What if Museums Were Honest in their Ads? Roger Horton investigates. Use code HONESTADS50 to get 50% OFF your first Factor box plus 20% off your next box at bit.ly/4bGf1jK!
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CAST:
Roger Horton: Jack Hunter
Woman: Britt Migs
Man: Michael Strauss
Director: Michael Strauss
Director of Photography: Rob Menzer
Producer: Michael Strauss
Writer: Britt Migs
Editor: Dom Neo
Mix: Gabrielle Williott
Colorist: Rob Menzer
Sound: Maxwell DiPaolo
Camera Assistant: Rachel Mossberg
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00:00 Introduction
00:24 Horton Museum of Modern Marvels
01:30 New Blue Boy
02:50 Naked Guy
03:07 FACTOR AD
04:11 Or what about!
07:30 taco museum board
#museums #art #comedy
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Thank you for the heads up during the video. It seems you listen to your viewers (who complained/got confused by the ads). Good work!
Missed opportunity to make a joke of fighting off "Flock of seagulls" the band.
If restaurants were honest
90% of ads are a scam now need to do a video on this
When are you guys going to do "If Mail-Delivered Food Services Were Honest"? Only after they stop sponsoring you?
“If you gave back every stolen artifact from a museum, you’d be left with an empty building” -Commander Rourke
Did you know Rourke from DIsney's Atlantis was Roger's grandfather? Its on the internet, so it might be true!
This logic is totally wrong but in a sense understandable, “To the victor go the spoils. If they wanted it that bad they would’ve fought harder to keep it. After all empires had looted weak countries for millennia, how stupid do you have to be to leave precious items for any empire to steal?”
@@turdFerguson565 Your question recently got answered by the US Govt when they left a bunch of "precious items" in Afghanistan.
Imperial powers don't steal from colonies, they Strategically Transfer Equipment to Alternate Locations
@@turdFerguson565”’To the victor’? Berlin’s in rubble, the Furher’s in hiding. YOU LOST” -Henry Jones II
If prepared meals shipped to your door companies were honest
I think that was last week's episode.
You too can pay high prices for crumbs on a plastic tray. Shipped to you at mother nature's expense of course. The calories are low because there's as much content on that tray as your bank account after buying. These glorified TV dinners are shipped with a hefty carbon footprint, right to your door, saving you a trip to your local grocery and, honestly, Who ever needed those guys anyway? But at least you're getting healthy, nutritious food, right? *Laughter*
Considering one of the sponsors is one of the companies, I doubt they'll cover those.
@@arokh72 They already did.
@@douglasbabb1725 yet Factor is still happy to sponsor them haha.
If island survival shows were honest. If beauty pageants were honest.
If they do survival shows, they need to do a shout out to the poor editors whos jobs is to put pixels over peoples junks and conchs
Yeees
if reality show were honest.
who cares about tv shows? why are you all so small minded
If Used Video Game Stores were honest. If Honest Ads were honest.
“I’ve always wondered how they haven’t taken Stonehenge or the Jesus Statue in Brasil.” “Oh we tried.”
Stonehenge? It was too heavy to carry all the way to London. But they're pretty close.
If Stonehenge was in India we would have got it to the British museum.
@learntooilpaint The Stonehenge is in Wales. Close enough, if you get my drift
@@billster7424It’s actually in England! The stones are from Wales, but were dragged hundreds of miles to a spot in England, where it was built- that’s one of the most fascinating things about it!
They are taking bits of pieces off the Sunken Titanic, the Battleship Bismark, and parts off the destroyed Space Shuttle Columbia.... sold off " as art collection " in someone's home.
I love that my tween states "Maybe the British Museum took it" whenever she loses anything. It's in the middle school cultural zeitgeist
😂 I'm gonna start using that one.
That lines good enough to steal!
@@lynnboartsdye1943 It's free (except the transport to London UK) to see it
I'm from Kenya and can confirm that the artifact Rodger was holding belonged to my great great grandma 😂😂😂
As a museum curator IRL, I both love and hate how accurate this is hahaha
Why aren't the Great Pyramids in London? Because they were too big to move.
In fairness, they returned the mummy of a Pharoah. Was met in egypt as the remain of a ruler should be.
None of the artifacts would've been discovered if it wasn't for the British, either. Archaeology isn't free.
@@mikitz LOL I didn't steal your land, I 'discovered' it. Wonder if I could get away with that. "No, your honor, I didn't steal that television; I found it in the electronics section."
The Afghan Buddhas - not stolen by the BM. Palmyra, not stolen by the BM. Baghdad Museum, not stolen by the BM.
funny, but the Egyptians and Arabs already took half of them already for building villages and when they were looting (way before the Europeans), so it is not just an old joke, but false, too...
I once visited a museum that had a bunch of Asian textiles and cups and stuff on display for their artistry. There was a Chinese tea cup on display where the display next to it talked about the beautiful and detailed lettering of the words on the tea cup that dated back to, like 20 AD or something. Being Taiwanese, I could read the words on it. The lettering they were talking about? It reads "Made in Shanghai"...
That is because, Is someone with a degree in archaeology tell you, They don't hire knowledgeable people to actually running these museums or two work with the artifacts.. I tried to get jobs in museums in new york city and my local museum back where i come from. How is told dad if I wanted to be considered for position, I had to first serve an internship. Eight hours a day, Forty hours a week. For an entire year. At least. Then they might CONSIDER me for a job there. That is why all the people in these museums happen to be related to the big names in town. How many someone who already has money and some sort of familial placement can actually give them that much free time. That's the key part of the scam. All the money flows into the pockets of connected people
"I've been Roger" "and you've been 'Rogered' "
If awards shows were honest
“And by the way… the slap was fake.”
if oscars were honest 😂
The British museum is the national trophy cabinet.
I work at my local museum and I can say this is very accurate. Thanks Roger Horton, love your honesty!🤫😈😉
I hope they serve Hortito's tacos, because MAN, viewing priceless stolen treasures makes me HANGRY.
You should do a Boeing ad.
To quote Egon Spengler 'I think that might be extraordinarily dangerous"
They sorta did: kzhead.info/sun/jLaxqryIopSmoZs/bejne.htmlfeature=shared
I don't want Roger to kill himself via 12 gauge to the back of the head.
"Give that back" was delivered so perfectly.
Also how they often pass replicas as the real thing, like the Mona Lisa, or dinosaur bones, or how they used to boil the heads of Australian aborigines and sell them to museums and pass them as neanderthal skulls.
The dinosaurs replica bones ca be excused, since you'd have to drill holes into the priceless pieces to mount them into those cool standing positions. But please tell me more about the fake neanderthal skulls, I haven't heard that one before
I love me an evolution denier. How’s your 4000 year old earth doing
Lol@@learntooilpaint
@@learntooilpaint It has nothing to do with evolution. The originals are kept in vaults. I love me a fact denier.
@learntooilpaint There is zero proof of any species "evolving" into a completely different species. Hence the name evolution theory. See theory means it hasn't been proven. But there is most definitely proof of adaptation.
if reality shows were honest
The best thing I ever saw in a museum/gallery was not an exhibit or painting. We visited the Salvador Dali museum in St. Pete's. There were two summer students making a promotional video for the gallery and asked my son , on camera, what he thought. He gave them a look and replied "it's boring".,lol.🤣
I just want to say thanks for warning about the ad. It really shows how much you guys care about feedback. And also the fact that none of us want your free meals taken.
I also like the seagull jump scare
If you get the Sponsorblock browser extension, it will skip over that add automatically. The ReVanced app on android does that too
Glad they noted the obvious issue with real ads in the middle of satirical skits for ads.
Honest ads with genuine ads. It's like the matrix itself has become self aware.
When are you guys going to do "If Mail-Delivered Food Services Were Honest"?
As a single guy who can't cook, I can't say I'm not tempted, but damn all the plastic trash and boxes not to mention the cost just to get a microwave meal shipped to you. Time to step up my cooking game and stop being lazy.
@@walking_introvert single guy here, too. That's what they count on. Us single folks don't have time to cook delicious meals, so we pay them a premium to ship them to us. I was just pointing out the hypocrisy Edit: I just noticed your username. You are my spirit animal. Lol
@@HCarrStalnaker Yeah, I got that you were poking fun at them. I have premium so they probably not making money from me from ads so this is how they reach everyone. lol. Capitalism always wins in the end
@@walking_introvert How is anyone tempted? Just buy Hungry Man meals or any other TV dinner. Cheaper, and about as healthy
5:53 watching this part as a Kenyan makes me crack up😂😂. I've been to a British museum that keeps stuffed lions from all the game hunting they did in the 30s and 40s. We now have less than half number of lions that we had in 1890
How many are Kenyan herders killing these days?
@ben7932 nowadays they don't actively go looking for lions to kills. Unless a lion invades their settlement Besides, how many lions can you kill with a machete vs with guns and aerial support?
@@BritBoundDiaries just want to say you gave a wonderful rebuttals to that silly strawman fallacy attempt-- I really hope the lion population bounces back some day. Thanks for sharing your perspective
The shrunken sweater over gigantic button down is spot on wardrobing for the woman cast as the art museum goer.
Hey! I resemble that remark.
Roger out here revealing the inherent dishonesty of existence 😅
Yep, everything has a terrible backstory when you look into it. This channel will never run out of ideas.
When you realize that Horton is so much of a sellout when he tells the truth about an ad but then lies about an ad. He advertises when he’s advertising. Genius.
😂 they need to make money somehow, ads aren’t inherently bad.❤
@@essies4294you say that now, but then the ads become out of control to the point that half the video time is going to be advertisements alone
Thank you for the ad warning. Like seriously. No sarcasm. I know your sponsors want us to see what you’re promoting, but I really felt cheated previously for being lead onto believing this was part of the skit.
Art Auction where honest would be like "legal money laundry for art". Taxs: sure.
Oh to be the first viewer to be allowed entry to the *HORTON Museum of Modern Marvel.* Such masterpiece, what an honor!
If the war on drugs was honest.
I've always pondered how wandering around and looking at statues and paintings are supposed to broaden someone's world view.
Because you are supposed to think about them and learn about what they are, how they were made, and what they mean. Most people probably don't do that, though.
@@MatthewTheWanderer most museums don’t tell that information anyway lol
@@MatecaCorp All of the good ones worth visiting do. But, there are a lot of small, cheap museums.
@@MatecaCorp Only because there are a lot of small museums. All of the good ones worth visiting do.
Factor must have an epic marketing team. We need to jam an ad into the middle of a skit that's popular for only going poopoo on ads... legendary target marketing 🙌
Aquariums! Do aquariums next!
I assume you're referring to [the ones in] ocean theme parks as a whole (and not just the water tanks themselves), and not the ones people have in the homes with the gold fish and whatnot. 😅
@@k31than Ocean theme parks, like Sea World, are only a small fraction of aquariums. Most aquariums are like zoos for aquatic animals. But, yeah, that would make more sense for an episode than home aquariums. For that, they could do "What if pet stores were honest?"
@@k31than imagine making an episode about people keeping fish captive in their homes, inside tanks smaller than the world's smallest violin playing in the background.
@@VideoGameStarChannelSupremeIsn’t that just Finding Nemo?
At what point do the dead people on display in Museums stop being considered someone's corpses (stolen from their grave) and start to be seen as something for a museum exhibit?
Apparently, instead of "RIP", Romans sometimes used NFFNSNC: Non-Fui, Fui, Non-Sum, Non-Curo - I was Not, I was, I am Not, I care Not. Don't think that we in the modern day respect graves so much. How many graves have been moved or even disposed of when a cemetery has filled up, or a piece of infrastructure has to go through it. When you're buried, you're not there for eternity. After a while, your plot will be re-used.
Once the decomposition fits into the composition.
Maybe in america, there are awesome museums arround the globe. Like the blue house museum in barcelona, 3.50 for a ticket and you could spend a whole day in it.
My favorite part of museums is when you see a pile of trash that's "modern art".
Don't forget the #1 reason for an art gallery (their auctions, specifically): Money Laundering
We tried….couldn’t lift it 😂😂😂😂
Money laundering, ask Hunter.
So when do we get 'If Honest Ads Were Honest'?
Like an addict chasing that first rush, really we all just want to be like those people long ago who saw the pictures on the cave wall for the first time.
'Roger' get crowned 'genius of KZhead' with that awesomely placed mention of Manifest Destiny. Bravo, sir!
i love that during the ad you can see that they have prints of Picardplam and Rick Astley on the wall now that is impactful art.
Thank you for giving me another reason to stay home.
Thanks for clearly labelling your ad, really appreciate you listening to feedback like this; it’s the perfect balance of you making money from sponsorship and your viewers knowing how much of the video is real video.
You mean museums stealing artifacts from other cultures is not "wealth redistribution" "You're just mad that it doesn't earn you any intellectual superiority points" and "remember you are basically just paying $40 for an Instagram photo" is pretty accurate.
Well done. I'm glad that more comedy YTers are creating their own adverts. I always watch those. I may not need that product, but the adverts are fun. sidebar: Why are the Pyramids in Egypt?...because the British Museum couldn't steal it.
IF KZhead PREMIUM WERE HONEST (and why Roger forces premium paying members to watch his ads mid-video).
That's because KZhead is taking most of that premium money and fattening up their shareholders, not giving it to creators. On a side note, if you watch KZhead on your Android TV, you can use SmartTube, which automatically detects sponsors and skips them.
Hey, I didn't get a Degree in Art for nothing, lol.
I'm going to be real, theres a lot of museums that are nothing like this, that are incredibly small and ran by volunteers. A lot of them are ran by local historical societies, and are often the best way to learn history about your local area. I highly recommend visting these and supporting them, as they are nothing like this.
I just thought all paintings bought and sold in the last hundred years was to launder money.
Tbf, some of the works are probably safer especially given how many relics and sites Isis destroyed. While we could probably return everything to a nation like India without issue, I'm skeptical when it comes to nations, like Syria and Egypt.
During the Egyptian revolution, there was a crowd ready to storm the museum that housed the Ancient Egyptian artefacts.
Egypt is doing great with their artifacts
"It's not stealing artifacts when WE do it."
Seagull: "!!!!!!!AUUUUGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!"
This man is a legend and his videos are some of the best on the Internet ❤
All that's left now is for Roger to get the "Darth" title. 😂
Can this be pinned somehow 😂 this needs to happen!!!
@@hopskip1746 😂😂😂
That'd be a step down from emperor
@@cf8023 I believe Darth means dark lord. And Roger is as dark as they come. 😂
@thedigitalbash1506 😂 they already did If Disney were honest, I think he proved himself at the very least a grand moff
But, but I thought "THAT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!"
I wonder if Indy could get away with saying that line today. I also wonder if someone will demand that line be censored out of his movies.
'Roger' is great. I surmise 'Roger Horton' is a screenname, is why I use the quotes.
I think his actual name is Jack.
@@iboofer word
On the one hand they were stolen, on the other hand there are a lot of artifacts that got destroyed in wars that would have been super cool if they had been protected
Art is really a form of Communication. Anything can be Art. Art Museums are notorious for these kinds of Tax Write-Offs. Very funny.
The God of Capitalism strikes again.
"we tried to steal Jesus statue, but we couldn't" - ahahaha the best part
if met "gala" was honest
I was LITERALLY going to post that. What's her name showed up in a wet T-shirt and acted like there was some deep, hidden meaning that everyone else was too stupid to understand, you know because art is "subjective"
-You mean stolen? -Yes, that's the word!
Tell it like it is Rog! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
my sides hurt so bad,I never laughed so hard lol lol lmao
Once, i went to the sponge museum in Florida.
I was blocked 🚫 on IG by the Menello Museum in Winter Park FL 🖼 ....
Why do people always go nuts about the ads... just skip them it's easy. You know how to use the video scroller right
Nowadays if you want a good art Instagram photo, you just get good pictures of yourself posing by blank walls and then digitally add the art and a frame in the background as if it were hanging on a wall. Boom, got your art photo. Just remember, nobody really cares.
i can't wait for the official hunter biden fine art museum... what an american art icon and the collection so deserves to have its own museum.... at a certain price and 10 percent for the big guy
The Hunter Biden Memorial art museum is already under construction by Hillary. It is scheduled to be open to the public in the fall of 2025.
If the media were honest.
If Honest Ads Was Honest
Ahahaha yet another awesome, true, and hilarious Honest Ads! :D On another note, I HATE seagulls, but I have a heart and will share my FACTOR Meal with them, specifically the rice portion. 😊
6:12 dont do that to me Britt
This is a great one. Excellent work.
I know that honest adds are supposed to be simple, but I feel as if they missed out the argument of how does a possession become someone’s. If stealing it centuries ago, but holding it ever since make it yours?
Do one about Native Reservations. Or native American arts and crafts, trinkets made in china, korea, mexico, malaysia, tiawan, etc. Love to know how you would name a friedbread....Chief Horton...😂😂😂
If Customer Service was honest
This man is exposing the entire freaking world! One day there will be an episode about honesty being honest XD
50 years - "disgusting grave robbing" 500 years - "oh, we're from a university's archeology departement. We're "uncovering artifacts"
Depends if they're specifically looking for a corpse or happen to find one while looking for artifacts. Putting the act aside for a moment to ponder... 50 years after death, the grandchildren, and maybe children are still alive to be personally affected. 500 years and it's not even comprehensible. 100 years could have 3-4 generations. 500 you'd be 15-20 generations removed.
i guess every museum should be considered as the "Art of stealing"
😂As a dedicated Kenyan viewer, that's Roger
Even museums are not safe from Roger's honest ads.
If sponsored ads were honest
4:30 Hobby Lobby, is that you?
i've always had great times in historical museums... I think this is more of an art business
Great work. This had me dying.
Enjoyed this a little too much 😂😂
I like how they go on about how much a ticket to a museum is. Many museum have free days. Check to see if your local museum has free admission days.
Aldough, with the stolen stuff, it's kinda tricky because that's how conquering a country works. You conquer a county; you take their treasures; you get conquered; they take your treasures. Always worked like that, always will. We just happened to be part of a giant empire that is conquering the whole world, similar to the Mongol Empire or the Roman Empire. Naturally, only until our empire gets conquered or falls apart, like every empire ever. And then new one will come. So those, not stolen, but won, treasures are just a display of power.
What's more is everyone did that to everyone regardless of there skin color, so calling it racist when white people did it to brown people is even more insulting to both parties because it blames the brown people for being weaker, while pretending that white people only did it out of hatred and instead kept the treasures safe because they were valuable and desired, you know, the opposite of what racism makes you feel towards something, that's why when a nation hates a other nation, they destroy there treasures they take
Fantastic work with the ad, big improvement.
Man I love this stuff.
Next video "If Factor meals were honest". 😅
I like how you used a name of a good artist for that painting, so we can Google it and actually see some great art.
I’m surprised no one gas made replicas of the artifacts and given it to museums so the real ones can return where they’re wanted/needed. Guests don’t care if it’s real or not as long as they’ve something to gawk at especially with virtual tours being the main way to see museums nowadays.
Masterpiece, this should be mandatory for politicians to watch.
never understood how people thought going to a museum adds any value over just looking something up, its not like seeing it gives any more value over a picture of it since you're never interacting with it anyways but if they wanna blow money to do the same thing you can do on a computer then by all means have at it, the only reason i've gone to one in the past is to just do something with my gf at the time and aurora doesn't really have much going for it so figured why not
What, being able to see an item in person is very different, even if you ignore things like emotions, you just get a better view and take your time to appreciate them better, and then you have the actual benefits of mesuem staffing, you have a place where people can be experts on many very niche fields that anyone can ask questions to to help learn history in ways you can't without people cataloging and studying these artifacts out intrest for the objects
Finally, my life dream of her saying this was a disappointment, has been fulfilled! Ack. I'm dead. *Splat.