James Pumphrey is Leaving Donut 

That part

Remember science garage.

@@hypershine6080😢yup

Those shows were ass.

@@hypershine6080that was literally the best thing donut did if Bart joined big time with Jobe and Jeremiah and kept it them three it would be the best channel ever

bow mowa paybeh

🤦

Wasn't getting to many hurspurs either

@@iamtimsson "Translate to English" lol

Pop up, up and down headliiights

Nolan and who? Jimmy is terrible and annoying

Nolan has the background, but he's better suited as the straight man sidekick to virtually everyone who left. Sad but true.

Yeah Nolan has no energy for being the main presenter, like someone above me said he's perfectly suited as a secondary, more chill guy.. If James leaves Donut it'll really turn into a soulless corporate trend center, instead of being the cool kid youtube channel it used to be. Sad

Justin and Nolan are both ok, but I don't think they'll stay

@@MidwestRider559 I think yea Justin & Nolan will be *the combo* going forward. Justin is the energetic, bombastic, "in your face" guy, and Nolan is the more straightfoward, laid back, drier sense of humor guy. Jimmy I think has failed as an experiment, because he's clearly been working there for a minute and has a rapport and meshes with the guys... but (so far) he doesn't have any *presence* except in vids he knows something about. Like the RMS video from yesterday where they brought back Bob Hall (the Miata designer). I get why they paired him with Jimmy since Jimmy *is* Donut's "Miata guy" - but Bob *carried* that episode. It's one thing to let the guest speak and showcase their expertise, but the episode yesterday, Jimmy had no purpose other than intro'ing the clips and describing what happened - but otherwise no input. And it's kinda like that in most vids he's "hosting", his co-host picks up most of the slack. I want to give him a shot, because it takes time for someone to get comfortable on-camera (Jobe & Jerry both had experience beforehand), so maybe he'll develop a bit - but so far he's been a non-entity in most of the videos he's been headlining. I think that's also why you have Angelina, Sandro, and Steph headlining vids on RMS now. They needed additional hosts with technical knowledge/backgrounds for those vids, and thankfully all of them are pretty camera-savvy as well. (I still think seeing Sandro paired with Paul one day would be hilarious)

Except for the part where one of them got (rightfully) fired for assaulting a coworker. But yeah.

@@handcoding Did he (them) though? The BBC simply didn't renew Clarksons contract and the other two didn't renew theirs. And the BBC actually paid some part(Some or all) of the settlement .

​@@handcoding From what I heard, the producer that got punched was a righteous prick tbh

​@@handcoding Clarkson's hater detected. Opinion dejected.

@@handcoding and even the then CEO of BBC accepted that the punishment was exaggerated, and a decision he will regret the rest of his life.

FR. "He said" and then just repeating stuff. I guess this is like most podcasts that just read Wikipedia to people for money.

Cool man, I couldn’t tell when it showed AutoTea right on the screen when they showed him.

@@TheBajamin​​⁠​⁠oh cool! i was only listening and then didn’t find it in the description after

You mean Speeed.

They have cars in the UK?

Nolan would be the only one left at that point, as far as I’m concerned.

@@CarlYota Don't get me wrong, Nolan is cool. But to me he's not on the podium.

Donut is dead. RIP.

Absolutely

Donut dug their hole now they get to lay in it

no no... dude they already at 1m subs bro...

@@iamtimsson yeah - that too!

They actually put out a video at the same time as donut and their video has double the views compared to donut.

#4 on trending right now

compare the views of that video to the last donut video LOL

To be fair, they didn't sell out. Donut was owned by private equity before any of them came on board.

Moral of the story here is for the suits: Don't bite the hand that feeds you. And if you think you were feeding the creators with salaries you will find out who fed who when there's no one to make content, no viewers, and no money.

Most suits always forget that they should work for the people doing the job. And not the other way around, because that is when all the corporate shit begins.

Donut was acquired by private entity almost 3 years ago, in november 2021. Looking at other YT acquisitions, they came out of it pretty alright, maintaining viewership and expanding.

@@drugs4sal3 its not the channel people follow often its the chemistry the hosts have, topgear etc the viewers get to like the presentors and that makes it cool replace them and the vibe be gone and people stop watching

Science garage

Science garage is what got me watching. And im too lazy to unsubscribe.

I enjoyed the bumper to bumper as well.

Money pit was awesome

Don't forget my boy Bart and Science Garage !

I think few people will understand how right you are. I’ve seen this exact thing in the finance world for the two decades I’ve been here. It never occurred to me that kind of thing crosses into the RU-vid world.

Yup working in commercial insurance can confirm, PE and investors are a plague on the earth and only out for themselves and will fuck everyone possible for a buck. This perspective is from the real estate side of things. These types of people and companies are literally ruining the world for their own benefit.

​​@@Blu.86-te1prit's happening in every single industry, real estate, media/news, education, food, grocery and on and on and on. Pick an industry and you will find investments, private equity and corporate consolidation have infected it.

Well that is exactly what Kmart/Sears did too. They bought out so many different companies just to take 1 or 2 products or ideas from them and then just disbanded the rest.

As an ex IT security's professional for residential equity firm. I salute you Mr legal.

Actually made me sad reading that 😭💀😭

Or "Pop up, up and down headlights!"

It’ll be supa powa baby!

No powa baby 😢

I think at some point they told him to stop saying that. Remember a video a while back were he could have said it and they skirted around it.

They are dicey throughout the fifty states. Companies frown on violating them but it’s hard to demand the behavior of a human being when you no longer pay them to behave a certain way.

Fun fact: As of April 2024 most noncompetes are banned on a federal level.

@@dillonh321 fun fact, the SCOTUS decision yesterday (about fed agency authority/rule making) will probably get the FTC ruling from the Spring challenged and defeated. Unfortunate, but it's been one of the primary cited examples alongside this SCOTUS ruling.

That's not entirely true, non-competes as to individuals aren't valid in CA, so as an example, Donut couldn't stop an former employee from joining up with Hagerty or Smoking Tire to pursue a similar role that they had at Donut. However, clauses that prevent the creation of an entity as a direct competitor could still be valid, usually in conjunction to how many trade secrets were utilized in the process.

A lot of places does not all non-compete clauses

I thought maybe he wasn’t a real guy and just an actor because he seemed like such a douche, that I thought he can’t be real… I now think I was wrong and that guy is running Donut into the ground.

Its satire. He was "the bad guy with a Tesla". You're not supposed to actually believe it lol

And James driving a fucking G-Wagon. I knew something was up when I saw that. Then the massive amount of money thrown at his personal E30 build. He came into a shit ton of money and was using the channel's pull to get his shit built fast as he was running out the door.

@@DeadnCold interesting observation, i didnt even look at it that way but that seems more than 100% possible

@@DeadnCold that E30 build was wild, proper eye watering stuff.

I agree 100%

Amen

You work for Donut?

@@louiec.9782 nope, thank goodness. 😅

The brand caché is supremely diluted. The inside "jokes" and tropes do not hold the same weight anymore. We know change is coming, the answers that are looming all pertain to "what" the formative hires will do or establish moving forward. I'm here for it though.

Yessssss I thought he looked like he was super stressed out. We all know that look in the mirror and it was all too familiar.

Without them Donut isn’t Donut.

James wasn't really a car guy, so how was he anyone's favorite?

​@workingguy6666 people like his energy and ability to present. Doesnt need to be a car guy to do that..

@@ryanvandoren1519 I avoided most of the videos with him in them for reasons I'm sure others did as well. People who are out of touch with a given subject should not be followed nor listened to for that subject.

@@workingguy6666 he's a car guy, but he's not the kind of car guy that Jobe and Jeremiah are. He likes driving cars and having them but doesn't really know how to wrench besides the occasional oil change. Ill be honest. I was kinda jelous of his VW Jetta Mk5.

They buy a channel basically, squize out as money as possible. They dont care about the history of the channel, why it become popular at the first time. And while they squizing out money they eventually destroy the bought channel.

I can swear there are two moments in their big rig video where he is in the background facing away. I can’t be convinced otherwise! 😂

MO POWER BABY!!

@@KevinStull drop the time stamps

Yeah he is just kind of "present " isn't he.

@@Brass_Heathennolan was more enthusiastic years ago he’s gotten kinda bland lately the entire donut channel feels off

I was just thinking how much it has sucked lately lol.

Yeah James was annoying on the podcasts.

Iconic James 🤘😎

Facts

I MADE THIS COMMENT BEFORE THE END OF THE VIDEO 👀

I've read accounts of people who worked with donut in their videos that James is just playing a persona on screen, which he does well considering he's an actor, but irl he's completely different and more cold and aloof not as bubbly as he is in the videos

@@monkerulz A lot of entertainers are like that. Freddie Mercury was very introverted off-stage. Putting on a performance is a way for them to be confident in a controlled environment.

I’m also in that boat. James is the reason I not only stopped watching Donut, but I had YT never ever recommend their channel in my feed again.

Donut died when Justin joined even before

It’s the angle of the camera 👍 Trust me, Gabe couldn’t sleep at night if it wasn’t straight.

Same here.

They literally said they were paid great and treated good, there problem was that they did not have creative freedom.

Is that why they've gained millions of subs since then?

Way to stick to your guns bro