NZXT PODCAST - #055 - Mike

Episode Date: August 20, 2020

This week on the podcast, we are joined by NZXT’s Digital Media Contractor: Mike! Mike and the crew discuss Post Malone, overconfidence, and computer cases that look like printers. Visit mike here: miketanious.com Listen live to the NZXT 💜 CLUB CAST on our Discord server at discord.gg/nzxt every Thursday at 10AM PT! Thanks to Sajid#6667 for the artwork!

Meek, New York. Talk about, to you about, towboit, to boy, thank, it's really, really hard to do. Perfectly timed, as always. Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 55 of the N60 Clubcast, the official podcast of the N60 community. This podcast is recorded live every Thursday at 10 a.m. Pacific Center time of the official NXC Discord server

and is available to stream on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, and SoundCloud. Ivan's mic is like really mess with me today. So strap on your audio reality goggles and get plugged in Ivan you got to fix your audio homie But I didn't even send a one word dude I hear you I hear your mic like consistently going off I think when I told you to change the the settings It did something so maybe turn it back

That's why I asked you all right I mean is What is funny is like it sounded fine during the pre-show and like now like right do we go live literally nothing has changed Is this better? It sounds all wonky. Does it sound a little bit better? All right, cool. Testing, testing.

You sound good than me. Good morning, everyone. How is it going? It's going good. I don't even know what day it is anymore, but it's going, doing all right. I've never known.

I've never known what date is. Can you leave summers over? Yeah. Final call for Mike to unmute his mic because I see that he's still muted. Today's special guest is Mike. T, digital media contractor at NZXT. Hi, dude, Mike.

Hey, how are you? Doing all right. Doing great, man. Mike, your voice totally just changed you, like, radio voice. Announce your mode. What's right now? It's like, how are you guys? Hello, and welcome to the NZXT podcast.

How you doing today? Hey, there we go. Perfect. He couldn't have pulled the Andy on us, didn't he? Andy turns on his NPR voice. I mean, honestly, my favorite voice of mine is definitely my Napoleon dynamite voice. Let's hear it. Can you give us a, yeah.

Just one sec. Gosh, you fat lard. Dinner. Oh, freaking idiots. Gosh. Dennis, can you clip that, please? Already done. Thank you.

I mean, honestly, like, I've tried doing any other type of accent. and it just fails. So my go-to-in-high school was just putting on a vote for Pedro's shirt and just hope I would get a date to prom. That never worked. You know, now all I hear is Napoleon Dynamite. Yeah, I'm like a, I don't know, like, if there's something wrong with me, right? But I feel like I miss the boat on Napoleon dynamite.

Like, I've seen the movie, and I saw it when it was, like, the hot thing. Like, it didn't really resonate with me. and maybe like I'm not I'm not sure why like the dancing was dope but the rest of it was like probably because you're not funny you don't understand comedy and humor Dennis oh yeah that's that's probably

it's also not it's also not cringy anime that's very true I did feel clown college so you know definitely if I can make any recommendation the best time to enjoy that movie's right after a breakup because it's so just

you know dry humor also same with multi-pithon So you just need something that will make your soul heart. Wow. That movie, though, I love it. My way to bring it on the show. When I'm in my feels. So anyway, the last time I was feeling really down.

Now, it's actually funny because I think the last time I was going through something like really crappy, I think the first movie we have watched was forgetting Sarah Marshall. And I love you, man. Those two movies is always like getting me right back up. I don't know what it is, but they definitely do it for me in the fuels department. also for me I think the movie that gives well I don't think it gives me feels but whenever I'm down I just watch the room by Tommy Wiseau that's Andy's favorite movie oh it's not my favorite but it's definitely like it just you know it doesn't matter how bad of a day you're having just hearing why Lisa why just you know just cheer you up you know

it always gets me for sure um all right so Mike digital media a contractor at NST. What does that mean? What do you do all day? I mean, honestly, so NSXT is definitely my favorite client because no other client invites me to their podcast, but mainly what I do is a little bit of everything for some other clients. I might do some website work. I might do some SEO. SCO, meaning like you know, you're optimizing where you are on Google, for example, in terms of search results. For NST, I was hired to help out with writing some Google ads, currently helping out Facebook ads as well, designing some stuff that we're going to talk about later. Really, I just like to do everything digital marketing. I'm a little ADHD, so I can't

sit still on one thing, and I think that's the reason I picked this field. Interesting. So, what kind of digital marketing have you worked on? Like, what campaigns is anything interesting? So we ran a few Facebook ad campaigns. A lot of them were promotions. A lot of them were promotions. So, for example, like, you know, we're currently, like, running one for Rainbow Six. Rainbow Six Siege. I'd probably just said that wrong. Assassin's Crad Fahala. We're running a new branded campaign.

I'm also, you know, pushing to try and get a new analytics set up so that way we can be even more crappy in the way we track people. Otherwise, you know, it sounds boring, but it's super fun, I promise. And I just love talking to people who know. nothing about digital marketing, about how creepy it is and how much information we can get. Yeah, it's really, really weird. I remember I was testing this one tool out for social media that if someone was, if someone was like mentioning us or they were tweeting at us, we could find out their public accounts, you know, like their Facebook and Instagram and see if they have interacted with us in like other ways.

It's really crazy how much information is out there, not even like just digging in deep. It's just like out there and just there's these tools that pull everything together, right? Yeah, I love the aggregating tools. There's another tool called Sprout, shout Sprout social. They have something called social listening, super expensive. But, you know, whether it's your competitor or just like a certain word that you want to hear about or a hashtag, it'll parse every time that was used ever, basically. So if I want to find people who've said hashtag, Mike is sexy, I could find that on Twitter, Reddit, Facebook. YouTube, and then just pulled together a query,

and then just reply to people individually and say, is he, though? We'll see. Wait, is that a blooped word? I'm so sorry. No, that's Alan. Don't listen to Alan. He's a resident like Dad Joker, so don't worry.

You're good. Basically, you're tracking everyone who's listening right now to the podcast, correct? Not yet. And you're going to sell their information to TikTok. Oh, boy. getting started on TikTok. Oh, no, like, I just have...

Like, I love... I used to be very anti-Tick-Tac because I feel like for a long time, TikTok was just, like, stupid dances. And I have no interest in watching people be a dumb dance, right? I think it's dumb. But I think something interesting happened with TikTok where...

And I don't know if the pandemic had anything to do with it, but now it's turned into, like, almost like a social commentary type of thing. I do like scrolling through TikTok. I don't know, whatever algorithm I'm a part of on that, like I get like some pretty, pretty interesting stuff on there.

I get a lot of funny stuff like guys doing burnouts and trucks too all the time, which I like. But yeah, now, now I check it every day. I scroll through it, but I'm also kind of scared. Because I have read a little bit about like, you know, how much data they're using and what they're supposedly doing with it and stuff.

It's kind of scary, really, you think about it. I mean, so, wait, am I allowed to create people out on this podcast or now? Sure. Go for it, dude. You know, a lot of people say these are conspiracies. I personally don't believe so. I mean, I have to work in it every day. You know, Google, Facebook, they collect way more information.

You know, even your, like, I'm assuming you guys have an iPhone, right? If you don't. Negative? Okay, sorry. I do. You do. I have a flip-mark. So buried underneath like eight different settings, and a lot of people already know about this, you can find every location you've ever been to, how long you've been there, how many times you've visited there,

and that's information that you can just find on your film, right? So you know that's something that's actively being tracked. So they have also internal GPS systems. So if you're walking through a mall, they know right when you're about to pass that Hollister store. And the reason they enabled that is because, you know, people aren't looking up at the ads in the mall anymore. So they want to get you while you're on your phone. So there's a lot of creepy stuff that goes down and tracking. I'm not sure if you guys know about Hot Jar, but we can watch people interact with a website live and even get screen recordings with their IP address and everything.

A lot of freaky stuff going on. but personally speaking like TikTok isn't a turnoff for me because of the data it's just because I don't know what's going to happen with it like I think some people like pissed off Trump at his Oklahoma rally or whatever now he's trying to ban it I think I don't know that's the answer yeah there's a yeah there's there's a little word stuff that's that's that's going on with uh with with the TikTok I just use it to look at like memes and stuff pretty much yeah that's a new vine for sure I just fine Yeah. I mean, that's really pretty much like, like, the extent of how deep I think about, like, all this information on these apps is like, I know they're grabbing something. I really can't do much about it other than just not use the internet ever. So I'm going to enjoy this nice weed meme.

they just oh exactly well i mean the whole thing is even if you never use facebook or google they're tracking you on every website every app every smart tv because people use their pixels so it's kind of like you could either just never use the internet again and live in a cabin in Canada you know like that leonardard to cap right Canada specifically i don't know i just imagine Canada somewhere where you live in a cabin you'd have the bears eating you alive or something i don't know i look at Canada but i've been to Montreal. It's pretty cool there. I have never visited, but I feel like, I feel like it could be a nice place to go. Mike, what does your daily work routine look like? You wake up in the morning. It's the first thing you do. I'm pretty sure you're working from home these days, right?

So actually, I was working from home before the pandemic. I used to go to the gym, maybe send Starbucks for a little bit just so I can get out of the house. But I don't know. Nowadays, it's like I just wake up, I cry. I'm trapped inside my office all day long. So I just get up my entertainment, like video games are on my gaming PC. I'm working on my gaming PC. My cat yells at me for attention because I'm working and not petting him. I check out my Slack channel, see what I have to do. And then I just open up my checklist of work that I have to get done.

All right. Nice. What did you do before you were working with NZXT? Because you don't work for us. You work with this, right? You're a contractor, correct? Yeah. I've worked with a few different clients.

Probably one of my more interesting ones is called Cushion. I don't know if I should type them in chat or something, but they're an app that gets bang and credit card fees refunded. So they were just fresh startup when I started working with them. Now they're starting to get a lot more users with Facebook and stuff. And I've kind of done a little bit of everything with them from helping them design their website and getting that live, still managing it to running ads for them on Google,

running ads on Facebook. Now I'm just focusing on optimizing their search engine presence. So it's pretty fun to do just because it's like, I get bored of stuff so easily. So whenever I just get to switch and try something new, it's exciting. Okay, that's kind of neat. What are, I guess, as a good contractor,

what are some of the difficulties since like you don't have like traditional, you know, like you go to office nine to five. Number one, I think the number one difficulty I had to get over was like, you know, it's like, hey, it's not a day off every day. You still got to, you know, get up and work and stuff. So definitely routine, you know, organizing your time and your deadlines and everything. And one of the ones that I think a lot of people overlook about like, you know, being a contractor is, you know, I'd say like the benefits. It's like you have to be responsible for getting yourself health care. And I still have not gotten myself health care.

And it's COVID. So it's like, you know, you don't just get that taken out of your paycheck. And then your taxes, too, though you don't get that taken out of your paycheck. It's something you got to calculate. So, you know, I could either die of COVID or be audited by the IRS. I don't know what's worse. But it's terrifying. I think they're going to go hand in hand, no?

Yeah, right. What if you get audited and then your auditor gives you code? I mean, you think they'd let me off the hook for my taxes then? Probably not. He's like, hey, listen, so kind of screwed up, don't worry about this year. You're good. We'll cover for you. Honestly, even before COVID, like for someone my age, I have had way too many close calls to death.

Like, junior high school got meningitis next year after that. I got pneumonia. The worst part was like when I was in high school, I was taking college course. Oh, no, this happened, sorry. This happened junior year of college, not junior of high school. You know, I was giving out like I had to do group projects. And the whole thing is when I was in school, thankfully just graduated last semester. But I don't trust anyone, right?

So it's like a group project. I'm like, look, you guys are cool and everything. I'm just going to do all the work because I'd rather be on the line for this. weeks earlier than last minute because you guys are going to suck and it's migrate at hand here, right? So I wind up just taking over the whole group project. Well, I wind up getting pneumonia.

I didn't know I had pneumonia. I just had 107 fever. But I still, I'm like, okay, if I don't do these presentations, we're going to fail. It's going to be obvious I did all the work. So I wound up just like, before face masks were even cool. I just caught a face mask. I'd go

give like my group presentations at here. And I'm like, dying in the meantime, just coughing, ready to faint, sweating. I had 107 fever, basically. During one of my last ones, a professor was like a real jerk, you're just like, can you speak up any louder as I'm like visibly suffocating? It was like my last presentation too. I literally just turned to him and I'm like, I don't want to be here.

If I try to speak any louder, I might cough on you. So I'm getting really quiet. I got 100 on that presentation, so I think he felt a little bad. but right after that one, my mom just rushed me to the ER because she's like, well, what are you doing? Because I left class right after I presented. And yeah, I had pneumonia. And they're like, dude, if you waited another day, you'd just be dead.

And I'm like, it's my dedication to group projects. Wow. I really should have responded to that. It's pretty pretty crazy, man. Like, I've never had a serious illness like that. Thank God. But man, like, I, yeah, that's a lot of, that's a lot to, go through, especially if someone so young. How old are you? I just turned 21 in May. I'm probably

the baby of the company. Yeah, you're definitely pretty young. Kind of a related sad story. I remember when I was in high school, I think it was my freshman or sophomore year. This kid, you know, I got to like elementary school with him, junior high with him. Like I knew him very well. I wouldn't say we were friends, but, you know, he's my class. mate and one day I was at the park and I was just shooting some hoops like like Fresh Prince of Gilaire. I was just seriously just shooting some hoops like you know free throws or whatever and he was there and I just started like playing basketball with him you know like I was like hey man you want to shoot some hoops sure we started playing and then the next day he wasn't in school

and you know I didn't think anything of it but he just like he didn't go to school for like the rest of the week. And then like the following Monday, like they had like a special like announcement, you know, and they let us know that he died because he got meningitis. And he just like, what? Yeah. Yeah. It was like really, really crazy.

And I had never even heard of meningitis before that. But, you know, I guess it's like a pretty, you know, serious thing. It's not like a, you know, it's not like a common cold. or anything like that. It's like a very serious thing. A lot of people die from it. Well, when I got it, thankfully, it was just a viral infection. The whole thing is I have a really crappy immune system.

I'm not to say crappy. That's not a curse word, right? Whoa, whoa, whoa, man. Watch your language there. It's a little too spicy for this podcast. Oh, sorry. I have a really not great immune system. And, well, my school basically sent out a letter that day saying, hey, just like, you know, someone in the school caught meningitis,

so you might get it, just be careful, wash your hands and stuff. As soon as I knew, they basically announced this, and then they had like this huge, I forgot the name of it, like when a bunch of people gathered together, not like an announcement, what's it called? Assembly. Assembly, yes. They had like this huge assembly, and I knew I was going to get it. I'm like, why do you have this assembly? I'm going to die now. And I got meningitis the next day. I think, bro. It's almost like having an assembly to tell the school about coronavirus. What happened like in Iowa?

Married or like something really stupid. Like we call our principal Mr. Clean because he just has a bald head. Looks like he waxes it with like those things that you're doing the floors. Like he just straight up like grabs it and just power washes his head every day. I'm like, why would you, you know, why would you have us here? I don't know. I think the worst thing I've ever had. Well, I had a heart attack when I was like 14, but that's not a huge deal.

I had a two-week migraine. You had a heart attack when you were 14? Yeah. That wasn't like a huge deal. That was just... Not a huge deal, heart attack. At 14. Yeah, a 14.

For some background, I'm Egyptian. And I actually, my ancestry dates back to Cleopatra the 4th. If you like, look at her Wikipedia page, she literally divorced. one of her brothers for like her other brother. So all of that. Falling. I would rather have a heart attack like once a month than ever have to do with like the two-week migraine again. I hate migraines, right?

They are not headaches. And, ooh, like having one for two weeks, I just couldn't like leave the house. The light, the noise hurt me. So my friends are just like, Mike, we got to like get you out of the house. Halloween's your favorite holiday, so we got to get you out for Halloween. I didn't get a costume because obviously I didn't plan to go out with the migraine, but I'm like, you know, it's fine. So I just down like a bunch of ibuprofen.

And I have to put together this makeshift costume. I wind up finding one of my brother's old like yellow leather jackets. I put that on. I just pretend to be like, I forgot what I called it. I held around a broomstick. So, oh, yeah. I wound up trying to be like an Italian mobster, but I'm Egyptian, so I just did not work. I just had this horrible Italian accent the whole night.

But anyway, as we're trick-or-treating, a fire truck comes by to give out candy. And it's like, that's light and sound. And it's like very loud, very bright in the middle of the night. So I wind up like collapsing. I'm just like, oh, God, I'm going to die. I'm going to die. Fire truck leaves. I'm like, oh, thank God.

So I'm getting back up. Another fire truck comes by. And just to give out more candy, I guess, or something. I just wound up feigning. Migrants are the worst. I have to definitively say that. I'm still tripping on the fact that you say you would rather have a heart attack than a migraine. Yeah.

I'm also tripping from the fact that you're related to Cleopatra. That's pretty cool. Thank you. I remember. Is she cool? I mean, I don't know, like, I just, I don't know what happened. Like, I always try to look at my ancestry tree, like, as much of it that's pieced together and, like, figure out what happened. Because how did I go from, like, you know, an embodiment of raw to, like, this fat,

living in America. I don't know what happened. There is the movement somewhere around one of the great wars, right? People that said, hey, I'm going to leave. Chill somewhere else for a minute. Since you're Egyptian, do you know how they built the pyramids?

I do not. The running theory is we just threw a lot of death and suffering out of it until it got built. You know, there's like you know the theories that it was slavery or something like that to my knowledge everyone was compensated pretty decently like i thought i think you got grain or whatever for working on the pyramids but the compensation didn't matter because you probably died in the heat right i mean that i mean that's they're probably betting on right it's like hey you can get this grain if you don't

die exactly but the correct answer was aliens aliens I was actually curious if you were going to say it was aliens or not. I just learned something really interesting about the Sphinx. Apparently there's, I think it's either behind the left or right here. I don't remember which one. There's like there's a switch that nobody has ever figured out how to flip. And the theory is that once this switch is flip,

that apparently like it opens the sphinx and there's like all these like like tunnels inside that some people think are like launching pads for flying saucers. It's not that crazy you think about it, man. Like there's a lot of hieroglyphics. There's a lot of artwork there that it literally looks like a space man, like a guy like on a rocket ship or like an alien coming down from the sky and things like that. Like, it's not that crazy to imagine it. And what's even crazier to me about the pyramids is they're not just in Egypt, right?

They're in South America. They're in Mexico. They're all over the place. And they're still finding these pyramids, like, throughout the world, like in different parts. And the crazy thing is that not only do they not know how they actually built them. Like, we could not even build a pyramid today if we wanted to, first of all. But the crazy thing is I'm not pretty sure. How many sure rights we could?

Actually, no, we can't. Like, we don't know how they did it. Like, we can build a pyramid out of glass, like in Las Vegas. But to build a pyramid out of like three-ton stones, like the Egyptians did, we have no idea how to even lift one of those things up. Like, how do you? If you're throwing enough death and suffering out of it, you can do anything for it. Well, anyway, the interesting thing, too, is that the pyramids, you know, like, they're triangles, as you all know. apparently they point

at like different like direction so like there's like some pyramids that all point to like the same star like it makes like no sense right so I don't know it's a weird thing to think about Mike is an a thing

confirmed something interesting now that you bring all of that up is like yeah I don't want to delve too much into the conspiracies myself but like why pyramids of all things you could build anything why a triangle right I don't know, whenever we're talking, whenever someone brings up aliens in Egypt, I just immediately think of like serious Sam now.

Hey, shout out to Sam. Shout out to Sam, but. Shout Sam, Sam, sad, sad, sad Sam's in the chat. I can't talk to me. I don't know. I wish there were aliens. Like, give me a meeting to all this. Like, you know, why am I eating Taco Bell instead of the food in the fridge?

Tell me why? I don't know. That's a tweet. I really shouldn't be on Twitter, honestly, which is why I'm not anymore. People are telling me I was wild in. Don't worry. We'll talk about that soon enough. We'll get to that.

All right. So Mike, how did you end up working within ZXT? So I wound up getting introduced to, I guess this is the Mike whose expectations I have to meet. Like, I want him getting introduced to Mike. who started, I think, a month or two before me. Which mic? Discord Mike. Oh, Mike Newton. Yeah, Discord Mike.

He's super awesome. We talk every day. And I was originally just going to tutor him in Google AdWords. But, you know, we started talking and stuff. And it wound up just leading into me. I'm kind of like the Robin to his Batman. He's just so awesome. He gets so much stuff done.

And I'm just kind of like, you know, sitting there in my red type. It's just like trying to be useful. I'm quoting that, by the way. I'm going to let Mike know. That's what you said. Imagine ID and Mikey is like, I don't really know him that well, dude. I mean, awesome. I'm such a meme.

I don't know if I told you guys this, but I'm actually like a literal meme. Like, I got pranked by a YouTuber once. I know if I'm not to like it in the chat because the video by itself isn't really that appropriate but yeah I got You can't test privately and we can check it out I'll say to you guys but I was

voice pranked by this YouTuber named the Ornich Pranks like literally if you just play a clip of the audio it's like me there basically like and I was like in high school taking college accounting class and stuff and he's just you know

like busted my chops for busting breaking the, sorry, I'm just trying not to curse, for breaking the curve on the midterm. So, like, in that entire thing, I'm just terrified that I'm going to wind up getting beat up by this guy that I have no idea who. So basically, like, the context is, like, during my junior year of high school, it's, like, really busy. So as soon as a professor said, hey, as long as you show up to class and for, like, the midterm and final, attendance doesn't really matter.

So I never showed up to class again, except for the, midterm and final. So because I was mainly in high school, I didn't have time to go to this night class all the time. And I wound up getting 100% on the midterm. I don't know how. I guess I just like studied a little bit the night before. And apparently the class average was a D. The professor emails me this saying like, hey, just wants to let you know the class average was a D. We could not curve because of you. You should feel proud for studying even though you never showed up to class. And I just like pooped myself. I'm like, oh boy, I can never show up to this class again. I should just drop it.

I'm like, okay, no one's going to know. No one's going to know. I just tell a few of my friends. One of them leaked it to this YouTuber's a story, and the YouTuber just wanted prank calling me saying it's going to, like, beat me up and stuff. And, yeah. Yeah, I'm looking through the video, and I'm pretty sure we can't put this on the server.

That's fine. But people can look it up if they want. Yeah, just search Angry College grading curve prank. After this podcast. Don't, yeah, exactly. Yeah, after the podcast, whether you're listening live or. or un-live, you're listening dead. What's the opposite of live?

Is it dead? I feel like you should be dead. That's the opposite of a live. The opposite of the live is dead. The opposite of live is probably just like... Pre-recorded? I don't know. Yeah, because when you watch a TV show, like a sitcom,

they usually say, this sitcom was recorded live in front of a studio audience, or this is pre-recorded. right? Don't they say that? In front of a live studio audience. This episode of the NZXT podcast was recorded live in front of a studio audience. Here's our last track. Wow, wow, wow, wow.

Thanks, Napoleon. I've always wanted to add a laugh track. I'm looking into potential software slash hardware solutions to just do more dumb stuff for the podcast. Instead of a laugh track, you guys just record my cat's meows. He just yells at me all day. He's being really good right now. honestly, I feel like he just knows like that he's going to get like sprayed with a bottle

if he just starts yelling at me right now. So he's just behaving at me. But he's just staring at me. I bought him a cat tree is the worst mistake of my life. He just sits. I've had a camera I would show you. He just, well, I have a camera, but if this was a camera podcast, I'd show you. He's just sitting up on the cat tree staring at me.

And that's all he does while I'm working all day. Like that you now know that you have to post photos of these of this cat in the podcast channel, right? Well, it's like. Oh, it's my profile picture. on Discord. Can people see that? They can, but then they get to scroll down that giant list that they got going. Okay, okay. Because of the, yeah, because of 100 people are in the server.

While doing that, Mike, you could answer this next question for me. What is your favorite thing about digital marketing? Probably that's always changing. Again, I'm a very ADHD type personality, and originally I was in college for accounting because I love numbers. But then I'm like, when I saw, it was just, It was so boring. And I'm like, I can't do this for the rest of my life.

And I kind of just found digital marketing on a whim. And I fell in love with it because the whole thing gets flipped on its head every month like this new type of tech or an algorithm change or something. And there's just so many creative ways you can do campaigns. And it's data driven. So I got the numbers piece that I love. So it was always like, you know, something that you can do, right? So I don't know, I like it a lot personally.

But it's because it's always changing and state. Right, right. What is your least favorite thing about digital marketing? Probably the stigma around it. Well, I guess this is more for marketing in general. My beef with marketing is like when you say you're in marketing, everyone assumes you're in a pyramid scheme. And it's like, not really. I hope not. I'm just vibe in, you know? I just want to make ads. Or like they'll think that you have all of their personal information just saved on your computer. And I'm like, bro, if I had everyone's personal information, I would not have so much trouble getting a Tinder date because I'd know exactly what to put my profile. Is there an algorithm for that?

I feel like there is. I actually studied it. And the worst part is I still can't hack it. But basically, like, it determines how ugly you are based on facial recognition and also based on your swiping. Like how long it takes between swipes, how often you're on the app, how many times you open the app. Basically, if you're swiping right on everything, you're just going to be at the bottom of the pile. But if you're like barely using the app, you're very picky with your swipes. A lot of people swipe on you, for example.

Like, then they'll swipe right on you. They'll determine you as hot, so they'll put you closer to the top of the stack. So what I personally do is whenever I'm single, I just get Tinder Premium for like a month. Because it gives you unlimited swipes and you get one boost with it. that I turn my mouse on an auto because when you boost, it puts you at the top. I use an auto clicker on my mouse to just swipe right on everything exists. And, um, these crazy. This man's a guy.

I still get like zero dates. It sucks, you know, but. You're doing this on your PC, not the actual, like, app on your phone? Well, I, before I would use an Android amelator on my PC, but apparently they have a titter.com now. like stuff's just changing man are there are there any other benefits to choosing a tinder boost like can you use gifts

or like can you have like a higher quality bit rate when you're streaming I mean honestly the best part about Tinder premium is probably just being able to set your location to anywhere because you know I live in a pretty like small town in New Jersey where there's no one around me

and honestly speaking like I'm really no one's type around here because I'm just like this tall goofy Egyptian that has a dad bod. Even though I'm like 21 people think I'm like 40. It's such a really is a clear party. Yeah, nothing out of being 40. Also like I haven't got triggered. Hey, I'm 40 and people think on 21 so we're even.

Placing myself more populated areas. I think it's just like the whole thing of like I'm someone's type, even though I'm not a lot of people's type. So it's just like a higher, you know, odd type deal. I don't know. But yeah, I don't know, that's probably the best thing. I wish it had some, you know, zero latency stuff for bigger file uploads. All right. So I'm like, what's your least favorite thing about digital marketing?

Oh, I just said the stigmas. Oh, I'm not. Sorry, sorry. I thought, I thought that was part of the things that you liked. I love that people judge me. Okay. What is your favorite NZXT product? Because you were telling us that you have some parts in your computer, right?

Yes, I do have the cooler. I wanted to get NZXT case, but all were sold out during Corona. So I'm stuck with the Corsair until I upgraded a few months again because I can't stand this Coursera case. It's awful. Please don't suit me for slander Corsair, but you guys... You said it, not me. That's your opinion. What don't you like about it?

I don't know. I have this weird grill on the front. It looks like... Honestly, it kind of just looks like a cheese grater. I don't really like it. My favorite cheese is like the H-1. I have an ITX build. So I love the H-1, like, so much.

Yeah, those are hard to get right now. Like, even for us, we're still trying to have, like, a healthy stock, but, you know, the whole pandemic thing, you know, that whole thing. Yeah. Yeah, like, if a pandemic wasn't going on, I would seriously tell Mike I would send them in H-1. No, for sure, yeah. I feel kind of bad too because I actually, we'll get into this later,

but Mike worked on a project for us and I wanted to thank him and send him a little gift, but I haven't been able to ship them like a little thank you gift. So it sucks not being able to ship stuff. Like it's annoying like when you have to ship a lot of things and then it becomes even more annoying when you have to ship a lot of things and you can't. And then you're just like just waiting, waiting and waiting. it's really annoying right now to ship things in the mail. I agree.

I also get very impatient. Like, whenever I ride DoorDash or Uber Eats, I'm like, I have a 49-inch monitor. I know if someone asks about my setup, I'm not supposed to answer questions yet, but I'm just going to throw that out there. I'm 49-monder. And realistically, just so I could have the Door-Dash map open while I'm staring at it so I know exactly where my driver is, because I'm just on my car is. You know, it's like, you don't get any fat rules from nothing.

and it's like, yo, where's my Taco Bell? I need to know. What's your favorite place to get DoorDash from? Ooh, boy. Here we go. Asking me about food. We're knocking me off this topic now. Okay.

So, precursor, my favorite food is a burger, but there's no place around here that makes good burgers. I make amazing burgers, though. We can talk about that in a second. So I would have to say my favorite one is this place called Golden Burrito, where they deep-fri a burrito. And, you know, I just, I'm fat. Like, I like when things are fried in general, but, like, I really love Mexican foods when you deep-friac a burrito. No, no, not a Chimmy Changa, Allen.

It's straight up just like, I don't know how to explain it. I just have to send a picture. Hold on. but it is probably the best thing you'll taste for a day and then you'll hate yourself right after it's like one of those types of foods uh let's see oh man they have horrible pictures

I might need to redo their website I never put their website but ah they don't have any good pictures of the burrito I feel so sad because now I just talk this up and it looks horrible right hold on I just imagine it looks better in person also to the person that mentioned the Mars bar

I live in the same town where the Eminem Mars headquarters is. Have you visited? I have not. The Eminems in the front look like really creepy. Do you have any photos? Because I want to see what's up. Hey, hold on. He's going to ask you for photos for everything.

Golden Burrito. Oh, wow. Yeah, this is a really good looking breeder, though. I'm not going to lie. And you get the Haritos and everything on the site, too. Oh, yeah. Sorry, I should not have made that noise. I just get very excited talking about food.

I'm having a little bit of a hard time breathing. I just love food. That is the Mars factory. And again, those M&Ms, they just don't tickle my fancy. They just look really weird. So every time I drive by, I kind of want to vomit. I kind of look at these Eminems. Yeah, I don't know.

They look that creepy. Those look like regular big old M&Ms, just like supersized. Zoom in on the red one and tummy doesn't look creepy. Did he just vibe in? He didn't vibe them. He famed him. All right. You are an alien because you're related to Cleopatra

and you live next to Mars. True. You know, maybe I built the pyramids. Oh. And he's just trying to throw us, throw us off the trail, right? Interesting, interesting. Bear up.

All right. No, get down from there. Sorry. No worries. Mike, what would you like to see NX team make? What product? A cyberpunk case, hands down. I love Cyberpunk 2077.

The Witcher 3, one of my favorite games at all time. I've never pre-ordered game before, by I pre-ordered the Cyberpunk Collector's Edition. I got the stupid Xbox stand and controller, which they totally overcharged for. I'm talking on, like, even though I'm using an external mic, I'm talking on the head, like I've, like, the cyberpunk headset on right now.

It's not a great podcast. I own better headphones in these. I just love cyberpunk. I have never been so hyped for a game. The trailer came out seven years ago, and it's still getting delayed, which tells you, like, how hard they're just working on it.

And, ooh, boy, I just can't wait for it. You're going to wait until 2077 for that game. Fair. I am predicting another delay on that game. I bet. I actually don't think so. I don't think it will be. No?

You think it's good? I think the pandemic had a positive effect for some industries, and I think video game development is one of them, to be honest. I think it's one of the few industries where working remotely is probably going to benefit them, as opposed to like, because video game developers, I mean, it's like, you know, they're notorious for, working all night and, you know, for two weeks straight or whatever, crunch time, all this, like, programming that goes into a game.

And I think if everyone's just working remote, it's just like, you know, I think it's easier to work like that in that environment, like, from home, then you know, having to drive to an office and just being there all day. I'll say that's probably one of my favorite parts about work remote. Like, I did not like the, so I liked working remote before the pandemic. During the pandemic, it's like, I don't know, I never leave the house anyway, But I don't like someone telling me that I can't. Obviously, I am social distancing.

I am staying at home. It's like, you know, what if I just wanted to go to Starbucks or if I wanted to go, you know, go to the gym and stuff? I don't go to a gym anyway because I'm fat and I like to eat. But it's like, you know, I just like they have the option. I think that's what it is and having the option taken away sucks. And like working from home before the pandemic was awesome because one of the things I hated the most was commuting.

Like, you know, basically my whole adult life, my very short adult life, I've been commuting like, basically 80 miles one way for work. So like basically doing 160 miles a day, my poor Suzuki named Susie, I bought her like July 2018. And from there to present, I didn't even put on that many miles this year.

I wound up putting on like, it had 80,000 miles and now it's at like 140,000 miles. Just from the amount I used to commute. So by the time I'd get to work, I was already burnt out and exhausted. So not having a commute. Being able to, like, wear your PJs and stuff. I don't know.

It was just so nice. Ivan's not about the PJ life. He told me that multiple times. What? Yeah. I'm very weird. Like, I, if I don't shower and dress, like, I'm going to work, I'm not going to, like, work, basically. I'm just going to, like, lounge.

If I sit my pajamas all day, I'm just going to, like, you know, lay in bed and play Nintendo Switch instead of, work or whatever. I need to like trick myself into thinking I'm like going into work mode. Actually, that's pretty understandable. I guess for me, it never really made a difference because I worked at pretty casual jobs. I used to work at like a pretty chill agency. And then before that,

was a call center so they didn't really care what you wore. So I'd wear PJs and sweats to work a lot. For me, it's like if I'm not comfortable, I just have a hard time focusing. I'm always uncomfortable. I can't focus regardless. or whatever I do. So I just,

I just dress however. I feel that. Yeah. I'm pretty sure that like I have some of like adult onset ADHD or something. I'm like almost 100% that's like the case because I'm like consistently remembering things or not remembering things that I should 100% be remembering. And even things were like, I'll take all the steps. We're like,

I make a note, right? I have a list. It's written down somewhere that I'm always looking and then I always manage to forget stuff. And I'm like, I was sitting the other day. I'm like, maybe maybe there's something. thing wrong with me. Like maybe I literally need to go see a doctor like, hey, dude, my brain doesn't work. Can you, can you, can you take a look at it real quick? Maybe you're doing

something to your brain that you should have you doing. Honestly speaking. Like what? I don't know. I don't make the podcast all depressing, but like, and ADHD, it's just like, everyone's like, oh, this guy just can't focus all the time. And it's like, I haven't been officially diagnosed, to be fair. I just know that I definitely have it. But it's so much like, know there's so many things that you want to do and you just get bored all the time and you're always looking for that rush of dopamine so you're just jump into like whatever new project makes you happy and then you forget about all the stuff that you're supposed to do right I mean yeah it's just um you know for me it helps me out a lot because it's why I can do so many things at

the same time but like otherwise I would just you know it would suck yeah I think I think yeah pretty much everyone more or less feels that way to be honest Like, no one likes to do the things they don't like to do. No one likes to focus on the things that don't interest them. Nobody likes to, you know, work instead of play. It's just, I think you just have to find those things you like. You know, like you said, you like digital marketing. It excites you.

You like doing it. So I think everyone just has to find that one thing they like, right? Whatever it is. If it's accounting, so be it if it's digital marketing, cool. if it's working out, cool. Everyone needs that one thing to kind of, you know, focus on and just make them happy. Exactly.

Mine is rolling for wifu's in mobile games. Are you what the industry calls a whale? No, so it's funny. Like, I am a very responsible spender in those types of games. Like, I don't spend money unless it's like for like a little bit of convenience or like a small benefit for it, right? Like, I'm not really, like, out there spending, like, you know, hundreds of thousands of dollars for a chance to get something,

so that's not really how I play video games. But I will buy things like cosmetics because, like, I think they're cool, you know? That's, like, really pretty much it. I agree. Like, if you like, for example, like, you know, playing someone in Overwatch a lot, you should definitely get that scan. Like, personally speaking, I just hate it when it's on kids games. Like, so shout out to Wizard 101.

That was my childhood. But also, screw you. to Wizard 101 because I didn't want to say the F word. I'm sorry, I almost did. Screwed to Wizard 101 because they introduced something called Horde packs when I was a few years into the game. And basically it's like, oh, do you want the best loot in the game? Gamble like for $3 per pack and people would wind up spending hundreds of dollars

just so that way they could even PVP with like the best gear. And they still have that practice going on and they just keep introducing more and more RNG. and it's like, bro, this is a kids game because they're susceptible to this kind of stuff. It's like, I don't know, how much you're just gambling so young. I don't know. But yeah.

I used to, I used to, I used to work for a game called, called a Black Desert Online. And they have, what I would say is the most infuriating, like upgrade system in the world. And the way it works is that

once you get past a certain tier of upgrading, so let's say it's like, I think you can upgrade, your gear to like plus 10 for like free right and once you get past plus 10 every time you try to upgrade your your gear it has a chance of rolling back one right so imagine your okay so it's not just that but also you also lose durability on the item and and and and the only way to get durability is by getting into there of the same item and slapping it into the one you had before right So then let's say it's like a endgame boss gear, right?

Something that you can't really get very often. Well, you can't smash into the item into it because they're that valuable. It's better to save you to sell it for money or whatever. So then they sold something where it's like, hey, if you messed up on your, on your enhancements, use this, this item that you can pay for to bring up the durability on the item again. Oh, by the way, you just, you know, broke your item again. Go ahead and do it. So it was really, really infuriating because you could potentially lose months and months of progress

if you just had a really, really bad RNG. And they also sold things that made it so that when you did fail an enhancement, it didn't, you wouldn't lose durability on the item. So really, really gross and scummy. And I can't imagine ever taking someone's progress because, you know, the stars weren't in the sky and the pyramids weren't pointing at the crux. consolation, you know. Yeah, I mean, honestly, that's one of the reasons I could never play Black Desert Online again.

I don't know they introduced something called like Ultimate Weapon Reform. So like, like, armor reform. So basically like, I don't know, like it's, I think it's craft. It'd be actually if the materials are either super hard to get or you pay for the materials. But basically gives you 100% chance to like upgrade it all the way to the highest level, which is ultimate. But then you look at like, you know, if you want to just do it. it naturally without paying money and stuff, you have a 30% chance to like downgrade on everything. Well, no, like 30% chance to downgrade to like level two or 30% chance to downgrade all the

way back to like level one and only a 5% chance to actually upgrade. And it's like, you know, would you take that risk or would you just pay the 10 bucks? It's like, I don't know. Right. Yeah, it was, it was pretty bad. We're playing wow again. And one of the things I love about that game is like, you know, there's a lot of. little bit of pay to win now with like the wow tokens and stuff but also i just look at as like speeding

the game up i really like it now more than i like to back then yeah i just i just only the idea of like you pay monthly for this game right and that that cost is opposed to like offset everything right it's supposed to offset the server cost and development cost blah blah so that you know the game keeps running and that's like the contract you make with the company and then like actually give us like ten dollars for this for this pet that doesn't do anything it just looks cool Hey, you don't like it play Fortnite, man. True. I mean, technically, you can pay,

you can play Fortnite for free all day every day and you can miss out on any content. Fortnite's having an epic battle royale with Apple right now and Google, so that's pretty interesting. We're going to pull the podcast from Apple, actually. Really? Wait, that's it.

All right. Okay, real quick. this move along because we got some more questions for you some actually fun ones Mike real quick special shoutout for anyone at NZXT that you believe deserve some love um I haven't been here that long so I have to give shout to Mike um together where Mike squared he completes me my Mike ting Mike iting right? Mike good I call Mike Ting. All right uh so It's now time for Ivan's set of silly questions. Ivan, what do you got?

All right. Time for everyone's favorite, favorite segment of the podcast. Poppy's random questions. My first question for you, Mike, is where the heck do you even buy a Suzuki? I find in the middle of like this, like a middle, like I know they're in the middle of nowhere now. This is like literally like an empty field where there was like a building and it was calling itself a car dealership. They were like, hey, here's this car for $3,000. and only has 80,000 miles on it.

But yeah, it was a, I don't know. The reason I asked that question is because I'm actually a Suzuki fan. When I was a kid back in the like in the 80s, I think it was in the 90s. There was a, let me see if I can find it. There was a Suzuki Jeep like a really cool. It's a total rip-off of a real Jeep, but it's a Suzuki. Oh, the chimney! I don't know what it's called.

It was super popular. I think it might be called a... Oh, no, it was a samurai. The Suzuki Samurai. That's what it was. Oh, the samurai, yeah. Yeah, for me... So when I was a kid in the 80s, like, this was, like, the coolest car you could possibly have.

Like, it was just awesome. And I remember when I first got my... my driver's license in the 90s, you know, like 10, 15 years later, I wanted to get one of these Suzuki jeeps, and I was doing research on him, and apparently that's like the car that has rolled over the most out of like any car in the world. Like apparently they roll over like crazy because they didn't design him correctly. But then the other cool thing about Suzuki is that the rumor is that the cool S that everyone knows how to draw, no one knows where it comes from is actually inspired from the Suzuki logo so they say.

Interesting. For me, it's like a lot of middle school that you drew on the notebook. Yeah. I saw this documentary, but it was on YouTube, so I don't know like how like legit it is, but apparently the cool S dates like really, really far back. Where is it? Universal S. I think this is the video.

I'm going to link it here. I don't know if it's a good or bad video, but it's educational. So at the bare least, that's my. my thing. Apparently like like, do you think the aliens who built the pyramids created up? The pyramids are not triangles are actually cool s's. We can't say it's either from the right angle.

Like here's like a here's like a picture from like the 19 like something I don't know where it's from. But this like really old up 1890s 1890s is where this photo is from. So it's like some weird font that some mechanical graphics people whatever design. So like apparently like this, this cool s or like some variation of the cool s has been around for like a really, really long time. A gay aliens. Interesting.

Definitely. I'm going to have to look at that documentary now. You can call me Tony the Tiger because I'm, no, that's wrong with Donald. He can call me all the clock because I'm loving it. Next question for you, Mike, is what makes you so stupid, stupid dumb dumb? Doth girls. what what they make me stupid i have no idea what to say if i didn't want to elaborate on that i mean like

you know just like gothchucks they just they take it out of you it doesn't matter like what your goals are in life you'll you'll die for them i was referring i'm referring to your scream name not like you know i know like they make me stupid, stupid dumb dumb. I'm being serious, 100%. Are you, uh, do you, are you a goth? Do you dress in golf? No, no, no, no. I'm like the most vanilla person you'll ever meet, but, you know, if a golf girl mess with me asked me to take part and say, take ritual, I don't think I could say no. Like, they could ruin my life. I'm fine with it.

All right, uh, any golf girls listening please? Yeah, Mike, I guess. I mean, all seriously, I just feel like, um, I was always one of those kids who was like, I don't want to say book smart because I was even stupid in school. But like I could just like memorize things fast and that's why I got good grades on tests. I've really paid attention. Like I just say the stupidest things all the time. And like all my friends are like, Mike, I don't know how you've been able to do what you do in your life at such a young age. But then you're just such an idiot.

And I'm like, I have no idea. You're quite the character, Mike. Thank you. I appreciate. Yeah, another, okay, so another question I have for you is you have one of the coolest mustaches I've ever seen. It's one of the, it's like a very specific type of mustache. It's called a pencil pencil stash. Oh, really?

I think it was made popular by John Waters. My question for you is, is that natural or do you shave it like that? I mean, that profile picture was like when I was like 30 pounds thinner. Right now, I was trying to grow out a beard probably as long as I've been alive by just pat to pirate it. And really like it's my Egyptian genetics. I'll be able to find to finally grow a full beard once I'm bald because I'm balding. You know, we have really young balding there for some reason. So I can only have the chin and the mustache.

And that's why I just did right now. I don't know if it's a goatee or like a frotee or whatever it's called. It's like I just have my mustache going to have my goatee grounds. And I just don't mess with it. I just leave it to grow up. Have you seen John Waters' mustache? Oh. Yeah, his is literally as like.

Hi, everyone. I'm John Waters. He seriously has like the thinnest mustache I've ever seen on a human being. I feel like mine's a little thicker now I'm about to take a selfie Yeah go for it Okay I do it man

You can do it every you want Yep this is your show man I'm just gonna take a mustache I feel like mine's a little thicker now hold on This is gonna get memed I 100% know Like you're gonna be able to see my acne My facial hair I just zoomed it on my mustache

Please don't clip this chat Too late Bullie honey here with the hot memes Yeah I think you need to go back dude You gotta go back I have to go back Yeah you got to go back

A message in Discord It's right screenshot and I know it It's too late someone already saved it yeah I'm gonna be real that's not the wave man that's not the

it's not the vibe I know it's corny oh I love post Malone oh my god actually that that was gonna be my next fun question for you here is because I personally

think post Malone is horrible what yeah I think he's he's I don't know. I think his music is really bad. I don't consider him like to be talented or anything like that whatsoever. However, I will say recently I listened to or I watched his YouTube live stream where he played like all the Nirvana songs. That was awesome. That guy can definitely do a great. Kirk Cobain impression, I'll admit.

And I also heard him on the Joe Rogan podcast a couple of weeks ago. And he was funny. He's a funny dude. But just his music, I cannot stand. And I think he looks like a, for lack of a better word, he just looks like a, like a dumb guy. I don't know. He's just looking at him. I mean, like, it just looks like a big weirdo, you know.

It's just like, you know. that's how you really feel I just don't like the guy but his music wise I guess I just my question for you is what what is it about his music that that you like all right

so I have to go full defense note here because he just straight up attacks my soul um all right so first I have to say as a preface I fell in love with his personality before I fell in love with his music because before I even heard of him he was on the H3H3H3 podcast

he was on a few different podcasts he was even in some just dumb old YouTube videos before he got super famous and had no time for stuff. And he's just this really genuine sweet guy. He has the thing where I have where it's like ugly cute. And like I kind of live by that because that's the most, it's a backhanded compliment,

but that's a compliment I get all the time. It's like you're really cute for an ugly guy. And I kind of live by that, you know? It's like where you're just kind of like adorable without trying to be adorable and just people make fun of you all the time. Yeah, me too, dude. He's even a video of him being bullied for like a few minutes straight on YouTube just throughout different interviews.

I'm going to link it right here. but I mean there's no curse words or anything in it because it's just, you know, him being sad of people making fun of him. But he's just a really sweet guy. I love his personality. I kind of relate to him a lot. And he does look like.

So that's what I mean. I like him as a person, just his music. I'm talking about his music in general. Well, so, that's my perfect. Like, what genre of music is that? I don't think he has a genre. That's the thing I love about him. It's like, yeah, he started off very rapy.

I get that. They were old Like I love this raspy voice I think the first time I found love Was congratulations Because You know I've always been a hustler And I really relate to the line

Of like work so hard For God out of vacation And for that like you know Just the dream of achieving fame It's like you know Kind of a dream for everyone And some of the songs are very repetitive Like rock star

I still love the song though It's like fun to jam out too Psycho Another one of my favorite songs and then you have his slower music. Like, I know you liked his guitar vibe. He actually auditioned for, I think it was a Venge sevenfold to be like a drummer or a bassist.

I forgot which what was. And they rejected him. That's before he became famous. He loves rock music and that's originally all he wanted to do. But he started off kind of like rap, hip hop. But he always had like songs like Feeling Whitney, if you check that out, where it's just him just singing really without

a lot of attitude and just playing like acoustics, I'm pretty sure. And then his latest album that came out wasn't really a genre even. Like he had a song with Ozzy Osbourne on it. I don't know if you know. Nah. But I never knew he was a rock guy until I watched that Nirvana tribute. And yeah, he's great.

He's a great, like I said, Kirk Cobain impressionist. But you know what I guess my theory as to why his music sucks is because I've actually heard Jimmy Fallon do like a spot-on post-malone impression where if you were to just listen to Jimmy Fallon sing as post-malone, you wouldn't be able to tell it's Jimmy Fallon. And it's because of the whole autotune singing through a computer thing, I think. To me, I don't know, I'm kind of a curious. Maybe that's why I like his rock vibe more. But don't get me wrong, I also, I don't understand why he autotune so much, but I have seen him in concert. I would show you a video, but just me scream singing over him actually singing.

Is he post that? Hold on. How do I download a video from Snapchat? I feel like a boomer. I don't know, dude. I don't need Snapchat like a million years. I'm like, yeah, but like,

yeah, but like that can be able to meet. Okay, hold on. So, yeah, it's really just me scream singing over him singing, but he does not autotune in concert. He's this beautiful, raspy voice that, so if you just watch, like his concert videos or stuff like that. You can actually like him a lot more, I think.

Gonna get this Post Malone fan cams out, right? I got advanced to level one on the Discord. Hey. Congratulations. We all start somewhere. Hold on. I'm trying to save the video now. I feel so old.

I think the other thing I don't like about Post Malone is his obsession with Bud Light. Yeah, that I don't understand. Yeah, yeah. Now the anyone gets that. It's Bud. And cigarettes, and those are the two worst things that you can do what I feel like. I'm putting the video up in the chat now.

I'm pretty sure Bud Light was invented by the aliens, stop us from, Brian, the brain cells. Let's watch his mic video. All I hear is you, dude. I don't hear it. He'll listen to his voice and he says you screaming and do the microphone. That was like the worst sounding. Not only that, it was like a two-second clip.

It was just, wow. Like that. I have another club. I think I hope to God I haven't saved on Google photos because I switch from a pixel to an eye phone. I was at a Rich Brian concert, and one of the DJs before Rich Brian came on played slow dancing in the dark by Joji. I love Joji. You probably ate them too, Ivan. It's fine.

But did you're such a zoomer dude. Joji, Post Malone. Bro. Rich Brian. We're at a rich what concert? Rich Brian. Rich Brian. He's a part of 88 rising and Joeji and stuff.

Rich Brian's the deepest voice for the smallest Asian kid of everything. Everybody was going on is Richard Brian. It's super deep and he's like this really, he's from, where's it from Thailand? I forget which. I forgot. I think Indonesia. In Asia. Yeah.

You're really on that wave. Okay, so there's a question then for you, since we're talking about Zoomer, Zumer Music. Okay. What's your opinion on Oliver Tree? Oh, I love Oliver Tree. Figured. You're in that. I'm a basic, you know, white girl.

I don't know what to tell you. You're what the industry refers to as a post-Molonial. I'll take that. I mean, I've always saw myself to kind of like a cross, between millennial and Zoomer, because I was kind of the in-between generation. Well, you're 21. You're really young. So it's like, you know.

I mean, yeah, but I didn't. I probably sound really, really old when I tell you, I don't understand post-Malones music, but, you know, I don't. I guess you probably don't understand my music. So we're probably, it's a color. Like, I can tram out to Careless Whisper all day. That's one of my favorite ballads. Old music I have in Careless Whisper. Come on, dude.

Get with the program. All right. Carless Whisper. But like if you guys want to play that on the vibe bot, I will sing that with you guys right now. I love that song. The George Michael song? Yeah. Let's do it.

All right. We'll play that once we wrap up the podcast, just for you. Yes, please. Just for you. All right. I'm about to post this clip to chat where it's just me scream singing again, but slow dancing in the dark. And it's a very good question by Mike. was recording just cuts to the in the dark part and it's just me throwing my hands back and screaming

a little bit of me all right let's hear it so 22 seconds is the clip i miss concerts oh that is video is just screaming i like i need to go to a concert with you when this pandemic is overdue dude i'll hype you up i don't know yeah i can tell i have some crazy stories i don't know I'm not from a lot to tell them. Like, not anything like crazy or sexual or inappropriate, but just me doing dumb stuff. As long as it's not illegal or against the rules, I'm down for it. Yeah. So I was with my friend, one of my best friends, and his younger brother and his cousin,

we're all sitting at Coldstone Creamery, and then we just decided to play a game of Roastew, which is we go around in a circle making fun of each other. For no reason. Like, because, you know, it's part of the Zoomer vibe. I feel like, like is loving people by putting them down. You know, I don't die. You know that Dennis? That's, that's right. Yeah, totally.

Yeah, that's what we do. I would die for him. But, you know, I would also make fun of him at every chance I get. But we're going around a circle. You know, it's a standard like, oh, I'm fat. I get it. It's like, we talk to his brother. Like, oh, he's a little stupid.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We go to Abdul. At this point, like, he's been working out. He looks good. He's like this genius. He got into like, you know, EY. which is like one of the top of can companies and stuff. So he's like, there's really nothing to roast him about, except at that time he had never been with a girl.

Like he'd never had like a girlfriend. So I wind up just looking him dead in the eyes and I'm like, hey, Stephen Hawkins has pulled more than you have. And this one, when Stephen Hawking is still alive. And then he just looks at me. He's like, no, he hasn't. And I'm like, Google it. He's married. And he just Googles it.

He looks down at his phone. He looks up at me. His eyes are just like so sad. Okay, I kind of got to fix this somehow. So I used to wear Deshikis all the time. I wind up, and I have no fear of talking to people. I'm very extroverted. I have that energy.

I wound up approaching like 15 girls at the mall, like, you know, trying to pick them up. For him and Bill, you know, I got this super hot friend. Here's pictures of them. Do you want to go out with him? You know, stuff like that. Like, I just have, like, I have a confidence that cannot be brought down. I tried many different things.

I tried, you know, pretend to be a reporter to try out this new game show where, like, we set two people up on a random blind date and someone pays for it. I tried, you know, I tried everything. Just didn't work. I know why it didn't work, but I still tried. Have you ever been into, like, making prank calls? Well, I was prank called. never prank called someone though.

You should. Your Napoleon Dynamite voice. Be hilarious. My favorite prank. I feel like the age of prank calls is dead though, right? Like, I feel like you can't really prank call anymore because everyone has like caller ideas. Cody's going to prank call old people like you guys.

True. I don't know. I just think like, I think that, well, especially in like a post, you know, robo call day. That I do. Go for it. Go for a dude. Well, yeah, I guess you do have to be pretty confident to rock a PewDiePie hoodie, got to admit. Is that your favorite?

Is that your favorite streamer? I don't really watch his streams or his gaming stuff. I just like his Japanese videos, kind of just like his personality. I know he's done a lot of messed up stuff, but, you know, I feel like we all do. I mean, to be honest, I feel like a lot of old artists have done a lot of messed up stuff, right? And we're just like now finding out about it. And it's like, I feel like I can't beat into anybody anymore because everyone has something super suss in their history. Well, I didn't mean it, I didn't mean it, like, in that way of PewDie Pye doing shady stuff.

I just mean it in the way of like almost like, I love PewDie Pye with like Ninja, right? Like they're both good gamers. They're both, you know, in the industry. They're make debatable. They're making a living out of, you know, gaming. However, they're both basically associated with like, fringy kids, basically. Like if you're into, like, you know, if you were, for example,

if you wear a ninja t-shirt and someone sees you, they're probably at TwitchCon, for example, they're going to assume, like, you're like this cringy kid that plays Fortnite, right? Like, you were like a... Like, Petty Pie, like, that was Petit Pie back in day. I feel like now he kind of has, like, an aesthetic to him. Yeah.

No, I like, um... Peatypie has an aesthetic. I'm good or not. I actually think he does. Like, it's just like, hey, I'm just a meme. That's the aesthetic to it. Um, my conference story, It's how I got rejected in front of like a thousand people.

When I was a young boy, I was very much... Did you rather take you to the bike parade? Hopeless romantic, let's say. I was in middle school. I tried dating anyone that had a pulse, except I didn't know how to. Like, I didn't have any knowledge of romance or anything because I was just raised by a single mom. So I was like, everything I knew about... Also, everything I knew about America because I was an immigrant, which...

just like, you know, Disney movies. So, like, you know, there's even this, like, really cringy video on YouTube that I will not send. But, like, you know, there's just, just girl, I had a crush on. I hadn't even talked to her. I wind up going to the New York King Poe Cafe. And for a 500 people, I performed this, like, seven-minute long, five-page poem about how much I love her. And the only funny part of that I will share is that I didn't pay attention in history. I thought Lewis was a girl.

I thought Clark was a boy. So one of the lines is Lewis and Clark on our adventure of true love. But yes, that's a vibe. Super hopeless romantic middle school, right? Well. Do you have that poem? Sorry, what do you say? Do you still have that poem?

I have the video. I don't know if I want to send it. Sure you do. I can't delete it because I forgot the YouTube password. It was like I made a specific YouTube account for that called Mikey B. poetry. Or no, Mikey B. the Poetry. simple like that. Because one of my last name starts with a B,

and it's just horrible. I cringe every time I hear it. You have my 12-year-old voice. Fine, I'll sound like that. Whatever you got, do you throw it in there? They're not weak. I swear to God. There's 100,000 people on the server, though.

That's fine. Yeah. Ivan, do you have any other questions from him? while he's searching up that video. I have a million questions for him. Wait, wait, the story, the story. So I wind up, like, there's this girl that I really, really like, I want to go to eighth grade dance and stuff, so I want to ask her out.

I haven't talked to her before, though. That's the common theme. I don't talk to these girls. I just find the idea of dating them amazing, and then I build up this romance in my head. I don't do that anymore. I've kind of just conditioned myself not to, but this story gave me the confidence.

right? So I wind up like, okay, my knowledge of asking girls to dances is just from high school musical. So I'm like, how do I ask this girl out? Well, I'm going to do a flash mob for this girl I've never talked to. And I'm like, you know, what's the best idea to do that? Let me go ahead and get 10 of my way hotter, popular friends to help me do this. When I at the time basically looked like the fat girl at the bottom of a pyramid on like a cheerleading squad, right? That was my aesthetic. I'm going to send a picture in the chat. This one is my meme picture, right? This is how I looked like back then. Honestly, that should be my profile picture, but I don't want people to think this is what I look like, right? Hold on, I'm dragging it over now. But basically, this is what I look like, and then I have

all these hot, skinny dudes helping me out to, you know. Are those brass knuckles on your shirt? brass knoll. That was edgy, bro. Oh, my God. Well, anyway, I go ahead and I'm like, well, let me try and ask this girl out. So I go out to get all my father friends. This is a huge middle school, by the way, because I was growing up in, like, this big community.

And there's like 500 people waiting in the courtyard because everyone knows this super popular chick's going to be asked out. They don't know by who. They think it's going to be one of these hot guys. I'm just there to tag along or something. So I'm like, okay, we need a song that everyone can learn to dance to really quick. What's it going to be? Gangnam Style. Because that was, what was popping back in the wild.

So we wind up, she winds up coming out. Her friend leads her out to the courtyard. We blast Gangnam Style. We're all dancing to Gangnam Style. And then we rearrange. So that way we're like going to be holding up signs. The signs are going to be like, will you go to dance with me? And I was going to hold the airplane down.

Before that, this girl was ecstatic. she thought she's about to be asked out by this super hot dude. One of them, basically, in a super romantic way in front of the whole school. And then when she sees the rearrangement as we're about to hold up the signs, all I could describe her face is just like terror. Like, I would really just use this gift to describe it. So before she was like this, right? This is how happy she was.

And now it was like, this right after, okay? Oh, tell her you. Yeah, this is being funky right now. Well, it was like this right after. So that was her face, that was her reaction. The signs actually go up and it's just dead silence for like a second or two. And then next, I didn't ask for this, but the whole school starts chanting, go with him, go with him.

go with him. I didn't ask for this. I feel so bad for the girl in hindsight, but like, you know, that's what happened. And then two seconds later, she breaks down crying, the whine dashes through a crowd and runs home. And, you know, that entire week in school, people just would not look me in the eye and stuff felt so bad. I didn't go to the dance. I just played World of Warcraft instead at home, you know, it's like, sorry, I was about to say the B word, basically complaining to my guildies and stuff. But yeah, now I have the, Like, now whenever I think about something, I'm like, oh, it cannot be worse than that. So I do everything now. Like, I have the, I should not be as confident as I am for how I look.

That's all I have to say. I don't know if these stories are real or not, but I like them. I swear, they are. Okay. I believe you. I do have a lot more questions, but I'm only going to ask you one because we're running out of time and we still have to do a special announcement. and we are still going to have to do like some giveaway things here. So my last question is podcast if they want me back.

I spam some Mike Taneus emotes, if you guys want him back on the podcast. My last question for you is, why does your setup look like cutie pies? Like, why is it so nice? Oh, wait, have I shown me my setup? No, I've put a picture of it. I've seen it on Zoom Zoom calls Hey hold on I'll post a picture

Um that of all the questions you asked I don't know why that one threw me off But um I don't know personally like if I'm going to be stuck somewhere all day I want it to like Make me happy and look nice you know Hold on I'm trying to find a picture

It's here somewhere I don't have a lot of pictures on my phone Just a lot of memes I don't like how I look Where is it? Oh my gosh God, I can't find it. All right. Well, ask me something else while I'm looking for this real quick.

All right. Then while you look that up, I'm going to ask you is, what's your favorite cookie? Snickerdoodle, 100%. If you don't like snick or doodle, you're not a real one, honestly. It's not my favorite cookie, but my mom makes a mean snick or doodle. I'll say, it's always the moms that make the best cookies. I don't know why. It's a vibe, though.

It is. How's that picture coming along? I have to download it from Google Photos. I'm so sorry. Do you want to throw another quick one at me? Sure. Um, what? I'm just enjoying the heck of this. What is the story behind your bear tattoo? Oh, you're really going to expose me like that. Um, okay. So, I don't know. I've always

feel like spiritually, it's not that I'm aggressive or anything, but, you know, kind of like a mama bear, like, you know, I just love my friends. I want to take care of them and stuff. And, you know, brother bear influenced me a lot as a child where I'm like, oh, these are like really, you know, loving animals. They're just very misunderstood and stuff. However, a lot of people now misconstrue that tattoo. I learned something that I did not know previously, but apparently in the I don't know. Community which is totally fine.

You know, if anyone hits on me, I'll be happy. But, like, once I was at the beach and I had, like, that's the only thing

that precedes the tattoo. I just laughed at Peter Drip Photoshop. Right. From being a medium, now.

Well, that's my setup. Straight up, like, any, any time, So the only thing is different is a computer case, by the line. So, like, one time someone saw a tattoo like that's a computer case, I thought there was a printer.

Oh, yeah, that's my old computer case. Look at that monitor. That monitor is the most ridiculous-looking monitor ever seen in my life. The first line has put to each other, and that's his main setup now. How do you even play video games on that? honestly just gloriously I have to like stretch my neck to look at the mini map it's amazing

but like okay so straight up like out of the beach and this guy starts hitting on me and I'm like you're flattered but I'm like why me and he's like well you have the bear tattoo and I'm like yeah like bears and he's like well you are a bear aren't you and I'm like what do you mean so he explains it to me

apparently my body also fits the exact bear type and now I don't regret the tattoo I still love the meaning behind it and everything for me personally, but I never show anyone that tattoo anymore because I don't want them to assume things about me, you know? Wow. Also, Bradshaw and Mouse is also retired.

I now have another ergonomics up. I go through keyboard and mouse is whenever it is. Are you going to have to, like, edit this whole podcast, Dennis? Am I telling, like, anything wrong or me? No. No, we're good. your story. Oh, thank you.

I don't believe them, but they're funny. Which one's really? I don't know. I don't know how you're a real human being with so many good stories. Honestly, I'm boring now. All my good stories are back from the day. Back in the day, you're 21. This is back in the day for you.

Yeah, but right, like, I don't know. I feel like all I've done this year is just work. And then same with, like, last year. So all my stories have just become work related and no one cares about me like that. So it's like, I just tell, like, when I talk about work, everyone's like, oh, that's cool that you made that ad. I don't know what to say. So I don't have anything fun anymore. You can tell stories about dope ads that you made.

That's pretty cool, right? I guess. Oh, wait. Are we going to bring that one up, by the way? Yeah, of course. I think it's time to reveal the top secret project and get into that stuff, as well as the natural goodways. Ooh. Yes.

So let me do the Netro first because I'm going to forget. Can you establish that have something? Special announcement music? I can. Well, you go for it, Ivan. Oh. I won't be able to play it on the podcast, but you can do it if you like. Mike said you can.

Go for it, Mike. Announcement music? Play a special announcement so we can announce the top secret project you've been working on for NZXT for the last couple of months. Okay. I'm going to play it through my... Has it been a couple months already? Been a while. It's been a couple months.

Yeah. By the way, we'll get on to... Oh, gee. Copy right strikes. Oh, I'm sorry. I would be funny. Okay. Sorry.

Okay, here we go. So the giveaway is live now. Okay, so the super secret project is... Actually, Mike, do you want to describe? what it is. Okay, cool. So, um,

as you work on it. Um, who here likes filters? Uh, spam a microphone if you like filters. Like a coffee filter? They use those every day. It's like the Facebook. It's like, you know,

Snapchat, Instagram stories, like those kinds of filters. Oh. Oh. Yeah, those are great. I love those. I guess Geezer doesn't like them.

But geezer. Um, well, we've been working on a top secret quiz. we're waiting for it to get approved so we can make it live to everyone. But it's basically what gamer are you quiz? And it has an awesome poochy sound effect. However, we're only giving this a test version away to a few people.

It's probably going to be live sometime next week. But only a few people in this Discord could actually check it out early. Hi. We need the dun-d-dun-dun-dun. Does anyone have that sound effect? Dun-d-d-d-d-d-da-da-da. Ah. Oh, it's going to be on Instagram.

However, if this works well, I also know Snapchat Lens Studio. So if you guys like this quiz, let us know some mic emojis. And then we'll go ahead and we'll also make it for Snapchat. Sure. I mean, yeah, if you want, that's on you. Okay. So we're going to give away to 20 people because that's the max the giveaway bot will let me do. And, I mean, feel free to post it like, you know, it's whatever.

whatever. So we do the giveaway. Should we just drop the link in here, or should we actually give the link a way to give away winners? I think we should give it away to lucky peeps who want to use it. Okay. So the bottling is you pick 20, huh?

Yeah, that's the max. There you go. So there's the other giveaway for that. Go ahead and enter it. If you use Instagram, we'll give you the exclusive link. It's really pretty much it, I think. Is there anything else? I'm trying to think if there's anything else to the filter. But if you do get it, do us a big favor or just do me a big favor.

Let me know how you like it. If you like, if you don't like it, any feedback would be great. First time we've done a VR filter. So it would be pretty cool to see how you guys enjoy it. You know, it's like the Disney filter, you know, that there was a thing for a bit or the, I don't know what other ones there are. I know there are a couple of them, right? So basically the way it works is you put Poochie on your head, and then you nod your head,

and then it cycles through different types of gamers, and then it lands on the type of gamer that you are. I am the salt lord. There you go. I'm the... I think... I think I'm a meat shield. Oh, yeah. Do you guys have any video saved that you can upload

so you can share what it looks like? I think you can actually report. I'm pretty sure. I have, I think I might have one, hold up. Let me see if I can find it. Where's the, I'm trying to find someone who would be cool with us using their face. That's the thing like, you have to ask permission first before we. Oh yeah, we have a.

We have the channel, yeah, on Slack. But I don't want to just throw out like a video. I mean, I could do, I could just record one real quick. Go ahead and record one and then I'll, uh. Just promise that you guys won't mean me anymore, please. I think that's too late. That's too late, man. By the way, on the filter, the voice of poochies, that's actually Raina, who's been on the podcast as well.

Yeah, long, long time ago. She's the official voice of Gucci. Can we get some peaches in the chat, please, for people who don't know who Poochia is, our lovely little mascot? There we go. that's what everyone's grinding for all right video incoming guys there you go this is a filter

so I can only triggered it so the Pucci went off in the beginning but it's supposed to go off at the end I feel like I'm always doing that of course I got support exactly yeah and there's there's reign this episode we should we should have some of the some of the older guests back on another have like a

slightly better format and stuff I think be kind of cool to do like your revisit it. Yeah. Let's do it. Definitely got to have a mic on here again for sure. I will gladly like cancel every meeting for this. This is so fun. Okay, so Frosted and Leon, is Leon listening? I don't think Leon's listening. I don't see him in the list. Yeah, so Leon's not listening. Frosted, I believe, is listening. He's in here, right? He's in here. So let's see if Leon responds. Did I say it? He's listening to win? Yeah.

No, no, no, man, he's up top because he has the weird, the weird icons. The same. Okay, cool. So message Poppy, or he'll message you first, and he'll get you your Nitro. And I believe we almost have the VR thing going away soon. This is really great radio, by the way. Oh, should I start answering community questions? I know we're almost up on time.

Oh, no, we'll get to that right now. Okay, cool. Yeah. We got one minute 24. So we'll do that. Oh, there you go. There's bees. Shot callers.

Shot call. Big baller All right We're just going to chill in a wait in a little bit while we get the next next one going It's 53 seconds for the VR filter And then Evan do you do you just want to mention them

And then they can You can throw them the way to our Listening right Oh for the filter you mean Yeah yeah for the filter Sure I might be Or I can do it after the show if you want

500 DMs right now Okay, so how this? Then how about I'll send the link afterwards since I'll be just be working on the podcast after that. So we'll just do that then. Okay. All right. So don't message me. I will message you if you want the filter.

And, okay, cool. Alrighty. I think I was waiting for it. It should pop up in a couple of seconds. Because as soon as I see, I'm going to stop talking. So there we go. Here comes. Marcus, Ignis, Adele, the tech kid, Billy Hunter, Sempies, Amy, Hensler, Adifants, Erin, Money, Flux, Delisi, Hoffie, Chapa, Villavit, Butter Pican, Taz, Milk Bottle, Coxu, congrats, and Sir Farmalot got the exclusive Pucci VR filter access.

We should have- Don't worry. we should have them posting them the server somewhere after the user yeah that should be really cool yeah should we make a channel or nah yeah why not I think we're kind of cool

it's gonna be really public later on yeah so so the yeah as we explained earlier it does take some time for us to get to get the the VR filter approved on onto Instagram and whatnot but once that's done we're going to throw it everywhere we're going to talk about it on Twitter, Facebook so on and so forth

Yeah, so don't worries. We'll get that. We'll get that out for everyone super soon. But since we can just make links for testing, we figure it might as well have you guys mess with it for, you know, for a day or two before it pops up because we like you, you know, some benefits to listen to the podcast live. And yeah.

So with that, let's get some community questions going and then let's get the heck out of here. Ellen wants to know, Mike, if you could only play one game for the remainder of this year, which one would it be? I know it hasn't come out yet, but if it comes out this year, Cyberpunk, just because I wouldn't want to miss that on launch. I haven't played it yet. If that doesn't count, then... What if it sucks, though?

I don't care if it sucks up too much. I will force myself to like it. It's kind of like when you mess up your own cooking, but you still eat it anyway because you're like, I'm not going to waste this money. That's kind of how I feel. So it would be that if not that than The Witcher Oh, okay, okay I think I think I could play this this wifu gacha game forever to be honest

There's like so much of doing it Do you have a wifu? I don't have a personal wifu but and whatever I play We have the NXT wifu That's true we do have an NGC wifu I don't know where she is we should make that really like a we should really make that like a command to make a pop-up we should really do more with her

try to pick one up for you yeah sure just sent me up after the show we'll talk about some pro strats to get a Tinder wifu algorithm going Ivan what's your game that you can play forever

if I could pick one game that I could just play forever it would have to be Super Mario Bros. 3 because I've been trying to beat it for 30 years and I have not to get it. I've been to get my game for 30 years. You just follow a guide. It just gets really hard. That last level is almost, for me, it's impossible. I mean, I can speed rid of the game.

Like, I'm really good at it. I can get to the last level in like five minutes. But once I get there, that last level is just like so many fireballs or not fireballs, cannonballs. that I can't beat it. Alan just said he beat it three days ago. Bye, Alan. Oh, man.

Get ripped. Yeah, so Cox was asking in chat, do I start playing Epic 7? Yeah, so the game I've been playing, I haven't really been playing a lot of PC games. And to be honest, like, I'm not really enjoying a lot of them. Like, I've played a little bit of fog guys here and there, but I'm not like super into it like everyone is. So I've been playing this mobile game called Epic 7, which is a wild. Ifu casino, essentially. But, you know, it's actually a pretty fun game.

Like, there's, you know, some nice stuff to it. And, you know, we basically have a group of heroes. You go on adventures and you kill stuff and you get loot and you enhance that stuff. TLDR, you know, it's like any other game. If you want more info on, just Google it. There's way too much to talk about it. But it's a cool game. I like collecting adorable wifos.

Like, for example, I'll throw a photo into the chat and Ivan can make fun of me for it. Just picked up Cecilia. She's pretty dope. You know, she does some good stuff. And then, or is the other one I just grabbed the other day. See here. For Lance looks like it's from Monster Hunter. I love that game.

Monster Hunter is sick. Actually, I change it. If I could play any game forever, it'd be Monster Hunter. Really? Out of all the games, Monster Hunter? Because there's always something, there's always something to go for. Like, there's always another type of weapon to learn or, like, another monster to kill, or, like, Because they're always pumping out content for that game.

Like Monster Hunter is just like it's almost like an infinite grind like he just doesn't stop. Yeah, Nerja Gonté is definitely my least favorite monster. Actually, no, I take the about Tiostra. Hate him. What about the homie Tigrex? Tygrix isn't so bad. You just have to look. Tigris is the worst dude.

It's full of nuts, not moving. To be fair, I used to play Hammer, but then I just switched to Lance with like Guard 5, so I just never take damage. I just slowly poke the monsters to death. So Tiger isn't too bad, but Teostra. My God, the supernova can't even be blocked. It's just a push. Yeah, I just, the last weapon I tried to use was a hunting horn.

That thing is sick. I've heard a lot of good about that. Knockdowns for days. Awesome. All right. Next question is, what's your favorite anime? Or if you don't watch anime, what's your favorite TV show? Or both if you watch both.

Okay. So I know you guys called it an anime on your story. so I feel comfortable calling anime. I know people are going to risk me for this. Probably Avatar, but that's not the way that I watch. I love Swordar Online. I love Simpy anime, it's kind of like Clanad. You know, so I like stuff like that.

You know, I haven't watched anime in a hot meta. My favorite TV show definitely has to be BoJack Horseman. All right. Next question is, have you played Microsoft Flight Simulator? I have not, no. Everyone's talking about it. I apologize. Yeah, same here.

What's secret project? Ready to answer that. What's your current setup for work in gaming? He's got that printer on his desk, right? I'll take a picture of it now, but now it's this dumb corsair case. It looks like a cheese grater. Sure, throw it up. Here we go.

What piece of technology do we in 2020 think is it possible that we can slash will have in the next 50 years? It's a philosophical question. I am really hoping we have, you know, kind of way to upload our conscientiousness into the cloud or something. I don't know if it's impossible, but, you know, our brain runs off electricity. Probably sounds super stupid to someone who actually know science right now, but I don't know, figure that out, right? I was trying to Mercury would say, I don't want to die.

I don't think anyone does. Fair. I've actually had like, I've actually had like mental breakdowns about that. I'm like, how can I make this last forever? And then I realized, nah, like, I'm good. I don't think that's a existential crisis, like, all the time. I don't know. I think that case looks kind of cool.

I don't like it. I'm looking at it right now. Dude, that's Corsair. You're not allowed to say that on the spot. Sure. We're fans of gaming, whether you're using an NZT case, a Coursier case, or a switch or a PSP or a, Whatever. As long as you're playing video games, man, and you have a gallon of chocolate milk next to your computer. You're good. Is that chocolate milk or iced tea? What is that?

Some wawa iced tea. I'll say that that case definitely is not something that I personally, myself also, you know, I don't like it either. there, but I don't think it looks that bad. I've seen way worse looking cases than this one, dude. Yeah, I like, I mean, I like that it's not like, it doesn't look like a printer. That's why I like about it. Yeah. I'm sure like, uh, you probably get good airflow too at the front panel like that, right?

Um, to be honest, I have, I've stepped out of, like, I built it, but I kind of stepped out of like what makes good airflow or how to overclock and stuff like that. So probably, who knows? I'm the same way Like my computer runs perfectly fine It runs all my games I don't think adding 10 extra degrees of heat

Is really gonna make my computer run All that much better So I just don't do it That's how I feel Even though I paid I opted to pay for the unlock processor Because I want to not Because I want the option

What is that I think we should make Mike's chocolate milk and emo Emote I'm sorry Someone clip it. All right. A few more questions here.

Question for Mike, Ivan, and Dan. What's your favorite drink? Like alcohol? Can someone clarify? Oh, you are 21. God, okay. So if it's not alcoholic, probably milkshakes, they just bring me to the yard.

If it is alcoholic, I mean, whiskey, whiskey. I recently tried this Japanese whiskey. It's awesome. It's temporary time. The whole thing is I like beer, but I just drink slow, so I'm getting full and not drunk.

If I just really want to be depressed, I just have to drink some whiskey. That's how I feel. I keep notice of, do not feed Mike whiskey. Or beer. I guess. In that case. I'll stay clear

of Mike at all costs. Yeah. Same. My favorite drink is something from my dad's home country from Nicaragua. It's called cacao.

And it's like a, it's almost like a chocolate. Hey, no cursing, man. Like no drink. It's almost like a chocolate like milk rice drink. Super, super good. It slaps.

Nice. Yeah, somebody from the cacao bean, you like roast him and then you like crush them and... Cows have a beer? I'll show you. Yes, cow beans. Huh. No, I'm kidding. Garagwin cacao meat drink.

Yeah. Yeah. I just threw it into the chat. So you can check out what it is, cow cow cow. Oh, cow seeds, yes. Cacao. That stuff. For making my

favorite drink, I don't have on number one, but I have a top five. Here's my top five in no particular order. Coffee. First thing I drink every day. And then every day with lunch,

I have a ginger ale. And then every night with dinner, I have a sparkling water. And then I will say just regular water, which I drink throughout the day when I'm feeling thirsty. I don't think you can count regular water as a favorite drink. I'm just saying my top five, my top five beverages. So ginger oil, sorry, coffee, ginger oil, sparkling water, water.

And then since Mike gave an alcoholic drink, I'll give one to. And I'll just say IPA's IPA beer. Ivan, I just have to say you made me feel like a stupid, stupid dumb dumb, because I drink like six to eight cups of coffee every day. I spent more money on coffee than I do feel. I did not name coffee is my favorite drink. For me, it's like, this is my drug. I didn't even think of this like a drink.

The reason why I didn't name coffee, because like it just is, right? Like, it's just always around me. So, like, I don't really count it's like a favorite drink. Like, I'm not going to go out and seek it because, like, I can just always get it. But it's like, if there's a drink that I can just always get it. But it's like, if there's a drink that I can. could always have every single day because it is like more difficult then then it would be that yeah i agree uh okay okay so you're next question by the why pumpkins back at duncan i don't

know if you have a duncan donuts around here i think there's one it's where that great wolf lodge Ivan if you know where that is in anaheim off a harbor don't you guys have pills i'm sorry what don't you guys have pills coffee oh phils yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I was like, yeah, man, what are you looking for? Yeah, cut that out, please. I don't all seem like a dumb dumb. I mean, that is your name. Yeah, right.

You know, I've never been to Duncan before, so I can tell you if it's good or not. I buy the like, the like Duncan, like pre-ground stuff from Costco, which is pretty good, but I'm pretty sure it's not the, like, actual original formula, right? Yeah. It's got to be different. There's no way it's the same.

It's not. The Duncan version is just really watered down and tastes like sadness. Duncan is not a good chain. We just drink it because we have. Yeah, it's Dunkin' Donuts. It's pretty disgusting, to be honest. I have a lot of stories for there, but I guess I have to save them. Say that for the next one.

For the next cast. Okay, final question from Alan. What is your favorite? favorite multi-level marketing product? Herbalife. I don't really know, Vanny. I just try to avoid those like the play. Mine is those

crystals that if you swing they'll tell you like your history. Those are dope. Not by a ton of those. I mean, as I don't seem to the future. We could make the H-1 case a pyramid scheme product if we want.

Some say it already is. You have to like to the NGXT Discord server. Rank up and get those prizes. Like this server is literally a multi-marketing scheme. To better answer the question because I feel bad for not be able to answer it that well. I have an MLM scheme that would like to start. You know, I call it cat adoption, where it's adoption in general, right? where it's like you get people to adopt pets

and the more pets that they adopt, the more like tacos you got. Uh-huh. So really, when you're at the top of the chain and you invite a bunch of people and they all adopt a bunch of animals, you just get a frick ton of tacos. I'm listening.

Uh-huh. No, that's the whole idea. Okay. You almost had me there. I'm like, I'm like almost right there with you. The part with the tacos. You don't like tacos? I love tacos.

I used to know if it's worth the cat, though. Well, no, you're not adopting the cats. You're convincing people to adopt cats and dogs. Wait, I thought I was adopting the tacos. No, you're not adopting tacos. You're convincing people to adopt pets, and the more people you recruit, and the more people they recruit, you get tacos for it. And realistically speaking, you stop animal homelessness at the same time.

Can I just get the tacos without the cats? Well, you don't get the guts. You just get people to get the guts. Well, then why do you need to convince people to get cats if I just can get tacos on my own? We get free tacos all the time. We'll probably get like three tacos a day. I have no idea what's happening. You're ruining my pyramid skimmy.

Yeah, that's actually a pretty good idea. I think we need to look into some pyramid schemy things to get people to add people to the club for the promise of stickers and stuff. I mean, also like all. For anyone that joins a server, I will personally make you a burger and have the best burger recipe. Can you give us this recipe in five minutes or less? I can give it in like a minute. All right. I'm going to time you.

All right. Ready? Okay, if you get some Kobe beef, you have to marinate it with some whiskey, some sweet bourbon marinade, and a little bit of brown cinnamon sugar. You get it marinated. And then what you go ahead and do is you just add some pink Himalian salt. You throw it on this cheap Walmart grill that I got for $20, but it cooks things. things are really nice.

You cook it medium rare. You throw it on a potato bun that you glaze with some sesame seeds. You get some lettuce on that. You get a little bit of barbecue sauce, some French fried onions, and good of cheese. Boom. I think that was like 34 seconds. It looks pretty good. All right.

I'm going to listen back and I'm going to write it down somewhere. And then I'll let you know. I'll let you know how it is. Well, just make it for me. All right. All right. Sorry about that. I got a DM here.

It never stops. Okay. Let's move on because we got to get this going through the community roundup stuff. So number one is the setups winner of the week is Asher. Asher, congratulations. My man's opted to wait for the T-shirt. And the wallpaper winner of the week is, I actually don't know because I was really busy this morning. Who is it, guys?

Y'all in the chat would definitely know. Because I know you guys watch that channel like a hawk. Who's the wallpaper of the week winner? I think Sajid was the was the up and runner right or maybe not I'll check it out later to be announced TBTDD listen listen live to the podcast

we know that wouldn't work listen live to the announcements channel on the Discord server the NXC Discord server DiscordDiscororgDG slash NZXT to find out who the secret winner is but congratulations to them and if their wallpaper our fits our guidelines

our internal process guidelines we'll use it as the podcast art and they'll be named on the post for the podcast other news is obviously the Pucci VR thing is it's coming so there's some photos there's some videos there we'll

make a channel so people who get the link can start posting their results and then we'll release it to the wild on social media so keeping out for that we'll make sure let the server know when that happens. And then we also have two new moderators that would be troggly snuffy and Omi. So congratulations to them. I think I think Omi and Trow me are having been doing a fantastic job so far. So let us know what you guys think. You have big props to them, claps in the chat,

doing a great job, really proud of them. If you guys would like to apply for the moderator position, check out the, I believe it's in the announcements. We have the the link there. I can't see PIN messages because Discord is being really wonky today, but I believe in the PIN messages of the Announcement's channel, we have the link, and I'm sure I have one will throw it up in the chat as well. Do mods get paid? They do not get paid, but they do get like some extra stickers and stuff. But that's not the reason why you should moderate. You should moderate because you want to help the community, and you can handle the ex-responsibility. Thank you, Evan, for the link. And then we are, we have not forgotten about the design contest.

We're still working on getting that back, along with some other prize stuff. So stay tuned. Actually, that's not what I wrote, Dennis. Yeah. Then I responded to your comment. You did respond to my comments. That's why someone said. All right.

So have more info on the design contest slash contests soon-ish. Bear with us. If you guys have any ideas, let us know. If you guys want to see any other kinds of contests that we could do in the server. Make him as simple as possible. Because if not, then, Damina Eben will just like, also subscribe to the Pucci Press newsletter.

That's n66.com slash newsletter. I'll drop that into the chat without the formatting. Because I messed up. There we go. And then visit Mike's websites. I'm going to post that into the chat. Well, thank you. I literally just put it together this morning.

It doesn't look good. just a placeholder from actually my website down. I put together an hour before I sent it to you guys, to be honest. This is what a web page looks like that you design in one hour. So it says case studies, blog, and videos coming on September 1st, 2020. So I'm going to sign up right now for this. And if you don't post a case study, a blog, and a video on December 1st, I'm seriously going to report you to the better business, It's fault advertising, dude.

Dude, I'm sorry. I've just been trying to push myself to have a set date where I actually like, you know, start uploading guides and stuff because I don't a lot of people want to get into digital marketing and they fall for pyramid schemes and courses. So, I just... The website's broken, by the way, Mike.

Oh, it's broken? What do you mean? So, like, if I look at it on a side-by-side snap view, I don't get the same stuff. Oh, that's because I disabled the form on tablets and mobile. I didn't have enough time to format it for those Fun Fun fact A lot of people order computers

With mobile Yes It's becoming a thing now It is Like my buddy He bought his Tesla from his mobile phone He did it from his iPhone Wait what

He buy a car Yeah Straight cash You just say I want this Tesla He went on to his iPhone And just ordered it Easy peasy

It's like super simple Mobile's the way The Future Man just in case you don't know, you know. Hell. There's my, there's my, my, my, my, my, my, my, I call it, my advice to you to succeed.

Mobile is the future. My pitch is, um, the future is going to be, like there's going to be contacts where you just have AR and holograms and stuff. That's for me as a future. I'll end the podcast off with this. There's this really creepy video. Um, that some, someone put together called hyperreality.

And it's like a world. where everything's AR and holograms, and it's so surreal. The correct answer is the future is Neurilink. I love NeuroLike. I was going to say the future is pyramids. Elon Musk is actually, I think this week or next week, he's making a NeurRLink announcement. And for those of those of those don't know what this thing is.

It's basically going to be like this chip that you get installed in you, somewhere in your body, and be able to basically turn your brain into a smartphone. So, you know, you can just think, call Dennis or whatever, and it'll call Dennis, or you can. Don't call me. Watch, you know, like open YouTube and play the thing. It's pretty crazy.

Imagine in the future your bosses are just like, yo, I saw that you were thinking about quitting, so we fired you. Yeah, I feel like that that's like some really creepy black mirror stuff. I'm watching a lot of Black Mirror. I'm not down for the future. I'm completely rejecting it. But we can say that for the next podcast. Thank you for joining us, Mike.

Really appreciated you. Thank you guys for having me. This was super fun. I would love to do this again. We will love to have you back on, right, Ivan? He's always welcome here. And I'm just queuing up the music so I can serenade Mike as we wrap this up. All right.

Please serenade me. And thank you to everyone else. tuned in. I remember to tune in next week at 10 a.m. Pacific Standard time of the official N60 Discord server and follow at N60 on all relevant and irrelevant social media. Don't forget to listen to previous episodes on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and SoundCloud. And also, if you wouldn't mind, Mike and everyone else, please leave us a positive review and tell a friend about the show. If you like what you hear, but especially if you don't. Thanks. Thanks. We'll see you next time. Thank you.

Bye. It's to take your hand and lead you to the dance flow. As the music dies, something in your eyes. Calls to mind a silver screen and all is sad goodbye. I'm never going to dance again. Guilty feet are got no rhythm, though it's easy to pretend. I know you're not a fool. Should I know better than to cheat a friend

and waste the chance that I can't give her. So never gonna dance again the way I dance with you. You guys sing the whole song, by the way, so you know. Oh, the whole song? Yeah, yeah. You do the whole, the whole song. Is everyone going to tune in for the whole song, really? We're all showing.

We're listening. Time can never. The cat is with us of a good friend to the heart. Ignorance is kind. There's no comfort in the truth. Pain is the whole. Fifty beat of doubt the ten. I know you're not placed you to find

and waste the chance that I've been given. So I'm never going to dance again. The way I'll dance with you are. All right, guys. Give it up for Mike. Yeah. I'm not done yet. Give it up anyway.

Yeah. I had a chill that with the same with my eyes. I'm going to get my food. Should a level better than the children. It won't the chance that I've been given. So I'm never going to dance again. The way I'll dance with you. How are you feeling Mike? Feel good out there?

I love this song. There's only a few songs I could do like that. And the other ones like Mr. Brun's up. Well, we can set it up.