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Ep. 123 Skibidi Toilet · Privycast

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>> Speaker A: It. This is what the Internet has become,
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kids. There was once a time where I sat
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in my bedroom and I waited for
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40 minutes for an episode of Pokemon to
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load, and that was the Internet.
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Uh, welcome back to privy.
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Privy is a podcast about
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bathrooms recorded
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from my home bathroom. I'm your host,
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hunter Hoover, and I love bathrooms.
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Welcome back. Thank you for being here. Um, thank
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you for joining me again on this bathroom
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journey. We survived it, uh, at the
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point of this episode's released, we have
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truly survived the nonsense
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that is February holidays. There's
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president's day, there's Valentine's day,
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the feast day of St. Valentine.
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And there's sped bowl.
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Stupendous big
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game. Stupid. Anyway,
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and of course, we kicked off our
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February with Groundhog day. Uh,
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and the frequent listener of the show.
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If you caught our previous episode, I was
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joined, uh, here in bathroom with m
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my wife, and she
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made fun of me a little bit. Uh, but also,
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I turned the choice over
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to her at the end of last
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episode to select
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what we would be discussing this
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week. Uh, and I realized doing
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that, that I was opening myself up, possibly to some
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danger. Um, but,
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yeah, it was pretty awful. Before.
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I want to give a brief applebee's, um, update.
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So I thought my internal
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combustion engine, my
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tummy had fully adjusted
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to the onslaught of what
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Applebee's brings about. Uh,
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and what I'm here to say is, I've also
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learned that anytime I deviate from
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my applebee's norms, my stomach
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will respond with this
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just anger via liquid.
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And I normally get,
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uh, uh, the wings. Tommy,
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want I. On my most
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recent outing to Applebee's, I
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ventured into the world of a little
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chicken and pasta situation. And it was pretty
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good. It had flavor. That's how I'll word
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that. But, man, light clockwork. I
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finished my meal. 930. And I kid you not,
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1230. Middle of the night. Um, it's
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time. It's go time, baby. Uh,
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it's flapjack deluxe. And
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it was a 20 minutes, three flush ordeal. And
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it's not what you want in the middle of the night, but
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sometimes it is the clean
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out that you need in the middle of the night.
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But that's enough out of me. As I said in the
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last episode, my wife, Anna picked our
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topic this week. And if you
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are a parent
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of a student or a
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person between the ages of
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six and twelve, um,
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especially if that young person,
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uh, attends
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public high school or public school,
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not high school. They're not in high school at that age. Um, thank
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goodness, uh, because then I have to deal with them.
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Um, but if they attend public school,
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you have probably heard one of your
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kids or
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one of their friends, very
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likely,
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or some random kid at their school, when you go
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to pick them up or on the playground, say
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something to the effect of, and I
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want to apologize now, um, but
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it sounds like this.
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They run around and they're shouting
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some nonsense about saying skibbity bop
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bop. Yes, yes.
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Or they will be on the playground and they'll be playing
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and they'll be start shouting about skibity
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toilet. Now, here on
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privy, we're all about all things
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toilet. We love toilets. I'm seated upon one right
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now, the old blue, uh,
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she's a noble steed.
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Uh, and Anna told me
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at the last episode that she
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wants me to do an episode on this nonsense
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skibbity toilet because, and I
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quote, I want to know if this is something that
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we should have our son run around saying. Now,
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it's not a swear. Here we go. We're going to get into this.
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What's wild is,
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as with a lot of things here on privy, it
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begins with a deep dive into the backwoods of
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the Internet. Yeehaw. Uh uh.
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And it ends knowing
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way more than you ever wanted. But in this case,
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also just. I'm
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usually satisfied with where I end up,
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but in this case, I am not. Now, I also
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want to acknowledge something at the top of this episode here.
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If you are one of these age six through
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15, Gen Alpha or
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elder or younger Gen z
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kids who maybe have stumbled
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on this podcast, hi, kids. This is
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a podcast. Not everything is a freaking YouTube
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video. So why don't you right
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now close your eyes and use your God given
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imagination for a minute and quit
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doom scrolling your YouTube for 45
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seconds.
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You've watched the same video of
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the guy playing Minecraft 40 times. You
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have seen the exact same
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unboxing Disney Princess doll
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video 40,000 times.
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And if I have to watch one more joker make
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slime and get it in his carpet, we're going to
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cancel YouTube. So forgive
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me, uh, we're not hip and trendy
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out here. That's not what this is. If you're looking
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for me to dab and do the
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floss and yeet on my haters and
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all that nonsense, I'm sorry,
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kiddos, but that's not this podcast. But if you
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want to find out something about toilets, you've come
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to the right place. Now, I will say
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if you like video games, you're going to be interested
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in what Skibbity toilet has to show us.
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I'm going to tell you kids about skibbity toilet. So gather
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round, children. Gather round. Gather in.
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Let me pull the curtain back on one of your little
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prized, little icons of your
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generation. Uh, we're going to talk about skibbity toilet,
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but first I need to take you back. And
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dear God, are we going to go back. And I want to
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tell you a story about
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teenage hunter. That's me. Hi,
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I'm here.
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The scene is the mid to late
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two thousand s, and there is a huge
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trend on the rise. And I'm going
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to sound like the most ancient of fogeys here for just
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a second. But here we are again.
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We're not looking for online
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cred or whatever the heck they call it, these street
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cred. For years,
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I would went after getting home from school
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or after church, or in the wee hours
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of my day, I would spend my day figuring
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out how to get to my friend's house or invite
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a friend over to my house so we could play super smash brothers
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in mine or my friend's rooms, go to their
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house, they get to come over here. And when we got a new
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game, we would communicate the new game to one another. So that
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way we could go play the new game at their house. And
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we tried to not buy a game that somebody else
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already had because we could go there and play it. Uh,
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you had to be strategic about your game
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buying. I remember waiting
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for school to get out so I could ride my bike to a
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friend's house and play Tony Hawk Pro skater
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demo on the PlayStation. Just the demo.
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We got this demo disc in a pizza hut,
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like, read it program. I wish
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they did read it and read it. Read it. Book
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it. Book it. It's. Book it. I wish they still did that. Now
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it's all online. It's like,
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stupid. Um, book.
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It's rad. Uh, but I remember my
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budy got Tony Hawk pro skater, I think two
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demo, and we would go to
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his house and we played the heck out of that demo. Like, we
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played the two tracks that you got and
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we played them until they were just beat
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dead. And I feel like I
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really, truly am the
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generation in which video games blossomed
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and they became more than just a household
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novelty. They really became a pastime
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for some people, a way of life. Um,
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yes, there was Pacman and the Marios of
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old. Um, but I could see
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as this n 64 system. I remember when I
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got my n 64 system, I was like seven or
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eight years old, and it had to go in the
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basement, in the tv on the basement. Um, because,
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I don't know, we just weren't going to plug it in upstairs. Uh,
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and I remember playing Super Mario 64
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and Donkey Kong and Super Smash brothers and Mario
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Kart and Pokemon Stadium and Pokemon puzzle
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league and all of these games,
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and I would just sit around the system and play
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these things and as things. Oh,
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and seven goldeneye. Uh,
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good night. It was so good. But
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as more and more things came out, one of the things that became evident
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on the n 64 was the
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trend towards multiplayer.
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Things continued to get better, and
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I knew I would be playing these things quite a bit.
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Now, this episode is
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for curious parents, but also
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kids and semi fans of skibity
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kids. Again, if you clicked it because of skibbity toilet,
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I promise we're going to get there. Maybe you should just chill out for a
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second. Put down the cat. Dang prime
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energy drink. Quit drinking energy. Hey, kids, I'm going to tell you something. Quit
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drinking the energy drinks. It's turned me into a bunch of
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weirdos. Like, if you do not stop
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drinking energy drink, you will turn into a teenage
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weirdo. That's facts. That's scientific
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facts.
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But I'm going to give you all some of the history of the stuff
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you all watch. Learn from us old
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timers here for a minute. Because I remember the
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days when my cousins would hook their xbox
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up, and I remember when
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my cousins, they got like multiple
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xboxes, and I was like, why in the heck
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would you want more than one? And I remember going
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over to their house for a sleepover, and they had like,
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lan connected these
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xboxes together in the house to where they
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could play the same game on separate
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systems with each other in different rooms of the house.
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Now, what I'm describing
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to you, uh, if you are a person who plays
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video games in this year, 2024 of our lord,
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you are thinking, did this man
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just climb out from under a rock?
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But I assure you, when this land connection
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happened and you could play, I think they
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played halo. When you could play this with each
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other in the same house, but not in the same
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room, it was revolutionary.
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I didn't have siblings, and my
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parents were not gamers. And so this
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phenomenon was lost to me in our. Huh.
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Household as I continued to play games
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either by myself or if a friend came over
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seated next to their sweaty body,
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uh, on my couch again, I had
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heard people could play video games with each other and not be
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seated next to each other. And I had seen it happen,
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and it seems almost unfathomable. Today, but 20
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years ago, we were in uncharted territory.
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Truly, I remember the day we
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got Internet in our house. Um,
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and here's a sample of what that sounded
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like.
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Uh, good luck sneaking
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online, kids back in the day to play Fortnite.
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Also, the Internet couldn't handle Fortnite back then, so
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you just had to chill out a little bit. Uh,
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but as the Internet got better, I remember one
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time I out on, I think it was like
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cartoonnetwork.com or something, and I was
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like, oh, it's going to be so cool. I'm going to be able to watch Pokemon
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on the Internet and it's going to be so cool. And then it
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took like 45 minutes to load a 20 minutes episode and
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I went and watched Pokemon on the tv while I waited for Pokemon
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to load on the Internet. And I thought it was the
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coolest thing in the world. Uh,
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but the Internet eventually got better. And one
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of the things that happened as it got better is it became
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wireless wi fi, baby. It was slow, but
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it was cool. Uh, and then it happened.
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The video games began
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to be hooked to the online networks
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in the gaming networks.
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And I remember when I got a PlayStation
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three and I hooked it up to Wifi for the first
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time and I began to
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play video games online. I became part
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of this online world of video games. I remember
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playing Call of Duty and resistance, fall of man and
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Battlefront and all these fun games
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online with my friends,
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me in my room and they at, uh, their houses. It
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was cool, but it didn't get us
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together as much. Something else
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happened in
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parents. I can tell you as a
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boy who played video games as a kid, it's
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normal with appropriate boundaries.
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In time, they'll grow out of it. But video games
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being moved from a thing
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that I played to also being a thing
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that I watched, I found video
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games on YouTube.
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Nowadays,
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the watch it played phenomenon, and video games
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on YouTube is rampant. And
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people have almost started
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their own shows and realities
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online on YouTube via Minecraft and all of
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these other games.
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But these online videos, they started out
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as people playing video games and recording it and
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putting those playthroughs, quote unquote,
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playthroughs on the Internet for you to watch.
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Now, as a kid with a budget,
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this was great because while I couldn't buy
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all the games, I could watch them being played
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and get the story and find out what happened.
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But if you
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were a person who would get stuck in video games,
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these playthroughs were great because you could watch them
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and figure out all the tips and tricks
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to get through the levels faster.
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Can I explain? And
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don't even get me started on Twitch. Twitch is a whole nother
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can of beans. And can I explain to
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you why it is fun to watch people play video games on the
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Internet? Yes. Remember me
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sitting on my buddy's couch or bed playing Mario
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or Donkey Kong? Well, for a long time,
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you took turns. And something
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you were doing when it wasn't your turn was you were
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learning. What's next for me if he messes up?
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And sometimes it's just fun to see
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somebody else play a video game.
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That's why your kid watches YouTube.
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Couple that with these youtubers.
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They talk like this. What's up, YouTube? It's your
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boy. Let's go. It's time for Fortnite battle
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Royale. That's how they talk. They scream about
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everything. It's like overstimulation
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for your kid, and it's just like
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fires on all cylinders. And then they're like.
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And they've got all sorts of flashing lights and stuff.
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It's made for your brains to get addicted to
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it. That's why your kid watches YouTube. People playing
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Minecraft or Fortnite to see what others do.
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And you guessed it, I did this.
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Now, it is not like it was back then.
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And, uh, one of the things I remember
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watching frequently were these top ten clips
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of people playing Call of Duty. And I want to say it was Call of Duty,
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modern warfare. And I mostly watched
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these to see how people played video games, learn things I could
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try see cool, like, montages of other
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stuff that had happened. And I found channels who
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made videos I liked. And one
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of these was a YouTube channel called
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Machinima. And my experience
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with them was these YouTube videos of
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people getting kill streaks and top ten moments and things
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like that on Call of Duty.
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But as I watched these when I went to
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school, it became a thing that we
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talked about at school. Hey, did you see the
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top ten, like, nuke or whatever clips
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that they put out this week?
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Now, I must
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admit, I'm 15 plus
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years removed from the days of watching these videos.
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Um, nowadays, my
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YouTube watching, it's
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pretty tame. Uh, it's pretty
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boring. That's fine. Uh, I'm
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a 30 year old dad. We're not trying to be exciting
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at this point.
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I've got a lot of ads for weird toilet things.
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I don't know why. I cannot fathom it,
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but it became something that was talked about, and
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I kind of forgot about that company,
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machinima. And before we continue
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down our story of
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skibbity toilet. We need to talk about
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Machinima because it's going to play an important
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role today.
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Machinima began as an
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american multiplatform online
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entertainment network, and it was owned at one point
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in its time by WarnerMedia. The
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company was founded in 2000, the year
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2000, they survived y two k, so they figured, why not make
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an Internet company, uh, by
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Hugh Hancock in LA. Now,
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this company, this Machinima
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Entertainment, arose
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because there was this void needing to be
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filled. So there was this game series
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called Quake and
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Quake Three released, and it
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was a shooter game. And up
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until Quake three, people had
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begun to make these online Internet
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videos wherein they used
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Quake and Quake two and videos like it and
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assets from it to make videos.
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However, when Quake Three was announced in
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1999, people were pumped. And then the developer
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announced people would not be able to access the
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source code, and so they would not be able to make those
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videos that they had once made.
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Online gaming was really a, uh, catch
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22. It made it easier to access all
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this stuff, but it also made cheating and
20:28
competition more fragile. Now that
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Quake Three was on lockdown and these
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early video game movies
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really was what they were, were going to
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be much more difficult to make
20:43
and slowed drastically.
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The company, Machinima,
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arose to fill the void left
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by Quake Three,
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an early machinima
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style video. And the first to be
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made in a traditional file format was a
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series called Quad God.
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Now, I want to note,
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machinima the video company
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is different than, but is
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also machinima the
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video style. To
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speak about machinima style
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video,
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imagine that you make a movie,
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but instead of filming actors or
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animating drawings or animating original
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characters, you are using
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video footage found on popular
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video games, or are using
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weird set pieces, hand drawn set
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pieces. Or you are taking
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portions from multiple video games and
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assets and images from all
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sorts of video games, and you are putting them into one
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scene to build this story.
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The things of video games become
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the setting, the characters, the backdrops,
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the props, all of it. And
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when you can get into the assets and copy the code
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of one thing from one video game and move it over
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to this scene, Machinima is
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really like a hodgepodge.
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It's also nifty because as anyone who's
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played video games knows, you can make these
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characters do things that you need them to do.
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You can move them literally. Like, if
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I'm an actor and I need someone to just kind of
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jump in one exact spot, I'm never going to get
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that. But with Machinima like video games, you can just hit
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the jump button. This
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is Machinima Machine
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Cinema. And the tricky thing is
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these blokes will go in and mess with the code
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to make these characters in these games do
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things they normally could not do. And
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sometimes they put things in these games
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that were not in them in the first place. Now, what's
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really weird is when designers circle back
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around and make this part of their design
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through the implementation of mods, thus
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allowing people to do things within the game code
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that is extra to the source code. Think
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of if you've ever played Skyrim for, oh,
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man.
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To those older folks, Skyrim is an adventure
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game. It's a very good adventure game. Young kids, Skyrim is
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a game that is not for you yet. It's rated M M for mature.
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Um, but one of the most famous mods in Skyrim
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is where they turn the dragons into Thomas the trank
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engines. You can find it on YouTube, but it's some of the
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funniest stuff that people have modded
23:44
in time. Machinima
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style later
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was used and they made
23:53
Machinima incorporated, and that would be
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founded and begin to produce its
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own original movies, shows, and
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content using the machinima
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style, but also in other styles.
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Much of these videos lived on their
24:10
website or their YouTube channel. Not
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YouTube, the old wild frontier
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of online videos. The company
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Machinima existed as
24:21
a YouTube channel for years. Warner
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Bros. Fully purchased Machinima
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in 2016.
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Since that purchase, it's really been
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a revolving door of who owns and operates
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Machinima and where their videos live.
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Two years into the WarnerMedia buyout,
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Warner merged Machinima with their otter media
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branch. Within the year, Otter media deleted
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most of the machinima videos on their site, effectively
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closed down the YouTube channel, and laid off the
24:53
employees. Machinima as a company
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had ended
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Machinima as a style, however,
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had not. In short, the style of
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film and video making wherein these 3d
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pieces are manipulated in
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often using video game assets are a
25:15
huge up and coming thing, since
25:17
the big reason
25:20
is they are filmed live,
25:24
as if something needs redone. It
25:26
can easily be redone by manipulating what
25:29
already exists.
25:33
One question which has often plagued this type of
25:36
media is questions of copyright. Who owns
25:39
the creative product? If one video
25:42
game company owns this asset, and another
25:44
video game company owns the backdrops
25:47
asset, and another video game company
25:49
owns the music and
25:51
backdrops, and a fourth
25:54
company builds the thing, who owns it?
26:00
Who owns the created product?
26:03
The person who made the original assets or the person who
26:06
used those assets to create the final piece of Machinima
26:09
art? It seems in most cases the answer is
26:12
the final creator, as we will
26:14
see when we finally arrive at Skibbity toilet. But
26:17
we're not there yet. Machinima is also a
26:20
huge tool as it is fairly
26:23
inexpensive to make. Like if you have
26:26
the video game and the source
26:29
code that all of these assets
26:31
come from, and maybe some
26:34
editing software, you can make these videos. You don't need a bunch
26:37
of fancy cameras. Paid actors,
26:41
perhaps all of these combine
26:45
alongside Machinima's strongest draw.
26:48
It is videos and films about
26:51
video games made using
26:54
video games made by people
26:57
who play video games for the
27:00
enjoyment of people who know and play
27:03
video games. The in jokes
27:06
and humor are usually very specific
27:08
to the media that they are about.
27:12
Machinima also takes leaps in
27:15
quality along with video games. As the graphics
27:18
improve and as the 3d
27:21
art improves and as the things improve
27:24
in video games. So machinima's
27:26
style improves.
27:29
As Machinima continues to emerge,
27:32
video game designers introduce a variety of camera
27:35
controls, allowing them to move the camera
27:38
freely around the world. This includes
27:41
having a camera that can be detached from all characters
27:44
entirely and moved about in free space.
27:49
Truly, these machinima and
27:52
voice acting that accompany gave rise to the
27:55
real play or play along videos of YouTube. Today.
27:58
If you've ever seen a YouTube video where
28:01
they're playing like Minecraft or your kid watches people
28:04
play Fortnite, and in the bottom right, you see the person that's actually
28:07
doing that, and they're like pretending to talk for
28:10
the character. If you don't see them in the
28:13
bottom right, it's because it is pretty much
28:15
machinima. There is, however,
28:20
another part of machinima that is curious,
28:24
and that is that the videos made
28:27
using machinima style are often
28:30
very weird. They're very strange looking, they're
28:33
almost surreal in nature. The
28:36
animation looks like it is part of a video game
28:38
because in many cases it is.
28:41
Machinima can take a lot of planning as to what will be in
28:44
a scene. And while Machinima videos,
28:47
many of them once lived on Machinima
28:50
YouTube, some of the more popular installments
28:53
there at the time included a
28:55
series called a law abiding engineer made using
28:58
Team Fortress Two as a play on the movie Law
29:01
Abiding citizen. The series red
29:04
versus blue, which is still currently being made,
29:07
made using all of the halo games, um, about
29:10
two opposing factions. And it's really the first
29:13
machinima that broke out into the general
29:16
community. A M series called
29:19
Trash Master or a movie. It's an 88
29:22
minutes long movie, uh,
29:24
about the trash man. In Grand Theft Auto Four,
29:27
there's a day in the life of a turret. Not
29:30
a turret, a turret. It's a series made
29:33
using portal and follows the mounted
29:35
turrets that normally kill you and what they do when
29:38
you're not there, as you would guess,
29:42
there are games that seem more prevalent in
29:44
making these videos than others. Minecraft, CS Go
29:47
World of Warcraft, Team Fortress, half life.
29:52
And really what is being used
29:55
is the assets, the individual
29:57
components of these video games taken out of
30:00
it and manipulated in their environments to produce something
30:03
special. The kids like it
30:06
because they get to see things they see in the
30:09
games that they play, used in ways that
30:11
are weird or zany, in many cases makes them make
30:14
believe or pretend that they are going to do that
30:17
when they play.
30:20
And that brings us to this week
30:23
because this is a podcast about toilets.
30:27
And boy howdy. As I said, there is a toilet in the
30:29
zeitgeist of machinima, um, online right now.
30:37
We're going to need to, uh, hydrate for this because
30:40
this is going to be a rough one.
30:46
God bless these rains.
30:49
Now, kids, in
30:52
February 2023. Yes, but
30:55
one year ago, a man at the point
30:58
of this episode is released. I should say. There's
31:01
people that go back and listen to this stuff from the
31:04
future. Hello. Greetings from the past. If
31:07
you're listening to us in the future, greetings from the past.
31:10
But just in February 2023,
31:12
a man named Alexey
31:15
Garasimov probably butchered it. He sounds
31:18
russian. So, uh, well, uploaded
31:21
one of his machinima creations to his YouTube
31:24
channel. The name of the
31:27
video was Skibbity
31:29
toilet. Now,
31:32
before I describe to you
31:34
what you, or very likely your
31:38
child sees when they see skibity
31:40
toilet, I will first describe what
31:43
they are going to hear, and you
31:46
will know where this comes from.
31:49
In February 2000 and 716
31:52
years prior to Garasimov releasing his first
31:55
skibbity toilet video,
31:57
Timbaland. That's probably another butcher on
32:00
me. Uh, I can't help it at this point. Released
32:03
the song give it
32:10
up. So this
32:12
old pop hip hop hit from almost
32:15
20 years ago comes out and totally so.
32:18
So you have give it to me. The song give it to
32:21
me, totally separate from that,
32:24
bulgarian musician Fiki
32:27
under the name Biser King made
32:30
a song called Dom. Dom. Yes,
32:33
yes. In 2020,
32:39
I want to note something about both of these
32:41
songs. Neither of them are kid
32:44
friendly. Give it to me. If you haven't
32:47
figured out what they are giving to them. Well,
32:49
go in peace, my friend. But I can assure
32:52
you, having seen the music video, this one is
32:55
a pass for your children. Kids,
32:58
stay out of the. Give it to me. You don't need
33:01
it and you shouldn't be accepting it.
33:03
And you might be thinking, okay. And I assure
33:06
you. Well, Fiki's little Dom Dom.
33:09
Yes, yes. Is Defoe not.
33:12
I got a clue what he says because it's not in
33:15
English, it's in Bulgarian or whatever they speak
33:18
there. But let me just tell
33:21
you, it's not for kids.
33:23
Um, and you might be thinking,
33:26
okay, so you have this hip hop
33:28
hit from the early two thousand
33:31
s and this kind of like,
33:35
foreign dance
33:37
club weird song from
33:40
Bulgaria in 2022. But how
33:43
do these songs get to together? And why
33:46
would they get through? Well, who would put them together? Well,
33:49
feeki the biser king
33:52
himself put Dom Dom. Yes, yes.
33:55
On TikTok 2022. He
33:58
said, I'm going to get my song out there. And he put his song on
34:00
TikTok. And as people are making videos
34:04
to it, it caught on. And
34:06
one user began to make
34:09
these very kind of choppy shot
34:12
shorts to the song
34:15
that said, eventually, another TikTok
34:17
user named Doombreaker three
34:20
mashed up the two songs. They took the two
34:23
songs and they kind of made a remix
34:26
and set the audio to interjecting clips from
34:29
Zoolander. Either one or two, I think it's one. And
34:32
superimposed those clips and the
34:35
music over top of a fat man
34:37
dancing when Zoolander looks at him.
34:41
This is what the Internet has become,
34:44
kids. There was once a time where I sat
34:47
in my bedroom and I waited for
34:50
40 minutes for an episode of Pokemon to
34:52
load, and that was the Internet. And
34:55
now you've got people mashing
34:58
up songs and superimposing Zoolander and fat
35:00
men dancing, and it's like, people like it. I
35:03
don't get it. I've been up to my neck
35:06
in this trash for a week now, getting
35:09
to the bottom of skibity toilet.
35:14
I will tell you, the original mashup audio is
35:17
gone, but it exists all over and has been made and
35:20
remade and remade and remade countless times because
35:23
that's what TikTok and the Internet is now.
35:26
We just remake crap. But
35:29
this, parents, is
35:31
the song that your kids hear
35:34
when they see gibbity
35:37
toil.
35:46
We hear Skibby
35:50
want to see.
35:54
So then where do the toilets come in?
35:57
Well, as I said, alexei
36:00
Grassimov uploaded the first Skibbity
36:02
toilet video in February 2023,
36:04
and it featured that
36:07
song, skibbity Toilet is
36:10
a series. It is at the point of this
36:12
episode's release, about 70 episodes,
36:15
videos in length.
36:18
And all of these videos feature this song
36:21
in some way. And as a result, the song
36:25
gets stuck in people's head.
36:28
But now I want to describe to you what is
36:31
skibbity toilet? What do your kids see?
36:34
If I were to describe skibbity toilet.
36:37
Skibbity toilet, I would love to quit saying
36:40
it, too, by the way. Skibbity toilet
36:43
is, in essence, a disembodied head
36:46
with a long neck that protrudes out of a toilet
36:49
and sings the skibbity song that we just
36:51
heard.
36:55
Almost all of the videos end
36:58
with one or more skibbity toilet
37:00
heads lunging at you, making a terrible
37:03
face. The face is often
37:06
very truly grotesque. The way it's
37:09
animated is very creepy. And one of the
37:12
machinima pieces used in the series is
37:15
this head and toilet.
37:18
Skibbity toilet episodes are often between
37:21
ten and 30 seconds long, but there are some
37:23
that reach and exceed 1 minute.
37:27
They each feature the song show the
37:29
life of skibbity toilets and their
37:32
struggle against the cameramen. We don't
37:35
know who they are. We don't know where they came from.
37:39
Skibbity toilets move. Their bodies
37:42
are toilets, and they essentially slide around the
37:45
room or they fly around the world in which they're
37:48
in. None of it makes sense. There's not a lick
37:50
of skibbity toilet that makes sense to anybody
37:53
involved.
37:56
The cameramen are kind of the opposite of
37:58
skibbities. They have human bodies, but
38:01
various electronics as their heads, primarily
38:04
appearing as surveillance cameras.
38:07
And I'm here to tell you something. I'm going to make a confession to
38:10
you. Forgive me, father,
38:13
for I have sinned. It has been, well, 30, um,
38:16
years, I guess, since my last confession, because I am not catholic
38:19
and I have never done that in a booth.
38:22
But I watched them all.
38:24
Guys, I went and watched every
38:27
episode of Skibbity toilet so you don't
38:30
have to.
38:33
My review is this. It's
38:36
mindless. It's stupid.
38:39
There's no word. Uh, every kid just got
38:43
old. Man thinks skibbity toilet's stupid. Well, it is.
38:46
Kids, I'm sorry. Let's tell the truth about something for a
38:48
second. Let's just tell the truth. Okay, kids?
38:51
There's no words other than the skibbity bop, bop, bop,
38:54
bop. But what's interesting
38:57
is there is a story here,
39:00
and you might be asking, well, how did the
39:02
skibbity toilets come to be? We don't know that. How
39:05
did the cameramen come to be. We don't know that.
39:08
Why are the skibbity toilets fighting the cameramen? We
39:11
don't know that. Who's the good guys? We
39:14
don't really know any of this.
39:17
There's speculation,
39:20
but I think this is one of those reasons why
39:23
kids like skibbity toilet. It makes
39:26
it stand out. It isn't trying to give you the
39:29
backstory. It is just putting you right in the middle
39:31
of the action of the skibbity struggles right
39:34
now. It's weird. The
39:37
whole thing is flipping weird as heck. But it all
39:40
begs the question, why are kids running around going
39:43
skibbity bop, bop, bop, bop. Yes.
39:46
Gibbity bop, skibbity bop, yes. Bop, skibbity.
39:49
They sound like, um, what is going on?
39:52
What are they doing to these people?
39:56
What planet is this? If an
39:59
alien dropped down right now and went to a city park,
40:01
they would see all these kids, like, dabbing and
40:04
flossing and hitting the gritty, yelling skibbity
40:07
toilet. And they would get back in whatever spaceship
40:10
they got here in and they would get out of here as quick as
40:13
possible. Maybe skibbity
40:15
toilet and the floss and all of
40:18
these other stupid Fortnite dances that have ever existed
40:21
are our greatest defense against alien intruders.
40:24
Truly. Truly. That's where I'm at.
40:28
It's weird. Every single
40:31
episode where there is a skibbity
40:33
toilet on screen, the song is being
40:36
sung, which means if
40:38
you watch skibbity and boy,
40:41
are people watching skibbity toilet,
40:44
because these videos have like 30 to 100
40:47
million views each. It's crazy.
40:51
And at the point of this episode's release, there's like
40:54
70 of them. We're talking hundreds of
40:57
millions of views.
40:59
That's a lot of skibbity.
41:03
And what's troubling is these songs. This
41:06
remix song is kind of Catchy. It's
41:09
weird. And I cannot stress
41:11
parents. Kids,
41:15
I'm sorry I shouted,
41:18
but parents, this is for you.
41:21
It's not for your kids. This isn't for
41:24
kids. And
41:26
naturally that means kids are going to
41:29
want to listen to it. But parents,
41:32
here's the public service announcement. And the question
41:35
is, should they watch and listen to it?
41:43
Skibity toilet is
41:46
considered maybe the first real
41:48
Internet touch point offering for
41:51
generation alpha kids
41:54
born after 2020. Uh,
41:56
twelve. So it's kind of
41:59
an iconic thing to this
42:01
demographic.
42:04
This and skivity toilet is kind of
42:07
mysterious. Every video puts you in the middle of conflict
42:10
that already exists. It's just playing out before you. It's kind of
42:13
like turning on the big game in the middle of the third quarter and picking up in
42:16
the middle of things in media res.
42:19
The deal is there's a battle going on between the
42:22
skibbity toilets and the cameramen. And we don't know why,
42:24
we don't know who the good guys are, but the battle definitely
42:27
unfolds. I think this is part of
42:30
why little kids like it. It's like playing in the
42:32
sandbox, but instead of a toy shovel and action
42:35
figures, it's toilets with human heads and humans with
42:38
camera heads fighting each other with lasers.
42:41
I should also note the way the
42:44
cameramen often defeat the skibbity toilets. I
42:47
don't know if it's skibbity's toilet or skibbity toilets.
42:50
It's hard to tell.
42:54
But the way they defeat them is by flushing the heads down
42:57
the toilet. It's very good.
43:00
And so the question is, is
43:03
skibity toilet good?
43:06
And I'm going to say, it depends on who you ask.
43:10
If you ask a 13 year old, is skibbity
43:13
toilet good? They'll probably tell you yes.
43:16
Like, there is something catchy about the song.
43:19
There is a story that is happening, but it's not
43:22
concerned with giving you the history of the
43:24
skibity toilets.
43:29
But myself, as a grown adult
43:32
old man, it's troubling.
43:36
I can see why kids watch it. I can see why they have
43:39
so many views. They're short. The song is addicting.
43:42
Uh, but I got to tell you, it's creepy.
43:45
The skibbity toilets are weird.
43:48
I think they could give you nightmares, truly.
43:51
Like if your kid watches skibbity toilet and has weird
43:54
dreams or has behavior like take away the skibbity
43:56
toilet. I will also
43:59
admit, I will make another confession,
44:03
even though I hate it,
44:06
I wanted to know what happened in the next one.
44:10
It has been international
44:13
governments are concerned. Russia
44:16
investigated the YouTube series in case there
44:19
was subliminal messaging. Malaysia
44:21
investigated the source. In the US,
44:24
videos have been placed on a number of
44:27
kid banned lists through YouTube
44:30
kids, Amazon school districts,
44:33
and personally, I'm going to tell you for good reason,
44:38
the series is easily rated for
44:41
teenagers, if not mature audiences. The faces
44:44
are creepy, the
44:46
skibbities, and people get stabbed and shot, and
44:49
there seems to be blood splatter
44:53
parents. If you're still here,
44:56
the bathroom talk is about done. And I'm going
44:59
to tell you, skippity toilet was a little bit of
45:02
venture. It wasn't as much bathroom as I wanted. It was a little bit of
45:05
toilet, but not really. They just took
45:08
this source code from, I think, half life or
45:11
something and stuck a head inside of it that made its
45:14
neck stretch all over the place. It's creepy,
45:17
and I don't really like it. Skibbity
45:19
toilet. This is about as
45:22
much as I'm going to interact with you,
45:26
and I'm sure you have your moment, and this
45:29
is your moment. Um, kids, be wary
45:32
of the skibbity toilet. If your parents say no, it's because
45:35
they care about you. You will be old enough for
45:38
skibbity toilet one day. But I'm here
45:41
to tell you, it's flipping creepy. I think it's
45:43
part of that whole creepy pasta
45:46
nonsense. There's a slice of
45:49
the Internet that is popular because it is
45:51
creepy and semi
45:54
evil, but not really evil. And I think scuba
45:57
toilet kind of flirts with that
46:00
demographic.
46:03
So once again,
46:05
kids, just
46:08
chill. Just. Just settle
46:11
down. Focus on something. Watch a
46:14
YouTube video longer than a minute. How's that sound?
46:17
Um, parents, skippity
46:19
toilet's a hard pass. Your kid doesn't need
46:22
it. And I will also say,
46:25
if your kid is on the playground and they're singing the skibbity
46:28
toilet song, they've probably just heard the skibbity
46:30
song from a friend. And truly, the
46:33
skibbity song is going to be played on videos that aren't
46:36
skibbity toilet because the song is popular. And
46:39
as soon as the song gets popular, every other youtuber is going to use the
46:42
song to get more views on their YouTube video.
46:45
That's facts. Unless you
46:48
think that the only reason that I made this
46:51
stupid episode is to do that the
46:53
same, go back and listen to the Valentine's
46:56
episode. My wife very clearly selects this out
46:59
of her own curiosity. This was not my doings.
47:02
Um, but that's going to bring us,
47:05
ah, to the end of another
47:08
episode of Privy. Thank
47:11
you for joining us. As always, leave us a rating
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47:36
brings us to the end of another episode of Privy. Thanks, Kevin and
47:39
Pottington, for the use of your music. Thanks to all the people
47:42
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47:45
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47:48
Not all the music used was ours. This has been another
47:51
episode of Privy. Keep pooping in the free world. Breathe more,
47:54
push less. Own your stank. And now, let's defeat
47:57
a skibbity together. Don't forget to flush.