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Hey there, thank you for joining me for another episode of YQG In Bloom.

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My name is Tracy Martens and today I am here with Mason who is a YouTube guy and you do

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Mason's explorations?

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Yes.

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So, tell me about what made you start that?

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So it happened a few years ago, maybe two years ago when I wanted a YouTube channel.

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My parents said no and then eventually they said yes.

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And it was originally just me doing it and then my dad decided to help me with a few

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things and then he ended up helping me out with it and then my brother wanted to be in

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some of the videos for it and then we convinced my mom into being in some and then it just

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went on and then my dad originally said I'm only buying you one thing for the YouTube

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channel and he said it had to be below like $100.

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So I got this little tripod thing to hold the phone and a light to shine down on the

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table to get the right lighting.

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My dad ended up getting me more things and more things for the YouTube channel and he

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spent more for it and now we got a camera for it and he keeps getting more stuff for

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it and we keep going more and doing more stuff with it.

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Yeah, you have to because you have an awesome YouTube channel and like me you end up with

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all these cameras and the lights and the microphones.

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And then we even go like we bring like for our YouTube channel we bring people to or

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the people that watch it to like on like our family vacations like the last one we did

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we filmed in Disney and stuff.

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I didn't get a chance to watch that one.

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Did you guys do anything cool there?

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We went on like a bunch of rides.

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We filmed some of them but we couldn't film on the roller coasters and stuff.

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I think we filmed in some of them.

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I don't remember since it was in October last year that we filmed it.

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Yeah a little ways.

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Yeah.

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Then I think we're going to be filming for our next video or next vacation where we're

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going on a cruise.

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I think we might be filming then.

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So you guys you film a lot of different things because I know you do experiments and you're

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just all over the place.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Now can you tell everybody about the Oreo experiment that I was watching this morning?

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One we have a few.

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Which ones do you have?

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First of all.

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First I think we have an Oreo roulette one.

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There's one that we roll it down like a hot wheels track down the stairs.

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Then it'll hit like a board.

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So we have like some boards here.

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Forget what it's called though.

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But we glued on it like things of what would be there or what you had to dip your Oreo

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in.

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We had like a little table off to the side where you dip it in there and then you'd have

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to eat the Oreo.

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Okay.

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Was it yummy or gross?

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Some of it was bad.

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All of it was bad except one was milk.

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The rest was like for example there was like pickle juice.

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There was mustard, Caesar dressing and juice.

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What did you get stuck having it?

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I don't remember.

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I think I had I had a pickle juice.

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I remember that.

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I had a milk and I don't remember what the other one was.

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Pickle juice that was probably pretty gross.

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I watched the I'm glad I didn't watch that one but I watched the one this morning where

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you guys were trying to stack them.

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Oh yeah.

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The Super Mario.

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Yes.

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So how far I didn't get all the way through who holds the record.

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So for the first one or I don't know if the second one's posted yet.

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It might be.

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But for the first one I won because at the end it was tied up between me and my one of

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our neighbors Nico.

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I think I got 10 or 11.

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Oh but then he I think got eight or nine.

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So wow.

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That's a lot.

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And then we had another one where we had to slide the Oreo down like the table.

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Oh the table.

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We were supposed to roll down but we couldn't get it to roll so we just slid it.

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Then I got barbecue sauce for every single one or for all the times I kept getting it.

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We got like eight to 13 times.

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I got barbecue sauce.

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Then my dad said we each get one milk.

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So we had two barbecue sauces then instead of getting keep getting the barbecue sauce

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after we kept rolling and rolling and rolling until eventually I got the milk until at the

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end we couldn't get it in and we're like we're wasting too much Oreo so we just dunk it dunked

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it in the milk anyway.

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You can never waste the Oreos.

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Just eat them.

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That's OK if they're on the ground.

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No dad the barbecue sauce and stuff.

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The barbecue sauce on it was bad though.

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Was it was this spicy barbecue sauce.

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So remember what is the craziest experiment or thing that you've done on YouTube.

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I don't know.

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I've got a few ones like the rocket ship one though.

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This thing or this one might be because when we shot up I went to go catch it because I

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wanted to catch it.

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Well the rocket ended up I think the bottom parts got off.

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We still have a rocket in our basement actually.

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Oh wow.

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We're going to try to repair it and maybe do a part two.

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That'd be fun.

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And then but I went to try to catch it but I forgot we had a wired microphone on.

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And it pulled my dad's phone down and cracked the whole back of it.

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It shattered.

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Oopsie.

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Then he got a new phone and then he dropped it twice.

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Sounds like me.

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That's why when I leave this store I never leave the store without a case because I break

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my phone.

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Yeah.

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Now he got a new phone.

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He doesn't know.

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He says he's holding it off a death grip because he doesn't want it to break since he doesn't

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have a case yet.

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So just make sure you're wearing a wireless mic next time.

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So that's the next thing you guys can buy now.

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We actually kind of have one.

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We have a big microphone attached to the GoPro.

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Oh you're lucky.

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I want a GoPro.

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I don't have one of those yet.

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I just got the big cameras.

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So you've been doing this for two years and your friend and all your family are on it.

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Do you want to keep doing these?

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You having a lot of fun doing them?

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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And it's nice that you got the whole family helping out.

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Do you like doing it or do you still get to do some of your own without them?

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I like doing it.

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Sometimes I might.

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Like once we went to our trailer or our grandparents trailer just me, my mom and my brother drew

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and then I filmed a video of like how to start a campfire and then my dad ended up editing

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it because I tried editing it but it was like an hour or two long.

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So my dad edited it down to I think 15 minutes or so.

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All the videos were edited by my dad.

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Even if I tried editing it, I wouldn't like it.

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So I'd ask him to edit it.

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Then even some videos, some of our videos used to be like a half an hour to an hour

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long or like one of our newest videos.

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It actually took place over the course of like the whole day.

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We left at about maybe 10 or 11 o'clock.

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Then we got back at 5 p.m.

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So it's pretty good that your dad helps you out so much.

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Yeah, because he used to be a graphic designer.

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So like all the thumbnails, he designs them himself.

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Yeah, because you got a lot of cool artwork on your page.

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Yeah, and like our YouTube profile thing, my dad edited that and stuff made the thing

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and like our logo, he also edited that.

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Oh nice.

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So it's a whole family affair.

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That's great.

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I just interviewed Mason from Mason's Explorations and I have his little brother Drew on.

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Hi, how are you doing?

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Good.

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So you get to be on the YouTube videos too, right?

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Yep.

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Your brother Mason was telling us about some of the Oreo experiments, the Oreo games.

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Have you got stuck eating one of the yucky things?

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Yep.

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Yeah, which yucky one did you get?

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So it was on the first challenge.

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I got ranch.

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It was all over my Oreo.

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Oh, and my Oreo was falling apart.

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And did you have to eat it?

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Yeah.

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And we're like, no, you have to dunk it.

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We're like, oh, come on.

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And then we made me like dip it almost whole.

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I like ranch, but I don't think I'd like ranch with Oreo cookies.

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It's kind of gross.

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Yeah.

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And we haven't ate Oreos in a while.

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So do you like being on YouTube?

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Do you give them any ideas of things to do?

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Yeah, I do.

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My dad put me on trend duty since I used to always scroll through YouTube shorts until

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I got banned from YouTube shorts and then I got banned from YouTube.

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You did?

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Yeah.

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So now I can't watch YouTube.

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Oh no.

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Why did you get banned?

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What did you do?

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Just because once inside was really tiring and I woke up at two.

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I didn't realize it.

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So I was watching YouTube on my tablet.

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And then that morning when I woke up again, because I had to wake up my mom to fall back

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asleep.

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And for some reason it was always on my mom's turn no matter what.

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Oh, so you're watching too much YouTube.

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So they're telling you to take a break.

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Like at first they banned me from all electronics.

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This is true because I know sometimes when you wake up in the middle of the night and

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you start watching videos, it's hard to stop.

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But I want to thank you for sitting down and talking to me today.

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I really do appreciate it.

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And what grade are you in?

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Grade six.

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And do you know how many followers you have?

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We have I think five or six hundred.

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You have more followers than I do.

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Any of Mason's followers, please follow me.

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I'm going to have to get in on one of your experiments and one of your challenges and

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try them out next time.

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Maybe we can put it on there.

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We got actually used to have like a hundred, like when we went to Disney and stuff last

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year, we actually only had a hundred or so subscribers.

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And then we got this one good video that got us to three hundred subscribers.

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Then we had another really good short.

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Now we try to do like a video and then we turn it into a bunch of shorts and link them

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all together.

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Because when we do that lately, we've been getting a lot more subscribers and faster.

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So that's a good idea.

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Yeah.

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So then we got one really good short that got us to like four hundred.

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It just kept going up and up and up to six hundred.

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Wow.

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And then my dad said that his goal was from for this year was to get to four hundred subscribers

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by December.

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And he said the goal for next year would be to get to seven hundred subscribers.

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And he said, at this rate, we're going to get to this next year's goal by this year.

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That's great.

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So you are doing awesome.

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I can't believe it.

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That's wonderful.

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Hey, I am here with Mason's dad, Joe.

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And thank you so much for being here.

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Thank you for having us.

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This is great.

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I really enjoyed meeting Mason and Drew.

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So you guys started this channel about two years ago.

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Yes, it was about two years ago.

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Yeah.

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And it turned into a whole family.

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It did.

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It was originally Mason's idea.

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He's wanted this for quite a while.

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And we were a little hesitant at first, but we're like, OK, let's just go with it.

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And then, yeah, it eventually became like a family project.

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So even though it's Mason's explorations, it's kind of like our explorations.

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Well, you have to start a different channel.

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Exactly.

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Yes.

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Do you guys enjoy doing this as much as the kids do?

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We do.

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I know I do.

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I think sometimes my wife is a little, some of the ideas we come up with get a little

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crazy.

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And I come home like, hey, you got to be in this video.

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And she already knows it's not going to end well for her.

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No, it never does.

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No, it never does.

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Same here.

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So who comes up with the different experiments or competitions?

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It is kind of a combination.

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The competitions are usually the stuff that I come up with.

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Some of the shorts, like you'll see the grimace video there.

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That was kind of Drew's idea there.

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And that was a good idea.

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Yeah, it was a big trend at the time.

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So it was he wanted to do a video.

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And I'm like, all right, sure.

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I was just kind of humoring him at the moment.

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And then it kind of exploded.

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And that was actually the video that got everything kind of growing for our channel.

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Everything kind of started rolling after that video.

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Yeah, there's usually one thing that it'll just hit the right way.

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Yeah, a lot of times I feel like it's timing.

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It's true.

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It's true.

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And that's what Mason was saying is you guys have almost hit next year's goal this year

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for followers.

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We did.

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Yeah, we tried to set realistic expectations.

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So yeah, this year by December 31st, we want it to be a 400.

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And then next year, we want it to be a 750.

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As of today, as of this interview, we're at 636.

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So which is great.

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Yeah, I think so.

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Yeah, it's been a pretty good few months for us.

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I'm going to have to learn from Mason on how to build my viewership, maybe pull out some

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Oreos and ranch.

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Yes, yeah.

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Pickle juice, although I don't agree with Drew, I still think the pickle juice is grosser

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than the ranch.

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I agree.

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I agree.

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From your perspective, what is the weirdest competition you guys have had?

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It's called the Death Straw Challenge.

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That's where the nacho cheese came from.

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That was one where all four of us were participating.

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So one person would, there's three boxes.

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They're blind boxes.

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You don't know what's in them.

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And one person would put a good drink and two bad drinks.

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And the other three would pick which box they wanted to drink out of.

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If you got the good drink, you got to pick the drinks for the next round.

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And so two of them were awful.

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And one of them would be something simple like juice or milk or coke, something like

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that.

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But then you'd end up drinking ranch or pickle juice or lemon juice was one of them.

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Oh my goodness.

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So habanero sauce was the one I got stuck with, which yes.

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So I would say that was the weirdest video because there was a lot of craziness going

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on there.

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That sounds like a lot of fun though.

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It is.

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The whole family and friends.

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Yeah.

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That's the one thing I really took out of this is a lot of the stuff you see on the

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videos, the experiments are a little crazy.

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It's not something we'd ordinarily do.

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We're not drinking pickle juice regularly, but that really is us on film.

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We really are like a tight knit family, the four of us, and we are constantly doing everything

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together.

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So it is really truly genuinely us you see on the videos, which is one of the things

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I wanted to make sure stood out.

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And it's great because I mean, the kids are still young, so you get it while you can.

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Exactly.

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Once they become those teenagers, forget it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Yeah.

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So Mason said you guys are going to be recording on a Norwegian cruise.

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We are.

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I mean, there's a lot of crazy rides and things on there.

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Like there's there's like a plank dangling off the edge of the boat.

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And I want to see if we can kind of film us seeing who can stay out there the longest.

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One I want to do, I don't know if we can do that.

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There is apparently like an ice room in there.

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I'm not sure what the purpose of this ice room is.

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I think it's in the spa.

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So I kind of one of the challenge ideas I got is we go in there and who can stay in

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there the longest, who's going to like break and have to leave the ice cold room.

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I'm hoping they'll let us do that.

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But I also don't know if they have to allow us to be in there for a long time.

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Well, hopefully I thought it was just going to be a normal vacation, but having having

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some fun competitions would be great.

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I mean, normal and us doesn't really go together.

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So same here.

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Yeah.

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I need to get out there and get on your, your channel because you guys seem to have a lot

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of fun.

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We really do.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Which is great.

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Next time you do one of those Oreo things, invite me over.

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I want to, I want to watch you guys.

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Yeah.

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I think the Oreo ones are like due to best and yeah.

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Yeah.

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Everybody loves an Oreo and everybody loves when you have to eat something yucky with it.

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Yeah.

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We're planning to do another one, I believe.

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Well, thank you so much, Mason.

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I really do appreciate you coming on with me today and telling me about your YouTube

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channel because I love it and everybody make sure that you follow Mason on Mason's explorations

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on YouTube.

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And my name is Tracy Martens and I want to thank you so much for joining us for another

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episode of YQG In Bloom.