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What is up guys?
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all right welcome
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on back so miles? x miles
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I'm here What are you I'm
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xeno miles Xena what what xeno
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miles
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are you like the new and improved mount like what's going on?
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miles 2.0 Really? You ever
1:05
watched Dragon Ball? Alright,
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say so. Yeah, fusion huh? Yep.
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Oh so so it's like
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xeno stream and Myles did the
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little fusion dance the earrings
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things and they became zero
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miles
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so we're xeno miles g 38
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now I love that you know miles g
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38 somebody tweeted we're
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putting a patent on that
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so welcome back to
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joysticks United xeno stream 38
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how bro so sadly Miles could not
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be with us today. He and his
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family are currently dealing
1:44
with a little bit of heartbreak.
1:49
He did tweet about it but I
1:49
don't want to go into his own
1:51
personal business just if you
1:51
reach out to Miles here please
1:55
just make sure to let him know
1:55
that he and his family are your
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thoughts and they care about him
1:58
during this time in his life but
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don't worry Miles himself is
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doing a okay and he will be back
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for the next episode of
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joysticks united actually he's
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gonna be at the end of this
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episode. Because before this
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recording he actually sat down
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with the special guests that I
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will let Miles introduce during
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his portion So yeah, that's been
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pre recorded just to let y'all
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know. But um xeno so this this
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was a question from the previous
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joysticks united that I just
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want to know your opinion on.
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Who would win in a fight? Did
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you monitor Pokemon?
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So I am a Pokemon fan.
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Like you can look at my shop
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behind me a bunch of Pokemon
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Funko Pops never really was a
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Digi mon fan. But I really don't
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feel like Pokemon have the
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Killer Instinct like dijamin do
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I don't think that's
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how I feel Yeah, I
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feel like if you were to get
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agumon and Pikachu in the same
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room as each other I come out
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with just straight slit pick
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choose throat like no
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hesitation.
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Pick it should be like no
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we can be friends and we can
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fight whatever is causing us to
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fight and need to be like yeah,
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no, I'm just gonna kill you and
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be done with us. And
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like I'm just done
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with you makes you mad. Like
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it's nothing against you. But I
3:18
just want you out of here.
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Yeah, I'm just kind of
3:21
done with all this and I got
3:23
other stuff to do.
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So I'm glad that
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you did agree with us on this.
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Absolutely. Well, I am
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half miles.
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That is right. Yes,
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you are. z No.
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No miles. God Ain't
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it I still just so
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flabbergasted that you came up
3:46
with that name, just like off
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the cuff. Like you were ready
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for this? Yeah, like you've been.
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My improv was unmatched in
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that moment. But the thing is,
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I've used it up for like the
3:55
next year, so don't expect any
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improv for me from the next
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year.
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No more comedy. No, yeah, no,
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I can't. That's just I
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used it all up in that little
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bit. So enjoy it.
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So you didn't
4:11
mention Funko Pops. One thing I
4:14
did want to give you some time
4:14
here to talk about is you
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recently held like a little
4:17
raffle about Funko Pops want to
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talk about that.
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I did so I actually just
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happen to come across two of the
4:26
diamond Squirtle Funko Pops that
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was a special edition that was
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just released within the last
4:30
couple months. So we just held a
4:34
little raffle, trying to get
4:34
some more engagement from the
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community. Check out xeno stream
4:37
38. And so we just held a little
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poll on Twitter, anybody that
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liked to tweet and came into the
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stream, we had a just little
4:47
drawing of whoever wanted that
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funko pop and mag wing man was
4:50
actually the winner of it. I
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actually just got shipped out
4:55
today because I kept forgetting
4:57
it at my house and I Work ships
4:57
out ups so I was like, oh just
5:03
take it in and kept forgetting
5:03
about it. But it was all a part
5:06
of reaching a goal of 100
5:06
followers on Twitter which we
5:09
have met and surpassed already
5:09
it's been amazing. On the next
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step, which I know you're most
5:14
excited about once we hit 300
5:19
followers on Twitch where
5:23
George sees Godot
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where you're
5:26
on stream we're gonna call
5:26
it xeno jorts
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so um once you
5:30
explain a little bit more about
5:33
the jorts there let let this be
5:33
the time to shine you but
5:37
so he to interact, you
5:37
might know him.
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I mean, if you
5:42
listen to the podcast you never
5:44
know. I mean I really
5:46
love the guy he really
5:46
wants me to wear some shorts.
5:53
And not only they're not going
5:53
to be just any jords like you
5:56
know, Dad squad George pick up a
5:56
Walmart for $10 or whatever they
6:02
are going to be special custom
6:02
made shorts that are going to be
6:06
bedazzled and we've talked about
6:06
but dazzling something special
6:11
into the back of the jorts I
6:11
don't know if you want to touch
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on what it is or let it be a
6:15
surprise
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so I'm currently
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between either putting xeno on
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the back of the shorts cuz just
6:21
so y'all know I'm actually going
6:25
to go out get this man a pair of
6:25
pants cut them into George just
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for him get one of those like
6:30
little bit dazzling things
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probably from Joanne's or
6:32
something I'm sure fabric stores
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sell them yeah 100% and I just
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want to like put a four letter
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word on the back and it's
6:40
between either xeno or R if
6:46
y'all knows you know and I are
6:46
part of the small little like
6:51
friend group that we kind of
6:51
personally dubbed the gamer
6:54
Bros. There's an inside joke
6:54
that you're not supposed to
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trust see no but you're supposed
6:57
to trust the cake. And one of
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the other things I've been
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considering putting on the back
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is cake. Was it bad or juicy but
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it felt like juicy might be a
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little overdone. Plus, you know
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we already got a juicy in
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ascension.
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Right? Right.
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So yes between xeno
7:16
and cake. Yeah, I
7:19
feel like juicy is just
7:19
like you know it's worn
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out. Yeah,
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Yeah, I would agree with
7:24
that. It's pre standard. We're
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not standard people
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know we got to go above and beyond with
7:34
Erica dazzled or
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dazzled George. Now
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I'm almost thinking about like,
7:38
making you a crop top to like
7:38
something that would just be
7:40
like, just above the belly
7:40
button. I should get like a fake
7:46
belly button ring. Oh, you're so
7:46
beautiful.
7:52
I'm gonna get like one
7:52
that dangles and just says bros
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on it.
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Oh my goodness, I
7:59
can only imagine Hall our quote
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unquote CEO of Ascension would
8:04
probably watch that stream and
8:08
be like, who recommended this
8:08
guy being here again?
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Yeah, he would be like,
8:13
for sure. facepalming shaking
8:17
his head like he probably
8:17
latched on.
8:20
But yeah, I don't
8:20
know what to do here.
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Yeah, like what? What was
8:23
that about him like it's he is
8:29
he is told me to do it. And he
8:29
made me he made them and he sent
8:33
them to me and I had to go
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Well, you did have
8:36
to? Let's be real just because I
8:40
sent it to you. I'm not putting
8:40
a gun to your head, man. Yeah,
8:44
well, again, I could pay your
8:44
roommate to do that or love me.
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Yeah, could probably
8:50
ask that. How does
8:50
love me feel about that? Like
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does she think that we're just
8:52
joking? Are she anticipating
8:55
this
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that she's anticipating
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for for sure she was like mostly
9:00
worried about she's like, Are
9:00
you okay with doing this? I
9:03
don't want to put it out there I
9:03
am okay with doing it. Like it's
9:05
not like anybody's forced me to
9:05
do it. I know what's funny is
9:08
just like for the stream and
9:08
stuff like that. I play it off
9:11
that I absolutely loathe it, but
9:11
I am interesting it's gonna be a
9:15
fun time we're all gonna have a
9:15
good laugh with that. So she's
9:17
like, man, if you're okay with
9:17
that, then why are you do you
9:20
it's your body.
9:24
I'm glad that she
9:24
has except today it was either
9:27
bad or tried to force you to
9:27
cosplay as a stylfile. Yeah,
9:30
yeah. Which I'm pretty sure go
9:30
our mutual buddy, goat man,
9:35
defender of the deep, who's
9:35
actually been requesting to be
9:38
on joysticks, but he's currently
9:38
in Canada right now. So I was
9:42
just like, we're gonna let him
9:42
do Canadian stuff. He's from
9:46
California so he can have fun
9:46
over there in Canada,
9:49
the maple syrup and
9:49
hockey, all that jazz.
9:53
I mean, Michael
9:53
husk is also over there. Another
9:56
member here, though he is French
9:56
Canadian. So, for anyone who
10:03
watches essential members,
10:03
there's one Wednesday is
10:07
normally the second or third
10:07
Wednesday of the month, where we
10:12
do a little thing called the
10:12
town hall now milestone 1700
10:16
stream 38 and myself, we're all
10:16
in the hot seat. And there was
10:20
one question where I asked xeno
10:20
was out of all your Funko Pops.
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Which one would you let me
10:27
destroy? And you said your ninja
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Funko Pop?
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It's a ninja ninja. Don't
10:32
come at me. Don't come at me,
10:36
Jeff. Ninja was just the only
10:36
one that like I was at like a
10:41
discount bookstore and they had
10:41
Funko pops and I saw it and I
10:44
was just like, that's cool. It's
10:44
a streamer and stuff like that.
10:47
But other than that, I don't
10:47
really hold any emotional
10:50
attachment to like the rest of
10:50
them like oh, this is like super
10:53
cool. And I really liked this
10:53
game or whatever. I was just
10:55
like, ninjas a streamer.
10:59
He said, Dude, he's
10:59
out there.
11:01
Yeah, it's kind of cool,
11:01
like 10 bucks or something like
11:05
that. And I was like, Yeah,
11:05
sure. I'm gonna give him a good
11:09
home and now he's gonna smash.
11:13
So now I have a
11:13
follow up question for you. So
11:18
let's just say hypothetically,
11:18
like in the destruction where
11:22
I'm destroying the ninja Funko
11:22
Pop. Okay, what is the one Funko
11:28
Pop you would just break our
11:28
friendship off. Never talk to me
11:32
again. If I were to accidentally
11:32
break like you knew was an
11:37
accident, but it still got
11:37
broken. And it was my fault.
11:40
Rabbit here
11:41
so you can see it. You'll
11:41
understand.
11:44
We'll do this. Oh,
11:44
okay. Yeah, no, I would
11:46
understand why we never talked to me dragon
11:48
dinosaurs. Yeah, this is
11:48
my baby. I love the thing is so
11:53
cool. So reminiscent of old
11:53
school Mighty Morphin Power
11:57
Rangers.
11:58
Now I had both of
11:58
those as toys back in the day,
12:03
so like, that's just like
12:03
flourishing a lot of memories
12:06
for me. So yeah, I would totally
12:06
understand why you'd be like,
12:10
you know what? He? Screw you I'm
12:10
trying not to swear cuz we don't
12:14
swear here. I'm never talking to
12:14
you again. Get out of my house.
12:19
Yeah,
12:20
you want to hear something
12:20
that's probably gonna break both
12:22
of our hearts and make us feel super old.
12:24
Oh my gosh. What?
12:24
So if you
12:27
remember and Mighty
12:27
Morphin Power Rangers and like
12:30
the second half of money more
12:30
Power Rangers. They got their
12:32
Thunder swords. Yeah, they had
12:32
the under Megazord I found a
12:36
thunder Megazord where I found
12:36
it was an antique store.
12:43
No, there's no way
12:43
we're that old?
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Yeah. 100 Risa. I was
12:47
like, there was like a nerd area
12:50
and there's all kinds of like
12:50
old video games and stuff. Like
12:53
I'm talking NAS classics and
12:53
stuff like that. They even had
12:55
like a Japanese imported NAS.
12:55
bunch of different stuff. And I
12:59
just happen to glance over
12:59
there's this Thunder Megazord
13:02
chillin. I mean, it's pretty
13:02
beat up because it's a super old
13:06
toy. Right? I grabbed it. I was
13:06
all excited. I was like, Yes,
13:09
I'm buying this and I was like,
13:09
I'm in an antique store. Right?
13:14
buying my childhood. Big sad.
13:14
Big sad moment.
13:20
Honestly, that
13:20
would just break my heart.
13:24
Yeah, it was like it was
13:24
hard to be happy the rest of the
13:27
time but I mean, was still cuz
13:27
it was a thunder Megazord right.
13:31
Yeah, the other day
13:31
you get the thunder Megazord
13:34
Yeah,
13:35
I was still super stoked
13:35
about that. So I was curving off
13:39
the feeling of it was in an
13:39
antique store. But every time I
13:42
see it, I'm like, yeah, Thunder
13:42
Megazord I found you in the
13:46
antique store. I am old.
13:50
Before you know it, we're gonna start getting crazier soon like it. So um, for
13:51
those of you who don't know, a
13:58
lot of the essential members
13:58
kind of have this little group
14:00
chat on discord where we kind of
14:00
talk with each other. We just
14:04
had somebody today talk about
14:04
how when he was in high school,
14:08
that he was in his high school
14:08
newspaper talking about Napster.
14:13
I was nine when Napster became a
14:13
thing and I was 12 when it no
14:19
longer was a thing because it
14:19
came out in 1999 and
14:22
disassembled back in 2002 I
14:22
think Let me double check I want
14:29
to make sure yeah 2002 so I was
14:29
nine when it started and two or
14:36
not Yes, I reverse back guys I
14:36
Benjamin Button. I was 12 when
14:41
it was no longer a thing so
14:41
we're talking 22 years ago when
14:45
I first started
14:47
Yeah, I remember hearing
14:47
about Napster like my older
14:49
cousin talked about it, but I
14:49
never knew what it was or
14:54
anything.
14:55
Right I was in the same boat. Like I always heard people are like, Oh, it's a
14:56
music thing. So I was just like, okay, maybe it's like online
14:58
radio or something because like
15:01
iTunes was slowly starting to
15:01
become a thing that's what I
15:04
assumed,
15:05
right? Yeah and people I
15:05
feel like actually people refer
15:09
to like, when I would talk about
15:09
iTunes or something like that
15:12
they'd be like oh like Napster
15:12
and I'm like, what that is
15:16
right? They're like well it's
15:16
like music stuff and I'm just
15:20
like okay yeah well this is
15:20
iTunes like go away mom like
15:25
trying to listen to my music
15:27
Gods don't know me
15:27
I'm listen to MCR god.
15:31
I'm like trying to get
15:31
through all the CDs I borrowed
15:33
from the library. My itunes
15:33
store like and get them on my
15:38
iPod. Geez Mom,
15:40
I completely understand that because I've done the same thing like you
15:42
just like rent out the CDs just
15:45
be like okay now paying actual
15:45
money for this like getting this
15:49
library card.
15:50
You went to the library
15:50
you got the CDs, you added them
15:53
to your iTunes and all was good
15:53
in life.
15:57
Bye. Do you
15:57
remember limewire? Oh, yes, yes.
16:03
Oh mad explain to high schoolers
16:03
what limewire was here recently,
16:07
and they were just like Wayman,
16:07
it's almost like iTunes was like
16:13
illegal legal. So I'm
16:13
gonna start this off with that I
16:17
apologize for lying to you when
16:17
I was younger but I totally
16:21
killed the computer with
16:21
Livewire at least once I blamed
16:24
that on my brother and sister
16:24
all the time was like No, I
16:26
don't do limewire Brian or where
16:26
like they're doing the limewire
16:31
Oh, you would that is like what
16:31
do you mean? Like? plantains
16:37
like talking about not having,
16:37
like, relationship with a lady
16:42
like what do you mean I don't
16:42
know what that is and stuff. Oh
16:45
my god, there was so many times
16:45
you'd like download a song and
16:49
be like, yes, this is gonna be
16:49
it. My good little Wayne, like
16:53
playing through my iPod now. And
16:53
then it was like, I did not have
16:57
sexual relations with that lady.
16:57
And it's like,
16:59
what is that? And
16:59
so many times like you thought
17:02
you were getting song but it was
17:02
like a meme. And I didn't
17:04
understand that that meme.
17:07
Yeah, it was so angry
17:07
because you'd wait like 45
17:10
minutes for a song in some
17:10
cases.
17:14
Like on ludicrous amount of time,
17:16
the struggle we went
17:16
through.
17:19
So um, I actually
17:19
had a hacker attack my computer
17:23
because of limewire. And that's
17:23
like, why I never like touch it
17:26
after that. Yeah. And it was for
17:26
me. I had a friend who asked if
17:33
he could like, download some
17:33
songs through limewire when he
17:36
was hanging out with me, I was
17:36
like, Oh, sure, yeah, whatever.
17:38
Um, and I remember after he was
17:38
done, I hopped onto the computer
17:42
to do something. I don't
17:42
remember what it was. But it was
17:46
me, a mutual friend of ours and
17:46
that one friend that was
17:51
downloading songs and I just
17:51
remember all of a sudden my
17:53
speakers started playing like
17:53
some weird chattering noise like
17:57
I heard people talking in the
17:57
background and stuff. And then I
18:00
just heard some dude on a
18:00
microphone going your computer
18:03
is mine now and like the
18:03
computer mouse just started like
18:06
wiggling violently. So like I
18:06
unplugged the computer. So
18:12
luckily, we were able to save it
18:12
with a good all anti virus
18:16
program. But that was just
18:16
horrified to hear somebody on
18:19
like your computer speakers
18:19
going your computer is mine.
18:23
Yeah, that is terrifying.
18:23
Especially as a little kid,
18:25
you're like, Ah,
18:26
yeah, I was like a teenager at that point. I was like, what's going on?
18:30
Yeah, I definitely
18:30
remember we got multiple viruses
18:34
from limewire. Trojans. Yeah.
18:34
100% and I remember we got a
18:40
virus that like, impersonated
18:40
Windows Defender Oh, and you
18:46
just couldn't delete it.
18:46
Whatever reason like no matter
18:49
what you did all you could do is
18:49
like completely wipe the hard
18:53
drive and stuff like that I
18:53
remember my dad doing like three
18:57
or four times like it was so
18:57
common that there was a real
19:01
like flash disk at the computer
19:01
at all times. Because he's like
19:05
I'm not gonna put it away
19:05
because I'm probably gonna have
19:07
to do this again like in a few
19:07
weeks or whatever. But it's just
19:11
because me and my brother and
19:11
probably my little sister too
19:14
We're just download limewire
19:14
songs and we Yeah, we're like oh
19:19
cool computers fix let me get in
19:19
there I gotta do something for
19:22
school or whatever and don't pay
19:22
attention what I'm doing over
19:25
here
19:26
you just don't
19:26
don't look at that download bar
19:29
understand why it's going so
19:29
slow right now.
19:32
Yeah, but I also I was
19:32
running like a straight up
19:35
business in like, junior high
19:35
and stuff because I would like
19:39
rent out my mp3 player because
19:39
like, they were like, mp3
19:44
players and iPods and stuff were
19:44
just coming out. They weren't
19:47
hugely popular. So not a lot of
19:47
people had him at that time,
19:50
right? So I'd be like, dude,
19:50
five bucks for the day. I'll let
19:52
you use my mp3 player like don't
19:52
get taken away or I'm gonna be
19:56
mad at you or whatever. And I
19:56
would have like one kid
19:59
specifically Like almost every
19:59
single day, it was just like
20:01
hey, let me get the mp3 player
20:01
like here's $5 now get like a
20:04
cookie at lunch. It was awesome.
20:07
Dang lucky you Mr.
20:07
hustler. No wonder you have so
20:10
many Funko Pops, you probably
20:10
saved up all this money from the
20:13
limewire era. I
20:14
wish I had some of that
20:14
money now. I'm like, What did I
20:18
do with it? I bought Pokemon
20:18
cards and cookies at launch. And
20:22
probably YuGiOh cards. Like I
20:22
don't even know what else is
20:25
like, couldn't go anywhere.
20:25
Like, if like I asked my parents
20:29
to take me somewhere and had a
20:29
big wad of cash and be like, I
20:32
was like you run in a drug
20:32
trade? Where's my Chi? Yeah,
20:40
like if I don't know about I
20:40
don't know about it, but I
20:42
expect 10%
20:45
like, this is all under the table. We're not telling your mother. Right?
20:47
Yeah. 100% Oh.
20:53
So um, as per the time of this
20:53
recording, xeno and I were
20:58
originally going to sit down.
20:58
And we're going to have this
21:01
very philosophical conversation
21:01
about how publishers and
21:05
developers have been like anti
21:05
consumer lately, but that
21:09
entirely went out the window,
21:09
when the moment that I sat down,
21:13
brought up my newsfeed when I
21:13
was trying to look for something
21:16
that could be our starter
21:16
together. And I went, Oh, hey,
21:19
the Nintendo directs going on
21:19
right now. And I think xeno
21:26
definitely wants to talk about a
21:26
few things I already like the
21:28
two fingers on the chin he's
21:28
concentrating his energy his
21:31
cheese going through his body
21:31
right now
21:34
as summoning the focus of
21:34
xeno miles
21:39
38 it's Canada now
21:39
we're putting it into a hashtag
21:44
so I'm starting off one of your
21:44
favorite franchises of all time
21:51
is getting some DLC content for
21:51
next summer.
21:57
I am so excited for it
21:57
because it's been such a slow
22:01
roll this monster hunter rise Oh
22:01
my gosh. It looks like it's
22:06
gonna be like a full expansion
22:09
that's gonna be a
22:09
little extra campaign I don't
22:13
know this guy is a returning
22:13
monster I'm dropping it in the
22:17
discord chat right now because
22:17
he seemed to be the highlight of
22:22
the trailer is this wavering
22:22
look into like it's a dragon for
22:27
sure. But he has like a tail two
22:27
wings. Two feeds I think that's
22:33
technically a waiver in Wyvern
22:33
however you want to pronounce it
22:37
so i i don't know if he's you
22:37
dude, if he's a
22:40
returning he doesn't look
22:40
familiar. So I'm gonna go ahead
22:45
and assume he's the new
22:45
character new Monster because
22:50
I'm based on that screenshot
22:50
alone. I'm not drawing any
22:57
monsters that are previously in
22:57
the franchise.
22:59
So I'm looking into
22:59
it. It is an expansion. Okay, it
23:04
is going to be an expansion.
23:04
It's coming out next summer 2022
23:10
um, it does look like this is
23:10
going to be like the big bad
23:14
evil of that expansion. He it I
23:14
don't know if it's male or
23:20
female. I don't want to assume
23:20
Yeah, I'm currently doesn't have
23:26
a name from what we're seeing.
23:26
But it is going to have its own
23:30
unique story. its own unique
23:30
locations, new monsters, new
23:35
hunting actions, new quest
23:35
writes.
23:40
I assume and I hope and I
23:40
think every single Monster
23:44
Hunter fan is with me. We want g
23:44
rank I don't care what else you
23:48
put in there I want g rank so
23:48
bad because for those that don't
23:52
know there's like there's low
23:52
rank then there's high rank
23:55
which gets kind of difficult not
23:55
crazy difficult. But g rank is
24:01
like you stand alone You are a
24:01
monster hunter like if you don't
24:07
know what you're doing and you
24:07
don't pay attention to mechanics
24:09
you're not making g rank so like
24:09
that's been like the goal for
24:14
every single Monster Hunter fan
24:14
like in every game once you get
24:17
to G rank you know you've made
24:17
it like you grind and it's God a
24:23
monster Yeah, you are the
24:23
Monster Hunter like you deserve
24:27
the title. So I that's one thing
24:27
I hope we get with it. Which I
24:33
assume we will because they did
24:33
a similar thing with Monster
24:36
Hunter world once. What it is
24:36
the ice patch. I can't remember
24:42
what they called it. Oh,
24:43
I know what you're talking about. I remember that was like a huge thing for
24:45
Monster Hunter at the time.
24:49
Yeah, so when they came
24:49
out with that they introduced g
24:51
rank then I believe or it was
24:51
like shortly after they
24:55
introduced the G ring. iceborne
24:55
murmuring Yeah. iceborne If I Am
25:00
I remembering that correctly I
25:00
think it came out with iceborne
25:03
so I hope to god we get g rank
25:03
Oh be so exciting
25:09
I know currently
25:09
they're doing a Capcom related
25:11
stuff right now where they just
25:11
put in rush hour little dog
25:17
companion for man
25:19
I need to reload up my
25:19
monster hunter rise and get it
25:22
in there because I haven't
25:22
played it probably since the
25:26
patch with when they released
25:26
like the apex or the big hunt
25:34
rathalos thing for the new new
25:34
feature they have in Monster
25:39
Hunter rise I haven't played at
25:39
Sunstein so I really need to but
25:42
it's just I kind of got grindy
25:42
in it and right or out high rank
25:47
and I was like I want to rank
25:47
kind of like everybody else that
25:50
plays monster honors just like g
25:50
rank when we do this know you
25:55
you might be
25:55
getting a here with sun break I
25:58
guess it's supposed to be Erie
25:58
is what people are getting from
26:03
the trailer. See Yeah,
26:05
like based on his
26:05
character model and the name son
26:08
break like his character model
26:08
kind of looks like the nubus
26:12
maybe so maybe we were going
26:12
into like that kind of like a
26:16
gyptian type. I don't know kind
26:16
of feeling.
26:20
Here's another one
26:20
of him standing straight up with
26:23
his wings expanded for you.
26:27
So it kind of looks like a
26:27
fade talus oh my god I want to
26:32
kill you and make you
26:37
so as you can tell
26:37
xenos very excited about this
26:45
I will craft armor out of
26:45
you wonder what kind of Google
26:49
Play to make
26:50
to your Lord I
26:50
doubt horrified to know what's
26:53
going through your head right
26:53
now like you're already planning
26:55
out what to do with this poor
26:55
dragon Yeah,
26:58
yeah I'm gonna make some
26:58
dual blades make a sword and
27:00
shield maybe a charge blade I
27:00
hope the back armor has wings on
27:07
it I want wings please
27:11
please you know I'm not much of a
27:13
monster hunter player like I've
27:16
only played one that was on the
27:16
way but I'm just to hear you
27:21
just like already drooling at
27:21
the mouth. I'm horrified to know
27:25
what the people in the chat box
27:25
are saying when this was
27:27
released during the day
27:28
right? Yeah, Monster
27:28
Hunter fans are nuts. Like, I
27:33
can only imagine I wish I was
27:33
watching it live when that
27:36
happened because I would definitely have been among those ranks. As I I almost guarantee
27:37
you it was most of that was
27:43
freaking out. Hoping for G rank
27:43
though.
27:47
More than likely
27:47
there's probably people going g
27:49
rank when
27:51
Yeah, I'm assuming that
27:51
would be a lot of uh so i really
27:56
think they're gonna I really
27:56
hope g rank please come on. I
28:00
need it's been out for a year.
28:00
So I
28:03
would say it's definitely time for its due time, I would say so as well as
28:04
that release. I know not a lot
28:11
of people are too excited about
28:11
this. But it's still like a
28:16
pretty like, well known and very
28:16
well loved game, disco Elysium
28:21
is coming to the Nintendo
28:21
Switch, which I think you know,
28:24
I think that's a good platform
28:24
for it to come out. The switch
28:27
can definitely handle that kind
28:27
of graphics. And it's from what
28:31
I've been told, I know Professor
28:31
chocula other essential member
28:35
told me that I would just love
28:35
this game. He was like this has
28:38
like you run all over. It has
28:38
your kind of humor to it. It has
28:42
your kind of storytelling that
28:42
you told me that you like, it's
28:46
all right here. And it's one of
28:46
those games where everything has
28:49
a butterfly effect. So the way
28:49
you talk to one character might
28:53
affect the way you talk to
28:53
another character somewhere down
28:55
the road.
28:57
I absolutely love that and
28:57
video games where it's like you
29:00
can control your own story that
29:00
kind of makes it seem like a
29:05
movie almost but it's an
29:05
interactive movie right? I love
29:09
that so much in video games. I
29:09
wish we did more like that like
29:13
I'm currently doing a
29:13
playthrough of Detroit become
29:15
human on
29:17
watching dreams
29:17
really known for that.
29:20
It is so good. I love it
29:20
so yeah, I I would definitely
29:25
check this out if that's the
29:25
case and the storytelling
29:28
mechanics of it.
29:30
That's what a lot
29:30
of people tell me is the story
29:32
is the one thing that like there
29:32
is gameplay to it. There is like
29:37
a mystery you have to solve but
29:37
everyone's just like yet no,
29:41
you're in this for the character
29:41
development for the main
29:43
character.
29:44
Cool, cool, cool. Yo I'm
29:44
in for that.
29:47
It is going to be
29:47
called disco Elysium the final
29:50
cut so I don't know if that
29:50
means it has all the content in
29:54
there. But it looks like we're
29:54
getting the digital version
29:57
first coming out October 12 Then
29:57
sometime early 2022 we are
30:03
getting a physical release of
30:03
it. Now the next one this one's
30:09
my childhood chocos Racing is
30:09
basically getting a sequel baby.
30:18
Let's go square, a now's choke
30:18
about GP or Grand Prix. Now I
30:25
don't know if this is a sequel.
30:25
I don't know if this is a
30:30
reboot, I'm assuming it's a
30:30
reboot. Because that's
30:33
essentially what they did with.
30:33
Another chunk about game that
30:37
came to the switch was it was a
30:37
remastering of a wee game that
30:44
they just gave a different Titan
30:44
was like, Oh, it's Chuck about
30:47
whatever. So I feel like this is
30:47
probably remake, probably not a
30:53
sequel, and they're probably
30:53
just doing its own thing with it
30:55
this time. But it looks like of
30:55
course, you are going to get the
30:59
titular choke about, but you're
30:59
also getting other Final Fantasy
31:03
characters like you did and
31:03
Chuck buzz racing. I don't know
31:07
if you have to unlock them
31:07
because you had to beat the
31:10
game. So many times. Originally,
31:10
they had to do this code to get
31:14
cloud or Squall or one of the
31:14
air ships or just got I can't
31:20
remember her name. She was in
31:20
Parasite Eve, he got her police
31:23
car. Okay, let's say Ava, aka a.
31:27
I think it's Ava. Ava.
31:29
I remember to start
31:29
with an A, but it looks like
31:32
they are keeping the original
31:32
design that Chocobo has
31:36
rollerskates because that's what
31:36
he had in the original turbos
31:40
racing. So this was originally
31:40
Square's response to Mario Kart
31:47
64. Not the original Mario Kart,
31:47
but it was specifically 64 they
31:52
were going up against, and I
31:52
remember, instead of the boxes
31:56
that you would drive through to
31:56
get like whatever arm weapon you
32:02
would get in Mario Kart. Is that
32:02
a good way to put it weapon item
32:05
I power up power up. What you
32:05
would do was there was elements
32:11
that were out on the field, and
32:11
you would drive through that
32:14
element to get it but you could
32:14
layer them so we would start off
32:18
with like fire, then you would
32:18
pick up to it would become Fira,
32:22
then it would be farga. And you
32:22
would just shoot that thing off,
32:26
and it would destroy everything
32:26
in its path. So that's how they
32:30
kind of did it. But it wasn't as
32:30
good as 64 I don't know it it.
32:37
You would just have to play to
32:37
understand, but like, yeah,
32:39
there's just something just off
32:39
about this that be tomorrow's
32:43
level.
32:44
I didn't really remember
32:44
much about this game other than
32:46
it being a thing until I just
32:46
googled the box art of it. And
32:50
now I'm like, Oh my gosh, yes. I
32:50
remember so many times playing
32:54
this game. Yeah. I remember my
32:54
buddy that lived behind me the
32:58
house behind my parents house
32:58
had it. And they played this
33:02
more than they played Mario
33:02
Kart. Because they were huge
33:05
Final Fantasy nerds. Oh my gosh,
33:05
this is amazing.
33:10
So yeah, it looks
33:10
like it's coming back. I'm
33:12
shocked. It's coming back. I'm
33:12
happy it's coming back. But it
33:16
was not what I was expecting at all.
33:19
Oh, that's like one of those little nuggets that game developers throw every now and
33:20
then when you least expect it.
33:23
It's like yeah, this is gonna
33:23
save 2022 I think no matter
33:29
what, 2022 is gonna be a good
33:29
year.
33:32
I think it will.
33:32
There's also another game coming
33:35
out 22 that I think you and I
33:35
hopped in to the direct around
33:40
the time this was announced. And
33:40
you and I were just kind of
33:44
like, this isn't what I was
33:44
expecting. But I want it and
33:49
that was the new Kirby game
33:49
Kirby's getting a new game.
33:53
Yeah. Like we had talked
33:53
like Kirby's kind of like been
33:57
the same game for so long. I
33:57
mean, the story's changed in
34:01
different power ups and stuff
34:01
like that. But this is like all
34:06
new you get 3d world where you
34:06
can actually explore somewhere
34:11
to like a Super Mario 64 kind of
34:11
a feel. I guess I kind of say
34:16
how I got Odyssey
34:16
and Galaxy feels from this.
34:20
Yeah.
34:21
So I mean, the I don't
34:21
know what to say about it. Just
34:27
looking at the videos like oh my
34:27
gosh, okay, yeah, yeah, I'm with
34:31
this 100% it's like a it's Kirby
34:31
through and through platformer.
34:37
It's like you have your boss
34:37
battles and stuff like that. But
34:40
at the same time you like you
34:40
What did you say it was a z
34:44
access.
34:45
You can now travel
34:45
on the z axis baby. No more x
34:49
and y.
34:50
Yes. So like, it's gonna
34:50
add so much depth to the game.
34:54
It's going to add so much to the
34:54
boss fights and stuff like that
34:57
where I mean before. It's your
34:57
typical sidescrolling Like
35:00
dodged the enemy and stuff. I
35:00
think this is going to add a
35:02
whole new perspective to the
35:02
game. It's something that Kirby
35:05
really desperately needed. Oh,
35:05
time. I mean, it's a fan
35:08
favorite and everyone's gonna
35:08
play the Kirby games if you love
35:11
Kirby, but this is like
35:11
something for the returning
35:14
players to really sink their
35:14
teeth into I feel like I felt
35:17
like
35:17
this is going to be
35:17
big time. The if people our age,
35:20
maybe a little older who started
35:20
with Kirby all the way back on
35:25
like the Gameboy. Because Yeah,
35:25
is that where he first came was
35:29
the Gameboy. I can't remember if
35:29
it was Gameboy or the NES or
35:35
snus. But, long time ago, when
35:35
Kirby wasn't originally pink on
35:40
our boxer, he was gray.
35:42
Mm hmm. Yeah, I remember
35:42
that. That was what Kirby
35:46
dreamland.
35:46
Yeah. kirby's
35:46
dreamland. So I feel like this
35:50
is that game where our
35:50
generation is having young kids
35:54
who are about our age when we
35:54
first experienced Kirby so they
35:58
can probably get that game they
35:58
can play Kirby like a hard mode
36:02
way. Give it to their kid their
36:02
kid can still play it too. So
36:07
that really shows what the
36:07
switch is capable of as well.
36:12
Oh, it looks so beautiful. I
36:12
feel like it gets kind of like
36:15
the like their nose turned at it
36:15
because of the next gen consoles
36:20
like PS five and Xbox are like
36:20
so like 4k equipped and stuff
36:25
like that. But it's like
36:25
switches like yeah, we can put
36:28
on a good display and we're
36:28
portable so and we're probably
36:32
not going to blow up in your
36:32
face. Again, heat the entire
36:36
house.
36:37
And we don't got
36:37
scalpers up the wazoo so yeah,
36:40
yeah, I mean, there was a
36:40
moment not too long ago, the
36:43
switches were hard to find
36:43
because of the chip shortage.
36:46
Yeah, I mean, that's everything
36:46
right now, unfortunately. But
36:51
yeah, I really feel like yes,
36:51
which is really showing off what
36:55
they can do with us now.
36:57
So it looks like
36:57
it's going to be set in a post
37:00
apocalyptic Earth now I know a
37:00
lot of people already had their
37:03
assumptions that Kirby took
37:03
place in the post apocalypse
37:08
because I think it was in
37:08
dreamland. 64 there was like, an
37:13
ice planet and if you look
37:13
today, it was supposed to be
37:16
Earth. So this one's more of a
37:16
jungle feel to it think more um
37:23
what was that one Will Smith
37:23
movie? Or it was just like those
37:27
weird monster things that came
37:27
from a person trying to cure
37:32
cancer and the whole and legend
37:32
I Am Legend think I Am Legend
37:36
like as it's like nature has
37:36
taken over everything again.
37:40
And we're pretty sure
37:40
doggo doesn't die in the end and
37:45
make you real sad.
37:46
I hope not.
37:47
I can't My heart can't
37:47
handle it.
37:50
It looks like he's
37:50
going up against like you know
37:53
the regular monsters there's
37:53
going to be waddled these in
37:55
there. But it also looks like
37:55
he's going up against like large
37:58
crocodiles, alligators, and
37:58
gigantic gorillas.
38:02
Yeah, it looks like
38:02
there's like really large scale
38:05
enemies to like, like, I don't
38:05
know, like 100 times the size of
38:11
Kirby for size comparison time
38:11
you watch like the trailer, but
38:15
it's like it is gonna add new
38:15
depth to the game for sure. I'm
38:19
so excited about it.
38:21
So I know your
38:21
girlfriend. Your number one mod
38:27
your head honcho over at xeno
38:27
stream 38. Love me hate me. Yep,
38:32
is really going to enjoy this
38:32
next bit of information and
38:35
looks like we're getting more
38:35
Animal Crossing content. But
38:39
they're going to talk about that
38:39
more October 5, though.
38:43
Yep. That I don't know if
38:43
she knows about it yet. I
38:47
haven't told her about it.
38:47
Because I know if I do my phone
38:50
is gonna blow up and all you're
38:50
gonna hear in the mic. Is my
38:53
phone going off after telling
38:53
her because she's gonna be like,
38:56
Oh my gosh, did you see this? Do
38:56
you see us? Oh, I think we're
38:59
gonna do this. She is the
38:59
biggest doing Animal Crossing
39:03
nerds do it.
39:05
Let's do right here
39:05
on the podcast. All right now. I
39:09
was just curious. How was that?
39:12
Let's see. All right. Did
39:12
you see the new, more crossing
39:21
news. Now we wait.
39:25
All right. Now,
39:25
also with this Animal Crossing
39:28
news. In October. We're also
39:28
going to be getting news of the
39:32
next smash fighter and it's
39:32
going to be the last smash
39:35
fighter. Well, for ultimate at
39:35
least. Just the catch was
39:44
longer.
39:46
Oh, she's typing so much.
39:46
She's typing. Oh, no, I listen
39:55
up. You don't know what
39:58
I wish y'all could
39:58
see Zero sorry sorry now it is
40:01
the look of pure Tarot whatever
40:01
I am leashed yeah she's into it
40:08
Oh, I hear that don't up now
40:11
she's talking about and so
40:11
she's gonna she's uh yeah all
40:17
right oh baby we're back on
40:17
topic nope nope she's still
40:22
talking about pants
40:24
I love how you're
40:24
just like oh we're gonna get
40:26
attacked by animal cross but
40:26
nope, it's pants you kind of
40:31
look disappointed now like I was
40:31
expecting you to corresponds but
40:34
we're talking about pants. You
40:34
should just respond to her is it
40:38
it? Oh I'm getting jorts no
40:42
no she's got so some
40:42
pockets into some pants I bought
40:47
some pants off of Amazon and one
40:47
pair of pants completely normal
40:51
fit fine and everything they're
40:51
actually my brown pants that I
40:54
use for is you know scream on
40:54
Friday night so if I put myself
40:58
on streaming you guys don't know
40:58
it but I also bought some gray
41:03
pants on the pockets were super
41:03
small and I'm gonna she's gonna
41:06
try to fix pockets. So actually
41:06
nope she's really upset about
41:10
the pants pockets not working
41:10
out. She's completely moved on
41:14
from animal crossing. She'll probably come back straight
41:15
does not care. Oh
41:15
my goodness.
41:18
She's like a messed up the
41:18
expanse and I'm like, that's,
41:20
that's okay. But what about
41:20
animal cross? She's like, now,
41:23
these pants. They're ruined and
41:23
now I can't deal with it.
41:28
So yeah, she's
41:28
she's definitely hyper focused
41:30
on the band's right now. 100%
41:30
So, Star Wars nerds be happy
41:35
you're getting Knights of the
41:35
Old Republic coming November 11.
41:40
I wasn't too much of a Star Wars
41:40
fan growing up. That was more my
41:43
older brothers territory for
41:43
sure. But I know they're also
41:47
getting a remake on the PS five
41:47
I think of the Old Republic. So
41:53
it's just like, I guess if you
41:53
want to relive it, either get on
41:57
Steam or get it here on the
41:57
Nintendo Switch. I blanked. And
42:02
we've been talking about
42:02
nintendo switch here forgot
42:04
that's called the Nintendo
42:04
Switch. Get on the Nintendo
42:08
Switch. Yeah, I've been told
42:08
it's an amazing game. I've just
42:11
never played it.
42:12
Yeah, that was one thing I
42:12
was surprised about is, if I
42:16
remember correctly, it wasn't an
42:18
Xbox exclusive.
42:18
Xbox exclusive.
42:21
Now we haven't first Sony
42:21
and Nintendo
42:24
but not
42:25
Xbox. Xbox Live. What's
42:25
going on here?
42:29
Yeah, something
42:29
just feels weird about that. Oh,
42:32
on disease going on everything.
42:32
But
42:35
yeah, I guess I guess
42:35
we'll see. Maybe Xbox is getting
42:38
like a super legacy edition or
42:38
something like that. For the
42:41
true fans.
42:42
Maybe Maybe that
42:42
that x would be nice to see for
42:45
like the classic game fans to
42:45
get them a little bone thrown to
42:50
them. Yeah. So it looks like if
42:50
you're a near fan near automata
42:57
automata. I've heard it called
42:57
so many different things. Or,
43:02
what's that other one? Because I
43:02
know near is a spin off of it.
43:05
And it's that one like dragon
43:05
game where you wrote a dragon.
43:10
And it was kind of like Starfox
43:10
can't think what's called.
43:15
It's drawing blanks.
43:18
Let's see near is a
43:18
spin off of what game? Dragon
43:25
guard. Okay, so if you're a fan
43:25
of those games, the creator of
43:31
those games is coming out with a
43:31
card based RPG that is coming to
43:37
the Nintendo Switch next month.
43:37
So very, very soon the 28th it's
43:43
going to be called Yoko. Oh, I
43:43
know. I'm sorry. That's the
43:48
creator's name. Yoko Taro is the
43:48
creator. It's Yoko Toreros voice
43:54
of cards, the aisle dragon
43:54
roars. That is a mouthful.
44:01
Yeah, that's a long title
44:01
was like a TLDR. Too long didn't
44:05
read.
44:06
So I guess we'll
44:06
just call it a voice of cards.
44:10
Definitely. That is like a JRPG
44:10
name if I've ever heard of it.
44:14
Yeah. 100%. Like, or an
44:14
anime name. Like, they're just
44:19
super long winded titles.
44:21
Okay, so I know
44:21
you're more of an anime watcher
44:23
than me. But what the hell is
44:23
with anime titles here where you
44:27
get the entire plot of the show
44:27
in the title like, Oh, God,
44:32
what's that one words? Like, I
44:32
woke up as a slime now what?
44:37
Yeah. Gosh, there's so
44:37
many good examples. Like, I'm
44:41
gonna Google it.
44:43
Go ahead, go right ahead.
44:45
Oh, let's see the story in
44:45
which I was kidnapped by a young
44:48
lady school to be a sample of
44:48
the common people. What? Like,
44:54
yeah, yeah, that's one. That's
44:54
one of them. What else what else
44:57
we got here? Let's see. No, I
44:57
don't want ads? Please, please
45:01
stop ads. No ads. Do you love
45:01
your mom and are to hit multi
45:07
targeted attacks?
45:11
I have actually heard about that one I've actually heard it's
45:17
no matter how I look at
45:17
it, it's you guys fault. I'm not
45:20
popular.
45:23
That That sounds
45:23
depressive.
45:27
I couldn't become a hero,
45:27
so I reluctantly decided to get
45:30
a job. That's too real.
45:36
I literally just
45:36
popped in the most ridiculous
45:39
anime titles. I want you to make
45:39
a disgusted face and show me
45:46
your underwear. That's the name
45:46
of the anime is the name of the
45:51
anime. It's an O VA. If I don't successfully pick up
45:59
420 girls, I'm going to die in a
46:04
lot of different ways.
46:08
Who is at a marketing
46:08
meeting in Japan is just like,
46:11
yes, this is gonna sell
46:11
shipment. Let's go.
46:16
I'm just looking at some of these titles and it's just like, okay, you're a URI
46:18
for whatever reason, never
46:24
ending heart throbbing pitter
46:24
patter paradox eternal. That's
46:29
just adjectives strung together.
46:29
Yeah, this is going on here.
46:37
I want to make I want you
46:37
to make a discus, y'all. Yeah,
46:40
you just read that one. My
46:40
mental choices are completely
46:45
interfering with my school
46:45
romantic comedy.
46:51
World end what do
46:51
you do at the end of the world?
46:55
Are you busy? Will you save us?
46:55
I'm sorry. Are you my mom
46:59
texting me about this. That's
46:59
what it sounds like here. Hey,
47:03
honey, I know it's the end of
47:03
the world by me you kind of come
47:05
and save us.
47:08
Yeah, that's totally a mom
47:08
response. Yeah, like well, if
47:13
you're done with that, can you
47:13
just come on over here and you
47:18
know, just rescue us? That'd be
47:18
great.
47:21
I think I just
47:21
found the ultimate title. Are
47:24
you ready for this? I am ready.
47:24
Now I know you're seated down
47:30
but you need to be comfortable
47:30
for this one. So let me know
47:35
when you're ready. Ah, all
47:35
right. I want to eat your
47:41
pancreas. Zero has left the
47:41
building ladies and gentlemen.
47:57
He has thrown out his headphones
47:57
has left. Oh, I told you man. I
48:09
told you. I told you that was
48:09
the ultimate one. So defeated.
48:18
All that there is a description
48:18
for it. Let me let me read you
48:21
the description. Oh, you're
48:21
muted. You muted yourself.
48:25
Okay, good. I cuz I came
48:25
into the room yelling about how
48:29
we can't have nice things and
48:29
that's the internet's fault.
48:33
So this is the
48:33
description that was put for it
48:37
on this website called ranker.
48:37
Don't let the weird ci ci title
48:44
fool you. Thankfully, this anime
48:44
has nothing to do with
48:47
cannibalism. It's actually an
48:47
incredibly moving story. Well
48:52
made film about a reclusive boy
48:52
who wants to become closer to
48:56
his more popular classmate.
48:56
After learning she has a
49:00
terminal pancreatic disease. The
49:00
title also holds a lot of
49:04
significance to the story's
49:04
theme. Still, we can't blame
49:08
people for not wanting to watch
49:08
something called I want to eat
49:10
your pancreas.
49:12
Yeah, I mean, if once you
49:12
describe it, it's like, okay,
49:17
like okay, so it's
49:17
a heartwarming story, but with a
49:20
title like that.
49:21
Yeah, that is not hooking
49:21
me to be like, yeah, I want to
49:25
watch this that took me to think
49:25
this is creepy.
49:32
It's just like, Why
49:32
Why can't we just go back to
49:36
like the normal simple titles
49:36
like I don't know. Exactly. Or
49:41
one piece or Dragon Ball, right?
49:45
Yeah. You know, Miles G
49:45
38. is very familiar with Dragon
49:49
Ball.
49:53
I like I feel like
49:53
I'm having a meltdown after
49:57
that. Honesty.
49:59
I didn't know not expect
49:59
to come here tonight and
50:02
discover that. I'll just say
50:02
that.
50:07
So I'm changing
50:07
gears here a little bit looks
50:10
like again Metroid dreads coming
50:10
out October 8, which is very
50:15
very soon actually that's not
50:15
too far off. Not next Friday,
50:22
but the Friday after oh wait
50:22
there's tomorrow's Friday just
50:27
to let y'all know we're
50:27
recording this the day of the
50:30
Nintendo Direct so three Fridays
50:30
you got three Fridays, but the
50:34
moment this podcast comes out
50:34
you only have to Yeah, there you
50:41
go. Simple math for you. xeno
50:41
eat, interact and do math. I'm
50:45
so proud of me.
50:47
I am so proud. What I'm
50:47
even more proud of is on
50:53
Twitter. Ascension content
50:53
creation org just posted I've
50:58
hours go as I say just posted
50:58
those five hours ago. at time of
51:02
recording. He came to interact
51:02
streamer spotlight
51:07
Yeah, when I was
51:07
playing the summer of 58 Yes,
51:11
it's just like we are an
51:11
adult. We pay taxes we are big
51:15
brave boy. We are
51:16
in our 30s and I
51:16
still end up screaming I mean
51:20
that's that's
51:21
hard that's why I wear the
51:21
brown pants nobody exactly ever
51:24
know that I put my pants if I
51:24
did which I never do they
51:29
wouldn't know they know you will
51:29
never know I just get up walk
51:34
away and you never know you so
51:34
foolish never know oh unaware
51:42
so um I don't even
51:42
know how to move past that one
51:46
now we got people talking about
51:46
eating pancreas we got you
51:50
wearing your brown pants but um
51:50
this is something that I did not
51:57
see coming Sega Genesis games
51:57
coming to the Nintendo Switch
52:01
online Yes,
52:03
I'm so bad want streets
52:03
are rage too. With online Co Op.
52:11
Which I'm pretty
52:11
sure we're gonna get cuz I mean
52:13
Nintendo Switch online has it
52:13
there. Dr. Robot Nick's mean
52:17
bean machine. I just now noticed
52:17
is on the list.
52:20
Yeah, I haven't played
52:20
that since I was like six years
52:24
old.
52:24
Right? Like Golden
52:24
Axe. I'm super excited for
52:28
Golden
52:29
Axe. Aaron plant seeing an
52:29
hours into Golden Axe and the
52:34
Streets of Rage two is just like
52:34
Bri such fun games.
52:41
So just to run
52:41
through the list really quick
52:44
here we're going to get
52:44
Castlevania bloodlines. contra
52:47
hardcourts. Dr. Robot makes mean
52:47
being machine. Of all the things
52:52
I never thought I would ever
52:52
say. Ecco the Dolphin, which I
52:57
thought everybody forgot about
52:57
and honestly, the dolphin was
53:00
pretty pug back in the day. It
53:00
was it was very bog I mean, I
53:03
wasn't expecting the aliens at
53:03
the end. I mean, spoilers for an
53:07
over 20 year old game. Near 30
53:07
now Dang. Yeah. Golden Axe
53:14
Gunstar Heroes, which is a cool
53:14
little running gun. A game I've
53:18
never heard of mutia Fantasy
53:18
star for rice star which is done
53:25
by the Sonic Team. So you're
53:25
gonna get a lot of Sonic energy
53:28
out of this. A personal favorite
53:28
of mine that I'm looking forward
53:31
to because I remember thinking
53:31
so many hours into this game.
53:35
Shining Force, which was kind of
53:35
like Nintendo's response to the
53:40
turn based tactics genre.
53:40
Shinobi three, Sonic the
53:47
Hedgehog to a game I never
53:47
thought as like a Sega Genesis
53:52
kid I would ever see on a
53:52
Nintendo console. Yeah. As you
53:57
know was saying street rage to
53:57
you and Strider
54:04
that's a pretty good lineup.
54:06
It's a very good
54:06
lineup. Now another lineup that
54:09
I think a lot of people are
54:09
probably a little more excited
54:12
for is we're getting Nintendo 64
54:12
games as well. So we are I need
54:20
to stop hitting my mic stand.
54:21
I prefer if you did it more.
54:23
I start hitting you instead.
54:26
You would hit zero miles g
54:26
38.
54:28
I would totally
54:28
zoom. z 38 Um, so there's one
54:35
game that I can't make out the
54:35
title because it's sideways in
54:42
this picture is very, very tiny.
54:42
I can tell there's sin and
54:51
punishment. Oh, sending
54:51
punishment. There we go. I'll
54:55
probably keep in some of that so
54:55
people know that I'm dumb and
54:59
illiterate evil with glasses,
55:01
actually just to talk
55:01
about how you're such a smart
55:03
boy
55:06
I am a smart boy
55:06
when there's no context involved
55:09
I'm sensing there's a
55:09
little Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde
55:13
syndrome going on here.
55:15
There is when I take off the glasses I'm actually very smart boy but the
55:17
moment I put it on you would
55:19
think I would give more
55:19
intelligence with it, but
55:22
actually diminishes
55:23
classes raise
55:23
intelligence, like people assume
55:26
just because I'm wearing glasses
55:26
that I'm an intelligent fellow.
55:29
I'll have you know, you have to
55:29
fail the test to get this you
55:33
might be disappointed. I didn't
55:33
go to college, but I don't know
55:39
how much I learned there.
55:40
Right or I may have
55:40
a bachelor's but it doesn't mean
55:43
I'm smart. Right, right. So
55:43
we're getting sin and
55:47
punishment. supermodel I've got
55:47
it broke my voice they're super
55:52
mario 64 I guess I'm still not
55:52
over that. Mario Kart 64 which
56:00
I'm pretty sure has to have
56:00
online capabilities about
56:04
one I would suspect
56:06
Starfox 64 which
56:06
again, I feel like this has to
56:11
have online multiplayer to it.
56:11
Yoshi story was actually think I
56:16
have that on the 64 Legend of
56:16
Zelda, aka reign of time. A game
56:24
I've never heard of called wind
56:24
back cover operations. Mario
56:29
Tennis, and Dr. Mario 64
56:34
I remember Dr. Mario on
56:34
SNL yes, I do not remember it
56:38
being on 64
56:40
I remember seeing
56:40
it in stores like looking at its
56:43
cover. That looks familiar to
56:43
me, but I wasn't a 64 kid. I was
56:46
a ps1 kid. Yeah, so I knew it
56:46
was a thing I just never played
56:52
it.
56:53
Yeah. Do you think we
56:53
might get Hey you Pikachu.
56:58
Oh my god, they
56:58
would have to upgrade that
57:00
microphone game.
57:02
That would be such a good
57:02
reason or it'd be like a great
57:05
reason for Nintendo to start
57:05
pitching like headsets and stuff
57:08
like that There you go San
57:08
Antonio you want to bring me on
57:11
the
57:12
truth integration now
57:14
that's why I'm so are
57:17
with Hey up get you
57:17
I didn't get a Nintendo 64 until
57:22
I was in my 20s and one of the
57:22
first games I got was Hey you
57:26
Pikachu and I got that from my
57:26
girlfriend my now wife as you
57:29
can tell she loved it so much
57:29
she married me absolutely. I
57:32
mean that's a great gift.
57:33
Right? Exactly. Not
57:33
being a bolt plate. But I'm not
57:38
being a bold faced liar here I
57:38
might keep in my fumbles just to
57:41
show people that I'm really
57:41
dumb. I'm really really dumb
57:45
like I'm stupid. Y'all just
57:45
don't know. Um, but yeah, I
57:51
remember we had like, hooked in
57:51
that microphone thing that you
57:55
need and everything and it was
57:55
like one of those regular like
58:00
Paul had said things that she
58:00
had on and I remember she was
58:03
like hey peak to peak at you.
58:03
peak at you is this guy stupid?
58:12
I was like I don't know. And she
58:12
she just gave up on the game
58:18
because she was like this game
58:18
doesn't work. I don't know if
58:21
this game was popular but it
58:21
don't work. I think as I
58:25
remember you could like
58:25
compliment Pikachu but for
58:29
whatever reason it thought my
58:29
wife said an insult to it so we
58:33
like got angry with her and she
58:33
was like, what's going
58:36
on? Yeah, I think Pikachu
58:36
only like really recognize
58:42
though many words.
58:43
As opposed to Yeah,
58:43
and then it was supposed to pick
58:46
up your tone or something for
58:47
other words, so I remember
58:47
like, tell him because you do
58:51
all kinds of things and I really
58:51
thought Pikachu was listening to
58:54
me but realistically it probably
58:54
wasn't it was just like it was
58:58
stupid as hell like but that was
58:58
such a fun game you take a kid
59:03
you fishing and give them some
59:03
sushi rolls and go take me other
59:08
Pokemon. More out of the like us
59:08
so much fun.
59:14
So I know we
59:14
mentioned Castlevania with the
59:17
Sega Genesis collection. But it
59:17
looks like we're also getting
59:21
the Castlevania advanced
59:21
collection which just launched
59:24
on the switch like right now it
59:24
is on the switch right now. I'm
59:28
going to be using go get it I
59:28
know get it I mean I might have
59:33
to sneak up to the wife and be
59:33
like hey honey is okay if I you
59:36
know get a Castlevania game
59:36
here. She'd probably be like, I
59:39
don't care you're grown man who
59:39
makes money?
59:41
Yeah, I mean, he probably
59:41
just do it anyways, you know,
59:44
sometimes I hear it's easier to
59:44
beg for forgiveness than ask for
59:50
permission.
59:52
Normally it is
59:52
normally it is now I'm I'm
59:55
trying to take a look at the
59:55
list of what this contains. But
59:59
it's all in Japanese. Hold on
59:59
let's see Castlevania advanced
1:00:04
collection. Oh that that's the
1:00:04
cover art the dude right there.
1:00:08
Okay, so z no and I was actually
1:00:08
talking about like what
1:00:11
Castlevania Gameboy Advance game
1:00:11
I played. And I could remember
1:00:15
for the life of me, but I
1:00:15
recognize that dude. So that's
1:00:19
definitely the game that I
1:00:19
played. Anyways. So we got
1:00:24
Castlevania circle of the moon,
1:00:24
Castlevania harmony of
1:00:29
dissonance, Castlevania Aria of
1:00:29
Sorrow, which are all from the
1:00:34
Gameboy Advance, and we got
1:00:34
Dracula x from the Super
1:00:39
Nintendo. So um, let's see who
1:00:39
it was. I think I think it was
1:00:47
circle the moon because Nathan
1:00:47
grave sounds really familiar to
1:00:50
me. So that might be that it was
1:00:50
it might have been circle the
1:00:57
moon that I played. I lonely 20
1:00:57
bucks. Heck, I might actually
1:01:01
get those like right after we're
1:01:01
done recording. 100% doing it.
1:01:06
So if that sounds up your alley
1:01:06
way Heck, I like a good
1:01:10
Castlevania game. I do Symphony
1:01:10
of the Night. And the one
1:01:15
Gameboy Advance game that I
1:01:15
played years ago were like still
1:01:17
my top two favorites. The only
1:01:17
bad one was the one that was on
1:01:21
64
1:01:22
I don't even remember
1:01:24
which one I own.
1:01:24
Oh, don't ask why. Oh, and it
1:01:29
was just more like, I was
1:01:29
picking out some Nintendo 64
1:01:33
games. And I was like, I didn't
1:01:33
know there was a Castlevania
1:01:35
game that I played in. Then I
1:01:35
realized, Oh, this is the reason
1:01:39
nobody talks about it.
1:01:41
This is why it was only
1:01:41
$2.
1:01:45
Actually, I think that's how much I picked it up. So um, project triangle
1:01:50
strategy, still not the official
1:01:55
name, which looks to be a
1:01:55
homecoming to the Final Fantasy
1:02:01
Tactics kind of gameplay and
1:02:01
it's being done by the people
1:02:04
that made Bravely Default and
1:02:04
got octopath traveler, there we
1:02:10
go. And it's going to be coming
1:02:10
out next March March 4 2020 to
1:02:16
another JRPG like game Delta
1:02:16
rune is coming out to the
1:02:23
switch. Looks like later
1:02:23
tonight, it is coming out
1:02:29
chapters one and two and it will
1:02:29
be free. Just like as they are
1:02:33
on Steam and other platforms.
1:02:33
Okay, so this next one, the
1:02:39
reason I kind of want to rush
1:02:39
through those really fast was
1:02:42
just because I think this next
1:02:42
bit of information made xeno and
1:02:48
I legitimately freak out.
1:02:52
Oh, yes. Oh my god, you
1:02:54
know exactly. Yes, I
1:02:55
know exactly what you're
1:02:55
talking about.
1:02:58
So I'll start but I
1:02:58
definitely want you to do the
1:03:03
fanboy freak out here. Um, so
1:03:03
Miyamoto came out and was
1:03:09
talking about the Mario movie.
1:03:09
Now a lot of us knew that Mario
1:03:12
was getting a movie, it's being
1:03:12
done by illumination pictures.
1:03:15
Those are the people that did
1:03:15
the minions movie. I think they
1:03:18
did the Lorax so that they did
1:03:18
saying I remember that was
1:03:23
another one they did. So you may
1:03:23
have mixed opinions on
1:03:27
illuminations, but you know,
1:03:27
Nintendo's trusted them and they
1:03:33
just announced who the voice
1:03:33
cast is going to be. Once you
1:03:38
take this one away,
1:03:39
so or, man, I don't know
1:03:39
what what are we? What are we do
1:03:44
I do this?
1:03:46
Like, should we do
1:03:46
that in the order that they were
1:03:49
announced on the direct share? I
1:03:49
don't know. That was a bombshell
1:03:52
for Mario. I thought it was
1:03:52
gonna be Charles Martin a Yeah,
1:03:55
I was like, I like I even
1:03:55
like when they were going
1:03:58
through and they're like, Mario,
1:03:58
it's like, Yeah, okay. Charles
1:04:01
Martin a, and then they announce
1:04:01
Chris Pratt, as Chris Pratt.
1:04:08
Chris Pratt.
1:04:10
Like, I would have never
1:04:10
like if you would have told me,
1:04:13
I don't think not gonna have
1:04:13
marnay do it. Like who do you
1:04:15
think would be doing it? I would
1:04:15
not have said Chris Pratt. And
1:04:19
then No, never heard this from
1:04:19
my suggestion list. Um, next
1:04:25
they have a Anna. Anya Taylor
1:04:25
joy.
1:04:30
So I looked her up.
1:04:30
She was in Split, which is
1:04:34
actually pretty decent. And she
1:04:34
was also in the witch. Okay. So
1:04:40
looking at her. She does look
1:04:40
familiar. I just haven't seen
1:04:43
her in much outside of splitting
1:04:43
the wedge. She's also in the
1:04:46
Queen's gambit. She's the main
1:04:46
actress in that. Because I know
1:04:51
you and I were like at like we
1:04:51
were actually watching this and
1:04:54
we're like, Who is she? Yeah, we
1:04:56
had no idea.
1:04:58
I feel bad because
1:04:58
she's actually decent. Yeah,
1:05:01
so don't come at us on you
1:05:07
know ninja can come
1:05:07
at me I'm destroying that Funko
1:05:09
Pop ninja don't I will go out of
1:05:09
my way buy you a new funko pop
1:05:13
to replace it like anyone you
1:05:13
want. Next time I visit the
1:05:16
Midwest, we'll go out to all
1:05:16
your normal hunting spots. You
1:05:21
see a Funko Pop you're like I
1:05:21
want that I will replace ninja
1:05:24
for it so I can destroy that ninja figure.
1:05:27
Hashtag ninja.
1:05:30
Oh no his personal
1:05:30
ninja. You and me. It's
1:05:33
personal. You and I have never
1:05:33
played the same game as each
1:05:36
other at the same time. That's
1:05:36
true. You and I have never been
1:05:38
in the same room as each other.
1:05:38
Yep, same. Yeah, but I taught
1:05:42
sixth grade when ninja was
1:05:42
popular. Okay, I have a vendetta
1:05:46
against some ninja ninja. Oh,
1:05:46
it's on I entered you and me
1:05:51
even interact vs. Ninja. It's
1:05:51
happening.
1:05:53
Let's have a roll on
1:05:53
Twitter.
1:05:57
You know what? Get
1:05:57
that get that trending. I don't
1:06:00
care how we get a trending you
1:06:00
know ninjas probably gonna go on
1:06:03
Twitter and be like, there's
1:06:03
four people tweeting about how
1:06:06
summit or eat interact. I was
1:06:06
surprised me man, whatever. I'm
1:06:09
just gonna wrap
1:06:13
up is xeno miles g 30.
1:06:13
What is going on here? That
1:06:19
sounds like to people, and he
1:06:19
would be right. Next on the
1:06:26
list. Luigi will be voiced by
1:06:26
Charlie Day.
1:06:32
No, I think the
1:06:32
moment we saw Charlie Day,
1:06:35
that's when we were sealed. It was
1:06:37
like yeah, it was like,
1:06:37
okay, Chris Pratt. I'm
1:06:39
interested Charlie Day. I'm
1:06:39
watching this movie. Where do I
1:06:43
buy tickets?
1:06:44
Yeah, for sure.
1:06:44
Luigi, I hate to say it, but if
1:06:47
it wasn't Charles Martin a for
1:06:47
that position. I think I would
1:06:50
honestly pick.
1:06:53
That makes perfect sense.
1:06:53
After they released it. It was
1:06:55
just like, oh yeah. 100% I'm
1:06:55
into it.
1:06:59
Who else now?
1:06:59
Balthazar. Basil ooze out of
1:07:04
left field for me. I was not
1:07:04
expecting this.
1:07:07
I'm 100% with it though.
1:07:08
But I'm for it.
1:07:08
Yeah, I am for it. I like
1:07:12
honestly, it was like after
1:07:12
Charlie Day who they announced I
1:07:16
was like, I'm already going to
1:07:16
theaters Yes, I don't care. 100%
1:07:20
this like made me want to
1:07:20
spend a ton of money to speed up
1:07:24
production of it so I can have it sooner.
1:07:26
Say jack black.
1:07:29
The people who say
1:07:29
that I'm the discount version of
1:07:32
what I had a shorter beard.
1:07:34
One half of Tenacious D
1:07:34
jack black is voicings battles.
1:07:42
I can see it
1:07:42
though. Yeah, I can see. I feel
1:07:45
like jack black is going to eat
1:07:45
the scenery with that roll for
1:07:51
it.
1:07:51
And he's always been one
1:07:51
that we really delve themselves
1:07:54
in the characters and stuff like
1:07:54
that. So I am so interested to
1:07:58
see how he does with browser.
1:08:00
Now, Donkey Kong is
1:08:00
also going to be in this movie
1:08:03
and who they got for Donkey Kong
1:08:03
seeds.
1:08:06
I would agree. 100% I like
1:08:06
the voice acting casting and
1:08:10
this movie is next to none. Like
1:08:10
I've only
1:08:14
one I'm
1:08:14
questionable of is Chris Pratt.
1:08:16
But I feel like they got him
1:08:16
just because he's a name at this
1:08:19
point. Especially with kids.
1:08:19
Yeah. But who they got for
1:08:23
Donkey Kong. I'm like, Yeah,
1:08:23
they they for sure. Got that for
1:08:25
the adults. I don't care who you are.
1:08:27
Yep. 100% because only the
1:08:27
adults are gonna understand like
1:08:30
the symbology behind it too, as
1:08:30
well. So we have the Seth Rogen
1:08:37
as Donkey Kong, which is
1:08:37
amazing. Like it is. Ah, this.
1:08:43
This cast alone is just like all
1:08:43
of them together is amazing.
1:08:48
Toad though, toad.
1:08:48
I was not expecting I was not
1:08:52
expecting at all the actor they
1:08:52
back.
1:08:54
Yes, we have Keegan
1:08:54
Michael key as toad. Who is
1:09:00
comedian if you don't know. Key
1:09:00
and Peele show. Be familiar with
1:09:04
that? Um, yeah,
1:09:06
no, I feel like he
1:09:06
is going to do a decent Toad
1:09:10
voice but I haven't feeling
1:09:10
because it's Kiko bikin key.
1:09:14
That Toad persona is going to
1:09:14
break Yeah,
1:09:16
yeah, I 100% I'm
1:09:16
anticipating that
1:09:19
it's definitely
1:09:19
going to go like hello hey
1:09:22
Mario, and then go down to the
1:09:22
one I just saw you Mario. We're
1:09:27
just showing you like yeah, like
1:09:27
deep voice you're gonna be like,
1:09:29
Whoa
1:09:31
we're having a perspective of toad.
1:09:34
They're also going
1:09:34
to have three other characters
1:09:40
from like three well known
1:09:40
actors I can't find them on the
1:09:43
list though. Let me see cuz
1:09:43
we're going to get Cranky Kong.
1:09:47
We're also getting it was from
1:09:47
like this old old old Mario game
1:09:57
before Mario was even really
1:09:57
Mario The characters called
1:10:01
spike who's supposed to be
1:10:01
Mario's boss? That's like the
1:10:04
only information we really know.
1:10:04
See Mario movie 2022 cast here
1:10:12
we go Hollywood Reporter see did
1:10:12
do here we go so we're gonna
1:10:18
have Kevin Michael Richardson as
1:10:18
CAMEC you know that evil little
1:10:23
wizard dude. I'm Fred Armisen as
1:10:23
cranky calm. And Sebastian
1:10:30
apologies if I mispronounce your
1:10:30
last name. Manoj Skoll go
1:10:35
Moskalenko that's definitely
1:10:35
Italian right as bike
1:10:39
don't come at us fashion
1:10:40
Please forgive me
1:10:40
I'm horrible last name for now
1:10:44
making friends on this episode
1:10:44
of joysticks you know we're now
1:10:46
we are apparently starting
1:10:46
fights with everybody
1:10:49
or sorry.
1:10:51
But yeah, I feel
1:10:51
like that's a good voice cast.
1:10:53
I'm again, Chris Pratt. I'm
1:10:53
like, but the was like the
1:10:58
moment everyone from Charlie Day
1:10:58
forward I was like, Okay, I'm on
1:11:02
this.
1:11:02
Like, I don't even care.
1:11:02
It's like, okay, Chris brats
1:11:05
Mario. I'll get past it. Charlie
1:11:05
days, Luigi. I'm in for jet lag.
1:11:10
browser hardcovers that, like,
1:11:10
bring it on.
1:11:13
I feel like at this
1:11:13
point, there's going to be so
1:11:16
many 30 and 40 somethings in
1:11:16
that theater that there's gonna
1:11:18
be one little kid that's like,
1:11:18
more you it's gonna be like stop
1:11:22
talking job blocks on the
1:11:22
screen. Do not disrespect him.
1:11:28
Oh my goodness. So I'm another
1:11:28
fan favorite game. Splatoon is
1:11:34
getting a third game. I've never
1:11:34
played Splatoon I don't think
1:11:37
you've ever played Splatoon I
1:11:37
have not. I've heard good things
1:11:41
about I heard like if you're
1:11:41
into third person shooters,
1:11:43
especially competitive ones,
1:11:43
that this is like the least
1:11:49
toxic one while you're playing
1:11:49
but it's only like toxic if
1:11:54
you're like really getting into
1:11:54
the competitive sport same. But
1:11:59
uh, yeah, it's gonna have its
1:11:59
own single player campaign like
1:12:03
the former to have had, but I
1:12:03
guess this one's actually
1:12:07
bringing back mammals is the
1:12:07
return of the mammalian ones.
1:12:11
And is this the first one
1:12:11
that's got a story mode,
1:12:15
or this would be
1:12:15
the third one. So the other two
1:12:18
have had a story mode from what
1:12:18
I'm looking at here.
1:12:21
Gotcha. And then there's I
1:12:21
think they showcase two or three
1:12:25
new abilities for the
1:12:27
they're gonna have
1:12:27
a crab robot. Yeah. They look at
1:12:34
this article to see what like
1:12:34
people who have played the game
1:12:37
to be like, oh, there's this new
1:12:37
ability. Looks like there's
1:12:41
going to be new guns. Uh yeah,
1:12:41
that's all I'm getting here is
1:12:47
new story mode. new guns have
1:12:47
fun. But it looks like they're
1:12:51
keeping the same gameplay modes
1:12:51
are returning. No news, if
1:12:57
there's going to be any kind of
1:12:57
new modes right now. But it is
1:12:59
coming out February.
1:13:00
I just saw like, it's
1:13:00
obviously a doctored photo of
1:13:06
like, another voice actor for
1:13:06
the Mario movie. And it's while
1:13:11
Luigi like, guess who they have
1:13:11
as playing while he?
1:13:16
You mean while Luigi while Luigi?
1:13:17
Yeah.
1:13:18
While Luigi Luigi.
1:13:18
Who did they pick as while Luigi
1:13:25
Robert Downey Jr. Worst part is
1:13:25
as I could see
1:13:30
it, yeah. 100% of like
1:13:30
they would have to
1:13:33
get Danny DeVito
1:13:33
though is warrior. Oh my god
1:13:36
would have to get
1:13:37
data. That would be the
1:13:37
greatest thing ever. Nintendo. I
1:13:41
am sending you a
1:13:41
picture of something. I just saw
1:13:45
the internet. Oh,
1:13:46
yeah, that 100% fits.
1:13:50
Oh, so just so
1:13:50
y'all know, I am sending him a
1:13:54
picture that somebody made with
1:13:54
Chris Pratt and Charlie Day,
1:14:00
wearing the Luigi and Mario hats
1:14:00
but like a cruelly photoshopped
1:14:06
mustache job on both mum. Oh,
1:14:06
and we also can't forget the
1:14:11
last game that they ended off on
1:14:11
on the direct and that is
1:14:17
Bayonetta three. Yeah, that was
1:14:17
now one thing that I don't like
1:14:21
and this was a fear a lot of
1:14:21
people have was the original
1:14:24
voice actress wasn't returning.
1:14:24
And that's very evident The
1:14:27
moment she opens her mouth.
1:14:27
You're like, that's not
1:14:31
Bayonetta
1:14:32
Yeah, I'm not a band that
1:14:32
a fan. I'm not played the games,
1:14:36
but even I knew like right away.
1:14:36
I was like, that is not the same
1:14:39
voice actor.
1:14:42
And like she she
1:14:42
returned as like, bay net. And
1:14:47
the second one, which was on the
1:14:47
Wii U, which got, you know,
1:14:50
ported over to the switch. She
1:14:50
also voiced Bayonetta on Smash
1:14:56
Bros. So I don't know why. From
1:14:56
what am i Understanding what I'm
1:15:00
looking online as a lot of
1:15:00
people think that it was
1:15:02
Nintendo who cut ties instead of
1:15:02
Platinum so why they decided to
1:15:07
cut her is beyond me who knows
1:15:07
maybe they want to try a
1:15:10
different route with her boys
1:15:10
yeah but you already have a very
1:15:14
cemented characters like when
1:15:14
they change snakes voice actor
1:15:17
yes like that was like I just
1:15:17
remember Twitter was like up in
1:15:22
flames like How dare you like
1:15:22
snake is David Hayter
1:15:28
like there is no out there
1:15:28
like it's just what it is I do
1:15:34
you think fans are gonna react
1:15:34
the same with Bayonetta
1:15:37
I think they will
1:15:37
actually because they've already
1:15:40
shown a sign of anger that she
1:15:40
might not be the voice actress
1:15:43
and if that's not her like if
1:15:43
xeno and I just didn't hear her
1:15:47
properly talk but no That does
1:15:47
not sound like her demo no it
1:15:51
did not sound like I feel like
1:15:51
fans are probably already going
1:15:55
to riot and I i I'm not the
1:15:55
number one guy to talk about
1:16:00
fashion because if you look at
1:16:00
me I'm wearing like a green
1:16:03
shirt with like a little
1:16:03
mountainscape in the background.
1:16:07
I wear very plain shirts.
1:16:09
I'm wearing streamers.
1:16:13
So I'm the last one
1:16:13
to talk about fashion but I
1:16:15
don't like how bandana looks in this one.
1:16:17
Yeah, the hairstyles off
1:16:17
the
1:16:21
hair sadly outfit
1:16:21
just just aren't doing it says a
1:16:24
man now. I'm not much of a
1:16:24
Bayonetta player I played the
1:16:28
first one my wife is who really
1:16:28
got into it. I feel like if I
1:16:31
showed her this you'd be like,
1:16:31
Oh, that's cute. But she
1:16:34
probably wouldn't respond the
1:16:34
same way that she did with the
1:16:36
first bayonet she loved that
1:16:36
design. He loved even more the
1:16:40
second design I feel like if I
1:16:40
show her this way she'd be like
1:16:43
Oh, that's cute. And that's
1:16:43
where it's gonna end You know
1:16:48
what? Send this photo to lumpy I
1:16:48
need a woman's input. Okay.
1:16:54
You're I'll even give you a
1:16:54
picture to send her.
1:16:57
Oh no. Oh no, he we met
1:16:57
her Yep, we missed it. We went
1:17:02
up. She happened he did the text
1:17:02
puke Alright, I'm just gonna
1:17:08
pick this one because it's
1:17:08
pretty funny. She says I love
1:17:14
dry roads more and I'm
1:17:14
anticipating those and if those
1:17:18
come with this update, I'll
1:17:18
we're gonna say poop. Because
1:17:22
she she uses a very unladylike
1:17:22
word there. She says I will poop
1:17:28
my pants because Brewster loves
1:17:28
them. And there's about six
1:17:34
others.
1:17:34
Oh, that is right.
1:17:34
Because in the hint that the
1:17:37
showed was the rooster or
1:17:37
something like that, or the
1:17:40
Brewster was coming. So who
1:17:40
knows? Who knows? I'm not that
1:17:45
big of an ammo crossing person.
1:17:45
I've only played like maybe two
1:17:48
or three games.
1:17:50
Yeah, I haven't played any
1:17:50
of them. And I really feel like
1:17:54
that's to say
1:17:55
it it's one of
1:17:55
those games where you play for
1:17:58
like a month in between games
1:17:58
and they just never touched
1:18:00
again. That's how it is for me. It
1:18:02
is 100% love me's like
1:18:02
mainstay like anytime she comes
1:18:06
over 90% of time we just like
1:18:06
catch up by the weekend stuff I
1:18:11
mean we stay in contact throughout the week for reference she lives about 45
1:18:13
minutes away from me so we all
1:18:16
see each other every day we see
1:18:16
each other probably twice a week
1:18:20
but it's mostly like catch up
1:18:20
eat some dinner or something
1:18:23
like that. And then we both game
1:18:23
and she plays Animal Crossing
1:18:27
every single time
1:18:31
so have you sent
1:18:31
her the picture
1:18:35
I am sending in now he
1:18:35
wants your opinion on this
1:18:40
character is
1:18:45
because like if you
1:18:45
were to look at the picture
1:18:47
right now our current listeners
1:18:47
I have to stop from saying
1:18:54
viewers when I'm streaming I say
1:18:54
viewers are chat but y'all are
1:18:58
listeners because you listen to
1:18:58
the podcast. There you go. He
1:19:01
There's your smart moment of the
1:19:01
day. You're such Gong. She has
1:19:05
like these long braids, but it
1:19:05
looks like they go around her
1:19:10
arms Yeah, it's just it would
1:19:10
have been one thing if she like
1:19:14
had braids, but they went in the
1:19:14
back or they went down the front
1:19:18
but since they're wrapping
1:19:18
around their arms I don't know I
1:19:20
think that's the one thing
1:19:20
that's really throwing me off
1:19:23
here feel super over
1:19:23
orchestrate and
1:19:27
and her outfit. It
1:19:27
looks like they couldn't decide
1:19:29
like what kind of theme to go
1:19:29
with it because it kind of looks
1:19:32
a little German ask. I know her
1:19:32
whole aesthetic looks German
1:19:37
this time today,
1:19:38
huh? Yeah, I could
1:19:38
definitely. Oh also during
1:19:41
the trailer, they
1:19:41
also made an astral chain
1:19:44
reference. So if you played
1:19:44
astral chain on the switch,
1:19:48
there was a little reference at
1:19:48
the beginning but other than
1:19:51
that I have never played astral
1:19:51
chain so I don't know how that
1:19:54
could connect. And debating that
1:19:54
I've heard is fun. I've heard
1:19:57
astral trains actually like an
1:19:57
extremely fun game. But again
1:20:00
just never played
1:20:02
it. Yeah, Sam What about
1:20:02
the like, right at the end of
1:20:06
the trailer, there's like a
1:20:06
mysterious character this blade
1:20:11
that really resembles was named
1:20:11
from double may cry
1:20:16
original looks like
1:20:16
virtual from Devil May Cry so I
1:20:19
know the team at Platinum did
1:20:19
work on Devil May Cry. So I
1:20:25
don't know if they got the
1:20:25
rights from capcom to introduce
1:20:30
Virgil into the series, or if it
1:20:30
was like they're just getting a
1:20:35
character that kind of looks
1:20:35
like it to be like, hey, look
1:20:37
Devil May Cry we kind of worked
1:20:37
on that game.
1:20:41
Yeah. Now it's, we'll see.
1:20:45
Oh, and um, Square
1:20:45
Enix also announced a remake of
1:20:50
an old Super Nintendo titled
1:20:50
called act razor, but they're
1:20:54
calling it actraiser Renaissance
1:20:54
and it's another game that's
1:20:58
going to launch today. So might
1:20:58
be something I might look into.
1:21:02
I was kind of surprised to
1:21:02
see that where Nintendo's like
1:21:05
yeah, we're gonna we're
1:21:05
announcing this game. And yeah,
1:21:08
you can get it like after direct
1:21:08
if you want to.
1:21:12
Yeah, you know, sometimes they do that where they're just like, Hey, there
1:21:13
was like no hype leading into
1:21:15
this. Here's a game for you. You
1:21:15
know how I just said Danny
1:21:19
DeVito could be warrior. Yeah.
1:21:19
This is floating around. Oh my
1:21:23
gosh, yes. He there is just a
1:21:23
photoshopped picture. Danny
1:21:29
DeVito is head on Mario's body.
1:21:29
Warriors mustache. And it fits
1:21:35
so well. We need him as Mario
1:21:38
is so perfect. It's got to
1:21:38
be a sequel. Like they got to
1:21:46
Dennis's mole Luigi. Oh my gosh
1:21:46
is perfect. They gotta come. I'm
1:21:51
also looking at who
1:21:51
they have. That's a square enix
1:21:57
property coming to the new
1:21:57
Chocobo racing game. Okay, looks
1:22:01
like we're gonna have Vivi from
1:22:01
Final Fantasy nine or Keenum
1:22:04
hearts too. I know your kingdom
1:22:04
hearts burst. Yeah. We're also
1:22:09
going to have Gilgamesh Okay,
1:22:09
sir. Yeah, I wasn't expecting
1:22:14
that. They say black major,
1:22:14
because, you know, Black Mages
1:22:18
just that universal thing. But
1:22:18
if you look at it, I'll even
1:22:22
send you a picture. That's vv.
1:22:29
Oh, yeah, that's 100%
1:22:30
vvv. Yeah, they're
1:22:30
saying is blackmailed. So you
1:22:35
know, whatever. Um, does this
1:22:35
list Anybody else? And of
1:22:40
course, you know, choke about.
1:22:40
Okay, so here's some updates
1:22:43
about it, it's going to feature
1:22:43
power ups, which are called
1:22:48
Magic sites. So it looks like
1:22:48
they are taking the Chocobo
1:22:52
racing aesthetic, where you have
1:22:52
to collect and build up your
1:22:56
magic. So it's going to have
1:22:56
fire magic, arrow magic, and do
1:23:02
magic. so far. Those were the
1:23:02
only ones that were shown in the
1:23:05
trailer. You just don't know
1:23:05
which one of those you're going
1:23:08
to get this time because they're
1:23:08
going to be in capsules with
1:23:10
question marks, so you're not
1:23:10
going to really see them. Okay,
1:23:14
so I'm assuming ice is probably
1:23:14
also going to be in there and
1:23:17
probably other elements as well.
1:23:17
There will be a multiplayer mode
1:23:20
that's going to support up to 64
1:23:20
players online. Jesus, this has
1:23:26
to be an ascension tournament
1:23:26
now Oh yeah. This has to be an
1:23:30
ascension tournament. It's also
1:23:30
going to be teams of eight eight
1:23:34
by eight elimination. There we
1:23:34
go. That's the ascension
1:23:37
tournament. Come on. eight by
1:23:37
eight a little mention Mojo
1:23:40
you're listening. I
1:23:40
know you're listening to
1:23:40
this. Look at me. Whoa. We need
1:23:43
us.
1:23:44
We need this all we
1:23:44
switch switch switch. who sets
1:23:49
this up? It's coming out next
1:23:49
year man. We can plan for this
1:23:54
we can pre plan I just hope it's
1:23:54
good man. Cuz I love the
1:23:58
original.
1:23:59
Yeah. It's like, you
1:23:59
always hope that for your
1:24:02
childhood like games that like
1:24:02
get rid remastered and you're
1:24:06
just like, Alright, I remember
1:24:06
all these feelings for and
1:24:09
stuff. And it's like you
1:24:09
desperately want to feel those
1:24:11
things again. And it's such a
1:24:11
letdown when they don't deliver
1:24:16
on it.
1:24:17
Big time. Like,
1:24:17
there's so much from this
1:24:23
Nintendo Direct that I'm just
1:24:23
like, I want to sink my teeth
1:24:26
into. But some of us are just
1:24:26
gonna have to wait till next
1:24:30
year. And it's like, oh, yeah.
1:24:30
And it's because so much of this
1:24:35
got pushed off until 2022. But I
1:24:35
feel like you know, that's just
1:24:40
going to be the year that's
1:24:40
going to be the year for gamers
1:24:43
because it was a dry spell for
1:24:43
21. Like we had a few games that
1:24:46
came out this year that were
1:24:46
pretty fun. Yeah, a lot of them
1:24:48
were indies like most of the AAA
1:24:48
stuff just wasn't really there.
1:24:53
Yeah, as far as main
1:24:53
titles, I think really the only
1:24:56
thing I got really excited about
1:24:56
was probably Monster Hunter
1:24:59
rise.
1:25:00
All right so we are
1:25:00
going to have to wrap up this
1:25:03
first half of joysticks united
1:25:03
again, thank you to xeno for
1:25:08
joining me during this podcast
1:25:08
so it wasn't just me awkwardly
1:25:12
talking to myself again. Xena
1:25:12
wants you to give yourself a
1:25:15
little shout out here where can
1:25:15
people find you so you can
1:25:18
find me on Twitch Of
1:25:18
course at twitch TV forward
1:25:22
slash xeno stream 38 You can
1:25:22
also find me on tik tok at xeno
1:25:28
stream 38 as well we just post
1:25:28
some highlights of different
1:25:32
gameplay so you can see what to
1:25:32
expect out of the stream
1:25:35
especially on the four streams I
1:25:35
post a lot of those so you can
1:25:39
see why I wear the brown pants
1:25:39
on those streams. We are going
1:25:44
to be working on some original
1:25:44
content I know he and I have
1:25:47
talked about getting together
1:25:47
and doing some tic tocs on there
1:25:50
too. So expect some original
1:25:50
content coming from the TIC Tock
1:25:55
and then you can find me on
1:25:55
Twitter where I just post about
1:25:58
anything and everything and
1:25:58
daily life over at extreme as my
1:26:04
handle on Twitter and then if
1:26:04
you're not in a discord getting
1:26:07
the discord because I'm going to
1:26:07
be posting highlights from a
1:26:11
ghost event that is going to be
1:26:11
passed by the time this comes
1:26:15
out. But you'll be able to
1:26:15
relive everything because I'm
1:26:18
going to post it all to discord
1:26:18
so definitely come check it out
1:26:21
hang out with us love to have
1:26:21
you anytime.
1:26:25
And for those who
1:26:25
are while y'all are all audio
1:26:29
listeners we'll make sure that
1:26:29
we have links to everything xeno
1:26:32
related so make sure to check
1:26:32
him out he is a very good friend
1:26:36
of the stream him and I normally
1:26:36
stream together on Mondays so if
1:26:39
you watch me you more than
1:26:39
likely medzi no all right so we
1:26:46
are going to pass things over to
1:26:46
Miles and his very special guest
1:26:50
So take it away Miles he's
1:26:50
probably not going to have an
1:26:54
introduction for him taken away
1:26:54
from me but whatever seen
1:26:58
transition and cut
1:27:02
What's up everybody
1:27:02
mouths you 170 here with a
1:27:05
special interview with someone
1:27:05
that has been a big supporter of
1:27:10
joysticks from the very beginning one of the ones that helped actually get it off the
1:27:12
ground and started put the idea
1:27:16
in our heads and helped us get
1:27:16
rolling me and he likes to joke
1:27:19
around on here and call him
1:27:19
daddy but this is our guy Hall
1:27:24
who is the head of Ascension you
1:27:24
could actually find him over at
1:27:30
YouTube slash see slash haul
1:27:30
YouTube I'll have that link in
1:27:34
the description below no problem
1:27:34
welcome welcome I know we've
1:27:40
been trying to get this set up for a while
1:27:43
yeah early morning how do
1:27:43
you feel about the early morning
1:27:45
doing I was up this is my time I
1:27:45
love this time of day
1:27:50
Oh it's so nice
1:27:50
like I'm excited cuz I'm going
1:27:53
to the gym and I'm going
1:27:53
shopping after this I love going
1:27:55
to the store when nobody else is
1:27:55
there.
1:27:58
I agree 100% so
1:28:00
much nicer people
1:28:00
people don't know oh man so how
1:28:04
you been doing what's been going
1:28:04
on? You have a bunch of
1:28:07
vacations in the next few months don't you?
1:28:09
I do I do I get to travel
1:28:09
three times in a row like four
1:28:12
weeks apart so I'm missing the
1:28:12
next three town halls which is
1:28:15
not cool. But just to be my baby
1:28:15
to run luckily born dreamer is
1:28:20
going to be taking care of that
1:28:20
for us so and you and he are
1:28:23
going to be doing a little bit in the town hall as well as special so that'll be good for
1:28:25
the team.
1:28:28
I'm excited for that it's gonna be a good one. But yeah, that's actually
1:28:31
something you're able to use for
1:28:34
content as well. And I tried to
1:28:34
emulate that a little bit on my
1:28:39
past vacation but I don't quite
1:28:39
get out like I don't know what's
1:28:44
interesting yet so we'll see
1:28:44
what happens with that but I've
1:28:46
been watching your stuff for
1:28:46
sure to try to figure it out.
1:28:50
And yeah, man sometimes
1:28:50
it's just just think about what
1:28:52
you tried to think about before
1:28:52
you went on vacation like what
1:28:55
did you look out what were you
1:28:55
concerned with? Like you know,
1:28:57
like inside the room outside of
1:28:57
the room, all that kind of
1:29:00
stuff. And I try to write those
1:29:00
ideas down and then I try to
1:29:03
just take some recording of those topics and and
1:29:04
talk about it's
1:29:04
clever. And you also just passed
1:29:08
500 subs on YouTube correct? A
1:29:08
chair dad's awesome Good job
1:29:12
good job.
1:29:13
Thanks. up no miles g 170.
1:29:13
But you know they all load up
1:29:21
Rocket Ships man.
1:29:22
We'll see if that
1:29:22
actually goes anywhere. All
1:29:26
right. So tell tell our audience
1:29:26
a little bit about yourself
1:29:29
because we've alluded to you a
1:29:29
few times but this is your first
1:29:31
time on here with us. So give
1:29:31
them a little backstory give
1:29:35
them a little bit of a bio give
1:29:35
them the intro page.
1:29:39
Okay, so I I was a
1:29:39
streamer on mixer for about two
1:29:44
years right up until mixer died
1:29:44
so I went down that whole gamut
1:29:47
when I enjoyed it for a while.
1:29:47
It's not really my thing. I'd
1:29:50
much rather be behind the camera
1:29:50
and once I finally realized that
1:29:54
and realize what I like to do,
1:29:54
it's not very hard to do I have
1:29:57
to push myself towards the end
1:29:57
of streaming. I was really
1:29:59
having a myself because I just
1:29:59
found it exhausting I'm not an
1:30:03
extreme extrovert so it was not
1:30:03
only time consuming but
1:30:08
exhausting just to do so
1:30:08
essentially was born you know
1:30:12
june of 2020 and we just kind of
1:30:12
kept ticking along and now we're
1:30:18
up to what 3032 members totally
1:30:18
all in right now about just over
1:30:22
a year and that's kind of my
1:30:22
baby right now besides you know
1:30:27
IRL work come home and then
1:30:27
we're kind of Central software
1:30:30
work on my own content so that's
1:30:30
about it. I like doing reviews
1:30:33
on my YouTube that's a big part
1:30:33
of it. Anything I love yard work
1:30:36
outside of that my big mower and
1:30:36
landscaper and that's about it
1:30:42
that's pretty much my life I'm pretty boring.
1:30:45
That's stable. Big
1:30:45
difference between stable and
1:30:48
boring stable is very nice.
1:30:48
Those of you guys those of you
1:30:52
like 20 year olds Oh, that does
1:30:52
sound entertaining when you're
1:30:55
30 Hall that sounds so nice. It
1:30:55
is it's glorious so not you guys
1:31:00
don't understand yet it's so
1:31:00
nice. But yeah, so 30 3030
1:31:05
members but that doesn't include
1:31:05
the community that's built
1:31:08
around Ascension in the discord
1:31:08
with you guys know some of the
1:31:12
guise like space like Tony but
1:31:12
we have a ton of people in this
1:31:16
community that pop around and
1:31:16
support multiple different
1:31:21
streamers that they found
1:31:21
through a central mega team so
1:31:24
it's kind of cool it's more than
1:31:24
just hey look we're content
1:31:28
creators we actually support
1:31:28
each other build each other's
1:31:31
audiences up build each other's
1:31:31
content up y'all if you have not
1:31:34
checked out Ascension we plug it
1:31:34
every episode The link is down
1:31:38
below please check us out you
1:31:38
guys don't know how awesome it
1:31:41
really is.
1:31:43
Yeah, great point. We also
1:31:43
don't we don't have like
1:31:46
regimens like other teams you
1:31:46
know where you have to watch
1:31:49
people rate people we don't we
1:31:49
don't put that in place. It's
1:31:51
all just natural. It's organic.
1:31:51
I think we passed 200 I think
1:31:55
we're like 211 people in our
1:31:55
discord as well which is great.
1:31:59
Yeah, so lots of interaction
1:31:59
lots of CO mingling lots of CO
1:32:03
audiences as well they like you
1:32:03
said they bounce back and forth
1:32:05
which helps everybody
1:32:07
it's really great.
1:32:07
Check it out. You guys may find
1:32:09
your new favorite streamer out
1:32:09
of that you really might because
1:32:11
there's a lot of talent in that
1:32:11
group A lot of people that you
1:32:15
may not check out normally and
1:32:15
you guys will hear from them
1:32:18
hopefully on the next episode
1:32:18
because that's how he was
1:32:23
mentioning we are doing our
1:32:23
roundtable that we announced to
1:32:25
you guys last episode before
1:32:25
this
1:32:29
really sad anonymous op ed
1:32:29
discord just that just to
1:32:33
listen.
1:32:35
Oh, we could we
1:32:35
could still record another
1:32:38
little thing with you and me to
1:32:38
get you involved in that too.
1:32:42
I just want to hear
1:32:42
somebody I think we have so many
1:32:44
dynamic and diverse people with
1:32:44
their thought process and where
1:32:47
they are in their lives. I think
1:32:47
it's going to be really great
1:32:49
for you guys from our question
1:32:49
answer perspective
1:32:51
that's exactly how
1:32:51
we got to that was thinking
1:32:54
about it because I was looking
1:32:54
at the list I'm like, man, we
1:32:56
have a lot of people that have
1:32:56
experiences that you and me just
1:32:59
aren't gonna have. Because even
1:32:59
watching it on camera saying me
1:33:03
and he side by side is like
1:33:03
Dude, we're way similar. Like,
1:33:06
physically, very similar. Just
1:33:06
the way we talk the way we act
1:33:12
it's like we're very similar.
1:33:12
Getting someone like salon ci or
1:33:16
Houston or saying it or juicy,
1:33:16
even someone that's different
1:33:22
than me and him that's so
1:33:22
valuable for that conversation
1:33:26
about the workplace and how to
1:33:26
what you've dealt with in the
1:33:30
workplace, whether it's
1:33:30
streaming platforms, or whether
1:33:33
it's real life outside offline,
1:33:33
I would even say real life
1:33:36
offline.
1:33:38
I will say from a person
1:33:38
who is not I don't understand
1:33:42
anime, I don't understand the
1:33:42
depth of video game knowledge
1:33:45
that you guys have the
1:33:45
similarities of the way you guys
1:33:48
feed off each other in energy
1:33:48
and perspective and experience
1:33:52
with some of the obscurities of
1:33:52
the gaming world like that i cuz
1:33:57
I don't understand that. But I
1:33:57
get a lot from listening to you
1:34:00
guys bounce each other bounce
1:34:00
ideas, and energy and experience
1:34:04
and like going back and forth.
1:34:04
Like that's really enjoyable for
1:34:07
even for someone who's not in
1:34:07
that. So just a heads up there.
1:34:10
Well, that's great
1:34:10
that you said that. So we're
1:34:13
recording everything out of
1:34:13
order right now. There's an
1:34:16
episode that's editing right now
1:34:16
while we're recording this, and
1:34:19
he hasn't heard it yet. I have
1:34:19
started adding some obscure
1:34:24
video game trivia that people
1:34:24
may not know. Just sprinkled
1:34:28
throughout the episode. Like I
1:34:28
talked about how Final Fantasy
1:34:32
the fall fantasy had spin off
1:34:32
games on the Gameboy. That
1:34:37
became different series that
1:34:37
people know now but don't know
1:34:40
that it used to be considered
1:34:40
Final Fantasy. So So I threw
1:34:43
some of that out there because
1:34:43
there are some big Final Fantasy
1:34:46
fans that don't know about games
1:34:46
called Final Fantasy Adventure
1:34:49
or Final Fantasy legends. That
1:34:49
became the madness series and
1:34:53
the saga series respectively,
1:34:53
which are huge series outside of
1:34:57
the Final Fantasy franchise that
1:34:57
started off as spin offs. But
1:35:01
there's a lot to it because of
1:35:01
licensing and things like that
1:35:04
early
1:35:05
knowledge on nuggets of
1:35:05
knowledge a little bit.
1:35:08
Late 80s, early 90s
1:35:08
licensing issues from Japan to
1:35:12
America are fascinating like, me
1:35:12
really is there so much weird
1:35:17
stuff that happened because of
1:35:17
that, like Dragon Quest and
1:35:21
Dragon Warrior, same series. In
1:35:21
the US Dragon Quest was called
1:35:25
Dragon Warrior until mid 2000s,
1:35:25
because there was a game like a
1:35:31
tabletop game in the US called
1:35:31
Dragon Quest. So we couldn't use
1:35:36
the Dragon Warrior title over
1:35:36
here. Or we can use the Dragon
1:35:39
Quest title over here How to Use
1:35:39
Dragon Warrior. It's all
1:35:43
interesting stuff, but I'm just
1:35:43
dropping it here and there as we
1:35:47
go just random trivia if I can.
1:35:47
Something that people may not
1:35:52
may or may not know. But um,
1:35:55
I know none of it miles.
1:35:55
So you enlighten me every time I
1:35:57
was. I'm glad to
1:35:57
hear it. So I'm a big thing
1:36:02
going on right now in the gaming
1:36:02
world has been kind of the same
1:36:08
thing that's been happening in
1:36:08
the real world where we are
1:36:11
needing change. A big thing of
1:36:11
joysticks united has been be
1:36:18
better. And that's been
1:36:18
something we've used for a
1:36:20
while. Last episode, meaning he
1:36:20
talked a lot about the
1:36:23
Activision and Ubisoft and Riot
1:36:23
Games issues going on. And we
1:36:27
mentioned how bad management and
1:36:27
bad workplace environments can
1:36:31
lead to toxic behavior. The
1:36:31
treat we have here is Hall is
1:36:39
not only one of the ones that
1:36:39
helps interview and place people
1:36:44
for ascension. But his offline
1:36:44
job requires a lot of that as
1:36:48
well. Mine at Sam's Club did as
1:36:48
well. So we have some knowledge
1:36:53
that some of you guys may not
1:36:53
have about how hiring practices,
1:36:57
how team building really can
1:36:57
affect where you are. So whether
1:37:01
you're a streamer trying to
1:37:01
build mods, whether you're a
1:37:06
youtube content creator out
1:37:06
there trying to get an editor
1:37:09
together and build a team or
1:37:09
that or whether you're offline
1:37:12
trying to build a team at your
1:37:12
current job. We may have some
1:37:15
info that can help you guys out.
1:37:15
Does that sound fun to you all?
1:37:21
Yeah, well. Alright, so first
1:37:21
things first, experience wise, I
1:37:28
spent several years at Sam's
1:37:28
Club as a hiring manager hiring
1:37:32
for all departments. So not just
1:37:32
mine, but I was over the floor
1:37:36
as over everything that people
1:37:36
would buy except for fresh
1:37:39
foods. And Thai Oh, no, I had
1:37:39
tires to Nevermind. So yeah,
1:37:44
pretty much everything but fresh
1:37:44
foods was mine. That's that was
1:37:48
my area. So of course, I sat
1:37:48
myself extremely well. But what
1:37:52
did it matter if I staff myself,
1:37:52
Well, if I couldn't get people
1:37:54
checked down to the cash
1:37:54
registers, or if the people
1:37:57
coming in to buy meat
1:37:57
specifically weren't coming in,
1:37:59
because the meat department
1:37:59
didn't have what they needed. So
1:38:02
when you're hiring a big thing
1:38:02
is to make sure that you are
1:38:06
distributing distributing talent
1:38:06
where it needs to go. If I had
1:38:11
someone, if I had a big horse
1:38:11
come in, I wasn't going to put
1:38:15
him up on the cash register or
1:38:15
put him in the middle of folding
1:38:17
clothes. I'm going to use him
1:38:17
somewhere where he can lift and
1:38:20
help out some of the other
1:38:20
departments. But there's more to
1:38:25
it than physical. Would you
1:38:25
agree that you have to find
1:38:29
people that are a mental balance
1:38:29
as well?
1:38:33
Yeah, I mean, emotional
1:38:33
intelligence is massive for me,
1:38:36
not only for the essential team,
1:38:36
but I mean real life and
1:38:39
probably even more real life. So
1:38:39
yeah, hiring for character
1:38:44
versus skill is a big one. I
1:38:44
think we can you can teach a lot
1:38:48
of people a lot of really cool
1:38:48
things that they have the right
1:38:50
mindset to want to learn. So
1:38:50
yeah, mindset for me right out
1:38:54
of the gate. If you focus on
1:38:54
that, and the character of a
1:38:56
person you're going to win out
1:38:56
and more times in your life.
1:38:59
I had a manager
1:38:59
Teach me when I was in my
1:39:01
process to train. He's like, I
1:39:01
can teach anybody to do
1:39:05
anything, but I can't teach you
1:39:05
to have a good attitude. And
1:39:09
that stuck with me for all of
1:39:09
it. Every time I go to hire
1:39:13
someone for anything, if they
1:39:13
have a good attitude, even if
1:39:16
they need a little bit more time
1:39:16
to learn. I can teach you that I
1:39:19
can teach you how the policies
1:39:19
and procedures and everything
1:39:22
work. I can't teach you to show
1:39:22
up on time. I can't teach you to
1:39:27
leave your home life at the door
1:39:27
to do the job. I can't teach you
1:39:34
to trust us if you do need to
1:39:34
open up about something going on
1:39:37
at home. It's just I don't want
1:39:37
you coming in. Like I always
1:39:41
tell them leave it at the door.
1:39:41
And I tell them we left like if
1:39:44
we were walking through the parking lot and they were talking about all this stuff
1:39:46
that still need to get on them like we'll be back tomorrow
1:39:48
guys. Leave it there. Don't take
1:39:51
that home. Don't you know I had
1:39:51
some people that are married.
1:39:54
Some people that live in home, it's like don't take that home to your family. Leave it here.
1:39:56
We don't leave it there. And
1:40:00
when we come in tomorrow, we'll
1:40:00
worry about what we got, then we
1:40:03
can't, we can't spend your whole
1:40:03
time worrying about what you
1:40:05
left behind. Because that's
1:40:05
another problem is I had to
1:40:08
watch the people that would
1:40:08
carry too much with them,
1:40:11
because they're the ones that
1:40:11
are going to snap and want to
1:40:13
leave. And normally, they're the
1:40:13
best workers. Yeah,
1:40:19
I mean, almost every
1:40:19
company is striving for ultimate
1:40:23
efficiency, right? So efficiency
1:40:23
is bottom line, you're going to
1:40:26
make more profit, everyone's
1:40:26
going to be you know that much
1:40:29
better, and the whole company is
1:40:29
going to be better. And I'm a
1:40:33
big proponent of harmony in that
1:40:33
space. So I think harmony, as in
1:40:36
happiness, people who are happy
1:40:36
and happy to be where they're
1:40:39
working, or they're going to be efficient. Because if you've ever just like you mentioned, if
1:40:41
you bring baggage from home, or
1:40:44
even if you have baggage at
1:40:44
work, which is even worse,
1:40:46
you're not going to be as
1:40:46
efficient as you would be in a
1:40:49
clear headspace. Happy about
1:40:49
where you're at, or content,
1:40:52
right. You don't even have to be
1:40:52
happy, but content and know your
1:40:55
piece of the giant puzzle.
1:40:55
Usually those people are way
1:40:58
more efficient, which means
1:40:58
you'll get more out of them.
1:41:01
And it sounds cold
1:41:01
when you think that way. Like
1:41:03
people will be like, Oh, well,
1:41:03
you're worried about efficiency.
1:41:07
Yeah. But caring about
1:41:07
efficiency, we care about you.
1:41:11
Correct? No, like, we have to
1:41:11
worry about multiple things.
1:41:16
How? How often do you have to
1:41:16
worry about your work culture?
1:41:21
Like Is that something you have
1:41:21
to stress about? All the dang
1:41:24
time like I do?
1:41:26
Yeah. So being in an
1:41:26
executive management. So before
1:41:31
I was like a senior manager, my
1:41:31
previous job before that, and
1:41:34
what was weird is 75% of my
1:41:34
employees weren't in my same
1:41:39
state. So I had to learn virtual
1:41:39
leadership, kind of like
1:41:44
everyone is now but I had to
1:41:44
learn it three and a half, four
1:41:47
or five years ago. So I got
1:41:47
comfortable trusting people in
1:41:51
doing their job. Because really,
1:41:51
you'll find out what people even
1:41:54
if they're different state, you'll find out people aren't doing their job simply by other
1:41:55
people complaining about them
1:41:58
not doing their job, right. So
1:41:58
the first place they're going is
1:42:00
their boss. And as long as you
1:42:00
don't hear the rumblings of
1:42:03
that, usually everything's okay.
1:42:03
And you'll have some sort of
1:42:05
accountability measures setting
1:42:05
where you can check in or
1:42:08
reports or whatever it looks
1:42:08
like. Currently, in my current
1:42:12
role, culture is literally
1:42:12
everything in my world. And I've
1:42:15
actually had to change the
1:42:15
culture from what it was to what
1:42:19
we're trying to go into, not
1:42:19
that it was terrible, but we
1:42:21
there there are some things that
1:42:21
I just want kosher from a
1:42:25
company health perspective. So
1:42:25
culture is massive. And one
1:42:29
thing about culture is it takes
1:42:29
a long time to change it. So it
1:42:33
is just like streamers or
1:42:33
anything else, you're trying to
1:42:36
decide what your community is
1:42:36
going to look like. It is really
1:42:40
based on your actions. As you
1:42:40
are the leader, you are the
1:42:43
representative of the way things
1:42:43
should go. So you can't complain
1:42:48
about drama if you're also
1:42:48
starting it yourself. So you
1:42:52
know just about Yeah, culture is massive for me.
1:42:55
So yeah, and I like what you talked about about culture taking a long time to
1:42:57
change. Because I feel like with
1:43:01
Activision, Ubisoft riot, any of
1:43:01
these guys that are coming out
1:43:04
of the woodwork because it feels
1:43:04
like every week, it's someone
1:43:06
new. But in those situations, we
1:43:06
need to maybe not applaud but we
1:43:14
need to recognize the small
1:43:14
steps they're taking to change
1:43:17
and I feel like I'm overly
1:43:17
critical sometimes because I'm
1:43:21
it's a big trigger for me when
1:43:21
you know, you have multimillion
1:43:27
dollar companies that are
1:43:27
saying, whoa, well, we didn't
1:43:29
know what was happening. How do
1:43:29
you not know what's happening,
1:43:33
but I'm not going to get into
1:43:33
another rant about that, because
1:43:36
I've already talked so set my
1:43:36
piece on that you guys mostly
1:43:40
have heard it probably. If not,
1:43:40
it's on our previous episodes oh
1:43:44
six that's not released during
1:43:44
this interview. But still, but
1:43:48
um, we do need to recognize
1:43:48
small steps like making a name
1:43:53
change to a character or making
1:43:53
an effort to finally acknowledge
1:43:59
wrongdoing instead of trying to
1:43:59
shove it under shoving away but
1:44:03
we can't let them off because of
1:44:03
small changes. That needs to be
1:44:06
a constant pressure from
1:44:06
consumers to say, hey, this
1:44:10
isn't Okay guys, you all can't,
1:44:10
y'all can't keep this frat boy
1:44:14
culture in your workplace. It's
1:44:14
not going to work. We're not
1:44:17
going to play your games. But
1:44:17
that comes down to the
1:44:21
individual. We can only implore
1:44:21
so much for you to at least
1:44:26
research what's going on with
1:44:26
these companies. But in saying
1:44:29
that, I've been part of a toxic
1:44:29
work environment I'm sure Hall
1:44:33
has as well. Do you have any
1:44:33
tips for how to not not get away
1:44:42
from a toxic work environment
1:44:42
but to improve a toxic work
1:44:46
environment because a lot of
1:44:46
people don't want to leave their
1:44:48
jobs because they love the job.
1:44:48
Just hate what's happening
1:44:52
around them. So do you have any
1:44:52
tips for how to help from maybe
1:44:57
not an employee level but from
1:44:57
supervisor level.
1:45:03
Ah, whoa, this is a deep
1:45:03
one.
1:45:06
We get deep around here.
1:45:08
Yeah, no, it's it's such a
1:45:08
good it's it's so interesting
1:45:12
because I mean, when they say it
1:45:12
truly starts at the top of that
1:45:15
it's dead on, right? And I don't
1:45:15
know if you've ever been in this
1:45:18
situation. I mean, so let's just
1:45:18
start with inclusivity. Right?
1:45:21
It's why it's one of our core
1:45:21
values on the team for
1:45:23
ascension. Because you you know
1:45:23
the complaint, when I hear you
1:45:28
say, we didn't know it was
1:45:28
happening, well, you should be
1:45:32
looking in the mirror as a
1:45:32
leader and saying it's your job
1:45:34
to know what's happening. And
1:45:34
what I mean by that is, you are
1:45:38
not creating an environment that
1:45:38
people feel comfortable to bring
1:45:41
things out that that aren't
1:45:41
right. Okay, so that one that
1:45:44
starts with the leadership, and
1:45:44
that is the key word of
1:45:47
inclusivity. Like, if you have
1:45:47
people on your team that are not
1:45:51
going to bring things up, like
1:45:51
maybe some offhanded joke,
1:45:53
right? If you walk by a
1:45:53
situation, and that is allowed
1:45:57
to happen, that is your fault.
1:45:57
And that's when it starts. It's
1:46:00
not this big diatribe or this
1:46:00
big press conference, it is the
1:46:04
little things it's the little
1:46:04
instances where you cut that off
1:46:08
and say that's unacceptable, and
1:46:08
you literally sever that from
1:46:13
existing inside the workplace,
1:46:13
that's where it starts, right?
1:46:15
So you build those tiny little
1:46:15
nuances and your culture moves
1:46:19
upward from there and you make
1:46:19
it okay to bring things up that
1:46:22
are uncomfortable if you have
1:46:22
leadership, that one can't hold
1:46:25
people accountable, because it
1:46:25
is hard to tell people things
1:46:28
they don't want to hear I get
1:46:28
it, but you have to have
1:46:30
somebody who's comfortable to
1:46:30
talk about that. That's why they
1:46:33
have HR you have people who are
1:46:33
really really good at those
1:46:36
conversations, it is a skill
1:46:36
beyond probably any of the it's
1:46:39
probably the most important
1:46:39
skill an HR person can have is
1:46:42
being able to have really
1:46:42
uncomfortable conversations and
1:46:45
being in that moment and listen,
1:46:45
and then your leadership has to
1:46:48
be in that same fold. So you
1:46:48
have to hold people accountable.
1:46:51
You have to stop it where it's
1:46:51
rotting. You have to talk about
1:46:54
difficult things and people have
1:46:54
to be able and comfortable to
1:46:57
come to their leaders and say
1:46:57
like this is not good This isn't
1:47:01
good enough and this is what I'd
1:47:01
like to talk about and change
1:47:04
and that's so good
1:47:04
that's so good because we know
1:47:09
who we cater to enjoy six we
1:47:09
know we are catering mainly to
1:47:12
content creators streamers
1:47:12
gamers things like that. What he
1:47:15
said still applies to you guys
1:47:15
if you're a streamer and you're
1:47:18
looking at your chat and someone
1:47:18
makes a joke and you're not
1:47:21
timing them out even if that's
1:47:21
our first offensive built
1:47:24
timeout pointed out say hey not
1:47:24
cool, we got to stop that
1:47:28
because it's always the little
1:47:28
things that people do to see how
1:47:32
much they can get away with if
1:47:32
they get away with this. Can I
1:47:35
get away with this? Everyone
1:47:35
wants to know where that line is
1:47:39
as a manager as a streamer as a
1:47:39
just in general as a boss you
1:47:44
have to make that line very
1:47:44
clear it's why
1:47:49
all streamers are bosses
1:47:49
right? So yeah, even though you
1:47:52
don't go into this wanting that
1:47:52
as soon as you create a when one
1:47:55
person starts following you and
1:47:55
one person goes into your
1:47:58
discord, you're now a
1:47:58
representation of authority to
1:48:01
that one person because they're
1:48:01
looking at you in that form. And
1:48:05
your community has to have rules
1:48:05
or values and you have to decide
1:48:08
what that looks like
1:48:09
you are the CEO of
1:48:09
your brand. This one on my hat.
1:48:13
I'm very protective. I am very
1:48:13
protective of this brand. I know
1:48:19
he is as well I know juicy is
1:48:19
juicy branding himself as the
1:48:23
most positive streamer. He lives
1:48:23
it you guys heard from him a
1:48:27
couple episodes ago juicy
1:48:27
absolute lips that on his
1:48:31
Twitter it is positivity
1:48:31
positivity positivity. Hall has
1:48:35
to wear two hats because he has
1:48:35
the essential one which is
1:48:39
definitely his baby, but also
1:48:39
his YouTube channel as well. So
1:48:44
it and you can see it over his
1:48:44
head. There's a whole bat
1:48:48
controller and a hat over to the
1:48:48
side but yeah, you have to be
1:48:54
the owner. You know if you're a
1:48:54
family friendly streamer like
1:48:57
me, you need your aleinu very
1:48:57
clear of okay guys. You all made
1:49:02
a 420 joke. I'm okay with that.
1:49:02
Because you're not explicitly
1:49:06
saying something. You all said
1:49:06
nice after I got a score of 69
1:49:11
Okay, that's kind of jokes, they
1:49:11
get away on my Cartoon Network
1:49:14
that might happen and get away
1:49:14
with it. But if you guys are
1:49:18
cussing, and even then if you're
1:49:18
a streamer and you're trying to
1:49:22
worry about cussing and bad
1:49:22
language, what you say in
1:49:25
English might be like English
1:49:25
for America might be offensive
1:49:31
for British viewers might be
1:49:31
offensive for a few different
1:49:35
viewers. They have a different
1:49:35
view on cussing than we have
1:49:38
over in Europe. So some things
1:49:38
they say they don't think is a
1:49:42
bad word like it is here. And
1:49:42
that's something you have to
1:49:45
kind of learn as different
1:49:45
cultures because you're not just
1:49:47
streaming to an American
1:49:47
audience. You know, I'm a
1:49:50
Kentucky boy. When I stream I'm
1:49:50
not distributing to Kentucky
1:49:53
people I'm streaming to global.
1:49:53
The stuff that's acceptable here
1:49:58
may not be acceptable everywhere
1:49:58
else vice versa. So you have to
1:50:01
be very aware of where your line
1:50:01
is. And what you will say is
1:50:05
okay, and how you punish on
1:50:05
that, because it's not so much
1:50:09
always punishment as discipline,
1:50:09
punishment. You know, if you
1:50:15
type someone out, you are just
1:50:15
giving them a second tour,
1:50:20
they're not saying anything where you can say, hey, by the way, here's why that happened.
1:50:22
You always have to follow up
1:50:25
with an explanation, if you just
1:50:25
time someone out and don't say
1:50:28
why. How are they going to know
1:50:28
what they did wrong? But
1:50:33
I want to I want to stay
1:50:33
on that. So I mean, pretty much
1:50:35
you're wrapping up ignorances,
1:50:35
right, which we all have. So you
1:50:38
mentioned at the beginning
1:50:38
about, you know, you and Miles
1:50:41
are very much the hashtag be
1:50:41
better. And if you think about
1:50:44
that, like, how do you put that
1:50:44
into action? You know, we can
1:50:47
say that all day long, but
1:50:47
people are gonna say, Okay,
1:50:50
well, I feel like I'm a good
1:50:50
human being and I fit that mold.
1:50:54
But really, it's it's exact,
1:50:54
exactly what you just said about
1:50:57
ignorances. Right, not
1:50:57
understanding what one culture
1:50:59
may see as bad versus good. It's
1:50:59
just like being open to the
1:51:03
concept that you don't know
1:51:03
everything, and trying to each
1:51:07
day, break down some of those
1:51:07
ignorances of your personal
1:51:11
views on things. Being open
1:51:11
minded when you're having a
1:51:13
conversation or a disagreement,
1:51:13
right? We can have disagreements
1:51:17
and still be friends, that's
1:51:17
actually possible in the world
1:51:20
can you imagine and being open
1:51:20
to real just to hear someone
1:51:24
out. And even if you don't agree
1:51:24
at the end of it, that's totally
1:51:27
fine. But realize that that you
1:51:27
could still coexist as human
1:51:30
beings. And that's all right.
1:51:30
That's what we need to get back
1:51:33
into that space versus where we are right now.
1:51:35
Absolutely. Because
1:51:35
I'm realizing that you like you
1:51:41
said, rather than you don't know
1:51:41
everything in Rails, and you've
1:51:44
made a mistake really is the
1:51:44
core of be better. It's not, you
1:51:48
know, go out and help an old
1:51:48
lady across the street, please
1:51:50
do because if you see someone
1:51:50
struggling to help them, but I
1:51:54
feel like if you were going to help an old lady across the street, you already were going
1:51:56
to help an old lady across the
1:51:58
street. If you weren't, that's
1:51:58
where the be better comes in.
1:52:01
Hey, just to help that lady out.
1:52:01
You know, just be open to help
1:52:06
people. I mean, he had been
1:52:06
workshopping a ton of different
1:52:09
ways to sign off on our stuff,
1:52:09
all of it revolve around be
1:52:12
better. It's still in process,
1:52:12
but because I want to say
1:52:17
Remember to love each other, but
1:52:17
that's critical role, and I
1:52:19
can't steal that from them. Matt
1:52:19
Mercer is too good of a person
1:52:22
for me to steal from but just in
1:52:22
general, we're trying to express
1:52:29
our desire for you all to be
1:52:29
better. And me and he tried to
1:52:32
do it every day, you know, I'm
1:52:32
used to I wouldn't have cared to
1:52:36
think about the whole Activision
1:52:36
thing I would have been upset
1:52:38
about the employees, but I would
1:52:38
have been like, well, no one
1:52:41
else is gonna, you know, remove
1:52:41
their games or not talk about
1:52:44
them, this, that or the other, I
1:52:44
removed every one of their games
1:52:47
from my consoles, I removed
1:52:47
Ubisoft and I still own them. So
1:52:53
if they do improve their
1:52:53
workplace, I'll come back. But
1:52:58
that's something I never would
1:52:58
have even considered cheese even
1:53:01
two or three years ago, like my
1:53:01
efforts to be better, who made
1:53:05
me think I do need to be more
1:53:05
sensitive towards what these
1:53:08
workers went through to make
1:53:08
these great games. It's not fair
1:53:13
to keep giving money, keep
1:53:13
giving publicity, keep giving
1:53:16
this side or the other to a
1:53:16
company that I don't agree with.
1:53:19
On the flip side, I'm not gonna
1:53:19
go out and tell people you need
1:53:22
to do the same. That's not up to
1:53:22
me, that's up to them. Some
1:53:25
people are gonna say, well, we
1:53:25
see I'm trying to make
1:53:28
differences, we're gonna keep
1:53:28
supporting them. So they know
1:53:30
that we recognize they're making
1:53:30
differences. So it's a fine line
1:53:35
to walk and be better is such a
1:53:35
fine. It's hard to define. It
1:53:41
really is like when we say it, I
1:53:41
know what I'm thinking of that I
1:53:45
need to do to be better. But not
1:53:45
everybody has the same journey
1:53:50
to being better people. Yeah, I
1:53:53
mean, it'll be different for everybody, for sure. And what everyone needs to realize
1:53:55
is it's not easy, right? Being
1:53:59
able to look in the mirror and
1:53:59
realize where you're faulting or
1:54:02
where you're failing is hard.
1:54:02
It's hard to do. And it's
1:54:07
usually around things that are
1:54:07
not easy to change. So you know,
1:54:10
it shouldn't be taken lightly,
1:54:10
that even small increments you
1:54:13
make each day are huge bonuses
1:54:13
to yourself as a person because
1:54:17
if you can start down that road
1:54:17
when you're in your teens, when
1:54:20
you hit your 20s 30s really when
1:54:20
you're hitting your work stride,
1:54:23
it's you're going to be you will
1:54:23
climb the corporate ladder
1:54:26
because essentially what
1:54:26
everybody wants to do is become
1:54:29
more successful and make more
1:54:29
money. Your high emotional
1:54:32
intelligence will make you climb
1:54:32
that ladder much faster.
1:54:36
And with all the stuff we've talked about, because I'm sure some people
1:54:38
think up there, we got miles off
1:54:40
track again, we really didn't.
1:54:40
Because a lot of the stuff about
1:54:45
growing as an individual growing
1:54:45
as a worker in the workforce,
1:54:49
still is going to apply to you
1:54:49
whether you're a new hire coming
1:54:54
in to stock groceries or whether
1:54:54
you're an executive in charge of
1:54:58
multimillion dollar moves. If
1:54:58
you are a better person on your
1:55:03
own, if you're worried about
1:55:03
improving yourself on your own,
1:55:06
at any level that you're at,
1:55:06
it's going to improve the
1:55:09
workplace, it's going to improve
1:55:09
that improve the environment. So
1:55:14
like, if you guys see a problem
1:55:14
in your own chat, even if you're
1:55:17
just a chatter and you see a
1:55:17
problem, maybe message the, if
1:55:23
you're there small ones, that they're big ones, they're not going to pay attention already,
1:55:24
I can tell you that now, because
1:55:26
they can't read every message.
1:55:26
But there's something out in the
1:55:29
chat, that maybe the module see
1:55:29
about, hey, Is this okay? If
1:55:34
not, it might be time to try a
1:55:34
new chat out for a while. But be
1:55:40
somewhere you're comfortable.
1:55:40
Don't don't. I'm not saying
1:55:44
don't stretch and grow your
1:55:44
horizons. That's not what I mean
1:55:47
by comfortable. By comfortable,
1:55:47
I mean, if you go somewhere that
1:55:49
makes you feel like your values
1:55:49
are being ignored. Or if you're
1:55:56
having to change your values to
1:55:56
something that you don't agree
1:55:59
with. either bring it up to your
1:55:59
HR, like we talked about, bring
1:56:03
it up to someone you trust to
1:56:03
talk to. Or maybe that is a sign
1:56:08
that it's time to try a new
1:56:08
place. Don't Don't let yourself
1:56:11
get in a situation where you're
1:56:11
going to burn out or you're
1:56:14
going to fall apart. Because
1:56:14
that's not live in life. Going
1:56:20
home being burned out, you know,
1:56:20
we joked at the very beginning
1:56:22
of this, about going home to our
1:56:22
lawns, I like cutting my grass,
1:56:27
too. It's the same type of deal.
1:56:27
If you get home and you're so
1:56:30
burnt out from work, that you
1:56:30
can't even worry about something
1:56:33
that brings you joy, like
1:56:33
streaming or cutting your grass
1:56:35
or grilling out or anything like
1:56:35
that. Look at where you're at
1:56:40
and look at what's wrong.
1:56:40
Because you should be able to go
1:56:43
home and enjoy your time away
1:56:43
from work and not worry about
1:56:45
work. And most of the time when
1:56:45
people worry about work, it's
1:56:48
not because, oh, I'm worried
1:56:48
we're gonna miss that deadline.
1:56:51
It's, I'm worried about what's
1:56:51
going to happen when we miss
1:56:54
that deadline. Or if we miss
1:56:54
that deadline, and worrying
1:56:58
about the social aspect of work
1:56:58
more than the work part about
1:57:02
work. I know that's true for me,
1:57:02
at least I've never worried
1:57:05
about I've never worried about
1:57:05
oh, well I didn't get that set
1:57:09
up in time. I didn't get that
1:57:09
new display up in time I worried
1:57:11
about oh man what so and so
1:57:11
gonna do because I didn't get
1:57:15
this done. avons just a
1:57:15
reprimand like, Hey, get it done
1:57:19
next time or something like
1:57:19
that, that's not a big deal. But
1:57:22
if it's something you feel is
1:57:22
going to be, you know, you're
1:57:26
gonna be ridiculed or something.
1:57:26
That's about work environment.
1:57:33
Yeah, I agree the
1:57:33
accountability piece is I mean,
1:57:35
you can have a good culture
1:57:35
installed accountability, those
1:57:37
two can exist. Yep. And that's,
1:57:37
that's the struggle. It's
1:57:41
finding that balance and
1:57:41
accountability through data for
1:57:43
me. So you use data. It's not
1:57:43
it's not subjective. It's very
1:57:47
analytical, and you can decide
1:57:47
what's good versus bad. And
1:57:50
where's your line, the culture
1:57:50
piece is where all the
1:57:53
subjectivity comes in. And you
1:57:53
have to kind of decide what your
1:57:55
values are, and then always make
1:57:55
decisions on those pillars.
1:58:00
And there's a big
1:58:00
difference with accountability.
1:58:02
And being held accountable for
1:58:02
not getting a project done. You
1:58:08
know, it's going to be
1:58:08
uncomfortable, but it's not
1:58:10
going to be lasting effects. 90%
1:58:10
of the time it's going to be,
1:58:16
here's how we can fix this going
1:58:16
forward, be better about it, you
1:58:19
may be removed from the project,
1:58:19
you may not be, that's a
1:58:22
different story. But the culture
1:58:22
thing that we're talking about
1:58:24
is if all of a sudden that boss
1:58:24
is talking junk about you behind
1:58:28
your back, or even to your face.
1:58:28
Or if you notice that you're
1:58:33
being treated truly unfairly,
1:58:33
not that you're feeling like
1:58:37
you're treated. And apparently, if you're not putting on another project for a while, that's
1:58:39
because you didn't get it done
1:58:41
on time. But if you feel like
1:58:41
you're being harassed in any
1:58:46
way, like if you feel like
1:58:46
they're taunting you things like
1:58:49
that. That's like a culture. It
1:58:49
should always be the growth. And
1:58:54
this is a manager piece again,
1:58:54
the goal, the goal for someone
1:58:58
that mess up should always be
1:58:58
growth out of it. at Sam's, we
1:59:03
didn't call it a write up. We
1:59:03
called it coaching. Because it
1:59:06
didn't always result in an
1:59:06
actual physical write up. It
1:59:08
was, here's what happened, how
1:59:08
can we improve this going
1:59:12
forward? Because Hall mentioned
1:59:12
this way back in the beginning
1:59:15
of this. It's really expensive
1:59:15
to hire someone new, it's so
1:59:20
much cheaper to train. And then
1:59:20
if it's someone that already
1:59:23
fits your work environment, you
1:59:23
don't want to remove a piece
1:59:26
that actually is positive. You
1:59:26
don't want to take away positive
1:59:30
interactions. Because most of
1:59:30
these people and I know some
1:59:34
people say oh, they care about
1:59:34
their money. At the highest
1:59:37
level. Yeah. I'll tell you
1:59:37
straight up, if you're working
1:59:41
in retail, that CEO doesn't care
1:59:41
about you, they care about what
1:59:44
you can bring in. But the guy
1:59:44
sitting in the head office for
1:59:47
you up in the upstairs office,
1:59:47
probably cares about you more
1:59:51
than you know and it's probably bought for you more than you know, if they are buying your
1:59:53
team pizzas and things like that
1:59:57
as a team building thing. It's
1:59:57
because they seem around All
2:00:00
this low and they're trying to
2:00:00
give you something to show Hey,
2:00:02
I do appreciate you I can't go
2:00:02
by you guys all cars but I can
2:00:07
buy you all pizza. So recognize
2:00:07
when they are trying to do team
2:00:11
building things it's because
2:00:11
they see a problem they are
2:00:13
trying to solve it.
2:00:16
But But I don't know about
2:00:16
retail but I would challenge you
2:00:20
on the executive leadership not
2:00:20
caring so for instance, I have
2:00:23
to say not all but yeah agree
2:00:23
but I have a group that I'm a
2:00:27
part of and the CEO of chick fil
2:00:27
a is also in this not in my
2:00:32
group, but in a similar setup
2:00:32
their own
2:00:34
chick fil a out
2:00:34
there and obviously chick fil a
2:00:36
care.
2:00:37
Well, I mean, just to give
2:00:37
you a little insight of what
2:00:40
good companies look like so he
2:00:40
takes time out and has a 20
2:00:45
minute one on one session, every
2:00:45
year every couple of years with
2:00:49
every chick fil a employee and
2:00:49
ask them you know, what
2:00:52
motivates them to work I give
2:00:52
them money is a promotion is
2:00:56
that whatever whatever that
2:00:56
looks like, finds out has a
2:01:00
giant grid spreadsheet of every
2:01:00
employee and then obviously
2:01:03
shares that with their managers
2:01:03
to understand how to get them
2:01:06
motivated and how to how to keep
2:01:06
them as good employees. It's
2:01:08
pretty interesting.
2:01:09
And you know what's funny, you look at a place like chick fil a take social stuff
2:01:11
out of the equation, because I
2:01:15
know we're automatically gonna
2:01:15
have some people will they hate
2:01:19
people which I'm going to move
2:01:19
past that, because I'm looking
2:01:22
at just the efficiency and the
2:01:22
people that work there seem very
2:01:25
happy. But if you happen to
2:01:25
chick fil a lot, and a
2:01:28
McDonald's line at the same
2:01:28
time, chick fil A's line can be
2:01:31
20 cars deep McDonald's can be
2:01:31
four cars deep, you're going to
2:01:34
get through chick fil a line faster, because they are efficient. The people are
2:01:36
serving you with a smile and
2:01:39
seem like they're genuinely
2:01:39
having fun, or at least as much
2:01:43
fun as you can have at work.
2:01:43
They seem like they're enjoying
2:01:45
what they do. Very few times
2:01:45
have ever gone to chick fil a
2:01:49
and just had a negative employee
2:01:49
experience. I can't say that
2:01:53
about any other fast food are
2:01:53
great. You get to McDonald's,
2:01:57
and it's people that are just
2:01:57
beaten down and done. I've seen
2:02:00
less chick fil A's closing
2:02:00
because of staffing issues, then
2:02:03
Wendy's or Burger King or
2:02:03
McDonald's. You know, we've been
2:02:07
seeing those posts online a lot
2:02:07
about we all quit. I don't know
2:02:12
that I've seen an entire chick
2:02:12
fil a quit. I've seen. I think
2:02:16
there are two and Alabama that
2:02:16
had to close their doors for
2:02:19
indoor dining because they
2:02:19
didn't have the staffing. But
2:02:22
that's everywhere. But
2:02:25
yeah, I mean, if you think
2:02:25
and once again, like they just
2:02:28
they're very clear on their values, whether you agree with them or not is is not important
2:02:30
at this moment in time. But they
2:02:33
have extreme accountability,
2:02:33
because their values are very
2:02:35
clear and what they want to
2:02:35
produce from a customer
2:02:38
experience. So that's very laid
2:02:38
out. It's very clear, and all of
2:02:42
their employees understand what
2:02:42
good looks like in that space.
2:02:44
Yep, that's why they're
2:02:44
successful. Now whether I don't
2:02:47
agree with their views on
2:02:47
everything, either, but at the
2:02:49
same time, I know that my order
2:02:49
is going to be right. And it's
2:02:52
going to be a pleasant
2:02:52
experience, even if the line is
2:02:55
like 17 cars deep. That's pretty
2:02:55
crazy. If you think about that.
2:03:00
Yeah. I mean, we
2:03:00
have them scattered around my
2:03:02
city out here and lines always
2:03:02
back around the building, but
2:03:07
and again, the order always
2:03:07
being right. Some people think
2:03:11
well, that's just because of
2:03:11
training. Yeah. Because that's
2:03:15
part of your work environment.
2:03:15
They're trained well. And if
2:03:18
orders are right, you're going
2:03:18
to have less people coming back
2:03:20
through the line upset. You
2:03:20
know, that's another thing I
2:03:24
don't think I've ever seen a
2:03:24
chick fil a is someone come back
2:03:26
in yelling and screaming about
2:03:26
anything. And I'm not to say it
2:03:30
doesn't happen because people
2:03:30
are sure to happen. But I've
2:03:32
never seen that where I've seen
2:03:32
it in other places. And I mean,
2:03:35
that's a great example that I
2:03:35
hadn't even thought about
2:03:38
because yeah, you're right. That
2:03:38
is a CEO that does seem to care
2:03:42
about his employees growth and
2:03:42
everything. There was one at
2:03:47
Walmart before that I met when I
2:03:47
was doing all my big corporate
2:03:52
stuff with Walmart. And I met
2:03:52
him when he was a lower level
2:03:55
executive. And when he was CEO,
2:03:55
I saw him again he's like, mas
2:03:59
once you move to management, I'm
2:03:59
like, What? Who may look behind?
2:04:06
Remember me I met you for like
2:04:06
two seconds until and I'd even
2:04:09
told him that was my goal is to
2:04:09
move to management. And I swear
2:04:12
he went and said something
2:04:12
because as a as at this thing,
2:04:18
how to describe it. It's a giant
2:04:18
Walmart pep rally. It's called
2:04:22
the shareholders meeting. And
2:04:22
they take one person from every
2:04:26
club or every store and send
2:04:26
them to Arkansas. And you spend
2:04:30
three or four days down there
2:04:30
beforehand. And like I got to
2:04:33
see train and construct I see
2:04:33
Leonard Skinner in concert I got
2:04:36
to go tour both of the home
2:04:36
offices. The Sam's Club home
2:04:40
office has like the most Google
2:04:40
fill ever. The Walmart home
2:04:43
office is literally an old
2:04:43
school building that they took
2:04:46
over. It's real funny to see the
2:04:46
difference between them. And at
2:04:50
the end of it, there's this big
2:04:50
shareholder meeting and the
2:04:53
managers and staff are out there
2:04:53
pumping them up to make it seem
2:04:57
bigger than it is but just good.
2:04:57
It's good. I was As a
2:05:00
shareholder, so I like to see
2:05:00
that many people pumped up about
2:05:02
it. But the reason I bring it up
2:05:02
is I met him there. And when I
2:05:06
got back all of a sudden there's
2:05:06
a new manager training spot
2:05:10
opened up and I hadn't even
2:05:10
finished my application when I
2:05:13
got a call saying hey, yeah,
2:05:13
don't don't worry about that you
2:05:15
already moving up. I'm like, oh,
2:05:15
okay, so I swear to made an
2:05:19
impression. I swear he had said
2:05:19
something. But like the fact
2:05:22
that he remembered me years
2:05:22
later, in a new market, I wasn't
2:05:26
even in the same market anymore.
2:05:26
He just came through and he
2:05:29
recognized me he had no reason
2:05:29
to know that's where I was. And
2:05:31
then I was the same person but
2:05:31
he did. I don't believe he's
2:05:35
still with them. Because Walmart
2:05:35
Sam's Club retail in general
2:05:38
moves. So CEO so quickly, he may
2:05:38
be like, target now for all I
2:05:42
know, but, but that's something
2:05:42
you can always tell the
2:05:45
difference of his places and
2:05:45
have that those good people like
2:05:48
that. I still have positive
2:05:48
feelings about Sam's Club, I
2:05:51
left on a very positive note
2:05:51
with them. I did not leave on a
2:05:55
positive note with Lowe's and
2:05:55
they have a I don't know if
2:05:58
their whole work environments
2:05:58
crappy. But the store I was at
2:06:01
had a very bad work environment.
2:06:01
They went through let's see, I
2:06:06
replaced the gentleman that
2:06:06
overworked himself ended up
2:06:08
crashing his car and passing
2:06:08
Unfortunately, that's who I
2:06:12
replaced. The other. There are
2:06:12
always two managers at night at
2:06:15
our store that we were at. The
2:06:15
other one had worked himself
2:06:18
into a seizure. And they fired
2:06:18
him after I joined. I left on my
2:06:24
own because I'd passed out on a
2:06:24
truck and they called me into
2:06:27
work the next day when I was
2:06:27
clearly not okay. And then
2:06:31
wouldn't listen when I told him
2:06:31
I needed more staff, I supposed
2:06:33
to have a staff of 10 I had a staff of three
2:06:36
that's all just
2:06:36
overworked, stress related or
2:06:38
one
2:06:40
partly, but it's
2:06:40
part of the environment. But I'm
2:06:44
the next guy they that left he
2:06:44
left because of the work
2:06:47
environment fully. The manager
2:06:47
the other managers were talking
2:06:51
crap about behind his back, he
2:06:51
was doing his best with it. And
2:06:54
instead of talking to him and
2:06:54
fixing it, they were like, that
2:06:56
detects shango that he ended up
2:06:56
seeing or they're talking about
2:07:00
how he couldn't cut it, he
2:07:00
couldn't cut it there. Well,
2:07:03
they told him at one point that
2:07:03
I quit because of him which is
2:07:06
the farthest thing from the
2:07:06
truth I've worked my butt off to
2:07:08
help train them but they said
2:07:08
that I quit because of him they
2:07:12
were using him as a scapegoat
2:07:12
for all the issues so he left
2:07:15
this is all in the course of six
2:07:15
months mind you this is for
2:07:19
managers going in six months and
2:07:19
the guy that replaced me
2:07:22
apparently quit as well. So like
2:07:22
they had father smoke there's
2:07:26
fire funny well no worst part
2:07:26
that manager was up for a
2:07:32
corporate position as well over
2:07:32
our market so I was like nah,
2:07:38
because I've had Lowe's call
2:07:38
multiple times since I've left
2:07:41
Hey, we know you had a bad
2:07:41
experience here but would you
2:07:44
like working at this one better?
2:07:44
It has a better work environment
2:07:47
Mike well is that on my head say
2:07:47
any names but is so and so
2:07:52
running the market? Yeah, didn't
2:07:52
know because I told I told them
2:07:57
what was going on and they
2:07:57
didn't make a change. I know
2:08:00
nothing is going to change if
2:08:00
they had made a move and at
2:08:05
least talk to my boss and helped
2:08:05
him see he told me at one point
2:08:11
that he could fire me this was
2:08:11
my last day actually, he told me
2:08:14
that he could fire my whole
2:08:14
entire team and get new hires in
2:08:17
here to work better I took my
2:08:17
keys and handed them to them at
2:08:21
that point my guys I called all
2:08:21
my guys on my way out the door
2:08:25
like Hey, y'all need to put in
2:08:25
transfers for a different store
2:08:27
because it's not going to go
2:08:27
well here because don't don't
2:08:31
bring my team down my team we
2:08:31
had three people stocking in
2:08:36
that entire store and we were
2:08:36
one of the busiest stores in the
2:08:38
city man get out of here my guys
2:08:38
were doing great but yeah, he
2:08:43
was talking about how he could
2:08:43
get rid of my guys and make him
2:08:45
better Okay, prove it. So I took
2:08:45
my guys and told him they all
2:08:49
move to a different store and
2:08:49
that store Let me ask you Go on
2:08:53
Go ahead. I was gonna say that
2:08:53
story ended up having higher
2:08:55
numbers afterwards because these
2:08:55
guys were very good they were
2:08:59
very experienced
2:09:01
it's it's interesting
2:09:01
because I mean so like back to
2:09:04
the Ubisoft Activision thing I'm
2:09:04
thinking about this because of
2:09:07
what you said the construction
2:09:07
industry which is what I do in
2:09:11
my real life is desperate need
2:09:11
for people right? So we're about
2:09:15
a million workers short if you
2:09:15
think of all of just general
2:09:18
construction. So keeping people
2:09:18
is is is absolutely necessary
2:09:24
but if you think about let's
2:09:24
talk about like retail or you
2:09:26
talk about like the gaming
2:09:26
industry, it is probably one of
2:09:30
the hottest industries for
2:09:30
people wanting to get into
2:09:34
building video games because
2:09:34
it's it's flashy, it's it's
2:09:37
amazing it's what you know, most
2:09:37
kids do, you know from ages
2:09:40
whatever up to so if, if the
2:09:40
mentality is of leadership is I
2:09:46
don't have to deal with these
2:09:46
people can start I can just
2:09:48
replace them. Do you feel like
2:09:48
that's part of the reason that
2:09:52
we could be where we are in the
2:09:52
gaming industry because you can
2:09:54
just cycle people because
2:09:54
there's always a pot to pull
2:09:57
from.
2:09:57
I think it is I
2:09:57
think it's why it took so long
2:09:59
for it to come. out, because
2:09:59
people were scared to say
2:10:03
anything, not because of fear of
2:10:03
anything that can be done to
2:10:07
them that way. But fear of I'll
2:10:07
never work in this industry
2:10:11
again. And I love the industry.
2:10:14
I think I think it's well connected.
2:10:16
If you work for
2:10:16
Activision Blizzard, and all of
2:10:19
a sudden you don't work for them
2:10:19
anymore. You have two options,
2:10:24
either not list them on your
2:10:24
resume. So you work there for
2:10:27
five years, we'll say even three
2:10:27
years, three years you work
2:10:30
there. Either don't list them on
2:10:30
your resume and have that big
2:10:34
gap that you have to explain that I'm
2:10:36
going to ask you why you
2:10:36
have adapted your work history,
2:10:38
or mentioned
2:10:39
them. And then
2:10:39
they'll ask why you left? And if
2:10:43
you lie and say, Oh, I left on
2:10:43
my own because of this. They may
2:10:46
call they may not well,
2:10:48
yeah, I mean, that's
2:10:48
that's against the law to
2:10:51
misrepresent your
2:10:52
Exactly. So if you
2:10:52
go in there and say, Oh, well, I
2:10:56
left because of a bad work
2:10:56
environment that they call and
2:10:59
find out that you were fired or
2:10:59
released. It's really easy to
2:11:03
get blackballed. I think it
2:11:03
would, you'd have to all of a
2:11:07
sudden go smaller companies,
2:11:07
smaller Indies, things like
2:11:09
that. But I mean, Activision
2:11:09
Blizzard covers a lot of
2:11:14
different companies, because
2:11:14
they have a lot of those
2:11:16
companies bought up EA, same
2:11:16
deal. And I think it'd be hot, I
2:11:21
think. I know that Lowe's, when
2:11:21
they hired me, called one of my
2:11:26
bosses from Sam's and asked
2:11:26
about me, because she sent me a
2:11:29
message like, Hey, I just got a
2:11:29
call from so and so here's what
2:11:33
I told him because she let me
2:11:33
know what she told him. And it
2:11:36
was mostly positive, she told
2:11:36
him like one or two issues that
2:11:38
I had been working on. And I
2:11:38
even mentioned those in my
2:11:41
interview. So they were really
2:11:41
excited to see that I had
2:11:44
recognized in this, that and the
2:11:44
other, but um, right. And there
2:11:48
were minor things that they
2:11:48
said, she said, I was too soft,
2:11:51
which I was, still I am. If
2:11:51
being soft means caring about my
2:11:56
people, I'm going to always care
2:11:56
about my people more than the
2:11:59
job. But I want to care about my
2:11:59
people to get a better deal out
2:12:03
of their job. But that's besides
2:12:03
the point. But yeah, I do
2:12:06
believe that's why somebody were
2:12:06
so scared to come forward.
2:12:09
Because it would be hard to get
2:12:09
a job, they didn't even set
2:12:13
let's say they wanted to go to
2:12:13
EA or something. wants to make
2:12:18
them think it won't be the same
2:12:18
in another company. So why don't
2:12:21
I just go ahead and muddle
2:12:21
through this, and deal with it
2:12:24
here because we thought at first
2:12:24
is we're just gonna be talking
2:12:26
about Ubisoft or Activision than
2:12:26
Ubisoft. And there's a
2:12:30
conversation than Riot and
2:12:30
there's a conversation. Right
2:12:34
now EA, who all gamers were
2:12:34
saying was the worst company
2:12:37
ever looks pretty dang good.
2:12:41
I mean, this is very
2:12:41
similar to the whole Silicon
2:12:43
Valley, Google Enterprise,
2:12:43
right, or all of the startups
2:12:46
you know. So when you're starting, just like essentially, when you're starting something
2:12:48
up, like you're kind of who, you
2:12:51
know, we started with values
2:12:51
versus a reason we did that,
2:12:54
because then it's very clear at
2:12:54
what direction but if you don't
2:12:57
start with that, and you're just
2:12:57
going 100 miles an hour forward,
2:13:00
and it's success is your
2:13:00
barometer, of what good looks
2:13:04
like, you're going to reach a
2:13:04
point where you have a crapload
2:13:07
of people that are working with
2:13:07
you or for you. And there's
2:13:11
going to be no measure of what
2:13:11
good looks like in your culture.
2:13:15
And if those those rules aren't
2:13:15
clearly laid out, you know, I
2:13:18
know Silicon Valley went through
2:13:18
a huge change with this where
2:13:22
they really had to wrap their
2:13:22
arms around culture management,
2:13:25
and all that kind of stuff.
2:13:25
Because they're, they're growing
2:13:28
so quickly that it got out of
2:13:28
control. I feel like the gaming
2:13:31
industry is in that and they're
2:13:31
right now catching up with the
2:13:34
rest of the world of what a good
2:13:34
work environment looks like. And
2:13:38
that wasn't at the forefront it
2:13:38
was just success and make good
2:13:41
games for gamers. That's that
2:13:41
was that passion.
2:13:43
It's so funny.
2:13:43
Again, he hasn't heard the
2:13:46
recording for the episode that
2:13:46
just came out.
2:13:49
I have not.
2:13:50
I talked about the
2:13:50
Golden Circle, the TED Talk, the
2:13:52
Golden Circle TED Talk, where
2:13:52
instead of working from the
2:13:54
outside in, you have to work
2:13:54
from the inside out. And that's
2:13:57
one of the ones I talked about
2:13:57
is how you know if you start
2:14:00
with your values, if you start
2:14:00
with, for me streaming, it was
2:14:03
always I want to entertain
2:14:03
people. My next layer, how do I
2:14:07
want to entertain people, and
2:14:07
you're starting from the outside
2:14:09
in, you're going to implode
2:14:09
because you can only get so
2:14:12
tight going in. If you start
2:14:12
from the inside out and add a
2:14:16
layer as you grow. You know, the
2:14:16
goal for streaming has never
2:14:20
been I want 1000 subs on
2:14:20
YouTube. it's ever been I want
2:14:24
500 followers on Twitch, it's
2:14:24
always been I want to entertain
2:14:28
people that is the core of
2:14:28
everything I do, whether it's
2:14:31
joysticks, whether it's
2:14:31
streaming, whether it's just
2:14:33
making music tic tocs it's not
2:14:33
about how many followers is
2:14:38
gonna get me it's Is this
2:14:38
something people find
2:14:41
entertaining if I have five
2:14:41
people watching it, but those
2:14:45
five people love what I'm doing.
2:14:45
I'm going to grow on it because
2:14:49
it's something entertaining, I
2:14:49
might mix it up and try to reach
2:14:52
a broader audience. But at the
2:14:52
same time I'm okay entertaining
2:14:55
people. And then that's the next
2:14:55
layer. I'm going to entertain
2:15:00
people. How am I gonna entertain
2:15:00
people? I'm going to entertain
2:15:02
them by playing games on Twitch
2:15:02
recording content for YouTube.
2:15:07
Playing music on tik tok. That's
2:15:07
and then from there I keep going
2:15:11
well, you're playing music on
2:15:11
tik tok, what are you doing
2:15:14
after that I'm going to try to
2:15:14
expand my reach to entertain
2:15:17
more people, it always needs to
2:15:17
come back to your core values.
2:15:22
But I mean like I'm 36 I
2:15:22
probably figured this out when I
2:15:26
was 28 right I really grew into
2:15:26
what kind of person what kind of
2:15:31
leader I was going to be just
2:15:31
you know, as I get more mature
2:15:35
through my work experience, you
2:15:35
know, some streamers are
2:15:38
starting at 1516 1718 even
2:15:38
sometimes younger. So that
2:15:43
maturity level, just realize
2:15:43
that if you are going to go down
2:15:46
this road, you need to work on
2:15:46
your leadership skills now
2:15:50
because there's going to be a
2:15:50
moment where you are going to be
2:15:53
surrounded by chaos and not sure
2:15:53
how to handle it.
2:15:57
Yep. And a lot of
2:15:57
you guys are starting off with
2:16:00
that theory of I want to be
2:16:00
famous, that's fine. Look at
2:16:05
your values and build from
2:16:05
there. I promise you you won't
2:16:09
be disappointed if you if you
2:16:09
build from your values. Even if
2:16:14
you never make it to a big
2:16:14
number. You will be happy if you
2:16:19
can live by your values it
2:16:19
changes it changes things it
2:16:23
really does and I think people
2:16:23
underestimate it It changes your
2:16:27
outlook you know I'm in a job
2:16:27
right now. I'm literally at the
2:16:31
job amount right now for the
2:16:31
insurance so I can pursue my
2:16:35
passion of streaming I have to
2:16:35
say unicorn now because I'm on
2:16:40
line unicorn fully supports that
2:16:40
she we were talking about a new
2:16:45
job opportunity for her and I
2:16:45
mentioned to her that if the
2:16:49
drop in pay was too much to
2:16:49
balance that out go get a
2:16:52
different job and work more
2:16:52
hours it's like no because you
2:16:55
love what you're doing right now
2:16:55
and we have a good work life
2:16:58
balance don't change that she's
2:16:58
like you have what we've been
2:17:01
looking for for you for a long
2:17:01
time. So we live by our values
2:17:06
and it's made things different
2:17:06
for us I promise you guys if you
2:17:11
guys know what your values are,
2:17:11
it makes it easy to live your
2:17:14
life It makes it easy to be
2:17:14
better it really does because
2:17:18
then you can look at something
2:17:18
well is this something that my
2:17:21
brain would agree with? Is this
2:17:21
something that I personally
2:17:23
would agree with the answer that
2:17:23
is no one other end don't
2:17:26
associate with it easy as that?
2:17:30
Yeah, I know I love the
2:17:30
phrase I heard this from like a
2:17:33
family planning thing we're
2:17:33
going through and it's protect
2:17:35
the entity right so if the
2:17:35
entity is your personal brand or
2:17:38
you as a as a brand, whatever
2:17:38
that looks like and whatever
2:17:41
venture you're going for content
2:17:41
creation if you always protect
2:17:44
it by aligning those values with
2:17:44
the decisions you make even
2:17:48
they're not always going to be
2:17:48
easy either it's easy to write
2:17:51
people off who you can clearly
2:17:51
tell are not good for your brand
2:17:54
it's hard to write people off
2:17:54
where you find out later on good
2:17:57
for your brand so protect the
2:17:57
entity whatever that means
2:18:00
whatever that looks like follow
2:18:00
the values and and protect your
2:18:03
brain
2:18:06
this has been an
2:18:06
awesome discussion and agree and
2:18:11
now you get now you get the
2:18:11
experience of miles has a topic
2:18:16
just riffs because that's that's
2:18:16
what I do to eat every recording
2:18:20
and it's how we get so far off
2:18:20
base that I do exactly what I
2:18:23
did I always bring it back and
2:18:23
he's like, did you guide that a
2:18:26
little bit? I'll do that all the
2:18:26
time because people think I'm
2:18:31
just writing but I went down
2:18:31
avenues to get to what I said to
2:18:36
where does always tie back all
2:18:36
right. always end with a
2:18:40
question to our guests because
2:18:40
it's always important. What
2:18:43
games coming out this year that
2:18:43
you're excited about besides
2:18:47
value
2:18:48
besides battlefield
2:18:48
battlefield is one farming Sim
2:18:51
2020 or farming Sim 22 is coming
2:18:51
out in November already have a
2:18:56
pre ordered and downloaded I'm
2:18:56
actually going to be playing on
2:18:58
PC this time because there's
2:18:58
more mods and different things
2:19:01
so last time I played on Xbox
2:19:01
for 19 but I'm playing on PC God
2:19:05
and I will have an essential
2:19:05
farm and it will be amazing with
2:19:08
grapes
2:19:09
I can't wait that
2:19:09
sounds like it's gonna be
2:19:11
awesome see I'm shocked I
2:19:11
haven't messed with any of these
2:19:14
sim type games yet considering
2:19:14
like so far I play farm life
2:19:18
games all the time. And the sim
2:19:18
games look fun like even the
2:19:23
pressure washer one a lot of
2:19:23
fun. Oh yeah
2:19:26
yeah, well I mean farming
2:19:26
The reason I love farming is
2:19:29
because like normally if you're
2:19:29
thinking about a game you're not
2:19:31
sure what to do like there's so
2:19:31
much crap to get done each time
2:19:35
like you'll have to create like
2:19:35
a to do list just to get through
2:19:37
it. So if you're like an
2:19:37
organizer like me like it's a
2:19:39
perfect game for
2:19:40
people he's over there with one screen playing the game one screen with an
2:19:42
Excel document
2:19:45
exactly how much money you
2:19:45
can this day I'm literally doing
2:19:48
equations on the side.
2:19:49
I was joking with you about battlefield I know you're excited about battlefield
2:19:51
that's that's where we mentioned
2:19:55
battlefield had some battlefield
2:19:55
news for you guys. I guess that
2:19:57
was episode two or three was
2:19:57
because we put that thing on
2:20:02
Twitter and asking Hey, what
2:20:02
games you all want us to cover
2:20:04
it he was quick to throw it out
2:20:04
of the field. But it was cool
2:20:08
because it's a game I don't play
2:20:08
as much. So it's neat for me to
2:20:12
look into research and more
2:20:12
like, Oh, I might want to play
2:20:14
this.
2:20:15
Yeah, I hope they don't go
2:20:15
to Kati, I'm going to say that
2:20:19
as Cod. Why? Because I want them
2:20:19
to stay true to ourselves.
2:20:23
Because it's not all about the
2:20:23
crazy takedowns and magic, I
2:20:26
don't want magic. I want the
2:20:26
best person who is positioning
2:20:29
and shooting to always win the
2:20:29
fight. That's where I want and
2:20:32
that's where cod doesn't do well.
2:20:33
And it's so funny
2:20:33
because the last con I played a
2:20:36
lot was Modern Warfare, that
2:20:36
original Modern Warfare, not the
2:20:40
remake that just came out the
2:20:40
various one where it did feel
2:20:43
like it was more skill based
2:20:43
than Park based or anything like
2:20:46
that. I tried. Warzone once
2:20:46
right before everything came out
2:20:53
about Activision, I was trying
2:20:53
it out. And it was such a
2:20:56
different game. I was like, this
2:20:56
does not feel like cod to me at
2:20:59
all. But I guess to a modern cod
2:20:59
player Call of Duty four would
2:21:03
be weird or anything Oh my gosh,
2:21:03
they tried to play Call of Duty
2:21:05
to they wouldn't know what to do.
2:21:08
Yeah, and I'm not
2:21:08
complaining like because I'm a
2:21:10
very good battlefield player. So
2:21:10
it's not my shooting. It's not
2:21:13
my positioning, like I
2:21:13
understand how to play shooters.
2:21:15
So Cod, there's just too much
2:21:15
magic, battlefield. Magic, I'm
2:21:19
gonna be so disappointed.
2:21:21
Well, it's like one
2:21:21
of my big ones used to actually
2:21:24
be Counter Strike and stuff.
2:21:24
Like that used to be one of my
2:21:27
old school ones. Of course,
2:21:27
Halo. We actually talked about
2:21:30
this last episode to about that
2:21:30
mid 2000s boom and first person
2:21:35
shooters and how good they were.
2:21:35
Because they really were we
2:21:38
talked about how that was the
2:21:38
end of like platforming and like
2:21:40
adventure games, because the
2:21:40
beginning of 2000 was very much
2:21:43
you know, Jade Empire. Kingdom
2:21:43
Hearts The new Final Fantasy was
2:21:47
coming out people were excited
2:21:47
about it was still very RPG
2:21:51
heavy. People were excited about
2:21:51
the new Zelda that was coming
2:21:54
out and things like that you had
2:21:54
all that the new Mario game that
2:21:57
was gonna come out everyone's
2:21:57
like, oh yeah. And then a little
2:22:00
game called Halo came out. And,
2:22:00
again, I give all the props in
2:22:06
the world to quake Doom, all
2:22:06
those old school shooters. The
2:22:10
modern shooter is from Halo,
2:22:10
even more than GoldenEye. Even
2:22:14
though GoldenEye was great again
2:22:14
to GoldenEye. give props to that
2:22:18
explosiveness of the shooting
2:22:18
genre.
2:22:21
Halo I carried a 32 inch
2:22:21
tube TV in the back of my car
2:22:27
for land parties for like four
2:22:27
straight years through high
2:22:29
school because every weekend I
2:22:29
was going to a buddy's house we
2:22:32
were sitting in the garage
2:22:32
linking everything to this giant
2:22:34
portal right and then playing
2:22:34
Lance for four on four you know
2:22:38
16 players blood gold so like it
2:22:38
was the greatest time of my life
2:22:42
the map and everything it's exactly what I expect. It isn't so good. But
2:22:44
it's okay but no, because that
2:22:49
opened the door for Call of Duty
2:22:49
to become what Call of Duty
2:22:52
became you've ever Medal of
2:22:52
Honor. Yeah, never played that
2:22:57
off honored that they opened the
2:22:57
door big time for Battlefield
2:23:01
actually.
2:23:02
Yeah, they had the first destruction or they may no longer have have environmental
2:23:04
destruction.
2:23:06
One of them did.
2:23:06
Okay, it's been a while since I
2:23:09
mess with them. But yeah, I
2:23:09
mean, first person shooters open
2:23:12
the door for that Americans army
2:23:12
game, the army recruitment tool.
2:23:16
Like it was crazy. If you guys
2:23:16
grew up with the shooters, the
2:23:21
way we experienced shooters
2:23:21
growing up is what you guys are
2:23:24
experiencing the battle royales
2:23:24
right now we're out of nowhere
2:23:26
everyone has a battle royale.
2:23:26
For us. I'm legends out I have a
2:23:30
first person shooter called
2:23:30
Link's crossbow training. That's
2:23:33
the thing that happened yeah,
2:23:33
that's the thing that happened
2:23:35
on the week. They had the little
2:23:35
light rail gun and you actually
2:23:38
shot like it's crazy um what was
2:23:38
it Final Fantasy seven added
2:23:45
that Vincent storyline I can't
2:23:45
remember the name of the game
2:23:47
but they had a shooting segment
2:23:47
that fly was driving me crazy
2:23:52
it's been driving me crazy this
2:23:52
whole time but I can't get it
2:23:54
you got a buzzer yeah we
2:23:54
have is hanging out on your hat
2:23:57
Yeah, no, we it's
2:23:57
from all the new fruit and stuff
2:24:01
we've been bringing into the
2:24:01
house. We've been having a bad
2:24:04
day because of bananas. I'm
2:24:04
gonna go get the green bags and
2:24:06
start putting them in those but
2:24:06
anyways fancy seven had a first
2:24:11
person shooter at one point it's
2:24:11
the change between resin evil
2:24:14
from resin evil three to four,
2:24:14
where you went from a top down
2:24:18
puzzle solving with a little bit
2:24:18
of shooting to a bloodbath.
2:24:23
That was that was that was
2:24:23
a crazy twist.
2:24:25
And it was great,
2:24:25
but it was great. But yeah, like
2:24:28
we're experiencing that now. And
2:24:28
eventually battle royales will
2:24:32
fall out and be kind of
2:24:32
remembered fondly, but will you
2:24:36
think? I think so? I think
2:24:36
there'll be like shooters where
2:24:39
shooters are still going to
2:24:39
obviously first person shooters
2:24:41
are still gonna exist. I mean,
2:24:41
action adventure games are
2:24:44
starting to come back around.
2:24:44
Good point, everything. It's
2:24:47
gaming, everything's cyclical.
2:24:47
Everything will come around
2:24:49
again. But I think like bell
2:24:49
bottoms Exactly. Y'all y'all
2:24:54
need to see me rocking some bell
2:24:54
bottoms at some point. Let's
2:24:58
I'm at the store just
2:24:58
yesterday. Eric coming back,
2:25:01
middle parts are
2:25:01
coming back. The middle parts,
2:25:05
like when girls part their hair,
2:25:05
they're putting it down the
2:25:07
middle and set aside.
2:25:09
Middle, okay, sorry, hair wise.
2:25:12
There's all kinds
2:25:12
of stuff Gen Z's bringing back.
2:25:14
They're like, Hey, I remember
2:25:14
that. And they're like, no, it's
2:25:17
all I knew if I just waited long
2:25:17
enough. But no. But yeah, it's
2:25:26
all good stuff. All right, so
2:25:26
we're gonna sign off. Get
2:25:31
everything going. Um, Paul, I
2:25:31
appreciate you being here. Man.
2:25:35
I know, we've been working on
2:25:35
this for a while to get you on
2:25:37
here. Menier really bad
2:25:37
planning. We're on schedule now
2:25:42
which thank goodness but um, do
2:25:42
you have any parting words for
2:25:46
our audience?
2:25:48
Ah, no, just a cut? Well,
2:25:48
I say no. But yes. Just to cover
2:25:52
a few things we talked about you
2:25:52
know, as you start down your
2:25:54
road of content creation,
2:25:54
realize that people are going to
2:25:57
look to you for how they need to
2:25:57
act sometimes. So realize that
2:26:00
you're not just stepping into it
2:26:00
to become famous. Make sure
2:26:04
you're checking on yourself and
2:26:04
realizing what kind of creator
2:26:06
you want to be solve that
2:26:06
equation first, and then you'll
2:26:09
probably get a lot more success
2:26:09
from it. Excellent.
2:26:13
Alright guys, remember, take care of your friends, take care of yourself
2:26:15
and be better by everybody.
2:26:20
And on that note,
2:26:20
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2:26:23
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