NZXT PODCAST - #095 - Tali

Episode Date: July 4, 2021

This week on the podcast, the crew is joined by NZXT's Director of PR and Community: Tali! Tali and the crew discuss bagels, Nintendo Switch games, and Mexican sandals. Follow Tali on Twitter at twitter.com/talissima 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]!

It's going to take a little bit of a sip here. And welcome to episode 95, the NZ60 Clubcast, the official podcast of the NZXT community. This podcast is recorded live every Thursday at 10. EM Pacific Center time. The official NZC Discord server and is available to stream on demand on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and SoundCloud.

So, blankety blank, we have a fun thing to say here in this part of the script, blankety blank. It's July 1st. My name is Dennis. With me as always is Ivan. What's up, Ivan? I like how right when we go live, you all of a sudden sound like you're speaking through a toaster.

Do what? It just like it became like really. Really? I don't know it was just me, but it was just like, I was talking to you normally before the podcast, and then we go live and it's just like. The sound like this all. Really? Did it not sound good at all?

I don't know. Now it sounds fun. Oh, okay. It might have been, it might have been me like pumping the music through my Elgado Wave 3 software. Probably. T.M. Not sponsored, by the way. This podcast is not sponsored.

It wouldn't be an NGXT podcast if we didn't have technical difficulties at the start. So here's the thing. I'm 99% sure. This is all like a Google Hangout slash Discord thing. And like once I listen to it back on the recording, it's going to sound amazing. It's going to sound like the biggest podcast in the world. Yeah. It's, I don't know.

I don't know. I don't have an answer. You want to answer for any of this. Happy July 1st, Ivan. Happy July 1st, Dennis, we're halfway through 2021. Can you believe it? I literally can't. I don't know where the last six months went, and that's kind of a problem.

I'm just happy things are getting back to normal, man. I recently started going back to the office with the exception of this last week because I almost broke my toes. And I'm wearing sandals, and I don't want to wear sandals at the office because I'm scared they'll make fun with me. I don't want I'm going to work Santos at the office at all I don't want

anybody to see my toes I also don't want to see anybody else's toes I'm not a toe advocate

my toes are on brand though they're purple so you actually never explained that do you want to do you want to

explain what you mean by purple toes yeah so I went to the Sequoia the Sequoia Mountains

for Sequoia Forest for for Father's Day with my my wife and her family and we

were swimming in river and this river was like full of rocks and it was super painful to walk on and my daughter she was you know telling me like daddy you know carrying me across the river because this hurt so I pick her up and I'm walking across the river and then next thing I hear is I hear my father-in-law screaming and I looked up and he's falling from like a ledge that he was walking on and instead of falling in the river he decides to you know on to me and hold on to me so he doesn't fall into the river and you know me being the good son-in-law

and the good dad i was like i'm going to muster all my strength and not fall in the river and uh in order to not fall in the river i just basically had to use all my strength in the world to not fall and in doing so my my left foot got like stuck in between two rocks and my my toes just like bent in half basically and um yeah so like instantly i just started limping And, you know, I get back here and my toes were, my two middle toes were the size of my big toe, basically. And they were purple. And they weren't, thankfully, they weren't broken. They're just sprained and bruised.

Yeah. But, you know, I can't really wear sneakers right now. So I'm just walking around sandals. I'm walking around my Mexican-waraches, actually. Oh, you know, this seems funny. I actually wanted to grab a pair of those. They're comfortable, man. Yeah, no.

My folks went to Mexico. So they went to Mexico last week, two weeks ago, some of that. They went to go to Ensenada, I think, to visit family and just have like a little break because they haven't like, you know, had a vacation forever. And they're like vaccinated and everything. It's really funny that they're kind of getting into the like old people, let's just go travel everywhere now that like all the kids are gone kind of thing, you know, because they have nothing else to do. Because like I laughed.

My sister laughed for it. So it's just them in the house. And then they go into Mexico. for some other family stuff, I think like this, this weekend or something. And I told him twice, like, yo, bring me some, like, legit, like, flashy wattaches, dude. Like, no, no open toes, just like, you know, just a really nice pair. Because I want to dress them up, bro.

I want to be, like, the one dude at, like, the dog park or, like, you know, at the restaurant who was, like, just rocking the wattaches. He's going super hard. I'm sure you could dress them up really well, too. I mean, they're comfortable. I like him Let's see I need to look up

Wadaches and stuff Because like You don't really bothers me About that real quick Is how words in Spanish Will get copped into English And they sound like so bad Like

It took me forever to realize That Nike Harachis Are actually Wadaches And I'm like What the heck is a Harachi Oh Jesus Christ I said

I know dude right Tell me about it until I saw like the actual like Nike shoe and I'm like oh my god they have like that little back part just like just like it's like a freaking like a freaking Mexican sando would have and speaking of uh speaking of fancy footwear tally just joined us do I have fancy footwear I don't know I did see you have a slack remote now as like tally fancy shoes or something which I'm assuming you do I do it's true it's true I have um I have um I have have a lot of vans. I really have a recent obsession with vans. I can't stop wearing them.

Like, I keep buying them and it's really ridiculous, but I love them. The exact name of the emote is tally underscore extravagant underscore loafers. I love those vans and they are mocked, but I don't care because I think they're awesome and they're kind of sparkly and they're, I got the coolest vans actually for, it was during Black History Month and vans did this collaboration. with an artist and she was amazing, well, with multiple artists, but I specifically bought this one, and the shoe is so cool, and I'll take a picture and share it, but they're awesome. I was actually going to say, I have no idea what shoes you wear. Like, I have no idea what footwear that you, like, have on.

And I'm the kind of person who, like, when I meet a new person, one of the first things I do is just look at what kind of shoes they're wearing. Not for any reason, like, I'm not judging, but I'm just always curious, like, what shoes people, like, have on in the time. I judge Dennis by his squeakers, actually. His shoes squeak. Dennis only wear squeaky shoes. Ivan doesn't know the definition of the word squeak.

But when we used to work in the office and Dennis, like I used to get there early. And I would always know when Dennis walked into the office, because I would hear his shoes squeaking. So they don't squeak, right? So I have a pair of white and orange, a deal. does NMDs, right? And they don't squeak, but what they do is that because the, because the soul is almost kind of like, it's kind of like a waffle texture, right, where it's like a bunch of squares. When you take a step, it kind of like almost like sucks up the air a little bit. And it doesn't squeak, but it kind of like makes like a,

almost like a suction noise. If I can find the NMD soul, so people can see that. And those vans are awesome, Talley. Right? Aren't they amazing? I thought they were incredible. I was so excited when I bought them. It's like this almost. This is the exact soul. I'm putting into the podcast chat, so the rest of the class can see. But, yeah, squeakers. They don't squeak, bro.

You don't know what... They make a... They definitely make a noise. You literally do not know what the word squeak sounds like. That is not a squeak. Squeak, squeak, squeak. This here. This is a squeak.

I'll find it for you. Hopefully this doesn't break anything. This is a squeak. This is not the noise I make when I walk. This is not a squeak. You literally sound like you're walking in clown shoes, man. My God, that's hilarious. There is a video on TikTok, and it's some kid, and they put those, you know,

they have those kids' shoes that squeak when they walk, and it just really freaks out the kid, and it's pretty hilarious and mean. But I was amused, and I watched it like four times, and I giggled the whole time. So I'm a bad person is the answer, but there are shoes. My point is there are shoes that intentionally squeak. they're called Adidas. I think that reminds you, like, when I was working at retail, and we used to have parents who would come into, like, our store.

This is a staple specifically. And this one parent, they would come in at least once every other week to buy something for their kids or office supplies or whatever. And they had two little girls who had these shoes that would squeak. And I knew they were in the store because as soon as, like, I turned my back, I hear them running around in, like, the halls of the store squeaking. And it's two of them. four pairs of shoes, four separate squeakers.

It was the most annoying thing in the world. And I'm like, why do you do this? And I asked somebody and they told me, oh, it's so, you know, if you don't know where your kids are, you can keep track of them. And I'm like, and I told them, if my mother saw me run around a store like that, she would knock me upside the head.

She would not let me run around and start like that. She was like, she was one of those people who was like, you're going to stay put, you're going to stand right next to me, you're going to hold my hand, you're not going anywhere. and now we have kids running around with squeakers. I don't know what's worse. Did you always stay with your mom though?

Or did that just make you want to run around and like go crazy? Yes, both. I stayed but I really wanted to go. But I liked having my head on my shoulders. You know, that was the, that was the motivator for me. This was definitely one of those kids that like was on a leash. I imagine him with like a backpack and like his mom just holding him. with the leash.

Oh my God. That would be. I got one of those leashes for Max. I'm not going to lie. Backpacks with a little leash and I lasted like one. I took him out for a walk once and I was like this is ridiculous. I can't. I feel like I'm walking and pet right now.

And he kept trying to run. I don't know. It was a bad scene. I pulled it like one time he ran and like sort of pulled himself over. I was like this just feels like I can't manage this. Do you do a flip or something? He just looked at me like I was like it was. it didn't feel good.

I don't feel good about it right now. So we should go on to another topic because I already feel like a bad enough mom. So, but it was not pretty. I remember the harness I have for my dog has a clip in the front, right? And the reason why you clip it to the front as opposed to the back is when you have the leash

attached to the back and if you have a dog who's likely to pull, they're more likely to pull because they feel like that pressure or something. But when you have it in the front, when they run, it actually gangs, him forward. So this dude, for some reason, he never really runs ever. He pulls lightly, but he doesn't go nuts. One day he decided he's going to go insane, and he takes off faster than ever seen him, and I had the leash coincidentally hooked up to the front. So as soon as he

hit that, like, apex of, like, you can't go any further because I'm holding the leash, this dude does, like, a 360, like, flip. I sort of, if this is, if there's, like, Grand Theft Auto, he would have gotten, like, a huge point bonus or something. He, like, did, like, a somersault. It was ridiculous. Little Due is not, it was not happy about it either. I, yeah,

I feel like, I don't know how, do you, like I have a harness for the dog and also, peppy and also the leash. And I feel less guilty when he's in the harness.

I feel like I'm injuring him less potentially when he does that crazy run. I don't know if your dogs do this. And he goes, for everyone's dogs, but he just like bolts. And I feel like he gets yanked by his neck back when he's not in the harness.

That's how they learned. I don't like it. That's how they learn. I feel bad. I can't. I can't do it. I cannot do it. So what did I miss?

I know I was a little late. What's the excitement that I missed? What's everyone talking about? We're talking about Wadaches. Yeah. Which is a Mexican sandal. Well, I guess it's all over Latin America, but we see a lot of peeps who wear them around here.

And here I'll post a link in the podcast chat for those who don't know what they look like. Yeah, and for those that don't know, we are having an AMA here with Talley, our PR and community director. So you have questions for her. Feel free to drop them in the chat about her job, her shoes, her bagels, anything else. She will answer them. I will answer them all. It's all bagels. It better all be bagels.

Speaking of questions, you have a couple already. Death rage wants to know. Question for Talley. How's life in NST says two months? but I know it's been longer than two months, but how's life at NZXT so far? It has been longer. It's been almost four months now.

It's pretty great. I'm not going to lie. I love this. I think the team is super awesome. I had, I was really so, so proud of this whole community and the whole company and the whole industry, really, around pride.

Like, I gave him so impressed, not only in how much we raised, but also just seeing all the different companies who participated in pride and raising money. It made me feel super warm and fuzzy and proud of everyone. But working at NZFT has been great and I'm super appreciative about how supportive the whole team's been. And everyone's welcomed me with open arms and I've gotten to learn so much. And I don't know how many people here know this, but I actually started my career in video games 20 years ago working in hardware.

So for me, it's sort of really been interesting to come full circle back to this. 20 years, Dennis and I weren't even born yet. I know. All right. I am much older than the entire world. As it seems, yes, it's been 20 years. Actually, the anniversary of my first job in the video game industry was something like, I think I started in like August 1999 or September, something like that.

So it's been more than 20 years now. That was August, 1989 was my first quarter in college. All right, okay. I'm pretty old myself, catching up to you. Stuff. I don't think it works that way. I don't think you'll ever catch up. I'm almost a golden boy.

Oh, my God. Important question. Now, I don't know how many people who are listening know what the golden girls is, but it is my favorite show. But for those who have seen it, does everybody know how, how old they were supposed to be on the show. The characters are supposed to be. Do you all have an idea?

30. No idea. I think, I think your golden years, your 50s. Do you want me to answer this? Yes. They were all supposed to be in their like mid-50s, which is shocking to me if you watch that show and look at them, because they all looked super old and like, I'm not going to lie.

I'm not that far off from 50s, and I don't think I look like that. Yeah, like. It like the older I get, the more I realize how short life really is. You know, like when you're, well, always for me, when I was in my teens and 20s, I basically thought I was going to live forever. Like I didn't really think about, you know, getting old or whatever. But now that I'm almost 40, I'm just like, man, like that was a quick ride. Like pretty soon I'll be 80. It does go by really fast, to be honest.

It does go by super fast. I think also once you have kids too, it's even faster for some reason. It's like every day is just a blur. Yep, 100%. 100% every day is a blur. And I feel like even this year, like looking at the calendar and being like, oh my God, it's July. Like how did that? I don't even understand how we're more than halfway through the year.

Seriously. It's shocking to me. This year is really flying because I'm having so much fun in NSXT, the time is flying by. That's the answer. We're closer to 2022 than 2020. No. Right? I don't know.

I think on the calendar we are, but I think like a number of days we might not be. Don't run it, Dennis. Right. I don't know. I say, I figure how many days until 2022? Just look up like what's the midpoint of the year? 184 days. Today is a midpoint.

Is it? Yeah. Like today we're officially like. crossed them we're we've just crossed the midpoint July 2nd is the 183rd day of the year so tomorrow so 182 days remain until the end of the year and there were 182 days before it so July tomorrow is the midpoint after tomorrow on Saturday we are officially closer thanks don't don't I will be celebrating that from Hawaii so wow we oh I've never been in Hawaii I've always wanted

ago though. I love it. I went when I was little with my grandparents. I don't remember it. And then two years ago, I took Max to Kauai and we were, he fully was like, I'm moving here. I'm going to college here one day. Like, this is happening. And then we went back again with my brother and his partner. They let us crash their Valentine's vacation, which was pretty funny because it was, I think the first time I met her also. But we went then to a different island last year. And again, We're just like, we just want to stay here forever. You can't fly directly into Kauai, right? Yeah, you can.

You can? Never mind. I'm getting on one flight tonight and when I land them in Kauai and then going street to the Airbnb. There you go. All right. Next question. Pastel Kate wants to know.

What kind of dogz do you have? Dogz. I have, I'll share a picture, actually. I have a little mutt. He is 11 months old now, 10 or 11 months old. And they told us he was a doxen when we got him, like part doxen. And then we did a DNA test and he's like zero dachshawa, pug, terrier, like this whole weird mix of ridiculousness. But he's super cute.

His name's Teddy. He is a small dog. and gee, he's just really cute. I like him a lot. I went away for the first time last weekend without him, and I was a little traumatized, but we're okay now. We made up. We cuddled a lot on the couch,

and I'm moving past that moment. I'm going to send a picture of him because he's so cute. And he is best friends with one of my cats. They play and cuddle all day, so that is extra adorable. That's the dream, isn't it, to have your dog and your cat get along? Mine don't get along at all.

Well, they do sometimes. They like chill, but it's like a very um they don't get along they tolerate each other i think it's the best good to describe it's fair i will also say teddy has his own instagram account if anyone wants to follow him and his adorable pictures that i don't really put up enough of i should do that too yeah i have a corgi hence the corgi emotes from a discord server so um let's see here next is oh tally what games are you playing at the moment oh oh I have not played games in a little while. It's been a bit rough.

No. I know. It's been, I got, I was playing the new cook served delicious when that came out a lot because I love the game cook served delicious. Like, I don't know how many people here played it, but I love it. Like legitimately love it. And so I got it. I played a lot of it. And then I was like, I can't. I'm not sleeping at night right now because I'm choosing to play cook served delicious instead. Because in my, you know, my secret life. I like to pretend I'm going to be a chef. So I was playing that for a bit. And then I just, we just loaded up. We Max and I just loaded up the switch, which it's really going to be for me for the trip. So I can play some games while I'm on the plane and while we were in Hawaii. So it's really a vacation time for me is about reading a book and playing some games.

But here is my thing, which I feel like everybody has heard me say, so I'll say it again. one of my favorite games in the whole wide world is Ratchet and Clank. I cannot get a PS5 and I am like, all I want to do is play the new Ratchet and Clank. And I can't get a PS5, which means I can't get the game. And I feel like I don't want to play anything else until I can get my hands on it. And every time I see someone talking about it, I feel really sad inside. There are people in the company who said, if you need a PS5, I can hook you up. Who said that?

I forget who it was, but I would literally be just asking the general chat, and I'm sure someone can get you hooked up. I mean, I will be like, Blizzard and whatnot. I'm pretty sure one of them can like wrangle a PS5. There's no way. Don't say that. But I did. I don't know if anyone saw this, but Walmart was selling them for a thousand dollars. I was like,

Walmart. I actually did see that. Like I asked recently, uh, I think it was in general chat or random chat. I said something like, does anyone know where I can get a PS5? And then Xbox Pope of all people or the Pope as he's called now. he sent me a link to Walmart and I clicked it

and it was $1,000 and I was like, yeah, I'm not going to pay $1,000 for this thing. No. But I want it PS5 too, but for a different game. I want it for the show. I have homewis who are resellers and it's like, hey man, it's like, if you want, I can get your PS5, $700. And I'm like, you're not a friend, shut up. I told him, you're a clown.

You think I'm going to give you that much for a PlayStation. I'm not paying anything above MSRP. I just don't do that. It's not worth it at that point. 100%. For what? For what? it'll be like outdated in like two years anyway you know totally agree i mean yeah i totally agree i will

say though when it comes to gaming um my other true confession is that i play a lot more mobile games than anything else just because my gaming time tends to be when i'm lying in bed at the end of the day that is like my biggest uh that is my biggest struggle that's actually why i think i like the switch so much is because that's really my downtime and um i need something mobile it's really causing a problem as they get old and have less time to game. So anyone has- I'm at the age where I can't even see the characters on my Switch anymore. Seriously, like I was like squitting my eyes playing it the other day.

Some glasses, bro. Just look at the little bit. No, Dennis, I'm trying to improve my eye strength. Yeah, you can just take your-glass. I try actually play without my glasses sometimes. So if anyone, like by the way, I will take all Switch game reviews, but recommends. I downloaded the new Mario Golf game that came out.

We just got Hollow Night on Switch. Max loves Hollow Night. He's been playing on PC. So he's like, let's put it on Switch so he can play on the trip. Max plays a ton of Binding of Isaac. So I feel like that's the game that gets the most use on our Switch right now is binding of Isaac. I like to play really weird things.

Like there was this little Dragon Cafe game. I tried to play Monster Hunters because some people. and in TXT were like get Monster Hunter and it did not work out for me. I'm not going to lie. I'm sorry. I tried real hard, but. It takes someone to get into. Yeah.

It's not, it's not, it's not easy to start up that game. But it's, it's, it's a very, it's a very, very rewarding. Yeah. Evan, what do you play right now? Super mega baseball three. All right. That's, that's, that's, I'm addicted to that game, man. Yeah.

I really love that game. It's a fun game. But I have it for PC and Switch, and that's the game I'm talking about when I'm squinting on my Switch. I can barely see the baseball on my Switch. Really? It's tiny.

Yeah. It's much better on PC. On the Switch? Yeah, it's not only on Switch, but also PlayStation and Xbox. Oh, nice. So you can take your same team over to the other... Sorry, I think you cut out.

Do you ask me if it's cross-platform? So I was asking, if there's cross-saving. So like, Oh, no, no, no, no. Just cross-path one. That's the future, I think, to be honest. So you can play against people on anything.

Yeah. Yeah. Which, if you're like, most of the time I'm playing people on the switch, I think, for some reason. Maybe when people are switch-play. I'm always winning. All I do is win, Dennis.

No matter what. Like when I beat you 20 to 1 the other day. I know. So, I mean, I haven't played one game of Super Mega Baseball, and I think the first inning, I got a home run. And I was like, holy crap like I actually like did something against Ivan and then he's proceeded to wipe the floor with me he's like okay

what's funny about that is when I was playing I was leaning back in my chair and I was like drinking a soda just very casual and then after you scored that first run I pop my chair back up but through the soda way and I'm like let's get serious I scored like 20 runs on you don't mess with me man don't mess with me in my baseball I don't understand this baseball sport you talk about I'm sorry you know how I feel about this all hockey all the time, so I don't know who's watching, but go Habs go. So a question about that. Why? So two questions about the Canadians. All right. The Montreal Canadiens hockey team. Yeah. Number one, why do they spell Canadians with an E instead of an A? Because they're French. Okay. Number two, why do they call themselves Habs? Les Abitans. That's their name. I don't know. So they have three names, Canadians, Canadians, and Habs.

I mean, no, no, no. They're just the Canadians with an E. That's their name. And then the HABs are like their their nickname. Nothing in Canada makes sense. Even like in baseball, the Toronto Blue Jays, they play in Buffalo, New York. Ugh. Toronto and Montreal, you can't.

There is like, it's a thing. It's like, I feel like is that a thing here? It's L.A. and San Francisco, right? You can't, you got to pick one. You got to choose where you want to be. I want to be in San Francisco, but I'm stuck in L.A. unfortunately. But which team do you cheer for? Because he can't share for both. The Dodgers.

So that's L.A., yeah. You're all L.A. But I love San Francisco, but I love San Francisco more. It's my favorite city in the world. Yeah, it's awesome. Paris of the West. Paris of the West. That's what they call it, yeah. Who calls it that? Well, that's what they used to call it in the 40s and 50s when like the beats.

We're taking over the city. They call it the Paris of the West because there was like a huge like poetry renaissance there, I guess. Interesting. I did not know that. Did not know such things. Yeah. I'm going to go out right now about history. I did not know that there was any Paris of the West.

So thank you for edjimicating me. I feel smarter. I literally just Googled it. I was like, what? heck like why like I've never heard it never call it the Paris of the West yeah even uh the architecture is a Paris of the Midwest like somewhat modeled after Paris you know even like you know that I think it's the I forget what building it is but it looks like the Eiffel Tower it's like a big glass building but anyway yeah it is the Paris of the West I didn't just make

that up like I've been there a couple times I don't recall a giant building I know they got the bridge From certain angles, it might look like the Eiffel Tower, but I think that's it. Interesting. Okay. Wait, who here has been to Paris? I have not. Does Lake Paris count? Is there Lake Paris?

Yeah. But it's spelled with the E, like Canadians, spelled with an E. It's like P-E-R-I-S here in SoCal. I've actually never been off the North American-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-Mer-American continent. I've never. flown like across the ocean anywhere. I plan to do it soon, but I haven't done it yet. Okay, that's good.

I feel like everyone should do. That's my like, I try to take Max traveling a lot. My goal is to try and get him to enjoy. Like, I want him to be someone who really, really likes travel. So I encourage all kinds of travel. Like Max personally has been to like taking him to Canada. We've gone around the States. And my next, I want to take him to Tokyo.

Because I think he'll really like it. And I want to go to Iceland. So obviously, I'm going to drag him with me. So this is my goal is to just make him one of those people who loves to travel. And, you know, I don't know, isn't afraid to sort of get out there and explore all kinds of things. But we need this sort of pandemic stuff to go away so we can travel the world again. Exactly. Okay, Gummies has a question for Talley.

What is your go-to bagel? I think we all know about that. What's my go-to bagel? Oh, that's crazy. Go to bagel. Montreal bagel. I'm like, okay if it's like, it's got to be a Montreal bagel. And I always go at the sesame with cream cheese. Has to be Philadelphia cream cheese, the brick, not like the whipped stuff, but like, oh, gee, Philadelphia cream cheese. That is my favorite. On the rare occasion that I'm going to go not sesame, it'll be an everything bagel. Also from Montreal because they don't put caraway seeds on bagels, whereas here in the

States, sometimes they, like, throw a caraway seed on that, and it just ruins it for me. So they taste like black licorish, and those make me ill. I'm Googling caraway seed now. I have no idea what you're talking about right now. What do you mean? What's a caraway seed? Carrowe seeds are those little seeds that sometimes you have in rye bread that sort of taste a little like black licorish.

Oh, I hate that. Oh, I hate that. Those are disgusting. You're right. Disgusting. Like honestly, they're so gross. And so if you put that on a bagel, it's ruined. But Montreal, everything bagels have like, it's sesame seed, it's poppy seed, it's

and it's onion. So perfect. Like it's a perfect mix as a backup. But sometimes I just want the classic. So those are my two. Those are my two top and plain cream cheese. And I don't put anything else. I'm like not a good Montreal Jew because I'm not into the locks.

But some people love the locks. I don't judge the locks, but they're not my thing for sure. Yeah, caraway seeds, disgusting. They're a nightmare. I do like rye bread though, but I always hate it when I bite into one of those stupid seeds. The worst. They're just pretty bad. I agree.

Fennel is the same. Fennel is disgusting. It totally ruins it. Nothing that tastes like black licorish. Like no anise seeds, no caraway, no fennel, none of that. Fennell actually grows wild right here in my neighborhood. And Max, my son, for those who don't know, Max thinks it's really funny to like rub his hands all over the fennel leaves

and then you smell like black liquorish and rub it in my face. So I love our walks together. And I just spend the whole time trying not to like keep all over him. That's hilarious. Sounds like a great kid. He's a great kid. He's super sweet what is not making me want to throw up. So in the chat, pastel Kate says that they go for French toast bagels and strawberry cream

cheese. It sounds like quite a combo. I don't like French toast bagel meaning you make French toast with a bagel. I think it's a bagel that's like French toast flavored. What's French toast flavored? Because they're like they're like bagels that have like cinnamon raisin, you know, like stuff like that in them. So I'm assuming is like that kind. I like bagel.

Myself, I'm down with a blueberry bagel. I like blueberries. I think blueberries are great for breakfast. They're my favorite blueberry muffins. Anything of blueberries in it? I'm super down. Whatever is. Give it to me.

I grew up. When I was a kid, we used to get Dunkin' Donuts on Sundays on occasion. And there's blueberry donut that they don't have anymore. And it was just filled with like basically blueberry pie filling is essentially what it was. So it was like a, I guess a jelly donut, but it was blueberry. And that to me, that I love. They don't have them anymore. They don't exist.

So this is my shout out to Dunkin Donuts. Please bring back the blueberry donuts because they remind me of being a kid and they were my dad's favorite. I've had Duncan twice, and both times I was unimpressed. I was going to say that. I thought that one out there. But we also don't really have a lot of Dunkins around here. There's, like, one that I know of, and it's like inside of a hotel near Disneyland. So I'm going to be sure if it's even like a real Duncan, you know, it's like a franchise dot Duncan.

I have no idea. I don't know anything about Dunkin' Donuts. Other than I'm not the biggest fan. I'm a Tim Horton's a man myself. I'm a yum yum donuts kind of guy. It's like, you know, NZEKT's long lost son, his Discord status is

Tim Horton's man. He lives in Canada and he came to visit our office a couple years ago and he brought me some Canadian iced tea and it was literally limped in ice tea that you can get any grocery store in the United States of America. That was hilarious.

But it was the plot that counts, Ivan. No, I saved it. It's in the podcast studio at the office. I love it. It's one of my most prized possessions. I will say that Canada has some really, really good treats that I miss a lot. Like, I legitimately miss Canadian. Like, Canada has really good chocolate bars, things like, what do they call them candy bars here or chocolate bars?

Chaco bars. Okay. So, um, we have a lot of, um, we have. some good chocolate bars like Coffee Crisp, O'Henry, our Smarties are delicious. I feel like there are others, but I'm not sure which ones are actually Canadian or not, but those are the top three. And we also have something called, as someone who's more of a savory snacker than a sweet snacker, hickory sticks, oh, my God, I don't want to go home so badly now.

I just want to go visit Canada. But hickory sticks are such a good snack. They're the best. They are the best. It sounds like you're just like eating wood. Yes, I just chew on, I know. That's what we do in Canada. We gnaw on wood.

Yes, hickory sticks. They're delicious. They're delicious. Yes, that's right. Hickory is literally a type of wood, but it's also a flavoring, apparently. I'm like, hickory smoked, let's say. Like, it's got like a smoky flavor. It's like eating charcoal, delicious.

Yeah. You know what? One day I'm just going to have, I'm going to bring nothing but Canadian treats. I'm going to send everyone on Canadian treats, and you're going to be like, I want to tell you were right, bagels are the best, your hickory sticks are the best, your chocolate is the best, like, everyone's going to want to move to Canada. I'm going to hear of California. Amelia wants to know, does N60 hire video editors?

I'm not sure. I know that our creative team will do a lot of our videos and they'll do a lot of our photography for products and stuff like that. So I'm not sure if you hire outside people. I'm sure like, I know that sometimes we'll do like super nice video shoots with like certain companies that I know we've done work with in the past for certain products. Like I know there's a story about like Vivian like flying over to Seattle like late night to go like deliver a Kraken or something for something we were doing when we were launching the Crackenzie or something. But I don't know if we just hire them like outright like that. But, you know, if you want to throw your hat in the green.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. NZC.com slash careers. I had it, Ivan. Dang it. Starberry cream cheese are plain from Bazball 1000. Plain. 100% plain.

I actually, so I used to go to Einstein Bros, which is a bagel. Don't start with your, which is a bagelry chain. I used to work really close to one. So like every now and then like someone would just buy like the whole pack. And they had this like almond honey smear. I don't know what the heck of smear is, but I just say smear. But like it's actually spelled S-C-H-M-A-R. So like Yiddish version.

Yeah, I guess so, right? I don't know anything. On Mexican one of white know about Yiddish. Deliciousness. Deliciousness. That's all you need to know. Yeah. But it was really good.

It was super, super good. And I think that's part of the reason why I got fat because we had a lot of food in that office when I was working there. It was like it was like one of those, we're not going to pay you very well, but we're going to have a lot of food for you to eat. You know, I'm like, okay, you know, I guess it's a decent enough trade off, you know, save money on lunch and stuff. I love catered food.

I have to say, the one thing I'm not good at is cooking. And so when people, 100% the way to win me over is through food. That's it. I have a funny catering story that just happened. to me this last weekend. Oh. Yeah. So I have my, my sister's visiting with her family from Nashville, right?

And she has a toddler, Didi, who's 18 months old. And my other sister has a newborn, Matteo, who's two months old. And they decided to surprise my mom and the family by making the announcement that, you know, we're going to have a co-baptism. And we're going to have this awesome catered party. and, you know, it was cool. So long story short, my mom orders catering, and she sends my two brothers-in-law

who don't live in the same city of my mother to this restaurant to go pick up the food. So they go pick up the food, they come back with the food, everyone starts eating, and my mom looks at the food, and she's like, what are you guys eating? They're like, enchiladas. And my mom was like, I didn't order enchiladas. I ordered tacos.

I ordered fish tacos. And they're like, no, we went there. We told them your name. And they gave us his food. And they told us it was all paid for. And mom's like, I didn't even pay for the food yet either. So apparently they went to like a restaurant that had the same name in a different part of town. And then my mom's like freaking out.

And then she sends me to the correct restaurant. And I get there. And I'm like, I'm here to pick up, you know, this food order for my mom. Teresa and they're like how much how much money does she owe I'm like I have no idea like I literally just don't know what's going on so anyway I was like I had to like call my mom find out how much money she owed and then I had to like walk a mile in the 95 degree anaheim heat to find the ATM machine and like a cash out of it was a nightmare been we had to end up paying half for the other messed up order and the funny thing

about this is so the reason why these two restaurants have the same name is because the owners are sisters and my mom knows them but apparently the sisters are like feuding so i guess like all this like weird stuff going on yeah so i'm caught in the middle of a catering controversy i guess whoa that's serious yeah but now like i've been eating catered food all week long there were so much food left over that's not the worst i love catered food i love catered I love food I don't have to cook. That's really my mission in life. It is the best.

Ivan, would you say that this has been a catering kerfuffle? Yes, it has been a catering curfuffle. I don't know what just happened, but I'm going to need. Okay, here's a kind of a scary question. Basball 1,000 wants to know. Do you miss your childhood friends? I mean, I don't even know how to answer that. I still talk to some of my children.

childhood friends. I have zero friends from my life before, like, high school. Like, after I was high school. I do wonder what happened to some of the kids I grew up with in elementary school. I do think about them every once in a while. That's what Facebook is for, though. You find those people that you, like, knew when you were kids and check in on them. I love it.

I still talk to the person who was my best friend. I met her, like, day one of, I think kindergarten, Michelle Carr. Um, she, shout out to Michelle Cole. Shout out to Michelle Carr. She moved, I think, to Buffalo, New York when we were in grade seven. And we're still friends on Facebook. I'm friends with her mom and her dad and her sister. So I mean, I think it also depends on how you define childhood friends, right?

Like, what age is someone your childhood friend from? Is that anyone you meet high school and younger? I was, I was about to say the people who are still friends with their elementary school friends are weirdos. And then Andy jumps in the chat. He's like, I know my elementary school friends fairly well. I don't know why. I think that's like kind of weird. Like, do you have the same friend like your whole life since you're a little kid? I don't know.

Okay. I need to. I know we're talking about this. I think like important topic. However, I have a more important topic to bring up, which is Andy has this issue with yardhouse and I just don't get it because I think yardhouse is pretty tasty. So I feel like we need to air this out. Like, I feel like we just need to talk.

through this year. Do you find yardhouse tasty after you drink some beverage from one of those yard glasses? I don't, I've never had a beverage from a yard glass, but I just think they have really good appetizers. I'm not going for healthy food, but they have good vegan options. I've never had a bad meal there. They have cheese curds that are delicious. Like, I'm all in for yard house. What are the yardhouse hate come from? Because I feel like Annie just mentioned it one day, like out of the blue. And I'm like, who, first off,

whoever really talks about yardhouse ever. Like, I've never heard anyone ever mentioned yardhouse is like a place to go. It's just like there, you know? You just end up there sometimes. We used to go every year at Pax South. That was one of our spots to go for a team dinner at Discord because we could always get a table for a big group. It's right near the convention center and it had food for everyone because we had people.

someone was like we needed vegan options we needed people with all different kinds of food taste and it was perfect it was it was perfect for us my go-to place for like big meals after like a thing is usually cream barbecue oh it's pretty good good barbecue i think uh most most big events i would usually go to would usually end up being like finding game community stuff right So like a street fighter thing at Evo or so on and so forth, you know, wherever the events are. And for some reason, we just always go to Korean barbecue. It's just like a thing that is like a thing. I don't know.

Did I give you my Korean barbecue hot take? Uh-oh. Yes. Yes. We have Ivan. The reason why Korean barbecue is not good is because it defeats the purpose of going to a restaurant. Like, why would I want to go to a restaurant and cook for myself? Right?

Like when I go out to eat, I want someone to cook from me and serve me food, not me go there and be like, can you give me some raw food so I can cook it myself? Like, I don't like that at all. I mean, I can see that, although totally honestly, the why that doesn't bother me in the same way at a place like Korean barbecue is they do all the legwork. They got to do all the prep. So I'm just getting like the final. All I got to do is throw it on a grill. And then they do all the cleanup, which is the worst. I don't want to clean up.

I don't want to prep. So sure, give me a piece. of meat where I can sit down and grill it, totally fine. If you were like, come back in the kitchen, cut things up, do all the dishes, I'd be like, no, I'm good. I'm also the type of person that never knows how to use those little stove things they have. I always have to like ask for instructions. There's really a line. There's no instruction needed. You throw it on the grill and then he just cooks and then when it's ready, you take it off. And I have the same thoughts for a hot pot. And the reason I don't like hot pot too is because it always leaves you stinky.

Like, you'll smell that food for, like, a week. Do you not shower? I don't actually shower dinner. It's like, what's like? I've never had Korean barbecue smell stuck on me longer than a day after I'd shower. Like, I literally just... I'm not talking about hot pot, not Korean barbecue. Hot pot.

I mean, same thing, right? I don't know, man. Something about that steam. For me, the appeal of Korean barbecue is just having a lot of meat all at once in one place, right? And also, like, the whole commino aspect, right? Like, you're with your friends and you're chilling and, you know, you're grilling to me, and you're, you know, dishing it out and stuff like that.

You know, it's, it's not just the meat or the food. It's also like the experience of being there. It's actually another thing I don't like about it is the communal aspect of it because I don't like sharing my food. That's why you ask for extra. Yeah. So if you have like three, four, or five people,

you ask for like three servings of brisket. Their forks on my plate. Well, then just give it to them with it. I feel like you're going to Korean Barbecue with the wrong people. That's what it sounds like. If I go with my wife, she loves it. It sounds like you're going to cream, barbecue with like absolute newbies who are just like throwing their forks on your plate for some

reason. I've never had anybody ever throw their fork on my plate once. I've gone the cream barbecue several times. Actually, I've gone the cream barbecue. I think three times in the past like two months. Never had that problem. Yeah, I mean, I can say I'm not a good food chair either, as many people have gone out with me will tell you.

Like, I like to just get what I like and that's it. Although I can be swayed depending on how comfortable I am with the people I'm with. But as a general rule, I don't love that part. but none of the things, none of the other things that are coming up as issues have significantly impacted me. I just like good food.

That's all it. My answer is give me good food. If I'm eating, I'm happy. Agreed. If you go to a good place, the meat is just like, it's amazing. It's so good. You give you the sauces too.

You got your rice and your tofu soup and your rice paper and the bean sprouts and the fish cake and everything. It's great. So good. Y'all doing your barbecue on. If you don't like Korean barbecue, you're doing it wrong.

So I'm going to say, everyone should love Korean barbecue. There's no exceptions. Ivan's doing it wrong. We need to like, we need to teach Ivan. No, I'm like a notorious, like, anti-whatever Dennis likes kind of person. Ivan is like them. Nine times out of ten, I'm going to hate it for some reason. Ivan is a man of ritual.

So like anything that like deviates from the norm, he's just not a fan of. Yeah. Interesting. That happened to me this morning with my breakfast. What happened with your breakfast? Well, like my nine-year-old niece, Jackie, spent the night last night. And she slept in. I'm used to waking up early and basically starting my day at like five, six in the morning.

And I didn't want to wake her up. So I didn't, you know, make my usual oatmeal this morning. And I basically had to eat an egg sandwich and it just threw me off. My whole day feels weird now because I ate an egg sandwich. What's in your egg sandwich? I'm curious. Just eggs, ham and cheese on an English muffin. Okay, okay.

And I love egg sandwiches. I usually have them for lunch, though. So the fact that I had it for breakfast now, like, I really feel weird. Like, I feel like my day is just, like, backwards now. Here's a weird food question. Do you guys have a name for certain meals that you are? 100% sure no one else calls them that. So for example, my mom, when I was a kid, she would make something called,

it was called Ban con ketchup, which is basically bread with ketchup, which is not at all what it is, but it's basically an egg sandwich, right? You bread and egg and cheese and whatever, and it's a sandwich, but she would call it bread, bread with ketchup. That's like the name and like English. And I'm fairly certain nobody else calls it that, because it's literally just like an egg sandwich. I grew up calling pizza pizza. That's more of an accent thing than anything else.

Yeah, I thought it was Pixer. I was a kid who's got Pixer. My mom used to make something called Mishmash. I don't know if that, like, it was literally just like, oh, my God, I don't know if my mom's, he can hear this, but let's hope I don't describe this wrong. But it was like meat and cheese and like sauteed mushrooms and sauteed onions from what I remember. And it's not, it was just like meat in a skillet with all that cooked together. And we called it Mishmash. But I don't think there's, I don't think it's a.

name sounds like a mishmash yeah it was just called but i don't think that's an official if we said oh we made mishmash to someone else i don't know if they would be like oh obviously i know what that is it's meat and cheese and mushrooms and right things it was just that's what it was and now oh my my mom's a really good cook that i definitely miss is my mom cooking big mood big mood big moods yeah okay i have a question for everybody i'm gonna turn the tables um if i may I'm currently sitting in my comic book room. I feel like I may have mentioned to everyone here that I have a whole room.

That's where all my comic books are. And I would like to know what everyone else is reading right now as I stare at all the books and try to decide which one I'm going to read next. I want some. I want some questions. And I see, yes, I read, well, I don't read a lot of manga, but my kid loves manga. But most of my stuff is a little more indie weird,

but we have a lot of manga in this house like Jojo. and Berserk and One Piece and Bistars. We've got a lot of manga going on in the house. Can you turn on your camera so I can see your comic book room and take a screenshot for the chat? I can take, wait, I can just send a picture. All right, cool. I feel like that'll be a better picture.

This is only a portion. Don't judge. I'm not really reading anything right now. Dennis actually has an anime room. It's called his apartment. Yeah. As soon as you walk in, you're just greeted by a body. pillow. I don't even know. I'll respond to that right now, so I'm just going to stay quiet. Okay,

here. Here is my... I don't really read, to be honest. I don't really buy books. I mean, like, I'll read articles. I'll read, you know, like comment threads. I'll read, you know, things that I get linked to me, but like, I don't really go up and buy books and read. To be comments. If you know, that's collection, you have their tally. That's a lot. I realize that my computer stand is in the middle of it, so you miss a little two shelves in there. It's quite a bit. Yeah. I was looking at it right now.

How do you think you would end up, Dennis, if you grew up and your mom was reading this stuff? I'm asking because you're already a huge weeb. But imagine how much more of a weave you would be. Well, my dad was kind of a weeb, right? Because in Latin America, you know, anime was just on TV. You know, it wasn't even like a anime thing. It was just a thing that was on TV, right? There was cartoons.

So, like, I grew up my dad watching stuff. Like, I literally wake up, like, here, I'm going to pull this up a quick because this is. So I would, I would wake up, right? And it would be like Saturday morning and I would hear, I heard this. Previously on X-Men. I would hear this song in the morning. For those who know, you know, it's the X-Men. been themed from the 90s.

So my dad would just watch cartoons all the time. I think you watched that. But that's not anime. No, no. But I mean like, in Latin America, anime wasn't really anime. It was just, here's a cartoon, right?

And, you know, it's all dubbed in Spanish, right? With the Spanish name or whatever. And, you know, with, like, very little, like, editing because they don't really care about the stuff that children see. Like, like, I remember watching a Rama one half when I went to go visit my dad's family in Nicaragua. And there's, like, boobs on the, on the screen. It's, like, anime boobo.

on the screen and I'm like, I guess this is just what they do here. They just don't care. It's just a thing. So like, I would say that like, you know, I probably would show not the same way because I, you know, I wasn't like not exposed to like anime or like cartoons or things like that when I was a kid. It was just always a thing. But if you read manga, I don't know. I think I'm might come out confused because you got to read it like right to left, right? Instead of left to right. I have not read a manga in forever, but I read it the opposite way. Yeah. So like, same as Hebrew. Oh, really?

Yeah. Do you think there's a correlation there? No? What does that mean? A correlation. I know. You know how they have the whole like ancient aliens things, right? So maybe like, you know, there's like some like cross, you know, like, what's what I'm thinking of?

There's like some like meeting, right, of like the Japanese and like the Hebrews and they're like, hey, yes, we read like this. and like, hey, it's a good idea. We're going to go right to left as well or something. Some ancient planning of like how we make everyone read and see if we can. Who knows? I mean, maybe. Because maybe we're doing it the wrong way, right? Maybe left to right.

Maybe it should be right to left. Maybe it's better. Maybe. I mean, I have no strong leanings about the right way to read as long as you're reading. All I care about is reading. That's it. If you're reading, you can read whatever, however you want to do. it. And also like,

I'm opinion. What, you know, like, why wouldn't we read like bottom to top, you know? Like, who, who, who just decided that's how text should go? I don't know. I don't have these answers, but maybe this is something, me, this is a project for Dennis now. Dennis needs to, like, present in our next podcast, his findings on why we read the way we do. Definitely correct. I'm a lefty. Let's write from right to left as well. Thank you. Because I remember when I was a kid.

I would have so much, like, ink or, like, graphite from the pencil, like, smeared on, like, the palm of my left hand because I'd be writing. And teachers would get really, really mad at me. And I'm like, well, it's not my fault that I have to use a pencil. You're a lefty. It actually is your fault that you're left-handed. I'm left-handed, too.

So, like, power to the left-eet. I'm leaving this podcast. Oh, look, there's a lot of lefties popping up in our chat right now. So, like, clearly that's, you know, there's something. be sad. Here's the question. How many of you lefties are using your mouse on the left-hand hand side? I have a laptop, so I use the mouse in the middle. I use the left-handed mouse or my mouse-handed. I used to use the right-handed. And when I was like 13 or 12, I was in the middle of a game of, I think it was either Counterstrike or it was

Starcraft Brood War because I'm a boomer, right? I'm a gamer boomer at the very least. And I needed to change some settings in my mouse and I'm like, oh, you can change the left to right buttons. Like, what is this for? And I swapped my mouse over to the side and I never look back. I just, from that day on, I just swapped over. And now I'm the greatest gamer in the world. So, you know, that's my story. Everyone, you know, it's get like me. I don't know if this is true or not, but apparently there's like a research study they did where they did find that left handers die like nine years earlier than righties. Did you guys ever heard of that?

Appreciate that. Yeah, it's like a true thing. I don't know why that is, but it's like- What kind of lies are these? You're telling me. I really did hear about that. Okay, wait, I need more opinions from the group. I'm just going to use this podcast today to help me prep for my flight later.

So I need some TV show recommendations I can download for the trip. And mobile game recommendations, because I got a new phone yesterday, and I'm trying not to just move everything over. So I downloaded some of my favorite games like Kingdom Rush, a few of those because I love those. And a new game or a new game, a game from Nimble Bit that I haven't played yet. But what other mobile games should I have? So I need TV show recommendations and mobile game recommendations. Also, I don't know if there's anyone on here right now from the UK, but if I could, I would be watching Love Island exclusively.

I can't help you with the mobile games because all the mobile games I play require an internet connection. I play gotcha games, like the Wifu collector games. So those you have to have an active internet connection. So I don't think you can do it on the plane, unless you want to pay like the ridiculous fees for airplane internet. I do that, but yes, no, I'm not going to do that on this. Also, I see crashing tie from the UK. I would love to hear if you're watching Love Island,

which I love and I am very excited. That's the new season that started. anyone not watching it you totally should never heard of it i've not heard of it until i haven't mentioned it the other day in a meeting what is love island oh it's like glory it's reality tv glory um it is basically a show where they throw a bunch of like bikini-clad single people into a house and they have to come out with a partner at the end to win money but it's just chaos it feels like big brother or something essentially big brother the romance version

because the whole point is you have to couple up. You have to couple up. Could it just lie and then just win? Like, hey, you want to be... No, not watching the show. You're not necessarily a great couple at the end, but it's all audience voted based on watching the show. Ah, interesting, interesting.

Oh, it's so good. It's so good. And yes, Smacky Lemons, it's an interesting name, but yeah, Netflix show. I can watch Netflix shows if they're downloadable. So all the recommends. I've just finished watching all the Sabrina episodes. I finally watch.

that so now I need something else. Is that the new Sabrina? Yeah. Okay. The chilling adventures of Sabrina, I think it's called. It was really good. I've also been watching the new Icarly episodes because I totally have a crush on Spencer.

So I'm all caught up on the new Icarly. So what else? Demon Slayer. I think it's on Netflix, right? It's an anime. No anime. I just watched the movie. It was really good.

I can't watch anime because Max watches all anime. so I need like non-animy for when I'm not watching with Max. Gotcha. Gotcha. I recently watched, I don't know if you have Amazon, but I recently watched The Boys, which I didn't realize it was going to be as good as it was, but I really enjoyed it. I have all, if you zoom in on my shelf, I have a whole collection of the boys graphic novels. Oh, nice.

I just say the first seven graphic novels of the series. Speaking of which, the name the Boys is such a terrible name, because I later, thought it's going to be a show but like dude's playing like college or something like hey babe don't don't talk to me for the next three hours i'll be playing cod with the boys right and that's that's what i thought the show was going to be about and then actually watched the first episode in the first 10 minutes i'm like okay this is not at all what i thought i was going to be like yeah it shows nuts she was really nice highly recommend if you haven't watched it yeah i agree love it um although i liked the i kind of like reading it more than i liked watching it but i feel like that's like that's like that

a lot, right? If you read something, watching is not, it's just, there's something about it, it feels less. I don't know. It's not as good once you've read the book. Yeah, sometimes, sometimes the show will ruin it for the book as well. Like, I, I was literally such a big song of ice and fire fan until the Game of Thrones show came out. And then that ending, those last like two seasons, like pretty much ruined the entire franchise for me. Like, I just, I can't. I feel bad wanting to like Game of Thrones. It was that terrible.

It was so bad. It was just such a terrible ending. It made zero sense. They like skip so many really good storylines and like things. It's like if they're running at a time with like the source material, there's a lot of stuff that they could have gotten into that would have stretched that out for at least another three or four seasons. That would have been equally as good as the first two seasons. Equally.

But they decided they just end it. and make DeNaris go crazy. And if you haven't seen it by now, and this is a spoiler for you, you literally missed one of the biggest cultural things in, like, I'm in that category. I've never seen one single episode of Game of Thrones. Come on now.

I've kind of missed out, to be honest. Because I feel like when, when quote unquote, everybody was watching it, it was like, it was like something that doesn't happen very often, right? Where, like, everybody is, like, watching a thing or like,

almost anybody that you, you know, have a conversation with, you can bring this thing up and they'll probably know something and like they'll know enough to have like an actual conversation about it that doesn't really happen too much anymore right because media these days is so there's like so much of it and you can really get into one thing and like have nobody ever like know what you're watching yeah i am a few people here have recommended scorpion but i'm not seeing it on anywhere in netflix so i obviously need to hear more about this I don't know what that is.

It's a CBS show. I don't know if you're in the CBS. Oh, interesting. I'm downloading the new Loki, which I haven't watched yet. There are certain stations where, like, if I see this a show from them, I just won't watch it. Like, anything on the CW, I just won't bother with. I can't do it. Oh, my God.

What? I, like, would, if I could, I'd watch exclusively CW shows. I... Not even the Wayne's Brothers, goodness. That was old CW. Oh, I see Scorpion. That was back in it was just called the WB, right? The double, double, double, double, WB.

I've tried to watch shows like Arrow and like, you know, so on and so forth. But like they start in a really interesting spot. And then it's like, oh, by the way, my like debutante sister has an issue with drugs. Now I've got to go deal with that for five episodes. I'm like, I don't, I don't care about that. I want to see Arrow do Arrow things. I don't care about your personal life. I don't like, it basically turns to Riverdale after like five episodes.

And then it's somehow like at a. certain point gets to like the superhero stuff but it takes too long and like I just can't do it. Okay. I just downloaded Loki and Scorpion I can't access. So I just want to say I'm going to be watching that as soon as I get a Wi-Fi connection again, just so you all know. Sidebar. I'm really good. I think of other shows.

I don't want to log into my Netflix because I feel like if I do, it'll just make a bunch of noise in the show. People will be like, oh, God, here we go. I down yeah Netflix is like I there's so much stuff on Netflix I downloaded some of Black Summer so there are a couple of shows so there is a new show on Netflix right now called Sweet Tooth which I haven't watched yet but I read the I have the graphic novel at least the first I think there's more than one but it's so I really liked it and it's by a writer named Jeff Lemire whose stuff I love so everyone should either watch Sweet Tooth or read the book there's my recommend yeah I saw the the the ads for it, but it looked weird. And it looked like a show that I would enjoy, but I'm not sure. They have a lot of stuff on Netflix, so. I know. It's so good

and so bad all at once. It's so wrong and so right, is what I have to say. Have you seen Castlevania yet? I watched some of it, but I didn't finish it. It's the same, you know what? Actually, I should download because I haven't finished it is The Witcher. The Witcher's pretty good.

It's like only a couple episodes. I recommend. you're finishing that up. It's good. Yeah, I haven't watched enough of that. I did watch all of Schitts Creek, so if you haven't watched that, I highly recommend for a good Canadian laugh. I was looking into that show for really bad, but there was a person that I had to help interview,

actually here, and I guess it was like a culture for interview. I think it was the purpose was like for me to like, you know, to see like if like they would be like a good person to fit with the company, which I don't really know, right, like what that means right now because there's like so much happening. But I remember that they exclusively were talking about Schitt's Creek a lot

and I'm like, that's cool. It's like, I don't know anything about the show though, so I can't really give you a good opinion on what this stuff is. Are you talking about me now? No, it wasn't you. I can promise you it wasn't you. It was like,

it's like, okay, that's cool. I love Schitts Creek. There's another Canadian show called Letterkenny that is, not it's on Hulu and I really love Letterkenny. If you like, I see someone just mentioned trailer park boys. Um, if you like trailer park boys, I feel like you might like Letterkenny also Canadian. Um, clearly I like the Canadian shows, but I highly recommend both of those. You know what I've been rewatching is a boardwalk empire. I don't know if that's just good or not,

but I just been watching it. It's actually a show I have watched surprisingly. Yeah, it's a good show. What do you watch that then? I watch a baseball recaps at five in the morning, literally, because I love baseball and my wife doesn't let me watch baseball games anymore because they're like four hours long. So instead of watching a four hour long baseball game during my daughter's bath time, I get to watch the recaps of all the baseball games at five in the morning when I wake up early. But I watch a lot of TV, not a lot of TV,

but when I do watch TV, I usually just watch TV with my daughter. Like, I watch a lot of Peppa Pig, Little Rascals, Cocoa Mellon. Oh my God. Oh, coca melon. Yeah.

What about, have you ever watched Yo Gabba Gabba? No. So good. I am familiar with it, though. It's done but the guys from the Alcovats. Yeah. It's so good.

I love a lot. I still have. Actually, funny enough, one of the graphic novels I have here is a yoga bagba graphic novel because someone... Cocamares. I'm having nightmares. I only know that from TikTok, actually, from video. Same here. Same here.

Yeah. Yeah, my daughter's addicted to that. It's not a thing. You know, the show there was a big thing when Max was little that everyone hated on was called Cayu. Do you know Cayu? Yeah, some of the kid from Cayu. I don't know why. Everyone hated Cayu.

I loved him. He was a little, it's a little shithead. I was going to say it. I'm sorry. He sucked. That kid was terrible. No. It's terrible kid.

Such a giant brat for literally no reason. Expired Water loves Cayu. There's another, this was a French show that I loved when I was a kid. It's called Barba Papa. Does anyone hear no Barba Papa? Because that was legit one of my favorites. And when I had Max, I even bought the Barba Papa books in French so I could read to him in French. And that is one of my favorite kids' characters.

So go watch Barbapapa, Ivan, and you can watch that with your daughter. And I think you'll like it. It's so cute. Barbapapa. Barba Papa. For my time, I think. Sounds like my last name. 100% before everyone's time.

It was like from when I was a kid, but I love it. I still read it, Max. I still watch it on YouTube. It's super, it's been around for a long time, but so great. I didn't get cable until I was like in my, like, mid-teens. So I watched a lot of PBS shows. So stuff like Wishbone. and like reading rainbow and stuff like that.

And those shows are great. I think that's why I like learning as much as I do is because those shows are like really good at just giving you really interesting things to like look at. Zabumifu was the also lit show. Shout to the crap brothers. They're also on TikTok too.

Doing stuff with animals. I am a big fan of, I mean, none of the kids' shows that I watched are still on, obviously. I watched like Pewy's Playhouse you know the Teen Wolf cartoon

Galaxy High Chris Columbus's first show no nobody knows any of this okay see this is what happens yeah no sorry the air roll of it now we got three different generations in the same house folks yes

it's true pretty much I remember what shows I watched when I was a kid I think when I was like going I remember the mornings I would watch Pokemon on TV and Sailor Moon. Those are the two shows that were on

at the same time. Sailor Moon's great. I need to re-watch the new redub of Sailor Moon because apparently it's like way, way, way, way different. And like not as censored or like

not as like adjusted for like American takes, right? Because they have those two characters in the show who are lesbians, right? And I think like in the American dub they made him in the cousins. And I always remember watching it and I was like, those are cousins. That's really, that's, that's,

That's not, that doesn't make any sense. I, um, always my, I loved Sailor Moon, um, but I always felt like Serena was the least likable character in the show. Like, of all the characters or something, she was the, I don't know, the rest of them were also cool. Sailor Venus was my favorite. Just saying. I think she's supposed to be like a little like, like, not likable or like a very, like,

basic character, I think, if that makes sense. Basic. She's so basic. I have no idea what you guys are talking about. Oh, my. Ivan doesn't watch anything. What are the other questions? Is there any other questions we have that we should have?

There are actually. Oh, wow. That sounds like I derailed this by talking about TV shows and comic books, but I'm okay with it. What is your role in PR and community? Did it help you with your current role? What is my role in PR community in general? What was your role prior to?

to PR and community. Oh. Did you help? And did that help you with what you're doing now? Yeah. I mean, I, so I've actually been doing PR for the video game industry since the beginning. So I started in PR and I have been doing PR and sort of event stuff most of my career. And then when I went over to Discord, I took on community also and also doing some more

diversity, equity, and inclusion. So everything that I've worked on has sort of gotten me to what I'm doing here. And I think that PR has just sort of evolved to include so many things now to be a bigger. There is no such thing as straight PR. I think these days it's all about comms and comms works, communications works on so many different levels. So I've been doing it forever. I love it. I can't imagine doing anything else. And I literally cannot imagine being another industry like I've toyed with going into something else for so long and I think the only other place I can see myself working is in non-profit but I love doing it and I would recommend anyone get into it. It's great. It's really tough and sometimes I'm not going to lie. It can be

there are tough moments where you feel really bad especially if you're like me because I take things really personally, the work I do really personally so I'm super invested but I've been doing it forever and I love it and everything I've done has helped me hopefully be good what I'm doing here although you'd have to ask Ivan and Dennis if I'm doing a good job and if they say no then you have your answer there don't follow my shoes you're not doing a good job you're doing a great job oh thanks you're not doing a great job we're doing a fantastic job wow take it I'm not proud it it is hard I take it personally too I like I I I think it personally too I like I I hate it when people get mad at us.

It makes me really sad. Me too. Man, I wish we could have done better. I feel the same. Sad. I don't really get sad. I just get more like annoyed. It's like, don't you everything better to do?

Like, you're getting mad about this? Like, come on. Like, there's so many other things that we can be upset about. Why are you upset about this? You know? That's just my own thought about it. Like, I do take it like seriously, right? And I do feel like people's opinions are valid.

But at the same time, there's like, you know, there's so much going on in the world, right? Just. That's true. We'll get to focus our attention, you know, on like specific things and like worry about those. I feel sad in those moments, though, because I feel like I let people down who I don't want to let down. I think that's what it is more than anything else. It's like makes me sad to think that I did something that either made someone else feel bad or that was insensitive. That's my struggle.

That's my very Canadian struggle as a Canadian. I think it's even more of a thing for me. I would say in that particular instance, right, where we do or say something that like doesn't hit the mark, 100% agreed, right? It's like we could have done better, right? We could have worded something better. We could have done more, you know,

whatever the situation is. For me, specifically, like what I was getting at, it's just like, you know, like the dumb little things that happen every day, right, that people decide to see I let you about. It's like, what do you want me to do about that? Stuff like that, you know. It's definitely tough. All right, what other questions do we have?

I feel like favorite place to dine in. Oh. I haven't really dined in forever, so I can't really give a good answer, but cream barbecue. There's too many good places. Like, I think that's in my mood, right? There's like a really good dim sum here in San Francisco that I love. I love Italian food. So good Italian.

There's a great burger place in my neighborhood. I like finding new places that are unexpectedly delicious for me. That's one of my favorite things. My favorite place is called the chicken coop in Uptown, Whittier, delicious chicken sandwiches. Delicious chicken sandwiches. I love chicken sandwiches. I feel like chicken sandwiches are probably some of the greatest food ever designed. Yeah.

I'm starting to get bored with them, though, to be honest, because everyone has one now. They are pretty good. Whoa. Whoa. Like literally everyone has a chicken sandwich, though. Even NZXT has a chicken sandwich. I don't. Ivan, why are you leaking the N60 chicken sandwich, bro?

Purple meat. Ew. Ew. We're just talking about PR. And here you are leaking future N60 food products. That's gross. Purple chicken sounds disgusting. I'm just going to say.

Disgusting. maybe the bread's purple. Or maybe the sauce is purple. Do you guys remember when they had those like crazy colored sauces? It was like purple ketchup or something from from Heinz? No? No.

Oh my God. This is a thing I saw. There we go. It was called Heinz Easy Squirt, funky purple. I can find a picture of it. This is a really like bad image, but it's like a real old product like no one talks about anymore.

but uh yeah they made him green and they made it in purple and i don't know anybody who bought this thing but i remember seeing a ad for it on tv when i was a kid and i was like this is not you yeah it's not a thing i want it looks yeah that's disgusting can i also just note that Amanda has said she can provide the Italian food so i just want to say that out loud so it's it is now recorded because i'm going to totally be taken her up on that please don't make it it with purple ketchup. That's all I have to ask. What about purple meatball sub sauce? Marinera sauce. No, I don't want purple sauce. Unless it's like grape or eggplant. I do like grape jelly. What? I do like grape jelly a lot. It's like my favorite jelly is grape. I feel like it's a really good

flavor, particularly in sourdough. Sourdough toast and grape jelly absolutely slaps. can't can me think otherwise at all. But can we just discuss the fact that grapes are not actually purple. So what makes grape jelly purple? There are purple grapes now. I mean, the skin is purple, but the grape itself is not. Maybe the pigment in the skin makes it purple. That's only assuming you're using red grapes or purple grapes.

If you're having green grapes, it's not. So what makes it that purple? I've only ever had purple grape jelly because I feel like that's a good color. for like a jam sauce jelly thing. It's always purple. Yeah. And just my question is, what's actually making it purple? Is that real?

Or is it like, you know, there's certain foods they die to make them look more palatable? Why is grape jelly purple? There we go. Concord grape soups. There's purple color has led to grape flavored soft drinks and candy being artificially colored purple with while methyl. anth, oh my God, antherna light is a chemical present

in Conquer Grapes is used to give grape quote-quote flavor. Why is there no great, why is there no green grape jelly? Huh. Oh, interesting. People have had these questions before.

Hot topics, I think is happening right here. This is why people tune in to the NZXT hardware and computer company podcast to hear about jelly, right? Yeah. get this conversation, you know. We're not talking about, you know, GPU shortages or how they're

apparently coming back now because China banned like mining or whatever, they did something where they stopped mining. Now we're talking about grape jelly and chicken sandwiches and Heinz easy squirt green ketchup. Oh, delicious. Delicious. I mean, important topics. These are important topics. Agreed. All right. Last question that we have here that we have pinned is we have to choose between PC, mobile, and Switch for Gaming, which would you prefer? What about console? I feel we should add all of them, right? Like, what is your preferred gaming platform?

I personally, I don't know that I have a favorite, because I think it really depends on the games, right? I have games I love on each platform. So for me, it's very platform specific. I will say I probably play the most on Switch and mobile, because when I'm playing, I'm usually not at home. Like when I get the chance to play games, I'm not at home. And when it comes to like console or PC, I have to be specifically going to look for a game. So like PC, I was like, I need to go play Cook Serve Delicious. And I played a little bit of control also.

I will go to the Xbox because there's a great game on Xbox or I want to play some old Viva Penaata. I will obviously play ratchet and clank on my PlayStation. And then occasionally I'll throw on Oculus because I want to like pretend I'm a rock star and play some Beat Sabre. actually there's another Oculus game I really like that's by is it Harmonix that is sort of actually taking up more of my time than Beat Sabre but to me the whole point is I don't know that I could pick a favorite because it depends on the game but I for sure play switch and mobile these days

more than PC and console I'll swap around depending on the game I'm playing like when I was really really going on to Monster Hunter I would play not even mobile I would play on the Cowboys on my TV or with like my switch dock on my computer but it really depends on the game like i'll go through these spurts where like i'm really hyper like focused on one particular game and that's like all i played for like a month and then i swap off with something else so i can't have a

perfect platform because i need to have that variety or else i will die that's that works me too yep yep i feel you i feel you what about you i've been i'm a pc pc guy i can't Only because I love my switch, but I can't see it anymore. I can't really play on my switch. Like I want to, but it's like I can barely see it now. You might need glasses. I actually, I don't think you've ever seen me with glasses, Talley, but I have prescribed glasses, but before the pandemic hit,

I decided to do this little experiment where I was like, I'm not going to wear my glasses and see what happens. and I just haven't worn glasses in like almost two years now. I guess a year and a half. But I do have glasses. I just never wear them. This man thought he could like beat science by just not wearing his glasses. My theory was that by not wearing glasses, my vision would get stronger.

How'd that work for you? I think I got worse. It doesn't much you can't see a switch anymore. Well, you're straining your eyes. You're just extra strain on your poor eyes now. Yeah, I'm like squinting all the time. Yeah, that's not good for you For you

Put on your glasses I do wear them when I drive But only at night So I don't know Everyone should maybe be scared of If you guys want to know What it's like working with Ivan Like literally hearing him tell stories like this

Is like just It literally like every day Like it just breaks my brain And I'm like Why do you do the things that you do Why are you the way that you are Just put on your damn glasses So you can see your switch

To the opposite of what I'm told. I am the opposite. I wear glasses. I mean, I'm like pretty blind without my glasses. But I also, when people are like, are you going to get lazy or get contacts? I'm like, oh, my, no. Like, really, I'm like, I feel like that is my, like, glasses are my mask.

And when I take them off, I think I look funny, which is funny. Like this week, we're probably going to end up on this little vacation. We might go snorkeling. And I don't know how I'm going to maneuver that yet because I can't wear the snorkel mask that I have and wear my glasses. So it's going to be a situation. You're going to go pet a tuna and it's going to end up being a shark. Probably. Probably.

What the heck are you linking? Yeah, what is this? I saw this thing with, I don't know, I just popped up. I was looking at funky purple ketchup and this showed up for some reason. Gross. Colgate beef lasagna. I don't even understand. There's so much in there.

But you're right about LASIC. I would never in a million years get that surgery. I'm a friend who got LASIC and he had like zero problem. Yeah, but I feel like 50 years from now, we're just going to have a bunch of people with problems, basically, because they got LASIC. I mean, I don't trust it. I mean, 50 years would probably be dead anyway, so who cares, right? You might as well do it now. You don't know that?

I'm not left-handed. I'll make sure of it, Ivan. I make sure the prophecy is fulfilled. Do you don't make it past? Okay, here we go. Everyone posting dricken curse food. I think water pop tarts. I think.

I think it's time we call it, folks. What do you think? You posted Subway. So I hate Subway, and I think I had discussion with Andy, of all people, because he loved it. And I told him, the reason I don't like Subway is because, like, five years ago, they discovered that the bread had this chemical in it that is also used in yoga mats. Okay. And just last week, they found out, they did some DNA test on the tuna. and there's like no tuna DNA in the Subway tuna, yeah.

Disgusting. I know. So if you order a tuna sandwich from Subway, don't do it. You're eating a yoga mat with some mystery meat. Oh, stop it. Yeah, no, I'm serious. That's what you're eating.

Oh, this is gross. It was way better when we were talking about Canadian treats. I'm not going to lie. I think it's a little, like, disingenuous, though, because, like, it's like saying, like, So I used to hear the same kind of thing when people would say, like, oh, did you know that there's like rat poison in like a certain type of foods? Like, well, no, there's like a part that's used in. It's like saying, you know, you can't eat this or that because there's carbon in it, right?

And like carbon, you know, if you eat it, you'll die. It's like, well, no, duh. Like everything's made out of carbon, right? It's kind of the same thing, right? Like the, because remember when Ivan told me this, I was literally eating a subway sandwich. He said, hey, by the way, you're eating a yoga mat. I'm like, what the hell you're talking about, dude? I had it like halfway in my mouth

and what it was is that there's like a chemical there's like a preservative basically that they use in the bread and apparently a lot of other brands were using it too like Wendy's McDonald's so and so forth so that's why I don't really care too much

right it's like I feel like it's not entirely like you know it's a chemical used in yoga mats and that's what you're eating right it's like yeah but no that's a funny fun the yoga mat sandwich

I'm sure it's not going to kill you But it's also Kind of weird, right? To eat that stuff, I don't know It's the same market I'm sure everything has something bad for you When they talk about vaping, right? Because like vaping, like the juice, the liquid

Has a vegetable glycerin and a propane glycol Which is like food grade stuff, right? It's stuff that they put in the food for X or Y reason, right? So like you just say the name of a scary sounding chemical and people start freaking out, right? this is a gross conversation right before lunch i'm just going to put that out there i'm going to go to sublish yeah we're going to subway just to meet paul subs for lunch right gross so gross with some purple sauce gross

all right i think i think we should call it here folks what do you say um i've been do we have any last minute last day announcements yes i do have a couple of announcements here let me pull up my notes So my first announcement here is a thank you to the community and to everyone who either retweeted or donated to our Trevor Project fundraiser for Pride Month. We not only hit our goal, we surpassed it by $5,000. So we initially wanted to raise $10,000 and we ended up raising $15,000, a little bit more actually. So thank you to everyone who donated or shared the fundraiser. but merch will be sent out soon. Next announcement here is it is the first of the month,

which means it's time for our monthly desktop background challenge. So go on Twitter at NZXT and set that as your wallpaper for a chance to win a nifty prize. And last but not least, the most important announcement of all is to follow our Canadian friend here, Talley on Twitter. Talissimo. Which, by the way, is that a

coffee reference? So literally my middle name is Sima. So no, but let's pretend it's something fancy. It sounds like a really fancy Italian coffee. I thought it was Spanish. Talissimo. No, no. It sounds...

For a novella. Yeah. It's like a tale novella. I'm fancy. That's all you need to know is that I'm fancy, and this is the fancy version, the formal version. So when you are formally addressing me, you have to do it as Talisima. Whoa, I see that you're followed by the famous role, re-roll podcast, and also Bia Peach follows you, too. We have mutual friends.

I, it's pretty fancy. We're fancy. Yes, I'm fancy. That picture is very fancy. It's when I dyed my hair blue, and now it is not died because it's pandemic. But I was fancy for a minute, for a hot second, and now I'm unfancy, and I live in sweatshance. like this. Also, another announcement, want to wish Talley a good trip and a fun vacation.

And a safe trip. A safe trip too, right? I must you stay safe out there. Bring, bring Dennis and I back some macadamia nuts. Bring it some, we'll bring, I'll bring some treats back to the Bay Area. So I'll just have to come here and get them. I remember my uncle went to, he went to Hawaii when I was a kid. And he brought back a baby shark in a jar.

No. preserved baby sharks I think that I can find a picture of it oh my god it was yeah it was it was the weirdest thing we've ever seen he just he's kept it around

oh yeah here you go and it literally just says shark on it doesn't say what kind of shark he just says shark no no wait what yeah I don't know why apparently they're trying to ban it TSA confiscates dead baby shark Oh, okay.

Oh, that's horrible. I thought you were talking about baby shark like the cartoon. Oh, no, no, no. I'm in like a real actual like baby preserved shark and like whatever that liquid is. That's really creepy. Yeah, it's weird. This is like, yeah, he got it from Hawaii. He was like, hey, here's, here's a baby shark.

I'm like, why would you buy this dude? It's so weird. It's like buying like a, I don't know, like an elk's head or something, right? Like same kind of energy. I don't approve. Well, that all. Thank you for ending the podcast on that. positive note.

You're welcome. Anytime. That's what I'm here for. All right. All right. Thanks, everyone for letting me be on the podcast. I love hanging out with you all.

Of course. Thank you for joining us, Talley. Really appreciate it. My pleasure. There we go. Thank you to everybody who tuned in. Remember to tune in next week

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