0:00 That's why all our fans are all old and stuff and can't get young because we're not attached to the youth. What do we need to talk about on the show to attract the younger viewers? Bring us in with the in crowd. Yeah. Like what do we got to focus on? When I was a a kid or even a teen, you couldn't do nothing as an adult to make me watch you. What you doing? I'm not looking at you. But I used to come home from school and watch hard ball with Chris Matthews. You see what I'm saying? Welcome back to another episode of Cowboys. Take it away, Steve. Okay. I'm talking about Anony's Adventures in the Czech Republic. That's funny. We were talking about Joe in Bahrain. Remember that? What was that? Mogadishu or some some lady um some lady like Moadishu. One of your first kisses was some Oh, Yemen, dude. Yemen.
0:50 Moadish. Like what? All right. I was like, is there some inside joke? I have no idea. That's way better. Today, uh, indeed. We're talking about things in popular culture that really piss us off. Really twist the knife. Twist the knife. We're going to be old man yelling at clouds again. Yes. Pretty sick. Do you guys When when did you start realizing that like that was like we're like it's past our era and we're like the old guys now going like kids these days. Yeah, I think it's been a slow burn, but I think I I think we've accepted it. When did it start? I don't even remember because I just I feel like I've always been kind of the old man yelling at clouds while you were young. Yeah. So, it's just you've always been counterculture, but then now you're just like so old. I don't know that I was so cool that I was
1:40 counterculture. I was just always like I just always thought that the thing at the time was kind of whack. You know what I mean? But then I have my own things that I like like that I was that I was into, but I just never got into like like I don't know when people are like, "Oh, we're into punk rock." I'm like punk rocks gay. Like it wasn't like something I could ever see myself getting into. You just do yourself. Yeah, that's it. When I stopped understanding the perspective of young young folks, that's when I realized. So then maybe like 4 years ago. Okay. Where like I think that's when I was like, "Oh, I'm actually the adult here cuz I'm paying taxes and doing that." Mhm. Even though I act immature, I'm like I don't relate with college people anymore. Who was it that said that you were really cool for an old guy? My friend's son is in high school. I think he's like a freshman
2:31 high school. Yeah, it's a huge compliment. And then like his friends were like, "Oh, you know Joe." And then like dude, he is really cool for an old guy. But it's true. I'm 40. Like you know I'm his dad's age and like I get it. I'm like ████ I am the uncle. Yep. And I was like, "Dude, that's I mean, that's a compliment. You know, I get to be like Snoop Dogg, but at the same time, I'm like, damn, it sucks. I wish I understood the the the the gripe of the youth, so I can play both fields rather than being like, you stupid sensitive ████ b████." You know, I feel like Charlie Kirk out there like at the university like, "You ████ ████ Like, this is stupid." But I want to be in their brain and then so I could be like, "Oh, I get it. like you guys are fighting to fight for this reason. I can't do that no more. It helps to be in
3:21 your 20's brain. Yeah, cuz my 20s was I was just like them, too. Yeah. Yeah. I was a communist in high school. Like literally. See, I was a ████ Republican. I was I've been a square my whole life. Like it so sucks. Damn. I've been a square old man. So you've been grandpa. Yeah. Yeah. You went from like baby yells at Cloud pre-teen to grandpa. That's why I'm telling Nikki. Nikki always jokes. She's like, "Once you're when you're old, like you're going to finally match like how your brain is." And I'm like, "Yeah, f███." Oh, you're going to grow into your age. Yeah, cuz I'll be the guy. I'm already yelling about my lawn and ████ I think Anthony is the most connected to the youth because he still works. Well, he's around them and Yeah. So, like he just did 88 the rising and then the he he mentors a lot of youth. There's another way of putting it. Yeah. For mentee, I
4:12 got you there. That's the way of putting it. That's what That's That's what it is. Hands-on mentoring. Very close. Oh, man. No, but that is This is literally why this channel is unsuccessful. Wait, what? This is why we can't get things like ad breeds and partnerships, collaborations. People don't want to join the show. No, no, no, no. PR nightmares on comes from the top, dude. The leadership is just ████ ████ up. It's so I'm just being supportive of my ████ team here. It's hard. It's hard to resist, dude. I just had a slam dunk when you aliooped. I had to do it. It is true, though. It's just It's actually cool and we have to always take it away. It sucks. The stenographer writing it down. It wouldn't This is why all our fans are all old and stuff and can't get young because we're not attached to the youth, bro. We're not going to get like a bunch
5:02 of 18year-olds watching the show, dude. I'm not doing hands-on mentorships with our young fans. How do we get the young ones in here, dude? How do we get the young crowd? No, dude. Your fingers are on the pulse. What do we need to talk about? What do we need to talk about in the show to attract the younger viewers? Yeah. The things that they're skippy duda or whatever. Bring us in with the in crowd. Yeah. Like what do we got to focus on? If if you're going to When I was When I was a a kid or even a teen, you couldn't do nothing as an adult to make me watch you. That's true. I don't give a ████ what you're doing. I'm not looking at you. But I used to come home from school and watch Hardball with Chris Matthews. You see what I'm saying? That's crazy. What the freak? I didn't even get those records. What a freak. I used to hate those shows. I'm telling you. This fool liked Mash in elementary school. I bet ████ geyzer. I'm telling you, dude. I hated MASH. Yeah, nobody watches. I
5:53 just look forward to What about Andy Griff the show? You used to watch that? I watched it over Mash. I loved Andy Griffith. I seen it, but I never got into it. That's cuz I like Don Knots. Mash is definitely for old folks, dude. Yeah. Well, yeah, but it's meant for kids to go. I was watching Columbbo, though. That's an old ████ dude. I watch. You actually watched it? Can't believe we were watching black and white shows. Dude, Annie Griffin show was a banger, though. Well, then we're watching repeats. I mean, it's not like they were live. Yeah, but I watched I Love Lucy to this day. Yeah, I love I Love Lucy. I've seen every episode like three times. But it makes you feel old when you watch it. Bewitched a bunch. Bewitched. She was so hot, by the way. Oh my god. She does little thing. Mhm. What's the question, man? I Dream of Genie was hot. Oh wow, she was so sexy. I Dream of Genie was out of this world fine. Out of this world fine, dude. Yeah. Things in popular culture
6:43 that piss us off. Things in popular culture. Did you guys get into Gilligan's Island? Oh, I don't like the um Well, I guess this isn't really pop culture as much as it is just like media. But then like when you watch a movie and you see the issues of politics in the movie. Yeah. Disguised as the plot. Yeah. Which I guess could have been happening when we were young. We just didn't follow politics enough to know what's happening. Just now it just it's like hamfisted in there. I feel like Yeah, writing used to be better and now they just stamp it. I just don't like that. I don't want to see the ████ that I'm Which is probably people's complaint with watching us talk about politics. I don't want to see what I'm getting away from where I want to have fun. Yeah, that's it. No doubt. That's true. They're like, "You guys got to just stop talking about politics." Like, I clicked away. I clicked I clicked skip on the ad to watch you. I don't know if you guys been I don't know if we talked about this, but the AI stuff with the street interviews. Have you guys seen this stuff? I have seen
7:33 that AI street interview. It looks real as ████ And they're just saying like and apparently there's a giant industry of people making like brain rock content about it. But then you just see how good the AI is to the point where if they didn't tell me it was AI, I don't think my brain could comprehend that like it wasn't AI. And that kind of scares me and it kind of makes me not want to look at anything on like AI stuff. The kangaroo one's the first one that got me. I can't believe that was AI. When you told me that was AI, it kind of blew my brain. I couldn't believe it either. I finally got God on that. And it's they're popping up everywhere. So it's like all these little things. Kangaroo holding a little ticket and they're like they're not letting the kangaroo on board and the kangaroo they cut they panned the kangaroo and he's just holding his ticket. Look like he's waiting to get on the plane. But it was all fake. It's completely so crazy. I know. The fact that you believe that is kind of hilarious too though. Well, I just I just was like, I bet that kangaroo is not getting on the plane. And I just scrolled by. I was like, no
8:24 way they're going to let that on. That's just that was the end of it. That was all I thought. You didn't sit for a second go, that's so funny. Why is he holding the ticket like that? I just was like, I guess kangaroos could do that. I was like, learn something new every day. This is this is a deep cut and it doesn't piss me off, but it definitely like had to challenge my understanding of like myself. Uh we came from like even in like our dancing or our dance culture of like trying to create art by using the vehicle of dance that like if you even like choreographed to like or dance to the same song as somebody else, you were like a biter. Like that's like hella whack. And then suddenly we transition to an era where like everybody does the same moves to the same song and that's the challenge and they're getting like millions of views because it's like, "Oh, they did it. Let's do it. Hey, you want to learn these moves real quick and let's dance in a parking lot or whatever in our bedroom. Everybody's sneezing at the same time. I don't hate it. I'm just more like, "Wo, what a culture shock."
9:15 Because we couldn't even dance to the same song. If we did the same three moves in a row, you'd be like, "Yo, you're jacked." And that would be like the biggest deal. You try You tried not to cross over with other people back then. And now it's like you're required to. Yeah. It's the same in comedy, too. Like people basically jacking each other's skits and ideas and redoing it their way. Mhm. Or not even changing at all. Yeah. Or everyone does the same format. Yeah. Like that. And then Yeah. And some people think they didn't that they created that format cuz they're they don't know anything about what happened 5 years ago even. for how long you've been working in YouTube, the amount of ████ that you must see that is so ancient, but you look at people like they're inventing it is probably it's actually wild. Yeah. The fact that people think that they're they're really inventing stuff on YouTube right now
10:05 cracks me up. That's definitely annoying because also like if you like kind of maybe you don't pioneer it but maybe you're like the most notable person in that modern form of culture today because reach social media and all that stuff is so much more grand than what it was even 5 10 15 years ago. The world totally accepts that you're that person that you are the innovator. Yep. I was the original Asian mom. There you go. But now there's like 10. You're the first crossdresser guy. I know, right? Nobody else crossed. First gay guy. Yeah. Yeah. That's the difference. I was gay. So that's the revolutionary thing. All gay people come up to you like, "Thank you, man. You paved the real path." Yeah. I I think the pop culture thing, too, is how many um like that thing you showed
10:57 us, how there's so many solutions to feel like something but not actually be it. Mhm. You know, people are making all these programs so that you can feel as good as a person that achieved something. You don't need to achieve anything. Just ████ come get the feeling. But it's like a uh it's like a money grab cuz it's like you can now you can feel Christian cuz you're paying and doing something. Now you can feel like a businessman. True. Because you're part of this like racket and you're paying 50 bucks a month and you're like learning business. Yeah. I guess in our day it was the the racket was you could be making millions in real estate if you just follow my course doing something but now it's like do you want to feel like you made money on real estate but you didn't do anything that's true it's like have the you just get the confidence that's it's like a weird
11:47 thing I never thought it would be like uh almost like plugging into the matrix cord just to like know the thing you know and it's all industries too cuz I I just read this sport scientist and he was like, "When we first started on YouTube like 5 years ago or whatever, 90% of the people were actually like they have a background in fitness or some type of they owned a gym or they were coaching and they were training people, making videos on that." And he goes, "Now 90% of the people never coached anyone, never trained anyone, but they're the bulk of the people in the industry." And I'm like, "Dude, that seems like true. No matter where you are online, that's the racket. Mhm. Like that's the standard. Yeah. This might be uh I guess it's a hot take. Um sort of not really more very lukewarm. Um I feel
12:37 like now in music, if it's really catchy, it's considered good music. Whereas I feel like before when we were growing up, like good music was good music. I don't know if that makes sense. So that's there's a reason why they're still playing that ████ today. Dude, mumble rap is so tough to get into. I feel like Well, each each era I think the Don't worry, you're not allowed to get into it. So you're good. Cuz it's the platform of each era that determines the success, right? So like I think we were still radio era, now it's tech tik tok era or the in between was music video, YouTube era. So then like it was radio, music, video, and then like maybe Vimeo and then now Tik Tok. So whatever song is on the reels is gonna be the hit. Yeah. Yeah. But it
13:29 feels like formulaic. Oh, you know, and when there's like a formula and it's like because it's a formula, it makes sense. So it's going to crunch numbers and be successful. So it's going to get more play time. So, it's perceivably successful because now more people know it cuz it got more play time. So, it must be the number one song like how they started making songs shorter for that reason cuz they've counted as a full play so they'd make them like 2 minutes. I see. So, that way you get to the end. So, it's like you're saying like because they hack the algorithm it's winning. Yeah. I see. Which I'm not saying it's bad music. No, it's just the era. Yeah. It still has to be decent. It's like tailor made for them. Yeah, but like before we were hearing such a eclectic like so many different sounds and stuff. You had more variety for sure of original like type of music, you know, like so it's just a
14:20 weird time as all. Yeah, it's not bad. It's all catchy to me. So I I'll hum and sing random ████ but like like for example some of the a lot of K-pop, right? Like that's super formulaic. That's pretty formulaic, man. It's it's like literally I mean I choreographed a bunch of songs. Like there's a way that it needs to be done. There's the way the choreography needs to be presented. There's amount of number of groups. It's like the the room for innovation is like they have they have more risk in their bottom line to try and innovate when they know that if they just do this type of thing, it's much more guaranteed. So, it makes sense. Super logical. But then when like art is super logical, then it it's uh it's harder to find gems is all. Yeah, it is. Yeah. It's like Katy Perry doing Roar and then every other every single song sounds like Roar that she does like from now on. I swear to God, Katy Perry's a gem, though. You get her name out of your mouth. I like Yeah. I
15:10 think she's got two gems on her. Well, remember the stomp clap era where all the songs were stomp claps? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We will. I mean, like now the freaking What was it? It was like 10 years ago. The hipster stomp claps. Yeah. I know what you're talking about. It's to get everyone involved. It sounds good when everyone does it, though. You know, I'm not going to do it though. are the cultural and color lines that people drew between who can have music. That that pisses me off. I saw like just recently a ████ uh video about like it was just a normal video of people like enjoying a day club just dancing and they were playing um they're playing like Caribbean house and afro afro beats playing Afro beats and so many of the comments were like I don't see a single black person here. That's ████ up. They can't do that. They
16:00 can't play that. Like what? Where did you miss the entire point of sharing music like crossculturally? That's the point. That's the whole objective. Wowza. Yeah. And it's just like a weird thing to gatekeep that you can enjoy music. You don't remember when Bob Marley used to be up at Woods and he's like, "If you're white, please plug your ears for the for this next one. Please leave." Hey, there were some comments that about Bob Marley. They were just like, "Well, I guess everyone who bought Bob Marley's music that was white needs to freaking get their money back or something." Yeah. It's just It's crazy. Bob Marley would have been like that. Like that's so crazy to me. It never was. Yeah. It wasn't It's just weird to me that that's only something now, right? It's like the opposite. Honestly, that does piss me off in today's culture. That's different. It's different. Like I I can't imagine someone being like, "Oh, you don't get to enjoy this." Cuz the original message was, "Let's bring people together under
16:51 this genre, under this music. It's for everybody." Yeah. And that that was the point to share. Like if your music transcended your own culture and reached others, that's like the greatest. What artist doesn't want that? Are there artists making music and trying to not like put it somewhere where they're like, "Oh, whoops. Too far. Bring it back." It's like the non-m musicians that are calling this out. It's the audience people that are like they just got into the genre and they're like, "This is ours." And it's like, "You just got in." Yeah. I never would have thought that that would happen with things like that. That's weird. If you see a white guy eating Beijing beef out there, knock it out of his hands. Get off of my culture. straight. Get those cream cheese rangons out of your mouth.
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