{"id":8172,"date":"2025-04-17T03:26:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T03:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/?p=8172"},"modified":"2025-04-17T03:38:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T03:38:05","slug":"vulture-logan-jake-paul-new-tv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/vulture-logan-jake-paul-new-tv-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul American Wants You to Know the Paul Brothers Work Really, Really Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Look, we\u2019re\u00a0polarizing<\/em>, man,\u201d Logan Paul says in reference to himself and his content creator, podcaster, and boxer brother Jake Paul on\u00a0Good Morning America<\/em><\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s either \u2018I\u2019m rocking with those guys, I see the hustle, I respect it,\u2019 or \u2018screw them.\u2019\u201d The Paul brothers know they\u2019re controversial: their new show,\u00a0Paul American<\/em>, hinges on the fact that the audience may change allegiances from Logan to Jake to Logan to Jake to Logan to no one at all over the course of each 40-something-minute episode.\u00a0Paul American<\/em>, and the Paul brothers\u2019 press tour around the show, doesn\u2019t really care about something as wimpy as feelings so much as they want the audience to know they work \u2014\u00a0hard<\/em>. Can you really hate two people with a good work ethic?<\/p>\n

The first few seconds of the series premiere features Jake hopping out of a big car and holding up his phone as an apology for being late. \u201cI\u2019m trading crypto!\u201d is his big excuse. As the Paul family tumbles out of the car like clowns do at the circus, Logic and Marshmello\u2019s song\u00a0\u201cEveryday\u201d<\/a> kicks in with the apt opening refrain \u201cI work hard every motherfuckin\u2019 day.\u201d What does \u201cwork\u201d consist of for these two guys, former Vine fixtures turned YouTubers turned fighters (professionally and against each other) turned podcasters turned reality-TV stars? That would be the net public good that is \u201ccontent.\u201d We watch them train, we watch them bicker, we watch them riff, and we watch them post. \u201cThose guys going out to L.A., we were like, \u2018Fuck, they\u2019re going to end up doing fucking porn because their shit didn\u2019t work out,\u2019 and all the worst things, but luckily they\u2019re just working hard,\u201d their dad, Greg, says of their Ohio exodus.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s tricky to know what the point of\u00a0Paul American<\/em>\u00a0is. For longtime fans of the Paul brothers, the show is yet another way to engage with them beyond watching their Instagram Reels or their fights or buying their merch. But there\u2019s a kind of artfulness to\u00a0Paul American<\/em>, a vague primer on the last decade or so of internet culture, that suggests it\u2019s hoping to bring in skeptics by showcasing the brothers\u2019 pain and gain. \u201cI\u2019d say he\u2019s a genius creator with one of the best work ethics in the world,\u201d Jake says about Logan when forced to compliment his brother during promo. They\u2019re trying to push the show as a culmination of effort as a form of legitimacy \u2014 these are two guys who work so hard they got to meet the president! \u2014 but it\u2019s the least interesting stuff on screen. Jake Paul telling Mike Tyson they have to fight because an ayahuasca journey showed him that happening? Well, that\u2019s closer to something resembling compelling television.\u00a0Paul American\u00a0<\/em>is at its best when it buys into its own mythology that this is an American fairytale.<\/p>\n

There are those moments, but mostly the show wants you to know that the Pauls have earned everything that\u2019s come their way. To hate them would be to deny their efforts, their strategies, their knowledge of the internet playing field. \u201cHaving your content be received by a lot of eyeballs is success,\u201d Logan says. Though they protest that they\u2019ve changed from the guys who once\u00a0filmed a dead body<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0had their house raided by the FBI<\/a>, the one thing that matters above everything else are those viewing metrics. The metrics mean more than hard-earned cash \u2014 the metrics\u00a0are<\/em>\u00a0the cash. Earning views and dollars is representative of all that this country stands for: that your job can be anything you want so long as you bully people into believing it is so.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s very dedicated,\u201d Jake\u2019s girlfriend, Jutta Leerdam, says when they\u2019re sitting around their kitchen table. There\u2019s a rare moment of silence that follows, as though the work that Jake\u2019s put in is worth holding dear, before the peanut gallery of random guys in the kitchen off to the side start booing. \u201cBoring!\u201d one of them yells. He\u2019s not wrong; this legitimacy ploy gets tedious. Work ethic is not what\u2019s wrong with the Paul brothers, and no one is denying the sheer number of years they\u2019ve dedicated to putting their lives online. But framing\u00a0Paul American<\/em>\u00a0as a retrospection on labor, with the boys and their family and their lackeys gassing them up over and over, just isn\u2019t that interesting. For that, they\u2019re going to have to work a little harder.<\/p>\n

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Look, we\u2019re\u00a0polarizing, man,\u201d Logan Paul says in reference to himself and his content creator, podcaster, and boxer brother Jake Paul on\u00a0Good Morning America. \u201cIt\u2019s either \u2018I\u2019m rocking with those guys, I see the hustle, I respect it,\u2019 or \u2018screw them.\u2019\u201d The Paul brothers know they\u2019re controversial: their new show,\u00a0Paul American, hinges on the fact that
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