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Joysticks United Ep 7 Chris Pratt and Charlie Day are (Super Mario) Brothers?! (ft. XenoStream38 and HaulDaat)

Joysticks United Ep 7 Chris Pratt and Charlie Day are (Super Mario) Brothers?! (ft. XenoStream38 and HaulDaat)

Released Sunday, 26th September 2021
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Joysticks United Ep 7 Chris Pratt and Charlie Day are (Super Mario) Brothers?! (ft. XenoStream38 and HaulDaat)

Joysticks United Ep 7 Chris Pratt and Charlie Day are (Super Mario) Brothers?! (ft. XenoStream38 and HaulDaat)

Joysticks United Ep 7 Chris Pratt and Charlie Day are (Super Mario) Brothers?! (ft. XenoStream38 and HaulDaat)

Joysticks United Ep 7 Chris Pratt and Charlie Day are (Super Mario) Brothers?! (ft. XenoStream38 and HaulDaat)

Sunday, 26th September 2021
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0:00

What is up guys?

0:00

It's your boys etointeracted

0:03

milesg170 coming to you with a

0:03

new episode of joysticks united

0:10

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0:23

Speaking of making

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content to improve the world

0:25

joysticks united is imploring

0:25

you guys please remember to be

0:29

better

0:46

all right welcome

0:46

on back so miles? x miles

0:54

I'm here What are you I'm

0:54

xeno miles Xena what what xeno

1:01

miles

1:01

are you like the new and improved mount like what's going on?

1:05

miles 2.0 Really? You ever

1:05

watched Dragon Ball? Alright,

1:09

say so. Yeah, fusion huh? Yep.

1:11

Oh so so it's like

1:11

xeno stream and Myles did the

1:15

little fusion dance the earrings

1:15

things and they became zero

1:18

miles

1:19

so we're xeno miles g 38

1:19

now I love that you know miles g

1:28

38 somebody tweeted we're

1:28

putting a patent on that

1:33

so welcome back to

1:33

joysticks United xeno stream 38

1:39

how bro so sadly Miles could not

1:39

be with us today. He and his

1:44

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

1:58

thoughts and they care about him

1:58

during this time in his life but

2:05

don't worry Miles himself is

2:05

doing a okay and he will be back

2:09

for the next episode of

2:09

joysticks united actually he's

2:12

gonna be at the end of this

2:12

episode. Because before this

2:15

recording he actually sat down

2:15

with the special guests that I

2:20

will let Miles introduce during

2:20

his portion So yeah, that's been

2:24

pre recorded just to let y'all

2:24

know. But um xeno so this this

2:30

was a question from the previous

2:30

joysticks united that I just

2:34

want to know your opinion on.

2:34

Who would win in a fight? Did

2:37

you monitor Pokemon?

2:41

So I am a Pokemon fan.

2:41

Like you can look at my shop

2:45

behind me a bunch of Pokemon

2:45

Funko Pops never really was a

2:49

Digi mon fan. But I really don't

2:49

feel like Pokemon have the

2:54

Killer Instinct like dijamin do

2:54

I don't think that's

2:58

how I feel Yeah, I

2:58

feel like if you were to get

3:00

agumon and Pikachu in the same

3:00

room as each other I come out

3:03

with just straight slit pick

3:03

choose throat like no

3:05

hesitation.

3:06

Pick it should be like no

3:06

we can be friends and we can

3:10

fight whatever is causing us to

3:10

fight and need to be like yeah,

3:13

no, I'm just gonna kill you and

3:13

be done with us. And

3:16

like I'm just done

3:16

with you makes you mad. Like

3:18

it's nothing against you. But I

3:18

just want you out of here.

3:21

Yeah, I'm just kind of

3:21

done with all this and I got

3:23

other stuff to do.

3:25

So I'm glad that

3:25

you did agree with us on this.

3:30

Absolutely. Well, I am

3:30

half miles.

3:33

That is right. Yes,

3:33

you are. z No.

3:36

No miles. God Ain't

3:42

it I still just so

3:42

flabbergasted that you came up

3:46

with that name, just like off

3:46

the cuff. Like you were ready

3:48

for this? Yeah, like you've been.

3:52

My improv was unmatched in

3:52

that moment. But the thing is,

3:55

I've used it up for like the

3:55

next year, so don't expect any

4:00

improv for me from the next

4:00

year.

4:02

No more comedy. No, yeah, no,

4:05

I can't. That's just I

4:05

used it all up in that little

4:09

bit. So enjoy it.

4:11

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

4:17

recently held like a little

4:17

raffle about Funko Pops want to

4:20

talk about that.

4:21

I did so I actually just

4:21

happen to come across two of the

4:26

diamond Squirtle Funko Pops that

4:26

was a special edition that was

4:30

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

4:37

community. Check out xeno stream

4:37

38. And so we just held a little

4:42

poll on Twitter, anybody that

4:42

liked to tweet and came into the

4:47

stream, we had a just little

4:47

drawing of whoever wanted that

4:50

funko pop and mag wing man was

4:50

actually the winner of it. I

4:55

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

5:14

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

5:23

where you're

5:26

on stream we're gonna call

5:26

it xeno jorts

5:30

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.

5:42

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

6:15

on what it is or let it be a

6:15

surprise

6:17

so I'm currently

6:17

between either putting xeno on

6:21

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

6:30

for him get one of those like

6:30

little bit dazzling things

6:32

probably from Joanne's or

6:32

something I'm sure fabric stores

6:35

sell them yeah 100% and I just

6:35

want to like put a four letter

6:40

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

6:57

trust see no but you're supposed

6:57

to trust the cake. And one of

7:02

the other things I've been

7:02

considering putting on the back

7:04

is cake. Was it bad or juicy but

7:04

it felt like juicy might be a

7:11

little overdone. Plus, you know

7:11

we already got a juicy in

7:14

ascension.

7:15

Right? Right.

7:16

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

7:23

out. Yeah,

7:24

Yeah, I would agree with

7:24

that. It's pre standard. We're

7:28

not standard people

7:29

know we got to go above and beyond with

7:34

Erica dazzled or

7:35

dazzled George. Now

7:35

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

7:55

on it.

7:59

Oh my goodness, I

7:59

can only imagine Hall our quote

8:04

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?

8:13

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.

8:23

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

8:36

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.

8:48

Yeah, could probably

8:50

ask that. How does

8:50

love me feel about that? Like

8:52

does she think that we're just

8:52

joking? Are she anticipating

8:55

this

8:56

that she's anticipating

8:56

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.

10:27

Which one would you let me

10:27

destroy? And you said your ninja

10:31

Funko Pop?

10:32

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?

12:47

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

thank you all so much for

2:26:23

listening to today's podcast.

2:26:23

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