How I solved Super Monkey Ball's biggest mystery
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ธ.ค. 2019
- For nearly two decades, the Super Monkey Ball announcer has been shrouded in complete anonymity. But who is he really?
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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.
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
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
Plot twist: The voice actor was actually a person named Monkey Voice.
Gud
Omg
yO. I want that name.
@@gizmoduuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu2773 lmfao
@@ToastBoastOfficial God???
The big smile on Brians face when you asked him to say some voice lines from SMB just warmed my heart
Yeah, me too. He seemed so satisfied with the interview
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
"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.
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
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 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.
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
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
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
Brian Matt literally doing that line for Nick at the end of the video is really satisfying to hear.
Spoiler damn
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.
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
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.
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.
“See turns out he actually became an astronaut, so there was only one simple solution: I bought a plane ticket to the moon”
or maybe he took a plane to tokyo
Or the ISS
@@Nepko360 or the ISS in school
Was that a fly me to the moon reference?
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
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!
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
I think at this point he's just trying to find excuses to go to japan
Tax write off and stuffs
At this point? Took you long enough
“Let’s fly to Japan to find out!”
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!
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.
“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 didnt find the narrator, the narrator found him.
He place himself in the position for the narrator to find him and let him know that someone cared.
666th like 😍😍😍
In USSR, you don't find the narrator, the narrator finds you.
Nick: "Can't find answers? Fuck it, going to Japan."
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.
“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"
“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
The real Brian Matt is the friends we made along the way
Nick: *calls*
Pat: Moshi-Moshi
Nick: Hi
Pat: *aight, english mode*
this makes me laugh so hard
E
O
I feel so weak now oml... WHY DOES THIS GET ME SO MUCH XD
ERROR : ENGLISH NOT FOUND
“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
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.
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
"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-
"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.
Dude I started tearing up when I heard his voice and it matched. It’s heartwarming knowing my childhood was complete. Achievement unlocked
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.
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
“Try not to fly to Japan challenge [HARD]”
*Three seconds later*
“I’m sorry!”
1k like!
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.
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!
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 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
In search of answers,
*i listened to every humans voice in the world and found out who the announcer is.*
The dedication he flew to Tokyo just for the chance to see a celebrity to ask him hey are you in super monkey Ball
Nah this is a regular occurence on this channel
@@drawnwithlove3499 it is regular but that makes him even more dedicated he's dedicated to being dedicated
And Patrick was totally chill with it. What a guy.
I love it when celebrities act like just... normal people instead of being self-righteous pompous assholes.
@@sessasalon and the fact that he' s dedicated to being dedicated and that makes him dedicated is dedication
“The entire Internet was wrong about something, something significant.”
Well...
i guess it cant be the first time
Idk if id say "significant" but it was a fun video
@@grainthe2nd71 It's pretty significant.
@@notoverwatch6991 I mean idk, can you give me a good reason why specifically knowing the voice actor of the narrator of monkey ball is significant?
@@grainthe2nd71 *cAn y0u g1Ve a siNgle REas0n WHy its n0t?*
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 is simultaneously the most dumb and amazing thing I’ve ever heard of
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.
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!
Nobody:
Nick: "It was then that I realized my bag of Cheetos was empty. I knew there was only one solution. So I booked a flight to Japan."
Out of options and desperate for answers...
I knew I had to go to the cheetos Japan headquarters
Guys dont give him ideas... he might find some mystery or important person just so he can make that joke
Where did this start
@@usernamesnull I hope so
went through the motions watching this, loved hearing you geek out and express the same love i had for this game growing up. IMAGINE my shock hearing the outro. had tears in my eyes, i’m so glad you did this
20:08 i like how it passes by brian matt
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!
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
drink a beer and watchin so much nick youtube video on the computer. The ideal
Just want to bring out how awesome these guys are for taking time out of their busy day just to help fans of their work with something that is, to them, likely very inconsequential. Not to mention Patrick is a literal celebrity in Japan but met a small youtuber in person for a random interview.
Chris: “Is that... Matt...? No its a little higher pitched.”
Later in the video
Matt: Its me dawg
Ok
Is that the same Matt
Oh wait it is oof
shi i spoiled
Good point. When I am on the shinkansen, plane or wherever, I say, oh yes that is "insert name here"'s voice.
This channel should be called “I booked a flight to japan”
More like how to write off trips to japan as a business expense
facts
Ikr
"Going to Japan last minute repeatedly just to find out one fact and immediately leave"
@@Kokanauka yes
You know, he did something that seems impossible for most of us. This is not just a video of a guy finding the narrator of a monkey game, this video shows how you can do *everything* if you really want to do it and work for it. You can do *everything* if you dont give up. Thank you for this video, love your work
I know, I won't even turn my head to figure out what the current time of day it is sometimes!
The way you tell stories and the music you add, all the suspense and surprise, just gets me so invested. I was genuinely interested in finding out who the narrator of this game was and I'd never even heard about it before.
"So to get the answer, there was only one thing I could do"
Awh shit is this the channel that loves to go to Japan for no reason?
"I had to go to tokyo"
It is
Oh no i just ran out of milk.. Well there's only one thing i can do... Japan here i come.
No reason? I think you mean EVERY reason.
@@godlyvex5543 More reasons than things that crash Paper Mario.
Maybe he actually works there on occasion
Hang on... I think I know this guy from the dog baseball game... But was he also the Pizza Hut guy from years ago?
*"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.
"Brian Matt" is the greatest plot twist since Darth Vader being Luke's father
This is extraordinary!
Thank you for solving these mysteries for us man!
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
My guy flew all the way to Tokyo just to know who the Monkey Ball announcer was
He flew all the way to Japan to figure out the mystery of a Pizza Hut Hatsune Miku campaign.
He flew there for a F***ING STICKER
@@Mysgelatin Let's not be misled here. With regards to all of these videos where he goes to Japan, the Domino's Pizza/sticker/voice actor search was not the only or even primary reason. He just likes to go to Japan, and when he goes, he likes to find things like this to help make the trip feel more worth it.
Remember, he actually didn't need to be in Japan at all for this video. All of his researching was done by e-mail/phone, and so was the voice call at the end. Only the in-person interview with Patrick Harlan needed him to be in Japan, but that could've been done over the phone.
@@theSato have you heard of a joke?
Super well done and entertaining. Youre an amazing investigative journalist. All of these mysteries are so obscure, yet you make them worth finding out with your passion!
I agree. And the editing, pacing, storytelling, etc of this video are very well done.
This video is actually incredible, keep up the great work
Having enough money and commitment to pull off the same running joke so many times is equaly disturbing and arousing
*a r o u s i n g ?*
he can write it off on taxes since its for work. a.k.a: TH-cam
its quite genius actually
Arousing??
He's probably gonna get a second home in Japan soon
wet fellow He probably did all of these on the same trip to Japan.
How's it feel to be an official source on a Wikipedia page?
Pure multiple times if you have a Wikipedia page on yourself and that other information
What page?
@@I_was_a_Bullfrog probably the ones for Brian matt and super monkey ball
Every time this video appears in my youtube feed, it makes me wanna pick up my old childhood game I'd play with my dad and my brother. This game means so much to me and your storytelling in your videos is amazing
Thank you for making videos like this. I love inconsequential mysteries and even more when they are solved, I feel like this is one of the best things the internet has to offer. :,)
This whole video was another excuse for Nick to fly to Japan
AsfaeksBR who wouldn’t want to go there 😋
All of his videos are
I feel like at this point he’s probably only gone once, or maybe twice. He probably just plans out what he’s going to do beforehand
AsfaeksBR that’s his meaning of life. To uncover gaming mysteries and go to Japan so those things intertwine so what
Oh shit, you beat me to the joke. Take all my blue thumbs up.
"For this reason, I knew hunting down Patrick was going to be tricky"
DON'T YOU DARE
"I knew I had to track him down in person"
NO, DON'T YOU DO IT, NICK, STOP
"So I booked a flight to Japan"
FOR FUCKS SAKE NICK
So i booked a flight to mars...
Same. I was sitting there going like
I know where this is going. Nick stop.. Nick no NO! GOD DAMN IT NICK EVERY TIME!
My Strange Addiction
Next question: are Martians real?
After the shirt reveal earlier today we all knew this was happening
So happy I found this video. I love your channel, and once I found this video I loved your channel. It was like, early last year when I found it
Earned a new sub, cool sorta detective work. Your videos are very entertaining as you do go the extra mile to make them.
Very good content.
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 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
I'm so glad for videos like these! Thanks for the hard work!
I have no connection to Super Monkey Ball apart from playing it a couple of times back in the day and had no care really in the world for who the narrator was but I clicked on this video out of complete boredom and ISTG, I’ve never genuinely smiled so wide and whole heartedly in years as I have when you finally interviewed Brian. Seriously, thank you for this, for some reason this just...resonated with me 👏🏻
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!!
Everyone else: I don't need sleep, I need answers.
Nick: I don't need sleep, I need to go to Japan
So I booked a ticket
@@floatingduck6232 to find answers....
On why I like japan
The forst video i literally did this with, havent even played monkeyball
At this point it would probably be less expensive to just move there
Proud of ya man, love the video. and a fan of the series as well. xp
i’ve never even heard of this game, and yet you had me fully engaged in it for this whole video. that’s some talent
“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
As it turns out the real narrator was the friends we made along the way.
🗃
Lol
The real narrator was the flight to Japan
Actually laughed out loud
Perfect!!
I have no sentimental connection to this game what so ever, but you made this dtory really well and oddly enough i couldnt watch it without getting tears in my eyes! Bravo 👏
What a rewarding and immersive video this was. You really made me care about this mystery :)
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
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
Brian seemed super cool! This was a really fun to watch, thank you for the hard work that went into it.