supermegashow - EP 16 - YouTube Demonetization Hype!
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Come one, come all it is super mega cast and we are back this is the 16th episode and it is the last no it's september 1st so there is a big topic that has just dropped as of today
little bombshell that just yeah and. And it's not technically new.
Well, part of it is.
And the actions being taken are new.
It's worth the talk about, though.
It's the YouTube terms of service stuff regarding demonetization of videos.
So basically, as a lot of you have probably heard, what YouTube has started doing is, as of, I think, the 31st of August, I believe they started to...
Of 2016.
Of 2016.
And after Christ.
YouTube has started demonetizing videos that are, quotes, advert...
Not advertiser-friendly. Not advertiser friendly.
Not advertiser friendly.
Advertiser non-friendly.
Unfriendly, yeah.
Whatever the term is.
So basically YouTube has
dropped this bombshell saying that
listen up, if your content is not
advertiser friendly, we're not
going to let you monetize it.
Which, to a lot of people that
don't work on YouTube, most know, most viewers that don't, you know, make YouTube videos.
They're like, OK, well, what's the what's the big deal?
Why? Why should I care about this?
And you can even go as far to even say this stuff has been in the terms of service for a while now.
Why is it now getting the attention that it's getting?
It's out of the blue.
YouTube suddenly like started enforcing it.
And then on top of that, just announced publicly like, oh, yeah, we're doing this, by the way.
Like just like we're starting now.
And it's got people really freaked out for several reasons, mainly because the biggest thing is it's it's a form of it's it's not exactly censorship.
Well, it is censorship, but it's it's like because you can't
really complain freedom of speech because that deals with the government um infringing on your
rights of freedom of speech and this and uh youtube is a business so technically it's not
really infringing on that right it's just as a company making decisions that are beneficial to
that certain company and the money it brings in for itself.
And you can still upload, you know, like, here's the thing.
You can still upload videos about, you know, controversial subjects or whatever.
But YouTube's just saying, okay, well, you can't monetize them.
They're not advertiser friendly, so you can't make money off of them.
And some of the reasons have been listed, you know, vulgar language.
Let me pull it up so I can read off. Here's the list of, uh, you know, the content that is
quote unquote considered inappropriate for advertising. Uh, just going to go down the
list here. Uh, sexually suggestive content, including partial nudity and sexual humor.
Um, well like I get the nudity thing, but sexual humor, you know, pretty much every,
every popular, it's open-ended, it's open-ended, it's very generality thing, but sexual humor, you know, pretty much every popular anything.
It's open-ended.
It's open-ended.
It's very general.
And as you will notice as I go down this list, these are very general and bland statements,
and we will make a point addressing that after we go through these points.
The next one is violence, including display of serious injury and events relating to violent extremism.
Now, that could be, you know, gang violence, regular murder violence that you see on LiveLeak,
but that could also deal with discussing or newsreel showing topics such as ISIS extremism
or any other type of widespread extremism linked with terror.
Yeah.
And then we have inappropriate language including harassment
swearing and vulgar language which every youtube channel is breaking and here's the thing they're
not taking action on every channel on youtube they haven't really they haven't really been
enforcing this to the t yeah and if they want this as like a solid term of of service then
then why are they only enforcing it on certain people
who they seem to not like, you know?
Yeah.
And then another one is a promotion of drugs
and regulated substances,
including selling, use, and abuse of such items.
Sure, that's okay.
You don't want to promote certain types of drugs or whatever.
You know, you're not going to make a YouTube video like,
hey guys, I'm selling drugs.
Here's how to make heroin, which I'm pretty sure that's out there
Yeah, it's definitely out there
Or how to obtain heroin blah blah blah how to make meth. Oh, yeah the fun the fun
breaking bad quandary big and now this is
The one that I believe was either recently added or if it was if this last point was actually addressed
If this last point was actually addressed earlier in the TOS, it still holds as the big one and the one that I find and I believe that Matt also finds more problematic.
It's content that is considered inappropriate for advertising are controversial or sensitive subjects and events, including subjects related to war, political conflicts, natural disasters, and tragedies, even if graphic imagery is not shown.
Controversial or sensitive subject matter.
Subjective.
That's all subjective.
Very, very open-ended and very, very general.
Yes.
So that's the big scary one because basically controversial subjects, things that are controversial, they can be completely subjective on who they're controversial to, you know, who is sensitive to what topics.
As we've seen on Twitter recently, I don't agree with this person that they banned, but they did ban him for having a difference of opinion, not just having a difference of opinion, but voicing his opinion, whether it be obnoxious or not.
It's Twitter with Milo Yiannopoulos. I believe honestly that it was wrong to permanently ban
him. I do not agree with what he said. I thought it was stupid what he said and dumb. But if we
are to hold up the, the kind of facade of freedom of speech, then why are people such as the West
Baptist church, um, in line, uh, on vine and stuff like that.
I didn't mean to make that rhyme, but why do they have their own vine?
Why do they have their own socials?
Oh, but because they're protected by freedom of speech, and they're religious, right.
But yeah, but if I don't agree with it, then shouldn't it go away?
Or if a big head corpse somewhere doesn't agree with it, then shouldn't it go away?
Of course it shouldn't go away.
It's freedom of speech.
It's disgusting, no matter what side you might be on.
But the fact of the matter is that people have the right to express their opinions,
whether you believe or deem them wrong or not.
Right.
And that's one of the beautiful things about the internet is it's kind of a place where,
you know, it doesn't matter where you're from, unless you're from like, you know,
China or North Korea, where you can, you know, the internet's like a big open, you know, field where you can go and express your opinions, even if they're different from people.
And you can, you know, share your thoughts, your opinions, because it's a massive, you
know, free platform for people to do that.
And that's one of the big problems right there, is that Twitter and YouTube are now socially
in this technological age of internet,
you know, this is the internet boom,
is that these
main sources of people
expressing their speech and stuff,
it is being
tampered with. It is.
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that's a-n-g-i.com and you know it's not like it's the government doing it but it but it's it's
it's these massive corporate uh i sound like it's a busy theorist it's these massive you know
internet moguls that you know control control the online entertainment industry that are basically saying like, okay, you said this.
We don't like that.
And I believe that, okay, if you're legitimately saying something that is like out of hatred and you're saying something that is invoking other people to commit acts of hatred or violence, then
maybe that, yeah, that probably should be taken down.
But when people are expressing their opinions and voices, and just because someone high
up in Twitter or YouTube doesn't agree with your opinions, whatever they are, they should
not be, you know, taken down.
Not to mention also the hypocrisy that's going on, you know, uh, Google, uh, protested against,
uh, SOPA and which, which had the guidelines basically saying certain sites would be at,
would be at fault for its uploaders or community uploaders, you know, just regular people from
their, um, consumers from their consumers, from their consumers actions.
And that was a very broad point.
And it had and it would have the ability for them to take down YouTube or other websites
depending on, you know, oh, I didn't agree with this.
So like YouTube and, you know, well, Google and other websites became very scared of this
general statement that could, you know, really affect their business.
And now they're enacting or at least they have enacted and now it's coming to light,
these very bland uses of silencing people, or at least maybe they're not banning them
yet, but they are taking like baby steps towards that.
They are taking away the ability for them to monetize their videos.
the ability for them to monetize their videos. And since a lot of people have now made this a form of income and a job or career, it's very detrimental to content creators,
or it could get very detrimental. Absolutely. And I wouldn't be surprised if,
you know, these gradual, because this is not the first time in the past you know half a year that youtube terms of
service have been something widely talked about because this is not the first time youtube has
recently changed their terms of service to something that people have not agreed with
and it's like they're slowly doing it more and more and more to things that people don't like
and um earlier today they said this isn't a new policy,
it's just making it easier to see
if you do get a video flagged and demonetized,
why it happened.
Which I didn't know that that was an issue before this.
Yeah.
They said, in quotes,
our policy of demonetizing videos
that are not advertiser friendly has not changed.
They said they're always working to improve monetization and everything and help partners build strong businesses on youtube they're doing
all they can to address frustration that they hear from uh partners and the big thing is they're
saying it's it's it's helping people know why their videos are demonetized but i didn't know
that that was a common problem of youtubers having their videos just demonetized and like why did
this get demonetized i haven't heard of that before. Yeah, and talking about them trying to calm down people's frustrations,
I feel like they're doing the opposite.
Philip DeFranco has the Philip DeFranco show, Billy Dee,
and he said as of now about over 40 of his videos have been demonetized,
and he's actually addressed them.
And some of them have been what looks like to have been um demonetized for
false reasonings and you would assume that you know these are bots doing it you know with tagging
or due to the subject matter in the video and youtube is not willing to relinquish the claim
that the bots have made the the final ruling i guess that they have made on his videos.
So when you would pretty much almost kind of like feel like a company should be going out of its way
to kind of, you know, hose down the fire to not fuel it, they are fueling it.
They are not taking the proper steps to kind of suppress people's anxiety about this decision.
And I feel like being vocal about it is important
because it's important for them to talk about it honestly
and not so generally,
just as something that had almost affected them
might have ruined their business.
Why are they letting something so general
potentially affect the business of the people
that have brought them so much success?
Yeah, absolutely.
And I remember kind of the first I heard about this was a few weeks ago.
I remember hearing something that if you had the word ISIS in your video title, description, or tags,
your video would not be able to be monetized.
And so this was the first I've ever heard of people's videos not being monetized
because of like any sort of reason.
So, you know, which I think this is dumb because if you have ISIS in your video title, it's probably because you're reporting some sort of news or discussing ISIS.
ISIS is not going on YouTube and making recruiting videos like, hey, guys, come join ISIS.
Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel
YouTube.com slash ISIS
We also have a gaming channel, ISIS Plays
We also have a makeup channel
And an unboxing channel
So basically, like right now I just saw on Twitter
That Scarce had several of his videos demonetized
Because the titles were about the whole Marina Joyce um, about the whole Marina Joyce thing.
Remember when,
uh,
the whole Marina Joyce scandal happened and people,
there was a speculation like,
what if she is,
there's the whole thing.
She's been kidnapped by ISIS and being forced to make these videos.
Um,
kind of a,
kind of a silly idea,
but just because he had the word ISIS in his description and title,
they said that your videos are not,
uh,
approved for monetization.
And then one of his other ones
was Kid Trickshots at McDonald's,
FaZe Rain Responds, PewDiePie vs.
Ask a Gangsta. That was
demonetized. And then
I think one of the
most shocking ones that was
demonetized was Philip
DeFranco. What was the title of the video?
It was like...
Let me find it. Hold What was the title of the video? It was like. It was.
It was.
Let me find it.
Hold on.
The title of the video was leaked video of SJW losing it blows up in her face.
Now this may be coincidental.
But Matt I think you were about to bring up the fact that just like Twitter there seems to be maybe a slippery slope kind of deal going on.
Even though that term gets eyes rolling and gets people all.
Yeah. All huffy and puffy.
But basically, here's what I'm saying,
is basically people like YouTube and Twitter are known for being very social justice,
very big social justice advocates.
Well, at least now they're coming out to be,
especially Twitter with their new, what's it called?
It's their new-
Council of Elders?
Yeah, whatever it is.
Led by Anita Sarkeesian?
Has Anita Sarkeesian in it.
So can we just point that out real quick?
That it has social justice warriors, nothing wrong,
fight for the cause, whatever,
but they're in charge of people's legitimacy on Twitter,
their verification, their overall legitimacy in the public eye and the entertainment they
produce.
That is very troubling.
And yeah, here's the thing.
So basically you are completely entitled and allowed to be a social justice warrior.
If those are your opinions, I will respect that.
And you can absolutely, you know, fight for whatever cause you want.
The thing is though, once, once people start – when the people that hold certain ideals and values manage these companies like YouTube or Twitter, and they have these very strong opinions that they believe are the absolute right opinion.
And even if they are the – well, there's no such thing as a right opinion.
But even if they are the correct side of whatever.
The ethical correct side.
Right, right, right.
That still does not give them the right to hush and take baby steps at silencing and censoring other people's content that they don't agree with.
This was a video of an SJW having something blow up in her face her face like an SJW fail or something and that was demonetized and when and seeing something like that it will be different if if all the videos had been things like if we if we're if we had been seeing videos getting demonetized that were videos that actually you know it was like videos of like like gang fights or videos that had partial nudity and stuff like that
i would have no problem with because i go to live leak for that yeah that site's open for it but the
thing is youtube what is youtube slogan it's broadcast yourself it's not broadcast our opinions
it's broadcast yourself and everyone has different opinions on things whether you like it or not
everyone has different opinions some people have
shitty opinions and some people have you know opinions that they think are right and everyone
else has a wrong opinion and and when when the people that have that mindset of our opinion is
the correct one everyone else's opinion is is wrong incorrect you know that that's when it
gets troubling because then they start to you know like what like we're saying they're not removing these videos they're not yeah but but but it yet it's it's but it's it is that slippery slope of people get used to this like they're like okay well after a while people get used to them demonetizing things and basically here's the big thing them demonetizing it is just a massive, you know, almost passive aggressive, not even
passive aggressive, but it's a massive push to make sure people don't make videos about these
topics. That's all it is because it's like, oh, well, if I make a video about this topic,
I have the potential of it not being monetized. And with a website like YouTube, where so many
thousands of people depend on this website for income and revenue it's like okay well
i can't make revenue if i talk about this topic so yeah it is censoring and people are people that
say it's not censoring i i think that they're wrong because it absolutely is a form of censoring
even on a small scale it stretches out to be something much bigger over time. And can you say that? Well, YouTube, it won't get to that, you know, terrible outcome.
But it's like YouTube, if you haven't noticed, has always been farming its creators to upload videos of a certain type.
There was the big push of anti-animation that I remember just freaked people out.
There was that whole like thing where the algorithm didn't support it support it and then you know people moved on from that you know and
then it was uh videos of longer content are given you know privilege and it's like so those are
let's plays so you see where biases have taken effect due to monetary instances, you know, affecting YouTube's ad revenue,
stuff like that.
So it's not a weird thing to think about of how they will herd and cattle its users to
act a certain way and to push out a certain type of content that they see fitting for
their advertisers.
It's, you know, it's that kind of gradual, it's like that molding saying like okay you know we're not forcing you to do this but you know if you want to make
money you kind of have to do this yeah and and the thing is it's like youtube has always you know
people there's always been a lot of bullshit with youtube's everything regarding youtube and
advertisers because like ryan was saying the algorithm, which if you don't know about that, basically YouTube has an algorithm that promotes different videos and allows people to get big.
And it gives people's videos exposure based on certain factors like video length and stuff, because YouTube wants longer videos because they can put more ads on those videos. So what that did originally was YouTube, when it first started, was, you know, like there was such a big variety of videos you see.
And basically what happened was they're like, OK, well, we can't make a lot of money on these small videos.
And they changed the algorithm partially because it used to be based on views.
So you would get money based on views and people would upload like two second videos and then
they went to retention right yeah they moved it over to retention rates and
once they did that they're like okay well what gets the most like what do
people watch the longest and of course it was videos like let's plays and and
stuff like that so because because people will sit down and watch a video
for a long time and when they do that YouTube's like oh we can put ads
multiple ads on this.
So then basically they change the algorithm more and more over time, making it worse and
worse for, you know, people trying to be creative and shit.
So it's basically, unless you're making like 20 minute videos every, like twice a day,
every day, you're going to have a real hard time being successful on YouTube.
So, I mean, that's why kids with problemss is where it is and why SuperMega is where
it is.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, we didn't jump ship.
We moved to something that we would have a good time doing and that would be a better
use of our time.
Right.
Don't get, do not get the idea that we started this channel
specifically because do not get the idea at all that we started this channel because we wanted
to match youtube's algorithm and and we're like i guess we got to make let's plays we genuinely
love making super mega and we love the videos that that we produce we love making this content
for you guys but at the same time it pushed kids with the type of content kids with problems uh produced uh into youtube's algorithm into the hole like
yeah uh so i mean we had to we had to think of a way what content can we produce right and of course
the the the shining sign is let's plays and since you and i already like games we may not be good
at them but you and i have a lot of fucking memories and a lot of our past is hooked up to video games just because me being the lonely child and you being the
fucking idiot you i'm sorry and then on top of that it's also not only that but we already had
a large presence in the gaming community on youtube and we knew so many people we were friends
with so many people uh within the gaming community.
It was kind of like a no-brainer.
It's like, well, why don't we get into this market?
We had a lot of people talk to us
and definitely say this would be a good move for y'all.
Y'all still get to make content.
And I want to start making more live action stuff, dude.
Absolutely.
Basically, we have...
This channel, we've had a lot less varying content recently
in the last month,
and that is it is not
because we're getting lazy or anything it is specifically because as you know a month ago
we started working for game grumps and right now we are the managers of technically five channels
uh five big channels and that is a lot of work so we have not had as much time to dedicate to
making you know things like live action and, you know, other projects for the
channel. But, uh, we're becoming more and more backlogged now. And, um, we have a lot of things
planned. Uh, we're going to get a lot more into doing live action for the channel and more stuff
for you guys. So don't worry. It's, it's gonna, there's going to be a lot more stuff besides just
game commentary. Yeah. And you know, we always promise a lot of stuff and it may take a while
to deliver, but we will deliver. We will deliver. The point of the fact is it's like this is a time thing
uh time moves really fast but unfortunately the time that moves fast is a long fucking
yeah extent of time and again it's gonna take a while to get these things up and running it's
gonna get it's gonna take a while um in certain aspects to get certain shows up and running, to get certain types of content up and running that we want.
But Super Mega is a continually transforming thing.
We are constantly coming up with ideas, trying to work on it.
And those ideas are not going to be just left in the dark because I'm going to be honest.
I don't want to only do Let's Plays.
It's fun, but I want to, I want to do what I came to
LA and what inspired me to come out here and what you were inspired to eventually just kind of make
your move out here as well as to make fun, enjoyable content of your type of humor in a
sketch type of form or in a live action type of form. Because I feel like our sense of humor,
I'm not saying it translates better, but you and i definitely have a different
feel it's a different type of connection we have with creating a sketch or a vlog uh type video
than it is uh sitting down and having fun with a video game right and we know that you guys we know
that for the most part most of you guys love you know gaming content and stuff and we're glad that
you like that because because we like producing as well but like ryan said we you know gaming content and stuff and we're glad that you like that because we like producing as well but like Ryan said
we you know creating
gaming videos is
it's a passion of ours
but we want to do
so much more than that and
we have been busy yes but we
we like Ryan said yeah we have
a lot of shit on the way that we
have been promising but
it's time yeah yeah it's all about time and still
Talking about time. We're still a super new channel. We've been doing super mega since five
We've been doing it for five since april. So april may june july august
Almost five months. Yeah, so we're still not even half a year old and on that note
We would like to say holy shit. you guys for the support you've given us
i know five months watching how far we've come um just in the last five months with this channel
you know we're coming up on a hundred thousand subscribers now within the next you know within
the next month a month or so we may hit it which is so that's astronomical guys thank you so much
you do not like your appreciation for our channel does not go unnoticed.
Even, you know, we love to joke around and shit on you guys and, you know, make comments about you guys.
But at the end of the day, it's all in good taste.
We love you guys.
You are a fantastic fan base.
And we couldn't be more thankful for your viewership and your comments.
You know, some and your comments. Some of your comments.
I'm starting to read the comments a little less.
I still go in and read them.
They make me a little sad sometimes.
Yeah.
Sometimes they hurt my feelings.
I'm not saying we're being bullied off of reading comments.
It's just...
The bigger you get, you start to get more people that dislike you.
And no matter what, even if it's like, just block out the negative voices.
Okay.
I'm going to block them out and I'm going to pay attention to the people that actually
like the content.
And those people will always show up no matter what, uh, depending on, you know, if I turn
out to be a serial killer or not.
Hopefully if I do, um, if, if the judge, you know, and you know and the um yeah that's uh we're gonna
next week's podcast but uh yeah if my uh quadruple duple homicide you're being uh
convicted for a quadruple duple homicide yeah but yeah uh the people that appreciate our content
you do not go unnoticed by us.
And we're not saying if you hate our content, we hate you.
You know, do whatever you want.
Like whatever you want.
You're entitled to your opinion.
But don't stick around just to be an asshole.
You know, move on and do something or watch something that you will actually get something out of. Because here's the thing.
Like people that hate on the content, it's a waste of your time.
If they keep coming back if they keep coming it's just a waste of the time and there's other stuff
that is better for them to focus on and i there's there's always gonna be haters and yes that's true
i just i just really i don't know i i guess i'm just confused by the general um concept of it
because for example i was talking about this uh when we were in a drive-thru for taco bell uh now sponsored by taco bell anyways um uh for example like with uh tv
shows there have been tv shows that i have quit watching i loved them and then the season started
getting you know whatever and i dropped it i didn't go to forums and complain i didn't continuously watch the show every uh week night
on sunday uh i just stopped watching it and i moved my moved my time over to something
more worth it and i'm honestly speaking here we are not a good use of your time if all you're
doing is pointing out negative things critiquing is another thing but like if you're just being a negative nancy little person little negative nancy uh we are not worth your time stop watching us
please go watch something that you like because i don't it's you know we don't want to waste your
time you don't want to waste your time and it just kind of gets taxing after a while yeah i mean i
don't know it just kind of confuses me honestly it's just confusing when people like seeing the same people complain over and over again it's like okay why
well you don't you don't need to watch us it's like no one's making you watch us and you know
like we talked about earlier you're entitled to your opinion of not liking us we get it we're uh
we're goofy let's players you don't have to like us assholes and we deserve to be burnt at the stake. We're gross little sellouts
for that sweet YouTube
money. Like we get it
if you don't like our channel. I just
get confused overall by people that
continue to complain. And I see
that on a lot of other channels.
I see people just complain and
complain and complain when
at the end of the day it's just a YouTube
channel. If you don't like it, who gives a fuck go go go outside go watch a different there are i think i think you and i i
know what you're talking about but it's like you like it's that it's that kind of just like
here's the here's the truth you and i have seen a lot of terrible shit online we have we go out
of our way lively best gore you name it we've seen fucked up shit and we've seen that there
are bigger there are bigger things to complain about in the world.
We can't talk about that, Ryan.
They're going to demonetize this video.
Oh, yeah.
Well, we complain about little tiny stuff, but when you do it to us, we don't like you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So go home.
You're stupid.
Yeah.
You may have to.
Anyway, Ryan and I, you know, we've been on this soapbox for a little while.
We're both stepping off the soapbox.
And, oh, Ryan, I'm opening it up.
Hold on.
What is this?
Oh, dude, it's a Segway inside the soapbox.
What?
Pull it out.
Holy shit.
Get on.
Here we go.
Oh, boy.
Howdy.
Where are we?
What do you want to talk about?
Just riding it around. Let's talk about skateboarding, Ryan. Let's talk about are we? What do you want to talk about? Just riding it around.
Let's talk about skateboarding, Ryan.
Let's talk about fucking skateboarding.
I used to skateboard.
I used to do some fucking sick ollies.
I never grinded.
No.
I could never grind.
But I did ollies.
I could do ollies.
That's one thing I could do.
I couldn't do an ollie, and I always grinded.
So if you put our skills together, we would have been a marginal skateboarder.
We would have been the Tony Hawk of our generation.
Skateboarding's out of fashion, right? Yeah, it's
actually funny. It's like, it was like a
an art form in a way that, you know,
was so popular during the mid-90s
and shit, and then there's... Well, it originated
from surf culture, didn't it? Yeah, it just died, though.
Like, skateboarding, uh, back in
like the 90s and stuff, skateboarding was like
everyone had sponsors, it was huge,
it was all over TV and shit.
The video games made money.
Everybody knew who famous skateboarders were, and then they just fucking dropped off the face of the earth.
Like, I got an Uber a couple months ago, and my Uber driver was telling me about how in the 90s he was a professional skateboarder.
He knew Tony Hawk and Bam, and he used to skate with Spike Jones and stuff.
This is an Uber driver, so you know.
Yeah, but that shows what he teaches high school now, so that kind of shows what happened with skateboarding.
But I don't know.
It was a really interesting culture.
But talking about skateboarding, when I was in middle school, I certainly was into skateboarding myself.
And I used to go to my friend's house, my friend Josh.
And we would bust out our boards and have a little fun in his driveway.
Like I would, you know.
Mine was a pool parking lot, yeah.
I would do a manual and I would go up a ramp and go down a ramp.
I was pretty good.
Ooh.
Yeah.
You know what I like doing?
What?
Getting someone on my electric scooter after it was repaired. we did repair it after that great crash the great crash of
2001 whatever whenever it was not that one
Not that one not the other great crash of 2000
After I got my scooter repaired and all that bullshit
Just take like a rope or something hang on to the back with your skateboard
It was a fun time. Oh, and someone would pull you.
You know what I did was I had a longboard, which I actually even still now, I don't have
one in California, but I still enjoy longboarding.
There's a very popular Rocket Power episode about longboarding versus skateboarding and
all that.
Really?
Yeah.
Wow.
I like longboarding.
It's just very casual.
It's fun, you know, putting in headphones And then just kind of like cruising around some smooth
I want an electric longboard
An electric longboard what?
Yeah
They're pretty much the electric skateboards
Except you know longer
Those kids and their electric skateboards
But I used to get on a longboard
And I had a golden retriever named Casey
I love you Casey
I love you, Casey. And I love you too.
Casey?
You help my suffering.
No, no.
And basically, I would put him on his leash and then he would just pull me around the neighborhood.
Casey's not a boy's name.
Yeah, it is.
It's a unisex name.
Ew. a boy's name yeah it is it's a unisex name ew you do my biggest youtube rival in uh sixth grade
was when i when i first started doing casey anthony no not casey anthony uh while she is uh
i do have some personal rivalries with her um my personal youtube rival was this kid named casey
that was in my visual arts class in middle school And we both made YouTube videos on our really old channels
And we always were like feuding about who was copying one another
And uh god we like I remember one time like I called him on the phone after school
Uh we had like a call and I was like stop copying me
And we got in this big fight and stuff
And he's like I don't want to be your friend anymore
And like YouTube was just tearing us apart
It was it was crazy
But uh but wait wait
funny story about casey um casey if you're listening uh i think you'll enjoy this because
i was going through my laptop last night and i had a lot of old i i stumbled upon an old dropbox
folder i had that was just nothing but stuff from like 2009 i almost said 29 uh 2009 2010 2011 and it was i i found
this rap song casey had made and casey was this little white kid that liked skateboarding and
making youtube videos and magic tricks white vanilla disgusting i do not like the vanilla
bros ew gross vanilla people.
But basically, Casey made this like...
So bland.
I gotta show you, Ryan.
Casey made a rap song.
Like, not a joking one.
He made like a serious, hard rap song with his brother.
And it is...
No offense, Casey.
It is absolutely awful.
I showed Chris, and Chris was just like, we're laughing our asses off at it.
And Chris said that we should take that
Rap song that he made when he was in like 7th
Grade and we should just make like a high quality
Music video for it
Just like with us and like preface it like
Like this kid in middle school
Made this rap and like I just rediscovered
It so now we're producing like the music video
It's always deserved and dude the lyrics
Are like
He's talking about like getting like a
blumpkin and stuff which if you don't know what a blumpkin is it's when um you get fellated upon
when a girl uh gives you oral sex while you are um going number two on the can do people do that
in high school i didn't do that in high school i most certainly didn't do that in high school
i don't remember that i don't remember i don that. I don't know anyone that's ever received a so-called Blumpkin.
Forgot what I was going to say.
I love when I forget what I was going to say.
It's about...
That time.
It's about that time that you went scuba diving with Neil deGrasse Tyson.
I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson, bitch.
Classic line from Zoolander 2, which we saw
an advanced screening of.
Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. It was bad. It was very bad.
Which made me sad. No surprise, this is
a while ago. Oh, yeah, yeah. We saw
was this like fucking back in February, I think.
We saw an advanced screening of Zoolander 2
like a week or two before. Or like a premiere screening or something.
And it was so bad.
I mean, which sucks because I loved the first Zoolander movie.
I think it's absolutely, it is a groundbreaking comedy.
It is hilarious.
Every time I watch Zoolander, I, I find myself laughing myself into a little fit.
It was only meant to exist in that time though.
I believe that style of humor.
I think if that, I think if Zoolander came out today, it wouldn't be successful.
It did.
It's called Zoolander 2.
Well, no, no, but, um, you know, objectively speaking, Zoolander 2, the comedy and writing was just so much worse than Zoolander 2 well no but you know objectively speaking Zoolander 2
the comedy and writing was just
so much worse than Zoolander 1
oh it was bad but I feel like
same with kind of like I don't know Anchorman
if it came out today I don't think it would do as well I feel
like those types of like weird
oddball comedies were very
we discussed this with like Nacho Libre
and
Nacho Pacho Vote for Pedro.
Yeah, I wonder how Napoleon Dynamite would do if it came out in 2016.
Well, see, those types of indie movies are looked at as cringy now,
but Napoleon Dynamite and Juno I think still get a pass
because they were the bigger products of that time,
and so now that things are basing themselves off of those,
or since they are the ones that may have based their stuff off of other people but they're the ones that got popular
those are safe i think there was a napoleon dynamite animated show on fox for a while i
think it only got like a one season run and it wasn't i don't even think they got like
john or anyone to uh to voice i don't think they got any of the original people to voice, but it was like, oh, it was bad.
It's just, that was,
Napoleon Dynamite should be one of those things
that is a one-time, like a one-hit wonder.
It never needs to be remade,
because I'm sure, dude,
I guarantee 25, 30 years down the road,
there's going to be a Napoleon Dynamite remake.
You know, sometime in our lifetime, or even beyond our lifetime, that movie's going to be a napoleon dynamite remake you know sometime in our lifetime
or even beyond our lifetime that movie's going to get remade i i'm more saddened by the fact that
you and i won't get to see like this oscar-worthy performance movie made about the ridiculousness
of uh donald trump in this election oh yeah because like you know you know there's going to
be a big i don't know if it's going to be five years from now or if it's going to be i think it's going to be after our lifetime there's going to be this big biopic and it's going to be a big, I don't know if it's going to be five years from now or if it's going to be 50 years from now.
I think it's going to be after our lifetime.
There's going to be this big biopic and it's going to have people going, there's no way this happened.
He couldn't say that.
Wait, he said that in this time and place?
Oh, no.
I think that was away from the mic.
I can still smell it, though.
I see the waveform of it.
Are you sure?
Well, I can assure the listeners this.
They're listening to your flatulence from the comfort of their headphones, from the comfort of their phone.
I am right here on the front line.
Smelling my...
I am in the exclusion zone of Fukushima right now.
You're smelling what was confined in my anus. In your
sphincter. I'm smelling...
Okay, is that actual particles
from whatever that is floating through the air
and going into my nose?
Like, how does it work?
I believe there has to be some sort of
physical representation of what happened for you
to interact with it, whether it be taste.
Yeah, because my nose, like the sensors in my nose
are picking up what came out of your ass and translating it to my brain that smells awful
that smells like that came out of ryan's ass which means that some particles from your ass
are in my nose and lungs yeah uh enjoy the pink eye and with that, with Matt's pink eye saluting us, bye-bye.
This has been another wonderful episode of the Super Mega Cast. We have some awesome guests lined up for the podcast that we are very excited about.
Just get excited for these future episodes because we, you know, that was one of the visions of the podcast from the beginning is we want to have more guests on.
And we, you you know maybe we
we got our little buddy uh frank javsy coming on soon too a little more uh who knows you'll have
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fuckers