RAWTALK - BRADLEY MARTYN JOINS FAZE SWAGG’S NUKE SQUAD

Episode Date: June 28, 2022

Join us and the Nuke Squads very own FAZE SWAGG! This is going to be a fun one as we sit and talk about the how a average gamer started and evolved in to the Extrordinary gamer that is FAZE SWAGG. We lock in and talk about video games, childhood, life, success, friendships, social media & how Nuke Squad came to be.SPONSORS:Sign up for PrizePicks here: https://app.prizepicks.com/sign-up?invite_code=BRADTIEGE HANLEY: http://www.tiege.com/rawtalkSUBSCRIBE HERE: https://www.youtube.com/c/REALRAWTALK?sub_confirmation=1LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rawtalk/id1294154339FOLLOW RAWTALK PODCAST:INSTAGRAM | https://instagram.com/getrawtalkTIKTOK | https://tiktok.com/@askrawtalkFOLLOW BRADLEY:INSTAGRAM | https://instagram.com/bradleymartynSUBSCRIBE TO RAWTALK PODCAST CLIPS: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvzSBNBOK599FqzrTZS8ScQ/?sub_confirmation=1SUBSCRIBE TO LIFE OF BRADLEY MARTYN: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWTQG2aMDYKGDqYEGqJb1FA/?sub_confirmation=1SUBSCRIBE TO FITNESS CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/bradleymartynonline?sub_confirmation=1RAWGEAR: https://www.rawgear.com (CODE:RAW)

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simple to use super easy to use I'm out of here back to the pot back to the fucking pod baby back to the pod all right welcome back to another episode of Rod Talk um I have the the one and only the car everyone's telling me he said he used to watch you said you were like the goat at fucking war zone yeah I'm okay I do I do I go closer the mic right yeah So, I guess we got to start off there before the internet. And obviously you have your boy here. What's your name? Dante.

Dante. I go by Santana, though. Okay. You guys all, you guys have something called the Nuke Squad. Nook Squad. Yeah, it's a group, man. We formed it like right before COVID. And it's just a group of us.

We just play games together. So it's just like, it's just crazy. It just reminds me when I was my entire life when I played games with all my friends. Exactly. And now it looks like, though, it was like how phase started. It's like, you're in phase. obviously but you have nuke squad is your thing it's kind of it's just so organic man you know what I mean and it's just so raw and yeah it's kind of like that like like kind of like very new like we're

making content together still you know in a team house together so it's like that you know the start but yeah there's no there's no like issues there there's no conflict of interest like nothing like that nah nah yeah because you guys just signed fucking what anthony davis yeah how does that how does that even come to fruition how does it even happen like as far as like him us meeting him and stuff like that that whole thing yeah so uh ad he's uh he said like during covid and like during the pandemic when they're the bubble he said he started playing games and his friends put him on to like me like so he started watching me on twitch yeah and uh he watches all of us really and um one time uh i was just playing and he gifted sub so like he like almost like donated to me in chat and i didn't

realize i said i read the name it said aunt davis and in my head like i go oh that might be cool that'd be cool if it was ad and chat goes no it's actually actually he said it's actually me and he DMs me on Instagram and goes bro I'm watching right now what the fuck yeah and so like we this is like IKEA did this like right after they won the chip so like we were all fuck we were we were like we were like freaking out like and so yeah he just we sat in contact man about a month and a half ago we started kicking with him like all the time and so he approached me and said yo I love what you guys are doing and I want to help you guys grow in any way I can I just want to be a part of it and that's and

we and I'm like it's a deal yeah yeah so do you guys you guys actually just game together is that because like because like are you guys aren't giving them like a crazy salary or some shit from no no no like I said it's very organic because I'm like yo what kind of money does that guy need you know for a team right he doesn't need any of that he just wants to just like help us help us grow in general and like awesome and it all started so organically man like I said he approached like us about like you want to be a part of it yeah that's how I know like I feel like we're doing something right man you know absolutely so you you guys have all been doing this for how long i've been doing it since 2012 like making videos i

haven't been streaming i've only been streaming for three years but i've made making gaming content since 2012 oh you're an o g then oh gee let yo wait and how old are you i'm 26 oh you're you're still young yeah i'm fucking 33 i've been doing it says 2011 bro i did it before like gaming was really cool like it was like i got made fun of all the time especially in college man for making videos and uh you know ever since like that kid from four and i when he won three million that's when everyone was kind of like oh game means cool yeah there's money in and shit yeah especially from the parent side everyone's like parents are like they're like yo go get on that shit get on you know it's crazy to me man like i uh did you ever play world of warcraft

i did not no i'm not i'm not really did you play i i've watched it i didn't get to play it because back then that was a game like you had to like pay for right yeah and Computers back then, I mean, Terrible. Not many of us had computers like that. They were built to play those kind of games. Yeah, yeah. And the internet was fucked up.

Yeah, yeah. Dial-up shit. Me, I didn't even have internet to like, like, almost like my end of middle school. But that game was old. I didn't even know games like that existed back then. Like in like 2007, it's like, C.S. Go was still a thing. Like, Water, Warcraft. That was a whole different world.

I'm kind of salty. I feel like I missed the board on that because I played that game. so intensely at when I was 17 yeah and Twitch and none of this shit existed but I was I always I tell the story sometimes on a podcast but I was the highest ranking PVP back in that game when it was vanilla when you had to compete for the points on the server so I was a grand marshal so he was it he was he was the guy I was the grand marshal I was a shadow priest I was the guy and I remember looking back and I'm like fuck dude if this Twitch shit existed I'd be the I'd have been like a young fucking basically what you guys are doing legit legit how

How big is, it's big on Twitch, right? That game, I would consider ahead of its time. That, I mean, at the time was insane, bro. Insane. So what, what games, what games right now do you play that you actually, like, really enjoy on Twitch? And games, do you play that you don't enjoy at all? Not, see, I literally, they, so you'll probably have to talk to him or at that. I'm straight up Call of Duty.

He's a one-trick comedy. Like, I've been playing Call of Duty since, wait. So that means, do you suck at other games? Other, oh, I'm terrible other games. Like, most of the games, I'm really bad at. Just because I don't play them. I don't play them. I don't ever play any other games because that's what made me start making videos.

Like I only made videos because, you know, I played Call of Duty, right? And I was really terrible with my friend group back in 2012, 2011. And they would always make fun of me. So I said, you know, fuck that. Like I'm going to, so I would wake up two hours early for school, practice Cod, go to school. So I'd wake up at like 4 a.m. to play Call of Duty before I have to go to school at 6.30. Boy, because they dog you because you were. Yes, because I want to be better than them.

And then once I became way better than that. then I was like brother I want to see what's out there like who's really the guy so I would go on internet and search of videos and that's when I was like you know I should start posting videos who was the guy at the time wow there's a guy by the name of market jay this is 2012 yeah okay um guy named like there was guys posted videos like X Jaws T martin a lot of OGs but um yeah that those were like the guys posting and everyone would watch and in my head I'm like I get just as good as games as them like why I watch the games and you play you're like I'm doing the same I'm doing the same.

I need a post. I need to make video, so that's how I got into it. Now, what do you think made you good at that game and not other games? The time I put into it.

Like, it was ridiculous. I was so dedicated. And also for me, Call of Duty, while we created it our name, Nuke Squad. Yeah.

So back in the day, in every Call of Duty, there was always this thing you could shoot for, like a rewarding game called a nuke, right? Oh, I know that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yo, hold on. This motherfucker fucking play me like, wait, We don't have to fight, dog. He was like, yo. I was trying to tell me about kill sheiks right now. Hold on. What the fuck, dude?

Bro. I didn't know how really you were about that. Bro, you didn't walk him through my house. You saw my setup. I got a setup right there. I got to see it. I didn't see the setup. Okay, okay, okay.

You been playing? Bro, I fucking, dude. No, I stream. Honestly, I'm going to tell you the truth. I just started stream. I just started getting into it. I dabble with it along my time and social media. Yeah.

But never took it really serious. I'm going to talk to you about that after this. But, no, I have a full set. I've been playing video games since I was a child, bro, like four years old playing like Sega Genesis pinball shit. Like, I'm heavily into video games I always will play. That's dope. Yeah. I've watched him play war zone on Twitter.

Oh, fuck. I saw it. That's embarrassing. I would say he's very passionate. He's being mad. He'd be getting mad. Yo, you have, when did you watch me? Oh, this was probably like a month ago or something.

Okay, so I was probably drunk. Yeah. No, that time I was probably drunk because I haven't, I haven't been playing. I've been playing like league and Apex later. Call of Duty is too sweaty for me, bro. You really think Calduty sweat are than APEX? Really? Not when you start to get really sweaty there.

But Call of Duty in general, I think people have so many hours on that game. They're just like everyone's a fucking sweat. Yeah, I mean, everyone definitely has progressed over the years. But I mean, still, like, I think Calduty is such a great game because, like, anyone can pick it up and just be good at it. Like, get good at it. Like, get better at it. There's always something to shoe for, you know, as far as your Katie,

you can kind of see your progression and stuff like that. And it's so easy. Just shoot. Aim, shoot. Apex, you got to learn how to heal. You got to learn how to slide. Slide, loop while you're moving around. Yeah, of course.

There's definitely people who like that challenge and just, you know what I mean. And for me, I'm really just, like I said, I love just kicking back and play my boys and call these the easiest game to do that with. So what game are you worst at? Like, have you tried to stream? You're like, yo, I'm fucking. I was better. I played apex one time.

I was bad. I was bad. I fell off the map like a couple times. He fell off the map three times in a span of 15 minutes. I was really trolling it was really like troll like I don't know like no he's so he's like nah this guy really just so wait so when you drop when you drop into like war zone are you like do you know for sure that you're gonna like get kills without a what it's like that's like that's like you go into yeah let's see you go into a gym you're like yo like am i really gonna lift heavy yeah

like you're like you never jump in and just get smoked nah like i literally get smoked no bro he what he likes to do is he likes to race for the head. heli. So there's this, you know, peak, right? Of course. Caldera. He likes to race for that heli. There's sometimes where a man will beat him. I'll troll. Like, do you ever just like in a gym? You're just like, ah, let me just like this. I'm fucking around. Yeah, yeah. It wasn't serious. Exactly. That's like,

but when I'm really locked in, like, no, I'm not getting, I promise you, I'm not getting torched. Do you, so, okay, do you do this shit competitively then? Yeah, like, competitions and shit. Yeah, there's like war zone tournaments and I'll participate for sure. I'm, I think I'm, like, top 15 in earnings for warsone tournaments. So, but I'm more so on the content creation side. What does that mean? top 15 earnings what kind of money is that yeah so it's like tournament money so like let's say we

hop in a tournament it's a 50 000 prize pool right first place team gets 22k of that pot so like and then it just split between like three or four people and so like that adds to your earnings okay only from tournaments though they only count tournament winnings i see so where do you make most to your money as a twitch streamer um for me probably my youtube like i like so like i'm not just a streamer I post also gaming content on YouTube. And Twitch is actually my like one source of income where it's like the lowest because I just do I take a lot of pride in my videos because I first started there.

But as far as Twitch, the Twitch money, probably subs and ads and stuff like that. Yeah. So I mean, I'm not trying to like get information for you you you don't want to give. So if any point you don't want to answer. No, yeah. What kind of money do you make as a Twitch streamer? Like just Twitch, not YouTube, not based stuff, just Twitch. So I have a contract with Twitch.

So, like, there's a, when you reach a certain amount of concurrent viewers, so let's say, like, over a month span, you can, you know, you average out your numbers of viewers, how many you have, um, Twitch will, like, like, you can go to Twitch and be like, yeah, I want a contract and you get paid like, like a salary and different things like that. Just to keep doing it. Yeah. Yeah. Just stay on the platform. Interesting. Yep. You're not going to tell us what that is. I cannot know. Okay. I was just curious. Yeah. You don't have the answer anything. There was actually, to be honest, there was actually a list that leaked. I saw that. You saw the list? I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was 94th on that list who was number one oh my god xcc i think he made i think it said like 11 million i mean it makes sense he's a beast i mean that guy's like every time i go on twitch he's number one he's that

like the thing i don't know even know maybe you can kind of explain like his like whole thing but like he's just a streamer who can play whatever he's good at it he can no no no no no they just watch him whatever he plays okay so this is what i want to start asking you about like what makes

because i was i was talking to my buddy over here he's the guy right there sylvie and he watched you during uh COVID that's when he found you and I think that's when a lot of people started to find you yeah yeah that's when it blew up crazy and I was trying to ask it was like what makes you entertaining because I didn't watch I haven't watched a ton of your streams right so I don't have a reference point but I want from your from your guys's perspective what makes someone entertaining on Twitch like what makes XQC good what makes you good for me I think what really makes me entertaining so like you like you like we said I said told you about our new squad yeah you said that was me and my boys

back in the day 100% so i think that that uh dynamic is what a lot of people really relate to relatable yeah i mean no one really plays like there's some people who play by themselves but mostly everyone's playing with their boys you know what i'm saying and they can kind of relate to like the banter the laugh and the moments like getting hype when you win laughing when someone does something stupid you know what i mean so i think is that relatability but also me being really good at the game too it's like a just a mixture of everything of everything yeah funny you're good at the game i mean what's what what can't you like about that yeah yeah so what do you think makes xc like number one and that shit what you think i think honestly there there's games where he's

exceptionally good at but i think it's just like uh he he he i think he's funny without trying like he's like you'll watch him play like a random like mini clip game and he's like just like gets mad but like it's it's so funny like i can't explain it's hard to explain it's hard to into what he has. Have you ever seen his chat? Yeah. I was watching a few days. Poggers.

Some different language. Different language. Like what? It's Reddit. It's a Reddit community. Yeah. I noticed that. I don't even know.

It's like, oh, it's like, oh, he's like OG Twitch. Yeah. Like you think of Twitch, you think of XQC. Yeah. Just the community and like the people that watch him, they're like, oh, like, oh, geez. There's, there's a couple of you. There's, uh, train wrecks is like that. If you watch his gambling streams, he gambles like, yeah, yeah.

He just, he was in my, he was in my, stream the other day he just jumped in he dropped the hundred he gifted a hundred sucks he's awesome i love train yeah he said we're gonna do this he does some podcast thing on tv um yes scott no what's his podcast called scott podcast or something like that but yeah he does a podcast and has like guests on there so yeah he sat him shout him out he's dope as fuck i'm gonna jump on that with him but um do you do any any sort of like content outside of youtube and outside of twitch besides like instagram typically you know posting stuff i think with us we've been doing our new squad contest so we have a new squad channel we have a new squad channel we

like over 300k we've been doing like just a lot of like ever since we got the house especially a year ago yeah just like you know just like what you would do with in team house and just um like what we did was like when a new call duty came out like let's say um motto for two is coming out it's a new call duty come out yeah i'm excited for that we'll probably go like we usually go to like Vegas and we'll shoot like the model where for two guns that's a kind of type of concept like we do a lot of content like so like that just kind of relates to gaming but also kind of meets that like iro kind of yeah yeah where do you see yourself going with this like is it like how long do you do twitch for man because i did a i did i did a interview with tifu he's been doing

this shit forever yeah yeah and he's just kind he's at a point where he can just come and go however the fuck he pleases are you at that point um i feel like i can be but like for me like i i can't like not do anything yeah bro i'm not i couldn't do that i couldn't like not stream for three weeks i could not upload a video for a month it's I'm so like I've been wired like that ever since I started because I feel like I'm just kind of even when I take bro how am I when I take days off miserable bro it sounds like me bro I hate it yeah what do you think made you that way like what's your childhood like I'm a tripling man so I saw that yeah yeah so I think more so just always trying to progress at some I was

basketball was like the main thing when I was growing up and always just trying to be the best that I could seems competitive yeah yeah so for me it's like Like, if I take a month off streaming, if I take a month off making videos, somebody's going to, somebody out there is making two videos. You know what I mean? Like grinding. They're hungry. Yeah.

So, and for me, I think I'm not always going to be, you know, no one's always at the top or always at the top of their game, but, um, but like I'm definitely going to keep working. As hard as you can. That's hard as I can. Yeah. That's, I mean, that's how it has to be. I think a lot of people tend to get, especially when people start making money. Comfortable, man.

Yeah. Too comfortable. Yeah. It's like the, it's, it's, in my. and it's like the death of life it's like if you're just comfortable just trying to get by it's like what's the point of that's what I'm saying and like you never really know

I always tell I always even tell them that I like on YouTube on Twitch like you're one moment one video from being from going from here here yeah absolutely anything on the internet and really to be honest like it's one moment one video one whatever that can take you

from here to here it's like being an actor like oh you've had a couple of whatever movies you got your big break now you're now everyone knows now everyone knows you you know so i think that's what um i personally always chase is like even though i'm here i know i'm i'm like a game or two maybe from being here yeah right well you did some big things already you got you you're a cover model yeah sports illustrated yeah you're the whole cover model oh my god that was one of the craziest uh just experiences bro like you know when i remember when phase they contact all of us they were like yo like

they want to do a cover story on phase yeah why they pick you because like they had temper yeah They had you, they had, was Merks in there? Yep, Nick Merks, yep. It was more so because, like, the whole story was about how athletes and gamers kind of came together. And so, like, me and Nick were, like, the main guys, a lot of the athletes would come, like, Odell, like, just a lot of different, like, AD, a lot of people would just hit us up, especially during the pandemic. They couldn't do anything. So they would always reach out to us and be like, yo, can we play? Like, Kyler, Bronny, you know what I mean?

So that's kind of how that all started. But, yeah, that was crazy. That was one of the coolest things I've seen. Like I saw obviously I know the phase guys I followed them for years And I saw that and I was like damn this is like this big moves Man Jordan Jordan brought LeBron was on that Yeah I know what I'm saying it's insane So yeah gaming special the pandemic man it took it to a different level

Yeah so so what where do you go from this it's like I know you signed a deal with what LeBron's manager right? Yeah rich ball yeah what is that like is you gonna you're gonna play I mean you're tall as fuck but I don't think you're going to I'm not no no no I think it's more so like I also heard you're good at basketball I'm decent. Someone said that. I'm pretty good. He's the best out of... He's the best in the house. He's the best in the house.

Okay, fair. Yeah. But go ahead. Sorry. Now, you're good. Now, with Rich, man, it's like, it's more so just emphasizing that, uh, just different worlds colliding, man. Like, like, I think the cover story really kind of started it all.

But like, you know, like, like, like, AD. Like, that's, he, that's rich's guy too. And, um, it's just kind of figuring out how we can really take that to a different level. Yeah. Is it, is it because the athletes want to be Twitch streamers? Like, what's the, you what's because i'm trying to understand what's the biggest benefit for an athlete to be on a platform like that it's not really it's really not them trying to not like even for ad it's not

him trying to elevate his brand it's just more so like he loves it he loves gaming so much he loves it yeah and he loves what we're doing and just wants to help help us build it and what does that look like and i think the biggest thing is especially man is diversity in the space you know and in and in twitch and gaming in general you know it's there's not a lot of diversity in it so i think it's also what me and rich want to do is really just like take that you know what i mean and inspire people not only can you be you know an athlete or rapper but like you can really have a career in gaming i see i see i love that um so does that does signing with someone like that does that start to allow you to incorporate more of like those athletes or had you already kind of been

doing already it's already been it's already been happening man and uh you know rich is i mean rich is rich man he is he's a mogul you know so um we've only been they've only been together for like maybe a month so i can't wait to see what the future holds man yeah um okay now as far as youtube when you when you make your videos it's and it's not lifestyle stuff so are you just like pulling content from twitch and that's just how you make your you're like like what are your youtube videos that are just your gaming is it yeah yeah no so like for me like um a lot of it can be from twitch but sometimes i'll record ideas and stuff like that off off of stream and then i have a second channel where I react so it's like where I react to all the content like let's say a smaller

kind of gamer does something crazy I'll react to it and people love people love that we do the reaction channel together and they love that you were talking about discord I was talking about discord earlier as far as like engaging the audience do you think that's probably one of the most important parts in being able to be a successful to a streamer um I'm lucky asking these questions because like I just started streaming this kind of sounds a little fucking selfish I apologize I think that I mean, I don't know if you want to, you want to take this one? I think for me, in my opinion, community is the biggest thing on Twitch, right? You want people, Discord helps you build that community.

Yeah. They want to feel like they're a part of something, you know? That's why some people, celebrities, different things like that will hop on Twitch. They're not there for long because they don't, it's really about building a community and being committed. Yeah, and in a way you can do that. I mean, I think consistency is the most important kind of aspect. with that because I mean even though they like who you are if you're streaming one time a week they're gonna go and find someone else that's streaming every day that has

the same kind of you know skill set or or even funniness as you so I mean being consistent is is the best thing yeah you know what's interesting about this I mean that's this is like the same concept with everything that you'd find success especially on the internet because everything's so fleeting it's like constantly moving oh man views like I was telling I was telling them I said I said views on YouTube come and go like oh yeah you'll be really really popping and then YouTube just goes nah but like for me I think Twitch is like kind of like how you have a gym yeah right like people show to the gym every day as a community like you

know people are going to show up yeah with Twitch you go live every day you start building a community you know who's going to show up for you yeah who's going to buy your merch who's going to really wherever you whatever you do whatever Bradley Martin does those people are going to go with you wherever you go yeah and that's what Twitch kind of is I think I think it's one of the best platforms I'm I'm kind of upset with myself that I hadn't got more consistent on it sooner because I knew exactly like you said that that was the most important thing to find success on any platform is consistency but specifically Twitch because of the live genre like being live like people they want that almost constant update like a TV show like they do the tune in every day do you

do you do how long your streams normally man like six seven hours fuck yeah but like it all it all depends on how you want to style your content right like let's say if you want to do um not just games but even some fitness stuff on Twitch you show up and do two hours every day they know exactly when you're going to go live like okay i expect i want to see bradley do something you know what i know for two i know for those two hours he's going to give all he's got and i'm there there there are because i've had like a mobile setup before are there there must be better mobile setups now for like live streaming twitch because like if i would go to the gym you need to connect to the internet you got to have good all that shit right

and you got to have like a mobile setup yeah everyone's like everyone's like stream at the gym and i'm like i'm just hesitant because of the quality and like the bandwidth and shit you can definitely tested i mean i'm not too experienced on like a mobile you know stream but like nick nick nick during the pandemic streamed his fitness he would stream for war zone for five six hours and then he would show himself lifting and stuff like that but was it just like a stationary camera yeah okay i'm talking about like a i'm actually i don't know i think he had a whole setup in his like garage or his gym you probably could you could probably have a standalone for the stream but like maybe like you can get real technical he probably had one pc one monitor for his chat camera

looking at a direction i did it at a point with a videographer carrying around a camera with a backpack with a mobile setup and then i just had my phone that had this chat i think what you should do is because that'd be sick i think you should set up in one of your gyms is um as far as like an area for you to stream right you have whatever you need to lift that day and you kind of just and people can kind of just sit you sit down and you can focus and kind of just people can kind of tune in when you're walking around and kind of interacting it's kind of like watching like uh i don't even know Like a like a like a, I'm not even a TV show, but like it's hard to stay engaged, right? I see what you're saying.

You know what I mean? Like as a viewer, think about it. If you're watching someone walk around, right? Like how more likely are you to click off than rather someone who's kind of almost like sitting down catering to you? Oh, I see what you're saying. You know what I'm saying? Like, yo, I'm going to show you how to do this lift. I'm going for a new PR chat, turn me up.

Like you know what I mean? Maybe it's a good idea to have an area and like people can come in and out. Exactly. You have guests. Whatever. Yeah. You can do challenges and different things like that. Multiple camera angles.

You push one button. one camera's pointing this way that yeah one cameras point over there so you're always moving around you know giving people some who wouldn't want to tune in you tweet y'all I'm about to do PR you're everyone tune in like live live yeah you guys train I know your boy you're boy one yep we do train I know he want to open a gym yeah where do you guys train at uh self made self made over in Hollywood yeah okay self made holly they just opened that yeah how long go is that where you work at okay all right cool we're gonna talk about that later yeah just kidding you guys got to come to the gym co-work out definitely because you guys said you

where do you you're close to here right like 10 15 minutes away from recruit yeah sometimes it takes us 30 40 minutes to go to the the gym you might be like the gym might be right down the street from my gym based on that time you just said yeah as long as he's there we're there wherever he goes we go you you know where it is it's it's where do you from here but I just know from the crib is it far no he's him no he's great man yeah you guys all come Yeah, easy. I got you guys. Okay, so anyways, I wanted to talk about a little bit.

I know you, okay, how do I preface this? I might have to cut this, but how do you balance personal life and switch streaming like hours and hours a day? Oh, man. Like, how do you, like women, all that stuff? Yeah, yeah. No, it's definitely, it's tough, man. We can do it from both perspectives, but for me, man, I ever since I've been doing this thing, I was in multiple relationships. So, like, it was always one, like, before you get into, you got to go, yo, I got to be live six, seven hours a day.

Like, I really got to dedicate myself. And for me, I've switched my schedule around to where I used to stream from, like, 5 to 1 a.m. It was terrible. Like, I did that for a year, especially during the pandemic. Well, 5 p.m. to 1 a.m.? Holy fuck. And it got to the point where, like, people would, like, invite me to go do stuff, and I would feel bad the entire time where I'm hanging out with them, like, I should be streaming right now. So I switched minds up to kind of like morning, like 11 to 5, 11 to 6.

that way I have a lot to myself you know what I mean especially us being young in LA like yeah there's always stuff like that but I want to make sure I get to work in yeah so it's really all about balance man but yeah there's definitely times where like you know we'll be streaming and kind of like like I can't really make it like I said it's more so like I feel a lot better when I get it done

that my hour is done especially with Twitch on my contract we have certain hours we have to hit so I make sure I get those in I know about if you want I mean when I was starting off I was going to school working and then streaming And so I would stream at 9 p.m. till 3 in the morning and then have to wake up, go to work, and then do my school. Before you continue, at that time, you weren't making money on Twitch to sustain yourself. No. So you were going to school, you were streaming and you had a job.

All right. This is important because people listening, kids listening will be like, I want to do what you're doing. And you did you had a grind. Yeah. It's very important that you bring it up because a lot of people will want to be a streamer. They'll quit their job and have nothing going for them. like in the streaming, you know, aspect. They're doing it backwards.

Okay. You quit your job when you know you can make money to sustain yourself. You think that they would get that, though, right? I mean, that's like the common. I mean. It's, I think it's probably like when someone has a, like, the thing with Twitch is, man, especially if you're small, like you really rely on other people, like, as far as, like, them helping you, like, donations and, like, subs and stuff like that to help you to survive.

So I think a lot of people, what they make a mistake is they have one great month on Twitch, make, like, 70 bands and go, ah, I can do this. do this next month oh maybe people aren't as generous and that's and they're not obligated to like help you you know what i mean like that yes it's just like whatever you know what i mean so and and this is something i want to make i want to reference too i think it's interesting because to just start on twitch and to grow from twitch and to be popular on the internet is probably one of the hardest things oh my god man what do you have in your hand there brad i'll have some skincare stuff right here. Yeah, girls like nice skin for sure. Well, apparently this company,

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Boom. And get that amazing deal and that free gift. Number one podcast and world, back to our guests. Let's go. For me, getting, like, when I start YouTube, getting from zero to. 10,000 was the hardest thing ever because it was just all me like I was just trying to figure everything out and it's so frustrating yeah you didn't have you didn't have people helping you nah man not especially this is back in like 2012 so this is like YouTube is so

different on YouTube it was so crazy because like if you dropped a like on it let's say like right now like the way you are old YouTube a smaller fitness person maybe a thousand thousand subs if you wouldn't like one of their videos their video instead of having 100 reviews would have 7,000 views that's how powerful YouTube was back then YouTube was a different it was so much I hate to say this I feel bad because I feel like they're like listen to what the fuck I'm saying to YouTube YouTube was so much better it was just so cater to like the viewer and like the creator had so much control now it's like I mean you can do something left to get into like the algorithm and different things like that but like I said YouTube views come and go people

pop and drop all the time yeah so that's why I love Twitch so much because it's like It's so steadfast. Like it's just they're always going to be there as long as you show up. Yeah, absolutely. You know what I mean? They love you for you. YouTube views. They'll watch you because you're hot and YouTube's really pushing you.

But what happens when YouTube stops pushing you. Yeah. Right. And this is what I'm saying. Like as far as being, if you're listening to this because, you know, you're in, you're interested in this in Twitch, et cetera. It's hard to start on Twitch. Twitch is probably the hardest place to start on.

100%. Because like I can come in because I have populated from other platforms and be like, yo, I'm live and then people will start to realize, oh, he's here. Yeah. And I could see the build faster. But I couldn't imagine I quit my job. I quit everything. I quit school and I go to Twitch and I have to know.

Just click live. You just click live and, you know, how I got started with streaming like that, I just had videos. And so I would make videos and I got to a point where I could just be like, yo, guys, I'm live here. And I get like a hundred, my first stream was like 100, 200 viewers. That's lit though. Yeah. What the fuck? I built the bed.

I was like four years of making videos building kind of like an audience of someone and just saying, yo, I'm over here stream right now. Come watch me. Damn. So was one viewer. And it was me. He was on a hit because he had a tab. I was like, yo, what's up stream?

Oh, I'm talking to myself. Okay. So how many of you average now? Both of you guys, how many do you average now? I would say this month I've been averaging like 700 viewers. That's dope,

bro. What do you average? Like 10K? Like 10K? Yeah, I knew that. I knew that from, I just had to ask anyways.

It all varies if this guy is on. Like yesterday, yesterday I had 3,000 viewers. Today I had 500. You were on yesterday with him. Yeah, yeah. No, because he was on. off yesterday when he's off you know since we all play together like oh Chris isn't on I'm gonna go

watch the next person I see and they'll come watch me or something like I said I love that because that's community bro yeah like that doesn't happen like like that doesn't happen on YouTube like if I don't post a video like no my viewers aren't going to go watch his YouTube video but now because of community it spreads love to man like they they love that man so so what do you think people like about him on Twitter oh man uh I don't want to like maybe your head big or anything that's your boy tell him the truth fuck that he's genuinely a great person he puts on for his community he did this thing called doozy dinners where he would pick someone and and buy them dinner like not not many streamers do that for their community i mean he he looks out for

his boys i can buy this shit in real life show up meet him yeah no what do you mean no i'll all like i saw i pick somebody and uh i'll just buy them dinner for now i'll ask how many people in y'all you're from you use postmates some something i'll cash that though i'll be like i cash them like a family of five i remember this guy's like you i five people in my house so i said gave him 150 bucks for the night to have dinner yeah they'll tweet him yo thank you and that that's like one of the coolest things i've ever seen anybody do on on like twitch for their community is just buy them dinner you know yeah but i mean he's a great person he's put on for the whole house i mean with without him i don't know where i would be so i'm i'm thankful

for him every day yeah every day and i'm decent at the game and he and he's kind of good at the game i think i can smoke you though i'm gonna be honest i'm gonna be honest bro like If we, if we got a one-on-one, like, you're not, you're not killing me one time. Bro. Brad, I've seen you play and I've seen. Yo, hold on, hold on. Hold on. Hold on, bro.

Let me, let me, let me, I get to defend myself a little bit right now. Go ahead, go ahead. To be fair, I'm just going to say this. If I play the amount of hours that you play, I, in one month, I swear to God, I smoke you. I would, I would think anybody. I swear. But I would say his. Anybody what?

What are you doing? Anybody. Everybody puts in the hours that you put in would be able to kill you. I would, I would think, I would hopefully think. Because back in the day when I was like, like I said, 17, 18, 19, that's all I did was play video games. Were you good at? You just play all the call duties? I was so nice.

Now, now, now I'm not nice because I don't have as much time to play anymore. I'll tell you what. But I've seen, I've seen worse people than him kill you. Yeah. Whether it's him running a bot, running by in a dark corner. You, I'd actually do it. Let's play Rust. Like, like, let's play Rust.

You better snipe because if you do red gun you're not getting killing me Bro I'm talking about Two Modern Warfare 2

Oh if you pull it up He didn't even play Monofer 2 Oh fuck okay I didn't I can play it Oh he could play it But he wasn't playing back then

My first call did he was Modder for 3 So this is like 2011 Yeah What the Yeah How did you get good

So fast Oh man Like I said bro I was just like I was pissed They were making fun of me Man That was it

That was it for you It's like for you Like Think about you If like back in the day like someone like when you if you were ever skinny I was I was very skinny

when you're skinny when you're skinny someone made funny you for being skinny you said fuck that I'm gonna get to gym see me in six months six when you look

hockey dude I'm just I'm coming for you bro that's how I feel right now Jay used to smoke him in one we ones and everything

really Jay's the one who put him on brought his Xbox 360 go ahead tell us story tell us story so my boy Jay he put me on bro we played mom for two

he's like yeah come let's play put me a one-on-one scrap yard and he beat me like 20 to 2 smoked me bro And that's what I was like, bro, it was choked.

Now we played, now we, we played a couple of calls like a couple of years ago one-on-one. I mean, it was bad. Like, it was like 20, like four. Like, it flipped around. Like, I was, he's trash now. He's not trash. I'm just, no, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Come here.

Yo, come here. Come here, come here. Come here. Friend yourself. Come here. Here, right here. Go ahead. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I need to hear this perspective. All right. Go ahead. Tell the story. Tell your story. All right. So, all, everybody. So, so we went to high school together.

I brought over, I brought over Xbox like I said I let his sister finish the game He's so bad But like he said though I never made fun to Chris Everybody else in my school did Because I saw what he did Division and everything like that

He has Because I've known him for my whole life In MW3 I think he has I swear to God His stats has 108 days played Like he did not Get off the game I will come over to his crib

He sat in the garage In the heat of Arizona I mean the peak 120 degrees in playing call of duty he got so good in five months this kid didn't even use amicess he didn't know what it was he got so good in five or six months he was by far the best player ever and like nah i can't touch him now like there's no way like i may like if we went to 25 kills i may get 12 yeah maybe but i'm not i'm not beating him he's a psychopath he like he would miss school to play call of duty like for real like he was just brothers but what makes you good just

Just the hours in? I think he's smart. He's smart. I think that is like Q, bro, it's really like, with Call of Duty, it's so, everything happens so fast, I think I was just talking about this on stream the other day. I think that the world really separates, like, just a casual, like, you just, like, you just hop on the game, then, like, me is like, you'll hop in and just kind of, like, vibe out. You're not really looking at, like, what's going on.

You see a guy who shoot, you're killing me in the night, right? For me, I'm very calculated. Like, I know what I'm going to do. Like, I'm going to kill this guy, but I know where the next three. are so I'm about to kill all three of them like I know exactly what I'm doing three steps ahead is it so the IQ of the game is it just because you played it so many times or because you're used you just know where people are going just the scenarios and like especially like when you pick up a new call duty like you just figure out like ways people are coming what most people like to do

and kind of just anticipate it's kind of like in sports that's where kind of like kind of like the e-sports kind of kicks in like that factor's like understanding like to be like to be way better than everyone else you got to think so far ahead they don't even know what's going on but how do you i mean at that level right that said the esports level don't you think everyone is thinking super far ahead because to be at that level well when like on the when you're playing against like other pros like so there'll be tournaments where i play against other people just like me or even better and like it's at that point it comes down to teamwork because everybody can fight everybody can shoot straight and like have crazy movement but it really comes down to like just like teamwork you know what i mean so um but

But yeah, playing against other people just as good as me or if not better is always crazy because it's like, holy shit, like. It's a totally different game, you know, playing against regular people, you're sending things like, well, we call it sending, where you're just going and going and getting as many kills as you want. We'll fight four people at one time. If it's a custom game and it's pros versus pros, they're holding down one spot, waiting for rotations, you know, everything is so calculated, where you're going to move next, where

you think this team is going to rotate to. It's a different game. it's fun though yeah it seems fucking intense oh my god it's all especially like in tournaments and stuff like that but yeah gaming is it's beautiful man what do you think so number one thing what do you think the number one thing that gaming has taught you like that what you do do further and what do you think it has taught you oh like in relationship to life um for me just gaming in general is uh the importance of camaraderie man like it's just like how sports taught me like i always look back and especially in high school i go yeah my really the one thing

I miss about high school is just being around everybody and like the camaraderie like with sports like that for gaming man I think it's really important you know it's just having a group of people around you where you just like it doesn't have to be content like just having fun and just you know you get to talk to people every day and I think that's one of the most important things is just staying in touch with your boys like that's community yeah man community yeah it's crazy because I look back on those times I talked about I was the World Warcraft champion number one yeah no I swear to God I was the trophy so I swear to God I need a trophy so I swear to God I need a Sophie. I saw I can log in right now. I still have that tag. You can't even get those tags anymore.

Are people still grinding World of Warcraft? I don't know. I jump on every once in a while just to be like, see what's going on 10 minutes. I can't really play that much more. Because I know they've come out with like expansion packs and those are huge when they drop people on that. I mean, it's definitely still a popular game. It's not what it was in my opinion. Because at the time, it was, it was just a completely different engine almost where it was. Because like, for example, I remember back in the day, you could, I could jump it with my boy and we would play all the time. And when we were. I was competing to get those levels to get that that rank. And we would jump into like a capture the flag. And literally they would see us, like the team that we'd be on and everyone would leave. They would know, like, it was that much in that server. They're like, oh, this is that team. I'm out of here.

But we would jump into like Altaic Valley, which was like the big map. Altaract Valley. Yeah, anyway, shout out, shout out the OGs. But anyways, you'd jump in there and we'd kill like 20 people, just me and him. So now the game's so different where it's like, you can't do that. Someone could have the shittiest I don't know It's the way the points

The health system works And the damage is just so skewed differently Like back then you could be so good That you could finesse a bunch of people And kill them if you were playing Like because you had good gear You had better gear than those people? But also just better timing

Okay And then now it got to the point where Everyone's gear is kind of here And the timing is fuck Because it just doesn't matter There's just enough damage that If three people came and attacked you You're pretty much fuck

But back in a day you'd be nice and you could time it all out right which like you're talking about like playing ahead of the thing right it's just not that game anymore so that's a little sad okay um where was I going with that though this got caught up in we were talking about what uh gaming has taught us yes I got caught up in the fucking yeah the golden era bro so yeah what is it what does it taught you you can go as well I mean I'll say this uh gaming has has impacted my life so much you know I've met the people I live with today through gaming and it's it's a beautiful thing, you know, you would have never like thought you're going to like be in this kind of position

through gaming and my parents, I mean, it was tough to get my parents to come around to me like putting my job or something like that and doing this. But I mean, gaming has been my life. What do they think about it now? I mean, now that they see that I'm, you know, doing it on my own, they love it. They love it. They think it's the best thing in the world. But when I was failing in school, they thought it was the worst thing.

Yeah. This is really interesting, though. This is important to say, obviously, I'm not encouraging kids like, fuck your parents, do what you want. It's definitely not what I'm saying, right? But I do think there is a point, especially the thing that people don't really understand nowadays and a lot of parents, even still, I think maybe the next generation will get it a little bit more, is that like the world is so different now with the Internet. And our capabilities are so unique. And I think it's really important for kids listening to this, not challenge your parents, but. you know, sometimes don't be afraid to say,

hey, well, I think this is important. This is what I really want to do. Because the, like I said, our capabilities are so different now. And your parents, it was different because of the technology at the time. The capabilities were way different. So, of course, they're thinking, oh, I think you should do this or do that because it was safe or because it was a good idea because it's what they knew. But nowadays, look, dude, like fucking kids are just making millions of dollars playing video games.

Back then, it was like, you know, graduate, you know, go to college, get a job. I don't think parents fully understand that there are so many ways to make money now I mean like even me for example I told my mom I was like yo I'm gonna do this is and by the way this is before social media and like fitness like yeah this is before Instagram was even a thing that people

oh I could be an influencer I told my mom I was like yo I'm gonna make fitness like my life like I love this so much and I remember her response was oh yeah me and your dad used to work out too no no I swear to God I swear to God and I was like no like I'm gonna do this for my life and now of course my mom's like yo you're amazing everything that's amazing the gym all the stuff that you have is she fully gets it but but for sure i remember that moment when

i said this is what i want to do for the rest of my life and it was dismissed not in a negative way but in a way where she's like okay because also at that time too they don't understand the internet didn't even exist like this so not only did she not understand but there wasn't any reference point for me to be like that guy over there's doing it look at it but there was something inside me that It was like, yo, this is what I'm going to do. So it leads me to my next question. Did you know that you would be successful? Did you?

Because I always talked to a lot of people who are successful at this kind of shit. And a lot of like what they start to say is like I just felt like there was something in me. There was something more for me. Have you ever felt that in your life where you were like, yo, I just know that there's something else more than the norm? Yeah, man. For me, I played basketball for so long.

And obviously when you're a kid, man, you have aspirations of, you know, getting to the league or whatever, stuff like that. But as you get older, obviously you start to kind of realize, you'll like maybe this. ain't really you're a lot tall that I thought you're gonna be how's all you think I was just a little shorter you're like tall than I thought dude yeah everyone always thinks on the internet like but they always comes to like yo I thought you were like five six it's maybe because you sit and you play video games yeah yeah yeah yeah no but like um what was a question again was it was it was about it was about did you have you ever felt like before you had all this did you like had this idea that like there

was more for you and I'll let you answer this as well yeah absolutely because like I said most successful people that I know they get to a point and they're like yo I know that there's more for me and then they figure it out somehow Yeah, for me, man. It was definitely, that turning point was definitely in college when I tore, I was playing basketball. I tore my labor, and I was out like six, seven months. And I was already making videos, but I took it really serious when I was just recovering and stuff like that. And I remember I made like, I made $100.

And I was like, oh, okay. On YouTube. Yeah. Next month I made $300. Month of that, I made $700. And it got to summertime when I was about to be fully recovered. I made a band. And this is what age were you?

I was like 18. Okay. Yeah. And I go, whoa, like, and I've never had a thousand before. I was like, I got a thousand right now. And I remember I was like, I was like, Ma, give me one semester. Like, let me just take one semester off. Let me see where this goes, right?

If it fails, I'll go back to school and never ask anything again. What does she think about that? She was like, yeah, for sure. Like, she was fully constantly. She's like, okay, you know, I made a thousand. So she wouldn't really like, that next month I made $3,000. Oh, that's nice. And then after that, I was like, yeah, this is it.

Like, this is, I don't know where this is going to leave me. but I'm for show like this I'm happy right and I can contribute and stuff like that to the household and I'm like I'm like man I'm like I wake up excited every day that's why I knew this was like because I wake up happy I think that's what everyone should strive for man not only just how like having money but just waking up like very like just feeling grateful like how you make the money yeah it's how you make the money not just having money exactly so that's that's how it's what for me you bought your mama house right yeah oh sister sister sister just boss yeah mom I'm working all them like that You need it? Yeah, she just had a baby. So I was like, it was getting... Where's the house at? Phoenix. Oh, okay.

That's nice, bro. Yeah. I want to buy a house in Phoenix so bad. You say you want to buy a house? Yeah. That's beautiful, man. Arizona in general is fucking amazing. Oh, my God.

I love that in a gym out there. Hot as shit, though. Oh, they would go crazy for it. Yeah. They would go crazy. What is your answer to that? Um, yes. I knew that I could, I could make it.

Um, you know, my first, my first Twitch paycheck was, was $300. And even though it wasn't like the biggest paycheck I've received while doing this stuff, I was so happy when I made it because I worked for it. You know, I called my mom, call my dad, said, yo, I just got paid $300 to play, and I was playing video games. They're like, oh, that's cool, you know. I didn't think much of it. But deep down, I knew I can do this. I can, you know, I can build a brand and I can make this something I want to do for the rest of my life. So I started doing it more and more every month. My payments were we're getting higher and higher.

Well, I was leaving with my mom at the time, me and my sister, and I told my mom, you know, I really want to quit my job. I was making good money. What were you doing? I was working at a school. Okay. I wasn't making good money at the school. I was making good money on Twitch.

So I said, you know what? I'm going to quit my job and I'm going to pursue this gaming stuff. She said, I'll let you quit your job, but you're not dropping out of school. Well, I said, mom, what would you do if I dropped out of school? She said, well, you better find somewhere else to live. I looked at my mom and said, well, I guess I better pack my bags because I dropped out of school, too. Yeah. That was the way I let my mom know that I was really invested into this.

And that takes balls. It took balls, but she wasn't as mad as. How over you when you did this? 20. Yeah. 20. Fuck yeah. 21.

I was 21. I think it's a point of taking risk, especially that young. Bro, like just dude. What? Like, you could always go back to school and get a degree. Yeah. That's what I was saying. It was middle level.

It was like pandemic, you know, like barely starting. School was bullshit then anyways. Like, no one was going to school for like two years. Yeah. But, I mean, it was the best decision I made in my life. What do you think about the idea of college anyways? Do you think it's a good idea? I always tell people this, man.

You know, because people always ask this. I dropped out like two years in, I dropped out. I think you should go to college if you know exactly what you want to do. if you know the career field requires a degree you're very passionate about it go to school but if you have no idea what the fuck you're doing do not go to school and stack up on student modes because most of the time i talk to people most of the time i talk to people who even graduate it don't even use it yeah no i mean bro i can fully fully relate to i mean i think it's the dumbest shit ever unless you want to be like a doctor a CPA or lawyer where you need a degree to have that job

Yeah. Anyone who goes to school, in my opinion, for business, just start a fucking business. Yeah. Or like start working. Because everyone that I know, like, who works for me or works with me, I mean, obviously, including myself, we just figured it out. And I find someone you like, I don't hire someone and be like, yo, show me your degree.

I don't give a fuck about any of that. I want to know if the person's cool. Can I vibe with them? Are they willing to work? Are they hard working? And you obviously, you figure that out just by like time, like, through working. Yep. So I don't know.

I just, it's such a. different day day and age when it comes to school i just think school is just its own fucking i don't want to call it a fucking scam but it's its own business it really i mean like i said the whole student loans aspect bro like don't go to school if you don't know what you're doing it's those student loans come back to haunt because because you could just yeah you could just take the money i'm a victim you are you still paying that shit off i haven't started yet because they you know they keep pushing it maybe maybe they go bite and say he was going to get rid of that shit so what the fuck dude i i had one year left of school when i dropped out and i did too i'm i couldn't

I'm like being like $65,000 in debt with school. So the loans are, man. Well, it's like that's what I'm saying. If I knew, okay, I'm going to start a business, put that in a business. Like, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, why give it it to Sally? Give it a Sally May. Why you give it it to Sally?

Yeah, school is such a crazy thing to me. So, okay, you guys, plans with Nuke Squad, is that, is that, do you guys want to make it like a phase? Like, what's the ultimate goal with that? I think, yeah, that's definitely what we want to do, man. Like I said, and really put an emphasis on diversity, man. You know, I think it's really important to have that kind of representation, especially in gaming men it's huge to inspire people especially the next generation of people

who want to play video games or just do anything in life so i think we're still trying to figure that out we don't have a complete answer like we just we're just going as it rolls man i mean i think we have a great start you know great we we do because i mean i receive messages every day and i look at my instagram dms twitter dms and i knew this could be something bigger than what we think it is when people are saying yo i'm a huge fan of nuke squad they're not saying i'm a huge fan of phase clan right they're saying i'm a huge face man has a tons of fans of of course yeah yeah when you have people saying you're you're huge fans of your brand for sure then i mean yeah a d came to us he said he said you say yo like phase andy davis ad sounds cool

but nukes nukes a d like being a part of new squad that's what i want to do yeah i i saw it i was like this is crazy it's amazing it's coolest thing man so we'll see where this goes you know i'm saying you know with our group you know i'm saying we have guys like rich you know i mean like stuff like that so who knows where this could go yeah it's i mean the it's endless man like the esports community and that whole genre industry is just fucking huge man huge i mean video games in general is like one of the biggest industries in the world definitely man and like i said it really just especially for us i think it really depends on you know the game that's out and different things like that but gaming is so huge man and everyone plays games and i mean yeah that's everyone plays video games

everyone bro as long as technology is progressing games are only going to get better and you know i i but it's okay so I agree, but do you think at some point they're ever going to fuck it up? Like, imagine you get too, like VR-ish. It's like, dude, I like... Like Ready Player 1 movie type of shit. Bro, imagine you're in the bitch

like really feeling like you're running around with the gun. Who knows, bro? Like I said. But that's when like what the military motherfuckers are just going to kill everyone. Yeah, I don't... Yeah, I don't know. Because like, because look, you could get...

You might be washed in that game type. Yeah, yeah. You get in there. And it's like actually physically fucking you up, meaning like you're not just sitting here, right? You're feeling bullets. You know, not necessarily both, but like maybe your movement and shit is fucked up, and you don't have that.

So you got to start going to, like, tactical training type of shit. I don't know. Could you imagine? You got a real life. That's what I'm saying. Like, imagine if it got to that point because there'd be a whole different player would be good. It'd be like some actual military motherfucker. I could definitely see it in some years down the line.

I mean, crazy stuff like that. You got to see, like, if people aren't going to play that. I mean, if there's like a bunch of people who aren't good at movement in real life, they're not going to go and play that. That's what I'm saying. I remember when we came out I remember like we came out With like we sports

I see which Yeah yeah it was like Like that stuff is fired like But like most people are like Fuck that Yeah yeah People are really purest when it comes to PC Do you do PC or sticks

I used to I used to control of control Yeah yeah I do a little bit of Dude people Whenever I'm on Twitch They're like Oh you There's like what's like

What's your field of view I was like I can't change it dude I'm on PlayStation I'm on Twitch is like the number one Fucking field of you Field of view You'll fuck yourself Yeah yeah no

The way consoles are, man The way they're progressing It's allowing people to You know like someone who If they can't afford like a full streaming Like deck They can use just that console And stream off that

So it's just constantly Everything's just getting better Yeah Yeah it's Bro it's just it's such a cool community Like you said I think the thing it's really important To note like everyone games

Everyone And you know it's funny I was I must have been on my Discord Or I don't know it was a Twitter or something But like Someone was talking to me about like staying in shape and being in shape and like like diet and then like talking about oh but i play a lot of video it's funny like my whole life i've literally played video games yeah literally from the time

i was four and i i like to think i'm in good shape but i think it's funny how people i would say you're in okay shape i'm decent i'm decent but it's like i don't know people people sometimes like you get this perception of like oh people who play video games are like out of shape whatever um have you ever had a hard time like staying in shape yeah definitely man And it's definitely hard. I think not so much just a casual person playing video games. No, yeah. For like, for like, for like, me, man, like I said, we go to the gym at like 8, 8 a.m.

So we get back to the crib. I'll shower, eat, and then just hop on stream. You work out every day? Four times a week. Four times a week, yeah. Four times? We make him do five. Sometimes we go on an off day and do cardio.

Make these motherfuckers do five, bro. Yeah, five. So, yeah, man, like I said, but I think it's really important just balance, man. Balance is so key to just like, especially for the mental, too, man. Yeah. I mean. Do you do anything other than the training for your mental for balance? I don't know.

Not super, man. I think for me, I really just dive into content. I think just trying to get better at that, it really helps me a lot. Just like just continuously improving. But outside of making content, do you do anything for your own? There's little things. You know, we go to the movies here and there. You guys go together.

We all go as a group. We all go as a group. You guys are dope. Or even after. After the streams, we'll all meet outside, go shoot up some shots, you know, talk about ideas, you know, brainstorm a little bit, or we'll, we'll, we'll chill in the jacuzzi. Or we'll be like, let's go to dinner. Is he stream or what? I mean, I've dabbled into it a little bit.

Bro, why is that a thing on Twitch? I don't know, bro. I clicked on one stream once I'll tell you why. Yeah, okay. He knows, he knows. Why? I mean, it's just what, what a lot of horny gamer guys like to see, man. It's like, how come they, but my question is how come they okay the hot tub thing?

I don't get that. Like, because like, I don't know. I don't know about like terms of service or rules or anything like that. I just know they have their own section. If there's girls doing like bikinis and they're playing games, that's not allowed. Exactly. This is my point. This is what I'm saying.

They can't play games in a bikini. You can't. This is what I'm saying. Unless you have like, unless you're like in a hot tub, you can't wear the bikini. I'm so glad he knows this because this is interesting. Wow. Yeah. But if you're in a hot tub.

It's okay. That's okay. You can be riding a banana in your hot tub doing squats, making waves with your ass. Don't ask me how I know that, man. You definitely see that before. Hey, I'll walk in his room. He'll be in a hot tub stream chilling like, hey, what's going to? Yo, son, come on.

Chilling, like, yo, what are you watching right now? God. He's lying. That's a whole different world, man. I don't even know. Like, that's just, it's wild. You're not going to do a hot tub stream then? Nah, it's not me.

Maybe him, yeah. I'll be in that motherfucker I don't care He's been chilling with some Brad, I've had some girls over on the streams It's crazy So how does that work? How does this?

Because you know, Aidan? Yes. How does this like e-date thing work? You ever thought about doing that? I mean, you did a E-Dates? More so like gamer Like just having like But it's more for like

Yeah, it's cool. It's definitely dope. I mean, a lot of people like to see Just kind of that side of like How people talk to girls And stuff like that And different things like that. Gamers, how gamers talk to girls.

Or start the girls like that. It was crazy. It is more so like IRL. Like you know, he'll have like a lot of like like he likes like Instagram stars. How do you like, if gamers are you like, you ask him like, hey, what's your KD? No. How are we doing this? I mean, the one we did or he did, he had one gamer and like nine other girls going after the gamer.

Yep. So, you know, it's just general questions. What do you do? You know, where you from, you know? But I mean, if it's a bunch of guys going after one girl, sometimes the the questions can get crazy. you know especially on Aiden stream you know that's a different animal yeah that's a different that's different is outside of XQC is he like number one up there aided yeah definitely yeah definitely up there for sure when when he got banned and came back 100,000 viewers what the fuck

yeah it's ridiculous it's almost like you went to jail he was like a rapper yeah he came back no seriously it's what he was like oh city's back that he's free I feel like that's how they treat That's how they treat a streamer. It's like, if you got banned or something, like, like you said earlier, that community base for, like, it's so much stronger. Because I notice even the influences who even dabble in Twitch, overall, even if they're not like Twitch streamers, they get better engagement just on social because, like, I don't know, those people are just more connected. Of course. And like that live, you know what I'm saying? Twitch, what it allows is that no other platform does is direct access to the creator as far as like, it's almost like you're standing next to them.

Like, you ask a person in chat, and if the creator answers your question right then and there, it's like you're having a conversation with, like, you're really, like, connecting. Right. Instead of just like a YouTube comment section, right here. Instagram comments or an Instagram DM, like, you're really like, it's like me and you talking right here. Right here. You know what I mean? So people love that live engagement.

It's powerful as fuck. What about other social media platforms? Like, do you use TikTok? Does that help? I post a lot of gaming clips are really huge on that too. So that's what I mainly do is just post clips and stuff like that. And then Instagram is just like, look, I got a car. Yeah.

Like, I'll post, I used to post a lot of clips, yeah. Flex it a little bit. New car, new car. Just chilling, chilling. But at Twitch is like, where you really want that engagement, man? Where do you really want them? Like, you put out merch and, like, they really ride for you. Like, that's where you really tap into it.

Yeah. I'd say you find out who's really about you. Instead of just, like, instead of YouTube views, like, you can say you're popping, but, I mean, when you go live, you can find out who really fuck with you, who's going to show up to your meet and greets, who's going to buy all your shit. You know what I mean? Like, that's, those are the real fans. That's true, man. It's fucking real.

Those are real fans. So do you have anything coming up as far as meetups or? I mean, merch drops. We got a merch drop this Friday. Have you had one before for the news? Oh, we've had a couple. Yeah, we haven't had multiple, man. They're really great.

They really support us. But yeah, we've just been making content. And we moved into the new crib about a month ago. So I'm just constantly progressing. We have a new monitor for two is coming back, coming out soon. So we're all here for that. Oh, my God, bro. I got to play it a couple weeks ago.

Is it good? Oh, I loved it. I had a blast. Which company did this one? Infinity War, same people who did all the other ones too, yeah, yeah. So did you like Modifer 2019? Did you play that that much? Wait, 2019?

Yeah, it's kind of like the same engine as Warzone. Did you play multiplayer on that game? I played every call duty. Okay, every multiplayer. It's kind of like that, and I loved it, man. I had a blast on it, so I think people are going to love it. And it's monitor for two, but everyone's back. Everyone's coming back for that.

Yeah. Streaming shit on that is going to be crazy. Oh, my God. I've been telling them, bro, I'm ready. Like, I'm going to go. crazy we'll 1v1 on that one oh good luck bro i swear i'm coming for you bro if i get one kill you suck i got yeah i guess straight up right i mean that's reasonable can we say that nah because one kill it could be a fluke okay three kills yeah you get three kills on me you're him

three kills you're him damn the game of twenty three if i get three kills i'm going live on your twitch channel do it yeah and it's my channel they're gonna cook you whoa it's my channel three I'm going live on your channel, and I'm like, this is my channel now. This is my channel. You see me? I'm the fucking captain. Just for like a fucking 10 minutes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'll let you play out. The chat will decide whether you're in or not. They would probably want to see you play. They'd fucking make fun of it. His comms are good, though. Great comms. Yeah. They would fry me, though, for sure.

They'd be like your ass. Oh, they would, it would be a good time. Give me two months, though. Honestly, I think I'm the guy. You said one month earlier. Okay, well, I just needed a little more time. You just relax, Natalie. I need a little more time.

realized after talking to these guys no what's uh do you know your highest amount of kills in the game uh in a war zone game in a war zone 13 13 or 14 not bad i mean you might like 25 52 no 57 in a war zone 57 wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait how many people drop into a war zone 100 i dropped 50 when there's 120 players now i dropped 53 the other like a month ago So what I'm curious of genuinely curious is like how you even get to them fast enough before other people kill them. Oh, bro, like I said, it's about like I know like let's say I'll pop a UAV. You know you'll be in wars or I'll pop it. I see three teams on a mini map.

I go, okay. This guy disrespect me one more time about items in fucking video game. I swear to God I'm fighting him. You know what a UAV is, right? Fuck you, dog. Go ahead. Continue your story. I swear to God, you can hear this shit.

The disrespect. Maybe it's for the viewer. You know what dumbos are, right? You heard of dumbbells? Okay, just make it sure. God damn it, bro. He's doing it for the viewers, viewers. Motherfuck.

Okay, fair, fair. Sorry. For the casual, you know what I'm saying? So let's say I'll pop a UAV. So you can see everyone. I'll see three teams on the mat. You'll probably go, whoa, there's a lot of people going on. I'll go.

All right, I'm going to kill this whole team right here. As soon as I'm done, there's a car right there. I'm going to grab that car, immediately sprint to the team, hop out, kill all them. And then I remember, oh, the team was in this kind of area. Let me go over here. They probably rotated. Oh, I found him, boom. Yeah, but how do you know you're going to kill him?

And there's not some, like, nasty motherfucker like you are there. They can't go into a fight thinking that. I go into a fight thinking, these guys are dog shit. And I'm going to piss all over them. And maybe, and they'll be a time, like, I'll fight someone good, but oh, he's him. Yeah. Oh, I'll go, I'll go, oh, he's not bad. These guys aren't bad.

That's the greatest compliment you can give somebody. That's the best I'll ever give. I'll never say someone's not safe. Oh, shit. Okay. Yeah. So what sensitivity do you play on? I plan on 10, 10, everything.

Yeah. what the fuck so i was i was at uh turner's house tefu's house and i watched this guy play on a mouse and keyboard oh they have so much like okay when i sat down though i watched him play smokes everyone yep and i was like let me try this because i let's set up it was like bro no it wasn't even fast no it wasn't fast it was slow as fuck oh no they have to swipe so he's like going like this with his with his hand and that's i i was like i'm and like if i because i go like this yep and i was like yo i can't even get across the screen like you would You would have thought if you went like that, it would do a whole 360.

No, it goes like this. So you play PC then? I've played it before. No, I know. Yeah, I know about it. Do you play long like that or short? No, I play, play more short. I like the faster movement.

What is the fuck? Like, how do people learn that? Because like, I swear to God, I sat down and I was like, I can't, I can't even get to the middle. Just getting used to it, man. He's probably been playing keyboard and mouse for so long. Like, he knows exactly what he's comfortable with. What's his best aim? It's the little, little movements that make a, uh,

keyboard and mouse player great and dog shit so they they uh have that slower you know where they can do precise aiming and stuff because they don't have aim assist so if if we're right here and we're seeing a dude moving we go like that and our our player goes like that but they're have a wider range of motion yeah allows them to aim better so i have a question about this like sensitivity thing are you like when you're moving are you focused on you know how like obviously your controller are you moving your body or the aiming first obviously Obviously, it's in unison. Yep.

What do you think is more important? I think, because, like, are you positioned your body, or are you positioning that dot? I think the aim should be the first thing, because, like, people can have great movement, but they can't shoot, you know what I mean? So I think the biggest thing, especially for Calduddy since the first person shoot, you got to be able to shoot your guy, right? Yeah. But I think the great, the great people are like the people who can move and finesse, but, like,

but it'll snap onto a guy really quickly. Yeah. That's how you get really good. It's like, would you rather be a shooter or dribbler on a bad? Basketball team. If you're a shooter, you be a part of any team. But if all you do is dribble, I mean, you can't score. I mean, you need shooters. But if you're a shooter in real life, I mean, your movement doesn't have to be great. Oh my good. No one can stop you. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Fuck, man. I'm just trying to get some tips right now. I'm about to go stream later. I want to get better, bro. How do you think someone can get better just by watching a streamer or by just obviously playing more? All of it. I got good. I got really good not only just playing, but I would watch someone play. I would follow. I would see like what they're doing where they go. like how they move how they approach a certain situation and I would pick I would try to mimic that and I just did that from a lot of different people growing up and I kind of develop my own kind of play style doing that yeah there's a lot of different ways a lot of people do the aim lab if they're

on uh because the keyboard it's like where you can practice your aim practice your shooting and like things will just pop up and you just flick to it or a lot of people on or like call of duty they go into a private lobby put on a bunch of bots and they just practice you know shooting and in movement and stuff yeah okay okay Okay. Now, outside of gaming stuff, right? Fitness shit. You have been working out for how long? With our trainer, probably a year now. What's his name, by the way? Shout him out. Timir. Timeir Griffin. Let's go, baby. Came by the gym too. Appreciate that during COVID. That's a real one right there. That guy doesn't give a fuck, you know?

Yeah, he's hit. I love it. I love it. I love it. Respect. You got to work out. Yeah, yeah. Okay. So do you enjoy training? Yes, for sure, man. It's great. I love the conversations I love kicking it that's he'll be you'll get mad at me because like we'll be lifting and I'll be just chatting I just be just chat he's got a separate he he separates this man he separates he's like over there go over there go go go do like whatever like you know what I'm saying but like y'all got to stop chatting it got so bad I said I texted my trainer tie I said yo I can't be in there with these guys because all we do is talk he said all right coming at eight they come in at nine So I go in like an hour early

Just to get kind of like one on one time Yeah And it's crazy because I'll be there working As soon as they come And everybody just starts chatting Yeah, what's the hardest part with diet? You have a hard time with your diet? Oh my God, yeah

I just started this actually meal prep service A couple weeks ago where they deliver fresh meals every day Every day like in the morning Every day they drop it off in the morning Damn three meals, fruits and stuff like that So but I think it's pretty tough Just the balance overall man Tye's been always on our ass about that

but that's probably the biggest thing anybody i'm sure you you could probably speak to this better than any of us so i mean what do you think he probably eats like no i'm not going to say he eats like shit no no no no i eat good no he's good i eat so good i have had times where i eat like shit and there i definitely have times when i was like more into gaming like overall playing a lot more hours and i'm just ordering bullshin on postmates and like rationalizing why it's okay i'm like oh it's not too bad it's like orders like some fucking burgers from fucking the habit and i'll be like yeah no but it's like it's okay it's not super bad i'm I got fries, you know?

It's like, there's some lettuce in there. Speaking of the habit, bro, the best chicken Caesar salads we have. Bro, I can't even start talking about food like that. I've been on a real diet lately. Really? Like what?

Like how is your diet? Okay, I'll explain it. So prior, like I said, prior to this, I did this for about for the last maybe four months. But prior to this,

it was just like, I would rationalize, like I said, whatever the fuck I wanted. I'd be like, oh, I'll be okay because I like workout and shit. That's what I thought you were like.

You know, I'll eat five in and out burgers, But I'm jacked and shit. So I was like that in my early 20s. I totally did that. And I was still in good shape. As I got older, though, I was like, not necessarily like I needed to eat better. Yeah.

I just wanted to eat better because I noticed I felt so much sharper. I felt so much better. So lately I've been eating like, you know, basic shit. Like I mean, like bison, I eat white rice, I eat vegetables. Yeah, bison's amazing. Wow. You never had bison? I've never had that.

I've had deer. I've had alligator and never had bison. Bison's so common. It's like, yeah. I have it in my meals and stuff. I'll put in my meals. Super common. Like bison burgers, like I live super little.

A lot of bison, I mean, chicken, different, it's prepared different ways. A lot of white rice, a lot of vegetables. I eat a lot of fruit. I really like balance. I don't like cut things out completely. What about weekends? I eat the same shit. To be honest, like, I don't even like, I guess I cheat sometimes.

Probably like once every two weeks. I'll just eat whatever the fuck I want. For the day or just a meal? A few, probably like two, three meals. How important are veggies? So this is the crazy thing. He's not a big fan of veggies. Like sometimes he'll eat broccoli and stuff like that.

Listen, I think they're essential, but at the same time, like, man, I had Ronnie Coleman on the podcast, one of the greatest bodybuilders in the history of bodybuilding, and he eats zero vegetables. He told me he's never, like, this guy didn't even want to eat avocado that we gave him because it was green and a chicken plate. He was, I don't even want it. This guy eats no vegetables, and he gets his blower. His blood work's amazing. The guy's in great shape. Wow. I'm not a huge.

I'll have like some like broccoli and stuff like that You probably should eat more though I don't want to eat like zucchini or like I don't like a lot of Oh man I love that shit It's so good so how you cook it Yeah I guess to me it's like I just like to feel good I like to feel sharp and anything that like can add to that Because you might not know you might not know that like man

If you start eating more vegetables maybe you're a better gamer Think about that Eye sight and everything You can get that crazier fucking focus Be more sharp who knows and I promise you Your poops would be easier to take it be easier to what take like like like like I thought you said taste no no no it it is scientifically proven if you eat good you have better

bathroom experience what is you're talking about he just chatting right now Ty he wanted to talk about your shit he's just chatting he's just chatting right now what are you talking about bro he does scientifically prove it like he looks some shit up next subject man he done I'm gonna tell you right now it is valid what he said is valid it is it is when I eat like shit it's it's it's not a good experience in the bathroom yeah it could be a little more congested obviously the fiber everything in the greens will help you like pass more easily so i did want to dog and make fun of him because like we were on that same thing he was just chatting no he know he was told about i know exactly what i was

talking you should you should eat some more vegetables though yeah i like pretty good man like i said i just don't eat like a lot of crazy shit what's crazy shit broccoli what are you talking about i eat broccoli but like i don't like dablin beans you know yeah i eat green beans yeah so what's the crazy shit you're talking about like zucchini like zucchini what else What are some other vegetables? Squash. Squash, I don't eat. Cabbage.

Cabbage is weird. Cabbage is fire. Cabbage is good. I'm not going to sit, eat that in a meal, though. Artichokes. Ash. Oh, yeah. Artichokes are terrible.

Yeah, that's kind of whatever. Spinnage, brus sprouts. Spinnish is fire. Brustle sprats, I hate. It is fire. Depends. It depends how they're prepared. They smell is.

They smell terrible. You know, I have a random question. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Get tired of each other, like, because you guys are with each other on them all the time. then you guys are like with each other in the house like like like man get the fuck out of yeah like who's who would fight the who who would you in a yeah okay me and jay there's been a couple there's been a couple times yeah but i think i always say that man

man you're not great friends if you've never bought heads of course you're not homies if you don't fucking argue that's what i'm saying that's a fact and for us we understand like we're we're growing man right like if we have a problem we're gonna talk about it if we're gonna fight we're gonna fight but after that we're gonna be cool right after like it's immediately squad like carry it on that's real friendship what are we 16 like bro to be honest i don't know how none of us is scrapped in the house like we we've gotten close but none of us have laid hands on each other i think that's like a common thing you don't lay your hands on someone well now we're growing man it's a little different now we're not eight we're not 17 yeah you do get

a fight it's it's really a little different after but at the end of the day like you said we're we're trying to get money and have a great time man you know what i'm saying and just enjoy each Like I said, this is going to be around forever. Like, we're all going to, like, eventually, like, have families and stuff like that. So right now, we're really just enjoying a camaraderie, man, like, for real. That's beautiful. That's, like, that's, that's amazing because you are. I mean, I, it's almost like, you know those, you know that meme?

I see this meme where, like, there's, like, some bikes. They're like, it reminds me my fucking child. It's not going to make me cry at all. There's, like, some bikes. It's like a picture, and they're, like, there's no one at the bikes. And it's like, you know, you don't, you never, you never were like, you don't know that last day that you guys. all hang out until like you look back and you're like the good old days i was talking about that man you never know when you're in the good old day so that's why we every day man we really just enjoy

to this company we were like we had a house a year ago like we had a house for a year and we were all contemplating on getting another one and i and we were all like all of us were like yo let's do it like we don't know when like this may be the last year we're ever in a house together you don't know i've seen a meme like but it was like where xbox were you like all right guys i'll see you guys tomorrow and that was the last day someone got out because Xbox back then used to tell like when the last time they've been on yeah and it was show like 365 days or two years ago so crazy man yeah that's just real though but you're right I mean it's just about enjoying enjoying the moment while it is oh my god in life in general is one of the most important things yeah and honestly

it's how you make the most out of any circumstance or any situation like for you guys trying to build this thing that's important you guys obviously the nuke squad thing or anything else you're working on being as much in the moment as possible is going to help you do that you do that you that the best it's gonna help take that the furthest and i mean like i always say bro at the end of the day at the end of life like you really look back all you really look back and care about is the relationships that you built you know what i'm saying like not money not nothing bro what let's it's really about the moments that you share the relationships that you had so like yeah so we so we cherish that a lot man do you have any do you have any like personal

experiences with that where you like you look back and you're like man i missed that moment um you miss that person not necessarily no like like i like also like like like next like Marks he told me this man he said you really can't hold on to the past so much man like it was great for what it was right like you really but you have to let it go like you have to live in the moment that's the biggest thing man is like letting just those those good old days you know can't really mope about ah man remember that time he's like just let it go let it was what it was but be in the moment that's the most thing is being the present yeah that's a fact what about you uh to be honest nah I don't think I've ever had like you know yeah you're still in it yeah still in it yeah still in it yeah i love it man that's that's really important you say that shit because like i said success in everything comes out to that same concept and it comes and goes success come and goes man it's all highs and low so um i think just being loving the process and all of it is probably the biggest thing yeah then goes great right like but like you just want to just continue just enjoy just like just grinding it out and just growing

and just doing different things do you think you ever do you think you ever grind so much that you forget to live right in the moment because I know for me for a really long time I'm grinding grind and grinding and then like I very rarely like step back and go oh that's amazing what I've like created or built and because I get so caught up and continuing it yeah I agree yeah like there'll be times with like like you know uploading and streaming every single day every single day but it's like how we really enjoy that's why lately I've been taking like a lot of just like different days off men to just really just hanging out enjoying enjoying the house and join the crib me joining our friend like the friends and stuff like that and you know yeah but i think i think

the schedule helps with that you know you get your stuff done but you also have that time where you can spend time with your your family or your friends yeah and do you guys all stream yep not you yeah he he he's our main camera guy all that stuff like that so he helps start with that and ties are he's our boy you know what i'm saying you stream though j streams yeah solid yeah okay um do you want to want to get into some of the audience questions sure let's run it up Can't do it. Okay. Before we get into this, at the end of every episode, we answer questions from the audience.

So people just send them if they want to send them. Tell them where they can send them, Natalie. Ask Rawtalk at gmail.com. Is this live? No. So everyone says that. I was like, audience. What audience?

I would have told you if it was live. That would never do you like that. It would be crazy. I wouldn't have mine. Yeah. So at the end of every episode, we answer these questions. But basically people are sending them in preemptively. They don't know who the guest is or who's going to answer it.

And then we just, they just throw them and we just answer them. You guys can each go. You sound good. Okay. So I have a, this is just a question for like for me, not an audience yet. But playing video games, you know, on, whether it's on sticks or on PC, you're using your hands a lot. And when you type a lot, you get carpal tunnel or you get pains and strains in it. So how has like being sedentary sitting for long periods of time affected your health or your body as far as like your hands and so on?

Like does it affect you guys at all? Are you guys good still? Yeah, no, we've talked about that. Like, our trainer has told us, like, you know, it's a lot harder for us, gamers to, like, really, like, stay in shape because the normal average person is up walking around at their job moving around all the time. Us, man, we're stationary. Like, we don't burn. Like, with you, you probably burn so much calories just by walking around moving weights, helping people and just overall moving with us. Like, we really just sit down and it's very hard, man.

I will, I got to relate directly to the sense. Every time I'm like, okay, I'm streaming more, I'm playing video games more. It's this. This is the thing. And you guys, if you can't see me because you're not on YouTube, if you're on iTunes, this shit. When I'm playing, you're playing like this. Man. It fucks your neck up.

I'm talking about to the point where I go to bench and I'm like, I can't even set my back right to press properly because my neck's all fucked up. Yeah. Like there's so, I don't even think people realize that's happening. So I know there's a lot of like corrective things. Obviously your boy could help you out with them, but there's to like balance that shit out because I notice it. I'll do, I'll stream for like three days. I'll go to the gym. I'll be like, my shoulders fucked up.

But it's because I'm in her neck. exactly that's a real thing because that's that's important for the try hard moments though yeah you're yeah locked in when you're right here and you're you're sitting forward when you're just like this you know you're not in it it's too relaxed do you sit up do you ever get really sweaty and sit up yeah oh are you always all the time no I'm always I'm always shit we're always you know I'm always leaning forward right here always oh we're always right like sometimes I want to talk to child they lean back but I'm always like forward like yeah so the so that's the thing this motion is like

so bad and then you're kind of like this your neck that's really bad so now for sure that's a no but also your hands because like down the line my hands are great because well okay relax thank god i'm just talking in a sense of like i type a lot so sometimes i'll get cramps if i'm not typing correctly obviously so it's like certain postures and things like that like does it fuck up like obviously you're back or whatever like do you do anything for those who want to be like gamers and so hand wise i mean i think the biggest thing that has helped a lot recently like over the years is just having like controllers kind of fitted to you so like a lot of people will play claw so like and they would have they play with like they hold the control but they play

like like this their fingers are bent like this all day yeah i don't know i can't i can't describe it but like now we have like this thing called like you have paddles on the back of your controller so i don't have to like have my fingers in like weird spots yeah these are for trier these are what tryers like really like stay out of the curb yeah let me put it in perspective brad you're holding your controller with your back hands, right? Your thumbs are on your analog sticks, right? Then your index fingers are curled. Oh, this is where people's like triangle and square.

So they're like this constantly. Oh. And then they're using these fingers for their triggers. So if you're not using like a scuff for people who can't afford a scuff, they usually play clause so they don't have to take their fingers off. And that's where the carpets on a little kick in. And that's where their fingers get fucked up. One of the Caldadi Pro's, even playing for Soling, had to retire.

Retired because he had to get surgery on his hands. He never really specifically said, but like it was from playing Claw, like that kind of format right there. That's fucking crazy. I actually didn't even know about that. I'm a little ashamed of myself. My game or knowledge is. I mean, that's like try hard, like the highest form. Has Claw always been a thing like that?

I've heard this word before, but always. It's always been around, man. But yeah, that's where like that will kick in. But now, like, they're making controllers more comfortable and just on that. the hands and everything you know like like just yeah so it's not super i haven't experienced anything as far as my hands i haven't insured too by the way you have what my hands insured really yeah so like actually yeah how do you do that how do you do that wait wait wait so if hold on he said he got his hands insured yeah if something ever happens to my hands he's basically a boxer i like that like

is that like the same thing as like boxers having dead like their hands are physically weapons or like no no he said he went to like an insurance place and got literally his hands insured because it's how he makes money. So that's crazy. So like how much would you get if I like destroyed your hand right now? I think it's a couple years.

I did it a couple years ago, but I'd get like $7 million. Holy fuck. If I would break your hand though, would that be like insurance fraud? Come here, motherfucker. Would that be fraud? Insurance fraud?

Like breaking your own hand? If I do some investigation for sure. Definitely. They don't, they take that shit seriously. No, that's very serious. Insurance fraud. They would have a prison for 20 years. I'd be like, run over.

my hand dude just do it they'd have you in c-s-i like they'd be like looking at your shit like what's going on with the hand how this happened yeah but they like they like insurance like as far as like my hands like that they're like calculated as far as like down the line like if how like if you couldn't play anymore forever like it's obviously it's kind of complicated but like yeah i got my hands and shirt it's also a right off too the insurance yeah some people don't know about that one that's fucking cool though that's a different level hands insurance and sure this what I do you know what I mean so if I if my you know what I'm saying it's I love it.

Business, man. Fuck, it's dope. All right. Give us one of those questions. All right. So this person says, I was wondering what you would do if you were 20 years old

and had no idea what you wanted to do, but all you knew is that you wanted to be successful and make a lot of money while still being happy. Any advice? By the way, love the content. Keep growing. Well, man, I mean, you don't know what you want to do.

I don't know what you want to do, but you want to be successful, right? I've answered this kind of before in other ways. Number one, the Internet. Okay. I would try to figure something out the internet. But I would figure out first and foremost, what do you really like? What makes you happy, bro?

Like what makes you get up excited? Like it's very cliche, but like everybody has something love. Yeah. You know what I mean? Everyone has, you know what I'm saying? Like, I don't know. Like, I think you really have to dig deep and find that. Yeah.

It's important. And also, too, I think this is really important to say, and I've said this before, but I just want to say it again. What makes you happy? and you know because everyone goes oh yeah man if you if you uh if you love what you do then you don't work a day in your life that's bullshit i did tell you yeah i just want everyone to know that that's a lie yeah do not listen that now i'm not saying you won't be happier overall in like doing what you love but it's it's a it's a it's a little bit bullshit to say that you

never work because no matter what at some point there is work that needs to be done oh and you have to be willing to do it especially when it gets at the top and anything you want to do like you think you're just going to do it just because you've got to love it but you have to be willing to fucking put the work in the efforting because it is not enough to say oh just do something you love and like oh you love video games like you motherfuckers had to grind to get there 2012 bro like like like i said i didn't make my first like like that 3k i talked about that's literally 10 years ago until i was in 20 i did it from 2012 to like 2016 17 that's when i made my first like 3k it took four four or five years and you loved it but you had to but you had to

work yeah and i just want people listening to know that like it's not enough just to love something to be like this is what I love where's the money doesn't work that way yeah right you have to find some angle I just think nowadays there's definitely a lot more angles because of the internet right like if you were a videographer or like an editor right back in a day you'd have to know someone that was like you're working in that space to figure out how could I find other people but now with the internet it's like you can pretty much probably hit up any content creator and be like hey I'm good at this this is my work do you need help and you might be able to get a job yeah back in the day you couldn't do that kind of shit you'd have to like figure out where people were

doing this shit at professionally who knew who and who needed what job so the internet just what's that just message them exactly so he's saying he messes you guys got into dms and now he's sitting here he's your full-time guy yeah yeah so that's what i'm saying like the internet is definitely a place for you to start to you know explore your options but like we're saying figure out what you love first and then try to figure out a way around that that like research i think really researching like oh you love this see if there's there probably is by a whole lane for it like other people doing it as well and how you can kind of find your own niche but i think yeah and also he got at that part he talked about like making money you got to like not make money at first like you that's a fact you think you

want to get into something and like i said i think he should scrap what he just said about like what he say what was his last statement what he say wants to be make money and be happy right like that scrap that part you know what i mean just find out what makes you happy at first yeah that's a fact man what it's you to wake up because i'll say this too and i've said this before but people who go after things just for money ultimately almost always always always yeah Always and because you get to a point where if you didn't really care about it enough to like truly put your energy into it when it's hard Then you quit like if you're not really caring about it because you're like I just wanted money from this and you don't get the money You don't get the money because your focus is just the money not like this is really in my heart and really what I love

Yeah Then you're going to get to a point where you're not going to get what you want You're going to get discouraged and how long can you take that discouragement until you quit most people quit because they're like oh it's not here and I don't really love it I just wanted that dollar yeah So figure out where you where your heart really lies I think is the important thing What was it saying if you love what you do, you won't work a day in your life or something like that? Yeah. I think it's if you love what you do, you won't mind working.

There we go. That's, you fixed it. I love that. You a asterick fucking up-carried at that bitch. You fix that, dog. You know, when you send a shitty text and it's like, oh, wait, I didn't meet. Yeah, I said someone was here earlier. This girl, she saw her, we should walk in out.

She goes, I'm here and I type sex. But I meant to type sex. Sorry, I meant to type sec. Like, come get you. Say, yeah. Be there in a sex. But I said it, you know, the, like, yo, this is not what I meant. I meant sec.

Like, give me a sec. I'll get the door. Are you sure? 100% go fuck yourself. Fuck you. Yeah. I'm kidding. I'm kidding.

Sorry. Are you ready for the other question? Oh, well, I'm always ready. I was born ready. So it says, hey, Brad and guest. I really have been scrambling this in my head for the past couple of weeks. I've dated this girl on and off for five years and broke up like two years ago or so. And it says that he had two long-term friends for almost.

two long-term friends for 10 years and then one of those friends decided to be friends with his ex-girl friend oh friends so now he's like what do i do you have any advice like do i just drop them whatever say that one more time just for the clarity because i was laughing about so this person dated this girl on and off for five years our longest and most recent was two years and at the end of that whatever he found out she cheated on him with multiple people anyways long story short i'm I have two long-term friends that I've known for almost 10 years and one of them decided to be friends with my ex-girlfriend. It's not your boy, man. What does it mean friends though?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, no. It doesn't even know. It doesn't even meant that. If your man's, if your man's cuts that girl off, you cut that girl off as well. You don't fucking talk to her. Yeah. And if he does, that ain't your man's.

Yeah. That's tough. Yeah, what's going on over here? No, we're talking about the, like, the, oh, bro. what like i'd be is she cheated on me and you like let's say shorty cheated on me twice and you're friends with her bro what

think about how ridiculous that sounds yeah yeah so my question to the guy I apologize but like why the fuck are you even talking first of all as a man you gotta go and punch your man's in the mouth no it's what the fuck are you doing he wants to smoke honestly it just like

what he just said say it out loud again to like other people and like really like everyone's gonna go What? Yeah. She had on you multiple times. Crazy. And now you're running your, wow.

Definitely typed a lot more shit, but like, that's a logistic. Yeah. Yeah. Leave her. Leave her alone. He's not with her. He just says it just seems sus. Like, yo, should I be like, should I still be friends with my boys?

Because they're trying to be friends my ex. It's not your boy. No. That's not your boy. Sorry. You got to tell your boy, see your day. Like, yo, like, if you're going to be friends with her, you're not going to be friends with me. Yeah, straight up.

I mean, it's like, make a choice. Because like, why. is he trying to be her friend it's like let's answer that question first trying to hit i mean he's trying to get with her right like and he knows that she's a cheater so it's like he's not trying to get a relationship he's trying to hit yeah just saying man you got to move on from that fuck that yeah yeah definitely definitely you got them punch them in the mouth after that's the what's the smoke i love how you wants to smoke yeah oh my god okay that was really tough i i apologize a lot sorry dude No, yeah. Give us a few more.

Okay. So it says, hey, Brad and Guess, I wanted to get your opinion on picking a new diet for myself. I'm 20 years old. I've been training for eight years now. And I feel as I hit a wall and I'm having trouble cutting weight. Can you help me with this? Oh, okay. I'll make this as quickly and as simple as I can. So number one, do you know the guy, the guy asked this question, do you know exactly how many calories you should be eating to lose weight to be in a deficit, right? Right. So to make it really simple, you can go on Google, you can type in BMR. You'll get a number based on like your age, height and your weight as a number. Take that number that you're going to add to it based on how much activity like, I don't know if you fucking work like a physical labor type job or if you're training X amount of times during the week or whatever the day. Add to that. And then get to a point where, okay, it might be a comfortable number. I don't know what that number is because those numbers vary based on your age or height and your weight. And then start to deduct slowly until you find a point where you have enough energy. throughout the day and you also feel like strong enough in the gym you don't need to feel super

strong but you want to don't feel like man I'm in the gym today and I've been dieting for the last week and I feel like 50% weaker you're cutting too many calories but that's like this is hard for me to say exactly because there's no like exact exact unless like I knew you and I worked with you and I was like this is exactly what you need to do try this and then you try it and it works or it doesn't then you kind of like adjust it but you could do this for yourself I think the key that a lot of people fuck up on with this dieting thing is they're not even aware how many calories they're eating every day and they're like kind of just guessing almost if you would for like two weeks take the advice I gave you track your calories exactly exactly your macros in your macros out

like how much you're actually burning how many calories you're actually eating and then you'll get a good gauge like at least within two weeks to know are you even hitting that number like you know in a less state that you need to be to be losing weight and chances are likely that and I know I was this way until I actually tracked I was way off I was like one day good three days bad one day too low one day too high and then once I tracked it I was like oh fuck okay this is what I need I need to focus on this and once you get an idea of what that is like like a rough number or even a solid number then you can kind of like okay that that was this much food in the morning this much food in the afternoon and this much food at night and just keep repeating that

until you get an effect because it does take time it's not like two weeks and you got it But it's about knowing. And a lot of people fuck it up where they just, they, they just guess to me all the time. Yeah. How can you tell how many calories you burn in a workout? I mean, if you don't have an Apple Watch or whatever or any of that technology, you can't. You can't. And even with those technologies, it's not exact exact, right?

Because everyone's so different. There's no, there's no way to say, okay, my Apple Watch has a thousand calories. Doesn't mean I burn exactly a thousand calories, right? They're very good at tracking other metrics like heart rate, shit like that. Yeah. But burning calories is still like, maybe it says 500 but maybe it's 800 maybe it's 200 so there's always variance but you can get an idea and kind of gauge the variance um and that's the way that i would do it okay you know you could

do that or or you can just if you're just eating a certain amount every day then you'd be able to say okay i felt like shit you know for two weeks and i was eating this i need to eat a little more because you don't want to diet and feel like shit you don't want to die and be like because then that's not sustainable right yeah so imagine you're eating not enough food for like two three weeks and like every day you're in the gym you're like i feel like shit i feel weak that's not your diet even though you might be losing weight the point is you're not going to be able sustain that weight loss because you're going to get to a point where you're like I'm miserable I need to eat more and then it comes back you need to find something that is like has variance

that's stable enough that you can you know go up and down and continue on otherwise what's the point of getting to a point and then being like I can't I can't I need to eat I need to eat all the time you want to have you want to be comfortable yeah so exactly was that does that is that yeah no I have another one you don't want the fitness professionals to answer that oh yeah that was all you that was that was all you that was all you that was all no no No, you're in the gym. Let's go. For me, what do you do? For me, I mean, like I said.

I was taking notes on his answer. I'm not going to answer that. The fuck? I was, I was lit. I was sitting there like, I was asking. I mean, we just knuckleheads. We just genuine knuckleheads. I think the biggest thing for me, just like someone who's like just trying to stay in shape is like breakfast.

I think I have like that first meal like is so important. When I, when I skip breakfast, I'm more prone to like eat like dog shit the other day. But I've had like a good meal for. breakfast it kind of like holds me over like I'm not as hungry like but like when I am hungry I'm like more prone to eat healthy yeah I see for me that's that thing is we eat breakfast after our workout should I have like a protein shake before I mean a little protein shake but no honestly I love I I'm big fan of fasting so I typically eat right after my workout even if it's like midday I don't eat prior to that I love working out faster I love it my first meal is normally always right after

training really yeah and how many meals do you eat today Probably four for yeah on average and maybe like a little snack and they're not like massive meals But they're they're they're big enough okay yeah but I'm big in the fasting I love it I feel like I only see you eat one meal a day or two not four damn well you don't see me at night I'm like fucking Batman in this bitch eating crushing huh no I fuck shit up at night Loki I shouldn't be doing that that's probably my biggest problem you know I haven't had cereal in like two years you haven't had cereal in two years Dude, we need to go to the grocery store and get you cereal.

What's your guys' favorite cheat meal then? Oh, fuck, dude. Cheesecake. What? Louisiana chicken pasta. Oh, my God. Burgers? Burger she wrote.

What the fuck is that? What? I think I heard it. That's burger spot in L.A. Best burgers spot in L.A. Really? By far. Best burger spot in L.A. by far.

Burger she wrote. What, you know about that shit? Yeah, let's go there. We're going there like tomorrow. It is. By far Is it really that good? Yo, everyone here is fucking

Oh man I do this series on YouTube Where I go around L.A. spots And I'm trying to find the best burger in L.A. That is the highest rating On our scale is burgers you fucking Mike Maylack? That's the one that's the one who put us on

Actually he put us on to it Really? It's legit the best burger in L.A. Swear to swear to God. Swear. It's a smash burger, right? Yep. Okay, I've seen it.

Wagoo. Where in L.A. is that? I'm going I'm going this week yeah you should it's best it's official oh I'm going yeah I am I might go tomorrow dude it crush you hate driving that's why I ask yeah I have Jacob drive he loves driving yeah give us our next question okay wait what what are you got something to say over there what you no okay okay wait do we didn't even answer what do you guys said a burger chicken wings chicken wings is my favorite Chimo chicken wings oh you know bone in or like bon in crush oh he's OG crush real shit say

No, I don't, I don't, yeah, I don't like the bow. 20 wings, nah, I'm only 20, but I'll have like an order like a dozen type crush. I like Louisiana chicken pasta from Cheesecake Factory. It's so good. Louisiana chicken. Yeah, it's like fried chicken on the pasta. Like you'll, you'll fuck up a whole ass cake if you wanted to. Yeah, and cheesecake.

You like cheesecake? I like that. Not like that. I just like cheesecakes. So even if it was cheesecake from somewhere else, it's just like fire ass cheesecake. It's just like chocolate chip cookies. Oh my God. Those are my krypton night.

Oh, fuck. I had two of those yesterday. Peanut M&M and M&M. I'll crush that Bro I'm so fucking He's like Yo

It's just therapy Get it out Get it out off No but I had an Oreo Cheesecake from Cheesecake Factory And it was probably the best Cheesecake I've ever had Bro Oreos and milk

Oh my God dude Fuck I swear I want some I do like chocolate chip cookies and milk Over Oreos and milk Chocolate chip cookies are better than Oreos and milk I mean it's all good

I just how it like melts you know it's like it's just oh i put i get a glass i used to i used to get a glass you got the trainer over here it's so funny i used to get a glass put a stack of orio uh or uh chocolate chip cookies and then pour the milk and then just crush it it was the best thing oh ever god bro you're filthy that sounds amazing i was disgusting dude disgusting holy fuck i'm about to do that after this podcast dude you got to do it you can't you can't i could do whatever the fuck i want you said you're cutting. What are you saying? Yeah, I can do that. I'm doing it anyways. Give us our next question. What's your least favorite thing about being an influencer? Oh, that's a good

question. That's a great question. Do we have who sent that question? Who sent that question? Eddie Quinn. Eddie Quinn. That was a dope fucking question. I'll let you guys go first. For me, for games, I think is the biggest thing is, man, like, just to be able to take time off and not stress about it. Like, I would love to just, you know how people, who work a regular job right like you can i always say this man if people who work you know nothing wrong with nine to five by the way but you can really like mentally turn off yeah you know what you got to do you go and you do your normal stuff like that you can clock out right yeah you have your weekends you know you have your time off right for us for me at least especially

it's oh it's 24 so this thing is time all go yeah and when i'm away i hate it and even when you're away and your time off you have to create what's coming next exactly that's probably the one thing It's not being able to turn it off. Yeah. I can relate to that. That's easily the answer. Yeah. Because like I love this and I'm grateful for all this.

And the fact that people watch this or engage with any of this, like, and have support me over all these years, it's amazing. But for sure, it's the one thing is like you can never stop. It's not like, oh, I can work and then I'm good at night. It's like, I'm at night before I go to bed. I'm like, oh, what about this? And who, like, hitting you up, get, oh, podcast gets this. What would content be?

What are we going to talk about? What are we can create? Like, it's a nonstop thing no matter what. Stop, man. And that's the one thing. I think people, I don't know if they really get it as far as the internet goes. At the same time, I'm not discouraging any of you guys for doing this, because you should definitely pursue it.

I think it's one of the coolest things to do is being on the internet and making content. But just know that it comes with a lot of stress as far as the need to keep pushing forward, which is dependent if you're a creator on you. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. Not be able to turn off. That's probably one thing I hate.

What about you? Mine, when I was first starting out streaming, Mine would be missing out on family time. Now, when Twitch was my only source of income, that's all I did, all day. Even though I live with my mom and sister in the same house, I would rarely see them because all I was doing was trying to chase that check. Now, I would go outside, you know, get my stuff, go back into my room. And then they would come and say, yo, good night. We're going to bed.

All right, good night. Next day, same shit. Yeah. That was the hardest thing for me. So the missing the family time. Yeah, missing family time. Yeah. That's tough too.

It's tough for the balance in general. And it goes the same thing we're saying. It's just like you just have to keep going. I think it's hard with family. It's definitely hardest with family because, you know, maybe they get it. Maybe they should kind of get it. And it's also hard though when you involve like girls, girlfriends and shit. Because like do they understand that how important it is?

And then there's some time of power struggle like, oh, but I want more time. And it just kind of creates like, I don't know, a little bit of, resentment i think oh for sure so that's tough but yeah let's that's that's my least favorite thing do we have any more i mean if you want more i need one more i need one more to round off because you want the one that makes you cry or do you want like oh god don't give me a crying one every trying to give me to cry at the end of these fucking episodes man i don't try it's people ask genuine questions yeah they love they love doing that those are good questions though they love trying to make which one do you want whatever you what you roll the die

make it deep yeah let me go back to it then oh So you had one. She had one. Okay. Yeah, I had two. That's the thing. So it says, um,

hello, my name's Ethan. I'm 17 years old and I have a relatively important question, mostly for Brad, but the guests can hop in. Before I start, I want to take a minute and just say that Brad is genuinely such an inspirational man.

Keep killing it, man. Your success is all deserved. Anyways, I have a friend who's currently navigating, um, through a hard time in their life. And that is the death of their father.

Their father is currently alive, but is expected to pass away. at the end of summer to cancer. I know Brad has his own experience with loss of a father and I wanted to know what way I can help them get through this tough time in their life. Me and this person are very close and I'm trying to help them as much as I can,

but I think I need the perspective of someone who has gone through something like this. This would be beneficial. Thank you. All right, I got this is easy. This is you. You can't do much, but the most important thing you can do

is just listen and be there. Um, I think, I think the most important part when anyone experiences like some sort of loss or some sort of real genuine hardship in their life, especially something like this that the guy is going to pass away as you're saying. And there's no real sense to make of it. And you can't like, be like, oh, man, it's going to be okay because of this and that. Because normally you don't learn the good in situations like that until it's like later. So, so for that kid's process to learn when it makes sense for him or it could be any sort of positive in his life is going to be much later after the fact. The most important thing you can do. because you can't be like hey man it's okay because it's not going to be okay um is just be there and talk to him and listen to him and hear what he has to say like be there for him that's the most important thing that's all you can genuinely so you're saying even though the blow is coming try and cushion that blow as much it's not even so much it's just you can't cushion something like that you just know that's going to be a terrible situation the kid it's going to be tough but just be there to to be a soundboard to listen to hear like what are you feeling what

What do you think? How are you processing this? Is there anything I could do? Just be there as a human. That's it. That's the most important thing. Like all these situations, right? I can look back in my life when I've dealt with things like this.

And all I was looking for, a lot of the times was just someone to talk to about it that would understand how I felt. And it's very hard to find, right? The kid who, you know, if you're there listening to your boy, you don't have to, you don't have to fully understand what he's going through because, like, you're not going through the same thing.

But just be like, hey, if you ever need to talk, right now and forever like I'm here for you and that's what people need they just need more of that kind of energy yeah because you can't change these things right yeah like eventually we're all going to experience loss we're all going to experience death and it's not ever going to make it better because he went through it it's better for me it's everyone is going to experience it so uniquely different and it's going to suck in different ways just be there for that person and listen to what they have to say and listen to their heart and try and try and try and just be there for them that's it so great answer

you have any insight no I mean like you say you lost your pops earlier when I was young when I was six when you were six yeah you hung myself really yep sorry to hear that

no it's a long time ago yeah I mean I'm fortunate enough and blessed enough to still my pops and my mom is like that and I can't even imagine you know what I'm saying but like you said I think the best thing there is just to be there for him

yeah and that's the thing with anything whether it's a parent passing or like who knows a dog passing or like loss of a relationship like there's no one to say that this is worse than that and that's worse than this it's not about comparing these things it's just what most people need in general who go through things and hardships they just need someone to talk to most of the time like most people end up in really dark places because they feel like they're not being heard or they feel like no one cares yeah and being there for those people is is the most important thing like

because just think about it when you're in your darkest what do you want you want someone to be there for you you want someone to talk to you want like you want to express how you feel and feel like someone gives a fuck. Yeah. And just be that for that person. That's all that really matters. What did you say? Yeah, exactly.

Let them know they're not alone. That's it. Because that's what it feels like you start to feel like, I can remember looking back on my life like, one of my biggest thoughts when I was young, I was like fucking, I remember being 12 years old and being like, why me?

Like why did this happen to me? Why is this my life? Why am I experiencing this? Like he's got his dad. He has that. He has that. How come I don't have that? And I felt alone in the fact that like I'm feeling this.

and I'm having this and no one else has to experience this but everyone deals with shit it's just like I knew how much I wanted someone to understand me so if you could try to understand someone in your life that you know is going through it doesn't matter if it's a loss of a parent or like I said a loss of any loved one or like a relationship just be there

for those people so you tried to get me is that it? I mean you have any questions for me? He got some fitness questions he's like what about this Not necessarily, I'm sure, I'm sure my trainer, he got some questions. So, like, y'all can really chop it up about the finish stuff.

But yeah, no, like I said, appreciate you having us on the podcast, man. Yeah, you're awesome. I've been following you for a long time, man. And really just, like, what you do, like having your own shit and, like, having your own gym and stuff like that. Like, that really helps people a lot. Like, and you really inspire people too. Friere me, definitely for show, bro. I appreciate it.

So you guys are inspired me. You guys are a new wave, bro. You doing what you guys are doing. We do it. We do it. It's amazing, dude. It's in such a dope industry. one of the coolest fucking industries i'm a massive fan i'm a huge gamer i'm a huge nerd

and i love it and i'll die like that bro i love playing video games man for sure man absolutely thank you so much man yeah yeah thank you i shake you but i gotta get you off we'll get you i got no i got you matter of fact we do that you for real absolutely thank you appreciate you yeah