NZXT PODCAST - #029 - Andy

Episode Date: February 13, 2020

This week on the podcast Denis and Ivan are joined by NZXT’s Associate PR Manager: Andy! The crew discuss raising Ivan’s child, why pitchers don’t matter, and slapping bass. Follow Andy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrSlyGuyInDaSky Listen live to the NZXT CLUB CAST on our Discord server at discord.gg/nzxt every Thursday at 10AM PT! If you enjoy the podcast, please consider leaving a positive review on your platform of choice Thanks to Bven#6161 for the artwork!

That was wonderful, Andy. Yeah. Hello, welcome, everyone, to episode 29 of the NXT Clubcast, the official podcast of the NXT community. This podcast was 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. So with me as always is Ivan. Slap that bass. Today's special guest is NZXT's PR manager, Andy.

Hey? How's it going? It's going good. Yeah? Yeah. How are you like playing that bass? It's been a while and... It's been a while.

Yeah. And, uh... It's literally been like an hour. When's the last thing you played that thing? Before yesterday? Before today or yesterday. Like a year ago. Wow.

I know. Got yourself a bass slapper? Slap of the bass? That's a long time. It doesn't say I'm good. It just says I slap. Dang, that's why. Do you want to put your base down, by the way?

No, I'll hold it. I'll unplug it. Hold us the entire time. There's no room in here. Give us all sign-filled. That's beyond my purview. I remember Andy's first day of work so vividly. Apart from him telling me that he sits like a moron,

I do. I told him, I said, hey, man, I followed you on Twitter, and I saw that you in your bio that you play bass. Andy, stop playing your bass, dude. Put it away. What are you doing? It comes to me, man. Andy, come on, man.

We're trying to do a podcast here. Stop playing that bass. I'm like, so, man, what kind of base you got? And you got, oh, I got an epiphone jazz master, I think. Thunderbird. Thunderbird. There's a bird on it. Yeah.

And then, oh, that's pretty cool. How long you've been playing? And he's like, well, I don't really play that much, you know. Then why do you call yourself a bass slapper? It's my favorite instrument. It's an aspirational thing. Yeah. Can't call yourself a bass slapper if you technically don't slap the bass.

I mean, you saw me attempt. I mean, it doesn't say I'm good or not. It just says I slap bass. Yeah. But thank you for being on the podcast, Andy. Yeah. I'm always happy to be on. I know you are.

You're single-handedly the person who has requested to be on here the most. Every week, Andy offers his services for the podcast. And every week we tell him no. Not because we don't want him on here, but because. To give other people. Yeah, we want to have everyone on here. So this is Andy's second appearance. First time in the real studio, though.

That's true. First time in the last time he was in the foster community room where we used to record the podcast. So now we do it here. This is a nicer room, but that room would have been better for me playing the bass. Oh, for sure. Yeah, I've been hitting the wall quite frequently. You know, the least you could have done is like clean your base too. I don't have the material.

Like, it hangs next. Microfiber cloth, dude. Just microfiber that sucker up. If it says, I thrive in chaos. And dust is chaos. Andy messaged me around midnight. You have a guitar tuner? My minute.

M.I.A. I told them no, but there's an app for that. Yeah, that's literally how I tune my guitar. Every time I decide to pick it up every like four or five months is I just tune it with my phone. The problem is the e-string is too low for microphones. Yeah, that's the problem. That's the problem. That happens all the time.

Andy is probably the person who uses Siri the most. He's constantly talking to Siri. She's my best friend. Exactly. So when he asked me if I had a guitar tuner, I just told him to ask his watch. And I, and you did. And your watch said, here you go. Ask you.

That's what I said. Ask Ivan. Hey, Siri, how do I tune my guitar? Ask Ivan. Check it out. Check it out. Thanks, Siri. Appreciate it. So how are you feeling, Andy? How's everything going right now?

It's going good. It's been busy. We've had a lot of announcements in the past month. So I've been handling that, just, you know, running with your head cut off. That's usually how it happens. So we haven't had you on the podcast in a little bit. We're episode 29 now, and we had them like on episode three or four or something like really early on. I think episode five actually. Episode five, something like that, yeah.

So for those who don't. don't know the one and only Andy, aka Frito Bandito, aka Mr. Slag Guy in the Sky. What do you do here at MZXT, Andy? What do I do? I'm the associate PR manager here. So basically I handle all the media relations, get the press release written. You made it very clear to me the other day that you received a title change. I did.

I'm not PR marketing special. I introduced Andy in an email and then I hit send and like less than five seconds later he comes over to me and you whispers in my ear. What? It's a power move. Yeah. It's like, I'm a title change.

I'm sorry, sir. I'm sorry. Don't let it happen again. When we did, when we did my review for the year, I've been asking me if one of the title change is like, hell no.

Like, I don't want me extra responsibility. I can barely keep up what I'm doing now. Just do what I did. I wasn't, I didn't ask. It was given. But I'm grateful for the title change.

You could have denied it. Like, no. I don't deserve it yet. I want to change my title of intern. to people stop bugging me. It's just deferred to Dennis. That's a good plan, yeah. Just don't do anything ever.

No one expects anything of you if you have like a little expectations, high results. Exactly. If you have like another high rate. People think you're an idiot and then you deserve, like, deliver something average. They're like, wow. What's like, it was like the more like lofty, quote unquote lofty the title, the more you get bugged on LinkedIn.

Like I got an email yesterday. Someone's like, your social media is really great, but do you want to crank it to 11? I'm like, what? Why is mentioning me through LinkedIn? Do you like? I get a lot of LinkedIn messages. Yeah.

I check LinkedIn like once a quarter. If you send me a request, I'll 99% of the time I'll accept it. Because it's about a numbers game there. I actually deny a lot of people on LinkedIn. It makes you feel good. It's like, oh, now you want me? Now you want to talk to me? What's some like random?

It's like aspiring e-sports manager. And I'm like, yeah, sure. Or like their job title was like, broadcaster at Twitch. I'm like, no, you're not. I'm a broadcaster at Twitch So that's what says something I accept every single LinkedIn request Except one that I'm ignoring

I think you know what you're talking about He sent me one too When I was looking at them at LinkedIn I'm like I don't want to be your friend On LinkedIn it's not talking Moving on Is it cuttle? It's not you Andy Yes it's cudd

I don't even know I have an idea who I'm I'm connected with on LinkedIn I have like a thousand I had to make one for a class It's like, all right, everyone's making a LinkedIn today. That sounds exactly like a teacher. For class, where they make you make a LinkedIn. It's a business school.

It's a business network. So we do business things. I dropped out of business school, so I'd have no idea how to run a business. I missed the LinkedIn class. Dennis dropped out of the school that me and Andy graduated from. Twice. I was like, this sucks. Then I went to go do e-sports for a bit.

So Andy, how long have you been in ZXC? year and a half ish at give or take XT you and a halfish that's a long time yeah it feels like yesterday you just started I know it does I feel still kind of new but not at the same time but yeah

you're not I don't consider you a nube anymore you've proven your loyalty yeah I like some other people that we know jump ship no I think after a year you can't be called a nube anymore so at what point are you allowed to leave for another company before you get called a trader or before you no longer a trader

anyone can leave whenever they want at well employment baby yeah sure sure you can get rid of you anytime they want at will employment baby let's go um so andy what's your day to day so you wake up right you wax your mustache you head in your car well i wake up sit in bed for an hour what time do you wake up yeah yeah that's a good question I don't exactly know because I'm not conscious. I'm awake, but I'm not there mentally. Do you set an alarm clock? Five.

You sit your alarm for five? No, five alarms. Oh, wow. I don't want people who do that. I can't mess with people who set up five alarm clocks. You wake up or you don't. I get up. I just lay in bed for like 20 minutes and like read through Twitter and stuff.

I'm not like, it's weird when I'm at in my room when I wake up. I'm dead, but anywhere else, I wake up before my alarm goes on. And then I'm like, alert, like productive. But in my room, I'm just like, ugh. And I yell it. I yell it. I have a Google assistant in my room and a HomePod. Like Google Assistant.

It was free. And it works with my light. What about Siri? I have one, HomePod. You have Siri and have Google. And Alexa, all in his room. I did have an Alexa, but it's not. plugged in because

he needs all three like Siri turn on Alexa Alexa turn on Google I just I think I got a LinkedIn request from Alan right now yeah she just showed up on my watch it's like LinkedIn request let me take a picture of

your watch I can show the server oh it went away because I it's funny because Alan Alan Ivan's making fun of me yesterday because I sent him that screenshot of the LinkedIn request or the LinkedIn message you want to crank your social media to 11 And he's like, what are you reading LinkedIn for?

I get emails on it at my personal account. No, I didn't say that. I said, you make funning for it. No, I said, tell him yes, but only if it's free. And then you said afterwards. Not because you said, I'm the type of guy that does something. And I said, you're the type of guy that checks LinkedIn. That's not of all what I said.

You put in words in my mouth. Let me pull up the chat. Yeah, let's pull up the slack right now. See where it's sad to scroll all the way up. And I kind of don't care anymore. I get a lot of those too, but it's like, do you want to take your affiliate? marketing to 11. Yeah, yeah.

Like I got an email from someone and the title was Kanye West. And I'm like, what? She goes, you've been ignoring my email. So I'm using that to get your attention. Wow. And I'm like. Someone contacted customer support to get a hold of me

because I like social media, whatever, on my Twitter and my LinkedIn. And it was Dom. He's like, hey, some guy is calling for you. I'm like, who the heck's calling for me? Like we didn't have like a office phone number. It's just customer service. And he's like, yeah, this guy from some company who

went to some marketing stuff and I saw they also sent an email too and it's like I'm bumping my email to the top of your inbox I'm like it sounds like the most annoying thing in the world like don't don't do that well I do that for people yeah yeah yeah to who who doesn't media who don't respond who doesn't respond I'm not gonna name names who's out there not responding to Andy's emails a lot of these like me he's been emailing Lyle all the time Lyle from Bitwitz is a really hard man to get a hold of it very hard very hard Kyle Kyle always responds but Lyle you know he just he doesn't check his stuff no he doesn't okay so you wake up you lay in bed for an hour you tell on I tell Siri the first turn on Alexa then

to turn on Google then you tell Alexa to turn on Google to turn on NPR yeah as I didn't NPR to turn on Samsung smart whiz or whatever yeah Bigsby yeah Bigsby whatever it's call forget Biggsby man and then and then what happens then go through the Andes day I wake up. Like, I actually wake up. Okay. And then I get ready. It takes me about 30 minutes. To get ready? That's a personal question, man.

Oh, okay, excuse me. No, I get dressed, take a shower. Wait, wait, wait, you get dressed and you take a shower? Yeah, yeah. Okay, interesting. I'm a never new. There are dozens of us. Then I ate my breakfast. My sister works from home. What do you eat for breakfast?

Yeah, what do you for breakfast, Andy? The people want to know. They're asking right now. What is any for breakfast? 99% of the time. It's a kind breakfast protein chocolate thing. Uh-huh. They're pretty good and it has two bars. So, you know, like, when you eat one, you're like, oh, man, I want another.

And then there's another and you're like, score. Uh-huh. And then, um. So it's like Pop-Tarts. Yeah, I guess. Because there's two in the package. But quote-unquote healthier. Do you eat Pop-Tarts?

No. And do, okay. I don't have one in like 10 years. When, okay. Well, when you did, did you put them in a toaster? just eat them like raw. Because apparently you're supposed to put them in the toaster and I never do that. Toaster strudel, you have to put in the toaster.

Well, it's in the name. Yeah. And also they're like cold. Yeah, they're frozen. Yeah. You mean, you would hurt your teeth. Yeah, you keep them refrigerated. Yeah.

Frozen. There's a question. What's last time you eat in toaster struddle? Serious question. Middle school? You disgust me. Okay, so you eat your two kind bars and what? And a banana.

And a banana? Always a banana. It's a lot of potassium. Yeah. Yeah. Trying to wear those trolley horses. I do get shin splints when I run. Hey, me too, man.

Shin splits gang. That's why I don't run. I just elliptical and lift when I did. I mean, I'm trying to run. But I used to. Sorry? I'm trying to run more. But that's not going well.

We'll get to that. Yeah. We'll get to that later. Okay. So you have your kind bars in your banana. Then what? And also if it's in the refrigerator. I get a, I drink a kombucha in the morning.

What's kombucha? Boch gang. It's good. It's a fermented tea. Uh-huh. It has probiotics. It could get you drunk, you know that. Yeah, these are not an alcoholic one.

So it says. Yeah, so it says. Yeah. Careful, Andy, we have a new policy now. You can't be even job. No, it says it has like 0.001 alcohol. Uh-huh. It's like nothing. Technically, you could get drunk to be drinking up of it.

Yeah. Fast enough. True. You also might get really sick if you drink that much tea, fermented tea, right? Yeah, it's, yeah. But yeah, kombucha. I'm kind of a booch aficionado. Uh-huh.

Booch boys? Oh, yeah. Booch gang, rise up. Yeah. Boch gang, booch gang. That's a good one I thought. Yeah. Then I drive to work.

In the world's smallest car. No, it's... You have the smallest car out of anyone here, I think. I think it does, yeah. Probably. Yeah. Probably. I fit a queen-sized mattress in this car. How?

How? I don't know. On the roof? No, no, inside. That's impossible. My friend, Yogi, the one you've met. I transported, he was moving. You cannot put a queen-size.

I can't even put it a queen-sized mattress in my SUV, man. I'm just more, like, have greater initiative. He drives a Honda fit, by the way, for people who don't know. So I don't know how. It happened. I don't believe you. You have to show us. Andy drives a car for ants.

grab a queen-sized mattress like right now and show us and we'll put it Bring your mattress to work tomorrow Yeah do it I have a full Which is smaller than a queen Yeah So bring that tomorrow

No It should be easy No my mattress is heavy There's no way you I couldn't fit a full in my car And I like doesn't make any sense Look let me Let me tweet at my friend

The one I did Tweet at your friend Hey these guys don't believe me That I fit this whole Queen-sized mattress into my car I don't believe you for a second Andy I'll give him a shout out. I'll do the period thing.

At moves with three S's. Didn't I transport a queen-size mattress in my tiny Honda fit when you moved? And you're saying, when you say in, you mean inside. Inside. While both of you were inside the car. Only one person. Okay. I still don't believe it.

I still don't believe it. That's way too small of a car for you to put any kind of mattress into. It's like the TARDIS. I don't what that is. Doctor who? That phone booth? I don't go to the doctor. Do you don't have a health insurance yet?

Hey, dude. You've been here long enough. Okay, so you drive to work, then what? While in the car, I listen to either more NPR. Because I'm not going to get into that. because they loop it's a two-hour loop so this is like a three-hour time frame big question

uh KPCC or KCRW RW all the way They have music KPC is like the nerd one No RW is for the cool Actually I don't listen to RW at all Because I want to hear news I don't want to hear music

Well the music starts at 9 And they have good people on Like all the bands I like Stop by Morning Becomes Equlectic Like Cardi B. Yeah, Cardi stopped by Jason. At the end of every year, Andy puts together a top 10 list of his best albums. My decade one is still...

Hold on. Let me finish the story. So then at the end of last year, 2019, was it 2019 or 2018? I don't know. I think it was 2018, and then I asked him, all right, who's on your list? And he said, hands down, Cardi B, number one. I was like, what? Inmation of privacy.

Out of every album that possibly can. came out, you picked Cardi B. She's good. What's your favorite Cardi B song? Can you rap it for us? Can you spit out hot 16 bars? I cannot. The thing is, like,

when I perform music and sing music, I forget everything until it's being played. All right, Andy, let's go. Let's do it. No, I'm not in... Come on, Andy, come on, Andy.

Spit some bars, but let's do it. Let's go. Andy's making bloody moves. No, I'm good. Andy on Twitch does a lot of Twitch things. So here at the office, we just put up some TVs to play, like, play streamers that we sponsor to play their streams. And I asked Ed to change it to Andy one day, class it in the office. Everyone was like, wait, is that Andy saying?

Andy was at his desk and he goes, that sounds pretty good. it's like that's you I hate the sound of my own voice you were in a glee right Glee club I was in show choir for like seven years

what's show choir it's basically it's choir but it's choir but there's like dancing I hated the dancing part like absolutely hated it then what'd you do it because I like singing

it was the only they didn't have like normal choir until like late in my high school school career. Then I did bold. Are you a falsetto? I do have a good one. Let's see. Oh, man, putting me on the spot. Man. Let's go. Trying to think I could sing. Give me a song and I play it. No. No. We got a cappella. Let's do it, Andy. You can do it, Andy. You sing every night. You sing at your desk, Brad. Yeah, but he was singing either day.

What was he singing? I didn't put my headset. I don't remember about the head's on. He's always I'm in a tune. Yeah. He's got a song in his heart. All right. All right. He's got a song in his heart. all the time. Let me think. What's that? Hold on. What's that song? God dang it. What's the artist? I can look it up. Migos.

Migos? Rain drop, drop. So gonna go, go, go, go, go. Okay. Andy, let's go. Let's go. Throw some bars at me. Oh, wait, is this freestyle? Do it.

No, no, no, to throw bar. I don't want, I'll rather sing in my falsetto than, Come on, Andy, let's go. No. Screw, scroo. There we go. Easy peasy. Yeah, there you go.

Okay, so you listen to NPR on the way over to work. Then what happens? And I'm here. Okay? What happens when you get in? Which entrance do you take? The only one that I park in the good spots that don't get blocked out by people. It doesn't exist anymore.

Andy's always on time. He showed up exactly 9 o'clock every morning. Yeah, pretty much. pretty much. I know that because I get here before that, so I time him. I see him coming at 9 o'clock every morning. You have an Andy timer on your desk? It's like, Andy is. Well, no, actually, you two. Both of you guys actually get here exactly 9 o'clock every day. 9 to 5. Sometimes I'm like 9 to 5. There you go. That's all I know. We can play that too if you want. That's all I know. The song's a banger. I mean, it always is great. You always assume Dennis is late. I'm usually always on time.

Yeah. Like once a week I'll come in like 9.5, 910 traffic depending slash depending on what's happening on Twitter to have to respond to stuff. Or not, you know. I just like, it's cold. It's been getting real cold in the morning.

It's like I just don't want to get up. You do mean. Because I'm all like nice and toasty in bed and I'm like, man, getting up. Sounds like the worst thing in the world right now. What if I just work for to not wake up and not go in? It's not tell anybody. what would you, Ivan?

If he didn't come in one day. I wouldn't notice. I don't notice when anyone's here, to be honest. Pretty sure you do. Pretty sure you do. Okay, Andy, so you get in, then what? You open the door, you walk into the office. This first thing you do as soon as you walk in.

I say hi, hi, or Patrick? Why always Patrick? Why not anyone else? Because he's the first one. That you see? That I see. And then, you know. Where's Patrick located at?

towards the front of the pit yeah the front of the pit okay yeah because whenever I walk in it's always you and Patrick in like the cafe talking about something every morning what we do is I see him there we walk to the cafe and that's when I get my

morning tea sounds like you're wasting precious company time here and it just something like it yeah he comes in and immediately starts hanging out with his buddy yeah what time do you start working well this half of it is technically work

because I ask him about updates about his products and stuff. Uh-huh. You know. You hear that, Johnny? He's working. He's always working. Always working.

And then, you know, we'll just talk random stuff. And then get to my desk. Uh-huh. Turn on my lawnmower of a computer. You have the world's slowest computer, man. I know. Why don't you do something about that? I did.

Fix it. Fix it. One time, Andy, he had me open some link. It was literally just like a web page. He can. I didn't open it his PC. I was like, why don't you open it? It's not loading on my PC.

So I go over there. It took me like a minute to move his mouse across the screen. I have no idea what's going on. That's really bad. It's a moody computer. Did you replace that motherboard yet? No, that's the thing. They gave me a motherboard is like replace it.

I'm like, no. And he's like, no, I thrive in chaos. Yeah. I like when my computer's slow. It's funny because I have the same motherboard. I haven't replaced mine yet either. It's busy. You have a 70, I have a 90.

I have an early production sample. Oh, do you? But it's not the motherboard. It's lack of SSD. I'm pretty sure mine's the hard drive is dying. I have it on a, like I assume on a old hard drive, like a 54. Andy ships out a lot of product samples and stuff. A lot.

And his desk is, looks like a post office shipping station or something. It's like a used car. It's much cleaner now. It's so much cleaner. It was funny yesterday. I did it because I yelled at him today. I'm like, Andy, I'm like, you're, because they have like a giant box full of a bunch of crap. And it wasn't even like, half of it wasn't even stuff you're shipping out.

It was like a random bag. And then there's like the backpacks. We ship those out as a gift. And the pillow from the chair that you don't sit in sitting in that box too. And I'm like, Andy, like, please. Well, it was funny. You're approaching on my space here. Yesterday.

Yesterday, Ed was cleaning up the area behind where we sit. Because we're going to have a land night next weekend. And there's a lot of junk there right now. CS. CS go, baby, by the way. Andy just starts rolling up with a cart full of computer parts to his desk.

And he's like, I don't have no room for this. I'll just put it over here. And Ed looks at him and just stares him and goes, no. No, you're not. No, you're not.

Do not put your junk here. You and West probably have the messiest desks. Because you guys have so many things. Like, there is this. Wow case build that was sitting Not next to your desk Like in the middle

Of like the aisle In between the desks I put it back Like the entire day yesterday And that marketing room Looks like your desk I'm pretty sure I kick that Marketing room is

Because they needed space in the warehouse So they took basically like all our stuff Like all the loaner builds we had All the clothes That we You know ship out I'm pretty sure I kicked that case By your computer

five times yesterday because it wasn't paying attention. Oh, well, it's like, it's pretty intensely wrapped, so. Who was it for? Are you allowed to say? No, I mean, it wasn't, we were going to use it for something, and then we decided not to. Oh, who's going to keep it then? I don't know. He's going to leave it there. I thought you're saying to Jeff.

I'm not sending that one. I'm sending one to Jeff, but not that one. By the way, Jeff Royals are our licensing guy, right? Is it like is it? I don't know his official title is, but basically like whenever we bring out any licensed products like, like the Wow cases or the Overwatch case, that's kind of his thing. He strikes those deals. The only person who works here who has a better mustache than Andy. Yeah, I mean, he has the world's greatest beard.

He does. He looked nothing like what I thought he would look like because I'm pretty sure his slack picture is really misleading. And then I see some dude who looks like he should be in like a metal band, like the longest beard. He looks like he He looks at the person that Andy wants to be When he imagines himself playing bass Yeah He could be in ZZ Top

Yeah He used to be Excuse me He used to be clean shaven And then Like two years ago I bumped into him at Blisscon And he had like a full beard

Not like he has now It's just like you know Like a normal beard It's a regular Yeah Full beard yeah I commented on it I said oh man that's a nice beard

How long you been growing it Like a couple weeks I'm like, wow, that's a pretty nice beer for a couple weeks. And now it's just like, no, like ZZ top. Yeah. I was getting really frustrated when to see someone who has like this nice beard. I'm like, oh, dude, how long have you had that? Like two weeks.

I'm like, what? What? Yeah. Speaking of beards. Speaking of beards, Andy. What's up with that mustache? I'll tell you what's up. The role wants to know about that mustache.

Give us the lore on the mustache. The mustache lore. Let's go. So my girlfriend just randomly said, I want to see. what you look like with a mustache. I'm like, all right. And I stopped shaving.

Uh-huh. And then now I'm here. Okay. Let me take a picture of your mustache for the server, please. So if you guys see this cheesy emot here in the chat, which by the way, if you guys are listening on SoundCloud or Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts or any other thing, Google, wait, Slack, SoundCloud, Google, Apple. Slack.

Oh, Slack. I'm thinking. I can't think today. We do answer questions live. We do have a chat going, so you're missing out. I've been listening live every Thursday, 10 a.m. Pacific Center time at N60 Discord server, discord.g.g. slash NZXT. Yeah, so if you see here, we got Andy's, Andy's mustache.

And I'm pretty sure Ivan said it. It looked like he was like dripping. He's like dripping oil from his nose or something. Yeah, that's my running joke. It's like the way that it comes out, it literally looks like it's dripping out of his nose. my nose, yeah. Your mustache shape, it looks like it's dripping oil out of your nose. That's really weird.

You have like the perfect mustache... Just the perfect mustache. Like a hairline for like a Charlie Chaplin. He does. But Charlie Chaplin also looks similar to someone else who is a very unsavory character. To be honest, like in no joke, kind of like your eye shape and your eyebrows and like, Like, you literally could do like a really good Charlie Chaplin. I think for Halloween this year, you should do a Charlie Chaplin with the hat and like the cane and everything.

That would be really good costume. You know, once I actually dated a girl and when I met her. You had a Charlie Chaplin must? Yeah. Yeah, because I met her at like a Halloween party and she had a Charlie Chaplin. Oh, okay. And I was like, I can't tell him she's cute because she's got a mustache on her face. But I'm going to take this chance to see what's up.

Ended up not working out. Does your girlfriend like your mustache? Yeah. Is she a fan of it? Yeah. Does she stroke? it just like oh let me just feel this no not really and he strokes it nonstop and every every meeting that that I've been with you it's like you're just playing with your mustache the

whole time twisting it like he's rubbing it or like he's doing something weird with it's just new to me and it's it's like a tickle no it doesn't tickle it's just it's just like a generic thinking pose it's like have you gotten food stuck in it yet water it's just water when I drink water it just kind of pulls up in there. Before the mustache Andy had a sole patch. He did. Yeah, right here. He kind of, like, flipped it.

You kind of took whatever was on the bottom and put it up top? I only can't. With facial hair with me is, I can't connect. So I just have the chin. I guess there's a picture of my face for reference. So the chin and neck. Right. Hair grows there.

But cheeks, no. Right. Screw a chin strap. No. You should, oh, she'd do a chin strap. It's like, it's like a 2000's new metal band, you know, like they'll have chin straps and like spiky, spiky hair, sometimes pukushels. I'm probably the only person in this room who could grow a decent beard. Yeah.

You should, you should grow one, dude. Just like a, oh, maybe you guys, no, you guys should just shave. No, you should grow one. No, both of you should shave. No. Yes. I've grown attached to the stash. Let's chintrap together, Andy.

Ooh, do you want to chintstrap with Alex, okay Mr. Mushu Beef? Our streamer. Well, we will. Hashtag streaming channel. We will at packs. We're going to packs together. Which packs?

East. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, I don't know that. You guys going for work or for pleasure? Work. Nice. What do you?

Are you allowed to say, what are you doing out there? Just having me. I'm going to help Seagate. Oh. Yeah. Very cool. Are they bringing out anything new? be allowed to say no just leave at that

oh okay secret sea gate event with handy you guys should uh should look out for him yeah if you there say hi have you been the packs of four no no no first time yeah i've been doing a lot of traveling in the next month where you going you're going to packs pack season what else i think we're going to gdc really what's a gdc for you media student seminars or just just going to the meet people. Media, media. I can meet with a decent amount of people.

And just random connections that you could meet that could help us down the line. It's kind of your job, right, to kind of like have connections and relationships? Yeah. Can you talk a little bit more like that, like what that process is like? So let's say you start it, you start somewhere new, right? And you're trying to do your PR thing. Like, what does that entail? Well, here.

Yeah. was a little different because the relationships already existed. Right. So your job was to destroy those relationships. Yes. Single handily. Right. Just make them upset at us.

So I, you know, with the usual suspects we already had a relationship with. But I've expanded our reach to newer ones because of like younger YouTubers. For instance, who are probably 18 to 25. Right. So, like, a lot of that crowd I've kind of built. How do you build that relationship? Like, what's the process that goes into it? Just send him an email.

Uh-huh. And then what? You say, hey, I want to work with you. If you have any projects that you could use any of our products, let me know and see what I can do. Okay, so let's say, let's say I'm an up-and-coming YouTuber. Say maybe 50,000 subscribers. They get a couple thousand views.

per video. How do I get in touch with Mr. Slag Guy in the sky at NZXT? Just send me an email. Okay. Dms are open. Dms are open. Dms are open. Okay.

And then what? So. I mean, I do an event, like, some people ask for the moon and it's like, no, it's, it's very unreasonable. What's the moon mean? Like systems, all the cases in the world. Yeah I mean

You just kind of evaluate And see if you know They're worth a shot Okay So what was the last project that you worked on That's that now we can talk about That's out and about Crackin

The Crackin Okay so what was the process of doing PR With the Crackin How that worked out There's two kind of phases Getting the news out And Reviews

Getting the news out With the Crackin was a little easier because it was such a new thing and it's kind of what we're known for. By easier, what does that mean? People are more predisposed to cover it. Because it's like that's our bread and butter. So we have something coming out and like from before it comes out, at what point do you start contacting these like press outlets to start talking about products?

It depends. It's just depends. When product samples are here. When you get to the office. Yeah, when I get to the office, there's a really good NPR story. When you hear the alarm clock. Ooh, got to sit down at a press release. My third alarm clock.

Like, oh, shoot, I should have sent it three hours ago. No, this never happened. I mean, it's a fairly straightforward process. Fulfilling review samples can be tedious. Let's say there's like 15 people So you kind of have to Know where they're located And I like to be also like

Very proactive and try to win it Like as soon as they get it I'll be like hey do you get it To make sure like they don't complain Right Complain about what? What would they complain about? Broken.

Okay So I just be like hey Make sure got it too safely Like nothing's never been broken But you know And he did do something really cool for the server yesterday or two days ago. So as some of you may know, Nibbler won the first two design contest.

And when she won the first one, we had her on the podcast and we literally gave her everything we had prize-wise, like, you know, everything that we could, like goodie bag, a sling bag, poochie. Pucci. Did you give a Pucci mama? I think so. I remember. Pretty much gave everything we had.

So when she won the second contest, I had no idea. able to give her. Like I would, you know, I don't want to give her the same thing again. So I asked Andy if he would give us one of his review samples for the H510 Elite because the first design she did was that. And he said, oh, yeah, that'd be awesome. That'd be cool. So Andy, Andy allowed us to ship one of Nibb.

She messaged me this morning and she said, thank you. She got it? Yeah. She made to me last night, like, I got 12 or something. Yeah. Yeah. She should be. Yeah.

So, yeah. So, yeah. So we gave a, we gave Nibbler a H510 Elite. As a thanks for winning two of our contests because she's great. Yeah, she's awesome. A lot of talent that one. Fun fact, Nibler goes to Andy's old high school. Yeah.

Talk about that, Andy. Although there's even a funner fact. When Nibler was here and before she left, I asked her if she wanted this sticker pack. I had a bunch of NDC stickers and she said, oh yeah, for sure. And I said, all right, under one stipulation, you must plaster these all over your school so everyone sees them. And she said, all right, I promise I will. And then a couple weeks ago, Andy's friend who's a teacher at that Nibbler school, called Andy. And he's like, hey, man, why do I see NZC stickers all over my school?

So you sent me a picture. So thank you, Nibler for doing my evil work out there. She defacing her school with stickers. Imagine she got kicked out of school because she told her put stickers all over her to campus. I'll give her a job. You don't need to go to school, Nibler. go to school no you'll end up like Andy

actually is really funny because we we had Nibler meet Jin and the rest of the created team over here and he actually told her before you go into school because she's looking to go to I think the same school that he did yeah art center yeah art center he literally told her like don't go to school right away

he's like it's like take like a year and like just do art and just do stuff which is really interesting because like he said that like once you start on like that school track when you're doing your art stuff like you're literally going to have like no time to do anything else but just school art things and apparently it's like it's really it's really like rigorous a really rigorous course yeah a couple of employees here went to art school shin went there also i mean just in general the gap year yeah yeah kind of a thing it helps yeah well like people like do service

like i know like i think one of obama's kids before she went to school I did a gap year to do like community service stuff around the nation or something like that. I took a gap year and played Dota. Try to get that E-sports career going. Not even. This is before e-sports is even like a thing. Like I literally just like I was not a fan of school. Super bad at school.

I hate school. I just not good at that part. You know, like I never, I guess like learn the skills to be good at just like doing like mini work like that, right? I'm learning now. Thank you, Akemetica. But yeah, like, I don't want to do anything. I didn't want to go to college or anything.

So I literally spent like three months as playing Dota, the Dota mod, the original Dota mod for like Warcraft 3. Tell my dad yelled at me one day. The first time I learned about that, I was actually at Boy Scout Camp. And I was taking the Radio Merit badge. The Radio Merit badge. What is that?

You learn about the radio. Speaking of badges, I see you have a lot of badges on your guitar bag. Yeah. Rick and Morty. I'll take a picture. The girlfriend. I never knew you were in Boy Scouts. How hard did you get?

I'm an Eagle Scout. Oh, you're an Eagle Scout? Mm-hmm. Okay. I don't know what that means, though. This is the highest rank. Okay. Well, it's...

How do you get to be an Eagle Scout? Like, what's the... Time effort. Sort of. Sort of. So, Boy Scouts... Uh-huh. There's...

I don't know how many wings off the top of my head. There's Scout, Tenderfoot, second class, first class. Eagle Scouts are the ones that I... actually baked the cookies for the Girl Scouts. Yeah. Do they do? No. You can tell me anything and I wouldn't know.

You could tell me that like the process of becoming an Eagle Scout is like fighting a Komodo dragon. Yeah. Yeah. Sounds about right. It makes sense. But yeah. What do Eagle Scouts do?

Actually, hold on. Yeah. For one of my like, well, one of my proposals. Right. For like, you kind of have to do like a lot of paperwork when you're getting. becoming an eagle. And then, like, on the title page of my report, I put an eagle fighting a dragon just because I could.

Because I was with my friend and were just like, and then when I showed it to my advisor, my advisor was, he's a character. He sounded like this and like, uh, Andy, this is Don. Like, he would always get mad at me for the random stuff. He was like, Andy, why are you listening to that music? What music was it?

No, I'm making something up. It's a two live crew. He's like, that's not Boy Scout. He's like, that's your music. It's not appropriate for the children. You know,

they look up to you. And I'm like, all right, dude. No, one time he got, no, it's not a podcast story.

Uh-oh. You're telling afterwards. Alan wants to know, what was your e-scout, your Eagle Scout project? I wanted to do the most generic project ever because a lot of Eagles, it's like,

I built a bench. So I'm like, I'm going to build a, a bench. I built two benches for my church, but then that wasn't enough. Wow. No,

this is not enough. No. No. Mr. Sutton, Andy, that's not enough. I know the advisor. His name was Mr. Bongalong.

Mr. Bongalong, he's just a real stickler, and that's just not enough for you to get approved. So I planned into Rose Garden. That sounds really fun. I feel like a rose garden is more difficult to do than a bench, no? Because he just literally... Oh, it was...

I've seen lesser Eagle projects than two benches. So it was a huge undertaking because we probably planted... Uh-huh. 20-something roses. Right. Then we planted a bunch of other stuff. And you promised him a rose garden. And then, like, probably 100-plus flowers.

after that. Yeah. It's still in relatively good shape. I mean, some of the weaker plants, because a lot of, there's perennials and annuals. Perennials are the ones that live on for years and years, but annuals die. God dang it.

Kiss from a rose, dude. I know music. Okay, so you have to do a project to be an Eagle Scout, right? That's just one of the things. One of the things. Yeah. Why a project and why? community service project.

Okay. And apparently two benches for your church wasn't enough. They're like, no, sorry, Andy. No, because at the time, the gatekeeper of the Eagles will call him Mr. Bongalong. He was

the strictest person. Like, go back to Mr. Sutton time. He's like, Andy, I've been through this process before and he denied a kid because he didn't put a period right here. So it was like is that that level of just scrutiny.

I don't even know. So, oh, so the reason why is the two benches weren't enough. It's hard to. The two bench, because he wanted, I just had to go big. I don't want you Batman forever now, dude. Okay, so I guess it makes sense that he would be strict because like if an eagle scouts like the highest level of like scouting you could do, then why, you know, You should dot your eyes and put your periods as opposed to go and build three benches, right?

Yes and no. There's a reasonable amount of scrutiny that is healthy and good, but there's also the ones that are just like, it's just unreasonable. Okay. That you don't know what the problem is. If it's something that like a normal person wouldn't mind, he's like, or I don't know what his voice was.

I only met him once, but. Just try it. I don't know. I'll only do Mr. Sutton. That guy's a character. Sounds like you're the character Imagine us too Just

Uh huh In a room Like We are in a room Well no We are in a room Actually I'd take my jacket off You're right

It's getting very stuffy in here I thrive in the stuffiness You're thriving a lot of things Apparently So Andy how How active are you actually In the Discord server Moderate

Like Do you check it every day Yeah I mean it's hard Doing work hours I hear you've been talking To cuddle a lot Yeah he's a homie

You're the homer We can look it up see last time you spoke. Let's see. This morning. Today, 825, before that, yesterday at 153. Probably more active than me to be honest. Before that, last Sunday, there's a whole week-long gap, Andy, where you didn't talk on the server. What's going on with that? You'll explain your activity on the server? It's life, man. I have a job. I have a job, too. That your job is the server. That's true. Unless, trying to make that not my job right now. Who do you think is buy those products that you write press releases for? The community, hopefully.

so what is what is what is one thing you like about the server what do you like that is always bumbling it's it's not dead like I've I lurk in other people servers I wish it could be dead to be honest sometimes a little dead time is not it's not bad sure true but other brand servers or even like YouTuber servers that I've joined it's just it's just crickets what and what is one thing from the server that you think we should be doing or could be doing better be mean do it besides having you on the podcast more often that's just the biggest criticism uh i it's not necessarily what's wrong with the server but i think i think in we're addressing this um i think just more interaction

with games like having um you know us play with like like like schedule game nights. Uh-huh. Like a monthly, bi-weekly, whatever. Are you willing to do Twitch sings tonight with the community? Not tonight, because I have an engagement that I'm going to.

Oh, where you going, Andy? I'm seeing the Sonic the Hedgehog movie. I thought it opens on Valentine's Day, right? I'm going pre-showing, man. Dang. Dolby cinema. Dedicated Sonic the Hedgehog fan? So I...

my girlfriend puts up with a lot um i was just like i i like i mean my um uh-huh when when when they delayed the movie uh because it's coming out in november and they're like delaying on valentine's day i like half jokingly said to my girlfriend hey let's go see sonic at valentine's day she's like no i don't want to see sonic on valentine's day yeah that sounds exactly like her yeah that's the movie what she sounds like yeah i don't want to see sonic Sonic on Valentine's Day. And I'm like, I really want to see it. So he has an engagement tonight and a breakup tomorrow.

I'm not going with her. What are your plans for Valentine's? It's actually a lot. Oh. Tomorrow. A romantic rendezvous with Andy. Oh, yeah. Tomorrow, my girlfriend and I are going to a show.

We're seeing Courtney Barnett, who's one of my favorite musicians. She's really good. She's really witty. Courtney Barnett is that Cardi B's like all real real name? I guess. I guess I, she's the Australian. This is her, by the way.

Yeah. She's really witty. She has a song Avant Gardner. I am jealous. So I'm actually kind of jealous in Andy in this regard because we have similar music taste. They do. But I don't have the privilege of being able to go to concerts anymore. You can.

I can't. You can't. I'm not going to leave my wife and kid at home to go to a concert. Bring your wife with you, leave your kid with your grandparents or with the grandparents. Nah, we don't do that. Babysitter. Yeah, you babysitter. Just like your night.

I'll babysit. We don't. You give her a big... I can babysiters. I don't trust babysitters and... Do you trust me with your child? No. My girlfriend works with children.

And grandparents are not good babysitters because they actually, like, mess up everything that you're actively trying to teach your kid. That's her job. You're supposed to mess your kid up. No. Anyway. And he goes through a lot of concerts and, like in the middle of the... the week. I'll come back on a Wednesday. Like, I'm going to go see Beck tonight.

I'm like, okay, that's cool. You have to rub it in, man. I saw that show was pretty awesome because it was Spoon and Beck. And Cage the Elephant was there. I don't care about Cage the Elephant, but people do apparently. They're good. I was literally the minority. They're for Spoon and there for Beck.

But they were good. I mean, they're not my favorite, but they're fun. I went to almost acoustic Christmas and it was the same thing. It was back in some other bands like Jimmy World and then like Casey Elephant, I think they're like the last band that played. And like, Beck and Cage do the song that they did together. Yeah, yeah, they did.

Yeah. But it was like, it was interesting because I realized like how old I am now because, you know, back, okay, Clay, you know, Beck's all right. And watching Jimmy at World. So with that all of a sudden, Casey Elephant comes out and all these kids start running forward from the from like on the in the pit it was like oh okay i guess that's what people were here for kjof and they're here for nobody else yeah like literally when spoon was on because spoon was the opener technically like no one really cared really they're a really popular band oh they're

amazing they're one of my favorites what's their what's your favorite song do you uh do you by spoon do you right now we got it that's that off of god god god god god god god god god no it's off off the rent I pay. Yeah. This is the song that gets me hyped. Oh, yeah? Chyped in what way? How hyped do you get?

I see an reasonable amount of hype. Andy's mustache hair is curling. The oil is dripping. Sing us a couple of bars, Andy. There we go. I finally got him to sing. went through me I walked right back

All right How long has spoon been around? Since late 90s. Yeah, I feel like I've been hearing them for like a long time. They're good. I think I've seen them live three times. I got into them relatively white, but

the first show I went, it was really good. The second show I went, I got food poisoning after. It was the sickest I've ever been. but it was a really good show and also I had the effect that there's a bunch of like old dudes there and it was just mostly all old dudes

my sister cousin and I What do you consider old dude? Wow Just straight out What is funny because when I was like Andy's age I would see guys my age and I would also think you know how look at these old dudes gray hair is what are they doing at this concert

don't they have a wife and kid but yeah now that I'm old with gray hair and have a wife and kid I get it. Yeah, actually there's this band that opened for them called His Golden Messenger. And they played this song called Saturday Song. But like it's like total dad energy. Like the lead singer, I hate using this comparison because I'm, but he kind of had the, like in the Cuspic show and like the old theme songs, he kind of moved weird.

I mean, Bill Cosby's a horrible person, yada, yada, yada. But he kind of had that, like, movement to him. But it was weird, but he was really good. And then this song was, like, stuck with me. It was really good. Uh-huh. Oh, yeah. Alan here saying, Andy taking the hard stance.

I mean, that's an easy. It's controversial opinions, Andy. We don't talk about that stuff around here. What's, like, the best show you've ever been to? LCD sound system right before they ended it was at the Hollywood Bull three acts played I think KCRW hosted it

they do a lot oh and there's another one so it was sleigh bells when they first came out they were horrible like the lead singer she didn't she was just like screaming But it wasn't like, it didn't, it doesn't fit her music.

And it just, it was just bad. They had one song that was a huge hit. Yeah. Like that was the only good song. Real real. But their first album was really good. Yeah. Have a heart.

Have a heart. 16, 6.6. I love this song. Oh, this song. But she would be like, ah! And it's just like. Well, I think they were both, like, in, their background's like in hardcore punk.

She looks like a teacher. Really? I know the guitar player was in this band called Poison the Well. They were really loud. And they're like, they're a band you need to, like, crank up to 12. But that's, like, kind of their chillest song. And then Hot Chip, I was not like, eh, hot chip. I like Hot Chip.

But, no, when they play, they blew the, like. They were almost better than LCD sound system. Then LCD sound system played and they're really good. It's a pretty good lineup. But then the, I think last year I went to a concert with my girlfriend and it was Andrew Bird. He sings like you actually. Yeah, no, like if I could have anyone's musical talent, it would be Andrew Bird. Andrew Bird is just so freaking incredible to be a musician.

Um, it's, it's like when you see it, you're like, you kind of are upset of how it talented he's like, God, he's so good. Um, but, um, it was right before his last album called My Finest Work Yet. And it might be, honestly. Um, he, uh, he performed it for the first time live when I was there. And randomly John C. Riley was there. And he was like a host. So like Halfway through the album John C. Riley just interviewed Andrew About the album

He's like so It's your finest work yet, huh? And Andrew's not really a good interviewee Because he's like, yeah, it is He's like, tell us about that But no, it like It was the first time I heard the album And

It was just really good Like Check it out. Yeah You guys hear that's a recommendation. Is the podcast channel still awake? I may lose fans after my music tirades. Let's talk about your amoevo collection, Andy.

Why do you collect amoeboes? What's your most coveted one? Do you have a Holy Grail? I have them pretty much everything I want. Why amoeboes? I love Nintendo. And I like collecting mini figures. Then it just became a safe.

sickness. I feel like Andy and me are very similar except you are. He does all the things I can't do anymore like collect the beboes and go to concerts all that stuff. I mean you could I can't he can't you can't do whatever you want Ivan he has choose not to I choose to I guess you're saying that I'm the unrestrained version of you if I wasn't married with a child I'd be going to concerts and collect an amoebo's as well but you still could no I can't you totally could I don't I prefer to be married. The only thing I have a girlfriend, so. The only thing stopping you is you, Ivan, from going to concert and collecting a new guys. Yeah, I want

to be a good husband. You can't take your wife? No, I can't. She'd not want to see her. We're not going to leave our child with a babysitter. Yes, you can. We're not going to do it, though. Why not? Because we don't trust babysitters. And people leave their kids with babysitters all the time and nothing ever happens. That's fine. I'm not going to leave my daughter with a stranger.

You don't get a stranger. You don't get a stranger. I'm not going to leave my daughter with someone I know either. Because something I don't trust people is just like right now we're potty training my daughter. Will there be a- I know if I leave my daughter at my parents or my sister's house or her sister's house or her parents' house. They're not going to, you know, they're not going to potty trainer. They're just not. And they're going to like- What about post-potting training?

And keep her up on it? Well, we'll see. I don't know. That's kind of what, that's kind of like how it's supposed to work though, right? Like, how about. How about- How about? How about you guys raise your kids your way? And let me raise mine my way.

My Meebos are. My Mibos are my children. I give them the babysitter. They don't call me Poppy for no reason. But yeah. Who knows why they call you Poppy? I ignore the server. They're not my real children.

But my daughter, I can't. Fair. Yeah. Sometimes you have to ignore the server. You know, you get to take a break from what's going on in there. It happens. Yeah. like that sometimes.

But yeah, Amibo, most coveted one, I don't even know what's valuable anymore because there was the Anibo bubble that burst

so that no one really cares and all the everything's deflated. But the hardest one... How much money have you wasted in Amibos? You could do the math.

How many do you own? I don't know. Okay, that you... I pretty much have like all the smash ones. Estimate. How many amoebos do you think you have?

Is there really such a thing as a smash amoebo because there's an everything in smash just like another franchise something they're they're they're made for smash brothers they have the smash brothers thing and there's different ones so like you have 100 amibos probably 200 no they're i don't think they're 250 maybe like 130 you have 130 amoe how much is each amoe uh i don't want this is to be depressing average price they they raise the price um but say average 13 dollars it's 1500

Yikes. In ameboes you have, Andy. Yeah. That sounds about right. Think about that for a second. $500 in amebo's. But here's the thing. I've also gotten them as gifts.

I've also, and this is over a period of like... A year? Like 2013? 14? So six years. How long have been around? Since Smash 4. Really?

Yeah. Yeah. For Wii U. 3DS. Okay. I guess that makes sense. Oh, yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right. You're right.

So, like, it's not like I walked up to Toys R Us, Rip. And it was like. Rest and peace, Poiseer Us, yeah. I'm like, 100 amoebo's, please. I've smuggled them across the border before. Really? From Scotland. What?

And you, they were in a Zin Demand, I guess even Taipei too. Water Patrol was like, sir, what's in your mustache? No, I went to Scotland. Is that a Count of talking, Mibo? Get them. That's funny. Thanks. In Scotland, there were a lot, in the EU,

they're a lot easier to get in America because Nintendo's weird. And I went into the UK version of GameStop, essentially Game, and they had like literally every rare amoebo up there. Wait, it's just called Game. Game, Game, Game Scott. Game Scott.

Game Scott. I like that. The other day, we were sending. some stickers to money who lives in Scotland. Inverning. Yeah, and we looked up his house. Yeah, I was looking up his house to make sure we got the address correctly. And I'm like, oh, cool, he lives in a castle in Scotland.

And he looks over like, is that next to Nessie or whatever? He literally knew exactly where money lived, which is kind of scary that Andy knows his information. It's the only international place I really know. Did you see Lachnest Monster? There's a picture, me with Lachnest Monster. Did you shake hands with Nessie? He just came up and then shook my hand. And I was like, cool, man.

If you could meet any mythological, like, animal that supposedly might exist, what would it be? You know, like Bigfoot or, like, mess or, like, unicorns, leprechauns. I'll go with my Scottish pride and then probably Nessie. Yeah, why? You're Scottish? See? See? That's literally Spanish

Even the same C continent, dude Jesus Christ I am My last Johnston There's the Johnston clan We have a tartan What's a tartan

It's like a plaid color It's like you put it on your stuff You replayed a bagpipe I have not But And my grandpa's funeral There was backpipes Because he requested it

Because of our heritage Do you own a quilt a quilt a kilt? I wanted you so bad. Oh my God. When we went to Scotland, I made it a goal to get as many meboes as I could. Uh-huh, number one. And two was to get a tartan or a kilt with my family's colors. And that is not as easy as you think you could find.

There's literally a store called Johnston's Kashmir. They didn't sell kilt, but they had like the plaids. and stuff. They didn't have the Johnston Tarton. Do they have the Johnson Tarton? It's all the same. There's three variants. There's the Johnson, Johnston, and John Stone. I love my animated Andy is right now. As soon as I mentioned

kilt, he's like... You don't understand. I like... We were in Glasgow at a kilt maker and they didn't freaking have our tartan. And they're like, this one, the Campbell's look like yours and

like, I don't want to Campbell. I ain't no Campbell! I ain't no Campbell! Yeah, I'm a Justin. We've been fighting with the Campbells for generations. Don't you ever tell you, smacks them. Yeah, I really gave it to her there. It was just like, Katie, I don't appreciate that.

There's a real question. Okay, so first off, Peach wants to know what colors are your tartan? It's green, mostly green with hints of blue. Then there's like a dash of red and yellow. Okay. Second question, if you were to have a kilt with your tartan on it, Would you wear the kilt in the classic fashion with no undies? Would you bear booty it?

Probably not, man. No? No. How can you say you have pride if you're not going to wear it, how it's meant to be worn? But I also am cognizant of others. If I don't want to go Marilyn Monroe for everyone. Don't stand by any grates also does... I mean, I only stand by grates.

So when they fill the breeze everywhere? Yeah. Okay, so... Also, like... Huh? I have cosplayed as Tina from Bob's burgers. Yes. And like, you kind of need something there.

What do you mean? Just don't do it traditional. Uh-huh. Yeah. Keep going. It's more pleasant for everyone, I would think. Yeah, let's leave it at that. I mean, you don't be walking around, like, flipping your kilt up, though, you know?

like it's going to be hidden. But I mean, there's just the assurance. Right. Yeah. I mean, you know, yeah, it's also kind of a legal issue, I guess I would say, right? I use my enevo's. Oh, boy. It's a shot of, I'm assuming one of Allen's children chomping on a Yoshi's yarn, an evo.

That's fine to chomp on them. Yeah? That's sensible. Who's your favorite Nintendo character? Ness. Why? What? Earthbound's my favorite game.

One of my favorite games. Um, he's my favorite smash character. It's a photo of Andy right there as Tina. Uh, uh, in the chat. Be guys and see it. Again, if you're not listening live,

you're missing out. Uh, so what's, what's a cool about Nesson? Why not Lucas? I think Lucas looks cooler. Because Nintendo hasn't released Mother 3 in America.

Don't just, I just import it. I have a copy. You have a copy on your desk, don't you? You have a, no, mother two. As mother two? You have a copy of that at your desk.

It's at home, no. No, it's actually in my backpack. I haven't taken it back yet. Really? You just carried around everywhere? Well, I was going to bring it home, but I don't look at my backpack every day. That'd be ridiculous. Yeah.

Why would you, what would you open up your backpack? It didn't you carry around with you everywhere. It has my iPad and then look at that. Just toting it around. I mean, what if someone stole your backpack and stole your mother too copy? Would you be sad? Kind of. Yeah.

Yeah. Where'd you get it from? Uh. Someone got it for me while they're in Japan. And then I asked for it and they gave it to me. Awesome. Yeah. It's usually how that works, right?

Every friend of mine who goes to Japan, I'm like, give me a copy of Mother 2. That's also in your Twitter bio. Mother 3. No. Sorry. Apologies. Nintendo just is so dumb with that franchise.

They could ease, like the easiest money they can make is just to localize it. Like some, the fans already did half the work for. them. They could just take that and make edits. And then they could just drop it on the e-shop right now and make a ton of money, but they won't. They don't need money. They don't because they have a lot of money, but they can have more money. Money isn't everything, Andy. For a company, it kind of is.

Not for us. We could do a lot of things too. We could. That's true. We could do a lot of things. Andy, what are some hot takes that you have? I got many. I want some of your controversial opinions that you're known so well for.

Give me a good one. Cachups overrated. What is the most useless food. What? Cetchup. Cache up. Is no flavor really. It doesn't really add anything.

Mustard is infinitely better. Is mustard your favorite condiment? Yeah. What about ranch? No. You like ranch? It's whatever. Ranch is good, though.

If I were to have blue cheese is better than ranch. I disagree with that. Well, that's a hot take. Okay. What's hot take number two? Let's go. It's anger some people right now. Do you like French fries?

No, no. They're the worst. Dairy is overrated. Cheese is overrated in general. I start eating hamburgers. Like literally, it doesn't add anything. Do wins matter in baseball? No, they don't.

Pitcher wins. They don't matter. I have a lot of baseball hot takes, but I mean, I don't think this is right audience for that. Okay, let's go into some community questions. Alan wants to know,

what is one item you own that you should probably throw out but never will? What was that question again? What is one item you own that you should probably throw out but never will? My Tina wig.

That's actually a good one. That thing's been through the ringer, man. Two Comic-Con. Like, yeah. For me, it's probably Andy's base. Yeah.

It's pretty dusty. Patrick is going to offer it graciously offered to clean it up for me. I have a box of like birthday and like howl and like a Christmas cards from X's that I haven't thrown away yet.

You sit in the closet. I don't ever look at them. Like I'll be going through my closet to look for like like a sat of cable or something because you know I have a I hold like spare computer stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a motherboard box.

Yeah. Like everyone does if you're a good builder. And the other day I uh one of the cards slipped out it's from my last axe I'm like oh but there was also a $105 gift card to H&M there so I was like okay now that kind of thanks for the party gift it kind of counterbalances the gun punch sure and uh and some some uh some sweats some gray sweats you know for the for the new ladies um there's some other questions here but I don't know is NXT a serious company I haven't I mean can answer that I haven't is it's yeah are we a serious

company? No, we're not owned by serious. We are Johnny's company. That's true. I would say we're serious about

what we do, but that doesn't necessarily mean we're a serious type of, you know, we're serious where it counts. Yeah, we're

serious about what we do. I would say so. Serious about gaming and gaming computers. I don't know what, what else you want from us. We like to have fun. Yeah.

Imagine having I mean, I literally brought my bass to work. Yeah, and then I spotted you and Patrick playing it. It's mostly Patrick just owning. It was pretty good. The thing is, he was Hendricksing it, which means he was playing a right-handed guitar left-handed, so everything inverted. So that's what Jimmy Hendricks famously did because.

Also Kirk Cobain. Yeah. Neither played bass, though. Here's a clip from our Instagram of Andy and Patrick playing together. This is Patrick and me in awe. Yeah. It's both of you guys who are playing. I just walked into this.

This is from our straight Insta. They were kind of going back and forth. It's kind of seeing what they could do, jamming together a little bit. Yeah. I thought it was interesting. Not my kind of money. Money. Not my kind of music.

But, you know, it's pretty good. He can get good sound to that. He's really good. Yeah, this is probably the best bass playing I've ever heard. You know? Yeah, totally. All right, next question. Den, is it true you're running for president?

I'm moving to Canada if that's true. I'll be the greatest president ever in the history of presidents. Dan 2020. I'm a great candidate. The greatest candidate possibly that ever lived and ever will live. I love the music playing in the background I'm just gonna leave it going here Question for Andy from Dark Gix Minds

Why ain't it easy being cheesy? It's just life, man, it's so hard But you just gotta cheese it up whenever you can Who's your least favorite coworker And why is it done? That's a loaded question Why am I your least favorite coworker? Did you ham?

Just hinder my style, man I'm just trying to live my best life But you're always bringing me down All right. What's the funniest gift you've seen put on the new Cracken? Well, my favorite one of the, when, literally when I got it, I put Dr. Zeyas from Planet of the Apes musical from The Simpsons. Break it down, Dr. Zayas. Yeah, Dr. Seyes, Dr. Zayas.

And it's just Dr. Zayas being like fanned by a bunch of monkeys from Planet of the Apes musical from the Simpsons. That's pretty good I think I recently saw that actually I think I would have thought you would have put a Grantskipper Willie with your Scottish heritage Dr. Zias is greater You're all so waging You're all so waging

You have to go You see them like circling around And that's what I put on my crackin It's on my Twitter if you want to find it. Yeah, we'll link your Twitter. Mr. Slig Guy in the Sky. Mr. Slide Guy in the Sky.

Also on Mixer. Yep. All right, next one. What's your favorite Jojo reference, Andy? Everything's a Jojo reference. True. What's your favorite Jojo reference at Ivan? Anything good?

Actually, it's the one where he's like the, I don't know. I have nothing, I don't know anything about Jojo, but there's like this meme, like a Jojo meme or it's like saying something like something disgusting or something like that you disgust me you seen that yeah yeah my favorite's the ones uh it was me deal because you could do a lot of good stuff with that I actually made a meme in response to another company that we didn't end upusing but it's always nice to kind of like exercise that like creative freedom and like have some fun and it's not respond to stuff like me and I haven't

always you know we we keep a close eye on like other other social media accounts you know just to see what's up and uh we'll like you know make responses here and there but we won't post them because like it's not worth it you know yeah no yeah but uh then the moment might have passed too yeah yeah there's also that but sometimes it's like we do it for ourselves not for anyone else what do you guys knew you should see speaking of a jojo the movie jojo rabbit is really good yeah i was gonna watch it yesterday when bomber tilt My barber told me not to. Why?

He has a setup where you can watch movies or whatever, like, why are you getting your haircut? And he's like, actually, he's like, can you not play that because I want to watch it? My own, like, end of words. Oh, I thought he just didn't like it. And I'm like, that's a random. Yeah, it's got real angry at me. Dark X. Minds wants to know, why does it always rain on me? You need to move out of Seattle and come to California.

No rain here. True. Peach wants to know. Who is Andy's favorite Stephen Universe character? Pearl. all right furles the best hot takes mom wants to know what is Andy's famous chili recipe

so back story we went to Andy's place magical land by the way no it's not his house is amazing you guys you wish you guys could have seen it but we were told put post his address on the okay

we were told no flash photography no video recording of any kind in Andy's place it's a very sacred and we went there for the Super Bowl and Andy fed us chili and wings in the chili it's very, very good. It's just a food network, simple turkey chili. Did you really not that anyone take pictures,

I record video? No, of course. He told me not to. He's like, hey, like, could you please not take a video or a picture here? And then he has Siri talking to him the entire time. Yeah, I bring my home pot everywhere. Yeah. No, but seriously, that chili was very good.

I kind of miss it. I was thinking about it today. I'm like, man, you don't get really go for it. He still has some stuck in his mustache if you want to taste it. Yeah. Keeps well. If we put all the mods on a deserted island, who would survive? Cuddle.

I think Cuddle will die first, to be honest. Cuddle will definitely be the first to go. Yeah, I don't think he's strong enough to survive. Because he's too nice. Probably, you'll be a killer rabbit? I'm going to say Allen be the one that survives. I think. He just trick everyone, this old man maneuvers.

Honestly, I think Mek would win. He would just build a Fortnite. fort and get out. That's true. That could happen too. You'd make it out. Maybe Aiden, I don't know. He kind of lives on like an island, right? So maybe he's... Technically, we all do. Yeah. Oh. No man is an island. No man is it. Um, who is going to be Pucci's Valentine and why is it Wumpus? Ooh. Find out tomorrow. Yeah, find that tomorrow. Tomorrow. Oh, it is tomorrow, huh? Did you say valentimes? probably words are hard man it's galentines day tomorrow

galentine's day i'm just so excited about sonic that i've told even though i did you get anything for your girlfriend yeah i already bought her wait do you finish your your valentine's day story with your and i'm going to st barbara okay so for the weekend because we have a three-day weekend this weekend i think i don't know i never got an email from johnny at nzxc.com telling me i have the day off i think we do i never have a day off i don't know it's president's day community team doesn't have yeah yeah yeah yeah um so you're going to show with her then you're going to Santa Barbara what are you doing Santa Barbara I don't know do you have anything else planned going to this one restaurant that I went to before that was pretty good called the lark

the lark what kind of food is it I don't it hip bring your own chili it's chili they had like this popcorn with your way to see yeah yeah They had like this popcorn thing that was really good, I remember. Then I just got like a chicken. That's all I eat chicken. Just a chicken? It's like a roasted chicken. It sounds like a great Valentine's Day.

It's a nice restaurant. It's not like taking her to like Boston Market. Like, you know. Hey, don't seem to the Boston Market. They still around? There's like one. I think it was one in Huntington. There's one in like, York.

Orbelinda maybe. That's a fancy people town. I don't go around there. Well, no, it's actually by Calcei Fort. It's like, it's not like deep Yorba Linda. It's like Fullerton, your Belinda. What's that street before not one? It's like Imperial.

No, that's after. No, it's Yorba. It depends which way you're going, I guess. I was going from. North and South, dude. Okay. Would you rather win a Nobel Prize, an Olympic gold medal, or the lottery.

What kind of Nobel Prize? Probably the Nobel Prize. Let's say peace. Yeah. The Peace Prize. Lottery, dude. I'd really win the lottery. You get money for winning the Nobel,

but not lottery. But it's like millions of dollars or is it like? Well, like, no. It's like a $10,000 check. The amount of prestige is that a Nobel Prize will give you, you could probably charge up the butt for speaking. Name the last Nobel Prize winner. I think it was,

I don't know. what it was, but I think it was someone in China. Wow, that's prestige. I forget their name. I know it was the European Union once. 2019.

That's actually a couple. Because they split it. Did they? They'll do that. Physiology and medicine, physics. Within like an economics one, they'll give it to like two people. Literature and the Peace Prize. It's awarded to Ethiopian Primals.

minister. I was way off. Abi Ahmed. Oh, that's right, because he, um, he, instead of becoming a... He solved a border dispute. He, yeah, he, instead of, like, being a dictator, he chose not to be. That's basically what it was. What are your opinions on Kauai anime?

I'm not an anime guy normally, so, uh, I'm not, I'm not really a weeb. Uh-huh. So I will I will Refram from giving a hot take Evan, what's your opinion on Kawaii anime? I think it's cringy

Yeah, why? I think all anime is cringy Yeah, keep talking Ivan I just like making weaves angry It's not hard to do That's why I like it Because you can literally say I don't like anime

And then just weaves How dare you not like anime? I just I just like making fun of weed. Yeah, we posted a tweet about like Top 10 Best Anime. And I'm gonna say this like just straight out right now.

Some of y'all have the worst taste in anime. Like some of y'all really bad. If you're really think DBZ is that good of a show, it's not. Go back and watch it. It's not good. Is it a good kind of bad?

Yeah, that's all right. I would say it's a good manga. The other day I was going for a walk. I was going for a walk. and I saw this box like in a bush and I get close to the bush and there was a five the first five

Dragon Ball Z manga's in there Yeah it's like it's so random Yes I just grabbed them and I took a lost puppy I took him home and I've never never read it And I read like the first book and I was actually pretty good My friend responded about About the mattress The mattress true story

Anyone can say true story, but is there a photo evidence? No. This is like 2014. I mean, I mean, yeah, camera phones are prevalent then. But you continue to have some really bad takes on what shows you think should have. Should have been on that top 10 list. The heck. Ghetto birds flying over?

Because we have the police station nearby. Do we? Yeah. Where's a police station? Nearby. Like a block away. Oh, really? Where domestic is.

Oh, yeah, huh. You're right. You're right. I forgot about that. Like, when I drive in the morning, I see the police helicopter or the sheriff helicopter. That's why there's so many cop cars when we go to domestic. Well, remember that one time we went to Del Taco, like, every five seconds, someone was getting pulled over? Yeah.

And some random people are like, oh, the police are out today. Yeah, the Z was like, so like this, this Del Taco sits on the corner. So he would literally go out one way, stop someone, go back into the parking lot, and do, like, three. times when we were there eating. It was like this guy is pretty... I can't. That's, it's pretty bad. Anyway, a siren right now. It sounds like that okay. Um, quiet anime is cool, but it's taken over too much.

Uh, what is Andy's favorite quote from Rick and Morty? Uh, I don't want to say it because it has a bad word. Mark. Well, there's just one, um, Morty, Marty, Marty. Is that? Yeah. Is that? Morty, you, P-O-S Morty.

Um, I, there's just in, that, that was probably the one impression that you did that was really good today. Yeah. Yeah. Actually, it's pretty good. Um, but in, in the, in the, in the, in the latest season, there was this episode about heist. And there's just one bit, um, the meeting my friend Moos found really funny. Um, he's either assembling a crew. No one's going to think it's funny, but.

Can you do Morty? Oh, oh, geez, Rick. You know you're really starting to cheese me off. You know, Morty? Just get into the van, Morty. That's good. It's not bad. You should, you know how you like doing voices?

You should just do those two. Just do Rick and Morty. Yeah. Those are actually really good. But when they're assembling a crew, like, they go up to this one guy and he goes, Hey, Glear. Or no, hey, Glar, I need you for a job. He goes, the name's clear now.

I play piano. And then one guy goes, hey, Glear, play piano. And then Glear goes, I quit. And he throws a piano. He goes, the name's glar. And then that's it. It's hilarious to me. Thanks.

I love it. It's so good. Elon Musk is in that episode, too. Pete wants to know, will Andy keep his mustache? I've grown attached to it, so it's going to stay on, at least until the end of the quarter. and why? I just want to see where it takes me. Okay.

The respect that I don't command from people from it. We did a poll the other day asking if we should use thermal paste as hair gel, and people voted yes, and I told Andy he could be in the podcast if we put thermal paste on his mustache, and he had agreed to it until Helen pointed out to Andy that you should read the disclaimer on the thermal paste tube. It said, do not make contact with your skin or whatever. so I hadn't changed his mind Yeah I don't know

I just didn't want to get silver In the stash and Like sniff the fumes It's not really pungent Something wrong with thermal paste dude You can get on your finger to be fine And Annie wants to know Is Dennis wearing socks

I always wear socks I just wear no show socks You're going to show off that sweet sweet ankle Allen wants to know If you can move somewhere else in this office Without hurting feelings where would you go define move like location or yeah like in the office yeah in the office I'll look creative room because it's a lot quieter

like that's where I would work it's not that loud in the pit it's not loud when you're talking fair but um like it's less cramped because they have like their own little space like but then wouldn't you being in there making it more cramped or wouldn't you being in there make it more cramped well I would evict someone in this scenario. Who would you evict without hurting any feelings? And they totally were cool. Shit. Wow. Dang, kick shit out. The longest tenured employee in the company, kick him out. Get rid of the shin. That doesn't

historically mean anything. It's like, this is my office now. You sit in the pit. You see I have a new title. You're a nobody shin. Get out of my seat. Yeah, who are you? Like, we don't need, we don't need products designed. I'm sorry, Mr. Manta. Walk out this door. You know, if Shin didn't work here, designing products, you have nothing to ship out, right? That is true. And he's the one that you would remove?

To my, to bring him closer to you. No, me and Shin have a connection. I know you can. Shivan. You can foster that connection better by being next to each other. She also has, like, a cool corner. He does. But I feel like he kind of needs that corner, though.

Like he needs like that much that much room I mean I need that much room You wouldn't if you just cleaned around your desk Well I did Or you can clean the marketing room You should probably make that like your your task For like a week he's cleaning up the marketing room And getting rid of stuff you don't need in there

He has a lot of things in there A lot of stuff Yeah it's a nightmare We actually took all of our stuff out of there And it doesn't look any different I feel like you guys added more stuff once we left I took all our stuff out of there Because I was sick of going in there

Yeah You're talking about going to go in there I can't even like Just grab like one thing Yeah so I'm just going to take our stuff I literally have to walk on top of the couch and like turn on the light. Yeah, just turn on the light. It's like you kind of just stick out your hand and like.

You should take a picture of it. The original plan for the marketing room was like a media room. Yeah, let's have meetings here. We take phone calls. We did. I'm going to take a picture real quick. I'll last it for like a week. Yeah.

Okay. We'll get this question in the second. How much gunk does Andy's base fingerboard? Does Andy's base fingerboard? have. No, it just does. He doesn't use it, so it's really not, can't accumulate much gunk if you don't use your... It's hanging on my wall.

So there's... But it sits on the floor next to my closet. Oh. Not my baseball on my guitar. My... It's a friend of Stratt. It's a really basic guitar. It's a basic... It's a baby's first guitar. I barely use it. Jim wants to know, why is the creative room so cool? The people in it.

Yeah, creative is pretty cool. Annie wants to know, is the enemy case actually happening? If enough people say yeah. There you go. Anything's possible. You just got to believe. Vivian wants to know, when are you going to buy me some snacks? Andy, stop stealing my snacks.

JKKKK. I got her some snacks recently. Andy, Andy does have a habit of not asking. I'm a mooture. He just grabs stuff. He's like, oh, there's some fire seeds. Let me just reach my whole hand into this bag and just grab a butt ton of them. But I mean, I share the wealth when I have the wealth.

You never have anything anymore, though. When I first started and he was like, hey, I have tea. If you want some, go grab some. All right, cool. I had tea like a week ago. And then that stops. And now I don't know where the tea is, but he's grabbed my sunflower seeds like every other day. I still snacks from Vivian every day.

Now I just offer them because she lets me. Yeah, she lets me too. I'd rather offer you my sunflower seeds than how we just grab them and not ask. Like it just it makes me feel better Like I'm the kind of person If you ask me I might complain about it But I'll say no

So to spare myself The disappointment I haven't just reach into my bag I'm just say here Just take some seeds now Because now you're gonna ask It makes like easier for me That's a fair criticism

And I'll work on it I'll work on it You'll air all agreements With Andy right now Alan wants to know Where are you upset When they started Rereleasing Amibos

Did you miss the exclusivity The thing that in me. And this is, um, they had like retailer exclusive ones. Right. So the ones that were

retailer exclusive, then they re-released. Right. And then you could get them anywhere. Like that kind of chees me a bit. But, um, I mean, for the most part,

I mean, I don't collect them further. I don't collect them for their value. So it's just, uh, you know, for my enjoyment. So you're not playing the,

the Eveble Market? No. Really? I stopped that game, man. One thing I did do once, I was at E3 in 2015, and I waited in line all day to get a Disney Infinity figure that wasn't released. And then immediately after I went to this place called Franken Suns, where it's like the best place, or the best word to describe it is it's a nerd swap meet that's kind of near our area.

Right. And they have like magic cards, action figures, comic books, Yu-Gi-O cards. sports memorabilia and amoebo reselling was huge at the time there so I went to amybo reseller and I'm like this isn't out yet give me an amoe well not like I want that jiggly puff because at the time jigglypuff was Target exclusive and I missed the boat on it

what was the most expensive amoebo you had I like the height of the amivo craze I bought a Ness Amiobo for $50 before it came out in America That's ridiculous But I didn't That's crazy Andy

$50 for an amoebo That's nuts It's like $12 now right Well I didn't I sold some magic cards To get it So it wasn't like I was selling them anyway

So it was like You had to dump old stuff To grab an amoe It was found money It wasn't like Some dedication But the crappy thing was When Toys R Us went out of business

they were just blowing out amoeboes and there was like a Ness one because that was a GameStop one exclusive one at the time but then Toys R Us had them and my friends like they have Ness amoebo's everywhere and I had him pick him up me up one like five bucks

I'm like yeah I'll have an inbox Ness because I love Ness that much All right let me see Let me find some other some other stuff here real quick because you've got to start heading out soon and he needs to eat he's a hungry boy

is Jim with his barrage of questions, let's see. Is cereal soup? Why or why not? No, because... You can't eat it dry. Soup, you can't really eat dry. Soup, it's not a soup if it's milk. Well, there's cream-based soups.

It's not milk. But there's milk, a good chunk of milk in them. I say no. I think the distinct... Because you can eat cereal dry. You can't really eat soup. Like uncooked chicken. You could.

You just die. Yeah. Uncooked noodles, but you can technically. I used to know kids in high school who would like open up the like cup of noodles. Yeah, no, just pour the,

that's great. Yeah, that was really gross. Helen wants to know, Andy, when are you going to buy snacks to make up for devouring the whole creative room food? Oh, here it comes.

It's like festive this. Um, just say today, buy him snacks on your break. Yep. I'll get you snacks. It only took getting him on the podcast for him to admit his mistakes. Image wants to know, why don't pitch your wins matter? It's because...

And like how you're explaining this wearing a claim Kershaw jersey. No, Cody Bellinger. So I can reference, this is about baseball. And then he says that... The reason why is a pitcher can, in theory, pitch a game go 9. nine innings and allow one run. Uh-huh. And their team scores zero runs.

The correct answer is because the Astros cheat handy. Well, yeah. That's the correct answer. That's why wins don't matter. Yeah. But yeah, like, and get a loss, but a pitcher could pitch three innings and give up, or sorry, six innings and give up three runs and still get a win. Which would you rather have?

I would rather have a pitcher go nine innings and give up one run than a pitch or go six and give up three runs. I'd rather my team win. But the thing is, it's not in the pitchers control. Yes, it is. Unless he doesn't blow the game. It's pitch good. Well, you can pitch good and still lose because your team can't hit good.

This is for someone who doesn't understand baseball and why people like watching it because it's like the most boring thing I've ever seen in my life. That's why I like it. Right. It's so slow. It could actually keep up. It's a good Twitter sport. I love watching baseball.

It's a good Twitter sport. Oh, Lord. The takes on Twitter. People are so bored with baseball. They start looking up. stats and stuff. The stats are the best part. Baseball's a numbers game.

It's all about stats. That's how you know it's a boring sport when you got to start looking up numbers. Money ball, baby. Should be wins or losses, right? So who cares how good the pitcher does if your team still loses? But the thing is it... Just pitch good so they don't hit the ball. But your hiters, if your hiters can't hit, a pitcher can also go nine innings

and give up no runs. Or he can blow the World Series three years in a row. Well, one of them had trash cans involved, so it's not entirely his fault. I said, don't get it. The Astros cheated in the World Series against the Dodgers. Yep. I tweeted about it as it happened. Well, there was a press conference today because they were apologizing about it,

and then people are, like, mad. Of course they'd be mad. Angel's opening series is with the Astros. Oh, yeah, and a bunch of Dodger fans are going just to boo. Because there's a fan group called Pantone. 294 and I think a bunch of Yankee fans also are going and they're just going to the angels are all for it I mean because it sells them more tickets so why do they care um yeah right I kind of want to go to be me too

like I assume tickets are gonna be super expensive no they're like 20 bucks if you get them through the pantone group are they sold out I don't think so when is it um I don't even know when opening day is April sometime. Like late April? Hey, it might be in March. But I don't know. I'm going to spring training.

Oh, yeah? What's going on? I'm going to spring training the end of, the first week in March. Florida or Arizona? Here. Oh, here? In Arizona, yeah.

Me and my boy moves. We're going to go see three Dodger games, a cub white sock game and angels and diamondbacks it'll be really fun what's the point of spring training to get out you get to see players that probably won't normally play in the regular season

a lot of like up-and-comers also you can interact with the players while they're the training that's like the time to get autographs and all that yeah I'm really sad that I'm almost a 30 year old man because they're not going to pay attention to me. If I was like a

12 year old kid. You do act like a 12 year old kid. I mean, we're all 12 year old children in this office. You heard that, Jen? I know you're listening. 12 year old child. Other questions we got here. A couple more. Then we're going to get a head now.

Let's see here. Time flies, man. From Allen, what's one long-term goal you'd like to you'd still like to accomplish? Ivan, you go first. Long-term goal. Since you're the oldest one here. stay alive. I guess.

Probably, even though I'm very anti-buying a house, I would say buying a house, when I could have actually afforded by a house. I don't want to be in it like house-poor. So that's why I-house-poor? What's house-poor? House-pour is when you buy a house, and like your whole paycheck goes to the house.

And here in California, you know. It's very likely to happen. You can make a lot of money and be house-pour. poor. So I think my goal, my long term, it would be like one day to be able to actually buy a house and not be poor. That's actually my goal, but long term, I guess. You can move to Iowa and make that happen. Yeah, or pretty much you can move anywhere. It's not California. Or New York. No, not New York. Well, New York City. No, you can't. A house in New York City? Or property in New York City. I'm pretty sure you can't afford property in any of those

cities. Pretty sure you have to go like. New York is probably more expensive than L.A. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it is too But it's not far off Yeah Like if I were to go anywhere Like it'd be like Wyoming or something Maybe like rural Oregon There's some rich areas in Wyoming

California has the best weather That's the thing right Like I don't want to leave here But also don't want to spend A much money on place I'm not gonna own Not that I'm like anywhere near there You know Yeah nor am I

I can pay that much yet What's your long-term goal Andy? To run a marathon It's not going one How often do you run? Why isn't that going well? It's just, it's hard to balance work, friends, family, exercise, running. You get to cut something.

I know. Video games, music. What would you cut first? Video games or music? If you had to. Music is basically cut. You can listen to music while you run. Yeah.

It's just fine. It's just, it's, it's just motivation to do it and getting into a good groove. And also like, like, because I want to run the LA Marathon in 2021. 2021. You start training now then. No, I'm starting to. You should literally start running to work. But the, it's just the in-between steps of getting there, just not knowing what to do.

and like kind of overwhelming. You put one step and we'll put it further the other and just go. You put shoes on, right? You get up, you lay in bed. You set five alarms. You set five alarms and hopefully one of them. Drink your kombucha. You wake up in the first one.

Just run, man. Just do it. It's hard. Yeah, I know. It's just motivation and just doing it. Okay, how is this for motivation? You can't be on the podcast ever again until you run a marathon. So never.

It's up to you. It's a good motivation like that. All right, let's do it. I said mind to be competent at guitar. I've always wanted to be like good at guitar. When was the last thing you play guitar? Four months ago. Pathetic.

I'll pick it up every now and then I'll play. Like, like, I didn't even talk about this. I'll play for like a month, a month and a half and two months and get like okay. And then I'll stop playing and then have to kind of go back and relearn a little bit. Like I get better each time because, you know, you still retain some stuff. But, you know, what? start getting to like those those bar those bar chords my fingers don't work right the f the thing about bass that is hard dude uh with bass since it's not the main instrument like

it's if like if i wanted to serenade well be with that attitude well you know what i mean like playing songs i like it's just like boop boop boop boop boop boop and it's just like okay it doesn't sound good on its own but when you play with like other people it sounds really good good. Arc chords wrong. Give you carpal tunnel says Alex. Basically.

Yeah, probably. That's why I'm afraid to do them to because like, my hands are really screwed up from playing video games all day. So like, I feel like playing guitar won't make my hands

any better. So it's like, I don't know. You really got limited time with those carpals, you know? It's banging walls right here. Someone trying to get

Bum's rush. So on top of guitar. Andy, what song would you play us off for the podcast? that's a surprise or do you want me to say it now are you going to sing it

I'll try to can you change as a song and play it's can you play and sing as a song to end the podcast I'll try it won't sound good but before you do that is there anything that you want to ask

of the server or us true good question have me on more run a marathon and also not a question that's true it's not a question it's a statement it's a statement so it's more of a demand

to be honest I'm a little offended. No, I'm on a good amount of time. Stay awesome. Let's have some game nights. I want to play games with the server. All right. Workin on it, man.

Foster that community. Trying. That's the goal. It's funny like this morning. I woke up a lot. I have the opposite problem of, and this is where we differ. I'm an early bird. I wake up at normally like five o'clock in the morning.

I can't. Today I woke up at four. When do you go to bed? Nine. Nine or ten. Lately. Yeah. But anyway, today for some reason,

had a bunch of DMs on Discord more than usual. And like half of them were asking me, what are these new roles? Like, people look up roles all the time. Yeah, people ask, people are very nosy on the server. Like, someone's like, oh, you should do this and do that. And I'm like, mind your own business. They tell them like, this person would literally tell me like 10 minutes before,

oh no, I'm worried. I might have lost my laptop on the school bus, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, why are you looking at roles? Go worry about your school bus. Yeah. Yeah, one of the roles was created specifically for these game nights we want to do. Yeah. So stay tuned.

I guess we can talk about it. I mean, we're giving the mods more jobs, more defined roles in the server, things that they could do. Yeah, you want to have game nights. You want to have like revolving chat channels that people keep asking for. for someone to fix the channels we have yeah now someone in charge of actually you know sending up permissions and stuff um we have someone in charge of all the bands yeah um we have people in charge of the of the voice chats now et cetera so once the blog is rolling with that we hope

we could do more on the server more fun stuff um before andy played us out i guess the only announcement we have is the design contest yeah so don't forget guys we do have the design contest uh still going um can we just talk about like how awesome these entries are this time around. I'm a little skeptical because before we were like getting like these funky photoshop so now we're getting like legitimate art and like a lot of these are really really good. Yeah, Johnny actually called me this morning

and we were talking about it a little bit and he's actually impressed of the quality how it's death tough. He's just like wow. Like from the last one to this one like I'm kind of kind of surprised. Everyone's just commissioning Nibbler. Yeah pretty much. She's like making a bunch of money off N-Z60. It's like your side hustle.

It's how she can afford a... Can you come me a sticker design, Nibbler. Yeah. But no, it's awesome. I like it. It's going to be really hard to choose, which is going to be the best one to summer, and I think.

And Nibler still hasn't submitted her design, so who knows what she's going to do? Why she's like, oh, now I've got to step it up. It's like, okay, tend to roll up my sleeves, you know? I didn't even think that should benefit her. For sure. She won't get complacent. All right, Andy.

What are you playing for us? Someday by the strokes. All right. Do you need a backing track? Are you good? I mean, it would help. It would make me feel more confident. Someday.

You're going to sing it? I can. You should. I'd rather sing it than play bass. There's the chorus and playing basses. You should just let him do it instead of singing play bass. Just like acapella? Yeah.

The backing track? That'd be weird. Exactly. Whatever, we just weird it out. Weird it out. All right, let's go, Andy. Play us off. Play us off.

They still miss the good old day. Someday, someday, yet hurts to stay, but I want you to stay. Sometimes, sometimes, when we was young, oh man did, we had fun. Always, always, always promises they break before they're made, Sometimes, sometimes. Wow. Bravo. Those are a good, Andy. You have a lovely singing voice.

It's weird hearing myself sing. Thank you. That was really good. Now you'll never be on the podcast again. Yeah, I peaked. Good job, Andy. Very proud of you. Now we should play the real version. That's good.

It's a more softer version because the real version is a little more punchier. Punchier in what way? There's any drums and a guitar instead of just... Someday. Someday. I mean... Now sing it as Morty or Rick. Someday.

That's hard. All right. Well, with that, thank you very much, Andy, for being here and playing for us and singing for us. I appreciate it. appreciate you. Do you want to give anybody in the office a shout out? Just any person who you think serves a little bit more recognition. So last little goodbye.

You know what? Yeah. Anybody. Throw him some clout. Harry. There we go. I throw a bunch of stuff at him sometimes. What about Harry?

What does Harry do real quick? He's like the... He's in charge of all the builders. Yeah, he's in charge of all the builders. If you want something build related, he gets a job done. He did a little bit of everything. thing. Yeah, he's a hard worker and sometimes

the fastest presenter in our meetings. Yeah, I mean filibustering. He has no time for nonsense. But yeah, no, I go Hey, Harry, I need you to ship out X, Y, Z and he goes, Are you serious? And I'm like, he doesn't do that, yeah. I'm like, yes, and he goes, okay, he'll be done. Yeah, I have crazy requests of him too. I'll tell him, like, I need a case

rap with a bunch of Wumpus and I needed done in two days. I needed done three days ago. And he'll just say, understood and walk away. Like next thing I know he says to me like the shipping info. Yeah, it's done. Yeah, thank you, Harry. All right. So, thank you for joining us today.

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