NZXT PODCAST - #024 - Alan

Episode Date: January 9, 2020

This week on the podcast Denis and Ivan are joined by NZXT’s Discord moderator and resident dad: Alan Stoddard Alan and the crew discuss: Texas, dad shoes, and shredding gnar. Follow Alan on twitter: twitter.com/a_stoddard Listen live to the NZXT CLUB CAST on our Discord server at discord.gg/nzxt Thursday at 10AM PT! Thanks to James Fackler #6131 for the artwork!

Welcome to episode 24, part two of the NXT Clubcast, the official podcast of the NXC community. I'm just waiting for everyone in Discord to tell me that it sounds bad again. This podcast is recorded live every Thursday at 10 a.m. Pacific Center time on the official NZXT Discord server and is available to stream wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. My name is Dennis. And with me as always is I then. How do you do fellow dads? There we go. Today's special guest is NXT Club moderator and internet dad Alan.

Morning. That's a voice for radio, by you heard of one. It really is. I actually have to turn his base down because his man's voices too deep and in sultry. It's like the exact opposite of our nasly voice. We have Barry White on the podcast. Can you sing any bear white for us? I cannot.

Well, I can, but I won't. Can you sing chocolate rain? No Do people remember chocolate rain I think we're like the only ones We still remember chocolate rain Maybe you and me Amanda

Maybe Vivian I can't think of anyone else Who would still Long lost son is Googling chocolate rain right now He's gonna make something He's gonna make a video for us Alan how you doing today How are you feeling?

I'm pretty good Yeah Good thing I come out here for a week Never used to the time zones So I woke up before this morning You came from where again came from Texas

what part of Texas Houston the good part oh the cheating part yeah and Boston too now Boston too now but yeah like three years ago Houston LA World Series

I vividly remember and you can even go through my Twitter feed I tweeted the Houston Astros are cheating and sure enough three years later comes out they were cheating so you're the first cheater on this podcast

won't be the last that's true I'm assuming this is about sports ball sports ball yeah RRL esports sports for people who can't play video games right

yeah exactly how is your how's your trip Alan did you fly out you drive did you take a boat I wish I could take a boat that'd be fun take like a week and a half

now I always fly out come in Monday morning get straight to work hang out on Discord instead of working. How often do you fly out? When I started it was once a month. I'd be out here one week every month and now it's like once a year. So you don't have to say where you work, unless you want to, but what do you do exactly? Systems administrator for a manufacturing company, which is a...

That sounds way more important than what me and this. Yeah, for sure. Wow, that sounds very, very in IT it's kind of a like a vague job description yeah so it could mean one of a million different things but since I work at a smaller company I actually do I handle servers and the networking and the internet and the cell phones and the regular phones so that's why you have two cell phones yeah yeah it's tracks flex on me so phone's he has two cell phones and he's wearing AirPods underneath his nz-dhatsd air headsets I thought he was just flexing that turns out is for work this is everyday life always got to double up.

It's got two phones, one for the plug. We just did a tour before the podcast, and we didn't show you our server room. You should show you that so you can fix it. It's like so bad. Actually, you want to go a quick break and have them look at it, and then they come back and describe it to us.

That's probably why the quality of the podcast was so bad the first time. The server room was having a moment. It's like cables all over the place, man. It's kind of funny. It's pretty standard. When we were trying to get internet in here, we were like, I think we were asking

Ed and he's like, don't worry, I'll figure it out. And he opened the door. I'm like, oh, my God. Yeah, we've never had like an IT person because everyone here built a computer. So we always thought, we're smart enough to do it ourselves. But now we're at the point where like, maybe we're not so smart. It's actually very complicated now. But we will show you that room after the podcast. Maybe you can give us some tips on how to fix it. It's often worse that way. Yeah. Just like the doctors make the worst patients. Everybody knows a little bit of computers, but they don't necessarily know about servers and networking.

They just think they can wing it. Right. Dennis, write that down and tweet that later. Yeah, I'm going to. So, before we get into everything else, what's the hardest part about your job? What's the easiest part and what's the most boring part? The most boring part is listening to everybody's stories

about why their computer's broken. Oh, yeah. You get that? I've got a couple interesting ones. But yeah, you always, you get people that maybe they're just lonely. And they'll give you, like, the whole story of what they've been doing the last three days and how the computer's going. Andy. Hey, Alan, can you fix my PC?

And then you go over there and you just start talking to you about. Cambocha. His day. I used to eat cheese and stuff like that. Yeah. I used to do consulting, so I had a number of different clients and you get some interesting calls. Right. Had one that called said, our server's on fire.

I thought, you know, they were just, you know, not actually telling the truth there. But yeah, there was the power supply smoked out and there was a little burn mark on the back wall. Oh, geez. Do you have you ever found anything like against our discourse over rules on people's computers? I've, well, try not to break any rules here. It's okay. This is safe space. We do what we want here.

Put your finger on the bleat button. Here we go. I'm ready. So I sold a firewall antivirus on all-on-one device and standard setup for it is you just choose what web category is to block. So he just says to block porn. It's the business.

Week later, I get a call from the receptionist there. They said, yeah, some people were complaining to the president that they can't get to their porn sites. And so he said to unblock it. Wow. I got to drive back out there and unblock porn for the business. And which business was this? Jesus Christ.

Wow. That's so weird. That's, I, who does that? Did you issue them a warning? A mute or a ban? I just did it and didn't ask and stop looking them in the eye. That's kind of weird, actually. Yeah.

Listen, these illegal websites aren't working. Could you unblock them, please? Okay, thanks. Well, I know sometimes some websites do get flasked. under different categories that may necessarily be real or whatever maybe that's what happened I don't know right no no anyway moving on yeah anyway so so to do this this line of work Alan did you did you go to school for it did you what you study I did a all about you I did management information systems that's my degree in my yes

yeah so as a business degree it's got good foundation in the business side that's the department that actually helps us process all the Discord Club rewards is our MIS team. They said all that like automation stuff for us. It's it seems very complicated. Yeah, I did that because my only other option was computer science and I can't program for anything. Yeah. Yeah, computer science is super hard. I took one class of computer science in college and I lasted like two or three days. I was just like, I'm not going to be able to do this. It's just impossible. It's like, it's not even about computers so much as it is about. like just math and science.

A lot of logic too, right? Yeah, and logic too. Yeah. Which I failed logic in college. I took a, like a, like a, like a beginners game making, a course in community college. And it was literally just making, is using a game maker, whatever the hell that software is called. And I was like, three days in. I'm like, this is the most boring thing I've ever done.

I'm surprised I even offer that at Clown State. They do. It's right after, right after pie throwing. But like It's funny because when I was a kid You know like I played a lot of video games So my family and people always asked Oh you know why don't just make video games

Since you love video games so much And I'm like I'm not that smart Like I'm not gonna lie folks I'm kind of dumb And there's no way I could ever program or code a game Like it's not something that I Everything is in my wheelhouse So I just never did it

Unless Not too late You still make a game Yeah Just uh Like who was it the guy who made Spalunky is this one dude. That's a pretty big popular game.

Starry Valley. The guy that started Algae worked at a movie theater. Yeah. You get some Undertail 2. Yeah, yeah. Get started on that before he finishes. It's a lot of indie games, actually,

I mean, like, when people team. I think, what's that called? Crypt of the Mechler Dancer. I think it's also like one person as well. But like, for like every like big indie game, there's like a million games like don't sell anything to never make it big. Which is just interesting to me too

about the people that design games. A lot of them, Start design a game and end up with a completely different app. Yeah, and like the best example of that is Discord like Discord Started out as like a game and they created like like some sort of chat component to it And then they started as more they focused on that. It just kind of they just said let's stitch the game and just make this app Right Yeah, so long story short None of us are programmers here. We just helped troubleshoot and we break the discord where you go to school

I went to Sam Houston State Sam Houston Sam Houston That's a guy from the Loonitunes cartoons Yeah Yosemite Sam Yeah Is that really?

Is it really? No Okay I don't know You can lie to me I would no idea I don't know anything about schools Who's Sam Houston?

He's the father of Texas He's led the army Against Mexico In the Alamo and all that Yep He's the first President of Texas What year

like 1800s? 1836, I think. 56 maybe. This man knows his history. He does. The Houston MLS soccer team, they put out a vote for what the team name should be. And the top vote getter was the Houston 1836.

It's a common football club thing. You name it after the year. And then a bunch of people got mad because Houston was founded the same year that Mexicans lost the war. So now you've got the dynamo, which doesn't mean much. Yeah. Yeah, a lot of the MLS teams have really funny names. Like you got like, what's Seattle?

Sales Lake Timber. Sounders. Yeah, Sounders. I think the Galaxy is a pretty dumb name. The Galaxy is a really stupid name. I never just did the LA Galaxy. Also, what's the other one, the L-A-F-C? Yeah.

Just look at, I'm curious. I want to look at M-L-S-Team names now. My favorite name was actually the team that don't longer resist is Chivas'O's USA. That's awesome. Chivas' USA is a great name. Yeah, so we got LA Galaxy, Los Angeles FC, Seattle Sounders, Atlanta United, Toronto, DC. It's just a lot of the United ones. Some of them have really cool names.

Like, New York Red Bulls is just a really dumb name. It's literally just marketing. Is it? I don't even know. Yeah, New York Red Bulls. I don't watch it. Sponsored by Monster. Right.

Pearl and Timber is going to make sense, you know, because there's like a lot of locking stuff out there. Chicago Fire. I don't know if I would call my team fire. It was a pretty devastating fire, but, you know what I mean? That's, like the L.A. Quakes. Yeah, it's San Francisco Quakes right for Overwatch League. Is there? Yeah, it's a new team.

Montreal Impact. That's a really dumb name. Welcome to the MLS cast guys. We're going to invite Andy in five seconds to talk about the future of the MLS and where it stands among all the other leagues. Personally, my friend of the Premier League. There you go. You got Houston Dynamo, Real Salt Lake.

New England Revolution. That's a stupid. Are you big sports guy? No, not too much. No. Yeah, okay. Let's stop talking about this time. Alan, so Alan, how long have we been on the server?

Year and a half now. When did you join? I joined for the Ninja giveaway. Nice. It worked. And now you're a mod. Look at that. Maybe we should do more ninja giveaways where people have to join the server to win.

That was the first and only time we've ever done that. How was that, by the way? Because I wasn't here for that. What are the stories? I joined and then ignored it. Oh, yeah? Yeah. What did you join back in?

I joined back in in January of last year. Started saying ads for the club. I was like, oh. Oh, really? Where did you start seeing it? Who knows? I was already following Twitter and Instagram. Probably from the giveaway.

Because he had to, right? Yeah. And then he just never. I get those points. It worked. So that's a trick. If you want more, Allen's,

we got to do a ninja giveaway, ruin the server for a bit. The server legit went from 1,000 to 100,000 people. Seriously? In one day. Jesus Christ, that's ridiculous. It was crazy, yeah.

I think the last Ninja giveaway we did, we had, like, how many entries again? It was like millions of entries. Yeah, like 25 million entries. And I think we clocked it at like 100,000 people. Like last time we actually were looking at the numbers from the giveaway. It was pretty nuts. Yeah.

And that's why we don't do that no more. Yeah. Now whenever we do giveaways with streamers, we don't include the server. Yeah. It's because it just becomes like a band fest, basically. Because back then, actually, for the Ninja giveaway, we didn't even have rules. There was only three rules. And it was be nice, have fun, and help each other.

I was it didn't work. So we had like 15 rules. We didn't need rules back then. Yeah. And then that happened. And it was just like, warning, warning. Yeah. 12-year-old spot in the wild.

Moderators assemble. Yeah. But now we have like the biggest team ever. So, you know, I think maybe nowadays or today if you had another Ninja giveaway or a big streamer giveaway where we had people where one of the requirements was to join the server, I think maybe we can handle it. What do you think, Ellen? I'm up for that challenge. All right, guys, you heard it. Unless.

Do it when I call in sick. Let me just contact the vast Gigi guys and set up my own. Speaking of Vast Gigi. Yeah, they were the ones that set up a giveaway Yeah I think now we're just going with Glimmer, right? What?

No, gleam, gleam, right? We usually use Glean for those giveaways. Yeah. Just easy to track and pick winners. Rip vast Gigi, dude. No, they're still out there. I don't see them anymore. They have a pretty big server.

Yeah. They have a bigger server than ours. All right, so you joined for the Ninja giveaway and then you left and then you came back because you saw an ad that we had rewards. How is the server changed from then until now? For me, it hasn't changed too much.

It's always been a pretty good community. Right. And, yeah, I think... Pick around. There are people that kind of burn out a little bit. Right. But, I mean, if you burn out, just take a break. You don't have to be a jerk and get banned

just because you don't want to be here. Like you're talking to someone specifically. Yeah. I'm feeling a tacking. right now. Looking at me right in the eye when you said that. I'm like, all right,

I will. Yeah, Ivan, take a break before you get banned. I wish I could, man. What are some good changes you think that we've had so far? Because recently, just recently,

as you know, it's like last week, you know, changing some rules around, doing some things with like clarifying more stuff. What's your opinion on how we've improved the server or unimproved it? I don't think anything's gotten worse. But the rules are pretty much the same, just slightly clarified,

which some people need, some people try to bend them as much as they can. Right. If you could remove one rule just for funzies, what would it be? For fun? Yeah, just to see what would happen. I'd remove spam just to watch it go wild for a day. Uh-huh. Just turn off slowbo.

off everything and see how crazy the server gets yeah like every now then I'll like I'll get bored like literally I'll get bored and just go in general like hey guys slow modes off and just see what happens and then like once I can't watch anymore I turn it off or I turn it back on but it's always funny to see like first it's like a it like it influx that people just oh my god no slowbo no slow mode and then everyone's like okay cool slow mode's off you know we we got out of our system we're bored now he's going to talk like normal because like it still takes time to like actually formulate like a regular answer to like a question or like a discussion. So it's usually funny to see how that's not fun. It's not funny.

For me it's funny. I have fun and hilarious. I usually just tune or tune out whenever that goes on. I see just Dennis giggling at himself. I'm like, well, there he goes again. Let me take a break now. Let's take a minute. How do you feel being a mod? From being a member. Powerful. Yeah?

What's your first, your first decree? Chill. Just eat chill. Yes, I like that mentality. Yeah, it's been as if everybody could just chill. I think one of the reasons

why we like having you around is because you have such a chill personality. Yeah. You're definitely funny. He's the mod most like me, I think. Yeah. Is it me? I very rarely will warn me or ban someone.

Like, if I see someone breaking a rule, I'm just like, please don't do that, read the rules. Like, I don't want to, I really don't want to, like, Warren, banter me anyone. And I think you're kind of like, same way, Rachel, you see something. You're like, all right, you know, you're the rule. But kind of, I think it's because we're older, you know, you're 36. Yeah, unfortunately. Well, that's a good number, man.

Age reveal. I'm 38. Get doxed up in here. And your address is. No, but I think being. older than the majority of server members does make us a little act a little different with them you know um i think if we were 15 year old moderators we probably would be out there kind of you know doing more warning rates and bands yeah i think it's kind of for us is kind of we already got

that stuff out of our system a long time ago i hope yeah unless that's that's pretty much why why i've been hired me is because i have that young man energy so I can keep up with the kids and I'm just tired, man. You're just tired from raising children all day. Yeah, just in real life and online, like Alan, you know. How many kids do you have, Alan? I have three and a half-year-old twins, so it's like four kids.

Oh, that's crazy, man. I can imagine twins. Yeah. How early on did you guys know that you were having twins? We found out actually at the first ultrasound. Oh, really? Maybe eight or ten weeks in. to the pregnancy. Are there any other twins in your guys' families? It's only on her side. Yeah?

But yeah, there's a history of twins. Is it like kind of a genetic thing? Yeah, it's semi-genetic and then the other half of it is like IVF so people are having problems getting pregnant and they start to use that. That's when we get like the octal loophilids. Yeah, octumumum. As you're funny, I have a three and a half year old octoplets. I can imagine having that many kids. I can't imagine having one. It's a lot of work. But having like eight kids.

Yeah. I have my daughter's going to be two next month. And yesterday I had to watch. I didn't come to work because I had to watch her all day. And I showed Dennis a screenshot of my steps. You know, my goal is to walk 10,000 steps a day. And I very rarely hit that during the week. But on the weekends, you know, Saturday and Sunday, that's when I'm out, you know, you know,

shopping and walking around with a wife and kid like i hit 10,000 steps but on average i get 5,000 steps and then yesterday i got 15 000 steps and that's just from following my daughter around all day you know it's like not even they wasn't even done no i think you sent me that when i was on my way home like at 3 o'clock yeah i was so tired man my wife got home like at 9 and she's like you want to watch tv and i said sure and uh just fell asleep on the couch snoring a lot of work man and I feel like, especially the age that your kids are at, like that, you know, three-year-old, it's a lot of work, dude. Yeah, they're all over the place. It's, I don't, I don't go to the gym.

You pretty can't do much, right? I don't need it. So what's like a typical day for you when you're not traveling? Typical day for me is I wake up about 545, do my thing. ready, get the kids up at 6.30. Why so late? Because daycare doesn't open until 7. Yeah.

So I got to time it around that. And then drop the kids off daycare, try to get to work by 7.30. Hang out on Discord. And that's basically your day? Yeah, that's pretty much all I do. And just chill. It's chill all the time.

Most of my day now is just checking logs. So you're the log checker. So I'm going to have to check them. Yeah, well, it'll be him. There's always at least like one person who's like, I know who's like for sure looking at locks. Who broke the rule three hours ago when everybody was sleeping? Gotcha.

Someone needs to do that stuff. No, it's true. No, we do. We're in the process of working some stuff out right now to make sure that we're better about that stuff. So you can't hide from us. What did your kids say when they saw Pucci? They just kind of grabbed it and started swinging at each other like swords. That's what they do.

Do they say Pucci? I don't think I've taught him that yet. There's purple guy. That's the PSU guy. It's a shame to see PSU guy. So when did you become the internet dad? Dad, I mean, well, let's see here. I've kind of been dad-like even before I had kids.

I just sense of humor and style. Do you see your shoes? What was he wearing? Dad confirmed he's wearing something. Some cross trainer type of like D-D-Dos. Yeah. Is it like knee balances? There's some mesh trail running Merrills that never see the dirt.

It has an Eddie Bauer backpack. Yeah. Definitely a dad in here. He's got the dad threes. Now, when I started being active in the server, there were already some dad jokes flying around. So like, okay, I'll do this and I just kind of lean into it. What's your favorite dad joke?

trick question dad jokes are only good in the moment see that's a great dad response that's some that's some big dad energy right there that dad's always have like the right answer to every question okay um maybe we should ask the the chat to ask some some uh for some fatherly advice yeah so whatever questions you guys have now think about some dad type questions that only a dad could answer And then we'll get those out too. Because I'm actually going to... Without breaking the rules. Yeah, exactly, without breaking the rules.

Now, those goes in my DMs. That's what I get most of the time. It's not people asking about, hey, am I breaking this rule or why did I get muted? It's people asking like, what kind of a down payment do I need for an apartment? Wait, hold up. Does that be? No. Okay.

Now, somebody asked me, I've already had two questions this year about doing their taxes. Oh, man. I'm fine helping out with that. It's cool. So what can a down payment do I need for an apartment? Yeah, usually it's first last month, maybe six weeks, some places. I think I've ever had six weeks. I think every place that ever looked out is like first last month.

Sometimes I think here in L.A., it's usually first and last, but I've also seen first last and then the third were like a security deposit. Yeah. For an additional month for a pet deposit. So it can add up pretty quick, you know. Rent's not cheap. Well, it's excessive, but I can understand why, you know, people would do it just because people trash rental properties, man. Yeah. I think the last apartment I was at, a deposit was like $1,200 or something like that, some dumb.

And we got like 300 back. And I'm like, we literally did, like, we cleaned the place spotless. There's nothing on the walls. We even clean, like, the bath, you know, like we did all the stuff. you know where you get rid of all the mildew whatever or whatever builds up and like they still gave us like nothing back I'm like I'm even going to debate this because

I have an argument with someone I don't even live around anymore yeah it's kind of rough did you trash the apartment or something yeah we had crazy d&D parties we brought our LARP swords and cut holes in the walls

what did you take a photo up Vivian pushed a note down through the door so I'm going to take a picture of it for her mom's Dxtee says they don't care if it's not professionally clean, then we'll take your deposit. Yikes.

Okay, mom. I know. Definitely with the mom advice. By the way, I do like the name Adminda better than Mom's Ext. I think it's a little bit funnier, to be honest. She didn't like it, though.

Mom shamed. That's why. We'd be shaming all kinds of moms over here. We shouldn't let her like what she's doing. We don't like it. Why should she? Exactly. It gets so many DMs.

Oh, by the way, apparently is my birthday today. Mine too. I woke up today and they got like a million DMs saying happy birthday and I'm like, I'm not going to tell them it's not. I'm going to ask for my present. I had like five or so DMs telling me happy birthday and I just said, thanks, you too.

I may have started that trend. Yeah? I'm okay with that. Why did you do that? Just wishing Carol a happy birthday. Is today your birthday? Oh yeah. I didn't know that.

Oh, snap. It's a birthday. Caro, thanks for telling us. Hey, birthday, Carole. Yeah, me and Caro, we've been trading breakfast pictures all week. Oh, yeah? Yeah, because we both eat the same thing for breakfast, which is avocado toast with eggs. So we kind of challenge each other to see you could make them look better, I guess.

All right, well, since it is her birthday, let's go ahead and play her birthday song. So, and everyone change your, add flowers to your name in her honor. All right. I'm adding flowers right now to the M60 Club cast right now. We're going to jam this for a second because it is birthday time for what? Carl. Happy birthday, Carl. It's a crappy version

of the song. So for those who don't know who are listening to the podcast off of and who don't know the Discord,

car is on her moderators. She's from Germany, I believe, right? Yeah, Germany.

Kudeland. Yeah, Cuddleand. Her birthday is two weeks ago? No, it's not. It's now today.

Ellen is just trolling everyone's day. Do I mean? I don't even care is their birthday not just when I play the song it's probably To my after thing is one of the worst birthday songs I've ever heard

Like it's not good I didn't like the original birthday song But I think Stevie Wonder's is pretty bad I like Stevie Wonder Do you like the Beatles version of it The Beatles have a birthday song They say it's your birthday Oh yeah

Yeah I say Beatles Birthday song I mean you can't be the classic I mean you can't But like I'm not gonna lie This is pretty bad

It's not a I'm like it. You can never go wrong with the Beatles though. You definitely can. This song is proof of it. Why do you need a birthday song as like one of the biggest bands in the world ever? I play. Just because? All right. Let's talk about music. Alan, you will come into my stream and I will have like a theme of like the night for for song requests and you always are putting on some bangers. What is your relationship with music? Because you as a dad have very. unexpected taste of music. He did come in here.

He's like, can you guys play some chopped and screwed Wii shop music for the intro? You got to be on theme. That's true. I mean, all about Texas. Uh-huh. You know. I may be wearing a Texas gaming shirt. You are.

But this is not my only Texas gaming shirt. How many do you have at least eight? At least eight? Yeah. He's wearing all of them right now. I take one off after the other and just have it off. What do people say in your office when you walk in wearing you like Texas gear? So in the office it's business casual.

Uh-huh. Yeah. So I'm polo and khakis every day. Does your car have horns on it? No. I have seen that a few times, though. Any Texas stereotype is generally true. So, yeah, what kind of music do you usually listen to?

Everything. I know you like old school hip-hop because every time I, because I love like the fat boys. Anytime play the fat boys, Alan's literally the only one that knows what it is. Everyone's like, what kind of music is this? And Alan goes, oh, yeah, fat boys, you should play this song or something. And everyone's like, what the heck is Alan and I am talking about? Yeah, I've always just had a very wide listening area. And I love to go to live shows with just whatever's playing, anything from some local rapper to a nationally touring.

recommended mariachi music to be yeah yeah Alan's got a very wide wide array of music what's um what's your favorite genre right now right now and why is it post malone no I like post malone the only post malone song I know is the one on the spider verse soundtrack sunflower sunflower yeah that's that's it you never heard like what Iverson the song was huge you was everywhere no has anyone ever told you kind of look like post malone yeah really a little bit maybe maybe without the tattoos yeah it's like post malone he's Primalone. Yeah.

It's like, pre-malone is post-malone before you got tied it up. So yeah, what's your favorite band? I'm kind of like Nibbler and I don't have any specific favorites. It's always like,

maybe top five at the moment. You're nothing like her. Yeah. Keep Nibler's name out of your mouth. Put some respect on the band. I love Nibler, man. She's great. Before she left,

I told her, while you wait for your Nibler stickers, I'm going to get you a stack VNZ-D sticker. She can deface the property in your school. And she's doing it. She's like putting stickers over school, taking pictures. I love that.

So until you do that, you can't compare yourself to that. But he is going to sign the wall. So Ellen is going to put some. I will sign the wall. Second person to sign our podcast wall. Who's going to be next? Could it be you or you or you listener? Hopefully it's all filled up before power supply guy comes in here.

So he can't put. I don't want to sign anything. How do you draw a power supply? line. Anyway, you just, a cube. A cube with wires coming out of it. Yeah. This ends up looking like a...

How does one draw boring? All right, so Alan, top five, top five hip hop slash rap artist you listen to right now. Right now, I've been going back and listening the White Clefts the Carnival. I don't know why I just keeps popping in my head going back and listening to that. That's one. That's an album that I can listen to front to back any day, any time. do that right now why club carnival

I don't think I've ever heard that album no no that's a pretty good stuff on it what's your first song off that album let's go with a Guantanamara Guantanamara

Guantanara Guadira Guadha Is that really Celia Cruz nice hold up this is safe for work yeah

it should be pretty close Cylana Cruz is always safe Dude, when I was a kid, I used to watch, so like, through the TV show, is that, like, the fruit on your head? Yeah. Oh, Carnival.

And now the curse words start. Yeah, here it comes. Wow. All right, Alan, give me some bars. That's pretty good. I wouldn't have to listen to this. Actually, I'm going to listen to, like, so as he leaves.

Get out of here so close to this. Okay. What else? That's a good choice. So that's one. I'll always go back to run DMC, though. Ooh. And I'll probably play my Adidas because Alan is

wearing adidas i believe pretty close are they adidas or are they're not they're they're not they're they're they're marils that's extra extra dad points for their morals what are they're like sparries or they're like no they're like allbirds i'm gonna take a picture of alan's shoes yeah they're like they're like eddie bower shoes eddie power shoes they're all mesh i'm gonna be honest you guys and i'm gonna show my chair i don't like run DMC yeah no i think it's because like I grew up listening to quote unquote more complex hip-hop and rap, you know? Because when it's been, I mean, just to be honest, like hip-hop and hip-hop in his era is very simple, right? Like, it's not complex, like, lyrically or anything like that.

True. But I will say this about Run DMC, though. Run DMC was probably the first rap group that didn't rap like this. Like before Run DMC, everyone rap like this. Like seriously, every single rapper. And then after Run DMC, It was Beastie Boys. Oh, yeah.

And then Beastie Boys and Rendem-C kind of, I think, paved the way a little bit for what rap is now. But it's totally different. I mean, I can understand how people don't like Ren-D-CC. I don't think it's bad. It's like I just wouldn't jam to it, you know, like when I'm driving around. Like the newer stuff, you know, like I understand why they're important and where they came from. But, you know, I appreciate what they did. But I'm listening to some Ju-N-O or something like that, you know.

That's good for. Good to move past some of that. Yeah. Because if you had stuck too close to DMC and Beastie Boys, you'd have way too much call and response. Yeah. I think it's because the rhyming is like, it's like calling response, right?

And they're really big fan of that. And it likes how a lot of stuff was in the beginning. Yeah, I love that. Yeah. All right. So we're in DMC. What else? Who painted this wall?

Ed. Yeah, Ed painted the wall. Yeah, it's funny. Funny, sorry about that. So when we took over this brief, room closet. I told Ed, our facilities manager, hey, can you paint these two walls purple? He was like, sure, no problem. And I come in the next day, as he's painting the walls, and I look at the walls, and he did not stay between the lines at all. And then he looks at

me, he goes, it's okay with a little messed up, right? And I said, well, at this point, yeah, I mean, there's really not much you can do now. Sure, you can paint it white if you're asking to, but yeah, we'll fix it eventually. He painted the wall. Yeah, just a quick reminder everyone if you're listening if you're not listening to this live every Thursday at 10 a and Pacific Center time you're missing out because we do read our chat in the discord we do respond here and there and whatnot and so forth all right Alan so that's that's two what's number three what's number three what's number three uh I'm going with probably lyrically my favorite it will be a talib quali what song uh give me a banger

I'm gonna think of a safer work one. I don't know if I can find one. He's a really smart rapper, huh? Yeah. Him and, um, like, most death and common, most guys are all, like, really good. We might make the rules in a second, just FYI, guys. Cover your ears. It's okay, it's music.

We give a faster music. All right. What's your favorite album from? Remember? ND5. Indy-5? ND-5. Indy-Y or I-N-D-I-E.

Like the race, Indy-5-Ly. Ah. Every ghetto is probably my favorite track on that one. How do you usually listen to music? Now it's just Spotify just because I'm lazy. Spotify's great. I was Spotify. Hey, good morning, Kanye.

Warren Allen. Warren Allen. Okay, I'll bleep it out. Hold up. What time? We are at 39 minutes. I'll take your pan. 39 minutes.

If it goes to this live, you get the benefit of hearing all the bad words. Actually, I have an interesting question for you. Oh, okay. So I know part of your job tells going to different computer companies, and sometimes you might go to a company that does the same thing NSXC does. Do you ever walk in there with your NSXD hoodie or anything? anything like that? I may have trolled a few times. Really? Anything funny happened? So I got to go to Dell a couple weeks ago and I made sure that the only jacket I took with me

was my NC-XD-fitty. Did you see anything? Even when most people didn't because most of the people I was working with were not gamers. It was all business side. But we did get to go hang out with the alien wear guides for a little bit. Ooh. And yeah, so I made sure, even though it was a little warm, Jack it on zipped up Ready to go You're like, who's the alien now? Do you say anything?

No, they're just going to give me the side eye Okay, cool They were being professional Yeah I mean like Well, I guess it's like Dell So like what else could you really do, right? Like you kind of have to be professional

They don't like Gus, you know You probably don't even know who the heck In 60s Yeah They're probably too busy I was gonna have a joke tip I'm gonna stop myself Okay so that's number

That's four right Is that four? I think so. What's number five? You should pretend that it was four. What's number five? Well, I mean, since I haven't listed one yet, I got to go Houston, so ghetto boys. Am I playing tricks on me?

Classic, classic jam. I played every Halloween. You really? Happy man. It's a really Halloween song. It is. Last year, Halloween fell on the weekend. There you go.

This is a banger. Also about mental health as well. BT-dubs. Yeah, that's a really good song. I love the video, too. Just staring it up. I know the song. My mother's always dressed and I ain't living right.

But I ain't going out without a fight. Yeah, it's a really good song. If you know this song, can you say it's not a Halloween song? Bushwick Bill's part, man. I mean, I don't really feel like it's a Halloween song. He literally says the word Halloween. Just going to say Halloween is making it's a Halloween. It doesn't mean it's a Halloween song.

And it's also. I think ghetto boys are credited with inventing horror core rap, right? So it is technically Halloween song, Dennis. I was going to go out on a limb here and say the horror core is super lame. I think a lot of the core versions of hip-hop is really weird to me, and I don't understand why they exist. So it says the guy who sings in the office, would you sing a, I'm just a boy in my life?

Kid in life is a nightmare. Which, by the way, don't add that as your status. Okay. What about rock? Give me top three real quick. You won't listen to it. I don't want to know.

Rock, rock, or just like what I listen to? Whatever you listen to. Okay, so I'm more of the hardcore punk side. Oh, okay. I was a skater boy. Did someone say see you later boy? I remember the beans the favorite song? No, that's actually how I kind of got into hip hop.

It's like the skate videos. Yeah. 4-1-1, you'd have, you know, some like bad religion or crass or something like that. Did you see the skateboard at my desk? No, I didn't. Nick, we can go out there. It's underneath. I have a 1984 Powell Peralta, Steve McGill, man.

I was a skater boy, too. Yeah. And so the videos, it would just, it would go from punk stuff and straight into hip-hop because those are, at the time, that was street level. Right, right. And they always just kind of mixed together. So what, what, uh, what, uh, bands then? Uh, so for me, it was always like all the fat record stuff.

No effects. Yeah, good, good riddance. Pin-Wagon, lagwagon, propaganda. That's all the good stuff. That's like all KRAQ stuff. Kind of, yeah. I was into that stuff too when I was in high school. Me and Alan are the same person.

Yeah, just found out today. Whenever I think of like skater music, I always think of the Tony Hawk Pro Skater two soundtrack and that album is like nothing was like hard bangers you play the game i've been yeah on dreamcast i played on the i think PS1 and i think this is back in the day when demo discs were still a thing for consoles so like for those who don't know you would go to like your local game shop or your game shop and you would buy a magazine the magazine would come with a disc that had a bunch of like demos for like for like i don't know five or six games so you'd be at the first level or like a random level in the game.

And one of the demos was Sony Hawk Proceder, too. And I put a lot of time into that demo. Because you can play like, I think it was like a full five-minute session. I was doing tricks. It'll be all the music in the game. There's a new video game coming out that I showed Dennis on the switch called Skatebirds. Or Skatebird. Skatebird.

Yeah. And it looks like the thrash your logo. Yeah. I'm totally going to get that game, dude. Oh, I already backed it. Yeah? Oh, yeah. I'm going to come back it.

I'm going to stream that one as soon as they get it. Yeah, that game is awesome. Can we just talk about the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 soundtrack? How like soundtracks for games aren't as good anymore. Like it used to be really, really good. Dub pistols, Cyclone. That was the top Tony Hawk song for me. Is that off the second one?

It's one or two. I'd say that. It'll actually have bad religion. You had dub pistols. Here we go. Yeah. I imagine Alan Skating in high school. With his headset on.

His buddy's got a fish eyes. lens falling him around this Sony Discman all in over some stairs I never had a I had a I had like the what they called they called the G stabilization so when he shook it it wouldn't like skip the CD that was always a downside like this man never worked because it just skipped you walked skip and then you also had a what else you had mine had a mp3 CD port and then also had a radio built in so it was in the car queue and I was in school with my my disc man on the side I'm just a kid and my life is a nightmare do you still skate

not too much but you still right around I could I could probably plus the mover to if I needed to but I don't have one anymore my wife's really clumsy so I refuse to buy a skateboard because then she would get on it and she'd be over she wants the skateboard she wants the boys to have one. Oh really? I actually still skate but my only trick now is not falling off. Like I don't even bother trying to like do anything. I'm just like I'm just like gonna fall off. I'm just gonna go where you go with this thing. But it's fun man I love skateboarding. I think probably something I'm gonna do my whole life I think like video game. It's cool to kind of you know that feeling of skateboarding like I don't know

something about it right? When uh when it started to become more popular and like the X game started up that's when where I was living up time they went through in like any place where you could possibly grind anywhere where there's like a little wax just wax everywhere they uh they went through and put in like barriers and stoppers yeah yeah so i had fewer places and there was only one skate park in houston that i knew of no south side and so it's like a 45 minute drive from my parents just go skate for a little bit right yeah so i went i went bmx for a while Same here. What do you think about that, by the way?

It's like them going in and like putting in those stoppers and whatnot. Can't stop us, man. Speed or die. Like, I get wide, but it's also kind of lame, you know? Oh, you should do that because that's every single city in America has a skate park now. It's not like before. It's not like before when you had to skate on the street. Right.

There's literally skate parks all over the place. So there's no excuse. Like, you don't have to grind a rail in front of a police department. Just go to the skate park like there's like the block. But it's cooler if you do, though. Well, obviously it's cooler, but it's a different time. Getting cool guy points if you grind in front of the authorities, you know. But I feel like there's fewer people like skating and doing BMX stuff now.

Anytime I go to a park with my kids, if it's a part that has a skate park attached to it, there's always just kids on like razor scooters. Yes. No one actually doing anything. They're just going up and down. He's riding up and down. Kids in razor scooters, like chatting on discreeters. goard with each other.

I had a skateboard and I let this kid write it for a second and he falls off of it, kicks it out from under his legs and it runs into the street and it cracks in half. Wow. That's the only time I ever got a skateboard because I had it for like less than a month. Your life is a nightmare. My parents are like, well, you broke this skateboard. We just bought you. We're not going to buy another one.

So I never got another skateboard again. I mean, I do decks pretty cheap. Let's go back in time and get the board. That's why they call Dennis Phony Hawk. I've always wanted a hookups board. Do you guys remember those? Yeah, hookups. They always had like weird anime art.

Yeah, yeah. That was like one of my first introduction to like really weird like overly sexualized anime. I'm like these are cartoons though. Like I don't understand. They always had like the most. Why just one a nurse? Weird ad. Yeah.

Yeah. I actually, I went on like a, um, on like a Googling spree the other day and I was like just looking up. I was actually here in the office. I was curious like like whatever happened like to like hookups as a brand. Apparently the guy is still. They're still there. Yeah, he still's doing stuff with it. And he has, like, his own separate, like, company that he does,

same style of designs. And some of the stuff is, like, super, like, not safe for work. Very risky. Like, I've always wanted to be, like, that guy with, like, that crazy board with, like, the weird anime girl on it. You are that guy. I am, like, I am wearing Pokemon, uh,

Pokeyana sweats. Instead of, uh, courage. You know, riding around with a skateboard with weird anime. You, you hang it up in the warehouse. I do. I brought an anime scrolls. I brought a FLCL wall scroll to the office today or the other day because I had it in my room for a while, but I don't have room anymore to put up like wall scrolls. So I just brought it into my key guys.

You can have this. I've had it for like eight years. They'll make them more, dude. What's more weed calling it FLCO or Fulikuli? Knowing the fact that there's a difference. Yeah, there you go. I have no idea what that you were talking about. FLCL is an anime and it also goes like Fully Kuli.

I don't want to know. Don't tell me. Thank you. It's actually the same number of syllables, right? Fully, cool, yeah. It's a play on the, on,

let's say that there's a whole lot of love. Like, I don't want to know. Bully, don't tell me, thank you. I don't know anything about anime. You should.

We should call it Al-N-A. No one would watch. All right, let's move on to the questions that the community has because I think we got quite a bit. Thanks, Al. I haven't for that.

Bugsie wants to know, how is it being a dad of twins? I don't know any different. But I get to flex and it also works as a deterrent. So like anytime I'm with other parents, and if I'm hanging out for dinner, I don't want to hear kid complaints. So as soon as they start, oh, a kid didn't sleep through the night. I just kind of give them the twin dad look. Are you serious, brah?

Try doing it with two kids, man. They just shut up. What's their bedtime? seven it's a good time and do you struggle to put them to sleep it's horrible right now so we just moved away from cribs like we took the front off the cribs put a little railings now they have a toddler bed so they can get up and roam around so I literally every night have to put them to bed and then lay on the floor and corral them and keep them in their beds and then once they're asleep and we can tell they're asleep my wife will call me and my phone's on vibrate and that's when I get up and walk quietly out of the room.

Are they potty trained? Yeah. How was that? Not too bad. Really? Daycare did most of it because we're lazy. That's the secret you're potty training. Just pay someone to do it for you.

Easy. It's pay someone to do everything for you, right? I mean, if you can, why not do it? Next question, are the mods unpinning? They're not. Thick milk wants to know, is there going to be a level 60 reward? Yes. There we go.

I'll get to level 60 and I'll give you something. There we go. Take milk only. Lesser Honk. What is the future of NZXT? I don't know. I don't know what the past is. I know what the present is.

Am I worried about the future? The future is out there. I'm only worried about the moment. The here or the now. In this moment, we're just doing the podcast, but I don't know what we're doing. Still in a simulation. Dark X Minds wants to know.

What attracts you to the game Outlook? Money. Yeah. That's tax of cash. You're always playing Outlook. Yeah, I don't remember why I started doing that. But yeah, so I just, my, I have a desktop at the office, and that stays on all the time. So when I'm working from home or traveling, I just remotely connect into it, and that's where I do.

So I can keep all my tabs open and have all the information readily available. And so since Discord's always open there and it's always on and Outlook's always on, it's just, I'll just leave it going just to see how long things stay up. And you know you're a dad when you use Outlook. That's like a joke, right? Why Outlook as opposed to like other email clients are just using like the browser? So we use Office 365. Ah, okay.

Yeah. We're all Microsoft. Good answer. Do you use Edge? I do. How do you feel about Edge versus Internet Explorer? They're the same to me. So actually, I use Chrome for most of my things.

Right. But I have different logins for our networking. Right. For Microsoft. So I have my admin login and Chrome because that's my main. And so I have to use Edge for any, anytime somebody sends me a file in OneDrive or anything like that. So that's how you had your anime addiction. Got it.

Yeah. Yeah, my second monitor is cornered just so you can't see it when you walk up. I feel like every weave does not use Chrome. Like Dennis uses Firefox. Alan used Edge Well I used Firefox Well I used Firefox Because at a certain

Like I think about Three four months ago Like Chrome was acting extra crappy And I was like using up way too many resources And making my computer I'm like butt Then I got a new computer And then I just didn't really bother

To stop using Firefox So Because I just swapped out the hardware If I didn't do a fresh windows install Which I should have done to be honest But Yeah See I didn't know that Firefox was for Weeps

but that's a I used FireVox because they were the first ones to have a YouTube downloader plug in like eight, nine years ago and when Funimation started pulling up

full episodes I download those watch them on my phone when I was hanging out so yeah it makes sense and have you used Brave the Brave browser

I have not that's like the hot thing now Brave? Yeah what's that? It's like the next hot browser like completely like private secure

all that I mean, you never really probably insecure internet, let's just be real. If you really think that's, if you really think you're safe, you're misjudging how hard they can get your data. Actually, that's a question,

because we were talking about Firefox and old browsers and stuff. Alan, what's the first video game you ever played when you were a kid? So the first one, my oldest memory is an Atari 2,600 racing game. Poseition 2? I can't remember what the actual name.

I just remember the yellow car. Yeah, Poposition 2. That was my first gaming experience. I may or may not have been playing it. I don't know. I was playing with my dad. Right. So I could have been playing or he could have unplugged my controller.

Right. I don't really remember which. Probably a plug. That's what I do with my daughter. She goes, play, play, play. And I go, yes. I just sit around the couch, give her a controller, and I just sit there and play games for like 30 minutes.

Well, sure you can't give her like a switch controller because as soon as he gets the button, something turns on. Yeah. He's the one button on those guys. Yeah. Everything's an on button. When did you get your first PC, actually? And how did you get into PC hardware?

It's the easiest question to ask. Yeah, we're so bad at these. We should start writing stuff down like more standard, but we'll talk about that later, guys. That's actually what got me into IT in general. And I was in fourth grade or so. Right. And one of my dad's coworkers just showed up one night, opens up his trunk and starts pulling out of all these boxes.

And he just, it was our first family computer and he just built it right there on the kitchen table. I, up to that point, I knew nothing about computers. Right. I just knew of the Apple in the computer lab at school, go play some Madvis teaches typing in Oregon Trail. Wendy? You know that Mavis Teaches typing is still releasing versions of Mavis Teaches typing? Like, it used to work at Staples.

And like up until like 2014 to 2015, like they were still bringing out new versions of Mavis Teaches typing. I don't know how many ways you can teach people typing in the new century. But apparently it's happening. people need to learn how to type. Well, yeah, I mean, that's how you use a computer, you know, you've got to know how to type.

But yeah, seeing this guy just kind of opened my eyes and he just had all the parts, opened up all the boxes, put it together, installed DOS. And then, yeah, he just kind of handed me a Rolodex of shareware disks and said, go for it. One day you're going to be a server mod. So for the kids who don't know in here, what is shareware?

So the save icon, came in a physical reward. And shareware was like a demo, and you were allowed to give it to people. There you used to be, you'd have like the spinner racks at Babbage's of all the different shareware, and that was what I'd buy. I don't remember ever buying a full game, like 95% of the time. It was just like a demo, right?

You just the game, yeah. Yeah, you get the demo, you could play it for a few hours. You just replay it and replay it, and replay it. You tell your friends that you beat the game. Because that's how, I mean, that's how arcade games were, too. You would just replay the first few levels. Because you couldn't beat it. You'd run out of quarters.

And I have me, like, flashbacks now. Some games I played that were, like, just, like, three levels. Wow. Like, I don't think you ever gotten past, like, the first couple levels of, like, Battletoads or, like, the Simpsons arcade game. Like, the beat him up. That game was actually kind of hard. Yeah.

Like, I absolutely love, like, the Metal Slug Arcade games. I don't think I've ever gotten. anywhere near far in those games. Yeah, you just play the first level and you die. They're expensive. They're like, do I really want to spend the money on this? Do it again? I have metal slug on my switch.

Oh, it's a run. Is it good? Great. Yeah, it's fun. 60 FPS? Probably. Because those games ran. If you play them in arcade, they still run like, but, like, they, there's,

the, the NeoGeo. Yeah, yeah, the NeoGeo cabinets. Like, I don't think they had enough. RAM or whatever or like processing power to run those games but like every now then you get some really bad slowdown those games It's kind of like the hallmark of this old really high quality Sprite S&K games. It was just the really but frame rate. Yeah, you play BroForce? I have nots. I don't play beat emups anymore kind of like a metal slug I kind of want to play a river city girls though or whatever that one it's called all right Let's see here. Let's your honk. Are any plans on making more nzicc peripherals

Yeah, eventually we'll make everything Listen to the last 20 podcasts Sorry, this is episode 24 So listen to the last 23 podcasts And find your answer there Thick Milk, who us your favorite mod Me There you go

That's why he's here That's easy Bugsie, are you planning on having a third kit? No, we're done You're done Not medically, but we're done So there's a chance Yeah, I mean

I'm sure if you have two kids It's going to be very hard to want a third Especially like having two like together It must be really hard Yeah so if you have one kid first And then you have twins Parents are usually good If you have twins first

That's usually where it stops Yeah and it's people don't realize two kids Apart from being hard work It's also really expensive Yeah It's like not cheap to have a kid And that's like a downside I guess But they're so darn cute

Right It's a downside Yeah you don't realize how expensive it is so you have one because you know people tell you you know it's expensive to have a kid but yeah i mean especially i think when they're really really young like i remember buying formula like every three days and i'm just like why does this cost 40 dollars just adds up so quick it's the most expensive entertainment service that i subscribe to yeah it's children yeah box of diapers like $60.

It's crazy. Did you want boys or when you guys are trying for a kid? We wanted one of each, but you know, you can't make that happen without adoption. You can trade. I'll trade you one. I used to offer up one as a spare. Just in case something happens the other one. Do they have a similar or different personalities?

They're fairly similar and they're very identical in looks. Do you dress them the same? So before they were born, we would say no, because we don't want to be those parents. And now you're that parent. And then we wear those parents for a while. But now we let them pick out their own clothes. And like one out of ten times, they'll pick the same shirt. How do you tell them apart?

Not very easily. Do you have any birth marks? One has a mole in his cheek, but it's pretty small. And it's way over on the side. So if I'm looking directly at him, I can't see it. They have different voices. Like, I can tell from that. my wife can look at him from like any angle and know who they are oh really

yeah numbers on their forehead I just call them boy boy come here boy so here's a question have you ever been afraid of the possibility that maybe at one point you mixed up one kid for the other and like just they just never knew or realized and now that kid is the other one I had that thought early on yeah but I think we we kept it pretty good because like when their babies like they'll look like the same little wrinkly alien right so what if you mix one up I remember when when When my daughter was born, my mom told me, she always kept telling me, as soon as she's born, don't take your eyes off of her. And as soon as you can, try to find some sort of like identifying feature because it happened.

You know, kids get mixed up at hospitals and stuff. So I remember, like, I was super paranoid about that and never take my eyes off her. And then kind of like Alan, like I noticed she had like this very tiny little birthmark on her on her hand. So I was like, all right, finally found something. Take her away. We're good. The inspection is complete. Yeah, but like, I think they'd be the scariest thing when you have twins, right?

And like, you don't know, like, maybe like one day, you know, when they're young and they haven't, like, form like a personality yet. And they don't know what their name is. Like, the other one could be the other one. But then again, it doesn't really matter, right, if you think about it hard enough. Yeah, at the beginning, it's interchangible. Yeah. It seems like it's worth having twins just for the Halloween costumes, right?

Probably some good opportunities there. Yeah, we did Batman and Superman one year. Batman and Robin, man. Make one of them feel lesser than the other. Give him an inferiority complex. Oh, it's a good question right now that I'm going to ask right away because it's relevant. Jeff Gorn wants to know. Did you ever wonder if you were switched at the hospital when your daughter was born puppy?

And you're a whole new puppy. All the time. All the time. You're going to flipping the script on it. All right. Next question is thanks for impending stuff mods. Appreciate it. is NXC sweatpants

is going to be a level 30 reward listen to the last 50 podcasts go into the future and listen to the last 50 podcast to get that answer or go into the future and stop breaking rules exactly

got them got them NSC E-sports team listen to the last 15 podcasts and you'll get that answer it's an 80,000 90,000 person e-sports team they're all right there in the Discord

technically it's re-sports team but just start winning and then you can be on the team ask a mom ZXT or Amanda and she'll add you to the MZX team Long Loss Sun is it annoying that I DM you guys so much

No I never get any DM you from Yeah this this morning I talked to Long Loss Sun every single day And I'm not going to say he's annoying He's definitely not annoying I do I do enjoy talking to him But out of principle I have to give him a hard time

Because it's some of the stuff he does it and asks me It's kind of funny but Like this morning he messaged me he says, do you realize I've sent you 3,465 direct messages? Yes, of course. I count every single one of them. How could I? I just like, yeah.

No, so no, long loss, and you don't annoy me. Muffin, higher level rewards? Listen to the last podcast. Lesser Hunk, level 100 award. I think we should do something for level 100. Hold on. Hold on. I have one more tidbit about Long Lasson.

Okay, here. So this morning, he goes, is your phone at 7%? because mine's at 7%. And if it's at 7%, that means they're the same. And I looked at my phone, and it was 7%. I was like, is this guy watching me? So let me post a screenshot of that,

actually, because I was actually tripping out. I was like, how did he know that? I just posted a screenshot of it. You probably posted like a screenshot or something somewhere, and then he saw it. I don't know. I didn't. I didn't.

It was like right when I looked at the, time. I was just like... Why is your phone at 7% when you wake up? Why don't you charge it when you sleep? I very rarely charge my phone. I just let it die and then I charge it. That's why I can't get a hold of you sometimes.

All right. I'm hack my phone. I am long lost son. I've been talking to myself this whole time. Atlas is Fontaine. Let's see. Why haven't we still went 30 days without a ban or mute or worn? Because you can't go one day.

What makes you think you're going to go 30? Got them. What is your favorite server other than NZXT? Alan. That one's for you. Yeah, that one's an easy one. Ninja. Ninja's Discord.

Trouds Discord. Ooh. What's that? Internet Dad Discord. Oh, snap. Dad Discord stickers. I know where this is going. It's going to go right on this podcast wall.

Yes, sir. Dark Destiny, did you ever play Frost Punk? I did and I got bored of it. What do you do on the Internet? Discord. You win stuff. So if we want to get away from the questions, I have just hundreds of Steam keys. Why? I just get from sources.

What the heck? Don't ask questions, Dennis. Don't ask questions. You don't want the answer to. Yeah, you should drop a link to your server in the chat, man. We can join. Being old and having contacts, just being around hanging on the internet. So I just needed a place to give them away because I'm never going to play to them.

Do you want to drop a link? Yeah, that's fine. For what? For the Dead Discord? He does, the bulletin board every now and then. Yeah, just go look at the bulletin board because nobody ever does. How about that? And people ask me, oh, how can I get my Twitch added to the bull and the board?

I'm like, if... Step one, read the pins. Yeah, step one, read the pins. Yeah. But number two, if that actually worked and helped grow your stream, then Astro would be like a millionaire by now and he would have quit the server to be a big streamer boy. But y'all don't support. so what are you asking?

I love this design, by the way. Yes, it's funny. I actually do support streamers that post on the Litton board. I've been a while, but when I first joined anytime I saw a link, if they were live when I clicked on it,

and they were an affiliate, give them a follow, drop 100 bits. Hashtag just add things? I do the same thing, but differently, like, if I see someone, and now I'm going to do this after I say this, but like if someone randomly says, like if people start spamming,

like, NetTree emotes, And then I see someone go, oh, man, I wish I had nitro. Like, I'll just DM him a Nitro code. But I think it's cool that, you know, us dads kind of look out for the kids out there. Yeah, yeah. That's our duty, man. Alan's always a my stream. Everyone's going to be like, I don't, no one watches my stream and I don't have Nitro.

No one watches my stream and they don't have Nitro. Speaking of which, if you guys have Nitros, they extended the Nitro grandfather plan for the 5-4-89. They're ending that soon. be hitting up Ivan for some Metro again because I'm paying for it. So, Alan, you said that you've been around. Like, what have you seen in your days as a dad? Any good stories? Any good tech stories?

Tech stories? Yeah. So the high school that I went to had about 3,000 students in it. One IT guy. And so he would hit up the, we had, like, computer, like, tech classes. And so I was one of a few people that we would go on like help desk runs or people would, he would have a list of things that he couldn't get to. And one of the things was a teacher was trying to install some software in the in-school suspension computer. And I go in there and the computer was probably older than I was.

And she had put the install CD into the five and a quarter drive. What a new. Oh my God. Who would do that? What an idiot. So the, uh, he's confused all the kids. Yeah. So you don't have to Google it. Five and a quarter was the older floppy drives. And they were the ones that were actually floppy in case you've ever found a relic in your parents' basement. And you thought, hey, this site icon isn't floppy. There you go. That's your knowledge for the day. Thanks, dad. Thanks. There's a, see.

Munzi of this. I might kill everybody and make them angry. Here we go. Quarter inch or three and a half inch disk drive. Floppy disk drive. Floppy disk get floppy disk disk. Floppy disk get floppy disk. Disgats.

5 and a quarter inch floppy disk. Double density disk get. Discette. High density disc get. Low density disk drive. Double density disc get. High density drive. Double density disc gets.

high density discets, smaller floppy discets, three and a half inch floppy discets. A low density disc drive, double density discets, high density disc drive low and high density. In each one of those discs has like five megabytes of storage. Yeah, it's like super low. I remember before CDs, well, CDs are kind of useless for like actually transferring data back and forth

when I was a kid. This is like right before USB drives. We would put our like essays on like floppy drives and bringing in it. They would never work. Because the school had one version of, like, Word, and then I had one version of Word, and everyone else had a different version of Word.

Yeah. That's how I learned how to save for, like, Word 98 or something. Yeah. It's like, this will work. And I remember they would sell accessories for your desk just to store disk. You would have to have, like, a filing cabinet for these things. There's, like so many disks for everything. And then he's a lot of them.

Yeah. Because he does taxes. So he uses store, like, customer information or client information and with these floppy drives, they can boot them back up and go back into their tax records when they came back to next year. So we have these giant, like,

just boxes of floppies with all these safe documents. Each one has, like, a paragraph. Yeah. Ch are using some nasty stuff on there. Yeah. Okay. Next question is,

Zeno, are you going to sell your razor headphones and replace them with NZXT ones now that you have tired of them out? Yes. I've got my 20 bucks ready to give Dennis for a pre-order. I think that was the system. Slip them some cash.

But damn, these are, I'm wearing them right now. I'd already planned on pre-ordering, but now that I've got a nice little demo, I'll definitely be picking them up. What are the thoughts on them, by the way? They're nice and comfortable. I'm going to, I'll get them for the office, but for home, I don't have to wait for the RGB USB version.

I'm not very good at FPS game, so I knew that benefit. Speaking of the office, what was your thoughts of the office tour? Nice, nice and clean. It's like a hospital, right? No, you can, it's, you can tell it's a work in progress. Like, you guys have started doing your own thing in here. You didn't just, like, hire some designer to come in and put in furniture in place and hang some art on the walls and things like that.

How about the warehouse? All those weed posters. You need a mount of fan. on the wall like right behind it so they're just flapping the whole time waving like flags now we we had to keep the weaves at a certain temperature and camp some saw a fan in there you have your refrigerator first is there a time when everyone's when everyone's mute and band getting removed so basically asking if we're going to wipe the logs no comment you're no comment there will be a time in the mute's end because they have a timer

Thanks, Dad. Is there going to be an NZX team of the board with four out of three, four slash three pin RGB headers and built in RGB? Asking the wrong people. Yeah, what? When does the podcast start? About an hour ago. Thanks.

On the son. N60 has the YouTube channel. Are you going to start uploading frequently about NZXT things, blog style, quote unquote. Probably not because we are not personalities. Big facts. Yeah, I don't want to be, or I don't want me and Dennis to be like the next vloggers. Yeah, I don't know if I want to do that. We're influencers, Dennis.

Yay, let's go influence some people. Buy my streamer merch. Pick up my underwear. No, steamer merch. Steamer merch. Yeah. No one noticed that. Usually there's a select few people in the server who will like meticulously check every single thing,

every single pin, every announcement, and they'll call you out if you made a, if you made a spelling error or grammatical error. And I posted a question in the poll questions channel, or NCC questions now, I forget what it's called now. Do you change the name? Question ZXT. Yeah, questions ZXT channel. And I asked, do you buy steamer merch and nobody said anything? So that was funny. Because like, just like naturally, because I type too fast, faster than I can, like, I type faster than I think. Or I think faster than I type. or the other and I always like just misspell things like steamer streamer stuff like that but no one said anything so yeah baby other wants to know what is the texas state motto

you know everything about texas yeah Texas boy so I used to know it just because I don't know if other states are like this in texas you have texas history like in middle school it's like you take u.s history let me the cell phone sorry go on We're good? Yeah. So, world history, U.S. history. You take a specific year-long Texas history class. Uh-huh.

And so there are tests like state bird, state motto. Is the history book bigger than the other books? It is pretty. It's a good size. It also doubles as a belt buckle. My favorite, like, I love how Texas has this flag. It's like, the thing that says, come and take it. Yep.

I love that, that motto. It's like, yeah, come and take my flag. All right. I found, I found, so while he's looking up for the Texas motto, I have the Texas National or the state anthem right here. Those who know or don't know. Walker, Texas Walker, Texas Ranger. Oh, the state motto of Texas is friendship.

Really? I don't remember that. I feel like everything about Texas that I've heard, everything's bigger. you know, side of the alamo, you know, how they just see all these,

I don't know. Friendship is not what I would think. The motto is, Yeehaw. Youha partner. So for those we don't know, Walker, Texas Ranger was a show

that was on in the, what, mid, early 90s. And it featured a lot of actors, but most notably, Chuck Norris, those sorts of all those memes

way back in the day I didn't want to remember. Do you like country music? Not too much. I've been to Chuck Norris's house, though. Not inside it, just kind of driving past it.

You don't go to Chuck Norse's house Chuck Norse's house comes to you. I remember those. I'm not a huge country fan, but there's an old country singer that I absolutely just love his voice, Marty Robbins. You ever heard that guy?

The song Big Iron. He should play that song, Dennis. That's a good Texas song up there. I'm picking up right now. Big Iron. Marty Robbins, Big Iron. Put on your cowboy hats, folks. Texas Red.

To the town of our free who rode a stranger one fine day. Allen's like Hardly spoke to folks around him Didn't have too much to say Man it says I completely forgot how terrible Chuck Norse jokes were They were really bad

I want to be a cowboy baby Big Iron on his hip Big Iron on his hip Yeah I love this guy's voice man It was early in the morning When he rode into the town

He came riding From the south side Slowly looking all around I'm jemmer dude Alan put your gun away Thank you Whoa wow Alan what are you doing

Alan put the gun down You put it on boots Where'd that hat come from? Oh my god Okay That was nice Next one is Can we ban anime

We can do anything We should just Reading in the channel To ban anime Did they hashtag it Or did they just mean All of Anime Just asked all of anime

Okay. What's your favorite anime, by the way? Do you watch anime? So I'm going to go. I'm going to get super weepy here. All right. Let me get out of here. Hold on. I'm going to say, like the cloud, like the wind. I think I know that one. Everybody's going to look up. I'm looking up right now. No, I don't know. I don't know.

Can you stop chewing tobacco in here, please? Yeah. Thank you. That belt buckle is a little too big. It's kind of obscene. if you want taking it off that would be great thank you. Okay, cool. Good answer. What's your favorite games ever, I guess? He said what's your favorite games?

Like Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2? Final Fantasy Tactics. Oh. Okay. Why? Why? Why? Why?

I like all the tactics genre somewhat, but for whatever reason I just really grabbed onto that one. That's a fun game. Are you kind of X-com? Not really. I'll think anyone is. Mario Rabbids. It's a good game too. Have you actually played Mario Rabbids yet?

I have not. It's really good. If you feel like Tactics games, it's actually pretty fun. Dennis got it for me for Christmas. Yeah, like kind of sideways, but I technically did. Jeff Gordon wants to know, or sorry, Lister Honk wants to know, is Ivan ZXT's Pro Skater Coming? Yes, my game's called Skate Bird.

bite now at your local game shop What does that game come about by the way? Next year It's sorry Well it is next year It is sometime to end this year I think is wow Yeah it's super late

I think August or something Late 2020 So the only Word on that Jeff wants to know Jeff Gortt wants to know If you could delete any popular video game Which one would you delete

League of Legends I'm over it to die next popular video game next game guys got hungry all of a sudden I don't really hate any video game because I every video game makes gaming a better place dang it's just the people that make it worse that's a dad that's a dad that's a dad that's a dad that that's a dad that just write that down please we're gonna tweet that later yes that answer just your job for today yeah I'm not I agree I I don't even though I don't play every game or like every game I wouldn't delete

game because I know people love games. Even if there's like one person playing a game, you shouldn't delete it. Let that person be happy with that game. And if you don't like a game, don't play it. No one in chat said you're Fortnite. It's Fortnite, Fortnite, Fortnite, Fortnite. I mean, if you don't like Fortnite, cool, don't play it. I mean, I don't like Fortnite.

I don't play it, but I wouldn't delete it. I love Fortnite. It's the best. I play every single day. If you don't like Fortnite, you're no friend of mine. I installed it, played a few rounds, went to bed, woke up the next morning and my computer was dead. That is the true story?

Yeah. Jesus. And that's why he joined the Ninja giveaway. You're a new PC because he's so important night. I want to play Fortnite. And that led you to us. Really, I only needed the new hard drive, but I used that as an excuse to build an NPC. That's how you do it.

Dark Destiny, Dan, do I annoy you is the better question. No, no one annoys me. I just like messing with you. The more you DM me, the more I'm going to mess with you. So that's how it works. If you just say hi every now and then, cool. But if you're constantly DMing me, then I'm going to take it as an opportunity that you like the abuse. And I'm going to keep doing it.

Ivan, do you enjoy the flower name? It says Caro. I love the flowers name. I want everyone to have flowers in their names. Flowers, to me, are, they make me happy. And here's a fun fact. I actually, I very frequently just buy flowers at the grocery store and just put it in all around my house. Because I love the look of flowers and how they smell and stuff.

I do have a flavor flower. What is it? Gladiolas. What's a gladiola? They're like a long and skinny green. Google it. So like every flower? Long, skinny green.

Gabiola? Gladiola. Gladiola. They're like, they're like, gladi-gladiola. Oh, okay, yeah, yeah. I've seen these before. I've seen things. Yeah, they're nice.

And they're cheap. You can get like a dozen of them for like five bucks. And they're really. really spruce up the room, give you some good oxygen going in there. Ladies like them, right? Well, my wife and daughter do. Jeff wants to know of Magic the Gathering, Dungeons of Dragons and Warhammer, which is the nerdiest. I would say Warhammer.

There's something extra nerdy about having to paint miniatures for your fake art. That's true. I don't even know that. Yeah, it was D&D is what we would make fun of to feel better as our nerd group was cooler. Right. So you could look down on the D&D guys because we were just gamers. Right. Just gamers.

This was playing Dungeons and Dragons. Momoa. What type of phones do you use? I have two phones. Yeah. One is a pixel and one's an iPhone 8. Which one do you like more? Pixel.

Why? Because that's my personal phone. I have a pixel myself. Yeah, I just like how it runs. And for as good as it is, it was fairly cheap. Right. Pixel Gang. That's what I heard.

Why an iPhone for work? Is it just what the company issued and the most simple to use? Yeah, so we were 100% iPhone in the office just so that everybody was even and that's what most people wanted anyway. It just works. It just works.

And then we kind of loosened it up and like three people got Android phones. Dun, done, done. And it's just not as easy to maintain everything. They ruined everything, right? With their green bubbles instead of having blue bubbles. I heard that a lot of, a lot of IT companies or a lot of IT people issue iPhone

just because it's easier to like servers and stuff like that. Because if you go Android, you have like a million different manufacturers and all kinds of stuff and security updates aren't as quick. But that's what makes the pixels so good is that it's made by Google. Right. So it's basically like having an iPhone Android, I guess, right?

It's all like just super easy and it just works. All right. Princess Cuddle wants to know. Ivan, are you ever going to upload a video of your NZT TikTok? No, but we did make a story that we highlighted on our Instagram called NZX TikTok. It has exactly one video. That's not you, man. You're the one that wanted the TikTok.

And also, I did a poll on the server recently on Question ZXT. Yeah. And I asked if people are using TikTok and no one's using TikTok. There's like five people, so no. I think what it is is the people in our Discord are the, the like I'm going to say

y'all y'all are heck an elitist I don't watch tictox I don't play fortnight but I think the majority of people

are like on that stuff right no I literally have the results here the majority of people who aren't in the server so 29 people said they do

and 144 said they don't morning conier but 100 people said they do you Snapchat and 69 don't And when I asked for Facebook, 35 said they do and 107, they said they don't. Yikes.

Twitter 98 said they do, 21, don't. Instagram, 94, yes, 22, no. So, I mean, if the majority of our community was on TikTok, then we probably have a TikTok. But it's literally Dennis and like five people on the server. And it's all bangers. Also, Ivan, Dan, and Alan, do you think I should make more wallpapers? Yes, money. Make more wallpapers.

Absolutely. Don't stop. B. Does Alan have two phones? He does. One for the plug and one for the load. I technically have like eight phones, but only two of them work. Really?

What? I just have a bunch of spare phones. That's a lot. Burner phones. When I used to her phones, I would get phones in for like testing. So like we always have the latest phone in our pocket when we walk into a store as a LG representative. And I have a lot of them left over that we can't do anything with because they're locked by the carrier. and they won't let me unlock them.

I just thought it was something funny that Cudel pointed out. It's funny because when we post on Facebook, Alan's always the first guy to comment. Always the first guy. It's funny. Yeah, it is. And we actually experiment a lot on Facebook. Just try to, like, you know, trigger people on there sometimes.

And it's funny when we post a meme on there, and it's like, Alan's the very first person. What did you think of the real gamers don't watch anime meme that they post it on Facebook? I enjoy them because I don't get offended. by anything like that. I like to see people rage. The guy that

that helped come up at that was here yesterday. Yeah, our intern. Mike the intern, you missed him unfortunately. You know what we should have done is just gone to your house and brought pizza and just chilled out of, yeah. Even thinking about that. Malti wants to know.

Alan, what server manufacturer do you prefer? Server manufacturer? I always had the Discord. Wow. Dell and HP are both fine for me. Never had any issues with either one of them. Dude, we're getting with Dell. Jeff wants to know,

Poppy, big art on his hip. Is that a reference to your hip replacement? Boomer. Wow. Low blow, dude. My mother-in-law just literally had that answer. Does that happen? Was it her hip?

Yeah. I think, I mean, honestly, I didn't really want to ask too many questions, to be honest because it's just you know but yeah my my mother-in-law just had a surgery yesterday which is why I wasn't at work because she she had to get some sort of surgery like that so low blow low blow Jeff too soon I'm gonna tell my mother I'm in trouble uh yeah fat brain for Alan favorite n-s-d-cd product aperture M wow that's taking it back yeah I'm like mesh front baby yeah get out give me back that nibbler sticker um least favorite nxxie product aperture m so for those who don't know what is the aperture m is a card reader

when in a drive bay back when drive bay is where a thing on the front of your case i think that came out in 2011 or 12 somewhere around there that's going back it's also when i got my first cracking Oh, Crackin X, like, one series, like a, or no, zero series. Yeah, like the 30 or 40. It's called Cracken, right? There's no X or whatever on it. They did. It was just like the zero series.

It was like Cracken X, 30, X 40. And it went to like 31, 41, and then 42, et cetera. That's when I got my cam shirt. Oh, I had the pins. Cam Founder, y'all. Damn pins, huh? We should do more pins. Yeah, back in those days, there was a cam.

founder shirts and pinned in like your little USB. I've got the couple. I think I sent one to glyph. I have to have a couple. You are a boomer. Very big boomer. Favorite NXT reward. Favorite reward?

Yeah. Being on the podcast. Yeah. Got them. Ooh. Get moated. Okay. I think that's pretty much it.

Do you have any questions for me and Ivan? Any burning, burning questions? Were the people listening? I thought of something. earlier but no I can't remember what it is because it's good we can wait I'm not in rush sit in silence podcast gold I'm down with that

sounds like an NPR podcast now hello welcome to the BBC World Service my name is Dem ZXT with me today we have Ivan to talk about the crisis in the server can we have a this Andy's favorite part of the podcast while we wait for I've for for Alan to get his question ready we listen to some Tony Hawk Pro Skater

soundtrack Alan Alan is skanking right now I've seen I've seen Goldfinger like five times Oh really? Are you a fan of ska? What's your opinion on ska? I always liked it

I always thought scahl was like Punk for like For band geeks For band geeks yeah I mean it is but I'm good with it I bet you scob will make a comeback I can hope it does I'm ready for a dude

I'm ready for my for my for my uh band slipons with a checker board There's a checkers on it. I don't know the name of his YouTube channel, but there's one guy that he does Scott covers of like modern songs. Like look up like a. And he plays all the instruments. And he plays all the instruments by himself.

He's awesome. Look up like a Billy I lash, Billy eyelash Scott cover. This guy is awesome. The Scott 2 Network? Yeah, that guy. Oh, this is the guy who did the Wii shop one that we played. This guy's awesome. Scott kids are always so weird.

I can skank to this right here. Y'all ready to skank? Skank Nation coming at you. Oh my God, I hate this so much. That's awesome. Makes me mad. For one guy to do all this by himself, it's awesome. So we just link the photo of the Aperture M, by the way.

Cosimo looks hideous. But dry base used to be a thing. Like, I know I had a buddy who had like audio controls on his dry bay and like, had like, temperature readouts on his dry bay. I was like, man, it looks so sick. Y'all was all this information in front of your case. I don't like this at all. Makes me angry.

Let's bump it up I This to me See, I love this Duh That's awesome This to me Sounds better than the Billy

eyelash song Definitely better Oh Break you down All right cool Alan do you listen to the podcast I'm sure you do. You're a boomer, right? Yeah, listen to podcasts.

What's the number of your favorite podcast right now? So right now I'm sad that Harmontown ended. I just finished listening to that one. That's the guy who made a Rick and Morty and created. Yeah, there's another guy, right? There's two dudes. Yeah, one of the, it was an improv? What was the podcast about?

Nothing. Like this one. Yeah, just just chilling and talking. Those are the best ones. Yeah. I think so, you know, just like just listen to people where to talk about whatever. Actually, I used to think the same until I started doing a podcast about nothing and now I hate listening to

so now I really talk about anything I enjoy I enjoy listening to podcasts about like true crime some really good ones out there which is he like those well obviously cereal if you guys haven't heard of one yeah the first season is awesome yeah but uh

super good let's go my favorite recent one that I listen to is this one called dirty John it's really good so they call me I know it's about it's about this guy this guy named John who just like here in orange County. Yeah. He just like swindled all these people like just out of millions of dollars.

Have you listened to the Lisa Simpson one? No. What's that one? So the lady that does the voice for Lisa has a true crime podcast that she does and her natural speaking voice is pretty much just like Lisa at age 30. That's weird. I don't like that. Just imagine her like presenting on that on that board or whatever. Here's a little question here. Jeff wants to know what's the most intense crime you think you can get away with uh stick around long enough and you'll find out Jeff or you won't find out depending on what the crime it is unless everyone thinks they're smart enough to get away with it second question what's the most intense crime you got away with I have gotten away with you know I actually read that someone somewhere that like the average person commits like

like I forgot the number but it's like a lot of crime like everyday people commit crimes without knowing it. There's like so many stupid laws, you know. I don't know, probably mostly driving. I can't say mine. Uh-oh. I can't say mine or else I'd have to do the same thing that was the crime.

Mine was, I went to this old relic called Circuit City. Those who don't know, is a store that sold electronics. And I really wanted the game Half-Life too. So I did this like spur of the moment. I wasn't even planned out. I went there and looked the box like, man, it really would be cool to have half like two. So what I did is I took the box and I put it in like one of the one of the stands. What do you call it the displays? And I stuck my hand in and I ripped out the CD key from it. So I didn't steal anything. I just ripped out the CD key because I knew what was really important aren't the discs. And it's not the box. It's not the manual. It's the license.

it's the key so I took that key and put my pocket and went home and then I had a friend take my Steam account and you put the disc because you send me the disc to verify you have the game for some reason because this is like you know 2000 or whatever and they didn't know how that stuff worked and so I got my copy of Half Life it's a very boring crime I mean it's I said what's the most intense crime that's not saying I'm out here living like a you know life of danger I'll tell you the most crazy crime I got away with I was like probably 11 or 12 years old and I had a tree house and I had a really cool tree house my dad built this like really like amazing tree house for us we were kids and we live on the

corner in front of an elementary school so I would love going up to that tree house after school got out and it was an olive tree so I would just pull like like raw olives from the tree just chucking at people and then one day there was this kid this girl who annoyed me. She was like, her mom was picking her from school and they read a red light and the girl was sleeping or leaning her head on the window. And I just like perfect opportunity to just throw something at her. And I did.

I just, boom, I nailed her like right in the, like, it was like a direct hit. And then she jumped. And the nice thing I know, the mom just like steps in the gas pedal and like, floors it around the corner. Oh, damn. Parks in my driveway. And I'm like, oh, wow. Like something's going to have.

So I come down from the treehouse and I sneak underneath my dad's truck. And I'm like, imagine a 12-year-old kid just hanging from running that truck. She's knocking on my door and said, someone in your back. My mom opens the door and the lady's like, someone in your backyard threw something at my daughter. My mom goes, no, my son's up in his room. What are you talking about? I'll get him right now. And my mom goes up to the room and obviously I'm not there.

So when the lady is like, I'm going to call the police. So she calls the police. Police come. They look in the backyard. They look over the house. They don't find me. And then so, yeah, I got off. And then as soon as the cop and the lady left, I come out and go inside my house.

And my mom's just like, you ever do that again? I'm going to call the police myself. And it never happened again. But yeah, I got it. I did get away with it. Nice. Throwing all of us at people. Add some lady who looked across from me, like, accuse me of taking a hose and

sticking it in her dad's BMW with leather interior and like turn the hose on and I'm like why the heck would I ever do that like I'm literally playing video games all day I'm trying to get us you trying to get in on the Starcraft you know use her map settings and this lady's like she knocks on my door and you know like no one's answering so okay open the door and she's like hey can talk to your mom I'm like uh I'm like okay and like as I was walking by she's like she the way he's like walking I can tell and I'm like what are you talking about so it's like like you know bring my mom out or my dad and they start talking and she's like screaming at him and she's looking at me and like i like 100% like have no recollection of ever doing anything like this or playing with any stupid hose or

anything but she kept saying that i did it and that for a minute i was like wait maybe i did i just don't remember i was afraid that i did something and now she's an admin actually there is um a funny crime that happens to dennis like and i and i i want to commit this crime against dennis as well like someone in his neighborhood he keeps messing with his license plate oh yeah okay so so so like um i've i even mentioned that my license plate looks like super screwed up on the front of my car because it's just stuck to the front there's no like you know bracket or whatever that holds it is just sitting there it's like one day and i don't know like how long it's been going on when i first when i first noticed it but

i'm looking at front of my car and there's literally my license plate is bent at the edges like on the sides forward someone just like folds it in half yeah it's like rolled it up and i'm like Why would somebody do this? So I don't grab with my hands, just kick it, you know, so it's kind of flat. So, you know, if the cop sees it, they just, they can see it or whatever. But then, like, I noticed that it kept happening. And this is random. It's really, really intermittent.

Like, it doesn't happen every day, every week. It's like, I'll be fine. And then they strike again to bend my license plate. What if I told you that was the biggest cram I ever got away with was bending your license plate? It was actually you? Yeah. Seriously? I was like, dude, like, I always know who is doing it.

That's the biggest thing. Every time I see your car, though, I just want to bend that thing in half like a taco. No, like, me too, because I see it. And I'm like, what's already screwed up? You know? It's like, it's like, when you have a scab and you just want to like just pick at it because it's there. It's like, it's one of those. So I actually have filled up a car before.

Not with water. When the hose. Yeah. But a place I worked in high school, it was right after I started working there, they had this project that I had finished. It was a, they did like marketing and stuff. Right. But so we had to make these things called snowman poop.

It was for a company's holiday party. And we just filled up little baggies with mini marshmallows. Oh, yeah, yeah. And at the end, we had four or five, 10 pound bags of big, like tiny marshmallows. Yeah. And there's like, Alan, you're a kid. You eat marshmallows. Go take these home with you.

So I put them in the truck in my car. And we, a bunch of friends of mine, we ate as many as we could and got tired of it. They're like, okay, what can we do with this? And there was another guy. who wasn't there that night because he was just home sleeping. He figured he had to get up early the next day for work. He had a Fierro. He never put the top on the car.

So he poured about 30 pounds of marshmallows into the two seats of his car. Turns out he was sick, didn't go to work the next day. And it was the summer in Texas. So all the marshmallows melted while he was just inside sleeping. Oh, my God. And he never talked to us again. Really? Yeah, that's kind of messed up, actually.

Wow, we're going to bring the podcast down. Yeah, dude. Well, usually he got up early because he worked at a grocery store and he'd be there at like 6 a.m. He woke up and worked in the butchers. So he's like, oh, yeah, he'll just get up and have to take him all out, not thinking that they would melt and just ruin. Who put all this snowman pooping here? Frosty struck again. He's pooping everywhere.

That's nuts. Alan, do you think we're living in a simulation? Probably. Good answer. Are you the system administrator of the simulation? It's possible. He's tech support for the simulation. It is possible.

I'm QA. That's why I'm in here. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Did he pass the test? His biggest crime was destroying the simulation. He's one who's coding my license plate to be bent. No one's doing it.

He's just changing the code. He learned coding specifically so he can bend my license plate in the simulation. All right. I think we should call it because we went a little bit over time, but we also did start a little bit late because people were complaining. Yeah, thank you, Alan, for making the trip to the office, coming on the podcast, giving us some stickers, hanging out, and hopefully you'll be on here again. Yeah, it's been fun.

You guys ready for some lunch? Well, I can't. Again? Well, you know why, but yeah. I know. You guys should definitely go. All right. Well, with that, let me talk about a little bit.

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