YouTubers Sam and Colby on Fame and Practicing Memento Mori
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🗓️ 24 April 2021
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On today’s episode, Ryan talks to YouTube duo Sam & Colby about the early days of their career, finding peace in the practice of memento mori, what they’ve learned making haunted and ghost story videos, and more.
Sam Golbach and Colby Brock are an American YouTube exploration and comedy duo. They first started making videos on Vine where they had over 1.6 million followers before the app shut down in 2016. After creating their YouTube channel in 2014 they have amassed over 4 million subscribers and continue to create haunted, exploration videos.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:10.5 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke each weekday |
| 0:14.8 | We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes |
| 0:18.7 | Something to help you live up to those four stoic virtues of courage justice |
| 0:23.9 | Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend |
| 0:27.0 | We take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview stoic philosophers. We explore at length |
| 0:35.0 | How these stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time |
| 0:42.8 | Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down |
| 0:47.8 | Be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring |
| 1:01.2 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke podcast |
| 1:06.2 | I think my guests today are either the youngest or the second youngest guests on the podcast |
| 1:12.6 | I'm talking about Sam and Colby |
| 1:15.1 | youtubers social media stars |
| 1:17.7 | Guess you'd call them ghost hunters scary experience seekers |
| 1:23.0 | They like the word challenges. They seek out challenges whether it's jumping out of plans or staying in an abandoned ghost town or |
| 1:31.2 | Living in a in an old in a lask in igloo. They just do crazy stuff. They conquer fear |
| 1:37.6 | They they push their own boundaries and they have a huge audience that follows them when they do this |
| 1:43.2 | If you've never heard of them, that's probably because you're as old or older than me |
| 1:48.0 | But your kids almost certainly have and more than 4.8 million |
| 1:53.6 | Subscribers follow them on YouTube here in their 25th year on the planet |
| 1:58.8 | They're following this philosophy that they call make it count which to me is a deeply stoic idea and |
| 2:05.7 | They're big readers and that's what we bonded over. We were introduced through a mutual friend who I've also had on the podcast |
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