Ennui Talk

Matthew Winter and Jack Petersen come together and ask the question: what if Matt and Jack ran YouTube? They begin it an Ennui Unboxing, before they discuss content on YouTube being demonetized on YouTube, Sam Pepper ruining his YouTube career, Google’s involvement in how YouTube runs, previous competitors including Vessel and Blip.tv, and how RoosterTeeth has adapted to YouTube well.

Matthew Winter and Kieren Collison come together to talk about YouTube nostalgia from their childhood. They discuss their idea for talk show Marty Nite Live, Matt’s new office and new computer, classic YouTubers including Onision, Fred and Shane Dawson, NigaHiga still being quite notable, David Firth and Salad Fingers, the children’s classic The Annoying Orange, and old school YouTube Rewinds.

Matthew Winter and Ben Davis come together to have a casual chat that we (once again) are calling the Ennui Radio Hour. They discuss Matt moving into his new house, visiting Liam who works at TimeZone, Ben getting into anime, both of them working at McDonalds, Ben’s stories from The Reject Shop, and the Australian reality series Yummy Mummies.

Matthew Winter and Chris Hodge come together to have a casual chat that we (once again) are calling the Ennui Radio Hour. They discuss their sex and gaming-related spam emails, the YouTube copyright system and Smash Mouth’s response, Gary Vee leaving so much on the table to provide value to his fans, fake entrepreneurs who don’t do this, and the many bad uses of Facebook targeted ads.

Matthew Winter and Ben Davis come together to answer questions from the fans in an #AskEnnui Special, celebrating 100 episode of Ennui Talk. They answer questions about starting Ennui, Marty’s Internet Show despite its limited success, people who know about what they do, their favourite element of what they do, their biggest struggles making videos, growing Ennui, what content they couldn't make d...

Matthew Winter and Jack Petersen come together to talk about YouTube nostalgia from their childhood. They discuss the podcast My Brother, My Brother and Me and Comedy Bang Bang, the animation and voice acting community, Stick Figures on Crack, the animated Eddsworld series, Matt’s old channel BrainDamagedBuddz, if we started YouTube in 2010, TomSka, RoosterTeeth, Freddie W and RocketJump falling o...

 Matthew Winter and Kieren Collison come together to talk about the legend of Elliot Rodger. They discuss Mumkey Jones’ coverage of his life, Elliot’s manifesto My Twisted Word that described his childhood, conflicts, hatred of women, and his plans for his Day of Retribution, quotes from the said manifesto, and why Elliot has become a meme, against his initial wishes.

 Matthew Winter and Ben Davis come together to talk vapes and rip vapes on An Ennui Vapecast Special. They discuss Ryan Hall and his Mountain Vapors company, how Ben used to vape in high school, buying his first vape underage, building your own vape, the laws surrounding vapes, how H3 made vaping more popular, society’s view on vapes, oils they’d like to taste, and if Ennui produced their own...

Matthew Winter and Jack Petersen come together for an anime-infused Ennui Fan Service special. They discuss their new show The Marty Project, where the first season is Japan-based, society’s views on anime viewers, and several different animes, including The Daily Lives of High School Boys, My Hero Academia, One Piece, One Punch Man, Attack on Titan, 91 Days, Blend S, RoosterTeeth’s RWBY, and the...

Matthew Winter and Ben Davis come together to bring in the New Year by drinking various amounts of alcohol. They discuss the alcohol they’re drinking, how they felt about 2018, McDonalds customer service, renting storefronts in their hometown, their local cinema, bringing back Hayden and Brad back on the podcast, Ben’s back problems, and the 2018 YouTube Rewind.

Matthew Winter and Kieren Collison come together to discuss things and also complain about them. They talk about the hot summer weather, AIDS medication, TikTok, Make America Great Again, Elliot Rodger, Matt’s car troubles, “the tennis ladies” at McDonalds, Alex Jones, Chinese comedian Paul Ru, Aunty Donna, working at McDonalds, doing character voices, and Filthy Frank.

Matthew Winter and Ben Davis come together to discuss their trip to Wollongong to collab with the legend himself, Kalab Templeman. They talk about coffee, milk and sugar for a while, before discussing their trip to Wollongong, if they could live in that city, where they think they’ll end up living, the difficulty of driving in cities, meeting and creating their documentary with Kalab Templeman, wh...

Matthew Winter and Chris Hodge come together for another Ennui’s Google Home Experiment special. They discuss Judaism and Jehovah’s Witnesses, the supermarketing outlet Aldi, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, the commentary community on YouTube, the H3 game, Adam Sandler’s new standup special, colour television, and Chris’ VR system.

Matthew Winter and Ben Davis come together for, in the first episode of the self-proclaimed fourth season, a Let’s Talk Ennui special. They discuss Osama Bin Laden, the death of Stan Lee, the next season of Marty’s Internet Show, the current plan for the podcast and Ennui Talk Extra, their documentary on Kalab Templeman, the future of Marty’s Mailbag (or Marty’s PO Box), and going hard on the Disc...

Matthew Winter and Ben Davis come together to celebrate Halloween in the Ennui Halloween Spooktacular. They discuss Ben’s vaping habits, scary movies they’ve seen including The Nun, Halloween and The Grudge, horror video games and VR games, and of course, Riley Reid.

In a exclusive preview of the Ennui Plus Gold exclusive talk show Ennui Writer’s Room, Matthew Winter and Ben Davis come together in Ennui HQ for a discussion about conventions and festivals. They discuss their big plan go to RTX Sydney in 2019 to build their audience and film a Marty’s Internet Show episode, the other conventions they want to go to including PAX Australia, Oz Comic-Con and Supano...

Matthew Winter and Ben Davis come together for another edition of Ennui’s Google Home Experiment. They discuss their local postcodes, the Steve Jobs autobiography that Matt is reading, Apple and Android phones, Matt getting triggered by NBA 2K17, video games “promoting violence”, Ben thinking pro wrestling is lame, their local cinema being shut down and renovated, and all the types of “pubs and cl...

Matthew “The Sexual Intellectual” Winter and Chris “Gangnam Style” Hodge come together to discuss hitting wombats and kangaroos with their cars, nudie girl magazines, Omegle stories, girls looking much older than they are, PC culture and people being offended, words Chris won’t say, rap music, Chris knowing the Gangnam Style dance, Matt’s great nicknames for himself, Chris getting married, and the...

Matthew Winter lets Kieren Collison host an Ennui Loves TV special, but does it very badly. In this episode, they discuss getting a shoutout on Instagram, the relevancy of the topics they discuss, when Arrested Development and Community were revived, some of the shows they’ve been watching, how South Park has done crude humor well, and writing Marty’s Internet Show.

Matthew Winter and Ben Davis come together to tell their various stories with customers at their respective jobs. They discuss dealing with angry customers, not having stock, being called “autistic”, spoiled kids trashing the store, not being able to give a refund, missing items in McDonalds orders, and people hating self-serve.

Matthew Winter and Chris Hodge come together to rehash a number of subjects that they’ve covered in past episodes of the podcast. They discuss hating reality TV, missing high school, mainstream music, tax returns, soggy biscuit, the value of video games, Jerry Seinfeld, 9/11 memes, Dan Schneider and many other topics they’ve already discussed.

Matthew Winter and Kieren Collison come together as discuss the two Larry Clark films Kids and Ken Park, the allegations against Kevin Spacey and his new film Billionaire Boys Club, Kieren’s favourite movie Back to the Future II, when Matt met Hulk Hogan, classic animated reality TV show Drawn Together, and watching your dad’s dirty DVDs.

Matthew Winter and Jack Petersen come together as Jack plays Matt’s therapist as he whines about his problems and insecurities. They discuss Matt being in a stressful mood from filming problems and his stagnant company, his insecurities about putting too much pressure on the Ennui Crew, other creators who have been pressured on YouTube, using meditation to help with stress, and Jack’s insecurities...

Matthew Winter and Kieren Collison come together to...flip a coin to decide their topic, and school shootings and conspiracy wins. They discuss the Columbine school shooting and some of the conspiracies around it, the Bowling for Columbine documentary by Michael Moore, and the Government conspiracies about the Sandy Hook shooting.

Matthew Winter and Ben Davis come together to talk about the official launch of Ennui Plus on Patreon. They discuss their Plus, Gold and Elite tiers of their Patreon, the current and future rewards they will receive, what they will get at certain patronage milestones, and the future projects when Ennui Plus on Patreon grows.