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ENTERTAINMENT
Toast with Toates': behind the scenes
Sarah Lane — THE BATTALION
Jeff Toates, university studies sophomore, produces the YouTube
series "Toast with Toates."
Grade Mock, Battalion news reporter,
sat down with William “Jeff” Toates,
university studies sophomore, who
produces the YouTube series “Toast
with Toates,” which features Aggie
athletes. The series releases a new
episode every other Tuesday on Texas
A&M Athletics’ YouTube channel.
THE BATTALION: What got
you interested in starting this
series?
TOATES: The original idea was ba
sically to do a rapid-fire Q&A-type
interview that would literally just
take as long as toast was cooking
and actually have it real time. And
so that was kind of a unique idea,
both with the play on words with
my last name, and then using the
toaster as a timing element for
an interview, but then obviously
it's gotten a lot more than just
that and we've integrated some
sketch-type stuff along with just
the interview and obviously it
takes a lot longer than toast would
actually cook. It's something
we've had a lot of fun with and
it has really kind of evolved over
time. I'm a huge Aggie sports fan,
so that's before anything. I was
a huge fan of all these people, all
the athletes and sports, and so
getting the opportunity to do this
was really fun, something I enjoy
doing.
THE BATTALION: Do the
athletes know what's coming
when they agree to an inter
view?
TOATES: No, they don't. Most of
them have no idea what they got
themselves into, and so some
of our best stuff has been when
they think they're doing a serious
interview. It's probably 50 percent
scripted and then 50 percent re
acting to what they say and going
with that. A lot of the reactions
are pretty genuine, and we put
that in the episode. A lot of it is
just them being weirded out. All
the athletes have been really good
sports. They think it's funny.
THE BATTALION: What was
your favorite episode to film?
TOATES: That's tough. I really
enjoyed the Connor McQueen
one because he's hilarious and it
was really awkward and we were
at an ice rink and we filmed it in
October because we had to film
it during their bye-week, when
he had time, but I had to explain
to him that it was going to be
Christmas themed because it
was coming out in December, so
it was just a lot of fun. And then,
probably, the Drew Kaser one,
just because how that turned out.
All that happened with that, it was
a lot of fun.
THE BATTALION: Do you have a
YouTube inspiration?
TOATES: A lot of people have said
it's like "Between Two Ferns" ob
viously, so we definitely get some
inspiration for just general feel of
the show from that. In addition
to that, I would say the Comedy
Central show "Nathan For You,"
which a lot of people haven't
heard of, but it's a very awkward,
similar type of show.
THE BATTALION: Do people
recognize you from the videos?
TOATES: I've had a lot of people
be like, "You look familiar, like,
where is it from?" And then it's
conceited to be, like, "Oh, you
probably watch my series," so
I'm like, "I don't know, maybe we
had a class together." Generally
the only time people really come
up and talk to me is on Northgate,
that's when people are like, "Can
we take a picture?" And I'm like,
"You're going to regret this when
you're sober and you realize I'm
not famous." Random people tell
me that they like it on Twitter and
stuff like that and so I really enjoy
that.
THE BATTALION: What can we
expect in this upcoming semes
ter?
TOATES: I think we set a pretty
good precedent for this semes
ter with the Zumba and Logan
Nottebrok. We're trying to get as
crazy as possible, honestly. One
of the things you'll see is more
cross-sport integration, like an
athlete from one sport teaching
another athlete their sport, get
multiple athletes involved like
that. Get crazier places — like ice
rinks — where we're filming, stuff
like that. Just grow the show is
essentially our rriain goal and to
hit every sport we haven't yet,
because this is really the final
semester of the show and so by
the end of this, we want to have
done at least every sport once and
also to get Coach Sumlin. It's the
last semester and I really encour
age people to check it out if they
haven't seen it.
THE BATTALION: What is the
craziest thing you've done on
the show?
TOATES: My favorite non
interview segment we've done
has been the tennis pick-up lines
on campus with tennis player
Jackson Withrow. We make him
use tennis-related pick-up lines
on random people on campus,
and we filmed for like two hours,
probably, and it was hilarious. We
put the best minute and a half in
that video and it was funny and it
was a lot of fun to do and I really
like the way that one turned out.
So that was probably the craziest,
that was pretty weird and they
told us no more material like that.
THE BATTALION: If you could
have toast with any athlete,
from any time, who would it be
and why?
TOATES: Johnny Manziel, 100
percent. But more realistically
Coach Sumlin. I'd be scared to do
that but I feel like he's awesome
— I feel like he'd be really funny.
SHIP CONTINUED
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