Tis the season. This is our last week of content for the year before I take a solid two weeks off and I’m reliving some of our best stuff that we put out this year on my way out the door. We’ve created well over 200 podcasts/videos this year, so I figure it’s only right to share with you guys what my favorite videos have been over the past 12 months. Yeah – unlike when I did the podcast episodes, this one’s completely subjective. We post a video on YouTube, Tik Tok, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, and it’s impossible to keep nice clean metrics on each one. So, there’s no way for me to determine exactly how many views a video got unless I scroll back through every social media post we’ve had over the last year and manually add it all up. I work hard, but I’m not interested in working that hard. Still, I have a general idea of what our most successful stuff is, so I paired that with some of my personal favorites, stuff I had the most fun making, to come up with this list. Also, forgive me, but I’m only going to embed a couple of videos on this page, and post links to the rest. Full disclosure, I learned a couple of years ago that the almighty search engines think your posts are pure trash if there are too many embeds in them. I like to make it as easy as possible for you guys to consume SoBros Network content, but I can’t piss off Google too much.
The Top 10 SoBros Network Videos of 2021
10. The SoBros Hot Minute: Gary Ashton vs. Mark Spain – link – I legitimately thought this was some of my best work in terms of both comedy and relevance to the folks of Nashville. It performed pretty well on socials, but not nearly as well as I felt it would after I wrote up the script and thought, “damn, this is gonna KILL!”
9. The MANSCAPED commercials – link – I had a lot of fun putting over the products from MANSCAPED this year, and the linked video about the Refined Cologne ended up being one of our most-viewed videos of the year. Credit to MANSCAPED for allowing me to cut loose, and of course, allow me to remind you guys that you can get 20% off your entire order and free shipping with the promo code ‘SOBROSTITANS20’ at MANSCAPED.com.
8. Ticklebits – I am going to peel back the curtain to SoBros Network a little bit and reveal that I am indeed Ticklebits. I know. Shocking. But, I can’t really talk about this character I’ve come up with without revealing my true identity. Anyway, I have a ton of fun with this running series. Whether or not the larger internet gives a shit, I’ll keep making these videos if for no one else than the SoBros team and me.
7. The 2021 SoBros Network Fall Beer Tasting – link – It’s always a ton of fun to get together with your friends, drink beer, crack jokes, and make some fun content. Shout out to Mt. Juliet Beer Co. for helping us to make this one happen.
6. Shayne Parker on Drinking Really Cool Beers – link – I won’t ever forget receiving the text from Brittany that we had lost Shayne earlier this year. I didn’t know Shayne well by any means, but I knew how much he meant to Brittany, Jesse, and the community in Nashville that he helped to build. I was frozen – it’s one of those helpless situations in which you know you can’t do anything, but you want so badly for your friends to stop hurting. I still feel it when I think about Shayne today. I was grateful to him for doing these couple of videos with Brittany and Jesse. He was a beacon of light – an electric factory in each one. I’m grateful for the opportunity to have run into Shayne by happenstance at the Nashville Flea Market back in the summer. I introduced myself, gave him a hearty fist bump, thanked him in person for his contributions to SoBros Network, told him I admired his work, and we agreed to have beers at his shop “one of these days.” With some people, you don’t have to know their entire life story to know that they’re a positive force in their community – Shayne radiated that energy, and I’m still kicking myself for not making it a priority to go get those shop beers with him. Sometimes, the best we can do to carry on a legacy of goodness is to simply pay it forward and be a force for good as a way to honor the memory of all of the loved ones we’ve lost along the way.
5. Brittany doing a beer review in the fucking ice and snow – I mean, come on….what a fucking soldier!
4. The Vick’s Flicks Podcast live for the Oscars – link – I know y’all aren’t going to go and clear almost eight hours of your time to watch these two livestreams, but I’m going to mention them anyway because I’m really proud of us for executing on these two livestreams just a few days removed from each other. Props to Brandon for opening up his home to do this, and for hopping on the line for nearly four hours to get it done. It was a ton of fun.
3. The Unofficial Titans Podcast live for the NFL Draft – link – Just days after setting a SoBros stream length record, we went and did it again with this one going almost five hours. I’d love to do this one again in 2022 and do it even bigger with special guests and the whole nine yards.
2. The Tik Tok leggings – link – It started out as a bet…Stan literally saying “bet you won’t”…and then it turned into complete strangers telling me I had a fat ass on the internet.
1. Drinking With…The Cell – It was probably the most ambitious livestream we’ve done yet, purely from a production standpoint, and seeing the whole thing come together was amazing. Steven put in a ton of work
Stoney Keeley is the Editor in Chief of The SoBros Network, and a Dogs Playing Poker on velvet connoisseur. He is a strong supporter of Team GSD, #BeBetter, and ‘Minds right, asses tight.’ “Big Natural” covers the Tennessee Titans, Nashville, Yankee Candle, and a whole wealth of nonsense. Follow on Twitter @StoneyKeeley.
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