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Ep. 253 - Michael Reeves "Fixed" Our Chair

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Ep. 253 - Michael Reeves "Fixed" Our Chair

The podcast team reflects on a controversial clip where they joked about "beating up" coworkers who watch anime with "drawn kids in it," specifically targeting Madoka Magica. While the intent was satirical and critical of anime fandom’s toxicity, the clip sparked intense backlash, including hate-filled, racist, and pedophilic comments from online users. The team acknowledges the mistake in their language but defends the satire as a critique of how fans use exclusion and taste-maxing to marginalize niche or inclusive shows. They argue that Madoka Magica, despite being labeled as "normy," is actually a deeply emotional and well-regarded series. The backlash reveals a broader cultural divide: mainstream anime fans now see deep, niche tastes as "uncool," while purists use such attacks to reinforce their own exclusivity. The episode highlights how online communities can spiral into toxicity, especially when fueled by prejudice. Ultimately, the team emphasizes that their goal was not to harm, but to expose hypocrisy and the absurdity of fan-driven hostility—especially toward marginalized or inclusive content. The incident underscores the complexity of anime fandom, where inclusivity, identity, and cultural evolution are constantly in tension.

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[MUSIC] >> You're lumped in, let's stop pretending you're not lumped in. >> No one has been like, everyone is fucking asshole except for the tall gay one. >> Somebody, that's what I thought somebody was. Somebody where I was like, Ludwig, Ludwig came in and said, I wouldn't do that. >> I wouldn't do that and there's clearly some, thank God Ludwig's reasonable in the room. It's just what I said, it's just what I said in the clip. They just think what I said is what you said. >> It's the biggest, it's the most disgusting Ludwig image-washing campaign of all time is this show. >> Can I talk or are you guys going to be mean to me? >> No, hold on, hold on. >> Let me take off my hello kitty sweater, I'm sorry. >> We started off on the wrong day. >> He got on the baseball game. >> I think it's a one-piece shirt, is that okay? >> I have my shirt on too. >> [LAUGH] >> And I hope I can be exempt from all of this nonsense. >> Everyone's exempt except me. >> Yeah, I just wanted to say that I'm not involved. >> Well, I got you guys yours too, so we can make sure everyone knows what we like. So, Aiden, this one's for you. This one says, I like what you like, and you put that one on. >> So I'm like, this one's perfect, this one's for you, this says, I heart having dementia. >> Okay, I don't think you like that. >> You weren't yourself, I don't think you knew what you were saying. >> And this one, this one's for Ludwig, Madoka Magic, but on the back, hashtag, I'd put bacon on that. >> No. >> And we're allies, we're all allies here at the Yard podcast of all anime. I think especially the ones where we have things to learn from young people. >> I want it to be clear, I want it to be clear that I think it was a mistake for us to fuck around on this comedy podcast platform. It was a mistake to speak the way that it was us, the way that all of us did. >> I'm the only one out here trying to fend the few who still watch anime, the persecuted crowd of weebs, preach. >> It's weird because in the clip, you're suspicious, see silent, but one voice comes through and says he wouldn't do that. >> I like that, and it's the voice of others that can speak for those that may not find the words in the moment. >> The Trotten, the working class, if they had jobs, which most of them, that just want to enjoy it except for one piece, which it's just that one I can't tolerate, unless you like it. [laughter] >> I like what you like. >> I think anime is awesome. >> Okay, crazy guy. >> He's more inclusive than you, you're kind of locked in on him. >> I'm joking, Madoka, Madoka. >> No fun, unless there's bacon in it, in which case, I'll get a little rout, put that shit on that. >> I'll get a little routy. >> For those of you listening who maybe weren't on your phone all weekend, like myself, or weren't on X, or weren't on X, see everything at, I go on X on my phone, you can call people on there, stop and call on people. >> I'll just erase the days without incident, counter, and go back on the phone. >> Okay, listen, four months ago, we did a bit where we were talking about how if someone worked with you at Little Seasers and they came up to you and said, "I only watch anime with drawn kids in it," and then we would say, "We're gonna beat the shit out of you, bro." And we'd go out and we'd go, "We're gonna beat the shit out of you, bro." >> Look at the shirt. [laughter] >> He loves having the adventure. >> And we're gonna go out to Little Seasers of the dumpster and we're gonna beat the shit out of you. >> In the clip, I bring up a counter example, which is Madoka Magica, which if you don't know, it's like a really, really good show that has girls in it. >> It's a bit of love it, show. >> If you look at the cover, you're like, "This show is kind of suck." >> And then you watch it, and it's amazing. And so, yeah, you said you'd beat up your co-worker if they watched it. You said you'd kill them. >> Nick said that. >> Nick said that. >> Nick said that. >> But I'm the guy that looked like my wife as a boyfriend, so I had a really, really weird glasses in the clip. It didn't help you. >> Dude, I'm getting crucif, because it was an anime podcast, clipped that. And again, we said this four months ago on an episode, and it goes crazy on anime Twitter. And I'm getting crucified, because it's everyone gets to come together, because I think I would argue you have to take a stand at some points in your life. You have to put your foot down and stand up for what you believe in. >> They were gonna double down on this. >> And by, we, I mean, you guys, because I still love Madoka Magic. >> I have to watch it now. I couldn't, the shirt couldn't be more clear. You guys are really standing up for me, because I, dude, I got all of it. It was just like, it was like, I got to watch, like, it wasn't happening to me. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> Even though you were like, yeah, we're gonna kill you. >> I was like, dude, we're gonna kill you. >> You said that. >> They're like, no, no, no, no, no, this bald guy. >> Well, you were wearing glasses, like, you were in a bio-pick made about you. You know, so it's like, I looked so insane. >> Yeah. >> This is also, I arguably not that great of a look either, but it's like, at least I chose this one. The other one was the glasses for the fun of it, you know, but yeah, dude, and I'm just getting clobbered. >> I like the very, very, very, very beginning, the first tweet, the one we're talking about. They call us normies. Like this is what normies think about anime, because it paints just like beautiful picture that like, people who play video games think that like everyone else is a normie. And people who play, they watch anime, think that like people, even people who play video games are normies. >> It's anyone who's not them and their friends. >> Yeah. There are so many levels I've learned because it wasn't, it wasn't, okay. Here's the breakdown of people that were pissed. I think mostly it was regular people that watch anime where I am saying this like tired bit that they've heard at some point in their life and it's annoying and they're like, this fucking guy, and he looks like a genuine cuckold. >> It's party time, right? >> Yeah. >> I think that's actually fair. And that's what the internet is for, is to dunk on guys like me in that moment. >> Yeah. >> As clipped, right, by this account. But you know what? I wish that this would have gone crazy at the time of the episode. Do you know why? >> Why? >> Because you know what happened and why we were talking about it at that point in time. >> Okay. >> That look hearty shit. >> Oh. >> Oh. >> Yeah. >> A lookari was a guy. >> Right. >> It was that long ago. >> A lookari was a guy who was obsessed with anime, with kids in it. And he talked about it all the time and he joked about it all the time. And then it turned out that he was looking at that shit. >> Uh-oh. >> He was looking at that shit. So the next week I'm on a podcast being like, you know what? And so the breakdown of the people that are upset, it's like all these regular people that I think is totally fair. But then there's the, the lookari. >> There's some genuine pedophiles in that lookari discord, obviously not a majority. But there were some people who were like, if it's drawn, it's not a problem. >> The people that replied to me that were interested in seeking out me and replying to me specifically would one reply with like the hardest slurs that science has available. >> Mm-hm. >> And you're like, oh, that's crazy. Okay. >> And you clicked on it. >> Cutting it. >> That one has a Zeta. >> You clicked on it. And it's white nationalism and/or just an endless scroll of drawn kiss. >> And a file detected. >> So I forgot. >> I forgot. >> This is Michael got my share back. >> Put the coin in. >> Put the coin in, buddy. >> Michael got me a chair. >> Oh, man. Sorry. There's a lot of noise. It happens. I'm talking garages. It's definitely. >> It's 25 cents. >> Sorry. Hold on. >> I've got five minutes until that happens again. >> Yeah. >> I don't have to re-up it. >> I remember hearing about this because your chair broke because you're fat as fuck. Okay. You should be shot by anime nerds and you just like whatever's going on. >> Huh? >> Just to clarify you like whatever's going on. >> Yeah. It's like whatever they like. >> I'm gonna just re-up just in case. >> Yeah, put some coin in here. >> So the chair broke. >> The chair broke. >> The chair broke. >> The chair broke because Nick's fat ass. And he asked Michael to fix it. And Michael in his attempt to fix it. He'd weld it back but attach a giant speaker that's his pedophile detective if you don't pay the machine. >> Oops. >> Oops. >> Yeah. >> And there was good timing on that. >> And he specifically put a box on the machine with a key that only he has, but I can't even open it. >> Well, obviously he's trying to get. >> I can't even just say that. >> Wait, were you trying to get the key down? >> I wonder man. >> You want-- >> He's in ball plays. Free pinball plays for Nick. >> He just fixed it. Because otherwise he fixed it for free. >> Yes. >> And he's gonna come and he's gonna collect his vending machine every week. >> Yeah. >> It's like arcade operators. >> He's gonna make it difficult to immortal combat to make the enemies harder. You make it so it's one minute instead of five. >> Dude, he's getting passive income. He's at his high school reunion getting paid. You're here being a posting on a podcast. >> He's at his high school reunion. >> Problematic podcast. >> Yeah. >> That's awesome. >> Dude, by the way, Zipper, this got so big in anime circles. It actually hit Facebook, which is kind of a new. >> I did see a screenshot. >> Yeah. >> I found out about all this was I went on Twitter and on the trending tab. It said podcast getting like lit up for anime thing and I was like, what's that? It was me. This is also you. Streamers trashed Madoka fans, predators and got called tourists. This is an AI version of us and we're all disgusted. >> Wow. >> I just bought the photos real. - Yeah, dude, I look so different. - Yeah, when I look closer, that is not you at all. - Isn't that crazy? - That is a man's face melting on your head. - It kind of looks like I did a thing. - I kind of like this dynamic where this weekend I was gone. I went camping and then I came back on Sunday night and I opened X on my lap, yeah. And I just catch up on day's worth of replies, like I'm reading the New York Times. - This was bad, man. - I got clovered, I got clovered. - Not by the white nationalist guys, I think that's just, I think when you talk to them and they show, like, hey, this is who I'm fighting, it's actually kind of like, well, it validates it by them just existing. - Definitely, yeah, yeah, yeah. - But the other portion of the people that were really pissed at me were actually like, like, knowers, like taste, taste maxing knowers of anime. And they've heard this take, like, you know, since they started being this kind of person or whatever. And those are actually the people that I think I was most, I was just out of my depth, bro. They were just taste maxing all over me. - And they quit the bullshit. - They're so ironic and powerful. I just couldn't do it. - You're giving them too much credit, okay? - I know, as a verified weep here, as the defender of Madoka magic. - To date, they call you a tourist. - I don't give a fuck. - The thing about anime fans is that they used to be persecuted. They used to be losers, they used to be outcast. Nowadays, team liquid drops a fucking Naruto collab or whatever the hot new anime is that they want a collab with. - It's mainstream. And they miss the days of being persecuted. - They miss it. - They miss it. - Yeah, crazy. - Because it bonds, people binds them together. - It's no longer alt. - No, it's not alt. - Dude, when Ludwig drops a cowboy bebop collab, it's over. - Yeah, I guess it is fucking over. - They're cooked. And they miss the days of being underground. And so when there's something that they can rally together against, perhaps the richest publicly listed Patreon podcasts with the bald guy with creepy glasses. - Shitting on an inarguably amazing show. - It's kind of like a dream. - It's open season, yes, it's actually open. - It's farting online. - You keep saying this is things they've heard before. They've heard the shit in 10 fucking years, bro. And no one's going around shit on Anna. It's the biggest fucking medium. - Like it's huge. - Interesting perspective. - Yeah, you know what's really funny is when that clip came out earlier, or like when we said that shit last like four months ago, my girlfriend was like, "You know, my dog imagine was actually really good." - It's really good. - And I was like, "Really?" She's like, "Yeah, I'm like, "Oh, that's really great." - I would, I would, you know what? And I think you all had the homeworks time and having to watch it. - 'Cause it's not that long yet. - It's short. It's like 12 episodes I think. - I love more. (laughing) - I'm clear. - You've been in love with it. You haven't seen it. - That's awesome. You want to watch it together? - You haven't watched any magical girl anime's. - Dude, yes I have. I love that. I love Oran High School Host Club. High School of the Dead. - Do you think any of these are magical girl? - Yeah, they got girls in 'em. - Yeah, they got girls. - Ludwig, is there something to be said about the arms race of nicheness? And like if anime is no longer persecutable because it's Shoei Otani, Hello Kitty, and Ludwig Cowboy P. Bop exists. Not that Hello Kitty's anime, but then what then? - Do you think Hello Kitty's anime? - Yeah, right, I see, I'm so, I'm so on edge. - You're like, "Horror, tourists!" - Larvar suhour. - What then is the end game of this taste-maxing? - Well, yeah, I think now it is trying to differentiate, and that's the tourist conversation. It's trying to differentiate mainstream anime fans from die-hard anime fans and draw a line in the sand where, okay, yeah, you like my hero academia and attack on Titan, I like welcome to the NHK in Madoka Magica. - But that's still like, that's normy-slop to these guys. - No, no, no, there's no way this is normy-slop. I mean, Madoka Magica might be. - To these like level four people. - Yeah, but then you get so fucking, then you're a loser. It's like, you know what I mean? - It comes back the other way. - If you're so deep in it that you're like, "Yeah, I'm watching this esokai that no one's ever heard of." - I think. - Where it's like, "My keychain became a person." (laughing) "Yeah, then you're fucking loser again." It is what it's how it goes. - Yeah, okay, well, hey, let's uh, let's look at some highlights, huh? I have-- - These screenshots of highlights? - I just have, dude, some of these are so funny. It's, okay, this guy commented something insane. But then I just looked at what he said and it was the first thing he retweeted. It was an account called the Void of Void and it said, "The Irish are a race of survival "yet vengeful people, unforgiving and quick to violence. "They are not different to third worlders in my mind. "They would happily take themselves out "just to get one victory over their supposed enemy. "They're actually more about this in the Irish." - Oh, what a race of race. - This is like, if you're racing, see Irish, it's like competitive, like leaderboard races. - Yeah, I'm saying this is, it's almost like their anime tastes. - They've got the most niche races. - I cannot beat Void of Void. He's racing against Irish people. (laughing) - That's not funny. - That's not funny. - He's so good. - This one, this noodle-armed people-brained, I think he meant to say peto-brained, basement-dweller, thinking he is threatening a single person when a 14-year-old girl would lay him out on the pavement and then he put a gif of Hogwarts legacy. (laughing) - The Olivia Rodrigo debate. - Perhaps she would sleep you. - This one. - Slime machine is a confirmed pedophile rapist and a woman abuser. - His girlfriend now is a neo-nazi. - Wow. - News to me. - Wow. - News to all of us. - You see? - Not really. - I knew this. - Really. - I knew this. - Really? - And I've been against it. - Thank you, bro. - Well, I didn't like the she likes. - Well, you know. (laughing) - And I was thinking. - What do you want to do? - This I'd be thinking, if my girlfriend is a neo-nazi, but I hit her, is it not as bad as if she's not a neo-nazi. Now you can reply at home and then reply to two others in the comments. What's interesting is my DMs are open and I only ever got two. - Really? - Yeah. - I was very interested. - It was really surprised. It's really about-- - I mean, he wasn't tagged initially so it was just a lot of quote retweets, but I'm surprised there's only two. - They definitely found me. - Yeah, yeah. - And I tweeted about it because I can't put my fucking phone down and I don't think before he said anything. And so I got this one and he said, "Bitch made bald midget." That's a predator. (laughing) Okay, and I don't know if he said, "Bitch made bald midget." - That's a predator. I don't know if he's like a bar. - Like, like, bitch like God or your mother, like bitch made bald predator. Like someone made you? - No, no, you're a bitch made. - You're a bitch made. - No, yeah, sorry. - I was like, "The bitch made the bald midget." - It's so fun, there's so many pauses that we can find. And I was like, I'm 5'10", which is true. (laughing) And he said, "Done with you, obese baldie, be easy. See me when you in Atlanta. Don't touch any children on the way though." I said, "Bro, my BMI is 25." (laughing) And I said, "You can be mad at me all you want, "but not the parts that are physically provable. "You don't have to make anything up to hate me." And he said, "You're a bitch made, one word, love me." Talentless, eft slur, writing on neighbor coat tails. - Does me? - Am I the neighbor? - Yeah. - Oh yeah, yes, you are. (laughing) - Thank God we've sorted that one out. - And he said, "I ain't hating just the truth." And I said, "I feel like it is hating." - I said, "I feel like you're hating." - That's like this is actually Kendrick. - This is Barford Bar the Tyler one roast of me. (laughing) I think he literally said, "Bitch made, bitch ass, bum ass." - Yeah. - I'm not hating, I'm just saying. - That's what he said. - Yeah. - And then he's, and I said, "I feel like it is." He just said, "All right, do you." I said, "Okay, 10 minutes later." I'm like, "You know what, I can solve this." I said, "What's your favorite anime?" Mine is Blue Gender. He said, "Code gay ass." - He just replies, "Norally." - Yeah, I mean, it's a great show. (laughing) - Code GS. - And then he said, he talked about how anime changes life and I have to be a little more careful about what I say. He was actually very nice to me. - This is your second run in, by the way. - I felt like it, okay. - This is your second run in with the law, and for some reason you keep testing the law. - I'm not trying to test the law. This was fucking four months ago. - So you tested the law four months ago. - With the car and with the platform. - That's the thing about the law is they don't punish quickly, but they get you eventually. - The law comes for us all. And I'm just gonna say, hold back off on the law. Back off on the law. Because here's the deal. If you leave anime alone, they'll kill each other. - Yeah. - They do kill each other. - Okay, they're gonna find that O'Hara YouTuber and rip him limb by limb. - Okay, this brought them all together. - That's what I'm saying. - Even in this, they started em fighting, 'cause they started shitting on trash tastes. - Yeah. - They started ripping trash tastes to do more. - Of course, trash tastes is big business. - Dude, if you're a tapped in anime head, trash tastes probably the gayest thing you could ever watch. - But it was awesome. - When it was like fucking peak COVID in your 16, then you just became fucking bitter. - Sure. - Bitter 20. - And you start taste maxing. - And they start taste maxing. - I think that's actually the most interesting part of this is finding like some crazy fucking obscure six episode bullshit that you've never heard of. - I think that's the fun part. - Yeah. - I don't know if it's necessarily though it was finding like something that a nation no one's ever heard of. I think it's more so like what you rank in your top five. - But if your top five is beat, then you might as well kill yourself. - But I guess you need to be culturally literate to and have seen the things to be able, like you have to have seen Kayon to argue why Kayon's in or not in your top five, you know? - Sure. - Damn, bro. - I've been seen. - But here's what I'm saying. - I'm not a fan. - You say I had to run in with the law. I did everything. the book because if this went crazy at the time, I'm kind of absolved. Yeah, you would have been you would have been fine. Yeah. Maybe they waited. But I got no, I think like maybe they like got a discordant said, Hey, we got to attack this tweet a month. I think now he's got like a good defense. Dude, life's simple. It's like whoever posted that original thing got sent it and they're like, just crazy and then they posted it. Yeah. Actually, because I because I was talking to the guy because his his replies were filled with crazy shit. And I think an unfortunate thing about being an anime fan on the internet on X in particular is you just have to share the space with these people. Yeah. Cause they don't they get to be there now. And the guy's actually talking me back and forth. He's like, yeah, I have a friend that runs the account and they just post all the time. And it just yes, my he he was like my bad. And I was like, it's fine. It's totally fine. This is part of the game. It fine. I find it interesting. Cause I have this like sense of dread about the internet. I feel like I've been dealing with in the last couple of years, fueled by this like waves of criticism. You can find yourself in people like seemingly misunderstanding you, you being mad at like these people in my life and and feeling actual sadness about that and like how I live and work in that environment. And it and I saw this and I didn't feel any of it. It's just funny. You didn't feel any dread. No, no, no, like what did you say? No, it's because it's like, bro, it's fucking anime. It's okay. Well, first off, hold up. Anime save lives. But when I read someone say soy go I was out. Really? Yeah. Yeah. When they were calling me the raped soy. Like they fucking they kind of they make their own news. Like do you know what I mean? Right. They they they step they step up onto the platform. So put the rope around their neck. What pros send and I'm like and put it out for the all to see. I don't think we help ourselves. Okay. First of all, I said we shouldn't kill them explicitly in the clip. He did in the clip. Say we should. It's a great show. And I've just been defending it. And I hope you guys all watch. Yeah. That was he was nice to me after he said all that shit. He was like, bro, I hope you watch Madoka Magica. I'm really interested to hear what you think. You'll really like that's crazy. You're really like it. Okay. Sure. Um, but oh, do you call me the other word? Yeah. No, no, he called me the Eftler. He called it. I was the end word. Sorry. For colloquial colloquial colloquial. I was running his neighbor co-tails. Sorry. Don't point it out. We get a file detected. It's on. Thanks for fixing my chair. Do I have enough quarters for an episode? Yeah. You look like you had a big role there. It looks tight. It's going to be tough. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. You definitely don't have enough for tomorrow. It's not like $20. $10. $10 in court. It's one of the math. $10 in quarters is for each one's five minutes. 40. 40. That's 200 minutes. You're cleared. He's easy. I feel it up. Not even not even a couple quarters for the ride home. Look, I thought I would give them. I thought I'd give them this. Yeah. Just in case. Okay. If it wasn't, if it wasn't abundantly clear. Yeah. That I was on their side. What's going on me? I just want to apologize on behalf of the yard and say and and say if you need, if you need someone to pay, do what you must. Do what you must. No, no. Oh, my God. No. No. No. No, the edits. You're going to edit. You're going to look like you're going to look like boomers, Zuckerberg. It's a small jar. It's so weird about the cum. I'll edit it. You guys try to chill on him. Cheers on me, anime guys. It's the least I can do. Did you see that guy? One guy replied some shit and it was a picture of me from my liquid pedia and it said, this is slime, aka Anthony Bruno. He's a professional melee player and a 36 year old alcoholic. Yeah. And they're like describing. And someone replied to that guy. And they're like, you know, he's been sober for like a decade, right? And then the guy was like, Oh, I thought this was mango. Yeah. I saw that. And I was I was thinking through. I was like, is this, could you really get there? Did you really call them a professional? Well, I read it. I was like, it means like my Falco could never move like that. Who are these people? They're just mad. They're just mad and crazy. It's, it is what it is. It is what it is. But, uh, yeah. I think, oh, well, there's good news for you this weekend. It wasn't all bad. It wasn't all bad. What, bro? You did it. Did what? You're 10k. No, I didn't. Oh, you didn't wash the rank up game. I fell asleep. Ah, you hit carry by it. It's to me all the way to 13k 14. And you don't and you feel nothing about that. And I have to go through literally slur low and fight and fight and fight. Well, I will say and you never had to do what I had to do. I feel like you think what you're doing is unique to your rank. It isn't because Timmy right now is on a similar journey. He's trying to hit 30k. Let me just, let me just keep going. It'll get there. It'll be relatable. He's trying to get to 30k. Now, this is, this is part of his challenge like master seven FPS games. He's a hundred hours deep. He's been at 29k for about five days. And you might be like, how hard to get a wreck. Not that hard, but every game either slur low or I guess, slur high. Yeah, still slur low. It's slur low crazy style and cheaters crazy stuff. He said so many 13 oh games. Really? Yeah, just literally a cheater on either team and they play, they play out the game like, like, like board performers. But then there's you. I don't, I'm not crazy. And you think in the middle, I'm like in the field for a king. You are in the field for a king. You got dragged up to 14k and now you're plummeting by the way. And you just, and you sit there, but what I'm saying is 12. It's not going to be better at 12. It's not like you hit this 10k and then slur low goes away. It's so slow. It gets better. There's still gait off shitlers. And we talked about this yesterday or last week is that if gait off shitler is completely frying on Mirage, honestly, I'll mute up and let I'll let him work. It's gait off shit off. What I'm saying? It's rough. It's gait off shitler all the way down your anger's misplaced. You're mad at me because I don't have to go through the slums. It's still the slums. You're right. I'm, I'm just at a different part of the slum. You don't, but you don't even go to the slums. I'm like visiting the slums and shit. You got taken to like the cool part of the slums and you don't even engage with it. The slums and stuff though. I even played yesterday and I had two back-to-back cheaters. The first one was a spin botter. It was the last time you saw a spin botter. They made, they made a new area to get rid of the, the slums and it's called face it. And that helps some of the slums be removed. Straight up, if you play face it and your sub 10k elo, like what the fuck are you doing? Like, is that what the fuck are you doing? Is that not crazy? I think it's fine. It's fine. Yeah, it's fine. Why? It's just matchmaking, you know what I mean? Like, I don't know. Oh, you mean 10k premiere? Yeah. I thought, I don't know, you know. Everybody below level 10, what the fuck are you doing? No, that's like the highest level. Yeah. I'm just struggling, bro. I'm just trying, but I'm getting there because I, it's like league when I wanted to just solo kill and like show the true triumph of human experience and valor and courage. And it's, it's getting there. I like some good teammates. I like when you guys play, play together. Like up that Wednesday, that Wednesday stream. He don't want, he don't want me no more. I did. I refused to play with him yesterday because I was, I was so hot on the journey to rank up and he loves shotguns too much. You do love a shotgun. So it's the opposite of what you said. What you said was like, I can't get carried by the 11 Bob, but really it's, you don't want me dragged down by the 11 Bob dude. He could never carry me just to be clear. I think our win rate together is great. Our win rate together is great because we love each other very much. Maybe that's what it's about. I also think I do something every game that changes the whole ambience. Wow. I'll explain what he does. He as soon as the game loads in and everyone is up and attentive, he hits, push the talking goes, Hey, what's up? I'm Derek. And now Derek is in the game. Derek's good. And everyone goes, what's up? Derek. I'm clever. There was one guy who was so psyched that night. He just every call, every time you go to kill, he's like, nice job, Derek. I appreciate it. Derek, you're saying things. Yeah, it's great because then we calm. And then we have great energy because a lot of your games don't have great energy. Yeah. And, you know, I try to contribute to that positivity in ways. Why don't you try? Why don't you try? I don't say that. Why do you boot up the game? I say that. I say that in post game. Joy. Joy. That new game where you muted your whole team and everyone started playing better. And you're like, maybe this is the secret. I think you can bring out the best in people. I think so. I think you put in a lot of effort. I think I can. I think you're obligated. Derek is obligated when we play together because I'm usually getting frustrated. And if it's too frustrated, guys, then it's like, it's really bad. Like what are we doing? Sure. Honestly, if you were the one who was frustrated, I would try to be the Derek just by natural like balance. Yes. But, you know, you get the luxury of that. Derek just has so charm. There's a happy guy. He's a happy guy. He's got really good things going on. He's dark. He's dark twisted inside, though. - Really? - Yeah. - Does Derek, I haven't heard Derek let it out. - He watches dark twisted shows like Bleach and Naruto. - Derek. - Yes. - Derek, bro. - It's not fucking good for your brain, bro. - Very twisted shows that mess with the psyche. - But Derek's got a good side too. So how can he watch dark evil shit? - Watch his fucked up shit like Pokemon, but the second season. - When he gets all his dark thoughts out when he watches it. - He does, yeah. - He's fucking alive. That's how he's able to be cool Derek. - He also dances to me music. - Me. - Like Ronnie Redke. - Like me, like the Wii Shop, but me. - Yeah, and just like the me song. - Yeah. - Derek loves that song. - No. - Oh my god again. - Okay, we can't have guy who shows up late. Guy who sleeps in the pod. Guy who's misogynist. Like one of us has to change. - Don't wake him up. - Oh my god. - Oh my god. - Don't wake him up. - Don't wake him up. - Hey, wake him up. - Hey, wake him up. - Hey, wake him up. - No, don't wake him up. - I'm having a nightmare. - You just gotta wait it out. - Oh my god. - Hey, where am I? - We're having a nightmare. - You're having a podcast. - You're a podcast. - I know. It's basically hell, welcome to hell. - Oh. - Are you not sleeping at all? - Uh-oh. - What happened? - Milk. - Big time. - I think this could be happening for one of two reasons. - Big time, boys. - You got to fall asleep at home in your bed and in milk. - Mm-hmm. - Do you have a bed? - This smells like egg yolks. - You have a bed though maybe for the next point. - I don't know, I don't have a bed. - Oh god, it's a great transition because you should probably have a helix sleep bed if you're gonna have one. - What's that? - It's a mattress from helix sleep. They had 20 unique mattresses and they would take a sleep quiz. Which is a scary at all. - I do hate it. - The quizzes scare me, but I did the sleep quiz. It was fun and I found out I'm a midnight luxe enjoyer and now I sleep every night super well. - You promised the quiz is fun and it's not scary. - It's really scary. - It's scary at all. 'Cause you can't keep-- - Buh! - Oh my god. - Jesus Christ. - He's getting-- - He's getting that with different sleep zones for you or your gum are depending on what you each prefer. - And there's a 120 night sleep trial for it plus a limited life warranty. I don't know if you milk. You can give it back though, so maybe hold out. - It's a pretty good limited warranty. It might actually cover that. - Well, that's good because whoa, Nelly. - Yeah, it's like a half a cup down there. - Yeah, so that's awesome. Go to helix sleep.com/theyard for 20% off site wide. That's helix sleep.com/theyard for 20% off site wide. helix sleep.com/theyard. - Now get me a paper towel, boys. Let's get back to the episode. - It's just so gross. - Dude, I had this one guy in my game who was every time he got on the mic, he said something like he'd be like, "There's one top bid "and then you hear an op shot." And then he'd be like, "Well, there was one top." - Yup. - I'm like, "Okay, fire, yes sir." - He's like hitting me, like these awesome reddit lines. And we actually lose the game. And it's kind of a frustrating game and I'm mad. And I'm like, guys, we got to do something. That was terrible, that was terrible. You just wait for the bomb. And he's like, "Why are you so mad, Greene? "We got this, bro. "We have to believe in ourselves." And I'm like, "You're right, yes, you're right." 'Cause he says, "It's ultimate kindness." And afterwards we lose the game. I'm like, "Blue, go to lobby. "I want to interview you after. "Will you let me interview you?" And he's like, "Yeah, sure." He gets in a lobby and I told him to name five of his favorite things. It was like book, movie, TV show, website, and then freestyle around. And then he did it all. And they were really interesting. He's like a favorite movie. It's like Godzilla versus Mecha Godzilla, too. But, too, the second one. And I'm doing this on stream and chat is going crazy. You're like, "Dude, that's ball." Apparently it's like insane ball. The book he said was ball. Everything was ball. And I was like, "That's awesome, brother. "Have a great night." (laughs) And that's what you do it for. - Yeah, that's beautiful. - You do it for a show like that. - That's a beautiful man to play with. - But Derek, Derek is different. 'Cause you say, "Hey, what's up, I'm Derek." And Derek might fuck up the, you know, the easy cross and lose a 2v1. And then you're like, "That guy's name is Derek." And he can't play. - But Derek's got great energy. - Good energy. - But you've humanized him immediately by becoming Derek. - This is a Dr. K trick. This is the exact reason why you do it. That's why. - Really? - Yes. Dr. K literally said, "Go in and introduce yourself "when you're playing a game 'cause it humanizes you." And it's harder to be mean someone whose name you know. 'Cause they're a little more human. - Hey, what's up? Someone just post your address. - Yeah, they could say evil. - I, that would have me. - But in that universe, in that universe, even in this pretend universe, they're posting it 'cause they wouldn't be harder for them to confront it orally. Like, they would have to save some level of enemy. - And in my hypothetical, he's smart. - Is it, 'cause I do the, what's up guys? - Yeah, I go, "Yo." - Yeah. - I start hog calling at 'em. - Yeah, you know what the worst feeling is? Maybe it's just me. But what a worst counter-strike feeling is any game feeling. You get in the game, you go, "Yo." And someone just goes, "Someone just makes like a loud noise. "There's something annoying." Or something like that. And they're like, "Eh." Or whatever. And you're like, "Ah, it's guys who are annoying." - Yeah. - Yeah. - "Guys who don't calm who are annoying." - Yeah. - Damn it. You always lose that game. - You lose it every fucking time. - Dude, I will say one of the, I had a guy that just didn't talk the whole game except if it was a bomb clutch. Sorry, is it, for, by the way, Yelvin is here? And then, and then it goes, and he's doing that thing. It's like muffled screaming only when the bomb is down. And then, but finally, someone on our team hit this insane, like, 4v1 that just should have never happened. And he starts playing Kiss Me Through The Phone. - I saw that. See, that was the new game. We're here wanting to do this. And I'm like, he's a genius. - Yeah. - I don't even, in this moment, nothing else matters. - Yeah, he, he stomped out. He jumped down from heaven on the site. And it's just, nothing here should work. And then, mag seven to the guy's brain. - Kiss Me Through The Phone. - They beat you. - No, it was, was it not? - I think it's Me Through The Phone. It was, oh, I can't remember now. Also, by the way, low bobs. No one has used my song as their losing song. - Yeah, I still have to fucking use the fucking mod. - I'm not gonna, I haven't played much. - All I care if it's low, it does it 'cause you guys are out loud. You didn't want to do it. - That's true. - I'll do it happily. I just haven't played much. I actually opened the, I booted up the rift. I played a little lead. - Whoa! How many of you were watching it? - You didn't lighten back up? - Yeah, I have a-- - We fought so hard to get you off it, bud. - I have a Tyler All-Star's 1v1 tournament. - Oh, you're doing that? - Dude, what is cool? - You just, you just dual Tyler. He's your rival. - No, he like hosts it. - He's hosting it. - I will be doing him in Street Fighter, but I'm abstaining from Street Fighter because of Ingrid. - Yeah. - You're abstaining? - Yes. - You found your out. - Could we put in, wait, I love that you respect abstinence. - Yes. - I think that's awesome. And the fact that you stand for something. - Yes. - I, could we maybe practice a little more before we start the abstaining? - You've seen it after a little bit. - Do you know what Ingrid is? - Ingrid? - No, she sounds lovely. - She sounds lovely. - Right, let's talk less. - Is she like Madoka Magica? Then I love her. - Kind of. - She's a magical girl. - Okay, yeah. - Okay. - That's okay. - Sure. - So Ingrid's pretty fucking sick. - She sucks. - She sucks? - I hate her then. - I hate her. - Oh, I'm thinking Ingrid. - Does it sound like Madoka Magica at all? - Yeah, and the ladders filled with her. - Yeah, new character comes out that is a zoner that shits out damage and pretty tough. Oh, she has likes. She likes fish, sausages, and fruit parfays. - Fuck yeah. - Me too. - Don't worry. - We all hate each other. - It's boredom. - Wait, she's 5.86 pounds. - I think I saw the announcement trailer for this character and the animations looked really beautiful and cool. So how could she be annoying, Ludwig? - 'Cause she just fucking backs up and then shoots out lasers. - She's a zoner. - Tyler doesn't play this character. - I know. It plays a zoner to be fair. - The issue is not the fucking that Tyler in play is that it's all you get to play. - You're Ludwig, Ogren Gaming. You could get somebody to play the talk. - Why are you talking about a game you don't know about? Shut up. - I play Street Fighter all the time. - This is more of a mystery. - My drink was crazy. - Well, it was probably like when people hear me talk about baseball. It's like this is, when I talk about baseball. - When you talk about Street Fighter, it's like a second away. - Yes. - It's upsetting. - There's so many layers to this. - It's upsetting. - I've played more Street Fighter than you in my life. - That's crazy because how bad you are. - How bad? - I beat you the last time we played. - That is not true. - Did he beat you? - This just falls badly. - Yes, when we sat down on the side, oh wait, do we have a six? - We never played. - We never played. - We never played. - We never played Street Fighter. - We've never played. - But if we played your shit, we'll get broke. - When must we get broke? - Your shit will get wrong. - Are you gonna play a game? - You know what's funny? He's thinking of me. He beat me the last time we played. - I thought we played. - I thought I played both of you. - You kept me sat down in like a rotation. - I forgot how to tech through it in a long time game. - How long ago was this? - It was a year ago. - A year ago. - It was like right before slime started grinding. - I could beat him 10,000 times in a row now. It's just 10,000 is a lot. - It's a system thing. There's just no way. - Yeah, I agree. I think I could beat you 10,000 times in a row. - 10,000 times a row. - I couldn't, I couldn't beat you one and every two. Easy. - You won in every two. - Yeah, no problem. Oh, sorry, sorry. I meant two and every 10. - Okay, so 20% of the time. - I know how to hoodoke in. - I guess one in every five I should reduce. - Yeah, yeah, okay. One in five times you beat me in Street Fighter. I don't think so. - Easily. - By the way. - I don't think so. - Easily. - Would you like to, yeah, anytime. - Really? - Yeah, please play on stream. - No, can't. - I think. - Why? - What I was gonna say is why don't you just get a plebe to play Gile for you and practice against Gile? - How about you let me worry about my job and you worry about your job? I would argue that worrying about this specific thing is part of my job. - You should say, do you genuinely believe that? - Yes. - Do you genuinely believe that pushing me to practice Street Fighter's part of your job? - Yes, and I think if you think about it hard enough, you know why. - I don't. - I don't know why. - Do you wanna lay it out for him? Do you wanna lay it out for him? - Not on the shelf. - Oh. (laughing) - That's a little bit of a thing. - If I'm Aiden, right? And I own, and I own Mogul move basically. - I do, right. - I do, right. - This shit. - It's interesting. I made him sign a document last week. I told him, I told him it was for something that it wasn't for and he signed it and now I own it. - Yes. - He would do that. - Yes, yeah. - If Ludwig beat Tyler one and get so many more fan, sell so many more t-shirt, it'd make more money. So in a way, it's his job to invest in Ludwig's success because it's his job to move up the career ladder. - You're lasting in you. - You're like my jockey on my pure bread horse and I need you to win. - I'd rather be the horse. - Is there an angle to him being a sloppy, dopey loser that gets more money in some way? - And then he'd have to invest in his downfall. They're both different strategies. Aiden just seems to be going with the success strategy. - My goat, Cosmonaut Marcus, quote retweeted the announcement about your match and he said, what a waste. What a waste somebody who doesn't care about the game and I love my goat, but I need him to be proven wrong. - In this specific instance, I love you. - You can tell Cosmonaut Marcus that my e-honda is gonna show up. I'm dustin' off that motherfucker. - I don't think Marcus believes you and to be honest with you, the problem is, I don't really believe you right now. You're complainin' about English. - Dude, when I saw a brother-- - I wanna play a Kager's cream. - I saw Brian F. my goat and he is just, I'm watching a video about him talking about other shit and street fighter and someone asked him about this match and he's just like, a lot of ways he's gotta get on the game and he sounded like a disappointed father and I-- - He's just gotta get on the game. - I gotta league of it and then after that, I'm free. - When is the league of it? - June 9th. - Okay, when's Evo? - June 26th. - I got a couple weeks in between. - I got two weeks of Brackie. - That's chill. - I legitimately think that's enough time to overcome the strategy of Tyler Wondack. - I actually think playing slime is your best practice. - No. - I think so. - Well, I would be playing a guyle probably. But yeah, I guess you can go find someone but it's gonna be hard. He's a great skill level, specifically to play. - Sure. I'm very interested in also teaching Ludwig the system of the game, which I'm not sure if he knows. I don't know. I don't know anything. - Thank you. - I've never seen him play it. - Thank you, Hay and you, Grab. - You guys, up. - You just gotta be lucky. - Last time I played him. Grabs seemed to work pretty good. Grab, you jump in there. Have you jumped towards him and then Grab? - Works great. - It's funny as if you don't play a live service game that gets characters added. It's something, as a melee player, I never encountered, but with Tekken and Street Fighter, it was new where it's like someone comes out and they're a piece of shit and everyone's playing them. And it's actually a good point in the game's life to learn that because you're only playing against them so you get all the experience right up front. But it's a disgusting character. Much like Alex, Alex was also pretty disgusting and canonically fucked this cousin, and then Street Fighter retconned it. This is all true. - And why would they do that? - Why would they take that away from it? - Because of the pushback. - The pushback? - Why would people push back? - Well, it push back and they said, "I don't like that Alex had sex with a cousin and married his cousin and had a baby with a cousin." - People, I'm not wondering why they should I not-- - Should I not be why they wrote it that way in the first place? - A lot of people were. A lot of people were. - Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why is that a fucking problem to you guys? - Right, you're incest, guy. - Why can't I see myself in literature? - Do you think I look French? - No. Not a little bit. - Do I look French? - No. - No, also no. - What about now? - I don't know if you look French. What about that? What about that? It's not more French. She just looks like kind of like. Who looks the most French? Pick a soldier. What if this is my brother? And he's a miserable. - I think slime looks the. - Oh, it looks French as fuck. - Imagine the cigarette. - Right. Imagine the cigarette. My beautiful sister here always has her way. - Watching it walking around Perry with him, he looked fucking French as fuck. - I think. Is this the air? - No. There's a French people that look not the same. They're also more emaciated. - The cigarettes. - Are you starting to reflect on it? - No, what I said. Think about the podcast episode that got posted to Billy Billy, or this one that got posted late to anime fans. When this show hits French Twitter, it's gonna be a nuclear bomb. - Oh my god. - Yeah, what I realize is people don't. - If they could even understand a word we're saying. - No one likes you guys unless they like you. - Don't say you guys. - I'm always abstained. In the Chinese episode, I was abstained. In the Madoka Magica, I was abstained. - Dude, I. - You guys. Ludwig, Ludwig being respectful to the Iatola in the comment section of that episode lives in my mind rent-free. I think about it every week. Every week since it has happened. - It truly means that none of this. That means anything. Like words don't mean anything. If Ludwig, the Iatola respector exists on Billy Billy, - What do you guys even do this weekend? - Dude, I went to an estate sale and I fucking hustled. Aaron Paul. - Aaron Paul. - I hustled. - Aaron Paul's breaking bad. - Yes, I hustled him. - You went to his estate? - Well, we know from breaking bad. - Yes. - Aaron Paul. - Aaron Paul. - Did he. - This is why. - This is why. - Show him that clip. - I didn't see him. Dude, he loved it. - You do check out. Aaron, Aaron, check out this clip. - Jesse, Jesse. Look at my penis. - He's watching it and not laughing. - That's Nick, actually, my friend. - Jesse, my penises. Do you think it looks different than it used to? - I don't know. I gotta taste it. - I can't say. - Just taste it. - Oh, Mr. Wyatt, taste rancid. - Damn it, Jesse. It's because I spilled the carbonate on it. - Jesse, I have cancer. - Why? - Yeah, that's the guy hustle. - You and that guy? - How do you hustle Aaron Paul? - I'll also 2K off him. It was awesome. - You fucking. - What? - 2K! - I didn't steal. I said I hustled. - How? Do you see the squat rack? - Yes, sirs. - The squat rack here. - I saw this. - Did you see this? - Yes. - Did you see this? - No. - It's amazing. - So you know the old squat rack we had, it's the one that we had in the old house together. - Yeah, it was like a 100 dollar Amazon one. - Yes, and it was like a genuine liability. - Is she work fine? - She worked fine. Love what you came in. You'd always complain about her. - She was days from killing Christian and leading him paralyzed. - Yes. - And like the lion in that video. - This one we have now. - Oh shit. - And that's a PB extreme half rack, squat rack, 2700 MSRP. - That's a beautiful rack. - What's the foot on that? - It's actually pretty low though. It's like a.05. - Yeah, I'm gonna squat rack fade. - F. - F. - And. - Potton. - And because we went to Aaron Paul's state sale, 'cause QD likes to say so she's like, oh shit. - Okay, hold on, a state sale means someone died. - Nope. - Okay. - A state sale, a state sale, often means someone died. - Oh. - But you can also just like have in a state sale if you move and you're like eh. - Is it a yard sale for rich people? - Yes. - Yeah. - Okay. - A state sale is either someone died or a yard sale for rich people. And I think he's just moving to his other rich home. And he's selling his LA rich home. - Did he put fucking flyers up and shit? How'd you find out? - Yes, this was advertised heavily. But QD specifically is like, she likes to say so. She goes like every couple weekends and there's like a website she goes on and this was advertised on it. - I see. - And it's like, "Fucking Aaron Paul's fucking, they're ragging with it." Aaron Paul's a stay come through and usually a state sales you go, you get a little deal. You know, they like, they mark something down a little bit 'cause you know, it's used. - Yeah. - Yeah. - But because Aaron Paul, everything's marked above MSRP. - And this is the kind of shit. If he loses to Tyler one, this is kind of, if you make him into a dopey, drooling mule of a loser, and you turn it all around, you can make his shit marked up. This is your job. - But he dies, you're gonna be the one selling for the state. - If he loses to Tyler one. - But he can, but you have to plan for that. - You have to re-strategize quickly. - Oh. - And that's why we're gonna have a meeting after that. - Yeah, a meeting. - Marking, Dara, I say that's disgusting. - Well, yeah, so that there's like restoration hardware, fucking furniture, and there was like, if you look on the website, it's like more. And then like all of his clothes, I think just 'cause the allure of Aaron Paul's what they're banking on. And it was like low-key working 'cause the place was packed. - Was there people in breaking bad t-shirts? - No one was in breaking bad t-shirts going there. - Were people, were people, didn't they? - Isn't that tasteless? - I feel like people would do breaking bad fans. - No one was doing the voice that I heard. - There was one thing from the set. - Was it badger there? - Nope, nope. - Buh! - That's my favorite character. - From the set, they had like two big pillows. It looked like doors that would go to a truck. - Gustling. - And gustling, gustling. - Gustling, gustling. - My family bullet holes in it. - It wasn't for sale. - It's all doing a little shit. - No, shut the fuck up! - Yes, I understand. He's from Breaking Bad. Good reference, dude. Buh! - It's just it. - What about, what about, what about his, fine, I'll shake it up. What about his spacesuit from that episode of Black Hair? - Was that there? - No. - What about his headshots from the t-shirt website, PalmerCache.com. A lot of people don't know about that. - The only thing they had was his tequila brand, I think. - He's doing tequila. - I think like George Clooney that don't conjure me. - What is up with all the, like, even like Rob McCluney have like an alcohol. - Yeah, I think, I think, I don't know. - A Rob McFinger's name. - George Clooney made a few billion, and then a bunch of people started hopping in on the train. And I think he was like, hey, me and Brian Cranston started tequila. - We should make a whiskey. - Yeah, and Graham Steven did a coffee. - We'll drink a moonshine. - We're too late. - Let's make a fucked up moonshine that makes you blind if you drink it. - Yes, you too can do it. - What's big blind beer? - There's a great argument for you to do it. - Actually, you do making it and be like, we've never tasted it. - We've never tasted beer. - We just put a bunch of shit in it. - I used to drink it now, I never will again, for the rest of my life. - I feel like a drunk. - It smells pretty good. - Yeah, they had a bunch of merch from that tequila company and that no one wanted 'cause it was a lot. - And it was pretty, you know what I'm saying? - It's like two, it's like two fat white women. Like, I don't like Aaron Paul that much. (laughing) - That's like, I mean, what's funny, is that's the mental calculation that goes on in the head. They just don't say it out loud. - Yeah, do I like him? If I show this to someone at my house party, like this is what, this is Aaron Paul. - Aaron Paul, do they care? - Yeah, right. - What's the look in their eyes? - And the items that would get a yes, which were like, I don't know, posters or jewelry or like little things like that, we're selling, but the things that weren't selling were like furniture. Like, big shit. - Big shit. - Overpriced furniture specifically, 'cause like no one cares if you have a Aaron Paul couch, really. - I love estate sales as well, me and cutie twin. But every time I go, I kind of regret it a little bit. 'Cause it's a little sad. - And what's he's walking around and-- - Well, if someone died, yeah. - Going through almost always. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - The case. - And you're interested in-- - He's packing out the dead person's things. - This is my first one and he's not dead, so I didn't feel that way. - He's basically dead. You know? - Got it. - Well, it's breaking bad. Let's just be real, I'm breaking bad. - No, no, no, no, no. - I'll convince Kelly and you're in dude, right? Like, better call Saul doesn't really need Aaron Paul in it. - I'm gonna say. - Better call Saul's over. - Yeah, but if it renews, they don't need Aaron Paul back. - What would he do for you? - Most likely to renew of the bunch. - It's always not. - I mean, look, also Marvel's dead. He has no more super here. - Marvel's dead. - He works, bro. - He works. - Yeah. - He works. - Mm-hmm. - Yeah. - So he's dead. - So you're filing through Aaron Paul's things, looking for a Nazis pistol. - Yes. - And I cannot find one. And I'm like, well, then how am I supposed to kill slime to defend Madoka Magica? I'll guess I'll figure that out later. And so then I go in the garage. And the garage is like a gym that hasn't been used in a year. It is, everything is dusty. - Oh. - And, but the shit's really nice. Like, they have this beautiful squat rack. It's also for $3,000. And this is, we go day one. And I see this, and I'm like, 3K's absurd. - What was the MSNP on that? - 2700. - Oh, so you don't like that? - I looked at the exact squat rack. - Squat rack. - Right. - They marked it up 300 from what you would buy it. - Because Aaron Paul. - Because Aaron Paul, he put up 225. - Why'd you buy this? - Well, Nick, the story's not over. - Oh, sorry, okay. That's here. - We're ready to hear the end of the story now. - Well, if I cut you off in the story right now, it doesn't make any sense. - Yeah, yeah, that's so weird. - If I walk out of the movie early, I just didn't get it. I didn't get it. - Well, don't say that to Adam. - Yeah. - Or Josh, man, he walked out of Marty's Supreme. He thought it would be more ping pong in it. - Dude, Josh from 50 year old say. - Dude, that's, man, that's awesome, dude. - Yeah, that's crazy. - I told his girlfriend, I was like, you really walked the fuck out. Are you guys crazy? 'Cause they saw it together. I was like, are you guys crazy? She's like, I wanted to finish it. She's like, this is not on me. - If that's even crazier to walk out when your girlfriend wants to finish it, it'd be like, we're walking. - Cool, yeah. - We are walking. - I can't imagine even leaning over and being like, I want to leave. That's he did. - Hey, I want to leave. You want to leave. - I thought there'd be more ping pong. - Where's the ping pong? - What if he was in the third act? - He'll never know. - He'll never know. - So you're with Aaron Paul. - I'm with Aaron Paul, I know. He's saying, check out his pistol, and I'm like, I'm all right. I don't like it. I'm not so nervous. - Really on it. But I see the squat rack. But, but, but. - Mr. White, it's historical. (laughing) - Josh, you don't touch that. - You're losing prints on it. (laughing) - All right, go ahead. - They flipped. - Yeah. - 'Cause his jersey is amazing. And, my Mr. White isn't that good in the first place. - It's better than his. - He's been mine's bad, yeah. - So, I leave and I'll come back the next day 'cause I wanted to get cutie something. And, but I couldn't figure it out. But, I go back to the squat rack area and there's the squat rack and there's another machine. And, I'm like, I'm like, I'm trying to, I'm trying to hackle here. I'm trying to get a price. 'Cause, Christian told me the squat rack, he's trying to get. 'Cause we wanted a new one anyway. It was two to three K. I'm like, okay, maybe I can get a fucking deal here. So, I go to the lady. This is squat rack. 'Cause it's also like this, like chest press machine. I'm like, I'll do both for three K. - We have a chest press machine. Listen, bitch. All right. - Just listen. - Hey, listen. - Hey, listen. - Do you shut out every turn? - I want to be in this vault. - And she goes, she goes, three K. Let me check. Let's just make sure the owners don't kill me. I'm like, she comes back. She goes, cutie, four K. I'm like, can't. She goes, 3,500. I go, well, I get it. Girl, this is my budget. - I'm already walking away. This is my budget. - Bitch, I can't. And I would if I could. - And she goes, okay, both for three K. And then that's when the fucking plan starts. 'Cause I know this machine, it's huge. 'Cause it's a chest press, and it's also a leg press. It's like a combo machine. It's huge. It wouldn't fit. So, I go, I start, I call Christian on speaker. I go, Christian, he goes, I'm working out. I go, perfect. (laughing) Perfect. Listen, I got a, I got an eye on a big old chest press. You think it'll fit? And then she walks out while I'm talking. And he's like, no, obviously isn't gonna fit. I'm like, yeah, no worries. And I go, actually, I go, good news, bad news. Good news, I can get rid of it today. 'Cause she wanted it off the property that day. I was like, bad news can't get both. Can I just do the squat rack for a thousand? He goes, a thousand? Okay, let me check. She goes, he comes back. He goes, could you do any more? And I'm like, I have to pay for shipping. He's like, okay, yeah, that makes sense. And then I fucking, I walk out of there for a thousand off of the squat rack. That's not where it ends, dude. Because I didn't just get the squat rack. It was on there with the squat rack. They also had the barbell. They had a bunch of weights attached to it and a bunch of attachments. All those are like a hundred and pop. That's it. It's probably like an additional, I would say like six, maybe $800 of just attachments and weights. And we just walk out with all of it. So I could probably get MSRP 33, maybe 3500 spent, a thousand, 90 tax, 300 shipping. Like 2500, maybe 2000. Was Aaron Paul there? No, it wasn't fucking there. It wasn't even there. Why would he be there? I imagine you talking to Aaron Paul this whole time. That was the point of the story there. That he bought the whole story. Aaron Paul wasn't there. I'm lost in how you're bartering skills. I love it. It is amazing. And this call was important. Yeah, you played it a call. Yes. Also the two-for-one method. Did you prove Christian for the call? No, I didn't know. I know the two-for-one method. I've seen this. The two-for-one method is broken. Yeah. You say, I want two for a lower price, and then you cut one of the items, and then you go to lower price and then one of the one item. Then if you were to just ask for that one item. I've seen people do this on YouTube shorts where they go to a place, and they lump an item they secretly know is worth a lot, and an item that is cheap, and they lump them together for a price, and they take out the cheap item, but they take the price off the expensive one. Do you give me this for just like 400, then I don't want both. And the person doesn't know anything. He's just like, oh, I guess that makes sense. It's half clean. It's clean. It's clean. It's clean scam. Yeah. I'm watching Nick's chair look a bomb. Yeah. It is on its last dog. It's getting close. It's getting close. It is going to ring in about two minutes here. It's going to ring in about two minutes here. It had a timer on the side, yeah. Oh, I didn't, I can't see that. Every dog's five minutes, there's just the red dog. Yeah. Yeah. I felt good about it. Quaterer on deck. No, I think this is Aaron Paul's way to basically not deal with cleaning up his home and making a little bit of money. I just thought he'd be there. I don't know. It's so funny because it's like Aaron Paul's state sale and you think he'd like, do you fucking shake some hand? It makes me think about the way we moved out of a few houses. Like I could have just sold that vibrator I found in your room. Yeah. Just sold it. Yeah. I mean, yeah, for what? $10. I'm sorry. Guy, a guy who had to pick it up and toss it, can't make a joke on the way out. I said yes. I don't know what other response you'd like. It was funny. I picked it up with toilet paper like it was a dog poop. I was like, I was like, okay, you do picking it up with like one of the pooper scoopers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Jumping into the special, the special little trash can. Oh, dude, my childhood best friend was in town for the Mexico versus Australia soccer game. Any message. I was like, hey, I'm coming to town tomorrow with my whole family. I'm like, that's crazy. He's like, okay, let's get some food or something and he's, he's dude. I see him. I haven't seen him in years and he looks exactly the same and he's, uh, he's his wife and he has three kids and this Eric, and he's like, I'm telling you, what are you doing these days, bro? And he's like, well, I'm an assistant principal now at the school, at the high school and it's really hard and it's really stressful. And you know, I got the kids and they're growing up and it's like eight now. And he's, he's like, yeah, but we're making it happen and it's awesome. And he's telling me all this crazy shit and he's like, what did you do today? I'm like, it just literally couldn't be any more different. It's pretty much everything you didn't do. It was so, it was so funny to just sit and talk with my, my oldest best friend and tell him what my life was like today. And he's like, yeah, that's crazy. This is all crazy because he's like, he gets it, um, and he knows about the pod and stuff. And he's like, your old friends will always say, I don't watch it. And it's like, yeah, I know it's fine, it's fine, it's fine. It's fine. I understand. Uh, but yeah. And then I wouldn't. Yeah. But at the time, he'll like that's what I wouldn't watch it either. And, uh, yeah, we got pizza and shit and it's, it's so fucking crazy, bro. He's just an adult man with three kids and they're, they're great. One of them's a little ass baby and he's got big ass cheeks. They didn't inspire something in you where you're like, I can, I can get one of those fuckers. No, it didn't inspire me to like, have kids, but I felt very at home. It was a cool feeling. I just felt very, uh, complete, you know, in that way that like the hometown makes you feel except it was a person and his family, what did you do? What did Nick do? I've been told some stand with me. Oh, yeah. Like, dang, we did. We played a couple of slays by runs. I went to, I don't know. four AM, five AM sometimes we made all our girlfriends fight in Mario strikers when we yelled while they played. That was fun. Who's girl came out of my girlfriend versus Josh's girlfriend. Oh, I think yeah, wait. Well, it was it was in close matches. Okay, there was in close matches. Yeah, getting them to fight like Pokemon is a time-honored traditional past time. It's currently my favorite thing to do is play horse race with Mario strikers. The game you won. I can't even get involved there. I'd be my girlfriend. Be bottom of the fucking barrel in that competition. Dude, but I don't think she knows how to hold a game. She did that puzzle. Huh? What you did that field day, field day. Maybe the proudest I've ever felt. I feel like that will read through generations off the competition. Yeah, I know. Yo, I was like, I know you have that dog bad ass. That was badass. Yeah, my girlfriend was just like trying to read to me a bunch of literature about the Irish and stuff like that. Oh, so I had a what type of literature. Tell me what I need. I need you to after this. I need you to send more money. By the way, dude, I've said you so money. I need more money. You're asking me to send you more money. Actually, I lost it all. I just need more. What do you do? Would you spend it all? I actually know what you do very much. Do you do anything? That's also that's true. So much. I just see more because I didn't realize the monthly payments. I was donating to charity, like a crazy amount. Crazy amount. How much money to charity? I don't know 15k, but it was monthly 15k a month. A month. A month. That sounds like a great cause. Seven times 12. It's a wonderful cause. A wonderful cause. You're saying that rocket money helps you stop donating. Okay. So I found rocket money and it told me that I was spending a total of, I guess it was 84 times 15k, probably a million dollars. It is like a million dollars. Give it a million dollars. So the nice thing about rocket money is rocket money shows your monthly subscriptions to different things. So you can track your spending better. And what it said is that I was losing more money than I was getting. And it recommended that I actually spend less than I make. Well, Ludwig, rocket money is a personal finance app that finds and cancels your unwanted subscriptions, monitors your spending and helps you lower your bills so that you can go over your savings. Sounds like right about now you need that because you can see all your subscriptions in one place. And the rocket money dashboard gives you a clear view of your accounts and anything you might be donating to and get alerts if bills increase in price or unusual spending is noticed. And you go ahead and understand your finance is better. I need more money. It's what he's saying. Maybe just cancel like a streaming service. Whatever your financial goals are, let rocket money help you reach them faster. Try for zero dollars at rocket money.com slash your that's rocket money.com slash the yard. And man, Aiden, give me more money so I can keep it going. But you ever talk about how your girlfriend's hands are so clammy? Yeah. Wait, wait, have we ever talked about the podcast? Yeah, she has a condition. I make fun of her. Have you ever made fun of her condition on this? No, no, no, no, no, no, not so sweaty. Not on the podcast, Ludwig. Not about this. It's like she's constantly washing. Okay, if she does this as hard as she can, water will come out. Yeah, I've tried yelling at her. Yeah. Has it fixed it? No. Has it fixed it? So we've moved on to other things. Lobotomy. Lobot. If we take that out the part of your brain that makes sweat happen in your hand. I would overdo it. I would overdo it at Michael Reeves' house because I had to get this damn chair. Yeah. I think the damn pito chair. I'll get damn pito chair. And I walk around his little little laboratory. I like it in there. I like his little laboratory. And what do I see in the middle of the room? Is a big ol' fucking motorcycle. And I'm like, "Hey, Michael Reeves, the really awesome motorcycle." That wasn't here last time. Oh, this thing? Yeah. Ludwig bought it for me. Ludwig got Michael a gift. What are you doing? What are you doing? Papa. Papa got Michael a big ass gift. He got his goomar speaking. And Michael was like, "It's so big. In the sofa." Is it like one of them big fosters? He's like, "It's my favorite one." Yeah. It's a look of a 675R. You know what? Everybody says that. It's like, "Oh, everyone's just getting a piece from Michael." And he's ghosting me. He's out of fucking high school reunion. Let him live, bro. No, he's ghosting me for weeks. Yeah. Yeah. That's it, man. Yeah. I got him this bike as a gift. Isn't it compared to the guy? That picture, the guy, he missed it. The guy riding it. That one? Imagine Michael on it. It's pretty tall. It's like an inch to tall. It's also a crazy bike because the position you assume while riding it is like that guys. You're leaning forward. Your chest is on it. Even if you're riding it. Your face down and that's up. Yes. That's how you have to position to ride it. But it is a beast. First gear this thing can go 60 miles an hour. No problem. Yeah. It is a crazy bike. This is your chair, bro. That's how he pointed at you. You're the best time you were talking. And you're the pet if there's a theme. They sampled this. He was like, "I pretty much just built a subwoofer." It's literally just what a subwoofer looks like. But dude, he's living Levita Crazey over there. Like I said, he's planting a fucking passion fruit tree. We're in the driveway. He's watering it. He's just casually talking to me about his life. He's like, "Yeah, I got this passion fruit tree. It reminds me of home." And I'm like, "Did your life is awesome?" Yeah. He's a simple man. He goes to basics. He does what makes him happy. He's not too work obsessed. Sorry. You're good. I'd rather this than you be called something so unusual. I only want you to be called that. And it would be bad to call somebody that. Especially if you worked at little Caesars together. Some of the accusations you throw out lightly. And they kept talking about it at work all the time. They still have the 207 sticker on it. There's hell, the 207 sticker on it. Yeah. I got a decal sticker. It's a 207. I don't know if it held up though. Oh, maybe. What's that mean? It's the road. The road we rode in China. So you hung out with Michael Raffes? Yeah. Oh, we got me. Yeah, me and MR. We can every single day. Mire strikers. He was there, too. We all really involved in the Mire strikers horse race. Probably cleaned up. She screamed a lot. But I was really fuck with his setup. The whole, like, I'm a YouTuber, but I just do a bunch of bull shit all day. He's got so much bull. He's got waveboards. What the fuck is a door has waveboards besides me? In a different life, it's you and Michael doing some crazy shit. That's what I was thinking the whole time. It could have been Michael. I was like, me and Michael could lock in. Yeah. And we could really do some crazy shit. And it's like, who is he's obsessive like me, but he's actually smart. So he can like really do the stuff that he's obsessed with. What would it be? What would the Nick and Michael tip-to-tip equivalent be? Oh, God. Nick and Michael. I can't think of a single thing that it wouldn't just be better if he had like William Osmond. No. You know what I mean? Well, what do you offer here? You offer? I offer on the line of obsession. Obsession, battle wrapping. Honestly, it's you and Michael going to the battle rap finals as a duo. Yeah, making the battle, the battle rap bots competition with robots that rap against each other with AI. We're the first, we're the first non-AI entry to the competition. And it's just a microphone and a speaker. It's me. And it's just the first human to defeat the robots. And it's empty by JPEG Mafia. This is a million dollars. This is a million dollars, I think. This is a fast, the YouTube filter. I think it'll go. I made a robot that can rap. It's me and Michael in the driveway. And there's a big way. If that's if that's on Michael's channel, that's that thing. I'm saying I'm through the robot. He'd have him say that he'd have the robot say slurs than to be like robot saying slurs. I mean, it becomes a very philosophical question, right? Was the robot black? Can the robot say it? In the robot call Michael a flip? You? Yeah, the flip pass. You do. I give it to you. Michael. Oh, wow. Have you guys been watching Alex's videos? Like I did a things videos. Oh, yeah, he made a fucking boat. Dude, he's, I know this is like the joke about every video he puts out. I think this is the final tipping point for me where I think he's going to kill himself. Really? I watched this video. I also didn't be his life. I think there's a serious chance that he hurts himself greatly. He's in the middle of the lake. And he's put together the first working version of the jet engine that moves the boat. And he openly says he forgets to put like a heat protection thing around his feet. But he can't, turn the jet engine off. So he's just, his legs are next to the engine just getting hotter and hotter while he tries to figure out a way to like, I can't get back to land fast enough. So I'm just going to splash water on myself to hopefully not get burned. And I was, I was like, dude, you can't. He's doing that. That's the part, the part that freaked me out. The part that freaks me out about all his videos is that he's barefoot in his garage using power tools. That's the charm. He's a crazy bitch. Yeah. And I get it. All of this makes a lot of sense to me. And literally in like 70% of their videos, they're wearing yard shirts. No way. Yeah. Alexa Alexa has the yard auto old yard auto shirt on and so many. That in the right being a shirt. Unfortunately, I think this is a curse of Australians is that they have to be wild. They have to let them run free. Yes. You have to let them run free. And so he can't put shoes on because then he loses Bad boy image dude. He can tell from the you can tell from the no shoes that he can like really grab the ground with those things Yeah, he's trained. He's got grip in his feet. Yeah, yeah way that I don't it's like a current. There's a strong They're like curl to the ground. He's grabbing like a flat piece of ground. It's like a monkey It's like a way a monkey uses his feet unbelievable. Go watch it. I did a thing video and look at his feet the whole time like it Like he could eat food with his feet. Yes. Yes. Yeah, so he could do like I used to practice it, but I got bad at it Used to practice grabbing things up with my feet. Yes. I'm lit at it. Did you get better at it? I got better of course I got better of course, but it's substantial practice and improvement things of course sometimes now I think then that's the dark like what? Sometimes you give piano was a bit of a stalemate for me Yeah, there's a person in it. I just didn't prioritize it enough put his pussy in it, and then you decided I I will end it he showed up to piano sessions like Well, that's not Did you is that what he's saying true? I said I will try again when I can give this the appropriate Priority you yell that your piano teacher to your hair looks good by the way. I like it. You mean that I mean that genuinely I feel like it's not you're using the I think it looks good. I don't know how to say differently you it looks good I guess is that better? It's like it's I've just been hurt so much. I like it looks it felt genuine at first You're making a make it less genuine. No, it's not genuine at first. It's not genuine. It's not time It's coming back. I don't want to tell you, bro. It's her new grow right here. I have a little baby minoxidil hairs And you don't fucking care. I will I guess for you can't see them No, but you I forgot I pick up and don't put my pussy into like five things a week. I love that feeling of it Like trying and giving up. I tried game design last year Do you think you put like when you try something like that is it like with the expectation that you just want to dabble and then Give up quickly or is it like I want to like re-approach this at some point. I just search for a feeling of magic Sometimes he picks something up and it goes, oh, this is grabbing me. It isn't grab me. I'm just like am I doing anymore? That's fair. What was the wall with game design? We were like oops that I don't want to push through that So I built a level of a platformer in good dough And I used to get tutorial mostly because I didn't know how to do a lot of things and After I did it, I was like okay. I now generally see the gap between my capability and what it is I'd like to make and The the journey the journey to make this thing did not grab me very much So the the journey to get to what I want to make will will not be fun. It'll be more like I won't enjoy the process of that journey. I will just want to get there And then that will make me a bad game designer. I stop Because I think if you want the end goal more than you want the process. It's when you Become not very good at something. What if you want the end goal more than you want the prostate? You want the angle more than the process. You want it more. You don't want the process. You don't want the process that much Anime awesome What do you like? I can't because of that guy you like because he likes what you like Just see me at the mall getting these shirts made I couldn't think eye contact with the guy Yeah, put on the back Just on this one on the magic It was so magic you know what you know it fucking I just really wish that part with the airplane was also somehow included in the clip that blew up Because I think that's a way no time up. Oh the food no in the in the old episode where it's like It's I'm watching Madoka Magica on a plane monitor and I'm like got my mouth open and I'm breathing really heavy And I got those fucking glasses on yeah, and that is like a way funnier image than like the the previous one But you know that didn't get clipped question. Yeah, and maybe this this You know for weebs got this far for anime fans got this far. Maybe they clicked to doubtful to drop some hate But doubtful, but maybe they did Well, could you give them a taste profile on your favorite anime top five taste profile It's a lot of boomer slop. It's mostly shit that Was just on adult swim. That's why blue genders my favorite, but it was heavily edited on adult swim So I re I revisited it later on and it's like way more cool and graphic. It's just complete coincidence that many of your favorite He's the media begin with blue Blue Valentine blue velvet blue uh, it's I promise blue you the Gender blue gender. This is a coincidence. I think it's just a hard coincidence There's a part of your brain that when you found out about blue gender, you're like I want to watch it I think it's a fucking cool. I mean, I will say what's your favorite song? Well, let me say it say What if it was called the space bugs got us Then I would still like it a lot you'd still like it. It wouldn't change anything Have would it have made it less likely that you watch it in the first place? No, blue and Davis a very blue movie Yeah, yeah, it's not it's not blue in David. I know it's it's that's one of my favorites, but it's it's mostly it's and it's Won't go to his house and I unannounced he's watching fucking bluey on the TV I'm screaming. Ah, well, you made Roku city blue somehow. You did a mod. How did you do that? It is my favorite color But I you tell people blues your favorite color and they're like, yeah, that's all boys. That's all men. Oh, there's red enjoyers Dude, I got I got a I fall asleep to like something like a you know a random video usually it's like a chest video whatever it is on my phone And I got fed a video that was like a death note like like video essay something something the extent of like every time Every time light fucking did this. I don't remember what it was And I was just like sure whatever. I'm tired. It's the first video on the page. I don't care I need need noise in here click on it And uh, I falsit to it. But now my algorithm is like poisoned by death note slop and the people who watch this shit I'm like it's like okay, what if light and else switched places? What would the show be like and it's like an hour long video It's so weird. Oh like dude The show's over This is their way of the show continue to talk about the show forever and the youtubers who made these videos. I think they think they're light Like they think they're the intelligent like this is what they would do and this is the type of deception And this is the type it's you get to play along at home. Yeah, the good one is like Death note, but you don't hear the inner monologue. Oh, and it's just like a camera on It's like they talk every fucking minute. You're like whoa That's awkward I'm trying to think of my list and that was why I brought it up. You should each have to taste make we should each. Yes three. Yes three So it is I'll say this about the medium it's something that I've never investigated on my own Everything I like was fed to me by a channel which would be adult swim at night when I was a kid or like you Yeah, watching and I watch death note because you watched one episode of it and then you left for Christmas and I had nothing to do Yeah, I'm gonna check my my anime list. I like villain saga. You don't have my I made it so much so so much earlier than you did how do you and I have hand tie on it You fucking dog And they do the thing really like a dog big right now where you they draw the in the way the inside of the pussy And it's like the biggest keeps going inside of the pussy. They do like draw the inside of the pussy What did they draw on that so much? Yeah, I just sometimes just out of the pussy Yeah, I actually do have a my anime list. You do? Yeah, I'm trying to fucking Yeah, I got an analyst if you'd I'm fucking I weaved out a bit little bit in my life You'll piss me off. You're unironically. Why stop watching villain saga. They change the theme song Hmm piss me off. They do that in the second season. Yeah, exactly That's what I started watching. That's a I stop watching. I watch season one and then I was season two comes I'm excited to watch season two watch season two. Where's theme song? It's just such a dumb thought. It's so hard to engage with First the first season theme song is the best of the series, but like You could just listen to the song though. It's beautiful. I know, but like how's he able to do? I don't know But it's still confusing where you saw watching the song up on YouTube after you but you could just skip the intro and then like you could listen You would skip the intro. Yeah after the first one ever talk ever after the first change in the awesome music I listen to it once and then I skip it every time So when I was watching one piece I watched that I liked the song so I let it play So if I don't like the song, I don't let it play samurai shampoo. Yeah, good music. Yeah Let the theme song. Oh, what's the Hentai, bro Tell me your fucking is it Jenna? Is it genuinely Hentai? Yeah, there's a hentai on there. What is it? I watched an episode of a Hentai. Is it like a fun mod? Yeah, ring to Hentai. Yeah, it's fucking it. It's just genuinely porn. Can we not rank? It's porno. Okay, their tits are blurry. What did I put? He read a review? What's my review? Busted crazy. They're all they're also soapy. They're soapy. Let me see Oh, man, they're covered in soap. How is she gonna get that off? She's a madness amount of so she's gonna have to get come for me. She's gonna have to get in the shower. I'm one of you I'm one of you. It's gonna have to get in the shower, right? Oh, the soap. Oh Dude, I think like I think literally you can put your favorite anime on the top of your profile And I haven't logged into this account and I think like at least 10 years And I and in the top of the account is all around high school. I was Wait, what sorry? What is a stack? What does that word mean in this context stack? 'Cause interest stacks. Is that like a thing on the website, like you can make a stack of, it's a way of saying lists? - I have no idea. - 'Cause there's one called, "Hentai with Adults Only" part 10. (laughing) - My man! - If-- - Yeah! - My man! - Even when I was a kid, I was looking at the adults. - If you're into a genre where we need to make 10 parts of a list with that title, (laughing) maybe there's an issue with the genre a lot. - Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, I'm trying to, I'm trying to make paste. - Yes, let's-- - You took my list. - Can I get bring back the taste maker? - I'm taste maker. What's on your M.A.L.? - It's-- - They call it M.A.L. - Silver spoon. - To be my M.A. page. (laughing) - M.A.P. (laughing) - What? - Just got it. (laughing) - Now I've been using map for a while. - What's your list while he looks? - My list's Silver Spoon. Welcome to the NHK in one piece. - Yeah. - What's Silver Spoon? - It's made by the person who made attack on Titan. Full metal alchemists. And she made an anime about being in the farm. - Oh, it's got a horse. - Yeah, it's a kid from the city who goes to work in the farm. - You know what, anime I really wanted to love, but it was kind of too boring. Was Shirakuma Cafe, because it's all animals, and it's polar bear who owns a cafe. And it's got hilarious clips. And I was like, the show must be good, but I just, I wasn't patient enough. So I only like the clips. So it's fake. I only like the clips. It's like, you know, not everyone could be like lace. So like every minute's electric, some streamers, for example, like they're all about the clip, you know? They're like a stable and all great aesthetic. - Yeah, it's super cute. - I'm into how that looks. - And the panda's like a fucking burnout with no job, and he sucks, and they're friends. This is the kind of shit that like, I'm into. This animal's talking to each other. - Looks like an adult swim show. Did you say it? - No, no, no, no. This was, I remember seeing clips of it. - No one showed you like, odd taxi. - I've heard of odd taxi. - I watched you with Josh, man. - Really? - Yeah. - Is that what they get in, and then the guy in the front gets in the back and has sex with the girl? - No, no, no, no. It's the one where they do the quiz. - Oh, it's a game show. - The ceiling lights up. They do the quiz. - Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And everything can get wrong. You'd take off a piece of clothing. - Dude, me and Peter playing strip trivia in the back of a fucking Toyota. - Guys, it's just regular trivia. - I guess I'll take my shirt off. - What are you, what are you guys? - I'll take my shirt off too, better. - Alright, what's your list? - Dude, I would love to go to the sauna with Peter. Oh my God. - What the fuck? - That'd be amazing. - Why? - 'Cause it's a bonding experience. - It's a ball of them playing golf. - Peter's getting in the fake taxi. - Wait, we gotta take care of that. - I spilled a Pepsi back here. - Fuck. Shit, do you have any paper towels? I spilled a fucking Pepsi back here. (laughing) - He's one of these things here. - I used my shirt. - I used my Pepsi shirt. I used my shirt. My guilt is actually number one in the world right now. I'm sorry, I gotta put my phone down. We're in a war right now. - Oh, you can put that away. I don't have any use for that. (laughing) - Ow, ab. - I'll just pay for the ride. I can use money. - He's the electric. - Come on, jump in. (laughing) Oh, nail that. - Grown crazy right now. - That's co crazy. - And then, and then free the swimming anime. - That's huge. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. The bangers. - Dude, I remember being in a hotel room at Big House with Bobby, Scar, Newman, and Tofe, and the Crimson Blur, the real Crimson Blur. - Yup. - And they were smoking a mad weed and I just sat and watched a coggy. Oh, you were in there. - Yeah. - We watched a coggy. We watched like seven episodes of a coggy. - Yeah. - It was too much. - It was a coggy. - That's the mojong one? - The mojong one, yeah. The gambling one. - And it's edged. - It's edged. - Yeah. - And they go, boom. - It's kinda like that Justin Timberlake movie. You know, that seemed a bunch. - In time. - In time, it's kinda like that 'cause they're playing mojong with their blood as money. - The blood as money. - It is kind of like, you know? - It is kind of like, you know what? - It is just in Timberlake. - They might have watched it. - And the bottles are them, buddy. - Dude, they steal the idea. - I'm sure, bro. It's like Quentin Tarantino steals everything from the Japanese. - And just so uncultured. That was the real eye opener. - Can we chill on him about liking feet? - Ooh, Quentin. - Well, he'd love Alex. - Bro, he lives in Tel Aviv. (laughing) - That's what I'm saying. - What am I saying? - Why are we talking about the whole thing? - He signs missiles. - He literally goes signs Israeli missiles. - He moved there recently. (laughing) - No, no, no, no, he moved there. - Oh, he moved there. - It was pretty recent. - It was recent. - He might not even know. (laughing) - They came back to direct obsession, I've been hearing. - That's what they heard. Yeah, it's ghost directed. - Ghost directed? - Like you'd say. - Oh, really? - That's what they said. - I hate that. - Yeah, there's this. - I think they just don't want to give it to the YouTube. - Is this conspiracy? - Yes, they don't want to give it to the YouTuber, bro. They don't want to give it to the fuck. - This is actually our time, by the way. So many movies are talked to me. Obsession. - A Macroon Markiplier movie. - Backrooms. - It's bad that you didn't know what it was called. - Which one? - Markiplier movie. - Iron Long. - Iron Long, I didn't see it. But it's our time. - Yeah. - They're hand in amounts of fucking YouTube. - Yeah, get to fucking work, bro. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - They made that movie less than a million dollars. - We have to, we are the ghosts. We have to call it the Ludwig movie. Do you understand? - Sure. - That's how it's gonna get the funding. - Like the money's already there to fund it. They funded obsession for less than a million. - Dude, they made so much more than that. - They made 700 million or so. - I think those actors are getting any piece of that. - Hopefully not. - Even if they're. - Oh my god. - See if it gets it all. - Yeah. - No. - Maybe. - God willing, the stew gets it all. - Actually, maybe. I have no idea, like, they may not have copied it, but for like Markiplier's, it was way bigger than they thought it was gonna be in the box office. And he did a big profit, not a profit split exactly, but he like tripled everybody's pay after the box office for a month. - Don't I'm a crumb? - Yeah, I don't think I'm a crumb. - That's pretty fat. - Tripling everyone's pay is crazy. - Yeah, I think he said it was every single person that worked on the movie. - Okay, wait. We have to conceive the yard movie right now. The yard, the movie. - Hey, well, Aiden's gotta be in it. - I think horror's the easiest. It seems like you can make a horror movie. And as long as you keep the suspense going, - Horror's the easiest. - And you take a low budget. And make a low budget and also make good. Aiden is being haunted by the prostate of his racist, great, great grandfather. - Okay. - We made the first daytime horror movie, but we're still inside and all the windows are closed and it's dark as fuck, but it's daytime. - It's daytime straight out. - And people are gonna tell us like, it could have got light, it could have opened a window and got some light in for this. Would have made it way less scary, but no one did. - But no one did. Even though it was Loki, daytime, the whole entire time. - I have to be haunted. What if I get in the haunted? Okay, it's daytime horror. - Daytime horror. - Aiden cannot go out in the sun. 'Cause he has a horrible skin condition. - Yes. - And he looks disgusting every time he goes out in the sun. - And so he's trying to get someone to come in. - So he always tries to get people to come in to hang out with and go on tinnitus. He said, "I have a skin condition." - Look fine. - He's actually a fucking vampire who sucks him dry. - Oh! - Aiden, the vampire, but he's like a loser. Vampire's usually very elegant. - No, no. - He's like a fucking, he's like, he orders door to us. He goes, "Sorry. "Hallowing a skin condition, I can't come outside." - The vamp cell. - Yep. - The vamp cell. "He refunds door dash orders." - He reefed, yep. Yeah, no tip. - No tip. And my Szechuan sauce wasn't in it. - Yep. - He files that there was no items missing. - And this is a horror book. - And one of every 10 drivers you convince to come in and you can go, "Can you come in?" And then they come in and you go, "Do something over there for a second." - And then I suck them dry. - And then you walk us all again and you go, "I'm so sorry about what I'm gonna do." - You try to bite them but you miss a little bit. - Does he possess any strength? Do you wanna have any, like, positive characteristics in the movie? - No, no. - Does he have resilience? - What's like the character arc? - No, not none. - He's just a real flat character. - When you, when you-- - Resilience? Like what's the resilience here? - Okay, okay, when you successfully suck their blood, you're cool. - And then you're charming and you can go outside in the sun for a short period. - For a short period? - Yes, but then you gotta go back to something. - And more and more Swedish as you become more and more of vampire. - Yes, and once you've done a hundred, you can become fully Swedish. You're an immigrant owner. - Cool, and I'm sorry. - Yeah, you're cool, you're Swedish. You're cool, you're an accent. - Yeah. - Hey, what's up? It's me Adam. And he swits his hair back. - He does not bother anymore. - How do I know what to do? I'm in Stockholm. Would you like to go through the club with me? But then, like, the clock strikes, right? - And the skin starts to lesion, start opening up and he's like, "Oh no, my accent is going away." - He's going away. - Oh no. - I have to burculose this guy, probably. It's nothing else. - And he starts shitting his pants, he's holding his ass, he's running home. - Yup. - He's running home with a shitty butt, trying to get back into his house, he's back to the phone to order Uber Eats. - And it's daytime. - It's a whole time. - All the time. - Yeah. - Make no mistake. - Yo, go out of him. - World's first daytime horror coming soon. - Well, if anyone wants to give us a lot of money for that. - Vamsa. - It's not going to be low budget. - Perhaps it is. - It's going to be $1,000,000. - Perhaps it's Swedish investors. - Perhaps you need to hire me. - That's a play, Swedish government. - Swedish government investment. - Yeah, they need to show, they contribute to the art, to show that their country is amazing and sunny, but that some people lie within and those are the best. - Well, you don't want to have a Swedish government paying for it. - Why? - Why not? - Because they're gonna be like, okay, you have to insert this scene where like, there's a door dash driver who's an immigrant, but they do the job poorly. - That's the first guy I didn't miss the blood from. - Yeah, and then everyone in the audience will actually deserve it 'cause he did his job poorly. - Also, where was he from, by the way? - Is there some sort of pattern that we can recognize? (laughing) - Yeah. - Anyway, can I say it? I'm not the biggest fan of the whole concept. It feels like it relies heavily on. - Bamsel. - What are you talking about? You're the store. - I'm the store. - It feels like it's like who I wouldn't be. It's like not who I am. - You're gonna be in the movies. - It's the Vampire, it's all fake. - And you're being faintly lit up by the LED glow of a monitor in a gaming chair, so you have a cape, a red cape, and teeth coming out, your canines are coming out. - But the one I'm still fucked up is the Vampire. - This is the Vampire name. The nitty-gritty details, shooting schedules, stuff like that. - I'm not trying to get the speaker off my chair. So it's not a problem in every episode for the rest of the time. He did you attach it with metal. - I'm gonna do that. - I don't know.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The podcast team made a controversial clip where they joked about "beating up" coworkers who watch anime with "drawn kids in it," specifically targeting Madoka Magica.
  2. The clip was widely criticized, leading to backlash from anime fans, including online harassment, racist, and pedophilic slurs, especially from users in Discord and on social media.
  3. The team acknowledges they made a mistake by using such language, but defends their intent as a form of satire and critique of anime fandom’s toxicity.
  4. A significant portion of the backlash came from "taste-maxing" anime fans who see Madoka Magica as "normy-slop" and use it to rally against what they perceive as "weird" or "offensive" anime.
  5. The team highlights that Madoka Magica is actually a well-regarded, emotionally resonant show, and they argue that the criticism reflects a desire to erase marginalized or niche voices in anime culture.
  6. There is a broader cultural shift
  7. The team emphasizes that their intention was not to harm or marginalize, but to spotlight hypocrisy and the absurdity of online attacks, especially when driven by prejudice.
  8. The incident reveals how anime communities are polarized, with some embracing inclusivity and others clinging to rigid standards of "acceptable" content.

Summary:

The podcast team reflects on a controversial clip where they joked about "beating up" coworkers who watch anime with "drawn kids in it," specifically targeting Madoka Magica. While the intent was satirical and critical of anime fandom’s toxicity, the clip sparked intense backlash, including hate-filled, racist, and pedophilic comments from online users. The team acknowledges the mistake in their language but defends the satire as a critique of how fans use exclusion and taste-maxing to marginalize niche or inclusive shows.

They argue that Madoka Magica, despite being labeled as "normy," is actually a deeply emotional and well-regarded series. The backlash reveals a broader cultural divide: mainstream anime fans now see deep, niche tastes as "uncool," while purists use such attacks to reinforce their own exclusivity. The episode highlights how online communities can spiral into toxicity, especially when fueled by prejudice.

Ultimately, the team emphasizes that their goal was not to harm, but to expose hypocrisy and the absurdity of fan-driven hostility—especially toward marginalized or inclusive content. The incident underscores the complexity of anime fandom, where inclusivity, identity, and cultural evolution are constantly in tension.

FAQs

The podcast clip sparked backlash for suggesting that viewers should 'beat the shit out of' co-workers who watch anime with girls in it, which was seen as offensive. The hosts defended Madoka Magica, calling it an amazing show, and emphasized that the criticism was disproportionate and hurtful.

They believed Madoka Magica was a genuinely good and inclusive show, especially for young audiences, and felt it was being unfairly targeted by critics who were more focused on niche tastes or online extremism.

They observed that the internet amplified hate, especially from people who were either genuinely intolerant or just reacting to perceived 'trash tastes,' and noted that the backlash was more intense than necessary, especially from fans who were already part of the anime community.

They described some users as using extreme slurs, spreading misinformation, and promoting harmful ideologies, such as white nationalism or pedophilia, which they found disturbing and disconnected from the actual anime community.

They noted that mainstream fans often dismiss niche or inclusive shows like Madoka Magica as 'normy-slop,' while true anime enthusiasts who deeply understand the medium are more likely to defend and appreciate diverse content.

Yes, they received direct personal attacks, including hate messages and slurs, such as 'bitch made bald midget,' which they responded to by asserting their right to be heard and defended by the community.

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