All right, welcome back to the Loopcast. Today I'm joined by

Seamus Coughlin, creator of Freedom Tunes.

Maybe the funniest guest or a recurring guest at this point. Oh, thank you. The second funny is Josh pays me to say that he's the funniest. Why does he have to pay you to say that? Oh, because I'm the funniest. There you go. There you go. Ladies and gentlemen, you heard it here. Awesome. So you know what's funny, James, I went back into the catalogs, and I saw 11 years ago you posted your first animated video on your channel. Do you know the name of that video? How government works. Absolutely. Yeah. I could not believe how long you've been at this. Like, you know, I've done this a couple of years now, and I'm exhausted as is. you've done it for 11 and you're still going what was the

just take me to the beginning. Expanding, yeah. What was the thought process in the beginning? How did you settle on the medium? What was your inspiration? Why did you start? I was young and foolish. And I said, I'm going to change the world. No, I was actually, listen, I was someone who always knew what he wanted to do.

I'm just very blessed.

I always knew I wanted to go into animation.

I always knew I wanted to be a comedy writer and I always knew that I wanted to change the culture.

I remember being in high school and seeing the kind of stuff that was put in front of us,

not only by educators, but by the dominant media culture, the kinds of shows they had on MTV depicting teen life

and all the degeneracy it promoted. And I remember sitting there rolling my eyes, because there

I was as a 15 year old thinking, I know the only reason that these teenagers are engaged in

this perverted action is because like some creepy 40-year-old who was writing this

wanted to see that. I think I've always been very skeptical of media and I've always

thought about who's making this, why are they making it, what are they trying to sell me?

And so when I was 16, well really when I was like 14 actually, I started freelancing in animation. I started teaching myself when I was 16, well, really when I was like 14, actually, I started freelancing in animation.

I started teaching myself when I was 12, 13.

And when I graduated high school at the age of 18, I saw that the demand for animators had risen like 30%.

And I knew that this is what I wanted to do.

So I thought, I'm just going to start my own business.

And that's what I did.

I started my own business. And when I was 19 back in 2014, when I uploaded that video, I thought in my spare

time, I'm just going to make little political cartoons in a very rough, easy to do style so I can get them out

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