Smosh Mouth - S1: #35 - Demonetized For Life w/ Mini Ladd

Episode Date: October 16, 2019

Ian, Damien, and Craig “Mini Ladd” Thompson sit down to talk about video game company drama, the official rules of spoiler alerts, and definitive proof that YouTube is trying to demonetize Mini Ladd’s channel for life.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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your back has to kind of like lock up in the right position to make sure you go down. My back didn't lock up, so my back kind of folded back in and itself. You did like a full scorp. Can't confirm, that fucking hurt. What happens if the CEO of Keurig is watching this video right now? He can go fuck himself. There you go. What if that's what he already does while watching our videos? Now what? Well then keep it up.

You're doing great. Not getting in any names, but a major video game company had some big ramifications for some people. What is the responsibility of games companies when it comes to stuff like that? Is free speech in play? Do they have to deal with the business side of things first? Happy birthday to me. I have messed my trousers.

I own three nightclubs in Cologne, Germany. I would like to order the shrimp, please. I would not like them cooked. This is rolling. Can you also bring the naked man in the bathtub, please? Wait, what? Is it? Oh, fuck.

I told you we were trying to cancel you. I knew he was German. Hey, I was born there, so we're good. Oh, really? Yeah, I give you a pass. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Smosh cast today. Today, oh, hi, I give you a pass. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Smosh cast today. Today.

Oh, hi. I'm Ian. And today I'm joined by my good boy, Damien. Hey, I'm a very good boy. Treat. Give me treats. But also joined by another good boy, Craig, otherwise known as Minilad on the YouTubes. Oh, yes.

I'm good boy. You're a good boy. Is this really how we're starting? Hell yeah. I'm all down for this We're whatever about it We are not the most, I don't know Formatted podcast

We just sort of do what we do and have fun with it I've done a lot of stuff with you guys over the years So I know exactly where this goes You posted that a few years ago? Oh yeah We're bringing it back That was so fun. I feel like that actually wasn't that long ago, but it feels like forever ago.

It does. Well, I mean, you guys have also been through the wars recently. Yeah, very much. Think of all the life changes that's happened since then. Wait, what are you talking about? Nothing's happened. What happened? I guess that's the last time that you were with us then, right?

Yeah. Was you posted that damn yeah that was me me Sonya OMG Firefox and Captain Sparkles oh yeah that's right and then the next week you guys got Chris Pratt and then just shoved everything I did aside I can't compete with his beauty I can't you can't he's just in his charisma that's true no you can try no I didn't get a role on parks are sure it was Courtney's profile picture for a while So every time I saw her profile

I'm just like Oh I have to relive Getting outshone by Chris Pratt Got it Yeah Well we all got outshone Yeah I was like Is that a surprise to anybody?

He's gonna outshine anyone In whatever room he's in Yeah Wait did I Can I go up? Are you bumping the table son? Don't bump that table son Ian you're short enough as it is

You wanna go up Whoa Welcome to the Yeah Welcome to Let podcast. Yeah. Welcome to Let's Shit on IanCast. Like, hey, beard man, glasses ass. Oh, look at you, John. Non-bleached hair ass.

Woo. Oh, yeah. We were talking about this because, yeah, you guys both color your hairs. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And I think the reason is, I mean- We're true jamers. Both of you guys covering up for my insecurities.

We're video jamers. Oh, video jamers. Oh, yeah. No, that's fine. Yeah. You mean, we're true jamers. Covering up for my insecurities. We're video jamers. Oh, that too. Oh, yeah. No, that's fine. Yeah. You stream, right? Now and again. Now and again.

Yeah. Just kind of like off and on. Whenever I can. Yeah. It's hard. I haven't been home in a while. Yeah. Because you've been touring, right?

I went on tour, yeah, in between leg three and leg four right now. So I am tired at all times. How long is that going for you? When do you get to rest? So I just finished up Falls Church, Virginia. Then I did a show at Times times. Damn. How long is that going for you? When do you get to rest? So I just finished up Falls Church, Virginia. Then I did a show at Times Square.

Wow. At the PlayStation Theater. That was cool. Hey, PlayStation. Hey, you were on a show. Yeah, the PlayStation Theater is like in Times Square, right? Yeah.

So we pretty much sold that out, which is nuts. And then Philly and then Pittsburgh and then I come here for a few days to hang out with you

beautiful guys. Wee. And then I'm doing LA, San Diego and Arizona but by the time this gets aired I've already finished them

hey congratulations I hope it went well I hope so too future me and then another leg of the tour or are you taking a little respite

yeah so I structured it so there's four days on a week off nice that's smart because I mean I have to go back and do the fart jokes and things like that. Yeah, of course.

I got three weeks off after this, which I'm so excited for. Good man. All right. Because living in a coffin, you know, for most of your life, well, most of my tour life, has been difficult. Because as far as the tour process goes, it's kind of like stacked three ways, one, two, three. The top, suppose you're not meant to sleep up there because it's too wobbly.

Say for example Oh, it was insane. Oh my god. We practiced this. Oh, it was harmonizing against each other. Top of the bus. Yeah, we probably should have just kept it at that one thing we said. We made him giggle.

I'm arousal. But so the top is a bit too wobbly and the bottom is too loud because it's near the engine. So like in the middle is the sweet spot. Oh, that's good to know. But they're like, I mean, we're talking maybe three feet is the side of the bunk and there's no like barrier to stop you. So if all of a sudden the bus driver goes, you're gone. You're off the side.

Okay. So yeah. If all of a sudden the bus driver goes, skirt, you're gone. Dang. You're off the side. Okay, so yeah, so you're talking about on the tour bus, you sleep on the bus from city to city, right? Yeah, because normally it's like eight-hour drive in between different places. Yeah, so they have these beds that are essentially like, they're almost like shelves, right? They're shelves. Imagine kind of like a hard hammock, like a morgue. Yeah, no. Yeah.

Like a mausoleum. Yeah. Exactly. Like a Mona Lisa, you know? Yeah, like an ossuary. Yeah, like an ostrich. Yeah. Yeah.

Exactly. Yeah, I think I'm getting it now. Okay. So you have gotten skirted out of bed. Skirt. The bus skirt, and then you rolled out of the bed onto the floor? Onto the floor. It hurt.

Jeez. Dang, dude. As far as wake-up calls go, that sucked. That is the worst. The engine noise don't sound so bad now, huh? No, that's what I mean. You should do the bottom bunk. Well, because you know when you fall asleep in a car and your head's on the side of the

seat, you kind of hear the road and everything going on really loud? It's kind of the same thing because your head's kind of on the side and your head's on the side of the, on the side of the seat, you kind of hear the road and everything going on really loud. It's kind of the same thing because where your head's kind of on the side, your head's on the bus basically. Right. So, you know, you get those like drag strips across the side of the roads, like,

Oh yeah. To wake you up. So we had a driver, his name was Forrest on leg two. And for the entire eight hour trip, he drove on that, he drove on top of the goddamn strip. You can't do that.

God damn it. Forrest, you're not watching this. Cause I'm pretty sure you don't know top of the goddamn strip. You can't do that. Goddamn it, Forrest! You're not watching this, because I'm pretty sure you don't know what the internet is, but goddamn you, Forrest! That sucks. Nobody told him? Nobody had the heart to say anything? Put it this way. This guy only wore a wife beater. His name was Forrest, and he started every sentence with, well! And you know exactly what kind of person

that is. Yep. Last time we had somebody drive us from an event, and I won't say which, uh, the driving was actually, uh, very bad, very bad and scary and terrifying.

So we actually like, we're texting each other in the back and it's like, do we say something? And then eventually we're like, Ian, you're the boss. Say something. Yeah.

I love it. It gets shoved up onto you. He's the boss. Yeah. Yeah. So I, yeah, that was,

that was a little sketchy and it was just because, well, we were in this long kind of like, it wasn't a bus. It was a van. The drive, it's very windy. It's going from like essentially the desert, like high desert back to Los Angeles. And yeah, there's some wind and stuff. And this person, I don't think they had ever driven. They had never driven a vehicle like that before.

Yeah. Ever. Oh, no. And they were going fast. And see, never driven a vehicle like that before. Yeah. Ever. Oh, no. And they were going fast. And see, more in sync. Oh, God. Yeah. Y'all are cute.

We're quite the duo. Yeah. We're like the Merrill twins, you know? Oh, my gosh. I'm Vanessa. I'm Veronica. I'm Ronnie. I'm Elizabeth Merrill, the fourth one that they don't talk about.

Hi, I'm Smosh Games. Nice to meet you. But yeah, that was, we kept like, because every time she would go to pass somebody, we were in the back. So we would feel more of the sway. You would fly along with it. Because she would like jerk the wheel.

So the whole back of the van would be going, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. I'm not a religious man, but I kept being like, whoever, whatever is out there listening, can you just do me a solid like I'm legit texting my mom that I love her and it's but see that's how polite I am because I'm like I would rather like get all my affairs in order and die than just like say like excuse me

miss you're driving horribly uh could you stop like yeah it's like I could confront her or I could write my will in the back of the van just die yeah yeah and, like, I was willing to be like, hey, can you pull over and I'll just drive? But I also realized that it might come off as being like, no, you're a woman. You don't know how to drive. Let a man drive. Oh, no. Not even. So.

Well, you're also a car guy, and she had never driven this type of vehicle before. I think if it's like you'd had equal experience and time and that kind of thing, and then you were like, move over, then you're an ass. So eventually I was just like, because we kept looking at each other. I was getting those nervous sweats

every time the bus, like the van, like swayed back and forth and I was just like, hey, can you slow down please? Because it's, you're being very jerky

and it's scary. And then she's like, okay. And then like, She was not happy. Yeah, she was not stoked about that. And then we stopped somewhere. Everyone got off, and I was like, hey, sorry for calling you out in front of everyone. It was just like, you know, it's just the van.

We're trying not to die. And she was like, well, I didn't feel anything. Well, yeah, you're holding a wheel. You don't really feel the G-forces when you're holding onto the vehicle. Yeah. So I was just like, okay, I'm glad I said something because she had no clue. Our point is you should text Forrest and let him know your true feelings about how much you disliked his driving. I should.

I'll write a heavily worded letter. And then he'd go, well, well. Whatever he says. Yeah. So the tour, other than Forrest's driving, has been good? The tour's been amazing. Yeah. I mean, I had no idea what was going to happen going into this.

Because I know, I'm not badmouthing YouTubers here, but a lot of YouTubers do a Q&A, which is fine. I mean, if your audience really likes Q&A, then that's awesome. For me, I wanted to try and put on some kind of a show so I wanted to try and do some kind of a stand up some kind of like fan interaction gaming stand up

hybrid thing I don't even know how to describe it so I had no idea how the hell this was going to be perceived and then coming out every night

it's kind of like a pantomime cry where everyone's like yes you know I could be like how's it going I could take a shit on stage

and everyone would be like yeah push it out! Can we do that? No. I'm going to go to your Friday show. Can you take a shit on stage? Do you want to come on stage and take a shit on stage?

Ian, do it. Take my card. If you want to organize it, take my card. Just let me know and we can try and get something organized for you. Great. I'll take some Metamucil beforehand. Perfect, perfect. I was thinking of like, what's the one?

Okay, Miralax. That's the same. Yeah. Just take some Miralax. Okay, yeah. Are you brand specific with? Well, one time I had a very bad stomach issue, and I needed to go, so I took Miralax. Hit me up, Miralax.

Yeah. Sponsored. Actually, no, it's not. Oh, don't. They also have laxatives that come in little chocolates. Oh, really? Seems dangerous. Yeah.

I feel like someone got pranked with that in high school. It's like someone with chocolate and put laxative and it's like, oh my God, this is genius. And they just made their entire career around it. I mean, if you can make every medicine a chocolate, wouldn't you? Yeah. Store it near kids. I mean, I don't smoke. A lot of people are just like, oh, I don't really like to smoke, but I do like this brownie.

Yeah. Dangerous. Very dangerous. You don't want to. I feel like everyone that's had a weed brownie experience has had a bad weed brownie experience. One thing I think is funny is there's news articles right now of people saying, like, just watch your kids. Make sure you know what they're eating because there could be edibles in there.

I'm like, bro, like, how much money are you willing to spend on these kids? You're not even going to see that happen. You're like, I bet in about an hour it's going to kick in. It's going to kick in. The little eight-year-old Jimmy dressed a dinosaur. He's going to be feeling things. I'm like, no, I'm not going to waste money on that. I'm so glad that I spent $2,000 on this epic Halloween prank where I drugged children.

That you don't get to see the outcome. You just wait for the cops to show up. You're like, now we play the waiting game. I bet those kids are smiling. Or the guy, like, he gives them the brownies, but he's like, but you're going to need to wait here for about an hour. You need to eat the candy right now. The moms are like, why can't I go? And just handcuffs the kid to the fence.

No, I must see this. We watch him trip. We must. Yoda, watch him trip. We must. Yeah, I don't know why I worded it that way. I don't know why either, but it was great. I think it was just, it was the character that you were making. Whoever is crazy enough to do that also speaks like Yoda. Watch him trip, we must. Yeah, I don't know why I worded it that way. I don't know why either, but it was great. I think it was just, that was the character that you were making.

Whoever is crazy enough to do that also speaks like Yoda. Watch him trip, we must. Well, there you go. Now it's just straight up Yoda. To be fair, the person who made Jar Jar Binks was obviously clearly high on something. That was George Lucas. High on money. Yeah, I'm watching him.

High on his sweet, sweet money. Yeah. Well, I mean, was Jar Jar in episode one? Yeah. Yeah. So he had no money. This is the thing. George Lucas, yeah, he had a lot of say in the first three Star Wars movies,

episode four, five, and six. But the prequels, he had complete control over. Oh. Basically, he obviously proved that, like, you know, Star Wars is a great thing. And basically, but I think Fox had a lot of control over the, not the prequels, but 4, 5, and 6. They didn't?

So he also had control over 4, 5, and 6. Oh, so they're like, okay, look. All of a sudden, they're just so much better. Yeah. He just paid for the, he had to get some money, so he had to make some compromises. But story-wise, it's all him. Oh.

Interesting. And then he went batshit crazy because he had all the money when he came back in 99 and paid for it all himself. He had so much money... He paid for it all himself. Yeah.

That's insane. Jesus. See, I don't... Do whatever you want, then. Yeah. That is ball of status. Make the dumbest characters. Like, it's all your money.

Do whatever you want, George Lucas. I do want to say, I am going to shit-talk one streamer right nowest characters. Like, it's all your money. Do whatever you want, George Lucas. I do want to say, I am going to shit talk one streamer right now. Whoa. Oh, whoa. I know. Spill the tea.

That's the tea, sister. I love you, Jack. Courage, JD. But he thinks Transformers is better than Star Wars. Ooh. That's a really bad opinion. Wait, are we talking

like the animated? The old, old animated? No, I'm like Dark Side of the Moon. I'm pretty sure like the Shia LaBeouf Megan Fox ones. That's a big ol' yikes, my boy.

That's a spicy oof. The one that is a bit interesting though is he thinks that Inception is better than Interstellar. I never saw Interstellar, so I don't know. You haven't seen Interstellar? No, I don't like movies. I would side on Inception being better than Interstellar.

I like both. I think they're both great. I think the reason I like... Both are fantastic. The Star Wars one blows my mind, the Transformers. But the one thing I like about Interstellar is the fact that they played with the idea of fabrics of time into physical fabric. I'm like, oh, you guys are smart. Yeah, the whole library thing was weird.

I loved it. I absolutely loved it. But I did like the idea of the fact that since he spent five seconds or whatever near the black hole, that was like 50 years or whatever. Right. That was a cool concept. I didn't say I wasn't gonna see it.

Oh, shit. I didn't hear you say that you... I haven't seen it. You haven't seen Interstellar? It's okay. No, spoil it. Look, if a movie's been out for like three, four, five years and you haven't seen it, you can't be like... Okay, here's a question. What is the threshold?

Like, after a certain amount of time, can you say, okay, now we're good? Because for Avengers Endgame, the directors literally came out and went, all right, y'all are good now. But like, do you think it should be like a specific time, like six months? I think it depends on the cultural relevance of the thing. So if it's Game of Thrones and it's a weekly thing, if you haven't seen it in the first three days, you can't get mad at somebody for talking about it

because you've got to get on the ball. With something like Endgame, everyone was assumed to have saw it on opening week right i didn't know that i and i still somehow managed to not have a lot spoiled for me i saw it maybe like three weeks in and i was i did the same thing and i streamed uh i did this thing called a meme stream on my on my youtube and i screwed i know I started the stream, everyone was going, I was like, hey guys how's it going? So and so dies. I'm like, God! Yep. Damn it!

I was like, I'm seeing it tonight I waited this long! I had to do the same thing for two weeks I would have like filters on my stream and like all mods coming out and just being like, you know, hey, just I'm gonna have it on like a one minute delay for typing and just find what you can and root it out. I think it's a matter of also just being like, hey, I'm going to have it on a one-minute delay for typing. And just find what you can and root it out.

I think it's a matter of also just being polite. Is there a rule for cultural relevance and when you can say it? Not really. But I think even if it's, you know, everybody has different circumstances. Some people have kids and they can't go out to the movie theater for three and a half hours to go see a film. So it's nice to just be like, oh, I want to talk about Endgame. Has everybody here seen it? And then if they say, no, I haven't, I'll go take a crab or

something. It's okay for them to leave. You don't have to stop all conversation, but still, just give a heads up. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I think What do you think? That's what I was thinking, too. Iron Man dies.

Oh, yeah, well, there it is. I tried by saying something, something. It's been out for like a year. It feels like it's been out for a year. What if someone has kids and hasn't been able to see a movie this year? Good. Shouldn't have had a kid. Fuck them.

Wait, how long has Endgame been out for? I mean, it's been out since. It's been like eight months. It's been out since Game of Thrones was out. Oh, good old. Are we all Game of Thrones fans here? Yeah, when it was good. I like the books. I like all the books.

After season five, it's just like you can tell when you ran out of material. Oh God, no. The Sand Snake fight. That's when I knew it went downhill and I wanted to die. I wanted to die. The Viper and the Mountain? That fight? No, that was great. They still have book material. That part was awesome. The Sand Snakes and the viper in the mountain that fight

no that was great because they still have book material that part was awesome the sand snakes in the books have been and that's

Oberyn Martell's daughters the viper's daughters his like bastard daughters it had been built up in the books like they're amazing

warriors and no warriors stood against them and you gotta keep them locked in a tower and then they just stand there like I'm gonna do

half dancing half whip movement as this looks like a 1990s Power Rangers style fight. And I was like, no, no. I just knew what the next few seasons were going to be like. Yeah.

No. Stoneman. I mean, I think, yeah. Yeah. The stuff with the dragons really bummed me out. Christ. Oh, as far as the way it got taken out? I mean, yeah, like both of them.

So the one thing that annoys me is literally like five seconds beforehand, like, oh, we need to watch out for the ships coming in. We need to watch out for the Greyjoys. And it's like, there's a pan out shot where the dragon is here above the mountains and then just behind the mountains, the dragon was already taller than

the Greyjoy fleet was already there. I'm sitting there going, it's a dragon. Come on. Yeah. The first one gets taken out with one good shot. The second one swoops in and out and fucking loo. And then I missed everything. That's what I was thinking about.

But also, I did kind of, I thought it was kind of funny where it wasn't funny. It was terrible to watch. But the first arrow hits the dragon. I'm like, okay, hit the wing. It was like, yeah, it could probably. And then the arrow goes through his throat, and I'm like, Jesus Christ. It was just like blood, just a shower of blood going out of its mouth. I was like, oh, my God.

The one thing about Game of Thrones Season 8 that I will say is it looked incredible. Sure. It looked incredible. But then again, kind of the same thing goes with video games. Like, games can look amazing, but the story can be shit. Right. You can make Goose again, it kind of goes with video games. Games can look amazing, but the story can be shit. Right, you can make Goose Game, which is like an isometric view.

I love Goose Game. What's your favorite game of the year, by the way? Because I'm loving Goose Game. Goose Game? Sekiro. Sekiro, yay! You're a front software guy. Mm-hmm.

Shadow of the Night twice, my dude. I finished the game twice. Got some off-screen try-hards over here. I never play a game off-screen because I'm always guilt-tripping myself. I could be streaming this, I could be recording this. But this one, I was just like, I need to give this my time of day. I always have two games going at any given time.

My personal file and the stream file. Oh, smart. So, without getting too much into it, you know the part where you kill the dad? Or you can kill the dad if you really want to? I saved the part just before that so I can go back. That's where my save is! That's where my save is!

Give me that. Did we just become best friends? Ian, look at us. We're best friends. Best friends. I'm a little jelly. We'll work on the synchronicity thing? Yes.

Best friendship. We're getting there. I thought you said best French. We're the best Frenchmen. An Irishman and a German fella make the best Frenchmen. You kind of meet in the middle. Yeah. Are you, by the way,

playing Code Vein at all? No, I haven't had them play really anything. Oh, sorry. It's a Bandai Namco release that is like, they literally are doing their best to be like, hey, we like Bloodborne and Dark Souls. What if we made exactly that? And so it's just like a nice little snack to like tie over until

the next From game, but it's anime Dark Souls, basically. There's been, uh, there's an article released today that I saw before coming in here that the creators of Simpsons Hit and Run were like, yeah, we should remaster it soon. No way. I'm like, please, please, please, please. Love it. Oh. I never played it, but I heard it was kind we should remaster it soon. No way. I'm like, please. Please, please, please. Love it. I never played it, but I heard it

kind of had a cult following. Very much so. It did. I loved it. Was it like a crazy taxi version of The Simpsons? Literally, yeah. Imagine GTA Simpsons, but there was no death or blood or anything. Just a lot of... Yeah. You a big Simpsons fan? Used to be. I feel like everyone

kind of went through a Simpsons phase. We're talking about this earlier today. Everyone went through a Simpsons phase. Everyone goes out of said Simpsons fan? Used to be. I feel like everyone kind of went through a Simpsons phase. We're talking about this earlier today. Everyone went through a Simpsons phase. Everyone goes out of said Simpsons phase. And it's still going. And it's still going. I mean, and then more cards. Yeah, so supposedly Big Mouth got nominated for an Emmy.

Supposedly Simpsons beat Big Mouth to an Emmy. I'm like, Simpsons are still winning awards? Dang. I mean, somebody out there is watching it. I don't know who. Yeah. That's my question, because like, I used to watch it back in, like, no joke, in preschool. Like, they would ask,

what's your favorite show? Like, to interview students, and I was like, oh, The Simpsons. They're like, sweetie, I don't think your parents are letting you watch The Simpsons. And I'm like, when my mom gets here, we'll talk about it. But like, I don't watch The Simpsons nowadays, and so I'm just like, if not for me, who's it for? Maybe it's just people who are that secluded from society that it's the only thing left on their borderline color TV. Like a little boss.

Like a new Simpsons. I love this show. Even though. Three, four perspective. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I don't know. I feel like the last time I saw The Simpsons was The Simpsons movie.

Which was good. That was a good film. Yeah. That was good. Homer has like epiphanies and things like that. All I remember from that is Spider Pig

and they're like, when he moves to Alaska and they're like, welcome to Alaska, here's some money because that's what happens when you move to Alaska. They just give you money.

Is there a stipend for moving there? I think so. For just living there, right? I didn't know that. We got to get our sound guy Greg in here. Yeah.

Or Jackie. We got two Alaskans here. Jackie and I talked about the Iditarod race the other day. Yeah? What's that? It's a dog sled race in Alaska, but I randomly brought it up and I started, like, I didn't hear a reaction when I said the Iditarod and I was like, oh, sorry.

It's this dog racing thing. Wait a minute. You're an Alaskan. She's like, yeah, I know all about it. My uncle, my great uncle or something like that was in it. And I was like, oh, God's gonna annoy me. There's a Disney film about a dog. Balto. But it's not Disney. Oh, is it a Pixar?

You're thinking of Snow Dogs. Oh, okay. Is it animated or no? With Cuba Gooding Jr. Yeah, that was a good film. Was it? When it first came out, it was a great film. Because standards were a lot lower when you're a lot younger. True. Now, all of a sudden, when you actually have some kind of a cognitive mind, I'm like, well,

I don't think so. Yeah. So, real quick. In Alaska, they pay their citizens $2,000 a year just to live there. Dude, that's easy money. That's a yearly stipend of $2,000. I think that's because of the oil money or they just really need people up there. It's in the middle of nowhere.

What's the ratio of men to women in Alaska? I've got to reach around the mic. Is it because everyone who lives in Anchorage is like a fisherman or something? Or is this like an actual thing? It's not that crazy. I thought it was a lot crazier, but it's 108.5 men to 100 women. Oh. But I thought it was a lot more men than women, but maybe that's

only in the oil towns. Probably, that makes sense. Because, I mean, it's America, but it's also not surrounded by anything to do with America. Imagine being sandwiched between Canada and Russia. Two very different countries. Oh, really? What's different about them?

Let's talk about... Welcome to Politics Cast. I forget why we put this down on here, but the sort of really what's different about them let's talk about yeah welcome to politics cast yeah yeah i forget i forget why why we put this down on here but the sort of like what's the responsibility of video games as far as a political situation oh that question came from um you know not getting in any names but a major video game company had some big ramifications for some people based on their political stance so like what is the responsibility of games companies when it comes to stuff like that? Is free speech in play? Do they have to deal with the business side of things first?

It's kind of a difficult one because as a company, you want to make sure that your security is tight. You want to make sure that also your morals are in play. You want to make sure that everyone's happy. But in situations like that, it's very, very difficult. Yeah. It's very difficult. Then I guess you've got to ask,

do corporations even consider moral responsibility? Or is it just about the bottom line or the shareholders? But at the same time, the decision they came out with to ban said player. And casters. Yeah, exactly. So you're saying we're going to make this decision based on our money is basically what you're saying and based on our financials. Well, they're going to lose a lot of money because there's been a trend about people who are closing down their big MMO subscriptions. If we're trying to avoid...

I think probably, yeah. That would be a good idea. Yeah. I'm trying my best here. No, you're doing great. It's not a good time. Let's just move on from this one. That's how you know...

We were talking about Blizzard, though. God damn it. No, Ian, actually, no. Big MMO. Actually cut it out Actually cut it out I mean everyone knows What we're Who we're talking about

Yeah But No one could piece that together We did such a good job Yeah Everything was completely Under the table And no one knew

The Mason's The numbers Mason What do they mean The Mason's number Oh my god The Declaration of Independence Um What

So you You You moved So you. So you moved. So you started. You got it. You started your sort of YouTube life in your hometown. In Northern Ireland, yeah. Northern Ireland. And then a couple years ago, you moved to LA. 2015, I moved here for six months because that's how long my visa was for.

And then I went back. And then July 16th is when I've been out here full time. Yeah. And then you came here and then you're like, LA is not for me. And then now you're up north in the Pacific Northwest. Yes, I am. Fancy. So LA just didn't do it for you.

The thing of it is, I love LA. But I'm a big believer in making sure that you're okay as far as self-care. And I love L.A., but as you know, we live here. There's a lot of people that are just dicks. Absolute scumbags. You guys are all right. But I mean, there's a lot of people out there where it's just so fake and so evident. So I decided to move up there just because it's a lot closer to what Northern Ireland temperament.

It's an hour and a half flight away from L.A. It's rainy? Well, Seattle's rainy. Portland is kind of like it's in between desert and rain. So it's kind of like in the middle where it doesn't rain too much. Oh. It's kind of like it's just mountainous area, perfectly in the middle. But I went up there just to kind of like make sure that whenever I come to LA, I work hard and whenever I go back home and I'm working on my videos and whatnot, I have that separation

between work and play. That's awesome. Just so I know that I can, you know, I can work on myself as well as work on my brand. Is it a lot of work having to keep Portland weird? Well, thankfully I don't live inside Portland, but I can attest Portland's pretty weird. Okay, isn't that Austin's slogan? Keep Austin weird? Oh, it's both.

Oh, come on. No way. Two cities sharing the same slogan? God. I thought Austin's was when you're here, you're family. Oh. No. And then LA is just like like fuck you or don't.

But I think with Portland it's not even weird. It's just very hipstery. It's imagine like LA hipstery without the people. So Los Feliz the city.

Yeah. Yeah. Pretty much. Yeah. I love Portland. I think it's great. But it's also because I'm a hipster.

You are aren't you? The food it's great. But it's also because I'm a hipster. You are, aren't you? The food scene's great. The coffee's good. I'm a big coffee guy. Yeah, coffee's great. Speaking of which. I got you. Oh, ding.

You know what? Today, we just officially launched my favorite coffee. I had no idea what the actual release date was. That's awesome. Yeah, so you can actually officially get this right now. We had a pre-order a couple days ago. For those who aren't watching it, what are you holding right now? I'm holding the My Favorite Coffee mug.

It's actually filled with water right now. But in front of me right here is the cold brew that we're also selling, the My Favorite Coffee cold brew. It's some good stuff, man. So tell me, Ian, where can you get it? Well, well. Dude, we like you. You can come back anytime.

I'm the guest here, and I'm like, plunk, plunk, plunk, plunk. You can get it at myfavoritecoffee.com. There's two different blends of coffee. You can get it either in whole bean or ground. Wow. You can get the cold brew. There's also a subscription system that I keep forgetting to mention. Please tell me more.

I will. If you subscribe, you get 50% off your first bag and 25% off any other bag that is after that first bag. Sounds like people would be losing money if they didn't do that, Ian. Wow. That's such a great deal. Damien, you're so right. So, yeah, basically, you're an idiot if you don't buy this coffee. Yeah, that's a good way to promote it.

No, you're not an idiot if you don't buy this coffee. You're an idiot if you drink Keurig instead of this coffee. There you go. What happens when we want to sell K-Cups? We're not selling K-Cups. What happens if the CEO of Keurig is watching this video right now? He can go fuck himself. There you go.

What if that's what he already does while watching our videos? Now what? Well, then keep it up. You're doing great. Yeah, this is kind of the battle lines are drawn. My war against Keurig has begun. We will reign victorious. Well, thank God.

My favorite coffee is my favorite coffee. Thank you. You're very welcome That's coming from Craig Minilad You heard it here folks With absolute conviction in his voice But yeah I love Portland I think it's such a cool little city

I mean the homeless situation Is sad But then again I feel like if you live in Any major city across the world You're going to get homeless people Except for Tokyo Well I feel like if you live in any major city across the world you're gonna get homeless people except for Tokyo yeah well I feel like

just Japan in general it's just a whole different breed of just bliss yeah I've never been there love that place oh really

I know I've got some suitcase room if you just wanna hop on in oh yeah I do it's annoying because I'm a

massive rugby guy and the rugby world cup is now being held in Japan right now and they beat was it Ireland? I won't talk about that. Oh, cool.

Next segment. Cool. Awesome. I felt so happy for them. I don't follow rugby, but it's always fun seeing an underdog. I was happy for them, too. I'm like, yay. But at the same time, I'm like.

Yeah. But my dad's English, so I also have to support England. So whenever England play Ireland, I'm just like, yay. Aw. Yay. Yeah. Are Ireland and England tough rivals? Yeah.

It's almost like there was some kind of history between the two. Nah! Ireland's two in the world. England's three in the world. Oh! Where's New Zealand at? Number one

Ireland was number one Until they got beat by Japan Whoopsie Whoopsie daisy That's a big old basket Of whoopsie daisies Oh man What's your favorite thing

About rugby? Because I don't know Anything about it No that's fair I just I love it because I was able to get My aggression out

In something Oh so you actually Played it Yeah Nice So before YouTube I actually went far nobody really awesome I know I got selected for my country in rugby and then I had a really bad back injury oh wow yeah so in rugby there's a thing called a scrum which is the top that's

the only word that I know right probably just from knowing me over the years yeah you're always like oh this is such a scrum. Just wait for someone to ask. What the fuck was that? This is such a scrum. That's when I've heard you just offhandedly mention things. Only when one person throws a My Favorite Coffee on the table and we're all grabbing for it. Yeah, because it's the best coffee you could find.

Wow, this is such a scrum. That was beautiful. Sorry, so you're saying, though? Yeah, so the scrum is where the top eight biggest players are going to come together and, like, imagine kind of like a reverse tug-of-war where they're pushing against each other. I'm the guy right in the middle.

So at the training session where I went to after I got selected, my back, kind of like when you're doing a squat, your back has to kind of, like, lock up in the right position to make sure you go down. My back didn't lock up, and my back, for those who don't know, I'll explain in a bit, my back just kind of went and went. Yikes. So my back kind of folded back in and itself, for those who are listening know, I'll explain in a bit. My back just kind of went and went. Yikes. So my back kind of folded back in itself, for those who are listening on audio.

Oh, you scorped. Yeah, exactly. You did like a full scorp. You did a waning crescent moon. Yep. Can't confirm. That fucking hurt. So then ever since then, now I'm a YouTuber.

And who would have thought that being the guy in the middle of a scrum would have that happen to him? I know. With eight strong, large men pressing against you. Do you know what it is? I didn't have my favorite coffee to really push through. You know, if you did, you would have had the energy to just push through. I would be playing for my country right now. Question, though.

What's it like in countries with, like, rugby culture? Here in America, when we have football, like football players get injured all the time, but they're often well off before that happens, but they do have health issues their whole life. What's that kind of culture like in Ireland? Are players just toast after they play? Players are really

good. They'll actually let them go through and recuperate and come back in a later day. I feel like with American football and NFL, when someone gets injured it's like, well, that's it. You're done. You make your money and a later day. I feel like with American football and NFL, like when someone gets injured, it's like, well, that's it. You're done. You make your money and you can dip. I've also heard that because football players wear so much padding and so much gear, they

hit each other way harder. Oh, because of the weight, like the torque. Because rugby, there's no protective gear, right? It's yes and no. I think that with rugby, they still hit each other with everything they have, but it's kind of more controlled because otherwise you're going to fuck yourself. With American football, because they're wearing helmets and pads, you can still hit each other with the same velocity,

but you're also not really caring about you or you're not really caring about where you hit them. So you're going in with a big old headbutt in American football whilst if you do that in rugby, you're going to die. And does the scrum start with everyone in that circle? No, so imagine a scrum is what happens when basically a penalty happens. Okay, got it. So in rugby, you can't pass the ball forward,

or if you drop it forward, that happens. But is there ever a moment, like in American football, everyone lines up and then runs at each other and just collides? Does that happen in rugby? At the start, kind of like after they've scored, as you guys have called a touchdown, I call it a try, that kind of thing happens where they kind of kick off the start, and then they kind of run towards each other then. Okay. That's probably the only case I can think of. Okay.

Because I'm thinking like that's like, of course you're going to get injured. Like if you're, what is that, linebacker? Ryan, you're the sports guy. Linebacker. If you're a linebacker, your job is to literally stand in a line facing another guy like what,

five feet away from them, 10 feet away from them? And they're like, go. And you just run as hard as you can at this person while they run as hard as they can. And you guys just collide. So what's your job? Extreme hugging. The way it works in American football is, like, you guys run into each other and there's a pause and you do it again. With rugby, the ball gets recycled.

So when you go down, you get the ball back, and then you run it up again. So imagine, like, the line, but it's all 15 players. Well, I say 13. They're all in a line against each other, and then they run against each other. And then the ball hits the ground, then they reset. So in rugby, there's a thing called pillars. So whenever you go down, you have to stand by their back foot, and there's one guy either side.

And everybody else on the team has to be behind the pillars, I guess you could say. And then the other team that has the ball, they have to be behind the guy who's throwing the ball, because you have to pass backwards. So then it's just crash into each other, recycle, go back. Crash into each other, go back. It's just this. For 80 minutes. Wow.

Damn, boy. Yeah, it's a tough one. Wow, so you were on your way to being, like, a tough one. Wow. So you were on your way to being like a national player. Yeah. Or you were on the team already or you were – I was on my way. I was really getting there. Damn.

And then that happened. I was like, well, what did we learn? Well, your life seems pretty damn cool. Yeah, it kind of worked out. And now I live in the West Coast of America. So, I mean, it's cool the fact that like, you know, whenever that happened, I'm like, well, there it is. I'm gonna go work in Walmart for the rest of my life, and then all of a sudden, this kind of came around.

Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, that's good. I'm glad you're happy, man. I'm glad you're happy. Okay, so this is a weird question. We went out for karaoke when we were in New York. Yes. Yes. And you sang a country song. Alan Jackson, it's 5 o'clock somewhere. And you sang a country song.

Alan Jackson. It's five o'clock somewhere. And you said, and I don't know if you were joking, but you said everyone in Northern Ireland knows country music. I mean, Northern Ireland's a very rural country. But they all listen to country Western music? American country? Well, it's the same thing as like, if you go to farm towns in America, chances are there's going to be someone who listens to country music right yeah it's kind of the same thing in northern ireland but imagine

an entire country where everyone is kind of um and also there's also a massive drinking culture in northern ireland so a lot of really famous uh country songs are good drinking songs yeah it's good drinking songs exactly it's like so whenever you're having a barbecue or something like that you're gonna put on like an alan jackson garth So whenever you're having a barbecue or something like that, you're going to put on like an Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, or Toby Keith or something like that. See, that just blows my mind because I always just thought country western was such a solely American thing. Like nobody else in the world gave a crap about it.

There's Irish country. That's what I was going to ask. Yeah, you got Japanese country music. You got, you know, country that's what I was gonna ask like is there yeah I mean you got you got Japanese country music you got you know everywhere that's kinda like everywhere where there is rural parts aka pretty much everywhere

there's gonna be their variation of country music so American country music is very like tractors and beer and blue jeans uh whilst in

in Ireland they talk more about places so like the hills of Donegal or places like that. I like that. I used to listen to Irish music all the time, like Irish folk music while I did leather crafting. I just want to feel like I'm a Skyrim

NPC. I want to immerse myself. That's cool. That actually makes a lot of sense. I think I would do that too. It was a lot of fun. Would you close your eyes and imagine you're back on the Shire and wake up with one less finger

yeah like oh crap I definitely should have watched while I was chiseling that leather apart from you wake up and you actually do before you get on the game

you're like what the fuck light armor means light on your feet smart man and you're like oh god I've become them I can't wait

for Elder Scrolls 6 it is 6 right yeah it is sorry I doubted myself. I can't wait for Elder Scrolls 6. It is 6, right? Yeah, it is. Sorry, I doubted myself there. I don't know, man. Bethesda, I just don't know anymore. What do you mean?

With Bethesda, they make broken games, but they make it broken enough so it works, but it doesn't. For example, Skyrim Horses. Yeah. Skyrim Horses are the most buggy pieces of shit in video games. But they're like, you know what? We realize it's a bug. We're going to leave it in there because it's kind of funny. Maybe it's funny to watch a horse take a vertical slope. I feel like they did that in The Witcher too. Probably.

The Witcher, like CD Projekt Red, like made it, they were like, they just kind of acknowledged that the horse was kind of bugged. Yeah. The one thing that was very disappointing though, is I also tried to, when I played Red Dead Redemption 2, I just tried taking up a vertical plane. You were spoiled from Skyrim. Yeah.

You just smack right into the wall. Yeah. And they have animations for horses falling over. I'm like, boo, let me just go directly vertical, please. We've all become sort of spoiled now where it's like, that game wasn't a one-to-one direct recreation of my reality. And it's like, it's't a one-to-one direct recreation of my reality and it's like it's not always

going to be perfect like let's have fun is it fun? Are you having fun? Yes? Good? Okay good game Yeah that definitely

shocked me the first time I played Red Dead Redemption and I kind of nudged up against somebody else on a horse and I fell off the horse I was like whoa and then that guy

started shooting me I was like it was a complete accident bro Dude be chill dog Yeah Quit shooting me dog You have a funny it was a complete accident, bro. Dude, be chill, dog. Quit shooting me, dog. You have a funny feeling that wasn't the terminology they used. As a voice actor in Red Dead Redemption 2, it is exactly. Wait, really? Yeah, but I didn't say

dog. It was actually the part of the game where you actually play as a dog, so it was actually accurate. Oh, so you actually just bark. Yeah. God. No, it's like the Lion King level in Kingdom Hearts where you're all of a sudden a lion but you still have human speech and language okay it's just that i just i'm a fever dream you're having one night and i'm just like hey i'm a dog how's it going like ah shit shouldn't have eaten all those be arthur morgan beans there

it is there it is did you ever pet your horse I guess like when you get like a higher bonding with your horse Arthur Arthur gets a lot more sexual with like

whenever you go to calm your horse hey girl he's like that's a good girl that's a good girl no oh yeah

good girl it does get like more oddly sexual like did you play much Red Dead uh no I didn't oh I did and it gets it gets a little It does get like more oddly sexual. Like, did you play much Red Dead? No, I didn't.

Oh, I did. And it gets a little uncomfortable. Because like sometimes the horse freaks out because there's a snake or something. So you have to like. Oh, girl. Like, oh, girl. How'd you get close to your horse? Because mine just kept dying constantly.

Oh, I took good care of my horse. Nobody. And dude, that was. Spoiler? No, I won't. I won't spoil it. Okay. Nope. And, dude, that was the... Spoiler? No, I won't spoil it. Okay, I'm going to move on. I'm going to move on. And Segway. What was your favorite game in 2019?

Yeah, what's your favorite kind of horse? I mean, game in 2019. Oh, you said Segway. You already said Segway. What's your favorite game of all time? Can I do a two-parter on this one? Yeah, sure. Yeah, of course.

Favorite game is the original Pokemon in Game Boy Color. Blue version or red version? Three, two, one. Blue. I don't know. Okay, of course. Favorite game is the original Pokemon in Game Boy Color. Blue version or red version? Three, two, one. Blue. I don't know. Okay, that's fine. Yellow. It doesn't really...

My brother had yellow. Fuck him. But favorite gaming series is Bioshock. Ooh. Bioshock 1 is fantastic. Bioshock 2 is as good, just a little bit short. Bioshock Infinite was a little... It was all right.

I kind of forced them to play it because I love the games. They promised a little bit short. Bioshock Infinite was a little, it was alright. I kind of forced them to play it because I loved the games. They promised a lot. Yeah, and they delayed it year after year, and then they end up where it tied everything together. I'm like, ah, you guys are okay again. I never played any of them. I think you'd like it, I've got

the remastered for Xbox you can buy. I even bought it used. I bought the first one used and I was like, I'm going to play this. It seemed a little too spooky for me at the time when I was like, no, I don't feel like playing a spooky game. I wouldn't

even call it spooky as much as kind of like, would you even call it a thriller? It's just kind of dark. It's just tense. It's tense. It's a little tense. Yeah, and then I had it spoiled for me. So I was like, well, okay, the best part, that was taken out. The game is 10 years old. You can talk about it. I don't know.

Well, I don't even remember the full thing. Square Enix tweeted something the other day about a new character being added to their fighting game, Dissidia, and they were like, you know, join this character as he battles through all this stuff. And so many people were like, dude, spoilers. I'm like, Final Fantasy 12 came out in like 2006?

I'm like, come on! When it's a decade and a half, you can just move on. Well, people are going to do that anyway, just the same way as people just follow brand accounts on Twitter just so they can reply to every tweet going SILENCE BRAND! Every time. Whether it's Wendy's

or just anyone. I love the silence brand. Never gets old. They're getting creative now. Yeah. Because you can't really use the same picture twice, you have to keep it fresh. Yeah. I think one time the brand even responded with the crab shooting back at the crab

or something. Oh, okay. I was like, no. That's good. That's good PR. So you kind of mentioned you've you know, you've made friends in this sort of quote unquote industry. You mentioned that like, you know, some people in the industry, not great people. There's like some, I'm not saying like name names or anything. No, no, no. But I mean, there's people like that in every industry.

Like you're always going to come across people who you just don't like. It's just, it's what makes people people. You know? Like it can be what makes things interesting. Everyone has their own personality traits. I will say certain personality traits clash. It's the way the world works. You're going to come across people who you're like, ooh, no, let's not do that.

And then you just don't talk to those people and you move on. You stick close – you stick to your friend group. Would you say there's anything that that anything that you learned that would be good wisdom for for other people that are looking to, you know, that are kind of taking that next step in their life and maybe something they should look out for? As far as that goes, I mean, keep your friend group small. I mean, as far as business wise, you feel free to get as many connections as you want. That's fine. People are going to help you out. But I mean, as far as your friends who you can talk to and trust, people who you've known for a very, very, very long time, because a lot of people out there, especially, you know, especially in this industry that, you know, no one that anybody knows, you know, more people like behind the scenes in certain companies that

they're only going to choose people who's going to better themselves. And you can tell that right off the bat, we've all come across people like that. So my best bit of advice is just keep your friend group small, stay loyal to them, and they'll stay loyal to you. Yeah, I think there's definitely something to that for sure. Because I think, you know, it's that kind of quantity over quality kind of thing. You can't be best friends with 50 people. Yeah. Because you can't be that invested in that many people's lives. You can't keep up the, you know. It's exhausting. It's exhausting.

It's exhausting. Because you also want to give people, you know, your time and attention and, you know, how much bandwidth do you have to do that? Yeah. If you're, yeah. And you can kind of spot that, I think, sometimes when, you know, you think you're like a pretty good friend with somebody that's also in the industry, but then you realize they only hit you up when it benefits them in some sort of way. And you're like, oh, okay.

I think that's really important. Not even for people that are in the industry, but just in life in general. If somebody is only reaching out to you because they need something or are using you for a specific reason. Exactly. Like if they're going to reach out to you saying like, hey, you want to grab drinks? How are you doing, you know, as a person? That's good. I mean, that's an actual friend, but someone who's just like, hey, so I have this podcast

on Smosh. No, I'm joking. I'm fucking with you. I'm sorry. I messed it up. But it's people who, yeah, like you said, only reach out for a specific reason just to better themselves. It's very fake like that.

Yeah. I think, though, just devil's advocate here, there's like an aspect to it where sometimes you meet people. And like you said, you're not going to have the bandwidth to be best friends with everybody you meet. So there's a line you can sort of walk where like you meet someone who's in your same industry. You get along plenty fine. And you know you're not going to be best friends, but it's just sort of like, let's keep each other in each other's Rolodexes

in case stuff comes along, because we would work well together if something comes up. What's the difference between that and the point where you're feeling like you're used? What is the big red flag for you? If you're going to a place where you don't want to be just because you know it's going to better them, got it. Yeah, that makes sense.

I would say, for example, you're going to come across people who you meet on an outing. You're like, yeah, it's good to see you. And then they kind of join on to that group. And then you get drinks together and hang out. And that's fine. Yeah, cool. It's the people who you don't hear from them for six months. And they're like, hey, so I have this thing.

I'm like, nope. I'm good. Also, it's like kind of, I don't know it's quid pro quo the right the right usage of that where it's like it's like yeah you do something for me i'll do something for you yeah but if it's like but if it's like you know i'll do something for you and then i'll do something for you yeah and then i'll do something for you and then when yeah and then when i ask you to do something you just don't respond to my text. Then it's like, oh. I see what this is. You're not on my team.

Yeah, exactly. I can see that for sure. That's not boys supporting boys. Nope. Or, you know, girls supporting boys or the other way around. People supporting people. There you go. People supporting people.

There we go. Yeah. That is the spice. Bitch. So what can I expect going to your tour in two days? It's a stand-up gaming hybrid. It's something I've been working on the last, like, two years, I want to say, because I wanted to try and create something that people can actually just enjoy,

whether you know my content or not. Yeah, it took a while to write, and then I brought on Big Jiggly Panda Anthony to come on tour with me because I feel like, A, I think me me and him our dynamic works really well together and also uh i wanted people to leave with a message you know sometimes you watch some netflix specials and they're you know their message is like don't do weed unless you're five years old you know bullshit i wanted to try a pretty good message it's a it's not uh but okay you know differencing opinions I want people to leave with a message of, you know, life can get real shitty. You got to go through the bad to really enjoy the good.

And I feel like I have some really good stories for that. Anthony has some really good stories for that. It's a fun night. Some crowd interaction. There's some just bullshittery. And I'm really proud of it. And it's called the Demonetized Tour. It is.

I know you've been demonetized. You got hit hard by the demonetized you know, Banhammer. Big Jigglypanda as well? Yeah, we both did for all because we swear a lot in our videos. I didn't swear for like

six months and then now I'm getting back into it because I'm like, wow, I didn't actually do anything. Really? Yeah. That's crazy. I deleted a lot of my really raunchy videos to try and see if it would help out. But, you know, more of an experiment. It didn't work out. What did we learn?

But I think because I have a thousand videos of me swearing in it, YouTube has already put like a flag on the channel saying like, hey, we know this channel swears. This is not brand safe according to them. But the weird thing is YouTube is very like, or sorry, YouTube even said themselves like, hey, we know this channel swears. This is not brand safe according to them. But the weird thing is YouTube is very like, or sorry, YouTube even said themselves like, you know you're brand safe if you can show your video to a five-year-old. But then you've also got YouTube coming out now taking commercials off kids' channels and comments and things like that.

So it's like we're trying to make videos for five-year-olds, yet you take away ads for videos that are videos for five-year-olds, yet you take away ads for videos that are made for five-year-olds. Yeah. It's a very... I mean, it's playing a very, very, very safe game.

I mean, they're trying to be, I'm guessing, about on par with television. Yeah. And that's kind of the game that we've always played is stay appropriate for television,

like network television. Bleep out curses. Don't show too much heavy violence. I had to stop showing my butt in videos. Yeah, I know. I'm sorry for your loss. It's okay. Hey, be sorry for the world, man.

Yeah, that's true. No more of my butt. You do have a great ass. Thank you. And always, always think of that, okay? I appreciate that. It may not be in videos anymore. Thank you.

But it's still on you. Thank you, man no problem that's that's behind me now nice nice okay no don't cut that out no you gonna live with that yeah and I had to stop I had to stop wearing um you know unitards that showed the dick imprint on my leg. I'm so sorry. All the way down. It was all bad. Yeah, all the way down. Yeah, it's interesting how it's affected some channels more than others.

And I know you've been fighting with that for like over a year. Well, it's funny how like – this is a good example of this. So my – sorry for the the slight flex by the way. But anyway, listen up. So, the Minilad channel, I did a lot of like used to do a lot of reaction videos and I used to do a lot of skits and the videos would do well. It'd be great. The videos would get monetized, everything is fine.

I would upload that same kind of content onto my new Craig Thompson channel and most videos I upload on my Craig Thompson channel get trending. Like not just gaming trending, but like actual like American trending every single time. So I'm doing pretty much the same video, one on my MediLad and one on my Craig Thompson. Both me, both same kind of humor, same kind of whatever. One's on trending and one doesn't show up when recommended.

So you do think that video has been sort of, I mean, that channel has been knocked. Yeah. Oh, a hundred percent. That's interesting. That doesn't mean I'm not going to upload it there. It just means I'm just going to go back to swearing and just enjoying it. Yeah, that's good. Because not swearing on my videos, it was difficult.

It was difficult. I didn't bleep it. It was just like I had to cut it completely. So it would be like, and then nothing. That's funny. I think that's smart. I think that's just sort of an evolution. Obviously, the tour is an evolution for you as well.

What's next? I'm writing music right now, and I'm trying to release my first single and EP next year. Congratulations. Irish country. Right? I'm a singer. A mini lad somewhere. Just with the amount I used to work out for my rugby days, I kind of fell in love with house music.

Oh, that's great. And I like aggressive kind of EDM house music. I like EDM. Yeah, so my original plan in life was I went to college for music production because I wanted to try and make jingles for commercials. Whoa. So that was my original plan in life. And then whenever YouTube came along, put it on the back burner.

But the last like three years, I've been working behind the scenes to try and get it up to like a professional quality. And now I think it's slowly getting around that time. So I'm going to try and work hard and try and get some music out next year. That's really exciting. Dude, that's awesome. Congrats. I think that's a cool thing about YouTube and building a sort of fan base that enjoys what you do because they're going to be there to support you through whatever sort of passion you might have. Well, for me as well, it's also like a fine line because I want to release music. It's not,

it's not going to be called mini ladders. I don't know if I'm going to call it Craig Thompson or something else, but I'm trying to pitch it. So I'm not just like another YouTuber musician. So for me, like I'll probably, I want to make a video saying, Hey, by the way, I released a song. This is me. cool. And then that'll be it. I might just leave it there. Okay. So, you know, it'll get a little bit of a boost at the start, and then I'll just let it grow by itself.

That's really cool. Because for me, I'm kind of afraid that people will, or like, especially in the music industry, they'll see me as just another YouTuber musician. Sure, yeah. I don't really want that, because I want to be kind of taken somewhat seriously with it. So I'll probably just mention it once

and then just let it do its thing. If it blows up, it blows up. If it doesn't, it doesn't. But at the same time, like I put my heart

and soul into it, I can be proud of it. So yeah, that's great. Well, well, before this, this Smosh cast ends,

can you, can you give us, can you give, you said you wanted to do jingles. Can you give us a jingle for, for my favorite coffee?

Just like throw, just throw on the spot. On the spot. Jingle for my favorite coffee. Just like throw on the spot. On the spot. Jingle. My favorite coffee, energy for you and me. My favorite coffee, please give me money. Okay. Yay.

Yay. I love it. Craig, thank you so much for coming on. Thank you. You guys are always amazing. Best of luck with the rest of the tour that already happened by the time that this is out yeah

and I love you man love you too it was great meeting you man yeah appreciate it and I love you guys for listening

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