We Became the Highest Paid Street Performers in Los Angeles

In this episode of How Cool, Rusty Featherstone and Will Donnellon take on Los Angeles to prove a point: Can social media influencers survive without TikTok? Their mission? Become the highest-paid street performers in LA—and prove their friend Will Angus dead wrong.

They seek out LA’s most successful performer, Pharaoh the Psychic, to learn what it really takes to make money performing on the streets. Rusty trains with America’s Got Talent clown Papayaso, while Willy meets up with a mime mentor from high school to perfect his silent act.

The duo takes their new talents to the Venice Beach Boardwalk, one of the most iconic street performance spots in the world. After a rough start (and some public embarrassment), they combine forces for a final act—one that might go down as the best street performance Venice has ever seen.