Elliott Morgan
Actor, Writer, Host, Producer, Lover of Cheez-Its
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This won’t happen again.
This is the only wall of text I’ll spam your feed with. OR MAYBE NOT. I don’t know. I type words sometimes, and sometimes they get away from me! GET BACK HERE, WORDS! So come along! Come along on an adventure of words and pictures and tumbles! It’s gonna be a ball!
I’m doing a one-off, super narcissistic blog about myself, so you can know me a little better. If you want. If you don’t want to know me, then that’s fine too. I also feel like I know too much about myself sometimes. It’s hard.
- No, I’m not 16. Or 19. Or 9. I’m 25, but don’t worry. I still possess the inherent charm and swagtastic capabilities of a prepubescent spelling-bee kid.
- Yeah, I am married. To my “best friend,” as they say. We’ve been together since high school, and she’s more important to me than anything in this world. What’s that? I’m sweet? No, I’m actually not. Nice to meet you.
- Yeah, I’m a Christian, but I’m a Christian who loves atheists, bourbon, and profanity-laced rap, so I’m not what you’d consider a “model citizen” of the religion.
- Yeah, my job is awesome. But it’s also a lot of work. But it’s a lot of awesome work. Now you know.
- I take a lot of pride in SourceFed, and I think we offer some of the best comedy on the web, as well as actual information on important matters.
- I write a lot. I’ve written two books, a web series, a short, and I’m working on two pilots. Had a publishing deal, now I don’t. Things happen.
- Yeah, I like Community, but it’s not a perfect show. The perfect show doesn’t exist. Scratch that, yeah it does. It’s Community.
- I come off as angry a lot, but I never am. Ever. I also come off as intelligent sometimes. That, too, is inaccurate.
- I grew up in Florida, and I have a degree in zoology. I studied how to wrestle crocodiles, and I’m still confident in my ability to wrangle a five-footer.
- I’m neither a Republican nor Democrat, but I like small businesses, and I have various opinions on various topics. I don’t know who I’m voting for, please don’t ask.
- My evenings are usually spent with my wife and/or friends, or they’re spent with a drink and a script.
- I am blessed with an amazing group of supportive, creative, and talented friends. Among that small network is my brother, who I’m pretty sure is this weird, unidentified genius. He’s like the neural equivalent of a UFO.
- I also have other friends, and our friendships aren’t based in the industry, but we’re all kind of in it and supporting each other as we go along. It’s pretty cool.
There. This is information about me. Won’t happen again. OR WILL IT.
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HA!
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On the subject of bloopers.
Somebody was all, “Welcome to 20 Minutes Or Less, where we write our bloopers.”
I’m sorry… what? We don’t script our bloopers. That’s insane. That’s nuts. That’s crazy, CRAZY I TELL YA! We have too much to do pumping out five videos a day to worry about clever outtakes. And we really are that weird.
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Look, this is a vlog. You don’t have to watch it. I won’t be hurt. Nor do you have to reblog it. I mean, no scrawny guy with a pedo-stache has ever had an illegally-filmed vlog go tumblr-viral. Such a thing would be unheard of. I’m not going to compare it to Obama’s election in 2008, and what that meant to America, because such a comparison would be in poor taste. But I will hope. And I will change. And your decision to engage in my cyberworld of rants and existential tendencies is solely yours. And whatever your decision may be, remember… America.
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I really like this video. I like it more than a lot of other recent videos.
I’ve been noticing this weird trend in the videos I’ve been doing. There’s this common thread of uber-serious subject matter. Todd Akin, white supremacists, and other debbie downers are littering my hard drive here at work.
So to switch things up, I covered… death? I like covering heavy material in a way that doesn’t glorify its heaviness, because a lot of what I see on mainstream news isn’t really respect. It’s presented as respect, and as somberness, but in actuality it’s “Look at me, I’m taking this SERIOUSLY.” It’s fake. It’s self-glorification under a guise of legitimacy.
When I stood in front of a camera and talked about Aurora, I wasn’t doing it because to do otherwise would be in “poor taste.” My somberness was a result of how I felt about people being senselessly slaughtered.
So I don’t believe in irreverent mockery. I just get a bad taste in my mouth when I see people being “real,” when in actuality they’re just glorifying themselves. Because at that point, it’s not about the tragedy, it’s about the heaviness of the tragedy, it’s about the person saying the words rather than the event.
Now I’m gonna go into the woods, and I’m gonna kill a bear.
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OMG - Thank the lord for Joe Bereta! He’s my favorite person ever. Sorry wife.
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Self-Deprecating Thoughts on this Whole Political Thing
This whole “YouTube Politics” thing has been really great, for the most part. I’ve met some of the wonderful people that work at Google, I’ve hung out with some amazing co-workers, and I’ve been able to get a different style of my writing out to the fraction of our audience that is actually into politics.
But there has been a downside. I’ve seen multiple comments from people saying they’re unsubscribing from our channel. Granted, these comments are a mainstay on YouTube, but I have seen a rise in them in the past week. Politics is an extremely alienating subject, and I knew that this whole venture could potentially hurt the brand (I like to think) I’ve had some (tiny) part in making.
Oh well, I probably shouldn’t worry my pretty little head about it…
As for the process of the show itself, my biggest fear is that I’ll come off like a high schooler trying to play newscaster. Which, if I’m being honest with myself, I do. The only thing worse than not being a journalist is pretending to be one, and I’d hate to give the impression that I’m trying to be something I’m not. I just wanna be a voice.
So moving forward this week, I’ll probably work on being less formal and less scripted. My goal with this was to make it as close to the Daily Show as possible, because The Daily Show knows how to present news in such a tongue-in-cheek manner that you don’t take it so seriously. Biased or not, they are masters of putting politics into perspective.
That was my goal, and so far I’d give myself a resounding C in my attempt to replicate that quality.
All that said, Meg is an incredibly intelligent, awesome person, and Phil is doing a great job with all of this. We’re all new to it, and we’re learning as we go. I’m thankful for the opportunity to talk about politics. I love the fact that we’re not veteran newscasters, and I can’t say enough about our amazing crew of editors, shooters, and producers who’ve made this whole thing possible.
As a final note, I can’t say how proud I am of my fellow SF hosts (Joe Bereta, Lee Newton, Steve Zaragoza, and Trisha Hershberger) for continuing to research, write, fact-check, produce, and host awesome content while all of us have been on the other side of the country. A lot of people don’t know this, but the faces that make up SourceFed are also the minds behind it.
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Welcome to SourceFed Secrets:
- Joe Bereta is actually tearing a kitten in half at the time this was filmed.
- You can’t see it in the frame, but it’s there.
- It’s last words were, “Meo-AAAW!”
- Joe Bereta is a sick guy.
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Steve is one of the few people who literally brightens my day every time I see him. Who I actually hate is Joe Bereta. Can’t STAND that guy.
Just kidding. We all love each other. The hosts of SourceFed are a tight ball of weirdness—like in this picture.
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Elliot, pls Elliot, stahp
I got a lot of hate yesterday, and it all basically stems from believing that people should be respected, regardless of their opinions. Their stupid, stupid opinions.
I am a firm supporter of evolution. In fact, I love it. My interest in evolution was the only thing that got me through my boring zoology courses.
However, I know many young-earth creationists who are well-versed in evolution, because they’ve grappled with it. Despite believing something that I could never, EVER believe, they understand the basics of evolution moreso than many who have Darwin magnets on their car. It’s like how many atheists know more about the Bible than people with Jesus fish magnets on their car.
My MO in everything is loving others despite their opinions, beliefs, actions, social class, sexual orientation, or anything else that defines them. That means that if a group of people are stereotyped and ridiculed, I’m against it. Yes, I do believe creationism is stupid. But a stupid belief does not a stupid person make. Take Steve’s belief that Quizno’s is superior to Subway. Steve is still a supremely intelligent human being.
I have stupid beliefs, as well, like that we can all get along and we can look past each other’s differences and we can set aside our stances to connect with other human beings. The accusation that I’m stupid, then, is totally accurate. I would submit that, perhaps, we’re all a little stupid. And if we’re all a little stupid, is it safe to conclude that we’re all a little smart?
For me, none of this is about evolution, or creationism, or Republican or Democrat, or rich or poor, straight or gay, pro-life or pro-choice. Everyone should be loved, all the time. I fail at this, of course. I barely love people I agree with, let alone those I don’t. I’m a selfish, narcissistic douchebag sometimes. But my video yesterday was to show that there is hypocrisy everywhere; there is judgment everywhere. The sooner we realize this—that hypocrisy is a plague—the sooner we can try to change it. And I believe that the only way we can eradicate judgment is through love. Not coercion.
And as a side note, yesterday’s video was me defending evolution (I addressed it being a “just a theory,” the common misconception of “coming from monkeys,” and the separation of science and religion).
In conclusion, there are 2 t’s in my name, I have no problem being anyone’s least favorite, and I have no problem continuing to defend people I don’t agree with.
This is my tumblr.
