 Hey guys, welcome back to Come Again TV. We're all geek culture collides. I'm Shannon and today we're gonna be talking with Scott Nicewander from Nerdsync Productions right here on YouTube. So stay tuned Hey Scott, how's it going? All right, man. All right, so I don't know if you had a chance to check out the channel or not Like I said in the email. I'm trying to do some interviews with the other YouTube channels In the comic book field just to try and get to know everybody Because really all we see is You know the comic book side of everything and so I figured we'd get to know you guys personally on a personal level Alright, so Nerdsync has been a channel now for four years at least that's how old the earliest video on the channel is What has been your favorite video to make so far? That's a good question Favorite video to make so far has probably been We did an Adam West video recently that was like almost like a mini Documentary of the of the series and how that whole thing was created. I really love that video But I in terms of you know, I don't know. I have like a weird kind of one month Gap almost where Every video I make I I'm okay with it for a month and if the video is older than a month Then if I look back on it, I'll be like, oh, I hate this. I could have done it so much better So I really only think about the newer stuff for the most part We have a lot of good videos coming out, but I mean, yeah, I don't know I tend not to look back too far and be like, oh man, what a great time we had on this video But the Adam West one definitely I feel the same way I look it back at some of our earlier videos from a year and a half ago and it's just like horrendous kind of cringe-worthy From and it's the amount of like criticism that people have about themselves, you know myself including I look back And I'm just like like I said even just one month ago. I'll be like, oh man. I could have done that so much better I don't know why I chose to do it that way Did you go to school for film production or editing or SEO or anything I did I went to I went to a college in Tennessee for film production and I was going to Be I wanted to do visual effects. I wanted to do like after effects work And I still do a lot of it in our videos Currently and it's probably one of my favorite things to do but I never graduated I The kind of long and short of it is that I before I went to college I was watching another YouTube channel called film riot and They were very inspirational To get me into filmmaking and just making YouTube videos in general also not just film riot But also in the mogul which is having a little bit of a resurgence at the moment Which I love those channels love those channels. They're fantastic So those were incredibly inspiring and motivating for me to get into the film film production side of things. And so I wanted to I wanted to just you know, see what college had to offer and when I got there I Realized that all of the stuff they were teaching me was stuff that I already learned from these other YouTube channels So I was paying these people to tell me things. I already knew about so instead of instead of spending money spending time Learning about the stuff that I could and already did learn for free on the internet I decided why don't I just start making my own videos and see you know get more hands-on experience with that sort of stuff and That's the kind of thing I started with Nerdsync and That's Thankfully it all worked out in a couple years into it I just kind of I dropped out and I don't have a degree in film production or anything like that But I definitely that's what I was going to college for for a little bit All I walked away with was like tons of student loan debt. So hopefully Hopefully paid off. Yeah, I I tried going to school for journalism and that lasted a couple months. I Figured I just learned it on my own through the internet But yeah, those channels are great for filmmakers. They've helped me out a lot on my horror filmmaking. I've been doing some short horror films on another channel So those those are some really good channels Oh, yeah, definitely Before starting the Nerdsync channel. Did you have any other channels on YouTube? I know you have sidekick currently and your vlog thingy channel But what but was the vlog channel a predecessor to Nerdsync and what made you decide to build a channel that? Has become Nerdsync. Huh, so kind of a fun sad story. I I Started the videos that I started doing in college when I decided to start making videos was not actually Nerdsync at first It was a my own personal channel that doesn't exist anymore And I'm pretty sure it was just either it might have just been Scott and I spawned or no It was probably my old screen name Which you can still see in some really old Nerdsync videos, which was like the ace convict Which is a crazy dumb story about that name, but whatever So I started a channel there and I had a show called Scott's Thoughts and I would just make a video every week or something Like that just talking about random things that popped into my head And just really making it all weird and strange and however my sense of humor and style was back in the day And then anyone who's been on YouTube for a while might remember a few years ago maybe five or so years ago when YouTube and Google Plus merged together into one giant monster and for whatever reason That I Wanted to I guess I wanted to delete there was some like weird thing going on with like my channel is linked to a page on Google Plus that I don't want it to be so what if I just tried to delete this Google Plus page and then in doing so I Deleted my entire YouTube channel that had all of the Scott's Thoughts and things on it Which is why you can't find them on the internet anymore because in trying to just like you know make it simpler make it cleaner I deleted all of my videos and so Then I decided well, you know what I guess all I'm gonna do is create a brand new channel and just focus on the Stuff that people seem to like and on my original ace convict channel with the Scott's Thoughts, I also had a little bit of a Experiment talking about comic books and that was really fun for me to do and I thought why not just move it over As I create a brand new channel Let's let's let's do nerds sink and see where it goes from there So I had a couple I'm sure I had other channels before then but it was really just Scott's thoughts and then that is now erased from the internet archives I know how that goes man. Trust me When I delete my videos off the computer or whatever our old files or anything that's slowing my computer down Sometimes that one file that I want to keep ends up getting locked in there And I don't realize it and I just lose everything. Oh, it's worse So how did you come up with the name nerds sink anyway? Yeah, I I It's actually really funny and kind of mysterious even even to me But like I have a screenshot of The very first time I wrote the name nerds sink down and it was on a Facebook Post I guess where I just kind of said hey does anyone want to help me with this brand new project? I'm working on At the time it was supposed to be about you know taking in people not just comic book people But just people all sorts of nerds from all over the internet and saying like hey Let's all come together and just form a cool nerdy community where Are you know? I grew up in a kind of a community of nerds where people fought all the time because it's like you know nerds We're just like you're not a real nerd if you don't know this information about this thing Or if you don't if you don't like the original Star Trek over the next generation How could you even say that you're a Star Trek nerd? And so like I was just kind of sick of all that so I was like Why don't we just I want to create a place where people could just nerd out about stuff and like be open and accepting of one another Why would why would I want to you know create an environment where people are judging one another of that stuff? So I wanted to create a name that would kind of talk about nerds Synchronizing in one area of the internet and my my very first Name I think was probably like nerd like I don't know I went through a couple different things and finally just through the luck of having other People other creators take the names that I already wanted I just kind of like had my third option or fourth option of just like well I don't know how about nerd sink sure that sounds fine And then as I was writing that that mysterious Facebook post I was like I don't want to help me with this brand new project and people were like What is it and then in just like a one word? Reply in like all the way back in 2012 or 2013 or whenever it was it just says Nerd sink and I just took a screenshot of it like I went back maybe two years later And I was like where is that post I need to find it and I have a yeah I just have a screenshot. It's saved somewhere on my computer. So it is a pretty catchy name Is it well? Thank you. I you know, it's actually really funny about that Is there at around the exact same time that I started nerd sink? In fact, maybe a few weeks after maybe a month or so after at least two other Creators chose that same a similar name one of them was spelled with a Q instead of a C at the end So it's nerd sink. I'm sure it's supposed to be pronounced nerd sink as well That was maybe a few weeks after I chose my name And then there's also like a clothing company with an H at the end So it's still nerd sink but with an H so nerd I'm sure it's still probably pronounced nerd sink, but Nerd cinch is how I describe it, right? So just for some reason in this weird kind of cultural zeitgeist of the nerd community around the exact same time in 2012 People independently of one another all decided nerd sink sounds like a good name but we all chose to spell it differently and Just from the the look of the draw I was the one that's that rose up and cemented itself as that name because I'm pretty sure a couple of those other channels were tired of people Accidentally tagging me when they meant to tag them or vice versa. So they changed their names eventually to something else And I kind of feel bad about that I won so there Okay, so with ads, I know you had a little bit of trouble during the ad block Admageddon or whatever you want to call it adpocalypse With ads coming back and revenue returning for creators Do you think nerd sink could possibly return to what it used to be with multiple videos each week? Sooner rather than later. Yeah, so what's funny about that is I talked to several other people who have looked at my channel my channels analytics and stuff and they've said You know surprisingly nerd sink has not really been affected by the adpocalypse all that much Other than in the sense that everyone else has been affected by it Like obviously everyone will be affected by it in some capacity But like in terms of who's hit the hardest where we were barely influenced at all from one of these people telling me and So for me, it's less about the the ad money currently and it's more just about Stability because YouTube ad revenue With or without the adpocalypse has never really been stable from one month to next, right? You can have some you can have an amazing month and then take in a bunch of money Just because you have some great videos or the advertisers are buying up a ton of different spots because maybe it's a certain type of year Usually around Christmas time when you get start making a lot of money because people want to you know Sell products and they want to put ads on everything and then you come to the beginning of each year And it's just terrible because the Christmas season is over No one's gonna buy anything for like the next few months, right? So, you know money goes down so for me the the priority was to Work on patreon where we reach out to the fans specifically and say like hey If you want to support the stuff that we do help us get a more stable income and with that The with that I've kind of my my my focus has shifted Instead of trying to produce, you know, three videos a week Just so we can try to make up for ad, you know ad revenue stuff for a month that might not be very giving I my mindset has shifted to what if I just make one video? Every right now it's not even on a weekly schedule It's more just like a whatever it's done kind of a schedule right and and the reason for that is because of patreon It's because people are supporting us directly and I want to make sure that they're getting their money's worth And I want to rush anything I don't want to pump out a ton of videos just because you know for the sake of it because there's no reason to now for For our specific thing because of all our money's coming from the the fans And so I don't know it's a weird delicate balance where yes, I want to make more videos But at the same time, I really want to put as much effort as I can into the one that we That we do and it's difficult because I have a ton of I have so many ideas And there's not enough time for me to do just one video a week because I've already planned out through the end of the year All the videos I want to do and I know I'm gonna have to push a lot of those things as like new trailers are released or new Information and tentpole stuff that comes out that maybe I forgot about or just like drops online and People want to hear my opinions and things about it. So like that happened with them when Comic-con recently there's a ton of news and I had to forego a bunch of videos that I already planned on doing Because I figured these would be better tentpole events and I can only do like one video a week So I got to push these off to the side or whatever But yeah, I mean, I don't know that this is kind of a boring Explanation but like part of the reason why we haven't been doing three videos a week as well is because I'm I Don't really have that much of a team behind me as I used to so it's really just myself and In terms of video production, it's myself and one other person where it used to be myself and like five other people And so it's yeah video production is slow And we're still trying to get into the swing of things and it's just I'm making lots and lots of excuses But I'm sure I would love to do more videos like we used to for sure I'm sure the majority of us on YouTube can relate to that With production. It's just me on this channel. I have a friend of mine helps host some shows. We started this together But when it comes to editing production and SEO and all that is just me in my bedroom at the computer So yeah, oh totally and I love doing a lot of that stuff But it just it does get in the way of when I have a thousand ideas that I want to do and my brain It's really hard to get my brain to focus on like one thing and be like alright See this one video through to completion before you work on another video and my brain's like no But like what about this other idea? And so I have currently like seven different scripts that are about like partially written But I don't have a single one that's fully done And so it's just I'm trying to bounce between ideas of like should I do this one? Should I finish this one? Would this be okay for this date? How about that and the can we even finish it by now and then? So it's just it's a balancing act. So like from the outside it probably seems like oh nerdsync isn't making videos He's probably running out of ideas, but the exact opposite is true I just have too much stuff that I want to do but I can't even give a full attention to one of them And that's why my video production is kind of slowed down recently That kind of leads me into my next question How long does it usually take you to produce one episode on average from research to filming to editing to publication? That's a really good question. It's a question that I've gotten Quite often over the years and there's really no good answer I would say because I Part of the reason why is because my sleep schedule so Crazy that I don't have like normal days I don't wake up at a certain time every day and then go to sleep I say some days I'll stay up for like, you know, the 20 hours just working on a video some days I won't do anything, but I'll spend maybe like 30 minutes being like, yeah, that sounds like a good idea So it's really hard for me to track how much time and effort goes into videos Um But if I had to guess just like on an average video that we've been doing lately a lot of history stuff Sometimes some some just critical analysis and maybe some philosophy thrown in there a lot of it probably Oh, man, probably upwards of like 30 or so hours is just spent on research alone Just because I'm super paranoid about getting things wrong And it's part of the reason why I even started doing nursing stuff because our original series back in the day was Comic misconceptions and it was all about just things that people think they know about comics including myself It wasn't like a judgment thing. It was like, you know, here's a lot of stuff that I've seen people You know say but it's not true Um, and so I that mindset has kind of seeped into my own brain where I'm like if I make a video I need to make sure 100 sure that I'm getting everything as factually accurate as I possibly can and Even if it's not a fact-based thing if it's an opinion thing I want to make sure that I'm as clear as possible so people don't misunderstand me that I've Explored every single angle So I'm just really paranoid about that sort of stuff and it makes it so It's really hard for me to pump out a script In a day I know a lot of people can do can write multiple videos in a day Depending on the type of content they do it takes me at least two to three days to to write a video At least because I just need to make sure I research every angle and like I said, I dropped out of college So I don't I'm not trained in anything. So when I research stuff like philosophy or history That's a lot of I have so many books lying around my apartment that I just go to for research material and and articles that I read constantly and Uh, it's just that sort of that that ends in and of itself Just the research and writing takes probably a couple days and then Yeah, then it gets to the filming which is a good portion of the day Um, but that's the quickest part and we get to the editing and that split between myself and my editor Andrew currently and uh Yeah, he's that that also takes probably another couple days because that's you know currently he's not the Editing for me is not his only job. So he doesn't he can't just drop everything and work on stuff So that you know, he has to dedicate a portion of his time every day to working on stuff and that takes that makes the video production a little bit slower and then I help gather assets and all that stuff. So I don't know. It's a big long process. There are Amazing channels out there who can pump out videos in a day. I am certainly not one of them That you know, uh, what you said about working and everything that actually leaves me right into my next question When you're not producing videos, what do you do? Do you have a job outside of youtube? And do you have a significant other that you spend time with? Ooh getting all personal Yeah, uh, I do not have a job outside of nerd sink. I've never had one. Um, I mean, I've I've certainly had other jobs before but not at the same time If I've been working at nerd sink because I went I you know, I worked and you know, like just as teenagers do working like fast food industry I was to work at pizza hut as a sign holder I was I was like the guy outside waving a sign around telling everyone about a buffet that we had I would pay to see that Oh man, let me tell you it was both the best and worst job because What I did was to entertain myself because I would be outside for hours a day In the middle of the street Just waving a sign around and I got really bored doing that. So I've number one I listened to a ton of podcasts and that was really great And number two, I would tape. I would duct tape my phone to the back of the sign and like watch episodes of tv shows Just to kind of pass the time so Yeah, and I was isolated from everyone. I kind of like that aspect of just being by myself in the middle of the Day just kind of doing whatever But yeah, so that was a job that I had but it was never at the same time as nerd sink when I started nerd sink I was in college and the only other job I had in college was basically for editing was for doing special effects and visual effects on a um On my school my school's film production course always makes a video every or makes a movie a full feature length movie every two years Um, so that was we were in post production by the time I signed on and they were like Oh, hey, we actually didn't have anyone who could do vfx. Thank god. You're here So my job while working on nerd sink stuff back then was also working on like having wizards fight each other In a in a movie and I was like, yes, this is awesome. Um But when yeah, when I started doing nerd sink full time, which was like When I say full time, I mean I was not making enough money to do it full time I was just doing it full time. Anyway, I dropped out of college. I was still living with my parents at the time and I was making maybe a hundred dollars a month from youtube and like that was enough for me I was like, I don't have to pay rent. Uh, I don't have to pay for any car because I didn't drive um, so I this was just a hundred free dollars And then eventually it started taking off to the point where I could make a little bit more money And then I could finally afford to pay rent and move out and then now I'm living states away from where I used to be and Yeah, so I just don't I don't currently have a job. I haven't had a job outside of youtube. Um, four years now, uh, and When it comes to personal life, I do not have a significant other. It's it's very difficult for me to find um To find time for that sort of thing, uh, as much as I would like to To try it's just really hard to I don't know. I'm so Engaged in making videos and just I would have to be someone who is okay with me going MIA for like days at a time where they would never be able to reach me because I'm so busy working And then if if anyone's fine with that then cool and so far it's been a it's been a tough search for sure There you go ladies or guys, whichever you're into. I don't care Doesn't matter to me. If your interest is in scott, you can reach him on twitter That's right. Uh currently. What is your favorite youtube channel to watch? Um, that's a good one. Um, my youtube tastes kind of shifts. They kind of ebb and flow I used to really be all up into educational videos and I still am for sure. That's where I get a lot of um my Just insights videos and everything like that, but I don't watch them nearly as much as I do Currently I watch mostly a lot of entertainment based stuff. I don't know why and maybe that's a big problem Maybe I need to get back into watching more educational stuff, but I don't know. I've just been watching a lot of comedy and and Generic like youtube Let's plays or video games because I don't play video games myself So that's just how I engage in in video game culture But if I had to pick one one channel that I've watched for years that never disappoints And I'm biased because he's a friend of mine Uh, I would have to give it to mr. Sunday movies for being just a hilarious man Who also delivers some cool information and uh, it's just it's just a genuine sweetheart All right, so if you could do a collaboration with any other youtube comment book related or not Who would be your top pick? Oh, that's tough I can do a collab with anyone. Oh man. I don't know. It's I maybe maybe I just I feel I feel like I've done collabs with all the people that I wanted to do collabs with My biggest one Maybe a couple years ago would have been pbs idea channel, but then that I don't know how that happened But we actually did one that that's kind of I've been writing high off of that for the past couple years You know what I would love to do I would love to do a collab with The with the nerd writer because I feel like I feel like he's been super inspirational and motivational His style and his type of contents I met him once but I met him at a party and the friend who introduced me to him was like kind of drunk So I was like probably not the best impression But I would love to I would love to work with him. He makes a ton of great A ton of great like analysis videos about just the world and I think having a comic book spin would be kind of cool to do Right on Now comes the geek culture aspect of the interview What exactly got you into comics and what are some of your earliest comic book related memories? Uh, what got me into comics is my dad because my dad was a huge comic book nerd still is and he Uh, I remember he took me to go see The very first X-men film when I was a kid And that was like the first time I had watched a movie Twice in theaters. I watched it once With with just my dad. It was him and me We were like having just father-son time and he's like, you're the only one of my children who Uh, you're the only one of my children who cares about comic book superhero stuff So I'm going to take you because no one else cares and so I uh, I went to go Uh with him and I saw it and I loved it so much that I I asked him to to go back and see the second time and I just that's been That that's probably my earliest experience with just like Superheroes and nerdy stuff and then eventually I just got into comic books But not really in the in the way that I feel like is a traditional way to get into comic books Like my first comic books were probably like Cartoon network edit and any issues of you gotta start somewhere gotta start somewhere Um, and then from there because of the movies because of the spider-man Movie because of even the daredevil movie back in the day Because of those I started reading the comic book adaptations of comic book movies So like the very first spider-man Movie was adapted into a comic book and I was like, yes, I'm gonna read not spider-man comics I'm gonna read the spider-man movie comic. So that that would think that was probably some of my earliest comic book stuff You know, I've bet a lot of the fans nowadays. That's probably exactly how they got their start as well. So Yeah, uh, what is your favorite comic book currently? Currently currently is tough because I don't actually read too many current comic books because of my, um Because of a lot of the research and stuff that I do I find myself diving into the past A lot more than the present. Okay. How about what what is your current? Your current favorite comic book Um, whether it be past your favorite right now My favorite right now, uh That just like I'm reading her that I have read recently, right, you know, this is still one. That's that's pretty uh pretty recent but I will say I haven't read it in a few months, um, but every time I go back to Uh miss marvel kamala con comic books. They're just so much fun to read and they're so there's it's just She's such a fun character, uh, and I love I love reading all of her stories and such a good It's part of the reason why I don't read Months a month is because I love having you know going. Oh, I haven't read six issues of this comic book I'm going to read through it all right now. I'm one sitting and that's a fantastic comic book. I absolutely adore it Okay, uh, what are some of your favorite tv shows of all time? Oh, okay, um Just not not nerdy tv shows just tv shows period right anything. Okay. Um I am this is I I love I love tv so much It's really rare that I go back and watch uh a show So it's like hard for me to go like well here's one that I've seen several times Uh, because there's just so many tv shows that I haven't seen yet And I want to dive into them, but I really loved a lot of the classics, you know Arrested developments is is a big one that that influenced me um Psyche is another great one. I love a lot of comedies and stuff. Um, I do really love I mean Still going into the nerdiness. I really love season one of the netflix daredevil show a lot That's kind of the one I point to was like the definitive kind of comic book tv show in my opinion In terms of like modern day stuff, uh, live action stuff Of course cartoons growing up cartoons had a huge role on the static shock was like my favorite Come or my favorite cartoon to to watch week to week And Yeah, I just I I mean freaking the the wb kids all that stuff jackie chan adventures Oh, yeah Shallow and showdown all that stuff that that was the kind of stuff I watched I wasn't super big into anime, but I really loved just action and cartoons and Uh, man, I don't know just I I just love tv I could probably list thousands of shows that I that I just love on the same way Who is who is your favorite comic book artist of all time? Oh, okay, hear me out on this one because this is a very polarizing kind of controversial thing I It's even hard for me to say because I know people are gonna judge me for it, but I really Super love, uh, I think his name is humberto ramos um, and he Does these like very cartoony style? Um comic books. They're like a kind of they're they're like almost in between Cartoon and like classic comic book and he has this great middle ground where his style is super duper recognizable He's done a ton of spider-man work and I think his his artwork fits in really well with spider-man He's done some wolverine stuff and it's like it works okay with wolverine But because it's more cartoony, I feel like it fits in better with that kind of crowd He's worked on I think x-men before as well too I don't know It's it's like a style that I can just recognize immediately because it's so unique compared to everybody else And that's the kind of stuff that I like when you can easily recognize an artist's work Just by just looking at a cover and being like, oh, that's ramos clearly Right, but I know my friends Some of them will be like no he draws Next weird or he'll draw like his his bodies are are weird and mangled sometimes. I'm like, I don't care I just love the aesthetic. It's so cool Okay, so who is your favorite comic book writer of all time Comic book writer, um, you know, honestly recently, I'm gonna have to give it to tom king He's been He's been knocking stuff out of the park recently With everything from like vision and Batman and just oh man a ton of stuff. I have to say eric berkham is probably or bernum is Probably one of the tops right now for me personally because he he does amazing for idw and ghostbusters and all that He gets the personalities down to a tee So, um Oh man, I mean there's so much great talent in the industry right now. It's it's awesome. Oh, yeah All right, who is your favorite comic book character Of all time and why? Oh, all right There's another one where people are gonna judge me But if you I mean if my fans are watching they already know what the answer is. I love aquaman now Hear me out here. I'm not saying that as like a To be like a hipster sort of like no, but aquaman cool I like the things that are unpopular because that makes me feel special. No, I just genuinely love I didn't care for aquaman at first until I started reading aquaman I thought he was a joke as well And then someone was like when the new 52 came out and they rebooted everything That was around the time where I was like, you know what? I want to try out reading characters who have never read before because they're starting with issue ones Might as well jump in uh, and then I started reading aquaman And I loved the first couple runs of uh new 52 aquaman to the point where he started to become one of my favorite characters If not, probably my favorite character to date, which was previously spider man. Now it is aquaman and the reason Oh, excuse me. The reason why I love him is because in that run in the new 52 People hate him. It's like they people on the surface world They make fun of him. They joke at his expense And what does he do? He shows up to do his job. He doesn't Complain he doesn't make a too big of a mess of anything He takes care of business people still make fun of him and he just keeps quiet and he goes All right back to work. And so it's it's just one of those things where On on the surface or under the water. He can't catch a break, but it doesn't he doesn't really let it get to him He still goes well, I don't care if people like me I have a job to do and I'm going to do that job to the best of my ability And that's the that's the thing I love about aquaman is he's just kind of just this guy who's like You know what? I'm showed up. I'm doing my best. I don't care what people think and Man, I love it You know, it's funny you said that because that's the whole reason we started come again was to give A spotlight to shine a spotlight on some of the lesser known lesser popular characters Like our new logo has the rocketeer the phantom and the shadow in it And that's what we love to do is just bring attention to some of the lesser known heroes One of our earliest ones was on hawk and dove So I don't see many comic book channels nowadays doing anything like that. They tend to stick more towards the popular Side of the industry Yeah, I mean man something like youtube. It's tough because I I know I've experienced this and I my other colleagues have experienced this as well where We want to talk about some of that stuff But when you get to the point where like where I am or like some of my friends are where the where youtube is like My full-time job And because You know, it's really hard even like prior to patreon where we were making a lot of our money from absents You have to do videos that'll get that'll do well So like we used to do valiant I did a couple valiant videos Because I've talked to a couple people at valiant And they sent me some some like a whole box of their comic books to get into their universe And I read it and I really dig their whole universe and all their characters And I made like an exo-manowar video and I made a bloodshot video And it doesn't matter how big your channel is. I have my friend eris from from variant who's like, you know millions of subscribers He does valiant stuff He can put as much production value and like make a whole documentary about how a character was created No one will watch it because they don't know what valiant is. And so You know, that was like for example for him He like flew out to their offices and like set up cameras and like did whole interviews and everything It was it was way more intensive than his normal video style way more high production value And if people don't watch it, then you don't get paid for it because because of the youtube Absent stuff which thankfully with myself and patreon. I've kind of started loosening up with that a little bit I did a video talking about how emoji might be comic books technically in the modern world And that video did horribly but thanks to patreon I was I that that risk of it doing terribly was was kind of Pushed to the side since I'll since uh, you know, it's a little bit more stable over there Well, yeah, I mean it's really difficult because I do want to talk about a lot of the lesser known characters but at the same time I got to do things that I know will give views in order to Continue to make, you know videos lucked out, you know Emoji every like a few months or something like that. So it's a weird balancing act for sure Well, you know, if you ever want really want to talk about some of the lesser known characters or whatever You're more than welcome back on here anytime Be happy to do labs with you since that's pretty much our specialty over here I mean, we make about a hundred dollars a year off I mean, we don't have to worry about anything like that Dude, trust me. I that that's it, you know, honestly That's a really good spot to be in the youtube space though Is when is when you can just make the thing that you want to make and you're not super reliant on trying to Make whatever youtube wants you to make. I mean that I remember those days very very fondly And even though I still really love the stuff that I do There are certainly times where I'll be like, well, I have to do a Batman video because freaking Batman's gonna be popular And then I then as soon as I'm done with this Batman video Then I can talk about this other character that no one's gonna care about but then immediately after that I gotta talk about Deadpool apparently because then Deadpool is gonna get a lot of views So yeah, I don't know. It's a weird like I said, it's a weird balancing act For sure and you know, you can never go wrong with Voltron I've learned that my most popular videos on this channel are all Voltron related Man, that's awesome. You know, it's weird. Some of my most popular videos I wouldn't have expected them to be as as popular as they are like one of my most popular ones has to do with Has to do with the I mean, I don't know it has to do with saber tooth and I figured like why Why why is saber tooth my most popular video? But yeah, you never know what people are gonna resonate with If you could team up any three comic book characters from any era, who would you bring together? Okay, fantastic question Um All right, I'm gonna go with I'm looking around my room for inspiration Uh as I have comic books and comic book art everywhere I think I'm still gonna go with Aquaman just because I gotta put him into anything I'm gonna go Aquaman and then I'm gonna go with Okay, hold on Aquaman, maybe Does Scooby-Doo count? Yes, Scooby-Doo cats Aquaman and Scooby-Doo Fantastic combo so far All right, and then Oh man Uh, I think I'm gonna go with let's see. I haven't done a Marvel character. Let's pick a Marvel character. Would you be kind of fun? Aquaman Scooby-Doo and Iron Man now the reason I say that I'm not actually a huge fan of Iron Man But I love the I love the dynamic of Aquaman being the guy that just wants to show up and get the work done He's pretty quiet. He just wants to do the job Iron Man comes in all he cares about is holy cow. There's like a dog that can that can talk a little bit I want to be best friends with this dog. I want to make armor for this dog This dog's gonna be my best friend person I don't really care about this Aquaman guy. And so I just love the dynamic of Of Aquaman being essentially the leader as the guy that gets everything done Well, Tony is distracted with trying to pimp out Scooby-Doo with like the most high tech dog collar He can try to think of and that that to me sounds like a really fun story All right Which storyline from the 90s was your favorite throughout all of comics? Oh, okay Storyline from the 90s Okay, this is gonna be Maybe I'm just biased because this was like my very first big comic book that I read But uh I don't know. Oh It's also just really hard to me to remember which comic book came out in the 90s or the 80s Um If the characters had padding in their costumes is 90s, it's probably 90. Yeah, probably right. Um Man, you know what I I just really loved, uh, I didn't care for really anything DC was doing Um I don't know. I just spider-man was my favorite character for a really long time. There's probably so other than Hey, I love the clone saga. That's what got me into comics. Yeah I I love the history behind the clone saga. I like the clone saga to begin with. I don't know. Maybe Yeah, I don't know. Um, boy, that's tough That's real tough It honestly was probably something some not marvel or dc If I if I You know, because I I just feel like the 90s era was like weird and strange in my opinion Um, everything was yeah, everything everyone had padding and pockets and then all sorts of stuff. Um, Yeah, I don't know. It's that's really tricky. I don't know if I have an answer for that one, but definitely um I'm certain there was probably like an image book that I really enjoyed Sure I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if I have an answer All right. All right. This one might be easier than Which comic book storyline from any era in history would you personally like to see made into a film? Oh, heck. Yeah. Okay. All right any era in history Which word I like to see made out into a film I have I have a joke answer that I have a serious answer My joke answer is take silver age jimmy olsen make it into Uh, that would be more like a fun tv show to watch just like every every episode Superman and jimmy olsen. Ah, they get into some quirky antics. Well, it's a good time. I love jimmy olsen but for movie wise Hmm, there is a What I think is a really really good moon night run and I can't remember who did it but it was early 2000s And I think it would fit super well into the even just the mcu currently. It has to do with moon night finding um Someone who's like selling pieces of of ultron to like the highest bitters and everything like that And then he kind of teams up to take it down But his his full Dissociative identity disorder is it's it's in full swing and he's like wearing He's like breaking into places wearing spider-man costumes Dressed as like uh, or like using wolverine's claws and like he's got wolverine captain america and spider-man all in his head Trying to coordinate plans and everything and it really just dives into the mindset of that character and how crazy he is And it's just a really really good really sad story. Um, that is just it's very action packed and incredibly fun to read Highly recommend it even though I can't remember who did it, but it's uh, really good I think it's yeah, it's probably like 2003 or something like that for moon night. It's god moon night. It's one of my favorites for sure Okay, so that kind of leads into the next one. Which character do you think deserves a live action series? Oh All right, so back to jimmy olson, of course, but um, I would really honestly love to see Uh There was even rumors about this earlier today on on twitter. I would love to see a she-hulk TV series I don't know how well they could do it on like a tv budget. I'm sure they can probably swing something but When I when I look at daredevil, for example Parts my favorite parts of daredevil of the show are like, yeah, the action is great and everything like that But I really love when he's in that courtroom and he's just like putting criminals away and using all this like great speeches and everything Like that. I want to see that show. I want to see she-hulk there And I want her to just be a lawyer inside of a universe That exists with superheroes and talk about, you know That's worse because that's what daredevil. I think is missing daredevil is representing regular people doing regular crimes and everything like that for the most part But I want she-hulk to exist to have her own show where it's basically like Someone comes in and goes, hey, this Superhero smashed up my car to save this other guy. Can I sue him again? Probably and then just have court cases that deal into the legal legal ramifications of a world filled with superheroes. I think that sort of stuff is just Incredibly fascinating to try and figure out how could superheroes legally exist and what would what could ordinary people do? So you would pretty much do marvel's version of powerless I would do that Absolutely. In fact, I've I've put this out there My friend Ricky who's actually in the other room Him and I want to Take powerless and we want them to give it to us so that we can rewrite the show Better than it could because it had so much but the premise had so much potential But I think we could do a better job with it That with that idea, but they just they did not do a very good job with that show I personally I never caught any of the episodes. It just looks stupid to me There's some genuinely good moments, but it is just surrounded by like a moat of mediocrity Right Okay, so which character do you think deserves an animated series treatment? Well, I gotta say I feel like we've had enough Batman and spider-man Animated shows so even though I like those characters. Let's toss those aside I think a fantastic character It's an animated series that hasn't already had one. I'm going to pick a relatively new character and I'm going to go back to I'm going to go back to Kamala Khan because Her comics already read like they're an animated series And I want to translate that On to the small screen Because I think it would be Hilarious and amazing and wonderful and I love that comic book very very much If you could interview three individuals from the comic book industry With one of whom no longer being alive today Who would be your grail interviews? Oh, all right. Well I I feel like I would the obvious answer would be to talk to Stanley But the problem is I feel like people have asked him all the questions Already they've asked all the questions. So I feel like I wouldn't get too much information I would absolutely want to talk to Jack Kirby though That's my answer for who isn't alive currently. Okay. Um So Jack Kirby for sure um I don't know part of me just wants to talk to people just just to see what like the history of the The industry was like back in the day, but there's not a whole lot of people who are alive for that sort of thing So I don't know. I guess like I guess just as like a default sure I'll talk to Stanley, but I'll try to think of questions and no one has ever asked him before. Yeah, good luck Good luck with that. Yeah, I'll try to get him to not perform as much and be like, look This is just between you and me. What is it really like? um And then I don't know I just there's some a bunch of really great artists and uh, and um, you know what? Yeah, one of my favorite artists out there, uh, Declan Shalvy makes a makes some really great art. He did an amazing run on Moon Knight, which Revamped my love for that character. Uh, and he's just a really cool dude who really knows um, how the comic book art form Works and how to draw people's attention and get people's eyes to follow a certain line in action and everything like that and I would love to pick his brain about like just Tell me tell me the secrets of the comic book universe that maybe people aren't even recognizing and I think he would be a fun He would be the guy to talk to I think try to go for it, man I mean, I found that most artists and writers are very open to uh interviews with uh youtube channels. I mean I I did an interview with Dan sconing and Eric Burnham and uh, Steve Orlando Uh, and I got all those from twitter So I mean go to twitter and uh Ask him for an interview. That's awesome. Yeah, heck yeah I'm gonna try to do that if I can just so in case stan lee falls through I will say my my last my optional fourth choice um We're probably being like a like gale Simone because I think she's she just strikes me as a very fun person to talk to Star Trek or star wars and why? Oh boy, we're dividing the audience now. All right Oh, I have so many friends. We're gonna hate me for this Look guys Star Trek now hold on everyone stop panicking. All right. I love star wars. It's not an easy choice but the thing I love about star trek is The thing I love about star trek are the quiet moments where they just try to figure out how a society is supposed to be run And the philosophy of how to deal with certain interactions and you know are androids people or are they property? That sort of stuff is fascinating to me and that's never touched out. It really in the star wars universe You just have droids and everyone's like, yeah droids are droids But no one's ever fighting for like the rights to like droid rights in the movies anyway Like i'm sure there's probably extended universe stuff somewhere whatever But like in the main kind of thing in the movies, you know, r2d2 is just there and everyone's like, yeah I mean cool But like the star trek just dives into much deeper Philosophical kind of arguments. I think and they do it more blatantly whereas star wars Yes, there's a lot of cool stuff there to talk about and think about but it's never it's not on the surface for the most part It's it's a lot of people having to dive in and be like, well, you know when he said this Think about the implications for what that meant about but I don't know star trek It's a very much In the nature of the show to ask questions and to not really answer them But just to propose ideas and thoughts and And that sort of stuff is is incredibly fascinating to me. I feel the exact same way. I'm a big trekkies In good company If you were a star fleet captain and could pick any ship in the federation to command And any six senior officers to serve under you from star trek cannon Who would they be and aboard which ship? Oh, no, okay all right So This is when the truth comes out That I really only watched the next generation And a bit of the original series Uh, so all the other shows I haven't quite gotten around to yet, but I really I mean God, I love data obviously Uh, I mean, I just love that whole crew for sure. Um, but you know what? I'm gonna go with I'm just gonna pick a lot of the generic answers and be like, yeah Spock is great. He's great. Uh, I like, uh Worf was the character that I didn't particularly care for at first, but he really grew on me Um, when you get to deep say when you get to deep space nine, he'll grow on you even more Yeah, oh man, fantastic. I love when they bring back. Okay, like o'brien's It's just like a character who started out as like a minor guy, but I just I don't know There's something about him. He's he's another one that'll grow on you even more when you get to deep space nine Oh, fantastic. Um Yeah, I don't know. That's uh, I just need to watch more than more than next generation. I'll tell you that much Um, how many more answers I could come up with other than I just like all of the people All right, so if you could bring any five heroes from both marvel and dc together in a single team Who would you team up? Okay Marvel and dc teaming up. I'm gonna do Looking around my room again inspiration inspiration is striking I'm coming up with ideas. I'm gonna go with I'm still gonna go aquaman. That's my default choice I'm gonna go aquaman So it's five from each or five total five total five total aquaman and I'm gonna go Oh, you know what? Okay. I'm no aquaman. I'm gonna go human torch Uh Do I want to go jenny storm or do I want to go original human torch? That is the question. I am gonna go original human torch not jenny storm I think jenny storm and aquaman might have a good, uh Interaction there though Exactly. So this is what I'm thinking. So we go those two And then I want to do I want to do storm from the x-men. I'm doing very elemental team here All right, and then I want to do Who do I want to do? Maybe Maybe someone who does earthy powers From a dc. Let's go swamp things. Is he a hero? Why not? four and then Five we're gonna do a Space hero yet, have I? I need someone from space. That's what I need. I'm gonna need A group would have been a great one too. You know what? Yeah group and swamp thing on the same team How you gonna deal with that too many too many plants coming at you Okay, so would they be justice league or avengers because both teams have separate Ideologies Yes, oh They would probably it's a good question. I'm not any of them think about Okay, I think they would be I think just because they lean more towards I think I have more people from dc I think they might be like no, you know what they would be more avengers style. They just want to yeah That's what they would do. They would be out there avenging those who uh, that Didn't that need avenging whatever the avengers motto is. That's what it is I'm actually I'm actually researching a video right now about who exactly are the avengers avenging Um, but I think yeah, I think swamp thing specifically would just be like i'm going to avenge the earth um So in our rated planetiers Exactly you got it. You nailed it. You reached into my brain. You found the words. I was trying to find you got it What are your thoughts on the announcement that martin scorsese has been lined up to produce the joker origin movie that's in the works My thoughts are what a mess. I have nothing against scorsese, but Joker origin movie come on number one Doesn't that kind of not make the character is exciting if we give him a very clear-cut origin Why not keep it mysterious? I think he said it the joker himself said it best in the classic Killing joker comic book that everyone can roll their eyes at because I brought it up But he said if he's gonna have an origin he prefers it to be multiple choice So why not? Why have an origin movie? He's better without it But also the fact that that movie is not going to be in the dce eu continuity. They're gonna have other people come in Other Is it gonna be a part of it? It's set in the 80s. Here are my thoughts on it Okay, since there's so many theories That the joker in the dce eu is actually jason todd What if the joker from the 80s was the original joker and then we go back to the comic book origins where You know if he's gonna have an origin he'd rather have it be multiple choice and in the comic books There's currently three jokers, so right You just red cut it that way. Ah, I don't know. Look here's the thing Why do we need why do we need a joker origin moving? That's my question, which you know to be fair. Why do we need anything in life? We don't but also I don't know. There's so many other characters who we haven't seen on the big screen yet We've seen joker several times. We've seen actors fill that role constantly I would rather have an origin movie or or just a movie About a character that hasn't been involved in uh in any sort of movie yet We don't have to keep recycling the same Batman and joker and blah blah blah. It's fine. Let's bring someone else in For example, I mean, I know it's gonna happen eventually, but aquaman Please bring him in he will but I want him to have a full movie franchise And I want him to be the leading star of the dc universe. He needs to be their iron man It's not gonna happen. I have my fingers crossed All right, finally final question. What were your top five favorite shows growing up? Okay, um Static shock like I said was definitely a huge huge influence into my love of comic books um And that show was yeah, that show was absolutely the most influential. I think um Other shows, uh, I was very big into um I did watch a little bit of the 90s spider-man, but it was always I think I was by the time I was watching it It was more reruns. So I'm gonna say that still counts. Um That was a big one And let's see other shows. I was just I was super duper into superheroes I'm not like trying to pander to like the comic book thing. That's just this is just how my childhood was I just really loved superheroes and so any show that had any sort of super powerful thing like again Jackie Chan adventures had the talismans that gave people powers and I loved that whole that whole aspect Uh, and that kind of stuff was you know, I wanted to Write and come up with stories that involves Uh, all that sort of stuff. Um, so oh my god, I can't even I can't not mention scooby-doo people My my hardcore diehard fans. No scooby-doo is the best cartoon which scooby-doo though Oh, uh, the one that influenced me as a child Because it was the one that was on airing newer episodes was probably what's new scooby-doo But I really I mean, I just love all scooby-dos For the most part. I have a boomerang subscription So I go back and I watch the old ones because they're great But uh, what's new scooby-doo was certainly oh and that and a pup named scooby-doo the other one. Yes, those two were the ones If those count as two separate shows those are the two that that also Definitely influenced my childhood for sure. I actually go back to the original airing Of a pup named scooby-doo. I remember waking up early on saturday mornings watching that Heck yeah Man, what a great show that a lot of people don't remember. I've talked to a lot of other people And uh, they they are surprised to know that there was a baby scooby-doo show and it was very good That and ed grimly All right, so, um, I think that does it for the questions and everything Uh, I want to thank you for your time. Sorry to keep you up I know you're kind of ready to get to bed and everything so Yeah, but for for the audience, uh, this it is one p.m. Uh, and that's just that should give you an idea of My sleep schedule of how crazy it is whereas a normal human being would be like, oh, this is like middle of the day I'm like, I am so tired right now I I feel you man. I am so glad the kids are back to school. I've got three of them and During the summer. I could get no work done at all and now I've got eight hours of pure bliss Well, so the good news that so here's my here's my out if anyone didn't like any of my answers during this whole thing Just chalk it up to sleep deprivation and that way I always have an out There you go Uh, is there anything else you want to uh, say to the audience anyone who? Maybe coming over here from your channel Uh, or any new viewers Yeah, uh, well, I just wanted to say hey, thanks for listening to this whole thing. You you're wonderful nerds you Um, yeah, my name is scott. I have a channel called nerd sink that you might want to check out if you like to learn about real world history or Philosophy or whatever all that good stuff If you like to critically examine comic books and learn about them use them to learn about the world Uh, then that's you know, go check out the stuff that I do I don't post as frequently or as regularly as I would like Well, we're getting there and with your help you can also be in the same area as we release new videos right on And uh, like I said, feel free to get a hold of me anytime anytime you want to talk about lesser known heroes that you Don't really feel comfortable with putting on your channel. I'm always open for collapse Heck, yeah, let's talk about uh, I don't know. Is this moonlight qualifies a lesser known one I feel like he's getting a bit of a resurgence. Yeah, he's becoming Close to Deadpool Yeah, kind of getting up there All right, we'll talk about some just like obscure Uh, we'll talk about do you do you read valiant stuff because I do love valiant stuff Uh, I haven't read any I've got the valiant issue of solar man of the atom that I have yet to read Um, they they sent me like a box of comic books and I've read like maybe four of four of the volumes And I have so much more to go through but I really do enjoy them They just don't perform very well on my channel because my audience cares about marvel and dc so I tell you I've been getting into dynamite and boom studios and idw here lately. They've got some Great stuff coming out Heck, yeah, love it So well, I'll let you uh hit the sack man and uh, take care and uh, thanks for joining me here Yeah, thanks for having me. It's been awesome. All right. 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