Goodbye Internet

Summary

In this emotional video, popular YouTuber MatPat announces he will be leaving his Theory channels after 13 years. He reflects on the incredible journey, from starting Game Theory as a passion project to growing an entertainment empire across gaming, film, food, and style. Though bittersweet, MatPat feels it's time to pass the torch to the next generation of hosts who have been instrumental in the channels' success. He assures fans he'll still be involved creatively and teases exciting new projects. The message is one of gratitude for the community that made this possible and eagerness to see what the future holds.

Takeaways

• MatPat is leaving his Theory channels after 13 successful years as the head host and creative force.
• He is incredibly thankful for the passionate community and opportunities YouTube has provided him.
• MatPat feels it's time to pass the torch and let the next generation of talented hosts take over.
• 4 new hosts - Lee, Amy, Santi, and Tom - will be taking over hosting duties across the channels.
• MatPat highlights how he's evolved creatively from edgy to dad to now grandpa over the years.
• Though no longer hosting weekly, MatPat will still be involved creatively and on special projects.
• He is excited to develop new original IP and content to challenge the new hosts.
• MatPat stresses his love for the community and the profound impact they've had on each other.

Q & A

Why is MatPat leaving the Theory channels?

After 13 years, he feels it's time to pass the torch to the next generation. Though bittersweet, he wants to focus on other creative endeavors.

Who will be taking over as the new hosts?

Four new hosts - Lee, Amy, Santi, and Tom - who have been instrumental contributors will each host different Theory channels.

What new projects will MatPat work on?

MatPat is excited to develop original IP and content, like a mystery series, animation show, and video game to challenge the new hosts.

How does MatPat feel about the community?

He stresses his profound love and gratitude for the passionate community that made his success possible and impacted his life.

Will MatPat still be involved with the channels?

Yes, he will still be involved creatively and on special projects, though not hosting weekly anymore.

Why announce this now?

Seeing other creators like Tom Scott retiring made MatPat reflect that now is the right time after the channel's most successful year.

How can the channels continue without MatPat?

He feels the Theory format and community is bigger than any one host. The channels can evolve with new talented hosts.

How did MatPat evolve creatively over the years?

He describes going from edgy to dad to now grandpa as he and the audience grew up together over 13 years.

What message does MatPat want to leave fans with?

An immense thank you for the memories and opportunities. The relationship with the community means everything.

How does MatPat feel about leaving?

Bittersweet. He's incredibly grateful but ready to pass the torch. Change is hard but can lead to great things.

Outlines

00:00

Announcing Departure from Game Theory

MatPat announces he will be leaving Game Theory on March 9th after 13 years and handing off the channel to someone else. He explains the reasons behind his decision, including wanting to spend more time with family, feeling he has accomplished his goals with the channel, and wanting to move on to new creative projects.

05:01

Reflecting on Achievements and Growth

MatPat reflects on the past year as the best yet for Game Theory, launching new channels, meeting fans, and seeing the cultural impact of the channel. He feels now is the right time to leave on a high note.

10:02

Introducing the New Hosts

MatPat introduces the four new hosts who will be taking over - Lee, Amy, Santi, and Tom. He describes their backgrounds, expertise, and personal stories of how they came to work for Game Theory.

15:04

Relationship with the Audience

MatPat expresses his love and appreciation for the audience, comparing his current role to a grandparent who doesn't get to see the audience as often but still cares deeply. He is honored to have been part of the audience's lives.

20:04

Parting Words and Excitement for the Future

In his parting words, MatPat shares his excitement for upcoming creative projects he can now pursue, including a mystery series, an animated show, and a video game. He thanks the audience for the journey and support over the years.

Keywords

💡Theorist

A theorist refers to someone who is passionate about a topic, loves to overthink and over research it. MatPat sees theorists as people who want to educate others through the lens of their passion, whether that be gaming, film, food, or fashion. He envisions the theorist channels as a place to spotlight different creators with shared goals.

💡Channel

The channel refers specifically to the Game Theory YouTube channel that MatPat has hosted for 13 years. It was the catalyst for the whole Theorist network. He sees the channel as his 'first child' and has an emotional attachment to it and the community.

💡Community

The community refers to the audience, the fans and viewers who have supported MatPat and the Theorist channels over the years. He values the openness, conversations, and relationships he's built with the community.

💡Evolution

Evolution refers to how MatPat sees himself, the channels, and his relationship with the community changing over time. He went from edgy to dad to now grandpa. The channels evolved in format, scope and tone as well.

💡Transition

Transition refers to the upcoming changes, with MatPat stepping back from directly hosting the channels, and new hosts like Lee, Amy, Santi and Tom taking over. He sees it as a transition similar to regenerations in Doctor Who.

💡Growth

Growth refers both to personal growth for MatPat as he steps into new creative projects, but also wanting to provide growth opportunities for the new channel hosts to have their chance in the spotlight.

💡Change

Change is a core theme, as MatPat emphasizes that ending Game Theory is a difficult but necessary change. Change represents new creative opportunities and passing things to a new generation.

💡Journey

Journey reflects on the long road of creating Theory content for 13+ years. It's been an incredible journey for MatPat, but he realizes all journeys must eventually end.

💡Letting Go

Letting go is about MatPat handing off the channels to new hosts and stepping away, while still cherishing the community and journey. He wants to go out on a high note and leave room for others' journeys.

💡New Chapter

New chapter embodies MatPat's excitement for new creative projects, videos, and games that he can now pursue, while still supporting the Theorist channels in an advisory role.

Highlights

Announcing that after 13 years, he will be hosting his last Game Theory episode on March 9th, 2024.

Reflects that the channel has been like his "first child" and he will miss the relationship with the audience.

Explains that other YouTubers retiring inspired him to make a similar decision about his own channel.

Wants more time with his family, to play games for fun again, and to leave the channel on a high note.

The channel will continue after he steps down, with new hosts taking over in a "regeneration" like Doctor Who.

Names the four new hosts - Lee, Amy, Santi, and Tom - who are already involved behind the scenes.

Emphasizes the hosts are experts in their fields and have spearheaded much of the recent creative work.

Envisions the hosts putting their own spin on the channel format and starting new "eras" for the theories.

Still plans to work creatively, make new IP, and challenge the new hosts from the production side.

Has ideas for mystery shows, an animated series, a fashion showcase, and potentially games.

Compares his evolving role to a "grandpa" - not always there but loves the audience.

Gets emotional reflecting on the meaningful impact of the channel and audience.

Started with a goal to make a positive difference in the world, believes they've achieved something great.

Thankful for the journey over 13 years and relationship formed with the audience.

After farewell celebrations and videos, will step back but make guest appearances.

Transcripts

it's not clickbait on March 9th I'll be

hosting my last Theory episode at which

point I'll be handing off the channels

to someone

else there it is that's it send tweet

we're all done here that's all you need

to know

right oh wow forgive me by the way if I

uh I'm a little bit more disorganized

than usual uh normally I would want to

script out something like this pretty

precise nicely but with an announcement

like this I wanted to bring it back to

just us there there's no one else in the

room there's no teleprompters there's no

nothing it's just the way that this

whole thing started it's a conversation

between us and uh sorry that I keep

getting emotional about this um I I I'll

try not to but but it's a big deal you

know like if you think about it this

channel is Stephan my first child really

before we had Oli before we had skip cat

back that like it was this this was our

baby this channel has been going for 13

years I think in total it's it's

somewhere around like 1,200 theories and

um only half of those are FNAF shocking

I know we actually did stuff that wasn't

FNAF related but this has been a literal

third of my

life and I'm going to miss

you I'm going to miss

this I value what we have here I value

this conversation this openness this

relationship that we

share and I'm sad that I won't be able

to see you every

week which then I guess prompts the

question of like why why am I doing this

now why am I making this announcement

today why am I walking away from the

channels well to be honest um it was Tom

Scott you can blame Tom Scott Tom just

did his Farewell video and I'm like huh

well he was able to do it I want to be

able to fly away and helicopter

obviously that's not it um but really my

reasons for making this announcement

today is probably largely the same as

Tom's reasons or Seth everman's or

Captain Sparkles or Papa meats or Stampy

Lads like there's a lot of these videos

that are coming out these days and

there's going to be a lot more happening

throughout this year Steph and I have

known this video would be coming for the

last 3 years we weren't sure it was

necessarily going to be today we didn't

know exactly when it was would fall but

we knew it was going to happen

eventually that's why over the last

couple years we've been Staffing up so

much that's why we partnered with a

larger company to help run the channels

that's why we've been spending so much

time outside of this box training up the

team to make the best videos that they

can because we knew that we couldn't do

this forever we knew that honestly we

didn't want to do this forever for as

much as I love you and I love

overthinking things and I love

theorizing I don't love late nights I

don't love the fact that Steph and I

have been work first for over a decade

where I'm sitting down at dinner with my

best friend and we're talking about

business Logistics or we're talking

about animatronic toes I miss the days

where I could just sit down on the couch

with her and play video games and it's

not for Content or I'm playing a game

and I'm not thinking about what theories

are going to come out of that I miss it

so that's that's a big reason that is

that was a big one right there uh but

also just the internet's changing my

life has changed in the last 13 years I

I mentioned Ali before he's the coolest

little dude and he's getting older by

the minute and I watch him and he is so

much fun and he is so much smarter than

I was when I was his age he also

probably knows the FNAF or better than I

do which is a problem that I should

probably address at some point but

honestly I want to be able to spend more

time time with him another sad fact of

the matter is is I'm getting older I'm

37 now the other day I actually had to

Google my own age and you know that when

you have to start like doing math in

your head to calculate how old you are

you are over the hill my friends though

to be fair to my credit I think I'm like

the only 37-year-old out there who has

an unironic appreciation of skibby

toilet then again maybe that's the

problem right like maybe that's not a

good thing and honestly because this is

all about us being honest there is a bit

of a selfish side to this when you think

about it there's only really two ways to

step away from a YouTube channel you

either just decide the day that you stop

uploading and you're like I'm done or

you just keep uploading videos from now

until the heat death of the universe and

you watch as your relevance slowly dies

or your passion slowly dies and for me

and my journey in this place I always

wanted to go out on a high note and when

you stop and look at the last year this

has been the best best year in the

theorist lifespan ever like no joke it

is our highest view year uh it is the

year where we launch style Theory and

immediately put our foothold in a brand

new space and that took off and now

we're one of the top style and fashion

channels on YouTube and that kind of

completes the trifecta of hey we now

have a top channel in four different

verticals that are completely different

and no other YouTuber really has ever

been able to do it to that scale that's

amazing this is also the year where I

was able to meet you guys guys at our

Broadway show I was able to play at the

PGA and show that hey YouTubers aren't

particularly good at golf but they can

make your event relevant for like a

couple of minutes it was also the year

that I got to host the streamy awards

and it wasn't cringe I mean to be to be

fair the streamy awards are always a

little bit cringe but uh it was it was

the right amount of cringe when I pull

up videos of all my favorite creators

and I watch them and all of a sudden I

start hearing people just casually

dropping that's just a theory it's just

a theory a game theory now this is just

a theory people at the end of the day

it's just a game theory that's just a

theory a Freebirds Theory also a lot of

lore so if you're a big Theory head

proceed at your own risk I did not know

about this

Theory okay that right there that is

incredible that's the note that I want

to leave on and that's how you just know

it's the right time all of those reasons

coming together saying hey this is the

moment and then it's hard to say because

change is scary change is hard but

sometimes the right decision isn't the

easy decision the easy decision would

just be to carry on doing this and do

FNAF part

332 but that wouldn't be the right

decision I think the best way to explain

it is with a video game analogy feels

appropriate right whoa It's Game Theory

H did it check the game part of it off

but the way I like to think about it is

Earthbound I think I've made it pretty

clear over the years that that is

without question my favorite game of all

time sans's Nest all that you're all

familiar with that but what you might

not be familiar with at this point is

how the game ends at the end of

Earthbound after you save the world

everything opens up to you you can

revisit every single location that

you've been to you can talk to every NPC

that you met on your journey and it's

this incredible moment as a gamer you

see just how many lives have been

impacted thanks to your journey and then

after spending as much time as you want

talking to all those people

you end up back home you go back to

where it all began where you were just a

kid waking up in bed and starting your

adventure and even though your mom's

there and your dog's there and your

weird telephone dad's there it feels

different somehow like sure this is

still a place of love and acceptance and

comfort and security but you just don't

quite fit anymore because you just

traveled the world you made all these

new friends you are different you grew

up and your relationship to this place

grows up it evolves in case you couldn't

tell I'm Ness which uh I guess would

also mean that I'm also Sans but I was

also nest in the FNAF movie which just

opens up all sorts of weird Cannon slap

a thumbnail on that one so anyway there

you have it that is why I'm leaving I

hope you can understand but that

obviously begs the question of like what

happens to the channels well for the

next 10 weeks we're going to have

ourselves a big old going away party if

unas anas taught us anything it it

taught us that you probably shouldn't

use urine

uh for a personal sauna but if Unis anas

taught us two things one was uh to not

soak in your own urine but two was to

appreciate the time that you have left

so that's why over the next 10 weeks

we're going to have a bunch of theories

that are going to be a lot of fun

revisiting old favorites uh getting some

closure on things we're going to see

some familiar faces a lot of awesome

stuff although to be fair I think it's

nine weeks and I think we counted this

one as week one that was stupid of us

that my friends is how you wind up

getting Wario being 10 ft tall

mathematical rigor

should have double checked the numbers

so I have nine theories left on each of

the channels but we're going to call

them Matt Pat's final 10 because that

just sounds better at which point then

on March 9th we're going to have that

big going away celebration Matt Pat's

final Theory and I just Dust Away I

stand a stride my music man and I just

whiping n nigh off into the distance but

then something special happens do the

channels go away with me no actually

I've always thought that anyone can be a

theorist right if you are passionate

about a topic and you love to overthink

it and over research it then

congratulations you're a theorist and

that could range from hey I have family

recipes that I'm constantly looking to

refine to hey I want to create the

perfect fantasy sports team cuz here's

the thing Sports Bros at the end of the

day if you are in the statistics and

numbers and doing calculations to see if

your team won or lost you're just

playing a glorified Dungeons and Dragons

game ha to break it to you're one of us

my friends and and sure game theory is a

format that I created it's a show with

this very excitable host who makes a lot

of cringey dad jokes and says the word

lore a lot but at the end of the day

it's more than just the host it is a

show it is a format and at a broader

sense it is a state of mind it's a way

of thinking and approaching the world

around you it's more than just the host

and when you think about it not a lot of

YouTube channels function that way we're

special in that regard like you're not

going to be able to get another

Markiplier stepping into the Markiplier

channel and you're never going to be

able to recreate Jenna Marbles and and

to be honest you're never going to get

another mat Pat either but you can have

another game theorist you can have

another film theorist or food theorist

or style theorist I think in a lot of

ways we almost function kind of like the

Doctor Who of YouTube where as one host

Fades away a new one kind of respawns in

their place and they're able to put

their own unique Spin and flavor on the

format and make it their unique thing

you have eras of the different theorist

channels and so you know my era is

fading away and someone new is coming in

maybe this is the David Tenant to Matt

Smith transition right that was good

solid series of episodes right there so

who then is going to be taking over the

channels well I don't know if you've

noticed this but fewer and fewer of the

words that I'm saying in any given

episode are actually mine if you go down

to the credits you can actually see in

the description that there are certain

names that have appearing more and more

frequently like yeah I'm listed on every

single one as the writer because I touch

every single script I polish it into my

voice but in all honesty the bulk of

what I'm saying is coming from someone

else it's their research it's their work

why should they have to filter their

creativity through my voice I've always

envisioned these channels as a place

where we could Spotlight all sorts of

creators I mean it even goes back to the

original URL of this channel right it

isn't Game Theory it was always the game

theorists because this was a place where

you could find a lot of like-minded

creators all with a passion for gaming

and education that's why we had the

partner shows like gin Goomba with

culture shock or Drake with smash

history or Ryder with a brief history or

Austin with the science and Lee with

break break down they were all here

because we all had a similar goal to

educate people through the lens of

gaming and then YouTube pivoted and then

made it so that way doing a channel in

that style doesn't really work anymore

but we still try to keep that ethos

Alive by making sure that we're

regularly covering small Indie projects

stuff like only cans like Mandela

catalog like Oho owo see I learned but

if we're doing that for all these other

creators why aren't we doing it for the

creators on our own staff who have been

in the trenches doing the research

writing these words to deliver to you

over the last couple years I have been

fortunate I have been so blessed to have

this platform available to me that

you've given me over the last 13 years

but I think now it's time to pass it on

to the next Generation it's time to give

someone else a shot but I've realized

that I'm getting off track here so back

to the question who's taking over first

off it's not going to one person but

rather four I would not wish my schedule

on anyone like sure I'm willing to not

sleep for the last 13 years of my life

but I feel like As Old Man YouTube

passing this along to the Next

Generation I should probably do my best

to try and make it more sustainable for

them it's also going to people that

you're already familiar with you've seen

them showing up in shorts you've seen

them here on the couch with me for GT

live you've sometimes seen them washing

their hair with me in my own shower

don't read too much into that but it is

accurate most importantly though they're

each an expert in their own individual

subject matter and they've been

spearheading the creative of the

channels for the better part of the last

year and I think what's maybe the most

fascinating about all of this is that

each of the four of them come to us from

a completely different angle you know so

for instance you have Lee right Lee's

going to be taking over film Theory and

Lee has been with us for 10 years 10

years it's crazy I believe he was

actually editor number three for the

channels we had Ronnie and then we had

Ryder foot of a fet uh and then we had

Lee I think his first theory that he

ever worked on was Rosalina's Peach's

daughter uh peach is dead one of my

all-time favorite episodes that we've

ever done on the channel and over time

he rose up he had his own show on the

channel here he had breakdown which were

these just beautiful documentaries that

were edited in such an incredible way

and since then he's been spearheading a

lot of the creative on both the writing

and the visual side and then of course

you have Amy over on style Theory and

Amy is actually a very different case

here when she first approached us I

think it was six years ago she didn't

know about the channels all she knew was

that she wanted to learn everything that

she could about digital video and that

theorist was kind of the place that you

went to to learn that stuff like we were

the best when it comes to analytics and

optimization and programming and things

like that she got in and she just

devoured everything that we threw at her

so much so that she eventually got to

the point where she was so good that she

was Consulting the largest mobile game

company in the world based off the stuff

that we were working on here in studio

incredible and all of that while being

responsible for packaging somewhere

around like 500 episodes across all the

channels and then she helped me and

Steph brainstorm style theory for 2

years before the channel eventually

launched hoping that maybe one day she

would be able to rise into the hosting

rle for it and now here it is and then

of course you have Santi and Tom uh

Santi over on food Theory and Tom over

here on Game Theory and interestingly

enough they both grew up watching game

theory we were their childhood show

which to be fair just shows how old we

are Santi would eventually go work at

mythical with Rett link before coming

here where he is Bravely spearheading

food Theory and letting me mercilessly

make fun of all of his recipes uh he's

much better than I give him credit for I

just like giving him a hard time then

Tom he worked at uh Disney and fox but

he knew all along that he wanted to be

here right like this was his

aspirational goal he wanted to write

here he emailed us a cold email Outreach

we just miraculously saw it decided to

audition him and he crushed it his first

episode that he worked on was actually

watching every single installment of the

Pokemon anime to calculate Pikachu's

level and to be fair that was his pitch

like I have asked people to do some

crazy things in the past but not even

I'm that brutal like you can only

watched team rocket blast off so many

times but he's like this is an episode

I'm passionate about I think I'm going

to knock it out of the ballpark and I'm

going to show you how committed I am and

he has been so committed ever since so

committed in fact that I told him hey if

you're joining the channels you do

realize that you're going to have to

read every single FNAF book and he's

like boom he did it and we're up here

going crazy in the FNAF attic but not

only did he read every FNAF novel he

also read every single hello neighbor

book yeah he went that far currently

he's working his way through bendy cuz

new movies coming out if nothing else I

think that really proves his level of

commitment and also his appropriate

level of insanity he he's a bit off the

cuff at times like I don't know if you

saw on a recent GT live but uh Tom was

here on the couch with me and he

actually denied that the moon existed

which was a choice main character from

the chat says that sounds like somebody

who doesn't have a flag on the

moon I mean that's if you believe it's

even there the moon I don't think he

actually believes that but if he does

we're going to get some weird Majora's

Mask theories let me tell you when I go

out at this point I am recognized at

least five times it's crazy it's it's a

really high number at this point and

it's it's a fascinating split because

50% of the time it's like oh my gosh

your matat you were my childhood I loved

watching your FNAF theories and and I'm

always like well you know the fnaf's

still going and they're like what no way

and we talk about the new game and it's

always really fun but the other half is

oh my gosh you're Matt Pat you are my

childhood I'm watching you right now I

loved your most recent Theory

that's awesome that's such an honor I

have been so honored to be a part of all

of your

lives but I think it's time for someone

else to have that honor I think it's

time for someone else to get to ruin

some childhoods and that's just kind of

leaves us with one final question right

which is what about me you know where do

I go do I just retire to a beach

somewhere do I whip a n off into the

distance no I'll still be here uh

obviously first off we've got our final

10 episodes like I said so that's well

it wasn't 10 episodes however many

episodes are left between now and March

9th we got those uh I'm going to be on

GT live from now until the foreseeable

future probably until the end of the

summer that feels about right and then

we have the big going away video on

March 9th after that I you know stand

aside as Santi Lee Amy and Tom step up

and take over the hosting role but I'm

still going to be here I'm still going

to be alongside the creative directors

talking about programming brainstorming

ideas for upcoming episodes that's

awesome I love that I don't want to give

that up but the other cool thing about

this is that it opens up the door for me

to turn the script for the last 13 years

I've been commenting on other people's

IP but now that I'm stepping out of

those roles I get to create the IP still

as a part of theorist but I get to

create things that are going to

challenge those new hosts of the channel

things that I've had in the back of my

mind from years of studying media that I

can now make a reality and the channels

can comment on them things like for

instance I have a lowii mystery series

that I think you're really going to D

it's basically like if you took a lowii

channel and applied an ARG narrative to

it it becomes

lorei I am so stoked about this the

music is sounding really good the

animations are coming together really

well that's going to be launching in a

couple weeks we'll see if Lee over on

film theory is going to be able to solve

it in April I'm actually going to be

coming back onto style Theory to host a

giant fashion show that we're doing

there we all collectively had this

thought of like hey online Brands online

influencers are coming up with their own

apparel lines why is there no place to

Showcase that sort of stuff then it hit

us like hey we have a style and fashion

Channel why aren't we doing it ourselves

creators and fashion by style theory

that is coming to you in April hosted by

me some of the time that I'm not hosting

the channels I'm going to be practicing

my runway walk because let me tell you

if I'm sashing down the runway if I'm

stomping the runway it's not going to be

pretty right now so I need to practice

that a little bit there's also this

animation show that we did a pilot for

in like the middle of last year it's

basically like if you took Gravity Falls

but aged it up and made it about

adulting it's really really solid and

also there's this video game idea that I

wanted to do for like so long that I've

never had the opportunity to really like

dive into and and make reality but now

it's my chance to step into the role of

Scott cin and challenge the new game

theorist there's always been the memes

about are Scott cofin and I the same

person not yet but who knows maybe

starting later this year and those are

just the immediate things that I have on

my t-o list because I want to make fun

cool things for you and even if it's not

a weekly episode I still want to give

those things to you cuz I think you'll

like them you matter to me you you are

so important to me every single one of

those people who stopped me on the

street it's an honor

right it's

interesting because of this whole

transition I've been thinking a lot

about my time on these channels and the

evolution that we've gone to together in

the beginning right I was kind of like

the edgy older brother where I would

talk about like oh did you know that

link is dead and let's make some boob

jokes and then at a certain point I

evolved into dad Pat right I I became a

little bit more mature I had the team

around me uh I had to be more careful

about who I was saying was dead on a

regular basis uh instead of talking

about boobs I ended up talking about

Luigi's bulge that felt like the right

decision at this point I think I'm kind

of evolving into a grandpa Pat you know

for lack of a better term uh and just

like your grandparents hopefully cool

grandparents but uh just like a

grandparent you know you don't get to

see me all the time and I don't get to

see you all the

time and maybe we call and talk to each

other every once in a

while

but but at the end of the day that

Grandpa loves getting to see you maybe

he shows up at a special event maybe he

shows up at a Holiday uh maybe he shows

up at the the theory Weare fashion show

who

knows but he so looks forward to seeing

you and the love that he has for you

it doesn't go

away that Grandpa is so proud of

you and he cherishes the relationship

that you've had so

much and he is so honored to be a part

of your

life to have been a part of helping you

grow and helping you experience the

world and he looks forward to seeing you

at the next event and if you see him on

the street we'll hang out and hopefully

he brings you cool fun gifts I know this

is going to sound

cheesy and I know the internet will

probably Rak me over the

coals for crying for one

but I love you

guys I

do you're not just

numbers you're not just add Impressions

you're not just merch

sales

what you have done for me and from

everyone I talk to what I've done for

you is

special it's

special when I was in Middle

School I had this goal of making the

world a better place because I had been

a part of

it didn't have to be big didn't have to

be curing

cancer but I wanted

there to have been a ripple

impact just because I was there

butterfly effect and all

that we've done

it I think we've been able to achieve

something great

here you have taken me on the wildest

craziest 13-year ride of my life and I'm

so

grateful so grandpa Pat is going to sign

out now and I'll be around for a couple

more weeks I'll be living around the

house for a while we'll have a big uh

family reunion

celebration then I'll go off to my

little Shack in the woods my retirement

home down in Florida and I'll I'll pop

in every once in a while anyway uh at

this point in my notes I had it written

that we're going to start a countdown

clock of that like final 10 episodes

final Nine episodes so start that I

don't know what it's going to look like

yet hopefully the editors don't rip off

Unis anas too much if they do I hope

they change it

um and with

that and with that I'm going to say for

one of the final times not the final

time but one of the final times as

always my friends remember it's just a

theory a game

theory thank

you thank you for

watching