NZXT PODCAST - #076 Mike

Episode Date: February 11, 2021

#076 Mike by NZXT

I should the false start. Hold up. I saw that on Discord. It wasn't hidden as well. So I'm going to lower the, what do you call it? The voice activity thingy? I guess it's not high enough. Can you hear me by the way? Everybody can hear you right now. We're starting over. All right. Okay, hold up. This is professional. You're starting over three, two, one. That's why I see the giant thing on the waveform. Rip headphone users. Should have warned him first, right? Hello, everybody. Welcome. to the NZXT Clubcast, the official podcast of the NZXT community.

My dang, I already scared this up. How many seconds is in already, Ivan? It's like five seconds. It's a new record. New record. I think next time I'm just not going to start to show at all. And then that'll be the best record. Ah, my God.

Okay, let's start this one more time. Start it one more time. Live on the air. We're doing it live. We're going to kick it back in. Just like it never happened. wash away all the anxiety. People ask me how I do this in a week.

I think we have like a pre show. They're like, oh, like, is it hard? It's very hard. But we do it anyway. Why do you guys have to use out of the clean picture? Heartbreak. It's kicking it. Here we go.

Then we fade it out. All professional like. Hello, everyone. And welcome to episode 76 of the NZ60 Clubcast, the official podcast of the NZC community. This podcast is recorded live every Thursday at 10, 8 Pacific Center, and time of the official NZC Discord server and is available to stream on demand on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and SoundCloud.

So open your third eye and pretend like nothing ever happened. My name is Dennis. And with me, as always, for a second week in a row, is Ivan. Gong Hefe, Choi. Is that how you're supposed to say it? Yes, that's how I say it. Okay. Well, happy, when is it, when is Chinese New Year's or is it, no, no, lunar New Year, right?

Is that what it's called? It's tomorrow. It's tomorrow. I remember when I was in school, we called it Chinese New Year's. And it always felt really, really wrong to me. And then, like, just, it was actually video games. I think that, like, taught me it was just called, like, the lunar New Year, which makes a lot more sense, right?

Because it's, like, how can just one country have it so New Year's? But, yeah, I don't know. I know nothing about China and New Year's and like that. But I do know that we get video game events. We get events during video games with really cool red themed stuff, and it looks awesome. Today's guest on the podcast Hi Mike

Very excited to have you If you can tell No we have Mike Taneyus on again Second time in the row Mike was telling us Before the show started That he was this is like the This has been five months or something

Right five months since you Since you've been on Yeah I mean also I'll be on every week if you guys want me to But I feel like I'm pretty stale you know Yeah I don't know You always have some kind of

a story to tell, you know, whether it's, I don't know, this or that. I can't even recall. Like, honestly speaking, like, during this whole pandemic, I feel like the only way to allow your emotions is just to, like, turn off all the lights in your room, put on some slowed and reverb music, and just cry, like, profusely. I am not, I'm not the biggest fan of slowed and reverb music. Heartbreak. I think I think I think I tweeted this it was a it was a slowed and

reverbed is gentrified chopped and screwed it's what it is I mean if you really think about it it's just the complete opposite of like what nightcore was oh god Ivan do you know nightcore I know night court the TV show no the 80s the night core is isn't going to find it I can't play that one. Can't play that one. I'm trying to find him one. Nightcore,

okay, Mike, do you want to explain Nightcore while I tried to find a clip? Oh, wait. Do you use that one playlist that everyone uses like the blue one? So the only way to describe Nightcore is like, imagine Alvinan of Chipmunks,

but with like anime pictures of thumbnails. That's basically the only way to really think about it. I feel like everyone loved it back in 2012 just because it was like, no, it was like edgy. But like, you know, know, like, we were preconditioned with, like, five album in Chikmunk movies by the time I was, like, in middle school. I don't know.

It's pretty interesting. Like, it's really fun to hear, like, Papa Roach and just all this depressing music, like, high-pitched squirrel voices. I don't know. Tell me you're a Papa Roach fan without telling me you're a Papa Roach fan. The TikTok was great. I could, but I'd be cutting my words into pieces. I think I'll just tell you about words as my last resort. Who does Nightcore?

Like is it like one person? Is it a group? Like do they just? Are you saying night core? Night core and I-G-H-T-C-O-R-E. Oh. You know it's actually really interesting? What?

One song, Angel with a shotgun by the cab, the nightcore version is way more popular than the actual song. But if you just look it up on YouTube, like the nightcore version has like 210 million views and then the actual song has like 7 million. Who does the original Angel of the Shotgun? The Cab. The Cab. Is it a podcast-appropriate song?

I think so. If you're going to think about it, then I'm going to say no. I just don't remember the lyric. If you have to pause. Are we allowed to say the word shotgun? That's like the worst word in the song, so. Okay, this is it right here. Can you guys hear this?

You can't hear anything, Mike? Oh, I'm on the channel. Oh, God, that made me some of my brain hurt. Okay, hold that. Let me see here. I think I might have to change something here on. I do. Okay, my mic should sound much better right now, by the way, on the Google Hangouts.

How's the quality jump? Is it good? Oh, man. Okay, actually, I think I broke it. Oh, no. What did I do? Microphone? No?

totally fine Mike you're there testing one two three oh I'm here okay I thought I broke something my bad okay okay okay you should be able to hear this now

let me know if you can hear this yep okay oh wait this is the counting stars one yeah you should fast forward to this I don't know why this is a thing

I really don't know either but apparently people like Like people still listen to this. I thought it was just like a 2012 thing. Is that even like... Okay, so, so do they just speed up the vocals? Is it like all it is? Is it seemingly really do anything different?

That's totally, at least like when they slowed in reverb, there's at least the reverb part, so like it still makes it sound like a normal song. No, like night chords like literally just sped up. I mean, like, oh, 2012 was just a weird time in general, like, Gangnam style was the thing, though. They ever told the story of like why I'm confident? Like, I got rejected in front of a bunch of people. No, but I love to hear that story. All right.

It's probably one of the only, like, Mike's stories I could actually tell on this podcast. So, um, I basically grew up as a very, very innocent kid, right? So innocent, in fact, that, like, you know, it's, I basically was raised by Disney movies because, like, my mom was always working. So I was always just, like, home alone. My entire, like, young adult, like, my, not young adult, just like, my entire young preteen slash teen life was, basically just like playing Wizard 101, Tune Town. You know, I wasn't playing Tune Town. That game looks super lit.

Have you heard about the stuff going around Tune Town right now? I know there's like a Tintown rewritten thing, right? Yeah, yeah. So it's like a rebuild. I think like some people got hold of the source code. And I think of some of the devs I just like gave it to them because they're like, hey, you know, like we can't work on this game anymore. But like apparently there's like a huge Tune Town community and people are like super

into it. Yeah. I mean, the only reason I can't get into it as much is just because, like, I try to installing it, but that's remove all the Disney characters due to copyright. And I'm just like, you know, I used to love watching like the animated Mickey just walk around the town if you'd bump into it. I mean, be like, hello. And it's like, you know, it's just not the same. I don't know. Plus, like, when you play old games from nostalgia, it's like, in your mind, it's like, this was the best thing ever.

Then you actually play it and you're like, huh, this is a thing, right? Yeah. Yeah, no, like I remember back in the day, back in the day, back in the day, I tried to play perfect dark again, and man, that game does not hold up. And it's not because the game isn't good. It's because, like, the actual mechanics, like the shooting mechanics, just feel really, really wonky, you know? It's not the same.

Yeah. And like the camera, like, doesn't move as well either. Like, camera tracking is huge. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was like camera tracking, like, like face tracking? Oh, no, no, I mean, just like, like. Like you move your controller, like the, I remember like old video games. It was so tedious.

You had to move like two different joysticks just to be able to like do anything properly. And I actually follows you around. It's such a privilege. You know, kids these days, they don't know what they're, what they got. I appreciate it. Yeah. But yeah, like I was like just really sweet innocent kid. You know, like I used to think just like, you know, if I crushed on someone that I was love,

So I was like basically just like, you know, just Ted Mosby, every girl that I'd never even talked to before. It was actually like, I think I took, I think this was shared on last podcast. A lot of writing like a five-page poem that was seven months long and performing it in front of like a few hundred people at a poetry cafe in the middle of New York, put it on YouTube and sent it to a girl I crushed John, never even talked to. And the worst part was like, you know, I sucked at history. So I thought Lewis and Clark was like a man. a woman. So one of the lines that poem is like, we're going to be like Lewis and Clark on our adventure of true love. So

you know, that was also like to... Who is Ted Mosby? Is it Ted Mosby? The guy from how I met your mother. He was like the meme was he'd always say I love you to everyone. Like that he dated like super early.

It's Ted Mosby, right? I've never watched that show yeah I never watched it either I never watched it either it was just like memes you know that's also my whole knowledge of like pop culture like Game of Thrones and everything I've never really watched

a lot of those shows but like I know the entire plot line just from like meme culture yeah I um I I try to get into some of those shows but I I'm not a sitcom kind of guy I can't I can't watch them um

I used to know people who were super into it too and they would always talk about it and I just said to like yeah man totally that's yeah yeah meeting your mom's it's cool you know I want to meet your mom how's your mom doing it I don't know like he's just never hit with me like I think we were

we were in a I wasn't a meeting it wasn't a meeting but it was a marketing time happy hour right we're kind of hanging out and like you know just doing some cool marketing type things and we were watching Super Bowl ads and there was a clear distinction between people who have seen Seinfeld and then people who have never seen Seinfeld and I've never seen Seinfeld and it's like a show that's never never appealed to me that's probably the greatest

sitcom of all time but what if you don't like sitcoms at all though it's like it's like saying you know it's like I don't like motorcycles this is the greatest motorcycle of all times okay cool I'm still not gonna sit on it and write it I don't like motorcycles right that's actually a really good analogy I never thought of it that way if you just if you're not into a lot of trucks on like the corny humor and stuff, how are you going to enjoy it, even if it's the best one? This is the king of corny humor.

Okay, great, but I don't like it. Or like music, right? It's like music. You know, it's like if you tell somebody, you know, I listen to rap and they go, oh, I don't like rap. It's not my music. You go, oh, well, bro, you got to listen to this album. It's the greatest rap album of all time.

I don't think that's really going to turn someone on to something, right? I feel like they have to want to watch it, have to want to be there to start with without, you know, if they're going to get anything out of it. it. Yeah, true. But at the same time, if you do want indocturn someone to tell anything, you have to probably show them the best. So that way they can appreciate the mediocre, if that makes sense. I disagree. I think you start with the easy to, the easy to digest fun stuff. And then if they want more, you say, okay, well, you know, if you want more of this. And also, like, the best of

anything doesn't necessarily mean it's like, how do I say this? Like, okay, so I'm going to a hot take here, right? I think some people can agree on that Kendrick Lamar is probably one of the best rappers out right now, right? I would not I might not show someone who's never ever listened to rap before Kendrick Lamar. Because

not to get pretentious about it, right? But if you enjoy Kendrick, you probably enjoy him for a couple things, right? His lyricism, his storytelling, the way he samples, like jazz and stuff like that. To me, that's like peak, you know, stuff you can do with the genre. But if you've never heard

that genre before, you might get very confused. Like, okay, I thought this rap, why is there like horns in this, right? Why is there, you know, why is someone speaking for five minutes about, you know, civil rights and stuff? And, you know, they make you confuse, right? I would start them with something like Migos, to be honest, right? Something with the B. That's the opposite, right?

Exactly, right? So something that bumps, right? Something that gets you moving a little bit, you know, something kind of, you know, makes your, you know, duodenum shake here and there. Um, you know, and then you can ease them in, you know, okay, this is what, you know, the fun stuff is like, do you want to hear what the quote unquote serious, you know, what the real stuff is, right? So as someone who has to get indoctrined into rap, right? I like the main reason people don't really like rap is like actually like the mumble or like the repetitiveness. Because like all of my friends who don't like rap, they decide those exact reasons, right?

Right. So then again, you're right. Like, you don't show them something super deeper appreciative. So I would never show them like hops them or like something. or like some of like I say Hobson Hobson yeah Hobs dude

we bought the fight right now I'm sorry you don't like Hopson's not good dude Hobson is not good well that's okay I appreciate him but I would never show them something like Hobson

I would never show them something that's like super super deep like into rap culture but like Kendrick he still was like you know songs that are popular on the radio so you could show them like hey you know not every like you know

poplar rap song just like Burr-Rum-R it's like hey there's like deep there's like racial roots or stuff like that and you can dive them into the more like intricate stuff after and once you're in the genre then you can appreciate anything i feel like right so like you know i got indoctrance to wrap from wasn't kendra go um j cole that was like that's what got me into rap and now i can appreciate stuff like you know mego slow ozever and everyone else but this now i want everyone to look at the podcast channel right now and the person person who just said that, like I'm posting his picture right now.

Imagine him. But the guy has given you the lowdown right now. All right, hold on. This is the face of someone who tells you that Hobson is a fantastic rapper. That's fantastic. I just said I don't want to put him to him. I think, I think Hobson had some redeemable qualities, but I feel like early on he put himself into this like, I want to be Eminem edgy.

and like never got out of it. Yeah, that's the problem. Like, he's trying to branch out of plans, but you can't take him seriously. Yeah, I've seen every, every ill mind of Hobson and I feel like they've gotten progressively worse and also way too preachy. Like, way too preachy.

I don't, I would rather listen to Logic than I would to Hobson, to be honest. Because at least Logic has like that nice production behind him on some of the songs, right? So like, you know, so like, even if he's being like the corneous dude in the world,

I guess I'm going to bump to it a little bit, you know. I can, I move around a little bit to it. I mean, I can kind of agree with you because it's like, Hobson's more like just poetry with like a soundtrack behind it, but it's like not like, you know, that's a tweet or like meaningful poem.

Like just like that kid who just speaks his mind and preaches and then thinks that's like, you know, like meaningful writing like without context or at least like, you know like one of the things I love about rap is like how just like the different meanings behind things so like for example like all my friends are dead from like exotour life right that's like now one of my favorite phrases because like I didn't realize the meaning behind it but it's like apparently dead presidents in the rap community means like money yes so really all he's saying is like my friends are like dollar dollar bills and like you know that that's a great

like little nuance I would have never noticed right but then when you just like say your mind and say everyone's like sucks and life is crap it's like yeah well i'm not what to say that my about it's like you know everyone already knows those things you know everybody knows that life sucks nothing so yeah we don't know life life is a life can suck i think this is what i tell people whenever they want to come to me for like personal advice i tell them things have to suck so you can't understand why things are good right like you can't you you have to have good and bad right you you can't recognize what a great time is unless you unless you can recognize what a terrible time is you have that both.

So it's like, you know, so it's like you can't have the greatness that is Kendrick Lamar without understanding, you know, what Hobson sounds like, right? And that way you can understand like, you know, I didn't get it from one point to you. I'll give you that one. Thanks, I try, I try.

Ivan, who's your favorite rapper of all time? The greatest rapper of all time? No, no, not the greatest, your favorite rapper. Oh, my favorite rapper. Yeah. I actually have a top three. Let me hear. Number one, I will say Naz.

Okay. Number two. Nause, huh? Yeah, number two, I would say it's a group, Mobb Deep. Okay. Number three, I would say it's another group, which is Wu-Tang. The Bisi Boys, huh? Nas, oh, I like the Bicy Boys, but if I had it, like, you know,

know, pick my three favorite, like, rappers. I would pick those three because my three favorite albums are Elmatic by Nas, The Infamous by Mobb Deep, and 36 Chambers by Wootang. Like, in my opinion, the other are the three

greatest rap albums over. Okay. You all are going to hate my taste. Probably. Let's go. I'm a nighting the grimy, grimy kid. So my number one is black slash six lock

depending on however you want to announce that. What? What did you say? So it's pronounced black but it's spelled six L-A-C-K. I have no idea what you're talking about right now, dude. Oh, he's right.

Sorry, I did it run. I think it's six black. I think he just called him six black. I said, I sort of hear people call him. He isn't necessarily. barely like a rapper, but I don't know what genre he would fall into. It wasn't for like black, right?

Oh, sorry, he's for rap saying his name now. There's also, um, I really, really enjoy little Uzi. And who? I would probably have to say my number three. Uh, probably enough. Okay. I have heard of those and I've heard some of their stuff. I would say my, my top, top three. And this is hard for me because I have to give like a couple of like asterisk on it.

So first one is Kendrick just hands down just Kendrick, right? I'll never not stand Kendrick. He's, in my opinion, one of the greatest to ever do it. Number two would be Snoop Dogg. But here's a thing, right? Snoop Dogg's only really had one good album. Two if you count the chronic, right? could be this because technically the chronic

is kind of his album you know you can debate whether it's Dre or not but I mean he's all over that album he's doing the hooks doing the verses right Dre's not a rapper right but not because but not because of his discography I just think because of like what he did early on

literally changed everything right like just the way he wrapped is his everything just changed the game hands down right um you know rip Dre you know he can rap but he's not a quote unquote rapper right right and third uh it's ice cube but i'm a little bit of an old head in that respect i think ice cube so has bars i don't think he has bars now right but like every every one of those like those

early solo albums were just just straight like straight bangers just hardcore you know still changing the game you know there's a big difference and you can tell from when like from when uh snoom-talk wasn't NWA 20 left. The writing just like completely tanked is not even the same. You know, just every semblance of like I am a young, angry black person and everything sucks. And I want to yell, you know, it out from the top of the stairs. Just changed to me, you know. I feel like they tried to do Ice Cube in the second NWA album, but it didn't hit the same way to me.

So those are my three. for the longest time when I was younger I'd always confuse Ice Cube and Ice Tea So whenever I'd hear about like Ice Cube Just destroying someone on social media I'd be like, why is a guy from law and order Just going in on people Yeah I think

I think that Ice Tea's credit is like having the first gangster rap song Right Evan? I think I might know this I think it's debatable right But there's him or like one other person I mean ice tea I think has the first gangster rap song, which is six in the morning. Yeah.

Six in the morning police at my door. Yeah. I think it's, I'm pretty sure it's I see that has the first quote-unquote gangster rap song of all time. Yeah, I'm looking it up. I think that, yeah, it seems like most people attribute the first gangster rap song to being, uh, being I see. That guy's funny in social media. He's hilarious, dude. he goes in on people. He does not care.

Yeah, he's ruthless, honestly. I wish I was, like, more in tune with the community and stuff. I'm so weak. Like, my music taste was basically me in high school where, like, I could do a little bit of everything by never fit into any of the clicks. So it's like the guy that everyone talked to, but no one actually hanged out with because, like, you know, I'm not a nerd. I'm not a jock.

I'm not just, I'm not with that. But I got along with all of them. And my music taste is basically the same. I'll go from, like, you know, passionate love ballads and, like, 80s music. and like emo music and pop punk and then rap and then rock and then metal and then a little bit of country and um like my Spotify 2020 playlist is basically just like ADHD personified oh ADHD is fun I'm I'm actually I'm I don't have this too personal enough but I actually called to get tested for it because I've been like high key like wondering if that's what part of my issue is and I'm like

maybe this is why I can't pay attention. I should probably ask a doctor and see what they say about it. So, you know, everybody get help. Go make that call. It's good for you. They're going to send me a packet. I'm like, what? Like, a packet?

Like, yeah, you know, you fill out this packet. And then you send it in, then they'll, then, you know, someone will call you. I'm like, but what if, like, what if I have issues with the packet, then what does that prove, right? There's just so many questions surrounding all these things they want me to do. I mean, I was thankfully, like. Like when I was diagnosed with it, it was like before the pandemic and stuff. So I was able to do this like go in and have someone say like, yep, you can't stand still. Like you're very hyperactive.

Can't keep focus, all that stuff. I never chose to get medicated for it, though. I think it's also what brought me into digital marketing, the fact that I can't focus on one thing. You know, it's funny. It's funny. That kind of works out for me too because like I said, like every person I've ever like dated and like Matt has ever told me like, hey, like you probably have like, some like locate 80D or something, you know, just by the way, you want to check it out. I'm okay, cool.

But it's really funny. Like I'll be working on something right on a document, on a slide, on whatever it is. And then I'll slide it over and just like check out like, you know, Instagram or check out Twitter, check out like what's on Reddit. And I'm still technically doing my job, right? Because I do social media. So. Not according to me.

Like one of the things that you drive me crazy when we're back in the office, like Dennis Dennis would come to work, sit down next to me, turn on his computer, and immediately start doing like 10 different things every single day. And then every day I would tell him, you know multitasking is a myth, right? Like, just do one thing, man. Like, you don't need to, like, come in. Like, the first thing, I remember what drove me crazy one day is, like, he came in, sat down, turn his computer. And then he started open, the first thing he started doing was opening Gwent packs. I'm going to get those card packs, dude.

I'm like, bro, why are you opening up Gwampax right now? Like, just, like, while you're actually, like, you know, like checking your email or, I don't know, whatever the heck else he was supposed to be doing at that time. But I'm a firm believer that, like, it's impossible to multitask. And sorry, you hear the printer in the background. I'm actually printing some things right now. I actually do it. But it's not multitasking. What it is is like, it's like we're getting distracted.

So, like, to have someone like me or Dennis focus on one thing for, like, one hour, like, if, when I'm forced to sit down and focus on things, unless, like, I've procrastinated to a point where I have to do something, I'm just going to be staring at the screen most of the time. Like, I need to, like, do, I have to keep switch. It's not multi-tests. It's just, like, switching back and forth between a lot of different tasks to keep things fresh if that makes sense. Pretty much. Let's literally what it is. I found, I found this music for ADD people. and it's like a, it's almost like a low fight track,

but what it does is that it changes ever so slightly over time so that it tricks your brain into being focused. I haven't tried it yet. I'm afraid. I'm afraid. I need to die. I'll tell you how it is. Okay.

I will pull it up and I'll let you know. I sent you up to the podcast. I stopped to tell you about the story. I forgot about that completely. Hey, welcome to ADD cast. All right. You're saying? All right.

So for everyone who maybe just tuned in or maybe tuned out, I forgot what we were talking about, this is a story of why I'm probably going to be one of the most confident people you love or meet. I literally have no fears. Like I will approach and talk to anyone and I'll be friends with anything, right? It all comes from the story because I used to just be the super shy nerd. And again, I was like the sweetest kid ever in middle school, it's extremely gullible. All my knowledge on love was Disney movies because, like,

I basically had to kind of raise myself during that time. And so again, like, just saying I love you to like random people's like crush, right? Right? So, like, I didn't have any knowledge of, like, the social norms what you're supposed to do. And so now, yeah, that was, that was me, you know? So, wait, Ivan, key something to picture that got memes last time, just to have context of what I looked like back then. Let me look through my, my mic file here. I definitely saw the story in the last podcast. There's no way. I actually have, like, oh, my God, that's amazing.

The context I was on that Forever Loan shirt, by the way. My, I did not tell my mom I wanted it. She just saw it at the mall. She's like, this reminds me of you and just bought it for me.

Oh, man, that shirt, dude. Yeah. Wait, wait, wait. Some through the, the brass knuckles picture. I don't think I saved, saved that one. I have,

let me pull it out. They need the context of what I looked like when I was, you know, being fiend back in like eighth grade, right? I only have the memed photos. Where is it? Just post some of the meme photos. You get to go. It doesn't provide the full context.

Well, if I was supposed to mean a photo, whatever. Just put a picture with your words, Mike. It's okay. So imagine like Mani from Full House. That's what I looked like, basically. Right? So. Who's Manny from

Full House? It's a old I took an old full house A new full house I apologize I apologize Manny Mugger

I don't watch I don't know Who's Manny Oh that kid Yeah Yeah that's what I look like Oh I'm pulling up my Like

I found the photo I just have to download it The kid Manny Has such unfortunate hair You know It's like it's like a brillo pad you know i mean i mean my hair is very unfortunate too i'm balding

right guys this is what i looks like back in the old middle school days oh this one yeah yeah yeah that brass and the little shirt d let's go straight up um that's why i look like and so i have to go to eighth grade dance and i'm like i'm gonna ask out the hottest girl in my class i've never talked to once i'm gonna make her fall in love with me with the way I'm going to, you know, ask her to the dance.

Oh, here we go. And so eighth grade, not prom. So, but my only context of how to like, you know, ask a girl to the dance is basically just high school musical. So I'm like, okay, there's only one way to do this. Flash mob, right? So I get a ton of my way hotter friends. And we're talking like, you know, like the soccer players, the basketball players.

Like, but you're hot dudes, right? Oh. hot dudes, right, to help you with his flash mob. All right. I bring them all and I'm like, okay, guys, we got to do this like flash mob so I can ask this girl out. And obviously, they knew it wasn't going to work, but they were living for it anyway. Because I guess they just kind of want to see the world burns, kind of see what happens. So we come together and we come with this plan and ask this girl out.

The whole school knew she was getting asked out, except her basically. They just didn't know who was the one asking her out. It was me. they you know like so we wind up like coming together after school one day we wind up borrowing like a boombox over from like the music room and so there's only a week time to do this so we had to pick a song that everyone knew the choreography to back in the day and in 2012 that was gangnam style So her friend winds up leading her out to the courtyard. There's like 700 people waiting. I was in like a huge middle school. And so as soon as she comes out, gangam sells starts playing, you know, everyone's dancing, all that stuff. You know, she's living for it.

The crowd is like, you know, screaming, all that stuff. And then we have to reorganize and align because we're going to hold up and say, like, will you go to dance with me and I was going to hold the arrow pointing down. So, you know, we reorganizing stuff and suddenly, like, her face went from, like, you know, happy to, like, a little worried. Because, again, she probably thinks, like, one of these, like,

you know, super hot dudes is going to ask her out, not, like, the fat cheerleader at the bottom of the pyramid, basically. So, anyway, we reorganize, and the signs go up. And once she sees that I'm the one asking her out, the only look I can describe is just pure terror. Like it's like terrified like not knowing what to do. So like the signs go up and that's like two seconds of silence.

And then I did not ask for this. I feel so bad for this poor girl. But the entire school yard just started channel like 700 people just start channel like go with him. Go with him. Go with him. No. I got a backing track for you. Continue.

Yeah, so two seconds later, she breaks down crying, line dashes through the crowd and runs out. Jesus. So like, I mean, you know, like, it was horrible, like, you know, like, obviously, like after that, like the whole week, like after that, like, you know, promposal, whatever you want to call it. Promposal, is that what they call him? Prom, like, well, it wasn't prom, though. It was like a middle school dance. I don't know what to call it, like, dancing. disposal, whatever.

So, like, I was walking through the hallways. Like, every time someone would see me, they'd just be like, oh, no, it's that guy. And they, like, shove their head in their lockers because they felt so bad. But all that's second-hand embarrassment. So I did not go to dance. I stayed home, played World Warcraft instead for all my realtor's for. That's how all good, that's all-good nerd romance stories end, right? So then afterwards, I went home and played World Warcraft.

basically. I mean, honestly, that was a foundation of my confidence because every time since that moment I thought about doing

something, I'm like, well, it can't get worse than that. So let's just do this. And so, you know,

that's why I am now. I've always been one to like, to like want to impress people, especially when it comes to like my musical taste and stuff, which is not like amazing or anything. Like I'm going to be honest, I would say it's fairly basic. But I did have two instances where

the music I was playing like, rocked the house essentially, right? And one was, I was at a, I think it wasn't like 2012, 2012, 2013 or something with that. It's like the summer that Donovan style was hot. So same time, right? But I was in like my early 20s or something. So, you know, obviously different timelines for both of us, right? But I was at a Halloween party, right?

And I was there for this girl that I haven't talked to since like high school, right? So we're like, you know, sort of like chilling, right? And just seeing what's up. And I noticed that like no one's moving around. No one's dancing is like super dead. And I'm like, and it was one of those parties where they didn't have a proper speaker system. It was just like a speaker like it was like a stereo in the corner or something. It was Bluetooth.

So without saying anything, right? I move out to the side. I hop on my phone. I put on the Bluetooth right. I connect. And I'm like, all right. What's the one song everyone wants to hear right now? And I throw on Gondom style, right?

And people. were going nuts. They were going insane. And I was sitting there, like, looking like a king, arms in the air. I was like, I did this, right? Yeah. I captivated a room full of, I don't know, 30 people who are, you know, probably not in the right mind right now because this party's been going on way too long. Right.

And I feel like I did a good job. Second time, this is actually kind of interesting. I went to a mortal combat. like a i forget what they call the championship series but uh mortal combat has like this like you know year long like you know uh esports thingy right a lot of money no no what like a tournament yeah yeah no yeah i don't i don't say tournament yeah but this is like they're like end of like season like tournament thing right where all the top players throughout the year are there um and uh you know So I know a few people in the finding game community.

I know a few people in the e-sports scene here and there, not like a whole lot, right? But like enough to like, you know, get into places that I shouldn't be getting into, right? So the tournament ends, right? So on the Fox is the winner because Sonic Fox wins everything, right? And, um, uh, there was like a party upstairs. This was like a, this was at a theater venue in downtown Los Angeles. I forget which one. There's like so many of them, right?

But, you know, everyone goes upstairs and there's like a cool, like, after party that, you know, Warner Brothers slash, you know, Nether Realms or whatever set up, you know, for this event, you know, because I want to, you know, show how cool e-sports is. And there's this dude playing music. And I'm like, man, this music really sucks. Like, it is, it is not good, right? And, you know, the party progresses.

Like 30 minutes later, I turn around, the dude's missing and nothing's playing. And I'm like, where the heck did this guy go? So I'm like, oh, I can just walk behind this booth. So walk behind the booth. And I noticed dudes literally, quote-un-un-de-jing from a Samsung Galaxy top that's just plugged in through the ox. And I'm like, oh, great. So, you know, Nether Realm Studios,

Warner Brothers, throws this giant party and the, you know, and they got DJ iPad up in here, you know, making ridiculous amounts of money, right? So the guy's just gone. And I'm like, you know what? Like, I got nothing to do. This party's really boring. I know half the people that I know they left, right?

I'm used to just to see what's up, you know, I drove myself. So I grab my phone. I plug it in and I start pumping some tunes. And the dude walks up. He's like, oh, yo, are you the DJ? I'm like, what? He's like, yeah, man, are you, DJ?

I've been waiting for him all day. I'm like, a DJ's not here. He's like, no, he never showed up. But do, whatever you're playing is really good. Don't stop. I'm like, okay. So I was literally like DJ iPhone for like, for like three hours. It was really great.

It should be honest. It should, to be honest. And like, to be real, I've, I've always wanted to like, I've always wanted to like, not be DJ, but like, you know, like do gigs here and there, right? I'll have to buy, you know, equipment and, like, you know. Do you want to play my daughter's kinsenna? Dude, I would, no lie, I would be down to play your daughter's kinsniera. Can I come too?

Like, I could be like the singer. You could be the Chambelan. But Chambelan is like the, like the guy that escorts the quinceaniera. Like her, not her groom, but like kind of like the maid of honor, but like a dude. It's like her wedding party almost. It's her like her chaperone, I guess, right? Yeah, yeah. Her date, her date for that day.

Yeah. No, no, I don't want anything important to do. I just want to be like the funny person in the background. Like any wedding, I would just love to be like the ring bear, but then actually dress up like a bear. Oh, man. I can't. I can't wait to go to that thing. And then I was going to be crying as soon as this song pops on.

Evan knows, right? I don't know this. you definitely won't but Ivan will Ivan's gonna know this song if he's been to at least one gisenada in the past like 20 years the waltz yeah so it is tradition right

that during a girls consignita she does she does a waltz with her dad right it's like you know you're finally a woman you're dancing with your dad it's a waltz and like everyone's crying you know all the theos are crying right the moms are crying

the grandmas are crying so everyone's crying That's a great time. Yeah. And I would do a screenshot, but it's really wonky on Mac right now. But the album cover for this song is a dude in a cutoff vest with no shirt underneath, a bandana and sunglasses. Is exactly what you think? There's this song, and there's like another song that they play too during cancinitas whenever, you know, they're doing like, you know, the really important moments.

But yeah, it's a... I remember how everything is just playing like Michael Bubly. Give me Michael Bubbly. Michael Bubbly. Michael Bubly. Did you see that commercial? Were you talking about that story about him? No.

No. What story? Well, that was me during the marketing happy hour. What was the story? I must have missed it. It's not safe for the server. Oh. It had to do with me then.

going to a Michael Bublei concert like 10 years ago with my wife. Is your wife a big Michael Bubley fan? She's a huge Michael Bubley fan. Really? That's why I went, yeah. That's why I went.

That's how I was like one of our first dates. She was like a huge Michael Bubley fan, so I took her to see Michael Bublay. I really miss concerts, to be honest. I really miss going to shows. Did I haven't been to a concert? since

2017 because my daughter was born that's an excuse February 2018 so like yeah for me I miss concerts too

but the pandemic had nothing to do with the same like yeah you can still blame it on the pandemic who's gonna know

right I guess yeah but I've been a concert man since 2017 sucks I mean the last two concerts I went to were in the same week it was Rich Brian and post-mal.

Rich Brian. I love Eddie Eliza and Joe. He should have never changed his name, to be honest. Rich Brian. Yeah, he should have never done that. Yeah. I mean, you still watch his old videos. I bet people are like really confused because like the intro will like have like the name drop.

Yeah, yeah. I thought this was Rich Brian, you know. Yeah. I don't know. I, um, I want to like, I want to like the 88 rising stuff as a whole, but I'm not, I don't know. I just like Joji. And it's pretty much shit. He's like the, he's like the, if he was like a, I'm trying to think of looking at the like record label type thing that has like one big artist and like a bunch of small ones and like people don't really care about that much.

But I would say like Joe just probably the big one on that on that label or group, right? Is it a label? I don't know what it is. A label. It's definitely two biggest ones are him and Rich Brian. I think everyone else is just really not that well now. Yeah. They have the higher brothers, right?

I think. Who? Higher brothers? Or no? Are they on something else? I wouldn't even know who they are, to be honest. Higher brothers. They're a Chinese, Chinese hip-hop group.

But I can't find the... Yeah, no, yeah. They are on 88 raising. they're actually pretty good I will play them but I don't understand Chinese so I don't know what they're saying you know so I don't want to like you know offend anybody

in Chinese offending people in Chinese the name of my next podcast oh fair yeah but you know it's it's rap you know I don't know if they're good at rapping but the cadence is really good right the beats are really good

you know the slaps Yeah That's one of the things too I always want to get into like foreign music Like I really really wanted to love K-pop when it was like super popular That's one thing I don't understand

Because It's K-pop Like I don't understand listening to music That you don't understand the language of Like because I listen to Spanish and English music But I listen to Spanish music Because I speak Spanish Like I know what they're saying

I can can vibe with it. But when I hear K-pop or like any, you know, like weird, like Japanese anime song

like people are into, like I can't get into it because I don't understand what the heck they're saying. I think it's the beat. That's just me though. I think it's the beat or like, not the people,

like the beat the melody, right? It's like if you can't understand it, you can at least like, you know, understand that like it sounds nice, you know, that it sounds good.

I'm actually one of those weird people where like I love music. but I can't listen to music if I'm doing something else. Like if I'm working or something, I can't have music because it distracts me. And if it has lyrics, I forget about it. Like, I'm not going to focus on anything but what they're saying. I don't know why that is.

It just, I always focus on those lyrics. So you're the opposite of the ADHD. You have to find out. I don't know. I don't know if I'm the opposite, but I hate multitasking. Like, and if I'm listening to music, I'm just going to like focus on it. That's fair.

I mean like as far as I can understand the language, the only music that I can get away with with that is like Spanish. Because I don't speak Spanish. But like when they have like Spanish songs that have like English hooks or whatever, that's my wave. Like, you know, Pippel and Pippel is popular, even though now he's completely transitioned to like, you know, I feel like a more Latin audience.

I guess I haven't really put out, you know, English songs recently. But like, you know, like one, two, three, four. or like his Spanish first I think I'm like DJ Goss falling in love right I would live for that and I would actually try to like pronounce the words and understand the meaning and stuff like yeah I miss Mr. Worldwide

or like you know when Despacito is popular but that's something I could sing and dance to even though I had no idea what they were saying but like I just feel like it's different because like Spanish it's like I don't know maybe it's because I'm used to hearing people speak Spanish but I'm not used to hearing people speak Korean yeah I

the reason why so like I can pretty much listen to anything except for K-pop, and the reason why is because I know way too much about, like, the industry from, like, one research to ever, like, be able to get into K-pop and, like, feel like I'm not being, like, dirty. You know what I mean? Or, like, I'm not, like, supporting, like, what seems like to be, like, a pretty scummy industry, you know?

Just, like, the way that, like, the contracts are set up, but people pretty much groomed to be, like, these big stars in the very beginning. It just to me, I don't know, like, you know, it's like, it's like people complain about industry plants and the K-pop is literally nothing but industry plants, right? I think the entire music industry is like that, though, not just K-pop. I mean, you tell me Kentrick's an industry plant. Oh, God, fight me, Ivan. Fight me on this. I mean, I'm not going to say Kendrick, but.

Post-malone probably is an industry plant. Like, then, this is, this has been going on since radio existed. in Google Payola scandal. Like in the 50s. I mean, this is how people got famous, man. Like you make up these musicians and then you pay people to make them famous and then you make money off of them. And that's why a lot of musicians get addicted to drugs and end up committing suicide and things like that. It's because the way they're treated by the industry is like really, really, really.

really, really bad. It's like super shady as well. And it's like their product, right? Yeah, it's just going on forever, man. Like, for real, Google Peola. And like, it's kind of like, I think what kind of started all this. But I mean, I don't know if Kendrick is a plant, but I mean, I know that for sure that, you know, there's people in the, in the music industry today who are. I don't know who those people are, but I'm fairly positive.

Some of them are. I mean, they have to be right. You have to be. You have to be that you said that because, like, you know, for example, like, we're working at a gaming company. Like, you know, we all of us here play video games meet. Like, I don't play as much anymore, but, like, you know, we still do. But, like, gaming especially has, like, all these, like, super harsh, like, you know, scandals and work environments and all that. Like, you know, for cyberpunk to get put out, like, I heard there was, like, all these crazy hours that were going on with them.

every game studio is doing that. They just overwork the devs and stuff like that. Yeah. I feel like every industry just kind of sucks right now. Not the meme industry. Except the podcast industry, right, guys? Yeah, it's going great. Woo!

Let's do it. Okay, so let's mowen real quick. I want to get a couple of these questions out of the way so that we actually answer questions that people ask us. By the way, if you want to ask a question off the air, it's Clubcast at nzixt.com. That is clubcast, C-L-U-B-C-A-S-T-A-S-T-com. First question from Inbert,

how is my Poochie-Pow's application doing? What's up with that word L? Don't ask me, ask B on your application. Actually, no, don't. Don't call us, we'll call you, right? Same with like with moderators, with professors, any type of the application things we have going. Don't call us.

We'll call you. We will reach out if we want to speak to you further. Snarkin wants to know is what is Pucci Pals? Well, Pucci Pals is, scrolls over to the announcement. Give me a second. Give me a second. Give me a second. Okay.

Do you consider yourself friendly, helpful, and want to foster community consistently? If so, Pucci's Pals may be right for you. Pucci's Pals is a new program where you can get rewarded for fostering community and helping others. What does this rule entail? More Perns, extra secret channels. a whole new roll color, new rewards, access to giving XP, and much, much more. We will also be introducing a new channel upon launch and Introduction's channel in which anyone both and you can use.

The question template will change monthly, so feel free to send a new one each month. Are you interested in applying? If so, apply here. HDP.com slash slash nxc.co slash PALS application. If you have any questions, please DM the mod mail. Ask the mod mail. The mod mail will give you all the questions you want. What is this, Ivan?

Ivan, what is this? No, I just, I just hit you a spitball for later. Oh, okay, good. I was like, do you want to read this out loud? Because I can read it out loud as you want me to. No, because he got me thinking about rap, and then I was thinking of, and then like working in the industry. Because I actually, for a brief moment, I guess I kind of worked in the industry,

but one of my very first internships was at a record label, called Revelation Records in Huntington Beach, like a old punk label. And then my next internship after that was MTV. So when I was at MTV, I actually got to meet a rapper. Which one? He was definitely a one-hit wonder,

but I love his music and it's Mike Jones. Mike Jones. So I was just thinking about Mike Jones, so then I slacked me his phone number. wait is it actually his phone he has that song that goes call me on my phone [phone]

that's Mike Jones's real phone number so back then you would call it and it would be like his voice mail and sometimes you would pick up I was just thinking about that right now because he was a cool dude man I got to chat with him for a little bit is it a

was it a soldier boy the one to sing that song No, Mike Jones No He told me on the phone No his is kissed me through the phone Oh yes Sorry How do you not know this

Aren't you like a zoomer or something I am a zoomer But I'm a very own cultured consumer Like I've never watched Harry Potter Never watched Game of Thrones Never watch Lord of the Rings Never watch Star Wars I've watched Star Trek

The Chats is going to start hating me I haven't seemed like anything I thought I was a Luddite is your It's not appropriate The podcast I don't think of This is instrumental

I don't even play Instrumentals I don't trust myself See back It should be a bang and break In the day I soldier boy Tell him

Dude I can't wait For many Solja console to come out It's gonna be great I mean My only tweet I think it's like My Pindwan

It was just like It was around the time The Soldier Boy console was a thing And I'm like Let me introduce To you the Postation 4 You guys know

Soldier Boys In this Discord server is he is he actually yeah he really is there's no why yeah he's a he's an mzxte

computer user he's been an ambassador or something right I actually that's another rapper I met I met him at bliss con he came to our booth and hung out for a while

so that is okay if I send this tweet that makes fun of him you don't care no it's not it's not like Don't do it. Okay.

Solja boy, tell him. You could post station for it. Yeah, Solja is in the server. If he's listening to the podcast right now, please go into the podcast channel and type. All right. Let's see here. Some of our questions real quick before we go here.

I want to try to find some questions that we haven't answered before. Ivan, what's your opinion on Vanilla Ice? Definitely, like, super, popular when I was a kid. That song Ice Ice Baby came out when I was in elementary school. And it was definitely a song that like we were just singing the playground, you know, Ice Ice Baby. But yeah, besides that, I mean, I don't know. What can I say? He wrote a really catchy song. And he was also, he made a guest appearance in Ninja Turtles Part 2, which was pretty cool.

Go ninja, go, ninja go. I also like how Jim Carrey did impressions of him on in Living Color. Have you guys ever watched that show? But he did some really funny impressions of Vanilla Ice. He did one for, who was it for Snow, right? Snow's Informer. Yeah, he did that one too. Nice to see that he came back because of,

because of Daddy Yankee. Good for him, you know. Good for him. Okay, let's see here. I'm going to post the video of Jim Carrey doing vanilla ice because you guys. You got to watch this. Yeah, it is. Okay.

Yeah. I mean, that means Jim Carrey, you know. The Vanilla Ice Project, I remember that. Yeah. You can watch it. It's pretty good. Okay. Let's hear.

Any of the questions? Best have of Motherboard? your opinion, all the ones are the best tied some of the boards. Actually, you know, EATX is the best because the biggest case you can get. I'm saying the questions. Pretty much it.

Opinion in Rocket League. I've tried it once. Rocket League is hard. Best Smash Bros. Awesome. Best Smash Bros. Game. Brawl because it ruined the competitive scene and I think it's hilarious.

They added a mechanic where if you were sprinting, you could trip just randomly without any provocation. and if you know anything about smash moving is like really is like really important right so to me it's hilarious

that the developers literally put in a tripping mechanic so that you know they would just stop people from playing competitive because they they weren't happy that people were taking their wholesome game and getting super sweaty with it but now they encourage it

sorry but now they like encourage it it's so weird they do and they don't it's weird they're like do when it's beneficial to them and they want to it, but they don't win anyone else does it. It's Nintendo's relationship with the competitive scene is like really, really odd. And Cuddles wrong.

Melee is not the only version. Melee, melee should die. Nintendo killed melee during the pandemic and is about time. I have a beef with Smash because Smash killed Skull Girls, which is arguably

Excuse me for a second. A better Marvel game the Marvel, right? But what happened is that there was a, there was a one spot at Evo, forget which Evo it was, where the, the showrunners,

they were like, okay, we got one spot left, vote for your favorite game and you vote by throwing in money, right? And Scogles players are broke, right?

Scogles play, Skold girls players and got no money, right? But Smash kids got moms and dad's credit card, so you know they destroyed those polls. And because of that, Skull Girls never got its time in the sun, to actually be featured at Evo and be probably one of the biggest game.

Did you say Scorgo was a better than Marvel as an MVC2? MVC2 is a broken game. Let's be real, right? Let's not play around. But we can talk about this after the podcast, right? MVC2 is a broken, busted game. It's great. What did Street Fighter say today?

We did something, right? Street Fighter announced their, like, season passed for this year. And they added a mechanic, which is basically focus attack, basically FADCing, focus attack dash canceling. F-A-D-C? Yeah. I don't know. It's, I haven't played Street Fighter in like year.

And I don't think I'll play almost the entirety of 2020, to be honest. It's just not fun to play online. Every time, every time Street Fighter does anything, I always think to myself, should I get back into this game? Don't. It's a fun game, man. But I like playing against the computer. It's just like quick, you know, 10 minutes here and there.

It's pretty fun. But yeah, every time street fighters anything, I'm always contemplating, going back and checking it out. But I haven't played it in a long time either. I'm not really good at fighting games, but one of my best friends' little brothers is it's so funny because, like, you know, all of us are just like, all of us in the friend group are just button masher's. And his like little brother, you know, he doesn't really talk much. He's a man of very few words. But he just like, it's just like out of nowhere. whenever he does talk, he just destroys someone's life by making fun of them.

It's just like out of nowhere. He has all this time to think, basically. He's, he's like really good in Mortal Kombat. It's the point to be like, okay, he would blindfold himself and beat someone. He would turn backwards and then like use someone's like phone screen to watch the TV through a camera. And he would still beat someone. And that's how good he was with like Scorpion. And like, I would just be like, all right, so.

this is not even fun because I'd be trying to play and I'd be trying to beat him up I'd like get him all the way like he'd like stand still not do anything I'd get him all the way down to like you know one heart well not one heart but like one health bar left

and then just as I'm about to kill him he would just like put me in this like loop where I can't move and then just murder me in like two seconds and it's like that's why I could never get into fighting games like the people were like so great out of just make you feel horrible you know yeah basically

I like at fighting games too but um i it's like i grew up going to arcades so i i love playing them i am okay at fighting games i'm all right no you're good dude definitely the best fighting game player at nzxc like easily so there's the thing right like with with with so this is the thing with like fighting games and like a lot of the games with really high uh skill floors is that for you to be able to play with like intention you have to know a little bit and you have to like do a little bit of research because like literally

my game plan when playing against anybody in the office just I'm just going to block and I'm just going to jump when they do something and then when they jump at me I'm going to hit a button that's really pretty much it

like 90% of the time with most new players the hardest thing to teach them is how to block and how to not jump because when you jump you leave yourself open to so many countertacks

and blocking is just like an inherent skill that you just need to have right when the block when the block high and low. It's not hard, but it's something that, like, has to be, like, 70, uh, like a second nature to you, you know, um, but I say I'm not good because I only know so much. I know like very, very basic things, but like the people who actually play, like really,

really play or like leaps and bounds better than me. Like, like they, they hit one button and you're not playing until you're dead, essentially, you know. Um, yeah. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, It's a hard genre to get into, you know. Do we have like a gaming night here or something like that? We could all just play video games on the stream. Yeah, that's actually every night. Yeah. Really?

No, we have an event team. You're asking a gamer over here. Like, is there a night where we can just play games? Yeah, it's every night. On the stream and everyone? Like, people can interact with us, play with us? Oh, I know what you mean. Like a game night type of thing?

Yeah. We should have a Microsoft server, like, you know, fighting game, like, you know, tournament or something. I know, like, the Germany community has a Minecraft server. It's pretty pop-in. There's a nice to see Minecraft server. Ask a mini-cuddle. He runs up. Good question, Dennis.

What time should we set the giveaway to end? I was going to say 11.10. Sorry, I just took a better sandwich. Could you change it? I think the time got spread out to P. Oh, did it? I'm going to put it for 11, 120, so I got six more minutes. Cool.

You start wrapping up then. Everyone spam this emoji if you want like a dedicated Minecraft server for NSY. We have one. It's Minicuddle. I already told you. Don't spam anything. Mini Cuddle literally ping Minneh Cuddle. There I go.

Ping Mini Cuddle. He's the one who runs the server. There literally is a server. Go to the gaming channel on the Discord. Look at the channel description, and we have links for clans and servers. I need to remove the rest server. No one plays Rust. I tried to, man.

I try to get people on the Rust. Number one to play it, so I just shut the server down. I've never played Russ, so just like... Rust is fun. It's really, really cool. I think if we can get at least a good number of people in the community playing, it'll be toxic, but it'll be like a fun kind of toxic because like we'll all know each other, right? As opposed to like a random person shoots you and then calls you like a, you know, racial slur.

It'll be someone shoots you and then they ping you on the Discord. GGs, that was me, right? So they're kind of asked the little bit of saltiness, you know? That's why I don't like playing on public rest servers because they're very terribly moderated and people are just like super rude for the sake of being rude, right? Yeah. There's pretty much every video game. I haven't played a video game that wasn't like that. My problem with playing video games is like,

I just don't like playing it the way they were supposed to be played. Like, for example, whenever I launched bully, like whenever I play it like on a save file that wasn't launched, all I'd do is just I'd get to the first mission. I could skip through all the cutscenes. I'd enable sheets immediately. And I would just start throwing marbles at like all like the, you know, school police or whatever.

That's all I like to do. And it would drive anyone I'd be in the room with wild because you haven't finished the first mission yet. All you've been doing is just getting arrested. Can you please stop and play the game? I don't want to. I'll play an FPS with my friends, like competitively. Like we're supposed to fight each other.

Then I'll walk up to them and be like, don't shoot me. I'm here on a truce. Let's just quit war. Let's run away together. My cousin and I, whenever he would come over to our house, house we would load up gta 4 and there's on uh g2 sent Andreas and then we just go to um the little alien or like whatever that alien areas and then we would play pool for like hours just like play pool in gta that's always so far i love like when games have a game built into the game

a little little meta um um taking my maybe yeah um okay my um I'm just vibing right now. Yeah. Before we get into any of the topics, we do have to close up a little bit because we're running a little over. Let me see here. So. Actually,

I can say it's because I have a headache? I mean, that too, right? Should I tell the server my medical problems? Do it. I mean, I really told everyone that I have like ADD. This is why I'm tripping out and I'm thinking I'm going to the doctor right now.

Because I have. never in my life had a headache, like ever. And I'm almost 40 years old. And then this last week, I've had three. It's kind of weird, right? You should probably go to the doctor. Just don't go worried sometimes. That's all I can say.

I know. I haven't even really been doing research or nothing. But now starting to freak out. Yeah. Don't be like the normal like, bro. and not go to the doctor until I get super, super late. Like with me, I only really started calling to see if I, like, had, like, any kind of, like, attention issues was because, like, I was running in the problems. I'm in my personal life and people were getting upset with me.

I'm like, okay, like, this is, this is not cool. Like, you know, I had to handle this or, you know, I'm going to end up cold and alone playing World of Warcraft like Mike after his promposal. Oh, Dennis, here's a problem. You have clownitis. Dennis Clark If you ever About your friends Like not accepting you

Being distracted until the time I'll be your friend And then doctors like Take these clown shoes And call me in the morning Take these clown shoes And call me in the morning All right

My actual shoe size Is just clown shoe size Like I can't go bowling Because bowling Alleyes don't carry size 16s. It's horrible. Jesus, dude. It's a monster feat. Yeah, no.

I mean, it's just horrible, very inconvenient, not great. Wait, what's like two are you? 16. What the heck? That's that, dude, so I thought Dennis

had small feet. You make me feel like I have small feet. I almost like 16's huge. That's ridiculous. When I was in third grade, I had a size 8. And like, oh, I remember is like being the same shoe size like one of my friend's dads. Yeah. That's why I was tripping out on Dennis's shoe size

because I swear I had his shoe size and I was like in sixth grade or something. It keeps me nimble, dude. I'm not enough to justify that. I'm only 6.3. I feel like to be a size 16, it should at least be like 6.5 or like 6. 16 is actually really, really big feet.

That's what I'm saying. I should at least like 5, you know? Yeah. Oh, man. So I got the Discord winners here. The first one is going to be, I'm just going to type them in the podcast chat. So for those who don't know, by the way,

if you don't listen live, we do have free Steam gift cards for those who listen live in our Discord server, Discord server, Discord.org.org.org.org.org.com. I need to end this podcast. I'm starting to slur a little bit. Brain slowing down. The average NBA shoe size is 14.

Oh, Jesus. Mike, get the heck, dude. I mean, honestly, if it wasn't for my, like, my scoliosis and lombardosis, I would be probably 6'5. My spine was just so bad. I probably would have actually been able to do sports and stuff, so. What do you have? Scoliosis what? Scoliosis and lumbar doses, so my spine is twisted horizontally, and it's bent inwards as well.

Oh, man. So, like, it also doesn't help I'm fat right now. I gain a bunch of weight during quarantine. Once I lose weight, I'll probably be about 6-4 instead of 6.3. And if I ever get my spine, like, straightened, that would be, like, 6.5. And just let me, just something I can't, like, say fully on a podcast, but I can say innocently enough and people can just get the reference. The worst part about having big feet is the stupid stereotype that Will Smith started.

It just disappoints everyone. The stereotype that, I mean, I mean, That's a Fresh Prince reference. You have to watch Fresh Prince. No, I get it, but he didn't really, never mind. Because I'm thinking of like, I'm going to over explain it. It's not going to be funny anymore. Okay, Community Roundup Time.

We got Community Roundup Time so that we could go and Ivan can take a little nap and I can finish this amazing sandwich and chili that it was given to me. Copa pasting all the winners now because I learned my lesson. Last week, I just did a screenshot. I shared like everyone's email and like. And like, R-Jave and everything, I basically doxed all the winners.

So I'm not doing that today. Okay, community roundup. First off is we made some changes to the server in our recent patch notes. So first off is we added, we remove the rules for spoiler tags. So now you can use you let. I cannot talk.

You can use spoiler tags again. Jesus. And we also removed the slow mode because they felt like it wasn't necessarily anymore. People aren't really spamming that much. And if people are becoming a problem, our community would just let us know and then we can take care of that individual. So, you know, it is a great privilege to not have slow mode on. It's very rare for a server to not have slow mode on.

So be good to each other. Be nice. Treat the server. Treat your community with respect. And we can, you know, afford you more privileges so we can chill out. You know, one of the benefits of having a, a well-moderated server is that we can trust our community to not be goofballs all the time. And spoiler tags. I'm excited about spoiler tags because there's been 50 times where I want to talk about like the newest attack on Titan episode. And then I can't because, you know, I'm literally going to spoil the entire server. So, you know, I'll do, you know, in like bold, BTdubs. This is a, you know, spoiler for the show.

Don't click it unless you want to get spoiled. And then, you know, then if they click on it, then it's on them. Second, thank you to be in Cleon for, for giving us the idea slash coordinating the rules, awards and guide changes in the server. So if you take a look at the top of the Discord server, we have. have cleaned up the rules channel, the guide channel, and the rewards channel with some nice banners and made them a little bit cleaner and a little bit nicer looking. So hopefully people read them. And we also removed the region selection channel and added that to the guide.

So there's a whole other section there for the for the guide. So if you want to join any of the regional channels, which are Australia, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, Spain. What's this other one here? PT? That's PT. Is that Poland? I don't know. Two people chose it. I kind of want to choose it now.

What role is it? Hold up. Oh, Portugal. Okay. I was today years old and I realized I had no idea what the Portuguese flag looked like. Anyway, yeah. So if you want to join those channels, you know, click on those.

Third, a new program just recently launched that you can apply to. It is called Pucci's Pals. And I think I read the whole thing. earlier day, but basically Pucci's Pows is a program that people can join to get rewarded for fostering community and helping others. You know, that includes, you know, welcoming people into the community, you know, awarding XP for being, being nice, so on and so forth. There's an application that I will link right now is Poutis Pals application and check that out. If you think you're a good fit, let us know.

I think I think that's it you know congratulations to people who are Tampa Bay fans we had a we had a Super Bowl watch party in the server on Sunday and you know Gigi's Tampa Bay can happen to a better team yep well interestingly enough well if someone use a spoiler tag like I have a really funny idea I'm just going to tell the whole server so they can actually do this you say it's like a spoiler for attack of tight you say it's like a spoiler for attack of tight So, okay, yeah, I watch Taco Time. I can read whatever this person's about to say. Then you spoil another show instead. I would have to be a ban. Banned? Yeah, because then you're abusing people's trust, right? And that's just not a fun idea.

Yeah, don't do that. Don't do that, please. Literally, that is the worst idea ever. If anybody does that, I will meet you for five days. also it is it is attack on Titan ending not attack of Titan triggered me so hard

actually pushes glasses up it's attack on Titan and attack of Titan Wolf Smith is shot on clock 17 that's it's the worst part because I love my hair academia

now it's like one of the first animas I've actually gotten into and I'm like the dubs come out so much longer after the subs but I just can't read and watch the action sequences at the same time so you get to watch it twice Isn't it?

Well, here's the thing, right? 99% of dialogue in anime is useless. So, you don't have to worry about it. Just watch what's happening, you know? And normally the only time that the, that, what do you call it, that dialogue matters is when they have these really long stretches of where they're just talking and talking, and then they fight. Nothing interesting has ever really revealed during an action sequence

because I want you to focus on the action sequence, right? And so they have these long moments of like exposition that just like put you to sleep. That's what that's like I'm in trouble with attack on Titan because like season two, half of it's all exposition is like five episodes where they're literally sitting in a tree talking the entire time. And I'm like, bro, I was going to Google the story because you all boring me. And I fast forward to the cool parts. I mean like my hero academia is weird because they actually talk a lot during the action sequences.

Like I don't watch it, but like I seen it. Yeah. I think season two where like there's this huge plot point that just revealed in the middle of the fight and I'm not going to say the character's names because I don't want to like you know as well anything

or say the Zugo rip off and then like the crybaby are fighting so you know but I don't know that's why I have to watch dubs and plus go like I watched Dragon Ball Z is a kid that got me spoiled on having good dubs so

I don't know Dragon Ball doesn't have good dubs I'm sorry, dude. So right now when I'm playing for you is some some ADD music, some ADH, ADHD music for better concentration, study music. It's interesting. I'm not going to lie. As soon as I played it, it kind of gave me some fuels. So we're going to use this to end the show so I can focus up.

Also, it's me too, please. No, yeah. I'll send it. I'll throw a link in the server. Not a problem. Actually, no, let's play something else. What's a good, what's a good ending, ending song? Why is there a cacking bit by a dinosaur?

Hold on, give me everything by Pipple. For copyright reasons, I can do it after the show. Okay, here we go. Thank you for joining us, Mike. It's a pleasure. Thank you for having me. And thank you to everyone who tuned in. Remember to tune in next week at 10 a.m. Pacific Center time,

the official NZXT Discord server and follow at NZXT on all relevant and irrelevant social media. hit us up on Zinga. Give us five stars on Andy's list. And send an email to Clubcast at nz-X-T.com if you want to ask a question and you can do it live. That is Clubcast, C-L-U-B-C-A-S-T at N-Z-T-P-O-D-com.

Don't forget to listen to previous episodes on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, and SoundCloud. Also, if you do us a huge favor, biggest favor in the world. Number one, share the show with a friend. Number two, let us know what you think about the show. And you can do that by leaving us either a positive or negative review on your platform or choice. If you like what you

hear, but we really want you to do it, especially if you don't. So thank you very much for joining us. We will see you next week. Thank you again, Mike. Thank you, for often, man. Thank you, Ivan, for being on Mike Jones all right and with that oh we got it to doctor Tom don't be blasted music like that the the FBI's coming for us all right guys peace bye bye yes don't say nothing they won't know that we're that we're gone if you say really quiet all my homies G G's I'm a head out