 As a young autistic kid, I used to come home from school every day to watch some of my favourite programmes. Usually they were on shows or programmes such as Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network, those tend to be the ones that I used to watch. On those networks I used to watch such shows as The Sweet Life of Zack and Cody, iCarly, alongside Wizards of Waverly Place. I think those are the ones that I can remember off the top of my head that I used to watch a lot. Well today we're going to be talking about a producer who was on a lot of these shows, a guy called Dan Schneider, who made some very questionable decisions in their production and management of these shows. Recently I think there was a docuseries that came out which dived into the sort of the corruption and some of the less favourable aspects of the whole Nickelodeon kind of Cartoon Network production. Well today we're going to be having a look at a video from Penguin Zero, moist critical, taking a look into the Dan Schneider situation. Let's see what he has to say and see if I can add anything. Victorious, yeah that was another one. I didn't really watch that much though, it wasn't really for me. If you grew up during the 90s or the early 2000s there's an extremely high chance that you watched some of Dan Schneider's shows. It was like impossible to avoid him, it'd be like trying to dodge raindrops during a thunderstorm. Dan Schneider during this period was the king of children's television programs. He made some of the most influential productions like Drake and Josh, the Amanda Show, I, Harley. His résumé is just stacked with tons of shows that I imagine meant a lot to many of you growing up. And make no mistake, you meant a lot to the creator of these shows as well. Well not so much you but your feet certainly did. The creator of these shows is a monstrous foot fetishist, Dan Get in the Van Schneider. He is a vile, creepy, disgusting human being and this has been known for years. However, a new docuseries just dropped really diving into this subject matter and putting a spotlight on it in a way that hasn't previously been explored. It's called... Yeah. I don't know if you guys have watched shows like iKali starting to feel old, yeah. But I do remember a lot of really weird scenes on iKali where they were sort of highlighting feet a lot. I never really clocked it as it being anything that was concerning but I guess looking back on it, looking back on the lens that it was in, it does seem a bit weird. Have you guys seen the one where Ariana Grande like tries to like milk a potato? That was such a weird clip. Like I can't remember what exactly that was on but I think I saw it on YouTube at one point. It's really like not okay. I'm pretty sure that Amanda Bynes already had a chemical impulse but should have drove her off into the deep end. Carti Nelwick better than Nickelodeon. The docuseries leaves a lot Yeah, it was really weird. Quiet Onset. Now, if you don't know what Dan looks like, here's a nice picture of him here. He looks like he was made in the Dragon's Dogma 2 character creator and Dan Schneider has become the face of Quiet Onset. However, it actually explores more than that. It's like a whole deep look at all of the horrible things that were going on during these Nickelodeon productions. It's more than just Dan but he obviously plays a central role here because he made these shows. He was the head honcho of most of this and he was well aware of some of these terrible and downright criminal things that were going on behind the scenes on some of these shows. And the reason I mentioned the foot fetishism off a rip here is because that was one of the first things that people really caught on to in the public eye. After Dan's glory days at Nickelodeon people started to pick up on how odd it was that a lot of these children's shows had an emphasis on feet frequently. It was a common thread throughout a lot of these shows like feet humor and having these I don't know. I haven't really heard much like when it comes to like drama or news around characters but I did remember that there was something between like the the two guys from Drake and Josh. I can't remember they had maybe they had some kind of beef or something. Then it was kind of like this weird sort of makeup video that they made. It's a bit strange. Yeah I mean I do I do also because I was really into Wizards of Wavre Place. I remember when Selena Gomez started like a music career. I was really into her music for like quite a while. I used to listen to it quite a bit when I was going probably like the ages about 12, 13. What was it called? It's called like Kiss and Tell something like that. I think there was another person or is it like Miley Cyrus who came came up through kind of a similar. I don't really know much about like the productions and how it all interconnects and stuff but I do remember like little pieces from my childhood sort of slid in there. I like saying Schneider it's very satisfying to say. Selena Gomez is awesome. Yeah I really liked her music. I did have a big crush on her to be honest. I think I like sent her some fan mail at one point. Oh poor little autistic Tom. These child actors and actresses displaying their feet and in 2013 one of the shows Dan worked on Sam and Kat actually ran a competition where kids were supposed to submit pictures of their feet to them. Like that's weird no matter how you spin it. That's a really weird thing to request from your audience of children to take pictures of their feet for you. That's just downright creepy and wrong. I can't believe that tweet is still up by the way over a decade later and no one thought to delete that. That is impressive. But anyway people started to pick up on Dan's fixation with stompers and it seemed like his fetish was bleeding into his work and he was having the children unknowingly participate in it by having them display their feet. That's what it seemed to a lot of people so it was obviously very concerning so people did more and more digging they found more and more evidence of Dan being an awful piece of shit behind the scenes with a lot of shady things going on there and it just led to this reputation that people for years have known that Dan blows loads to toes Schneider is not a good person. Dan blows loads to toes Schneider. Oh that's gross. Put ketchup on feet. Don't break my heart mate, you're breaking your heart. He's talking about I had a mud tunnel. Oh my god. Wait what was that? There was like a Billy Ray Cyrus video that the horse the horse music video. Do you remember that one? I kind of like it. I think it slaps. I know some people find it a bit meme-ish. I like it. Take my horse to the hotel road. Gonna ride to I can't no more. To be honest I don't watch a lot of TV and radio so I imagine that that was probably played quite a lot for a lot of people and so got a bit a lot of people got a bit sick of it but never never for me I just found it on Spotify one day and I liked it. You like feats Isabella? Interesting. It's not it's not the worst like thing to like I suppose like there's worse things I guess not not to kink shame but maybe maybe not children than Snyder. That's a bit weird. And now Quiet on the set has released and so much information has come out not just about Dan but about that entire Nickelodeon workplace around these child stars. Arguably the largest piece of new information that dropped during the stocky series was the sexual abuse of Drake Bell by someone named Brian Peck. So Brian Peck was a coach at Nickelodeon whom was sexually abusing Drake Bell and he was actually convicted and wait I swear like in the in the series Drake and Josh wasn't Josh called Josh Peck. Is that a different person? Is he talking about a different person? No I was joking okay. That's a good joke you got me. Josh Peck? Yeah is it a different person this Brian guy? I didn't really follow much much when it comes to like celebrities and things like that so I'm a little bit out of the loop I suppose. In 2004 he spent 16 months in the slammer and then immediately upon release landed a job with Disney. If that doesn't show just how rotten to the core this industry is I don't know what will. There is deep-seated evil in Hollywood. Wait he went to jail for loo- Wait so he got he got jailed for he got jailed for like what abusing Drake Bell and then he got signed on to to do another Disney show? What? How does that happen? Are they are they that like? Oh hollywoods. Lude acts with a minor he is a sex offender a convicted sex offender and he immediately got a Disney channel job working on the sweet life of Zack and Cody what the fuck? Oh no. That's mind-boggling. That's not just irresponsible that's malicious it's not like they just made some kind of mistake where they put a sex offender in a role where he works almost exclusively with children like it's not like they made a whoopsie daisy they just happened to overlook that he's a sex offender they knew they would have to know and they still hired him for that role regardless that's scary that's terrifying they're actively enabling a fucking sex offender to potentially prey on more children Drake also described that when he went into court Brian Peck had the support of some very powerful and familiar faces there were 41 character letters written to the judge asking for leniency for Brian Peck 41 letters of support from industry personnel that were trying to get a lighter sentence for Brian Peck even knowing that he is guilty of the crimes for which he is about to face the punishment that is asking for a more generous yeah Hollywood is disgusting what the heck I could have sworn you just said Disney I might have done I don't get feet fetishes like what next nose fetishes I think I don't know maybe I don't want to go into that I think I think I've read something about why that that's a thing that was a youtube video diving into like strange like fetishes that people have and why it might have happened I mean there's worse ones that you can have you like arms do you have an arm fetish I don't even want to look at my feet though they are kind of gorgeous Sarah says I had to dump a guy I liked a lot because I couldn't do the feet thing and that was a mandatory for him and I felt more alone than with him being more interested in my feet than me that's so weird yeah I mean like I think um it's quite a common thing for like women to be like asked like DM'd asked for like pictures of their feet like people who have foot fetishes just seem to have um they have like like a lot of balls for just like going out there and just like asking for what they want like you know you're like squeezing arms hello Brittany we're diving into a very scandalous topic today oh hello autistic page good to see you sentence these weren't just 41 pieces of toilet paper with nonsensical scribblings on it from nobodies these were 41 character letters that were submitted by industry personnel some of whom were high up on the food chain so these things carried weight and they're advocating for someone who is guilty of sexually abusing a child holy shit they just viewed it as not a big deal I guess ah listen judge I understand Brian Peck diddled a child who Nickelodeon hasn't are you really gonna throw him away and put him away and throw away the key for that what about season three of Drake and Josh what actually matters here let's think about that like this is crazy to me it almost stops being surprising learning that Brian Peck landed a job at Disney right after his 16 months in prison for this crime because it seems like that entire industry just does not give a fuck about the safety of kids to begin with so like I said quiet on set isn't just about Dan Schneider and all of the awful things that he has done it's about how awful that entire industry itself is but once again Dan Schneider does still play a large role in this docuseries highlighting the bad workplace and environment that he would cultivate the weird shit that would go on in like the writer's room and the way he treats some people just a whole plethora of different bad stuff and in response to all of this Dan Schneider himself actually stepped out from the shadows leaving his little gopher's hidey hidey hole and addressing it head on in one of the most painfully scripted and staged apology video interviews I have actually watched that it's it's it's it's something to behold have you guys watched it the um the Dan Schneider interview it's like some guy that he's like Pally with who's like trying to fake like he's interrogating Dan Schneider but it's not like it's just no pushback at all like he's just it's quite it's quite it's quite humorous actually watching it because it's just so obviously staged like I don't know how they could watch that back and think yeah that sounds good and authentic let's just put that out what the hell they treat children like commodities use them and spit them out color burns are sexy to you interesting I've been asked for that on DMs yeah you should just send them like a stock image of some like really awful feet they might like that though I don't I don't know what goes on in their minds views I've ever seen hey it's boogie I play t-bowl and Nickelodeon's I got a chance to watch the quiet on set program and I reached out to Dan to see if it was something that he'd be willing to discuss I'm pleased to say that he said yes Dan how are you I'm okay I'm okay the interview is not conducted by a professional it's conducted by a former actor and one of Dan Schneider's shows and he is not equipped to handle something like this this is the biggest load of baloney like this is just some straight up fucking malarkey there is no pushback from boogie on anything in this interview at all it's just strategic softballs designed to give Dan Schneider some kind of sympathetic PR win yeah where he comes out of this looking better where he comes out of this like not the bad guy it's so deplorable that they'd even try something like this with a straight face I think it is extremely transparent what this is and I'm happy to say pretty much everyone saw straight through this this did not give Dan Schneider the dunk I think he was expecting it to this did not make him look any better in the public side it actually just made it look even more sinister that he was able to it seems preprepare this interview to mitigate the potential fallout from the docu series airing yeah straight up malarkey yeah send them a foot full of bunions you could use a picture of my feet they'll teach them well I'm glad you're covering this because I barely had anything about it yeah it's it's it's definitely like one of the things that I talked about alone like at the moment hence why I'm so I'm trying to like reach perhaps do do some outreach to like I don't know like I'm trying some stuff out with my channel now that I know that I want to do live streaming more often so we're having a go oh no cherries did you get punished by the robot marvin has come down upon you I think that guy was manipulated the interviewer maybe but it's definitely not like a genuine like well done interview it's just completely just constructed like it's so obvious straight up malarkey let's talk about the massages okay watching the current hit yesterday it was disturbing it was wrong it was wrong that I ever put anybody in that position it was wrong thing to do I'd never do it today yeah that I did it there yeah I think I saw some something about him like going around like giving massages to people I remember that you like this content Thomas maybe we'll do some more of it that really depends they say all the clips do I and I apologize to anybody that I ever put in that situation Dan talked to me about the writer's room from what I saw that cool no no and I don't mean to cut you off but if I can cut right to the chase let me just say no writer should ever feel uncomfortable in any writer's room ever period the end no excuses it starts with what's supposed to be this moment of taking accountability Dan Schneider is just point blank apologizing and you know holding himself accountable for the sins of the past type vibe except he's really not like these aren't things that you just like a hand wave away with like a simple apology a lot of what was reported is like unforgivable bad shit like there's really no way of apologizing for the things that Dan Schneider has done and also just hide away used up so it's just it's it feels so fucking insincere and Dan Schneider got away with it and it seems will continue to get away with it so he loses nothing by doing something like this which just makes it frustrating to see him parade around pretending like he cares now all of a sudden like it's extremely easy for him just be like oh yeah that was bad if I feel bad for that oh what a regret and yep not good like it's just I want I would have liked if the interviewer was someone that would legitimately dive into a lot of these things and actually press him specific things this interview never even addresses the things that people want to hear from Dan on such as like the sexualization of the children in those shows even outside of all the foot stuff Dan included some very inappropriate things in his programs such as Ariana Grande milking a potato and then another scene with her getting like splashed with water and shit like all of it was very unacceptable and seems to sexualize the child actors and actresses in his productions and that was never even brought up in this interview so this interview just it doesn't have any real substance to it it is legitimately just a scripted PR play from Dan I cut it I want my shows to be popular I want everyone to like so fake this interview here I am yeah so if there's anything in a show that needs to be cut because it's upsetting somebody let's cut it so I think it's big for you to say with your work oh yeah well done you does that today you don't have a problem cut it cut it from the solution the last the acting here is just it's not even good acting like oh it's just funny isn't it I just don't understand how he thinks that that would have a positive impact on people all nick was creepy did not watch it oh well I watched it a lot but I was I was like a kid but then I didn't really understand the context of all of this I don't think even my parents would be like aware of it you know they hopefully don't understand their empower over young actors I want to ever do put any content in a show that's going to upset my audience and make them want to turn off the TV why would I ever want to do that that makes sense this is him addressing a question that boogie asked about like inappropriate jokes in there without getting too deep into the weeds just a broad subject of some of these jokes have aged poorly and people look at them as inappropriate for a child audience how do you respond the most softball way of asking this question mind you and his response was cut it just get rid of it I don't want it in the show if it's aged bad and it makes people uncomfortable or you know this and that cut it and boogie's like yeah but he did it in the first place oh my goodness wow that's so benevolent that what a great solution yeah that makes sense what the fuck it's so easy for him to say that now but it doesn't take away the fact that you filmed it if you cut ariana grande milking a potato type shit if you cut some of the foot stuff that you included it they still did it and people still saw it you know and he still saw it you know without with a whole like foot pictures stuff it's gross it doesn't change the fact that you still had the child actors and actresses doing that shit and we're sexualizing them it still happened that's still bad cutting it from the final product doesn't erase what you did it's it's it's so frustrating that there's no pushback on any of this in the interview he just gets to let him say his piece and then get applaud applause for it it's it's so stupid and when drake just no no push at all like on any of the things that people are actually upset at him for that i mean doll says like the kid gibby always who always took his shirt off before he would dance yeah that was a bit weird to be honest looking back on it like he's always getting his um yeah yeah i tell you it's kind of it's bringing back like little snippets of like the shows that just seem a bit a bit questionable now in hindsight when are people going to realize that many industries are designed to allow people with power to pray on the innocent without being held accountable money and connections that's all it takes sadly yeah i mean even when it comes to like things like the music business and like stuff related to acting i think a lot of that is based on like what connections you have there's not many people who don't have some kind of high up connection who get to become like celebrities or stars it's not very common you know and i talked and he told me what had happened i was more devastated by that than anything that ever happened to me in my career thus far 41 of those people wrote letters for peck character letters praising him for who he was and i was just talking about that and they knew that he was guilty they knew he hit so he's redirecting it towards towards other people i say what you're doing snidey sinister snider it confessed to some degree and they still did but drakes mom a lovely woman who i stay in contact with this day she came to me at the time and she said would you help me with my speech for the judge i said of course it's like the fake is crying the wedding is oh my god i mean even this guy just has some pretty intensive like botox regimen or he's just the the worst at acting but oh my god like it's like the fakest crying i've ever seen and they still did this but drakes mom a lovely woman who i stay in contact with this day she came to me at the time and she said would you help me i said of course i did the inch nighters fission for the nicolodians kid choice award for the best fake crying super forced and super insincere him tearing up while talking about this story this is him talking about the drake and brian peck case where he mentions 41 people wrote those letters and it baffled him and then drakes mom actually asked him to help her write her piece which he did and that leads me to a question of if you knew all this why didn't you back up drake bell but the way it's described brian peck had all these people in his corner but drake really only had his mom and his brother why weren't you more involved then like i imagine that could have been extraordinarily helpful but regardless this interview doesn't do anything to change my perception of dan schneider or anyone else's really i imagine it's kind of more of a solidifying thing this isn't really an interview it's just a pr piece disguised as an interview it's just it's just more despicable garbage here but anyway i wanted to talk about this a little bit again the docke series is called quiet on set it's out now and uh yeah just kind of wanted to go over it a little bit that's it so yeah that was so weird honestly like the whole hollywood kind of like mainstream media stuff it's just so like there's so many like dark aspects to it and like corruption and like this whole this whole story this whole interview that that damn did i don't know i would disagree with what charlie said about like it just not not having much of impact i think if anything it's probably pointing more to like just how like deceptive this person is like it's it's kind of like negative pr in my mind