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This week, the boys talk about the OfflineTV new year party, a new idea called the podcast draft, and how Ludwig was the asshole... (Episode 129)
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00:00:00 - intro
00:00:24 - aiden is back!
00:01:55 - splashback
00:02:41 - new year, new yard
00:03:57 - welcome back to the yard
00:04:13 - aidens outfit at the party
00:05:31 - the offlinetv new year party
00:07:53 - the yard dubs
00:09:00 - ludwig scares a woman
00:10:00 - the podcast draft
00:10:40 - slime on JRE
00:12:16 - slime breaks will neff
00:15:15 - the yard basketball progress
00:15:42 - nick and the three-ball
00:16:57 - austin is fear&'s aiden
00:17:18 - nicks theory of how the yard beats fear& at basketball
00:19:19 - "oh I got stanzima"
00:21:23 - why dribble? the yard discusses
00:22:00 - slime makes basketball better
00:23:53 - how slime will beat fear&
00:24:54 - ludwig is in his "mid-20s"
00:25:29 - who is our 5th?
00:28:03 - the episodes we did without aiden
00:28:20 - russians pmcs are the yards biggest demographic
00:29:30 - ludwig & QTs christmas album is popular overseas
00:30:47 - ERITREA MENTIONED
00:31:38 - dunkins stance
00:33:00 - talking about new year resolutions
00:34:38 - slime has been a menace on saudi arabia chess
00:36:35 - slime & ludwig smoked a cigarette together
00:38:40 - cornhole championship
00:39:32 - Hello Fresh!
00:42:26 - cup pong
00:42:57 - the boys have been hooked on warzone
00:43:20 - the boys played fortnite
00:44:28 - warzone vs fortnite
00:47:56 - stinky territory
00:48:47 - slime vs will neff chessboxing
00:52:16 - people have slime trauma
00:56:42 - ludwig pretends he's immortal among radiants at the party
00:57:55 - ludwig wants to be diamond, not immortal
00:59:00 - ludwig thinks hes the best friend in the group
00:59:28 - joshman isn't told when the basketball starts
01:02:15 - people loved the peter episode
01:04:12 - peter has been reading the comments
01:05:03 - aiden went to australia
01:05:44 - wade shows aiden his vasectomy
01:08:12 - Ludwig's AITA...
01:15:21 - mr beast stuck in a room for 7 days
01:17:39 - slime thinks he could've easily done the mr beast challenge
01:21:00 - florence ADX
01:23:09 - rats
01:24:15 - bundun
01:25:17 - we all say one resolution for 2024
The Yard is a show hosted by Ludwig, Nick, Slime, and Aiden.
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[@TheTitaniumSamurott]

They tried to kick Aiden off the pod but they forgot that his body doesn't quit

[@Tadhgh_]

They forgot that he got big for us

[@h3rmitqkun_101]

BODY NEVER QUIT

[@antlerbraum2881]

Don’t ever quit no way no how

[@obsessive8332]

Remember when he got the shingles lmao

[@h3rmitqkun_101]

@@obsessive8332 hes our sexy little shiggy boy yes he is now man yes man

[@wateroflife8955]

Aiden looks like he just escaped a bisexual alien abduction

[@thegoodone4104]

He escaped the bisexual alien ship by stealing a bisexual alien blaster and one of their bisexual escape pods

[@Kingbimmy]

Implying he DIDNT escape a bisexual alien abduction? 🤨

[@erikaguilar3770]

Aiden looks like the aliens escaped a bisexual Aiden abduction

[@fedweezy4976]

Literally looks straight outta rocky horror picture show

[@ironCondor623]

@@erikaguilar3770 oh thank god they got out of the grocery store

[@Good_Comms]

Will & Aiden together could cure an Uber driver’s depression

[@themisadventuresofhannasmind]

i think an afternoon with them could cure my bipolar disorder

[@dobber43]

​@@themisadventuresofhannasmindI think it'd give me bipolar lol my brain would experience new feelings it could only rationalize by being compartmentalized

[@gamingtime9716]

The Will & Aiden spitroast is a panacea for mental disorders

[@kahlilsalome29]

smiling friends but its Aiden and Will

[@themisadventuresofhannasmind]

aimen’s life was on the line and he came back even gayer just to spite them. because his body does not quit.

[@jessepanosh]

Aiden is officially the fanservice character

[@bxilvy]

laying in my bed, giggling, and kicking my feet at the new yard ep

[@Senor_Exotic]

Yo me too

[@kells9660]

Real

[@haydenboydston3632]

get a job and watch it in the bathroom like a real american

[@Kingbimmy]

Real 😎

[@cocozimme]

I only giggle and kick my feet when my gf showers like that rat

[@foxboi506]

Aiden looks like if an astronaut was bisexual

[@Matt_LaLuz]

Aiden IS a bisexual astronaut

[@ImTotallyTechy]

bro knows a lot about rolling down in the deep

[@LucidProtean]

15:42 I kid you not, the Yard subreddit was riffing on what the boys would say if they had a Make-a-Wish kid as a guest, and I commented that Nick would go, "oh Make-a-Wish? More like Make it Swish, the way I shoot 3s" This was HOURS before the audio episode dropped

[@sandenson]

I remember that post and your comment lol

[@alexpopowski2543]

I also saw the post and your comment, it’s an honor 🫡

[@eviejoy_]

aiden truly is mother

[@Anthony-V-Music]

like the vinegar mother he is full of enzymes and germs

[@adyaarora862]

i love the bit of "you know what would be so funny" and follow it with something that has probably never been said before.

[@kells9660]

I’ve really been watching this podcast weekly for 2.5 years huh

[@willow990]

Sometimes I like to save em up and watch them all at once

[@link6913]

There's actually a cool story about why there's dribbling in basketball. It used to be that you could only legally advance the ball by passing it. Players started passing the ball to themselves by bouncing it off the floor, which became dribbling as we know it today.

[@lrgogo1517]

Ain't no way, WHAT!?

[@Spongey1985]

yep, this is where dribbling came from.

[@FarewellRocketShip1]

yea and then they had to add double dribbling so you cant literally pass it to yourself

[@ianmcpherson2171]

Will being polite is the only thing keeping him from murdering the entire twitch ecosystem

[@SingleBowler-pv9rj]

the "slime destroying willneff" story was one of the best i've heard on the pod. slime's impression is always unbelievably accurate

[@bellak2384]

unironically missed our bisexual on the pod as a fellow bi and we need Aiden on fear& again

[@NEA-dx1bi]

It's only right for them to have Mango as their sub for the basketball team and he just sits the bench the whole game, crushes a 12 pack and then fights Ludwig at the end.

[@Jumblebelle]

And steals the basketball

[@frankinator3911]

why is aiden dressed like such a diva 😭

[@afterg1ow]

he’s competing for the title of who's the cuntiest yard podcaster

[@Paangu]

Hearing that Japan has ludbuds controlling the radio is inspiring

[@depalodor]

Taking back what's ours one station at a time

[@antlerbraum2881]

@@depalodorSlime and Aimen couldn’t make it so the Lud-dites pulled through.

[@EdgeOmega]

i think that an important point that they didnt bring up about the nail clipping situation is that clipping your toenails is never an urgent enough situation that you NEED to do it right then on the bench

[@jhelp_the_fig]

Again with the yard showing up for four different events. Ludwig is your Italian mechanics son who vapes like a chimney, slime is all snug like a bug in a rug for movie night, nick is your average 20-something local participant, and Aiden is back from running a train through gay Area 51 (West Hollywood after 2 am).

[@anamartin5136]

west hollywood after two AM 😭😭😭 im dead

[@inhaleknives8598]

this episode is a great one to watch with the family

[@bigz4829]

I was also surprised how much my girlfriend, mother, and infant child enjoyed this episode!

[@limerslimer]

​@bigz4829 I'm always sneaking into mat wards at my local hopspittle and playing the latest ep for premies (to cure them)

[@JanetRobinson-xe1tg]

This was a funny episode. I was surprised by the age restriction of the Peter episode but when Aiden came out with the black square over his “area 51” I thought for sure it would happen again. I am happy Peter’s episode was so popular, he really did fit right in with the guys. He had very interesting stories and insight. If there is anybody out there that didn’t watch the mobile trivia game-- it’s a must watch! I loved it. Ludwig, you are lucky some hardcore Italian grand moms didn’t see you clipping your nails. Those ladies collect all nail clippings and hair from haircuts because they believe they can be used for voo doo type activities. Imagine the spells they could cast with those Lud nails! Welcome back Aiden! See you guys next week.

[@willow990]

This is such a cute and insightful comment 😭😭😭

[@SneeZSmash]

Imagine Aiden actually woke up like that in The Yard set and there's a full ep of him just talking to himself drunk from the night before

[@DJTiredBoy]

This pod needs Aiden, welcome back you champion

[@3thern]

"What do you think we do? We stand in the fucking room until it's pod time?" 😂😂😂😂

[@BuffiestFluff]

It is hilarious how slime is wild about fan interactions, as a public figure on one of the most popular video podcasts, when you contrast his expectations vs how he has described interacting with people HE is a fan of. Stay based king.

[@fluorescentfuneralalt]

Ludwig is in his good friend era I never thought I'd see the day

[@ssjrana7342]

My dumb ahh thinking they got Qt and Connor for this vid, despite having listened to it in Spotify.

[@nicolaserrazuriz4]

Saying "I'm the scourge of Saudi Arabia" is so funny

[@Undecidedl]

The mushroom episode reached a million and is now one of the greats

[@dickwintered]

Ludwig, QT and Connor team would be pretty killer ngl.

[@sandenson]

I'd watch that weekly

[@ervinrahmanovic3946]

Hi could you timestamp? I can't find it, thanks

[@mothscales]

this ep was my fav out of all 169 so far. the bits were so good n they all seem so happy

[@shittysashimi5184]

aiden took a break only to come back mothering stronger than ever before

[@coreykwok4143]

😂I fricken died hearing Slime destroy Will. Would love to see the 2 pods colide like workaholics meets the always sunny gang.

[@SingleBowler-pv9rj]

the idea of rotating casts for podcasts is so good. granted, i dont know how they get trash taste since they're not based in LA. maybe wine about it, fear&, and some other pod in LA

[@megamuffin1012]

Couldn’t wait to see aidens outfit from the audio. Not disappointed

[@b345tx]

I can't keep getting teased with this basketball game, stop the tease and do it 😭

[@BelsaliasMarymaeh]

I got clickbaited by QT's face & now I'm sad she's not here

[@AriaOfCompassion]

First ad read of the new Year is an absolute banger

[@theAlex2577]

ngl the dunkin donuts stand on business bit made me spit out my drink, insane that this pod three years in still makes me laugh so much

[@AZMissMurder]

as someone with family and heritage in Eritrea, thank you for your service

[@percyvey]

Glad Aidan’s back I missed having some fruit on the pallet

[@JetsFittedUp]

"A mixture" coming from the LeBron bit is foreshadowing of hank greens answer

[@OTL_Matrix]

Had to pause the pod to come here and let y'all know that I live in Lagos and I do he bumping Ludwig's shit. Love you man 🙌🏻

[@mialefebvre1512]

We need a best of The Yard 2023 ASAP

[@bobfigget6690]

The fact that somebody ranked every episode in a tier list in insane

[@willow990]

Gentle men ep is clearly A teir

[@Waylorn]

Slime mentioned an American band that was big in another country, and Mr. Big was an American band who is known for To Be With You in 1991 and that's it, but went on to have several albums in Japan. They kind of became known again in America because they had a song that was the theme song to a popular anime, Shine in 2001. Still, if you ask most people in America, they recognize To Be With You when they hear it, but still don't know any other songs from the band.

[@noahm4541]

Being a fan of Connereatspants is like being a fan of Lance Armstrong after the tests came out.

[@jkoilby2804]

So I’m listening to this episode while I’m doing the dishes. Only I’m not *really* listening. It’s just background noise while I keep my inner demons at bay. Anyway, I hear the little beep sound they always play before an ad read and that kind of snaps me back to reality. And Slime just says 39:33 “you know what I ate for breakfast this morning? WORMS.” And it finally hit me, Slime is fuckn’ hilarious. That was the bit that finally did it for me.

[@dobber43]

Man looking at the thumbnail i thought we had qt and cdawg on the same episode and i was ready for the shitshow

[@SaltMonarch]

Lud truly representing the ppl in that Warzone vs Fortnite argument

[@nora-ng2ro]

aiden was so mother this episode. the girlies love him slay king 💅🏽

[@PrometheusSleeps]

i cant believe they killed aiden and replaced him with a clone this is so sad

[@TocloseamI]

Best vibes in a while with all the boys happy. Bless up

[@SingleBowler-pv9rj]

the idea of rotating casts for podcasts is so good. granted, i dont know how they get trash taste since they're not based in LA. maybe wine about it, fear&, and some other pod in LA

[@ericdavidson4554]

This is the episode I originally started watching when I got into the Yard, I decided halfway through to start from episode 1 and now I’m back, fuckin hype feels good man

[@dylandoesnthavealastname8088]

Glad to see lubewig is doing fine

[@x3dfritz0]

not even 3 minutes into the episode and im already dying. this is gonna be a good year

[@insanity_rl_2099]

Excited to see aiden was reincarnated for this episode.

[@Openmouthstef]

I swear to god I said “stanzmina “ 2 seconds before nick and I felt honored to think of the same joke as the goat

[@sandenson]

Beast

[@UglyBabyFunny]

congrats to aiden on becoming the second coming of Vitas, the 2000s russian pop star most well known for freakin it on new years

[@sandenson]

Vitas mentioned!

[@jasjohal000094]

Nick stays killing it with his one liners "it's just a Ludbud who has control over the radio-des" (30:00)

[@scottjacobson6619]

Clicked on this excited to see aimen back and the second I saw him I was straight up wheezing

[@alexdewh]

the way I gasped when i saw aiden. absolutely slayed

[@maylyd859]

what a banger ep to start the new year

[@RyGuyMaster]

thanks for sharing this idea with us, boys of the yard

[@aidanbrunner4410]

Slime was pretty much cookin up quidditch with that basketball remix

[@TheMultiCircus]

i get so happy every time they talk about basketball for some reason

[@totallynotayush492]

aiden looking like E.T.'s hot bisexual cheerleader

[@realjakeryan]

Honestly Aimen is so goated for his opinion on the toenail opinion

[@FatFanboi]

Aiden Killin the Zohan look.

[@MyNameIsNyx]

best ep this year so far

[@mrparadise1822]

Literally listening to this at work and dunkin lmao

[@onlyjericho]

Aiden tried to hide his come back by dressing like robocop. Not this time.

[@4Tastatur123]

The NBA draft idea goes so hard

[@bigz4829]

29:23 Was it Rockford, IL's own Cheap Trick? Famous for "I want you to want me" and "Surrender" being performed at Budokan in Japan, and that recording being their most famous. This was multiple years after, if not over a decade after, the initial recordings of their music.

[@NjGrizzly]

The band Slime is talking about: Is it Daphne Loves Derby? They werent super popular here but were HUGE in Japan. I still love them to this day

[@halsti99]

i dont think writing down your resolutions helps much. the important thing is more how you phrase your goals. you need to be able to track the progress. any "work out more", or "eat better" resolution will be hard to track. A "go to the gym 2 times a week" is easily trackable every week and gives you instant feedback, if you are on track or not. for food stuff, any "eat fruit every 2 days", "replace 3 meals a week with a salad", "stay under x amount of calories every day", or so will be easy to track. set an achieveable goal that you can actually check off a list and feel good about on a daily, or weekly basis. Also one that lets you know if you are not on track to make you feel slightly bad about it. "reach out to friends more" can be done next week. "take 15 minutes every second day to respond to, or reach out to friends" can be tracked and checked off a list. so think more about what kind of goal you set :)

[@TheTemptress13]

I need friends like Willl and Aiden... Everyome in my life just puts you down.

[@over7532]

Jk I hope you find some nice friends man. Maybe Google some clubs & shit in your area to find new people to hang out with. Good luck fellow yard enjoyer

[@TheTemptress13]

@@over7532 thanks .... I'm gonna need it .. good people are getting harder and harder to find sadly

[@nerdbot2.025]

Aiden really came back with premo slop after dying last week!!!

[@pinkmilk6989]

Omg Aiden’s back from the renaissance tour!!

[@afterg1ow]

missed the gay rep on this podcast ❤ thank u aimen for representing us

[@frankjohnson123]

Everyone in the Yard should go in a different solitary confinement room. The last one to leave wins, but they don't know when other people have left.

[@willow990]

Slime wins that or goes out in 1 minute no inbetween

[@thebrewsky26]

Serving bunt, right outta the bunt pan

[@jackguemmer393]

Love to hear the yard talk sweet on Bundun

[@thatmfspittin1869]

The M dot R reference by slime was underrated 😂

[@jonesOtr]

I think slime is the first person to truly make me question my sexuality, he got so big for us. the intro was the first time i really noticed

[@acoluca]

new years res: stop watchin the yard fortnite peak warzone went to jupiter to get more stupider new years res 2: keep listenin to the yard

[@acoluca]

no one makes me laugh like slime

[@casss8605]

@@acolucakeep being real asf.

[@xXxjjTHEjetPLANEXxXx]

The draft sounds like the craziest pod-stream hybrid event

[@Reggicyde]

I was watching Those Who Wish Me Dead starring Angelina Jolie and thought Nicholas Hoult’s character was Aiden. The whole time my gf would get mad at me because I would say AimenGamin every time he appeared

[@amosbilodeau8003]

Great ep

[@TDog19]

Nick used to hate all sports and now he's playing basketball. I think we can get him to come around on pickleball.

[@Tmini507]

OMG! AIDEN IS BACK!!! I MISSED HIM! ❤❤❤

[@Bazy678]

It was explained in the mimster beast video that the white room thing is because there is such a lack of stimuli that your brain creates stuff in the empty space. So like hallucinations probably will last after your stint in the hell cube after extended time in there

[@christianwestby5368]

They forgot papa don’t play ball for less than a rack

[@Ashe_Goto]

love how the guys are just Lud's eyes and ears into the smash community ever since he left to pick up cigarettes from the gas station

[@MisterBantastic]

Most Ludwig Thumbnail I’ve seen in a minute.

[@CommonLoganist]

Guys csn we just take the tìme to appreciate the time to appreciate

[@lennyS6969]

Play The Game of basketball against fear and, with opposing fan bases on each side with paintball guns, and they can only shoot the person with the ball

[@jw.8168]

Second Eritrea 🇪🇷 mention in the last 3 episodes..I feel so proud

[@saladFalcon]

Slime is just a black guy in a white bald cap and Nick's Halo shirt goes hard