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How Bart & Joe Deal with Brands That Refuse to Work with Them

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0:00 Okay, Bart and Joe, let's say that you're in a meeting with a brand and they end up looking up JK videos and they go, "We can't work with you guy." And it's happened. What is your verbal rebuttal? Like, what do you say to be like, "Hold on. Hear me out. >> Do I have to rebuttal?" Cuz I would just go, "I understand, sir." >> What's your hear me out dialogue in this situation? >> Hear me out. We've maintained this brand for 19 years now. >> Wow. Wow. Wow. >> Not been cancelled. >> Built a awesome loyal following. >> Yeah. Thank you guys. >> Over 10 plus years of everyday viewership. >> Uh-huh. >> That's magic. And I'll be like, "How long's your brand been around?" >> 250 years. We're in a bisco.

0:54 I was thinking it was like a it was like a I don't know like a new company >> ad agency. Yeah. Okay. Let's say let's say it is let's say it's a new ad agency >> been around for less than two years. >> Yeah. >> Uh-huh. >> Okay. I could teach you guys something about longevity. >> I could teach you something about loyalty with your brand and customer. Yeah. >> And I'm like you can work with me >> in a different capacity. >> Uhhuh. And then I'll just try to find something that they suck at. >> No. >> Let's say they suck at something really bad and then I'll just fix it for them right then and there and it'll be like, "Oh my god, you guys, you guys are magic." And I'm like, "I know." >> Okay. It's pretty good. You would still just be like, "Thank you for your time." >> I'm like, "Take it back. Listen to what he said." >> Okay. All right. Okay. I would. Yeah, I'd probably try to double down on the

1:44 rapport we've built >> and then maybe talk some ████ You don't want to be one of those ████ ass ████ brands that ████ turn at the first sight of risk, do you? >> Or do you want to or do you want to gamble and be one of those brands that people recognize are willing to take risks and and and reap the rewards? >> I'll be like this. Exhibit A, Slim Gym. Remember Slim Gym? >> Yes. And I'll be I'll just pull up all the Slim Gym tweets. I'll be like, "Exhibit A." >> No. Yeah. Yeah. >> They don't They're not afraid of controversy. >> No, they were very savage. Yeah. >> You want to be Arrowhead Water or Liquid Death? >> Oh, okay. All right. All right. >> Are we still pitching for Nabiscoco? Do you think Nilla Wafers is a part of Nabiscoco? I don't know. >> I thought it was. Yeah. >> Let's just say it's like Nilla Wafers. >> Like Nilla Wafers. Okay. >> By the way, Nilla Wafers, nobody remembers any of this. Who buys you

2:34 guys' ████ sales are down? You know, you you need to do something different. But if you change it to n wafers. >> Yeah, baby. >> No. >> Yeah. >> No. >> You're going to remember that ████ for sure. Bonus is playing the ad agency. How do you rebuttal against their rebuttal? >> Have a great life. >> What do you got against N? >> Yeah. >> Wafers. >> Can't imagine trying to sell that. They're like, "Wait, you're trying to change our brand now?" >> Oh, yeah. That's so weird. >> Those sales would boost, though. Yep. I will because just write it in a Chinese word. Change the two >> consonants to two other consonants. >> If Nabiscoco became blackowned, they could probably do that and no one would care. >> That's true. Are you guys black? >> That's a true DEI right there. >> That's what you ask.

3:24 >> That's your ████ First of all, cuz imagine the guys from like Kentucky like I've been wanting to change it to that for years. >> Finally, someone who speaks my language. Hey, but they're so bomb in banana cream pies. Oh my god. Or the banana. Yeah, I you know what? I I love Nilla Wafers. I still buy them. Yeah, they're great. >> I would be like, "Hey, this new age." >> How do you cut through the noise? There's just so much noise. >> Nice. Okay, cool. Yeah. >> You don't make strides by being vanilla. You don't ████ make a mark on the world >> by being safe. And the reason why your sales are down is because you're not in with the cool kids. This we're the cool kids. >> Oh, okay. Interesting. >> Yep. And then you bring out a

4:14 PowerPoint. So, I jump in and I go, "See, these are your sales based off of safety and it shows the decline." >> Okay. >> And then the next slide is a picture of me and Joe doing some crazy ████ This is your ticket to sales going up. >> And I'll be like, "Those days are old. the corporate brand and the millennial marketing. Those days are over. And then I'll pull out uh different examples >> of Only Fans girls >> and I'll be like, "Hey, look, Bonnie Blue ████ a thousand dudes in a day. She's worldwide famous. Everyone knows who she is. We don't even have to go this far." >> You're right. I should go work with Bonnie Blue. >> Damn it. Yeah, great recommendation. Thank you. But she's too big. You can't afford her. That's why we're here to give you a discount. >> Okay. What if this brand was to say, "I

5:06 like what I'm hearing, guys. I just need you to release a statement apologizing for saying ████." >> And we can work together. >> How much are you going to pay me to say that? >> They're going to pay you for that. They're going to They're going to have a brand part. They're going to work with you after you do that. >> I'm down. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. But then um but we can always retract it. >> Retract the apology. >> Yeah. So, you release an apology video and then let what's the retraction video? >> We're sorry for all the ████ out there that we said we didn't really mean it about you guys because when we say ████ we never >> we love the disabled community. >> Yeah, >> some of our best friends are disabled. >> I'm disabled. >> Yeah, I'm disabled. Bart's asberers. So, we thought it was like we're trying to It doesn't mean what it means. It's like

5:56 when we say gay. It's like when we say gay, like the South Park episode did a great example. They didn't know that it meant homosexual. They thought it meant bikers. >> Has nothing to do with homosexuals. Yeah. >> Like I don't mean that. And I'm not homo. Yeah. >> The new meaning is Harley drive riders that have their radio turned up >> because they want all the attention and they're acting kind of gay, you know? >> Right. Yeah. Exactly. >> We're just from the '9s. >> Mhm. >> We're a product of the '9s. >> Okay. And um we don't have much of our culture left because everything is being taken over. We're we're being gentrified and we just want to preserve small parts. >> Small Yeah. sweet parts. Yeah. Okay. >> Of the '9s millennial that we have left over. >> The era is Gen Z. The era is Gen A. >> Yeah. >> Um you know, and and we just want to preserve that cuz we're all about the

6:46 retro life. >> Nice. Okay. >> So then people go, "We get you, dude. We get you." And then I'd be 99% of people will be like, "Hey, bro, like we miss it, too." >> 99%. >> Yeah, >> you could be right. You could be right. Yeah, >> there's gay and trans people that miss it, too. >> Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I wouldn't I wouldn't rule them out. >> But the real re real real ████ >> they don't even watch our videos, so they're not going to It's not offensive. >> The real real ████ >> they're not watching our videos, so they can't be offended. So the offense isn't reaching them. >> No, there's some random white lady browsing the YouTube and then she's getting offended on their behalf, >> right? Okay. >> Well, that's what I'm saying. So, okay. So, then that's my apology video, right? >> Right. And then the brand goes, "Great apology video. We we'll work with you

7:36 now." And then you finish the campaign with them and then we see like, "Wait, $2,000. We take that ████ ████ back." >> Yeah. >> So, what's the retraction? >> The retraction, >> ████ I was joking. Yes. ████ all you ████. >> Oh god. >> Yeah. >> Stop. >> Just kidding. Just kidding. Just kidding. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. I can't do that. I can't do that. I love them. >> And you shouldn't do that. >> No. >> Yeah. You're friends with like the whole cast of uh I am one. Okay. No. We would just be real. We' be like, "Hey, we're taking it back. We thought we're going to get paid more." Oh, okay. But if you're going to pay me to be fake, you got to pay me a lot. Just out of spite. You know what I'm going to do? What? >> I'm doubling down. Not cuz I actually hate uh people that are ████ or anything like that, but just to in your face. >> So then like if if if they didn't pay me

8:27 enough or just I got a reputation to uphold. I must remain homophobic. >> No. >> ████ hating, racist, >> ████ hating. >> Bigotry cuz that says branding. >> That's the term. >> I got a reputation to uphold. >> Okay. Right. Like that's like >> if people start thinking that I'm not a bigot anymore, then I'm not going to be >> loved. >> That's true. Yeah, you're right. Yeah. Loved. Yeah. >> That's so complicated to unpack. >> But it's like if if people expect a certain thing out of you and you're all of a sudden a good person, don't you think that they're going to be disappointed? I don't want to let my fans down. >> Yeah. Well, it is it is more unsustainable to like maintain being a good person. >> Yeah. That's very hard. Like if Bone Thugs and Harmony starts like making music about smoothies and milkshakes, you're going to be like, "What the ████

9:17 What the hell is this? >> They haven't been around for a long time." >> You think you're the exact same from 19 years ago to today? Or do you think there have been some changes? >> No, I'm I'm more u milder. >> Yeah, he's way more tame from 19 years ago, dude. This is >> I'm a good boy now, >> dude. Yeah, bro. The first time I even watched them on JK News when they started, I was just like, "You can say that ████ on YouTube." All of us were like, "What? You can do that?" Like, "These guys just don't care." >> I was so shocked. No, we care so much. >> That's what it is. We care so much about >> our culture. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. >> Everything that was normal. >> Uhhuh. And when we started YouTube in 2007, >> okay, >> everything that was normal is now

10:08 considered hate speech and bigotry. >> Well, that's because there's so many people that actually did hate the things that they were joking about. >> Yeah, but I'm Asian. >> What? >> That reasoning is >> I wasn't prepared for that reasoning. Okay. >> Don't you think that it's unfair that we have to deal with white people rules >> or you know what I mean? Like it's like I just put them in word jail. >> It's like why like why do us Mexicans, Indians like we're like other >> word jail? >> Word jail is >> Yeah. Yeah. You're right. You're right. You're right. >> Everyone else has different intentions and you can feel it >> like I never own no slave. Like what the ████ You know like in the Hispanic culture like as soon as you're fat you're like a gordo or whatever, right?

10:58 And now it's a beloved nickname. It's an interment of endearment. >> And you know that. So like how can they ever even fat shame? They should never be in word jail. >> Yeah. Oh, that's true. It's like when Mexicans call you chino. >> Yeah. >> And then a white person hears and goes, you shouldn't say that to him. >> Yeah. Exactly. Like what the hell put that guy in word jail. What the hell? It's like your culture's been saying that for like a hundred years. We we barely been started for 6 months. Like give us some time to catch up. We I think it's it should be like an investment where or like where like they depleted all their funds of >> what they're allowed to do and say. >> Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> But then like >> if a Nepalese dude >> was hella racist and like a bigot or whatever, >> right? >> I'm like you got like about a thousand years of allowance. >> A thousand years. Cuz like

11:49 >> Oh, because they haven't done anything yet. >> They haven't done They're like I don't know. They're new to the party. It's just verbal. Yeah. Yeah. They just got here. >> They just got here. >> That makes sense. Okay. >> They haven't colonized nobody. >> I think that's probably the best rebuttal in a on one of these pitch meetings is to be like, "Hear me out. If a Nepoese person >> Yeah. I think the Bisco would be on your side." >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's it's unfair. >> Yeah. >> Cuz you know that you know what white people are doing? >> What? >> They got to say the N word. Do all this crazy ████ right? Make rules about how people are segregated. They got to create the N word. And then they closed the door behind them. >> Yeah, they already said it. >> It's like, what the ████ >> They closed the door behind. >> It's like, what? You can't invent all this ████ and then like do it and then go like, "Oh, time's out. Time's out. No, it's unfair. We're not doing it anymore."

12:39 >> Yeah. No one else can do it now. >> No one gets to do it. It's like you got to do it for hundreds of years. What the ████ >> No. Yeah, exactly. >> And then what? I'm trying to I'm late to the game, you know? Like what the ████ >> Yeah. Yeah, they did close the door. I barely got started and like I can't even do as much as you can. That's not fair. >> I think you have many cases to get these corporate deals going for yourself. Yeah. >> Yeah. I think this is the stuff they want to hear. >> Hire us. >> We're like sick. >> If you guys have a brand opportunity for these guys, you've already heard the rebuttal, so why bother saying anything else? Just hire Bart and Joe. >> We'll promote anything. Diapers, cigarettes, gambling, t-shirts. Why? Diapers and then cigarettes. Joe, >> same all the same ad. >> He's going to have a baby, so we could do diapers. >> And I'm going to start smoking, too.

13:30 >> Uh, I like I like cigars. >> Okay. >> So, it's real. It's

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