PROTECT FAMILY

“I think like a lot of people are always trying to find motivation when they really need to build the habits of discipline. If you can practice doing things you don't like as if you like them, even if they're small tasks, there's like, it's like your brain is a muscle when it comes to this. You do them, it's like you just practice in your brain being disciplined. And applying that into as many things in life as you can, and eventually having the bigger things, maybe it's getting into the gym is the hardest thing.”

“There is no Jesse James. There's no creator in the Spanish speaking culture that is similar to me. Like I basically have zero competition for Spanish. So why not just go like own that market? And I feel like that's why I was able to grow so much. And those subscribers and stuff, like they're so supportive. It's awesome.”

“I categorize it. There's like work success and life success. And I kind of like split my success personality, you know? So like with work, it's definitely, it comes down to views and money and like, you know, cool, like doing big things and building a team. And then there's life, Jesse, that is going to have a kid. It owns a house and is safe, is happy, is physically healthy. And I kind of just look at these things as separate, because if I don't look at them separate, it's very easy that when work success is not where you want it to bring down life success.”

“I fell into a really dark depression and it was, it stemmed from a lot of things. One of them just like really not wanting to be playing division one lacrosse at the highest level. The only, the only time I felt okay was, I would go to the gym at like 10 o'clock at night because it was like, I had all day practice, school, cardio with the team, all that stuff at 10 o'clock at night. I'd go rip my deadlifts, rip my squats, my bench press. Like I'd be having the best time of my life. I finally, it took off all the anxiety and depression.”

“My dad, growing up, it was very, I always say, it's very tough love. He was very loving to me in actionable ways, but also very tough on me at the same time when it came to being disciplined, doing things right. The thing that he lived by was like never half-ass anything. If I did the dishes and they were half-ass, he'd be like, there's no point of doing them if you're not going to do them correctly. He worked a full time blue collar job. So I feel like when I always looked at him, I always thought he is the hardest worker I've ever seen.”

“Animal stars are disappearing from Hollywood primarily due to the rise of sophisticated CGI and AI. I don't know if I feel like that's true, though. Yeah. I mean yeah. Because it's not the same. You don't need to you know what I mean? Right. People know the love of a dog. They want that. They're you're like, you can't replace it.”

“Stu and Amy Shankman's wedding, 11/25/1985. Mhmm. That day that we picked it up was 11/25/1995. Mhmm. So I found this blank cassette of this people's wedding on their ten year anniversary. Now back then, you got if you had your wedding taped on VHS, that's where it was. That's it. Like, that was the copy. Yeah. And this was handwritten.”

“When we start filming, season 13 on Thursday too, it's another thing. Yeah. Wow. It's wild. It's been on for, it's been on there for fifteen years. And have you ever met, like, a child that was, like, conceived during the show? Like, has that ever been a thing? Yeah. People I yeah. People I know people met and got married, and I know I know people somewhere they fuck to it all the time.”

“And what I used to do is I would get product from companies. I would make the video and I didn't, LaCrosse is so small, they probably would never have paid us more than 20 bucks. And I literally would take it and LaCrosse stuff is very expensive because it's so niche. And so I would take the materials, I would make the video and then I would sell it and that was my money. And that's how I would make money doing this. So I just constantly was getting new items and then selling them to beat the market.”

“But then, then you realize like a lot of the times, the newest, the like first ever version of something does exponentially better than the copy version. The copied version is always watered down. Like it's really hard to copy someone and make it actually get better views.”

“I wrapped it in tinfoil. I put it in my freezer. That was like it's that's come closing in on it's fifth like, fifteen to twenty years ago, and I never got rid of the fish. It's still with me. I have a I have a gold a frozen goldfish in my freezer No. For over fifteen years. That fish is still in my freezer right now.”

“It is standard medical procedure for a doctor to hold the scrotum whilst asking you to cough and check for it. And I get that, but that shit seems hella. It seemed like the Catholic church is involved in it a little bit because it's it's a little backsplash of uncertainty. But what, how how do we self check our own balls? That's what I would look up.”

“The Artemis mission are NASA's current program to return humans to the moon and use it as a stepping stone for future trips to Mars. But we wouldn't inhabit another planet. We're not going to. You can't. But So why are we going up there? I guess, you know, I guess we're But that's I don't like that shit when somebody's like, hey. I wanna come visit you, but, really, they're just staying overnight so they can go visit somebody else further away.”

“I did a collab with her brother. And it's all on YouTube too. Like it's all posted. It was like, I went on a date with Claudia, it's my wife. And it was like a blind date thing that was like kind of skittish, like a joke. But I was like acting like a real like douche bag is the kind of, that was the joke of the video. Like I'm being a douche bag. And we ended up hitting it off. We hang out, you know, we hang out, stay up talking all night. And so like our relationship kind of starts there.”

“We don't want to show its face online until we decide otherwise. But right now, that's our choice. We're not going to do it. We're not going to make content really around our kid until they're, if they want to do that. Claudia's fear slash wanting to avoid things is our kid being recognized when we're not there. So like if someone's like, are you Jesse James West's son? You know, something like that, even when they're with like another friend's parents or whatever the hell they're at school, we don't want that.”

“It's, like, nothing to is that we do and say is to be taken seriously. It's all just we're doing shtick the whole time, and we're, like, we're in on the joke, and it's, like, but it's edited really fun. It's, like, edited in, like, little chunks, and it's, like, to look like it's on a old VHS tape. It's, like, it's it's really I don't know. It's just something I just made up, like, a couple years ago when we went on hiatus.”

“She knows all these these color coded emotions. So when she comes home and she's having, like, a because they're gonna, you know, they're gonna have these, like, these it's inevitable for them to the like, when they grow up to have these, like, you know, their tantrums and this. They have to work through all this. It's not it's not like you have a bad kid if they're, like, if they act out. Like, they're gonna be crazy at two and three years old.”