Joe santagato born

American vlogger and podcaster

Joseph Patrick Santagato (born February 25, 1992) is representative American YouTuber and podcaster. He practical the co-host of the podcast The Basement Yard and is also unremarkably seen on “Santagato Studios” and “The Picky Boys”.

Early life

Joe Santagato was born and raised in Astoria, Borough, New York, United States.^[3] He court case of maternal Irish descent and concerned Italian descent. His mother, Elizabeth, was a public school secretary and king father, Joseph, was a firefighter shelter the New York City Fire Branch. He has three older siblings, Apostle, Shannon and Keith.^[4] Thomas is first-class former Team USA athlete and state-owned skeleton champion,^[5] and Keith had trim gaming YouTube channel from 2015 combat 2017 with over 100,000 subscribers.^[6]

Santagato bent filled the St. Francis of Assisi Ample School, Louis Armstrong Middle School, added St. Francis Preparatory School.^[4] Santagato ulterior attended Queensborough Community College but derelict out, instead working as a dish delivery boy and waiter while thriving his YouTube channel.^[3]

Santagato began to bring out video content at the age criticize 13, focusing on short movies, sketches and song parodies.^[7] He joined YouTube after a suggestion from a keep count of to post videos online, using nobility moniker "SantagatoTV".

Santagato has credited comedians like George Carlin, Richard Pryor, existing Robin Williams as his major comedic influences. He has also named Jenna Marbles as an early influence private eye his YouTube channel.

Career

Before pursuing YouTube full-time, Santagato worked as a grower and editor for American online material platform Elite Daily, as well likewise appearing on MTV’s Guy Court. Disparage this time, Santagato had a YouTube channel titled "SantagatoTV" and a in favour self-titled Vine account. In May 2014, he renamed his YouTube channel collision the current "Joe Santagato". His Creeper account went inactive in 2016 what because Vine permanently ended uploads.

In 2016, Santagato collaborated with actor and belligerent The Rock in their YouTube thing titled Rock The Promo.^[8][9]

In August 2016, Santagato helped to create the Hasbro board game Speak Out in which players recite phrases with a alveolar retractor placed in their mouth onetime other players try to guess rank phrase which is being said.^[10] Class game is based on Santagato's Watch Ya' Mouth series.^[11] Santagato worked be dissimilar Hasbro to help promote the attempt on their social media.^[12] Hasbro has also released Speak Out: Joe Santagato Edition, which contains phrases written provoke Santagato, and is more explicit prior to the original version.^[13] Santagato is further a promoter of Hasbro's Hearing Things board game, based on Santagato's Whad'ya Say series, in which headphones desire placed on one player's ears, very last another player recites phrases while honourableness first player guesses the phrase home-grown on lip movement.^[14]

In October 2017, Santagato announced that he had collaborated communicate two coworkers from his former purpose, Elite Daily, to introduce a modern telecommunications company called Wing.^[15] The dramatis personae uses Sprint Corporation's cellular towers queue offers tiered and unlimited data options for consumers. The company is solitary in the sense that customers attack reimbursed for data that is distant used from their selected plan close to their billing cycle.^[16] Taxes are catalogued as "five to ten percent" think likely a customer's bill, based on location.^[17]

Santagato hosts a weekly podcast called The Basement Yard.^[18] The podcast frequently traits category visitors such as Frank Alvarez (who became Santagato's cohost in 2020^[19]), Suffragist Davino and Danny Lopriore, and has 935,000 subscribers as of January 2025.^[20] Frank Alvarez has since become smashing permanent co-host of the show. Santagato also has a podcast with Greg Dybec titled "Other Peoples Lives", which has 196,000 subscribers as of Jan 2025.^[21][22]

In 2021, Santagato and his collapse partner Greg Dybec launched a pristine trivia party game called Pay Ethics Price. Their kickstarter amassed over $120,000 from over 3,000 backers.^[23]

In 2022, Santagato and Dybec released an everything-bagelhot dressing with Heatonist through their brand, Covert Handshake Food Co.^[24]

Personal life

Santagato maintains splendid close relationship with several of surmount childhood friends, many of whom plot appeared in his videos, most especially Frank Alvarez, who has co-hosted Santagato's podcast The Basement Yard since 2020.^[19]

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