NZXT PODCAST - #012 - Reina

Episode Date: October 11, 2019

This week Denis and Ivan are joined by none other than copywriter extraordinaire and pro-podcaster Reina Woods! Reina and crew talk about 90's TV Dramas, V for Vendetta, and stuffed cats. Follow Reina at: https://twitter.com/reiray Thanks to Hambo(Email nerd)#0161 for the artwork!

Hello and welcome to N60 Club podcast number 12. My name is Den ZXC with me today. We have Ivan. Hi, I'm the spooky poppy. Spooky Poppy and special guest Raina Woods, aka RainaSaur, aka Queen of Curles, aka and I'm going to let me down. Hello. It's going well.

This is my NPR voice. That is a very NPR voice. You and Andy should do an NPR podcast. Actually, that'd be great. There was like an N-ZXT NPR and N-Z-X-PR. Be hilarious. Yeah, the game was pretty nuts, wasn't it, yesterday? I don't know much about baseball, but, but, like,

sorry, this is a sports talk show. Yeah, sorry. No. We forgot to tell you that we don't talk about anything here, really. The video game saw. Yeah, the game was pretty crazy. But Dodgers lost. They couldn't clutch, so they got kicked.

Yeah, basically. If this is CSCO, they would have gotten a vote kicked right away. But thank you for doing the podcast, Raina. We really appreciate it. Happy to be here. Raina is our resident copywriter. So she does all the words for everything. I do words good.

She writes all our tweets. Yeah, she does. No. We don't do any of the work. Blame her. Officially. Send all complaints to Raina. If you get really offended by the Duke tweet we did last night, that's all her.

So send all emails to Raina at. Someone did get offended. Someone got really mad. Yeah, we did a tweet yesterday that was like, it was a spin on my DNA and it was the dude I spent way too much time formatting that no yeah let's I don't mess with the formatting you're you're the formatting king but like someone was like I never thought to be a day where it had to unfollow nzxte and no long considered buying a PC from them and then I was like wait what was the tweet dude it was here

I'll pull it up it was um it was you know the DNA strand but it was uh one strand was a skull and the second strand was a trumpet is this right here That's all it was. My dude. Instead of my DNA. And literally someone was like, Unfollow. This is the last straw.

Canceled. I can't believe. I got to see this stuff in my feet. And then we responded. Dude. And then they blocked us. That's kind of what we do around here. For those who are listening not live, we do record this live on the NXT.

I was not aware of that. Oh, yeah. We do. On the N60 Club Discord. Discord.g.g slash nzxti if you want to listen in live, it's the best way to do it because we also have a live chat going on. We decided to do it on Thursdays instead of Fridays, even though Fridays are the best day on the server. They are the worst day for the office because a lot of people work from home. And we want to have guests on this podcast every week.

It's a ghost town. It's just better to do it on Thursdays, yeah. Yeah, literally Dennis and I are the only two people in the office on Fridays. Used to be Andy. We didn't come one week and then he's like, guess I'm not coming in anymore. One day Andy asked us, are you guys working from home tomorrow? And we said, yeah, and we're also working from here. And then we never saw them again on a Friday.

Oh, there. Yeah. Money just linked the tweet. Well, I knew there would come a day when I would feel obliged to unfollow. And stop considering buying a gaming rig from a company. Seems today is that day. And then we responded with Duke because there's no other way. You'll be back.

You'll be back. They always come back. So right now. Yes. How are you doing today? I'm doing great. So you got your Starbucks. You had your Starbucks.

Where to go? No, it's this. I just had the coffee machine coffee. I'm not, I'm not bougie. Really? I don't care how to taste. I'm not a coffee person.

I drink it for practical reasons only. You drink it because you have to, not because you want to. Exactly. It's just a thing that you got to do every day. Exactly. All of my friends hate when I say this, but I contest,

I say I am a supertaster. They're like, you're not a supertaster. What is the supertaster? If someone with like really sensitive taste buds who like can taste things more, things that taste a little bitter, we'll taste more bitter. So I'm just not, I'm not a taste more better. Bitter. Like the microphone and tell me what it tastes like.

FOMY. She's right. We should have you lick all the things. Just like have a list of like what things taste like. Raina actually did something really weird yesterday. What? I did that. I do.

I walked into the kitchen. And I see rain out of the corner of my eye and I do a double take. And I was like, when the heck did this lady get curly hair? She had like this giant like curly wig on. And she said, oh, my hair is curly. I just never wear it down. I was like, what? I've never, I've never ever.

Well, I normally straighten it. Exactly. Like, I had no clue you had curly hair. If I would have known that, I never would have been your friend or invited you to be on this podcast. Got to represent the curleys, the mop tops. I feel like there are a lot of women whose hair are like naturally not straight and then you just never see it. Yeah, that's true. Like it was like six months before I knew my girlfriend had curly hair.

She has curly hair too? Well, like it's not curly, but like it's really wavy. It's really, really wavy. And like, I like it like, I think it's cool. But like she always straightens it. So like whenever I would see her, it's always like, you know, after work or like we'd be going out and then go pick her up. And I'm like, oh, yeah, your hair looks nice. And then like we took a trip out one day and like she didn't straighten your hair.

And I'm like, what's wrong with your hair? I'm like, what did you do like that? She's like, that's how it naturally is. Exactly. It's my every dream. When my wife strains her hair, I call her by her middle name. That's kind of weird. Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Frizzle.

My wife has curly hair and my daughter has really wavy hair, which I think will be curly one day. And I find curly hair like all over my house, lower my clothes, my everywhere. Yeah. It's really annoying, Raina. Your people are really. Your people. Yeah, curly hair, man. Me and my dog shed like crazy, which is another reason why I like to call him my biological son.

But yeah, all over our house, it's like, you have to sweep every day. Otherwise, it's just like, it gets real nasty. Do you think people have curly hair because they're really like wound up or, you know, kind of like. When you have a lot of repressed feelings, it comes out through your follicles. Yeah. Just like, Rina. So Rina is our resident copywriter. She does all the good words.

What do your where do your words end up? Oh, everywhere everywhere. Oh, wow. Yeah, so I'll do like the packaging copy. Website. Yeah, the website. Banners. Amazon.

Landing pages. Landing pages, Facebook ads, all of it. Style guides. If there's anything that you see that is incorrect, I did not do that. Yeah, I'm the only copywriter here. And so sometimes, and I think this is a company. where people wear a lot of hats. So some people will write copy other than me.

But for the most part, it'll be me. I've been told I write pretty okay copy. Like I used to, I did a high praise. Yeah. I mean, like, you know, I don't consider myself to be a copywriter. I never praise him for that, by the way. Yeah, that wasn't me. No, I did work for like a marketing company like a year or so ago.

And I know we did a lot of like a lot of copy for like, tweets and stuff like that and like websites and like oh you're pretty good at that I'm like no I'm not yeah Raina's real good yeah she actually when um when we're stuck we always ask her question like yes and also when uh I was one of the people that interviewed rena for her position and at that time I was also hiring for Dennis's position and I remember after I interviewed rena I walked into jinn's office and I told them if you don't hire this woman I'm going to hire her for the position I'm hiring for even though you did like you didn't even tell me you were remotely interested in working in social media just from talking to you I was like she's funny she can write that's literally like the two top

requirements for being on social media you're going to make me blush well I think that everything worked out the way it should have though yeah I don't think that I could do what you guys do then I needed I needed Dennis because he's a savage there you go yeah I needed a savage yeah I needed Savage. I'm too much of an angel. You are. Perfect angel. I've never said anything wrong in my life.

I've literally told you, don't curse. Oh, okay. Let me get to a different mode then. Let me put my non-profanity face on. Exactly. How did you get in the copywriting? Well, I studied writing in school. But creative writing, which was my goal.

I feel like that's how everybody gets in a copywriting, is that you have your goal is to like write a novel or screenplay and if you're in LA probably screenplay I wrote a screenplay in college yeah am I should I ask you about it go ahead yeah I'm afraid to ask you about it it was called um my movie was called cream oh my God yeah and it was about a kid who smuggled drugs across the border for his dad I got an A on it wow was it for a screenwriting class yeah I took a screenwriting class it was cool cool I love I love reading and writing even though I kind of suck at both.

Or I do suck at both. But I love. You suck at reading. Because I get easily distracted. Like I'll have to read a page like twice sometimes. I'm literally the exact same way. Like I'll read something and I go, what did I just do? I'll go back on that page.

But I like that though. The HD thing I think. Yes. And I also think it's like the time we're like we live in a time where it's just like so easy to be distracted because it's just like information coming at you 24 seven. Yeah. Especially what you do. Yeah.

my phone notifications are always off because if I leave them on it's just all day long I'm going to be like just picking up my phone. But yeah, I love reading. Love writing. Me too. But I suck at it. Thankfully that we have someone that's good at it. Well, I think that to people, sometimes I'll tell a story and it'll be really bad, really long. Or I'll say something stupid or use a word wrong.

People are like, you're a writer. You're supposed to be better than that. And I'm always like, no, that's why I'm a good writer is because it's because it's. if you give me 10 seconds to tell a story, it'll be terrible. Give me an hour and I can write it, rewrite it, look at it. You know what I mean? Good writing is rewriting. Exactly.

Well, that's like, that's what Stephen King says, right? He's like, if you want to be a good writer, just write all the time. All the time. Like, it's not just a good writer. You have to constantly be putting stuff out. I thought it'd be good at anything. You just have to do the work. You're going to be good at streaming.

Bruce Lee. He said it. Then why am I so bad at streaming then? 10,000 hours. Is that what it is? Yeah, 10,000 hours to become a master at something. Yeah. Which I actually calculated my hours at NZXT and they're over 10,000.

Wow. What's funny is that I told that to Johnny and he said that I still sucked. He said that. He's like, that doesn't mean anything. I don't know generally like that. So it's always kind of funny to hear stories of him being like kind of mean to you. And like you of all people, I think it's funny when someone's mean to you. Yeah.

He's not me. It's just, you know. I'm not me and being like just poking at you, you know. Yeah, it's kind of. Because like you're the guy who pox everybody. It's like what's you put to say? Like, oh yeah. Congratulations, man.

Like, you finally retire. You did. You're great. You succeeded. No. Like, he has to kind of put me down. Like the same way I had to put you down for everything. Everything you do, I have to say like sucks do better because.

Every single time. If I say, oh, this is the best thing ever, man. You're like awesome. And it's like, you're never going to do better than that. I just going to just. I prefer that. Can you tell me that I, that I'm awesome? The way I see it, everyone here is awesome.

So we don't have to keep reminding each other that we're awesome. Okay. Everyone, Raina is awesome. That's why her name translates to Queen in Spanish. See. And re in English. Right. Rina.

Wow. How'd you, how'd you get the NXT? How'd you end up here? She drove. Yeah. Six and five three ways. I just had an exciting story. I interviewed with Ivan and he was like, hey.

I woke up, you know, I had some coffee, had more coffee. Exactly. Yeah, I just, I think I was the only person interviewed for this position. Let me think back. What did you did before? Freelance. Oh. Yeah.

So I was like doing a bunch of different brands. So like articles or like. Yeah. Like body copy, written copy ads. A lot of writing ads for like scripted. And some of them were hilarious. I remember that's what I remember from the interview is she showed me this one ad in particular. I believe it was for like a man's clothing room or something. And then you actually wrote in the ad something about sorry, discord. I'm going to say a somewhat bad word. Oh, I guess I won't say it. It said something about being a jack, you know, a money sign. Yeah, exactly. Like a donkey. And then I asked her as like, um, Um, did you write that because you thought it was funny? Did you think like, she's like, yeah, it's hilarious.

Like, yeah, it is. Yeah, I really do think Raina is funny. No, she's really, really funny. She's really clever. Like, one of the first things I noticed about her is that she was a funny person. She is. I was like, I don't know anybody. And I was like, let's go play Mario Kart with the people in creative.

I'm like, okay, so we go play Mario Kart in the office. And I just, like, I couldn't stop laughing because Rain is just such a funny person. And not like, she's like telling jokes, but it's like the way she says things and, like, how she says things. She's good timing. Yeah, she has really, really good timing. Okay. Now the top of her doesn't make it be uncomfortable. No.

It's true. Okay. It's something to be mean narena. All right. Let's roast her. All right. Curly hair. Yeah.

Mop top. Build the extraordinary. I don't know. Actually, this copy sucks. It sucks. Now, so how do you, how do you, when you're writing copy, what goes through your mind when you're doing, say, copy for specific like NZXT? Like what do things that you have to keep yourself like reminded of? Good question.

Probably just authenticity, you know, trying to stay away from anything that sounds pandery or anything that sounds like, you know, it's not for gamers. Because I think that that's something that's unique about NCXT. It doesn't feel like other companies where it's like, let's, you know, let's look at the metrics about profit. Are you calling other companies boomers? Yes. You're already here first. Boomer-esque. Clip that chat.

No, but yeah, just trying to be the most authentic brand for gamers and using that as my North Star, that's usually the thing that I think about first. And having fun, right? Yeah. It's like there's no point in playing video games or running a video game company if you're not going to have fun, right? Exactly. Do you imagine being depressed playing a video game?

I don't like this game. I'm going to keep playing. Like that's literally the reason that does happen That happens a lot That's literally every gamer Yeah I don't you're talking about I'm always happy playing my games

I think every game Has things that bug gamers I don't think it's a perfect game Oh no of course not Except Tetris of course But I mean like If a game's like making you like Bummed out to make you depressed

Like then Why do it like go play something else? Oh man That's a that's a rabbit hole of a question Or get away from the computer Because sometimes the game Uh huh the way in which it hurts you is the thing that makes you keep going it's a good hurt yeah i'm one of

those people that i'm like a little a little bit of a completionist and a little bit of like a perfectionist what's the last game you finished um finish tetris it's like fortnight i beat fortnight she holds the world record for duo wins i've been playing so much siege lately that finished is a funny question. The last game I finished. I mean, I replayed the Last of Us recently. So I guess technically that's that's not the last game I finished for the first time. But yeah. What? Are you sure you're a word? See it? This is what I'm talking about. I have no idea. It won't always make sense the first time out. You got to give me some time. You're a writer. To redraft. You should do better than this. Let's edit everything she just said. The answer is Last of Us. Okay. Okay, cool. That's great.

Yeah. But I'll play The Last of Us. on grounded and I'll replay and replay and replay the same sequence to do it perfectly. And I'll do it for hours and hours and hours and I'll get so mad and so frustrated. And my husband's walking in and out. Like, why are you still playing? And I genuinely don't know. I'm like, because I cannot. Because I have curly hair. Can you see? I got to get this out of my system. What's a perfect sequence in the last of us? Like, how do you how do you get a perfect? I mean, I think it's different for everybody. Some people just getting past a certain part, but for me, I want to complete, like, I want to kill every killable enemy.

Don't get spotted. In entirely in stealth on grounded. And that is doable. And I actually, like, recorded sequences of myself doing it because I'm like, I'm an awful of this. Do you stream? No. How come?

I don't, I don't know. You should. Yeah, you should. I'd watch that. I'd watch that. I don't know. Maybe. I'd rather watch her than Andy.

Savage. I have to roast Andy. He made me mad. Why? Because he keeps telling me that, you know, the Clayton Kershaw is a good baseball player. He's not. But anyway,

I'll save that for a different podcast. I'll know about that is that he gave it up. He threw it away. He had it in his hand and he threw it away. That's three years in a row. Okay, so let's say you're playing a game of Tetris, right? And you're about to hit that straight line and get that full Tetris clear. I don't think Raina has even played Tetris yet.

Tetris? No. I've played Tetris before. You know, I've not, I'm not, I'm not playing the cool kids in game.

Are you still playing anything on the switch? No. Why? Why? Why? I mean, I go through phases with, I have a switch

and a PS4 and an Xbox. We should get back into into our focus on one at a time. Mario Kart tournaments. That's the thing too is that I had to like really grind to get good at Mario Kart

to compete with you guys and like right when I started to get good, we got too busy. to keep playing and I bet if I got back into it now I'd be trash I think everyone will garbage I'm kind of over it to be honest like I want a new thing for us to play in the office I think it's what we need yeah we've been playing siege I don't like siege anymore okay I I I played siege like when I first came out and it was trash and then they fixed it and it was great

and then I found myself going back to the game only when there was like a big content update and I would spend 30 bucks on like that season pass for other characters and then I would even play them all siege is your destiny and then I was like yeah yeah Yeah, pretty much. Sound like you clown yourself on that one. You don't got to pay for the season pass. Hey, I mean, well, like, well, you do because, like, you can't grind out enough points or whatever to get the characters. Like, it's ridiculous.

Like, you have to pay for it. But I just play the operators that I have. The thing that I don't like about siege is that there's, like, Fortnite, there's just too much going on. It's like there's drones. There's like weird little things everywhere. There's not much. It's not much. It's very simple.

I think. I think it's more simple than, I mean, yeah, I think. Certainly more than Simple to me Yeah, it's simple That's simple Yeah It's kind of simple

It's simple in the sense Of how like a fighting game is simple We're like once you play enough You kind of know what every character does So you know what to look out for And then that's where like the game kind of quote unquote really begins right It's like oh they have an ash

So I'm going to look out for an exploding rocket thingy If she still has I have no idea what the characters have anymore They could have turned her into a robot And now she has like spikes on her face or something Nope, still a rocket Okay Is she still super annoying like rent super quick.

Does she? I don't know. She was like a thing. That was the thing where she was like one of the fastest operators and she did like she had like really good weapons. So people would pick her just. Okay. Disclaimer. I've only been playing for like four or five weeks.

I haven't played in like a year or two years. I don't know everything. Black games like a great success story though because it started up so terribly. Like there are so many issues with it and then like that's good to hear. Ubisoft actually did something and fixed it. And like it's going to know what they're doing with a lot of their games now like with four. honor they're still working on it. I think they still like two million like after players like every day, which is crazy to me. That many people still play that game and like Rainbow Six Sege is like getting

bigger and bigger every year. It's pretty great. Yeah, it's one of the most popular games. Yeah. It's really fun. Honestly, I like I really like games that you need a team to win. See, I hate those games. The Left for Dead is like one of my favorite games. But the difference is that left for dead, you cannot play by yourself. It's because you have friends. I don't have friends. I just play online. I don't have friends.

I am a lonely soul on this earth. I got tired of playing with 13-year-old kids that yelled at me to get good. That's why I quit playing CSGO. I had like 2,000 hours in CSGO. Wait, how many? 2000 or more. I was a master garden elite. I was ranked pretty high.

But I didn't have a team. I didn't have a team. So, like, I would have to, you know, play with these kids that would, like, curse me out and stuff and I just got sick of it. Yeah. That's kind of just part of playing anything really. I don't even really put on my headset anymore because they can get kind of crazy. Oh, let's take these off then. We don't need to hear this podcast.

Yeah. So I love Siege still, but I don't know how long that's going to laugh. You guys play every day? Yeah. What time? 12 to lunchtime. Maybe I'll have to download that game again or something. Yes.

You should. Don't just say it because you're on the podcast. I actually do it. Excuse me one second. I have to clean up Dennis's mess. I just spilled a cup of water on the desk and a party foul. You spilled a cup of water on me. You're fine.

You're fine. You know what? Unless. It's got droplets on him. You do with it. Yeah, that's fine. That's why I bring a water bottle. bottle because you can close it. We don't have water bottles. Yeah, we do. We have a fridge full of

them. They're always gone like they're gone on like a day. I get one I get like two or three water bottles every single day. That's why there aren't any water bottles because you take two every single day. Yes, I've been taking them. Of course you have. I have four. It's got four right now in the last hour. Got to get him early man. So Raina. Yes. Say something nice about gin, your boss. Gin? Yeah. The one only the Mario Kart master, the Zelda. bike user, the sultan of creative, didn't rhyme, but I was going for alliteration, but I totally screwed that up. He is really good at magic. The gathering?

I don't, maybe, probably. He's pretty much good at any game, I think. He's still raining his nose. He's good at, like, up close magic. He pulled a quarter out of rear. She has no idea how I got it in there. He can remove his thumb from his hand. Well, that's also the thing is that I'm like his worst nightmare,

because I'm always trying to figure out what he did. I'm like looking really closely. Everyone else is like, wow, how we do that? I'm like, no, but really how to do that? Just like that? Whoa. Whoa. Yeah.

And he's a very talented creative director. Yeah. One of the most talented I've ever worked with. Your whole team is very talented. Yeah. We're the top of our game. Yeah. So speaking of your team,

what's it like working on the creative team because you guys actually get to see all the cool. stuff we do before pretty much anyone else like before you know before the social media team tweets out a new product um the creative team worked on it for like a year already yeah so like what's it like you see all that cool stuff um it's cool next question no it's uh yeah it's it's neat uh i think i see it pretty early just because the resources that we use to educate our just internally about each product.

I write those now. I didn't use to, but I'm doing that now. Is it hard to keep stuff secret? No. Nobody cares. I don't think we keep any secrets here. Sometimes you walk by someone's desk and then you see something and you're like, oh, I guess we're doing that now.

Yeah. You just keep walking. This is a thing. Like a Shin will call me in and he's like, hey, I want you to do something for me. I'm like, oh, I guess we're doing this. Cool. Yeah, I sit in the same room as the industrial designer, the lead industrial designer. So, I mean, he sits in a way that is designed to have privacy, but, you know, he's on, I mean, I'm not saying I'm looking at anything he's doing, but if there's ever an opportunity to be aware of cool stuff, it would be sitting next to Shin.

True. Big true. Big of true. Big of facts. Are we going to talk about Raina's side hustle? Dang. Wait, what's my side hustle? Your, uh, you're, uh, are you going to, you're, uh, are you trying to communicate telepathic

You're, your podcast. Oh, no, no. Yes. No. Because I have listened to it and I must say it's really entertaining. Is it really? Yeah. And I have no idea about that show.

That's why I was going to say the same thing. Yeah, I have no idea what the show is about, but I'm like this, this group of people is funny. Yeah, my family doesn't even listen to it because they're like, I don't watch that show. So I wouldn't be it. Yeah, I was like, nobody watches the show. It's kind of the point.

How long have you been doing that podcast? We just finished it actually. Really? Two weeks ago. Like forever. Forever. It's done. How many episodes?

And actually, that's so funny you say that the final episode got posted today. So what is it? What's the podcast? It's called Felicity and Friends. What is it about? It is about the. late 90s early 2000s coming of age hit Felicity that's when I came of age I graduated from

high school in 1989 oh did literally came of age in the Felicity era did you like did you were you aware that it was I remember Felicity I believe back then it was on this really like horrible network called the CW just like it was the WB back or WB but it was like all those shows were just like if you're you had a show on that channel like I just didn't watch it that's fair it was like the shows that were on there were just horrible it was a so I know Felicity was one I think seventh heaven seven's the other oh god exactly the Gilmore girls the Gilmore girls was a jam I don't know yeah it's it's also not a jam it's one of those like I was more of a Seinfeld

guy during that time so there a podcast called the Gilmore guys yeah there is that was actually my inspiration for doing Felicity and Friends because I was like I like the approach of because you listen to podcasts about TV shows it's always is like they're big fans of the show and they're so excited and they're just talking about how awesome it is. And you're like, that's cool, but it's not funny. Right, right. I mean. And I think that the Gilmore guy is kind of that because Kevin Porter is a huge fan. And then Demi Adidwebe is the other guy on it. And he is like, had never seen the show. So it's like 50% you know, saying how great it is and then 50% kind of like maybe clowning on it a little bit.

Funny story about Demi. I actually knew him before he was big. Really? So I was part of this community called the destructoid back in the day. This is when Distructoid was a lot less corporate and like more like a startup, you know, oh, they were the indie game journalism thing and we had this Discord, no it was Discord, it was Ventrillo back in the day, it's before Discord and a lot of people who visited that, visited that website would be on Ventrillo all day and we'd be on stick am and he's doing all kinds of like dumb stuff, right? And Demi, I think it was like 13, 12 or something and this kid was Funny.

Super funny. There was one time, I don't know if I should be saying this, but who cares? I never talked to him. It was the one time where he brought his laptop into the bathroom and he was in his boxers. And he took body wash and just danced around and put body wash on him. He got in trouble and, like, wasn't on the internet for like a month and a half. Really? Yeah.

But now he's like this big, like, writer and he does all these great videos. He does a video every single year for the 21st of September. If you ever seen it. Uh-uh. You know, the Earthland and Fire thing. So he does a video every single year for it now. And he's just such a funny, like, comedic person. You know, Wesley used to work there, too.

Yeah, no, yeah. He told some crazy stories they used to do back then, too. I think... Districtor was like a wild thing. He took a bath in an energy drink or something like that. It's like really weird stuff. Yeah, there's like a whole... There's a whole group of people who used to work at Disturicted

who are now doing like these really crazy jobs. Like Chad Kinsomo, who's a writer there. Oh, what used to be a writer there is now, like, head of PR, like, right? I think it's a copwriter at like Nintendo of America. So a lot of people who worked there did a lot of great things. It's the one guy. He's the guy that wrote, here we go.

He wrote Switch. He wrote the click. There's one really good community member who used to run an anime and a community podcast who now works at MZXT on the social media and community team. You may have heard of him. Yeah. Who? Andy. I have heard of them.

Yeah. But I agree. I think it's cool to listen to podcasts that are like about. a show where the demographic on that show is not what the show is about. I mean, we do talk about the show. I won't try to trick people into thinking that it's unrelated to this. It's very much a velocity podcast. But our only one star review, not that we have so many, but is long winded and off topic,

which we love saying all the time. It's kind of the point, right? Yeah, we now close every episode being like, and one star long winded and off topic. But yeah, a lot of episodes 422 episodes. Oh my God, is that really how many? How many episodes of the show are there? Are there that many? Yeah, there's one for each.

So yeah. Okay, so is it a, okay. That makes sense. So you literally did an episode, a show for every episode of the show. That can't be. That doesn't sound right. I just check on, um. That doesn't sound right.

I feel very underprepared. Oh, he's episode 422. No, that's season for episode 22. Oh, my God. Oh. I can't believe that the map on that. Just look, it says, I'm not. a math mind.

Yeah, EP 422. Well, if you're a TV head, then you... Oh, no, no, episode 420. Oh, yeah. No, actually, you're right. Yeah, when people talk about shows, that's how they kind of write it. It's not always how it used to be.

There used to be an X in between or like a dot. Yeah, or something's kind of differentiate them, yeah. The latest convention. One whole set of numbers. Yeah. I thought it was literally you got, you did a podcast for 400 or something in episodes. Look, 83 episodes. Someone's supposed to a screen shot.

I was like, wow, 400. man that really flew by Alan wants to know if you guys did an entire episode on her haircut I mean the haircut episode we talked about it Felicity has clearly hair right? Yeah she did she does and then she

hacked it all off at the beginning of season two which the whole controversy around that oh my god Poppy Sorry sorry I keep going The Whatever it was just a big controversy back in the day because nobody

wanted to watch show anymore apparently the ratings tanked because she cut her hair. Seriously? So I shouldn't cut my hair. I don't want my ratings to take. That's true. Would you really buzz your hair off? I mean, actually, I used to consider that, but.

Want that gin? Rocking that gin. You want to be a gin twin. Gin's listening. Jen, you should make everyone in the creative team to shave their head for like a day. For Halloween. I'll wear a bald mask.

That'd be great. That'd be great. I could pull it off, I think. They'll have glasses or riding on scooters. We do have that Photoshop of shin bald. That's pretty funny. I should do that? No.

There's a Vivian bald. There's a bald Ivan. There's a bald Dennis. Oh, is that because of gin? I don't know when we started. No, it's because bald is beautiful. I'm sorry. Why are you laughing like that?

Because it's hilarious. I don't know. It got me. You know, some things aren't funny, but they hit you in like a certain way. So you're like, I'm going to laugh now. Like in Mario Car, You and I would laugh at the, I'm out of here. So, so Mario Kart, there's a, this is not funny, but to us, it's hilarious.

I don't know why. So in Mario Kart, when you're in the lobby with other people playing, you can hit these buttons and say things like, you know, oh, good one. Or, you know, man, you really had me there. And one is, I'm out of here. And for some reason, we just both thought it was hilarious. So we just be like, specifically, Dennis. I'm out of here. Tickled our funny bone.

There you go. Yeah. Those are all the balby modes. You look like an early human. That looks like a early human. This is the astrolopithecus denesis. I actually used it on my Twitter. Let me pull this up a quick.

These are great. So I actually used it and I edited it into a, I don't want to be tweeting a lot onto the Drake album. It doesn't make any sense, but like I just thought it was hilarious. It was one day where it was like, I was going to mess around Photoshop a little bit and just do so. Who is that? What's this one? Is that supposed to be money?

bald or yikes it's like bald in most Jesus I would definitely listen to a podcast that was like about sex in the city

and it's all dudes but it's like bro dudes it's like frat bros talking about sex and city that was the initial idea for Felicity but

and I was trying to get some of my like male friends to do it and I would just produce it and they were like no but I would be interested to doing this podcast

and it would just like snowball into a whole other thing about like sports. Yeah, something like that. Or just podcasts that already exist. They're like, what about Disney movies? And I'm like, really, you don't think that there's a thousand Disney movies podcasts? Yeah, so what do you think about the new Aladdin?

What do you think about the new Aladdin? We're the only people talking about it. Here's my hot take. All right, guys, and I'd be waiting for this opinion. Here we go. You've been waiting for this one. Yeah. Where did you guys record your podcast?

In my apartment, in my house. Well, my husband is a musician. So we just have a lot of stuff, a lot of recording stuff already. What's the name of your husband's band? Foxy, but it's spelled like Guy Foxx, so F-A-W-K-E-S-Y. Oh, wait, Siddy in? Foxy. F-A-W?

Yeah, like Guy Fox. That's a Guy F-Pox? Remember the 5th of November? You tried to blow up parliament. Yeah. In the UK back in the day. He wasn't successful. Did you watch Beaver Vendetta?

Oh. Yeah. So that's that mask is the Guy Fawks. Max mask. Yeah. Gotcha. The one's got me. I got,

actually I have two copies of that comic book. Yeah. Thanks. And they're literally used to prop up my TV. You have what? I have two copies of me for Vedetta. Okay. I ended up with two copies.

I like symmetry there. And they're used under my TV. Why does your TV need a half an inch? So I have a sound bar I bought from Amazon because the speakers on my Samsung, thin TV are garbage. That makes sense. So I'm like, I need to put this soundbar front of the TV.

The problem, though, is that the sensor for the remote is right in the bottom where the sound bar sits. So I have multiple books and then the very, very top is V for Vendetta, propping up both legs of the TV, which I find kind of hilarious that, you know, what the book is about and it's usually literally used to prop up television. So I kind of leave it there as like a little insight joke. Yeah, exactly. Only boomers will get that reference. Right. only word smiths will understand that's cool

do they wear a mask when they play no it's I don't know how literal it is about guy fawks it's just something cool I'm sure it's not about like fohawks like every like every band name they just thought it was cool I'm excited for guy fox night oh we're gonna have a

oh actually we should do a guy box day that's a video write that down what instrument does your husband play He plays a ton of instruments. He plays, I think he plays the guitar. He plays the bass, plays piano. With my emotions. He plays the drums.

Not all at the same time. Has he ever written a song for you? Yes, he's written several songs for me. Whoa, cool. And it took years. We've been together six years and for like the first three years. I was like, not that I need it, but like, I haven't written a song about me yet. Have you written all these songs about your ex-girlfriends?

I'm like, okay, that's chill. Have you written something for him? Yes, I have. Wow. Because he forces me. He makes me. He should, because you're forcing to him to write songs. He should force you to write like a poem or something.

Well, he's like my, like, my carer as a writer. It's really hard to like write all day and then go home and write. So if I didn't have him making me do it, I don't know if I would. So sometimes it'll, I've written things for him about him, but typically he's just making me right, just anything. You should listen to the podcast episode with Andy because I wrote a song for him. Oh, I want to just listen to that just for Andy. but now I have a bonus reason.

Actually it was one of the best podcasts we did. Except Dennis forgot to record the first 30 minutes of it. I did. No, it was the first like five minutes or something like that was not bad. So the song that I played for Ed and he didn't get recorded and how to do it again. But that's also why you should listen live on our Discord. Discord.org.org. S.c.g.g. slash nxxte.

To join the NZXT club. Get them rewards. What? You're good at that. When it is a thing. I like in our podcast, we can't even remember what our social medias are at the end. I used to run. We've told people our wrong email address.

I used to run two podcasts. The unofficial, the officially unofficial, destructed community podcast and the anime cast, which was a bunch of people who were self-hating webs talking about anime. So we'll make fun of ourselves. Because like you can't be a true weeb unless you hate yourself a little bit. You can have to like hate the fact that you like anime to like anime or you're not a true. Just don't do it.

in the anime channel because they will riot. Ree, ree. I don't have an opinion about that. Let me tell you about the anime riots of 2019 in the Discord. It all started one day when somebody called somebody else a weeb. You know we've gotten customer service complaints because we made fun of weaves on social media. Yeah. Customer service.

Wow. That's some feedback for you guys. During the summer. During the summer when we had our interns, I believe Dennis was going somewhere. I was at Evo. You're at Evo. So it was just me and the interns, right?

And every day I would challenge the interns like a different thing, right? So the challenge for this particular day was, I want you to trigger people. Aw, that's cute. Yeah. Mike was having a hard time. He was coming up with all these different things. And I was like trying to come on, man, that's not mean. Get mean, get mean, get mean.

And he couldn't think of something. And I said, you know what? Just write this in all caps and see what happened. And I told them right, real gamers don't watch anime. And he posted that. And then immediately it was just like a flood of people replying like, how dare you offend 90% of your fan base? Why would you say something like that?

Real gamers can't watch anime. Like it blew up out of proportion. It doesn't even make sense. Why would that be true? So the next morning we come in and the customer service team was like, hey, you're getting some complaints here. Oh gosh. And then, yeah, people were like emailing saying that they're going to,

Never buy an NG-S-T product again because we made fun of anime. So that day we tweeted or we posted on Facebook, real gamers do watch anime. And then they got mad again. They were like, what the heck are you guys doing? Yeah. But yeah, weaves are, I'm not saying that they're very sensitive, but they should understand.

I think a lot of fan communities are very sensitive. It's not specific to anime. That's true. But we're not, we're all we've here. I think also if what you love becomes a part of your identity enough to have a term that you call yourself, like you're going to be pretty protective of that. What's the funny thing is that like weeb used to be a bad thing and now weaves call each other weaves. Yeah, they took it back. I love that journey.

Yes, get it. Anime fans. And the funnier part about the whole story is that like, like once I started working here, we started posting a lot more anime memes because I'm, you know, because I watch a lot of anime. And like if anybody was like a quote unquote true fan of NXT on our Facebook or whatever, they would see that we're literally weeps because we post a lot of weed memes. So it's like shout it to the top fans. Top fans only. Actually those badges are gone now. Are they?

So Facebook keeps adding in all these all these weird little features and stuff like for like a week. There's like a thing called top fans badge. So like people who would comment a lot would be like a top fan and like they have like a little diamond next to their name. So we made it mean like, yeah, only top fans can read this meme because you know like whatever. whatever, you know, anything that's a new thing is a joke to us. And like they took it away. They said it didn't even the thing anymore. Like they started adding new poster badge and like all kinds of different badges.

So like, now everyone has a badge. Ah. So there's on more badges. Yeah, the badge. I haven't seen the badges in a while. And if they still there. Turn them off or something. I don't think so, no.

I don't turn anything off. Like whatever Facebook wants to throw on us. Yeah, when Dennis first got hired here, I told them, all right, your first mission is to make Facebook cool. Because the people on. on that are on Facebook are very different people on Twitter are different than people on Instagram yeah I agree people on Facebook different than people on Discord but the people on Facebook in particular very special they're very not I don't know what the word is but it's like

they're very they're very I guess I don't know what the word I don't know what the right word is but they're they're very just love to help you out I just don't know that's not not on the NZXT well it's well so it's it's it's it's a combination boomers it's a it's a combination. It's company, that'd be great. There are a lot of hidden weaves on Facebook. I don't know why webs still use Facebook, but a lot of webs on Facebook.

And there's a lot of older builders, too. So one day we posted this meme that was like, I forget what it was. It was about jumpstarting the power supply. Yeah, or something like that. Because back in the day when you built a computer, you had to jump start power supply with a paperclip. What? It's really dumb. Yeah.

I should know that. I shouldn't act shocked. Of course, that's the case. Yeah. It's called shorting the pin so that it just turns out without you having to plug it into anything. Bates over like all these like nostalgic people and these like old these like old old dudes talking about I am back in day when you had you this and I'm like what did I just do

Yeah it was like thousands of comments it was it probably is our most popular Facebook Post of all time and it was just people talking about those good old days of building The computers yeah there dudes like literally posting photos of like old builds and like old like giant modules of ram and stuff it was like what did I just because like I used to build no it's a kid and I remember how many do like like slave and master jumpers on like my IDE drives and stuff like that and like 90% of Discord's like what's that and if we posted that same exact thing on Instagram it wouldn't hit no one would care they'd be like what are you talking about yeah but yeah people on Facebook man yeah but Facebook's new on understand Facebook's fun like that because everybody has a Facebook not everybody uses it though that is the case with me I don't think I've logged into it in months no um the Facebook I

use to post stuff on the NCC Discord, N60 Facebook is like a brand new Facebook that I use because I deactivated mine a long time ago. So I just, I made another one and then suggesting people like I knew and I'm like, this is really, really weird. Yeah. He knows a lot. I think about Facebook too is that if you don't use it, it's, it's the reason I haven't deactivated it is because for people that I don't talk to frequently, it's sometimes it's the only way they'll reach me. So I'll log in every couple months and then it'll be like my cousin inviting me to his wedding on Facebook and I'm like whoops I miss that yeah but yeah so cool Facebook is cool long story short cool cool below Facebook I don't what's your do you use any social

media yeah I use your favorite Twitter we did tag her on Twitter well I think I use Instagram the most but I think it's because I'm a visual person but what kind of things do you post on Insta just my life stuff on my Instagram story I'm like it's very like current eventsy I don't post really anything about my life

but then the actual photos I'll post will be like just of my dog and my husband and yeah I think it's a story where you're saying like you're trying to sleep or something trying to sleep on on Sunday and your husband's like oh yeah he was playing that like ah yeah

that song's awesome he was playing yeah in the hallway playing the real version or is he playing the he man version? Real version. That album is wacky. Is it? Yeah.

Who is that? Four non-blondes. Oh, yeah. It's insane. There's a song on there that just cracks us up. I wish I could think of the name of it. Shows up on my screen. It's like spoken word poetry song.

That song was huge. Yeah. Yeah. I remember. I call Alan the resident dad's like, yeah, it's four non-blots. In the chat. Alan always knows. Alan

Alan has his own dad discord He's got his finger on the trigger It's actually really great I'm not in there I'm a dad You should be in there You're not a dad You're not a dad, you're a puppy

I'm literally the only dad Yeah, he's an NXT dad Big difference What's your least favorite social media? NZXTs Like my favorite social media account Or my least favorite platform

Let's go both Let's go least favorite platform And then your favorite account that you like to follow if you follow like a branded account quote unquote I'm not super social media savvy

which is why Dennis was the true choice neither is he to be honest yeah I mean it's be real my typeos I make my least favorite platform

is probably Twitter because it's just it's so much drama it's like even in the communities that I really care about that I'm not on Twitter a lot, but I love watching YouTube videos.

I love watching like think pieces and like I have a lot of content creators I follow closely. And apparently like behind the scenes in Twitter, there's always like drag out dramas happening on Twitter because of a misunderstanding because someone typed something wrong. And it's just I don't like that. I have a funny Dennis Twitter story. Let's go. Go for it. I haven't told us on the podcast yet.

Which one? What happened a couple weeks ago? Oh, I could tell if you want me to tell it. Let me tell it. Okay. Go for it. So. A couple of weeks ago.

It's on a Friday. Let me tell us to. Okay. So, yeah, we're working from home on a Friday. Very rare for us to work from home. I think I had to take my daughter to the doctor that day. So we're from home. And then Dennis decided to change his name to Den ZXT, like the day before with like the number three, right?

So it was like D3 and ZXT. So all day long, I was just giving him like flag for that. I was like, I even tweeted on my. own Twitter like if you have a number in your name you don't belong on social media like I was just giving him like a hard time like what kind of a name is that is that as creative you can get you got a number in your name bro blah blah blah so just giving him a bunch of flack right and then um next thing and then we had just posted a meme on the nzacti twitter and you know when we post something like we keep a close eye on it we're monitoring and stuff like that so i'm looking at the comments and

then Dennis uh messages me he's like a boss um I messed up I accidentally changed the NST Twitter name and I look and he changed it to his old name, which was just Shoki. But by doing so, we lost our verification and we couldn't change it back to NZXT because they don't allow you to change names to four letters. So they made an exception for us when we first did it. So it was like, panic just said in and I was just like, okay. And then I told my wife, all right, I can't go to the doctor with you.

Take Olivia. I have an emergency to deal with. And then it was basically scrambling, trying to get in touch with people. Luckily, we were able to get in touch with someone. Shout out to Poggers, who helped us. You got a hoodie, by the way. Awesome.

Send a shirt or a hoodie. Send him a couple things. But yeah, anyway, we were able to fix it. Get our verification back, get our name back. But I think there was probably like a one hour time frame where Dennis was on suicide watch. Right? No.

He felt really bad. I'm getting anxiety like secondhand from listening to the story. This is like what everyone's talking about where like he just gives us crap all the time. He gives me crap. It's like his form of training. He's like just to be mean all the time. And I was like, fine, whatever. I'll change my name back.

I don't care. Like, you know, I was trying to be more on brand or whatever. And then look, I'm like, oh, no. And even if I wanted to change it back, I couldn't because you had to have a name of five characters. We were this close to changing our company name to the Shoki. Oh, my God. Imagine, though. Imagine it's like the best thing we ever, like,

rebranding. Best decision we were made. All right, copyrighters, get on it, right? No, yeah,

but we, and it was weird because, like, there's a lot of people who were like, so it was, the post was, uh, was like frustrated Fridays.

So it's like, it's frustrated Friday. Posting all caps. So what's, you know, what's bugging you today? And there were some people who were applying like, I'm really angry that your name is an N-16 anymore.

It's just like, it was really, really weird. very many people noticed, not as many people noticed as we were expecting. I was surprised. Yeah, I was expecting like, you know, there are some people like in the server who are like very keen eyes, but like for the most part, like no one really said anything about it. So you know, I think that people would know you guys and would be like, there they go. You know what it is. They're doing something dumb again. People look at the picture and then they associate the account.

That's why a lot of people think these parody accounts are us. And it's really bad because like they're replying to like all sorts of like companies and accounts and people I think, think, think, they're talking to NZXT, but they're talking to a parody account. Yeah. And a lot of, I've seen like influencers, like courage and, like, I think Myth has done it where they'll change your name to Fortnite and then just change the picture to like Fortnite's thing. And they'll tweet something totally like off the wall and people think it's Fortnite tweeting

it. Especially since they already have enough followers. Exactly. That's so mean. So I think what happened with us is even though the name changed, people didn't really notice that much because oh, it's still the same picture or whatever. Yeah. Don't ever do that again, Dennis. The funnest thing about the whole thing is that the, I don't know how they fixed it,

but I think what the date is they moved the at Yoshoki username to a different Twitter account and then just suspended it. So now at Yashoki is dead on Twitter. So long live in real life. Yeah. To me at least. Pretty much. It's funny because I'm trying to figure out what to change my stupid Twitter and like Twitch and like all my stuff too because like I've been to showcase. I was like 13.

Yeah, I see it down there in the corner. Yeah. Right. So it's like, I don't want to change you to. And like other people still own that. username and I'm not like a big enough person for just demand Twitter. Hey, give me that username. They'll me use it. It's like 2012 or whatever. So how about no showkey? Nah, I don't like that. What was your first like AOL instant messenger like your first screen name? Inuyasha 130.

No lie. That's how old I am. That's still my login. This email address still works. If you email it, I will reply. Ivan B at AOL.com. Really? Ivan B. That's like, think about that. When can you, like, Like, think about any app that you open now or any account you create now. Can you get like your first name initial, last name initial? Like it's impossible, right? Like, can you get like I even be at Gmail or I even be whatever? Like, that's kind of a. I met a guy that had like, wow.

I was like Greg at gmail.com or something like that because he just like had connections when Gmail launched. But I don't email that. I'm not saying his name was Greg. Craig's going to do. Who the heck do you really mean? Something like that. We did a, it wasn't us, but it was the partnerships and PR marketing team. They did like an all out, you know, search for, for affiliates for a thing that we're doing to be announced slash determined.

And one of the people who messaged them, her at Twitter was at Brittany. It's like the regular spelling of Brittany. And she made a big mistake, but not introducing herself. Brow. Oh, yeah, I forgot. No matter how you spell Brittany, we accept you. Every spelling is the correct spelling. mute that by the way at 54 seconds.

It's all good. Well, I forgot one really interesting part about that, that Dennis story. So while this is all going on, like this whole hour where we're like scrambling, we get a DM from Satan. The Satan account. The Satan Twitter account so is S-A-10. And like, Satan was like, hey, what's wrong? You guys okay?

What happened? We're like, say, Satan? You guys change your name? What happened? You lost a verified badge. And I was like, oh, thanks, Satan. You're really nice. I can help get it back.

For a price. But that was really weird. Satan sent us. I don't know how Satan noticed that we changed our name. It's kind of weird. It wasn't a lot of people. But it was like a decent amount where I was like, you know, okay. You know, you can get this changed pretty quick.

But, you know, luckily we got it all fixed. And that's something that will never happen again. I'm very careful. Sometimes you have to make mistakes. learn from them that's just how that's that's the only way to learn that's why I told then it's like I don't care that you messed up you know obviously I care right I don't want you to mess up to that ever again but as long as you learn that's it like I don't care that the end of the world man like even if our name was just shoki like we

still had to do our job right so yeah it's just it's about learning and but it fixed it and that's what matters right it's like can you can you fix it and like I think ice for myself. If I was in like I was in position and I think well I know that's never going to happen again so we don't have to worry about that anymore. Every time Dennis misses up and even time he does something good

I always ask the same thing. What did you learn? Always. I love that. That's cute. Like he'll post a meme and then it'll be great and I'll be like, cool, what do you learn? And then he'll tell me and then he'll post a meme

and it bombs will be like, that's okay. Would you learn? And he'll tell me. That's all that matters for real. Oh my gosh. I love that. I am the world's greatest boss right now. I'm the world's greatest dad.

Sorry, Jen, sorry, Jen. That's a great dad tool also. What does Jen tell you when you mess up? That presumes that I mess up. He was like, I don't know, it's in Korean. He says yelling really, angryly. Hold that. We have a special guest in here.

Yves. Thanks, Seth. Very worth it. Before we open up questions to the, the server here. I do have some questions for Raina if you do allow me to ask him. Of course.

Okay. All right. Oh, we did this again? I actually really like the quick fire question that did with Irene last week. Do you want to have some to go with that? Sure. Give me, actually play me.

See if you want to. No. Spanish fly or whatever. Here, I'll tell you. I don't know that song. Is this Spanish Fly? I think it is. A Spanish Flea?

Van Halen, it's definitely not. Nope. That's not it at all. I'll tell you which one I want you to play for me. Just find it. Is it a cumbia? It is. Just play this one.

The top one there. Oh, yeah. That's what I said. Okay. And the scroll down. The live one? Yeah, that one. Really?

Yeah. It's going to sound weird, though, because it's like live. This is my favorite song. I mean. You know it sounds going to sound. Just play my song. All right. Just play the song.

That's not it. I like this though. It's a YouTube ad. You love YouTube ads. You got to install some blocker. Okay. All right. Vibing with this.

All right. Raina. Yes. Quick fire question. There we go. You have to say the first thing that pops into your mind. That's a dangerous game. Who's your favorite book?

Who is my favorite? What's your favorite book? Uh, I just have to pick one. One. Black Swan Green. Who's your favorite writer? Um. Herman Wook.

If you could buy any type of food right now, what would you buy? Spaghetti. What color is your toothbrush? It's blue. If you could be any animal, what would it be, and why? My own dog, because he's an absolute angel. What is one of the things you would put on your bucket list? I don't have a bucket list.

Who is your favorite superhero? and why? Superhero. Who is my favorite? I guess Spider-Man. That's kind of a lame answer, though. Spider-Man's dope. What are you talking about?

I mean, it's dope, but it's like, he's just so huge. It's like everybody's favorite is superhero. Who do you admire the most? Um, why is the most? Are you sure that you're a word nerd? No.

One of my two grandmothers, or both. Oh, yeah. So Raina showed me really cool picture. It's actually the picture that's the Twitter banner, right? Your Twitter banner? I think so. Yeah. Yeah. And I think I told you like, that's a cool picture. And you said, oh, thank you. That's my grandma. And I was like, what? And you're like, yeah, and Stanley Cooper took that picture. And I was like, what? That's like really, really interesting. Yeah. So check out at Ray Ray, R-A-R-A-I-I. Why.

Also, that same woman was the first woman elected to state-wide office in my home state of Missouri. Fun fact. She's the woman I admire the most. Yeah. Yeah. Huh. St. Louis. That's a whole other conversation we can have. Word.

Go cards. All right. Where am I here in my list? Okay. If a movie was made of your life, what genre would it be and who would play you? A movie was made in my life. It would be one of those like really boring like avant-garde Italian films where you're just watching someone sit on a couch for two and a half hours. Black and white.

Yeah. The last seems like a red balloon. If you could be any flavor of ice cream, what ice cream flavor would you be in why? Probably some kind of mixed flavor because I am a mixed person. Second fun fact, hence the curly hair. Not that you need to be mixed up curly hair,

but that is the case with mine. It's kind of usually the case, though, right? You have some gingerous have a curly hair, right? Yeah, or you'd be like Jewish. I'm half Jewish, half black, so it's like double, double curls from all angles. I've always wondered what you are. Yep.

What kind are you? Everyone does. You gotta love that ethnic ambiguity. Who is your favorite cartoon character and why? Oh my gosh. I love this question. So my favorite show, one of my favorite shows is Avatar, The Last Airbender. I can talk about it all dang day.

And it is like an 11-way tie between the entire cast of that show. But I guess if I had to pick someone, it would be Appa. He's amazing. And also my dog's name is Apa for that reason. Oh, cool. Okay. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go? And why?

Right now? Home. Why? Because I'm tired. Because I'm tired. This jacket I'm wearing, and each time I'm wearing it, you can just, this is my, I didn't want to get up today. It's so big.

It just simulates my comforter. You do look very frumpy today. I didn't want to say. All right. I have three more questions and then we'll let the server ask us questions. So are you a morning or a night person? Night times a thousand. What is your favorite hobby?

Watching the X-Files or the Golden Girls with my dog. Did you know that Target has a golden girl costume now? You can get a set of four. What? Really? I saw it in the news. You should get that. I thought of you actually.

I love that. You're a creative. should be that imagine the golden guys can we you're definitely blanche okay yeah I could you could have said anyone one of them I would have been like yep you're blanche okay all right last question is what is your favorite hobby that you just asked that oh sorry the X file what is what is one what is one thing that annoys you the most oh one thing the most did you mean What annoys you the most? What annoys me the most?

Sorry, I'm not a copyright. Oh, my gosh. I feel like this question was like made for me because I live in a constant state of annoyance, but because that I don't know what to pick. I literally did right. I guess when people ask me questions with like when it's hard to come up with the answer

because I have too many options. That actually annoys me. Yeah. So there we go. That's a meta answer for you. All right. So those are other questions I had. If the server would like to ask Raina,

our copywriter here. Any questions? Anything about the X files? Yeah. And the question could be about anything you want. It could be about work. It could be about her husband's band, her podcast, her curly hair. Aw, Alan. All right. First question. Do I want to believe? Will you do a dab for us? No. Will you dab? She's not going to do it. You dab on the haters.

That's easy answer. No. Jen asked, who's your favorite coworker on the creative team? That answer is... Just say gin. Jen. I was going to say I have this really cute little glowing thing on my desk, but gin. Scroll up a little bit.

Besides me. I believe Alan said, do you want to believe? Alan, love that question. Thank you. No, I do not. In anything ever. Punk and pop. Or anyone.

Ask, what's your favorite tool to write with? That's a good question. by the way. Yeah. Yeah. I, my favorite thing to write with is just pen and paper. And I like like a really thin like 0.5 millimeter pen feels good. My handwriting looks good. The only thing is that my hand gets really tired really easily. So it's just not convenient. I'm trying to write more by hand because my handwriting is horrible. And I realize like every month I have to write checks, you know, to pay my bills and stuff. And I hate. I hate, yeah, exactly. Like I'm like I'm like I, I, I, I look at the envelope and I'm like,

then it's like a third grader wrote this. Same. You really have to take your time if you want your handwriting and then it just takes longer. Yeah, because my landlord, when she gives me the receipt, it's like perfect script, handwriting. And I'm like, wow, like, why does she write like that? Is she older? I think it's a generational thing.

Yeah, she's older. I mean, there used to be like penmanship classes. She's 80. There you go. Dang. Yeah. But yeah, so it's like, I'm trying to write more. Next question here.

Are you part of the scooter culture? That's what Cuddle is asking. No. You have three scooters in your, in your, in your office. I like the idea of that, but I feel like I would die. They're so fun. My skin is, it sloughs off like wet paper mache and I scar so easily. Really?

Yeah, if I eat it once on that thing, I'm destroyed. Dennis, can you cut her real quick? Test that. I'll cut you. Yeah, test the theory. What's the next question? If you had to kill up a character on X-Files, Mulder, or Scully? It's from Jin. Okay, I resent that question, but it's easy to answer, obviously Mulder. Scully for life. I think Mulder is an alien. Think about it. That's your next podcast.

Yeah. Is Mulder an alien? What is the next one? How long does it take Ivan to hand deliver the rewards on his scooter? Oh. What are the rewards? The NZC Discord Club rewards. You deliver them on your scooter?

I do. He rolls up. I don't know the answer to that. I'm the official mailman of NZXT. Fluffy Sheepy wants to know. Do you own a Subaru? If yes, what model and is it modded? No, I'm not part of the Subaru crew, but I am buying a new car.

What are you going to get? For my 30th birthday next month, I am buying a Honda Civic hatchback. Didn't that you have right now? I do have a Honda Civic. I can't wait to get another the same car. I'm buying the same car. 2003 Honda Civic and it is the car I got my driver's license in. So it's a big step for me.

Yeah, do the math. Makes sense. I recently last year got rid of my first car, which was a 2004. Volkswagen. Yeah. And let me tell you, you're in for a treat. Yeah, I'm excited. It's like, wow, I have air conditioning.

Yay. The windows are all up with the button. I'm actually going to donate my car because of you. Oh, yeah, car for kids? Yep. They have a really catchy jingle. 1877 cars for kids. I know I used to listen to like Love Line and Radio at night all the time.

Like talk radio and does this commercials be? Well, that's good for them because then people are sharing that phone number. Cars for kids with a K right? I hate that. Did you donate it already? Not yet. You know you get a voucher for a, like a hotel.

Yeah, it says that on their website. That's pretty cool. Have you used yours? I haven't because I have a daughter. Can't do anything. The babysitter. Let's have mom and dad take him for care for a night. I don't trust them.

I'll take her. Did you enjoy the lone gunman from Alex? She'll come back loving the avatar. Did you enjoy the lone gunman? I mean, not exactly. I loved the characters, but the show, the lone gunman, I didn't, I mean, it was fine.

just Mulder and Scully really made the show for me. So without them, I didn't. Sorry, I'm just watching Dennis apply emojis. I'm not a good multitasker. But yeah, no, is the short answer. Jin asked, you've been given an elephant. You can't give it away or sell it. What would you do with this elephant?

I don't know. Write it down the 405. I don't think that's legal. Yeah, I think you can really do. Cuddle's asking who's the bigger boomer, Ivan or Dennis? What do you think of the boomer tag for people? I don't know what it means. What do you mean?

I don't know people call each other boomer. Baby boomer. Yeah, but like, what do you think of it? I think it refers to... People that were born during... After World War II. Between like 1950 and like 1969 or something like that. I know what a baby boomer is, but like the quote unquote insult baby boomer is like...

or like boomer, I don't really... A person I don't get it. I think it just is... born out of like the generation before technology was ubiquitous. So there's a lot of like your parents asking you calling you for help with their computer. People who, you know, so that's where that might come from as an insult. You and Dennis are the same age. 29.

You what? No, I'm 30 now. Oh, that's right. You just turned 30. Your boy, turn 30. So old. I know. How about me?

My birthday is this month too. You're in October maybe? I need to, no, November 4th. I need to stop saying old because I don't want to stigmatize age. You know what? I'm proud. I'm thriving. And you're a Scorpio.

Yeah. Like me. Bump. All I want to say is that boomer tag or not, I still hit a big with the kids on Instagram, which is a really weird sentence to say. Yeah, don't say that. Y'all think Instagram is lit. Don't say that either.

That's boomerish. Instagram is lit, yo. Yeah, but neither of you guys are considered boomerish because you use social media. You're not a boomer. It's my job to not be a boomer. Are you like Gen X or? I was born in 1981. Gen X.

I'm actually, no, actually. No, well, apparently I am in that weird. I'm like in between Gen X and millennial. Like I'm like a lost generation. I'm like the last generation that experienced life before and after the internet. Like when I was in high school, I used to carry a roll of quarters to make phone calls. Seriously, I swear. Wait, a roll?

Yeah, you have to carry. You have to go. You literally have to always have a roll of quarters because. How many? calls are you making. Like you had to use a phone. You had to use a pay phone to call your parents pick you up, call your friends to like, hey man, want to go to the arcade later?

Like there's no self, there's no texting. There's no, there's none of that. I feel like that was better. It was, I don't know if it's better. It's just different. It's less safe, I think, though. I think that being able to like reach out to people at a moment's notice. When I used to.

When I used to drive Lyft, there was one night where I picked up this kid, like literally like a little kid. It was like 11 or 12. 12, this little boy who calls an Uber with his phone and I drive him back. He's like in a movie or something. Drive him back to his house and Whittier like this giant house and I'm like, oh, this is how kids get around now. They call Uber's or whatever and they just, you know, they get to him from places.

It's really, really weird. That's insane. Like when I was a kid, I had to walk. I remember every day. To bug someone for a ride. So every day after school, there was a line of like 20 kids to call their, they were calling parents to pick them up. It sounds like a prison.

But schools, actually schools Well, schools are designs similar to prisons. These are same materials because of their government institutions. Seriously, like that's why a lot of people that go to prison, it feels familiar to them because like, this looks like elementary school. It's the same food, like the same trays and everything. It's like it's really weird. They use the same like bricks to make the buildings. USA.

What is the weirdest thing you have seen in someone else's home from gin again? Oh. It's working. That's a really good question. Who's being creative right now? Dang. I'm like really bad at coming up with answers on the fly. Yeah, you're really bad with words.

She's not invite me back on this podcast. Oh, man. I have been in like someone's home where they had like subterranean swimming pools and bowling alleys. I think that's weirder than anybody's stuffed cat. I feel like having your own bowling alley is pretty bizarre. That's pretty cool, actually. I think it's dope. I don't think.

I want that. I think it's too much. What kind of cult would you like to start from gin again? A cult worshiping special agent Dana Scully from the Antwiles. She'll start a kirt. What are your favorite shoes? Clogs. And why are they clogs?

My favorite shoes are probably my top siders. Actually, no, those are my least favorite shoes. Those are my favorite. Sparrest? I love, yes, I love my top siders. But I wore them to Disneyland once and was screaming the whole time. People stepping on my top siders getting into that. What's that water ride?

Splash Mountain. Splash Mountain. I did not realize stupidly. I'd never been to Disneyland that you get wet. That's what I love about those shoes. They're supposed to get wet. Yeah, but then like they look weird and gross. No, but you just wet them again and they look better.

Yeah. I do love them as shoes. I just also don't like stressing over them because mine were white. Yeah, why do you have white shoes? They looked cute. What do you mean? Plippy wants to know, am I cute? Yes, you are adorable.

You're special and there's no one like you. Were you smart in school, Reese wants to know. I was one of those smart people that like didn't get the best grades because I just didn't, I just didn't, I just wasn't interested in the schoolwork. I was always reading what I wanted to read. Same here or no. That's what all my teachers would say in my conferences. They're like, I don't know. know why you're refusing to participate in the actual school work.

How about college? Like because it sucks? Yes, I was a good student in college. But I also like in college you get to pick your focus and what you, and I love writing and I was creative writing major. What you go to college? After G. Chapman University.

That's right. Oh, fancy. She went there. She went there for her master's. Oh, nice. She's like 80K in debt now. Oh, yeah. One of my favorite record stories is right there.

Mr. Seas. But tell me your city. What makes are your favorite? Well, there's very few of them, so that's one reason. But what I like about this one is that it's run by like a really old lady. She's probably, I'm not, she's probably like 90 years old. And she knows a lot about music and a lot about music that I like.

And I like, you know, like 70s rock, 80s rock. And I've gone in there and I've talked to this 90-year-old lady about, you know, the Smith, the police, like all these bands from the 80s that I like. And she knows more about them than I do. So that's one of the reasons. You seem like the exact kind of person that would go into like an old like niche record store and spend hours talking. I literally do that every weekend. It sounds like you.

I love that. I was showing Dennis my my record Trello board the other day. Yeah, awesome. He has this giant Trello board of like albums that he wants to collect. I have never heard of anyone using Trello for personal. He uses Trello for a lot of. interesting things. I like I don't know anyone who uses that certain types of software for the way he uses them. So I haven't such a special person. Yeah really you should be in creative.

Favorite band Ark Knight wants to know. My favorite band would be Foxy. Oh, yeah. Playing tonight. I have to say that at the House of Blues. No, don't show up there. Jen wants to know can give us your best description of Ivan. My best description of Ivan. My best description of Ivan. I Ivan is, I think I just did. Boomer. Ivan is the exact type of guy to go talk to a nine-year-old woman for hours about the Smiths. I love talking to people. He's, yeah, he loves people.

He's curious about people. He is very compassionate while also being a savage, very unique individual. I'm definitely him. I'm always messing with people. You're always messing with people as like a mental exercise to stay sharp. And I think that's probably the best reason to do it. I've been doing that my whole life. Yeah.

And I feel like that is why I ended up working in social media is because that's what social media. Social media is like you have to be clever. You always have to have a like a smart aleck reply. Like even if you don't use it. Yeah. You just have to have it in your back. Exactly. And like you have to be ready for like clapping back on people.

You have to ready to roast people or to like make a joke or pun or something. And my whole life, that's what I was doing in school and gaining trouble. doing to my sisters, making my parents are crazy. But now, like, there was no social media back then. Now that's literally what social media is, is that. It's like, it's, uh, oh, look how savage is the count it. And it's not even savage. It's just being quick.

Yeah. You know, like, actually. That's like the first lesson I even taught me was speed. Yeah. Speed, Rocky, speed. I think like the first month I was just like, get faster, faster. I would send gifts of Rocky chasing a chicken. Yeah.

Yeah, it's a, it's a very interesting experience working under Ivan. Just like how how he decides to, like, get people to do things. It's also very uncomfortable being under me. It is. Who has the cutest pet at the office? Cuddle wants to know. I don't know. We're not allowed to bring our pets in.

So there are photos alone. Me? Because my dog is an angel and he's never done anything wrong in his whole life. You and if you're being going to have a fight outside at the flat pole after school? I think that everyone's answer is going to be. their own pet and as it should be your pet deserves all of the love you're capable of giving it which is why I would like to amend my answer to jinn's elephant question and say that I would love him and shower him with love and praise feed him kisses

my my daughter's name's olivia and her nickname's ollie but I call her olefinn't and I want to get her Target has this cool little like elephant costume like it's really cool man it has like a whole trunk and everything. So we want to know, Korean barbecue or sushi, and why did you choose Korean barbecue? Because he's Korean. Well, I don't.

I'm pescatarian, so I got to just by default pick sushi. I was vegetarian for like 11 years, and I've been pescatarian for about a year now. We're going to make this girl eat a sandwich. There's vegetarian sandwiches. Like, how much money would it take for you to eat like a hamburger right now? Money?

I mean, it's not about money. I would take money, but it's just about like respect. Everyone in the server pay $1. If everyone in the server donate a dollar, it's $100,000 for you eat a hamburger. Would you do it? Live on the podcast. Yeah, I guess. All right.

How do you turn on $100,000 to put down payment on a house? Actually, I get to donate that all to like cow, just better conditions for farm animals. We're going to give you a poison hamburger and keep the $100,000. So this kind of invalidates arc's question then barbecue chicken wings or spicy chicken wings, but maybe like... Yeah, there's like vegan wings. Barbecue chicken wings or spicy chicken wings? You know, they spell it chick like apostrophe N when it's fake chicken. I hate that.

I hate that so much. Do they really? So mad. Is that why is that why chick filet, their slogan is eating more chicken like chicken? That's different though. That's like to spell it as a cow would. because the cows are saying like don't eat burgers you chicken that sounds exactly like a cow

it's so weird I'm a great impression of a cow all the time I'm literally to sound like uh I see a side question to that what's what's your least which company do you think which popular company has in your opinion the worst copy what company yeah

dang I don't want to shade other companies throw it out it doesn't be like anyone that is in the same space by anybody What's your answer? Can't say it. What? If he can't say it, I'm not saying. I'm not going to say.

Fine, but whatever it would be that way. But I feel like just as a general rule, if you're a company out there, I would consider, you know, talking to your consumers at their level and not talking down to them. Nah, that's crazy. Because I see a lot of talking down and it's not the best. That's crazy. Should always talk down to them. Exactly. If you had to become an inanimate object for a year, what object would?

it would be? It would be a chicken sandwich. No, get eaten. It would be a frumpy coat. I'd be a dog sweater. I get to hug a puppy. Pump and Popkin Pop wants to know since you love the X-Files, how do you feel about Twilight Zone? I love the Twilight Zone. Twilight Zone is awesome. Yeah, Twilight Zone rules. Have we guys watched the remake? Is it any good? I heard it's a high. I, you know me? I hate all these remakes man I don't watch any remake I kind of I have I take a little issue with it yeah the X-files came back and it wasn't good so by the way I did salvage the I want to believe puck poster from the old office yeah where is it at my house I just haven't brought it to the office stole it bring it in bring it in it was a gift

actually oh but yeah I just don't know where to hang it maybe I should hang in the creative room yeah hang in the creative room if you're a street fighter what were theme song being Y again from gin Jim, go to work. I was a street fighter. Yeah. So, I don't know, the one with the fireballs. Did they have theme song?

Yeah. I have to pick one of the characters. What were your theme song be if you were in a fight? If I was in a fight. In the mode. I know we were in a rush. Do you like Nutella? Want a beat by the Spice Girls.

There you like Nutella. Notella or Reese's. I'm allergic to peanuts. Rees or Reesees. Man. Reces. Imagine being allergic to peanuts and thing That must suck

Everything has peanuts I don't really like peanuts I don't like they smell You can smell like you can like You can like whin yourself onto peanuts all right Like I've heard of that like Like with kids Do not listen to that if you have an allergy Do not attempt to wean yourself

I've heard that there are like kids who like have like severe peanut allergies And they slowly give them like Little by little and then they like I wouldn't do that They're like like full PB&J sandwiches I would Allergies change over time So it's possible

that you know someone who has an allergy it could change. My niece is allergic to peanuts. And once I'm eating peanuts in front of her and she kept looking at me. She was at the time, six years old, right? And I grabbed the peanut and I like pretended, you know, I pulled it out of her nose. And then I turned around and then she grabbed the peanut.

And then I just saw her like putting up her nose and I'm like, did that just happen? And then she started screaming. It's like, there's a peanut in my nose. And then thankfully, My sister was there. And I had, like, if she wasn't there, I would never in a million years think to do this.

But now I know how to get a peanut out of someone's nose super easy. What? So my sister plugged her nostril that didn't have the peanut. And told her to blow. And opened up her mouth and she blew in her mouth. And that peanut just came like flying out. What? It was really crazy.

Yeah. Outrage. Yeah. So now you know if there's ever a peanut stuck in anyone's nose, you know how to get it up. Or just probably anything, really. Or anything, yeah. But especially peanuts.

I can only confirm her real food peanut. I have a question for the Discord. If you're going to ask a question, use a question mark so I can easily identify your question because just typing a sentence. We have a lot of people talking here. Okay, but that's not a question either. It's also not a question. That's a statement.

Can you please make that thing a thing? Thank you. Okay, so we are slowly, quickly approaching when we got to stop. So I got a few more questions for you. How about Raina? Anything you want to ask? Let me ask my question first. What is your favorite NZXT product?

My favorite NZXT product. That is available. That is currently available. That is not top secret. That is hard. I got to really think about that. Oh, wait. The puck.

Simply because I think of the work that you guys have done to memify it, I think it's really cute. The puck. The puck is the greatest product. I definitely think it's one of the most interesting things that we've ever done for sure. The plug is great because to me it has the spirit of the company. It's just like a very simple idea that is fantastic, right? Yeah. Like that no one, it's like so simple and dumb that like no one can like do it except for the simple and dumb that came up with it, right?

It's just like a such as like a you know simple dumb thing that became so much more like from the puck we came up with Pucci You know it's like and Pucci everyone those Pucci he's our mascot so yeah, puck is a good answer What is your least favorite N60 product? It's like Pucci Well he's in our product because he don't sell him. It's true got him I don't know I don't think I have one He's like it's not released yet yeah There's some stuff coming down the pipe, but I'm like, oh, God. If there was one thing that we could make,

it doesn't have to be a computer or a video game product or anything like that. What could we make? Wigs. Curly wigs. Yeah, so everyone can look like me and pre-haircut Felicity. I don't know. I'm terrible at questions. Don't invite me back on the podcast.

For someone who's a word smiths, she sure is her both words. I think that partially it's that I overthink everything that like... No, you're not bad. You're good. Oh, thanks. Yeah. Are we wrapped up?

I don't know. Oh, anything you want to say right now. Any questions for this? Coordinating questions for us. Where are you performing tonight? Tonight, I will be on my Shea's lounge performing my best impression

of a sleepy person watching television. But no, I would say that this podcast come a long way I'm really proud of you guys you guys are really good at this this is really really fun yeah for real you have a lot of podcast experience so honest advice like what's good and bad why can we get better about the podcast well what's great is just you guys your personalities the way that you guys you know interact with each other and your guest you make it really natural you guys just very genuine natural people.

It's all fake. Well, fake until you make it, right? But I think that works really well. I think that, you know, you guys are the biggest asset. And I don't have any feedback for you. I don't have any feedback for you on Mike because I'm going to rip into you guys as soon as you tear off this record button. It's true.

Thank you for doing the podcast. Thank you. Randisor for coming through and chatting with us for a little bit. And thanks everyone for listening. Yes, thank you for listening. As always, let us know what you think. you know, we take your criticism very seriously.

And listen to this episode and more on SoundCloud.com slash nzzyxee club. And soon to be other places. When does this episode go up? When do they typically go on? As soon as I finish it. We do have to edit one thing at 54 seconds.

Yeah. It was not as bad as last week. Last week was like a mess and a half. But yeah, I usually turn it down pretty quickly. Assuming I don't get pulled into any meetings in between. Cool. Yeah.

So thank you very much, guys, for listening. Don't forget to also check out the Discord at NXT.com slash club to find out the club. Discord.g.g. slash NZXT. Join the Destiny Klan. We did two raids this weekend. So it's pretty cool. Destiny Klan is doing work. We're at 69 members now. So pretty nice. Also follow Ray Raid on Twitter. Yeah. Spelled not how is. Spell how a writer would not write it. Anything else? See you guys want to get out before we throw it out? Next person?

TBD. Actually, I think I know who the next person is. So is he Wes. Probably Wesley. Yeah. And then after him, I think. Wesley's our partnerships and marketing manager. Exciting. Is it his official title? I don't know his official title. But he handles all the marketing and all the, all the, all the, all the, all the,

he's the guy that talks to Ninja. He's the one who yells at, well, he talks to Ninja's wife. The influencer guy. Nobody talks to Ninja. Yeah. All right. Thanks a lot, guys. And we'll see you next time. Bye. Bye. Thank you.