S31E7: YouTubers Catherine Paiz and Austin McBroom
Trashy Divorces
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4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The ACE Family channel on YouTube blew up in a big way in 2016, taking two young parents into realms of wealth and fame they couldn't possibly have planned for - and were clearly unequipped to handle. While the channel grew to some 18 million followers, brand partnerships soured into litigation and the marriage of Catherine Paiz and Austin McBroom eventually collapsed. If you've ever wondered, "What would my life be like if I made my own reality show," the ACE family is the cautionary tale you need.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to trashy divorces. |
| 0:02.8 | Everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships. |
| 0:06.9 | My name is Stacey. |
| 0:08.0 | Hey, friends, I'm Alicia. |
| 0:09.2 | Thank you for joining us today for today's tale of marital misadventure. |
| 0:13.8 | Now, perhaps you are reading the headline and you have no idea who Catherine Pays and Austin McBroom are. |
| 0:22.2 | I'm raising my hand. |
| 0:23.5 | I know that. |
| 0:24.2 | You are not the target audience to know who these people are, but boy, do they still qualify |
| 0:30.4 | as trashy. |
| 0:32.2 | Catherine Pays and Austin McBroom launched their famous YouTube channel. |
| 0:38.3 | They are the Ace family, A-C-E. |
| 0:41.2 | They launched in 2016 with content that included pranks and challenges and daily life with their |
| 0:48.8 | growing family. |
| 0:50.5 | At one point, Catherine stated that the couple, we are so in the wrong business, was making |
| 0:55.7 | seven figures a month at its peak, amassing over 18 million subscribers before they announced |
| 1:04.3 | their departure from YouTube in 2022. |
| 1:07.9 | 18 million subscribers is a lot. I can't even imagine that number. If every one of y'all told a friend. |
| 1:16.8 | Ten people. I, holy cats. Okay, so they were doing this ace thing, prank, stuff with their family. |
| 1:24.7 | They took time off in 2022 so they could focus on traveling with their |
| 1:28.7 | kids, which I would too if I was making seven figures a month at the peak. We do not make that |
| 1:35.3 | at trashy divorces. But here's the deal. No matter how widespread of a success you are, living the |
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