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Psychology In Seattle Podcast

iDubbbz Develops Empathy

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

Dr Kirk Honda interviews Ian Jomha (AKA iDubbbz) about his path to becoming a controversial “anti-woke” YouTuber, how he developed empathy, and why he took down his past content and apologized.

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00:00 Introducing iDubbbz

03:28 How do Dr. Kirk and iDubbbz know each other?

11:45 Why did iDubbbz apologize?

13:58 Why did iDubbbz start his channel?

21:36 How does iDubbbz handle controversy & criticism?

37:02 What has motivated past iDubbbz's content?

41:05 What happened between iDubbbz and Tana Mongeau?

51:59 Could iDubbbz have changed when he was younger?

1:02:45 Has iDubbbz gone to therapy?

1:24:34 Does iDubbbz still have anti-woke beliefs?

1:30:44 What did iDubbbz do to Tana Mongeau?

1:41:53 Has iDubbbz changed the direction of his content?

1:58:51 What does iDubbbz want to do in the future?

2:03:27 Turning the corner

2:08:40 How did it feel to post the apology video?


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March 4, 2024

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0:00.0

Hey deserve any listeners we have a very special guest with us today

0:04.2

Ian

0:04.9

otherwise known as i-dubs

0:07.6

and if you know him you know him but if you don't

0:10.7

he is one of the biggest youtubers of all time wow right wouldn't you don't

0:15.0

when you say that?

0:16.0

I'll take it.

0:17.0

Yeah, over 7 million subscribers, over 1 billion views.

0:22.0

And for people, over 1 billion views.

0:23.6

And for people who don't know you,

0:26.0

how would you describe your content briefly?

0:28.5

Oh, man, that's so hard.

0:30.0

I haven't practiced this one.

0:31.9

I think back in the day my description of my channel

0:35.9

what I do would be a little different than what I do now, but if I had to like maybe

0:41.8

average it I would say I do a lot of commentary videos I speak my mind

0:48.0

I find things that I'm very passionate about and I'll make videos on them.

0:54.0

Okay.

0:55.0

Yeah, so it's a lot of you over the years anyway,

1:00.0

comedy and speaking your mind.

1:02.0

Yeah, yeah, exactly. In your room in your mind. Yeah, exactly in your room in your office or whatever. Yeah.

1:06.8

So I was jotting down some questions to ask you today and I was going to finally find out where I-Dubs comes from.

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