The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Mike Pence's Role in Ukrainegate | Tyler "Ninja" Blevins

Episode Date: October 4, 2019

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From Comedy Central's World News headquarters in New York, this is the Daily ShowA.D. Show everybody. Thank you so much for tuning in. And thank you for coming out. Thank you so much for coming out. I'm Trevor Noah. Our guest tonight, our guest tonight is a professional gamer and an internet superstar. He has now come out with something called a book. Tyler Blevins, aka Ninjars, joining us on the show everybody. Four to five superstar. Also on tonight's episode, Sugar Daddies are going to school. Bernie Sanders beats a heart attack and Donald Trump is getting impeached. Yeah, that's right. Make some noise, yeah, make some noise for congressional procedures. All right, let's catch up on today's headlines. Right. Make some noise. Yeah, make some noise for congressional procedures.

All right, let's catch up on today's headlines. Let's kick it off with some great news. 2020 hopeful Bernie Sanders says he's feeling good after heart surgery. The Vermont senator cancelling several campaign events after the treatment for a blocked artery. Sanders is using the opportunity to push his health care plan tweeting quote none of us know when a medical emergency might affect us and no one should fear going bankrupt if it occurs in Medicare for all. Bernie!

Bernie! Oh man, I am so happy. And I'm so glad that Bernie is still like in the mix. This is what I love about him. He's consistent. Most people wouldn't think th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi the the the the the the thi thi the the the the the the the the th th th th thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu the the the the the the the the th th the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the to pu to pun' to pun' toean. toean. toean. toean. toean tean. tean. tean tean. tean. thean thean thean. And I'm so glad that Bernie is still like in the mix. This is what I love about him. He's consistent. Most people wouldn't think about other people and their policies in a crisis, but Bernie just uses it as an opportunity to reinforce his beliefs, right?

The dude has a sudden heart procedure, and then his first statement is, this is why America needs health care. I love that. I feel like like, I that, I that, I that, I th, I that, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, tho, tho, th. th. th, th. th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.. thi. thi, thi, th by the Joker, he'd be like, this is why we need better mental health care in Gotham. These psychopathic clowns, they need our help. But yeah, Bernie needed a procedure to unclog an artery in his heart. And it looks like he's recovering well. I'm really excited. And I thought it was really sweet that many of his presidential candidate opponents sent him well wishes. What was even sweeter is that when Bernie received the wishes, he equally redistributed them amongst the people in the hospital.

He was like, you get the one from Kamala, you get the one. Like, it must be hard. Like, it must be hard to operate on Bernie. No one thinks about that, you know, because he like solidly believes or he believes. I bet like in the middle of surgery he just woke up and he was like, why does the doctor make so much more than the nurse? They worked just as hard. They worked and just like, ah, pull the plug. There is no plug. Don't try and silence me.

Anyway, we're really happy that Bernie is getting better. And I'm not gonna lie, you know who I blame for this happening in the the first in the first in the first in the first. Stop making candidates eat that shit. No more fried hotdogs from now on only fried salads. All right, let's move on to some other news. Facebook. It's how we keep up with racist friends and how we RSVP for parties we're never going to attend. And now the FBI has found a new use for it. The FBI is now running Facebook ads targeting Russian spies. The goal is to convince those spies to switch allegiances and cooperate with the U.S. government. The FBI did not confirm any details about the campaign,

but we can confirm that these ads are powered by the Bureau's verified Facebook page and that they are publicly viewable. Yes, you heard that right. Facebook is targeting Russian spies who live in America with ads hoping to get them to defect. And that should tell you how powerful Facebook ads are. Like, if a spy can't resist them, what chance do you have, like resisting those untucked shirts?

I gotta buy one. And I will say, it must be terrifying for a secret agent to see an ad targeted at secret like you're trying to be secret and the ad just pops up and just like oh my god how did they know how did they know I need new umbrella with poison tip how did they know this I wonder if they like chatting to other spiders like I told you Sergei the umbrella I told you the next day they show up they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're like they're like they're like they they they they they to they're they're to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to they're they're to to they're to to to to to to to to to to to they're they're to they're they they they they they they they they they they're they're they're they're they're they're their their their their their their their their their their their their their ty. their their their ty. their told told told told told told they're to to to they're they're they're like chatting to other spies, like, I told you, Serge, the umbrella, I told you the next day they'd show up on Instagram. They're listening to us, okay? And I guess it's obvious, but I never really thought about Russian spies having social media

just like the rest of us, right? Because when you think about it, it's bad enough when your mom posts an embarrassing comment on one of your photos, but for a spy, that shit can get you killed. All right? You imagine some Russian mom who's just like, hey, Vlad, how is being secret spy in America? Are you eating enough? All right, and finally, in education news, everybody knows that teachers in America don't get the appreciation or the pay that they deserve. But now some teachers are going online to find people who do appreciate them.

A lot of teachers have to take second or third jobs to make ends meet, but now we are learning more and more. Are resorting to sugar daddy dating websites like seeking arrangement to pay the bills? The site allows women to set up mutually beneficial relationships, often with older men, who are willing to pay for companionship. Now, seeking arrangement says they have more than 10,000 teachers on their site. Yep, that's right. Teachers in America are paid so poorly that some of them are turning to sugar dadies to make ends meet.

And I'm sorry, that's embarrassing news for America. It's also bad news for sugar daddies. Yeah, because there's no romance. This is not what they're going to do with the teachers, right? The sugar daddy's going to be like, hey baby, I got us tickets to Paris for the weekend. She's going to be liketheir students into working harder. Teachers should just be like, you didn't do your math homework? Do you know how much 80-year-old dick that calculator costs? Let's figure it out.

All right, one old dick times twice a week, times five equals you should be doing your shit young man. All right, that's it for the headlines. Let's move on to our our to our to our to our top story. And today was the thank you next of politics. And today was yet another day of major developments in the unfolding Ukraine scandal. So, let's catch up on all the latest news in our ongoing segment. It's the fantastic, absolutely tremendous road to impeachment. And today was yet another day all the latest news in our ongoing segment. The fantastic, absolutely tremendous road to impeachment.

The only thing they can impute you for is to have a game of the best economy. No other president should ever have to go through. It's probably presidential harassment. Things went into another gear on Capitol Hill today, as Congress heard from the first witness in its impeachment inquiry, Kurt Volker. He's the former envoy to Ukraine who resigned last week after it came out that he had been texting with Trump lawyer and haunted egg Rudy Giuliani. Now, Volcker's testimony took place behind closed doors so we don't know exactly what he said. But while he was talking in private,

Donald Trump was letting loose on the White House lawn. This is just breaking President Trump leaving the White House, calling on two different foreign governments to investigate his political rival, Joe Biden. So I would say that President Solinsky, if it were me, I would recommend that they start an investigation into the Biden's. China should start an investigation into the Bidens. China should start an investigation into the Bidons. Because what happened to China is just about as bad as what happened with Ukraine.

With Ukraine. This guy is unbelievable. He's already facing impeachment for asking Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden. And now he's like, you know what, China, get it on it too, you jump in as well. Trump might be the only person on earth who thinks two wrongs do make a right. Yeah, in his mind he's probably like, yeah, it makes sense. Don Jr. and Eric cancel each other out. That means I only have Ivanka. It works. It works. It works. It works. Totally works. Now, as the scandal develops, more and more people in Trump's orbit are getting sucked in.

First it was Trump's personal lawyer, then it was his Secretary of State. Like, I wouldn't be shocked if next week we find out Sean Spicer is also somehow a part of this. And it'll be like, yeah, he's been sending secret messages to Ukraine on dancing with the stars. Because that's not dancing, we can all agree, right? That's full-body Morse code. That's what that is. But, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but now, yet another member of the Trump cabinet,

is getting pulled into Ukraine. This morning, the Washington Post reporting, President Trump repeatedly enlisted Vice President Mike Pence to join in his pressure campaign on Ukraine. The President reportedly instructing Pence to skip the inauguration of Ukraine's new leader, Vladimir Zelensky. The paper also says President Trump used Pence to inform Zalinsky that U.S. military aid was being withheld. White House officials say Pence likely would have received detailed notes of the president's call with Zelensky in his daily briefing book on July 26th. The vice president might be tainted by all of this. If the vice president knew about that and was involved in that, to me that not only taints

him but it makes him ineligible as well for the presidency. Wow. So Mike Pence likely knew about the phone call, had access to the transcript, and personally told Zilinski that he wasn't getting his military aid. Pence was so deep in this thing, I bet Mother considers it cheating. And I'm not shocked. I'm honestly not shocked that that he was involved. Because he does whatever Trump tells him.

You realize that, right? Like, you see, Trump is, he's Homer Simpson, all right? And he basically picked Ned Flanders as his VP. Yeah. If Trump says, jump into that volcano, Pence would be like, ocally dokely, sir, I'll do it. But what's interesting is that Mike Pence doesn't deny that he got tough with Ukraine. What he claims is that it was all totally innocent. Question swirling about what Pence do and when.

Officials close to Pence say he was unaware the president had also pressured Zolinsky for damaging information on political rival, Joe Biden. His AIDS insists, he was in the dark. Okay, I'm not going to lie. This is a weird excuse, all right? Pence says he was pressuring Ukraine, but he didn't know it had anything to do with Joe Biden that that makes no sense so why was he pressuring them he didn't know why that would be like a mob enforcer not knowing what he's enforcing yeah just like

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Pence was not aware of with WikiLeaks. He was unaware of this controversial meeting. I learned as I awoke this morning of those developments. Oh, I learned as I awoke this morning. Yes. Hash-tag I awoke like this. Yeah, apparently whenever there's a trump scandal, Mike Pence never seems to know what's going on. Never. He's like every mom watching a movie. Just like, is that the bad guy? No, mom.

That's the Pixar lamp. The movie hasn't started yet. But why did it kill the eye? Mom, it's just a thing. Just like, we can't have the movie hasn't started. The movie hasn't started. I don't know. My mom used this together.

I'll tell you at the end. Because the way, the way he tells it, Mike Pence doesn't know about any of the bad things happening in the Trump administration, which is most of the things things mean, if that's true, that's actually not good for America. Because you realize if Trump gets kicked out, Pence becomes president. But clearly he has no idea what's going on. Right. Which means he's just going to be at the State of the Union, like, my fellow Americans, the

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Welcome to the Daily Show, everybody. Thanks for coming out. Thank you very much for being here. You know, there's a, if you've been keeping up the news, you've probably seen the story coming out of Texas that's blown up. And it's been taking place for a while. It's been the trial of the police officer Amber Geiger. I don't have you saw that?

Right? The police officer who said she accidentally walked into a man's apartment in her building and then she thought that he was the intruder and she shot him dead. And I remember when the story happened, it was a wild story off the bat, it was, you know what I mean? Because it was already crazy. It's like you walk into a wrong apartment and you shot the person, what were you doing? What you know? And so the trial has been going on and the first thing that that was that was that was that was tho. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, the the the the the thi, the the the the the the the trial, the the the the the the the the the the the the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, th.... th. th. th. th. thi, thi, thru. thrue, thrue, thrue, thr. thr. tru. tr. thr. tr. the they. thr. thr. the thro. thr. thr. the thr has been going on. And the first thing that was a little weird for me was the judge allowed the defense to use what they call the castle doctrine in America. So they said they would allow the defense

that she was protecting herself because she thought it was her house. their house, which already was weird to me. Because the castle doctrine is like a very strict law in America, but I mean I get it fundamentally. If you're in your house, you can do whatever you need to protect yourself. But this was interesting where the judge was like, no, you can allow the defense that you thought you were in your house, so you thought you were in your house. So you know, I was worried. And they were just like so already that was weird. And you know, I was worried, I honestly was worried,

this was gonna be another one of those cases in America where justice didn't get served because it seemed like a fairly, you know, black and white, excuse the pun, case. And then the verdict was handed down, and the jury did find her guilty. But what has followed since has been a really interesting story. And we actually have a clip. It's a really complicated story, but this is basically what went down. The white former Dallas police officer convicted of murdering her black neighbor has learned

her fate. Yesterday, Amber Geiger was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the murder of Bootham Jean. But it was what John's brother did after the sentencing that brought the court to a standstill. Can I give her a hug, please? 18-year-old Brandt Jean forgave Amber Geiger, who just been sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing his older brother Botham. At the end of the hearing, Judge Tammy Kemp gave

a Bible to Geiger and embraced her as well. Amber Geiger will be eligible for parole in five years. No justice! No peace! Some outside the courtroom thought the sentence was too lenient. So that's basically the story as it stands. And it's interesting, because I sat with this story and I talked to my friends about it, and it's so funny how many, you know, like how many complicated feelings they are in and around it.

First and foremost, a thousand kudos and just like, honestly, I admire the compassion of the Jean family. At the same time, though, I understood why so many people were angered by that moment. Because this thing has really has really really really really really really they they theee the the the thiiiiiiii thi thi thi, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, th. th. th. th. th. thi. th. th. th. thi. th. thi. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. time, though, I understood why so many people were angered by that moment. Because this thing has really, you know, blown up online. People saying like, they were angry that she was getting hugs from the judge, and they were angry that she was getting hugs. And they were angry that she was getting hugs, and they were angry that she was getting hugs, and they were angry. And they were angry. And I just, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, thing, thi, thi, thi, thi, thing, thing, thing, thing, thing, thing, thing, thing, thing, thing, thing, thi, thi, thi, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thin, thin, th. thin, thi. tha. theea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. the. th. her. She still goes to jail, but it's about forgiveness. And I just, I sat with it, and I have conflicting feelings, but I think I understand what is happening, you know, in so many different ways with how people are looking at the story.

On the one hand, you can't deny that people feel like 10 years, theat thauar, thiiii thiii that people feel like 10 years, if you found guilty of murder. Do you know what I mean? There's people in jail in America for doing far lesser crimes, you know, whether they've been, you know, charged with like drug trafficking, where they just had a certain amount of drugs and they were assumed to be drug traffickers, or, you know, people where they said it was violent crimes and it was assaulting, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, thiiiii, their, their, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, their, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, their, their, their, their, their, thi, thr-a, thr-a, thr-a. teei. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the t in jail. And then this seems like another case of the system preferring a certain type of person who looks a certain type of way who fits a certain type of narrative, 10 years, five years. I get why people are angry. I get white people also like this is another case of like white women tears doing their magic, you know? Because like that's, I mean, you know the myth, is like white women tears just like anything, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, the, the white, the white, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, thi, tie, tie, tie, tie, tie, tie, their, their, their, their, their, their, thi, their, thi, their, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi, thi, people are like, all right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and it's true, like, it's a joke, but it's also true at the same time.

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People are looking at a story of a white woman who shot a black man in his house, who did nothing. It's just in his house. And people were angry, and I understand why so many people are angry. Because they're like she doesn't deserve hugs. She deserves to lose her life the way she took a life. And I'm not speaking for everybody. I know maybe I'm speaking for myself and some of my friends, but I feel like the anger actually comes from people feeling like that is the level of empathy everybody should receive in a court. You know? Everybody should have a judge look at them like a human being.

Everybody in society should be treated with a level of compassion. They should still be punished if they've committed a crime, but we should still look at them as human beings. And yet, this narrative doesn't seem to be afforded to black people in America, especially by the news stories about this, they do paint it's like, they go, it's a beautiful moment where she's hugged by everyone and so, but it's like, they don't use that same editorial when a young black child is going to jail. You know, they don't go, this young black man who was recruited he was sentenced and he was found guilty and that's the story as if that is what's expected you know what I mean it's almost it

almost feels like if you're a black person who commits a crime and goes to jail well that that's what black people do but if you're a white person who commits a crime and goes to jail it's like oh man what a disaster story they tell you the human being behind the act that thi th th th th th th th th th th that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that the the the the the the the the the the the that. the theat that that that that tho the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the that. the the the the the the the teluuuu telle tell. tell tell tell tell tell tell tell tell tell tell the the the the the the the the showed you the exact opposite example. This young black man who's doing his own thing, he got shot. They told you that he had a history with weed. The news told you that. Why? They always tell you that this man was shot in a traffic stop. Now he did have an assault case 10 years. What does that have to do with this traffic stop? You know what, what was the cop traveling through time to punishing him? What is that? And I think that's what people need to understand is that like some of the narratives that we tell and share about what's happening in the world are so much more powerful than we actually

think they are. You think it's just on the surface but what a reinforcing of an idea. But I think the mistake we shouldn't make as people is that we shouldn't necessarily jump to we want people like Amber Geiger to spend more time in jail and the most time in jail. I think what we should be asking is for the same level of compassion and saying, hey, I don't want anyone to spend excessive amounts of time in jail. And so the same way a white shooter is disarmed peacefully, the same way a white murderer can get a hug in a courtroom and sympathy,

the same way a young shooter has spoken about as a human being because he is white, you would hope that same level of compassion and empathy would be applied to black people. That's all it is. sandwiches. Listen to the Please welcome Tyler Ninja Blavin! Welcome to the day show. Thank you, thank you for having me. This is so exciting having you on because you are truly the pioneer of elite sports gaming in terms of being a person who like, you've today. This is so exciting having you on because you are truly the pioneer of elite sports gaming in terms of being a person who like you brought it into the mainstream you

know like back in the day gamers like the idea was like people always be like oh gamers like gamers like the game is like you know gamers like you're in a. Yeah and I was always offended because I'm a gamer and I'll be like no we play the games and I was like I was in my mom's basement oh the game I the the the game I the game I the game I the game I the game I the game I the game I the game I the game I the game I the game I the game I the game I the game I the game I was the game I was the game I was the game I was the game I was the game I was the game I was like I was the game I was like I was like I was like I was like no to play to play I the game I was like I was like I was like I was like I was like I was like I was like I was like I was like the game I was like the game I was like the game I was like the game I was the game I was the game I was the game I was the game I was the game I was the game I was the game I was the game I was the game I was the game I was the game I was the game I was the game I was the game I was the game I was the game. the game. the game. the game. the game. the game. the game. the game. the game. the game. the game. the game. the game. the game. the game. the game. the you were. Okay. But, I mean, this has been a ride for you. I mean, yeah, going from your mom's basement playing games to now being one of the highest paid athletes in the world, period. In the world. That is, that is pretty wild. It's pretty crazy.

I definitely didn't, you know, see this coming, really? Just loved playing video games and love streaming, so... What did you do the first time someone paid you for video? Did you think it was like a trap? My mom, my, my, fun fact, my mom actually made my dad come with me to my first tournament and like, I think it was in Columbus, Ohio because she thought, it was majorly gaming, MLG. She thought that it was a fake company of old people who lured kids to like molest them. Yeah. I would think the same thing. If my kids said, I'm going to get money to play video games, I'd be like, who's giving you this money?

Is there a van involved? Yeah, who's giving you this money? But it really has blown up. And what I found interesting is how initially there was a lot of resistance. People are like, thii. understand, you're not just playing a video game, you put hours in as an athlete. How many hours do you play a day? Minimum, like eight hours, minimum. Yeah. Yeah.

And not just eight hours, but it's like eight hours of like grinding and practicing what you do. It's a lot of mental strain. I mean, imagine someone, you know, imagine like chess for just eight hours straight right at a high level it's difficult it's really exhausting in a way but yeah I mean every day I did it for like honestly eight years straight with minimal breaks I would say maximum actually took the longest break was like one week yeah you say chess but I mean it's like chess if your opponent was also the the the the middle of the game oh yeah it's like it's a no because I played I played I played with ninja the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th th tho. tho. the te tea. tea. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the middle of the game. Oh yeah. It's like, yeah, it's a no, because like I played, I was like, you know, I played with Ninja Today,

like for the, I played Fortnite for the first time ever. And, and you played, yeah, and you played on a console for the first time ever, and we won our first match together, which was pretty amazing. Oh shit, I shot someone's head. That was nice. Oh, you got, you killed someone? I think so. I mean I shot them and then they stopped living, so I think that's what happened. Yeah, that was a pretty dope.

That was amazing. 100% win ratio. That was a, that was a, 100% win rate. That was a, me was this. We were playing and like our accounts weren't like locked, so people just joined in. And at some point we had like hundreds of kids online, like all different ages. It's like some sound like 19 year olds, I was like 10. And they were just like, ninja!

They're all just dancing in the little audience. It felt like they were like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, th..................................... th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the lobby. It's hilarious. It's not like they were chasing us, like you owed children money or something. Yeah, yeah. Just like screaming, like, does that ever like seem normal to you? That you've become a bona fide celebrity to many in the world? And some people don't know you when you walk down the street. Dude, it's crazy. I don't really, you know, I'm just, you know, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I, I'm just, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, like, I'm just, that, that, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, like, like, like, like, like, think that when a kid screaming my name, the Ninja, I love you. I mean, I love it, man. Do you think it changed when you played against Drake? Oh, dude, that made, that took me and in my opinion, like gaming, like,

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I passed out right away after and woke up to like just insane nukkah. Like, my Twitter timeline was mad. Yeah, it changed everything. And I think, like, we started to see that in the rise of ninja. You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, and, and, and, and, like, like, like, like, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, th................................................................................ th.. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. I, th just gaming. It's become an idea. It's become a brand. You know, you work with Adidas. You know, you have mixer that you stream. You, like, you broke the record for the most subscribers on a streaming service like in a week. And now, now you've got this book. And this is interesting.

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I found it fascinating why you wrote it? I really wanted to just give back. I mean, I've been streaming, like I said, for a long time, and every day I get asked questions. You know, Tyler, Ninja, what settings do you use? What's the best keyboard? What's the best headset? How do I get better? How do I get more viewers? And it's like, I was I I I I I I was I I I was I was I was I was I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I've thi, I've th. I've to to to to to to to to to to, I've, I've, I've, I've th. I've th. I've th. I've th. I've th. I've I've th. I've th. I've th. I've th. I've th. I've th. I've th. I've th. I've th. I've th. I've th. I've th. I've th. I've th. thi. thi. thi. thr. thr. thr. thr. thr. thr. thr. thr. thr. thr. thr. thr. thr, because this is something that I found really beautiful. It's like in the book you talk about the myths in and around gaming.

You know like people, like gaming makes the kids violent. Gaming makes the kids want to shoot people. But this is something I honestly found when I was playing with you, and I love that you write about it in the fun that you actually can have. Because like a lot of these kids, when they were speaking, there was, my favorite was, there was a kid from somewhere in the United Kingdom, some way. Sound Scottish or whatever, but he was, he was like, Ninja, is that you,

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only live for like 20 minutes like I mean it's just it's a it's insane. So what does so what does Ninja do now because I mean like gaming is your life gaming is your job? Yeah I game like to relax but you game for the job so what you do in your time the so so so so the the the the the the the the time the time the time the time the time the time the time the time. the time. the time. the time. So. So. So. So. So the the the the the the the the the the the to to the game. the game. the th. th. th. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the game. I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I the the the the the the the the the the the the the te. I te. I'm. I'm. I'm. te. teat. tea. tea. te. te. te. te. te. the the the the the the job so what do you do in your time off do you do like accounting what do you do? Dude I don't I don't even know what I do in my time I mean I just I just go I literally don't have time off when I get off stream I obviously I usually watch other streams and I watch videos and I try to constantly always improve on my craft but also I'm always you know you know trilling to do a try to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the to to to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the try. try. try. try. try. try. try. try. try. try. to to to to to toe. to to to So when I finally do have time off, man, I'm just gonna sleep a lot. Yeah, sleeping? I'm just gonna just give me a beach.

Right? Corona, you know what I mean? You know what I mean? I'm just checked out. Just chilling there. Just chilling the beach a week. too' the ti. Really good, having you. Get good. It's available now. And obviously you can watch them game at Mixer.com. Slash Ninja Blevins, everybody.

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