Ludwig and CDawgVA intervene regarding HasanAbi's fashion while introducing Connor Dog Virginia, a Welsh voice actor who won an Age of Empires 2 contest at sixteen without compensation. They explore Japanese eccentricities like Vor bars, discuss the "League of Pigs" mini-racing event, and analyze the Mari Lwyd tradition alongside Welsh independence debates. The hosts critique Twitch's new 50-50 revenue split strategy compared to YouTube earnings, mock a viral Nigerian pastor's sermon, and conclude by promoting their upcoming Virginia tour while debating intrusive ad breaks versus overlay solutions. [Automatically generated summary]
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Weird Japanese Fetishes00:10:40
What a goddamn week.
What a week.
What a fucking week.
However, while we have had one of the most drama-inducing, dramatic weeks of all time so far, I decided to take a sidestep from all of the random shellacking I've been getting for literally absolutely no reason whatsoever other than other than kind of breathing the same air as everyone else on the fucking platform.
Your breathing offends me.
Yeah.
Oh fucking this guy.
I feel like I've walked in on a couple arguing.
Yeah, we just, yeah, he's loving this.
But we don't have to talk about all that because he's an attractive Welsh man.
I know.
I was going to say, I didn't, you told me to come on and I was like, I don't know anything about the drama, so I hope you don't ask me anything.
No, this is just kidding.
I don't know what we're talking about.
I lied to C Dog VA.
It's like an ambush.
Also known as Connor Dog Virginia, okay, as I like to call him.
Also known as Connor Dog Voice Acting.
Right.
Is that what they're?
Yeah, that's where it came from.
Voice acting.
You do voice acting?
Yeah, yeah, I do.
Well, he's here, the handsome Welshman.
He has, you know, he's dominated Japan for a very long time.
Oh, thank you.
Escaping immediately after, you know, Shinzo Abe got assassinated.
That was weird.
I was kind of a passionate time.
It's kind of awkward that you're here when you've been living in Japan.
We talked about the allegations that you're a Welsh sleeper cell who was sent to.
I'd like the idea that I would be able to know how to make a gun of anything.
See, I didn't think you could jump to that conclusion.
Extra drama.
Clip it and ship it.
Let's go.
That's a guilty conscience.
Yeah.
This is such a chill vibe podcast.
It is a chill vibe podcast.
This is a chill vibe podcast.
It's so chill vibes that I got us cold brew.
Hell yeah.
So we upped the chill vibes.
I always get myself like double oat.
I drink two of these bad boys a day.
Double chili vibes.
I'm crazy.
Two regulars, you wanted soy?
I did.
Why are you going to out me on the podcast like this?
God damn it.
You said that so loud, man.
How are you going to get Liam Neeson to play you?
You literally.
It's nutrition.
Take a soy.
The funniest part is like he sounds like, yeah, I will take a soy latte.
I would like this soy.
You know, I'm in America and it's hard to stay healthy.
And so I'm trying to save calories wherever I can.
Yeah, no, this is the one that's got to go.
I should just give up.
I swear I've eaten like 4,000 calories a day already.
You're going to get diabetes in the United States.
It's just part of the fun.
Part of the culture.
I can't figure shit out.
Like, I don't, when I order something on Uber Eats, I have no idea if I'm getting like a snack or a giant meal.
And it's like $12.
I'm like, $12 doesn't tell me the size at all.
I can't figure this out.
And so it's always just giant in the end.
I think you just can't order food.
Yeah, yeah, maybe.
You got to make it yourself or else you're gaining weight.
It's impossible traveling doing that.
But no, I like being in LA.
LA's fun.
It's a very different change of pace to Japan.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, I'm working on this guy.
Japan?
Doors open.
October.
October 11th.
Yeah, they opened it finally.
That's good.
Are you guys going to go?
Trip, are you coming?
I literally think he's there.
I can be a pseudo-tour guy.
Why do you think we say yes?
You don't have to be aware of that.
I'll be there.
Wait, wait, why do you think we had him on the podcast?
This is it.
This is the Ludwig technique where he's like, oh, boys, the plan is simple.
Come on, Connor.
We're going to be best friends.
Only so that we can...
Ludwig and I have been talking about going to Japan for a very long time.
Yeah, I mean, if you have someone who kind of like speaks a little bit of Japanese, going around Japan is way easier.
All right, here.
Thought exercise.
Day one.
We're doing something.
Day two, we're doing something.
I want you to meditate on day like six.
A deep cut, something off the beaten path, not touristy.
Where are you taking us?
What are we doing in Japan?
Muscle bar.
Muscle bar?
That's still, that's kind of well known now.
The muscle bar girls love me.
There's some really once a week.
Wait, wait, what?
I fucking land grouse.
You are stay the fuck away from my muscle girls.
Your muscles.
Are you fucking joking?
I'm going to go in there and arm wrestle and hug them all.
Dude, what the fuck?
No, I'm going to arm wrestle them.
Do they DM you guys?
They DM me on like.
Okay, he's done.
He's done.
You're about to get Shinzo Abe, baby.
Okay.
Let me tell you something.
I'm going to make a gun out of this room.
Look at this fucking guy.
No, no, this is not.
Okay, this was meant to be a flex.
Like, I, you know, because I film a lot of stuff where I go to like weird shit in Japan and then we, you know.
This guy just said all the muscle.
All the muscle girls DM.
No, no, no, no.
Okay.
They, the person running the Instagram account is like, hey, you want to come film?
And I would have, but one of my friends has already done it on their channel.
And I was like, I don't want to double dip.
You know, I feel like that's rude.
What?
I don't know.
Maybe not right away.
Maybe I'll do it the next time.
But I mean, yeah, I mean, there's so many weird bars as well that don't get covered on YouTube that can't be in YouTube.
What?
Okay, this is sounding like it's up my alley.
Yeah, there's a lot of really, really fucked up ones.
Oh, well, there is in Korea, not in Japan, very different country for those of you who are following.
There was a fourth Reich bar.
Wow.
Wow.
Yeah.
There was like a Nazi bar that's like literally Nazi themed.
They have like eight officers.
No, no, they try to open one of these in Osaka in Japan.
I was about to say, I know their asses were trying to do that in Japan.
I'll skip that one.
What's one of these other fucked up ones?
Yeah, not looking like this.
It's a little suspicious.
Oh my gosh, he's here.
Harley Hitch.
We've been vaiting for you, Mr. Vilnet.
The perfect customer.
We knew if we opened a lady bar in Japan, you would come eventually.
So there's a bar I've really wanted to go to for a long time, but it seems like to get in is like really difficult.
There's a Vor bar of like, and you have to consuming fetish.
People, for those of you who don't know, Vor is when like you have a fetish of being eaten.
Yeah, yeah.
We're doing the eating too as well.
It's so I've heard again, this is like legendary.
I've been trying to figure out how I can go to this place because I really want to film or do something there.
You have to drop subtle hints.
Like you start throwing.
It's like out of nowhere.
You're going to shout to this guy.
Yeah, you're just like, what's up?
I like soy and also.
And then, and then people will be like, whoa, he's voring.
Apparently, the entrance is like a slide that's like slimy, like kind of like you're entering like that is disgusting.
Yeah, right?
It's that's fucking you have to like sign waivers and shit before you go in to say like you know, I don't know.
There's a lot of really fucked up things like that in Japan.
But again, like you can't cover this on YouTube because you can't show it, right?
Just for the people and you can't show that.
You can show it on Patreon.
Yeah, but this then the second on the Fear on Patreon on the Furan Patreon.
Yeah, yeah.
On the Fear on Patreon.
Behind the paywall.
That would be good if, if, and this is the second and probably biggest barrier, is that a lot of these dudes just do not want their things filmed.
And they're so a lot of the times they're just like, no, don't, don't bring a camera anywhere near this.
Don't.
And if you just close it out for the night on the Fear on Page.
The thing is, they normally don't want you to film.
I'm saying like we could, we could like literally even if you're like, I will give you stupid amounts of money.
Let me take over.
They're like, no.
I don't know why.
Some places are like this.
So that's the weirdest one.
Just for the people at home, just for the folks at home and no one in the room.
What's the sexiest one?
The sexiest?
What fetish do you have?
This is not for us.
This is not for us.
We're just asking.
We're asking because we want to avoid it, right?
If you name a fetish, it's out.
Just for the guys out there.
Big fat titties.
There's so many like Dom bars.
Okay, so like, let's say, hypothetically, you are looking to be put into a medically induced coma by being concussed after bulbous browser.
Bulbous, rotund breast disease.
I'm pretty sure this place is you could go.
I don't, I don't know off the top of my head.
You would like to avoid that place.
I'll send you the Google link so you can block it.
So you never get it.
I'll send it to you.
He gets it.
I wouldn't want you to accidentally go there right now.
Yeah, no, no.
I hate when I'm walking around and then Patriot.
I mean, yeah, for me, a lot of the funnest parts of Japan are just going around the really crazy hole-in-the-wall bars, just kind of exploring.
You know, you'd never see this stuff on tourist sites or anything like that.
It's just, you know, you get to kind of get a slice of life of what it would be like if you're a Japanese businessman, but you also get to you're a tourist, so you don't have to worry about working 12 hours and then being depressed.
I want to be a companyman.
Do you guys want to dress as salarymen?
I love that.
No, that's it.
No one's ever done that, right?
No one's done that.
People have done like Paolo's done like the life of a salary man.
Where do they poop?
Like, you know, because he doesn't.
So what are you going to do for you?
Are you boys with Paolo?
No, I've never spoken to Paolo.
No, I've never that's crazy.
Well, yeah, I don't know.
I guess some groups don't really interact with each other.
Dude, I would fucking be boys with Paolo.
Yeah, you know what I mean?
His obsession, his obsession with like the toilets in every establishment that he's in is unshakable.
Okay.
You always want to see the toilet.
Every video, he's like, well, and this is where they poop.
And then it's like, it zooms in on his face and he's like, I'm like, what are you doing, Paul?
Why are you in the bathroom?
There's a bar for that in Japan.
Probably.
There's a bar for everybody.
No, no, there is definitely poop bars.
Like where it's all like.
I definitely, I legit don't want that one.
In Japan, right?
It's like the poop, like the like, like, you know, like the cartoon kind of drawing of it, like the swirly, like emoji kind of thing.
That's seen as like a cute and a like kind of not gross thing.
It's kind of that's so weird.
Yeah, that's pretty interesting.
I just find it fascinating.
I mean, that's why I love living there.
Like every day is just a trip.
You just learn something new.
No, you were before we started the podcast, you were saying like, you know, it's like never-ending content.
It's the land of never-ending content.
And you can just like cut so much stuff.
Like everything that you would do in Los Angeles, you could do in Japan.
And it's like instantly more interesting.
And I didn't realize like it also makes you a more interesting person because you can just talk endlessly.
Like, you know, we don't even need Lowe.
When he comes in, I'm just going to bully him.
I'm going to like, dude, just leave.
I feel bad because sometimes I'm, you know, I'm talking to people and they have a lot of questions.
I'm like, do I ever just shut the fuck up?
Like, I always just talk about Japan.
I'm like, man, I should just stop mentioning that I live in this place.
I feel like it gets boring after.
No, it definitely is not.
Wellington Roadmen Return00:03:05
Not for us.
I've never been.
You've been to Japan?
No.
I think everyone has to go there at least once in their life.
I really want to go.
I wanted to do company man cosplay.
Salary man.
Company man.
Why do you want to be a salary man?
We did roadmen.
We did roadmen in the UK.
We need to do salary management from Japan.
Yeah, we did.
Whereabouts?
Did you do roadmen?
We just went in the streets in London.
Oh, this is already counted.
Yeah, we're all geezers now.
Yeah, we're fucking roadmen, but we're geezers, roadmen.
Try it.
Yeah.
Do you guys like London?
I used to live in London.
Oh, yeah.
We got propaganda.
It was a paying thing.
It was a paying brav.
I didn't like London.
You don't like London?
What do you not like about London?
Dog, he's Welsh, okay?
So he's probably gonna step up.
I'm like, electricity.
So we were there during the heat wave.
Okay, okay.
Yeah, there's like no AC.
There's no AC shows.
What are they?
Aircon.
There's no aircon, bro.
It was a little brutal, but also, I mean, okay, let me tell you this.
Have one experience that I love.
All right.
All right, I went to the RITS.
Wow, you went to the.
I've never.
And I did like a 12 course meal.
Yeah, you get, you get pampered.
That was the he had to wear.
They they gave, they give him a blazer to wear.
Oh yeah yeah, you can't go in those places.
No no, they gave us a full suit.
They gave us like, like that, we're clearly off dead bodies or you know what I mean like.
But the best part was like the way that they spoke to us.
So we ordered a beef wellington.
Okay like, why are you doing that size?
Was this a big wellington?
You said we ordered a beef wellington.
We only did this.
So, but we ordered a beef wellington along with the pre-plated meal, and the beef wellington was so good.
We're like, get another one.
And we, we call our server over and we're like, hey uh, we'd love to place.
And he's like, sir, I am so sorry, I do not know if we have the resources to do this, let me check with the chef.
And we're like, we're like, oh my god, like we didn't know it was such a big ordeal.
And he's like, apologies gentlemen, the chef simply cannot make another Wellington.
There is no way to add another Wellington.
And we're like, no it's, it's fine, and he's like.
He's like I am so sorry, I will speak with the chef again and he leaves and he comes back.
He's like, I have checked again.
There is no way we can do the Wellington.
He's working for the tip, right?
Yeah, we're like it's so it's, it's, it's okay.
You know, we just we have enough food comes back.
He's like.
10 minutes later he comes back.
He's like, gentlemen, there's still no.
After much conversation he's becoming more Japanese.
Oh my god, you're like, yeah, they bring out the trumpet, like they say.
Simply on the, they have the royal guard bring it out.
So we got that second Wellington.
It felt perverse, was it?
This Wellington's not supposed to wait here literally like, like words a lot.
Like they made you cover up while you're eating at the mask the shade.
Second Wellington is simply on the.
How were you guys in London for?
Were you guys there long?
Um, I mean, i've been there before, but this last time we were there right before twitch confidence Amsterdam.
We were like let's go to London first and was like why?
UK Pub Pig Races00:02:40
And I didn't really have a good reason for it.
I was just like, let's just do it.
It sucks, because I I um yeah, it sucks, it's uh, it's tough if you don't drink, but yeah, it does suck if you don't drink.
Yeah, Brighton was a lot of fun.
I, I enjoyed that.
I hate Brighton.
Wait really, I hate Brighton, why I just it's like it's the same price as London.
The beach is just so overrated.
Oh, I didn't go to the beach.
I'm oh, come on I.
I like, come on brother, i'm not going to the beaches in England.
Okay, i'm not doing that to myself.
Good good good I I, I like pub culture a lot and I miss that a lot.
Uh, whenever i'm traveling, I just yeah I, London's great, for this is a type of pub culture in Japan, I suspect that's.
Yeah well, it's not really pub, it's Izekaya, that's what they're called, and it's kind of more of a like restaurant and pub.
So you, it's and it's a sit-down thing.
Oh yeah, those are like the holes in the walls that you walk in uh yeah yeah, I mean, sometimes they're small, sometimes they're really really big and they're chains, but like, I mean, you're normally there all night.
There is something in the Uk I fell in love with.
Okay, all right uh, and you know this is a good place to announce this okay um, I don't even know what you're saying.
Pull up the League OF PIGS uh marsh um oh, it's okay, it's all right, all right okay um, there is a race league in the Uk called the League OF PIGS and they race mini pigs.
What and?
Uh, I saw I reached out to the owner of the League OF PIGS.
We're still in conversations, but I think myself, in Hundred Thieves, is gonna sponsor the American pig, Piggy Smalls, and he is gonna become a Hundred Thieves official race animal.
That's good, go ahead to the races, go go for it a little bit.
Yes oh, that's beautiful, as all of them go right.
Oh, look at the obstacles and we are that's.
That's him on the left.
That's Piggy Smalls, the black one.
This is this.
Is it the same?
I haven't seen this race yet.
Uh, go ahead and pause.
This is like what what?
Thousands of you?
Then That boy is big, dude.
Oh, he's the biggest one in the circuit.
He ain't fucking.
No, he's the American pig, of course.
You know what's funny about that?
Because, like, isn't like, aren't teacup pigs not a real thing?
It's like, they're just like, they become massive.
Yeah, it's just, it was a marketing strategy.
Yeah.
So I did fall in love with that, that very affluent part of UK culture, which, I mean, is a huge really important to me.
That's like the tops and tails to horse races, right?
It's as UK as fish and chips.
Yeah.
I never saw a pig.
I survived.
I'm from Wales.
It's all sheep in Wales.
Yeah.
We do sheep racing and sheep hugging and other various sheep activities.
Okay, what's the what's the weirdest Welsh culture thing other than la fajala kala kara?
Oh, oh, oh, I'm sorry.
Welsh Independence Slam00:02:11
That's something I don't know.
Have you?
What did you say?
Can you pick that?
He understood what I said.
He's just acting like, whoa, that's a slur in Welsh.
You just fucking said it.
What the fuck, dude?
Yeah.
Shit about my mom.
Wait, what was it?
That sounds Arabic.
That's what sounds like the most normal people, man.
Is that Turkish?
Wait, okay.
I think you said Gareth Bale.
No, say it.
Say it.
Just say it.
You know what I mean?
Actually, you should pull this up.
It's a fantastic image.
It's called Marie Floyd.
M-A-R-I, space, double L.
And it should auto-come up.
And it's this amazing tradition, which I actually did M-A-R-I, space, double-L, double L, then W-Y-D.
And a terrifying image should pop up.
What the fuck?
What is that?
So this is a great tradition.
Is that the Baba Yaga?
So yeah, so that's a horse skull.
And this is quite an old tradition in Wales, which is sometimes still done, but it's not done the same way.
You should sometimes, you know, pack that up.
You know what I mean?
So yeah, I was like, picture this.
You're like 10, 12 years old.
And then you get told to hold this thing.
And I didn't know what the fuck it was.
So I'm underneath the blanket and you go around and there's kind of like folk dancing and everyone's singing and stuff.
And then people start kicking me.
What?
While I'm holding this thing.
And I don't know.
It's like kicking the shit out of you.
Not like kicking me like fully, fully, but like, you know, but even like a little kick to the shin.
You know, up until this very moment, I was on board with Welsh independence.
And right now I'm thinking, let the British handle it.
Let them sort it out.
So to this day, I still don't know what we're doing.
But the original whole backstory to this, this, this event is that it was you, someone, people would go around with this horse skull and a blanket, and they would go to people's houses and they would ask for their alcohol while doing like slam poetry.
And if they didn't give them their alcohol, they would just keep asking until they would give the alcohol or they left.
Ancient Poetry Traditions00:04:33
And it's just like, and then you'd go on.
Slam like death.
Yeah, it would be like poetry or like singing.
I can't remember the exact thing, but it was, it was like, yeah.
Police.
Yeah, it's a really weird.
You know, and then you just take alcohol.
I don't think that's what there's new in slam poetry with.
I feel like it would be sheep rhymes.
Yeah, there's a lot of sheep.
There's a lot of I love my sheep, and that's how I earn my keep.
That sort of thing.
He loved it, Bob ram you.
Yeah, it's some, yeah, that's that was one of my dad's verses, actually.
Um, yeah, you would just do this.
I mean, like, poetry and singing was a whole thing.
I mean, I, I went to school and did all my learning in like Welsh.
So I was doing insane.
Yeah, I did all spit some Welsh to us.
What do you want to?
So what I was trying to say earlier, which apologies to all the four Welsh viewers.
Yeah, you have, I bet you have like one, maybe one.
No, no, no.
I have some.
I have one of my Discord regulators is like Welsh and he's like a Welsh independence movie guy.
Okay, well that's right.
He's like really into it.
But I have some Welsh viewers.
I was trying to say the longest and weirdest name.
I feel like every single podcast I have to do this.
It's Landvarpurkungsko Gerochundoba.
That's it.
That's a place.
A real town name.
It's about an hour from where I grew up.
I'm sorry one more time.
Billy Ray Brains, can you do that?
Yeah, I can't spell that one.
No, no, no.
Just say like weirdest town name.
It'll come up.
It'll come up.
Do you speak Welsh?
Yeah, yeah.
So I was just saying, like, up until like age 18, I did all of my school and exams in Welsh.
Yeah, that's the name.
That's the name.
Pull it up.
Where does this language come from?
I think it's older than English.
And I think it's...
Oh, that's not even it.
Yeah, it's longer.
It's longer, yeah.
Yeah, that's not even it.
What's that one?
That's the full name.
That's what I said.
Yeah.
Because remember, he said in the end, the goch.
It ends with gooch?
Gogorch, yeah.
Gogogorch.
Yeah, Gorch is the same.
No, that's gooch.
It could be gooch.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's very, it's very, there's nothing there.
How do you pronounce it?
Gogogoch.
So C-H is an okay town.
It's small.
There's a climbing gym there.
It's just like, why?
What would happen?
It was like beyond.
That was a publicity stunt.
What are the Welsh hiding?
Just be honest.
Like, why did they choose this as a language?
What's going on?
It was there before English.
It was the original Celtic language.
That's what people are saying.
What happened, really?
What is it?
Then, you know, English got fucked, and then we got fucked because they got fucked, right?
Yeah.
That's what happened.
I don't know if I can speak that language.
It's too hard.
It's not true.
Shut up.
It's phonetic.
So every letter is spelt the way you say it, which is.
Oh, that makes it easier.
A lot easier to learn it when you're a kid.
You're like, great, this is less frustrating.
And when I was learning English, I was like, fuck this language.
Why does night have a K in it?
I'm going to lose my mind.
That is very...
Look at that.
That's the Welsh independence burning inside of you, my friend.
Wait, do you think Welsh should be independent as someone who's not from Wales?
I don't give a shit.
We'd die.
What is there?
Like, there's nothing, right?
It's just cheap.
You know, like, I...
We got any natural resources?
Yeah.
We did.
Coal way, way back.
And then that's kind of clean coal.
Yeah.
And yeah, great coal, right?
I heard that's on the up.
Yeah, I mean, we don't really have much compared to like, say, Scotland, Ireland.
Yeah, I was about to say Scotland, I guess.
They've done really well at kind of building their own stuff.
But Wales is kind of like, hey, we're attached to England.
We're part of it.
No, it's just like in England, even inside of like London, you know, two streets down, there's like a very distinct accent and they're warring with one another, right?
Oh, yeah.
And then you have Wales on the side, like just like, hey, we're here and we have a very different language than everybody else.
Like so different.
Yeah, I don't know.
I think Wales is more chill than England.
We're kind of happier, I feel.
Everything's just vibes.
Everything's about, you know, just, you know, because a lot of people where I grew up were like farmers and stuff.
So it was all really cozy and it was all about pubs and just drinking and everyone knew each other.
And then you move from there to London.
Yeah.
You move from the Gorg town, like an hour away from that to London.
Grizzled London Vibes00:13:58
Big city boy.
And then you move to the most supercharged like metropolitan area on the planet.
Yeah, it's kind of a weird trajectory, huh?
It's kind of strange.
I always from like, I don't know if you guys feel the same.
Ever since I was like five, six, I was like, I want to just get out of this place.
I just want to explain.
I grew up in cities.
I want to explore.
I grew up in cities.
I grew up in Istanbul and Ankara.
Those are big cities in Turkey, especially Istanbul.
So I was always a city boy, uh I.
But I did feel that way about New Jersey.
New Jersey is like the Whales of America, one could say like Maine, I feel, is like I don't know.
Yeah, I I, but like I feel like when you're in that kind of area, drives you or you either just want to stay in that small town forever, or you get so driven to kind of push yourself and really try and explore.
I mean, I don't know what the I was doing, though I didn't.
I have an engineering degree, so I don't know like what the, but i'm not, i'm not using that I talk about.
I talk about anime.
You're like shitting online.
You're like I can't use this on sheep.
I don't know what we're doing.
Everyone was like bullying him.
You didn't even get a sheepherding degree idiot, ding dong.
Yeah, my dummy, my friend was a sheepherder.
That was fun.
Yeah, I didn't know what the he was doing.
Yeah, he was caked up.
I bet all the lasses loved him.
Yeah, he was like cool lasses.
Yeah, they all.
He was like a nerd.
So I I never did well with women right, real lass fiend.
Yeah uh, how about now?
How do you do well with women now?
Now, fucking awfully in Japan.
I was about to say, probably I don't.
I don't leave my room enough.
I used to.
I used to come up with more a real yeah.
Yeah, I used to do uh, tinder a lot when I first got there.
Wait a minute, I think we have.
Oh, is he here?
Is he here?
If we have someone who's we have an awkward, he saw.
You know what happened before.
Before I get who our guest is, i'm just gonna say this, he was not supposed to be here today.
I just wanted to hang out with Connor and he heard that Connor was here and he drove like three and a half hours to be here.
Ludo's and my lone lost brother.
When I, when I we hung out, it was just like I can't believe my brother was born in New Hampshire.
Oh my god hey no no, do this inside, do this inside the camera's game.
Hey oh, feel so good.
It's great to see you again.
I'm right here.
Damn, what an outfit dude.
What dripped out.
It is what it is.
So yeah, like I said uh, Ludwig was not supposed to be here, but he heard that Connor was gonna come on and he's like, can I please be on the podcast dude?
I'm gonna drive over from my house.
I'm honored.
Can you guys actually leave and just see, kind of need some one-on-one time?
Yeah, I can't even like three months.
You know it's a while.
I can't get Ludwig to hang out with me, no matter how hard I try.
That's true.
I I second that you look like Indiana Jones.
That is an insult.
I would like to go back to the compliments you're.
You keep going with the insults.
You know why I don't come here is because every time I come here, you just call me gay for an hour and a half.
Yeah, that's what happens every time, and then I then I leave all sad.
Also, being gay is not an insult, so I don't know why you took it the wrong way.
Uh, maybe we should cancel you next.
How about that?
Okay, all right, wrong time coming.
My experience regarding Ludwig, yeah, I am better hanging out because you guys are.
You guys are night animals.
I am yes, are you guys what?
I'm not a night animal?
Well will, more and more.
There are people who like to hang out by, like going to a club or going out.
That is virtual, that is so untrue that you're i'm suing you for that?
No, I i've heard he was rock climbing.
Motherfucker, that's true.
Yeah, what the are we climbing at night?
I'll climb with you.
Yeah, I don't know how you would lift your no offense fat ass up a wall.
Okay, fat ass, what do you?
You're holding that?
I feel like the exchange student that like walked in and i've like missed like three years of banter and class.
I'm just no no, don't worry, this is just ongoing.
This is ongoing feud.
It's fine.
Um, we're beefing for life.
Yeah, but did you see the news on the internet that no one likes him?
I just I don't wrote it, I don't know why.
Yeah dude, actually he was a part of it too.
We had a conversation.
We had a conversation no no no, listen A conversation on his stream, he's like, I'm live right now.
I'm like trying to get him to come on the podcast.
You know, we're gonna have Connor on.
He said, Yes.
Um, and he goes, Oh, yeah, like, what are you doing tomorrow?
And then he hangs up on me.
Okay, that got clipped to LSF, and it had like 90 comments immediately in like one second.
They were like, Oh, Ludwig hates a song.
I'm like, What is going on right now?
I just wonder how you knew I was in LA.
I feel like I didn't mention it.
I should I announce it every time I'm in LA.
I'm like, Yeah, yes, streamers.
Come on, I'm yeah, 100% okay.
Next time I'm on it, you're a hot commodity.
Oh, thanks, just and hot in general.
Tweet the dog is landed.
Yeah, Connor Dog Virginia, baby.
Yeah, you told him your nickname for him.
Yeah, he loves calling you that.
Yeah, I noticed.
I was like, Who told him?
Connor Dog Virginia?
That's what he's deciding for me.
VA's voice actor.
Yeah, making it.
I like Virginia.
Can you do voice?
Like, so can you do like a voice acting for us right now?
What are you?
I'm gonna give you a scenario.
I'm a casting director.
I'm gonna give you, I'm gonna be casting director.
I'm, I'm, fuck, I am.
First, get naked.
Hi, uh, Connor.
It's it's really nice to have you.
Today, you're gonna be reading for the role of a grizzled war veteran.
All right, and he is about to have his favorite tofu curd at a restaurant.
Tofu curd, yes, tofu curd dish.
So, we need excitement, but he's a grizzled war veteran.
Okay, I'm excited, but I'm can I also do the voice of the authentic Vietnamese chef at the restaurant?
He's really, he is trying to get candy.
He is on the end.
Come on, let's not do that.
Come on, go ahead.
We're way too wide to be doing that.
I guess I'll pass this side.
I was gonna do like none, dude.
I think I've done some grizzled dudes.
Okay, oh fuck.
Okay, okay.
He's doing the VA.
No, no, I did it.
Oh, fuck.
No, he's just saying Welsh things right now.
He's like, embarrassing.
Fuck, I used to do like Gillette commercials.
Okay.
And that was grizzled and shit.
That was like the new Gillette Razor.
Like that.
Oh.
What is this?
What are you doing?
It's like it.
So it allows me to get deeper and control it, but it's bad.
Every voice acting coach tells you not to do this.
Like this?
It's not making me deeper.
Because it's bad long term.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
All right.
Second scene.
That's great.
Hey, second scene.
One more, one more, one more.
That's our first of 10 scenarios.
You go?
Yes.
One more and then we're done.
One more?
Yes.
Okay, okay.
Schoolboy.
Oh, my God.
Okay.
And you're no longer.
You're swearing to get revenge.
By the way, school.
We're trying to see your rage.
That's why he hit you with a grizzled.
Seven years old.
Here's what I do.
Seven years old.
I sound 50.
You're seven years old, but you also look like you're 35.
Yes, you have muscles.
And everyone defends you by saying you're a 3,000-year-old dragon.
Yes.
What's my motivation?
So your whole village has just been wiped out.
You're screaming for revenge.
It's an isekai.
You're a 35-year-old unemployed man in a seven-year-old's body who's in a samurai village whose entire village got wiped out.
What voice?
What possible voice could I give to this character?
I thought this was just kind of watch anime.
Yeah.
What the fuck?
Trash got out here.
Podcast is canceled.
What the fuck is this cake?
He also has JoJo's levels of abs.
Yeah.
But they sneakily keep referencing that you're seven years old, even though you do not look seven years old at all.
Do I sound seven years old?
Yes.
Very much.
How do I, why would I say, how do I sound?
I'm sure we don't have all day.
This is like the highest I can go is like, oh, hi.
My father in the way of my speech.
We like the direction you went in.
The job is yours.
Thank you so much.
So, like, whenever I've done voice acting, right, I very quickly learned because I did some.
No, I'm not doing it.
I've done a lot of like accent stuff.
I did like American accents for something.
Can you do some?
No.
No, I'm not.
Absolutely not.
You were going to ask me, and I hate doing it.
I'll do a little bit of it.
But then I always wonder, why are they hiring me when they can just hire an American?
Yeah.
But yeah, I don't know.
Because the fucking British are taking our jobs, dude.
Take it.
They're taking it, always do like either deep fucking grizzly dudes or pompous British assholes, which is my favorite to do.
I mean, it's so fun.
I have gotten, I did a voice acting.
I actually, I don't know if I'm allowed to leak this because like there's anything.
Okay, well, I don't think I signed it.
It's just an audition, but I don't know.
It was for like a Disney Plus Marvel thing.
And I'm so bad at voice acting as well as just like acting in general.
Yeah.
But, you know, I tried my best.
I almost want to like show you.
You got a clips?
I have a voice.
You want to critique it?
100%.
Show it.
I would love to hear it.
I mean, I don't know if, but like, this is what I'm saying.
I don't know if this is like allowed to be leaked.
Normally the audition sheet will say if it's like NDA.
They'll be like, if you buy opening this, it's.
I think.
Yeah, it gives away.
Never mind.
One time Disney or Marvel has been strict on this.
Just show it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is like a famously non-litigious corporation.
It's mega corporate.
You don't care.
Yeah.
No.
Let's not.
Was it fun?
Did you like it?
No.
Oh, I love voice acting.
It's so fun.
No, I like voice acting, but I just don't think I have like, I just can't act.
It's hard.
I want tips.
Like, you're the Connor Dog voice acting.
I still have a long way to go.
I feel like there's so many better, especially in the...
So what happened?
You just put VA on the, you slapped it on the back of your name and you were like, all right, this is it.
I was garbage and I had it in my name, but I was doing a lot of it, but I was terrible.
I kind of just lied my way through it until I actually got a lot of training and a lot of jobs.
And I was like, okay, now I'm not lying anymore.
But for the first like five years, I was like, oh my God, someone's going to tell me I'm not a real VA.
You're describing like how I think we all became as people say you are something and then hope that everyone around you starts believing it, right?
Yeah, I was so bad.
I was so bad.
Like my girlfriend at the time, you remember this?
When I first started on camera, I was so fucking nervous.
I could not, I was so incredibly bad.
Nothing has changed.
Okay.
Oh, wait, who's here?
Nothing has changed.
I'm still dog shit.
But I was so bad that my girlfriend literally was like, look, I'm trying to make it in Hollywood.
She was a model at the time.
She wanted to become an actress.
And one of us has to, you know, pay the bills.
Like, you can't be doing this on camera shit.
Like, literally, she told me straight up.
And my roommate at the time was like, nah, dog, you got to keep going.
You got to keep going no matter what.
That mirror?
What?
Is that a mirror?
No, Marley.
You know, like when people ask you if you have experience, I would just always be like, yeah, of course.
Yeah, that's the key.
Someone asked me, they're going into an interview yesterday in chat.
And I was like, just lie.
You have to lie.
Just lie.
That's what I say all the time.
People think it's mean.
Yeah, yeah.
People say that's so wrong.
It's like, you're not going to get these jobs if you don't.
Like, especially like with a lot of the really competitive acting stuff, you have to be like, yeah, no, this is easy.
I can do that.
Yeah, of course I can do that accent.
Yeah, of course.
And then you get into the audition.
People are really smart at learning the specific job that you will get.
And the knowledge that you have before isn't as valuable as like the six weeks when you first start and you have to figure out and navigate it.
I did some horrible voiceover work.
I know that he'd love this.
I did like in Age of Empires 2.
Ooh, I love that game.
What?
I entered it.
The remastered?
Yeah, the remastered.
They had a DLC, like an African DLC.
Yeah.
So that's a great start.
You can see where this is going.
So I entered this competition.
Well, now, bear in mind, I was like 16 and I should not have entered this competition.
I was like not allowed to.
It was like, we're looking for an Ethiopian character.
Stop.
I mean, what screams Ethiopian character more than a Welsh?
I was like, yeah, my people have been there, right?
I've got that joke.
Okay, you leave it in.
Can we get a taste of that voice?
No, it was literally Uganda Knuckles.
So I did this Uganda Knuckles voice, right?
This is before Uganda Knuckles, right?
But this was the voice.
I literally went on YouTube.
I went, no, it was Uganda.
Where are you going?
Yeah.
So I Googled it.
What are you running?
Yeah, it was like, I went in.
I was like, what is this?
You were like, he nailed it.
Yeah.
This guy is good.
I could find one video, one video on YouTube of someone doing this accent.
And I don't know if it was like legit or not.
So I just copied it.
I read the lines.
Nothing, nothing happens, right?
Two years later, I get an email from Age of Empires being like, oh, you're in the game, by the way.
No.
They didn't pay me or anything.
They just said, because it was competition and they were like, this is what pissed me off the most.
They gave me a code for just the DLC.
I hadn't even played the game.
Bananas.
So I was just in the game.
Have you found it?
Yeah, one of my friends found it.
I have the clip unlisted on my channel, so I can always just share it to people.
But it's obviously like now I'd be like canceled for doing this.
But like back then, this wasn't even like a conversation yet.
Because, you know, this is back when, you know, like League of Legends, like Lucian was played by Patrick Seitz.
He's a white guy and stuff like that.
Like it was still like happening.
I don't think it was like Till Alpu that people were like, oh, it really kicked off.
Like, I don't think people realized how it was.
Yeah, yeah.
This is really like a new thing.
So yeah, I did that.
Yeah, back when the good old days, you could do whatever.
No, All right, boys.
Come on.
This is purely.
I'm still working on my Vietnamese.
To this day, I'm the go-to Ethiopian.
I'm shit there.
Age of Empires is like, we need an Ethiopian.
Okay, I don't know.
Where's Connor?
I feel like someone told me that they removed it recently.
Nigerian Content Creators00:15:22
Oh.
So I feel like it might be gone.
Could we look it up?
Maybe.
It might be gone.
I don't know.
But you know what character it is.
That's a disservice.
I'm a Nigerian Archer 3 or something.
Oh, you're not even Ethiopian.
Something.
I don't know.
Can only look that up?
No, you can show it.
I've showed it on.
I tell the story a bunch because I think I think it's... Nigerian Archer 3.
That's crazy.
Like, you turn up and it's me being like, what are you doing here?
I mean, that's not bad.
Like, look, kids are playing.
They're like, that's so authentic.
Wow, this guy sounds a lot like Nigerian Archer 3.
I like how they source it from the country.
So nice of them to do that.
But it was like a shitty USB mic as well.
It was so bad.
I should not have.
It should never have happened.
I mean, I can just send someone the link if you want it.
I can dig it up.
Twitter DM it to me and then you can pull it up for my Twitter.
I can dig this up.
Keep talking, though.
It'll take me a minute to find it.
Ludwig, what do you have to say for yourself that you're an hour late to the podcast?
You know, I look like this, and that's why I'm allowed to be an hour late.
It takes time.
It takes time to show up.
You did.
That's pretty cool.
Where did you get those pants from?
Aiden gave them to me.
Aiden.
That's impressive.
You're Aiden.
I got to go back really far.
There's a lot of very stylish people who dress you.
Yes.
In the sense that they buy me clothes.
Oh, okay.
They don't go uppies.
Uppies now.
No, they do that as well.
Judy helps me a little bit.
No, the pants are cool.
As always, you've done the thing where you like you have two things that just do not go with one another.
No, this goes.
This goes.
The fanny pack is not something that I think goes.
This is for practicality.
I wear the fanny pack everywhere I go.
I totally get the fanny thing.
I do it as well.
I like the fanny pack.
It's just, it has everything.
I don't have this.
I don't know how to pay bills.
I understand the tactical necessity for the fanny pack.
I just think that this would have worked better with like a t-shirt, like just casual, because it's already drawing a lot of attention to your fat ass and your legs.
That's on.
Can I say something?
And I want to be super brutally honest.
Yeah.
I don't think you have a good fashion sense.
Now, this is the pod.
Gloves are off.
That you wear shorts way too much.
I think shorts always look tacky.
I mean, I'm in my house.
Oh, no, no.
No, you wear shorts.
I'm being attacked in my own house.
You wear shorts.
Defend me.
You're my best friend for 12 years.
I have old photos of you where you.
Content over everything, dude.
I also think the way you accessorize is usually less thought out than it could be.
I've made you with the accessories.
This is my girlfriend.
Dare you.
You literally half of your accessories you stole from me.
Jesus Christ.
I'm not saying you've got to be afraid.
Battle of your people, by the way.
I'm just saying the way that you stack them.
Stacking a Mena Man's jewelry.
That's who my people are.
And then in coming French.
Oh, yeah, no, that was.
You have ransacked me.
No.
As is customary.
Oh, no.
He's doing it.
He's doing it.
Oh, Israel.
We did that.
Well, that's it.
You wear shorts too much, and I think you stack your accessories in a way that doesn't add a cohesives.
Everything I'm wearing right now works off of one another.
It's like a green, a green aesthetic.
Listen, I respect Hassan's style because Hassan's style in his dress is much like his style of broadcasting.
He's a provocateur.
And sometimes I think he wears things to just piss people off.
So he's not trying to.
Well, he does that shit too.
And then people are like, oh, that's so cute.
Like, because they're like, actually, true.
No, because they, when you dress like that, they're like, oh, that's a child.
Like, people treat your outfits like...
Like, you know, baby's first time, baby's first time putting clothes together.
First of all, motherfucker.
I'll have you know, I just came back from YouTube Creator Summit.
100 of the extra shoes.
Do you have a photo of the shoes?
Marsh, can you look up on Amazon fish flops?
Brother, I'm going to let you know these are fucking pull them up.
Oh, no.
Trigger warning.
To a YouTube Creator Summit.
The YouTube Creator Summit's 100 of the biggest YouTubers.
I'm talking like I've never seen the lobster.
The lobster ones I've never seen until now.
That's kind of a little bit more.
Okay, that looks fire.
No, the lobster flops are dope, I think.
I wore the fish flops and every, and I'm not kidding, 50 people came up to me and started conversations because of them.
And I'm talking YouTube execs, high-level execs.
Like Susan Wojinki's like, those are fire.
Actually, this is how we create a news.
Yes, yeah.
She was like, those are fire.
You're clearly creative and brilliant.
We're giving you the entire shorts budget.
That was pretty much it, bar for bar.
I got the keys.
Okay, well, give us a contract now.
Well, hey, your 50-50 is looking at the best.
Oh, thank you.
Hey.
You like this guy?
I did.
I did.
Listen, that man came in to just fuck us up today.
Just a little bit of fucking around.
I sent the clip by the way.
Oh, yeah.
I talked about.
Hold on, we'll see the Nigerian Archer 3.
Oh, my God.
It's in your DMs, yeah.
This is, it's really short.
I wish I could read you it.
You know, it's modern day.
I'm ready.
I'm ready.
Turn it up.
So embarrassing.
Do not worry.
You are not alone on your journey.
What?
No, no, no, put it up more.
Put it up more.
I need to hear it.
Oh, it's so bad.
Volume boost.
There's a 17, right?
Give me a break.
All right.
There is a.
Yeah, there it is.
The volume boost.
You keep adding to the number, by the way.
You were 16 at the start.
Yeah.
He was like, he's like, this was last week.
It was my little brother.
Do not worry.
You are not alone on your journey.
Our village is on the other side of the river.
When we reach, it is yours.
Yeah, that's me.
Yo, this is way worse than I thought it was going to be.
So bad.
This is not Nigerian or Ethiopia.
It doesn't even sound like that at all.
Much better now, but not that I begin to do that.
Hosh.0 web redemption.
Yeah, I gotta redeem it.
We have not catched it.
Age of Empires 2, come out.
The line is: don't worry, you're not alone.
Okay.
Again, like, there was no, like, I just did this in my room.
Two years later, I found out they just put it in the game.
That is crazy.
I didn't get that.
I didn't get to redo it or anything.
That's exploitative, I think.
No, definitely.
That's why all those competitions are like that, though.
They don't, they don't, you don't really see those competitions anymore.
Like, they used to do that a lot, right?
They'd be like, hey, do your odd.
It'll be in the game.
And then everyone's like, hey, can you just pay people to do work?
It's just taking away work from voice actors who are meant to get paid for their work.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And giving to 17-year-olds who like doing Hyderian accents.
Well, yeah, I mean, I don't know what the whole thought behind that was.
Maybe I was the only person who submitted it.
I don't know.
Speaking of Nigeria, I saw a website.
I found a website that shows you the top YouTube streams by viewership.
And I know Twitch streamers who's going to be the top very easily.
Like everybody knows that.
But it's hard to find on YouTube.
Me.
It's obviously not you because you don't stream on YouTube.
Dumb answer.
Minus five points.
On Twitch.
Oh, also minus five points.
Cringe.
And the person who was at the top of all of YouTube last night with 88,000 viewers was a Nigerian pastor named Jerry.
Oh, that's sick.
Who for an hour and 20 minutes was doing like the classic, like full energy, like the God of Spirit is in you.
And then there's like two like yes men behind him going like, amen.
And they did that for an hour, 20 minutes straight with 80,000 viewers.
Can we get Jerry on the pod?
You need Jerry on the podcast.
Yeah, what a fucking L this is.
I think I want to start a cult.
I think you should start a cult.
And I'm hoping you guys can be my hype.
Boys, the plan is simple.
We're starting a cult.
We're worshiping God today.
Yeah.
And he made a million dollars in the past like six months from super chats.
That's wild.
Which is a crazy amount because it's USD.
Well, you got to get it all the way to God.
So he's really close right now.
Like, he's almost there.
Tell Evangelist, man.
God damn.
I feel the Holy Spirit.
I bet he has no drama.
If you're listening to this pod right now, what you need to do is you need to pick up your credit card.
You need to dial into the fear endown and you need to empod.
We need a private chat.
Because your neck of the woods are coming to you in Tulsa, Alabama.
We're coming to you in Daytona, Florida.
Bring it in the power of God with us.
Now I'm going to lay hands on this boy and I'm going to emancipate the demons.
Are you ready, son?
Yes.
I'm lay hands on you.
Patreon.com/slash fear end.
That was amazing.
The name sucks, by the way.
Can I say that on the pod now?
Oh my God.
You've said it so far.
You've said it so many fucking times.
What do you think about the name?
Oh, it's you know.
Oh, God.
You both suck.
Well, okay.
It's better than the odd.
Let's go.
Let's fucking go.
Yeah.
Get fucked.
Get fucked.
Smoke of that lead pack.
Oh, get fucked.
I don't like it because of the difference in syntax from and written out and the sign.
I really like the odd format.
Oh, dude, come on, bro.
Yeah.
The name's pretty good.
The name is so it's not trash.
There's another podcast.
It's called The Backyard.
I think with like Joe Santiago.
What are you talking about?
Joe Santiago.
There's another podcast.
There's actually like a very popular podcast called The Backyard, I think.
Never heard of him.
Dude, there's so many podcasts popping up now.
Yes.
Loads more.
I felt like there was more when I was two years ago.
Now it feels like there's even more now.
It's because there's a lot of money in it.
And everybody's manager and agent is like, make a fucking podcast.
Yeah.
Yo, podcasts are like the new era book deal.
Because like when you were, you know, when you were like in Hollywood or whatever in any capacity, they were always like, all right, you got to do a book deal.
You got to do a book deal.
We don't do it for the money, though.
We do it for the love of the game.
He found out that everybody hates him, and this is his way to keep me close.
You have to.
Oh, God.
That's smart.
I like that.
I do not like this narrative.
Why did you guys start a podcast then?
Because everybody hates him.
That's the reason.
Because people hate me.
Why did you start a podcast?
I wanted to make my friends rich.
Okay, that's dope.
That's why I started it as well, kind of, but also at the same time, he already was paying attention.
The trajectory of the yard, the only thing I noticed is that your friends dress way better.
Yo, Falco shows up dripped.
Nick and Aiden, the moment they hit the first Patreon check, were like, where's the closest Balenciaga?
Show up with shoes that like were that the bottoms of them look like gym mats.
You know what I mean?
It's just a fucking mess.
Yeah, my mother.
And then it'll be like, I have no money.
I'm like, bro, you bought a new car and you have like a fresh new fit every fucking week.
What do you mean?
Yeah.
And then Slime spends none of it except for his Evangelian computer.
I spent all of it on food.
That was fire, though.
That was a worthwhile.
Oh, you didn't see that?
That's a worthwhile purchase.
I said Evangelion.
I should have said Evangelion.
You don't spend it on food, by the way.
I spend a lot of it on food.
What am I?
I don't spend that much.
Don't you have like the fancy house in Japan compared to other people?
No, no, I don't.
I mean, it's expensive, like for what it is.
They call you the rich one.
Why?
Who calls me the rich one?
Joey and Garnet.
Oh, my daddy.
Where did he buy this?
So it's like part of a whole set of Evangelion computer parts through.
Oh, yeah.
They had a collaboration, right?
I think Gamer.
RGA, was it?
R-O-G, right?
Yeah, one of the rise of gamers.
I don't remember.
How much did he spend on that?
It's probably 5K, to be honest.
That's fucking, that's worth, though.
That's not that bad.
I mean, that's crazy.
Mine was 5K and it doesn't look good.
Yeah.
And it crashes.
Yeah.
Like, what was that?
I still have that RTC.
Mine was made by Linus.
What?
Yeah.
Linus made mine.
It crashes all the time.
Yeah, it crashes sometimes, but I think it's because we have like, like, I have an unimaginable amount of tech wired into this fucking machine.
I think I've put too much shit.
Yeah.
Like, there's like six super high-quality cameras that are on at all times.
I have an Artesian one.
Oh.
Oh, yeah.
That's got to be worth a lot.
Not now, right?
Yeah, no, the value hikes are gone.
Yeah.
And there's a story behind it, right?
You never get an Artesian build.
No.
It's like Starfort in six months.
Yeah.
Oh, shit.
Stop!
Damn!
Oh, my God.
Oh, my lord.
I talked to Linus, actually, at the YouTuber Summit.
Yeah.
I met Linus Texas.
He's one of the YouTubers I wish I could talk to.
We just be friends with.
He's such a sweet man.
Yeah, he's great.
He's a wonderful person.
The screwdriver looks sick.
He also makes a shit ton of money off of screwdrivers.
He makes a lot of money.
I put a lot of work into it.
Going around, though, to everybody at the YouTuber Summit, because there's a bunch of big guys, and my icebreaker was asking them what their vice is.
Yeah.
You know, because I feel like that cuts back, cuts past all the BS, not advice, vice.
Cuts past all the BS.
And a lot of them, including Linus, would answer.
They'd think about it deeply.
They'd go, ambition.
And I was like, what?
W you're doing mushrooms on the side.
That's what I wanted.
Ambition?
None of those are going to be like crack.
Like, that's not going to happen.
You'd be surprised.
Yeah.
That'd be such a bold answer if someone's like, yo, mainline.
Dude, I'm black tar heroin.
Yeah.
So have you heard of crack cocaine?
Small crack with me.
That's cool.
YouTube summit.
You guys were, was it fun?
Was it fucking, were you guys flexing?
Were you just like, ha ha, remember when we were on Twitch and it sucked?
Dude, you know what, actually?
I discovered, and it was mind-blowing because I talked to all these huge YouTubers, much bigger than me.
And the same takeaway that I had when I met with all the streamers that are much bigger than you.
What's up?
Damn!
Say it with your chest.
I said, that's not that hard to find.
YouTube is much bigger than you.
There you go.
There you go.
Anyway, I talked to them that weren't hard to find.
And then after I met with all the streamers and we all came to the same conclusion.
Streamers make way, way more money than huge YouTubers.
For sure.
And it's not.
Not really?
It's not close.
Absolutely.
It's not close.
No, but like, that's true, but not at the tippy top.
Like, if you are one of the top, top content creators on Twitch, you're still making less money than the top content creators on YouTube.
Yeah.
But the top content creators on YouTube also have like.
If you're one of the top distributors of Port-a-Potties, you make I will say that for YouTube, it was way...
I mean, so I was, I only started streaming what, like two years ago.
Right.
So I was, I was only YouTube before that.
And YouTube is way more manageable.
Like your life, you can have a life.
Oh, we know life our shit.
And like the moment I started streaming a lot, it was like, all right, now I'm, I'm suddenly hanging out with people as much.
And it's a lot more work and I'm stressed out a lot.
But like, I guess you get the immediate feedback, right?
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Yeah.
Yeah.
I think, I think it gives up a lot of time.
But like, no offense, even Leslie's dumbass was making more than like a lot of like the 10 million subscribe to people, like a Matt Stoney.
When I realized, I realized what you're saying when, you know, I was like talking to some of my musician friends and like your expectation is like they have like a platinum hit.
Like you're expecting, and they have a nice car.
So you're like, oh, dude, you're making like 10 million a year.
Right.
And he's like, no, they're like, they straight up are like, if you Google any artist, any musician that's like popping right now, they're probably making less than like some of the top content creators that live streams.
Which is a wild thing to consider, but also we are in the garbage pail.
Like we, we literally are, we swim in a sea of garbage.
As this past week of events have shown, it's like, you know, it's ruthless.
It's gruesome.
And then Twitch's like, y'all are making too much money.
We're going to cut your fucking salaries, which is.
I have a theory about that.
All right, let's hear it.
I have a theory why they cut to the 50-50 and it has nothing to do with them making that money.
I mean, that's an added bonus.
But the reason that they cut the split is because they are trying to further incentivize everyone to run ads.
Oh, yeah.
No, that is the right.
That is it.
No, that is the call.
That is what it is.
There's no way that's the reason.
That's the reason.
I think the reason is they just need to turn profit.
No, I'm telling you right now, they are putting a here's the thing.
The profit faucet of 100K plus a year from switching over from a 70-30 to a 50-50 split is marginal in comparison to how much more money you're going to make when you're forcing everyone to do 50-50 ad rev splits when they're all running ads to make more money to make up for the lost revenue.
It has this one thing, right?
Our viewer base sucks.
Our DAU sucks.
Like there's so many things that they don't have.
What's DAU mean?
Daily active users.
Oh, okay.
So in comparison to YouTube, obviously, we are a Lilliputian compared to YouTube's Lilliputian.
You are an English major.
They're the small people from Gulliver's Travels.
They're like little thimble people.
Yeah, we knew that.
We did that.
So like all those numbers are very small.
What Twitch has in spades, though, is watch time.
Watch time and also zealot fans.
Right.
So Twitch was like, oh my gosh, we have zealot fans with an incredible watch time.
There's an amazing opportunity for advertising here.
Right.
But when they first brought advertising to be a mainstay, no one ran ads to the point that we have major creators talking about resigning from the platform if they're even forced to run as much as a minute of ads.
Monetization was too good on a membership platform and membership in and of itself is not profitable enough for Twitch to be sustainable, especially if Amazon is viewing Twitch as another money-making machine.
Because I truly do believe that AWS hosting is probably cheaper for Twitch, obviously, because it's internal.
But I genuinely, legitimately believe that Amazon still looks at that number as like, what would we be making if we were selling it to them as a commercial partner?
And even at a discounted rate, it's still incredibly expensive.
So Twitch came with the carrot and the stick, right?
The carrot was, look at these ad incentives.
They're amazing.
And the stick was, and we're taking away your fucking subs.
The only reason I don't buy that is because I think the amount of people that it affects because the 70-30 split still goes up to 100K is about like 70 streamers total.
So unless they only care about incentivizing 70 streamers.
No, they are.
They do.
It's like about 70 streamers, I think, who are making more than 100K.
It's 100K a month, right?
No, 100K a year, bro.
Okay, it's more than 70 streamers then.
No, it's 100K a year.
It's a lot of streamers.
And those streamers that you talk about, the over 100K streamers, are like, what, 90% of the viewership on the platform?
Yes.
But I still think you are meant to create a culture that will affect the streamers who will be at the top five years from now.
And this, if that is their plan, only affects the streamers who are at the top right now, who will be irrelevant in five years.
I just don't want to run ads.
Yeah, that's fair.
Because, you know, if there was an ad break, it would make sense.
But like, it's so jarring.
It cuts the content.
It cuts the content.
I want some, when I was like brand new to Twitch and, you know, started doing really well and, you know, Twitch reps would like talk to me.
You know, I remember we had this conversation where they were like, yeah, you should run this automated ad thing.
It's like, it's great.
People love it because the pre-rolls go.
And I was like, oh, okay.
Yeah, sure.
Having no pre-rolls sounds good.
I put it on for like one stream.
Holy shit.
This ad went berserk.
Everyone tells you, three at one of three.
I'm going to kill myself.
Why is there an ad every 10 minutes?
It's just fucked up.
And I was like, I. Two minutes.
I'm going to commit genocide.
Yeah.
I was like, okay, all right.
Shit.
I didn't realize it was this.
I just, the way it was jarred to me was that it would help viewership.
That's why I ran the, I still to this day run my ads manually.
That's why I got like the shitty contract that he laughed at openly when he first read it.
I mean, that was shitty because you had bad negotiations.
No, that was that was also shitty because I wanted the lowest ad density on the platform there also.
Gee, who is?
No, I wanted the lowest ad density and they were not willing to give it to me unless it was like incredibly shitty ad rev split.
Here's what Twitch needs to figure out, right?
I have a dream where I'm doing my contract.
I love that.
I love the dream.
I'm doing my content, right?
Oh, and what's this?
An overlay of Terry Cruz walks out into the bottom left corner of my screen while I'm still streaming.
He doesn't cut the content and he flexes his tits and then he holds up a deodorant and he goes, oh, spice.
And it just keeps rolling.
Ads that do not cut the content, but exist within the frame.
Yeah.
Wow.
The problem then arises.
Like, let's say you're streaming and you're really against certain things, right?
And it's like your face is there.
Yeah.
And then a crypto ad pops up.
Yeah.
And your face is.
You should be able to select your ads.
A lot of my ads.
You can't.
A lot of my ads revolve around the Marine Corps.
Right.
Stuff like that.
I'm like, the American military is genocidal.
And then it's like, join the Marines.
It's really different when it comes to that.
If you ever wanted to fight a dragon and jump out of a plane, you can message a partner program and remove certain advertisers.
However, I think the main thing they need to change that would, yeah.
I didn't know this.
The thing that would incentivize ads the most is having a better split.
Right now I think you guys are receiving a flat cpm uh, as opposed to Youtube, who has 55 of every ad go to the creator and then 45 go to Youtube, except for shorts, which is the flip side of that.
And then for Twitch, they they're very quiet about it, they're very secret about it and everyone's is kind of different.
But it's like never a flat percentage across the board which would just like you'd make so much money.
Mine breaks down to the overall.
Mine breaks down to like 25 me, 75 twitch.
That's how bad it is.
That's bad.
This, that is unacceptably bad.
That is exploitative.
As my entire time doing twitch, I never looked at it as like how do I make the twitch thing make a lot of money?
Because the Youtube is where all the money was.
Like if I made, like if I had like eight videos a month going up, that's like.
That's why you're a broke boy, Connor.
Six sponsors you can put on will make way more money than i'll ever make from like subscribe.
And that brings us to your unreleased nudes after we both move to the paywall.
That's right.
That's right.
Patreon.com, slash Fearanis in detail all right, hell yeah, but before we all get naked and suck each other off.
What do you guys want to say to everybody?
Uh, when is this coming out?
Like how asap monday?
I'm on tour right now.
If you want to come watch trash taste tour.com, come check us out.
We might be in your city, Virginia.
He's going to Virginia.
I don't know if you're going to Virginia.
That's bullshit.
It's literally in your name, i'm sorry.
Yeah, I stream on twitch too.
Go check out, Connor.
I want to shout out Juice.
It's a show that has on and Will are going to be on the next week featuring Xqc.
It's going to be a great time.
Miss, i'm not on.
Both these fellas are gonna be on that show.
Yeah see, he's loving.
I would do it.
Yeah, you would need to.
You would need to give us a double suck.
Yeah, now it feels like there's a power dynamic I play here.
Yeah, you need to.
You need to like literally throw it For me to get on.