The Story of Mad Scientist BBQ
They posted a few more videos until moving apartments in 2016. While the living space itself was an upgrade, they no longer had a spot outside to smoke meat and film videos like in their previous apartment building parking lot. That’s when a new friend named Rick with a nice backyard generously offered to both keep the smoker at his house and for them to continue filming videos.
After the wedding, Jeremy received several inquiries to cook for offices, retreats, Christmas parties, and other group gatherings. Erica and Jeremy were both working full time but said yes to every opportunity they could on the weekends. They also partnered with a local brewery called Pocock Brewing Co. who took a chance and allowed them to serve barbecue at the brewery two days before Christmas in 2017. This led to Jeremy serving at that brewery once a month, which in turn led to more business.
For the next two years when they weren’t serving barbecue on the weekends, they were filming videos for YouTube.
Sometimes serving barbecue for several weekends in a row would lead to large gaps between posting YouTube videos. But in March of 2020 when Los Angeles went into lockdown, they took advantage of the time at home together and filmed as many videos as they could, sometimes even posting twice a week. This consistency helped boost the growth on their channel.
Erica was pregnant, and after several weeks of being at home and no sign of the city returning to normal, they decided they would move back home to Kentucky. That summer Mad Scientist BBQ reached 100k subscribers on YouTube, their daughter was born, they moved to Kentucky, and they were able to go full time with filming YouTube videos. Today, Jeremy loves taking his viewers through the steps of making great barbecue and bringing them along in his experimentation. He and Erica are incredibly thankful for all who have supported them to be where they are today.
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