NZXT PODCAST - #010 - Alex

Episode Date: September 27, 2019

Alex is a product marketing manager at NZXT, knows way too much about watch band materials, and owns Tracer leggings. Follow Alex on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MooshuBeef Listen to the podcast liv...e on the NZXT Discord server: https://discord.gg/nzxt Thanks to yuo#4581 for the artwork!

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Starting point is 00:00:27 Going on, everybody. Welcome to the NZXT Club podcast number 10. I am Dan ZXT with me today. We have, as always, Ivan. Hello, are we recording this. We are recording this. Let me double check it. I'm pretty sure, yeah.
Starting point is 00:00:39 Yeah, see, we're recording this. Totally. What whole minute of recording? I'm done. I just wanted to check. All right. And our special guest this week is Alex, aka Mushu Beef,
Starting point is 00:00:49 aka six sneaks guy. Thanks, man. Yours wearing a really cool sneakers. Oh, the sneakers. I was like, yeah, sneaks. I was like, you call me sneaky? I mean that too.
Starting point is 00:00:58 I mean, I never hear you coming. That's why you wearing sneakers, right? For sneaker. That's exactly where the word came from. You know, when they're invented. It says the wooden shoes were just too loud. Someone was like, I want to steal stuff. So I'm going to invent sneakers.
Starting point is 00:01:14 Hopefully one day someone invents a shoe that stops squeaking. All my shoes squeak. I have squeakers. Do you still have the kids shoes with the pillows and them that have the intentional? They're like, they're like, just. looking at my shoes and they're falling apart. I have the old Chuck Taylor. Oh, wow.
Starting point is 00:01:31 Yeah, but all right, so he's flexing. Everyone's audio listener. He's flexing his toe up and then the side is kind of opening up. But that's like, that's just generally what happens with Chuck's. These are my skateboarding shoes. That's how we know you're not a poser. I know, for real. Thanks for happening.
Starting point is 00:01:49 What do we, what do we hear talking about again? Sneakers apparently. It's a sneaker cast. No one even knows who Alex is or yet. No, so, oh yeah. So Alex is from the product team, and he's been here. How long now? Since April officially, but now down here in L.A. since June.
Starting point is 00:02:05 April officially. So before me then. Really? Yeah, because I've only been here since May. Oh, what? Yeah. Yeah, but you've done a lot more than me, so that's kind of embarrassing. Actually, no, that's, it's an honor to be working alongside you done ZXT.
Starting point is 00:02:19 Oh, thanks. Appreciate it. Ivan's okay, though. It's an honor to work alongside myself as well. It's a pretty big deal for me to be honest. I'll wake up every day like, man, I can't believe. That's why you have the mirror next to your desk. I do.
Starting point is 00:02:31 Yeah, yeah. I'm just kidding. Okay. Because I was like, because I'm definitely the kind of person that doesn't notice stuff. So if there was a mirror and I didn't notice it, I definitely wouldn't put that past me to not notice a mirror right next to my desk. Yeah, that was me, that was me attempting to improv. Yes and? Yeah, yes.
Starting point is 00:02:51 The yes and except you denied it, which is fine. Because it's true. It's fake. There's no mirror. there or Alex is flexing with his hydro flask too. Hydroflask? Come on, man. Oh, oh, oh, right, right, right, right. Yes, yes, yes, yes. That's a now gene bottle. That was
Starting point is 00:03:08 Nalgin, now gene is like hydroflask before hydroflasked was hydroflask. Are we, are we done? Are we done with that meme yet? Which one? The Viscu girl meme? Yeah. I mean, it was a one off for me. Yeah. We don't really stick to memes for too long unless they're like super, super huge. And we'll try at them again. But we did a TikTok meme. Instagram last night. Oh, I mean, not us, us, but just like people in general, just the visco girl meme.
Starting point is 00:03:32 I don't know. Not really. It's big with the kids because both my girlfriend and my sister are both teachers. I said both twice in that sentence. And they like ask me like, what's, what's a visco girl? I'm like, sit down for a minute. You have a long conversation about it. So you when you're older.
Starting point is 00:03:48 It doesn't exist. Yeah. So Alex is on the product team. He works on super cool product stuff. And he's also our resident streaming expert. So if you guys ever taking a stop by the streaming channel in the Discord, which I should actually mention, we are recording this podcast live. So if you're listening on SoundCloud or wherever we decided.
Starting point is 00:04:07 Are we recording it live? I can't tell. Yeah, we are. Because we have this useless screen up again. It's totally up right there. See? We have a record. It's been recording.
Starting point is 00:04:14 There we go. But if you, so we are recording the podcast live. So we do read the podcast channel live and we sometimes react in a way that is not very podcast friendly. But that's part of the joy of being here live when it happens. And unfortunately, we don't have a super super set schedule yet, but we're working on that. And if you do want to listen live, please join the Discord. N6C.com.
Starting point is 00:04:40 Sorry, discord. org. Or nzxte.g.com slash nzxte or NXT.com or NXXT. All those links will lead you to the Discord. Yeah. I mean, we have Discord homies.com. Yeah. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:04:52 Discord. Yeah. We actually own the domain. Discord. Discoredhomys.com. Look up DiscordHomys.com and it will lead you directly to the. That's my favorite one. I did not know that.
Starting point is 00:05:02 Discordhomies.com, I mean. It was a meme that Griff made up or help us make up. Same about kissing your like homies good night. And like, what about kissing your Discord. Homiescombe. I remember that. And then became a thing. That was so good.
Starting point is 00:05:17 Oh, this was some of my favorite tweets. So Alex, if you can tell us a little bit about yourself, where did you come from? How did you end up? ZXT. How did I end up? Why are you here? Why am I here? Why is Alex?
Starting point is 00:05:29 Well, I was asked back in February from you guys. If I want to join the podcast, it didn't happen. I'm just kidding. So I'm trying to think of what's the most relevant here. So I used to actually work at Apple. Oh, is that? Doing what? I was working on secret product stuff.
Starting point is 00:05:50 Yeah, I said, I want everyone to, this is going to be my last joke. I'll preempt it because I realize that going back in my word is like it's kind of jarring. But yeah, I said, you know, everyone can hear too well. Right. So I invented AirPods. Yeah. No, but real talk, though. I was working there in the manufacturing side.
Starting point is 00:06:13 So I did quality engineering. So basically I would fly around to China, Korea, Japan. I worked in the materials team. And anything that's textile, anything that's microfiber. or a watch band for the most part, except for the Milanese, like the metal chain link one, and then the normal sports bands,
Starting point is 00:06:31 like the, everyone calls them silicone, but their fluorolastomer, very different guys. Come on, get your material straight. You're out here, educating.
Starting point is 00:06:39 So, yeah, all the other stuff, though, we had a bunch of textile bands and lead to bands I worked on. I have no idea about any of that what you just said right now. That's one here.
Starting point is 00:06:48 Talk about watch bands? Yeah, yeah, this one, right? So I have a sports band. Gotcha. Oh, that's nice and compressy. Wait, is this an ASMR podcast?
Starting point is 00:06:59 It can be. So, yeah, that's the Velcro. And so it has, it has a, yeah, the loops that I can just kind of like position it wherever I want. So you were in charge of like sourcing those materials. Yeah, cool. Because we would have, we would go to a place that they're like, oh, we make this really specialty product. And then I would go in and be like, all, we're going to make a million of them. They're like, what?
Starting point is 00:07:23 like really I'm like yeah yeah but they all need to be perfect and they're like I'm like it's okay we're gonna get through this well we'll figure it out you know how to improve the machines how to improve our systems how to gauge our expectations for like how to make sure we're getting um it seems like a very cool and weird job do you have it was fun very specialized it was really fun like how did you even get that job um networking yeah um trying to yeah well that so uh uh uh I I'm trying to think the most interesting way to make the story. Basically.
Starting point is 00:07:56 Sold some sneakers to Steve Jobs. Yeah, I snuck my way in there to the board meeting. No, yeah, I mean, I studied mechanical engineering, so I knew a lot of like stichistic's background and stuff like that. And then basically, a lot of, like, for a lot of listeners, I'm guessing we'll be like in school and whatnot. It's like you learn a lot in school, but it's like you're learning foundations to help you learn. It's like you're learning to learn.
Starting point is 00:08:24 That's a whole point. Right. And grades are like a way to signify that. So it's like I'll learn a lot of the fundamentals that I needed to approach like handling these materials in a way to where I could crunch the numbers, like look at these situations and be like, are we at risk here? Right. What's going to go wrong when it goes wrong and using like math and statistics to help me get there?
Starting point is 00:08:45 But I was learning leather materials, textiles all on the job. So yeah. it's a question what is your jacket made out of my jacket is made i probably oh probably well not i haven't looked at the label in a while this is this is probably this is probably cotton and um a little bit of spandex so you basically okay when you when you look at all right so i'm last piece of education on materials that i'm going to give you guys today is when you see you look at like a sports shirt and it says like 1% spandex and like the rest polyester right then what they're doing is there's one yarn of spandex
Starting point is 00:09:23 and they wrap it with a bunch of other stuff so it can be nylon or polyester so picture there's one string you're holding up up and down and then you just wrap it around with polyester or nylon that's why it's 1% and that's what gives it the stretch right so you're actually stretching the spandex
Starting point is 00:09:38 but the rest what you feel is the polyester or whatever so that's like compression shirt and stuff I always wear spanks yeah I mean they look great on you too so that you can thank spandex for that I'm gonna be bringing my I'm going to bring you my under armor underwear to TwitchCon because if I am walking all day, you don't want to get that thigh chaf, you know, you want those thick thighs to be nice and a nice and
Starting point is 00:10:01 unchafed. Yeah, unshaped, unraw, you know, when you sit down for the day. It's also how you know you had a good day, right? A lot of walking in. You got a little bit of chaf. So that's the heck I'm talking about. Because I talk about chafing. Wow.
Starting point is 00:10:18 Hey, listen, if you've ever been to a convention, if you've ever been to a convention, if you're, If you've ever been somewhere where you have to walk a lot, you will notice unless you're like bow-legged or something. Unless you're fit, like Ivan. Exactly. I'm not fit. That was a very fit, man. He's very, very slender. Scooter fit.
Starting point is 00:10:33 You got to stand up while you're commuting. I sit down like a, yeah, never mind. After Apple, what would you do that? Oh, yeah. I forgot what we were talking about here. So then basically I started my own company for e-sports broadcasting. So I left Apple to start that. I was like, I could basically be stuck here forever
Starting point is 00:10:53 because it was really fun and really fulfilling. But there is, you know, there's always drama. So then you invented Twitch? No, I didn't invent. But I was in the city, I was in the city where Twitch was invented. Here's a quick question. Before you continue on. From when you started working on like the Apple Watch bands
Starting point is 00:11:15 to when they came out, how long was that process? So I was two years from beginning, maybe even three years, but like two years from the start of development, which means they had the idea way before that until they were actually released. So it was like it was in the secret in the in the back room for two years or so. Like yeah, because like people think like example with because the big question we get a lot is when you're making the AMD motherboards, right? Because we just relaunch or re-release whatever the N7s. And I tell people like it takes a long time. It takes a long time.
Starting point is 00:11:47 Especially with electronics, too. Yeah, yeah. Because there's, you know, there's like sourcing the parts, getting the manufacturing done. Especially when we've never made motherboards. Exactly. Yeah. So it's like, I think people don't realize how long it takes to make something, right? And even when you make it, then you got to test it to make sure it's going to last.
Starting point is 00:12:02 There's there's thinking of what you want to make. First off, oh, I have an idea. And then there's, how can I make this idea of reality? And then everything in between that, it just takes a lot of time. It's not an easy, quick process. So you left Apple and you went to go. they're broadcasting. Yes, I worked on
Starting point is 00:12:17 ESports broadcast project. What kind of events did you do? So basically we did a lot of Overwatch online. That's really such a big Overwatch fan. Oh yeah, I love Overwatch.
Starting point is 00:12:26 I mean, it was new at the time. Broadcast.G. Yeah, that's right. It's still operating, actually. We still doing some broadcast still with Blizzard. And basically what we wanted to do
Starting point is 00:12:38 was figure out a way to create a path to pro for broadcasters and still work in process. But I would say for right now the main priority is like getting people gigs. Right. And like the company just exists to help like be a legal entity so that people can get work.
Starting point is 00:12:55 And so a lot of people, we can, for a price. Make me and Dennis famous. You're already, I'm already, I'm trying to like, every time I ask you to go to lunch is because I'm trying to get clout through osmosis. There's this high concentration of clout and Ivan. With the community team, yeah. Yeah, exactly. But yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:13 And then after working on that, it was like, okay, well, I think the industry is not quite where would like lead to a really strong business around this. So it's just like, let's just keep doing the mission and have it be a side project. And then I was like, I had actually met Johnny and Jim because I was introduced. I actually, I sat next to the CMO of Discord on the way to Pax East like three years ago. Oh, Eros? Like, yeah, yeah, and Eros. And then I had no idea who he was.
Starting point is 00:13:42 He had Discord had. Twitch shirt on both flying from San Francisco to Boston. That's funny. The Thursday before, you know, like the day prior to the first day. And I looked at him. He looked at me and I was like, I think we're going to the same place. He's like, yeah, I think so. So we started chatting and just talking and he's a really, really chill guy.
Starting point is 00:13:59 And then I was like, so we were talking for like 20 minutes and I was like, so you work at Discord, maybe? He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I do. He's like, yeah, yeah, you're at Twitch. I was like, oh, no, I'm just a fan. He's broadcast. And so, what do you do there? He's like, do marketing.
Starting point is 00:14:11 I'm the CMO I know what that's crazy no idea I mean this guy I see we're down to earth but then we were talking because I was at Apple he was like you need to meet Johnny you need to talk to this guy I think you guys get along
Starting point is 00:14:24 and so yeah I met Johnny two years ago and then when I was like coming to the end of the of the startup I was like all right we're what I really really want to work right now and so like hardware gaming
Starting point is 00:14:37 boom NZXT nice That's a cool story. I love arrows, man. He's one of the coolest guys I ever met, too. He's really awesome. Yeah, he's real.
Starting point is 00:14:48 He's a real dude. Not many of them out there. Maybe Dennis will meet him this weekend, TwitchCon. Oh, yeah, maybe. Maybe it might, yeah. You should set it up for me. You know who he looks like? He looks like the, and I'll say I confirm.
Starting point is 00:14:58 He looks like the tall guy from Keen Pill. Oh, my. I did not even think of that. I didn't even think about that until recently because I've been watching a lot of Key and I'm like, who does he remind me of? Wow. And I'm like, yeah, it's Eric and Michael Key. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:12 I always forget which one's which. I know where's the key which is peel. Yeah, he does. Yeah. So Jordan, the only reason why I know this, I know Jordan is the shorter guy who does all the writing. Jordan,
Starting point is 00:15:22 yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then Keegan Michael Key. Yeah. Yeah. Which is great. Us.
Starting point is 00:15:28 Us, yeah, I didn't like as much, but get out as much either, but it was still good. It was good. Yeah. Get out was fantastic, though. Get out was very good.
Starting point is 00:15:35 Oh my gosh. So good. So good. But I mean, that's like once in a lifetime, like, piece of art. Oh, right.
Starting point is 00:15:41 Bobby Make man. Oh yeah. Yeah. Because anything like that. I mean, anything like that now will just be, oh,
Starting point is 00:15:47 this is like Get Out. Right, that was the first of its kind. I love it. Yeah. I like phase out for a second. Do we talk about us? Because us is really good too.
Starting point is 00:15:55 That's really good, but not as good as Get Out. I like the music in us. Oh, oh my gosh. It was haunting. Yeah. That remix of I got five on it is like,
Starting point is 00:16:04 oh. I got five on it. I want to listen to it like daily, but like it's one of those songs like if it puts me like a weird mood and like it spooks me a little bit like I don't want to listen to the car like actually what happened to me I was trying right before I was falling asleep and I was like what was the ending of us again
Starting point is 00:16:20 and then I like freaked myself out was like yeah it was crazy right yeah so nuts I just watched the new chucky movie that was it there's a new chucky movie yeah it's not funny it's not funny or chucky cheese it's about yeah because like finding band-aids in the bottom of the ball pit that's just dumb the the the first couple like I think the first chucky movie was like kind of scary but like after a while I couldn't turned into like a horror comedy right yeah and then like it no longer he also changes the way he looks
Starting point is 00:16:47 he looks it's like it's like a modern day looking yeah it's like it's like it was really yeah it's like technology bad kind of movie right yeah exactly yeah is he a hacker basically like he's like an he's like some guy that works at the factory uh spoiler alert by the way some guy that works at the chucky factory gets mad at his boss so he um he basically takes out like this Chip and Chuckie that, you know, makes them not kill people, apparently. Wow. Questions to make it easier just so when we get that to that part. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:19 Yeah. I saw a review on it and I was like, yeah, I'm not going to watch this. It has one of my favorite actresses in it. That's why I watched it. Who's that? I'll be positive. She's great. She's awesome.
Starting point is 00:17:28 Would she? She plays the mom. She's in Parks and Rec. Yeah. A couple of the movies. She did this movie, for everything about nuns that like quit the seminary or whatever. I think I heard about that one. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:42 She did a movie with... She's really funny. Robert De Niro, too. Yeah, that one's kind of weird. That's definitely... She's a good actress. No, she was... Oh, Aubrey Plaza.
Starting point is 00:17:51 Yeah, when I... Oh, my gosh, yes. Okay. There was, like, a moment of time when, like, I saw, like, a bunch of interviews of hers, like, back-to-back at, like, and, like, talk shows, and she's really, really funny.
Starting point is 00:18:00 She's funny, man. Her, um, her Hot Ones interview, the Wing Show is actually really good. You should definitely watch that. I like, because that movie with Robert De Niro, The whole movie, she's just like, just, like, offensive and, like, funny and just crack me up. She's very, like, deadpan, like, dark kind of humor.
Starting point is 00:18:17 Comedy is so hard. Doing comedy is, like, so incredibly hard. So, like, mad respect for anyone that's, like, consistently funny. Takes time. I think, I think if you're funny for that long, like, I mean, or if you're doing comedy for that long, you eventually find out what's funny, what's not funny. Because there was my girlfriend's best,
Starting point is 00:18:38 friend was dating a comedian for a bit. Oh, okay. He was like, I don't say he's like famous, famous, but he was like well known enough, you know, we're like,
Starting point is 00:18:45 he's been on TV and stuff like that. He heard of Joe Rogan. Yeah. Yeah, you know, he's just a little guy named Joe Rogan, you know, just, yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:53 He asked me if I tried DMT once. I was like, what, dude, like, I ain't about that life. No, but like, like, we went to go watch him
Starting point is 00:18:59 at like the Malibu playhouse, which have never been and never grow in that area. Yeah. It was like a bunch of like old white people. So it was really kind of funny scene. It's like, you know, very black guy, talked to a bunch of white people.
Starting point is 00:19:09 It was really funny how, like, he changed his set based on the audience. He knew his audience, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. And then I talked for like, like, five minutes. And I was like, an hour later, I'm like, that's still funny. Yeah. It's still laughing.
Starting point is 00:19:21 It's a laughing looking hour later. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so why broadcasting? Like, what made you go? I want to do e-sports broadcasting stuff? Yeah. Like what about it is something that like you saw Andy streaming one day and he's like I can do that Yeah, I was like that guy has two followers. I can do that no um rip Andy he's not even here we're still
Starting point is 00:19:46 He's still going to tell you know I want to test he's even listening to his podcast and he says like he says he's a very active member of this community so don't ping Andy You should be listening live right now needs to find this out yeah yeah he should be listening live or dealing with a bunch of PR disasters Yeah, well, no PR disasters today because we want something to be cool. We did. Yeah, we did. But yeah, why broadcast? Starcraft, YouTube videos, Husky StarCraft, and Day 9 were some of my favorite YouTube videos to watch. I wasn't even playing StarCraft 2, and I would just watch the YouTube videos.
Starting point is 00:20:21 Because I played a lot of StarCraft and Warcraft and stuff with my brothers. I've actually three other brothers. So we would like do these janky lands at home. was Command and Conquer You guys remember the Chambros? That's right. Chambroes. Yeah, Command of Conquer was awesome.
Starting point is 00:20:37 Dude, all I would do is... Red Alert 1 or 2. What's that? Red Alert 1 or 2. I think it was 1. Okay. Yeah, I don't think it had a number. So...
Starting point is 00:20:44 Okay, yeah, yeah. The only thing I remember from that game is there's this really cool song that... Hellmarch? Yes. Hellmarch? That's the one. We're going to play right now.
Starting point is 00:20:55 Okay, so if you guys ever heard this, this is some video game history right here. All right. And all I would do in this game is call down nukes. I would only build the path so I can get nukes because I would not even try to win. Yep, here we go. So I feel bad for people who've never heard this song.
Starting point is 00:21:13 Command and Conqueror. And like never logged into their game and heard this song. I think what you were playing the Red Army in this one, right? That's pretty dumb. I don't remember. Vivian's moshing at her desk right now. All I remember. She's flipping tables and stuff.
Starting point is 00:21:27 I'm heading right now. Biggian's like, Yeah, no. Come down, Vivian. I really miss RTS. I feel like, I'm going on a little bit. Yeah! Such loud?
Starting point is 00:21:39 I still think I play better than you guys. Come on, this is classic. Yeah, but uh... This is classic, man. I really miss RTS. Like, I think, like, after, like, Mobas came out, it pretty much killed the RTS because it kind of distilled what RTSs were about,
Starting point is 00:21:58 without having all the hard parts in it, which is like the being good. Yeah, that's so interesting. Yeah, you're right. I think games like Counter Strike and Starcraft or just ones like that, you just got to a point to where you'd go into a server
Starting point is 00:22:11 or you'd go in matchmaking. And even if you're in the same, like, class, you just get absolutely destroyed. Just because it's like, there's such a huge gap, skill gap, and the learning curve is so steep. So it's like you have to enjoy that process of being just dumpstered, time,
Starting point is 00:22:28 time again before you get good. And then you get good and then you get places against even better people. You're just continually getting dumpstered until, but you're actually improving, but like you never really feel that. So, but I do, I hope RTS comes back. But anyway, so I was watching a bunch of those videos and then I was playing Call of Duty with my friends and in, I think it was Modern Warfare 3. They had a free-for-all version where it was all chat. So I did this character where I pretended like I was this pro, I was pretty good on console
Starting point is 00:23:02 on PS4, at PS3 at the time. I would go on. I wouldn't brag about that. I'm just giving context, man. If I was a pro gamer, I wouldn't be here. I'd be sponsored. I'd be sponsored. You'd be by NXT and you'd be trolling me and my church chat. By the NXXXXXX. Literally like, I don't know how many people have told me
Starting point is 00:23:20 they were awesome. Call Look. Look. Look. Let me have my moment. let me shine everyone was good at Call of Duty literally everyone was good at that game you know why because there's always an influx of because everyone played it man there's always
Starting point is 00:23:40 just holiday nobs Christmas nobs were I was the biggest I was good at trolling people I just go in there and just talk smack but that's what I would do because free for all they had all chat man so to go in there I miss all chat and yeah dude but this is what made a great is that I was playing I was in the dorms and I was playing with much of my friends I would all watch and then I would do this voice that it sounded kind of like hey guys
Starting point is 00:24:01 we should be here play the thumb free for all in the cod oh you know it's getting off the MLG circuit we're gonna just try to pump some dubs and then I would and then I would I would play by myself what I was doing and then like so I'd be like oh yeah I know there's a spawn point around the corner so I'm just going to wait for me to walk out yeah there he goes then I'm gonna like walk behind him a little bit, shoot him in the foot of the knife for me, I see a nerd. As I'm doing it, and people would either love it or they'd be like, they would just yell at me. Shut up, shut up. Both of which were hilarious, because then, like, all my friends could hear it, and we were just,
Starting point is 00:24:38 we would just crack up. But what was funny is that kind of worked on play-by-play chops is like kind of thinking and playing and looking at and all of that and just having it be automatic. And then eventually, when I'm going to move to San Francisco for Apple, I, saw that there's a razor store. They have a physical store there. And I saw that tournaments. And I was like, oh, you guys broadcasting that. I'd always been thinking about
Starting point is 00:25:02 doing broadcast. And they're like, oh yeah, talk to this guy, Chopsky. He runs the broadcast here. So then I started practicing Overwatch because they were running Overwatch. I knew League of Legends as well. So it just started doing locals on PC? Oh, yeah, all PC. So yeah, that's how I got started.
Starting point is 00:25:19 I don't know, man. Nice. Yeah, I think when I did a little bit of commentary. Like back of the day, I did commentary for some finding of events. I did one PubG event at East Sports Arena and Santa Ana here. That was very hard to do because PubG is such a weird, different game to like even talk about in general. And then I went like way before that when I used to stream like way back in the day. I think like when league was like right out of beta, I would like stream and like commentate my own matches as I'm talking.
Starting point is 00:25:49 Because if not like I'm sitting there staring at the screen and just being really quiet and like if I, If I don't have a chat to keep me going, then you have to make up something else. So it would just be just talking about what I'm doing and my thought process and like, someone's in the bush or someone put the award, you know, I see you, you sneaky little, you know,
Starting point is 00:26:04 and then I'm like throw, you know, like an Andy bomb or something and like, yeah. Before we continue, are we just going to ignore the fact that he does like a spot on Andy impression? That seriously something exactly like answering. That's pretty good.
Starting point is 00:26:16 Yeah, definitely it's pretty good. Remember Andy last week on the podcast, he was doing his voices. That's what it sounded like. Wait, so my voice sounded like his. him doing a voice. Much do it. His actual.
Starting point is 00:26:25 Hey guys. What's it going? I don't even know if this is a, you know, you know. Sounds like Andy to me. So listen to last week's podcast when Andy was doing his impressions. What is he doing? Is he an impression of himself? Of everybody.
Starting point is 00:26:41 Oh, just the people. Yeah. Anyone he did like an impression of, it would be like that weird. This is that voice. Everyone sounds like his girlfriend, his best friend, his mom and dad, he all sound the same apparently oh okay yeah even the emails you get it's like it's like uh charlie brown yeah like the hello guys uh port news oh non-emus wants to join the nzxd clan on destiny you could accept it for the destiny companion app right now live on the air there you go man multitasking approved there you go
Starting point is 00:27:12 wow what do i what do i what do i have to do to get into this clan just just click the button that you want to join we we don't have that many people how many people are in there um we have Let's see here. Total, total people who are in the clan. It doesn't even tell me here. I hear this new destiny content coming out. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:27:30 I just, definitely over 30. I just made Dennis a moderator on the official NZXC Steam Group page. We're going to use it to coordinate on Destiny. Finally going to put that page to use. Yeah, because we want to coordinate through Discord,
Starting point is 00:27:41 but it's a little bit harder because you can't like set events and stuff with that on that. You can set pins, but no one checks pins because they're too lazy to do it. Yeah, or descriptions in the channel. Yeah. Streaming, hashtag streaming channel.
Starting point is 00:27:51 Yeah. Exclamation point help. First thing you tell people is don't, don't self-promote. And the first thing they do is self-promote and then they get warned for it for not reading the channel description. You know, I think, you know, sometimes you break rules just so you can get noticed. Yeah. You know, maybe, I don't know, that's part of it. It never works, though.
Starting point is 00:28:07 Yeah. Like, I can't, like, if this dumb strategy. Like, you're much better off not being a jerk and working with the community and then maybe the one to check out your stream, right? Yeah. Like, and hang out with you. If you're just coming in. That's crazy, man. Right?
Starting point is 00:28:22 putting it hard work what? But I think it's like because you see one person doing it and it's like all right well maybe it's a good idea but I think people not knowing
Starting point is 00:28:33 what they don't know is pretty much 90% of streaming like that transition there got them because it's like it's so hard to get started transition
Starting point is 00:28:44 hey man transition by saying that's what it is I should have just yeah I should you're right you're right just let it go you don't let it flow
Starting point is 00:28:50 now I think you not, it wouldn't like, segue by the way. Segway, by the way. Yeah, just like say it and then it's kind of like
Starting point is 00:28:57 rapidly eyebrow raise. So you guys can see it. But the audio listeners can't tell. Then I'm not slick. But yeah, I mean, streaming is like that.
Starting point is 00:29:06 It's just, it's really hard to know what to do. And you don't know what you don't know. What's a, what's like a sure fire away
Starting point is 00:29:14 to ensure that you have a good quality stream? What's a sure far away? Oh, yeah, that's a good question. I mean, because there's so many
Starting point is 00:29:21 parts out there and you don't know what's a pick and there's you know there's this great website uh a great service it's n60.com never heard of what do they do and uh they have this great service called uh build really bLT if you say the letters out bLT like the sandwich yeah yeah is that I heard yeah bacon lettuce tomato it's about lunch nxccccom slash BLT yeah I'm actually kind of hungry too let's go juicy mics yeah there's a there's this really cool streaming streaming streaming bundle that has a system that it will be capable of taking your stream to the next level. Wow.
Starting point is 00:29:55 Or even getting going at all. What's in it? What's in it? Well, of course, you have everything you need in it. You have all your streaming capable CPU, GPU, PSU, your motherboard, you got the RAM, and the cooling is important if you're going to overclock. Is it a lot of RAM? You know what the plug with that?
Starting point is 00:30:14 Well, it depends on which bundle you're looking at. You're looking at the streamer bundle? are you looking at the new creator bundle? I mean, I want to be a top tier Andy streamer, so how it would be like him? Hold on, can we ask that Call a Duty guy? Well, yeah, I mean, just go for the creative bundle. It's got everything you need, never, no.
Starting point is 00:30:33 The only reason we can get it is good if you're a nerd, so. So, of course, we are talking about the brand new NZXT, BLD creator PC, which is a, it's actually a really, really beefy rig. It's a lot in it. I like beef. You're talking about, you what? My name is Moosey Beef. Huh?
Starting point is 00:30:51 You just want to pull up the specs maybe? Oh, yeah, maybe. I'm trying to give you sign language. I don't know what hand up and hand down means. The sign language was kind of like what you would do. If you're impersonating moose, that's what I remember doing. I should probably just bring in a little notepet in here. I mean, you also have your phone.
Starting point is 00:31:08 You can look it up too and you can talk about it. So the VLDN60 Creator PC has a 9800K, 2080TI. 64 gigabytes of RAM plus more because that's all it says in that post but uh no it has a what 5 terabytes of storage uh with w d black uh m bm sorry wd underscore black nvm e try so uh i mean you're getting terabyte of that m dot 2 yeah i don't even i don't even have that and i don't like i just got new board yesterday and i don't have mvmese i have a regular SSD yeah i'm like i should upgrade this yeah sucker with some how how how big of a drive do you have i have a one terabyte A one terabyte WD Blue
Starting point is 00:31:49 Mechanical Drive We're going back I have every single thing in that PC At my desk right now That's literally sitting there For reasons Are they going to be put together? I'm going to give them away
Starting point is 00:32:02 Oh my God Wait Jared is that you Giving away stuff Welcome to the street Jared free PCs Kim I'm Ivan
Starting point is 00:32:11 He's giving away Free Free Free I'm Ivan free SSD free SSD. People want to know, does a new PC have $99 service fee? It does not include the $99 build fee, but it does include the Blitz shipping on it.
Starting point is 00:32:28 So you'll get it like next day. So like if you order by like 11 AM Pacific Standard Time, right? Our time, you get it by the next day pretty much. Yes. So yeah, it's pretty cool. That's nuts. How did we do that?
Starting point is 00:32:41 How did we do that? I don't know. That's crazy. We basically feed the builders a lot. lot of food. Yeah. And don't let them sleep. You need consult the hardware. Y'all need to consult hashtag hardware for the BLD program. Sure. I mean, just give us your thoughts and we'll whatever we think is right. We'll make a change. Like the first thing like when we brought up the 510 elite, people said, why is there no top exhaust fan? And then we added it in like a
Starting point is 00:33:09 week later for free. So even if you bought a 510 elite and you don't have a top exhaust fan and you want one you can hit us up on support and get one for free i mean i mean i mean that's why we make these channels right it's like yeah the feedback is so important we want people that talk to each other and also um for us to to see like how can we how can we best help and so we got to start somewhere right and then um kind of move the stakes from there yeah uh there's a lot of activity going on this yeah chat's going to connect that right yeah yeah but it's another are people saying they can't hear us or anything like that or it's there a problem with that live podcast folks yeah My podcast.
Starting point is 00:33:45 Let's just do this and do that. We're back. And now we should be perfectly fine. Did you miss us? But yeah, so streaming PC. So the creator PC is for anybody, for streamers, for video editors, for photo editors, for, you know, any creative endeavor you want to have this PC should be able to handle everything. It's for the people I need to do stuff beyond gaming. Crazy.
Starting point is 00:34:12 Yeah. videos, you know, let's say they want to stream while they game and then upload all this content, like really fast, you know, that's what that PC is for. Yeah, I would say it's like where we always, I think you'll get advice from other streamers that say like two PC setups is a really good place to work towards, but there's a ton of complications for working with two different PCs. And so audio equipment and all kinds of stuff. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:39 You have a bunch of stuff to get that going. Exactly. And then you have two keyboards or do you virtualize? the keyboard and the mouse as well. Like there's just a lot of workarounds you have to do. Ideally, what we get to is where you have one PC that can do it all. Right. And I would definitely say that you will be able to stream it a very high quality
Starting point is 00:34:55 with the creator PC, like on one PC. Of course you have the 2080 TI with the 20 series cards. They have like hardware specifically for that can be used for encoding. That's separate from the gaming itself. That's a lot. We'll also guarantee at least 100 new subscribers with the new PC. 100% yeah or your you'll get your affiliate yeah yeah yeah you get your uh you get your affiliate status on twitch if you buy the creator PC it comes with a code you put into twitch for affiliate
Starting point is 00:35:25 don't call from that but totally get it you also get uh somewhere you also get 5 000 height burgers if you're if you're a mixture streamer well there you don't discriminate against the i mean it's whatever you know who knows it could be a big new service coming uh coming tomorrow for streaming. But, but yeah, I mean, this one,
Starting point is 00:35:43 I mean, if look at a creator PC specs and everything like that, it's like 64 gigs of RAM. That's crazy. And 5 terabytes, it's like, this is for the really hardcore person,
Starting point is 00:35:52 right? Just, uh, if you're, if you're buying it for gaming. Don't. You're kind of dumb, but you can totally do it.
Starting point is 00:35:57 You can't. Not decrated for that. Like, I don't know if you need 5 terabyte. I mean, well, granted the new destiny updates to be like 150 gigabytes.
Starting point is 00:36:04 So maybe you might. Games are getting huge. They get super huge. Do you ever, you ever copy those files in case the original files like get corrupted you like no I never do yeah I keep a couple backups I can barely remember hit record on the podcast yeah I think you backup my video games I just reinstalled them I have to come in here after every podcast and then logging him out of discord
Starting point is 00:36:24 genuf audacity like yeah I know I'm just kidding don't don't don't backup your game files your your everything at least that's just it doesn't make sense um but I know it's a great PC for all the content creators out there and one of the reasons why we brought you on here is to talk about that because you are the the streaming expert here but you're also the person who helps everybody in the hashtag streaming channel
Starting point is 00:36:49 can talk a little bit about the streaming channel and what it's there for and you know what you can kind of do there on a daily basis well we sell streaming bundles and streaming kits right so the phoes streaming PCs and then also bundles of the hardware that you need as well So like the stream deck, you have the Yeti microphone, the microphone arm, a bunch of different stuff that'll help you get there of this, the stuff that you need to get started with, right?
Starting point is 00:37:18 Just good, good hardware that will be a great place for you to start and grow to big enough size to where it's like, all right, now I'm starting to get picky about things and I can figure out exactly what hardware I need for the next step of whatever, wherever I'm going with my streaming. So it's a really great place to start. and you know you should not have any issues streaming with those kits. So the channel itself is, of course, when people have questions. And the ping is important because I would say that while I try to check it as often as possible,
Starting point is 00:37:53 the ping helps me out to know when people are having issues. So like, do you not be afraid to ping me? Usually, like even if, yeah, even if it's like 20 ping a day or whatever. Like I want to make sure that people People are, like when you need help on streaming, you need it now. It's like, sorry, I'm like slamming the desk. And so it's like, I'm like, about to hit it.
Starting point is 00:38:17 He's about to hit it. I'll do it again. So I'll gesture in the air so it's so it's silent. Yeah, but when you need to set up your stream and you, like I said, people, when you don't know when you don't, what you don't know, that is a very frustrating feeling. So that's what we wanted to set up the streaming channel so that people can have. have a place to where it's like, I need help right now. I'm trying to get this going. What do I need to do?
Starting point is 00:38:42 And so that's how we set up the ping. And that's why I do not mind the pings at all. Because there's a lot. You won't get banned for it. There you go. Like, I'll just say there's a lot of stuff going on and then I'm working on. So it's like I try to stay up to date as much as possible in that channel. But like, are you working on?
Starting point is 00:39:02 Oh. I'm working on some cool stuff. Right, cool. I continue. Yeah. You know, you guys actually, I mean, no cap, no cap here. You guys are saying, oh, we should consult the hardware channel for when you guys make builds. We're keeping it out for like what else we can, what else we can make. There's a lot of great work that's already been done in streaming and content creation.
Starting point is 00:39:25 He's going to make a computer case out of the same material as PG. Dude, I would. Imagine. But he's really soft. He's a really soft blush. Do you know what would be great for this material? is tripping fluid into uh to create vortices for greater yeah uh greater coefficient of yeah i know those words yeah yeah there you go i know some of this where my mecky nerds at
Starting point is 00:39:49 any mecky nerds in chat right now uh we've taken fluid in it okay sorry um but yeah i mean the you guys talk about like we we want to listen we want to hear and so the streaming channels are big help because then we get to see what are people struggling with right and that's how we make our bundles better. That's how we make everything better about what we do. We're here to listen. What's why we have this Discord? It's like, it's like going to be someone to ask, are you working on X, Y, Z? And we say, we're always working on something. It's whether we think it solves a problem. And it's something that we see it as worthy of us putting out. Right. Like the reason why
Starting point is 00:40:23 the digital PSU exists is because you can monitor your PSU and not a lot of them have that feature. That's what makes that product special, right? What makes a 510 elite special? It looks better than your case. Yeah, why is the N7 special? Because it has, it integrates with all of our cams offer because you have like those two LED ports on it. So you don't have to have an extra eye device. You can put that in any case and you pretty much works as a high device.
Starting point is 00:40:45 So there's a lot of things that we do that solves a problem, whether it's a problem that like we want to solve for our own stuff or a problem that people in general have. So, you know, part of the, part of the reason that channel is this is because one, people ask about their stream all the time and like we don't have, we didn't have a dedicated channel for it or a dedicated person who wanted to run it. And two, because you know, you never know. when like we might have a great idea you know a lot of people are bugging about this and no one
Starting point is 00:41:06 can solve it yeah yeah we can do oh two years later we have uh a plush that looks it's made out of metal because the material guy decided it should be a metal plush there you go nzxti watch bands yeah i mean oh hey dude why are you saying that sorry this is live spoiler alert guys erase your memory okay now i look into the red light people get their reference anymore to you know man man in black by the way what's the question you've heard
Starting point is 00:41:35 you've gotten the most in the streaming channel my favorite questions are just straight up help just like help I'm like oh my god I want to help see there's a lot on a lot of people ask like how do I
Starting point is 00:41:49 get people to notice me like yeah just like how do I get started how do I get first followers and what not oh god honestly it's actually a pretty wide range of um oh whoa whoa whoa hey um rude it's a wide range of questions uh and i have to shout out to is it palenius and sayoshi they're quite often they i think i think
Starting point is 00:42:16 they actually maybe i should be blaming them but they still my thunder because they answer questions before i can get to them i'm just kidding it's a it's a really huge help i mean that's what i love to see too is people helping each other out. Yeah, no. We have a really good committee for that. By the way, Slioshi is a fantastic Destiny 2 player. He's in the client.
Starting point is 00:42:32 It's a lot of the one out there. Very good. Did you give him that name? Sayoshi? Reziya Yoshoki? No, it does not. No, only one person. Actually, Yuzoki doesn't exist anymore.
Starting point is 00:42:42 He's dead on Twitter. If you go to the account, it's actually suspended. Blink once if he's lying. Blink twice if everything's okay. Rakes. But yeah, I mean, the channel, honestly, like there's just a I don't think there's too many of one particular question it's a we get some on audio we get some on the encoding actually probably the number two after the you know how do I get
Starting point is 00:43:07 people to find out about me on stream is stuff around encoding like the video settings and the or dropping frames right that that's one of the most challenging parts of streaming right now is understanding your internet um and unfortunately some people don't have internet that's good enough Like, like the mess here at the office. Sorry, man, you can't stream.
Starting point is 00:43:27 But why not? Your internet sucks. The internet here is for some reason. Every time I check the speed, I have like one MS. Oh, no. But yeah,
Starting point is 00:43:36 if you have like one megabit only, it's like, you can't really do too much there, unfortunately. So, yeah, it's definitely a good thing to check
Starting point is 00:43:45 is your upload, your upload speed. So, but yeah, I mean, it's been pretty fun. I would say, I want more questions.
Starting point is 00:43:54 I want more pings. Even if you just want to chat, that's fine. I'll open that for now. Then I'll... There's a little bored, you know, hanging out in K-town wants to answer a couple questions
Starting point is 00:44:04 on a late night with a ball of wine. Dude. Soju and beer man is the... Soge is great. It's great. It's great. So if someone did say, hey, Mushabee,
Starting point is 00:44:17 I want to get noticed on Twitch. Yeah. I feel like that's the hardest question to answer. Yeah. Because there's so many ways to go about it, right? Well, there's a ton of ways. I think one of the best ways to do it would be, so it would be to find people that are around your level in streaming
Starting point is 00:44:32 that you can play with. Because a lot of times what will happen is if you play with somebody who's also streaming and then the chat asks about who is this other person, it's like you can cross-promote. And if you're a similar size, then it's like you can help each other out. You're going to have similar problems or similar challenges to that other person at that time. And it's always, always, always so good
Starting point is 00:44:57 to just be making friends and who are also trying, who have similar interest to you. You want to grow channels, you want to have content that's, that will, you know, find the audience that will enjoy you. And if you play with people
Starting point is 00:45:12 that you get along with, then likely the viewers that are watching you will like the other person you're watching with and vice versa. Right. So it's like, don't look at this as, a zero-sum game. By that, I mean, just because I have a viewer, and if they hear about you,
Starting point is 00:45:27 they're going to stop watching me. Like, that's a very, it's not a good way to think about it. Like, you've got to think collaboratively and find people that you like to play with and that are also streaming to have similar goals again. Because then, like, that's, that's probably one of the biggest reasons why Ninja and Dr. Lupo got so big is that they had such a funny chemistry together, right? There's tons of people who could play as well as Ninja. I would say you're looking at one right here yeah right there you see this guy on fortnight mobile this guy's crazy she those four he's great i caught on bs4 he's i would i'm not a streamer but i would take a totally different approach to streaming if i
Starting point is 00:46:07 wanted to like make it a career you know what i would do what do you would you do i don't even play video games you give away PCs no i wouldn't do that i would i would totally do something that nobody else was doing like it wouldn't and i wouldn't i wouldn't even like want to be like a famous like known for gaming I'd want to be known for something completely like off the wall like I'd be like oh he's the prank guy or something would you finally tell people about your cross-stitching I probably should obsession oh yeah like Bob Ross is a good proficiency oh oh yeah I love when that happened it was like yeah what was the core of Bob Ross just like it's so different dude like when I love that the fact that it's so different to me that stands
Starting point is 00:46:47 out more than like someone who's just playing a game yeah yeah like the same one way everyone else is playing it. Sure. But it's like they're relying on the quote unquote personality. Yeah. Whereas just do something different. Like you don't have to rely on always like, you know, engaging in the community or whatever, you know,
Starting point is 00:47:03 because I feel like that would be a, it seems like that's harder for me. Like if I wanted, if I wanted to, I guess, you know, build a community that way. It's like there's easier,
Starting point is 00:47:14 there's less mental effort trying to think about what to do. And then you can kind of jump in and try to increase your changes from there. But what you're doing is like, what do I do that could be interesting that I could capture and then somehow find those people I just started a prank channel there you go you should do this you're on camera right now oh boy oh boy
Starting point is 00:47:35 there's no podcast bro it's not the prank video the long con so but no I agree I think that's a really good there's again there's a ton of ways to get started I would say that for the majority of people you know you want to play video games you don't want to you want to try to grow channel on that and like just try your chances right
Starting point is 00:47:56 like you want to have fun along the way right and so I think collaborating with other people and having a mindset to where you're like giving of your time giving of your your energy to other people and to where you can like cross promote I think is a great way to start you mentioned Lupo and Ninja
Starting point is 00:48:15 great examples of guys that are sponsored by N60 that's sponsored by us but also the reason we sponsor them is because of that because of their personality like yeah the way they interacted with each other and their community we really like that because that's how we interact with our community and each other so it's really fun to interact with you know lupo ninja timetatman courage all these people because that's like literally like the heart of gaming right the the whole spirit of playing video games is you know building community and making friends having fun poking one at each other sometimes, you know, talking smack. But it's all because you guys all share that
Starting point is 00:48:55 love for gaming. And I do think it is important, I think, for streamers to build those relationships. But I also, I still stand by my statement. You have to do something different. Yeah, you do. Because everyone's playing the same game, you know? Yeah. And me personally, like, I don't, since I don't play all those games, like, it doesn't really matter who's playing them when I'm watching them, you know? Like it could be you or a ninja and to me it looks the same. So I think if someone just did something different, I'd probably be more likely to tune in. Yeah. Like a prank videos.
Starting point is 00:49:30 Here's the thing, you're a free thinker. You're a rethinker. I'm a rethinker. Yeah. But like I think one of the things I see a lot of is that people who say they want to do it, but they never do. They're like, oh, I have to do all these things and be unique and think about what's going to make it perfect like have it all planned out like you're not going to have it all planned out and so that's why
Starting point is 00:49:54 i say like um i while i agree ivan that like you want to be unique and you do need to find that you do need to find what's unique about you and to find those people that will actually find the entertaining that uniqueness but one of the best things just to do is to get started like not to get like held back because you're like oh i don't have it all figured out like you're you're never going to have it all figured out along the way right got to do the work got to grind you know ninja stream for 10 years before before we signed him Mm-hmm. You know, that's a long time.
Starting point is 00:50:22 That's a very, very long time. Now he has a PC. There you go. Yeah. All that for a free PC. Yeah. All that for a drip-up, cloud. I don't even want this Adidas deal.
Starting point is 00:50:35 I just want a free PC. Yeah, that's how you get a free PC. Is you grind for 10 years? No, I think you guys are definitely both the right. Like, I had an actually very interesting stream on Sunday. I told people on the Discord server, and yeah, was kind of quote-unquote, self-promotion. I was like, hey, guys, I'm going to be playing jackbox party pack with everybody, hop into the stream, come play with everybody.
Starting point is 00:50:53 And we had like a really, really fun stream with like 13, 14, 15 people just hanging out. Yeah. Laughing at these dumb things. And the thing, the best part about it is that we're trying to keep it kind of wholesome, you know, because, you know, it's, it's so people from the server and I want to be, you know, like, if I'm going to be including people from the server in the stream, I want to make sure that we're upholding, like, the values of the server and the values of NZXT. And whenever someone would, like, put like an answer that was like kind of, a little risque, zero votes. Like, you get nothing. you lose because the idea is like if you're you know like be clever right throwing out naughty words is not clever it's easy right slow hanging fruit yeah yeah it's much funny if you can think of
Starting point is 00:51:29 something that's actually clever and interesting and in like uh you know whatever like a funny pun on something so it was actually a really a really fun uh stream and had a lot of good times with the community and to me it was like i'm just working right now right i'm literally at work but i'm having fun with everybody which is why one i enjoy the join my job and two why i enjoy the community because we're really cool. What the heck did you just link, Theo? I don't know what Final Mouse says with their social media. Speaking of something different, right?
Starting point is 00:52:00 Speaking of something different. That's hilarious. Yeah, I don't even know. I love Final Mouse for. Yeah, no, they're definitely very funny. They're the true rethinkers. Yeah. I love anyone that's different, man.
Starting point is 00:52:14 Just beat, like, to me being different, like, it's the most important. thing in the world because everyone more or less spends a lot of time trying to fit in trying to be the same trying to just copy people and i think it's very very unique when you see find someone who's just like i'm just do my way i don't care it's like wow i guess cool yeah and because it takes a lot of uh takes a lot to get to that point yeah because people think you're crazy people like i'm sure like everyone right now in the chat's linking all these weird uh final mouse tweets And there's some people, some people are saying,
Starting point is 00:52:50 I don't get it, I don't get it. Why are you like, they don't do it for everyone to get it? They do it for the right person. They do it for themselves. And if people like it, they like it. And I think it's also kind of goes back in the streaming. Do it for yourself. If you find it funny, other people find it funny.
Starting point is 00:53:04 If you're trying to be somebody else that you're not, people are going to catch on that really quickly and they're not going to want to watch you. Yeah. Right? Like you watch the streamers that we, they sponsor. The less you care, the more you get. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:53:15 That's so weird how that works. Yeah. Well, I think it's because you're being. more authentic, right? It's like the less you care. As in like, if you care, quote unquote, it's like, are you just trying to copy everyone else and you become a less authentic version? It's like when you care too much, you become focused on the thing that you shouldn't be doing, which the things you should be doing is the work, the grind, just do the work every day. Yeah. And that's how you get the followers. Like, let's say you want followers. That's how you get
Starting point is 00:53:39 followers. It's not by, you know, everyday thinking about followers and just worrying about followers. That's not going to get you followers. Yeah. So it's just you got to put in that work yeah yeah you know lead a community you know be someone who's not like everyone else and people will want to follow you or just get away free PCs yeah exactly yeah yeah um or free uh wd black uh ms yeah honestly that's not a bad idea like if you really really really really want to get followers why not just um get free stuff do away just get away free PCs how many it works right i mean it definitely works like if you you know if you say follow me and i give you something for free people will do it it's whether those people are going to
Starting point is 00:54:18 stick around, right? That's why when I see all these like five-year streams give away at, you know, 100 followers, I'm like, okay, how many of those people are actually going to like, you know, stick around? They're going to wait for the free thing. And when the free thing goes away, they're gone to to the next free thing. Yeah. You don't want them beggars in your stream. That's right. No clowns. Yeah. With those honky, honky shoes. Oh, man. But it's true, right? Yeah, yeah, for sure. Like, like you, like, you have to do the hard work. You have to be yourself. If not, it's not going to work out. ever
Starting point is 00:54:49 never ever never ever or you get lucky and then it runs out yeah so I talk about streaming what are you playing right now playing Overwatch
Starting point is 00:54:58 TFT interesting because we had a question from Discord user caro what is Mushu's favorite Overwatch hero what is your favorite Overwatch hero
Starting point is 00:55:07 and why is it Bastion because he says rei re what he does re re re re re real talk Tracer
Starting point is 00:55:19 Yeah, yeah, it is Tracer Two separate questions Who's your favorite to play And who's your favorite design-wise? Favorite to play is Tracer 100%. Okay, 100%. Why?
Starting point is 00:55:29 I miss Tracer. Because she has cool sneakers like you? Oh, it was the mind games. I love the mine games. I love cool sneakers, of course. I actually have a pair of Tracer leggings. I want to bring out one day. You should bring your tracer leggings
Starting point is 00:55:43 Oh, boy. Yeah, it's going to be, ooh, ooh. I played a lot of Ryanhart. I like Ryan Hart, like, in theory, and I love playing him, but it's like, there's only so much you could do, right, on your own. But when you get, actually, I was obsessed with getting 360s shatters at some points. I actually have this YouTube.
Starting point is 00:56:05 Spin around and hit your cue. Well, here's the thing is that it would fake people out. They'd be like, what is going on? I would just, like, spin around, just like spin around all game. Right. And random points, like practice my 360s. And there's one time when I did the 360 and they were just like, what's going on? And I got like a six man shatter.
Starting point is 00:56:21 And it was like, yeah, this is all worth it. Was it a team white? It was a team white. Yeah, we won Nubani. It was a Nubani point after the second checkpoint. So, yeah, we got to point C after that. That's nice, nice. Thoughts on Sigma.
Starting point is 00:56:34 Yeah, thoughts on Sigma. I hate them. I really like him. They have some, they have some nerves coming up. Good. I am not happy with the current batch of characters where it's literally all damage mitigation. Like it's like all shield. It's all you can't hit me you can't hit me and I'm like well then what the hell am I shooting for? Yeah the cool downs have been too much
Starting point is 00:56:50 I think Sigma has been too strong but Sigma is from a design standpoint and the lower standpoint I think overall I was like how are they going to make a new tank right how do you actually make something different he feels really fun to play And now there's more damage mitigation you have to be more thoughtful about the shields right putting that And so I love the new changes coming up there's a new patch there's new patch notes for the PTR that You know they have not changed much between the PTR and live. So I'm excited for those changes. Baptiste is really fun too.
Starting point is 00:57:21 I think that the challenge is the, when you have an uncoordinated team, people for some reason don't want to shoot. Like no one who, not to attack the non-voice chat joiners, but they never shoot the immortality field. Shoot the immortality field. And someone says, a lamp, disc, or frisbee. It's so easy. Shoot it. It's so easy. Shoot it.
Starting point is 00:57:47 Just shoot it. It's like zero health. Like, yeah. It's like a couple times and it's dead. Yeah. So, too,
Starting point is 00:57:51 but also what I don't like about Baptists is that he's another one of those like a giant damage mitigation. And I feel like it just feels it feels lazy to me, right? It's like can we have a healer that doesn't rely on like you can't die for X amount of time? Like if you pop your moral on someone, they're probably not going to die unless you're like 100% concentrating fire on them. Yeah. Or like mercy is impossible. to kill when she has her cue up.
Starting point is 00:58:19 What? All right. Thanks for that. I appreciate it. That wasn't me laughing away from the mic. That was, tell you, I need a soundboard.
Starting point is 00:58:29 I just want to be the soundboard guy on this podcast. We can set that up. Yeah, we can get that gone. All we need is a stream deck. That's right. There we go.
Starting point is 00:58:35 Like, you know, Howard Stern has Fred. I want to be your Fred. You can tell us more Fred as you want. Just like you sound effects. Does he drops. Yeah. I know,
Starting point is 00:58:43 like I, I played so much overwatcher with the, or the three years now, I just don't care anymore, dude. Like after, after Brigg and how long it took him to actually do anything to her, I'm like, sorry, Blizzard, you done it again. So I'll put it to another game. Yeah, yeah. They've, we, I mean, they've, it's going to be tough to balance Brigg,
Starting point is 00:59:01 but I think she's very much out of the meta right now. And so, um, yeah, Anna's super fun to play. Good. Yeah. I don't play anymore. I love Anna. Yeah. My favorite character is somber.
Starting point is 00:59:14 Samma is great. I love sombra. One because she's like the only Mexican character like in a lot of games. And she's a super dope hacker. And she says boop. And she's going to annoy people. You can. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:24 And I love bamboozling people. When they think they're going to get a health pack, I'm like, that's mine. Yep. That's right. She's super fun. Best part about it. But she's like, but she's like Mexico City Mexican. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:36 So she speaks weird Spanish and it took forever to like. Oh, yeah. Because like you see how some of her voice lines are Spanish. I'm like, what the heck is she saying? I'm like, that ain't Spanish that I know. But yeah, no, she's... The voice actor's great, too. No, she's actually really cool.
Starting point is 00:59:51 With all the voice actors on. And the Overwatch voice acting team has like really cool Twitters and Instagrams. Yeah. They're really funny. They get it. Those are really, really fun people. It seems like they're always hanging out too.
Starting point is 01:00:03 Yeah, right? Like best friends. Yeah, I don't know if that's like on purpose or like they just happen like, oh, I like you. I like you too. Let's hang out all the time. I have dinner and like tweet all the time. I think the sombra and. Symmetra voice actor actually are like best friends.
Starting point is 01:00:17 Yeah. Because they're all, they are always hanging out. But then they'll run into a bunch of other people too. Lucy voice actor is hilarious as well. Too bad I hate Lucio. He's an annoying character. Come on,
Starting point is 01:00:28 Red. He's literally the worst. It's pretty good, right? It's like a soundboard. After they made his wall ride even easier, I hated him even more. Oh, come on, man. It's the worst thing they could have done.
Starting point is 01:00:37 Boops, man. Could, no. That's, it's, it's point. I never get any, any, any, uh, three man boopers from, from Ilios well in chat here it's a toxic map I hate it so much
Starting point is 01:00:49 so I don't play the game anymore you're playing Destiny now right Destiny Wow Classic with my buddy because he wanted me to play and Zelda Links Awakening on the Switch It's really good Really?
Starting point is 01:01:02 It's really good yeah Isn't it like 80 bucks or something? It's dumb expensive for a remake but I say it's worth it because they pretty much like rebuilt the game from the ground up Okay And it's funny because I'm playing playing it and the game the game will looks like what I imagined it looked like when I played
Starting point is 01:01:17 oh interesting yeah I mean wow so they like modernized like the magic that it had you're like oh my gosh and now you're like oh yeah no it's great it's super good super super good I think I think and me and I haven't talked about this the switch is like the only console you should have as a PC gamer and the only game is you play is Tetris 99 there you go we have pretty fierce battles is that your battle real in the office basically the only game I play now is that yeah with Vivian Oh, nice. She's saying Tetris, see? That's right.
Starting point is 01:01:46 And sometimes Carmen. Yeah. Even tells me that you're, you absolutely trash. She's right. I was kidding. That's a really cute car. She actually never said that. But I'm saying that.
Starting point is 01:01:57 Oh, I love those keychanges the bomb. That's a real dope. I love to, I don't know if you guys have talked about us before, or even how much time we have left. But I love to have like. Time's up. Sorry. Let's go. All right, guys.
Starting point is 01:02:09 It was ready to be. Bye. Wait, are we actually? No, no. Okay. Wow. I love to put like a little, like I like those figurines. So someone in chat posted a picture of all of their like the key chain figures of the Overwatch heroes.
Starting point is 01:02:26 I'll like put it on to a backpack or onto something that's like not super like that doesn't super scream. I'm a gamer. Like a nomadic sleeve bag. Exactly. Yeah. And it's like when you notice it though, you're like, oh, gamer. Oh, wow. That's pretty cool.
Starting point is 01:02:40 It's like NZXT. I've heard of them. or next I've heard of that brand um no um and so and so yeah my I have like a keychain that's like a reinhart on one of my bags that I always bring like to a convention because I don't know I don't want to wear like my blizzcon bag to conventions for whatever reason even though it has because it has all the patches and stuff on it just feel like it's too loud um and then my my what do you call the lanyard I have is a legal legend support lanyard they gave way a packs east like 2013 so like when people
Starting point is 01:03:11 see that they're like oh is that League of Legends and then when people were from Paxies 2013 that's when you know it's like that's an OG right there too so I'll see people with those lanyards every now and again and I'll be like you're a gamer it's been some places people think I'm an OG just because I'm old like that game must be an OG I mean you also ride a scooter to work I do yeah wow that guy's been places he's seen some stuff I see I do see crazy stuff with that scooter actually yeah I'm sure you some weird people I got to say I don't know Yeah, I, uh, next time. Yeah, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't like to go gamer loud when I go out to places.
Starting point is 01:03:47 Like, I don't like to advertise it. Yeah, I like the shirt. I like her looking me up and down and what is today. He's like, what is this full? Yeah, I mean, you're saying it. So I got a, no, the shirt is, um, boy shirt. Yeah, the, you have the, the coy fish. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:58 I'll swim around. Actually, I bought the shirt because of my old job, because it was, for me, is a funny meme. Mm-hmm. They were, uh, so I used to work at Black Desert online as a community manager. And there was this, uh, this event where you could fish coy fish. and you could sell the koi fish to a vendor for a really stupid amount so a lot of the gameplay in black desert is like afk so like you can like afk process your minerals or whatever it's really really dumb
Starting point is 01:04:22 but um people would like afk fish this entire event so imagine like a world of warcraft like seasonal event except all you did is just fish and leave your computer on and let it auto fish for you because if you leave it on by itself it'll just automatically catch the fish at a really slow rate but catch the fish so the koi fish was like a giant meme in the game for the longest time It's like, everyone in the economy, so I'm like, I'm going to buy a koi fish shirt. What brand is that? Is that Cholo sport?
Starting point is 01:04:45 Yeah. It is. Yeah, but like, it's, it has to be a meme, you know? And that's why I like the shirt. Because to me, it's hilarious. People just see a koi shirt. Oh, it's a cool shirt. I'm like, but it's a meme.
Starting point is 01:04:57 It's no watermelon shirt, but. Yeah. And he's got the, uh, he's got the market cornered on interesting shirts in the office. Andy? Yeah. He wears like all over what shirts, I feel like. But today's wearing a jersey, right? It's wearing an Overwatch League jersey.
Starting point is 01:05:14 Yeah, Vancouver Titans. Okay, but then you asked him, okay, this morning. So he walks in with that Overwatch jersey. Oh, yeah. You're like, hey, you're running the event? He's like, nah, just wearing the shirt. Yeah. And then he's like the biggest Dodger fan on the world than yesterday.
Starting point is 01:05:24 He's wearing an Angels jersey. I didn't even bother, like, say anything because then I want to get into it. And maybe he's doing that to trigger you. Then when he was on the podcast, he's wearing a watermelon shirt. And we asked him, hey, man, you like watermelons? He's like, no, not really. He's like, okay. So he just wears shirts.
Starting point is 01:05:40 of things he hates apparently Yeah, it's weird No, Andy told me he wore the Vancouver Titans shirt just despite me Because I'm a big San Francisco shock fan Why? Because I lived there at the time When they announced
Starting point is 01:05:53 When Nate Anzer was like posting pictures of Where people were posting slides of his concept For Overwatch League When as soon as I saw that said San Francisco up there I'm like, I'm so ready for this Is it is it weird for you to follow like a regional Overwatch team when they all play in L.A? Like it just to me never made any sense
Starting point is 01:06:09 It's like, oh, these are the Shanghai Dragons. Like, yeah, but they're literally like down the street right next to the other teams. Like, they don't feel like regional teams to me. Doesn't matter anymore with the internet, man. So they are moving to games in being in region for next season. But even before that, I was all, I was all. It actually is happening. I'm so surprised that they're actually going to make it work.
Starting point is 01:06:30 I mean, they did make the schedule so it's possible. Right. But I would say that I was 100% into it because I love watching football. I love watching baseballs all right. How did your fantasy football team perform last week? I got a narrowly beaten by Team Fabuloso. Fubuloso. Do you have a sport?
Starting point is 01:06:53 We do have a sports show. Which is Ivan's team. Unfortunately, I lost to Ivan. Get wreck, kit. Pretty rough because he, because he auto-drafted a player who now doesn't play anymore for reasons. I'm on that waiver wire, though, man. He went on that waiver wire and he capitalized that. But anyways, I just loved traditional sports.
Starting point is 01:07:09 and I was like, I love esports as well, and this is just going to give us another reason to have more fans. It's like no one should be forced to like anything. Right. But the more something I like, when something I like has more reasons for other people to like it too, I'm all about that. And so it's just like,
Starting point is 01:07:29 I would wear the San Francisco's chalk jersey. I helped host like viewing parties and stuff like that. And that's how I've actually got in touch with the org itself, all really, really chill org, energy the owner like he comes to all the games
Starting point is 01:07:43 and stuff like that too which is crazy because they have like they have a counterstrike team really big Conestrict team Rocket League team and I think they just yeah they just got a spot
Starting point is 01:07:51 in the Call of Duty league which I I hope that's well I am a little nervous about Call the Duty league for next year because they're going very fast but yeah I mean
Starting point is 01:08:02 we would have like a watch party and people who are also there like at the bar as well like what is going on because they see we're watching a video game we're like it's the San Francisco Shock they're like oh that's so cool like wait are these like pro players so it like kind of gets a conversation going right and shows that like we that it means business right it's it's something that people are serious about something that you
Starting point is 01:08:22 can win serious money in and have a career in and and whole ecosystem around it hopefully that kind of rises up continues to rise up that supports you know as many jobs and as a career as does traditional sports right so I I love everything traditional sports that is around like the community and bringing people together and those moments that you remember for your whole life. Like you see all these interviews with people who like was, I was grew up in Boston. So when the Red Sox won the World Series after an 86 year drought, there were people that were straight up like, I thought I was going to die before they won another World Series.
Starting point is 01:08:56 Like it meant so much of those people. And so I think when you can, even if it's like all fake, right? It's kind of all fake, right? Sports. Like, what are you even doing? You're, you're hitting this ball and then you can run and touch. this bag before someone else catches the ball and touches you with it. It's like and the players that even from Boston, you know, they're from like a million other
Starting point is 01:09:14 countries now and like different places in the US. Yeah. Yeah. But it's like it's the spirit of it. It's the community of it and it's about the game. It's about the rule set. It's about what you can do within it and how you can you know beat someone else. I want to get to some questions that we have because I don't want to ignore these. Yeah. Are we going to unmute or just have them type? Well, this is the type of question. but I mean if pill wants to ask we can try to get him on here. Pill, you're down to ask your question in an audio format and hopefully I don't break it. I always, when I see this green name, I always think of Pelanius Monk.
Starting point is 01:09:49 He's like, nah. Okay. So, Pill, you're the audio guy, though. Oh, that's true. So his question is, he doesn't have headphones. That's true. Yeah, it's probably that work. Timushu and Den told you of my recommendation.
Starting point is 01:09:59 Okay, so have I told you about the, he's a recommendation for the podcast set up? No. So it was a road. Basically, it's this really nice looking road. XLR. Mixer. Oh, mixer.
Starting point is 01:10:09 It's like a meant for podcasting. Oh, I think I did see that. Yeah, I haven't like a hundred percent like really looked into how it can fit into our setup. But I'm sure, I'm sure it definitely can just, you know,
Starting point is 01:10:18 the one we're using now is fine. And since people on stream or on Discord, hopefully don't hear anything like backgroundy. Because that sounds fine to me and my headset. And Adobe Edition is really great at filtering that stuff out. Like I don't really have that fear anymore. But I think for like more like a mobile set. It might be nice to have something a little more smaller compact.
Starting point is 01:10:38 It's meant for like a podcasting audience. Is a podcast or a meeting, Dennis? Yes. Yes, and. Um, second question, what were all your dream setups look like? No actual specs only looks. Alex, what your dream setup look like in your, in your room? Dream set up.
Starting point is 01:10:55 Oh, man. Um, I really want to try the new, like a thread repper or a seven, an AMD seven. Thread Ripper. Yeah. What a name. Thread Ripper. What a name. It's like, do you have too many threads?
Starting point is 01:11:09 Do you need to rip them? Dang, dude, that was really good. From AMD, the thread ripper. So, you got to do it. You got to have him record a podcast. One man, too many threads. Okay, I'm done. So, real quick.
Starting point is 01:11:27 When I used to get sick, my throat always gets like super, super deep. Yeah, yeah. And I would stream, then, like, I would join Rankings of Overwatchwatch. and it'd be like five members tried to take over. Yo, that's seem pretty good right now. What's a map in Overwatch real quick? Rialto.
Starting point is 01:11:43 Okay, so it's like five gamers try to take over Rialto starring Yushoki as Hanzo and like whatever and it's like I would name every person and what name it would do and then what their name and the character they're playing and like people would either get a kick out of it
Starting point is 01:11:59 or they'd hate it. Yeah, like to subscribe. It's like the very end. You don't really hate it. That and when you wake up in the morning too. Today's going to be a great day. Or you know, just to say it. To play some video games.
Starting point is 01:12:12 To play some video games. Yeah, but yeah, dream setup. I don't know. I want to try on the new AMD stuff. And I want to get, give me the 2080. I just, I want to mess around with Envink and C. That's not looks. It's not specs.
Starting point is 01:12:26 Looks. What would your dream set up like? The whole set up. So this is what people are confused by. What we mean set up? We mean the whole setup. Talk a monitor. All set is not a build.
Starting point is 01:12:37 Exactly. All right. You mean, so not something I can buy from let's buildD.com. Set up is like your whole setup. Like, includes your desk,
Starting point is 01:12:45 it includes. Right. So for example, your lighting. Yeah, so example, mine would be a three monitor set up. Yeah,
Starting point is 01:12:50 right? Yeah, because the more monitors, the better, obviously. Yeah, yeah. A big enough desk I can actually put my H510
Starting point is 01:12:55 elite on top of because it's on the floor. Yeah, yeah. I put a $170 case on the floor. That's, you have the five-head elite. I do.
Starting point is 01:13:04 I want those sick nano leaves Like all the pro gamers do you know I want I want to actually you know who has a really Amazing looking set up Amanda I do oh yeah I've seen a man no you should ask Amanda Okay at Odyssey girl on Twitter everyone should at her right now She's followed by n60 account she has a really cool looking set up her her her girlfriend set up for her and it's like it looks amazing Like I want to check it got the LEDs and everything like it looks like a pro league game and they don't even stream they just play games together side Yeah It's really cool but it looks good
Starting point is 01:13:34 dream about that setup. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I don't know. I would probably say for monitor, 2PC, give me like huge desk. Big desk.
Starting point is 01:13:46 Mega wide. Mega wide desk. I love when I'm at a desk and after I cleaned it up and it's like clean and there's nothing there. Oh yeah. Like on the side,
Starting point is 01:13:55 like on the left side or whatever. And it's just keyboard, mouse, stream deck, whatever you need, everything else in there. It's clean. The only thing I care about my setup is stickers.
Starting point is 01:14:04 Yeah, what's your dream sticker set up? My food's got a wild sticker pack. Yep. I just blasted them all over our podcast cart here. Yep. No, I just like, for me, I care more about the... The horsepower. No, like, I really don't care about the specs, honestly.
Starting point is 01:14:23 Like, my specs are really, like, trash. Like, I have a I-5-4-460 and a GTX-960, and I play, like, any game fine. For real. But I don't play Overwatch, see? Like, the games, the games I play Overwatch is, like, I play Hotline Miami for example.
Starting point is 01:14:41 I don't play those games. Well, I don't play those games. For the games I play on my, on my PC, like, I don't need crazy specs. So for me, I just want to have a cool looking computer. And for me, I just love, like, I love stickers my whole life.
Starting point is 01:14:57 Like, I've always had, like, a sticker door or, I would, like, sticker of my door. And then, okay, what I want to stick a, bomb next and now it's sticker bomb my skateboard or our sticker bomb my bike things like that do you get them when you travel like stickers everywhere do stickers are so good stickers magnets like my favorite thing
Starting point is 01:15:16 yeah and that's when the whole nt xxc club thing started it was because i wanted to get people stickers yeah like oh for sure remember johnny asked do you think people would like stickers yes everyone loves stickers any stickers in chat it's also really easy to get him like like when i'm with the evo i'm like obviously got to get i've been some stickers so yeah everyone brings me stickers now yeah like people people travel all over the world and bring me stickers how can you didn't bring me stickers well now that i know that you're a sticker you should see my apple stickers out bro dude straight up my my uh i have i have stickers if you want um you think guitar yeah i've got a guitar my guitar guitar guitar is really sick to the guitar case do the guitar
Starting point is 01:15:54 case you're going to be in a band let's do it so we got me you and patrick on guitar andy on bass yeah yeah yeah yeah dennis on the or not Dennis Jared on the ones and twos Dennis can record everything Jared can record everything Be producer
Starting point is 01:16:14 Yeah You play electric guitar acoustic Yeah You should have been on the podcast last week I played a song for Andy Oh what? You're in the podcast Not yet
Starting point is 01:16:26 Channel You're in the streaming channel I'm going to listen to it SoundCloud. Right after SoundCloud.com slash NCXT Where's that again? dot com slash listen to our big steak
Starting point is 01:16:36 NCXT NCXT NCXT yes yeah so how much time you get left because it's we're definitely like past our typical
Starting point is 01:16:49 time to stream oh I'm I'm sure I'm also very hungry lunch is going to happen eventually no I mean I'm assuming we're going to lunch after this I mean anyone who would have gone to lunch
Starting point is 01:16:58 yeah every podcast guys has to buy us lunch yeah tradition sorry yeah it's gonna happen hey if you guys want to ASMR stream. Yeah, just let us know on the podcast channel. Just record ourselves eating. Oh boy.
Starting point is 01:17:11 No. Yeah, yeah. If you guys have any more questions now is the time to ask him before Dennis gets too hungry. Yeah, like as soon as I said it like my stomachs are my tummy's a rumbling. My tummy's a rumbling. I wasn't thinking about food until you said I'm hungry. I'm like, I could eat. What do you guys think I should do for wallpaper? Whatever you want?
Starting point is 01:17:30 All black? No. Just just on wallpaper? Just black. off while or like wall wallpaper for the art channel um did I'm thinking you making any changes is devian art still around I think so
Starting point is 01:17:46 I remember I used to logo and devian art dot com or whatever there's like a cosplay version of it now though oh yeah it's like a cosplay version of it um I was not asking any sports question totally forgot though no who cares
Starting point is 01:17:58 who's gonna win this weekend for the Overwatch grand finals on Sunday at 3 p.m. Eastern time San Francisco Shops What do you think about? What do you think about ESports at the Olympics? Because Intel's doing a thing. I think Street Fighter is going to be there.
Starting point is 01:18:09 Hell yeah. Yeah? Dude, like... Do you think the ESports should be next to traditional sports? I don't think so. It doesn't need to force it. It does not need to be forced.
Starting point is 01:18:18 Everyone's trying to force it. And they are. Everyone's trying to force it. That's the thing. It's like, I think ESports does not need the Olympics, but the Olympics could benefit a lot. Same way how Smash doesn't need the FTC yet they cry all the time with an out of Evo.
Starting point is 01:18:30 The Olympics, to me, are just, who cares? They have, they don't even have Real sports? Like baseball And then they have curling So who cares about video games? All the Canadians in the server are angry
Starting point is 01:18:45 Ivan right now Curling is fun to watch though You have to admit? I don't think it's fun to watch What do you mean? Here's another example. You push ice like what? Like how about this?
Starting point is 01:18:52 You see those triceps though? They don't have, they don't have wrestling which is the very first Olympic sport No way. They don't have wrestling no more. Oh, should they yeah, you're right? Not anymore? We don't.
Starting point is 01:19:01 What? The Olympics? Can imagine WWE at the Olympics? Oh, I would love it. Like actually, actually acknowledging that it's scripted. The Olympics has no real influence, I think, on anything, to be honest. Yeah, it's... At this point, to me, it's a joke.
Starting point is 01:19:20 It's like, how do you not going to have wrestling or baseball? And then you're going to, like, put in e-sports now and... Well, it's not at the Olympics, but like... Yeah, I know you mean. But like Intel is doing a thing next to the Olympics. Like, hey, you should come check this out. The point is like no one shares. Yeah, no, exactly.
Starting point is 01:19:40 But like I do know people who are like going to be going to Japan just to play street fighter at the Intel thing. I don't know how they're going to run the event. I'm pretty sure they're going to screw everything up because as always, no company actually knows how to run an esport event other than e-sport people. And they always find some way to screw up the bracketing or screw up like the way that teams are done or whatever. They always mess it out. I'm going to host the 2020
Starting point is 01:20:02 Poppy Resports Olympics. Dude, Poppy Bowl? Resports. The puppy bowl. I'm down for the puppy bowl. Have you seen this? The puppy bowl?
Starting point is 01:20:11 Yeah. It's on Animal Planet every time the Super Bowl is on. He's still on a channel of puppies playing. I saw this guy yesterday. I was walking by him. His dog walked, was walking like perfectly.
Starting point is 01:20:22 Just like. I don't know what a perfect dog walk looks like. But you see the puppy bowl, right? When they're doing like the, what do they have a special word for? It's like a really rich person word. When you're like showcasing your animal walking perfectly because they train them perfectly.
Starting point is 01:20:37 Trotting? It's kind of like trotting. I don't know. There is a word. I don't know rich people words. I only speak broke. I'm going to canter. That might be it.
Starting point is 01:20:45 Cantor might be it. Like a money knows. So this dog I walked by and was cantering in perfect step and perfect rhythm around the corner of the Duncan Dun &, wherever it was. It was just like, sorry, I had to say canter in a British accent. It's only, beautiful show. It's like, next up, we have Oliver, hailing from Canterbury.
Starting point is 01:21:08 Love the hams there. Great hams. I had no idea you had all these voices, man. It's awesome. That happened every now and again. Yeah. You got to use it more often. Actually, it's my persona.
Starting point is 01:21:19 Sometimes when I'm, when I used to travel a lot, I would just like be this, just change an English person to be exotic. Sorry, you guys in line. I'm secretly a spy from the government. Are you in line it for the bar? Did you already order a drink? Sorry, I don't mean to, I try not to cut anybody. Hello.
Starting point is 01:21:36 Fun case. What are you doing back here? Fun case is great. Speaking to which, plug for the homie pun case, he dropped a new EP on Spotify. It's actually not bad. Yeah. Shout out to the circus record. But it's very, very good.
Starting point is 01:21:53 This is one song like without or without you, which I listen to. And I was like, this is kind of a banger like I like this. So, you know, check them up. Him and, you know, Javas. They have a cool, there's a funny playlist. Yeah, Javas. The Baby Shark remix is really hilarious. It's also a banger.
Starting point is 01:22:10 No, thank you. I'm good. I mean, no, baby shark remixes. Last chance for the chat to get questions into Musho Beef, streamer pro X Apple executive, material fan. You will tell you what material you're wearing right now. That's right.
Starting point is 01:22:28 So, yeah. Oh, chill. Yeah, no, this is great. This is great. Yeah, no, thanks for being here. Really, really appreciate it. That's a lot of fun. A lot less video game talk, but a lot of e-sports talk.
Starting point is 01:22:37 Yeah. I used to work in e-sports. I think I told you that, right? I'm not the biggest fan anymore. Yeah. You know, it's one of those things are like, once you see how the sausage is made, and I'm doing this hand gesture,
Starting point is 01:22:47 then we'll see, yeah. Oh, boy. Oh, wow. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Funk a ass. Thanks, Ivan. Whoa, whoa. No, I know, I mean,
Starting point is 01:22:58 really quick on that point. Actually, I don't know. Do you work in an org or? No, I did production. Yeah, I did production like freelance. So, like, I'd be the guy that the org would call to do, like, camera work or, like, player. You get way underpaid. Player liaisoning.
Starting point is 01:23:12 What's funny, because sometimes I get paid a lot, sometimes I get paid a little. Yeah. Because there's no, it's not like, you know, there's not like Teamsters Guild or whatever for esports events. For the event itself, like for the convention center, yeah. But, like, if you're working the event, contracted out, you get paid like very little or a lot. It's a little less. It's one week. It's one event I worked like two days and they got paid like 1,500.
Starting point is 01:23:31 And there's another one where I work five days and I got paid like 500. And I'm like, okay. Yeah. Okay. No, it's a wild west out there. It's a lot of work needs to get done. Yeah, it's one of the biggest challenges right now. It's all right.
Starting point is 01:23:43 I said, well, west is I got to do finger guns. Leave the sound effects to me, please. Hold on. Give me a second. This town ain't big enough for the two of us. Thoughts and glorious Marlowe. I used to hate it. Listen, we got herself an old-fashioned e-sport standoff.
Starting point is 01:23:59 one be one rest well let me tell you partner if you come back out here in my town again I'm gonna have to get you I like the glorious model low my hands used to cramp using it
Starting point is 01:24:15 but then I use it for like two days I can't use tiny people mice I get a big more mouse I think bigger hands in you you have giant hands how do you use a mouse that small um clogged baby I always I can't
Starting point is 01:24:25 cause it's so weird I mean I haven't too much We need to get you. Actually, maybe we should not get in this on board. It's like, let me just pull stuff up on my phone and play. I love some, man. I think I missed the stickers. Did you like my stickers?
Starting point is 01:24:38 I posted them earlier. We might have missed them. You have tagged us in it. We're scrolling. Scroll, scroll. Oh, these ones. That's a nice. Some very weeby stickers.
Starting point is 01:24:46 I like the K-on stickers. Moogie, obviously best girl. I don't know about that Zotak GPU though. It's a little sketch. Everyone's just I hate it. I was about to buy a Zotag 2070 Super and it looked in Discord everyone you know that me Zotak you should buy
Starting point is 01:25:01 Okay fine I buy something else I want to give this stuff a try again Because it used to be Zotak used to be kind of like iffy Yeah I think I'm fairly certain they got in there I have an old Zotak shirt Where they were like at a
Starting point is 01:25:13 Finding Game event And they're trying to sell like These like really small PCs Yeah Like nobody wanted to buy I just like that there's like another company With the Z in their name Yeah
Starting point is 01:25:21 That's true My wife's name But now we're not different No Are they different What are we different Zotech and Meldon dees make components. We should have an animal logo.
Starting point is 01:25:33 An animal logo. Like a snake or like every other game company. Be a wombat. What's like a ridiculous animal? Oh, dude. An ock? You know an ock? A.U.K.
Starting point is 01:25:44 No, what the heck's an ox? It's an extinct bird from like New Zealand. Why do we want to be an extinct bird? Because it's different. I love it. How about a do-do? That sounds like a good idea. I love tortoise.
Starting point is 01:25:55 Yeah, we should do turtles because they're saving the planet. So I think that's our cue I think that's our cue to get out of here. Ivan is officially bored So we're gonna head out guys I'm not bored, it's just time Thank you very much for hanging out with us Yeah thanks man really
Starting point is 01:26:09 Pangolin penguins are dope Appreciate you coming on here Yeah, talking about Thank you for all your help that you do on the server too Yeah no for sure A great service to everyone answering your questions on the streaming channel And he doesn't have to do it doesn't for free
Starting point is 01:26:19 Ping me more And I'm gonna ping him right now Follow him on Twitter too, Mushu Beef Yeah With two O's Uh I think of Vivian's
Starting point is 01:26:28 in there she can link his his uh his Twitch or his Twitch do you stream yourself I stream every now and again you should co-stream man yeah she should I'm not a partner though either my big boy affiliate here all right multi-twitch slash both of our channels I'll have you guys on my prank stream dude we should prank stream
Starting point is 01:26:47 I'm gonna prank these streamers right now I'm gonna unplug the internet got him cool all right with that guys thank you very much We'll see you next time and thank you very much joining us on the NXT podcast. Join the Destiny Klan as always. Play Shadow Kew coming out next week.
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