Ep. 247 - culturally bankrupt [VIDEO]

ludwig is 1000% more normal than aiden

Nick saying Post Malone popularised the dab more than Migos is one of the most obscene things I've heard

I think discord is much more common these days, but is mostly just if you play video games online or Dungeons & Dragons. I wouldn't consider it normie. Normies just have group chats.

I love when nick mansplains black culture he’s my icon

Genuinely Nick's wisest episode yet, dude had some delightful ass insight on things the whole way through

For starters, I reject the premise of “I’d be normal if I didn’t have this job or money”, those things have fundamentally shaped your being and personality. Clearly Slime is least normal, his lifestyle and thought processes do not track to the average person and his rigidity to himself and lack of care/willingness to bend who he is for others is not normal though it is admirable. Hot take… Ludwig is second least normal, as evidenced often on this podcast and brought up many a time it is not normal to be as chill and unbothered and unafraid or anxious as he is, it’s just not normal most people aren’t like that Then comes Nick and Aiden honestly tied for pretty normal, both have unique quirks and likes and Nick can certainly go down some little rabbit holes such as obsessing over cod mods and Aiden is less normal than some in that his takes and worldview is very mature and he’s a very open person which is sadly not that normal but you know, they’re not that crazy unlike the other two freaks

Ahh yes Michael (I made a killer drone roomba fight pit electrified Trebuchet) Reeves, so normal for sure

Nick that is the exact reason I watched the Mentalist, it’s good

Nick not sure if you’ll read this but after the mentalist I watched a season of lie to me. It scratched the same itch for me

Normal ranks Ludwig Nick Aiden Slime

THE MENTALIST!!!

No way the guy showing off his buthole to strangers on a mafia game is the second most normal. Electric but not normal right?

nick if it makes you feel better i just got to season 6 of the mentalist after randomly being compelled to watch and i don't know if i can even be bothered watching the rest after slogging through it in 2 weeks lol

1: Nick most normal 2: Aiden 3: Ludwig 4: Slime Nick seems like he’d probably be able to effectively navigate the widest array of social situations. It’s not that Aiden and Ludwig aren’t sociable, but from my understanding, Aiden has talked more about fumbling social situations on the podcast, and Ludwig has a propensity to show people both his actual butthole and his metaphorical social butthole. Slime has some insane habits, which why he goes into the bottom, but surface level meeting him somewhere random would probably not strike me as abnormal. All respect to the guys, love the show.

i couldve sworn the dab was popularized by cam newton

Normal - the closest to the “average guy” at everything 1. Aiden 2. Ludwig 3. Nick 4. Slime (sleeps on floor)

the switch up on aidan’s sanity over the run of this podcast is crazy because episode 1 he’s literally getting roasted for being the most normie guy they know

The California Bureau of Investigation. We're like the FBI, only more conveniently located.

Is the video not broken for anyone else? I can't get it to play past 0:35

They can talk as much shit as they want; Aiden would love Newfoundland because of how social he is as a person

Breaking news: Average Joe gets gaslit into thinking he’s not normal for an hour by three aliens with probing tools

We can only judge this off the personas you have and your online presentation. Given that, I’m basing it off of interactions with “normal” people that have been described. 1) Aiden 2) Ludwig 3) Nick 4) Slime.

Nick getting ranked as the #1 normal guy in replies is cracking me up. Nick just seems like a sleeper freak, don't let his white boy coolin appearance fool you.

Discord is not very common. Even if people got it for Covid, they’re off it now. I don’t know many people that really regularly use it outside certain circles. Nick’s observation of redownloading it is pretty accurate if people do know it

ludwig maybe comes off as the most “well-adjusted” though aimen also could be up there, but normal tier list is: 1. Nick 2. Aiden big gap 3. Ludwig 4. Slime

Psych goated

I cried at the end of Hoppers too, you are not alone… Stupid fucking beaver hitting the emoji buttons on the phone…. I’m tearing up thinking about it….

I think a good viewpoint for this might be if they were stranded on a deserted island with the guise of society stripped away: Aiden feels like he has the most depth for insanity. The first one to follow through on murder-cannibalism. He appears to be having a rough time but managing before things take a sharp negative turn. He is thrown into the jagged rocks from a cliff still rambling about how his actions were justified. Slime has his eccentricities and his sharp points but is the last one to break from societal standards. He does his best to provide for the groups survival on the island. Having to kill Aiden takes a lot out of him, but the flame of a rational man continues to burn within him. In some ways, this makes him the least normal. Ludwig either becomes the tyrant or matyr. Matyr seems more likely, but he will have the thought about how he's doing more than the others and some part of him will resent them for that. Still, when food is scarce and things aren't looking good, he would have been the first one to step up and offer himself as nourishment for the groups survival if other events didn't transpire first. Alt reality where Ludwig manipulates the group in such a way as to where he is the last one standing. Nick will be a useful party member until he is inevitabely the first one to fall sick to some BS due to weak throat. He will feel bad about being a burden, but even while having the physical capacity to provide some value, he will have the mental blockade that makes him think he is unable to do anything. He becomes more and more of a drain on the group but this problem is eventually resolved. Slime and Ludwig stand side by side watching the boat that finally saw their smoke signal make it's way to land. They do not look at each other. Slime more or less goes back to the life he had before. Ludwig also returns to streaming but is clearly a bit off. This actually makes him more suited for the space and he sees record numbers before a scandal ends his mainstream career. After a year, he returns to continue streaming for a much smaller audience with none of his previous connections or interpersonal relationships intact. Time goes by and he fades into obscurity. Your co-worker who invited himself to lunch tells you some of his recent videos are actually pretty good. Anyway, Ludwig -> Nick -> Aiden -> Slime

This is the only place where I here people talk about psych which is my favorite show

I liked where y'all were going with the whole "no insider trading" idea, but I don't think it was fully applied. I think that idea illustrates that there's really two ways to think about normality. There's normality on a surface level (to acquaintances, coworkers, introductions etc.), then there's normality to your core (to closest friends, partners, family, etc.). It's very common to want to appear more normal to people you're not as close with, then show your abnormalities more as you get to know someone. With that in mind, here's how I'd rate the yard members on both scales: Surface Level Normality: 1. Aiden- Just a normal social guy. Talks to strangers frequently, maybe a little quirky 2. Ludwig - Social chameleon, which makes him pretty normal, but he also showed he asshole to people he didn't know (barely knew?) while playing mafia, so he just can't be the MOST normal 3. Slime - Allegedly pretty good at first impressions, but also not too afraid to be a little weird to new people 4. Nick - I dont know too much about how he is with new people, but I just remember hearing about him running several bits with complete strangers (pretending to be stanz) so he seems pretty low on surface level normal to me Normality to the Core: 1. Nick - I think this guys doesn't get much more weird the more you get to know him. He's in a long term relationship, doesn't seem too crazy, but idk the guy 2. Ludwig - I think Ludwig's right that he's be super normal if he wasn't a bit streamer, but he is, so that brings him down a little. Being a streamer gives him a lot of opportunities and lifestyle choices that a normal person just doesnt have access to. 3. Aiden - This guy gets a lil crazy with it when you get to know him i.e. peeing on the floor. 4. Slime - I feel like every episode we hear about a new little piece of this guy's crazy lifestyle. Sleeping on the floor, buying new towels all the time, not buying toilet paper, etc.. In contrast to Ludwig, I think this guy would be weird no matter what his job was. Obviously I don't know these guys and it's hard to rank strangers on the weirdness scale (especially to the core), but this is my vibe based on what I've heard about their lifestyle.

aimen is lawful normal, ludwig is true normal, nick is chaotic normal, and slime is lawful weird

NORMAL 1. Aiden - Reminds me of that annoying guy that talks about politics all the time and some other boring hobbies that no one cares about but he fucking loves it. 2. Lud - He's just that main character guy that is kinda predictable and seems like he should be in high school musical. Not boring enough to beat Aiden at being more normal. 3. Nick - x skater and x emo turned to regular guy who's just cool now. And you just know that he secretly listens to his old emo mix from 2007 whenever he's alone. Weird because he doesn't drink expecially because he has that kinda party have fun aura and because it's kinda normal to drink because most people drink, no? 4. Slime - I don't even know how to describe this, mofo just comes up with the most random shit to say but its always the most interesting and weirdest. Slime gets the pass for not drinking because he use to right? I don't know the full lore. But slime just has the most out there shit to say and it sounds like he lives a weird life - but we love that shit. ABNORMAL

19:56 website background is so white it lights up the shot

13:48 love when a wàiguórén knows psych

discord is way less common than you guys think. it's dominated by online/gamer types which makes sense why there's an illusion that everyone has it, you are just in that bubble. while men are more likely to have it who aren't a part of that, insinuating it's popular among normal people is so crazy. i'm very shocked there could even be people making this argument genuinely.

When they're twins they share a healthbar

Ludwig baiting with "Made in Abyss is normal" and no one there can realize how insane that is

Ludwig is so correct, plate up is so much better than overcooked

saying you are both the most normal and going to an NBA playoff game to rub ketchup over yourself is something only he can get away with

I don’t think Michael Reeves is normal. Because normal people (even if they’re geniuses) aren’t able to drop out of college, teach themselves engineering, and make the things that he makes.

Dude Psych is so goated

great episode fellas

the mentalist and bones talk? this episode would've been perfect for my mom.

Chill on the mentalist hate

Steamdeck ownership is normal???

The most not normal people deciding what is normal is so funny

as a lady yard enjoyer i really do love hearing about the zippers 2 and 3 as well as slimes girlfriend. QT, also, being is one of my favorite streamers. i understand the other 3 have a line of privacy which i totally respect so in no way do i expect a segment every episode. its nice to hear every now and then for a bit of feminine touch - same for when they bring women guests on. but of course i listen to the yard for the funny antics it brings regardless. shoutout to my other girly patreon members.

42:41 theater kids are inherently not normal

dont ever look at the made in abyss manga if you want to believe the show is normal lol

43:30 fully thought of weed and my limited experience just assumed i had missed a moment

My gut way of categorising normalcy would be could I get through polite conversation with someone as a stranger without being made uncomfortable by something they’ve said or done, and in this case I think the yard would all be normal . If it was by some crazy story they’ve told on the pod I think it goes: Nick bc I don’t remember any story of his was that was too crazy am I losing my memories Aiden : they tried breast milk on Friends so I’d think it’s weird but not out of the realm of something a normal person would do . Without consent is crazy though so this is like a tentative place on whether he could make the story funny enough that I forget that . Shitting yourself is also hilarious who gaf Ludwig: I think most of his stories are him farming for laughs so it kind of cancels out how weird it is Slime: following people for the love of the game no farming no audience no nothing . While I also get the urge to follow people who have wronged me and therefore would view slime as a brave vigilante I would also be scared to be in a room with him 1 on 1 if that story was my only context of who he is

Ludwig saying made in abyss is a fine show is crazy. My gf and I started watching it and there was a scene in like ep 2 or 3 of a little girl butt ass naked tied up in shibari. Come to find out the authors damn pedophile with legions of fans defending him as a nonoffender. that shit is a WEIRD show man

I think that the idea of being normal is pretty subjective and hard to talk about, but I think Nick fits the description of what you guys were talking about the most. I think that Ludwig's internet presence and success remove him from the average life that a "normal" person lives which I think is a big part of being a normal person. Having an atypical career and being wealthy are pretty abnormal things that are big parts (less the wealthy part) of his life and contribute at least a small amount to who he is. I agree with your guys' placements of Slime and Aiden at the bottom, but for slightly different reasons which aren't really important to the conversation. I think Nick is the most normal to me because he seems to live the most modest, have the most normal interests (although he seems to hyper fixate on them), and has a really solid understanding of social dynamics. That being said, I don't know any of you for real, I just enjoy participating in this little thought experiment convo.

1. nick ---HUGE GAP--- 2. ludwig 3. aidan 4. slime the wine about it episode that nick was on is kinda the sole reason for this ranking. i just don't think i've ever seen the other three guys wholeheartedly engage in a convo without a veneer of irony, which like its a pod so thats not a bad thing but it def humanizes him more.

I love Psych, I watched a little bit of the Mentalist but couldn’t get into it because the main guy looks like yassified Gordon Ramsey

Daily crossword is normal. Wordle is normie. We don't have enough defined terms to describe the oddball/esoteric here, but scrandle is a distinction right? Yard normal list; ludwig Nick Aiden Slime

weird to laugh abt mango

I think Aiden had the right answer but just didn't know how to defend it. You say "Ludwig is normal because if he didn't get the job he did he would be normal due to his personality." But that argument can then be used to say "If Aiden didn't have [insert negative american experience] happen he wouldn't want to go to sweden and therefore would be normal." It doesn't matter if the things that are abnormal about Ludwig are due to his job, he is his job and his job is him, there's no separating that i think, not to mention that there has to be a reason he was able to get the job he has. The evidence supports ludwig being not normal because why would a normal person be successful live-streaming, if you're just run of the mill human, you're not a "personality" for money.

i will be saying wholesale crazy from now on

I always think of normal people as those people who just talk to people and take everything at face value. They're not reading into anything, they're not dissecting your motives when you bring up some random topic. They walk up, chat about some video they saw, say "alright well I'd better get to work" and then they just walk away happy with the interaction. Like what the fuck are those people.

1. Nick 2. Aiden 3. Slime Ludwig’s job inherently divorces him so far from reality that it is impossible to put him on the list for me. I can’t rank Glen Powell on the list because no matter how many boxes he checks off, he isn’t normal because he is Glen Powell. I do have a question related to Aiden: if he was given a dollar over would he give back ¢75 or would he pocket that.

to me, normal is an average of society's or the culture's expectations. what's normal to one group might not be to another, but as the social circle raises (e.g. your friend group, say to the industry you work in, to the country you live in) what's considered "normal" becomes more and more broad. i don't know if that makes sense but even before this episode, ive thought a lot about what makes a behaviour "normal" or not normal.

i would've said Cam Newton for the popularizing the dab

Every once in awhile I come back and watch the actual VOD and don't just listen to audio and every time I'm just so shocked at how gorgeous everyone is except for nick he's just chopped

Turning up to flights with 5 minutes to spare and a Trash bag is not normal

I'm a pretty "normie" guy. 30's, los angeles, professional career. I only personally know like 3 people that have a discord.

Its crazy that the Aiden peeing on the floor and the ludwig mafia butthole moment were not mentioned in the normality conversation

I think "normal" is context dependent on the people and places you spend time, like how being a white middle aged bald dude would be the norm at a Tool concert. A good measuring stick is "yeah, that makes sense". I think an interesting way to answer the question is by ranking who's most normal by the standards of this creator adjacent space- entirely by vibes Slime, Ludwig, Nick, Aiden.

Ludwig knows how to work people sm he said that aiden was close to being weirder than slime to get slime more on his side 😂

Normal: the vast majority of this person's hobby/interests/activities/occupations are known about by the average person to a degree where they could have a conversation about it. Example of abnormal: competing in a super smash bros melee tournament. Example of normal: you know what anime is but you've only watched avatar the last Airbender as a kid. Normal rankings: 1.) Ludwig 2) Nick 3)close 3rd Aidan 4) not close Slime.

Normal - Someone whose life doesn't catch a stranger's eye when described to them in comparison to others. Abnormal - Someone who stands out in a crowd, metaphorically speaking (less to do with appearance, more to do with their lived experience) Least to Most Normal Least - Aiden (the office lights story, his want to move to Sweden despite having a happy life already and citing benefits that won't largely affect him due to his wealth, etc.) 2nd Least - Slime (A funny clash between the objectively strange qualities he has and the very normal way of conducting himself when not being funny makes him difficult to rank, but he's slightly more normal than Aiden) 2nd Most - Ludwig (mostly normal, but he has multiple really deep male friendships that the average man will either experience one or none of) Most - Nick (You could meet this man and he'd just seem like a chill dude, nothing that sets off any radars for strangeness)

I think being abnormal literally just boils down to a scale of how prone someone is to obsess over things. Whereas normal guy kind of just has a job he doesn’t think about, watches sports, fucks his girlfriend, goes to the gym. Life is a series of things that happen to him and he’s fine with that.

Guys none of you are normal I’m sorry

Ludwig’s willingness to talk sports (a space where being correct has never mattered) is such a cheat code for his normal rating

insane opening bit, i’m excited for What Comes Next

Aiden ragebaited by weirdos to convince him hes weird once again. we are so back

Nick Ludwig Aiden Slime but ur all weird as shit 👍🏿

No one who has watched that much one piece can be considered normal.

as it was shown in the normal spongebob episode, i would argue that normie and normal describe the same thing. when i look into the seemingly normal eyes of my normal coworker, i can’t help but wonder if i appear to them as one-dimensional and bland as they seem to me. i keep my answers short and ask them questions about their weekend and hope their answers are short as well. i smile patiently when they talk about their kids and gas prices. our range of conversation will never extend past work and this level of small talk. are we normal? is any of this normal? we used to be part of semi-nomadic matriarchial tribes that saw bird formations as messages from the future and crossed untold numbers of miles using just the night sky. i yearn for something but what exactly i’m not sure.

I think what makes Aiden the least normal is that he is far more well adjusted than the average person

Most to least normal: 1. Aiden 2. Ludwig 3. Slime 4. Nick Aiden is coworker core. Ludwig and Slime are a very close tie, the garbage bag on a plane is unhinged, but the cold factor meals push slime slightly ahead of Ludwig. Nick is the weirdest, the nachos, the blue mod, his wine about it ep was concerningly introspective, imo he's weirder than the others but it's overlooked because the things he's into are cool and artsy.

What’s funny is a tweet about the The Mentalist popped off on Twitter about 2 weeks ago so I’m curious if that’s what got Nick into it The answer for what watch to watch next if you just like “Clever Consultant” shows it’s honestly White Collar They’re not award winning deep shows but they are fun

I think slimes abnormality makes him inherently normal. I can’t explain this but I think it’s true.

I like the approach of thinking of coworkers at a job because I have similar experiences. I live in Utah where a majority of people I work with are white, heteronormative, and neurotypical so while I don't fit any of those categories, there is a lot of masking on my part to fit in and "act" normal. Normal in this context is what a majority of people display and perceive daily so this is how I will approach the question. Since we are all watching this on the Patreon and paying to see this content, we have known the members of the Yard for some time presumably and because of that, we might have some biases/preconceived notions about them. But I do think if I met the boys at a job I was working at, from most to least normal, would be Aiden, Lud, Nick, then Slime. Aiden seems very easy to talk to and in my work environment, having people who can easily make small talk is valuable, especially with multiple groups of people. Lud is next just because he I don't think he fits this version of what is normal to me as well but he is still someone who is charismatic in a lot of situations. The reason I list Nick and Slime last is because I think there is some degree of masking that might occur if we were all meeting and working for the first time. I don't think you get the version of Nick telling us all the intricate ways to enjoy candy or Slime explaining his value system of comedy in other people or how he sleeps on the floor at first when we meet. In this sense, normality to me is not needing to mask or suppress one's true self to better fit in an environment. If we think about being normal in the context of what we have seen from the podcast, it obviously changes things (Aiden wanting to shoot dogs and pee on the floor and move to his white paradise etc.) but my take on it is much more surface level.

I think you can also be so normal, that you loop back around and cross the not-normal line.

Most normal: 1. Lud 2. Aiden 3. Nick 4. Slime

brother in no universe did POST MALONE popularize the dab. migos invented it and cam newton and other athletes brought it to the public eye

Maybe I'm outing myself as not normal, but Aiden talks to Uber drivers and I feel that makes him more normal than anyone else on this pod

Aite fellas pardon my parasocial impressions if yall feel they're reaching but here's my Normal rankings (I've been in the yardverse since 2017 when Slime was doing Bad Melee): Aiden's the most normal because he does the least otherizing of people different from him and has the easiest time relating to/being accepted by a group of strangers. He is very confident being himself with no masks. I think that makes him definitionally the most normal. Most abnormal thing about Aiden is that he doesn't like dogs in public and he'll commit very minor social faux pas like adjusting the lights in a room without consulting with others first. Ludwig is second most normal. Like Aiden, Ludwig is also adept at talking to strangers or leading a room, but he has different protocols or "masks" for different social situations since he takes on a leadership role in many of those situations. They've talked about this before on the pod, where Lud will recognize that he's about to be approached by a fan and he'll boot up the Chuck E Cheese "Fan-Meeting" version of Ludwig for 30 seconds to make the interaction go smoothly. It is a premeditated mask that people can tell is being worn for them, but it doesn't come off as inauthentic bc of how well he wears it. Ludwig also goes through obsessive phases of things he's interested in. Everyone does this to an extent, but what's abnormal about the way Ludwig does this is he'll demonstrate or perform his interests to people in a way that's a goal-directed extraordinary spectacle. It's not just "I'm doing Chinese on duolingo" for a few months, he goes and does tip2tip. Or he'll break button mashing records by inventing new methods. Or hit plat in league in a short amount of time etc. Nick is second least normal. Nick has always had a competitive, somewhat rigid, & aesthetically sensitive intensity with respect to his interests that I think goes beyond normalcy even though he's into pretty normal stuff. Like it's very normal to have been really into Call of Duty in middle/high school at his age, but it's not as normal to make montages, or make a popular COD based twitter account, or get into a clan and play competitively fr, or set up a LAN center and call it penis star league. This intensity also extends to his social conduct. It is hard to come at Nick with a snide comment because he'll fire back with something way more witty to "win" the interaction. That sharp instinct is pretty abnormal but you can tell it's just the water he swims in. I suspect that characteristic causes him to bristle with certain subsets of gen pop who are more casual about their interests. Slime is the least normal. His strict adherence to inscrutable internal principles (social, moral, aesthetic) causes the most friction with general population. Like Ludwig he's very adept at wearing masks, especially in the context of show business, but the cost of wearing the masks to his internal sense of peace is more palpable. He reels the most when he doesn't have control over a situation, so he mitigates this by putting a lot of mental effort into internally modeling conversation trees (e.g. Slime On the Scene). I think Slime's concept of authentic personal expression is the least compromising but probably the most true, which makes him the most spiritually oriented towards cultural criticism. That disposition is abnormal by default because it postures outside of that which it critiques. Very parasocial pondering alert: I get the sense that Slime's idea of what it means to be truly accepted by people is complicated and fraught with turmoil because his criteria for what "counts" as authentic human connection is the most strict. The only person in the extended yardverse I can think of with stricter aesthetic/moral principles (or at least the performance of these principles) than Slime is Dawson. I relate to Slime the most out of anyone on any podcast.

I think being normal is how few words you can describe the person and have other people agree with that assessment. Most to least normal (excluding the fact that everyone has a weird job). 1. Ludwig - Sports guy (Tapped into a lot of different sports and a bit athletic) 2. Nick - Nostalgic/skater guy (A tiny bit obsessed with stuff from his childhood ex. COD, skater aesthetic etc.) 3. Aiden - Friendly/"whats your take" guy (Always kinda fishing for something to talk about from anyone ex. uber drivers, barista etc.) 4. Slime - sleeps on the floor, normally out of the loop of trends, anti big group gathering guy. (I dont really know how to boil down slime so yeah)

1. confidently doesn't think Made in Abyss is weird (scary) 2. huawei guy (based) 3. refuses to conform (autistic) 4. openly rewatches mentalist (weird)

I actually think Aiden is the most normal, he just has interests (travel, politics, human socialization) that are abnormal for his friend group. All the weird shit he's done has been to make his friends laugh. That's normal. Getting mad at mean comments online is VERY normal. Yeah he has some abnormal traits, but he's on this podcast so that makes sense. I assume Slime would have shot him with a gun years ago if he didn't have SOME weird shit in his brain. Ludwig is second-most normal because he desires and actively pursues fame and is successful in doing so, which is psycho shit and we should stop giving him a pass for it, BUT he has demonstrated the capacity to address and work on his previous psycho behaviours (inability to show sincerity and/or emotionally connect with his friends), which he gets points for. Nick is second least normal. He is obsessed with the AESTHETICS of normalcy in a way that could be confused as "being normal", but I think his awareness of his interests makes them both true and also performative, which is not normal. Normal people just like the stuff they like without examination. Slime, goes without saying. But the podcast started out with Slime frequently berating Ludwig and Aiden for what he perceived as their "normal" behaviours. So ultimately you're all pretty weird because he's beaten it out of you.

if the mentalist came out these days it would only be the red john episodes and that's what's wrong with streaming shows. also, i think owning and driving a motorcycle puts you a peg lower on the normal scale

I'm also like 5 seasons into the Mentalist why did this happen

I’m rewatching psych right now wow

No normal person thinks Shohei Ohtani is more known worldwide than Jack Black

You're all abnormal cause you have a successful podcast, normal guys at worst have a failed one or none at all. Now the ranking from most normal to least: 1.Ludwig 2.Aiden 3.Nick 4.Slime As I am typing this I think this experiment can only be extremely mean and flawed since end of the day we haven’t actually hanged out and experienced each other as real human beings, the window to which we as viewers and you as podcasters coexist is incredibly askew, but instead of apologizing for whatever I perceive wrong, I am going all out, please don’t ban me. 1. You can only make it as a digestible Youtuber/Streamer if you have the facade of normalcy, there are successful weirdo content creators but they show their insanity outside of their content and get caught, what I am saying is how Ludwig is so everyman Mr.Beast likes him in his videos more than fucking Mark Rober. He plays the lead in a casting call 9 times out of 10, people think of him when you need a guy representing streamers as normal people, that’s why it’s so funny when he is at the Kendrick Lamar concert. He presents himself as a normal guy, who happens to be a content creator. I could argue he is the normie whisperer because his content is made for them but not at an egregious level (Like Jimmy), he’s only weird because he’s successful and since you all are, then by default he is the most normal. 2. I understand why Aiden thinks he's the most normal because he's the most sociable, but the fact he IS the most sociable is more abnormal than content creator guy, even without his particularities (like the lights, or Sweden), you could argue he's on car salesman mode all the time but he's there to sell you his friendship, not to say he's disingenuous, it's just a little weird to be that good at talking to strangers without selling them something. Normal guys hang with the group they came with at a party and leave it when something catches their interest or to get laid with some strange, Aiden could be put in a party by himself and thrive, that’s not normal. 3. Everything Nick is into is fucking abnormal, he came out of the womb straight edge, he has an IMDb page with his worst media picture ever, bro is a movie director, He has a phobia of throwing up? Idk man, when a normal white boy likes rap he just listens to eminem and thinks The death of Slim Shady was the greatest comeback album of all time, but Nick is actually in it. Based entirely on quirks he has more or less the same amount as Aiden. But for me, what puts him below Aiden is how particular he is with his food, normal guys just eat. I really like him, that doesn’t help his case (read the slime one). 4. I am the runner up for weirdest guy in my friendgroups, both online and offline. When Slime said how he values the world, people and himself on how funny it all is, it clicked in my head and I am pretty sure I have only gotten weirder since. Whenever he mentions how funny it would be if those cops blasted his shit clean off smooth, I laugh a lot, cause I think I get it, and I refuse to explain it since it might ruin the bit. I too have followed a car in rage because they wronged me in traffic, but I calmed down when I saw it was an old asian man, when I caught up, after following him for a while. Real recognize real, jit.

Cam Newton did more for the dab than Post could ever dream of doing.

Most to least normal 1. nick 2. ludwig 3. aiden 4. 5. slime (goat)

Aidan appears the most normal but isn’t, Slime is craziest in every universe

the last thing I cried at was the game UNBEATABLE about 700 times

The only person less normal than slime I can think of is Liam

anyone willing to pay to watch this pod is probably not very normal

Look it isn't amazing, but the Mentalist is a fun watch man leave my boy Nick alone.

21:20 I have to know Nick’s take on The Drama

Normal rankings (according to the internet persona) out of 5: (1 = abnormal, 5 = normal) Nick: 4/5 While Nick is the most normal of the group, he still has some quirks that will lend him to not be 100% a normal guy. Things like passions about Xbox modding, ability to obsessed with certain games (chess, slay the spire, COD), and his job (podcasting lol) lend to him being a bit off from the usual. Ludwig: 3/5 While Lud is “more normal” than Aiden, I don’t believe either of them are on the same level as Nick. Ludwig is ambitious (maybe sometimes to a fault) and that is more uncommon than not. He is social chameleon and mends well into tons of social situations. He continues to strive and be the best at a job that typically burns many people out (and they have mentioned a lot that when he doesn’t stream, Lud goes a bit nuts) Aiden: 3/5 I think Lud and Aiden are on the same level. Aiden like Nick, has the ability to get hyper fixated on games leading him to have a grind mindset that is not particularly common. His willingness to communicate with strangers, even the complete freaks online shows his true dedication. I think Aiden can zone in like others can’t. I’ve always thought Slime and him were two sides of the same coin. Slime: 1/5 Hehehe I like you man

This might be a weird rule of thumb but I think most people that have the ability to develop an addiction or have very little control over themselves be at food alcohol drugs, gambling are never going to be normal.

dont disagree with the normal ratings but i do need to remind everyone that the "most normal guy" uses a fucking trash bag as luggage at the airport LOL

crazy that they were there for that masterclass lebron put on in that game

none of them are particularly 'normal' because they don't work normal jobs, but in order from most to least, Aiden, Nick, Ludwig, and far far far away from the rest of them, the floor sleeper himself, Slime

Bro I’ve also been watching the mentalist! Great show to binge while preparing for finals lmao

Pronouncing Sacramento with the hard T is wild

1.nick 2.ludwig 3.aiden 4.slime Nick in my opinion is the most normal, he plays COD his hobby is to mode it, he watch slop shows. I would consider that the most normal. Lud being a YouTuber drops him down a peg in the list, even tho nick is on a pod he is still more normal then lud, cuz like luds a CEO, company owner and a STREAMER. Aiden is wired to put in this list cuz what I have heard about him that makes him not normal is little things that people who are his friends would know about, I am not his friend so I don't see the things that make him abnormal but from what I am hearing from the boys is he's not normal or not fully normal I should say. Slime... Well he's not normal and I kinda relate to that, things like sleeping on the floor, buying his own condiments for his Saleds and even his bum ass sleep schedule which I relate to a lot cuz it's 6 30 am here and I am up watching the pod. So it's safe to say slimes the least normal of the group.

Migos didn’t invent the dab, that’s been around since like the 90s. They did popularize it tho

Ludwig likes sports in the same way an alien pretending to be a human likes sports

Normal 1. Nick 2. Ludwig 3. Aiden 4. Slime Least Normal Easy.

Nick definitely needs to watch MONK too, put it on the list.

this normal shit is perplexing to me. I think I've tried to correct to normal most of my life but my consumption is really pretty niche and unrelatable. but thinking about my friends I think I've gravitated towards the more normal side of them. we joke about the most normal one of the group, the one with a wife and a home and who wants kinds, but I kinda think they all are decently normal thinking about it. maybe normal to me is about the nuances, it's about the compromises, the seeing eye to eyes, the empathy, the coalescing. when I think of a made up abnormal guy in my head it's someone hard stuck in their ways, not agreeable, whole identity is one series of something they really like. but I do think part of normal too is weirdly the things you like, I guess because that's just a common way of connecting with people. I think I'm gonna ask my own friends about this. because to me if you asked my family if I was normal they might say no because I'm self employed and quiet, but I think maybe the more you get to know me the more normal I seem? I'm really not sure. I think ludwig is probably the most normal, he just has some niche interests and it's lead him to a weird career path. nick maybe the second most normal, especially for a guy in cali he'd just seems like a guy that wants to make a movie and likes cameras. then aiden then slime, aiden is definitely pretty normal appearing but seems to have some weird pointy edges you guys have picked on him on the show for. but I low key think slime as the ability to be very normal, he just chooses to post crazy shit online and sleep on the floor instead, which is funny. but I could probably be persuaded any order of bottom 3

There's already some pretty insightful comments so I'm going to say normal is the person who gets usually gets out first in never have I ever

Michael made a video about building a catapult to fling his girlfriend’s dog off a roof. I’m not sure that would land the man in the normal camp

the only right answer on the “normal” ranking: 1. Nick 2. Ludwig 3. Aiden 4. Slime

i think normal is a relative term idk i don't think i've ever met someone who's "normal". i'm pretty normal from a surface point of view, i rent a normal apartment in a normal city with a normal income and i have lots of "normal" hobbies but then i spend 25 hours a day playing the sims and i'm a woman who watches the yard so am i normal? my best friend is an elementary school teacher and has a normal dog and lives with her normal mom and visits her normal long distance boyfriend but she is DEEPLY obsessed with phantom of the opera and star wars so is she normal? my own mother is also an elementary school teacher with a normal husband and a normal house in a normal town with children who appear normal but she's the biggest taylor swift stan i know besides myself so is she normal? and maybe taylor swift is a normal entity to like but if you like her THAT much does it then cross over into being abnormal? another friend's parents are normal married with normal jobs and normal children but they're HUGE into hiking and they adopted an infant when their youngest son was already in highschool, those feel like relatively normal things to me but are they really? do people not raise their eyebrows when they find out their two youngest children are 15 years apart in age or that they recreationally hike some of the most dangerous trails in the US? even my coworkers who seem to have normal families and normal interests and normal lives say some of the most abnormal shit over the VERY normal microsoft teams app. it exists on a spectrum but categorizing people as "normal" or "abnormal" implies that there is a line somewhere and i'm not saying that some people aren't necessarily more or less normal than each other but i am saying that if you think about it for a minute, what percentage of your life has to be "normal" for you to be considered normal and how do you even calculate that percentage? is it how you present yourself? to some people i'm painfully normal and to other people i'm painfully abnormal. which i guess takes me back to my initial point that it's a relative term so i kinda talked myself in circles i guess. i don't think it's supposed to be this deep.

13:46 yes dude! Go Broncos!

I think normal is how close to the aggregate majority are you. Your likes, your passions your hobbies, your past life experiences. How much like the other people around you are you. Mainstream is kinda the operative word. 1). Honestly it's such a tight contest for top normal. Aiden is a minorly abnormal personality living a pretty normal life and always has. Ludwig, on the other hand, is a pretty normal guy who lives a pretty extremely abnormal life. Normal dudes aren't driving motorcycles across China sponsored by Redbull and Invincible VS. Ultimately, you are your circumstances and I think Aiden is the most normal, which is why NO. He has two podcasts. That's not normal. The rule is any more than one podcast is not normal. I thought that rule for Nick first, but that also must apply to Lemonade Mouth. Ludwig is the most normal and I hate to give it to him. 2). Aiden. See above. Edit: Fuck. Ludwig drove F4 that's sooo annoying dude that he's the most normal. 3). Nick is number 3 because he's got two podcasts, shut up I know it's some other shit it's a webseries or whatever you can't fool me. They got a Patreon that I'm in too. I know. He was putting Jtags in Xbox's or whatever and modding a game from 19 years ago to be more blue. Normal guys don't start a lan in 2025 and frag out against Faze twice, including the 360 on Adapt. Doing M2AF and playing Melee and always being on some high school shit is not normal. 4). Slime. Do I even have to say anything? He's the only guy on the show who goes by his nickname/tag. He's bald, and that's not a diss. He has stated how that makes his life experience different. He's older and grew up in probably the least normal out of all of them. It's so clear he's the furthest from normal. He does not stream like most people, and that's of streamers. Last thing: Twitter. Nuff said.

I think my definition of “not normal” is how fast them talking to me takes me out of “small talk” mode. Like if an interest or mannerism of theirs has me switch up my usual way of “getting to know someone”. That’s kinda how “work friends” become “friend-friends” for me.

ludwig did show the original clip before, it was soo good, pure cinema

Man, I love when you guys make Descendants references because my kids are obsessed with that series and it makes it feel like jokes just for me (assuming there’s not many moms in the viewership).

You should watch Bones after The Mentalist.

(Most Normal) 1. Nick 2. Ludwig 3. Slime 4. Aiden (Least Normal) Background: I have watched the yard for years, and I am not normal. Placement Reasoning: ================== Nick: + looks like the average white male from California. + He acts like it too as he loves xbox 360 and rap. - He is a little autistic the way he talks about modding xbox's and referencing the flipper 0 nearly every episode. Ludwig: + He looks like the average white man who went to ASU. + He acts like the average white man living in LA, loves China & Japan just a little too much. -- But he has too much of an internet presence to be a normal person. Slime: + Looks like average bald white man in america. - Weird ass preferences like sleeping on the floor. - Acts kinda insane online and in stories about offline + Seems to be able to act normal if situation needs it Aiden: + Looks pretty normal + Great at social interactions offline - A little too good at social interactions (he probably gamified it) - Talks about politics and economics online - Wants to move to sweden - Headphones - Hypnotized by phone even on pod 😠

Have you watched Monk, Nick? It’s kind of like Psych

The normal ranking is EASILY Nick Ludwig Aiden Slime

1.Ludwig 2.Nick 3. Aiden 4.Slime I wanted to rank Aiden at 2 because of his very normal qualities like talking to people in public and stuff like that but then I remembered he had complained on this show for 3 weeks about dogs in coffee shops and the overhead lights in the office where it’s just this abnormal sense of things having to be his way whenever he wants and I think that’s abnormal which I’m not using as an insight of his overall character just 2 very famous instances of him acting like an IDF warrior.

wahoo!

I refuse to let the guy infamous for showing hole to strangers get away with calling himself "the most normal"

No one who listens to the Patreon is normal.