The TRUTH about RDCworld1 ft. Mark Phillips *YOU SHOULD KNOW PODCAST*
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I've been a fan of him for a long time. He is literally the king of the internet. He's a part of YouTube's funniest comedy group. RDC World 1 has 3.2 million subscribers and was trending number three on YouTube within the first 24 hours of the release of Anime House 3. It is the one, the only Mark Phillips. Well, appreciate that introduction. Thanks, man. King of the internet, that's a little...

You know what I'm saying? Crazy to say, but you know what I'm saying? I appreciate that. But it's facts, man. Like, everything you touch, everything you put out, it's viral. It's trending. I am just grateful to be able to do that. You know what I'm saying? I really am. Like...

In general, I don't like literally just be like, man, this better go viral. I just be like putting out something that I like and I hope it goes viral. You know what I'm saying? So, I mean, with that, I just try to put out my best content, not really just like switch up and be like, this is some stuff I just want to go viral. I feel like that really has the opposite effect, you know what I'm saying, to make it go viral. Yeah.

appreciate it appreciate it oh for sure whenever you were so I know when you were coming up you wanted to have your own anime manga is it manga yeah okay manga well I don't know say manga yeah no you asked the wrong people they'll be like manga I say manga so since I say manga I'm sure it's manga okay because I pronounce it wrong every time so I got something to say and I'll be like oh

brother here we go with this again but yeah i wanted to have a manga and um that's how i started so did you ever think you know whenever you were in high school and you came up with this idea did you think even though you know it didn't go in the direction of having your own uh manga manga or anime did you ever think it would get to this point where you're at now um nah not really because i never really like

Wanted to be in front of the camera. I just wanted to like write the show or just like something like that And we were trying to be comic book writers So I've never really tried to come out here and just be a comedian I mean a few people would say I was funny in high school But like I didn't want to be a comedian at all But you know when we weren't good at being manga artists you have to do something else that I went through I wanted to be in the entertainment industry. So that's that's what I want to do. So I

I mean, no, I didn't to answer the question. Yeah. Is that due to the fact that people, because I know in your one million subscriber video, y'all made a song, RDC World 1 made like a little song. Yeah. In your verse, you were talking about how people were doubting you. People were like making fun of you for coming up. What was it like, you know, creating this new wave of entertainment, meaning that, you know, in the black culture, it's not like,

popular to be into anime or comic books? What's it like creating, coming up, creating this new wave of entertainment? Yeah, definitely. I feel like now it is more popular to be in anime and manga, but like, yeah, back when I had first started doing it, I felt like

Like, the crowds I hung around was just different. Like, they didn't like anime and stuff. Like, I hung around with the, I guess the popular kids or whatever, and they didn't watch anime. You know what I'm saying? I really was the one that put them on anime. You know, like, Naruto was just coming out. It wasn't just coming out, but it was just getting big. And I watched Naruto heavy, so...

And I'm not really the type to hide something I like. So when they would come around, like, my house and stuff, or I go to their house, I'd be like, y'all want to watch Naruto? Look at this fight, you know, show them a fight. And they'd be like, hold on, this ain't no kid stuff like I thought it was. And then they start watching, and everybody start watching and stuff like that. I mean, and then, you know, like...

That was when the good things would happen. I mean, I feel like friends, you know those friends that you ain't really just close with? Yeah, those associates. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But more associates. They were just like, why you watch that and this, this, this? And I'm like...

What do you mean? Like, it's something I like. Like, I ain't questioning what you watch. Don't question what I watch. You know what I'm saying? Like, so, like, it was just like that. It wasn't like I was getting bullied or nothing. Nah. But, like, it was just more so, like, they were like, bro, why you watch that? Like, that's lame. That's this. And I was like, okay, I guess. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. And you have DreamCon. Let everybody know what DreamCon is because I would explain it. Okay. Okay. This just came right here, right?

Yeah, DreamCon is our very own convention. It is a convention that we made because we felt like we were invited to so many conventions back in the day. And we would go there and we'd walk around, do our little table stuff, and then I feel like there was nothing to do. So, like, people would just walk around. It's, like, thousands of people, but not much to do besides, like, go and talk to, like, people.

Other celebrities up there like Stranger Things kids and stuff like that, but they lines are long So if you don't got no patience you enough to talk to them like they laws like you'd be in line for hours something So it's like I'm like no nobody everybody don't want to do that. You know I'm saying so I put a commission together that has something to do with gaming anime and Just comic book stuff in general just popular pop culture conda, but it's mostly focused around anime and gaming and

And we just wanted to put some new things in there. So at DreamCon, you can do dodgeball. There's anime quizzes that you can win money. There's basketball. There's literally a three-on-three basketball tournament. There is Nerf Wars. We got actual Nerf people to come up there and shoot the Nerf guns at each other five-on-five. And they run the teams every time at the dodgeball tournament like that as well. They got...

like not auditions, performances, like if you want to do a rap performance, it's to help like upcoming rappers. We got like booths to put new artists in to help new upcoming artists. Because I'm all about helping like new people and people that's trying to get into something. You know what I'm saying? Because...

What I feel like is, like, I was chasing my dream and nobody helped me. So, I'm going to help people because that's what I want to do personally. Like, I feel like you could just go around and just, like, ask the world. Like, nobody really helped me get to this point. And I feel like that's why I work so hard to stay at this point because just nobody –

gave me the platform, you know what I'm saying? Like I would send my videos to people to post on their pages and they would be like, "Hey, $20 an hour." I'd be like, "No, first of all, I'm broke." So I would never pay that. You know what I'm saying? So then like what I would do is I would be like, I never told people this, I don't know, outside of like my group and stuff, but I would tell them, I'd be like, "Look, how about this?

If it don't hit this many views, I will pay. I never had to pay. It always hit the many views. There we go. Yeah, that's crazy. And I feel like that's just God, to be honest with you. I wasn't paying either. They was really just going to take it down. That's what they do. It's like those pages. You know the meme pages? Yeah. Before they started getting saturated, they helped us out a lot just because I would send those videos online.

And they'd be like, no, pay money. And I'd be like, no, I don't want to pay money. I'd be like, but just look at this content. You think it's funny. They would laugh at it. So I'd be like, if you think it's funny, what you think your people actually know? You know what I'm saying? And they would actually be like, you know what? You're right. So I'm going to post it. And they said, but if it don't do good, I'm going to take it down quick. And I was like, okay. And then they would post it, and it would do good. And then they started being more repetitive and be like, okay, I'm going to cycle and just post more and more and more. And a lot of people would find us through there.

because we had the youtube channel like two years before i started doing instagram videos and uh somebody told me to start doing instagram videos like just because there was other people doing like 15 second ones and vine was big but like but i'm not gonna make no six second video yeah so i already didn't want to make 15 second videos so like i started making 15 ones

And they actually started like blowing up. Right. So it seems like through you coming up, you had like a level of confidence. Like you knew you had something, you knew it was going to work. Is that, is that true? Did you know, like, this is going to work?

I mean, I feel like in general, I'm just kind of a confident person. Just confident enough. I just believed in the word. If I believe that something is funny, maybe other people believe that something's funny. So that's what I feel like I did. Just confident and believing and trusting in God always. For sure, for sure. And whenever you are making videos,

What was the time where you were like, oh shit, people are fucking with this video. People like this. Probably the video called When People Take Anime Too Far 1. That's the one like... That's top 5. First of all, if you haven't seen it, that video is top 5. That is a top 5 video. I agree. That is one of my favorites.

I had posted it actually going to class at UNT. I posted the video. It was a 15 second video. And it just like, it did some numbers that I've never seen, like some quick numbers. Like it was like 500 comments in like 15 minutes or something. And I was like, what is going on? And then it started getting a lot of views. And then people were like, make a full version, make a full version. So we drove down to Waco. I had to drive down to Waco because I was, the rest of my crew was like not at the same school as me. And yeah.

So I drove down there. I was like, hey, bro, y'all come down from college for a second. Let's make a full video. So we made the full video.

And then like, no, we didn't make a full video then. We kept making other videos. And then we moved in together to college because I was like, hey, everybody, look, this is getting views. Let's move in together. So they all came up to my college, UNT, and we started making videos there. And we made the full video of When People Take MMA Too Far. And it got a million and 24 hours on YouTube. And then I was like, a million and maybe two days. Maybe two days. I don't remember completely. I know the second one, When People Take MMA Too Far, part two, got a million and 24 hours.

And those two, like, I didn't know what was going on. So you, like, tweaked out whenever you, because I can't imagine. Yeah, yeah. I mean, wait, I think Anime Part 1, like, it took a week to get a million. But, like, regardless, we never had over, like, 10,000 views or 30,000 views or something like that. So, like, it was just moving so fast on YouTube. And I was like, what is going on? And then, yeah, like, I was happy. And I just wanted to keep putting out content. You know, I put out some other stuff.

it didn't do nearly as good like it would get like a hundred thousand but that's still a lot to me because i was like what you know what's going on for sure yeah i'd love to see a hundred thousand dollars no that's serious like like i guess i said that kind of like man a hundred thousand is low like no but for you it is you mean you're like essentially like the drake of the internet everything you put out to hit yeah i don't i don't want to i don't want to jinx it i mean yeah yeah knock on wood but yeah everything you put out is viral like i

you put out a the airplane video not too long ago yeah viral within like an hour and i was like this dude's killing it it did good it did good i mean i feel like the only downside of this is that sometimes we can't tell jokes like we used to tell jokes just because that many people like affected by it you got to be very like airplane video like

I filmed that like a month ago, but I didn't want to put it out because I didn't want to seem insensitive if a plane crashed. You know what I'm saying? See, I didn't even think of that. So you got to think about that kind of stuff when you're putting out videos. Now. Now. Just because, yeah, they wild. People don't be like, they be like, man, you made that joke because you want to make fun of this. And I'm like, dude, I wouldn't even think about that. You know what I'm saying? How many times...

Have y'all got to maybe a writing stage, a filming stage, or an editing stage, and you're like, no, this is not it, or we can't put that out? Whether that be it's not funny enough, or it's teetering the line of sensitivity or insensitivity.

I feel like a lot. I feel like we get there a lot. More so because of, like, if I feel like it's not funny enough. Like, I'm very picky with every video. So, like, we'll make a video and I'll be like, that's not funny enough. And then six months later, I'll be like, you know what? It is funny enough. And then we'll post it and it'll do good. And I don't know, like, if it's, like, being patient, like, has to work with that or something, but...

It's been a lot of videos that I be like, it's not funny enough. And I get frustrated that it's not funny enough for something. We end up making another video that is good enough to me right there. And then next thing you know, that video becomes funny enough later on. And then we post it out. Like, you could tell, like, if I have, like, hot, taller hair, like...

in the present and then you look at a video and my hair is cut not my beard's not that like yeah i pulled it and they'd be like what that don't make sense but like it's because we held a video for a long period of time and then until then it was funny you know what i'm saying yeah how many of your videos are calculated because you seem very calculated like i don't know if this is i don't want to put words in your mouth but you seem very calculated to like you know what's going to hit you know like what people are talking about what as as far as your

like twitter videos your instagram videos how much of that is like y'all sitting down and be like okay calculated this is what we're gonna do and how much of it is like y'all hitting the group message like oh shit did y'all see that well since we all live together like we ain't gotta hit the group message but like i feel like that in itself is a point like i am very calculated at that point like just because we live together yeah that's already very calculated of me to do that um

But like, we're all friends. We're close friends. You know what I'm saying? So we sit in the living room. Something happen. Usually I'll be like, all right, y'all see this? And then they'd be like, yeah, that's funny. Or one of them bring up like, you see this? And I'll be like, oh, that's funny. But I'll like be like, all right, let's make a video on this.

That's how it usually happens, like the NCAA March Madness video. Once it ended, I was like, man, that'd be funny. I feel like they moved the rim because there ain't no way he's going to smoke a layup at the last second, even though I know he's nervous. I'm not trying to make fun of you, man. But kind of. I know he's nervous.

I know he was nervous, so I was like, man, no, man. They just helped Duke out, so you know what I'm saying? I feel like they moved the rim. So then I made it into a video, and we're all in the back, and we moved the rim at the right time. It went crazy. I'm not going to say I didn't think that was not going to go. I felt like it was going to do that good just because it was well-timed and quickly put together, and I thought it was comedy. At the same time...

Yeah, that's kind of how we do it. We sit around. Like, oh, this is funny. Most of the time, we're just arguing about something, like anime or something. And then, like...

And I'd be like, all right, come on, guys. Let's make a video. Turn the camera on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's usually how it goes. And you mentioned that y'all live together. That's a lot of people in one house. And I was looking at an interview with Ben and Dylan. And they were talking about living in a house together. And they said, it's great. We're all best friends. But they were saying, it's kind of trash sometimes because the house gets super dirty. But I feel like that was kind of like a PG answer. What's the worst part of living with your best friends? But like a real answer.

I mean, it is trash sometimes because it gets dirty. But, like, we've been better. Like, we on a cycle of where, like, one person has to clean the house that day. Like, on Monday through Sunday type stuff. I feel like when you're around someone a lot,

Sometimes you want to be not around that person a lot. So I feel like that's how it is with us sometimes. I'll come in there because we start at a certain amount of time in the morning. We'll start at 8 a.m. or something, and we'll walk in there just to chill. It ain't like we're just sitting there in the office, but we're just chilling because I just feel like we've got to be around each other and make some great content. So we sit in there, and it's just like sometimes I feel like

playing with them. You know what I'm saying? Like, golly. Or, like, when our arguments get too serious and we be like, bro, like, I'm so tired. Like, I need to go, like, somewhere else. Like, that's usually how it be because, like, one person, like, just get on people's nerves sometimes. One person will get on each other's nerves and just like that. I feel like that's a trash part of living together. But, like, I mean, I wouldn't trade it right now. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. And, I mean, I can't really say what's the trashest part. I don't know. I don't know. I really...

Yeah, you're in a good position. I mean, you're in a house with your best friends making great videos, doing what you love for a living. So it's, you know, finding something bad about that is would be it should be hard to find, which is a good thing. Yeah. Yeah. Y'all travel in packs because y'all are really friends. Because I remember the first time I saw you in person, I was at the at the gym and.

going around the gym it was like rdc world one everywhere i was like oh everybody's in here so y'all y'all really just yeah move around together together yeah no we really do like uh even if i gotta go like because sometimes i'll get like sponsored on a trip as like supreme dreams and i gotta go out there um which supreme dreams is like people never like understand why there's a supreme dreams and rdc world one in the first place it's because like me and af created rdc world one back in the day when we was doing the comic book stuff uh

Then we started adding people to the group. Mostly me, because AF is not really just like an out, you know what I'm saying? Outspoken person. So I took on that role and just led it completely. And AF is the co-creator. And I started adding everybody to the group. I added Leland and all of them. And then we all became RDC World 1.

But since RDC World 1 kind of didn't go how we planned completely, I started making videos by myself. And I just named myself Supreme Dreams on my Instagram ad just because I was trying to look for a clean name, honestly. And I was like, oh, Supreme Dreams. And then I was like, that's clean. And then I started making videos by myself and I got like a few millions online.

More than a few actually. I got a lot. It was like 10 videos, 10, 20 videos by myself that got over a million, over five million. And then I was like, what's going on? And that's what made them move in together because I was doing that by myself. And I was like, if I had a group, and we all friends, we all talking to group chat every day, we might as well just move in and try it. Yeah.

Like, nobody from Waco has ever did that. So, like, I don't have no blueprint. I don't know who to, you know what I'm saying? So, I'm just off my thoughts, just, like, going, like, moving forward. So, I was like, okay.

And so that's how Supreme Dreams and RDC, like, I just never changed my name for Supreme Dreams. I don't see no point. But, like, Supreme Dreams is RDC. I don't want nobody to think, like, oh, Mark trying to do a solo mission. No, I'm still just RDC. Just I named myself at Supreme Dreams. Right. All of it got to do with dreams. That's the main point you should be getting at. Real dreams change the world. Supreme Dreams, like, dreams are stuff, like, chasing dreams is what I preach to everybody. So I...

So, like, when we go to places, and sometimes I'll go at Supreme Dreams, like, I'll still be like, all right, y'all, try to come with me just in case, because you never know what could happen. So that's how I see it, too, because we're still trying to make it at the end of the day. A lot of people think it's like, oh, million views, y'all made it. No, like, we still trying to make it. That's not my dream. My dream wasn't to be clouded. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, for sure. My dream is to make movies, to make TV shows that's on Netflix, that have a meaning. I like to make a world, like, yeah.

Just make a whole world. Like something that I could just be like, okay, this can happen in this world. This can happen and entertain people. And most of all, just affect people. Because a lot of movies I watch affect me. You know what I'm saying? I'm not saying I'll be sitting there crying in a movie, but I feel like a movie can make me cry. You know what I'm saying? Like I will get choked up in a movie. And I feel like since they portrayed that emotion to me, I like to portray that emotion back to the world in the films and videos I create.

And when I say I create, I mean to say we create. You know what I'm saying? Sometimes I just, yeah. Sometimes I, what you call it. Like, because we all are a strong point in making these videos. I write the videos. Some, AF works the cameras. Leland and them is like top tier actors at the same time. Somebody does sound. Somebody does this. Like, we're a team. For real, for real. RDC world. You know what I'm saying? Right. But yeah, yeah. That's what I want to do. So, like.

Want to make the TV shows and stuff. I don't want to just be clouded on there Yeah, and you talked about you want your own TV show and on your YouTube you have these long-form videos like these black Avengers or Anime houses. Do you feel a different kind of pressure whenever you're making those because those are big videos people are like waiting for those I like you tweet something normal you'll tweet about a

about your day, just something that has nothing to do with your videos, your career, I'll click on and look at the replies and be like, okay, cool, when's Anime House coming out? I'm like, damn. They don't care about me at all, bro. They don't care about me. How's the pressure going into those long form? I feel like sometimes the pressure is very...

you know what i'm saying it's wild hey but i feel like kobe you know what i'm taking the last shot talk to him you know what i'm saying you hear me but like uh no for real like i only time i feel like an extreme amount of pressure is like two or three times and it's like it was lebron in the locker room the first one just because it got eight million views overnight and i was lost i was like what what am i supposed to do now it was like 2 000 3 000 4 000 people every other hour

Like, where is the next LeBron video? And I'm like, I made this video on a whim. Literally, I was watching the game and LeBron missed a shot or something and they were not hooping. And I was like, oh, I know LeBron is hot in that locker room. And I literally said, hey, everybody, let's just suit up like the Cavs and let's make a LeBron video. That's literally how it happened. I came out as LeBron. We made that video in like, I kid you not, no more than 30 minutes. Made that video, one take, man, one take.

And it was like fire. You know what I'm saying? Literally, like everybody was watching it. I woke up the next morning. I went to sleep and I was like, man, this feel a lot of people. I posted it at 12 a.m. So I'm like, okay, a lot of people like this. That's crazy. I was like, that's a good video, man. I went to sleep. I woke up, man. It was at 8 million on Facebook and like a million on Twitter already and all that stuff. And I said, yeah.

Yeah, this is like I was happy. And then once people start asking for the follow up after the next game, I was like, I am under pressure. Yeah. Like my team knew I was under pressure, too. They was like, hey, bro, like, well, what's up? I was like, like, give me a second, bro. I don't know, bro. Like this caught me off guard. You know what I'm saying? So that time I feel like.

I don't know. The only other time I'm under pressure is the pressure I put on myself. Like, I need to finish this video and it needs to be this level because every video I'll be like, all right, no, this time we're going above and beyond.

So, you know what I'm saying? And like you said, there's a lot of people waiting for these videos. Like, Kids Next Door, for example, I just made that as one episode. It wasn't supposed to be a lot of episodes. But then I accidentally did a 2B continue. And when I say accidentally, it's like I run out of time in a day and I'll be like, I'm going to just throw a 2B continue right here. And it's like, they ain't going to care that much. The video blows up and now everybody asking Kids Next Door. And I'm like...

I am not even indenting no more. You know what I'm saying? So I don't know what to do. We got beards now. We had no beards at the time. Like, come on, bro. Like, I don't know what to say. People still ask for Christmas Thieves Part 2, and a lot of people don't even know what Christmas Thieves is, but our very OG fans do. And I'll be like, bro. You shouldn't have brought it back up. I shouldn't have. I really shouldn't have, but they've been asking for it. You going to give it to them? I don't know. I don't know what I'm going to do. Like, I was going to go on a break, but, like, next week,

And I know they're going to be asking for a lot of stuff. The only thing I can say is that the videos are coming. You know what I'm saying? Videos are coming. I have got better at not promising stuff. A lot of people would be on my head for that. They'd be like, Mark, you promised this. And it's like I promise a lot of videos. And I swear I mean to do them. But then like other stuff comes up and it gets pushed back and pushed back and pushed back. So I swear I mean to do those videos. I just want y'all to know that. All right.

So how much it goes into the anime houses compared to just anime houses for example? Because in the new one, that intro, that one shot through the house, shit was so clean. And so how much it goes into those compared to normal?

Normal videos is it more time writing is it more time like redoing? Yeah, so I write the scripts for all the videos and like I wrote the song for that intro and outro song and like but we're also in sync with me and after like super in sync and like I had to send this man room for like 26 hours write that song. Damn. I wouldn't write this all I

I was more support. I must have came up with, like, two lines. I was like, I was like, Ab, come on, man. Like, I wrote my verse. You know what I'm saying? He wrote his parts. But, like, on the outro, I wrote my verse. And then, like, we got to do the verse because Ab wants to be a rapper, too. Okay. So, like, it's, like, really, like, dear to him. You know what I'm saying?

He's tough too, because in the house tour video, he was doing the little Jamaican... Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, he's tough. He's all right. I kid you not, man skin flow, for real. Me and F, back when we was in middle school, we used to be like... Not middle school, high school. We'd be at his house. We'd put on random beats and we'd rap. So we'd freestyle. And we freestyled every day. It became more like a... We don't do it no more, which we should, but I'm more into writing. You know what I'm saying? But...

like we used to just freestyle every time and it was just crazy and like he wanted he started wanting to become a rapper more and more and then he he is a rapper now I wouldn't even say he want to become a rapper no more I think F is a rapper an actual rapper I think like our songs get like 100 000 views which is

Wild. Not artists. So, and Aff is, he went crazy on the intro. But yeah, it takes a long time, like, behind the scenes to do, like, Anime House 3, Black Avengers 3, all that stuff, because they're all going up in quality. You know what I'm saying? We got a Black Magic, a movie camera. You know, first of all, I never thought I would spend that much money on a camera. So when that camera got to the house, I said, it's getting used. I don't care. We didn't know how to work it. I said, pick it up. Go outside. We finna use this. I don't care what comes out of it. That's what I was thinking.

Because, like, I'm very wild in that format. Ask everybody in RDC. Like, before we had money to go to a house, I would move into a house that cost more money than what we make it so I can force myself to make that amount of money. I kid you not. That's tough. Yeah. That's what I do. Like, literally, they had to tell me not to move into a house. And this is absurd. Listen to me. This is Texas. This is absurd. Please hold on. It was $10,000 a month. There is no way we was going to make $10,000 a month at that point in time.

You know what I'm saying? So I settled and went down a little bit. I ain't gonna say how much, but I settled and went down. And it was still an insane amount. We were not making the money ever in no house. In three houses we've been in, we've never made the money for rent in

Until it was time to make the money for rent because I feel like you put yourself in a situation where you have to succeed You gonna succeed. Yeah, that's just how you gotta survive. You got to you guys You know, I'm saying my parents are not broke. You know, I'm saying they're not poor. They are just middle-class parents You know I'm saying and they work they get overworked by their bosses and stuff and I don't want to be overworked by boss or anything like that and I want to say that

Like, I told my mom she would be giving me money and stressing in college. Like, she'd be stressing, like, I got to give you this money to pay for your classes again. This is this. Like, she ain't mad, but she just like, you know what I'm saying? But, like, she was stressing over it, like, completely. I was like, in college, I told my mom and dad, I was like, don't give me no more money. You know what I'm saying? So that's what I did. I kid you not. I was like, no, I don't want no more money. I'm not. The next time somebody giving some money, it's going to be me to you.

there we go next time that's inspiring bro for real yeah so i mean no cap there is no cap in my roms i'm letting y'all know that right now for real like i'm not lying so like that's how i feel we sit there in the house like we if we gotta go to another house if we gotta move somewhere we ain't gonna have no money to move there first but i mean now it's different yeah yeah yeah so and let's go get into anime a little bit um i don't watch anime i've watched the

the first three seasons of hunter x hunter and it's tough it's really good but in your anime videos you make it to where people like me the casual not even casual fan but somebody who is barely into it or maybe not even into it can like enjoy it is that conscious like it looks kind of make it to where everybody can enjoy it or you just like if they get it they get it they don't they don't i just feel like it depends on whatever video i guess yeah you know what i'm saying like um

some videos i'd be like let's get let's make it to where everybody get it i mean i guess the the format is to try to make it to where everybody can yeah because if not then i guess there's no point but sometimes i do just attack a certain fan base like naruto if i make a naruto video and it's naruto in the title i'm mostly talking to naruto fans but i feel like um

With the comedy in there, like, everybody can relate to it. Like, you might not know Naruto, and you might not know what's going on, like, in anime in general, but, like, I kind of put it to where, like, you can see, like, even if you watch any show. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, like, if anime took place in the hood video, that was before I even knew...

any anime characters and I was in there dying like the Death Note stuff yeah I was in there and it's like a concept that's like kind of easy to get Death Note yeah like somebody writes a name in a book and you die yeah so I feel like I mean you probably heard of Death Note you heard of Death Note before that no you never even heard of it no you put me on oh that's crazy well I'm glad I could do that because I love like people watching anime that's crazy a lot of people actually say that we put them on anime yeah I already see it

they be like bro like i started watching anime because of y'all and i'll be like that's probably the best compliment i can hear you know what i'm saying because i really look i want people to watch anime because i feel like they got really great stories right they inspire me anime inspires me heavy it's no it's like i'm not kidding like this is really heavy and it's like inspiring

But, yeah, I mean, I don't try to make it to where everybody can every time, but I do subconsciously, I feel like. And I know a lot of your fans are watching right now, and they'd kill me if I didn't give you some anime-based questions. But since...

I don't watch anime. I went to the internet and I looked up top anime questions to ask an anime fanatic. So let's hold on. Let me get the vibe right real quick. You know what I'm saying? Throwing on the headband. You know what I'm saying? I think it's backwards though.

There it is. That's Sasuke. That's tough right there. Or Itachi, whoever you want to call him. Am I in the Leaf Village? Is that right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You were in the Leaf Village, but then you left it. Is that where the slash is there? Yeah. Let me get this right. There we go. You ready? Yeah. All right, so I'm not going to be able to respond to any of these, but they will. Okay. So you're going to have to give me some explanation to your answers, all right? Yeah. All right.

Which dangerous and depressing world would you rather live in? Attack on Titan or Evangelion? Evangelion. Right? I mean, first of all, I didn't watch Evangelion, but I definitely would probably pick that world over Attack on Titan because they wilded in Attack on Titan. Right. Like, Attack on Titan...

If you're not the main cast, you're done. So, I mean, I don't know. If you're the main cast, you're done. The main character died in the first five episodes. That's not a spoiler. Just watch it. You'll see why that's not a spoiler. After you watch it, you'll be like, he spoiled me. Then you watch it and be like, oh, that's crazy. So, watch Tackle Titan. But no, I'm not living in a Tackle Titan. So, Evangelion. All right. Could you ever think of a circumstance where you would ever use a death note? No. I would never in my life use a death note.

The dude who used Death Note used it to make the world better. He got himself in too many situations. If you use Death Note, you know what I'm saying? You see a death god, literally. Okay. For the rest of your life, you see a death god. And depending on, like, what parts of the Death Note you use, like, you're ruining your life. Like...

If you write somebody's name down, you really become a criminal at the same time. Even if you are killing bad people, you still become a criminal. You know what I'm saying? And like, in that world in particular, there's a smart-ass person. There's a smart-ass person trying to foil him, foil his plans. And I don't want to go against that smart person. So it's like, no, I probably wouldn't use a death note unless it was like,

Somebody ran up in the house and I don't know I need to use it. Yeah, I gotta hurry up and be like, oh snap, ah, the Shinigami eyes, get his name and be like, oh! That's all it's all. What anime slash manga or manga do you think deserves more credit?

Fullman Alchemist Brotherhood. Why is that? Because Fullman Alchemist Brotherhood is deep. The story is deep. People watch it, the first 10 episodes, it look like it's playful, and it don't look like it got a deep storyline. Literally, every villain is named after a sin, number one. Just watch it, bro. It is deep. It has something to do with God. It has something to do with Bible, but it's very, very...

It's in the background. You have to watch it and pay attention and be like, wow, that really all connects perfectly. So I think Fuma Hakum's Brotherhood, that's my most number one underrated anime. If you had to live with only reading manga or only watching anime, what would you choose? Oh, watching anime, for sure. Watching anime. Why is that? Because I like it. I just like to see it in video form. You know what I'm saying? I was going to ask this question last, but dub or sub? Oh, sub.

Sub but I am NOT disrespecting no dubs. I know I have a bad reputation of that be like mark hate though He told me be on my customer you lame talking down on people watch the I'm not even talking down on nobody watch good like I'm don't I used to watch double Tom Dragon Ball Z Naruto the first part all that stuff I just like sub now because the episodes come out quicker and sub. Okay, usually most of time and

And I don't know, I just like, I like it to watch it in the original language as it's supposed to be. I don't know. - Am I asked for, when I watch "Hunter x Hunter," how you did dub and sub? - Nah, you can watch shows as dub, bro. Like, dub is getting better for a lot of shows. I feel like there was like some years, like a five year period where they were not trying on dub. Like you would watch dub and I'd be like, "Trash." I feel nothing from this episode. Then I watch it in sub and I'd be like, "Amazing."

A plus performance give him a clap you know what I'm saying but like I don't know like in that five years I promise you they were not trying but now I feel like they're trying again I think anime's getting better My Hero dub is pretty good there's a lot of dubs that's good to me now like I don't think 100% of dub is bad too

No, I mean, I'm not one to answer that, but it satisfied me. I got it. Yeah, I feel you. And that's the thing. If you're coming in and just watching anime, you don't know the difference between dub and sub. Until you get deeper in, then you be like, oh, maybe there is a difference. You know what I'm saying? I guess it's like if you're playing basketball, you're just going to do a layup. You ain't going to try no gyro. You know what I'm saying? You're just going to do a layup. But when you get deeper in basketball, I know you might try gyro, might try a different type of layup. So I think that's what it is for anime. Yeah, I got it. I feel that. What's your favorite anime opening? Opening?

that's crazy i did not expect this question probably i never said this they really gonna crucify me yes um get him uh either brotherhood opening two or naruto shipping opening

I'm a ho man. I'd say Bleach opening seven, After Dark. I really like that one. State your case because they're going to kill you. I feel like Bleach has the best opening music. I'm not going to lie. Naruto do too. I don't know. If you say either one, I'll take it. But Naruto got so many of my favorites. They have the most of my favorites, but those two are just my favorites. So I guess for Malcolm's Brotherhood opening two and Bleach, I can't say.

I can't think of the other ones for now. One Piece opening 14, fight together. That is my jam for real, for real. But yeah. I think this next one has to do with Naruto. Would you rather use Deidara Jutsu or Hidan Jutsu? Is that Naruto? Yeah, yeah. No, that's Naruto. Deidara Jutsu and Hidan. I would never probably use Hidan just because you got to get somebody's blood and stab yourself. What? So, I mean...

Not that one. I would use .R's. It's like art. He makes art, but it blows up. Every one of his arts blow up. It's crazy bombs, too. It's like nuclear-powered. As much power as an atomic bomb on some of them. So I would use .R's. And the last one is, what anime was the biggest letdown for you? You trying to get me crucified out here, man. Biggest letdown? I think. I'm trying to give a PG answer because y'all, I'll be tripping, man. Um...

I feel like, I don't know. This is hard. Probably this anime called Tenjo Tenje. Yep, that's a good answer because y'all don't even know what Tenjo Tenje is. It was my first episode, they were boxing hard. Or second episode, one of the first few episodes, they was boxing hard. Then the rest of it, to me, it really wasn't boxing hard. But if you want me to pick an anime that everybody probably knows, I feel like Bleach towards the end let me down. Bleach was my favorite show for a whole minute. Then they start playing around.

all these fillers and like bro i was like what are y'all doing and then like the the full bringer arc was all right it was all right but like i don't know the show got canceled pretty much like bleach anime got canceled and i think that just let me down in general just because it got canceled like i don't blame bleach for it like i mean they could have did some things better that's what i'm saying you know what i'm saying well there you go that's your anime questions so y'all don't kill me in the comments for not asking him kill me either yeah he was asking some very off the wall questions that came out of nowhere

Going back to your career, with your success, you've been able to meet some top celebrities like Big Sean, Chris Brown, Damian Lillard. What was the most memorable moment from meeting somebody like that? Memorable moment? Yeah, from one of those people. I feel like the most memorable moment, and I hadn't even met him, was like J. Cole. Yeah.

J. Cole said a sentence to me. I am blessed. You know what I'm saying? Like, the fact that he messaged me and said something. And I was like, man, appreciate it. And, like, I was just happy. I'm still happy about it right now. J. Cole is my favorite artist. You know what I'm saying? Big Sean, meeting Big Sean in general. Like, Big Sean is one of my favorite artists, too. Like, to hear him talk about us on The Breakfast Club, to actually just running into him by accident at a convention, actually. Yeah. At E3 was amazing. Yeah.

That those those are two of my top two and well, top three is I talked to Kendrick on FaceTime. I never told nobody that. But yes, Kendrick FaceTime me. And the hell did y'all talk about? How did how did the numbers get aligned? Tell me the whole story behind that. I need Kendrick. I don't like telling people these stories, man. But like because nobody knows that.

This is, man, this A+, this A-plus interview, Tom. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I appreciate it. You're asking some good questions. You know what I'm saying? That just gets me to these parts. Actually, I was talking to Kendrick on Twitter. You know what I'm saying? And I never even told him nobody this either. Kendrick gave me a video I did. And I did the video I did. I'm not going to tell y'all which one. But it is one of the rapper videos. And it went viral. It did go viral. Yeah.

and he was like hey you should make a video on something like this and i chan i tweaked it just a little bit and then we made the video and sent it back and he was rolling and stuff and then we posted it you know what i'm saying but i didn't add him or nothing uh just because he he didn't really want to add or nothing he was just like chilling like kendrick really ain't he ain't about no like you know what i'm saying that's nuts yeah that was crazy uh but i talked to him on facetime and he still messages tom tom like he'll be like like the last time he messaged was like

Three weeks ago. He'd be like, he'd be like, bro, that was funny. Laughing and laughing emojis and stuff like that. Damn. Cause that's crazy. Cause you don't hear from Kendrick. Like Kendrick is like, he puts out music and then he'll go back in his like layer. He, no one knows it. That's the thing. So when he FaceTime me, like he FaceTime me and he hasn't dropped no music or nothing. Like,

I might have had like 20 seconds. It was so quick and out of nowhere that I didn't record it or nothing. Even if I did record it, I probably wouldn't have showed y'all. You know what I'm saying? I really don't like to give my life out like that. Yeah, for sure. Even though a lot of people be like, no, you got to, so this, this, this. I'd be like, no, I don't want it to take over completely. Is that why you don't do vlogs?

Because I know y'all have done vlogs before where y'all like, but you're going like shopping for beds and stuff like that. Yeah, no, that was the one vlog we did. Like, I never did a vlog again after that. Just because, like, that was the first vlog. And I feel like it came from a place like, oh, I seen people doing vlogs and was like, oh, we should vlog too.

So, like, usually when that stuff comes up, I suppress it. Like, that's just attention needed. So, like, no offense to the people who do vlogs. I'm not saying you need attention. I'm saying, like, for me, I feel like I don't want myself to get succumbed to wanting attention all the time. You know what I'm saying? So, I just, I will, like, put out my videos and go about my day.

I do feel like I should give more because I used to give more of myself back in the day. I just like be able to turn on the camera and be like, oh, what's up, everybody? I'm talking about this, this, this, this, this. You have the story time videos. Yeah, story time and stuff like that. Like that was more of me. And I feel like I do need to get more because I've even came back to where I don't do nothing but drop a skit and go and then disappear. So I'm starting to post more stories on Instagram. Starting to post like more just funny pictures that I feel like is funny. Mm hmm.

And on YouTube, I am going to post some more personal type of videos just because they do miss that. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. But I feel like the Twitch streams, the ones where we're on there for six hours, those are the ones where you really get how we act, how we... You know what I'm saying? But everybody don't watch Twitch streams. Yeah. Everybody don't even got Twitch. You might not even have Twitch on your phone probably. So it's like... I feel like for the three million people on our YouTube, we need to sometimes show another side of us. But it's just not a lot. You know what I'm saying? Right. And...

If you could have, because you make a lot of NBA skits, and those, you know, personally, because, you know, basketball, those are my favorite. If you could have any NBA player to feature in one of your skits, who would it be? And courtesy of the You Should Know podcast, I'm going to put this out. I want it to happen for you. Yeah. Who do I want in a skit? That's crazy. I mean, I feel like...

My favorite player is Kobe, so I would want Kobe in a skit, to be honest with you. Even though I don't know how he would act in a skit. How would Kobe act in a skit? You know what I'm saying? Kobe's got some personality. He definitely has personality. He's got a rap song. You know what I'm saying? He was rapping with... He had a verse on a Brian McKnight song. I know. I'll be doing the research. You know what I'm saying? He has a personality for sure. I feel like just like, you know what I'm saying? Kobe or... Kobe... Man, this is tough.

Because I wouldn't say, like, I don't know. Maybe LeBron just because I made a locker room. You know what I'm saying? I would one time want LeBron to be in a locker room if I made another locker room. Because I don't plan on making another locker room. Sorry. But, I mean, I never plan on them. Every year, I don't plan on it. Y'all force me to do it, so I don't know. Right. So, whenever this comes out, Kobe or LeBron coming up. I go for it. I'm going straight to the top of the line, man. And, um...

I know you said you want your own show. You want a movie. How close are you to that goal? I don't know. I don't know. Like, I might be really close or I might be really far. That's what the entertainment business is. You don't know if you're really close or really far. You're just looking for a break. And...

No comment on that. Yeah. I just can't. I can't. I don't like saying stuff so the world don't take it away or something. For sure. For sure. But it definitely is a possibility for those of your fans that really want to see that. Yeah, no, it's definitely a possibility. Definitely. Right. And so, you know, we're going to close this out soon. And with the success of RDC World 1, Supreme Dreams, everything just skyrocketing right now. A year from now. What's today's date? Anybody have the date? It's the 16th.

December 16th, 2020, where do you see RDC World 1 and Supreme Dreams? Where do I hope to be? I hope to be on just a streaming service. I ain't going to say which streaming service. I hope to be on a streaming service. Whether that is Netflix, HBO, Disney+, anybody. I'm open. All suggestions. I have no bias towards one. So, yeah.

That's what I hope to be. Or in a future film. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I probably actually want to be on a service more than I want to be on a movie theater movie. Yeah. Just because, I don't know, I watch Netflix them all the time. So like,

you probably watch nefas all the time all the time i'm never on normal tv really i'm barely going after the movies but and that's why that's why i feel like i want to be on the search streaming services that's what it's like it's just like they got top 10 movies on there oh for sure yeah really tough but you know yeah i really appreciate you coming on here man you you know with your success and you know how i'm just starting out you know you didn't have to do you didn't even have to entertain it so i just want to say like you know i really

I'll say this after the cameras too, but I really do appreciate you coming on here. You helped me out a lot and you know, I hope to keep in touch with you, man. Tell everybody where they can find you. If this is for some reason, their first time hearing about you. Um, you can find me on RDC world one, or you can find me on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and whatever else. Tik TOK. We've been on lately just because the kids are on there too. Uh, at Supreme dreams, underscore one or RDC world. One of those two, uh,

And if you haven't seen any of the videos, please watch them. I feel like you'll like them. They're good, some of them. You know what I'm saying? And Peyton, I appreciate you letting me come out here too and just saying all the great things you said about me as well. And I'll relate it to the team as well. Oh, I appreciate that. They're asleep. I know for a fact. Right now? We sleep at 4.30. Yes. And like, well, what time is it? 11? It's probably like close to 11. Oh, yeah, that day up then. But like...

They was like, man, Ben, I appreciate you. Desmond, I appreciate you for waking up with me and being like, hey, bro, yeah, we were just here just in case you wanted us to go too. Like, that's real. That's real. That's very real of them to have done that. And I was like, no, no, bro, y'all can go to sleep, man. I'm finna just go drive up here and do it. Yeah. No, I appreciate it. And thank you to the whole RDC World 1. Guys, if you want to follow me, you can follow me on Instagram at...

PSH8 or on Twitter at the PSH8. This is the You Should Know Podcast. Mark Phillips, thank you so much, bro. Appreciate it. Please be sure to subscribe if you're new. Thank you. Thank you. Please. All right. See y'all next time. All right. The You Should Know Podcast.

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