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Can you make a DVD of your documentaries titled "So I Booked A Flight"? Seriously, I'd love to own these on a dvd. They're like professional level documentaries about the dumb things only I would care about.
Born too late to explore the Earth Born too early to explore the stars Born just in time to explore the mystery of who Super Monkey Ball's narrator was
I mean, pretty sure Pat said something about Brian... Then Chris said something about Matt... Maybe the other way around But sounded like two different people Turned out it was Brian Matt xD
It is also incredibly satisfying how the story unintentionally uses the rule of 3 when going through the possible voice actors: Jack Merluzzi, Patrick Harlan, and finally Brian Matt.
Fun fact. Nick was clearly staying in Shibuya which is only a 10-minute walk from where I live. We will meet in Japan I hope during his next visit. This really did turn out to be an interesting twist of events.
The two guys you interviewed accidentally gave you two halves to a key that suddenly fit together days after finding them. You CANNOT make this stuff up, that is some true Zelda-level craziness right there.
"You found me!". Thanks, Nick for the chat and I'm glad my voice could help stimulate your creativity all of these years. Next time in Japan, give me a shout. You clearly have a gift as a storyteller and I really enjoy your artistic professionalism. Good luck and Goooooooo! Brian Matt
Matt, I want you to know that your voice is etched into the mind of many people including my self. Even as a kid who doesn't know a single thing about the English language, I had your voice and lines memorized thanks to countless hours listening to it while playing. Thank you so much!
My god, it's like Patrick and Chris are guardians of the forbidden knowledge of his name and it's so dangerous they could each only learn one half of it and when you finally find them both and attain the forbidden knowledge of his name he is summoned forth into your email inbox
This guy basically goes all out on things nobody cares about except for like 30 people, and we all watch it along with those 30 people in amazement of the effort.
This guy's way of narrating his mystery-solving is so intriguing, I never had even heard of most of the games he talks about, the Rusty's Baseball (can't remember right the name, the Pappy Van Poodle one!) was only released in 3 countries apparently? Most of these games haven't even been released in my continent, and if they were, they are obscure as heck here. But I absolutely love watching his videos anyway. I see a Nick video, I click. He's amazing.
Well I mean, it depends if you think North America and South America are 2 separate continents, of if you think they're subcontinents of one continent... But my point stays the same :p
I like how this dude was so focused on getting his answer, that he got to travel to Japan, which is cool, and contact a celebrity, which super cool, AND GET AN INTERVIEW WITH SAID CELEBRITY IN PERSON, which is miracle-level journalism, and yet, he was FLOORED that he was the only person in the world that knew that the working theory of everybody on the internet about this game was wrong. Talk about commitement.
It's strange seeing something you can't just solve via a Google search in the information age. I also think it's sort of beautiful that even though this may have been just another role for Brian, his voice is still remembered by many to this day. Just goes to show how connected people can be even in seemingly trivial things
I used to say "all of humanity's knowledge is a keystroke away". Thanks to videos like this, I now realize how wrong that notion is. There is an enormous amount of niche info that was just lost to time. Even events that happened a mere few years ago can be completely memory holed on the internet. A lot of things were just simply never uploaded. Until we all have cameras in our eyes and are just constantly uploading every bit of sensory data of every human on Earth, this will continue to be a problem. What's disconcerting is that we'll never know exactly how much data we've lost to its translation through time. Or how much we will lose in the future until said problem is solved.
@@barahng you know analog data storage is a thing right??? in fact, it's kind of obvious when you're talking to someone who gets all their information from the internet... the entire world and our entire reality was viewed *very* differently in the decades when very old books were written, so the information in these books is informed from an entirely different reality than the information posted on the internet... but that doesn't mean the 60s and 70s weren't a reaction to the exact same 1950s boomer energy we're all reacting to now. in fact, the Monty Python film The Life of Brian (1979) isn't just a satire of religion, it's also basically a feature-length manifesto for the post-leftist neoliberalism that started around 1980 and first started to publicly flaunt its own major flaws around 2008. Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it, and most of the past is carved in stone and ink, not ones and zeros!
Patrick Harland: "It sounds like Brian, can't remember his last name..." Chris Wells: "Oh my God, is that...is that Matt?" Brian Matt: "Allow me to introduce myself"
Imagine being this guy, and having thay much of an impact on someone's life that 19 years later, a random guy hunts you down, and asks if you'd like to have an interview about such a small role, but it wasn't small to the internet. It's wonderful to me.
The Explainationist Why do you gotta be like that? People are just being happy for the sheer dedication nick put into solving this unexplained mystery.
@@rombid Even so, can't you let people do things that make them happy? If you don't like it, that's fine but just agree to disagree and leave it at that, there is no need to rude about it.
"So, let me get this straight. You joined the most powerful mafia in Japan, killed dozens, assisted us in ways others would have never dreamed of... to find the programmers of ET?" "Yeah." "Damn, dude. That's hardcore." "Yeah." "Well, they live down the street, so... good luck!"
“I had just discovered that entire internet was wrong about something- something significant.” There are so many things I love about this sentence that I don’t even know where to start.
Something about the decision to crossfade from real footage to janky looking Google Maps footage of that exact same place in order to do a 24hr timelapse transition is highly entertaining to me.
I've lived in Japan for almost a decade now, and absolutely anyone who watches TV would recognize Patrick's face. It's kind of unbelievable you were even able to meet him.
honestly, Nick is just the protagonist of his own youtube series of being the man who finds out weird things in games no one has searched the answer for, or at least not as in-depth as him.
One question I wish you'd asked is WHY so many English-Japanese voice actors were never credited in these games. From Super Monkey Ball to Resident Evil, why were these actors treated like such a huge secret?
Not so much racism, more the attitude of the early video game industry. Early workers in the video game industry were treated like toy designers. You don't know who designed a certain Hot Wheels car or Hungry Hungry Hippos. That was the attitude with early video games, they were toys. Even the video game publisher Activision was founded to change this, as former Atari workers felt like they were treated as line workers, where as they felt more like artists and wanted to be credited for their work. Now that was a lot earlier than 2001, but this attitude stuck on longer in Japan. Video games were made by a company, not by individuals (which is true to an extent, the opposite can be seen in movies where the director and actors get all the credit for a work involving hundreds of people) and companies wanted to protect their own branding. Konami, Sega, Capcom etc. wanted people to buy the next Konami game, not the next Hideo Kojima game. Only in the late 90s/early 2000s did this start to change and people started getting fair credit for their work in games. If it took that long for someone like THE LEAD DESIGNER to get their fair share of acknowledgement, it's not a surprise crediting the announcer for what they saw as "the overseas version" was low in the list of priorities.
@@poika22 You reminded me of how the first easter-egg in a video game was created... The game was Adventure for Atari. The lead designer felt like he wasn't being given the credit he deserved so he hid his name in the code and made it appear across the screen if you satisfied the right conditions. The game was already out and it would be too costly to recall and fix so Atari left it in the game to be the worlds first easter-egg in a video game. From the Wikipedia on the matter itself: "At the time, Atari did not include programmers' names in the game credits, both to prevent competitors from poaching its developers, as well as to deny developers a means to bargain with the management of the new owners, Warner Communication."
@@poika22 to add to this, EA originally wanted to do this exact thing, usually game publishers dont credit the actual small time studio which created the game, EA was the first publisher to put the studio's name beside theirs in credits, posters etc, So this was actually a common practice back then
In addition to Patrick Harlan and Chris Wells each remembering half of Brian Matt's name, I also noticed one of the names you sent Chris Wells in that one e-mail (22:14) was Matt Uhl. As it happens, the voice actor's full name is Brian Matthew Uhl. So it turns out his name was right there under your nose all along. Crazy stuff!
Man, Patrick Harlan seems like such a swell guy - after getting randomly e-mailed he arranges a meeting the next day to answer one question and offers some help with the case. How helpful can a guy be??
It's probably very refreshing to get an email from an American person in Japan wanting to talk about something else than your current job. Just saying, I'm not surprised he wouldn't mind, it's a nice change of pace I bet.
Nick has the dedication, willpower, and insanity to change the world, but uses it all to find a monkey ball voice actor. Thing is, I'm not complaining.
the amount of times my brother and i say "hurry up!" in the monkey ball voice is insane. this game (well, technically we had the second one) is probably my favorite video game of all time.
This had absolutely no busniness being as touching as it was. The fact that someone that nobody knew got searched out for a tiny role he did 20 years ago mustve been so gratifying for Brian Matt. And the way Brian smiled when you asked him to do the voice was everything. Voice actors especially back in the 90s and 2000s are unsung heroes of many childhoods and they didnt get fame/recognition at all really. You put it very well in your outro This is important.
"They were last seen heading south out of LA? And the getaway car had Arizona plates?" Out of options and desperate for some sort of resolution, Detective Nick knew what he had to do...
"Sir, this case has been dead for over 23 years..." "Do it." "But sir, the budget, the... Surely you haven't forgotten Paris." "He gets results, he gets it done. We got them in Paris, remember." "I remember, but at what cost?..." ... "It's time to bring in the biggest damn gun we got. Bring him in. _Bring in Robinson."_
at 22:14 u can see theres someone called matt uhi so maybe thats y he said matt. idk y he would say domenic alen's full name (that shows there probably no disclosure agreements) but only say brains last name. i think he just put the "Brian... something..." "...Is that Matt?" thing together so its sounds cooler. long story short i think the guy on the phone meant matt uhi instead of brian matt.
@@fuzzybuddy2950 pretty sure one of them had to have contacted brian matt, since he randomly got a email from brian about the situation. So one of them had to have figured out the full name.
@@xyzqsrbo im just say that i think the the name matt was about someone else and nick robinson wanted to sound deep for some reason so hes say that the guy meant brain matt instead of matt uhi.
What I find really wholesome is that, if this guy was actually credited, 2 million people wont have known about him and how nice this group of English voice actors from Tokyo are.
I guess the odds are pretty high since it's Nick , but i am still very impressed you guessed he was booking another flight before the video even premiered.
Hearing Brian Matt in the interview saying "Ready? Go!" hit an emotional nostalgia spot that made me tear up. I remember playing Monkey Ball after school for like 3 months straight. I still play it on an Emulator every now and then. Thanks for that Nick, and by extension Brian.
I like the implication that at some point, Brian heard from his VA friends that some weird youtuber named Nick was looking for the Super Monkey Ball VA and he was just like, "Oh cool can I have his email?"
@@AtasiProductions I haven't seen Chris or Patrick in a year or so. I received one email from Chris and Nick was cc'd asking if I was the narrator. Nick then asked to chat on Skype. Don't forget 99% of our work as narrators are solo in the booth so we don't meet for years.
@@brianmatttokyo688 Super nice of you for reaching out to Nick for an interview! So cool to see such a nuanced mystery like this solved nearly 20 years later.
This is SO sweet! It blows my mind how so many contributions go uncredited, especially in game making. And it is so sweet that he voiced that outro for you. Thanks for chasing this and sharing this with us all.
I remember when I was younger, like 5-8, I had this weird thing for crushing on video game narrators. I could confidently say that the Super Monley Ball Narrator was my first crush ever. So hearing the Narrator and finally figuring out who tf he was all this time is bringing back surpressed, nostalgic memories of being a weird kid and I love it.
I think my favorite moment is seeing how red Nick's face turns when Brian does the voice--how relieved and stunned and awed he is that he managed to find the right voice actor. I think he might be trying not to cry.
That was the most warming moment of the video right there, the feels for when you just hear the voices from the game, being spoken from the mystery man of all these years who was no longer a mystery, Brian Matt!
I had no idea what was going on and didn't know this was for a video. I ran home from doing a narration for the Robot Restaurant and thought it would be just a casual chat with someone interested in gaming. I honestly had no idea what was going on. When someone asks you for a voice from years ago that touched their lives, for me it is emotional. Years ago, I was interpreting for George Michael for 2 NHK interviews and I told him I loved "Father Figure" as I heard that song in my early days in Japan and it was my "link" to outside Japan. George sang the chorus for me when they were doing lighting and I swelled up - a moment I will never forget.
To me, this is a massive reminder for how big an impact a moment can make in someones life. Something that for Brian was 3 hours worth of work on a random day 20 years or so ago has become something that people care about enough to go on a weeks long investigative search, theory crafting possible answers, and even taking a flight out to Japan to solve. This was actually such an amazing search, and i could really see the passion, amazement and relief in your eyes when Brian said those lines, and it hit you properly that yes, this guy is the voice that you heard throughout your childhood!
Nick has a really unique eye when it comes to this kind of thing. Over the past year he’s become one of my favorite TH-camrs because he finds a way to find the importance of minuscule things and i really like that about him
The way you work towards these projects and explain that to an audience, the careful attention to all of these amazing things you work out is a love letter to the passion and drive that started the video game industry as a whole. These videos are like opening a box you found in the back of your childhood closet , full of nostalgia and fresh perspective all mixing into a warm feeling as you admire things that had an influence as a kid, truly good work.
That ending needs to be your end card for everything now. I can believe you got the monkey ball announcer to say like and subscribe. TBH I cried during this video. Thanks for figuring out the mystery to one of my favourite games. Now I'm off to play Monkey Ball. Again.
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I booked a ticket to japan to solve this mystery
Japan
Can I wear that shirt and get on a plane to Japan for free?
Nice Mustachioed Bear shirt 25:18
Can you make a DVD of your documentaries titled "So I Booked A Flight"? Seriously, I'd love to own these on a dvd. They're like professional level documentaries about the dumb things only I would care about.
Born too late to explore the Earth
Born too early to explore the stars
Born just in time to explore the mystery of who Super Monkey Ball's narrator was
Bootleg Jones and that’s all we need in this generation
Born just in time to book a flight to Japan*
great joke bro
Truly the greatest generation
Marcus the Person the meme decade
This feels just like a movie. Mainly, the fact that the clues were already there, but you didn't notice the first time.
I mean, pretty sure Pat said something about Brian...
Then Chris said something about Matt...
Maybe the other way around
But sounded like two different people
Turned out it was Brian Matt xD
Yeah I literally just got to that part in the video when he said it oops sorry 😅
documentary
It is also incredibly satisfying how the story unintentionally uses the rule of 3 when going through the possible voice actors: Jack Merluzzi, Patrick Harlan, and finally Brian Matt.
Luigiman1089 When Chris said “ is that Matt?” I was like you’re so close!
Fun fact. Nick was clearly staying in Shibuya which is only a 10-minute walk from where I live. We will meet in Japan I hope during his next visit. This really did turn out to be an interesting twist of events.
Brian Matt Tokyo Awesome! I used to play super monkey ball 2 thanks for making my childhood 🤝🙌
Thank you!
What an outstanding lad
Glad to see we finally found you. 🎉
YOUR FOUND NOW!!
The two guys you interviewed accidentally gave you two halves to a key that suddenly fit together days after finding them.
You CANNOT make this stuff up, that is some true Zelda-level craziness right there.
“Patrick Harlan *had* to be the voice of the announcer in Super Monkey Ball.”
But wait! There’s still *75% of the video left!*
Gabriela Roberts Swear I tapped the video to see if it was almost over when he said that. lol I was like, nice try. haha
That's because he was WRONG!
Do I detect a Jaiden Animations reference?
Lol
"You found me!". Thanks, Nick for the chat and I'm glad my voice could help stimulate your creativity all of these years. Next time in Japan, give me a shout. You clearly have a gift as a storyteller and I really enjoy your artistic professionalism. Good luck and Goooooooo! Brian Matt
Pin this please
My god it’s the legend himself
Now this is awesome
Matt, I want you to know that your voice is etched into the mind of many people including my self. Even as a kid who doesn't know a single thing about the English language, I had your voice and lines memorized thanks to countless hours listening to it while playing. Thank you so much!
Just so you know, my alarm tone is now "READY? GO!"
I can’t believe this man actually met Patrick Harlan. The absolute legend
And it's not even the focus of the video
Next, he should meet Atsugiri Jason. "WHY JAPANESE PEOPLE?? WHY???"
Just to ask him a question about a random game! 😂
For "liquids or solids" nonetheless
Read this in Karl Jobst’s voice
The big smile on Brians face when you asked him to say some voice lines from SMB just warmed my heart
Imagine someone going all this way to find a tiny voice acting role you did decades ago. That smile was so damn touching.
my dumb Nintendo brain read Super Mario Bros and was confused
@@dunkleosteusterrelli I just realized they are the same acronym lol
Something funny is that before the premiere even ended, the wikipedia page for Patrick Harlan where it said “narrator” had already been edited out
People are quick yo
I checked the real guy's imbd and he's listed as the announcer as well.
Edit: and it even says "uncredited."
XoroZ yeah I saw that too lol it changed on the super monkey ball Wikipedia under characters.
The bots are working overtime
nobody in 18 years thought to take eight seconds and realize the voice sounds absolutely nothing like patrick?
This Patrick is such a cool and humble guy
Honestly everyone Nick met in this video were great. Really looks like a great couple of people.
Patrick: "Brian."
Chris: "Matt."
The pieces were there before we knew it- Wow-
666 likes lol
Patricks been in japan for 20 years must've had some influence on him
Also really fucking cute my god!
Not only did he go to Japan AGAIN , but he somehow got an interview with a Japanese celebrity with just a couple emails. What the hell.
Networking like a God.
You'd be surprised what people are willing to do if you just email/call them.
This is the same guy that casually broke into a Dominos to figure out where a Hatsune Miku video went.
TheBlitz didn't really break in...
He just has high charisma.
My god, it's like Patrick and Chris are guardians of the forbidden knowledge of his name and it's so dangerous they could each only learn one half of it and when you finally find them both and attain the forbidden knowledge of his name he is summoned forth into your email inbox
This man literally met a celebrity just to find out if he voiced the narrator in a video game about monkeys
And only to learn that he wasn't
Blue Boo from 18 years ago. For TH-cam.
@@hudsonsabal8695 in japan.
Is there a better reason!?
1,000th like
A celebrity known all through out Japan really just told a random dude "Sorry for wasting your time"
Patrick seems like a pretty amazing dude
That's what Japan does to you man, sorry
You stay humble in Japan.
and also hes unknown to americans so
Very polite
I love watching the voice actors in calls start off with a Japanese greeting then immediately switch to English once they realise nick speaks it.
its almost kinda wholesome
Plot twist: The voice actor was actually a person named Monkey Voice.
Gud
Omg
yO. I want that name.
@@marble-q6j lmfao
@@ToastBoastOfficial God???
This guy basically goes all out on things nobody cares about except for like 30 people, and we all watch it along with those 30 people in amazement of the effort.
It's not about the end goal but the journey
Geckopower the journey to tokyo japan
Literally half a million people, but a'ight
This guy's way of narrating his mystery-solving is so intriguing, I never had even heard of most of the games he talks about, the Rusty's Baseball (can't remember right the name, the Pappy Van Poodle one!) was only released in 3 countries apparently? Most of these games haven't even been released in my continent, and if they were, they are obscure as heck here. But I absolutely love watching his videos anyway. I see a Nick video, I click. He's amazing.
Well I mean, it depends if you think North America and South America are 2 separate continents, of if you think they're subcontinents of one continent... But my point stays the same :p
“Oh, he’s about to find the answer! nice!”
*notices that there is more than half the video left*
“Oh.”
its like endgame all over again
somethings wrong, I can feel it
@Jordan Tillman lol
LOL I DID THAT XD
the mere fact that patrick said "liquids or solids" makes me like him
I had to repeat it to myself just to see how well it sounded.
He really seems like a very chill and nice guy!
Well hes a comedian 😂
What does that mean?
NotScott The Grand SAME
I like how this dude was so focused on getting his answer, that he got to travel to Japan, which is cool, and contact a celebrity, which super cool, AND GET AN INTERVIEW WITH SAID CELEBRITY IN PERSON, which is miracle-level journalism, and yet, he was FLOORED that he was the only person in the world that knew that the working theory of everybody on the internet about this game was wrong.
Talk about commitement.
Nick: *calls*
Pat: Moshi-Moshi
Nick: Hi
Pat: *aight, english mode*
this makes me laugh so hard
E
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I feel so weak now oml... WHY DOES THIS GET ME SO MUCH XD
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It's strange seeing something you can't just solve via a Google search in the information age. I also think it's sort of beautiful that even though this may have been just another role for Brian, his voice is still remembered by many to this day. Just goes to show how connected people can be even in seemingly trivial things
I used to say "all of humanity's knowledge is a keystroke away". Thanks to videos like this, I now realize how wrong that notion is. There is an enormous amount of niche info that was just lost to time. Even events that happened a mere few years ago can be completely memory holed on the internet. A lot of things were just simply never uploaded. Until we all have cameras in our eyes and are just constantly uploading every bit of sensory data of every human on Earth, this will continue to be a problem.
What's disconcerting is that we'll never know exactly how much data we've lost to its translation through time. Or how much we will lose in the future until said problem is solved.
@@barahng you know analog data storage is a thing right??? in fact, it's kind of obvious when you're talking to someone who gets all their information from the internet... the entire world and our entire reality was viewed *very* differently in the decades when very old books were written, so the information in these books is informed from an entirely different reality than the information posted on the internet... but that doesn't mean the 60s and 70s weren't a reaction to the exact same 1950s boomer energy we're all reacting to now. in fact, the Monty Python film The Life of Brian (1979) isn't just a satire of religion, it's also basically a feature-length manifesto for the post-leftist neoliberalism that started around 1980 and first started to publicly flaunt its own major flaws around 2008. Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it, and most of the past is carved in stone and ink, not ones and zeros!
well at least its good people are going out to still find new information that people haven't recorded
Nick robinson would do literally anything just to find out a single thing
Shock Doggo That really is part of the magic of his channel or at least the journey that goes on to figure those out
By anything you mean go to Japan
That's the beauty of this channel
This is the best way I've heard this channel described. I've wanted to recommend it to friends but didn't know how
Nick can make up any excuse to go to japan again
Patrick Harland: "It sounds like Brian, can't remember his last name..."
Chris Wells: "Oh my God, is that...is that Matt?"
Brian Matt: "Allow me to introduce myself"
That is absolutely genuinely the most hilarious part of this video
fr dude, and no one thinks of it because it's two basic first names as the first and last name.
Imagine being this guy, and having thay much of an impact on someone's life that 19 years later, a random guy hunts you down, and asks if you'd like to have an interview about such a small role, but it wasn't small to the internet. It's wonderful to me.
shynox yep it is
It do be like that sometimes.
The Explainationist Why do you gotta be like that? People are just being happy for the sheer dedication nick put into solving this unexplained mystery.
@@rombid Even so, can't you let people do things that make them happy? If you don't like it, that's fine but just agree to disagree and leave it at that, there is no need to rude about it.
@@rombid have you never seen/heard this phrase before?
One of these days, Nick is gonna join the Yakuza just to get answers.
"So, let me get this straight. You joined the most powerful mafia in Japan, killed dozens, assisted us in ways others would have never dreamed of... to find the programmers of ET?"
"Yeah."
"Damn, dude. That's hardcore."
"Yeah."
"Well, they live down the street, so... good luck!"
@@thegreatkingofevilganondor1500 this response is amazing 😂
"I JOINED AREA 51 TO GET ANSWERS"
*i converted to Islam to find answers*
Why has the reply section turned into memes
This video is a citation on Wikipedia now quoting Patrick “that’s not me”
Hey you're right lol
@@kennethgonzalez7759 haha
link
TH-cam journalism is still journalism.
This video is now a primary source.
@@ZarHakkar TH-cam journalism is usually much better than tv and newspaper journalism
when nick said he got a email from a guy named Brian Matt i remembered that they said Brian and Matt in the interviews and i actually lost my shit
I think I had forgotten those names by that point in the video.
tfw hes going to meet patrick at the station but there are still 20 minutes left in the video
Ikr, you can just tell if they are or not the announcer by the length
OMG DUDE YOUR NAME IS THE SAME AS MY REAL NAME WTFFFF I NEVER SEEN ANYONE WITH MY NAME BEFORE!?!?! Only Cree I know is Cree summers and that's it.
Snivary Cree isn't my real name 😔
because its not him watch the rest of the vid
Something’s wrong I can feel it
Patrick: "Sounds like Brian"
Chris: "Is that Matt??"
Brian Matt: "Allow me to introduce myself"
Lol
Gg
nah i serched it up maybe its like fliped its matt brian
@Dany Torres MOHAMMED AVDOL
@@aquaarmour4924 Jojo references are the best kind of references
damn Patrick is such a nice guy for meeting a fan on a whim like that, I hope he sees this video
patrick harlan seems like the nicest dude! what a sweet guy. he was literally apologizing to you. jeez. what a down to earth famous person lol!
i agree! I Wish more people knew who he is!
“I had just discovered that entire internet was wrong about something- something significant.” There are so many things I love about this sentence that I don’t even know where to start.
yeah the internet was wrong. but "significant" idk about that
@@maxlevox That's the joke...
It’s not even the entire internet it’s like 4 people
We hav the same name mate
it was significant for him and a lot of the Monkey Ball player base.
Something about the decision to crossfade from real footage to janky looking Google Maps footage of that exact same place in order to do a 24hr timelapse transition is highly entertaining to me.
jon bois energy
10:00 for those wondering
I've lived in Japan for almost a decade now, and absolutely anyone who watches TV would recognize Patrick's face. It's kind of unbelievable you were even able to meet him.
right!!! i couldn't believe it either
The fact that you got Brian to read that video outro in the Announcer voice is incredible and honestly a perfect way to end the video.
honestly, Nick is just the protagonist of his own youtube series of being the man who finds out weird things in games no one has searched the answer for, or at least not as in-depth as him.
He is the one to get things done.
Grug with his trusty plane ticket to japan
Good profile pic
Dude, your profile picture makes me uncomfortable
And then goes to japan
I love how this guy turns "trivial" questions into heartwarming documentaries.
That’s why I love this channel so much
It's really fantastic investigative journalism on completely irrelevant topics and I love it!
This guy went to Tokyo to confirm an internet theory. Let that sink in. Let that pure grit and dedication sink in. Let's be like Nick.
thanks obama
Nick Robinson That’s his first name!
No it was a fame theory not internet it makes it much better
Bee_ ANIMATIONS wdym you play Fortnite and you yeeted your grandma?
@@MrGoose-jn5ci lmao shut up you play fortnite
One question I wish you'd asked is WHY so many English-Japanese voice actors were never credited in these games. From Super Monkey Ball to Resident Evil, why were these actors treated like such a huge secret?
possibly due to racism in japan when in earlier years, they can be pretty descriminatory to none-japanese people but things are a lot better now irrc
Not so much racism, more the attitude of the early video game industry. Early workers in the video game industry were treated like toy designers. You don't know who designed a certain Hot Wheels car or Hungry Hungry Hippos. That was the attitude with early video games, they were toys. Even the video game publisher Activision was founded to change this, as former Atari workers felt like they were treated as line workers, where as they felt more like artists and wanted to be credited for their work.
Now that was a lot earlier than 2001, but this attitude stuck on longer in Japan. Video games were made by a company, not by individuals (which is true to an extent, the opposite can be seen in movies where the director and actors get all the credit for a work involving hundreds of people) and companies wanted to protect their own branding. Konami, Sega, Capcom etc. wanted people to buy the next Konami game, not the next Hideo Kojima game. Only in the late 90s/early 2000s did this start to change and people started getting fair credit for their work in games. If it took that long for someone like THE LEAD DESIGNER to get their fair share of acknowledgement, it's not a surprise crediting the announcer for what they saw as "the overseas version" was low in the list of priorities.
@@poika22 You reminded me of how the first easter-egg in a video game was created...
The game was Adventure for Atari. The lead designer felt like he wasn't being given the credit he deserved so he hid his name in the code and made it appear across the screen if you satisfied the right conditions. The game was already out and it would be too costly to recall and fix so Atari left it in the game to be the worlds first easter-egg in a video game.
From the Wikipedia on the matter itself:
"At the time, Atari did not include programmers' names in the game credits, both to prevent competitors from poaching its developers, as well as to deny developers a means to bargain with the management of the new owners, Warner Communication."
@@poika22 then why would the Japanese voice actors be credited and not the English voice actors?
@@poika22 to add to this, EA originally wanted to do this exact thing, usually game publishers dont credit the actual small time studio which created the game, EA was the first publisher to put the studio's name beside theirs in credits, posters etc, So this was actually a common practice back then
Brian: "you found me"
Nick: "I found you"
Voiceover: "I found him"
Me: He found him.
Me on my essay: He was found by him.
The snoot drooped.
I never figured out if he found him or not.
This guy has a great sense of humor, the way he sounds serious and joking at the same time is so funny lol
I feel like Nick is the only person who actually deserves to be called a video game journalist.
Agreed. Most are just mouth pieces for publishers.
And superbunnyhop, really good youtuber
or a video game detective
why am i crying of happiness
i never watched this channel
i don't know this game
but this is just so wholesome
💕
X2
😭
that just made me laugh my sis had the og game of this for the wii
PressF Same 😂
I'm not a fan of SMB; I've never played it in my life. But god damn did I shed a tear when Brian did the lines during the interview.
This man is the John Wick of trivial obscure online mysteries. Focus, commitment, sheer will, and an absurd eagerness to fly to Japan.
Not to mention the money and resources to excecute this pursuit
@@patrickwannafightaboutit6338 Thank god that patreon(unlike youtube) actually gives a shit about their users and pays them accordingly
John nick. As in John nick Robinson
From 18 years ago
Fax he do be flying to japan
"It had to be Jack, right?"
*looks at bar*
4 minutes out of 30
Oh no
Pfft- and then you get to Patrick and you hear he's going to Japan, less than halfway through the video; oH NO-
Uh oh stinky poop lalala funny hahaha poopy with no diaper hahaha funny
@@businessraccoon3886 who's the voice actor of those lines
@@jakethesnake2511 so i booked a ticket to-
Imagine being those commenters, getting a reply years later from someone saying "I'm sitting across the table from Pat, he said it's not him."
Did it happen
In addition to Patrick Harlan and Chris Wells each remembering half of Brian Matt's name, I also noticed one of the names you sent Chris Wells in that one e-mail (22:14) was Matt Uhl. As it happens, the voice actor's full name is Brian Matthew Uhl. So it turns out his name was right there under your nose all along. Crazy stuff!
No way! That name stuck out to me because of Matt Ullman from D1/2 :-)
I noticed that too!
Man, Patrick Harlan seems like such a swell guy - after getting randomly e-mailed he arranges a meeting the next day to answer one question and offers some help with the case.
How helpful can a guy be??
Brian and Chris too
It's probably very refreshing to get an email from an American person in Japan wanting to talk about something else than your current job. Just saying, I'm not surprised he wouldn't mind, it's a nice change of pace I bet.
Mystery : Exists
Nick : So anyway I booked a flight to Japan
Mystery: League of Legends
Nick: I booked a flight
Nick: books a flight to japan
Nick: so anyway i made merch about booking flights to japan
@@rightshoe1188 book a flight to runeterra
We literally learned about Patrick in our Japanese class, he is a superstar in Japan!
Nick has the dedication, willpower, and insanity to change the world, but uses it all to find a monkey ball voice actor.
Thing is, I'm not complaining.
God I love the running joke "I had to go to japan" It's amazing.
Very expensive running joke, but that's part of what makes it great.
@@AK-fy1iq sometimes i really wish i had picked a cheaper running joke
Nick Robinson “To find a cheaper running joke, I booked a flight ticket to Japan”
@@babylonian at least you get to go to Japan.
@@babylonian just stay there my dude. You will probably save a lot of money on air travel xd
"Hi. Is this Chris?" brain takes 4 seconds to reboot into english "Yes"
hella funny
I do the same when switching between English and Spanish 😆
It can be tough sometimes, but funny none the less 🤣
This is so relatable. Being bilingual can really make your brain go kaput sometimes.
I would assume Chris' brain probably operates in Japanese by default nowadays.
I noticed that. Relatable af, almost cute.
“Try not to fly to Japan challenge [HARD]”
*Three seconds later*
“I’m sorry!”
1k like!
the amount of times my brother and i say "hurry up!" in the monkey ball voice is insane. this game (well, technically we had the second one) is probably my favorite video game of all time.
*"so I planted myself in the ranks of the Japanese Mafia"*
Lol
Sega has alleged mafia ties. So you're actually not too far off.
Everytime I see パックン on TV I can't help laughing to remember that he met random TH-camr who is enthusiastic about this old game and who has overslept
ww
@@babylonian oh hi
@@babylonian yeah,i dont know how to respond either.
@@SapphiyY "ww" is like "lol" for us!
@@babylonian *culturally informed laughing*
The true voice actor is the friends we made along the way.
And the flights to japan
No, I want to know the real fucking voice actor
I find it funny because you're right. Brian Matt's friends ID'd him immediately, without anyone realizing.
This trope will never fail to crack me up
@@bait8112 tru
This had absolutely no busniness being as touching as it was.
The fact that someone that nobody knew got searched out for a tiny role he did 20 years ago mustve been so gratifying for Brian Matt.
And the way Brian smiled when you asked him to do the voice was everything.
Voice actors especially back in the 90s and 2000s are unsung heroes of many childhoods and they didnt get fame/recognition at all really.
You put it very well in your outro This is important.
the problem if nick becomes a detective is that he would spend all the money flying to Japan
That sounds vaguely like an anime plot. An American detective who exclusively solves Japanese mysteries.
@Neptune Clockwise I'd assume it'd be vaguely like Phoenix Wright but with like, 500% more action.
"They were last seen heading south out of LA? And the getaway car had Arizona plates?" Out of options and desperate for some sort of resolution, Detective Nick knew what he had to do...
"Sir, this case has been dead for over 23 years..."
"Do it."
"But sir, the budget, the... Surely you haven't forgotten Paris."
"He gets results, he gets it done. We got them in Paris, remember."
"I remember, but at what cost?..."
...
"It's time to bring in the biggest damn gun we got. Bring him in. _Bring in Robinson."_
That would make him detective conan
_When he found Patrick but there are still 20 minutes left:_
*SOMETHING‘S WRONG, I CAN FEEL IT*
Lol
Lol yeah
Lmaoooo fr😂😂😂
"It could be Matt..."
From Wii Sports
@@gracecox4961 no. He's too busy clapping People on Wii games
“Everyone had been wondering, what color was Ken Watanabe’s left shoe? So I bought a plane ticket to Japan to find out.”
Mood
Yuri??
i like how Patrick is one of the most famous celebrities in Japan and he just casually meets up with someone hes never met before
"Brian... something..."
"...Is that Matt?"
oh man oH MAN
He knew all along but he didn't knew what he knew.
He didn’t want to mess up any non disclosure agreements probably
at 22:14 u can see theres someone called matt uhi so maybe thats y he said matt. idk y he would say domenic alen's full name (that shows there probably no disclosure agreements) but only say brains last name. i think he just put the "Brian... something..."
"...Is that Matt?" thing together so its sounds cooler. long story short i think the guy on the phone meant matt uhi instead of brian matt.
@@fuzzybuddy2950 pretty sure one of them had to have contacted brian matt, since he randomly got a email from brian about the situation. So one of them had to have figured out the full name.
@@xyzqsrbo im just say that i think the the name matt was about someone else and nick robinson wanted to sound deep for some reason so hes say that the guy meant brain matt instead of matt uhi.
I’ve never heard about this game before and yet I’m sitting here watching a half-hour-long video about it.
Make a video about he best memes of the decade
Hey kadz
Kadz 420k subs, noice
Kadz same lol
its a half and hour? i didn't even notice. and i have never heard of this game to just got recommend to me
What I find really wholesome is that, if this guy was actually credited, 2 million people wont have known about him and how nice this group of English voice actors from Tokyo are.
Dude I started tearing up when I heard his voice and it matched. It’s heartwarming knowing my childhood was complete. Achievement unlocked
The smile on Brian Matt’s face when you asked him to do the voice made me feel so warm inside.
Wow that's actually nuts that they were able to identify his voice 20 years later and separately come up with his first and last name
Holy hell I love coincidences sometimes
I wonder if it's because of Surnames before given names in Japanese... Maybe Chris Wells prefers to use this structure as his normal way of speaking?
@@sergeanthawkins omg that is actually 100,000,000 iq
Both names sounded like first names. Lmao.
Absolutely bananas
“In order to solve this mystery I knew there was only one thing I could do so I booked a flight to Japan”
I'm just so glad I was right
@@jarenbayon9286 hey, you're right
I guess the odds are pretty high since it's Nick , but i am still very impressed you guessed he was booking another flight before the video even premiered.
Iconic
it reminded me of nathaniel bandy new super mario bros 2 all coins "i needed 2 players so the logical thing for me to do was to buy a second 3DS"
Hearing Brian Matt in the interview saying "Ready? Go!" hit an emotional nostalgia spot that made me tear up. I remember playing Monkey Ball after school for like 3 months straight. I still play it on an Emulator every now and then. Thanks for that Nick, and by extension Brian.
i'm literally obsessed with how this guy goes to extreme just to find answers for the type of question you ask google in a bad position
I wonder if anyone helped fund his trip to Japan to do this because of how trivial it can seem...plus flights are expensive!
Patrick's Wikipedia page has been updated thanks to this video
really
lmao
I made the 499 likes to 500!
I thought i was gonna be the 666 likes but i clicked reply and its 669
Noice
I like the implication that at some point, Brian heard from his VA friends that some weird youtuber named Nick was looking for the Super Monkey Ball VA and he was just like, "Oh cool can I have his email?"
I feel like Brians the guy who eavesdrops and thats how he found out.
@@AtasiProductions I haven't seen Chris or Patrick in a year or so. I received one email from Chris and Nick was cc'd asking if I was the narrator. Nick then asked to chat on Skype. Don't forget 99% of our work as narrators are solo in the booth so we don't meet for years.
@@brianmatttokyo688 Thank you for taking the time to solve this mystery. You are awesome!
@@brianmatttokyo688 Super nice of you for reaching out to Nick for an interview! So cool to see such a nuanced mystery like this solved nearly 20 years later.
@@brianmatttokyo688 Thank you for taking the time to chat with Nick about this. :D
This is SO sweet! It blows my mind how so many contributions go uncredited, especially in game making. And it is so sweet that he voiced that outro for you. Thanks for chasing this and sharing this with us all.
I love how this guy is like, “No answers on the internet? Off to Tokyo!”
Sorry dude... I didnt like so that the number of likes could stay at 69. I would if it wasn't at 69 tho
@@gradiantz It's ruined, you can like now.
Y’all it’s 696 pls don’t ruin it ;-;
@@xxB0NE3ATRxx Ruin it.
@@opossumontheinternet9864 did... really late
This got me all emotional on a game I didn’t even play
I don't even like the game series but this is some BBC levels of research
Funny what some people do for something not even important
Same here
Same dwd same
I used to play this game forever when I was smol
* me seeing video title*
* me seeing who is it from*
"He went to Japan again, didn't he"
I mean he likes Japan
I remember when I was younger, like 5-8, I had this weird thing for crushing on video game narrators. I could confidently say that the Super Monley Ball Narrator was my first crush ever. So hearing the Narrator and finally figuring out who tf he was all this time is bringing back surpressed, nostalgic memories of being a weird kid and I love it.
lol a voice was your crush
@@cookieswithoutcreamstay away from the tsp fandom
I wish I had the confidence to meet with a Japanese celebrity in order to talk about Monkey Ball.
I wish I had the confidence (and money) to fly al the way to Japan just to meet with a Japanese celebrity just to talk monkey ball
I wish I had the money TO FLY TO TOKYO
I wish I had the money TO FLY
I wish I HAD money
PhoenixXPhoenix monkey ball? What about.. dragon ball!
“You found me!”, “I found you!”, “I found him.”, he found him.
We found him
He was found
Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.
Im not sure if im correct on this but i think they found him
indeed
He just did a trip to Japan JUST TO FIND OUT WHO IS THE MONKEY BALL ANNOUNCER?!
*i am proud*
"Casually, as one does"
Nick: "Can't find answers? Fuck it, going to Japan."
I think my favorite moment is seeing how red Nick's face turns when Brian does the voice--how relieved and stunned and awed he is that he managed to find the right voice actor. I think he might be trying not to cry.
accurate
Thought so.
That was the most warming moment of the video right there, the feels for when you just hear the voices from the game, being spoken from the mystery man of all these years who was no longer a mystery, Brian Matt!
Solstice Hannan it all felt like a movie to me
SPOILERS
Somebody: yeah he lives in Ja-
Nick: SO I BOOKED A TICKET
gaming
Went from 0-60 real quick
House of Beans
Somebody : Karen lives in a US-
Me : SO I BOOKED MY TICKET TO KILL HER
House of Beans 0-64 real quick
Before this video I had no interest in who the narrator was, then 2 minutes in im emotionally invested in knowing who this mystery man is.
I felt exactly the same.
The rope a dope...and we the dopes!
-George Forman
The real Brian Matt is the friends we made along the way
Why is nobody talking about Matt's smile when Nick asks for the lines? That was so pure
I had no idea what was going on and didn't know this was for a video. I ran home from doing a narration for the Robot Restaurant and thought it would be just a casual chat with someone interested in gaming. I honestly had no idea what was going on. When someone asks you for a voice from years ago that touched their lives, for me it is emotional. Years ago, I was interpreting for George Michael for 2 NHK interviews and I told him I loved "Father Figure" as I heard that song in my early days in Japan and it was my "link" to outside Japan. George sang the chorus for me when they were doing lighting and I swelled up - a moment I will never forget.
Nick: calls
Pat: こんにちは
Nick: hi
Pat's voice : I just flipped the switch (switch, switch)
I have seen people with that dog as their pfp but edited slightly, is it some meme and if it is can you tell me what it’s called
Same with Chris
@@gothamgymnast4638 its called dogwifhat gang
but he said moshi moshi not konnichiwa
PotatoFridges it’s the same meaning but with different spellings so just don’t worry bout it
"You're the youtuber!"
Nic: *Smiles*
Oh- so wholesome
Nick*
@@ReatExists kinda the same thing, ngl
@@coolestdude244 ok
@@coolestdude244 boomer
@@LordArbiterThermite ok womber
To me, this is a massive reminder for how big an impact a moment can make in someones life. Something that for Brian was 3 hours worth of work on a random day 20 years or so ago has become something that people care about enough to go on a weeks long investigative search, theory crafting possible answers, and even taking a flight out to Japan to solve. This was actually such an amazing search, and i could really see the passion, amazement and relief in your eyes when Brian said those lines, and it hit you properly that yes, this guy is the voice that you heard throughout your childhood!
Honestly, I’m just impressed by the dedication he had to literally go to Japan JUST to find out who the smb announcer is.
This isn't out of the ordinary for him hahsh
You can't just go and say smb, it can also be interpreted as super mario bros
First time?
@@aoshi9254 no
I have no idea who you are,
I have no idea what the hell monkey Ball is,
I've never heard of this Patrick in my life.
Loved the vid
Same
I know who this is, I know what monkey ball is, but I never heard of Patrick
same
Same
Oml I just saw this on my recommended lol I feel the same about this vid
Nick has a really unique eye when it comes to this kind of thing. Over the past year he’s become one of my favorite TH-camrs because he finds a way to find the importance of minuscule things and i really like that about him
earlybird nothing better than deep dives on things that don’t matter at all
anD NO ANNOYING SPONSORSHIPS!
earlybird exactly, he can make me care about any obscure mystery as long as he goes to Japan in search of answers
Mario hair
I dont like how he flaunts his money with how many fucking times he goes to japan, for such minuscule things
The way you work towards these projects and explain that to an audience, the careful attention to all of these amazing things you work out is a love letter to the passion and drive that started the video game industry as a whole. These videos are like opening a box you found in the back of your childhood closet , full of nostalgia and fresh perspective all mixing into a warm feeling as you admire things that had an influence as a kid, truly good work.
Did not expect Brian Matt to recall the details of the session so well. What a great suprise!
That ending needs to be your end card for everything now. I can believe you got the monkey ball announcer to say like and subscribe. TBH I cried during this video. Thanks for figuring out the mystery to one of my favourite games. Now I'm off to play Monkey Ball. Again.
If the story was just another 30 minutes longer this could be a whole movie
And it would be my favourite
true
Actually, not even that. It has to only be 40 minutes.
We were so close to greatness
W E W E R E T H I S C L O S E
Coming soon to theaters near you...."The Narrator"