A year ago, today. Mhm. You were in the Young Hollywood studio. Do you remember coming? It was a year ago exactly today.

Today, which is weird.

That is weird. That is crazy. Do you wanna see a picture of yourself? Are you ready to see Josh Richards?

Oh, this is gonna be so, this is gonna be so embarrassing. I already know I look like a fool, but yeah, run it up.

Look at you.

Yeah. Wow. I, I, I'm the

That was before Josh Richards became, I feel like Josh Richards.

Yeah, that, that was before I became, yeah, that's definitely before I, like, you know, got comfortable. Yeah, for sure. Oh my God, that's so funny.

Well, congrats on literally everything that you've accomplished in one year.

Thank you, thank you so much.

This production company, how, how did you even get in contact with Mark Wahlberg?

Yeah, it was really all from a phone call. I mean, we knew someone that Mark worked with.

Um, did you wanna accomplish something like that? Or is this kind of new?

Um, I mean, this is definitely something that I've been interested in. I've been interested in movies and in this whole entertainment world, I mean, since I was pretty young. I did like my first musical play when I was in eighth grade. I did two independent films when I was 16 and then, uh, I just obviously continued to create my own content after that with social media. I always had this this urge and want to like make people laugh and to be that person in the center of the room. Everyone's eyes on them. I, I like being that center of attention and creating that content, so it just made sense.

Totally. And what's like one thing that, like, what's your morning, I guess, when you say ritual? Like, what's one thing that you do in the morning before you start your day?

Uh, one thing I do in the morning, uh, I mean, workout. That's a pretty, like, morning ritual. I can't really, I feel like my days aren't as productive without it, so it kinda puts me in a clear mind space, or mindset and then allows me to get into my, my day of sitting behind a desk.

So, who's the one person that you talk to most throughout the day? Something good happens, you tell them. Something bad happens, you tell them.

Um, I mean, I think it's, it's a little different, like, my, my closest business partner, I probably talk with every single day all the time, right? Like me and Michael Grubner are talking probably for hours every day. And, and, yeah. good and bad, right? If there's something going on at work or we just wanna share stuff outside of work too because we don't always just wanna be focusing on the work stuff. But, besides, besides Michael, it's probably, uh, Nessa and Jaden as well.

Mhm. And what's one thing because your life is blasted, we pretty much, like, people think they know everything about you, and we can see a lot, like, Google anything and it comes up. What's one thing that you will never talk about on the Internet?

Um, I think one thing, I don't know if it's one thing I'd never talk about because I kinda preach authenticity and being pretty upfront. I don't, like, privacy's definitely a, a thing that's important. I think when it comes to my actual like family, like my parents and my brother and my siblings, that's where I kinda draw the line of like bringing them to social media and trying to, or like having my family try to, like, come into social media for cloud. I just, I don't like that. It's always rubbed me the wrong way when I've seen like the whole parents capitalizing off their kid. I I don't, I don't know. It just, it just gives me that. So, like, that is what I kinda wanna stay away from on social media. That's where I draw the line.

And then at the end of the day, so, you're picturing Josh Richards five years from now. Where does he live? Who does he live with? What is his like professional title? What are you gonna, what are you gonna, what's your job title? Five years, Josh Richards.

Yeah, so, job title, I don't think I'm ever gonna be a person where you're gonna be able to place like one job title on me. Yeah. That's, that's just never gonna be me, right? I'm gonna always be an advisor at one place, and chief strategy officer over at another. And then I'm also an angel investor, but I'll also be creating content, I'll also be CEO of a production company. Like, I'm always gonna be someone that's doing multiple things, I think. Um, to, to where I wanna live, I mean, in five years, it's probably gonna depend a little bit on the job, so, I wanna get out of LA eventually, though. That's something I definitely do wanna get out of. Like, when I'm looking at a place to settle down, I'm thinking somewhere either in, I'm thinking like Texas. That's, that's the place for me. Like, I like, I'd wanna have a place in Texas, a place back home in Toronto, and that would be like, that'd be the dream.

Texas, I love it. So.

Yeah, I just, I just great vibes in Texas. I, I, one of my best friends and like my second family, uh, Sam Hurley. I don't know if you, if you know them, but Kristy, his mom, like, she's like a second mom. Hoodie, Hoodie Hurley's like my, my older brother. Sam's like my younger brother. So, when, when I've been down there with them or just like hanging out down there, they've always like made it kinda feel a lot more homey too. So, I think that's just why I love it so much. I, I definitely wanna be there.

Okay. So, this is the phone tour. So, it's gonna be a deep dive into your phone. So, you might, are you on your phone right now? Are you zooming from your phone?

Yeah, is that okay or is that bad?

Yeah, that's fine. Just do it off memory, what you think. I guess.

Okay, okay, okay.

But, if you have to reference, that's okay.

All right, all right, I'll try to remember. Should I should I have it? Yeah.

Okay, ready? Who was the last person that you Venmo'd?

Who was the last person I Venmo'd? The last person I Venmo'd would have been Nessa.

Do you remember what it was for and the amount?

Uh, yeah, it was like $300 and it was because I was, I was Uber Eats-ing something. I can't, like, say what it was, but it was like a, it was an Uber Eats of some sort.

For $300?

Yeah.

Okay. We just won't even question it anymore.

Yeah, we don't need to question. $300 Uber Eats, it's fine.

Okay, who do you have on Find My Friends?

Nobody. Actually, actually, no, wait. Wait, I have, I have one, I think I have one person's location for some reason. And it's just because like this is so that person, like, they just love to kinda, like, be sharing, I don't know, it's just like, Curtis Newbill, Curtis Newbill shared his location with me. We've been like friends forever. But, he just, I don't know why he likes it. He just likes to have his location shared with me. I think he's asked me to share mine with his. I don't know if I did or not, but I think that's like the one person.

Does anybody have your location or no?

Nah, I, I don't really, I don't really mess with that.

Okay. How do you have Dave, Dave Portnoy, saved in your phone? How, like, what's his contact?

It's, it's straight up just Dave Portnoy.

Any notes, anything?

Uh, nah. I mean, like, here's the thing. I just, I feel like when I first met him, I was like, I, I don't know if I'm like chill enough with him to put, to put like a cool, like, fly nickname, you know what I mean? Like, I was like, I don't know if we're, we're that tight yet. I don't know if we were like truly BFFs. So, but now, like, now that, now that we are, now that we're like just like tight, tight like this, I mean, I, I might be able to throw a little nickname in the contacts, maybe like add a little few emojis after them. Yeah. Yeah.

Personalize it a little bit. Uh, last text you remember sending to Nessa.

Last text I remember, um, it was, uh, can I use your car?

Nice.

Yep. Yeah, I had to, I had to go pick up my car today from her place, and her car was for some reason at my place, so we had to do like some like swap of like cars.

But, you swapped back because clearly there was like a whole

Yeah. I, I don't know what was going on, but I wanted my car back. I was done with her Tesla.

Uh, last selfie you took since you don't have your phone, what do you remember of your selfie?

Not a big selfie guy. Um, last, last picture I took was probably at Nessa and Jaden's song release party. Yeah. Um, and it, I mean, like, we took, it was a bunch, it was just a bunch of, like, uh, candid photos, I guess like whenever we were just, like, walking around doing whatever, there was a photographer there. So, those were pretty cool. Got some good shots.

All, all the boys watching the countdown and cheering on Nessa and Jaden. That's cute. Are you so for her and the song?

Yeah, of course. I mean, they both like absolutely killed it and, and to get to see the growth on the back end is so cool. Like, where the song starts and then them just like continuously going back to the studio, perfecting it, switching out such like little things too.

Like, what they freak out about, I'm just sitting there like, what? Right. Like, it's different. It's really. But, like, as, as you go down, like, you would be so surprised, like, I'll listen to it and then like always what I'll do is I'll, like, listen to the first release or the first, uh, demo they had of the song. Just to, like, see how much of it changed it's been since like the, the actual release. And every single time I'm like, wow, this is like a completely different song now. They could release the first one and it would be different than the one they actually released. Yep.

Yeah. Uh, name of two of your favorite playlists for music.

Uh, my favorite playlist, um, I have a favorite remix. It's called Big Booty Remix. Um, it's like Big Booty Remix number 17 or something. I, I don't remember the exact number, it might be number 19. But, fire, absolutely crazy. If you want to have the best music at a party or you want people to be like dancing, jumping around, going crazy at your party. It's a stream snap party. Yeah. It's like Big Booty Remix. Get it on. Um, but, and then I, and then I just have a, I just have a playlist called, I think it's just called, like, good vibes or something like super cheesy like that. Like, something real.

Vibe it.

It's like, yeah. Vibe it or something. And it's just like a bunch of like Chance the Rapper and, uh, a lot of like Polo G. I, I like J Cole a lot, so that's like kinda what's all in there. Yeah. Juice WRLD, of course.

Oh, of course. Last, last Google search. Who is the rapper? What's the last thing you Googled?

NBA scores. Gotta keep up with my basketball. Big Toronto Raptors guy, so was a little bit disappointed. They lost their last game, but hopefully.

Your hockey guys, too, right?

Yeah, yeah. I mean, Toronto Maple Leafs are definitely doing a lot better than the Toronto Raptors are this year, so that's a bonus. Um, but, yeah, I, I definitely like both.

And then, how many TikTok drafts do you have?

Uh, I, I think it's above, I know it's above 500. I know it's above 500 drafts, for sure. I think it's in between 500 and 1500 drafts.

We definitely asked you that a year ago because I remember because it was behind the TikTok segment and I I feel like you said the same thing. I think you're like, I have a ton of drafts.

Yeah, I, it was either back then, it's either I had like the same amount or I had like none. It was one of the two. I don't know. But, I'm not like a big pre-record, save it, I'm gonna plan to post this like seven weeks later. I'm a pretty like in the moment, I'm a film and post. What happens is, I'll end up having like these like fails or these like bloopers or like funny moments, right, that happened when we're recording and I'll draft those and then just like randomly over time if I can't get a video, I I'll go through my drafts and be like, is there anything funny or is there like some really old throwback video that would be good to post right now? Yeah. But, yeah, that's about it.

So, very much, Josh. A year later, look at us. Who would've thought? Doing big things. Congrats literally on everything that you're doing, too.

Yeah, thank you very much. Yeah, it's, it's been, it's been an awesome year.