Ep. 82 The Gregory Brothers - Ear Biscuits

Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link

Mythical

Comedy

4.9 • 25.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2015

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

The Gregory Brothers, the musical group known internet-wide for their viral series, “Auto-Tune the News,” join Rhett & Link this week to talk about the path that led them to compose the theme song for the hit Netflix series “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” the behind-the-scenes stories of auditioning for American Idol, and what it’s like to work so closely on a regular basis with members of their own family. *NOTE: This conversation contains adult themes and language

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ear Biscuits, I'm Link and I'm Rhett, joining us today once again from VidCon
0:08.4	where we recorded a handful of biscuits.
0:11.0	Our Michael Gregory, Evan Gregory and Sarah Fulling Gregory, three of the four founding
0:15.3	members of the musical quartet, the Gregory Brothers, a band that's best known for their
0:19.8	YouTube series, Auto Tune the News and songified this.
0:23.8	And longtime friends of ours, which will become very clear as you begin the biscuit with
0:31.5	us.
0:32.5	Their YouTube channel known as Schmo-Yo-Ho, actually known as Yo, was created back in 2006
0:37.6	by Michael.
0:38.7	And I dug up some interesting stuff on there by sorting about oldest first.
0:41.9	That's a little trick I'll let you in on.
0:43.9	Well, it's quite a trick, Link.
0:45.7	They all sort button.
0:46.9	Oh yeah, on YouTube.
0:49.5	But it became the home for all things Gregory, brother, thanks to Auto Tune and the
0:53.1	presidential debate six years ago.
0:56.6	Since its start, the channel has racked up 2.5 million subscribers and over 680 million
1:03.5	views.
1:04.8	And a lot of those views are attributed to the success of their masterfully auto-tune
1:08.6	songifications where they digitally manipulate the voices of politicians, news anchors, other
1:13.2	characters and viral videos to create these insanely catchy songs accompanied by a hilarious
1:19.3	video.
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