NZXT PODCAST - #165 - ChelseaBytes!

Episode Date: August 18, 2023

On this week's episode of the podcast, we have NZXT Partner ChelseaBytes! We chat about her streaming career, how she got into building computers, her favorite cosplays, and more! By the way, Spam IS good, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Follow ChelseaBytes on Twitch at twitch.tv/chelseabytes Tune in live every Friday at 10AM PT on twitch.tv/nzxt

everyone and welcome to episode 165 of the nCC podcast the official podcast of the nsdc community this podcast recorded live every friday at 10 a mpacific standard time on the official nccc titch is available to stream on demand on apple podcast google podcast spotify and sound cloud my name is mike and with me as always is ivan how are you doing ivan how i do baby boo i'm doing good happy Friday. For those of you who are tuned in live, you already know we have a giveaway going on. So type exclamation giveaway in the chat. You'll get a link. And if you stick around to the end of the show, you will get a secret word that will give you a bunch of bonus entries. And if you're not tuned in live, listening on your favorite podcast catcher after we record this, you can get the link

in the show notes or just follow us on social. You see the link. And we're having a special giveaway because we have a special guest so without further ado I would like to introduce the one the only Chelsea Bites how are you hey everybody was happening happy Friday oh my god we made it I'm good how are y'all y'all are good good that the we we learned a lot chatting with you before we went live and I'm ready to try some ranch on some Zah later there you go Absolutely. Everybody get a chicken, bacon, ranch pizza and put some extra ranch on that pizza. You'll change your life. Well, I guess for those who don't know who you are and what you do, let us know.

Like, who is Chelsea Bites? Where are you all about? Oh, my God. Hi, I'm Chelsea Bites. First and foremost, I'm from Texas, and I'm a computer science major with a math minor. I've written a whole paper, believe it or not. I'm a published office. and researcher. I have to remind myself of that a lot. And for the past five years, I've been streaming. I'm a tech-based creator, but I'm one of those streamers that rarely gets to stream now because we are working so much.

I'm an on-camera host for Amazon, for AMC, for a whole bunch of other side channels as well. Just whenever they need me, they're like, Chelsea, hey, can you add a little flavor to our project? And I'm like, absolutely, I'm a chef online, period, when it comes to the vibes. So that's me. That's what I do. I'm also a G2 e-sports content creator. So I'm literally about to be doing a big job tomorrow where I support G2 hell when they go and just try to win it all in their competition tomorrow. So I'll be casting, color casting tomorrow.

Yeah, it'll be so fun, so fun. Really, it's just me being a. mess and just being super competitive and yelling a lot. But that's like the like really really quick overview of me. I love building computers. We are, I'm a variety streamer. When I say we, I mean my community, the bike command. They like to watch me struggle in all sorts of games, which I play most of them except sports games. I respect all you who can play football and basketball online. I cannot. I cannot. But that's that's me. That's that's a small little. John about me. That's awesome. And it seems like you're like a jack of all trades, right?

Like you do a little bit of everything. And I guess it's all tied though to to video games and gaming. So how long have you been playing video games? How long has Chelsea Fights been a gamer? I've, my dad put me on a video games when I was really young, but I didn't have an actual system until I was in like middle school because, and everybody. was on the next thing then. I had my dream cast forever, like for at when everybody was getting PS3s. I had my my dream cast. So then I got to experience like a game cube and and then upgrading to finally a PlayStation 4, which I got when I moved out to Cali. So a lot of that was spent playing games at other people's houses when I was young because nobody thought that I,

a little girl, want to have a console. They were like, what is Chelsea going to play on it? what like it's just fighting games it's all just really gory stuff like mortal combat i i just can't ignore this question somebody said what chelsea's favorite water burger food item is that is a wonderful wonderful question i just have to the most elite thing that you could do at waterburger is you wait until 11 p.m. at night because as a content creator you have a trash schedule anyway you were going to bed at 2 a.m. every day at 11 p.m. at night when you're starving for food you go to the drive-thru. You get two breakfast tacos. You get the sausage egg and cheese breakfast tacos.

And then you follow them up with the chicken tenders, the Texas toast, and the southern gravy. Okay? You can't go. You got to get the spicy ketchup with the fries. Period. And that's what I eat, bro. That's my, yep. Thank you.

All right. But back to it. Yeah. I've been gaming mostly like my whole life. I've had little like moments or I had to take gaps and just focus on whatever I had to do. at home. But yeah, I've always, I've always been a gamer. And how long you've been a Waterberger fan? I have never been to Wadoburger. I don't think there is one near me. Really? Yeah, it's like a southern thing. It's really like a Texas thing. You might get to catch them

like Louisiana. And I don't know if they have them in the other states over. I don't think they're in California. Not at all, no. And they better not ever be in California. Y'all can't have that. have we have in and out here yeah yeah in and out is it's something I it's cheap it's it's it's it's it's all right I think that's you just got to your tastes are very regional and I'm never going to shave people for having to you know use what they were what they had to grow up with you know and yeah in and out is what y'all had to grow up with I think I respected the ingredients are fresh and I don't respect y'all's lines though. The lines are way too long. It's absolutely ridiculous. That's like the

one critique that I can say is valid. Like in and out lines, every day I lived in Cali, I would drive by in and out. And I'm like, do y'all work? I'm like, you've been in this line for like 20 minutes. What are y'all doing? Yeah. The burgers aren't that good. They're, you can make them good.

You can totally make them. They can be good. Well, you also, you mentioned streaming, how your schedule's all messed up. That's why you could have Woodberger so late. So how long have you been streaming? I've been streaming since 2018. And believe it or not, I started on my Samsung S6 Edge phone.

I know. I have to, I say the brand. Yes, I say the brand because I need y'all to look it up. And you will understand the hardware I was dealing with, the quality I was giving. And that phone back then was like, like amazing. Like having edge to edge screens and like you have little edge notifications. It was so cool. And then it wasn't. So yeah, I was streaming off of that. I literally would just go live and just start talking to anybody who would just show up in the chat. And I would be in my bonnet.

I would be working on cosplay. And I'd just be doing nothing. Like just either doing like chores working on a project because when I was out in Cali, I was in between jobs. So I had a lot of free time and I'm not used to that at all. I had not. I'd either been around a lot of people and had a lot to do. I was working a job and I had a lot to do then and my schedules all over the place then. So yeah, I was like a shock and I just had to fill it with something. I didn't want to go to Omiegel or like, you know, chat roulette because that, yeah, yikes. I've been there a few times and I'm like, I'm going to leave this place a little weird. A thousand. Mm-hmm. So, uh, Kind of going along with that.

When was like, do you think is like, was your break where you can basically become like a full-type streamer? Oh, I got, I was already really lucky that, because you know as computer scientists folks, right? Like, they stress you out from the gate. Like, you need to get a job. You need to get a job. You need to get a job. You need to go get an internship, get a job right after you finish school. So I had a job lined up when I left Texas.

We moved to California. Of course, when I say we, I mean, my. My husband and I, we got married, right? I got, I finished my finals. I got married. And then there was like, we had like three big events like back to, oh, and I graduated, like literally three days in a row. I literally did all that. And then in the next few weeks, we flew out to California.

It was a lot of like life events happening in 2018. And I had a job lined up, but I didn't want to do the long distance thing with my husband. I did that for like three years. And I knew if I had to go live in like San Jose. And then he was in Sacramento. I, the commute would have sucked, even though it was only a few hours. I was like, we're not doing this again. So he had the best, you know, like health care package.

So I was like, okay, you know what? Let's just stick with your job and you work and then I'll figure it out. And I was really lucky that he was able to just support us. And that I tell people all the time. Content creation is not easy when you have to carry like all the responsibility on your own because it's expensive. It's time consuming. It's a grind. You do have to like do like full time hours I feel to be successful.

Because when I started streaming I was streaming like a hundred hours a month. And that was just like on the side. That doesn't include like this time I was spending with my community offline and playing games with them and building those relationships. and now I'm not streaming anywhere near 100 hours. I'm doing more work offline now than I am streaming. But it became more real and it became more, it got legs when people started reaching out and saying, hey, do you want to do this thing with us? We're Comcast and we would like you to come do some man on the street interviews.

We pay you. We think you're really good with people. So that is when it started getting real. I think for my husband when the sub button came around, when I got affiliate, he's like, oh, people can pay you now? That's when it got real for him. He was like, money? Okay.

Wait a minute. So, yeah, that's like the long and short of that realization of what Twitch could be. And you're so right about like all the work that goes on behind the scenes. Because even like for Mike and I, like we only do this podcast once a week. And it's a lot of work. Like it seems easy like you just hit you know go live or whatever but it's like we're spending so much time just like outlining questions and prepping post and then Mike's editing audio and then uploading the thing to like the it's just like so much that goes

on behind the scenes whenever you're you're streaming so who knows to you for sticking with it and especially because you started on a Samsung phone which is bonkers that you know it's wild y'all I had a whole computer. I did. I had a computer then. It was fully built out. I had a webcam. I had everything I needed.

Then why did you choose the phone? Because it was, I didn't, like, I hadn't streamed before. Not like that. And I had streamed like a game before. And I was like, this is something, sure. But it felt more personal for me to sit on my, like, it was easier to take it around with me and walk around my home, which you shouldn't do. Don't do that.

Don't don't stream at your house with, you know, locations and things that you can see. And I didn't know that then. I didn't even think about that then. But it was just easy for me to really make it personal and set it up and, you know, talk and move around. But when I sat back and I was like, oh, the quality could be better if I just get on my computer. Then yeah, that's when I was like, okay, let's do that. Thank you. I appreciate that, y'all.

I see y'all in the chat. Yeah, for you're saying it's a really great story. So it actually leads me to my next question for you is, what advice do you have for people who want to get into streaming and be like the next Chelsea Bites? Don't be like me. Okay, that's my first piece of advice. I spent, there's a lot of mistakes that I made early on, I would say. And I would say my mistakes are flavored for me because my mistakes may work for someone. So I think the only thing that I think is synonymous for any streamer, for any channel, like applies to every channel.

Don't be afraid to put up the goals, okay? Like if you need lights for your stream, and I'm talking about from like when I started, like all the things, the little things that I needed. If you need a new mic, if you need a new computer, if you need parts for a new computer, go ahead and just put up the goal. And then when they reach it, they reach it. But also chat, like talk to people. I think a lot of people in my experience will get on and they'll ask like, well, I mean, I'm streaming for like eight to nine hours a day or I'll stream after work for like four hours and I just feel like I'm not getting anything or anywhere out of it.

And I'm like, well, how much of that are you spending talking to whoever is coming, like having a one on one? I think when you're just starting out, it's super important to establish that and treat every stream like it's an audition if that makes any sense. Like, don't try to think just about your community. Think about how you look to anyone watching. And not to say that I thought like this when I first started, but you want to entertain everyone.

And everyone, I mean producers. I mean showrunners. I mean brands. I mean people. And, I mean, really, it's all people. But just understand that you are putting your best foot forward at any point in time. anywhere in your stream and of course enjoy yourself but make sure you're impressing yourself

when you stream you know like just get better just keep improving that's a lot of advice in like one little paragraph but i promise it's all the same it's mostly believe in yourself put that goal up always improve on your quality watch yourself and um yeah put your best foot forward put what your best is right back down like about it wrote it down got to memorize god To, I mean, just to give an example, a real quick example. My first goal were lights, these Dazni lights that I literally still have, like, on this stream set up because it was my first goal ever. And we hit that in like two weeks, which was amazing to me.

I'm like, wow, $100. That's crazy. Like, I didn't think people would just have the generosity like that in their souls. I thought we were going to hit it a month. And then someone got me a PlayStation my first two months streaming. And I was like, really? Like that, yo, y'all do not understand. understand how crazy that was for someone to just go buy me a PlayStation streaming.

And I know that's not everyone's privilege. So I'm just still so grateful to this day. Like it's still so wild. But like if I hadn't put those goals up, they would have never known I needed it or wanted it. So I guess that's my way of saying like, don't be afraid to ask because they're just nice people out there. It's insane. And I guess going all along with there's a two-part question. For pickle peppers,

what games do you mainly stream? Yeah, I saw that. I was going to answer that. I play a whole bunch of different games. I do puzzles. I do horror games. I do action RPGs, which really are my favorite. I have like, here, let's see what I can pull out here. I clearly love God of War. I've got so much got for on my shelf but this is like a sample of what I do and I'm mostly a PC gamer but when

I can I try to get my PlayStation out I might play on the switch I'm used to party games and all that but the switch is honestly like the middle child in this home but yeah it's really just about anything I really really really enjoy a good narrative tell tell games I feel like we need more of those now. I feel like everybody's missed it since their hiatus, if that's like the best way to say it. But yeah, anything with an experience or anything that can make me laugh or really

like freak me out. It's really good. Oh, let's go. Come on. I love God of War II. I see you. I guess the second part of that, how hard is it? Because I heard of being of writing streamers very hard because you're not like in this nation, you know, being transitioning between games can be tough for an audience to

Like, how do you have any advice for people that want to be a variety streamer and play multiple games, but also be able to keep that audience? Let's talk about that. Yeah, I actually saw that radical. They just released their expanse game. I've been playing, I'm on episode three. It's amazing. Excuse me, everybody on the podcast.

I'm answering chat questions. I am. But that's a wonderful, wonderful question because I had the luxury of starting as variety. And really, I had the luxury of starting as a just chatting. streamer. So the issue that I'll run into is that I have more people talking to me in my just chatting segments. And then when I hop into the game, like you say, you feel that like kind of decrease. I feel like people don't want to interrupt. My viewership nowadays will still increase when we're playing games. There's there might be a little dip because some people are coming in and

like, oh, they're talking. Oh, now they're done talking. Okay. I guess we're just playing a game now. but ultimately it only helps you because you set that standard of okay remember the stream is about me it's not about me grinding league of legends every day it's not about me being the best at apex it's purely about what i want to do and i make all of my stream segments around aspects of myself So when I can, every Friday, I would love to call it bite night, but we always do it in the evening or the afternoon. For all of those Friday events, it's something like goofy and outside of what we normally do. So we just did a gourmet stream on Monday. We made some silly, like gamer snacks and stuff, poned cones and druid snacks and all that.

And that was just like a kitchen stream. And it's just something different. I get to show off different angles, showing like, what I can do. I mean, of course, we have nightmare streams. We'll do builds at my workstation. We'll also have really silly, like, we have this thing called a we go out stream. And I swear, one of my most popular clips are from my we go out streams.

And we did like a tower of glizzies at one point. And then we did a road kill stream. And we also did. I know. I know, I know, but I promise we did not get the food off the road. And we also did a canned food stream. So we ate spam straight from, you know, the can. That's disgusting.

Oh, it was awful. It's delicious. It's delicious. But it's delicious fried. It's delicious fried. You have to know how to make spam good. And you don't just eat, cook, the unfried spam straight from the can. And it was a whole loaf of it.

It wasn't like the slice. It was a whole like in a in between some buns bro. Like between some buns. You know that's atrocious. So yeah. Yeah, drop a lot of tears on my stream. I do because it's just so ridiculously funny to me. I think people think I'm sad all the time.

No, I'm just like incredulously like blown away by how far the stream goes. Yeah. I think it's important to show off. all sides of you. And when you do that, it goes back to what I was saying earlier, like, oh, people get to see you doing something different and they know you can do something different and that let you branch off into those different types of jobs and those different types of things. Because if I didn't talk about my love for zombies, I wouldn't have been able to do my job with AMC, working with TWD Universe. And, you know, getting to talk about my love.

love the walking dead every week and getting paid for that. Like that's, they wouldn't have known unless I had expressed that somewhere. And you should take the opportunity to just capture your life and share that with people. If you're really going to pursue variety, you really have to go all in because we could sit up and just chat all day, but you won't be able to survive in variety. I feel if you're not making that genuine connection. So just spend at least an hour, maybe two hours, every stream talking to someone. And if you can do like 30 minutes even, I think that's the bare minimum, but even 30 minutes will change it up.

And I had to, I had to, yeah, I had to shorten my answer because there's like a lot of nuance behind Variety. No, that's really good advice, but I still can't get over the spam. You know, you got to do wild stuff. You got we got into a Ferrari and went to we went to McDonald's. Well, we called it McMangos. But yeah, like we go like we do it within our space. But, you know, we go crazy. I'll tell you why I can get over the spam part.

It's because I have two very strict rules when it comes to eating food, particularly meat. So the first rule is I never eat meat from a can. So no spam, no tuna. No, no Campbell's chicken soup. None of that stuff. If it's in a can, I understand. I understand. If there's meat in a can, I don't want to know what they put in.

I'm not mad at it. Like, prevent that getting spoiled or rotten, right? You're bougie. I get that. I get that. I'm not bougie. No, no. My second rule, my second rule when it comes to food.

Yeah. Especially meat is I never, I never buy meat from the same place. that I can also buy gas for my car. But like, if I go in a gas station and I see like spam on the show, that's like a sign. Okay, I'm never going to eat that thing. Like, yeah. Oh, that is so amazing.

No, I love that because I can't shade that at all. That's honestly a good standard. But, but, but I promise you, when you're eating your ramen or you crack open those Vienna sausages or you eat a hot dog or a hot pocket. I promise you, spam is a step above that, all right? I'm just saying, I know, I know, I know when we go to the gas station, we don't want to eat gas station food because that's on period.

But spam can be that girl. You can spice up spam. I just, I did hear that the crispy, crunchy chicken is supposed to be like really good fried chicken at gas stations. I just never tried. It is. It is. Will I eat it?

No, but it is. I respect. I've gotten Budin from the gas station and it is delicious. It is. I had to kind of put my subversions away. I was like, okay, this is good. They know what they're doing over here. It just depends on the gas station. You know, like you got to know the people behind the counter. You got to get comfortable with you got to make a relationship. Don't just go to any gas station on the side of the road. Go to one by your house. And then, you know, talk to Frank or Sally or something. Be like, hey, what's going on? Y'all got some fresh stuff for me today, you know. I do have to point out. in Hawaii. I live, or my family lives on Oahu. 7-11. Sounds like you're like, what the heck.

There's these days called Manapua or Spam Subi for something that some people would know about. I'm going to throw it out there. I know it's a gas station Ivan. However, it is legit the best Montapua and Spamazubi

you could ever have. And it's 7-11 is cheap, delicious. So that is the only exception to the rule. There you go. I'll expand my horizons. I'll stop being bougie. I will go to Hawaii. There might be more.

Get some spam a studio. Oh, the secret word must be meat or spam. I mean, if Naya says it. We'll find out soon. Going back again, I guess, to the question that kind of sparked this whole thing was like what games you play and whatnot. You did quickly gloss over God of war. but I want to elaborate more on that because I noticed that you got to work with God of War

and you've also done some God of War cosplay and I'm just curious like how was that experience with God of War and like what got you into cosplay as well? Let's talk about this real quick. Okay. Let's just let's just talk about this real quick. So I have to get some items real fast. Oh, there we go. So there's this and then and then there's this.

So obviously, Stan. I just like, who, come on. I was already pre-ordering God of War. That was like my first violent game when I was a kid. And I had to watch my cousins play the first three. And then I had to like pour through the internet to find all the handheld versions. Because you know, God of War, I feel like Attack on Titan and God of War. I know this is such a wild comparison, right?

But you know how an attack on Titan? Like every episode matters. Every single episode matters. With God of War, it's like the same thing. Every game. And there's so many games. But every game gives you like a piece of Cratos' backstory, furthers the plot and just adds more to the whole,

like just the whole narrative of God of War. So that's where my love of it comes from. Because I don't think I had ever seen a game. that dove into the sins of the father like that. And it was like this three-part tragedy. And it was just all so beautifully like done. So being such a huge fan and finally getting to play 2018, because that's the only reason why I wanted a PlayStation,

I was like, yo, man, what are they going to give us for Ragnarok? And when I watched the trailer and I saw Anger Boda for, the first time, it blew my mind away because, you know, like, you had never seen a black person in God of War, like, period. And so I was like, yo, what? Like, we're doing this. And I know some people are like, well, Kratos is voiced by Black voice. And I'm like, yes, I hear you. I see you. I love them for that. I mean, that should be the standard for most voice actors. They should just voice act, whatever character fits their personalities, whatever. But it means something else to see like a black woman in a video game.

And from then on, I was just like, it was full stand mode. Like I was just posting about it, talking about it. I was like, y'all, we got to get this game. This is going to be like my game of the year. And I was like, this has to be the cosplay. So I went and I got a whole cosplay commissioned by Jessica Harreen. they are just amazing at what we do. And I had never done that before.

And she went through the whole process because that's a part of her heritage. She grew up knowing everything about that mythology, that lore, that story. And she's like, oh, well, it was, I'm sorry, I have so many words for this. It was funny going through the process and talking about,

because we only got the top half of Angerboda when it came out. We didn't know what the bottom half looked like. I immediately went and started looking for want to commission it. And I was like, okay, we want to get the top done, but I think the bottom might be like some sort of like pants because we talked to somebody who might have known more about, you know, the design of Angerboater then. I was, I was digging for information. She looked at me and she said, okay, that's probably like a dress. You know, normally this

would have been a dress. I was like, okay, I mean, I guess, you know better than I do, but for now, we're just going to stick with pants. And lo and behold, when we get the whole view of Angerbode, it's like a whole like ripped dress. And I was like, like she was right like that's crazy like she knew i mean of course i didn't i never like doubted her but it's just crazy how like the story writes itself so we went got that done and we got this commissioned and i know it's so tiny but yeah this picture and this is this is going to be for ivan and mike because i know they can see it real well but lyia signed this i got to see her for south by southwest after we went and took all these photos.

And I got to just gush with the voice actor for Angerbota, if you didn't know. And just talk about like how wonderful it was to like experience her character because she's so fun in the game. Like she has a really calm, fun and light character that I really love. And I hate we don't get more time with her. But I just love that like she sings and she has like the cutest pet in the game. And I love everything about it.

But you know me. I could gush about this all day. Do y'all have any other questions? Because I could just talk. I could talk. I have a whole book on this. Like, I've taken so many photos. And, oh, yeah.

I do have a lot of questions, but I also want to just stand a little bit here. Because one of the things I really, honestly, like, I'm not even joking. Like, one of the coolest things to me about your cosplay is not even the actual, like, outfits, but it's your hair. Really? Yes, because you always have like a different hairstyle with your different outfits. And I noticed that. Like sometimes you'll have, you know, some long braid.

Sometimes it's straight. Sometimes it's like poofy. Like it's like different like. Oh, let's talk about it. I don't. No, no, let's talk about it because there's like so many ways that you can commit to a character when you cosplay. Like I could have gone and just did some really small twist like this and been like,

okay we're just going to fake the hair but for me i was like no like this is this is like the character i want to feel like i'm in and her hair was i i did kind of give my girl some inches i i did kind of like a little more grown-up version of her because i did i hadn't had long hair like that in a minute but it was the first time i'd installed locks in my hair ever and when i say like putting the hair piece together because jessica like like it was made to like actually be like a full hair piece. Like you were supposed to decorate your hair. Like it wasn't just for show. I had to put the bar in there, wrap my hit my locks around it, pin it with the pen that she made. Like how wild is it to be able to make the hair pieces? But yeah, like with that, I just wanted to commit to, I wanted to

commit to Anger Boda. So that was like a four hour style. We sat in the chair, took my hair down and went and braided it up and put those locks in. And I had those for way longer than I should. should have. You're not supposed to have blocks for more than like several months. I kept mine in baby, but I worked them. I worked them. But yeah, that was like the one other than the outfit, which did take some time to put on. That was like the other big like investment in that outfit. Yeah. I love it. It stands out to me. I think it's because I have two daughters and I see my, my wife, you know, like braiding and doing their hair for school. And like I, I don't know. I for some reason and I wasn't I didn't always appreciate women's hair but now I I kind of

know I definitely see it with your cosplay so that's cool and oh we're to start growing your hair out you know you can start appreciating it too you know just let it grow out and then you know you might start like you know twisting it up doing a little buns Mike you know how to can you braid my hair Mike Mike's like I'm checking well I do know how to just not well Oh, okay, but like, but like you can improve. Like you don't you be willing to, that's a, yo, that's it. Put that on the resume. Put that on the resume.

I don't know who you're talking to. What got you into cosplay in the first place? I've always wanted to be a mermaid. I know that I'm a mermaid girl. Oh, same. Let's go. Come on, myr people. I joined a pod.

I watched a whole bunch of mermaid movies and docs. I watched literally the first. mermaid tutorial. Every mermaid person knows it on YouTube. There's that mermaid tutorial where you get your nylon and you go to Joanne and you get your mermaid, you're a little monophon. You sell something together. And I've always wanted to like transform into something else. And mermaids are like my oldest, oldest like I just want to, you know, be under the sea. And I did a few tales. Of course, they were not great because I was a little kid who had no idea what they were doing. And, And when I finally got my first mono fad, it was fun.

It was good practice. I'd always been a strong swimmer. So practicing and working with my nylon tail back then was really cool. My dream is to get a full silicon tail like commissioned with the scales, everything, like just decked out. And then I make my own little crown and all that. Yes, if you, if you watch that Murr, like people series on Netflix, that's me. Hi, hello. That's my people right there.

I've been lurking from the shadows watching them, but I love all of them. But yeah, that translated into when I finally picked up anime, because most of us started, or most of my people started on Dragon Ball Z. And then I realized, oh, Studio Ghibli's anime, duh. Like, you start to realize the difference between anime and cartoons. And I was like, well, I like being these characters, too. They're so intricate and they're so, like, complicated. So the first character I really wanted to cosplay, like, in a video game was Samis.

And my mom, she, she didn't. didn't understand. She didn't really understand, but she was just excited that I was excited to do something. So I make, I get my fiberglass. And if y'all've ever worked with fiberglass, you know it's like the film fiberglass, like the sheet fiberglass. Getting resin and trying to paint that stuff into like a feasible shape, unless you're like a good sculptor. You're just making like a razor blade machine like weapon. Like you're just making a weapon because it's so sharp. It is so ridiculous. And I think my mom would watch me doing it. I get my LEDs and try to paint it.

And it didn't look great. But she was like, you're doing so well. And I always thought she was making fun of me because I'm like, you notice it doesn't look good. Don't show anybody. Leave me alone. So I was really self-conscious growing up about my cosplay. But then when I got older and I was able to like, oh, okay, it's okay to buy.

Like you don't have to make all your cosplay because I did think for a long time, the only way that you could respect your cosplay. is if you make it, that's not true at all. Please go buy cosplay if you're thinking about trying it out and just, you know, enhance it, modify it, make it a little better because it saves you so much time and money. So once I did that, I started cosplaying Pinky. And that was my first body paint cosplay. And I'm always so proud of Pinky because Bocono here is just, like, I enjoy it.

It's not like my top, but I do love all of the characters in their arcs. in that anime. So Pinky is amazing. I love them. My first other video game cosplay was not me from League of Legends. Oh, it was a mess. No one will ever see that. And some other things. But Angerbota, of course, takes the cake. What's the hardest, like, one, like the one thing that you consider is the hardest part about cosplay. Oh, man. Most cosplayers, I know just hate sewing. They hate it. They don't like sewing. They would rather get a three. 3D printer, literally get in a blender and build out a cosplay before they sew. And I want to read them for filth sometimes.

I'm like, baby, you went and you learned a whole tool instead of just getting the thread and needle and just following some stitches. Like, come on, it's not that bad. I think sewing can be difficult. I do think it can. I think, you know, figuring out patterns and measuring yourself and layering things out. For me, the organization is the hardest part. It's gathering all the pieces.

measuring, having the patience to measure yourself and accurately do things. It's very painstaking. It's very meticulous and I'm just not patient in that regard, like at all. But I do recommend, if you haven't downloaded knife gun yet, it's a great tool that you can use. I think knife gun is the one that helps like you measure yourself out. You can make a baseline for your height and it'll give you like somewhat accurate measurements for like what you need for your arm or how long it needs to be for your leg it's a great tool check out all your tools y'all speaking of tools let's talk about Chelsea bytes and her computers like you are a PC builder a PC modder and for those who haven't seen Chelsea's computers please check him out on social like you've built

some really dope-looking mods, some dope like water-cooling bills and everything. Like, what is your, what is your current setup like? Oh, God. Okay. I have, currently

in this home, I actively use four computers. I have five, not including my partners. I have a couple that are waiting to be showed love that are not being used. But I have for my streaming computer, I do have this amazing plus ultra NCXT build here that I use for my streaming computer.

I love it so much. It's Allmite's case. And I love it. It just makes me feel like a superhero when I boot up. I could see like his hair when I light up the computer. It brings me joy. I got to do that activation with Joy and Jihara and I believe confetti as well. So that was really fun to do.

My gaming computer is an XTIA case. And if you've never seen axtia case, it looks almost like a workbench. It's like an open case. So yes, the air is hitting it. Dust is hitting it all the time. There's got to make sure that you're keeping things out of the way and spraying it down, you know, every few weeks or so. But it's not as stressful. It's not any more stressful than having like a closed system PC.

So I game on my water cool at PC, which I put, I put, coolant in it and it and it and the coolant the heat denatured the coolant so now it's like really like transparent so i had a learning phase with my first cooling my first water cool PC so it's not as vibrant as before but we will be taking my baby apart and putting some like really good dyed yeah it all right my lord i just posted a picture of it in the yeah yeah thank you for sharing yeah let me see what you're talking about oh yeah yeah so that one in the front with the with the pretty fans and whatnot that's my streaming gaming computer we call that one bite junior junior because the one behind it is bite senior and that was my first like gaming computer and that one was actually sponsored by my first

org dts which they were so amazing I had never been picked up by an organization before to sponsor my content and they wanted to ask like well what do you want to do for your like your announcement for your first pitch and I was like well it'd be so great if we could do like a mod or like you know maybe I could modify a computer because I didn't think to ask for a whole computer and they bought that so bite uh senior is always going to have a place in my heart they'll always be improved and like upgraded and just they they have a forever home here yeah thank you thank you federal What got you into building computers? Oh man.

I had always been like ripping stuff apart because you know how it was back when computers were just coming out. Like people with money had them. Like it wasn't everywhere. And then the internet, I didn't even get on the internet until way later because I had too many smart people in my home. It wasn't like, you know, the internet came out. And then you had like your parents who kind of knew what it was, but the kid learns really quick. like oh yeah this is how you get on aim and this is how you find a vent and talk to people no we were locked down so the most i had was like the giant you know windows like monitor with the giant like

pasty eggshell like you know console and whenever one of them whenever my mother didn't quite understand why they broke she just push them off to the side and get another one because she worked at a She owns a daycare. So she made sure to have computers for the kids. Because she didn't understand how they work, she just kind of pushed the ones that slightly malfunctioned to the side. So I just started pulling them apart. And when I got older, I was like, yeah,

why don't I just build a computer? Like, why even buy? I didn't even understand like the function of just like buying a pre-built. I was like, no, I want to make one on my own because I've seen all the parts inside. I know I could probably get a better set up. up and I built my first one while I was in college because I hadn't had like I'd had laptop after laptop after laptop and I was like no let's just go ahead and build one and then when I started looking at everyone's computers like when you see and I'm okay I had to do a time check because we could go on

this all day when when you start to look at like PC content online like even at my you know all those years ago like maybe 10 years ago when what when did YouTube? my god, y'all like 2008? 2007, I think. Yes. Oh my God. Even at that age when I didn't have any business like buying parts.

When you looked up like builds and stuff, they were all, they were boxy. Like it was like, oh, how high can we get the clock to go? Like, what's our performance? Like, yeah. So it was boring.

And I feel like even to this day when it comes to some tech content, now we have people doing ASMR like with PC builds which is different definitely wasn't around when I was younger people are doing those really magnificent builds too like I just saw that star field build absolutely sick it was nuts people are starting to get spicier with their builds and that's what I've been looking for and that's what I've always wanted so when I when it comes to my builds now I'm like what keeps it looking fresh do can I look at it nice. We need PC Couture. Please and thank you. We shouldn't see any more like pre-built

office builds, you know, like they can have personality. They can be fun. And the same with PC content. We need more people with personality up there. And I do definitely respect like channels like Gamers Nexus when they can go and break down something very technical and it's all very well read, tested and they give you everything that you need like there's always space for that but we need to have more fun like have fun building it make it look cool let's focus on the stuff that doesn't matter but but kind of does like you know like that's why we I mean like that's why we put so much flavor to our PCs so people understand it's not just a box I think people still don't even know what's inside their computer you know what I mean like they're like oh it's just a box and it does things

I'm like, no, look at it. Like, these parts have RGB and all these, like, colorful things on it for a reason. Because they're doing something. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, oh. Wait, wait, wait. Now, now, now, now I saw a really spicy comment in your chat.

And, hey, I'm sorry for the podcast, but you got to come here live so you can get the spiciness here. But I see you. And you know why. And you know why. You do. We could talk about that another time. Yeah. It's a pretty spicy, spicy question.

Mm-mm-mm-mm. But to kind of go along with, like, modding in PC stuff, like, for someone that wants to make a PC, like the one I'm showing on street right now, like, do you have any advice, like, what YouTube videos or certain channels you watch or certain things to read? Like, do you have any advice or people that want to do something like this? Absolutely. First of all, don't do like me where you just, okay, actually I'm going to be a little petty here, all right? Because I'm the person who likes to just run in and just make it happen.

I don't mind making mistakes. And I knew for a fact that this would be my first liquid cool PC. Let's be real. Water cool PCs are extremely just wildly. They're like babies, okay? Like you really have to like watch them. They require so much attention. and excuse me i'm just like barfing up my breakfast uh yeah they require a lot of attention but

they can really be so much fun just putting it together go ahead and read i'm not a great reader i don't like to read i can read but like do i like it no be prepared to read and watch guides please please please get a leak tester get comfortable with buying more of that pt that ptg pipe that you see running across there by a lot of it. You will make mistakes. And get comfortable with the heat. It's going to get hot. You might burn yourself because when you're,

I formed all of that shape with like all of those pipes with my hands. You're probably going to have to do the same on this kind of case because usually you'll see water cool PCs like inside the regular case, like a closed system case where the lines are straighter. They don't have to curve around as much. If you're going to do it like this, maybe that it is hard it is really hard but make sure to if you're going to get coolant make sure you're aware that depending on the coolant it might lose color because your parts get hot and that

causes dyes and things to fall out and settle it actually like changes the chemistry of your liquids so like go on reddit check out all of the threads make sure you have a PC part picker list If you don't have PC part picker, you are going to miss out because you need to make sure all your parts are compatible. There's so many little things that there's so many little things that you're going to have to go through trial by fire. And this was actually EKWB. I love them. They're great. Getting them through customs or like getting them across to America was kind of difficult.

I had to sign off and give permission and provide like evidence or some things for it. But it's a lot of fun once you finally get all the parts down. You will struggle if it's your first time. But it was absolutely worth it. Absolutely worth it. All right. Last question about computers and mods. What has been your favorite mod?

And why is it your Resident Evil 4 chain sub? That's my favorite. Okay, okay, okay. Well, let's be real. It's my only Oh, thank you. It's my only mod and I was learning so much when it Because this is my first like one.

This is my first modified computer. And what like I think with any modder, right? Because you see all these amazing builds like the Last of Us build. And of course the Far Cry build. I don't know if y'all have seen that either. It's gorgeous. You as a modder you want to see like, okay, am I affecting the computer?

just adding stickers to it. You know what I mean? And for me, I was like, you know what? If I can get this chainsaw in there, I'm happy. I'm happy. Like, I did something. Yeah, yeah. I was like, if I can get this chainsaw on this freaking computer, I'm happy.

Because that's the most like change I'm going to make to this build. But also working with like vinals, that was, I need to go and get like my own little printer so I can do like a solid vinyl. Like I lined that up pretty well. so it still looks okay. But you know, you want a solid piece. There was a lot of like trial and error with this build. And yeah, me, we 3D printed those models and painted them.

And I did the little grid, the little inventory grid on the bottom. I wanted it to be a build that kept giving. And I'm proud of it. For like my first one, I was like, okay, okay, that you could, you can't, right, you can't say it's not Resident Evil for. Like that's what I was saying. But yeah, like there's. there's like a whole bunch of little things that I still want to add, take away, mess around with.

But for what the theme hit for, I was like, okay, I nailed the look. I was like, that's it. Let me see what they're saying. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I got those lights in there. There are more lights. There's like a nighttime effect that I have with this one. It looks absolutely like haunting as it should.

But yeah, yeah, I'm proud of this one. I'm going to try to do an alien one next. that's my big one. I want like a whole like alien queen. Like literally from alien isolation, like you're running away from an alien queen in your computer. It looks like you're just on a space station. That's the next dream mod.

Well, you should be proud because it is a gorgeous build and you did a fantastic job. So Gigi's. Thank you. Oh my God. That's the motivation I needed, y'all. Appreciate that. Yeah.

We're coming up towards the end of the show here. So I'm going to throw it over to Mike, who has a bunch of questions for you before we wrap it up and give everyone the secret word, right? Absolutely. All right. So let's do some rapid fire questions. So just think of the first thing that's on the top of your head, all right? Got you. All right.

First of all, for those of chat to, pineapple and pizza. I mean, if you're being real, just now, I'm sorry. Not for me. But then from Wrecked Ranch on spaghetti Oh Hmm

No No Sorry No Yeah He says it's underrated You gotta try it No

No I'm sorry I get if you just really wanted Alfredo like pasta That might be like You know They're like third cousin from like Alabama. And I'm sorry. It's just not it. Top three animas. Oh, Overlord for me, read or die. And, um, oh, top three. That's so hard,

because there's so many good ones, y'all. I like, I've been really into Claymore. Bro. Yeah. I love Claymore. It's just gorgeous. It's absolutely gorgeous. But it doesn't have like that crazy well berserk yeah berserk is amazing but my god does it hurt myself we need a new we need a new

we need a whole new just like read y'all didn't get any justice it needs to get redone absolutely i didn't even watch it i was like nope we're not doing this favorite games of all time Jesus okay so obviously god of war

I love Twilight Princess I love Legend is Alda Twilight Princess and because I'm chaotic. Y'all, I love Catwoman. I'm sorry. Catwoman is just not, if you've never played the Catwoman GameCube game or like, it was on all platforms. That's just me being toxic. Go play it. I love Holly Berry. Favorite game at the moment. Oh, at the moment, bro, it's going to be Baldur's Gate 3. I'm sorry. It's just on my, we've been playing every day. What's your class? Every single time.

What's your class? Right now? In my third party, my class right now, I'm a barbarian right now. I can't help my, I'm always a barbarian somewhere. I'm a, I'm a, I'm a drow barbarian. Oh, drow. Wait, does it, don't they get affected by sunlight? Nope, not me because the worm, that, that worm thing is letting, yeah, that's why a starian doesn't hurt either.

You know that? Oh, the worm helps us out. Hmm. And I guess because I saw that you were, you did a little D&D for this thing called All By Meads Magical, correct? Yes. What was, what is your favorite DED class in general? Oh, man. Just D&D in general?

My favorite D&D class in general, I would say it has to be, I love, I love any sort of magic caster. I don't want to be a wizard because I'm not a nerd. I like warlocks because it's. It's cool. Like you can flavor your packs. So like when I played Ariel, I got to have Ursula as my like packed God, I would say. So I had like this like really weird relationship with Ursula because I signed a contract with her. So like, you know, she was kind of like my landlord or like boss for a little bit because, you know, I owed her. I owed her for a while. It was a fun time. You can have some very situational spells that you can cast. And you don't have to always be the big DPS person in the group. like you can just hold people or make them laugh or make them disappear forever what was your favorite moments during your time as in d and d could be with all by means magical or like in general there are so many good moments that we've had but my favorite moment for me was when we brought a giant hag into the game and they had to fight that hag and they all you

unanimously named a viewer the hag's henchman. Like they, they read this viewer fulfilled and they made this henchman one of the viewers. And we just kept roasting them on stream. While we were fighting this hag, it's like we just took, we just had so much time.

It was a fun battle. It was a lot of fun. Oh, and then they roasted me. That was the best part. Yeah. Totally. Oh, and you got to get some sort of, you know, got to get some.

I have to get some heat. Yeah, yeah. They got me. They got me. I mean. Well, it's been your favorite moment streaming. Oh, my favorite moment streaming. Honestly, I have so many.

I know when we got this build from NZXT, and I never thought I get a 3000 series founder edition GPU. I still have it framed up on my shelf as we, I have the box frame up. I'm actually using it, I promise. But I had it framed up on my shelf for a long. time because that was a really big goal. I know it doesn't seem huge for a lot of people, but when it was announced and as it sold out, I never thought I'd get it. And I cried on stream

with everybody. I was like, oh my God, y'all, it's here and they made it happen. So thank you for giving me one of the best moments ever. And I guess going along with that, is that your proud? What has been like the crowning achievement of your entire streaming career? Wow. that's amazing getting to host the Twitch summer gathering with streamers that I had like looked up to and gotten the rebel bowls with like once before and getting to meet people that I still talk to to this day and talking to game devs and getting to appreciate like the summer game fest and just a job well done like that that year that day it's still just unmatch I'm still riding the high from that

Like that. And I guess what is, since you have a whole thing behind you, what's, what's your favorite thing behind you right now? Oh, you mean, oh, you mean all this stuff? Yeah. Or are you talking about any, any of the stuff right behind you? What's the favorite? I mean. Imagine she turned around and we're standing there, Mike.

Just like surprise. Oh, don't. Don't do this because I will fight. I will fight, you all. I have to say, like, my plushies are the cutest thing ever. Like they always roast my llamas, but they really bring this whole look together. I love them. I'm very proud of this shelf.

I put the shelf together myself. So every piece on there is intentionally placed. But my plushies bring it. Like they fill up the most space, but like they don't take up too much. And they're so cute while they do it. Like it. Favorite meal when streaming? Oh, God.

Anything I could get my hands on, chicken tenders. please give me the tendies I I respect that it's easy to eat delicious don't give me pasta or salads on stream

like just give me some quick like please just make it easy for those in the chat for those that are listening to this what's something about streaming that people don't usually think about

that you need people to like understand oh god um Ooh, that is, that's a hard question. That's a real, okay, I'm not a DJ. There we go. I'm not a DJ.

You, you don't know what I go through having a fight all these little audio inputs and, and like all these little like levers and stuff back here. I'm sorry if I break your ears, all right? I did not, I'm not an audio engineer. I hasn't been trained on decibels. I have no idea how all of these buttons. work when I sit down. Okay, I might even forget to turn on my stream deck.

So yeah, just come into my stream and turn me down to 10% every time and then work your way up. Honestly, as someone that literally does this, audio is the most finicky thing in the entire world. Like, I could be like, oh, you know what? I think they're a little quiet. Let me raise them up a little bit. And then in the thing, it's like, it's like they're blown out. And I'm like, I didn't change that much. You know who I blame?

All you little audio. Codec engineers. What are you doing back there? Huh? Please make a standard. Please. But I'll get off you. Yeah, get out of here.

What are y'all doing? Oh, my Lord. Oh, we could go on. Oh, actually, I'll take this question from bagels in the chat. What brings you to the most satisfaction in your career? Oh, for me? The most satisfaction is when I can sit up and leave the stream and be like, I'm happy I did that.

Like if I can get up from a stream and say, I'm happy I did that. And that's 90% of the time. There are some streams I'm like, okay, baby, you did not need to do that. But that gives me the deepest satisfaction when I can bond, learn more about the people sitting in my stream and watching and getting them the talk. Everybody wants an active chat, but not just like a spammy chat. You know, like, we're talking. And if I can come out of that and be like the whole way through that stream,

I learned something about somebody or we talked about something that makes me feelful. I like that. And I guess this is a very deep question. You can go as deep as you want. Did you ever expect yourself to be where you're at today? No, I absolutely did not. we took a big chance on Chelsea Bites. There were like, there are literal decisions that we made

whereas like if we hadn't turned left at that time, it wouldn't have happened or it wouldn't have worked out. And it's like crazy to think about how coincidental or just how like things can really just be left up to fate. And yeah, like I definitely wasn't thinking I was going to be doing half of the stuff that I've done. the other stuff i'm like heck yeah i audition for it and i did that and i ate that up but no not at all i did not think it was going to be like this awesome uh and i guess for oh do you have any shoutouts

you want to make to anyone or any announcements you have coming up i know you said you have something coming up right now oh yeah no for sure oh my lord right now um i just need y'all all to keep an eye out on the guilds because Twitch is doing an amazing program for partners and we might be, you know, sharing some more stuff during TwitchCon. But if you are a Twitch partner at the moment or you're just interested in what guilds are and you think you could add to that space, even if you're an affiliate, I would love to share with you an interest form where we built this space for people who are mis or underrepresented on this platform.

Right now, we have the Black, Latin, and Women's Guild. where we are offering access to Twitch executives. We just had a stream with Dan Clancy earlier this week. Yeah, it was insane. That man is hilarious. But also, like opportunities, like I'm going to be bringing on one of our guilt members for a talk in a few weeks for a really special episode. And I've always wanted to work with him.

Also, seeing where we can activate it, TwitchCon and things like that. But also community. Like, I think it's really important. that Twitch streamers come together because Twitch is unlike any other streaming platform. Like it's so human. It you really, it's almost like, it's really just the internet between us, like literally. Otherwise, we'd be touching right now, respectfully. All right.

Like that's as close as we can get without y'all literally appearing behind me in my room. But, yeah, I'm very proud to be a guild leader for the Women's Guild. And if you think that's something that you would find interesting or someone that you know would find interesting, please, please, go check it out on Twitch's blog. I'll have a link if you would like to follow up on any of my socials. I'll be posting about it. It's a wonderful program. I'm very proud of it. And I'm working with Coco Confession.

That's my shout out for the day. Coco Confession is one of the most amazing speed runners and crafters. And they're amazing. And you absolutely have to check her out. She streams really late at night. So if you like to hang out late night, she's got the vibes up until like early morning. And I'm so blessed to be working with her.

And I don't say blessed lightly. I rarely say blessed. But I really mean that. So please go show my girl some love. Love that. And I guess that leads us to the final, the rapid fire questions. Before we go to announcements,

do you have anything you want to say or anything before we go on to the next one? if anything keep being you if you ever wanted to go variety absolutely do it you really should just embrace loving yourself and sharing that with your people and yeah i'm giving out a playstation today so i'm pretty psyched today's gonna be a wild day if you like to learn more about me i'm chelsea bites everywhere twitch instagram youtube i mean honestly at this point you actually could google me So if you would like to, I'm always about it. I got, it says my story better than I ever would.

But yeah, I appreciate y'all having me on. Also, of course. Oh, hold on. I didn't miss anything. Did I, did you only something else? No, no. Well, I guess, I guess before I'll go into the announcements, if you guys want to check out Chelsea and everything that she's doing right now,

I'll go ahead and put it in chat. That's it. There you go. That's her Twitch. She has all her socials on the Twitch as well. So follow her on Instagram, YouTube, Twitter. Oh, also join her Discord as well, the bike command. See everything amazing. She's been doing awesome stuff recently, which is really awesome to see one of our partners doing, like, incredible things.

So very, very happy with how much you're doing. Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. A little claps, little claps. Thank you. I appreciate that. Thank y'all for making me feel seen. It means a lot. You know, it's already, even if you have all the support you can get, it's still hard to create content. I'm just here to try to make that a little easier and also just keep working hard because I'm surrounded by so

many amazing partners, especially in ZXT and just across the platform. So I want to do them justice and just keep succeeding and just keep going. So thank y'all for making that possible. It means a lot. Of course, of course. And I guess if you guys, if you guys, guys want to check out some nCC products uh go ahead go to nzc.com we got computers we got some cases got some coolers got some gaming gear got some peripherals got everything available did y'all know that uh the dj clancy also has the ncxte streaming kit um oh really go yes we clip that i know that oh they do yeah yeah yeah uh-huh y'all did that y'all did that for them the pc is perfect we're just we just kind of we got to work on the internet but yeah

keep it going that comes to thought that comes to that that's a that's a whole nother thing but yeah no y'all y'all got dan down locked it was a great bill and I guess for the for those that are here and I know a lot of people are asking chat we have a special give-ways Chelsea

we're releasing the relay audio system we have speakers we have this headset right here a switch mix, which is also basically, it's like a headset stand, but it can swap between speakers and headset, literally by the click of a button. So if I put my headset back onto the sand, it goes to speakers. And if you take it back off, it automatically switches to headset and a subwoofer as well. So if you guys want to do the S. WS. W.m.H. Point giveaway, make sure you guys tune your entries.

But we have a very special thing because Chelsea Bites, obviously, is the special guest for this one. We're going to ask you what the code was. word should be. So I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Do whatever you want. You let me slam dunk this one. It's going to be spam, y'all.

You know what it is? Spam, baby. Spam. That can go so many ways. People are going to be like, what do they mean spam? Like, are they just spamming? Like what? And then it's our inside joke for the day, y'all.

So spam. Awesome. I'm going to make the code word and make sure to refresh. Make sure to refresh your glee. because I'm updating it right now. It is spam, spam, spam. Spam, spam. Spam, spam.

That is the code word for the 500 extra entries. And I just want to say 10 out of 10 code word. Great code word. Thank you. Y'all made it happen. Y'all inspired me. Can't bring it up my past. I guess that's the end of the announcement.

Do you have any last minute things you want to say before we finish off the podcast? podcast. Oh my gosh. Thank you all so much for commenting. Thank you for listening. Chat. You look absolutely extra gorgeous today. I appreciate y'all. Seriously, if there's anything you ever, okay, yeah, y'all too, y'all too, y'all too. Sure. But yes, of course, please, please, please show Mike and Ivan all the love. They work really hard on this podcast every week. And you can't imagine a weekly podcast. Man, the Lyft. Make sure to check out all of your NZT partners and creators. Go show NZT all the love because they make some really creative stuff. And yeah, If you want to come talk to me, I'm everywhere.

You can ask me anything. I've been talking to everybody for five years now. So, yeah, I got you. I got you. But thank you for having me. All are wonderful. Of course. Yeah, thank you for joining us.

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