YouTuber Unspeakable Gives Out Free Money For Mother's Day

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If you have small children -- or were recently one yourself -- you definitely know the name Unspeakable, AKA Nathan Graham! The YouTuber gained popularity in the early-2010s for his Minecraft gameplay videos which became a hit with little kids, and his success, along with a thriving merchandise biz, has made him one of the most successful and profitable YouTubers out there! Now, Nathan is giving back, and to the ones who mean the most -- Moms! In celebration of Mother's Day this year, Nathan is giving away $50,000 to some lucky moms in his local Houston area! He joins Young Hollywood via Zoom to tell us more about this initiative, including where the idea came from and how some moms didn't believe it was real! He also tells us what he does in his down time (meaning, off-camera) and why he has no plans to ever move to L.A., plus he teases what he has in store of Father's Day!
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Hi.
Hey, what's up? How are you?
I'm good. Doing really good. Should I call you Nathan or Unspeakable?
Either way, either way is fine.
Well, hi, I'm Jolie. Welcome to Virtual Young Hollywood.
Awesome.
Okay, so we're going to talk to you about, you know, the huge Mother's Day, $50,000 you're giving away. Is that right? Okay.
Yeah.
$50,000 going out to all moms in your local Houston area, right? Right around where you live?
Yes, yes, yes, yes. So we're in the hospital right now, and we have five nurses that are all moms, and we have a big money machine. Over $350. People are literally so confused. Got a mom right there. Happy Mother's Day. Go, run, run. You guys have 5 minutes. Whatever you can put in this cart, I will pay for all of it. Go, go, go, go, go. Oh, he's grabbing so many. We should have grabbed more. Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there.
And you have a fun little video. That video is you want to kind of cry when you watch it because that's really actually something special.
It is, yeah. And the last mom, uh, got impacted pretty hard by COVID, so, you know, we did a lot of stuff for her. We paid for her rent, we gave her tons of groceries, um, just, you know, thousands and thousands of dollars worth of stuff. So, that one was really cool. Um, it's crazy because, you know, when we give all this money to all these random people, they, none of them believe it. They're just like, I mean, I wouldn't believe it either, but it's just so You know, what do you think? Would you believe it if someone came up to you and was like, Oh, here's, you know, like two thousand dollars. I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I remember we had this one lady, I was trying to give her a couple thousand dollars and I was like, hey, ma'am, do you want this couple thousand dollars? And she's like, she's like, that's not free. And I was like, no, it's free. Here, take it. And she's like, nothing in this world is free. And then she just keeps walking away and I'm just like, All right, you could have you might want to come back. Yeah, it's okay. She's going to watch the video and be like, oh my god, that was actually real. Like that was, that was actually free money, but whatever. Yeah. So, we definitely did struggle giving it away. You'd be surprised. We had a lot of people that said, no, I don't, I don't want it. So, but whatever.
I'm just can't even. I feel like if someone came up to me and was like, hey, I'd be like, you sure? And then I would just take it and go. I'd be like,
I said yes. That was the most common reaction. Uh, people are just, are you sure? Is this real? What's the catch? Like, what are we doing?
And what made you kind of obviously Mother's Day is a very important holiday, but with that coming up, like what, who really thought of the idea and why did you want to give away, you know, $50,000?
Yeah, so I mean, me and my team just kind of thought of it because we know, you know, this year's been really hard with COVID and just everyone losing their jobs and stuff. So we, we tried our best to focus on the, the frontline workers. Like we tried to go out to fire stations and give out for moms there. Uh, we did nurses at a local hospital. Um, really just tried to focus on those frontline workers that have been, you know, just killing it this year and really working hard for everyone. So.
When you sit back and kind of watch the video back, if you have, like, what do you kind of think of yourself when you're watching it because that's a big deal for you to, like, just do that?
Yeah, no, I mean, it's awesome. It makes me feel really good. It makes me want to do it again and again and again. I mean, the the feeling of helping someone just makes me really, really happy. It really does. I mean, that's, that's all we do not not only in this Mother's Day video, but all the videos we make, we help people, we make them happy. There's, you know, so many kids that send me messages, DMs, notes, whatever, where they're like, thank you for helping me get through school today. I had a terrible day and I watched your video and now I feel happy and I forget about my day. So, at the end of the day that that's really all we do is just create happiness, um, in other people. So.
Totally. And good you mentioned all that because we're going to get to that about your like fan, like you reacting to what some of your fans have said on your videos. But first, like aside from the, you know, huge Mother's Day giveaway. What, how often would you say, like, obviously your life is on camera, but how much of your life is not on camera? Like, do you have certain days that like they're you're recording or what what's the vibe behind the scenes?
Yeah, definitely. I mean, a lot of the stuff that's not on camera is obviously my personal life, you know, when I go to the gym or hang out with my friends or whatnot. Um, but a lot of the stuff when I'm working that's off camera would be, you know, the really long production meetings. The really long meetings with, you know, my marketing team, my merch team and everyone that I have to meet with on a weekly basis just to make sure uh, the day-to-day operations are running because at the end of the day, we do film a lot of videos and there's a lot of thought that goes into each video. You might watch a video that's 15 minutes, um, but that video might have taken 32 hours to plan.
When the camera's off, what is your favorite thing to do? Would it be go to the gym or like what, what do you love to do?
Um, honestly, honestly, just like to have fun. Um, at the Island House, you know, riding the jet skis around, um, riding our little electric dirt bikes, um, just I I personally love adrenaline. So, to being, um, you know, riding dirt bikes, anything that has high adrenaline, I'm all about it. So that's what I'm doing when the camera's not rolling.
It's funny because like sometimes you do that all on camera. So it's like, you're really doing off camera what you're doing on camera.
Pretty much, yeah.
You're in Houston and have been in Houston, right? That's correct. Yes. Right now. Yep. Have you ever considered, you know, being that, you know, YouTuber that moves to LA, like, you're not going to leave Houston?
Honestly, I can't really justify the price and a good enough reason to move. Um, that and I've also built such a big team in Houston. You know, we have almost 30 employees and we have multiple offices, multiple filming locations. So, getting all that and moving everyone there is is very difficult. Relocating almost 30 people would be very expensive. And a lot of people would probably just quit because they're like, I don't want to move to California. Yeah, California's a lot different than Texas. So much, so much different. So, so much different. It would also be really, really hard to get the space that we have. I mean, so our Island House is awesome. It's, um, it's 10 acres, it's a house surrounded by water and it has a beach and all these crazy things. And yes, it was an expensive house, but to get something like that in California, I could not imagine. I mean, it probably $10, $20, $30 million.
Well, you are definitely definitely killing it in Houston, so it doesn't really matter, but I just wanted to know if you were ever would consider coming to LA, but.
Yeah. I would love to get like a, you know, a condo or an apartment and maybe visit often because we do collab with a lot of people that are in LA. So. Yeah. That that would be nice, but.
Well, Steven Sher, um, we did a thing with him. We did, because you did a video with him recently, right? Like a couple days ago it dropped.
Oh, yeah, yeah. It wasn't too. Yeah, he was down here probably about a month ago, I want to say.
Oh, got you. Yeah, so we, uh, talked to him and then Team Rar. Have you ever collabed with them?
Yeah, yeah, a couple times. Yeah. We did a house tour.
Have you been to their house tour or house in LA?
I have. Yeah, their house is insane. Yeah, that one, that one's a nice house. Doesn't have an, it doesn't have a mode around it, but it's pretty cool.
You're like, we have a one up, but it's fine. It's totally fine.
Yeah. I feel like, I mean, I feel like I really have one up to a lot of YouTubers in their houses. You have an Island House, so yeah. It's yeah, it's not the most expensive house. A lot of people are like, yo, did you pay $10 million for this house? I was like, no, not not even close. Like. A lot of people that have asked me, um, not only random people, but also other YouTubers are like, yo, is it a pool? Like, I was like, no. No, that would be to make it a pool. It's it's a pond. There's, you know, we have bats, there's catfish in there, there's turtles, a lot of wildlife, so. But.
Okay, so the reactions. I'm going to read off some of the comments that you have gotten on your videos. They're not bad or anything. And basically, just react to them.
Because I don't you might have seen like one of them, liked one of them, but other, I don't think you've seen them. So, you ready?
Okay, go for it.
Yeah, there's there's definitely a lot of them. Okay, so, Not Unicorn, that's the handle, Not Unicorn said, like Nathan, dot, dot, hit it again. Why not? Normal people just go around it. So basically, in the premise of like, you just go for it and normal people don't do what you do.
Um, yeah. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, I could say that. Yeah.
Do you think that's probably why you're successful?
I think so. I mean, I've done a lot of things that have just been a dream to me as a child, you know, like I would always build a Lego house, you know, in my bedroom. Yeah. And, you know, as a kid, you always dream bigger. What if I build a real life-size Lego house? And that's what I did. That's what I did. So.
That's so funny. Okay, Aiden 06 said, funny and amazing. That's it. for that.
Yep. I mean, funny and amazing. Thanks, Aiden.
Funny and amazing. Lacey Tib said, this one's emotional, so. Uh, you saved me. By the time I found your YouTube channel, I was going through a really bad stage of depression where I wanted to run away and never come back. But then I found your channel and I owe you everything. Thank you. So, that's kind of what you were saying earlier. Like, how do you feel when you read those?
That's awesome. That makes me wake up every day and want to film videos because knowing that not only her not only that she's out there struggling and she can literally just watch my video online and feel like that, but not only her, but there's thousands if not tens of thousands of other people that feel the same way. So, I'm I feel like I'm honestly like a like just a really great teacher or or something that people maybe a mentor, I guess you could say, that people look up to.
Yeah, I was going to say, probably like a mentor because people are literally looking up to you because yes, that was one comment I grabbed, but like reading through, you're right, you do get a lot of those comments about people saying like, oh my god, like, you saved my day or like my life was terrible until I found your channel. And it's just like, obviously you're really having an impact, which is sick.
Mmm, mmm, for sure.
Um, and then one more funny one, WV Gamer Dude said, Nathan, he's quoting you. Oh, this one's only 500 bucks, so, you know, it's not too expensive. Everybody else, not too expensive, question mark.
Well, I mean, if you compare it to the other stuff that we find, it's not too expensive. But yes, $500 will always be $500. Um, but if we're doing a video where the $500 item is the cheapest item, sometimes not expensive if it's the cheapest. But it is in that video. So.
I forget what exact video it was, but that was like probably all of the comments and I was like, I'll just pull one because they're all about like quoting you on that. They don't get mad. Like they think it's hilarious, you know. So it's funny. Well, cool. Well, thank you for everything you're doing for moms, really.
Yeah, not a problem.
You're doing the most and uh, yeah. We really want to do a Father's Day one too. So.
That's June, right?
Yeah. Well, you're going to have to do it. Got to find some male nurses and cool dads.
Yeah, yeah. I just want to do like over the top things for dads like buy a dad a tractor or just something like ridiculous. Like, I don't know. Yeah. Well, we'll see.
Give them a whole house. Pay, pay the one woman's rent, get get the dad the house. Like.
Yeah, or like build like a crazy man cave for a dad or something like that. That would be perfect. Literally make his whole entire life.
Well, keep killing it. Keep changing kids' lives, people's lives, teens' lives, everybody's lives.
Awesome. Thank you so much.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Nathan Graham
The YouTuber 'Unspeakable' who is the subject of the interview.
- Jolie
The interviewer from Young Hollywood.
- Steven Sher
Collaborated with Unspeakable on a video.
- Team Rar
Collaborated with Unspeakable on a house tour video.




