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when the "this is my milwaukee" video started, as a citizen of milwaukee my arg brain turned off and i was just like "that... that's not what the art museum looks like"
I'm not sure why you think the Milwaukee one is an arg. As a lifelong resident, I can say it's pretty accurate. Nice museums, plenty for teenagers to do, god seeds. Pretty much normal Milwaukee life
it's much worse in other parts of the country i mean right now there's all these bandits running around like old west train robbers, scary.....and some of em have fire bottles.....
Synydyne: We think the 2008 housing crisis needs to be investigated more Everyone: Yes! It should! We 100% ag- Synydyne: So we're gonna mythologize it and make it into a comedy ARG Everyone: hold up
@@arodisaster264 funny thing: i actually watched ryan’s video on dad and then i switched to nick’s thinking it was part two and was confused about why he was going over some things from the first video. i didn’t even notice the voice or name change
"I'd like you to imagine you were someone who followed Pronunciation Book's countdown, only to get this as the big reveal." Hahahahaaaaaaaaa yeah. Yeah it was the biggest disappointment of high school me's life. Now it's seven years later and I'm only now getting around to learning about the other stuff they've abandoned and somehow I feel even more tired than I did back then. Thanks for the overdue catharsis -- I had no idea I needed this.
"If your party is being chased by Godseed fragments, make your way to the nearest class K or higher rated structure." If you hear something as batshit crazy as that in an ARG, you know it's gonna be good.
@@DolusVulpes Yeah, commented this before I finished the video. It's a shame. I loved the idea of a shady religious company that created something they weren't supposed to.
This Is Milwaukee seemed to have been really cool and I'm honestly angry that they just forgot it It had its own universe they were building but they just left it Not even an explanation
It's the same kind of disappointment I felt when instead of making Austin Powers 4 or the Sprockets movie, Mike Meyers decided to make............The Love Guru
"Nobody wanted to watch a spam bot fall in love with a channel" I mean, that alone sounds like a pretty fun idea. Its just connecting that to, well, everything else involved that ultimately flops.
"I'd like you to imagine following this countdown" I don't have to. I was one of the people following it. My whole friend group did. We so had many theories. It goes without saying that we were all wrong.
This whole time I thought horse_ebooks was an Andrew Hussie social experiment(he did quite a few like it). Learning it was part of an arg all these years later is wild.
@@friendbreakfast Stuff like his Facebook account, his 'soul portrait commission', his semi-in character reviews of furry porn, the blog he had documenting the time he traded credit cards with Ryan North, the Muppet Babies Saw parody he did, the Star Trek TH-cam poops he made.... Hussie's a weird guy.
I recall he played off horse_ebooks on a number of occasions before the ARG connection was realized, since it had quite a bit of popularity largely supported by similar outsider comedy circles like Andrew's. I'm sure that contributed to the assumption
don't forget how he hid a box of Toblerones in Toblerone and said whoever found it would have whatever they wanted become canon to homestuck. and someone did and thus hussie decreed: June Egbert is canon now.
It's also pretty tasty. Also, fennel roots and anise are two different species of plants but do belong in the same family of plants - Apiaceae, the family of carrots, celery and parsley.
"I'd like you to imagine being someone that followed pronunciation book only to get THIS as the big reveal" Nick, I AM one of those people. I remember being there and watching the horse_ebooks video the day it was posted. My disappointment was immeasurable, and my day was ruined.
I live in Milwaukee, and that’s pretty accurate. Every day, after the whistle blows at Blackstar, my mother takes me to the canning district, and we do the streetcar shuffle.
actually all clues point to it NOT being a part of the godseed at all as if it was they'd likely be mroe worried about it an it'd be mroe of a threat. its likely something they use to keep the godseeds at bay
Check out the original Bubblegum Crisis anime series. It only lasted for eight episodes, but was highly influential worldwide back in the day. Seems like they took some influences from that series for TIMM.
After hearing Nick say "don't worry, it's just a sight gag" I completely forgot this was an analysis and was thrown for a curveball. Like I was in another world or something. Also, some of the gags reminded me of THAC.
Henry Zebrowski, one of the hosts of The Last Podcast on the Left, was a part of Synydyne, and played Henri in Bear Stearns Bravo. Took me forever to piece that together. His association with, and in fact most traces of Synydyne, are really hard to track down. I want to talk to him someday, hear whatever he's willing and/or able to share.
@@goatskin4487 That's not what socialism means... At all lol . Socialism is when the proletariat has communal ownership of the means of production. Nothing more, nothing less. That was pure capitalism, sorry to tell ya... It really is depressing, just how many Americans think socialism means "when the state does something" - Personally, I happen to be an anarcho-communist, in the tradition of Emma Goldman or Peter Kropotkin - meaning I advocate for the immediate dismantling of the state apparatus _entirely_ - But then, like most Americans, I sincerely doubt you're familiar with any forms of communist thought outside of Marxism (and even that's unlikely, if I'm being honest - hell, a lot of Americans even think freaking _liberals_ like Obama are socialist, not realizing that we socialists hate liberals as much as they do - only you know, for the _right_ reasons - because they're weak centrists and useful idiots for the capitalist system. They also support gun control, which is anti-worker). . Capitalism by definition, is private ownership of the means of production - this being done with some kind of social safety net is still capitalism - If anything, it's even worse - Because it keeps the working class _just_ healthy enough to prevent proletarian revolution.
@@goatskin4487 It was unregulated capitalist greed that caused the banking crisis. Plain old white-collar crime. A clear result of predatory lending. Regardless on where one stands on socialism, capitalism, etc. the banking crisis was a result of the banks using predatory lending techniques- so that the banks could pull in a massive profit- intentionally leaving borrowers destitute. I'm not a socialist (quite the opposite), but to blame the banking crisis on "socialism" is... misleading at best.
@@goatskin4487 don't worry, there's plenty of other people who know what you mean. Subprime lending combined with government bailouts is a guaranteed way to fuck the economy.
The only thing I can say is: That whole cool set-up of "This is my Milwaukee" is connected to THAT thing of Bear Stearns Bravo?! I thought the pronunciationbook channel and horse e-books started there and...and...what. what. And it was behind a paywall as well?! I'm...I'm speechless. I can't even finish properly this comment. That's it.
You're misunderstanding this. TIMM is only 'connected' to Bear Stearns Bravo in that it's by the same people. There's no story connection. This is a video about Synydyne, the people who made them, not about Bear Stearns Bravo. Cat Daddy even said so in the video several times, talking about how 'TIMM disappeared, and *then* the stuff that led to Bear Stearns Bravo happened' (paraphrased).
@@MCOmegaX123 No no, I know they're only connected by Synydyne. That was poor phrasing on my side. I was (and still am) surprised that such a promising ARG such as TIMM was created by the same pople that pulled off Bear Stearns Bravo.
holy SHIT i remember this meme trend. the "how to pronounce" stuff got super popular out of nowhere as a funny joke thing. had no idea it could even be linked to an ARG
Never heard of this, surprisingly. And as a Wisconsinite, the start of their trip for sure piqued my interest! Never been to Milwaukee, but good to see one of our biggest cities used for an ARG, even if it didn’t go great in the end!
@Gamer Time not lately. People have been flocking here for the past 10 years and there have been so many more buildings with one bedroom apartments going up downtown that the city is almost unrecognizable from when I first moved here in 2008.
hah this is a Murderfist project. This is an extra treat for Last Podcast Network fans. Ed Larson, Ben Kissel, Henry Zebrowsky and Holden McNeely all showed up in this.
I literally gasped when Pronunciation Book came up! I remembered coming in on around day 63 or something, and got excited... ...and then I remembered the reveal.
@@Dark0niro Well that one, all they did was make the G non-silent. I've seen people (mostly jokingly, but occasionally with full seriousness) call it "la-ZAG-nah". All they did was "la-ZAHG-nya", which is only a voiced G away from the correct pronunciation (or at least the way Americans/Canadians pronounce it, never heard an actual Italian say it so I don't know).
@@MCOmegaX123 I'm probably wrong cause admittedly, I suck at English (and Italian in this case); however I say it like this: "La-zaw-nya". It's kinda how I've always heard people around me say it.
Re: Bear Stevens Bravo, I actually did get a hint that it had to do with the 2008 crisis pretty early on. The mention of a regulator given the time period, I had a hunch it had something to do with the subprime mortgages and lack of regulation. And I didn’t even know about Bear Stearns or Synydyne. Still dumb and a bit of a letdown, but I wasn’t really _surprised_ that that was the focus after the reveal. Everything _else,_ however, _was_ a surprise. The sci-fi/comedic angle, the pay in for part 2, the “romance”, the playing _as a banker,_ …. That was a bit of a shocker. And an unpleasant one at that. And that’s not even getting into the lackluster response from calling in (Seriously, just reading the tweets from the same account that we get the number from? What’s the point?) and the fact that they had apparently abandoned an earlier project just made me even less enthusiastic about the whole deal. I was never _angry_ like a lot of people were, but I wasn’t happy either.
Honestly, the whole Synydyne thing just makes me laugh. I wouldn't be surprised if the *real* "art project" was some kind of exploration of various elements of human disappointment or something. I'm sure if they're planning future projects, they will do them under a different name now that the cat is out of the bag. They're definitely good enough at this to not have to rely on name recognition for future endeavors.
Well, you couldn't have timed this series better if you tried. I'm slowly going stir crazy. I'm on Immunomodulators. Haven't been out of the house for more than 15 minutes since before spring break. Never thought I would miss having Lab at 8AM or dealing with the Drive through window at Walgreens.
I really didn't expect to see Ben Kissel, Henry Zebrowski, and Holden McNeely in the Milwaukee video. Hello to the other Last Podcast on the Left fans in the comments! Hail yourselves!
Especially with people like Henry Zebrowski being involved in bear Stearns bravo. Nowadays it'd be a bigger deal with probably a more positive reaction
@@melsotelo5109 Also we're far enough away from the housing crisis now that turning it into a joke wouldn't be as distasteful. They definitely suffered from a bit of "too soon" syndrome
As someone who was only tangentially aware of Horse E-Books and didn't have the emotional attachment to the unfolding mystery I think Bear Stearns Bravo is hilarious and delightfully bizarre. Plus it stars Henry Zebrowski! That's something I can give a megustalations to.
The reaction to Bear Sterns Bravo is exactly why This is Your Milwaukee and most ARGs just fizzle out. Artists in this field are better off just leaving shit a forever mystery than even trying to satisfy fans of the genre. How many ARGs have even stuck the landing at all, much less ended in a way considered overwhelmingly positive by the majority of the audience?
Okay so. I need you to imagine my reaction as I’m cleaning, listening to the video in the background, only to be rudely slapped in the face by 2012 with “horse ebooks”-an account I have only ever known as “that one weird bot that was exposed(?) to be not actually a bot”. I think I remember seeing mention of an ARG, but I also think I remember people yelling back that it was most likely another Cole Sprouse-style social experiment/betrayal? ...online early 2010s were weird, man.
I need to say, after I watched this video for the first time, that vegetable that is used as the seed showed up at the grocery store I work at the next day. It had never been there before, and it still has yet to have an actual label put on it.
I've had this video open in a tab since 2 hours after its release and I've been watching it in short segments. I finished it today. It literally took me a month to watch this video.
I admit I normally listen to things like this and now that I sat down and actually watched I lost my shit and had to go digging when I saw Henry in the BSB part
I guess I'll be the asshole, I kinda like the idea of BearSternsBravo. To say "no one wanted a comedic take on the decline of the housing market" is just a little disingenuous considering The Big Short was such a huge success. Also, shout out to my man Henry Zebrowski from LPOTL who is one of the playable characters in it apparently. Never heard him talk about it or syndyne since he had his own comedy group Murder Fist. Would love to hear him talk about this
yeah I remember when atrocity guide covered the Horse-ebooks story that ultimately led to the Bear Stearns Bravo thing and I was like "....Henry?" Nick here sort've filled in the blanks, I didn't know about the TIMM connection, so many LastPod actors were in that one
The Big Short was a 2015 biopic whose comedy was derived strictly from the actual events and behavior of those involved, and as a means to communicate how that fiasco happened and why. It was also adapted from an extremely well researched novel that acted as a feelers for how this material would be received by audiences. Bear Sterns Bravo on the other hand was a fictional satire, released blind, on the back of an ARG completely disconnected from that topic. Nobody was in the mood for that sort of thing in 2013, believe me.
He did mention in an episode of LPOTL that he and the other folks from Murder Fist knew the people who put up the fake pronunciation guides! I just never expected him to pop up in an episode of Night Mind!
You completely destroyed every other youtuber that made a video about this before. Oh my goodness this was so much more complete than any others. Congrats and keep up the good work. Ive been watching your vids for a few days now and just realized i wasnt subbed and bell'd. Guess what you got one more brother, thanks for the great content
I was a lurking member on Unfiction after the This is My Milwaukee video dropped because something about that video really enchanted me. I still quote it to this day. As cool as the real life experiences were for the ones who experienced them, I felt like... I don't know how to describe it. It was like every random detail in the video was used elsewhere, but in a boring way. The subtitles saying "Champion Dynasty" when she sang "Bubblegum Millennium" was so mysterious! And then it was just a cheap plastic trophy with no explanation. So many details like that ended up just being flubs, in my opinion. It took some of the magic away, and I almost wish I'd never known it was an ARG. But I still say "hamBURger" all the time with my partner, and reference it in other ways because that initial video was just too damn good.
Synydyne broke up as a group. That's why you haven't heard from them since. Three of its former members now run Last Podcast on the Left-- one of them, Henry Zebrowski, was the redheaded actor you see in the Bear Stearns Bravo trailer.
I am forever mourning TIMM and BSB (and the unforums). Probably the most enjoyable ARGs I’ve ever been involved with! I still hope to uncover what we did wrong when we opened The Champion Dynasty Fund. Uh oh.
The reaction wasn’t all negative btw. There were a bunch of us to found the game enjoyable and hilarious, totally worth $7. There were codes hidden in the game play and people are still working on deciphering the whole thing. It seemed to me like the ones who were angry were players who did not play TIMM or understand the sense of humour. ARGs were so saturated by creepy storylines and so many people expected some dark-slender-man-esque outcome. For those new players I’m sure it was a disappointment, but I couldn’t understand why people were so upset over it. The genre needed some lighthearted fun. The clues were there the entire time, and if you expected something different you were not interpreting them correctly. Just my opinion as a player of both games from the very beginning.
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Night Mind: "if I could get away with it, I would make an entire video on mob psycho 100..."
I mean... i wouldn't mind. But I'm a small portion so meh.
Try Dr. Stone if you like science.
You should watch Id invaded
The weird onion is called Anise fennel
Idk if it's on crunchy roll or if you've seen it, but higurashi no naku koro ni is one of my favorites.
Sorry, but this ARG is just so unrealistic. Only ONE Wisconsinite in short sleeves in the snow??
Roy Krum agreed. That wasn’t cold. Only tourists would be wearing coats
Lol 😂😂😂/
ITS NOT EVEN COLD BRO
some people wear shorts in winter.
I dont start wearing actual jackets until its well below 0°F 😂
I can safely say I wasn't expecting "This is My Milwaukee" to have an anime ending song.
And a banger of a one at that
I don’t think anyone was
Me neither
It kinda slaps though
*grooves to the theme*
when the "this is my milwaukee" video started, as a citizen of milwaukee my arg brain turned off and i was just like "that... that's not what the art museum looks like"
It's fine, you just live in a different timeline.
that's just ow you know this version of milwaukee was severely changed by Blackstar and the G.O.D.S.E.E.D.
I know the while time I was thinking "wait a minute none of this looks like milwaukee"
I know. I'm like....this does not look like Milwaukee.... at all....
I was super confused at first because I was like "That is not my city! I dont recognize any of this" and that took me right out of it.
Imagine if you were just going for a walk in central park when 10 people start brandishing fennel roots and shouting bonus
*ridiculous comedy in this thing. i'm not easy to impress but they got me this time.*
Honey, the hipsters are at it again.
😆 ya never know, I've seen some pretty weird shite happen in Central Park at night 😂
As a New Yorker, I assure you this sort of stuff happens in Central Park all the time.
its new york, people wouldnt even notice
I used to live in Milwaukee for college and this isn't an ARG this is just what it's like there
How plentiful are the Class K Buildings?
Why is the god seed bit remind me of godeater
Bwahaha this comment is true .
Lmao I've grown up in Milwaukee and hell yeah its accurate
I went to Milwaukee a few times when I was little and from what I can remember, yeah it’s just like this
I'm not sure why you think the Milwaukee one is an arg. As a lifelong resident, I can say it's pretty accurate. Nice museums, plenty for teenagers to do, god seeds. Pretty much normal Milwaukee life
Heard the food isn’t too great, something about too many flaxseeds
"plenty of teenagers to do"?
might be a typo there methinks lolz
😈
@@Red_Lanterns_Rage Bro it says "for". The hell are you talking about?
‘Plenty of teenagers to do?’
@@oxycodin2253 uhhh... if you don’t already know, you probably don’t want to
"I'm off to school!"
"Did you remember your rebreather and flaregun?"
"Of course mom, no way I wouldn't after last time"
Lol
it's much worse in other parts of the country
i mean right now there's all these bandits running around like old west train robbers, scary.....and some of em have fire bottles.....
Heh. If we were in Metro it would be:
"Did you pack your mask filters and morphine shots?"
@@ethanwilde4716 I hate you...take my like
_"Never leave home without your rebreather and a flare gun."_
Seems like pretty solid advice.
Wait, is that not a thing everyone does?
This only becomes more relevant the longer this year goes
More like a hazmat suit and a 44.
Oh... that’s sad.
what is your profile picture from
Synydyne's first mistake was not letting the viewer know if that Milwaukee Margarita was damn good or not.
Spoiler: It’s not
@@studyzen8836 Not with vermouth replacing tequila. Bleh
Take a shot of straight vermouth if you are truly curious
You ever drink vermouth?
"This weird onion"
Guess Night Mind doesn't eat his vegetables, because that's fennel my dude
he says later it's a fennel bulb
He's a shape shifting cat demon, why would he?
THANK YOU. Annoyed the hell outta me.
Synydyne: We think the 2008 housing crisis needs to be investigated more
Everyone: Yes! It should! We 100% ag-
Synydyne: So we're gonna mythologize it and make it into a comedy ARG
Everyone: hold up
Gods that interview made them sound like pretentious hacks.
nice meme xdddddddd
@@sugoiuseismoeabuse4058 Well, now you see them for what they are. Just like most of these recent videos might as well be advertisements
@@wild_burn how so?
@@wild_burn Wait, how would investigating the 2008 housing crisis be antisemitic?
NM sounds like Nexpo's seductive twin.
and its a good thing
I'm so glad I'm not the only one that noticed that
Well he did it, he seduced me.
I honestly didn't realize they were different channels until now
@@arodisaster264 funny thing: i actually watched ryan’s video on dad and then i switched to nick’s thinking it was part two and was confused about why he was going over some things from the first video. i didn’t even notice the voice or name change
"Come for the weekend, stay for LIFE"
is this a threat
Adrian James perhaps
Threat, promise, blessed embrace from the new god... who can tell the difference, really?
Come for the attractions, stay because you can’t leave. Night Vale: We’ll show you fun in a handful of dust!
Probably
-Kidnappers
“If your party is chased by a godseed fragment”
It’s ok guys, Milwaukee is just a jrpg, you’ll be fine as long as you have revives
Yeah
@@yourtimetraveleralara it’s like Xenoblade, running away is a valid option
@@edgyhipster996 I mean, the Joestar Family Technique IS a really effective one.
Un-fiction making people larp has to be the funniest thing I've seen
it's so funny jshsh the dude running like-- L(•-•L)
@@casper2166 The best part was the party member running ahead of the party towards him
I want an anime based on "This Is My Milwaukee"
That's just eva
I'd suggest Godeater
Synydyne walked so Wham City Comedy could run.
Totally_Not_Skyler synydyne tripped and ate shit so wham city comedy knew what not to do with an arg.
@@paidfiftysomyfacepretty synydyne is great lmao
@@paidfiftysomyfacepretty Bear Stearns Bravo is great
"I'd like you to imagine you were someone who followed Pronunciation Book's countdown, only to get this as the big reveal." Hahahahaaaaaaaaa yeah. Yeah it was the biggest disappointment of high school me's life.
Now it's seven years later and I'm only now getting around to learning about the other stuff they've abandoned and somehow I feel even more tired than I did back then. Thanks for the overdue catharsis -- I had no idea I needed this.
"If your party is being chased by Godseed fragments, make your way to the nearest class K or higher rated structure."
If you hear something as batshit crazy as that in an ARG, you know it's gonna be good.
And yet they still fucked it up in the end
Too bad it got scrapped for a poorly timed ARG about banking.
@@DolusVulpes Yeah, commented this before I finished the video.
It's a shame. I loved the idea of a shady religious company that created something they weren't supposed to.
@@coldhotpocket8226 same, that could get really dark
The guy who does that voiceover sounds a lot like a young Dennis Prager.
you go to a park and you see a group of people yelling: "BONUS!!!" at a man running towards them.
Me, a person who has lived in Milwaukee: none of those locations are in Milwaukee
Also me: yes, the best thing we have to offer is circuits
nice meme xdddddddd
Can I get a ham burger?
And cheese‼️
@Elulzabeth pspspspsps
@Elulzabeth simbas grandson wanted revenge for being imprisoned in a zoo.
This Is Milwaukee seemed to have been really cool and I'm honestly angry that they just forgot it
It had its own universe they were building but they just left it
Not even an explanation
I'm not sure it's done. I feel like there's more coming, considering the reference to a possibly post apocalyptic Los Angeles.
L e m o n D e m o n f a n
I like ur icon btw
Yeah
Funny to think ive occasionally used pronunciation book as an actual resource never knowing its true nature
I can't believe they just dropped 'This is My Milwaukee' and came back with Bear Stearns Bravo.
It's the same kind of disappointment I felt when instead of making Austin Powers 4 or the Sprockets movie, Mike Meyers decided to make............The Love Guru
Yeah
@@LordSluggomy friends got me to watch that with them and I don’t think I’ve ever felt...that
A strange sense of anti-fun
Promised neverland, death note, AND Mob Psycho 100? Nick you’re out for my heart I swear-
"Nobody wanted to watch a spam bot fall in love with a channel" I mean, that alone sounds like a pretty fun idea. Its just connecting that to, well, everything else involved that ultimately flops.
plot twist: This is my Milwaukee is about a broken masquerade SCP scenario
That would be cool.
I've played Masquerade; I do not recall Fennel being that scary in it.
A matter for concern, sure, but not scary.
@@rongotealodge4140 don’t be boring mate
@Ralof Of Riverwood broken masquerade is a term used in several games referring to a great truth coming to light in public. Vampires, monsters etc...
I love this idea!
"I'd like you to imagine following this countdown" I don't have to. I was one of the people following it. My whole friend group did. We so had many theories. It goes without saying that we were all wrong.
This whole time I thought horse_ebooks was an Andrew Hussie social experiment(he did quite a few like it). Learning it was part of an arg all these years later is wild.
wait, he did?
@@friendbreakfast Stuff like his Facebook account, his 'soul portrait commission', his semi-in character reviews of furry porn, the blog he had documenting the time he traded credit cards with Ryan North, the Muppet Babies Saw parody he did, the Star Trek TH-cam poops he made.... Hussie's a weird guy.
@dkaih35 like... yeah, you're gonna need some escalation before you drop homestuck
I recall he played off horse_ebooks on a number of occasions before the ARG connection was realized, since it had quite a bit of popularity largely supported by similar outsider comedy circles like Andrew's. I'm sure that contributed to the assumption
don't forget how he hid a box of Toblerones in Toblerone and said whoever found it would have whatever they wanted become canon to homestuck. and someone did and thus hussie decreed: June Egbert is canon now.
Nightmind: *introduces Synydyne*
Me: Looks interesting, might take a look later
Video: My daddy was taken by blackstar
Also Me: Excuse me wat?
"This weird thing"
...that's a fennel root, also known as an anise.
fennel and anise have similar seeds and flavors but are not the same plant
@@LieseFury apologies. I work at a grocery store and they're labelled as Anise - Fennel
It's also pretty tasty. Also, fennel roots and anise are two different species of plants but do belong in the same family of plants - Apiaceae, the family of carrots, celery and parsley.
It tastes so good tho
Edit: you guys made me, now I want to eat some!
The man said it in the video😂
"this is my Milwaukee" has a really strong "welcome to Nightvale" vibes
Yeah
"I'd like you to imagine being someone that followed pronunciation book only to get THIS as the big reveal" Nick, I AM one of those people. I remember being there and watching the horse_ebooks video the day it was posted. My disappointment was immeasurable, and my day was ruined.
Idk why but “Voltaire would feel right at home in Milwaukee.” SENT ME
Random ppl yelling at a guy while brandishing fennels is peak New York. Lmao
26:56
Me: well I'm lactose intolerant so..
That guy: B O I L I N G W A T E R
Me: *oh*
That line was my fav lmao
“We needed a new god, so we began to build,” hear a church wants to do the same thing
*theirs broke*
Nothing breaking this god-tier comment though
Unfortunately, that's not stopping them from trying to get back all of the pieces.
Mindshuffler 333 *so let’s find them*
@@redacted4140 Finding them isn't the issue. The real problem is containing and protecting them from those Broken obsessed wingnuts.
Mindshuffler 333 true
I live in Milwaukee, and that’s pretty accurate. Every day, after the whistle blows at Blackstar, my mother takes me to the canning district, and we do the streetcar shuffle.
"This is probably a part of Godseed"
Isn't that fennel?
That sure is what he says later in the video.
actually all clues point to it NOT being a part of the godseed at all as if it was they'd likely be mroe worried about it an it'd be mroe of a threat. its likely something they use to keep the godseeds at bay
@@sarafontanini7051 or they're just dumbasses and didn't know
I feel like I've seen you before
So this was basically one of those very obscure art house films that like 3 people think is the best thing ever.
So I love it... but yeah, this is a super apt description.
Yeah
Does no one else want a full version of Bubblegum Millennium?? Gives me nostalgia for an anime I've never seen~
it’s out there.... somewhere
Wait, maybe we can email the makers and ask for a full copy of Bubblegum Millennium.
Song info is at 13:12 and it's called heart of your dreams
Check out the original Bubblegum Crisis anime series. It only lasted for eight episodes, but was highly influential worldwide back in the day. Seems like they took some influences from that series for TIMM.
After hearing Nick say "don't worry, it's just a sight gag" I completely forgot this was an analysis and was thrown for a curveball. Like I was in another world or something. Also, some of the gags reminded me of THAC.
“If you know where to look, other things to have sex with other than humans! *wink* ”
... Aight, I guess!
don't worry, he's probably just talking about demons or aliens!
...probably.
OwO
@@davidcoffin5601 You mean 8w8
Honestly, the line "the same kind of goody-goody Beatniks who take their breakfast cereal with 'soy milk' instead of boiling water" is great.
The "senpai" comment got me to spit my drink.
"Senpai noticed me" is not a thing I thought I'd hear on this channel..
@@crystaleunoia3974 Well he is a furry ya know.
Henry Zebrowski, one of the hosts of The Last Podcast on the Left, was a part of Synydyne, and played Henri in Bear Stearns Bravo. Took me forever to piece that together. His association with, and in fact most traces of Synydyne, are really hard to track down. I want to talk to him someday, hear whatever he's willing and/or able to share.
I spent an entire spring break one year in middle school just binge watching Death Note
SEE?! IT HAS SOME STRANGE POWER LIKE THAT!
I swear I did this too, but then I got my brother into it and rewatched it literally immediately lol
@@NightMind You could say it's kinda like taking a potatoe chip... and eating it.
And then not stopping because mmm potatoe chips.
@@NightMind - I am so glad that you put LIGHT on this issue. You deserve an apple.
20:22 omg that actor made my damn day right there
Give that man a raise.
Promised neverland was amazing along with Mob Psycho series!!!
11:27 “We never asked to whom this new god would prey/pray” well fuck me that’s metal
I can't wait until Night Mind covers the new Covid-19 arg everyone in the world is playing now.
created by synodyne as a way to promote Angry Birds Movie 3
I hope its more fun than the real life Covid-19
@@yakovhadash *Shrek 5
@@crotchwolf1929 *woosh*
I wanna stop playing. _It won't let me stop playing._
This is heart breaking, wish we could've seen more about the Go.D.S.E.E.D.s
>when the ending of the first video has semi-anime drawings, a japanese person singing in english and references to evangelion
o boi
Jamm6 ohhh no... not the Thrid Impact again..
12:35-12:41 “I’ll buy you a HAM-Burger when I get from the DOOooOooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!” 🤣💀
*TOOOoooooooOOOOOOOooooooooooOOOOMB
I thought he said dunes
Like the desert
"The street car shuffle". That's going in the ol' eternal lexicon.
idk man making bear sterns into a mythologized character is a brilliant way to satirize the culture of capitalism, i kinda dig it as an art project
The banking crisis was caused by socalist polcies ie bailing out banks instead of letting the free market take it's course.
@@goatskin4487 shhhh.... Don't use your brain; most of the world doesn't like that.
@@goatskin4487 That's not what socialism means... At all lol
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Socialism is when the proletariat has communal ownership of the means of production. Nothing more, nothing less. That was pure capitalism, sorry to tell ya... It really is depressing, just how many Americans think socialism means "when the state does something" - Personally, I happen to be an anarcho-communist, in the tradition of Emma Goldman or Peter Kropotkin - meaning I advocate for the immediate dismantling of the state apparatus _entirely_ - But then, like most Americans, I sincerely doubt you're familiar with any forms of communist thought outside of Marxism (and even that's unlikely, if I'm being honest - hell, a lot of Americans even think freaking _liberals_ like Obama are socialist, not realizing that we socialists hate liberals as much as they do - only you know, for the _right_ reasons - because they're weak centrists and useful idiots for the capitalist system. They also support gun control, which is anti-worker).
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Capitalism by definition, is private ownership of the means of production - this being done with some kind of social safety net is still capitalism - If anything, it's even worse - Because it keeps the working class _just_ healthy enough to prevent proletarian revolution.
@@goatskin4487 It was unregulated capitalist greed that caused the banking crisis. Plain old white-collar crime. A clear result of predatory lending. Regardless on where one stands on socialism, capitalism, etc. the banking crisis was a result of the banks using predatory lending techniques- so that the banks could pull in a massive profit- intentionally leaving borrowers destitute. I'm not a socialist (quite the opposite), but to blame the banking crisis on "socialism" is... misleading at best.
@@goatskin4487 don't worry, there's plenty of other people who know what you mean. Subprime lending combined with government bailouts is a guaranteed way to fuck the economy.
The only thing I can say is: That whole cool set-up of "This is my Milwaukee" is connected to THAT thing of Bear Stearns Bravo?! I thought the pronunciationbook channel and horse e-books started there and...and...what.
what.
And it was behind a paywall as well?!
I'm...I'm speechless. I can't even finish properly this comment. That's it.
You're misunderstanding this. TIMM is only 'connected' to Bear Stearns Bravo in that it's by the same people. There's no story connection. This is a video about Synydyne, the people who made them, not about Bear Stearns Bravo. Cat Daddy even said so in the video several times, talking about how 'TIMM disappeared, and *then* the stuff that led to Bear Stearns Bravo happened' (paraphrased).
@@MCOmegaX123 No no, I know they're only connected by Synydyne. That was poor phrasing on my side.
I was (and still am) surprised that such a promising ARG such as TIMM was created by the same pople that pulled off Bear Stearns Bravo.
holy SHIT i remember this meme trend. the "how to pronounce" stuff got super popular out of nowhere as a funny joke thing. had no idea it could even be linked to an ARG
Never heard of this, surprisingly. And as a Wisconsinite, the start of their trip for sure piqued my interest! Never been to Milwaukee, but good to see one of our biggest cities used for an ARG, even if it didn’t go great in the end!
Wisco Represent!
I was born in Wisconsin and I thought the my Milwaukee was pretty entertaining at least.
It’s is funny see how other pronounce some of towns.
@Gamer Time not lately. People have been flocking here for the past 10 years and there have been so many more buildings with one bedroom apartments going up downtown that the city is almost unrecognizable from when I first moved here in 2008.
The “This is My Milwaukee” video has to be one of the most genius things I’ve ever seen
Seemingly nobody has mentioned that it’s straight up just an adult swim sketch
hah this is a Murderfist project. This is an extra treat for Last Podcast Network fans. Ed Larson, Ben Kissel, Henry Zebrowsky and Holden McNeely all showed up in this.
Prince Black Elf hail yourself 🤟
Lol I thought that was Henry Zebrowsky!
Hail Yourself!
I THOUGHT I WAS GOING INSANE. I was like..."Wait...was that fucking Henry?!?!" Megustalations!
I was wondering if anyone was going to mention the copious amounts of Henry Zebrowsky. Hail yourself!
"If you know where to look, to have sex with things other than humans..." winks
Me: wait what...
Kara89 dude I just read this as he said it in the video.
I literally gasped when Pronunciation Book came up! I remembered coming in on around day 63 or something, and got excited...
...and then I remembered the reveal.
And yet this ARG's message was just as relevant now as it was then lmao
What in gods name was its message supposed to be?
The way they're pronouncing hamburger is driving me mad
That, and not Lasagna?...
@@Dark0niro Well that one, all they did was make the G non-silent. I've seen people (mostly jokingly, but occasionally with full seriousness) call it "la-ZAG-nah". All they did was "la-ZAHG-nya", which is only a voiced G away from the correct pronunciation (or at least the way Americans/Canadians pronounce it, never heard an actual Italian say it so I don't know).
@@MCOmegaX123 I'm probably wrong cause admittedly, I suck at English (and Italian in this case); however I say it like this: "La-zaw-nya". It's kinda how I've always heard people around me say it.
beesechurger
@@ttstooge1695 like ordering a cheesebeer and a rootburger 😃
Im so overwhelmed by everything rn I legit started crying at your ad read bc your voice is so soothing
Re: Bear Stevens Bravo, I actually did get a hint that it had to do with the 2008 crisis pretty early on. The mention of a regulator given the time period, I had a hunch it had something to do with the subprime mortgages and lack of regulation. And I didn’t even know about Bear Stearns or Synydyne.
Still dumb and a bit of a letdown, but I wasn’t really _surprised_ that that was the focus after the reveal. Everything _else,_ however, _was_ a surprise. The sci-fi/comedic angle, the pay in for part 2, the “romance”, the playing _as a banker,_ …. That was a bit of a shocker. And an unpleasant one at that. And that’s not even getting into the lackluster response from calling in (Seriously, just reading the tweets from the same account that we get the number from? What’s the point?) and the fact that they had apparently abandoned an earlier project just made me even less enthusiastic about the whole deal. I was never _angry_ like a lot of people were, but I wasn’t happy either.
Honestly, the whole Synydyne thing just makes me laugh. I wouldn't be surprised if the *real* "art project" was some kind of exploration of various elements of human disappointment or something. I'm sure if they're planning future projects, they will do them under a different name now that the cat is out of the bag. They're definitely good enough at this to not have to rely on name recognition for future endeavors.
Well, you couldn't have timed this series better if you tried.
I'm slowly going stir crazy. I'm on Immunomodulators. Haven't been out of the house for more than 15 minutes since before spring break. Never thought I would miss having Lab at 8AM or dealing with the Drive through window at Walgreens.
i knew something was wrong when he said that the kids can play in the "activity place"
Ahh something to watch while I take a break from online classes.
I'm avoiding mine. There's a reason I never signed up for online classes in the first place.
God I miss being allowed to do my usual thing with no social expectations
"Was that the quttin' whistle?" Has lived rent free in my head for years and I have no idea why.
I really didn't expect to see Ben Kissel, Henry Zebrowski, and Holden McNeely in the Milwaukee video. Hello to the other Last Podcast on the Left fans in the comments! Hail yourselves!
Wait what???
Have they ever talked about it ?
Commented to soon. There’s Henry. I wonder if they could get whoever to finish the Milwaukee art
HAIL SATAN
Hail yourselves!
"Your moving to Milwaukee. extremely long pause"
is that. a threat?
Pronunciationbook's last video has such a horrible dislike ratio. Really disappointing end to that channel
Horse_ebooks.
And now, let's check out Raid: Shadow Legends!
Especially with people like Henry Zebrowski being involved in bear Stearns bravo. Nowadays it'd be a bigger deal with probably a more positive reaction
@@melsotelo5109 Exactly, Last Podcast/ Your Pretty Face fans would be frothing at the mouth if this came out btwn 2015-Now
@@melsotelo5109 Also we're far enough away from the housing crisis now that turning it into a joke wouldn't be as distasteful. They definitely suffered from a bit of "too soon" syndrome
@@spacesponge8732 looks like you're throwing a lot of shade...:SHADOW LEGENDS!!
As someone who was only tangentially aware of Horse E-Books and didn't have the emotional attachment to the unfolding mystery I think Bear Stearns Bravo is hilarious and delightfully bizarre. Plus it stars Henry Zebrowski! That's something I can give a megustalations to.
The reaction to Bear Sterns Bravo is exactly why This is Your Milwaukee and most ARGs just fizzle out. Artists in this field are better off just leaving shit a forever mystery than even trying to satisfy fans of the genre. How many ARGs have even stuck the landing at all, much less ended in a way considered overwhelmingly positive by the majority of the audience?
Okay so. I need you to imagine my reaction as I’m cleaning, listening to the video in the background, only to be rudely slapped in the face by 2012 with “horse ebooks”-an account I have only ever known as “that one weird bot that was exposed(?) to be not actually a bot”.
I think I remember seeing mention of an ARG, but I also think I remember people yelling back that it was most likely another Cole Sprouse-style social experiment/betrayal? ...online early 2010s were weird, man.
Crunchyroll out here forcing my man to have a 2 minute ad, a pinned comment, AND the description..
good for him, securing that bag, respectable
Better than relying on youtube to be consistent at all. Lol
Those fuckin replies
I need to say, after I watched this video for the first time, that vegetable that is used as the seed showed up at the grocery store I work at the next day. It had never been there before, and it still has yet to have an actual label put on it.
I didn't realize how much I needed to hear Nick say, "Senpai finally noticed me"- XD
I've had this video open in a tab since 2 hours after its release and I've been watching it in short segments. I finished it today. It literally took me a month to watch this video.
I have been SITTIN on an upload for a while, heck I listened to your POSTcontent video today during my homework
Weird thing about me. I absolutely love the shape of the word Milwaukee. I don’t know why I love it so much. Maybe because of the Hiawatha
So, a large part of the Last Podcast Network guys had a hand in this and I never knew. Henry Zebrowski, Ben Kissel, Holden Mcneely, Ed Larson... wow!
This is a three year old comment but I looked for a while trying to find someone who noticed the LPN connection, finally!
I admit I normally listen to things like this and now that I sat down and actually watched I lost my shit and had to go digging when I saw Henry in the BSB part
I died at "that's right: senpai noticed me!"
Night Mind has to be the funniest of all the scary investigator youtubers when he goes out of character.
I guess I'll be the asshole, I kinda like the idea of BearSternsBravo. To say "no one wanted a comedic take on the decline of the housing market" is just a little disingenuous considering The Big Short was such a huge success.
Also, shout out to my man Henry Zebrowski from LPOTL who is one of the playable characters in it apparently. Never heard him talk about it or syndyne since he had his own comedy group Murder Fist. Would love to hear him talk about this
yeah I remember when atrocity guide covered the Horse-ebooks story that ultimately led to the Bear Stearns Bravo thing and I was like "....Henry?"
Nick here sort've filled in the blanks, I didn't know about the TIMM connection, so many LastPod actors were in that one
It'll be an awesome episode of Doctor Who someday, but that day is not today. Too many people were hurt too badly. Maybe 2040 or so.
The Big Short was a 2015 biopic whose comedy was derived strictly from the actual events and behavior of those involved, and as a means to communicate how that fiasco happened and why. It was also adapted from an extremely well researched novel that acted as a feelers for how this material would be received by audiences. Bear Sterns Bravo on the other hand was a fictional satire, released blind, on the back of an ARG completely disconnected from that topic. Nobody was in the mood for that sort of thing in 2013, believe me.
He did mention in an episode of LPOTL that he and the other folks from Murder Fist knew the people who put up the fake pronunciation guides! I just never expected him to pop up in an episode of Night Mind!
Therapist: "This is my Milwaukee" Anime ED isn't real and can't hurt you
"This is my Milwaukee" Anime ED: 12:40
How to get rid of annoying workers:
Scream bonus and through plants at them.
The Milwaukee part of this ARG sounds like an interesting concept for a indie video game.
Notification gang
I'm loving everybody dropping quarantine content
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@@Kektus1yeah, whatever this guy said
You completely destroyed every other youtuber that made a video about this before. Oh my goodness this was so much more complete than any others. Congrats and keep up the good work. Ive been watching your vids for a few days now and just realized i wasnt subbed and bell'd.
Guess what you got one more brother, thanks for the great content
Did you actually edit out the high pitched part of the old style TV intro? Thank you!!
I was a lurking member on Unfiction after the This is My Milwaukee video dropped because something about that video really enchanted me. I still quote it to this day. As cool as the real life experiences were for the ones who experienced them, I felt like... I don't know how to describe it. It was like every random detail in the video was used elsewhere, but in a boring way. The subtitles saying "Champion Dynasty" when she sang "Bubblegum Millennium" was so mysterious! And then it was just a cheap plastic trophy with no explanation. So many details like that ended up just being flubs, in my opinion. It took some of the magic away, and I almost wish I'd never known it was an ARG.
But I still say "hamBURger" all the time with my partner, and reference it in other ways because that initial video was just too damn good.
"Hey. You know what's really cool?
"What?"
"When you use 'y''s in a name when you could just use 'i' or 'e'."
I clicked on this video, never watching this channel before. After hearing this guy's voice...needless to say you've got a new subscriber-
Me, who hasn't been in Milwaukee for about 2 years: ahahaha- *hold on what did I miss.*
Synydyne broke up as a group. That's why you haven't heard from them since. Three of its former members now run Last Podcast on the Left-- one of them, Henry Zebrowski, was the redheaded actor you see in the Bear Stearns Bravo trailer.
I am forever mourning TIMM and BSB (and the unforums). Probably the most enjoyable ARGs I’ve ever been involved with! I still hope to uncover what we did wrong when we opened The Champion Dynasty Fund. Uh oh.
The reaction wasn’t all negative btw. There were a bunch of us to found the game enjoyable and hilarious, totally worth $7. There were codes hidden in the game play and people are still working on deciphering the whole thing. It seemed to me like the ones who were angry were players who did not play TIMM or understand the sense of humour. ARGs were so saturated by creepy storylines and so many people expected some dark-slender-man-esque outcome. For those new players I’m sure it was a disappointment, but I couldn’t understand why people were so upset over it. The genre needed some lighthearted fun. The clues were there the entire time, and if you expected something different you were not interpreting them correctly. Just my opinion as a player of both games from the very beginning.