Good News York by Growth Mode Content - GNY EP.53 | Feat. Sledge315

Episode Date: June 11, 2025

Exploring Content Creation and Streaming with Sledge315 In this episode of Good News York, host Matt from Growth Mode Content steps in for Mike and welcomes Sledge, also known as Seth, a local content creator and streamer. Sledge shares his journey of starting as a Twitch streamer, his experience with YouTube, and running his own clothing brand, Virus Co. They discuss the dynamics of Twitch and the importance of community, the business side of streaming, and the challenges and rewards of content creation. Sledge also gives insight into his top favorite games and streamers, and the significance of consistency and patience in the content creation world. 00:00 Introduction and Episode Context 01:31 Meet the Guest: Sledge 02:12 Sledge's Journey in Content Creation 03:20 The Twitch Experience 06:00 Monetizing Streaming 08:37 Community and Creator Dynamics 11:21 Sledge's Clothing Line 13:55 Exclusive Merchandise Drops 14:25 Community Discord Events 14:40 Merchandise Drop Strategy 15:22 Gaming and Merchandise Rarity 16:30 Social Media and Brand Promotion 17:17 Upcoming Merchandise Drop 18:10 YouTube Content Creation 20:40 Advice for New YouTubers 22:46 Top 5 Games and Streamers 24:55 Final Thoughts and Plugs

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If you've been thinking about starting a podcast, this is your sign. Start your new podcast for free today at RSS.com. Hey folks, I'm Matt Measure from Growth Mode content. Welcome to Good News, York. This is a little weird for me. I'm going to be honest. So this is episode, what, 53? Yeah.

Mike has hosted a number of episodes without me. This is the first time Ivo hosted an episode without Mike. This is the first day he's taken off. He was real worried about it too, you know, that Danny. He, uh, I think he's hosted an episode. he asked about five times, what do I need to do to take a day off? And I'm pretty sure we answered the question each time. And even yesterday, he texted me, hey, man, do I, do I need to reach out to HR or something about my, my day off? Dude, it's all set. We had this conversation,

Mike. I've never had a guy so worried about following the proper procedure ever in my life. He's dedicated, man. I guess I can't complain as an employer, right? I guess that's sort of what I'm supposed to want. Right. But anyway, we miss Mike. He is home with his kids have school concerts, whatever that they, you know, very conveniently book in the middle of the workday. Awesome for parents. But that's why he has time. So we wish him well. And I am joined by somebody awesome who Mike is missing out on. I'm not going to lie. So this gentleman, he goes by Sledge. He's a friend of our good buddy, a friend of the show, Dakota, and he's a streamer.

Yep. Content creator. I love this. I love this. As somebody in the content creation business, anytime I see somebody doing these things, especially locally. For sure. We want to talk about them and hear about your experience and what you're doing in the world

of content creation because it's massively wide ranging, right? Oh, for sure. There's a lot going on. Let's jump right in, man. Give us kind of your story. Who are you? My name's Sledge, or you guys can call me Seth. I've been doing content for about eight years now.

Started on Twitch, this is a small interest, and I started to expand, got a lot of support. I wouldn't say it was huge numbers by any means, but, you know, it's all about the quality of the community, right? Yeah. So built on that, started on YouTube probably about a year ago. I have my own clothing brand I've been doing for about seven, eight years as well. Oh, wow.

So it's a lot of fun. So we dive into a bunch of different aspects of content creation. That's wild. So is it primarily streaming, would you say? or do you do like for your YouTube, are they separately produced, recorded sort of? Yeah, they're separate. So the YouTube side, I focus on a specific game called Rust.

Not a lot of people know about it. It's a survival game. But I was doing variety on Twitch for a long time, and I wanted to dive into different aspects and elements to just boost my range, you know. Sure. So I was mainly on Twitch and I was full time as my career for about two years there. Wow.

I stepped away, helped out the family business for a little bit, and we're getting back into that actually here shortly. So, yeah, there's a lot going. on but it's it's all kind of separate from each other and you know it works together so uh i'd love to learn about these things twitch is uh honestly one of my favorite favorite platforms um i subscribe to every probably streaming service on the planet and oh yeah turbo subscription is the one i use the most uh it's it's on in my office 24 seven um tell us kind of why you would choose that platform especially for a lot of folks that may not even be familiar with

the platform what is twitch all about and what what what drew you and continues, I guess, to keep you there. Well, I think when streaming, well, live stream first started, Twitch was kind of the name. Sure. You know, and obviously there's a lot of competitors now. I mean, Facebook jumped on. YouTube's obviously doing its thing. They got kicked now.

It just had a large community to start. Yeah. And I started as a viewer, which I think most people do. Sure. So I was watching, getting involved in communities and saw the fun in it, saw the growth that a lot of these communities were doing, these channels were doing. And I said, you know what? This looks like something maybe I could do.

I enjoy gaming a lot. and I was like, maybe I can connect with other people around the world and that's exactly what it's become. Awesome. A lot of people from around the world that pop in, you know, and little numbers here and there,

but they'll say, you know, hey, I'm from Australia, hey, I'm from Europe and it's cool. You get to catch up with people and you make friends. I've met a lot of them in person. Sure. Obviously, there's like TwitchConn in California. So I went there a few times.

So there's a lot to it. But yeah, I mean, I think that Twitch is just the home for me. I think if you're just starting now, there's a lot more choices. So there's a lot more that goes. into that thought process. But for me, it's kind of hard to move away when I, you know, I got like 9,000 followers

over there. It's like, what am I going to tell everyone, hey, I'm on YouTube now, you know, so it's a little tricky. That's a hard poll. It is, it is. You'll always get some followers, but you're going to lose a considerable. Yeah. And they have multi-streaming now, too, so you can connect on multiple.

So I do do YouTube occasionally alongside my Twitch and sometimes kick as well. Is Twitch cool with that? Because back of the day, that was sort of a big no-no. Well, I think with the competitors coming into the market, they were fearing losing someone as a whole. They had to. So they allowed it moving forward. So that's what happened. Yeah. So that recently changed probably about six months to a year ago. That was, um, that was always the interesting tactic in the very early days of this for folks that, that don't know multi-streaming. What he's talking about is basically you can use software or even hardware now these days to not

only stream to one platform to Twitch, but all of these simultaneously. So you could be on Twitch and Facebook and YouTube simultaneously with the same video stream. Back in the day they didn't like that. They wanted that exclusivity. They wanted 100% That to only be there, which is sort of understandable. But like you said, it's,

I think it's great that they expand. That was something that as streamers, that was your first inkling. Well, like, listen, why can I, why can I do all of these and maximize my chances?

Exactly. You know? Exactly. But I think that's a great thing. Yeah. If you could again, just again, for folks that aren't super familiar

with the platform, talk about sort of the business side of it. So they, they see you, you say it was your, It was your full-time job. Yep. How does that work?

How does somebody make streaming their full-time job? So subscriptions is probably the number one thing I would say, but it's kind of changed. And each channel can be different, of course. So I actually had a lot of fortune with the community donating direct. Okay. So Twitch does a 50-50 split. And it also scales the larger you are. I can get up, I believe, 70-30 splits.

Oh, okay. On the subscription, which is $6 now. They just raise the price. And that gets rid of ads completely, unless you have turbo. Then I think you're just ad-free across everything. channel. So that's the way you monetize over there. There is a stream platform currency that you can buy into and then you'll get a badge showing, you know, this is how much this person is donated to a specific channel. But yeah, so there's three different metrics, I guess. And then I guess

there's ad revenue too on there. But they're not as heavy as I would say as like YouTube would be with stuff like that. So yeah, you're able to supplement pretty well as a content creator as long you're smart about it, you know, and you're having fun. It's the most important thing. And I wouldn't say necessarily, let's just focus on the money. I don't think anyone necessarily. should start that way. I think it should be a hobby. And if it builds into it and it becomes full-time, that's what happened to me, then you can run with that. So, well, that's, you know, everything you talk about is you go back to that word community. And this is something that's so important we've been trying to educate even every sort of brand on is it's not just, here's this thing,

but it's this group of people that believe in it and why. And they build that community. And what you're talking about is, is literally, again, it's not all about the mind. And I completely understand that. But the fact that when you are earning, it is because this community is literally just out of pure generosity. Right. They could sit there and be a viewer for free and enjoy your content. Contribute in the chat typically and all these things for free. Yep.

But they choose to kind of pony up their money to the tune of big dollars for some of the successful streamers, right? It's literally something that you could make your job. Yep. Yep, and there's a lot of opportunity, too, for like, you're talking about the viewers that don't pay in. They get hit with ads. It can be like two minutes long. Sure. They pop it up into a side window now with some of the updates.

But if someone in the community wants to also be generous, they can gift out subscriptions in chunks. They can do it individually. They can click on your name, give you a sub. Or they could say, hey, there's, you know, five people I'm going to gift randomly. They get a subscription. So there's other ways that, you know, one individual can support further and help out other people in that community to have a good time. So it is really cool. Yeah.

Talk to me a little bit about how creators feel about each other. So I know you mentioned TwitchCon, you know, this event where folks come together. Is it a very kumbaya, every channel's trying to help each other succeed or is there some rivalries? How does tell people about that? Oh, there's for sure some rivalries, I'm sure. You see a lot of like that Twitter drama and so on. So I mean, with our crew, I pick up content creators for my brand and they represent the brand. They sell the clothing.

I hook them up with some stuff. So within that group, we're really tight. and then you get to meet in person. And then obviously there's people that are detached from my brand that you're friends with as well. So I like to be kind and friendly to everyone. Sure. That's the most important thing, you know. But, you know, if there's someone online that's giving you a hard time, I also don't mind, you know,

I'm not the type that's not going to say something. Yeah. You know, so there's a little bit. There's a little bit of that drama, I guess you could say. But overall, I would say it's mainly everyone's community. What, how long's an average stream for you? How long do you go live for? Ooh, boy.

Depends. But, you know, with work right now, it's like three to four hours. but when I was full time, it was pushing eight hours a day. Wow. I'd say, you know, and I would sometimes segment it, you know, like four hours in the morning, do some stuff in between, get some tasks done for my brand, and then get back on for a later stream to hit different time zones as well, hang out with people that are, you know, across the world and so on.

Oh, wow. Yeah, so, I mean, it does become, you know, to a degree, that full-time feel. Sure. But it's a difference of, do I want to work at a Walmart or do I want to work playing video games or, you know, a podcast or a talk show or whatever that you want to do on Twitch. That's really interesting. When you're doing that, sort of what goes into that stream? Is it 100% gaming?

Do you kind of mix it up with a little talking conversation? And then you game for a little while. Like, what's a stream like? Yeah, so typically in the beginning of the stream, I'll talk for maybe 30 minutes or I try to anyways, unless there's maybe a big game update that I want to get right into, of course. But yeah, so I'll talk for a little bit, you know, and hang out. And then we'll jump into the game and we'll play that.

But during the game, there's a lot of interaction as well, a lot of the reactionary content. comes from that. There's only so much I can do with the back and forth. Sure. But then I do this thing called Fresh Tune Fridays, not every Friday. Okay. But basically, people can donate in money, and then I watch a song request. All right. So I'm a big metal head, pop punk guy. And so I'll watch a bunch of those videos and react to them. So you can do so much on there. So I have to mix it up a little bit. That's awesome. Yep. That's awesome. I love that. It's, you know, I mentioned I like Twitch a lot. One of the reasons is in the evening I'll put on there, there's so many music streamers and

DJs and live music performers and stuff like that. And it's a great thing just to pop on for sure when you're not sure what else to watch. Oh, no, definitely. It's good times, man. It's a cool, cool platform. It really is. I would encourage more people to check it out. I want to ask you about the clothing line.

So you mentioned this a couple of times. How does somebody come up or I guess I should start with why would somebody come up with a clothing line? What inspired such a thing? I'm an art guy. So I guess I probably should have mentioned that too. So I've been doing, I've been drawing since I was a kid. Now I moved into graphic design in high school. And then I was self-taught, got some friends that helped me out.

There were more experienced. And I started a clothing brand originally. It was a streetwear brand with my brother. But it didn't really have a target market. It was just clothing, right? And that's very hard to get, you know, who do you advertise to? What group, what age and all that stuff? Like, hey, somebody, look, it's cool.

Right, right. So then I'm like, well, you know, the brand name is very. virus and I'm like you know I'm thinking of a gaming brand you know and I'm looking at other comparable companies that are out there and there weren't really many in that in that realm you know so I decided hey maybe I jump into a clothing brand for gamers because we're kind of stuck in this realm of let's go to game stop and buy a one-up mushroom and that's that's the extent you know and it's getting better but so that's kind of why I dove into it because I have a passion for graph design and I do like wearing different types of clothing so I said hey why don't we just mesh them together and involve

gaming into the mix. That's awesome. Yeah. I love hearing that. So I'm I'm old school and I've been big into any sort of like cool nerd clothing or accessories and things like that because they're always still few and far between. Yep. But I almost feel like we've lost some because back in the day we had, there was this one company, Think Geek. Yep. And I think they got bought out by one of the bigger companies and sort of went to shit. Yeah. It was another, what was, uh, Jenks hackware. You ever hear of them? I don't think I have. It was from like way. back in the day, but they had some of the best, like, nerd, more computing than gaming, but, you know, real, like, inside industry clothing and accessories and cool shit like that.

Yeah. And it seems like that, those sort of things went away. And so when I see more and more of this, I love people doing this. I work local with Print and Hub, if you ever heard of them out of Syracuse here. And so I've been buddies with that guy. When I, that's the other thing, right? When you're playing music, you get shirts for the fans, right? Sure.

So we started there. I started the Lightgraph design. of t-shirt there, learn that process. And then, you know, it's like these skills you develop when you're younger. Yeah. You're listening to a podcast right now, driving, working out, walking the dog. If you're into podcasts, chances are you have something to say too. With RSS.com, starting your own podcast is free and easy. upload an episode and we distribute it to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and more. Track your listeners, see where they're from, and start earning from ads just like this. If you've been thinking about starting a podcast, this is

your sign. Start your new podcast for free today at RSS.com. Flow into the stuff that you do as you get older, right? So that's kind of what happened. That's awesome. So is that just kind of like a side project? Is that something that you think will be a major business for you? How does that go?

Yeah, I wanted to become major. With the time limitations right now, you know, I wish that I had more time for. It's always the struggle, right? I think everyone can relate to that. So, yeah, once I get more time on my hands, they'll be more frequent, you know, drops and stuff. They're exclusive, so they're one-offs.

So, you know, I'll produce 25 to 50 of these. Once they're gone, they're gone. And then it's, so it builds a little bit of hype. And I guess the FOMO, which isn't really what I'm trying to force. But I'm not going to constantly restock. And then suddenly people stop buying and I've got a bunch of extra shirts, right? So that's kind of how I do that. But yeah, so eventually I do want to get into that and, you know, get full-blown staff.

I got a lot of volunteers, a lot of buddies that I'm very grateful for them to help out. We do community discord events where we had a bunch of people and say, hey, we're doing fall guys tonight. And it's a community events, free game. Everyone get in and play with us. You know, 20 people get together and we have a good time. So there's a lot to it that definitely can be built into something further. I think that that sort of drop method of merchandise is really neat. Yes.

And it's sort of a new model. And again, I think that's something that a lot of folks may have not really paid a whole lot of attention to. But I could see the advantages, especially as you already mentioned, inventory. You know, people talk about I want to start a clothing brand. That means I got to fill a warehouse. with every shape and size of all these things, you know, forever. Where you go exactly, you know, I got limited, I got what I got. Right.

That makes it unique and exclusive and in some cases maybe premium. Right, right. So you can charge a premium price. And it's a cool thing. Yeah. And I think that's a neat model. So it's interesting to hear you do that. Yeah, yeah.

We do a little bit with, you know, talking about gaming and stuff and the rarity. I actually do sometimes like different color sets. So like maybe this in pink, not green, with only five units, and it's one in each size. The price is a little more expensive, but it's exclusive, right? It gives you that feeling like, I've got this. And it's like a video game with that skin that you bought that's, you know, super valuable and you want to show it off online. So it's the same thing, but in physical form. And I thought that was kind of a cool idea too, right?

So there's a lot of different things I think the clothing brands are coming into. Skins for people. Yeah, I know. Right. They should be. That's what they should do. There should be like a matching pair. And I'm kind of surprised nobody's done this.

Right. Buy the skin in the game and get the matching T-Shall. Oh, that'd be so cool. That'd be so cool. It's a dream. I'll tell you what, though. I bought my Jay and Silent Bob pack and Call a Duty a month or two ago. I don't think I'll ever change it because I just, how do I, how do you, there's nobody better in Silent Bob to run around and shoot people with.

Right. You know, like it's the most brilliant thing they ever came up with. You found your skin. That's it. Yep. That's it. It's mine forever. Yep, yep.

I'm the fat guy in the overcoat. Where can folks find you? We're talking about all these things, but let's give folks the plugs before we forget. Yeah, all social media. Sledge 315. The 315 for the local should be easy to remember. That sounds spotted online quite a bit.

315, are you from Syracuse? Yeah, I'm around the area. So Sledge 315 on Twitch, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, wherever that you guys want to follow and check along. Feel free to stop by and hang. I would appreciate it. And if I can shout out the brand, it's VirusCo, but it's VY. are US. Absolutely. So yeah, people misspell that. I want to do a little twist, but yeah, so that's what's what makes it cool. You can't spell it the right way. All right, exactly. That's what makes it a

brand. Yeah. We will, of course, put all the links in the description and stuff too, so so people can jump right to that. They don't even have to try to think about spelling it. Tell us what's next. You got you got a drop coming. You got anything news that we can, you know, tell people what they might be looking for for something like this? Well, I'm actually wearing the thing that we're going to be dropping. Oh. Yeah, it's been a long time coming on. I've had these in stock for a while, but I've just not had the time to get it set up, but I'm planning to drop it. Not this upcoming Friday, but the following is the hope to plan. I got to do some photo shoots and so on, but that's what's next. And, you know, YouTube's a constant go, go, go there. So I don't really

have anything projected that I can say, but it's week to week. So just how do you do, is that an in person or is that an online thing? So if somebody's in California, could they get in on this drop potentially? Yes, yes. Anywhere around the world international shipping. Obviously, it's a little more expensive elsewhere, but excuse me. So yeah. Worth it to make the journey. Yeah, 100%. That's awesome, man. And I'm sorry, I stopped you there a little bit talking about YouTube. But let's actually take a minute and talk about YouTube because that's sort of a completely different animal than Twitch, right? Right. Are you doing live as well? I think I might have asked you this, but you're doing any live on YouTube as well? A little bit alive, but mainly week-to-week content.

I play the game Rust. I do some tutorials in there. There's so much to that game. Yeah. So I just kind of break down the thing that I enjoy in it, and then I do tutorials on it. Eventually, there'll be some gameplay recordings because you can do a lot of storytelling and storylines there. Yeah. So that stuff will become a thing.

But yeah, on YouTube, I sit on my computer and I just record a bunch of stuff, write up a script. To a point where one guy thought I was AI. They're like, oh, enough of this crap. You're an AI guy, aren't you? I'm like, that's my voice. What do you? And he apologized. He goes, oh, the script was AI.

I'm like, I typed all that up too. It's like, you know, I'm not stupid, I guess. That's a compliment. They trained it on me, dude. Yeah. So the only thing I took from it, though, on a positive note that I said to him is, if I sounded like AI, it probably means I probably sounded a little bit emotionless. So I want to focus on amping that up a little bit, you know.

So live content is different than record content. I'm sure you can relate to that. But yeah, so it's a different dimension. And that's why I separated it a little bit. What do you find is the best mixer or where have you found the most success in terms of the, I guess, two now big formats on YouTube, right? Now we have shorts. Yep. Very similar to reels or TikToks, you know, the vertical phone style, fast, flip through the whole bunch.

Or there's the traditional YouTube videos that everybody is familiar with. Where are you finding the success in these two? I do the long form. Granted my videos are like two to three minutes. They could technically be a short. but there's success on either side. I think it's really what you want to cater into your audience. So, you know, there's people that succeed on TikTok.

They would probably succeed on YouTube shorts just the same way. Gotcha. But then they jump into the long form and they struggle, right? And then there's the people that figure out both and they can, you know, just, you know, put out a bunch of content all at once and they can cover both grounds. But you can get monetized either way. So you can get it via the shorts route or the long form route. I want the long form route.

I thought it was a little bit more straightforward, a little bit more of my style. Yeah. I think that that short format is very, you know, with TikTok, it feels very young, Jen. And I'm not like old, but I'm definitely older than the people that are really running that. I got you. So, you know, I like the long form for sure. Okay. That's great.

I think that's great advice. I got two last things for you, man, and I'll let you dip out of here. The first one is, do you have any advice as somebody who has recently started a new YouTube channel and you've been building it for a few months now? anything that you could tell somebody who's starting today that maybe you wish you knew on day one. Well, I guess the number one thing, and it's something that I do know, and I hope that a lot of people do, but I don't think they do, is patience. Yeah. Patience is probably the number one thing. I'd love to hear you say that, man.

Yeah, a lot of people get impatient and they quit very quickly because they want this instant gratification and this instant success that they're just not going to find. It's very hard to go Mr. Bees viral. The guy did in himself for a long time. So consistency is very important. I think people forget that. Yeah. And then just learning general. skillsets you know on the computer understanding the programs versus hiring out

you know especially in the beginning if you're wanting to take this to a full-time thing you've got to look at your expense right you got to be smart with your money and a lot of people they go out and they full blown by a bunch of equipment that they can't really afford and they think they're gonna get it paid back via support and it gets discouraging when the first few months and suddenly wait I'm not making as much as I thought I would be making you know and that's discouraging so I think you know that's the advice you know be smart with your money and definitely hone in on personal skills

that you don't have to hire out on. Yeah, I'd love that advice. Yeah, I think that's really phenomenal advice, especially with the patients. You know, that's something that in all content creation, no matter what platform you're on. Right. We've, you know, told our podcast clients from day one that this is a long game. Yes, 100%. And we've talked about many times on this show.

It's something like 96, 7% of podcasts don't make it to episode 20. Right. And out of the ones who do, you know, the. the same percentage, don't make it to episode 100, you know? Right, right. And that's one of those things is just consistency. Yes. Can be even before you're good.

Yeah. If you're consistent, you will start to get somewhere. You get better with it, you know. And that's exactly it. Yep. I love to hear that. So last thing, I got two, I got two kind of top fives. Okay.

I'm going to ask you your top five. We're going to start with, what are your top five all time games? Oh, well, Russ. Russ, the one I keep mentioning, that's one or two, believe it or not, in terms of we're ranking them. Rainbow Six Siege is the other competitor to my top two. All right. Yeah, I'm a big, I grew up on shooters, right?

So that's kind of where that came from. I love that. Yeah, it's tough because those are the games that I mainly stick to right now. But Call of Duty has a place in my heart. The old days, Modern Warfare 1 and 2, you know, those are kind of home for me. And this one's probably going to get a laugh. but Fortnite is one that I do enjoy jumping around, you know, and so on there. I think there's anything wrong with that?

You know, I say, I say that because I'll say Fortnite to someone, oh, you're one of those guys. And it's like, it's, you know, I think that people look at it sometimes as a kids game or something. I'm like, I enjoy it for what it is. I think it's got a good vibe to it. And I guess I am forgetting also. I'm a big Nintendo guy. So Pokemon, that's the first game that I ever played.

So, you know, there's some nostalgia there. So I love that, man. I love it. All right. Last question I'm going to ask you. Same type of deal. Y'all. Give me your top five streamers.

Hmm. AD, I hope you're listening. American Dad. He's really cool dude. Very real, authentic energy. Loud. And he's just good. He's just good all around.

So American Dad. I like Tim the Tap Man. He's a good one. He actually started in Syracuse, believe it or not. Oh, wow. Yeah, he's like big, big name, though. So he moved down south and he's living up in Florida now. And this one's.

And three more, because I don't do a lot of watching is the problem for me right now at this point. Sure. There's some old people that I guess I could give some shoutouts to like carve them up. Fisk. Clana, she's still doing her thing and she's an art streamer. So I do enjoy hers. She started small and she got big, big, big. Her illustrative work got better and better over time.

And she's, you know, sponsored by Logitech. Works, I think, with World of Warcraft and so on. Wow. So I guess, you know, some of the OGs that don't really do too much anymore. I believe Fisk is pretty big on YouTube now, like over 100,000 subs, but it doesn't stream anymore. Gotcha. So it's a tough, tough one for me to answer fully. Sure, sure.

No, that's great, man. That's great. Sledge, this has been awesome. I really appreciate you coming on. I think you spread a lot of knowledge. We've got a very wide-ranging audience, so I think there's a lot of folks that are very much interested in these things. And honestly, have never clicked on Twitch. Yeah.

And I wish they would because as much as we talk about gaming, there's all kinds of things. things. There's, there's podcasts, there's news talk. There is live traditional sports talk. Yep. Everything you can imagine, it really is kind of a TV network put on by independent folks like we have here. Different world. Different world. It's a cool place. Yes, it is. But Sledge, one more time. Let's give the plugs. Yep. So Sledge 315, Sledge like the Hammer, 315 on Twitch, YouTube, Anywhere you guys want to look, social media, I'm pretty much on all of them. I don't think I'm missing any there. And then my brand VirusCo, if you want to go to the website, it's VirusCoV-V-R-U-S-C-O.com.

Go check it out. And no pressure, I always say, to not pick anything up necessarily, but follow us on social media. It's the same spelling, Virus Co, on all those. And jump into our Discord. Get involved in a Discord event and have some fun with us. I love when people keep them consistent, you know, and I go, I'm this on this platform, and I'm known as this on that one. This one's got an extra underscore and like, yeah, it's for sure. Thank you for that consistency.

Yeah, yeah, I try. And honestly, I really kind of like the 315. As I'm playing a lot of, you know, online games against different competitors, there's a lot of folks that will do that. They'll put it in a clan tag or something or they'll put it right in their name with that. And it's neat to go, hey, look, I'm actually kind of playing against local people. That's neat. Yeah, for sure.

I love it. So, Sledge, this has been great. We thank you very much. Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. And anytime you got something cool going on, we'd be more than. happy to have you back on the program. For sure. I appreciate it. Definitely.

And for everybody else with Good News York, we actually have another guest today. Mike leaves me for two interviews. This is wild. But we got a great second guest, so do not hit the skip button yet. There's more. We'll be right back.