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Okay, listeners, I got something to tell you.
Somebody was messing around with my microphone, I think, to make me sound more like a robot, and so my sound sounds a little wonky.
Thank you very much, somebody.
You're welcome because I was getting you ready for the robot takeover so that you would sound more like a robot and nobody would recognize that you were like a gross human.
So, you're welcome.
Um, okay, but I don't think that that's really going to happen.
I really don't care for it when you talk about it.
And I wish that my sound sounded like I always sound like a human podcast host.
Well, if wishes were zebras, we'd be running a zebra preserve.
I don't know what that means.
Well, hopefully our listeners will just bear with me while we try to figure out what Lisa did to my microphone.
But until then, on with the show.
Two people claim to know everything about something, but only one knows anything.
President Roosevelt wore an anti-gravity belt.
Dinosaurs had two brains.
Lucky kids live on Mars and go to school in flying cars.
Or at least they will one day.
Believe me, I'm a historian.
An astronaut or drive a DeLorean.
Would I lie?
It's hard to say.
The Big Fifth.
Can you Some pigs can bite But if you ask me why Can you trust the answer?
From Channel View, Texas, this is The Big Fib, and now here is your host, Debra Goldstein.
Welcome to The Big Fib, the game show where kids choose between the tubular trending retention of truth and the viral misinformation of spammed lies.
I'm your host, Debra Goldstein, and in the studio today is our sound effects robot Lisa, whose name stands for live in-studio audience.
Oh, yeah.
I'm listening.
What?
Lisa, I can't understand you.
It appears that you're eating something and also trying to speak.
Wait a minute.
Okay, take your time.
I don't want you to choke on the whatever that is that you're eating.
Okay.
Oh, sorry about that.
It's a tuna, peanut butter and flaming hot Cheetos sandwich with ketchup, of course.
That's really good.
You want a bite?
Oh, no, thank you.
Were you trying to tell me something while you were eating your sandwich?
Yeah, I was trying to tell you it needed more Flaming Hot Cheetos, but it was pretty good.
Oh, also, I wanted to say, how do I say this, Deborah?
I have a listener question to play, but then I got hungry.
So there was a bit of a delay, but now I feel good.
Okay, good.
So can you resist the rest of that sandwich maybe and play the listener question for us?
Yeah, I should be good for like another couple of sentences.
Listener question is somewhere around.
Oh, it's covered in Cheeto dust.
Okay.
But you should still be able to hear it playing.
Hi, Lisa.
I'm Amalia.
And I'm Ava.
We were wondering if you can sing.
And if so, what songs do you like to sing?
Can I sing?
Can I sing?
Yes.
I am a sound effects robot and singing is my jam.
Way more than jam.
I love singing all kinds of songs.
I love opera.
And jazz.
Oh, and who doesn't love some barbershop quartet?
I'm in love with.
But Lisa, while those are all really fun songs, you are not actually doing the singing.
You're playing sound files of other people singing.
I think what Amalia and Ava want to know is what you, Lisa, like to sing.
Oh, right.
Okay.
Okay.
What do I like to sing?
Okay.
Well, I like to improvise.
You know, I don't want to be weighted down by melodies and rhythm and lyrics.
You know, I'd like to take any thought I happen to have and just sing it.
You know, give me a topic, Debra.
Okay.
How about I Know How Our Game Works?
Oh, yeah.
That's great, Deborah.
Look, I'm going to totally improvise this.
It's going to be great.
Every week we bring on two grown-ups.
One is an expert.
The other, shame on them, is a liar.
And it's the job of a human child to help us figure out who is who.
Because no one has said no one has said no one.
I think that answers that question.
You can sing.
I can, yes.
And we are lying about YouTube, a video sharing service where users can watch like, share and upload videos.
And we're going to learn all about YouTube along with our contestant today.
Who might that be?
Lisa.
That might be and is our human child contestant, who is a 10-year-old who loves to bake and cook very fancy things.
Simon Lesser.
Hi, Simon.
Hello.
How are you?
I'm good.
You're good today?
Good.
Awesome.
Tell us about those very fancy things.
What do you like to cook?
Well, some of the things I like to cook include spatchcock chicken.
I like to cook pork dumplings and much more.
And much more?
Wow.
Is there more than that?
Yeah.
Tune into his podcast to learn about the much more.
Absolutely.
Do you also like to bake?
Yes.
What do you like to bake?
Well, my favorite thing to bake is Italian rainbow cake.
Italian rainbow cake?
That's a spice of rainbow.
Is that it?
Is it spicy?
No, it's not spicy, but it is much better.
Wow.
What makes it better?
Or is that a secret?
It's a secret.
Okay.
No, we don't want you to give it away.
Amazing.
Well, that is super cool.
Did you teach yourself how to cook and bake or did somebody teach you?
My mom taught me.
So she must be pretty good at it.
Yeah.
Lucky you.
Well, I want to learn and everyone wants to learn more fun facts about you, Simon.
But we are going to do it while playing our game Two Truths and a Lie.
So Simon is going to share with us two truths and one lie, but we will not know which is which.
And we will have to use our critical thinking, and maybe our instinct, to figure out which one is the lie.
So Simon, in no particular order, what are your two truths and one lie?
My first one is I'm an animal lover.
My second one is my favorite book is Solo Leveling.
And my third one is I love Star Wars.
Ooh, what do you think, Lisa?
Well, it just so happens that I know a lot about singing, and we just talked about that.
We did.
And solo leveling is not about Han Solo.
Oh?
It is about an Italian opera singer who sings solos, and they're so loud when they're singing they level buildings.
They knock buildings over.
And they have a whole career of going around Italy and knocking down old buildings so new buildings can be built.
And that's what that whole story is about.
And it's obvious that Simon, who makes an Italian rainbow cake, would know about this Italian opera singer.
So that one is obviously true.
Okay.
Okay.
The other one, I'm an animal lover.
Everyone loves animals.
That's why we keep them.
Otherwise, we would get rid of them.
We would?
We all love animals.
So that means Simon does not love Star Wars.
Simon does not.
So don't try and say you do.
And I retire.
Good night.
Well, don't retire quite yet.
Let's hear from Simon which one of those is actually a lie.
Lisa is correct.
What?
Told you.
I hate Star Wars, except if you go to Star Wars Land in Hollywood Studio you can make your own BB-8 or another thing and they add a remote control to it and it's pretty fun to play with.
But that does not mean, however, that you are a fan of Star Wars.
No.
Okay, that might be controversial.
You may upset a few people listening, but that's okay.
That's why there are 31 flavors of ice cream.
Very good.
Okay, Simon, we're going to move on to the game about YouTube.
Do you watch YouTube channels?
I don't really watch YouTube, but I go on there if I need, like, a tutorial video.
Oh, I love a tutorial.
We're going to get onto that.
Very good.
Okay, so it's time to welcome our experts.
Lisa, here's another opportunity for you to do some singing.
Can we get some music for our YouTube experts?
Yeah, absolutely. iTunes, YouTube, everybody screams for ice cream.
Come on in.
Very nice.
Our first expert is Justin Malamud.
Justin, please introduce yourself to Simon.
Hello there, Simon.
My name is Justin and I am a YouTuber.
Hello, Justin.
Thank you very much.
Our next expert is Rachel Ballinger.
Rachel, please introduce yourself to Simon.
Hi, Simon.
My name is Rachel and I am a YouTuber.
Tell us about those sounds you're streaming, Lisa.
Those are the streaming sounds of Hot Seat Time.
That is correct.
That is when we put our experts on the hot seat while they answer Simon's questions.
Lisa, whom should we put on the hot seat first?
Rachel Ballinger, because she's more than Ballenge.
So there's Ballenge, there's Ballinger, and Ballengist.
And she's Ballinger.
She's right in the middle, so I pick her.
Okay, very good.
All right, Simon, what is your first question for Rachel?
What does the person with your job actually do?
That is a big question.
And I get asked this a lot.
I film myself, edit the videos, and then upload them to YouTube for other people's entertainment.
Okay.
This question is for Justin.
What would you tell me if I asked how to do your job?
Wow.
Well, to bounce off of what Rachel said, there are so many things that we could do in terms of filming ourselves that it depends on what kind of YouTuber you are.
If you're an instructional YouTuber, if you do tutorials, if you just film yourself doing reactions it'll really depend on what you do.
What I do is I have a little farm and I take care of some animals and some bees and I have a garden and I teach people how to be their own home gardener.
Okay, this question is for both of you.
Do you make money being a YouTube expert?
Oh, now you sound like my mom.
Yes, you can make a lot of money or a little money depending on what you do.
I personally do make money.
This is my living and it's my career.
So I do make money off of this.
Do you get to choose whether you want to make a lot or a little?
Yes, depending on how much work you want to put into it.
Oh, I didn't know there was work involved.
Yeah, there's definitely work involved.
Yeah, Lisa's not a fan.
How about you, Justin?
Yeah, that's one of the things that a lot of people don't understand is that the harder you work, the more money you make.
And once you get like a thousand views, that's usually the jumping off point for advertisers coming in.
It's actually quite easy to make money.
A lot of people think that it's hard, but it really isn't.
I'm going to have to disagree.
It's actually very hard.
Maybe you're just not doing it right.
Yeah.
I don't know who's lying or telling the truth here, but I like the one who's saying it's easy.
Of course you do.
Lisa, it requires very little work.
Lisa, just get a farm and you'll be amazing.
I just threw a farm away.
You did not.
Oh, boy.
Let me see.
Let me get it out of the trash here.
Oh, the goats are fine.
Well, stay tuned, everyone, for Lisa's farming channel.
Okay, back to you, Simon.
What is something people often mistake about YouTube?
That it's easy.
I don't know what kind of people you're serving here, but it's probably the easiest thing I've ever done in my life.
Oh, is it?
Easier than farming?
A lot easier.
A lot easier than farming.
In Justin's defense, I find it's very hard to keep goats happy.
That's fair.
I've been farming pretty much my whole life.
That's something that takes up a lot of my time.
The YouTubing is pretty much.
As long as you have a camera and you know how to edit, you're just splicing things together and you go on to your YouTube channel, you upload it and then you just wait for those views and likes to start streaming in.
I see what he's saying.
So like if your job, so he said he has bees, right?
You keep bees, Justin?
Yes.
Okay, so like if he has a long day of milking bees, which is one of the jobs that farmers have to do, you're just milking these tiny bees, then making a video has got to be way easier than that, right.
Pretty sure you milk cows, Lisa.
Yeah, yeah.
No, you have to milk the bees to get the honey.
Different episode, yeah.
I will agree with Justin that it can be easy to make a video, but getting views and maintaining your channel isn't always the easiest.
All right.
Very good question, Simon.
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It's time for the shorts on fire round when our experts have to answer as many questions as they can before time runs out.
Lisa will set a timer for the first expert, and then Simon will ask questions until Lisa's timer sounds.
Then Lisa resets the timer for our next expert to do the same.
Experts, you'll have to watch time and answer quickly.
All right, Simon, we're going to start with Justin.
You can ask Justin your shorts on fire questions now.
When was YouTube first launched?
That was February of 2005, I think.
In the first viral video, which famous soccer player is receiving a pair of golden gloves?
I don't know.
Lionel Messi?
What was the first video to reach one billion views?
Gangnam Style.
Chocolate Rain.
What did YouTube add in 2008 to let people add music to their videos?
I believe it's a live stream.
How many countries is YouTube in?
Like 70, 75, I think.
Name a tutorial you can find on YouTube.
How to screw in a light bulb without hands.
How to eat grapes without grapes.
Who was the first leader to launch a YouTube channel in 2007?
Margaret Thatcher.
What do you call a person on YouTube who has a big following and is an expert in something?
An influencer.
What song was Adele singing in the video that was the fastest video to reach 1 billion views?
Probably Hello.
Chocolate Rain.
And that is time.
That's all the time.
Listen, stop it.
Stop it so that Lisa can reset the timer.
Can you do that, please?
I gotta go all the way down.
No!
No!
Okay, timer's reset.
Oh, my goodness.
Maybe you should move the timer.
Oh, Deborah, sorry.
I got to move that timer.
You definitely should move that timer.
Okay, Simon, you can ask Rachel your shorts on fire questions now.
How old do you have to be to have a YouTube account?
I believe it is 13.
You have to be a teenager, so 13.
145.
How many people use YouTube every month?
Probably over 2 billion.
What is the most important tool or software you use for your channel?
Final cut.
That's what I use to edit videos.
Which cat became famous in 2014 for its unhappy face?
Grumpy cat.
What does AVD stand for?
Average view duration.
It's how long someone watches a video for.
What was the name of the baby in the viral video who bit his brother's finger?
Charlie.
Charlie bit his finger.
What was the name of the first video uploaded to YouTube in 2005?
It was a vlog at a zoo.
It was something about a zoo.
Chocolate rain.
What do you call the written text of the audio on YouTube?
Closed caption.
What is the most viewed video as of April 2022?
Baby shark do do do do.
Baby shark do do do do do.
Now that's going to be stuck in my head.
And that is time.
That's all the time.
Well done, experts.
Good job.
Okay, it's decision time.
Simon must channel all his knowledge and use some truth metrics to make up his mind.
Simon, who is our big YouTube fibber?
I don't know yet, because there are many things that threw me off.
Because Rachel said that you have to be at least 13 to own a YouTube account, when I actually know a 10-year-old who owns one.
Were they the fibber about their age?
No.
Good question.
No, because they're in my class.
And they probably didn't get held back.
And Justin, it's a little hard to maintain a YouTube account.
And you're saying how easy it is.
So for some people it could be, but that kind of threw me off.
So if I had to choose, I would pick...
Rachel.
You think I'm the fibber?
And you went with Rachel because why ultimately?
I don't know.
The 13 year old thing just really threw me off.
Okay.
All right.
We're going to revisit and see if that is true or false.
Can the actual YouTube expert please say, I am the YouTube expert.
I am the YouTube expert.
Yes.
Rachel Ballinger is a YouTuber and a social media influencer and has over two and a half million YouTube subscribers.
So yeah, she maybe does know a thing or two about the challenge of doing that.
So Rachel, Let's do some fact checking here so we can get to the bottom of all this.
Okay, Simon.
All right.
In addition to the 13 year old situation there Rachel, what were some of Justin's questionable views?
He thought that it's easy.
Like if you just post a video, it'll just get views.
No, that doesn't happen.
No, it doesn't happen.
You have to work for it.
Sometimes on TikTok, it's easy to accidentally go viral.
But on YouTube you have to promote yourself and you have to gain an audience and you have to really work at it and be consistent and understand the trends and engage with your audience so that they become friends with you.
And it's not just posting and people will eventually find you.
There's a lot of work that goes into it.
Okay, yeah, that makes sense.
In hindsight, right?
Because also, TikTok is blowing up much more than YouTube, so... It is, yes.
Understood.
So we're saying that TikTok is easy.
Yeah, TikTok is much easier.
I'm going to be a TikTok star, Debra.
Sorry, sorry.
We'll see ya.
I'm done with YouTube.
YouTube's too hard.
Okay, Justin, what lies were on your playlist?
Yeah, definitely the whole it's easy.
You have to have a relationship with your audience in order to make it, you know, a successful channel.
The soccer player I mentioned was Lionel Messi.
That's not right.
Nope, that's Ronaldino.
What does YouTube add in 2008?
I said a live stream.
I'm pretty sure that's wrong.
That is audio swap.
Yes.
The tutorial that I came up with, I made that one up on the spot.
I mean, there might be a tutorial of how to screw in a light bulb without any hands.
And now we have to lick it up.
Yeah.
Definitely Margaret Thatcher wasn't the first leader to launch a YouTube channel.
No, but same country.
It was actually Tony Blair.
Hello, look at me.
I'm on YouTube.
That's exactly what he said.
Yeah, I remember that one.
I think I said something about as soon as you get a thousand views, the ads just start coming in.
And that is that couldn't be more untrue.
Correct.
So how many views do we need when it starts actually?
I don't know the exact amount, but I know you have to have a certain amount of subscribers, a certain amount of videos and a certain amount of views collectively.
And then you can apply to have your channel monetized and verified.
And then once YouTube looks at your channel and says okay, you've been doing this consistently and people want to keep watching you, then they might verify your channel.
And then some ads might go on, but you still have to keep working.
And the bigger your channel grows, the more likely you are to get ads after you're verified.
So it's a whole process.
And a lot of work for sure, definitely.
All right, well, we're now at the end screens of our show.
Many thanks to our contestant, Simon, who helped us upload the truth.
Thank you to our expert and liar, Rachel and Justin.
And thanks to Lisa for all the algorithms.
And, of course, thanks to our listeners tuning into The Big Fib where we give a big thumbs down to lies and we like and subscribe to the channel of truth.
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