supermegashow - EP 122 - Jingle Jangle

Episode Date: December 23, 2018

We wrap up 2018 and talk about our viewers and our personal growth, bike wipeouts, and bath houses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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None of that Xmas bullshit. Uh-uh, none of that Happy Holidays bullshit. Not crossing out Christ, okay? Nope. You gotta capitalize that shit. Christmas isn't lowercase. It's not just some stupid it's a fucking noun let me tell you something yeah it's a pronoun it's it's a it is a what's it called proper noun sorry proper noun yeah it's a well christ could be a pronoun if you wanted yeah i

could be like if i just referred to you as just christ that's a pronoun yeah but this is this is legitimately guys i don't think our nation or our world has ever faced a bigger crisis than what we're in right now the war on christmas is real don't think our nation or our world has ever faced a bigger crisis than what we're in right now. The war on Christmas is real. Don't let anyone else tell you otherwise. And we are here. We need to rise up. We need this movement of people to help us conquer the war on Christmas.

Real talk, though, the holiday season always makes me think, like especially with the war on Christmas stuff, of when we first came back as kids with problems. Because the first video we posted was the Starbucks coffee thing. Oh yeah. Which is no longer up. I don't think. Is it to get taken down? I think, I think I privated it just cause it had to do with ISIS.

Yeah. And you want, we, the thing is we don't, if the kids with problems account gets fucked, uh, that's not good because that's a lot of like his old stuff that we. Yeah.

Well, I mean, that's the thing for like it's the same thing as if if Cyndago got fucked and it's like, oh, I I don't have those videos anymore to look back at. I know I could download them and I'm sure they're somewhere on a hard drive, I think. But something about just having the channel is really nice. Yeah, absolutely. Same with my old YouTube channel when I was 12. But like basically. 3 mat 23 nope okay which one was it two mat 22 nope one mat 21 no stop just stop just stop just just stop what one did i miss you use something i don't i don't know i can't remember anymore you're in this one you can cut out whatever but no it's fine but like um yeah that we never made a single penny off of kids with problems nope uh because they didn't first of all pretty much nothing was monetized and also we never were able to connect

an adsense account so we can never we made those videos for nothing we just made them for fun but we did do that one where a couple three years years ago. Was it three years ago now? Yeah, three years ago. We came back as Kids With Problems in, I think, December of 2015. Oh, my God. Wow. 2015. But that was when there was that whole controversy that Starbucks removed Merry Christmas off

their cups and just said happy. Or they just made it a red cup. Yeah. And we just put the ISIS logo on the cup. You were like, like matt look at this did you see what starbucks did with their cups i was like yeah the merry christmas thing you're like no this and it was just the isis flag and i was like ryan i what and you're like yeah it doesn't say merry christmas i know the joke of the video is that you completely overlooked that

the isis flag was on the cup and it just didn't say Merry Christmas. And then we started that hashtag. Oh, fuck. Oh, my God. The worst. That video had the worst timing because the day after we posted it was when the Paris thing. Yeah. When when ISIS did that attack in the concert in Paris, like the day after and we were like concert in Paris or was the artist thing.

That was it. That was way back in high school. I think the artist thing. But like, oh, my God, I was just like, oh, this timing couldn't be worse. Because I woke up to a text from my brother-in-law and he's like, man, bad timing. I was like, why? And he's like, check the news.

And I was like, fuck. So then we had to like quickly end that hashtag of Merry Christmas ISIS. We're like, nope, guys, don't, nah. We just stopped retweeting it. We're like, uh-oh. Because the thing is we told people to go out and get like hashtag Merry Christmas ISIS on the cups.

Which looking back, I would never do that now. No, no. We were edgy, dude. Yeah, we were coming back into like a good edgier type of phase. Well, I think the thing about that is after Cyndago ended, we were, you and I were just very lost. We're like, what do we do? Because we don't do Cyndago anymore.

Yeah. That was built up. And then I think it was like, well, I have this YouTube channel that I had with Jackson and then like some other people from like college here and there and it was like i kind of just uploaded my own videos to it and i'm like when i started working for uh mark back in 2015 he would that was like the only social media i had at the time yeah so that's what he would promote so it started getting some traction and i'm like okay this has some traction already not a lot but it has some so why don't we just for the time being until we figure it out more, why don't we just make

videos and post them on the kids of problems channel? And that's what we did. Um, and back then we were, first of all, much younger, but second of all, it's like we hadn't really found our voice yet or our style of comedy. So I think we kind of wanted to go for that edgy ground. The groundwork was there, but the, the kind the kind of the jokes we chose and the way we chose to go about those jokes, I think we would do a lot differently in terms of also like just certain jokes we wouldn't make. Yeah. Well, I mean, that's the thing about growth is like.

Well, like for us, it was like we got to make a statement. We got to make sure people notice us and so like being like kind of like edgy was something that was working yeah especially in that time and I think another part of it was because we were so closely affiliated with Markiplier's fanbase

I think we were trying to find our own fanbase so we tried to be more edgy to try to break our voice in like a different ground cause we didn't want all of his like no offense of course but we didn't want all of his fans to just like teeter over to kids with problems we wanted like our own fans yeah we wanted our own group so we tried our best to kind of make the content that would push his the like the not push them away just find a different audience yeah you know it would kind of like his fans would come be like oh maybe this isn't for me yeah and i think that's also in the in

the early days of of all this i i used to just be like just so bitter on twitter and stuff especially about like fan bases i was just an asshole back then because i i i remember i would you have a let's player as a profile picture yeah like like that whole era i was now you don't care now you don't give a shit. Really, I was just insecure. Still have people blocked that have Let's Players as their profile picture. From the people I blocked like three years ago and I've totally forgotten about. You know what?

I'll go and I'll unblock everybody. Will you? But the thing is, okay, but here's the real thing. I don't know how to sort through that for people that I blocked for legitimate reason and people I blocked during that thing. Well, I think you should keep the people blocked that tested you and you're like, respond to this and I'll block you. Hey, I mean, I said it. You did it.

I mean, I did exactly. I'm a man of my word. It's a joke. Yeah. But like, even in like early Superman, when we started, we still hadn't found our voice. So that's why like, I just cringe watching some of those early videos, just say jokes we make where I'm like, I shouldn't have made that joke. But it's like, you know, we've grown shouldn't have made that joke, but it's like, you know,

we've grown as people. And I honestly think like early twenties, you grow so much because I'm a completely different person with my views, who I am, but it's like, Hey, that's that. I just think also like putting in mind,

just like, I think a lot of people who have recorded let's plays or even in another instance, like daily vlogs, when you talk and do something so often, there's bound to be something that you said that you don't agree with or don't, that doesn't represent you anymore. Because the thing is, like,

when people don't upload that often, there's a lot of, like, if you upload three or five videos a year, you have a lot to change and that's very easily seen through the progression is easily seen, but with a channel that uploads almost every day, it's a very, it's a very, yeah,

it's a very slow kind of growth into like the voice you want and the voice you're creating. Cause we, we weren't, we weren't successful already. And so we weren't just like making a brand that was going to be like, what I'm trying to say is we weren't a big business and we weren't successful already and so we weren't just like making a brand that was going to be like what i'm trying to say is we weren't a big business and we weren't creating a brand and we didn't have everything in place in terms of what we wanted the voice to be we just knew we wanted to

go for something a lot more laid back i think super mega started out as something where it's like i don't want to think about like what I say and stuff like that. And to this, we're unfiltered. Yeah. But at the heart of it, I think we wanted to be more relaxed and recording. We didn't feel like we had to be on our tiptoes in the beginning. But now since we're used to recording, we, we, we've, we've gotten a handle of like, we don't have to reach as far sometimes. We still reach, we still reach.

I mean, we, we still do make some pretty edgy jokes sometimes. Quote, unquote. And say some very like, you know, things that are like, oh, that's a pretty bad joke. But I think like back then especially it was like we would reach because I think we would try to be shocking and try to say shit that's like, oh, they said that. No way.

As you said, a part of it was the fact that we were very close closely intertwined with like the markiplier brand which is the exact opposite of what super mega started out as right you know and and i think that was just us trying to find our voice especially because i honestly we were pretty lost at that point trying to figure out what we wanted to be what our voice was because that was right after all that shit happened. Well, what to fucking do? Because those of you who know, like, the past, like, you knew a lot of stuff went down in 2015. You know, the big thing being the passing of our friend Daniel.

Right. And so after that... Which ended Syndigo. Yeah. So then we were like, what the hell did we do? And a lot of people were just like, why'd you have to end Syndigo? He'd want you to continue it. And, like, people need to like, why'd you have to end Synnego? He'd want you to continue it. And like, people need to understand. Synnego for me, like the moment Daniel passed, Synnego ended.

Because if he's not involved with creating anything on that channel, then it's not Synnego. And it would honestly just be a shell of its former self. Yeah. So after talking. It's a beautiful time capsule. It is. It is. And you always have that.

Yeah. And the internet always has that which is great but i think that for me and ryan um god damn we're getting deep in the first fucking 10 minutes but we promise we'll get all cheery and christmasy christmasy but this is interesting to talk about i don't think we're gonna talk about this is the last episode this is the last episode of the year yeah um we're not going to be uh putting out a podcast in a few weeks so i feel like you know this is kind of like a year in review or kind of like at the end of the year you're always a lot more introspective and and you also like look back yeah kind of like at your life because you because i think uh holidays set up milestones

of like oh last christmas or two christmases ago because it's something that happens every year exactly it's easily easy to kind of like it's like a milestone of time. And I think that, you know, Ryan and I also, when Cyndago ended, Ryan and I had known each other. We met in May of that year. And this happened in September. So when you and I were doing Kids With Problems, we were still getting to know each other. Like we were friends, but I don't think we're nowhere near as close as we are now. We didn't have that chemistry, especially when like recording and shit. We didn't get into that groove yet.

And I think that um and it was just so soon after such a big event in our lives like that that it's like we're just trying to make sense of shit yeah and and just trying to find a voice and shit and and on that subject it's like genuinely i mean this is something i've thought about a lot it's like in the past in those videos like if me or ryan or either of us like if we ever made like i guess jokes that seem to go too far that hurt people's feelings or like someone was legitimately hurt by something we said it's like complete sincerest apologies for that you know yeah we were younger and uh and dumb yeah and i i'm not talking about anything specific i'm just talking in general because i know that

earlier in the channel we tended to be a lot more reaching and edgy with our jokes. It's never our intention. It might be sometimes our intention to make eyebrows like kind of raise a little bit and make kind of like people go, whoa, just with the content of like nude in an elevator. You know, it's always that type of like comedy. It's like quick cuts jarring in a sense. But we're sorry if, not we sorry but it's it's more of it's more it's like almost just kind of embarrassing you know it's like i look back at older videos i'm like that's embarrassing there are certain forms of shocking that just are a lot just like i feel like when i was on

only plays they're not for a good joke they're just for the sake of being shocky yeah i mean you look back at and you're like yikes, that was, that probably wasn't very funny. I mean, it's like, especially, I think, I think probably when I was on Oni Plays, just kind of trying to fit in because Oni Plays is obviously a channel that's a lot more, I guess, unfiltered with their commentary than I guess we are or a lot of other channels. So I guess back in like 2016 and I think early 2017 and shit, when I would go on Oni Plays, you know, I think I would kind of try to like fit into that groove. And, uh, when you go on someone else's channel, you try to usually like kind of match what's going on there.

I don't know. It's just like kind of as the year's wrapping up, just doing reflecting, I mean, like, you know, I, maybe it's worth saying that like, you know, I have, when I started doing this, I was 18 and 19 and now i'm still young i'm almost 23 so that's not like a huge difference but i honestly think that time period you're late like 19 to like your early 20s you just changed so much and looking back i'm like i am a completely different person from when we started super i think 20s to like early 30s is a huge state of growth my entire worldview and like the way i see the world

and my beliefs have just completely changed. And that's not an excuse. It's just an observation, you know? Oh, 100%. But at the same time, it's like if we said anything

that really upset anybody out there, like apologies. We genuinely love our fans. You guys are the fucking best. Never take it as a direct attack because we we don't have hatred to anyone even when we do the stupid voices and mock fuck you guys for why can i just play the game i want it's all it's always um i'm not gonna say act it out but it's a lot of it's played up oh 100, 100%. And so I know a lot of there are some people who don't get the played up bit.

And one, if you're watching the channel, don't get that. Hopefully you get that soon. And two, if you don't get it, sorry that you sorry that our humor is too sophisticated. It's too high brow. We're a bit of a comedic geniuses. Yeah. So we've actually read a couple books. We went to a few improv classes.

I know what we're talking about. I read Jeff Foxworthy's comedy book and I'll tell you what, I did learn a thing or two from that. Oh, really? Wow. That's awesome. Thanks, man. Cause I, cause I read the cat in the hat and I learned the same, like the same good shit.

It's about on the same level of humor. So yeah, but that's, that's high brow. That's good. That's good humor. But I do want to say like, I think it was apparent early in the channel that i think that we were not resentful but i think we were just more abrasive towards our towards the fan base and over the last we're coming up on three years of this channel already in april and it's like this this like community fan base whatever you want to call it of of viewers and people who enjoy the content that we make.

I have just grown over the last two years to just absolutely love you guys. You guys are honestly the greatest fan base and viewer base that we could have ever imagined. And I am so like, I guess, happy for that. Yeah. And it's one of the things that kind of really brought it, made it apparent to me because right now I'm not like on social media as often as I had been in the past. So I don't, and I still check ads and stuff, so I'll see like the support. But what, what really kind of put it into perspective is when we started doing the live shows and I started seeing the people that support us and like talking with them and like unfortunately at this most recent live show it's like almost 500 people we can't have because we used to like at the earlier shows when it was just like a little over 100 people we we would have a conversation with whoever like kind of like

we would literally like meet everyone outside the venue and like talk to them for a five five to ten minutes each there are people we talked to we talking like ten minutes and like just you know take pictures sign whatever just talk and hang out and like I love doing that it's so cool seeing the because when you see it on YouTube

it's just numbers and comments yeah and it doesn't like you see it and I guess in a way you kind of become numb to it because you know you you see it if you upload every day you see that

and it just kind of becomes part of the routine but when you actually get to meet the people and see the faces behind the people supporting you and talk to them genuinely, it's like, Oh my God, it's the coolest fucking feeling.

All of you are so great. Like with the whole, at this, even this most recent live show, when we were filming the promo to, to talk about our Seattle and Portland show link in the description, if, if tickets aren't sold out if they're not yeah

but yeah continue just one of the moments that was really cool was like when they improv the chanting for Aaron bit and like that whole thing wasn't the thing with them going silent was planned but the booing and the chanting for Aaron

like it's very improv by the fans and like everything so it was like a cool moment like where everything kind of gelled well because usually when like fan when you give a large group of people the chance to interact as like a large group there will be the few that

try to single themselves out but then it's kind of like then that ends up being 50 people in a crowd of 500 so it's not really just like well one, one cough or whatever. They actually went silent and they made a bit all by themselves. And we just stood and we just sat there. And I remember I was sitting on stage thinking like, oh, this is awesome. I love this, that they're doing this bit.

Like, this is so cool. And like, I gifts they brought. Oh my God, incredible. There's so much stuff that you guys have done whether it's sending stuff to the p.o box watching the channel doing whatever go showing up for some stupid live stream where we live stream the game awards an hour into them because we couldn't get the streaming stuff to work like you guys fucking hard i'm gonna be honest it there's a lot i'm just like oh ryan please help me with this there's a lot that you guys do that um you know that we're not able to thank you as as much as

we honestly as as much as is deserved but um because you guys are what keep us doing this and this is our dream job because i remember when i was in fifth and sixth grade, my dream was like I want to be like a YouTuber, a funny YouTuber that like people enjoy watching. I got one of them. I didn't get the funny part, but I did get the other part. And it just hits me sometimes where I'm like I can't believe that like that was my dream in like elementary and middle school right when YouTube was starting. And somehow we've been able to do this. And it's all because of you guys for actually watching and then going through the effort

to actually support us because one thing is to watch but you guys are so supportive and you send us the coolest shit not shit you send us the coolest stuff and like some like the fan art you guys send us like I remember the live show somebody brought a print that we saw in the green room that was like this gender bent like

anime drawing it's really cool it's incredible and we we like we want to hang that up we want to get like a an office space one day yeah and we've saved a lot of fan art from the past and that and we're like in the future this is dreaming now it's yeah wishful thinking but it's like this is all stuff we want to like fill our office with like the stuff you guys have made yeah um it's so fucking cool and i just want to say like meeting you guys really is the coolest like humbling experience because it's it's just like oh my god these people they're like here for us to support us and like give us love and it's incredible it's incredible feeling it's just

also the whole thing of like on a more personal note between just kind of like how how it is looking out into a crowd of just that many people and like they came for us this wasn't just like some this isn't like some big production that's held by like some facility where it's like a well-known show that appears there once every like week or just two dickheads on YouTube. That many people showed up. Hey, we'll do a Christmas special, and then people show up and support us. And I had a good time.

I had a blast. That was a fun show. And I hope everyone that showed up had a good time. And if you showed up, Give yourself a pat on the back. Give yourself a pat on the back, and down in the comments, tell us what your favorite part of the show was.

Because I do, every now and then, still go through the comments. Oh, same. I'll go through the ads on Twitter and Instagram us what like your favorite part of the show was because i i do every now and then still like go through the comments i'll i'll go i'll i'll go through like the ads on twitter and instagram and stuff like that um so i still we check on that and we see it and even though sometimes tweet it's super mega yeah probably so we can both see it that's that's usually how i usually check the super mega tag that's the one i check most and we love retweeting like fan made stuff and fan art and shit yeah because like when we go on Twitter and see something that like someone made that's really cool that they clearly put a lot of effort into.

It's like this is awesome that someone took time out of there because everyone's got their own hectic life. Everyone's got shit. And it's like they took time out of their whatever's going on in their life to just kind of like make this amazing piece of fan art or make this like funny tribute thing. Yeah. And that's so cool. Also, I just want to say,

I hope you guys like that venue. Cause I love the region. Yeah. Like that's a, it's a, it's a really good, it's a really good, really cool venue.

That's, I think that the, the, the region is where I saw modern baseball and say anything when I first came to LA. I think it was modern baseball. I love modern baseball. Is it modern baseball? Is that what they're called?

It's modern baseball and American football. I think it's modern. I saw modern baseball. Because I remember M. Modern baseball? Yeah. Yeah, modern baseball. I'm always like American baseball, modern football.

It's like, I always confuse them in my head. Because I think they opened for say anything or that was a they opened for Say Anything I've seen a lot of shows at the region and it was such a weird like out of body experience to be in that green room and be like some of my like idols musicians and artists that I look up to

like I'm getting to do this now where they've done it more specifically on stage you were talking about how much of a humbling experience it is to have the squirts where many of the people you respect in the industry have laid bare their brown remains. Absolutely.

Absolutely. It was, dude, I was in the green room and I'm like, I'm sitting on the can, you know? And I'm just literally like, I started thinking, I was like, damn, so many artists I love have probably shit on the same toilet seat. Not on the toilet seat, but like sat on the toilet seat. I pray that Max Beam has sat on that toilet seat.

You know, he did. Like Caracaro Bonito, I saw them at the Regent last month and it was shocking how many people came to our show. I think it was like, it was sold out. It was like 450 people. It was sold out twice because we put up more tickets. But we didn't even announce that and they sold out in like a day yeah and um i think the seattle and portland show so far from what i've gathered it's it's it's selling very fast and the thing is right now we don't have the ticket counts

but we get updated like twice a week on that yeah so we're like for for the amount that we sold in the first hour, it's looking like they're going pretty quick. And I don't know if they're sold out by the time this podcast comes out. Yeah. If they are, sorry. But, you know, of course, we'll be doing more shows in other cities down the road in 2019. That's the thing. And we don't have any official announcements to make. But we do want to say that it is the plan.

say that it is the plan. And unless, you know, things fall through, it is the plan to go around several cities around the entirety of the United States. Yeah. So, you know, we would definitely like to come visit different cities. East Coast, down south, up north. You know what I'm saying? New York, Chicago. Ideally, that'd be the thing.

It's not put together yet. But I mean, that's what we want to do. Our main dream, though, if we can get it to work work out would be to do a show each at our own hometown in our own hometown that'd be so cool that's what that's that's what we would love to do and if everything goes according to plan if everything if we get if we get everything our heart desires in terms of being able to do these live shows as often as we want to and still balancing work then hopefully if if you weren't able to make it to you know all these far out west and north these west coast and like up up high north shows you we we're gonna come hopefully to the east yeah we're trying to

work it out for 2019 obviously uh booking like tours and venues that is That is a big, a lot of work job. But luckily, because we're with Real Good Touring, and I know it sounds like, oh, of course you're going to be with them because it's like Aaron and Brent's company. It's like, well, I mean, it's a good company. They've done right by us in terms of like going up to bat when we've needed them to.

And also like just supplying us with what we need like everything they're so accommodating also it's a good culture really good deal the the the company in general um as well as the office of game grumps is it's it's a really good culture it's like the probably the most healthy environment i've ever been in in my life yeah and like real good also like if there's any other big, uh, or like not even big, but just any other YouTube acts that,

uh, want to try live shows like streamers or other just online personalities. Um, I think they're looking. So yeah, you get their email is out there. Highly recommend. Um,

yeah, as I said, they've, they, they put in the work and one of Justin, one of our friends that we met who works for real good touring, he he'll, he'll come to us with, like, he came to us, I think it was as a joke at first, like, Hey, I found a sleigh. And we're like, yeah, dude, do it.

And he's like, wait, really? He kept calling us all these things that he thought like were like jokes. Like, yo, so I got like, I could find like a full sleigh and like a santa fat suit and blah blah and we're like yeah do it he's like really oh okay and he does and like he's legitimate about it and he'll he he i don't know just everyone that works within real good touring um so far like i'm i'm super comfortable and happy that we're with them because without them, we wouldn't be able to do these live shows. Yeah. Cause I,

I, the thing is Matt and I, while we let, while I've been living here for almost coming up four years, right? Four years now. Holy shit. Yeah.

I've, I've almost been in February, February 5th. It'll have been four years. Officially my birthday. Wait, really? Did I move here on your birthday?

I think so. Yeah. I moved here february 5th 2015 yeah that was my birthday or was it february 7th my who knows ryan who knows i think it was the fifth if i remember correctly well happy happy birthday to me got little ryan mcgee out in los angeles yeah and so like coming out here four years it's like oh we've been you know we've been i've been the maker studios we've been been to a bunch of different studios to YouTuber studios we've been to those VidCon party stuff

but at the end of the day we know a lot of people around but we're not in the industry deep in it we're pretty independent as far as YouTube channels go we're not with a network we're not signed to any studios we literally run everything

ourselves including the merch operation which is a lot of work but it's it's uh i i mean i enjoy running ourselves it's like a passion project so ryan and i have a lot of fun my place looks like a meth house that they found out that the cops were coming five minutes before they got notice of clearing out your house looks like like a banking firm that found they found out the feds are coming yes because it is littered with papers and boxes and tape because we have been getting all the merch orders from both of the merch sales out before like the deadline so they can arrive by christmas um for like domestic orders and stuff uh because on the term of merch, there was some delay, which we kept you updated on Twitter and via email,

because we had to wait for shipping stuff like tubes for posters. And I ordered them back in like, I think like early November. So we're like, oh, these will be here by the end of the month so we can get it all out fast. And then they came from China and there was just a huge hold up with customs and then they were sitting on the cargo ship at the port for like two weeks and then they took them off and they're like well we need another week to process it and dispatch it and we're like so we had to do another option and basically like out of pocket get a whole bunch of like envelopes for posters to mail

posters in yeah like last minute i had to go i had to go to a grocery store last night to like get some uh stuff for the pins i think was it the pins yeah some like because we ran out of pin mailers so like well we're seriously like it's not just like if we run out of stuff it's like oh well we're gonna have to wait for it to be ordered we try our best if we can manage it and if places are open we try to get we are really working hard with the merch and i know like posts people have ordered posters a month ago but like we're not gonna the thing is we're not gonna send a sheet of paper we're not gonna fold it up and put it in like a a roller we want to make sure you get it and it's not crumpled up into a ball yeah and it's like this is our first time doing this so

there's obviously there was a ton for us to learn because we kind of literally did this ourselves from the ground up um suzy kind of helped us a bit uh and we talked to people he's been a big help with like recommendations on certain things and stuff like that because she runs she kind of runs things in terms of the grumps merch yeah and it's like we've just been learning a lot making mistakes during there but we learn from it so we can do better next time um but everyone will get their orders that is a guarantee if you paid you will get it um very soon we're shipping out like hundreds a day right now uh and um you know we're working hard because we want to make sure it's of quality and of course we're not amazon so you can't order it and get it like two days later actually some people did

in the first thing because we had all the stuff ready and we just threw them out but yeah um you know we're working hard we're learning uh it's it's just us so we're trying to it's only gonna get smoother as it's only gonna get smoother the more sales we do and not the more sales but the more not like the number of sales but the number of times we go the site goes live and we have kind of like a weekend of sales because the thing is it's like super mega is its own like i guess not company but like business and in the way that like we have to run everything but then we didn't realize how big of a job merch is because that's literally like that's a second company essentially and so it's like oh now we legitimately did we didn't realize we were getting into this but now

we legitimately are running like a merch company out of our, out of your living room. Yep. With fucking trash everywhere. Oh, yeah. Your place is a disaster right now. And I'm so sorry. It's fine. I, uh. You have to like, you have to like wade through piles of like shipping labels and like. To get to my bed because boxes were in the room.

I had to like jump over some boxes and just kind of like weasel so i felt barricaded in my room last night i was like okay it's fine it was a fire you know but like here's the good part like i i sleep better like i i don't like sleeping with the door open i like sleeping with all the blinds shut like i like to feel very like enclosed my closet has to be closed i get like freaked out. I'm like, I gotta shut it. The only time I can sleep with a window is if it's several stories up. Because then it's a nice view. But I don't like sleeping with my windows open.

Not windows open, but my blinds open if I'm on ground level. Oh, yeah, definitely. And I feel that paranoia where a burglar is going to come peep at me sleeping. I don't want to give anyone an option to watch me sleep. You know? Yeah. But yeah, merch is, it's been going great. We can't thank you guys enough.

And we genuinely are sorry for people that face delays because it wasn't everyone. But some handles of people did have to wait longer than we would have liked. But we've been doing our best to keep you updated with emails, with Twitter. We don't have a warehouse. We don't have tens of whatever employees.

We don't have professional. We're not printing out of our own kind of factory warehouse area. We have to buy labels and then print by them, buy the shipping label and print it ourselves one by one. As we said, it's a learning process. It'll get more smooth it'll get more smooth as it goes on that's just as time goes on we will just like anything this is new to us so like act like you're learning to ride a bike it may be shaky at first but

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Yeah, exactly. On your own, will you fall and get hurt? Will it be disastrous or will it go smoothly? You're going to have some wobbles here and there. You might fall off one or twice, but guess what? The more you do it, the more you absolutely will be able to succeed until you can bike that bad baby down the street at 20 miles per hour with no hands on the handlebars. Or like me, you could just rush down your cul-de-sac and then a car is pulling out of

the driveway. So you have to slam on your brakes, but you accidentally hit the front brakes and you do a flip over and like pretty much de-skin a part of your arm that's still scarred for the to this day been there you hit the front brake if it if it's the type of two gear bike when you start going up like that feeling of like oh dude that shit launches you i remember i was i was going fast once and i hit the wrong brake just imagining from a third person perspective seeing this because like it's funny looking it's not funny to be in it's actually pretty scary it's terrifying it's like your world flips upside down literally

in an instant because i mean i was going really fast and i hit the front brake by accident instead of the back brake because on on some bikes that have like multiple gears there's two uh brakes one is to break the front wheel and one is to break the back wheel and if you use the front wheel you still have the momentum and stopping the front so the bike literally just pivots around the front wheel and flips you onto the ground and the thing is if you're like me and have incredibly skinny long legs you're unable to some people i've seen people where they do it and their instinct is they somehow maneuver their legs over the handlebars and land on their feet i can't do that because my legs are too long so i'll catch my feet on the handlebars and land on their feet. I can't do that because my legs are too long. So I'll catch my feet on the handlebars and then just sucks.

It hurts real bad. Yeah, but it went from a metaphor to a story. Guys, do the super mega bicycle challenge. We have to go as fast as you can and slam on the front brakes of your bike. Don't do that. Do the super mega toilet challenge. Go buy a bendy straw from your local grocery store and try to drink all the water in the bowl in less than 10 seconds.

I think that might be more dangerous than the bicycle challenge. It has to be a public toilet in a public bathroom though. Yeah. And then also you need to lick the rim of the toilet seat. Do it. Try it in a urinal, guys. Actually, no. Here's the super mega challenge.

Get a bunch of cocaine. Spread it in a perfect circle where the seed is. Which if you don't have any, we will be selling on the merch store in 2019. Yeah, just keep a lookout for that. So you do that. Then what you do is you take... Actually, before doing that, you take a shit and then you line up the coke around the bowl. And then you sniff it.

So you get the shit fumes and cocaine. That's the super mega challenge, guys. Yeah. Don't do that. Why do we always have to say that we're joking? I'm getting a phone call. From who? Jackson Tucker.

Okay. Should I answer it? Yeah. Put it on speaker. Put him on blast. Hey, Jackson, you're on the air. Is it last Christmas? Yeah, you've just won free tickets to go see Gabriel Iglesias' I'm Not Fat, I'm Fluffy tour featuring Jeff Dunham.

The reunion? The reunion tour. They had a falling out, but now they're back. And rumor has it George Lopez might come out and do a set. Thank God. Yeah. What's up, though, buddy? they're back and rumor has it George Lopez might come out and do a set thank god what's up though buddy I was gonna see first I wanted to get your pin code for your computer

and then how to print the labels oh okay speaking of merch guys literally getting a call from our little helper monkeys so let me tell Jackson my computer pin and then give him some instructions So we'll be right back fellas

And ladies too Jackson give a shout out to the ladies Hey ladies hey fellas No just the ladies Oh okay sorry I take that second one back Can you redo it Because you fucked it up What Can you redo it since Because you fucked it up What?

Can you redo it since you fucked it up? Hey ladies Okay ladies that one was for you Alright we'll be right back Put a cool transition sound here Like a DJ transition on a radio station Go Okay cool thank you Alright see dude

Sorry about that ladies and germs Had to assist with some merch stuff Printed some shipping. Sorry about that, ladies and germs. Had to assist with some merch stuff. Printed some shipping labels. Sorry about that, motherfuckers. Had to fucking crack the whip on those boys. Fucking dipshits. We just talked about how we love the fans, dude. Yeah, but that was all fake conversation.

But now the real fans... This is the real conversation. Yeah, because the real fans have stayed. The fake fans have left. They just listened to the first 20 to 30 minutes now. It's the real fucking super mega. Yo guys welcome to a real super mega Where we did that like every half of the pockets really okay? Fuck that stupid shit all right now It's real super mega you get to chill with the real Matt and Ryan. It's time to be edgy as fuck so say things that

The only consequences really are just when people get mad at you even though it's it's like oh freedom of speech it's like you still have it you don't have freedom from consequences and also you personally just feel like oh man wish i hadn't said that nah i love being stupid and i ain't talking about anything like really bad. I mean just like stupid jokes where it's like man that was cringy Anyway, like the r-word. Yeah. Oh, oh definitely. Yeah, that's that's one. That's like ah Anyway, let's actually get into some real Christmas holiday. No, I'm not gonna say holiday. No Christmas. Let's talk about some Christmas shit You know what what reminds people of the holidays? more than spending money

Can we do an ad read after we talk about some holiday stuff? People came for the holiday podcast. We're already 40 minutes in. Ryan, I'm vetoing the ad read. Fine. They'll have to wait around for it. I know they're waiting with bated breath, but... Okay. Tell me about Christmas. Okay, I guess we'll just do an ad read when you want, then. No, Ryan,

I just said that it's a Christmas one, so we should talk about some Christmas stuff. I might have to call my lawyer. I might have to call Ben. Don't bring Ben into this, please. Hmm. Interesting. Okay.

Well, I guess we'll just do an ad read later. But expect an email from Ben. We'll do an ad read then, okay? And then we'll talk about some Christmas stuff. Yes. Ryan, what the frick is Robin Hood? Hold on. I'm opening the ad read

oh you don't have it open yet that's funny I had to fucking download this fucking stupid app Google Chrome you could have just opened it in Safari and already have it open you know you didn't have to download Google Chrome just to open a document you could have used Safari which is built into the phone

and I like Google Chrome more but for time's sake you didn't have to literally stop to download an app. I don't like Safari. Yeah, but we're opening an ad. I specifically don't use Safari because I hate the icon. It's a shitty icon. Yeah. They need to change it.

Anyway, Ryan, what the heck is Robinhood? It's an investing app that lets you buy and sell stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptos all commission free. Wow. They strive to make financial services work for everyone not just the one percent i also heard that it's a not intimidating way for stock market newcomers to invest for the first time with the true confidence i heard that too i also heard that it's simple and intuitive clear design with data presented in an easy to digest way wait are we talking about the same person shaquilleille O'Neal? Wow, Matt. Investing sure has been fun, but not just fun, great.

And not just great, but, you know, worthwhile and actually pretty important if you want to make money in that way. You don't have to, but if you choose to, it's a really good way to start investing money that you have to hopefully let it grow. Absolutely. It's very easy to use the design. I actually legitimately use Robinhood just because I'm like, they give you a free stock if you sign up using our code, which I'll say in a second. You just get like a random free stock.

And I did it. And I got a couple small little stocks that it's honestly just really addicting just to like watch them fluctuate and you're like, ooh, ooh, ooh. And it's a very nice interface too. Very easy to use. Robinhood wants to give you guys a free stock like Apple, Ford, or Sprint to help build your portfolio.

Sign up at megacast.robinhood.com. What is it, Ryan? megacast.robinhood.com Now let's talk about Christmas. Okay. I like Christmas. Me too. Thanks for tuning in, guys.

Hope you have a great wonderful rest of 2019 I keep saying 2019 alright bye just kidding we got you we pranked you haha why you give me that look you didn't think that was a funny bit dude

you know Brian not every bit lands when you're throwing handfuls of shit at the wall some of it's just gonna hit the floor don't give me that middle finger put it down wipe that smug grin off your face Not every bit lands. When you're throwing handfuls of shit at the wall, some of it's just gonna hit the floor. Don't give me that middle finger. Put it down. Wipe that smug grin off your face. Stop pointing down your throat. Don't do it. Stop. He's pulling his penis, his balls. That's just balls. That's not penis. Now I put it... you detached your testicles, put them in your mouth. That's what I think of that joke.

How were you able to do that are those fake what are those fake no I just like I went to the doctor's office and he had this thing that he used to like like numb a part of my body real quick and I was like oh that's cool so I just swiped it so you just you just I'm actually looking and there's a ball hanging out that I didn't know

oh yeah Ryan's got a full he's ballooning right there he's got there's a ball hanging out that I didn't know. Oh yeah. Ryan, Ryan's got a full fucking, he's ballooning right there. He's got a big old nut hanging out. He's still got a nut hanging out. Okay. I put it away. What if you hadn't realized? And then like someone walked into the room,

like someone looked through the window. I'm like, Hey, and there's just my fucking right nut. What if like Hannah or Allie or like Megan walked up just to like see what was up and you're sitting there and you have no idea that one of your. I feel like a. I wouldn't want to do it on purpose, but I feel a nut is less jarring than a penis.

Oh, absolutely. So a nut's funny. Like if someone has a nut in a photo, that's funny. If someone has a penis in a photo, that is crude and that is not okay. But a nut, you can get away with a nut. And I actually, I think that one of the things we should be fighting for besides freedom,

Ryan, men need the right to be able to vote. Yes. We need men's suffrage. Those women need to give it back. Men's suffrage. I bet you there's, how come there's not an r slash men's suffrage yet?

There's r slash men's rights and shit like that. Oh my god, dude. But like, nuts like... I want the movement for like desensitizing people to nuts. How there's like the free the nipple thing. You know, it's like... Desensitizing to nuts, dude?

Deez nuts? Did you not pick up on that? Who's calling you? My sister's calling me why sam stop okay hold on hold on a second it's fine i should derail my nuts take a break no we're not hey sam hold on a second sam sam hey you're on the podcast oh why because you called you called while i'm recording the podcast well like why'd you answer because you're my sister and it would be rude i i care about you so and i haven't talked to you in a while too yeah ryan ryan hasn't talked to you in a while

hi ryan hey how are you good how are you good i miss you Good, how are you? Good, I miss you. Hi. What? I got another call. Oh, okay. Well, okay.

I guess. That's fine. Yeah, I think she legitimately had another call. Don't take that personally. She's working. That was not an excuse, I promise. She's a working woman, so she's probably at work right now. She's getting a work call. Yeah.

What I was saying, though, was we need this movement to basically desensitize the public to nuts. Because, you know, if they can have their free the nipple movement, Ryan, I want the free the nut movement. I want to have my nuts out in public and not Have people freak out like they have in the past what right-wing straight male individual is legitimately against free the nipple None of them. They just have to act like it. That's the thing and also like I really don't get the big deal about a nipple It's like fuck. I got him You got him Your lego has him. Yeah, but when I see see your nipple matt i don't get sexually aroused if i see a woman's nipple i get sexually aroused like if i see that boob and a nipple that sexual

arousal like arousal right on the spot if i see your tit and a nipple there's there's not even a there's not even a truck there's no chub is brewing i'm sorry thanks thank you i think that really boosts my confidence there. Yeah. But like, so you're telling me, Ryan, women can't show their breasts because it will make you aroused, so you must oppress them? No, no. They can show their breasts, just like more breasts,

more boners. That's just the... That should be the counterpoint to that. Like, alright, but more breasts equals more boners. It's not even a counterpoint. I'm just saying that's a fact. There will be more boners if there are more breasts. If there was like a graph of like the X is breasts and the Y is boners, it would correlate. The more breasts exposed means the more boners go up.

Unless it becomes so normalized that it's like. Not in our time frame. Yeah. But in the future, Pete, it's just like you're able to look at them sexually and then non-sexually. Yeah. I just feel like we've evolved to wear clothes and most people would just wear clothes yeah yeah but we're talking about like at the beach and stuff yeah we're not talking about people just going back to being naked there's no point in that unless you're a nudist yeah dude we should fucking go to a nudist colony one day we should do a vlog at a nudist colony filming people naked uh without their can i'm sure they'd love it no we could go and be like we want to film a

documentary they've been documentaries about nudists before and and for them it's not like they're fine they're fine okay they're fine with it they like being it's like it's like being filmed with their clothes on they just it's not the fact that they're being filmed naked it's the fact that they're just being filmed in general because to them that's just that's that's it it's like it's like being filmed with their clothes on they just it's not the fact that they're being filmed naked it's the fact that they're just being filmed in general because to them that's just that's that's it it's like why are you filming i'm not gonna lie a news colony that sounds pretty laid back you're just always naked and but you're everyone's comfortable with it it's not like a weird thing anymore i just don't like the idea of like just my dick exposed at all times then you shouldn't be a nudist it's kind of like a legend of Zelda

how there's like a big blinking red weak point that you have to shoot with an arrow or something I just feel like every animal or insect or whatever will be like that is a weak point like a hornet will

burrow into my ball sack and fly through your wreath stop dude I don't want that kind of shit in my head oh my god Harrison I don't want it in my ball sack Harrison brought up something he's like there's this one thought I thought of once that I can't get out

of my head and he told it to me and I don't want to say it I don't want to subject him to the podcast I want to hear it I'll censor it out so I'll censor it out is it really that bad? yeah it's just very like ugh alright here we go

Jesus yeah it just makes me cringe it's like I don't like that thought at all it's nothing like grotesque or inappropriate it's just one of those things that like I don't want to make people like uncomfortable because then they can't get that image out of their head. It's, it's not, it's not pleasant. And I, now I can't stop thinking about it.

Now I start thinking about it. For me, that's just as like, as like biting full force into a sideways spoon. Yeah. It's that kind of uncomfortable. Like, or like, or, or everyone has like weird touch things. Like when I have a pop, I don't like popsicles because the wooden popsicle stick, like, touching my teeth, I just, ugh, I just can't do it for some reason. Think about just.

Or even my tongue. Like, the wood touching my tongue gives, like, I get, look at the hairs on my arms all standing up now. When my teeth get all, not when my teeth get pruney, when my hands get pruney after the shower, if I touch, like, fabric or something, I just, like, ugh, I get, like, chills. I hate when my hands get pruney. I get like this weird sensitivity thing. What are you doing? What? What do you mean

what am I doing? Nothing. I said something when I was waiting for a response. I thought you were doing something over there. Sorry. No I was waiting for a response to what I said. What did you say? It doesn't matter if you're not going to listen. Okay. You can go sit down in the hall. Do I have to? I still got another ad read later.

So you're getting to call me back in. I don't want to do it by myself. It's boring as hell. The podcast or the ad read? The podcast. Oh. I hate the podcast. By yourself?

By myself. But with me. Yeah. It's a dream come true. That's what makes it fun. Yeah. Is this your favorite? Is this like your favorite part of every week is recording the podcast specifically because-

It's like, fuck, we forgot. Oh my God, it's tomorrow. Come on, Ryan. Let's go get in that hot room and fucking talk for an hour and a half. It does get pretty muggy in here. It's hot right now. It's at least 80 degrees in here. Actually, speaking of nudists, I went to, in Koreatown, actually after our show, I went

to a 24-hour Korean bathhouse that Aaron and the Grumps have been to. They talked about D-Club stuff there. I went with Harrison and Jackson, and we invited Ryan, but he had milk to drink, so he couldn't come. I'm sorry. But it's okay. You would have loved it, though. I really like milk. You just get naked with the bros, and you go sit in some hot tubs. You would have loved it though. I really like milk. You just get naked with the bros and you go sit in some hot tubs.

You go into saunas. You and I went, you and I and you, me and Aaron went to the bath houses in Japan. Yeah. You and me and Aaron got fully naked. We all saw each other's glory and we all got in hot tubs. Yeah. Remember I got into that tiny little like wooden bath that was like the size of a laundry basket.

I feel like that was a rinsing thing. I think you weren't supposed to get in that. I think it's just for dipping cups in water, but I got in and it just like the water like poured over the edges. And it was, there was another guy in the room. He just stared at me in silence. And I sat in it.

I was like, you're the dumb American. I was like, I probably wasn't supposed to sit in this. No. Well, yeah, but then you come here.

How about this? There's you getting into a little, a little dipping cup area. It was like, it was like a wooden laundry basket filled with water. There's you getting into a little dipping cup area. It was like a wooden laundry basket filled with water. There's that. And then there's filming and laughing at a man who has struggled with depression and ended his life in a forest. So I feel like your end of the spectrum is a lot less worse. It's not bad.

It's really not bad yeah when you look at the the things that specifically entertainers have done in japan from america i feel like i feel like yeah we're good on that okay okay i mean it was still a fun time just just bowling in the joe cooking like a stew with you and aaron yeah a fucking great time and actually i remember like you know ryan has tattoos and i didn't have any tattoos back then but i had to cover my tattoos up that's a big no-no in the bathhouses in japan is like tattoos you know, Ryan has tattoos. And I didn't have any tattoos back then. I had to cover my tattoos up. That's a big no-no in the bathhouses in Japan is, like, tattoos. You can't have them. And I think it's to keep, like, Yakuza from hanging out there.

Because they all have the full body tattoos. So, there's, like, a no tattoo rule. So, we had to get something for Ryan to cover his tattoos. So, we found, like. Because I have one of my. Now, you're going to have to cover up. But this is. You can get, like, an arm sleeve I can put there.

Yeah. But you had, like. What was it? Like, gauze or something. And just, like, cover your back in it. But then in the water, it you can get like an arm sleeve I can put there. Yeah. But you had like, what was it, like gauze or something? And just like cover your back in it. But then in the water, it all started like melting off. We had, we got like medical tape and you just put, started, all you did was put, no, it was, yeah, it was medical tape, which is gauze, but it's sticky gauze.

So like the gauze, you just stuck gauze, not anything under it. You just stuck gauze in, justed up my uh tattoo on my back thought it worked but then it starts like slipping off and then it looks like you're just like a leprosy patient like all of these like bandages dripping off of you and like this big american guy just gets in the hot tub next to like a little japanese guy like and it's like splash the water and you have all this like gauze dripping off of you. You were literally like just walking through just like dripping with gauze and like bandages. But I would have to like, I would, there was a

point if, I don't know if you remember it, where I was just holding like a bunch of gauze in my hand because I'm like, I'm not going to just leave it in the tub. I don't know what to do with this and there's no trash can in here. You should have just started like washing yourself with like a washcloth. Dude, I went in there I should have just thrown it at the guy across from me. I'm like, catch.

In the one in Koreatown. Open catch. In the one in Koreatown. Open wide. In the one in Koreatown, like they give you like little towels and robes and like shorts. And I remember I went in like, they'll give you razors and toothbrushes. Kind of. But they'll give you toothbrushes so you can like sit down in a little like cleansing station and wash your teeth and shave your face and like pour water on yourself. And there's a freezing cold one, which I got in which was brutal but it was really fun

i love cold water i love getting in cold water it's just like it's very exciting it's just very painful like once you're in it and get used to it cold water is the best i hate cold water i love cold water there's nothing there's nothing i've, dude. I've tried to do cold showers. I can't do it. I can't. I can't bring myself to enjoy it. And I can't bring myself to like, to make it so in my head, the benefits outweigh my uncomfortableness. Nah. Well, I, well also on that, like a lot of people do cold showers for the reason that

like, they'll do it for a month. Cause it's like a discipline thing where it's like, you're teaching yourself to be comfortable with uncomfortability. So then like, you can kind of translate that to other parts of your life. Just wear a heavy jacket

in the summer. That sounds so miserable. That's uncomfortable. I went into, they had one sauna that was 194 degrees and it's the hottest one they had and I went in

and I was all alone and you walk in and like your lungs, it takes the air out of your lungs and just like much when it's like freezing cold it takes the air out of your lungs yeah but this shit hurts because it like fills your lungs with the hottest air you're like but I challenged myself I was like I'm gonna go sit in there for five minutes so I laid down on the floor and I was like all right hit five I'm gonna keep going and it like eight minutes in I had sweat just like dripping down my face and all over my body. But then I was staring at the ceiling.

I started like hallucinating. And my heart started pounding. I was like, all right, time to get out. And I got out and I was super lightheaded. And then I went and got in like the cold sauna. It was like a salt ice sauna. It's like 40 degrees. Yeah.

And for the next 10 minutes, I was still sweating while I was sitting in the 40 degree sauna like it was still dripping down my face and i was like shouldn't i have stopped sweating by now probably it sucked uh but it felt good i felt very clear afterwards i love bath houses bath house is the best dude if you guys have them in your city uh you should go check it out and i'm not talking about like the fancy spas this isn't like a super like bougie one they have like nap rooms and like you can just go and and just like pay like a fee and just have the whole day There it's fucking rad. Are you sniffing your mic? Smell this this smells kind of like this this smells like a mall. I don't want to smell it. That has an onions Think please Ryan think about how many people have talked and spit all over that just smell their breath solidifying on it

I don't want to just smell it Matt to I don't want to smell the microphone you don't even have to touch it yeah but then the vapor of it's going in my face that's just breath you are a baby why aren't you going to sniff a fucking mic it's not going to do anything your immune system is more powerful

sniffing this isn't going to fucking kill you it's just that it's gross I don't get anything out of sniffing a mic. You get to understand where I'm coming from. I can picture it in my head. But you can't because I don't know if I'm going crazy or if it actually smells like a mall. Yeah, it smells like a mall. It smells like a mall with a Build-A-Bear and an Onions Pretzels.

It smells like a fucking roller rink derby that has old shag carpet. Thank you. That wasn't. No, but you helped me. Oh, okay. Yeah, I mean, it smells like a mall. It smells like shag carpet in a building that has a lot of history. So what does that say about that mic cover?

It has a lot of history. It does. A lot of people's breath and spit are on that mic cover. Oh, yeah. So when you think about it, like it looks so soft and clean, but it's actually like on a microscopic level, that shit's probably really gross. Same with this one, man. It's like, think

about how much small spit gets sprayed on it. Or your hands, even after you wash them. Oh yeah, you can never get all those germs off. Or your upper lip. Purell. How often do you really just go to town on washing your upper lip? Every time I shower. I wash my whole face i scrub every little bit of my face it uh feels good feels very clean for me like it feels different

because i don't have a baby face so like that's just what i call clean shaven that i'm not that's not saying i have a baby face no i'm i even say like i don't like my baby face like baby face is just what i call clean shaven but uh i don't i guess since i don't have baby face. Like baby face is just what I call clean shaven. But I don't, I guess since I don't have baby face, when I wash my face wherever there's hair, I don't feel like I'm washing the skin under it. Even though I am, it's just like, it just doesn't Just shampoo it. Shampoo your facial hair.

I could condition my facial hair. Dude, you should put conditioner in it. It's a little bit of wax. Curl your mustache. You know those curly mustaches like Julian. Julian's mustache is awesome. And I guess that's sayonara to them. Yeah. They moved to Mars.

They went they were the people first people to volunteer to go to a colony on Mars. Yeah. Sucks. I wanted to hang out with them.

They're literally gonna go die on Mars. We're never gonna see them again. Yeah. I want to hang out with them last time. But like they said

that they were like too busy because the trip to Mars is just like such an anxious type of move to make. I get that. I mean, it's a lot to move and it's a lot of, what sucks is they got to do two trips. Yeah.

So they got to go there, come back, get the rest of their stuff and then go there again. But like legitimately the best wishes to Ding Dong and Julian who are headed out and they, I hope y'all have fun. Yeah. Honestly, like real, real talk. Best wishes to Ding Dong and Julian as they move to Mars. I really hope that it goes well for them. Yeah. I hope you take pictures.

They did. Did they at least go look at the place before? No. Well, here's the thing. See, they're going to, like, colonize and, like, settle there, but they were offered, like, an assistance crew, and they literally turned out it's just them going so you know i know that they like their space but i don't know if i can wrap my mind around that one but i best wishes guys i hope i hope that it's a safe trip and i hope that uh you enjoy mars i hope you visit yeah i don't

there's no returning shit there's literally the two ships going to move their stuff and that's it. Okay, well. It's really, you can't like launch back off. Skype us. I don't know if they can Skype us from Mars. There's no like, oh well. There's no internet there. I guess at the end of the day, have fun and keep calm and carry on Ding Dong and Julian.

Let's send you off with that. Keep calm and carry on, brothers. To Mars. To Mars. They're the gamers from Mars. I genuinely will miss them, though, as they move away. Many nights of eating curry at Curry House. Watching VHSs.

Yeah. Having fun, just hanging out. Cool guys. Really do love them. Last time I hung out with them, it was we watched Pokemon Live. I just haven't. Which was an experience. I know.

I just haven't had the chance to see them in so long. I feel bad. It's just we're both so busy and it's just kind of hard to like work it out. Well, both groups are busy. They're busy. We're busy. And also, both of us are just bad at responding to each other. Oh, my God.

Like Ding Dong will text me at like 4am and then I'll see it at like 10am and I'll text him back and then he'll respond three days later at 3am and then I'll respond the next day at like 5pm and then for me it was four days. There was a time where like we would go, there was like a full week where it's like he texted me and then I, then like I didn't respond for a week and then he didn't respond for a week after that it was just like we're just

awful at responding it's mainly just with him because usually I'm a really fast responder but it's because he texts me like because he has a weird sleeping schedule so he'll text me like 4 or 5am and then when I wake up I see it first thing in the morning I'm like I'll respond to that when I'm awake and I forget.

So I respond two days later, but then he won't respond. Ryan, I text you so fast. You do. You do. I'm surprised. I'm a very,

I don't text you fast. I, I think I text you decently when, when you are responding. Yeah. You text real fast. Yeah. I,

uh, I think I'm a very fast responder on like anything usually i i well because like i all i usually i always see like you usually always try to at least respond yeah i'm but when i get busy i'm bad about like if someone wants to make plans i'm really bad about responding to that just because i'm like i'll think about that when my mind's a little more free later today and then i just forget yeah so apologies to all the people I do that to. It's hard. But we are actually about to head out to South Kakalaki

to go home for Christmas and a much needed break for us because these last two weeks have been four hours of sleep a night, going to bed at 5am every single night. There was that one night where I stayed up until like 7.30am. That was the night before the show. You stayed up until like 6 something the other night too.

Yeah. I mean, it's just cause we've been, we work on packing merch stores until about three or four. And then we have to work on super mega. And then we got to do mega and we got to do game grumps. Yep. Like we got,

we edit power hour with Tucker. So we have to edit power hour every week. With the power hour, you and I take the base footage and we cut it down. We make the skeleton and then Tucker adds like finishing touches. Like we'll, we'll add like sound effects or stuff every now and then but essentially like our cuts will be like 15 16 and then he'll cut it down to like the remaining 13 or 12 or yeah and so i guess that that's a shit ton of work and we got a suzy's channel and our own so it's like and we had to prep for the show and finish writing the show and prepping and practicing for that and then some snowy mega stuff which

you're seeing now. It's just a busy effing December's always busy for us though because it's we're going home so we gotta get all that holiday stuff done but I'm excited. I'm gonna have to, my mom is gonna have to, I've been trying to prepare her for my Julian habit. I'm like mom, I'm gonna be doing it a lot around you. Really? You're just gonna

have to. You've come to terms with the fact that you're addicted to that thing. yeah dude i've of course you're not gonna make it a new year's resolution to quit i'd like to well my new year's resolution is to eat more and to gain weight and to eat breakfast every day that's like my big one because i want to i need to take better care of myself i've been losing weight and not eating enough while harrison and jackson are there you just get them to cook that's what they do dude harrison will be like i know harrison wakes up in the morning cooks himself breakfast just ask him to cook. That's what they do, dude. Harrison will be like. I know Harrison wakes up in the morning, cooks himself breakfast. Just ask him to make like a little side.

Well, usually he wakes up after I go to work. Oh. And he doesn't always make himself breakfast. Okay. Sometimes though. Tell him to make sure a bowl of cereal is laid out for you in the morning. Say that or else. Honestly, it's so easy.

Just eat a banana, a bowl of cereal, some yogurt and coffee. It's like there. I got. Because when I don't eat breakfast, I don't realize it because I feel okay at first. But like later in the day, I feel awful. And it's because I didn't eat breakfast. because i didn't get myself that like starting fuel most important meal of the day i legitimately haven't eaten breakfast for probably over a year dude you should start eating breakfast just literally just get a cup of yogurt it's just

something to get you started because when you start on you're just running on like no fuel and that just yeah so your body's burning a lot of fat but it also just makes you feel like shit because you have no energy yeah and you just feel lethargic right now because i ate lunch but before that i was running on a lemon a lemon gatorade so sugar you just run on sugar yeah which if for anyone who's whose body is pretty much like you haven't eaten in a while and you just have sugar that feeling is so fucking awful i oh my god like when i haven't had anything to eat and i'll drink like a coke i'm like i'm gonna go die now yeah it feels so bad i okay so i've never had a problem with feeling bad after fast food it just started this year in 2018 i don't know if it's now i'm like getting more into my 20s age because it's like the same thing with why we don't eat

As much candy as we used to Because remember when we first started living together We would walk to 7-Eleven almost every night And we would collectively get 15 to 20 dollars of just candy And soda and shit Night crawlers and the fucking Skittles and chips

The cookies yeah And we would just get like Twix and Twizzlers And just load up a bag and then be like... And in the very beginning, we'd fucking hook it up, baby. Oh, fuck. I don't even want to think about that. That makes me sick. When I think of hookah, I just feel ill to my stomach.

We hooked it up so much... We fired up the hook. ...that I will be satisfied with never firing it up ever again. I have had in... It has been over three years since I've done a hookah now, and I have had zero desire to go do, to even smoke a hookah once. Same. Because one hour of hookah is apparently equivalent to 60 cigarettes.

But like in the beginning, it was just, the thing that's nice about it is you get a buzz and it's a lot of smoke and it's fun. It's just so much fun to blow. It's just fun blowing smoke, you know? But God, guys, we can't recommend doing hookah because that is so bad for you yeah that's like just chain smoking like five packs of cigarettes and i honestly like i know but it's like the whole joke about how i i jewel but honestly i wish i didn't and i know we joke about it because it's funny but don't i don't want anyone to do it or like try it because i do it and it's like a meme it's like

i legitimately do it we're joking like if do it. And it's like a meme. It's like I legitimately do it. We're joking. If I'm joking about smoking cigarettes or you're joking about Juul, it's self-deprecation. It's not legitimately this is funny. I hate that I smoke this thing. It's awful. I hate that I smoke cigarettes. It makes me feel like shit.

And then you'll see the comments because I saw one the other day. Not the other day, but a while ago where it's like, you're just weak. Just quit. It's just like, well, I mean, honestly, yeah, I could just quit because I've quit cold turkey before. But I think you have to want to quit. And like, even though I know cigarettes is gross, there's a part of me that still it's part of it's the addiction and part of it's just kind of like habit. It's like it feels nice to kind of it's my excuse to get out of the office and just kind of like go outside for a little bit get some fresh air even though i'm putting tar in my lungs what's that that's just

how brutally so like putting tar in my life like why am i the one smoking the jewel you should be smoking the jewel dude i don't listen ryan here's what we should do didn't you just get me a jewel or did you were you lying no i really got you a jewel yesterday what color black i'm saying you should get a gun metal gun metal yeah sorry black was copyrighted let's get listen take get the jewel i bought you you can stop smoking in 2019 just start jeweling and we can still go outside and get some fresh air and just jewel just go stand by together it doesn't smell a buzz doesn't smell i get a stronger buzz from this than if you smoke a cigarette and no smell It's I think it's cheaper than cigarettes and you're not putting that shit in your lungs and your mouth won't taste bad You don't get a bad taste from it

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I know. This little jewel thing is crazy, right? Yeah. Packed with information and knowledge. What a fucking banger of an ad read that was. Couldn't get much better than that. If I'm being honest, that was some pinnacles right there. Let me tell you something real quick before we end the podcast.

I want to tell you how thankful I am that I got to do Super Mega with you this year. And I can't wait for another jam-packed year of 2019 with lots of new content. And we're going to try to do a lot more live action. Matthew, I am legitimately thank you. I had you in my life in 2015 because without you, I have no idea where I would have been. I don't know how lost I would have been. And I don't know if I could have gotten myself back out there, out here, you know? Yeah.

I feel the same way about you, man. I really am appreciative of your presence and your friendship. And I am also thankful for what we've built together and for the people that have come together and supported that. Absolutely. Well, we're wrapping up our last podcast of 2018. Much like your parents are wrapping up your gifts right now. And writing from Santa on it.

Just kidding. He's real. But guys, I hope you have a great, happy holidays. I'm sorry. I'm doing the war on Christmas thing. Yeah, Merry Christmas, guys. And if someone says happy holidays to you, punch them in the face. We have to fight this war on Christmas.

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