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Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link

Ep. 15 Michael Stevens (Vsauce) - Ear Biscuits

Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link

Mythical

Comedy

4.925.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2014

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This week Rhett & Link get to know Michael Stevens, creator and host of popular YouTube channel, VSauce, on a personal level that is publicly unprecedented, as they chat about his aspirations of being a "Polymath" as a child, how a video called "Hillary Clinton Farts" played a major role in his eventual success, and the effect being a YouTube employee has on his channel popularity.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Ear Biscuits, I'm Rhett.

0:05.0

And I'm Link, it's time for another conversation with an interesting person from the internet.

0:10.9

And this week at the round table of dim lighting, we have the one and only Michael Stevens

0:15.7

creator of one of the most fascinating channels on the internet, you've heard of it, V-South.

0:20.5

He schools us on who he is, the person behind the science.

0:24.3

Is he just the internet's version of Bill Nye?

0:27.9

Or something more?

0:28.9

We also talk about his surprising path to where he's at with V-South now.

0:34.9

And the unexpected way he came up with the name V-South.

0:38.3

His initial viral success had nothing to do with science.

0:41.9

So this is this convolution happening here.

0:44.5

We also discussed the secrets to how he gets so many views on his videos.

0:49.8

Does being a Google employee give him an unfair advantage as a YouTuber?

0:55.3

Hmm.

0:56.3

Now, I got to admit.

0:58.5

When I talk to someone like Michael Stevens, who is obviously a smart gentleman, he has

1:04.0

reputation for being a smart guy, I selfishly like to be able to say, oh yeah, yeah, I was

1:10.6

an engineer once.

1:11.6

I majored in civil engineering.

1:13.1

Oh, I have an engineering degree.

1:14.4

I have an industrial engineering degree.

1:17.9

Right.

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