Okay, so hey folks, thanks for joining us. We just want to
do a quick channel update today. You know, things have been going really
cool here at the team house. We got guests lined up all the way
into June right now actually, so, I mean we've got mac v Sagay
coming on this Friday, all sorts of interesting dudes, old school Navy seal
like Vietnam veteran, I mean yeah, just really fascinating people coming on.
So, you know, we appreciate your support of the channel, and we
just wanted to let everyone know out there that, yeah, the YouTube algorithm
kind of sucks lately, not just for us but for pretty much everybody.
It sounds like I don't know what they changed for why, but it is
what it is. So we are trying to reinvest ourselves into promoting our Patreon
a lot more so that we're a little bit more independent and you know,
not so dependent on the whims of coders at a website. So the Patreon
is five dollars a month to subscribe, and the big perk for that is
that you get all these episodes ad free, so you won't see the ads
that you see on YouTube or if you listen to the podcast you hear you
know ads that are mid roll ads on those as well, so the Patreon
guys get the episodes ad free, and we also do some bonus episodes for
Patreon and some other stuff. And the other thing we wanted to tell people
about is the second podcast that we launched this year. So that's called eyes
On and it's on the same channel as The Team House, but it's hosted
by Andrew Milburn and Jason Lyons and it's more topical national security news, things
that are happening, you know, that week. So please check it out
if you haven't already, and I should also remind you if you haven't already,
please subscribe to the channel, which that's completely free to do to subscribe
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all notifications to just make sure that you actually do get notified when when our
episodes go up. What else do we got for him, Dave? I
mean just good cheer, yeah, cade, camaraderie, a little zza,
and I'm not fired. I'm jazz. Hands On the rare occasion that you
know, we feel like you know that we're moved to it, Let's let
everybody know that I'm off fired either. Yes, I had people texting me
asking me why you're fired friends of mine? That's funny. Yeah, I
really I put an asterisk on everything I posted getting fired. I'm like,
I don't know SD I didn't get people in here. I wanted to spark
some drama. No, but it's it's a real deal. The YouTube has
I don't want to say taking a ship, because it's still good and we
appreciate everybody who watches and likes and subscribes. But something happened ever since November.
They changed the way they do their ads and their monetization, and we've
really been getting, for lack of a better term, our dicks punched in
a little bit. So that's why we're gonna push the Patreon if you guys,
I mean we do extra bonus shows every month. We will probably pick
that up. I know the guys. I'm working these guys to the bone,
is what I'm doing. And we are pumping out three four podcasts a
week now when it used to be one. So we are putting out the
content for sure with eyes on two. So that was the whole point of
this video for transparency purposes. Yeah, and just to give people a heads
up of kind of like what's coming up on the team house in the next
couple months. So I mentioned mech B SAG veteran this Friday, next week,
old school Navy seal. A week after that, Jonah Mendez served as
a CIA disguise officer. Week after that, someone who was a friend who
was actually the Sergeant major of the Jaysox Surgical Unit. And then as we
go into April, we got a NSA Red teamer coming in. I think
I got a Ukraine feign Legion guy lined up. We got Navy, another
seal telling some old school frog stories. We got a B one pilot coming
on, an FBI Assistant director State Department dude. We got a pre recorded
interview coming up that that will be in May with Sergeant Major Mike Adams,
old friend of mine, Jack Devine will be back in studio nice and the
author of the unit, Adam Gamal, a fifth Group guy coming on.
And then as we roll into June, we got another seal and pad O'Donnell's
coming in and to talk about his new history book that he wrote a about
the Civil War from Dmitri that you're not just Ani. Wait you don't you
prove a life. You have to have today's newspaper. Yeah, well it
is a lot. It's a it's a live video. It should be good.
You can do anything with AI now. So yeah, no, I'm
not. I'm not leaving these guys like literally gonna have to get a restraining
order if they ever try to like fire me. Yeah, I mean it's
it's a lot, but hey, it's also good to be self employed.
You have to work hard, but yeah, it's better than the alternative.
Uh, all the layoffs the last six months, your pel jack wouldn't be
doing so well. Uh if I was working in another industry. Did you
see what happened to dead Spin today? No, so they got bought out
by a European startup and they just sent the company wide email that they're laying
off. Everybody just drove it into the ground, see you. They're just
like, yeah, we're gonna hire like new staff. Basically there's a lot
of that going around right now. And speaking of which, Sean Naylor and
I have a news outlet called The high Side that I'd love it if you
guys go and check out. It's real. I mean, it's national security
news, but it's all investigative reporting, and it's very much in the teamhouse
kind of realm of special operations and espionage. So I think you guys will
get a kick out of it. Go take a look at it, yeah,
and listen. I mean for the patrons that are patrons now, suggestions
thoughts on what we could do, what we could do better, If you
guys want to see some extra stuff, We're willing to do it because,
like, we don't want to be beholden to YouTube's algorithm or their monetization policies
or even the audio side of it too. We want to be able to
build a base here. And that's what it's I mean, Patreon has been
like that for yeah, since the inception, right like when you guys started
Patreon, once you guys started pretty much right away, yeah, and it's
what kept us afloat, Yeah, kept the lights on, yeah for sure,
because that would be the perfect scenario, is we have a strong base
on Patreon. We could be extra picky too with our sponsors. We could
just pick sponsors we like, rather than like me the truffle Pig just going
after or whatever get us paid, you know what I mean, Like,
because I'd rather sell people stuff that we like. I mean, for the
most part, all our sponsors we do like and we like they send the
stuff and it's cool stuff and all that, and you guys should check them
out. But if you do want to, I would suggest, if you
want to support the show, don't even use the sponsors, just go to
the Patreon. I'm gonna be real, because I would love for a place
in time where the team house was outside of the YouTube and like audio like
automated ads that they put up right, you completely sponsor free because we do
do it live and sometimes it is a little tricky when the guys are gonna
about to do an ad read and stuff like that because it's an actual live
ad read, right, So it's like it's a bit of a it's not
as easy as it would be if we did pre recorded. And the fact
is, I like how we do our shows live, Like I would never
change that, even though, like I'm doing the Eyes On now with Andy
and Jason pre recorded, it's kind of not the same. It's just not
the same. You know, I can't have Andy He's like, oh man,
this angle's not good. Let's restart. You know he's done that multiple
times. Let me change my shirt. Yeah, the live aspect of it
is definitely a whole other animal in of itself. I love it. Yeah,
it's cool, and I mean it's fun to interact with the viewers and
you know, if you have recommendations for people you'd like to see on the
show. Like a lot of people have kept hitting me up about Robert Young
Pelton, who I'm actually very familiar with his work. I think I've read
all of his books over the years. So because of that, I reached
out to him this week and we're working. We'll work something out probably like
June July somewhere around there. We'll see. Yeah, it'd be great,
but it's in the works. We also have a very cool video in the
works I think I'm very excited for. It's gonna probably happen in the summer.
I don't want to say much because I'm keeping it. Even like sponsors,
I'm trying to get to sponsor it. They're like, what's the video
about? IM? Like, I'll tell you a little bit about it,
because I don't want you to tell somebody else who you guys sponsor and they
fuck us over and have a video done before us. Because I have a
great I have a really good feeling that the video will do very well,
you know, so, and it's it's higher in production. It's gonna cost
more than like what we do normally, right, Like we know we just
come here, sit down and get stuff going. This will be on location,
on location, I'll probably I'm thinking about hiring somebody to actually video it
too. So yeah, it's definitely gonna be more production heavy than our normal
videos, even though our normal videos are a plus production number one always.
Last week was funny with Dale. I was worried about the sound because Dale's
got to like a really big, really big range. He's like very low
and then he gets high sometimes, so it's freaking out. But people were
saying it sounded very good. So I was like, Okay, thank god,
someone said they sounds fine. I'm like, I'll take fine all day.
Uh So, yeah, guys, like, we really appreciate your support
of the channel. I hope you'll stay with us. Anything else that I'm
overlooking here, No, don't forget to Like you said, check out Jack's
High Side with Sean Naylor. They're doing like really great stuff that the New
York Times and the rest of them are too scared to do. Seriously,
who's gonna ever who would ever write those stories? No one, no one
else? Right, Yeah, And the Patreon. The Patreon, it's our
life blood, so we need to like push it. Any and all suggestions.
Feel free to ask us to tell us. We won't take them all,
but we'll listen. You know, eyes On with Andy and Jason.
That's part of this channel too now. So we're yeah, we're rocking and
rolling. I'm doing podcasts like four times a week, five times a week.
Yeah, so you know, we got to pay those guys. I
mean I told them we'd pay that. We probably should at some point.
It's probably as So, yeah, we're the best. And if like listen,
If you can't join the Patreon, that's all good. I mean,
the best thing you can do is like subscribe here. If you're listening to
this rate and review it to subscribe there. Tell your friends, annoy them,
you know what I mean, give them, like tell them once and
then just tell them again to make sure they understood you. All right,
guys, So we will see all of you on Friday. Uh, another
awesome episode coming up and we'll take it from there. Yeah, and there'll
be there will be a new eyes on on Wednesday night. Awesome. Yeah,
so it should be good. Cool. Thanks you really