The podcast episode begins with chaotic banter about a knife phrase and a joke about blurring guns in video. The hosts announce their new paid subscription platform at $20/month, offering less content than before, which they frame humorously. They then discuss Josh Brolin's book, mixing praise for its photography with skepticism about the poetry's quality. The conversation shifts to Taylor Swift's 31-track album, with one host admitting he doesn't know her music but finds certain lyrics like "you ate seven chocolate bars" amusing out of context. They compare her songwriting to Hozier's more literary approach, sparking a debate on artistic authenticity. A NordVPN ad follows, tied to a road trip narrative. The hosts delve into personal insecurities, self-promotion, and cultural contrasts: Americans strive to climb the capitalist ladder, while Irish culture tends to pull down those who succeed. They celebrate a comic book release and an IGN article, though one host struggles to accept praise due to Irish upbringing. The episode closes by criticizing the "Watcher" channel for hyping their exit from YouTube to launch a paid platform, calling the execution tone-deaf and likely to alienate their audience. Throughout, the tone is self-deprecating, humorous, and reflective on fame and content creation.
I hold on my hand that gombed your bear. No, you didn't let me say that if you move you die. Crap, I gotta be upfront about it. May thy knife chip in shadow. Boom! Shit! Can we have guns? I don't know if we can. Nervally leave it in, but blur it out. So they'll never know. Yeah, the audio listeners get everything, but the video listeners watchers even. Speaking of, I know. I know. That was my segue. To the watcher situation. Welcome back everybody to Brand new podcast. Hope you're leaking out or pores in your eyes. I hope your brain has exited the building because we're about to let rip. Yeah, we just, we have a big announcement and, you know, we've been doing this for over a year now. And we think that it's time that we spread our wings a little bit more. So we've created our own platform. It's just going to be $20 a month. And I think that that's fine. And it's going to be all the same content that you have been getting for years or free. It's actually going to be less content. We're editing it down further. Yes. So we hope to see you there. May that knife chip and chatter. May I wall it chip and chatter. I want to end every conversation with that. I said it like, all right, see you later. Just be like, may that knife chip and chatter. Walk out of the room. Hold up a brand new. God. Hey, man, we talk about dude all the time, but I did get the dude book that has all the photography and stuff from Joshi bro. Yeah. He did the poetry and the, and the words in it. And then is it good poetry though? Or are we just talking like, because anyone can write poetry. It is good. I mean, it's, it's, some of them are kind of weird, but it's all like based on the set. Literally every poetry conversation ever. Is it good? Well, yeah, but also know. And you have to be there. It's cool though. There's a bunch of photography from on set and stuff. And then Josh Brolin writes some things about some stuff. See, I want to think that that's cool, but part of me can't help but think about how cringy it is. There's definitely some, some passages in there that are a little cringy, but. Because it's like, you know, if the moment strikes you and you have like a good silica weed that you want to get across to the audience, sure. But if you're just writing poetry for the sake of writing poetry because you're on set and you're bored and being on set is boring as fuck. Some of them are just passages. Some of them are like actual poetry. Now, but it's a nice little coffee table book. I don't drop anybody into this conversation at this point and just tell them that we're talking about Taylor Swift's new album. Oh man, we could. She's just waxing lyrical over and over and be like, is it good? Well, see, if you're 30 and you like Taylor Swift, then maybe I'd have to listen to it again. Some of those lyrics on that new album, I admittedly I don't know Taylor Swift. I don't really know much of the deep lore. I'm pretty up to date, but. I'm just gonna put this out there instead of getting put up against the wall and shot by her community. I would like to point out that. I don't really care either way, but I've seen a lot of the lines that have come out of the album. And out of context are hilarious words like you ate seven chocolate bars. How do you put that in a song? Is that real? Yeah. It's supposed to be like talking about Matt Healy and him smoking weed. But again, I'm getting all of my information from the second hand sources. So I don't know. I think there would be a fun Taylor Swift. What's the new album called Tortured Poets Society? Department. Tort. yeah. Tortillini. Poet Department. Big man's poet time. Taylor's big poetry time. Because there's some of that. Oh my god, it's a fucking 31 song album. Which for a while. That's. Bui haal. Maal. I'm not able to write that much then fair play. I did see some reviews that were like she said that she had to write to get through some stuff and she was writing when she was on tour. And I get that like creative outlets and all that's clearly making music and writing is her creative outlet. But a lot of the reviews are like just because you had to write to get through this stuff. Is it something you're expressing in emotion or whatever? Isn't that every song ever? Yeah. Isn't that the songwriting process? I have a feeling that I want to express I'm going to make a song about it. Yeah, but this is about breakups. You don't get it. It hasn't been done before. Because she says stuff like my boy only breaks his favorite toys. Toys, oh. I'm queen of sandcastles. She destroys. Oh, oh. So like that stuff's not too bad. See, I wish I knew that one's off the top of my head. Once I fix me, he's going to miss me. That's kind of fucking back in the hits. Kind of his heart. Which is the lesson to take away. It's like maybe work on the inside is more important than trying to make everybody else aligned to what I think. So some soul search. How long is the album? 31 songs. How many? About six and a half weeks, I think. Two or three businesses. No. I want to find the chocolate lyric, but I don't know what song it's from. This is why you got to credit your sources. I have not listened to the album. Taylor Swift isn't for me. And I'm very happy for everybody that's real pumped about the album. You got a lot of learning to do. This is your, with 31 tracks. This is your, it's almost one for every year she's been alive. This is your super bowl. This is like your Roman Empire is when this stuff comes out. I wish I was that into an artist anymore that. Look, when the Brandon Sanderson fifth Stormlight book comes out at the end of the year. I'm going to be right there with you, Swifties. I want to be waxing lyrical about how the Stormlight enters Kaladin's veins. I was asked this question the other day. I've just a simple question of like, who's your favorite musical artist? And I was like, oh, I don't know. Even like, what's one of your favorite? I'm like, I like a lot of different bands at different times. I don't like have a current favorite. Sean, yes, do you have a current favorite? Yes, I have answer. Mine is hosier. I was thinking of coffee in the bed. You're too sweet for coffee. So I take mine black. No, please. No more milk. Would you like it? Oat or almond? Oh, skimmed, please. What about him? Is it because he's Irish? Is it because of his long? You guys currently look similar. You have a lot of similarities right now. She needs that coincidence. Or because I looked at hosier once and went, that's man. That's the man. Do you people have the Vitruvian man by Diffincy? I have hosier from Ireland. Where is he from in Ireland, obviously? I don't actually know. Yeah, you guys both have your long, beautiful locks. You both have facial hair. You're both Irish. I was going to say he's from Wexford, but he's actually from Wicklow. And he was from a W County, but I didn't get the bill on that one. I think the only difference between the two of you is he's like 12 feet. Yeah, he's also incredibly talented and handsome and has a great voice and can write good news. Hey, you're incredibly talented and handsome. Prove it. And I bet it point to one talent. What do you mean point to one talent? The empire that you've made over the years. Oh, this house. You just released a comic book. This house of carrots that I have built. It's going to come crumbling down. Hey, listen, if I wanted to get your comic book, you go to batting. Thank you for the plug. Thank you. No comic books came out issue one because we did issue zero before. That's issue one. Put them together. Get awesome. You have four comic books. If you get all the covers, you have so many covers. Wow. That's sick. Anyway, excited about it. I am. I'm very excited about it. People should buy my comic books for a while.
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Is that what you like about Hozier? You like the lyrics? I think Hozier clearly shows that he reads a lot of poetry and the way he writes not all his songs. Some songs are literally just like I like fucking in the evening. I'm like that's fine. That's what he's all about. That is poetry. What do you mean? That's like down by the fire with light titties out. Down by the fire with light titties out. Dude my ears nipples are singing in the wind. Do you think Hozier takes a shirt off and he stands in the wind? His nipples make sound. He just go like. Does that mean something in Irish? It's just a certain. Oh, I didn't know. Had no idea. Had no idea. I know. Hozier. Andrew John Hozier burn his name. He's burning brain. Do you ever think about your name and I was thinking about this the other day where some people's names just sound successful. Yeah. Like famous and stuff. You see some people and they're so pretty you're like I kind of know what you do. Like I know that you're successful because you're gorgeous and you look expensive. That person looks expensive. Some people have stage names. So like it's a little bit more like oh this is you know yeah it's a stage name but some people's names are just like oh like you sound successful. Yeah Hozier like you got gifted that and it sounds like a stage name. Like Timothy shallow may. Yeah fuck you Timothy. Not only that. Will you speak French and your handsome? That's not fair. When you're going to like when you're starting fallout or something and it gives you like the stats that you're not put into stuff. Some people clearly got more stats. We're two of them. We have a podcast that we just talk shit. People are like cool keep it coming. Oh boy. I do want to say that last week's episode with Matt Pat was very very fun. If you haven't listened to that definitely go listen to it. Yeah it's not obvious. So we don't know if people even like it. Yeah it's going up tomorrow and we didn't even I did it for the episode and it never came up which why would it because the episode is about Matt Pat but I randomly decided I was like oh I said shave today and so I shaved everything but the mustache and I was like I'll just keep it for today. Okay I want to give a context to this because you had facial hair and then you decided to shave and you left the mustache but first of all it didn't look bad. I genuinely thought it looked great and you should have kept it you fucking pussy but you face I've been an hour before and you were like what do you think expecting me to like make fun of it or something which I kind of did because I'm not gonna find like $20 on the ground and not pick it up you know. Yeah but it looked good and you you were like oh I have to point out how stupid it is in case somebody else does it first? No we're not doing that anymore. We're not wearing our insecurities as pieces of armor anymore because it turns out that armor is made out of white paper bag. Yeah we're not wearing these insecurities as armor we're wearing this facial hair that's on our face. Yeah we're just not aware that we're showcasing it all the time anymore and then people pointed out and then you go well there's a new one that's a new insecurity that I didn't realize I have like me hanging out with oh me hanging out with people and then somebody went like always a joke huh and I went oh man that's all I know how to do always analogy huh yeah I did interviews from my comic book yesterday I think I said like foreign allergies. Oh what was that like? It was fun. I allowed to speak on it. Yeah one of them well I didn't do the interview for them but we got an article in IGN which I think is pretty cool like yeah that's sweet a lot of people don't really care about IGN anymore and that mean them and for the video game stuff everyone's like oh seven out of 10 not enough water and that's fair I don't think every journalism spot is without criticism but I as someone who grew up like going to IGN all the time for like reviews for games years ago when I was a teenager it's pretty cool to see something I did it's like it's like feeding my inner child and I say yeah that's cool that's awesome. We also did one with Forbes which they like at the start of it they do like the thing where it's like Sean McLaughlin who does YouTube with 30 million subscribers and I'm like yeah this many views I'm like oh and then like he also does coffee on comic books and he has a podcast and he does this and that and he's been in a lot of video games with voices and I'm like oh I forgot about all of them and then I say nice little about yourself and I'm like I don't want to he can do it I'm uncomfortable now because my brain is just like you did an accomplishment never remember it always be sad ABS yeah my brain's always saying that's nice though I work out always be always be it is I think that's good and it's good for you I know when you know apparently back for me and everything but when they when they do it I'm like the Irish in me is like you're not allowed except the praise I was talking to Sam Lake about it shout out name drop but I was like it's Finland like Sweden where you're not allowed like boast about things and there is a term for it and he was like yeah it's like it's almost like don't make make a big name for yourself in case you bring shame upon yourself kind of thing and I was like I guess Ireland's kind of the same where it's like no one's allowed step beyond their boundaries because everyone will make fun of them maybe that's where I get it from my little Irish heritage yeah goes all the way back you actually just got the depression side of being Irish hmm which is like a lot of small towns a lot of drinking oh patty got a name for himself and now he's better than all of us no he's not fuck him we always talk and not a g time thing ding ding I need a bell guys huge huge huge huge analogy time small bell analogy time analogy time it's like Americans would see somebody's house on top of a hill that's really expensive and go that's going to be me someday climb the capitalist ladder my Bitcoin's going to hit huge but Irish people would see the house and go like who does your man think he is fucking sitting on top of his fancy I was probably shates gold and then every it Americans is all about like how do I become the one so I can shit on everyone else do you America dream baby and Ireland's like well let's pull everyone down to our level because fuck those guys that is funny very true words like no everybody fuck it's yeah back down here and I think I think I have that sometimes where I'll get upset about something because somebody did something amazing and I'm like why do I suck no the thing they did my suck time to pull here you go letting all the
- I air out of your tires, magic man. (laughing) But I try not to do that, but I'm like, that's in my upbringing. That's like my knee jerk reaction sometimes where it's to be like judgmental. And I'm like, no, no. Who taught you that? It's a learned trait. - Mm-hmm. - Pass down from generation to generation. - Here we are, awesome. - But at least my dad give me huge testicles. Thanks, Paul. - Hell yeah, dude. Thanks, that. Appreciate that one. - He's looking down at me right now with my GI balls. And he's like, that's my boy. (laughing) Anyway. - It did feel good though, doing the interviews. - You were able to give yourself a moment to say, hey, that's nice. - It is very nice. - I mean, just that thing that you get to go somewhere cool. - Or did you just do it at your house? - I did it like this. I think it was wearing the same outfit. (laughing) - Haven't changed my clothes for 10 days. - Well, the Forbes one, they started with the cameras on. And I'm like, oh, this is a, because they're not always like video. And then sometimes it's like, you're on the call and they transcribe what you've said. Which sometimes I'm like journalist, please. If somebody in an interview has a lot of stutter and ums and uhs and saying, and things like that and things and stuff, don't put that in. Make them sound cool. - How did they put it in? - Well, I don't know, but I have had interviews like that before where I see the interview afterwards and I'm like, did I really say that that much? And I'm like, I'm off for transparency. That's what journalism probably should be, but come on. - Come on guys, make me look a little bit better. - Yeah, just do it for me. T1 up for daddy. Give one up for the big dog. - Oh, God, the big dog. - But, talking about news, we should talk about those who watch us. - Yes. - Who watches the watch, man. - Which I forgot that they were called a watcher. I always just knew them as Shane and Ryan. - Yeah, same here. - Because I guess because we come from like a Tumblr era earlier in our careers before Tumblr. - And the myths kind of died. - What was it, mystery unsolved? - Yeah, I think. - It's like that. - It used to be Buzzfeed. - Yeah, so I, I would like to start this off by saying, I think that, I don't think they're bad dudes. I think they just made a decision that was like, "Ah, yeah, that was probably not good." You probably could have predicted the outcome. - It's very fine, bro. - Of cis. - Yeah, God, I completely forgot when they tried to copy, right? - Copyright. - React. - React. (laughs) - Wow. - Yeah. - But it felt like that. - Oh, so. - They put out a statement saying, well, I think context is needed for what it is, 'cause a lot of people in their audience, they're huge. Like, their channel has like almost three million subs, but whenever the Tumblr yearly thing will come out of like who's trending the most, they were always like really near the top. So they were always like punching way above their size. And their audience is super engaged, way more than most channels. And they put out a thing being like, we have a countdown for a big thing that's coming, super exciting. And everyone was like, oh, new merch, new series, new characters, new something. And then they came out and were like, surprise, it's us leaving YouTube and we're gonna make you pay for our content on a site that we made. Which is not, you don't really hype that up out of nowhere and then just drop that on your audience. Making content that was originally free, paid is an awful idea for anybody. - Yeah. Especially in their situation, because they already have other subscription things, that they have a wildly successful Patreon. - Yeah. Which, I don't, it's hard to know because unless it tells you, does it tell you how much they're making on their Patreon on their page? 'Cause you can hide that sometimes. Let's find out right now. - There is a join free option. And I'm not really sure if Patreon shows those people as numbers. So people saying like they have a really successful Patreon 'cause they have X amount of members. I don't know if the free ones count towards that. 'Cause it could be that, so like 5K people paying for it, which is still really successful. - Minimum, you can see how many members they have, which I'm assuming this has dropped a bit since their announcement. So it's 13.6K, let's call that 14,000. - I think it's actually got $5 a month. - I think it's gone up since the announcement. 'Cause people were like, oh, I didn't know you had this. I could be wrong. Go on. - Oh, interesting. But anyway, their lowest tier is $5 a month. And then $10, 25, and then $100 a month. So you can't see who is where of those 14,000 people. But minimum, they're bringing in 70K a month just from the Patreon. - I'm assuming that all of those are being. - Way, way, way more than that. - Yeah. - Yeah, they're probably, they're probably bringing in like 100. - Yeah. - And all of their episodes that I've seen, obviously not everything on the YouTube channel does as well, but a lot of their main videos that people show up for, they get close to, if not over a million views minimum. I saw most of the recent ones were all like 900K, 800K, a million, those are sizable views. - Yeah. So they. - Let's see. Let's do a little dive. Did you watch there? 'Cause they since have released an apology. - Yeah, I did not watch the apology. - Yeah, it was decent. It was a bit like, it is a bit weird that you're like, you didn't really expect people to be this upset about it and saying stuff like, oh, like $6. Like everybody has that. Which I'm like, I mean, everybody at some point has $6, but it's like expecting people to give you their $6 that could go towards like food and anything else, which is like crazy expensive these days and everyone's hurting for like every dollar. - Yeah, especially when we live in the world that we do right now, which is every fucking thing is a subscription. - Yeah. - And so it's like, - Yeah, it's not that much money if you're the only thing that you're subscribing to, but everyone else has tons and tons of subscriptions. It's like the tone deaf thing of like, oh, so you can afford to go out and get coffee but you can't afford this. It's kind of like that Invader V lady that we talked about before, where it's like everybody has $5. You're coming in here watching for free. It's like, yeah, 'cause it's allowed and it's the same with them, like expecting people to pay $6 or something that they were getting for free already is like it's never worked. That's just bad business for anybody in our field. And I get, there's a lot to it 'cause I get that you have a big company, you have like 25 employees. You, they said in the apology and maybe in the original one that they didn't want to let anybody go, which is commendable 'cause a lot of times it's like, just downscale. Like clearly you can't afford the staff you have, you can't afford the productions you have. So downscale stuff so you can't afford it with everyone's salaries, but it is commendable to find money elsewhere to make sure people don't get affected that they don't lose their jobs. 'Cause everyone's losing their jobs these days. But yeah, I feel like there's just better ways to go about it instead of like expecting people to pay that much money monthly to pay for your stuff when, I know it just feels really icky to me. 'Cause they also say like how much they spend on their production, but we don't really have hard numbers on that either. So it's hard to trust where the money's going, how much is being made. Like if you wanna enter a good faith argument that like we don't wanna let people go, our stuff costs a shit ton of money to make. I feel like you need to be a bit more transparent about how much stuff actually costs. How much, like maybe you don't need to say how much people's salaries cost but how much you're spending on staff, how much, I don't know, I feel like I would like a bit more transparency on that for people to feel like, okay, I get it. You wanna make something huge. Yeah, but. Especially in their case when they weren't adding, they were taking away. Yeah. 'Cause if they were, they don't need to be transparent necessarily if they're like, hey, we're doing this other thing. Everything's staying the same here, but we're gonna have bonus stuff here, which I'm assuming that's what their Patreon is. But if you're like, hey, the thing that you were getting for free, we're not doing that anymore. We're putting it all over here behind a paywall. Yeah, that's true. Then you need to be transparent about it. Yeah, which is interesting that you don't just double down on the Patreon and say, hey, our stuff is costing a fuck ton of money, it's costing way more than we thought. We can't afford to keep doing it the way we are, so please sub to our Patreon. So we can keep doing what we're doing. So then it's like, you get bonus content, but then everybody who was enjoying on YouTube still gets to enjoy on YouTube, which they have rescinded and in their apology talked about that they're still putting the stuff on YouTube, they're just doing it later, which is like, isn't that the Patreon? Or at least that's usually what people do on Patreon. So I don't know, I guess it's trying to fight for better ad rates. No, you wouldn't even be fighting for ad rates 'cause you're doing it. I'm very curious because I saw Charlie's video about it as well. He pointed out that 12 out of the last 19 videos had sponsors in them. And he said that clearly they're not hurting for advertisers, which they said they were.
They were hurting for advertisers and like the ever-changing algorithm and stuff on YouTube makes it Hard to kind of do and they want to be themselves while not risking ad space Which I get but they don't really do anything that does risk ad space unless they want to completely change the content But I would be curious if they went ahead and it was the six dollars and everyone was going through their website and everything Everything went well would they not do sponsorships anymore? That's The thing that I was thinking about too because I feel like they still Would I I don't know maybe I was about to say maybe on YouTube they would keep the ad reads there But that wasn't the plan the plan was to secure everything from YouTube So there's still a lot of questions in regards to it and how it would have gone ahead and they're still going ahead with that I believe but Taking stuff to YouTube later so people can have like the best of both worlds But now you kind of like you kind of like piston people's cornflakes and a lot of people will use this as like a you showed your true colors moment Yeah, it'll be really interesting to see how they do Uh From now on whenever they release their next video how that does But I honestly don't think that they're going to be impacted all that much because like you were saying before their fanbase is like So die hard and so invested in their stuff that Everyone was disappointed I've never seen a more unified comment section before and relatively like respectful From what I was reading most of the comments were very respectful and just like valid criticism being like hey guys this is a bad idea please don't do that Yeah a lot of people saying like they can't afford it and it's like you're my comfort to watch And like I can't afford to watch you then if you do that which is a fucked up thing to think about and the fact that you don't think about that before you put up that kind of statement It just kind of feels like Like spitting in the fan's faces a little bit Um Whenever you do this kind of thing and then you ask people to pay for what you do like I get it They do bigger production stuff than you or I would do like as a regular content It is hard to maintain wages. It is hard to maintain production. Keep stuff the way you want it keep building it Making things bigger and better all the time But I just don't think this is the way you go about it. Maybe Kickstart a season of a show Or something like that. I don't know there's but just asking your audience to pay for it and then take it all away is not the right move No, not at all and like that is sad. I didn't really think about that where it's like You know their audience is really dedicated and so somebody being like yeah, I used to watch you but uh I couldn't afford to anymore. Yeah, like I would I would like to watch you but I can't afford it Yeah, getting bored of content is one thing but being too poor to be able to watch something Yeah, just like no, I'm not or just like not being willing to Give the five or six dollars every month is just it's just like yeah, well I used to get this for free and now I can't justify doing that doesn't make to send to their credit in the apology Did it up front immediately say sorry they took accountability? They addressed the concerns the people brought up I guess fire as apologies go it pretty much is exactly what you're supposed to do or supposed to do yeah what people want you to do um So I will see how it goes. I don't know. I'm not that I like I don't know their content all that much I did think they were just cool dudes. I was like I'd love to get to meet you at some point and hang out and chat I mean, I still would yeah, but yeah, it just seems like a really it just seems tone deaf for their audience it feels like Like some it feels like something some other creator would do who doesn't care about their audience But they seem like they genuinely cared about their community and what they do and their community is their community being so Feverish about their content is the reason they get to do what they do Yeah, and it's not like it I because I think about it a lot with Like there's projects that I want to do or like if I wanted to do An animated show or a TV show or something like I'm willing to put in money of my own to do it But it's also just still crazy expensive to do these things. So it's like Do you kickstart something do you ask Sponsorships to come in do you ask publishers to pay for half of it like all those conversations always happen whenever you're doing a bigger Production, but I would never just outright take something away from the audience and then ask them to pay for it Like it would always have to be something new it would have to be something that was warranted for the price I think if they came out and we're like we want to do a season something of our show And we need X amount of money to do it. I think people would have gladly been like absolutely here. We People who can afford it will But you shouldn't be asking the people who can't afford it to still front the money. It's the same with anything like thank-mess Like I always like please donate as much as you can But I'm kind of hoping the people who can afford it come in instead of asking all the people who can't give money To front that bill At the end of the day, it just kind of seems like this wasn't very thought out at all It seems like they got really excited and they were like oh that would be really cool. Let's do that and didn't Think about it at all Because it doesn't happen overnight like you have to build a website Yeah, no, so it seems odd Uh, because you know they're well versed in the internet It seems really weird that they wouldn't have that immediate thought of like People are probably gonna be pretty upset about this That or they they think some people are gonna be upset about this But the majority of people will be fine and then Miss calculated I do love the top comment on the video is just oh icarus Wow, how can you see so much with two words The video has 1.9 million views 37,000 likes and 242,000 dislikes Oh boy and 81,000 comments Jesus But I mean Thank you. That's what happens you put something out It's up to you if you want to take the valid criticism move on be better about it Um, or you want to just be like hey fuck you we're doing it anyway and It doesn't matter people will pay regardless and it seems like they're doing the former rather than Being greedy about it. So Let's see what happens with them Hopefully they don't he will see hopefully they didn't kill their darling They're a beautiful thing that they made that everyone was so excited about and People will be a bit sour on it for a while if they managed to get past it But hopefully it doesn't like Taint people's perceptions forever. Yeah, no, I don't think it will and honestly again I haven't watched the actual apology video But the first thing that I noticed going to their channel seeing that the apology video is only three minutes long Is like a green flag in my mind because I'm like okay, you didn't just pad this out by like you know Trying to overly apologize. You probably just sat there and said What happened and said what you needed to say and that's it you didn't need to make a 45 minute long apology Yeah, and I think youtuber apologies are a thing that people meme all the time and they do kind of live in a bubble because The apology is one thing you can have a great apology and a PR team that works on it with you But it's kind of like how you act after the apology that will actually show if you care or not Or if you're actually gonna be changes or if You realize you fucked up and I don't know Everyone deserves second chances Yeah, so we're not bad dudes unless they fucked up once before and then you're not allowed a third one Never three-strike world, baby Never third chance ever never to the shackles with you to the gates of hell Mm-hmm Learning you watcher the brainly podcasts are on patrol We're keeping our eyes on you and that's not just funny word play we mean it Yeah, we're gonna up all the Justice yeah, full your internet full drives look hard I'm hard right now Look hard hold on I gotta rub it Hold on just give me a second. I haven't been thinking about things like that God chill the cock out all right. Oh, no, yeah, I mean thinking about dicks Thinking about it now uh speaking of content things I'm about to come back to the old you two the old Thunder dome Yep, how does it make some changes? Good I have fun announcements. I'm gonna be taking my channel and doing a subscription all On a different platform that I made I really hope that people like it um I don't know. I don't I don't think there's a world where it could go poorly No, everyone's gonna be supportive and people have money Yeah, I think I'm watch for free. I think I'm watch for feet Yeah You can watch for feet That's the new model of damn or straight off the dome baby Hell yeah, that's in prob for you. That's what we do. That's what we do Uh, I'm excited though. I feel uh much more refreshed I feel like the changes that I'm gonna make are Going to be less stressful for me even though It's not really gonna change much on how like I work every day But I feel like when you announce changes or you announce like whenever people are like update vlog.
It's like don't do that. No one cares. And you're not gonna get views on something like that. You got to call it something else You got to call it This year I'll die unless Something I uploaded the comic book thing on my second channel because I was like I don't know if people will watch this on the main channel And it was just like it's just me talking about a comic book. So I was like Finally being honest and it's like one of those youtuber faces where you're kind of sad and I was like oh you freaked me out I'm like okay good Good, but if this was a real big like crazy Change I don't you think that I would put it on my main channel not this channel have it when have you posted on that channel ever? Yeah, I used to do shorts on it. Oh Wait, which channel it's beddicey Let's find out I even had someone hired that was doing it for a long time. Oh Spedicey here is video Finally being honest. Oh, yeah, there you are to click it look at you. Yeah, I did I want my phone now just then let's see what the top comments are I want to I want the comic book to do well Being threatened by Jack's septic eye with the gun is not something I was expecting to happen today But here we are. Ha ha Jack with a clock is something I never knew I had to see knowing fire arms are illegal in the UK Proves it to us that Jack is a permit to carry a firearm. Oh, yeah, because that's what you take away Is that this is a real gun and I pulled it out on camera? What am I Charlie? That's about to say the same thing. I don't even know if that's a real good, but he's from Florida so probably Probably honestly you can do anything you want there. I I've done I guess by the time that this episode comes out things will have happened anyway, but I am also starting another channel To make The second channel. It's called EF That's good. Yeah, the period on it because everyone always has to have like Another thing. It's like the name that everyone calls you was kind of like the The standard now for everyone's second channel. So it's like everyone used to say Spedicey because of Jesus on Felix's video Yeah, everyone calls you EF Evelyn's doing one with puzzles and she's calling it goobus. I'm like, he go Goobus my It's just EF period is the name the channel banner is Me with my Bob Ross face and there's just text that says whatever video whenever I want Yeah So it's just gonna be like the main channel stuff will be the main channel stuff But I just wanted a place to just put stuff up that is just whatever and there's no consequences And that is nice because a lot of people are like you could just do that in your main channel But unless you've had a main channel that you've uploaded stuff to that has like underperformed And you're like oh man, I was really excited about that and it's like it's hard not to care Because it's just part of the job, but Having a second channel where you can just bring dump I think is Really fun. Yeah, and so I'm gonna just post once a week on the main channel that it be like the Quote unquote higher production stuff Yeah, and then the other channel will have multiple videos going up a week probably But it'll just be whatever I feel like that's like I went to the ren fair a couple days ago And I have this old Sony like mini DV camera And so I just like filmed a bunch of random stuff Uh, and so like that'll go up and it's just like a fun random video at the ren fair That would probably not do very well on the main channel But it just matter because going up on the second channel and it was fun to film and it would be a fun little Whatever yeah, so I'm excited about that It doesn't really change anything about like my day-to-day, but it takes pressure off And it'll make the main channel look better because like you said since sometimes stuff will just underperform Well, that's kind of I was gonna say like Years ago when the algorithm wasn't as strict as it is now That you could just do that on your main channel and everything was fine But now you have people making like gaming channels react channels or like game theory Made like style and fashion the same thing food um, and it's like If one thing for like branding yes, but it's also like because they want to stick in those algorithms And they don't want to fuck it up and there's like an unspoken thing that If you upload something that's not your main algorithm like my algorithm is gaming And you have to like try for a while to shift your algorithm and then you don't know if it's gonna work And it's just kind of annoying that that's such a prevalent thought now is that you have to think about that stuff instead of Like algorithms are the death of creativity And I feel like having a second channel where you can just do whatever you want fills that creative well a bit more I can already see the comments now of people who Like don't really watch my channel anyway, but they just want to come in and leave a shitty comment and then bounce of like if you really like Care do you just post everything on your main channel and do what you want and it's like that's not how this works when you do for your job That's not how the algorithm is actually because you care about your channel that you're not doing it Yeah, also I Who cares? Fuck a fuck Fuck him and not and not like oh, fuck audiences, but like those are the types of people that are just trying to drag you down for you trying to have fun with yourself So just trying to drag me down man. Did you call me spread by wings and fly? This is your space. This is your area This is your area dude. We're seeing that The comedian that does that joke. Yeah, you can't let her talk to you like that dude. This is your space is your area So good Uh, I'm excited though. Yeah, yeah I think it'll be good and I think also like because you do have to think about these things when you do it for your job It's like my channel has been around for almost 12 years now and so creating a new channel that will You know, it's not going to do crazy well, but it will do better than 99.999 percent of brand new channels on YouTube Yeah, so I think that will probably help Just Whatever Yeah, because there's also this thing like Well, we don't even know if it's real that if you upload stuff god God is definitely real and he's an algorithm Um, because look at the fucking shit stains you created I think it there's a thing with like if you upload stuff on your channel that does poorly Then it's kind of has like a knock on effect And if you continuously upload stuff that does poorly and people aren't watching it then it doesn't get served as their sub feeds It doesn't get suggested. It doesn't go to browse features. It doesn't yeah It has like this awful knock on effect. It's almost like poison that kills your channels And that's why you see so many people do Extra channels because they want to do creative things But the way YouTube is right now is that you can't be as creative as you want on your channel So you see so many channels Double down on one type of content you have people who do horror content all they're doing is horror content Because they're like this hits there's a plethora of them It's in my algorithm. It always gets suggested. I'm gonna keep doing that Uh, people who do like only Fortnite content I'm sure they don't always want to just do Fortnite content everyone would love to be able to do lots of different things But you can't do that anymore because you get locked in Locked in syndrome Yep, it's just the way the platform is The algorithm's work Like the the standard algorithms get the worst that kind of stuff is going to get everything gets very homogenous or as My pet said siloed Everything's in its own bubbles Everything's in its own little bubble. I was talking to my therapist about it the other day though Where I'm just like yeah, I just don't really care all the I mean like there's parts of me that care Obviously what audiences have to say but I was thinking about just like the comments that people make Where they'll just kind of shit on you for xyz thing and it's like okay Like you know what it is like as a viewer of things But you don't know what it's like on this side of things and you actually don't know how this Works because you are not a creator that does this for their job Yeah, unless you are a creator that does this for your job and you were throwing up valid criticism But most people it's like okay like Some of your advice is good and valid but a lot of the times it's just like you you don't know what it's like doing it on this end And how the algorithm works and how all this shit works. So you have to Unfortunately pander to the algorithm. Yeah, um it's kind of like a 50 after Oh, go ahead. You go ahead. Uh, I was gonna say after I like rebranded and stuff. I think Both the algorithm and my viewers don't really know what to expect from my channel Because it's just a bunch of different stuff and so it'll make it more More streamlined frictionless As I was gonna say it's kind of like a 50/50 thing because Our job is kind of to like do these things without the audience having to really know about it or hear about it or You kind of like share as much as you want or need At the time so it's like sometimes it's like audience to say stuff and I'm like I get it because you don't really Understand how I operate you don't really understand where my brain is at. So the only way you can react is the way you're reacting Um, and I I don't really like the video I did about my Retirement and like when I would do it and things like that a lot of
But people in the comments were just really, really nice. But somebody clipped a section, talked about depression and stuff, and then uploaded that to TikTok, which is totally fine. People did that all the time. But all the comments there were like, "Oh, boohoo. He's a millionaire who plays games for a living and he's crying about it." And I'm like, "Yeah." I think a while ago that was a bother me, but I'm like, "I get it because to you, you probably are struggling with money because everyone's struggling with money these days. It's a completely fair thing." I luckily don't have to struggle with money anymore. So we're coming from with our mentalities is completely different. And I completely get like, from your perspective, that is how this looks. And I can't really fault anybody for that. Like I know it's not true. And I know there is part of me that's like, "I do have a really good job." And I get paid way too much for it. And I should, like I need to remind myself constantly that like this is more fun than it seems because algorithms get in your head. Conversations with other people get in your head. I don't have any friends in day-to-day life that I hang out with. We have PJ and Sophie, but we don't see them like every day. Like I don't have people that I hang out with constantly. So I don't have like a sounding board for anything. I don't know. Is this human nature, isn't it? Yeah. I think that people sometimes forget that that is the most basic thing about human life is that everyone is living a different life than has different stuff going on. Like sometimes it's kind of unfair to be like, "They have this in this. They have to be happy." It's like, yeah. That's not how that works. It's like, I think that's where the like money doesn't buy happiness kind of thing, which I kind of hate that phrase because money definitely affords a lot of things that can make you happy in the moment and fleeting happiness is better than no happiness. Yeah. But also it's like, I think people just need, I think back on humans as tribes, we just, I'm going full Joe Rogan now. When we were apes, I think people just need friction. They need to struggle. They need like some sort of friction in their life to give it purpose and meaning. You need something overbearing to work against to feel like you need like a struggle to feel like you're accomplishing stuff. If everything's great and everything's going well, it's kind of hard to know as a human to what to do. It's like if your financial problems are all solved, it's like you still have all your emotional baggage that you need to deal with. And now it's like, yeah. Now I'm lucky enough that I have the money that I can afford to get help to figure that out. Or like, if you have bad teeth, it's like money definitely buys. It's happiness in terms of like fixing your teeth. And like money can buy happiness for therapy. It can buy medical stuff. It's a, it's a scale kind of thing. Like if, if you have like financial problems that are weighing a bunch of stuff down, then the other stuff won't seem as big of an issue. But if you suddenly remove that thing, then everything else is going to shift. But I apply to it like everything. But I remember hearing that like money doesn't buy happiness stuff back when I was living in a cabin and I was poor and depressed. And I'm like, things are way better now than they ever were back then. Like this is literally the best version of my life. And a lot of it is because of money. I get to live in a cool house. I get to paint miniatures. I get to like take time off and not have to worry about work all the time. So yeah. I understand it. When people say that kind of stuff, I'm like, yeah, I get it. I would probably feel similarly if I was in that situation. Hmm. Look at us having personal growth and stuff. Yeah. And that crazy. I just don't like when YouTubers make the audience their problem. It's like, oh, stuff isn't going well. It's like, oh, it's my audience is the problem. And I don't know. The audience is why you get to do what you do. They're why you're here. You don't know every, you don't know everything to them. But definitely a lot to them. Without the audience, there's no one there watching. Watch the watch man. Who watches the watch man? If there's who watches watching. If somebody tells a joke in a forest and a tree falls down, is that funny? I guess it depends. Does it? If a YouTuber stops uploading, do they even exist? If a YouTuber goes in a forest, she's gonna. Oh God. A YouTuber goes to the forest. Well, not only that, but it's so weird. I think of people getting canceled as like a whale fall. You know how like when a whale dies, a falls to the bottom. And then it's like a whale fall is technically an ecosystem that's so many other things thrive off. So it's like a YouTuber dies. And then so many other channels are like, no, no, no. Content for me. Me greedy, me get. Yeah. We're all like little, we're all like little crabs. Yeah. It's going on. It's a hard line to walk because I want to talk about current things like the watcher thing. But then it's also like, I don't want to add to a problem though. I think how do you talk about drama without adding to drama? Yeah. I've got a gun and threaten people. That's it. Are you afraid to hold it realistically because you're afraid we'll get in trouble? Oh God. Oh God. Oh God. Oh God. Anyway, who watches the watchman? We'll never know who else the male man. You have to pay $6.99 to find out. God. Fuck. Sorry. I have no. Do you have $6.99? Of course you do. Of course you do. Mr. Second Channel. Probably only doing it because you want the dough balls. Exactly. Want to hire RPM? You want to put sponsors on there? You want to do this and then the other thing. And then all that you thought. I just want to be able to swear on my channel again without like second guessing myself. I was like a two year period where every time I swore I was like, you can kind of see me like clam up and hold back. Because I'm like, oh, did that just fuck me up? And then I'm like in my head about it. If you could see me on a trampoline in here. And then whenever I upload on a second channel or like lately, I'm like, I just want to do what I want to do and not really worry about it and whatever. So now I'm like swearing a lot more. And not because I'm like, ha, fuck a duty. It's funny. But not because you're 11 and you just learned what swears are. Yeah, but it's just part of my lexicon. I used to do it all the time and I hate that the algorithm kind of drove it out of me. I want to find who me is again. I want to fucking be fucking me to shit ass. Fucking bitch. It's a couple that I won't say because I will instantly get you demonetized. Yeah. What? Yeah. I don't like that. I don't even care about getting demonetized. I'm like, if the video doesn't earn money, I'm like, fine. I have plenty of others that are earning. I have earners out there. My fucking pin channel. I've got earners, dude. I've got my earners out in that pasture. But it's when it takes it out of some feeds and it takes it out of suggestions and people can't even see the video. I don't like that it kills traffic. I love seeing comments that are like, whoa, I just stumbled upon your video. I didn't know you were uploading anymore. Yeah. And it's like, yep, I'm still here. I'm at somebody. You just don't see anything. I want to get coffee today and somebody behind the counter. Lovely guy, crazy cool tattoos, really cool look and dude. And he was like, oh man, he used to watch you all the time as a kid. And I was like, I think you're a grown adult. And then he was like, he used to watch you all the time when I was like 10. And I'm like 20 now. And I was like, I was just that my Damon meme where he grows immediately. I went to the Renfare the other day, like I said. And it was really nice to meet a bunch of people. I was getting stopped constantly, which was very nice. But I was like a little sad because every time I got stopped and I understand and I am very glad this thing was so impactful. Every single person only said like, I loved Unis honest and it made me a little sad where it was like, oh, that's cool that you like the, I'm very glad that you enjoyed the thing that I did. I can't feel like nobody watches. It's better to be known for something than nothing. Yeah, you made an impact somehow. And that's all any of us in this career want to do because I get those comments all the time now where it's like, I used to watch you all the time and they used to bother me for a while. But now I'm like, yeah, that's fine. I like an impact on your life. And I was like, you're comfort like, or the things were for me. Someone's relevance and everyone wants to be like as relevant as possible all the time. But I mean, I rode that wave, man. And I beat myself up about it all the time about not enjoying things more. And I keep coming back to that quote that that drummer said in the Drumeo video, which is like, I'd have more fun if I wasn't so hard on myself. And I'm like, yeah, that's that's my life. I need to get outside of my own bubble. I need to burst my bubble. I don't want to be bubble boy anymore. I want to catch diseases and infections. Yeah. No, like, I don't know. I a part of me is like, I am very glad that it was so impactful. But there is the other thing that's like, I wish that someone would be like, oh, I love your videos.
is now, but I also get what you're saying. Yeah. That is true. Well, people also say that to me like, like I watched you a long time ago and I'm like, that was when I was putting in my most effort. Like I'm not going to pretend that I'm still putting in the same amount of effort as I used to back then. So obviously people are going to fall away and not watch as much and I'm doing things that I want to do more so than just like playing absolutely everything that comes out. So it makes sense. Yeah. It's the same with you. Like you're doing stuff that you want to do now. You're not uploading every day like when it's honest was you're not, you're not making a spectacle out of it as much as you did when you did that. So it's understandable, but people are still there. Hey, people still care. They're still out there. Look, all those people out there. Hey, all you beautiful people out there. Oh, fuck. Oh, hello, I still got it. It's still in there. I don't know who that guy was. It's like it's a little mat patty and really mat patty actually now that he I just said it. Hello, internet. Oh, it was my part before my back. It's so funny. Actually, he might have been still doing that stuff back then. I don't know. He said he was doing YouTube longer than I was. So yeah, it's also now like venom spider man and spider man too. I keep thinking about that like every time he showed up and he was like, he's going to wish he never came to New York. And I was like, that's the only way I can do Yuri Lohanthal is by being mat pat. Don't but tell me how many calories I can have. Bitch. It is very similar. It's crazy, but it's just I didn't realize how much my my origin story was. I was steeped in mat pad. Oh, it was solid snake for venom. Yeah. Oh, war has changed. Oh, war never changes depending on what game you're playing. Do you want to follow the show? I started the first episode the other night. I really like it and I don't even really care about follow. I like it a lot so far. Apparently since the release of the show, steam sales were followed for having increased by 7,000%. Yeah, and they're like hit peak players for Fallout 76. Yeah. That's wild, which is not a surprise. But seeing even just the first episode did make me go like, I just kind of want to play that opening sequence and fall out for it. I literally did that after I was the first episode. I did that and then I went into the town afterwards and I was like, I forgot that I didn't really want to play this game. Yeah. I was like, I forgot that I have to look on my map and go into every building and check everything. That's cool. The first time. But I'm like, that's not what I want to do right now. Yeah, I do kind of wish that there was more in, I mean, I don't know how the rest of the show goes. So maybe they flash back to it. I have no idea. I'm assuming they don't. But more of like everyone like getting into the vault and stuff like that. That is my favorite thing in media is when you have an apocalyptic event and then you have a whole episode or the whole opening sequence is dedicated to the downfall. The downfall of humanity is my favorite like media trope in a apocalyptic setting. So I'm very excited to see the new quiet place movie. Did you watch the start of part two? Bet you didn't. No. Bet you forgot. Not. You should put a reminder in your phone. I should. I should. I should. I should just watch that whole movie. Yeah. That's true. Yeah. People don't always have the tensions for a full movie. Oh, you know, I did start the other day though. Joking. And no, started that ages ago. It's increased tenfold. I do have a story about jolking that I could tell. Keep going. Okay. Really threw me for a loop there. No, I started. I watched it rise in the planet of the apes the other day and watch all those movies again before the new one comes out. Yeah. Definitely night to the last year. We watched all three of them in the cinema room. Oh, apes together. Good. So excited for the new. The whole time I was just sitting there, clenching my butt waiting for him to just go, no. Yeah. So cool. And then Strayco's like so good. I love that. The first half of that movie is not very good, but the second half is really good. I was fucking awesome. I love that movie. That's, that's like a comfort movie for me. I think they're great. I think the new one's probably going to be, but yeah, we'll see. CG is always really good. CG is always very good. The first one, the CG gets markedly better in the second half when Caesar is just at the apes sanctuary because everything is just like controlled. Well, it's also easier to see CG around CG when you see just him in a house surrounded by real people. It's like, and at the time, it was like, how did we accomplish this fidelity? You know, you're watching this like, I know how it looks like Pixar. It's still, it holds up pretty well. The second half holds up very, very well. The Maurice, the orangutan looks fucking real. Yeah, he just looks real. He looks the best of all the way. It's just a real fucking monkey. It must be easier to do when it's like covered in hairs. You're not like seeing skin and textures and. Is it though? I thought that hair was the hardest thing. No, skin is usually the hardest thing to do in CG and games and stuff because you have to do like translucency, you have to do subsurface scattering, you have to do, there's like, there's so many layers to skin and everyone's as different and like the consistency and the density of your skin and because your skin is slightly see through. So. But the second movie, CG in that movie, fucking rules. That's why if you're watching the movie, I love that movie. Not to that. Oh, dude, I'm so excited about movies Wolverine and Deadpool. Oh, yeah. I'm excited. I want to. I want to. You want to that premiere? I want to I want to poke my manager go, hey, you get my hair. I so desperately want to do something with Ryan Reynolds for that. I'm like, can we please get together again? Even if it's just to show up and you want to tell me to fuck off. That's a good take talk. But I'm so cool. I mean, I'm not trying to downplay. I'm not trying to downplay Ryan Reynolds at all. I really love Ryan Reynolds a lot. But if you're doing a problem for the movie, I'll just be really cool. It'd be a huge act. You do like Wolverine. So I can see Wolverine is my favorite superhero. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I did reply to Ryan's story about the trailer. And I said, dude, look so fucking cool. I can't wait. And he wrote back, it's my favorite one yet. Thanks, pal. And I'm like, if he thinks it's his favorite one, then I'm going to be like, then it's going to be awesome. It's going to be so fucking cool. It's a puk- That wasn't public. He could say anything in the DMs. Well, he wouldn't say that it sucks. Well, yeah. But, you know, I'm excited. I really want to do something for that movie. It's going to be so cool. Give him a little poke and say, hey, Ryan. I'll do it. It's not up to him. It's up to everybody else. Last time was with Sony. Maybe. No. No, 20th century Fox. And I had dealings with them, but I don't really have a contact at Marvel for anything. So, is he what happens? It's going to be cool. I'm excited. It's going to be great. I love Wolverine. Yeah. I'm very excited. There's so many references in the trailer already. And sometimes it's like, sometimes too many references are like, eh, but for Deadpool, I'm like, you're going to nail it. I love at the end of the trailer. It was like cocaine is the one thing Fiege said that we can't do. And then it's like, do you want to put the snowman? He's like, yes, but I can't. It's so awesome. So I hope it's going to be so fun. I hope there's a ton of jokes like that in it. Oh, I'm sure there will be because Deadpool. Yeah, it's going to be great. I'm pumped to see Hugh back in the back of the old saddle. Yeah. It's a little sad that it's like, oh, the Logan one ended. Everyone was like, farewell. And that's like, now you're back. So I kind of sullies it a little bit, but I think they'll handle it well. And I think it would still be. Yeah. Well, it seems like it's like every Marvel movie as of late a little multi-versi. Oh, yes. They're like jumping through a thing and stuff. They have the TVA from Loki. So it's all like fixing timelines. But I love that that makes the fun time jump thing at the end of Deadpool 2 where he shoots himself in the head. I love that that is now technically canon. And they'll probably like work around that to be like, that's how he finds Logan at one point or like a version of him. I did love that line where he's like, unless you want to take a breath through your forehead. Yeah. So good. I think that's Ryan Reynolds strong suit. He's sitting in a room and coming up with one line of equips like that. He's like, oh, this is claws of whiskey dick. I'm like, yeah, I have never heard that term before. I'm sure it's said plenty in some places, but that's a great one. Oh, you've never heard of whiskey dick? No. Oh, yes, great. Oh, it's going to be fun. Ryan, come on in the podcast. Ryan, have Sean come and do a thing and Sean, you can, you can dress up like Wolverine and you could say, let's, I do have a Deadpool mask. I could bring it with me. I'd be like, guess who? Haha. And then just take off the eye parts.
- You're just staring through the eyes. Oh, if I can do the whole interview like that or just pretend that it doesn't exist, I'm gonna pitch that to people and make it happen. Manifest, I can't say Manifest Destiny 'cause I forgot the dance. - No, that is. - Not what that is. It sounds like that that's what it should be. And I think technically that's what it is, but it was used horribly. So I won't say that funny. - But Manifest-- - I just love-- - I thought that it was very, very funny you saying that because you're not from America and they've been America, obviously that is a big deal, but why would you know anything about that? - And we have a big history of colonizing in Europe, but we haven't used that term. - Colonization in Europe. - UK Netherlands Back to Back Champions, baby. (laughs) - See, you mean to tell me that Inklip has colonized other places? - Hey, what language are you speaking? (laughs) - No! - It's like, whatever about Louis CK 'cause he got shit on in public and everything and I don't know much about that situation, but I remember watching one of his things. He's like, he talked about which religion won. And he's like, which religion won? What year is it? (laughs) I'm like, that's the best way of describing that. That's such a good joke. (laughs) - That is pretty good. - Well, anyway, should we wrap this bitch up? Put a little bow on it. - Put this thing in. - Send it off to our subscription site. - Send this bitch off the pasture. (laughs) - Sure thing, Miko. - Hell yeah. Well, everyone, don't forget, you know, go sign up for our subscription. You won't be hearing from us here anymore. - Relieving. - Yeah. - So, and if you don't follow us there, then you don't care about us. - Yep, we don't care about you. And that's why we're doing it. - Adios. (upbeat music)
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The hosts announce they are creating their own subscription platform ($20/month) with edited-down content, moving away from free distribution.
They discuss Josh Brolin's coffee table book, debating its poetic quality and cringiness.
Taylor Swift's album "Tortured Poets Department" is critiqued for its length (31 songs) and lyrics, with comparisons to Hozier's more poetic style.
A NordVPN ad is inserted, promoting cybersecurity for a road trip.
The hosts talk about insecurities, self-promotion, and cultural differences between American and Irish attitudes toward success.
They reference a past episode with Matt Pat and discuss a comic book release, including an IGN article.
They critique the "Watcher" channel's decision to hype up leaving YouTube for a paid platform, calling it poorly handled.
Summary:
The podcast episode begins with chaotic banter about a knife phrase and a joke about blurring guns in video. The hosts announce their new paid subscription platform at $20/month, offering less content than before, which they frame humorously. They then discuss Josh Brolin's book, mixing praise for its photography with skepticism about the poetry's quality.
The conversation shifts to Taylor Swift's 31-track album, with one host admitting he doesn't know her music but finds certain lyrics like "you ate seven chocolate bars" amusing out of context. They compare her songwriting to Hozier's more literary approach, sparking a debate on artistic authenticity. A NordVPN ad follows, tied to a road trip narrative.
The hosts delve into personal insecurities, self-promotion, and cultural contrasts: Americans strive to climb the capitalist ladder, while Irish culture tends to pull down those who succeed. They celebrate a comic book release and an IGN article, though one host struggles to accept praise due to Irish upbringing. The episode closes by criticizing the "Watcher" channel for hyping their exit from YouTube to launch a paid platform, calling the execution tone-deaf and likely to alienate their audience.
Throughout, the tone is self-deprecating, humorous, and reflective on fame and content creation.
FAQs
The hosts announced they are creating their own platform that will cost $20 a month, offering edited-down content, though they admit it will have less content than the free version.
The book includes photography from the set of his movie and poetry or passages written by Josh Brolin, though the hosts debate whether the poetry is good or cringy.
They find some lyrics, like 'you ate seven chocolate bars,' hilarious out of context, but one host admits he hasn't listened and doesn't care, while noting the album has 31 tracks.
The host recommends NordVPN to protect against cyber threats, keep internet fast, and access different region-locked content while traveling.
The hosts discuss the 'watcher' (likely referring to the channel Watcher) announcing a move to a paid platform after hyping it up, which they criticize as a poor decision that upset the audience.
The host released a comic book series, with Issue #1 out, and it was featured in IGN and Forbes, which he found exciting for his inner child.
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