NZXT PODCAST - #221 - How to get SPONSORED by NZXT (Ft. GivemChills)

Episode Date: April 24, 2026

On this week's episode of the #Nzxt Podcast We are joined by Nash, aka ‪GivemChills‬ - Software developer, content creator, husband, and dad who somehow manages to do it all. We go over his origin story, the reality of building a massive following while working a full-time job and raising a family, and how to get FREE stuff from companies... like NZXT! Follow Nash here: https://beacons.ai/givemchills

Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 221 of the N60 podcast, the official podcast of the NCC community. This podcast recorded live on Fridays at 10 a.m. Pacific Center time on the official N6C Twitch is available to stream on demand on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and SoundCloud. My name is Mike. And before I introduce our very, very special guest, I want to say special thanks to Intel for helping us sponsor this podcast and the club. If for those I don't know, we have a thing called NZXT Intel Club. You guys go to nxxc.com slash club or ask me we should play club and chat.

And then you guys can earn poochie points by doing Quest, which you then can enter into giveaways for plushy shirts and a monthly Intel PC. Yes, we give away a PC every month. Special thanks to Intel. Also, another huge shout out is we have a new PC with the new Intel Core

Ultra7 270K plus Intel's fastest desktop gaming chip ever. It's great for content creators. If you're a gamer, it has a thing called the Intel binary optimization tool, you know, optimizes games built for other chips. It is called the player PC Intelcore Ultra7 270K plus addition. Kind of a mouthful, but it does come with a 5070 and 32 gigabytes of DDR5 RAM. And in our Nc-XXX-H5 Flow is available on our website right now.

You guys go to nzxit.com or exclamation point Intel PC. and also we are giving away something for this podcast specifically. We're giving away an Intel hoodie, shirt, and mouse pad, and stick around to the end of the podcast for the secret code word that gives you an extra, I think a thousand entries, 500 entries into the giveaway. Okay, how to get through all that, but I want to go ahead and introduce our very special guests. Introducing a creator who doesn't just review tech, he makes you feel it. From breaking down the latest tech to building setups so clean, they look like they belong in a movie.

He's turned tech reviews into an art form. Software developer by day, content machine by night and by lunchtime, with hundreds of thousands of followers, millions of views, and a brand collab that reads like a CVS receipt. Please welcome Nash, aka give him chills. Nash, can you introduce yourself to our audience and tell us what you're all about? I don't think I need to do a thing. You did really well. Thank you. But yes, my name is Nash.

I go by Give Him Chills on social media. And yeah, I love everything to do with tech, gaming. And the only thing that's different is I don't have any time to do any gaming. I just have the stuff for it. But show you guys everything that's new and latest and feature some really cool technology for people. Well, we're definitely going to get into how you're able to handle all this, especially with a family and concentration and a job. But before we go all the way into that, we're going to kind of go all the way back to like the origin of Nash. So first of all, how did you get into gaming in general?

When I was probably six, we had just my family got like a family computer basically. And there was barely any any games on it. That's when we started like doing some gaming. And then I did some with that age. And then years later, I got my first PlayStation. two and three and four. And then I, so I took a long break from PC gaming in general. And then 2019, I built my first as an adult PC.

So I did some PC building when I was younger with my brother and friends. But when I was on my own, actually in ZXT was with the first case I had. Yeah, it was the white H7. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, that was the first. I did, I won like a $1,000 budget one. And I don't know, I didn't think I recorded it.

I wasn't making content then. I just did it for gaming because I wanted to. Wow. So, man, so you've been, so you've been playing all or stuff. So you said your first console was the PS2, right? You said? Yeah, yeah. What was the first game that you guys were playing?

Tony Hawk. That was like one of the first games I played and then Grand Theft Auto at a very young age. Did you tell you tell your parents like, hey, yeah, I just want to get this game? Yeah, it's this popular game. You know, you ask enough for it that they're like, ah, whatever. Did they ever catch you playing it out of a weird time where you're like Robin to Bank or anything like that? Well, maybe. I don't think they cared much.

But no, it was great. But yeah, that was one of the first few games. And then I played some PC gaming and like throughout really. Like my brothers had PC. I never owned anything. I just played on it. So I play online games. Games are very like eish that were popular in the like Middle East, which is where I'm

from, game called Silk Road Online, game called Guns Launcher. Games are like probably not very known to most generation or most people that are watching today, but very addictive games. so yeah what was did you have like a specific game that made you go from like i like playing games to like i'm i'm kind of like addicted as a gamer now is there no specific one uh i would say probably uh silk road online it's like a m mm or RPG online and i in high school i would spend i don't know i had a laptop it was so bad but i played like five, six hours a day.

It was bad. Yeah. I mean, we were, we were running, we were running like business, like in this game. We were selling stuff. We actually made real money. Like we would sell, like harvest gold and sell it for people. And it was, yeah, there's a whole very deep rapid trail down there. Did your parents, like, approve of gaming like this once they, like, were they okay with it?

Were they not okay with it? To a certain extent, they were okay with it, but I was the youngest in my family. So I feel like at the end, they were like, we're almost done. And I was a good enough kid that they didn't really like question me for the most part. They should have, but they didn't. Well, hey, guys, listen, if you guys are still in school, get your grades. You know, it's one of the most important things. you'll always have time for gaming.

Yes. And honestly, you'll make time. Just stay at school and make sure you do it. Yeah. That was the same way. I gameed a lot, but like I still did my homework and stuff, you know? Yeah. Did you play with, like, did you make a lot of friends during your time?

Or did you, were you mainly like a solo put, they have like a crew? Yeah, yeah. I played my cousin was like the person I played the most with. I would remember like he would be like on weekends. I would go knock on his weekends. window and block wake him up. We lived close to each other. So I would just like wake him up and be like it's time to do it or at night or whatever. So, but me and my cousin played a lot of staff game and other games as well throughout. So but yeah. And then I did make like some friends

around town that just play the same game. So we're going to like had a physical group and a digital group that those was before discord or any calls. We'd literally like call and then sometimes we had minutes left. So we're like we're done. But just chat was really the biggest thing in the game, right? You just talk to each other through chat. So but yeah. So when did like gaming and tech kind of like meat? Like did you start out like starting to like tech or was it like gaming that kind of led you into this like tech is space?

I think they were they were always separated for me in the sense of I was like the tech support person in my family as they call them. like my mom, my uncles, my everybody that needed some form of phone help, especially phone help. And then computer help, like Windows help, like a lot of software stuff. Like I would be able to figure out how to kind of debug it, fix it. So that's kind of where it started. It's like, I like this. I'm being asked to do it. So maybe I should do it past that.

But yeah, that's kind of where all it originated is like I've always liked consumer electronics and new innovations in that field. So interesting. So that led you to your like career basically, right? Like as a kid, you're just kind of interested in it. And then now you're a software developer, correct? Yes. Yeah. So in high school, I was like more interested in hacking and stuff.

And then when I moved to the U.S. in 2016, I was trying to figure out like what I want to do for living. I was just gotten married. I was young. So I started, I self taught myself how to code. I already knew so. But I got deeper, spent like a year doing some online schools, got a very entry-level job for software development, and then the rest is history. So, yeah. But yeah, I went from there.

So that's what I still do. Yeah. So that's the thing that I'm very interested in. So for those I don't know, Nash has a very large following on TikTok and Instagram and YouTube. but you also do software developing as your main job and content creation as like a side thing. So I want to kind of go into it. So this is like a great time for people here. Like if you guys think like content creation is like this is your only job, you don't have to do that.

There are ways to get started into it. So I kind of want to start your content creation journey. So first of all, the name, give them chills. We were talking about this before the podcast. So like, can you go into the reason why you have Give Em Chills as like your your username? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I will tell you. It's not, it's going to make me sound very not smart.

So I will tell you, though. But when I first moved to the U.S., I bought like a used PlayStation 4. I needed a new neighbor tag, a gamer tag. So I was like, I need something that's kind of like scary and also like funny in some ways. So like I was playing Cod a lot then. And I was like, give him chills like. I just killed you. I gave you chills the way I killed you in that sense. Plus, like, I'm a very chill guy. So yeah. And then when I started making like tech content, I was like,

oh, I'll just use the same name. It's not going to go anywhere. And then two years later, I'm like, I can't change this right now. So I got stuck with it. So I do sometimes go by nash tag, especially on TikTok, but it stayed with give them chills. All the brands know me as that. It makes no sense when it comes to technology. but yeah I mean it's it's stuck around I mean it's honestly it is one of more unique names out there and I think a lot of people here also think the same way like you know you get like an an old Xbox gamer tag or something like that you're like you know what this will just I'm sticking with it oh god I think when you it's like yeah it's one like you make that like

first email you make when I was seven years old and then it's just like you send important emails from it later on in the years same thing did you different scenario did you have like a really before giving chills did you have like that first email that you made do you remember didn't use any for that actually i luckily because my name is unique i was able to get my name so i just did that oh that's nice that's that's smart that's smart that's what you should have my my dad wasn't like super tech savvy so like i was like oh i was like the first one getting into tech i chose i was like okay what's around my room right now and i there's a little Mario figurine so it's like all right

Mario and then I was like oh I thought the same thing as you though I was like I gotta have something that sounds cool yeah I was like what could Mario do Blast so my using was Mario Blast and I was like that was the coolest name and then I look back on my I think it's still cool Honestly Mario Blast like I would love

a Mario Blast like move but I look back and I'm like why did I name it that I should just name it my name make it easy yeah that's why I go by now but yeah um now i want to talk about so you i'm going to pull up your first ever video that you've made on youtube and uh my favorite part is this first frame of you of you with a cup of coffee get it done oh my gosh yes i hope you can it done You can see some of the NXC stuff behind me, that box on the right side.

That's that I was telling you about. Oh, really? That's it. Wow. I mean, that's so funny. That setup was awesome. That was in my garage. All right.

What's in the box? One USB microphone with 5.9 feet. What am I reviewing? It's a FI-Fine microphone. Oh, yeah. Fine, yeah. Yeah, that was one of the first brands that I worked with. Honestly, it was the first brand.

So did you work with them before you, like, made this video? Like, how did you, because this is the first video that I sound on YouTube. No, I bought that. Oh, okay. So I started by buying tech and reviewing it, which was kind of risky move. But I had a job, so I was able to do some. And I reviewed a lot of the tech I already had. Like, I needed a new keyboard.

So I bought that Razor keyboard. You're looking out. And then I was like, well, I have to make a video about it. So I made a video about it. And some of the tech I had was from my job because I was working from home then. But that table right there was like a $15 goodwill table that you're looking at. It literally broke one time in a rage session. I just hit it.

And like it, yeah. Yeah. So it was. But yeah, that's crazy. It's I worked with FIFI. FIFIN is very popular now when it comes to the microphone. But they had like one microphone. There's a 2669.

And they just started on the market. They didn't have much. They haven't done any reviews with other people. and like I started working with them and then, but I haven't worked with them in like two years or three years since. But that's funny. But how did, so can you walk us through this? Like what was your thought process when making this first like video? Like what made you go, you know what?

I kind of want to start doing tech review stuff. Actually, it was not my idea. Oh, really? I was never really good in front of a camera at all ever in my life. I'm not really like a shy guy. I talk a lot, but I'm not like going out of my wave to like, you know, be in front of a camera or whatever. But I was, I started doing a lot of gaming and then I started streaming on Twitch. That was the first thing that I started doing.

And then as I was talking through like playing video games, we'd be talking in a new tech, PC building, stuff like that. And my viewers were like, hey, maybe you should start making TikTok videos about this. TikTok was just starting. This is 2019, 220. And people, COVID was happening. People were at home.

We had a lot of free time. So I was like, all right. Let's start. So I started doing YouTube videos. They were going nowhere. And then I started making short form content from there. And yeah,

that was, oh my gosh, six years ago. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. 2020. Man, times have definitely changed over the time.

And then this was, I believe this is your first ever TikTok video from, at least from what I could pull up. So that's a very interesting story. So I actually had other TikTok account before this one that I grew to 100,000 followers. And he got banned. How did it get banned? I don't know. I just like didn't like I tried to figure it out. It never worked out.

Like it was I was doing a lot. Back in there, and I was doing a lot. lot of places where you can get like free video games like just promoting uh when people can like go like when epic games giving away free view games stuff like that and tic tic tic was flagging that stuff all the time as like spam or like scam stuff so because of that they um they like just bam gave me up multiple warnings and they give my account so i just like all right you know what i'm going to start uh a new account actually i do have an older tic tic tic this is this is in the setup that I still film in, but that's like the one of, maybe one of the first videos I did in that

room. But yeah, I have much older videos than that. How did you, how did it feel way worse? How did it feel when he got banned? Like, did you, did you feel like, what was, what was that original feeling like? And you're like, dang, do I want to, like, I mean, I've, I've had, I've had a few interesting, like talking about the concept of starting over. I've had a few times where I've kind of had to do that. Like last year, beginning of the year, I took a four-month break from content. I wasn't making videos at all. And when I started again, it was like, you're basically starting from Ground Zero, even though I had like 400,000 followers, 300,000 followers at that time. But my account was pretty much me. But you keep going. A month later, you're posting

every day and the platform starts liking you again. So that's how it works. Honestly, it's kind of one of those things where you just got to keep posting. You just got to keep doing it. Yeah, I mean, the only, the only thing that works is consistency. Consistently posting consistently getting better, consistently trying to innovate, consistently trying to be different. Like, you just, you can't, if you want to make it, really, because it's such a saturated thing. So. Man. So was there a specific moment throughout your content creation process? So you just keep, you're just posting. You're like, you know, my viewers told me to start doing it. I'm going to start posting.

Was there a specific moment where it was more than just like something on a side where you're like, wow, I'm actually like getting this is something bigger now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, once I started making like ad revenue on YouTube and I started like waking up and my inbox has whatever 10, 15 emails from brands just started by people. I didn't start getting paid collapse until I was like 60, 70,000 followers.

Wow. But before that, it was just like. brands wanted to feature their stuff. So I literally took everything. And I was cranking three or four videos a day. I'm posting way less than I used to back in the day because I tried to up the quality in the sense. But in the sense, so when that started happening and when I started looking at it like, okay, I'm making some money monthly and it's great. So I kind of like, maybe I should spark more putting more effort into it more. I kind of switched when I moved into this house three years ago, I kind of switched. I invested a lot of money into the office, the lighting, the audio,

the bought a new camera and all the gear. But it took me, I was filming on a $500 device with a $30 light for like the first three years. So it took a long time before I switched to a professional, more professional look, I guess if you want to say. So then I think when I invested money into this, I started viewing it more as like a more than just like, ah, I'll, do it or I won't do it. It's like, no, this is what I do. I do enjoy it. So might as well put more effort into it. Was there like a specific video that you call your like first breakthrough? Yeah. I would think, I would say like building the setup that's in that office, it's, um, it's a long form YouTube video that did pretty well on. Yeah, it's a building my new

10,000 game set up, right? Yeah. Yeah, I think so. Building, yeah. I'm not sure. It's been a while. But, yeah, building that one. It's one of the most popular one.

That was kind of like the video I, I think I spent like, I don't know, two weeks, two, three weeks, just getting the setup finalized and then I spent like a week and a half of editing it myself. And it's funny. It's like I just,

yeah, that was kind of one of the bigger videos that I wanted to put more effort in. And then recently, actually, I did a switch where I'm focusing more on higher quality, more entertaining, fun videos than just product reviews videos, long form. So that's what I've been doing recently. And it's been great, honestly. I enjoy them way more personally. But, yeah, that was kind of, I would say, two years ago, two and a half years ago. It's kind of like one of my bigger YouTube videos.

and then short form it's been all over the place there wasn't like a switch there it's just that's consistently so what did your like friends and family think about when he started posting were they like what is this or were they like super super super supportive straight off the bat they were no I mean I would say they were they didn't really like a lot of people don't understand what it what it is that I do like Like, what do you? Like, but then I don't explain to them like, listen, I work with brands, like that want to promote their stuff. They send stuff over.

I review it. Sometimes they pay for a sponsorship. Sometimes they don't. But they all think, right now, they think it's pretty cool. Like, and obviously they enjoy the fruits. Sometimes I have a lot of free stuff that I just give them. And if they need gear, they reach out to me. And, yeah, it's honestly, it's honestly huge blessing for everybody, me and my family.

So, and friends, too. So yeah, that was a good video too. Not only, so you're a software dev, but you also do content creation that helps a lot. Most of these times, it's usually like a full-time job for a lot of people. So like, can you break down like what does like a week look like for you as like a nine to five and content creator? Yeah, so I start actually at eight my days. So work at eight, I have a family and three kids. And I start my work at eight and then I usually have around like 30,

45 minute lunch break, but I have like a very organized schedule and like, okay, I'm filming one to two shorts that day. And then I actually stopped editing my videos. I had to. So I have a few editors that I send videos to edit. So during, I try to maximize my content like, like filming during lunchtime. So 30 minutes, whatever, I have everything ready in the office to go.

I just go in there. It would be like, lights on. Script is already ready. Just go. And then sometimes I have every now and then I have like a nighttime. I'll have some free time. And I'll just come down here and film. But yeah, you have to be very, very organized in the sense if you have a full-time job

when you're going to be doing this because, you know, it's got to manage your time. to be able to actually do it. So, but yeah. I mean, I'm looking at, let's pull up your most recent video about the MSI model. And let me show everyone. Like, look at like the difference between the two, like, it's like insane how, like, it's insane how different. And-

aesthetically cinematic your videos are now. So like how did that like visual style kind of develop as it went on? Like what was your thought process as you started making these like, I mean look at the, you know, you got the text that goes along with the monitors and the quick cuts, the sound effects. Like how does it kind of evolve like that? Yeah. So, I mean, I really, once you start putting more effort into the concept of what the video is, everything else gets better from there, right?

Like more ideas are generated for how to edit it, how to speak what you're saying, what you're talking about, why you're pointing out stuff. The setup itself, like a lot of people are gotten over RGB. I still haven't. I will never grow that phase. I still like enjoy lights in general. So for me, it's like I like an RGB background, will let background. And then the other thing that I kind of told myself a couple years ago, it's like, I'm going to only make videos that I enjoy watching. If I don't enjoy watching it, I'm not going to make it.

So that's really like the key to trying to make it good. Interesting. So how does it, can you walk us how you, how you like make a video from like start to scratch? Like, yeah. I assume there's a lot of thought process going into it beforehand. Yeah. So it depends. Like so if it's a brand based video, then I try to grab what the product is and make it interesting in the sense of like more funny, more interesting, more like useful in a sense.

Like this video right here, that's the first time I've ever tried a 360 hertz monitor. So the whole concept is like what is 360 hertz monitor ultra wide look like? And that's like just walking for experience instead of just like there's a lot of other creators out there. They do like spec review and like show stuff and show different. For me, it's like I try to approach it from the place of I am you. I am a consumer about to go to this. What is your experience going to be like opening this thing? What your thought process?

What are your mindset? So I kind of tried to walk you through with it. But if it's not that, I try to make it like something outrageous, something funny, something crazy. And then the idea is to blend my personality, sense of humor with specs and like gamers. because honestly, like, both kind of go one hand in hand for me. It's like just being stupid, funny. Like, just do your thing.

Like, be you, right? And in a sense, it's like, I love tech. So, and I love gaming. So kind of that's where concepts come for me a lot of the times. If it's not product related. Like even like the like the previous video, the flight simulator I built and gave to my friend, I was just like thinking it's like, he even approached me. He's like, hey, do you think you can?

like see if you do like a video about sim gear as like I think so I think there's a great video idea here so I spend time like an hour to two hours just like ideation of what I want this to look like and then I kind of like I work through like how to make it interesting for who's watching like the concept and then a lot of the stuff is just organic the rest of it so but yeah the best part about creating video like this like is there like your favorite oh it final result. Yeah, like, you see the, you see like the final video and you're like, this is exactly what I wanted it to be.

Like, if you find yourself laughing at your own video, then you did right. So, yeah. But, yeah, so, yeah, the final result after a good edit, like aesthetically pleasing and informative for the viewer about the product that they're watching, then that's, you did a good job. So, yeah. As a sense, you kind of like, start. started creating content, unboxing, reviewing tech. Has that like changed away you experience and see tech in general?

Yeah, yeah. I mean, I, in a sense, a lot of the technology that is today is very similar to each other. It's just different brands doing different add-ons to things. What makes it a brand unique from the other in a sense, like graphics. cards and monitors and those the gaming products like that so every now and then like i i will say the more i've reviewed tech the less i have done gaming wise like i don't actually do much gaming mainly due to time constraint so i don't spend a lot of time i don't have a lot of time for the gaming aspect of things so uh but yeah i mean i i've grown a lot of appreciation to how

much work actually goes into like we like a consumer like people are watching or me like you see the spec and you're like oh these are three different things that they worked on or whatever but it's like when you go on a brief call with a brand and they're like they spend an hour and half explaining how they got there and I'm like oh there's actual teams behind every feature that is being generated here and that's crazy so you grow much more appreciation to like when I'm emphasizing that the monitor is 500 hertz. It's like, do you understand how complicated that to get there was? Or like, like logic is new to rapid technology on their mouse. It's like that's a massive breakthrough. And it's like we as content creators go on there and say it in like two seconds or people want

to know about it in two seconds, but years of development into that. So you grow to understand that it's huge, huge process. So I guess that actually kind of leads into the, the brand section that I have, which a lot of people here, you know, literally when we had our past influencers talk about this and I've had DMs being like, hey, I changed up my, my approach to how I approach brands and, you know, not just asking for free stuff. Like I have a slide deck and everything like that. It was really awesome to learn. So I would love to kind of go into how you deal with brands in general.

So, I mean, your collab list is insane. I made a reference that it looks like a CBS receipt because it's insane the companies that you were able to work with. You got Microsoft, Sony, Intel, AMD, Razor, Xbox, of course, us as ZXT. Like, first of all, how did, how do you basically decide if a brand fits your brand without losing your audience? I mean, two things. I kind of categorize it is like, is it gaming? Is it interesting? And is it helpful to people that use anything that has to do with an office,

whether it's gaming or not gaming, right? So if it fits all of that, then it works. Like, it's approachable, right? Now, when you approach a brand, it's like, you've got to have an idea of what you want to, like, this job is a sales job. That's what it is really at the day. You're selling yourself. You're selling what you can do to these brands.

Now, a lot of times brands reach out to you when you're like bigger audience. But in a sense, like in the beginning, it's a sales job. You find the right person to talk to. You push them the right idea. You try to convince them why you are worthy of their free product. And what are you giving them in return? And with time, your influence becomes worth money. Right?

So it's like, that's just how it is. but yeah yeah that's that's pretty much how I approach it uh I mean it took me years to to get to a place where I've worked with the brands I mean I'm extremely blessed that I've worked with all these people like these all everybody that you just mentioned was all my dream list like in ZXT like when I first built my NXT PC I'm like I didn't think to myself one day I will work with in ZXT I wasn't like sitting down a corner manifesting that I'm going to work with you guys no it was just like in a sense of that I just uh I care about this I just started making video about this.

And then with time, I, and I've worked with you guys for a good part of four years now. And I think initially I approached you. Like I was like, hey, he's going to sound like a case or something. I don't know. I don't remember what it was. But in a sense, like it took a long time to, yeah. I would actually love to hear about your thing. Like how do you approach brands and how do you have brands approach you?

Like what's the difference between the two? Yeah. So I mean, for the bigger brands, I like know the people that are in charge on like personal level. Like I've met them at CES and I know who they are and stuff like that. So it works two ways. If I have a video idea and I want like right now I'm working on a video called like testing unusual gaming gear. Stuff that is weird. Right.

So I found I literally spent two, three hours a couple nights ago just researching like finding who makes weird stuff. I found the right person, the right, and then I just messaged them and be like, hey, I saw you guys make this, you want to send this for this video. That's like, and I did a lot of that in the beginning

of my content creation gear. Like, I see other creators do this. I tried to find the right person. I approach them nicely. I don't say free product, please. I just like, I literally write like why I think I would make a good fit for their stuff and then go from there. So, but yeah,

So it's, that's how it starts. And then the other way is like brands, a lot of times, you know, you guys are launching and do something and you guys reach out and, hey, we have this. Do you want to, this is just, you know, it's not a sponsor thing. Do you want to check it out, see if it's good or not? So you guys send it. I say, I find what I like about it, why dislike about it and just say whatever. Right.

So that's kind of how it works. So, but yeah. When like a brand, let's all say, let's say, NC-T, like, we approach you. What's, like, the most important thing that you consider before anything gets, you know, handshaked and everything like that? Like, is it creative process, creative freedom, timing? Yes, well, that, those two things.

So communication and, you know, integrity in the sense of, like, what you see, what we agree on is what we're going to do. and obviously you're not going to control what I say to my people, right? So because it's like if your product sucks, then your product sucks. So and you can't tell me that it doesn't, right? And in a sense, so in a sense, that's kind of how it is like giving me the creative freedom is a huge thing that I look for in brands like that. All they really want is this product to be shown to people.

That's it. That's all they care about. And they and they when you when you see a brand that has put so much effort into making the product good, then you like have so much more appreciation to what you're showing your audience than just like if somebody says, hey, say this about this and have it. And they're like, no, I'm not doing that. So now, obviously a lot of brands like want to highlight certain products. And that's completely fair because they worked so hard to make those products, those, those features special or better or whatever. So it's like, hey, this is what makes this interesting. And I'm like, okay, that's completely fine.

That actually helps me because my job easier. So, but yeah. Have you, I know you said this before, like when you were beginning, you said yes, everything. Yeah. Have you turned down a deal before and like what made you say no if you did? Yeah. So I turned, yeah, big deals before. Obviously, if a couple things, if like the whatever the brand is promoting, which happens.

like doesn't align with my faith, then I decline it. The other one is if it's like, if the product is really not interested, and even if you have a huge budget and you want to sponsor a YouTube video and it's like, I know my followers will not enjoy this, I will say no. And that's the hardest place to be in because it's like you're, if I'm having this as a job, you know, to feed my family and be the provider and all that stuff and you want to say yes because you, you know, there's a sponsorship opportunity. but the product, like, there's no way this is going to be good for my audience, right?

Then I just won't do it. Like, if it's a software that I know most people will not, never heard of and like, they don't want to do it. And it's like, it's not interested. Interesting enough, then I'd be like, yeah, I'm not going to do it. And that's, that's kind of the hardest, one of the hardest positions that you got to navigate in the sense of who to work with, what to work with, and when to do it. So, yeah. I actually do want to talk a little bit about that is you talked a little bit about your face. So you are very public about that.

So you have God, family, coding, tech, and gaming. Yes. How does that shape the way you approach your content and also like we're talking about with brand deals and stuff like that? Yeah. I mean, just I like to have full transparency with my followers. Like we talk a lot about stuff in my Discord about stuff and then I try to be upfront. fully honest about what's happening and just the idea of like I'm not going to lie to people that doesn't align with what I believe I'm not going to say something or whatever I'm going to say

what it's true and what is not true basically and then in a sense of like I don't talk much in my videos about my faith but I wanted to be known that like that's what I believe and that's like what shapes who I am first before I as a content creator. honestly like it's never been an issue or a problem for any brand that I've ever worked with so which has been great so uh but yeah just being you know transparent and fully honest with people and especially with like the product that you're reviewing that's very important so yeah i mean i think that's that's one of those things that i think early on like you said you know take it be happy you know be like hey you know this is your first brand deal but as you can go on start thinking about

the audience and like because you know if you are doing game content all of a sudden you're doing i don't know a beach volleyball brand it's going to be very the it doesn't align perfectly with that so i think that's a huge takeaway for a lot of people especially when they're getting to the gaming space yeah i also want to talk a little bit it's a little tough topic but it's about burnout um i I think a lot of content creators deal with that. Yeah, that's my favorite. Yeah, I know. You talked about how you stopped creating content for a couple months.

So like, what was that like for you, you know, like when you hit that wall? Like, what did that look like for you? I honestly, like, just didn't enjoy it. So I didn't enjoy like, and I don't know it sounds very like spoiled position to be in. Like you're getting free stuff and you didn't enjoy it. Like, no, it's, the concept is like, I don't, as much as I, like, have material stuff, I don't care for material stuff as much. Like, it's, it doesn't really make you happy.

Let me just say that. That's just the reality of things. And I think I was at some point just, it felt more like a job and I have to, had to work than something that I enjoy. So I kind of took that break, realligned my position in a sense of like, do things that you actually enjoy, enjoy the process, enjoy, enjoy the process, enjoy the, the video like being creative. That's what I really enjoy about making videos more than the tech itself.

It's like I like the aspect of being creative in my video, what I want to say, how I want to approach it, how I want to highlight things. And just the process of seeing the like from the beginning ideation all the way to seeing the video is what like is the most enjoyable part for me. The tech, the gear is always great. And obviously like it's it's a really like great position to be in. But yeah, burnout is very real, especially. if all you're doing is just constantly trying to push out to maximize revenue, then you're going to feel it in like a matter of months, if not less.

So yeah. Did you ever think about fully stopping content creation, especially, you know, since you have family and everything like that, have you ever just been like, I'm not going to do this anymore? Oh, yeah, many times. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's especially with having a full-time job, it's like, I can't, I can't

have I can't do that full time, which I, like, maybe one day I will be able to when I grow to that size. But I'm just like, it's kind of like when you invest just a little bit in like the stock market, the same thing. Like I'm investing in making videos and one day it'll be big enough to be my full time job. But for then it's like, yeah, yeah, I've thought about stopping. It's like I enjoy the process. I enjoy making videos.

But the key thing is as long as I enjoy in it, then I'm going to keep doing. doing it. So and as long as like, you know, it's perceived well, people are enjoying what I'm putting out and I don't want to just like, you know, blow in the wind. I want to actually be useful to people and I want to have an impact that is in a like positive, honest and have integrity and they're making their decision into purchasing something or into being interested in a product or into any of that. So have you ever had a comment or DM about like a like a from a fan that like looked at your product video or product review and like they took it to heart like is there a comment or DM that really stuck with you about that?

Like a negative one? Or it could be positive too. Oh, I mean, I get a lot of DMs in the sense of like a lot of them are positive, a lot of people like enjoying the videos and like asking questions. That's what I like about is when people pay enough for attention to the video and ask like an actual deeper question about the.

product and I like, yeah, I want to answer this. This is really interesting. I do do a lot of giveaways and the harder part of that. I was actually just talking to my audience is like when people are not fully following you and not part of your audience and just come in for a giveaway, then they are like, hey, uh, you're actually scamming people. You're not giving stuff. And I'm like, and I know for a fact, like I did. I went to the post office and shipped stuff and all these things. Right. And I try to like, I don't, I don't want to be in a position where like I'm having. to defend myself because I know what I'm doing and I'm not really worried about it. But it just makes me sad to see like, you know, rage baiting comments like that.

But for the most part, meh. And I mean, the greatest decision I ever made and this is going to sound interesting, it's like I create a lot of content and I consume very little content. So that's where I'm at. To be able to create a lot of content, I have to consume very little content, right? Because that's a whole, yeah, you can get very sucked into just consuming stuff. So to be creative, I have to not worry about any of this. Okay.

That's going to be a huge thing, especially for a lot. We have a lot of younger generation or audience that spend a lot of time on TikTok and Instagram. How do you do that? How do you try to keep your time off? Oh, it's a very, very easy process. So I work downstairs and when I'm needing to post, I have a literally business device. This is the iPad. And all my social media is on here.

There's no social media on my phone. Like YouTube is on here, but I don't have any of my analytics apps, any of TikTok or Instagram or any of that stuff. I don't have anything. I don't even have Discord on my phone. And so, which is, it's just physical boundaries that I set in place to be more discipline in the sense of when it's time to do stuff with social media as like, you know, being creative and posting and creating stuff. Then I grab this. I'm doing my work on it. And then I move on to the next thing.

Because it's really easy to just like in between just hop on your phone. Right. That's what all we all do. So I kind of implemented that a couple months ago. And it's been it's worked really well for me. So. I mean, we're talking a little bit about it. And you know, you don't we we only have 24 hours of the day.

And you know, you have to sleep for at least six to eight hours. How do you handle with having a full time job? Editing, filming, scripting, doing all the stuff. and on top of that also trying to spend time with your family. So like how do you handle all that at once? For like some people, they could barely handle, you know, their regular nine to five. And you're able to do three things, if not more.

So how do you handle all that? Yeah. I mean, I start my day at 6 a.m. 2.5.30 at 6 a.m. And I work out during the week, take shower clean up and then go get the kids, my oldest two kids at 7 a.m. I feed them breakfast, get them ready for the day,

and then grab a cup of coffee, eat breakfast, and then I just come down at 8 a.m. down here, and then I start my job, and then around lunch break, if I have free time, and I don't have anything else to do, then I'll film some stuff. If not, sometimes at night I have an hour or two after everybody goes to sleep.

I'll do that, and then I tried to sleep between like 9.30 and 10.30. So I, so you can see why I don't have much time to game. So and that's, that's my week. Sometimes on the weekend, like I do game. Like when my friends are free and they want to come over, we come over, we play like Halo or we hang out at the racing set up and all that stuff. But yeah, it's, you got to be, you got to be on a schedule, right? I'm not a very, don't get, don't get me wrong.

I'm not a very organized person, but I need a schedule and a routine to actually, like, do okay. So, yeah. And how do you, how do you handle that when there's times where you're like, I really want to play this new game that came out, but obviously you have to take priority for, does Brando coming in or spending time with the family? How do you like prioritize whichever wants available? Honestly, like if I do have some free time,

I play most of my gaming and this is funny. people are going to be like you have the BC and you play on this i play most of my gaming on the handheld devices so if i have like a 30 many break every now and then and everybody's asleep or nobody needs me i'll just grab the like r ogy ally pop in and play like crimson desert that's the game i'm wanting to play more of but it's huge so it's like how you're going to play this thing so um that's that's that's how we do it like if i do it but i enjoy i will tell you i enjoy a lot more of friends gaming than solo gaming. That's always been a thing about me. I'm not a big into

single player. So, that makes sense. Obviously, I'm kind of, that's it. I'll have like 30 minutes here and there. And then sometimes like if I really want to play a game,

like I was playing the avatar game like the frontier or whatever scheme. Yeah, but it's like I literally grabbed the RGL at night when I go to sleep and I'm just like I'll have an hour. I'll play and then I'll just go to sleep. But yeah. I like that. Yeah.

That's kind of. A fly solo has to say, the world of entrepreneurship and working is always unbalanced. And it's kind of like you have to try to find your way through that. You have to reinforce it. I guess, you know, we could talk a little bit about this is, like, what is the biggest misconception that people assume about being a creator that you would like to just like air out? to everyone and let him know. It is, it's definitely not harder than 9 to 5. Well, a lot of people make fun of.

No, it's not hard. Like, I have a 9 to 5. It's way harder. But it is, it requires a lot of brain power. That's the biggest thing. It's like creative, you have so much creative juice in there. And you got to be using it and working on it. And that's, it will require a lot of that.

And you would be surprised how exhausting sometimes that is after like thinking about something or trying to repeat. Like when you're filming something, you're working on a script. Sometimes you get stuck like on one thing you're unable to say properly, which happens to me. And I'm just like there for five minutes, have to take a break and then come back. But yeah. So it's definitely a really cool job. It's definitely a really awesome place to be in. But it could definitely take mental toll on you.

if you pay attention to performance a lot, if you pay attention to what people are saying and let that become, like, don't ever, if you ever do that, don't ever let being an influencer become your identity. Just don't do that. That's like my thing. Like try to separate those things as much as you can.

You be you before you started making videos and stay that. And then that's view it as hobby slash job. So, or business, I guess. Yeah. So that's kind of like. That's actually a really good. You know what? Do you have, is there a skill that you've had to learn the hard way as a content creator that you wish you known day one?

Especially for those that are starting to get into content creation. Yeah, I mean, I think, yeah. When you put so much work in a video, like hours, like you were talking 16 hour into a short form video, right? and you're like and then you push this thing out and you're like you don't control what's going to happen to the video you all you can do is do your best at being good at this but you cannot control what happens after you posted it sometimes the platform will be glitching that day and your video will just take a dip and just get 500 views and you're like how is that possible it should not be possible but those things sometimes can be demoralizing when you you know it's like if you prepare for an exam for so long

and then you go into the exam and you're like, I tanked, but I answer everything right. That's like the concept. So you got to like, that's going to happen. And you just got to push through all of those. So yeah. And I guess this is the final thing before we get into the fun section, my favorite section is, do you have any tips to those that want to create tech videos and tech creation like you? Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, the biggest thing is don't worry about the next product. Don't worry about like the next video. And basically those stupid ideas that come to your mind sometimes, like, I should make a video about this. You should listen to that. And you should do that. Like and then because that's you. You're listening to you.

And that's good. And what's going to make you stand out from anybody else on the internet is you, right? The way you look, the way you speak, the way your ideas come alive, the way videos come alive. Now, yes, obviously you can build like a persona around how you make your videos, which is what I've done, but that took a long time to get there, right? My videos used to be really bad. Like I, yeah, so anyway. But also, like I said, consistency in every aspect of things, right? Getting better, consistently posting, consistently improving. The gear doesn't really matter. It makes it look nice and makes it sound nice, but it's not the break or take it. There's so many creators

that don't even use special gear and still are way bigger than I am. So very facts. I think a couple people in the chat has some great advice is so many people or get hung up on the destination, but forget to enjoy the process of, like you said, becoming the person who can get there to begin with, gaining the skills, gaining all that stuff.

Yes. I love that. That's great. Yeah. That's really, really important. So we have two questions from both from RTEs. RTG Raygun Yeah

First of all How is the Porsche Mazza racing wheel? I think I see in the back My friend just bought a full racing sim But he's got a different wheel It's kind of cool But the Porsche one was different

Yeah He says This one is actually a Lamborghini Oh I'm gonna grab Go grab it Yeah This is the

Moza Lamborghini wheel See it It's based off of the Rvalto A Lamborghini It's $550 for a wheel. Yeah, but it's, it's legit, like one-to-one what that, what that car looks like.

And it sounds good. But I do a lot of racing with this one. I just got this like a week and a half ago. My main wheel that I use is this one, just for drifting. It's the position where it is off of the base is the perfect, like, distance for me where I'm sitting based off of the pedals. But do look forward soon. I'm rebuilding this entire thing into a different,

cockpit so oh uh the wheel in the bottom left he says uh if you can ask him about that one this one yes oh that's not a portion one that's a that's a that's a moza one that has a screen in the middle it's really good but it's only good for like certain type of racing not everything gt racing and then like works really well for a set of course so so another question from r t gragon is how often do companies show you pre-production products and ask about your honest thoughts? A lot. Okay. It didn't used to be the case.

There's more of a recent, like, a year and a half, last year kind of thing. But you have to sign a lot of non-disclosures. And a lot of times I get products. I have products that haven't been released are, like, that's that position. I will say, that position to be in is really cool because it's like your friends come over and be like, oh, this hasn't been released. It's like nobody cares. But it's like you show them like the cool new gear that you got.

But it's like that that part is funny because in a sense, you're like you're getting things early on because you have to make a video on launch day. So, but yeah, it's definitely a really cool position to be in and you get to see the new technology that's about to come out. And you're like, yeah, I think my audience would love this because it's different and it's unique and it's new. so yeah uh he RTG Riga and also in chess just says I really want to start a tech channel it would be cool to make an impact on products that you care about which is very true yeah yeah yes uh let's see okay that is it for the questions so we're to go to my favorite segment which is the fun question uh this is the fun part where we're we're going to try it this is actually a new section for you specifically Nash so I'm very excited to try it out we're going to go to keep three

Cut 3 or Keep 5 Cut 5 for some of these. And we'll have specific types of games that you will not know what comes out. So you just have to blind rank these and hope that you keep a good list or you cut the bad list. So are you ready? This is going to either backfire or go really well. I'm liking it. Honestly, I love these ones because it's like, it's a little game, you know? So we're going to go ahead.

We're going to do Keep 3, Cut 3, 2007 games. And you have no idea what's coming next. So keep three, cut three. Are you ready? Yes. All right. First one, Bioshock. Cut.

Cut, cut Bioshock. I never played it. That's going to be embarrassing to say. Honestly, it was, it's only if you were into it back then in 2007, you were into it. But if you never did it, I totally got that. Yeah, I know. Call of Duty 4. Keep.

I mean, you got to. I mean, that's, that's, that's like one of the best games of the generation right there. Still, it'll stay. Assassin's Creed. Keep. Keep. They're good. There used to be way better.

I was like that. So, 2007 especially. Oh, Oh, I'm really hoping for Black Flag coming out. Because I, I personally,

I know this is going to be a little weird. I have not played Black Flag before. And everyone says it's the best Assassin's Creed game. So I'm really excited about the remake. So really excited. Very good. So you have kept Call Duty for an Assassin's Creed. You have cut out Bioshock.

The next one is Mass Effect. Sorry. You good. It made your sneeze, huh? That's how good my cut was. Sorry. What was that? You said you cut?

All right. We cut out Mass Effect and Bioshocked. All right. You have two choices left. You have a keep and a cut left. Guitar Hero 3. Oh, no. Cut.

Cut. I know. I know this is bad. I really hope the last one is good because I was good. Yeah. Okay. So you have kept Call of Duty 4 and Assassin Creed. You have cut Bioshock, Mass Effect, and Guitar Hero 3.

Yes. And you have your keep left. Luckily for you, I think it was a great list. You are keeping Halo 3. Ah, yeah. That's a perfect list right there, honestly. Yeah, there we go. I am an FBS player.

So that's why probably. I actually think this one You're from the question that you sent you Seems like you're a very big cod fan Correct I used to be Used to be used to be Which is going to be a fun one

So I'm happy for them to leave the Xbox game pass Yeah I mean the game pass also got cheaper Because of it too which is huge That's great Yeah We're going to actually go into a Keep 5

Cut 5 Call of Duty all time games Oh no This one's got to be a fun one I played all of them. Oh, okay. So, hey, we're going to start off like we did for the last one. Caller Duty 4.

Keep. I think that one's a hard keep. I don't think there's many other games out there that can be Cod 4. There's only a couple of them that can. At the time, especially when it was released. Oh, my gosh. All right. So you kept Cod 4, Black Ops, Cold War.

Oh, cut. I agree. I agree. Cut and burn, an unrelease. Is that one of your release favorite games? Yeah, Cold War was the seventh one, right? I don't believe so. Yeah.

That was between the six and eight, yeah. Yeah. That was a bad one. That was a more recent one, though. War-D out war. That was good. I get to keep five, right? You had to keep five, so you kept one.

The World War is five, right? Call Duty five, yes. I would keep. That was a good one. It wasn't as good as four, but it was good. Hey, zombies, the first time zombies came out, which is huge. True, true. Yeah.

You have kept two, cut one, Black Ops three. Cut. Wow, you're covering out Black Ops three. I was the only fan of Black Ops One and two, to be honest. That will cause some things. I know some people think Black Ops three is like the best caught of all time. I'm kind of with you on that as well. Modern Warfare was the best one, hands down.

And the one I played the most was Buckups won and two. But that was when I was made out of time, I guess. But that was good. All right. The next one, you have kept two, cut to Modern Warfare 3? Is that 2011? Oh. Oh, that was good too.

Damn it. All right. Specialist perks and stuff. Oh. Yeah, I don't know. let's say keep oh

it seems like that one you had to think about it for a little bit yeah I didn't play it much but I know that I really enjoyed the little I played so yeah next one

infinite warfare cut you don't have to tell me twice there's no hesitation to that one that's worse than Cold War yeah I think once they started doing that

Omni movement stuff like it really like yeah they whack the game yeah all right well I think I think this one for you should be an easy one black ops two keep uh next one advanced warfare cut those were kind of part to part bad be fair all right so you kept four cut four you have one of each left I hope they're good let's see yeah so now you do not know what the last one is, but the next one is black ops one. Keep. There's no way I would tell that. That's what like changed a lot of the truth.

That's what like when people, when after modern warfare, people like, okay, caught his reach beak and then black ops one released and then they, they, that's what made black cops the bigger call duty. So in my opinion. But, but yeah, I hope the last one is not a good one. So you kept five. one cut left you have cut black ops cold war black ops three infinite warfare and advanced warfare the last one is monorfare two 2009 well i have to cut it i would have kept it by yes which one would

you have a cut if you had to you had caught four war at war monorfer three 2011 and blackups up world at war i would take that one out and put the last one in if i knew yeah i know honestly i had like I was like I grabbed all the things and put it a randomizer and I saw the last two as the last. I was like, oh, this is going to be tough because most of you want to keep one and keep the other. Yeah. All right. And then I think what we can do next. You're not, you know what?

We could do the Keep three cut three, 2009. Then we'll go to rapid fire after this. Okay. So we'll do Keep three cut three, 2009. video games. All right, your first one, Mono Warfare 2. Keep.

Now I get to keep it. Now when you get to keep. Uncharted 2. Ooh. Cut. Assassin's, yeah, I know. It's tough because I honestly loved Unchartered

series. Really good. But I was a big Xbox guy, so like it was really tough to play. But I did play a lot of my friend's house. Assassin's Creed 2. Cut. Wow, you're cutting as is creed too. Yeah, I just really want to know what's next.

That's why like I like it's good. It was really good, but I feel like there's more coming. That's better. Borderlands. Oh, that was good, but I'm going to cut it. Wow, you used them all three year cuts. Yeah. Wow.

Okay. Let's hope the last. The last two. So you have kept Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 2, but you have cut uncharted to, Assassin's Creed 2 and Borderlands. You have to keep these next two no matter what. Next one, Batman, Arkham Asylum.

Oh, keep. That one, I think that's a good game, honestly. I don't enjoy story mode much and that was really good. That was probably one of the best games in my opinion. And for the final one, I don't know, this one may be a hit or a miss for you. Demon Soul. Oh, I would have cut that. unkept Assassin Creed's too, but

Honestly, 2009, it was really Batman Arkhaar Scyl and in College of Monarchar for 2. That was the only two games I pretty much played and Marr for 2 Yeah. Yeah. All right. We're going to go to a little bit of rapid fire and then we're going to announcement. So we're going to do some fun little questions. Just answer as quick or as more in-depth as you want. This is totally up to you. So first of all, it's actually coming from one of our comments. Favorite game of all time?

Modern War for 2019. That's a good one. More recent game. Actually, I'm very interested in each other. The most recent one, or the most recent one, it had nothing to do much with the game. It had to do more with the memories of the game, like the times I played.

So, yeah. What is one game you wish you could play for the first time again? Oh, man. That's hard. I know it's supposed to be rapid fire. No, no, no, no. It's totally,

black ops one. Yeah. I'm with you on that. Black Ops one is probably, I know people love Black Ops too and Mono. I think Black Ours won is my favorite caught of all time. Yeah. Yes, they did kill sniping.

I understand that. But everything else is great. Yeah. What is one game that you have spent the most hours on? Silk Road Online. Do you have an estimate of how many hours? It's dead. It's not, oh, dude, years.

Wow. There was no tracker. I mean, I'm telling you it was bad. Probably I spent a solid year of my life online, I think. Because it was like over a span of seven, eight years I was playing this. And it was a very like, you could have a lot of stuff happening in the background. It's kind of like, um, uh, older, like, wow, kind of typical type of game. But it had more to do with trading.

leveling up like your weapons and like PVP and stuff like that. So, uh, but it might have been because it's like, that's probably the only game that my machine would have ran back then. And I just had friends that were playing it. So yeah. I mean, that's, honestly,

that sounds great to me. That's how I was like, yeah, I'm most fun. Yeah. What is your favorite product you've ever reviewed? Oh my gosh. Ah, my gosh.

Oh my gosh. That's, I mean, I don't know if that answer, that question is in answerable because it's like, there's so many products that I reviewed. How about, how about, give me, give me a genre or like a year or something. Ooh, how about, how about favorite product you review, reviewed in the past year? Okay, in the past year. Well, the one I'm looking at, it hasn't released, so I can't tell you. But it is one of my favorites. Honestly, actually, the, the razor.

V4 Pro, which I'm using right now, and the Logitech G Pro Super Strike. So those two mice, I'm actually, I put them both on my desk, and I'm seeing which one I'm going to be using more. Because the Logitechic Gpro is, the new one is like really good. And then, so I'm kind of like seeing what, but both of them are really, really, really good.

Very expensive. Really good. It's worth the buddy. But those are Thursday, I would say, like, are some of the best. Yeah. right now so uh oh from aji from ray go and chat again have you tried what was one product that you tried that amazed you like you're like wow i was not expecting that oh it's gonna be a round

razor product i don't sound like i'm a razor glazer but i just this it just released like a few days ago look at this thing you see how thin this is this is about the glass mouse mod this is their now new glass mouse bud but look at this is glass wow and it like it's crazy I don't know how they did it and it glides like what this was actually like I had the brief with them and I'm like it's a glass mouse pad like can't be that good

and then I put it on my desk I'm like I'm not going to anything else right now I'm just saying with it but yeah it's really really good um that's one of them that did amaze me Sony's gaming new gaming stuff the end zone stuff is really good too um

that N60H2 was actually one of one of the ones I was like I don't know small like small PCs in my brain are like can't be that good button it's like you boot this thing up and I'm like oh my gosh it's better than my main PC I've actually switched to what too yeah I was like damn now the H2 is is solid actually I use it right now as my main testing device for anything that I need to show gameplay on so because it's so easy to like literally it's like all it's missing is like a case like a handle you can just grab it and go because it's not very heavy and it's very like easy so we thought about that we're like what if we put like a suitcase handle on top and you're like no but like but just imagine what people would think no you should have like done the top where like it just goes in like the handle

comes out and clicks in you just lift and go that's what I've been saying man I want his little suitcase handle for it's so fun that's that was one of the ones that were really good uh honestly products that I have a hard time getting rid of stuff because I like a lot of the stuff I get. But I just got, this is going to be posted soon, but I just got a $1,000 gaming keyboard. And that's, yeah, I know. I didn't know it was $1,000. I like, they sent it to me and I'm like, this is a really unique keyboard. I'm like, oh, okay. And then I reviewed it.

I opened it and I'm like, wow, that's wild. $1,000 is still a lot, a lot of money for. for a gig word. But I'll be posted about it soon, but very interesting. Since you're a tech guy of your family, what is one thing you would teach them so you never have to teach them again? Oh my gosh. One thing?

Yeah, one time. It's like, I'm going to teach you guys this. And then I would never have a single question about this from them ever again. It's tough. That is really tough. I'm a tech guy. My family too. Honestly, how to deep, look, if there was one thing, how to debug, uh,irdrop.

Oh. Because it's always not working. And it's like, there's a few things you can do to help. But I always end up doing it. I always have the two phones that need to do air drop and I'm always doing it for them. Yeah. Uh, what is a video that blew up that you completely did not expect to blow up? Oh.

Like, recently I had a few. I did like a T-P-Link collaboration for a router, blew up a guy like 300,000 views. I'm like, what? I also did an ASMR review unboxing of the ROG Zephyrus, and it's like at a million views. I don't even say a word. I just literally just, it was literally took,

I think it took me 45 minutes to film and it was like, what? Yeah. Dang. So, yeah. What is a dream collab you hope happens? Anyone in anything. Nvidia is an option.

Definitely one of them. NZX, no, I'm just kidding. Already happened. Yeah, NVIDIA would be the one brand I've never worked with directly. Pretty much, LG would be great. I've never worked with them. PlayStation, I worked with PlayStation. I worked with Sony, but not PlayStation Sony.

So, but those are, like, the few are kind of like collecting stones and those are like left. I'm about to catch. I mean, yeah, I mean. Evigia, man, rest and peace. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

We've been a great company to work with. But, yeah, I just saw that in the comments. Oh, there's another question in there. What monitor would I recommend? Hmm. Oh, well, really, that's a loaded question. Yeah, it depends on budget. Depends on budget.

OLED, if you have the budget, I'm going to say ASUS. If you have less budget, MSI is pretty good. Their new gen, the QT OLED, the 5th gen is pretty good. Yeah, that's pretty much. Do you have any recommendations? Oh, sorry, go for it. Sorry, what were you saying? Oh, I was saying, do you have from Reagan, he says,

Can you recommend any OLED monitors under 400? Oh, under 400. Ooh, that's a 4, 400. Well, you should be able to potentially get 240 Hertz. I would honestly, OLED, I would try to find something used if you're in the U.S. like Facebook marketplace. Because, like, I've sold OLED monitors for a steal before. Like, I've sold a 500 Hertz one for $400.

It was 800 new. But you'd be surprised how much OLEDs you can find because it's more popular now on the user Facebook marketplace in a good condition. Innocent, they're kind of the cheaper brands. I've worked with them. They're good. Their monitor is purely OLED, not a lot of features. So if you want feature loaded stuff, ACEs is going to be it.

LG, in my opinion, is overpriced. But they are the people who make most of the panels and Samsung. Samsung is a little overpriced too. but I'm in LLA and keep yeah that's true yeah don't buy it online I will say that and don't buy it if has a lot of hours right like it just because especially depends on the generation my recommendation would be like just what actually the best thing you can do is find a cheap one on Best Buy and buy it open box for OLED that would be the best thing to do obviously also you can walk into microcenter and see if they have open box OLEDs which I'm sure they

do and this go from there good advice that would be the two options that I how I would buy stuff so speaking of advice what is the best piece of advice you've ever been given oh my gosh and just in general in general yeah the good things that in life don't come easy you always got a it's hard things like good things musially equals hard work right if you want to have it good good. It's going to have to be hard, but it's worth it. Great. Great. Yeah. That's a good one. Oh, yes. Is there, are there any creators who inspire you that do you like to do a quick little shout out to them?

Oh, man. Oh, honestly, one of my best friends, Samsung, Kyle. He's my neighbor. We're pretty good friends. He's close to me. We met online, actually. I was driving one time and I saw him, saw where he like his house he's posted before i'm like do you live here and he said yeah so we connected and we became really good friends uh and that was years ago he's he's always inspires me he's always challenging me which is good right it's good to be it improves you helps you improve he's really good um honestly rillo rillow i'm a good like i've known him for a long time now but people when you watch somebody's video and you're like man like you like you you pause because you like,

I can see how much effort you put in here because I know how much effort it takes to get my video to where it is, I know you put so much more to get there. And it's like those things like being challenged and inspired by others is good. And you need to harness that and figure out how to do it your way.

So, yeah. Final question. What is one piece of tech that you currently have that you will die on the hill defending? Oh, man. That's a rough question. I have a negative one that I will defend that it's a really bad product.

Do it. Okay. And it's in every single video. I'll let you guess which one. It's every single video I filmed in my office, you can see it. But I need it because it makes things look good, but it's the worst. Is it the panel? Software.

Yes. The Nanleaf lines. I'm sorry, Nanleaf. What is what I like about them? Hypothetically, you lose power at your house. Those things will not work again. You have to reset them, reconnected to the internet. And most of the time, they don't work to reconnect.

And I've changed like multiple boards. I've changed. I think it was just one of their first batch, one of the first releases. And I just got stuck with this release. And yeah, I will defend that they're potentially one of the worst software product. They're the coolest looking, one of the coolest looking. but to manage them I've spent hours sometimes trying to figure that out

and sometimes I just gave up I just unplugged it but yeah yeah that's that's the negative version of that let's just say good product just needs a I mean that's just like with us do

we got to work on our cam but the product itself like we're working on it too so no worry yeah I'm with you guys on that one I'm with you yeah Have you tried yet? I have tried to seriously. Yeah, it is, okay, it's not the software.

It's the connection, like the board. Whatever was happening, it loses it. It can't reconnect. You have to reset it. It doesn't reset. It's like a whole. And I know I'm not crazy in this because I've talked to other creators who have had the same problem. Some of my friends even just plug them in, never set up in the app because they didn't want to like deal with it.

That's smart, actually. That's real smart. I will say like it. It's going to sound like I'm proponing these people, but I'm not. Govy has never failed me

when it comes to that. And that's why like I buy a lot of their stuff or I haven't worked with them much. I've bought a lot of their stuff like they just always work. Yeah. Well,

soft of wise. Yeah. And more affordable too. So yeah. All righty. So that is it for our rapid fire. I'm going to do a couple quick announcements and I'll head it back over to you

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You can do Eskimoid point Intel PC. All right. Nash. First of all, where can our listeners find you and your content online? You just type in Give Him Chills, G-I-V-E-M, like the name you're seeing on the screen, C-H-I-L-L-S, in Google. You'll find me. You can say on Instagram it's real give him chills because when I started doing I actually joined Instagram way later than TikTok. So I have to do real give him chills because the other one wasn't available.

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Any exciting projects you're working on? Events you're going to, anything like that that you want to shout out real quick? Events, I have nothing going on. I'm running a couple of giveaways actually coming soon. Speaking of OLED monitors, I'm doing one of those. And then actually a PC build. I've been actually holding off of that one for six.

six months now. The ramp prices have gone up and down since. But I've, yeah, it's, it's long overdue. So I've got to build, I'm going to build one and then have my audience being able to enter for it. So that's got to be more of an interactive video. I'm going to do a POV. So it's going to be interesting, new aspect of things. And then those are two kind of the bigger work projects coming up. But yeah. sick and do you guys do you have any final thoughts

or messages you'd like to share with our audience um no I mean just if you're if you find any inspiration from this that you want to do it

I mean do it like it's if if I was able to do it you could definitely do it because I didn't think it was going to go anywhere but here we are and look at you you're doing great

I mean you're all the NCC podcast You got tons of sponsors. You've done all this stuff. It's awesome. Like, if you guys put into effort, it will work.

It will work for all of you guys. Yeah. So we have a secret code word for, and let me double check. It's a thousand extra entries into the podcast giveaway for a hoodie shirt and mouse pad. We would like to send it over to you, Nash, for tell us what you want the code to be.

It could be anything in the world is up to you what you would like for the secret code word. Oh, it's something that I really love and it adds FPS. It's the thing behind me, RGB. Easy. I am updating the gleam right now. Code word is just RGB for the code word for extra entries into the giveaway. Let's see.

I am updating it right now. So please, if you guys are here, please refresh your gleams because I just updated right now. But thank you guys for joining us. Thank you Nash for joining in. Remember, tune in live on Fridays at 10 a.m. Pacific Center time on the official NCC Twitch. And don't forget to listen to previous episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and SoundCloud.

If you have any questions for us, send an email to podcast at nccc.com. How do you spell RGB fillinx? Come on, bro. That got me for a second. That's funny. You guys can tag at S60 on social media podcast. Force. Thank you, Nash, so much for joining us. No, no, please, please, please stop. Please, everyone. RPG.

RBG. But thank you guys so much. And thank you, Nash, for joining us. And we'll see you guys next time. See you.