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- (reporter) One resident describes her horrifying experience
when she first realized the complex was on fire.
- (Sweet Brown) Well, I woke up to go get me a cold pop.
- Classic.
- I've never seen the raw video.
- I love her! I wish I knew her. - (Sweet Brown) Then I ran out.
I didn't even grab no shoes or nothin', Jesus.
- (laughing) Oh my god. - (Sweet Brown) I ran for my life.
- Best interview ever.
- I'm ready for the beat to drop.
- (Sweet Brown) Ain't nobody got time for that.
- (laughing)
- "Ain't nobody got time for that."
- I have actually mentioned "Ain't nobody got time for that"
randomly in emails.
- (reporter) ...treated for smoke inhalation at a local hospital.
There were no other reports of injuries.
- I feel bad that I laughed at that.
That is not a laughing situation. (cracks up)
But that lady, she's just funny.
- A man claiming as Jesus plows his car into a PG&E worker,
pinning him against his truck, because the worker was black.
The man's passenger... - Oh my god.
- (Reisbeck) ...and innocent bystanders come to the rescue.
- This is shockingly depressing. (laughs)
- (Kai) "You know what? I've come to realize I'm Jesus Christ,
and I can do anything I [bleep] want to."
- Oh, this dude. Yeah, I've seen this dude.
- (Kai) ...smashed into the [bleep] car right there,
pinned him in between that [bleep] truck.
- (reporter) Homeless hitchhiker Kai...
- Oh my god, people exist like this.
- I love his title: "Homeless hitchhiker Kai."
- (Kai) He runs up, and he grabs one of them, man.
So I [bleep] ran up behind him with a hatchet.
Smash! Smash! Suh-mash! - (laughing) Oh-ho-ho.
Get that last one in there, buddy.
- (Kai) Smash! Smash! Suh-mash!
Yeah! - (laughs)
- (Kai) Smash! Smash! Suh-mash!
- (giggles) - (Kai) Yeah!
- "Yeah!" Why haven't I seen this?
- (Kai) He just finished what looked like at the time
killing somebody.
And if I hadn't had done that, he would've killed more people.
- What a good guy.
- Lifesaver, which is ironic, given his current circumstance.
- See, this video is weird now. This video is weird now.
- (Reisbeck) And the guy driving that car
is right where he belongs, in police custody.
- I'm talking with Charles Ramsey. He's a neighbor.
- Okay, this guy is my friend.
- (Ramsey) I heard screaming. I'm eating my McDonald's.
- I still say best sponsorship ever.
- (Ramsey) I see this girl going nuts
trying to get out of her house.
- It doesn't feel right watching this without music.
It just-- it feels wrong.
- He's clearly never had an interview before,
and I think it just makes it all the better.
- (Ramsey) And she comes out with the little girl.
And she says, "Call 911. My name is Amanda Berry."
"You got some big testicles to pull this off, bro."
'Cause we see this dude every day.
Nothing exciting about him. Well... until today. (wry laugh)
- (laughs)
- (laughs) That's such a weird laugh.
- (Ramsey) I knew something was wrong
when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man's arms.
Something is wrong here.
- Oh, best thing. - (Ramsey) Dead giveaway.
- (chuckling) - (Ramsey) Dead giveaway.
- (reporter) Charles, thank you very much.
- (Ramsey) Dead giveaway. - Dead giveaway.
- "Dead giveaway."
- (Ramsey) Either she homeless or she got problems.
That's the only reason why she run to a black man.
- Wow. - (reporter) Charles, thank--
thank you for being here, man. Charles Ramsey, a neighbor...
- (laughing) He did this.
- (reporter) Heard the screaming, took action.
- All right. Now we get to see 'em with music?
Ah? - (Finebros) No.
- No? Aw.
- I love weird news.
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- (Finebros) So what did all of those clips have in common?
- They came from white people who were like,
"Look how crazy black people are!"
- Hilarious people witnessing shockingly depressing crimes.
- All of those clips were local newscasts that went viral.
- (Finebros) What was the woman talking about in the first one?
- So there was a fire, and she didn't have time for it.
- (imitating) She didn't have time for that.
- "Ain't nobody got time for that."
- (imitating) "Ain't nobody got time for that!"
- Honestly, I was waiting for the beat to drop.
So I'm not sure if someone died.
- All I was waiting for is, "Ain't nobody got time for that."
(laughs) So it was really hard for me
to concentrate on what she was saying.
- (Finebros) So you don't even know what was going on?
- (laughing) No, I have no idea.
(Finebros snickering)
- This is the first time I've watched this video, honestly.
And all I know is that woman's face, picture,
"Ain't nobody got time for that."
- (Finebros) So Kai, the guy in the second video--
what do you think of him when you see this video?
- Well, the thing that I think about all of those people:
that they all have done a lot of drugs.
- All these peoples are crazy. He's crazy. He's on drugs.
Why the [bleep] does he have a hatchet?
- I like that his official title was "homeless hitchhiker."
- He genuinely was trying to do what he could do, but he's high.
- I don't know. He seemed like a cool dude.
Like, looks can be deceiving.
- Still the weirdest video for me to now watch.
- (Finebros) Why? What happened? - What happened with Kai?
He may have murdered somebody. And since your channel's PG-13,
I can't say why he said he might have done it.
- (Finebros) Well, recently, Kai has been arrested for murder.
- (gasps dramatically)
- Wait. Really?
- (Finebros) Kai has been arrested for murder.
- WHAT?
Shocking.
- Well, I mean, I'm not surprised.
- He was under the influence of something and something bad.
- Months ago, or whenever this story made the news,
would I have thought, "Oh, he'll be wanted for murder someday"?
- This is like in Batman,
where the hero lives long enough to become the villain.
- Seriously? That's so--
Why am I smiling about this? It's, like, terrible.
Is there a video for that too?
- (Finebros) And what did you think about the guy
in the last video, Charles Ramsey?
- Oh my gosh. Charles is a hero in my book.
- I think he's probably my favorite out of everyone.
He's the most colorful.
- He is a badass and my hero, and he is one funny dude.
- I can't believe we're laughing at all of this.
This is all horrible. (giggles)
- It is terrifying to think that
these women have been gone for probably a decade, right?
But everyone is just gonna be talking about
this lovable black man.
- It's fun. It's funny.
But then again, we are kind of belittling the fact that
they were held captive for years.
And it's very strange when you juxtapose that with,
"Dead giveaway," and just all the little parodies.
The internet is a strange, bizarre, wonderful, weird place.
- Sometimes we can appreciate the fact
that this is a very significant, terrible situation,
while at the same time being able to smile
at another aspect of it. I think we can sort of separate the two.
- (Finebros) Is that okay for this video to go viral,
and this horrible news story was breaking at the same time?
- Oh man. I don't know, it's YouTube. Everything's okay.
You can get cut on the face by a sword,
and people think it's the funniest thing ever.
(groaning in slow motion)
(clang!) - (Finebros) Truth!
Why do so many local news reports go viral?
- Because you never know what you're gonna get
with these people that they interview.
Like, what the heck sometimes.
- I think it's the shock value.
The reaction to it is so different than what you expect.
- You always ask me why. And I'm like, "It's the internet, bro."
(chuckling) I don't know.
These are people that are probably never on camera.
They don't think about, like, "This is gonna be recorded."
And they are their most real raw self.
And the thing most loved on the internet is authenticity.
- Every video that goes viral is about the news,
and it's about some crazy person being interviewed on the news.
It's not shocking. Watch the news.
(chuckling) This is every night on the news.
- Most of the things that entertain us on the internet
are not things that we would like to be close to in real life.
If it actually came down to being next to them every day
or being in close proximity,
we would not laugh at most of the things
we laugh at on the internet.
- (Finebros) What types of people are typically the subject
of viral videos like these?
- I think on the corner of all that would be a leading question.
- I mean, I don't want to judge people here, man.
You're putting me on the spot. (snickers)
- People in... not as nice neighborhoods.
- These people, they don't have pampered lives.
They live in the ghettos.
So they're gonna be tougher and therefore more charismatic
when a camera comes in and says, "Tell us how it was."
Well, they'll just be like, "Well, all right. Here we go."
- (Finebros) Should news outlets be releasing these interviews
in this way, when they could edit them
to make these people seem more normal?
- I mean, the news station obviously sees
a big opportunity for a bunch of PR and stuff,
so they're not gonna pass that up.
- They are cherry-picking spectacles of humanity.
- Oh, that's a balanced decision. I'm, like, being a judge.
I'm like, "Kind of." The person did say that in the interview,
but then the editor didn't have to leave in
the stuff that wasn't relevant. Sooo...
- I'm not gonna lie. There has been times where I'm like,
"Do they really need to include all this?" You know what I mean?
I'm like, "What? Are you trying to exploit these people?"
- We're not even talking about news anymore.
We're talking about how crazy this man is.
Where's the girls? I want to see them.
- I feel like they have to be going for it now.
They're like, "Who's just the craziest person
that maybe we can get a shred of something online
and people will see our logo?"
- They want to go viral.
They want to find these crazy people
so that they can have these great stories
and their news station blows up. More views, you know?
- (Finebros) So is it okay to exploit them?
- I mean, whether it's okay or not,
it's gonna continue to happen.
- (Finebros) Finally, what advice do you have for people
if they're ever interviewed by the news? - Just be yourself.
- I don't want to see fake stuff.
So just be genuine. Be yourself.
- What you should really do is bust out "Chocolate Rain."
- If you're good at improv, then ham it up.
- Feel free to embellish your story. Be a little crazy.
- If you do want to be famous, just boom, go for it, balls deep.
- Give the best interview that you can muster.
Say the most craziest things,
and you will probably get a song written about you on YouTube.
- Thanks for watching another episode of YouTubers React.
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- See ya later, you dingus.
- I'd stick around but ain't nobody got time for that.
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