NZXT PODCAST - #075 - J.D. Witherspoon

Episode Date: February 4, 2021

This week on the podcast, we are joined by friend of the show J.D. Witherspoon! J.D. and the crew discuss acting, chicken nuggets, and Pokemon cards. Follow J.D. on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jdwitherspoon Listen live to the NZXT 💜 CLUB CAST on our Discord server at discord.gg/nzxt every Thursday at 10AM PT and submit your questions to [e-mail]! Thanks to 《 Ξ 》#4229 for the artwork!

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I was like, the ninjas ain't come for you yet. No, not yet. No. We're like just below that like threshold of like visibility for for a podcast where like they don't really care enough yet. But like once you start making real money, then they're going to start coming. It's inevitable. They'll come. Yeah, no, it's inevitable.

It's inevitable. We definitely got to get our own, our own music going for this thing because if not, I think we're, we're going to be in for some trouble. The Disney cops are coming for us. Hello, everyone. Welcome to episode 75 of the NZXT Clubcast, the official podcast of the NZXT community. This podcast is recorded live every Thursday at 10 a.m. Pacific Standard time of the official N60 Discord server is available to stream on demand on Apple podcast, Google podcast, Spotify, and 7. SoundCloud. So check yourself before you wreck yourself, folks, because BFG bullets are bad for your health.

My name is Dennis, and with me as always is Ivan. Not always, but I am today. How do you do? Good. I'm chilling. It's warm. I'm sitting in the closed patio with a poncho, and I'm about to take it off soon because it's actually getting really, really warm. I underestimated the California heat. Today's special guest. A very special guest is actor, comedian, streamer, TikToker, YouTuber, voice actor, and all around super cool guy. J.D. Witherspoon, how's it going, man? What up? What up? What up? Thank you. Thank you. Do I do anything else? I'm trying to think. I like basketball. I'm not a hoop. You should have thrown a hooper in there. I'm just kidding.

Ballard. Great. Straight baller. No, I'm good. I'm good. Thank you guys for having me. Yeah. You've been, you've been a little bit everywhere. I was doing some research and I just I mean you're involved in so many things like I saw you do you're doing something like alienware you're with like E League doing like the I think you're on TwitchCon doing the doing the Dave Chappelle robot you're just all over the place man. Oh that was one of my finer moments. You always did a sneak in like of the goofy stuff right? You can't know man I try I try to try to be goofy as much as possible that that that that that glitch con thing that was super funny we I should have been gone by then that was like the end of the show

oh yeah but I was waiting I was waiting because the show had the after party I guess with T Payne and the and the funny part about it is like uh I was we were done with the show like two hours before and I was just like I'm ready to go home but I was like I also want to be just like a professional and say goodbye to these people and say thanks for having me so I just stuck around hung out till they finished and wrapped it up and then at the end they were like this part the part that made me laugh they were like hey JD uh do you amari want to get on stage and be a part of the outro of the thing. And I was like, I was like, but I'm off the clock though.

I was like, y'all not, y'all not fin to pay me, are you? Like, you're not going to pay me to get back on camera, are you? I didn't say that, but that's what I was thinking. And then they were like, well, get ready. And I was like, okay. And my legs were like killing me because I was standing on me. So it's just one of those things where when they were like, they were like prepping us for this like confetti cannon thing.

And they were like stand up and be ready. I was like, I'm sitting on the floor, man. I was like, T. Payne is rambling right now. I'm not about to. I'm not, I'm in, I'm like, I'm not here to please him. I don't care. Like, I was like, I was like, I will be a part of this last five, you know, five minute segment. But other than that, I was like, yo, I'm done, man.

I did my job. I hosted, you know, I did my thing. And then finally they were like, go in there, have fun dance. And I was like, man, I'm not dancing. I was like, I'll bust that day, Chappelle a robot. Because I was like, I was like, because it looked funny. Like, if you go back and watch that clip, you can see. how how like uh cringe and forced all the because they were like it was me marie and then and then

uh crew so crew was like in the background just kind of you hopping around and i was like i was like nobody's really dancing they don't know they don't know what to do and i was like i'm like let me get in there hit that yeah that freaking that robot baby i was like that thing is that's my favorite that's one of the funniest things that i think i've ever in my opinion for me personally have done i was like oh my god i can't believe it looked so dead on when I did. I was like, I got to keep this for,

this is going into, I was like, I was like, this is going on my, this will, this will be, people will remember me. Well,

they'll remember me for doing what the other guy did. I'll be like, I'll be like, yo, this is a, it's on the real, right? It's going on the real. I love it.

I was shopping around. Yeah, yeah, that's part, that's part of my, my acting real. Just like, yo, you want to see me shuffle behind T-Pain?

Yeah. Oh my gosh. So you, you, you've, I mean, you've obviously done a lot. What would you say is something that like most people could recognize you from?

Like what's like your, I guess you're like biggest thing or maybe your claim to fame, you know, or something like you're a bit on like you'll gabba gab or something or you know what I mean? Nah, they got to. Sesame Street. They got the deep. Isn't that the one with the DJ? I've seen that one. I think so.

Yeah. Yeah. Yo, that show is like I, that's past me being a kid. But I remember I went back and watched clips of that show. they had a lot of celebrities on that show and I believe it's a very popular product but no, yo Gabba Gabba no, I was going to say I don't know things that people know me for I would say

mainly I mean I'd say a lot of people internet wise know me from just my social media but then I have like a weird like not cult following but I have like an interesting group of people who know me from this game show I did on Facebook so like I have a lot of like aunties and grandmas who follow me on Facebook because they they know me from hosting this this game show called confetti that I did which was like a blatant rip-off of HQ trivia and and it was fun we did like 200 plus episodes they never marketed it I don't know

why it was the weirdest thing it was I think it was just like they were testing it they were just like It was unfortunate for me because at a certain point, I was confused because they were gassing it up. Like, oh, man, we're going to be the next big, whatever. And then at a certain point, I realized the production team did not coordinate with Facebook. And Facebook was like, yeah, no, we're just like testing out the format on our platform. Like, y'all are a guinea pig. Like, you know, like you got, like, they didn't say that, but that's exactly what it was. Like Facebook would say, oh, we're trying to get it out to more people.

And like we had like, I think 40,000 live viewers every other, every other night. And sometimes maybe they went even higher. But it could have been so much, so much bigger. But they like chose to kind of like ghost roll it out. And I was like, I was like, guys, you're Facebook. There's like a billion people on this app. Like if you wanted it to be big, you could. You're like choosing not to.

Yeah. Kind of reminds me of this podcast a little bit. Well. It's like promotion, home marketing. It's just like a test that we're doing. I mean, that's, you know, companies, you know, corporate, that's how, that's how companies work. They sit back and they, they, you know, they'll allocate money to just say that they spent it so they don't have to give it to the IRS. And then next thing you know, they're creating like, you know, just like things that they just are like, oh, yeah, whatever.

And I think the most interesting thing is that they took the format that we were using, which was a live. game show and there was like clickable questions and answers like on the screen but then they took that that type of format and they started like distributing it to other shows on Facebook watch and I was like I was like

what is this? I was like are we in some are we some sort of like surrogate show for other shows? Are we like we did more promotions for other shows than we did for our own. That's where I knew something was off but I mean I was getting paid well so I just sat back and was like I guess I will just

creatively die inside while I'd cash these checks. Yeah, I definitely been on some end of that. When I was working in e-sports production, I had to work on some really like sketchy mobile games with like people who, so one of the events I was at, they were paying me like $700 a day to just basically tell people to go from this side of the room

to that side of the room, right, to get ready for to be on the live stream or something. And when I was talking to one of the producers, He was like, yeah, that guy's from China. He spent over a million dollars in this game. That guy's from Saudi Arabia. He spent over like $500,000 in this game. This guy from Russia, he spent $5 million in his game.

Like, what the heck? So they basically flew all like the quote-unquote top players and just like gave him like a free trip to L.A., had him compete in this thing. I don't even know what they won. I think like the prize, the grand prize is like $10,000 or something. And these people spent like over like, you know, hundreds of thousand dollars in this game.

But they didn't care. They just wanted to like to be treated like, you know, like their receiver. special. They got, you know, room and board. They got flown out and everything. So it was really, really interesting. And I'm like, yeah, you know, mobile games are great guys. You know, I'm going to love them to pay to win mechanics. You missed the most interesting part about that, which is. They made you dress up like Chun Lee. Oh, I totally. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was in the long boots in the, in the dress, the blue dress. They somehow managed to get my hair up in the

$700, man. Exactly. It's a paycheck, right? I'm not going to argue with it. That's how it goes. Trust me. Oh, trust me. They'll try to get you to do everything over the moon for something that doesn't matter. I think that's what killed me.

Oh, my God. There were moments on that game show that I was hosting where they were trying to do the most cringe jokes. And like, I enjoyed it. And I, you know, the writers are cool. My producers were chill. I think they just, they just were some of them, you know, a little tone deaf. I mean, I'm not going to lie to the majority of the majority of the, the majority of the cast and crew are white people.

Like, you know, nothing against them. They're cool people. Yeah. But they just were, I was just like, y'all hired a black dude. Like, y'all should probably hire some black writers, you know, like, you know, like, you know, or hire someone black on production who can empathize with me, not just because they're black, but more so they, so, more so they did, more so we didn't have to have as many awkward interactions as we did.

Because I'm like, I'm like, you guys don't, you guys obviously are not aware of these weird stigmas in the world that are true towards, you know, most all groups of people. Like I think even in the script one time one of our answers was like Hitler or something. It was like, it was like who it was like who loves Minkoff and kills Jews. I was like, oh, I was like, oh, I was like, oh, don't put that. I was like, I'm not, I said, I'm not saying that question and answer on game. I was like, you're not, I was like, you're not destroying my career this early. So I told them, I told them, give me.

And it's funny because it was a throwaway answer. Like they could put anybody else in that spot. And the answer would still make sense or the question would still make sense. Right. And I remember like my producer getting mad at me about it. He was like, it's a good question. I was like, I don't care. I was like, I'm not saying that.

Because I was the only person on the production who had any say on stuff because I was the star, I was the star of the show. I was like, you know, so when they wrote stuff that didn't make any sense or if it was just kind of like, not necessarily lazy writing, but it was just more the fact that I'm like, y'all, why would I say something that could offend viewers in the chat? That makes no sense. Yeah, yeah. Like, you want to, you want to alienate a certain group of people on this, on this show that you're trying to give away free money to. I was like, for what, right? Yeah. Terrible idea.

So I had to, I had to like put my foot down on certain. projects are on certain things. I was just like, not doing it. And, and, you know, they'd have their little fuss and whatnot. And I'm like, no, I'm like, I know you're used to get in your way all time, you know, since you were born, but no, not doing that. So, you know, there was like, there was like that weird time. There was a time where, oh, here's, here's one of the earliest times. We, um, my producer again, he was tripping, man. He was like, he was like, he, they were trying to do so many gimmicks with the show. And if anybody has seen the show, they know exactly what I'm talking about. Like we had like, uh, we, they always had like a guest on the show to represent one of

the question and answers. Like we had like a bullwhip dude. We had like a trapeze artist. All right. We had a, we had a scientist dude who did like a science question. And in my brain, I'm sitting there saying, where's the, what are y'all doing with the budget of the show? I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, HQ trivia is on a green screen. We had a whole stage and studio set. Yeah. So, and I was like, if we're giving away Facebook's money. and we're spending Facebook's money every day and we're not saving any of this money. Eventually, we're going to have to scale down on this project.

And we did, which is funny. But also, you know, I think it's just these guys write for TV and they write for like wacky game shows. So it's just one of those things where that's where their mind is when it comes to this type of project. Yeah. And I just know that my producer one day, he was like, he wanted to bring props.

He wanted me to bring props on stage every time I started the show. He was like, I'd start the show and like, I got balloons in my hands. I start the show. I got a picnic basket. But one time he had like this big, one day, one time he had this big inflatable ass banana.

And I was like, I am bringing no banana on stage, bro. And he was like, well, what's the problem? And I was like, do you need me to explain this?

And I'm like, I was like, I'm black. Black people get referred to as monkeys, you know, bananas, blah, blah, blah. I was like, I ain't doing that.

And then he was like, oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean anything. And I'm like, it's cool. It's not a big deal. You, you tone deaf.

you don't think about others. I'm not worried about that. So I told you know. Yeah. Yeah. So I just told him, I was like, yo, I'm cool off that. But here's the thing. The worst part was he didn't listen to me and instead try to reinforce it later in the afternoon after lunch where he had the art department paint it red red red.

Red and I was like, no, man. I was like, that's just a big red banana now. And I'm still not bringing that thing on stage. And then he was like, I just don't get it. I'm like, you don't have to get it, dude. I just like, get it out of here before I pop it with like a knife or something. I was like, you know, it was just, it was just so cringe and stupid. I was like, I already explained to you the, the, you know, the reasoning behind it,

the stigma and why I'm not doing it. The fact that I said no should have been it. Like that's the thing. A lot of directors and producers, they try to get over on you. They'll be like, but come on. I mean, who's going to hurt? Who's going to know? And I'm like, I'm like, you know.

The internet? But it's also it's also just one of those things where it's just it's just creatively demeaning. Like if I tell you, hey, I'm not comfortable with this. Be, you know, be a human being and be like, oh, that's fine. Sorry about that. Yeah, no, for sure. No disrespect. Yeah.

There definitely has to be a level of like trust and respect between whoever you're working with, right? Because if not, then like you let people get away with a lot of things that is potentially harmful, right? And like, hurtful to the people. Um, you know, it's like, you know, just like thinking just, you know, like really basically, like, if there's like, you know, like any kids are watching, right? And they see this stuff. They think it's okay, right?

They, they think that's like, it's like, part, you know, just normal. And so that's not how we like have things change, you know, it's a, it's, it's also setting an example for other people too. What's crazy for me too is, um, you know, I have a toddler daughter and I've been showing her a lot of these old Disney movies that I watch. watched as a kid. Oh, no. And I'm watching these things, and I'm like, like, is, was this normal when I was a kid?

Because I think if these movies came out now, there's like no way that it would go unnoticed some of the things they say and do in these movies. Like, it's actually pretty crazy to think about, you know. Like, there's, like, racism, sexism. Oh, yeah. Like, even, like, devil worship or stuff, man. Oh, yeah. Especially like in Snow White, like there's no one thing. The queen goes to the huntsman and she's like, I want you to kill Snow White and rip out her heart, put it in this box and bring it back to me.

And I'm like, look at my daughter and she's just staring at the TV. Oh, yeah. Yeah, no, Disney, Disney is, they're famous for that back in the day. I mean, and even today, even today, like they, you know, there are still like settled. like there's very subtle stuff in a lot of those movies and even Pixar films and whatnot

don't even get me started on like a I used to love Dumbo my dad would that's the crows yeah my dad used to love Dumbo I was not even I didn't even think nothing of them crows I didn't think nothing at them yeah I was like and then I got older and they were like yeah you know these are like you know black dudes and they like

like Jim Crow you get it right and I was like literally yeah not my not my my my my my, my beautiful Dumbo, I, I used to love when I will see an elephant fly. Like, I'm like, oh, no. I'm like, I didn't even pick that up. Oh, it made me so sad. But like, it's weird.

There's a lot of that stuff. Yeah. Yeah. All that, all that jazz. Even in the newer movies. Like, um, you all see the movie Soul? Yes. Yes.

I heard it's good. It's all right. It's good. It's like, the thing is the story is good. But it's got some, like, um, it's got some like unnecessary like shade in it. And also it's it's like that's, but you know what?

I think you'll only notice it if you're like a black person. Like if you're like, you know, and also you'll still enjoy the movie. But there's definitely like a moment where, if you know the story, it's like the souls are jumping in and out of the world and all that jazz. But one of the souls is just kind of like,

he's just like the Karen of the movie. He's just like, I'm not having it. Like he's just always. pulling up on people, but he pulled up on, he pulls up on a black dude who's a friend of the main black dude's character. And he like, it's basically like racial profiling. Like he just said, he's like, I gotcha.

And then he turns him around. He's like, oh, wait, you're not the right dude. But it's like, it's just the fact that he was like, oh, y'all look the same. Yeah. And then he, and then he like throws the dude into what would be like the sunken place and then takes him out. And then it basically traumatizes it. So, and it's very, it's very noticeable of just the stuff that's been going on in the world nowadays. But, you know, it's just, it's just, it's just, Pixar just, you know, they do their little things.

And I'm just like, all right, you know, whatever. I guess that's funny. Some of, some of it just seems unnecessary. I'm like, can't you all just make a movie where the main character is the main character? I feel like we, we notice it more too, though, because I do think the world is going through this, like, transition phase into, like, more wokeness. I think we're all kind of, like, waking up to, like, what, what the world is. world does really like and people are actually starting to change I think not it you know it's still

we still got a long ways to go but I think people are starting to realize we're pretty dumb and messed up back then we should probably not deal those things that we're dumb and messed up now I mean you know I mean it's it's whatever like it's everything's been crazy forever so I don't expect I mean I hope things start changing for this this next generation I think they deserve it but uh you know I I mean at the end of the day as long as as as people are just nice of people. That's, that's, you know, I made like a video about that the other day on YouTube. I was just telling people. I was like, you know, I was like, you want to be a good content creator? I was like, be nice to the people you work with. I'm like, that's, that's super easy

to do. And a lot of people don't do it. You know, or even do like shout out people. Like, just because, you know, you might have worked with them or they might have like, you know, whether you hire like a graphic artist or you, I don't know, got, you know, some free product or something like that or you're you know you do like whatever type of thing i try to let people know i'm like i'm like your your favorite streamers your favorite content creators they're not going to tell you to uh remember to credit people they're not thinking about that they're thinking about the bag most of them are yeah some some some some some have some of them it's not that they're not good people it's just that they're so focused on themselves they don't really put the effort into you know shouting out

like their editors shouting out their graphic artists uh letting know letting people know that, you know, this video was inspired by whoever. So it's, it's, I don't know. I think it's just that I'm, I was so used to not receiving that on my way through whatever this journey is that now I'm just, I'm just like adamant about letting like people know, like, hey, you should definitely be, you know, just a cool person. If you're going to make content with someone in collab, yo, you should share in that. It shouldn't be like a one-sided thing.

So I think that's just how I look. at things nowadays. Yeah, it's definitely important because people, people remember those like small little like gestures, right? Even if it's like, even if it doesn't lead to something, if you just at least like let people know that there are other people that you enjoy working with. And there's no like, you know, there's no like, you know, favors exchanging, you know, doing it just to do it means a whole lot.

Like when I was working production, I'll have people throw my name up for jobs, for, for, for gigs, the time. And I was always super, super thankful. And they always made sure, you know, like, you know, I'm, I'm going to, you know, if I ever have an opportunity that, you know, I don't do or that, you know, someone asked me a question for, I'm going to throw your name out, you know, just because you never know, right. You never know what it might lead to. And it's just good to, you know, kind of, how did I say this, like collects, like some of that good karma, you know? It's just being good, you know, just be a good person. Um, that's, that's crazy. So, JD, I want to ask you this.

We were, so when we were, when we first met, we talked about this a little bit. And, you know, it's, it's 2021 now, right? Pandemic aside, it feels like when you're like an actor or comedian, you know, so on and so forth, you have to do so much and beyond so many platforms, right? Like at the beginning of the show, I introduced you was like a, you know, an actor comedian streamer. You're on TikTok. You do YouTube. You do voice acting. you do hosting how how difficult is it to balance every single thing that you have to do all the

platforms that pop up like are you on youtube and facebook and instagram and on ticot and on snapchat do you have your verified on like live journal and zinga and like all that stuff like how does that how does that work uh i i should i should get an assistant is how it should work i just don't i just i just in my brain i'm like i don't i don't need one um you know it's i think I think it's one of those things where you, I mean, you can definitely spread yourself a little too thin when you're focused on so many different avenues. But I like it just because it feels creatively stimulating. Like I don't, I don't like being stuck doing one thing for too long. So it's always nice to know that like if one of the things that I'm pursuing isn't going how I wanted to go, I can always like fall back on something else that makes me feel, feel good.

personally like stand-up comedy used to be that uh i haven't done stand-up in the last year because of covid and whatnot honestly it's probably it's about it's february i feel like i my last show is literally like a year almost to this day because i did a show out out here in l.a like back in february like the first week um but like you know stand-up comedy was always one of those things where like you know if i was busy auditioning and going out for roles and stuff and i i was or wasn't booking I could always creatively, like, express myself by getting on stage and just telling jokes and, like, getting, not necessarily recognition, but just like, you know, finding, like, people who are just like, oh, man, you know, I'm enjoying this. And that way you don't have to sit back and wait on, like, the gatekeepers of the world to give you the opportunity, the opportunities that you want to share with people. Same, same goes with, like, uploading YouTube videos.

Streaming to me is, like, I think number one right now. I didn't realize how much I was taking it for granted until last year when I just had all this free time in the house. And then I was like, you know what? Maybe I'll live stream today. And then like I ended up streaming the following day and the next day and the next day. And I started like doing it almost daily. And I was like, oh, this is really fun. It's just like hanging out with people that have the same interests as you.

And we're just kind of, you know, vibing off each other and kicking it. So I think like definitely it's a little bit of a. of a task when it comes of juggling, but I mean, I feel like I do a good job. My wife helps me, you know, more than enough. From the business side of it, I have like, I have like business people that I work with who, you know, make sure that all my stuff is in order like finances and taxes and all that jazz.

So I don't get put in a place where, you know, I work on a bunch of projects. And the next thing, you know, the IRS is like, where's our money? so um end up like empty hammer right hey hey man you don't don't play around with it but uh I you know I would say that

I genuinely enjoy it I mean at some there are definitely moments where it's like a lot to deal with like there's sometimes where I'll have like weeks that are like back to back to back things going on and you know it's funny because you work so hard to get to that point and then you get

there and like I'm very much I'm very much a weird I think a weird, like creative like that where I love the part where I'm presented with the opportunity. And then I love like performing or being able to do said project. But like the prep time and the stuff right in between getting it done, I hate that part. I don't know why. Like I hate like I hate when someone says, hey, we want you to host. and I'm like, oh, yeah, sure.

And then they're like, yeah, but all right, rehearsals are on this day. And I'm like, rehearsals. I don't want to, even though I know I need to do it. Speaking my language, dude. I hate prepping too. But it's just like, it's almost the same as like when you say, it's almost the same as like people who have a hard time working out consistently. Like the hardest part, in my opinion, is just getting up and doing it.

Like the point where it's like you say you do it to when you get it done. Like the part in between that to me is the hardest where you finally put on the clothes and you go to the gym or you, you know, go into your living room and you, you know, start to put out, roll out the mat and get ready to grab your weights. For some reason, for some reason I hate that. I hate the and it's so weird because it's so weird because my wife will look at me and she'll be like, you, you're on TV. Why are you like annoyed? I'm like, I'm not annoyed with the part of being on TV. Yeah. I'm annoyed. I'm annoyed with having to wait for the producer to start our, you know, to call action. And I have to.

you know, all the downtime. Oh my God. That's probably one of the worst things of being an entertainer is the downtime. You don't realize that, which is, you know, I can't complain because it's like, you know, most jobs hopefully pay well

if you're in Hollywood. Some pay trash or sometimes you're doing for free. But, you know, you don't realize that if you're about to work on a television set or a movie or even, well, not so much voice acting. Voice acting is probably the one thing where I like, they get you in and they get you right out.

They only have like certain amount of times and Windows to get you performing. But for the other ones, it's like, it's like, all right, cool, your call time is 9 a.m. We're not going to use you until 1 p.m. I'm like, well, why am I here? Why am I sitting here waiting? But, you know, I get it. It's part of the process.

Usually I just say, hey, you know what? Luckily, I'm a creative dude. I will bring my laptop and my hard drives with me. I'll edit some videos or I'll make to shoot. I might even do an IRL stream in my. I've done IRL streams in my. like, uh,

what am I, whatever you call in my, uh, what are those rooms? It's like, it's not a trailer. It's like a dressing room. It's kind of like dressing room.

thank you. Yeah, no worries. So, so yeah, it's, it's funny. It's funny because like I get,

I always get excited when I see audition notices. Like if I see a new project, I'll be like, oh, that sounds dope. I would love to be a part of that. And then, and then it starts to like slowly go downhill when I'm like,

uh, I like the auditions usually, no, the auditions sometimes I, I dread them too if I have to memorize lines and whatnot, but I don't mind it. It's just like, you know what it is? It feels like adult homework. That's what it is. It is. Like at the end of the day, that's what it is. Like if you, you know, whatever, whatever you do, like, whatever your job becomes, like, there's always like some form of a task that you have to do. Kids think that once

you become an adult, you don't have to do tasks or like homework anymore, but it's like your careers become your homework. Like, you have to study your craft. You have to understand how to get better, become a better performer, a better streamer. Even like, even like if you do YouTube and Twitch, like you need to understand optimization. You need to understand analytics. You need to understand average view duration. Watch time. You should understand retention rates.

And it's like, I was like, I quit school for this. I quit school to not have to deal with this. You're telling me, when I was applying for the job, if Ivan told me then that I would do homework, after the fact. I'm like, no, I'm good. I was going to go like we got Starbucks or something. Once I'm home, I'm done with it. Yeah, but there's, yeah, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, like a level of like, extra stuff you have to do because you have to get consistently better, right? Because if you don't, someone's going to come up and they're going to do it better than you. And then now

you're in, you know, you're, you're on the back foot and you got to start working even harder to get to that point. That's literally it. Someone's got to do the work. Might as well be me. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you might as well be. I mean, I mean, I'm Because if not, yes, someone will absolutely, I mean, there's people who will take your spot. There's people who are hungrier than you. Because once you get complacent, that's what it is. It's just like, you know, people, people pull up.

I love that you mention standout because I'm a dentist too, but I, like, we're huge standup fans. And that's actually how I first found out about you through standup, like some random YouTube video. And like, I never seen you perform live or anything like that. but I have seen you your stand-up on YouTube. And then when we started interacting with you on Twitter, it was just very random. I think one day I just noticed, like you posted a picture probably like two or three years ago now.

And it was like, I think it was an H440 case or something. And then I looked at your profile. I was like, wait, I know this guy. This guy's a comedian. I've seen this guy before. And yeah, then I heard you on the Joe Rogan podcast, actually. with your dad. And, yeah, I was going to ask you about stand-up because me as a stand-up fan,

it really sucks, like, not being able to, like, just watch stand-up right now. And I wanted to ask you, like, as a stand-up comedian, like, what's that like, man? Because I bet it probably really sucks that you can't just go up on stage and tell jokes right now, right? You know, I mean, I say it's, I think what, it sucks not that I can't perform. it sucks that I in my opinion I'm getting worse because stand-up is like a very much a it's a consistent skill that you have to like continue to it's like a tool that you have to sharpen or a knife or whatever

but like it's definitely like a letdown that I'm not getting up as often as I can because in my opinion I'm not getting better at it like you can all like I'm kind of just stuck with wherever I was at right before the last time I performed but even then like I could get back on stage And right now I probably don't know a third of my material off the top of my head. I would have to go into my like my joke books, look through them, read them and be like, okay, how do I do this? Or I used to record my stand-up sets so I could like just have them in like some sort of like, I don't know, time capsule thing.

And also just for references, most comedians, most comedians, you'll notice they'll put like their phones up on the stools when they're performing at clubs. And that's because they're recording their set because they're trying to hear the feedback. of maybe the new material they're trying out or even just how to punch up a joke. So it's definitely annoying, like, that I can't get up, but I have a lot of stuff that I do. So I'm not like, I'm not like at home, just kind of like, oh, man, I can't do the one thing I like.

But I do know a lot of comedians who are like that, unfortunately, like a lot of comedians who that's their main thing. Stand up comedy is their main thing. So when you take that away from them, they are almost, unfortunately, they have to, adapt to the situation. So now they have to make stupid internet videos that they

tried so hard to avoid for so long because I know a lot of my friends who are just like, man, I'm not making no TikTok, bro, what are you talking about? I'm not making a TikTok. I'm not making a TikTok. I don't want to do YouTube videos. I'm not making Instagram, uh, Instagram reels. But now they all are doing it. They all have to do.

It's one of those, it's, you know, creatively, it's like the only way you can get your, you're funny out. And also, it's just like, well, you can stop and, you know, fade into obscurity or you can try to keep up with the times because, you know, unfortunately in the future, like, you know, hopefully we, you know, once we get out of all the stuff we're dealing with now, I mean, you don't know how long live entertainment's really going to last now. Like, I would love to think that, you know, people will have the passion for it in the future. But I'm, I don't think TV is going to last much longer. like cable TV. Yeah.

Like everyone has a streaming app now. And it makes it it makes streaming so so kind of whack to me. Like when streaming was only Netflix, Hulu, and like just the fact that I like watch YouTube videos and maybe Twitch, I was like cool. I got my four places to go see like a movie, a movie, a TV show that's being like uploaded to a streaming platform and this and that. Now everyone's got a streaming platform and your cable bill. is just turning into streaming app

download payments. So, I mean, I would hope that these things can last, but even, you know, even right now with like movie theaters being kind of like out of commission, I don't, I don't know if that, I would love, I mean, I can't,

I don't know, it's, it stinks to think that like, at a certain point we probably won't have movie theaters anymore. Except for AMC. They're doing well now. AmC's bumping, dude. We're going to the moon with AMC, except for AMC. To the moon, boys, to the moon. I noticed that you tweeted, or you retweeted Elon Musk this morning about Doge.

Are you a fellow Doge investor like myself? I have not. You know what? I heard that I was a little too late for it to make me a legitimate profit. I mean, I probably could still hop on it. I don't know. But still, hold on. You got to say this every time we talk about finances.

We are not legal advisors. And we are just. fading our opinions and you need to make your own personal choices with your finance. I'm actually a financial advisor and everyone needs to buy Dogecoin and hold it until it gets to one dollar. I mean, to be honest, I'm actually up 48 bucks on Dogecoin and they spent very, very little. So, you know, for all you all your haters who are doubting me, right? Diamond Hands hold strong, right?

I'm down 19. I'm down. I'm down. Well, in whatever the stocks it is that I invested in. Yeah. But again, you don't want to spend, don't put money into the stock market. You're not willing to lose is what I've learned. Exactly.

Yeah. Yeah. I put in a couple of weeks ago before this old Doge thing happened, I don't know where I read this, but someone was saying like, yeah, we're going to start pumping up Dogecoin. So I put in $300 and I ended up buying 25,000 shares of Dogecoin. Yeah. So if it gets to $1,000, I will make $1,000. 25K. So that's a pretty good deal. And if I if it doesn't then I'm I'm cool to lose 300 bucks.

You know, that's what is on PS5. Monopoly money did at that point. You know, that's that's the one thing that I was just concerned about. Because like unless you were shorting the stock, you're not going to lose more than what you put in, right? That's how it works. I believe. I don't know. I don't know the the logistics of all this stuff. All I know is I'm just going to hold it until it gets to $1. At least $1. That's my plan. So for. Yeah. For Doge, I mean, I don't know how it works with crypto, but I know with like, yeah, I know with like the GME stock right now, what all the quote unquote experts and what everyone's saying is that whatever is happening now, it's just like a short, a short drop because the shares that were shorted are still shorter. They're still there, right? They'd just been, you know, employing every trick in the book to basically lower the price as much as they can.

But, you know, I think when this thing first started, like GameStop stock was like at $4 or something, right? So even if it's like a 80 or 70 or 50, that's still a really huge loss from people who had those shares to begin with, right? There's some people on that Wall Street Betts subreddit posting the screenshots of much money. They're always so much, dude. There's one guy. He made 11 million, didn't he? There's one guy that posted a screenshot. He was up 45 million. Well, my thing, well, here's the thing, though. Once you, once you screenshot that and show it, you're done, right? Or do you hold still? Do you hold still? Do you?

you hold to steady and you're like, we're still going, boys. Like I still hold. He held on and he lost money. So he's down for sure because that was when it was like, he's down for now. He's down for now. But that's the thing is that like everyone's trying to apply this like real like logic to it. And it's like there's no logic to this. There's really no logic that this has never happened in the history of the stock market ever.

So like you can't say if you put in money, you're dumb. You're going to lose everything. Maybe we all end up being millioners, right? Who are you to say? Mr. Random internet person on Discord like you don't tell me what to do. shout out shout out to all the shout out to all the

all the billionaires crying or whatever it was all the all the old dudes who are like stop playing stop playing our game do you see that video of that guy who was literally like they're all they're doing is attacking billionaires like well yeah duh that's kind of the point

that that doesn't even sound right all they're doing is attacking billionaires yeah it's like what stop that's like that's like that doesn't make any sense. That would be like, that's like the world's strongest man

complaining about a little girl that kicked him in the shin because he took her ice cream. It's like, well, she kicked me. She's a baby. Yeah, well, the front of her foot hurt, all right?

That's the interesting thing to me too is that like, it's, what's happening is, is not illegal. It's just people buying stock and holding on to it, you know,

and the people, that are actually, you know, like working on Wall Street and whatnot. Like, they don't want that to happen for some reason. Yeah. And the debate now is like whether it should be legal, right? But that's America, though. America does not want the average person to know how to make a million dollars.

That's why they teach the way they teach, you know, and I'm not trying to get into politics, but I'm just trying to say, you know, that's just, that's why you just learn the stuff you learn. And that's why there's so many people who work on like factory lines. and all that stuff because, you know, education system just doesn't put you on to stuff like that. Like, the part that kills me is the education system doesn't even teach you how to save money. You would think that, you would think that, like, from, you would think that from, like, whatever you're, whatever, pre-K to 12th grade, you would learn about credit or learn about taxes or learn about even rent, you know? Like, you think, like, I'm sure there are business classes at certain schools.

I'm not saying there isn't, but for the main basic curriculum for most people, the majority. Yeah, the majority. Like, people say go to college, but you're going to college to study up on something that may not be able to get you a job anywhere, especially the way the landscape's changing because a lot of those jobs aren't really available. I think college is worth it for the experience, and I think it's definitely worth it for people who want to,

I think people who have like a clear, concise goal who go to college. I'm like, yo, go for it. Like me, I went and I was just like, I was an artist at first and I was drawing and I was like, cool, art. I like to draw. But, but like, if anything, I was, I was going to college to, I was like going to college to get a degree and being like homeless. Like, that's what like art.

I'm the smartest person I know is go. You know what I'm saying? Like, like, I'm just saying, like in the sense of what people see art as because the value of art, the value of art is so subjective. You nobody, nobody, you can't. like if you get a piece of paper that like oh yeah you you uh you graduated and you know uh got a fine arts degree a fine arts degree is not gonna really take you as far as getting your art out there for people to see and then for people to purchase unless you're doing like digital art and you go

to school specifically to work for like Pixar or some sort of animated studio and whatnot but if you're just like a person who's just passionate would just because me I was just like someone who enjoyed drawing and painting I had no idea how to flip that into a career. But I mean, nowadays with all these different digital avenues, you know, there's a lot. But even then, you're still in your late teens, early 20s, and you don't have like any credit to your name or any savings to your name. So let's say you graduate college, you couldn't even go get your own apartment because you don't have any credit built up to go show to, you know, to landlords and be like, hey, yeah, this is what I'm capable of doing.

and, you know, here's my credit score. You know that I make enough money to be able to pay you back consistently. They don't teach kids this. I'm like, that is toxic to me that y'all would put them, would forcefully put them in debt so you can have them pay it back to you in the future.

That's really not cool. What's ironic too is like they don't teach you about credit. And then the first thing that happens when you walk onto any college campus is they try to get you to sign up for a credit card. Almost as if it's on purpose, huh? Yep. They do that.

Put your ass right in debt. When I was in, I think it was in junior high, I was taught two things. There were life skills. One was how to cook an egg for whatever reason. It was like homeick or something. And the other one was how to write and balance a checkbook. And this is like the early 2000s right. And I'm like, dude, the internet is a thing.

Like, we're never going to use checks. I can't remember the last time I pulled out my checkbook. I have no idea what that thing is. Some dude could probably write checks right now with my checkbook. and I have no idea. I wouldn't know. I wouldn't do with that. I actually ordered new checks this morning.

For what? What do you use checks for? I pay my utility bills with check. I pay certain things. Well, you know, I get paid in checks. Like, well, no, I do. Like, like certain, it's just, it's just people who are. You know, like, when I get, when I get paid for, like, acting jobs, they send my checks to, like, my, my accountants.

and they pay it out properly. But checks are still around. I mean, people need a reason to use paper still. So I personally haven't had to write a check since my, because, yeah, I was going to say, you said you write checks. I only, I was writing checks up until, like, last year until my landlords finally went digital and, like, learn that you can, like, just do a direct deposit to get their money.

My landlord's old school. Like, I have to pay her in cash. I have to, like, pay all my utilities of check. Like, she's old school. But the worst part, but that's, I feel bad for her because she's going to be lost in the, in the shuffle one day. One day she's, one day she's going to look up and people are going to be like, ain't nobody paying you cash or check lady and she's going to get evicted from her own building. He's going to be gone.

Well, the bank going to pull up on her and be like, what are you doing? You're still using checks. And then they're going to say, we need to see all of your finances. listed from the last 20 years. And of course, she's going to have some of that stuff that was cooking. She was cooking the books like breaking bad for us for a few, for a few years. And it's going to be,

it's going to be all bad for her. Best of luck to her though. Or she pulls up like the like the old shoebox, right? It's like we had some photos here with my kids. Got some knick, here's a couple of checks. Dennis counts his money with eggs. I do.

I do. That's like confused. So we got some community questions here because we're running a little bit on time So let's see here because I don't I don't want to hold you past the The agreed upon time JD I know you're a very busy gentleman You get a lot of TikTok to make I'm chilling you know You got to do some trivia HQ shows Is that a someone just asking is that a giant bread in the background

Giant bread in the background Oh they can they can see me I didn't know they could see me. I thought we all could see me and they could hear me. That's hilarious. I don't pose it a screenshot somewhere. So. I posted a screenshot a little while ago.

Oh, did you post a screenshot? Oh, oh, I don't know what it looks like. Yeah, your left shoulder. Hold on.

Let me see what you. No, it's a, it's a body pillow. It's a chicken nugget. Okay. That's a way better answer than I was expecting. it's a chicken nugget

oh my lord it is a chicken nugget is it a McDonald's chicken nugget it's a McDonald's chicken nugget from the the cactus jack collab with Travis Scott which I don't even listen I do not listen to that man's music but don't

no I don't fuck excuse me I didn't mean because almost I don't freaking I don't freaking care about I don't give a crap about him or his Kardashian baby mama listen I just like I like funny I like funny merch that no one else is going to own. So I saw that they did this weird collab.

And then I was like, is that a chicken nugget pillow? And I didn't know it was a body pillow till it got here. And then. So you just think it was like really small or something? Yeah. No, I thought it was. I thought it was about this size. But I just, I just thought it was a regular pillow.

And then they said, and then it said body pillow. And I was just like, oh, that's kind of random. But I bought a bunch of the stuff from the Cactus Jack collab with McDonald's. I didn't eat the nasty food. I don't eat McDonald's not good for you. Don't eat that stuff, y'all. Those burgers will last for 20 years. It hasn't like last night.

We were talking about it. It was great. Oh, man, you better go take a boo-boo right now. I've been. I've been right now. This background is not actually a room. I'm like, I'm literally, I'm totally right now. That's going to stay inside your stomach for the next 30 years.

But listen, I bought the chicken nugget. It was like 90 bucks. I think it was like 99. Or no, it's like 90 bucks. But they're reselling for like 500 now or seven. or 700. Right. But I just,

I was just bored. I was just bored. Yeah. You know, you know, I just had a little passive income. I was like, let me see what they got.

They had some cool merch. They had like a cool few hoodies that I have. Oh, I got this. Oh, here we go. Show and tell time. I got the basketball. It was like,

it was like a, it's like an all American McDonald's Cactus Jack basketball is pretty cool. Okay. So, here's like a random question about a red basketball. For some reason, I see a red basketball and it throws up so many like red flags for me in my brain but I don't know why something about a basketball that

isn't brown like really puts me on notice and I feel like I should call like an agency or like call the government or something you feel super wrong nah it's just you just not a hooper bro that's all that is you don't hoop I could tell you scared of basketball you just don't don't ever meet lebron never meet lebron you'll it'll terrify you I don't know I just looked up the uh chicken nugget pillow on eBay and it's $600. Jeez. There we go and I'm not taking out the bag. Here's here's a normal one.

Does it make you feel better? I got a regular one here too. Thank you so much. I really needed to see that regular regular looking basketball. I was, I just saw some of the stuff that they were doing with the collab and I just thought it was funny and I was like,

you know what? It is pretty hilarious. Yeah. I think there are people who are selling their like McDonald's uniforms with a cactus jackets jack on it for like a couple hundred dollars too on eBay. They made a, they made an all-American one.

I bought that too. They made like a cactus jack, McDonald's All-American, because the, if you know what the McDonald's All-American basketball thing is, it's like they get the best kids of the world to play against each other,

or the best kids of America, to play against each other at the end of their baseball career. Yeah, a lot of them, you know, Zion Williamson did it, Kyrie Irving did it.

I can't remember. A lot of people were in it, but they had like, they had like a cactus jacked jersey and pant combo, and I was like, let me get that. That probably cost some money too. I'm never going to wear it.

You're never going to wear that stuff. I think Kobe played in that. Oh, I'm sure he did. Oh, I'm sure Kobe did. Yeah. That's the way he didn't, right? Yeah. The God, the God.

Young Mamba. But, yeah, that's what that was. Five bucks. Give me a, give me a first edition, holographic Charzor. I'll give you all. I'll give you all of it. Charzard.

Give me a first edition holographic Charzart. Hey, speaking of which, chat, anybody into Pogue in my cars? Let me get some of y'all don't want. I'm sorry. like a little like red book full of Pokemon cards back of the day and I think I think I had

a hollow Charzard and a hollow blastoys just like my claim of flame I had no idea where those books went I'm pretty sure my mom gave him away she sold him like Goodwill or something so some yeah some dude's dumpster diving for him right now $20,000 went to Goodwin

it's gone it's gone now I found my cards recently I did a stream of it on Twitch we went through my whole binder I have the first 150 cards or 150 or I think I got one no I don't have like a legitimate meu so I have up to me to but um I have my cards we did like we did like a fun little uh stream and whatnot I still need to go and like um I still need to go put them all in sleeves and whatnot and get them graded in the future if I want to but yeah I'm really I'm really enjoying the rise or the comeback

of Pokemon cards and I'm glad that I got in when I did as a kid because uh because they're just They're just fun, man. And I bought some new Pokemon cards. I bought like a booster box. I didn't realize that's what it was called when I was kidding. I guess the booster packs were the packs and the box was the full thing. The boxes go for like $400 now, though, because of inflation and people like Logan Paul making videos where he busts up the price to $7 million because he's got the money to blow on that. And I'm like, hey, man, we all ain't rich yet.

So I remember. I still like it. I have one good story about Pokemon cards. And it was, I was an elementary school. And I used to go to this market because my mom used to owned a video store, like downtown. So, you know, this is, so for those who don't know, a video store is where you would go to rent movies. You know, it's basically like Netflix, but IRL for those who don't know. And there was a shop that was selling Pokemon cards, right?

And I told this kid at my school, you know, yo, dude, I can get you, you know, like a whole pack of Pokemon cards for like three bucks. Like what? They got to get you a whole pack of Pokemon cards. Three bucks are awesome. All right, cool. It gives me the three bucks. I go to the store. You know, this is me.

You know, it's like a little dummy. I had no idea. I buy the pack. I gave it to him. And he's like, bro, these aren't Pokemon cards. I'm like, we're talking about this. Pokemon, there's cards. Like, dude, these are Pokemon playing cards.

He's like, jacks and aces and queens and kings. Oh, no. I brought this dude a pack of Pokemon playing cards to play poker. He was so pissed. I had no idea, dude. Oh, no. You got a, you got a Pikachu space. Exactly, dude.

Exactly. And it was even on the front, it was on the back of the car too. So there were like some like jangling Chinese Pokemon bicycle cards. That's hilarious. That's what happens, man. I'll try to think I don't think I have any Pokemon card stories. I don't know. The only thing I remember doing was just finessing a zap dose from a, from a girl when I was in, when I was in fourth grade.

Oh, my God. Because listen, when we were kids, I didn't, I'm like remembering my childhood now. I'm forgetting how popular Pokemon cards became. It was huge. Everyone had them. Like for, yeah, for everyone who was there in the beginning, like the like 1990, whatever, like 8 till 2000. Let's go. Oh, geez.

But I was going to say, I specifically remember like pulling up on this girl and she like, I think was like, hey, look at my new bird Pokemon. And I was like, I was like, is it a Zabdose holographic? And then I told her, I was like, look, I've got. I basically like shuffled like 40 cards in front of her and was like, I'll give you all of these for that one card. I was just, but like, but she was smart. She was like, why would you give me all of those?

She was like starting to catch on. She wasn't just like so basic to realize like, oh yeah, sure, cards a card. At a certain point, she, I think she was like almost refusing. And then I think I had to add like one of my like lesser holographics to the batch. And she was like, okay, I'll finally. I'll finally trade you.

And I gave her so many energy cards. I was just like, I was like, yo, hold these energies because these are going to, these are going to make you, you know, the very best like Ash.

So you want these. And she was like, okay. Just like no one ever was right. Oh my gosh. So. Oh, man. Yeah.

That's still cool though. It's still cool that it's translated 25, 20 plus years later. I wonder if like they'll just like drop back down again. Because I remember, I remember they were super big. I didn't hear about him about 20, years. Now all of a sudden they're back again. Everyone's talking about them. Do you think it's

like here to stay or think that it's just like a trend for now and people just think it's cool and something fun to talk about? I think as long as the internet exists, they'll be around. You know, like, that's just how it is. Like, uh, I believe a year ago, not even, I think like four or five months ago before the craze on like YouTube kicked them off and people were doing these, you know, buy a, buy a box posted online, uh, do a live stream. open these things. I watch like Pokeetubers now. Like I'm trying,

I'm telling you, I'm a grown man and I watch other grown men open up Pokemon cards. I'm just like this, this is so appealing to me. So, I don't, I think, I think depending on how it's all about just like the window of like,

how long people talk about it. Same with these stocks. Like, you know, I'm sure the stock market will go back to normal once people are just like over it. And everyone has such a short attention span this day and age. I'm sure we'll all move. past it. Yeah.

Because I remember, I remember the same thing. I remember people saying like, um, when I was, like when I was in, I think high school or college or maybe like around something, early 20s,

I remember saying, man, I wonder how much my Pokemon cards are worth. Right. I think somebody, I think a friend of mine who was like hip to it was like, oh man, that whole,

that whole, your whole binder probably give you like, get you like 400 bucks. I was like, that's it. I was like, well, I'm not going to get rid of them now. I was like,

because I don't need 400 bucks to get rid of like my whole childhood. That's cool. Yeah. So, But then, but then you, you know, then you fast forward to 2019, 2020, and you come to terms with people are buying the things for now like maybe each, maybe the card. Now each card is almost about $400. And then to get a box from the early 90s or late 90s is now a few thousand bucks. And then you have social media content creators creating extra buzz and extra virality around it.

Now the price keeps going up and it might come back down. But to me, it's, I don't, I don't think it's going to go anywhere, especially because Pokemon's not going anywhere. Like that's like saying Nintendo, that's like saying Mario is going to, going to stop tomorrow. Like no more Mario games, you know? So I don't, I don't think, I mean, I just think as long as, as long as inflation is a thing, they're just going to continue to go up. So by the time I have kids, my stuff probably will be worth, I don't know, a few thousand.

I think it's worth a few thousand now. That's what my viewer said, because I had some shadowless stuff in there, had a shadowless Venusaur I didn't know about. I'll give you one doge coin for everything. You give me all your doge coin when it hits a dollar. I'll take, once your doge coin hits a dollar, I'll take all of it from you.

But no, it's funny because, like, honestly, we're at that time in life where investing in things from our childhood is definitely something that can make you more money in the future. Like if you have anything in your possession that can, you know, increase in value based off of collectibles like that, like, like around my whole office at the top, I have Amibo, right? Because I was obsessed with them when they first came out. And I've definitely spent like, I'm looking at how many I have. I've got over like three to 400. So I've got like five, probably five grand right now in Amibo around my thing.

Don't waste money like I do people. So, but I'm looking at them. And I'm like, I wonder how much these amoebo will be worth in like 10 or 15 years if I never opened them. And I was originally opening them. And then I just sat back and was like, well, I'm never going to use them. Like what game am I going to play with these little toys? And I think I only used like the ones for Breath of the Wild because I wanted some of the extra like clothing items or something. And I opened a few other ones.

But I'm just going to keep them all just kind of sitting around now because I'm sure they're going to be worth something. the future and I just I don't know it just looks better when they're wrapped up right right you you mentioned earlier getting rid of your childhood for 400 bucks how much would you how much would you take to sell your entire childhood what's the price probably enough to make my adulthood easy peasy lemon squeezy without if i if you if you could give me enough money so i never have to work again and everything's paid off i sell my i sell my younger self out and i Howard B. I'll be gone. Give me a mansion.

I mean, I already have a nice car. But I don't know. Just give me a house that's already paid off. And I don't know. Honestly, I don't know. I don't know if I would sell my stuff. I'm not sure. But I know that like, because I've seen some of the prices on Pokemon cards. I've seen like the guy who was on a pawn stars or whatever.

Yeah. And he has like the collection that's worth like in his eyes. I think it was 500,000 then. That's probably worth like two. two to three million now. Now, if I, like, if I could get like four or five million off of stuff from when I was a kid, I probably would sell it. I mean, especially if it's just catching dust. I can't imagine myself just sitting there like sitting there looking at it. Like, no, these are priceless. It's not that priceless. It's just cardboard and plastic.

Right. Especially what I collect cardboard and plastic, I, like, I'm way too old for Pokemon because I graduated from high school in 1999, like when Pokemon came out. I have no idea what any of these things are, like a Charles Arborch or nothing. You are already too cool for it then. Yeah, I was like literally like, you know, going to college when Pokemon came out. But the one thing I did collect, though, is like you said, cardboard and plastic. I've always collected records. And now that might have a daughter, yeah, that's my plan.

My plan is to like one day, like, not sell the records, but just give her this collection that's hopefully worth, you know, a couple of. bucks in case she ever wants to sell it. But I think you're right. I think a lot of the stuff that we didn't really think about when we were kids, it's definitely going to be worth some money in the future. Like, it's

people like that nostalgia. Oh yeah, they love it. Even like a, because like before Pokemon cards, I remember it was a man, it was all about what it called pogs. You all remember pogs? That was big when I was in junior high. There you go.

So the fogs and magic cards. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure pogs. I'm sure pogs are popping somewhere on some weird eBay, some weird eBay site right now. I'm sure there's an auction for some poggs. The original poggers, the original poggs. People, the kids in the chat don't know what we're talking about. They're like, poggers? You're talking about a pogger?

I don't think, I don't think Pogs will ever come back to me. They don't, no, they don't, they're looking at them in the chat. Pog question mark. Pogs were physical? You don't know what the real Pogs were. This is before Twitch. This is before Justin. dot TV.

I had an uncle. They banned pogs from my school because people were gambling with those things. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like literally gambling. My uncle used to work at a,

what was it called Joe Slammer? I think that was the name of the company. Joe Slammer or something. Yeah. And they made like, yeah, they're like a pod company or something for a bit. We had, we had shirts and stuff here.

I don't know where it went, but it was a, yeah. I never understood how you actually played Pogs. I just liked having a bunch of them. you just throw them things on the floor man i don't know i remember i remember didn't they flip too or am i tripping yeah so basically it the way it works is you gamble right so let's say you want to gamble three pogs and you you and your friends put three pogs in a stack

face down and then you get what's called a slammer and then you the slammer was like a really heavy thick plastic pog it was a plastic or metal because remember i had one was like a metal, I think. I think there was different ones, but regulation pog rules, Dennis, dictate you got to use a plastic slamer. So you can just slam these things, and then the ones that flip over, you get a keep. But what ended up happening is kids were doing that, and then, like, putting money to them. So, like,

they would say, like, this pog is, you know, this pog is $2, this pog is $3. And kids are basically, you know, just playing with money on the playground. Man, I'm watching a video. I'm literally watching a video. right now on a on my laptop and it's these kids look like they had a dice game they just they're like yo hey hey hey hey and oh don't don't you can't be touching the paws now that's funny man yeah yeah those are definitely like I'm sure that those go for some money right now like vintage pogs oh that's crazy here's a video pause you're back in 2019 can we start the pogg honestly iven that's what we should do

we should make some nzxti pogs like let's just make like the weirdest dumbest stuff. Like I was telling Ivan that like I wouldn't record like an album right. I'm like hey Ivan let's just find some people on like Fiverr and let's record an album right. Let's do let's do pogs. You know, let's do slinkies, right?

Snap bracelets. This is bringing back all the old stuff that kids are going to think are cool because they just don't know any better. But I'd be down for a slumber. You know, it's like a purple poochie slumber. Yeah. We should probably make some pogs.

We should. Why not? Right. Someone's got to make the next big thing. I don't know what it is, but, you know, like, there's always something. There's always something that's just going to eclipse, like, to the next level that people are going to want. I'm not sure what it'll be, but I'm looking forward to it. The year 2022, NSXC transitions to a pod company.

It's just that proper. All right. So some other questions from the community. Billy Cosby wants to know, what did you originally want to be when you got older? How did that change over time? and how that affect you? I kind of mentioned earlier. I wanted to be an artist.

I was trying to go to school for art and art and painting and drawing and all that jazz. I'm trying to look around my office to see if my art book is here because I would show you a drawing. It might be in the living room. I'm not sure. Do I have art around here somewhere? I don't know. But yeah, it was art. I was like, I mean, it's just, it was something my mom taught me.

She was a painter. and she used to come to my school and actually teach art, which was nice of her. She would like a volunteer to teach art class at my school for my, specifically my class. So all my friends who were in different classes were like, it's not fair, man. Your mom's got to come through and teach that dope art class, bro. We're stuck here in math. It's trash. So, yeah, but I was, I was like obsessed with like cartoons when I was a kid.

So like most kids, and I used to just do cartoons. I think I can still draw I definitely can't I could draw like Dexter's lab off the top of my head and Powerpuff girls and stuff like that and then I got into like deeper art forms and mediums like a figurative drawing and painting and whatnot and then I started learning like how to do self portraits and all that jazz and then I got to college and I took a few art classes

and it was cool but I think I'd never lost a passion for art I lost the passion for what it was supposed to turn into. I think in my brain, I was like, I was like, I don't really want to, again, I didn't want to do the logistics of like, how do I run an art gallery? How do I get my art into museums? All this stuff. I just wanted to draw and paint. And then once I was like realizing that there's more to it, I was like,

ah, man, I'm done. I was like, I still do it like for fun. Like, that's usually how it goes. But I just never took it farther than. and it being, it being just like a skill set I have. Like, I mean, I don't, like, I don't think I ever sold art to anybody. But that's, that's definitely like, you know, if I was a kid and someone said, what do you want to be when you grow up?

I was like, I want to be an artist. So that's what I was trying to do. I'd like to show you all picture. But I'd say, you can screenshot it and put it in your Discord. But I can't find it. Well, we know. Not my office. I don't know.

We got time. We got time, you know. All right. next question. This one of our admins. Who is better, Dennis or Ivan? Why is it Ivan? Wait, what? I thought you were about to yell out Dennis Rodman. And then I was like, wait.

That's another. That's another one for the old heads, right, Rodman. Who is better? Dennis, me, or Ivan, our lovely co-host. And why is it Ivan? You got to make a choice. Who's better? Who's better? You or Ivan? I don't know. That's a weird question. I'm going to answer it. I would say, people want to know.

All right. I would say better. I would say right now, if we're talking better quality-wise on this video chat that I've got, I'm going to have to give that to Dennis. Let's go. You get point one, point one for the quality because of your microphone and the fact that you have the SpongeBob bikini bottom background behind you. Let's do it. But, but I think Ivan's fit is definitely more drippier than yours.

because he's got he's got he's got the he's got the twitch pull up you're just rocking i'm rocking the nzxte classic 2012 i haven't that was right you started you started off in a poncho though so i have to deduct points for that and you're saying is man it's hot in here it is hot it's like it's like you're complaining you're complaining about being hot in your own house that's not good no one likes to hear that it's a 61 degrees right now it's way too one we're wearing a poncho if we're If we're talking headphones, I got to go point. Another point for Ivan. I like white headphones personally.

Yeah. Even though I'm rocking black ones, but I think I have some white ones in my studio. But then if I got to, but then I got to give another point to Dennis for the swoop and the hair. His swoop is way more swoopier than yours. It is pretty swoopy. It's very swoopy. It's very swoopy. You've got like the baby swoop.

He's got a full, full man swoop, almost like a swan. You know? Yeah. I mean, I got pretty much just just, just all. the top right now. I'm listening. It's looking good. It's looking good.

It's looking fresh. Don't encourage M.J. D. All right. Other than I think that, but I don't know. That leaves y'all at a tie. So that leaves me with, oh, I like you guys,

I love you both equally. I'll take it. All right. Here's a question that I have to ask you that, just because it's a funny question, Dave Chappelle or Kevin Hart from Not Breadbury. I think that's a easy that's a easy one Dave Chappelle all day.

I like I like Kevin Hart. Kevin Hart is you know Kevin Hart Kevin Hart is amazing at what he does but even Kevin even Kevin Hart would say Dave Chappelle he knows this. Yeah. Dave Chappelle is probably the funniest human being that has ever lived man.

He's the I mean I mean he comes from you know he comes from a place where he learned from the greats before him like Richard Pryor, Red Fox, uh, George Carlin. man, so many, so many people who were so funny, but I mean, if we're just, I mean, he can craft

comedy out of almost anything. He hardly, it's, it's like he's hardly trying anymore. He's just, he's, he's, he's almost like comedy personified. Like if comedy was a human being, it would be him. You know what I mean? And, you know, speaking of the comedy greats that came before him, and we haven't even touched on this in this podcast, but your dad, is one of those men, dude. Like your dad is hands down, also one of the funniest humans that has ever lived. And I don't need,

I never met your dad, but in the interviews I've seen with him and like his like cooking stuff on YouTube and all that, just him being like a like a normal human. Like Batman was hilarious. He's the funniest dude that I ever knew personally. I always told him that. I was like, I was like,

well, he's to me, he's my favorite comedian personally. But it's just, you know, obviously I have a bias. But also it's just like, you know, he's always he was just always funny and always just himself which which basically was just I don't know super entertaining and he's not like like

you know we're talking about like Kevin Harton Chappelle he was nothing like that like he was he was just he was just funny in his own skin and didn't have to try hard to be funny like you know he'd be breathing funny and I'd be like laughing I'll be like why you breathe like that just the way he would talk good oh my God yeah the way the way he talks definitely. I know that, I know, I know, because he always used to take like heavy, heavy, he would take heavy breaths in between certain like foods and stuff. He'd be like, and I remember one time he said he was at the airport.

And he said the woman, he said the woman who was in front of him while he was getting ready to put his bags on, and TSA was like, she was like, oh, you breathe a lot. You got a lot. You got a lot going on back there, sir. And he was like, he's like, yes, I do. now mind your business, mind your goddamn business. So, like, you know, but yeah, he's very funny, dude. So, yeah, I mean, lucky, lucky you have known him as long as I did. Even to this day, whenever I go in the kitchen and I see my wife in the fridge, I always do that line from Friday where I'm like, every time I'm in the kitchen,

I want some pig feet. Oh, my God, class. Yeah. I found some of my art, by the way. I'm going to post it in the best. Let's go. Yeah, yeah. It's a screen.

I mean, it's not, I feel bad because it's like the, I mean, it is my art. Like, it's just not, it's not the original sketch. It's like, I took it and put it in procreate and I like did all the, all the, all the, like, coloring and all that stuff. So let me see. Hold on. Where is NZXT? Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-podcast. And there's a picture of a Ryu from Street Fighter.

Or do you say Rai. How do people say it? I say Raiu. You say Ryu. I think it's Ryu. I think Ryu is a proper terminology. Well, his, his like proper,

proper name is like Liu or something like that. But yeah. Yeah. You know, with the, what is it? The dark hado. Oh,

man, I love, yo, the street fighter movies go so hard. They're so good. Yeah, they're great. Bro,

they're so good from the 90s, man. And I used to, I used to play like Street Fighter 4, like religiously. I mean, I played the earlier ones, too,

like the OG Street Fighter 1, two. Street Fighter 3 and all that But Super Street Fighter Like four I actually got nice I was on an arcade stick I used to hit up all these stupid Arcades and whatnot

And man I was I mean I wasn't great But I was decent Yeah street fighter four like single handily saved like fighting games Because it came out in a time when there was like Nothing nothing nothing new And then as soon as Street Fighter 4 came out There was a new tech and came out A new sole caliber comes out

right, guilty gear is just popping up again. It was a, it was, it was, it was, like, one of the things that also kind of, like, help make, like,

the current, like, streaming landscape we have now, because the early, like, fighting game tournaments were, like, all streamed, right? They had these really big tournaments, you know, like, Evo stuff with them,

those things were all streamed. And they were really heavily into, like, adjusting TV and then Twitch in the early days. And, like, that, that whole scene survived just by, like, broadcasting, like, all these crazy, like,

wild tournaments, like, all across the world. Um, yeah, that game look, hmm. No, I was, sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off. I was gonna say, yeah, definitely. I don't, I don't think like Evo would be as big as Evo is if it wasn't for not just that game. I mean, they had been doing them for years.

Yeah, yeah. Like that, Marvel versus Capcom, you know, all those games. It's a new generation, you know. It was a new group of people in a brand new game on an Xbox, right? You didn't have to go to an arcade to play. You can just play from home and, you know, somehow where somewhere, somewhere, you hear about this like local scene somewhere where people are playing. You show up and you got all these wild dudes like going nuts on each other.

It's screaming, playing fighting games. Yeah, Street Fighter 4 is a, it's a, it's a gem. It's a real gem. I just don't like, I just can't. I never got good at Street Fighter 5. That's what kind of bothers me. I was actually, I was actually,

I don't like it. I mean, I like what they wanted to do with it, but the, like, the original launch wasn't that good. Nope. The learned, learning those new, like those new, uh, look, were really difficult. I missed, I missed my like, uh, what, what they used to yell out, uh, FADC to ultra. Because they was like, it was like focus dash cancel.

To, uh, to your super. Oh my God. Watching Daigo do that, bro. And now like having to watch Daigo main guyle, I don't like it. I don't like so he doesn't main Ryu anymore. I hate it. Here's a funny thing. Um, he's, he's always swapped between, uh, Ryu, Ken and Kyle. It's actually not new for friend to play guile he he played a lot of guile in a later version of street fighter two i think it was like championship or turbo um because they just like did something to riu and can really they just didn't weren't that good and to be honest like um the way he plays riu can and gile is kind of the same like it's really not that different it's very heavy is very heavily focused on like zoning and and and like controlling and punishing the man is calculated right so it doesn't matter like what character he plays

he's just always on this like next like plane of existence or like he's just like the thing and 20 steps ahead. And it's like, oh, you're going to jump? I knew that like 20 minutes ago. Let's go. He's always watching. No, definitely. Spoiler.

I always jump. That's why I lose. Yeah. I am confirmed the best street fighter player in the office for sure. No one, no one has contested me yet. And I ain't even like it. I, I, I, I just remember my, my homeboy's cousin would play me. And he would just, man, he would just dog us.

He's really, he's very. he's fairly decent at that game. And he's played in turn. He's gone to evil before. But it's just, uh, it's when you realize the fact that if you're so bad at the game that you cannot figure out how to get around certain obstacles, like if someone is spamming fireballs and you don't know how to figure out your way around it, then you should not that good.

Same, same, same if someone is always kicking you every time you jump and they're punishing you. Like stop jumping. Push forward. Don't, you know, stop jumping. You know, zone and. and throw some projectiles. But, no, that was such a good game. And also, when it comes to, like, tournament in video games,

I just can't watch anything that isn't fighting games. Like, you know, I respect, you know, I respect, like a, like, I respect, like, a first-person shooter, e-sports matchup, maybe, you know, but I don't get super excited over, like, you know, World of Warcraft and Dota and all that stuff. I think mainly because I don't know what's going on. If I knew what was going on, obviously, I would give it more.

praise. But I just think when it comes to like a tournament setting, like the best thing to watch is two people who are trying to get the life bar down. It just feels the most entertaining for me personally. You know, but I know that a lot of people probably like different stuff. But I just I just think it's the most hype. Like, bro, Evo's just so much more hype than any other e-sports competition in my opinion. If you haven't been to a tournament like live, you definitely need to go. even if it's like a regional or like a major one it's like a local one you definitely check it out

there's like a certain like so to explain there's like a certain like electricity in the air when people when like two good players are playing and there's like 20 people like just behind them watching on the screen and they're just getting hype over stuff it's it's the greatest thing ever and like even if you don't know what what is like going on the uh the crap talking that happens is just like the best. Nothing matches it because there's this air of like almost respect to it as well, right? Because when like someone's talking smack on like cod, they know you can't get to them, right? But if someone's talking smack to you and you're literally sitting right next to them with like a fight stick and you say something like out of pocket, you know, you know, you might, you might be eating a knuckle sandwich or something.

Right. So so there's like a certain level of like I'm going to diss you what I'm mostly going to do it with like a certain amount of respect just so you don't punch me in the face. Because it says something really, really messed up, right? And it's just, it's great to see that kind of like respectful like rivalry where it's not about hard feelings, just about, you know, I beat you because you're not as good as me. I'm like, that's pretty much it, right? Yeah, definitely. I, you know, just pop. There's no better pop-offs than in the fighting game community.

Oh, yeah. Hands down. Hands down. The original Eastport. Pretty much. All right. I don't want to hold you guys for too long. I'm looking for some really good questions.

Is investing stocks at the moment worth it? Yes, but don't do any of the hype stuff. Just invest smartly and look at companies that you believe are actually going to be there for the longer. No one. Fordust of $2 million for no reason. Okay, this is interesting. Favorite soda in a can. Is there a difference in a can?

Yeah, is there a difference between can, bottle, fountain? Yeah, there's a interesting. difference is there maybe that I don't know I know for sure the formulas for like McDonald's yeah yeah no is the exactly I wouldn't say the the the formula for a Sprite at McDonald's is that is literally different it's like proven that there's like a special formula they have for both the Coke and the Sprite at McDonald's to make it crispy or whatever right they got the ice of crisp at Travis Scott stirs it with this finger like this well that that that well if they're at McDonald's is not in a can

it's in a cup. So it's from the machine from the fountain. But the fountain's not a can either. What was it a question? Was it just? Yeah, I thought we're, I thought we're specifically talking about like if it's in a can. What's the best canned soda?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, best, best can soda. Coming coming out of the can. Right. I don't know if that matters. I would say I'm a big cactus cooler, dude. I used to be. Oh, yeah.

Catist cooler in the can is lit. Yeah. Hawaiian punch in the can. Ooh. It's terrible for you, it's delicious. There have been a kind of wine punch. It kind of leaves us like weird, like,

thrody, residue-y feeling when I drink wine-punch. I can never do it. Like, even when it was a kid, there was like an after bite or like an after-taste to it that I just, I just didn't, it just didn't hit with me.

I wasn't a fan. Sun-kissed, orange soda. Sun-kiss, okay. Sun-kiss is good out of a can. Okay. Now, if we're talking about bottles, now, uh, fruit-topia used to in the 90s. Who-wee.

Boy, fruit-tope. These doggies kids don't know about Fruitopia now. Does anybody know? Does anybody know? I'm actually curious if anybody in the in the server knows. I'm a link a photo though because I used to buy these at school. Brough. Oh my God.

They were so amazing Fruitopia. Try to think. Sprite's always been my like go to day one. But I mean, I don't drink soda that much anymore. But when I did, oh man. I used to be a dude where I couldn't drink water with food because I thought water made my food dryer. I used to eat food and I would be like, oh, man, this is so dry. I need a soda to bring this down.

It's the only way. But, yeah, no, I'm just thinking off top of my head, like, definitely bottled. I don't know, all those drinks just sound good. I'm trying to think. I mean, if you, if you're a Coke, if you're a Coke and Pepsi dude, then that's cool. All right. R. C. Cola. That's all we had.

They didn't have, they had an RC Cola machine in our school. I would submit that I think R.C. Cola tastes better than Coca Cola or Pepsi. I don't know what is in their formula, but I like it. I like it better. I think it's actually better. I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is, but it's almost like eating like a cheeseburger. in McDonald's, right?

It's not good for you, but something about that flavor just makes you happy inside, right? Maybe not for JD, but definitely for me. No, no, it does. I'm trying to think. There's also, oh, Fanta. Brough, we didn't even get into Fanta. We got to stop. There's too many.

Come on now. Fanta grape. Oh, my gosh. There's so many. There's so many delicious things that I'm just, I can taste them as I say them out loud. The best thing about Fanta was like the song. It was like the music Yeah, the music

And those commercials were amazing Also vanilla Coke used to slap That was my That was I used to love vanilla Coke Like almost as like a dessert Kind of I got it What you know about that Crystal Pepsi though Crystal Pepsi was interesting

That was different That was different I'm hearing I'm hearing it I'm hearing fancy commercials In the background Let's go dude I got it Pets was weird

I was in the Spanish That's how it should be That's how it should be Autumn girls Autumn girls Got some spice to them They definitely should be in Spanish I liked it

It was really good Yeah I know the 2000 It was really interesting For like food and in commercials That kind Once we made it past Y2K People just went crazy With all the products

They were like We made it Even though Nobody knew what the heck was going on Yeah, there's a, there's a TikTok account I follow. It's like, it's like 90s and like 2000s commercials. And like I forgot like all these weird commercials we used to have like Mentos and stuff like that. It's just like so so weird.

I audition for a Mentos commercial. I did not book that. Oh, really? It was a bad audition. It was one of my worst auditions because the guy, commercial auditions are so annoying because when you audition, you're not, you don't matter as an actor. What matters is how you display the. product. The product is the star.

The star of a commercial is the product. So how well can you showcase it? Or if they're trying to do like a humorous commercial, does your face sell the product? That's what a director told me. He was like, you know, he's like, when we try to cast people, you know, we look at the clients or the client tells us what they want. And then we cast people and we look at the people who come in the room and we think that can this person help sell this product.

So, but I remember I did a Mentos commercial to do was like, he was all like, Like, yeah, all right, so you need to like hold the Mentos up in front of you, but like not in front of your face because then I won't see your face. And I was like, okay. And I kept messing it up because I couldn't like the depth perception of where his camera was and where my hand was. I couldn't get it. He wanted me to put it near my face. But every time I did it, it was like right in front of an eyeball or something. And I was just like, I was like, dude, let me just go home.

This is trash. Let's all. Let's, I'm done. And he was the same way. He was like, man, yeah, you're right. You're not getting this one. I was like, all right, well, F you did. That's funny.

Glad we came to that conclusion together, right? Yeah, I mean, I was just like, get me out of here. Because they're so, they're so demoralizing auditions. Like, it's not fun. Like, it's the, it's the dumbest way to figure out who should be in your project. Like, people should go and find the work that you have done. And then they should cast you based off of how well those projects went, in my opinion. I don't think that auditioning helps anyone because nobody, nobody knows what they want.

Hollywood is very indecisive. I would say the whole, I would say the whole entertainment industry is indecisive. Everyone thinks they know what they're doing. And then they're always like whispering in someone's ear like, so how do you feel about this? Do you like it? Is it okay?

Are you not going to fire us, right? I genuinely hate that. Like people who, in my opinion, like creatives know what they want, but people who are behind the scenes who are giving creatives opportunities have no idea what they're doing with anything. Like that happens in movies and stuff. all the time. That's how you, that's how you get Sonic the Hedgehog looking at how he did it first.

That's how you end up with that. I'm going to the impression that was on purpose, though. I think that was on purpose. No, it was. It was. It was. Right. Right. It was. It was. Because like, there's no way that anybody saw that thing. It was like, yep, this is it for the movie. This is, this is, this looks totally fine. No one's going to have any problems with it. And then all of a sudden, right, like a few weeks later, here's the new Sonic. How do you guys like it? That was, that was planted. That was an ad campaign. I, you can't convince me. otherwise. No, but oh, you think, oh, you think, oh, you think they made it bad on purpose to get the buzz? Yes. Is that what you mean? Yes. Um, that thing's hideous. It's so creepy looking.

I wouldn't say so. I would say, I would say the buzz probably, I would say all the negative attention gave them so much more, uh, push for a movie that probably wouldn't have done numbers regardless of if it would look good at first. But I absolutely think that this was a creative choice because Sega and people from Japan were like, we don't think this is pretty good. But if, you know, but they were like, we're giving you the creative control over at America, you know, do your thing, directors and animators. I absolutely think that this was like a director or definitely a producer. Here's the thing that a lot of y'all who are listening to this should know.

No disrespect to any producers I personally know. Here we go. But producers, in my opinion, are failed entertainers who force their way into the industry. behind the scenes because they couldn't be on camera. Hot take. That's usually what it works. That's usually how it is. Because I've met so many producers on projects who are like,

because you know what a producer is, right? They produce. They fund money so that you can get your idea made. They don't do anything creatively. They just put money behind stuff. And then you have to give them the, you have to give them the wherewithal to get them to make decisions because they are looking at you like, well, you're making your product with my money. So I get to say something about this. Right. That's why I'm here.

Because I produce this show with my Dogecoin. There you go. But no, but I've met producers and a lot of them will be like, you know, they'll be in like almost enamored with with me, which is like a weird, creepy feeling, kind of like they want to wear my skin. Because they're like, oh man, they're like, you're funny, man. I like you, man. You're entertaining, man. You know, I used to do, I used to do stand up. That's always how it starts. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're like, they're like, you know, I used to do acting, stand up, comedy, voice, acts, something.

They always used to do what I'm pursuing. And then I'm like, okay, cool, that's what's up, dude, that's what's up. And then they're like, yeah, you know, it didn't really work out. But hey, you know, I'm still here. I'm still working. I'm still doing my thing. And I'm like, yeah, but you're like making it worse. You were told you weren't good a long time ago.

And that rubbed you the wrong way. So you were like, well, I'll have my day. I'm going to figure it out. I'm going to, I'll find a way to get into this industry. And you become a producer and you get your little trust fund money from your mama or your daddy. And you put it on to animated series or television movies or projects. And you ruin them with your terrible, your terrible ideas.

And someone who was working on that Sonic movie, who had too much creative control, who didn't even passionate about Sonic the Hedgehog. That's the part that kills me. I'm like, don't make movies about stuff you don't like or stuff you're not passionate about. If you don't, if you ain't never played Sonic, stay getting, stay your ass out the room. You shouldn't be here.

You should not be here if you have not played Sonic, Sonic 1, Sonic 2, Sonic Adventure, Sonic, like Sonic Heroes. I'm like, don't, don't be a part of this project and then make this abomination that we all grew up with and loved. And the next thing you know, the whole internet's coming down on you because now everybody's able to voice their opinions. And even Sonic, even Sonic, you can, you can hear Sonny. voice in the background just like, what is that, dude?

What is that? You just hear him scream in my head. But, but that's what happens. Hollywood just, they give the, they give the keys to the land and entertainment industry to people who don't know what to do with it. And they're all indecisive and they're all sitting back and they're all at these board meetings where they're like, so how do we bring back, how do we bring back this, what is Super Mario?

How do we bring this guy back and make a, make a million dollars? kids how do we do it what are we what's what's the plan and then they have their little nephew in the room with them who also doesn't know crap about it but they're they're just like paunting him off as like a creative consultant timmy timmy come here come come what do you think about this mario oh daddy i love mario like you know and then it's just it's just it's just a terrible uh it's just it's just i just hate hollywood is what i'm trying to say i hate it i work in it but i hate it they just got to re-release the original super marie brothers movie with john logozama and we're good to go, right?

Even though that was bad, that was a classic. It was a bad classic. It's like a- Someone was someone was on that movie's thinking that Cooper should, Bowser should been a human man with scales. I don't know how or why. That movie is such a departure. A real life guy.

That was such a funny. The like early's 90s, 80s-ish like adaptations of like video games are such a departure from like the original like source material that like they're almost like their own thing like like I don't know who who made these these like decisions but they're so they're so far from what you would expect them to ever be that they kind of round being terrible become amazing right it's like it's like the Mario movie uh the mortal combat movie right the street fighter movie right I think we're just talking about it before the show like they're so they're so bad and so far away from what they're supposed to be.

They're actually super good. Like, bison bucks, right? But they're, it's, they're, they're bad good. They're not good good. They're bad good. Because even back then, you know, in the 90s, you have someone who, someone who's

working on Mario was like, well, it's a, the Yoshi's a lizard dinosaur thing, right? So Jurassic Park just did well. Let's just go see if we can get one of those animatronics and put it. That's, that's how they think. That's how they think. that's literally and also they didn't have the technology to make like a good

Mario movie like you know if you could redo it with animation sure but that's how they think man I'm trying to tell you Hollywood is full of really bad thinkers a lot of them are starting to get pushed out now though which is good like all these old heads who were making trash decisions for so long finally young people are getting into it and we're finally like giving good advice on what should be made but there's still people who are butchering certain things you know But then you get like some bad movies like that one X-Men movie where

where we're dead where Deadpool's mouth was sit tight. I don't understand it. Don't those like new heads become the new old heads and start ruining things for the new new generation? Like it's just kind of cyclical now, right? Only if they learn from the people of past. Like if like if the old heads now or if the old heads now are grooming the new generation, Like, excuse me, if the old heads of the old day are grooming the new generation, then it continues

to cycle. But if the new heads are like, let's try something different. Let's look at this from the perspective of what the fan would appreciate. Then you get some good stuff. You get like that the redone, redone Sonic movie was really good. It was like he was a little cringe and corny, but the animation looked good. Yeah. Characters look good.

You know, you get newer people who are learning from mistakes of old Hollywood, like Netflix, where Netflix is like, let's try to make stuff that people actually want to sit through for hours. Like, you, people used to walk out along movies, but Netflix will drop 19 episodes and we will sit there for the whole weekend. Like, yeah, there's some people are making good decisions. There are still people making bad ones.

Right. You know, you got like Quibi. Like, I auditioned for Quibi. I audition for like three different shows on Quibi. And I was in the audition room realizing I was like, this isn't going to work. in my brain. I was like, you know, regardless of the pandemic, I was like, in my head, I said, this is a great idea, but you have too many old fogies at the top who are trying to make

basically a social media app for young kids. You need younger people on this board member, on this team of board members to tell you what's cool because they don't use it. They don't, they don't, they don't go on TikTok consistently and like just follow up on trends. They don't, they don't, they ain't watching the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the challenge. They don't know what's going on. You know what I mean? So it's just it's it's unfortunate that it's unfortunate that all these avenues of entertainment and even sports and all that stuff like even like even sports. Think about the 90s of sports and now how sports players are trying to are, you know, representing themselves like Kyrie Irving, you know, he took time off from playing

with Brooklyn recently and even LeBron. They're vocal. They're like, bro, I'm not no, I'm not. I I'm not just some dude who knows how to dunk. I'm like, I'm a whole human being. Like, if I tell you I'm not feeling this, I'm not feeling it. You know, Kyrie, you know, like I hate that. I hate that corporations try to put you in these weird boxes where, oh, you got to present yourself this way and you need to act this way for the brand and this and that. It's like, boy, I am the brand.

You don't tell me how to act anymore. I don't care about you. I love how athletes in particular, like, they're so different than what they used to be like when I was a kid. I love when I see like, like, I don't know, I guess, just say Kyrie Irving or whoever, like, shows up to, like, a basketball game wearing a suit with the briefcase. And you're like, what the heck is in that briefcase, man? It's like, that's his thing, though.

Like, you can do whatever the heck he wants, right? Like, who cares? Like, he is the brand. Like, he could go out there however he wants. And then you had these guys like Kevin Durant with wearing, like, these funky glasses and. Yeah, Westbrook used to be, like, a, he used to dress. I love his.

He was just, he was like, boy, I'm a fashionista. I don't care what's off there. That wasn't the case back. I remember, like, when I was a kid, they literally used to show up in sweats. They sweats or, sweats are oversized suits. Oh, yeah.

Oh, my God. I got to find that. Shack Barkley and Kenny a Jet still wearing them. But, uh, but now, now, you know, now I just,

I think it's just so funny. And also just how media, because they're so used to, you know, everybody just so conform to one way of thinking now. I just like that social media has given us the freedom to everybody has their own voice. You know, not that everybody deserves to have much say. I mean, like, I mean, it doesn't matter. Everybody deserves to be able to speak freely, but some people definitely say some wild stuff that I don't agree with. But it's still nice that if, like, if someone reports something wrong about you, you can literally, like,

retweet it with a quote tweet and be like, I did not say this. and you're capping, bro. Like, you're, like, you're, like, you're, you're, you're trying to clout chase for clicks. What's wrong with you? And then, and then the reporters are like, oh, I'm sorry. I mean, I mean, sorry is what I thought you thought. And I'm like, no, man, you know exactly what I was talking about.

You bum, try and get some clicks. Yeah, no. But yeah, I'm reading, I'm reading the chat say that we are going way longer than most of your podcast. We used to do like an hour and a half plus or so. And then we dial it down because we just got like a really, really, really busy. But on special fun occasions, we'll usually let them go a bit longer.

Yeah. If you have a good guest, right, who has some fun stories to tell. Oh, no, of course. I mean, I do a podcast myself. I'm actually, I'm probably, I think I'm going to post it today on my YouTube channel. If you all want to check it out, run JD run on YouTube. But it's called, yeah, it's called the JD and Paul cast. It's just me and my best friend.

We just talk about like video games and tech and stuff that we like. But like some days we'll go, sometimes we'll go long. and I'll be like, dang, is this two hours, two and a half? I don't want. Yeah, right. I think that's the, oh, that's my other podcast. Thank you. Poppy, poppy, drop that in the chat.

That's my, that's my, that's my, that's poppy. I'm just reading the name. But no, uh, that's my personal solo podcast. That's JD Radio. That's one where I have people call in and we talk, uh, we talk live and whatnot. But the other. There's awesome. It's, it's, it's funny.

Some people are calling her wild. I think it's a crazy opinion. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. some interesting people who call. I'm trying to do some more of those. But yeah, no, I don't know.

I like podcasting. Like, you know, I can sit back and actually, like, sit through and listen to a podcast for a good amount of time. So I'm just enjoy it for what it is, especially if I'm, like, on a commute or if I'm, uh, doing something,

maybe whether it's like working out or just, uh, I don't know. Sometimes I just want to listen to them because they, they help, they help, like motivate me. Yeah. You know, like I'll listen to like entrepreneurial podcasts, which are pretty cool.

But yeah. For me and Dennis is we have to be in like meetings like the rest of the days. We have to talk a lot. So I'm always tired on podcast day. Yeah, I know. Right after this. Yeah. I know.

I know you're putting all that energy into into the chatting, man, especially in those business meetings. I know what you mean. Yeah. When we were back in the office, we would like, we were like basically a schedule. Thursday to do nothing because we knew that right after the podcast we go grab lunch right and it'd be like barbecue or something and then we just be done for the rest of the day like any any critical thinking out the window we're just done it's not going to happen we're doing it i feel that all right but thank you very much for joining jd we're going to wrap it up a little bit we got some quick

announcements uh community roundup stuff so congrats to the podcast giveaway winners uh if you guys want to see who won. I believe it is in the gleam and the widget will say who won. Ivan will be contacting you shortly or I will. Somebody will. One of us is going to hit you up about your Steam gift cards. Thank you very much for participating.

Other bit is our Pucci's pick was announced this week. I think this week on Monday or something. So congratulations that Aiden for being Poochies picked. For those that don't know, Poochies pick is where the community picks one person to highlight for their helpfulness, for their niceness, for

for just being an all-around really great community member. And they get some cool benefits and bonuses, like a cool t-shirt, stickers, steam credit. You know, they're highlighted and hoisted up on the server with the Pucci's Pick role for everyone to see because of just that dang important. So if you want to be a Poogey's pick, don't be a jerk on the server, be nice.

Pretty much, right? Just be a good person, and then you'll get it. It's our way of giving back to you. And it's a way of the community, you know, choosing people that they think are, you know, are great community members. Also, NZXT is for the first time ever supporting the Chalk Walk. I think I was going to throw up the link there where the Chalk Walk basically is a, it's a,

is a charity to help fund the Children's Hospital of Orange County. Since we are a Southern California based organization here, we are supporting our local hospitals, our local children's, children's hospitals. And everyone who donates or raises at least 25. $25 is automatically entered into a raffle to win a pre-NZXT computer worth $2,500. And I'm actually a little upset because I donated $1,337 yesterday because I thought it'd be funny. And then Johnny donated $2,000 to it, so I must up the number. So it's my meme is dead.

But yeah, go ahead and donate and or raise at least $25. you guys get a chance to win a free PC. Yeah. If I win that computer, I'm literally going to get a 30-90 and just throw the rest of the computer away and just stuff it in mind. That's the plan. So don't let me do that. Y'all better get up on that.

Throw a couple of buckaroos. Well, people asking how they raise money through it, I'll just explain really quick. Yeah. Basically, you sign up for the NZXT team page and you'll get a link that you can send to your friends and family or you can just donate yourself to it. That's basically, it's not crazy, pretty easy. So is it, is it every $25 or just as soon as you hit $25, you're good to go? At least $25.

Okay, at least $25. Just in case anyone was wondering. And other than that, guys, don't forget to follow our good friend JD on all his social medias. You know, he's literally everywhere, you know, you want to find him. Any app you can think of, descript or nondescript, just search his name and he'll probably show up there. We'll throw up his link tree into the chat and also it'll be on the podcast blog post as well. So if you guys want to check it out, hit up blog.n.zht.com and it'll probably be like the first post. We don't post too many blogs in there.

I want it to cam update, in which case, you know, learn about cam update. We love our hardware monitoring software here. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, of course. JD, do you have anything that you want to like explicitly shout out or lead people to? What's like your big thing right now?

What's like your your your your your most important link? Oh man. I don't know. Follow me follow me on follow me on Twitter I guess I got verified recently. I'm trying to hit a 100K follower. Nice. I don't know.

I don't have a very specific thing. The link tree is enough. Like if you all if you all click if you just put the link tree there, I'm seeing them drop individual links. You can the link tree has it all. But nothing, nothing crazy. If you, if you ever want to watch a. if you ever want to come through and pull up to a live stream,

we have fun. If you ever want to pull up to a check out a YouTube video, those are entertaining. Or if you ever want to listen to any of my podcasts, you can there. I enjoy them. And yeah, that's it.

I don't really have much else going on. I'm not on television right now. I would promote a TV show if I was working on one. I worked on one last year for TBS, which was called Super Punch. I don't think you even brought that up. But I don't know. You can probably pull that up on a Hulu or something if you want to randomly see me do

hosting. But yeah, I don't know. I'm just, I'm on the web. I'm here. I'm around. Yeah. I appreciate. This is a funny pod.

We're looking at your, your Facebook for. Yeah, I think the last time. Facebook was on there. Well, I guess he wants, he wants more, uh,

or Facebook followers. You want those likes. Worst part about, worst part about Facebook is that it's like forces you to log in. But like, yeah, you can, my Facebook,

if you want to go hang out with all the aunties that follow me. You can. They're there. There you go. They love me. They're great. There you go. I feel like the link tree is the easiest way to find it all.

Yeah. That's one that just chopped in right now because it's got everything. Yeah. Link tree. Link tree is interesting. Link tree and TikTok is an underrated a combination. For those to know, for those to know, if you know, if you know, you know. Mm-hmm.

All right. I got my TikTok. I'll be ticking. I'll be talking. I like, I love watching TikToks. They're fun. Yeah. I want to see you do the Busset challenge.

challenge. I did it already. I already busted it. It's there. I busted it. I was thick, thick boy. Let's go. All right, guys. So with that, thank you very much for joining us, JD. Really appreciate it. And thank you to everyone who tuned in. Remember to tune in next week at 10 a.m. Pacific Center time on the official NZC district club server and follow at NZXT on all relevant and irrelevant social media. And don't forget, if you want to ask a question off the air, send an email to Cast at nzxti.com. That's C-L-U-C-A-S-T at N-Z-T.com. And don't forget to listen to previous episodes on the Apple Podcast, Google Podcast,

Spotify, and SoundCloud. And also, I can turn this down for a second because we're going to get real for a hot minute. Don't forget, guys, leave us a positive review if you like what you hear, but especially if you don't. And with that, thank you very much. Thanks again, JD. Really appreciate you, man. had a lot of fun with you. Thank you so much.

Thank you guys. Great time. And thanks, Ivan, for hopping on. I know you're a very busy man, so it's always great when you can take some time to hang out. I'm busy, but not productive. All right, guys. And with that, we'll see you next time. See you later.

Bye.