Dan's building to another live mario party moment. That's when his shitheel character work went too far and everyone in the audience was legit mad at him.
The great irony of Dan is that he regularly state's that he would never listen to a podcast and only talks about youtuber's with contempt.
also- i don't want to discount any amount of overwhelmingly clear fortune or luck he very obviously enjoyed with his film 'studies'- but his experience i think speaks to larger discussion regarding higher education, job prospects, and the american system. (sorry to get heavy for a sec)
i think a lot of clever people (with demonstrated but non-applicable passions, such as video game reviews) end up in college not to acquire a specific set of marketable skills, but because it's the new high school diploma (required for entry level jobs) and the unspoken social stigma of not-having-a-college-degree.
when tuition is as expensive as it is, and starting salaries not rising as they should be (all while new schools popping up and degrees becoming more commonplace)...this is a very specifically american problem that is going to worse.
Dan is also a poster child for the diploma mill style of education. There's such a pressure to get into a college and have a degree that it's totally possible to slide through like Dan.
Plenty of people spend 4 years acquiring a degree in something and really what they walk away with is a semi-meaningless piece of paper and 6 figure debt.
Take a drink everytime Rorie apologizes. Take two everytime he trails off midway through a sentence.
As a precaution, designate a friend to call 911 for you when you inevitably succumb to alcohol poisoning 20 minutes in.
I apologize mostly because I'm still fairly self-conscious on camera, even after 13 years. It's a tough skill to learn to not be. I overthink things too much, probably!
your "sorry" is like Brad's yawns, everyone has their trademark moves!
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