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That's aura.com defense. Certain terms apply so be sure to check the site for details. Cheers to another episode of the podcast by Matt and Ryan from SuperMega, the podcast known as that is also called SuperMegaShow? Yep. Episode 40. Lordy, lordy. It's episode 40. Can you guys believe that?

It's already episode 40? We guys believe that it's already episode 40 I I we haven't had guests yet oh and we also haven't replaced the I mean I'll have to take it back every now and take a sip but like I mean it's we're not sponsored I mean imagine the fucking money if we were sponsored by Monster like how what think of like a and a respected podcaster Okay, who pulls? Who pulls decent deals? Okay?

Imagine what money Monster would have to give them to pull a stunt like this where? It's just sitting front and center on it. It's on podium. Yeah. Guys, for the listeners, you know, normally we have this little computer in between us, but it's gone at the moment. So our blue tile podium, Ryan has placed his white monster on it. And it also so happens that in the background... Looks good. As soon as we started the talk, as soon as we- Saw, you can't hear it. I don't know actually,

but it might be able to. And if you can't hear it, Luke will, to immerse you, put in the sound effects of what we're hearing. Luke, it's like saws. Yeah, it's buzz saws. And like, maybe like a marching band, and like a car accident,

and then maybe like, like, fair ambiance, like state fair ambiance. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. It's like, I mean, it's like, it's like three, three, three men speaking different languages at really fast speeds,

and they're giving me all sorts of like information about future disasters. Mama mia! Luke, if you're still going, I'm sure people are annoyed, but hopefully the, the, the, I would, people are annoyed, but hopefully the bit, the bit, I would at least expect a little bit of an, I know you're going, he didn't expect me to do all that, that was just in theory, right?

Well no, we like to immerse the audience into our genius creative minds. Our crazy fucked up brains, dude. Exactly, this ain't your, I was gonna, this ain't your grandmother's podcast. Yeah, this ain't your mama's brain. I'll tell you that. I wanted to get away from the mama thing because I thought maybe it was overplayed and like MTV maybe has like some sort of trademark over that phrase.

No, they don't have a... wait, what? This ain't your mom's teen mom? What would have to... This ain't your mom's teen mom. This ain't your mom's teen. It's mom- teen mom wrestling. Ooh, okay. I don't know why the mom is at the start of it.

Maybe it should have just been like teen mom, colon, wrestling. Mud wrestling? Okay. Mud slappin'. Yeah, I love a little mud slap. And I did a youth group church event that was basically like me and every-

Like this week? Yeah, this was earlier this week, actually, over the weekend where we all just played in slime. There were big inflatable pools of slime that the youth pastors had filled up and we all had to like cover ourselves in slime. And I'm not kidding. The I had what it was. Slime night, dude.

Slime night. What is that? What do you mean slime? It was slime night, dude. Slime night? What is that? What do you mean slime night? What do you mean what is slime night? It was slime night. You act like I'm supposed to know what slime night is, but like slime was only, I've, as a kid, I only knew slime as that green stuff from Nickelodeon. Get slime! Yeah, essentially that's what it was. You're gonna get slimed by your youth pastor, baby! Yeah, and slime. Is that I we set it with a shirt off and maybe like Hawaiian themed like board shorts or something. Yeah

For real. And his flip-flops wearing like sports shades. It wasn't a visor cap. It was nighttime. Cherry red in the face cuz he's been drinking over on the side. What? Get slimed, baby. He's like running around with a bunch of like freshmen from high school covered in slime What? I feel his slime tonight Catch me on the slime monster actually uh-oh. I'm the slime devil looks like all of you are gonna have to smite me He has a bunch of kids chasing him while he's covered in slime. Oh no!

He falls down in the slime. Matthew, come on, Matthew. Oh, attack me! Matthew, get away from the snack table. Come on, come over here. I was at the snack table, or it wasn't a snack table, but there's a table. I know, I saw it in my vision.

That's why that's, really? Yeah, that's how I got it so accurate. You saw me eating that Subway sandwich? Here's what I'll tell you about slime night, okay? It was outdoors, obviously. It was nighttime. It was nighttime. Also obviously. Very cold. So I remember shivering my fucking pants off, covered in slime. No. Not literally shivering my pants off. Okay. Because I was about to say, was that the, you know? Yeah. The first key was like, okay, slime night. But then when you said, okay, nevermind, go on.

No. Fuck. There was, someone bought a Subway sandwich and they didn't want it. So I remember, I ate that Subway sandwich. Did it have tomatoes on it? It had tomatoes and it had banana peppers on it. I remember that very specifically.

For some reason in my head, I thought you were about to say it had bananas on it. It had sliced banana imagine like it's subway looking at also you see like in one of those like fuck a little uh translucent tubs just a bunch of slice sliced banana next to the like the the lettuce tomatoes and

then banana there's little pieces of lettuce in the banana tub like it's like every ingredient might not be that bad banana I feel like it could be one of those things that you know might could possibly work have you ever had a Polynesian meatball sub slices of beautiful banana on top of the classic marinara meatball sub that might not be bad I'm being honest like I'm thinking about it right now like sliced banana on a meatball sub. Call me crazy, but might be not that bad. I can already picture it in the thumbnail. Oh yeah. And knowing your Photoshop skills, you could make it look

delicious. Oh, I can make it look so good. The Polynesian, what was it? The Polynesian meatball sub. Yeah. I was going with like Hawaiian pizza. And I was just doing, it was very, you can see the very close resemblance. I didn't have to skip too far for that one. No, no. Luke does have a phobia of Polynesian people, so maybe we shouldn't.

But slime night. Wait till he goes to Chick-fil-A. Woo! And then I remember we did worship outside, covered in slime afterwards, and I was like shivering. The slime has dried, and there's someone playing an acoustic guitar singing about God. And that's my memory of Slime Night.

And if you don't believe me, here is a picture of me at Slime Night. So, real deal. Now here's a picture of Matt's mom at Slime Night. Well, that's just gonna have to be for the Patreon. From my personal photo album. Yeah, okay. Well, I hope the Patreon viewers enjoyed that.

I don't think that's very, she wouldn't like you sharing that. Well. Whatever. Could we just use a real porn picture? Like a POV, like an actual uncensored POV. We already do too much. Yeah we do.

To your poor mother and my mother. But my mom's asking for it. Yes she is. And I'll be honest, my poor mother isn't asking for it. No. She just goes, she wants to be a supportive mother, so she goes along with her son's podcast jokes. I can't imagine anything worse than being, you know,

a middle-aged mother of a white male podcaster. Stop. Oh, that was it? Yeah, like I can't imagine anything worse. That's gotta be a horrible, horrible fate. Because you know that every interaction is just like some story for the entertainment of their audience. Well you know that he's not going to amount to anything beyond that.

You don't want to tell your friends that, you're embarrassed. We're like, so what is Matthew up to these days? Or he could be the inverse and be like my mom and pretty much wear me as a billboard throughout your life in terms of like all the super mega merch very supportive very sweet thank you mommy thank you Cecile I do know she say it thank you mommy she's very particular about that one no I know said if we wanted to see any more sales and she's about 50% of our sales Thank You mommy Got two of them

But you know, I'll tell you something about that dang mom of yours. She she certainly loves you Yeah, she she loves you a lot. I In fact, I needed a picture of you For the calendar. I needed like a yearbook photo of you. Did she ever get back to you? She did, but here's the craziest part. She didn't just have your yearbook photos like on deck, ready to go. Yeah, really? She hit me back like, you know, not immediately too, which kind of threw me off and then she's like I don't have it at the moment Could I get you it later? And I was like, no, it's it's okay. It's good. And then last night she texted me Again days later and said

Do you still need that picture of Ryan? And I said I said no, I'm good. I think she still sent it. Okay But and it's a very nice senior picture of you. I've seen your picture. I guess that the age you were going for Yeah, if it's me in like it's not you're not a young in a suit looking thing I think they make all the seniors wear Like a like a suit Yeah, she said senior year, but quality is not great. And then, yeah.

Well, that's not on me. I just smiled. I just did what they told me. Dude, you did exactly. You were just following orders. Jesus, dude. Okay, who's over there, though? Yeah, like first it was over there, and now the circular saws are coming from like over there. I don't like this dude. What if they fucking cut through the wall?

Some guy just actually cuts through the wall. Oh, sorry. You know, it's getting me a little nervous that there might be an intruder during this episode. Imagine, imagine it's just some dumbass that's doing construction in their office and he has permission from the building owner so he's just going fucking crazy. He's not looking at the plans, he's not looking at what the walls lead to, where the perimeters even, he doesn't even know the perimeters of the office. He just is willy nilly going around,

extending his, I mean, kind of like manifest destiny, you know? Yeah, yeah. I guess, I guess, yeah, you know. But we're the ones who are, we're like the natives in this situation. They're encroaching on our peace and our shit. Yes, I would definitely say so With their with their boats of construction noises

I'll tell you something and their disease riddled saws They probably will saw noises. I've seen those guys. They look like they got diseases that guys that are doing the construction I'm not that but was not I haven't gotten a look at them. What do they look like? Diseased. It's in what manner? They got lepers from a leprosy colony. Basically it's like a work program. So.

They're leopards in the office? I'll tell you something. I'll tell you something about leopards. Let me tell you something about leopards. They're pretty fast. Now, you've heard you You've seen your normal house cat right ain't nothing like a fucking leopard New York comic talking about leopards. I I would I would sit there like mid 2000s

Yeah, you know to that Joe Rogan today, maybe for 2005. You know seen a leopard run I want to do that is that is an exact Joe Rogan moment like Have you seen have you seen those things run like like they're fast It's like talk about fast like did you imagine running from a leopard? Oh, it's not gonna happen You're not gonna run from it. It's gonna get you think about you go out today The worst thing is so you know oh, it's gonna. Hail you might get in a little knock on the head from some ice That's maybe the worst thing that you're looking at on a day.

Our ancestors, okay, our... Okay, brother. What is this? Do you see those holes? Weren't those, Tucker tried to mount something there and then, or maybe that- I don't know, I don't remember those holes being there. Maybe that's from before, also.

Wait, look, is any of this, I was seeing if that's from before also wait look is any of this I was seeing if that's plaster dust guys I think all of this is just chips from this oh okay this belongs to this corner and also like this stuff is chipping off dude do you do you think like these guys doing the construction work have no idea that they're in such close proximity to two celebrities, two YouTube superstars. On the other side of the coin, maybe they know exactly who we are. And they're doing this on purpose,

because they see, they see the views that we get, and they're scared. Yeah. They're scared, this could be like, whoever's in charge of like the Aidan Rosses and Kai Sinatz of the world. They're scared of us swinging ahead and you know crushing all of them so they're like okay well we have to obviously make their podcast bad now.

Send some goons to go fucking smack things with hammers and... Okay is it down there now? What dude? Hold on. Figure out where this noise is coming from this mysterious noise? although I don't want this to take away from the Polynesian meatball because Because what if the thumbnail ends up being about this instead instead of that beautiful? Polynesian meatball sub that I described Matt if you pay any more attention to this sub that I described. Matt if you pay any more attention to this there's a possibility that I won't get to see your Photoshop skills create a Polynesian sub.

A meatball sub with bananas, slices of bananas neatly in a line on top. Now is that because you think that would be a good thumbnail or you genuinely you just really want to see this? Because I can I can do this for just for just as a friend. Well the people at this point now It's a bit now I've solidified that if you don't do it then people are gonna complain and be upset the glassy Polynesian sub bit You can't make it about the construction you have to Photoshop the Polynesian sub sub for the thumbnail you have okay I will what about what about a construction worker?

Eating Polynesian meatball banana sub? No? As long as the Polynesian meatball sub is in there then I guess I can... And no actual Polynesian people because Luke, like I said, he's just... he's terrified. Terrified. His face goes white when he sees a Polynesian. No, I saw him. I mentioned to see Moana too, and I wasn't able to even say too before he was out the door Yeah, I I don't know. I don't know where that stems from He's not a big Dwayne head I take it no well and by Dwayne I mean Dwayne the Rock Johnson yes, not Dwayne the Rock Watson who was my father mm-hmm Look at these little guys, dude. Hey, okay

Well, my eyes are closed I brought some I brought some army men on set hoping that maybe you and I could be you know Play some army men, but if you're gonna be ignorant then no, I'm taking them back now. Sorry you lost your shot. That's not Maybe if Maybe okay, man, maybe if look at this. Oh What is this over here? Oh my god my time machine remote Whoa, I can go back in time five minutes

No, I'm not putting them back No, I'm not putting them back. Imagine it's like- But I pressed the time machine button. Imagine Luke actually just replays the podcast from five minutes ago all the way back up to the point. I feel like we did a bit like that once. God, I listened to the entire Ryan's drum solo bit recently and I was just giggling my ass off. The thing is those bits do piss a lot of people off.

The drum bit, well people like the drum bit. Dude the drum bit, well I- It didn't annoy people on the day, people were upset. There's a graph, okay? It's like Ryan, for those who don't know, in old Super Mega cast episode, Ryan showed me, you know, he's been working on his guitar skills a little bit,

and then he's like, and I've been working on drums, and I was like, let me hear it. Picks up the drumsticks, starts a little drum solo, you know, the viewer is guessing it's just gonna be, I don't know, five seconds. And it's like eight minutes or something, of just pure, it's the drum solo from whiplash and It plays the whole thing and it's the first like ten minutes of the podcast pretty much and

Because it's a long right and in the graph goes like oh, this is funny Oh, this is this is funny because it's going on for so long Okay Now it's not as funny because it's going on for too long But then it reaches a point where it comes back around where it's going on for so long. Okay, now it's not as funny because it's going on for too long. But then it reaches a point where it comes back around where it's like, okay, now it's funny again because it's going on for too long.

Or maybe it's like that, sorry, some more construction. Yeah, it just, it fries my brain. What's the name of that guy from the family? Dude, they're literally like right here. What if it's Luke outside? What if if Lucas just trying to get our attention help I could I can actually feel the thumping hello do where is the guys I don't I don't mean to derail it every time we hear some thumping but like It's it's actually like jostling the set

I can literally see the like the plexiglass Acrylic panels moving rattling Went to where it is it sounds like it's like like down on a stairwell or something maybe I maybe I could go investigate undercover with a camera would you like that well you know it is about that time that we have to do a commercial break so maybe we can go investigate and report back to our loyal viewers what we found let's go investigate all right investigative report Okay, let's go investigate. Let's go investigate. All right, investigative report journalism time. Let's go. But first the ads.

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Yeah. But I'm getting cut off by the top of the frame, I'm too tall. Okay, sit up. Should I slide down a little? Yeah. All right guys, you're still bending the lower part of your spine, which probably is enough.

But I, there's a pillow behind my lower back? Why didn't Tucker frame it for you to sit in a healthy manner? Because Tucker's an idiot, okay okay he's a jackass okay well let's get to what the people want right we went and investigated and he traveled through the building and we went to where we thought the sound you would have been originating from the opposite side of this wall here is a photograph of Ryan McGee and Matt Watson investigative journalists looking at each other confused because there was no one there. Yep. So not quite

sure what's going on then because... Something above or below, you know. Nothing in the middle. No, nothing in the middle. I'm not sandwich. Yeah You know so life is like a sandwich too. You know no matter which way you flip it the bread comes first Mmm. I don't know if it's above or below. I think it's above Again like or maybe it's a whole team of pranksters. What if that's why Luke's not here yet. He's pranking us He's like down there going he's got a little radio and he's like alright guys do it now do it now is there other camera is the monkey a camera the eyes cameras that that would be a great hidden cameras this little monkey back here I want this

little monkey you want to go hold it cuz he's so cute gotta get to you and that monkey thank you for not kicking me in the get to you and that monkey Thank you for not kicking me in the face when you did that of course dude Check this out someone brought this as a gift on tour and It's one of my favorite things ever. It's like a little monkey puppet not like it is a little monkey puppet It is a gorgeous little baby monkey puppet It isn't what's up little monkey It is a gorgeous little baby monkey puppet. Hi, Ryan. Wee-hee. Isn't it awesome? What's up, little monkey?

Maybe this could be a segment, and Luke can zoom in ferociously on that, so you're not in it. So I'll be. So it doesn't look cringe. Because here's the difference. For example, this would be cringe. God. That is such a fucking brutal, like. You don't know what I'm going to say you just know whatever I do is going to be cringe so you just throw it to me.

Alright, here. Hi Ryan! See? Yeah, it's a bit cringe. But now zoom in on the monkey and do it again. Hi Ryan. See there's the difference. You didn't see, you didn't see me. Nope. You just saw the monkey.

Well I still saw you so. It was still cringe to you. Dude this thing is, this thing is fantastic. Look at him just, he has a mind of his own. Just rocking out dude. Rock and roll. You know what I'm saying? Dude is he clapping his hands? Yeah, he loves this shit, dude. Yeah, dude, he's in a rock and roll show.

He's loving life right now, this monkey you brought onto set, or has been on set for a while. Yeah. Since the inception. No. Not since the beginning. Yeah, no, this was, I think, maybe since episode one, this monkey's been on the set.

Really? Okay, okay, okay. I don't know. He can just kind of sit right here though And just kind of you know be looking around every now and then it'll get people It's kind of like you know when people need temple run or something to look at or whatever the fuck that get like a game You know like right right their attention span is so short these days kids have to watch temple run videos There's a boy surfers is that is that something that's like actually like in the meta. Yeah

That's that's interesting. I'm wondering if maybe we should start doing that for the podcast because God, I mean except it is it's it's Luke playing League of Legends. I Really throw it up. Let's just test it. Yeah, we're gonna see if it works Does he play League of Legends? He plays some sort of League of Legends thing He might be playing like an a Ram game in this, in this, that's being played right now. But I don't think, I think the point of it, we're not supposed to be talking about him playing it. No, no, we don't even mention it. It's, it's, whatever he puts, it's just for the attention span of the viewers. Because, you know, children these days, you know, their attention span is just going lower and lower and lower. I hope Luke's not embarrassing himself right now.

That would be very embarrassing if you know he was not doing too good. He's probably like I have to play League of Legends and figure out a way to record it for this. No, I'm not doing that. It's a free installation. He could probably, you can go grab someone else's video but you're not going to because that's copyright That is that is intellectual theft Well, I said specifically Luke is playing League of Legends and this isn't like some like theoretical bit

I don't want to lie to the audience, you know No, I've never lied to the audience if anyone would it would be Luke exactly. So and some of you might be asking Luke who's Luke? maybe episode 40 is your first episode Luke is a distant cousin of both of ours We found him through 23 and me found out. We're both related to one person. It's him He's great with a football god. He can throw a pigskin But we didn't we didn't we didn't get him on the team for his football skills. No, we got him on the team for his podcast editing

skills. So he's the podcast editor. So that's just the Luke Laura update. He likes basketball. League of Legends. Walks on the beach. Not long ones. No, his feet get real swollen and sore. Those bunions. They're bad bunions dude they're they're they're not good bunions. Why does it sound like it's over? Dude I swear it's moving. I think it is I think they're do they're they gotta be doing something. I can't like it I think that it's below us. It sounds like it's literally like right there where we just were outside. Show the picture again. But we're gonna think there's like some gas leak in this in this episode god they just start rambling on like just been slowly suffering from like methane gas

getting carbon monoxide poisoning going completely loopy and that's why we went outside there was nothing there and we're like huh dude are you playing with the army men? dude like King Kong check it out. You got the big monkey. Okay little army man like You know what I'm saying? Yeah, you want to end the bit there? All right. I Like this no no no, I love it. I love it. I love it. I just think that you know, maybe Just I don't know There's not a lot of depth to it right now.

I'm thinking, whenever you brought it out, I can't help but think it was just a cosmetic thing. I wanna know who is this monkey. What has this monkey been through? What's this monkey's story? What is the plot of this monkey? Well, let me tell you the plot of this monkey. Oh my god, you're trying to take the thumbnail away from the Polynesian Meatball sub again.

No, I'm not, dude. Is it because it would be a little difficult to photoshop a Polynesian? No, dude, I'm saying, but I do think that this monkey in the thumbnail would be pretty good. It says little monkey lost on the side. Okay, so. So it's like a lost little monkey. So you want a monkey, and you want a construction worker, and you think that there's going to be room for a Polynesian sub as well? A Polynesian meatball sub?

I don't know. I mean. What do you mean you don't know? I do. If there's room for any of them, it's it's the Polynesian meatball sub well. I don't know that's just a weird shape Think about it. You know Thumbnails are shaped like this and a Polynesian sub is a is a lengthy about its length Well, it's like a thumbnail it depends if you're getting the $5 footlong or if you're getting just a regular six-inch I'm thinking of a six inch six inch

I'm thinking of like a firehouse looking sub where it's like open on the top. It's not like shut It's it's you know, there's that slit at the top It's almost like you're looking at a hot where a hot dog should be except. It's where meatballs are riddle me this What if right now I place a quick little order for a meatball sub and a banana and You can you can try this thing out live and see how the Polynesian Sub is god fucking damn dude. They are just banging and bonking. Hello That's gonna make him that's gonna make it worse. Yeah, I shouldn't have done that now. They're just gonna be like Okay, fine. Just making fun of me now?

Fine, asshole. Maybe the construction worker's voice sounds exactly like that, coincidentally, and... And he thinks that we're the voice inside of his head. Maybe I should go leave and have some cereal, Captain Crunch? So you just walked off the job site? Where are you?

I had this feeling like I had to go get some Captain Crunch. I ended up going with Cookie Crisp but I got cereal nonetheless. The thing is I had to buy milk as well along with it and a gallon was cheaper than half a gallon believe it or not because of the sale because I have the Vons card. You saw the video I sent you last night? The alien? No. Oh. Well that too, but it was uh the cookies. Yes. Dude it's something I've been doing lately. You're dumping some cookies into some cereal and eating. I mean you're essentially making cookie crisp. It is cookie crisp. Yeah so Tate's cookies, I love Tate's. It's a it's a good

brand. They're in like the the green bag. They're sweet. They are. But what I they have little mini versions now, which are like the size of maybe like a nilla wafer, okay? And what I do I just you know I'll pour them into a bowl Pour some milk on top of it and eat it like cereal you got to eat it fast though because those those fuckers do get Soggy kind of like life. It's, yeah. Yeah. I'm not making a point. I'm like the cereal life, like cinnamon life. Oh, okay.

So you're not comparing it as like an allegory? It's not like a Forrest Gump situation. You know, life's like a box of chocolate. Life's like a bowl of cereal with milk in it. Pfft. Ha ha ha. As opposed to a bowl of cereal without milk. Yeah.

Cause that doesn't... Oh, I know what you're gonna say. One of the worst things in the world is when you pour a bowl of cereal without milk. Yeah, that doesn't oh I know what you're gonna say one of the worst things in the world is when you pour the bowl of cereal and then find Out you're either out of milk or the milk is expired. Do you see we connected at the same time. I have to just Try to just messily pour your bowl back into the bag Oh, it's such a bad feeling and honestly and all you can do and then you crave it even more afterwards You're like wait. I'm an adult. I you crave it even more afterwards. You're like wait I'm an adult I can just go get the awesome. You're like, it's fucking 3 a.m Yeah, literally everywhere who has milk right now

Like I'm not gonna go drive 20 minutes out of my way to a 7-eleven to go grab some awful and and I I genuinely have contemplated the substituting water in the past like cuz I wanted cereal so, and then I didn't have milk, and I'm like, okay, but how bad would water be, you know? Like, is my brain really gonna, no. And one time I did actually, I had like heavy, I had like heavy cream. So, no, no, no, no.

Okay, so not water. Well, you watered down heavy cream? I watered down some heavy cream. Does that mix well in water, heavy cream? It wasn't the best, but. Doesn't it separate? No. Does it not?

No, it doesn't separate. It's a heavy-ass cream? It was heavy cream, though. And I did put some water in it. And it was noticeable that it was not milk. But it got the job done. I had to Mick Jagger the whole thing that is it MacGyver one of the two one of the yeah I did I had to one of that guy one of those guys McGruber make great show oh it's fantastic show you

haven't seen the show. I know. Gotcha. You did. I do want some cereal really bad now though. We don't have any milk. We have a lot of cereal. Whose fault is that? God. Yeah.

I'm getting real tired of God and his. I know, we keep saying, I say my prayers, and I know that you're saying your prayers too. We both pray for a cow. We both come to work excited, expecting there to be a cow when we walk in. So we can have milk at our disposal whenever we want. Milk for cookies, cereal, cinnamon rolls,

milk for just milkshake, you name it. But every day, no matter what, I think we just have to get used to the disappointment and used to the fact that there is no God. Now is this is this is this is finite proof I wouldn't I wouldn't go that far or definite proof I wouldn't go that far because if he is real which he probably is listen then we're not gonna get a cow at all now well we haven't had a cow to begin with. I'm just tired of relying on this god guy

to give us a cow so we can enjoy some cereal, cinnamon rolls, cookies, baked goods, breakfast foods, warm breakfast foods particularly, like pancakes and waffles, maybe some waffles with blueberries or chocolate chips. Dude, I made waffles recently and... Do you like waffles? Yeah, I like waffles.

Okay, sorry, you know where that's going. No, I was hoping we'd do the whole song. I know, I know, I know. Do you like waffles? I'm excited, I wanna hear it. You're gonna get me going. I just wanna hear about your waffles. Did you make some delicious, beautiful waffles?

Did you smother them in syrup to the point where they're essentially? No, no, no, no, no. I don't smother them in syrup. They get soggy, and it's too sweet. I love it when they're all soggy. You like soggy waffles? Yeah, that tracks.

Come on, dude. A nice soggy waffle from Waffle House? Come on on dude. No dude, but you know what? I made blueberry waffles and chocolate chip with mini chocolate chips, the ones that Waffle House does use. Okay.

But I, basically, you're gonna call me crazy. And I ask that you please don't, okay? But I picked- Well I'm primed now. No. I'm primed to think you're crazy. And, I picked- Well, I'm primed now. No. I'm primed to think you're crazy. And I'm, you know, I'm 100% honest. I'm a friend of yours. I'm, some would say, not you, but some would say one of your best friends.

Well, I would say you are my best friend. No, I know. The best friend. That's what you should say. At least in my presence. Okay. Well, I picked blueberries The best friend. That's what you should say. At least in my presence. Okay, well I picked blueberries, little dried blueberries out from oatmeal. Of all time by the way. Yeah. Ever. And if I die and find out you get a friend better than me, I'll fucking come back from the dead and I'll scare you to death. I'll scare you every day. That's my plan. I'll go, boo! It was just to get my friend back.

Ghost friends. They just described the plot of Ghost Friends. The Smosh movie? Ghost Pals? Ghostmates? Ghostmates. Is it Ghostmates? I think so, that sounds more like it. Ghost dudes.

Ghost bros. The Ghost Brothers. Hey, hey, hey, come on. Beautiful. But basically, I wanted to make blueberry waffles. I ain't gonna use fresh blueberries, what am I, gay? So basically I, sorry. Basically I did have blueberry oatmeal.

And you know those little tiny, chewy little blueberries they got in that oatmeal? I ripped open the packet, two of them, and I picked each little blueberry out. I'm psycho for that, right? And I put them in the of them and I picked each each little blueberry out I'm psycho for that right and I put them in the in the mix and I gotta say they were actually really fucking good Okay, it works great and Yeah, that's my story. Well, I had cornbread

With honey butter do over the weekend. It was delicious. Did you make it? Yes, You made cornbread and you didn't call Brother Watson over? It was just like a spur of the moment thing. Yeah dude. Technically Lego made it. I could have grabbed a fucking bus. Lego mentioned it was actually very sweet because usually I come home every day and I go hey cool you know I'll nickname him because he because his coat kind of looks like the color of cornbread is like hey little cornbread little cornbread man.

And you know, he was very sweet. He, you know, I woke up, you know, I went, I smell something. I was like, what the hell? And I wake up and Lego's there with an apron on and I could tell because I mentioned it, he made them. And it was just the sweetest thing. That is really sweet.

Lego, and no, Lego is not a human roommate of mine. Lego is my dog. And he's, I mean, he's still a roommate. Yeah, he's a wolf mate. No. A life partner. A room, I'm trying to think of like a- A room buddy.

A house buddy. Mansion buddy. room brother a what's a what's above a mansion there's nothing above a mansion town but I own a town now it's the next step up from a mansion you just get a town an island you know maybe after a mansion it's like a what is after a mansion know there is some the villa What was like a bigger? Fies a villa a bigger mansion with a bigger area with a pool is a villa like like there's a lot of land like you got a whole

Tennis court yeah all that shiz right yes, so bill is above mansion. I would say is there anything above Villa That's when it's island because then you have your villa on an island. That's private island. Yeah. Is there really anything above a private island? No. Private island is the fucking end all be all of it. Well unless you're Matt Watson and you buy a whole gosh darn star.

Come on man. I was thinking about that literally right before we came in to record today. It's kind of weird you bring that up It's a beautiful star. I'm sure Ryan McGee. Mm-hmm the star that I bought it's great episode of the super mega cast yeah, and I have bought multiple stars and I bought a great star from my friend Ryan and Wikipedia star from my friend Ryan and Wikipedia refuses they need to take the fucking whatever they have up their ass they need to fucking pull it right on out because I think a stick or like a stick like object yeah they've got they've got

a stick like cylindrical object right up that that tight little Wikipedia ass because for the star that I bought, by the way, I have a certificate. Well, actually, they mailed me the certificate. It didn't show up, so I asked if they could print it and mail it again. They said I'd have to pay another hundred something dollars and I said, no, well, it never showed up. So, and they were like, well, that's not our problem.

And I'm like, you fucking suck. It's a piece of paper. But I just wasn't expecting to be scammed by a company like this, but that's besides the fact. On the Wikipedia page for the star that is aptly named Ryan McGee. On and off, it will be taken, like someone will go and put that it's also on an episode of the podcast.

In popular culture. Yeah, it'll be taken away. and put that it's also on an episode of the podcast. In popular culture. Yeah, it'll be taken away. I don't understand why it actually can't just be there because it is like. How many views does the podcast have? A lot, right? A billion.

A billion at least. If we think about, because our fans are popular and they're probably sitting in a room with hundreds of other people showing off right our content so every view is like a hundred to a thousand depending on the popularity of said fan at the lower end probably a hundred friends in a room with yeah action and and we have connects at YouTube that multiply the numbers for us basically to make sure it's kind of like adding arms

But or in my mind no don't don't make that up. Um just good joke, dude, but the view farms. Yeah but I don't understand why they won't even let us on the Wikipedia page have that because on Obviously, they're not going to change the the Scientific name of this real star to Ryan McGee, but on the Wikipedia page Why not just a little in popular culture section are so many stars that exist What would what would hurt in the grand scheme of things if this one star on its Wikipedia page? Had this in its popular culture. It fucking pisses me off, dude, like had this in its popular culture. It fucking pisses me off, dude.

Like, you know, it's some fucking nerd that's fucking sitting at his house on a fucking wooden computer chair, not even a cushioned one. Uh, and, um. See, you're the villain in this story. You're trying to buy space, and this guy is probably thinking

he's protecting space from being bought by evil corporations such as MatCorp. Maybe. Do people know about that LLC yet? No, they don't know about that. But actually, that brings up a good point. I think that that's probably how he sees it. This Wikipedia editor,

sitting in his little shitty fucking house. Probably poor. Probably sitting in a wooden chair, poor, probably has braces on his legs, you know, and probably smells like feces as well. You could have just said poor people. Yeah, well, I wanted more detail, but I guess, you know, it's just given.

You don't wanna use poor multiple times in the same paragraph. Right, and everything I said is just standard about poor people to begin with so it's inferred but basically You got this multi billionaire Mogul Matt Watson who's trying to fucking buy space trying to fucking buy a gigantic ball of helium and hydrogen Elsewhere in the in the galaxy no no no no no

It doesn't are there any permits for this who says that he can just go and start buying this? What's to stop someone from monopolizing on this and controlling most of the universe slash galaxy? Who's, like, imagine if you could buy one star. Imagine how many stars Elon Musk could buy. Yeah, so luckily because there is this, in his mind, this poor guy, he's the one that is standing up. Not this poor guy. No, not like, oh this poor guy. This poor guy.

This monetarily poor guy who smells like feces. He is the one who is standing up for the little guys, etc. to try to take down us millionaires. Pisses me off, man. So every time someone adds in popular culture, he goes, nope No, not not even gonna do in popular culture Fuck Matt Corp Look at this G. So he says before highlighting it all and then deleting or what however you edit a Wikipedia I don't I'm not I don't I don't edit the article so I wouldn't know the first thing about I've always wanted to try editing for Wikipedia. Anyone can do it

That's what that's what it used to be right it It used to actually be like anyone could just change it. I think it still is that way. Like well it has to go. Did it always have as strict kind of guidelines of like getting stuff approved or didn't have to like become a little more strict over a period of time? Like as more people. I actually don't know how it works because I've always, like, reading Wikipedia is one of my favorite, like, board activities to do. Guys, this is something to do. Instead of doom scrolling on social media, etc., and reopening Twitter and just getting depressed,

instead download the Wikipedia app and just go look at random articles and go down rabbit holes. It's very fun Or watch some of your favorite advertisements from your favorite podcasters like this But back to it, I don't know actually what it takes to edit. Back to it? Stop. It? Sorry.

She passed away and I don't want to... God damn it, dude. Don't bring up the fucking talk to her shit anymore. I've told you how much that fucking crushes me. All right, just bring it back from the ads here. God, I don't know what it takes to edit Wikipedia pages though. Do you just need an account?

And if you make, like, it can't be that easy because then everyone would be changing shit, right? Like, are there higher level? Mods does it decide you earn the right to have your stuff either be able to Like like up dudes. No, no, I'm guessing Depending on your history of doing it You can earn the right to essentially edit stuff and it be trusted and do it automatically, or if you're kind of just starting out or mid-tier,

I'm guessing that it has to go through an approval process from the higher end of that scale probably. Right, so they couldn't just create like a bot farm in Russia that goes and edits a bunch of... Yeah. Oh, that does make sense, that there would be like accounts that have earned, they probably do have some kind of system of trust where it's like a number

that you basically build up so your edits are more likely to get. And your edits are confirmed and the more of your edits that are confirmed by trusted members, probably your score goes up. I'm just guessing they have some sort of internal ranking system like that. So you can, I know on Wikipedia you can view discussion and each article has a

talk page and edit history. So you can view discussion about edits and I'm currently on the Wikipedia page for Gscorpi. Luke, you probably beeped that, people don't like when you burp in the mic. Well, you were burping in the mic. No, no, I meant you as in general, but it sounded like I was telling Luke. Yeah, Luke, don't burp in the mic, dude. But I'm on the Wikipedia page, G. Scorpi,

also known as Fu Yue. It's a giant star in the constellation of Scorpius, and it's 126 light years from the sun. Do you guys know what this star also is? I don't see it on the Wikipedia page, but this star is more commonly known as Ryan McGee. More people call it Ryan McGee than G. Scorpi. 100%.

More people have called it Ryan McGee in the past week than G. Scorpi, I bet. And I- That's just from you and I mentioning it in this podcast, I believe, probably. Yeah, but the more we get the ball rolling, the more we bring this up. G. Scorpi, you mean Ryan McGee? Yeah. You know.

Fu Yue, what? You mean Ryan McGee? Exactly. It does kind of suck that out of all the stars that are per you know that exist There they had to sell you one that already did have claim from like two different kind of namesakes You know like sell me a star if it doesn't have a Wikipedia page the name is like a dash 73 X and then yeah like a list like some coordinate you know there's so many fucking stars like there are like hundreds of billions of them just in our

galaxy like food food food yeah guy I do for me yeah the traditional name food food you a in ancient China food you a was a former slave that became a high-ranking minister to Shang dynasty ruler Wu Ding. So okay. Yeah, whatever. Okay, that's actually pretty cool. So yeah, yeah, but but he gets a star named after him. But I guess I paid money. Well, he didn't pay money. Why does he get a star? Did he just point up and go that's mine or did some like guy who liked stars who was naming stars when they go I'm a history buff for a week and I heard about this there's a Chinese guy I remember hearing about who seems like a cool guy he probably was a very maybe

there's a movie that could be made about well he has a Wikipedia page as well look this is him this is food Fu, this is Fu Yue. Seems like a peaceful man. Yeah, Luke, make sure you put a picture of Fu Yue in so people know who we're talking about. But I'm gonna go to the talk slash edit history section of this Wikipedia page. Stop fucking bringing a talk to her, I'm so serious.

View talk page. Oh my God, wait. What? Just look, when you, just what's the first thing you see when you scroll? Ryan McGee. Actually, you know what? In defense of Ryan McGee.

I'm gonna screen record this because I want Luke to show this. So here on the article talk page for Gscorpi, I'm not even going to call it Gscorpi. I'm calling it Ryan McGee. You got a lot of defenders. This is cool. Yeah, like this person from May 29th, 2020 at 1220pm. They said it would be really cool of whichever mod runs this page if that's how Wikipedia works IDK to allow there to be the addition of a Popular culture section to the page as to reference episode 191 of the popular internet show super mega cast I got an email from Luke

Just now okay Yeah, I mean someone said agreed in defense of Ryan McGee. Yeah, I wanna hear that one. Wikipedia is a place for history. Matt the Brat Watson, spelled my last name wrong, buying this star is a part of history. I think you guys should allow us to display history. Thank you.

I think adding in nicknames probably sully your message a little. Matt the brat, you know, if it was like. Cause Wikipedia people take themselves very seriously. Exactly, so. And it looks like they, ooh. Did someone respond?

They didn't take this seriously enough because then the response is, sorry you got scammed. You bought a piece of paper that says you named a star but you didn't actually name a star. You are rapidly heading towards being completely blocked from Wikipedia, IP address and all linked accounts for an awful long time. Talking is a start but you're already on about your tenth account so you're in a pretty deep hole.

Well that's what they said in response to that person. So if this is the person that's looking after this, Gscorpi. Yeah, it's not looking good. And then someone replied and said, do you have proof that this is one person on multiple accounts or are you unaware of the fact that multiple people watch slash listen to the same thing. Smoked him with that one. He didn't have anything to say. Nope, no replies. Cuz he was embarrassed. Cuz he looked like a fool.

In popular culture, here we go. And then there's more. An honor and request of Internet sensation, Supermega, Matt Watson's purchase of the star G Scorpi. That has five comments. Literally, it's just people saying that we should be allowed to have the Section on the Wikipedia page there are people that are trusted within the Wikipedia sphere I

Think only right what's going on? Are you seeing more? It's this it's the same as same guy Oh, he's tooting off on people what's's going on? If you want to write about, and then parentheses, notable, fiction, try stars in fiction with a linked page. Usually, a see also link is added to the star article if there is fiction related to it. Only real life things related to the star are usually included in the article.

This is real life things related to the star. It was a real life episode of the podcast where it was in popular culture. You bought G. Scorpi. Or it could be, they could even word it, it is jokingly said that Matt bought G. Scorpi, naming it Ryan McGee. So in a, come on, help me out here, Matt.

I'm trying to help you. So in a cult group or a cult fan base, the star has developed a nickname, Ryan McGee. And just probably, that's all. That's all the little, whatever that little section is for pop culture references. I feel like if you were similar to that, that might be able to pull it.

Because I think this person's getting pissed off. They are, specifically. Because they think that we're coming after the star and trying to rename it. And they're saying, they even say, some very notable fictional references are sometimes included on the Wikipedia page for the star, but I suspect this isn't one of them, however much you like Super Mega Cast. So they're not a fan of the Super Mega Cast. Luke, also make sure you're uh... How many episodes does that does that episode? I'm sorry, how many views does that episode have? I don't know. Probably more views than the web page for... Oh, what? God damn, got it. Did someone just cut him down? Dude, there is a clap back.

Are you ready for this? I'm ready. Definition of fiction. A belief or statement that is false but is often held to be true because it is expedient to do so. The situation cannot be labeled as fiction or notable fiction as it has legitimate evidence to be true as noted and stated by Matthew Watson in both super mega cast episodes number 190 and 191 evidence that this star is bought and named Ryan McGee by Matthew Watson can be found there okay and then oh no he

comes back the the admin with aopsian. That's the admin. He says, um... Yeah, he claps back. Oh god. Okay. I'm not chasing that white rabbit down any holes. Instead, I'll quote some Wikipedia policies. And fervently hope that you take notice. So his hands might be tied. Let's hear these policies.

Sock puppetry or meat puppetry. Meat puppetry. I know about sock puppetry. He's still saying this is the same person Yeah, it's the use of multiple accounts by a single person blah blah blah blah blah. He's just saying you're gonna get I'm assuming good faith that you don't know these

things, but now you do. And he's saying that you're gonna, they're gonna get banned from Wikipedia. This is my only account and I have him in sock puppeting thanks for the sources though smiley face wow so I mean it so he just goes into into threatening to ban someone with no evidence because his argument although although we provide evidence that you did buy the star in fictional lore. That's crazy, dude, because it's it's 100% real. It's it's proven that I bought this star named it Ryan McGee. And then what did they do the second their argument fell apart? They didn't

even address it. They just go you're gonna get banned. You know that right? I mean, you're gonna be banned from here's some Wikipedia policy. Nerd, dude. You're gonna be banned from here's some Wikipedia policy fucking nerd. I am this fucking steamed as an onion right now, dude I am I am boiling. I'm boiling like a jug cooking like a stew this dude According to the official US Star Registry this star now named Ryan McGee is now owned by Matt Watson of super mega and American Let's play YouTube channel and was purchased during the popular podcast Super Mega Cast episode 191 where this star was purchased and he received his official certificate confirming his ownership of this star.

It's a little redundant the way they typed it out. I also think trying to make it sound less official you need to make it like this almost like this would be like if G Scorpi was mentioned in a Seinfeld episode and they read tried the right to Seinfeld this would be in pop culture granted Matt and I are a little more popular than Seinfeld So I think our argument holds a little more weight than the absolutely example. I just gave No one cares about that foggy Jared. Yeah, he made the pop-tart movie Jared'sinfeld the B movie in the pop-tart movie. Okay, whoopee Okay, also the fame last thing I'm looking at the edit history Okay of G Scorp I and I will say there there have been some some some warriors that have uh

Still fought the good fight the most recent was July 26th, 2024 at 512pm. Added alternate name, named this when popular YouTube channel SuperMega perched the star and named it after one of the stars of the show, Ryan McGee. But then that was reverted and crossed out. And you can see all the times that they've been crossed out by people. Wow, yeah. Dude, the mods on this page just, here's another one. Or more commonly known as Ryan McGee. See, if you type something like that, it's not gonna stick. Because these are people of science and truth and fact.

So if you say that the star is more commonly known as that, then they're not going to buy it. But if you just say also known as Ryan McGee, I'm looking dude. Also known to the cult super mega fan base as Ryan McGee. Known, known, don't call it a cult. No, like a cult classic. You know, it's using cult in a very positive manner. All these dude, this has been a big fight back and forth.

Well, we're continuing this battle, this fight. Listen, and I'm not trying to send anything towards anyone. Spoken like a true man who is trying to inc know send any anything to towards anyone spoken like a true man who is trying to incite harassment yes I just I just genuinely want what is ours to be presented as such like I said earlier manifest destiny look at that I'm looking that same mod same mod that was clapping back at supporters of Ryan McGee. Look at this, you can just see the exact edit, just crossed out the word Ryan McGee.

That's devastating, isn't it? Doesn't like me. No, seems like it. Wow, look. The green is what they fixed and the red is what they took out. Ryan G McG McGee, Scorpion. That's good.

Yeah. We'll see, maybe causing this much of a stink will make it like a little history. It's like, oh, this became so big that in pop culture it became a thing on this Wikipedia page. Debate over the star. Yeah. It became a thing on this Wikipedia debate over the star, you know, yeah Because who else has had a more?

Bloodthirsty debate over a star's name I don't think that there's ever been a bloodthirsty debate over a star's name and G score by aka the f-word aka Not the slur just the word. Oh, okay, okay. Like the proper noun. Gotcha, gotcha. And then the other, Ryan McGee, also, it's AKA Ryan McGee. You know, if you look on screen right now, you're gonna see a list of people's names.

And this list of people's names, these are all, so. I'm kidding. and this list of people's names these are all uh, s*** I'm kidding guys laughter uh, no no keep it I don't even, I don't think YouTube allows you to keep it

we'll find out won't we okay, Luke protect us uh, basically yeah, all these people are are fervent supporters of... I'm sorry? Yeah, probably beep that one. Of the star known as Ryan McGee, aka Gscorpi. Yep.

AKA Fuyue. That's it, Fuyue. Yeah, in that order.o you way yeah so basically guys yeah there's two lists on screen the green names those are people who are executive producers on our patreon and for 15 bucks a month you get all the patreon content plus stickers plus your name in every episode of Super Mega Show which is pretty darn sweet. And then executive producers, they get a little extra, you know?

They get a little extra. Like Matt's mouth on their balls. Maybe. So make sure to subscribe to the endo. Is that false advertising? Yeah it's a false advertising. Yeah, that's false advertising. I mean, if you're a producer tier or executive producer, you not only get your names here, but you know.

Yeah, you get stickers in the mail every month. But like we also do Uncle Sleepover for like all the Uncle Sleepover. That's a show. That's a show where, yeah. So if it's not more false advertising. Well, it is, well, technically it's not false advertising because it is a show name So we could always go to we're talking about our our our show on our patreon right talk over movies

We just recently did vampire sucks. I didn't was vampires suck It was great great movie and you're choosing the next movie which we are watching soon. I already know what I'm picking I have it up on the on the work calendar. Nice nice Well, so is it you already know what I'm picking. I have it up on the on the work calendar. Nice nice. So you already know what it is? Yeah I do. Is it a surprise? Yeah I'll keep it a surprise. You always keep your surprises so I'll keep mine a surprise too. I like it like that big boy. And I guess to round it out, I say we wrap this up, we go get a Polynesian submarine sandwich, and keep fighting the good fight for Ryan McGee, ladies and gentlemen. And I would say watch the most recent episode of Family Guy, look seven minutes and thirty

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