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Channels with Peter Kafka

How The Try Guys survived going viral

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Born at BuzzFeed in 2014, The Try Guys make online videos where they try all sorts of things: earwax extractions, baking pie without a recipe, getting kidnapped, the usual. Since then, they’ve become their own independent media company, wrote a bestselling book, hosted a Food Network show — and broke up with one of their founding members in a public cheating scandal that was even parodied on Saturday Night Live. Vox’s Peter Kafka talks to one of the titular guys, Zach Kornfeld (@korndiddy), about what being a Try Guy is like almost a decade in, whether it’s time to try new Try Guys, and their recent live “Choose Your Own Shakespeare” Romeo and Juliet performance. Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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this is recode media with peter kofka that is me i'm speaking with Zach Cornfeld, who is better known to millions

1:12.7

of people around the world as Zach from the Tri-Gy Guys. Zach, welcome to the show.

1:18.0

Thank you, thank you. Better known to millions more as who? As who? Well, that's my first question.

1:23.9

There's a lot of people, literally millions of people who know and love the

1:28.2

Try Guys, and there are a lot of other folks who say who.

1:31.3

So for the people who are in the latter part of that equation, explain what a try guy is,

1:36.0

what the Tri Guys do?

1:36.6

What is a tri guy?

1:38.0

So we are a YouTube group.

1:40.4

We have a company here, and we make a whole slew of content.

1:43.9

It began Tri Guys itself as a show where we were trying stuff unfamiliar to us.

1:50.2

So that's anything from trying drag to swimming with sharks in the ocean, to doing a labor pain simulator.

1:57.0

But that show exploded into a YouTube company and you know being on YouTube we have to

2:04.0

diversify our content and so we're now just a roster of shows we have comedy cooking shows like

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