Your Favorite Son Documentary
Clip from the 3rd act: The Interview
Event style: Documentary
Location: Conquistador Apartments, Casper
Important characters: KingCobraJFS, Mayor of Casper, YourFavoriteSon, Darfliny B
Summary: YouTuber YourFavoriteSon takes a train to Casper to interview and follow Josh over the course of a week, and at the end of the week secure an interview.
Event Genre: Documentary
Saga: The Puff Saga, The New Apartment Saga

The YourFavoriteSon Documentary (officially titled Empire of Dirt | A KingCobraJFS Documentary) is the third documentary that has been made about the notorious Casper YouTuber, KingCobraJFS. The first two documentaries—trappped's Gothic King Cobra and KingCobraJFS: Now it's a Party!—focused entirely on following Josh as he goes through his daily life, where as the YFS doc instead opts for a video essay presentation.

After the release of the documentary, Clint reached out to do a follow up interview with himself and Josh. The interview premiered on December 24, 2023 on YFS' YouTube channel.

YourFavoriteSon sets out to understand who is KingCobraJFS, why he, and many others, found themselves engaged by Josh and his content, what drives the fascination the viewers have with Josh. YFS takes a train into Casper to meet up with Josh and explore the city that he calls home in search of answers to these questions.

YFS goes over the backstory of Cobra, from the first YouTube videos put out under GothicKingCobra52 and early content from The Basement Age, the characters that would show up in his videos and streams, the food hacks and drink combos to the modern era and decline of his health in present day. YFS speaks with Homeboy Robbie, Eggy/Eggman, and Tar Man—some other prominent observers of the Cobraverse—to see what draws them to Josh and his content.

After unsuccessful attempts to contact Josh through phone calls and voicemails, YFS set out to visit Cobra directly and pitch the documentary idea in person. Upon arriving at his apartment, YFS went in alone with a peace offering of Marlboro NXTs and peach whiskey. Josh, initially standoffish, accepts the offer and agrees to hear him out. He pitches a week of activities ranging from boxing and hiking—which Josh did not want to do—to going to the arcade, bowling and doing a cooking video.

Having gained Cobra's trust and introducing the crew to Josh, they filmed a small house tour. YFS noted that the apartment is not as unkempt as some believe it is, and that Josh does in fact smell good (or at least doesn't smell bad). Josh is proud to show off his bearded dragon, Puff, to the crew and though it is only about a month after receiving Puff, Josh displays a surprising amount of thought to the care of his lizard including detailing a calcium routine to help with his bones, nails, and mitigate an issue that he suffers from regarding the scales on his tail.

Following a strong drink and a shot, Josh would played guitar and banjo for the crew. YFS profiled some of the decor in the apartment, including a collection of skull mugs, skulls, various fan creations and a half-eaten sub sandwich.

Josh agreed to go to a bar for some drinks; however, despite agreeing to a time, YFS was left waiting while Josh insisted that he still needed to take a shower and needed to let his nails dry. When Josh did step out of his apartment, he kept them waiting while he smoked a cigarette. While in the parking lot, Josh was tossing a large knife from one hand to another. At one point a car was forced to go around him and rather than stepping out of the way of the passing vehicle, he dared the car to hit him, remarking: “You had the perfect opportunity to run me over and I'd stab you in the throat.” During the car ride, YFS offered to take Cobra to a gym to try some boxing, inspired by Danny Brown’s idea of pitting Cobes and Cyraxx against each other in a match.

Upon arriving at the Horseshoe bar, Cobra played some pool and revealed that tonight was karaoke night. Josh insisted on doing only trick shots and repeatedly looped back to the missing tip of his pool cue—one of several topics he would hammer on throughout the night. Having some drinks in him, Josh got up and did a karaoke rendition of Hurt by Johnny Cash.