Jon Cozart Talks PewDiePie & YouTube Hierarchy, His Gross First Kiss, The Rock & 2020 Election Ep. 39
A Conversation With...
Philip DeFranco
4.8 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2020
⏱️ 122 minutes
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02:50 - Streamys Performance
05:00 - Cancel Culture 08:23 - Why it’s hard to collaborate...
12:42 - Donald Trump COVID Diagnosis
16:10 - Influencers partying during a Pandemic
19:22 - Why Jon hates conspiracy theories
25:20 - Creative Process
29:40 - Jon is pursuing screenwriting
32:20 - QUESTION CARD GAME STARTS
38:40 - Jon’s first college relationship...
41:48 - How meeting Linz changed Phil...
45:16- YouTube Hierarchy
47:46 - Facebook posting, unreachable audience
49:52 - Influencers being apolitical...
55:38 - The Rock endorsing Joe Biden
1:02:17 - Quickie TENET Review
1:10:04 - Jon & Phil both worked in movie theaters in high school...
1:13:38 - What’s the wisest thing anyone has ever told you?
1:19:03 - Jon’s gross first kiss story
1:27:25 - How does Jon think Phil wants to be perceived?
1:35:31 - Why Phil doesn’t consider himself a journalist...
1:40:32 - What’s your favorite piece of entertainment?
1:43:43 - Is Jon a big Disney person?
1:46:19 - What’s something you learned from your parents that you wish others could learn as well?
1:52:20 - Growing up religious...
2:00:12 - Jon’s advice
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome back to a conversation with. My name is Philip DeFranco, and today we are having a |
| 0:04.4 | conversation with John Cozart. Hello, sir. Hello. How you doing? I'm doing really good. |
| 0:13.4 | It's a lovely, is it Friday? Oh my God. I, you YouTubers, or you, you creators that don't have |
| 0:19.9 | like a fucking schedule. Oh, I hate you. |
| 0:24.2 | A lot of you live in your best life, even, even though inside we might be dying. Yeah, I'm just |
| 0:29.6 | like twirling my hair like, is it Friday today? I don't know. I don't count anymore. I just |
| 0:35.5 | live off the residuals of videos I made 10 years ago. |
| 0:38.4 | That's what I'm doing. |
| 0:39.4 | Well, I know that we were talking right before we started. |
| 0:41.5 | I'm very, or I don't know if I added this. |
| 0:43.8 | I'm very jealous of that. |
| 0:45.3 | I'm very jealous of two different formats. |
| 0:47.4 | One, yours, which is like, just make really big, high quality stuff stuff and then it lives and then I imagine are you do you still |
| 0:55.3 | even if you don't post I think your last video on your main channel is like over a year ago at |
| 0:59.0 | least do you still get millions of views on your channel without doing anything yeah not daily |
| 1:04.0 | I mean but I'm probably sitting around 100,000 views a day still that's solid I mean for a single white guy, just living in like a, I live below my means. |
| 1:15.9 | It's like, I'm doing fine. |
| 1:17.5 | I still have a retirement account. |
| 1:19.3 | I have savings. |
| 1:20.2 | Like, I don't have a Tesla or anything. |
| 1:23.1 | I'm doing just fine, like with, with what the money I make from that. So yeah, I mean, they still get a lot of |
| 1:30.0 | views and I still get, I haven't lost subscribers in mass, really, so I'm doing fine. Well, and so actually |
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