that this show in particular is not necessarily family-friendly as we have authentic discussions with other adults there may be topics that come up that aren’t appropriate for kids so I know that we’ve developed an audience out there that with our family-friendly content so we just wanted to say up front that things may not go that way you know I have conversations with my wife and with my friends that I don’t have with my kids around because they’re kids and I think that we want to set up this table literally we are at a round table here we wouldn’t where other YouTubers other guests can come on and they can be themselves they can speak authentically honestly give their story in in the words that they want to use and so we don’t want them to censor themselves we wanted them to be themselves so first I think there will be topics discussed that are or for adults they’re not for kids and there was there may be language use that is not appropriate for kids to hear so up front we just wanted to say that may be the case in general given the approach of this show right and a little bit about the name okay we put a lot of time into this we actually put about five minutes into it and ear biscuits is what we came out with and we’re just gonna go into you’re right we came out yeah well I’m thinking I’m thinking it’s like we we put some dough into the oven of our brain and we came out with ear biscuits and they’re a little bit undercooked we acknowledge that but I think the idea is that biscuits are great everybody loves them they’re warm and what if there were a little biscuits that you could put in your ear if your ear were to eat as opposed to your mouth that’s kind of where I was going with that now in England I think biscuits are cookies they are which is even better than actual biscuit not according to me brother I mean if you’ve ever been down south and going to Bojangles and got a biscuit or if you’ve got a grandma in the south who’s made a biscuit well I think the point is not a cookie okay if it’s a cookie or if it’s a bonafide biscuit if it’s for your ear you should love it the point is is that biscuit means absolutely positive things in every language yes every culture and Swahili biscuit means good you don’t know what it means it probably doesn’t exist as we’ve already said on this week’s show we’ve got grace Helbig looking forward to that conversation honestly we’ve already had the conversation yeah hopefully you’re looking forward to Euler low alert you know for her from her daily show on YouTube Daily Grace she’s also the 2013 Streamy Awards audience choice Personality of the Year winner and she’s the co-producer and the star of the upcoming movie Camp Takota a scripted project with mamrie Hart and Hannah Hart no relation I don’t think maybe we need to talk about that later premiering on chill dot-com so let’s get into it our conversation with our friend fellow youtuber amazingly hilarious grace Helbig [Music] now grace we were trying to figure out the first time that we met you oh and I have a clue to this you do I do okay this is gonna sound a little creepy is this a game it sounds like they know and I know I know when I first met you guys okay well I want to tell you a quick story and see if this all lines up because the other day I logged into my Facebook account which I do not do because I really don’t use my personal Facebook account yeah any more because when I started you know my facebook account it was like oh this is a promotional thing I need to make as many friends as possible right so when I reached the friends limit which was really the fan limit yeah at that point it became useless to check this inbox right but I was like I seen two remember that I had personal interactions with people other than you know friends on Facebook like back 2008/2009 and this is just weeks ago I start going back through those and I found some very interesting interactions with people that I and for another time but then I see grace Helbig yeah and she says nice meeting you last night something something something nothing nothing inappropriate I’m like what was I wouldn’t happen what did they say and I was like I just put it all together we met you in the lobby at the streamys and I lobby at the treatment oh is that what it was no you know where we met we met no it was the yeah it was the streamys but it was the pre-party to the street it was the night before the streamys when they had that yeah in a hotel lobby that like get together of everyone and I was there with my friend Michelle Michelle who you had the channel yeah and Michelle met you guys first show Vargas Vargas and then she like introduced all of us in that night and I was like those guys were so nice she’s like Southern Southern yeah that is so crazy because I remember going to that event I was there to do red carpet interviews and I was flown out by My Damn Channel from Brooklyn with Michelle and we were just in that room thinking oh my god these are real people from the internet this is crazy and we were very not educated in the YouTube space at all and didn’t really in which is why you talked to us I was like these guys are tall exactly I thought about replying to your message just a couple weeks ago oh my god that was so nice meeting you too I would have instantly been embarrassed and four years later 2009 it was 2009 I believe yeah Wow so we go way back yeah yeah yeah now that I realize how far we go back yeah yeah that was a whole blur and then the streamys happened the next day and that was a fun time for all yeah I didn’t go well for anyone who doesn’t know but yeah it went so well that they didn’t have in the next year but yeah I had it the next year and you won the whole thing and now how it worked I did not win the whole thing you won the streamys I won the streamys yes I won the entire streamys yeah so what oh what a weird chain of events we’re like wow we should have replied a retz Facebook we could be friends do we witness the whole thing from the balcony that’s subject we were in the balcony of the streaming so times have changed no he’s talking about if there’s a couple months yeah the takeaway here is always respond to your social media yeah right that’s crazy yeah that was a that was my first time around a lot of youtubers and I was really star struck coming from New York yeah let’s go back all over you from I’m originally from New Jersey Jersey yeah I don’t really have an accent at all so people are always surprised did you ever know I’m from South Jersey and in South Jersey it’s I guess more of a Philadelphia and type of accent then the Long Island like talk more let’s go and I when I went to college I went to college in North Jersey and that’s where I was like oh this is where the stereotype lives all the girls are wearing leggings and Uggs and having poof’s which I adopted all of those things and I was in college really yeah I wore leggings and I still do and he’s a poof a hairstyle a poof is yeah Snookie you know Snookie oh yes as an icon in this world it’s when you take the front of your hair and you like tease it up high and then you wear the rest of your hair down okay the last time you did that probably when I Facebook message you yeah I had I had a poof going for years before Jersey Shore came out and like really made it a jersey thing is there a record of the poof on the Internet oh yeah big-time really yeah maybe you made videos with my first My Damn Channel videos for two years I’ve had the poof in them yeah not on YouTube but on My Damn Channel calm okay thing about podcast is that you can’t see the Wonder on your face yeah the proof is a big deal for Jersey Girls but yeah I’m from New Jersey and then went to college in North Jersey and then moved to Brooklyn right after with Michelle Michelle and I were college roommates okay yeah come but you know your mom has it has an accent though no but first of all big fan of your mom when she made the knot that we we’ve met her hung out her but when she made the appearance on your channel for a couple of episodes of Daily Grace she is a sweetheart and she went to VidCon for the first time this year and people were walking up to her and like getting photos with her and she felt like a celebrity and had a really wonderful time and she’s very excitable so I was worried that she was actually gonna spontaneously combust with all the excitement that’s happening at VidCon but yeah she was really sweet and now every time I make a video with her she has ideas for the video already like she writes down ideas oh really because I mean she’s gonna start her own channel I wish and I think the internet would love that but she is technologically not savvy enough if there’s a kid in South Jersey that wants to intern for my mom and help her edit some videos I’m sure she’d love it mom in turn mom and the Craigslist ad will say super intern she has good hair she’s got very thick hair there’s a lot of bangs going on she has big-time eighties bangs still for years and years and years she did the tease the bangs up and wear the bangs down at the same time was very very quaff very beautiful what does she do or did do or whatever for living yeah she has worked for years as a teacher’s assistant in a special-needs classroom so she has incredible patience and is very very kind as a human being she is a hero she definitely needs a couch it makes no money whatever it’s insane but she puts up with so so much and she’s the sweetest woman okay so what was it like growing up with the sweetest woman in the world well because she worked in the special-needs classroom she didn’t really know how to turn it off so she would kind of treat me and my brothers like we were special so she would ask us things like numerous times in a row remind us of things like very very often or like speak in a really high sing-songy cadence so she was really great but she’s very much just so over-the-top sweet and patient but also incredibly flighty she’ll tell a story six times in a row to you and you’re like yeah you told me well maybe that’s maybe that’s just she’s trying to drill it in yeah repetition and teaching it’s that thing again exactly my mother-in-law was a teacher’s assistant for I guess it was second grade she just retired but she cannot get the like you said that teachers cadence yeah and a volume yeah whenever you talk to you like that yes she talks and this is on the telephone cuz we talked on the telephone my mother Lana but when you I’m so happy that you’re here let’s open the Christmas presents before we eat food tonight because that’s when we’ll see her Christmas wait is she from Kinston North Carolina Oh from North Carolina I didn’t want to I didn’t want to really turn on her accent but if you want me to go but it’s small you bring it down my mom sometimes doesn’t understand I think she’s got like voice of modulation sometimes there she’s not aware of the volume at which she’s speaking even in like a colles she loves cold so much you have coals in North Carolina just speak loudly into coals yeah she loves it like I can hear she’ll call me from Kohl’s to just check in [Laughter] she’s really bad at texting and anything that’s technologically related so were you a performer in the family like was it were they all like oh this is totally expected that grace has gone on to this career kind of and also know I have all brothers so I’m the only girl and how many brothers I have two brothers and two stepbrothers and my older brother and my older stepbrother were really close and they would make all of these like sketch comedy movies and videos together and I would think that they they were so funny and so hilarious and them just off-the-cuff riffing with each other was so hilarious so I always was trying to make them laugh and yeah and it wasn’t until we took like a family vacation to the Poconos and in the car I started doing I think I was in fifth grade and it’s when South Park came out and I started doing a Cartman impersonation in the back of the car and my older stepbrother Mike which sounded like I wish it was something like that’s Kenny’s cream cone really good and I just did it once like by myself in the back because we had a Jeep Cherokee and my three brothers would sit in the backseat and then I would sit all the way and like the trunk area do like did it into the corner to test it first okay yeah this is this is good this is ready to roll out started laughing so hard and it was like and then I just kept doing it again and again and again I am my mother’s daughter repetition yeah and I I love that but then I went to college to be a screenwriter to write movies and it wasn’t until I started taking improv classes in New York City that I started to get into the Performing side of things so from the cartman impression to the screenwriting but connect the dots so I yeah how did that happen firstly well you got out of the Jeep in the Poconos had a lovely family vacation really nice I think we went snow tubing and my stepmom fell off of her tube and sprained her ankle that was you’re not supposed to stand on it she had a curb and it was like this tube like luge type of thing and she fell out of the tube and the walls of the snow she like smashed she is not athletic by any nature but so I decided I wanted to go to college to do something creative something in the communications field so I was a communications major at first and then I started getting into writing and really liking writing where college where I went to Ramapo College in North Jersey yeah it’s it’s some of pó ram up oh is that an Indian tribe yeah our amap oh oh so it’s not three words no it’s one word and I got a full scholarship there it’s the first college I applied to and I was like okay I’m done great I’m gonna go there and it’s not that it’s a it’s a good school it’s not a party school people leave on the weekends all the time so like the social side of the college was not huge but I got into writing and I had a professor a screenwriting professor named Roberto marinus who great he was super great what a name he sounds like like a Hispanic superhero and that’s called a luchador yeah it sounds right yeah he he kind of like took me under his wing and became like a mentor for me and he and I were writing scripts together really your professor so he saw this potential yeah oh she’s good yeah he did no not that okay didn’t go that route all right but he and I started writing some scripts together and then he got a Disney fellowship and moved out here and well yeah and yeah he’s doing it I don’t know what he’s doing now but he just got you here yeah he built me up and then he got his scripts sold to Disney and then he left okay but he yeah I wanted to do some form of writing and then Tina Fey became really big in pop culture and I really idolized her and wanted to do sketch comedy started a sketch comedy television show at my college and then started taking improv classes my senior year of college in new york’s i interned like a crazy person when i was in college because my college was a 40-minute drive outside of New York City so I had six internships while I was in college because I was like obsessed with working and with trying to get involved in the entertainment business in some way and so one summer I lived in New York for three months while I was interning and I wrote to a bunch of Improv theaters because I wanted to take a sketch writing class but I didn’t have the money to pay for a class so I wanted to intern at the theaters and I wrote to UCB I went to the magnetar to the pit and UCB had a waiting list for their internships and the pit was like yeah come down on Friday so I interned every Friday night at the people’s Improv Theater for a year and then they had a not full level one improv class and I last-minute decided to take it and really really loved it and then went up through all of their classes and got on a house team there was performing every week and it was really great well it’s interesting that I mean obviously you’re a performer but there’s I mean one of the things that we enjoy about your videos is that it’s you know to call it a vlog is almost to sell it short because it’s it’s always very funny and it’s a miss obviously there’s a writer’s mindset that kind of comes with it you can definitely see that because you know I find interesting that you did the impression you got some attention and then that kind of was like the beginning of like oh okay I can you know I can do the funny mm-hm and then because we definitely can relate to that you know getting a laugh in class and I still think we’re writing on it that attention I mean I I definitely feel like there’s a big part of the art career continues to be propelled by wanting to be the center of attention yeah positive feedback really pushes you because before every improv show I would be so incredibly nervous that I’d be like man this is the night that my stomach explodes on stage like this is gonna be the night I’m so nervous but I did I did an improv show every single weekend every single week I was equally as nervous but as soon as it’s done you have this like euphoria of wonderful positive energy and feedback and that’s what keeps you going to the next show next week even though the moment or the hours before of like sheer torture and torment of it being so stressful just immediately wash away as soon as someone laughs at you in the audience and gives you feedback yeah that’s great I think for us the euphoria is great so I’m saying but at the same time I don’t know we’re pretty we’re so analytical and I think we always skip to the Hulk kind of beating ourselves up or oh I we could have done that better or just kind of we I want to make this better than next time or this wasn’t as good as I wanted it to be kind of do you beat yourself up did you even back then kind of sometimes but the the wonderful thing about having been trained in improv is that you learn that everything’s kind of transient like the show doesn’t exist before it happens and then it exists in this moment and then it’s gone the scenes you did are gone all the jokes you made are gone so you let it go and then you have to create a brand new show next week and that that philosophy and that format of performing has really been so helpful for Daily Grace because it’s a video every single day and sometimes yeah they’re not the best and I get bummed out that they’re not awesome every single day but the idea of oh that goes away and then there’s another video tomorrow is something that drives it also is just the constant like hamster wheel of creating creative right yep I also I don’t know your story of how you guys got started doing web video cuz you guys have known each other since you were babies right six years old yeah well we came out of different wombs okay that’s good to know in different states and so we’re not twins or brothers you did know that right I didn’t have to like go back that far I didn’t have to clarify it yeah I yeah and now if I’m your mom I’m going to tell you all that again yeah so yeah first grade is when we met okay and did you look at each other in first grade and be like that guy’s cool were you like that guys no it was that guy’s also in trouble right now literally we were held in from recess for writing for profanity on our desks and then we had to color pictures of mythical beasts which is why and now and that’s where the mythic really that’s where the mythical punishment well we we had to color they’re all you can I was at recess we were inside coloring and so I look up and there’s the other tall weird-looking dude coloring I’m gonna be his friend I guess but the only guy in here buddy my only option but it was very quickly kind of realizing that when we did something funny whether it was individually or together and you know the older we got the more it became like okay let’s I guess we’ve become a comedy duo it was getting that response which which happened in like a live atmosphere in front of a crowd for for a long time like in college yeah did you do live performance we college we did like we were involved with a group in college like that like a campus ministry that met together every single week so we and so we kind of turned that into like a comedy club almost well there was an MC right oh and so we would be like okay and the guy was you know he was funny and he was like a junior in college and then so we got him good with that guy and then Rhett replaced him basically right and so was there an audience yeah there was like our freshman year there was like 150 people Wow my senior year there was like 1500 holy crap so it was like a big event and like we started writing comedy songs and making videos for it and then it even after we graduated we stayed involved like kind of going back and making videos and then we started taking some of those videos and putting them online and this people started taking those videos and putting them on YouTube and it was just it kind of just created itself I mean it was okay you see now all of a sudden you’ve got you were performing for a thousand people well now a thousand people watch the video in the first minute exactly you know and it was okay this is this is a way to reach an audience and then it begins to kind of feel itself and then it just becomes this I’m sure that it’s pathological in a lot of ways it’s just what we do and what you do on a daily basis now don’t draw her into this neuroses I’m gonna confess to you that what I do and I have told myself a million times that I’m gonna quit doing this yes but what I do every single morning is I roll over uh-huh I get my phone I pick it up can I go look at the comments on the latest episode of good mythical morning oh and I and that is not a healthy thing obviously and we don’t all you know let her say that maybe maybe she’s gonna be like you do this help you do anything like that that’s sick you I’m you are a horrible gross person I yeah I wake up in the morning I check I definitely check my social media I am because at this point in my life there are probably close to 2,000 Daily Grace videos that live on the internet and it used to check the comments every day all day long and get really affected by them but at this point I check them to make sure that I didn’t accidentally slip something into the video that I wasn’t supposed to write or to make sure that there wasn’t a huge glitch and editing that I didn’t see because those things will be pointed out right you’ll see your comment in the first 10 minutes exactly I’ve put up videos that have five minutes of black space at the end without realizing a huge fan of the strategy and then I just have to go in and try and put annotations over it and make it seem like it was intentional but at this point I am I read them I’ll go to check and I’ll read a few of them just to get the general vibe of how people are feeling about it and then I kind of walk away just to make sure that I don’t let myself go down the rabbit hole of yeah getting too affected I like to maintain like an overall Pleasant vibe and make sure that that’s okay and then keep myself away from release because you read a hundred comments that are so complimentary and they’re wonderful and you read one that’s like you try too hard and you’re like do I try too hard just cage seven – okay forget about it you’re fine you’re fine four hours later like yeah but then at the same time you have to go through because for your comment episode you’re going through comments that’s the time you’re reading them yeah that’s the time that I really comb through them and I check them out and like get good and drunk first or what sometimes um but most of time not I just go through I really look for when I’m looking through comments especially from YouTube because that’s where the concentration of comments lies I look for the most like thumbs up ones I look I just kind of like scroll through and I read them as they go and they look for ones that are thumbs up that I can I know I can make a joke about or I can riff on or something because Daily Grace isn’t written every day it’s improvised and it’s it’s I make like a mental outline of what I want to talk about and how I want to talk about things but I don’t write anything down unless it’s a complicated video and I need to know that I’m making certain points at certain times for things or especially when I need to make announcements and I’m really horrible at including all information and announcements so you’d have to write that down before but yeah I definitely have an addiction to social media in general I think as a millennial living in this universe of digital world I definitely wake up and check my Instagram and check Twitter and check YouTube one to me well also I let my videos upload overnight so I wake up and check it to make sure that it’s one has uploaded because there have been numerous mornings that YouTube just like now not today and open like oh no okay now we upload you don’t come you don’t confirm you just you go to bed go to bed don’t happen maybe won’t yeah I live my life like a craps table everything is in Campbell was spinning comfortable to sleep on not good for the back well one of the things too about you as a person is I definitely people many people have said this but we’ve always said this is like I would not be surprised if all of a sudden you know next week we found out that grace just landed a part on you know the sitcom that’s about to come out and you know so we definitely feel like you could you’re equipped to do that and so there’s this traditional media thing that I know you know that you are still involved in and still developing and auditions and that kind of thing is from knowing you but at the same time there’s this huge The Daily Grace and everything that goes with that and you know streaming personality of the year and you know where are you at in terms of my life what yeah what what you know where you want to go and to tie that in with just how interactive just that we’re talking about with these comments I think one of the things that we think sometimes is you know you just have this really vocal group of people that almost when you do something like Daily Grace or good mythical morning it’s like they feel like you owe them something every single day you start dealing with this very vocal minority this like you guys change this or you guys are doing this a little bit different and now it sucks yeah there’s a weird social responsibility now as a content creator and I always try and put myself in the viewers shoes I love Real Housewives as a show on television and I look forward to the Real Housewives of New Jersey at 8 p.m. on Sunday night and if I were to go to Bravo and 8 p.m. at Sunday and it wasn’t there for some reason I would feel let down so I understand the sensation of providing content to someone and non-verbally making an agreement that you are going to continue to do this especially with Daily Grace when it’s a known fact that it’s five days a week and it happens Monday through Friday so I have I’ve created this format and now I have to stick to it but I am also now like I came from traditional acting writing world and I definitely want to make that part of my reality now and we just got done shooting camp Takota which was it’s gonna be a feature film which is amazing and not something that I had anticipated happening this year but came up as an opportunity so I said yes because it made sense for how I want things to progress in the future I I want to do TV I want to write a book I want to keep doing movies I want to create more webseries I want to kind of elevate the grace helbig brand that is how it’s going so far and just um amplify it amplifies the big term that everyone seems to be using now I love it we always call this podcast amplify we do what is this podcast called by the way is it not named yet no it is now ear biscuits what do you think that’s great why would you say out of we just let you know you go through a lot of names confidently behind it’s a yeah it’s delicious content for your ears now we have a typo yeah no Daily Grace well I want to go back when you came up with that name you obviously came up with this whole I’m gonna do this every day why and what would the My Damn Channel think so here’s how I became a vlogger I was performing at the people’s Improv Theater once a week and meanwhile as I moved to Brooklyn with Michelle we start making grace Michelle videos and as a way to document two girls moving from New Jersey to Brooklyn and trying to kick start their careers in the entertainment business and it was also how we hung out at the end of the night we had jobs and we’d come home and have a glass of wine and be like let’s make a video together and talk about our days and then one of us would edit it because we both took editing classes together and so it was a fun hobby for us to use Final Cut and through the people’s Improv Theater there was an audition that got sent out to all the performers to be a narrator on a web series called bedtime stories which was for My Damn Channel comm and it was a comedy series that took children’s like Grimm’s fairy tales and made them like super raunchy and like over-the-top adults retellings of them and I got cast as the narrator that were wore pajamas and like really bubbly and cute Lee’s told these really awful awful fairy tales like like give us a touch point I I don’t even remember at this point but it was like Hansel and Gretel go to the woods and they have sex and how did you change it but so the CEO of my name Channel after the webseries had gone up found my grace Michele videos and brought me in and wanted to experiment when they were on YouTube they were on YouTube yeah and they had my team tone calm as their website and they were on YouTube and they were doing really well in the internet space they had you suck at Photoshop they had wainy days at horrible people all of these web series that were really groundbreaking at the time and so I was so excited to be working with them I David Wain and Kristen Schaal were like comedians that I loved and they were all in web series for My Damn Channel so they wanted me to experiment with a daily web show five days a week that would be I would be the host of their website I would direct people around their website and say hey did you guys see horrible people yesterday what you think make sure you check out you suck at Photoshop tomorrow and so it was more informative and a way to communicate on their website with their viewers rather than just putting up all their stuff and never talking okay so for three weeks that happened and then it went pretty well and I at the time had quit my day job to wait tables in New York because I wanted to pursue comedy as a career and I wanted my days to be free for auditions and that sort of thing and eventually they I was able to quit working at the restaurant to keep doing Daily Grace full time for them and it wasn’t until Sarah Palin became big in pop culture that vitam jennel asked me if I could do an impression of her on Daily Grace and at this point Daily Grace only lived on mydamnchannel.com you tube they had their other series on YouTube but Daily Grace was specifically for My Damn Channel and I did an impersonation of Sarah Palin and went really well and so that kind of like lit the fire of doing other comedy bits and impersonations and characters on Daily Grace and turning it into my own series rather than it talking about the website and then that was in 2008 that all that happened and in 2010 after two years we decided to move it over to YouTube because it’s very hard to get an audience watched a league race for two years mm-hmm on mydamnchannel.com if you go to my time challenge com archives there’s like a thousand videos that live there and there they were all on my eyesight on my iMac and I edited in Final Cut every day so there were really really awful quality but I like to think that the content was decent quality was it so it wasn’t much different than what we would see now no no it wasn’t much different there was just no structure every day was whatever I wanted to talk about any character I wanted to do I did commenting on comments like very occasionally but it wasn’t a weekly thing so it did become a little it was so fun but it was a little stressful to wake up and have an infinite possibility of ideas to make for a video that day two years – you did that before you put it on YouTube before I put on and then they decided yeah a guy named Jesse Cao came who is big in the red vs. blue roosterteeth community started working for mitem channel and he really an advocate of moving Daily Grace to YouTube because that’s where the audience is they weren’t getting the numbers pushed to My Damn Channel comics it’s just so hard to get people to watch videos on any other website so in 2010 he and I sat down and he was like let’s we need a structure for this if it’s going to go on YouTube I think that would save your brain and I totally agreed and we came up with the structure and I got an actual camera and shot I got a 7d I was so excited and then I was like I don’t know how they use this things like all of my videos are kind of out of focus and I’m like really like framed awfully and yeah so we started doing it on YouTube in 2010 and it’s it’s grown into what it is now 2010 three more years so you three years I think we started the five years you’ve been doing this every day with yeah ranks occasionally I’ve taken like a week off maybe two or three times but for the most part it’s been every day Wow yeah yeah it’s been crazy but it’s also at this point the same with like how the euphoria of getting positive attention is addictive it becomes like a workout every day to make a Daily Grace it’s like okay I have I made this thing I have to make my thing and then I’m done for the day I got to do my job for the day because everyone always asks if I stockpile videos and I shoot them all in one day and sometimes I do if I know I’m traveling and it’s gonna be difficult to shoot but most of the days I shoot the day before and I edit that day and then I put it up and it feels like exercise and when it’s done it’s like ah what a relief how do you think that affects your you like your friendships your relationships I had having to do that every single day cos it’s like alright y’all this has been awesome but you know I gotta make this video yeah I mean the thing is I’ve made a lot of friends in the YouTube space because we all have a common understanding like Hannah and mamrie are my two best friends now because we have a very common understanding of working and getting I just shot two videos with Hannah before I came here and that was like last minute she’s like are you around you want to shoot yeah okay we go over shoot for an hour and then I leave and yeah it’s a respectful thing that everyone understands but I really try and do I try and balance life and work I like to go out to eat I like to go out to drink I like to be around people but then I like to work by myself so I try and maintain a balance some days it sucks and some days it’s awesome have you ever had to do anything like we’ve we’ve got a project coming up where we’re gonna be doing something where it’s kind of like it’s a branded project but it’s gonna be like we’re vlogging but we’re gonna be doing and recording it I think on Friday next week and we’re gonna have like a client and you know an agency and all these people in like like watching us like gonna be right over and on the other side of that well I’m sure yeah so it’s like an unedited like seven minute piece oh wow that’s like colors pieces you decide you’re making art I’m making finger pieces but have you is it always been that is it always you in a room you know I mean obviously sometimes you have guests we’ve had the privilege of being a guest yeah my dog trying bite your face but is there anybody on the other side of the camera other than a maybe a friend that sits in or do you not let anybody do that at all uh yeah I’m kind of a control freak in that way I shoot them all by myself I edit them by myself everything is is me and I’ve thought about getting an editor I’ve thought about getting a camera person I’ve thought about doing all of that stuff and eventually I might at this point a with the schedule of how I operate it would be really difficult to bring someone else on because the schedules really inconsistent and to hand footage to an editor at 11 o’clock at night and be like here have it done now for tomorrow is I think not respectful to another person so at this point it’s all me all the time but now but I have worked on other projects with clients I just launched today a web series called Grace’s faces that’s with Bobbie Brown the makeup artist and it’s a web series about makeup it’s not the R&B artists I know trust me I’ve had numerous conversations about what could have happened had it been him but the problem is since they’re sponsoring you or however you want to say it you can’t play that card you can’t talk about the artist you know I imagine that they’re like rolling the eyes big time yeah joke was awesome I didn’t see that coming right well the thing about them is they’re actually really respectful of me maintaining my voice and like authenticity of how I would normally do things and those are the kind of like brand deals and things that I try and align myself with so they didn’t say no Bobby Brown the you know the guy from new edition yeah they haven’t said it yet because I haven’t brought it up yet because you have taste because you actually expect a brand okay I apologize for the joke but but yeah when I so I who did a bunch of Lowe’s commercials yeah it’s very strange we get very excited our house when we see this it’s the commercial where it’s like get lucky loves give me like it’s still twerking but it was kind of before and then I catch on a fire and then yeah it goes awry but I did those I love when people leave me comments like you’re the girl from the Walmart commercial I everyone thinks that like Lowe’s approached me as dailyGrace was like be in our videos but I’ve been auditioning for commercials in New York like three years and then I finally booked a commercial and it ended up being eight commercials but dailyGrace almost didn’t keep me from getting that part because they were worried about the brand of dailyGrace interfering with the brand of Lowe’s and so but as soon as they and the social media was really responsive to it you know then they were like yay great we good we took a risk and it paid off yeah so it’s always really strange when you have brands and other people because you guys have done everything yourselves for a really long time yeah and I mean and we do you know having wives and children that that is that definitely impacts your schedule yeah a bit I having one dog I’m like I’m never having a child yeah you know I I guess I can understand what you’re saying about it’s it’s hard to get someone to help to maybe free you up when you’re doing you know you’re doing your show out of your house in your own space in your own time for us we have to protect our family times and then you know we’ve built this space like literally I don’t know you knew this but we built this building yeah I saw a bunch of nails sticking out of the wall everything we use Lowe’s though oh thank god you guys got a milos account yeah we both have one oh and a business one Eugene’s got this podcast sponsored by love so we can have people here who are doing things to help us get things done you know there’s a there’s a separation it’s a lot cleaner yeah yeah I wonder what you’re gonna do when cuz it’s not it’s it’s when I mean camp Takota obviously the people behind that understood your schedule I know you got a shot over at like two weeks three weeks and that was really wonderful to be on send me like oh you you take that footage and you give it to an editor Wow what a concept I don’t take that home with me and edit this scene that we just read it but they understood that your daily grace yeah and you’ve got to go make daily grace but you know what if what if you do get that sitcom or that major role in a comedy movie and then they’re like okay oh no no no this leaving set every day to do your thing like do you want to edit her stuff is that what you get a reply yeah I know I know I’m moving oh great I just I need way more star wipes and daily grace you’re my guy yeah that has been conversation and has come up a few times because this year has really been like kind of a turning point for my career have been really wonderful that yeah when that time does come that’s going to be a serious thought my brain tends to work and like that’s not a problem right now so I’m not gonna think about that but I do once one if things grow further I definitely want to bring people on and have people that can help alleviate some of the stress so I can focus on just the creative from time to time but yeah it’s it’s taking the first step in finding people I mean I’d love to have a fully operational system of people that are awesome and can help me make Daily Grace and grace helping and whatever I do awesome I don’t know how to hire people where do I find them which they suck well you can get the Lowe’s parking lot isn’t that bad yeah I’ve seen those guys they’re really good at putting a roof in it’s like you were trying to trap but it’s so what I hear you saying is that there’s no end in sight to Daily Grace it’s not like okay well at some point when I’m the next Tina Fey the inevitable then I’m not going to be doing this daily anymore I think I couldn’t not do internet I mean if anything were to happen it would downsize the the amount of content would become less but I couldn’t just not make content I I like making videos I like posting instagrams I like tweeting I like participating in the social media environment and I even if I was so so busy I think I’d wake up in the middle of the night and be like I have to put something on tape I just have to it’s a it’s built into my system now but yeah I think moving forward that’s the goal it’s like build it out bring people on that makes sense and and are cool and and figure out what’s the what feels right moving forward yeah let’s talk about your experience working with us on Christmas sweats oh my gosh I was thinking about that on my way over here about how fun it was recording that song with you guys in Hana and how exciting it was give us your perspective my perspective was I didn’t know you guys very well I was so excited that you asked me to collaborate with you I was equally excited that Hannah was on board too because I know Hannah it’s always more comfortable when you’re like I definitely know that person I don’t know those two guys yeah I don’t know what they didn’t return my facebook message through this project yeah and I I love your comedy sensibility about things being a little absurd and a little nonsensical but ultimately silly and fun and I loved it and that the fact I got to wear sweatpants was so so great I hate wearing girl clothes so getting doors up pants was like the best costuming and wardrobe ever well we had to have the conversation between the two of us before you showed up I mean there was no question we wanted you in the video and everything but there was the point where I was like well can she sing yeah I know when you guys ask me that no it’s like oh no no not at all was this did you because we sing this we’ve heard the singing in the what we did a little research did you see my music well at the time I think what we did is we went back and we saw you Daily Grace is where are you saying and I was like okay this is using the thing it’s not really same time oh yeah where I’m like just talk singing yeah but see that’s me sincerely trying to say that’s funny if that’s all she could do that’s perfect right but if she can do more we might insult her by asking her only to do I know I did have that that like sinking feeling on the way to your house I was like we’re doing a song wait oh no Hannah can sing oh no am I supposed to sing oh no I’m gonna lose this gig no but it was great and it turned out so great and the best part was that my family loved it they thought it was so fun it was on The Today Show or a Good Morning America yeah and my parents were Christmas morning yeah my parents were like ecstatic about it they were like because I was like this is they’re not gonna understand that like my stepmom she’s like I don’t get it but I really enjoyed it but they loved it and that’s I knew is is it good yeah once my family sees see something on Good Morning America or the Today Show yeah it’s validated there boys finally done something right well you know this is maybe breaking breaking news here but we’ve got another idea for this Christmas that we would like you to be a part of yes I’m all right yeah I still can’t sing as long as that’s okay we can’t we can’t say what the idea you know we don’t actually know what it is you guys this is how deals are made they’re made recorded on a podcast responsibility to say yes you’re saying a couple of years later when we’re deep in litigation we’ll be playing this we’re working up some sort of concept of a sequel that’s exciting you still have those sweats did you wear them home I have yeah I have the sweats Hannah where’s the sweats like personal related we went somewhere recently and she was just wearing the red sweatpants out and I was like why your wing she’s like I don’t give about anything right now yeah they’re so great they’re in the back of my closet with my koala onesie and my ghillie suit so they’re in good company good yeah with your what suit ghillie suit ghillie suit is a suit that looks like moss or a tree that hunters wear to blend into the environment I should have known that duh it’s a common culture here no we surprised Hannah on her tour for hello harto in Toronto memory and I and mamrie bought us ghillie suits to wear to surprise her you came out of like a bush well we ran into a bowling alley that she was in bowling wearing ghillie suits and screaming Hannah Hart smells like farts over and over again and she thought that it was just like to cry see fans that were like coming to murder and then we took the masks up and it was great that’s also documented yeah I have a problem videoing things that I do with us in your personal archive secure in a Daily Grace yeah the security guards at the bowling alleys they don’t take no here’s the thing that happened they were the elicits first we had ran it that was the only they were the only people in the bowling alley at the time and her and her producer and shooter on the tour they were bowling they’re about to leave and so we ran over from the hotel we walked down the highway wearing ghillie suits and we walked past people we had to be like don’t be afraid don’t be afraid we’re just surprising a friend we’re girls were nice charming sweet girls we’re not doing something like really crazy and we did that as we walked into we had to walk through the bowling alley bar and the bartenders are just like what we’re like don’t worry don’t worry this all makes sense in like ten minutes yeah and then we surprised her and then we all took shots and it was great a great time yeah super fun then you shot game or whatever shot get yeah exactly no I don’t hunt or skeet skeet skeet shooting you don’t no camo you don’t need a camo for skeet cos Skeeter inanimate oh yeah true and it’s probably very uncomfortable well this has been a great start this has been the first podcast do you guys feel positive about it was it a good experience yeah like we buy great you did great house thank God I did great Rhett you leave a little to be desired made a Bobby Brown joke great I said wasn’t a Whitney joke oh right it wasn’t you didn’t bring her up that’s right until you guys had before the podcast whatever happens don’t bring up Whitney is rule number one for your biscuits well the other thing you’re gonna do in closing here is you’re gonna be the first to sign this this table or so oh my goodness what uh this is kind of like you know it’s that’s an expectation that we’re gonna have other guests it’s not an original idea but you know I it is an idea if this podcast had any Jules people don’t attend this is a beautiful beautiful 20 foot mahogany table that I’m signing right it’s really gorgeous thanks for doing this thank you guys for having me this is so exciting [Music] and there you have it the first-ever ear biscuits episode is in the bag your biscuits we put these in bags and then people download them into their bag we pour out our bag people download them you’re downloading this or you have downloaded and you’ve listened to it it was with grace Helbig yeah well if you didn’t realize that I don’t know if they needed a summary I wouldn’t call that it’s not very good though you know I think one of the things that that I like about this link and I hope that you like it too is I feel like I sound like I’m about to fall asleep and so maybe there’s people out there who have fallen asleep during this and now they’re just totally asleep and now we’re speaking to them in their dreams and so you think about there’s somebody out there and they’re dreaming and they may be trying to fly yes just can do it just jump up just jump off without building if this is a dream you won’t die it’s a myth that if you die in your dream you die in real life this is not a dream and you’re actually on the edge of a building listening to this don’t jump off a building for the record but I think at the same time that it might say a lot about this new venture and internet tainment if we’re making people fall asleep maybe it won’t last very long yeah that’s the red flag and in most people’s books thanks for listening we will do this next week so hopefully you will be here to catch it in your bag [Music] [Music]