Danny Jones

So I was like, I could probably fucking make a reality show.

So I hit up a bunch of my friends and we started like, uh, touring around trying to find people to come up with like TV show ideas and concepts.

And I got a couple people to invest in a couple of TV show ideas, pilots that I spent like six years working on.

And, uh,

It was this long process of shooting, editing, taking notes from production companies that, you know, you have to, you know how this works, but you have to like work with production companies who already have relationships with networks.

And they were like constantly giving us notes like, OK, change this for A&E, change this for Spike TV.

And we got to make sure it fits each network because we were pitching these networks.

They showed all these networks.

I was like, OK, great.

So it's just this roller coaster of emotions of like, oh, my God, we're going to get we're going to sell a TV show.

We're going to do a TV show.

And then finally, we got one of those shows to a green light meeting at Spike TV or A&E.

And like, I was like, this is it, we're gonna do it.

And the CEO of iCom killed it because it did not fit their roster of existing advertisers.

And I was just like so frustrated and fed up with it.

I was like, fuck this, I'm taking all this stuff that I've been working on and I'm gonna repackage them and put them on YouTube.

And I did.

And the first one that really took off got millions of views in like 2015 was called Deckhands.

And it was the story of these alcoholic dudes, these drunks that were hanging out in front of 7-Eleven in this little sleepy town called Madeira Beach where I'm from.

So me and my buddy Luke went up and we started –