How Andrew Hales Changed Danny Duncan’s Career (LAHWF Interview)

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Jan 23, 2024

Andrew Hales, known for his prank videos and interviews, talks with Danny Duncan about their early days on YouTube, strategies for success, and dealing with mental health. They discuss childhood aspirations, frustrations with existing products, and their love for caffeine and sports. They also touch on sobriety, books, music, and family.

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Introduction

00:00 • 2min

Early Days of YouTube and Collaboration Excitement

01:32 • 10min

Childhood Aspirations and Making Money at Walgreens

11:13 • 2min

Life-changing Books and Frustrations with Existing Products

13:21 • 6min

Caffeine, Content Collaboration, and Sports

19:02 • 3min

Challenges of Basketball Rims

22:07 • 6min

Navigating Sobriety

28:07 • 19min

Books, Music, and Family

46:53 • 11min

In this episode, we interview one of the OG YouTubers who helped shape Danny’s career. Andrew started out doing prank videos for years but has since transitioned into more of an interview style with his “Chatting with” and “People on” series while still doing the occasional prank or social experiments. We talk about the highs and lows of Andrew’s career and how he has gone about dealing with the mental health associated with that. Thank you to Prize Picks for sponsoring this episode, see link here and use code "Danny": https://prizepicks.onelink.me/ivHR/DANNY About The Hosts: Danny Duncan is a top YouTuber with 7M+ subscribers and $150M+ in merch sales. He's also the co-owner of the popular frozen yogurt chain 16 Handles, founder of Good Sport, and Danny's Cream Pies. Jon Youshaei worked inside Instagram and YouTube for 8 years where he was Head of Creator Product Marketing before becoming a creator and journalist for Forbes, TIME, and more. Danny's Channel: https://www.YouTube.com/@danny Jon's Channel: https://www.YouTube.com/youshaei LAHWF's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LAHWF 0:00 - 0:49 Intro 0:40 - 3:38 First time meeting Danny 3:39 - 4:03 Danny and Andrew’s first video together 4:04 - 5:40 Andrew’s early days of making videos 5:41 - 6:37 The types of conversations Andrew has in his videos 6:38 - 7:27 Danny’s early days of videos 7:28 - 9:01 Not wanting to be repetitive with ideas 9:02 - 14:34 Andrew and Danny’s advice for being successful 14:35 - 20:07 What Danny wants to work on 20:08 - 20:43 Prize Picks 20:44 - 22:44 Danny on buying a sports team 22:45 - 24:12 Andrew wants to race Danny 24:13 - 26:25 LA isn’t as good as it used to be 26:26 - 27:27 When Andrew visited Danny in Florida 27:28 - 27:53 Andrew had a blog about Danny 27:54 - 30:52 Being around drunk people 30:53 - 32:28 Andrew Hales on going broke 32:29 - 33:18 The process of Andrew interviewing people 33:19 - 37:27 Getting burnt out 37:28 - 39:52 Danny on fans getting scammed 39:53 - 44:24 Danny is trying to get a book finished 44:25 - 45:15 Comeback stories 45:16 - 46:50 Andrew tries Matador 46:51 - 50:16 Will Danny have kids eventually 50:17 - 51:38 Having a good sleep schedule 51:39 - 54:49 Andrew’s upcoming projects 55:50 - 57:08 Making money on YouTube 57:09 - 58:07 Outro