Hey joe show biography

Screaming fans welcome the members of the Hey Joe Show during a stop on their Philippines tour earlier this year. Davis Blount. LDS missionaries often return to their missions to visit converts, wards and families. But few return to visit tens of thousands of screaming fans. These men created the Hey Joe Show , a group that films anything from funny vines to music videos.

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They now have more than , likes on Facebook and 50, YouTube subscribers, with a combined YouTube and Facebook view count of more than 14 million. The five missionaries served in the Philippines Cebu Mission from —, then returned to school in Utah and kept in touch. Some, like Blount and Mingus, became roommates. The men speak Bisaya, a dialect in the Visayan language family also known as Cebuano, and some native speakers say these BYU returned missionaries speak better than they do.

Hey Joe Show. Mingus and Mahaffey were missionary companions while Blount and Glines were also companions. Mingus and Maheffey began talking about ways to stay connected with the Philippines after returning home. Because of the reactions to how well these Americans spoke the language, the missionaries considered doing something out of the ordinary.

What started as a conversation about simply visiting the Philippines turned into an idea about making videos in the native language. When they got home from their missions, they began planning. Mahaffey said it then turned into a YouTube channel and series of videos. Peck, member of the Hey Joe Show, said the group didn't know exactly what would happen, but they knew they could at least make an impact.